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Former Dean of Tufts School of Medicine John T. Harrington dies

by Emily Burke News Editor

John T. Harrington, dean emeritus of the Tufts University School of Medicine, passed away on Oct. 31.

According to a Tufts Now article, Harrington completed his residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before receiving training in nephrology at the Tufts-New England Medical Center (NEMC), and eventually joining the nephrology division. From 1981 to 1986, Harrington served as the chief of general medicine of Tufts-NEMC, the precursor to Tufts Medical Center, and later became chief of medicine at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Harrington was dean of the Tufts School of Medicine from 1995 to 2002. Harrington also served on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, the article noted.

University Professor Emeritus and Former Provost Sol Gittleman discussed Harrington’s legacy as a doctor, administrator, teacher and friend.

“He was just one of the most delightful people ever you could work with. In higher education none of us is trained to have what they call emotional intelligence, how to get along with people,” Gittleman said. “John had it intuitively.”

Gittleman emphasized Harrington’s ability to lead by getting along with everyone he worked with.

“He was just a charming, delightful, easy-going and yet very effective leader,” Gittleman said.

Gittleman praised Harrington’s record of achievement and his key role in the establishment of the Jaharis Family Center for Biomedical and Nutrition Sciences, which functions as a

research space for the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.

“I think his biggest accomplishment at the medical school was the big building of the research building called the Jaharis Family Center,” Dean of the School of Medicine Harris Berman said. “That really elevated the facilities for doing world-class research from warehouses we’ve used over the years to a building built just to do this.”

Nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at the Tufts School of Medicine Andrew Levey worked personally with Harrington from the time Levey arrived at Tufts in 1979 until Harrington retired.

“After he left from being dean, he came back to Tufts Medical Center and had a position in the Department of Medicine and then a position in the Division of Nephrology,” Levey said.

Berman elaborated on Harrington’s wide range of experience and numerous contributions to the field of nephrology.

“He was probably best known for his work as a nephrologist, and he was part of a group of kidney doctors here at Tufts Medical Center who really were internationally known for the discoveries they made and advancing the treatment of renal disease,” Berman said.

Gittleman explained that during Harrington’s time as dean, the healthcare field in the Boston area was undergoing a period of transition.

Gittleman said that Harrington navigated these changes smoothly by facilitating cooperation between the medical school and the hospitals.

“John was able to deal with the hospital leadership which was in a crisis of its own, and make things happen and work together. It was a very very difficult and important transition time for the future of the medical school,” Gittleman

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John T. Harrington at the Tufts School of Medicine in 1996. Harrington, who was an acclaimed doctor and educator during his career at Tufts, passed away on Oct. 31. said. “We had the right man at the right time.”

Levey said that Harrington prioritized patient care throughout his entire career and that he learned valuable skills from the way Harrington conducted himself as a clinician.

“He was a wonderful teacher,” Levey said.

“He had a reputation for excellence in patient care and teaching generations of trainees in medicine and nephrology how to take care of patients with kidney disease.”

Moreover, Levy explained that he had a knack for explaining complicated subjects in a clear and approachable manner.

“He gave quick and clear answers and treated everybody completely fairly,” Levey said. “I got to see him move up in positions throughout the school and throughout the hospital.

He never changed … He didn’t become more stuffy or highfalutin or difficult to approach.”

Gittleman also spoke about Harrington’s sincere commitment to his patients.

“He was the doctor that other doctors went to … He always took on any patients. He never said no,” Gittleman said. “He was a terrific clinician, a terrific diagnostic doctor … he had a bedsee HARRINGTON , page 2

TCU Senate proposes Korean classes

by Daniel Weinstein Staff Writer

A new Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate initiative hopes to introduce Korean language classes at Tufts, a proposal led by First Generation Community Senator and Korean Students Association (KSA) member Isaac Kim. Kim, a sophomore, was inspired to pursue a Korean language class pilot program so students would be able to take a language not currently offered at Tufts. He recalls coming to Tufts excited to learn Korean and engage with his Korean background but not being able to.

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language, which I didn’t have the opportunity to do as a child,” Kim said.

Kim believes that there is reason for students to be interested in Korean language classes.

“Students here are interested in learning Korean as it is a very practical skill to have. Many people speak it at Tufts and at home,” Kim said.

Kim is working on the project with Philip Miller, TCU Senate Education Committee chair. Miller, a sophomore, said that with the growing economic prosperity of South Korea and heightened tension with North Korea, having a Korean class option is a necessity.

“It’s crazy that Tufts, a school with a large focus on languages and international relations, doesn’t yet offer Korean classes,” he said.

Kim and Miller say they hope to have a Korean class option available by fall 2018.

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Miller told the Daily that it would likely be run through the Experimental College (ExCollege).

“New classes usually start through the ExCollege,” Miller said. “TCU Senate Education Committee projects help set up these ideas and then these projects go through the ExCollege.”

According to a 2007 Daily article, TCU Senate tried to offer Korean classes through the ExCollege 10 years ago.

ExCollege Director Howard Woolf and Assistant Director Amy Goldstein have both expressed support for the introduction of Korean courses at the college. The ExCollege is an ideal platform for bringing new language programs to Tufts, according to Woolf. He cited the success of past efforts.

“The ExCollege has been an incubator for a number of languages offered at Tufts, such as Hebrew,” he said. “Some languages have gone on to became

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majors and minors in other departments such as the International Literary and Cultural Studies Department.”

Woolf said that the job of the ExCollege is to respond to student needs and ideas.

“The ExCollege has always been an empty vessel, meaning we’re filled up with what’s going on in student culture,” he said. “We don’t a have a particular agenda nor do we go looking for particular courses. We’re responding to what happens out there in student culture and in larger culture.”

Goldstein said that a Korean language class would follow the model set by past ExCollege language programs, including current Hindi-Urdu classes.

“The initial idea is to have a Korean language offered similarly to how we started

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Out of the hospital setting, Gittleman described Harrington as a family man with strong ties to Boston.

“He loved Ireland, the Red Sox and his family. Family always came first. That’s who he was,” Gittleman said.

Gittleman added that Harrington’s humanity and the personal investment he had in his work and in his patients set him apart and enabled him to succeed.

Levey echoed this point and explained that Harrington always treated people with a smile and a sense of humor, and had great respect for his colleagues. Above all, Harrington was

defined by his dedication and loyalty to his family and friends.

“This really shines through if you speak with anyone. His devotion to his wife and his kids, [who] were really the pride of his life,” Levey said. “So in all respects he was just a remarkable person and a treasure for me to have spent so many years with.”

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continued from page 1 the Hindi class [this] year,” Goldstein said.

Woolf and Goldstein mentioned that in order for the Korean program to work, Kim and Miller must demonstrate that there is ample student interest.

Kim posted a survey to the Tufts University Class of 2020 Facebook page on Oct. 25. Miller says that the survey was very well received and that it suggested that many students are interested in taking Korean.

“We received over 120 responses on the survey, 100 of which said they were very willing to take the class,” Miller said.

“We realize there may be survey bias, but many filled out the survey and put their contact info in the class pages and 70 to 80 people want updates on the program.”

But the initiative has a long way to go before it can take off. Kim and Miller said they still need to determine who would teach the Korean class and are currently exploring options.

“There’s quite a bit of interest from Korean speakers on campus that could potentially be teachers,” Kim said. “But it could be taught by professor or student, pass/fail or graded — it’s all up in the air.”

Still, Kim and Miller said they have high hopes for the program going forward. Over time, Kim said that he hopes

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Isaac Kim, the first generation community senator who leads an effort to bring Korean class at Tufts, is pictured here in Tisch Library on Nov. 8. the program might evolve into a permanent facet of Tufts’ language landscape.

“My long-term goal is for Tufts to offer Korean majors and minors, and as a larger note be a more welcoming place for Koreans to come,” Kim said.

But for now, Kim is excited about the possibility of getting a Korean language program started.

“I probably will be the first one signing up for the class when it comes out,” Kim said.

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Last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution pressuring the university to provide more gender-neutral bathrooms and heard supplementary funding requests.

TCU Vice President Anna Del Castillo opened the meeting in place of TCU President Benya Kraus, who was absent last night. Del Castillo, a senior, opened the floor for TCU Parliamentarian Adam Rapfogel to introduce discussion of the resolution.

The resolution calls for the university to “build single-stalled, all gender inclusive restrooms in public instructional and student resource buildings, with urgent attention directed to the Campus Center, Dewick MacPhie, and Carmichael Dining Hall,” noting there are not gender neutral bathrooms in these high-traffic locations.

In explaining the need for more gender-neutral bathrooms, the resolution notes that Tufts’ non-discrimination policy covers transgender identity, cited that Tufts is rated one of the top schools for LGBTQ students, and referred a study which found transgender individuals have experienced negative health effects as a result of avoiding public restrooms. The resolution explains that out of 554 restrooms on campus, 350 are single-stall, and 58 of these single-stall restrooms have signage that assumes a single gender or gender binary.

The resolution also says that “gender-inclusive restrooms have benefits for a wide

range of people, including trans identifying individuals, caregivers of children who are a different gender from them, and individuals with disabilities who have personal attendants who are different gender from them.”

Rapfogel, a junior, introduced the resolution and reviewed the resolution process for senators in attendance. TCU Historian and junior Jacqueline Chen read the text of the resolution. Following a brief discussion on non-substantive changes and grammar of the text, the body entered the debate phase, but quickly passed the resolution by acclamation after a brief discussion.

Next, committee chairs took the floor to give updates. Administration & Policy Committee Chair Jamie Neikrie, a senior, said that his committee is working to host a town hall on tuition and budget transparency, featuring university administrators. Neikrie told the body that the town hall will likely be a 90-minute-long event, in which 60 minutes will be dedicated to open discussion between students and the university administrators.

Education Committee Chair Phil Miller, a sophomore, shared the changes that will take place in a new credit-hour system that the university will adopt, starting next fall.

According to Miller, the current credit system will translate into a credit-hour system, in which classes will count for between two and five credit hours. In the new system, students in the School of Arts and Sciences will need 120 credit hours to graduate.

While departments had the option to petition for some classes to count for more than the standard three credit hours, the

English Department was the only one that did not petition to have its classes count for more credit hours, according to Miller.

There were no notable updates from Services Committee or Outreach Committee.

Next, TCU Treasurer Emily Sim took the floor to introduce supplementary funding requests.

The body voted to match the initial recommendations of the Allocations Board (ALBO) for the following groups: $200 in funding to the Tufts Primary Care Progress for a dinner event connecting Tufts medical students with undergraduate students, $600 in funding to the Tufts Observer for a speaker event and $1,400 in funding to Tufts sQ! for its tour in Chicago in January 2018.

Meanwhile, Miller, on behalf of TCU Textbook Exchange, requested $3,122 in funding for its budget, and ALBO recommended to provide $2,672. Several senators debated the request on the grounds that the funding would partially go toward paying student helpers assisting with the program, yet the Textbook Exchange has not yet asked for volunteers from within the Senate. After a roughly 20-minute-long debate period, the body voted to match ALBO’s initial recommendation to provide $2,672 in funding, with 17 in favor and eight opposed.

Lastly, Del Castillo told the Daily that the special election to fill the vacancies in Class of 2018 Senators and LGBTQ+ Community Senator has been postponed to next semester, due to scheduling issues, and also to give those who are returning to campus next semester an opportunity to run.

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Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, is pictured. This summer, the North Korean regime claimed to have launched a successful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, leading intelligence officials to project for a North Korean ICBMs with nuclear capability by 2018.

Tufts students, professors discuss North Korea nuclear situation

by Jessie Newman Features Editor

This summer, the North Korean regime claimed to have launched a successful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, leading intelligence officials to project for a North Korean ICBMs with nuclear capability by 2018, according to a July 27 CBS article. This information has been circulating for the past couple of months, escalating both regional and global fears. Countries and individuals vary in their perception of this conflict, but a common trend holds true: the future cannot be predicted.

Senior Jack Dunkelman, president of Sino-US Relations Group Engagement (SURGE), captured this sentiment well.

“No one really has answers, [although] there are so many different people in the academic field and in literature who have tried to provide answers,” Dunkelman said.

Dunkelman commented that, if the U.S. government were to act in response to North Korean nuclear development, such action would have to happen soon due to the 2018 projection.

Michael Beckley, an associate political science professor at Tufts who specializes in East Asia and China, commented that if the current administration were going to launch a preemptive strike, it would have to be done in the next couple of months. He added that, though a preemptive strike by North Korea on the U.S. government is improbable, the United States will like-

ly prevent North Korea from continuing with its nuclear development. He finds it difficult to predict how President Donald Trump will accomplish this.

“I have no idea how to predict what Trump is going to do,” Beckley said. “You can look at [past] examples where he came in hostile to China and caved on a lot of issues. He has a record of talking tough and then negotiating to a more reasonable outcome.”

Beckley said that American politicians’ criticisms of the North Korean government were moral in nature.

“To them, it is not only a strategic and security issue but also a moral one,” Beckley said. “In their eyes, North Korea does not have the moral right to threaten the lives of Americans citizens.”

While this fear of North Korea is common within the United States, a similar fear of the United States rings true in North Korea as well, according to junior Edwin Jain and sophomore Henrik Tiemroth. Jain, a member of Tufts Left Unity Project, commented on the fear that the United States instills in other countries.

“To everyone else in the world, the United States is the biggest threat to world peace. They are the only one to have used their nuclear capability,” Jain said.

Tiemroth, treasurer of the Tufts Republicans, agreed that the United States poses a threat. “[The North Korean regime] has been convinced for decades that a United States invasion is imminent, which is reflected in the things they say and the

propaganda that they continue to circulate,” Tiemroth said. “North Korean actions reflect this fear.”

Sophomore Robert Whitehead, vice president of the Tufts Republicans, echoed this statement, and compared the fear of the United States that Kim Jong-un engenders to the techniques Fidel Castro used to maintain power in Cuba. According to Whitehead, because Castro used the Bay of Pigs invasion and other examples of American aggression to instill the fear of American intervention in Cubans, Cuba’s memory of American military intervention remains strong from the Korean War in the 1950s.

Dunkelman spoke of the “axis of evil,” a term first used by George W. Bush in his 2002 State of the Union address to characterize the governments of Iran, Iraq and North Korea, which he accused of perpetrating terrorism.

“North Korea really isn’t that paranoid. Especially with the current administration, the U.S. sometimes provokes where it should not provoke,” Dunkelman said.

Hayato Miyajima, an exchange student from Japan, has a similar interpretation of the current U.S. administration. She said that, though Japanese people rely on U.S. perceptions of North Korea to shape their own, the realities in North Korea affect Japan far more than they affect the United Sates. She see NORTH KOREA, page 4

ith temperatures finally dropping down to the low 30s last week, it appears the transition from autumn to winter is upon us (but shout out to climate change for those extra couple of warm weeks). Cold winds and gloomy, gray skies provoke several behavioral responses in humans, but mainly a marked shift from light fleeces and windbreakers to heavy winter jackets. This is how we’ve “adapted” to live in freezing cold climates — when one layer becomes insufficient, simply throw on another. But life isn’t this simple for birds inhabiting New England and other temperate regions with significant winters. Instead of throwing on jackets (What if they did, though?

That would be the cutest thing EVER), birds have developed a series of adaptations to cope with low temperatures and minimize heat loss during the winter months.

The rigid but nutrient-rich waters of the Gulf of Maine host a diverse collection of “sea ducks,” composed of eiders, scoters, alcids, grebes, loons and exuberant specialties like the sexy harlequin duck. These ducks inhabit the northern coasts of Canada and in the Arctic during the summer breeding season, but migrate south in the fall to spend their winters on the relatively warmer Gulf of Maine. Upon observing rafts of sea ducks floating out in the middle of the freezing winter seas, the number one question that immediately arises in a birder’s head is: how the heck do they stay warm? Specialized feathers and oil glands may cover and waterproof their bodies, but their feet are both unprotected and underwater for the entirety of the winter — how come they don’t freeze off?

The answer lies in a concept biologists have termed countercurrent exchange. Unlike in humans, the arteries (carrying blood toward a part of the body) and the veins (carrying blood away from a part of the body) in a duck’s leg are adjacent to each other, facilitating heat exchange from the warm blood of the arteries to the cold blood of the veins. This results in slightly colder arterial blood but also slightly warmer venous blood, which maintains a constant temperature in the duck’s feet while providing tissues with sufficient oxygen and nutrients to continue functioning and not freeze. These countercurrent exchange systems are present in various taxonomic groups of sea-dwelling organisms, from sea ducks, gulls and other pelagic birds, to many species of fish like the yellowfin tuna.

While as humans we may not share this complex heat exchange system, we do possess a couple of physiological responses that aid us in coping with cold climates. The two primary examples are shivering and vasoconstriction. The former increases short-term muscle activity and results in heat production, while the latter lowers the amount of blood traveling to our peripheries and focuses on increasing our core temperature (that’s why your fingers and toes always get cold first). Alternatively, you can find a snuggle buddy (or perhaps multiple) — they’ll warm you up even more.

It’s no countercurrent exchange, but hey, we can’t all be birds.

A warm embrace, Henry Henry Stevens is a junior majoring in biology. Henry can be reached at henry. stevens@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 3 added that the Japanese public opinion of Trump is quite negative.

“It seems that Trump provokes North Korea,” Miyajima said. “[But] Trump can say anything because the United States is much farther from North Korea than Japan.”

Senior Minjoon Jung is from South Korea. When discussing potential futures of North Korea, he has seen public opinion shift away from unification between North and South Korea through his lifetime.

“When I was young in elementary school, I learned a song that said ‘our dream is unification, our dream is unification,’ but I am not sure preschool and elementary school students learn this song anymore,” Jung said.

Jung also spoke about the economic and ideological differences that could hinder this unification.

“When I was young, I thought unification was necessary and that it was essential for our country. As time goes by, I now think unification could be dangerous and not advantageous for South Korea because the economy gap is too big,” Jung said.

Jung compared the potential unification of Korea to the unification of Germany.

“West Germany was very developed and East Germany was not the poorest country, and North Korea is one of the poorest countries,” Jung said. “I do not know if we could cope with this huge gap, and I don’t know how we could control the difference in ideology.”

Whitehead also brought up the comparison of unification between East and West Germany.

“East Germany came out of the Cold War much more impoverished, and West Germany had to put in a lot of money and resources to catch them up, and they are still lagging behind. If you take that and make it more than twice as bad, the South Koreans would massively have to redevelop the North and do something with these millions of brainwashed anti-cultists,” Whitehead said.

According to Dunkelman, the Chinese government’s role in the North Korean nuclear situation is instrumental. He said that as North Korea’s only ally in the world, China has a unique relationship to the nation. He added that Americans often expect China to place checks on North Korea’s actions.

“The United States blames China for the North Korean missile program, and China blames the United States. For a lot of Americans under this current presidential administration, it’s always ‘if only China could reign in the North Koreans,’ they are 90 percent of North Korea’s trade, they are the only ones keeping their economy afloat, et cetera,” Dunkelman said.

It is important, however, to look at North Korean regime survival from the perspective of China. The fall of the North Korean regime could have many negative implications on its neighbor. Dunkelman explained that if North Korea fell, a massive influx of refugees would enter northeast China.

Additionally, the expansion of South Korean reign into North Korea would mean that American troops could have a presence in the northern part of Korea.

“With South Korea’s relationship with the United States, the U.S. would be right

on the border with China and that is unacceptable,” Dunkelman said. “North Korean regime survival is vital as China continues to develop and modernize.”

Due to their economic fragility and isolation, Dunkelman believes that amassing nuclear weapons and developing ICBMs appears to be the best way to ensure the survival of North Korea’s regime.

“There was a lot more insecurity around the regime especially with the huge famine in the 1990s and, after the famine, the regime adopted an absolute ‘military-first’ mindset and poured almost all of their money into their military,” Dunkelman said.

Dunkelman also commented on the huge disparity between gross domestic product, which is quite low, and the amount of money the state spends on military and defense per capita, which is quite high.

Beckley expressed that North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons, as they are its own protection against the United States, and its only guarantee of survival. He spoke to what could happen if North Korea were able to secure ICBM capabilities.

“There is a rank order of their interests [with the military first], and if that means starving the rest of their population, aside from the elites in Pyongyang, then the North Korean regime will do so,” Beckley said.

Beckley said they could also use this potential leverage to nourish their economic situation.

“Social science research suggests that when countries acquire nuclear weapons, countries gain more leverage and bargaining power,” Beckley said.

“Although nuclear weapons have almost never been used, they still influence bargaining, and in a nightmare scenario where North Korea gets these weapons, they may start upping their demands such as a reduction in the U.S./South Korean relationship and the end to U.S. military exercises.”

With so many different parties involved, accelerated technology and little consensus on a plan of action, there is a definite uncertainty on what 2018 will bring among those interviewed. However, what is not for debate in Jung’s mind is the human rights violations of the country’s government.

The regime has been condemned by the UN Human Rights Council, according to a 2017 Human Rights Watch report. Jung spoke of an interaction he had with a North Korean defector which spoke to the horrors that many North Koreans experience.

“When I studied in France, I lived with my cousins, and my uncle went on the airplane from Seoul to Paris and he started a conversation with a North Korean man who told him about his story,” Jung said. “My uncle invited him and he stayed at our house for about two days. I could barely have a conversation with him, but he talked about his life with my uncle and his history was a very terrible story. When he tried to escape with his friends, he was the only one to survive. When he left my cousin’s house, he gave my aunt an Eiffel Tower key chain that he had meant to give to his friends, but he could not give it to them because they were killed.”

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TV REVIEW

‘The Good Place’ runs with reinvention in season 2

by Kristen Schretter Contributing Writer

It would seem ridiculous to give “The Sixth Sense” (1999) or “The Usual Suspects” (1995) a sequel. How can a story continue after an ending that fundamentally changed the premise of its fictional world? Can characters grow in their new reality without watering down or feeling stuck in what made that final twist feel so revolutionary?

Like these movies, “The Good Place” (2016–) redefined its entire premise in the last episode of its first season, and as an ongoing television show, has the immense responsibility of answering those questions this season. The writers now have less leeway for mistake. Last season, any time something felt contrived in order to add suspense and push the plot forward, it only added to the genius of the final twist, as the characters themselves manipulated the narrative in order to create the most misery and conflict for each other. Inconsistencies became clues, adding cohesion and acting as meta-commentary on the process and pitfalls of writing a sitcom.

This season likely cannot pull the same move twice, so there’s no fallback for the writers. Any mistakes they make are final, but the amount of sheer successes just in these first eight episodes prove that the writers and cast are more than up to the challenge.

“The Good Place” has never been afraid of speed, and in this season that emerges as a significant strength. Plot points that could be dragged out over seasons are condensed into single episodes which come across as subversive rather than rushed. The show even fits hundreds of years in an episode! No second of run time is wasted. Jokes are tightly packed and extremely detailed, and the show executes sight gags like few others currently on television do. However, these are rarely at the expense of its heart or high concept.

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The poster of the second season of the fantasy comedy television series “The Good Place,” on NBC, is shown.

The show heavily bases itself in philosophical ideas but chooses to convey these ideas in brilliantly comedic ways.

Since this season bases itself on the idea that the main characters are ethically flawed, they therefore can explore moral philosophy without an air of pretension, or at least by balancing out pretension with silliness. These philosophical ideas aren’t flawless conclusions the impeccable characters have come to but instead are a step-by-step guide to becoming better people, and this functionality and optimism serves the ideas well.

Many of the actors have also begun to fully embody their characters in ways they could not last season. Specifically, Ted Danson shines giving Michael more layers than a well-meaning, bumbling fool, and D’Arcy Carden as Janet gives

a breakout performance as an overly positive heavenly informational system that’s slowly gaining human emotions. Kristen Bell as Eleanor and the rest of the main cast continue their outstanding work from season 1 despite the fact that they had to erase any character development from that season. Portraying characters unaware of their complicated histories and relationships requires a deft balancing act that the show pulls off. Every actor imbues his or her character with likability, which is especially important because even as different experiences change them, their core characteristics are constant and well-defined. The actors ground the show, allowing it to continuously rewrite itself and experiment.

The show’s breakneck speed and willingness to reinvent doesn’t come

without consequences. In moments where the show returns to an average pace reminiscent of its beginning, it can seem slow and less funny in comparison. Also, creator Michael Schur’s trademark genuine moments occasionally end up feeling overly saccharine or suspicious because the audience is now looking for twists. It’s also necessary but lamentable that certain interesting relationships in the first season are eschewed in this one (specifically Eleanor and Tahani’s ( Jameela Jamil)).

Nonetheless, there are few comedies as wildly inventive and detail-oriented as “The Good Place,” and all of these issues are minor compared to what it consistently achieves every week. The characters may struggle to deserve the good place, but if the show continues to deliver quality, viewers are already there.

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‘Riverdale’ wows with intense, emotional ‘Chapter 18’

by Alison Epstein Arts Editor

Content warning: This article mentions sexual assault.

“Riverdale,” this is not what anyone had in mind when we asked for more Cheryl. Finally, we get a delightfully Cheryl-filled episode, but it ends with her getting drugged and almost (though ultimately not) sexually assaulted by a guy from Veronica’s more sordid past in New York. As if this weren’t twisted enough, this week also saw Betty becoming more and more involved with the Black Hood, making “Chapter 18: When a Stranger Calls” the darkest and most distressing, but very exciting, episode of “Riverdale” (2017–) yet.

Picking up where we left off, Betty was about to help the Black Hood with his algebra homework. Okay, actually, they were negotiating what she could do to keep the Black Hood from murdering her sister, since he somehow knows about Polly’s hideout at the farm.

Betty is told she can’t tell the police or Jughead she’s in contact with the Black Hood, so she almost immediately tells Archie about it under the guise of walking together to school. Archie, by the way, has officially disbanded the Red Circle. Too bad Betty is pulling him right back into this mess by making him sit in on her next call with the Black Hood.

Archie may never get to sing again.

This is when the Black Hood makes his first request: To prove her loyalty and earn the chance to ask the Black Hood a question, Betty must print a mug shot of her mom as a teenage Serpent in the school paper. She’s hesitant at first but ends up obliging, causing a rift between her and her parents.

In exchange, she asks the Black Hood if she would recognize the face behind the mask, to which the Black Hood responds, “Yes.” Creepy.

But this guy is not done. If she wants to save her friends’ lives, she has to cut them out of hers, starting with Veronica. Veronica has been busy so

far this hour trying to help her parents raise the funds to open luxury apartments on the South Side. Leave it to Riverdale to open up space for debate on gentrification while there’s a serial killer on the loose. The Lodges are hoping the St. Clair family from New York will invest, so they invite them up to Riverdale and enlist Veronica to curry favor with their son, her old almost-flame Nick St. Clair. This leads to some very awkward moments for the Varchie relationship, where Veronica seems weirdly eager to have Archie and Nick in the same room, and is seemingly unbothered when Nick calls her sexy in front of poor Archiekins.

Nick ends up holding a party at Riverdale’s finest hotel, The Five Seasons, which is where Betty decides to cut the cord with Veronica. But first, let’s watch everyone (besides Betty) get turnt on jingle jangle, which looks suspiciously like Pixy Stix. Hardcore stuff.

A few quick main takeaways from this party: For all the talk of jingle jangle

being a huge upper, this party seems awfully lame. (Why was everything in slow motion?) Also, still waiting for the Kevin and Cheryl spin-off. Finally, did Josie and Reggie low-key make out in the corner? New couple alert!

Eventually, Betty does the deed, accusing Veronica of being a bad friend and bad person, and storms out. Now, obviously Betty was being forced to do this by the Black Hood, but it still comes as no surprise that Betty would be the one to kill everyone’s buzz.

Classic Betty.

Next on the list for Betty is Jughead, who has been mysteriously absent from most of the group activities.

That’s because he’s off secretly getting initiated into the Serpents, presumably to try to infiltrate and keep them from doing any serious harm to the North Side and the people he loves. But this drives even more of a wedge between him and Betty, who are still struggling see RIVERDALE, page 6

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ntro to Psych discusses the principle of adjusting one’s understanding of the world, also known as a schema. When presented with new information, one either assimilates evidence that confirms a schema, or modifies his or her understanding in order to accommodate for inconsistencies. Now, one might imagine that room 153 is right in between rooms 152 and 154, but SciTech is designed in a way that is almost deliberately confusing.

Although I attempt to modify the schema I have of the floor plan, I still arrive 15 minutes early in hopes of making it on time for my appointments.

I spent most of Wednesday and Friday shadowing a postdoc who was working on his second publication.

Although the jargon was heavy, the theme of adjusting transcended the specifics. Fourteen months of research had been devoted to a single topic, but endgame experiments approached the same concepts with wildly more novel methods than initially expected.

Although the project was structured, it was not overly rigid as to obdurately continue down an incorrect path.

Although the resources and time to search for faint signs of confirmation of the initial hypothesis were available, this was not the path that was chosen.

Near the end of the day, I was told that “science is all about trial and error.” But that statement could use modification: accommodating schema is not something just limited to scientific practice. Instead, it is a fundamental part of how we develop both as a species and as individuals. From rearranging the mental image of a building’s layout (it turns out that instead of two large rectangles, there are a handful of smaller rectangles scattered throughout SciTech), to rectifying perceptions of longtime friends or one-time strangers, there is an unlimited amount of room in our lives for trial and error.

The implications that come with this assertion are simple. 1. Failure does not impede future attempts at trial.

Mistrusting one friend is not a reason to stop trusting all of your friends.

Taking one class that you thought was just too difficult for you is no reason to not try another challenging course.

2. Effort can be allocated to fields of “unknown” — a lack of expertise on a matter does not warrant a lack of trying. There is nothing stopping an English major from going to a GIM for Synthetic Biology, or a Biomedical Sciences major from signing up for an acting class. 3. Previous conclusions are not final: schemas about the same topic can be updated an infinite number of times. Just because Google Maps suggested one route from Dewick to Miner Hall at the start of the semester, does not mean that there aren’t more efficient routes for you to discover.

Allowing these concepts to govern an evolving worldview, and in turn your interactions, opens up doors that could have previously been hidden.

There is such a breadth of fresh interactions on campus that it is virtually impossible to avoid heavily accommodating all of your schemas over the course of your time here at Tufts.

Mina Ghobrial is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Mina can be reached at mina.ghobrial@tufts.edu, and this column can be followed on Instagram @thoughtsfromtufts.

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Cheryl returns and Betty goes dark in latest ‘Riverdale’ RIVERDALE

continued from page 5 with the fact that they are both keeping big secrets from each other. Even though they share a cute but tragic scene in Pop’s where they talk about running away together, Betty still has to dump her precious Juggy. Unable to face him herself, she sends Archie to do it for her. He promises to be gentle, but this all goes out the window when he discovers Jughead’s new gang life, and he very forcefully tells Jug that Betty would never want to be with someone like this.

As if things couldn’t get worse for Jughead, his final task involves being beaten to a pulp by the Serpents.

Although in good news for Toni Topaz, and bad news for Bughead fans everywhere, the night ends with a kiss between the newest Serpent and the pink-haired Serpent princess.

Clearly, Toni did not care to wait for any of Jughead’s physical or emotional wounds to heal.

Over at the Lodges’ open house, Nick is apologizing to Veronica for attempting to grope her at the end of the party and explains that he’s

been struggling to get clean for some time now. Veronica accepts, but literally only minutes later, evil Nick slips a pill into Cheryl’s champagne glass while she’s flirting with him. Luckily, Veronica spots Nick dragging a somewhat limp Cheryl from the party, and she and the Pussycats bust in just in the nick of time, where they give Nick a beating that seriously rivals the one Jughead received from the Serpents.

Betty arrives just at the end of the action, when Cheryl informs everyone that she will be pressing charges against Nick, since she has been out in an abandoned house, where the Black Hood informed her she would find his true identity. Surprise: We don’t actually get a reveal because over the phone, the Black Hood has Betty put on a hood and look in a mirror, informing her “We’re the same.” Well, unless Betty actually has a dissociative disorder, and “Dark Betty” is truly the Black Hood. This honestly wouldn’t be the most implausible theory in Riverdale-land, except that Archie was with Betty when he heard the Black Hood speak on the phone.

The final moments of the episode prove pivotal for poor Betty, when — after the Black Hood informs her he

knows she’s been confiding in Archie (How does he know this? Is he Big Brother?) — he tells her she has a choice: either he kills her sister or she gives him another name. And what do you know, she just happened to run into a very bad dude/attempted rapist a few minutes ago! The name she gives the Black Hood? Nick St. Clair. Awfully convenient for her, huh. Although if Betty knew the funny business that had been happening on the South Side tonight, she might’ve been more inclined to say Toni Topaz.

This episode was an action-packed emotional roller coaster and quite possibly the best episode of the season yet.

Although what happened to Cheryl is absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating, at least the aftermath will hopefully give Madelaine Petsch a much-deserved opportunity to further show off her acting chops.

If “Riverdale” is going to go dark, they might as well really lean into it.

Because we all know being completely over the top and doing way too much is what “Riverdale” does best.

“Riverdale” airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW. Full episodes available on cwtv.com and Netflix.

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EDITORIAL

SMFA-Tufts coordination issues persist to detriment of students While the decision to merge the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) and Tufts was made with good intentions, glaring problems have developed that have not been addressed by the administration. Students enrolled in the SMFA are currently facing serious logistical issues.

Fundamental problems such as maldistribution of resources, difficulty in navigating transit schedules, and lack of access to food make for a subpar college experience.

Students have expressed concerns about poor communication between the institution and students. For example, a May 21, 2017 Daily article reports that a senior had to contact multiple administrative offices to retrieve a tuition refund check.

Though this bureaucratic disorientation is a natural phase that administrative merging creates, the continuation of poor communication not only places students at a disadvantage, but also creates a sense of disconnection. The SMFA First Year Experience website, for example, advises first-year students to limit the number of classes they take on the Medford/ Somerville campus. Although this is intended to help first-years adjust to the SMFA campus, such planning of academic schedules only prevents students from integrating with the larger Tufts communi-

ty (if that was the purpose of the merger).

At a critical phase of college transitions, relationships are just as important as academics, and the university should communicate with SMFA students on the best means to achieve both ends.

Such communication problems are indicative of the larger resource problems that both campuses face. For instance, because of the lack of studio space on the Medford/Somerville campus, fine arts students have been forced to commute long hours to the SMFA. This implicitly shows the priorities of the administration’s distribution of resources; STEM-related studies outweigh fine arts in budget consideration. This is further reflected in the faculty composition of the SMFA. In 2016, of the 128 SMFA faculty members, 62 worked part-time.

Though SMFA Dean Nancy Bauer has expressed willingness to experiment, a large body of part-time faculty, which is subjected to budget restraints and administrative flux, is less likely to promote high-end experimental courses central to the educational experience of a fine arts school.

Yet, beyond resource constraints, students have vocally expressed fundamental problems related to food and transportation. Most SMFA students have no time to

grab food at Dewick or Carmichael because they commute early to attend morning classes and return late at night. At the moment, the SMFA does not have a functioning dining hall, and has offered students meal plans at other universities such as Massachusetts College of Art and Design as an alternative. However, dining halls exist on campus for a reason: Students simply do not have the luxury to commute to other universities just to eat.

Though the administration has also responded by providing students with Rhino Bucks, which can be used in restaurants and cafes around campus, the same problem applies here. In addition, Rhino Bucks are inconvenient, according to students, because they cannot be used interchangeably with JumboCash.

Regarding transportation, the SMFATufts shuttle bus, known as the Joey, is the students’ main transportation method. Commute times are excruciatingly long, as buses have to detour at Storrow and Memorial Drive and face traffic during morning and evening rush hours.

Moreover, journeys are far from comfortable, as SMFA students are cramped in the often overpopulated Joeys, only increasing the fatigue that they should not have to experience. The university responded by

adding a Joey, and Bauer believes that the Green Line extension will be a fundamental solution. However, though the Green Line extension will surely provide relief, it will not be completed in the near future.

In addition, SMFA students have conversely argued that the shuttle system has become more disoriented, despite changes.

Through multiple interviews with first-year SMFA students, the Editorial Board has found that students have missed classes and transportation home because shuttles did not show up on time. Students who are already paying tens of thousands of dollars in tuition should not have to resort to using the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) services or Uber to avoid these inconveniences. It is critical for the administration to address such transportation problems because they prevent students from accessing important resources. This is ever more relevant considering that fitness centers and health services are dispersed relatively far from the Fenway campus.

The effect of all this is disillusionment.

The $10,000 tuition hike faced by incoming SMFA students is only the tip of the iceberg they have to carry. With higher tuition comes higher expectations, and it is important for the university to respond accordingly.

OP-ED

Tufts/Fletcher administration fell into Scaramucci’s trap: Students and faculty are smarter

by Camilo A. Caballero The recent petition calling into question the rationale and propriety of Anthony Scaramucci’s appointment to The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Board of Advisors has generated public interest.

What the petition has not generated is a clear sense of duty and responsiveness from the administration, which seems torn between inaction in the hope the concerns raised will just go away and action that demonstrates either a blind spot as to the proper process to be followed or an effort to deflect and misdirect attention.

The administration’s response brings to mind Albert Einstein’s assessment of the costly price of indifference: “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

Thus we have an offer from the dean’s office an event on Nov. 16 that is billed as a primer on “the Board, its role, membership, and policies.” What this has to do with the issue at hand is anyone’s guess — it is tangential to the concerns that have been raised.

In addition, the administration has announced its intentions to invite Scaramucci to campus to discuss his “experiences in the private and public sectors, and lessons learned.” This invitation by Tufts and the Fletcher School, as the first statement/ response they have put out since the student/ faculty petition, the Tufts Daily op-ed and

the Boston Globe article, is a way to give Scaramucci a platform to legitimize his unethical behavior.

These two events are the administration’s response to the petition. They are the textbook definition of Einstein’s assessment of doing nothing. They demonstrate a lack of understanding of their responsibilities.

So it is time to remind the administration and the board of their roles and responsibilities vis-a-vis students, faculty and staff.

The petition represents the efforts of a student to raise concerns about an individual’s appointment to the board. The petition raises a valid question to the administration and the board: is Scaramucci, as a member of the Fletcher School’s Board of Advisors, a person that best represents the values and mission for which our school stands: “To be an innovative university of creative scholars across a broad range of schools who have a profound impact on one another and the world.” It has been delivered to the administration and board.

The next step is for the administration and the board to respond to this petition.

In responding, they must ask themselves if Scaramucci’s behavior is indeed what they want representing our school. If the answer is “no,” then they should exercise their authority to remove him, and to send a message to students, faculty, staff and alumni that reaffirms the school’s mission and goals. If the answer is “yes,” then they should explain to students, faculty, staff and alumni why they condone

his behavior and the justification for his continued service.

Further clouding the issue and the proper process to be followed are the actions of Scaramucci. He used the Boston Globe article to reach out to students on Twitter as bait to get what he wanted, which was a platform for legitimacy. He followed some students who would retweet the Boston Globe story in order to spark conversations, and through Twitter he finally asked the organizer of the petition to invite him to campus to speak.

So let us remind Scaramucci of process.

Students have raised a concern about his serving on the board and being able to uphold the school’s ideals and represent it. These concerns, properly, are not addressed to him but must be addressed to the administration and the board.

It is the responsibility of the board to either take up or to ignore these concerns. If they do take them up, then Scaramucci’s dialogue will need to be with the actors with the authority to decide his fate — and that is not students.

There is nothing wrong with inviting individuals and groups to speak on campus, and the administration or any student organization can certainly invite Scaramucci or anyone they please. The invitation to speak is not the issue. The issue is Scaramucci’s seat on the board and what will be the administration’s response to the petition. An invitation to speak to the campus has nothing to do with this response and is a separate item.

But as we know now, Scaramucci has shown his intentions while in the White House

as well as in his public statements that he cares about gaining attention and nothing more, and we should not let this distract us from what the administration wishes to avoid having to take up and answer.

As students, faculty, alumni and staff at Tufts and Fletcher, the only way to stay true to our values and beliefs, the only way to counter the unethical narrative, the only way to preserve the Tufts and Fletcher reputation, is to send out a unified message to our administration, that we never asked for a meeting with Scaramucci, we will not be seduced by this clumsy attempt at misdirection and we will not attend this discussion.

Through the petition, we have expressed that we believe Scaramucci stands in the way of what we came to Tufts and Fletcher to accomplish, and what donors and future students want to accomplish.

Now we are waiting to hear what the administration and the board believe. Let’s not get distracted. Let’s help the administration see its duty and responsibility. What is important now is to continue to share and sign the petition, a movement our classmate Carter Banker so courageously started.

Camilo A. Caballero is a student at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy pursuing his masters degree. Camilo is the Director of Communications for the Harvard Kennedy School Journal of Hispanic Policy and a co-founder and co-leader of the Fletcher Students of Color and Allies club. He can be reached at camilo.caballero@tufts.edu.

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Monday, November 13, 2017 | Opinion | THE TUFTS DAILY

In support for relocation of Asian American housing

by Katy Lee The Asian American House (Start House) has been the site of many of my happy memories at Tufts. During the three semesters I lived in the house, my housemates became some of my closest friends. I met new people in the Asian/Asian American community just by hanging out in the House. I learned new things from all the events the Center hosted. I got to coordinate events that create spaces lacking on campus, such as a discussion dinner for Asian international students. The House and the community it represented felt like home for me.

Even so, I know a lot of people in the Asian/Asian American community do not feel the same way. During my first year at Tufts, I also felt that the Asian American Center space was not for me.

Having to ring the doorbell, wait for the intern to let me in and awkwardly explain why I was coming to the house all made the space unwelcoming. I wanted to find a space outside of my dorm room where I could just be, but the one space that seemed to speak to the identity salient to me — an Asian international student — had its door locked to me.

According to a survey sent out to the Asian/Asian American community,

37 percent of the respondents have only visited the center once or twice throughout their time at Tufts. Many people also commented that the limiting physical space hinders the center’s accessibility.

Currently, the only official space for the Asian American Center is the director’s office. There are more than 1,000 students who self-identify as Asian, yet the Center cannot serve as a community space for such a big community because of its limited space and inaccessibility.

The colocation of the Center and the House does not provide a good living space for the residents, either. My housemates and I had our belongings stolen from our rooms when the common areas were being used for meetings. We had to open the door early morning on the weekends for clubs to retrieve their supplies from the basement. By having the Center and the House at the same space, neither side can cater fully to its respective purpose.

A living space dedicated for Asian/ Asian American students is equally important as having an openly accessible Center. There are many moments of learning and growth, that would not have happened were it not for the space, both physical and emotional,

that brought people together. I felt safe, understood and heard while living in the House. In a predominantly White institution like Tufts where Asian/Asian American students are repeatedly silenced, having a space where I had a voice was so important.

The Asian/Asian American community I know at Tufts is one characterized by loving compassion. Its members are constantly striving to create more space for sharing and connecting. If the Asian American Center space cannot serve its purpose, where else will we find a space that is for us?

I would love to see the Center become a space for the community the way that it was to me. For me, the House was a study space, a makeshift library, a movie room, an impromptu dance floor and a space where conversations flowed over meals. I would love to see the space become one that is truly accessible to all members of the community. I would love to see students feeling that they had the option of living in a house that was home for them, too.

Katy Lee is a senior double majoring in international relations and education.

She can be reached at Kang-Hsin.Lee@ tufts.edu.

CORRECTIONS The article “Tufts Republicans seek to bring Ben Shapiro to campus, UIJ and TSA object,” which ran in print on Nov. 9, had inconsistent spellings of George Behrakis’ name. The article has been updated online to reflect this change. The Daily regrets this error.

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ias and discrimination against immigrants exist in the United States. This is not a controversial statement. The same situation exists in the United Kingdom.

When I arrived in the United Kingdom on a student visa, just as I had to the United States, I expected no difference.

“Random searches” if I had not shaved my beard and the like.

However, I was very surprised to learn that my visa had a special requirement that none of the other Tufts students here had to deal with. Citizens of 42 countries, including Turkey, had to report to the nearest police station within seven days of their arrival to the U.K. The list of 42 includes every country in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, the Caucuses, Latin America, as well as Russia, China and Cuba.

Failing to register with the police in the first seven days of arrival is considered a criminal offense that carries a 5,000-pound fine, possible detainment without trial and deportation. So, if an absent-minded college student from one of these countries gets swept up in orientation week events and forgets to take care of this, the student might be deported.

The information to be given to the police includes your address, down to your room number if you live in a dorm, name, gender, nationality, marital status and, here is the kicker, religion. The local police want to know the foreign ‘usual suspect’s’ exact address so in the case of a crime, or terror threat, they can simply pick us up from our dorms, no hassle.

And they have your religion on file presumably so they can put any Muslims on watch lists. Moreover, if you are going to be at another address for two or more months, you need to let the police know.

Adding insult to injury, as if this far has not been insulting and degrading, police registration costs money!

When I report my address, religion and all other personal information to the police and they create a file to keep tabs on me, I have to pay them a fee of 38 pounds for doing so.

Two weeks ago, the Oxford Union hosted a debate on giving up liberty for security. After many mediocre speeches (displaying a sheer lack of understanding of Islam and the Middle East), all I was left thinking about was whose liberty for whose security. The trade-off in the United Kingdom seems clear: suspicious immigrants giving up liberty for the security of the peaceful natives.

I am sure similar practices exist in the United States. The U.S. government does keep track of where international students go to school and their status as full students is monitored on the Student and Exhange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). And different security agencies keep files on ‘suspicious’ immigrants and religious minorities. But at least they try to hide it. In the United States, the discrimination against immigrants is hidden under a veneer of equality for all, there is a good deal of pretending involved. Not so in the United Kingdom, which is what surprised me. The United Kingdom is brazenly saying “we think you are a possible criminal.”

Nesi Altaras is a junior majoring in international relations and economics. Nesi can be reached at nesi.altaras@tufts.edu.

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Tufts decides first game in penalty kicks since 2013 MEN'S SOCCER

continued from back bottom corner while Mullen dove to the right, putting Tufts up 1-0. The Monks then sent their first kicker to the line, who drilled the ball to the left corner where Mieth made a diving save, keeping the score 1–0.

Mieth attributes the win in penalty kicks to the team’s confidence.

“After Lane scored the first one and I saved the first one I knew we had it in the bag,” Mieth said.

Coleman stepped up for the second round, netting the ball in the top right corner just out of reach for Mullen, advancing the Jumbos to a 2–0 advantage. Saint Joseph’s then sent its second kicker, who sent the ball into the right corner, but Mieth guessed correctly, and blocked the shot. Senior defender Matt Zinner did not score in the third round, as Mullen saved his shot on the right side. The Monks finally netted one

down the right side, ending the third round with the Jumbos up 2–1.

“I knew that we were able impose our will on them and overwhelm them with our confidence. As soon as the final whistle blew I went right into a zone knowing it was a big opportunity and it was my game to take,” Mieth said.

“I’m sure the guys taking the PK’s on Saint Joe’s are a lot more scared than I am so I’m just going to use confidence and take it to them.”

First-year midfielder Travis van Brewer stepped up for Tufts in the fourth round, aiming the ball at the top middle of the net while Mullen dove right. The Monks then scored down the middle, ending the fourth round 3–2.

Entering the fifth and final round, Eichhorst stepped up to the line with the game in his hands, and he sent the ball to the right bottom corner while Mullen dove left, advancing the Jumbos to the elite eight.

Coach Joshua Shapiro was named NESCAC Coach of the Year just before the second round, while Coleman was named NESCAC Player of the Year and to the AllNESCAC First Team. Coleman is the first Tufts men’s soccer player to receive Player of the Year. Junior co-captain defender Sterling Weatherbie was named to the second team, and senior midfielder Tyler Kulscar was named first-team.

“I did not anticipate this at all and it feels amazing, but the way I look at it is it was more of a team award they awarded our team for being the best in the conference, and I was lucky to get it, but I could name five or six other guys that deserve that award just as much as I do,” Coleman said.

Tufts will face Johns Hopkins on Nov. 18 in the third round of the NCAA tournament.

Arlo Moore-Bloom contributed reporting to this article.

Tufts falls to Middlebury, places sixth in NESCAC FOOTBALL

continued from back way and appeared to tip the 44-yard pass.

Middlebury failed to connect on its next three plays, all passes, but decided to go for it on fourth-and-10 from Tufts’ 18-yard line.

The bold playcall paid off, as Meservy threw a touchdown to Cosolito along the left edge of the end zone. This time, the extra point was good and Middlebury jumped out to a 33–24 lead.

The Jumbos’ defense kept the Panthers off the scoreboard on their next four drives.

Meservy was under pressure the whole time, conceding two quarterback hurries and two sacks. The Tufts offense was similarly held in check, and with 3:42 remaining in the fourth quarter, was pinned at its own 8-yard line.

Trying to extend a play on third down and 8, McDonald unwittingly ran into the Tufts end zone and was taken down by senior quad-captain linebacker Wesley Becton for a safety. The safety brought the score to 35–24, necessitating two touchdowns for Tufts.

Alswanger kicked onside to Tufts’ sideline.

The Jumbos recovered, keeping their hopes alive just a little longer. However, their drive ended in an interception to sophomore defensive back Kevin Hartley, all but ending the game.

“We’ve got to get better on offense,” Civetti said. “The defense got us the ball back a few times there in the fourth quarter [and] we stalled. We’ve got to be better with the ball, we’ve got to be more efficient with executing and we’ve got to score more points than the other team and we didn’t.”

Saturday was Senior Day for the football team, and the Jumbos honored their 17 seniors before the game. The graduating class consists of wide receiver Joe Nault, linebacker Zach Thomas, defensive back Bryce Joyner, quad-captain defensive backs Brett Phillips and J.P. Garcia, linebacker Chuck Calabrese, quad-captain linebacker Steve DiCienzo, offensive linemen Liam Thau and Gian Calise, quad-captain defensive lineman Doug Harrison, wide receivers Joe Byrnes and Mike Miller, tight end Blake Potter, safety Connor Moriarty, defensive lineman Micah Adickes and student managers Sean McCarthy and Matt Kramich.

“Walking out there for the senior day ceremony was a little bit surreal,” Phillips said.

“Coach Civetti did a great job of preparing us for that, telling us that it was going to be a lot of emotions going on pre-game and that we were just going to have to overcome that.”

The graduating senior class is the last to remember Tufts’ 31-game losing streak firsthand and they finish their Tufts careers with 22 wins, the most since 1982.

“Coming in here we were told we were making the wrong decision,” DiCienzo said.

“It was just something that we felt with coach

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Junior quarterback Ryan McDonald sprints down the field during Tufts’ season-closing 35–24 loss against Middlebury on the Ellis Oval field on Nov 11.

Civetti and that we felt with the staff on our recruiting visit and with the guys, but at the end of the day that’s what it came down to.

The guys on the team at that time, they may have not won a football game, but they gave it their all every time and that was just something I wanted to play for.”

Garcia echoed DiCienzo’s sentiment and accredited the bond between players as a defining characteristic of the program.

“We just love each and every guy in our program and what we came here for four years ago is what we see now in our program,” Garcia said. “Just a bunch of guys caring about each other so much and going to attack every day just because the love we have in our program is very special.”

Phillips saw his junior season end after just two games due to a shoulder injury, but returned as a senior to post 50 tackles, break up two passes, force a fumble and intercept a pass. He started his sophomore season as well, adding 20 tackles and a blocked kick.

Despite the loss to Middlebury, Civetti was proud of his seniors and captains, and for good reason.

“I think Brett Phillips exudes effort, attitude and toughness. He’s an amazing young man,” Civetti said. “Incredibly committed, very caring and just someone who was all-in on everything and everyone.”

Garcia was a three-year starter for the Tufts secondary and also contributed on special teams. He posted 113 tackles, four interceptions and 16 pass breakups during his Tufts career.

“J.P. Garcia has some of the most prideful and determined focus for doing things well,” Civetti said. “I think a lot of it comes from the upbringing from his family, being the child of a Cuban immigrant who had nothing and who’s worked his whole life to achieve what he can for the people around him. I think that family commitment is something that J.P. just

exudes in everything that he does, and that work ethic never goes away.”

Harrison was a leader on Tufts’ defensive line and sacked the quarterback 7.5 times in his career. He added an interception and 5.5 tackles for a loss this season. A consistent presence on the defense, Harrison played in 32 of 33 possible games at Tufts, missing just one in his first season.

“Doug Harrison is just a really, really hard working committed friend who is an oldschool [defensive] lineman, [as] rambunctious [and] wild as they can be,” Civetti said.

“But then he’s been on the Dean’s List for three years in the School of Engineering, so it’s [a] really unique kind of personality.”

DiCienzo tied for eighth most tackles in the NESCAC with 69, also recording 1.5 sacks and an interception in his senior season.

DiCienzo patrolled the middle for Tufts as a three year starter, racking up 188 career tackles.

“Steve DiCienzo [is] probably one of the toughest football players I’ve ever coached,” Civetti said. “[He] just loves playing the game, loves playing it hard. I’m going to miss [the captains] a lot, all of them.”

Asked about the next steps for the team and its approach to the offseason, Civetti focused on player development.

“The biggest thing now is having an opportunity to teach some of the young guys some offseason things that will help them get stronger in the weight room, technique, things like that,” Civetti said. “[We’re] starting to build the nucleus of the leadership group that will exist here next season. I know I’m going to go home and spend some time with my little girls, that’s my number one goal right now. And just to appreciate another good year. I love these kids, they gave everything they had. We’ve just got to work harder, it’s the only choice you have.”

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Phillip Goldberg Bird's Eye View

General Electric, not jeans

F

amous athletes boast immense followings. Almost 64 million people follow Cristiano Ronaldo’s Twitter account. That is just about a fifth of the U.S. population and 20 million more followers than Donald Trump’s Twitter. When Ronaldo plays soccer, the whole world watches. With access to so many consumers, superstar athletes become doubly valuable. This has resulted in franchises selling advertisement space on athletic apparel, a practice I find to be hypocritical and greedy on the part of sports leagues.

Beyond the major sports apparel companies, corporations such as General Electric and Goodyear have begun taking up real estate on NBA jerseys. As part of the NBA pilot program, these logos are small and generally conform to team color schemes. By no means are they an eyesore and the NBA deserves credit for forcing companies to compromise and phasing the program in. That said, the very idea of teams and leagues benefitting financially from advertisement sales is problematic because the players have no control over what goes on their jerseys and are subject to strict dress codes even when not playing.

There are a few particularly egregious examples of leagues exercising undue power over the dress of their players. Keeping with the NBA, the league instituted a dress policy in 2005 that forbids items such as jeans, hats, do-rags, large jewelry and sneakers.

This Western business-centered dress code is imposed on players while they conduct any official NBA business. NBA players have since reclaimed their dress with colorful suits, and become the cutting edge of men’s fashion as well, but it is unfair of the NBA to disallow jeans at press conferences and unilaterally place corporate logos on jerseys.

While the NBA deserves some praise for allowing players some freedom in shoe design — grayscale and team colors only, with exceptions for special games — the NFL’s shoe policy is a disaster. During the 2013 football season, the NFL fined the Chicago Bears’ Brandon Marshall $10,500 for wearing green shoes. Marshall had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and wore green in honor of Mental Health Awareness Week.

Admittedly, Marshall was supposed to wear pink cleats for the NFL’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but if that were the real issue the league would not have fined Colin Kaepernick $10,000 in 2014 for wearing pink Beats by Dre headphones to support the same cause. Kaepernick was fined because the league partners with Bose.

While the NFL is not hypocritical in the sense that they also do not permit corporate sponsors to advertise on player uniforms, the league’s failure to compromise with Marshall, who pre-warned the league about his intention to wear green, reflects poorly.

The athletes are the ones building the immense fan followings and, while teams need to be able to market their players, there is a line that they should not cross.

It’s up to the leagues where that line rests.

If players are restricted in their dress while not playing or fined for supporting their choice charitable causes, then imposing corporate sponsors, some of which could be direct competitors to individual player’s sponsors, crosses that line.

Phillip Goldberg is a sports editor at the Daily. He is a senior majoring in political science and can be reached at phillip. goldberg@tufts.edu.

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Monday, November 13, 2017

MEN'S SOCCER

Mieth makes two penalty kick saves, sends team to third round of NCAA tournament

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Sophomore midfielder/forward Gavin Tasker takes a shot in the second round of the NCAA Div. III men’s soccer championship on Nov. 12.

by Savannah Mastrangelo Sports Editor

After two full scoreless halves and two overtime periods, the second-round NCAA tournament match entered penalty kicks.

Junior goalkeeper Connor Mieth made two consecutive diving saves, blocking Saint Joseph’s first and second attempts, while Tufts made their first two. Ultimately Tufts sealed the victory, outshooting its opponent 4–2.

This game was a defensive battle, as both teams had conceded one goal all season. Saint Joseph’s held the longest shut-out streak in NCAA history with 19 games, until its firstround match in the NCAA tournament on Saturday after the team conceded a goal to Mitchell College.

The Jumbos held the ball for most of the game, probing the Monks’ final third down the left and right flanks. The Jumbos outshot the Monks 7–2 in the first half, while sophomores midfielder/forward Gavin Tasker and midfielder Zach Lane dominated up front. Midway through the first half, the team switched to a 3–5–2 formation, giving much more freedom to the outside midfielders to penetrate down the sidelines. With about eight minutes remaining in the half, a scrum in the Monks’ 18-yard box with senior co-captain and defender Conor Coleman and Lane almost gave the Jumbos their first goal, but the ball was deflected over the crossbar.

“It was mostly us attacking and trying to break [Saint Joseph’s] down this game and we didn’t have to defend,” Coleman said. “[The

Monks] were much more defensive and we were much more offensive this game and credit to them they got numbers behind the ball and did a great job of holding us at bay.”

Entering the second half, Tufts continued to maintain possession and control over the game. Right away, senior midfielder Kevin Halliday whipped a corner kick into the Monks’ box where Coleman, leaping over his defender on the far post, headed the ball into the ground, producing a terrific point-blank save from Monks junior goalkeeper Blake Mullen.

Saint Joseph’s saw its first real scoring opportunity a few minutes into the second after a breakaway down the left flank. The Monks were awarded a corner kick, and they lofted the ball into the box but it deflected out

of bounds. Senior midfielder Dexter Eichhorst ripped a shot from the upper left corner of the box at 59:49, but Mullen, who stands at 6 feet, 7 inches, swatted it away easily.

With 20 minutes to go in regulation, Saint Josephs broke through the Tufts backline and went in on a breakaway down the left side, but Coleman made an excellently timed tackle dispelling any danger. A few minutes later, Tasker beat three players down the right flank and managed to get a shot off in the box, but Mullen was again up to the task.

Despite outshooting the Monks 17–3, the Jumbos did not sneak one by Mullen during regulation. Mullen made 10 saves in the game, while Mieth was forced to make one miraculous diving save in the first overtime period.

Monks first-year forward Quinn Hewitt ripped a shot from the top left corner of the box but Mieth leaped from the near post and, with his left hand, picked the ball out of the upper right corner, making his lone save of the game. Both Tasker and Halliday were responsible for generating five shots each, while Lane had four shots and sophomore midfielder Brett Rojas had three.

“Every time we went to OT this season we finished the game with a win and I think we also looked back on our experiences going into double overtime,” Mieth said. “Last year in the elite eight against Kenyon we won in double overtime so I think we had a lot of experience and a lot of confidence and it was a matter of keeping our composure and sticking to the game plan.”

As the time came off the clock at the end of the second overtime, Mieth began mentally preparing for penalty kicks.

It was the Jumbos’ first penalty shoot-out since 2013, while the Monks saw a penalty kick round last year in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Lane was the first to step up to the spot, and rifled the ball into the left see MEN'S SOCCER, page 11

Football seniors sent off with 22 wins, most since 1982

by Phillip Goldberg Sports Editor

Though Tufts dropped its last game of the season, the 2017 season marked Tufts’ third winning season in a row — a feat the program has not accomplished since 1989–91 under former coach Duane Ford. The Tufts Jumbos (5–4) hosted the Middlebury Panthers (7–2) on Saturday at the Ellis Oval. Middlebury emerged victorious 35–24, claiming second place in the NESCAC, while Tufts finished sixth.

Much like the mid-30s temperature, Tufts started out cold on Saturday. Tufts received the opening kickoff and fumbled the ball away on its own 18-yard line. Middlebury’s junior quarterback Jack Meservy hit first-year running back Peter Scibilia for a 14-yard gain before finding sophomore tight end Frank Cosolito all alone in the end zone to take a 7–0 lead just 36 seconds into the game.

“I think we started off a little bit slow,” senior quad-captain Brett Phillips said. “But after we got over that initial hump we definitely stuck with [Middlebury] for a while, played our hearts out.”

Meservy started his third career game on Saturday, as he finished out the season in place of senior quad-captain quarterback Jared Lebowitz, who tore his ACL during Middlebury’s 43–14 victory over Bates (2–7) on Oct. 21.

Tufts did not move the ball on its subsequent drive, so Middlebury took over at its own 39-yard line. A penalty against Tufts and a long pass to Cosolito set up a first and goal situation for Middlebury. It took them three tries, but eventually Meservy and the Panther offensive line got enough push to cross the plane. Sophomore placekicker Carter Massengill knocked his second extra point through the uprights, putting Middlebury ahead 14–0.

Tufts was not ready to call it quits in the first quarter, as junior quarterback Ryan McDonald completed two consecutive passes of 27 and 21 yards to junior wide receivers Frank Roche and Jack Dolan, respectively. Roche turned the first pass, a short check-down, up the right sideline for a big gain, and McDonald found Dolan coming back while rolling out to the left side.

Tufts made it to Middlebury’s end zone and punched it in from seven yards out on a pitch play to first-year running back Mike Pedrini. First-year placekicker Matthew Alswanger’s kick was true and Tufts halved the deficit, 14–7.

Toward the beginning of the second quarter, Tufts sophomore linebacker Stephen Timmins blocked a punt and Tufts recovered on the Middlebury 5-yard line. Pedrini was brought down on a run to the right, but tanked through the trenches on his sec-

ond goal-line try for his second touchdown of the day. The touchdown and Alswanger’s kick tied up the game at 14 apiece.

Pedrini’s two touchdowns against Middlebury go along with the three he scored against Colby on Nov. 4. Pedrini paced the Jumbos with eight rushing touchdowns this season.

The momentum had clearly swung in Tufts’ favor and Middlebury reeled further when Tufts sophomore Robert Jones forced a fumble on the kickoff and senior defensive lineman Micah Adickes recovered. McDonald then ran up the middle from the Middlebury 23-yard line, and his receivers set excellent blocks downfield, allowing McDonald into the end zone all but untouched. Comically, four of Tufts’ five offensive lineman jumped the whistle on the extra point attempt, but the 5-yard penalty hardly phased Alswanger, who nailed the kick regardless. Tufts led for the first time in the game 21–14.

Middlebury answered in the middle of the second quarter, as Meservy found junior wide receiver Conrado Banky for a 27-yard gain that put Middlebury at Tufts’ 1-yard line. Meservy found space up the middle and fell into the end zone. Junior defensive back Tim Preston — the worst nightmare of place kickers across the NESCAC — blocked his second extra point attempt of the season, saving Tufts’ lead 21–20, which stood through the end of the first half.

Tufts was plagued by penalties in the second half, and Middlebury’s prolific offense suddenly started clicking. The Panthers received the opening kickoff and marched up the field for a touchdown in just five plays.

Meservy threw a jump ball to Cosolito in the end zone that he caught over his defender. In order to make up the point they lost on the blocked extra point, the Panthers elected to go for a two-point conversion. The holder, junior quarterback Colin Waters, stumbled and did not turn upfield before a horde of Jumbo defenders swarmed him. Middlebury led by five, 26–21.

McDonald took matters into his own hands on the ensuing drive, rushing five times for 41 yards and finding senior wide receiver Mike Miller across the middle for an additional 6-yard pickup. Though the Jumbos made it to the Panthers’ 24-yard line, their drive stalled and they were forced to kick a field goal. Alswanger’s 41-yard kick came out low and slow, just barely soaring over the crossbar. The converted field goal brought Tufts within two at 26–24.

Meservy threw another jump ball, this time to junior wide receiver Jimmy Martinez, who went up over junior defensive back Alex LaPiana to make a nearly impossible grab. LaPiana ran with Martinez the whole see FOOTBALL, page 11