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TCU special election fills positions amid low turnout The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held a special election yesterday in order to fill several positions which were left open at the end of the fall semester.

Junior Kathryn Mueller won the only contested position, the Tufts Community Union judiciary (TCU-J) open seat, with 47 percent of the votes, Ryan Hartney, head of public relations for the Election Commission (ECOM), said.

Three students competed for the position, he said.

According to Hartney, a total of 429 people voted in the election, or 7.45 percent of the school.

“The numbers are very disappointing though it was expected to a certain degree, since these elections took place in the middle of the year just to fill in some empty positions,” Hartney, a sophomore, said.

Among the uncontested seats, Daniella DiPaola filled a Junior

Class Council seat, which falls under Programming Board, Hartney said.

Tafari Duncan, a sophomore, took the open seat on the Committee on Student Life (CSL), he added.

Juniors Michael Zalesne, Caroline Higley, Daniel Vargas and sophomore Brad Mullen have filled three Junior Senate seats and one Sophomore Senate seat, respectively, Hartney said.

First-years Ania Ruiz and Vintus Okonkwo and sophomore Alexander Trubowitz have garnered the open, paid positions on the Election Commission, which are application-based.

Hartney explained that the election was planned for Tuesday, Feb. 3, but the election was postponed to the next day due to weather-related difficulties.

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Conference today to explore application of humanism

by Patrick McGrath News Editor

Tonight the Tufts Experimental College (ExCollege), the Humanist Chaplaincy at Tufts, the Tufts Freethought Society and the Boston Area Coalition of Reason will host a conference on humanism in the Tufts Interfaith Center.

The organizations developed the idea to teach community members about humanism and the application of its values in everyday life, Humanist in Residence Walker Bristol said.

“We wanted to have us all available to speak to this idea of what does it mean to put your values in action, and how are different chaplains doing it?” Bristol said. “A lot of people on campus have a lot of questions about humanism.”

Hugh Taft-Morales, leader of the Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia and the Baltimore Ethical Society, will deliver the keynote lecture. Vanessa Zoltan, assistant humanist chaplain at the Humanist Community at Harvard University, and Jason Heap, national coordinator for the United Coalition of Reason, will participate in a panel discussion, according to Bristol.

In the fall, Marcy Regalado, office assistant and board member at the ExCollege, said she talked about bringing TaftMorales to speak on campus, noting that she knows Taft-Morales personally.

“It really opens my eyes to collaboration and how people from two different theologies can still hold a conversation and still agree on issues that are occurring in

the United States and around the world,” Regalado, a senior, said.

“That’s the kind of connection that I’ve had with [Taft-Morales].”

Bristol, Regalado and President of Tufts Freethought Society Kumar Ramanathan, a senior, worked together to develop the event. She added that the conference will provide a platform to address the greater Tufts community.

“The questions in general for the panel discussion will explore … what does putting your values in action mean to you and what have your experiences in chaplaincy led you to understand about putting your values in action?” Bristol said.

Regalado said she hopes to continue the discussion on how to incorporate personal or community values into social action.

“I think Tufts should have a different avenue of how they talk about social injustices and just being a proactive individual,” she said. “Tufts prides itself on active citizenship, right? And how are we doing that?”

Tufts Freethought Society had lobbied for a humanist chaplain on campus for several years, Ramanathan said.

“The idea was just that the sort of services and resources provided by the Chaplaincy could be expanded, could be inclusive of more students,” he said.

Ramanathan explained that since the Humanist in Residence position is still fairly new, the group is still figuring out different ways to collaborate and events it can plan to build a community. see HUMANISM, page 2

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Tufts Climate Action traveled to New York City to participate in the People’s Climate March on Sept.

21, 2014.

Tufts Climate Action starts next chapter under new moniker

by Lily Hartzell Contributing Writer

Tufts Divest, a student, alumni and faculty-comprised coalition that advocates for Tufts’ divestment from fossil fuels, is starting a new chapter this school year under a new name: Tufts Climate Action.

Senior Evan Bell, a physics major, is one of the club coordinators and has been a leader in the club’s transition.

“We decided we’d give it another shot, we’d rebrand, we’d do something different,” Bell said.

Bell said that the club changed its name with the goal of rebranding to encompass a wider variety of issues related to the climate.

“We said a way we can approach this is by being as diverse as we always are. Tufts Divest was never just about divestment, so Tufts Climate Action, even if in name only, is just understanding that and recognizing that we do varied kinds of work,” he said.

The club is now divided into several working groups, united by the shared goal of contributing to climate justice. Students run campaigns to increase the presence of climate change in Tufts’ curriculum, oppose natural gas projects and examine how Tufts and its students interact with the agricultural industry.

There are about 25 total people in the club, which, according to Bell, is a big increase since the see CLIMATE, page 2

VICEfest introduces students to ice climbing

by Daniel Bottino News Editor

The Tufts Mountain Club (TMC) partnered with the Vertical Ice Climbing Enthusiasts (VICE) to organize and host the sixth annual Vertical Ice Climbing Enthusiasts’ Fest (VICEfest) at the TMC Loj in Woodstock, N.H. this past weekend.

According to Jeffrey Longcor (LA ’07), VICEfest’s primary organizer, VICE was first organized in 2008 as a subgroup of TMC and has since grown significantly.

“Since our founding, we have grown from a small, unofficial club, working together to raise group competence and train others, to an experienced management team with proven success running large-scale outdoor events,” Longcor told the Daily in an email. “We strive to show fellow climbers and community members that high adventure in the outdoors is safe and within reach.”

Andrew Bennett, a TMC undergraduate who helped plan

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the event, explained that VICE hosts the VICEfest weekend primarily as a means to introduce new people to the activity of ice climbing.

“Every other ice climbing festival focuses on people who have already ice climbed … but [VICEfest] is geared toward the college students that have never ice climbed before, that just want to give it a shot and hang out with their friends,” Bennett, a senior, said.

Longcor said that although ice climbing can be extremely difficult, the activities organized by VICEfest were ideal for helping beginners ease into the sport.

“We choose climbing areas with easy routes and easy access, which makes it an ideal experience for beginners who need instruction and coaching,” he said. “By the end of the day, most first-timers are able to reach the top of their climbs and have gained some comfort with the movements and mechanics of the sport.”

According to Bennett, ice climbing is a strenuous activity that involves the ascension of frozen waterfalls and other ice-covered slopes. Bennett explained that climbers use sharp spikes attached to their feet and hands called crampons to aid in scaling the ice.

“You have crampons on your feet and you kick into the ice, and then you have ice tools and you hammer that into the ice and you just go up,” he said.

Bennett noted that the activity does involve inherent danger, especially due to falling ice that can be kicked loose by climbers and fall on others underneath. He explained that this danger is usually avoided by spreading the climbers out along the slope.

“We are really focused on safety, and [we] work with professional guides to ensure that everything is done correctly and safely,” Bennett said. see VICE, page 2

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Sia’s music videos have been met with significant controversy.

Priyanka Dharampuriya shares a first-hand account of the Super Bowl.

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Panel brings Humanist in Residence, community together HUMANISM

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Bristol noted that he has been looking to reach out to the student community as well as develop the position of Humanist in Residence, given that the position was just introduced. He underscored that much of his role has been dedicated to caregiving and one-on-one support, as well as facilitating small group discussions.

“I think we often underestimate how important having someone to just be present with you can be, especially

when life moves really fast on a university campus,” he said. “So I’ve been really fortunate to see how many people have … taken advantage of that. It’s been kind of amazing, some of the things that people have told me and shared with me and felt comfortable sharing with me. I can’t believe that there wasn’t somebody available to do this for these students beforehand.”

Ramanathan said he hopes all students interested in learning more about humanism will attend the event.

“I’d encourage anyone whose … curiosity’s peaked, but doesn’t really know what this is about — this is the event for them,” he said.

Regalado also said she hopes all students will take something out of the discussions.

“I’m really hoping that Tufts kids, again, regardless of whoever they are, can come and just take something out of it and just spark something inside them that pushes them to try something different, to make a positive change in whatever they do,” she said.

After name change, Climate Action plans new campaigns CLIMATE

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club’s founding three years ago. “[Tufts Divest] started with maybe eight people gathered in a room in Eaton,” Bell said.

He described being one of the first chapters in a now-worldwide movement.

“It was fun being one of the first 12 campaigns or so because each meeting we’d be like ‘We’re one of 12 national campaigns, we’re one of 30 national campaigns, we’re one of 50, one of 100, one of 400 one of 500 global campaigns for divestment,” Bell said.

Being part of an international political movement was a big part of what drew Bell to Tufts Divest. After divestment grew bigger, Bell said that the campaign immediately felt different.

“It wasn’t sustainability, it wasn’t personal choice. It wasn’t like, ‘Where are you getting your food from? How much water are you using when you shower?’… it was these bigger questions. It was, ‘What is the politics behind this? What’s the economics behind this? What’s socially difficult about doing this work?’” Bell said.

Tufts Divest’s initial goal was to persuade the administration to remove the $70 million the university has invested in the fossil fuel industry. To this end, the club set up a meeting with the Board of Trustees in the spring of 2013. The Board promised there would be a follow-up two weeks later, but no one responded to the club members’ repeated attempts to set it up.

To force the issue, a few members of Tufts Divest went to an information session for the Engineering School and asked for a statement regarding Tufts’ investment in fossil fuels. Parents attending the meeting stood up and threatened the students, who left. A video of the action was posted online, which prompted backlash from the community.

A meeting was finally held with the administration and a task force was established to look into the investments.

However, Bell said, it was clear from the

beginning that no one was seriously considering divestment, and when the task force submitted its final report, the answer was no.

“That was really hard for our campaign,” Bell said. “We all expected it, we knew it was going to happen, and we knew, ‘What’s the next step? Well, we’re going to build from here.’ But it was hard. Just emotionally, psychologically — oh no, there’s this wall here now.”

One of the things that has helped the club rally was the influx of committed firstyears who joined this fall. First-year Claire Chen, who proposed the agriculture working group, is undeterred by the club’s past controversies.

“People keep still associating [Tufts Climate Action] with Tufts Divest, so then a lot of people see it more negatively,” Chen said.

Chen said that she regretted the way that the group’s demonstration at the info session has colored the community’s opinion.

“I personally think the incident at the info session was a bit blown out of proportion by some people. I think it’s really unfortunate that there’s still a bit of a negative view [of the club], but I think there’s a lot of students who support the divestment movement,” she said.

Chen said that knowledge barriers for new members aren’t that significant, and that members learn together about climate issues.

“To be part of it you don’t have to be super knowledgeable,” she said. “I didn’t even know that much about divestment when I went into it, but I’m so much more knowledgeable now. I’m pretty confident to give an elevator pitch about it, and I feel like I’ve learned a lot.”

According to Chen, a collaborative culture will be important for Climate Action this semester.

“It’s really important for us to become friends as a group and not just be a bunch of people working together and meeting together to just work on the agenda … when we present ourselves to the rest of

the school, we look more unified, and then people can actually see that this is a cohesive group who cares about each other,” Chen said.

This transition was initially difficult for some of the older members, according to Bell, because of the way that the group has been restructured.

“In the arc of the campaign, this year really felt like starting over … which was at once daunting, because it was like, ‘We’ve been doing this for two years,'” Bell said.

He said, however, that the changes have ultimately proved positive. “[It] immediately became the best thing, because suddenly we had the opportunity to really implement the change we needed to see; I personally have learned more this semester than any other semester about organizing, about empowering people, about being in a campaign with others,” he said.

To create a cohesive group, Tufts Climate Action focused on internal building and social events last semester. One of its biggest events was bringing about 100 Tufts students to join the nearly half-million participating in the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sept. 20.

“It was really empowering because there were so many people there,” Chen said.

Chen said she noticed that people at the march were advocating on behalf of a huge range of issues.

“So the march was really cool, but also eye opening, a reminder that it’s not just climate change, it’s all these issues underneath [one] umbrella,” she said.

This semester the club will continue to focus on divestment, preparing for Global Divestment Day in mid-February. For the rest of the spring, it is ready to turn outward toward Tufts again and face whatever issues most need attention.

“This semester, definitely expect to see more of us,” Bell said. “We have the groundwork to build up the movement at Tufts in a way it’s never been done before.

[We will] be growing together, escalating together, doing bigger, badder, things better.”

TMC, VICE host sixth annual VICEfest VICE

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The average height of an ice climb is about 100 feet, Bennett explained. He further noted that due to the extreme cold conditions in northern New Hampshire, slopes appropriate for ice climbing are abundant near the Loj. “[The ice climbing slopes] are all naturally forming. They come in pretty consistently every year,” Bennett said. “Imagine icicles that get to be the size of a tree … and you can climb it.”

About 80 people participated this year, most of whom were Tufts undergraduates, according to Bennett. There are also usually some non-Tufts participants from other colleges, as well as Tufts graduate students.

“Throughout the years people have started to find out about [VICEfest] and how awesome it is, so we get some people signing up that are part of the greater Tufts community … it’s not your typical undergrad exclusive [event],” Bennett said.

He also noted that students from Brandeis University, Northeastern University and the University of Pennsylvania have participated in past years.

According to last semester’s TMC Loj Director Charlotte Clarke, this year’s

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Inexperienced climbers learned to ice climb during VICEfest.

VICEfest was somewhat different from years past, though still successful.

“We made a few changes going into this year’s edition of the event, but they worked well and everyone had a great time,” Clarke, a junior, told the Daily in an email.

A major change this year was that TMC utilized professional ice-climbing guides from Cathedral Mountain Guides, rather

than TMC and VICE members, to serve as instructors during the weekend.

“We wanted to improve the professionalism of the event,” Clarke said.

“TMC partnered with VICE to make those changes possible despite increased costs, since this event is really important to us, and we want to keep outdoor activities as accessible as possible to our members.”

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Sia releases controversial music video featuring Shia LeBeouf, Maddie Ziegler

by Nitesh Gupta

Australian-born singer Sia has recently confirmed she will be performing at the Grammys this coming Sunday. Given her recent performance featuring lip-syncing children wearing her trademark wig on the Ellen Digeneres show, as well as recent controversy regarding her last music videos, audiences can expect an unusual, provocative performance.

Sia has now released two videos featuring Maddie Ziegler, a professional 12-year-old dancer and star of Lifetime’s “Dance Moms” (2011-present). The first song, “Chandelier” (2014), is a tongue-incheek party-girl anthem that correlates the urge to drink uncontrollably with swinging from a chandelier. The video for “Chandelier” featured Ziegler in a passionate, lively dance, one that Jimmy Kimmel has jokingly tried to learn. Due to the skin-colored clothing Ziegler wore, some found the video disturbing. One of the highest rated YouTube comments, which has since been deleted, claimed “no self-respecting parent would let their child participate in this s–t.”

The controversy increased when Sia released her second installment of a music video trilogy, “Elastic Heart,” which features American actor and director Shia LaBeouf as well as Ziegler, both wearing tight, skin-colored clothing and fighting in a bird-cage. Due to a storm of user tweets the day of the video’s release, Sia apologized via Twitter. “I anticipated some ‘pedophelia!!!’ Cries [sic] for this video,” she wrote in a series of tweets shortly after the video premiere. The tweet continues with, “All I can say is Maddie and Shia are two of the only actors I felt could play / “These two warring ‘sia’ self states.”

Many publications quickly reported on the tweet, and some asked why cries of pedophelia existed when the music video itself was not romantic or sexual. Aimee Cliff, writer at “The Fader” suggests, in Assistant Arts Editor

an article titled “The Only Creepy Thing About Pop’s New Child Stars Is Us,” that the problem is not the child stars but the way audiences view them. She notes that male children are not held to the same standard. “Did anyone question the presentation of 13-year-old Justin Bieber when he started to blow up, appearing in romantically charged videos at the age of 15?” Cliff demands of readers.

To put it simply, male children are often viewed as subjects, while female children are viewed as objects. Cliff blames this double standard on mainstream Western media, which has, as she describes it, “created a context in which predatoriness and perversion infects everything we see.”

The music video for Sia’s “Elastic Heart” is different from the norm not because Ziegler is sexualized, but because she is portrayed as a subject.

“I’m supposed to be portraying a werewolf, and pretty much Shia and I have been just living in the cage for a year, and I’m the strong one and I’m trying to pretty much kill him,” Ziegler said in an official behindthe-scenes video released shortly after the storm of aggressive tweets and comments.

“I’ve never played a wolf. I growled 20 times in this dance,” she continued.

“When was the last time you saw a mainstream music video that depicted the inner strength of a woman through the medium of a 12-year-old girl with enough talent and power to battle a grown man?” Cliff asks.

It is still unclear whether or not Ziegler will join Sia in performing at the Grammys this Sunday, where Sia’s music video, “Chandelier,” is competing for “Best Music Video” – but given the collaboration between the two artists, a performance is not unlikely. Yet the fact that Sia has potential to win for “Chandelier” already puts the artist, and her message, at the forefront of American pop culture.

Perhaps in addition to prompting conversations about race, the Grammys will also spark dialogue about female sexuality in pop culture.

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Sia has revealed her face only a few times, often choising to be represented instead by her trademark blonde bob.

Movie Review

'Project Almanac' fails to deliver original story

by Merilla Michael Daily Staff Writer

“Project Almanac” (2015) is director Dean Israelite’s first attempt at a fulllength movie. In the film, David Raskin

Project Almanac Directed by Dean Israelite Starring Jonny Weston, Sofia BlackD’Elia, Sam Lerner, Virginia Gardner (Jonny Weston), a brilliant high school student, has just been accepted to MIT. His father, an inventor, died when he was seven, leaving his family in a delicate financial state. MIT doesn’t grant him enough financial aid, causing David’s mother, played by Amy Landecker, to consider selling their house to pay for tuition.

David, with the help of his sister Christina (Ginny Gardner), searches the attic, which is full of his father’s old belongings, in hopes of finding an invention that could help him win a scholarship.

After perusing the attic and basement, David and Christina find a time machine hidden in the floor of the basement. David enlists the help of his best friends, Adam (Allen Evangelista) and Quinn (Sam Lerner), his love interest Jessie (Sofia Black-D’Elia) and his sister to get the time machine working. Completely disregarding any ripple effects, the teenagers recklessly go back in time, leaving disaster in their wake.

The film is shot in “found-footage” style; one person from the group, usually

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In “Project Almanac,” a group of teens embark on a journey that is at once reckless and lackluster.

Christina, is always filming, and the audience’s perspective is through the camera.

This cinematic style is creative — the most, possibly only, redeeming part of the film. The filming style kept everything going at a consistent pace, even during scenes of pure dialogue and teenage angst. Israelite capitalizes on the creative camera techniques that found-footage allows, but style alone fails to make the film a success.

Perhaps the most disappointing part of “Project Almanac” is the incredibly flat

dialogue coupled with unconvincing acting from the majority of the cast. Many of these actors make their feature film debut in “Project Almanac” and are not given enough substantial dialogue or narrative with which to work. Perhaps because the main characters are teenagers, the dialogue is oversimplified to seem realistic. This simplification, however, leads to meaningless and repetitive conversations.

The combination of an inexperienced movie director and a fairly inexperienced cast makes for an underdeveloped product.

The whole premise of time travel has been done many times before — see “Back to the Future: Parts 1, 2 and 3” (1985, 1989 and 1990) and “Looper” (2012) for examples of cult classics and storytelling innovation. Usually, and in the case of this film, it’s done poorly. The only way that “Project Almanac” could have succeeded is if it had an excellent execution or it brought something new and creative to the idea of time travel. Unfortunately, it was unable to do either. The plot was predictable from the start, which is a shame since movies about time travel have the potential to be extremely original and exciting. When time and place are malleable factors, the possibilities are endless, but Israelite fails to push the boundaries. Instead, he settles for a safe plot, and in turn loses the audience’s interest fairly quickly. He even tries to weave in a love story between David and Jessie to thicken the plot, but the borderline laughable acting prevents the sub-par storyline from being convincing. Even halfway through the film, the audience has no reason to care about any of the characters — their personalities and motives are fairly one-dimensional. It is a classic combination of two trite cliches: time-travel-gonewrong and boy-meets-girl. There are several points throughout “Project Almanac” where a viewer could zone out for 20 minutes, zone back in and not have missed anything even remotely important.

All in all, don’t expect much from this time-travel flop; the trailer makes it seem much more action-packed and interesting than it really is. “Project Almanac” suffers from a thin storyline, weak dialogue and unconvincing acting.

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Women’s Swimming and Diving

Jumbos end regular season at Middlebury Invitational

by Jack Szumski Contributing Writer

The women’s swimming and diving team concluded its regular season this past weekend at the non-scoring Middlebury Invitational. With the championship season on the horizon, the Jumbos can now focus exclusively on preparing for the NESCAC Championships, which will be held later this month.

The Jumbos are a year removed from their seventh place at last year’s NESCAC Championships. However, this incarnation of the team looks primed to move to the top half of the conference.

“Our team is quicker all-around than last year, and we are definitely more ready mentally to attack our races at NESCACs,” senior Keri Golembeski said in an email to the Daily. “We have a great group of [firstyears] that are particularly strong in stroke and [individual medley] races that will add to the talents of our returning group of girls. All in all, I think we are more wellrounded than last year.”

At Middlebury, Tufts competed against familiar NESCAC foes No. 19 Middlebury and No. 8 Williams, as well as against Springfield College and the University of Vermont; the latter was the lone Div. I program at the meet.

The top highlight for Tufts was a thirdplace finish from the 800-meter freestyle relay team of senior tri-captains Amanda Wachenfeld and Kathryn Coniglio, firstyear Jess Lee and junior Sarah Mahoney.

Wachenfeld was very satisfied with the result.

“It’s a hard race to begin with because it’s pretty long, but I felt good, especially with the place we got,” said Wachenfeld.

“That’s one of the relays we’re looking forward to competing in at NESCACs, so just being able to almost have a trial run last weekend was great.”

Tufts’ top individual result was firstyear Meghan Casey’s fourth place performance in the 200-meter breaststroke, recording a time of 2:32.05. Casey also recorded a 1:11.76 touch in the 100-meter breaststroke, placing seventh in the event.

“Coming in as [first-years, the younger swimmers] find it is a lot different than how you’d swim in high school

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Women’s swimming and diving is preparing for the NESCAC championship, to take place on Feb. 13-15. or on a club team when you’re in high school,” Wachenfeld said of Casey and her younger teammates. “For all of them, there was a big adjustment period and acceptance that they might not be swimming as fast as they expected to, but I think they’ve all now embraced that. That’s really shown, especially in the second half of our season with Meghan Casey this past weekend and Anna [Kimura] who two weekends ago did a really great job … They’ve kind of gotten into the feeling of college swimming, and they’ve all been working really hard.”

After returning from a semester abroad, junior Kelsey McEvoy also had a strong showing for Tufts, placing sixth in both the 100-meter freestyle and the 100-meter backstroke with times of 56.11 seconds and 1:01.37, respectively.

The Tufts 400-meter freestyle relay also performed well. Consisting of sophomore Sophia Lin, senior tri-captain Scarlett Hao, Lee and Casey, the team notched a time of 3:47.29 to place to take fifth.

Sophomore Amanda Danielson was also in action, placing sixth in the 200meter butterfly with a 2:20.39 time.

The Middlebury Invitational was

the last competition of the regular season. Head coach Nancy Bigelow and her Tufts squad now turn their attention to the NESCAC championships, held Feb. 13-15 at Wesleyan University. According to Wachenfeld, the coach’s orders were for the swimmers to relax in preparation for the NESCACs. “It’s a lot of resting and taking care of ourselves,” said Wachenfeld. “I like it. We have a very strong team not only in terms of in the pool but camaraderie and competitive spirit, and I think that that mental attitude is really going to help us succeed at the end of the year.”

Squash

Tufts finishes regular season with victory over Conn. College

by Sun Ho Lee

Contributing Writer

The women’s squash team had mixed results against a pair of conference opponents this past weekend in its final two matches before this weekend’s NESCAC tournament. While Tufts lost 8-1 against Colby at Harvard on Saturday, the team bounced back the next

day to beat Conn. College 6-3.

With the victory against Conn.

College, the squad ended its regular season with a record of 5-11.

Despite losing by a wide margin on Saturday, the Jumbos were able to look past the loss and deliver a good overall performance on Sunday.

“This weekend was definitely a challenge for the team,” Junior Paget Stanco told the Daily in an

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The Jumbos prepare for the upcoming NESCAC Championships.

email. “We had a solid match on Saturday despite the final results against Colby, so Sunday was something every [athlete was] looking forward too.”

Stanco defeated her opponent, 10-12, 11-6, 11-8, 11-8 in the first position and senior tricaptain Paige Dahlman, playing the second position, handily beat her opponent in three sets, 11-9, 11-7, 11-7. First-year Lauren Banner beat the Camels’ first-year Nina Nalle in the fifth position, 11-7, 11-6, 11-5, while sophomore Anna Bezahler also had little trouble handling her opponent in three games, 11-1, 11-3, 11-4.

Further down in the lineup, sophomore Lynn Cheng came out on top in a comeback win in four sets at the seventh position by scores of 6-11, 11-1, 11-7, 11-7. In the eighth position, firstyear Gabi Salomon was victorious against her opponent, taking all three sets by an 11-7 score.

Against Colby, first-year Claudia Udolf was the only Jumbo to pull off a victory, finishing her opponent in just three games, 11-4, 11-2, 11-7. The

Jumbos had some close matches, though, including those of Dahlman and Banner, who both went to four games. Senior tricaptain Ann Bellinger’s fivegame nail biter ended in a loss (11-0, 4-11, 11-4, 6-11, 11-3), with Bellinger’s opponent taking the fifth game.

“We had a fantastic match against Colby this past Saturday, even if the end match score did not show that,” Dahlman told the Daily in an email. “Although we lost 1-8, some matches were extremely close and could have gone in our favor. [Junior tricaptain] Stanco’s last two games were exceptionally close, Ann Bellinger played a five-game match, and Lauren Banner also had a long match that ended 10-12 in the fourth. The highlight of that match was probably Claudia Udolf who killed her opponent in three games.”

Dahlman did not see the final score as indicative of the small talent gap between the two teams.

“On another day, the end match score could have been reversed,” Dahlman said.

“Colby is a good team that is right at our level. As a result, the winner of our matchup will be the team that can stay focused the longest and play to their opponent’s weaknesses while capitalizing on their own strengths.

Unfortunately, Colby was able to perform slightly better than we could — and this time, the match score showed that. Nonetheless, we’ll be ready for them the next time we play.”

Tufts will have little time to worry about this past weekend’s results; with the championship season now in clear view, the team has bigger goals to reach. The Jumbos will head to Williamstown, Mass. today to compete in the NESCAC tournament hosted by the Williams Ephs, with their first match this afternoon at 4 p.m. against the Bowdoin Polar Bears.

Tufts enters the tournament as the tenth seed. It is the third year in a row that the Jumbos will take on the Polar Bears in the first round, and a win would put the team in the quarterfinals for the first time since 2009.

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In addition to a tense game, the Super Bowl featured show-stealing performances by John Legend and Katy Perry.

A weekend in Glendale: in-person at the Super Bowl

by Priyanka Dharampuriya Contributing Writer

There is silence from the Patriots section as the final two minutes of Super Bowl XLIX tick away. It has been a difficult half with a brutal third quarter, but the Pats seem to have regained momentum. Still, this has not been a relaxed game for anyone.

Many hours later, after highfives have been exchanged and the red-eye to Boston is packed with passengers in Brady and Edelman jerseys, cries of “dude, we dominated, except for that third quarter” and “did you see Gronk deck that other guy?” will pepper the air. But for now, the entire section is quiet and straining to see the play that

will make or break the season.

Eyes dart from field to clock and back again. Malcolm Butler’s interception makes the stands erupt in cheers. What happens next is a blur of streamers and confetti. Strangers exchange high-fives. Bill Belichick actually says something emotional on television. Twitter explodes with variations of “Butler, you da real MVP” and “It’s Brady’s world. You’re just living in it.”

That’s the Super Bowl for you.

So much of a fan’s experience at this game happens in flashes of sounds and images: the Budweiser puppy, Katy Parry’s dancing sharks and a sandyhaired guy and gal inexplicably selling chocolate-dipped fruit on a stick for $9. There

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are famous people, too — Ice Cube, Kanye West, Rihanna, Vin Diesel — endorsing one team or the other. There’s an earsplitting cheer for Brady, and another, louder one for Wilson.

Then there’s ubiquitous number 12 — in Patriots language, the number 12 means Tom Brady, and for the Seahawks, the 12th man.

Not every Seahawks fan flies in from Seattle and not every Patriots fan flies in from Boston, but airports on both coasts seemed to be teeming with football fans this weekend. Delayed Phoenix-bound passengers at Logan airport on Friday were entertained at the gate with snacks and Patriots trivia. On the opposite side of the country, another flight from San Francisco took off and landed to a chorus of “SEA-HAWKS! SEA-HAWKS!” Inevitably, these two formidable forces from the east and west coasts collided in Glendale, Ariz., a suburb just outside of Phoenix which is home to the Arizona Cardinals. Disregarding the occasional drunken brawl, most interactions between the fans of each team were in the spirit of healthy competition — meeting someone in the same jersey led to high fives, fist bumps and hugs, while meeting someone in another jersey simply resulted in a friendly “booo.” Glendale and neigh-

boring Scottsdale exploded with football paraphernalia in New England’s red and blue and Seattle’s blue and green.

Palpable throughout the stands was the sense that these fans were not only supporting their team, but the game as a whole. It’s this distinction that separates the atmosphere of the Super Bowl live to that of watching it from home — watching at a Super Bowl party generally means being surrounded by friends and like-minded fans.

Even Tufts carefully divides game viewing parties based on allegiance. But at the game itself, the crowd is mixed, and you could be high-fiving your neighbor three rows down from someone very upset about the same play.

The NFL experience, a collection of football-themed games and activities, was set up for those interested in the activities adjacent to the stadium before the game began. The true NFL experience, though, occurred outside — drawing a euphoric crowd the likes of which are rarely found outside of Disney World. New England and Seattle fans and a number of neutral fans — who just wanted to see a good game — piled into the stadium for kickoff.

The game began with John Legend’s rendition of “America the Beautiful.” Between the snapshots of Boston and Seattle at the words “from sea to shin-

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ing sea” and the loud cheers for the video of military personnel and planes flying overhead, one got the sense that the Super Bowl, while inherently a competition, is also a unifying event. Nothing feels quite like this football game.

Between Legend’s performance, Idina Menzel’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, many advertisements and the level of dedication from the crowd, Super Bowl XLIX reflected various snatches and snapshots of American life and the interesting and often unexpected things that draw us together.

Defending national champion softball and men's lacrosse teams ranked No. 1 in preseason polls While the 2014-2015 school year has been highlighted by the Tufts soccer team’s National Championship victory, the 20132014 school year had its own fair share of success on the national stage. Headlined by the Tufts softball and men’s lacrosse teams, last spring was a very eventful season for Tufts athletics. Both teams won National Championships, achieving the pinnacle of triumph in their respective sports.

With the winter season now in full swing, Tufts students may not have to wait until spring to see a Tufts team once again hoist a national championship trophy.

Especially in light of the recent release of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Div. III preseason rankings for both sports, the oppor-

tunity for a championship repeat, or in the case of the softball team, a three-peat, is now in full focus.

Winning a national championship is an extraordinarily difficult accomplishment to achieve, and as shown most recently by the Seattle Seahawks, winning consecutive championships is even more so. This difficulty is accentuated in collegiate sports, since teams lose major contributors to graduation each year. Yet a repeat victory is far from impossible for both the softball team and the men’s lacrosse team, as both will see the return major contingents from last year’s championship teams. The NFCA and USILA agree, ranking both teams No. 1 in the nation.

After losing a strong senior class to graduation last spring, including both of

the team’s co-captains, the softball team will attempt to march its way to the National Championship on the back of star pitcher Allyson Fournier. Fournier, a senior, started 29 of the team’s 51 games last season, finishing 28-1 with a 0.49 ERA and 314 strikeouts in 202 innings.

Her stellar 2014 season came in the wake of an equally excellent 2013 season that earned her the NCAA Div. III Athlete of the Year Award. As long as the Jumbos have Fournier on the mound, a third consecutive national championship won’t be too far out of reach.

The men’s lacrosse team will begin its season in a similar situation, having lost all three of it’s tri-captains to graduation last spring. But the Jumbos will return last season’s leading scorer, senior Chris

Schoenhut, who netted 80 goals on 163 shots in 22 games played. In addition, the team will return it’s leading point scorer, junior John Uppgren (124 points) and its assist leader, senior Cole Bailey (65 assists).

Bailey will remain the team’s offensive playmaker, coming off a season in which he garnered the USILA Turnbull Award for Oustanding Attackman, NESCAC Player of the Year honors, First Team All-American honors and the national title game’s Most Valuable Player accolade.

The men’s lacrosse team will begin its title pursuit on Feb. 28 in a home game against Middlebury, and the softball team will commence its own title pursuit with 14 games in Clermont, Fla. over spring break.

—by Alex Connors