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Tufts medical students confront Monaco regarding Sacklers, Stern by Austin Clementi

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Students with the Tufts University School of Medicine attended University President Anthony Monaco’s office hour on Monday to address what they called the university’s lack of action around its relationship to the Sackler family, Purdue Pharma and a seeming delay in the completion and release of former U.S. Attorney Donald Stern’s report on Tufts’ relationship with the family. According to Sarah Hemphill, a second-year medical student who attended the meeting, the students were also calling for the removal of the Sackler name from all of Tufts’ buildings and institutions. “The bottom line … is that taking the Sackler name down is the most significant public action the school can take to acknowledge the severity of the crisis and all eyes are going to be on how the trustees decide to handle this decision,” Hemphill said in an interview with the Daily after the office hour. Katie Stevenson, another second-year medical student, similarly spoke of the Sackler name as “synonymous” with the opioid crisis, meaning the removal of the name is essential. “There is a power in public symbols,” Stevenson said in an interview. “Changing the name is not sufficient in and of itself, but it represents a greater commitment and public commentary on Tufts’ relationship and connection to this crisis.” According to Stevenson, the removal of the name would be equally impactful for medical students.

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The Arthur M. Sackler Center for Medical Education is pictured. “We want to graduate from here being proud of where we went to medical school, and be able to say that our school was on the right side of history and took the opportunity to be a leader when others weren’t,” she said. Hemphill added that, because Boston has been so deeply affected by the opioid crisis, publicly displaying the name on the building is harmful to residents affected by the crisis. According to Hemphill, deans and other administrators at the medical school no lon-

ger use the Sackler name in their communications. In particular, administrators referring to what is formally named the Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications at 145 Harrison Ave. now refer to the building as the “Medical Education Building” or “Med-Ed.” However, Stevenson said that the students would not be satisfied until the Sackler name is officially erased from Tufts. Another point of contention for the students is the apparent delay in pub-

lication of the Stern Report. According to a Daily interview last semester with Monaco, he hoped the report would be released by the summer. However, the administration has otherwise never provided a guarantee that the report would be published by a specific time, Tufts’ Executive Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins told the Daily in an email.

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Citing lack of progress in PILOT talks, Curtatone sets February deadline for Tufts by Alexander Thompson News Editor

Somerville officials were blunt about the lack of progress in negotiations with Tufts for a new payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement in a community meeting held Wednesday night at the Somerville Public Library West Branch. Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone said that “nothing” had been resolved after 10 months of negotiations and announced that the city was setting a deadline of February 2020 for agreement to be reached. The other seven members of

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the committee unanimously agreed with the mayor. If the negotiations are not completed by then, “all bets are off,” Curtatone warned. PILOTs are voluntary agreements which the untaxed nonprofits sign with their host communities to compensate them for some of the property taxes they would pay were they not tax exempt. The university pays its PILOT in cash payment to the host communities’ general funds and in non-monetary benefits such as access to sports facilities, scholarships and opportunities for local high school students and community service done by students.

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The previous agreement expired at the end of 2018, and the two sides have been holding monthly negotiations since then. The eight members of the Somerville committee unanimously reported that little progress had been made since they last updated the community in an April briefing. Curtatone said that the only point in which there has been agreement is the city’s demand that there should be parity in Tufts’ cash PILOT payment to each host community. The university paid $450,000 to Somerville, Medford and Boston each

for fiscal year 2019, which represented a 64% increase in payment for Somerville and Medford. At the meeting, however, the mayor and the residents in attendance lamented that this amount only represents about 8% of hypothetical property taxes for Somerville, instead of the 12.5% they hope to get. In addition, parity with Boston was only achieved through a cut to Boston’s PILOT payment. Beyond the cash payments, Tufts’ role in Somerville’s housing crisis was a key focus of both officials and residents.

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continued from page 1 “The President’s office and university statements and communications about the review process have made it clear that Mr. Stern would be afforded as much time as he needed to conduct an extensive and comprehensive review,” the email said. Activism against the Sackler name has been prevalent at the medical school since Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey released a report implicating Tufts for its relationship to the Sackler family. Hemphill said that medical students drafted a petition in response to the lack of action by the administration following Healey’s report. According to the petition, around 256 students, more than a quarter of the medical school’s population, signed the petition. The petition says around 75% of the second-year medical students have signed the petition. Dated to March 6, the petition is addressed to Monaco, Chairman to the Board of Trustees Peter Dolan and Dean of the Medical School Harris Berman. “As future healthcare providers, we are troubled by the Sackler family’s role in knowingly misleading the medical community, patients, and the public about

the risks of OxyContin and thereby not only fueling but profiting from the opioid crisis,” the petition reads. The petition continues to say that the university failed to acknowledge its relationships to the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma quickly enough. “The silence from our administration stands in stark contrast to recent disclosures in the media of the Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey complaint against the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma,” the petition says. The petition goes on to say that students recognize the efforts of the administration, including beginning the Stern investigation and incorporating conflict of interest protections within the medical school curriculum. However, it says the medical school should take more radical steps. “We call on Tufts University to take swift and meaningful action to sever ties with the Sackler family, improve institutional transparency, implement policy changes that avoid similar damage in the future, and provide restitution for the negative impact on affected communities,” it says. The petition goes on to list 12 recommendations to the administrators, includ-

ing providing more information regarding conflict of interest policies, holding an open forum regarding Tufts’ ties to the Sacklers, eliminating the Pain, Research, Education and Policy (PREP) master’s program and removing the Sackler name from all buildings and plaques. According to a recent Daily article, the PREP program is already being phased out due to low enrollment and austerity measures by the medical school. Hemphill and Stevenson also said that their professors have since used more robust conflict of interest statements in their lectures. Hemphill and Stevenson reflected that Monaco seemed receptive to their concerns, saying the president appeared to leave all options for how to deal with the report open, and Collins said that such input would be considered in the final review of the Stern report by the Board. “President Monaco appreciated the input of the students who attended his open meeting in Boston and input that he has received from other students, faculty and staff throughout the review process. The Board will hear the views of students, faculty, and medical school leaders during its meeting this weekend,” Collins said.

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continued from page 1 Katjana Ballantyne, president of the Somerville City Council, argued that the large number of Tufts students who seek off-campus housing drives up rents, which were already high, and pushes out working class families. “[Tufts] doesn’t see that they have a housing shortage, it’s us who have the housing shortage with their students,” Ballantyne said. Both Ballantyne and Curtatone said that they have been pressuring the university to build a new dorm to take the pressure off neighborhoods. Curtatone explained that the city negotiators have submitted language on housing issues, but that Tufts has yet to respond. Andre Green, the Ward Four representative on the Somerville School Committee, explained that the two sides have gone back and forth on the work that Tufts students do in classrooms in Somerville, including helping to teach classes, and how that work applies to PILOT. According to Green, currently there is no system in place to ensure these programs exist outside of student interest. “The good news is that Tufts agrees with us in theory. The devil’s in the details, it’s a question of how we do it,” Green said. Rocco DiRico, Tufts’ director of government and community relations and a member of its PILOT negotiating team, told the Daily in an emailed statement last month that the university will continue negotiating with the city this semester and hopes to secure a longterm agreement with Somerville and Medford. “We look forward to continued negotiations with both cities,” he wrote. Ballantyne repeatedly stressed that the PILOT is entirely voluntary, and the university could pay nothing without violating the law. This led conversation in the direction of what the city would do if the university did not submit to the city’s demands.

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Somerville City Hall is pictured on Dec. 31, 2011. “If what’s proposed is not something that meets the values and objectives of the community then we shouldn’t agree to it. Then we have to make a decision as a community about how we want to respond to that,” Curtatone said. The key protection the university relies on to shield itself from these more muscular tactics is the Dover Amendment, which Ballantyne explained prohibits municipalities from impeding non-profits from carrying out their missions. Ballantyne, who represents Ward Seven on the Somerville City Council, gave an update on a bill working its way through the Massachusetts state legislature that would exempt Somerville from the Dover Amendment so they could require Tufts to provide an institutional master plan. This plan would outline Tufts’ intentions for expansion for years down the road. However, for the third session in a row, the bill is stuck in the Committee on Bills in the Third Reading, where it has died twice before. A Tufts Daily investigation last spring revealed that

this was in part due to lobbying overseen by University President Anthony Monaco. Green said he thought that community outcry might be the most effective means of getting concessions from Tufts. “To move off of what he was saying, in terms of our leverage, the biggest one is Tufts doesn’t want this to be a big messy deal,” he said. “They want it quiet, they want it quiet from a public relations standpoint.” He urged residents to speak out and organize around the issue. Residents also expressed outrage over Tufts’ links to the Sackler family, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma who are widely believed to have contributed to the opioid epidemic. On this point, Curtatone was especially blunt, evoking the 77 Somerville residents who have died due to the epidemic and saying that he was working to see Tufts held accountable. “That’s blood money. At the end of the day, that’s blood money,” Curtatone said.

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‘Indebted Mass’ explores the everyday objects in history by Ruijingya Tang Arts Editor

For the past three months, the Anderson Auditorium at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts has been home to a paradoxical presence that is at once reverence-demanding and humble. “Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden: Indebted Mass” dominated the gallery space as part of the exhibition “Who Takes the Weight” (2019) by the Chicago-based artist Faheem Majeed. Majeed brings his sensitivity of the transient and mundane to inspire the Tufts community to rethink history, and the institution of the SMFA specifically, more critically and comprehensively. Majeed currently works from his studio in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. He is a graduate of Howard University (BFA) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (MFA). Majeed’s works often employ common objects and materials from the artist’s neighborhood to critique institutions and explore politically salient themes such as activism and civic-mindedness. “Indebted Mass” democratizes history and fine arts to include the mundane as its subject. Austrian author Stefan Zweig’s series

of essays “Shooting Stars: Ten Historical Miniatures” (1927) epitomizes the style in which history has been traditionally written: concrete moments, decisive figures and specific times. But, realistically speaking, the stories of our societies contain more autobiographies than those that have been written. Art — arguably a derivative of history — has therefore suffered more or less from the same selective bias as the subject of history until more recent decades, when artists like Majeed started to extend the canvas of art beyond the elaborate frames of traditional portraits. “Indebted Mass” elevates the most nameless objects and moments to a status worthy of historical commemoration. The sizeable sculpture features a monumental pile of carpet strips standing on a long wooden pedestal. The carpet strips had once been in use at the SMFA until a recent renovation of the school building. On a micro level, Majeed faithfully shows the carpets as how they originally are, without altering them permanently in any way. The carpets are raw and worn, with threads hanging from most of them. Many of them are also faded in color and have parts of their top layers peeled off. The wood strips, on the other hand, reference the

wooden paneling in the gallery at the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago, which hosts many African American artists and their artwork. That being said, Majeed does redefine the carpet and the wood strips as art through symbolic reorganizations. Retaining the true forms of the carpet strips as much as he did, Majeed rolled the strips in a way so that the side of the statue facing the entrance of the Anderson Auditorium looked like a wall of distorted spirals. In this way, Majeed adds a decorative element, despite it still being quite raw-looking, to the sculpture. More interestingly, by amounting the sculpture to its currently enormous size and adding a pedestal to it, Majeed frames it as a historical monument. “Indebted Mass” is visually demanding for its size and height, which MFA Curator of Exhibitions and Programs Abigail Satinsky acutely recognizes and respects by honoring just this one sculpture with the entire space of the Anderson Auditorium. For its size and overall structure, Majeed’s sculpture is reminiscent of historical sculptures depicting groups — often armies, warriors or revolutionaries. One sculpture of such kind is “The Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad” (1975) in Victory Square, St.

Petersburg. More loosely, the elongated form of “Indebted Mass” recalls ancient Greek and Persian relief sculptures depicting historical events or processions. Needless to mention, the fact that the carpets are stationed on top of wooden pedestal mimics the lauded reception of many raised historical sculptures, “The Statue of Liberty” (1886) being among the most famous ones. In depicting commonplace objects as prestigious pieces of art, Majeed begs the audience to consider them as documentations of history. In its focus of attention on the underrepresented as significant historical figures, “Indebted Mass” draws precedent from Ai Weiwei’s sculpture “Law of the Journey” (2018), which bloats figures of refugees to a mighty scale. Through this dramatic style, Majeed inspires locally relevant questions for the Tufts community regarding the significance of the architectural and administrative transformations of the SMFA over the recent years, namely since its merger with Tufts University in 2016. Majeed urges the audience to use their imagination to restore the life of the school based on the sight of these carpets as the audience thinks about who had walked through them, and where they came from and went.

FILM REVIEW

Soderbergh takes swing with ‘The Laundromat’ by Daniel Klain

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Steven Soderbergh takes on a lot in his newest film “The Laundromat” (2019). Based on the real story of the Panama Papers scandal, the film tells of just how the law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co. came crashing down. Soderbergh and frequent collaborative partner Scott Z. Burns touch on ideas such as corruption, shell companies and campaign finance reform. For a 96-minute run time, it can feel like a lot is thrown at you. “The Laundromat” does have a lot going for it, though. Meryl Streep in a bucket hat, Antonio Banderas in a turtleneck — the stars, as is the case in most Soderbergh films, get to shine. The film tonally feels similar to “The Informant!” (2009), a previous collaboration between Burns and Soderbergh, with its dry humor rooted in cynicism and wit. This humor teeters between funny, insightful and on the nose, as does most of the film. That’s both what makes the film interesting, but also just miss the mark. The systemic problems that “The Laundromat” attempts to critique are important and relevant; sometimes it feels like this is handled in a way that is clever, but other times it feels like Soderbergh took the abridged version of these issues and scotch-taped them together. Nothing makes this more clear than the stylistic similarities to “The Big Short” (2015). The film frequently breaks from the

narrative so that our two narrators, played by Antonio Banderas and Gary Oldman, can explain a finance concept to us and why it is so evil. Just like Selena Gomez explained Synthetic CDO’s while playing blackjack in “The Big Short,” Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas explain how shell companies are just a way for rich people to keep their wealth away from the government. This trend went from cute to patronizing quickly. On a few occasions, our narrators are woven into the narrative where we’ll see Banderas and Oldman present in a scene, and it just feels like breaking the fourth wall, in ways that we’ve seen done again and again, is an attempt to win us over with charm. Scotch tape also describes the production of the film. Much of the veneer or magic of film is removed as you see that what appeared to be a plush beach is really just inside a set inside a movie studio. The film wants you to recognize that this is a movie trying to explain financial corruption, and it’s unclear whether that is supposed to be clever or self-critical. The film is split into chapters; the way each chapter is introduced and titled feels in the same vein as short, well-made explainer-type videos on YouTube. And yet, it is these flaws that make the film more interesting in regards to Soderbergh’s entire filmography. There’s a reason it feels like the viewer can see the seams that sew together this film more than usual. Soderbergh, unlike many of his col-

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A promotional poster for Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, ‘The Laundromat’ (2019), is pictured. leagues, does not stop working. This is the second of three feature films being released this year that Soderbergh will have a large hand in producing. First in February, Soderbergh released his iPhone-shot basketball movie, “High Flying Bird” (2019) on Netflix. “High-Flying Bird,” like “The Laundromat,” contained star powered performances, but in the end hit the mark a little more due to its level of creativity

with camera movement and the manner in which it analyzed systemic injustice and power structures. Upcoming is Amazon’s “The Report” (2019), starring Adam Driver and Annette Benning as Senator Dianne Feinstein. While it is written and directed by Scott Z. Burns, Soderbergh is a producer for the film. Given Soderbergh’s professional relationship with Burns, it would be surprising if he played no hand at all in the production of the film. Take your favorite director — say, Quentin Tarantino or Paul Thomas Anderson — it’s typical that they take at least a year between projects, taking all the time they need to perfect each of their works. Soderbergh, on the other hand, is basically using the exact opposite approach, pushing out content as fast as he can in our content-saturated world. Soderbergh sees that the media landscape has pushed the boundaries of film, including his own work. While none of these films are as perfectly crafted and neat as his colleagues’ work, they’re more frequently available, incredibly entertaining and engaging and rather consumable. “High-Flying Bird” and “The Laundromat” are both roughly 90 minutes. Soderbergh’s work ethic deserves more respect than it currently holds. While “The Laundromat” is not perfect, it represents Soderbergh as a filmmaker in this moment, and how his ability to adapt as a filmmaker is something to which auteurs everywhere should aspire.

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hat made “The Twilight Zone” (1959–64) so memorable was its dependence on the unexpected — a malevolent, mysterious mixture of suspense and unfamiliarity that lurched its audiences into a perplexing fear and confusion of the unknown. “[The Twilight Zone] is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition,” says Rod Sterling, the show’s creator on the outset of every episode. “And it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.” Produced during the height of the Space Race, the show’s bread and butter was interplanetary travel. Astronauts land — though more often they crash — on alien surfaces inhabited by foreign beings. Cut off from Earth, the lonely team deals with what “The Twilight Zone” has in store. Such was South Korea’s national soccer team’s visit to Pyongyang, North Korea on Oct. 15th. South Korea played at the Kim Il Sung stadium — named after Kim Jong Un’s grandfather — for a World Cup qualifying match against the North Korean national team in its EVAN SLACK / THE TUFTS DAILY first visit to the country since 1990. Junior wide receiver OJ Armstrong catches a touchdown pass in the end zone during the Homecoming game against Bowdoin at Zimman Field North Korean authorities allowed no South on Oct. 19. Korean press to attend the match. The game was played behind closed doors. There was no live feed. South and North Koreans alike had by Alex Viveros soon had their first touchdown opportu- third-to-last in total sacks. However, although no idea what was going on in the game. One Executive Sports Editor nity on a fumble recovery off a high Jumbo on paper the Mules have struggled somewhat press official announced yellow cards, goals snap. From then on, the Continentals rolled to follow through on sacks, Civetti mentioned and substitutions. The Tufts football team will travel north to through the Jumbo defense. the pressure Colby creates for the line. The North Koreans only allowed the South Waterville, Maine, to face Colby in its secondThree of the Continentals’ first-half scor“We’ve got to be able to protect,” Civetti Koreans to train for one hour on its artificial turf to-last game of the season on Saturday. The ing drives came as a direct result of errors said. “[Colby] posed some problems for us in field on Monday before the match on Tuesday. Jumbos, who are currently ranked No. 7 in the committed by the Jumbo offense and special the last game as well.” The South Koreans, almost all of whom train NESCAC with a 3–4 record, will look to find teams. The high-snap fumble and a misAlthough the Mules’ measly 1–6 record and play on real grass with their club teams, a reinvigorating win against the 1–6 Mules. placed 3-yard punt both led to touchdowns, may suggest that they are an easy team to were wholly unprepared. The game ended 0–0. Currently, the only teams ranked lower than and another Carroll interception at the very beat, an important distinction must be made North Korea is ranked No. 115 and South Tufts are Colby, Bates and Bowdoin, and the tail-end of the half led to a cherry-on-top field in the type of defense Colby runs. Korea is ranked No. 39 in FIFA’s world rankings. latter two have yet to win a game this season goal for the Continentals as time expired in While it is true that the Mules secOnce the South Koreans returned to Seoul, in the competitive NESCAC. the second quarter. ondary has let up the second-most total the world learned what, exactly, happened in A week ago, the prospects of the season In the second half of the Hamilton game, yards per game in the NESCAC this seaPyongyang. looked much better for Tufts as they came a reinvigorated defense paved the way for son, Colby possesses one of the stronger “It was like a war,” Vice President of the into a competitive game against Hamilton a potential offensive comeback attempt for pass defenses in the conference. Their Korea Football Association Choi Young-il said. with a 3–3 record, which at the time was Tufts, which would have marked the greatest weaknesses lie in the protection against “Never have I seen such a game. The North good for a 6th place NESCAC tie with the comeback victory in coach Jay Civetti’s time the run, where the only team to have let Koreans screamed and gave deadly stares.” Continentals. Fresh off a 49–0 dismantling with the team. However, down by only two up more rushing yards per game are the Captain and Tottenham star Son Heung- of the Bowdoin Polar Bears defense — who scores with just under five minutes remain- last-placed Bowdoin Polar Bears. min put it more bluntly: “To be honest, the holds the title as the worst defense in the ing in regulation, Tufts senior running back Civetti acknowledged that the Jumbos game was so tough that I think we were very league this season in terms of yards allowed Dom Borelli threw a pass in the red zone that would need to be able to run the ball against lucky already to be back with no one injured.” — the Jumbos’ hopes were high going into was intercepted by Hamilton, thus securing the Mules, also mentioning that Tufts strugKBS, one of South Korea’s flagship news Saturday’s game against the Continentals, the the insurance possession the Continentals gles in the rushing game. stations, reported that these actions were likely winner of which would ultimately move up in needed for their 36–21 win. “We’re also probably the worst in the because “North Korea didn’t want to have any the NESCAC rankings. Needless to say, the turnover battle has league in rushing, so we got a lot of work to elements that South Korea preferred.” Even However, despite high expectations, the been a significant issue this season for the do,” Civetti said. so, North Korea didn’t tell the Asian Football Jumbos struggled on Saturday in similar ways Jumbos, a team that otherwise possesses one If the Jumbos are to deliver a dominant Association that the match would be played to how they have struggled all season. By the of the most talented offenses and defenses in performance against the Mules, they will behind closed doors until reportedly a day end of the first half, the Jumbos trailed by a the NESCAC. either need to increase their reliance on before kickoff, even though they had made the score of 34–7, marking their worst first-half There is no doubt that Carroll is potential- the run — where they rank third to last in decision a month before, according to KBS. deficit since a 37–0 blowout to Colby in 2013. ly one of the most elite quarterbacks in the the NESCAC in terms of total rushing yards At a time of strained relations between the Following the game against Hamilton on conference. He ranks third in the NESCAC — or pick their passes wisely in order to two countries, North Korea also probably didn’t Saturday, Tufts three-time All-NESCAC senior in terms of total passing yards per game and avoid turnover situations. Additionally, the want its superior neighbors to beat them at linebacker and co-captain Greg Holt com- leads a Jumbo team that has racked up more Jumbos will need to continue to focus on home in front of a home crowd. The match mented on some of the struggles the Jumbos offensive passing yards than any other team their offensive performance in the red zone, serves as a reminder that soccer was not, and faced defensively throughout the match. in the NESCAC this season. as they currently stand at dead last in red never will be, free from the Cold War’s inexora“I think for us it was more of focusing However, because the Jumbos are a zone scoring percentage at 39%. ble grasp. on our assignments and keys, and we need pass-focused team, Carroll can be forced Defensively, the Tufts secondary are led The World Cup that the two teams are to be able to be more sound,” Holt said. to make tough decisions against significant by arguably the best middle linebacker in attempting to qualify for is no less dubious “We weren’t making the adjustments we pressure from the opposing team’s pass rush- the league with Holt. A sense of focused or sinister. Qatar won the rights to host the needed to.” ers. Although his eight interceptions are on aggression will need to be expressed in order tournament amid bribery claims against FIFA, Against Hamilton, turnovers were the par with those of NESCAC passing-leader for the Jumbos to come out on top. However, and, in another twist, its mars-like geography straw that broke the camel’s back in the first Trinity quarterback Seamus Lambert, on as explained by Holt and as shown in the is forcing planners to hold the tournament in and second quarters of the game on Parents Saturday some of Carroll’s passes resulted in defensive shutout of the Continentals in the the winter instead of the summer. “The Twilight and Family Weekend. In the opening drive, incompletions that would have been inter- second half of Saturday’s game, the Tufts Zone” in soccer is here for good. Tufts senior quarterback Jacob Carroll ceptions had it not been for drops by the defense has the potential to pave the way for threw an interception on his own side of Hamilton secondary. a huge victory this weekend. Arlo Moore-Bloom is a junior studying inter- the field. Although Hamilton was unproFortunately for Carroll, Tufts goes up this Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. on Saturday in national relations and history. Arlo can be ductive in the drive that followed, they weekend against a Colby team that ranks Waterville, Maine. reached at arlo.moore_bloom@tufts.edu.