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Porter Square Books creates events, programming for community members see ARTS&LIVING / PAGE 5

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Local farmers market promotes healthy eating in community

Health Service hours should be expanded to meet students needs see OPINION / PAGE 9

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Student affairs administrators promoted, Ferguson hired in administrative reshuffling

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As part of a deliberate reorganization, Student Affairs administrators Kevin Kraft, Lindsay Ferguson and Laura DaRos assumed new positions within that division last month, according to Dean of Student Life and Engagement Chris Rossi. Rossi stated that planning the reshuffling of administrators in Student Affairs began at the end of the spring semester of 2019, following the departures of former Dean of Student Affairs and Chief Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon and former Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs Raymond Ou, and preceding the announcement on Jan. 24 that Camille Lizarríbar had been hired as the new dean of student affairs and chief student officer. Kevin Kraft was promoted from Director of Community Standards to Associate Dean of Student Affairs for the Medford campus; Lindsay Ferguson was hired as Assistant Director of Community Standards and Laura DaRos was promoted to Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), having previously been the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at the SMFA. The administrative reshuffling was a result of expanding student needs, according to Rossi. “[Their departures] created an opportunity for the Deans of the School, Jianmin Qu for engineering, James Glaser for arts and sciences, and Nancy Bauer for the SMFA, to look at student affairs and student services more broadly,” Rossi said. “It gave us an opportunity with some flexibility as to how to arrange current personnel.” Rossi added that he didn’t foresee any resulting changes in addition to the ones that have occurred. “I think there could be opportunities for us to expand in the future, but I think this is the right sort of administrative structure to serve our current population,” Rossi said. According to Kraft, he now supervises the community standards program in addition to taking over the student outreach and support program, whereas he previously only operated the community standards program. Kraft described his previous role of Director of Community Standards, which he now supervises, as a position focused on supporting students and in charge of the system to address student misconduct. “We try to make the Tufts community a better place by upholding the standards

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The Jumbo mascot is pictured outside of Dowling Hall on Aug. 20, 2018. that we all have that are written in the code of conduct, ” Kraft said. “So, the community standards is basically a set of values or ideas that we all agree to live by.” The student outreach and support department, a new addition to Kraft’s responsibilities, focuses on the resolution of issues or conflicts that student’s may have that impair their ability to succeed academically. According to Kraft, this includes a wealth of dilemmas. “This can run the gamut from medical issues to personal family things to financial problems, you know, anything that people run into: our goal is to nourish and support and help them resolve those issues,” Kraft said. The Office of Community Standards, the Student Outreach and Support program, and the Dean-on-Call program are resources that often interact alongside each other, according to the Student Affairs website. The Director of Community Standards position has been vacant since Kraft was promoted, but the process of reviewing applications is currently under way, For breaking news, our content archive and exclusive content, visit tuftsdaily.com @tuftsdaily

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according to Kraft. He expects that the position should be filled in four to six weeks, due to strong interest from applicants. Kraft added that the search committee is made up of a student, a faculty member, a staff director from Office of Residential Life and Learning and Ferguson. Ferguson began her new position in January as the first to hold that role. According to Ferguson, the role focuses mainly around students who have alleged violations of the Student Conduct Code. Ferguson joins Tufts with experience working in similar roles as the newly created one at Tufts. “Before working here I was working at Temple University in Philadelphia as an investigator for the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards. I did investigations for Student Conduct, as well as for our title nine office and involving Title IX cases,” Ferguson said. “And then prior to that I worked in residence life for four years at [University of Massachusetts] Lowell.”

DaRos emphasized the necessity of her new role in the strategic plan and vision for what it means to be an SMFA student, a vision which has evolved since the SMFA’s integration into Tufts. “The shift from the assistant to associate director role is a reflection of how the scope of work has changed over the past four years as the school evolves and we’re more balanced in terms of what we need,” DaRos said. DaRos also stated that the SMFA’s Student Affairs includes a mix of both student affairs and some student services. According to DaRos, other changes in the past few years for SMFA administration include an Assistant Director of Student Affairs and a new Student Services Coordinator. DaRos’ elevated role is necessary to develop plans for the SMFA program and the individual and nuanced curriculums within the program, according to Rossi. He also emphasized the importance of the new role in addressing a wide range of SMFA experiences, including housing and food provision as well as co-curricular programming.

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Harris, Mehta running for Board of Trustees by Anton Shenk News Editor

The Tufts University Alumni Association will soon send ballots to Tufts alumni to select the candidate who will fill one open seat on the Board of Trustees. The voting period will run from Feb. 17 through April 12, with the result to be announced at the Alumni Council meeting on April 25, according to Interim Executive Director of the Office of Alumni Relations Bill Gehling. The seat, which will be vacated by David Rone (LA’84) upon the expiration of his term, will be contested by Doug Harris (LA’81) and Dr. Tejas Mehta (M’92), who were selected by the Nominating Committee of the Alumni Council. The Board of Trustees, the highest governing authority of the university, is the decision-making body for a wide range of issues including changes in tuition, facilities and investment practices. The body is composed of 40 members, a quarter of which are elected directly by Tufts’ alumni to serve five-year terms. Gehling described the uniqueness of Tufts’ selection process for those serving on the Board of Trustees. “The election of alumni trustees continues a time-honored tradition of the direct election of members to the Tufts University Board of Trustees by the alumni body. Few other higher-ed institutions allow the alumni body to elect trustees,” Gehling wrote in an email to the Daily. “This election provides Tufts alumni with direct representation on the governing board of Tufts University.” Harris, the chief executive officer of The Kaleidoscope Group, which is a consulting firm focusing on issues in diversity and inclusion, said in an interview with the Daily that Tufts’ character and the opportunity to give back to Tufts were his reasons for accepting the nomination. “[Tufts] is a very dynamic institution, it’s a changing world,” Harris said. “People have different experiences while they’re there and how can we be sure everybody gets the gold out of what Tufts has to offer. I’ve accepted the nomination to be able to kind of play a role in that capacity.” Harris described the wide range of experience he has in many different environments.

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Fall begins to arrive at Tufts on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. “I’ve dealt with Tufts, I’ve dealt with pro [sports] teams … we’ve had 800 clients … we’ve dealt with hospitals, universities, I did a study at Tufts on minority faculty and why they were leaving,” Harris said. Harris added that he has worked with students, teachers and administrators, allowing him to be “transformational no matter what the scenario is.” Mehta, the chief of breast imaging at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and co-director of the Linsey BreastCare Center, emphasized her wealth of medical experience in the candidate statement provided to Tufts alumni. “My experiences as a healthcare provider, researcher, educator and leader … make me well-equipped to understand the resources needed to support teaching, research, and service excellence,” the statement read. Gehling emphasized the quality of both candidates for the position. “The slate of candidates for this year’s election includes two exceptional Tufts alumni who are very committed to Tufts University,” Gehling said. “We appreciate their dedication to Tufts and their willingness to serve on the Board of Trustees.” Trustee Representative Charming Dube discussed what he believes is the critical role alumni members play on the Board of Trustees. “Directly elected Alumni representatives are, in my opinion, one of the more foresighted parts

of the Tufts bureaucracy,” Dube, a senior, said in an electronic message. “They give a lot of voiceg to the alumni community which, at any point,C almost certainly outnumbers the student body.” c The Office of Alumni Relations expects to send approximately 70,000 ballots to alumni,o S according to Gehling. Past elections, however, have struggled with low response rates. The response rate has his-f torically fallen between 5% and 8%, accordingt t to Gehling. Last year’s election resulted in a response rateI of 7%, a fall from the previous cycle’s record ofl r nearly 10%. Dube added that, despite low turnout rates,f the alumni election supports the trustees in creating an environment in which they can con-C W duct their work effectively. “[The alumni election] mechanism doesa help because part of the job of the Board ofb Trustees is to be a little insulated from the pendulum of campus opinion and politics so thatn they can provide that critical stability necessaryc in the running of an institution the size of a unio versity,” Dube said. Gehling also shared the Office of Alumnib W Relations’ efforts to boost turnout. “To enhance participation, the Office oft Alumni Relations has increased its use of social media to call attention to the election andt strengthened its messaging to emphasize thef g significance of each vote,” Gehling said.

DeLauer advocates for campus spaces, practices promoting emotional connections by Robert Kaplan

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Verna DeLauer, an associate professor specializing in natural resource management at Franklin Pierce University, led a talk titled “Being Seen, Feeling Heard: Designing Intimate-Scaled Spaces on Urban College Campuses” as part of last week’s Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Colloquium series in the Sophia Gordon multipurpose room. DeLauer shared her conclusions and recommendations for redesigning spaces at college campuses by referencing her recent experience living and working in Findhorn, a village focused on sustainable living located about 30 miles outside Inverness in northern Scotland. DeLauer explained that she visited Findhorn for about one month to better understand the lifestyle, approach and spaces inhabited by younger people who lived there, the age demographic whom her research focuses upon. Findhorn was an ideal setting to observe how young people interact with their surroundings because of the culture of intentionality supported by the eco-village’s ethos, according to DeLauer.

“Over and over again, I heard from the residents how the place made them feel,” DeLauer said. “What I found was that what was important there were what I’m calling ‘intimate-scaled spaces’ and ‘intimate-scaled practices.’” DeLauer added that the ability to emotionally attach to a space was the most important element of design for many of the young people she interviewed, both at Franklin Pierce and Findhorn. She listed examples such as a meditative space for about 25 people at Findhorn and a series of outdoor hammocks on Franklin Pierce’s campus. DeLauer emphasized the ways in which she believes students’ college experiences could be improved by implementing changes motivated by these principles. “More places like this … improve connection on college campuses,” DeLauer said. “So that [students] build personal strength, so they increase self-reliance, so they improve mental health.” DeLauer described how Findhorn residents went about achieving this intimacy with spaces, which she advocated for implementing on college campuses. “What is important for them is making public spaces personal … and also safe and equitable as much as possible,” DeLauer said.

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DeLauer drew parallels between college campus design and Findhorn, emphasizingc the downfalls in what she viewed as thea similarly intentional and all-encompassingV s nature of a college community. “I think that regardless of what kind of school you’re at, there’s a potential for isola-e tion,” DeLauer said. “A lot of changes could 4 be made to increase connections.” DeLauer listed examples of some of thet spaces that she said reflect these principles.F “Things like gardens, benches, cushions, beanbags, pillows, blankets, pathways,f meetup spaces, lounge chairs … places thatA only students know about,” DeLauer said.U “Places that only the Tufts community, forf instance, know about. DeLauer added that none of the inti-t mate-scaled spaces she referenced weren named after “founders,” instead bearing names which reflected users’ connectionc f with the space. In response to an audience member’sy question, DeLauer reflected that the rela-v tionship between intimate-scaled spacesS and the culture needed to establish them h is unclear. “My initial reaction is that the culturey comes first, but I’m not an urban planner,” DeLauer said. “Or it could be like, ‘Build itb C and they will come’ … I don’t know.”

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Somerville Winter Farmers Market cultivates community, change by Kayla Butera

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Attending the Somerville Winter Farmers Market is like stepping onto the set of “The Good Place” (2016–20). Except it’s real. With live music by Joe “3’n1” Pete in the background, a rainbow of colorful produce carefully displayed by farmers and old-fashioned string lights gracing the armory walls, the charm and community atmosphere is undeniable. Y The market, which is held every Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Center for Arts at the Armory, is what Erin Silvia of gluten-free and vegan Piping Plover Baking Company describes as “the best thing you can do all week.” The long line forming before the doors opened at 9:30 a.m. was an indication of Silvia’s sentiments. “I go to the farmers market because the food is a much more nutritious, better selection of organic [food], just the herbicides that they’re using now are worse than 30 years ago. I’m really interested in supporting sustainable local farmers,” Norma Wassel, a Cambridge resident who has been attending the market for three years, said. Wassel also noted that, in comparison to Cambridge farmers markets, the Somerville Winter Farmers Market has more vendors and rotates through specialties, such as new bakeries. The importance of supporting local businesses is a belief commonly-held by both customers and farmers. Jesse Docter of Winter Moon Roots grew up on his family farm in Hadley, Mass., and has been working at markets since he was 12. The Winter Moon Roots table was covered in multicolored carrots, radishes and squash. “You can’t compare the quality, as far as the produce’s freshness, the healthy, organic food and the varieties that you can’t find in grocery stores — just the things that you can do better at a small scale,” Docter said. “Good storage, getting your vegetables after the frost — you’ll taste it.” Vendors also mentioned that shopping locally not only has health and economic benefits, but also environmental and social ones. “Shopping locally keeps money in the community,” Chris Haskell of Mycoterra Farm, an organic mushroom farm in the Pioneer Valley, said. “It keeps money inside instead of spending it with Kraft Foods.” Buying locally can decrease the costs and environmental impact of shipping. “We only have to drive our food, which is 45 minutes, as opposed to shipping it across the country,” Kelly Phillips of Freedom Food Farm in Raynham, Mass., said. In contrast, according to the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, it is estimated that meals in the United States travel 1,500 miles to get from farm to plate. Many farmers and customers appreciate the unique interactions and sense of community built around the farmers market. “The best part of shopping locally is the community that is built — seeing familiar faces week after week and knowing where your food is coming from,” Kara Dodd, a vendor for Narragansett Creamery and a Somerville Public Schools teacher, said. Customer Joanna Cendrowski, who has been shopping at the market for three years, agreed. “I feel like I know the people who I’m buying my foods from and they know me,” Cendrowski said.

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The Freedom Food Farm stand at the Somerville Winter Farmers Market is pictured on Feb. 8. James Walsh, of Somerville’s own Q’s Nuts, echoed this sentiment. “I love the people,” Walsh said. “Just look around: such an eclectic group of people. You get local people, you get tourists. I deal with people from all over the globe, and I just love it.” Every vendor interviewed had their own path for coming to the market, but they are all invested in giving back to the community. “We sell stuff, make money, have profits, but ultimately, it’s all around saving the bees and promoting the species,” Brian Deeley of Beverly Bees said. “We do a lot of outreach and training to both corporate audiences and schools, and this is where my wife and I will come up and do a presentation. We also do a lot of beekeeping lessons and workshops at my farm.” One of the biggest ways the Somerville Winter Farmers Market has impacted people is through supporting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), rendering the market more accessible to Somerville residents. In addition, SNAP shoppers who purchase fruits and vegetables at the farmers market can receive financial incentives under the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP). According to WGBH, more than 770,000 people in Massachusetts currently receive SNAP benefits. “When a SNAP customer is purchasing fresh fruits and vegetables directly from a farmer, they basically get a rebate,” Somerville Winter Farmers Market Manager Lea Ruscio said. “However much money they spend, up to their monthly limit, they will get immediately back on their [SNAP] card.” The market also runs its own “SNAP match” program. When a SNAP customer spends money on their card, the market will match up to $10 weekly to make their money last longer, according to Ruscio. “The SNAP match is totally funded by donations and merchandise sales — T-shirts, tote bags, posters,” Ruscio said. “All the proceeds go to the SNAP match and a couple people will donate either here or online to help their neighbors in need.” Having these programs has proven to be game-changing for both customers and for farmers. “I come here because they’re one of the only farmers markets during the winter and they accept HIP,” shopper Masoud Arshadi said.

Mike Pauplis from Apex Orchards in Shelburne, Mass., has noticed an increase in his profits and a “drastic” hike change in attendance since the market began accepting HIP. “HIP has helped us a lot,” Pauplis said. “We’ve seen a bump in sales and there’s a massive influx of people that come in because of the program.” According to Ruscio, these programs help the farmers as well. “It’s also great to support people who need the most food assistance, but also helping the farmers as they keep things small, local and quality, but have to compete with a lot of big farming operations out of state,” Ruscio said. Haskell noted what it is like to see the effects of these programs firsthand. “As one of the larger HIP farms in the state, I’ve seen the effect of having people come up to me and telling me they’ve never eaten this much produce before,” Haskell said. “These are people that clearly have health conditions and are often times elderly and frail.” At one point during the market, a bus arrives with elderly people from an adult day health center who are largely speaking languages other than English, filling the farmers market even more. While the HIP program has been a factor of social change, Haskell believes there is still more to be achieved. “I wish [HIP] was fully-funded all year. It would help me stabilize my plans … and then I could go back and expand my reach, without it being cut off every year at a certain time,” Haskell said.”There’s a pretty big disconnect between the people with six and seven figure salaries, local businesses and people on food stamps.” Knowledge of the programs is another barrier that exists. “It’s fantastic to get people, especially those with lower incomes, to eat healthy food and I think we need to spread that message,” Deeley said. “Certain communities know it and have embraced it, and other communities — they have no idea.” At the end of the day, the Somerville Winter Farmers Market is a place that cultivates a sense of community, purpose and responsibility to help others. “Know the people that make the food you put into your body, because ultimately, food is medicine,” Silvia said.

ierce wind gusts and the beginning of midterm season might not seem like the most romantic of backdrops, but once again, February is here and Valentine’s Day is around the corner. Whether you’re looking for ideas for a night out with your significant other or with friends, Boston’s North End is the perfect setting. For the month of February, the North End’s Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park is a great place to spend either the beginning or end of a temperate evening. The trellis at the center of the park is illuminated with blue and pink lights, and romantic tunes play quietly from the speakers hanging on it. The “Tunnel of Love” features enlarged candy hearts with sweet sayings and cupids hanging at each end. It offers the perfect venue for Instagram pictures as well, with beautiful lights and the city skyline behind it. Watching the sunset before dinner, or strolling and looking at the city after, would be a great part of a Valentine’s evening. The North End is famous for its Italian heritage and cuisine. Within a five-minute walk of the park are many well-reviewed Italian restaurants. Most are relatively expensive for a college budget, but doable for a special night. Be sure to have a reservation for spots like Carmelina’s or any of the more premier Italian eateries. When visiting the Waterfront park and North End, I went to Piccolo Nido, a smaller and more intimate restaurant where I was able to be seated immediately on a Friday evening. It reminded me of small, family-owned Italian restaurants that I had been to in San Francisco’s North Beach, ones that have been passed down for generations. These places prove that what is great about Italian food is not its extravagance, but its simplicity and authenticity. The service was fast and attentive but not overbearing, and the food was delicious. The wine list was not extensive but for those who are not yet connoisseurs, definitely sufficient. If Italian doesn’t strike your fancy — being on the water, the North End is full of seafood establishments as well as a having mix of other cuisines. Koy is a nearby Korean fusion restaurant, Wagamama provides a refreshing take on Asian fusion and Kala Thai Cookery is within a few minutes’ walk as well. Whether with friends or someone special, the North End offers a beautiful environment and delicious food for a memorable night out.

Spencer Christiansen is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Spencer can be reached at spencer.christiansen@tufts. edu.

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Porter Square Books: A community centerpiece

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I often find myself at bookstores, and even more often I find myself at Porter Square Books (PSB). There are never seats available unless you’re really lucky because of all the people that frequent the store. When you first walk in, you start by looking at the fiction section, across from the bustling of Café Zing. After winding through the shelves and tables, next comes the nonfiction section, including subset genres like biographies, political nonfiction and traveling. I never make it past the nonfiction section until at least thirty minutes have passed. There are so many books that you cannot help but move slowly. There are also little knickknacks like socks and selfie-sticks — classics of bookstores nowadays — along with hilarious greeting cards. This community staple was founded in 2004 and has only changed ownership once, in 2013. In 2018 the owners decided to create a program where the management team can choose to buy into an employee ownership co-op. There are now 10 members of the management team that are all co-owners of PSB along with the original owners who are all at PSB full time. They come to decisions as a group and share the profits. Many bookstores are not owned by people who know books as intimately as the tenured employees of PSB do. Therefore, these stores are often mismanaged. The fact that PSB is owned by people who know the business so well is a true asset. PSB’s events manager Leila Meglio came back to the store after working as a publicist about a year ago. She grew up 10 minutes from the store, frequenting PSB as a teenager. When a job opening came up, Meglio jumped on it; she wanted to connect people to books instead

of publishing. She is now one of the co-owners of PSB as well. Meglio is the first new person to join the ownership group. “The idea is to really have ownership here … it’s not easy to work in a bookstore,” she said. “You have to do it because you love it not because you’re expecting to get rich doing it. And with the management co-op, it essentially acts like a 401K.” This model helps PSB to retain and foster employees that are completely invested in the store’s success and mission. Porter Square Books does more than simply sell books. It has multiple programs that bring the community into the space, whether it be the Porter Square Books Foundation, its civic program “Be the Change,” or the many free events that bring authors and speakers into the store. The store hosts between three and seven events a week at the store. Meglio’s job is not only to run these events and make sure they are reaching local audiences, but also to comb through publishers’ lists of authors that are traveling and having events in order to bring them to PSB to have a reading and book talk. She really looks for “authors they are really excited about, something that [she] knows about, or her co-worker loves.” A large portion of the events include local authors. “We definitely view ourselves as a community bookstore and we want to represent local people,” Meglio said. Therefore, PSB works hard to include authors and topics central to Cambridge and the Boston area. The co-owners want everyone who is interested to be able to come to these events so “85% of these events are free other than some larger, offsite events that you need a ticket for,” according to Meglio. Another part of PSB that connects the store with the community is the Porter

Square Books Foundation: a nonprofit that started in 2014 with a grant from James Patterson with the mission of fostering the love of books in children and families in the surrounding community. “The best way we know how to do that is to bring authors to schools,” Meglio said. The foundation will get an author to come present at a school and at every event it holds, “every child leaves with a book.” No child pays for the book and therefore PSB is able to remove barriers of access and connect children with books. The foundation has very little overhead which allows all of the money — mostly coming from donations and some fundraising — to go straight to purchasing books for children. In 2019 PSB gave roughly 1,500 books to children in the area. PSB also has an outgrowth called Be the Change, which is its civic program. It is committed to getting resources to people who want to make government and policy change. It has an event at least once a month that varies in topic but focuses on community action. Sometimes these events include a book or an author, but they always focus on a local organization. “The idea is the topic is something that the community can really interact with,” Meglio said. Be the Change brings concrete action items to audiences in order to facilitate action. The Be the Change event this month is a screening of the film “Suppressed: the Fight to Vote” (2019), which is about Stacy Abrams’s political run in Georgia and how policy and other factors affected voter turnout. Each Be the Change event also donates 20% of all the store sales during the two-hour event to a dedicated nonprofit. “That’s our way of putting attention to it and putting some money behind it as well,” Meglio said.“We are not

just a place that is to gather for our community, but we are really for our community. We see the bookstore as a place where you come, where you want to talk to your community and have these conversations.” Not only does PSB cultivate local civic conversation, but they also try to help promote local authors. In the publishing world today, it is very difficult to have a large publishing house print and promote your book. PSB has a consignment program where they will give shelf space to local, mostly self-published authors looking to have their books reach more people. There’s only so much shelf space, but the owners try to give as many local authors the opportunity to sell their books for no cost. They will put the book on their shelves for free and authors will earn the same percentage of money that PSB would normally pay to the publisher. Another offered opportunity is PSB’s writers-in-residency program. Every year the program takes applications for two writers-in-residency, one that writes for young adults and another that writes for adult audiences. After a long application process, they offer these two authors office space to work, access to the galleys, a discount at their store and the café and simply a voice within PSB. The point is to make resources that authors need more available to people within the community. PSB has an obvious and central mission to spread their love of reading and love for Cambridge, Somerville and surrounding towns. Bookstores like it are essential safe spaces for communities and create a special haven for growth in knowledge and conversation. They continue to represent all that independent businesses and bookstores specifically can be.

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Tufts alumnus Alex Hanno (LA’ 14) and Luca Malacrino, founders of production company The Chameleon Effect, are pictured. by Yas Salon

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This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. On Feb. 5, The Daily chatted with Tufts alum, former Daily arts editor and indie filmmaker Alex Hanno (LA’14), who made his feature film debut with his latest work, “Elephants” (2018). The sentimental drama centers around a former couple, consisting of professional Kate Caldwell (Allison Blaize) and wild, pleasure-focused Lee Riley (Luca Malacrino) who are reunited after Lee’s release from prison. The two quickly fall back into their old ways, to the dismay of Kate’s rigid, control-freak sister Sandra (Lauren Kelly). At first, the two are on top of the world with their love rekindled and stronger than ever. Eventually, it becomes clear that Sandra’s worries aren’t without validity — underneath the duo’s loving exterior is an inherent sense of toxicity. The film hinges on one fundamental question — can the two truly ever love each other without tearing each other apart, or is their relationship doomed to fail? Hanno described the genesis of the story as coming from a primarily pragmatic approach. “Part of it was that we were making an indie movie and we had to look at what we had,” Hanno said. “We were going to make a largely contained movie — I think about 70% of it takes place in one house — with a very limited cast. Those were the bare bones, the elements that we have. What could we make out of that?” Once Hanno and Malacrino, who served as a co-producer of the film, established the constraints of production, the creative process was able to begin. Hanno

cites the relatability of toxic love as the seed of this story. “[ When writing], we really looked at the kinds of movies that I love,” he said. “The vast majority of them — ‘500 Days of Summer’ (2009), ‘Before Sunset’ (2004), ‘Blue Valentine’ (2010) — all these movies deal with very intimate, complex relationships. And I haven’t gone to war, I haven’t experienced traumatic death, I haven’t experienced a lot of things that perhaps other people have, but the things that I’ve experienced are still very real. So it was really looking at ‘what have I experienced, can I create something that’s authentic, and on top of that, how can I create something that’s gonna relate with people, and people can emphasize with?’ Because the reality is, I think, 95% of people can empathize with characters that are in a relationship that is full of very intense love but a certain level of toxicity.” The cast, which was chosen for the feature before the script itself was written, also contributed heavily to the development of the characters during the film’s pre-production phase. “I interviewed all three of the actors and said ‘tell me about your experiences with love,’ and we tried to pull from their different experiences and really inject that into the story,” Hanno said, explaining that this process added “another layer of authenticity to their characters.” One of the film’s pivotal motifs, as suggested by the title, is elephants. One of Lee’s methods of wooing Kate is leaving fun facts about elephants pinned to her fridge, which he employs multiple times throughout the film. The animal also makes an appearance in an artwork that hangs above Kate’s bed. Initially, the animal had no significance in the

film, and the film was known as “Untitled Romance Feature” for the majority of preproduction. Upon examination of the film’s central themes in an attempt to find a title, Hanno found that elephants were a natural fit. “We were thinking ‘what is this movie really about?’, and part of it was the thing that people really aren’t talking about,” he said. “Three-fourths of the movie is about two characters whose biggest challenge is that they’re not actually saying what they want to say — They’re just trying to woo each other again. They’re afraid to talk about the things that are actually a problem in their relationship. So, a lot of the movie is about the metaphorical ‘elephant in the room.’ So we thought, ‘What if we did all elephant fun facts [on the fridge], and there were a lot of things that felt like they worked in that sense … Then we started inserting the elephant everywhere else.’” During this process, Hanno also found another idiom that fits with the movie’s thematic elements — “elephants never forget.” “Of course, one of the biggest things for us is that this film is also about memory and the idea of two characters remembering things very differently,” Hanno said. “For example, Lee looks at things and remembers exactly what happened and he doesn’t shy away from the bad parts of what happened. He, in a sense, embraces them, whereas Kate remembers things and really blocks that part out. So that piece came together, and it all made sense. This is all about elephants, metaphorically, and it just fit. It just felt right.” With the momentum of “Elephants” (which has garnered an impressive 80% on Rotten Tomatoes), Malacrino and

Hanno — who formed their own production company, The Chameleon Effect — are charging ahead with two more features slated for production in the coming years. The duo, according to Hanno, is planning on producing a politically-charged thriller. While the topic veers far from the romance-drama of “Elephants,” Hanno described it as a film working on the same level as “Elephants,” with production also taking place in Los Angeles with a small cast and single location. At its core, it maintains the same “character-based story” as “Elephants”. “It deals with a lot of things that we are afraid of as a country right now and tackles that head-on and examines why we’re afraid of it, and whether or not we should be afraid of it. So it’s political, through and through,” remarked Hanno. However, The Chameleon Effect’s third feature will be a dramatic shift from their first two films, in both production and content. “It’s been in gestation for a while. It’s called ‘A Sanctuary for Water Voles.’ Luca is Welsh, and after ‘Elephants’ he said that he really wanted to make a movie on home soil,” Hanno said. He described the script, which has already been finished and is in the process of getting produced, as a way of capturing what it means to be Welsh. Finally, Hanno, being a Tufts alum, didn’t shy away from controversy and answered a question that everyone on this campus is dying to know: Dewick or Carmichael? “Carmichael,” Hanno proclaimed. You heard it here first, folks. “Elephants” is available to stream on Amazon Prime and is free with a Prime membership.

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Award-winning actress and singer Sutton Foster performs at Granoff Music Center on Feb. 8. by Megan Szostak Assistant Arts Editor

Triple-threat actress Sutton Foster gave a spirited and captivating performance in the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center on Feb. 8. Even though the concert was not heavily publicized, Foster still drew in a large and enthusiastic audience with her reputation as a Broadway powerhouse. Known for her Tony Award-winning leading roles on Broadway as Millie Dillmount in “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (2002), Reno Sweeney in “Anything Goes” (2011) and her origination of the role of Fiona in “Shrek the Musical” (2008), Foster also stars on TV Land’s comedy-drama “Younger” (2015) where she plays the role of Liza Miller, the show’s protagonist. According to Foster, she only films “Younger” for four months out of the year, leaving her a lot of time to pursue her singing career and go on concert tours. The concert was opened by a short set of speeches by Department of Music Chair Richard Jankowsky and University President Anthony Monaco, both of whom were in attendance that evening. University benefactors Perry and Marty Granoff were graciously recognized by Jankowsky and Monaco for their contributions to the

Department of Music and for making Foster’s concert possible. Foster sang works and arrangements of a variety of styles, ranging from rock to jazz to classic show-tunes. While many of the works performed were reminiscent of Foster’s time on Broadway, Foster also gave live performances of several songs from her three solo albums, many of which revolved around the theme of compassionate or unrequited love. The concert was fast-paced, with over 20 numbers performed in total. Even so, Foster was able to adopt distinct characters even before the first note was struck on the piano; rarely does one see a performer who puts their whole being into their art in the way Foster does. This versatility of Foster’s voice lent itself to both intimate and performative connections with the audience, swinging from love songs tenderly sung against the piano and under the soft lights to the belted melismatic solo passages of a prima donna in the crowd-pleasers part of the program. Her distinctive voice warmly and purely pierced through the air and was complemented by her thoughtful musicality and lyric acting; she truly sang to the hall and let her voice jostle every inch of air and fill every member of the audience.

Foster was not the sole musician on stage that evening. The Tufts Chamber Singers joined Foster in a chillingly beautiful rendition of the traditional gospel song “I’m On My Way,” featuring Foster and several members of the Chamber Singers as soloists. Broadway actress Megan McGinnis, Foster’s stage-sister in the Broadway production of “Little Women” (2005), performed two duets with Foster. Foster and McGinnis, self-proclaimed “best friends” as expressed by Foster onstage, gave a heartfelt performance of “Flight” from Sutton’s album “Wish” (2009), where their voices were blended in warmth and emotion. The performance was anchored by Michael Rafter’s piano accompaniment. Rafter, who has worked with Foster for years and acts as her music director, was responsible for the arrangements and song medleys performed in her concert. Foster was applauded back to the stage in a well-deserved standing ovation for an encore performance of her opening song: a rollicking rendition of “A Cockeyed Optimist” from Logan and Hammerstein II’s hit musical, “South Pacific” (1949). Her stage presence and general demeanor made evident that she loves what she does.

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his week, we’re going back to the 1960s with “Dreamgirls” (2006). In short, it is the story of a trio (based on The Supremes) and the pushy music producer who takes them under his wing and the relationships they all form. The number of formerly and currently famous people in this movie is off the charts. Not only do we have Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson and Beyoncé, but we also see John Krasinski, John Lithgow and Danny Glover. Allie Morgenstern (AM): Anna and I both really wanted to watch without even discussing with each other first. We are in sync, clearly. I used to watch this movie regularly with my mom, although I’m starting to realize how much went over my head as a child. Anna Hirshman (AH): Yes, definitely. This is one of those movies for which my perspective on it has changed a lot as I’ve gotten older. I used to just think it was fun and great music, but now I have a better understanding of the racial and misogynistic undertones throughout the stories. AM: I remember my mom used to cover my eyes when Eddie Murphy’s character was about to do drugs, and I also always used to get so embarrassed when his character would go crazy and strip on stage. It seems like the theme of this column is my second-hand embarrassment. AH: I do take some issues with parts of the film. Everyone needs to stop speaking in the third person and saying “baby” at the end of every sentence. I just do not buy that’s how people spoke in the 1960s and 70s. Also, the costumes. They wear orange on multiple occasions. Orange is not their color. Orange is not anyone’s color. And the name of the group keeps changing. What happened to consistency to maintain brand loyalty? Despite all that, the music is unreal in this movie. Every song is something you can either dance ferociously to or cry to. The two versions of “One Night Only” exemplify this phenomenon. AM: This is one of the musicals that I knew all the words to and forced my mom to listen to in the car. But now, I think I’ve come to fully appreciate the pure greatness of Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson. Let’s all take a moment of silence for Hudson’s incredible talent in “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going.” Pure Oscar gold right there. AH: Her acting is incredible, too. I respect that Effie (played by Hudson) knows her worth throughout the entire movie. She doesn’t always have the best attitude, but she knows she’s the most talented person to ever walk the planet. But after “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going,” I am just waiting for “Listen.” It is my favorite Beyoncé song and it is not even a Beyoncé song. AM: We also talked about loving that the story ends with sibling love bringing everyone together instead of romantic love. They really are a family. AH: You informed me at the beginning of the movie that you would cry at the end, and you did not disappoint. I appreciate your self-awareness. AM: *Cries* It’s just so. Happy. Effie’s daughter is so proud of her mom, and all the Dreams are back together, and they’re in beautiful mermaid dresses, and it’s all just so good. Allie Morgenstern is senior studying child study and human development. Allie can be reached at allison.morgenstern@tufts. edu. Anna Hirschman is a senior studying psychology. Anna can be reached at anna. hirschman@tufts.edu.

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Health Services must expand hours to meet student demand Health Service is an essential resource for our campus, providing care for students in their most vulnerable moments, whether it be a sudden flu infliction before midterms, a trip to pick up Plan B or a busted knee from walking down the Memorial Steps with too much vigor. Health Service doesn’t just aid in the treatment of the sick and injured, but also helps students with sexual health and provides administrative support; the staff provides an invaluable service during the rocky transition from teenage life to adulthood. Michelle Bowdler, executive director of health and wellness services, told the Daily that the clinic tries its best to meet student demand by evaluating at what times students most frequently visit Health Service. “We try to be really nimble, and we try to pay good attention to heavy volume periods and the kind of staffing we need and to be as mindful as we can,” Bowdler said. We acknowledge this positive intention; however, Health Service’s current hours fail to respond to student demand, for it is only open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. Not only does the current system close the door on students with busy schedules and leave the student body to fend for itself on weekends, but it also doesn’t allow room for adjustment during the hours it is open. To amend these issues and appropriately respond to student demand, Health Service must expand hours during both weekdays and weekends. Health Service’s weekday hours prove insufficient, for they largely coincide with classes, work and extracurricular demands, preventing students from accessing treatment without flaking on their commitments. Students should not have to choose between health and fully engaging with a meaningful college experience including work, courses and clubs. Additionally, if a student has a full day and cannot attend Health Service to get an exemption note, they will have to suffer through another day of classes instead of resting, which can extend illness and further harm their ability to maintain a normal school and social schedule. Even if some students can find the time within their busy schedules, expanding hours would give them some much-needed breathing room. In order to address these issues and prioritize balance, health and sanity within students’ schedules, Health Service must remain open for at least an extra hour each weekday. Health Service fails to respond to student demand during the weekends as well; it is only open for a limited time on Saturday and is closed on Sundays. Due to this lack of

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BY CARYS KONG weekend accessibility, students sick during the weekend must either make a taxing off-campus trip to urgent care or feel sick without any hope of treatment until the week begins. Junior Anjali Goyal unfortunately experienced this firsthand. After coming down with a stomach illness during a weekend last year, she was unable to visit Health Service for more than a day. She explained that the lack of immediate treatment not only failed to ease her discomfort, but also put others at risk. “If [Health Service] wants to make the campus healthier, then having more hours available for students who are sick prevents contagion,” Goyal said. Those who fall sick during the weekend also cannot easily get excused from class the following Monday, which can lead to longer illness and a poorer performance in classes. Health Service would fully address these issues of spreading illness and lack of weekend treatment by implementing a relatively simple solution: opening for a few hours on Sundays, perhaps from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Health Service’s limited schedule also affects wait-times and business, further highlighting the necessity of expanding hours. Multiple students reported that

Health Service is often extremely crowded, failing to accommodate the medical needs of an entire campus. First-year Rachel Orr discussed her difficulty with making an appointment for her pink eye due to how busy Health Service was. “I asked them if they had any time available, and they said they wouldn’t have any availability for two-and-a-half weeks. And by that point it wouldn’t have even been of any use,” Orr said. First-year Annie Brennan faced a similar situation when she came to Health Service with a 103-degree fever, explaining that she had been turned away during the Flu Shot Clinic. Expanding both weekday and weekend hours would address the busyness of Health Service by allowing students to visit the clinic at more times and therefore reducing the volume of demand during its current hours. By extending hours, Health Service ensures that the whole community can access medical care with proper timeliness and while accommodating their schedules. Health should never be sacrificed, and Tufts Health Service is no exception. This extension in hours is vital to support the student body in the most fundamental way possible.

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hen Kobe Bryant passed away on Jan. 26, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter accident, it seemed as if the whole world was mourning. In the hours, days and even weeks following his death, social media platforms were flooded with posts paying tribute — painting an almost-godlike portrait of a man who was not only an NBA legend and tech mogul, but who was also humble, charitable and a family man above all. But there was a flip side to his legacy: in 2003, a 19-year-old woman accused Bryant of rape. Despite a seemingly strong case from the prosecution, the charges against Bryant were eventually dropped, but not before he admitted that he had not explicitly asked for consent and that while he thought the encounter had been consensual, he understood that she felt differently. While the lionisation of Bryant in the media since his death has undoubetdly been a source of great comfort for his legion of mourning fans, it also represents a gross disregard for the experiences of survivors of sexual assault for whom he represents not only a basketball hero, but also a reminder of the trauma they have endured. To discuss this side of him, it seems, is nothing short of mortal sin. Shortly after Bryant’s death, Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez came under fire following a tweet she posted that included a link to a 2016 article about the alleged rape. Bryant’s case is admittedly a complex one — with what was essentially a confession but without a conviction, he straddles the line between “rapist” and “alleged rapist.” And 17 years ago, at the height of the controversy, the conversation was not about the specifics of what actually happened — rather, it was about the deep-rooted “To Kill a Mockingbird”-esque trope of white women accusing black men of sexual violence and the broader issue of the overpolicing of black men. Now, Sonmez’s comments and the emerging discussion about the rape charges have reignited the same conversation, but in the age of #MeToo, it is further complicated by the movement to believe women, especially those who accuse rich and powerful men. I don’t attempt to deny the monumental consequences that come with the perpetuation of the stereotype of black men as sexual predators, nor do I assert that Bryant’s fame and success negate his experience as a black man in the U.S. But Bryant’s case is far more reminiscent of Bill Cosby’s than Emmett Till’s — for Bryant, the violation of a young woman and desecration of her reputation was summed up as a case of bad optics from which he emerged virtually unscathed. And in a society that deifies male professional athletes and in which accusers of rape are put on trial more than those they’ve accused, it is vital that we remember our befallen heroes in their totality and refuse to allow a shining athletic legacy to invalidate the heinous crime that is sexual assault. Riya Matta is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Riya can be reached at riya.matta@tufts.edu.

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Women’s squash finishes 6th at NESCAC Championship

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Tufts first-year, Abhilasha Bhasin, returns the ball during a match against Conn. College at the Tufts Squash Center on Feb. 1. by Delaney Tantillo Sports Editor

The women’s squash team claimed sixth place in the NESCAC tournament this weekend, finishing 2–2 in its four matches over the course of the threeday event. Along with the eleven other NESCAC teams, the Jumbos traveled to Middletown, Conn. on Friday for the tournament hosted by Wesleyan. Tufts, the sixth seed, had a strong firstround match on Friday afternoon, defeating 11th-seeded Colby 8–1. The Jumbos’ depth was on display in this match, with several dominant wins coming from the bottom half of the ladder. Playing in the sixth position for Tufts, junior Rachel Windreich gave up just six points in her 11–3, 11–0, 11–3 win against Colby junior D’Arcy Carlson. Junior Chloe Kantor played a resilient match in the fifth spot for Tufts. After falling 7–11 to Colby junior Madeline Latimore in the first game, Kantor fought back to win the next three games 11–7, 13–11, 11–1, ultimately defeating Latimore in four games. Following Friday’s impressive start, Tufts faced No. 3 Amherst on Saturday in the quarterfinal round. The team used momentum from their win against Colby heading into their Amherst match. “We were super energetic going in,” sophomore Natalie Bartlett said about the Amherst match. “We had just won our Colby match, so spirits were high.” Despite many hard-fought individual matches, Tufts fell 7–2 to Amherst. Senior co-captain Claire Davidson and sophomore Diya Sanghi claimed individual wins over their opponents, playing in the first and fifth spots respectively for Tufts. Davidson defeated Amherst first-year Daksha Pathak in a close four-game match. Davidson claimed the first two games 11–4 and 11–8 to take a commanding 2–0 lead heading into the third game. After falling

4–11 to Pathak in the third game, Davidson edged her opponent 11–9 in the fifth game to win the match. The two had faced off just two weeks prior in a Jan. 31 match at Amherst. Sanghi claimed an impressive 11–5, 11–6, 11–8 win against Amherst junior Riddhi Sampat to record the second individual win for the Jumbos against the Mammoths. Sanghi also faced the same Amherst opponent on Jan. 31, losing to Sampat in five games, so Saturday’s match proved to be an exciting rematch. Following their Amherst match, Tufts defeated seventh seed Wesleyan 8–1 on Saturday afternoon in a consolation match. The depth of the Jumbos’ ladder was on display again, with strong individual wins coming from both the top and bottom. Windreich had another impressive win as she defeated Wesleyan senior Sofia Melian-Morse 11–4, 11–4, 11–2 in the seventh position. Bartlett explained that confidence coming off of the close Amherst match helped the team overcome fatigue to defeat Wesleyan. “I think we were all tired, but knew that we were the better team because of how well we played against Amherst,” Bartlett said. “We used that confidence to reassure ourselves that we have become a better team throughout the season and it really showed in our match.” On Sunday, Tufts played their fourth and final match of the tournament against fourth seed Bates. In the fifth-place match, the Jumbos were bested by the Bobcats 6–3, giving them a sixth place finish in the tournament. Playing in the third position, senior co-captain Catherine Shanahan bested Bates junior Katherine Manternach in four games. Leading 2–1 heading into the fourth game, Shanahan edged Manternach 11–9 to claim the match.

Sophomore Megan Chen played a resilient match in the fourth position as she defeated Bates junior Maeve O’Brien. Chen and O’Brien split the first two games leaving the score at 1–1. Chen decisively claimed the third and fourth games, 11–3, 11–5 to win the match. In the seventh spot, Windreich also needed just four games to defeat her opponent, Bates first-year Victoria Haghighi. After dropping the first game 14–12, Windreich fought back, winning three games in a row to beat Haghighi. This was the third consecutive year that Tufts has faced Bates in the NESCAC tournament fifth-place match. In 2018, the Bobcats edged the Jumbos 6–3, while in 2019, the Jumbos won 5–4. “Bates is our number one rival, basically, because we always have really close matches with them,” Shanahan said. “We are right there with them. We just need to use the next weeks to really train and make sure we are on top of our game for when we probably are going to play them at Nationals.” Tufts will host Brown University on Tuesday for their final home match of the season. Then, on Feb. 21, the team will travel to New Haven, Conn. for the CSA Team Championship tournament, hosted by Yale University. “I think we’ll have a lot of second chances to beat teams that we were close with earlier in the season,” Bartlett said. Shanahan expressed excitement over the prospect of facing close NESCAC opponents again in the CSA Team Championship tournament. “I hope we get to play both [Amherst and Bates],” Shanahan said of the upcoming tournament. “It’s really good energy to be able to play our rivals and schools we have super close matches with. It makes us push ourselves a lot more than if we are playing people who are a lot better or worse than us. It’s nice to have that competition.”

ith most English Premier League teams on a winter break, Romelu Lukaku and his Inter Milan club stole the headlines in the soccer world this weekend after beating cross-town rivals A.C. Milan 4–2 in the Milan derby. The comeback victory put Inter atop the Italian Series A over Juventus, the winners of the last eight league crowns. Lukaku, alongside ex-Manchester United teammates Ashley Young and Alexis Sánchez, has sparked a revival in Italy, prompting many people to question United’s decision to let him go. But while Lukaku and Sánchez could have helped the team this season, the decision to let them go reflected forward-minded thinking as United looked to bring in players that fit manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s long-term mission. After inheriting an aging squad from José Mourinho last season, Solskjær embarked on a multi-year rebuild program. The first step was to get rid of all the dead-wood around at the club — the older players with lucrative contracts who were not producing much for the club. In jettisoning the likes of Chris Smalling, Marcos Rojo and Sánchez himself, Solskjær managed to greatly reduce the club’s wage bill without losing much impact on the pitch. The second step was to sign talented young players with solid long-term prospects. This summer, United broke the world-record fee for a defender by acquiring Harry Maguire from Leicester, before further fortifying the defense by signing Aaron-Wan Bissaka from Crystal Palace. While the price tag may have been high for both, Maguire and Wan-Bissaka have immediately helped United’s defense and are figured to be starters in the backline for years to come. The newest signee, Bruno Fernandes – who arrived from Sporting Lisbon in the January window – also impressed on his debut and seems to possess the necessary drive and skill to succeed in the Premier League. In two windows, Solskjær has already made three big additions with players containing long-term potential, and, while there is still work to do in terms of results, it is an encouraging sign for a United team that is often criticized for their maneuvers in the transfer market. One of the big reasons why United has fallen behind both Manchester City and Liverpool in recent years has been due to their inability to find success with their signings. City spent big money on players like Aymeric Laporte and Bernardo Silva, while Liverpool splashed on Virgil van Dijk, Roberto Firmino, Mohamed Salah, as well as others, but the big bucks paid off. Despite being relatively unheralded upon their arrival, Salah and Firmino now lead arguably the world’s most deadly front triumvirate, while Laporte and van Dijk have staked their claim as the top two defenders in the world. United, on the other hand, spent vast sums on underwhelming players like Eric Bailly, which hindered the development of the team in the long run. United’s big budget gives them the liberty to spend liberally in the transfer market, but after wasting much of that money on failed signings, they are finally starting to put the pieces in place for a rebuild. The worst thing they can do now is change course again for short-term results.

Arjun Balaraman is a junior majoring in quantitative economics. Arjun can be reached at arjun.balaraman@tufts.edu.

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Tufts junior Brendan Ryan brings the puck forward in the ice hockey home game at Valley Forum against Wesleyan on Jan. 20, 2018. by Jake Freudberg

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The hockey team went 3–2–1 in its previous six games, getting back on track after a 4–10 start that included a five-game losing streak to start the season. This weekend, the Jumbos faced off against the Conn. College Camels in a Friday-Saturday doubleheader. In Saturday’s matchup in New London, Conn., the Jumbos fell 5–1, the fourth time this season they have given up five goals in a game. The Camels scored four goals — two on power plays — in the second period on sophomore goalkeeper Josh Sarlo. Meanwhile, the Jumbos were held scoreless until 12 minutes into the third period when junior forward Peter Hatton found the back of a net on a power play. On Friday, the Jumbos hosted the Camels at Valley Forum in Malden, Mass. The Camels got on the board within two minutes of the first period, but the Jumbos erased the deficit with goals from junior forward Mason Babbidge and senior defenseman Cory Gottfried. The Camels tied it up before the end of the period, but a goal from sophomore forward Justin Brandt in the second period gave

the Jumbos the 3–2 lead that they held onto for the rest of the game. The game was also Team IMPACT night. Team IMPACT is a non-profit that pairs children facing life-threatening and chronic illnesses with collegiate athletics teams. “It’s always fun playing in front of the Team IMPACT kids and players,” Gottfried said. “We love playing around [our Team IMPACT teammate]. We wish he actually came around more because I think we’ve won every game he’s been at.” Coach Pat Norton explained that the inconsistencies between the two Conn. College games are part of an overall trend this season. “We’re trying to discover what’s going to help us play a little bit more consistently,” Norton said. “We haven’t been able to find that recipe of late. But when we play well, we’re very good. When we don’t play well, we tend to battle a little bit.” The weekend before, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, Tufts traveled to take on Middlebury and now-No. 12 ranked Williams. The Jumbos lost to the Ephs in Saturday’s matchup for the second time this season, this time by a score of 5–3. The Jumbos made a last-minute comeback at

the end of third period with goals from senior forward and assistant captain Ross Delabruere and senior forward and assistant captain Anthony Farinacci to bring the score to 4–3. But the Ephs held on, scoring on an empty net with 19 seconds left to seal the victory. “I think it’s really good to see the fight our team has and that everyone is willing to play all the way through,” Gottfried said. The game against Middlebury also went down to the wire, as two third-period goals for the Jumbos from senior defenseman and captain Cooper Stahl and sophomore forward Cal LeClair tied the score 2–2, sending the game to overtime. Neither the Jumbos nor the Panthers could convert in the five-minute period. “We came into Middlebury with too much confidence, and we should’ve focused on doing our job,” Gottfried said. “However, against Middlebury we were down 2–0, so it was great to see our team come back and fight to get that point at the end of the day.” The previous weekend was much more successful, as Tufts defeated Wesleyan 4–2 on Jan. 24 and Trinity on Jan. 25, both at home. Against the Trinity Bantams — who now rank No. 7 in Div. III — the

Jumbos had goals scored by Babbdige, Farinacci, Hatton and sophomore forward Angus Scott. The night before, against the Cardinals, the highlight of the night was undoubtedly LeClair’s hat trick. As it stands now, the Jumbos are tied for eighth place in the NESCAC, with a 5–8–1 conference record. To qualify for the NESCAC Championship tournament, the Jumbos need to get at least the No. 8 seed. “We can’t worry about what position we’re in,” Norton said. “It’s incredibly tight; it’s incredibly close. Everybody behind us has games that they can win or lose… If we take care of our own business, we play well, we play good hockey and we compete at the level that I know we are capable of competing at, then we will be fine, and we’ll be in the playoffs. If we don’t, then it’s going to be a battle playing in the last game trying to figure out how to get it done.” With four more games remaining on the regular season schedule, the Jumbos’ fate is not sealed yet. This weekend, the team hits the road to take on Hamilton and Amherst; the following weekend, the team hosts Colby and Bowdoin.

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