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Professorships Bridge gap between interdisciplinary efforts see FEATURES / PAGE 3

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Jumbos on the road to Sweet Sixteen at Babson, WashU

‘Get Out’ combines comedy, commentary and horror see ARTS&LIVING / PAGE 5

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Kevin Kraft hired as new director of community Philosophy standards department hosts lecture on landmark Supreme Court case

by Kat Grellman

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Kevin Kraft was recently hired as Tufts’ new director of community standards for the Medford/Somerville campus and started working on Feb. 13. Kraft’s new position is similar to the role of judicial affairs administrator, which was held

by Mickey Toogood before he moved to Seattle and became the communications and media specialist for the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.

Kraft said that he has worked in student affairs for 11 years, most recently at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the director of student citizenship. He explained that he tried to work proactively at MIT to promote community

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The new Director of Community Standards Kevin Kraft poses in Tisch Library on March 3.

Events on the Hill: Week of March 6 MONDAY “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide” Details: Emory University Professor Carol Anderson will discuss her book, which documents the roots of systemic racism in the United States and how it is fueled in part by white backlash. The event is this year’s Africana Studies Distinguished Lecture.

Where and When: Breed Memorial Hall; 4 p.m.

Sponsors: Africana Studies Program; Africana Center; Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora; Department of History; Department of Political Science; Department of Sociology and the Peace and Justice Studies Program “Poet Series: Robin Coste Lewis” Details: Robin Coste Lewis, a poet and the author of “Voyage of the Sable Venus,” a book of poetry about race and culture, will speak at Tufts in an event hosted by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT).

Where and When: Alumnae Lounge, 6 p.m.

Sponsors: CHAT; Toupin-Bolwell Fun; the Dean of Arts and Sciences; the Diversity Fund; the Departments of English, Drama and Dance and Education; the Programs in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Africana Center.

TUESDAY “Jews and the Revival of White Supremacist Politics”

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Details: Dartmouth University Professor Susannah Herschel, who studies anti-Semitism and Jewish-Christian relations in 19thand 20th-century Germany, will give a talk.

Where and When: Interfaith Center; 5 p.m.

Sponsor: Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora

under President Donald Trump, as the 150th speaker in the Environmental Studies Program’s ‘Lunch and Learn’ series.

Where and When: Alumnae Lounge; 12 p.m.

Sponsor: Environmental Studies Program; Tisch College and Tufts Institute of the Environment

“Civic State of the Union” Details: NPR Correspondent Mara Liasson will host a panel discussion on the state of civic life in America, as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. The panel will feature political scientist Robert D. Putnam, Center for American Progress Visiting Senior Fellow Shirley Sagawa and Tisch College Associate Dean Peter Levine.

Where and When: ASEAN Auditorium; 6 p.m.

Sponsor: Tisch College

“Film Screening: ‘Kings, Queens & In-Betweens'” Details: Tisch Library will screen “Kings, Queens & In-Betweens,” a documentary about drag performers in Ohio that addresses questions of identity and gender expression. After the screening, filmmaker and Tufts Professor Jennifer Burton will participate in a question-and-answer session along with Professor Kareem Khubchandani — also known as drag queen LaWhore Vagistani — and Quyen Tran/ Jayden Jamison KA St. James, one of the drag kings in the film.

Where and When: Tisch Library 304; 6 p.m.

Sponsor: Tisch Library

“Tufts Dems Present: Setti Warren” Details: Newton Mayor Setti Warren, who is widely expected to run for Governor of Massachusetts in 2018, will visit Tufts for a discussion on state and national public policy.

Where and When: Terrace Room; 9 p.m.

Sponsor: Tufts Democrats THURSDAY “150th Lunch & Learn Lecture” Details: Ken Kimmell, the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, will speak about the future of climate policy

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FRIDAY “Ray Jackendoff Retirement Concert” Details: Tufts is hosting a concert to recognize the retirement of Philosophy Professor Ray Jackendoff, who also directs the Center for Cognitive Studies.

Where and When: Distler Hall; 7 p.m.

Sponsor: Center for Cognitive Studies — Joe Walsh

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The Department of Philosophy hosted Evan Mandery, a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College, for a lecture on Friday about the 1987 Supreme Court case McCleskey v. Kemp, which was a seminal ruling that found that evidence of racial discrimination could not be used to overturn the death penalty.

The event was this year’s annual Hugo Adam Bedau Memorial Lecture, which is named after a former Professor of Philosophy. The event began with a short introduction by Northeastern University Law Professor Michael Meltsner, who knew Bedau. Meltsner described Bedau as a longtime advocate for justice and said that the lecture — held annually since Bedau’s death from Parkinson’s disease in 2012 — was meant to commemorate his life.

Meltsner then introduced Mandery, the event’s keynote speaker on the McCleskey v. Kemp case. Meltsner gave a brief explanation of Mandery’s most recent book, “A Wild Justice,” saying it explored the limitations of the death penalty in the history of court cases.

“There is no shortage in books about the Supreme Court and the death penalty, but very few get to show how the decision-making process happens,” Meltsner said. “Mandery interviewed the clerks who were involved in the cases, which is something that no one has really done before.”

After the introduction was over, Mandery began his speech by noting his respect for Bedau and his writings.

Although he had never met Bedau in person, the professor became a role model he admired, he said.

“Reading Bedau’s book made it conspicuous that he had a view, but he also worked very diligently to be fair about it,” Mandery said. “He presented contrary evidence and was careful to present two sides of every issue.”

Mandery also spoke about the 1972 Supreme Court case of Furman v. Georgia.

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Professor discusses racial bias of death penalty as part of philosophy lecture MANDERY

continued from page 1 That case was unique, Mandery said, because all five justices ruling in the 5-4 majority wrote separate opinions.

According to Mandery, Justice Potter Stewart voted to strike down the death penalty statutes that existed in most states, arguing that in their current forms they violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Stewart argued that the death penalty does not necessarily violate the Constitution, as long as states revised their statutes to give out sentences in less arbitrary ways. Mandery said all of the justices believed that the decision would mark the end of the death penalty.

“However, 40 years later, 35 states have passed new statutes concerning the death penalty,” Mandery said. “There is no consistency in the American death penalty, both in the national and intrastate level.”

Mandery noted that two percent of counties are responsible for half of the executions in the United States, and he criticized how arbitrary the implementation of the death penalty can be. In particular, Mandery said that McCleskey v.

Kemp was significant for trials about racial discrimination in court.

Mandery explained that Warren McCleskey had been convicted of armed robbery and murder. McCleskey then petitioned the Supreme Court to review his case, referring to a study by University of Iowa College of Law Professor David Baldus as evidence of discrimination.

“Baldus led a social science study of the arbitrariness of death penalties in

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Evan Mandery reacts to a question from the audience during the Philosophy department’s event ‘Blind Justice: The Lost Opportunity of Mccluskey v. Kemp’ in the Crane Room on March 3.

Georgia,” Mandery said. “He coded 2500 various death penalty cases and found a significant race effect. You were much more likely to get a death penalty if you killed a white person than if you killed a black person.”

Mandery said that Justice Lewis Powell, however, argued that the statistical study was not enough evidence to reverse McCleskey’s conviction. The court sentenced McCleskey to death.

“What I know from my research, though, [is that] Powell was [previously] very uneasy about the death penalty,” he said. “He asked the clerk to research whether these cases can be prospectively applied.”

He said that Powell had spoken with numerous clerks about the matter, and most of the conversations had been expansive and cathartic. However, Powell’s regret was expressed long after the case was declared, and it was irretrievable then.

By examining the two cases, Mandery expressed his concern about the prevalence of the death penalty in the United States.

“If the death penalty were reserved for Hitler, I just wouldn’t care about it, ” Mandery said. “It’s not about the penalty itself. It’s the [systemic] structure of the death penalty against poor black murderers that makes me so concerned about it.”

New Director of Community Standards hopes to work proactively on judicial affairs KRAFT

continued from page 1 standards, and he hopes to take the same approach at Tufts.

“We did a lot of proactive work,” Kraft said. “We actually started reaching out to people and saying, before we even get to [enforcement], let’s just think about, ‘What are our values as a community, what are the standards that we want you to live by and how can we make it easier to do that?’”

Although Kraft acknowledged that his job is similar to Toogood’s former position, as his responsibilities include overseeing individual allegations of policy violations that occur, he emphasized that he wanted to focus on transforming the judicial process to be more educational.

“When you leave college, it shouldn’t just be that you now know more about biology or journalism or philosophy, but also that you’re able to make ethical decisions in a more complex way, to think critically about yourself and your place in your community, to situate your ethical reasoning appropriately. We see this as sort of a hands-on, life-learning opportunity to

learn those types of lessons,” Kraft said.

Kraft said his favorite part of the job thus far has been getting to know the Tufts community.

“I’ve met a ton of students so far, which is so awesome,” Kraft said. “It’s been really great to just know everybody’s story, get a sense of where people are coming from when they come to Tufts, what they’re interested in and what gets them excited about doing what they’re doing.”

Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs Raymond Ou led the nationwide search for Toogood’s replacement last fall, according to Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon.

“During the interviews, I was struck by not only the wealth of knowledge and experience that Kevin [Kraft] would bring to the position but also that he takes a developmental, educational approach to conduct, which resonates with our overall philosophy in [the Student Affairs office],” Ou told the Daily in an email.

McMahon said that Kraft was the clear first choice for the position.

“In his short time on campus, Kevin [Kraft] has already demonstrated a knack for connecting well with students and faculty,”

McMahon told the Daily in an email.

Ou noted that he believes Kraft has the right approach for this job.

“Just in the last two weeks, I have learned more about his talent for inspiring students to learn from mistakes,” Ou said. “He empathizes deeply with students but can also be appropriately firm when upholding policy.”

In addition, Kraft said that part of his duties include oversight at a broader level, such as the development of policies in the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs. According to Kraft, one of his priorities at Tufts is to review the protests, demonstrations and gatherings policy.

“I want to get a sense for what people think about that and what the strengths and weaknesses of our policy are,” Kraft said. “So we’re going to be doing some proactive outreach to a lot of people who we think might be involved in this, and I also welcome anybody to reach out to me so we can talk about it too.”

Kraft said that he is looking forward to continuing to meet Tufts students.

“I’m really excited to be here, and I’m really excited to work with students,” he said.

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Bridge professors, assistant professors innovate across diverse disciplines

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Kareem Khubchandani, a Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor, speaks at ‘A Conversation with Nao Bustamante and La Chica Boom’ at the University of Texas-Austin on Feb. 19, 2016.

by Kenia French

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As a liberal arts school, Tufts prides itself on its ability to provide students with the opportunity to pursue a diverse range of scholarly interests across disciplines. Since fall 2013, Tufts has been working to hire professors with multiple areas of expertise through both its Bridge Professorships Program and Mellon Bridge Assistant Professorships Program, both run by the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President.

While there are currently four Mellon Bridge Assistant Professors at Tufts funded by a 2014 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, there is so far only one Bridge Professor, Jan P. de Ruiter in the psychology department, according to Vice Provost Kevin Dunn.

Dunn explained that the Bridge Professors Program is funded in part by the Provost’s Office itself and that these professors are fulltime and tenured. One-third of the funding for these hires comes from each school the professor will join, with the last third coming from the Provost’s Office, to encourage the schools to get behind the program and help with the initial overhead costs.

Dunn is in charge of hiring the Bridge Professors. Part of the impetus behind the program stems from the fact that when individual departments hire professors, according to Dunn, they do no always see the value of an interdisciplinary background. He hopes this program will challenge that assumption.

“Departments will often say, ‘Well, they aren’t just a computer scientist,’ I say, ‘Well, that’s the point,’” Dunn said.

He said that a candidate for a Bridge Professorship must be uniquely qualified, not only by their expertise in multiple fields, but also by their commitment to the benefits of an interdisciplinary education. Professor of Psychology Jan P. de Ruiter, the first official Bridge Professor, fits the innovative profile necessary for a Bridge Professor, also teaching courses in the Department of Computer Science.

De Ruiter said that the program has offered him the opportunity to keep his interests and research varied and unique.

“I once applied to a professorship in the UK and the Dean said ‘Well, we like your

research, but you do so many different things that we can’t figure out what it is that you really want,'” de Ruiter told the Daily in an email.

“I can’t limit myself to one square nanometer in one field, because I don’t really believe in specialization in science. Science is much more interesting if we cross the boundaries of disciplines.”

The specific focus of each Bridge Professorship that the Provost’s Office funds comes from individual proposals from the office as well as Tufts faculty throughout the university, who are asked each year to come up with interdisciplinary ideas for professorships.

The plan to hire the next Bridge Professor is already underway, Dunn said, as the Provost’s Office is looking for a candidate to teach students about cybersecurity. Though three proposals for Bridge Professorships have already been funded, including the cybersecurity proposal, a second one on water security has not yet been filled.

According to Dunn, the professors hired for the Bridge programs have some free reign on how they carry out the goals of the program.

“There’s no set formula in creating classes for the bridge program— it’s part of the agreement,” he said.

De Ruiter said that teaching classes cross-listed in both of his disciplines is an easy way to combine both of his fields.

“What I am doing now is actually another way in which I try to be take the bridge professorship seriously: I teach computer programming for psychologists and experimental methods for computer scientists,” he wrote.

“I plan at some point to also teach courses that are of interest for students from both disciplines.”

Drama and Dance Professor Kareem Khubchandani, a first-year Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor who is also part of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program, takes a different approach to his Bridge Professorship. He teaches Introduction to Queer Studies in WGSS in the fall and a graduate seminar in Performance Arts in the spring.

However, he has plans to create classes that bridge these two topics directly in the future.

“Next year, I’ll be teaching a graduate seminar on queer, feminist and trans performance so it definitely bridges that, as well as a gender and race performance class for under-

graduates,” Khubchandani said. “That’ll be an opportunity to bring those worlds together, and that’s precisely the point — my expertise is in multiple fields, and so to always bring them to the table in each class that I teach is very important.”

The Mellon Bridge program serves a different role than the Bridge Professors program, Khubchandani explained. While the latter mostly serves an enriching role by focusing on teaching students how to solve global issues, the Mellon Bridge program can serve a very practical purpose by creating more permanent roles for assistant professors.

“Part of what this allows is for some more permanent programs to be taught in areas that don’t have tenure lines — WGSS doesn’t have a tenure line, but I’m brought in as someone who can teach Introduction to Queer Studies every year,” Khubchandani said.

Both programs are interdisciplinary in nature not only by combining fields that students are interested in but also by encouraging teachers and students from different disciplines to get to know each other.

“I’m getting to know more students than I would were I just in teaching drama and dance. I taught Intro to Queer Studies and I got to know students in American studies, students who are pre-med, students in IR,” Khubchandani said. “Those probably wouldn’t be the people who took my performance seminar, right?”

He also spoke about how the program has allowed him to help expand the drama and dance departments.

“Drama and dance is specifically committed to diversifying their course offerings and to meeting students’ demands for greater inclusion and questions of social justice. I think that a hire like mine that specifically wants someone who works in gender and sexuality and performance is a way of meeting students’ demands to offer more within the department,” Khubchandani said.

Khubchandani stressed the importance of interdisciplinary initiatives such as the Bridge Professorships and Mellon Bridge Assistant Professorships programs.

“I do think that fostering an interdisciplinary community across a campus, whether it’s through a Bridge hire or just encouraging and making space for people to meet and connect across disciplines, is important,” he said.

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On censorship

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he bottom text meme. Everyone’s favorite self-referential internet in-joke. The premise goes something like this: Mid-2000s online meme generators would offer users a meme image template, complete with placeholder text boxes on the top and bottom of the image.

Most commonly, they would read “TOP TEXT” and “BOTTOM TEXT,” referencing their locations. Whether the meme stemmed from users forgetting to edit or remove the bottom field or from the ubiquitous nature of these editors, ‘bottom text’ itself quickly integrated itself into the web’s meme vocabulary. Of course.

While the meme’s popularity peaked in late spring of 2012 (according to informational mine knowyourmeme.com), it has enjoyed a steady trickle of popularity ever since. Most recently, it has found its way to our university’s premier source of humor content, the Facebook group “Tufts Memes for Quirky Queens” (TMQQ) (sorry, Tufts comedy groups).

A little more context: In many LGBTQ+ circles, the terms ‘top,’ ‘bottom’ and ‘verse’ have come to be used to describe the roles of a relationship’s participants in the bedroom. Operating under the assumption that same-gender partners will have the same type of genitals (an assumption that is as spurious as it is common), these roles allow LGBTQ+ people to define, in commonly agreed-upon terms, their role in sex. These stereotypical roles differ for partners of different genders, but the basic format stays the same: The top is the one on top, the bottom is the one on bottom, and if a person is verse they are comfortable playing either role.

So, where does ‘bottom text’ and the language of non-straight sex come together to yield a conversation on censorship? The sharpeyed and pun-keen among you may already have spotted the connection. “Top,” “verse,” “bottom.” “Top text,” “bottom text.” You get the idea. So did I, last week when I decided to partake in the traditions of our university’s Cool Kids and post in the meme group. “Top text, verse text, bottom text,” I said. A simple joke, not too hard to understand given the relevant context.

Fast forward two days: I wake up one morning to find my Facebook locked, pending the removal of “obscene content” from my posts.

The culprit? “Top text, verse text, bottom text,’ a post which (according to the notification laid across my newsfeed) “contains nudity.”

Really, Facebook? Really? Are you absolutely sure? Let me be clear: This was not the first post in TMQQ to feature vague reference to sexual activities. It’s a comedy group full of college students. Is the possibility of non-straight people having sex really so inappropriate that it can’t be aired in public? As a culture that pays daily homage to the idea that ‘[straight] sex sells,’ is anything in a shade of rainbow so explicit that a mere allusion to the concept of queer sex must be considered “nudity?”

This is not an isolated incident. Look at popular media. Count the straight sex scenes, count the straight couples, count the climactic kiss moments. Now do the same for queer people. You’re hard pressed to find us, and when you do, we’re almost invariably a stolen moment, rarely touched upon again, or we end up sad, sick or dead. Our love is no more or less shameful than yours. Our bodies are not a crime. Stop acting like they are.

This article was written by an anonymous member of the Rainbow House.

They can be reached at rhousecolumn@ gmail.com.

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ARTS&LIVING FILM REVIEW

‘Get Out’ blends horror, comedy to address U.S. racism

by John Fedak

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Daniel Kaluuya plays Chris, the main character of Jordan Peele’s comedy horror film ‘Get Out.’ well-done, and it will keep viewers entertained throughout the movie while simultaneously ensuring that the plot does not become locked into a particular genre. Furthermore, the acting is solid all-around; from Kaluuya as Chris to Keener as Missy, the actors know what their characters are supposed to portray and how to successfully achieve those portrayals.

Ultimately though, the film truly shines by dealing deftly with an uncomfortable and often-mishandled topic in movies: racism.

The movie starts out as a film about a black man concerned about meeting his white girlfriend’s family, but by the ending credits, Peele has managed to enact a narrative of the ways black people are still tokenized and reduced and the ways white people both desire and mistreat them.

Part of what helps the film approach racism is a terrifying plot twist that utilizes racial fear to a wonderful extent, but the larger part is simply that Peele knows what he is trying to describe. Whether it is Rose’s father saying, “I would have voted for Obama for a third term” or Rose herself ranting about her semi-racist family as Chris is forced to nod along in mock surprise (both of which should absolutely be cringed at), the awkward moments — much like the horror/comedy dynamic — blend right into the big moments when Peele shows how black people face often unfairly disproportionate hardships in

the United States today. As the film moves past the halfway mark, Peele has already subtly introduced the idea that white people believe, as one character says, “black is in” today in the United States. Meanwhile, black characters such as Chris are forced to suffer the indignation that this jealous and ultimately false belief exists and prevails in the United States today.

By transforming this message of inequality into a movie plot, Peele has created a work that confronts people who wouldn’t otherwise think about racism.

The ending scene is particularly powerful because of the ways Peele plays off the tenuous relationship between the police and blackness, and the movie ends wonderfully, toeing the line between gut-wrenchingly familiar and marvelously re-assuring.

All in all, “Get Out” is not just a good film.

It is a good film with a point. It is not meant to just scare audiences or make them laugh; it reveals the hardships that certain people face today in the United States while warning against a white desire to take advantage of black people and the societal problems that black people face. This well-directed movie is meant to be viewed and talked about. In the current political and social atmosphere, it is more important than ever that all voices and anxieties are heard, validated and respected, so “Get Out” to a theater near you and give this movie a shot — you won’t be disappointed.

ALBUM REVIEW

Bangtan Boys excel at blending genres in new album ‘Wings’

by Yuan Jun Chee and Catherine Lessard Sports Editor and Contributing Writer

The seven-member boy band Bangtan Boys — commonly knows as BTS — hailing from South Korea returned with a repackaged second album, “You Never Walk Alone” (2017), this past February. The group has come a long way from its debut single “No More Dream,” released on June 13, 2013, having headlined both of the KCON music festivals in the United States last year. Additionally, BTS has sold out all six shows in the American leg of their Wings Tour in March and April this year.

The band’s second full-length album, “Wings” (2016), and its repackaged

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Jordan Peele is widely known and liked largely because of his work on the Comedy Central series “Key & Peele” (2012-2015), which features short sketches that get audiences laughing. So when word got out that Peele was working on a movie more focused on terror than comedy, many were skeptical of the end result, questioning whether Peele should bother creating more serious content. However, the end result blows any and all skepticism away: “Get Out” (2017) is a wonderful experience tinged with perfect amounts of comedy amidst the darker subject matter, all of which enhance pointed and relevant social commentary.

The movie opens as black photographer Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) and his white girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams) are getting ready to spend a weekend with Rose’s parents, who are also both white. While anxious about the fact that her parents don’t know he’s black, Chris nonetheless heads up with Rose. He soon meets her mother Missy (Catherine Keener) and father Dean (Bradley Whitford), along with Rose’s younger brother Jeremy (Caleb Landry Jones), all of whom exhibit racist tendencies toward Chris. However, what begins as an uncomfortable experience soon becomes decidedly unsettling when Chris observes the Armitages’ groundskeeper Walter (Marcus Henderson) and maid Georgina (Betty Gabriel), who are both black, acting strange. As his stay progresses, it becomes clear that his very life might be in danger.

One reason the movie is so successful is the powerful blend of horror and comedy.

The terrifying chills from the film’s darker moments are offset perfectly by almost unnatural moments of comedic relief, whether that stems from Chris’ comments made under his breath or his friend Rod’s (Milton Howery) hilarious dialogue. What the film avoids doing, much to its credit, is relying too heavily on comedy. The balance it strikes is marvelously

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complement “You Never Walk Alone” has achieved widespread commercial success. “Wings” finished the year in Korea as the No. 1 selling album, while the repackaged album reached over 700,000 pre-orders.

The group also achieved international recognition. “Wings” charted at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 200, the highest position ever achieved by a K-pop group. Of the singles from “You Never Walk Alone,” “Spring Day” also reached No. 8 on the U.S. iTunes Singles Chart, the first time a K-pop song had broken into the Top 10.

With 18 tracks, “You Never Walk Alone” can be described as a true music confection, as BTS incorporates various genres of music. These genres

range from the typical dance and club R&B influences heard most commonly in their tracks to the more surprising elements of reggae seen in their song, “Am I Wrong?”

In a refreshing break from K-pop’s highly manufactured image, the album also comprises seven solo tracks, one by each member. These solo songs give room for the members to display their songwriting and producing abilities and tell their own personal stories. In doing so, BTS allows listeners inside its members’ personal lives, forging a connection with their fans, a concept perhaps otherwise taken for granted in Western pop music. Ranging see WINGS, page 6

or a very long time, almost nobody in the fashion world knew the true age of the legendary German designer, Karl Lagerfeld. This halo of timelessness surrounding his persona easily translated to his designs, whether these were Chanel suits, Fendi fur coats, Chloé gowns or accessories for his eponymous brand. Part of the reason Lagerfeld has been able to stay relevant for so long in this ever-changing, fast-paced industry is his capability to draw inspiration from both pre-modern and contemporary art.

The influence of pre-modern French artist Paul Gauguin was most evident in Lagerfeld’s Chanel Spring-Summer Couture collection of 2015. In addition to many of the classic elements that have made Chanel the brand it is today, such as the tweed suits and belowthe-knee-length skirts, Lagerfeld featured interestingly poufy silhouettes embellished by tropical flowers. The color palette for the show was also atypical for the Chanel woman.

Lagerfeld included reds and oranges, which were enhanced by the runway backdrop, consisting of warmly colored paper orchids and other exotic-looking flowers. When the models started populating the catwalk, the set animated itself and the flowers started blossoming. This mechanical set was a clear self-reference to a previous show in which Lagerfeld adopted a carousel to display the collection.

With this show, the German fashion designer highlighted an ironic tension between people’s willingness to inhabit a utopic natural world filled with beautiful flowers and the need for this fantasy to rely on machinery.

The fact that he underlined this contradiction of our time by referencing Gauguin’s fascination and idealization of Polynesia was simply spectacular.

Lagerfeld, when designing for Chanel, was also clearly inspired by recent trends in contemporary art. For instance, for Chanel’s Ready-to-Wear collection of Fall-Winter 2014, he decided to host the show at “Chanel Shopping Center.” The German designer made the venue resemble a gargantuan supermarket, in which models pushed carts around and carried their purses in wire baskets. In that occasion, Lagerfeld clearly put himself in dialogue with the work of the first superstar artist, Andy Warhol. The venue was clearly referencing Warhol’s “Campbell Soup Cans” (1962) and the American artist’s fascination with mass-produced goods. The venue of the show also spoke to the supermarket aesthetic that artists such as Han Seok Hyun are fascinated with. The Korean contemporary artist, who recently made an installation for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ “Megacities Asia” exhibition, is interested in the contradiction created by ‘green’ commercial products.

The fact that Lagerfeld referenced mass production during a fashion show is also quite significant. By doing this, he raised questions on the current state of the fashion world. He used an entity that acts like a supermarket, where clothes are designed to be commercial, so that fashion ‘maisons’ can make the biggest profit out of their collections. Could one of the biggest fashion moguls of all time have critiqued the very system on which he constructed his whole identity?

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

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continued from page 5 from ballads to rap, the pace of the album changes continuously, freshening it up at every turn.

The album begins with the introductory track “Boy Meets Evil,” sung by member J-Hope. Listeners are then greeted by the lead single, “Blood, Sweat & Tears.” This track draws heavily on moombahton trap, a growing phenomenon in K-pop created by American producer Dave Nada. Thematically, these songs deal with how youth struggle to deal with the temptations that life offers.

The second single off the album, “Spring Day,” is a melodious ballad that discusses the pain of losing a loved one. The lyrics express a sense of longing and desperation for a loved one that has been gone for some time, but they also give a sense of hope.

The youngest member of the band, Jungkook, reminds us that “no darkness, no season, lasts forever […] I will meet you […] past the end of this cold winter / until spring comes again.”

Another highlight of the album is the fan-tribute song, “Two! Three!

(Still Wishing There Will Be Better Days).” Having risen to meteoric success in just under four years, it is no wonder that the boys are thankful to their management company and their fans for “believing in someone like me / dealing with these tears and wounds.” To BTS, its supporters became “[its] light / for becoming the flower in the most beautiful moment in life.” Showing off their growth as lyricists, rappers Rap Monster, Suga

and J-Hope recorded “BTS Cypher Pt. 4,” the fourth part of their rap project showcased across two studio albums and four extended plays.

Yet, despite all the experimentation within their music, BTS remains true to its beginnings. The final single from the album, “Not Today,” is a powerful anthem that calls for the underdogs in society to not lose hope. The band asks listeners to “throw it up, throw it up / Throw away the fear in your eyes … Till the day of victory (fight!) / don’t kneel, don’t break down, that’s not today!”

However, for all the dynamism that is embodied in the album, listeners may find that the album fizzles out at the end with “Outro: Wings” and “A Supplementary Story: You Never Walk Alone.” While both songs are well-produced, they might leave listeners feeling unsatisfied.

What nonetheless sets BTS apart from other K-pop groups is its eagerness to address globally pertinent topics, emphasizing social issues and how society shapes its youth. The group’s approach to these issues is eloquent and intoxicating. The beat and hooks of each song pulls casual listeners in, but those who decide to delve further into the lyrics will not be disappointed.

BTS’s new album addresses feminism, youth, temptation, community and good versus evil. Some references to these topics are explicit, such as how the song “Not Today” calls for listeners to break the “glass ceiling.” The album also includes intriguing references to literature and cinema, alluding to Hermann Hesse’s youth novel

The Bangtan Boys perform in Bangkok, Thailand, on Aug. 5, 2016.

“Demian” (1919), Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” (1973) and Bong Joonho’s movie “Snowpiercer” (2013) in both its lyrics and music videos.

Through its new music, the band continues to passionately defend their

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youthfulness as its members mature as artists. By playing into universal themes, BTS creates an experience that impacts a diverse group of people and enables listeners to mature with its members as they learn to navigate the world.

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Martin Guterman Undergraduate Lecture The Key to Sending Secret Messages

Susan Loepp Williams College

Day: March 6, 2017 Time: 4:00pm Place: Pearson Hall, Room 106 Tea: 3:00pm in the Remis Sculpture Court Abstract: Suppose Alice wants to send secret messages to Bob, but the channel over which they communicate is not secure. Suppose also that their archenemy, Eve, can intercept all communication between them. It is perhaps counterintuitive that Alice and Bob can send secret messages to each other over their insecure channel with reasonable confidence that Eve cannot decipher their messages. In this talk, we will discuss the history of, and the ideas behind public-key exchanges; the first step Alice and Bob use to send their messages. No particular mathematics background will be assumed.

Bio: Susan R. Loepp is a Professor of Mathematics at Williams College and an inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society specializing in commutative algebra and with an exceptional record of mentoring undergraduate students in research (the list of her REU students alone fills a page). She tirelessly serves the AMS, MAA and Association of Women in Mathematics and was selected to receive the 2012 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, which honors extraordinary professors whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have influence beyond their own institutions. In her case this is but one in a slew of teaching awards. Her Williams College course on using abstract algebra and quantum physics to protect information became the textbook Protecting Information: From Classical Error Correction to Quantum Cryptography, published by Cambridge University Press.

The Guterman lectures bring to campus some of the best expositors of mathematics for undergraduates.

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Evelyn Bellew and Jessica O’Flanagan Food for Thought

We get it, you’re vegan

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t isn’t often that someone comes out of the ‘vegan closet’ unexpectedly. Sure, you can be a non-vegan and still be really into kale, but eventually the black-bean brownies are going to raise some eyebrows.

Other signs include: a man bun, probiotic dirt water and self-deception in the form of “I had no idea that this was vegan cheese!” The only rule about vegan club is that you have to tell everyone about vegan club.

Perhaps you might like to whack the occasional vegan over the head with a bushel of chard, but vegans deserve some credit. The concept of ‘do no harm’ has been adopted by many humanitarian groups, and veganism stands out as one the few reliable ways to a difference. Politics aside, avoiding animal byproducts is logistically challenging. Despite the abundance of organic ‘Whole Paycheck’ markets, committing to veganism is often inconvenient. Thus, it makes sense that vegans are so vocal, because the diet demands a disproportionate attention to food.

Author Angela Davis speaks of her own veganism as the culmination of activism, asserting, “Many of us can assume that we are these radical activists, but we don’t know how to reflect on the food that we put in our own bodies.” Other public figures such as Mayim Bialik claim that veganism is a constant practice of empathy, without which we lose a commitment to people, not just animals.

Nowadays, though, it appears veganism has more to do with aestheticism than compassion. In her article “Cooperative Engagement,” Sara Cohen of the South Side Weekly explores Qumbya, a vegetarian co-op in Chicago. Cohen explains that while the co-op’s members decry a sense of belonging and anti-conformity, the space shifts from representing compassion to something much more inward and selfish; one member noted, “The [co-op] project is an inward-focused project.” Vegan culture has faced a similar fate: Its intention is more about public self-betterment, which risks becoming self-aggrandizing to accumulate points in the Whole Foods social circle.

Veganism can represent humility and self-sacrifice, but its narrative is now more boastful. Many modern vegans are quick to tell you how great their bodies feel before they delve into the issues with commercial farming. While it is not wrong to be proud of your diet for physical reasons, it’s problematic when modern vegans use their diet’s inherent politicism to prop up a ‘holier-than-thou’ attitude about what is on their plates. Because of its humanitarian roots, veganism gives its followers license to brag about their choices in the name of ethics, even though morality might not be a factor in their choices. The bottom line is that if you see a ‘vegan’ with a leather handbag, that should raise a red flag.

We are entering an era in which everything from our laptop stickers to public transportation has become personal and political.

Diet is no exception. Veganism has been used as a self-righteous identity quirk by soul-cyclists. What happens when veganism uses compassion as a prop? You end up seeing a strange paradox — die-hard vegans scouring farmers’ markets and throwing away hash browns because they may have been fried in butter. Who is that helping?

Evelyn Bellew is a sophomore majoring in environmental studies and political science. Evelyn can be reached at evelyn.bellew@icloud.com.

Jessica O'Flanagan is a sophomore majoring in computer science and English. Jessica can be reached at jessica.o_flanagan@tufts.edu.

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Tufts should expand on mindfulness, mental health initiatives Rocks a high GPA. Volunteers on weekends to tutor children. Performs in a Tufts ensemble. Plays a club sport. Works 15 hours a week. Gulps coffee each morning at the Rez. Frequents late night study at Tisch.

Skips lecture to finish another assignment.

Squeezes naps in between classes.

Maybe this sounds familiar. Maybe because it was (or is) you at some point during college, trying to meet unrealistic expectations and facing that all-too-familiar feeling of stress.

When psychologist Christopher Willard came to Tufts on Feb. 21 to speak at the ASEAN auditorium, he made the point that this is not a Tufts-specific problem. College and high school students experience the most stress compared to any other age demographic. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention reports that one in 12 U.S. college students makes a suicide plan.

At Tufts, the number of visits to Counseling and Mental Health Services has increased by 27 percent in the past year, a sign that Tufts must focus on

how to better address the mental health needs of its student body. Mental health is a gravely serious issue that impacts college students in uniquely harmful ways.

Given the seriousness and scope of the problem, how might Tufts combat the problem most effectively? The event at which Dr. Willard spoke was advertised across campus as “Positive Procrastination,” and only a few dozen people were scattered around the auditorium. This brings up the question of whether all students who need help are getting it and how the university, given its role in facilitating a stressful and competitive culture, can play a role in ensuring that its students are prioritizing mental health and have adequate support and resources. It seems that lecture-based discussions may be beneficial for leaders trying to help students deal with stress, but these types of events do not always reach a large base of students.

The small discussion groups organized

by Tufts Health Promotion and Prevention’s new mindfulness initiative are completely booked, and the organizers are currently

looking to accommodate more students by increasing the number of groups and extending the initiative to next year. It is reassuring that if students recognize that they need help dealing with stress, they can attend these groups. Hopefully, these groups can continue to grow in size in future semesters.

An issue this important requires collaboration and long-term commitment, starting with when Tufts students first arrive on campus. Perhaps more attention given to mental well-being during orientation as well as more programming integrated into the first-year residential experience could help guarantee a greater degree of student support. Nonetheless, Tufts would greatly benefit from continuing the mindfulness initiative beyond the spring 2017 semester as well as from considering new approaches to make sure that students not only have the tools they need to support their mental health but are actually encouraged to use them. Changing an issue this ingrained will not be fixed by a single semester of mindfulness.

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Max Goder-Reiser Out of Left Field

Spring has sprung

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e’re back, baby! Every year, Spring Training gets me so excited for the upcoming season. Over the course of March, we see the weather turn from frigid to slightly less frigid by April. With April comes pre- (and post-) game sausages, Fenway Franks and grossly overpriced beer. Baseball gets us through the dog days of summer and greets us after work with the familiar voice of Jerry Remy saying, “Buenos noches, amigos!” Baseball then hands us off to football and basketball as the leaves start to change and the weather starts to get cold again.

But before all of this is Spring Training.

Pitchers and catchers reported on Feb. 14, and the first games were played 10 days later. By now we’re fully in the swing of things. We’ve seen our favorite teams crush their local college opponents, already made rash decisions about how players will perform during the season and had a few existential crises due to a player’s rumored Tommy John surgery (looking at you David Price). With the season really kicking off on Feb. 24, we’ll have around 250 straight days of baseball or baseball-related activities.

Now while Spring Training can be kind of boring and really doesn’t mean anything (Rick Porcello allowed 17 earned runs in 15 and two-thirds innings last year), there are still notable moments. Spring Training this year started off with a bang on an Aaron Judge moonshot. The sound off his bat was one of the purest sounds I’ve ever heard in a baseball game. If Judge can figure out a way to lower his strikeout rate (44.2 percent in 27 MLB games last year) and play consistently in the majors, he and Gary Sanchez will present one of the most formidable power duos in baseball.

One of the crazier highlights from this Spring Training was Mets prospect Luis Guillorme catching a flying bat one-handed. Marlins’ shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria took a wild swing and released his bat on the follow through, flinging it into the Mets’ dugout. Without even flinching, Guillorme nonchalantly threw up his right hand and snagged the bat. If his reflexes on defense are even half as good as they are in the dugout, this kid has a bright future in the Mets’ system.

We’ll also see the spring debuts of teams’ most exciting prospects, from the White Sox’s Michael Kopech to the Red Sox’s Rafael Devers to the Yankees’ Gleyber Torres. Prospect watching is definitely one of my favorite spring activities.

Events like these are great and remind me of what I like most about baseball: seeing rookies putting on a showcase, unknown players doing something crazy and making a name for themselves and getting a glimpse at a heralded prospect still a couple years down the pipeline. You don’t really get moments like these in other sports, which is part of what makes baseball so peculiar.

While it’s great to have some kind of baseball back in our lives, you better believe I’m still counting down the 28 days left until Opening Day. Max Goder-Reiser is a senior majoring in biology. He can be reached at max.goder_ reiser@tufts.edu.

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continued from back able to go with that today, so we went with 2-3 zone,” Eagles coach Kissy Walker said. “I thought it slowed down the pace a little bit and kept us in the game. We played a very good 2-3 zone in the first half but then [the Jumbos] really started spreading us out and hit some open shots, so we had to switch it up to go man-to-man, and the first couple of minutes in the third quarter obviously hurt us.”

The day before, the Jumbos saw off the St. Joseph’s Monks 65-44. Baptista got a three-pointer to sink in the Jumbos’ first possession, just as the shot clock ran out. Baptista followed this up with a lay-up on Tufts’ next possession; she scored seven of her 13 points in this quarter alone. She set the tone for the rest of the game, as the Jumbos raced to a 10-0 start. Their 11 defensive rebounds allowed the Jumbos to finish the first quarter with a 20-4 lead.

The pressure continued as Tufts put up a strong second quarter. When the Monks crowded the paint, the Jumbos found a way to work the ball along the perimeter and find open players to hit deep shots. Tufts shot 10-for-22 (45.5 percent) from the three-point

range, and senior tri-captain Josie Lee sunk a couple to up the pressure on the Monks. Off the bench, junior guard Jennie Mucciarone also added a three, and she led the bench with 11 points.

It was not all smooth sailing for Tufts, as the Monks found a way to adjust in the second half to match the Jumbos ball-forball. Sophomore guard Kelsi McNamara sunk two threes to keep the pressure on the Jumbos – McNamara would finish the game with a team-high 17 points.

“The defensive intensity wasn’t there [in the second half] like it was in the first half, that’s usually what gets me most frustrated,” Berube said. “Just taking good care of the ball, making good decisions, I don’t think we did a great job on that. St. Joseph’s had a really great guard that I just wanted to make sure our hands were up against her, but it was a great win.”

The Jumbos eventually gained their biggest lead in the game (29) with 6:17 left in the final quarter, as they eliminated the challenge of the Monks. Knapp once again led the team with a game-high 18 points, five rebounds and four assists.

Reflecting on the weekend, Dillon

explained that the Jumbos are hitting their stride when it counts.

“I think the team played very well as a whole, we’ve been a little banged up across the board the past couple of games, and I think our bench did a really good job stepping up throughout the game,” Dillon said. “We had Harrington and Mucciarone coming off the bench and scoring some huge buckets and getting rebounds, stops on D that we really needed.”

Tufts will next face the University of Scranton Royals in the Sweet Sixteen on Friday in St. Louis, Mo. Scranton beat SUNY Polytechnic 76-65 to earn their Sweet Sixteen spot. Scranton will be a familiar opponent for Tufts, as these two teams have played each other twice in the last two years, with the match-up split evenly at one apiece.

“We have to do a good job defending inside with their bigs and just play overall better in the defensive half court,” Berube said. “And we gotta be able to control the backboard. They’re a great offensive rebound team as well. We just gotta keep working on that and working on our execution and I’m just excited to be moving on.”

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“Vinny [Pace] had a game, an absolute game,” Palleschi said. “[Ryan] was good though. He had 33 [points] and 11 [rebounds].

He was an absolute monster. Other than that, I wouldn’t say that we shut them down, but we stopped them as best we could and having Vinny step up the way he did — I owe my career to him after that.”

According to Pace, the record-setting night was the result of dedicated preparation.

“I’ve just been taking some extra shots after practice. [I’m] just really trying to get it going, because I haven’t really shot particularly well all year,” he said. “When you get it going like that, you just want to stay in the flow of the game [and] not force up bad shots … [you] just take shots within the game and let it come to you.”

Ryan, meanwhile, performed admirably for the thwarted Cardinals, scoring 33 points and grabbing 11 boards in his final game. Robinson chipped in with 14 bench points, 10 of which came in the second half.

Additionally, Cardinals junior guard Tyler English put up 14 points before fouling out in the last minute of the encounter.

The night before, Tufts held off Salem State, 84-81. The two teams kept apace of one another from start to finish, with the lead changing nine times and neither squad establishing a double-digit lead at any point in time. Tufts’ largest lead of the game came when sophomore guard Ethan Feldman sunk

a shot from beyond the arc to give the Jumbos a 33-24 lead with 2:53 left in the first half.

Salem State swiftly struck back, however, and a three-pointer by first-year guard Sean Bryan with the clock running down cut Tufts’ lead to 40-35 going into the break.

In the second half, the Vikings’ senior co-captain forward Marcus Faison bore much of his team’s scoring load, as the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) tournament MVP put up more points in the second period (21, on an efficient 10-for-12 shooting) than did the other four Salem State starters combined (18).

Faison’s heroics alone were not enough to power his team to victory, however, and a pair of free throws by first-year guard Eric Savage gave the Jumbos the lead for good with 2:58 left in the second half.

The ending of the game was not without drama, however. The Jumbos, carrying a slim 82-81 lead, committed a 10-second violation to hand the ball back to the Vikings with 25 seconds left. In what could have been the team’s final defensive possession of the season, however, Savage stole the ball from Vikings junior guard, Rayshaw Matthews.

“The 10-second violation was tough,” Palleschi said. “It’s definitely not what we wanted. Eric [Savage] had a great play. He knocked the ball right out of [Matthews’] hands and got it to me.”

Palleschi absorbed an intentional foul before hitting both free throws to seal up the game for the Jumbos.

Pace explained that despite the close nature

of the game, the team remained confident.

“Throughout the whole game, [we were] just sticking together as a team,” he said. “[We were] just trusting that everybody on the team, no matter what the situation is, is going to make the right play.”

During the game, Faison paced all players with 30 points and 14 rebounds, 10 of which came on the offensive glass. The only other Viking to reach double digits, junior guard Shaquan Murray, posted 13 points (falling below his regular season average of 15.8 points per game).

Meanwhile, five Jumbos scored 11 points or more, led by Savage’s 14 points off the bench. Palleschi, in his first start since returning from an injury-enforced absence, put up 12 points, seven rebounds, three blocks and a steal in 22 minutes of action. Pace added 13 points and eight rebounds.

Another crucial part of Tufts’ success was its accuracy from the free-throw line, as the team shot 19-for-21 from the stripe.

The 90.5 percent accuracy rate was by far the Jumbos’ best mark for the season and far exceeded their season average of 66.9 percent. By comparison, Salem State made just 13 of their 25 attempts (52.0 percent) from the line.

According to Pace, the success from the stripe was crucial to the team’s first round victory.

“It’s kind of unlike [what] we’ve been doing all year: We shot unbelievable from the freethrow line,” he said. “That helps you win [and] pull out close games like that.”

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Tufts defeated Husson 64-44 on Saturday and St. Joseph’s (Maine) 65-44 on Friday to secure passage to its sixth consecutive NCAA Sweet Sixteen.

A fast start to the third quarter drove the Jumbos to victory over the Husson Eagles in their Div. III NCAA Championship second round meeting at Cousens Gym on Saturday evening. The match started off at a furious tempo, with both sides trading scores early on. Husson was able to drive through Tufts’ defense early on to make a couple of lay-ups.

However, it was Tufts that managed to pull away first with a 7-0 run with 3:06 to play in the first quarter to make it 19-10. Husson responded with five unanswered points of their own to keep the game close. The Jumbos picked up 22 rebounds in the first half alone and picked up 14 second-chance points, allowing them to build a 10-point lead going into halftime.

Junior guard and NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year Lauren Dillon was one of the stand-out players on the floor, as she successfully defended against the North Atlantic Conference Player of the Year Chandler Guerrette, limiting Guerrette to just four points in the first half. Nevertheless, the Jumbos did face some trouble defending three-point shots. Eagles’ senior guard Darla Morales was 5-of-9 from behind the arc.

“We were playing some really good teams with a lot of talented guards and we knew they were all three point shooters,” Dillon said. “We definitely could have defended the three a little bit better knowing that they made some great shots. I think going forward we know we have to step up our perimeter defense and get

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Sophomore guard Jacqueline Knapp and junior guard Lauren Dillon defend during Tufts’ 64-44 second round championship win against Husson at Cousens Gymnasium on March 4. our hands up so that they can’t even get the shot off.”

On the offensive side, Tufts senior tri-captain center Michela North and junior forward Melissa Baptista were dominant in the paint. North finished the game with 10 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, while Baptista picked up five offensive rebounds. According to Berube, the team deliberately built their game plan around targeting size mismatches

in the paint.

“We knew we had a size advantage and we needed to take advantage of that, and I thought our guards did a great job of finding [post players], making some pass fakes and throwing it in there and hitting some open shots on the perimeter will open things inside,” Berube said.

Tufts started the third quarter with a 10-0 run in the first 3:20 to lead by 20. Sophomore

guard Jacqueline Knapp put up eight points in the third – she finished the game with a teamhigh 13 points. Tufts also stepped up its defensive aggression in the second half, registering four steals in the fourth quarter and a total of 10 in the game.

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Jumbos outpace Cardinals behind Vinny’s 37 points

by Sam Weitzman

Assistant Sports Editor

The Tufts Jumbos (22-6) vanquished the St. John Fisher Cardinals (23-6) on Saturday night in the second round of the Div. III NCAA men’s basketball tournament, 94-81. With the victory, Tufts now advances to the Sweet Sixteen for the second consecutive season. Meeting them there will be the Babson Beavers (27-2), the No. 3 team in the country.

The Jumbos reached the second round after edging out the Salem State Vikings (1711) on Friday. For their part, the Cardinals had advanced after beating the St. Lawrence Saints (20-7), 77-72. Against the Saints, Cardinals first-year guard Sammy Robinson led all players with 20 points off the bench, while senior center Keegan Ryan earned a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds.

The Jumbos and the Cardinals traded the lead multiple times during the first half of their encounter. St. John Fisher’s lead grew to as many as eight points when a lay-up by Ryan gave the Cardinals a 24-16 advantage. Tufts swiftly responded, however, by scoring the next 12 points to retake the lead. Boosted by junior guard Vincent Pace’s 19 first half points, the Jumbos entered the break with a 42-35 advantage.

St. John Fisher dragged itself back into contention during the first part of the second half, culminating in a pair of free

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Junior Everett Dayton slips past a Williams defender during the Jumbos’ game against Williams College on Feb. 25. throws by Ryan to knot the game up at 56 with 12:56 remaining in the game. Pace immediately answered by knocking down a three-point shot to give Tufts the lead for good. The Jumbos’ advantage grew to as

high as 15, and they ended up with a double-digit tournament win.

Pace had an outstanding offensive performance against St. John Fisher, scoring a career-high 37 points on just 17 shots. Senior

tri-captain guard Tarik Smith posted 17 points and seven assists, while senior tri-captain center Tom Palleschi contributed 12 points and see MEN'S BASKETBALL, page 10