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CMHS offers telehealth as new counseling option for students

by Abbie Gruskin

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Tufts’ Counseling and Mental Health Service (CMHS) partnered over the past year with BetterHelp and iHope Network, two services that provide remote telehealth counseling services, in an effort to increase students’ access to mental health services, according to Executive Director of Health and Wellness Michelle Bowdler.

The university reminded students of the services in an Oct. 17 email, after previously announcing them in a June 13 email.

BetterHelp is offered over text, live chat, phone and video conference, while iHope is available on video conference, according to CMHS’ website.

Bowdler said that with traditional in-person counseling appointments, students may encounter difficulties that would decrease their interest or ability to seek care.

“When somebody is thinking about wanting therapy, one of the things that sometimes is a barrier is the counseling center has times available but it’s not the times a student can do it,” Bowdler said. “When people think about going off campus, or they’re referred off campus, one of the barriers for them is, ‘Well, it’s going to take me 20 minutes to walk to Davis Square,’ or ‘This person is in Cambridge and it’s only three miles away but I don’t want to pay for an Uber, and I can’t do that and pay a copay.’”

Telehealth allows for flexible timing and location of appointments, appealing to students with hectic schedules, Bowdler added. “[BetterHelp and iHope] sometimes have people who have more off-hour availabili-

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Tufts Counseling and Mental Health Service, located on 120 Curtis St., is pictured on Oct. 23. ty,” Bowdler said. “[Students] can get online and there are many people to choose from, and they can look for [early or late appointments] … They’re not spending 20 minutes going and 20 minutes going back. They don’t have the stress of having to get to their appointment; they don’t have to worry.”

Text and chat functions also allow students to enter the system and choose from potential therapists before committing, according to Bowdler.

Bowdler cited research showing that telehealth platforms BetterHelp and iHope, which focus on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), can be as effective or more effective than in-person therapy. “[iHope has] research that showed for CBT — particularly with telehealth — that it’s as

good or better doing it online as doing it in person,” Bowdler said.

Bowdler said that many colleges throughout the United States have responded to a growing demand for counseling services by introducing additional resources, including telehealth options. Bowdler added that telehealth services can offer students a longer course of treatment, compared to the shortterm model of care that Tufts, like most other universities, provides.

“What most counseling centers around the country are finding is adding therapists alone is not sufficient to keep up with demand,” Bowdler said. “So when you’re thinking about what’s needed on a college campus, you have to think about building community and additional resources as well.”

UnitedHealthcare StudentResources, which provides student health insurance for Tufts, added BetterHelp as a free benefit last spring, Bowdler said. Tufts has since partnered with iHope, a similar service that accepts major insurance plans, according to CMHS’ website. iHope bills students for the same copay amount as in-person appointments, and thus costs less than BetterHelp for students not under Tufts’ student health insurance plan, according to Bowdler.

“For people who don’t have the student insurance, BetterHelp was kind of expensive,” Bowdler said. “With iHope, it was an alternative for people who didn’t have student insurance. We wanted to have two options, one for people who had the student insurance and one for people who didn’t … so that we would have something for everybody.”

Other Boston-area schools, like Harvard University and Brandeis University, have already adopted telehealth services with promising results, according to Bowdler.

The timing of the reminder email from CMHS was meant to coincide with midterms, upcoming finals and holidays, according to Jennifer Berrios, associate director of administration for Health and Wellness Services.

“Historically we know that midterms, finals and holidays are stressful times for students,” Berrios told the Daily in an email. “These are also times when we see increased demand for mental health services. We wanted to get the message out to students about alternative mental health see CMHS, page 2

Senate meets with Dean of Arts and Sciences, hears funding requests

by Alexander Thompson Staff Writer

The Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate met Monday night for its weekly meeting in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room for a question and answer session with Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser and to hear supplementary funding appeals.

The question and answer session with Glaser began with a discussion of student housing. Glaser cited the addition of over 100 beds in Stratton Hall and the construction of CoHo as examples of the university’s response to the lack of housing.

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pliance which Glaser said the university has been working on over time and that significant funds have been invested in deferred maintenance, according to TCU Senate Vice President Adam Rapfogel.

The inclusion of textbooks in financial aid awards was also discussed and Glaser said that $2.5 million had been invested by the university in part to defray these costs, according to Rapfogel, a senior.

Glaser also said that the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts would be capping the admission of combined degrees this year but would work to push the number of students pursuing a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree to 85.

Finally, Glaser discussed the university’s financial structure.

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Of the tuition paid to the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering, around 15 percent goes to fund the central administration; the rest is first used to fund things shared between the two schools, like sports teams or Tisch Library. What remains is further split — roughly 80 percent for Arts and Sciences and 20 percent for Engineering, though Arts and Sciences accounts for 84 percent of enrollment, according to Glaser. He explained that the discrepancy is due to higher costs associated with educating engineering students.

Rapfogel appreciated Glaser’s visit, noting the rarity of high-level university administrators coming to the Senate’s weekly meeting.

“In my four years on Senate we haven’t had many senior decision-makers

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come in and answer questions for us,” Rapfogel said. “It was great to have time for us to find out how the university makes financial decisions. I’m really happy to hear [Dean Glaser] is interested in continuing the conversation, and I’m excited for our future projects.”

After Glaser departed, TCU President Jacqueline Chen said that in the wake of an Allocations Board funding appeal heard last week, senators needed to remember to be friendly during such hearings. Last week, senators rejected a request for over $1,000 by the Korean Students Association on the grounds that it was “fiscally irresponsible,” TCU Historian Rebeca Becdach, a sophomore, said at the time.

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Telehealth services increase accessibility of therapy for students CMHS

continued from page 1 services available in case they felt they need them.”

Bowdler said that CMHS intentionally chose to reach students via email to reach a wider audience.

“It occurred to me that just putting it on our website and just telling people who are already coming through our doors [wasn’t enough],” Bowdler said. “We thought maybe if we advertised it more widely more people would check it out. We just felt like it would be a tool that has a lot of advantages and very few disadvantages.”

Initial feedback from students has been positive, according to Director of CMHS Julie Ross.

“So far we have had a good response in terms of students, both graduate and undergraduate, using the services,” Ross told the Daily in an email. “We have gotten some good feedback from students who have utilized these options, even from some who were initially skeptical about Telehealth but were willing to give it a try! We have heard that students have been pleased with the effectiveness and convenience of the services.”

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continued from page 1 “I think that it’s important to remember that while we all feel super comfortable in this room, when people come in like guests, or people who are coming in to appeal, it can feel like a kind of adversarial situation, all of us asking questions and when they’re asking for money it’s often recommended zero dollars,” Chen, a senior, said.

Chen also announced the Senate would embark on efforts to improve flagging student morale.

Rapfogel pointed to a recent student feedback survey and anecdotal accounts as evidence of low morale among the student body.

Updates from committee chairs were then heard by the Senate.

Class of 2020 Senator Harry Kong, the Services Committee chair,

announced that following discussions with Dorothy Meaney, director of Tisch Library, printers will be added to Carmichael and Hodgdon residence halls by next semester.

Kong also said that two more gender-neutral bathrooms in Tisch Library previously reserved for faculty and staff will be made available for student use.

Class of 2020 Senator Pedro André Lazo-Rivera then told the body that a survey on the Fletcher Field renovation had been released and encouraged other senators to share it with interested students.

Class of 2020 Senator Alexa Weinstein, the Education Committee chair, updated the Senate on an initiative to collect the syllabi of all Tufts University classes available to students. Class of 2022 Senator Deepen Goradia shared with the body that

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for students seeking counseling or mental health care, Bowdler explained. In addition to telehealth options, CMHS has added new staff and group therapy sessions, while more local providers have been added to Tufts’ student health insurance plan, according to Bowdler.

“There is a huge need for college students to reflect on themselves, to address issues at times in their lives that they may feel are causing them some kind of distress,” Bowdler said. “Looking inward and seeking help, in a number of different ways, is important. I hope that our campus community is a community where we look out for each other.”

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more than 300 syllabi had been collected and he would sort them and create a shareable Google Drive folder.

Class of 2022 Senator Carolina Olea Lezama reported to the Senate via FaceTime that “Townhall: What Makes a Home,” organized by the Tufts Latino Center, will take place on Nov. 16.

The Senate then heard supplementary funding requests.

A $450 request from Active Minds for a panel event on mental health in the LGBTQ community and a $185 request from the Thai Students Association for a culinary activity were both approved by acclamation. The Senate then voted to approve a $175 request from Tufts Consulting Collective for survey data collected by SurveyMonkey, an online survey developer. The body also voted to give Tufts Ballroom Dance Team $1,250 to travel to a competition at Columbia University and $3,555 for costs associated with the competition they will host at Tufts.

Next, senior Thaw Htet, the International Community Senator, and first-year Andrew Vu, the First Generation Community Senator, who were elected in last week’s special election introduced themselves to the body.

Before the meeting adjourned, Diversity & Community Affairs Officer Grant Gebetsberger, a sophomore, encouraged senators to contribute to the writing of a resolution on gender parity in the Tufts administration, and Parliamentarian Sharif Hamidi, a sophomore, announced that the body would soon hear a resolution calling for Tufts to divest from the firearms manufacturing industry.

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Henry Stevens The Weekly Chirp

n 21st century science, we love to use advanced technology and complex models to predict what will happen in the future — in other words, we like forecasting stuff. Perhaps the most common example of this is the daily weather.

After considering a set of variables — such as time of year, barometric pressure and past precipitation events — meteorologists may forecast what the weather in a certain area will look like, usually with a fair amount of accuracy. Scientists are using models to forecast all types of other phenomena, from vegetation shifts due to climate change to the future range of the invasive cane toad in Australia. But as it turns out, forecasting is being used in other contexts, too, by people you may not suspect. In the Northeast birding world, the winter finch forecast is a well-known and highly anticipated piece of information released every fall. Basically, this one old guy evaluates the stock of cone crop — an all-encompassing term describing the variations of cones produced by evergreen trees — of the boreal forests in Canada, and based on that evaluation is able to predict which species of winter finches we might expect to see down south in New England. Winter finches breed in the boreal forests of northern Canada, and usually winter in central/southern Canada, feeding on the normally abundant selection of cones in these forests. However, occasionally there will be a year where the cone crop is low, meaning that their normal wintering grounds are devoid of the food they seek.

As a response, the finches migrate further south until they reach forests containing sufficient foraging opportunities. These are the years when birders in New England can venture out to their nearest patch of spruce or pine, or even their backyard bird feeders, and rejoice in the spectacle of the uncommon winter finches snacking away. Such sought-after species in our area include the Bohemian waxwing, red crossbill, evening grosbeak and common redpoll, just to name a few. According to this year’s forecast, we should expect to see winter finches in our area due to the low cone crop in Ontario and northern Quebec. Areas with higher cone crop include Newfoundland and New England, which means, if you’re in the right place at the right time, you may be able to view these splendid birds.

I was absolutely fascinated by the finch forecast when I first learned about it, and I’m always surprised how simple the equation is — lower cone crop in Canada, more finches here, and vice versa. I suppose direct relationships like this that occur over and over become predictable, like expecting hurricanes in September, or a sudden increase in sad first-years three weeks into school when they all break up with their high school partners. While some of these forecasts are for fun, others have enormous implications. We must pay attention to these forecasts, especially those regarding climate change, because they offer us a chance to prevent damages instead of cleaning up afterwards.

Love, Henry Henry Stevens is a senior studying biology. He can be reached at henry.stevens@ tufts.edu. Interested in birds? Email Henry at tuftsornithologicalsociety@gmail.com.

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Tree of Life: Cultivating seeds of unity through art and action To members of the Tufts community, “A little bit of light chases away a lot of darkness.”

No one should have to fear as they pray or to celebrate that their lives or the lives of their loved ones could be taken in a vicious assault on their identities. The attack by an antisemitic man two weeks ago has been devastatingly painful to many in our Hillel community, the greater Tufts Jewish community and beyond. Eleven people at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh were killed at Shabbat morning services. We stand united in this simple yet increasingly profound belief. But as we mourn and grieve, we are faced yet again with the vibrant reminder that antisemitism is alive and well in the United States and throughout the world. The Jewish people are not exempt from the horrors of religious persecution and hatred that exist throughout society. We stand together against the moral wrongs of antisemitism, white supremacy, gun violence and any other kind of violence or prejudice rooted in baseless hatred.

As leaders of the Jewish community on campus, we have pioneered the Tree of Life project. The Tree of Life is a tapestry we created to serve as a place for students to publicly process these violent acts of hatred and their meaning for our campus and country. We invite each member of the Tufts community to write a reflection or a memorial on the green fabric leaves and pin them to the tree. The Tree of Life will represent the deeply layered and complicated ways in which members of our community, heavy with grief, can

support each other to reflect and envision a more just world.

The biggest obstacle in creating a more just world is the baseless hatred that fuels antisemitic and white supremacist acts.

Antisemitism is a complex form of hatred that has taken many forms throughout its long history. Incidents of antisemitism continue to be perpetrated by people from a variety of backgrounds and political beliefs.

However, in America, most of the recent antisemitic attacks have their roots in white supremacy. Rhetoric in America’s current political climate, often fueled by our president, Donald Trump, has emboldened white nationalists, allowing for the most violent attack on Jews in the history of our country. Many white Jews benefit regularly from white privilege even as white supremacists perpetrate antisemitic acts. Numerous marginalized groups have found themselves victims of hate crimes fueled by white supremacy. Those hateful acts take different forms and affect the marginalized communities differently. In the same week as the Tree of Life massacre, two black people were murdered while shopping in Jeffersontown, Ky. Even here, on campus, while white supremacists put up signs during the night which read, “It’s okay to be white,” we proudly hang our Tree of Life in the light of day. The Tree of Life stands as a symbol of our commitment to fight white supremacy, antisemitism and all forms of hate which plague society.

Further, we would be remiss to not discuss the role gun violence played in the Pittsburgh massacre and other hate crimes.

Guns have been used in countless violent

white supremacist acts, the Squirrel Hill incident included, but this is a pervasive problem that affects all Americans. Sandy Hook, Parkland, Las Vegas, Orlando, Charleston: These are five of the many different communities across the country which have been victimized by mass shootings and hate.

The lack of politicians speaking against and enacting policy to combat gun violence is a political and moral failure. Here at Tufts, the Tree of Life exists to commemorate the lives tragically lost in Pittsburgh (and the many other communities hurt by gun violence) and to reflect together as Jumbos.

Immediately after the events of Oct. 27 unfolded, members of the Tufts Jewish community came together to process the events and mourn the loss of members of our Jewish family. As we processed our grief and anger, we felt the love and support of the communities around us. The University Chaplaincy and the faith communities have supported this project and demonstrated incredible acts of kindness in this difficult time. Thank you to everyone who has reached out in any way; your support has not gone unnoticed. In the face of baseless hatred, we want to come together as a Tufts community to demonstrate that we will condemn white supremacy and hatred on our campus, in our country or in our world.

The Tree of Life, and the leaves we will all add, serves as a reminder to us all that we can replace hatred and violence with shalom v’or; pax et lux; peace and light.

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Democracy at Tufts

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e’re running up against the hard limits of student activism in the fights over affordable housing and tuition. The administration — despite not releasing revenue estimates or a university development plan, and without consulting students — routinely raises the cost of attendance by thousands of dollars. Such hikes are defended by claims that cost overruns and new expensive buildings justify never consulting the people who live here.

This is a symptom of a broader crisis of inflation in higher education, in which universities behave as a combination non-profit, landlord and corporation to generate as much revenue as possible.

Sure, administrators might mouth platitudes about liberal arts and civic life, but when it comes to the things that affect all of us, Tufts isn’t a democracy.

But it’s time for Tufts to be one.

Thousands of people live and work at Tufts. We have our own police force, education system and energy infrastructure, all of which should be governed by the students and workers. It wouldn’t make sense for Boston to be ruled by a council of a few dozen people who lived there 30 years ago, and it doesn’t make sense for Tufts to be governed that way.

The board asks you to pay $70,000 for forced triples, classes you have to apply for and the wonderful convenience of having no say over your living conditions.

Yet the deficit remains, costs are exploding and Tufts is thousands of beds short. The administration’s solution has been to kick faculty out of their homes to make way for a tiny number of juniors and seniors and add 400 more students to the student body in two years.

The forms of democracy partly exist; there are the Tufts Community Union (TCU) and Faculty Senates which get to register discomfort with policies that happen anyways. The higher administration and the Board of Trustees retain decision-making power. These unelected, self-perpetuating structures haven’t solved the university’s problems. Their response to student, faculty and worker concerns is usually contempt or indifference. They should be replaced by a single senate composed of students, faculty and workers, empowered to make decisions about development, administration and policy because of its democratic legitimacy, not its selection by a sliver of the alumni.

To build democratic governance the student body would have to organize itself, hold a referendum to dissolve TCU and form a new senate. We would need student strikes, mass demonstrations, coalition building with workers, faculty and the residents of Medford and Somerville, the occupation of key buildings and mass meetings to determine what our new Tufts would be. This may seem like an impossibility, but student strikes in Quebec and in Europe have won political gains and galvanized resistance. One day we may tear aside the curtain of impossibility and make Tufts our school. A democratic revolution is possible here, but it will take mass organization well beyond what we’ve seen in the past few years. The Board of Trustees will meet in February and May. Will you meet them?

Aneurin Canham-Clyne is a senior studying history. Aneurin can be reached at aneurin.canham_clyne@tufts.edu.

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James Ray The Starving Aesthete

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Music for gray days

’ve got no good music for gray days.

Maybe this is the product of some idiosyncrasy in my tastes; maybe there’s some combination of timbre and tempo that would suit these sorts of afternoons, which seem to be continuously gathering themselves up to fall on our heads and never quite getting it done — but I’ve got no idea what would work.

There’s too much music these days, or at least there’s too much music on days like these. Choosing a song is no longer easy. It used to go like this: When you wanted to play something, you’d either turn on the radio or flip through your records, so either a guy at the station would pick something for you, or you’d have already done so yourself. But now, with every song in the world at your disposal, the choice rests squarely on your shoulders.

Even choosing not to take the choice, to turn on the radio or find some catered YouTube playlist, is a greater choice than our parents had. If you haven’t lashed yourself to the capsizing vessel of focus group pop music trend-surfing, no one cares what you listen to. They just want you to listen to something, just often enough to pay for a subscription.

Nobody wants to go back to the old way of doing things, or, at least, nobody that isn’t obtuse and contrarian. But it’s hard not to occasionally miss the reassurance which came from submitting myself to the public opinion machinery that drove capitalist media. I find myself wondering, on this gray day, whether anyone knows what I should do any better than I do.

According to Alexis de Tocqueville, American society is about submitting to the rule of the many, but never of the few. Turning on the radio, our grandparents trusted that the memo-passing machinery of the music business would tell them exactly what was worth listening to, and they consented to this because there was no musical czar situated over the whole affair, no hubristic taste-maker setting their voice above everyone else’s. Music was market-tested, so music was democratic.

That America is dead now and has been for quite some time. Society has been split into chunks, and those chunks are getting smaller. Where, then, should we find authority now? Who will tell us what songs to play on gray in-between days, days that lack a clear direction?

Honestly, I’m starting to think that we’re on the cusp of musical feudalism.

When the radio has no idea what to play and the advertisers are implanting their messages with jackhammers, people turn to individuals to tell them what they should listen to. In time, those individuals coalesce into communities, which coalesce into cultures, which coalesce into classes, which coalesce into a society before collapsing again — but for today, at least, “lo-fi hiphop – beats to relax/study to” is run by one guy, and his guess is as good as anyone’s. So I’ll listen to that.

James Ray is a senior studying political science. James can be reached at james_m.ray@tufts.edu.

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Boy Erased’ explores faith, sexuality with nuanced poignancy

by Stephanie Hoechst Assistant Arts Editor

Content warning: This article discusses sexual assault.

At first, the core of “Boy Erased” appears to be a call to action. A statistic citing that gay conversion therapy is still legal in 36 states appears onscreen before the end credits. While this fact is absolutely relevant to the film, it would suggest that “Boy Erased,” directed by Joel Edgerton, is a barefaced exposé on the horrors of gay conversion therapy when, in reality, it is not. The film criticizes conversion therapy; however, “Boy Erased” seeks to explore the effects of living in a community that denounces homosexuality with a more nuanced tone by following protagonist Jared Eamons’ (Lucas Hedges) compelling internal struggle. It weighs the traditions of Jared’s Arkansas family and community with his sexuality, and therefore asserts that the morals driving conversion therapy are, in fact, a complicated issue. The film ultimately condemns the practices depicted in its gay conversion therapy program; however, it does so in a subtler, and ultimately more powerful, way by focusing on Jared’s growth as a character.

“Boy Erased” is based on Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir of the same name. The film follows Jared’s experience at Love in Action, a therapy program intended to ‘cure’ participants of their homosexuality. Jared’s parents, Nancy (Nicole Kidman) and Marshall (Russell Crowe), a Baptist preacher, enroll him in the program after Jared admits his attraction to men — a conversation that is not so much a coming out scene as a beginning of a crisis for Jared’s family. As Jared goes through the program, he is exposed to the physically and emotionally abusive teachings of Victor Sykes (Edgerton), all practiced in the name of faith, and learns to see the program for what it truly is.

Jared’s story is not just about his time in the program. As a Christian and son of a preacher, Jared’s realization of his sexuality is colored by his relationships with his parents, his experiences in high school and college prior to attending Love in Action — including a horrifying sexual assault by his classmate — and his relationship with his faith. “Boy Erased” therefore not only seeks to expose the horrors of gay conversion therapy, but sheds light on the traumatizing inner battle of negotiating faith and upbringing with sexuality.

The film exposes this battle powerfully through its depiction of Jared’s personal evolution throughout the film, the nuances of which are expertly portrayed by Hedges. At the beginning of the program, Jared is completely on board — he feels that his sexuality is a sin and is willing to go through the conversion program to ‘fix’ himself. His mother drops him off at Love in Action every morning as though she were dropping a child off at camp. The normalcy of this routine makes the program feel more disturb-

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A promotional poster for ‘Boy Erased’ is pictured. ing. “Boy Erased” shows how ingrained homophobia is in certain religious communities, instead of relying on shock value to condemn conversion programs. The film is, no doubt, a criticism of gay conversion therapy, but this subtler approach allows the film to fully explore its complicated effects on Jared, instead of becoming a flat exposé about its barbarism and immorality.

The film’s tone is accordingly subdued. The lights in Jared’s house seem to be perpetually dimmed and the attendees of Love in Action all wear colorless, modest clothing, evoking an appropriate sense of conformity within the program. This dull visual setting speaks to the film’s approach to exposing the program — by presenting Sykes’ methods against such a muted background, it makes sense that his radicalism might not be so obvious to Jared at first.

Other attendees in the program represent different opinions on the program and, in turn, reflect Jared’s own struggle to understand himself. Jon (Xavier Dolan), for example, feels that his sexuality is something to be fixed and believes wholeheart-

edly in the efficacy of the program.

Gary ( Troye Sivan) advises Jared to act the part and cooperate until he can be released from the program, while Cameron (Britton Sear) suffers most from his unwillingness to participate in Sykes’s methods. These perspectives show the extent to which gay conversion programs remain prevalent within communities with strong ties to religion, including Christianity.

By the end of the film, Jared has become fully aware of the program’s horrors, as has Nancy, whose journey to accept her son’s sexuality, despite her husband’s wishes, is almost as poignant as Jared’s own experiences. Jared, in turn, learns to embrace his sexuality, and a four-year time jump in the denouement reveals him living in New York having just written an article about his experiences at Love in Action, and eventually confronting his father, who still won’t accept that his son is gay. In the end, even as “Boy Erased” seeks to denounce the practice of gay conversion therapy, the movie is, at its core, a story about Jared’s own struggles coming to terms with his sexuality within a community that condemns him for it.

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continued from back Coach Jay Civetti had nothing but praise for his team’s effort.

“I’m so proud of the team,” he said. “I thought they did a great job doing everything we asked of them. They competed and executed really well, and put together a great game.”

This pride extended particularly to the seniors, who, with this 25th victory, tied the 1982 seniors for the most wins by a Jumbo football class. This historic accomplishment has clearly been on this team’s mind for a while, making its attainment all the sweeter.

“Going into the season, we knew we were a certain amount of wins away from being in this group of highly regarded teams,” McDonald said. “As the season grew on we noticed how much success we were having, and entering the last game, we knew we were one game away from tying the school record. So that just built up a lot of emotion and energy, and I think we did a great job of focusing that emotion and energy on our sideline.”

Even if this team failed to bring home the ultimate prize — a NESCAC Championship — the seniors can hold their heads high after such a stellar end to a successful season.

“I’ve never had a team that was more unified and played as a complete unit,” Civetti said. “I don’t think it was just one guy who did it, nor was it just one side of the ball, even though of course there are some times during a season when one side of the ball plays better than the other. This year we probably had the best team dynamics and execution that we’ve had.”

McDonald echoed these sentiments, emphasizing the lasting lessons that he and others would take away from this year.

“It was such an exciting season overall,” he said. “Closing it out with a couple victories strung together was awesome and really exemplifies all of the hard work that the class of 2019 put in and the commitment that the younger [players] showed to us throughout the process. Coming into the season we expected to win a NESCAC Championship, but looking back at it, we still had a great season with a lot of learning experiences that we’ll be able to use all throughout our lives.”

Jumbos to face NESCAC rivals Mammoths in Sweet Sixteen

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Junior midfielder/forward Gavin Tasker possesses the ball during Tufts’ 2–1 win over Amherst on Sept. 29.

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continued from back minute curled and ricocheted off the left post. Soon after, the Jumbos generated two more chances through sophomore defender Biagio Paoletta and sophomore defender/ midfielder Calvin Aroh, respectively.

The breakthrough finally came 10 minutes from the end of regulation time. Weatherbie took a long throw-in from the right wing that Braun flicked into the box via his head. Paoletta tapped the ball to Tasker, who rocketed a right-footed volley into the net from only a few feet out — there was nothing Henry could do as the ball sailed over his head. The Jumbos held on for the victory, allowing only one more shot before the final whistle.

“I think Stevens took us out of our element in the first half, especially by making the game choppy and taking us out of our possession style,” Tasker said. “In the second half, we were able to move on from that and put more pressure on them, especially with all of the corners and free kicks that we had with good delivery. We were definitely knocking on the door for a large portion of that game.”

Another aspect of the Jumbos’ second-half dominance was stronger wing play. In the first half, Stevens shut down

Tasker on the left wing and junior midfielder Zach Lane on the right, when that pair is often responsible for creating chances and wreaking chaos on opposing defenses.

“In the second half, we really took the game to them, and the ball came through the midfield a lot more,” Van Brewer said.

“We had a lot more success because their defenders were dragged to the middle, which allowed the wide players to have more time with the ball.”

Paoletta had a particularly strong game on Sunday, killing fast break attempts and also creating his fair share of offensive chances. The Fairfield, Conn. native took four shots, with three on target.

With the victory, Tufts will now face conference rival Amherst in the Sweet Sixteen on Saturday at Bello Field.

The Mammoths (14–4–1) defeated the Saint Joseph’s Monks, 4–2, in the second round after downing Bridgewater State in the first round. The NESCAC foes will face off for the second time this season, as the Jumbos emerged with a 2–1 victory on Sept. 29 in what was the Mammoths’ last regular season loss. Amherst progressed to the semifinals of the NESCAC tournament, where they fell 3–1 to the Colby Mules.

The matchup will be sure to test Tufts’ defense, as Amherst is the top-scoring NESCAC team with an average of 2.21 goals per game, compared to Tufts’ 2.00. The teams have historically been among New England’s best programs, and they enjoy a staunch rivalry with each other, with the Mammoths serving the Jumbos their only regular season loss in 2017. Both teams have earned a NESCAC title since 2014, a stretch in which Tufts has won two national championships and Amherst has captured one.

“What’s going to be key is: Can we get the game played on our terms? We want the ball on the ground and rolling,” Shapiro said. “Amherst is probably one of the best set piece teams in the country, and we can’t be fouling them or giving tons of corner kick and throw-in opportunities. We need to pass the ball out and get them down and moving and spread them out because they defend with a ton of intensity. We have to settle it and take the edge of the game. If we do that, then I think we can open them up and create chances, but we have to be composed amidst an intense, chaotic environment.”

Saturday’s winner will take on the winner of Montclair State vs. Ramapo College in the Elite Eight on Sunday. The Mammoths and Jumbos will kick off on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Bello Field.

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David Meyer Postgame Press

Hot takes

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ot takes in sports are a reflection of hot takes in the world around us. We live in a polarized society. These days, foreign policy opinion leaders say that political polarization is the number one threat to the United States. More than nuclear programs and trade wars, it is our own polarization that could hurt us in the long run. Right now, social media platforms allow us to say what is on our minds and say it unequivocally. We have algorithms in our social media that show us things that we already agree with or are more likely to like. We have our own little bubbles to say what we want and say it loudly and with certainty. Sound familiar?

Hot takes are not a new phenomenon. Sports analysts and fans have been writing off or heralding players and teams since the beginning of time.

I bet someone said that Koroibos did not have a chance in the first Olympic Games. Now though, everyone can hear it, and it is permanent.

Hot takes make sports more enjoyable. I personally take pride in getting a hot take correct, like saying that Pat Mahomes would be a stud and should be starting over Alex Smith last year. While he did not get the start, I ended up right on Mahomes. Yes, I just bragged in my column. Being right with a hot take is great, and freezing cold takes, takes that end up being completely wrong, can be just as fun (when someone else has it). Twitter is a place for hot takes and cold takes galore, with people tweeting about games, players and plays as they happen. When more information comes out, we get to find out who nailed it and who failed it.

Hot takes in sports, though, sometimes become a microcosm of our polarization. While the Rookie of the Season prediction is not quite as important as your opinion on gun legislation, we stand adamantly on our social media with our take until it is just too hard to ignore the contrary.

People will fight, scream and claw to get one more day for their hot take to be proven right. With any opinion, it is easy to be right and a lot harder to admit you are wrong.

These hot takes and polarized opinions are not inherently bad. They are, in fact, good. They allow us a chance to discuss both sides of the issue. The problem is that a lot of people are not discussing anymore. When our social media surrounds us with people who agree, it distances us from people who do not. Some topics are fundamental and seem pretty non-negotiable, but the others should be discussed from both ‘hot take’ or extreme sides. Then, it becomes much easier to meet in the middle. So maybe Giannis is not the best player in the NBA, but he is not out of the top 25. We can agree on top 10, right?

David Meyer is an assistant sports editor.

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

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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Football closes season with win over Middlebury

by Nate Hartnick

Contributing Writer

The Jumbos closed out their 2018 season with a dominant win on Saturday. They traveled to Middlebury, Vt. to take on the Middlebury Panthers, finishing the match with a commanding 35–13 advantage. The win brought the Jumbos to a final record of 7–2 for the season. That mark grants them sole possession of the third spot in the NESCAC behind the Trinity Bantams and Williams Ephs, who both finished 8–1.

Senior quarterback and co-captain Ryan McDonald led the Jumbos offense in his final game with the team. The signal caller threw for 262 yards and five touchdowns while completing 25 of his 31 passes — an 80 percent clip. For the outstanding offensive display, McDonald earned NESCAC Offensive Player of the Week accolades to close out the 2018 season. His five-touchdown performance also tied the Tufts record for touchdown passes in a game, which was set by Dave Piermarini (E ’84) in 1983.

McDonald accomplished a number of other historic achievements in this game.

He broke the university record for most touchdown passes in a season with a conference-leading 17, topping the 16 thrown by Anthony Fucillo (LA ’11) in 2010. McDonald also became the Jumbos’ all-time leader in touchdown passes, finishing his career with 33, surpassing another Piermarini record.

McDonald displayed pride in his accomplishment but said that he had focused on bigger goals.

“It’s definitely nice to look back on and see the success I’ve had,” McDonald said. “Going into the Middlebury game, we were really focused on channeling all of the emotion of our final game as a senior class. We really just wanted to go out on top.”

The offense as a whole put on a clinic in this lopsided victory. Senior running back Dom Borelli put forth a remarkable effort in his final game, racking up 121 receiving yards and two touchdown catches. Sophomore running back Mike Pedrini led the team with 85 rushing yards.

The Jumbos defense played an equally stellar game, limiting the Panthers to only 27 rushing yards. Middlebury has a strong running attack, but Tufts’ front seven was able to snuff it out with ease.

Yet this might not have appeared the case right at the start of the game, as the Jumbos allowed the Panthers a quick touchdown drive

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Senior quarterback and co-captain Ryan McDonald looks for a pass downfield during Tufts’ 48–0 win over Colby on Nov. 3. on their first possession. The Panthers scored on a quick three-minute drive, with sophomore quarterback Will Jernigan running in a touchdown from seven yards out.

The Jumbos responded in kind when McDonald threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Spenser Clouse with about six minutes left in the quarter. Borelli set the tone for his strong game on the drive, accruing three key receptions.

First-year defensive lineman Jovan Nenadovic stepped up next for the Jumbos, sacking Jernigan for a loss of six yards on a key third-down play and forcing a Panthers punt. However, Tufts was unable to take advantage of their opportunity to seize the lead, as McDonald was soon intercepted by Middlebury’s junior defensive back Coltrane Marcus. The Panthers converted their excellent field position stemming from this turnover into points, as Jernigan ran in for another touchdown. After missing the extra point, the Panthers led 13–7 early in the second quarter.

After unproductive possessions from both teams, the Jumbos found a way to

gain momentum and close the half strong.

McDonald was able to convert on a critical fourth down in the red zone and preserve the drive with a two-yard run. Soon after, he tossed a one-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Jack Dolan, as Tufts went into halftime with a one-point lead after sophomore kicker Matt Alswanger converted the extra point.

In the second half, Tufts again started slowly but soon turned up the heat. After punting on their first possession, the Jumbos put together a scoring drive. An 18-yard punt return from sophomore wide receiver Bryce Adam allowed Tufts to begin the drive in the Middlebury half. To end the drive, McDonald threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Borelli on another fourth-down attempt, widening a lead that would continue to expand throughout the remainder of the game.

Tufts’ defense got another three-and-out, allowing the offense to pick up right where it had left off. The Jumbos produced a 68-yard scoring drive, bolstered by a couple of big plays by Pedrini. The Jumbos almost gave

up all of this progress with a fumble at the Middlebury-5, but they were able to recover the football, before Borelli caught his second touchdown from McDonald on the day.

The defense stepped up yet again on the next drive, as junior linebacker and co-captain Greg Holt intercepted Jernigan’s pass and returned it all the way to the Middlebury 19-yard line. It took all of just one play for McDonald to capitalize on this turnover, as he scored the record-tying fifth passing touchdown — this time to senior wide receiver Dan de Leon — for the final score of the day.

The defense picked up two more stops, including an interception by senior defensive back Tim Preston with only 1:44 remaining in the game.

The second half was strong on both sides of the ball for the Jumbos. The offense caught fire while the defense pitched a shutout. It was fitting to see this powerful, well-rounded team finish the season with such a dominant half of football. see FOOTBALL, page 11

Men’s soccer remains undefeated, advances to Sweet Sixteen

by Maddie Payne Sports Editor

The Jumbos (14–0–3) progressed to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament after beating the Stevens Institute of Technology Ducks, 1–0, on Sunday. Having secured a first-round bye, Tufts entered the match at Bello Field in Medford with fresh legs. Meanwhile, Stevens had to play its second game in as many days, after its match the previous day against Gordon College went to a penalty shootout.

After Tufts’ last two games of the regular season went into overtime, the team’s focus against Stevens was to get on the board early and retain the lead. The Jumbos piled on the pressure early, with one of their best chances coming at the 4:44 mark.

Junior midfielder/forward Gavin Tasker, in his usual spot on the left wing, fed junior forward Joe Braun who cut, unmarked,

into the box, received the ball and fired a shot on target. However, senior goalkeeper Aaron Henry was there to make the save, his first of eight total.

“Stevens had just played two periods of overtime the day before, so we wanted to take advantage of them being tired,” sophomore midfielder Travis Van Brewer said.

“They did a good job of defending us in the first half. If we’d been able to get a goal in the first half, I think that we would have been able to demoralize them and get one or two more goals quickly.”

Despite the Jumbos’ strong start, the visitors gained momentum and forced the game into the middle third of the field with some strong offensive plays. The Ducks’ best chance came close to the end of the half, when senior midfielder Haddy Abdelhady crossed a ball toward the net.

Senior goalkeeper and co-captain Conner Mieth was able to get a hand to the ball to

bat it away from the head of an onrushing Stevens player. The Jumbos edged the Ducks in shots in the first half, 5–4.

“Part of it was that we were too amped up to play, not having a game for 14 days and shaking off the rust and jitters for a big game,” coach Josh Shapiro said. “We competed well, but we didn’t have all of our composure. The quality of our passing and our decisions wasn’t up to our standards, and that’s why it was harder to get things going.

The halftime conversation was simple: to relax. We were able to do that to a certain extent. What ultimately happened was that we were getting excellent delivery on free kicks, and that’s what turned the game.”

The second half was all Tufts, as the hosts finally settled down. The Jumbos were awarded eight corners to the Ducks’ none in the period. They also stepped up their offense production, winning the shots battle 10–3, and it seemed only a matter

of time before the attack broke through.

Less than five minutes into the half, Van Brewer powered a left-footed shot from the corner of the box that Henry was able to tip over the net for a corner. Junior midfielder Brett Rojas took the resultant corner, which was tipped behind for another corner. Van Brewer stepped up to take a corner from the other side, and the ball landed in the box in front of senior defender and co-captain Sterling Weatherbie, who put a foot to the ball only to have it cleared off the goal line by a lucky defender.

The Jumbos won four corners during a two-minute stretch halfway through the second period, but they were unable to finish each time. Rojas, Van Brewer and junior midfielder Jack Delaney all produced several tantalizing chances for the Tufts offense.

One free kick by Van Brewer in the 77th see MEN'S SOCCER, page 11