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Engagement (CIRCLE) at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life released a series of findings recently that suggest that young people are more engaged in the upcoming midterm elections than per-
haps ever before. The results, three sets of which have been released to the public, reveal that America’s youth are planning to head to the polls in large numbers to make a difference in 2018, according
to Director for Communication, Strategy and Planning at Tisch College Jennifer McAndrew. CIRCLE partnered with polling firm GfK to survey 2,087 people, aged 18–24, through an online questionnaire from Sept. 5–26, McAndrew said. She also explained that the poll contained a representative oversample of people aged 18–21 who are new to voting, as well as black and Latinx young people. The first finding of the series, released on Oct. 9, focused on young people’s likelihood to vote, how campaigns contacted young people and voter choice, according to McAndrew. Reynol Junco, a senior researcher at CIRCLE, found this part of the poll results to be extremely encouraging about the youth vote. According to the poll, 34 percent of young respondents are “extremely likely to vote” in the upcoming midterm election. According to McAndrew, this would be a historic turnout for young people in a midterm election, who have not turned out in a rate higher than 31 percent for a midterm election since the Census Bureau began recording such data in 1966. She thought it promising that the youngest voters are planning to turn out in greater numbers. see CIRCLE, page 2
Computer science department introduces application for COMP 40 enrollment by Robert Kaplan Contributing Writer
The growing popularity of COMP 40, a core requirement for the computer science major and the new data science major, has forced the Department of Computer Science (CS) to introduce an online application system to limit the number of students who can enroll for the course on SIS this fall, according to Kathleen Fisher, department chair and professor. “The number of students in these programs has grown substantially over the past five years,” she said. COMP 40’s relatively inflexible course capacity is the result of a number of factors, including a lack of availability of computer labs and large classrooms, limited funding for teaching assistants and too few faculty members to increase the number of sections offered, according to Fisher.
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Alva Couch, an associate professor of CS and co-director of data science, agreed that limited faculty resources make expansion difficult. He explained that most COMP 40 instructors require a substantial and diverse knowledge-base of the industry as well as the teaching skills necessary for a large, feedback-driven class. Couch said that as a result, additional faculty cannot easily be used to expand the course capacity. “There are very few people who can teach COMP 40, and we have two of them,” Couch said. Due to limited available space and long wait lists, the department began prioritizing admissions for majors to the course a few years ago, according to Fisher. The current system for determining priority admission gathers information from students so that the course instructor may make an informed decision based, in part, on the student’s likelihood of pursing a major in computer science, Fisher said.
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“The priority system was devised to make sure students are able to take the course at the most suitable time in their academic program,” Fisher said. “[Students] also get to explain anything unusual about their circumstances for wanting to take COMP 40.” Fisher noted that these circumstances may include conflicting terms spent studying abroad and early graduation. The limitations of SIS itself was one factor leading to the creation of an independent system because faculty faced a host of challenges in trying to control enrollment in COMP 40 through SIS, according to Couch. This leads to an accounting error, even as faculty try to predict the enrollment of the course before registration opens, Couch explained. Fisher criticized the responsiveness of SIS in recording students’ major declarations as a difficulty in
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determining students’ priority to enroll in COMP 40. “SIS is slow to record major declarations … and thus cannot accurately give priority to students who have declared,” Fisher said. Zoe Hsieh, a first-year considering a major in data science, understood the rationale behind the department’s priority enrollment system. “I plan on taking COMP 40 next year, so I want to make sure I get in when I need to take it,” Hsieh said. “Given the high cost of tuition, graduating late because of one class would be terrible.” According to the CS department’s course registration guide, direct enrollment in COMP 40 in the spring will be limited to undeclared first-years or sophomores and computer science students. Fisher said that the department also con-
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continued from page 1 The high youth turnout numbers are also reminiscent of participation in presidential elections, according to Junco. “That comes really … close to the levels of engagement we saw in [a similar poll] for the 2016 elections,” Junco said. “Which is surprising because usually there’s not that level of engagement for midterms because people are usually uncaring — not just youth, but in general.” Junco added that while black and Latinx youth overwhelmingly favor Democratic candidates, young white voters are more evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with white men actually favoring Republican candidates. The second finding, released on Oct. 11, focused on generational efficacy by asking young people if they believe that their generation can make a difference, McAndrew said. Despite a majority of young people reporting that they are more cynical about politics than they were two years ago, the poll also demonstrated a growing optimism in the power of the young generation. Overall, the survey showed that 81 percent of young people believe that they have the power to create change. “It’s really interesting to me that young people tend to be cynical and they don’t really trust institutions and they don’t really trust party elites, yet they really seem to be making political change and are trying to advocate for political change in
a way that’s outside that system,” Kristian Lundberg, an associate researcher at CIRCLE, said. The third finding, on Oct. 15, centered around the idea of “slacktivism,” the concept that easily supporting a candidate or campaign online does not count as or lead to true activism, according to CIRCLE’s website. Junco reported that, despite the ease of online political action, engagement in online activism is trending up. In fact, he said that young people are three times more likely to attend a march or demonstration than they were just two years ago. “Youth are more engaged than ever, which I think is a really great thing,” Junco said. “I think there really is this feeling like youth aren’t interested and they aren’t engaged and one of the things that we find is you would be surprised. All you have to do is ask youth and they will participate.” According to the survey, young people have connected most with movements to stop gun violence and climate change, as well as the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements. Junco also suggested that celebrities like Taylor Swift and Rihanna, who have told their fans to register to vote, are raising young people’s awareness of political issues. He further pointed out that the political activism is clearly divided along party lines, with Democrats more than twice as likely to engage in activism than Republicans or independents. “These data suggest that the Democratic youth are more fired up,” Junco said.
The survey further found that youth tend to be cynical about the major political parties and are not enthusiastic about affiliating with them, a potential holdover from the divisive primaries of the last election cycle, according to Lundberg. “It could in part be a reaction to 2016 where young Republicans tended to oppose Trump’s nomination overall and young Democrats overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders,” he said. Lundberg added that already 30 percent of youths are unaffiliated with a party. He noted that an exception to this trend is young people of color, who said that being part of a party makes their voice more powerful. “It could be that young people of color could see the benefits more of voting as a block as opposed to young white voters,” Lundberg said. The survey additionally found that, for the most part, young people still inherit their political affiliations from their parents. Lundberg also noted an interesting finding about which youth voters switch parties. “One interesting thing is that the group of people who switch parties more tend to be part of the LGBT community,” Lundberg said. “I feel like that’s one lever for change right there — that people who switch parties might be doing so because they have disagreements on that issue.” The final portion of the series, about local media, will be released by Oct. 29, according to McAndrew.
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continued from page 1 siders giving enrollment priority to some non-CS majors and sophomores interested in COMP 40 in the fall. “We have had extra capacity in the spring semester offering for many years,” Fisher said. “We currently give any student priority in the next semester if they were not able to get into the course in the current semester.” Roberto Breitman, a CS major, explained that taking COMP 40 during a particular semester is critical due to the rigorous workload of the course. “When you take COMP 40, you build your schedule around it,” Breitman, a junior, said. Breitman explained that students plan their schedule so that the rest of their
course load is lighter when they enroll in COMP 40. “In a class that is that intensive, you need to give priority to those who have planned their schedule around the class so they will be able to actually do it,” he said. The short-term effect that the School of Engineering’s new data science major will have on enrollment in CS classes such as COMP 40 is unclear, according to Fisher. “We expect the new data science major to be popular … but we don’t know if it will increase or decrease the load on the CS department. It depends on where the students come from,” Fisher said. Couch emphasized that the current overlap in core degree requirements between data science and computer sci-
ence degrees will not cause a direct effect on enrollment on computer science classes over the long term. “I plan to do away with the overlap,” Couch said. “Long term, the strategic plan is to create a completely separate path for data science.” In the immediate future, however, Fisher acknowledged prioritized enrollment as an unfortunate necessity in light of increasing enrollments. Until high demand for the course declines, Fisher stressed the commitment of the department to meeting the needs of students and increasing capacity. “This fall, we were able to enroll 148 students [in COMP 40] rather than the 120 we had in the previous year,” Fisher said. “We have been increasing the capacity of the class and plan to continue to do so.”
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Fletcher discussion spotlights 1956 Hungarian Revolution
World War II. He explained that in 1945, after the conclusion of the war, Hungary conducted free, democratic elections. However, this freedom was short-lived: By 1947, Soviet communists had gained control of the country’s politics. Fehér noted that 1948 is known by many Hungarians as “The Year of the Turn,” when Hungary officially became a communist dictatorship. “[They were] probably some of the darkest days in Hungarian history,” he said. “They only compare the 1950s’ Stalinist regime in Hungary to those of the days of 1944 when Hungary was under occupation by Nazi Germany and Hitler gave free reign to the Hungarian Nazis. Within a decade, Hungary went through hell twice.” Fehér explained that all Hungarian property and businesses were nationalized, including that of his own family. He detailed the power struggle between Mátyás Rákosi, Imre Nagy and
Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, all of whom had varying views on how strictly communism should be implemented in Hungary. By October 1956, Hungarians were fed up with communism and mounted the first armed resistance against a communist government, according to Smith. The VCMF works to spread awareness of human rights abuses in communist regimes. Smith said that from Hong Kong to Crimea, the size of today’s “free world” is shrinking, and he cited communism’s death toll as at least 100 million people. Smith gave the examples of Cambodia, China and Venezuela as countries that are still under communist influence. He said that even in these cases, where it is clear that atrocities are being committed, nothing is changing. “This is both a challenge of understanding what is happening and then the moral courage and political will to confront it and to have a moral reckoning,” Smith said. He noted that U.S. publications did not help the Hungarian cause and instead often printed Soviet propaganda. Smith said this was just one instance of the U.S. not aiding Hungary as it should have. “The reality is, when [the Hungarian revolutionaries] had pushed the Soviets out of Budapest and were on the airwaves begging for some support in an unprecedented overthrow by young civilians of an occupied communist force, we did not help them,” Smith said. “And that potentially could have led to the breakup of the Soviet bloc.” Smith said the actions of the Hungarian freedom fighters inspired many anti-communist Americans. However, as Fehér added, though many American civilians wanted to provide more aid to the Hungarians, the U.S. government chose not to do so. The event was then opened up for audience participation. Questions posed to Smith and Fehér concerned instances of American repression of communist leaders that had negative repercussions, theoretical steps the United States could have taken to support the Hungarians and the significance of a 1956 Olympic water polo match between Hungary and the USSR.
The alarm was caused by overcooked popcorn in a microwave. The Somerville Fire Department cleared the area and reset the panel. The Fountainhead On Oct. 20 at 12:25 p.m., TUPD received a report that a child had been injured in Jackson Lot, near the Art Gallery in Aidekman Arts Center. The child suffered from a head injury as a result of falling off a water fountain. The child was evaluated by Tufts Emergency Medical Services and transported to the hospital for further evaluation.
Sex on the lawn On Oct. 21 at 1:40 a.m., while on foot patrol, TUPD observed what they believed to be a person lying on the President’s Lawn. Upon closer inspection for a well-being check, TUPD discovered there were two individuals engaged in sexual activity. The individuals were at first unfazed by TUPD’s flashlights but soon ceased. It was determined that the individuals were students, and they were reported to the Dean of Student Affairs for disciplinary action.
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Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and former Hungarian diplomat Zoltán Fehér discuss the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at a Fletcher School event on Sept. 23. by Natasha Mayor News Editor
Executive Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VCMF) Marion Smith and former Hungarian diplomat Zoltán Fehér, now a research fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s Center for Strategic Studies (CSS), discussed the history and modern-day implications of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution Tuesday night. The event, titled “The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Legacy of Soviet Communism,” was cosponsored by the CSS, the Fletcher School’s International Security Studies Program, and its Russia and Eurasia Program. Fehér explained that the date of this talk was significant for Hungarians because it marks the beginning of the revolution against Hungary’s communist government. “The proclamation of the republic, our new independence in 1989, was pro-
claimed on this day, Oct. 23, as a tribute to the 1956 revolution and the role that 1956 has played in the Hungarian psyche,” Fehér said. To begin the evening, Fehér invited a handful of Fletcher professors to share their personal stories related to the Hungarian Revolution. Jenifer Burckett-Picker, director of the Ph.D. program, shared her memories of living in the United States in 1956 and that a friend’s family had given refuge to a Hungarian child. Professor of International Politics Richard Shultz, who is also director of the Fletcher School’s International Security Studies program, described growing up in a mining town in Pennsylvania and spending hours playing football with young Hungarian immigrants. Visiting Associate Professor Susan Banki (F ’06) shared her own story of being the child of a Hungarian refugee, as her father escaped Hungary during the revolution. To provide context, Fehér gave a brief history of Hungary in the aftermath of
Police Briefs — Week of Oct. 22 by Jenna Fleischer News Editor
Stay in your lane On Oct. 15 at 11:12 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a report from a student who had woken up in considerable pain. The student said they had been riding their bike on Boston Avenue around 1 a.m. when the bike’s pedal became detached. While attempting to reattach the pedal in the bike lane, the student was struck by a passing vehicle and knocked over; however, they could not identify the
car or its license plate number. The student refused to be transported to the hospital. TUPD transported them to Health Service. Air blood Later than day, at 8:32 p.m., TUPD responded to a call at the lower campus basketball courts, where an individual was bleeding from their head. While playing basketball, the individual fell and hit their head on the concrete. The individual was transported to the hospital for further evaluation. What’s poppin’? On Oct. 19 at 1:50 a.m., TUPD responded to a fire alarm at Latin Way.
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n the upcoming midterm elections, a historic number of veterans are running for Congress. Combat arms soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have come stateside to serve again, and nearly all of these first-time candidates are running as Democrats. One of those candidates is Dan Feehan, a Bronze Star recipient and former Army Ranger who completed two tours of duty in Iraq from 2005–09. He is now running to represent Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, which is being vacated by fellow Democratic veteran Tim Walz, who is running to be the state’s governor. As a first-year student at Georgetown University, Feehan watched as the Pentagon burned on Sept. 11, 2001. He had not planned to serve in the military prior to 9/11 but chose to complete the Army ROTC program at Georgetown, which offered him a commission as an engineer officer. In Iraq, Feehan identified roadside bombs as part of the counter-IED effort. After retiring from the Army, Feehan spent four years as an elementary and middle school teacher in Illinois, and then Indiana. Feehan then worked in the Obama White House through the prestigious White House Fellows program, and he eventually served as acting Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. Feehan has now joined a chorus of veterans from the post-9/11 wars who are seeking office this year. Across the country, veterans running as Democrats are vying to unseat entrenched Republican incumbents, many of whom never served in the military. Feehan is a unique case, however. The Minnesota 1st Congressional District is one of a few seats currently represented by a Democrat that was also carried by Trump two years ago. The Republican Party sees the 1st District as one of its most feasible pickup opportunities in a year likely to be successful for Democrats. Feehan has promised to promote unity and bipartisanship once he gets to Washington, and his record of service is a good indicator of those promises being fulfilled. Walz has been in Congress since 2007 and survived elections in 2010 and 2016 — years that were bad for many Democrats. Feehan has capitalized on Walz’s popularity by taking similar tacks in his own campaign. Despite running in a relatively conservative district, Feehan is likely to see some success next month thanks to Minnesota’s statewide Democratic ticket. Incumbent Senator Amy Klobuchar is up for reelection, and her landslide victory six years ago, as well as her incredibly high approval ratings, are strong indicators of Democratic prospects across the state. The presence of Walz on the ballot is also likely to benefit Feehan, as he is polling ahead of his Republican opponent. Dan Feehan has lived a life of service and sacrifice, and we are all better off for that. Whatever you think about his politics or his policies, we should all welcome the prospect of more combat veterans in Congress. Matt Rice is a sophomore who has not declared a major yet. He can be reached at matthew.rice@tufts.edu.
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International community celebrates EtishAndrews’ 35-year tenure, establishes scholarship by Marc Weisglass Staff Writer
Tufts will be losing an integral part of its student affairs community at the end of October when Jane Etish-Andrews, director of the International Center (I-Center) and former advisor to the International House (I-House), retires after 35 years at the university. Etish-Andrews announced her retirement in May, and this was met with an outpouring of love and support from current students, international alumni and staff. However, alumnus Mauricio Artiñano (LA ’06) believed that Etish-Andrews’ years of service deserved something more; after all, Etish-Andrews has been described as a constant source of support for not only the international students she advised but all who came in contact with her. Artiñano, now a planning officer at the United Nations Mission in Colombia and a member of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life board of advisors, organized a series of activities on the weekend of Oct. 12 with the help of a committee working from places such as Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Nigeria and the U.S. “In March of this year, I was speaking to Jonathan Kaplan, the director of [the] Boards of Advisors program, about how great [Jane is] and he said, ‘I have to tell you a little secret, Jane is retiring,’” Artiñano said at one of the weekend’s receptions. “From that moment, I knew we had to do something big, and over the next few days we started this Facebook group and … people were very excited to celebrate [Jane] and [her] legacy.” Over the summer, with the help of alumni Chiamaka Chima (E ’14, EG ’16) and Graziella Reis-Trani (LA ’04), Artiñano launched a fundraising effort for the creation of the Jane Etish-Andrews Scholarship to benefit international undergraduate students on financial aid. “Jane has always been a staunch advocate for international financial aid. I was able to go to Tufts because of the generosity of the financial aid that, then, was just starting but has picked up so much [since] thanks to her,” Artiñano said. Among many initiatives, Etish-Andrews was the impetus for the creation of the Oliver Chapman Fund in 1992, an emergency fund for international students in need that honors the late Oliver Chapman, an international student from Panama. According to Madeleine Conway, assistant director of donor communications at the university’s advancement division, this was one of the many ways that Etish-Andrews has leveled the playing field for international students financially. “Jane [Etish-Andrews] has access to funds that provide support for a student if they break a tooth or have to go to the dentist and have to pay a dental bill, or if they have to travel to a really cool conference to present some research they’re doing,” Conway said. “You can tell just how much it means to her to support students in those ways. I think it says a lot about Jane.” Etish-Andrews said that she has been committed from the start of her time at Tufts to providing international students with the education they deserve and helping them overcome any financial obstacle. “I really want to support the students because … one of the things I’m really committed to is financial aid,” Etish-Andrews said. “And so that’s been my passion … to
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Jane Etish-Andrews, who retires at the end of October after 35 years as director of the Tufts International Center, poses for a portrait. see Tufts diversify, bring in more international students who do not have [the financial] means and would have never gotten here. And it started off small, it wasn’t as broad. The first students who came in could afford tuition and nothing else, so Tufts gave them living. Now we’re at the point where the international students on financial aid have gone from four to 44, and the numbers keep growing.” Etish-Andrews’ tenure at Tufts began in 1983, when she was appointed to succeed Leslie Rowe (F ’82) as director of the then-International Office. Rowe had left Tufts to join the U.S. Foreign Service and served as the ambassador to Mozambique from 2010 to 2012. Back then, the I-Center’s presence on campus had yet to truly grow into all that it could become. For starters, the I-Center was physically located in the I-House. “The numbers, of course, have grown exponentially over the years. When I first came, there were pockets of countries and nationalities represented,” Etish-Andrews said. “At this point, it was probably just affluent students because there was no aid, so [those] who could come here were people who could afford it.” As the years progressed and financial aid for international students became more accessible, Etish-Andrews was pleased to see Tufts’ student body diversify. “Where I see the growth and changes [are] different nationalities [coming] in different numbers. Now we have a lot of kids from Nepal, Turkey, Canada, Greece, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Kenya, Zimbabwe. It’s just really broad. It’s just all over the place and they’re all really good students. And in my opinion, that has added to the fabric of the international community at Tufts in a way that doesn’t exist at many other colleges in the U.S.,” Etish-Andrews said. Almost equally as remarkable as Tufts’ growth in supporting international students is the success of the scholarship’s fundraising efforts. With 105 donors, the committee
has managed to raise over $90,000 to date, according to Conway. “I think it says a lot about Tufts students in general because this isn’t just donating flowers — this is making sure her legacy lives on forever by creating this scholarship for international students in need. And I think it says something that they don’t want to just honor her but they want to do it in a way that will have a long lasting impact,” Conway said. Etish-Andrews said that the need to support international students in the U.S. has never been more important, as political leaders continue to preach isolationist rhetoric. “It has become harder to tell students and scholars when they ask for advice. I used to say with a lot more confidence, ‘Don’t worry, follow the instructions and you should be OK.’ Now I can’t promise it’s going to go the way it should,” Etish-Andrews said. “It’s unprecedented and it didn’t used to be this way. It just means we need to be a lot more careful. Dotting our i’s and crossing our t’s — we really have been careful.” Etish-Andrews and the I-Center have put the proper arrangements in place to ensure that her retirement does not cause disruptions for the international community at Tufts. The Office of the Provost announced the creation of a single, university-wide I-Center on July 1, consolidating offices that were previously spread across various schools. “[This consolidation] ensures no student is falling through the cracks in terms of needs or policies so it makes more send to have a consolidated effort in terms of resources,” Ghenwa Hakim, associate director of the I-Center, said. As for who will be replacing EtishAndrews, the search committee, which Hakim is a member of, has their work cut out for them. “We are looking, but we cannot replace Jane. It is a long process because we want to make sure we have somebody in the role that is just as committed to the students and the international community,” Hakim said.
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Lana Del Rey: From Lizzy Grant to ‘Lust for Life’
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Lana Del Rey performs in Carson, Calif. on May 20, 2017. by Christopher Panella Assistant Arts Editor
On Sept. 18, singer, songwriter and producer Lana Del Rey played her most recent single, “Venice Bitch,” on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show on Apple Music. The 10-minute song is the second release from her work with producer Jack Antonoff, whose past credits include Taylor Swift’s “1989” (2014) and “reputation” (2017), as well as Lorde’s “Melodrama” (2017) and St. Vincent’s “MASSEDUCTION” (2017). “I played it for my managers, and I was like, ‘Yeah, I think this is the single I want to put out.’ And they were like, ‘It’s 10 minutes long. Are you kidding me? And it’s called “Venice Bitch.’ Like, ‘Why do you do this to us? Can you make a three-minute normal pop song?’” Del Rey told Lowe. However, Del Rey has never really made a “three-minute normal pop song,” nor is she a normal pop singer. With her upcoming sixth album “Norman Fucking Rockwell” on its way, it is worth exploring how Del Rey came to be one of the most individualistic and stylized artists in the music industry today. Del Rey’s career beginnings are not stories of success. Beginning in 2005, Del Rey, born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, released extended plays under a variety of stage names — from May Jailer to Lizzy Grant and Lana Del Ray, a different spelling on her current professional name. Her official debut full-length album, “Lana Del Ray” (2010) was available for purchase on iTunes, but Del Rey told Rolling Stone in 2012 that the album
was shelved after two months of release because her label could not fund it. “But if you look on YouTube, all 13 tracks are available with millions of views, so it’s not like no one’s heard them,” Del Rey said. Del Rey’s unreleased tracks from much of her pre-2010 years can also be found across YouTube. But it was not until her mainstream breakthrough in 2011 that Del Rey’s current stage name and musical persona became her most successful. Singles “Video Games” and “Blue Jeans” were the melancholy alternative-noir sound that pop music was missing. Granted, her sound has always been polarizing, especially after a performance on “Saturday Night Live” in 2012 nearly ended her career. Her second album and major label debut “Born to Die” (2012) followed and became her most iconic album, and perhaps one of the biggest albums of the 2010s, while garnering both commercial success and critical divisiveness. The album’s dreamy indie pop sound and Del Rey’s smoky voice help personify a palpably melodramatic entity. However, it is not until her later albums that Del Rey fully embodied her music and developed a more robust persona. From her late-2012 EP “Paradise” came “Tropico” (2013), a short film written by and starring Del Rey that follows three chapters of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. The film features some fan favorites from “Paradise,” using the songs to develop an ultimate Del Rey-esque story, with fallen heroes and a broken and complicat-
ed love story with a touch of Californian warmth and sunshine. It was with “Tropico” that Del Rey seemed to close out a chapter in her persona. In a now-deleted tweet, Del Rey called the film “a farewell project.” Many believed it was a final goodbye to her music career or simply a move to another era. Del Rey later told an audience at one of the film’s premiere screenings, “I really just wanted us all to be together so I could try and visually close out my chapter before I release the new record, ‘Ultraviolence.’” In 2014 came “Ultraviolence.” The album, rooted in psychedelic rock and a vibrant guitar sound, was Del Rey’s first concept album, following an atmospheric narrative. She earlier revealed that she had been reluctant to release another album after “Born to Die” and “Paradise.” With “Ultraviolence,” Del Rey felt more accessible as both a musician and an artist. Her latest releases, “Honeymoon” (2015) and “Lust for Life” (2017), are more exploratory, with the former being her most cinematic and expansive piece to date, and the latter finding Del Rey in a new head space. In a statement prior to the release of “Lust for Life,” Del Rey said, “I made my first four albums for me, but this one is for my fans and about where I hope we are all headed.” “Lust for Life” is inarguably hopeful, varied in themes and sounds, and a standout in Del Rey’s discography for many reasons: her smiling face on the cover, her newfound political voice and hexing of Trump, and many impressive collabora-
tors. “Lust for Life” is a reminder of Del Rey’s secure place in the music industry, among adorable “witchy sister” friendships with Stevie Nicks. Del Rey’s future release, “Norman Fucking Rockwell,” seems to be following in the footsteps of “Lust for Life.” Her new music feels hopeful and selfaware. The upcoming album’s first single, “Mariners Apartment Complex,” is soft but strong, and a majority of the second single, “Venice Bitch,” features electric guitar sounds, rather than Del Rey’s voice. It is her most experimental song to date, and it underscores Del Rey’s maturation as both a musician and an artist. Her growth has not come without its pitfalls. There have been questions raised of her authenticity and rebranding, manipulation by and a lack of understanding from journalists, home break-ins and a terrifying stalker incident in Orlando, Fla. earlier this year. Del Rey has always stayed close to her fans, but these problems have taken their toll. Now, as she finishes “Norman Fucking Rockwell,” releases teasers of new songs and calls out Kanye West for his support of Trump, Del Rey has solidified her place in pop music and mainstream culture. To some listeners, Del Rey’s musical growth may be something unnoticeable. To fans, each album marks a new era in Del Rey’s evolution, telling a new story and offering Del Rey a fresh opportunity to expand and explore new sounds in her self-dominated baroque, dream indie pop genre.
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‘The Hate U Give’ reflects realities of racial violence through a young woman’s perspective
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Content warning: This article discusses violence. “The Hate U Give,” a cinematic adaptation of Angie Thomas’ bestselling novel of the same name, graphically addresses the Black Lives Matter movement through the eyes of a young black woman, Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg). A code-switching chameleon of self-expression jumping between diametric worlds, her life in Garden Heights is saturated with warm tones, the familiarity of neighborhood and dilapidated buildings with priceless sentimental value. Starr’s home life visually and emotionally contrasts with the bluetoned, uniform-clad, rich, white-dominated world of her private high school, where she tempers her speech and mannerisms to steer clear of stereotypes despite the blatant appropriations that surround her. The two versions of Starr collide when she witnesses the shooting of her friend Khalil (Algee Smith) by a white police officer and must decide whether or not to testify, putting herself and her family at risk. She must also contend with the vitriol of an All Lives Matter mentality expressed by her white friend Hailey (Sabrina Carpenter). The real tragedy of the story is not the violence and trauma itself, but the predictability of the narrative. The cir-
cumstances of Khalil’s murder are all-too familiar: Unarmed black man is killed by a white police officer, and the legal system fails to deliver due justice. “The Hate U Give” may be young adult fiction, but it speaks painfully to today’s lived reality for black Americans. The film establishes a determined, somber tone in its first moments, when ten-year-old Starr and her younger siblings receive “the talk” from her father Maverick (Russell Hornsby) about police encounters and the tenets of the Black Panther Party platform. Reactions to this scene throughout the movie theater reflect the diversity of who is watching it. The normalcy of such conversations within black families may come across as tragic and bewildering to some or painfully familiar to others. “The Hate U Give” has the capacity to resonate as an exercise in empathy and prolonged discomfort, depicting the trauma that Starr and the Garden Heights community experience time and time again. To many, however, these images echo a reality that does not end once the credits roll. The extent to which this film succeeds in portraying their experiences is beyond this reviewer’s capacity to determine (it would be inaccurate and irresponsible not to acknowledge how race has influenced this reviewer’s perspective as a non-black person), but it certainly creates a more visceral cinematic experience for better or worse.
An additional lens into race relations stems from a real-life source: Tupac Shakur. The rapper’s concept of “THUG LIFE” inspired the book’s title and is featured prominently throughout the film. Shakur, who often combined his hiphop with activism, said that “THUG LIFE” stands for “The Hate U Give Little Infants F***s Everybody,” a mentality that Khalil especially takes to heart. Sprinkled throughout the narrative are moments where the internalized anger and fear on the part of black communities give way to damaging situations. Starr’s uncle Carlos (Common), a black police officer, navigates his internalized racism; a peaceful “Justice for Khalil” protest escalates to a violent riot. Starr’s little brother Sekani (TJ Wright) grapples with grief, language and trauma through the impressionable mind of a child, culminating in a distinct moment at the film’s end that changes his entire family. As Thomas and director George Tillman Jr. suggest, the hate given to the young perpetuates a cycle that only hurts everyone in the end. However, placing the onus of fixing racial violence on black Americans is quite a jarring conclusion to arrive at after two hours of violence and systemic injustice at the hands of mostly white characters. Perhaps this is meant as a departure from the typical Black Lives Matter narrative, positioning “The Hate U Give” as a movie separate from, but still in conversation with, more traditional narratives of racial injustice and white privilege in American society and how to dismantle it. Structurally, “The Hate U Give” does not quite know how to exist in a cinematic form. The film’s flaws rest not in its narrative, but in its unsuccessful adaptation. Screenwriter Audrey Wells refuses to trust the emotionally evocative and politically charged images to tell the story, and overcompensates by adding voice-overs which feel redundant and forced. In terms of genre, the film is not a study of Starr’s aforementioned worlds, nor a coming-of-age or family drama — though the scenes between Starr and her family present a refreshingly nuanced portrayal of an AfricanAmerican family. It is not quite a media or legal circus either, only leaning into those elements when the pacing starts to drag. These tropes surface from time to time throughout the film, albeit in a sprawling manner, culminating in an extended run time of over two hours. There is no easy or right way to convey the scope of such a complex topic within the length of a feature film (which might explain a recent trend toward television adaptations), but that is part of the challenge and the art of the process that this version of the story could not quite manage. However, there is one way in which this story successfully translates to film. Starr is not the only one implicated as a witness to racial violence; the audience is as well. Tillman’s direction places the camera in Khalil’s car at the time of his death. It seats the audience at the Carter family table. It forces viewers to follow Starr through the bleach-white hallways of her high school, as she dodges microaggressions and modifies herself to assuage the prejudice of her peers. It drops the audience into the heat of a Black Lives Matter protest and eliminates the escape valve of a remote control. Like Starr, we alone have the ability to take action. It is our choice whether we speak up or stay silent.
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achary Hertz (ZH): We’re listening to My Chemical Romance’s (MCR) “The Black Parade” (2006) with tech enthusiast and YouTube celeb Dylan Hong, for whom both mozzarella sticks and pop punk have been a staple since early childhood. We have sticks from Wegmans, a store which holds a special place in Dylan’s heart — as an immigrant, his father worked there to help pay for school. Brady Shea (BS): There are a lot of sticks. Good thing I didn’t eat dinner. Dylan Hong (DH): Good thing I took a Lactaid for this. The flavor and texture are good, but I wish they were fresh. ZH: They’re an improved Commons stick in every way. Definitely room for improvement though — 7/10. DH: The sauce is a little watery. I’m going to give these a 6, maybe 6.5. BS: Yeah, it wasn’t the flavor I was expecting. If they were hot, easily an 8.5/10 but as-is, 7.8/10. ZH: Dylan, any thoughts on this album? DH: It’s the second album I ever listened to. It’s a concept album about a dying patient whose life flashes before his eyes. It’s about reflecting on your life and the people that you liked and hated, and why you did the sort of stuff that middle schoolers love to do. BS: It’s niche but I got into this album after playing “Dead!” on Guitar Hero 2, and then I listened to “The Black Parade.” DH: Did you know the original name of the track “Welcome to the Black Parade” was “The Five of Us Are Dying”? But MCR members are all superstitious, and when there was a minor accident, they changed the name to fit the concept album. BS: It’s a classic, but what else is there to say about it? ZH: (“I Don’t Love You” comes on.) Oof. I’ve purposely not listened to this for a while because, these days, I’m happy. DH: I got an iPod Touch when starting my video production days, which I do professionally now. Using an app that let me film in slow-mo and black and white, I took a video walking around with this song on, then posted it to Facebook. (“Mama” comes on.) I think Gerard Way said that “Mama” is the song he’s most proud of on this album – it’s weird and clashes with their style but brings a new level of theatricality. ZH: It always vaguely reminds me of a carnival. It’s unnerving in a magical realism way. BS: (“Famous Last Words” comes on.) I just had the worst flashback. I’m in eighth grade, on my bed, crying. DH: I remember listening to this song, covers over my head and writing poetry. ZH: I’m going to spend the rest of this week listening to this album. Every song is well produced with a surprising amount of sound diversity. 8.5/10 from me. BS: I vibe with that. A musically incredible album. DH: You can tell he’s giving it his all in every song on this album. He acts into the characters and actually lives in this concept world. It’s hard for me to give the album a number rating because it got me into music. Emotionally a 10/10 and as a piece of art, 9/10. Zachary Hertz is a senior studying political science. He can be reached at zachary. hertz@tufts.edu. Brady Shea is a senior studying computer science. He can be reached at Brady.Shea@tufts.edu.
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t has been a little over a year since the Catalan referendum on independence passed and a week short of a year since Catalonia’s elected leaders signed a declaration of independence to break away from Spain. As expected, no country recognized the declaration. It was always clear that Catalonia could not break away without at least tacit approval from Spain. The autonomous territory does not have anything close to the military capacity to challenge Spain, nor is there a desire to bring violence into the issue. Spain was not having it. Immediately after Catalonia declared independence, Spanish senators approved measures to limit the autonomy that Catalonia was guaranteed before the referendum and imposed direct rule over the region. This lasted for more than seven months until June. The Catalan regional government still exists, and it is still led by separatists. Yet, the leadership that instituted the referendum and tried to implement its result has been punished by Spain. The former president of the region, Carles Puigdemont, was forced out of office and has been living in self-imposed exile in Belgium in order to avoid arrest. Many others did not flee and have been in jail ever since. Most of the leaders who sought to implement the outcome of a free and fair referendum are still imprisoned. The Spanish state, democratic and European as it is, has no tolerance for the Catalans’ right to self-determination. These political prisoners have been held for almost a year now for committing crimes against the state: wishing to peacefully secede from Spain as voted on in a democratic referendum. As the Canadian Supreme Court held in 1998 in regard to Quebec’s secessionist movement, a democratic country must take seriously and negotiate with the will of a people within the country even if there is no right to secession in the constitution or the constitution outlaws any threats to the unity of the state (which the Spanish constitution does stipulate). This problem cannot simmer forever. Spain must release Catalan political prisoners and handle the issue more democratically. If it chooses to continue this push to block out the independence movement, it will simply be fueling the fire. It will be humiliated in the European Court of Human Rights if the cases of these jailed politicians make it to the high court. As Spain imposes direct rule or jails elected Catalan leaders, more and more Catalans recognize the issues of the Spanish state. The separatists are still in power. It is virtually assured that another referendum will happen — if not next year, the year after. Dodging the issue does no good; suppression is no solution. As long as Spain does not tackle the question of Catalonia directly and democratically, it will continue to muddle Spanish political discourse, diverting attention from the other extremely important issues Spain faces — perhaps most critically its 33.8 percent youth unemployment rate, second only to Greece in the EU, that leaves young people poor and hopeless. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is willing to talk, but he doesn’t have a strong political mandate. Yet waiting for the next election might be too late. Nesi Altaras is a senior studying international relations and economics. Nesi can be reached at nesi.altaras@tufts.edu.
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Sailing victorious at Fairfield, posts competitive performances elsewhere
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Tufts was largely able to escape the local fervor surrounding the Red Sox run to the World Series, but it could not fully escape the weekend’s prevailing winds. Instead, the Jumbos were caught in a swirling October breeze that affected everyone from college sailors to kickers in the NFL. One Tufts group that did not get out of town competed at the Oberg Trophy, a New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) regatta, at Northeastern. Tufts’ A, B and C division boats battled through the wind, which was especially strong on Sunday, to score 223 points overall, good for third of 20 teams. In the A division, senior skipper and co-captain Jack Bitney and sophomore crew Maria Brush racked up three straight first-place in races 10–12 to ultimately post 82 points, good for fourth place. The C division team was comprised of senior skipper Samuel Shea and first-year crew Ansgar Jordan for races 1–10, with sophomore skipper Juliana Testa partnering with sophomore Lindsay Powers for races 11–13. The group racked up 84 points for fifth place in its division. Meanwhile, the duo of senior skipper Chris Keller and junior crew Duke Saunders finished in first place in the B division, claiming the lead for good in the eighth race of the weekend. Bitney spoke about how he and Saunders used the rough weather to their advantage at the Oberg Trophy. “On the first day, winds were puffy and shifty which makes sailing tricky in terms of where you should go on the course,” Bitney said. “However, where
we sail in practice was a lot like sailing at Oberg, so we are pretty used to pretty shifty and puffy conditions which I think gave us an advantage while we were there. On the second day, it was even windier and even shiftier, and I think we performed better. I would say we prepared for wacky conditions, and that helped us do well.” Meanwhile, the Fairfield Cup was held in the quieter waters of Connecticut. Tufts’ A and B division fleets emerged victorious from the 11-team field after eight races. In particular, the A division boat, maneuvered by senior skipper Andrew Savage and senior crew KK Newsham, shone with victories in six races to top the standings by 12 points, 16 ahead of second-place Vermont. The B division team of sophomore skipper Evan Robison and firstyear crew Kristina Puzak were also competitive, racking up 21 points for third place in its division. Elsewhere, the Yale Women’s regatta was called off at noon on Sunday due to gusts reaching speeds of 30 knots. Nevertheless, the sailors completed 10 races at Conn. College. Sophomore skipper Talia Toland sailed with senior crew Taylor Hart in the A division, while junior skipper Charlotte Lenz partnered with senior co-captain Sabina Van Mell and sophomore Marley Hillman in the B division. Each Tufts boat came away with a victory, and the team finished in ninth place overall with 139 points. Tufts faced an impressive field that included a slew of local and distant rivals, including Harvard and Stanford, at the Fiske-Harriman-Sleigh Trophy Coed Showcase, hosted by St. Mary’s. A quartet of veteran sailors made up Tufts’ A division team, including senior co-captain Ian Morgan, seniors Florian
Eenkema van Dijk and Jackson McCoy, as well as junior Emma Clutterbuck. Together, they took second place in the fifth race of the weekend and claimed 16th place overall. Morgan also competed with senior Cam Holley and sophomore Wells Drayton in the B division, securing a third-place finish in the penultimate race of the weekend. Collectively, the Jumbos finished with 420 points, good for 15th in the talented 18-team field. “In the bigger regatta during the weekend, the Showcase at St. Mary’s in Maryland, it was really breezy,” Robison said. “We had at least one capsize in our boat, which made people really cold, so they had to sit out a race because they were cold. That was just a tough regatta overall.” Robison explained that the regatta will help the team prepare for its spring season. “It is basically the equivalent of the [NEISA Coed Championship], so pretty much all of the teams that were at this regatta will be [there],” Robison said. “In the spring there is a national championship while in the fall there is no national championship, but St. Mary’s was kind of a warmup for it, so it was just to see where people were at the end of the season. We made it to the final. We got 15th overall, which we could have done a little better if we had different weather conditions, but we tried our best. Hopefully, we can improve on that going into the spring season, which is mostly team racing.” Tufts’ fall campaign continues at the Victoria Urn Trophy in Brunswick, Maine this weekend. The team will also host the Dark of Night regatta and compete at the 78th Professor Schell Trophy hosted by Dartmouth.
ust stop. Jayson Tatum is not better than Ben Simmons. Stop the homerism and hold onto this thought. Every October, basketball fans emerge from their hibernation like the first tinges of dew lightly coating the morning grass on Tufts’ Residential Quad. They traipse through the dew and find themselves with wet feet, now fully committed to the season and all of the storylines attached to it. And boy are there enough stories to put Aesop and his fables on notice. Kawhi Leonard, a consensus top-seven player who changed the Spurs on his boots in order to ride not stallions but dinosaurs, felt like an afterthought this summer. DeMarcus Cousins signed with the Warriors, which is the equivalent of adding a fifth moat around a castle — very much a “what the hell, it’s impossible enough already to beat them” move. LeBron moved to Hollywood and built an all-meme team around him featuring JaVale McGee, Lance Stephenson, Rajon Rondo and Michael Beasley. Boston fans maintain their usual arrogance, with good reason, too. The Patriots are rolling, the Sox find themselves back in the World Series (talk to me about that at your own risk) and even the Bruins are good (the Revolution aren’t doing too hot, but you probably don’t care). The Celtics have championship expectations for the first time in a lifetime, but in Boston lingo, that translates to the lifetime of a dog. I noticed a wave of those vintage green jerseys and shirts take over campus on Tuesday night. Sprinkled among these was Garnett’s No. 5 and Pierce’s No. 34, but I was surprised to see more of Jayson Tatum’s big fat 0 than Kyrie Irving’s No. 11. Who is this guy? Isn’t he like, my age? Is he secretly a Tufts student in his spare time? Am I going to suddenly bump into him and his 6’ 11’’ wingspan on campus? So why hate on the kid in the last 150 words I’ve left myself in this column? Well, maybe because I’m jealous that he’s most certainly everything that the Knicks’ Kevin Knox could be if absolutely everything breaks right. Tatum, a soft-spoken father and Duke attendee, certainly has all of the tools to be successful. A confident scorer and efficient shooter, LeBron gave the young Celtic his seal of approval in saying he’s “built for stardom.” He’s ready to take over the league, as he did against the 76ers in last season’s playoffs. He’s Ty Lue’s cousin! Tatum is long, lean and a scoring machine, and he certainly has a flair for the dramatic dunk, having posterized LeBron in the Eastern Conference Finals. I’ve left myself no room to critique. Hmm. Apparently, he’s off limits in trade talks with Anthony Davis, a Pelican who deserves a bit more than the Bayou can currently offer. Tatum — 15.3 for Player Efficiency Rating (PER) and 13.9 points per game (PPG) last year. AD? 28.9 PER and 28.1 PPG. I’m no numbers man and I know the brevity here is insane, but chill out guys. Take Anthony Davis and have your title. Stop playing the long game, this isn’t “the Process” ( Joel Embiid mic-drop). Jeremy Goldstein is an assistant sports editor. He is a sophomore studying political science and film and media studies. Jeremy can be reached at Jeremy.Goldstein@tufts.edu.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Volleyball tops field at New England Challenge with three victories
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Senior outside hitter and co-captain Mackenzie Bright and junior middle hitter Heather Holz set up a block in Tufts’ 3–1 win against Brandeis on Sept. 12. by Savannah Mastrangelo Sports Editor
With consecutive victories over Springfield, Babson and MIT, Tufts swept the New England Challenge tournament to improve its overall record to 14–8. Tufts faced then-No. 21 MIT in its third tournament game, looking to lock up an undefeated record for the weekend. The first set proved to be a backand-forth battle, as the teams stayed within a few points of each other, until MIT began to pull away with five consecutive points to take a 19–13 lead. The Jumbos responded, however, reeling off five points of their own to close the gap to one point before leveling the game at 23-all. However, the Engineers ultimately claimed the set with a kill
from senior outside hitter and co-captain Abby Bertics followed by an attacking error by Jumbo junior outside hitter and co-captain Maddie Stewart. Tufts dominated the second set from start to finish, leading by as many as 11 points when sophomore middle hitter Jennifer Ryan and junior middle hitter Christina Nwankpa blocked an MIT attack to open a 23–12 advantage. The Jumbos cruised to a 10-point win, 25–15, to level the match 1–1. Their domination continued into the final two sets which they won handily, 25–19 and 25–20, to clinch the victory. The loss was MIT’s fourth on the season, as it moved to 22–4. First-year outside hitter Cate Desler led Tufts with 11 kills, followed closely by Stewart who totaled 10 kills. Desler and Nwankpa led the Jumbos with five blocks each.
Junior outside hitter Brigid Bell spoke about the significance of Tufts’ win over MIT. “MIT is a super consistent and talented team and we knew going into it that, just like all the other games that we played this weekend, it was going to be a challenging and competitive match,” Bell told the Daily in an email. “I think to a certain extent, we just turned our brains off and let our instincts kick in. We made adjustments and shook off mistakes easily. I think another place where we found some success was in our serving game.” Earlier that day, Tufts faced Babson in another four-setter. In the first frame, Tufts began to pull away with three consecutive points behind Desler’s serve, including one ace. The Beavers claimed a single point before
the Jumbos went on a four-point run to open up a 15–7 lead. Babson was unable to close the gap, and Tufts won the set 25–17. Tufts held a four-point lead, 23–19, toward the end of the second set, but Babson retaliated with six consecutive points via three kills and three aces to steal the set. The third set was another close battle throughout, with both sides going on scoring streaks to keep the score close. With the Jumbos down 20–18, senior outside hitter and co-captain Mackenzie Bright recorded two straight kills to draw the teams even. After service errors by both sides leveled the score at 21, the teams traded points until they tied the score at 25–25. With the critical third set on the line, Stewart and Bright earned back-to-back kills, respectively, to clinch it for Tufts, 27–25. “Team energy was still really high coming into the Babson game [from the game against Springfield],” Desler told the Daily in an email. “Going into the third set, we knew Babson was going to come at us with all that they had, so our mindset was just to make them earn their points and try to win the ball control game.” With momentum from their thirdset victory, the Jumbos dominated the fourth set from start to finish, winning 25–11 to take the match, 3–1. Desler and Bright led the team with 15 kills each against Babson. “I think that throughout the whole weekend, we played with grit,” Bell said. “Babson is one of those teams that runs a really effective offense and is a very skilled and seasoned group of players. I think focusing on executing the adjustments we talked about making was big. We worked really hard to communicate what was happening on the other side of the net and what we were doing on our side.” Tufts faced Springfield in its first game of the tournament on Friday. The teams traded points to start the first set until Bell’s kill opened a 14–12 lead. Soon after, the Jumbos earned seven straight points to widen the gap, as they ultimately took the set, 25–14. Tufts maintained its momentum into the second set, taking an early 4–0 lead. While the Pride stayed within striking distance, the Jumbos ultimately wrapped up a 25–20 second-set victory. “We had really great communication and energy throughout the entire match,” Desler said. “We also did a great job of adjusting to what Springfield was doing well. Because we played so well together as a team, our energy carried through to the rest of the matches later in the weekend.” Tufts clinched victory in the third and final set, dominating Springfield on the way to a 25–12 victory. Bright and Bell each finished the game with a team-high seven kills. The Jumbos head into the weekend with just two games left in their regular season, both against NESCAC opponents. Tufts currently sits tied for fourth in the conference with Middlebury but does not hold the head-to-head tiebreaker between the two teams. The Jumbos’ eventual seeding will depend on the results of their home matches against the Conn. College Camels (10–13) and the Wesleyan Cardinals (15–3) on Friday and Saturday, respectively.