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VOLUME LXVIV, NUMBER 17

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Full-time lecturers vote to unionize by large margin

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley / Released Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen is interviewed by Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos. Mullen discussed the civil unrest in Egypt during the morning show interview.

George Stephanopoulos chosen as Murrow Forum guest ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos will be visiting the Hill as the featured guest for this year’s 10th annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism, according to Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler.

The forum will take place on April 8, though the location and time of the event have yet to be announced, Thurler said.

To begin the forum, Jonathan M. Tisch (LA ’76), vice chair of the Board of Trustees, will interview Stephanopoulos. The

forum will end with a questionand-answer period for attendees to ask Stephanopoulos about his experience in politics and journalism, according to Thurler.

Stephanopoulos currently anchors ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” and has previously worked as a political correspondent for these programs and ABC’s “World News Tonight.”

Stephanopoulos previously served as former President Bill

Clinton’s de facto press secretary and worked on both the Clinton and Michael Dukakis presidential campaigns.

Previous Murrow Forum guests include former “NBC World News” Anchor Brian Williams, former “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric and Arianna Huffington, chair, president and editor-inchief of Huffington Post Media Group.

—by Audrey Michael

La Salsa to enter first interstate competition this weekend

by Safiya Nanji Contributing Writer

The Tufts La Salsa team will participate in its first interstate competition as an entrant in the annual Chicago International Salsa Congress, which will be held over this Presidents’ Day long weekend.

Seven couples on the team are scheduled to compete in the amateur competition this upcoming weekend, according to Maya Taft-Morales and Nico Johnson, co-presidents of Tufts La Salsa. Taft-Morales, a senior, explained that the team has never attended one of these congresses before.

“This is the first time La Salsa has ever traveled beyond Harvard, so it’s really exciting for us to go to Chicago and also to see a level of dancing that we’ve never been exposed to outside of YouTube. We’re going to be dancing in front of and with some of the best salsa dancers in the world,” Johnson, a senior, said.

Taft-Morales took the initiative last semester to organize the paperwork and put in the team’s submission to the competition, Johnson said.

“I give Maya so much credit for this,” Johnson said. “It was such an afterthought, and Maya just put in a submission.”

Travel to the competition was made possible by a grant of supplementary funds from the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, according to Taft-Morales. “[TCU Senate] is paying for our flights and entrance, and we will pay for the rest of the stuff in between,” she said.

The Chicago International Salsa Congress aims to celebrate the culture of Latin dance, and the weekend will be filled with workshops, lessons and dancing, Taft-Morales said.

Cerel Muñoz, a member of La Salsa, will be traveling with the team to Chicago. According to Muñoz, the weekend will be jam-packed with activities.

“The schedule leaves little room to breathe — we are in workshops from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and there is a large showcase from then until dinner.

Then, after dinner there is a party every night,” Muñoz, a junior, said. “I’m looking forward to all of it, but mostly having the opportunity to meet people whose styles I’ve

been trying to emulate just from videos.”

Co-vice President of La Salsa Ian Cross hopes to be able to teach the Tufts community what he learns at the congress.

“I teach the salsa lesson every Tuesday [for La Salsa], and I want to be able to learn new techniques so that I can spread them to Tufts students.

I also want to experience a new level of dancing,” Cross, a senior, said.

According to Taft-Morales, the highlight of the congress is the experience, rather than how well the team performs in the competition.

“Honestly, for me it’s not about the competition at all.

I’m honored to be performing and excited to be going, so for us it’s just getting that chance,” she said. “I haven’t even thought about it as a competition.”

The Chicago International Salsa Congress is being held one week after La Salsa hosted an open event called Noche Caliente in the Sophia-Gordon Multi-Purpose Room.

“We had a great time and were really happy with the turn-

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After two days of ballot casting, a sweeping majority of Tufts University full-time, non-tenured faculty voted to form a union today, joining the Faculty Forward project run by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 509.

The decision, which received a two-to-one margin of support from the over 80 percent of eligible faculty who voted, follows that of Tufts part-time lecturers, who voted to unionize in October. Approximately 100 full-time lecturers from Tufts will now join more than 2,700 adjunct professors in the Greater Boston area who have elected to form unions within the last year.

Faculty at schools such as Boston University, Northeastern University and Lesley University have also organized and created contracts recently.

Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Lecturer Penn Loh emphasized that a union will allow professors to further develop the Tufts community and improve educating abilities.

“We believed that a union would help us build a real community — one where all faculty can more effectively contribute to our shared mission of educating students,” Loh told the SEIU Local 509 in an interview. “Coupled with the progress made by our parttime colleagues, today’s victory will no doubt raise the Tufts learning experience to new heights.”

According to SEIU Local 509, faculty will be able to confront issues such as sinking wages and trivialization, and will be able to improve the quality of education by joining their projects, such as Faculty Forward, Adjunct Action and thousands of other educators in the Greater Boston area who have already unionized.

—by Emma Steiner

International development hackathon to begin today

by Kathleen Schmidt News Editor

ID Hack, a 24-hour hackathon with a focus on international development, will be held at Tufts from Friday at 4 p.m. until Saturday at 4 p.m., according to organizer Morgan Babbs, a senior.

The event is the result of collaboration between Tufts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, Babbs said.

The event differs from an ordinary hackathon — a 24-hour event during which programmers gather to build individual projects over night — because ID Hack requires participants to choose from a list of 10 project ideas that have been put forth by sponsors, according to organizer James Downer, a senior.

“We’ve worked really hard this time around, this semester, to work with NGOs, intergovernmental organizations and some private sector companies to kind of source problems in international development and then pitch those problems along with the associative data sets to people,” Downer said.

Babbs explained that international development involves improving aspects of economic or social well-being, such as environmental conditions in emerging markets and

developing countries, economic growth, poverty elimination, human development or education.

According to organizer Sam Purcell, a senior, there will be a networking session at the beginning of the event so participants can meet sponsor companies before the hacking begins.

“We’re collecting resumes from all the attendees, so anyone who comes and brings a resume will get their resume sent to top tech companies and NGOs all over the country,” Purcell said.

The event is unique because of its social, international development theme, which combines the field of computer science with that of social science, Babbs said.

“It’s an exciting event because it really merges two totally different fields because traditionally, obviously, hackathons are [for] people who study computer science, and while it is harder to get people who have a strictly international development background, or an IR background for example, to partake in this, it kind of shows the bigger picture — that people need to be educated in technological issues,” she said.

According to Purcell, 600 tickets have been sold, and several cash prizes will be offered to participants.

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Sergei Polunin performs contemporary ballet to “Take Me to Church.”

Men’s swimming and diving gears up for NESCACs after intensive winter-break training.

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out. It was awesome to see so many people excited about Latin dance,” Johnson said. “People were so pumped about the event that I had a few ask if we’d do it again before the semester ended. We didn’t have plans to do so, but now that the interest is definitely there, we’ll have to see if we can put something together,” Seniors Taft-Morales and Johnson have seen La Salsa grow over their time at Tufts.

“Maya was part of the group that brought [La Salsa] back. The group really disappeared around 2010/2011, and Salsa has really been establishing itself again,” Johnson explained. “We have a lot more responsibility as a group because people know more about us. People have expectations of us – lessons, Noche Caliente, performances. It’s been awesome.”

While half of the team will be graduating this year, Taft-Morales said that she is

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Tufts La Salsa prepares for its upcoming competition in Chicago during a rehearsal in Jackson Gym on Friday, Jan. 6, 2015. not worried about La Salsa’s future.

“We’ve put a lot of effort into thinking about sustainability of the group.

We built it up from the ground, and we

want to make sure it’s able to continue doing all of its great stuff and making an impact in the Tufts community,” TaftMorales said.

Athletics teams make difference through Team IMPACT

by Jessica Mow

Due to the recent successes of Tufts’ sports teams, athletes are becoming more wellknown on campus. However, not many students know about Matthew Govostes or Joli Vega, two children who were “drafted” to the men’s and women’s soccer team (respectively) though an organization called Team IMPACT. Team IMPACT is a non-profit organization that pairs a child suffering from a life-threatening or chronic illness with a local college athletic team. It was founded four years ago by a team of seven people, five of whom were Tufts graduates, according to Dan Walsh (LA ’87), one of the founders and a current board member.

“It’s been a team effort from the get-go, different people bring different skills, different networks, funding, ideas, it’s been a great team effort to bring this together,” Walsh said.

Kris Herman (J ’86), another founder and current board member, was involved in a similar organization 10 years ago when she first came up with the idea. “[They] worked with kids with brain tumors, so they had a narrow focus on children with brain tumors and their siblings,” she said. “And that was really great, very rewarding, I matched probably – I helped them match, like, 300 teams and really, really enjoyed getting to know that population.”

However, Herman ultimately made the decision to leave in order to help start building Team IMPACT, citing, among various reasons for leaving, the organization’s narrow focus.

“We thought there [were] many more children that … could benefit from this type of relationship,” she said.

Herman’s role in founding the group was largely based in outreach to the athletic teams.

Having coached at Tufts — and now coaching at Williams — Herman was able to take advantage of her connections and knowledge of collegiate athletic departments’ inner workings.

“We had a model, some ideas of what we would ask from them and not ask from them from the start, which is: ‘We’re not asking much, we’re asking just to be who you are already, and share that with some other people just by letting them be a part of your team and giving them a hat and a jersey and letting them hang around,’” she said. “That’s the beauty of it, the simplicity.”

According to Herman, a passion for sports was common to all of the founders’ backgrounds.

“People do what [they] know … but sports are something that brings people together on all levels in general, something to cheer for, something that has success and failure … we know that sports offers tons of lessons,” she said.

According to Walsh, one of the biggest challenges of creating the organization from scratch was not recruiting teams, but rather gaining the trust of the medical world.

“We’re essentially asking to be included in the continuum of care for this child. That’s, understandably, a very skeptical medical community,” he said. “They’re looking for, Features Editor

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‘refer to doctor so and so, or to this trained medical professional, and you’re asking me to refer kids to you?’”

Now, with a board of advisers who work to help the organization in exactly that area, its legitimacy is less of a problem.

However, today IMPACT faces more challenges in its outreach to children than to athletic teams. According to Duke Little, IMPACT’s executive director, there are currently many more teams than children seeking matches.

“We’ve got to figure out a way to find some sustainable funding for the non-profit so that we can continue to grow, and to react to the interest that there is for the program,” Little said.

Little said that in order to find more kids, the organization will need more funding to expand its presence in other regions.

“With 800-plus college sports teams throughout the country waiting for us to find them teammates, we definitely need funding so that we can staff up our regional case management role, we can find more kids and make more matches,” he said.

According to Little, the organization’s current goal, therefore, is to spread awareness through grassroots campaigns and a push for brandname recognition.

According to the Team IMPACT website, Tufts has six athletic teams who have participated in the program: men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s lacrosse and men’s sailing.

The men’s soccer team has been paired with a boy named Matthew Govostes, who has had multiple operations on his heart, including a transplant when he was in the first grade.

“He’s just this really positive, bright, mature boy, and … he inspires us,” coach Josh Shapiro said. “Everyone on the team.

And it’s just amazing how this nine-year-old boy just can really just pump us up before a game. It’s incredible.”

The team, like others with team IMPACT kids, has held various events for Matthew, including a pizza party “draft” and a team dinner.

“It’s like a two-way thing, where not only Matt Govostes, or the child that’s connected to a team, is able to grow, but as a team we’re also able to grow by watching a child – a boy or a girl – go through a tough situation,” Kento Nakamura, a senior on the team, said.

Nakamura said that Matt’s positivity has had a powerful influence on the team.

“Fortunately he has a very positive outlook on life. And that really inspires us to grow as people, not only just soccer players,” he said.

The women’s soccer team, which also “drafted” a child, has felt the same positive effects. Their matched child is Joli Vega, who at the age of two was diagnosed with retinoblastoma and had her eye removed.

“When you’re out on the field and you think you’re tired and you think you can’t run another 20-yard sprint or it’s cold, or you just got … kicked in the back of the ankle, or something’s happening to you, I think for our kids it’s like, ‘Well wait a minute, look at what

she’s been through, how can I even begin to complain about something so silly?’” coach Martha Whiting said. “And I think what it gives is perspective.”

What makes the experience even more surprising, Whiting said, is the age at which these children are overcoming their illness.

“I do know that being an 11-year-old is not the easiest thing to do … kids aren’t always nice. But I do know that for her, when she’s here, she is loved,” she said.

Whiting has enjoyed watching Joni be accepted by the team.

“It’s hard not to smile when you feel like you’re loved by a giant group of girls that really care about you … being around our girls is a happy thing for her. And it’s fun, and she feels important,” she said.

Another benefit for the team has been their ability to watch Joni’s progression over the years.

“It’s been really fun to watch her grow and mature,” Whiting said. “At the beginning when she was coming, she was really shy, and you know, wouldn’t really talk a lot, and now … she’ll just come busting down the sideline.”

Matt has been showing a similar growth in confidence, according to Shapiro.

“I think our guys feel very connected to him, I think he feels very connected to our team, and that is the goal and I think in speaking with [his mother] there’s been a real positive effect within his confidence and his personality,” he said.

Positive effects on both sides have manifested themselves in many different ways.

For instance, Annie Artz, the IMPACT oncampus student ambassador, noted that both the men’s lacrosse and men’s soccer teams won national championships within a year of their first IMPACT matches.

“For the players and for the team IMPACT kids, that’s huge,” Artz said.

Mary Welker, the Massachusetts regional manager for IMPACT, mentioned yet another positive impact for the college teams.

“What I have learned from working here and working with a lot of the student athletes and what … I’m … excited about is being able to sort of give the student athletes another perspective and to open their horizons and expand their horizons to other things,” Welker said.

Welker hopes that the experience will help the athletes be more sensitive to those with special needs later in life.

“Ten years from now, when they’re coaching their kids’ little league team or soccer team, if they’re willing to let somebody with special needs join their team, [and] be more open to that, then that’s incredible.”

Welker said that ultimately, however, the best thing the organization provides is simply the support that suffering kids and their families sometimes need more than anything.

“A lot of times their lives are so focused on medical treatments … because they’re sick, taking medication or having procedures,” Welker said. “And if this gives them something else to think about, you know, when they go there, they’re not a kid with cancer, they’re just a member of the team.”

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Ukranian dancer Sergei Polunin offers new interpretation of Hozier's 'Take Me To Church'

by Nitesh Gupta Assistant Arts Editor

Though Hozier’s “Take Me To Church” did not win a Grammy last Sunday, it did manage to attract the attention of photographer and director David LaChapelle, who recently directed a new music video for it. The video features a long, passionate dance from Ukrainian ballet dancer Sergei Polunin and choreography by Jade Hale-Christofi.

Polunin shocked the prestigious British Royal Ballet a few years ago when he resigned from his post as the principal dancer at the young age of 22. His tattoos and tweets about his drug use drew concern from colleagues and fans. “I was not able to put things together,” he explained in an interview with the Telegraph. “Dancing-wise I didn’t feel I was in charge of anything.”

Polunin is the sole dancer in the music video, which takes place inside a wide, empty church-like studio with a backdrop of airy green trees. The four minutes and seven seconds of video are dedicated to an emotive, visual interpretation of the song. Polunin performs contemporary ballet, intermingled with modern dance and a deeply personal touch.

One of the problems with the music video, however, is the cinematography. Many shots fail to capture the emotion of Polunin’s movements, and some even cut off the view of the dancer’s legs in key athletic and artistic moments. Furthermore, the alternating

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Hozier’s 2014 hit, “Take Me to Church,” inspired a new music video starring Sergei Polunin. use of wide shots and close-ups seem more or less arbitrary.

In an interview with Fuse TV, Hozier explained his own interpretation of the

song: “The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that,

and undermine the more natural parts of being a person.”

In that sense, Polunin’s natural, emotional performance is incredibly fitting.

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Farcical Mark Twain redux 'Is He Dead?' hits Balch Arena

by Jennifer Straitz Assitant Arts Editor

For many actors, the Wednesday evening dress rehearsal of Tufts University Drama Department’s “Is He Dead?” (first performed using the adapted David Ives version in 2007) could have spelled disaster. Plagued by hours of lost practice time in the weeks leading up to the performance, stage manager Tom Morin, a sophomore at Tufts, jokingly said, “The rehearsal process was more of a farce than the play, due to the snow,” while he waited for actors to receive their notes from Director and Tufts Professor Laurence Senelick. And yet, the quality of Tufts’ actors shone through as spectators muffled their laughter at the cleverly written play’s slapstick comedy.

Set in mid-nineteenth century France, “Is He Dead?”, a comedy written by Mark Twain and adapted by David Ives, follows the larger-than-life Jean-Francois Millet. Played by junior Ed Rosini, Millet is a talented yet financially struggling artist who believes his paintings will sell for a higher value if he is presumed to be dead. Millet’s friends spread the story that the artist has been sent away to live out the last of his days after the diagnosis of a terminal illness. In order to escape detection, the artist returns disguised as his fictional sister, Widow Tillou, and is forced to entertain while pretending to mourn his own death.

What follows is a series of sexually confused interactions, a great deal of tomfoolery and a not-insignificant amount of cross-dressing that leaves the audience wondering how the Frenchman will remain undetected.

Characterized as as a “very silly show” by junior Andrew Prensky, who plays greedy art dealer Bastien Andre, “Is He Dead?” still intersperses thought-provoking pieces of social commentary by Twain that are as relevant in 2015 as they were in 1898. One example of this

comes as Millet tires of his false existence: One of his friends, in on the hoax, notes “It’s a rich life,” as Millet’s artwork brings in a huge influx of money.

The artist starklWy replies, “It’s a poor excuse for a real one.”

From the dress rehearsal, it was clear that the student actors’ preparation allowed for a smooth delivery of humor.

Junior Diana Lori Sapashnik plays Marie Leroux, Millet’s love interest. Sapashnik noted that with department shows there is generally a “lot more preparation, [an] extra day a week you have to rehearse.”

The professionalism that went into the rehearsals was also evident. Rosini explained that actors “operate based on Equity rules” in the department shows, following guidelines such as precise breaks that reflect those given to professionals in the industry.

In interviews after the Wednesday run-through, the confidence of the actors in the play’s content and timeliness abounded. Sapashnik said that it is “just farce and funny and comedy, and it’s a great way to relax … We’ve had a bunch of really great performances [at Tufts recently], but … they get very heavy, and I think it’s nice to have some lightness interspersed with the heaviness just to relieve students from the everyday stress that they have.”

Whether one is lamenting missed Monday night seminars, wondering how they will shovel out their driveway for the umpteenth time or feeling a case of the winter blues, they should make their way to Balch Arena to appreciate the work put into what is sure to be a hilarious performance. “We’re ready; we’ve been ready,” Morin says. Prensky adds, “This is a very big show, full of really big laughs.” Rosini concludes, “All it needs now is an audience to laugh at it.”

“Is He Dead?” is running in Balch Arena from February 12-14, and 19-21 at 8 p.m. Varied ticket pricing depending on the day of the performance applies.

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63 Modernize, in a way ... and when divided into three parts, a hint to the answers to starred clues 64 Functions 65 One of quarterback Archie’s boys 66 Lover’s request 67 Stylish, once 68 Symbiont on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”

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Bruins look to young talent to replace injured stars INSIDE THE NHL continued from back

a great opportunity to take the lead.

Instead, they made a mistake that cost them the game. Lackadaisical and apathetic with their play, the Bruins allowed Dallas’ Trevor Daley to skate through all three zones, shoot, get his own rebound and score, all while shorthanded.

The goal gave the Stars an advantage they did not give up.

In the NHL, everything can change in an instant. From week to week, game to game and even period to period, hockey is difficult to predict. A year ago, the Bruins were the best regular season team in hockey, winning the President’s Trophy. Two weeks ago, they were playing arguably their best hockey of the season and starting to move up the standings.

Now, they sit in the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference, the final playoff seed. They hold a four point lead over the Florida Panthers, but the Panthers have two games in hand.

The Bruins now head out on a five-game road trip, with four of those games coming against opponents that are currently slated to make the playoffs. It isn’t so late in the season that these upcoming games mark a do-or-die stretch for this team, but they are important.

Given the run of success in the

not-too-distant past, it’s obvious the Bs have the potential to correct the mistakes of the past few games and perform well down the stretch. There are indeed reasons for optimism. For example, Rask has allowed two or fewer goals in 11 of his past 13 starts and has a .947 save percentage thus far in 2015.

Eighteen-year-old rookie phenom David Pastrnak, who recently joined the team, has already made his presence felt.

Injecting his often-dazzling skill into the lineup has improved the team’s overall offense. Pastrnak has tallied five goals and two assists since being permanently called up from the AHL in early January to play on the team’s first line.

The NHL playoffs are practically a separate season in and of themselves. Once you’re in, just about anything can happen.

The team that takes home the Cup in June often is not the best regular-season team, but the one that catches fire at the right time. For now, the Bruins need to worry about playing their bruising, tough style of hockey and ensuring their spot in the postseason.

They haven’t been the dominant force many expected them to be, but the season is far from over and the Bruins are far from done.

Jumbos get one last shot at MIT before New Englands TRACK AND FIELD continued from back

same event as she won the competition in 7.83 seconds. Her time currently places her at 10th nationally, and she is bound to improve on her time as the season progresses. Tufts’ 4×400meter relay team also emerged victorious, running 4:05.91, almost seven seconds ahead of their next closest competitor.

“I think I’m at a good place overall,” Harrison said. “I’m definitely happy where I’m at in the 60m, but I should be hitting a faster time for the 200m than I have been, so I’m looking forward to BU next week in order to do so.”

In the field, sophomore pole vaulter Keren Hendel took third overall with her leap of 10’ 11.75”.

First-years Toluwa Akinyemi and Sophie Lattes, as well as junior Mary Ellen Caruso, scored 12 points overall in the triple jump, as Akinyemi took fourth with a 34’ 5.75” leap, Lattes took fifth with a 33’ 10.25” bound and Caruso took sixth just a centimeter shy of Lattes with a jump of 33’ 10”. Sophomore Bailey Conner placed sixth in the shot put with her 37’ 3.75” throw and later set a personal best in the weight throw, heaving the standard 47’ 6.50” for fifth overall.

First-year Amylee Anyoha also

fared well in the weight throw, launching the standard 46.00 to take eighth place overall.

“We’ve had a lot of improvements and PRs across the team among throwing, running and jumping,” first-year Brittany Bowman said, who ran in the 3,000 meters. “Some people on the team were taking the weekend off or are injured, so hopefully with a full roster we can be even more competitive with MIT.” Harrison was happy with the effort put forth from the team.

“I’m very proud of the team and their performance this weekend,” Harrison said. “There was good competition and

everyone fought to do the best that they could.”

On Friday, the Jumbos will head to the BU Track and Tennis Center for the David Hemmery Invitational, featuring athletes from all across the country at all NCAA division levels. BU is renowned for its fast, banked track, so the Jumbos will be looking for quick times and high marks as a last ditch effort to qualify more individuals for the New England Div. III Championships, held in two weeks.

“There’s no doubt that MIT is a good team with a lot of depth, but when it comes to meet day at Div. III New Englands, anything can happen.” Harrison said.

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Men’s Swimming and Diving

Tufts hopes hard work will pay off at NESCACs

by Jack Szumski Contributing Writer

In the town of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico — 1600 miles away from the chilly Tufts campus — things really started to heat up for the men’s swimming and diving team as it trained over winter break to prepare for the second half of its season.

According to first­ - year Jacob Siegelbaum, the training in Puerto Rico was the most demanding training the team had done all season.

“We were doing doubles, insane yardage, insane practices—really hard stuff,” Siegelbaum said.

Now, with the NESCAC Championships at Middlebury coming up next weekend, the team is looking to reap the benefits of that intense training. For a sport like swimming and diving, however, mental preparation is just as important as physical training. All­ -American sophomore diver Matt Rohrer emphasizes the importance of getting into the “meet ­mindset” when preparing.

“You really have to focus in on the moment,” said Rohrer. “Try to put yourself in a meet scenario, and just think about what you would be doing if you were on the board at Middlebury about to compete in the middle of finals—just try to get that adrenaline going.”

The three weeks between the end of the regular season at the Middlebury Invitationals and the NESCAC Championships are vital for the team to recharge and refocus. Head coach Adam Hoyt cites resting as being vital in this process.

“This is the time we really start to rest and get the guys in optimal physical and mental condition to be able to put their best races forth,” said Hoyt. “We will have had about two-and-a-half weeks to prepare … which is a good chunk of time to really focus on specific events and a specific contest.”

Another key to the success of the Tufts team at NESCACs will be its ability to work well

together. Coach Hoyt strongly believes that a tight­-knit team begets strong performances.

“Everyone has doubts within themselves, so it’s nice to get close to your teammates so those doubts can be eliminated by confidence and [by] each other,” said Hoyt.

Though swimming and diving mostly consists of individuals competing in individual events, the Jumbos believe that camraderie with and support from their teammates have an immense effect on individual performance.

“If I have a team around me, helping me out, my energy and the synergy of the team just skyrocket,” said Siegelbaum. “I think that’s why, at big championship meets, a lot of times you’ll see people drop insane amounts of time — because the energy that teams create at championship meets is just unparalleled.”

The recent inclement weather also seems to be working in Tufts’ favor in that respect.

Junior tri-­captain Cam Simko believes the weather has a been a blessing in disguise for the swimmers. “[The snow days have given us time to] train together at the pool, which is great because we don’t usually get to train as a whole team,” said Simko.

With 18 first-years, Coach Hoyt is excited by the prospect of such a young team.

“We graduated eight guys off our NESCAC team, and we’ve got 12 freshmen on our team this year,” said Hoyt. “That’s a 20­-person swing, so it’s hard to compare this team to any other team in the past. I’m really excited and looking forward to them making their own mark.”

The team’s first-years have predictably played a huge role this season, as they account for 18 of the 44 members of the squad. They have also been some of the top swimmers for the team this season, with first-­ years Morgan Ciliv, Panos Skoufalos, Zachary Wallace and James McElduff among those consistently registering top times in

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Coming off winter break training, the swimming and diving team feels prepared for NESCACS. competitions throughout the season.

Two of those selected for the NESCACs will also be representing the diving team.

Rohrer feels a particularly large amount of pressure since he impressed with top times in last year’s competition—enough to earn All­-American honors in 2014. He noted the benefit of having recently competed in Middlebury’s facilities at the Middlebury Invitational.

“It was really awesome to get there, jump on the boards, compete on the boards [and] get all my lousy dives out on the boards at Invitationals,” Rohrer said. “So, come NESCACs, I’ll be sure that I know how to compete there.”

Rohrer also has high hopes for his diving partner for NESCACs, first-­year Aaron Idelson, and looks forward to seeing Idelson compete at a higher level.

Overall, the main theme in the team’s preparation and performance at

NESCACs is trust. Simko and Siegelbaum both have echoed coach Hoyt’s mantra of “trust your training.”

“The biggest factor is trusting the coaching staff and trusting your upperclassmen teammates so that any kind of nervousness is good nervousness,” said Hoyt.

So what can you expect to see come Feb. 20-­22 at Middlebury? At the very least, there will be tough competition. Coach Hoyt believes this year will be arguably one of the strongest years for the NESCAC on a national level.

To place as high as third at the meet would be no small feat for Tufts’ swimmers and divers. Following months of hard work and the right mental preparation, however, the team is brimming with hope for an impressive showing at the Championships.

“It’s gonna be a good meet,” Rohrer remarked, “I think we’re gonna do a lot better than we were expecting to.”

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Inside the NHL

Bruins hope to find groove midway through the season

by Joshua Slavin Assistant Sports Editor

Not long ago, the Bruins were playing impressive and commendable hockey, and they seemed to be rounding into contending form. The season hadn’t gone quite according to plan through December, as the team had suffered injuries to key players, including one to mammoth defenseman and captain Zdeno Chara.

After finally getting healthy, they ended the month of January dominantly, going 8-1-3. The month of February, however, has been far less kind. The Bruins have lost three of their four games this month, and have been inef-

fective and consistently outplayed at nearly every turn.

The slump started with a 3-2 loss at the hands of the Rangers, who were without all-world starting goalie Henrik Lundqvist, who missed the game due to injury.

The Rangers are a good team in the thick of the playoff race, but the Bruins should still perform better against a team’s backup goaltender. Then, the Bruins played well in a reassuring victory over the Islanders Saturday night.

They followed that performance up, though, with a 3-1 defeat at the hands of the rival Montreal Canadiens.

The loss to the Canadiens was the fourth for the Bruins this sea-

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Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask keeps his eye on the puck as the Dallas’ Shawn Horcoff and Cody Eakin look for a scoring opportunity on Tuesday, Jan. 20.

son, marking the first time they have been swept in the season series by their nemesis since the 2007-08 season.

Most recently, the Bruins experienced their ugliest and least satisfying loss against the Dallas Stars. Armed with former Bruin phenom and NHL goals leader Tyler Seguin, the Stars came into TD Garden Tuesday night and left with a 5-3 victory. Bruins coach Claude Julien started backup goalie Niklas Svedberg in order to give starter Tuukka Rask the night off. Rask’s rest lasted only a period, however, as Svedberg allowed an abysmal three goals on only 10 Dallas shots.

Multiple special teams mistakes proved to be Boston’s undoing. After an early game misconduct penalty on the Stars’ Antoine Roussel, the Bruins had a five-minute power play. What could and should have allowed them to jump to an early advantage instead put them in a hole when Dallas’ Vernon Fiddler scored a shorthand goal to move the Stars ahead 1-0. The Bruins tied the score at one, and after two Jamie Benn goals put Dallas ahead 3-1, Julien put Rask in to start the second.

The goalie switch seemed to work, as the Bs came back to tie the game at three. Then, they went back on the power play with see INSIDE THE NHL, page 7

Fahey, Allen lead Tufts to second place at Cupid

by Chris Warren Sports Editor

The No. 9 women’s track and field team hosted its final large indoor invitational of the season, the Cupid Invitational, at the Gantcher Center on Saturday. The Jumbos fared well in the competition, scoring 115 points and taking second overall after No. 7 MIT. Across the board, the Jumbos had some very impressive performances, including national top 10 marks and school records.

Sophomore Kelly Fahey kicked the day off in the 5,000 meters with a blazing fast time of 17:29.19, improving on her personal best by almost 50 seconds. Throughout the race, she stuck with a very talented Amherst pack (all of whom ran under 17:42) before flying past them on the final lap. Her time currently places her in the top 10 nationally—eighth—which gives her a solid shot at qualifying for the Div. III National Championships next month.

Senior Meghan Gillis also fared well, qualifying for Div. III New Englands and ECACs with her fifth place finish in 18:35.87, just off of her personal best by five seconds.

Sophomore Meredith Reynolds also had a huge race, setting a personal record by almost 40 seconds and taking eighth place in 19:10.45.

In the 3,000 meter, first-year Margot Rashba ran a strong race to

take fifth place overall in 10:43.15, a six second personal best. In the mile, junior Lily Corcoran and senior Catherine Madden took third and sixth overall in 5:28.00 and 5:32.70 respectively.

In the mid-distance events, junior Sydney Smith won the 800 meters, running a solid 2:18.68 time for the win. First-year Prudence Sax took fifth in the same race in 2:25.07.

Senior Lauren Gormer competed in the 600 meters, and raced well, running 1:39.42 for third place overall. Smith and Sax later returned in the 4×800-meter relay with sophomore Sam Cox and first-year Sara Stokesbury to take second in the event, running 9:56.86 overall.

For the second straight week, junior Marilyn Allen led the sprints squad with another school record. Last weekend at BU, she broke the indoor 200-meter record. This weekend, she won the 60-meter hurdles in 8.90 seconds to break her own school record of 8.96 seconds, which she set last year. Like Fahey, this places her in the top 10 nationally, at seventh, and gives her a solid chance at qualifying for Nationals. She also took seventh in the 60-meter dash in 8.19 seconds.

Junior Alexis Harrison came very close to breaking her school record of 7.78 seconds in the see WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD, page 7