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‘Wuzee’ hopes to grow, gain visibilty at tonight’s showcase see ARTS&LIVING / PAGE 4

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Owners of Dave’s Fresh Pasta to open new restaurant near 574 Boston Ave.

by Anar Kansara Staff Writer

The owners of Dave’s Fresh Pasta, a specialty food and wine market in Davis Square, are planning to open a small new restaurant and bar in late spring on the edge of the Tufts campus, near the Collaborative Innovation and Learning Complex at 574 Boston Ave., called Semolina Kitchen and Bar. According to Robert Chihade, Tufts’ director of real estate, the new restaurant’s concept was selected from proposals by Dave’s and another interested restaurant group.

“Dave and [General Manager Christina Theophanis]’s concept was selected based on community and institutional comfort, a menu, a long history and knowledge of their food and personalities,” Chihade told the Daily in an email.

According to Theophanis, Semolina Kitchen and Bar will be a more sitdown style establishment compared to the original shop, and it will feature indoor and outdoor seating. Chihade added that Semolina will have a full liquor license and will serve cocktails, but will not be a “full bar.”

“We’re going to be open in the morning for coffee, pastries … and a more continental-type breakfast, and then [we’ll] go into lunch and then into dinner,” Theophanis said.

The new restaurant will be a causal place for food and drink, Theophanis said. In addition, there will be take-out service and a pizza oven. The restaurant is planned to open in late spring of this year.

“We’re really excited about it and grateful for the opportunity with Tufts,” Theophanis said. “We feel like over the years we really developed a great relationship with the university, and we look forward to keeping it going.”

Theophanis said the idea of the new shop was borne out of the opportunity to occupy a vacant building on Boston Ave. The restaurant will be housed in a retrofitted industrial building, according to the building’s designer, Incite Architecture firm.

“The building became an opportunity for us, and then we decided what’s good for the neighborhood and community up there in Medford and how we can compliment [Dave’s Fresh Pasta],” Theophanis said. see DAVE'S, page 2

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Union of Concerned Scientists president calls for resistance to Trump environmental policies

by Robert Katz News Editor

Ken Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), delivered a lecture on potential rollbacks to environmental policies under President Donald Trump’s administration, as well as the efforts being made by the environmental community to combat these rollbacks.

The discussion, titled “Climate Strategy During the Trump Years,” took place yesterday in the Alumnae Lounge and was the 150th installment of the Environmental Studies Program’s weekly Lunch and Learn lecture series.

Kimmell was preceded by several speakers, including Professor Colin Orians of the Environmental Studies Program, who discussed the Lunch and Learn series’ beginnings in 2011. Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of Arts and Sciences Barbara Brizuela then introduced Kimmell.

Kimmell began the lecture by say-

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ing Trump is both a threat to efforts to combat climate change, as well as a possible galvanizing presence for environmentalists.

“The dark cloud is the combination of four words: climate change and Donald Trump,” Kimmell said. “The silver lining is that there are opportunities that we can get from resisting what we think is going to happen.”

Describing Trump’s view of climate change, Kimmell talked about the president’s claim that climate change is a hoax propagated by the Chinese government. Kimmell added that Congress is particularly beholden to special business interests due to a 2010 Supreme Court ruling, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that has allowed corporations to give uncapped amounts of money to political groups.

“Congress’ desire is essentially to transfer power away from these federal agencies [such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)] that are armed with experts and scientists and are mak-

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ing policy based on the facts, and transfer that power back to Congress, where every one of these issues becomes a political football and in which vested interests start out with an advantage,” he said.

In terms of the public, Kimmell believes citizens have lost trust in many institutions claiming to help them discern fact from fiction.

Among the threats directly posed by the Trump administration, Kimmell first brought up the transience of regulations on carbon emissions, such as the Clean Power Plan and fuel economy standards.

These regulations were issued by former President Barack Obama to help meet the United States’ promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26-to-28 percent by 2025, as part of the Paris Agreement.

“The problem is [regulations on carbon emissions] are just regulations,” Kimmell said. “They’re not in law. President Obama issued them and just as he can do them unilaterally, President Trump can undo them unilaterally. And so the combination of weakening or repealing these

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and [other] various actions that the president has talked about in his campaign are quite dramatic.”

The speaker also noted that actions can be taken that would be difficult for a future president or Congress to repeal. Among these is increased usage of the Congressional Review Act, which, according to Kimmell, allows Congress to overturn regulations that have recently been issued and prohibit agencies from issuing anything similar without Congress’s permission.

Kimmell also warned that what he referred to as “anti-science laws” have been making their way through Congress, including the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which does not allow a regulation to go into effect unless both houses of Congress approve it.

“The problem with allowing Congress to do that is that it will basically paralyze all of this work, because it is very difficult

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continued from page 1 to get any law passed in Congress and any regulation that imposes any real costs on industry would be bitterly opposed,” Kimmell said. “If a law like that got put in place, even if we had the best president coming in to succeed Mr. Trump, he or she would have their hands tied in trying to address what was done.”

Kimmell added that agencies such as the EPA and the Department of Energy could have their budgets cut, citing a circulating proposal to slash the EPA’s budget by 24 percent. In addition, he believes the administration is censoring its scientists, particularly through threats to EPA scientists preventing them from publicly speaking about their work.

“Imagine if we took a U-turn and the government all of a sudden started funding all the crackpot alternative theories about climate change and became a propaganda machine of doubt,” Kimmell said. “That would be a very, very scary prospect.”

The silver lining, for Kimmell, has been the public outcry to the Trump administration’s actions. He referenced the Women’s March, as well as the Indivisible Movement, as incarnations of this resistance.

“We have what I would say is a coalition of fact-based people. It’s broad and it’s strong and I’m proud as part of the Union of Concerned Scientists to be part of that,” Kimmell said.

The UCS, according to Kimmell, is devoted to mobilizing scientists across the country to resist the administration, and to protect government scientists from abuse and the suppression of their work.

In addition, Kimmell said UCS will work to block “scorched earth” bills in Congress.

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President of Union of Concerned Scientists Ken Kimmell (third from left), who spoke at the 150th Environmental Studies Lunch and Learn, is pictured on Sept. 6, 2012.

Among other possible actions to support environmentalism, Kimmell called on Tufts to divest from fossil fuels.

“For all of us to meet those goals in Paris, about two-thirds of the reserves in coal and gas have to stay in the ground.

That means that oil company, coal company, gas company stocks are a bubble right now which eventually is going to burst,” Kimmell said. “The question for this university is whether to sell off those assets while the market is still valuing them highly or wait until this bubble bursts, and I think that the economically proven thing to do in addition to the mor-

ally right thing to do is to divest now.”t.

Ending the lecture, Kimmell mentioned that UCS would sponsor the March for Science on April 22 in Washington, D.C., as well as the People’s Climate March a week later.

“This is the real opportunity we have as a country to get out and resist,” Kimmell said. “Part of the theory of [the People’s Climate March] is to link hands between the climate movement and other movements because so many communities are under attack.”

Miranda Willson contributed reporting to this article.

Restaurant next to 574 Boston Ave. designed after community input DAVE'S

continued from page 1 The idea for a restaurant was presented in a 2015 neighborhood meeting and was well-received, according to Chihade. “[ We’re] catering to the neighborhood, as there’s really no food up there,” Theophanis said. “The aspect of having all three meals and some retail stuff available is good for the community.”

Chihade said that Tufts hopes the restaurant will be welcomed and successful on campus as a community amenity. According to Theophanis, the community is a large part of the new restaurant project, and she expects both Tufts students and Medford community members as customers.

“We’re a very community-based business here in Somerville and part of the reason why we’re so successful is because we have support from our community, and we’ll need that in Medford too,” she said.

Theophanis predicted that the restaurant’s proximity to campus will likely draw many Tufts students. Theophanis noted that Tufts itself has been helpful as a facilitator for the restaurant’s development.

“We’re really lucky to have Tufts involved, for sure,” Theophanis said.

Hans Reuter, a junior majoring in chemical engineering, said that the restaurant will be a helpful amenity, given the general lack of food options

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574 Boston Ave. is pictured on Oct. 12, 2015. in that part of campus.

“It would be really convenient to have a place where students can go and get food on this side of campus because it seems like all of the food places are on the other side of campus,” Reuter said. “When people go to SciTech and 574, it’s really hard to access any food items.”

Graduate student Kim Hallett agreed that the restaurant will add to that area of the Tufts campus.

“I feel like this spot of Tufts is kind of food barren, aside from having to go to the dining halls,” Hallett said. “So it’s nice to have another option.”

Daniel Caron contributed reporting to this article.

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Open Call, open minds: new campus space seeks to build connection, community

COURTESY KHUYEN BUI

Students participate in a discussion during a Tufts Open Call meeting in Dowling Hall on Nov. 30, 2016

by Ilana Goldberg Contributing Writer

Disclaimer: Khuyen Bui is a columnist for The Tufts Daily. He was not inolved in the writing of this article.

Wanting to give members of the Tufts community a space to do and share what they love with others, several students came up with the idea for Tufts Open Call, a new community on campus, last spring. As the name suggests, Open Call provides a space for anyone affiliated with Tufts to build connections with each other over different activities each week.

“Open Call is a manifestation of my hope to create [a community] for people to come together and do things that are meaningful and that they enjoy,” senior Khuyen Bui, a founding member of the group, said.

Open Call, which hosted its first event in November of 2016, gathers weekly on alternating Wednesday and Thursday nights in the Dowling Hall lounge at 8:45 p.m., according to Bui. The students who organize Open Call purposefully avoid a hierarchical leadership structure. There are no presidents or club leaders, and they describe it as a community rather than a club. Sophomore James Ray, who is actively involved in Open Call, said everyone is encouraged to get involved with planning weekly events.

“One of the most important things about Open Call is that we keep it open,” Ray said. “We make it so that anybody who has ideas about the kind of events they want to plan can jump in, and we’ll help

make them a reality.”

Bui said that he decided that the Dowling Hall lounge would be the ideal place to host Open Call events after having attended an art show there in April 2016.

“That night, when we saw artists and musicians coming into Dowling Hall lounge, we just thought, ‘This is such an amazingly beautiful space,’” he said. “I told myself, ‘Let’s use that space.’ I think it has so much potential.”

Aside from the aesthetics of Dowling, Bui also hopes to bring beauty and creativity to a building generally associated with admissions, career planning and paperwork, all of which tend to create a stressful environment. Before each meeting, Ray and others transform the Dowling Hall lounge by stringing around colorful lights, putting out food and pushing away the chairs. This is meant to create an atmosphere in which people feel comfortable and to set the scene for the events of the night.

Senior Juleen Wong, another active member of Open Call who played a major role in its inception, described the typical sequence of events of the weekly gatherings. The group begins by posing a thought-provoking question, such as, “What do you taste like?” or “What smells remind you of your teenage years?”

“It’s a way to get people in the mindset of the activities to come,” Wong said. “We try to make it a fun question that makes you think outside your daily routine.”

Afterwards, the group participates in a theme-related activity. Last semester, the broad theme was “anchoring.” This semester’s theme is “childhood sensations,” according to Wong.

“These themes help people connect

in very fundamental ways,” Ray said. “It’s stuff that everybody has experienced.”

Each week, a specific aspect of the theme is explored. For example, a few weeks ago, the space was devoted to the sense of smell, according to Wong. Participants were paired up with strangers to get to know each other and then described them using scents. They also worked together to create a unique smell out of ordinary spices and other fragrances, Wong, who helped plan the activities for that week, said.

“The ability for smell to evoke a memory is kind of crazy, so we wanted to play around with that,” Wong said. “We also wanted to think about our tendency to make assumptions, and a lot of times we’re kind of scared to acknowledge that we do it constantly, so we were hoping to tie that in to the discussions and activities.”

Ray described an Open Call activity that he planned last semester in which everyone was blindfolded and then received a massage from someone else present.

“You never found out who it was, so the idea was you have this connection to 30 random people,” Ray said. “The whole idea is to create connections, and the way to do that is to break down people’s barriers. You have to get them in the kind of mood where they’re willing to make connections and interact with strangers.”

Each week, the activities end with closing circle to bring everyone back together for a final discussion.

“Sometimes we go around and share a takeaway, and that’s probably one of my favorite parts of the event,” Wong said.

“People have some really amazing insight, and a lot of times they reference what

someone else shared, someone they haven’t met before. It’s cool to see those connections being built.”

At the end of the gathering, people usually stay longer to talk to each other, building further on the bonds they had just made.

“One of the nicest things I’ve heard, feedback wise, is that people tell me, ‘I’ve just made this friend at Open Call.’ People feel they have made new friends,” Ray said.

All of those involved in Open Call have high hopes for its future. Already, the size of Open Call gatherings has grown to over 30 people each week, according to Wong. While there are many regulars, new people come each time.

The Open Call community is not just limited to Tufts students. According to Bui, professors, graduate students and other Tufts affiliates have been involved. Bui hopes to eventually expand this further by getting children involved to bring even more perspectives.

“We are just creating space in a community for many people that are yearning for that kind of meaningful connection,” Bui said. “I think the majority of Tufts students have not really found a community yet, or have found a community, but get stuck in that and want to meet different people.”

According to Bui, Open Call plays another important role in the Tufts community by creating a space for people to put aside their worries.

“We want people to have a sense of wonder and magic in [their] daily lives,” Bui said. “We also like to make people realize that they too can make magic, and they do.”

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y first year at Tufts, I would take day trips to New York. I would take the 7 a.m. Greyhound bus, Uber from Port Authority to the High Line, visit the galleries in Chelsea, have a quick lunch and head back to Boston around 6 p.m. This year, I am less stressed about my workload and I don’t feel the pressure to stay on campus as much, thus my getaways are longer, though still no more than two days. When I tell people this, especially Americans, they look at me as if I’m crazy. That being said, going to New York is how I cope with staying 4500 miles away from home. Although I love Boston and think it is a great city for art, sometimes it just doesn’t cut it.

Recently, I was having a conversation with one of my friends who is majoring in art history and when she asked me about my summer plans, I told her I was thinking about interning “either here or London.” I quickly corrected myself, saying by “here” I meant New York. It made sense for both of us that one would want a career in arts in New York as opposed to Boston, and Boston’s close proximity to New York makes day trips and internships possible.

Why do I feel the need visit New York?

Well a lot of things come to mind. Firstly, New York has a thriving art market, which is shamefully missing in Boston. Besides the SoWa district, there aren’t many commercial contemporary galleries around, and those galleries exhibit local artists instead of established ones. All the art fairs, auction houses or prestigious art publications are located either in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Miami.

That said, I still support the idea that Boston is a great art center. As Assistant Professor of Art History Jacob Stewart-Halevy told me in one of our meetings, the Boston art scene is based around academic circles. For those who wish to pursue a career in the business side of arts, this might be not ideal, but for aspiring professors and museum curators, Boston is the place to be.

Think about it. Boston has The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), one of the most visited art museums in the world. Its collection, in any field of art history, is truly praiseworthy. For classical art, there is Isabella Stewart Gardner. For contemporary art the Institute of Contemporary Art offers plenty of exhibitions and activities to look forward to. Harvard Art Museums and the MIT List Visual Centers always feature innovative, groundbreaking shows. In addition, we have two great art schools, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, which keep the art scene young and fresh.

When people ask me to compare the Istanbul art scene to the one in Boston, I don’t know what to say. Compared to Boston, the scene in Istanbul is very market driven. As I am getting more used to living here, I am also slowly getting accustomed to its art scene. I love learning about art as opposed to talking numbers and values, and I have come to realize that what makes a great art city is more related to experiencing art than owning it.

Polykhroma is an independent curating collective founded by eight students excited to encourage active engagement among our community with the arts.

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Traditional Chinese dance group ‘Wuzee’ prepares for debut showcase

COURTESY WUZEE

The new Chinese dance group, Wuzee, performs ‘Flowers in the Rain’ at the International Club’s Parade of Nations on March 4.

by Setenay Mufti

Assistant Arts Editor

Tufts Wuzee is a Chinese dance fusion group whose dedication to traditional Chinese culture through dance makes it a gem among all of the cultural fusion clubs on campus. Still in its infancy, Wuzee’s first ever showcase this Friday, titled “Through the Looking Glass,” might bring the group the visibility it is looking for.

The showcase will take place today at 8 p.m. in Cohen Auditorium, and is co-sponsored by the Chinese Students Association, Global China Connection and the Tufts Confucius Institute. Spirit of Color, Tufts Tamasha, Full Sound and Boston’s own Dance Revelasian will be featured in the show as guest performers. Tickets are free and available at the Campus Center information booth or on tuftstickets.com.

The name Wuzee (舞姿) from Chinese to “a dancer’s aura and energy.” The group was founded in 2014 as a subgroup of the Chinese Student Association (CSA) at Tufts by a small group of students who had practiced different kinds of dance independently before coming to campus, according to sophomore Leila Li, a member of Wuzee. It has brought a welcomed performative aspect to the CSA and has performed in the CSA’s New Year Gala, as well as the International Club’s Parade of Nations and other student cultural events. By 2016, Wuzee had garnered enough interest and support to break off from CSA and form an independent student group.

Wuzee originally began as a way to combine traditional Chinese and American hiphop dance styles — with a little bit of jazz thrown in — to reflect the dance experiences of many of its founding members. But as time went on, members felt the need to represent Chinese history, tradition and aesthetics through dance, without always including a cultural fusion aspect.

Of Wuzee’s 20 members, three of them have had experience with traditional Chinese dance since childhood, and the other 17 all learned the dance styles after having joined the club, according to Li. Li, who has been a member of Wuzee for the past year-and-a-half, said she appreciates

the opportunity to join a group specifically dedicated to Chinese dance.

“As much as I love Western pop culture, and I’ve learned hip-hop and jazz, I get to preserve my cultural identity through Chinese dance,” Li said.

Even in China, Li pointed out, traditional dance often takes a backseat to Western pop influences, despite government initiatives to revive the art forms.

Though young Chinese students at Tufts are now working to reclaim these art forms, their efforts are not without challenges. Wuzee previously hired a professional Chinese dance coach earlier this year, but they now no longer have the budget to pay for a teacher. Instead, the most experienced members of the group find modern performances of traditional dances online, attempt to replicate them and then teach them to the other members, Li said.

As a result, putting together six dances for an independent showcase is no easy task.

“Coordinating a big showcase is not easy, given our small size and lack of experience.

We were learning four dances in preparation for the showcase,” she said. “[And] learning dances is also hard because most members have little background in Chinese dance.”

Li explained that tonight’s dance pieces will incorporate colorful, traditional costumes as well as a variety of props including paper fans, parasols and exceptionally long, flowing sleeves. The performance will be emotional and fluid, but also ambitious, according to Li. Despite logistical struggles, however, some internal dilemmas within the group extend beyond the members. The category of traditional Chinese dance is a broad one, and given that 91.51 percent of China’s population is Han, many forms of traditional dance have roots in court dances and customs of the Han dynasty, now typically called classical dance.

Li believes that there is a special magic associated with performing classical dances with such a long history, adding that she associates Wuzee with a sort of time travel quality.

“Classical dance shows the heritage of the majority [of China]: Han people. It was passed down through the imperial court for 3,000 years and reflects traditional aesthetics,” Li said.

She added that China has 55 registered ethnic minority groups other than the Han. This diversity in ethnicity in China can be seen in the vastly different dance styles in the country, many of which are more fast-paced and exciting for beginning dancers in comparison to Han dance.

While Wuzee tries to reflect some of these diverse traditions in its dances, Li said this has opened the door to questions about cultural appropriation and what kinds of dances are appropriate to perform.

At this year’s Parade of Nations, Wuzee considered learning and performing a traditional Dai dance, which would have showcased some different styles and dance techniques than the ones they had previously learned, Li said. The Dai people hail from southwestern China, although many Dai people are ethnically related to Lao and Tai people as well. Ultimately, Wuzee decided not to perform it, at least for the time being, due to concerns that the dance would be interpreted as cultural appropriation because the dance may have originated in Thailand.

While continuing to address these issues, Wuzee has other hopes for its future, many of which rest on today’s showcase. Over the long run, Li said, the group would like to expand in size and recruit more people, even ones without any background or experience in dance and hopefully gain more opportunities to perform. The group would also like to bring a professional teacher back to help its dancers learn new numbers, especially as the more experienced members graduate.

For now, the group’s focus is on “Through the Looking Glass.” The name for the showcase was chosen because of its association with Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” series. It also conveys the idea of transferring to another time or world, which relates to the concept of reviving a traditional dance and culture.

The phrase was also chosen because of its similarity to a Chinese saying: “flower in the mirror, moon in the water.” This phrase is meant to represent an intangible kind of beauty, even a dream or mirage. Perhaps this is the aesthetic beauty and style the viewers can expect to see at the showcase.

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continued from back Jumbos surrendered, compared to the five that they earned, do present an area for improvement.

The biggest challenge for the Jumbos will thus be to defend the post.

“They have their two big post players back, [senior forward Sarah] Payonk and Roman, I think they work really well together and they’ve been playing together for four years now, so they know how each other plays,” North said. “Payonk leads the team assists as a four-player, which is really rare, but it’s because Payonk and Roman work the high-low so much. And they have it down to a T, so defending their post players will be the hardest part.”

In the other Sweet Sixteen match-up to be played at the Francis Fieldhouse in St. Louis, No. 6 hosts WashU (252) will face off against the No. 16 University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (26-3). The hosts are led by sophomore forward Madeline Homoly’s 14.6 points per game and senior forward Zoe Vernon’s 62 assists this season.

The Bears finished the regular season 23-2 and are currently on a 13-game winning streak. The team defeated St. Norbert 73-54 and No. 24 Wheaton

83-74 to earn the right to host this weekend.

For the UW-Oshkosh Titans, junior forward Eliza Campbell leads the team with 10.9 points per game closely followed by senior guard Taylor Schmidt’s 10.8. UW-Oshkosh lost its Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match-up against UW-Whitewater 65-56 but nevertheless picked up an at-large bid to the tournament. The Titans took down Calvin College (Mich.)

63-55 and DePauw University (Ind.) 64-49 to book their flight to St. Louis.

When it comes to the Jumbos and their game against the Titans, North believes that this game will come down to focus and discipline on defense by the entire Jumbo lineup.

“When they have some really good post players, it’s harder to stay out of foul trouble, but I think everyone needs to be smart about fouling, including the forwards and guards,” North said. “We can’t make stupid fouls when people drive to the basket or when they shoot. I think just staying down, being solid playing with our hands off and knowing that our whole defense is there is the biggest key for us, because everyone who’s out there is out there for a reason and that’s to defend our basket.”

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The women’s water polo team poses for a photo.

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continued from back happen.”

Excited by the turnout, the team decided to compete in a tournament at Yale University the following weekend of Feb. 25 and 26. Despite only winning one of the four games that weekend, Williams said the team was very pleased with the outcome, especially because it won its game against Yale.

The team only had nine players that weekend, which is just two more than the required seven for a game.

The next weekend of March 4 and 5, the team won all four games, including a sudden death overtime win against MIT, to whom they had lost the previous weekend.

The team has one more tournament — the league championships — this season on April 8 and 9 at MIT.

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Junior forward Melissa Baptista attempts a jump shot during Tufts’ 64-44 second round championship win against Husson at Cousens Gym on March 4.

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continued from back upset in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) tournament final against the MIT Engineers (21-7), 67-62. The Beavers subsequently won their first two NCAA contests against the Husson Eagles (217) and the Skidmore Thoroughbreds (20-8) by 16 and seven points, respectively.

Multiple quantitative indicators attest to Babson’s offensive and defensive strengths as a team. The Beavers’ combined abilities on both sides of the court equate to an average scoring margin of 15.2 points per game, good for fifth-best in the nation.

Additionally, apart from the NEWMAC tournament final letdown against MIT, Babson’s only other loss this season came in a double-overtime battle away at Amherst (17-8) in early December where the final score was 99-97. The team’s shooting percentages on the season — 48.3 percent from the field, 40.5 percent from deep and 75.7 percent from the stripe — demonstrate that the Beavers can score from all areas of the court.

“We’re going to run them off the [three-point] line,” Sheldon said. “I think [the NESCAC] gets us ready for this because in our league, there’s a lot of teams that have good threepoint shooters, so it’s not anything we haven’t seen. So we’re going to run them off the line, switch and help out inside.”

By both statistical measure and general acclaim, Babson’s best player is senior guard Joey Flannery. The fourtime NEWMAC Player of the Year and reigning National Association of Basketball Coaches Div. III Player of the Year, Flannery has averaged 22.7 points, 7.2 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.3 steals per game this season (all of which are team-highs). Additionally, the 6-foot-5 Acton, Mass. native has 2,506 career points, ranking him eighth

on the all-time Div. III scoring list.

Flannery demonstrated his skills the last time Tufts and Babson played during the Big Four Classic. The senior guard registered 42 points and nine rebounds, enabling the Beavers to cruise to their 91-78 victory.

Sheldon sketched out the broad outlines of the various tactics he might deploy against Flannery.

“We’re probably going to do some different things during the game, double teaming being one, zone being another. [ We’ll do] things to kind of take him out of his rhythm,” he said.

“We’re not going to just let him just play the game the whole way and get 42 against us again.”

Two other notable Beavers are senior forward Isaiah Nelsen and junior forward Nick Comenale, both of whom were selected (along with Flannery) to this year’s all-NEWMAC First Team. Nelsen is Babson’s second-best rebounder (6.1 boards-pergame) and third-highest scorer (12.8 points-per-game), while Comenale is the team’s second-highest scorer (15.9 points-per-game) and third-highest rebounder (5.6 boards-per-game).

Nelsen’s 24 points, 12 rebounds and two blocks against Husson helped clip the Eagles’ wings, while Comenale’s team-high 12 second-half points against Skidmore effectively bridled the Thoroughbreds.

Another important factor in the game will be Babson’s home court advantage, as the Beavers were selected to host sectionals. Over the past three seasons, Babson is 47-5 at home against all teams and 23-2 against non-conference opponents.

The Jumbos and the Beavers tipoff on Friday at 8 p.m. at Staake Gymnasium in Babson Park, Mass.

The following evening, the victor will face the winner of the other sectional match-up between the Christopher Newport Captains (27-2) and the Keene State Owls (21-9).

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lot of energy the entire game.”

But the Jumbos, who are hunting for their fourth consecutive Final Four berth and third consecutive national championship appearance, still come in as the favorites. The last time the Jumbos met the Royals, which was in last year’s Elite Eight, Tufts maintained a solid lead for 40 minutes in a 57-48 win. Coming in to last year’s game, Scranton was 30-0, with Tufts facing a hostile home crowd.

The key to last year’s game was Tufts going 21-of-44 from the field (47.7 percent) as compared to Scranton’s 17-of-54 (31.5 percent). The Jumbos will once again look to senior tri-captain Michela North to match her numbers from last year — she picked up 10 defensive rebounds, about a third of the team’s total. Nevertheless, the 17 second-chance points that the

After several years of waiting, the women’s club water polo team was established at Tufts earlier this semester, when Assistant Athletic Director Branwen Smith-King approved a request to create the team. Junior Captain Taegan Williams had officially proposed the idea to Smith-King last year.

Since then, the newly formed team won its four games during a 14-contest tournament at Bowdoin College last weekend, securing its position as the No. 3 seed team for the North Atlantic Division Championship next month.

Williams, along with sophomores Romy Aboudarham, Sophia Anderson and Emily Grussing, were all previously on the co-ed water polo team. According to Williams, due to the team’s co-ed status, it was difficult to manage playing time since most of the teams they faced were all men. Thus the female members of the co-ed team began discussing possibly breaking away from the team and starting a women’s team.

The co-ed practices were more intimidating, Aboudarham explained, even though she had four years of high school water polo experience. In contrast, at practices for the women’s team, returners teach and encourage newcomers in a more collaborative environment.

“This really set the team dynamic and it showed during the first practice as it wasn’t just one person teaching, but everyone helping each other,” Aboudarham said. “This was something that was missing from the first practice on the co-ed team.”

The new team was formed despite the university’s moratorium on the creation of new club sports teams, which has stood for the past several years due to limited resources and decreased funding, according to a 2016 Daily article.

Facing this roadblock, Williams nonetheless began working with SmithKing to create a separate women’s team. This spring, the team joined the Collegiate Water Polo Association and will compete in three tournaments, Williams explained.

The women’s water polo team was able to form under the moratorium because of the existing co-ed team, according to Smith-King.

“By formally separating the women’s team from the men’s team, the women now are able to compete in games and tournaments, an opportunity that was previously unavailable to them,” SmithKing said.

The women’s water polo team held its first practice on Feb. 21, according to Williams. Aboudarham recalled that the team’s first practice was particularly exciting.

“Walking in and seeing about 14+ girls lined up on the bench all in their swimsuits ready to practice was an unbelievable and unforgettable feeling,” Aboudarham said. “It was amazing to see so many new faces eager to play water polo and truly made it clear that this [women’s] team needed to

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Everett Dayton, junior, attempts a three-pointer during the game against Williams College on Feb. 25.

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Having earned their second consecutive Sweet Sixteen berth, the No. 14-ranked Tufts Jumbos (22-6) continue their NCAA Div. III men’s basketball tournament campaign against the No. 3-ranked Babson Beavers (27-2) Friday.

The contest will serve as a rematch of the final game of the Big Four Classic in Waltham, Mass., when Babson overcame Tufts, 91-78. According to coach Bob Sheldon, the game will provide the Jumbos with a second chance at success.

“I think we’re a little different team,” he said. “[ Junior guard] Vinny [Pace] is a different player. He’d only been actually cleared to play for three weeks when we played that game. [He] literally hadn’t played in a year, so he’s a lot better. [Additionally, senior tri-captain center] Tommy [Palleschi]’s back was bothering him. He’s getting back to [being] healthy, so we’re excited to go in there with a full arsenal … A lot of times in life, you don’t get that chance to right a wrong or avenge yourself, so we’re getting it right.”

Senior tri-captain Tarik Smith echoed his coach’s sentiments, and

said that though the previous game against Babson didn’t go in Tufts’ favor, the Jumbos have had more time to scout than they did prior to their tournament game Dec. 3.

“Having Vinny back [at full strength] definitely helps,” Smith said. “He’s one of our top scorers, and so having him back is really good.”

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Tufts prepares for Sweet Sixteen showdown with Scranton

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No. 4 Tufts has made an approximately 1200-mile trip to St. Louis, Mo. to face Scranton in NCAA Sweet Sixteen action tonight. Washington University in St. Louis ( WashU) is one of four schools that will host the next two rounds of the tournament, the other three being Amherst, Ohio Northern and St. Thomas.

The Scranton Royals finished second in their Landmark Conference in February with an 11-3 record and come into the match-up ranked 13th nationally by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association ( WBCA). The Royals also took down the then-No. 23 and top-seeded Catholic University Cardinals in the conference final 58-42 to seal their second straight championship. Scranton then sealed the 1000th and 1001st victories of its pro-

gram this past weekend as the team beat the University of New England 49-48 and SUNY Poly 76-65 in the first two rounds of tournament play.

The Royals have one of the most clinical shooters in Div. III in senior forward Alexix Roman, who has averaged 17.0 points per game. Roman is also third in the Landmark Conference in terms of overall points (493) and leads in field goal percentage (61.4 percent). Tufts will also have to be wary of Scranton’s strength on the backboards, as they are second in the Landmark Conference with 41.6 rebounds per game.

“I think that come Friday we’d have to put together a full 40 minutes of basketball, and definitely our defense will be key,” sophomore guard Jacqueline Knapp said. “I think we also have to keep doing what’s been working for us in terms of transitioning, making shots and playing with a