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Tufts responds to UN climate change conference

by Sarah Minster Staff Writer

In tandem with the 23rd annual Conference of Parties (COP23), hosted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in Bonn, Germany, from Nov. 6–17, Tufts students have recently organized many initiatives to raise awareness about environmental concerns.

Tufts was present at COP23 this year, undergraduate representative and sophomore Paul Henjes said. Representatives and several undergraduates interested in social justice and environmentalism attended. Also selected to represent Tufts were sophomore Madeline Bondy and senior Josie Watson.

According to Henjes, Tufts hoped to promote its sustainability and environmental programs while at the conference. Bondy also noted that in her opinion, Tufts was a leader among universities in sustainability.

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Fletcher hosts third conference on gender and international affairs

by Elie Levine News Editor

On Nov. 17 and 18, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy hosted its third annual Conference on Gender and International Affairs, entitled “Money, Power and Influence: The Gendered Dimensions of Geopolitics.” Through five panel discussions,a breakout session, keynote and film screening the conference explored inclusivity and addressed intersectionality in international relations, nuclear security, data collection, impact investing and gang violence.

Heba El-Hendi, the marketing and outreach chair for the conference and a second-year MALD student, said she was in charge of reaching a diverse audience of conference attendees. She said the conference focused on recruiting a wide range of individuals with diverse experiences, both to serve as panelists and for the attendees themselves. “[Gender] is not just a code word for ‘woman.’ It’s important to have diverse groups in the crowd because they are part of the conversation,” El-Hendi said.

Will Boyd II, a MALD student, served as emcee for the Gender Gala, an artistic event featuring art, music and poetry on Friday evening. Boyd said he attuned Gender Gala attendees to issues of intersectionality by reading Maya Angelou’s

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poetry there. Boyd said Angelou’s poetry provided a needed perspective on the plethora of identities — race, socioeconomic status and class — that are at play in conversations about gender.

“Through this evening, we hope to render visible the power structures which intentionally and systemically disempower. The showcased work will highlight how individuals and communities in these systems resist and struggle to resist this disempowerment,” the Facebook page for the Gender Gala event states.

El-Hendi credited Boyd as one of the men responsible for engaging male Fletcher students around attending the conference. Boyd said he helped bring men to the event by challenging five specific men to attend. These five men would then each be expected to challenge one other man to attend.

Boyd said he convinced men their presence was essential by addressing misconceptions they might have about the conference, like the idea that their presence would not be valuable at a conference that they might associate primarily with women and feminist sensibilities.

“There are countless reasons to attend the Gender Conference. This is for the men at Fletcher who will show everyone that yes, we care, it pertains to us, and we are here to break the mold and show up in crazy numbers and have a great time,”

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Boyd wrote in an email to the first five recipients of the challenge.

Boyd said that the “Gender in Nuclear Security” panel proved particularly interesting for male attendees, who often associate concepts of war with masculinity by default. He said the panel illuminated that women can also be involved with decisions to use violence.

“What was of particular interest was the idea that concepts of violence and women is often considered an anoma-

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ly… That being said, the masculine institutional make-up of government may result in similar decisions, whether male or female are in power to make decisions, which contradicts many generalizations of women and their more peaceful and nurturing nature,” Boyd told the Daily in an electronic message.

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Geology students launch Tufts Geological Society

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A group of Tufts University geological sciences majors last month launched the Tufts University Geological Society ( TUGS), the university’s newest official group associated with a science major.

Fatima Niazy, Matt Barickman and Jacob Marsh, all seniors, co-founded the club with Andrew Feder, a junior.

Niazy and Barickman said that they felt that a society could help expand the reach of what they consider an already thriving Tufts geology program.

The club aims to provide forum for geology-related events and activities that are not strictly academic, Barickman said. Such a platform did not previously exist.

“The professors do a great job of inviting speakers and providing activities for us, but it’s the same thing over and over again, and they sort of dictate the conversations that are being had,” Barickman said.

Feder said that the creation of TUGS could help harness the camaraderie already present in the geology community.

“We had been doing stuff with all the [geology] majors informally before, like watching movies and bondings,” he said.

“We felt like we could do more things, like field trips and bringing in speakers through this.”

Barickman described TUGS as a natural evolution in Tufts’ earth and ocean sciences community. This department houses the geological sciences major, as well as the environmental geology major and the geoscience and geology minors.

“TUGS has always been an idea: the majors in the [earth and ocean sciences] department were a tight knit group but never had a recognized club,” Barickman said. “We didn’t reach anyone who wasn’t a geology major.”

The students expressed hope that TUGS will increase geology’s accessibility for all Tufts students, even those not majoring in geology.

The group also said there were practical reasons behind the decision

to launch an official club. Barickman described it as a manner of funds.

“Doing what we do now, we could’ve continued without approval or funding, but one thing we really want to do is field trips, which require funding,” he said.

Barickman said that he hopes to conduct TUGS trips across Massachusetts, including to Western Massachusetts — known for its abundance of fossils and dinosaur tracks.

Niazy added that New Hampshire’s White Mountains and Cape Cod could be potential locations due to their glacial geology.

According to the Tufts Earth and Ocean Sciences Handbook, the department regularly travels to places like Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Death Valley, Calif. during winter and spring break. Niazy suggested these trips could be facilitated by TUGS instead of the department.

“The department has a 10-day trip they take somewhere in the country … and it would be really nice if that becomes

established for TUGS… This would make it accessible to non-majors,” Niazy said.

Barickman noted that there is value in having more students engaged in geology field work.

“I think that’s one of the most attractive things about geology, is the field work,” Barickman said. “I really hope we can get a strong diversity of majors in [this] club.”

Feder said the club’s regular meetings will feature research reading groups, with the next meeting focusing on Phobos, a Martian moon.

“We’ll have some more movie nights and maybe more events on grad school and careers in geology,” he said.

Some of the club founders have personal connections to geology. Niazy said that her interest in the field comes from her father, who was a geophysicist in Saudi Arabia.

“I grew up listening to ‘roadside geology’ whenever we were traveling and even did fossil collecting,” Niazy said.

She noted that she arrived at a major in geology despite having changed her decision several times.

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approached the 35/65 number she had aimed to achieve, though a 50/50 mento-women ratio would have been ideal.

Bhaskar Chakravorti, the founding Executive Director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context, moderated a panel on “Gender and Impact Investing” held on Saturday. In a video posted on Facebook by the Conference on Gender and International Affairs at Fletcher, Chakravorti said that impact

investing is conscious of both private and social returns.

At that panel, Lawler Kang, the founder and CEO of League of Allies, a provider of strategic inclusions services that aims for gender parity in finance, attributed differences between men and women to differences in levels of estrogen and testosterone in biologically male and female bodies.

Claire Wilson, a second-year MALD student at Fletcher, responded to Kang’s comments during the question-and-answer session that followed the panel discussion. She stressed the importance

of considering literary-based conceptions of gender and sex such as those in the writings of Anne-Fausto Sterling and Judith Butler. “[It] is really important that as we continue these conversations about gender and sex in international affairs, that we don’t see it as binary, that we don’t use these very outdated and dangerous arguments that gender is something that is hormonal because, frankly, it’s not being held in the literature, and I just want to make sure that that is included in the dialogue today,” Wilson said.

Boyd and El-Hendi both noted a need for a greater emphasis on gender in conversations about international affairs at Fletcher.

Boyd said he hoped to see more races, gender identities and sexualities represented in future panels at the conference.

“It’s definitely needed that we begin the conversation. If you can just attend the conference, that would be great,” El-Hendi said. “If you can take a class on gender analysis, even better, but we can’t all afford to do that… so this is a really great way to allow these conversations to happen and continue throughout the year.”

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continued from page 1 Bondy said. “The primary thing that sets Tufts apart would be at the very least the passion of the students.”

Henjes said that a theme of the conference was urgency in action and deliberate plans enacting change.

“We talked a lot about how our goals, even now, are not good enough. Even countries that we think are really progressive are not doing enough for climate change,” Henjes said. “There was a lot of accountability but not a lot of action.”

Tufts Climate Action (TCA) recently held a National Day of Action event on Nov. 15 on the Tufts Academic Quad in response to COP23 and the lack of formal U.S. leadership at the conference, according to Celia Bottger, a sophomore and co-leader of TCA. Bottger said the event was intended to raise student awareness about the environmental and political issues highlighted at the conference.

In particular, TCA aims to educate Tufts community members on climate change and the importance of divesting from fossil

fuels, in addition to empowering students to take action.

“We [TCA] were urging Tufts, in this type of political climate where we don’t have American leadership on climate change, to take on a role as a leader in climate policy,” Bottger said. “We wanted students to know that they have a voice, and they can urge our university and our leaders to take action on climate change and uphold the values that we want Tufts to uphold.”

In April 2016, University President Anthony Monaco signed the Second Nature Climate Commitment, an initiative pledging Tufts to creating a Climate Action Plan and submitting an annual evaluation of its progress. Though this pledge was intended to promote environmentalism at Tufts, in concurrence with the university’s sustainability programs, Bottger said that the university could be doing more to enact environmental change.

“Tufts is very committed to sustainability initiatives, which is great, but I think that’s kind of where it stops,” Bottger said. “They’re happy to help Tufts compost more, but they’re not really keen on taking more political steps.”

Bottger stated that compliance with all the stipulations highlighted in the Second Nature Climate Commitment is still in its early stages, and there seems to be a lack of momentum to make significant progress, in her opinion.

According to Bondy, Tufts’ support for environmental issues does not always fully align with the environmental passions of the students.

“The University is doing a good job, more or less to the best of its ability, but I think students want more than they’re getting,” Bondy said. “It’s not an open pathway, but there are channels if you put in the effort to get the initiatives that you want.”

Both Bondy and Henjes identified their many concerns for the environment, focusing especially on the all-encompassing effects of climate changes.

“The more time [that] passes, the harder it’s going to be to solve the problems we’ve created,” Bondy said.

Bottger echoed Bondy’s fears about these potential environmental threats, pointing to the U.S. government as a barrier to progressive change.

“I’m worried equally as much for future natural disasters that will happen as I am worried about the state of American politics,” Bottger said.

Henjes said if the government does not take an active role in combating climate change, activists, like those at Tufts, will have to pick up the slack.

“Tufts students recognize that [climate change] is a problem, and they also recognize that their government is not doing enough to combat climate change,” Henjes explained.

“Students are even more aware and more mobilized — they feel that they have to do more because the government’s doing less.”

Henjes urged all students to get involved in Tufts’ various sustainability groups, become aware of the problems facing our environment today and in the future and take action to create change.

“You have a voice as a student…. You have a role in telling your university what you want it to be. And if you really want to, you can make change at the university level,” Bottger said.

“Especially in this political climate, if you’re feeling frustrated, don’t do nothing about it. Try to join social justice groups to create change.”

POLICE BRIEFS – WEEK OF NOV. 20 Black-Hat Blackout On Nov. 7 at 4:45 p.m. a student reported a case of computer hacking.

She was in Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall when a pop-up appeared on her screen saying that something was wrong with the computers of Tufts University students and encouraging her to take action. The pop-up included a link to a supposed “Apple help-desk” and a phone number. The student called the

number and a person on the other end was allowed remote access on her computer. She called Apple afterwards and they confirmed that it was not them but rather that it was a scam. They told her to uninstall anything that was recently downloaded.

All she want to do is smoke that…

A Tufts student living off campus called 911 on Nov. 11 at 6:15 p.m.

after seeing flames shooting out of the oven while they were cooking broccoli.

Somerville Fire and Police Departments as well and Tufts University Police Department ( TUPD) arrived at the scene. The Somerville Fire Department notified the residents that they were all set but they should clean their oven.

Jacketeering A student sent a report to the TUPD

after leaving her coat and gloves at the ZBT house on Nov. 12 at around 6:30 p.m. while attending an event there.

Around 45 minutes after arriving she noticed her jacket had been moved to the other side of the room along with other jackets. Her gloves were missing along with an important paper from her jacket. Both are still missing.

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This Thanksgiving, we’re thankful for the Turkey Shuttle Every Thanksgiving week, students flock across the globe to cherish the holiday with loved ones. For native Bostonians and those living in adjacent states, home is a car ride away. However, many others bridge the physical distance by taking to the skies. This year, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate has once again provided Turkey Shuttles for these students to commute to Logan Airport at a low cost.

However, the future of this long-standing service has at times been uncertain.

Though a small gesture, such initiatives shouldn’t be erased from Tufts’ history because of negligence and the availability of relatively convenient alternatives such as Uber or Lyft. There is a larger communal value that we should be reminded of on this particular holiday.

The earliest records of the Turkey Shuttles date back to Sept. 1, 2001, when the “Senate [would] again offer a

‘Turkey Shuttle’ to Logan Airport … to help students begin their Thanksgiving journeys,” implying that the shuttle service had been provided even before 2001. It is notable that the shuttle fare was $5 then, as it is today, showing that the shuttles were indeed not provided to make profit. This spirit has been preserved throughout time, as Harsha Dronamraju, a former TCU senator, said in 2004 that they “weren’t looking [for] a profit, and … probably broke about even.”

However, because the fares have been pegged at $5, in recent years the shuttles have been operating below the break even point. Joseph’s Limousine & Transportation, the Turkey Shuttle service provider, charged the university $2,025 for their Spring Break Shuttle in 2016, however, only $875 was returned from ticket sales and thus produced a total net loss of $1,150.

Though the purpose of this shuttle is to help students, students in recent years have preferred alternatives such as Uber, which some believe to be cheaper and more logistically convenient.

There is more to think about than convenience at this time of the year. A community is built on individual inconveniences and our choices to embrace them. Elections for TCU, voting advocacy campaigns by on-campus political coalitions, student-led arts performances and so on inevitably require an individual’s commitment of time and energy, and, these are what define Tufts and uphold its vibrant legacy. There will always be more space in an Uber’s trunk, however the greatest challenge imposed on us is how much space we chose to make for others.

This Thanksgiving, we’re thankful for the Turkey Shuttle.

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In response to ‘Israeli academic treks’

by Claire LeBlanc The recent opinion piece, “Israeli academic treks: single narrative at the service of occupation,” is an impassioned op-ed that seeks to make a case for why an upcoming Fletcher student-led spring break trek requires intervention from administrative authorities of the school. The article highlights serious issues with such academic treks, such as the political forces that drive many trips and the bias that goes hand in hand with it, the government funding that can make the ethics of such trips questionable, and the very troubling reality of single-sided narratives. All are valid problems and concerns. However, the author fails to make a convincing argument as to exactly how an upcoming Fletcher academic trek will be of service specifically to government occupation and oppression. It also fails to show how it will only present a single narrative. Above all, the article fails to provide any constructive solutions.

The author highlights a very present reality that the students will “mostly hear Israeli voices and not be exposed to the brutal and devastating aspects of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.” This is an important possibility to bring up. However, the author strips Fletcher students of their agency and completely assumes that the Fletcher students participating in this trip have zero ability to think critically and ask hard questions, which is a defining trait of most Fletcher students.

Additionally, he is assuming that the trek organizers will fail to work hard to ensure that not just one narrative is told. These erroneous assumptions turn his arguments into unfounded claims that certain aspects of the conflict will be ignored, as he fails to give substantive proof that this will be the case. The author acknowledges that one day will be given to explore different Palestinian narratives, yet the itinerary and organizers are unsuitable.

The reality of the time constraints of an eight-day trip should be apparent; but has

he talked at length with the trips organizers? Has he discussed with them alternative organizations to partner with? Or the possibility of including more days to explore Palestinian narratives? No alternative trek foundations or organizations are given as suggestions within the piece. No actual solutions are presented when Israel and Co’s past funding from the Israeli government are highlighted.

The author further writes that, “there is a systematic effort to appeal to academic institutions to support Israel and its policies through the dissemination of its talking points and views in a clever and subtle approach.” Any government’s willingness to proselytize is strong, and can indeed be a dangerous tool used to oppress and subvert the masses. Highlighting this is very critical and important when discussing academic trips to Israel-Palestine.

But once more, the troubling truth of this opinion piece is written loud and clear: the author thinks Fletcher students are blind, ignorant, and easily led astray, either by “government propaganda” or pro-Israeli organizers. The author assumes the students will not do their homework on who is speaking, presenting and leading the different sections of the trip.

The one solution offered to the problems the author lays out is to turn to The Fletcher School administration to intervene. In exactly what way is not clear in the article. Instead, a nebulous and murky suggestion is given: the administration should “intervene” and set “best practices, guidelines, and most importantly… ensure that students are well aware of these political agendas before attending such programs.”

This call for the Fletcher administration to intervene is illiberal to students at best, and dangerous to students in the long run.

As graduate students, we cannot have the administration hold our hand and shield us from unsavory viewpoints, arguments, people or government bodies.

It is not the job of the administration to ensure that only the “correct” narrative or history is fed to us, or to protect us from the wiles of government propaganda: as students, we must accept that it is up to us to be relentless in asking questions and challenging what is presented. When that directive is taken from us and instead given away to an administrative authority, we cease to be pursuing academic excellence. Instead, we become no more than shills of whatever position we are told to hold.

Furthermore, as students, learning is a collaborative exercise. If we were to have academic authoritative powers “intervene” into all treks that brush up against troubling and oppressive governments, we would need to abandon all travel. In fact, we would need to exit from the United States itself, given that rationale. Learning happens best outside the classroom; it flourishes through interaction and experience in situations no classroom can replicate. To intervene into a trek, either to force a boycott that everyone must adhere to, or to truncate it in some way, would be a disservice to all students, present and future, at The Fletcher School.

It is commendable that the author highlighted many troubling aspects and problems that could be present with this upcoming trek.

Without such dialogue, there is no broadening of important discussions. However, the need to learn should outweigh the need to be right.

If one cannot stomach the thought of a trip that includes an Israeli narrative, or indeed, a trip that could possibly include government propaganda, then one must produce an alternative. Or better yet, go on the trip itself and challenge the narratives presented directly.

But to curtail the ability of students to have the trek, based on the loose and assumptive grounds that it is purely Israeli propaganda that only further serves government occupation, is untenable to any liberal values, including the values of The Fletcher School itself. Let the students decide and discover for themselves through their own experience.

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We can’t let this happen any longer

by Mika Burgess After the recent appalling and sickening nightmare in Las Vegas, the gun control debate has inflamed American politics.

Another 59 lives have been taken unnecessarily and tragically, leaving citizens across the country devastated, ripped from friends and family at the hands of an abnormally American issue. Mass shootings are no longer once-in-a-decade or once in a presidential term. During Obama’s eight-year administration, he had to address a broken country 14 different times after horrific mass shootings. Each mass shooting leads to an intense, passionate debate over gun control for about two weeks, but as the news story fades, so does the heat behind the issue.

However, gun control isn’t just about mass shootings. Gun control, which focuses on policies to reduce and regulate the sale, trade, usage and holding of guns, is important to prevent the 33,000 annual American injuries and deaths from gun violence. Increased firearm ownership also poses a risk for homicides and suicides. Almost 60 percent of gun death are suicides, and when someone suffering from mental illness has easy access to a gun, they are more likely to make a rash decision rather than seeking help.

Each mass shooting seems worse than the last, yet the American population has been conditioned to normalize them. The most recent Vegas shooting on Oct. 1 is now the deadliest incident of its kind in American history, yet we are in the same debate as

always. Democrats plead for gun control legislation, or even a formal debate to discuss the issue. Meanwhile, conservatives, many of whom are backed and lobbied by the National Rifle Association (NRA), claim that gun laws will not stop the violence, that this right is protected for everyone under the second amendment and that “now is not the time to talk about gun control.” However, if not now, when? A significant issue surrounding for gun control supporters is its lack of momentum. Most Americans support gun control policies, in at least some capacity; the problem is that this percentage of the population is not as ardent and in tune about the debate as gun rights supporters.

Although many states are working to change laws in their own legislatures, people can still cross state lines to obtain a gun.

Chicago, for example, has strict gun laws; however, 60 percent of guns recovered at crime scenes between 2009 and 2013 were bought outside the state, often through secondhand vendors. The only way to truly solve the issue of gun control is to approach the issue on a federal level. However, as so many Republicans in power are funded by the NRA, this will be hard in the current administration.

In February, Republicans and Trump rolled back a rule of the Obama administration restraining those with mental illness to purchase guns, creating a detrimental standard for gun rights in the administration. In the aftermath of Vegas, many are calling for regulation on bump stocks, a tool that Stephen Paddock used to transform his

gun into a rapid-fire weapon. Californian Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein recently introduced a bill that would ban bump stocks. However, many gun policy experts believe this is not enough — it does not account for controlling suicides and homicides, and there are other ways to transition a semi-automatic gun into a rapid-fire and almost automatic weapon.

As Democrats, we call for waiting periods, strengthened background checks and ending gun show loopholes. However, until Republicans realize the correlation between gun violence and gun accessibility, the tragedies, like Vegas, Orlando and Sandy Hook, will continue. We are emphasizing the use of individual activism, by calling and writing your representative, pressing them to recognize your, along with the millions of other Americans, desire and necessity for gun control. Before you vote, look into a candidate’s position on gun control. In addition, we must keep the action alive past a single media cycle. Just because the news stopped covering it doesn’t mean it is not important.

Just because guns are a polarized issue does not mean it is unsolvable.

The only way definite way to pass this important legislation is to take power back from the Republicans. This starts with the midterm election in Congress in 2018. This is only a short year away, and Democrats across the country are already mobilizing for the fight. Preparing the party is about more than politicized topics, but protecting lives and ensuring a better America.

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oreign aid, in the modern sense, has meant government to government transactions in which the United States gives a huge amount of relief supplies to countries in need. According to Professor Angus Deaton of Princeton University, “$134 billion of official aid still flows from donor governments to recipient governments.” However, all of this “aid” is almost never put into action with the consent of the people of the recipient nation, and is therefore inherently anti-democratic. That aid often does more harm than good, corrupting the recipient state and inhibiting their ability to develop strong institutions of their own.

The majority of aid rarely reaches the poorest sectors of the region. Today, poverty is not the result of lack of resources. Poverty is caused by corrupt institutions and poor governance, perpetuated by foreign aid.

The mantra of foreign aid embodies the conception that developed nations must take it upon themselves to save those less fortunate. Singed with undertones of colonialism, this philosophy is often more harmful to recipient nations than helpful. First, in a rejection of the traditional idea that the key to triggering growth is to throw money into a country’s roads, industry, and infrastructure, Professor William Easterly of NYU found that lots of foreign aid flowing into a nation actually led to lower economic growth and vice-versa. Second, by trying to help poor people in poor nations, rich countries often end up corrupting those countries and stymieing growth. This happens because as aid flows into a nation, the government becomes less accountable to its people, instead relying on outside powers for legitimacy. Further, foreign aid undermines a country’s ability to develop strong institutions and accountable government in the first place, key to a nation’s developmental success.

Finally, foreign aid is often used for the benefit of rich nations themselves rather than for the nations and people in need. Countries like the United States use aid to support our allies, investments or political beliefs rather than the interests of the local people.

The most notable example of this is the U.S. support of the despotic Ethiopian government in exchange for their suppression of Islamic fundamentalism. Rich nations also benefit economically from foreign aid before any long-term growth from the recipient nation. For every $1 of aid donated from rich countries to poor countries, $7-10 returns to rich countries, due to debt repayment, interest and capital flight. The UN Conference on Trade and Development estimates that there has been a net transfer of $200 billion from poor countries to rich countries — not ideal development conditions.

If foreign aid is not the answer to global poverty, then what is? First, we should begin by selling fewer weapons to despots, and ensure that developing countries get a fair deal in trade agreements and relax trade barriers. We should also invest in developing vaccines for global diseases, such as malaria. It took western nations 200 years to reach the level they are at today, while we expect today’s developing nations to do so in about a decade or even less. The answer is not foreign aid, rather we must let countries find their own path to success, at their own pace.

Shantel Bartolome is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Shantel can be reached at natasha.bartolome@tufts. edu. Conor Friedmann is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Conor can be reached at conor.friedmann@tufts.edu.

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‘The Hungry Woman’ cast reflects on goal to captivate, challenge Tufts

by Issay Matsumoto Staff Writer

Tufts’ student theatre organization 3Ps presented “The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea” (1995), a play written by queer Chicana playwright Cherríe Moraga, from Nov. 16 to Nov. 18. Moraga’s play reimagines the ancient Greek myth of Medea and complicates contemporary social issues through a lens of queer Chicana narrative and Aztec lore.

Following a revolution that creates a Chicanx nation-state in the form of the mythologized ancestral Aztec homeland Aztlan, “The Hungry Woman” sees anti-homosexual patriarchal leadership exile revolutionary Medea and her son Chac-Mool to Phoenix, Ariz., upon the revelation that Medea has a woman lover, Luna.

Last week’s performances of “The Hungry Woman” drew audiences with striking set design, lighting and sound production. Lead performances by senior Nathalie Andrade as Medea and junior Chopper Carter-Schelp as Luna captured the tension and heartbreak from the original script, while chemistry between the entire cast allowed audiences to immerse themselves in complicated relationships filled with violence, sexism and homophobia, but also beauty and strength.

As a culmination of hours of rehearsal and intense personal investment, “The

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Junior Jennifer Solano (left) and senior Nathalie Andrade (right) perform in Tufts theatre group 3Ps’ production of ‘The Hungry Woman,’ a play about Medea and social issues through a queer Chicana lens.

Hungry Woman” was a huge achievement of dramatic theater for the students involved. Andrade, who is Latina and Peruvian, explained the power that rehearsal spaces for “The Hungry Woman” provided her with.

“I think our rehearsal space was beautiful,” Andrade said. “It really built an inclusive and loving space. Reza [Mirsajadi, director of “The Hungry Woman,”] always started every rehearsal — as long as we had time for it — with a check-in just to

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Tufts Symphony Orchestra perform “Fall Romance”, conducted by John Page, in Distler Performance Hall.

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It was a crisp fall evening on Thursday, Nov. 16 brought to life the Tufts Symphony Orchestra (TSO) brought it to life with its first performance of the year at the Distler Performance Hall. Entitled “Fall Romance,” the group played an array of pieces all tied together within the theme of love.

TSO conductor John Page constructed the idea around Antonín Dvoř á k’s “Romance” (1879) for violin and orchestra, which features faculty member Sarita Uranovsky’s solo violin performance. When asked to be a part of this year’s tour, Uranovsky jumped at the opportunity to be able to play the piece.

Surrounding “Romance” are several other famous love letters, including Mahler’s “Adagietto” from Symphony No. 5 (1904) and the “Carmen Suites” (1875) from Georges Bizet, which the audience enjoyed so much that they found clapped after hearing the more well-known movements.

For Page, the decision to incorporate the lineup that the students performed on Thursday night was one of inspiration and practicality.

“Going on tour, it’s usually a good idea to bring a selection of shorter pieces rather than a big piece,” Page said.

Of course, as he said during the evening, that tour will be in Costa Rica this year. The symphony, along with Uranovsky, will bring its “Fall Romance” package to a few different performances in January. With the variety of pieces in their arsenal, the preparation for this concert as well as their upcoming tour was a little different than normal.

“Last year, our fall and spring programs each consisted of one big symphony,” sophomore clarinetist and TSO social chair Silvia Curry said. “This year, because we were working on shorter pieces, the nature of the rehearsals was different. Switching styles from something like ‘Carmen’ to Barber’s ‘School for Scandal,’ (1933) or from the Turina to Mahler, requires a complete resetting of your musical mindset. Along this vein, I’d imagine that the listener was similarly required to shift gears when we transitioned pieces.”

All of this hard work comes together in one cohesive performance that is tied together by the strings of love and

romance, creating over an hour of gorgeous music. What does the Symphony hope the audience was able to take home from it? That depends on who you ask.

“For me personally, [I wanted] to be able to convey the beauty and charm from this piece that I personally love,” Uranovsky said. “Even though I was struggling because it’s very difficult, my hope is that that didn’t come across at all — that I made it believable that it was effortless.”

Uranovsky noted the deceptively difficult nature of “Romance,” as well as the other pieces the symphony performed Thursday night. Despite the skill and grace the performers were able to exhibit on stage, it didn’t come without hard work.

If you ask a student like Curry what they hope came of the night, you’ll probably hear something about work paying off when the audience hears it. After all of the hours they’ve put in this semester, it only makes sense that they’d want a happy crowd.

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orget about new Taylor — has anyone been paying attention to new Selena? For a quick recap, in the past year Sel opened up about her lupus diagnosis, received a successful kidney transplant from a friend, broke up with boyfriend The Weeknd and recently is rekindling things with an old flame, none other than Justin Bieber. Phew! Gomez also sat as an executive producer on the Netflix series, “13 Reasons Why” (2017), and has also begun a new chapter in her music career. I’m beginning to feel like a broken record with all these pop artists who have “reinvented” themselves, but it looks like Selena is following suit.

Featuring her first single since her last album, Gomez released her “Bad Liar” (2017) music video, in which Selena herself portrays all of the main roles, including her mother, her father, her gym teacher and, of course, protagonist Selena. Therefore, yes, there are scenes where Dad Selena flirts with Gym Teacher Selena, who happens to be the infatuation of Teen Selena. While I’m not sure if Selena is genuinely attracted to women or not, something about this inclusion of a girl crush feels like she is trying to win some brownie points for progressiveness.

Next, Selena brought us “Fetish” (2017), or as I saw it, Selena felt she needed to remind us she was dating The Weeknd, and she did so by thrashing around inside a grocery freezer and mashing a stick of lipstick into her teeth. Actually, she puts a lot of weird stuff in her mouth: broken glass, a bar of soap, an eyelash curler, and even ties her tongue with a string. If you remember her song “Good for You” (2015) with A$AP Rocky, this feels like she took that song fifty shades darker and subbed in Gucci Mane.

Which brings us to her latest song, “Wolves” feat. Marshmello (2017).

Sadly, this track feels very Disney to me, with a real chant of a chorus and severely simplistic composition. The intro guitar riff that transitions into club synths is precisely what she and Kygo did in the summer anthem “It Ain’t Me” (2017). The only difference is that Selena sings about running with wolves in one, and screeches like a wolf in the other. Visually, Selena and her co-artist take an interesting approach to the music videos (there are two), with one entirely shot as an iPhone FaceTime call. Is this what breaking the fourth wall looks like in 2017? Well, I’ll tell you that the vertical phone angle on the landscape YouTube screen was not my favorite.

Selena’s last album, “Revival” (2015), was her first venture away from the high-energy dance pop of her early years, and she took a more mellow, sultry approach. So far, her new material pushes boundaries of sexuality, and certainly of creativity. I’ll leave you with this: if you ever feel like you don’t give yourself enough credit, remember that Selena has proclaimed her own 59-track Spotify playlist called “Selena Gomez – The Hits.” Self-love is important; remember that when you’re considering a second slice of pumpkin pie.

Nikki Margaretos is a senior majoring in economics. Nikki can be reached at nikoletta.margaretos@tufts.edu.

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et’s just get to it. There’s racial tension going on constantly.

There are several examples of tension between racial groups, such as the Asian American Center reforms, the Blasian Narratives shindig, the Three Percent marches, etc.

This column will focus on when white folks mess up.

Even though folks mean no harm, there’s a lot of racism on campus. For instance, when someone says to me, “Where are you really from?” or “You’re not truly Asian though,” or “I never would have guessed you were Asian!”

I’m sure there was context behind what you said. You didn’t know that was offensive, you were just curious, and you just slipped up. Well, what’s next?

Would you like to teach me about myself and my culture?

Let’s harken back to Halloween, only a few weeks ago. Halloween is a time for people to wear indigenous ponchos, tape their eyes to be more “squinty” and to paint their faces black.

Let’s think about what dressing up as Pocahontas means. You love the movie; you know all the words to “Colors of the Wind.” That does not mean you can dress as Pocahontas. Sorry, not sorry.

You are not Pocahontas. Your people did not face the atrocities of our government, who murdered indigenous folks through genocide.

Sure, Halloween is for fun and you can go have fun. However, you are wearing a costume; a costume is a display. You should not display a culture that is not yours and appropriate it to be hip. I do not care if you have the original dress made with authentic patterns. I do not care if you know the myths and stories of indigenous folks.

That is not your story to showcase on Halloween. It’s not about you.

People of color (POC) face racism every single day of our lives. Assuming Halloween exempts people from their responsibilities is dangerous. It further perpetuates racism and allows people to believe their actions are okay. It does not matter if someone is trying to be racist or not. If folks are not intending to be racist, that does not mean their actions are not racist. If someone says something offensive unknowingly, the impact is still painful.

The focus should be on the impact rather than the intent. This is in regard to all oppression. If someone laughs along to a homophobic joke, they may not be intending to be homophobic, but they are supporting oppression. If someone appropriates a culture during Halloween in good fun, they are still appropriating and commodifying that culture. The impact is still detrimental.

Even if you don’t wear a sombrero, you can perpetuate racism. It’s not my job to educate you. The internet and all of its information are only a few clicks away. This is just on my mind lately. Maybe I’ll talk about this later on, maybe I won’t. I am more than my race if you didn’t know.

To all my POC folks out there, shout out for surviving in this school and making do with all you’ve got on your shoulders.

Yours truly, Rachel

Rachel Wahlert is a senior majoring in sociology. Rachel is a senior and can be reached at Rachel.Wahlert@tufts.edu.

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cation and vulnerability on the part of the cast and crew, something that ultimately showed in the performances last week.

“It brought a lot of our own personal histories to the space,” Andrade said. “We talked about our own experiences with the things that the show deals with: religion, our immigrant histories, our sexualities, our gender identities. It got really real and personal and heavy from very early on. You have to be very vulnerable to share those stories, and it’s necessary for a show like this… I think it helped us build really beautiful relationships on stage with each other.”

Carter-Schelp echoed Andrade’s thoughts on the affirmation she received through her experience being involved in “The Hungry Woman.”

“I loved being in ‘Hungry Woman,’” Carter-Schelp said. “[It] was the best space I’ve ever been in at Tufts… Being in that cast really made me realize how exclusive and marginalizing most spaces have felt, because being in ‘Hungry Woman’ felt uplifting, felt empowering, felt like people like me were the standard. Walking into a room and seeing primarily queer women and primarily Latinx-identifying individuals made me realize I’d never felt like that before at Tufts. It was an incredible, empowering room. And I hope that Tufts doesn’t get to have that only once. Because I have never been in, in my time at Tufts, the true standard… Feeling how good it felt in that space makes me want to demand that more people get spaces like that.”

But while “The Hungry Woman” was a huge achievement for the students involved, Carter-Schelp spoke from her own personal experience as a queer Puerto Rican woman who identifies her-

self as “white-passing,” playing a queer Chicana character, explaining some of her concerns regarding the production’s effect within the Tufts community.

“I do feel like this production runs the risk of being the token, ‘Look! 3Ps did something that was POC Latinx oriented, pat on the back, we’re done,’” Carter-Schelp said.

“And I think that we get away with a lot of performative allyship by doing things like ‘Hungry Woman.’ I think that we prevent ourselves from looking in the mirror and realizing that we are not really inclusive.”

Carter-Schelp emphasized that the role a production like “The Hungry Woman” should have in the Tufts community should not be self-congratulatory, but instead should provoke critical self-analysis and above all, action.

“I think the first thing that you have to do when you’re doing ‘Hungry Woman’ and being intentional about having ‘Hungry Woman’ done in a place like Tufts is not being proud of yourself,” Carter-Schelp said. “You don’t get to say, ‘Tufts did ‘Hungry Woman.’’

You should say, ‘Why is doing “Hungry Woman” exceptional? Why is doing ‘Hungry Woman’ the exception? Why is doing ‘Hungry Woman’ out of the ordinary?’ Not, ‘Wow it’s exceptional that we did ‘Hungry Woman.’”

Carter-Schelp further elaborated that while this show proved to be an empowering and radical space for those involved, the difficulties the cast and crew face in producing shows like “The Hungry Woman” indicate perennial issues faced by people with marginalized identities at Tufts.

“Just because we did ‘The Hungry Woman’ and just because we did ‘Bootycandy’ [3Ps and Tufts’ Black Theater Troupe’s minor production featuring a predominantly black cast], we can’t hold them up and say we’ve succeeded,” she

said. “We haven’t succeeded … [in part] because barely enough Latinx people showed up to audition.”

Andrade echoed Carter-Schelp’s thoughts, elaborating that the difficulties faced in producing “The Hungry Woman” are symptomatic of aspects of both the Tufts theater community and Tufts community at large. Participating in theater during her high school years in West Palm Beach, Fla., which Andrade described as “a diverse neighborhood” with a “very rich Latinx community,” Andrade performed in shows like “In the Heights” (1999) and “West Side Story” (1957). Upon coming to campus during her senior year of high school for the Voices of Tufts Diversity program, Andrade was impressed to see a Latinx theater production, but felt disappointed when she joined the theater community as a Tufts student.

“I never thought I’d get to do a play like this,” Andrade said. “[Coming] here, it became kind of a culture shock… I suddenly was the only Latina in theatre; there were maybe two or three POCs in any show … and that’s discouraging.”

Representation and inclusion of people with marginalized identities continues to be an issue within the Tufts theater community and the Tufts community at large. But despite the odds, in bringing a queer Chicana narrative to audiences and lifting up a predominantly queer, POC cast, “The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea” proved successful.

Carter-Schelp simply summed up her feelings about the role a show like “The Hungry Woman” might have in the Tufts community in the present and future.

“I want to destroy everything,” she said. “I want to be like, ‘There is this beautiful group of queer, Latinx, POC people that … shouldn’t be the exception,’ and I want to lift that up.”

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continued from page 7 different moods that I hope we were able to convey in our playing,” Curry said. “Even if there’s just a particularly catchy phrase from ‘Carmen’ that’s still rattling around in your head, it would make me happy just to know that our hours of rehearsal left any kind of impression on someone.”

The plan after its performance Thursday is to bring that same energy to Costa Rica during winter break. Page is thrilled to be able to lead his students on a tour such as this one.

“When I had first joined Tufts in 2012, they had not gone on tour for

a long time,” Page said. “I told the department that I felt really strongly that we should be a touring ensemble like other major college orchestras.”

TSO currently plans on touring every other year, giving undergraduate students two chances to go on tour during their career at Tufts. The first tour Page led his students on two years ago was in Austria. Page and his faculty strongly believe in the benefits of touring in terms of sharpening performance and growing bonds within the members of the orchestra.

“The opportunity to [play] multiple times is always a bonus,” Uranovsky said. “Oftentimes, you’ll prepare for a one-off thing and then you’re done.”

While TSO enjoyed its performance Thursday night, it’s a relief for the members to know that its program isn’t quite done yet. In many ways, “Fall Romance” at Tufts was a standalone performance and a test-run of their upcoming dates in Costa Rica. Page believes that Thursday was a great starting block for what should be a great week of performing in January.

“I think it’s just a matter of polishing,” Page said. “It’s a matter of understanding the flow of the pieces, understanding the stamina involved in playing a whole concert, pacing themselves and just tightening up the whole thing… But, I have to say, I’m so proud of the group.”

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continued from back ripped a shot toward the post that was saved by Mieth.

Only a minute later, Halliday directed a header toward goal, but it was wide right. In the 11th minute, van Brewer took a free kick just outside the box, but had it blocked by the Judges’ wall.

Brandeis had an opportunity in the 33rd minute, but senior midfielder Josh Ocel’s 25-yard free kick was saved by Mieth.

The Jumbos again found their rhythm in the second half, as they mustered 10 shots to the Judges’ five. Woodhouse made six of his seven total saves in the second half, and the wind made it difficult for him to clear his lines. In contrast, Mieth was tested four times in the first half, and only once in the second half.

The Jumbos had the best chance of the game with eight minutes to go in the first half. On a rare counterattack, Lane rode through a tackle, creating a three-on-two. His pass evaded the

lunge of a Brandeis defender and fell to Rojas, but the sophomore midfielder lost his balance, and his shot was easily saved.

“I think Brandeis was a really good team. Even though we had shots on target, they were a challenging team to break down, and we only had a few really good, clear cut chances, and it was unlucky that we didn’t put them away,” van Brewer said. “It was a matter of the ball going a few feet the other way, and we would have won in regulation.”

Hoping to create more attacking chances, Tufts shifted to a 3–5–2 formation in the first overtime period. The strategy seemed to pay off, as the Jumbos looked to be the stronger team in the first 10 minutes.

Tufts was blessed with another opportunity to win the game with two minutes left in the period. Sophomore forward Joe Braun flicked on a free kick to Halliday, who took a great first touch and turned on the six-yard box, only to see his effort go agonizingly over the bar.

In the 103rd minute, however, Rojas received his second yellow card for a rightfully called foul and was sent off, forcing the Jumbos to play the remainder of the game with 10 men. They reverted to 4–2–3–1 formation, and their attacking pressure let up.

Ul t i m a t e l y, the 10-man Jumbos couldn’t hold out. Weatherbie motioned for Mieth to clear a ball in the box, but Mieth failed to do so adequately. The clearance rolled to Flahive, who blasted the long range effort into the open net.

“We went to 3–5–2 because we wanted the goal, we played to win the game, we felt we had them pinned in and it was worth the risk to try to win the game before PK’s,” Shapiro told the Daily in an email. “That changed with the red card, and we had to weather the last five minutes down a man.”

The loss marked the end of seven Jumbos’ four-year careers. Coleman and Zinner were forces on the back line and played decisive roles in the 2017 season. Kulscar, a three-year starter

for the Jumbos, and Eichhorst ensured that the ball moved efficiently through the midfield. Both Halliday and Zazzali saw their roles shift this year due to injuries within the team, as Halliday moved from the midfield to playing as a lone striker, while Zazzali became a converted defender. Finally, senior keeper Bruce Johnson was responsible for nine shutouts earlier this season before sustaining an injury.

Though the Jumbos are losing valuable assets, it is a cycle they endure every year. Based on this season’s performance — posting its best record in history despite a rash of injuries — the team will be just as strong next year.

“It was an incredible season, and the guys have so much to be proud of,” Shapiro said. “ It was the best regular season in Tufts history, first NESCAC Championship, first time getting a bye and hosting [the] first round in the NCAA’s. Only two goals against all season is incredible. It is bitter right now, but one moment will not define this season.”

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Savage had a stellar individual performance Saturday night, putting up a near-triple double with 21 points, 16 rebounds and eight assists. Given the size of the Bears’ bigs, Savage — who is listed at 6’3″ — recorded especially impressive rebounding totals, suggesting that rebounding is as much about effort as it is about size. Savage was recognized as NESCAC Player of the Week for his career-high performance.

“Coach told us before the game to put an emphasis on the boards because of the size of our opponents,” Savage said. “I took that to heart.”

The Jumbos also received other strong performances from sophomore center Patrick Racy, who put up a career-high 20 points in the game,

along with seven boards and three assists. Pace contributed 15 points, five rebounds and four assists, as well.

“I think my mid-range game is definitely clicking,” Racy said. “I’m just trying to find the right gaps, the right times — and I think I did a good job with that. I also definitely want to thank my teammates for putting me in the right spots. Overall, my shot was on and I was just making the right plays.”

In the first game of the tournament, the Jumbos were able to start off their season with a comfortable 83–68 win over Webster. Buoyed by another lights-out performance from Savage (a career-high 27 points and 12 rebounds), the Jumbos separated themselves from the Gorloks in the second half and cruised to victory.

The first half was a back-and-forth affair, with no team gaining a meaningful edge until late, when the Jumbos finished on a 6–0 run to go up 44–34. The

Gorloks kept the score within 10 points at the beginning of the second half, but the Jumbos began to pull away with a lively offensive attack. Tufts increased its lead to as many as 22 points before a few garbage-time baskets by Webster pulled the final margin back to 15.

Along with Savage, the night’s top performers included Pace, who put up a solid double-double of 11 points and 10 rebounds, as well as first-year center Luke Rogers, whose inaugural 12 minutes of his collegiate career amounted to a meaningful 10 points and seven boards.

Young guys like Rogers have been able to pave their way to time on the floor with their skill and the opportunity given by the current health of the team. All five first-years on the team got on the floor in some capacity during the weekend.

“The younger guys definitely got a lot of experience,” Racy said. “They were kinda thrown into the fire, being their first college games.”

Despite leaving the weekend 1–1, there are definitely some positives to take from the Jumbos’ performances as they gear up for their first week of regular season play.

“I think we’re feeling pretty good coming out of the tournament,” Racy said. “Wash U is definitely a good team, and we put up a fight. Obviously we feel like we could’ve won that game, but I would say the team morale is pretty good.”

Undoubtedly, the Jumbos learned a bit about themselves during their first weekend of action, and they will put that knowledge to the test tomorrow when they host the MIT Engineers (2–0). Tipoff from Cousens Gymnasium is at 7 p.m.

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continued from page 11 two back-to-back power play goals a minute apart. First-year defenseman Craig Uyeno scored first with no assist, another first career goal for a Tufts first-year. Sophomore forward Machlan Sawden followed with a goal of his own.

The Jumbos lost steam in the third period and were outscored 2–0 by the Cardinals. The game then went into overtime and although the Jumbos maintained control of the puck with three shots on goal to the Cardinals’ two, neither team scored.

“It was a good game with a disappointing outcome considering the first half of the game,”sophomore defenseman Cory Gottfried said. “There were way too many penalties. We won a lot of battles but tied the war.”

Tufts recorded nine penalties throughout the game compared to Wesleyan’s three. These penalties challenged the Jumbos’ play; however, Hotte kept the Jumbos on their feet. Hotte recorded 32 saves out of 35 total shots, an impressive feat for his first time on the ice as a college player.

“It is great to have a senior role model like [goaltender] Nik Nugnes who can

show me the ropes of college hockey on and off the ice,” Hotte said.

Tufts and Trinity have an ongoing rivalry, adding immense intensity to the season opener. Trinity was the runner up in the NCAA tournament last season, so Tufts expected tough competition.

“When it comes to the Trinity game, both teams really want to win,” Gottfried said. “We always play Trinity in big games, like the playoffs. Last year we beat them in the regular season, but lost to them in the first round of the playoffs. They then went on to almost win a national championship.

We knew how good they were and the game was not going to be easy. Coach [Pat Norton] was really excited about the lineup and to see how we would play together with such a young team.”

Trinity earned a quick two-goal lead in the first period, with senior forward Tyler Whitney scoring first, followed by first-year forward Dylan Healey. Tufts recorded two minor penalties this period, but Tufts’ defense stopped Trinity from scoring on the power plays.

The Jumbos began to pick up speed in the second period. After Trinity’s junior forward Mark Knowlton picked up a penalty for hooking, Tufts took advantage of the power play and soph-

omore forward Anthony Farinacci scored the first goal of the season, assisted by classmate forward Tyler Scroggins. This marked the highlight of the game for Tufts. However, the Bantams quickly responded with their own power play goal from senior forward Anthony Sabitsky, assisted by sophomore defenseman Liam Feeney and first-year defenseman James Callahan.

Both teams held out until late in the third period when Trinity put two more quick goals in the back of the net after 15 minutes of play. Trinity’s firstyear forward Eric Benshadle scored the first, assisted by Sabitsky and Feeney.

Less than two minutes later, junior forward Ryan Pfeffer scored another, assisted by Callahan and senior defenseman Connor Hegarty.

Although the Jumbos were outscored 5–1 in this first game, Nugnes performed well, saving 32 of the 36 shots on goal throughout the game.

“We just have to keep moving forward,” Gottfried said. “It was only our first game and we will be seeing them again later in the season.”

Tufts has a very young team with great potential, as 21 of the 28 players on the roster are first-years or sophomores. First-year defenseman Michael

Gordon described his first experience playing college hockey.

“I was nervous at first,” Gordon said.

“But after a few shifts, I felt really comfortable. It is definitely exciting to be a college hockey player at Tufts.”

Although Tufts did not exactly have the weekend it hoped for with a loss and a tie, there is much to look forward to in the weeks to come.

“It was not the start we were exactly looking for,” Gottfried said. “But on the plus side we started to come together and it is very exciting to see how successful we are going to be throughout the rest of the season” Tufts’ next game is at home today against Babson, its first out-of-conference game. Following the Babson contest, Tufts will travel to the Rutland Herald Invitational in Rutland, Vt. for a game against Brockport on Friday and another game against an opponent to be determined on Saturday.

“We’re all very excited to have Babson coming to Tufts for the first time ever,” sophomore defenseman Cooper Stahl said. “They’re [an] old out of conference program with a strong team and it will be a good test for us.

After Babson, we’re looking to excel in the Rutland Herald Invitational over Thanksgiving.”

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Women’s basketball stampedes to opening tournament victories

by Sam Weitzman Sports Editor

The No. 1 Tufts women’s basketball team (2–0) won the Tufts University Tip-Off Tournament with victories over the Roger Williams Hawks (2–1) and the Regis Pride (0–2).

In Saturday’s tournament final, the Jumbos humbled the Pride in a 81–41 win for the Brown and Blue. Tufts scored 21 of the game’s first 25 points, and all five starters got on the scoresheet in a first quarter that ended with 28–9 advantage for the women from Medford.

The Pride fared little better in the second quarter, committing as many turnovers (eight) as points scored. In contrast, the Jumbos’ potent offense and hard-nosed defense enabled the hosts to enter halftime with a gaping 49–17 lead.

Tufts’ junior guard Jac Knapp led all firsthalf scorers with 12 points on five-of-eight (62.5 percent) shooting. On the other end of the floor, senior co-captain guard Lauren Dillon flashed the high-level skills that earned her the NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year award last season. The Wellesley, Mass. native stole the ball five times in the first half, with all but one takeway resulting either in a bucket or a Regis foul.

Knapp heaped praise on Dillon’s vivacious leadership on both ends of the floor. “[Dillon] is our court general,” Knapp said.

“Lauren was all over the place defensively, making key plays. This inspired us to keep the defensive fire going and keep working towards victory.”

The Jumbo defense continued to throttle the Pride in the third quarter. Regis did not reach the 20-point mark for the game until a free throw by senior guard Shannon Hayes with 5:39 left in the period. Tufts, meanwhile, put in 21 points in the third quarter alone.

Knapp nailed two three-pointers, dished out three assists and snagged three steals in eight minutes of play, and senior forward Melissa Baptista sunk an early quarter jump shot along with four free-throw attempts.

Tufts coach Carla Berube emptied her bench during the fourth quarter, and the two teams’ back-ups ran out the rest of the clock.

Senior Regis forward Brittany Stone led all players with 20 points and 10 rebounds, but her efforts were unmatched by her teammates as only one other member of Regis scored more than five points. Conversely, five Jumbos scored eight or more points. Knapp led the way with a team-high 18 points, five assists and five steals, while Dillon posted 11 points (on 4-of-4 shooting), four assists and five steals. Despite only playing 14 minutes, first-year guard/forward Emily Briggs grabbed a team-high seven rebounds.

Berube explained how the Jumbos’ defensive solidity enabled their offensive efficiency.

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Senior forward Melissa Baptista drives to the basket in the 78–49 win over Roger Williams at “We made [our] opponents uncomfortThe Jumbos expanded their advantage in able through our defensive play, and it helped the second quarter, with their lead reaching support the rest of our game a lot,” she said. as high as 15 points after sophomore guard “Our defensive aggressiveness fueled our Sadie Otley sunk a jumper with 1:56 left in the offense this weekend, and we aim to main- half. The Hawks clawed a couple points back, tain this throughout the season.” yet the Jumbos still entered the break ahead, Dillon highlighted the Jumbos’ ability to 40–29. Otley paced all players with 10 first-half rely upon players up and down the roster. points on four-of-six (66.7 percent) shooting.

“It’s very early on, but I think the team Tufts cruised through the second half, not is looking great. We are faster, more athletic allowing Roger Williams to reduce the deficit and more dynamic than we’ve ever been to single digits after Dillon hit a three-pointer before and we plan on using that to our with 7:49 remaining the third quarter. The rest advantage,” she told the Daily in an email. of the game was not without drama, however.

“As this weekend showed, we have many A frightening moment for the Jumbos came people who can step up and make big con- with around two minutes left in the third quartributions in many different ways. Our team ter, when a hard Hawk pick flattened Dillon. is deep and I expect that many people will The senior co-captain refused to be bowed by get big minutes throughout the season.” her opponents’ physicality, however. Though On Friday night, the Jumbos beat the she seemed dazed at first and briefly exited Hawks in the Brown and Blue’s season the contest, Dillon returned early in the fourth opener, 78–49. The two teams were rela- quarter and immediately stole the ball on the tively close for much of the first quarter, next Roger Williams possession. and the lead changed hands four times Four Jumbos finished the contest with in the game’s first eight minutes. A late double digit points: Knapp (15), Dillon (12), 8–2 scoring run, however, gave Tufts a Baptista (12) and Otley (10). Roger Williams’ 21–15 lead by the end of the opening senior forward/center Teagan Dunn grabbed period. a game-high nine rebounds. As a team, how-

Cousens Gym on Nov. 17. ever, the Jumbos out-rebounded (36 vs. 32) and out-stole (16–3) the Hawks.

Despite the squad’s solid performance in Friday’s season opener against Roger Williams, Berube framed the game as an impetus for the team’s even stronger Saturday showing against Regis.

“On Friday, there were some dips initially defensively, which we fixed on Saturday,” she said. “We have a lot to work on as a team, [including] our offensive execution, defensive rotations and… boxing opponents out.”

Dillon also saw room for future refinement.

“There is a lot we learned from the weekend that we can improve on as a team going forward,” she said. “A lot of it is on the defensive end, where we thought we gave up too many easy points and open shots. Going forward, we will have to hone in on our rotations and bring more consistent energy on that end of the floor.”

Tufts next plays tonight against the Emerson Lions (1–2). Last year, the Jumbos tamed the Lions, 77–47. This season’s encounter will tip off at Emerson’s Bobbi Brown & Steven Plofker Gym at 5:30 p.m.

Sidharth Anand contributed reporting to this article.

STUDENTS SHOW SUPPORT FOR MELISSA BAPTISTA AT SATURDAY GAME During the women’s basketball game against Regis College on Saturday, a group of students and alumni gathered to cheer on senior forward Melissa Baptista. Latino Center Director Julián Cancino brought the group together on Saturday at Bolles House.

“Tufts Latino Center supports Latinx students and their passions—be it computer science, theater, or basketball,” Cancino told the Daily in an email. “We see you, and we’re proud of you.”

Sophomore Kelsey Narvaez was one of the students at the Latino Center gathering and held posters recognizing Baptista and wore leis with the colors of Brazilian flag. Narvaez went to the game to show support for members of the school’s Latino community.

“I think it’s important for the Latino community to celebrate the successes of individuals within the community,” Narvaez told the Daily in an email. “We

aren’t a very big community on a campus so I think it is necessary to show up for people and show that although they might get lost in the grander Tufts image, we see them and we’re here to cheer them on.”

Narvaez and Cancino both said they look forward to similar displays of community support in the future.

“We hope to continue supporting our athletes of color and strong women role models,” Cancino wrote. “And, of course, show off our Jumbo Pride!”

Meanwhile, Baptista scored eight points for the Jumbos on Saturday, bringing her total to 20 for last weekend’s, two-day tournament. She returns to the team after a successful 2016–2017 season, during which she was the Jumbos leading scorer with 12.5 points per game.

This year, she was named to the NCAA Preseason All-American First Team.

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Men’s basketball kicks off its season by splitting the Lopata Classic

by Ryan Eggers Staff Writer

The No. 6 Jumbos kicked off their season in St. Louis, Mo., as they participated in the Lopata Classic. The team battled the Webster Gorloks (1–1) and the Washington University Bears (2–0) in the span of two days, leaving Missouri with both a win and a loss.

In the championship of the Lopata Classic against No. 9 Washington University on Saturday night, Tufts fell victim to a bad shooting funk in the first half, finishing at 40 percent from the floor at the break. The Bears capitalized on this drought, starting the game on an 11–0 run, and the Jumbos were unable to chip away at that lead throughout the half, entering the locker room down 47–38.

As the second half tipped off, the hosts continued their dominance, increasing their lead to as much as 18 with 11:35 left to play. The Bears consistently took advantage of their size advantage over the Jumbos, getting to the free throw line 21 times in the second half (36 times overall). Tufts, on the other hand, registered, only 17 total free-throw attempts.

Tufts did not go down without a fight, though. The team rallied in the

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Senior Everett Dayton drives to the hoop in the men’s basketball game against Williams College on Feb.25. latter part of the second to cut the deficit to as close as two points thanks to timely three-pointers, including a bomb from senior quad-captain guard Vincent Pace, putting the score at 96–94 Bears with five seconds left. However, sophomore guard Kevin Kucera’s two free throws secured the 98–94 victory for Washington University.

Despite the loss, the Jumbos put up a solid comeback effort against a tough

team. Already with a few injuries early in the season, the team knows that it may struggle through an adjustment period.

“I’m not really one for silver linings,” sophomore guard Eric Savage said. “But we fought pretty hard without three guys that should be playing a lot of minutes with us.” see MEN'S BASKETBALL, page 9

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Senior forward Brian Brown hits the puck during the ice hockey game against Amherst College at the Malden Forum on Feb 11.

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The Jumbos took to the road for their season opener on Nov. 17 against their rivals the Trinity Bantams before travelling to take on Wesleyan on Saturday. The Jumbos fell 5–1 to the Bantams, but they did not allow the loss to affect their play versus the Cardinals.

Tufts tied Wesleyan 3–3 in overtime, with two first-years scoring their first goals as collegiate athletes and firstyear goaltender Drew Hotte debuting as a starter. The weekend proved to be

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Ice hockey opens season with doubleheader against Trinity, Wesleyan

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very demanding for the Jumbos; however, they look forward to growing as a team and playing Trinity and Wesleyan at home later this season.

Coming off of a tough loss to Trinity the night before, Tufts rebounded well and put forth a solid effort against Wesleyan. Despite three penalties against Tufts and three power-play opportunities for Wesleyan, Tufts came out on top in the first period. The Jumbos dominated on faceoffs and played well defensively. Hotte saved all 19 shots on goal with help from sophomore defenseman Cooper Stahl,

who consistently controlled the puck and assisted with transitions. Firstyear forward Charley Borek had his first college goal, assisted by firstyear forward Edward Hannon and senior forward Brian Brown.

Wesleyan tied the game up in the first five minutes of the second period with a goal from senior forward Jordan Jancze. But two penalties on Wesleyan gifted Tufts a five-on-three situation and the team quickly responded with see ICE HOCKEY, page 9

rom a young age, elite soccer players in the United States are told that they are being prepared for college soccer — theoretically the next phase of their pre-professional playing careers. I’ve seen this pattern first hand: ever since my club team entered high school, the focus was always being scouted by a college coach at elite tournaments. Even the highest levels of club soccer — development academies — focus on college recruitment. While development academies’ main goal is to produce the next batch of national players, it is simultaneously a pipeline to the top college soccer institutions in the country.

This would be all fine and dandy if college soccer institutions properly developed their players for the professional game (and thus, the national team). But the goals of college soccer are catastrophically out of line with the goals of our development academies and national team. Compared to the rest of the world, college soccer is a mirage that fails its top players, and in doing so, the future success of the sport.

College soccer’s main problem stems from its disregard for the global rules of the game. Because of college soccer’s unlimited substitution rule, the college game rewards speed and physicality; meanwhile, the rest of the world is playing with FIFA’s three player substitution rule, which rewards astute technical and tactical ability.

Proponents argue that college soccer is integral to the development of the player in terms of personal growth. The college experience, they argue, makes athletes more well-rounded and prepared for the professional game. But if you put this thought process in a global context, this idea makes no sense whatsoever.

The college soccer season is an embarrassingly short four-month season that includes at most 25 games for Div. I teams.

Meanwhile, overseas, the next generation of European and South American players aged 18-22 — the usual age for college players — are playing for youth teams or reserve sides that play around 40 games a year and train twice a day from August to May. NCAA rules prohibit college sides from seriously training in the off-season, further impeding development. Does the value of being “well-rounded” really outweigh training for less than half the time as European and South American competition?

It should be no surprise, then, that our players who go through the collegiate system fall short of the global standard. It should also come as no surprise that top youth national team players are opting to skip college and go overseas. Christian Pulisic left for Europe when he was 16. Seventeenyear-old Josh Sargent, one U.S. Soccer’s most prized assets, is off to Werder Bremen in February. Twenty-two-year-old Matt Miazga turned down an offer to play for the University of Michigan at 18, and three years later signed with English powerhouse Chelsea. The list goes on and on.

Slowly but surely, top American players are leaving college soccer in the dust for the higher levels of soccer overseas. Until college soccer changes its rules to conform to the high demands of the global standard and prioritizes development, it will be relegated to no more than a sport for the best of the rest.

Arlo Moore-Bloom is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Arlo can be reached at arlo.moore_bloom@tufts.edu.

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Men’s soccer season ends after conceding second goal of the season

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Sophomore midfielder Zach Lane faces off against a defender in the first half of the men’s soccer home game for the NCAA Sectional Finals against Brandeis at Bello Field on Nov 19.

by Maddie Payne and Arlo Moore-Bloom Executive Sports Editor and Staff Writer

The No. 3 Jumbos’ season ended in the 109th minute of play against the No. 19 Brandeis Judges this weekend, when senior forward Patrick Flahive capitalized on a poorly cleared ball, scoring from 30 yards out. Tufts played Sunday thanks to its shootout victory over No. 23 Johns Hopkins the previous day.

Hosting the Blue Jays at Bello Field on Saturday, the Jumbos faced their toughest challenge to date. Coming in at 16–1–3 overall, Johns Hopkins started off the game on the right foot, out-possessing Tufts for most of the first half.

Unlike Tufts’ previous opponents, Johns Hopkins was comfortable playing the ball out of the back. Whenever the Blue Jays’ senior goalkeeper Bryan See possessed the ball, he looked to pass through his center backs, who pulled wide to the edges of the penalty box.

“It took us a little while to figure out our pressure against Johns Hopkins,” coach Josh Shapiro told the Daily in an email. “They are the best possession team we have played in a few years. We knew we could create chances but had to try to stay compact without giving too much space behind.”

Junior center back Cole Rosenberger expertly started attacks from his left side of the field. His technical ability appeared to surprise the Tufts forwards, as he strode by the outstretched legs of their high press.

The Blue Jays were successful in passing the ball through the midfield and into the Jumbos’ half, but that’s about as far as they got, registering just one shot in the first frame. The hosts’ tremendous defensive effort, led by its co-captains — senior defender Connor Coleman and junior defender Sterling Weatherbie — staved off wave after wave of Johns Hopkins attacks. Senior defensive midfielder Tyler Kulcsar played only 20 minutes due to a tweaked hamstring, but first-year midfielder Calvin Aroh filled in superbly, winning the ball and distributing to his teammates.

“We’ve had to overcome more injuries this year than any other year in the past.

One of the things we were most proud of was to have the best season in Tufts history with all the injuries that we had spoke a lot about the character and depth of our group,” senior defender Matt Zinner said.

“Guys are stepping up constantly. Calvin [Aroh] played incredibly — to play 110 minutes for two days back-to-back after not playing a full game all year is incredible, and he played amazingly.”

The Jumbos relied mainly on set pieces and counterattacks to create chances early on. They clearly missed sophomore midfielder/forward Gavin Tasker, who often provides marauding runs down the left flank. Tufts’ biggest chance of the first period came with 12 minutes left, when a corner from sophomore midfielder Jack Delaney found the head of Coleman, whose header narrowly went over the crossbar.

The second half began similarly to the first, with Johns Hopkins dictat-

ing play. The Blue Jays had multiple chances, as senior midfielder Drew Collins rifled a low shot that whizzed right by the left post. After the initial barrage, however, the tide began to turn toward the Jumbos.

“Hopkins was definitely one of the best teams we’ve played all year — they were certainly the best in possession,” Zinner said. “In the first half we gave them a little bit too much respect and sat off … It took us out of our own rhythm because we worried too much about what they were doing and not about ourselves. At halftime we said ‘Alright, we can play with these guys.’”

The Jumbos began to impose their muscle on the more diminutive Blue Jays players, out-fouling them eight to three in the second half. The Jumbos’ excellent fitness was on display as the game wore on: while Johns Hopkins seemed to tire and lose steam, Tufts appeared to improve. Tufts also increasingly played through first-year midfielder Travis van Brewer, whose footwork and passing calmed the Jumbos.

In the 57th minute, sophomore midfielder Zach Lane won the ball on the outskirts of the box and found senior forward Kevin Halliday, who opted for a low shot that barely troubled See. The next 25 or so minutes were back and forth; Tufts and Johns Hopkins rank No. 2 and No. 3 in average goals-against, at .051 and .287 respectively .

Both teams generated excellent scoring opportunities in the final minutes. With 11 minutes to go, Zinner won the ball at midfield, dribbled past three defenders

and ripped a shot on goal only to see it sneak past the post. Two minutes later, a Blue Jays player fired a point-blank shot that was blocked by Coleman.

The Jumbos had the upper hand in two overtime periods, applying heavy pressure to the Blue Jays’ defense. Three minutes in, Zinner fired a screamer on target, but See was there to turn it away. Tufts mustered five shots in overtime, while Johns Hopkins managed two. None hit their mark, however.

All four Jumbos who stepped up to the mark converted their penalty kick attempts. In contrast, only one of the visitors’ shots was successful, as one hit the post, and Mieth saved another. For the second straight game, Tufts advanced on penalties, this time to Sunday’s Elite Eight matchup.

Competition against Brandeis has been historically fierce, as the Judges were indicted 1–0 earlier this season and last season. The Judges entered at 16–0– 4, while the Jumbos were 15–1–4, having conceded only one goal all season.

Both sides created chances in the first half, but neither was able to convert. Strong winds proved to be a factor and dictated momentum in both halves. The 20 overtime minutes that Tufts had played against Johns Hopkins were evident in the Jumbos’ legs in the first half. The players looked fatigued in the opening stages, and Brandeis took full advantage. With only five minutes gone, the Judges’ winger cut in on the Jumbos’ left flank and see MEN'S SOCCER, page 9