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John Kerry hints at 2020 plans at Tisch College event by Liza Harris News Editor

Former Secretary of State John Kerry is refusing to rule out a potential bid for the presidency in 2020. In an interview with the Daily Wednesday night, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee said that he would base his decision on future factors. “What I have to really evaluate is … what the dynamic is going to be,” Kerry said. “And I’ll feel whether I want to do more or less.” The longtime Massachusetts senator came to Tufts as a part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life’s Distinguished Speaker Series, hosted by Tisch College Dean Alan Solomont. Kerry and Solomont discussed a wide range of political issues, including the presidency, during their conversation in Cohen Auditorium. “I haven’t ruled anything out,” Kerry said. “Nothing is off the table.” Kerry, who served as secretary of state under former President Barack Obama when the administration helped draft the Paris climate agreement, spoke at the event about the imminent threat of climate change should the country continue on its current path. “It’s gonna kill us,” Kerry said. “There’s no other way to put it.” Kerry spoke of the ability of politicians and citizens to formulate policy to avoid that fate. “I’m optimistic, because we have the power in our hands to make the decisions that can save us from the worst consequences of climate change,” Kerry told the audience. “This is not a situation where we are sitting around waiting for

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Former Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the audience at a Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life Distinguished Speaker Series event on Nov. 28 in Cohen Auditorium. scientists to solve the problem and give us the tools to solve the issue. The solution to climate change is very simple: It’s energy policy.” Kerry heavily criticized President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate

agreement but expressed optimism, citing mayors and governors nationwide who have doubled down on efforts to preserve the environment. “What I’m so angry about is [that] the president’s decision is going to kill Americans.

The president’s decision is going to cost lives,” Kerry said. “Trump may have pulled out of the agreement, but the American people really have not.” see JOHN KERRY, page 2

Dark Money at Tufts, Part 4: Tufts’ multimillion-dollar donation network in context by David Nickerson

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Editor’s note: This is the final part in a fourpart series from the Daily’s Investigative Team. Part 1 was published Monday, Part 2 was published Tuesday and Part 3 was published Wednesday. All parts can be found online.

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This investigation documents that Tufts has received over $22 million in donations from seven charitable foundations with histories of supporting questionable scholarship and promoting political agendas at other institutions of higher education. Besides Tufts, leading universities across the country have also accepted millions of dollars from the foundations covered in this investigation, according to

tax records made available by American Bridge 21st Century. Harvard University has accepted over $9 million from The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation since 1986 and nearly $6 million from the John Templeton Foundation since 2006. The University of California, Los Angeles has accepted over $2 million from the Bradley Foundation since 1986 and over $1 million from the Smith Richardson Foundation since 1998. Tufts received significantly more money from these organizations than many of its peer institutions across the country, having accepted $22 million in donations. However, it has accepted considerably less than schools like Yale University and the University of Chicago, which have received over $30 million and over

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Tufts’ peer institutions accept millions in donations from foundations with controversial funding histories DARK MONEY

continued from page 1 $51 million, respectively, from several of the foundations covered in this report. Yale University accepted over $19 million from the John M. Olin Foundation from 1985 to 2008 and has accepted nearly $12 million from the Smith Richardson Foundation since 1996. The University of Chicago has accepted nearly $16 million from the Templeton Foundation since 2006, over $14 million from the the John M. Olin Foundation between 1985 and 2005, over $11.5 million from the Bradley Foundation since 1986, over $5 million from the Sarah Scaife Foundation since 1985, over $2.7 million from the Smith Richardson Foundation since 1996, over $2 million from the Earhart Foundation since 1995 and $5,000 from the Charles Koch Foundation since 2014.

From 1985 to 2000, the university accepted a cumulative annual average of $361,403 from the seven organizations covered in this investigation. From 2001 to 2016, that figure rose to $861,732. In 2017, Tufts accepted a sixyear, $3 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation to fund the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. At the same time, many of these foundations have adopted increasingly aggressive strategies to discredit media coverage and criticism of their activities. In her 2016 book, “Dark Money,” journalist Jane Mayer reported that Koch Industries hired a public relations team in 2011 to attack reporters who covered the funding efforts of Koch-affiliated enterprises and foundations. “To fight back, [Philip Ellender, Koch Industries’ president of government and

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The Hull Gate at the University of Chicago is pictured. Ralph Wilson, co-founder of UnKoch My Campus, said that the scale of these donors’ contributions has increased significantly since the 1980s. “It’s interesting because it’s been a kind of long game,” Wilson said. “What we’re seeing more recently are really aggressive, highly funded, highly targeted efforts. That’s the big difference … since the founding of the [Charles] Koch Foundation [in 1980].” The increase in contributions from these charitable foundations in recent decades is reflected in Tufts’ donation acceptance record.

public affairs] launched a pugnacious corporate Web site called KochFacts that waged ad hominem attacks, questioning the professionalism and integrity of reporters whose work the company found unflattering, ranging from The New York Times to Politico,” Mayer wrote. “Brass-knuckle tactics were nothing new for the Koch brothers, but they were now deploying them against legitimate news reporters.” Mayer also claimed that she was targeted by the Koch brothers for her reporting.

“[As] the Kochs were ramping up spending on the midterm elections, half a dozen or so highly paid operatives labored secretly in borrowed office space in the back of the lobbying firm run by the former congressman J. C. Watts,” Mayer wrote. “Their aim, according to a well-informed source, was to counteract The New Yorker’s story on the Koch brothers by undermining me. ‘Dirt, dirt, dirt’ is what the source later told me they were digging for in my life. ‘If they couldn’t find it, they’d create it.’” Internal documents from the Bradley Foundation, obtained illegally by hackers and published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2017, reveal that the foundation maintains a list of organizations “that attack groups and people helping the Foundation further its mission.” The Bradley Foundation identifies the magazine Mother Jones in these documents for, “Among other things, aggressively [covering] what it calls conservative ‘dark money’ and elections.” Mayer noted that many of these donors hold conservative-leaning ideologies because liberal organizations tend to focus more on electoral politics than academia. Officials at the foundations covered in this investigation have stated their intentions to support politically informed scholarship at universities across the country. The foundations’ funding has elevated racially divisive scholarship, outed gay students, downplayed or denied the effects of climate change and investigated the scientific basis of intercessory prayer and intelligent design. They have also requested students’ contact information in order to improve their “election capabilities” and have targeted journalists who report on their donation practices. Nonetheless, Tufts administrators and faculty responsible for managing these donations remain unaware of, or unconcerned with, the donors’ controversial practices at other universities and their personal interests at Tufts. Instead, the university’s review of potential donations appears to focus solely on their direct, on-campus impact. Liam Knox contributed reporting to this article.

Kerry urges students to make their voices heard, citing past activism JOHN KERRY

continued from page 1 Kerry similarly denounced Trump’s determination to dismantle the Iran nuclear deal, which Kerry also helped draft while secretary of state. “Trump alone can’t necessarily blow up the deal, which is a sign … of the strength of the deal,” Kerry told the Daily in an interview. “I think that the fact that the six other countries that are signatories to the agreement want to keep it makes the most powerful statement of all.” Kerry commented on other aspects of national politics today, including gridlock in the Senate, where he represented Massachusetts from 1985 until his appointment as secretary of state in 2013. “The institution in which I spent 28 years of my life is simply not functional, and it’s sad,” Kerry said. Kerry also acknowledged the record voter turnout in the 2018 midterm elections but highlighted the need for further improvement. “If you look at the election this time, it’s a great step forward, but it’s just the beginning,” Kerry said. “The total turnout of eligible voters, even as we set a record, was 49 percent. I find that disgusting.” Kerry expressed support for removing money from politics and putting an end to gerrymandering. He added that turnout can-

not increase without government making voting more accessible to all. “We have to stop being the only democracy in the world that makes it this hard for people to vote,” he said. Solomon asked Kerry about the role of young people in politics, prompting Kerry to share memories of the turbulent state of politics during his childhood and into his adult life. Kerry described walking with his mother through the ravaged streets of Paris following the Second World War. During his college years at Yale University, Kerry witnessed the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the suppression of black voters under Jim Crow laws and the United States’ increasing involvement in the Vietnam War. Kerry himself served in Vietnam and, upon returning home, testified in front of the Senate on behalf of the anti-war movement. Referencing this divisive period in the country’s history, Kerry told the audience at Cohen Auditorium that his generation “made the things that mattered to us voting issues.” Throughout the discussion, Kerry repeatedly emphasized the importance of youth participation in politics. “I ask all of you to remember: Every great movement that’s made a difference — and you can go way back in history —

it was young people driving that effort,” Kerry said. He cited the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who have launched a campaign against gun violence in the wake of February’s mass shooting at the school, as an example of such civic leadership. “I think the Parkland students were just outstanding and impressive and set a huge example to the country about a kind of moral, value-oriented decision-making process, which is absent from politics today,” Kerry told the Daily. Finally, Kerry acknowledged Trump’s powerful ability to connect with voters but called for a new leader to redirect the country. “Nobody should underestimate the degree to which President Trump tapped into an anger that exists in the country on Democratic and Republican sides,” Kerry told the Daily. “People do not feel that the country is responding the way it ought to be to the challenges of our nation, and when that happens, you get anger manifesting itself in different ways at the polls.” Kerry closed by addressing the 2020 presidential election, urging students to seek competent and responsive leadership in the White House. “You deserve a president who wants to work with the world, not work to rip it apart,” he said.

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Romance studies department responds to criticism of new French, Spanish minors by Daniel Meakem

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Tufts’ Department of Romance Studies recently announced the creation of new French and Spanish minors. This decision, which had been called for by the student body for many years, has led to significant praise and celebration by students who have the opportunity to pursue these minors, while also drawing criticism on the minors’ restrictive eligibility requirement. Interim Department Chair and Director of Latin American Studies Nina GerassiNavarro said that these minors were not created in the past as most students who entered Tufts would be able to complete a major in a language. “Students came with a healthy amount of language preparation, so that they could come in to work [on] developing the major, and I don’t think the Department really felt the need for a minor,” GerassiNavarro said. The department decided to consider implementing French and Spanish minors following a petition from students in 2016, according to Gerassi-Navarro. Student demand was high among students who were taking lower-level classes in either languages. “I think [especially] the lecturers, who deal more with the language teaching of the program, felt that there was more interest and it would warrant us to reconsider, and so we started looking at the population and did a questionnaire,” she said. The department ultimately approved French and Spanish minors, as it saw that students without much prior language experience find it difficult to get a major in French or Spanish. “The minors allowed us to say, well, those students [with little or no language experience] will make an effort to learn French or Spanish, but aren’t going to be able to get a major. But they may take one literature class that is an effort, so let’s recognize that effort, so that’s how we structured it,” Gerassi-Navarro said. “Those students who want to have some linguistic competency, and would like recognition for that can minor … [but others can] go in depth, in the culture, in the literature, and have a much broader and much more in-depth knowledge of a particular region for a major.” The department decided to restrict minor eligibility only to students who began in levels 1, 2 and 3 of the respective languages, since the minor was created for students who begin their French or Spanish careers at lower-level courses, Gerassi-Navarro said. She added that this policy is not meant to be seen as a way to earn recognition in French or Spanish for a smaller amount of work.

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Nina Gerassi-Navarro, professor and interim chair of the Department of Romance Studies, poses for a portrait. “We have to be able to differentiate between the assets that students had, and what they worked for,” she said. “You’re kind of measuring the effort [that someone puts in]. For someone who didn’t start with anything, [a minor] is a big step, and for someone who does [have background], well, build it, and that’s also a big step, but that becomes a major.” For students in higher-level courses, like Megan Szostak, a first-year currently taking Composition & Conversation 1 (FR 21), the eligibility requirement only allows them to pursue a major in Spanish or French. “I have too many other classes, yet I want to continue my studies in French, so a minor I think would be really nice. I would still take the same number of French classes that I would have otherwise taken, I would just get some actual recognition for it,” Szostak said. Gerassi-Navarro said that pursuing a minor is not the only way to gain proficiency in the Romance languages and cultures. “I get that students and our society want to have more things written on their diplomas but also, we have to have criteria, and so, we had to draw the line … Even if students are not pursuing a major or a minor at that, just being exposed to another culture, another way, another form of moving your tongue and pronouncing, it’s hard,” Gerassi-Navarro said. “And that’s part of the whole process of how we think about a liberal arts education.”

She added that the Department of Romance Studies wants to avoid students acquiring minors for a title. “If you have a major, you should be proud of it, and you should have worked for it, and we want to help students uncover the complexity of what that major means,” Gerassi-Navarro said. Brett Sachs, also a first-year currently taking FR 21, said that the eligibility requirement discouraged him from continuing his study in French, noting he would have if it had potential of resulting in some formal recognition. “I would actually take additional classes if I could get a [French] minor, but I’m not going to pursue it as a major because I already have another path to go on,” Sachs said. “Ten classes is ridiculous to pursue [for any recognition], especially if I want to major in something else, but if it was just six classes for a minor I would probably do that.” Studying abroad in a French or Spanish-speaking country can help students complete the requirements for a major, Gerassi-Navarro said. “If you’re a science major, you can go abroad and do a science class, [for example] ‘Marine Biology of Chile.’ Well that should count [toward the Spanish major], because it’s not just a science, but it’s a science connected to Latin America, and reality,” she said. Gerassi-Navarro added that beginning a new language is another option. “Start a new language, and just get a minor, and be exposed to something totally different,” she said.

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was recently chatting with a friend about the issue of political exclusivity at Tufts. He expressed his frustration with the lack of range in political debates and discussions surrounding identity at Tufts. Interestingly enough, he echoed similar sentiments that I’ve heard shared by people of color, by women and by people with accents foreign to America. Because he holds views that are controversial at Tufts, my friend was extremely cautious about what he shared with me, knowing that I am writing a column about this topic, even while knowing that his name would not be attributed to his ideas. This goes to show how fearful he is of being harshly criticized and potentially ostracized at Tufts. Being of a dominant identity is not enough of a reason to disqualify someone from taking a stance on a political or social issue. There is a line between saying something that goes against the mainstream discourse and saying something that brings serious harm, and I find that here at Tufts, we often confound the two. This is where freedom of speech can be confusing. Where is the line drawn? I, too, must keep myself in check so that I don’t disqualify someone’s point. Recently, I was discussing issues of the systems surrounding sexual assault with a friend who argued that his identity makes him extremely cautious, for he is worried about being wrongfully accused and having no way out of being persecuted because of his identity. My immediate impulse was to tell him that he was wrong, because he cannot understand what it feels like to be someone who has been assaulted; he cannot understand what it feels like to be a woman living in a veiled but consistent state of alertness and concern for safety every day. He may also never have been forced to think in the shoes of someone who worries about getting home safely at night, someone who immediately thinks about their physical safety when their phone battery dies. The same can be said for me; I struggle to empathize with someone like him, who can walk dark streets with his biggest fear being his wallet, be on a packed train with his biggest fear being accused of violating someone’s boundaries. Disqualifying his views from the onset, because he simply does not ‘understand’ mine, is not a way to build conversation and communication. If I really believe that I am in the right, then I should have the flexibility of thought to walk in his shoes and try to help him understand even a yard in mine. Doubt not. Minority representation matters. Humility from the majority and concern for others matter. Inclusion of all individuals and remembering that there’s more to a book than its cover also matters. Check your privilege, we say. We should. We should also check to see if our liberal beliefs have turned into the inability to recognize individuality, made safe spaces into fenced exclusive territories and transformed words into weapons. Haruka Noishiki is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Haruka can be reached at haruka.noishiki@tufts.edu.

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‘The City Without Jews’ shines unsettling spotlight on history of antisemitism by Tommy Gillespie Executive Arts Editor

A copy of Austrian director H. K. Breslauer’s 1924 satirical film “The City Without Jews,” presumed lost for decades, was discovered in 2015 at a Paris flea market in astonishingly good condition. The film, based on Hugo Bettauer’s 1922 novel of the same name, became the subject of a crowdfunded restoration campaign led by the Austrian Film Archive. Since its re-release, “The City Without Jews” has been touring the festival circuit, which brought it to Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre earlier this month as part of the Boston Jewish Film Festival, screened with live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis. The film, which took great influence from the Austrian political climate of the time, opens as the Austrian metropolis of Utopia has been caught in a crippling financial crisis. Crowds of jobseekers angrily march through the city’s streets, blaming the city’s Jewish population and demanding their banishment. A majority of the city council is only too happy to indulge their own antisemitism, and an ordinance ordering the Jews to leave in a matter of days is passed. Soon after the Jews are exiled, however, the city’s situation worsens: The city’s banks fail, the economy collapses even further and a steep cultural decline follows. The citizens soon begin demonstrations demanding a repeal, while a city councilor’s daughter (Anny Milety) and her Jewish fiancé (Johannes Riemann), who has snuck back into the city in disguise, must conspire to swing the vote in their favor. “The City Without Jews” is an early example of film that addresses the sudden departure of an entire demographic, but it is not the only example. In Sergio Arau’s 2004 mockumentary “A Day Without a Mexican,” California wakes up one morning to find an eerie, impenetrable pink fog surrounding the state’s borders, and all of its nearly 15 million residents of Mexican and other Latinx descent vanished without a trace, sans reporter Lila Rodriguez (portrayed by Arau’s wife, Yareli Arizmendi). As in “The City Without Jews,” the loss of the state’s Latinx population predictably throws Californian society into disarray. The film’s poster mockingly displays a frazzled upper-class white couple, rife with sweat and dirt, forced to do their own house cleaning and gardening. The joke is low-hanging, and the film sadly does not make the most of its intriguing premise, but like all good satire, it has a solid truth underlying it. Indeed, the loss of California’s Latinx population, despite some incendiary politicians’ rhetoric, would be just as catastrophic in real life as it is in Arau’s often ham-fisted feature. A CNN editorial discussing the film notes that even absent the economy’s dependence on immigrants, the loss of their often-questioned tax revenue alone would cripple the state. “A Day Without a Mexican” failed to make much of a commercial or critical impact in its day, and the circumstances surrounding this film are vastly different from those surrounding the making of “A City Without Jews.” Yet the parallels are eerie: “The City Without Jews” was released in July 1924, 14 years before Austria’s 1938 Anschluss, or annexation, by Nazi Germany. “A Day Without a Mexican” was released in May 2004; 14 years and three presidents later, hate crimes targeted at Latinx individuals rose by 15 percent from 2015 — when Donald Trump announced his candidacy — to 2016, and images of migrant children tear gassed at the border have gone viral in recent days, sparking international outcry. Antisemitic hate crimes have also risen — last month’s mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh became the deadliest act of antisemitic terror in American history.

Today’s seemingly rapid backslide in social progress has many in the cultural world looking back to the era of “The City Without Jews” with unease. Those dumbstruck by what is happening need only rewind to the 1920s in central Europe to get a clue. During the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Jewish citizens, driven by the liberalization of laws restricting their movement, the economic opportunities of industrialization and later by conflicts like World War I, began migrating in large numbers from villages in the empire’s eastern regions to its prosperous cities, Budapest and Vienna. By 1920, there were over 200,000 Jews living in Vienna, a figure representing nearly one in nine people in the city. The Jews of pre-Nazi Vienna formed a prosperous and integral part of the Austrian capital’s society, ranging from business magnates to writers like Stefan Zweig to famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Jewish socialites such as Adele Bloch-Bauer, immortalized in the paintings of Gustav Klimt, were prominent players in the city’s cultural landscape. Certain districts of Vienna had Jewish majorities, and many more were over a third Jewish. Despite these advancements, however, Jews in Austria remained vulnerable. Around the turn of the 20th century, the Christian Social Party gained a considerable amount of traction running on an Austrian nationalist platform, with much antisemitic and white supremacist influence. Karl Lueger, one of the party’s founders, served as mayor of Vienna from 1897– 1910. Lueger was a self-proclaimed admirer of Edouard Drumont, founder of the Antisemitic League of France. Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna for a portion of Lueger’s mayoralty, cited Lueger as a political influence. Later Christian Social Party figures, like Ignaz Seipel, who served two stints as the Chancellor of Austria during the

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1920s, served as direct inspiration for characters in “The City Without Jews.” “The City Without Jews” ends on an optimistic note though, as the German populace come to their collective senses, democracy wins out and Jews are welcomed back into the city with open arms. Even viewers with only the most cursory knowledge of history could note that life, unfortunately, did not imitate art. Following the Nazi Party’s rise to power in Germany in 1933, similar tensions that had been boiling between political forces on the left and right in Austria throughout the 1920s finally erupted into a brief civil war in 1934. The result was the establishment of the fascist Federal State of Austria, led by the Fatherland Front, created by a merger of right-wing parties. Jews, increasingly targeted by legal persecution and harassment under the Austrofascist regime, began emigrating in droves. When the Nazis marched into Vienna in March 1938, nearly 40,000 Jews had already left the city. Jews and other minorities were subsequently barred from voting in the Anschluss referendum, in which over 99 percent of Austria’s German population voted for annexation into Nazi Germany. Deportations of prominent Jews began in 1939. By the war’s end, fewer than 3,000 Jews remained in Austria. Even the original novel’s author did not escape the rising tide of right-wing nationalism — Bettauer (who was not Jewish) was murdered by an Austrian Nazi just months after the film’s release. Over 90 years after its release, the film’s prescience and unlikely discovery have opened up a window into the fragile halcyon of Jewish cultural life before fascism obliterated it. Only time will tell if “The City Without Jews” will become part of the wake-up call that it once failed to be.

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‘Hunger’

his Thanksgiving, instead of choosing to sit down and watch the Macy’s Parade or a football game, I settled for a slightly unorthodox choice: Steve McQueen’s 2008 historical drama, “Hunger.” “Hunger” follows the life of Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer and activist Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) through his time in prison during the 1981 dirty protests chronicling the end of his imprisonment and hunger strike. Normally my favorite element of a film is the dialogue, and the more distinctive the better, with films like “Juno” (2007) and “The Big Chill” (1983) sitting high up on my favorites list. “Hunger” has very little dialogue, with the film’s first act containing almost no dialogue and focusing heavily on the minutiae of its characters’ days. The film begins with many different shots of one of the Maze Prison wardens getting on with his day, but the quiet of the work gives one the headspace to notice the details that give these normal behaviors away as belonging to anything but a normal time: the cops’ bloody knuckles or the quick burpee he performs before going to work to check that no one has attached a bomb to the bottom of his car. The lack of verbal explanation on the topics serve to allow us to notice them better while pulling us into the story. While watching the film, the focus on the visuals left me wrapped up in the story, focused on the small things. Later on in the film, near the end of the third act, McQueen switches this up completely, using the same technique in the opposite way to make us focus on what he wants us to see. Just as Sands is about to embark on his hunger strike in the name of earning the status of political prisoners for him and his fellow imprisioned IRA members, he decides to meet with a priest. McQueen shoots this over 20-minute conversation as a singular wide shot, stripping down the typical conventions used to jazz up an A and B conversation. In the absence of J and L-cuts, of transitions between tighter shots of each character’s face back to a wide shot, all normally used to ease the flow of conversation to, leaving us to stew in the discomfort of the ideas being discussed. Tensions between the priest and Sands begin to rise as the conversation drifts forward, with the priest seeing Sands’ choice to participate in the hunger strikes as a cop out, him choosing suicide as an easy way out of his own suffering but masking it as martyrdom, while Sands believes it is the next step in fighting for what he believes in. Rather than using obvious editing techniques to make sure this tension is perceived, McQueen leaves us with just the words the men are saying, hoping that we are torn between them. “Hunger” truly surprised me, and I urge you to, as we head into the new semester, try and watch, read or experience something that you don’t expect to like. You may just be hungry for what it has to offer. Alexi Reich is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Alexi can be reached at alexi.reich@tufts.edu.

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Tys Sweeney Pretty Lawns and Gardens

Taking responsibility for traveling

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any Tufts students travel home by air for Thanksgiving and the winter holidays, polluting the atmosphere in the process. Air travel can make up a significant portion of an individual’s carbon footprint — a round-trip flight to a city in Western Europe will cost about two tons of carbon dioxide — so what can we do about it? First of all, there is the obvious: Don’t fly unless you must. Take a train or a bus — even a car will produce fewer emissions in most situations. In the case of returning home from Tufts, however, many non-local students don’t have a practical alternative to air travel. Currently no trans-Atlantic railways exist, and the Queen Mary 2 takes a week. If flying is unavoidable, take responsibility for your carbon footprint. Many carbon offset programs exist, along with a handy calculator for how much carbon dioxide an individual must offset to reach neutrality. Carbon offset programs recognize the enormous damage airplanes cause our planet and seek to mitigate and counterbalance such effects by planting trees and funding renewable energy projects. Of course, carbon offset isn’t the ideal solution — that would be a carbon negative or carbon neutral economy — but in our current society, it’s a place to start. Earth is hurtling towards a tipping point, 1.5 degrees Celsius, so anything we can do as a society or as individuals to reduce or reverse this trend is worth doing. Of course, I shouldn’t have to argue for this sort of program. It shouldn’t be optional to take responsibility for your actions. In a rational world, responsibility would be built into the system. Carbon taxes have been proposed before, most often on energy production companies, but I’d like to suggest a consumer-side carbon tax, for one simple reason: education. A producer-side carbon tax is a beautiful thing, and in theory it would correct the energy market to some degree in terms of pollution. But even when the cost of the tax is passed on to the consumer, comprehension is still lacking. Tax the consumer directly, and the message will be clearer — in the case of carbon offset, for example, add a dollar-value per ton tax to each ticket sold on top of the offering price. Passing on the tax burden from the producer side will not result in consumer understanding to the same degree. With this in mind, fly home for the holidays, but take responsibility for your travel costs. The privilege of modern convenience comes with the duty to pay for it, and while I wish for a perfect world in which we use green products, ride carbon-neutral transportation and live in a way that balances modern comforts and technologies with our duty to the environment, I will pursue more proximate goals. You should too. You can calculate your carbon footprint on carbonfootprint.com and make a donation to a carbon offset program of your choice from the same website. Beyond that, I encourage you to make environmentally-conscious decisions every day, and advocate for societal change as well.

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THE TUFTS DAILY | Sports | Thursday, November 29, 2018

Bradley Schussel The Coin Toss

NFL Week 13

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elcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold predictions about your favorite professional sports. First, a recap of my Week 11 predictions from before Thanksgiving break: Prediction Outcome Did I get it right? Chiefs and Rams 54–51 Rams score Chiefs over 64 points

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Titans defeat Colts 38–10 Colts Titans Kirk Cousins throws three Two TDs TDs vs. bears

The Chiefs and Rams blew the over/under out of the water, so that was my lone correct prediction. Let’s move on to Week 13… Jets beat spread against Titans (lose by less than 9.5 or win) Yes, I know how bad the Jets have been this season. I’ve watched them be a miserable football team for years now. However, when you look at the opening line for their game against the Titans, this prediction doesn’t seem as crazy. Tennessee is favored over New York by 9.5 points. The Jets just had a rough loss to the Patriots, but they did put up somewhat of a fight in that game. They’ll likely get Sam Darnold back this week, so their offense should improve. The Titans are coming off a great offensive game; Marcus Mariota threw for 303 yards and two touchdowns last week. Still, they got blown out by the Texans, 17–34. I think the betting line is too generous to Tennessee, and I can see New York beating that 9.5-point spread. Lamar Jackson goes off on Atlanta (250+ passing yards, 100+ rushing yards) Jackson will make his third straight start this week for the Baltimore Ravens after Joe Flacco’s injury. This week, he’ll get to face the Atlanta Falcons. Thanks to a slew of injuries and misfortune, Atlanta’s defense has been subpar this year. This will open the door for a huge game for Jackson, which is what I’m predicting. Just how bad is the Falcons’ defense? They are in the bottom five in the NFL in total yards and total points allowed. They let Drew Brees throw an easy four touchdowns on them last week. Lamar Jackson is no Drew Brees, but he’ll certainly benefit from this matchup. The rookie didn’t look great in the first half last week against the Raiders. He rebounded eventually, however, and he should be able to get off to a better start this time out. That will propel him to big numbers — I predict 250 passing yards and 100 rushing yards. Rams (-8.5), Chiefs (-15) and Packers (-14) all cover the spread Picking one of these teams to cover wouldn’t be bold enough, so how about a triple pick? Two of these teams, the Rams and Chiefs, have been tearing it up and are bound to score a lot of points, and the other, the Packers, has struggled but is looking to get back on track this week in a great matchup. The Rams will play the Lions, who have had a rough season that doesn’t look to be turning around after a trade (Golden Tate) and injuries (Marvin Jones, Kerryon Johnson) have depleted their offense. The Chiefs and Packers will take on the Raiders and Cardinals, respectively. Both of those teams are 2–9 and have poor defenses that Mahomes and Rodgers will pounce on. I predict no shenanigans here: All three teams will cover their opening spread. Bradley Schussel is a sports editor. He is a senior studying biomedical engineering. Bradley can be reached at bradley.schussel@tufts.edu.

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Senior co-captain Brita Dawson maintains a lead in the 4x200-meter relay at the New England Div. III Championships on Feb. 17. by Nate Hartnick Staff Writer

As November transitions into December, Tufts runners have begun preparation for the indoor track and field season. Many of the Jumbos were members of the men’s and women’s cross country teams that finished 12th and 25th, respectively, at the NCAA Championship, but they will now turn their attention to the track. Men’s track and field The Jumbos look to build on a strong 2017–18 indoor season in which they won the New England Div. III Championship for the second straight year. Drew DiMaiti (LA ’18) and senior Hiroto Watanabe defended their titles as New England champions in the 600 meters and 800 meters, respectively. Their winning marks both set facility records at Middlebury’s Virtue Field House. Senior Anthony Kardonsky posted a record-breaking result of his own, running the 200-meter dash in 22.26 seconds. In the 60-meter hurdles, senior Josh Etkind beat out WPI sophomore Oliver Thomas for the New England title in a dramatic final, with his mark of 8.233 seconds edging out Thomas’ time by only .002 seconds. The Jumbos also displayed strong performances in the field events. Senior Ben Wallace finished second in the pole vault, clearing the bar at 4.61 meters. Junior Kevin Quisumbing earned a third-place finish in the shot put, with a season-best 15.40 meters. Stefan Duvivier (LA ’18) also came in second in the high jump, recording a then-season-best 2.04 meters. In looking ahead to this season, Watanabe focused on replicating last year’s success. “We’re looking to win indoor [Div. III] New Englands,” he said. “We’ve won it the past two years, so it would be pretty cool to three-peat.” A third straight title at the New England Div. III Championship would also be Tufts’ seventh in program history, but the team has its sights set higher: NCAA Championships. “We also want to send as many

people as possible to the national meet, especially since it’s here in Boston,” Watanabe said. Last year’s Div. III NCAA Championships were held in Birmingham, Ala., where the Jumbos tied for 13th overall. Duvivier won the national title in the high jump by clearing 2.20 meters, which tied him for the fourth-best indoor mark in Div. III history. Meanwhile, Watanabe came in sixth place in the 800 meters with a time of 1:53.64, earning All-American honors. Duvivier’s contributions, along with those of the entire Class of 2018, will be missed this season. Nonetheless, Watanabe remains confident that the Jumbos will be in good hands with their new leaders: senior co-captains Tommy Miller, Brandon Levenstein, Henry Hintermeister and Ben Wallace. “The leadership has already been replaced,” Watanabe said. “People have always been stepping up constantly, and the people who are captains or leaders on a team — it’s just a matter of title. I think everyone’s always ready to step up and eager to do what’s needed and fill in the gaps.” The team chose not to participate in the upcoming Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener at Boston University, instead choosing to hold an internal scrimmage meet. The Jumbos’ competitive races will begin after the winter break with the first Tufts Invitational scheduled for Jan. 12. Women’s track and field Meanwhile, the women’s track and field team also looks to improve on last year’s successful indoor season. The Jumbos displayed a well-rounded effort at the the New England Div. III Championships, placing fourth overall. This year, the Jumbos have four co-captains: seniors Trish Blumeris, Evelyn Drake, Brita Dawson and Jennifer Jackson. Brittany Bowman (LA ’18) placed second in the 3,000 meters, falling to Coast Guard sophomore Kaitlyn Mooney by just .14 seconds. Junior Julia Gake placed second in the 600 meters with a time of 1:37.65. In the

field events, Annalisa DeBari (LA ’18) finished third in 60-meter hurdles in 8.96 seconds. Tufts finished second in the 4x800-meter relay, with juniors Nicole Kerrigan and Rhemi Toth and sophomores Olivia Martin and Emily Murray finishing in 9:32.85. The Jumbos also recorded fourth in the distance medley and sixth in the 4×200 relays. Gake took pride in last year’s results, but also saw room for improvement. “We definitely would like to be at the top of [Div. III] New Englands,” she said. “We’ve had success with that in the past couple years. We’d like to get back into the top three.” While some of Tufts’ top contributors graduated in May, the team still possesses tremendous potential. Gake is confident that the first-year Jumbos will integrate themselves seamlessly into the team’s dynamic and post strong results. “I feel like the team’s looking really good this season,” she said. “We lost some of our key point-scorers, but we have a good spread across all of the events. We definitely have some new [first-years] who are going to perform well in my events, the long sprints, so I’m looking forward to that.” Tufts ultimately placed 11th at the Div. III NCAA Championships thanks to strong performances from its seniors. Bowman won the NCAA title in the 5,000 meters with a school-record time of 16:31.32 and added a fourthplace finish in the 3,000 meters in a time of 9:39.98. DeBari came in fifth in the 60-meter hurdles (8.89 seconds) for the second year in a row to earn AllAmerican honors. Like Watanabe, Gake is confident in the team’s leadership despite its loss of such prolific athletes. “We do have a returning captain in Brita Dawson,” she said. “And she’s still a solid leader on the team. And we have a number of seniors who are providing good leadership.” The women’s track and field team will have an opportunity to display its strength on Saturday at Boston University’s Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener.

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Battle of leading offenses to determine championship showdown

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MEN'S SOCCER

continued from back scored eight times so far this season from dead ball situations. Junior forward Joe Braun leads the Tufts’ offense, having scored a conference-high eight goals in the regular season. He opened his postseason account in the Elite Eight against Montclair State. Braun’s performance this season earned him a place on the United Soccer Coaches All-New England First Team and the All-NESCAC First Team. The Jumbos are also well-represented in other parts of the field, as senior defender and co-captain Sterling Weatherbie and junior midfielder/forward Gavin Tasker were also named to both of the aforementioned teams. Meanwhile, Tufts’ opponent in the Final Four, the University of Rochester, finished third in the University Athletic Association (UAA) conference, behind Chicago and Case Western Reserve, and received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. This is the Yellowjackets’ first trip to the Final Four, an improvement on their Elite Eight finish last year. En route to the Final Four, Rochester beat the No. 1 seed and reigning national champions Messiah, 2–1. The Messiah

Falcons were undefeated until their exit from the tournament. They have also won 11 national titles since the turn of the millennium, making them the most decorated Div. III soccer team in the tournament’s history. But thanks to an own goal, the Yellowjackets took the lead and held on for the remaining eight minutes of the Elite Eight match to move on to the next round. Statistically, the Jumbos edge the Yellowjackets in both goals scored (41 to 37) and goals conceded (nine to 12). In recent years, the Jumbos have consistently made deeper runs in the NCAA tournament than their opponent. That being said, the teams have a similar possession-based style of play — better statistics on paper alone do not determine the outcome of the game. “Rochester is going to be a super compact team,” Mieth said. “They have a really long throw that comes in like a line drive and he can put it wherever he wants, so we’ve been practicing defending that all week. Looking at the pool of teams left we’re very eager to be able to play our type of soccer. The deeper you go into the tournament, the more the teams’ play our style of soccer, which actually suits us well. Hopefully … we can stretch the game and really allow our

midfield to dictate the terms and get guys scoring from every position.” On the other side of the draw, Chicago (18–2–1) will face Calvin (21–1) for the other spot in the championship match. Chicago came into the tournament with the best overall and conference records in the UAA and makes its second consecutive Final Four appearance. Chicago has scored 47 goals in 21 games, with senior forwards Max Lopez and Matthew Koh scoring conference-leading 16 and 14 goals, respectively. The Chicago Maroons also tout a reliable goalkeeper — sophomore goalkeeper Aaron Katsimpalis has 73 saves on the year, topping the UAA as well. Meanwhile, the Calvin Knights won the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship for the fifth year in a row, defeating the Adrian Bulldogs, 2–1. Calvin’s offense is deadly, having put the ball in the back of the net 91 times in 22 matches this season. The Knights also have three of the top-five scorers in the MIAA: senior forward Bobby McCaw (20), senior midfielder Jacob Witte (17) and junior midfielder Hunter Olson (13). Sophomore goalkeeper Chris Morrish also has the best save percentage in the conference

with .830, suggesting that the Knights’ defense will not be easy to break down. While the Jumbos have never faced the Maroons before, they beat the Knights 1–0 to win the 2016 tournament. Nevertheless, for the four members of the senior class, this weekend is a bittersweet moment. The quartet had their final practice on Bello Field Tuesday night and will play the final minutes of their careers within the next few days. Najjar spoke about the pressures coming in as a first-year in 2015 to a team that was fresh off a national title. “When my class committed, we hadn’t won a national championship yet, so to come into that, there was a lot of pressure and I think we learned a lot freshman year about what not to do,” he said. “Luckily, we corrected that in 2016. Last year was a big experience for us because that was the first time that people knew who we were and that we were a top team instead of the underdog. As for feelings going into this week, it’s super mixed. You go to bed and you’re nervous as hell, but at the same time you’re excited and happy that you just get to play another week.” Tufts’ Final Four matchup will start at 1:45 p.m. Friday, with the championship match to be played at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Jumbos raise over $18,000 for Puerto Rico at swimathon JUMBOS GIVE BACK

continued from back “Even though [the] SAAC and the whole Athletics department have played their part, the swimming and diving team is the one that’s on deck, timing it, promoting it and volunteering our own time,” Lee said. The teams have raised $18,136 as of Nov. 26. Their initial goal was to raise $15,000. Fan said that every varsity team participated in the swimathon, and that only $4,000 was raised by the swimming and diving teams. “[The event] really did start with a couple of teammates that said ‘Hey, this is something really important happening in the world and something that feels connected to our team, so let’s bring some awareness to it,’” Lee said. Lee added that the event emphasized the privilege of Tufts’ student-athletes. “Our team got to go to Puerto Rico for a training trip,” Lee said. “A lot of that comes from alumni funding. Let’s not let that go unnoticed. How lucky we are to have that.” Since Hamilton Pool only has six 25-yard lanes, a traditional swimathon was not fea-

sible. So the swimming team decided to put other teams into groups with 20-minute slots of swimming, with each swimmer trying to record as many laps as possible. “Football came in and was the first team,” Fan said. “They swam with the women’s team and were so into it. Just seeing that was like ‘Ok, this is a success.’ Seeing them in our environment was so satisfying.” The teams appreciated the opportunity to swim without competing, Fan said. “Usually the team comes together only for practices and meets,” Fan said. “But this time we could get into the pool without worrying about times, that stuff wasn’t remotely in our heads. Not many teams get to say they had this idea that will hopefully be an annual event.” After posting 747 laps last year, Tufts athletes swam 1,470 this year. Fan was taken aback by their success. “I think it’s my greatest accomplishment at Tufts — just getting the whole Athletics department together for a single cause and beating our goal by so much more than what could have ever imagined,” Fan said. “It’s mind-blowing.”

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Members of Tufts’ men’s lacrosse, football and women’s swimming teams celebrate after their swimathon to support hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico.

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Thursday, November 29, 2018

Men’s soccer heads to Final Four, seeks third title in five years

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The Tufts men’s soccer team celebrates its 4–0 Elite Eight win over Montclair State on Nov. 18. by Maddie Payne Sports Editor

The Jumbos (16–0–3) traveled to Greensboro, N.C. Wednesday ahead of their Final Four match against the University of Rochester Yellowjackets (16–2–2) Friday. Going into the weekend, Tufts is the only undefeated team still in the NCAA tournament. According to senior co-captain and goalkeeper Conner Mieth, the trip is a chance for the team to redeem itself after losing last year in the Elite Eight. “All I want is to give the guys the experience of all of our hard work and some unfinished business from last year,” he said. “Basically this is a revenge tour. We’re super excited and pumped up. It’s definitely a sobering experience too, because no matter how we do this [it] is still our last weekend ever.”

In an historic run, the Jumbos tallied nine straight wins to open their regular season, and finished it undefeated. The regular season included victories over NESCAC rivals Amherst and Bowdoin and NCAA foe Brandeis, who was responsible for Tufts’ elimination from last year’s NCAA tournament. The Jumbos drew against the Conn. College Camels and the Middlebury Panthers, the second- and third-seeded teams in the NESCAC tournament, respectively. The Camels gave the Jumbos some fierce competition for the first seed in the NESCAC and briefly surpassed Tufts in the national standings towards the end of the season. The Amherst Mammoths were responsible for the Jumbos’ only regular season loss of 2017, but on Sep. 29 the Jumbos got their revenge in a 2–1 victory. Tufts outlasted Bowdoin in a seven-goal thriller

to close out the regular season in their first victory over the Polar Bears since 2013. In the postseason, Tufts faced bottom-seeded Colby, who orchestrated a shocking defeat of the reigning champions in the penalty shootout, though it did not technically count as a loss in accordance with NCAA rules. Previous defeats in the NESCAC tournament did not seem to faze the Jumbos, as they proceeded to win the national title even after NESCAC quarterfinal defeats in both 2014 and 2016. So far in the national tournament, the Jumbos have netted eight goals in just three games, while conceding none. The showings are a testament to the team’s much-improved offense — last season’s offense was unable to score a single goal in the tournament — as well as its stingy back line. In total, Tufts has scored 41 goals in 19 games,

while boasting a goals against average of only 0.45. “Looking back on what we learned in the past, last year’s defensive mindset was that if we didn’t let in any goals, we were not going to lose, which is a pretty basic idea,” senior defender Jackson Najjar said. “I don’t think we connected enough throughout the whole team, pushing the offense to cover our backs. This year, what’s been the key contributor to getting eight goals in three games is that the attacking guys really stepped up and learned from last year. The team is much more in it together than last year.” The most notable change in Tufts’ offense is their potency on set pieces and corners. After scoring only one goal on 148 corner kicks in 2017, the Jumbos have see MEN'S SOCCER, page 11

Jumbos Give Back, Part 3: Student-athletes come together to help Puerto Rico by Arlo Moore-Bloom Sports Editor

Editor’s note: This is the final part of a threepart story highlighting Tufts athletic teams’ contributions to their community. Part 1 was published Nov. 19 and Part 2 was published Nov. 28. Both can be found online. After the devastating effects of Hurricanes Maria and Irma in August and September 2017, the Tufts swimming and diving teams hosted a swimathon to fundraise for relief efforts after visiting Puerto Rico for winter training the past 12 years. The Jumbos teamed up with Direct Relief, a nonprofit humanitarian group.

Though winter training includes some of the swimmers’ most grueling college workouts, the trip to Puerto Rico and accompanying camaraderie makes it worth it. Jessica Fan, a senior on the team, reminisced on the morning all-youcan-eat buffet after a practice that started before dawn, the beach volleyball games in between practices and teammates cooking pizza with a tortilla crust at night. After Puerto Rico and its people were devastated by hurricanes, the team felt a responsibility to help the cause. “[The teams] got to know the people at the hotel really well, and our bus drivers — we loved our bus drivers,” Fan said. “And just thinking about how different [Puerto

Ricans’] lives must be now, and their families must be. One year after there was still so much enthusiasm still, and you can see that through the donations. It was like a ‘We need to act, and we can’t do much but here’s something we can do.’” Last year, the team raised over $10,000 to help relief efforts for Puerto Rico and its neighboring Caribbean islands. A year on and Puerto Rico still feels the catastrophic effects of the hurricanes; many communities and homes still lack basic amenities, such as electricity and clean water, according to the Associated Press. The teams decided to run another swimathon, this time in partnership with Taller Salud, a women’s nonprofit humanitarian group.

“I researched other organizations that still actively played a role in helping Puerto Rico and made a list of five options based on how much they were doing, their sustainability and their mission,” Fan said. “I wanted other teams to have a personal connection to it, so I asked [the StudentAthlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) representatives] to help me and vote for one by a certain day.” Fan worked closely with the SAAC to ensure all of Tufts’ varsity teams got the word. Madeline Lee, a senior, said that the team played the most integral role in the organized effort. see JUMBOS GIVE BACK, page 11