The Tufts Daily - Thursday, October 10, 2024

A year since Oct. 7: How campus groups marked the anniversary

Estelle Anderson and Samantha Eng

Executive News Editor and Deputy News Editor

Students marked the anniversary of Oct. 7 with memorials and demonstrations on Monday. Some organizations held an evening vigil for lives lost to Hamas’ attacks, while a group of students convened to protest in solidarity with Palestine.

Hillel, Chabad, Friends of Israel hold memorial to honor victims of Oct. 7 attack

an open space at Hillel for students to connect, a communal lunch, an afternoon prayer and a full-day table at the Mayer Campus Center.

“We hope students walked away feeling like they have a community that stands with them on this somber anniversary and every day,” a representative of Tufts Friends of Israel wrote in a statement to the Daily.

Rabbi Naftali Brawer, executive director of Tufts Hillel and Tufts’ Jewish Chaplaincy, opened the service by encour-

Here’s how students around campus observed the date.

Tufts Hillel, Tufts Chabad and Tufts Friends of Israel held a joint memorial service at 7 p.m. to honor those killed when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. University President Sunil Kumar and Provost and Senior Vice President Caroline Genco joined the students and faculty in attendance.

In addition to the memorial service, the groups held a full day of programming, including

aging attendees to support one another in their shared grief. Approximately 1,200 people were killed and over 200 were taken hostage during the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7. 101 hostages are still being held in Gaza, including four hostages taken in 2014 and 2015.

“Now, a full year on, perhaps the shock has worn off. That’s what happens with time. But the pain remains. Our world is still shattered, and we still have no words to articulate the full extent

of our grief, anxiety, fear [and] loss,” Brawer said. “And yet, this moment demands of us that we find some language, inadequate as it may be, to memorialize the tragedy, to honor the murdered, to pray for the wounded body and spirit, and critically, as time is running out, to pray for the hostages and their safe return.”

Brawer told audience members that the memorial would focus on “poetry rather than prose” and “prayer rather than pronouncements.” He then sounded a shofar, an “elemental, unadorned raw sound” which he said evoked human crying yet also hope for the Jewish new year.

Throughout the next part of the service, students recited poetry and lit two candles for the Jewish tradition of Sabbath to honor lives lost and pray for the return of the hostages. A presentation was also displayed with photos depicting the impact of Hamas’ attack on Israel. Some students and faculty held hands and wept silently.

At the end of the memorial service, Rabbi Tzvi Backman, director of Tufts Chabad, delivered final remarks, reflecting on the challenge of finding a way to properly honor the lives lost on Oct. 7.

“The core, deep desire of their beautiful souls to impact this world must not be forgotten,” Backman told the audience. “So many of you have made a decision following Oct. 7 to live more deeply, more lovingly, … [and] in this way, … you have remembered the lives lost and you have allowed their souls to continue to impact this world through you.”

Backman then led the room in prayer.

Students rally in solidarity with Palestine, continue calls for divestment

More than 100 students marched across campus and held a day-long sit-in at the Science and Engineering Complex, condemning a year of Israel’s invasion of Gaza and honoring the Palestinian lives lost. Over 42,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

“In the past year, israel has intentionally starved and killed thousands of people, each life being infinitely precious,” a representative from Tufts Students for Justice in

Palestine, who organized the protest, wrote in a statement to the Daily. “We are doing the absolute bare minimum anyone in the imperial core should be doing in order to support the Palestinians and the Lebanese who are freeing themselves from israeli and US imperialism and fighting for a more equitable and more dignified future for themselves and all of humanity.”

and the healthcare system has collapsed.

Speakers also reiterated the group’s four ongoing demands: that Tufts disclose all of its investments, divest from companies that contribute to the war in Palestine, cut all “academic and institutional ties with Israel” and end studyabroad programs in Israel.

One counter-protester at the rally, who wore an Israeli flag draped over their shoul-

Beginning around noon, protesters began to gather by the Jumbo statue near Barnum Hall, with many carrying Palestinian flags and signs that read, “No one is free until everyone is free” and “Tufts investment office funds genocide.” Several protesters delivered speeches to the group, drawing attention to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, where nearly 60% of buildings have been destroyed

ders, expressed criticism over the group’s decision to hold a demonstration on Oct. 7, which they said should be a day for mourning the lives lost during Hamas’ attack on Israel.

“[The protest] is on Oct. 7., so I think that in and of itself is so incredibly problematic, to essentially laud the massacre as something that could be anything but horrific,” the student told the Daily.

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“Anything but condemning violence is just … unacceptable.”

At around 12:30 p.m., the group marched down Packard Avenue and across Professors’ Row, leading chants like “Disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” The group entered the SEC and sat on the floor next to Kindlevan Café.

“We are here to reclaim space that the university uses to churn out workers for the war machine. U.S.-backed Israel is relentless,

committing one of the worst atrocities of our lifetimes with our university’s money and cooperation,” a speaker said at the start of the sit-in. “This is a space for community and solidarity and honoring all those who have given their lives fighting for a free Palestine.”

Protesters continued the sit-in until approximately 6 p.m. Throughout the day, they created posters with pro-Palestine statements and participated in workshops including a “Palestine 101 Teach-In” and a “Space for Grief and Reflection.”

The protest came just days after Tufts placed SJP on an interim suspension due to violations of university policy, as well as an Instagram post where the group promoted their Oct. 7 demonstration with an image of individuals holding weapons. Under the terms of the suspension, SJP is prohibited from holding any activities.

“Despite our efforts emphasizing community values and urging students to treat each other with compassion, a small group of about 50 protesters chose to use the day to heighten tensions by walking out of

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class and protesting on the academic quad,” Deputy Director of Media Relations Kalimah Knight wrote in a statement to the Daily. “Throughout the afternoon, we took a series of incremental steps to get them to vacate the premises. We were prepared to take further steps, including issuing no-trespass orders which could potentially be followed by arrest, when the students left just before 6pm. As is our practice, we will hold accountable anyone found to have violated university policy and the student code of conduct during yesterday’s protest.”

Salvadoran journalist and Boston civil rights lawyer discuss democracy, 2024 election and immigration policy during lecture

The Department of Romance Studies hosted a discussion on Oct. 3 titled “The High Cost of Democracy, Freedom of the Press, and Immigration Policy,” focusing on the political climate in El Salvador and its parallels with politics in the United States. The event featured two speakers: Óscar Martínez, a Salvadoran journalist and co-founder of Latin America’s first digital newspaper, El Faro, and Iván Espinoza, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights in Boston.

Nancy Levy-Konesky, a senior lecturer in the romance studies department, spoke to the Daily about the inspiration for the event. She explained that she organized a similar talk in 2018 with Martínez to raise awareness about violence and corruption in El Salvador.

“People loved hearing about him, and it opened their eyes to a lot of violence. This was at a time when El Salvador was the most violent country in the world that was not at war,” Levy-Konesky said. “I decided it was important to have Óscar come back, because we’re in an election year, and because in El Salvador, the president was able to make himself a dictator in a very short amount of time.”

Martinéz opened the talk by providing an overview of El Salvador’s history, explaining how the peace agreement established after the end of the civil war in 1992 was ineffective, ushering in an era of corruption and gang violence throughout the country.

“After the peace [agreement], we had a very violent peace,” Martinéz said. He discussed how corruption runs rampant throughout the government in El Salvador, affecting presidents on both the left and the right.

Martinéz then highlighted the current political conditions in El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele.

“Bukele named himself the coolest dictator in the world, … right now, he calls himself a ‘philosopher king,’” Martínez added.

Martinéz pointed to widespread corruption under Bukele, especially within the country’s criminal justice system. In El Salvador, where incarceration rates are currently triple those of the U.S., 1 in 57 Salvadorians are currently in jail.

“Any soldier, any police member, can arrest you just because you seem nervous. … There [are] a lot of people who [are] in jail just without proof,” he said.

Espinoza drew parallels between the issues confronting El Salvador and the current political climate in the U.S., comparing Bukele with former President Donald Trump. Both candidates revel in signifigant popularity despite engaging in actions that can be seen as anti-democratic, Espinoza argued, pointing to Trump’s false claims of election fraud that led his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2022.

“I think there are lessons in the Salvadorian experience for how democratic institutions and democratic trust erodes over time that are very applicable to us in the [U.S.] today,” he said. “In the [U.S.], … we, in some quarters, are seeing an emphasis more on supporting a particular politician

than supporting the institutions of democracy themselves.”

The conversation then shifted to the issue of immigration in the U.S. Martinez drew attention to Trump’s false claim during the presidential debate that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio eat cats and dogs.

“I never saw migrants in the [U.S.] eating a dog,” he said. “But I saw [a] migrant eating garbage.”

Espinoza highlighted widespread xenophobia within the U.S., explaining how many Americans often harbor resentment toward immigrants for being supported by their tax dollars. However, according to Espinoza, Americans should reframe their perspective on immigrants and recognize the economic value that they bring.

“People don’t think about immigrants as an investment,” he said. “People don’t think about the economic vitality of immigrants to renew our economy and the investment we are placing on having these people enter our workforce.”

During the Q&A portion of the event, one audience member asked the speakers how they felt about Trump and Vice

President Kamala Harris’ immigration policies.

“At this point, what we’re seeing is [for] both of the political parties … it’s really a race to the bottom on who could be more cruel to immigrants, who could be more difficult in the immigration process,” Espinoza said. “The entire conversation about asylum, humanitarian protection, how we continue to welcome people who are being persecuted, has evaporated as we just talk about being tough on immigrants.”

After the event, Elena Carrion Guerrero, a senior lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies, spoke with the Daily about how the talk provided valuable insights into how independent journalists such as Martínez play a critical role in holding politicians accountable. She pointed to the value of studying U.S. politics in comparison with the governments of other countries.

“Learning about other countries [and] their trajectories in politics, makes us think about our own. We take for granted many rights that we have,” Guerrero said.

Varya Karpinskaya Contributing Writer

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Óscar Martínez and Iván Espinoza talk to the Tufts Community about the "High Cost of Democracy" in ASEAN Auditorium on Oct. 3.

Medford City Council, Board of Health take action to combat growing rodent problem

Julia Rich Contributing Writer

The Medford City Council is working to combat the city’s rodent problem with new ordinances and enforcement tactics in partnership with the Medford Health Department. The efforts come amid a recent increase in rodents and wild animals such as rats and raccoons, causing concerns about sanitation issues and the spread of disease.

The city is drafting multiple ordinances that would increase enforcement tactics to help solve the rodent problem in Medford. One of these ordinances, called the “Wildlife Feeding Ordinance,” would impose a fine on residents who feed wildlife on public or private property in Medford.

Notes from a June city council meeting say the ordinance will give the “Board of Health/ Code Enforcement the authority to do enforcement/issue warnings and tickets when overfeeding/inappropriate feeding of wildlife is creating nuisances or health hazards.”

The ordinance will undergo a second city council vote this Tuesday; if passed, it will become city law. City Council Vice President Kit Collins, who wrote the ordinance, said that the idea came to her after she heard continual complaints from residents about neighbors who left out food that attracted animals.

“This was just an area where there was a gap on our code of ordinances. Our code enforcement officers can’t just enforce however they please,” Collins said. “They need something in our code of ordinances [that empowers them to] go in and issue a verbal warning, a written warning or a ticket so that we can actually do some enforcement around [residents who] leave out food in such a way that it’s attracting wildlife to a hazardous degree.’”

Collins clarified that the goal of the ordinance is not to restrict residents from having food on their property, such as dog food or a bird feeder. Rather, the ordinance would allow the city to intervene if residents are storing food in a way that attracts animals.

In addition to the “Wildlife Feeding Ordinance,” the city council is currently discussing updates to the preexisting “Rodent Control Ordinance” and drafting an “Overgrowth Ordinance,” which would give the Board of Health authority to issue tickets when overgrown plants on private property block public spaces like sidewalks. While the three ordinances would collectively allow the city to legally enforce Medford’s rodent issue, Collins said that it is ultimately up to Medford residents to decrease the rodent population by avoiding actions that attract wildlife in the first place.

“Frankly, the city doesn’t have the bandwidth to be preventatively enforcing this ordinance,” Collins said. “All this does is … when somebody calls into the city and says, ‘Hey, I am having an issue with vermin that I cannot resolve on my own with my neighbor,’ then the city has permission to go in and do something about it.”

Medford’s rodent problem is not new nor specific to the city itself, Medford Board of Health

Director MaryAnn O’Connor explained. She said that an increase in rodents is an issue many communities in the region are currently grappling with.

“It’s really not a rodent problem. It’s what you call a trash problem,” O’Connor said. “We need [businesses to] step up and make sure that dumpster management is improved in restaurants, … but it’s really a city wide problem, and it is getting worse.”

In addition to the ordinances, O’Connor says that education is a valuable tool when it comes to solving Medford’s rodent problem. In September, Medford re-launched its “Clean Up, Seal Up” education campaign, which raises awareness about common factors that attract rodents.

In particular, Collins explained that the city seeks to educate people about plant overgrowth, which is a major contributor to the increase in rodents since many use overgrown bushes as shelter and reproduce there. O’Connor also said the city aims to educate people about some of the unin-

tended consequences of feeding wildlife.

“Some people love to throw peanuts or bread or whatever out on the ground. They think they are doing a nice thing for the birds, but they’re basically just attracting the rodents and giving them food,” O’Connor said. “If rodents don’t have food or water, they’re not going to stick around.”

If a resident does not have the resources to clean their yard or does not know how to solve the problem themselves, O’Connor hopes they will reach out and that neighbors will help each other.

“Everybody has to pitch in. It’s not just a health department problem or city problem — it’s an everybody problem,” O’Connor said.

“We’re not trying to get people in trouble out of nowhere,” Lazzaro emphasized. “We’re just trying to make sure we have a city that we can live in, that’s pleasant to be in and that is not creating an ecological imbalance, because that’s really what a rodent problem is at its core.”

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Medford City Hall is pictured on Feb. 6, 2023.

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Once-in-a-generation: Historic cleanup breathes new life into Boston Harbor Islands

Sam Dieringer Staff Writer

If you’ve ever been to Boston Harbor, you might’ve heard of the Boston Harbor Islands, a group of several dozen islands sprinkled throughout the greater Massachusetts Bay. What you might not know is that these islands face constant threats due to pollution.

Two years ago, two Massachusetts organizations identified a serious problem. Visits to the outermost harbor islands, those beyond human settlement, revealed decades worth of debris and plastics. Once thriving island ecosystems became overrun with styrofoam, thousands of Poland Springs water bottles and old fishing gear. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and The Center for Coastal Studies understood they needed to do something radical. So, they enacted a “once-in-a-generation” cleanup, one never before seen in the history of the Harbor Islands.

The project, “Outer Boston Harbor Island Cleanup,” took place from Sept. 13–22, 2024, and aimed to remove debris from several key islands. The effort was spearheaded by the DCR and CCS, and featured support from several other prominent Mass. organizations and dozens of volunteers.

Laura Ludwig, director of the Marine Debris and Plastics Program at CCS, emphasized how impressive the scale of this initiative is.

“It’s hard to describe the magnitude of this project,” Ludwig said. “The planning that went into this was over the course of two years with no fewer than six agencies at the state, federal and local level.”

Ludwig works with the commercial fishing industry to address issues caused by lost fishing gear. She recently led over 70 volunteers in an “adventure cleanup” of the islands. An “adventure cleanup,” a phrase coined by Ludwig herself, goes beyond standard beach cleanups and was necessary for this massive project.

“Our cleanups have taken [beach cleanups] to another level,” Ludwig said. “They’re more like extractions, debris extractions, where we have to use heavy equipment, [and] spend a week at a time immersed in the location.”

In addition to the ambitious scale of the cleanup, this particular project posed unique challenges. The process of getting out to these remote islands was a challenge in itself.

“For two years, we worked together in planning this because these islands are not easily accessible,” Jorge J. Ayub, senior coastal ecologist for DCR and an integral member of the two-year planning process, said.

”[The islands] don’t have a lot of visitation. They don’t have any infrastructure on them, because they’re the [outermost] islands, so they’re the most exposed to the weather conditions.”

Weather conditions were certainly a factor, as poor conditions during the week of the cleanup posed challenges for volunteers. Ludwig emphasized the importance of training and mental preparation prior to the cleanup in order to ensure the safety of participants.

“We have to endure long days of hot weather or freezing cold rain [and] driving wind. We have to navigate rocky shorelines, wear proper safety equipment, [and] use chainsaws [and] machetes to get to places so that we can actually get to the debris,” Ludwig said. “We have to have sure footedness; … we begin each day with 20 minutes of yoga or stretching, … [and] we eat healthily together in a group when we do these things. We’re supporting each other as we go.”

John Yonce, a volunteer on the ground throughout the week, described the training experience leading up to the cleanup: “I’m an unskilled laborer. … I showed up and they provided almost everything we needed, gloves and personal protection equipment,” Yonce said. “It’s a very environmentally sensitive area out there. … Nothing’s without risk.”

Although many volunteers suited up to endure harsh conditions, other volunteers found ways to contribute outside of intense physical labor.

Another volunteer and fulltime visual artist, Gin Stone, documented the project through photography. “I wanted to be there and I wanted to see … what direction the islands took my work just from being there,” Stone said.

With a brigade of volunteers and dozens of cranes, boats and equipment supplied by sponsoring government organizations, Ludwig and the team set out on their expedition. Upon initial arrival to the islands, Stone described a bizarre and disheartening scene.

“When I got there, I really felt like I was at a loss, because when you see the amount of trash, it’s really overwhelming in a very personal way,” Stone said. “I picked up a giant styrofoam block and I turned it over, and there was an ant colony inside. There were millions of ants, and they had just completely used this substrate, this unnatural thing, to … make their entire colony.”

Stone conveyed the way in which the actual cleanup process, particularly the bagging of debris into large “super sacks,” informed her artistic vision for her photography.

“[When] the garbage and the trash … were consolidated into those super sacks, … [that] showed the sadness of the neglected islands, the neglected environment. And the solitude came out when I saw these bags sitting all around me,” Stone said.

Along with the overwhelming amount of garbage, the team also found artifacts and unopened objects dating back around 70 years. “One of the most interesting and impressive things that we found was a gas mask from the Navy from the 1940s,” Ayub said. “We found incredible things, like cans of crab meat still unopened, already blistered and ready to explode, … [and] an endless amount of lobster traps.”

By the end of the week, the team emerged with an unbelievable amount of debris, each bag weighing one ton. This didn’t include the wood, lobster traps and other large plastic pieces also removed during the cleanup. Yonce expressed the relief and gratification he felt as he witnessed the bags piling up.

“At the end of the day, you’re tired, you’re sore, you’re cold, you’re wet, but you look at this huge pile of just crazy amounts of debris that we’re pulling out of there; … it was very gratifying,” Yonce said.

Ludwig emphasized her appreciation for her team and the successful partnership between organizations.

“It was very much a group effort and strengthened the

relationship between the [CCR] and the DCR,” Ludwig said.

From the volunteer’s perspective, Stone emphasized the swift bonds she formed with her fellow crewmates were driving factors in their ultimate success.

“It was amazing how people buddied up immediately. We all would come into the mess hall, and you just automatically start sitting at the same table with the same people,” Stone said. “I think what happens is, like in boot camp, you get thrown in with all these people, and then by the end, you’re family to them.”

Yonce alluded to how the diversity of professions and backgrounds in the group served as an asset to their success.

“People came from different backgrounds and different attitudes. There were artists, there were engineers, there were manual laborers, everything in between, coming together,” Yonce said. “It was a great experience.”

One of the key partners directly involved in the effort, Boston Harbor Now, developed a new project in collaboration with the DCR and CCS earlier this year. The new project aims to revamp Boston Harbor Now’s Marine Debris Removal Program on Peddocks Island, a separate harbor island. Sahil Duvadie, volunteer program manager for Boston Harbor Now, emphasized the partnership between organizations is ongoing.

“We definitely all will come together and discuss how we can continue [The Boston Harbor Islands Cleanup] moving forward. … We want to continue the longevity of our programs. We don’t just want to do a program and have the program end,” Duvadie said.

The successful effort also caught the attention of other harbor-based non-profits, including Save The Harbor Save The Bay, a group with a similar mission to preserve the ecological health of and increase overall accessibility to the harbor. Chris Mancini, director of Save The Harbor Save The Bay praised the DCR and CCS efforts.

“It’s really remarkable that they were able to coordinate this group to do a week-long focused effort

in this hard-to-reach area, … and we’ll be happy to be a partner on the next one, ” Mancini said.

Despite a week-long endeavor and praise from local officials and community members, the work from the project is far from complete. Ludwig and Ayub explained that they are in the midst of an intricate process to classify and sort collected materials for reuse.

“The main goal of this cleanup was to repurpose and recycle as much as we can before we even attempt to send something to the landfills,” Ayub said.

Ayub brings to light an important aspect of the project: sustainability. In addition to the collection of waste, proper disposal and recycling of materials is essential.

Ludwig explained that her goal is to use the collected marine debris data and visual evidence to bring awareness to sustainable causes. Simultaneously, she’s realistic about her scope of influence.

“I’m a pragmatist, I mean, we’re not going to be solving the pollution crisis by cleaning these islands,” Ludwig said. “We had 4,000 water bottles on these islands. … I’m not envisioning that I’m going to convert a whole bunch of water bottle drinking people, but maybe a couple of them will step up to the plate and say, ‘You know what? I don’t agree with this, and I think we should do something different.’”

Yonce, who is also the senior vice president of strategic development for a nonprofit called Clean-Seas Inc., in addition to being a volunteer, expanded upon Ludwig’s sentiment and implied individual actions can lead to more widespread progress both in and outside of the harbor.

“You can be a part of this, even if you don’t have a day or a week to take off to go help the [CCS] on the Boston Harbor Islands, you certainly do have … an extra second to think, ‘Do I really need this single-use plastic today, or can I use something else?’” Yonce said.

While drumming up awareness for sustainable practices was one result of the project, a genuinely unwavering sense of optimism was another. Ayub described the sense of optimism he felt on the second to last day of the project.

“Maybe this is something that we should do every five years,’” Ayub said. “It makes me really optimistic that this will hopefully be the beginning of something greater.”

Ludwig’s positivity stems from what she saw in her team of volunteers throughout the week: “I have tons of hope. I just spent a week with 70 volunteers who loved working in terrible conditions, soaking wet and sandy all through their hair. … People love to do this stuff,” Ludwig said. “How can you not have hope? We all care. Somebody cares. If one person cares, then there’s always hope.”

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An image from Gin Stone's “White Super Sacks In Situ” series is pictured.

Meet professor Kim Ruane, the face of the math department

Editor’s Note: The author of this article is an advisee of Professor Kim Ruane.

Professor Kim Ruane has been working at Tufts for the past 24 years and is the chair of the Department of Mathematics. While she has done extensive work as a professor and researcher at Tufts thus far, some of her greatest accomplishments have come from outside of the classroom.

For Ruane, the road to Tufts was not an easy one. She feels she holds a unique place in academia. “I’m [was] first gen student, so I would say that it’s a little bit unusual that I’m sitting here.”

Ruane was able to ascend to such a high level in academics due to her skill in mathematics. In high school, she moved through classes so quickly that she had to go against the grain to get ahead.

“The system wants to keep everybody at the same pace,” Ruane said, “so I had to fight the system a little bit.”

Ruane attended a commuter school in Georgia with a developing math department.

“When I went to Kennesaw State College — now Kennesaw State University — they took me under their wing,” she said. “They let me take whatever courses I wanted to take. I didn’t ever pay for a course.”

Later on, in a PhD program at Florida State University, Ruane had a great connection with her advisor. “He treated me more like an equal … because we were both learning the subject and that resonated with me,” she said. ”[I thought] of it less hierarchical, whereas I think academics can be very hierarchical. … So that shaped the way I think about teaching and mentoring.”

After receiving her PhD from Florida State, Ruane searched for an academic institution to build her career, eventually settling at Tufts.

“The reason I chose Tufts is because they offered a balance

of research and teaching that other places … didn’t offer.”

Today, Ruane said she works in the research community “equally as a mentor and as a researcher, whereas when [I was] younger, it had to be 100% research.”

Ruane’s research focus is called Geometric Group Theory. Ruane likened her research to playing a game of 20 Questions — except the answer is a geometric object. “What is the shortest list of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions that you could write down for a geometric object that uniquely [specifies] it? … That’s a good way to think about the way in which I work.”

Ruane spoke of her love of working on research with PhD students. “I like the act of watching them discover and work on an unsolved problem. … I love that at some point they become more knowledgeable on their problem than you.”

This knack for mentorship has carried over into Ruane’s teaching. “I’ve always found a way to work in

tic misunderstanding that had occurred, I realized I had stumbled upon an interesting linguistic phenomenon that I wanted to talk about in this week’s column.

While hanging out with a friend the other day, I was on one of my long rants about something I was frustrated with. I don’t remember what we were talking about, but I do remember complaining about someone and saying something like, “You can’t just do that!” I was, of course, referring to whoever was bothering me, but my friend seemed insulted. His facial expression changed, and I could see an eye roll beginning to form. Before I could correct the seman-

The ambiguity of my sentence came from the lack of clarity in the type of “you” I had used. In spoken English, you usually use the pronoun “you” as a generic pronoun that is meant to refer to people in general. In formal English, one might use the word “one” to convey the same concept. To be clear, I wasn’t verbally attacking my friend as we were hanging out; I could have said, “One can’t just do that.” This would make it crystal clear that I am obnoxiously professing a general rule of human behavior, as opposed to telling him that he can’t be doing what he’s doing right now. But using this kind of formal construction would also make me sound pretentious

Ruane expressed how these exams give her a better understanding of how her students think.

This led Ruane to discuss the ways in which grades have influence over academics today.

“There is a pressure within the system of like, ‘Oh, this is a requirement and I just need to get through it.’ And I feel that the pressure on students is unreasonable,” Ruane said.

Ruane recalls that a Kennesaw professor told her “‘If you just think about the learning, the grades are not going to be a problem.’ And he was 100% right,” Ruane said. “It’s harder in today’s atmosphere to make students believe that because of the system.”

In addition to her teaching and research, Ruane is in her sixth year as chair of the math department.

“We are the hub of all of the math that all the different disciplines need,” she said.

“It used to be that nobody talked to each other, like physics would put their request in, I would put my request in and it would be like ‘Oh, we didn’t even think about the fact that they might conflict,’” she said. But with support from Samuel Thomas, the dean of academic affairs, and the registrar’s office, Ruane has come up with a better system for organizing foundational classes, she wrote in an email to the Daily.

my interest in pedagogy and teaching in different ways,” she said.

Ruane’s favorite course to teach is called Bridge to Higher Mathematics, which is a transition course from computational mathematics to written proofs. “You can see light bulbs come on for the students. You see frustration, you see struggle, but you also see real reward in that class,” she said.

Ruane also discussed what she has learned from teaching an unconventional online calculus course during the summers.

“I realized with an online class … you can’t lecture on Zoom,” Ruane said. “So I made a whole set of videos for the class. Now it didn’t mean that was the way they learned calculus. … When you’re with me, we’re going to be actively learning. I’m going to ask questions, I’m going to give problems, you’re going to work in a group. … Feedback is incredibly important, not just grades, actual feedback.”

She added an element of oral exams into her class, which is unique in mathematics.

and ridiculous in the casual setting of the conversation we were having.

The clunkiness of the impersonal construction in English got me thinking about how other languages accomplish this same meaning without the messy ambiguity that arises in English. The first example that came to mind was the impersonal “se” in Spanish. In Spanish, the original sentence that caused ambiguity could be said as: “No ‘se’ puede hacer eso.” The “se” in that sentence is a clear impersonal marker that means “one” or “a person.” The impersonal “se” is used all the time in everyday Spanish speech, and there’s a real beauty, simplicity and effectiveness that comes with it. You can use it in so many contexts without the ambiguity of the second person pronoun and the awkwardness of the passive voice:

Ruane’s chairmanship started off with a hitch. “I was about six months into it when the pandemic hit,” Ruane said. “Of the five years, three of those were spent in crisis management, just finding [the] way in the dark. Our department changed a lot, pre-pandemic versus post.”

Besides dealing with pandemic issues, Ruane has tried to shake things up in the math department. “One of the things I’ve done as chair is get together with other chairs, but there isn’t really a system for doing that,” she said.

Ruane also schedules classes for the thousands of students taking math every semester.

“You have to be in charge of things like trying to hire new people. You do outreach for students and faculty and the community,” she explained. “You are the face of the department. … You’re also a conduit of information from up the hill to your department.”

On top of all of this, Ruane is constantly having to put out fires. “There’s just the everyday emergencies; … that is what takes up the most time,” Ruane said.

After taking on such responsibilities for years, Ruane is set to finish her term as chair this year.

Speaking on her teaching aspirations moving forward, Ruane spoke about wanting to create a safe space where students feel okay not knowing everything. “I can see that there’s a fear about exposing your lack of knowledge when really that’s the opposite of what should be happening in a classroom.”

“It is not done to do this.” This construction is also way less formal than the “one can’t do that” is in English, so it’s much more natural to use in a normal conversation with a friend. From my inadequate research, it seems many other Romance languages as well as Slavic languages have similar grammatical devices in their languages. Arabic takes a different approach to the impersonal sentence. A sentence like the one used in my conversation with a friend would be “ل ” (I think. I’m only in Arabic 3.). This version of the impersonal construction is also interesting because it contains the modal, impersonal verb , or yumkin, that doesn’t take a direct subject. The person doing the action can be specified with a pronoun suffix but not with a normal pronoun. This approach to the impersonal sentence is fascinating because it

is unambiguous but also allows for the possibility of an agent with a suffix while the impersonal nature of the base verb never changes. There is a neat beauty to this. English clearly does not handle this kind of impersonal structure as well as other languages — including Spanish and Arabic — because of the ambiguity that comes with using the second-person pronoun in this context. Yet this kind of structural ambiguity and clunkiness is part of why I love English. Its confusing pronoun structure spurs a short rift between friends and a whole column as opposed to the neat, but boring, solutions other languages offer.

COURTESY KIM RUANE

Kim Ruane is pictured.

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The Joyce Cummings Center is pictured on Oct. 16, 2022.

ARTS & POP CULTURE

Shannon Murphy Arts Editor

On Oct. 4, indie rock band The Rare Occasions performed at the Crystal Ballroom in Davis Square. Their extensive discography consists of songs with catchy melodies, skilled production and introspective lyrics, but they are best known for their hit single “Notion” (2016), which rose to fame on TikTok and other social media platforms in the fall of 2021.

The band, composed of vocalist/guitarist Brian McLaughlin (E’14), bassist Jeremy Cohen and drummer Luke Imbusch, is currently based in Los Angeles, but the members are originally from New England. McLaughlin and Imbusch hail from Barrington, R.I., while Cohen is from Beverly, Mass.

The Rare Occasions formed while the members were attending college in Boston. Imbusch met Cohen at Berklee College of Music, while McLaughin was a student at Tufts. In between an acoustic performance on WMFO radio show “M&T’s Audio Adventure” and the Crystal Ballroom concert that evening, the Daily had the opportunity to interview the band.

Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Tufts Daily (TD): What’s it like being back in the Boston area and at Tufts?

Brian McLaughlin (BM): It’s pretty cool. We never did [a WMFO show] before, so that was a first for us, but it’s good to be back. All of our family is from the New England area, so we’re gonna see friends and family tonight. And it’s just amaz-

ing how close the show is to where I used to go to college.

TD: The Rare Occasions as we know it formed while you were in college. How did you balance being college students with being musicians?

BM: I was on the cross country and track and field teams, so I was exhausted all the time to be honest, it was not sustainable. I studied electrical engineering, so I was constantly studying for exams in Halligan (Hall) with my EE classmates. We’d have a gig on the weekend, but then the next day I’d have a track meet. I don’t know why I felt the need to do all those things. Probably pressure from my parents.

Luke Imbusch (LI): Yeah, it was always like “Keep doing music, but don’t give up on your schoolwork, and don’t give up on your running!”

BM: Not to throw my mom under the bus. She supported us; We jammed in her garage as teenagers. But there’s definitely pressure. When you pay for a four-year degree, you want to walk away with something that you can get work with right away. I knew as a singer/songwriter that the path toward didn’t necessarily involve getting a degree in music. So I was like “Okay, I’m gonna get a degree that can pay my bills once I get out of here and still treat music as if it’s my profession as much as I could.”

LI: And to be fair, none of us ever thought that this would be the thing that makes us money.

TD: That was going to be my next question, actually. When did you know that you wanted to do this professionally and that you could pursue this as a career?

Jeremy Cohen (JC): Fall of 2021.

TD: When “Notion” went viral?

BM: Yeah. This was a passion project up until that point. But I still cared about it deeply, I wanted to be professional. I think we all did.

LI: We just didn’t think it would ever pan out.

TD: How do you think your sound has evolved since you were at Tufts?

JC: We’re kind of full circle, I feel, because we did a lot of weird crap.

BM: Yeah, we did a lot of proggy stuff when we were first starting out,really experimental, and then we went through a more poppy phase and a more power pop phase. And now we’re trying to keep the melodic sensibility of that pop style music, but our new music is pretty out there. There’s some weird experimental stuff. While we were working on this album, it reminded me a lot of the demo recordings era back when we first started the band.

TD: So your lyrics have a lot of deeper themes and a lot of sophisticated words that aren’t usually in songs. Where do you get the inspiration for them? What does your writing process look like?

BM: It depends song to song. For some songs, I’ll just have an idea and I’ll bring it to the band and it’s already almost fully formed. And then other songs, I get really stuck. During the pandemic, we had Zoom meetings, and I was like “Guys, I’m stuck on this line, do you have any ideas?” And they would throw in some ideas, and oftentimes it would get me unstuck. I took a poetry class here when I was a junior and that was kind of when I started taking lyrics more seriously.

Ballerina Michaela DePrince dies at 29

Katie Galligan Contributing Writer

Michaela Mabinty DePrince, a Sierra Leonean war orphan turned ballerina, passed away suddenly on Sept. 10 at the age of 29. Her cause of death has not been revealed, but there has been an outpouring of reflections on the inspirational legacy she left behind.

DePrince’s story gained attention after being featured in the 2011 documentary “First Position.” Following the documentary, DePrince’s ballet career skyrocketed, and she went on to dance for the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Dutch National Ballet.

In 2012, DePrince continued to advance her career, publishing her

memoir “Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina” which she co-wrote with her adoptive mother. In 2016, DePrince was featured in Beyoncé’s music video “Freedom.” In 2021, she began dancing as a second soloist at the Boston Ballet, leaving the company at the start of 2024.

“She was an advocate for what ballet can be, as a much big-

TD: Okay, so you guys started in Boston and you moved to L.A. Do you think the relocation encouraged your creativity or hindered it?

LI: It definitely challenged it. It’s a bit of a bubble in certain parts of the country. Boston definitely has its own bubble. L.A.‘s bubble is just so big that it’s too saturated with all different genres, and so it’s harder to stand out there. … We tried to be like a local L.A. band, but everyone in L.A. is trying to be like a national act. There’s more competition there, which just inspired us to be as different and unique as we could be. I think if we had stayed in one part of the country or another, we would just probably be like “hometown heroes” and not try harder.

BM: Yeah, a lot of songs talk about making [a] home away from home. We have a song called “The Fold,” which is about when you come back home, things have changed and it’s not necessarily the home that you left behind. And then we have a song on the new album called “Shine 4 U,” which sort of references home a little bit in the first line.

TD: For your newest album, do you think the writing and recording process was different than earlier albums? What did making “Through Moonshot Eyes” look like?

BM: This is the first album where we recorded it in a real studio and I didn’t mix it. We had a professional mix it. So that was a big step up for us. And as far as the writing and recording, I feel like our perspectives have changed over the years now that we’re doing it professionally. We’re going at it at a different angle, and I’m happy

ger art form and a much bigger source of inspiration and hope for people,” Boston Ballet Executive Director Ming Min Hui said in a statement. “She was brave in being willing to share not only her artistry but also her story with the world.”

DePrince’s rise to stardom came from rough beginnings. She was born on Jan. 6, 1995 as

with the results, but it takes a lot to get there.

JC: Yeah, we started writing it over two years ago, which for me personally, was a different part of my life. This album has kind of been a streamline through all of it. As much as it’s nice to say this was an ‘era,’ we changed as people throughout the whole process as well.

LI: And you can kind of see that from beginning to end of the album; It starts in a lighter place and ends in a darker place because we’ve changed throughout the process of writing.

TD: Finally, do you honestly still enjoy performing “Notion?”

LI: I enjoy performing it. When I hear the recording, I’m sick of it. When I hear it in a TikTok or something, I’m just like “ugh.”

BM: When we’re in the van, whoever is working on socials, if they accidentally leave their volume up, [“Notion” will start playing] and we’re like, “Turn it off! Turn it off!” But performing it, especially to a really energetic crowd, is awesome.

JC: That song has been the bane of my instrument’s existence. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve dropped my bass so many times playing “Notion.” And that’s a good thing, because when you’re a grown man and you’re playing music to a live audience, sometimes you lose control of yourself and your bass finds a way to fall on the floor and that’s okay. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes, during the live shows, the instruments just have a life of their own and we’re just along for the ride.

“Through Moonshot Eyes” by The Rare Occasions is out now on all streaming platforms.

Mabinty Bangura to loving parents in the midst of a civil war in Sierra Leone. When her father died, DePrince and her birth mother moved in with her abusive uncle. When her birth mother died of malnutrition, DePrince was sent to an orphanage where she was given the nickname

The Rare Occasions perform at the Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre.

Odessa Gaines

Adventures of an A-Lister

Movie of the week

Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for the movie “Saturday Night” and graphic language that could be disturbing or offensive to some readers.

On Oct. 11, 1975, almost exactly 49 years ago to this day, “ NBC’s Saturday Night” premiered. Half a century later, the live sketch comedy show still somehow graces our screens. And to celebrate such a long, perhaps overstayed, tenure on the

network came “Saturday Night,” directed by Jason Reitman. The film follows the first cast of “Saturday Night Live” as they geared up to debut the not yet finished show — 90 minutes of anxiety-inducing scores, witty comebacks and sheer hope and passion holding it all together.

The cast of “Saturday Night” is stacked. There’s truly not enough time to go into detail on just how perfectly casted it is, so let me scratch the surface of the star-studded talent present: Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris, Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman, Finn Wolfhard as an NBC page, Nicholas Braun as both Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson, Cooper Hoffman

as Dick Ebersol, Andrew Barth Feldman as Neil Levy, Tommy Dewey as Michael O’Donoghue, Willem Dafoe as David Tebet, J.K. Simmons as Milton Berle — you see where I’m going here?

Every cast member consistently nails their lines, delivering well-crafted and vulgar jokes without a hint of shame. The people of “Saturday Night” are not ‘good’, per se; they sabotage each other, chainsmoke and continuously stress Lorne out, but they are entertaining. Smith specifically excels in the role of the egregious Chevy Chase, one of the most infamous cast members of the show. Dewey was perhaps the funniest cast member as Michael O’Donoghue, lighting paper on fire as he delivers the outstanding line, “I’d rather butt-f--cancer” with a straight face. And LaBelle’s Lorne Michaels was the

Zedd’s Telos Tour is a burst of energy

Grammy-winning music producer and DJ Zedd never seems to stop. After a summer of seemingly nonstop playing at multiple clubs in Las Vegas and headlining Lollapalooza in Chicago, Zedd released his third studio album “Telos” and embarked on the Telos Tour. On Sept. 19, the Telos Tour arrived at MGM Music Hall at Fenway for its first of two shows at the venue.

After seeing Zedd perform at Lollapalooza, one of the biggest music festivals in the United States, I wondered how the energy of an iconic outdoor summer festival would transfer to a 5,000-person indoor concert hall. Would the aesthetic be different? Would the crowd be less excited? However, within the first couple minutes of Zedd taking the stage, all of my doubts faded away.

The first thing to praise about Zedd is how well he knows his crowd. Zedd does not try to build anticipation — he starts off with a bang and keeps the energy going all night. Within the first five minutes of his set, the stage was illuminated with flashing neon lights and

graphics on a screen all perfectly synched to the song. Early highlights of the show were remixes of Hailee Steinfeld’s “Starving” (2016) and Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness” (2012). Though the latter is not a track Zedd is featured on, it was the perfect song to get the crowd excited early, as seen by the amount of fans screaming the lyrics.

Also, rather than being one of those artists who seem to loathe their iconic, most popular songs, Zedd embraces them. Eight out of 10 of his most streamed songs on Spotify appeared on the setlist,

including the well-loved tracks “Clarity” (2012) and “Beautiful Now” (2015), among others. In a smart move, Zedd also strategically spaced out his most popular tracks — examples being “I Want You to Know” (2015) with Selena Gomez and “Stay the Night” (2012) with Hayley Williams being separated by the less popular “Lost at Sea” (2011) with Ryan Tedder.

While the music is obviously essential, sometimes with DJs, the stage production that accompanies the tracks can either feel too bland or too overwhelming and detract

DePrince’s backstory and legacy

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“devil’s child” because of her vitiligo, a skin condition that made her skin appear spotted.

Of the 27 children at the orphanage, DePrince was labeled No. 27, marking her as the least desirable child due to her skin condition. While at the orphanage, 3-year-old DePrince witnessed the tragedies of war, including the murder of her pregnant teacher.

But amid the horror was hope. In her memoir, DePrince describes when she found a Dance Magazine cover in the orphanage. From that moment, she dreamed of being a ballerina like the one in the cover photo.

As soon as DePrince was adopted by Elaine and Charles DePrince in 1999, she begged to be enrolled in ballet classes. The DePrince’s had a long history of adoptions and Michaela DePrince was renamed and

adopted in honor of one of their late sons Michael. With the support of her new family, Michaela began to excel at ballet and started her pre-professional training.

“You could see her determination — she’d take first position at the barre, and you knew she was there to prove herself.”

Mariaelena Ruiz, ballet master of the Rock School, told Pointe Magazine.

DePrince’s death was confirmed by her adoptive siblings Mia and Erik DePrince. In the following days, DePrince’s siblings also confirmed that their adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, had passed away just a day later during a procedure. She was not aware of her daughter’s death at the time of her passing.

Reposts of DePrince dancing accompanied with dedications and anecdotes filled dancers’ Instagram feeds in the days following her death. The overall message was clear: DePrince’s

ball of anxiety holding everyone together, the heart of the entire film.

Along with its stacked cast, the film has a beautiful attention to design. Production Designer Jess Gonchor creates a world within the film, capturing the nicotine, cocaine and creativity filled offices of 1975.

Cinematographer Eric Steelberg’s use of extremely long takes paired with the constant ticking clocks sets everyone on edge, yet unable to look away from the catastrophe on screen as the live show gets nearer and nearer.

However, despite the production and cast of the film, the biggest drawback of “Saturday Night” has to be the sketches themselves. Beyond perhaps “Hard Hats,” the sketches reek with outdated, unfunny dialogue and situations. The truth is, the best parts of “Saturday Night” are the parts not reflected in “SNL.”

from the experience. Some DJs excessively use fire and pyrotechnics to maintain high energy, while others seem to blind you with pulsating lights and lasers. Thankfully, Zedd did not do any of this, and the stage production felt intentional. For “One More Time” (2015) by Daft Punk, Zedd opted for a rainbow scheme of lights which seemed to reflect the song’s cover art, in which there is a rainbow outline on the letters. Similarly, for “Stay” (2017) with Alessia Cara, the light matched the sunset that appears on the cover art. These details, while not something all concert-goers will pick up on, greatly contributed to the atmosphere of the set in the best way.

The stellar combination of stage production and music is perhaps best seen in “Break Free” (2014) with Ariana Grande. With the screen pulsing pure white to the repeated beat in the intro to the song, Zedd took his time to build the energy and anticipation for the song. The introduction to “Break Free” is the most intense, visually, as a majority of the song is simply played while golden lights surge across the stage and a crystal animation plays on the screen behind the DJ booth. One might wonder why Zedd does

One of the best written moments has to come from Chase and Berle fighting over Chase’s fiance, in which Berle responds by pulling his d--- out of his pants and letting it “hang in the wind,” right after delivering the line: “If you want my comeback, you’re going to have to scrape it off the back of your mother’s teeth.” But even as things start to go up in flames between the cast members and the literal set itself, they continue to push on.

This is what made “Saturday Night” a film worth watching — the cast being flawed people trying to make history, building their story brick-by-brick. Not what came after.

“Saturday Night” is running now in select theaters.

Odessa Gaines is a senior studying psychology. Odessa can be reached at kayla.gaines@tufts.

not go all out visually for one of his most famous songs, but arguably the intentionality behind the more simple stage production allowed the music to shine.

After closing with “The Middle” (2018) with Maren Morris and “Alive” (2013) with Empire of the Sun, Zedd left the stage., much to the confusion of the person behind me who audibly shouted to his friend next to him “No ‘Clarity’” — a moment of fear that they would not hear what I could only guess is their favorite song. Unlike my fellow concert-goers, I was prepared with my camera ready as the piano intro for “Clarity” began to play because I always review the setlist before a concert.

The energy during “Clarity” was unlike any other. From the screaming of the lyrics to the sea of phones recording, it was clear this was the moment everyone was waiting for — and Zedd delivered. The crowd was captivated and listening to every moment, with flashlights going up at Zedd’s command and the deafening singing when Zedd lifted his mic, indicating for the crowd to sing. Truly the perfect conclusion to an electric set.

willingness to share the details of her story from struggle to success inspired many young dancers over the last two decades.

“Just watching someone overcome their fears and be able to dance so beautifully was really inspiring,” Tufts student and ballet dancer Sarah Garrett said. “I was never the best dancer in class, and so that was really nice to see.”

Along with her struggles of overcoming wartime trauma, DePrince also had to overcome the racial discrimination that is all too ingrained in ballet. Black dancers have been historically underrepresented in ballet because of the art’s deep roots in white European culture. DePrince was an advocate for change and increased diversity in ballet.

“To me, she held up a mirror to everyone she encountered, causing them to look inward, see themselves and love that reflection coming back at them

or at other times, consider better alternatives to the way we communicate with and love one another,” My’Kal Stromile, a dancer at the Boston Ballet, told Pointe Magazine. “It is my desire to continue walking the path she cultivated.”

DePrince had dedicated a lot of her life to improving childhood mental health support in war zones. Her family has asked that

instead of flowers, all donations be sent to War Child, a non-government organization for which DePrince was an ambassador. War Child is dedicated to providing psychosocial support to children in conflict-affected areas. In her resting, she will accomplish the same purpose she lived for: creating change through both her inspiring background and brilliant dancing.

VIA FLICKR Michaela DePrince is pictured on Oct. 8, 2019.

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Zedd is pictured on Oct. 4, 2017.

Ryan Fairfield Staff Writer

ACROSS

1 How you may refer to a Spanish teacher

6 Ripped

10 Make ___ dash for

14 Rice-___ ("The San Francisco Treat")

15 Mars, to the Greeks

16 Ominous giggle

17 You can play it with a blue or pink peg

19 What you don't want to see on your pants

20 The letter after a J...

21 Sign of summer?

22 Taylor Swift's song "___ Well," pre-spellcheck

23 Big nam in talks

24 Game of vertical checkers

27 Threefold

29 ___ in Charlie

30 Explosive letters

31 Leave ___ (permanently damage)

32 Youngest of the Weasley boys

33 What you would get if "Sex Education" star Butterfield was cloned

34 Agents in blood clotting

38 "___ Rasputin"

41 Opposite of pro

42 Fit for ___

46 Cause of inflation?

47 Aubrey Plaza's role in "The Little Hours"

48 Homemade Christmas tree topper

& GAMES

50 The wildest of the numbers, in cards

53 Where the cucumber slices are not meant for consumption

54 ___ Park, Colorado

55 Serpentine swimmer

56 Consumes

57 Greek Xs

58 "You sunk my ___!"

61 "___ No Mountain High Enough"

62 ___ mater

63 "Once upon ___..."

64 Activities that may require 20-sided dice, for short

65 A poor transcript may have many of them

66 Full DOWN

1 The Arrow constellation

2 Pencil ends

3 Wandering from place to place

4 Short race, for short

5 "Her name is ___ and she dances on the sand"

6 The theme of many school-sanc tioned shows

7 He's got a pretty stellar belt

8 Whistle blower

9 Opposite of WNW

10 "Hyperbole and ___" (Allie Brosh webcomic)

11 Some reds

12 Yellowfin

13 Leaves a dock?

18 Rosa, por ejemplo

22 @@@

24 Major Monogram's unpaid intern in "Phineas and Ferb"

25 Environmental sci.

26 Word before sugar or after candy

28 ___ Bear, Mama Bear, Baby Bear

32 Kylo ___

33 Inquires

35 Missed ___ (blew one's entrance)

36 Author Morrison

37 What you would get if you cloned "Queer Eye" star France

38 Vehicular palindrome

39 The Hindenburg, e.g.

by Olivia Bye

Late Night At The Daily

Shannon: “You’ll see me hit the Quan, but it’s not going to be in the Daily office.”

40 What two F-bombs might require

43 Baseball announcer's cry

44 Integral part of a preschool's curriculum

45 Gripped

47 Albany is its cap.

48 Trigonometry symbols for angles

49 "___ do"

51 What one does to a lemon, perhaps

52 "Understand?"

56 "Cómo ___?"

58 ___ to the bone

59 Tavern offering

60 ___ in elephant

CROSSWORD

Crossword

Talia Wilcox Staff Writer

2024 Video Music Awards

Best New Artist recipient

Chappell Roan has transformed the music industry. Roan, born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, rose rapidly to fame with her album, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” (2023). Roan embraced a unique drag aesthetic, and her lyrics and image have catapulted her to icon status in the LGBTQ+ community. But with this unprecedented rapid rise to fame, Roan has taken to social media to let us know how she feels.

Her response to fame — talking directly to fans on social media or writing speeches in her Notes app and taking screenshots — is personal; as she creates the image of a true celebrity, she reminds us that celebrities are just like us. But this response begs the question: How ‘real’ can a celebrity be before the public starts to resent her? Her album title seems to serve as a prophecy, as her recent public comments have led to a rapid fall from grace.

Besides headlining festivals with massive crowds, Roan has been in the news due to her opinions on her relationship with fans and her views about the upcoming election. In August, she repeatedly condemned “creepy” fans, saying in a TikTok, “it’s weird how people think that you know a person just ‘cause you see them online or you listen to the art they make,” she said. “That’s f------ weird. I’m allowed to say no to creepy behavior, okay?” What makes Roan fascinating to observe is the fact that most celebrities may feel similarly but few have responded in such a tone. In September, Roan told the world in an interview that she would not be endorsing a presidential candidate. Her statement follows endorsements by Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish for the Harris/Walz campaign. “I have so many issues with our government in every way,” Roan told The Guardian. “There are so many things that I would want to change. So I don’t feel pressured to endorse someone. There’s problems on both sides. I encourage people to use your critical thinking skills, use your vote — vote small, vote for what’s going on in your city.”

The rise — and fall — of a Midwest Princess

Roan then took to social media to clarify with a series of videos. Most recently, Roan canceled New York City and D.C. shows, writing in her Notes app,

“I apologize to people who have been waiting to see me in NYC & DC this weekend at All Things Go, but I am unable to perform. Things have gotten overwhelming over the past few weeks and I am really feeling it.”

But do public statements from celebrities really matter?

I believe we are watching a social experiment unfold, one that is failing. Roan has pushed the boundaries of how much candid speech the public will tolerate from a celebrity before we criticize her as ungrateful or ignorant of what stardom involves. Now, even hardcore fans are beginning to resent her.

Her social media performance is unapologetic and unpolished, especially when compared to her contemporary Sabrina Carpenter, a Disney star turned pop princess.

This controversy raises the question: What is a celebrity’s role during an election? Do celebrities need to have a filter or should they remain silent and refrain from endorsing politi -

cal candidates? Celebrities hold immense sway over large populations, especially young people. After Taylor Swift’s endorsement, 400,000 people visited Vote.gov, which is the website where one could register to vote. Recently, Billie Eilish, Jennifer Lawrence, Olivia Rodrigo, Charli XCX and Bill Nye, among many others, have endorsed the Harris/Walz campaign. While celebrities are independent citizens with a voice, no mandate for celebrity endorsement exists. By making her unfiltered views public, Roan has raised the public ire. She crafted an image as a gay icon, yet she claims both candidates are bad without acknowledging that the policies of one portend a markedly worse future for a marginalized group to which she belongs. Her remarks indicate she will only settle for a nonexistent ‘perfect’ presidential candidate. Roan’s comments, which are difficult to retract, seem to represent who she really is — a wealthy white woman with immense privilege.

While it is easy to shame Roan’s public performance, we should acknowledge we likely don’t understand what she is going through. Becoming a celebrity has ripped away her privacy, and while her expression of opinions may be awkward and direct, she is calling attention to a very real experience that few understand. Roan is navigating the transition of becoming famous while maintaining her authentic self. Perhaps as her audience, our role is not to cancel her or call her out for fumbling a presidential endorsement, but to extend empathy as she navigates the incomprehensible life that is stardom.

I love Chappell Roan’s music. It is clever, unique and extremely catchy. But I’m not sure I love Kayleigh Rose Amstutz’s views and how she has voiced them, and I don’t think I’m alone. Her unfiltered comments and pattern of canceling shows has turned off a lot of fans. But perhaps we don’t need to approve of her self-expression. It will be up to her to navigate the public relations craziness in which she has landed herself. Perhaps we can focus on one valuable takeaway — her call to vote. At the end of the day, voting is truly the most effective way to use each of our voices.

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Originally published Oct. 9.

Corporate America wants people to believe that they are the victims of the terrifying monster known as inflation. This monster was born in the basement of the U.S. Department of Treasury and brought to life by the terrifying machine known as the currency printing press. It’s this monster that forces them to raise prices on everyday items. Companies such as Crest and Colgate had no choice but to raise the price of toothpaste by 45% last year. In 2022, innocent retail chains such as Target and Walmart didn’t want to increase the prices of their food products by over 10%, but their hands were forced.

In reality, this monster is nothing more than a fabrication. Inflation is a myth created by corporations to excuse blatant price gouging in most markets. According to CNBC, 80% of Americans say that they have seen a noticeable increase in grocery prices, and 27% of Americans say that they have skipped meals in order to afford groceries — a decision that can have serious consequences for one’s physical health.

Price gouging has terrible consequences for the American public, but for the perpetrators,

Inflation is pretty much fake

the benefits heavily outweigh any ethical concerns. In 2022, top retail chains saw a $24.6 billion increase in profits, which were used to purchase stock buybacks and increase pay for their CEOs. Unsurprisingly, these increased profits had little to no impact on employee wages. As of 2024, the average retail worker’s salary is $15 per hour, which is below the livable wage in most states.

This recent price gouging scheme started with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. According to the Federal Trade Commission, grocery chains saw the product shortages resulting from the pandemic as an excuse to raise prices to an unreasonable extent. Dominant chains such as Target, Whole Foods and Walmart also used this excuse to gain leverage over their smaller competitors. The pandemic served as a perfect opportunity for retail chains to exaggerate their costs and make their customers foot the bill.

The most obvious indicator of price gouging comes from Target, which recently announced price cuts for 5,000 everyday items, including milk, meat, bread, coffee, diapers, paper towels and more. These price cuts came after Target experienced its first significant quarterly loss in six years in 2023, meaning the price cuts were likely a consequence of record-high prices of essential

items. This sudden and significant cut in prices begs the question: if Target could always support these lower prices, why were the prices raised in the first place?

The answer is, as usual, capitalism. Retail chains like Target and Walmart have monopolized the grocery business. Small local stores and businesses were crushed during the pandemic, leaving consumers with fewer

choices of where to shop. With such a large market share, dominant retail chains are almost entirely in control of pricing.

This monopolized system gives shoppers limited choices on where to buy and for how much, forcing them to pay inflated prices for essential items.

When you look at your grocery bill, know that the number at the bottom denoting the overall price is essentially meaning-

less. It could be lower or higher, but the only certainty is that we have no power to change this. Today, economic change comes almost entirely from corporations trying to optimize their quarterly revenue. So, the next time you turn on the news and see some billionaire complaining about printing money and the monster that is inflation, you can rest easy knowing that his pockets will be completely fine.

Seeking policy change in Indonesia under Prabowo

Theodorus Ng Staff Writer

Indonesia will be swearing in its eighth president Prabowo Subianto on Oct. 20, following his landslide election victory in February of this year. Prabowo will inherit the world’s fourth most populous country, with the third largest surviving area of tropical forest, and an economy poised to become the world’s sixth largest by 2027. Yet, he will also be inheriting a legacy of fossil fuel dependence, with 81% of the country’s energy derived mostly from burning coal, and persistent deforestation, with Indonesia’s annual forest losses remaining the fourth largest in the world. This means that Prabowo is faced with a thorny policymaking dilemma between encouraging economic growth and maintaining long-term environmental health for Indonesia.

Many observers believe Prabowo will favor the continuation of policies implemented under his predecessor Joko Widodo, nicknamed “Jokowi,” whom he had previously served alongside as minister of defense. Jokowi’s policies often placed human interests at the forefront, even at the expense of nature. Prabowo has expressed his desire to continue such a development model and had even overseen Jokowi’s failed food estate program, commenced in 2020, that sought to create farmlands for

enhanced food security. The program has, however, yet to yield any harvestable crops. Instead, excavators have been abandoned on wastelands to rust. Prabowo and his vice president Gibran Rakabuming Raka, who is Jokowi’s eldest son, have stated they will continue this project.

Prabowo described key policies during his campaign to boost the economy, including creating a free lunch program for 83 million students and upsizing his cabinet. Less clear are his plans for mitigating environmental harms and associated Indigenous peoples’ rights violations in Indonesia. Jokowi’s incomplete Nusantara Project — a planned new political capital about twice the size of New York City replacing the fast-sinking Jakarta — has clawed through East Borneo’s forests by constructing major highways and is projected to displace at least 20,000 Indigenous people. Prabowo has committed to continuing progress on this $32 billion relocation. Recent ambitions to produce electric vehicle batteries by scaling up mining of Indonesia’s nickel reserves — already the world’s largest at 22% of global reserves — have sparked fears of further deforestation and destruction to Indigenous peoples’ livelihoods.

In order to move Indonesia off of this perilous path, Prabowo must be urged to gradually deconstruct the entrenched interests of fossil fuel stakehold-

ers, including himself. According to the Mining Advocacy Network, Prabowo is the sole shareholder in PT Nusantara Energy, a coal company in East Kalimantan, and a shareholder of PT Nusantara Kaltim Coal. Of the top 10 countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions, Indonesia is the only one doubling down on coal. Continuing fossil fuel subsidies, which have totalled $12 billion so far in 2024, would further hamper Indonesia’s transition to renewable energy. Although it is difficult to seemingly disavow campaign backers from the fossil energy sector, encouraging a gradual energy transition by guaranteeing “soft landings” for fossil interests might be possible. These can be achieved by aligning domestic carbon credit markets with international standards to enable the exporting of carbon credits to international off-takers, or by providing green bonds to make investments in renewable energy technologies perceived as less risky.

The Prabowo-Gibran campaign had also hailed renewable biofuels produced from palm oil as a potential remedy to increasing energy needs. However, the expansion of palm oil plantations is certain to exacerbate deforestation in Indonesia. Prabowo should reimplement moratoriums on granting new licenses for clearing forests, which previously expired in 2021, and instead examine how to optimize the efficiency of palm

oil and nickel production using land already cleared for those purposes. Prabowo should also ratify the Indigenous Peoples Bill, which was first proposed in 2009 but still hasn’t been passed. The bill would serve as Indonesia’s first instance of legal recognition for the existence and rights of Indigenous communities and would require the government to obtain their consent for the management of their lands.

We should approach the incoming Prabowo administration with cautious optimism. Vigorous advocacy from

the international community, including ourselves, could persuade him that he would rather his legacy be associated with a revolutionary, just and green transition rather than one marred by dirty fossil fuels, which could trigger a shift in fiscal and policymaking priorities. One can then hope that Prabowo will breathe fresh air into Indonesia’s cross-cutting sustainability issues and cement its status as a global economic and environmental powerhouse — two imperatives that need not be mutually exclusive.

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Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto signs the Pentagon guest book on Aug. 24, 2023.

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Tufts puts six goals on the board against Trinity

Eliza Warren Contributing Writer

After four consecutive away games, the Tufts women’s soccer team came home to Bello Field last weekend to take on Trinity College in their sixth NESCAC game of the season. The Jumbos, coming off a 4–1 win versus the Endicott College Gulls, were on a high, but were still working hard to prepare for their game against the Bantams.

“We have scouting reports before we play our games, and so we knew we were heading into a game against a team that was playing a different formation from us. Usually, that’s … something we struggle with sometimes, so in the games leading up to that, we were practicing on how we defend

as a team and being able to work past [their formation] and exploit it in the attack in the other direction as well,” junior forward Elsi Aires said about preparing for their game.

The Jumbos’ hard work quickly paid off as they immediately took possession of the ball and maintained it for much of the early minutes of the game. They were rewarded in the seventh minute when a corner by sophomore midfielder Emily Nicholas landed in the penalty box and, after multiple Bantam deflections, sophomore defender Rachel Arcella was able to slip it past the Bantam goalkeeper. The goal was the second of Arcella’s Tufts career.

The Bantams upped their energy, but the Jumbos’ mid -

field and defense were able to shut down every one of their attacking opportunities in the first half. Sophomore goalkeeper Gigi Edwards was only forced to make two saves throughout the half. Both were shots from distance.

The Jumbos were on a roll that the Bantams struggled to stop. Their next goal came in the 25th minute by junior midfielder Caroline Kelly. After receiving the ball at midfield, Kelly drove towards the goal and sent a shot flying past the Bantam goalkeeper and into the opposite corner of the goal.

Despite being up by two goals so early on, the Jumbos knew that the game was far from over. “Our mentality is that we try to keep it like it’s a 0–0 [game] and

Men’s soccer rolls over Bantams 6–0

Tufts men’s soccer closed a two-game homestand looking for a fifth consecutive undefeated week to begin October, having jumped to the No. 2 ranking in the country according to the United Soccer Coaches Poll. The squad — which had spent Tuesday night in a 90-minute dogfight with Babson College where Tufts had escaped with a 1–1 draw thanks to an 89th minute equalizer from sophomore superstar forward Xavier Canfin — was looking for their first clean sheet performance in a NESCAC game since Sept. 15 versus Connecticut College.

When the final whistle blew, not only had the defense achieved its goal of a shutout, but the offense had scored six times from six different players, the most goals they had scored in a NESCAC game since the last time Tufts faced Trinity in the 2018 season. After Saturday’s game, the Jumbos had clinched a spot in the NESCAC tournament with more than three weeks remaining in the regular season.

It took all of 10 minutes for the Jumbos to get on the scoresheet on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon on Bello Field. Graduate student midfielder Liam Gerken made an incisive run from the midfield, cutting between two Bantam defenders before taking a well-struck shot from 25 yards.

Trinity goalkeeper Matt Birnhak made a sweeping save on the shot, but his defense was unable to stop senior midfielder Ethan Feigin from following up on the rebound and firing it into the roof of the net for his third goal in three games.

After Feigin’s goal, the Bantams settled in defensively, receiving an onslaught of Jumbo shots, but refusing to concede for another 20 minutes. However, in his current form, there is no stopping Gerken, who hit a half-volley from outside the box that found the upper quadrant of the Bantams’ goal and doubled the Jumbo lead 30 minutes into the game. This goal, Gerken’s fourth of the season, epitomized the sort of revelation his graduate year has been for the Jumbos’ soccer program.

When asked by the Daily about Gerken’s start to the season, Jumbos head coach Kyle Dezotell had nothing but praise, calling Gerken “one of our hardest working players, … if not the hardest working player every single practice.” Dezotell, normally reserved in the description of his players’ individual accolades, went so far as to call him “one of the best players in the NESCAC this season,” a description supported by his status as the NESCAC Player of the Week for Sept. 23. Gerken, who would go on to record an assist later in the match, sits second in the NESCAC in points, with 13 after 10 games played.

we never let off the gas, so keeping the high intensity throughout the game was really key for us,” Aries said.

The Jumbos’ next goal came from first-year forward Audrey Cromett in the 35th minute.

After junior midfielder Aoife O’Reilly slipped a horizontal pass to Cromett directly in front of the goal, Cromett was able to neatly direct it into the bottom corner, straight past the goalkeepers’ outreaching hands. The Jumbos ended the half leading the Bantams 3–0.

Aries commented on how the team went into the second half acting like it was a new game.

“We were winning in the first half, but we knew we needed to come out with the same exact intensity that we had started the game with so that we didn’t let them back into the game and give them another chance,” Aries said. “We just really wanted to come out and play hard with the same energy that we started with and put more goals away.”

In the second half, the Jumbos came out with potentially even more enthusiasm than in the first half and quickly put another goal onto the board. In the 54th minute, Kelly got her second goal of the night when she beat the Bantam defenders on her own and placed the ball into the corner of the net.

The fifth goal of the game came only three minutes later when a Jumbos corner kick to the far post fell to Nicholas,

Less than three minutes later, it would be a usual face returning to the scoresheet, as Canfin burst in on goal, recording his fifth score of the campaign, making it a 3–0 lead and becoming the first Jumbo underclassman in 10 years to reach five goals. Canfin, who scored for his third consecutive game, is continuing to show why Dezotell views him as a “future All-American.”

Right before halftime, it was the first goal of 2024 for junior attacker Mason Schultz off a nice pass from junior forward Henry Perkins, as the Jumbos sent the Bantams to the break with their tails between their legs down 4–0. With a comfortable lead, Dezotell opted to rotate his tired squad, making 10 substitutions before the second half. In fact,

Dezotell would make sure almost everybody got a chance to show off their skills, with 28 different players getting minutes Saturday, including a first appearance of the season for sophomore goalkeeper Zach Ubamadu, who recorded two saves in net, after coming in with 37 minutes to play. In the second half, two players would record their first goals of the season, including graduate student forward Mikey Brady, who is looking to regain his AllRegion form from a year ago, as well as sophomore forward Sandy Duggal, who recorded his first career goal with an 89th minute tally.

A fun sight for fans was the co-appearance of the Yanez brothers, junior midfielder Daniel and first-year mid -

who put away her first goal of the night.

Not letting up the pressure, the Jumbos scored their sixth and final goal of the night just over a minute after their fifth when Aires was able to head a ball from Nicholas right past the Bantam goalkeeper. With just over 30 minutes left in the game, the Jumbos locked down on defense and kept the shutout throughout Trinity’s last efforts.

With six goals on the board, the Jumbos had a lot to celebrate. “The success that we can get as a team when we play together with high intensity and energy, and the sense of feeling like a true team and family … is really key for us,” Aries said.

After enjoying their big win, the Jumbos are now faced with five games left in their season, four of which are against NESCAC opponents. As they currently sit in fifth place on a crowded NESCAC leaderboard, the upcoming games will be crucial.

“We just like to take everything one step at a time,” Aries said about their upcoming matches. “We definitely want to get lots of people on the scoring board and overall just maintain our hard work and intensity at practices so that when it comes to the intense NESCAC games, we’re all very ready for it.”

Tufts will travel to Bates College on Saturday for their next NESCAC game.

fielder Thomas, who played together on the pitch for the first time since their high school days. Both brothers were influential, with Daniel Yanez assisting on Brady’s goal and Thomas Yanez setting up Duggal’s goal, as the brothers sparked high expectations for what they could bring going forward.

Next up for Tufts is a much-needed week off before a trip to Lewiston to square off with Bates College on Saturday.

“We’re in an amazing spot [but] it’s not about resting,” Dezotell said.“We’ll be tired and resting when the season ends.”

If the start of the season is any indication, this season might not end until the Final Four in December.

First-year forward Audrey Cromett takes a shot against Trinity College.

Riley Daniel Contributing Writer

Graduate student midfielder Liam Gerken dribbles against Trinity College.

Football falters in second half as Trinity pulls away

Tufts football entered its week four matchup against Trinity College riding high after a 25–0 shutout victory over Amherst College. The Jumbos, with a 2–1 record, looked to hand the undefeated Bantams their first loss of the season.

The game began with a strong statement from Trinity. Quarterback Zander Zebrowski led the Bantams on a clinical 10-play, 75-yard drive, capped off by a 2-yard touchdown run from running back Tyler DiNapoli. The drive showcased Trinity’s balanced attack, putting the Bantams ahead 7–0 five minutes into the game.

Tufts responded quickly, with senior quarterback Michael Berluti leading the team down the field with a series of well executed plays, highlighted by a 27-yard completion to senior receiver Henry Fleckner. The drive stalled inside the 10-yard line, but junior kicker Vaughn Seelicke converted a 21-yard field goal to make it 7–3.

The Jumbos’ defense followed up with a quick threeand-out, setting up another promising drive. However, a loss of 14 yards on a key sack knocked Tufts out of field goal range. Still, the defense continued to excel, with senior defensive back Jaylen Callender forcing a fumble at the Trinity 34-yard line. One play later, Berluti connected with senior wide receiver Cade Moore for a 34-yard touchdown, giving Tufts their first lead of the game at 10–7.

Trinity regained the lead late in the second quarter after an improvised play led to a 7-yard touchdown for wide receiver Nolan O’Brien. With less than a minute left, Berluti went to work, completing a series of clutch passes, including a 33-yard catch and run to Moore. The two connected again on a 5-yard touchdown with just nine seconds remaining, sending Tufts into halftime with a 16–14 lead.

Berluti was outstanding in the first half, completing 14 of 17 passes for 210 yards and two touchdowns. Cade Moore was

his favorite target, hauling in six catches for 116 yards and two scores by the break.

The second half took a sharp turn. Tufts’ first drive of the third quarter quickly terminated, and a blocked punt gave Trinity excellent field position at the Tufts 42-yard line. Trinity made quick work of this opportunity, as Zebrowski hit O’Brien for a 36-yard touchdown, the receiver’s second touchdown of the game. The Bantams reclaimed the lead, 21–16.

On the ensuing possession, Tufts showcased a well-orchestrated 75-yard drive. With a 21-yard touchdown pass to senior tight end Jack Elliot and a successful 2-point conversion, the Jumbos made it 24–21, their final lead of the day.

Trinity dominated for the remainder of the game, scoring touchdowns on each of their next three possessions. DiNapoli added a second rushing touchdown to his stat line, while Zebrowski continued to pick apart the Tufts defense, connecting with receiver Sean Clapp for an 8-yard touchdown and taking

it into the endzone himself on a 6-yard run.

In the second half, Trinity’s offense was relentless, scoring on all four of their possessions. Zebrowski finished the day 24–28 with 294 yards and three total touchdowns, adding 67 yards on the ground. DiNapoli contributed 75 rushing yards and two scores, while O’Brien led the Bantams’ receivers with five catches for 95 yards and a touchdown.

For Tufts, Berluti completed 21 of 33 passes for 278 yards and three touchdowns. Moore led all receivers with 116 yards and two touchdowns, assisted by junior wide receiver CJ Burton’s six receptions for 51 yards. Despite a decent offensive output, Tufts struggled on third downs, converting just two of nine opportunities, while Trinity went 8-for-10 on third downs and a perfect 5–5 in the red zone.

Defensively, junior linebacker Jeff Xu led the Jumbos with 10 tackles to go along with half a sack and a fumble recovery. Despite this solid individual performance, the Jumbos couldn’t find an answer for the Bantam’s well-balanced

attack, particularly in the second half. In the final 30 minutes of action, Trinity maintained control of the ball for nearly 20 minutes. Senior captain and defensive back Jameer Alves explained how the defense can get back on track for next week’s game.

“As a defense, we talk a lot about resetting after positive and negative plays,” Alves wrote in an email to the Daily. “When big plays happen, we need to get back to the basics of our game.”

Allowing only 167 passing yards per game, Tufts still ranks number one in the NESCAC in passing defense despite their struggles against the Trinity offense. By “focusing on those basics,” Alves believes the Tufts defense will go “back to being dominant again.” With the loss, Tufts drops to 2–2 on the season. On Saturday, they look to bounce back as they travel to Lewiston, Maine to take on Bates College. The Bobcats’ offense ranks last in the NESCAC in passing yards per game, so the Jumbos’ defense will hopefully be able to clamp down and add another tally to their win column.

Luke Fredericks Contributing Writer

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Tufts quarterback Michael Berluti scrambles against Trinity College.