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A group of prospective Tufts students poses together at Jumbo Days on April 20. by Minna Trinh News Editor

The first-year Class of 2022 is the most diverse in university history, according to an Aug. 29 Tufts Now article. Of domestic students in the Class of 2022, 37 percent identify as students of color, compared to 32 percent of students in the Class of 2021. Five percent

of the students identify as black, seven percent identify as two or more races, eight percent identify as Hispanic and 17 percent identify as Asian. Furthermore, 202 students identify as first-generation college students. Eleven percent of the class are international students. Almost half of the students in the School of Engineering identify as female, reaching near gender parity.

Jianmin Qu, dean of the School of Engineering, noted that last year’s class in the School of Engineering was 44 percent female, while this year’s entering class is 49 percent female. Qu noted this was well above the national average of around 20 percent. “We are excited and proud to see this growth in the number of new women engineers entering the Class of

2022,” Qu told the Daily in an email. “It is our hope that our efforts at improving gender diversity in engineering education will result in gender diversity in the workforce, in STEM fields in particular, as our women graduates move on to become successful engineers, leaders, researchers and scholars.” see 2022 , page 2

ResLife hires Angelic Sosa to help students navigate offcampus housing by Daniel Nelson and Connor Dale

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The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) hired Angelic Sosa as an assistant director of housing operations over the summer. According to Sosa, she assumed her role in July, and will work directly with

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increase in the availability of affordable student housing. Along with the summer launch of an off-campus housing search website, Sosa’s hire represents part of Tufts’ effort to assist students searching for alternatives to living on campus. Sosa previously served in a similar student housing-oriented position in San

Francisco, according to her LinkedIn profile. Working amidst that city’s affordable housing crisis has helped her understand Tufts’ own situation, she said. Armed with a belief that the current campus housing crisis should never get in the

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OCL launches Student Life Channel by Liza Harris News Editor

The Office for Campus Life (OCL) recently announced the creation of a Student Life Channel, a cable television network that will feature content from student groups. There is no cost to submit content, according to Communications and Multimedia Specialist Mickey Toogood. “The Student Life Channel is a free platform available to all ‘AS&E affiliates and affiliated groups,’ meaning that all students, student organizations, faculty and staff within the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering are able to submit advertisements,” Toogood told the Daily in an email. According to Toogood, digital flyers, Youtube videos and advertisements in a variety of file formats can be displayed. The Student Life Channel will not replace any current or previous marketing platforms at Tufts, according to Toogood and Associate Director for Campus Life Ashley Austin. “[The Student Life Channel] is an addition, a new avenue for students and student organizations to advertise events, programs and initiatives,” Toogood said.

“[The channel] won’t replace anything currently, but we’re hoping it allows groups to think of other ways to advertise outside Facebook,” Austin told the Daily in an email. According to Toogood, the channel will feature mostly content from student organizations. In addition, the channel will display announcements and information from the university’s social media accounts, including Tufts’ Student Life Twitter account. “Our hope is that the Student Life Channel will be a student-driven platform, meaning that the majority of content will be submitted by students and student organizations,” Toogood said. “We encourage any student or student organization who is looking to advertise an event or raise awareness about a program or initiative to submit an advertisement … The channel will also feature important academic calendar dates and hours of operation for major campus facilities.” According to Austin, student groups will have the chance to learn more about the channel and the submission process during the OCL Executive Seminar, a meeting presented by OCL for executive members of student organizations, on Sept. 12 and 13. Student groups will also have the opportunity

to learn more about the channel during event registration. Some student groups, including the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, are already planning on making use of the channel. According to TCU Historian Rebeca Becdach, TCU Senate may use the channel to communicate important messages to the Tufts community. “It’s great that there’s going to be an easy interface where students can find student groups’ events in a central location,” Becdach, a sophomore, told the Daily in an electronic message. “Senate will expand our communications methods to [the Student Life Channel] if there are important messages we want students to hear.” Toogood and his colleagues are optimistic about the channel’s ultimate results. “Our hope is that the channel will provide useful, timely, topical information about what’s happening on campus and will help connect students, as well as faculty and staff,” Toogood said. Students can submit their content via tufts.orcatv.com, Student Life Channel’s website, according to a Jumbo Digest email sent out Sept. 2.

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continued from page 1 The Class of 2022 received the most financial aid in school history. The total amount of need-based grants was $25.8 million. This increase came with an 3.76 percent increase in tuition and fees from the previous year. The Class of 2022 also includes 95 students enrolled in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA), including 53 students enrolled in the

BFA + BA/BS combined degree program. Furthermore, Tufts’ 1+4 Fellowship program, a gap year of community service led by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, enrolled 20 students, who will matriculate after serving abroad or in the United States. Karen Richardson, dean of admissions and enrollment management, told the Daily in an email that the university is committed to recruiting a diverse class, like the Class of 2022. She also noted that the diversity of the first-year

class will add to the Tufts’ experience. “The Class of 2022, based on their experiences growing up in other parts of the world, having attended different types of schools, and having had different life experiences, will add to the rich fabric that already exists here on campus,” Richardson said. “We’re proud of this class. It represents all that is good about Tufts, and we’re excited to see how our newest community members learn and grow during their time here.”

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way of students’ pursuit of a Tufts education, Sosa explained that she will use her resources and knowledge to help students navigate the off-campus housing landscape. Associate Director of Housing Operations Matt Austin oversees Sosa’s work, and helped to create the position she now fills. Austin said that the university “saw a very large unmet need” in its relationship with students that pursue off-campus housing. Austin described a range of issues that students looking to move off campus face but are often unacquainted with: They have to understand the terms of their lease; they need to know what resources and services their landlords might need to provide them; they need to be made aware of their legal options if they run into trouble with their lease. Sosa will be the university’s lead in educating students on these issues and more, according to Austin. “Whether students are looking to start the process of going off campus or folks that are currently off campus just need a better understanding of what that looks like and what their rights and responsibilities are as tenants, [Sosa] is their person,” Austin said. Sosa said that she is planning a series of

talks and discussions to help students navigate the complex process of living beyond the Hill. She noted that these talks are for both students already living off-campus as well as those who plan to in the future. These planned talks are themselves the product of feedback from students and Tufts Community Union (TCU) senators, according to Austin. He described his vision for the series of talks. “We want to have two in-person [talks] per month, but also things like Facebook Live events where if somebody can’t make it they’ll be able to access it,” Austin said. To decide what to cover in her talks, Sosa said that she will survey students on their current experiences with living off campus. Even the off-campus “horror stories,” as Sosa termed it, will be of use. “I don’t want to approach [this role] from the aspect of ‘as an administrator I know what’s best for you,'” Sosa explained. “I want to know what [students] are dealing with, and I want to know how can I help [them] in [their] particular situation.” Sosa’s hiring was well received by THL, whose recent efforts to rally the student body against what it considers unaffordable on-campus housing prices — specifically those planned as a part of the tiered-housing system, which comes into effect in the 2019– 2020 academic year — complement the group’s larger goal of minimizing students’ disruption of the surround-

ing Medford and Somerville residential communities. “We definitely welcome the hiring of [Sosa] because a designated person for off-campus housing has always been a big thing that was missing from the resource profile of the ResLife office,” THL member Jonah Schwartz said. “We look forward to her helping students make sure that off-campus housing is safe, pointing students to landlords with healthy living standards and maybe even offering legal advice in the future.” Schwartz, a senior, reiterated THL’s concerns regarding off-campus housing. “Now that the university has worked so hard on off-campus housing, we hope they pivot back to on-campus housing,” Schwartz said. “Again, [THL] hopes that it isn’t the position of the university to simply push students off campus.” Austin said that while the university has no desire to move students off campus, it will be there to help those who want to pursue off-campus options. “There still is going to be some degree of students who are living off campus, so we want to make sure that they have the right tools and education in place that allow them to have a successful leasing experience off campus,” Austin said. To that end, Sosa said that she is available for appointments to discuss individual concerns, in addition to organizing talks and resources on off-campus housing.

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‘Museum of Capitalism’ gives reactionary, multi-faceted response to U.S. economics by Setenay Mufti Arts Editor

The traveling “Museum of Capitalism” exhibit currently on display at the Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) describes itself as “an institution dedicated to educating present and future generations about the history, philosophy, and legacy of capitalism through exhibitions, research, and publication.” In reality, it is a thorough and biting critique of capitalism through art installations as well as representations of capitalism displayed like relics. To argue against the entire system of capitalism is controversial, in part because so many alternatives (feudalism, or communist governments in Russia and China) have resulted in brutal regimes in the past. But that does not mean we must accept the status quo, and this exhibit argues that if we really do believe in the American dream, we should not accept it. As the exhibit progresses, we see that many contemporary problems that arose from capitalism are not controversial at all; in fact, they are self-evident. Those in power — be it economic, societal, political or any combination thereof — do not voluntarily relinquish power. And why should they, when they

benefit from the system they control? The problem, the museum points out, is that the capitalist system consolidates wealth and power in the hands of the few, while many continue to suffer. The Museum of Capitalism is a tribute to the casualties of the system. Lining the outside of the exhibit (which is divided into two gallery spaces) is a series of plaques describing different forms and subdivisions of capitalism, like Neo-Liberal Capitalism, State Capitalism and PhilanthroCapitalism. This provides a useful background into what capitalism is and how it manifests in history, and is the least subjective commentary on capitalism in the whole exhibit. But right inside those walls is a microstudy of capitalism’s consequences in our society. These range from the obvious, like relics from the housing crisis and mass bailout of the banks in 2008 and plastic embedded into rocks from Hawaii. Others are insidious, like the Mattel’s depiction of a Barbie dream house as a glorification of capital and the post-war nuclear household. And others are outright and interactive in the museum, like the wry commemorative coin machine that will take your $1.01 and return a stamped penny with anti-capitalist slogans on it. Users can turn a crank that

dispenses a penny every 4 seconds, in time with the Massachusetts minimum wage of $11 per hour of labor. Some of the exhibit pieces are unsubtle to a fault. A piece titled “Core Samples” attempts to show the future fossils of today, depicted as iPhones, batteries and other pieces of technology preserved in resin. Although beautifully constructed, attacking smartphones as a representation of our current detachment from reality under modern capitalism is such a tired point it almost reads as parody. “Library of Tears” depicts oil, gasoline and other ecologically damaging fuels as filled glass teardrops, which comes across as an overeager grasp for an emotional response. And closest to the exhibit entrance, the American flag made out of police alert lights speaks more to America and our identity as a police state than capitalism itself: a tenuous and unclear association for the majority of people who have not investigated capitalism and its alternatives in depth. But it also highlights many overlooked facets of capitalism’s effects, particularly on American culture. One of the most significant is a wall of commentary and photographs of the Poor People’s Campaign and March on Washington in 1968, organized by

Martin Luther King Jr. (whom many forget had a staunch disapproval of capitalism). Another is a binder filled with congratulation letters after an IBM employee’s retirement, which illuminates the transformation of workplace culture into a false sense of “family,” and a paradoxical glorification of hard work and eventual freedom from its necessity. The Museum of Capitalism is at its most moving and effective when it delves into personal narratives. One section of the video series “We Build Excitement” depicts laid-off auto factory workers miming the physical work they used to do day to day. Another video portrays the fascinating and brilliant perspective of an incarcerated woman who, in an almost literary irony, is paid only 65 cents an hour to sew American flags in the prison sweatshop. She undoes her own work and tears the flag apart stripe by stripe, declaring, “This flag does represent that people can change and everyone deserves a second change … [but] this is what happens to the lives of the have-nots in America. They get shredded. I know because I was one.” The Museum of Capitalism is on view at the SMFA August 29–October 25, in the Grossman Gallery. Admission is free and open to the public.

FILM REVIEW

‘Scarred Hearts’ surveys into the universal destination of human life by Ruijingya Tang

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The Museum of Fine Arts is hosting five screenings of the 2016 Romanian film “Scarred Hearts,” directed by Radu Jude, from Sept. 2–16. Adapted from the Romanian author Max Blecher’s biographical novel of the same name, the film portrays the experience of Emanuel (Lucian Teodor Rus), a hospitalized Romanian college student who suffers from Pott disease, a form of tuberculosis in the spine. As the film recounts the tragic decline of Emanuel’s health, it demonstrates his intense desire to live, even in the face of inevitable death. Emanuel repeatedly turns to sex to remind himself of the passionate nature of life. Upon arriving at the sanatorium, Emanuel meets and falls in love with Solange (Ivana Mladenovic), a beautiful former patient. Their relationship quickly advances into a sexual one, a progression which Solange at first denies, fearing that it will exacerbate Emanuel’s disease. Midway through his relationship with Solange, Emanuel begins to develop a close friendship with Isa (Ilinca Harnut), another patient at the sanatorium, and eventually seduces her as well. By intimately associating himself with yet another warm body, Emanuel attempts to keep a firm grasp on life, even as it slips through his fingers. Despite Emanuel’s desperation to remain alive, the concept of death makes its presence clear throughout the film, although in euphemistic ways; one

of the film’s many intertitles describes Emanuel as suffering from “immense abandonment.” This theme also pertains to the physical presence of our body, since a motif of confinement and immobility recurs throughout the film. For example, to prevent Emanuel’s spine condition from worsening, the doctors use a plaster mold to stabilize Emanuel’s upper torso. Upon first wearing the mold, Emanuel says that it makes him look like a “statue.” The film was shot in the Academy (1.375:1) ratio, which means that, in most contemporary theaters, portions of the screen on both the left and the right sides remain dark throughout the screening. This use of the ratio creates a sense of vintage, like it does in “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014), and puts us back in 1930s, when the Academy ratio was the norm in the industry. In addition, it adds to the film’s sense of confinement by providing claustrophobic look into Emanuel’s confined life within the plaster cast. In the end, the film does not cast an entirely desolate light on life. Following a despairing but realistic and climactic 10-minute take on the fate of Emanuel’s health, the film’s closing credits accompany the singing of morning birds – the start of another cycle of life. This subtle but ingenious touch at the very end of the film models the transcendentalist belief that death, as hopeless and unavoidable as it may seem, is not any type of permanent termination. Rather, it is part of a more grandiose, cosmic level of life.

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Tufts must support Group of Six by filling vacancies, increasing center staff The Group of Six, which promotes events, discussion and community through the lens of social identities, is critically important for Tufts students looking to access the unique resources and support systems that its centers offer. The Group of Six is made up of the Africana Center, the Asian American Center, the FIRST Resource Center, the Latino Center, the LGBT Center and the Women’s Center. It is commendable that Tufts has taken steps to support first-generation, low-income and undocumented students through the establishment of the FIRST Center as the newest addition to the Group of Six. The FIRST Center was launched by the Office for Student Success and Advising (OSSA) as an effort to provide first-generation, low-income and undocumented students with a space to foster community, share experiences and promote access to social, professional and academic resources.

Despite this significant improvement to the scope of the Group of Six, there is much work to be done. There are still vacant positions in the centers’ leadership. Since the departure of former Women’s Center director K. Martinez in April, that position has yet to be filled. This lack of leadership is detrimental to campus life, considering the important role that the Women’s Center plays for many. While Fatima Blanca Munoz — a former staff assistant for both the Women’s Center and the Asian American Center — has been serving as interim program administrator for the Women’s Center, a permanent director must be hired to fully accommodate student need and to lead programming so other staff can focus on day-to-day administrative tasks. The Women’s Center is an important space that provides community, opportunities for discussion

and programs that encourage student leadership on campus. Although it is necessary to take time and care when choosing a new director, finding one must be prioritized in order to provide students with stable, comprehensive support and resources. Other Group of Six vacancies include a staff assistant position for the Latino and LGBT Centers, both of which are located at Bolles House. The hiring process for this position has been ongoing since the end of the fall 2017 semester, when former staff assistant Janin Alfonso left the role. Ensuring that the Latino and LGBT Centers are fully staffed will enable them to sponsor more educational programming, prioritize student accessibility and more effectively provide resources to the Tufts community. The Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate passed a resolution in

April calling on the university to fill empty positions in the then-Group of Seven centers as soon as possible. The resolution also called on Tufts to hire a full-time director, associate director and full-time administrative assistant for each center. Adding more staff to the Group of Six would also significantly reduce the workload of existing staff and student interns, who are currently responsible for running all aspects of the centers, including fundraising, organizing educational programming and other daily operations. Tufts must affirm its commitment to promoting diversity and creating safe, valuable community spaces for students of all identities and backgrounds. An important first step toward accomplishing this goal is to provide Group of Six centers with the staff and resources they need to effectively serve their communities.

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After 13 white male deans, Fletcher students say ‘it’s time’ Editor’s note: The Daily obtained the letter printed below in a Sept. 10 email to the university administration from the six individuals identified as the organizers of the effort. Immediately after Admiral James Stavridis’ announcement that he would step down as dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Sophie Pouget (F ‘18) posted on Facebook urging graduates to pen a letter to the school administration: “It’s about time, don’t you think,” she asked, raising the concern that the next dean would be the 14th white man in a row. The alumni thread ran thick with responses, leading to the letter shared below which was signed by 329 members of The Fletcher School community and pushes for a woman or person of color as the next school dean. Organizers of the effort included alumni Sophie Pouget, Susie Hayward (LA ‘02, F ‘06), Rahul Chandran (F ‘06), Josh Newton (F ‘06, F ‘14), Bernard Burrola (F ‘07) and myself — our experiences spanning from humanitarian relief to inter-faith organizing to journalism focused on women and beyond. Under Admiral Stavridis’ tenure as dean, the school appointed its first female chair of the Board of Advisors; the search that led to his appointment was chaired by then-Provost David R. Harris, an AfricanAmerican man. Given the extraordinary history of The Fletcher School, the diversity of the students, and the commitment of the administration, we are confident that our letter and suggested list of candidates will be thoughtfully considered. The Fletcher School has made important advances for women’s representation, as reported in Pacific Standard, yet there is more work to do. Meg K. Guliford, in an important op-ed published Tuesday in The Washington Post, highlights the dearth of women of color who carry the title of full professor in international relations, as well as the racial bias she has faced as a Ph.D. candidate at Fletcher. The letter below was written in coordination with the Fletcher Women’s Network, a group that has been active in

advocating for gender representation at the school. Letter to the Tufts administration Sept. 10, 2018 To: Anthony Monaco, President of Tufts University Deborah T. Kochevar, Provost and Senior Vice President ad interim, Tufts University Lisbeth Tarlow, Chair, The Fletcher School Board of Advisors The Fletcher Search Committee The Fletcher School Board of Advisors Dear President Monaco, Provost Kochevar, Dr. Tarlow, and Members of the Fletcher Board of Advisors and the Fletcher Search Committee, As students and alumni of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, we applaud Admiral Stavridis’ leadership and accomplishments as he steps down as dean. In particular, we highlight Dr. Tarlow, Admiral Stavridis, and Fletcher board and staff’s emphasis on elevating women among school leadership and through the curriculum, and we urge the committee formed to nominate the next dean to build on this legacy. The Fletcher School is beloved by students and alumni alike, both as a standard-bearing international relations graduate program, and as a school and community that embody the principles of globalism, diversity and modernization. Yet in our prestigious 85-year history, all 13 deans have been men and none were people of color. This does not reflect the United States, the wider world or our student body. In the 2017 matriculating class, women composed 52 percent of those enrolled, 21 percent of American students identified as an ethnic minority and 36 percent of our students came from outside the United States. We, the undersigned 329 members of the Fletcher community comprising stu-

dents from the graduating classes of 1964 to the present, write you now with this message: It is time. Our peer institutions — the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs — all have, or have had, revered female leadership and/or leadership by a person of color in the Dean’s Office. The deans at Fletcher have made incredible contributions to the school, including our outgoing Dean’s purposeful support of our first female chair of the Board of Advisors, of the student and professor-led movement for gender studies and for more female professors on the tenure track. And yet, we say, it is time. As the work of Dr. Thania Paffenholz and organizations such as the International Peace Institute have repeatedly shown, international peace and security processes are more effective when they are representative; businesses, as well, have been shown to be more successful when women are in positions of corporate leadership. We expect that diverse leadership will similarly bring positive outcomes to The Fletcher School. A leader who is a woman and/or a person of color will bring a new set of experiences that will move the school forward in exciting directions, sending a powerful signal to prospective students that all are equally valued within the school’s community. Diversity and inclusion are core and necessary values in the field of international affairs. Diverse leadership will underscore these values as well as the school’s commitment to ensuring that the next generation of global leaders are thoughtful about and responsive to the powerful ways that gender, race, ethnicity, and other forms of identity and experience can shape diplomacy. The Fletcher School has the distinguished history of being the first graduate

school for international relations in the United States, founded in 1933. In its own words, The Fletcher School was created as “an act of hope in a time of despair and a boost to internationalism in a time of isolationism.” The Fletcher School has another historic opportunity to embrace a forward-leaning and global approach to diplomacy, inclusive and in line with the school’s best tradition. There is no shortage of qualified candidates for this position who are women and people of color. Knowing that The Fletcher School’s leadership welcomes this letter and appreciates the importance of diversity at every level of the institution, we offer this letter in partnership and support, including a list of potentially qualified candidates as suggested by alumni. This letter was written in coordination with the Executive Committee of the Fletcher Women’s Network. We suggest the following names for consideration (examples offered for consideration, this is not an exhaustive or universally endorsed list), as we believe these people reflect the values and interests of The Fletcher School community:

Mimi Alemayehou, F ’98 Amb. Barbara Bodine, F ’71 Pres. Laura Chinchilla Sec. Hillary Clinton Dr. Karen Donfried, F ’88, F ’91 Dr. Helene Gayle Amb. Swanee Hunt Amb. Roberta S. Jacobson, F ’86 The Rt. Hon. Michaëlle Jean Special Rep. Rachel Kyte, F ’02 Alexia Latortue, F ’97 Farah Pandith, F ’95 Amb. Samantha Power Amb. Susan Rice

Respectfully submitted. Xanthe Scharff (F '06, F '11) is the co-founder and executive director of The Fuller Project, a journalism organization that reports on women. Scharff can be reached at xanthe.scharff@gmail.com

CORRECTION A previous version of the Sept. 10 article “BTS finds ‘Answer’ to questions of self-love in final album of ‘Love Yourself’ series” has been updated to state that BTS’ album, “Love Yourself: Answer,” contains seven new tracks. A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that there are only six new tracks in the album. The Daily regrets this error.

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Molly Pleskus (E ‘18) and senior co-captain Sabrina Van Mell sail in a regatta hosted by Boston University on April 16, 2017.

Tufts off to strong start on the water sent two teams, each with A and B fleets, and managed fifth and seventh overall finishes over the two-day weekend in the crowded, 15-team field. That didn’t stop the Jumbos’ second B fleet from storming away with multiple first-place finishes, while the top A and B fleets managed to snag a victory apiece over 12 races. Back in Massachusetts, Tufts competed at the Toni Deutsch ‘58 regatta, hosted by MIT

and named after Toni Deutsch, the first female athlete to be awarded a varsity letter at the school. The Jumbos did more than just honor an athletic legend, as both their A and B fleets amassed totals of 83 points over 13 races. The A fleet secured a first-place finish in the eighth race, to boot, as Tufts finished sixth overall. The regattas will come thick and fast over the fall season, so there will be no letting up for Legler’s squad. Fortunately for the Jumbos, there’s a new influx of talent hoping to ease some of the pressure on the more experienced members of the team.

“We have around 25 [first-years] right now, so the team has had a new energy since the beginning of school,” Bitney said. “Everyone is very excited for the fall season to come, especially the walk-on crews who are learning what sailing is all about.” Sophomore Jacob Whitney was equally impressed by the depth of talent present in the first-year class. “Crews like [first-years] Ann Sheridan and Jessica Friedman show a lot of promise,” Whitney said. “We hope they [continue to] adjust well to college sailing. We’ve

been integrating the [first-years] into both practices and regattas as much as we can, and the team seems more and more at ease with such a large freshman class.” Next week, Tufts will head up to Brunswick, Maine for the Nicholas Barnett Trophy. Both the co-ed and women’s teams will also be competing at the New England Single-handed Championship, hosted by Boston College. One risks getting clocked by the “boom” if they let down their guard on the season’s high-paced activity.

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continued from page 12 season, has scored six goals in three games to lead the conference. However, Lloyd was quick to attribute the team’s success to a collective effort. “We have an immense amount of depth on our team, and we were able to learn to play with each other so quickly,” Lloyd said. “Every player has been contributing a lot at both the practices and the games. We go into every game with the goal of being better than the last time we played. It will be difficult to keep up these kinds of wins but we look forward to taking each game as it comes.”

Tufts’ season got off to the fastest start possible at Emerson (3–1) on Wednesday, as it took all of one minute and eight seconds for Lloyd to the find the back of the net off of Reed’s assist, the first of four Reed chalked up to start the season. Tufts never relinquished its lead or its stranglehold on the momentum of the game, outshooting Emerson 11–3 in the first half. However, Tufts went into halftime up only 1–0. The floodgates opened quickly for the Jumbos in the second half, as junior midfielder Jenna Troccoli and Lloyd added to the scoring tally within the first 12 minutes. Junior Ashley Latona brought the score to 4–0 a little

more than 10 minutes later to complete the scoring. Based on its opening games, it seems clear that the team is poised to make a run at the NESCAC title and hopefully a deep postseason push. The depth of the lineup has been particularly impressive, with the sophomores and first-years providing a huge spark, but much credit must be given to the senior leadership. “The seniors this year have seamlessly integrated all of the classes into the team while maintaining a very high work ethic,” Lloyd said. “The captains have been tremendously well organized, they have definitely had a huge roll in our early success.”

Corley, a member of that all-important senior class, spoke to the importance of team chemistry both on and off the field for Tufts’ early success. “I think the younger players notice how close the seniors are off the field and are seeing how the friendships are making us better on the field,” said Corley. “All of the classes below us have been putting in a lot of effort into making the team a cohesive unit and its been working extremely well so far.” Tufts play host in all its fixtures for the rest of this month, starting with Wesleyan tonight at 6:30 p.m. on Bello Field. The Jumbos then host the Bates Bobcats on Saturday.

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Sophomore Harry Theodore sinks a putt on the 12th hole in the NESCAC Qualifier at Indian Hill Golf Club in Newington, Conn. on Sept. 30, 2017.

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continued from page 12 Karr echoed this sentiment, adding that while the team’s competition will be very difficult this year, he believes it is capable of contending with a plethora of talented opponents. “It’s always nice to be able to contribute in any event,” Karr told the Daily in an email. “This was a very good start to the

season for us and showed a lot of promise, but scores across the board were lower this year. Guys have been putting in work across the conference. We know that we have a lot of work to do to win and ultimately get to Nationals, but we’re all really excited about the journey. We have a lot of young [first-year] talent and experience in returners. I’m looking forward to watching the new guys get comfortable and seeing them post some low numbers.”

Tufts finished its opening tournament of the 2018–19 campaign with an overall score of 611 (35-over-par). Host Trinity won handily with a 4-under 572. The Jumbos saw strong performances out of returning and new members alike — an especially promising sign for the first event of the season. Feldman believes that if the team continues to play well and improve on its mistakes, it can achieve impressive heights.

“The team’s expectations involve getting better from one week to the next,” Feldman said. “We should keep the positives from the prior week and improve upon our negatives. If each person on the team can achieve this individually, the only place to go for the team is up.” Tufts will tee off at Middlebury’s Ralph Myhre Golf Course this weekend for the annual Duke Nelson Invitational.

Tufts sailing circumnavigates New England on busy opening weekend by Jeremy Goldstein Assistant Sports Editor

The Jumbos participated in an impromptu geography lesson to kick off their Fall season, setting sail all across New England in an action-packed first weekend. The team participated in six regattas between Saturday and Sunday, bringing home solid results despite shaking off some of the summer rust. Senior co-captain Ian Morgan was part of the Jumbos’ team at the Harry H. Anderson Jr. regatta at Yale for the “Connecticut leg” of the weekend. Tufts sent both A and B fleets, who collectively placed eighth out of 16 teams in the field. Tufts’ notable performances at Yale included a second-place finish for the B team in

the tenth race of the weekend and thirdplace results by the A team in the 13th and 15th races to finish on a strong note. Senior co-captain Jack Bitney headlined Tufts’ performance in Maine’s frigid waters at the Penobscot Bay Open, hosted by Maine Maritime. Despite a cold northerly wind, Tufts sailed its way to a second-place finish out of 11 competing teams. The B fleet led the Jumbos’ effort, managing a cumulative score of 27 points over 13 races — best of all 11 teams competing in the B division. Bitney stated that the team had to deal with challenging conditions but could be pleased with its overall performance. “We won B [division] and got second overall … Our hope was to win, but we were just edged out by [Boston College],”

Bitney told the Daily in an email. “Wind was medium (8 to 12 mph) Saturday and light (3 to 6 mph) Sunday. Because of the land features in the bay, [the] wind was shifty, meaning you [had to] be more aware of breeze direction changes over boat speed on the course.” On its home course at Mystic Lake, coach Ken Legler’s hosted the Tufts University Invitational on Sunday. Two Tufts teams — each with A and B division participants — sailed in the regatta, with “Jumbos 1” placing second and “Jumbos 2” finishing sixth. The former’s A division team, skippered by sophomore Wells Drayton with first-year Jessica Friedman as crew, garnered in an impressive score of 44, highlighted by three first-place finishes in just nine races.

Tufts also participated in the Harman Cup over the weekend, another two-day regatta at Maine Maritime. The Jumbos finished the event in fourth position after losing the head-to-head tiebreaker to local rival Northeastern. Just one fleet sailed at the Harman Cup, with senior Sam Shea skippering and the triumvirate of firstyear Ansgar Jordan and sophomores Bram Brakman and Lindsay Powers on crew. Despite only competing in just eight races, the team managed to string together a trio of top-three finishes. Senior co-captain Sabina Van Mell, continued Tufts’ New England tour at Roger Williams in Bristol, Rhode Island for the Mt. Hope Bay Invite. The Jumbos again see SAILING, page 10

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Sophomore midfielder Sophie Lloyd takes on a defender in Tufts’ 1–0 loss to Lesley on Oct. 17, 2017. by Onat Tarimcilar Staff Writer

Through one week of the 2018 season, Tufts is off to as good a start as it could have imagined. In the span of five days, the Jumbos racked up three wins and an 11–0 total scoring margin. With convincing wins over all three of its opponents — away at Emerson and Colby, and at home against Keene State — the team proved its ability to win on the road and comfortably handle non-conference and NESCAC opponents alike. The team returned a core group of players from its 2017 campaign despite graduating five seniors, making the hot start unsurprising.

“We were all very confident coming into the year, given how many contributors we had coming back, but we know that we can still get even better,” senior defender Jamie Corley said. Senior goalkeeper Emily Bowers agreed, adding that this year’s fast start came off the back of the hard work done last year. Bowers, a four-year starter and third-team All-American selection last year, has already recorded three clean sheets. She attributes the success to her defensive teammates in front of her, namely Corley, junior Sarah Maloney and senior Taylor Koscho. “We created a really strong foundation to build off of in 2017, so we set our goals for this year higher than they’ve been in the past,” Bowers said. “We have 11 goals

and three shutouts so the results speak for themselves. It just shows that we are continuing to get better as a team and are finding ways to improve.” The most emphatic victory of the three games came on Sunday afternoon, with Tufts winning in a dominant, 5–0 performance in its home opener against Keene State (1–2). Bowers earned her easiest shutout of the season as she faced no shots on goal, while sophomore Sophie Lloyd produced her third straight multigoal game as she put Tufts ahead on 16:30. Junior midfielder Izzy Moore then doubled Tufts’ lead with her first career goal, a beautiful shot struck from nearly 30 yards out. Sophomore defender/midfielder Hannah Isenhart accomplished the same feat with the final goal of the game

in the 84th minute. Sandwiched between these goals was Lloyd’s second of the match, as well as sophomore Liz Reed’s first of the season. The day before, Tufts claimed victory in its first conference game of the season, winning 2–0 at Colby (1–1). Lloyd was equally impressive, as she converted both Tufts goals, one in each half, while Bowers easily thwarted all three shots on goal that Colby mustered. Most of the game was dictated by the Tufts offense, which racked up 16 shots on goal. Lloyd, who came into the year with high expectations of her own after being named NESCAC Rookie of the Year last see WOMEN'S SOCCER, page 11

Golf team posts strongest start in over a decade by Ethan Zaharoni

Assistant Sports Editor

Tufts opened up its 2018 campaign at the two-day Bill Detrick Invitational, hosted by Trinity College, where it recorded a fourth-place finish. This is the team’s best start to a season since 2007, when it took third place at the Bowdoin Invitational. Host Trinity, the defending NESCAC champions, fielded two teams — one of which took an 11-shot lead after the first day. Senior Will Rosenfield, who was crucial to the Bantams’ success in last year’s conference tournament, led the way at the Detrick Invitational, as one of only three players to record scores under par in Saturday’s first round. Rosenfield’s

teammate, senior Joseph Ladd, trailed closely with a 1-under 71 performance on Day 1. The Jumbos’ combined first-round score of 301 put them in third place — just one stroke behind the second-place Babson Beavers — after the first round. Senior co-captain Justin Feldman sat in a tie for sixth overall, shooting a 2-over-par 74 in the first round to lead the Jumbos. Junior Brandon Karr finished tied for ninth at 3-over par, while classmate Ethan Sorkin finished tied for 15th at 4-over. Tufts’ younger golfers also impressed. In his first-ever collegiate tournament, first-year John Bredahl shot an opening-round 76, while sophomore Henry

Hughes recorded a 5-over-par 77 to tie for 20th. While a slight dip in performance on Sunday dropped Tufts to fourth overall, Karr improved on his first-round performance, shooting a 1-over-par 73 to finish the tournament at 4-over-par, good for ninth place. However, Karr was one of only two Jumbos to post a better score on Day 2. Feldman shot a 77 to finish at 7-over par for the tournament and in a tie for 14th, while Bredahl shot a 78 to tie for 18th at 10-over. Hughes struggled to get going on Sunday, posting a 10-over 82. Hughes and Sorkin (11-over on Day 2) finished in a tie for 30th with matching scores of 15-over 159.

Meanwhile, Amherst posted 16-over 304 for the second straight day to leapfrog Tufts into third place. While the Jumbos will take satisfaction from their performance, a host of Sunday missteps should serve as a positive learning experience. “Performing well as a team in our first tournament of the year is a huge confidence boost that will carry us to our next weekend at Middlebury,” Feldman said. “It’s a good first step towards our main Fall goal of qualifying for the NESCAC Championship. We still have work to do, but this past weekend is hopefully a good sign of what is yet to come.” see GOLF, page 11