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Margaret Higham (left) and Ariel Watriss (right) pose for a portrait in a Tufts Health Service office on Feb. 27. by Rachael Meyer News Editor
In January of this year, the American College Health Association (ACHA) released new guidelines for the use of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV ) pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in college health centers. ACHA PrEP in College Health Task Force, the task force that put together these guidelines, included two Tufts Health Service staff members: Margaret Higham, M.D., the medical director of Tufts Health Service; and Ariel Watriss, M.S.N., N.P.-C, a nurse practitioner and sexual health specialist. “We believe that college health is uniquely positioned to make a significant impact in the health of young adults in the U.S. by offering PrEP as a standard health care service,” the report states.
According to the report, PrEP is a daily medication that, if taken correctly, can reduce the risk of contracting HIV by 90 percent. The FDA approved PrEP in 2012 to help prevent HIV, according to Higham. Higham was the chair of the task force and Watriss was a member, along with other medical professionals from around the country, according to the ACHA website. Both Watriss and Higham had a history of working on HIV prevention before their involvement with the ACHA task force. According to Watriss, she had a background in sexual health and HIV prevention before she came to Tufts, having been a part of some of the research teams that lead to the FDA approval of PrEP. Watriss said that shortly after joining Tufts Health Service, she began working with Higham in 2015 to develop a set of protocols for health care providers at Tufts to follow regarding the use of PrEP.
According to Higham, the HIV guidelines that existed prior to the development of the Tufts protocols were extensively detailed papers put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2014. “We needed something that was focused on college health, … straightforward … and more manageable to use,” she said. Higham and Watriss both stressed the importance of focusing efforts on the college-aged population since people in this group are traditionally more at risk for HIV. “It made a lot of sense to … implement this because we do see HIV in college health settings and we wanted to help reduce that number,” Watriss said. PrEP has been prescribed through Tufts Health Service since 2015, and the number of students who go to Health Service for PrEP has been increasing each year, according to Higham.
Alexandra Donovan, director of the Center for Awareness, Resources and Education (CARE) office, said that educating students about HIV treatment and prevention is an important part of the sex health goals of student Sex Health Reps (SHRs). “There are a lot of questions and misconceptions around PrEP that I’ve heard on this campus so we create spaces where students can have discussions and we advocate for students to engage a clinician to advocate for their healthcare,” she told the Daily in an email. She also explained that students are coming from a variety of backgrounds with varying levels of information about HIV and sex health. “Only 25 percent of the first-year class is coming from states that [mandate] medically accurate sex education,” Donovan said. “So if we reverse that, 75 percent are coming in with false information, abstinence-only or non-comprehensive information.” According to Donovan, SHRs work closely with the Health Service to build a bridge between the health providers and the students. In this way, the SHRs hope to create a sex-positive community and bring everyone up to the same level of education once they come to Tufts, she said. She also stated that Tufts is progressive when it comes to sex health, but that not all schools can say the same. “College and universities are all over the map with sex health — there are those that have been doing this longer than we have and those that don’t do it at all,” she said. According to Higham, it was not common for primary care doctors or college health providers to offer PrEP until recently. To expand the reach of their work, Higham said that she and Watriss have attended local, regional and national college health conferences to give lectures and hand out their protocol to other health providers. “Our goal is to help encourage college health providers to feel comfortable with using PrEP, and to be comfortable offering it to their students,” Higham said.
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Sue Decker discusses finance, her new startup at TFG-sponsored event by Austin Clementi Assistant News Editor
The Tufts Financial Group (TFG) hosted a question and answer session with alumna Sue Decker (LA ’84), the founder and CEO of the social networking startup Raftr, on Tuesday night as part of their speaker series.
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The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) hosted Wall Street Journal war correspondent Jessica Donati for a lecture last night on her experience reporting in the world’s most dangerous war zones. The talk covered a range of topics from Donati’s career to wartime reporting in Libya and Afghanistan. Donati said her career in wartime reporting began at the start of the Arab Spring. “Libya collapsed and … Italy depends on Libya for about a quarter of its energy. Because I was Italian, I knew I could easily get to know all the oil traders that were dealing with Gaddafi and helping to keep his regime afloat,” Donati said. She said that her reporting on geopolitical issues for Reuters led to her placement in Libya. “That [reporting] started to get me noticed at Reuters … They asked me if I’d like to go to Libya. I said yes without really thinking about what it meant,” Donati said. Donati said that part of her training for wartime reporting in Libya involved a week-long course on how to resist kidnapping and work in hostile environments. Donati said that there was a point at which she had to use that training. Soon after she got into a cab, she noticed the driver’s erratic behavior.
“[The driver] passed the first turn for the hotel … then [missed] the next turn and gets onto a highway,” she recounted. “Suddenly, [I had] that sinking feeling that felt like, ‘This is not a mistake … He’s definitely taking me somewhere else.’” Donati described her process of considering her options for escape in a fast-moving vehicle. “I fought him for the wheel of the car,” she said. “We skipped it off into the side of the road and the car slowed. I managed to jump out.” Donati gave another anecdote from her early reporting in Afghanistan. She explained that, while she worked for the Associated Press, she was preparing to meet a friend and go to a party. “He was texting and saying, ‘I want to see someone before going to the party,'” she said. “After all going to dinner, as we’re all getting up to leave, then there’s this massive explosion. It sounded like it was way outside our house.” Donati said that a restaurant down the road had blown up. “We are trying to figure [out] what is happening. It turns out it’s the restaurant where our friend had been. A Taliban suicide bomber came to the front door and [blew himself up] and then basically killed everybody in the restaurant,” Donati said.
Donati said her reporting allowed her to see both sides of humanity, and she plans to continue to cover wars. “It really … opened my eyes to the potential that humanity had to be really, really bad. And really, really good,” she said. Jake Gould, a first-year who attended the lecture, said he was alarmed by the danger involved in Donati’s job. “I don’t know if I would have the guts to do what she did,” Gould said. Daniel Lewis, co-leader of ALLIES, told the Daily that he was impressed by the intensity of the lives of war correspondents. “What ends up being so incredible to see is that these sorts of people experience so much of this. It just becomes a normal thing for them to say that they were kidnapped or there may have been an explosion near them,” he said. Despite Donati’s alarming anecdotes, her lecture ended on a hopeful note. Referencing the war in Afghanistan, Donati said that she is optimistic that leadership will take responsible action to end the war because there is so much at stake for Afghanistan. “I’m hopeful. I think that everyone’s tired of the war. I think the [Trump] administration wants to do the responsible thing,” she said. “[Afghanistan] is in a place that people’s homes and ways of life are at stake.”
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continued from page 1 Decker said. “I really liked the idea of understanding a company and what creates value.” Given this background, Kleiner asked what initially drew Decker to equity research, to which Decker responded that her father’s influence on her as a portfolio manager initially gave her the desire to pursue this career. Decker also explained that the tangible nature of success in the stock market attracted her. “It’s about building your brand … this is a job where how strong you are as an analyst is very measurable based on the feedback from clients,” she said. Decker also emphasized that creating a personal brand was important for young people interested in finance. Decker moved on to explain how she got involved with Yahoo!, saying her career at DLJ and the burgeoning internet market of the mid-1990s introduced her to the Yahoo! team, leading her to be an analyst and, eventually, president of the corporation. “I will say that was a really tumultuous period,” Decker said. “In our case … this is now 2005 to 2010, the iPhone comes out … mobile’s changing and Google’s rising.” Decker stated that, at this point in time, Yahoo! began to be defined as inferior in relation to these other companies. Ultimately, she said, these and some differences between her and the corporate board caused her to leave Yahoo!. Decker moved on to detail what inspired her to get involved in so many companies and create the Raftr app.
“I think the idea of reinventing yourself is for me … exciting because every time I’ve done something new, I’ve been starting from scratch. I wasn’t very good at it the first time and then it really worked out and got better,” she said, adding that her career followed a trajectory from being an analyst to being a leader at Yahoo! to finally being a “leader of leaders” by serving on corporate boards. Decker added that she was ultimately inspired by corporate boards where founders were still involved, leading her to start her own company. “I think there’s an ethos when the founder’s involved,” Decker said. “I think when the founder is still involved in an industry … it’s probably a growing, vibrant industry so I thought, what about starting something from scratch?” Decker pointed out that Raftr was at first meant to be a more curated, less anonymous platform than Twitter or Reddit so people would spam less, and she was inspired by the rise of Yik Yak, another social media platform. “My daughter was at Colgate [her first] year, and those of you who are seniors will probably remember Yik Yak took off,” she said. “I started watching just the vibrancy of having a campus-specific social network.” However, Decker pointed out that since Yik Yak was anonymous, it quickly became a toxic platform, leading to its eventual shutdown. Decker stated that this event led her to create Raftr as a campus-focused platform to connect students and notify them of different events. In doing research for her startup, Decker said she came to Tufts first and spoke with Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon, who Decker said was concerned about how students wanted to connect.
According to Decker, the app is now launched at the University of Denver and Emory University, and has just signed a contract with Paris-Sorbonne University in France. Decker added that, for Tufts, this app could be particularly useful due to the decentralized nature of Tufts’ calendars. To Decker, Raftr would allow students and clubs to access events using one automated system. Decker also spoke to her experience as a woman working in finance, emphasizing that the role of women has been shifting for some time now and this shift has included people of color as well. In particular, she spoke of her leadership on an Intel corporate board in achieving greater representation of marginalized people. “I did take a leadership role to make sure that [Intel’s] representation of women developers and people of color developers was representative of the population,” she said, adding that many of the men were receptive to greater representation as they wanted to extend the opportunities they had in the workplace to their daughter. However, Decker stressed that the bias against developers that were women and people of color was unintentional. According to Kleiner, TFG is the largest business club on campus and focuses on finance, with different groups focusing on different aspects of business. Bryan Pham, a member of TFG who is part of the Alpha Fund, a student-run investment fund, commented on why he attended the event. “I go to a lot of TFG events because I’m on the Alpha Fund and I thought it was good to show support and I was interested in [Decker’s] experience,” Pham, a junior, said.
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continued from page 1 Watriss also emphasized the importance of sharing this knowledge. “I want providers to feel empowered to help students feel empowered,” she said. So far, Higham said their work has successfully influenced other college health
centers to become more involved in HIV prevention. “We do hear that people are adopting it, learning how to do it, learning more about the medication [and] feeling more comfortable,” Higham said. Watriss said that now more than ever is the time for students and the general
public to focus on sexual health and HIV prevention. “We’re looking at a time in our world where people don’t live in these little social or sexual network bubbles … It’s really important to help people expand their health autonomy to accommodate who they are and where they’re going in their lives,” Watriss said.
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hy do countries give foreign aid? Most would say to advance national interest. Clearly, however, donor countries like the U.S. don’t give purely out of generosity. They expect something in return. This idea is nothing new and is probably correct — but I don’t think it fully answers the question. National interest is a somewhat abstract measure for understanding an international system. If we look at foreign aid as a sort of political marketplace, however, I believe we can find a more precise explanation. It’s no accident that, with the obvious exception of China, aid tends to flow from robust democracies towards dictatorships or corrupt hybrid regimes. Imagine you are the leader of a democracy. To stay in power, you’re going to need to convince a large percentage of your country’s voters to support you again — perhaps millions of people. You can try to enact policy they like, but you certainly can’t pay them off — there are just too many of them. Now imagine that you are a dictator. Your life just got a whole lot easier! You probably only need to keep a few thousand military officers, wealthy individuals and local leaders loyal in order to stay in power. They can be paid off. To put it in economic terms: Autocracies have a comparative advantage in paying people off. Democratic rulers can spend relatively little money on foreign aid to buy favors from other, less democratic governments. U.S. aid to Egypt, for instance, spiked just as the Carter Administration began negotiating the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty and has remained elevated ever since. U.S. aid essentially bought the peace. This may cost a few billion dollars yearly, but is certainly less costly to American leaders than the trade and oil price disruptions a war could cause. If this entrenches Egypt’s autocratic government, so be it. Countries can also implicitly buy and sell votes in international organizations. It’s no coincidence that newly minted nonpermanent members of the UN Security Council are lavished with aid from permanent members and international organizations like the IMF. Nor is it surprising that Japan, seeking lighter restrictions on whaling, lobbied to include small, autocratic and land-locked Laos in the International Whaling Commission. Recipient nations aren’t necessarily pawns, however. Donor nations can become nearly as dependent. The United States has given Pakistan billions in economic and military aid since 9/11 to combat the Taliban, yet the terrorist group remains entrenched in the country’s borderlands. This is not because the Pakistani military is incapable of defeating them. Counterintuitively, Pakistan has refrained from significant engagement with the Taliban in order to continue receiving American support. If the Taliban were to be defeated, the rationale for American aid would disappear. Perhaps all this could be justified if it still helped the people that autocrats rule over. Unfortunately, there’s no evidence of that. On the contrary, studies have demonstrated a correlation between receiving aid and lower rates of economic growth. So, if we truly want international development and democracy, our foreign aid strategy needs a major rethink.
Douglas Berger is a senior studying international relations and can be reached at douglas.berger@tufts.edu.
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Editor’s note: The Daily’s editorial board acknowledges that this article is premised on a conflict of interest. This article is a special feature for Daily Week that does not represent the Daily’s standard journalistic practices. These interviews have been edited for clarify and length. The Daily has been in production since 1980. From writing content and conducting interviews, to copyediting articles and laying out the paper, everything but printing and distributing the paper is done in-house. The Daily’s Managing Board, a collection of experienced Daily members that rotates every semester, oversees this process. This semester’s Managing Board consists of Editor-inChief Elie Levine, Managing Editors David Levitsky and Anita Ramaswamy, Associate Editor Luke Allocco and Production Director Daniel Montoya. Levine and Levitsky are juniors, Ramaswamy is a senior and Allocco and Montoya are sophomores. The Tufts Daily (TD): Many readers might not know what the Managing Board at the Daily is or what they do. How would you describe it? Elie Levine (EL): [Managing Board] is made up of the people who oversee the general operations of the Tufts Daily. We’ll be the final set of editorial eyes on an article before it goes into copyediting; we’ll look at every photo as well as oversee the layout process. Beyond production, we also oversee the social operations of the paper, human resources in general and plan events to promote the Daily on campus. David Levitsky (DL): [Managing Board] is the glue of the Tufts Daily that puts all the moving parts together. The individual writers, content execs and production execs do a lot of the work, but we’re the final piece that makes sure that everything is up to quality. We’re the people that tie in the great work that other people do. Anita Ramaswamy (AR): Managing Board is basically the group of people making all the everyday decisions when it comes to the Daily. We don’t do the reporting but we edit and oversee our staff and we deal with anything they need help with. We also fact-check everything and layout the paper. Luke Allocco (LA): [Managing Board] is the group of people that oversees the dayto-day operations of the Daily. We fact-check articles, we make sure we have enough content to run for the next day of production, we have some really cool bondings and we’re in charge of creating a positive and welcoming community for the Daily. Daniel Montoya (DM): [Managing Board], to me, is the leadership of the Daily, but it also feels like so much more. We ensure that this ship doesn’t sink. TD: What was your involvement with the Daily before you became a member of Managing Board and why did you decide to join? What is the Managing Board community like? EL: The [summer before] my [first] year, I sent the Daily Facebook page a message so I knew I wanted to do this before I even came to Tufts. I started as a News and Features writer, then was Assistant Editor and Editor for both sections, then became executive news editor, then I became editor-in-chief. We try to balance professional and personal relationships. I always have on my mind what professional behavior is like but I also want to [create] a welcoming space. As a [Managing Board] member, I feel lucky. Our skills are all very different. DL: I was a copyeditor and copy exec before. When I was a copy exec, I wasn’t planning on [applying], but I just got really close to the people in the office and I got to know the people in
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pretty incredible people. Plus the free food is a great thing to have. TD: What is the weirdest or most fun thing you’ve done at the Daily office? EL: [During] the Hunt, fall of [my first] year, we were tasked with making a music video to “Just a Friend” by Biz Markie with Ancho the printer. It was a really weird video. DL: Every night of production because I get to work with copy every day. AR: Watching the Super Bowl in the office while editing articles. LA: The Halloween issue was really fun, especially writing the horoscope article. The office vibe and atmosphere was really fun that night. DM: I think every night I spend at the office is weird and unique in one way. No two nights are alike. TD: What is your favorite space or part of the Daily office? EL: The foyer-type front room. We treat it as if it’s airtight so we have more intense investigative discussions in there. It feels like it has a different character than the other rooms we spend most of our time in. If we really have some serious stuff to talk about, we’ll go there. It’s where I’ve been tested most as a Tufts Daily reporter and person. DL: My favorite is the layout room because it’s where the magic happens. AR: I really like all the old issues on the walls, especially the April Fools’ issues. LA: [My favorite is the] layout room. I spend a lot of time hanging out there so it’s fun for me. DM: The main computer is my literal second home. I spend about 20 or so hours there a week and we’ve formed a special bond over the years. The layout room is also my special space and it creates some separation from the others in a good way. TD: If you could be one kind of cereal, what would you be? EL: Frosted Flakes. Because [it is] standard fare, everyone knows about it, but [it is] unique enough to be memorable. DL: There’s a cereal from Trader Joe’s called Bran Flakes. Low-key but tasty, heart-healthy and good for your gut. AR: I’d be Cap’n Crunch. A BuzzFeed quiz told me that I was the “alpha of my friend group” and that “I don’t get soggy under pressure.” LA: Oreo O’s, because I eat them on the daily. It’s really unhealthy and I’ll probably die at a young age but it’s worth it. DM: Cocoa Puffs. Sweet but not too sweet. Makes everyone’s day a little better, I hope. Brown.
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Filmmaker, Tufts alum David Sutherland brings an intimate portrayal of deportation to campus
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Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and Tufts alum David Sutherland (A ’67) will be screening his new film “Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (2019) on Feb. 28 at an event hosted by the Tufts Film and Media Studies Program. The film, much like Sutherland’s previous films “Country Boys” (2006), “The Farmer’s Wife” (1998) and “Kind Hearted Woman” (2013), centers around those “living on the margins,” as described by Sutherland. The film revolves around Elizabeth Perez, a former U.S. Marine from Ohio, and her husband Marcos, an undocumented immigrant who is deported, leaving behind Elizabeth and their children. Sutherland describes the film as a “parallel action love story.” The film follows Marcos in Mexico, where he reunites with his family after spending 20 years apart from them, and Elizabeth in Ohio, where she takes care of their children and works with HOLA, an Ohio-based grassroots Latino group, in hopes of getting Marcos back to the States. By taking on this parallel narrative, Sutherland explains that “you get a sense of what [both of them] are going through.” The film itself focuses on the theme of deportation, but Sutherland remarks that the film is about much more. He states that the film is “a real statement about deportation”; however, an equally important theme that the film tackles is “the cost of deportation, and the cost for [Marcos] to live here. In a scene where Elizabeth is addressing a crowd about her struggle with losing her husband, she remarks that when her husband was arrested, “that was the day my home became a house.” In another scene, Marcos discloses that “the time is killing me.” Their pain and emotion resulting from the deportation is a key driver of the film.
When describing the primary themes of the film, Sutherland noted that “it’s a real story about immigration, but the bottom line is, will they remember how to live together?” Sutherland, known for creating remarkably in-depth films that capture incredibly fine details about stories and often take multiple to years to document (most notably “Country Boys”, whose production lasted seven years), crafted “Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Any More” with the same employment of portraiture that he’s utilized in previous works. Sutherland removes his presence from the narrative entirely by not showing himself asking questions during the film. Instead, he focuses on capturing the fine details of his subject’s lives in order to give viewers an intimate glimpse into the lives of the characters. He described this as an essential part of his filmmaking process. “My stories are told in the third person, extremely close up … my interest was to get closer and closer to the characters, so you feel like you’re living in their skin,” he said. “I’m a portraitist. You see all the elements of the portraits of [Marcos and Elizabeth] come together. Their roles change … and you make up your own mind.” Marcos, a soccer coach and former English teacher, is “a tough guy” and “severe,” but “has a big heart,” according to Sutherland. He describes Elizabeth Perez as “a cross between Lily Tomlin and Olive Oyl from ‘Popeye’ … She’s heroic, she’s eloquent … she’s a character.” He also remarks that the former Marine is “loyal to this country, [she] love[s] this country, but sometimes [she has] to take a stand.” In fact, Elizabeth’s patriotism is so fierce that the film’s original title was the Marine Corps motto “Semper Fidelis,” which translates to “always faithful.” Sutherland believes the phrase holds two meanings in Elizabeth’s case, first that “she’s always
faithful to her husband,” and second that “[she’s] always faithful to her country.” Originally, the film was not centered around Elizabeth and Marcos. It was going to follow Elizabeth’s friend and her husband, but a chance encounter drove Sutherland to choose Elizabeth and Marcos as the subjects of this film. “Elizabeth drove me to the airport as a favor, and I realized, this woman is really interesting, and her story is really interesting,” Sutherland said. One of the most important aspects of the narrative was the fact that Marcos and Elizabeth are human, multifaceted and above all, imperfect people. Sutherland emphasizes that the film doesn’t try to cover up their imperfections or paint them as flawless human beings. Instead, the film emphasizes the human nature of the characters. He mentioned that “[Elizabeth] can lose it and start yelling at one of the kids, which might bother someone … She might scream at her kids in a scene, she might be heroic in [another] scene.” He also points out that Marcos possesses imperfections, such as having kicked a woman in the past. One key scene that Sutherland pointed out as characteristic of the imperfect nature of the characters takes place at a statue of the Virgin Mary on Easter Sunday, shortly after Elizabeth has an emotional breakdown and roughly drags one of her children outside. “She’s talking and says [to the statue] ‘I need you guys to help me’ and she’s crying, holding a baby … You see she wants forgiveness,” Sutherland said. He makes the case that through their multidimensional personalities and their humanity coupled with the intimate use of portraiture, Elizabeth and Marcos allow for more audience engagement and for viewers to draw their own conclusions about the characters.
“These people are imperfect people … But there’s something redeeming about them,” Sutherland said. “There’s something more than redeeming about them. They’re more relatable. [The audience] can identify with them, and feel some compassion.” Sutherland made it clear that he is trying to show people up close the effects of deportation through a humanized, real-life portrayal. He stated that the film will allow for people to reevaluate their preexisting beliefs, and, throughout the film, the conclusions that people may jump to in the beginning of the film may be proven false by the end. For example, at the start of the film, Marcos can be seen as a rough, severe man, but, as Sutherland explained, “you learn as the film goes along, he’s more emotional … You’re forced to change some opinions if you judged him by [looks].” However, Sutherland emphasized that he is not attempting to tell viewers how to feel about the characters, nor is he telling viewers what specific conclusions to draw. Instead, he wants audiences to use their own agency to draw conclusions and opinions about the events and the characters of the film. “It’s up to you to decide what you think of them. I’m not telling you what to think,” Sutherland said. The film itself feels appropriate in 2019. With immigration and deportation being one of the most pressing political issues in the United States, “Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” provides a human face to the news stories we hear almost every day, and it forces us to grapple with the human impact of such issues. “Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” plays Thursday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. in Tisch 104, featuring director David Sutherland. The film, co-produced by Frontline, IndependentLens and Voces debuts to the public on April 15 on PBS.
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CORRECTIONS A previous version of the Feb. 26 article entitled “No. 13 Women’s Lacrosse field experienced team ahead of season opener” erroneously stated that the “play day” on Feb. 23 only consisted of one scrimmage, but instead it was a series of scrimmages. Additionally, Adamec, Sullivan and Veith are all seniors, not juniors. The article has been updated online to reflect these changes. The Daily deeply regrets these errors.
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Wednesday’s Solutions
An earlier version of the Feb. 25 article entitled “TCU Senate passes resolution calling for due process in Professor Abowd’s contract renewal” misstated the number of no votes for the resolution. The correct number of senators who voted against it is three, not two. The article has been updated to reflect this change. The Daily regrets this error.
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Submit proposals by March 7
Friday, April 5, 2019 12:00PM – 4:30PM Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene
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• Students each present for 5-7 minutes. • We welcome submissions of any length and help you work to develop the presentation. • Please submit: a paragraph proposal-long of the research and, if it is complete, part or all of the project.
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Ria Mazumdar Peripheries
Demanding justice under capitalism
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he cover story of The Economist last week stated that millennial socialism, “like the socialism of old, [suffers] from a faith in the incorruptibility of collective action and an unwarranted suspicion of individual vim,” concluding that liberals should oppose socialism. However, this criticism is mislabeled. Left-wing ideas that aim to interrogate rampant injustices and improve the current capitalist model are not necessarily socialist, and grouping them as such while cherry-picking on a few fringe ideas is nothing more than a convenient political tool to distance people from challenging the status quo. Firstly, it is imperative to understand that there are many different types of left-wing ideas being discussed in the mainstream. From Bernie Sanders’ ideas regarding tuition-free college to Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax plan to the Green New Deal, left-wing ideas exist in many different spheres. The Economist pinpoints universal health care as “less radical” because it is so common in the rest of the developed world. This is hardly an intrinsic justification. Just because an idea has not yet been implemented does not mean it is unreasonable. One country had to be the first to implement universal health care in order for it to be viewed as less extreme in the long term. The U.S. can and should be that country for other policies. Furthermore, The Economist article dismisses a vital critique of capitalism: It is unaccountable. In response to the idea of having more workers on boards, it argues that this urge is rooted on suspicion of globalization which will ultimately “ossify the economy.” While some might hold this view, many urge democratization of boards because of the potential to strengthen relationships between labor and management, reduce unemployment and increase managerial accountability. Indeed, the Harvard Business Review published an article discussing the potential merits of such a policy, which is probably proof that it is not unreasonably radical. Additionally, The Economist completely mischaracterizes the environmental objections to capitalism. It writes that millennial socialists “prefer central planning and massive public spending on green energy.” Again, it is unclear how many millennial socialists actually advocate central planning. The Green New Deal advocates public investment in education, community-based projects and working with farmers to cut emissions. Mischaracterizing left-wing environmentalists doesn’t ossify the economy, but it does ossify discourse that is critical to stop climate change. Economic efficiency undoubtedly matters. Capitalism is our current reality. However, as Vox concisely put it, these things only matter “secondarily, via their effects on people.” To subjugate human rights, the environment and social welfare to the economy is to lose perspective. Demanding more freedom from our work-centered lifestyles is not unreasonable. Labeling objections to capitalism as too extreme stifles any ability to question the status quo. If anything about the current political moment is clear, and there is consensus on this from both the left and the right, it is that our current system deserves deep interrogation. All transformative ideas begin as radical ones. We must embrace visions of a more just world as both feasible and necessary. Ria Mazumdar is a junior studying quantitative economics and international relations. Ria can be reached at ria.mazumdar@tufts.edu.
Opinion
Thursday, February 28, 2019
EDITORIAL
Senate did the right thing On Sunday, Feb. 24, Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution in favor of academic freedom and due process for Professor Thomas Abowd in his contract renewal. The resolution was written by students from Professor Abowd’s fall 2018 Colonizing Palestine class, alongside other activists, to show solidarity with Professor Abowd. Senate passed this resolution with 22 senators in favor, three opposed and six abstaining. We believe Senate made the right decision. Such resolutions are one way students can help protect professors’ jobs and academic freedom. Employment should not be used to punish professors who teach controversial, but academically worthwhile, classes. There is only limited academic freedom without job security. The danger that Professor Abowd’s contract could lapse spurred his students to write the resolution and a series of testimonials backing it up, published in the Daily on Feb. 22. The resolution highlighted the value of directly addressing politically contentious topics in the classroom. Students cited the harassment that activists and academics have faced at Tufts, like when a hate group put up Islamophobic posters targeting pro-Palestine activists, as
reasons necessitating this resolution. The resolution called for a fair and transparent renewal process for Professor Abowd’s contract and was supported by at least 10 student groups. While senators on all sides of the resolution claimed to support academic freedom and a harassment-free workplace, we feel this goal requires active, democratic participation to defend specifically endangered professors lest we allow student-faculty solidarity to lapse. Senators opposed to the resolution claimed the TCU Senate could not appropriately vote on Professor Abowd’s contract renewal because they believed the Senate had inadequate information about the course. Rabiya Ismail, a first-year senator and author of the resolution, stated that she disagreed with this view in an email to the Daily. Ismail noted the irony in Tufts’ self-perception as a diverse and liberal campus while professors who challenge prevailing sentiments face uncertain employment and racial harassment. She said she feels that Tufts is often inaccessible for students of color.
Senator Sarah Wiener, a sophomore, described Professor Abowd’s contract as a case study in protecting academic freedom. Senator Shannon Lee, a junior, proposed an amendment which “calls on Tufts to support courses that teach a diverse range of subjects and perspectives.” This amendment connects the controversy over Professor Abowd’s Colonizing Palestine class with the ability of a school to offer insightful classes with unconventional perspectives. Although TCU Senate has no say in hiring professors or renewing their contracts, it is a forum for students to express their support for professors’ right to job security and their freedom to teach. Student solidarity with professors is vital as students and professors alike suffer when dissent is rewarded with unemployment. When we make our presence known in matters usually reserved for the Tufts administration, we expand the possibilities of student democratic participation while struggling for transparency and accountability in hiring practices. We support the TCU Senate’s stance on Professor Abowd’s class and applaud the students who wrote this resolution.
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THE TUFTS DAILY | Sports | Thursday, February 28, 2019
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Jumbos continue to increase their national rankings at the meet MEN'S TRACK & FIELD
continued from page 11 the end of the day, Kardonsky earned a massive 11 points on his own. Continuing the Jumbos’ success, senior Josh Etkind placed third in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.18 seconds, narrowly missing his own personal record of 8.16 seconds. This improved Etkind’s national ranking in the 60-meter hurdles to 13th. Etkind was happy with how it panned out. “How I feel about my time in the [60-meter hurdles] is similar to how our team feels about our performance at the meet,” Etkind said. “I’m really happy with my time, but obviously I would have preferred to win. This has been a really strong year in New England for the [60meter hurdles], easily the most competitive the event has been in my career.”
The 4×800-meter relay, consisting of juniors Roman Lovell, Dylan McEniry, Matt D’Anieri and first-year Nicholas Delaney also earned a third-place finish, working together to produce a 7:56.99 time. In the field events, sophomore Matthew Manteiga finished third in the long jump with a mark of 6.72 meters. Manteiga’s effort was a Tufts season-best mark. Senior Charles Pennington was on his game in the high jump, as he cleared two meters to take third, scoring six points for Tufts. The jump was also his personal record. Other notable performances included junior Kevin Quisumbing’s fourthplace finish in the shot put, Raposo’s fifth-place finish in the mile race (4:18.42) and the 4×400-meter relay’s fifth-place finish (3:27.18).
The Jumbos earned a total of 78 points by the end of the second day to overtake Middlebury for second place at the meet. Tufts was beaten out only by MIT, who accumulated a whopping 164 points over the course of the competition. Overall, the Jumbos were excited about the result. “We were pretty happy with our performance,” Etkind said. “I’m obviously sad to end the win streak, but people performed well across the whole team and we managed to beat really good squads from WPI, Williams and Southern Maine. Looking ahead to NESCAC’s outdoors, we’re in a pretty good place I think. Especially exciting to see younger guys do so well!” Doyle echoed Etkind’s sentiments. “We are very happy to have taken second place. While it would have been amazing to win for a third year in a row,
we saw many of our athletes put up personal bests or season bests. We’ve been working on speed work by doing strides, which are short, quick runs after a longer run.” The Jumbos will compete at the Tufts Final Qualifier on March 2, which will be the last event where the athletes can qualify for the NCAA Div. III Championships. The Jumbos are hopeful that they can still get some athletes over the line to qualify for nationals. “Looking ahead to nationals, we are pleased that we have a few people who will almost certainly qualify,” Doyle said. “For this weekend, we have a few runners giving it one last shot, myself included in the 400-meter dash. We hope to send as many as possible, but it’s always tough to get into the top 20.”
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Men’s track and field takes 2nd at Div. III New England Indoor Championships
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Dylan Jones, a senior, competes in the 10k race and places eighth at the NESCAC Championship at Trinity College on Apr. 28, 2018. by Liam Finnegan Sports Editor
Last weekend, the Tufts men’s track and field team competed at the Div. III New England Indoor Championships hosted by MIT in Cambridge, Mass. The Jumbos performed well at the meet, with many athletes earning their season bests and notching national-qualifying marks. The Jumbos took second place out of the 23 teams at the meet, a good indicator for how well the team will do at the Div. III NCAA Championships in two weeks. On Friday, the meet’s first day, three Tufts athletes earned points for the team. In the track events, senior Dylan Jones took third in the 5,000-meter with a 15:06.83 time. This time was his best of the season for the 5,000-meter, and it tallied six points for the Jumbos.
Along with Jones, the distance medley relay team and senior co-captain Benji Wallace also recorded points for the team on the first day. The distance medley team, comprised of senior Colin Raposo, juniors Danny Klain, Dylan McEniry and first-year Collin O’Sullivan, finished eighth with a time of 10:32.12, claiming one point for the Jumbos. Wallace finished fifth in the pole vault with a 4.47-meter effort that earned the team three points. By the end of the first day, Tufts earned 10 points to put them tied for third place with Bates College and the University of Southern Maine, trailing Middlebury College (20 points) and hosts MIT (37 points). On Saturday, the second day of the competition, senior Tom Doyle had Tufts’ only first-place finish of the day, as he won the 600-meter race with a time of 1:21.21. This time was also his personal
best time for that event. His first-place finish earned Tufts 10 points and carried on Tufts’ domination of the 600-meter, as it was the sixth time in a row a Tufts runner has taken first in the event. Doyle was very satisfied with his accomplishment. “It was a very proud moment for me not only because of the victory, but because I was able to continue Tufts’ streak of winning the 600-meter dash for the 6th year in a row,” Doyle said. “My teammates’ chants of ‘Go!’ really motivated me to keep running.” Senior Anthony Kardonsky also raked in points for Tufts, performing well in two events. In the 60-meter dash, Kardonsky finished third, posting a mark of 6.98 seconds, a season best. Kardonsky also came fourth in the 200meter, running a 22.48-second time. By see MEN'S TRACK & FIELD, page 10
Behind the Daily curtain as a student-athlete
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continued from back addition to your college paper. At Tufts, maybe that’s the case, but I doubt it. Maybe athletes are not used to coverage at all. Getting interviewed after your performance is something a lot of people aren’t used to … I remember talking to a teammate a couple weeks ago after an interview, saying “This is so weird, this never would’ve happened to me in high school.” So I think that is a big differ-
ence. To get covered at all is an honor, so to see it get misrepresented by that one source, it can hurt. It can leave a mark. TD: What is the “gulf” in Div. III sports? JG: The big thing in Div. III sports is the enormous gulf between some kids who could be [in] Div. I programs. If they’re getting misrepresented they can feel like: “I should do better than this school’s paper.” Because there are a lot of kids who go to nationals who are very talented and could be at better schools. And then there are kids who are just happy to be on the team. So there’s that gulf. Some athletes expect perfect coverage, but some people are fine with our limited ability to cover everything perfectly. TD: Where does that mentality of the better athletes come from, in your opinion? JG: A lot of the athletes who are performing so well are the ones putting in the most work. Ultimately, they probably deserve the most recognition. That hard work is manifested in their top performances. It’s not just like, “oh, they’re naturally talented.” No. people
put in work their entire lives for this. So you could argue they deserve top, top coverage. It’s just the nature of our journalistic world where there aren’t enough resources everywhere to be properly covered in every instance. TD: What are your thoughts on sports journalism as a whole at Tufts? JG: You can always find a story. Whether you’re writing a column, covering a sport, writing a feature, there’s always an angle in something and a story you can find. Sport is a game of narratives more than anything else. And it’s interesting to see how it plays out on any athletic level. There are always characters and actors who make up drama. There are the ones at Tufts who are the creme of the crop — I don’t want to say prima donnas — who may deserve that attention. I think journalism can live in any environment, in any climate. This just happens to be the one we find ourselves in. Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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Arjun Balaraman Off the Crossbar
Player power
In a fitting precursor to Sunday’s primetime event, Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga produced an Oscar-worthy performance during the final minutes of his team’s defeat to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup Final. The Spanish goalkeeper had gone down twice with leg injuries during extra time after a goalless 90 minutes of regulation time. His manager, Maurizio Sarri, decided not to risk his health for the penalty shootout and sent backup keeper Willy Caballero on. But Kepa had other ideas. When he saw his number held up by the fourth official, he furiously waved away his replacement. For a few moments, everyone stood shell-shocked. Sarri motioned for him to come off again, but the Spaniard wouldn’t budge, repeatedly giving the bench a thumbs up and waving away Caballero. This embarrassing and highly unusual scene went on for a couple of minutes until a furious Sarri finally backed off. Later, the two tried to play it off as a simple “misunderstanding,” with Kepa saying he wanted to tell the manager he was not injured and was fine to continue. But the fact that Kepa’s action was tolerated is a glaring sign of the tremendous increase in player power over the past few years, especially at Chelsea Football Club. For Kepa to undermine his manager so publicly, instead of running over and explaining the situation to Sarri, is inexcusable. It’s hard to imagine a player 10 years ago refusing to follow his manager’s decision. Argentinian star Carlos Tevez spent five months in exile at Manchester City after he refused to step on the field when his manager Roberto Mancini wanted him to come on as a substitute in 2011. However, too many of today’s managers live in fear of their star players. Player power is a topic that has come to the forefront of the NBA as well. New Orleans Pelicans star Anthony Davis shocked the NBA world by requesting a trade from his team a year and a half before his contract was up. The Pelicans refused to trade him, but their options for dealing with Davis’ tantrums were handicapped when the NBA threatened to fine them $100k per game if they benched Davis during the rest of the season. Yet again, a star player publicly defied his team’s management but got his way — to a certain extent, anyway. There used to be an unwritten rule in sports — obeying the manager’s decisions was mandatory — but it has slowly eroded over the past few years. I’m all for players taking control of their own destiny, but, at some point, the power dynamic between players and management must be maintained. Managers and coaches will make decisions, and it is a professional players’ job to respect those calls. Kepa had one out: If he had turned in a heroic performance in the penalty shootout and helped Chelsea win the Cup, his ludicrous display could’ve been redeemed. He didn’t, letting one penalty into the net. And, like non-victorious Oscar nominees, he was left trying to put on an “everything’s okay” face after his embarrassing evening on the green carpet at Wembley.
Arjun Balaraman is a sophomore studying quantitative economics. Arjun can be reached at arjun.balaraman@tufts.edu.
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Sports
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Women’s squash falls in national C Division finals
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Senior Sahana Karthik prepares to return the ball during the College Women’s National Team Championship on Feb. 18. by Henry Molot
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The Jumbos put out a strong showing in the C Division of the College Squash Association (CSA) national championship, also known as the Walker Cup, finishing second to NESCAC rival Bates. Tufts lost 6–3 to a strong Bates team in the finals, after beating that same side 6–3 in the regular season and 5–4 in the NESCAC fifth place game. The Jumbos fell to the Bobcats last year in the semi-
final C Division by the same 7–2 result. While Tufts lost all three matches to Bates in the 2017–2018 season, the team finished this regular season with a 2–1 advantage over its NESCAC rivals. Tufts faced eighth-seeded St. Lawrence in the national quarterfinal, wasting no time with a convincing 9–0 thrashing. Tufts didn’t drop a single game in the match and advanced to the semifinals to face Franklin Marshall College. The two sides were supposed to square off during the regular season but the match
was cancelled, meaning many of the team’s newer players had never faced their opponents before. “I told the girls you have to feel it out in the first game,” coach Joe Raho said. “You have to be smart about where you put the ball, but you’re also figuring it out on the fly.” Juniors Ellen Verry and Katherine Galambos of Franklin Marshall logged victories at the first and third positions, respectively, but Tufts was victorious in the rest of the matches. Sophomore Rachel Windreich of Greenwich, Conn. earned a hard-fought, five-game victory in a back-and-forth contest at the sixth position. Windreich won the first two games handily at 11–4, and rallied back to win the fifth game 13–11 after dropping games three and four. Sophomore Julie Yeung and first-year Diya Sanghi both earned four game wins, while the rest of the team won their matches with relative ease in three game contests. After finally getting over the semifinal hump in the C Division, the Jumbos once again found themselves face-to-face with the Bobcats. While Tufts kept their lineup the same from the two teams’ previous match-ups this season, Bates made two changes by moving sophomore Maeve O’Brien and senior Molly Brooks up one spot into the fourth and seventh positions, respectively. Senior Zarena Jafry won her match at the fourth position against an unfamiliar opponent, finessing a five-game victory capped off by a strong 11–2 fifth game. Sanghi also won her match against a new opponent, handling Brooks in three games. Sophomore Chloe Kantor was one of three Jumbos who was victorious in all three of their matches at CSAs, along with Sanghi and Jafry. “I wanted to focus on nothing but the first five points, and make sure that I started off strong,” Kantor said, reflecting on her finals match versus yet another unfamiliar opponent in Bates’ first-year Natalie Bachman. “Zarena won a huge match against Maeve, who’s a really tough opponent, and Catherine [Shanahan] and Rachel both lost matches that really could have gone either way.”
Windreich has made five-game marathons her trademark. However, she fell to first-year Natasha Jones of Bates (5–11, 9–11, 14–12, 12–10, 11–9). Matches that go the distance, just like this sixth position battle, are often tightly contested in each game, which makes fatigue and focus a major factor in the final game. “When I go into the fifth game, I know I’m going to leave it all out on the court,” Windreich said. “With it being the last game of the match, whether I win or lose, I want to walk away exhausted and knowing I did everything I could have done.” Junior co-captain Claire Davidson fell in four games at the first position, losing to Bates’ junior Luca Polgar. The two top players had back-and-forth matches all year, just like the rest of the lineups of both teams. In such an evenly matched contest, it often comes down to which players bring their A-game on the day. Even with the lineup changes that Bates made, Raho acknowledged that the match was decided based on who was most ready to play. “It wasn’t a matchup thing, we just didn’t play as well as we were capable of,” Raho said. “But that’s sports. You have to be on your game against your toughest opponents.” Despite this painful loss, there’s much to look forward to for this up and coming squad. While Raho and the team hope to keep improving on a day-to-day basis in the offseason, the B Division of the national championships and rising into the NESCAC top four remain closer than ever. “Next year we’ll definitely look to be in the B draw,” Kantor said. “I’m confident we can do it.” Kantor will continue to be a strong contributor to this very deep squad. With a promising recruiting class set to arrive next year, the Jumbos will look to keep improving. In other tournament news, Harvard University took the crown in the A draw, while fellow Ivy League powerhouse Cornell captured the B draw. Williams, Amherst and Middlebury all fell in the first round of the competitive B draw.
Daily Week Presents: Jeremy Goldstein, athlete-journalist by Arlo Moore-Bloom Executive Sports Editor
Goldstein is a sophomore from Brooklyn, N.Y. who competes on the men’s track and field team and contributes to the Daily as an editor for the sports section. He is a self-described Boston-loather, best illustrated by his weekly column “The Anti-Bostonian.” The Daily sat down with Jeremy to ask him about his life as a student and an athlete. Tufts Daily (TD): What’s it like being an athlete-journalist? Jeremy Goldstein (JG): It’s cool because I see the processes of my sport, and how you prepare and recover from meets and what it’s like to be at these meets and competing at these meets. Covering one of these is different but similar. It’s different in every sport, but it’s interesting to see different athletes in different sports, different reactions to different things like championships and things like that. Guys on the team will ask what it’s like to write for the paper, and they’re like “make sure they’re giving us good cover-
age, that we’re getting our fair share.” And you know I’m like, “I’ll do what I can.” TD: What is your take on mistakes at the Daily regarding sports articles? JG: It’s interesting because you’re behind the curtain a little bit. You’re on both sides. I would say that it’s pretty cool because, you know, you’re on one side and you have information that other people don’t have. It’s interesting how one mistake can turn into a “they’re disrespecting us” moment when obviously it’s not true. It’s interesting, because in track, you can slip, you can get out slowly from the blocks or you take a bad jump. Everyone makes mistakes, they just manifest themselves differently when it’s in print, because the print lasts forever. That’s a big difference. TD: When did you first get involved with track and field? JG: In high school, I ran track and field for four years. It was definitely crucial in my decision to come to Tufts. It seemed like a down-to-earth vibe on my over-
night trip. The success of the program and the strength of the academics here were also huge overriding factors. Once I got here, there was a great group of guys in the team — top to bottom leadership, a really good structure. What it’s done for me is given me a lot of structure and balance across days, weeks and months. The team camaraderie is also huge. Everyone always has your back. TD: What kind of writing did you do in high school? JG: I did a lot of playwriting in middle school, and in high school I wrote for our school magazine. I always had an interest in creative writing. Of course I loved sports, and I wasn’t sure if short stories or playwriting was exactly the kind of storytelling I was looking for. I was looking for other outlets, I would say, to try and tell a story. That’s why I love opinion writing where you have more voice but it’s not necessarily fiction. That’s kind of what journalism has been for me. TD: Is it hard to balance interests from athletes and the Daily? JG: Yeah, you definitely feel like you’re juggling multiple obligations. On the team
there are more personal relationships, and you don’t want to see anyone feel like they’re being victimized or put into a position where they’re feeling misrepresented. But I know what it’s like to cover someone, and I know how easy it is for a small mistake to be blown up to something bigger than it should be. None of it is intentional, it’s just logistical. Usually it doesn’t happen. If this happens one out of 100 times, it’s only glaring because it happened to you. In my opinion, I just tell people: “keep perspective, they’re not perfect, it’s not the end of the world.” In Div. III sports, you’re covered by probably one publication: the Daily. And it’s being done by a kid who’s not paid and does it because he or she enjoys it. The best athletes may get covered by other publications, but it’s unlikely. It’s interesting. TD: Like you said, Div. III sports coverage is a small world. How does that impact athletes’ experiences with coverage? JG: At a Div. I school, you’re getting covered by multiple publications in
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