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Part-time faculty prepare to renegotiate contract

by Emma Steiner News Editor

The collective bargaining agreement for part-time adjunct faculty at Tufts is due to expire on June 30, and re-negotiations have begun between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Tufts administrators.

Since the adjunct faculty at Tufts formed a union in 2013, their contract with Tufts has become a model for other schools in the Greater Boston area and across the country, according to a 2015 Daily article.

So far in the negotiation process, there has been one formal negotiating session in which the faculty presented their non-economic proposals, Andy Klatt, a lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and member of the bargaining committee, said. The next meeting will likely focus on economic proposals, according to Klatt, who declined to go into more specifics about the negotiations.

Klatt said the unfavorable conditions faced by part-time adjunct faculty in 2013 have greatly improved since the original union contract three years ago. Nonetheless, Klatt said there is room for further improvements. A petition by Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) to support adjunct faculty contended that many part-time lecturers at Tufts con-

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Students assemble and rally for equal pay for part-time faculty, marching from the Academic Quad to 200 Boston Ave. on Oct. 10, 2014. tinue to see issues with pay and job security, which TLC likened to a nationwide trend.

“Certainly our situation has improved, but is not ideal, so we continue to move in a forward direction,” Klatt said.

Some of the difficulties faced by adjunct professors when first negotiating their contract included low wages and job insecurity. At the time of the original unionization, part-time adjunct professors lacked many of the

same benefits received by full-time professors, including protection from arbitrary job termination and security in class reappointment, according to a see UNION, page 2

Linda Daniels named Senior Director of Diversity, Pluralism and Inclusion

by Minna Trinh

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Linda Daniels was named senior director of diversity, pluralism and inclusion this semester. In this role, she will work on programs related to intersectionality and pluralism, in partnership with the Group of Six Centers, the Office of Residential Life and Learning, the Office for Campus Life and a number of other campus offices, according to an email from Communications and Multimedia Specialist Mickey Toogood to the Group of Six Centers.

“I hope to oversee the implementation of campus-wide programming that I envision will help re-shape the campus culture toward a greater embrace of the intersectionality inherent in all Tufts community members,” Daniels told the Daily in an email.

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Daniels explained that she will continue to work twice a week at Counseling and Mental Health Services, where she serves as a staff psychologist. Daniels was hired at Tufts in spring 2016 as a clinician and liaison to the Africana Center, according to an April 26, 2016 Daily article.

In her new role, Daniels said that she hopes to create a campus culture in which students can feel comfortable with diversity and intersecting identities.

“My overall goal will be to facilitate the creation of a campus climate where students find overlap in our community, engage in shared exploration of our varied identities and develop [a] holistic sense of awareness, compassion and empathy for each other,” she said.

In particular, Daniels said that she hopes to increase Tufts students’ awareness of intersectionality through a campaign called “Unapologetically Me.” As

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part of the initiative’s first phase, bulletin boards will be distributed throughout campus that allow students to answer questions based on identity. The intention of this program, according to Daniels, is to help students express themselves and understand their similarities and differences.

“My hope is that such a campaign will result in various ‘brave space’ forums over the upcoming academic years that will foster discussion across identities,” Daniels said. “In this way, students will learn how to develop strong ideological identities during their time at Tufts and, in turn, be better prepared for their future beyond Tufts.”

Daniels will also offer Social Justice Leader Training to resident assistants (RAs), leaders of student organizations and other campus leaders.

“My appreciation of and interest in

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supporting student leaders will remain,” Daniels said. “It is also my goal to provide this training more widely and inclusively to students, faculty and staff.”

Daniels had been involved in advancing diversity on campus long before she began this new role, according to Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon. McMahon noted that Daniels’ role is particularly important in a political climate where minority students face uncertainties.

“I am deeply grateful to Linda [Daniels] for agreeing to take on this role, and I hope her assistance will enhance our collective focus on the work of the [Group of Six] Centers and commitment to all of our [Arts, Sciences and Engineering] students at this crucial time,” McMahon said.

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Klatt said that some of these conditions have improved due to the collective bargaining agreement.

“We certainly increased our income, in some cases very dramatically,” Klatt said. “We closed, to some extent, the disparities among members about compensation depending on which department they work in and how long they’ve been at the university and we increased job security [and stability].”

Klatt explained that job stability is the assurance that faulty will teach the same number of courses every semester, adding that the compensation system for part-time faculty led to concerns about job stability.

“Part-time lecturers are paid per course,” he said. “So with gaining or losing one course per year that’s a very significant event in the life of a parttime lecturer.”

The current collective bargaining agreement states that more senior parttime adjuncts will receive two- or three-

year appointments, and faculty on threeyear appointments will be guaranteed a minimum number of courses based on workloads of years past.

Klatt described the negotiating environment as positive, and said that collaboration with the administration has greatly improved since the original contract. He added that the collaboration is not strictly limited to contract negotiations, because faculty representatives meet frequently to discuss ongoing concerns.

“It’s been a very positive and collaborative environment and good relationship,” he said. “But the relationship is not limited to meetings every three years because based on our first contract we also have a lecturer-university committee which meets five times a semester.”

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser, who represented Tufts in the original contract negotiations, said he agrees that the original contract was successful.

“A lot of things have worked well from the first contract, and certainly

the relationship between the union and the administration is collaborative and I think from our perspective has worked well,” Glaser said. “We negotiated the contract from scratch, and of course as the various issues arise and various problems arise, both the administration and the union are going to come and try to address what they perceive to be as shortcomings in the contract.”

According to Glaser, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences Barbara Brizuela is representing the administration this year, but Brizuela continues to work closely with Glaser.

Meanwhile, TLC is working to show student support for faculty organizing.

According to TLC member Lior AppelKraut, the group hopes that a contract is reached quickly.

“TLC’s role is to support the parttime faculty as they are renegotiating their contract … and to make sure the administration knows the students are behind [the faculty] and are paying attention to what goes on in the negotiation,” Appel-Kraut said.

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Somerville included on ICE list of sanctuary cities

by Joe Walsh

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Somerville, along with four other cities and towns in Massachusetts, was listed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a jurisdiction that limits cooperation with federal law enforcement authorities to detain undocumented immigrants, as part of an ICE report released March 20.

This designation is part of ICE’s first Weekly Declined Detainer Outcome Report, which federal authorities compiled as a result of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 25. Boston and Cambridge were also listed as non-cooperating cities.

In addition, the report lists requests

for custody issued by ICE that were turned down by local jurisdictions between Jan. 28 and Feb. 3. No Massachusetts city or town was listed as declining a request during that time period, though the report acknowledges that its list may be incomplete.

The City of Somerville has been designated a ‘sanctuary city’ for 30 years, meaning it does not profile residents to check immigration status or turn undocumented residents over to ICE for potential deportation if they are suspected of civil offenses, according to a Feb. 8 Daily article.

Trump’s Jan. 25 executive order called for the federal government to revoke funding for sanctuary cities.

Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone has promised that the city will not back

down from its sanctuary designation if federal funding is taken away and will deal with the fiscal consequences, according to the Feb. 8 Daily article. Curtatone estimates that the city receives more than $12 million every year from the federal government, though it is unclear how much of that funding could be revoked.

“If we lose this funding, we will tighten our belts, but we will not sell our community values short,” Curtatone and Welcome Project Executive Director Ben Echevarria wrote in an open letter in November 2016.

Meanwhile, the cities of Lawrence and Chelsea, both of which have been labeled as sanctuary cities, filed a lawsuit in federal court last month arguing

that Trump’s executive order to strip federal funding is unlawful. Their lawsuit is still pending, according to a March 22 Boston Globe article.

Curtatone argues that the city’s sanctuary status allows for greater trust between law enforcement officials and residents, because people do not need to fear deportation if they report a crime.

He also claims that, since Somerville became a sanctuary city in 1987, crime and unemployment rates in the city have dropped significantly.

“These are our neighbors,” Curtatone said in a Jan. 25 speech. “Their kids go to school with our children, they’re our friends, they’re our colleagues and we are not going to treat them like suspects at every turn.”

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continued from page 1 Interim Chief Diversity Officer Ellen Pinderhughes said that she is looking forward to working with Daniels to support diverse programming on campus. Prior to beginning this role, Daniels was involved in implementing the Equity, Access and Student Equality (EASE) working group at Tufts, according to Pinderhughes.

“EASE is focused on identifying the barriers that students with very limited financial resources face in accessing the range of opportunities for undergraduates and [identifying] existing campus resources that are currently used to address such needs as well as areas where resources are lacking.” Pinderhughes said.

Daniels explained that her previous work at Tufts, both as a staff psychologist and as the chair of the EASE working group, has been “pluralistic in nature.”

“The EASE working group [has] been working fervently to recommend and implement actions that will level the financial playing field for all students, regardless of financial resources, while empowering students to succeed academically,” Daniels said.

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Linda Daniels sits in her office at Counseling and Mental Health Services on March 7, 2016.

Events on the Hill – Week of March 27 MONDAY “A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture” Details: Michelle Joan Wilkinson, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, will speak about the museum for the Margaret Henderson Floyd Lecture. Wilkinson co-curated an exhibition at the museum also entitled “A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture.”

Where and When: Alumnae Lounge; 5:30 p.m.

Sponsor: Department of Art and Art History TUESDAY “Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought” Details: Economics Professors James Boyce from the University of

Massachusetts, Amherst and Joan Martinez Alier, professor emeritus at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, will be awarded the 16th Leontief Prize, which is given to people whose work in economics contributes to the understanding of social and environmental issues. Boyce and Alier will give a lecture as part of the ceremony. The event is free, but RSVP is required.

Where and When: Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall; 4 p.m.

Sponsor: Global Development and Environment Institute WEDNESDAY “Twitter Diplomacy” Details: Colin Crowell, Twitter’s global vice president of global public policy and philanthropy, will speak about how Twitter has transformed the way policymakers and diplomats communicate, and potential benefits and disadvantages of that shift. The event will be hosted

by Dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life Alan Solomont.

Where and When: ASEAN Auditorium; 4:30 p.m.

Sponsor: Tisch College THURSDAY “Tufts Day of Remembrance” Details: As part of Tufts’ annual Day of Remembrance commemorations, Yale Law Professor Muneer Ahmad from the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic will speak about his work in opposition to President Donald Trump’s recent attempted travel bans.

Where and When: Cabot Intercultural Center; 6:30 p.m.

Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Asian American Center, Japanese Culture Club and Muslim Students Association FRIDAY “African

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Symposium: The Past, Present and Future of Black Boston” Details: Tufts is launching the African American Freedom Trail Project, which will seek to map and study important sites to African American history in Boston, linking them to present civil rights and racial justice struggles. The project will be launched at an all-day symposium featuring local professors, politicians and other public figures. A bus tour of Freedom Trail sites will precede the symposium.

Where and When: Breed Memorial Hall; bus tour begins at 11 a.m., symposium begins at 1 p.m.

Sponsors: Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Africana Studies Program, Africana Center, Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Digital Collections and Archives, DataLab, Tisch College and the Diversity Fund — Joe Walsh

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History on the Hill: Eliot-Pearson Children’s School combines educational research, teacher training

by Caroline Smith Contributing Writer

As a laboratory-demonstration program for the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, the Eliot-Pearson Children’s School (EPCS) is not only a place of learning for children aged 3 through 7 but also a place of learning for graduate students and researchers.

This relationship between Tufts and EPCS developed over several decades. According to a 2014 department document chronicling EliotPearson’s history, EPCS began in 1922 as the Ruggles Street School and Training Center in Roxbury, a teacher-training school with 15 enrolled children. Four years later, it became the Nursery Training School of Boston.

Initially an independent school in Boston, it began its partnership with Tufts in 1951 through the College of Special Studies and emphasized tenets of child development and teacher education. In 1955, the school underwent another name change, transforming into the EPCS. According to Eliot-Pearson Children’s School Director Hanna Gebretensae, this partnership makes for an active and exciting community.

“There’s always something happening and it’s all vibrant, it’s learning, it’s making mistakes, it’s taking risks and it’s figuring them out and problem solving,” she said.

Today, EPCS serves 62 children in four different classrooms: two preschool classrooms for ages 3 and 4, a kindergarten classroom and a combined classroom for first and second graders, according to Gebretensae.

The students who attend the school must undergo an application process for entry. This application process, Gebretensae said, heavily emphasizes creating a diverse community of learners.

Gebretensae explained that diversity is integral to the school’s culture.

“It’s not only specific to race and language, but it’s about family makeup, socioeconomic diversity, gender, sexual orientation, so it’s diversity in every which way,” she said. “We want this diversity in this classroom so that it is not something we try to teach them but rather a way of life.”

EPCS also reflects its commitment to diversity in its enrollment of children with ‘special rights,’ varying from mild to moderate, who make up around 20 percent of the school’s students. Gebretensae explained EPCS’s use of the term ‘special rights,’ used in lieu of ‘special needs.’

“We believe that it’s not just a need, it’s a right for every child regardless of their ability to get the best that they can get,” Gebretensae said.

Gebretensae said that within each classroom, there is one head teacher who is accompanied by, on average, two graduate students.

“We have head teachers who are sort of the master teachers,” she said.

“They will have been teaching from anywhere from 20 to 30 years. They’re very seasoned, so their main goal is to be the main teachers in the classroom

… but they’re also mentors to the grad students who come to the department to do their internship here.”

Since the school is host to many research projects and as many as 500 student observations per semester, the selection process for teachers is also unique, according to Gebretensae.

EPCS Staff Assistant Jennifer Cavazos explained that being a teacher in a lab school requires more than prior teaching experience or training.

“It takes a very unique individual and teacher to be working in the lab classroom. Not only are you being observed, but you’re hosting research,” Cavazos said.

In addition, teachers attend a meeting each month to prepare them for the upcoming research in their classrooms, according to Gebretensae.

“We have teachers’ meetings, which happen every month,” Gebretensae said. “Part of what we discuss is how do we work with the research coming up and how do we manage that. It serves as an orientation [for the teachers].”

These meetings are crucial, as research is the key function of a lab school. EPCS hosts not only Tuftsaffiliated researchers but also Tufts graduate students completing their theses, researchers from other Boston colleges such as Boston College, MIT and Harvard and also frequent international students and researchers, Cavazos said.

Cavazos explained that the relationship between researchers and EPCS is a reciprocal one.

“We give a lot, and we gain a lot.

We provide an immense service to what’s happening in the university and the greater university community, but we’re receiving so much,” Cavazos said. “We’re the recipients of what’s happening here with our own university. It’s directly impacting our teachers and our children, and then we’re giving back.”

Tufts faculty also use EPCS as a resource. Julie Dobrow, senior lecturer at Eliot-Pearson, has been researching gender, race, ethnicity and age across children’s animation programming for years. The three-fold project began in 1994 when Dobrow and her colleague, Associate Professor Chip Gidney, a sociolinguist, became intrigued by the portrayal of different characters in media.

After cataloguing over 1,500 characters from predominantly children’s television shows, Dobrow’s research found patterns of stereotyping across the programs. According to Dobrow, this pattern was consistent over time.

“One of the first things we came [up] with was that the ‘bad guys’ had non-American accents, and we found that very consistently across the years,” Dobrow said. “Sometimes they’re discernible accents and sometimes they’re just non-American. The point seems to be some kind of othering.”

For the project’s third stage, Dobrow and Gidney plan on using the EliotPearson School as a pilot study for a large-scale national research project.

This stage revolves around analyzing

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Julie Dobrow, senior lecturer at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, poses for a portrait outside her office on May. 12, 2015. how children catalog the stereotyping of certain types of characters, Dobrow said.

“We will be showing children still shots from old animated shows that they won’t necessarily have any association with, and we will be asking the children about the characters. ‘Are they a good guy? Who’s the bad guy? How do you know that? Who’s strong? Who’s weak?’” Dobrow explained.

The second part of this stage concerns the sociolinguistic findings of the research. Mirroring the first part of the stage, Dobrow and her fellow researchers plan to present the children with audio files of certain characters to analyze their responses. “[ The children] will have characters with various dialects saying things pretty normally, like, ‘Can you please pass the popcorn?’ We’re going to see what children say about the character [based on their voice],” Dobrow said.

While research abounds at EPCS, Gebretensae emphasized that the school is, first and foremost, about the children. She added that children also benefit from the research that takes place in their school.

“There’s so much richness [the researchers] bring into the classroom because they have all this knowledge and cutting-edge research,” she said. “The kids learn from that about risk taking, being creative, problem solving, critical thinking. All those kinds of things happen because everyone around them actually does that.”

The children also benefit from the other Tufts departments and resources that the school can use to enrich the education it offers, according to Cavazos.

For example, she pointed to the educational effects that the Developmental Technologies Research Group at Tufts brought to students by teaching first and second graders how to code and program robots.

“University students are learning a ton about educating and about building for this age bracket, and we’re benefiting with this amazing program with 7-year-olds writing code,” she said. “And that’s typical.

That’s a typical thing to happen here.”

Gebretensae is most proud of the depth and breadth of the education offered at Eliot-Pearson.

“The other thing is the innovation of how we teach here and how we engage not only children but [also] teachers themselves and the families,” she said. “How we build this community of learners at the school is something I’m very proud of.”

Cavazos said that while the parents of the students often do not know what kind of research their children will be participating in, they often come in with high expectations.

“That’s the magic of Eliot-Pearson,” Cavazos said. “They know they’re going to get something good and they have this expectation, but I’ve learned that family involvement and community makes it that much more special.”

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ARTS&LIVING ALBUM REVIEW

Charli XCX branches out into hip-hop in new album

by Paige Spangenthal Assistant Arts Editor

Charli XCX’s latest album, “Number 1 Angel” (2017), is a great cure for postspring-break blues. The colorful, playful sound could combat the grayest of skies and the dirty slush that characterize late-March Boston weather. There is something about Charli XCX’s sex appeal that can transport an unhappy, cold student in New England to a steamy nightclub in Los Angeles.

If Charli’s previous album, “Sucker” (2014) is about glamour and rock and roll, “Number 1 Angel” ventures into the territories of hip-hop, rap and trap music. It is refreshing to hear Charli branch out and explore, but the style of “Sucker” works better with her sound. None of the tracks on Charli’s latest album quite top the fun of “Break The Rules,” “Boom Clap” and “Doing It.” “Number 1 Angel” starts with “Dreamer,” a song that demonstrates Charli’s bad-girl attitude, confidence and candor. In addition to singer and rapper Starrah, the track features up-and-coming singer-songwriter Raye. The best moment in “Dreamer” is when Raye raps, “Yeah, this party’s kinda s— / Should we dip in

your whip?” This line demonstrates the feminine apathy and arrogance that characterizes “Number 1 Angel.” This notion is reinforced by the title of the song “ILY2,” which reduces a powerful and meaningful phrase (‘I love you too’) to casual chat-speak.

Gwen Stefani’s influence on Charli XCX is clear in “Number 1 Angel.” Both singers have something dry and gravelly behind their voices, which is especially evident in Charli’s “Emotional.” Charli XCX contributed to Stefani’s 2016 album, “This Is What the Truth Feels Like,” demonstrating a reciprocal artistic relationship between the singers.

“Number 1 Angel” could be considered the cocky and naïve younger sister of “This Is What the Truth Feels Like.”

The featured artists on “Number 1 Angel” were aptly picked. Starrah, Raye, MØ, Uffie, ABRA and cupcakKe form an intimidating musical clique. They add elements of rap and other vocal abilities that complement Charli’s abilities well.

The collaboration with cupcakKe in “Lipgloss” is particularly striking. cupcakKe’s verses are almost too bold, even by Charli’s standards. In the same breath, she raps

“Serve you p—- for your lunch, so let me wear a hairnet” and “Yeah, we keep more eyes on us than the show iCarly.” Later, she says “So sticky, Winnie The Pooh ain’t got shit on this.” The strange meld of raucous sexual imagery and references to children’s television shows is a bit too jarring. Charli’s repetition of the phrase “I keep it sticky icky like lipgloss” is also cringe-worthy.

The use of repetition ventures into irksome territory at some points in the album.

For example, in “Babygirl,” Charli sings the line “I’ll be your baby girl, your baby girl” 18 times. The reaction of some listeners may be, ‘Okay, we get it.’ Repetition is sacred to pop music as an art form, and it certainly works well in some cases, such as Rihanna’s “Work” (2016), in which she somehow manages to inject emotion into the simple chant, “Work, work, work, work, work, work.”

Unfortunately, Charli’s repetition does not achieve the same mastery.

Overall, “Number 1 Angel” is a bright and fun album, yet it does not offer anything new to mainstream pop music today. While certainly exploring new genres, Charli XCX ends up imitating other artists and trends.

TELEVISION REVIEW

‘The Great British Bake Off’ is the antidote to American reality TV

by Cassidy Olsen Arts Editor

The United States has an obsession with reality television. From the contrived, highstakes drama of shows like “The Bachelor” (2002–present) and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” (2007–present) to media coverage of the man we recently elected president, we seem to crave learning all the details of someone’s life, all while knowing full well how much of it has been constructed for the screen. The aspect of competition adds another layer of absurdity and intrigue to many of our favorites. Even our competitive cooking shows like “Top Chef” (2006–present) place drama and tears centerstage.

While there’s no denying the lurid appeal of these shows, their intensity has begun to wear on many. Particularly in this tense social and political climate, one can only take so many thrown glasses of wine on “The Real Housewives” franchise (2006–present) without wanting to throw something themselves.

That’s where “The Great British Bake Off” (2010–present) comes in.

“Bake Off,” as it’s commonly referred to in the UK, is the antidote to American reality television. Filmed in a grand white tent on the sweeping lawns of English estates, the show features a group of home bakers from throughout the UK, competing on weekends (respecting their daily lives and schedules) to become the top amateur baker of breads, pies, cakes and all sorts of delicious and funny-sounding pastries. The contestants are overwhelmingly hardworking, kind and earnest, and they range from high school students to middle-aged teachers to retired construction workers. Until 2016, the series was broadcast by the BBC. Hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins loaded silly puns and double entendre into each of their segments but managed to support the contestants throughout their challenges, while judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood provided constructive criticism and occasionally bestowed the highest of praises — “scrummy” — on their favorite bakes. No plate-throwing or screaming to be found.

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Judge Paul Hollywood and former judge Mary Berry pose for a photo on the set of ‘The Great British Bake Off.’ “Bake Off” made its debut in 2010, but only reached these shores as “The Great British Baking Show” on American Netflix in late 2015. After the sole season was taken down in 2016, the show recently returned to Netflix with two other seasons, much to the delight of its new American fans. The U.S. equivalent “Baking Show” is a bit confusing because of its disordered seasons (season 1 is series 5 from 2014 in the UK, season 2 is series 4 from 2013), but nothing really seems to mark the year or era within each episode to distract you from its main purpose: Each season is evergreen and timelessly appealing.

Perhaps Netflix chose the seasons it did because they are truly exemplary of the show overall. Season 2 in particular features a range of delightful contestants and a hodgepodge of challenges that will both confuse and enthrall American viewers.

There’s Ruby, a beautiful first-year philosophy student who constantly doubts herself and is always twisting her expression into one of confusion or surprise. There’s also Howard, the “Bake Off” equivalent of Severus Snape who wears killer patterned button-downs while churning out adorable bakes like “peach buns.” Like in any good competition, viewers will pick and mourn

the loss of their favorites along the way, but never with vitriol for the others on screen.

Most bakes appear rustic and approachably delicious in their final state, but even the tackiest, most American of challenges in season 2 — baking a dairy-free, 3D novelty cake — yielded hilariously British results: cakes in the shape of an English vegetable garden, a toadstool and a cutting board with cheese.

Baking terms like “sponge,” “proofing drawer,” “saucy pud,” and “bap” may sound like nonsense to non-Britons, but it’s easy to catch on once you’re a few episodes deep, wrapped up in the quaint but no less impressive challenges. Many of the technical challenges feature international bakes that are foreign even to the contestants but yield beautiful results.

“Bake Off” will return this year on Channel 4 in the UK, with new hosts Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig and new judge Prue Leith joining remaining judge Hollywood after Giedroyc, Perkins and Berry decided to stay with BBC. PBS will begin airing a ‘fourth’ season of “Baking Show” on June 16, so Americans who have had their fill of the feelgood episodes available on Netflix will be able to watch on a weekly basis. Just make sure you don’t accidentally find the winners online and spoil the fun.

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Antonio Bertolino Art á Porter

Hussein Chalayan and the wow factor in fashion

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s our attention spans are getting shorter and as social media is becoming an increasingly vital resource for fashion brands to stay relevant, it is key for designers to possess the ability to surprise their audiences. Hussein Chalayan, a British/Turkish Cypriot designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins, can arguably do this better than anyone else in the industry.

From the very beginning of his career, he has always started the process of designing clothes with the purpose of telling a story.

Often known for incorporating state-ofthe-art technology in his clothes, Chalayan never fails to deliver shows that can be likened to performance art pieces.

One instance in which Chalayan blew his audience’s mind through his clothes was for his Fall-Winter 2000 show, “Afterwords.” When the lights came on, the catwalk resembled more of a stage for a theatrical play, presenting four armchairs and a coffee table. Four models walked in wearing plain white dresses and slowly started taking the lining off the chairs and, as they did so, wrapped the lining around themselves, turning what used to be covering the four chairs into dresses. The most spectacular moment, however, was when a fifth model walked onto the stage, stepped into a hole in the center of the coffee table and pulled it up onto her waist, forming a cone-like skirt. During “Afterwords,” not only did the designer show his unparalleled skill in cutting techniques, but he also tangibly displayed his belief that clothes can alter the wearer’s identity. The four models went from wearing plain white dresses to physically putting furniture on their bodies.

By having them do this, Chalayan highlighted how different clothes make us perceive people differently.

Another demonstration of Chalayan’s unique vision was his Spring-Summer show of 2008, “Readings,” which was released in the form of a fashion film. The collection he presented at the event featured several dresses covered in Swarovski crystals that emanated red laser beams. The lasers were attached to each dress in a way that made them move and constantly change the audience’s perception of the piece. In an interview with Vogue, the fashion designer stated that this choice represented “the interplay between a scrutinized figure and the audience which keep that interplay alive.”

It is interesting to compare such a collection, which puts emphasis on the act of viewing rather than on the object itself, with recent works of media art, such as Tony Oursler’s “template/variant/friend/stranger” (2014). Exhibited during Art Basel in 2016, this work is composed of seven photographic panels of faces punctured with projected eyes or mouths. The artist further explored this concept by premiering a similar work titled “L*ng,” at the Armory Show in New York last month. Like Chalayan, Oursler uses a mix of technology and visual stimuli in order to critically evaluate the act of viewing and specifically to examine visual recognition techniques and their impact on people’s daily lives.

Antonio Bertolino is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Antonio can be reached at antonio.bertolino@tufts.edu.

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Monday, March 27, 2017

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Does Mr. Trump know what a U.S. refugee is?

by Arthur Desloges On March 6, President Donald Trump re-issued an executive order suspending the United States Refugee Admissions Program pending review. Per the administration, the order was undertaken to ensure that refugees “do not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.” Trump said, “We have no idea who these people are,” and that this and other immigration practices put our country “in peril” as justification for his actions. It certainly makes sense to ensure our borders are secure and our refugee program is sufficiently robust to keep us safe.

After all, we live in a country with millions of illegal immigrants and what seems like weekly mass shootings (many of them terrorist-inspired), and nothing seems to be stopping them. It is entirely sensible to ask, “Who are these refugees, what is their threat, and will Mr. Trump’s orders make us safer?”

A refugee is a person forced to flee their home country due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Broadly speaking, the U.S. Refugee Program not only offers resettlement for “humanitarian reasons,” but it aims to establish U.S. leadership as the moral champion of democracy, individual rights, free speech, etc. Over the years, U.S. refugees have included Bosnians escaping genocide, Yazidi women (from Iraq) fleeing imprisonment as sex slaves by ISIS and Cuban dissidents facing political repression from the Castro regime.

Is it possible, as Mr. Trump claims, that we will be overrun by these refugees and our welfare will be threatened? First, some facts.

There were 85,000 refugees admitted to the United States, many of them women and children, in 2016. About half (46 percent) were Muslim and half (44 percent) were Christian. They came from countries all over the world, including China, Ukraine, Burma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and also Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. At these levels, they will have an insignificant impact on the U.S. economy. There are 123.6 million Americans with full-time jobs, so the impact on the labor market is negligible. Similarly, there are more than 70 million students in

America, so it is not realistic to believe they will crowd out others. The U.S. Refugee budget for all refugees is 0.014 percent of the United States’ 2016 budget. Some may argue we should cut back on this amount and others may argue the opposite; but as a matter of reality, our economy and our welfare are not impacted in the least.

In terms of our protection, why does Mr. Trump believe our security is imminently threatened? Or the process broken?

Entry to the United States was severely curtailed after 9-11, including through the U.S. Refugee Program. Because a terrorist attack had been committed by foreign nationals, our government wanted to assure that this attack was not a continuing or organized threat to the homeland. But there was no recent attack preceding Mr. Trump’s directive. Nor was he briefed by career professionals of some weakness in our system requiring immediate attention. I am all in favor of a review of the program, but absent an imminent threat or perceived weakness, these entry restrictions seem out of line based only on Mr. Trump’s (who has no professional background in this area) say-so.

Almost nonsensically, the order spells out in Section 4 how Mr. Trump would improve the process. He orders that the program should conduct in-person interviews, checks against data bases and fraudulent identity checks. It turns out that the current process already requires at least three in-person interviews, independent checks against FBI and Homeland Security databases and three fraudulent identity checks that include photographs and fingerprints. Not only does the order fail to offer any new process improvements, but it fails to substantiate what security weakness it is solving.

Unlike in Europe, refugees in the United States are not housed in processing centers for months. Each individual or family here is sponsored by a resettlement agency; many are churches and religious groups. These families are assisted on a day-to-day basis to integrate into American life including help with employment, schools, cultural assimilation, etc. Unlike in Europe, U.S. refugees have undergone a vetting process that takes an average of eighteen months; they did not recently walk across the border with large

groups of asylum seekers. The point here is that, in addition to a long and extensive vetting process pre-entry, there is a one-on-one assistance process post-entry that can detect abnormalities.

No one in the Refugee Resettlement Program has committed any acts of terrorism against the U.S. since 9-11. The counterargument to all this is the horrific attack during the Boston Marathon. The Marathon bombers and their parents were admitted through a U.S. asylum program (a different program). A U.S. refugee is pre-approved and pre-vetted to enter the United States in contrast to someone in the asylum program who arrives without pre-approval. Technical definitions aside, the would-be bombers and their parents were not terrorists at the time of their arrival and would have passed any anti-terrorist screening. So, Mr. Trump’s order would have done nothing to protect us. His order prevents people from entering the United States and does not monitor them once they are here, nor does it monitor their children. The Marathon bombers lived in this country for more than 10 years before they were radicalized, and detecting this type of threat requires an entirely different approach.

Likewise with the Orlando Night Club attacker. He was an American with Afghan parents. As Mr. Trump said, if we didn’t let his parents in, he wouldn’t be here. Well, how far back does this argument go? If would-be parents, and eventually grandparents from troubled countries were denied U.S. entry, most of us wouldn’t be here.

What we really have to fear is what’s next.

What about the refugees that arrived the previous day or a year ago or a lifetime ago? I pray we do not see another terrorist attack here or anywhere. But experts say it is more likely to be caused by someone who has been in this country a long time and not from new refugees. Will Mr. Trump’s next orders be more draconian restrictions, surveillance of descendants of immigrants, mass deportation camps? I say there is no harm in re-reviewing the program, but the entry restrictions should stop.

Arthur Desloges is a retired NYC banking executive and current student at the Fletcher School.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

‘Life, Animated’ screening As head of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, I feel compelled to respond to Aaron Herman’s Op-Ed article in a recent edition of the Daily (“Ableism at Tufts and the ‘Life, Animated’ screening,” March 13). I was in the audience for the screening of “Life, Animated” as well as the panel discussion that followed and agree that some of the points Mr. Herman raised are important and need further discussion. The intent of this event was to be a first step in engaging discussions about presentations of autism

in media. The film and the panel discussion about it were presented as one family’s story. What is important is that we all had the opportunity to participate in an event that dealt with challenging issues not often engaged in the wider Tufts community.

We are sorry if members of The Coalition for Autism Support at Tufts (CAST) or other individuals felt their voices weren’t sufficiently heard. That certainly was not the intent of the event. I would urge Mr. Herman and CAST to reconsider the stance taken in the Op-Ed and move toward more rath-

er than less engagement with EliotPearson and others who are trying to learn and understand autism better.

I would be happy to sit down with Mr. Herman and his colleagues to see if we can begin to implement some of the suggestions in his article in ways that enrich the entire Tufts community. And we might have a few suggestions of our own.

Sincerely, David Henry Feldman, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development

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Evelyn Bellew and Jessica O'Flanagan Food for Thought

Poultry-archy

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nd on the seventh day, God saw all that He had created and said that it was good! And thus, he slaughtered the fatted calf and gave Adam charcoal to make his famous ribs.

Carnivority has outlasted creation into modern day, remaining a staple in the representation of the ‘masculine’ identity. While meat can be a part of a healthy diet, a recent study from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that men eat 57 percent more meat than women, far exceeding the recommended daily serving. So, why is meat so manly?

Media and marketing campaigns do an expert job of exploiting preconceived notions about gender to make a buck, often mobilizing sexuality as the biggest moneymaker.

When it comes to food, advertisement is no different. Meat sexualization, a bizarre and yet widely used marketing approach, draws a distinct line between masculinity and meat consumption. In one example, LG Electronics’ advertisement of a microwave displays a chicken with bikini tan lines, positioned in a very suggestive manner. A Burger King advertisement shows a woman eating a burger with the caption “It will blow your mind away.”

There are millions of similar images that liken women to meat, each one clearly suited to appetize a masculine audience.

Some of these advertisements are hilariously ridiculous, but in scrolling through the pages and pages of images that equate women to meat and objectified both, they begin to lose their humor.

Scantily-clad chickens and unfortunate puns on the word ‘rack’ offer us more than just uncomfortable laughter – they offer a darker view into meat marketing, in which animals and women become property. With today’s dehumanizing marketing campaigns, it is increasingly easy to see a live animal and call it ‘dinner.’ It is even easier to ignore horrible conditions that an animal endures on its lifelong journey to our plates. But animals, we know, are more than just what they literally bring to the table; they have feelings, personalities, attitudes, humor and relationships.

Likewise, women are not just sexual props to make sultry facial expressions and furnish advertisements. Reducing both animals and women to the ways that they can serve masculine appetites is dehumanizing and unfair and can make consumers forget that they deserve respect.

Though most people might not look to sexualized poultry to answer the ‘big’ questions, we challenge you to see more than just a roasted toothsome duck shaped like an underwear model. In doing so, you might find that in objectifying animals based on their taste, we lose empathy for the living beings that make up our meals. So often we find ourselves intimidated and horrified by the lack of compassion we see in our lives or in the news; there are an infinite number of problems that simply cannot be solved by going vegetarian or writing a note to Burger King. However, compassion and empathy are always worthwhile ventures — ones that encourage us all to think critically and see past the shiny barbecue sauce for the sake of the greater good.

Evelyn Bellew is a sophomore majoring in environmental studies and political science. Evelyn can be reached at evelyn. bellew@icloud.com. Jessica O'Flanagan is a sophomore majoring in computer science and English. Jessica can be reached at jessica.o_flanagan@tufts.edu.

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THE TUFTS DAILY | Opinion | Monday, March 27, 2017

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continued from back with foul trouble, but at the beginning of the third quarter she started going off. I think she scored like 10 points in a row, and personally I was having trouble stopping her,” North said.

In the closing seconds of the third quarter, Langer connected on two free throws and continued that momentum into the final quarter, with back-toback lay-ups putting her team up 47-40.

Baptista’s made free throw interrupted Langer’s monopoly on scoring, but Langer scored two more lay-ups to put her team up 10, 51-41, with 6:21 left in the game. Senior Tommies guard Gabby Zehrer made a lay-up to take the game to 53-41, and the Jumbos found themselves down 12 with five and a half minutes to play.

DeCandido immediately responded with a three-point play to cut the lead to nine, and a free throw by Baptista further cut the lead to eight with 4:26 left in the game.

With less than three minutes left in the game, junior tri-captain point guard Lauren Dillon made a shot from beyond the arc to make it a two-possession game. North immediately followed up with two clutch free throws to pull within three, but a North foul gave Langer the opportunity to complete a threepoint play. Langer’s lay-up, her seventh of the night, extended the lead to five with 1:38 to play.

Langer missed the extra point, and the rebound was picked up by North, who passed it to Baptista. Baptista then converted it to three points on the other end, pulling within two with 1:24 left to play. Baptista followed up her offense with a steal on the inbound and another two points to tie the game at 55 apiece. Baptista missed the free throw, but Knapp stole the ball and converted once more from the outside to take a 58-55 lead with 32 seconds left in the game.

“Erica [DeCandido] found [Dillon] and [Dillon] made that pass to [soph-

omore guard] Jacqueline Knapp in the corner to make that three,” Berube said. “[Kaitlin] Langer was flying at her, all 6’3” of her, but [Knapp] got the shot off and shot it with confidence and that was the dagger. It was one of the best comebacks I had ever been a part of.”

Renikoff made a jump shot to pull within one, 57-58, with 11 seconds remaining, and St. Thomas began to foul Tufts. Sophomore guard Kaylie Brazil fouled Dillon, who made one free throw and then grabbed an offensive rebound off her own missed free throw, forcing St. Thomas to foul her again.

Dillon made one of two free throws again, taking the score to 60-57, the eventual score.

“We just looked at each other after the huddle, [senior co-captain guard] Josie [Lee] looked at me, and I think we knew that we weren’t going to lose that game,” North said. “We are a very resilient team and we are a team that battles to the end. We stuck with it and focused on our defense and just slowly cut the lead down.”

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Max Goder-Reiser Out of Left Field

Béisbol en Cuba

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ver spring break, I got to visit Havana, Cuba on an educational trip. Part of that education was learning about the Revolution, Fidel and the political history of Cuba. But the other part was learning about the culture of baseball on the island. From walking around Havana to visiting the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes to running into a random bar at night that happened to be showing the World Baseball Classic semifinal, baseball was ubiquitous.

One of the first things I saw in Havana was our neighbor watering his flowers wearing his Jordan Zimmermann Tigers’ shirsey — definitely unexpected. I kept a running tab during the trip of the shirseys I saw, totaling one Zimmermann, one Miguel Cabrera, two Alex Rodriguez’s, one José Fernández and one Yoenis Céspedes.

The most popular hats were the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox and Miami Marlins.

People seemed to drift toward MLB teams that either their family in the United States lives near or teams that signed their favorite Cuban players.

Most of the White Sox fans I talked with mentioned how they were big fans of José Abreu, with one guy at a market saying that Alexei Ramírez was his favorite player. I also passed a guy on the street wearing a shirt that read ‘A-Rod Saves.’ As as Red Sox fan, if I knew more Spanish, I would have loved to tell him that A-Rod does not, in fact, save.

One of the coolest things in Havana for me was to get to visit Esquina Caliente, the Hot Corner. It’s just a bench in the corner of Parque Central where people gather literally every day to debate baseball. I showed up at 12:30 p.m. and for the next half hour I sat alongside these mostly old men and listened to them debate baseball. It got heated at points, with people yelling at each other about how poorly Cuba had performed in the World Baseball Classic, but the guy who welcomed me into the circle and mercifully spoke English told me at the end that they’re all friends. One of the things I was able to pick up at the Hot Corner was the baseball fanatics lamenting how stupid it was for Cuba to forbid defectors from playing for the national team in ‘El Clásico.’ Getting to sit in and listen to these 30 or so men talk baseball was incredible and something I wish we had in the United States.

When visiting the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (the National Museum of Fine Arts), one thing that stuck out was the number of baseball-related paintings. I can’t remember a single painting in any of the big American art museums about baseball, but in Havana, there were at least four that I caught, speaking to the importance of baseball in Cuban culture.

The Cuban baseball season had already ended by the time I got to the country, but even in the offseason, it was easy to see how fundamental baseball is in Cuba, a change I would enjoy seeing in the United States.

Max Goder-Reiser is a senior majoring in biology. Max can be reached at max. goder_reiser@tufts.edu.

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Sports

Monday, March 27, 2017

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Tufts falls to Amherst 52-29 despite third quarter spurt

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Sophomore guard Jacqueline Knapp drives up the court during the Div. III Women’s Basketball Championship game against Amherst College at Calvin College on March 18.

by Alison Kuah Staff Writer

For the third time this season, Tufts found itself matched up against a familiar conference foe – Amherst – this time with the national championship on the line. Despite an offensive spurt to kick off the second half, Tufts was unable to recover from a sluggish start and fell 52-29 to Amherst on March 18.

“It’s hard to play well all tournament long and not play well in the championship game,” coach Carla Berube said. “You have to make shots against a defensive team like Amherst, but the game didn’t go so well.”

The defensive tone of the game was set in the opening minutes, with both teams unable to connect on their first four attempts at the basket. Amherst senior co-captain guard Ali Doswell kicked off scoring four minutes into play with a lay-up off a steal by senior point guard Jaimie Renner. Ali Doswell scored another two points to take her team total to seven in response to a layup from Tufts first-year forward Erica DeCandido. DeCandido’s basket would be the only points for the Jumbos in the first quarter.

“I saw the scoreboard and it was definitely weird seeing two points on the board up there for a long time,” senior tri-captain Michela North said. “They just executed better than us and got more stops.”

With Amherst carrying a narrow 7-2 lead into the second quarter, Tufts junior guard Jennie Mucciarone entered

the game, taking two attempts from beyond the arc in the first minute of the quarter but failing to connect both times. The Jumbos were unable to execute offensively in the second quarter and saw their opponent’s five-point lead extend to 20-6 as Amherst outscored Tufts 13-4 in the second.

“We just couldn’t make a basket, [and] when you score six points in the first half, that doesn’t bode well for winning a game, but I didn’t let it get to me,” North said. “At halftime, we were down by 14, [but] we had come back from a 12-point deficit with five minutes left [against St. Thomas] so we knew comebacks were possible. We did have hope going into halftime, and we knew it was going to be a low-scoring game, just not that low.”

After sitting briefly in the second quarter, North re-entered the game to score the team’s only baskets of the quarter. The Jumbos finished a season-low 15.8 percent from the field in the first half, connecting on just 3-of-19.

The Jumbos’ leading scorer, junior forward Melissa Baptista, recovered from 0-of-7 shooting in the first half to score her team’s first three-pointer of the day, narrowing the gap to 9-20. Two more quick jump shots by sophomore guard Jacqueline Knapp and North narrowed the gap even further as the Jumbos pulled within seven points of their opponents, 13-20.

North responded with another jump shot minutes later, responding to two free throws made by Amherst sopho-

more guard/forward Emma McCarthy, but that seven-point margin would be the closest Tufts got to its opponents for the rest of the game.

“It’s hard not having a break from one really intense emotional game to bring it all into the next day,” Berube said. “Maybe we just didn’t have as much gas in the tank as we needed.”

McCarthy made another pair of free throws followed by a lay-up to regain her team’s double digit lead, 26-15, with just under five minutes left in the third.

Amherst senior co-captain forward Meredith Doswell scored her second three-pointer of the game to extend her team’s lead to 13 at 32-19, but Baptista converted on a pair of free throws to narrow the lead to 11, 32-21, headed to the final quarter.

Baptista kicked off the fourth quarter with a block on Amherst junior Hannah Hackley but turned the ball over on the following possession. Following a missed jump shot by Ali Doswell, Baptista took two more shots from behind the arc in an attempt to narrow the gap but failed to connect.

Amherst continued to extend their lead in the final quarter, holding Tufts scoreless until 5:39 left in the game, when DeCandido made a jump shot to cut the point-deficit to 15, 23-38.

With less than five minutes left in the championship, the Jumbos put Ali Doswell on the line three more times, with Doswell converting on all six free throws and making it clear that the game was all but over. Amherst seized the 52-29 win, with Ali Doswell finish-

ing the night with 21 points and Most Valuable Player honors.

North, Tufts’ all-time leading scorer and rebounder, garnered her 15th career double-double in the national tournament with a team-high 14 points and 10 rebounds, going 6-for-11 from the floor.

“Amherst is a great team, beating us three times, and for those to be our only three losses, I’m okay with it because I know what a great team they are,” North said. “NESCAC basketball is, in my opinion, one of the strongest leagues in the country, [and] I think even more NESCAC teams could have made the championship to begin with.”

The underwhelming finish to the national championship game was drastically different from the night before, when Tufts recovered from a 12-point deficit with just 5:30 left in the game against St. Thomas.

Tufts carried a five-point lead, 30-25, heading into the second half, but balanced scoring by St. Thomas tied the score at 37 apiece with 4:10 left in the third. After St. Thomas sophomore center Hannah Spaulding scored two free throws and sophomore guard Lucia Renikoff ’s jump shot put their team ahead 41-37, Baptista responded with a three-pointer to pull Tufts back within one, 41-40.

“St. Thomas is a great team and they have an amazing post player in senior center Kaitlin Langer. We kept her quiet to start off the game, and she was out see WOMEN'S BASKETBALL, page 11