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Presidential hopeful Booker addresses BDS, student debt, climate in conversation with the Daily by Anton Shenk

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Last night, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) held a press call with college journalists around the country, answering questions on a range of issues from the student debt crisis to the climate crisis. Booker began by delivering brief opening remarks, first highlighting the theme of his campaign: common purpose. “I’ve made the theme of my campaign from the very beginning the urgency of us all to come together and heal and to recognize that we share so many common challenges and so much common pain,” Booker said. Throughout the hour-long call, Booker addressed his positions on a range of topics — showing the most passion with his positions on relieving student debt, race relations and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. In particular, Booker spoke against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which calls on people to boycott businesses from and associated with Israel to push the Israeli government to alter its policies on Palestinians. “I do not support BDS. Never have, never will,” Booker said. “There are some in the BDS movement that don’t believe Israel should even exist. It’s an anti-Israel movement. I believe a lot of things that BDS is calling for actually hurt our ability to get a two-state solution.” Booker then reiterated his long-standing position calling for a two-state solution and briefly laid out what his administration’s policies would be regarding the conflict. “I fully committed to Palestinians having their own fate and the right to self-determination … I’m real concerned as someone who has been to the West Bank and met with Palestinian leaders and continues to fight against this administration who is drawing away critical humanitarian aid,” Booker said. Booker then turned his attention to the student debt crisis, where he’s advocated for tuition-free community colleges, permitting refinancing existing student loans, and — his landmark policy — providing every baby born in the U.S. with a savings account containing $1,000 to accrue interest throughout their life. “I believe in forgiving the debts of people going into public interest careers

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Presidential hopeful Booker speaks at a private home in Portsmouth, N.H. — like teaching or public defenders. I believe in forgiving the debt of low-income Americans who are struggling to make it,” the senator said. Booker then spoke about his longer-term proposals. “[We’re going to] stop the profiteering of the federal government — the federal government makes billions and billions of dollars off of the student debt program — we want to end that … We want to make student loan work like all debt, that can be discharged in the case of bankruptcy,” he said. On the issue of student loan debt, Booker described the implications of his “Baby Bond” program. “We’re going to put a thousand dollars into an interest-bearing account, an account that will be able to accrue interest … that means the lowest income kids in America will, by the time they’re 18, [be able] to have upwards of $50,000 in their account,” he said.

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Finally, Booker addressed his policy on climate change and what he hopes to accomplish on his first day in office. “There are not enough Americans engaged with a sense of urgency on [the climate] … When I am the president-elect I’m going to start building the kind of coalition [we need] before I even take office on day one … on day one, I’ll rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, roll back this administration’s fuel efficiency standards … there are so many issues we’re going to try and pack into the first 24 hours,” he said. Booker then highlighted the urgency of taking action on the climate. “Our climate plan is about making the ambitious goal we have to make — we must have this nation’s electricity be carbon neutral by 2030 … from putting a price on carbon to massive investment in research and development and the major pillar of it which is about environ-

mental injustice, rolling back the many incentives that are given to oil and gas and fossil fuel companies that allow big companies like Chevron to pay net zero taxes,” he said. Booker then closed the call by highlighting the power millennials have in the electoral process. “If voting amongst young people was up to 70%, non-millennials are the biggest population bubble in America right now and they have the ability to sway almost every election — but right now we don’t get the voter turnout we need,” Booker said. “In the history of our country, change never comes from Washington — it comes to Washington … [climate change] is a dire existential crisis that we’re facing and it demands from all of us a lot more engagement and a lot more activism — and that’s the way I’m going to lead as President of the United States.”

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Nancy Thompson hired as dean of student affairs, chief student affairs officer ad interim by Sara Renkert

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Nancy Thompson, former vice president and dean of students at Hamilton College, has joined the Tufts community as the dean of student affairs and chief student affairs officer ad interim. As Tufts begins to find someone to fill that position permanently, Thompson brings decades of experience and skill to the Dean of Student Affairs Office. Along with transitional support while the search progresses, she will provide overall supervision of the Dean of Student Affairs Office, Residential Life, Campus Life, Health and Wellness and the Career Center. Thompson brings with her 30 years of experience working with college students. She said that although Tufts is a much larger school than Hamilton, she has found her experience so far to be similar. “The size difference and the setting difference made me think that there would be bigger differences between the kinds of work I did at Hamilton and the kind of work that I will do here. And actually, it’s incredibly similar. Both institutions have students who are super smart, super driven, engaged, really interesting and fun to work with,” she said. After retiring from Hamilton in June of 2017 and 13 years of work as vice president of student affairs and dean of students, she said she is more than ready to commence work at Tufts. “It’s stuff that is really so similar, and it’s very natural for me to be wading around in these issues. Trying to make sure students at Tufts have the resources and support they need to be successful; that’s really what I’ve always been about, whether it’s Hamilton or Tufts,” she said. Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser explained his appreciation for Thompson stepping into the position as quickly as she did. “Nancy Thompson has vast experience from her years as dean of student affairs at Hamilton College. She knows the issues extremely well, and has a well-founded reputation as a problem solver, mentor and strategic thinker — which has been apparent in the very short time she’s been here. Because we have so much strength throughout the organization, students will be very well served this year,” he said in an email to the Daily. Chris Rossi, dean of student life and engagement, described the desire for Thompson to come to Tufts as an ad inter-

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Nancy Thompson, newly hired dean of student affairs and chief student affairs officer ad interim, poses for a portrait in front of Dowling Hall on Sept. 19. im dean, particularly after three recently vacated seats. One of those changes was the appointment of Nandi Bynoe to associate dean of diversity and inclusion, previously working as assistant dean of student affairs, according to a Student Affairs email. “We really had three open positions in Students Affairs. Mary Pat [McMahon] departed for Duke [University], Raymond [Ou] departed for Brandeis [University] and Nandi [Bynoe] got this really exciting new job. While our team is eager to go, that is a lot of people and experience walking out the door. Jim Glaser, myself and a few other people in Student Affairs started talking about how we were going to structure our reorganization in the long term and in the short term, how we were going to approach this year,” Rossi said. Glaser also commented on the process of finding an ad interim dean of student affairs in a short time period over the summer months. “We did not have enough time to run a search, so we decided to recruit a seasoned retired leader from another school to help us in the interim. Dean [of the School of Engineering Jianmin] Qu and I recruited Nancy Thompson into the role at the very end of August. It happened very quickly, and we were so lucky that the stars aligned as they did,” he said in an email to the Daily. Rossi expressed his gratitude that the transition has gone smoothly for Thompson

and Dean of Student Affairs Office. “I cannot tell you enough how lucky we are to have someone like Nancy who is available and willing to come. It has been seamless. Hamilton is a different school from us, but Nancy comes in and we share a language, literally from day one. We were very lucky,” he said. Glaser explained that the search process for the dean of student affairs was well underway, but said that the process is confidential and he has no timeline for when the position will be filled. Glaser also explained the characteristics they are looking for in someone to fill the position. “[The Dean of Student Affairs Office] is a large and complicated organization with a lot of staff doing important work tending to the day-to-day interests and challenges of students. Judicial affairs, residential life, physical and mental health and wellness, career services, individual student problems, the list goes on,” he said. Even as the Tufts community awaits the arrival of a permanent dean, Thompson and the Tufts community are eager to commence their work together at the university. “I find this to be a wonderful community and I have really enjoyed meeting the students, faculty and staff here. I am truly excited to be here,” she said.

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On Sept. 7 at 12:55 a.m., Tufts University Police Department ( TUPD) officers observed an individual carrying a “No Parking” sign on campus and identified the person. The student stated that it was already broken and that they were taking it for safekeeping. The officers confiscated the sign from the individual and returned it safely to its home on Boston Avenue. On Sept. 10 at 9 a.m., TUPD responded to a call on Winthrop Street regarding a motor vehicle accident. The accident was caused when an emergency response vehicle turned right, and the vehicle’s right passenger mirror struck a parked car’s driver’s side mirror. The

two car mirrors were the only injuries in the incident. Later that day at 10 a.m., TUPD responded to a call that a Tufts shuttle bus had struck a parked campus mail truck in front of Olin Center. The shuttle belonged to Bill’s Taxi Service. The parked vehicle sustained minor damage to its right fender and mirror, but there were no injuries in the accident. On Sept. 12 at 9:59 a.m., TUPD received a call from Houston Hall that a student had been communicating with what appeared to be another individual online, but they were being misled. The student was in the early stages of being extorted; their computer was compromised by a virus and the student was asked to pay a sum of money. They stopped contact with the individual after alerting TUPD.

On Sept. 15 at 1:20 a.m., TUPD officers did an area check of 141 Professors Row, the former Delta Upsilon house. Officers found numerous individuals inside the building. The officers took the names of the individuals involved and reminded them that the building must remain vacant because it is closed and lacks an occupancy permit. On Sept. 16 at 8:57 p.m., TUPD officers and the local fire department responded to a fire alarm in Latin Way dorms. They went to the area affected by the fire alarm and discovered students in the area. The students were advised that they still had to evacuate even if they knew the cause of the fire alarm. The fire department proceeded to reset the alarm and allow students back inside.

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Substance abuse treatment clinic, recovery residence opens at Tufts

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Flyers in The Haven at College’s outpatient center on 200 Boston Ave. are pictured on Sept. 19. by Jessie Newman Features Editor

For students recovering from substance abuse, the road to sobriety can be a long and lonely one. A new set of resources for Tufts students in recovery aims to change that. The Haven at College, a private organization, is partnering with Tufts to operate an outpatient substance abuse treatment center and a recovery residence for students this fall, according to an email sent to all students in July. The Haven has established similar recovery programs at universities in California, Maryland and Ohio, according to its website. The Haven’s services include intensive outpatient care treatment centers, peerled recovery services and harm reduction programs. At Tufts, The Haven’s on-campus recovery residence is in a woodframe house owned by the school, while the treatment center is located at 200 Boston Ave. Ian Wong, director of health promotion and prevention, spoke about the positive impact that The Haven will have on Tufts’ campus. “[Recovery] is a continuum, and The Haven is part of it. It is about how many students can we keep here at Tufts,” Wong said. “Say there is a student that really needs alcohol recovery programming and until now we did not have this capacity, and we had to say you need to take a semester off. But now with The Haven, they have the option to go to an intensive outpatient or inpatient facility.” Wong also hopes that The Haven’s programs will help incoming students with substance abuse issues successfully transition into college. “There are a lot of students [of all ages] in recovery. A lot of students with substance abuse issues are scared to come to college. Often, people hear the two words ‘sobriety’ and ‘college,’ and some think

that they do not mix, and their parents are terrified. How do we help students know that there are other options?” Wong said. According to Wong, Tufts received a $10,000 grant in 2016 from Transforming Youth Recovery, a nonprofit, to expand recovery services for students. He added that the university’s partnership with The Haven is the next step in this expansion. Sophie Pyne, The Haven’s national director of university relations, shared that Tufts first approached The Haven about a potential partnership in February 2018. “Before we enter into any collaborative partnership with a school, we do a process called community mapping, [which we undertook] in Feb. 2018. A team of us came to the university and spent a week here. We want to understand from a strengths-based approach what resources are already available on campus concerning mental health and substance abuse, because we never want to replicate or duplicate services that are already provided,” Pyne said. Pyne and The Haven’s team met with an array of people on campus to gain multiple perspectives on where their presence and services are most demanded. “We met with around 80 people from Tufts, [everyone] from faculty, professors, administrators, staff and students,” Pyne said. After The Haven finished its visit to Tufts, the team transcribed all of the data that was gathered through interviews and observations, before presenting to the Tufts administration on the strengths and gaps in on-campus recovery care and their recommendations to the university in March 2018, according to Pyne. “Our proposed plan of action may be a recommendation of a partnership with our organization or it may be a blueprint to the university of what our plan will be, and nine out of the 10 universities that we present to want to bring us in as expert partners on this topic,” Pyne said.

The Haven currently works with a steering committee at Tufts whose members include Executive Director of Health and Wellness Michelle Bowdler and Dean of Student Affairs ad interim Nancy Thompson. “We … have a launch advisory team that is also made up of a lot of different members of the administration, because we feel strongly that this is a collaborative approach and we do not want to just be an outpatient facility right next to Tufts,” Pyne said. Pyne said that Tufts students can opt in to any of the available recovery services and personalize their treatment to their own needs. Students at the on-campus recovery residence live there for the entire academic year; however, The Haven at Tufts will be accepting applicants to the house on a rolling basis. “We currently have three residents and one house manager. We have more beds available and applications come on a rolling basis, because we know that addiction does not start or stop based on the semester,” Pyne said. “Our house manager is a graduate student at The Fletcher School who has been sober for over five years, who is there to act as a peer mentor for other students living in the house.” The costs of living in the recovery residence are according to the on-campus tiered housing rates, plus an additional fee for The Haven’s services, Pyne said, but scholarships are available for students based on financial need. At the outpatient center, anyone — not just Tufts students — can undergo intensive treatment for substance abuse, according to Lawrence Berger, clinical director of The Haven at Tufts. “We are … open to students outside of the university. We have a program called intensive outpatient which is nine hours a week and then they come

in [for] groups on education about substance abuse, relapse prevention. We deal with the sanctions from Tufts and we recommend the best course of action,” Berger said. Pyne explained that in addition to intensive, nine-hour-a-week treatment, the outpatient center will also have Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, alcohol and cannabis screening and intervention programs known as BASICS and CASICS, cognitive behavioral therapy and clinical therapy. Pyne added that the intensive treatment program lasts between four and eight weeks, but students can continue attending one-on-one sessions with one of the three clinicians at the outpatient center, including Berger, for as long as they need. Berger, who is licensed to provide care for both mental health and substance abuse, said that The Haven’s treatment programs will address the intersection of mental health and recovery from substance abuse. “I discovered that many of the clients that come in for substance or alcohol abuse and addiction often suffer from something else, including depression and anxiety,” Berger said. The Haven is currently working on assembling a network of insurance providers that will be compatible with its Tufts chapter, according to Pyne. Pyne said that The Haven Outpatient Center will officially open on Oct. 2. Wong sees Tufts’ partnership with The Haven as another way to help students who need treatment or are in recovery, and to make recovery services more visible within the campus community. “I have a dream of when [prospective] students are on a tour and someone asks about international relations, the other about a social club and [another] about the recovery system and it just rolls off the tongue,” Wong said.

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Q&A: Folk rock band Saintseneca talks tour, new record by Yas Salon Arts Editor

Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. The rock band, Saintseneca, from Columbus, Ohio, who has been featured on NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert” series and whose track “Happy Alone” (2014) has amassed over 1.4 million streams on Spotify, has experienced acclaim and recognition in both the realm of the folk scene and DIY house show circuit. Ahead of its upcoming tour, during which the band is stopping in Allston to play at Great Scott on Sept. 21, the Tufts Daily sat down with frontman Zac Little. The Tufts Daily (TD): So, you’re going to be back in Boston for the first time in over a year. Are you excited to be playing back in Massachusetts? Zac Little (ZL): I am! I always enjoy playing in Boston. It’s been a good spot for us for a long time, so it’ll be fun to get back there. TD: After Boston, you’re heading back to Columbus, right? ZL: Yeah, that’s right. It’s just a short little East Coast run, and then we have a one-off gig in Columbus before we head out west. TD: Are you excited to be playing back in your hometown? Is there anything different about Columbus gigs than other gigs, especially since you’ve played internationally at this point? ZL: It’s probably the most stressful because everybody knows you and you feel like, you know, your friends and your family are there, and there’s something kind of nice about the anonymity of playing out of town — it feels high stakes. It’s just … wanting to deliver for the people you actually know. TD: What can you say about this tour in comparison to past tours? Is there anything new or exciting people should be looking for? ZL: Well, we just put out a new song, so we’ve got that and we’ve been kind of working on resurrecting some older songs we haven’t had in a set for a while, so that’s been kind of fun — just trying to breathe new life into some material that has been resting for a while. TD: About the new song, “In a Van” — In a Stereogum interview, you said that it was

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The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zac Little from Saintseneca performs on stage in May 2018. inspired by Chris Farley and his “Best Of.” Can you elaborate on how that influenced the songwriting process? ZL: It was one of those things that I didn’t necessarily anticipate writing a song about. I was kind of self conscious about putting it out because it seemed sort of odd to me. But it was just a strange experience where basically I got together with some friends, and we were just hanging out, and we watched the Chris Farley “Best Of,” and I guess I was struck by a couple things. The way that this thing, this documentation of this performance — it’s essentially been the same thing all of the time, throughout time, but it accumulates different meanings throughout time. You know, watching those jokes now, it just has a different read, and I felt like that was kind of interesting, and that being kind of tangled up with feelings of nostalgia and something that was current 25 years ago, or something like that, now feels very situated in a bygone era. I was a little kid when that

stuff was around, but being able to even remember it as a contemporary thing and then look back and be like “woah, this looks old,” is a disorienting experience to some extent. Just personally, too, the whole Chris Farley story is a bittersweet thing, because he’s someone you can see as really talented, but then there’s a sad tinge to it as well just because of his own struggles. TD: In addition to being a songwriter, you’re also a visual artist. Do you find that the mediums ever influence each other? Is there any creative overlap between visual art and music? ZL: I think there’s probably, definitely, all kinds of crossover. It’s sometimes hard to know really exactly what that is for me, but I will say that I’ve always kind of liked the platform that playing music affords for presenting visual art. I went to school for it and I always felt a little bit frustrated sticking things in a white box kind of gallery, and to me it’s a lot more interesting, and I feel that visual work gets to take on a different life and reach more people and

engage more people when it’s in the context of playing music. Maybe it’s making a record cover or making a flyer or poster for a show, or even a t-shirt design, and it’s something that people incorporate into their lives and engage with in a different way than just like, “oh, cool, I saw that thing in a gallery and then I walked away from it.” TD: Saintseneca’s been around for a while — it has a pretty rich history. What’s next for Saintseneca? Can people expect an album in a little while — is there anything on the horizon? ZL: Who knows! I heard someone say once, “to air one’s intentions is to broadcast one’s failure,” so I like to keep the energy in this sort of secret place until it’s ready to come out. But, I don’t know, I’m always working on some stuff, so we’ll what comes of it I suppose. Saintseneca plays at Great Scott in Allston, Mass. on Saturday, Sept. 21, and its new song, “In a Van,” is available on all streaming platforms.

Emmy dates remain stagnant amidst television’s changing timeline by Daniel Klain

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Fox will be televising the 71st annual Emmy Awards for television this Sunday. All of your favorite TV shows will likely get called: “Game of Thrones” (2011–2019), “Succession” (2018–), “Pose” (2018–), “Fleabag” (2016–2019), etc. We get it. There is an overflow of good television. Although this sounds like complaining, the copious level of quality television and how it is distributed has created a problem for the Television Academy: The Emmys are televised at the wrong time of the year. In the era of television 1.0 and 2.0, when all television came to viewers through an actual physical television, every show shared a similar schedule. A typical television season, regardless of genre, would air from September to April or May. Consequently, the Television Academy would air the Emmys in September. It made sense. The shows would be nominated for their previous aired season, still fresh in viewers minds, as the new season began to air. Nowadays this concept feels inconceivable, like asking someone to write you

a letter and send it in the mail. Thanks to streaming television’s conquest of the medium, when television airs is irrelevant. There is no conventional release time or pilot season like there used to be. A show can debut any time of the year it’d like. Just look at the nominees this year: “Ozark” (2017–) season two came out on Aug. 31, 2018 and “Succession” (2018–) aired from June to August 2018. This problem is only exacerbated by how many streaming shows are released all at once. If something comes into the cultural zeitgeist and is there all at once, the schedule that television and the Emmys abide by is even less relevant. Take Netflix’s “Stranger Things” (2016–) as an example. The newest season was released on July 4. Fans of the show downed it over the Independence Day holiday weekend and had a great time doing it. Because of the nomination window and when the Emmys are scheduled, that season will not be eligible for nomination until next year. You’ll be watching the Emmys with your friends and think, “They didn’t release a new season of ‘Stranger Things,’ did they? Season 3? What even happened that season?”

There are even shows from this past year that technically fit into this nomination cycle and deserve their chance but got snubbed at least partially because of when they aired. Sam Esmail’s “Homecoming” (2018–) was dropped on Amazon Prime on Nov. 2, 2018. It was critically acclaimed for its 70’s-paranoia-thriller style and brilliant performances, but then it got a zero Emmy nominations. How does Julia Roberts not at least get a nomination? Could at least some of it be due to recency bias? Only one of the seven actresses nominated for Best Leading Actress in a Drama is nominated for a season that aired before “Homecoming:” Laura Linney in “Ozark” (2017–), and one that came out the same weekend: Robin Wright in “House of Cards” (2013–2018). There is too much good television happening year-round, with each show briefly in our attention span and the cultural discourse and then out the other side, for shows to have to wait a year or more to be rewarded. That brings us to the ultimate and best solution: The Emmys shouldn’t be moved to a different time of the year, but rather duplicated. Rather than continue to revolve around the antiquated television sched-

ule, the Emmys should just reflect a regular calendar. There would be the first Emmys award show for shows that aired or released between January and June. The show could be sometime during July. Then, for shows airing between July and December, there would be an awards show in January. The Television Academy could work with the Motion Picture Academy to find the right time and fit it in around the Golden Globes and Oscars. This schedule could still even accommodate network television shows. After all, the Academy shouldn’t just bow down to the new delivery service entirely. Network television still has the capability to create good television. The July awards show would allow for any show that aired on the traditional September to May schedule to be nominated. With a biannual show, the Television Academy would be forward thinking. It would be staying on top of the ball and more directly inserting itself into the conversation around television shows, something the Academy who gave the Best Picture award to Green Book could learn from.

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Friday, September 20, 2019

After upsetting Trinity, football looks to capture road win against Williams

e probably saw it coming. It had happened last year, too. But not to him. In an away match to Cagliari, Inter Milan’s Romelu Lukaku stepped up for a penalty at the death. The Belgian international paused. He lost focus of the ball, distracted by a noise all too familiar to black players in Europe: monkey chants. Lukaku buried his penalty anyway and stared at the crowd, his face blank. Three white teammates jumped into his arms with euphoria — the last-gasp winner would catapult the Nerazzurri into first place. Lukaku crossed himself, looked up into the sky and jogged back to the halfway line. Most likely, his teammates warned him. Last year, Ivorian-Italian Moise Kean suffered similar chants when he and Juventus visited the island of Sardinia, home of Cagliari. In the post-match press conference, Lukaku said that the game is “going backwards,” and on social media, he pressed soccer federations and social media platforms to punish discrimination with more vehemence. In his message he stated: “we’ve been saying it for years and still no action.” What he didn’t expect? That the Inter ultras — chauvinists who dedicate their lives to the team he joined this summer — would release a statement on their Facebook page that included this: “We are really sorry you thought that what happened in Cagliari was racist. You have to understand that Italy is not like many other North European countries where racism is a REAL problem.” The statement explained that some fans have certain “ways” to “help our teams” and “to try to make our opponents nervous, not for racism but to mess them up. …” Cue the international outcry from BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera. The Italian response was a traditional shrug of “this is how things are, and will be.” Serie A’s investigation into the incident found nothing. Instead, the league will roll out an initiative in October where one player from each team will join an “anti-racism team.” It is unclear how that will stop monkey chants in stadiums. Cagliari released a statement too, providing an excellent example of Orwell’s double-think: “The Club underlines … its intention to identify, isolate and ban those ignorant individuals … [But] Cagliari firmly rejects the outrageous charge and silly stereotypes addressed to Cagliari supporters and the Sardinian people, which are absolutely unacceptable.” Though Mario Balotelli said earlier this year that “racism is much worse in Italy,” players have suffered similar chants in Russia, France and England. In December 2018, Raheem Sterling played in a match for Manchester City against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. As he reached down for a ball out of bounds, Chelsea fans standing less than two yards away launched a screaming tirade of racial abuse towards him. Six months later, Chelsea banned six fans — and one for life — from the stadium. The likelihood of Cagliari doing the same in February? Small. Advocates of black players in the past have argued that the best way to encourage better behavior in stadiums is for leagues to dock points from teams’ season totals. But do football associations care enough about the welfare of their black players to do so? Arlo Moore-Bloom is a junior studying international relations and history. Arlo can be reached at arlo.moore_bloom@tufts.edu.

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Junior kicker Matt Alswanger completes an extra point during Tufts’ 28–21 win over Williams on Oct. 20, 2018. by Henry Molot

Contributing Writer

Heading into the second week of the season, the Tufts football team has already secured what was arguably the program’s biggest win in the last decade, grinding out a 14–8 victory over the Trinity Bantams on a stormy opening day in Medford. The Bantams are familiar with starting the season with a target on their backs, having won three consecutive NESCAC titles. With their win over the defending champions, the Jumbos put themselves in prime position to claim the first NESCAC title of coach Jay Civetti’s career. But, the list of heavyweights doesn’t end with Trinity, as Tufts gears up to play a very competitive Williams team this Saturday in Williamstown, Mass. The Williams Ephs look to get their season back on track after dropping the opener 17–13 to Middlebury. Led by the electric junior quarterback Bobby Maimaron, the Ephs feature a dynamic offense that keeps opposing defenses guessing. In 2018, the Ephs gave the Jumbos an extremely tight contest, with the home-team Jumbos edging out a 28–21 victory. While Maimaron has consistently been a prolific passer, his ability as a dualthreat quarterback allows the Ephs to utilize run-pass options, bootlegs and designed quarterback runs. Senior defensive lineman Kevin Quisumbing spoke about how the Jumbos would combat Maimaron on the field. “He’s a pretty elusive quarterback,” Quisumbing said. “The biggest thing for containing a running quarterback is mostly mental: Just do your job and don’t try to make a highlight play.” In last year’s matchup, Maimaron ran 24 times for 135 yards and a score, while also racking up 107 yards on 18 of 29 passing. The Jumbos can expect a sim-

ilar stat line from Maimaron this year, Civetti explained. “They rely heavily on Maimaron, and they do quite a bit with him,” Civetti said. “He’s arguably the best quarterback in the league, and we need to contain him.” Maimaron’s running ability allows the Ephs to feature a run-heavy offensive attack, but junior wide receiver Frank Stola remains a threat on the outside. Civetti spoke about Stola further. “He’s another top playmaker in our conference,” Civetti said about Stola. “Their [junior] tight end [Justin] Burke is another player who we think could hurt us, and we’re lucky to have a group of guys to rely on to slow them down.” On the defensive line, Jumbo sophomore defensive lineman Jovan Nenadovic will look to apply pressure to Maimaron up front. Coming off a three-sack performance in the opener, Nenadovic will have his hands full containing the shifty playstyle of Maimaron, a Duxbury, Mass., native. Also on the defensive side, the Jumbos have one of the most impactful players in the league in senior linebacker and co-captain Greg Holt, who has already earned three first-team all-NESCAC nods in his collegiate career. While the Tufts defense only allowed six points as a unit in the Trinity game, Quisumbing said there was lots of room for improvement. “We were really sloppy,” Quinsumbing said. “We get graded on production after every game, and everyone was at a C or a C+ maximum.” With sunny skies expected for Saturday, an improvement over the downpour during the Bantams game, expect Holt and the rest of the Jumbos defense to be playing fast and physical against this well-rounded Ephs team. The Ephs also feature a strong linebacker crew themselves, who are a

major point of attention for Civetti and his team. “Their linebacker core is probably the best in the league, they run sideline to sideline really, really well,” Civetti said. In last year’s matchup versus Williams, Civetti tried to keep the Ephs defense on their toes by incorporating gadget plays; the Jumbos scored their winning touchdown on a decisive flea flicker pass following a forced fumble by Holt. “When we get an extra possession and can really capture the momentum, that’s when you’ll see those sorts of plays come up,” Civetti said. The Williams defense also faces a tall task containing some of Tufts’ standouts such as junior running back and co-captain Mike Pedrini and senior tight end Jack Donohue. Following the graduation of quarterback Ryan McDonald, the Jumbos have turned to senior quarterback Jacob Carroll, who threw two touchdown passes in the opener. Consistent with the modern trend in the NFL, Civetti serves as both the coach and offensive coordinator. His play-calling and ability to spark impact players early in the game will be crucial versus a tough Williams defensive unit. So while the season is young, the excitement around campus following the gutsy win over Trinity is palpable. Following three 0–8 seasons to start his career, Civetti has guided the Jumbos within striking distance of the NESCAC crown. “I would hope that our program is at a point where people’s expectations of us are to win games like that and to be competing for a championship,” Civetti said. For Quisumbing and his teammates, they’re simply trying to improve to 2–0 this week. “The biggest thing for us is forgetting about Trinity,” Quinsumbing said. “We’re trying to block that out, and get onto the next one.” Kickoff is set for Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Williamstown.