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Dillon’s DPOY award highlights Jumbos’ accomplishments

‘Arts Flash’ lights up campus see WEEKENDER / PAGE 7

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Medford to require that Tufts submit addresses of off-campus students to enforce occupancy limits

by Catherine Perloff and Liam Knox News Editors

Medford City Council unanimously passed the University and College Accountability ordinance on Feb. 28, requiring Tufts to provide an anonymous list of the addresses of students living off campus in Medford.

The ordinance requires any university in Medford to send the city a list of student addresses on a semesterly basis.

Very similar ordinances already exist in Somerville and Boston, according to Medford City Councillor John Falco.

City officials say that the list is a tool to protect students’ safety, especially as it relates to overcrowding. Code enforcers can use this list to ensure students are not violating Medford’s occupancy laws, Falco explained. According to City Clerk Edward Finn, city ordinances typically prohibit more than three unrelated people from sharing a property.

“I think this is a helpful tool to help code enforcement and provide safe apartments for Tufts students. This is not vindictive,” City Council Vice President Michael Marks said. “This is to provide safety for the students and to hold landlords accountable.”

While city code enforcers could go through the list to find violators, Code Enforcement Officer John Bavuso said this is not likely. Instead, the city will investigate properties suspected of overcrowding on a complaint-driven basis.

“All of our inspections related to housing are complaint-driven. We’re not going

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Medford City Council holds its regular meeting in Medford City Hall on Feb. 28. to take the list and go down and check every address that has more than three people in it,” Bavuso said, adding that complaints often come when neighbors notice too many cars parked in a driveway or an overly noisy party.

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Leaving a Mark Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers were called to Tisch Library on Feb. 18 at 1:50 p.m. after a report of graffiti on the walls in the restrooms. Pictures of the graffiti were taken, and the Facilities Services Department was notified to clean it up.

The graffiti appeared to be marker scribbles and doodles.

Jumping for Joy A student reported a knee injury at Metcalf Hall on Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m., prompting a response by Somerville Fire Department, Tufts Emergency Medical Services and TUPD. He had injured his knee earlier at a nearby trampoline park.

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He was given an ice pack, and he signed a patient refusal form.

Barely Scraping By A Tufts employee reported on Feb. 22 at 9 a.m. that her car had been damaged when it was on campus the day before.

She noticed damage to the driver’s side of the car, likely from being swiped by another car. The car had been parked in the lot behind Bendetson Hall. She was advised to file a claim with her insurance company.

Home Sweet Home Somerville Fire Department and TUPD officers were called to 134 Professors Row, the site of the ATO of Massachusetts

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Marks noted that, with only two code enforcement officers, the city of Medford does not have the staff necessary to go through the list of student addresses and inspect every potential violator of the occupancy rule, which explains

fraternity house, after a fire alarm went off. A student had been cooking home fries and accidentally burned them. The fire alarm was checked and reset by the fire department.

Cutting Ties A student reported the possible theft of her bike on Feb. 23 at 3 p.m. Her orange and black bike had been locked to a pole in front of Aidekman Arts Center. The student left the bike and found it no longer there when she returned two weeks later. The incident is under investigation, but the bike has not yet been found.

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Feb. 25 at 2:45 p.m. when she noticed some fire extinguishers missing on the first floor of Bush Hall. It is unknown who took them, and they were not recovered.

The Fire Marshal’s office was notified, and new fire extinguishers were put in place.

The Disappearing Act A student called TUPD on Feb. 28 at 10:40 a.m. about a stolen backpack.

He reported that his backpack had been stolen two days prior while he was eating at Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center. He went to get food, and when he returned, there was no trace of his backpack or the laptop inside it. The theft is under investigation, and as of yet, the items have not been found.

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Students get on the 5:40 p.m. shuttle to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/New England Conservatory campus from Aidekman Center at 6 p.m., 20 minutes later than the time posted on the schedule on March 2.

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Despite recent changes to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA)/New England Conservatory (NEC) shuttle, a number of Tufts-SMFA dual-degree students feel that the shuttle service between the SMFA and the Medford/Somerville campus, which also services the NEC, still has significant room for improvement.

In particular, students say that service should be more frequent during off-peak hours and that shuttles during the busiest hours are frequently crowded. Students have noticed, however, that service has improved recently. According to Tufts administrators, there are currently plans to further improve shuttle service.

Nayoung Kim, a first-year dual-degree student who takes two evening classes at SMFA, said that late evening shuttles back to the Medford/Somerville campus are usually overcrowded when students who have had long classes during the day take the shuttles back.

“I find myself cramped on the shuttle, because people sometimes triple up and sometime end up sitting on the floor,” Kim said.

Kim added that she had to arrange her own transportation to the SMFA on several occasions because the shuttle was late or did not appear to come at all.

“You’d expect the [Saturday morning shuttle] to come on time, because it’s the first one in the morning,” she said. “I had to resort to taking the T or an Uber.”

Fourth-year dual-degree student Catherine Armistead agreed that lack of space on the shuttle has been a recurring problem, especially because students travelling to and from art classes frequently carry supplies.

Armistead said that she has contacted Nancy Bauer, the dean of the SMFA at Tufts, regarding the issue, and Bauer has looked into asking operator A & A Metro Transportation for a larger bus during those times.

“I sent Nancy [Bauer] an email Tuesday night two weeks ago because a few students had to sit on the floor in the shuttle and there wasn’t enough space for everyone to have a seat, especially when people are carrying canvases and art supplies,” Armistead told the Daily in an email.

According to Bauer, the university is currently planning to change evening shuttle service in order to better serve people. She added that transportation is a large priority for Tufts.

“We have been tweaking things all year and will continue to make changes until the system works for everyone who wants to travel back and forth between the SMFA [and Tufts],” Bauer told the Daily in an electronic message.

Armistead noted that service has improved somewhat since Tufts switched bus contractors. According to a Sept. 7, 2015 Daily article, Tufts switched from its previous contractor Joseph’s Limousine & Transportation to A & A Metro Transportation for its bus services in fall 2015.

Colin Murphy, a first-year dual-degree student, said he thinks the shuttle does its job of transporting the students between classes, but its schedule does not accommodate the needs of students who frequently have to use the SMFA’s art studios outside of class.

“If you get on the first shuttle in the morning, you will get to your 9 a.m. class on time, and if you are going back after class, there is a shuttle there for you to get on,” Murphy said. “My main issue is that, as a photography student … I spend a lot of time working on stuff outside of my class, so I really need something more consistent.”

Murphy added that the long wait times are partially due to the shuttle’s longer route.

As a result, many students use Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) services rather than waiting, he said.

“It’s not like the Davis Square shuttle where it’s a 15 minute drive around here,” Murphy said. “If the [SMFA/NEC] shuttle is on the way to the SMFA and you need to get to the SMFA, [the wait] is going to be an hour and half to two hours before it’s back. In that case, I take the T, which is frustrating because I end up having to pay for the T all the time.”

Murphy suggested that the university could offer dual-degree students a greater subsidy for MBTA rides or discounted ride-sharing services like Lyft between the Medford/Somerville and SMFA campuses.

“It would be nice to have some sort of stipend for dual-degree students, because we use the T all the time,” Murphy said.

Likewise, first-year dual-degree student Alexander Didkovsky said that he would rather have an unlimited monthly MBTA pass than the shuttle service. He also spec-

ulated that MBTA passes might be cheaper for Tufts than a full shuttle service. Currently, undergraduate students are able to purchase discounted MBTA passes, according to the Tufts Sustainability website.

Murphy believes that Tufts administrators have been responsive to complaints and diligent in addressing issues, but he said that he would like to see changes sooner.

“A lot of SMFA students and dual-degree students have brought these transportation issues to SMFA, and the response we’ve gotten is [that they] are working on it,” he said. “We really appreciate it, but at the same time, we would like to see [a] more immediate fix because the reality is that we are spending a lot more money than we should on transportation.”

Martina Tan, a first-year dual-degree student, said she is generally satisfied with the service, and although there are issues to be resolved, she believed students can be patient about it.

“There is this culture of being angry at the shuttles for not arriving on time, and as much as I want to say that’s not okay, I want to say people shouldn’t be overreacting like that,” Tan said. “It is pretty fun to complain, but in the end we do want a solution.”

According to second-year dual-degree student Prea Bhandari, there are some issues, but the shuttle service has gotten much better over the past year because the schedule is more consistent.

“The improvements they made are looking good, and I think it’s working as well as it can,” Bhandari said. “The schedule was different day to day, and I wouldn’t even plan on leaving on time for SMFA my [first] year.

Right now, the schedule is very clear.”

University Fleet/Transportation Manager Andrea Breault said that the university understands the difficulties the students go through. Thus, her team, along with upper administration members, is currently working on possible new transportation services and funding resources for SMFA. “While enhancements have made a positive difference, we realize there is more to do.

We are looking at augmenting services again next academic year, and are currently in discussions about the mix of modes and services that we will put in place to improve students’ transportation experience,” Breault told the Daily in an email. “We also are reviewing data to understand when peak ridership and traffic congestion stress the system so that we consider those factors in our planning.”

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University Accountability law aims to reduce student overcrowding MEDFORD

continued from page 1 as the city plans to do, may create a liability for the city, Marks noted.

“I thought about liability issues,” Marks said. “Aren’t we obligated to do something about [occupancy code violations]?”

According to Bavuso, if a code enforcer finds too many students living in an apartment, the landlord would be required to evict enough residents so that the number of occupants returns to “conforming levels.”

Bavuso said that when students violate occupancy laws, they put themselves in danger.

“It’s not uncommon for people to sleep in closets or crawl spaces,” Bavuso said, describing situations in which students try to squeeze too many people into a house. “If there’s an emergency, first responders aren’t going to look at the closet first. We want to make sure first responders can find them and get out [in a fire emergency].”

In particular, Bavuso referenced a 2003 fire which killed a Tufts student living in an apartment in Medford that only had one exit.

Yet, Marks acknowledged that there is no particular reason why three was the number of people designated as a safety risk and that the occupancy law itself might be outdated.

“To say whether three, four, five people is safe, that may need to be looked at in the future,” Marks said.

Lauren Feltch, city council and community relations liaison in the mayor’s office, also did not provide a rationale for the occupancy rule when asked.

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Accountability ordinance was first proposed in June of last year, but Marks said that such an ordinance has been in the works for three or four years after residents complained about Tufts students overcrowding apartments.

“Many residents had concerns about the number of people living in an apartment,” he said. “The neighbors got together and said we need some relief.”

The ordinance went through several meetings of the Subcommittee on Licensing after its original introduction, according to a Sept. 8, 2016 Daily article.

Marks said residents seem content with the final outcome.

“They were very satisfied that it was another tool in enforcement. They were very pleased to see this move forward,” he said.

Rocco DiRico, co-director of the Office of Community Relations, said that Tufts plans on fully complying with the ordinance and that the university respects the city’s intentions in passing the measure.

“Tufts University enjoys a great working relationship with the City of Medford,” DiRico wrote in an email to the Daily. “We will continue to work with the city on a variety of issues that impact our students living off campus.”

DiRico added that, while Tufts will provide all off-campus addresses being used by its students, the names of student residents will not be provided to the city.

In fall 2014, Makoto Yamamoto (LA ’15) was evicted from his off-campus house in Medford, where he was living with five friends in an apartment that he said was limited to five unrelated residents.

Yamamoto told the Daily that his land-

lord asked one of them to leave after he received a notice that the apartment would be inspected by the city. However, after Yamamoto moved out, the inspector never actually showed up.

After his eviction, Yamamoto, who is currently in his second year as a graduate student at Tufts’ Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, was provided housing by the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) in a room in Carmichael Hall. He said that while the process of finding a new place to live only took about a week, it was stressful and he was worried about being without housing for a period of time.

“Nobody goes into a house expecting to be evicted,” he said.

Yamamoto added, however, that he was grateful to ResLife for relocating him quickly.

He also said that the high cost of rent in Medford was a factor in their decision to live with six people, as they could split the rent and make off-campus living more affordable.

“When we decided to move into the house, affordability was definitely a concern,” he said, adding that the cost of rent increased for each of his housemates after his eviction.

Yamamoto believes that the blame for his situation lies at least in part with his landlord, who, according to Yamamoto, never told him or his housemates about the five-person legal limit on their apartment until they received the inspector’s notice.

“Part of me wants to blame that maybe Tufts or the landlord should’ve told us something like that before we actually moved in, so we could think about our options,” he said. “We thought we were all on the same page, that there’s going

to be six of us, that we were dividing the rent six ways.”

Bavuso said that, while he is unsure where the blame lies for the frequent breach of resident limits on Medford apartments, he believes landlords should be doing more to ensure the safety of their residents.

“Very often if it’s students [who are violating the resident limit] … the landlord will say they sublet, they’ve brought in additional people to reduce the rent,” he told the Daily. “It’s an unsafe situation … unfortunately, landlords are only concerned with collecting their rent and doing as little maintenance of the property as possible.”

According to DiRico, landlord accountability was an important point of discussion among Medford representatives and university officials alike throughout the deliberation process for the ordinance.

“The City Council, City officials and Medford residents expressed a desire to hold landlords accountable. It is important for landlords to act responsibly, take care of their property and maintain safe living conditions,” he wrote. “Our office looks forward to continuing to work with the City on this important matter.”

Feltch said that, while Medford Mayor Stephanie Burke hopes the ordinance will not deter students from seeking off-campus housing in Medford, she would like to see Tufts expand its on-campus housing options.

“This ordinance does not deter them from living in the City,” Feltch told the Daily in an email. “It provides an inventory of where students are living and acts as a precautionary measure for dwellings that the students are inhabiting.”

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Student dance groups perform in Cohen Auditorium during the 32nd annual Parade of Nations show presented by the International Club on March 5, 2016.

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Assistant Features Editor

Disclaimer: Antonio Bertolino is a columnist for the Daily. He was not involved in the writing of this article.

2017 marks the 65th anniversary of the International Center (I-Center), 60th anniversary of the International Club (I-Club), 45th year anniversary of the International House (I-House) as well as the 25th Oliver Chapman Leadership and Community Service Award.

A weekend-long celebration of these anniversaries has been planned, leading up to the I-Club’s culture show, the 33rd annual Parade of Nations on March 4 at 7 p.m.,at Cohen Auditorium, where the Chapman Award will also be presented to a senior who has been active in the international community.

Parade of Nations I-Club President Akshat Rajan, a sophomore, expressed excitement at the opportunity for Parade of Nations to celebrate the anniversaries of the international community this year.

“It’s a lot of pressure, but this year we’re making it more like a Parade of Nations weekend, rather than just the show itself,” he said. “There will also be a Parade of Nations after-party on Saturday night in Hotung Café, featuring DJ Eli Soul Clap.”

DJ Eli, or Eli Levin-Goldstein (LA ’04), is one half of the Boston-based production duo Soul Clap. His performance will include a set that features music he discovered in his experiences with the international community at Tufts.

“I really like reggae and soca, so I’ll get those in there … I may hit some Bollywood music, African music and also Latin music. I’ll be mixing in more of the obscure genres that [are] simply fun to dance to,” he said.

Goldstein, who was the president of I-Club during his junior year, said he discovered the power of music and dance to bridge cultures while DJing at Tufts.

“I was already on the path of house music … So to see all my peers embrace it, it made me realize that this is actually something that could touch people beyond just the underground house music scene,” he said.

According to Rajan, the performances at this year’s Parade of Nations will continue to showcase a broad range of cultural traditions. These performances include Spirit of Color, TURBO, Pulse, Wuzee, La Salsa, Caribbean Dance Team, Bhangra, Kiniwe and spoken word by junior Jessica Mar. Rajan added that the audience will also get to enjoy a photo booth and a selection of food from all over the world during intermission.

I-Club Co-Vice President Martha Rimniceanu, a senior, felt that Parade of Nations has greatly expanded in its reach and its size since her first year.

“I remember in my first year, Parade of Nations seemed like a cool cultural show, but it was just friends of the people who were performing who came to watch,” she said.

According to Rajan, 2016 was the first time in recent memory that tickets to Parade of Nations sold out, surprising many in the organizing team and Cohen Auditorium staff.

“[The Cohen staff ] were used to it not being sold out. They were used to it being this small show that happens every year,” he said. “Last year, [Cohen Scheduling and Production Manager] Mark Sullivan was shocked, because we had 400 seats, we had people trying to sneak in, we had to fill people upstairs and there was no room to sit.”

Previous years’ Parade of Nations have always featured a flag show in which members of the international community walk on stage in their respective national costumes, waving their countries’ flags. Rimniceanu said that this year’s will be no different, with 45 countries represented in the flag show.

“A lot of people … know about [the flag show], and they have been getting really pumped,” she said. “They have been sending us emails during winter break, saying that they are so excited to bring their traditional dress from home and to walk on stage with their flags.”

International Club For Rajan and Rimniceanu, however, I-Club is more than just about organizing Parade of Nations. In its 60th year, I-Club wants to do more to foster a close-knit international community on campus.

“What happens a lot after [the pre-orientation] Global Orientation is that … everyone starts doing their own thing with courses and all, so during the fall we tried to keep those connections alive, have people see each other at these social events and feel a part of the community, while at the same time complementing that with more discussion-geared events that address people’s adjustment to the U.S. culture and to college,” Rimniceanu said.

Rajan felt that a student-led space for these discussions was something that international students have always wanted but had lacked.

“When we did our first discussion event in spring 2016, there were seniors who said, ‘We wish we had this during our first few years at Tufts,’” he said.

I-Club Co-Vice President Antonio Bertolino, a sophomore, said that through these discussions, tighter bonds were formed within the international community.

“Our last discussion event in the fall happened a couple of days after the results of the [presidential] election, so we made sure that the space of discussion lent itself to also being a space of understanding, where internationals can surround themselves with people whom they felt safe around,” Bertolino said. “In that occasion, the I-Club became a resource for international students … it was definitely our responsibility to do that.”

Rajan said that the I-Center is the only Group of Six center that does not have peer leaders, and that in the future, the I-Club could fill that gap in their support for international students.

“We are the I-Center’s ears to the international community,” he said. “If there are people in the community that want to reach out to us, we want to be there for them in a non-exclusive, for-everyone way … so we’re finding a way for people to sign up for one-onones with members of the I-Club.”

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continued from page 5 Celeste Teng expressed a similar desire to see organizations like the I-Center and I-Club cater more to the disparate needs of the international community, particularly in the current hostile political climate.

“Before coming to Tufts, I didn’t think of ‘international’ as a political identity, but now more than ever I believe that international students are deeply connected to political issues, whether or not we want to be,” Teng, a sophomore, told the Daily in an electronic message.

Rimniceanu echoed this pressing need for greater support for the international community.

“Even though we are not a political or an activist group, we really want to make sure that people have a space to express their feelings on whatever is happening, to have somebody to talk to, to be around people who feel similarly and get support. That I’m sure we will all need,” she said.

International Center I-Center Director Jane EtishAndrews said that unlike at many other colleges, the Tufts I-Center has prided itself in providing sound advice and support beyond just visa and immigration matters throughout its 65-year history.

“We view ourselves in terms of offering not only immigration services but student services,” she said. “We believe

in the whole picture and in being very holistic in our approach.”

However, Etish-Andrews thinks that the I-Center still has room to grow in its prominence and in supporting international students and scholars on campus.

“We are still a quiet office, people don’t always know what we do. We don’t give credit, we are not flashy,” she said.

it’s very stressful for students when you think about what’s happening with the executive order,” she said. “I hope my staff … care about the students and scholars, so that they will not just do the immigration work but also listen to your personal issues.”

Etish-Andrews, who has been director of the I-Center since 1983, said she also deeply values the relation-

“Many international students have put in time and energy to carve out our own spaces on campus, often intentionally staying outside of the reach of these organizations, which tells us that there are real gaps in accessibility and inclusivity. We should keep reflecting on how we can better support the community we claim to engage with.” — Celeste Teng, Tufts Community Union International Community Senator “We’re bigger and we do more servicing, but we still aren’t able to connect enough people.”

With current immigration policies causing anxieties and even disrupting the lives of international members of the Tufts community, the I-Center’s ability to provide emotional and personal support for current students remains an imperative for Etish-Andrews.

“It is challenging and over the years we have had our ups and downs. We are in a down period right now, where

ships forged with many international alumni.

“I have grown up with a lot of the students,” she said. “Now they are older, and I see them coming back with their families. It’s very meaningful to me that I’m able to celebrate with them their Tufts memories, of which I’m a part of.”

International alumnus Hamid Salamipour (LA ’92, M ’97) praised EtishAndrews’ dedication in leading the I-Center and in building connections with international alumni.

“As much as I say we were a family and a community, the pastor of that community, the rock of that community has been Jane [Etish-Andrews],” he said. “All the hard work that Jane [EtishAndrews] has put in for all the international students – I can’t tell you enough how amazing it’s been.”

Moving forward Beyond the work of the I-Center, Etish-Andrews credited student energy for many of the initiatives introduced to benefit the international community and wants to support more of such initiatives.

“When the I-House was founded in 1972, that was a student initiative that was supported by the I-Center,” she said. “The year 1999 was the first time international students received financial aid, and it was very exciting because that also came from a student initiative.”

Teng hoped that the occasion of the anniversaries will prompt further introspection in the different organizations about how to cater to the needs of the diverse international community.

“Many international students have put in time and energy to carve out our own spaces on campus, often intentionally staying outside of the reach of these organizations, which tells us that there are real gaps in accessibility and inclusivity,” she said. “We should keep reflecting on how we can better support the community we claim to engage with.”

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Senior Max Ribbans performs magic tricks with senior Ben Taylor while students watch during the ‘Arts Flash’ event in Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center on Feb. 28.

‘Arts Flash’ brings together various departments to stage pop-up art performances

by Libby Langsner Assistant Arts Editor

This spring, the Tufts Department of Drama and Dance has partnered with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts to create a series of pop-up performances entitled “Arts Flash.” Each ‘flash’ consists of a 15-minute-long performance that will occur on alternating Tuesdays and Wednesdays in different spaces on both the SMFA Fenway and Medford/ Somerville campuses, according to Chair of the Department of Drama and Dance Heather Nathans.

Each performance will highlight a specific department and feature students and faculty from that department. Participating departments and programs range from Film and Media Studies (FMS) to Drama and Dance. The performances will consist of “short films, music, drama, dance and spoken word performances,” according to the event’s press release.

The series began on Feb. 28 at DewickMacPhie Dining Center with a performance that consisted of students representing all departments featured in the series. It will culminate in an open call performance in April.

The theme of the series is The Welcome Table, a reference to the civil rights anthem adopted from the southern gospel song “I’m Gonna Sit at The Welcome Table” (1964), Nathans said.

“We’re borrowing the theme of The Welcome Table from a year-long collaboration that Drama and Dance has been doing with DNAWorks,” she said, referring to an arts and service organization that works to encourage both art and dialogue

while focusing on issues like identity, culture and class.

The “Arts Flash” series is completely new to both Medford/Somerville and SMFA campuses. Nathans created the series with current Dean of SMFA Nancy Bauer. “[Bauer was] interest[ed] in kind of an arts event series that might move the arts beyond the traditional art spaces and draw attention to some of the different kinds of arts that are being done on campus in a kind of more spontaneous pop-up kind of way, because we know everyone is incredibly busy,” Nathans said. “I see stuff on campus all the time that I wish I could go to, and you say, ‘I’d love to see that but I can’t,’ but what if the dance came to you, but what if the spontaneous piece came to you?”

The “Arts Flash” series presents art in such a way that a student can either intentionally view it by looking up the performance schedule on the series’ Facebook page or by stumbling upon a performance. The series removes many of the small steps one usually has to take to see a dance or theater performance.

Whether those steps pose a serious barrier to engaging with the arts almost does not matter; when a student is stressed, these minute obstacles and schedule conflicts can be enough to bar someone from engaging with the arts.

According to Nathans, one of the main goals of the series is to increase awareness of the arts on campus.

“Someone [is always] saying, ‘I never knew we had X at Tufts’ because people get so busy and they get into the thing they get into, and they don’t see that we have a

gospel choir and a contact dance improv group,” she said. “Maybe their experience is they looked around and they saw something they have never seen before. Then, I hope that the takeaway is how vibrant the arts community is here.”

The physical positioning of these performances is critical to their objective. By placing the arts in everyday spaces like the dining halls, they physically make space for themselves in students’ everyday lives.

Art has a long-established reputation of being elitist and disconnected from the ‘real world,’ but Nathans said “Arts Flash” attempts to engage with those who view it.

“It goes back to experimental theater in the beginning of the 20th century, where people started saying we can make art that’s much more about identity and challenging the status quo and thinking about issues of identity and belonging,” Nathans said. “And so, that’s what we have invited every program to think about in terms of how does the art that you make engage with the ideas of citizenship, identity and belonging, so that people have the opportunity to think of the arts as something more than just shiny jazz hands.”

In addition, “Arts Flash’s” theme serves as a way to dispel art’s elitist reputation and ground art in issues of the human experience.

“We strive to have things open for everyone and we hope that everyone feels welcome and in fact our theme that we’ve embraced for this … The Welcome Table, means you make room. And that’s what you do, you make room for people,” she said.

Nathans stressed the arts departments’ responsibility to be inclusive and engaging of everyone.

“We recognize that there are members of the community who, for various reasons, don’t feel visible, don’t feel like they have the background they might need to come into a particular kind of class,” she said. “That’s something I hope this [series] is: the opportunity to continue that conversation.”

This conversation has been widely discussed in the year-long collaboration between the Drama and Dance department and DNAWorks. Through this collaboration, the Tufts community actively becomes involved with the local community and brings the arts to everyone, according to Nathans. Similarly, through “Arts Flash,” the Drama and Dance Department along with the SMFA aim to highlight the arts within the Tufts community and bring the same dialogue from the DNAWorks collaboration onto campus.

The events during the semester will range from a contact improv dance event in Tisch Library to Tufts musicians playing in the atrium of the SMFA. Students are encouraged to interact with or just immerse themselves in the flash performances, Nathans said.

“As you pass through, you can watch art being made and then dive in and make something of your own. Some people are more comfortable kind of standing and watching, and then some people if they’re invited to make a piece of art or to bang a drum if they feel more comfortable doing that,” she said. “The goal is not necessarily to start sort of snatching people out of the library and compelling see ARTS FLASH, page 8

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hy should you play “Screencheat” (2014)?

Because it is a perfect example of when developers observe a flaw with a standard and then use it as a tool.

‘Split-screen multiplayer’ refers to local multiplayer games dividing the single screen that players are looking at into zones, each acting as a smaller screen for one player. This effectively creates many smaller versions of the normal user interface, which becomes a problem if players’ current goal is to sneak up on another player, since the target could easily look over at the other screen to see they’re about to be attacked. Unless all players have notably horrendous peripheral vision and an iron self-control, ‘screencheating’ is bound to happen. This is the term used when a player’s eyes drift to another player’s zone, whether intentionally or accidentally, to determine their location or other information. The game that took the name of this phenomenon turns the idea on its head.

“Screencheat” is a multiplayer game with the capacity to mix as many as eight local multiplayer and online players in which players must screencheat to win.

The catch is that all player avatars are invisible, so the only way to figure out where opponents are is to look at the other sections of the screen. Each of the 11 onehit-kill weapons also shows up on the map when being used (for example, visible smoke rises up whenever bullets are fired from a revolver).

The developers of “Screencheat,” Samurai Punk, flavored the game with interesting text and bright colors, possibly because they made it at a game jam over a single weekend and felt that a game with sarcastic writing and ragdoll physics would simply fit their aesthetic.

For example, because players need to figure out other players’ locations from just what they see, all maps are cut into brightly colored zones to make the process easier. Additionally, when a player is ‘fragged’ or hit by another player, a normal success notification is replaced with a strange series of words, such as “You got Google Translated by Jumbo.”

These strange visuals combined with the somewhat jarring, driving chiptune music make for a bizarre atmosphere that may not be for everyone. This isn’t to say that it’s vulgar in any way, but it is pretty strange, and some people may not want jokes from their first-person arena shooters. That said, the game tries to be versatile in the event that the default deathmatch isn’t your cup of tea.

“Screencheat” has nine highly customizable game modes. The more unique Murder Mystery mode has players find and hit a specific target with a specific weapon, which each player can see and must navigate to find.

The idea of taking a problem and turning it into a strength is a popular pattern in video games to the point where it has developed into the saying, “It’s not a bug; it’s a feature,” but rarely does a game so wholeheartedly embody the phenomenon like “Screencheat” does.

It’s available for purchase for $14.99 on Samurai Punk’s website and is frequently on sale for $4.99 on Steam.

Fury Sheron is a junior majoring in Japanese. Fury can be reached at lahna. sheron@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 7 them to dance because that can make people a little afraid.”

For their first performance in Dewick, students in a class called Dance Movement and Creative Process along with students from the SMFA, the FMS program, the Experimental College and Tufts improv group Cheap Sox all came together to create a performance expe-

rience with postcards to not only commorate the experience, but to provoke political change.

Dance Movement and Creative Process performed improvisational contact dance on the Dewick stage, while FMS students handed out pamphlets about the program and carried around a laptop playing a student film while another student performed a magic trick.

The SMFA made special postcards for the event. The addressee was President

Donald Trump, while the front of the card criticized Trump’s potential defunding of the National Education Association and National Endowment for the Humanities and discussed the defunding’s implications.

“Arts Flash” looks to be an exciting addition to the campus atmosphere, and students are encouraged to check out the Facebook event pages for each performance. But if you’re lucky enough, you’ll probably just run into one.

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Visit the PRX Podcast Garage with Tufts Podcast Network

But Major: Undecided Has Been Dead for Twenty Years!

Details: Tufts Podcast Network will visit and tour the Podcast Garage in Allston. Featuring recording studios and classroom spaces, the Podcast Garage aims to support area storytellers and podcasters. The space opened its door in August 2016 and is owned by the Public Radio Exchange, a public media company.

Details: Tufts’ sketch comedy group, Major: Undecided, will perform a show this weekend. Though the title of the show suggests a spooky theme, the Facebook event page proclaims that, “None of our sketches have anything to do with ghosts.”

When and Where: 9:30-10:30 p.m.; Barnum 008

When and Where: 2-3:30 p.m.; meet at Lower Campus Center for shared rides to Podcast Garage

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MARCH 4

Polykhroma Presents: Borders Details: Polykhroma, an independent curating collective founded by eight Tufts students, will host its second exhibition, entitled “Borders.” The show will explore the divides that shape the world on political, economic, academic, social and individual levels.

When and Where: 8:30-11 p.m.; 59 Ossipee Rd., Somerville, MA 02144

SUNDAY

MARCH 5

Tufts Sunday Concert Series – Stay Calm and Carry On Details: The Tufts Wind Ensemble, directed by John McCann, will play British band pieces by Holst, Vaughan Williams, Grainger and more. Admission is free and no tickets are required.

When and Where: 3-5 p.m.; Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center —by Paige Spangenthal

Call for Submissions!

Beyond the Classroom Student Forum for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality to be held on

Friday, April 14, 2017 1:00-5:00pm in Sophia Gordon Hall Open to all students

This forum is an opportunity for students to share their work on women, gender, and/or sexuality with the wider Tufts community. Undergraduate and graduate students from a range of majors present abstracts of research papers or creative projects done in classes or independent studies during the previous year.

Students present for 5-7 minutes each.

Please consider submitting your work! We welcome submissions of any length.

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 ***Decisions will be announced: Saturday, April 1, 2017*** **Applications should be submitted to the WGSS office at 111 Eaton Hall or by email to wgss@tufts.edu** To download application, please visit: http://ase.tufts.edu/wgss/newsevents/beyond.htm

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Half-court defense to be key against inconsistent Vikings’ offense MEN'S BASKETBALL

continued from back “We do know that this year, they play sort of a freelance, sort of loose offense, which is different from a lot of teams we’ve been playing recently,� he said. “They don’t tend to run [a consistent] offense, or they do better when they’re just running in transition. So if we can slow them down and make them play their half-court offense, I think we’ll have a good chance of winning.�

Salem State’s head coach, Chris Harvey, previously served as an assistant coach at Tufts for two years. During the 2005-06 season, Harvey’s first year in Medford, the Jumbos garnered a program-record 23 wins (later matched by last year’s squad) and reached the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament.

Although he remembers his former assistant fondly, Sheldon expressed confidence that Harvey would not necessarily have inside information on exposing the Jumbos’ weaknesses. “I held back a couple things, so he doesn’t know everything just in case we were going to meet,� Sheldon joked. “There’s a play or two that we have up our sleeve.�

Moving from off-court to on-court contributors, the Vikings’ two statistically strongest players are junior guard Shaquan Murray and senior co-captain forward Marcus Faison. Murray is the Vikings’ leading scorer with 15.9 points per game, while Faison averages 15.1 points and a team-best 11.1 rebounds per game. The latter figure ranks Faison as the 25th most prolific per-game rebounder in the nation.

Against Worcester State, the duo demonstrated their importance to the team’s success. Murray scored a

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Senior Tom Palleschi sets a pick for first-year Eric Savage in the game against Williams on Feb. 25. game- and career-high 31 points on 11-for-15 shooting, and Faison notched a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds. For his efforts, Faison was named the tournament’s most valuable player.

One area where the Jumbos hope to improve is on the offensive and defensive glass, having been outrebounded 48-29 against the Ephs. Sheldon conceded that the issue was a concern

but expressed his confidence that the poor showing in the NESCAC semifinal was an outlier rather than the start of a trend. “The Williams game was an anomaly. We weren’t ourselves,â€? he said. “But I think it’s a wake up call to us ‌ now, you know, [if you] lose, you go home ‌ [If ] we get outrebounded, we’re not playing again. So we had a nice meeting after the selection com-

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mittee. We had our live viewing thing, just like [Div. I] does, except there was no food, no cameras, no nothing.

After that, we had a 45-minute team meeting, and we just talked about our goals and how we’re going to get there. Our goal is to get to the Final Four, and then we’ll adjust from there.

So we’re ready to go.�

The Jumbos and Vikings tip off on Friday at 5:30 p.m.

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Tufts to focus on intensity and consistency in the NCAAs

by Alison Kuah Staff Writer

Tufts begins its sixth consecutive NCAA Championship campaign this upcoming weekend at home, where it will be matched up against St. Joseph’s of Maine (24-4, 15-1 in the Great Northeast Atlantic Conference) in the opening round on Friday.

“We’re excited to be in the NCAA tournament. There’s nothing we take lightly or take for granted, so we’re really thrilled for this opportunity,” coach Carla Berube said. “We’ve had to move past Sunday’s game [against Amherst] and learn from what happened in the game and keep getting better, [so] it’s exciting to be able to host three great programs that are coming here this weekend. We’re ready to move on to this new [part of the] season and play new teams that we haven’t seen this year.”

If Tufts defeats St. Joseph’s, it will play either DeSales (20-7, 11-3 in Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom) or Husson (22-4, 16-2 in North Atlantic Conference) on Saturday — they would have competed against each other the day before. Tufts will host the first and second round action of the NCAA tounrnament at Cousens Gym this weekend, playing at home for the first time since the first round of the NESCAC tournament on Feb. 18.

“Any time we can play in our gym in front of our fans, families and the community, we feel very excited and fortunate,” Berube said. “We knew we were going to have to go on the road and win against a very tough crowd in Amherst [last weekend], and [we] didn’t come out [with] the win that we had hoped, but anytime you have the home crowd, it can help with adrenaline and momentum.”

Following the end of the NESCAC season, conference accolades were awarded to three of the Jumbos’ starters. Senior tri-captain forward Michela North and junior forward Melissa Baptista were named to the All-NESCAC First Team, and junior tri-captain Lauren Dillon was named Defensive Player of the Year.

North has been named to the AllConference First Team for the past two years, and she received Second Team accolades as a sophomore. She has been averaging 11.1 points while shooting a team-high 48.8 percent from the

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Senior Josie Lee dribbles during the game against Trinity on Feb. 3. floor, a team-high 6.9 rebounds and 1.5 blocks. Dillon is ranked at the top of the conference in steals (2.9), with 78 steals on the season and second in assists (3.9) per game.

Baptista, the leading scorer for the Jumbos this season, is averaging 12.7 points and leading the team from beyond the arc with a team-best 37.4 percent.

Baptista also leads the team with 1.7

rejections per game for second place in the NESCAC in blocks, fifth in 3-point percentage and second in points overall.

“I’m just trying to be a confident offensive player, working on my shot, driving, and I think staying confident on the court goes hand in hand with reading and reacting to what the defense is doing, so [it’s just about] being smart offensively,” Baptista said. “Offensive rebounding has been a thing coach has been on me about, and I think something to have on my mind [is] to have a stronger mentality, to push myself even when I’m tired or lazy to create as many offensive opportunities for myself as possible.”

Baptista has scored 21 or more points on four occasions, and she single-handedly scored more than half of the Jumbos’ 37 points this past weekend against Amherst with a 19-point effort on 7-for-14 shooting and 5-for-10 from beyond the arc.

“Against Amherst, we didn’t do the little things that are actually big things.

[We] missed box-outs, some defensive letdowns [and had] costly turnovers,” Berube said. “We have to play 40 minutes of Jumbo basketball, and we [had] some really great times on Saturday and Sunday, but we also had some letdowns, and that can’t happen [because] against really great teams we’ve got to be able to execute.”

Berube is confident that the veterans on the team will help its chances in the NCAA tournament, where each game could be the end of its season.

“This year, we have some really experienced players, and that will help us. They’re a little bit different because they know that if we don’t win this game, we don’t move on,” Berube said.

“I’m very confident in the players that we have who will help our underclassmen who haven’t been in this situation. Hopefully, every year if we keep going as far as we have ... it’ll keep building [experience] each year.”

Besides experience, the most important factor for the team’s success continues to be consistency in play moving forward.

“One big takeaway [from the loss at Amherst] is the overall tone and mentality that we’re going to have,” Baptista said. “We don’t want to take any team for granted, and we know that from here on out every game could be the end of our season, so I think not taking anything for granted is just the overall mentality.”

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Tufts to face Salem State in NCAA first round

by Sam Weitzman

Assistant Sports Editor

Despite falling to the Williams Ephs (19-8) in the semifinals of the NESCAC tournament, the Tufts Jumbos (20-6) secured a spot in the Div. III NCAA men’s basketball tournament for the second consecutive year. The Jumbos will travel to Bobby Wanzer Court in Pittsford, N.Y. to face off against the Salem State Vikings (17-10). According to sophomore guard Ethan Feldman, the team is balancing feelings of elation and anticipation.

“It’s exciting, but since we made it last year, I don’t think we’re satisfied quite yet,” he said. “It’s going to be a

little different this year playing away as opposed to home, because I felt like the crowd really helped us. We want to make it farther than we did last year.”

Coach Bob Sheldon said the squad is enthusiastic to be in playoffs for the second year in a row.

“The last time we made it [before last year] was 11 years ago, and we went 10 years without it … and now we get to go twice in a row,” he said. “We worked hard for it. We’re excited, and it’s like we’re starting [again] right now, day one of playoff time.”

The Jumbos’ first-round opponents, the Vikings, automatically qualified for the tournament by defeating the Worcester State Lancers (10-17) in the

Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) tournament championship. In doing so, Salem State won its 17th men’s basketball conference title since 1990.

Although the two teams have yet to face off this season, Tufts and Salem State have shared eight opponents. In those games, Tufts has assembled a 5-3 record, while Salem State has fared worse at 3-6 (with two of those wins coming against the 7-19 Framingham State Rams).

The Jumbos and the Vikings last played during the 2015-16 season in Salem, Mass., when now-senior tri-captain center Tom Palleschi registered a double-double with 20 points

and 11 rebounds and now-junior guard Vincent Pace put up a game-high 25 points.

“We’re in [the Big Four] tournament every year with [Salem State], but we didn’t play them this year,” Sheldon said. “They play different defenses.

They press a little bit. They want to run, and we want to run, so we’re happy about that, because we feel we’re pretty good at a fast-paced game. I expect it to be a high-scoring affair.”

Feldman said the Vikings’ personnel changes, including several new players in key positions, have affected their offensive tendencies. see MEN'S BASKETBALL, page 11