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Posters with incendiary images, anti-Israel messages deface Tufts Hillel

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A poster bearing images of pigs and an anti-Israel caption that appeared at Hillel is pictured on Feb. 12.

by Daniel Nelson

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Flyers depicting militarized pigs, including at least one with a caption calling for the destruction of “ISRAELI APARTHEID FORCES AND AMERIKKKAN [sic] PIGS WHICH FUND IT,” were discovered yesterday morning on the exterior of Granoff Family Hillel Center.

Over two dozen posters were found, according to Rabbi Naftali Brawer, Tufts Hillel’s Neubauer executive director and the campus Jewish chaplain, who saw the posters when he arrived at the center shortly before 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. He contacted Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) after he and other Hillel staff members removed the posters from the building.

These posters come days after tweets by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) sparked a national discussion over what constitutes anti-Semitism. On Sunday, Omar tweeted that American political leaders’ support of Israel is “all about the Benjamins.” Democratic House leadership condemned the tweets as anti-Semitic. On Monday, Omar tweeted that she “unequivocally apologize[s].”

The cartoons reproduced on the posters do not have explicitly anti-Semitic origins. Meant to disparage American military imperialism and the police state, the trio of political car-

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toons originated in the Oakland, Calif.-based Black Panther Party in the late 1960s, and were first published in the Party’s publication, “The Black Panther.”

But their targeted placement at Hillel shocked campus Jewish leaders as a direct affront to the Jewish community. Similar posters had not been found anywhere else on campus as of press time.

In an interview with the Daily, Brawer described how some of the signs were pasted on the Hillel windows facing inwards, as if to send a message “to those inside the building.”

“We were clearly targeted as a Jewish center,” he said.

The posters represent the latest instance in a rising trend of anti-Semitic acts on American college campuses, Robert Trestan, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Boston office, said in an interview with the Daily.

Trestan explained that many instances of campus anti-Semitism have not taken place on or around Jewish institutions. In the past at Tufts, anti-Semitic symbols appeared in Lewis Hall in 2014 and on Packard Ave. in 2015.

Trestan called the posters at Tufts “unique” because of their placement exclusively on the Hillel building.

“I think what makes this one unique and particularly upsetting is that [the posters] targeted the Jewish community at Tufts,” he said.

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“The fliers were targeting the Jewish students at Tufts in the place where they feel safest and most welcome: the Hillel building.”

University officials did not explicitly label the posters as anti-Semitic or anti-Zionist on Tuesday.

In an email sent to the Tufts community shortly after 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, University President Anthony Monaco described the incident as an affront to campus culture.

“The derogatory images and symbolism in these posters were profoundly disturbing and hurtful to those targeted and to others in our community,” Monaco said at the time. “Our Jewish students, faculty, and staff, and all those who participate in Hillel programs, have my support as members of our community.”

He announced that the university would conduct an investigation into the matter.

Tufts’ Executive Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins confirmed in an email to the Daily that the Office of the President was not aware that at least one poster included an anti-Israel statement when he issued his initial statement on Tuesday.

“After President Monaco issued his statement to the community this afternoon, we became aware of additional information on one of the flyers that heightens our concern about this disturbing incident,” Collins said in an email to the Daily. “We will refer this addi-

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tional information for further investigation.”

Brawer did not initially know that at least one of the posters called for the destruction of “Israeli Apartheid forces.” He only learned, and subsequently confirmed this, after being informed by the Daily.

Some student leaders called the action anti-Semitic.

Tufts Friends of Israel (FOI) co-president Ben Shapiro, a junior, and Annika Witt, FOI’s director of outreach, a sophomore, said the posters were offensive and misguided.

“Holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the State of Israel is blatantly anti-Semitic, and is defined as such by the State Department and the Department of Education,” they said in a joint statement provided in an electronic message to the Daily.

“If we want to fight oppression and bigotry, especially on campus, we must call it what it is: anti-Semitism.”

Talia Inbar, regional co-chair of J Street U and former co-chair of the Tufts chapter, similarly condemned “manifestations of anti-Semitism and white supremacy on our campus.”

Inbar, a senior, echoed FOI’s statement that the actions of Israel cannot be held against all Jews. She also called the posters a distraction to serious dialogue.

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Scholar and activist Silvia Federici discusses her work in front of an audience in the ASEAN Auditorium on Feb. 12.

by Austin Clementi News Editor

Silvia Federici, a scholar, activist and professor emerita at Hofstra University, gave a talk in ASEAN Auditorium covering topics featured in her book, “Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and Politics of the Commons” (2018). The event was sponsored by several departments, including the Department of Anthropology, the Environmental Studies Program and the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.

According to Alex Blanchette, an assistant professor in the anthropology department, Federici was raised in Italy and received her Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo.

He added that she was a co-founder of the International Feminist Collective and worked as an organizer the Wages for Housework movement.

The talk opened with remarks by Blanchette, who spoke about Federici’s other works and biography.

“Silvia Federici [is] one of those generative and still direly needed feminist and ecosocialist thinkers of our time,” he said, adding that she is the author of books such as ‘Caliban and the Witch’ (2004) and ‘Wages Against Housework’ (1975).”

Federici opened the talk on a hopeful note, saying her goal was to try to build a new society.

“I hope that I’m going to show that despite the immense troubles and negativities that are face us, there’s also proportionally an immense amount of struggle … but also a sparkle to build something new, to lay the

foundation for a new society,” she said.

She then moved on to explain the concept of re-enchantment as used in her book, which grew out of Max Weber’s concept of disenchantment caused by capitalism.

“What Weber meant by [disenchantment] is that capitalism has brought to the world a particular type of rationality, a particular type of logic where everything is valued and calculated according to its utility,” Federici explained.

She expanded on this concept, asserting that capitalism leads to a violent process of displacement, dispossession and destruction of communal relations.

Throughout the talk, Federici argued for the rule and societal structure of the “commons” which she defined as a community doing collective labor and sharing the land where they live.

Federici emphasized that, although this mode of living is no longer the prevailing one, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people still practicing communal living. She cited indigenous Mexican and Guatemalan communities as examples.

“The shared use of the land right … and this trouble that indigenous people and people still living in communal areas have made through made many aware of the importance, of the significance of community relations,” she said. “The existence of this commons, by their very existence, in a way, show us that an alternative is possible that is not capitalism.”

Federici then went over the history of the capitalism, starting with the commodification of land before moving into

the industrial revolution.

According to Federici, a renewed global interest in the commons has built up since the 1990s with the collapse of communism.

She said this interest was the result of the expansion of globalization and capitalism that the world experienced at this time.

Federici connected these contexts to feminism partway through her talk, saying that reproductive labor is traditionally regarded as one of the first exploited forms of labor. She then moved on to say that women could play a large role in the production and reproduction of the commons.

“I realized more and more, both through contact with the people in communal relations or women involved in struggles to build commons or discussion with the women in various social movements have a very important role that women have invented,” she said, citing an example from India where women tried to fight to preserve common land.

Federici closed on a hopeful note, citing that women have been crucial in modern movements such as the protests at Standing Rock that began in 2016. The event was followed by a question and answer session.

Emet Ezell, a Boston resident who was interested in another one of Federici’s books, said they were glad the event happened.

“I’m really grateful that someone is talking about enchantment, because everywhere I look I see death and destruction and grief and aching,” they said. “This talk helps me understand what’s at stake right now and the importance of connecting to each other and to land.”

They added that they hope that Tufts learns to help to create communities from this talk.

Jesse Ryan, a sophomore, also attended the event and echoed the statement made

by Ezell.

“I think the idea of the commons is so interesting and exciting and hopeful for me because I love to think about different imaginaries of what the world can look like and what communities can look like,” Ryan said.

Ryan agreed with Federici, saying the system of gender means “the brunt of the labor of creating the commons and producing the commons has fallen on women.”

Ryan also said the event was relevant to the larger Tufts community, connecting Federici’s work with the Tufts Dining workers contract negotiations and control over people’s bodies.

“I think having her come here … and talk about ways that we can build worlds and communities that exist beyond that violence feels really relevant.”

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continued from page 1 “These posters are damaging to the Tufts community because they get in the way of the important and productive conversations and legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy,” she said in an electronic message to the Daily.

Freddie Birnbaum, student co-president of Hillel, stated that he had seen the anti-Israel poster on Tuesday morning. Speaking on his own behalf, he confirmed that some of the posters faced into the Hillel Center.

He said they were deliberately targeting the Jewish community.

“While the content of the posters is directly related to Israel and anti-Zionist sentiment, the fact that they’re only targeting the Jewish community with the sentiments feels anti-Semitic to me,” Birnbaum, a junior, said.

Regardless of the intent and identities of those responsible, which remained unknown as of press time, Birnbaum said that the placement of the posters constitutes an act of anti-Semitism.

Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate also issued a response to the posters, urging the Tufts community to support marginalized communities on campus.

“This year, we have witnessed an uptick of incidents that target specific marginalized identities on campus, which is unacceptable and antithetical to the community we wish to foster at Tufts,” the TCU Senate Executive Board said in a statement posted to its Facebook page.

Rabbi Tzvi Backman, director of the Rohr Chabad House serving Tufts, pushed back against the posters’ intent, which he described as an attempt to intimidate campus Jews.

Backman connected it to the rising trend of anti-Semitism in America.

“Although I believe we need to be aware of these increases and look for ways to mitigate [them], we have to not allow this to intimidate us in any way,” he said, referring to Tufts’ Jewish community. He called upon campus Jews to embrace their identity.

Brawer emphasized the impact of the incident.

“It’s been a really unsettling experience for everyone here at Hillel. It shows us that bigotry and hatred are sadly alive and well, even on a university campus. And that only causes us to redouble our efforts to be a place that celebrates diversity, difference and respectful dialogue,” he said. “That’s the Hillel way.”

Jessica Blough and Liza Harris contributed reporting to this article.

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How the community houses Tufts: Part I

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Tufts is enrolling more students than ever — Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser reported during a faculty meeting on Oct. 24, 2018, that the university will continue to increase the size of each first-year class by about 100 students for another two years.

“One of the keys to financial sustainability is added students. Each class is about 100 students larger,” Glaser said at the meeting. “Two years from now, we will be 400 students larger.”

Despite continuously increasing its yearly enrollment, Tufts has not built a new on-campus dorm since the opening of Sophia Gordon Hall (SoGo) in 2006. This has pushed growing numbers of students into off-campus housing — a shift that has deeply impacted residents of the surrounding Medford and Somerville neighborhoods.

“Tufts has … significantly increased their student population without providing corresponding housing for the students,” Edward Beuchert, co-founder and current board member of the West Somerville Neighborhood Association, said. “It’s resulted in student overcrowding, student exploitation and families being forced out.”

Beuchert, a longtime resident of Conwell Avenue, described living alongside landlords who treated Tufts students seeking off-campus housing as vehicles for profit. According to Beuchert, a landlord next door once asked him what could have motivated Beuchert to live in his own property rather than renting it out to students.

“In a way, he kind of laughed at me for buying the house behind his house,” Beuchert said. “He said, ‘Don’t you see what’s going on? Tufts is constantly increasing their enrollment. They’re not adding dormitories. The most lucrative thing around here is student housing.’”

The landlord went on to explain to Beuchert how he planned to advertise a luxury off-campus living experience in order to increase profit from Tufts students in the neighborhood.

“He was going to have the top of the student market, the kids who could kind of afford the best,” Beuchert said. “He had a hot tub outside. And he was boasting

to me how … by the increment that he’d added to the monthly rent, he was able to make twice what the hot tub cost him every single year.”

Beuchert expressed incredulity in response to Tufts’ plan to continue increasing student enrollment, which he noted will add 200 new students to the off-campus market in the next two years.

“That number is just shocking,” Beuchert said. “Given four tenants per apartment, and most of them are going to be [units with] double apartments, we’re talking 50 double apartments. That’s how much of Conwell Avenue?”

Somerville City Council President Katjana Ballantyne described how she has seen the impacts of Tufts students living off campus in the Somerville area. “[Tufts has] left less available apartments for the region … [Tufts] is in direct conflict with our strategic plan as a city, in building a vibrant community,” Ballantyne said.

Shomon Shamsuddin, an assistant professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts, stated that increased demand from Tufts students seeking off-campus housing could cause rents to increase in the area.

He explained that units occupied by groups of students provide opportunities for landlords to charge higher monthly rent rates than they would for homes occupied by a single family.

“If [a unit is] a five-bedroom home or apartment occupied by a single-parent family, the rent would be set at some level for the single-parent family before,” Shamsuddin said. “But if two or three students are coming in, they’re pulling together two or three incomes and they can afford to pay a lot more. So the landlords will recognize it and start to raise the rent.”

Shamsuddin concurred that while many Tufts students wish to move off campus, the local housing market has been largely strained by an unmet demand for on-campus housing.

“It seems like it’s a real issue if enough units are not being provided for students to live on campus, potentially pushing students into the market,” Shamsuddin said.

A recent survey conducted by the Daily found that only four out of 72 respondents

who applied for on-campus housing for their junior or senior years received it — a success rate of 5.3 percent.

As students move off campus, the university has continued to work to optimize pre-existing spaces on campus rather than building an on-campus dormitory, initiatives that have included turning double-occupancy rooms into triple-occupancy rooms and singles into doubles.

“The university … continues to look at the possibility of building a new dorm, but current budget realities make that unrealistic at the moment,” Rocco DiRico, Tufts’ director of community relations, told the Daily in an email.

When asked how the university has worked to accommodate local residents impacted by increases in students moving off campus, DiRico cited initiatives such as bed optimization and the renovation of 14 wood frame houses in the Medford Hillside area as part of the Community Housing (CoHo) housing development.

“The university is committed to an ambitious goal of creating 600 new on-campus beds for our students,” DiRico said. “By the fall of 2019, we will have added more than 420 beds via better utilization of existing residential spaces, major renovation to existing halls and the addition of CoHo Medford.”

In line with the university’s new tiered housing system, students living in CoHo and SoGo will pay $10,219 in the 2019–2020 academic year, according to an Aug. 29, 2018 Daily article. According to Associate Dean of Student Affairs Christopher Rossi, that averages out to $1,135 per month.

Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon stated that she believes a monthly cost of $1,135 reflects what students in the Medford/Somerville area already pay for off-campus housing.

“We feel that the SoGo, CoHo rate is competitive with what people are paying off campus for an apartment,” McMahon said. “I’ve talked to people … who are going to pay $1000 [per month] next year and then when you add in WiFi, heat, hot water … There’s obviously a huge range.”

The Daily’s survey of 142 students living off campus found that the average student paid $892.95 per month, including all utili-

ties and WiFi expenses. Only four students reported paying $1,000 or more per month for rent alone.

Shortly after the introduction of the tiered housing system, Tufts Housing League (THL) circulated a petition demanding that the Tufts administration discard the plan, calling it an “inequitable pricing system” that will increase economic divides within the student body. Over 1,500 students, alumni and parents have signed the petition.

When asked how the university has accommodated the sentiments of students, faculty and alumni upset with tiered housing, McMahon listed ongoing efforts to discuss the changes with students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds across campus.

“I’ve had lots of conversations with the Housing League; I’ve had lots of conversations with individual students. People on my team have talked to different student groups to sort of make sure we’re walking carefully through … what’s happening with tiered housing,” McMahon said.

McMahon emphasized that students on financial aid will pay a consistent rate across all housing tiers, which she stated was highly unusual for a tiered housing system.

“We’re really thinking about how to make all of our housing tiers available to all of our students,” McMahon said. “Any student on financial aid will not pay one dollar more for their housing, regardless whether they live in Miller in their first year or CoHo in their senior year.”

THL organizer Mauri Trimmer, a lifelong resident of West Medford, said that they see the tiered housing system as a manifestation of a crisis that has been building in urgency for years.

“While tiered housing made the housing crisis at Tufts a reality for students … housing in the area has been in crisis for a lot longer than it’s been in attention,” Trimmer, a junior, said.

“It’s not new that 2,000 students find off-campus housing every single year.”

Trimmer expressed hope that Tufts will take preventive action to prevent housing shortages from further impacting students and community members.

“Tufts Housing League is frustrated that Tufts University has not taken prior steps to remedy the situation when it has clearly been a problem for a long time,” Trimmer said.

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Evan Zigmond Out on the Town

Inman Square

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

MFA commemorates Lunar New Year with festive celebration

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s Tufts students, the Red Line is our best friend for when we want to get into the city. There are various other ways to travel to Cambridge or Boston, but they aren’t nearly as quick or reliable as our dearly beloved subway cars. However, the convenience of the Red Line comes at a cost: it discourages us from exploring parts of Greater Boston that are lighter on public transportation options. It is easy to miss out on what the city has to offer when repeated trips to Park Street, Harvard Square, etc. are so tantalizing. I am an example of that myself. I waited almost four semesters to see the sights north of Central Square, and I was blown away with the amount of things to see, as well as the character of the area.

One of the places I visited was Inman Square, on Cambridge’s northern border. As usual, the MBTA offers many ways to get there, each with its own charm. I took the Red Line from Davis to Central, and then walked north on Prospect Street for a less than a mile until I was there. From Central, one may also take either the 83 bus toward Rindge Avenue or the 91 bus toward Sullivan to shorten the commute to under 10 minutes. I would recommend walking there, though, because there is a good amount to see just on Prospect Street. The relative lack of pedestrians allows one to fully soak in the narrow, brick-laden avenue. I felt like a wellto-do colonial Bostonian, strolling up the street purely for kicks. The Islamic Society of Boston also lies midway between Central and Inman Squares, a mosque adorned with stunning blue and red tiled patterns.

Arriving at Inman Square, I stopped to appreciate the quaint calm radiating from it. The square has all of the beautiful brick architecture of central Cambridge without the pervasive tourist presence. I walked over to 1369 Coffee House, an adorable little establishment at 1369 Cambridge Street. I was pretty excited when I saw their small collection of essential board games, as well as their easily accessible bathrooms, a rarity in the busier parts of Greater Boston.

If you’re looking for a quiet study spot with killer chai lattes, I cannot recommend this place enough. After my pit stop, I walked down Cambridge street a ways. I was pleasantly surprised to see The Lilypad, a music venue and popular watering hole for young people, a few feet from the coffee shop. According to the signs out front, there is live music at least two nights a week, which is something to keep in mind. The block is also home to Gather Here, an enormous fabric and yarn store complete with sewing machines. Touring that store tempted me to take up textiles.

Eventually, I left the area, thoroughly satisfied with my trip. While it may be a little out of the way compared to more popular spots on the Red Line, Inman Square has quite a lot to offer. As a tranquil alternative to Harvard and Central Square, this spot calls my name, and I hope it calls yours, too.

Evan Zigmond is a sophomore studying music. Evan can be reached at Evan.Zigmond@tufts.edu.

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Museum visitors make paper lanterns at the Museum of Fine Arts’ Lunar New Year Celebration on Feb. 9.

by Yoon Sung

Contributing Writer

In honor of the Year of the Pig, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) held Lunar New Year celebration last Saturday, Feb. 9.

In addition to free admission, the museum offered events celebrating the new year and traditions from China, Korea and Vietnam.

The MFA itself hosted some of these talks and activities, such as Spotlight Talks, guided information sessions on the museum’s pieces in the relevant exhibitions.

Community groups and other volunteers eager to celebrate with Boston families partnered with the museum to put on performances and demonstrations. These included a Lion Dance by the Gund Kwok Asian Women’s Lion & Dragon Dance Troupe, traditional performances by the Woorigarak Korean Cultural Art Center, a kung fu show by the Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy and a martial arts demon-

stration by the Vietnamese-American Community of Massachusetts.

Dr. Xingcai Zhang, president of the World Tea Organization and postdoctoral researcher at MIT, held demonstrations of a traditional Chinese tea ceremony while explaining the history and importance of tea both in history and in current research.

Having been born in the province of Fujian, the birthplace of many popular teas, he is well-steeped in what he calls “tea culture.”

“I believe it’s meaningful to let people know about tea culture,” he said when asked why he finds sharing demonstrations of the tea ceremony important. “Basically, I say that tea culture is healthy, harmony, pure, nature … To express love through a cup of tea. That’s what I want to do.”

He is not the only participant who finds events like the MFA’s Lunar New Year celebration a useful avenue in teaching others about culture. For as long as the event has been running, The Korean Cultural Society

has been holding demonstrations of sebae, a traditional bowing ritual.

“Primarily we wanted to promote Korean culture, and the MFA found the avenue to promote not only Korean but the other Asian cultures,” said Byung Kim, president of the society. “It is critical that the MFA recognize Asian culture.”

The efforts of the MFA and its partners certainly seem to have succeeded. The popularity of the event was obvious from the sheer number of attendees. At opening time, the admission line trailed out the doors to the sidewalk. Shows that required tickets sold out hours before showtime. The venue quickly ran out of seats, and audience members resorted to sitting or standing around the performance area.

Something else that stood out was the presence of children and families. Many of the attendees were families spanning generations, and there was plenty of child-focused programming, such as making origami lanterns and paper pigs. Toddlers sat with their grandparents to watch performances. Within said performances, many of the dancers and demonstrators were children themselves.

With such demand and interest, one day may not be enough to keep up. Kim suggested that the Museum of Fine Arts hold another event in May commemorating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

“This is a one-day event, and I think as much as they can help promote Asian cultures, they can have a long term sustained period — for maybe a week, or a few days, to promote Asian culture,” he said.

Overall, the Lunar New Year event was a rousing success, pulling in crowds to appreciate not only the museum’s unique art exhibitions, but also traditional ceremonies and other cultures. The only downside was the sheer volume of people making it difficult to see the events themselves. Perhaps the museum will consider the suggestion of an additional celebration of Asian culture — there is certainly an audience for it.

‘Thank U, Next’ is Ariana Grande’s most cohesive, consistent album to date

by Christopher Panella Arts Editor

Ariana Grande is arguably one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She’s practically breaking records left and right, from becoming just the fifth artist to have multiple songs debut on top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “7 rings” to her music video for “thank u, next” breaking YouTube’s 24-hour views record for a music video and winning the Best Pop Vocal Album Grammy for “Sweetener” (2018) this past Sunday. Grande, now ten years and five albums into her career, is in her prime. It’s in this prime that Grande has released “thank u, next” (2019), her best album to date.

“Thank U, Next” comes after the sour sound of her fourth album “Sweetener” — it’s impossible not to compare the two, considering “Thank U, Next” debuted just six months after “Sweetener.” Where “Sweetener” is strange and weird, “Thank U, Next” has a more mature quality to it. With 12 tracks, just over 41 minutes in runtime, “Thank U, Next” moves quickly and through a variety of sounds. Its lyrics and themes are consistent, allowing Grande to explore and create something fresh.

If “Sweetener” was an album about love, healing and light, “Thank U, Next” is its second act, following themes of breakups and independence and Grande exploring being single after a whirlwind of exes. The album’s

R&B sound is catchy, the lyrics are better and the songs are far more cohesive than any of Grande’s previous works. True, it’s hard to categorize “Thank U, Next” as a pop album — it leans heavily on R&B, hip hop, and some trap — but it’s the most mature Grande has ever sounded. Maybe she isn’t meant to make conventional pop music.

The album’s opener, “imagine,” is a vocal highlight for Grande, with the song’s conclusive whistle notes setting off a good tone for what’s to come. There are plenty of bops such as “NASA,” “bloodline” and “bad idea,” which provide the more traditional pop moments of the album. On these, Grande shines. The lyrics are well-developed, but not too complex, and the sounds are practically earworms — “bloodline” in particular features extremely infectious trumpets throughout its chorus. “thank u, next” is indubitably catchy, “fake smile” is a nice slow simmer and “in my head” blends nicely. “ghostin’” is one of Grande’s best songs ever, a deeply emotional piece that communicates a new perspective of all of the drama Grande has faced this past year.

“Thank U, Next” is by far a sonic improvement from its predecessor, but that doesn’t mean it’s a flawless album. While “needy” is probably one of the best written songs on the album, its spacey beat sounds like a rip-off from “sweetener.” “make up” might be the only absolute misfire, sounding like an interlude that

Grande really didn’t need. “7 rings” is a great play on the classic “My Favorite Things” from “The Sound of Music” (1965), but Grande’s ‘rap’ verse near the end of the song is neither good nor necessary. “break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored” is a definite highlight and a nice ending to the album. Overall, it’s a great listen, and a smashing success for Grande — the album broke the record for the most first-day streams of a pop album and the most first-day streams of a female artist on Apple Music.

The album does not come without its controversy — there are accusations of cultural appropriation, such as in her music video for “7 rings” and her especially dark tan, as well as queerbaiting in the music video for “break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored.” All of this makes listening to “Thank U, Next” a cautionary tale: listeners must understand the context in which this album has been released and consider Grande’s critics.

Despite all of this, Grande’s release is a success. It’s her most cohesive and consistent album to date, and its focus on the unconventional just might be where Grande should stay for a while. “thank u, next” is, after all, a great blend of R&B and pop — Grande’s bread and butter — but it’s also pushing those boundaries ever so slightly, playing with what audiences think about those genres today. Ten years ago — or even five — no pop singer would’ve dared to make a hip hop/ trap remix of “My Favorite Things” and rap on it.

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The epistemological error of ‘accessible’ economics

by Bennett Smith-Worthington Talk of the young, newly powerful and outspoken congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has reached a climax with her recent announcement of advocacy for a 70 percent marginal tax rate. Since then, many outlets have published articles in support of her tax policies — Vox, the New York Times — all lauding the historical basis for her policy. Moreover, many cite the studies of economists such as Emmanuel Saez and Peter Diamond and Thomas Piketty to back up such a claim. However, the use of economic studies by an economically illiterate population inherently raises some issues.

In the same way that you could find studies supporting high taxes, you could look to think tanks such as the CATO Institute to find studies that support the exact opposite policies. This seems to be reminiscent of a terrifying tendency of all politically inclined people to believe first and justify later. In the case of AOC, she’s a highly captivating and attractive figure; she represents a new generation, a new voice and maybe a new movement. But what she certainly does not represent is a master of economics — no one does. Even Simon Kuznets, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics, was absolutely wrong about his most important contribution to economics, his self-named Kuznets Curve. Just as well, thinkers like Milton Friedman, who also won the Nobel Prize, were incorrect about the effects of concentrated wealth and its supposed benefits to the economy.

The new support for AOC’s 70 percent tax rate does not really seem to be generated in an academically rigorous fashion; that is, by looking at the data and then formulating an opinion. Instead, the power

of populistic politics has reversed this preeminent formula into many people taking their stance, then finding economic sources to back it up. I hold the highest respect for those oft-cited economists. However, the question is not simply whether or not they are credible, but instead if we would even know if they were not. I am quite confident that the vast majority of the population, including myself, is not economically literate enough to understand the complexities of the mathematics and logic behind many of these grand economic formulae. If even those with Nobel Prizes have been massively wrong about their own conceptions of economic mechanisms, why do we unfairly endow ourselves with such confidence about our understanding of economics?

Again, I’d like to reiterate that I, too, actually believe that those previously mentioned works from the French economists are accurate and intelligent. But much like the vast majority of the population, I do not honestly know if they are correct or not. For both myself and (if my perception is correct) nearly the totality of the population, it is impossible for us to effectively deny any parts of it as mathematically or logically flawed. I know that most of us, if we came into reading them with no preconceptions, would be just as swayed by studies that claim the exact opposite of those works we are now hailing as canonical.

We believe the claims in these studies not because we know them to be true — neither you nor I have checked the math, methodology, or logic — but because we want them to be true. Just as none of us really knows how to falsify the economic studies supposedly proving the effectiveness of Reaganomics, we nonetheless choose not to believe them. AOC is a reminder that

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even we, the politically sophisticated liberals, are not immune to the blinding and reductive forces of populism.

The University of Chicago regularly runs surveys on top economists, posing simple but fundamental questions of economics, such as queries on the benefits of free trade.

They released the results of a survey about this very question, asking if “raising the top federal marginal tax on earned personal income to [70 percent] … would raise substantially more revenue (federal and state, combined) without lowering economic activity.” The response to this question?

Mixed. With responses weighed by each expert’s certainty, 63 percent disagreed, with only 21 percent agreeing. A staggering 17 percent were completely unsure of the answer. And the sizeable majority who disagreed are not just old-school, Friedmanlike economists championing the Laffer Curve and Reaganomics. Those who disagreed include the Harvard and Stanford economist Raj Chetty, who is famous for his work on the economics of equal opportunity. What is clear from this survey is that there is no clear consensus for such high marginal tax rates, and that it could be even argued that there may be a bit of a consensus against that policy. In general, it is not clear whether or not such a tax plan would work. As such, we should wait for more research and more consensus on this topic.

In the same way that we understand climate change to be factual as a result of a massive, field-wide agreement, we should expect the same level of accord among economists until backing such a radical political project.

Bennett Smith-Worthington is a first-year studying international relations. Bennett can be reached at Bennett.Smith_Worthington@tufts.edu

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s President Trump addressed the nation in the State of the Union, a sea of women wearing white flooded the benches of the United States Capitol. The color white is symbolic of the trailblazers who paved the way for women’s suffrage. This display of solidarity was inspiring, and the diversity of these congresswomen created a sense of hope. It makes me, as an onlooker, believe that — maybe, just maybe —female health concerns might move up on the government’s to-do list.

As of now, prospects are grim. Title X of the Public Health Act went into effect last month; this legislation further hinders women’s access to family planning and contraception. Title X is a grant program controlled by the federal government that expands access to reproductive healthcare. According to the CDC, family planning was one of the “ten great public health achievements” nearly 20 years ago. So severely curtailing access to family planning seems counterintuitive.

Unfortunately, that is exactly what is happening.

The proposed regulation shifts funding away from organizations such as Planned Parenthood, which offer a wide range of reproductive services including but not limited to: sexually transmitted infection (STI) tests, contraception, cancer screening and much more. Under the new provision, funds would go towards faith-based programs that promote fertility awareness (measuring the days until ovulation) and abstinence-only education, which has actually increased the prevalence of STIs and teen pregnancy.

Additionally, the legislation would eliminate nondirective counseling, meaning conversations regarding abortion may not be offered upon a clinic visit. This rule forces women to continue with pregnancy, stating that all women who test positive for pregnancy must be referred to prenatal care regardless of their ability to move forward with motherhood. Previously, Title X protected minors with confidentiality when they sought out contraception; however, a new clause now requires parental documentation from all adolescents seeking birth control. In the case of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, the Supreme Court acknowledged the importance of access to proper reproductive services: “The ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.” New Title X legislation directly undermines this personal liberty.

The accessibility of family planning directly affects health outcomes. Take Kerala, India for example. This southwestern coastal state of 35 million has health outcomes that are on par with high-income countries. These positive health indicators come despite Kerala’s slow economic growth and lower state per capita income. What has been coined as “The Kerala Model” has caught the eyes of many public health professionals and can be boiled down to one simple principle: female empowerment and free family planning services. These services are all-encompassing and teach women about everything from breast feeding and nutrition to immunization. Consequently, Kerala has been defined as a nation that has attained high levels of health before reaching economic prosperity.

Clearly, making child and maternal health a governmental priority benefits everyone. Hey, America — take note.

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continued from back The Jumbos’ offense struggled against the Mammoths; they managed only one goal on 15 shots throughout the game, their fewest in any game this season. The consistent lack of power-play production for the Jumbos continued to be an issue against the Mammoths. The Jumbos were unable to find the net on any of their four manup opportunities, while the Mammoths scored once on their three chances with a man advantage. Additionally, what

would be the game-winning goal for Amherst came roughly halfway through the second period.

The Jumbos close out regular season play in Maine this weekend as they take on the Bowdoin Polar Bears (6–14–2) on Friday, followed by a matchup with the Colby Mules (9–9–4) on Saturday. The battle for the eighth and final seed in the NESCAC tournament all comes down to this weekend as Tufts, Bowdoin and Conn.

College are all in position to earn the bid.

Wins in both games would allow the Jumbos’ season to continue in

the NESCAC tournament. A loss to Bowdoin on Friday would end Tufts’ hopes of making the tournament.

However, in a much more complicated scenario, a win at Bowdoin and a loss to Colby could mean a tournament berth, depending on the outcome of the game between Conn. College and Bowdoin on Saturday night.

“It’s not going to be an easy weekend,” Norton said. “I expect it to be two hardfought games. Most importantly, we have to take care of Friday first and see where we are after Friday. That’s the biggest one.”

ostalgia is a powerful weapon.

It can elicit memories ranging from a championship match to watching an early-2000s cartoon on a small, standard-definition television. If one were to solely define nostalgia by these two elements, then boy, were they in for a treat last Thursday evening.

Warning: this metaphor will be milked for a hot second. Bear with me. You might already be able to see where this is going.

Try and recall an afternoon from a cool, crisp 2004 day. It’s the fall, school has started, and the simple melancholic expectation of the long year has set in.

You return from school and eagerly make your way towards the pantry looking for a snack before nestling in on the couch.

Maybe your legs are tired, because after all, you have been basking in the joys of the playground all afternoon, and all those stairs didn’t climb themselves.

Most important, however, is what cartoon you immerse yourself into. Maybe it’s “Cyberchase,” (2002–) or “Arthur” (1996–) or maybe even “Caillou” (1997– 2010) (all of those old PBS goodies). If no one was looking, you could sneakily poach the remote and throw on “Spongebob” (1999–), an option a bit raunchier than the PBS grab bag.

On Nick Jr. everyone’s favorite aquatic animal would roam the forest. Franklin the Turtle was the sporty type, into making crafts, and would carry around his stuffed dog (is it concerning or perfectly naturally for a turtle to have a pet dog? — I’m not quite sure).

Regardless, Franklin the Turtle emerged from his shell and was back onto the television sets of the Boston faithful last Thursday evening. Only this time the sets were HD, he was on TNT and LeBron James gave him a big bear hug for the closing credits. Maybe you could call it a spinoff from the original?

To say Rajon Rondo (romantically known as Franklin the Turtle for the sake of the narrative) has had a tumultuous few seasons would be an understatement. After an ill-fated 46-game regular season stint with the Mavericks in 2015 where he was literally benched after just 10 minutes of playing time in a playoff game, the feisty point guard’s stock had dramatically fallen.

Somehow, he led the league in assists for a 33-win Sacramento Kings team the next season before signing with the Bulls in the offseason. With the MJ castoffs the legend of playoff Rondo was born after two road postseason wins at the Garden in the 2017 NBA Playoffs, but he would settle for another pair of one-year contracts, the first being with the Pelicans and the second being with LeBronkers (Lakers).

He’s traded off starting gigs with LaVar Ball’s eldest son throughout the campaign, but with Lonzo out injured, Rondo is getting more looks at a starting role. The starting spot comes with playing in crunch time. Playing in crunch time means a chance to hit game winners when Al Horford can’t snag a rebound.

You think Joel Embiid or Marc Gasol would’ve had problems corralling that miss? The Celtics will discover in the playoffs.

Jeremy Goldstein is a sophomore studying political science and film and media studies. Jeremy can be reached at Jeremy.

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Men’s swimming and diving starts championship season strong at Boston Winter Open, prepares for NESCACs

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Hamilton Pool is pictured on Feb. 16, 2018.

by Jeremy Goldstein Sports Editor

The Jumbos kicked off their championship season at the Boston Winter Open at Boston University this weekend. The arduous championship season began with a Friday and Saturday showing by Tufts featuring a smattering of top three finishes in a competitive field.

With an eye on repeating last season’s exciting NESCAC victory, the Jumbos got the ball rolling with strong results.

“At our big meets [and] both times we’ve been up against really good competition, guys really rose to the occasion and put out their best performances all year,” coach Adam Hoyt said. “[The team] likes to rise to the occasion, likes the pressure, [and] pressure brings out the best in them … every single guy on the team has put in a ton of effort [and] I’m grateful to coach a team that’s willing to work that hard.”

There were a slew of strong performances across the fly events; in the 50-yard fly, the Jumbos finished first through fifth in a dominant display featuring first-year Devon French coming out on top with a time of 22.9 seconds. Following French was senior Brian

Honicky (23.37 seconds), who was proceeded by sophomores Noah Zhang (23.51 seconds), Christian Schoen (23.80 seconds) and Spencer Schmid (25.19 seconds). French also finished second in the 100-yard fly, clocking in at 50.30 seconds. In the 200-yard fly, junior Trevor Serman came in the silver position with a 1:51.41 showing.

Serman also swam his way to a 4:17.17 performance in the 400-yard individual medley (IM) time trial for the top spot. In the 200-yard IM time trial, first-year Ryan Lynch took the top spot on the podium with a 1:57.00 time.

Not to be breasted by anyone, fellow first-year Tommy Simon came out on top in the 50-yard breaststroke time trial with a 28.66 second time. Firstyear Ethan Webster swam to a second place finish in the 200-yard backstroke (1:50.07). First-year Jack Freeman was part of a winning quartet in the 400-yard freestyle relay time trial (3:10.71) with seniors Adon Shapiro and Ross Wood along with Zhang.

“Since I was at Tufts it was as good of a championship meet we’ve had,” Hoyt said. “There were a lot of good performances … It was just impressive and it set a great tone. It’s the first one, it’s a big

one, [and] it really puts us in a great place to swim well [going forward].”

However, the championship drive didn’t end at BU for the Jumbos. On Thursday, Feb. 21, the team will embark on a four-day journey at Middlebury College to retain their title atop the NESCAC. The meet last year was a smashing success, and senior captain Kingsley Bowen, who won the 50-, 100and 200-yard backstroke races, played a major role in the Jumbos’ victory.

“Defending a title is always harder than getting a first one,” Bowen said.

“Everyone … finds out about our title last year, [then] you’ve got a target on your back. We’re trying to focus on having the title in our scope. Even though we were the champions last year, that doesn’t have [any] implications for what [this] year will bring.”

Bowen set six program records in the NESCAC championship weekend last year, while current junior Roger Gu set a conference record time in the 50-yard freestyle with an astonishing sub-20 second showing (19.95, to be exact).

Bowen and Hoyt both explained that while individual finishes are important, the performance of the team as a whole reigns supreme.

“It’s an intense competition,” Hoyt said. “The strength of the team is going to be in their ability in how they can lean on each other. If you’re solely focused on individual performances, you can only be so successful … the closeness of a team can really impact a championship.”

Expectations for the team seem to come in the form of team performances instead of individual ones.

“My primary goal for NESCACs is to be the best leader,” Bowen said. “This meet is more important than any of my individual swims.”

Bowen is right: This team has a ways to go before they can be crowned as champions once again. With an infectious team-first mentality breathing of success and competition from the top down, big results seem to be in store for the Jumbos once again. From NESCACs, Tufts can work on dreaming even further; after all, nationals are only a couple of weeks away.

“The guys are ready to rise to the challenge,” Hoyt said. “And that confidence has been built over the course over the entire season, not only through athletic performance. [It’s about] competing for Tufts versus competing for yourself.”

Recent struggles put hockey in a must-win situation to make NESCACs

by Noah Stancroff

Assistant Sports Editor

The struggles continued for the Jumbos in their last two home games at the Valley Forum this season. The Jumbos’ record dropped to 5–15–2 on the year with their two recent losses. Two of their five wins have come in conference play, putting them at ninth in the NESCAC, one spot out of playoff contention.

On Saturday evening, the Jumbos faced off against a talented Hamilton Continentals (11–9–2) team. Hamilton ultimately came away with the 4–3 victory after scoring just 21 seconds into the overtime period. The first period of play appeared to set the tone for a high

scoring 60 minutes, but the defenses tightened up after the opening period.

Tufts outscored Hamilton 3–2 in the first period as the Jumbos netted more goals in the first 20 minutes than they had scored in any game since their Dec. 7 matchup with Bowdoin.

First-year defenseman Rune Kirby talked about the battle with Hamilton.

“I thought we played pretty tough,” Kirby said. “Defensively, I feel like we just didn’t show up as much. I think on defense we just had a few breakdowns.

I feel like we’ve all been playing hard, [but] it just hasn’t been matching up.”

The first score of the game happened just over six minutes into the game when an atypical bounce off

of the boards caught first-year goaltender Josh Sarlo out of position and allowed Hamilton senior forward Jon Stickel to bury the puck into a wideopen net. This was his first of two goals in the game, giving the Continentals a 1–0 lead.

Hamilton did not hold onto their lead for long, however. After senior captain Clay Berger, playing in his last home game of his career, got hold of the puck in Tufts’ zone, he raced the length of the ice, leaving only the goaltender to beat. Berger did just that, tying the game at 1­ – 1 just 20 seconds after the Continentals had opened the scoring.

Although the Jumbos took a 3–2 lead into the first intermission, their

offense slowed down during the latter two periods as they managed only 12 shots on goal compared to 23 for the Continentals.

Tufts’ hard-fought loss at the hands of Hamilton came just one night after another NESCAC defeat as the Jumbos fell 3–1 to a skilled Amherst (11–6–4) squad.

Tufts coach Patrick Norton spoke highly of his team’s performance on Friday, despite the loss.

“I thought we played very well against Amherst,” Norton said. “I thought we played 60 minutes of very good hockey. We unfortunately weren’t able to bury enough of the opportunities that we had.” see ICE HOCKEY, page 7