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WiCS to host second annual Women in Tech conference by Jessica Blough News Editor
The second annual Tufts Women in Technology (WiT) conference will take place Saturday in the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex at 574 Boston Ave. from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event, which is hosted by Tufts Women in Computer Science (WiCS), will feature lectures and workshops led by guest speakers, a career fair, and opportunities for networking and community building. The conference is intended to create a space for women to feel empowered and welcome in the technology industry, according to junior Lexi Walker, marketing coordinator for the event. Seniors Supriya Sanjay and Iris Oliver, co-lead coordinators of WiT, see the conference as having three main goals: to promote intellectual exploration, career development and community. Sanjay expressed that the most important of these three is community. “If everyone takes that away from this conference, or feels like they made one friend, or feels more comfortable walking into [Halligan Hall], we will be happy by the end of it,” she said. WiT will begin with a career fair and opportunities for attendees to network with representatives from conference sponsors, according to the event’s website. The rest of the day will feature lectures and presentations by 23 speakers who hail from across academia and industry, according to Walker. Daphne Larose, a game development engineer at software development company Niantic, is scheduled to give the event’s keynote speech. The conference website describes Larose as “a feminist-identified, happily lesbian HaitianAmerican programmer.” Larose was one of the engineers to work on Pokémon GO, Niantic’s most famous project, according to Sanjay. “The point of the keynote is to show people [that] there’s someone who looks like me who’s doing awesome things. It’s to inspire people, and that’s exactly what she’s going to do. I have full confidence,” Sanjay said. This year’s WiT conference is entirely funded by corporate sponsors, including primary sponsor Niantic. The team received no financial support from the university or affiliated organizations, according to Sanjay. The organizers did, however, receive advising and other forms of support from the Department of Computer Science, according to Oliver.
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The logo of the 2018 Women in Technology conference, organized by Tufts’ Women in Computer Science, is pictured. Sanjay and Oliver began planning for this year’s conference in January; the rest of the executive board and their teams joined in March, Sanjay said. The planning committee, composed of Sanjay, Oliver and five other teams of students, handles marketing, high school outreach, finance and logistics, while also coordinating speakers and sponsors, according to Sanjay. WiT 2018 is built on the precedent of last year’s inaugural conference, which was organized in response to an exponential increase in the membership of WiCS, according to Oliver. This year’s conference will feature more career-building opportunities for attendees, according to Sanjay and Oliver.
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This year’s organizers also put more consideration into intersectionality when choosing speakers, Oliver said. Sanjay and Oliver expect attendance at this year’s conference to be double what it was last year. As of Sept. 18, the event had approximately 400 people registered, according to Walker. This includes local high school students and college students from schools in both the Boston area and out of state, according to Walker. This year, the organizers formed a new team devoted to reaching out to high school students in an effort to reach audiences of different experience levels and inspire younger students, according to Walker. Oliver added that for the first time, the conference will connect high
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continued from page 1 “There’s no need to have technical experience going in. Even if you’re just considering joining tech, you can gain something [from the conference],” Walker said. “It’s hard to have an event called ‘Women in Tech’ because I think it implies that others are not as wel-
comed, but we’re hoping to brand it in a way so people understand that though it empowers women in tech, it’s not exclusively for women in tech.” Sanjay hopes that WiT attendees will leave feeling more comfortable in the industry and validated as individuals. “If there’s one thing [that I want people to take away], it’s the community aspect
— that you come and feel more supported as a woman or non-binary person or even an ally in tech,” she said. “A lot of people talk about imposter syndrome in tech, and there’s no way to really get over it … But in little ways you can fight back and be like ‘I see people who look like me and are killing the game.’ That’s really good affirmation and validation.”
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‘Madeline’s Madeline’ blends metaphor, reality through one girl’s eyes by Setenay Mufti Arts Editor
“There you are,” the blurry, zoomed-in face of a nurse says to the audience in the first image of the “Madeline’s Madeline” (2018). Is she speaking to us the viewers, to a baby being born or to a patient rising from sleep? “What you are experiencing is just a metaphor,” the nurse seems to reassure. But metaphor through art, the lead character and movie’s namesake realizes, provides little comfort or clarity at all. Madeline, played by Helena Howard, is a biracial teenager in an adult theater company with rehearsals that seem to include acting, improvisation and interpretive dance. As company director Evangeline (Molly Parker) quickly realizes, Madeline acts with talent and depth far beyond her years. With quiet intensity, Madeline wins Evangeline’s heart and becomes her unintentional protégé while raging outside of class against her overbearing, infuriating mother Regina (Miranda July). As Madeline begins to open up to Evangeline about life outside of rehearsals, Evangeline becomes more and more enamored with Madeline’s experience and makes it the focal point of her new production. Eventually the art becomes too real; the project becomes all about Madeline and her relationship with her
mother and tumultuous internal psyche, in a surrealist, bildungsroman tale of art and personhood. Who owns a story? Does art retell, enhance or distort reality? When did growing up become about everyone else? It is “Barton Fink” (1991) meeting Greta Gerwig. Beside the fact that “Madeline’s Madeline” is a movie about acting — the very concept of becoming something else — the film consistently manages to distort reality in new, visceral ways. The cinematography and audiovisual effects are experimental and immersive. Voices speak simultaneously and head-rush is conveyed with light filters and warping. As the audience gets some clues into Madeline’s troubled life through references to medications and a mental hospital, she becomes an unreliable narrator. This is when the movie gets good. But as Madeline’s tension mounts, so does the plot. When Evangeline takes a rehearsal too far, Madeline realizes her own power through art and how she can use it to bite back. This is when the movie gets great. Much of “Madeline’s Madeline” centers on femininity and the struggle to realize one’s own womanhood, and writer/director Josephine Decker does well to play with conventional feminine tropes. For example, pregnant women in movies are often carriers for the ambitions of the father — like Satan trying to conquer the earth in “Rosemary’s
Baby” (1968), or the artist willing to let his fanbase consume his creation in Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” (2017) — and similarly, Evangeline is pregnant and embodies the literal and artistic creator. The name “Evangeline,” like the titular “Rosemary,” carries divine or Christian connotations, as lofty as her character’s artistic vision. Regina, which means “queen,” is overbearing in a tyrannical but grounded way. Madeline is caught in between, struggling to assert her personhood to her mother while protecting it from the prying eyes of her director, who is uncomfortably eager to hear about Madeline’s dreams of people in pigs’ heads and burning her mother with an iron. But Madeline also understands that identity of any sort can be a burden; her room is disconcertingly covered with pictures of girls with their faces cut out. Other movies have explored how art — particularly acting — affects the artist and blurs the line between fantasy and reality, including “Black Swan” (2010) and “Birdman” (2014). But few have considered the perspective of the subject of the art or the autonomy of the art itself. In fact, “Madeline’s Madeline” is more reminiscent of David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” (2001) both in its dreamlike imagery, as noted by other reviewers, and themes of theater’s potential perversity and distortion. Howard, like “Mulholland Drive” star Naomi
Watts, is a real-life newcomer actress playing a newcomer actress who finds herself manipulated and confused by those around her. In both movies there is acting of ‘acting,’ and both performances are masterful. If the scenewithin-a-scene catapulted Watts to stardom, Howard’s deserves even greater acclaim; no one else has even touched Watts’ performance until now. It would also be a mistake to gloss over the racial element of the story. Although Madeline is biracial, her mother is white, and Madeline is also one of the very few people of color in the company. In an early moment in the film, Evangeline brings in an ex-prisoner, who is black, to share his story to her students, using it as inspiration for the students’ own interpretive skits or dances. When another white student mentions using prison as a metaphor, we see directly how artistic interpretation turns a social reality into something conceptual and relatable, but lacking its palpable, original significance, particularly to those marginalized communities it affected in the first place. Madeline’s story is personal, but it also speaks to how minority voices can be appropriated and even capitalized on by white artists for the sake of “metaphor.” “Madeline’s Madeline” is running through Sept. 24 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge.
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Reimagining Adam and Eve: the biblical first couple seen by incisive eyes across centuries by Ruijingya Tang
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In the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, one of the Harvard Art Museums, audiences can contemplate the origin of the human condition within an Abrahamic context. From Sept. 1, 2018 – Jan. 6, 2019, the museum hosts the “Adam and Eve” exhibition, which spans across time and space, including artworks from historical masters like Rembrandt as well as modern talents such as Diane Arbus. The diverse artworks nonetheless converge on shared themes, from the rethinking of the biblical femme fatale to the contemporary consequences of the fall of man. Two curious pieces of artwork challenge the conventional understanding of Eve as the causation of the fall of man. The engraved “Adam and Eve” (c. 1510-20), by Italian artist Marcantonio Raimondi, characterizes Adam as the seductive fruit-giver, an abominated role traditionally assigned to Eve. Marcantonio was an engraver known for making reproductive prints based on existing paintings or designs. “Adam and Eve” is an example of one his reproductive prints, the existing painting being “Adam and Eve” (1511) by Raphael. In the engraving, Adam offers Eve several forbidden fruits, one of which Eve accepts and holds near her nose, as if skeptically assessing the fruit’s edibility. Marcantonio and Raphael both replaced the traditional Eve with a reinvented Adam as the biblical femme fatale. That being said, Raphael included a serpent with a female head to wind the top branches of the tree beside Eve, indicating Eve’s sin. Such juxtaposition of unorthodox and familiar narratives alludes to the less-popular belief that Adam is the primary sinner. According to the biblical tale, Eve, deceived by Satan, took the fruit, which she then gave to Adam to eat. The bronze sculpture “Adam and Eve” by German sculptor Max Beckmann also reimagines Adam and Eve’s relative responsibility for the fall of man. Though designed
by Beckmann in 1936, the sculpture was not cast until circa 1959, nine years after the artist’s death. The sculpture takes the form of a sitting Adam, who holds an Eve figurine to his ribs and bears a serpent that intertwines with his body. Beckmann’s miniature Eve curls up in an embryonic form and rests peacefully in Adam’s right hand while clinging to Adam’s right chest, resembling a breastfeeding infant nestling in her mother’s embrace. This maternal depiction of Adam and the specific placement of Eve near his ribs refer to the biblical teaching that Eve was literally born from Adam’s body, making Adam the source of original sin. The rigidity to Adam’s pose portrays him as helpless, a forced executant of his fate. Beckmann’s Adam sits with his back straightened, knees and toes pointing forward, left arm lining seamlessly along his left torso and right arm forming an angle robotically. Such stiff posing is reminiscent of Egyptian sculptures of sitting pharaohs, known for their stylization of the human body. Adam’s face shows an expression of agony. Altogether, Adam resembles a victim of sleep paralysis. The poor first man senses the serpent approaching Eve on his back and the imminent fall of man, but has no power to stop the befalling tragedy whatsoever. This characterization of Adam seems to free him from any accountability for the fall of man by emphasizing his lack of free will. That being said, the sculpture is not a complete outlier of the Abrahamic tradition. It does correspond to the Augustinian concept of total depravity, that the children of the first couple cannot choose but to be sinful, and the idea of predestination, that a person predestined to be unsaved cannot do anything to achieve salvation. In comparison, a metaphorical portrait of Adam and Eve in a Diane Arbus (1923-1971) photograph delivers a much more hopeful understanding of a post-Adam-and-Eve human existence. The black-and-white photograph has a long and self-explanatory title:
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The Fogg Museum, a component of the Harvard Art Museums, is pictured here. “Retired Man and His Wife at Home in a Nudist Camp One Morning in N.J. 1963. On the Television Set are Framed Photographs of Each Other.” The nude couple sit on two sofas in a softly lighted room. The depicted scene ingeniously incorporates both the socially unusual nudity and everyday elements. The photograph includes three nude pictures beside the couple: two of the husband and wife, as promised in the title, and a painting of a nude young woman on a wall. As bizarre as the prevalence of nudity in the photograph seems, it does not appear intentional — aside from its nude content, the photograph seems extremely ordinary. Narratively, the photograph depicts a retired couple who could theoretically be found in any middle-class family: smiling, relaxed and enjoying their leisurely life in a suburban house on a Sunday afternoon. Stylistically, the photograph demonstrates few formalistic elements: Almost every object faces
the camera at a differently slanted angle, and no human subject exists as the focus of the camera lens. The couple sits on the sides of the photograph, leaving the middle area to the undistinguished television in the background. The combination of nudity and scenes overlap the Garden of Eden moments with mundane life, celebrating the carpe-diem idea of heaven on earth. Although an Abrahamic story, Adam and Eve is also a popular metaphor that artists and writers from all religious backgrounds exploit to comment upon the human experience, and especially its ethical aspects. An exhibition showcasing the visual evolution of the Adam and Eve narrative reflects the shifts and turns in values related to diverse socio-philosophical themes, such as gender roles and human agency. All artworks on display in the “Adam and Eve” exhibition are also online at the Harvard Art Museums’ website.
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Sophomore Talia Toland and Lucy Robison (LA ’18) compete in the Oberg Trophy hosted by Northeastern, on April 14, 2018.
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continued from page 6 before the race … But once the race [started], the nervous feeling got away, and I started to focus on every drag and hick out. I felt all my pressure released after winning my one and only race during the entire weekend, and it took me to the Nationals.” Toland, however, missed the cut to qualify by only two points. While she placed in the top-five six times,
Toland’s two eleventh-place finishes made qualifying difficult. The Kirkland, Wash. native entered the last race in fourth place — five points ahead of Carlson and Steadman — but an eleventh-place finish dropped her to seventh overall. At the Nicholas Barnett Trophy in Brunswick, Maine, Tufts’ teams finished second and seventh of 17. Both the A and B division entries for the “Jumbos 2” team came in with 75 points to finish a combined second
overall. Senior skipper Christopher Keller and senior crew Sarah Bunney navigated the other team’s B division boat to three first-place finishes. At the Regis Trophy, hosted by Boston University, Tufts came in 11th and 13th out of 16 teams. The B division of the Jumbos’ top team finished eighth overall to record the team’s best result of the weekend. The boat was skippered by sophomore Leyla Senocak, with junior Margaret Veltri as crew.
Finally, at the Donaghy Bowl, hosted by UConn, Tufts clinched a second-place finish in the eight-team field. The B division team of first-years Ryutaro Sochi and Mallory Hood tied for first after recording 13 points thanks to a pair of first-place finishes. The Jumbos will continue their busy schedule with five regattas this weekend. The co-ed team is set to host the Hood Trophy on Mystic Lake, while the women’s side will compete in the Mrs. Hurst Bowl at Dartmouth.
Tufts looks to build on dominant defensive performance FOOTBALL
continued from page 6 “It challenges defenses to have to account for the quarterback,” Civetti said. “That leaves other people in positions to be able to execute. Everyone in the league knows Ryan’s a talented runner, so I think defensive coordinators will choose to challenge him as a thrower. That’s the [aspect of his game] that Ryan’s spent a lot of time working on, and I’m looking forward to him continuing to develop as a quarterback.” On the defensive side of the ball, the Jumbos’ defense did not skip a beat in its first game, despite having lost several key players to graduation. The
Continentals’ offense was held scoreless, as the hosts only managed to record a safety in the third quarter. Junior linebacker and co-captain Greg Holt spoke about the defensive unit’s performance after the loss of so many starters. “We’ve had guys step up,” Holt said. “It was definitely a solid, defensive team win we had. Everybody on the [defensive] line was making plays, [as were] the linebackers and corners. Everybody was focused on doing their job and playing for each other.” Holt led the way for Tufts at Hamilton, leading the team in tackles (eight), tackles for a loss (2.5) and sacks (two). The Jumbos totaled six
sacks and three interceptions in shutting down the hosts’ offense. Senior defensive back and co-captain Alex LaPiana, junior linebacker Tyler Scales and senior defensive back Tim Preston each picked off a pass. Wesleyan also comes into Saturday’s matchup with a 1–0 record after comfortably defeating Middlebury, 52–21, in Week 1. Piccirillo threw for two touchdowns and no interceptions against the visiting Panthers and was efficient with his passes, completing 12 of 19 attempts. The Cardinals ran the ball significantly more than they threw it, with 45 rushes to just 19 passes. Sophomore running
back Sean Penney had a breakout game against Middlebury, with three touchdowns despite carrying the ball 10 times for just 29 yards. Holt is embracing the challenge of facing Piccirillo and the Cardinals’ offense. “We’re excited to play such an explosive offense like Wesleyan’s,” Holt said. “We’re coming into this week knowing that we’re in for a good game. Our coaches have prepared us well, and we’re just excited to play the Tufts football that we’ve been practicing all week.” With a 2–0 record on the line under the lights at Ellis Oval, Tufts and Wesleyan promise to entertain once again.
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Senior defensive back and co-captain Alex LaPiana breaks up a pass in Tufts’ 35–24 loss to Middlebury on Nov. 11, 2017. by Bradley Schussel Sports Editor
The Jumbos will return to Ellis Oval on Saturday for their first home game of the 2018 season against the Wesleyan Cardinals. With kickoff set for 6 p.m., it will be the second-ever home night game in program history — the team played its first against Wesleyan in the 2016 season opener. The two teams will battle each other again under the lights on Saturday. It will also be the second straight season in which Tufts and Wesleyan face off in Week 2. In last year’s matchup, at Wesleyan’s Corwin Stadium, the hosts claimed a 24–17 overtime victory.
In that game, the Jumbos took an early lead thanks to a strong offensive performance. Both the ground and aerial attacks were led by senior quarterback and co-captain Ryan McDonald. The Annandale, N.J. native opened the scoring with a 35-yard touchdown run midway through the first quarter and finished the game with 155 passing yards and 122 rushing yards, both team-highs. Senior wide receiver Jack Dolan scored the Jumbos’ second touchdown with an 85-yard punt return to put the visitors up 17–3 with just over 13 minutes left in the fourth quarter. The Cardinals responded by reeling off 21 unanswered points, as senior quarter-
back and co-captain Mark Piccirillo threw for three touchdowns. The final score, a 14-yard pass to then-senior wideout Mike Breuler, gave Wesleyan a 24–17 overtime lead. On the Jumbos’ subsequent dive, McDonald’s third-down pass was intercepted by then-senior linebacker and co-captain Shayne Kaminski to end the game. Tufts coach Jay Civetti acknowledged the history between these two teams, but is not letting last year’s overtime loss affect his team’s plans for Saturday. “It shouldn’t be about last year,” Civetti said. “Because, on the flip side of that, you could look at the 2016 season in which we came back and won that game in the
fourth quarter. Part of it is using those experiences to gain knowledge, but also realizing that the only game that matters now is the 2018 game.” Civetti and the Jumbos enter the rematch with momentum, having recorded a convincing 29–2 win over the Hamilton Continentals on Sept. 15. McDonald tied a school record with four rushing touchdowns in the victory, becoming the sixth Jumbo to accomplish that feat. Civetti discussed the offensive advantages that McDonald’s versatility and running ability create. see FOOTBALL, page 5
Sailing teams turn in competitive performances across New England by Patrick Wang Staff Writer
Both the co-ed and women’s sailing teams went out for a packed weekend schedule. The co-ed team raced in the Hatch Brown Trophy, the Nicholas Barnett Trophy and the Donaghy Bowl, while the women’s side sailed in the Regis Trophy. Meanwhile, both teams sent sailors to the two-day New England Singlehanded Championships at Boston College. The co-ed team finished third out of 17 competing teams at the Hatch Brown Trophy. The regatta was shortened because of poor wind conditions on the Charles River throughout Saturday and early Sunday morning. “Sailing depends on the weather conditions a lot,” coach Ken Legler said.
“Occasionally, you will get this kind of weather when some of or all the boats cannot compete. Five knots is usually the minimum requirement. For last weekend, even on Sunday afternoon, there were only light winds, so only the Flying Junior (FJ) boats competed. But I think our FJ skippers and crew did a good job even in unfavorable weather conditions. Actually, I think all sailors for our team should learn how to deal with relative extreme weather conditions — be it super light wind or heavy wind.” Among the Tufts sailors, the B division performed best. Senior skipper Jackson McCoy and junior crew Emma Clutterbuck won their first race and subsequently placed sixth and third to finish second overall. Tufts’ A division team, made up of senior skipper Cam Holley
and senior crew and co-captain Ian Morgan, finished sixth. In the C division, senior co-captain Jack Bitney skippered with senior Taylor Hart as crew. The duo finished tenth overall, with the highlight of the weekend being a second-place result in the final race. Meanwhile, three Jumbos raced in New England Singlehanded Championships, a two-day regatta hosted by Boston College. Sophomore Matthew Keller placed 12th out of 20 sailors on the men’s side. The Geneva, Switzerland native had a difficult start, coming in 17th and 14th in the first two races of the event, respectively. Despite the early setbacks, Keller responded well by recording fifth- and sixth-place finishes later in the weekend. On the women’s side, two Tufts sailors performed well in the field of 11 com-
petitors. First-year Abbie Carlson finished fourth overall, which qualified her for the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Singlehanded Championships, scheduled for Nov. 2–4. Carlson raced well throughout the weekend, recording topfive finishes in five of 11 races. Going into the final race of the regatta, she was level on points with Brown junior Hannah Steadman and led Boston College senior Isabella Loosbrock by just two points. “Right before the last sail, I realized that it all comes down to this one race,” Carlson said. “Our ranking scores were so close to each other. Me, [senior] Talia [Toland] and the other two sailors, our score difference [was] within five points, I believe. I [was] actually pretty nervous see SAILING, page 5