The Tufts Daily - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 by The Tufts Daily

FOOTBALL

Kraten discusses sustainable fashion, ExCollege course see FEATURES / PAGE 3

Jumbos cap off season with close loss vs. Middlebury

JPEGMAFIA brings electric energy to the Sinclair see ARTS&LIVING / PAGE 4

SEE SPORTS / BACK PAGE

THE

INDEPENDENT

STUDENT

N E W S PA P E R

TUFTS

UNIVERSITY

E S T. 1 9 8 0

T HE T UFTS DAILY

VOLUME LXXVIII, ISSUE 46

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, MASS.

tuftsdaily.com

Hearing on Baker’s vape ban to be held on Nov. 22

COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

A man exhales a cloud of vapor from his electronic cigarette. by Robert Kaplan News Editor

A public hearing regarding Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s “vape ban,” the emergency regulation which prohibits the sale of all e-cigarettes and vaping products, is scheduled for Nov. 22, according to the State House News Service. The Republican governor initially announced the ban as a public health emergency on Sept. 24, following a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that associated more than 800 cases of lung disease with e-cigarette use, several of which ended in death. However, the sudden ban was met with a series of lawsuits challenging its legitimacy and decrying its effect on local businesses. After Suffolk Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins ruled that the previous iteration of the ban must be altered to increase transparency to the public or be lifted, the emergency regulation, titled “105 CMR 801: Severe Lung Disease Associated with Vaping Products,” was unanimously approved by the Public Health Council on Oct. 25. In addition to establishing the regulation through the Department of Public Health (DPH) and scheduling the first public hearing on the matter, Baker was required to file a statement estimating the ban’s impact on small businesses.

Please recycle this newspaper

Sunny 33 / 21

/thetuftsdaily

The emergency regulation became effective on Oct. 28 when the DPH submitted it to the Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin; it will expire on Dec. 24 unless the DPH acts to make the regulation permanent, according to the State House News Service. Municipal boards of health, and not the state government, were responsible for communicating with retailers to enforce the ban. Doug Kress, the director of the Somerville Department of Health and Human Services, explained that even though all stores in Somerville were compliant, there were no instructions on what to do with the prohibited product once it had been removed from the shelves. “There was no guidance for us, so we just asked them to take it off their shelves and not sell it,” Kress said. “They didn’t ask for it to be locked up anywhere … so you’d have to ask the business owners what they’ve done with it.” According to Malik Hayat, manager of Blue Moon Smoke Shop in Teele Square, the question of what to do with the inventory left his store’s owner with substantial costs because of the amount of now-unsellable inventory across his stores. “He easily lost $300,000 to $400,000, maybe more,” Hayat said. “He tried to give back what he could to vendors, but it’s all gone.” For breaking news, our content archive and exclusive content, visit tuftsdaily.com @tuftsdaily

tuftsdaily

Hayat speculated that the cost imposed on business owners by the ban went beyond just the lost inventory and diminished future sales, especially those of convenience stores, which offer goods other than e-cigarette products. “I’d go [to a convenience store] and get menthol ingredients and some groceries or snacks or something, but now I can’t,” Hayat explained. Hayat expressed concern that Blue Moon Smoke Shop’s Teele Square location, which opened only four months ago, may eventually have to close due to the significant decrease in business since the ban was enacted. “It’s like 50% of our business is gone, or more like 60%,” Hayat said. “All along we’ve been busy, but after the vape ban, it’s all gone.” Hayat worried the ban posed a challenge to many of those who used or planned to use nicotine vaping products to quit smoking traditional cigarettes, possibly pushing them back to traditional smoking. “You can’t stop just like that,” Hayat said. “People don’t want to, but feel like they have to.” But for Ian Wong, director of health promotion and prevention at Tufts, the ban presented an opportunity to encourage students to end their nicotine addiction altogether. In addition to the publicity campaign featuring posters around campus and inside residence halls, Wong highlighted coordination with Peter Doyle, associate medical director of Health Service, to provide

medical assistance to help people end their addiction. “We’re making sure that students have and understand the different medicines and everything else that they can use if they want to quit smoking,” Wong said. However, the legal and political debate surrounding vaporizers for marijuana, especially those for medical marijuana patients, has been even more tumultuous than those regarding other e-cigarettes and vaping devices. While initially included in Baker’s ban,Wilkins ruled on Nov. 5 that the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) is the only regulatory body that may govern marijuana, offering medical marijuana patients using vaporizers a temporary reprieve from the ban. But the CCC announced on Nov. 12 an immediate quarantine on all marijuana products using vaporizers, except for those that use the flower of the cannabis plant itself, called “flower vaporizers.” The CCC’s press release cited a Nov. 8 announcement by the CDC that vitamin E acetate, an additive and thickening agent resembling THC oil used in e-liquids, was associated with all of the samples from patients suffering from the mysterious lung disease. As of Nov. 6, three individuals out of the 220 reported cases of the vaping-associated lung disease in Massachusetts have died, according to a DPH press release.

NEWS............................................1 FEATURES.................................3 ARTS & LIVING.......................5

FUN & GAMES.........................6 OPINION..................................... 7 SPORTS............................ BACK

THE TUFTS DAILY | News | Wednesday, November 13, 2019

THE TUFTS DAILY Jessica Blough Editor in Chief

tuftsdaily.com

Filipinx authors discuss novels, identity at AAC event

EDITORIAL Ryan Eggers Justin Yu

Managing Editors Mykhaylo Chumak Austin Clementi Alejandra Carrillo Conner Dale Abbie Gruskin Liza Harris Robert Kaplan Elie Levine Natasha Mayor Alexander Thompson Daniel Weinstein Nico Avalle Andres Borjas Bella Maharaj Matthew McGovern Sara Renkert Jilly Rolnick Anton Shenk

Fina Short Sidharth Anand Amelia Becker Emma Damokosh Kenia French Jessie Newman Sean Ong Michael Shames Kevin Doherty Akash Mishra Dorothy Neher

Steph Hoechst Tommy Gillespie Rebecca Tang Danny Klain Yas Salon Tuna Margalit Megan Szostak Elizabeth Sander Colette Smith Geoffrey Tobia Sami Heyman Tys Sweeney Olivia Brandon Sonal Gupta Mikaela Lessnau Kaitlyn Meslin Amulya Mutnuri Michael Norton Elizabeth Shelbred Simrit Uppal Julia Baroni Christina Toldalagi Yoon Sung Alex Viveros Arlo Moore-Bloom David Meyer Liam Finnegan Jeremy Goldstein Savannah Mastrangelo Haley Rich Sam Weidner Julia Atkins Tim Chiang Jake Freudberg Noah Stancroff Aiden Herrod Helen Thomas-McLean Jacob Dreyer Caleb Symons

Associate Editor Executive News Editor News Editors

Assistant News Editors

Executive Features Editor Features Editors

Assistant Features Editors

Executive Arts Editor Arts Editors

Assistant Arts Editors

Executive Opinion Editor Editorialists

by Sarah Sandlow Staff Writer Editorial Cartoonists Cartoonist

Executive Sports Editor Sports Editor

Assistant Sports Editor

Investigations Editor

Seohyun Shim Mengqi Irina Wang Anika Agarwal Mike Feng Meredith Long Julia McDowell Evan Slack Kirt Thorne

Executive Photo Editor Photo Administrator Staff Photographers

Caleb Martin-Rosenthal Ann Marie Burke

Executive Video Editor Video Editor

PRODUCTION Aidan Menchaca

Production Director Kristina Marchand Daniel Montoya Alice Yoon Mia Garvin Jordan Isaacs Maygen Kerner Isabella Montoya Kiran Misner Jesse Rogers

Nathan Kyn Ryan Shaffer Rachel Isralowitz David Levitsky Hannah Wells Abigail Zielinski Ethan Resek Cole Wolk Russell Yip Roy Kim Sean Ong Christopher Panella

Luke Allocco Alexis Serino

SEOHYUN SHIM / THE TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES

The Asian American Center is pictured on Nov. 20, 2017.

Executive Layout Editors Layout Editors

Executive Graphics Editor

Executive Copy Editors Copy Editors

Assistant Copy Editors

Executive Online Editor Executive Social Media Editors

Outreach Coordinators

BUSINESS Jonah Zwillinger Executive Business Director

The Asian American Center (AAC) hosted an event called “Between the Pages: Ricco Siasoco & Grace Talusan in conversation,” where the authors spoke about their new books and how their work relates to their identities. The event was held in the Crane Room in Paige Hall, and around 25 community members attended. Aaron Parayno, director of the AAC, organized the event in conjunction with the LGBT Center and the Asian American studies program. Both Siasoco’s book, “The Foley Artist” (2019), and Talusan’s book, “The Body Papers” (2019), were released this year, sparking the idea for this event. Talusan is a lecturer in the Department of English and the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts. “I think it would be special for the community to still engage with Grace, and I knew that Grace and Ricco were friends, so I thought it would be a meaningful way to connect instead of them just having a person come and just talk about their book. I like the idea of a conversation, and it’s kind of like almost watching someone in their living room and watching two friends catch up,” Parayno said.

Siasoco began the conversation by reading a passage from his book about the meeting of two women. Siasoco said he wanted to write more female characters since his characters were predominantly men. “I have to push myself and inhabit that body, that being, that mentality, so it was really important to me to understand and stand in solidarity with women by writing two female characters,” Siasoco said. Talusan continued the conversation by asking Siasoco about the ways writers can create connections in solidarity in order to develop empathy. Siasoco responded by saying that he does not often write characters that he likes or agrees with, but he stressed the importance of having empathy for all of his characters. “You have to go to that character that you’re scared of, write to that fear … How can I write into [my character] to understand where she’s coming from in a way that’s unlike my own self?” Siasoco said. Talusan followed up by discussing the process she took in writing her own memoir and how it forced her to have empathy for people she had not had before, the biggest person being herself. She said she had to learn to love parts of herself she had “run away from,” but it was important for her to address those experiences in her nonfiction.

Later in the conversation, Siasoco said he made a deliberate decision to write for a nonwhite audience, such as a queer, Filipino American reader, an idea he referred to as radical. Talusan echoed Siasoco’s point by stressing the importance of writers’ audiences, as well as the fact that readers need to do the work to research parts of books they don’t understand, just as they would for white, male authors. Sung-Min Kim, who often visits the AAC and attended the event, said she liked to see the two authors converse with each other and that their friendship was inspiring to her. “I think for me, as someone who wants to be a writer, hearing from the authors themselves, where they’re coming from and their writing process is great, and also writers of color … as a person of color, having exposure to Asian American writers is quite rare, so it’s just really amazing to have that,” Kim, a junior, said. According to Parayno, the overall goal of the event was to expose people to different narratives from Asian American and queer writers. “Even though they’re more accessible now, you don’t always have the opportunity to talk to the authors and hear their rationale for writing their stories, so I really wanted to bring that to campus so that people could have a chance to understand what inspired a lot of the stories in the book,” Parayno said.

Police Briefs — Week of Nov. 12 by Matthew McGovern Assistant News Editor

On Nov. 3 at 1:13 a.m., the Tufts Un i v e r s i t y Po l i c e Department ( TUPD) responded to an incident of fire extinguisher discharge in West Hall. Officers entered the building, saw that it was hazy and recognized the haze was caused by the fire extinguisher. TUPD determined the powder from the extinguisher set off the fire alarm. Cleaning services were called in after the incident, and nobody has admitted to discharging the extinguisher.

On Nov. 4 at 5:54 a.m., TUPD responded to an off-campus house for a report of a person suffering from cardiac chest pain. TUPD arrived with Somerville Fire Department, Somerville Police Department and Cataldo Ambulance Services, Inc. The person was transported to the hospital to receive medical care. They are expected to recover fully. On Nov. 6 at 10:13 a.m., TUPD and the Tufts Emergency Medical Services ( TEMS) responded to a medical call at Hodgdon Food-on-the-Run for a student who had a cut on their finger, which the student sustained while cut-

ting a bagel. The bleeding was quickly brought under control with the aid of TEMS, and the student was advised to follow up with Health Service. On the same day, at 10:30 a.m., a Tufts Parking and Traffic vehicle was involved in a minor accident. The car was parked and unattended, and it began rolling for reasons that are unclear. The car then struck a stationary car in which a child was sitting at the time. Nobody was injured in the incident, and there was only minor cosmetic damage to the vehicles. TUPD assisted in the exchange of insurance information and paperwork.

tuftsdaily.com

Features

Q&A: GoBlu founder and ExCollege lecturer Kraten talks sustainability

ANN MARIE BURKE / THE TUFTS DAILY

Ariel Kraten, co-founder of GoBlu, lectures students in her Experimental College course “#outfitoftheday: Clothing, Sustainability, and the Global Implications of Getting Dressed”on Oct. 28. by Marc Weisglass Staff Writer

Ariel Kraten is the co-founder of GoBlu, a osustainability accelerator that helps apparel oand textile companies advance in responsiable ways. Kraten is teaching an Experimental aCollege course this semester called #outfitoftdheday: Clothing, Sustainability, and the Global eImplications of Getting Dressed. Kraten sat tdown with the Daily to discuss the relationhship between consumerism and sustainability tand what students can do to reduce their environmental footprint. C Tufts Daily (TD): Tell me about the course oyou’re teaching this semester. h Ariel Kraten (AK): The idea is to use cloth-ing as the lens to examine what does it mean to be an empowered consumer, what does sit mean to understand the impacts of the schoices we make and what does it mean to dunderstand the very basics? We all buy clothes, -we all wear clothes, but what does that mean gglobally for workers and the environment? e TD: What brought you to sustainable work? ” AK: I’ve been in the field for about eight years now. My background is more from the esustainable development perspective. A lot -of people who work in sustainability and fashion either come from a design perspecetive or a hardcore chemistry background. -I was more development-focused, and raccess to clean water was my entry point. ySo when I started to understand what the tgarment industry was doing to different dcommunities in terms of getting access to eclean water, that was my hook. TD: What tends to surprise students most about their sustainable footprint? AK: The thing that surprised people in the class, which I was surprised that they were surprised about, is that when a label says “Made in America” it doesn’t actually mean that it was made in America. Another thing is that you can’t assume that a higher price means better quality or more sustainable because a lot of the same factories are producing for luxury brands [and] fast fashion brands. I think another thing that would surprise people is that the inclination is that if fashion has this terrible reputation, I should shop local, I should shop small, I should shop boutique. Actually, in this case, it’s not going to improve the footprint of the product because you have to think that smaller companies are begging suppliers to make for them and they don’t have the leverage to say “meet this labor standards requirement.”

TD: So does the consumer have the option to make sustainable choices and shop responsibility? AK: That is the ultimate question, and right now it’s really hard to be a consumer. We’re really at the start of this journey that I hope will bring fashion into a more sustainable existence. But it is so hard for a consumer to understand what went into making their clothes because the clothing brands themselves are struggling to understand what is sustainable. So it’s this really tricky balancing act of trying to make the right choices, knowing that the information that you’re basing your choices on is probably incomplete or incorrect. However, there are some interesting resources out there. There is an app called “Good On You,” which is a good place to start. You can look at various different rankings of clothing sustainability. One just came out that looks at global brands in China and ranks them on transparency and impact within the supply chain. TD: What do you make of the school’s current sustainability policies? AK: I don’t know a lot, but I did get an email recently from one of my students … the bookstore was selling some Tufts apparel made of recycled materials. I thought that was really neat because for a lot of people they just don’t consider it. People don’t consider how large the fashion industry is. One in six people in the world work in the fashion industry in one way or another. It’s massive. So you think your one little purchase doesn’t matter, but of course it does. TD: What advice would you give to the consumer to have the most direct impact in this fight for sustainability? AK: Vote. But also, I would say that people really underestimate their ability to have an impact as a consumer. I was in Sweden two weeks ago sitting with a brand that I’m working with, and they were talking about how they are tracking all of their comments that come into their customer service department about quality or sustainability and that they’re seeing an uptick in these types of questions. And every brand is tracing that. And so a couple of people start making calls, and it lands in the same customer service department — that is going to make an impact. They exist to satisfy us, so if we tell them what our needs are that will really make an impact. TD: Do you think the option to be sustainable comes from a position of privilege?

AK: Of course. These developing countries are polluting too often to satisfy our needs. A lot of what they’re manufacturing are goods that will be sold in the U.S. We would never do these things to our own water supply or own soil, so we’ll do it over there. So it’s important to acknowledge the privilege and hypocrisy. TD: So then what’s the proper route of governance moving forward? AK: A lot of these companies are trying to work with these countries to become more sustainable. If the suppliers are living in fear of losing the business of the brands, they’re not going to be honest about the issues that they’re having, and so the most impactful brands are working in partnership with the suppliers to be more sustainable. TD: Are you hopeful for the future of sustainability? AK: There are a lot of things that are possible now that weren’t possible 10 years ago, even five years ago. There’s a new whistleblowing platform that I just heard about yesterday where people working at these companies can report concerning things going inside companies, and reporters can pick it up and investigate. There are also new platforms for factories to rank the platforms that purchase from them. They can say “Hey this company was really terrible about paying us on time, which meant we couldn’t purchase the fabric we needed on time, which meant we had to work overtime hours.” It’s platforms like these that work to stop the domino effect. And the technology is changing so fast which is really encouraging. Textile recycling technology. We think we throw things in the recycling and that becomes a new t-shirt. We’re only starting to get there. TD: Has teaching the class given you any hope? AK: Absolutely. After every class, one of the students will come up to me and tell me about their sustainable choices. One of the things that I love about this particular group I have is that they all come from different backgrounds. Probably the largest chunk is [studying] International Relations. But then we also have chemical engineers, computer scientists, economics students. To see the different thought processes they bring to this problem has been great. One of the things I want to impart is that we need these creative ways of thinking in the fashion industry.

3 Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Nate Rubright Somerville with Townie Tim

Fall Workout

t’s definitely a crime that spring is the unofficial time to start exercising. I get that the winter is long, and the prospect of warmer days just makes you want to go out and reinvent yourself. But come on, why do we all wait for the spring to start working out? Before we really get into it, I have to throw out the disclaimer that your boy, Townie Tim, is an unabashed autumn lover. Fall has a lot: leaves change, apples are the best (as mentioned in a previous column) and I think I look better when I layer my clothing. Seriously, give me a break with the summer hype. I know the outdoor parties and fun sunglass advertisements really make summer seem like the best season. But let’s be honest. Being hot is the worst, and you feel a ton of pressure to go outside and take advantage of the good weather. Give me a nice fall day; it’s crisp, cool, and if I stay in to watch all the Harry Potter films, I won’t feel all that guilty. Along similar lines, I would like to propose that fall be the official start to the exercise season. Right off the bat, the weather is the best for it, bar none. For the most part, there are not those crazy fluctuations in temperature and the precipitation pattern is more consistent than in the spring. In addition to predictability, you get days that are a little chilly when you step outside in the morning, but once you get the blood flowing it is actually the perfect temperature. There is nothing better than when you go for a run and hit that equilibrium with the outside temperature. Now that we have established that the physical conditions of fall are great for a workout, let’s delve into the mental side of things. What’s the biggest gym day of the year? That’s right: it’s the first workday after Jan. 1. New Year’s resolutions can be good, but I think somewhere between 80–90% of people fail to keep their resolutions within the first month. I think a large part of that failure is just the hype around New Year’s. If you start a regular workout regimen in the fall, it will mostly remain unnoticed. This is a good thing because you can sort of figure out how your routine is going to go before you roll it out to the world. It is so much better to tell someone in December that you have been running three times a week for the last month rather than telling someone in January that you have planned to run three times a week. When you try to establish a new living pattern, sometimes the weight of the change is unsustainable. Think of fall as more of a trial period. So before the really cold weather strikes, give the fall workout a try. It is low stakes, the weather is perfect, and in the worst case scenario, you can just push it back to another more traditional time of the year.

Nate Rubright is a member of the Somerville community. Nate can be reached at nathan.rubright@gmail.com.

THE TUFTS DAILY | ADVERTISEMENT | Wednesday, November 13, 2019

tuftsdaily.com

senior baccalaureate speaker

NOMINATIONS

The Wendell Phillips Award

Each year, one graduating senior is chosen to be the class speaker during Commencement Weekend at the Baccalaureate Service. Established in 1896 and named for Wendell Phillips, the speech is intended to deliver a message of civic engagement for our time. Faculty, staff, and students may nominate seniors to apply to be the Wendell Phillips Speaker, and seniors many self-nominate. Nominees will be invited to apply by January with a resume of leadership and service activities and a recorded speech.

Wendell Phillips: Nineteenth-century American lawyer, orator, fervent abolitionist, and advocate for womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Native Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights.

Applications are reviewed by the Committee on Student Life (CSL), who will invite finalists to audition at an open forum in March before selecting the winner. This award also carries a cash prize.

Nominate today and learn more: http://chaplaincy.tufts.edu/wendellphillips For more information, please contact University Chaplain ad interim, Dr. Jennifer Howe Peace at chaplaincy@tufts.edu or 617.627.3427.

Nomination Deadline: Friday, November 22, 2019 by 5 p.m.

tuftsdaily.com

ARTS&LIVING

JPEGMAFIA provides high-octane experience at The Sinclair by Yas Salon Arts Editor

“I just pray that I peak before my decline.” This line, spit by JPEGMAFIA on “Jesus Forgive Me, I Am A Thot,” the lead single off his self-produced 2019 studio album “All My Heroes Are Cornballs,” is an obvious statement of the anxieties of a creative artist; every artist fears for the time when their music just isn’t “it” anymore. But when one takes into account the pure rap excellence that is JPEGMAFIA’s recent music, this line almost feels silly coming from the artist. It’s obvious when listening to his music and seeing his vigorous performance that Peggy isn’t falling off anytime soon. He’s only just begun his ascent. The industrial rap artist, born Barrington Hendricks, is a breath of fresh air from the redundancy of the same trap beats used by most Billboardcharting rappers, and his production skills are some of the best in the game right now. Hendricks embarked on his JPEGMAFIA Type Tour (a reference to a track off “All My Heroes Are Cornballs,” “JPEGMAFIA TYPE BEAT”) mid-October and played a show at The Sinclair in Cambridge on Nov 4. The show began with an hour long DJ set to much of the audience’s dismay, with the exception of the group of college-age boys moshing in the pit to overplayed trap songs. While the set itself was perfectly fine — with the exception of the DJ cutting off “Tia Tamera” (2019) before Rico’s

verse, because, come on, who does that? — it wasn’t exactly what a group of twenty-somethings packed into The Sinclair like sardines in a hot venue on a Monday night needed. An hour after stated on the bill, the opener, fellow Baltimore-based rapper Butch Dawson played his set, which proved to be worth the long wait. If I were you, I’d keep an eye out for Dawson. His stage presence and flow give him all the markings of an up-and-comer. Then began possibly the most intense concert experience I’ve ever been a part of. Over the hour that JPEGMAFIA played, dozens of different college boys jumped onstage to crowdsurf. JPEGMAFIA himself crowdsurfed, rolled around onstage and dove into the pit to perform in it. If there are two things JPEGMAFIA truly knows how to do, it’s producing and putting on a show. Despite the tour’s name, the set didn’t limit itself to Peggy’s new tracks. Littered among songs from his new album were some older favorites off his formidable debut album “Veteran” (2018) and a Kenny Beats-produced single “Puff Daddy” (2019). JPEGMAFIA started the night off with the aforementioned “Jesus Forgive Me, I Am A Thot,” one of his strongest new songs. Personal anxieties and bolstering threats layer over gospel-inspired distorted voices, rising from even-toned verses to manic, screaming lines toward the end of the song. “Jesus Forgive Me” is trademark Peggy, with rapid shifts from random noise to autotune and interplay between conventional SoundCloud rap, punk and

industrial influences. So while JPEGMAFIA isn’t to be underestimated as a rapper, his knack for production truly sets him apart. Rounding out the triple threat of rap skills and production is his infectious presence. His performing has the energy of a possessed man — Hendricks jumped, climbed and rolled on the stage in a way that makes you feel physically exhausted just looking at him. “This next song is dedicated to my least favorite musician,” announced Hendricks, introducing a fan favorite track that was met with deafening screams of approval. He launched into his diss track to one of the most hated-yet-revered men in music, “I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies” (2018). After a slew of tracks that left both the audience and Hendricks dripping in sweat and exhausted, he closed out his set with lo-fi “Rainbow Six” (2018). After the show, Hendricks met with fans for a round of photos and signatures with the horde of fans that crowded around the merch table. Taking time to talk with fans and even recording an outro for Tufts’ WMFO 91.5 upon request from a fan, JPEGMAFIA was shockingly mellow compared to his stage persona and lacked the appearance of a reluctant artist forced into a meet and greet. Instead, he was engaging and ridiculously nice. With his religious-like fan following and pure vigor for the rap industry, its evident that JPEGMAFIA is on the track for rap greatness, and if he continues on his track of dropping increasingly acclaimed albums, he’ll be unstoppable.

FILM REVIEW

Isabelle Huppert rises above ‘Frankie’ by Tommy Gillespie Arts Editor

To paraphrase a supremely funny Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch, “Frankie” (2019) is the type of film you can take a warm bath in. The Isabelle Huppertheadlined movie takes us on a leisurely jaunt up and down the steep inclines of Portugal’s breathtaking coastal forests as its familial web of characters jostle with their own insecurities. A typically commanding performance by Huppert elevates the film, but the script by director Ira Sachs and co-writer Mauricio Zacharias falls short of its dedicated cast. Like any soothing soak, “Frankie” runs out of heat. “Frankie,” which premiered this May at the Cannes Film Festival, is a U.S.-FrenchPortuguese production. The film’s many shots of thick fog undulating over the hills of the Portuguese town of Sintra more than justifies any investment from the Portuguese side. The movie’s plot reads like a tourism marketer’s pipedream: Huppert’s Francoise (Frankie to her friends), a decorated film star, has gathered various branches of her family and friends in Sintra for a bucket list-worthy vacation. The bucket list imperative of the situation is compounded by the fact that Frankie has less than a year to live, and she aims to use this time to get her family’s affairs in order before she is gone. To Sachs’ credit, “Frankie” does not dump all of this information on the viewer at once. Sachs, Zacharias and cinematographer Rui Poças exert a keen awareness of their movie’s strong points, and the result-

ing product proves to be a masterclass in pleasantly blasé, atmospheric filmmaking. The script allows its characters’ lives to unfurl gently as they climb to commanding vistas and take deep, measured inhales of the foggy forest air. Refreshingly, “Frankie” is a film almost completely devoid of exposition, resisting the urge to specify the characters’ relationships to each other. Subsequently, our familiarity with the characters feels earned and organic, a notion aided by the cast’s lived-in performances. Naturally, Huppert gives the standout performance of the film. The script defers to her on matters of emotional complexity, which provides Huppert the space to imbue Frankie with a melancholically enigmatic sense of purpose. In a role reminiscent of her lauded turn in “Things to Come ” (2016), Huppert demonstrates a quietly stirring, deceptively courageous affability in the face of the permanence of death. Running the gamut of grief, motherly concern and frustration, Frankie reveals her inner contradictions with one plodding step through the forest (in her deliciously impractical wedges, naturally). Huppert and Sachs also make sure Frankie remains fiercely funny and open-hearted, whether she graciously stops by a fan’s birthday celebration or exhorts her ne’er-do-well son (Jérémie Renier) to look for deeper fulfilment in life after she is gone. Where “Frankie” falters is when it departs from the title character. The gathered members of Frankie’s circle have each arrived in Sintra nursing their wounds and timidly exploring their hopes, and Sachs admirably affords each of them

space to grapple with their lives: Frankie’s stepdaughter Sylvia (Vinette Robinson) agonizes over whether she should stay in her marriage; Sylvia’s teenage daughter Maya (Sennia Nanua) spends a day on the beach with a flirty local boy; Frankie’s hairdresser friend (Marisa Tomei) struggles to decide what she wants from her relationship with aspiring director Gary (Greg Kinnear). Frankie’s now-out-ofthe-closet ex-husband Michel (Pascal Greggory) trods around Sintra with them, taking in the ennui of it all. The semianthological structure of “Frankie” gives all its characters space to explore their rich emotional lives. Many of Sachs’ plaudits hail his aptitude for emotionally intelligent, fleshed-out characters and refusal to kowtow to easy answers, as in his 2016 Brooklyn gentrification drama “Little Men” and “Keep the Lights On” (2012), a semiautobiographical portrait of love and addiction. Unfortunately, most of its excursions with these characters feel like unwelcome departures from Frankie’s movie. In many ways, the film is a victim of its star’s genius; Huppert’s performance so thoroughly outshines those of her co-stars (with the exception of Tomei, who brings a welcome empathy and worldliness as Irene) that she undercuts the filmmakers’ choice to give the other characters so much attention. “Frankie” may be a verdantly gorgeous work of cinema led by a bravura effort from Huppert, but it sidelines its title character for long stretches, leaving the viewer to count down the minutes until she reappears.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Mason Goldberg What’s the Mood?

Wanderlust

un fact: I haven’t left Tufts since arriving here in August. Well, I’ve taken plenty of trips to Davis, and I’ve gone into the city a few times, but generally speaking, I haven’t left the sphere of Tufts. As nice as it is to be on campus, I often find myself thinking about traveling somewhere else (maybe somewhere warmer). I’d imagine that many people feel quite a similar sense of — and I truly do hate to say it — wanderlust. So perhaps as some sort of catharsis, here are some of my favorite songs from all around the globe to satisfy the travel bug in you:

“Boee” by Idan Raichel “Prenzlauerberg” by Beirut “Poupée de cire, poupée de son” by France Gall “Guarda come dondolo” by Edoardo Vianello “Water No Get Enemy” by Fela Kuti “La Bicicleta” by Carlos Vives and Shakira “A Minha Menina” by Os Mutantes “Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco “Jai Ho” by A.R. Rahman “Life On Mars?” by Seu Jorge “Papaoutai” by Stromae “C’est La Vie” by Khaled

The first song on the list, “Boee,” comes from a 2002 album titled “The Idan Raichel Project,” which was the debut album of Israeli singer-songwriter Idan Raichel. The album was created in part to exhibit the diversity of Israel — the album features Israeli, Ethiopian and Yemeni singers, as well as musicians from many other countries both in the Middle East and around the world. “Boee” in particular is written in both Hebrew and Amharic and uses an interesting mix of instruments to create a distinctive modern sound that’s true to its Middle Eastern roots. While you can definitely hear the effects of contemporary music-making software in the background, its blend of Ethiopian chanting and traditional Middle Eastern instruments makes for a very cool sound. The rest of the album has some other great songs as well, my favorite being “Im Telech.” Another great band on this playlist is Beirut — who admittedly is from Santa Fe, N.M. Beirut is the project of Zach Condon, who traveled around Eastern Europe after dropping out of high school, and started to record music influenced by his travels upon returning back home. He recorded his first album, “Gulag Orkestar” (2006), at 19 years old in his University of New Mexico dorm (and here I am making Spotify playlists for the Tufts Daily). “Gulag Orkestar” sounds incredibly European evoking nostalgia for some forgotten time in a way that I’ve never heard another album replicate. Condon does a great job with songs like “Prenzlauerberg” or “Rhineland (Heartland),” which sound like something you might casually hear walking down a street in some small European town. “Postcards from Italy,” my favorite song on the album, exemplifies those feelings most, and it also has one of the best music videos I’ve ever seen. See you all next week, probably still in Boston. Playlist: https://spoti.fi/2pMWWOT.

Mason Goldberg is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Mason can be reached at mason.goldberg@tufts.edu.

tuftsdaily.com

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | FUN & GAMES | THE TUFTS

F &G FUN & GAMES

LATE NIGHT AT THE DAILY Aidan: “We should bring [powdered wigs] back.”

SUDOKU

LINDA C. BLACK ASTROLOGY

Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21)

Collaborate to take advantage of profitable opportunities. Coordinate and aim for an inspiring mission with lucrative reward. Invest for long-term gain. Make your moves.

Difficulty Level: Getting copy execs for next semester

Tuesday’s Solutions

CROSSWORD

Opinion

tuftsdaily.com

OP-ED

The opioid crisis: Is Tufts doing enough? Roshni Babal, Brendan McFall, Allison Tilton, Andres Almanza, Aram Lee, Ben Lee and Raissa Li When it comes to the opioid crisis, Tufts University must do better for its employees who are experiencing addiction. The dramatic increase of opioid addiction, usage and overdose calls for an immediate need for protection and support in the workplace. As an upper-echelon institution and self-proclaimed promoter of change, Tufts must allocate resources to help recovering addicts become more productive employees and to continue providing for their families. It is critical for Tufts to expand resources for its employees potentially suffering from addiction because substance abuse decreases productivity, raises overhead costs and increases turnover and the likelihood of injury. Withdrawal, low morale and intoxication at work are all effects of substance use. The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information found that companies lose more than $100 billion a year due to employees suffering from drug abuse. Policy changes that enable employees to easily access addiction recovery resources would not only benefit employees, but also benefit employers by improving productivity. Although Tufts’ Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides resources to employees, its services are limited. While crisis alerts, mental health screenings and

webinars are fully covered, other important services like long-term counseling and addiction specialist care are not. The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both recommend a minimum of 90 days for treating addiction. Long-term counseling is critical for opioid addiction, as established relationships between the patient and counselor are essential for successful outcomes. Although there is a 40–60% risk of relapse associated with substance use, Tufts’ EAP only covers short-term counseling, highlighting the lack of effective treatment options available to employees. To address employee substance addiction, Tufts’ EAP must therefore include coverage of effective, proven treatment options like long-term counseling and addiction specialist care. Tufts has an obligation to expand EAP to better support its workers suffering from opioid addiction and misuse due to its involvement with the Sackler family, a family implicated in the opioid crisis. Although Tufts has made progress in supporting its community through initiatives like The Haven — an outpatient center for recovering students — these advancements should be expanded to include faculty and staff. It is not enough to cut ties with the Sackler name. Because of the devastating toll the opioid epidemic has had on individuals and families, Tufts must prioritize additional funding, broader coverage of addiction treatment options and long-

term support for rehabilitative care. It is essential that Tufts provides access to treatment for employees, especially parents, suffering from opioid addiction. By expanding mental health coverage within its current health insurance plan, Tufts can better serve employees. Additionally, Tufts must implement policies to uplift and empower employee voices through protections for employees seeking time off for treatment. Tufts should also destigmatize opioid addiction by advertising available recovery resources both on and off campus. By reframing the provision of resources at Tufts, we can encourage other universities and companies to reconsider the management of the health and wellbeing of their employees. Tufts owes it to its faculty and staff to adjust its current healthcare policy to create livable standards for parents suffering from opioid addiction. Options that the university should take include increasing awareness about substance abuse within the workplace, offering long-term counseling and providing spaces for faculty and staff to openly discuss the impact the opioid crisis has had on them. In addition, Tufts should implement specialist addiction care. We strongly advise Tufts to reconsider its ties to Purdue Pharma as we continue to support those among us who may be struggling with addiction. Until Tufts cuts all relations with the Sackler family, any attempt to move forward will be doing their community an injustice.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Allie Birger Girl Online

Doing things for the ‘Gram

he fall of my senior year of high school, pictures taken at the Museum of Ice Cream took over each and every one of my social media feeds. With cutesy inspirational sayings, colorful backdrops and picture-perfect lighting at all moments, how could they not? Tickets to this experience would be sold online on a monthto-month basis and would be sold out within minutes. Week by week I would see countless cute pictures taken in the museum, until the day finally came where my family and I drove up to San Francisco to experience the Museum of Ice Cream for ourselves. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but what I got was 45 minutes of waiting in line in a random building to take pictures in front of pretty walls and unicorns, among other things, until we’d made it through the maze. Everything I’d seen online seemed like so much fun (the constant deception of social media), but the experience was completely underwhelming. For spending $38, all I got was a scoop of mediocre ice cream and a few cute pictures that I could post. Not worth it. The concept of selfie factories originated around 2016, starting with the original Museum of Ice Cream in New York. In short, they are art installations created with the purpose of taking pictures, whether it be with the installation itself or as a part of it. They’ll usually have a few rooms (Refinery29’s 29 Rooms has, as noted, 29 rooms; Color Factory has 15), and people who come to visit the museum have 90 minutes to explore, but there’s not much to do if you’re not there to take pictures. And of course there’s a price tag that’s bigger than the worth of the “museum” itself. Basically, you’re paying money to take pictures. And for what? For likes? For the clout? These days, it feels as though a lot of what we do is cultivating our lives so we can get a picture to post (have you ever heard the saying “Pics or it didn’t happen?”). We go to certain restaurants to try aesthetically pleasing food that looks better than it tastes, go to certain places just to get the iconic shot and buy certain clothes so we can fit the style. While I do believe that trends that pick up on social media are good for the businesses on the receiving end of the massive influx of customers, there is something unsettling about going to a place just because it looks cool. There’s a difference between going to a beautiful place and going to a place simply because it is beautiful. We gravitate toward places that look hip, but we sometimes ignore the hole-inthe-wall places that have the best food. Focusing on aesthetics in every aspect of our lives doesn’t allow us to appreciate things for what they are, only for what they appear to be. Allie Birger is a sophomore studying sociology. Allie can be reached at allyson. birger@tufts.edu.

The Tufts Daily is a nonprofit, independent newspaper, published Monday through Friday during the academic year, and distributed free to the Tufts community. The content of letters, advertisements, signed columns, cartoons and graphics does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Tufts Daily editorial board. EDITORIALS Editorials represent the position of The Tufts Daily. Individual editors are not necessarily responsible for, or in agreement with, the policies and editorials of The Tufts Daily. OP-EDS The Op-Ed section of The Tufts Daily, an open forum for campus editorial commentary, is printed Monday through Thursday. The Daily welcomes submissions from all members of the Tufts community; the opinions expressed in the Op-Ed section do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Daily itself. Opinion articles on campus, national and international issues should be 600 to 1,200 words in length and submitted to opinion@tuftsdaily.com. The editors reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, space and length. All material is subject to editorial discretion and is not guaranteed to appear in the Daily. Authors must submit their telephone numbers and day-of availability for editing questions. ADVERTISING All advertising copy is subject to the approval of the Editor-in-Chief, Executive Board and Executive Business Director.

SPORTS

8 Wednesday, November 13, 2019

tuftsdaily.com

Football loses to Middlebury, ends season with Is the title race over? 4–5 record

Arjun Balaraman Off The Crossbar

n the most anticipated match of the season, the Premier League’s elite met on Sunday for their first encounter of the year. Liverpool stood unbeaten at the top of the table with 10 wins and just one draw in their first 11 games, while Manchester City trailed six points behind. The matchup was eerily similar to last year, where an unbeaten Liverpool went to City in January with a seven-point cushion at the top of the table. City won the match 2–1 before finishing the season on a 14-match winning streak to beat the Reds to the Premier League crown by one point. This year’s match was, quite literally, a title-deciding match, and both sides knew the potential implications of a win this time around. City had the chance to cut the deficit to three points, which was a difference that could be easily overcome. However, Liverpool managed to extend its lead with a commanding 3–1 victory following goals from Sadio Mané, Fabinho and Mohamed Salah, which led to the important question: Is the title race over? Leicester City and Chelsea currently lie in second and third place with 26 points, but for all their impressive play so far, it’s hard to envision either one of these two teams usurping either European giant over the course of a full season. Of course, this has been said about Leicester before, and we know how that turned out… But these Liverpool and City sides are simply too good. It’s also hard to count out Manchester City. Say what you will about Pep Guardiola’s men, but their performances toward the end of last season were nothing short of incredible. In a league with so many quality teams, winning 14 games in a row is a truly impressive feat. For most of last season, City was also missing their best attacking player, Kevin de Bruyne, but their strength in depth allowed them to prosper. It’s here where I worry the most for Liverpool. Yes, the starting XI are undeniably talented, but Liverpool lacks the ability to withstand injuries, unlike City. Already this year, City has been ravaged, losing Aymeric Laporte, Leroy Sané and Benjamin Mendy to injuries. Liverpool, for the most part, has been fortunate enough to stay relatively healthy, but with the team still involved in four different competitions (and playing twice every week), it’s not hard to imagine a scenario where one or two of their key players get hurt. If Salah or Van Dijk miss multiple weeks due to injury, will Liverpool be able to cope? This Liverpool side appears too motivated to fall apart if one of their stars misses significant time, but with City lurking behind them and the pressure of winning a first league title in 30 years mounting, an injury could give City just the opening they need, considering there are still over 25 games left. Given how well Liverpool is playing right now, a nine-point lead over City seems nearly insurmountable. But if last season has taught us anything, it’s to not rule out Pep and his boys. Arjun Balaraman is a junior studying quantitative economics. Arjun can be reached at arjun.balaraman@tufts.edu

EVAN SLACK / THE TUFTS DAILY

Junior wide receiver OJ Armstrong runs the ball in the Homecoming football game at Ellis Oval against Bowdoin on Oct. 19. by Henry Gorelik Staff Writer

Taking the field at Ellis Oval versus Middlebury on Saturday, the football team was looking for a win in order to secure a winning season. The clash against Middlebury was also the last home game for 19 Tufts seniors, all of whom were honored before kickoff. Coach Jay Civetti reflected on this particular group of seniors, appreciating what they have given to this team and the program. “It was probably the closest group of seniors we’ve had and closest team that we’ve had in a while … I think these guys were really really good mentors, and obviously incredibly productive on the field,” Civetti said. “I mean they were just good people that cared for their teammates, and I think they were excellent at that. It makes it harder when you’ve got kids like that when you’re the head coach and you lose them.” While this game was an opportunity for the Jumbos to finish the season over .500, Middlebury had its sights set on a bigger goal. A win for Middlebury would complete an undefeated season and clinch the NESCAC Championship. When asked about the strength of Middlebury’s team, Civetti talked about the all-around ability of the Panthers. “I think they learned how to win. They won some really close games, and obviously they beat everybody,” Civetti said. “I think the quarterback is fantastic, their running back [too], he’s probably the best tailback in the league. I think [the coach] really made them dynamic with Jernigan as quarterback as well and defensively their scheme creates some problems. They have two really really talented linebackers and a really good defensive line.” After trading punts on each of the teams’ first possessions, the Panthers took a 7–0 lead as junior quarterback Will Jernigan capped off a 53-yard drive with a 2-yard touchdown run. Despite the Jumbos’ urgency to respond on the next drive, they were stuffed on fourth and 2 when senior running back Dom Borelli only got 1 yard on the carry. The Jumbos soon got the ball back after senior linebacker Stephen Timmins intercepted and returned Jernigan’s pass for 29 yards, setting the Jumbos up at the Panthers

16-yard line. On third down, senior quarterback Jacob Carroll found graduate student wide receiver Frank Roche in the end zone to tie the game at 7. The score was the first of two touchdowns Roche received from Carroll in the game. Roche spoke about the connection the two have developed. “We worked hard in the offseason to establish a connection and just worked throughout the season to keep building on that,” Roche said. “I think the trust that he put in me throughout the season helped a lot with some of the balls that he would throw to me.” The Panthers took a 14–7 lead early in the second quarter when Maxim Bocham caught a 10-yard touchdown pass from Jernigan. When the Jumbos got the ball back, Carroll was intercepted by Middlebury defensive back Finn Muldoon. Despite the Tufts defense forcing a three and out on Middlebury’s next drive, Carroll was picked off for the second time, this time by Middlebury defensive back Kevin Hartley. The Panthers then embarked on a nineplay, 72-yard drive that ended in a 22-yard field goal. Down 17–7, Carroll’s second-quarter struggles continued. After a 25-yard connection with Roche, Carroll threw his third interception of the quarter, junior linebacker Pete Huggins notching the interception this time. The first half came to a close with the Panthers leading the Jumbos, 17–7. Despite the three-interception quarter from his quarterback, Civetti held a positive outlook heading into halftime. “For the defense to hold them to 17 points in the first half [after] three turnovers and only 17 points … for it to be 17–7 at that point … you know, versus a team that was playing for a championship, I was certainly impressed with the way those kids were playing,” Civetti said. The Panthers extended their lead to 24–7 late in the third quarter when Jernigan found Bocham for a 13-yard touchdown, his second of the day. The Jumbos did not back down, responding with a 56-yard touchdown from junior wide receiver OJ Armstrong to make the score 24–14. Middlebury was unfazed by Tufts’ comeback attempts, pushing the lead to 31–14 with a touchdown from running back Alex Maldjian to begin the fourth quarter.

The Jumbos stayed within striking distance after junior kicker Matt Alswanger sunk a 27-yard field goal to make it 31-17. All of a sudden, the Jumbos found life after sophomore defensive lineman Jovan Nenadovic recovered a Maldjian fumble. But the Tufts momentum was killed with four minutes left in the game once Carroll threw his fourth interception of the day and his second to Hartley. With just 13 seconds left, Carroll found Roche for a 2-yard touchdown to make the score 31–24, giving the Jumbos a chance if they could recover the onside kick. But Middlebury pounced on Alswanger’s kick, securing its undefeated season and NESCAC championship title. At the end of the game, Carroll led all players with 367 passing yards, Maldjian led all players with 136 yards on the ground,and Frank Roche led all receivers with two touchdowns on eight catches for 103 yards. Sadly, Roche fell just 11 yards shy of breaking the Jumbos first-ever 1000-yard receiving season. Among all NESCAC players for the entire season, Carroll finished first with 247.2 yards per game and second with 19 passing touchdowns. Roche finished first in receiving yards per game with 109.9 and second in receiving touchdowns with 10. On defense, senior linebacker and co-captain Greg Holt led the conference averaging 10.0 tackles per game and Nenadovic tied for first with 7.5 sacks on the year. With the conclusion of the season, Roche took some time to reflect on the Jumbos’ accomplishments this year. “I think the record, 4–5, is not what we were hoping for. Every year we go into the season looking to compete for a NESCAC Championship. Obviously, that was not the result,” Roche said. “But I think there are a lot of positives that we can take out of the season. I think young guys stepping up with injuries that we had was definitely positive, the [offensive] line really improved throughout the season, and I think just as a whole, the main focus of getting better every day remained the same even when things weren’t going so great.”