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News roundup: Last year in headlines

by Charlie Driver News Editor

Last year, Tufts saw a continuation of established debates and drama, as well as the emergence of new issues that stand to affect the campus in the coming months. Here is a review of the key issues as they emerged.

September Led by campus group United for Immigrant Justice, more than 60 students protested outside the Mayer Campus Center to demonstrate their opposition to President Trump’s planned cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The Student Life Review Committee released its final report, the culmination of a period of reflection on Tufts social life that started with investigations and protests over Greek Life organizations during the 2016-17 academic year. The report found that the elimination of Greek Life was impossible at that moment but pledged that the university would work to promote alternative social spaces for students in the coming years.

October Lengthy negotiations on a new con-

tract between Tufts and its part-time faculty concluded as the two sides reached an agreement hours before a planned walkout. The new five-year contract, which includes increased wages and job security, was later approved.

November The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy student Carter Banker started a petition to remove formerWhite House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci (LA ’86) from the school’s Board of Advisors, on grounds that Scaramucci’s actions had been out of line with Fletcher values. Scaramucci would later resign from the Board.

In a cease-and-desist letter, Scaramucci threatened to sue the Daily for defamation unless two op-eds, from the Nov. 6 and Nov. 13 issues, were retracted and an apology was given. The issue received coverage from the national press and the American Civil Liberties Union offered to give legal aid to the paper and the author of the op-eds, Fletcher student Camilo Caballero (F ’18). Nothing came of the threatened suit.

The last round of findings and sanctions from the university’s investigation into

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Yoji Watanabe, ‘20, leads students in chants to support dining workers unionization on April 3.

Greek Life organizations were released. In the resolution, Theta Delta Chi, also known as “123,” had its charter revoked. Zeta Psi and Delta Upsilon were suspended until September 2018, when, if in good standing, they will go into disciplinary probation. The Chi Omega sorority was placed on disciplinary probation until Dec. 6, 2018.

December The national organization of sorority Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII) withdrew the charter of Tufts’ Delta chapter in response to the chapter’s falling membership numbers. In 2016, the chapter lost half its members in see YEAR IN REVIEW, page 3

Tufts administration to implement tiered housing system in 2019–20

by Liza Harris News Editor

The university administration is facing rising controversy over a tiered housing system that will increase the price of the more attractive on-campus housing units available to students. The announcement is drawing protests from students who fear that the new system will lead to economic segregation on campus.

The administration has stated that it will adjust financial aid awards in order to ensure that on-campus housing is accessible to all students.

However, apprehension among the student body remains, as the student-run coalition Tufts Housing League ( THL) demonstrated by a petition with over 1,500 signatures, according to the petition, protesting the implementation of the tiered system.

“We think [the tiered system] will result in economic segregation, which completely changes the culture on campus and is also fundamentally unfair and unjust,” Nathan Krinsky, an organizer for THL, said. “Your quality of living and housing shouldn’t depend on how much money you make.”

Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon explained that Dean of Arts

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According to Glaser, the change in housing pricing will allow the university to better preserve its on-campus housing and other facilities.

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“The tiered housing system will enable the university to expand, invest, and better maintain our residential facilities, which is a priority for us,” Glaser told the Daily in an email.

Other reasons for the change include similar practices at peer institutions.

McMahon cited Boston University,

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“I think it’s important to ground us in what other schools are doing just so we can give ourselves context for the discussion,” Chris Rossi, associate dean of student affairs, said.

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Tufts launches new off-campus housing website

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The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) has launched a new off-campus housing website to serve as a one-stop-shop for students seeking off-campus housing in Medford, Somerville and Boston, according to an email sent to all students by ResLife.

The site is available to all undergraduate and graduate students in the Schools of Arts, Sciences & Engineering (AS&E), including School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA) students. Anyone with a university username and password can log in to view apartment listings, find roommates, post messages on community forums, find resources and information about the leasing process and discover community events, according to the ResLife email.

According to Matt Austin, Associate Director of Housing Operations, the website is hosted by Off Campus Partners, a third-party company that also provides services to Boston-area schools includ-

ing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University and Northeastern University.

A lack of centralized off-campus housing resources prompted the development of the new website, according to Austin.

“Our [old] website was outdated, and while it had decent content in terms of information, some stuff was hard to find — there was only a locked Google Spreadsheet of [off-campus housing] postings,” Austin said. “We needed to change the system.”

Austin said that the new website simplifies the apartment search process for students across Tufts’ undergraduate and graduate campuses. He described a number of specialty features available to students through the website.

“Depending on where a listing is, you can see how long it would take to get to campus on public transportation, walking or driving,” Austin said.

Students can also use the site to build roommate profiles, search community message boards and buy and sell furniture, according to Austin.

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shop for everything off-campus housing,” Austin said.

Jonah O’Mara Schwartz, a member of student housing coalition Tufts Housing League ( THL), expressed his support for the new off-campus housing website, but said that there is still more work to be done.

“It’s important that Tufts recognizes that [the website] is only a part of its housing solution,” Schwartz, a senior, said. “We don’t want to see Tufts using this as a way of moving more students off campus and pushing the responsibility of housing students onto the community.”

Schwartz also said that Tufts should be proactive in identifying fair housing.

“As Tufts brings people into the surrounding community, it should be the university’s responsibility to make sure that students are finding housing — safe, up-to-code housing with responsible landlords,” Schwartz said.

One challenge that the website faces is finding, and attracting, off-campus housing options that will appeal to students.

As of Aug 21. the homepage prominently displayed a $3,171, two-bedroom studio apartment in The Kensington, an upscale Boston apartment complex.

Schwartz said that the university should be proactive in finding landlords, arguing that Tufts has a responsibility to feature a range of off-campus options.

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Barnum Hall, currently vacant after the relocation of the Department of Biology to the Science and Engineering Complex in fall 2017, will be filled by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life (Tisch College) and the Department of Film and Media Studies (FMS) in summer 2019, at the conclusion of ongoing renovations. The renovations, which began shortly after commencement in May 2018, are slated to last a year.

Gretchen Von Grossmann, director of Capital Programs at Tufts, said that Barnum has not had a major interior renovation since 1975, describing the need for a renovation. The hall was completely rebuilt that year, when the original hall, from 1884, burned down.

According to Von Grossmann, major aspects of the current project include a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, new LED lighting, additional restrooms and improved way-finding, including renovations in student spaces.

“Improvements will be made to the lower level auditorium and the first floor will include a new, larger lobby space with seating,” Von Grossmann said.

Von Grossmann said that the outside of the building would remain largely the same, noting that exterior renovations were done in 2012.

Renovations are on schedule and reconstruction will begin in September, according to Von Grossmann.

Malcolm Turvey, the director of FMS expressed his excitement about the department’s new home. Given the short history of the major – first offered in fall 2015 – it will not really be a “move.”

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FMS, in that it will contain spaces specifically designed for FMS’s needs, including: offices, a digital editing lab and classrooms, and most importantly, studio spaces designed for filmmaking,” Turvey said.

The department plans to gradually add equipment to Barnum, said Turvey, particularly to create a “cinema-quality screening space” in one of the larger lecture halls.

Turvey, who is also a professor in the Department of Art and Art History, expressed particular excitement towards the interdisciplinary potential of Barnum. “[The hall] will also include studios for painting, drawing and for our [School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts] colleagues to teach their arts courses,” he said.

Alan Solomont, dean of Tisch College, said that the move to Barnum will allow Tisch College “the opportunity to design more community-friendly, communal, civic spaces on campus.” Tisch will also begin offering an interdisciplinary Civic Studies major starting this fall.

He looked forward to the fact that the rede-

signed Barnum Hall will feature more open spaces, as opposed to blocked off classrooms. “[Tisch College] will occupy pretty much the entire ground floor … looking to create student spaces to engage with one another, to fulfill one of the priorities voiced by the students,” Solomont added.

With the planned move to Barnum, Solomont also expressed interest in expanding Tisch College. He outlined plans for the school to reach all four Tufts campuses and plans to develop a program in civic technology.

Solomont explained that the large lecture halls in Barnum would be used for events, including guest speakers.

Planning is underway for the future of the Lincoln-Filene Center, the current home of Tisch College, according to Solomont.

In addition to Tisch College and the FMS department, Barnum occupants will include various university environmental groups, select Fletcher School faculty and the Office of Community Relations, according to a Tufts Now article detailing the work.

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Stavridis departs Fletcher after five years as dean

by Gil Jacobson News Editor

Admiral James Stavridis (F ’83, F ’84) stepped down on Aug. 1 as Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy after five years in the position. Stavridis had served in multiple senior leadership roles in the U.S. military prior to assuming the deanship, including as head of the U.S. Southern Command from 2006 to 2009 and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 2009 to 2013.

Stavridis is now working with The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm.

Stavridis’ departure was announced in a May email from University President Anthony Monaco and Provost and Senior Vice President ad interim Deborah Kochevar to the Tufts community.

“A dynamic leader, a wonderful partner, and a prolific scholar, Jim has advanced Fletcher’s reputation and strengthened its standing as a premier school for the study of international affairs,” they wrote.

In a separate note, Stavridis praised Fletcher’s students for their work in strengthening the school during his tenure as dean.

“Whether we were conceptualizing a new program or initiative, tackling budget challenges, or addressing a host of other intricate matters, the intelligence, grace, adaptability, and problem-solving skills they consistently demonstrated are second to none,” he wrote.

Stavridis’ impact following his Fletcher tenure Over his five years as dean, Stavridis expanded Fletcher’s academic offerings to include an academic concentration field in gender analysis in international studies, in addition to growing the school’s focus on cybersecurity. Fletcher worked with the Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering to establish a joint position and hired Susan Landau in 2017 as a full-time, tenured bridge professor, according to Fletcher’s Executive Associate Dean Gerard Sheehan.

Sheehan, who will serve on the search committee for a new dean with fellow administrators, faculty, staff, students and members of the Fletcher Board of Advisors, further emphasized Stavridis’ work to enhance the school’s offerings in the field of Russian affairs. Fletcher lacked faculty who spoke Russian and its course offerings on Russian and Eurasian studies were limited when Stavridis first arrived.

“He obviously and correctly pointed out that Russia remained a critical country for a school of international affairs to focus on,” Sheehan said. “He worked to help us establish a program in Russian

and Eurasian studies, and indeed we have a very strong program at this point.”

Sheehan added that Fletcher hired Chris Miller, a leading scholar on Russian studies who recently published his second book on the matter, and established a partnership with Moscow State University of International Relations, Russia’s staterun and most prestigious international affairs university.

Stavridis was also instrumental in establishing a formal relationship between Fletcher and the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C. think tank focused on the United States’ relationship with Europe as well as other regions around the globe, Sheehan said.

Fletcher Professor of International Law Ian Johnstone, who served as Fletcher’s Academic Dean from 2013 to 2015, will serve as Dean ad interim.

Johnstone believes the transition period will also be one of consolidation in which the school continues to focus on many of the new programs and initiatives started under Stavridis’ leadership, while also ensuring the school’s core programs continue to receive sufficient attention.

One of the new initiatives is an online Master of Global Business Administration, according to Johnstone. The program will allow working professionals to receive a combined education in business and international affairs.

“The curriculum is being developed this year, and we hope to start enrolling students as soon as May 2019,” Johnstone said.

Johnstone added that the school’s partnerships with the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium where students can receive a joint degree in Transatlantic Affairs, and the Washington, D.C. program of Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs are also priorities. He noted that allowing students to take Maxwell-in-Washington courses, in addition to the Atlantic Council relationship, are a few ways in which Fletcher students can have more exposure to education and work experience in the nation’s capital.

“We’ll have a bigger footprint in Washington, so students who come to Fletcher can also feel that they’ve got that possibility of spending a little time there,” he said.

Fletcher has historically had a significant number of international students — between 40 and 50 percent — and Johnstone is committed to maintaining that range during his interim tenure.

This is becoming a larger challenge as Fletcher competes with more graduate programs in the United States, in addi-

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The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is pictured on April 20. tion to in Europe, the latter group of which tend to be less expensive.

“We still offer the best, but if they can get a program that’s almost as good for a quarter of the price or a 10th of the price there’s a real trade off that they have to make,” Johnstone said. “We have to work hard to ensure that we keep attracting both U.S. students and non-American students. And to do that we frankly need to be able to provide substantial financial scholarship aid.”

Both Johnstone and Sheehan were complimentary of all that Stavridis had accomplished for the school. Johnstone stressed the work Stavridis had achieved in raising Fletcher’s public profile through his published works and televised appearances as the chief international security and diplomacy analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. “The impression I got from conversations is that people who had never heard of the Fletcher School before suddenly had heard of it because Admiral Stavridis was on television or quoted in a newspaper,” he said.

Sheehan added that Stavridis is a naturally optimistic person, which his colleagues enjoyed having present over the past few years.

“His attitude is one of those things where he believes the best in everybody and I think that brings out the best in everybody,” he said.

The search for a permanent dean The search process for a permanent replacement will be carried out in ways similar to how deans were selected in the past. The aforementioned search committee includes Kelly Sims Gallagher, professor of energy and environmental policy; Alan Solomont (A ’70), dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life; and Kinsey Spears and Stefan Tschauko,

both of whom are Fletcher students, according to a list provided to the Daily

by Kochevar.

Kochevar added that everyone on the committee has accepted their invitation to serve and the first meeting will be next month. Tufts is being assisted by national search firm Isaacson, Miller, which is also helping with the provost search.

Isaacson, Miller will meet with the committee, draft a position description, and develop a candidate pool, according to Kochevar. Fletcher faculty and alumni have also been invited to nominate candidates for the deanship.

“We have a number of names already accumulating in a database,” Kochevar said. “It’s really quite encouraging.

Fletcher has such a strong reputation and Dean Stavridis has left the school in very good condition.”

Kochevar declined to comment on what specific qualities Tufts will be looking for in a new dean prior to the position description being formally drafted.

“I think history is a good indicator though, if you look back at the types of deans that Fletcher has had,” she said. “It’s a distinguished group.”

As far as the overall timeline for the search, after names have been compiled from the position description, the search committee will narrow the pool to preliminary and final lists, which will likely all play out over the course of this academic year, according to Kochevar.

“We’re very fortunate to have Professor Ian Johnstone who is serving as Dean ad interim,” she said. “He’s someone who has a lot of respect from his colleagues, who is very well-suited to lead the school in an interim position. That’s a key piece of being able to confidently do our search and have the school still advancing and doing well.”

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continued from page 1 protest to the national organization’s hesitancy to allow a transgender woman to receive a bid.

The administration released its 2017 budget overview, which included $10 million in payments towards a $161 million debt accumulated through campus construction and expansion projects. Administration officials explained that lower-than-expected undergraduate student retention and graduate student enrollment helped contribute to the debt. A town hall, open to all members of the Tufts community, was held to increase transparency in the budgeting process.

January The Medford Zoning Board of Appeals

approved the university’s plans to convert some of its off-campus houses into student housing. That multi-year project — now known as CoHo — will offer five houses and 45 beds to upperclassmen in the 20182019 academic year.

The university announced that the former AOII house will hold transfer students during the 2018-19 academic year.

Center would be separated starting fall 2018.

The separation seeks to increase the accessibility of the Center as a community space.

Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris announced he would be leaving the university to take over as president of Union College in July. The interim Provost is Deborah Kochevar, who stepped down as dean of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.

February The faculty of the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering voted to extend the pass/fail deadline to ten weeks for all students, following a Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate resolution pressing on them to do so. The ten-week window had previously only applied to first-years.

It was announced that the Asian American House and Asian American

March Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center began opening at 7:30 a.m. during the week in order to cater to dual-degree students trying to catch the shuttle to the SMFA for morning classes. It had previously opened at 8 a.m.

The administration announced that tuition would increase 3.76 percent for the 2018-19 academic year, rising to $70,941.

The heightened value reflects the costs of

running the university and includes more funding for financial aid.

April Backed by hundreds of Tufts students, Tufts Dining Services employees rallied for the university to accept their desire to unionize. A few weeks after the rally, a vote overseen by the National Labor Relations Board saw a vast majority of employees vote to unionize with UNITE HERE Local 26, which represents hospitality workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

In the TCU Senate elections, senior Jacqueline Chen was elected TCU President, beating out senior Adam Rapfogel. A referendum question appearing on the ballot allowing students to turn a TCU Senate resolution into a university-wide referendum with 300 student signatures passed.

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CoHo housing development launches this fall

by Austin Clementi

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The first phase of Tufts’ latest addition to on-campus housing, the conversion of a set of university-owned wood frame houses, launches this fall. The new development, known as CoHo, will add 45 single rooms to the existing campus housing options, according to the Student Affairs website.

The rollout of CoHo is divided into three phases, according to the website. The second phase, which will open up 39 additional beds, will be ready for occupation by spring semester. The third and final phase will be completed by next fall and will add 56 beds.

The Idea of CoHo Former Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate President Benya Kraus (LA ’18) was involved with a Tufts Urban Planning and Development (UEP) field project to program the new houses. “[Tufts] got grad students to…act as consultants on the programmatic vision for what CoHo should be,” Kraus said in a phone interview with the Daily.

She added that the name CoHo, short for Community Housing, was picked using the input of students to embody this spirit of community.

Kraus said that the students in the field project concluded that CoHo houses could serve the community by having rotating student-selected themes.

“We saw a lot of value in themed housing that is chosen [by students],” Kraus said.

Kraus also noted the ability of student-selected theme housing to better represent the Tufts student body.

“It’s something that changes as the student body changes,” Kraus said.

Kraus said she saw potential for CoHo houses to be new social space on campus for both the student body as well as the wider community. She hopes that CoHo’s programming can foster positive relationships with the greater Medford community, saying that residents would be welcome in the house’s shared backyards.

Kraus said, in conversations with Medford and Somerville residents, she often heard that “students need to actually act like they are a neighbor and also invest in their communities.”

Kraus also said that university-owned houses could facilitate better conflict resolution between students and residents.

“We also thought about … lines of communication so that everyone in the surrounding area knows exactly who to call, and it doesn’t always have to be like Medford Police or TUPD,” Kraus said, adding that residents should be able to call RAs or other students before involving the police.

CoHo’s Opening Associate Director of Housing Operations Matt Austin told the Daily in an email that themed housing will not be implemented this year. However, he added that the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) is

planning on introducing themes in the 201920 academic year.

Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon confirmed this in an email to the Daily.

“In the 2018-19 academic year, Residential Life will work closely with student leaders to look comprehensively at our theme and special-interest housing program across the residence halls and including CoHo,” McMahon said.

Regarding the 2019-20 academic year, McMahon stated that there will be some themed houses in the development and that student activity fund money will be provided to support those houses’ efforts. She explained that there has been no decision on how many houses will be themed and how much money will be provided.

According to McMahon, themed housing represents a larger effort by the university to “provide depth and structure to the residential life program.”

Sarah Park, a junior slated to live in CoHo this fall, described her experience applying to live in CoHo in an interview with the Daily.

She said that she and her housemates applied to live in CoHo at the end of May, after applications for on-campus housing had closed.

Park and her group were informed by email that their application had been accepted. She said that the email stated that the selection process for students wishing to live in CoHo was based on averaging a group’s lottery numbers and giving priority to groups with higher numbers—similar to the allocation of other group housing at Tufts.

Austin explained that groups who applied to live in CoHo had already gained housing on campus during the normal selection process.

“Groups that did not get selected for CoHo remained in the places they originally picked, so there was no risk in applying,” Austin said.

Austin also explained that the CoHo application process occurred later because ResLife was not initially certain that phase one would be completed by the fall.

“We could not risk placing students in these buildings if there was any doubt of them being ready,” Austin said. “Once we received those assurances in April, we advertised the new options to all eligible students.”

Tiered Housing and CoHo CoHo ranks at the top of the university’s proposed tiered housing system; it will cost residents $10,219 per academic year once the system, announced in a July email to the Tufts community, comes online in fall 2019.

Soon after Tufts announced the tiered housing system, Tufts Housing League (THL), a student activist group, released a statement in coalition with other student groups calling the new housing model unfair to low and middle-income students.

McMahon said that despite the new housing tiers, the school will factor a student’s housing choice into their financial aid award.

“Awards will be adjusted as necessary to meet the full demonstrated financial need of each admitted and returning student,” McMahon told the Daily in an email. “[This]

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Houses on Bellevue Street are pictured here on March 15. means that all students who receive financial aid will be able to participate in the housing selection process knowing that their aid will match their need.”

Her remark echoes the ResLife website’s on-campus housing FAQ section, which explains that a student whose housing is fully covered in the 2018-2019 school year will continue to have their housing fully covered in 2019-20, even if this student chooses to live in CoHo. But Tufts’ process of rewarding financial aid is still unclear, according to THL co-founder Shane Woolley.

“Financial aid and [its] process is not transparent,” Woolley, a senior, said. “There are a lot of factors that go into [financial aid], and year-to-year you might not know which factors are going in to making that more or less expensive.”

Woolley also projected that the financial aid policy will do little to relieve students’ anxieties about housing. “[The] uncertainty is going to disincentivize students on financial aid from applying for the more expensive dorms,” he said.

Nathan Krinsky, also a THL co-founder, projected that the tiered housing model will have a visible impact on future CoHo residents.

“Based on [the university’s] new plan, [CoHo] is going to be a student village that’s populated predominantly or exclusively by the richest students at Tufts, and that’s going to be who social life is centered around,” Krinsky, a senior, said.

Park said that the university, through the new pricing model, is reneging on their promises to make campus more accessible to more students, noting that she would not have chosen to move to CoHo if she were affected by the tiered pricing.

CoHo and the Housing Shortage Both Woolley and Krinsky said that THL is concerned that CoHo does not alleviate the larger housing shortage experienced by students and residents of Medford and Somerville.

Woolley explained that the houses and apartments used for CoHo previously housed faculty and staff. These staff were

forced to relocate to accommodate the creation of CoHo. Woolley said that the university’s housing practice since the 1970s has been to buy houses in the Medford and Somerville communities for use by graduate students, faculty and staff and to slowly convert them into student housing, a model which he describes as unsustainable.

“When [Tufts] converts [off-campus housing] over to student housing they kick all those people out and those people have to go into the surrounding housing market and the problem is just externalized,” he said.

Krinsky and Woolley also said that they see a new, dense dorm on campus as the only way for the university to address the housing shortage.

McMahon said that this remains a university goal and will be the subject of feasibility studies this year.

“It takes several years to design and develop a new residential facility, and it would also require identifying significant amounts of new funds,” she said.

She also pointed to several efforts by the university to increase the number of beds on campus, including “optimization” of housing and initiatives like CoHo. “Stratton Hall was thoroughly renovated over the past three summers, and it will have 76 new beds this year, mostly through returning large singles that were designed to be doubles back to their intended use. The Miller and Houston renovation project will also add 38 beds by Fall 2019,” she said.

Adding to the trend toward optimizing university-owned housing, Tufts is also planning to undertake a project similar to CoHo on Sawyer Avenue, according to Woolley.

“Tufts University will be conducting a feasibility study this Fall to explore the possibility of a CoHo style project on the Somerville side of the campus,” Director of Community Relations Rocco Dirico told the Daily in an email.

Dirico said that the project wouldn’t be immediate.

“If we did decide to proceed with the project, it would require the approval of the appropriate departments in the City of Somerville,” he said.

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make sure that there are diverse choices of more affordable housing [on the website],” Schwartz said.

However, he also recognized the logistical constraints of the website being in the early stages of its rollout and acknowledged that the website will likely list more affordable units as the year progresses.

Austin agreed that the expensive listings may be due to the timeline of the

website’s rollout and its current lack of inventory. He said that ResLife is indeed taking outreach steps to contact area landlords.

“We’re reaching out — in conjunction with Community Relations — to the folks that we know have multiple properties in the Medford/Somerville area so that they’ll post [on the website], with the intention of increasing the inventory,” Austin said.

He expects that the average price of the apartments will decrease as more and more landlords list their units on the website.

“As we get more inventory into the system, we’re going to start seeing prices drop,” Austin said.

Linda Cohen, a real estate agent for Cambridge-based Century 21 Avon, told the Daily that she was hopeful that the website would make it easier for students to find off-campus housing. Cohen’s agency currently lists multiple rental options on the website, though she said that response so far has been slow.

“It’s just coming on at the end of the rental season,” Cohen said.

According to Schwartz, the website’s success will ultimately depend on what the university makes of it.

“I think Tufts should want people to use this tool, because Tufts should want students to be in affordable, healthy and safe housing… I [also] think Tufts has a responsibility to keep its students safe and healthy while they’re here,” Schwartz said. “So I do think this could be an interesting and really positive long-term tool, [but] it really depends on how Tufts utilizes it.”

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Green Line Extension progresses, massive construction effort underway

by Juliana Furgala News Editor

Construction on the first phase of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) Green Line Extension (GLX) ramped up this summer, the latest step forward for a public transit project in the works since 1990.

The extension, which will add a stop at the intersection of College Avenue and Boston Avenue and allow students to commute to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts campus in a single ride, has suffered multiple setbacks over the years, including canceled contracts and funding challenges. Now with federal financing and a new set of contractors, the GLX project is fully underway as officials race to meet the December 2021 completion deadline.

But as progress continues in earnest, residents living in neighborhoods along the GLX construction paths are beginning to notice a stark loss of greenery, according to Somerville Ward 3 Alderman Ben Ewen-Campen.

“I’ve heard from a lot of residents who are really concerned [about the tree removal],” Ewen-Campen said. “Seeing literally hundreds, thousands of trees coming down is a shock to a lot of people who live here … especially around the GLX.” Work teams began removing trees along the Dowling Hall section of Boston Avenue on the weekend of Aug. 19, according to a construction update posted on the GLX’s Facebook page. A representative of the GLX project told the Daily that tree removal was a necessary safety precaution.

Rachael Bonoan, a postdoctoral researcher at Tufts and a Medford resident, said she was given no advanced warning that the trees were to be removed.

“I walked home from [Tufts] on Friday afternoon and the trees were still there,” Bonoan said. “And then on Monday morning I walked up Winthrop Street towards Boston Avenue, turned the corner, and was just absolutely shocked [to see that the trees were gone].”

Bonoan, who works in the Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), said that during the construction of the SEC from 2013–17, she was informed about the GLX’s general construction plans,

such as track laying and route, but had not heard many regular updates since.

Ewen-Campen said that while the construction’s effects could have been more effectively explained to the public, the project does have the support of the community.

“Despite the amount of outreach that the city’s done, I don’t think people are fully prepared for how disruptive the construction’s going to be. I don’t think there’s any way [around it],” Ewen-Campen said.

“This is the price we pay for getting a new train coming through Somerville. There’s a lot of community support for [GLX] but I think it’s important that everyone is well aware ahead of time to strap in.”

In addition to these developments, there are also impending road closures that will span months according to the Somerville GLX website. These closures include the bridges on Washington Street, Medford Street and School Street, as well as the closing of the Broadway bridge for a year.

Ewen-Campen assured that these shutdowns are being closely monitored by the Somerville Aldermen.

“We [are] pushing as hard as we can to make sure these closures are as short as absolutely possible and that all the detours are as minimally disruptive as possible,” Ewen-Campen said.

The construction is also causing longer-term anxieties about area housing prices, according to Ewen-Campen. He said that a previously predicted increase in the cost of housing can already be seen in the areas surrounding the GLX route, leading to constituents calling in to express their concerns.

A 2014 report by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), a regional planning agency, projected that rents near planned GLX stations could rise by as much as 67 percent in the coming years. Such a hike could displace many low- and middle-income residents, the report suggests.

Ewen-Campen said he is working with community members to develop an affordable housing plan that will keep housing costs low and stable. He pointed to community land trusts, where non-profits own the land and residents own the physical structures on it, as one potential solution.

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A sign promoting the MBTA Green Line Extension Project is pictured on April 17. resources like educational institutions, jobs and transportation, according to Ewen-Campen. By transferring that land to a community land trust, EwenCampen said that significant costs can be removed from area housing. “[Community land trusts] allow residents to own affordable housing and to be represented through a democratic board that oversees the structure, the function, the future planning of the community land trust. These have been really successful in communities around the country,” he said.

Such a plan would require upfront investment.

“Land is not cheap in Somerville, but I believe it would be a very powerful investment for the city to make, to say we’re going to take some publicly owned land or we’re going to invest in pieces of land right around these train stations and turn them into community land trusts,” Ewen-Campen said.

Mark Chase, a lecturer of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts, said that increased housing costs can be mitigated by decreased spending on cars.

“You really need to look at transportation and housing as a bundle,” Chase said. “If people can now not own a car, that saves them probably much more than they would pay in extra rent.”

Chase said that without the need

for owning a personal car, prospective renters may see more appeal in Medford. This could bring in residents who might not have chosen to live in Medford before.

Chase noted that the GLX will benefit students, as well.

“Getting to Boston in general [is] going to be much easier for students,” Chase said. “From Davis Square [people will] be able to bike all the way to Boston without being in traffic … The [Medford/Somerville] campus will be more accessible and that means probably people feel more confident about not needing a car, maybe using Uber and Lyft a little less than they would ordinarily.”

Chase said that many students in his transportation planning class have expressed excitement towards to the GLX. He also explained that the new GLX stations will be spread farther apart than existing Green Line stations, allowing trains to run faster and avoid the traffic slow-downs that he said have contributed to the Green Line’s “bad reputation” among commuters.

“It’s going to be a Green Line that people haven’t really experienced before,” Chase said. “[It will] actually be a really good system of high-quality transit that this part of town hasn’t really seen … It’s going to be an exciting addition to Medford and Somerville.”

“Because financial aid dollars are following students, our lowest income students will have the lowest barriers to selecting housing,” McMahon said.

“The major thing we’re doing [to combat economic segregation] is repackaging aid to go along with housing.”

Never theless, members of THL remain concerned about the potential effects of the new system.

Krinsky, a senior, explained that he doesn’t trust the administration’s promise to adjust financial aid to reflect housing choice.

“Right off the bat, there’s a little bit of distrust. Financial aid for many, many students is insufficient… if [the administration] wasn’t helping students in the past when it comes to tuition, there’s no reason to think that they will help students now with housing,” Krinsky said.

Furthermore, THL worries that the hike in prices for nicer housing units may make staying on campus unsustainable for many students, causing problems on the community level.

“If on-campus housing isn’t accessible to low income students, they will

be forced off campus into units where Somerville and Medford residents are living. It drives up rents and exacerbates gentrification,” Krinsky said.

McMahon, however, stated that the administration “hopes [the tiered system] incentivizes people to move on-campus.”

McMahon explained that students would be incentivized to remain on campus because, although off-campus houses have the same amenities as higher tier on-campus housing, only Tufts housing will ensure that housing is covered by financial aid. She said that this is a key part of the change.

“We want to make sure that students who want to access on-campus housing are able to do so,” McMahon said.

The university administration and THL have coordinated with one another and will meet to discuss the tiered system, according to Glaser and McMahon. McMahon said that she and other budgetary representatives including Qu, Rossi and Glaser will be present at the meeting.

Krinsky confirmed that a meeting is set to take place in September.

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continued from page 1 The new housing system is “part of a comprehensive effort to look at how we steward our resources at the university in a way to manage sustainable growth,” McMahon said.

Under the new tiered housing rates attached to the announcement, all first-year dorms will be priced at a base rate of $8,220.

Housing units with kitchens and more amenities will be priced at increasingly higher rates, the most expensive tier being $10,219.

Rossi told the Daily that doubles and triples in culture and identity-based housing will be priced at the lowest rate of $8,220. Singles in culture and identity-based housing will cost $9,171, a price increase that Rossi explained matches the university’s existing single room pricing policy.

Administrators justified this pricing change in part by saying that housing units with a kitchen may enable students to save money in other ways. Glaser and Rossi say paying more for a room with kitchen access could lower the overall cost of attendance.

“Access to enhanced kitchen facilities could allow some students to obtain more moderate meal plans or forego meal plans entirely,” Glaser said.

The administration’s announcement also explained that it will tailor financial aid awards to ensure that all students, regardless of income level, can access affordable on-campus housing.

“Financial aid awards will be adjusted to support the full demonstrated financial need of each admitted and returning student, regardless of the type of housing they select,” Qu said. “This means that all students who receive financial aid will be able to participate in the housing selection process knowing that their aid will match their need, regardless of the price of their preferred on-campus accommodation.”

According to a FAQ page on Tufts’ website, students on full financial aid will continue to have the full cost of housing paid for by the university, regardless of what tier of housing they select, provided that their financial circumstances remain the same. Patricia Reilly, director of financial aid, confirmed this in an interview.

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by Hannah Uebele News Editor

This summer, three projects dedicated towards campus sustainability received the first-ever round of funding from Tufts’ Campus Sustainability Fund, also known as the Green Fund.

The fund will award $40,000 annually to sustainability-related projects proposed by the Tufts community, according to Tina Woolston, program director at Tufts’ Office of Sustainability.

The Green Fund receives money from the endowment payout of the university’s Sustainable Investment Fund, Woolston said.

Woolston, who is also part of the Green Fund committee that manages the funding, explained that the committee decided that the $40,000 available in the fund could be allocated to any number of projects.

“We only have $40,000 a year to give away, so if there’s one project that’s really amazing and it costs $40,000, then we can decide to just fund that one project,” Woolston said. “But there are tons of projects that only cost a few thousand dollars or less, so there’s opportunity to fund more than one interesting project.”

Woolston explained that since this is the first year of Green Fund funding, the committee decided to do a soft launch to test out their system.

“We wanted to start small and advertise this to people we know were interested,

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and then we’ll build from this experience,” Woolston said.

The committee chose three project proposals this past spring to share the $10,000 that made up the Green Fund’s soft launch, leaving another $30,000 available for the remainder of this academic year.

The proposal to install a solar charging station at Hodgdon Hall was awarded the most funding through the soft launch, receiving $6,500. A proposal to install a water bottle filling station at the School of Dental Medicine received $3,000 and $500 was awarded to improve composting efforts on the university’s Boston Health Sciences Campus, according to Woolston.

Tufts Energy Group (TEG) proposed the solar charging station project, according to group member Ryan Biette.

Biette, a senior, said that TEG’s solar project has been in the works for over three years. The project previously received a $10,000 grant from Arlington-based company SunBug Solar in 2013, but had needed additional funding to be realized.

“I was looking to get any more funding sources [for the project],” Biette said.

Biette said he learned about the Green Fund through Woolston.

“There were a lot of really great submission ideas,” he said. “We were probably one of the more expensive ones, but I think the return on investment will be very good.”

The solar charging station will include solar panels on the south side wall of Hodgdon Hall and solar-pow-

ered outlets both on the outdoor patio and in the Hodgdon common room, according to Biette.

“There’s also going to be a lot of signage to explain the process to people about how solar works and where this energy is coming from,” Biette added.

Biette explained that TEG and Facilities Services electricians determined that since the Hodgdon patio is only usable for a few months out of the year due to weather, the solar energy will be wired to the Hodgdon common room so that the energy can be used during the winter.

“Sometime during the fall, we’ll switch where the energy is going to so that people can continue to use it throughout the year,” Biette said.

Hodgdon Hall was chosen to be the location of the solar charging station because of its patio access and solar-friendly location, according to Biette.

“Using solar radiance data and other diagnostic tools, we looked at hotspots on campus of what would work best.

Hodgdon ended up being that place that had good radiance data and also permission from Tufts,” he said.

Currently, SunBug and Tufts are in the final round of negotiations over the contract and construction specifics, according to Biette. While a construction date has not been set yet, Biette hopes that the project can be completed this fall.

Woolston explained that the three winning proposals emerged from a field of around 30 submissions.

“We looked for projects that were on

one of the Tufts campuses and would impact as many students and community members as possible,” Woolston said. “A lot of decisions were based on which projects will have the maximum impact and affect the largest amount of people.”

Olivia Ireland, one of three undergraduate students who served on the first Green Fund committee, explained that the committee would like to choose future undergraduate members from across the Tufts student body.

“All three [students] were from the School of Arts and Sciences, so in the future they’re trying to get more of a diversity of perspectives with the students and have graduate students get involved as well,” Ireland, a junior, said.

Project submissions for the remaining $30,000 in funding will open after students return for the fall semester, Ireland added.

“We want to do it as students come back to campus because there wouldn’t be as much response over the summer, so we want to really get people involved and get a lot of good applications and ideas,” Ireland said.

Woolston expressed that there had been desire for something like the Green Fund for many years, and its formation will now help to fund many future sustainability projects.

“We’re going to need everyone’s involvement to reach carbon neutrality, so finding ways to come up with better ideas is something we’ve been interested in seeing happen for a long time,” Woolston said.

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Robert Mack, Associate Dean for Student Success and Advising, poses for a portrait shot outside his office on May 1.

by Sarah Crawford Staff Writer

Tufts is set to launch several new programs this semester that seek to improve the experiences of historically underserved student communities.

The FIRST Resource Center, an initiative of the Office for Student Success and Advising (OSSA), aims to provide resources for the university’s first-generation, low-income and undocumented populations. The Center will be located at 20 Professors Row, along with the Office of Residential Life, the Center for STEM Diversity and OSSA. “The FIRST Resource Center was founded to create a community of support and to develop a network of resources for Tufts University’s first generation, low-income and [undocumented] students,” Mack, Associate Director for OSSA Margot Cardamone and Student Success Advisor Jared Smith told the Daily in a joint email.

Senior Anne Hall, former co-president of Tufts’ First-Generation Student Council, noted the importance of having a location for first-generation students to meet.

“It’s kind of an invisible identity, being first-generation, because you can’t tell if someone is first-generation by just looking at them,” Hall said. “By having an intentional space, you’re able meet other people, and you’re able to then recognize them later on campus.”

The Office for Campus Life (OCL) also offered the Building Engagement and Access for Students at Tufts (BEAST) pre-orientation program for the first time this fall. BEAST is specifically geared toward first-generation and low-income students, as well as students who attended under-resourced high schools, and will address the academic and financial challenges unique to those students through social and cultural experiences, according to OSSA.

BEAST gives first-generation and low-income students who were unable to participate in the Bridge to Liberal Arts Success at Tufts (BLAST) or Bridge to Engineering Success at Tufts (BEST) programs — in which incoming first-generation and low-income students take classes during the summer — the option to arrive on campus early and learn about Tufts’ various support systems and opportunities. Unlike BLAST and BEST, which accept a relatively small number of students, BEAST has about 50 spots.

“The creation of BEAST came directly from student requests, particularly those students who did not participate in BLAST or BEST their summer and wish they had a program option,” the authors of the email said.

Hall, who served as a BEAST peer leader, said she thinks that the program is beneficial because it will give a sense of community to more first-generation and low-income students prior to their matriculation.

“There [were] 20 people on the waiting list [for BEAST], which just goes to show how much this program was needed and how many students were interested,” she said.

The introduction of the FIRST Resource Center and BEAST are the latest in a multiyear effort by Mack, OSSA and the greater Tufts community to improve university resources for incoming first-generation and low-income students.

In 2010, the university introduced the BEST program for incoming first-generation students, as well as students who attended under-resourced high schools. Two years later, Tufts first offered BEST’s liberal arts counterpart, BLAST. Students in BLAST and BEST take two college classes for credit over the course of six weeks. “[BLAST and BEST] aim to support incoming first-year students [as they] successfully transition into college and learn how best to

navigate opportunities and barriers during their time at Tufts. In addition, the program builds a sense of community amongst BLAST participants,” the email said.

However, the programs are able to accept only a limited number of students. When BLAST was introduced in 2012, there were still very few communities geared toward first-generation and low-income students at Tufts.

So in 2014, Katelyn Montalvo (LA ’15) founded the First-Generation Student Council to give first-generation students a greater voice on campus.

“The [First-Generation] Student Council started as a Tisch Scholars [for Citizenship and Public Service] project in 2014. Before then, there was never an official community for first-generation students or [recognition] that first-generation students and low-income students do face particular challenges,” Anne Hall, former co-president of the Council, said.

Hall, a senior, said that during her first year at Tufts, she was “trying to assimilate” as a typical Tufts student without acknowledging her first-generation identity. In her second year, however, Hall applied for a student coordinator role that Mack introduced as part of OSSA’s collaboration with the FirstGeneration Student Council. As student coordinator, and ultimately co-president of the Council, she became significantly more involved in Tufts’ first-generation community.

The First-Generation Student Council organizes a variety of events throughout the year, from a Welcome Panel during Orientation Week to its annual “I am First” photo campaign, where students share their first-gen experiences. In 2017, Hall implemented a mentorship initiative that pairs first-generation students with a first-generation faculty member.

“I think that a mentorship program was really great because students were able to

have an incentive to start building a one-onone [relationship] with a Tufts faculty member,” she said.

Also in 2014, Tufts introduced College Transition Advisors (CTAs) to supplement traditional pre-major advisors. The CTA position was renamed Student Success Advisor (SSA) when OSSA was inaugurated shortly thereafter.

“With a particular focus on underrepresented student groups, [OSSA] supports the transition of all students by exposing them to the full range of Tufts’ curricular and co-curricular opportunities, increasing students’ awareness of university resources for support and engagement, and acquainting students with the relationship between personal development and academic achievement,” the email said.

Although SSAs share the same general mission as CTAs, they have increasingly focused on “student affairs” and aim to provide “holistic support” for students.

“We work closely to support students from their matriculation to major declaration,” the email said.

The change from CTA to SSA has been effective. According to OSSA, appointments with SSAs have increased significantly, reaching 1,500 during the 2017–18 academic year.

Hall noted her appreciation for the Tufts administration’s commitment to addressing a perceived lack of resources for incoming first-generation, low-income and undocumented students.

“We started working with Dean Mack, wanting to advocate for a center and for a pre-orientation program, and now those two things have come into play,” Hall said. “When I started here at Tufts … there was not anything really specifically for first-generation students, so it’s been really awesome to see the fruits of the labor that has been happening these past years.”

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Picante Taqueria opens on Boston Avenue

by Jessie Newman

Executive Features Editor

Picante Taqueria, a Mexican restaurant located at 352 Boston Ave., next to Tamper Cafe and the Campus Mini Mart, is a new restaurant owned by Edgardo and Jessica Morales. The restaurant opened in July. Edgardo has over 26 years of experience in the restaurant business, starting as a dishwasher and moving his way up to prep chef, line chef, executive chef and finally restaurant owner. His first job was at a restaurant in Cambridge called Picante, so he now comes full circle in owning a restaurant of his own with the same name.

Edgardo also owns Taco Loco, a Mexican grill in Somerville located near the Sullivan Square MBTA station. Taco Loco has been mentioned in Boston Magazine on multiple occasions for its excellent tacos and received the magazine’s Best Tacos in Boston award in 2007. His second restaurant, Taqueria Tapatio, is located on Broadway in East Somerville.

Edgardo opened his first restaurant with his brother who owns two Mexican restaurants of his own: Cactus Grill and Tijuana Mexican Food, in East Boston and Chelsea, respectively.

Picante is the first restaurant that Edgardo and Jessica, who are married, have opened together.

“We came to explore this community and the university, and we had the opportunity to have this property … We decided, why would we rent to another person when we could own our restaurant here? So we started to dream,” Jessica said.

She noted that there are many pizzerias and cafeterias in the area, saying that she believes this area of Medford, and specifically Boston Avenue, lacks authentic Mexican food.

“We had a vision for our restaurant. We love Mexico, and we love Mexican food and think that this community could love Mexican food, too,” Jessica said.

While the couple is from El Salvador, they have four decades of combined experience with Mexican cuisine.

The Moraleses, who are residents of East Somerville, noted the culinary differences in their other restaurants.

Edgardo spoke to the rich mixture of communities in East Somerville, near their other restaurants, which affects their menus and flavors.

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The new Picante Taqueria on Boston Ave. is pictured on Aug. 27.

“I think [Picante] is a little more authentic Mexican, [and] Taco Loco is a mixture of South American, Central American and Mexican cuisine. Our cook at Picante is from Mexico,” he said.

Edgardo emphasized the freshness and quality of the ingredients that Picante uses in its dishes, coupled with its desire to remain affordable for students.

“Everything [on the] menu is authentic, good and fresh. We use fresh vegetables every day and high quality meat.

Our chicken for tacos is very good — the taste is fantastic — and our fish tacos are delicious … We use fresh tilapia,” he said.

Picante currently sources most of its ingredients from the Boston Public Market each morning but it is looking to partner with local farms for more of its produce.

Both Edgardo and Jessica are eager to interact with the Tufts community. They are consistently introducing new dishes to keep the menu exciting for all customers and do their best to keep prices affordable. They also want to launch weekly “Taco Tuesdays,”

during which two tacos would cost $5. Picante opens at 9 a.m. and serves breakfast until 11 a.m.

The Moraleses also mentioned their willingness to cater, as well as their desire to apply for a permit that would allow them to keep Picante open until midnight in order to accommodate students’ late-night cravings.

“We did not want to be too commercial. We did not want our ingredients to be from the cans, [and] we wanted everything to be homemade,” Jessica said.

Edgardo admitted to some fear in opening a new business in an unfamiliar area.

“We are a little unsure coming here, to an area that we do not know, but the only thing that I am sure of is Tufts,” he said. “Tufts is a very good university, and [it has] many students.”

Picante’s decor and aura is unique and intentional in its design. On one of the walls of the restaurant is a mural depicting a vibrantly colorful flying eagle. “[Boston-based artist] Laura

DeDonato painted the eagle because it is a symbol of Mexico … We wanted a different eagle with different Mexico colors: strong red, purple and green. Its feathers transform into Mexican flowers,” Jessica said.

The restaurant’s rustic flair is the result of a specific vision for Edgardo and Jessica. All of its tables, including a high-top communal table that spans a large section of the restaurant, were built from repurposed wood planks. Scattered throughout Picante are framed pictures of Mexico taken by a family friend who was born there and has documented the country in his travels. One picture shows a boy sitting on a barrel and selling agua de jamaica sin alcohol on an urban street. The taqueria also has papel picador banners, which match the mural’s color scheme, crossing the restaurant’s ceiling.

Edgardo and Jessica recommended nearly everything on the menu, but highlighted the torta a la mexicana, fish tacos, quesadillas and nachos as specific dishes that customers must try.

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continued from page 11 ties/early seventies, that was probably the low-point of religious life on university campuses. Since then, it’s come back.”

Crane School was ultimately affected by this low-point of religious life, according to Gittleman, and financial issues caused it to close in 1968.

“By [1968], they couldn’t get the students, and the university was very poor.

We had no money. And they closed it,” Gittleman said. “They would’ve had to spend a lot of money to celebrate the hundredth anniversary. That would’ve been 1969. And so to save money, they closed it.”

Gibson said that he was sad to learn that his alma mater was closing.

“Those of us who had attended Crane suffered some anguish,” he said. “We were very sad to see it closed. It felt like

the school was, in some ways, on the upswing, and it seemed like a bad time to close it. I think we were unaware of some of the fiscal realities that went into the decision, and they made it kind of inevitable.”

Reverend Timothy Miller, now a professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas, attended Crane for one semester before transferring out. He said that part of his decision had to do with the fact that Crane was unaccredited and under financial stress.

“There was talk of [closing] when I was there. There was a real sense that the place was having trouble,” he said.

Nevertheless, Miller said that he enjoyed his time at Crane as well as the experience of living in the Boston area.

“I liked it well enough. The teachers were good, decent individuals, helpful to students and all of that,” he said. “It wasn’t really that I had any great dissatisfaction

with the place. It’s just that there were other issues involved.”

One remnant of the Crane school is the Packard Chair of Theology, which was endowed by Sylvanus Packard. It still exists as a tenured position in the Tufts Department of Religion.

Professor Heather Curtis, chair of the Department of Religion, said that while many Crane professors transitioned into the Department of Religion after the school’s closing, the Department of Religion has a different focus than Crane.

“One of the functions of the Crane school was to train clergy for parish ministry, whereas the Department of Religion’s mission is to promote the academic study of religion as a facet of culture, history, the way it influences society, politics, economics,” Curtis said. “In that sense, the department certainly welcomes students who have

that vocational interest, but it also welcomes students who want to think about religion as an important sphere of knowledge for pursuing a career in international relations, or medicine, or law, or the arts [or] social work.”

Additionally, Curtis pointed out that as a graduate school, Crane would not have taught undergraduate students.

While the department is open to students who are aiming for a career in religion, the Department of Religion’s main focus is on undergraduate liberal arts education.

“I’m definitely open to hearing students’ ideas about the kinds of courses that they would want to pursue, whether it’s students who are interested in religion as a purely historical, sociological, philosophical pursuit, or whether it’s students who are interested in pursuing some kind of religious vocation for themselves,” Curtis said.

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New director for the Institute for Global Leadership Abi Williams poses for a portrait on the President’s Lawn on Sept. 29, 2017.

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The Institute of Global Leadership (IGL) traces its roots to 1985, when the entire program was a one-day symposium led by Tufts political science lecturer Sherman Teichman, and has fostered discussion of complex global issues ever since.

IGL Associate Director Heather Barry said that Teichman created the program to stimulate more dialogue about international terrorism.

The institution that formed in the following decades expanded on this event, creating programs like the Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) course and helping students seek research and internship opportunities.

Barry mentioned that the IGL’s aim is to present students with a broad range of perspectives from people in different disciplines through its 15 programs.

“The overarching goal is to immerse students in big ideas through EPIIC and then allow them to put theory into practice,” she said.

In addition to EPIIC, some of the programs offered by the IGL include Inquiry and Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES), as well as global research and various internships. According to Barry, ALLIES provides Tufts students a forum for collaboration and discussion with the military community regarding global issues.

“After Iraq and Afghanistan, students wanted more open dialogue about the military’s role in public policy, prompting the creation of this program,” Barry said.

ALLIES includes a Civil-Military Relations Conference on Veterans Day and a joint research project between Tufts students and the military community in a different country each year.

Inquiry allows high school students to discuss contemporary issues through

a mentorship program with Tufts students. The program culminates in a weekend-long simulation that involves role-play and discussion regarding a different contemporary issue each year, according to Barry. Inquiry typically includes a trip to the area being discussed in order to further immerse its participants in the topic.

Other programs offered by the IGL include Tufts International Development, Amnesty International and BUILD: India.

The IGL is currently led by Dr. Abi Williams, who took over for Teichman in April 2017. According to Barry, Williams’ experience prepared him to serve this role well. In addition to his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School, Williams served as the Director of Strategic Planning for United Nations Secretaries General Ban Ki-Moon and Kofi Annan and as the President of the Hague Institute of Global Justice.

“He was a [teaching assistant] for Teichman,” Barry added. “This enabled him to provide input to the program while he worked for Annan later in his career.”

She said that Williams’ philosophy is similar to Teichman’s, and that like the former director, he has a strong connection with Tufts’ student body. Having adjusted to the leadership of the program in the past year, Barry believes that Williams will now begin implementing his own ideas for the IGL. “He has started to think about what he brings to the table,” she said. “[Teichman] left a huge impression on the program, so now it’s [Williams’] turn to leave his.”

Many Tufts students conducted research and participated in global internships through the IGL this summer. Two such students were Uzair Sattar and Atrey Bhargava. Bhargava is a sophomore majoring in international relations and economics, and Sattar is a sophomore majoring in international relations.

This summer, Bhargava and Sattar spent

two weeks in Pakistan studying India’s role in the Pakistani water crisis. They studied the Indus Waters Treaty, signed in 1960, which decided the rivers that were to be controlled by each nation.

“Getting funding for our research was a long process, as we had to first apply for a visa, and then work with [Barry] and the IGL,” Sattar said.

In addition to their initial application to the IGL, Bhargava and Sattar had to submit a proposal for the approval of Tufts’ Social, Behavioral & Educational Research Institutional Review Board.

In order to conduct their research, the two students traveled from city to city and interviewed various officials associated with water policies in Pakistan.

“We were in Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Lahore, where we interviewed academics, professors, lawyers and bureaucrats — anyone with any connection to the crisis,” Bhargava said.

The entire project lasted two weeks and will culminate in a paper written by the students. Sattar and Bhargava both stated that their research, as well as their general involvement with the IGL, was worthwhile.

“We both did EPIIC last semester and played an active role in the symposium at the end of last year. I was involved in creating a panel on nuclear security and was able to interact with many professionals in the process,” Bhargava said.

Prior to his research with Sattar, Bhargava took part in the IGL’s Oslo Scholars program, which places students in internships with international human rights activism organizations. Bhargava was involved with the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) in Belgrade, Serbia, and he said that the internship was immensely impactful for him.

“This is an organization that deals with nonviolent protest globally. I was able to work

with amazing activists from Togo, Venezuela, Poland and the Maldives,” Bhargava said.

Through this experience, Bhargava met current and former students from institutions like Wellesley College, Harvard and Northeastern, who served as mentors for him.

Sattar noted that he, too, learned a lot from EPIIC and his summer research, sharing that the IGL’s leadership was immensely helpful.

“People like [Williams], who has had experience in the Hague and the UN, have been very helpful in shaping my experience,” Sattar said.

He also said that EPIIC has a diverse mix of students, from seniors considering job prospects to first-years taking advantage of the opportunity to learn the world of international relations.

In terms of his research, Sattar said that he wanted to study the Indus Waters Treaty specifically because of its longevity.

“It has stood the test of time,” he said.

“In the age of nationalism and the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, I wanted to see how multinational treaties still function.”

He also said that the experience fueled his desire for a career in law.

According to Barry, most of the funding for the IGL’s programs, research and internships comes from fundraising and aid from its board. However, the IGL also received a generous contribution from the Carnegie Corporation of New York last year.

“They rarely support undergraduate work, so obtaining this help from them was a major success,” she said.

By funding research and internship opportunities like those of Sattar and Bhargava, and through its extensive programming, Barry noted that the IGL is continually furthering Teichman’s original goal for the program.

“It’s still all about challenging students’ perspectives,” Barry said.

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History on the Hill: Crane Theological School

by Constantinos Angelakis Features Editor

When Charles Tufts donated his land in Medford in 1852, promising to “put a light” on Walnut Hill, he was helping to create “the first higher educational institution founded under Universalist auspices in American history,” according to Peter Theusen’s “Universalism in the History of Tufts.”

While Tufts has been non-sectarian from its inception, the Crane Theological School was a long-time reminder of its Universalist founders, which was founded in 1869 and remained in operation until 1968, occupying Miner and Paige Halls.

Rooms like the Crane Room in Paige, which was originally Crane Chapel, still exist in this space.

Initially called the “Tufts College Divinity School,” according to Theusen, Crane was named after trustee Thomas Crane in 1906. The creation of the school was partially inspired by trustee Sylvanus Packard’s donation “for the establishment of a professorship in Christian theology,” Theusen wrote.

At the time of Tufts’ foundation, Massachusetts was divided religiously among Protestant groups, according to Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Senior Lecturer in Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.

Unitarians, according to Theusen, had influence at a number of universities, including Harvard University. Unitarian Universalism (UU), with a strong base in rural areas, still lacked a university when Hosea Ballou II, Tufts’ first President, sought to establish a university, according to McKanan.

“For the first three decades of the nineteenth century, the Congregationalist and Unitarian Churches in Massachusetts received tax support,” he said. “So Ballou [I] was utterly opposed to state-supported religion, and that made him very skeptical of all of the institutional structure, including institutions like Harvard that helped the traditional clergy maintain their power.”

By the time Hosea Ballou II founded Tufts, state sponsorship for religion had stopped, McKanan said. This allowed Crane to continue playing an important role educating generations of Universalist ministers.

Reverend Gordon Gibson graduated from Crane in 1964 and spent his life as a UU minister. However, he remembers there was low enrollment when he attended the Crane school “My entering class had ten members, I know at least one of those, I think two, dropped out over the course of three years. It was a small school. I think that offers some strengths, but also some real limitations,” Gibson said.

During his time at Crane, Gibson lived on campus and took theological courses, like other Crane students.

“The first two years I was at Crane, I lived in Paige Hall,” he said. “That was an interesting setting. I think it had been built as a dormitory for Crane students, but we didn’t have enough students to fill it. So there were a few undergraduate students who lived there and several foreign-born graduate students. It was a very cosmopolitan mix,” Gibson said.

According to McKanan, low enrollment contributed to Crane’s financial problems; however, the contraction of Unitarian

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Universalist theological education also played an important role. Following the merger of the Unitarian and Universalist Churches in 1961, Crane and St. Lawrence Seminary, the other Universalist seminary, were left in difficult positions.

“Whereas the two traditions had been roughly equal in size at the end of the nineteenth century, by the middle of the twentieth century when they merged, Unitarians were about twice the size of Universalists,” McKanan said. “And that meant that it was kind of an unequal partnership.”

This unequal partnership meant that UU funds were primarily allocated to Unitarian seminaries. Some Universalist schools like Crane and St. Lawrence were forced with the fiscal reality of closure.

Sol Gittleman, Alice and Nathan

Gantcher University Professor of Judaic studies and Professor of German at Tufts, tied this to a larger trend of changing religious life on college campuses during the era.

“We had compulsory chapel until I think the 40’s or 50’s, I’m not sure. But the G.I. Bill changed all of that,” Gittleman said. “Once the soldiers came back, the veterans, they weren’t going to put up with any of this.”

This went even further in the sixties and seventies, with a wave of liberation movements challenging conventional Protestantism in the US, according to Gittleman.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Greater Boston arts and living guide

by Setenay Mufti

Despite being a small city, the arts scene in Boston is massive and sometimes overwhelming. Fear not: whether you’re a movie buff, a fine arts connoisseur or are just curious about local artists and art spaces, the greater Boston area has something for everyone. Check out our suggestions, and get acquainted even before the semester starts!

If you’re interested in local art closer to Tufts, we have good news: the City of Somerville recently commissioned three new public murals, and there will be a public celebration, tour and artist talk on Thursday August 30. The walk will begin with the mural at Taco Loco at 6 PM, with a talk by artist David Zayas, and will end with a celebration at Ola Café, the home of a second mural by artist Angurria. Come for the art, and stay for the live Brazilian music by the local band Grooversity.

Community: Art Walks and Festivals For an artsy introduction to the city, take advantage of all the open, local events during the warmer months.

The SoWa Art + Design District, which extends along Harrison Avenue in Boston, is home to a host of small contemporary art galleries, as well as special events like the SoWa Open Market, First Friday’s and DIY Days. The Open Market is open every Sunday until October, and allows local artists and creators to showcase their work. Learn to make your own jewelry or bath salts on the DIY Days, or drop by on September 7, the first Friday, to see the newest exhibit openings.

The Boston Arts Festival is also right around the corner, at the gorgeous Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, on September 8-9 from 11 AM to 6:30 PM. This festival will also bring local artists and craftspeople to come together and show their wares to the community, with live music throughout the day.

Film: Movie Nights and Series Open-air film screenings are a summer staple, so take advantage while the weather’s still warm! East Somerville Main Streets is putting on another “Movie Night in the Park” at 7 PM on August 31, at Chuckie Harris Park. Instead of one movie, this Movie Night will be a series of animated shorts, from countries diverse as South Korea, Iran and Bulgaria. If you’re more interested in a traditional movie in the park, Cambridge Crossing is screening a mystery movie (which promises some ark-raiding, so make of that what you will) at 7 PM, in The Commons of Cambridge Crossing.

Also in Cambridge, the historic Brattle Theater will begin one of its many film repertory series, “A Tribute to Robby Müller,” on September 5 through September 12. The famed cinematographer passed away this summer, and the Brattle will honor him by screening his classics, many in 35 mm film.

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2018 summer music roundup

by Christopher Panella Assistant Arts Editor

Summer 2018 was full of surprise releases, a standalone popstar, viral dance challenges and fantastic comebacks. In no particular order, this roundup highlights some of this summer’s best music. Honorable mentions include Ariana Grande’s “Sweetener”, Drake’s “Scorpion”, Travis Scott’s “ASTROWORLD” and, of course, the soundtrack for “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.”

Florence + The Machine: “High as Hope” After the personal darkness of “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” (2015), the band is back with the wonderful, witchy and wild “High as Hope.” It’s lead singer Florence Welch at her best: combining vulnerability, past experiences and vivid imagery into a beauti-

ful work of art. Highlights include the hopeful “South London Forever” and the rambunctious “Hunger.” On songs like “Sky Full of Song,” “Patricia” and “100 Years,” Welch’s vocals take center stage, telling stories in colorful detail – a trademark of the band’s artistry.

“High as Hope” is another solid entry in the band’s discography, as expansive as it is introspective. Try listening to it in a field of flowers; that’s where it works best.

Nicki Minaj: “Queen” There was a lot riding on “Queen”, especially after the album’s messy rollout (two delays, a sampling issue and a scathing opinion piece). Thankfully, it’s well worth the wait. From the tropical “Ganja Burn” to the hilarious diss track “Barbie Dreams” and the bravado of “LLC” and “Good Form,” the album see MUSIC

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Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, the location for the Boston Arts Festival, is pictured.

For theatrical fun closer to campus, the Somerville Theater will show the premiere of “Sweeny Killing Sweeny”(2018), a “gritty fantasy” about Boston character, culture and the importance of following our dreams. The premiere will screen on September 11 at 8 PM, to be followed by a short panel with the writer and director.

Fine Arts: Summer-Fall at the Museums The August-September time frame is a tough one for museums, as many summer exhibitions are coming to

a close. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is no exception; the fabulous “Mark Rothko: Reflection” exhibit (which the Daily rated a 4.5/5) will be leaving September 3rd, so make sure to catch it before it closes. Across the city, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is showing two of their stunning summer exhibits, “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85” and “Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death” until September 30. see FESTIVALS, page 17

‘Sharp Objects’ cuts through the falsity of reality

by Julian Blatt

Assistant Arts Editor

Content Warning: This article discusses rape and self-harm.

As students, we strive to be independent. Our futures are now ours to mold; we are finally in complete control of our lives.

Nevertheless, our pasts will always remain with us. We love going home because it allows us the chance not only to reconnect with family and friends, but also to revisit the memories and experiences that helped shape us.

Hometowns are often the physical manifestation of the joy and happiness of our youth.

Unfortunately for Camille Preaker, however, the town of Wind Gap, Mo. represents nothing more than deception and heartbreak.

Camille, hauntingly portrayed by Amy Adams, is the protagonist of “Sharp Objects” (2018-), an HBO miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”). The show follows Camille, a journalist, as she returns home to report on the investigation surrounding the recent murders of two young girls. Perpetually tortured by flashbacks to her childhood, from the despicable (being raped in the woods) to the despairing (her sister’s untimely death), Camille faces a wide variety of emotional problems, struggling with alcoholism and self-harm. In order to stave off her inner demons, Camille cuts words into her skin; her body is a page. While cutting keeps Camille grounded in the present, it also makes her painfully self-conscious. However, her greatest misfortune is her loneliness. No one except her editor understands her. If only she could form one meaningful connection, her life could turn around for the better.

Unfortunately, her family does not offer much help. Patricia Clarkson delivers a brilliant performance as Adora, Camille’s socialite mother. While in public, Adora radiates Southern beauty and grace, yet her private self borders on sinister, never hesitating to bombard Camille with verbal abuse. No character better demonstrates this Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of public and private life than Amma, Camille’s half-sister, played by rising star Eliza Scanlen. While at home, Amma conforms to Adora’s stringent rules of decorum; she spends her nights frolicking in the streets, where she runs around with boys and chases hogs. Every actor in “Sharp Objects” embodies a double-faceted character, layered like nesting dolls. However, as Camille’s reporting dives deeper, we see these facades begin to crack.

Much of “Sharp Objects” is told through the soundtrack. Camille escapes reality by driving alone with an eclectic assortment of music playing. The audience only hears snippets of the songs, similarly to how we only see fragments of Camille’s past. Like her memories, her songs are haphazardly interlaced to form a quilt of her youth — one that is torn and spattered with blood. During one moment of extreme tension, Camille throws her phone out the car window, symbolizing the extent to which Wind Gap strips her of her personal identity. Music is also a form of nostalgia.

Camille’s stepfather (Matt Czerny) listens to old records, and Civil War-era music is played at a town festival celebrating the Confederate army.Southern nostalgia is at the heart of “Sharp Objects.” see SHARP

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2018 summer movies roundup

by John Fedak Arts Editor

With summer drawing to a close, now is the perfect time to reflect on the myriad movies that graced the big screen over the past three months. Unless you live under a rock, most of these movies will come as no surprise, although some of them are perhaps unexpected. Regardless of their hype, however, each film managed to encapsulate what makes a good movie, and they all make for great viewing experiences. Without further ado, here are some of the summer’s biggest movies.

“Avengers: Infinity War” I mean, did you really expect this list to open with another movie? Marvel has proved time and again that it’s not only concocted, but also perfected, the formula for blockbuster hits. Featuring a great plot with more than a dash of desperation and world-ending consequences, combined with a star-studded cast and just the right amount of marketing, “Infinity War” was the perfect way to start the summer, and fans are already chomping at the bit for its sequel, due out next April.

“Mission: Impossible – Fallout” I’ll be the first to admit that I am not fond of Tom Cruise, which in all fairness is putting it rather lightly. The man has some serious problems with his personal life and coupled with the diminishing popularity of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise in recent years, I elected not to include “Fallout” on my list of summer movies to watch out for. That was a huge mistake. Love him or hate him, Cruise propelled

this film to incredible success, delivering a thoroughly engaging performance supported by a solid cast that includes Vanessa Kirby of The Crown (2016-) and Henry Cavill of recent Superman fame. The cinematography deserves additional praise; even with a surfeit of action shots, every single sequence is heart-pounding and entertaining, beautifully filmed and perfectly edited to elicit audience responses. Even if you despise Tom Cruise, “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” is perhaps the best action movie of the summer, and it would be a disservice not to watch it at least once.

“BlacKkKlansman” Directed by industry titan Spike Lee, this movie came out of nowhere to me, but the praise it has garnered more than speaks for itself. Based on true events, the movie follows Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, and white detective Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), as they set out to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan branch operating in the city. Washington and Driver have effortless chemistry on screen, and the film is well-paced with an interesting plot, drawing audiences in and keeping them intrigued until the very end. Beyond its plot and cast, the film masterfully ties America’s racist past to the present, providing a biting and intelligent commentary for audiences to mull over long after the credits roll.

“Incredibles 2” At this point, I am confident saying Pixar can do no wrong. With success after success over the past decade, even its ‘flops’ are

Southern nostalgia runs deep in “Sharp Objects”

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continued from page 12 is a lap of the rapper’s greatest hits, highlighting everything she excels at.

However, the album’s 66-minute running time drags with many filler tracks (especially Future duet “Sir” and the snooze “Miami”). Even so, Queen is still a slam dunk and a reminder that Minaj is still wearing her crown.

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continued from page 12 The ICA is also known for their “free Thursdays” as well as their new ICA Watershed, which just premiered this July. The Watershed is an external gallery accessible only by a ferry ride, which is provided free by the ICA with general admission. This Watershed season, which runs until October, will showcase an immersive installation by Diana Thater. Don’t forget Tufts IDs for reduced (or free) admission!

Finally, the Tufts University Art Gallery (which is free and open for all) opens its fall semester exhibits on August 29 at the Aidekman Arts Center.

“Hereditary” Lauded as one of the scariest horror flicks in recent memory after its premiere at the 2018 Sundance Festival, “Hereditary” mostly lived up to of the hype. Moviegoers might note its similarities to “The Witch” (2015), as both films originate from film distribution company A24. However, “Hereditary” differentiates itself not only in its setting, but also in its willingness to embrace viscerally shocking horror as opposed to a reliance on the horror of the unseen. The movie follows Annie Graham (Toni Collette) and her family immediately after the death of her mother, as they begin to realize that the dead in their lives are still very much present. Without a doubt, the best part of “Hereditary” is Collette’s acting; she is enchantingly terrifying, with each personal revelation twisting knives of unease further into the hearts of the terrified audience members. The other cast members all deliver

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For the sake of brevity, this roundup remains at five movies, though there were plenty of other candidates that just missed out on inclusion, such as “Sorry to Bother You” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” Now is the perfect time to experience these movies as part of a last hurrah before classes start. Who knows? You might even find a new favorite somewhere among this collection of summer blockbusters.

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continued from page 12 The costumes and set pieces, especially during the festival scene, are reminiscent of “Gone With the Wind” (1939), as the South is glorified to the point of becoming a character in itself. The natural greens and whites speak of nature and a purity that, contrary to the beliefs of the characters, seems to not actually exist. The landscape shots are hazy and wistful. Yet, many moments are stitched together solely by quick and sudden cuts, as though the duplicity of Wind Gap is piercing enough to shatter time. In a sense, the directing style fits well with the theme of the show, which remains persistent throughout the series: the glory of the South is only a facade that disguises a dark evil.

While “Objects” is admittedly overly edgy at times, it sharply illuminates the intrinsic difference between appearance and reality, leading to an enjoyable eight-episode arc full of twists and turns that will leave you stunned. The finale

successful, and each movie from the studio features its characteristic beautiful, emotional animation. Pixar’s sequel to “The Incredibles” (2004) takes what made the first film great and expands on those points without running its plot or characters thin. Each member of the superhero family is well-characterized, and the plot is entertaining, even if it does fall a bit on the cliché side. The animation is flawless as usual, and the voice actors all do great work in bringing their characters to life. Also, Jack-Jack provides hilarious comic relief that will have both adults and children laughing out loud.

Much like “Avengers: Infinity War” there isn’t much more to say — it’s a Pixar movie, so go and enjoy it.

Many students attend Tufts without ever seeing the galleries, or even knowing they exist, so be sure to check out these shows before the semester gets chaotic. The current main exhibit is titled “States of Freedom: The Figure in Flux” in conjunction with “Expressions Unbound: American Outsider Art from the Andrew and Linda Safran Collection.” It collects pieces from the Tufts Museum’s considerable permanent collection that provide context for the “States of Freedom” exhibit upstairs. The main show is flanked by “ARTIST RESPONSE: Election,” a video installation on the Media Wall, as well as “TuftsPUBLIC: Wave Farm” in the Remis Sculpture Court.

Gorillaz: “The Now Now” After their dark and apocalyptic “Humanz” (2017), the digital band is back with an album perfect for summer. Written and recorded by co-creator Damon Albarn earlier this year, “The Now Now” is a welcomed addition to the band’s discography, full of bright alternative beats and more focused than its predecessors.

Highlights include the beach vibe “Humility” (feat. George Benson), spacey “Lake Zurich” and folk “Souk Eye.” Whereas “Humanz” was crippled by its long list of featured artists, “The Now Now” brings the focus back to the Gorillaz themselves. Sure, “The Now Now” isn’t their best work – that title still belongs to “Plastic Beach” (2010).

Nonetheless, it’s concise, interesting and made for summer listening.

Beyoncé & Jay Z: “EVERYTHING IS LOVE” The surprise release marks an end to the trilogy Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” (2016) began and Jay Z’s “4:44” (2017) continued: a personal trilogy revolving around marriage, cheating, love and forgiveness. “EVERYTHING IS LOVE” is a powerful ending, including the exciting trap of “APESHIT,” the easy-listening vibes of “HEARD ABOUT US,” and the hilarious conversation of “LOVEHAPPY.” No, the album isn’t as diverse or impressive as “Lemonade”

– but what is? Beyoncé dominates “EVERYTHING IS LOVE”, making it feel like a Beyoncé-featuring-Jay-Z release rather than a duel effort. Regardless, it’s a strong entry in both of their discographies and a satisfying ending to a very public marital dispute.

Charli XCX: “5 in the Morning”/“Focus”/“No Angel”/“Girls Night Out” After her perfect mixtapes “Number 1 Angel” (2017) and “Pop 2” (2017), Charli XCX is back as one of the leaders of forward-thinking pop. Over the summer, the artist served some of the best bops of the year, beginning with the infectious “5 in the Morning.” Her latest release is the absolute banger “Girls Night Out,” which has had unofficial versions and leaked releases over the past year. The releases are Charli XCX at her best, featuring earworm sounds like the bouncy beat of “No Angel” and the monotone flow of “Focus.” The four singles add up to a solid reminder that Charli XCX’s creations never disappoint.

Mac Miller: “Swimming” “Swimming” introduces a more mature, open and honest Miller. On the album, Miller maps many themes, including vulnerability, self-reliance, fame and his recent breakup with Ariana Grande. There’s exploration of different genres, from the slow vibes of “Hurt Feelings” and the spacey jazz of “Ladders” to the disco of “What’s the Use?” True, the album is far from focused, but that doesn’t mean “Swimming” isn’t strong. Rather, the lack of focus is what makes this album worth a listen. Miller takes listeners on a tour of his headspace. No, it’s not the most organized, but it’s honest and real.

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Hello Class of 2022!

Welcome to Tufts!

What you are experiencing at this very moment is going to be one of the most transformative experiences of your life.

Your first few weeks are rife with emotions: excitement and tradition coupled with naivety and confusion. Finding your niche as a Jumbo will take time, but with the right resources you can find your home here in Medford.

On housing: be patient. Living with a roommate for the first time can be a daunting experience. Often times, it can even dictate how you feel about the university but being understanding and considerate of others will make all the difference. When problems arise, use the resources around you. Your First Year Assistants (FYAs) are there to help you.

Having gone through extensive training on creating dialogue and problem-solving, they are well-equipped with the tools to help alleviate roommate or housing stressors. Don’t wait till problems get over-

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On academics: be proactive.

Transitioning to college academics is different for everyone, but every student will experience some kind of struggle at one point or another. Being proactive about learning will not only help you reach your goals, but it will also build rapport with your professors and TAs. Make every possible effort to go to office hours, even if it is just to say hello. The Academic Resource Center (ARC) is also an excellent option. The student-tutors who work for this organization are not only incredible teachers, but they also have taken the same exact classes. They understand the material deeply and hold one-on-one sessions as well as drop-in hours. Take those opportunities and stay ahead of the curve.

Academic Advising is also another tool to utilize if you are struggling with classes, your major or have general questions about distribution requirements. Find

your pre-major advisor, a Student Success Advisor or an Advising Dean to help you with nearly anything academic-related.

College is all about being accountable for yourself, and being proactive is half the battle.

On extracurriculars: be exploratory.

There are hundreds of clubs and organizations that Tufts has to offer—likely one that fits almost every interest. Go to the Student Organization Fair to meet with the 300+ student organizations on campus (philanthropy with the Leonard Carmichael Society, teaching children with Peer Health Exchange, civic engagement with Tufts Community Union, or writing for the Tufts Daily to name a few).

Finding friends and delving into college life is incumbent upon “putting yourself out there” whatever your affinity or passion. Also, do not forget about that enormous metropolitan city right next door.

Boston is teeming with hospitals, corporations, firms, schools, and etc. Do not

think that your college experience has to be defined within the boundaries of this campus. Being involved in the larger picture will expose you to reality.

On health and wellness: it’s okay to not be okay. Resources such as mental health counseling, health services and the care center exist for you. Each one has professionals who are eager to help you succeed regardless of what you are going through. Self-care is also extremely important. You should be your utmost priority. That means eating regularly, sleeping 8 hours a day to function optimally and being active and healthy. Take care of yourself.

As you move into your first-year experience at Tufts, ask yourself: what do I want out of this school? The sooner you can answer that question, the sooner you can use the interminable opportunities that Tufts has to offer.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Congrats.

You’ve successfully become one of us, many moons after hitting that “submit” button on the Common Application. So give yourself a pat on the back and buckle up before you start the first chapter in your Jumbo life. Oh, and don’t forget to say goodbye to sweet and bitter things you’ve known, whether they be your parents, dogs, high school nemesis or significant other who now goes to Brown.

In no time, you will pull your first, dreadful all-nighter “studying” with your new friends, drop a course which you are about to fail, post your first Tufts related meme on Tufts Memes for Quirky Queens and think you are about the funniest person ever to be alive, watch your watch your pre-med

hallmate become an English major, pick up a copy of our beautiful paper just for the sudoku and articulate why Carm is objectively a better dining hall than Dewick.

Also in no time, many of you will constantly feel you are behind of all things in a school full of people who got 5s on 12 AP subjects tests and some 1550s on the SAT. Many of you will get rejected by the clubs you’ve applied to be a part of and get overwhelmed by the challenges that come in your way. You will still love Tufts, but you will also figure out what you hate about Tufts. Sometimes, you will feel powerless because of the terms of life you can’t change.

However, don’t let such frustrations stop you from reaching new heights and stepping out of your comfort zone. You

will learn to cope with the fear of uncertainty, and realize that while grades are important, they are not paramount to you finding out who you are and what makes you happy. And you will soon find out that it’s okay to not know where you are going, as long as you are not stuck and keep on going. And this goes the same for when you get stuck in a moment with complacency.

As I welcome you to the Hill on behalf of the Tufts Daily masthead, I challenge you to never settle. Yes, it will be difficult because moments of success are sweet and those of misfortune and failure are devastating. I admit people tend to stick with what they are used to, and it’d be a lie if I said I haven’t been so with my choices at Tufts. But don’t you want to know what Tufts and its people have to offer?

See, listen, learn, do, make and experience all that Tufts has to offer. Go to your first dance performance at Tufts, join a club you’ve never tried before, and write your first story for the Tufts Daily. You will get stronger from the challenges you run into, and learn how to survive, thrive and make do, wherever you find yourself to be. I look forward to you saying that your time at Tufts was full of new ideas, things, people and many learning experiences, rather than a boring four years of grinding to get your Bachelor’s.

So off you go. Best of luck out there and hit me up when you got some stories to tell.

Cheers, Shim Editor-in-Chief

OP-ED

Where’s the Inquiry?

by Spencer Zeff

On August 15, the Jewish News Syndicate published an article exposing a new class offered this Fall titled “Colonizing Palestine.” The course description blatantly states that students “will address crucial questions relating to … the Israeli state which illegally occupies Palestine.” This language is not merely inf lammatory — it positions a one-sided narrative as truth from the outset of the semester. Tufts should offer courses exploring both the Israeli-Palestinian conf lict and Palestinian culture separate from the conf lict. The Palestinian people, as with the Israeli and Jewish peoples, do not exist just in terms of the conf lict, and framing it as such actually does a disservice to the rich peoplehood Palestinians share. Choosing to focus a course on the experiences of individuals that share a common identity is legitimate, but this focus must be made clear. This course is quite clearly titled “Colonizing Palestine” and not

“Palestinian Culture” or “Palestinian Perspectives in the Conf lict.”

In the course description, there are no Jewish writers or filmmakers mentioned. Yet how can this class “explore the histor y and culture of modern Palestine” and have students “address crucial questions” without exploring the perspective and narratives of a real country they live in or border and the other major group of people living there? How can students properly examine this region and its complexities if their studies are limited a set of works that exclude any non-Palestinian perspective? Surely students of Tufts’ caliber deserve better.

By boiling a complex geopolitical issue down to the simplistic colonizer-colonized binary, this course delegitimizes the rightful Jewish claim to live in the land of their origins. Jews are of course indigenous to Israel — where else would Jews be from? Tufts University has defended this course because of the professor’s academic freedom, and while he has the right to teach on this topic and focus on

Palestinian perspectives, a disservice is done to students looking for a holistic and nuanced perspective of such an important issue on campus and in the world. In fact, the university’s blind endorsement of “Colonizing Palestine” poses real threats to the academic freedom of students and quite literally denies Jewish indigeneity to Israel, something very personal to me.

I am a Jew of Israeli descent with Israeli family. I am entering my third year at Tufts with the same fear that I felt when I was called a “Zionist scum,” an anti-Semitic slur, my first year. Jewish students are frequently discriminated against in conspiratorial terms and age old tropes on Tufts Secrets, an anony mous Facebook page. I no longer question why Tufts Friends of Israel is the only culture club at Tufts that requires a security detail at the majority of our events. I have become accustomed to the rapid spikes in my heart beat when asked about my heritage, whereas I have found most Tufts students are prideful and open about their diverse and

interesting identities. Any topic surrounding Israel has become so politicized on campus that I see my classmates actively avoid talking about the Jewish state. This course overtly labels my family as foreign settlers and colonists, as if it was a dynamic as simple as Europeans coming to North America. For me, Israel is not just another controversial topic discussed on campus: it is a part of my identity that I carry with me whether it is convenient or not.

In response to the backlash that this course has received, the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora wrote in a statement: “We will not let these spurious attacks derail inquiry at our university.” By offering a single narrative as fact with little information to challenge such an opinion, Colonialism Studies is doing just that: derailing inquiry at our university.

Spencer Zeff is a junior studying economics.

Spencer is also president of Friends of Israel at Tufts and can be reached at Spencer.

Zeff@tufts.edu.

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Jumbos turn attention to fall 2018 FALL PREVIEWS

continued from page 28 The Jumbos return a number of key starters, including four All-NESCAC players in senior co-captain midfielder Emma Ranalli, senior defender Taylor Koscho, sophomore midfielder/forward Sophie Lloyd and senior goalkeeper Emily Bowers, who led the conference in saves with 82.

Tufts kicks off its season on Sept. 5 at Emerson.

Men’s Tennis Tufts rallied its way to a solid 10–6 overall record in 2017–18. Though they fell just short of the conference tournament, the Jumbos accomplished an impressive feat — posting the highest team GPA out of all Tufts varsity sports at 3.59.

On the way to a 3–5 mark in conference play, Tufts was challenged by eventual Div. III champion Middlebury (25–4, 7–1 NESCAC), conference champion Bowdoin (23–2, 8–1 NESCAC) and perennial rival Williams (15–5, 6–1 NESCAC). All promise to offer stiff competition this season.

The Jumbos’ talented young corps of sophomores Owen Bartok and Niko Hereford, as well as junior Ben Biswas, is coming into its own, while the team is anchored by its sole senior, Ross Kamin.

Coach Karl Gregor’s squad will look to slice through its opening competition at the Middlebury Invitational from Sept. 15–16.

Women’s Tennis The Jumbos had a strong 2017–18 season, finishing 13–7 overall. Bested by MIT at home in the regional finals of the NCAA tournament, the team walked away proud of its performance but will be hungry for more this year.

Last year’s Californian co-captains, Lauren Louks and Zoe Miller, graduated in May and will be sorely missed, but seniors Julia Keller and Tomo Iwasaki believe that coach Kate Bayard’s squad has much to look forward to.

“I think this season will be really exciting,” Iwasaki said. “The combination of having a lot of new talent and also having members on this team with good experience will set us up for a great year. There are four of us who are seniors going into it for the last time, and we’re all hoping to make this year our best yet.”

Williams (21–1, 7–0 NESCAC) and Middlebury (17–4, 6–1 NESCAC) are key teams to watch and may again present Tufts’ toughest challenge in head-to-head competition and major tournaments.

Golf The 2017–18 season marked a turning point for the Tufts golf team, which made

its first-ever appearance in the NESCAC Championship since a qualifying round was added in 2007. The Jumbos finished fourth at the conference tournament, with senior Justin Feldman leading with a 14-over score of 158 between two rounds of play. Feldman will likely be part of this year’s leadership on the team, as he was the only member of his class to represent the Jumbos at the tournament.

Junior Brandon Karr was rewarded for his strong season with a selection to the All-Conference Second Team. Karr will be one to watch this year, as he was a consistent performer for the Jumbos and was instrumental in securing the team’s path to the tournament last season.

The team’s three graduated seniors will be replaced by Feldman and fellow senior classmate Brian Creonte, who will lead the team when the fall season begins on Sept. 8 at the Dietrick Invitational, hosted by Trinity College.

Field Hockey The field hockey team posted an impressive 11–5 record (8–2 NESCAC) to place second in the conference in 2017. However, the second-seeded Jumbos were upset, 2–1, by the seventh-seeded Bowdoin Polar Bears — a team they beat 3–0 in the regular season — in the NESCAC quarterfinals.

The Jumbos lost several key players to graduation, including All-American forward Mary Travers (LA ’18) and AllNESCAC Second Team midfielder Celia Lewis (E ’18). The team’s returning members, led by NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year in senior Issy Del Priore, kick off their season on Sept. 8 at Colby.

Volleyball Tufts’ 2017 season went smashingly with an undefeated conference mark of 10–0 and a 23–7 overall record.

However, the team came up just short of a NESCAC title, falling 3–1 to Wesleyan in November’s championship match.

While former captain Alex Garrett (LA ’18) will be missed, the majority of last year’s team was comprised of sophomores, who will now be established as upperclassmen leaders. The experienced Jumbos hope that fresh faces can set them up for another spike into conference and national glory this time around.

“The thing I am looking forward to the most this season is taking each practice, each game and each moment one at a time,” senior Angela Yu said.

“By doing this, we will be able to celebrate all of our successes and thoroughly enjoy having this opportunity to play with one another.”

Coach Cora Thompson’s team hosts Clark University on Sept. 4.

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Harry Theodore, LA ’21, hits an approach on the 12th green in the NESCAC championship qualifying tournament at Indian Hill Golf Club in Newington, Conn. on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017.

Men’s and Women’s Cross Country The women’s cross country team registered yet another stellar season last year, placing third at the NESCAC Championships, second at the Div. III New England Regionals and seventh at the NCAA National Championships. The Jumbos were spearheaded by a strong group of upperclassmen, including twotime cross country All-American Brittany Bowman (LA ’18), senior Natalie Bettez and senior Olivia Barnett, all of whom earned All-Conference honors.

Yet the Jumbos are hungry to build on their success and hope to fill the gap with a group of talented underclassmen.

“I’m so excited to see what our team can accomplish this fall,” sophomore Sara Mitchell said. “There are several [first-years] who show great potential as contributors, and we have a ton of depth, grit and ambition among the returners.

We’re ready to start the season off strong.”

The men’s cross country team also hit its stride in 2017, finishing sixth at the NESCAC Championships and eighth at the Div. III New England Championships.

A standout group of seniors including Colin Raposo, Brian Reaney, Dylan Jones, Christian Swenson and Hiroto Watanabe will look to lead the pack.

Co-ed and Women’s Sailing The co-ed sailing team, one of the few Tufts teams that compete in Div. I, will kick off its fall campaign on Sept. 8 with the Harry Anderson Trophy at Yale in what should be an action-packed season. The team graduated Alp Rodopman (LA ’18) who delivered strong performances in both group and individual competitions, including leading the team to a second-place result by winning the C Division at the

Nevins Trophy in September and winning the 2016 New England Single-handed Championships during his junior year.

Sophomore Talia Toland will be one to watch, as she competed at the Single-handed Championships alongside Rodopman as a first-year last season. Meanwhile, senior co-captains Jack Bitney, Sabrina van Mell, Ian Morgan and Chris Keller will usher in the new class and attempt to lead the team to success this fall.

Meanwhile, the women’s sailing team finished the 2017–18 campaign strong, qualifying for the national regatta after finishing 11th at the New England Championship. The Jumbos eventually finished 12th overall in the national semifinals, missing out on a spot in the final.

The team starts its year on Sept. 8, as well, at the Toni Deutsch Trophy hosted by MIT. Men’s and Women’s Crew Tufts’ men’s crew team finished a successful 2017–18 season with two strong performances in its postseason regattas — taking fifth place at the New England Championships and second at Nationals.

The team graduated several key rowers in the spring, including co-captains Andrew MacMillen (LA ’18), and Tyler Hagedorn (LA ’18). A strong senior class will follow in their footsteps, as Isaac Mudge will co-captain the squad alongside classmate Ryan Bell and juniors Paul Gelhaus and Mats Edwards.

The rowers on the women’s side were equally as successful in postseason action, placing third at Nationals. The women will also bring a strong senior class onto the river this year and will be led by senior co-captains Libby Lichter and Miranda Finestone. The third co-captain for the women’s side will be junior Madeleine Clarke.

Jumbos continue to leave legacy throughout summer SUMMER

continued from page 28 en’s teams, Bigelow transformed the Jumbos’ program drastically. As head coach from 1982 to 2015, her teams earned a .692 winning percentage, while Bigelow herself coached and mentored 44 All-Americans and 18 New England/NESCAC champions. As she closes this chapter of her life, she leaves the Tufts program with both forward momentum and valuable life lessons.

“Nancy very often signed off her emails to our team members, ‘Keep smiling,’” swimming and diving head coach Adam Hoyt said.

“I think that was a motto for her: just be happy with who you are and don’t let anything else dictate your happiness.”

Bigelow was often recognized for her superb leadership, as she was named New England Coach of the Year thrice and was

a two-time NESCAC Coach of the Year honoree. Bigelow also earned the CSCAA Richard E. Steadman Award, the 2008 Massachusetts State Lottery and Boston College Athletics Heights Award and the 2006 CSCAA Master and Distinguished Coach award during her career.

More important than her winning percentage and hardware, though, was Bigelow’s outsized impact on Tufts swimmers and divers.

“Once you’ve been coaching for 36 years, you’re certainly more than just a coach,” Hoyt said.

Hoyt and many student-athletes at Tufts consider Bigelow extended family.

Though she will be missed greatly, her legacy will live on in the Jumbos’ swimming and diving program.

Travers selected as NCAA Woman of the Year nominee

Former Tufts field hockey forward Mary Travers (LA ’18) was selected to represent the NESCAC as a NCAA Woman of the Year nominee in June. Each year, the NCAA recognizes graduating female student-athletes who have distinguished themselves through academic achievement, athletic excellence, service and leadership.

“I was honored that I got the nomination,” Travers said. “But I think what’s most special about it is that in my field hockey career at Tufts, I’ve had coach Tina McDavitt [Mattera] and assistant coach Maya Herm as really strong female leaders for me. To be able to conclude my time at Tufts with the nomination having had a lot of strong women empowering me along the way was really special.”

Throughout her collegiate career, Travers’ talents shined in many settings. On the field, she led the Jumbos to four NESCAC tourna-

ment appearances, including an immensely successful 2016 season in which the Jumbos won the NESCAC title and advanced to the NCAA championship game. She was a twotime NFHCA All-American and a two-time All-NESCAC First Team honoree.

Travers’ accomplishments off the field are equally impressive: four-time Dean’s List student, TEDxTufts speaker, Tisch Fund for Civic Engagement recipient and Meghan A. Carleton Grant recipient. But it was Travers’ passion for art history and French literature that took her far and wide, and she plans to continue her academic exploration by pursuing a master’s degree in arts and religion at Yale University this fall.

As for her collegiate achievements, stay tuned for the announcement of the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year on Oct. 28 in Indianapolis, Ind.

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Tufts takes eighth in 2017–18 Learfield Directors’ Cup

by Ryan Eggers

Sports Editor, Assistant Arts Editor

After a year of achievement, triumph and at times heartbreak for Tufts athletics, the Jumbos finished eighth in the Learfield Directors’ Cup standings for the 2017–18 school year. The Directors’ Cup, which ranks colleges based on their performance in up to 18 sports that must include men’s and women’s basketball and soccer, was won by Williams for the 21st time in the competition’s history.

For the Jumbos, the eighth-place finish is a slight dip from the previous two years. Tufts recorded top-five results in 2015–16 and 2016–17, finishing fourth and third, respectively. However, the Jumbos’ eighth-place finish out of 323 eligible Div. III schools maintained their streak of six consecutive top-10 finishes in the competition.

The Jumbos earned points in 14 out of a possible 18 sports last year. Top performers led the way, as the Jumbos received 427 points from their top two finishers in each of fall, winter and spring seasons.

Strong start in the fall A year after winning the NCAA Div. III Championship, the men’s soccer team fell just short in the tournament this year, bowing out in the Elite Eight to Brandeis in extra time. Still, the result earned 73 points toward the Jumbos’ Directors’ Cup effort — tied for the highest mark of any Tufts team.

The women’s cross country team contributed 72 points by finishing seventh at the NCAA Championships. The

Jumbos’ seventh-place result topped all of their NESCAC rivals and was the second-best mark in team history.

Other scorers in the fall season included the women’s volleyball team, which put up 50 points for making it to the second round of the NCAA tournament, as well as the women’s soccer team, whose first NCAA tournament qualification since 2007 netted the Jumbos 25 points. Combined, the fall sports teams posted 220 points, which was good for 14th in the Directors’ Cup standings at the end of the season.

Winter season success The Jumbos surged back into the Top 10 of the competition in the winter, as coach Carla Berube’s women’s basketball team advanced to another Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament. Though the team came up short of avenging its championship loss to Amherst in 2017, it did match Tufts’ men’s soccer team with 73 points in the Directors’ Cup. Meanwhile, the men’s swimming and diving team finished a historic year in seventh place at the NCAA championship meet — its best finish since 1982 — and earned 72 points for the Jumbos. Coach Adam Hoyt also led the women’s swimming and diving team, which contributed 30.5 points thanks to Anna Kimura’s (LA ’18) 12th place finish in the 200 breaststroke.

The winter season was capped off by the men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams, which finished 13th and 11th in their national meets, respectively. Combined, those marks earned Tufts 126 points and put the

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Danielle Skufca, ‘18, left, and Julia Noble, ‘19, run at the Connecticut College Cross Country Invitational at Harkness Memorial State Park on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. school’s total at 521.5 points, good for ninth in the Directors’ Cup standings at the end of the winter season.

Final spring charge The Tufts men’s lacrosse team, led by coach Casey D’Annolfo (LA ’06), added 73 more points to the cause in the spring season thanks to its Elite Eight berth. The women’s tennis team provided 64 points in the form of an NCAA Regional Final appearance, falling 5–3 to MIT. Coach Cheryl Milligan’s softball team garnered 50 points with a NCAA Regional Final appearance against MIT, while women’s lacrosse tacked on another 50 with its second-round appearance in the NCAA

tournament. Finally, a 42nd-place finish for the men’s track and field team at the NCAA Championships gave the Jumbos 29 points.

Tufts’ spring success cemented their overall standing in the No. 8 spot with a total of 787.5 points, a mere 14 points ahead of NESCAC rival Amherst. While the Jumbos suffered a slight drop from last year’s standings, their 2017–18 season was full of many historic matches and memorable moments. Tufts ranked as the third-best team in the NESCAC, demonstrating the competitive nature of its athletics program. It will have the chance to show off the strength of its programs as the race for the Directors’ Cup kicks off again this fall.

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NESCAC who’s who

by Jeremy Goldstein, Arlo Moore-Bloom and Ethan Zaharoni

Bowdoin College

Assistant Sports Editor, Sports Editor and Assistant Sports Editor

Colby College Middlebury College Founded in 1800, the Middlebury Panthers proudly flaunt the colors of blue and white. They found success during the 2017-18 season in sports such as women’s lacrosse when the team claimed its ninth NESCAC championship. The Panthers were a men’s lacrosse powerhouse between 2001 and 2007, winning seven NESCAC titles before the Jumbos surpassed that record in 2018. The program also boasts five conference championships in women’s field hockey and eight in men’s ice hockey.

Williams College One of the oldest schools in NESCAC, Williams is located in Williamstown, Mass. and was founded in 1793. The Ephs, a shortened name of the founder of the school, have purple and gold as their school colors.

The Ephs are one of the most successful teams in the conference with 36 national championships, nine of which come from the women’s rowing team, including an eight-year streak from 2006 to 2013.

The Ephs also dominate women’s tennis, earning the most NCAA titles in a sport (10). Overall, Williams is a powerhouse in the conference: Last year, it captured NESCAC titles in women’s golf, softball and women’s cross country (all for the third consecutive year), women’s tennis (for the fourth year in a row), women’s swimming and diving and women’s track and field both for the 17th time in the past 18 years. It also emerged victorious in women’s soccer and men’s basketball. However, just this year, the Jumbos ended the Ephs’ 15-year hold on the NESCAC Championship in men’s swimming and diving.

One of two NESCAC schools to only have captured one national championship since its founding (the other one being Hamilton), Colby is not known for its athletic prowess.

However, its women’s lacrosse team stands out having won three NESCAC titles since 2008. The White Mules wear colby blue and priscilla gray and is the third NESCAC school based in Maine, calling the small town of Waterville home.

Bates College Founded in Lewiston in 1855, Bates is one of the three Mainebased schools in the NESCAC. The Bobcats wear garnet, black and grey. The Bobcats’ rowing teams are by far the school’s most successful sports teams: The men’s team captured three o f the last four NESCAC championships, while the women’s team are four-of-five, adding three national championships along the way. Alumnus Andrew Byrnes won a gold medal while rowing with team Canada at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

However, apart from rowing, Bates has little to show for its efforts, mustering only one other conference championship in the last 10 years when its men’s track and field team finished first in 2012.

Amherst College

Hamilton College Chartered in 1812, Hamilton College is the only New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) school located outside of New England, calling Clinton, N.Y. home. Hamilton College pays homage to founding father Alexander Hamilton, the namesake of the school. Hamilton’s school colors are buff and blue, in reference to the colors of the New York Regiment of the Army. Hamilton teams are known as the Continentals. The first Continentals to win a national championship was the women’s lacrosse team in 2008, which to date remains their only national championship.

Trinity College Trinity College is located in Hartford, Conn. and was founded in 1823. The school mascot is the Bantam, and its school colors are navy blue and old gold. In 2008, the Bantams boasted a 45–1 baseball record, capped off by winning the national championship. The Bantams also continuously boast one of the strongest programs in the NESCAC, including back-to-back championships in 2016 and 2017 in men’s hockey and football. Trinity’s men’s squash program is one of the strongest in the nation, winning 252 consecutive games from 1998 to 2012, as well as winning 17 of the last 20 national championships.

Bowdoin’s athletic successes can be summed in two words: field hockey. The Polar Bears are four-time national champions and eight-time NESCAC champions. Head coach Nicky Pearson has been named NESCAC Coach of the Year a record nine times. The coastal Maine school residing in the town of its namesake boasts cold winters and a Polar Bear mascot along with black and white uniforms.

Its men’s tennis team also experienced recent success as two-time defending conference champions.

The team is the only other sport to win a national championship (in 2016), but it lost last year’s NCAA championship match to Middlebury, 5–3. The women’s basketball team also made it to the national finals last year, only to lose to defending champions Amherst 65–45.

Wesleyan University Located in Middletown, Conn., the Wesleyan Cardinals wrapped up arguably their most successful athletic season of all time, with standout performances from both teams and individuals. The men’s lacrosse team revived itself in the last two years to threaten Tufts, who has dominated not only the NESCAC but also the entire division in the last decade. Wesleyan recovered from a loss to Tufts in the NESCAC championship game in 2018 to defeat Salisbury and win its first ever National Championship. Meanwhile, 2018 graduate Eudice Chong won her fourth consecutive women’s tennis singles title, becoming the first person in NCAA history with four consecutive titles.

The Mammoths feature a deep pool of talent across its various varsity teams that has culminated in a total of 13 national titles. Arguably Amherst’s strongest sport is basketball which makes up five of its national championships. The women’s team is fresh off of an undefeated 33–0 season in which they romped their way to a third-straight conference and second straight national title. The Mammoths, previously known as the Purple and White for their jersey colors, have been very strong in tennis, with the women’s team recording nine NESCAC titles, while the men’s team boasts six.

Connecticut College Located in New London, Conn., and one of three NESCAC schools from the Constitution State, Conn.

College is the youngest school in the conference both in terms of year of founding (1911) and the year they joined the NESCAC (1982). Conn. College’s official colors are dark blue and white, and its mascot is the camel. Conn. College is the only NESCAC school without a football team, as it was an all-women’s college until 1969. The Camels have never won a team national championship, although they have had some success in individual sports with seven national champions.

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Jumbos prepare for challenging fall season

by Maddie Payne, Bradley Schussel, Josh Steinfink and Tim Chiang Sports Editor, Sports Editor, Assistant Sports Editor and Assistant Sports Editor

Football Tufts finished its 2017 season sixth in the NESCAC with a 5–4 record. Despite this decline from a 7–1 showing in 2016, the Jumbos’ talent was recognized by the league’s coaches. Seven players were named to last season’s All-NESCAC team, including four players who graduated in May. Junior linebacker Greg Holt, senior defensive back Tim Preston and senior tight end Tim Reitzenstein will be players to watch this fall, as they were also named to the All-NESCAC team. Holt, a two-time First Team All-NESCAC honoree, was third in the league in tackles, with an average of 9.3 per game.

Senior quarterback Ryan McDonald was under center for most of the Jumbos’ snaps last season. The signal caller threw for 1,879 yards and 11 touchdowns, completing 59 percent of his passes, and added 722 rushing yards — good for third overall in the conference.

The team graduated several key pieces on its offensive and defensive lines.

Still, the Jumbos’ group of seniors will undoubtedly be ready to lead the team to success in the coming months.

Men’s Soccer After a disappointing 1–0 double overtime loss to the Brandeis Judges that ended their 2017 season, the Jumbos boast a preseason rank of No. 5 and seek their third NCAA title in five years.

The highlight of last season came when Tufts, which has historically bowed out of the NESCAC tournament in the quarterfinals, won the conference title for the

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Tufts quarterback Ryan McDonald, ‘19, looks around to make a pass in the game against the Trinity Bantams on Oct. 14, 2017. first time in history with a 1–0 triumph over Middlebury.

Senior co-captain and defender Sterling Weatherbie explained how the team’s dynamic is bound to shift this year, with only four seniors compared to last year’s seven. While the Jumbos will have less experience, they will hopefully possess more depth throughout their roster.

“We have a really hard schedule this

year,” Weatherbie said. “We removed some games and added some really good teams like UMass Boston. This year is going to be a challenge, but I think we are going to be a really deep team. If we make it to the tournament, we should be able to go far because we’ll have so many healthy guys that can play and contribute.”

Tufts kicks off its season with a home match on Sept. 4 against UMass Boston.

Women’s Soccer The women’s soccer team closed an impressive 2017 campaign with a 10–6–3 overall record (6–2–2 in NESCAC). Tufts reached the NESCAC final, losing 2–1 in overtime to No. 1 seed Williams. The team then fell 3–2 to Virginia Wesleyan in the first round of the NCAA tournament — its first appearance since 2007. see FALL PREVIEWS, page 25

While we were away

by Liam Finnegan, Sejal Dua and Haley Rich

Postseason success for women’s tennis After finishing its regular season with an impressive 11–5 record and respectable performances in the NESCAC and NCAA tournaments, two members of the women’s tennis team progressed to the NCAA Individual Championships in Claremont, Calif. Senior Mina Karamercan had a marathon day on May 24, beginning with her first-ever NCAA singles competition win when she decisively defeated 2018 Washington University in St. Louis graduate Grace Deering, 6–1, 6–4.

However, Karamercan then fell to conference rival Juli Raventos of Williams’ class of 2018, ranked third nationally, 6–3, 6–4.

Karamercan also partnered with classmate Otilia Popa to duel the Emory duo of sophomore Ysabel Gonzalez-Rico and 2018 graduate Bridget Harding, falling 7–5, 7–6 (2). Popa and Karamercan finished out their season ranked fourth nationally as a pair, earning them All-American honors for doubles, with Karamercan acheiving All-American honors in singles, as well. All but two members of Tufts’ squad return this year, posing a serious threat to the NESCAC.

III Championships over the weekend of May 24. Unfortunately for the Jumbos, co-captain Drew DiMaiti (LA ’18) did not qualify for the final round of the 400-meter hurdles, as his time of 54.83 seconds fell short of the time needed to qualify for the May 26 final. Seniors Henry Hintermeister and Josh Etkind also failed to qualify for the finals of the javelin throw or the 110-meter hurdles respectively.

Stefan Duvivier (LA ’18) was the only Jumbo at the competition who qualified for the finals in his event, the high jump. He took second in the event, clearing 2.15 meters.

Duvivier earned the Jumbos’ only eight points at the competition. He ended his Tufts career on a high note with his second-place finish, carrying with him an indoor track title for the high jump and three All-American honors.

The women’s team also competed in the NCAA Div. III Championships from May 24–26 but failed to record any team points.

Co-captain Brittany Bowman (LA ’18) came close to earning team points for the Jumbos in the 10,000 meters but was just outside the eighth-place finish necessary to earn points — she placed 11th with a time of 37:29.71. Bowman also ran the 5,000-meter event, finishing 17th with a time of 18:16.46.

Co-captain Annalisa DeBari (E ’18), the only other Jumbo competing at the meet, did not advance to the finals of the 100-meter hurdles, as she placed 18th with a time of 15.26 seconds in the preliminaries.

Duvivier leaves Tufts on high note Tufts men’s track and field tied for 42nd out of the 90 teams that placed at the NCAA Div.

Berube leads USA U-17s to earn gold Women’s basketball coach Carla Berube headed to Minsk, Belarus from July 21–29

Sports Editor, Assistant Sports Editor and Sports Editor

While we were away, many of the Jumbos’ seasons stretched into the summer. Here’s what went down:

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Coach Kate Bayard speaks with her team before the women’s tennis home game against Williams at the Voute Tennis Courts on April 28, 2018. with the United States U-17 national team for the World Cup Tournament. The American squad was almost identical to the one Berube led to gold at the 2017 FIBA U-16 Women’s Americas Championship in Argentina. The 2018 squad did not disappoint, as they finished on top once again, defeating France 92–40 in the final.

“The committee who named the team did a great job combining our talent from last year’s team with a crop of new players that really helped enhance the squad,” Berube said. “Each game we had a margin of victory of over 30 points, everyone got to play a great amount of minutes and the team shared

the ball incredibly well. Most importantly, we came together as a team, enjoyed the incredible journey and left Belarus with memories to last a lifetime.”

Bigelow retires after 43 years of service Tufts swimming and diving coach Nancy Bigelow retired this past June after a combined 43 years of inspiring young swimmers. Over her 33 seasons as head coach of the women’s team and additional three seasons as associate head coach for both the men’s and womsee SUMMER, page 25