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Plans for College Avenue academic building to proceed Amy Freeman appointed Chief Diversity Officer by Emily Burke News Editor
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A new academic building will be built on College Avenue in collaboration with the mayor of Medford, city officials and Medford residents, according to Director of Community Relations Rocco DiRico. Construction for the new building is planned to begin in June of 2018 with a completion goal of September 2020, DiRico said. “Tufts University is planning to build an academic building to house classrooms, meeting rooms, faculty offices and conference spaces on Tufts property adjacent to and in front of Halligan Hall,” DiRico told the Daily in an email. A layout of the projected construction zone shows that the facility would stand near the Facilities Management building and 177 College Ave. DiRico explained that it remains to be determined which departments will be housed in the new building, but that there will not be any wet labs in the structure. The building’s construction was proposed due to a need for more academic space on campus, he said. According to a 2015 Tufts Now article, the building has been funded by Tufts through a gift from the Cummings Foundation, based in Woburn and co-founded by Tufts alumnus Bill Cummings (A ’58, H ’06), and “university sources.” “This building is made possible by the generosity of Medford native Bill
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Cummings,” DiRico said, although he added that the details of the gift have yet to be finalized. The facilities garage on College Avenue next to Halligan Hall will be demolished as part of the project’s construction, DiRico said. Vehicles within the garage will be dispersed to other locations on campus. DiRico said the project’s plans were reviewed by the mayor of Medford, city department heads and local residents and met with a positive response. “This visionary project will be a focal point on the Tufts campus and it will enhance public spaces for the local community,” DiRico said. The building’s lobby, café, classrooms and other meeting spaces, DiRico added, would be made available for public use. Medford residents were invited by Tufts to discuss plans for the proposed new academic building, DiRico explained. Seven residents attended the meeting, held on July 27. “Neighbors had the opportunity to present their concerns and make suggestions regarding the design of the building. Many of those suggestions were incorporated into the design,” DiRico said. Laurel Ruma, a long-time resident of Medford who attended the meeting, was enthusiastic about how the new building would benefit College Avenue. “I think that it’s a great plan and the academic building is beautifully designed,” Ruma, who lives on Burget Avenue, which connects with College
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Avenue, said. “It’s going to be an additive to the neighborhood, a gorgeous testament to that corner and we’re really excited they’re investing in our neighborhood.” Judy Weinstock, a Medford resident of 13 years who also lives on Burget Avenue, agreed that the building would add to the aesthetics of the neighborhood. “My opinion is that Tufts has a very good design aesthetic,” Weinstock said. “The buildings that have been built, like the gym and those across the street from the post office on Boston Ave, are all really well designed.” “I completely understand Tufts’ need and ability to expand the campus, particularly on this side of Boston Ave,” Weinstock added. “In general, I would say that you’ve got to make progress.” However, Ruma noted that construction work on the northern part of campus, which includes the Central Energy Plant on Boston Avenue and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) construction of the College Avenue Station of the Green Line Extension, will continue to affect the neighborhood. “We are currently living in a construction zone and have been and will be for almost the next ten years,” Ruma said. Weinstock and Ruma both brought up concerns that continued construction on College Avenue could bother residents hoping for a break in the development.
Amy Freeman will take over as the new chief diversity officer (CDO) and associate provost (AP) at Tufts today, replacing previous CDO Mark Brimhall-Vargas and interim CDOs Robin Glover and Ellen Pinderhughes. Freeman joins Tufts after 13 years at Pennsylvania State University,where she served as assistant dean of engineering outreach and inclusion, and oversaw the university’s Multicultural Engineering Program and Women in Engineering Program, according to TuftsNow. “Dr. Freeman will be responsible for providing leadership as we continue to make progress on the diversity and inclusion goals articulated in the university-wide strategic plan, the report of the President’s Council on Diversity and school strategic plans,” Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris told the Daily in an email.
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Amy Freeman, the newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer at Tufts University. According to a job description for the CDO/AP role, the CDO is responsible for integrating an emphasis on diversity into the culture of the university, along with measuring the progress of existing diversity initiatives and launching new ones. Freeman is focused on listening to undergrads, graduate students, faculty and staff. She noted that, since each school has different access to resources, her role will be important in bridging these gaps and providing all members of the Tufts community with the resources they need.
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Tufts expands discounted MBTA pass program by Jonathan Innocent Contributing Writer
Tufts students can purchase discounted Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) passes, according to an email sent by Tufts Student Services on June 26 informing them that the passes were available to order for the fall 2017 and spring 2018 semesters. While the program was available in the past, developing its latest version has taken over a year, and this was the first time the student body was notified of the discounted passes via email. Alan Garcia, associate bursar and pay site administrator for the program, told the Daily in an email that the passes are offered at an 11-percent discount on any of the 17 types of passes the MBTA offers. However, Garcia noted that the 134 students who bought passes prior to the Aug. 1 deadline only took advantage of five of the possible pass types. Students can purchase passes via their SIS account, under the Student Living menu. The fall 2017 passes offer purchasing students unlimited T rides from September to December, the MBTA Semester Pass Program notes. The program began in 2013 after a collaborative effort between the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate and the Office for Campus Life (OCL), initially offering students the opportunity to purchase Tufts-subsidized round-trip tickets. However, the process to receive the tickets required paperwork in addition to a TCU Treasury member’s signature, and the program was aimed at helping student groups. Now overseen by the Tufts Bursar’s office, the program offers the discount to all undergraduate students until a month before the start of each semester. There are discount options for other Tufts students, depending on their campus location, according to the bursar’s website. Bostonbased Health Science School students, faculty and staff can receive a 25-percent discount on a monthly pass, while Grafton students are eligible for an 11-percent discount.
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A group of people passes through the ticketing station in Davis Square on March 15. Students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) are also among the students offered the 11-percent discount, Garcia noted in an email to the Daily. While the deadline at Tufts was Aug. 1, other universities with similar discounted pass programs have later registration dates. According to their respective websites, Boston University’s fall 2017 semester pass deadline was Aug. 10, while Northeastern University offered its until Aug. 11. “[I believe] a longer purchasing period will benefit more students in need,” Fifi Wong, a junior, said. Lizzie Maelane, a sophomore who takes classes at the SMFA, has purchased a pass in the past, but has since decided that the price was beyond her means. “For me I just never had that kind of money ready to go right away. I just do weekly passes because it’s easier for me to pay on a weekly basis,” Maelane said. “If you have the money it doesn’t hurt, it gives you that peace of mind. I would not say people should stress themselves if they missed the deadline or if they couldn’t afford it.”
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continued from page 1 “I will probably make it a point to listen a lot and really focus on the audiences that were indicated in the Tufts diversity plan,” Freeman said. Freeman also noted that it will be important to build on Tufts’ existing foundation in her work. “I don’t work alone, [I] work in a team, and so I’m really open to the input of others who have been at Tufts and have been in the Tufts system for a long time,” Freeman said. “I think the key to success is very often a combination of the tried and true with what’s new, and what’s going to take us into the future.” Harris added that Freeman will act as chair of all diversity and inclusion groups, and she will be involved with the activities of each group on campus. While Freeman acknowledged the importance of diversity initiatives already underway at Tufts, she also stressed the need for additional university-wide efforts. Diversity and Community Affairs Officer on Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate Shannon Lee expressed hope that Freeman will use TCU Senate as a resource to get to know the Tufts student body, and that in turn TCU Senate will be able to work with Freeman to make Tufts a more inclusive community. “In terms of Senate’s priorities this year, we would love to work with Dr. Freeman on different initiatives that could unite the student body and give resources to underrepresented students,” Lee, a sophomore, said. Lee said Freeman could help with initiatives around gender neutral bathrooms and
allowing more communities to have physical space on campus. She added that, although these conversations were taking place last year, it was difficult to make progress during the process of finding a new CDO. In addition, Lee hopes that Freeman can help TCU Senate accomplish various goals around specific communities at Tufts. “Some things that we’ve been talking about particularly are with international students who may have had different academic backgrounds … Even beyond the academic capacity, just being in a new environment is a huge adjustment and makes it difficult for students to be members of the community,” Lee said. “I would love to come up with programming or policy changes or other services we can provide our students to make the work that they do on campus more accessible.” Harris said that Freeman is extremely qualified for this job, given her prior significant experience with advocating for diversity in higher education. “Dr. Freeman is an accomplished and experienced educator, scholar and administrator,” Harris said. “She has deep theoretical and practical experience with the critical issues affecting diversity and inclusion in a university setting.” Freeman expressed enthusiasm about becoming a part of the Tufts community and working closely with students to ensure that all groups’ needs are met. “Tufts is an incredible institution and I think that Tufts has done a lot towards trying to enhance inclusion and diversity, so I’m glad to build on what has already been done,” Freeman said.
Wong is among those who did purchase a fall 2017 pass. According to Wong, who will be living off campus and commuting from Somerville regularly, purchasing the discounted semester pass was a sensible choice. “I’m pretty dependent on the MBTA service. Since I’m a regular T user, I’d rather buy a semester pass and pay less than paying the MBTA $84.50 a month for a monthly pass,” Wong said. “Both allow me to unlimitedly take the T, so why not save some money?” Despite the notable benefit of the discount, Wong feels that the semester pass program should be better publicized to Tufts students, and that the logistics of the program could have been clearer. “It would be better if Tufts had advertised it more to let more students know that such a resource exists,” Wong said. Spring 2018 passes will eventually be available on SIS, and the Tufts Office of Sustainability website notes that the deadline will be in January prior to the beginning of the semester.
Tufts, Medford residents discuss new academic building NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING
continued from page 1 “My biggest concern is just that there’s a lot of noise and a lot of activity happening in the neighborhood, but it’s good because it’s all in advancement of the neighborhood itself, Tufts and Medford in general,” Ruma said. The new building’s construction plans were revised after the College Avenue Station, originally planned to be an indoor space at the corner of Boston Avenue and College Avenue, was made open-air in order to comply with the MBTA’s budget restrictions, DiRico explained. A 2015 Tufts Now post regarding the building purported that one third of the facility would have been built in the air rights over the station had the station’s structural plans remained consistent. “[The station’s original] structural elements would have enabled the construction of the Tufts building over the MBTA right-of-way. Their removal required the change in location,” DiRico said. Ruma noted the project’s length. “It was first a completely different project … and then once the MBTA put the [Green Line Extension] projects on hold and came back with slimmed down designs for the train station, Tufts had to go back to the drawing board and rework their academic building plan,” she said.
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2017 VMAs are equally praiseworthy, cringeworthy by Alison Epstein Arts Editor
The MTV Video Music Awards ( VMAs) had a tough road ahead of them going into this year’s show. First, they selected Katy Perry to host, because apparently producers forgot to ask a single person their opinion of Katy Perry this past year. Then, the show was slated to air at the same time as the season seven finale of “Games of Thrones” (2011-present). It almost seemed like they didn’t want people to tune in. Maybe that would’ve been for the best. But alas, the show went on, and therefore so must the recap. The show got off to a fiery start, literally and figuratively, with Kendrick Lamar performing a medley of his top hits this year, “DNA.” and “HUMBLE.” Lamar was the most-nominated artist with eight nominations and six wins, including the top prize “Video of the Year” for “HUMBLE.” After Lamar’s intense performance that included a man running around the stage engulfed in flames, Ed Sheeran’s performance of “Shape of You” felt a little lackluster. Things did pick up a bit when Lil Uzi Vert joined him on stage for the second half of the performance. It was at this point that the Katy Perry cringefest began. After an unfunny sketch about Perry traveling to Mars, she delivered an even less funny opening monologue. Her attempt at political humor fell flat, and her joke about “The Handmaid’s Tale” was particularly tonedeaf. Her comedic stylings throughout the night did not improve, but on the bright side, her makeup looked decent. Finally, it was time for the moment that everyone was waiting for. If you haven’t already seen and completely overanalyzed Taylor Swift’s music video for “Look What You Made Me Do,” chances are you have no intention of ever doing so, so it’s probably not worth any feeble attempt to unpack everything that happened in the video. The biggest
Artist Cardi B at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 27. takeaway is that Swift is one shrewd businesswoman, and this video certainly got her back into the narrative. Shawn Mendes performed song of the summer nominee “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back,” followed by Lorde, who performed an interpretative dance to this year’s “Homemade Dynamite” instead of singing. Later she revealed that she came down with the flu, and presumably had no voice, but it was frustrating to see Lorde get so much time to simply dance while Julia Michaels got cut off for commercial shortly into an impressive performance of her 2017 hit, “Issues.” Other notable performances of the night came from Miley Cyrus, Fifth Harmony and DNCE, if only because Joe Jonas was sporting a shockingly upsetting mustache. Pink was this year’s recipient of the “Video Vanguard Award,” and after giv-
ing a powerhouse performance of some of her greatest hits, she gave a touching speech about her daughter and the importance of positive body image. There were a number of other moving moments throughout the night. Alessia Cara also touted the importance of body image in her performance of “Scars to Your Beautiful” where she stripped out of her makeup and gown. Cara also joined Logic and Khalid for a powerful performance of their anti-suicide anthem “1-800-2738255.” Near the end of the night, Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, who was killed while counter-protesting at the white supremacy-driven “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., came out to present the newest award, “Best Fight Against the System” (for which they ended up honoring all the nominees) and to introduce the Heather Heyer Foundation.
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Before Lamar took home the award for “Video of the Year,” Swift and Zayn Malik, Fifth Harmony, and Cara and Zedd all took home their own “Moon Person” statues, a name that changed from “Moonman” this year. Although the latter half of the program took a turn for the better with moving performances and speeches, all of that went out the window with Perry’s closing performance of “Swish Swish.” Perry, not known for her subtlety, flew around on a harness in a basketball-emblazoned dress, in front of a backdrop of a giant basketball, surrounded by basketball balloons falling from the ceiling. It was unpleasant. Moral of the story: Katy Perry tried to take the VMAs crown, but that will always belong to Swift, whether she’s physically there or not. Sorry Perry, but pretty sure your tenure as VMAs host is as dead as the old Taylor.
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Grizzly Bear makes exciting return with fifth studio album ‘Painted Ruins’ by Eran Sabaner Arts Editor
It would be dramatic to declare indie music dead, but the genre certainly isn’t as culturally relevant as it was ten years ago. Once disregarded by the elite, ‘educated’ crowd of music critics and twenty-somethings, genres like hip-hop and house have critically and commercially taken center stage thanks to artists like Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Bonobo and Jamie xx. The declining popularity of indie music has put the genre’s musicians in an awkward spot, but it has also given them a chance to introspect. In fact, one could argue that this changing tide has forced indie musicians to test their creativity in a new environment. A considerable number of these musicians have attempted to adapt their sound with new trends, as evidenced by the Lana Del Rey and A$AP Rocky collaborations on Lana’s latest “Lust For Life” (2017), or the sweeping bass found in Björk’s “Vulnicura” (2015),
produced by the experimental DJ Arca. Others have attempted to push their sound into unfamiliar territories, such as Feist with her delightfully experimental effort “Pleasure” (2017). Grizzly Bear, the art-rock indie band from Brooklyn, falls into this category. Their fifth studio album, “Painted Ruins” (2017), manages to sound fresh and cutting-edge without following any trends directly. The band’s unique sound is enough to let them prosper at a time when indie music is slowly fading. The first track, titled “Wasted Acres,” might be the most exciting indie offering of the year. The song is similar to the band’s previous openers in terms of its psychedelic-rock influence and eccentric song structure. Yet, it is a slower burn than others, certainly a conscious choice that allows listeners to experience the band’s rich instrumentation along with synths: strings first, then the drums, the bass and guitars and lastly the piano. Grizzly Bear, aware that physical instruments are an anomaly
in today’s charting music, makes sure their listeners are in for a treat. “Mourning Sound,” the second track and single off the album, is more predictable. It’s considerably more synth-heavy than “Wasted Acres,” and at times it sounds exactly like a song you would hear on an indie playlist from 2008. It’s an entertaining song, yet compared to the more experimental offerings in the album, it falls flat. In terms of experimentation, the third track “Four Cypresses” is closer to “Wasted Acres” than it is to “Mourning Sound.” It is dark and dreamy with noteworthy drums. The song is also a nice segue to the album’s first single, “Three Rings.” Like “Four Cypresses,” the entire song is based on tension; it starts off slowly but builds to a dramatic climax. Both songs are refreshing in their song structure and in their mixture of synths and instruments. The fifth track, “Losing All Sense,” has a piano-centric melody and is reminiscent of the band’s biggest hit, “Two Weeks,” from their third studio album, “Veckatimest” (2009). Compared to
other songs, it has a lighter, less moody vibe. The following “Aquarian” diverges the mood with chaotic synths. Despite some indie familiarity, the song isn’t an easy listen. The mixture of loud synths, heavy guitars and equally noisy percussion becomes tiring after several listens. In a way, the band chooses to experiment at the cost of accessibility. The album’s second half is more or less an extension of its first. “Glass Hillside” is noteworthy for its 80s influence. “Neighbors” has strong vocals and impressive lyrics that explore the breaking point of a relationship. With “Systole,” the tempo drops a little as guitars play a bigger role than synths. “Sky Took Hold,” the closing track, is perhaps the most distorted song on the album. It does nothing to make listeners feel like it’s an ending, but that is precisely the point. Like any Grizzly Bear album, “Painted Ruins” does not have a beginning, a middle or an end; it is amorphous and cannot be shaped or categorized into any one form or sound.
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Houston Strong by Joseph Caplan When it rains a year’s worth in 48 hours, you don’t mop the floors, drain the streets, put on rubber boots and get on with your life. If you’re unlucky, you spend a week ripping out damp carpet, prying up rotten wood floors and tearing off musty drywall. You toss away furniture, memorabilia and memories because the flood water is mixed with sewage and anything other than metal is beyond repair. You look for a new place to live. You consider your family, your friends and whether you have enough money to afford a hotel, and if you don’t then you head to a shelter. You hope your car was high enough, you hope your power will come back soon so you can charge your phone to see if your loved ones made it out okay. You say you’re lucky to be alive as you sit in your front yard looking at a pile of everything you once owned now turned to a moldy pile of reminders of what you once had. If you’re lucky, and your house stood just high enough to avoid that wave of rancid
water invading your space, you’ll also be spending the next week ripping damp carpet, prying up rotten wood floors and tearing off musty drywall. Because when your city floods, you’ll have friends, family, classmates, teachers and neighbors who weren’t lucky. You’ll see on the news thousands of newly-made-homeless Houstonians marching in the pouring rain to a shelter. You’ll drive a block from your house and see a line of 50 houses, houses with mountains of debris on their porches, with exhausted parents wondering what to do next and with confused kids trying to distract themselves with whatever toys survived the water. Harvey was a disaster to the utmost degree. The damages to the city caused by the storm are projected to be over $60 billion. To put that in perspective, FEMA is only projected to give about seven billion dollars to Houston for relief. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes, and over 80 percent of those people didn’t have flood insurance. People lost their pets, their jobs, their stability. People lost their lives.
What Harvey couldn’t take was hope. Volunteering at shelters, you see thousands of cots filled with families who just lost everything but who still manage to smile and comfort each other. Outside in neighborhoods, the streets are lined with cars as thousands pour into the areas hit hardest to help clean the mess. “It’s awesome,” Dawn, a homeless woman who took refuge at the George R. Brown Convention Center shelter told me. “People here will have but one shirt and take it off their back for you. There is nothing but love.” When your city is in disarray, you see your city come together. I could not be more proud of Houston for its response to the devastation of Harvey. Victims have taken the punch with stride, supporting each other and pushing forward, and volunteers are lining up by the thousands to lend a hand. I’m currently writing this on the plane as I fly up from Houston to Boston, and while I know my home will be in good hands while I’m gone, it breaks my heart to leave when there is so much more help to be given and
so much more help that is needed. That’s why John Peavy, a fellow senior here at Tufts, and I created the Jumbo Hurricane Harvey Relief Effort. While we can’t hand out donations in shelters or clean up flooded houses from Boston, we can raise money and awareness to help our local organizations get the job done and get our city back on its feet. So go to our Facebook page, share our posts and donate if you can. Come to Harvey Relief Effort events, and look out for ways you can help from afar. Big or small, your contributions can make a much larger impact than you’d imagine. When streets turn to rivers and neighborhoods to lakes, you need all the help you can get to stay afloat. So, Jumbos, lend a hand, spare a dollar and reach down deep because Houston needs our help and we can all pitch in. Joseph Caplan is a senior majoring in philosophy and a co-founder of the Hurricane Harvey Jumbo Relief effort. He can be reached at Joseph.Caplan@tufts.edu.
EDITORIAL
Tufts must do more to combat elitism as tuition exceeds 70K
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The full cost of a Tufts education has finally exceeded $70,000 per year. This incredibly high tuition price is more than just intimidating — it undermines the culture of diversity and accessibility that Tufts strives to promote. Campus movements like #HaltTheHike have highlighted the difficulties associated with this expense, especially when it comes coupled with a general lack of administrative transparency as to how these increases will improve the school. Rising prices may be understandable given the trend in the market for higher education right now, but Tufts should not continue to raise tuition to record levels without thoroughly evaluating the impact of doing so, and without consulting with the community about whether this money is well-used.
While James Glaser, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, told the Daily that the financial aid budget at Tufts has risen at a faster rate than the cost of attendance, tuition remains unaffordable for a vast number of students. Middle-income students, whose families make enough to not qualify for financial aid but still cannot necessarily afford an education that costs a quarter of a million dollars over four years, find themselves in an especially difficult position. Meanwhile, low-income students, who qualify for financial aid, still struggle with all the expenses associated with attendance, and may “undermatch” during application season, meaning they are discouraged from applying to expensive private schools like Tufts in the first place. Undermatching can be the result of a wide variety of sourc-
es, from location to admissions recruiting practices on the part of universities. These issues are, in many ways, prevalent across the spectrum of private schools, but Tufts could be doing much more to combat them, especially in comparison to the actions its peers are taking. For example, George Washington University has an endowment comparable to that of Tufts (both are $1.5–1.6 billion) and, like Tufts, its admissions process takes applicants’ financial need into consideration. However, it has over 60 percent of its students on financial aid compared to Tufts’ less than 50 percent. In truth, though, Tufts’ tuition costs stack very similarly to that of plenty of other small, private New England colleges. But schools like Amherst College, Boston College and Bowdoin College, to
name a few, are not as financially exclusive as Tufts because of their need-blind policies, meaning they do not take financial aid into account when admitting students to their school. While reaching a fully need-blind status is a difficult feat with a limited endowment, colleges very similar to Tufts have proven it to be possible. So our university has to make a choice: where do we want to spend our money? On financial aid and slowing tuition hikes, or on new facilities for niche portions of the slimming population who can afford to come here? Although the ideal situation would be to make Tufts both more affordable and more desirable, the Tufts administration has seemingly chosen the latter at the expense of the former. This year, the university has taken on projects such as replacing the Ellis Oval turf and renovating the basketball court at the Tufts Administration Building (TAB) in Davis Square. The university’s expansion has seemingly been prioritized similarly to, if not over, increasing financial aid resources and slowing hikes in tuition. Perhaps not coincidentally, Tufts has the lowest rate of students on financial aid in the NESCAC. We all want the university to better its existing facilities and to create new ones. However, it is unnecessary and unhelpful for the university to do this in a manner that simultaneously prevents students from less-advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds from being able to reap its benefits. There is a tradeoff for every dollar we spend, especially when those dollars come from raising tuition. Tufts should prioritize a need-blind admissions system and the steadying of tuition so that we don’t further narrow the pool of students who can afford to come to our university, limiting the range of perspectives and experiences present in our student body.
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Letter from the Managing Board As another summer comes to a close and students return to our home away from home on the Hill, we, the Managing Board of The Tufts Daily, would like to introduce our plan of action for the upcoming semester. Central to this plan is our continual aim to increase outreach in crafting accurate and comprehensive coverage of the greater Tufts community. Among the many projects we plan to implement is a readership survey that we will send to Tufts students, faculty and staff to gather preliminary feedback about where we are succeeding in our coverage and where we can improve in it. We also hope to expand our outreach efforts to areas where we have previously seen little success in recruitment — especially students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA) and transfer students.
While our primary focus is to represent Tufts in its entirety, we have to place our community within the context of the cities that host it, understanding that our school’s presence both enriches and endangers their character. To that end, the Daily will cover Medford and Somerville more extensively this semester. We hope to inform students and staff about local politics and culture. We aim to give a voice to local residents, and we strive to present the surrounding neighborhoods as independent and long-standing entities, rather than simply as appendages of the Tufts community. After launching our app last semester, one of our goals continues to be updating the ways in which our content is accessed. We’re working to continue updating our app and
redesigning our website to provide a better platform to view the hard work put in by every person involved with the Daily. In addition, the comment section of our website is now disabled, after it far too frequently served as a host for personal attacks and bigotry. The Daily refuses to provide a platform for hateful rhetoric, and our website should be no exception. Too often in our print coverage we fall back on basic templates and known layouts. We hope to allow more room for experimentation this semester, and to use the presentation of an article to further the story it tells, while maintaining a professional appearance. It is our responsibility to ensure that traditionally marginalized voices are not excluded from our coverage. To that end, our staff will meet with our Intentionality and Inclusivity
Committee to discuss how to be conscientious in our reporting, in our production and in every aspect of making the Daily. As a college publication, our reporting should cover all campus groups and communities. Finally, financial constraints should never prevent people from contributing to the Daily. Over the last year we’ve solidified our workstudy and support-fund programs, and we will continue to expand our support. Above all, we are dedicated to making the Daily inclusive in both our coverage and in our community. Sincerely, Gil Jacobson, editor-in-chief Eddie Samuels, managing editor Joe Walsh, managing editor Zachary Hertz, associate editor Evan Sayles, production director
OP-ED
Part-time faculty deserve a fair contract by Part-time Faculty Union Bargaining Committee The Tufts Part-time Faculty Union met with the university several times this past spring and summer to negotiate a follow-up to our first contract, signed in 2014. The union had hoped to reach an agreement before our contract expired on June 30, 2017. We felt that a new understanding would reflect a willingness on the part of both parties to work together for our mutual benefit and to fulfill Tufts’ educational mission. Unfortunately, despite our flexibility at bargaining, June 30 came and went and the university was unwilling to meet us halfway with a fair agreement.
Tufts had been a model for respectful negotiations with contingent faculty, and we made significant progress in our first contract. We hoped to continue that progress toward being offered decently-paid jobs with reasonable guarantees for stability, security and improvement over time. After all, we are serious about offering the best education to our students. You may think that colleges in the United States offer solid middle-class positions to their faculty. Perhaps to save money, however, faculty conditions have changed dramatically over the last thirty years, and most people who teach at the college level today fill “contingent” posi-
tions with low pay, limited benefits and little job stability or security. That’s why the mission of our union is to regain lost ground on some basic employment standards. Part-time faculty teach about a third of the courses at the university and we uphold the idea of One Faculty, with a goal of equitable compensation and equal treatment across all faculty ranks, and a salary scale over the life of our contract that exceeds increases in the cost of living in this extraordinarily expensive urban area where we live and work and hope to be able to afford retirement some day. We are sure that the university can find ways to work with us toward mutually
beneficial solutions to some of the issues on the table, including the issue of fair salaries, which is the primary remaining obstacle to an agreement. If you find yourself with a representative of the university administration, please don’t hesitate to express your support for the faculty, part-time and fulltime, who have contributed so much to the success of Tufts students and to the university’s educational mission. The Part-time Faculty Union Bargaining Committee leads the negotiation process between the adjunct faculty at Tufts and the administration. They can be reached at andy.klatt@tufts.edu.
TUFTS DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME
a hairbrush.
Recycle me.
BY LYDIA RA
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 | Sports | THE TUFTS DAILY
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VOLLEYBALL
Jumbos prepare to repeat 10-0 NESCAC season by Sam Weidner Sports Editor
The Jumbos hope to build on their momentum from last season as they prepare for their first game on the road on Wednesday. Last season, Tufts posted a 27–4 overall record, including a 10–0 regular season in-conference, and won the title of New England’s best team after defeating Springfield College in the NCAA regional final. The Jumbos were powered last season by strong defensive play from sophomore libero Kelly Klimo and senior captain and defensive specialist Alex Garrett, as well as their dynamic duo of middle hitters Elizabeth Ahrens (LA ’17) and McKenzie Humann (LA ’17). Ahrens and Humann were second and fourth on the team in kills respectively and both converted their attempts into kills just above a third of the time. “Elizabeth and Mckenzie were very unique individuals who brought a lot to the team, so this year every returner is going to have to work hard to fill the space they left,” Sophomore middle hitter Christina Nwankpa said. Their graduation leaves two large holes in the middle positions for Tufts, and the burden to fill them will likely fall on sophomore or first-year players. Sophomore middle hitter Heather Holz filled in last season while Humann was sidelined with an injury at the end of the year. Holz was effective in the role, recording nine kills and four blocks in the team’s final match, so she will likely get the first chance to fill the spot again this season. The team’s leadership also turned over and Garrett, as the sole captain, has an important role to play in mentoring the younger players.
Tufts’ regular season and its run to the NCAA elite eight was the most success the volleyball team has enjoyed since the 2009 season, when they also made it to the elite eight. Tufts played a close match against Southwestern (Texas) in its elite eight match, falling in five sets. Despite the loss, coach Cora Thompson has a lot to be excited about going forward. Her team played with four first-year and two sophomore players on the court for extendEVAN SAYLES / THE TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES ed stretches of time Sophomore outside / opposite hitter Maddie Stewart hits the ball over a Middlebury player in the NESCAC champiin the NCAA touronship game against the Middlebury Panthers on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. nament. All those players return to the team this season. That The Jumbos are ranked No. 19 in the pre- sophomore transfer. While the first-years are strong base plus the new recruits leaves Tufts season AVCA coaches’ rankings for all of Div. all hitters, sophomore transfer Maddie Clay with a lot of versatility and flexibility to try III. They are ranked No. 1 in New England, is a defensive specialist adding depth to out many different lineups. and are expected to defend their title as best the position with five defensive specialist Despite their success last season, the team in the region. players on the roster. Jumbos won’t be satisfied with the same Coach Cora Thompson explained that “We are all working hard to integrate the results again this year. They hope to cap- she doesn’t put too much stock in preseason freshmen so we can be at full strength as ture the NESCAC Championship after last rankings. soon as possible,” Nwankpa said. “We want fall’s close loss. After strong wins against “As I have said for years, polls don’t to be better than we were last year.” Conn. College and Bowdoin in the NESCAC pass balls or play defense,” Thompson Tufts travels to take on Clark University Quarterfinal and Semifinal, Tufts fell to told the Daily in an email. “Every sea- on Wednesday before hosting a trio of Middlebury in five sets in the NESCAC final; son is a new one and although we are schools at the New England Invitational the only blemish on their otherwise perfect honored to be mentioned it is a coach- this weekend. The team’s first in-conference record against the conference. Tufts beat es opinion poll and ultimately means game is at home in Cousens Gym against Middlebury earlier in the season on Oct. 8 nothing.” Bates College on Sept. 15. The Bates match in another five-set match and was favored to Tufts adds four new players to the is closely followed by a home match against win the NESCAC finale entering the contest. roster this fall with three first-years and one Colby on Sept. 16.
Tufts looks for new talent as five starting spots open up MEN'S SOCCER
continued from back Greenwood its 2016 Goalkeeper of the Year. Greenwood was also a first team All-American. “It’s going to be hard as we just lost an unbelievable senior class both on the field and off the field,” junior co-captain defender Sterling Weatherbie said. “They were great examples for everybody and we learned a lot from them that was more than just soccer, as they were a great source of leadership. The seniors took up the whole middle of the field and they were our backbone, so the players that replace them have big shoes to fill. I have all of the confidence in the world that we have the right guys to step in but we are going to miss them.” Despite graduating key contributors, Tufts has high hopes and expectations for the upcoming season. Defensively, the team was pristine last season, ranking third in the country for save percentage at .874, and eighth in the country for goals against average at .52. “We are losing five senior starters so we need to determine which returners will step up and [fill] the void there,” Coleman said. “We will focus on balance on defensive mentality which has been a big theme for us for the past two national championships.” With seven first-years and eight seniors on the roster, the team will be challenged with developing a new identity. In their annual preseason scrimmage against Bowdoin, first-year
midfielder/forward Alex Ratzen scored the only goal for Tufts, with the game ending in a 1–1 draw. “This year we are going to have a different team so [we] will have to be more technical so it will be exciting to get used to that,” Weatherbie said. “Figuring out who we are as a team will be the main focus.” Now, with their season opener on Wednesday, the Jumbos have been touted as the No. 1 team in a Div. III NSCAA poll. In previous years, Tufts was always regarded as the underdog in both the regular season and in the postseason, so it will be interesting to see whether the team lives up to its new reputation. On Wednesday, the team will play its first in-season match against Babson College (2–0). The Jumbos have not played against the Beavers in over a decade, so the result is unpredictable. However, the Beavers will be good competition for the Jumbos, as they have regularly received bids to the NCAA tournament over the past decade, and boasted a 11–5–4 record last season. “Our soccer team this season should have the pure individual talent just as good if not better than last year’s team,” Shapiro said. “Our success depends on how well we come together as a group and we need to find our identity. This year, as it can be totally [different] group. We need to find the identity of Tufts soccer in 2017 and get everyone on the same page and find the strong leaders and the right leaders that will be able to pull the ship as well as last year.”
Five first-years join the team ahead of first match-up on Wednesday WOMEN'S SOCCER
continued from back very positive and enthusiastic,” Whiting said. “She’s very much our positive supportive leader, and Emma is very knowledgeable as a soccer player — she’s like the quarterback on the field. She’s a little more reserved in personality than Alex, but together they do a good job in complementing each other.” Despite graduating six seniors last year, the team nevertheless returns a strong core across all positions on the pitch. It also adds five first-years: defender Rachel Brown, defender/midfielder Hannah Isenhart, midfielder/forward Sophie Lloyd, goalkeeper Ava McKane and forward Elizabeth Reed. “I would say in my time on the team, this is the most seamless transition between the returning players and the incoming players,” Scheman said. “The five of them are really great fun girls. It wasn’t even a challenge for them to fit in — they did so on day one. Skill-wise, they add more depth to our bench and they’d just all be great contributing factors this year.” These additions have strengthened the depth of the team. It showed in the team’s pre-season scrimmage against Azzurri, a women’s club soccer team built on former Div. I and III players with high potential. Tufts struck early and often, scoring six goals, including a brace by Reed in her debut in brown and blue. “I think for us it’s a huge confidence boost, because even when we’re skill-wise the better team, we [found] it very hard in the past to finish opportunities, so going
into that scrimmage and putting away six goals is huge for us and shows how capable we are as a team,” Scheman said. “Overall, it was a really positive start, to have multiple players including [first-years] to score those goals is really huge for the entire team.” Whiting was impressed with the way her team went about their job. “I felt like for the first time being out there as a group against outside competition we actually looked organized and we did a lot of nice stuff,” Whiting said. “We have a long way to go until we really peak and get to where we want to be, but it’s nice to start at a place that is really solid.” Tufts begins its season with a home game against the Emerson Lions (0–2) tomorrow, a team the Jumbos beat 3–0 in the corresponding fixture last year. Tufts then hosts its first NESCAC game of the season against the Colby Mules on Saturday, Sept. 9. After a midweek away game against the Wesleyan Cardinals, Tufts hosts back-to-back home games against the Conn. College Camels on Sept. 16 and the Trinity Bantams on Sept. 17. When asked what she hoped for going into the first game of the season, Whiting wanted the team to keep it simple. “We have a process and the season is about setting goals but it’s also about the process of how you reach those goals,” Whiting said. “I just think that for us on Wednesday, if we can keep it simple, if we defend well, possess the ball well and play smart, find opportunities to attack, then we’d be in good shape. Honestly, it’s about keeping things simple; everything is done as a group, and if we have that mindset, the results will come.”
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MEN'S SOCCER
Jumbos, once the underdogs, gear up for a season in the spotlight
COURTESY EVAN SAYLES
Kenyon defender Bret Lowry, ‘19, Tufts forward Nathan Majumder, ‘17, and Kenyon defender Keven Duan, ‘19, fight for possession of the ball in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA DIII men’s soccer tournament on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016. by Savannah Mastrangelo Sports Editor
The 2016 Div. III National Champions will be a team to watch this season after winning their second national title in three years — the first came in 2014. Tufts entered the NCAA tournament unranked last season, and by the end was ranked No. 1 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) poll. Coach Joshua Shapiro and his coaching staff received the Div. III Coaching Staff of the Year Award from the NSCAA following the victory.
Tufts won six straight games in the postseason, defeating Calvin College 1–0 in double overtime to claim the title. Senior co-captain defender Conor Coleman attributes last season’s success to the high level of competition in the NESCAC. “On any given day you can lose in-conference [games], and this level of play prepared us mentally to grind out games in the NCAA because there is never going to be an easy game,” Coleman said. “Our team really came together and was really close after
the adversity we had at the beginning, losing and tying the first three games. Throughout the whole process we were really close and bought in to fight with one another.” The Jumbos opened last season with a 0–2–1 record. Fortunately, their opening matches were not at all indicative of the success they would have as individual performers and as a team over the course of the following months. The team boasted a 15–5–2 record last season, including playoffs, and graduated six impactful seniors in forwards Gaston
Becherano and Nathan Majumder, defender Daniel Sullivan, midfielders Zach Halliday and Kevin Lawson and goalkeeper Scott Greenwood, several of whom were four-year starters. Becherano led the team’s scoring last season with 12 goals, earning a spot on the NSCAA All-American Third Team, while both Sullivan and Halliday received NSCAA All-New England Region honors. D3soccer.com awarded Sullivan second team All-American honors and named see MEN'S SOCCER, page 11
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Jumbos look ready to roll again this year by Yuan Jun Chee Sports Editor
Tufts looks to build on its improved offensive performances last year, the first season after moving from a 4–2–3–1 to a 3–5–2 formation. In doing so, the team improved from a 6–8–2 record in 2015 to 7–6–3 in 2016, and in the process of doing so, scored 24 goals, up 10 from 2015, while remaining solid at the back. The team’s postseason last year ended early, however, with a 1–0 defeat against Trinity in the NESCAC Quarterfinals. “I think that our kids have a pretty good chip on the shoulder because of the frustration in the way of how we ended last year, feeling like that there were enough games that we really should have won and we didn’t, especially our last game against Trinity,” coach Martha Whiting said. In the short time the team has spent together, Whiting is most impressed with her team’s overall readiness for the cam-
paign ahead. Going into her 19th year in the job, Whiting ranked this current 2017 team highly in terms of preparation, fitness, mental tenacity and skills among the teams she’s coached. “As people watch us they’d be pleasantly surprised at the talent level of not just the [first-years] but the group overall, it’s so obvious [they] worked really hard over the summer,” Whiting said. “These girls are fit, have a really great mindset and are so ready to get after it.” This year, the team will be co-captained by senior forward Alex Scheman and junior midfielder Emma Ranalli. Whiting also noted that the coaching staff will rely heavily on the leadership of its five seniors — including Scheman — to help set the tone and mindset for the team. “[Scheman’s and Ranalli’s] personalities are different in that Alex is very vocal, see WOMEN'S SOCCER, page 11
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Tufts midfielder, then-first-year Jenna Troccoli, looks to swing the ball into the box during Tufts women’s soccer’s 2-1 loss to Williams on a very wet Kraft Field.