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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Senate works with alumni to bring Boston shuttle to Tufts by

Rebecca Kimmel

Contributing Writer

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate is working with Savique, a transportation company founded this year by Tufts alumnus Raoul Alwani (LA ’10), to introduce a new shuttle from the Medford/ Somerville campus to Boston. The new service is designed to make planning trips into the city more convenient for students.

Under the proposed plan, students would be able to use the website Savique. com to coordinate travel to and from the city by booking a shuttle whenever enough interest is generated for an event.

The website is already up and running, and students can currently book a shuttle

costing between $12 and $15 roundtrip, according to Alwani. Savique is working with Senate to subsidize the cost of riding the shuttle to make it less expensive for students.

“Savique came from us trying to make it easier for groups of friends to do cool and fun things in real life,” Alwani said in an email to the Daily. “There’s a lot of technology used to keep us connected online, and with Savique we wanted to use technology to help bring people together offline.”

In order to use the service, students must go onto the website and register for an event. If enough people sign up for the event before the registration timer runs see SHUTTLE, page 2

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During yesterday’s Coming Out Day rally, students, faculty, staff and administrators showed their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members of the Tufts community.

Tufts celebrates National Coming Out Day

Members of the Tufts community gathered at the Mayer Campus Center yesterday to observe National Coming Out Day, which shows support for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community.

Participants packed onto the lower patio of the Campus Center for the rally, which aimed to celebrate the “coming out” of individuals as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or allied.

The event featured scheduled speakers but also offered a free-form opportunity for students to come to the microphone in order by

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to reflect on their experiences as members of the LGBT community, a move designed to build a greater sense of unity, according to Mark Tyson, an intern at the LGBT Center.

“It’s great because people can share their stories and it gets really emotional; it’s a great bonding experience,” Tyson, a sophomore said. “It makes everyone feel closer to one another. For people who haven’t come out yet, we hope we will create a safe space so that people will become more comfortable to come out.”

Nino Testa, a doctoral candidate in the English Department and intern at the LGBT Center, emphasized the event’s ability to

Fall Rush shifts to relaxed three-week process by

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Internet outage affects campus Tuesday night An outage of one of Tufts’ Internet service providers hampered Internet access for students on the Medford/Somerville campus during the early hours of the morning yesterday. Students trying to access the Internet between 12:05 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. were met with error messages and disconnections, according to University Information Technology Director of Communications and Organizational Effectiveness Dawn Irish.

“Tufts has Internet service providers [ISP] that take information to and from our campus. One of those providers had an outage themselves, so we were affected by it,” Irish said. “It was an intermittent outage.”

The problem lay with RCN Sidera, one of Tufts’ ISPs, according to Irish.

“If you hit the RCN network, you would have a problem. The error was not on the side of the university,” Irish said.

For students attempting to access sites on the Tufts network such as the Microsoft Exchange email platform or Trunk, such an

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The shuttle service that the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate may subsidize would allow students to reach Boston with greater ease.

outage was unnoticeable, Irish said.

“If a student was trying to go off the campus network, onto the worldwide Internet on public access fibers, they ran into the outage,” Irish confirmed.

Some websites remained accessible, while others were not. Some students could not access Google but were able to load Bing, and while TuftsDaily.com was not available, TRCommons.org was, according to Irish.

“It’s not about the website they were going to; it’s about the ISP connection. It all depends on which ISP you ran into and how many times you tried to access a website,” she said.

Irish insisted that the outage did not result in a data breach of the Tufts network, or compromise student information.

“There was no security risk or breach for users,” she said.

— by Brionna Jimerson

Inside this issue

Alexander Hanno

Contributing Writer

Fall fraternity recruitment, which this year was more informal and less structured, boasted high turnout — with participation nearly double that of last fall.

Nine of Tufts’ 10 fraternities participated this semester, with a total of 56 bids extended to sophomores and transfer students with sophomore standing, according to Director of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs Su McGlone. Recruitment lasted from midSeptember to Oct. 5, she said.

Alpha Epsilon Pi was the only fraternity that did not participate in fall recruitment, which Interfraternity Council (IFC) President Tommy Castle confirmed in an email.

This fall’s recruitment implemented a more relaxed and less structured process than has been in place in past years, according to McGlone.

“In the past, it has been that strict one week where all the rush events take place,” Castle, a junior, said.

Organizers this year questioned the need for a highly structured fall rush, which tends to take place on a smaller scale than the spring rush.

“Historically, spring recruitment tends to be larger than fall because freshmen do not

join in the fall,” Su McGlone said in an email.

The new, more informal process that organizers elected to pursue is better suited to the smaller numbers typical of fall recruitment, Castle said.

“We decided to have the chapters decide for themselves when they wanted their events, and we made the deadlines for all their bid lists to be in,” Castle said. “We thought to have it be pretty informal worked out for smaller numbers.”

In line with the new procedure, recruitment this semester was extended from its usual span of one week to three weeks, McGlone said.

“Fraternities had the opportunity to hold as many or as few events as they wanted to in that time,” McGlone said. “A longer, more relaxed recruitment style allows for chapters to get to know potential new members and find individuals who fit with the values of their organizations over a longer period of time, which can be very positive.”

Although recruitment differed structurally from that of past years, the rules of the process and rush events did not change.

“All the events are still dry, all the normal rules of rush apply,” Castle said.

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Take Back the Night promotes sexual violence awareness by

Audrey Michael

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Take Back the Night, an event yesterday evening organized by Tufts Panhellenic Council, aimed to raise awareness about sexual violence through a series of speeches, testimonials and musical performances on the Tisch Library roof.

The event, which drew a crowd of around 200, featured speeches

by Violence Prevention Education Coordinator Elaine Theodore, representatives from the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) and testimonials from Tufts and nonTufts students.

“Our goal is to create a healthier sexual environment,” Director of Marketing for the Pahellenic Council Ally Abouzahr, a sophomore, said.

“The rate [of sexual assault] is highest in our age group, especially among freshmen,” she said.

Take Back the Night is a nonprofit organization that strives to eliminate sexual violence and offer support to survivors. The group supports the organization of marches

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At last night’s Take Back the Night event, students discussed experiences they or people they know have had with sexual violence. and rallies to raise awareness about sexual violence, and events take place on college campuses around the world.

In a speech kicking off the event, Theodore explained that Take Back the Night events are traditionally held in autumn.

“The first six weeks of school, until Thanksgiving vacation, is

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provide support for people struggling with their sexual identity.

“I think that what National Coming Out Day and what Coming Out Day at Tufts is about is providing resources and examples for LGBT people and their allies who need support, and showing the incredible diversity of queer experience, which partially means that we don’t assume that any one way of being ‘out’ is the right way to be out,” Testa, who also teaches Intro to Queer Studies in the Women’s Studies Department, said.

During a speech at the event, Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman noted that Tufts has historically sought to be a welcoming environment for members of the LGBT community.

“Tufts has always been a place of major activity for the LGBT community and a place where people could come and be proud to be members of this wonderful community, and proud to have one of the most active ally networks in the rest of the community as well,” Reitman said.

Addressing the crowd, Assistant Professor of Music Stephan Pennington explained that the LGBT community must reach out to other marginalized groups in order to achieve equality through activism.

“In 2008, Proposition 8 was passed, outlawing gay marriage in California, and Equality California blamed black people for the passage of that bill,” Pennington said. “But Equality California did not do any activist work with the black community …

[Equality California] said ‘Oh, we’re interested in gay rights, not race issues; we’re interested in gay rights, not women’s issues.’

So we have lost the intersectionality that made us strong.”

actually the most vulnerable time for first-year women in their entire college career,” she said.

Theodore engaged the crowd with an interactive hand-raising activity designed to gauge how many students knew someone who had been exposed to some form of sexual violence. She then opened the floor to students to

Other speakers included Senior Lecturer of Computer Science Ben Hescott, Senior Director of Health and Wellness Services Michelle Bowdler, Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, Women’s Center Director Steph Gauchel and Tufts University Police Department Sgt. Christopher McGee. After the official speakers presented, attendees were invited to come up to talk.

People shared their own struggles with coming out and their perspectives on the status of homophobia on campus.

One speaker, a senior who identifies as straight, lamented at the general lack of support for gay individuals by straight males, particularly in the Greek community.

“I’m sad that there aren’t more straight men that are solid, reliable allies for the LGBTQ community,” he said. “I am part of the Greek system and it saddens me to see gender roles continuously reestablished and continue to reemphasize the system of oppression.”

Queer Straight Alliance Discussion Leader Sophia Laster, a sophomore, encouraged rally participants to remember the stories shared at the National Coming Out Day celebration.

“Yes, the truth of the matter is that this event is symbolic; what we say here today and what changes within us stays here within us and doesn’t necessarily affect any sort of local, national or global change,” she said.

“That doesn’t make it unimportant.”

“Rather than [forgetting what you experienced here], I beg all of you to just think about what we can do so that next year more people can come up here and be proud of who they are, and more people across the country can be proud of who they are, and, legislatively, that things will change and make this world a better place,” Laster concluded.

speak about their experiences, either personal or of friends and family, with sexual violence.

Two spokespeople from BARCC described the sexual assault services available to Tufts students, including legal advocacy and rape kits. They emphasized that all services are free and confidential.

According to a spokesperson for BARCC, there are about 35 incidences of rape per 1,000 students in the United States each academic year. At Tufts, that would mean between 70 and 100 students are raped each year.

A non-Tufts student described her experience being sexually assaulted and used by her boyfriend.

“It’s not just the people driving by at 3 a.m., and it’s not just the people you meet at a party … it could be anyone,” she said.

Sexual violence can take many forms and be perpetrated by many types of people, Theodore noted.

She added, however, “For the most part, students are assaulted by people they know.”

Theodore noted that many per-

petrators are repeat-offenders.

“On college campuses, a very small number of male perpetrators perpetrate the assaults,” she said. “They do it again and again and again.”

The evening concluded with musical performances by a cappella groups Essence and S-Factor.

Abouzahr said the Panhellenic Council tried this year to encourage additional male participation in the event, which has traditionally been more geared toward a female audience.

“We think it’s important because though males are usually aggressors, they can still be involved,” she said.

Panhellenic Council President Gianna Wilkie, a senior, was pleased with the event overall, and she noted it had managed this year to attract a diverse crowd of nonGreek affiliated students.

“We really wanted to reach out to non-Greek organizations … I saw a lot of familiar faces, but also a lot of other ones, so that was really exciting,” Wilkie said.

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out, those who have signed up will be charged for their ticket and the bus runs. If not enough people register, no one will be charged.

With a purchased ticket, a student can ride the shuttle to and from Boston an unlimited number of times that night, according to Savique Marketing and Sales Intern Benjamin Beede (LA ’11).

In addition to allowing students to register custom events online, Savique’s website has a list of Boston events each weekend and is working on the possibility of linking its website with Facebook so that students can see which of their friends have registered for an event.

Savique has already launched at Gordon College, located north of Boston.

The school started the shuttle program about a month and a half ago, according to Beede. Beede said that the company is also working with a few other colleges in the Boston area, though no others have launched services yet.

Beede thinks a shuttle with Savique would be convenient for students who want to go into Boston, especially at night.

“You don’t have to worry about parking, last call, when the T closes, drunk driving … and try finding a cab at two in the morning,” he said.

Savique currently has everything in place to start running but is waiting for TCU senators to decide if they think this is something that students would be interested in. If the Senate concludes that this is a worthwhile venture, Savique will look to it for assistance in working out the details for the Tufts-specific service and to generate interest within the student body, according to Beede.

Sophomore senator Lia Weintraub, cochair of the Services Committee, thinks that Savique has the potential to be a helpful service for Tufts students.

“I think their biggest draw is that they go into Boston and they work past the time of the T,” Weintraub said. “I think it’s something that the student body could benefit from.”

Senior Edward Chao also works with Savique and is involved with connecting Savique and Senate.

“The Senate has been helpful, and they seem excited about it,” Beede said.

With support from the university, the shuttle could be available to students in as little as two to three weeks, according to Beede.

“We have the system ready, and we have the buses ready,” Beede said. “If you gave me 50 people that wanted to go to Boston this weekend, we have the resources to make that happen.”

Tufts has used other shuttle services to Boston in the past that have since been cancelled, including the Boston Bus Shuttle, which Senate cut in the spring of 2009.

Alwani believes Savique is more financially efficient than previous shuttles to Boston.

“Previously the shuttle would run regardless of the number of people using it, which was a heavy fixed-cost for the school to bear each week — that’s why I believe they canceled it,” he said.

Beede noted that Savique would provide an important service to Tufts students, many of whom currently do not take advantage of Tufts’ proximity to Boston.

“We want to bring back to Tufts the idea that there is this amazing city with all of these crazy things you can do,” Beede said.

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cess not only went smoothly, but was a nice change of pace as well.

“It was a little different than the past few years … It gave us a lot more flexibility to do events when we wanted,” Delta Tau Delta (DTD) president Nathan Beaton, a senior, said. DTD gave out seven bids this year, he noted.

“Because fall rush is typically less intense [than spring rush], it was appropriate,” Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) President Matthew Sanda, a junior, said, adding that ATO gave out five bids.

Brothers doubted whether such a lenient process would work during spring recruitment, however.

“I don’t know if it would be as effective in the spring,” Beaton

said. He pointed to the fact that most fall recruits have a better idea of what fraternity they would like to join, which makes an informal process easier to implement.

DTD Rush Chair Aaron Bartel, a senior, agreed, adding that a more structured process works well for the spring because it allows freshmen to experience a wide variety of fraternities.

“In the spring, people don’t know necessarily where they want to go,” Bartel said.

The new process did, however, run into some issues, Sanda noted. The Fraternity and Sorority Judiciary (FSJ) Board this year did not respond to the fraternities with bid approvals by the predetermined date, he said.

Castle explained that the FSJ Board, reinstated in 2010, is in

charge of approving fraternity’s bid choices by evaluating the students’ GPAs and probation records. Until this is done, students cannot officially be cleared to begin the pledging process.

“We’re going to have to plan ahead better in the future … because it can take a while to plug in everyone’s numbers and get them cleared,” Castle said. “I guess we still have a lot to learn … but it’s kind of a fresh start with Su, and we’re looking to do good things.”

Organizers were pleased overall with the results of the new process this semester, and they are considering continuing to use the same procedure next fall.

“Some people really like the more structured recruitment, and others really like the more relaxed method … We may continue to

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Nine of Tufts’ 10 fraternities this fall hosted a less structured, three-week rush. have two different types of recruitment in the year — more relaxed in

the fall and more structured in the spring,” McGlone said.

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Tisch garden greens the walk to the stacks Vegetable plot displays possibilities of New England soil by

Eric Mariasis

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Jumbos walking up or down the steps of Tisch Library this semester have found a new feature lining their path to late nights of hitting the books — corn.

Alongside nutritional staples like green mustard, garlic chives and the leafy southeast Asian vegetable taro, the corn stands over the latest initiative of the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, a demonstration garden occupying valuable real estate at the entry to Tisch and serving as a monument to the diversity and potential of New England agriculture.

New Entry is a project that originated with the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy’s Agriculture, Food, and Environment (AFE) Program that brings together multiple organizations at the state and local level to provide support for local and international farmers.

The leafy exhibit was a collaboration between Tisch Library, members of the the New Entry project and the Tufts Facilities Services Department, according Tisch Social Science Librarian Laurie Sabol, who was a main contributor to the planning and creation of the garden.

The variety of plants is meant to showcase the work of the New Entry project, as well as to reveal the possibilities — allowed by even Massachusetts’ fickle weather — to the less agriculturally minded.

“It showcases the project … by showing the crops that our farmers are growing,” New Entry Project Developer and Friedman School adjunct assistant professor Hugh Joseph said. “We are trying to build awareness to the student body and the staff and faculty [as well as] an interest in local agriculture.”

Joseph said the garden’s organizers attempted to create a unique combination of agricultural staples from around the world.

“We are intentionally showcasing items that are unusual or unfamiliar,” he said.

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The collection of vegetables growing outside the Tisch Library entrance, a project of the Friedman School’s New Entry Farming project, serves as a testament to New England’s agricultural potential. ing for a while, Sabol said.

“We developed the idea over the winter … between December and March,” she said. Old ground made way for new seeds when “sometime in early spring, what had been in here previously was pulled out,” she added. “Between late March and early April, once the ground was soft enough, planting began.”

Sabol said the project has been a success, with the vegetables staying in the ground or in the hands of humans, as intended. “It has gone very well,” she said. “We have not had any issues with pests such as squirrels.”

The garden has sprouted everything from opal basil to eggplant, maize and millet — a testament to the truly vast range of plants that can call New England soil home.

Each side of the garden contains brick

walkways in order to make it easier for the food to be harvested and subsequently distributed.

The visibility of the plantings and the curiosity they have sparked have made a positive impact on the overarching educational goals of the project, Sabol said.

“I couldn’t be happier with how it looks and how many questions we have gotten from students and visitors about it,” she said.

Because of the high level of maintenance required to keep the garden in shape and the impending end of the harvesting season, its friendly presence outside Tisch’s main entrance may be winding down, Sabol said.

“Soon it is going to be completely harvested. It will have lived a really good life, and will have given people a lot of good food.”

Street Smarts: Tufts’ Sartorial Scene We have all seen the fashionistas on campus who can pull off more than Uggs and a boxy North Face jacket. But what of the ever-elusive fashionist-os? We found it to be in due course to celebrate some of the men’s fashion gracing campus this fall. With unique spins on everything from preppy and hipster styles to the classic urban gentleman approach, these dudes are looking very dapper.

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“I go for a spontaneous look — there’s something about someone that doesn’t look like they’re trying too hard.”

“For the most part I’m preppier, unless I’m slumming it to Tisch in sweats. Getting into fall layers are really cool.”

“I look to traditional styles, sort of the classic gentleman. I’d say there are a lot of styles on campus, but [it’s] mostly prep because it’s a northeast campus.”

I really love solid colors and contrast. I’m attracted to visual styles, not just in clothes but design and art, and this is how it manifests itself.”

—Shaun Andah, sophomore

—Alvaro Genie, sophomore

—Devin Merullo, junior

—Devin Ivy, senior

hey warned me that this day would come. Freshman year was great. As a chick, I was in my prime. Everything was new and exciting, and freshman girls garner attention in nearly every situation, be it social, athletic, academic or otherwise.

It’s the one time during your Tufts career when you realistically stand a chance of being TEMSed and living it down. The only thing more malleable than my shamelessly naive perception of reality was my GPA. I didn’t give it much thought when I heard in passing that “no one likes a drunk sophomore,” probably because I was new to college and the thought of spending a night puking was foreign and invigorating.

Then one day, after my last final when I logged into SIS, there it was, in big capitalized print: SOPHOMORE. So let’s break it down. I feel like the notion of “attractiveness as a function of age dependent on gender” is a somewhat inherently accepted college phenomenon, but I’ll summarize anyway.

Grab your TIs because we’re about to get down with some high math. Girls start off as supple young vixens, high on the attractiveness rating, relatively untainted by frat parties, the consequential lazy hangovers and the early-onset wrinkles from late nights in Club Tisch. These girls seemingly fade into irrelevance as the years pass — following the function y= -x + 4, if I may — getting a little less exciting with every passing Dewick encounter. Then one day you realize that your college pheromones have depleted completely and you and your male study partner actually just study.

For guys of course it’s just the opposite.

They’ve been on the rise, becoming progressively more desirable — following y=x on my ever-so poignant graph of the college years — since crash-landing in puberty. By senior year they can strut around with bad B.O. and a receding hairline. As long as they’re wearing some Vineyard Vines and an aura of confident douchebaggery, some delusional chick will probably still get hot and heavy. If this concept still sounds incredibly foreign to you, you probably either live in Hill Hall or have some kind of wildly offensive rash that’s keeping you in the dark.

Actually, back up. I’d like to offer an alternative to my original equation for the ladies’ graph. I venture to take it one step further and say that after freshman year, the graph takes a rapid dive and then slowly tapers till graduation. When Tilton, Haskell, Hill and Houston fill with fresh prospects, other classes are old news. Before you know it, you’re 22 and Match.com-ing some Tufts Medical School bro and running a statistical analysis on the likelihood that he’ll still have at least 75 percent of his hair left by the time he gets a degree that actually accomplishes something. Your Facebook profile picture is from two years ago and you just got an invitation to your bestie’s engagement party because the witty minx snagged a man when she was 18. Yikes.

And so it goes. I’m guessing somewhere around sophomore summer, when the playing field is somewhat even, I’ll find a gem of a man to serenade me nightly until some class of 2016 hussy snatches him from my desperate loins around the second week of September.

So these are my final words: Guys, you’re on the rise. Sophomores and up: steal a class of 2015 shirt, wear some blush, and consider a snazzy, suggestive tattoo to add some curb appeal. And there’s always grad school! Freshmen: the clock is ticking. 2016 ED1 apps are due Nov. 1, so enjoy it while you can.

Chelsea Stevens is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at Chelsea.Stevens@tufts.edu.

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Though he is famed for his expressive drawings of dancers and gripping scenes of life in 19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas also completed a series of representations of nudes throughout his career. These works are the subject of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s (MFA) new exhibition, “Degas and the Nude,” which runs until Feb. 5.

This show is the first to examine this aspect of Degas’ work in its entirety, and the diverse depictions of the human figure it assembles provide a unique and fascinating insight into the art of this Impressionist master.

A Parisian at work in his ever-changing city Edgar Degas was born in 1834 in Paris, where he would spend most of his life. He demonstrated an interest in art at a young age, and he began his formal training by copying Italian paintings in the Musée du Louvre in Paris and working in the atelier of a contemporary French artist. During the 1850s, he traveled throughout Italy, where he studied the works of the Italian Renaissance. All of these experiences stressed close attention to the representation of the human form, which would have significant impact on his future work.

Once he returned to France, Degas became one of the most celebrated artists of the 19th century. He exhibited in both the academic Salon and the famed Impressionist exhibitions of the 1870s and 1880s with artists such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro.

Degas worked in a time of great political and social upheaval in France. The government changed dramatically during his lifetime, as did French society. The period saw the rise of the bourgeoisie, which coincided with a financial boom and cultural flowering.

This era of the arts manifested itself in the city’s grand ballets, elaborate operas and large art exhibitions. In this same epoch, however, less savory aspects of

society — including brothels — were widely popular. Degas’ works reflect both of these extremes.

From the Fenway to the banks of the Seine This exhibition, which represents the culmination of many years of research and preparation, was co-organized by George T. M. Shackelford, chair of the Art of Europe and Arthur K. Solomon Curator of Modern Art at the MFA, and Xavier Rey, curator of paintings at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. “‘Degas and the Nude’ will show you 50 years of the work of an artist who is very, very dear to my heart,” Shackelford said. “I feel myself sort of steeped in him.”

The show is comprised of 160 objects and brings together works of art from more than 50 different collections around the world. The Musée d’Orsay made the largest loan to the exhibition.

“Key to the success of this exhibition has been our partnership with the Musée d’Orsay, who lent more than 60 works,” Malcolm Rogers, the Ann and Graham Gund director of the MFA, said. “‘Degas and the Nude’ would not have been the great success that I believe it is without d’Orsay’s truly exceptional commitment to the MFA and to the exhibition.”

An academic introduction The exhibition opens with an examination of Degas’ early representations of the human figure, with examples of his work from the 1850s. He received classical instruction, which stressed drawing from live models as artists had done for centuries before.

“He’s fundamentally a Parisian artist steeped in the traditions of French art from the 17th century to his present in the mid-1850s,” Shackelford said. “[He was] very much aware of currents of art history, classically educated, a young man with an extraordinary sense of history.”

This second room also explores Degas’ early work, focusing on his monumental “Scene of War in the Middle Ages” (1865),

which was shown at the Salon in Paris in 1865 and demonstrates Degas’ continued experimentation with the human form.

This room displays comparative works by other famed 19th-century artists — including Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Eugène Delacroix — whose works influenced Degas.

These first two sections do not include the colorful pastels visitors may expect to see — those come later in the show — but they provide a helpful introduction to Degas’ more celebrated work.

“Quel scandale!”

The third room of the exhibition is comprised largely of representations of brothels. Depicting prostitutes awaiting clients in various poses and states of undress, the works are visceral and raw.

They overtly display a less wholesome side of 19th-century society, but one that was of particular interest to Degas.

“The tiny works he made … in this room [were] kept private,” Rey said.

According to Rey, many of these works were not seen until the sale of Degas’ estate after his death in 1917. He explained that the works in this section were largely produced using the monotype process, which Degas mastered. As the gallery text explains, “In this method, a drawing is done in ink directly on a metal plate, which is then passed through a printing press with a sheet of paper. The drawing transfers to the paper, creating a single impression.”

“What is wonderful in the technique is that Degas used it to renew the way things are seen in a work,” Rey said.

If they decided to do so, artists could also make a second, lighter impression from the metal plate. These prints could then be retouched and enhanced with pastels, a technique Degas later employed to dramatic effect.

“The most famous pastel is the pastel of dancers called ‘The Star’ (circa 1876) … We have [that] in the Musée d’Orsay, but not in this show, because the dancer is too dressed.”

pARIS, MUSEÉ D’oRSAY, BEQUEST OF COMTE ISSAC DE CAMONDO, 1911 © photo MUSEÉ d’orsay / rmn COURTESY, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

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Impressionist triumphs The works in the following space show a gradual development in Degas’ representation of the nude. Here, in works that date to the mid-1880s, Degas begins to shift away from images of the brothel in favor of a more general depiction of the female figure. In this section, too, numerous works demonstrate the beginnings of Degas’ experimentations with pastels on top of prints.

“It’s emblematic of the modernity Degas introduced in the drawing of his contemporary world, and it’s emblematic of the naturalistic period Degas had … and that develops with a play on techniques,” Rey said.

One particularly notable work is the small “La Toilette” (1886). It depicts a woman gracefully inclined over a washbasin in front of a mirror. She wears a white undergarment from the waist down, and is surrounded by elegant accoutrements: rich fabrics, draperies and perfume bottles.

These suggest a tony, bourgeois Parisian apartment — a modern environment in which Degas must have been interested.

The fifth room of the exhibition is perhaps its most dramatic. Displayed are a number of works Degas included in the last of the Impressionist exhibitions in Paris in 1886, including “The Tub” (1886) and “Woman Dressing Herself” (1886).

According to Shackelford, this regrouping represents a historical landmark.

“Never before, since 1886, we believe, at least, have so many of these been shown simultaneously,” Shakelford said. “These were all shown, and the critics were appalled by their … excess of realism, because they look too much like real people and the poses.” Now, over a century later, these works are celebrated.

This room exhibits some the finest examples of the richly colored pastels for which Degas is now famed. They represent women at various stages of bathing in bright colors, expressive lines and astonishing intimacy.

Today, they are crucial to the foundations of modern art. see DEGAS, page 7

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Gallery Review

Modern art becomes approachable in ‘Dance/Draw’ by

Zoey Turek

Contributing Writer

“Dance/Draw,” the Institute of Contemporary Art’s celebratory centerpiece in honor of its 75th anniversary, is an overt

Dance/Draw At the Institute of Contemporary Art through Jan. 16 100 Northern Avenue Boston, MA 617-478-3100 celebration of humanity’s obsession and fascination with movement. While most art represents a single moment in time, the pieces featured in “Dance/Draw” focus more on a work’s untold story — the process involved in finding and capturing that single moment.

For example, a series of 25 photographs documents the movements of a breakdancer from the beginning of a specific move to its completion. The set highlights all the steps needed to perform the move correctly, details that most onlookers might miss if they watched the dancer in person.

But photographs aren’t the only attraction in “Dance/Draw” — it is most certainly a multimedia exhibit. Alongside photographs are various drawings, sculptures, hanging pieces, videos and even live components.

In “Floor of the Forest,” two dancers from the Trisha Brown Dance Company slowly

Courtesy Janine Antoni and Luhring Augustine

Janine Antoni uses her own hair as a tool and hairdye as her medium in ‘Loving Care.’ and carefully intricate and extricate themselves from secondhand pieces of clothing suspended in a matrix of rope. As soon as the dancers enter the gallery, a hush falls over the gathered spectators, who have no clue

what to expect from such a curious setup.

However, curiosity soon turns to fascination as the dancers hang suspended from various pieces of clothing, only to move slowly across the web and descend into a new outfit min-

utes later.

One of the most simple but intriguing pieces is a black and white video of a hand.

All this hand does for five minutes is move: flex, point, curl its fingers, flip from palm-up to palm-down, rotate and contract. Yet the simplicity of the video is mesmerizing, and viewers will find themselves tempted to mirror the hand’s movements with their own hands.

“Dance/Draw” focuses tightly on pieces like this, which depict artistic basics like movement and form. The exhibit also smoothly branches out to include pieces that are initially questionable or odd.

One of the most peculiar installations — and one of the best examples of the idea that art can be made with more than just the hands — is a video of artist Janine Antoni creating a painting with a rather unusual tool: her hair. The video shows Antoni dunking her entire head into a vat of black hair dye, then proceeding to paint the surrounding floor with the dye using only the rotations of her neck and head. True, the resulting painting is not necessarily what most people consider art, but it is the process, not the product, that makes this piece worth noting.

Another piece by Antoni featured in “Dance/Draw” seems more conventional at first look but holds a surprise for those who care to read the information card. “Butterfly Kisses” appears to be drawn with pen, but Antoni actually used CoverGirl Thick Lash see DANCE, page 7

Restaurant Review

Cambridge restaurant not quite Toast of the town by

Ashley Wood

Daily Editorial Board

In the same way college students are required to love Wes Anderson movies and Vampire

The Friendly Toast 1 Hampshire Street Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 621-1200 $

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Despite its creative style, The Friendly Toast is hit-or-miss with its menu.

Weekend, we are practically obliged to enjoy a novel and creative restaurant like The Friendly Toast. It’s delightfully offbeat, and the decor and menu reference lovable classics like Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” (1954) and old Hardy Boys novels. If a ’50s diner theme and rockabilly waitresses don’t set your heart aflutter, its Cambridge location and proximity to indie-crazed theater Kendall Square Cinema will at least make you admire the restaurant for its convenience.

Needless to say, when I final-

What’s Up This Weekend Looking to make your weekend artsy?

Check out these events!

Boston Food Swap: Check out the Boston food swap for a chance to enjoy good food and good company this weekend. With a silent auction, village marketplace and potluck, here’s a chance to share and taste some of Boston’s yummiest homemade foods.

Sunday at 2 p.m. at Space with a Soul in Boston. Tickets are free at Bosswappersoct.eventbrite.com.

Homecoming A Cappella Show: Start off your Homecoming weekend right and come out to the annual Homecoming A Cappella Show, featuring performances by the Amalgamates, Jackson Jills and Beezlebubs. Friday at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in Goddard Chapel.

Tickets are $5 with Tufts ID and can be purchased at the Mayer Campus Center’s Info Booth.

Casablanca: Check out the Tufts Film

Series’ screening of “Casablanca” (1942), a classic film about love and loss during World War II. Saturday at 9:30 p.m. in Barnum Hall 008. Admission is free for all Tufts students.

Pumpkin Fest: Prepare for Halloween by honing your pumpkin carving skills at the Boston restaurant 75 Chestnut. The event celebrates the expressive potential of pumpkin ornamentation. Pumpkins can be reserved for free by calling (617) 227-2175. Saturday at 12 p.m. at 75 Chestnut in Boston. Pumpkins are complimentary, but patrons should be willing to purchase lunch or drinks.

ly made my way to The Friendly Toast, my expectations were high. I assumed on instinct I’d love it all.

Visiting Toast often requires a flexible dining schedule or a decent deal of patience. Diners with their hearts set on Sunday brunch should expect to wait an ample amount of time before getting a table. But for an only slightly awkward 3 p.m.

Saturday lunch, we were seated immediately and had most of the diner to ourselves.

Upon entering the restaurant, the first thing you notice — as the case is for many a restaurant — is a fully stocked and tended bar. However, at 3 p.m., and at a place known for its breakfast food, I was a little surprised to see so much attention paid to alcohol. When I sat down, I was handed a rather long drink menu. My favorite section of the list was irresistibly titled Hitchcocktails, which listed drinks named after every classic from “The Birds” (1963) to “Notorious” (1946).

I treated myself to the North

by Northwest, named after

Hitchcock’s 1959 film and made with Bacardi, Gosling’s Light and Dark rum, apricot puree, grenadine and sour mix. My friend ordered the Spellbound with Bombay Sapphire: triple sec, pear puree and lime.

The cocktails were the perfect drink for anyone with an avid sweet tooth. Unfortunately, I am not one of those people — at least, not when it comes to alcohol. Underaged diners are likely to find more enjoyment from Toast’s elaborate shake, soda and cocoa menu. From that list, diners can indulge in oddities like the Red Bull Frappe — made with berries, a banana, a whole can of Red Bull and vanilla ice cream — and the Moxie Milkshake, made with a can of Moxie and either vanilla or coffee ice cream.

Over 21, but nostalgic for your younger years? Try a luxurious Leah’s Liquid — a vanilla shake with Grand Marnier.

Despite my indifference toward my beverage — it was the middle of the day, after all see TOAST, page 7

Top Ten | Better ways to waste four hours than watching the Kardashian wedding Much like the rest of the Kardashians’ self-indulgent lives, Kim’s wedding to Kris Humphries — how serendipitous that they both spell their names with a “K” — was televised over the long weekend. If you were one of the 4.4 million viewers who tuned in for the two-part segment on Sunday and Monday night, we’ve compiled a list of 10 better ways you could have wasted four hours of your life.

10. Read two pages of “Ulysses” (1922). Then reread them until you understand.

Twelfth Night: See one of Shakespeare’s most praised comedies in a new production at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Boston Center for the Arts in Boston. Tickets are $34 with a Tufts ID.

9. Watch all of “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962). You’ll even have 24 minutes left over to look at LOLcats or something.

—compiled by the Daily Arts Department

7. Wait in line outside 123, just to have

8. Develop the ultimate secret handshake.

the party end five minutes after you walk through the door.

6. Grow an awesome man-stache.

Kudos if it resembles Salvador Dali’s or Colonel Sanders’.

5. Severely overcook a grilled cheese sandwich. Then eat it anyways, ‘cause it’s college. Or should we say kollege?

4. Do squats and leg presses until you get that Kardashian a--.

3. Sit on the couch and stuff your face until you get that other Kardashian’s a--.

2. Watch Kim and Ray J’s sex tape over and over and over. Sexy can I? 1. Khloe got married?

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Mascara to create the small, intricate markings that appear on the paper.

In the same vein, there is a “drawing” made by bouncing a basketball covered in dirt on a piece of paper.

One of the goals of “Dance/Draw” is to highlight the evolution of drawing from the ’60s to today, and the eclectic mix of more traditional drawings with videos and live pieces accomplishes this goal in a more than satisfactory fashion.

“Dance/Draw” is by no means a passive exhibit. As soon as you enter the show, you become a participant in the featured art, rather than a bystander. Gallery-goers can literally walk through some of the pieces featured in this exhibit and spend hours watching all the videos shown in “Dance/ Draw’s” many rooms.

“Dance/Draw” runs from Oct. 7 to Jan. 16, 2012, and I would advise anyone who has ever looked at a painting and wondered, “How did the artist create this?” to stop by to have that question answered.

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— the restaurant was still on my good side. The waiters were quirky, kind and thoroughly tattooed, and the interior design was fun and eclectic. The venue even sported a bit of a dark twist, with its vaguely creepy and decrepit vintage dolls adorning the entryway.

Our appetizer arrived quickly. The simply-named Cheesy Fries featured an updated version of the classic side dish; the fries were smothered in bleu cheese and provolone, and a dollop of strawberry habanero dip offered an extra kick. The dish was a perfect, modern twist on classic comfort food. The strong flavors of bleu cheese worked well with the sweet, spicy jam; together, they banished the bland, starchy taste normally implicit in a fried potato dish.

By the time the entrees came, I was fully prepared to fall in head-over-heels in love with the Friendly Toast. And when

Courtesy Isabel Winarsch

Using used clothing strung from metal pipes, the ‘Floor of the Forest’ exhibit uses the medium of dance in a wildly original way.

they sat my dish in front of me — dubbed The Crazy Quesadilla, with mashed sweet potatoes, brie, red chili pecans, green apple slices and baked ham — I expected the same play of savory, spicy and sweet to be artfully combined within the folds of a warm tortilla.

Unfortunately, all I could taste was sweet potato, and not even very sweet sweet potato at that. All the flavors seemed to have mushed together into a bland and uninspiring dish, in the same way that mixing individually vibrant watercolor paints yields a gloomy, gray canvas.

Disappointed, but still willing to be convinced, I endeavored to try my friends’ dishes, which included the Drunkard’s French Toast, smothered in Grand Marnier and raspberry sauce; the Hansel and Gretel, a gingerbread waffle with whipped cream and pomegranate molasses; and the Sklarmageddon, an omelet with sausage, bacon, ham, red-chile pecans,

jalapeno jack cheese, Swiss cheese and maple sour cream.

But the entrees still lacked flair and flavor, which was a surprising disappointment, since the restaurant’s design and servers were anything but dull. I was forced to conclude that, although The Friendly Toast is an interesting dining experience, novelty does not automatically imply excellent eats. Its dishes are hit-or-miss, and although Toast’s willingness to attempt creative entrees is admirable, the skill to execute them successfully is not always there.

On a positive note, this place is a haven for cheese lovers. The restaurant willingly dispenses generous heaps of goat cheese, bleu cheese, brie and more onto your order. And of course, the drink list is elaborate and fun.

Unfortunately, once the novelty of drinking a mojito milkshake wears off, I’m not sure there’s much left to lure me back.

New MFA exhibition examines the work of Degas DEGAS

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Degas, Matisse, Picasso The last rooms of the exhibition examine the nudes Degas created in the final decades of his career. These spaces display a number of drawings that chart Degas’ ever-changing conception of the human form which are also paired with a series of sculptures Degas created.

“Drawing is the moral center of Degas’ art. It’s really the practice that most informs almost everything he

does, including … the creation of sculpture, which is, in fact, a kind of threedimensional drawing experiment,” Shackelford said.

In the exhibition’s final space, late Degas works are displayed with those by artists of subsequent generations.

In the same way that the first spaces of the show draw comparisons and connections between Degas and artists who came before him, this last space is meant to illustrate Degas’ impact on artists such as Auguste Rodin, Henri

Matisse and Paul Gauguin.

These pieces bring the stunning exhibition to a close and demonstrate the profound influence of the Impressionist master’s seminal exploration of the human form. He impressed those of his own era, influenced artists in subsequent generations and continues to awe today.

Shackelford said the purpose of the comparisons were twofold. They mean “to show you how alike Degas is to himself, and how different he is from everybody else.”

The Artsy Jumbo

Delaney-Winn puts new spin on Shakespeare

Considering the large commitment it takes to orchestrate a play, one might assume that nearly all students involved in Tufts theater must be drama majors.

After all, who wouldn’t want school credit for all those long hours?

Defying that assumption is Tucker Delaney-Winn, a senior child development major who has spent the past year-and-a-half slowly dreaming up a rap musical in his spare time, purely for the love of writing songs and rapping. His efforts are finally coming to fruition.

“Hamlet, the Hip-Hopera,” sponsored by Pen, Paint, & Pretzels (3Ps) and Torn Ticket II, promises to be a musical unlike any other to grace Balch Arena Theater. Written half-dreamingly during Delaney-Winn’s semester abroad in Spain, then more seriously last semester with the help of Bare Bodkin, the fullyformed production will be hitting the stage Nov. 21.

Delaney-Winn is no stranger of the stage: He has previously acted at Tufts, including 3Ps “Fables for Friends” earlier this semester. He has also had an interest in writing lyrics since his early high school

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years and has used rapping as a means to express his creativity without the vocal demands of traditional singing.

This semester, Delaney-Winn has finally managed to combine his love for music with his Tufts experience. He hopes “Hamlet, the Hip-Hopera” will be filmed

and distributed to teachers as a teaching aid to get young students interested in reading Shakespeare.

Artistic and heart-warming — what’s not to love?

— by Ashley Wood

t seems that we olde English and the New Englanders have something special in common. It’s red, juicy and rhymes with Snapple.

That’s right — this week we focus on all things apple.

I am something of a patriot when it comes to apples from Blighty — back home, this year was a very special one, apple-wise. Freak weather conditions resulted in one of the earliest-ever apple crops. I naturally rushed to buy the first of the English Discovery apples as soon as they hit grocery stores, feeling somewhat smug and pleased that this would be my apple high for the year. Not even close.

My first encounter with American apples came on an enlightening trip to the organic behemoth that is Whole Foods. The apples were simply astonishing: brightly colored, radiant orbs stacked in high piles all around.

One of the most striking things to me was their size. Your apples are enormous — I mean huge — like the size of a baby’s head! What on Earth is going on? It makes me feel quite humble about our more meager offerings back home. And they are so very, very shiny. I must admit, I took some photos and earned some incredulous glances in the process.

Soon after this, I was lucky enough to go on the International Center’s apple-picking trip. We love apples at home, but we don’t generally have weekend activities solely devoted to them (unless drinking cider counts). It was a delight: There were huge, slightly less waxy apples to pluck from the tree and enjoy prepared in a variety of ways, including apple cider — I have now established this is not alcoholic here — apple doughnuts and, um, peach smoothies.

My thrill-seeker reputation was slightly dented by a shaky start going up the ladders, but I soon got the hang of it. And what would an apple-picking trip be without a fun selection of farm animals to pet and goats to feed? I can enthusiastically report that our multicultural gang from all four corners of the globe had a thoroughly wonderful day out!

At home, I eventually worked my way through my apple stack and gradually learned the best way to tackle an apple of that size. I bided my time looking forward to the hallowed day that was coming: I had been promised apple pie — a proper, home-baked apple pie.

I was naturally very excited to experience this American classic firsthand.

After a few days, I wandered into the kitchen to be greeted by banjo music, courtesy of Steve Martin. Yes, Steve Martin, the funny man with the white hair out of “Roxanne” (1987) and “L.A. Story” (1991). Apparently, he is a renowned banjo player! Steve’s banjo became the soundtrack to my housemates’ apple-pie baking — what could be more American?

So Southern Princess and Curly slaved away in the kitchen, instructing my Chinese housemate in the ancient art of apple-pie baking. Presumably, they also spent some time educating her on Steve Martin’s banjo music to complete her cultural experience; apparently, he’s just won an award, you know. Minus some impromptu dancing when the music got exciting, I kept a respectful distance from their frolicking in the kitchen.

And eventually, there it was: the apple pie. The goddess of the American dessert table — and the unlikely star of a film series of the same name — was sitting on my plate, ready to be devoured. I am told this was a cobbler, but I really don’t know the difference.

Either way, it was gorgeous, and I now feel fully prepared for the pumpkin pie delights to follow. Mm… Tai Frater is pursuing a post-graduate degree in occupational therapy. She can be reached at Tai.Frater@tufts.edu.

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Some perspective, please

Undeterred for three months by unflattering news coverage about getting a “fair deal,” the NBA team owners and players’ union failed once again to strike a deal this week.

For the second time in 13 years, the NBA will lose games to a work stoppage.

The players have legitimate gripes about the owners’ seriousness about negotiating a compromise: The owners opened these negotiations with extreme demands, including steep across-the-board salary cuts, discontinuing contracts and restructuring the salary system so that owners wouldn’t have to suffer the indignity of revenue losses when they make poor management decisions.

Make no mistake: The NBA is a hugely profitable business. It’s unreasonable to expect that labor battles won’t arise when billions of dollars are at stake.

But these owners are — without exception — exceptionally rich people. 12 of the 30 NBA majority owners ranked in Forbes’ latest list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, all with approximate net worth between 1 billion and 14 billion dollars. Their constant harping about a salary system that makes it difficult to turn a profit is particularly odious against the backdrop of the nation’s worst financial crisis in 80 years. With unemployment stag-

nant at 9 percent and average household income below $50,000, they’re certainly not going to succeed at winning any sympathy from the American public.

Had the owners not entered into negotiations in bad faith and instead injected a note of pragmatism from the beginning, the lockout would likely be over by now. As it stands, they’ve backed off a number of their initial demands, including those for salary rollbacks and non-guaranteed contracts, but the players’ union insists that isn’t good enough. They want to keep as much of the current system in place as possible so that many players can continue to receive bids from big-market teams that are far out of proportion with their talent.

Orlando Magic guard Gilbert Arenas, for example, has become a poster child for overpaid basketball players. No one forced the Washington Wizards to sign Arenas to a sixyear, $111 million contract, or the Orlando Magic to trade for it. Still, the players’ cries for “fair compensation” seem all the more hollow when one hears of cases like Arenas.

Instead of proudly declaring how willing they are to lose income to this noble cause, it would be nice if the owners and players thought about the fact they aren’t the ones

suffering the most from these weeks of lost paychecks. More than 10 percent of the NBA workforce was laid off over the summer, and hundreds of others are losing paychecks with each week that the lockout continues. If you own an NBA team, you can afford to skip a year of income; if you work in a concession stand, you aren’t so lucky.

Like the owners, the players can hold out financially, but they can’t hold out forever.

The players are rich. The owners are much richer, and the players have no leverage in this fight. In a desperate attempt, rumors have started about players establishing their own league if the owners don’t concede more ground. Get real.

The players know it’s only a matter of time before their collective resolve fractures under the weight of all those lost millions. The marginal improvement they might see in the owners’ proposal if they wait long enough will be outweighed by the months they spent pleading their case to the fans and pretending they weren’t already beaten.

No one likes to see millionaires and billionaires pleading for sympathy on their own behalf. There are real livelihoods at stake here, and none of them are represented at the bargaining table.

bitant bonuses … They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility … They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.” These goals seem quite specific and straightforward to me. I concede the full list is long and some of the points vague as to how to resolve the problems, but that is no reason for dismissal.

Countries have had governments recently toppled for less specific reasons.

Also, the editors’ assertion in the “Making a scene” editorial that the arrested protesters have only themselves to blame for their arrests is absurd. The group was on public property. The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is land leased to the Rose Fitzgerald

Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Inc. from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority to be used as public lands. Section 3.3 of the lease states “the Leased Premises shall be treated as a public park and a traditional open public forum without limiting free speech.” The editors say the city government has been “gracious” to allow protesters on the Dewey Square public land, but I find it difficult to understand their rationale that the city government “allows” any such activity; it is required by the U.S. Constitution that they “allow” it and never impede it. The Boston Police were wrong in warning the protesters that they needed to move and even more wrong in arresting those who did not.

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Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, In yesterday’s Daily page devoted to student’ reactions to the Occupy movement, I found some students’ responses particularly troubling. Nearly a third of those published mentioned that the movement has no distinct message and that there needs to be a more articulated set of goals. I am disappointed that Tufts students make such an excuse for dismissing the movement. On Oct.1, the General Assembly at Occupy Wall Street released an official statement listing their grievances, which has since spread across the Internet, even being read by Keith Olbermann on his television program.

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The polarization of Occupy Boston by

Alexa Petersen

Following the popular Occupy Boston march in Charlestown on Monday, everyone on campus can’t stop talking about the movement. Whether you support it or oppose it, this activist group has managed to jumpstart a heated dialogue about its validity and purpose. The supporters say they are the foundation of a new kind of movement, spearheaded by a powerful utilization of social media and focused on implementing ideals of direct democracy in order to fight social and economic inequality. In brief, they are protesting the status quo. The opposition says that the movement lacks a measurement system for success, has ambitions that are too broad and impractical and lacks efficiency when they have no clear leader. In brief, they wonder if Occupy Boston is only protesting the status quo, or actually doing something to change it.

The Tufts community has, in our own corner of the world, created a very polarized system in response to this movement.

Both sides have been guilty of the same quick assumptions and political one-liners that make us sound intelligent and informed when we argue over coffee in the Rez. We have created a polarized and inefficient way of debating the validity of a social movement, which frankly bears great resemblance to the political system that Occupy Boston moves to protest. If

we consider ourselves activists at Tufts, then this is a serious misrepresentation of what activism truly embodies.

It has always been my belief that the true power of activism comes twofold: the power that a group of people has to help a social movement and also the power that a social movement has to motivate and resonate with said group of people. We must not forget that social movements give us purpose and resolve, just as we give them passion, energy and resources. So, in light of the polarized system we seem to have inadvertently created through the Occupy Boston debate, we may have lost sight of the true power that a social movement has to affect us.

And, just as important, we may have lost sight of the power that a social movement has to affect other Jumbos.

Regardless of my view on the effectiveness of Occupy Boston, I respect it because it has empowered my fellow Jumbos. It has resonated with them and spoken to them much in the way that other activist groups have spoken to me.

I imagine many of us have felt that exhilarating feeling where we realize that we ourselves can make change in whatever social movement has truly resonated with us — and that active citizenship isn’t just an admissions office slogan.

And then, in light of our newfound passion, we are empowered to go out and actually implement that change, using

the incredible resources that we are provided at Tufts.

I believe that the end to this debate is not the resolution of right or wrong, success or failure — it is respect. Those involved in Occupy Boston should be moved to understand that not all who oppose Occupy Boston are disinterested in social and economic inequality — these Jumbos simply resonate with other social movements with different structures and messages. Those not involved with Occupy Boston should also be moved not to be too hasty in their criticism of the movement, as this is just another opportunity for our classmates to get involved with something that truly empowers them to affect change.

Each and every Jumbo I know prioritizes making a mark on their community and their world in their own unique way.

If we respect and value this sentiment, the Tufts community would do well to embrace social movements that don’t necessarily resonate with us. So instead of immersing ourselves in arguments and condescending dialogue, I urge my fellow Jumbo to be inspired to find the social movement that resonates with you and have a true and sober respect for the ones that resonate with others.

Alexa Petersen is a junior majoring in political science and peace and justice studies.

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Occupy Wall Street and the 2012 elections by

Christopher Babcock Indiana Daily Student

The Left’s dream of a Tea Party equivalent has come true with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Don’t let that stop you nonpartisans and conservatives from taking part in it.

This movement will be consequential.

I believe the movement will overtake the political discourse of the 2012 election in much the same way that the Tea Party influenced the 2010 sweep.

It has already proven to be as potent or more so than the Tea Party with gatherings, protests and marches spreading from coast to coast and around the world.

According to ABC News, the most recent marches had upward of 15,000 participants, including more than 700 protesters who were arrested.

I believe union support is proving to be the turning point and is greatly strengthening the movement. While “big labor” might seem like an oxymoron these days,

the national labor unions still hold clout and will give the Occupy movement more mainstream acceptance.

The success of the Tea Party, and future success of the Occupy Wall Street movements, rests with their goals derived from a perceived notion of economic injustice.

What is shared between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street is their dissatisfaction with the status quo — where they differ is in their priorities and political philosophy.

Income inequality in America rivals that of many Third World countries, and it has for some time. In the United States, the richest 10 percent control two-thirds of Americans’ net worth. According to the Congressional Budget Office, this is a trend that has been occurring since the late 1970s.

The participants of Occupy Wall Street seem to acknowledge these and similar statistics and are demanding a handful of reforms.

Fundamentally, they would like the system to stop favoring the wealthy at the expense of the poor. There exists in America

a persistent belief that if you play by the rules and try your hardest, you’ll be rewarded.

Whether that reward is fame, riches or something else, we all deep down have the sense that we’re destined for greatness (or at least have the ability to achieve it). This belief is false. In the recession even people who have worked hard all their lives and did good things lost jobs, homes and even loved ones.

The Occupy movement will allow President Obama to stake out a far more populist message as the campaign gears up. He will be emboldened to take on big business, to the dismay of the Republican nominee.

Polls have shown that regardless of ideology, Americans want millionaires to pay a fair share in taxes.

And now, just as quickly as the Tea Party advanced ground in Washington to a standstill, the administration will be provided cover to advance an agenda of real economic equalization. That is, if they choose to.

eaders, I ask you all to grant me one small favor: Look at your cell phones and look at your speed-dial lists (or “favorites,” if you have an iPhone). Who’s on the list?

There’s probably your parents, your house phone numbers, your girlfriend or boyfriend, some close friends and Helen’s Pizza. Back home in India, and in similar countries, the contacts on speed dial would probably be the same (minus Helen’s), but with one major addition: the mobile number of your driver, whom you’d call at least five times a day if you were leaving your house to go anywhere.

It’s commonplace back in India to have a driver. If one looks back into literature or history, the notion of having a chauffeur is reserved solely for the moneyed elite. But that’s not the case in a lot of other countries, where having a driver has nothing to do with your economic status and isn’t anything unusual. For nine years, I had a driver taking me from home to school and school to home on a daily basis. It was a very simple way of getting from one place to another, where the biggest trouble I faced was asking my mother if she needed the driver — which was also commonplace.

Yet being here, as a college student, it’s a totally different ballgame. Here, public transportation is used to get anywhere, be it simply using the campus shuttle, the Joey, to get to Davis Square, or taking the T to Harvard, or taking cabs when you’re totally lost in Boston, or even having to contact Tufts University Police Department to take you back to your dorm late at night.

It’s different and equally efficient in its own way. Given that public transport is easily accessible and relatively safe, transportation isn’t exactly a hassle.

Take that from a guy who makes a trip to Waltham twice a week to see his girlfriend at Bentley by walking to Davis, taking the T to Porter, boarding the commuter rail until Waltham and then using a cab for the final stretch of the journey to get to Bentley.

From reading this, it may appear that I’ve made it seem like public transportation doesn’t exist in other countries like India, which isn’t true. Buses still run, and cabs can still be called — I’ve used my own fair share. The recent introduction of the metro system in New Delhi in the last few years has been largely successful. But in a lot of cases, this public transportation isn’t what it is here — it’s not safe. Granted, even here, I wouldn’t expect a girl to take the subway at one in the morning and imagine that she’d feel secure, but it’s a completely different story there.

It’s not just during the night hours but during the day as well that parents don’t feel safe having their kids traveling around the city by themselves.

There have been a number of times where I’ve had female friends’ parents only being OK with their daughters going out at night because a guy the parents are comfortable with is in the taxi with them. There’s actually even a compartment in the trains for the Delhi Metro that is dedicated just to women so that they feel safe and are not subject to catcalling, eve teasing or worse.

While the trade-off between having a car and a driver and having to use public transport isn’t as costly as one may have thought before coming here, largely because it’s so easy to use, it’s difficult to be in an underground train and still replicate the feeling of being in a car, you know, going 0 to 60 in 3.5.

Angad Bagai is a freshman who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at Angad.Bagai@tufts.edu.

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On Jan. 6, 2011, Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck — with a No. 12 Panthers jersey at the ready — issued a statement declaring that he was “committed to earning [his] degree in architectural design from Stanford University … at the completion of the spring quarter of 2012.”

Luck had passed up a chance to be the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft and immediately started the “Suck for Luck” campaign for the 2011-2012 season.

Never in the history of the modern draft have fanbases so openly clamored for their teams to lose football games in order to position themselves better to draft a collegiate athlete. The Stanford redshirt junior is possibly the most highly touted NFL quarterback prospect since John Elway, garnering the loftiest praise from every scout and draft expert under ESPN’s sun.

While no team will ever openly admit to tanking games, there are crafty moves that front offices can make to bolster their chances for a high pick.

Without further ado, here are the most likely teams to land the No. 1 overall pick and a shot at the prized QB. The Favorites: Indianapolis Colts (0-5): The current frontrunners for the first pick in April’s draft, the Colts face a difficult schedule the rest of the season. Indy’s best, and perhaps only, shots at victories come in Weeks 10 and 17, when they face the Jacksonville Jaguars. Owner Jim Irsay seems excited at the prospect of acquiring Luck, as he stated on Monday that the Colts could draft Luck and sit him for “three or four years” behind current quarterback Peyton Manning.

The Colts know how drastically a quarterback can change a franchise’s fortunes, and there is no chance they would pass on Luck next spring. Generally, the largest roadblock to an owner wishing for his team to tank is a coach who is fighting to stay employed.

However, head coach Jim Caldwell’s job should be in no danger as the Colts’ organization tempered their expectations for the season (see: the Kerry Collins signing) when Manning went out indefinitely after multiple neck surgeries.

7 Students who will be honored tomorrow night at the 2011 Tufts Athletics Annual Awards Ceremony in Cohen Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Ed Bernstein (LA ’11) , closer on last year’s baseball team, will receive the Clarence “Pop” Houston award as Best Male Athlete, while field hockey star Tamara Brown will be honored with the Hester L. Sargent award for Best Female Athlete.

Senior Sam Diss and Amy Wilfert (LA ‘11) will win awards for playing multiple sports, and the Daily’s own Phil Dear (LA ’11) will take home the Timothy J. Horgan award for best sports writing.

Miami Dolphins (0-4): Miami entered its bye week winless after suffering competitive defeats in each of the first four weeks. Coming out of the bye week, however, expect to see the Dolphins curb their winning aspirations. In a swift move, the front office placed starting quarterback Chad Henne on injured reserve five days after he suffered a separated non-throwing shoulder. The team then signed former New York Giants backup Sage Rosenfels to compete with Matt Moore for the starting quarterback job.

Miami has cooked up a winning formula for losing. The Dolphins rank second to last in passing defense, allowing 307 yards per game; Moore was not good enough to be the quarterback for a Panthers team that won only two games last year, and head coach Tony Sparano was brought back only after a failed attempt to hire Jim Harbaugh.

Securing Andrew Luck would give the Dolphins stability at the quarterback position for the first time since Dan Marino retired. For a fanbase that on Monday night will watch Matt Moore become Miami’s 16th different starting signal caller since Marino’s departure — joining the likes of Cleo Lemon, A.J. Feeley, Ray Lucas and Rosenfels — ownership is doing the right thing by trying to “Suck For Luck.”

The Contenders:

Jacksonville Jaguars (1-4) and Arizona Cardinals (1-4): The Jags and the Cards have similar obstacles facing their journey to Andrew Luckdom. Both teams play in weak divisions this year, as the Jaguars have two remaining games against the aforementioned Colts, and the Cardinals still reside in the lowly NFC West. Both teams also invested heavily this offseason to bring in new young quarterbacks. Jacksonville traded their firstand second-round picks during the draft to move up six places to select Blaine Gabbert and Arizona traded cornerback Dominiqué Rodgers-Cromartie along with a secondround pick to acquire Kevin Kolb from the Philadelphia Eagles.

This isn’t to say that the front offices of the Jags and Cards would not hesitate to draft Luck if given the chance, but Gabbert and Kolb are out to prove their worth. Neither wants to fall victim to the Jimmy Clausen

treatment — Clausen lost his starting job when the Panthers drafted Cam Newton No. 1 overall in April — and be relegated to the bench after just one season.

St. Louis Rams (0-4): The Rams, a bandwagon sleeper pick this offseason to win the NFC West, have been an utter mess so far this season. They are dead last in run defense, allowing 180 yards per game — a full 35 yards worse than any other team. The offensive line has been porous as second-year quarterback Sam Bradford has already been sacked 18 times.

The outlook, though, is not that bleak.

St. Louis could very well lose its next three games against the Packers, Cowboys and Saints to fall to 0-7, but then win eight out of nine games against a cupcake secondhalf schedule. However, if the Rams were to consistently falter and wind up with the top pick, they would likely be the only team on this list that would not select Andrew Luck.

The Rams could trade the rights to Luck for multiple first- and second-round picks, filling in a talented roster led by Bradford.

The Dark Horse: Denver Broncos (1-4): Heading into their bye week, the Broncos announced that their starting quarterback for Week 7 will be Tim Tebow. Tebowmania peaked yet again in Denver as the former University of Florida standout’s dynamic play nearly inspired the Broncos to an upset over the Chargers on Sunday. By installing Tebow at quarterback now, Vice President of Football Operations John Elway and head coach John Fox have completely changed the narrative of the Broncos’ terrible season.

Fox and Elway by no means think that Tebow gives the Broncos the best chance to win football games — they initially put him third on their depth chart behind Brady Quinn — but he is all the fans and media can focus on. If they wanted to make a quarterback change strictly to add wins, Quinn would have been the call.

By injecting Tebow into the lineup, both the fans and the front office get what they want. If Tebow fails, Luck awaits and Elway can dip into his alma mater for the next face of his franchise. On the other hand, if Tebow succeeds, Denver has a quarterback who is already worshipped — by his fans.

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The minute of Tuesday’s men’s soccer game vs. UMass Dartmouth when freshman Gus Santos scored the golden goal, his second game-winner of the season. Santos had scored the winner against Trinity on October 2, and the youngster is only one part of a stellar Class of 2015. In Tuesday’s win, all three goals were tallied by freshmen — the first two off the feet of Sam Williams and Peter Lee-Kramer. The Jumbos overcame a two-goal deficit to tie the game late in the second half and win it in overtime.

.679 Slugging percentage of Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre in the 2011 postseason, as of press time, before last night’s ALCS Game 4. Slugging percentage, a statistic derived from a player’s total bases divided by his at-bats, is used as a measure of a player’s power, and perhaps nobody in this year’s playoffs has been more powerful than Beltre. The former Red Sox, Mariners and Dodgers infielder has hit three HRs and boasts five RBI in the playoffs.

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Receiving yards in five games this season for Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker, putting him on pace to shatter Jerry Rice’s singleseason record. Rice’s record of 1,484 receiving yards in 1995 has stood up until now, but Welker is currently on pace for a mind-boggling 2,464-yard year. Welker, who has been Tom Brady’s go-to guy since 2007, also has 45 receptions and five TDs and is on pace for 144 catches, which would break the single-season mark of 143 set by Marvin Harrison in ‘02.

Match lost by any Tufts men’s tennis player in three team matches this fall, which were all overall wins against Babson, Salve Regina and Roger Williams. Junior Andrew Lutz lost 6-1, 6-1 to Babson freshman Connor DeFiore on Friday for Tufts’ lone individual loss on the season. The Jumbos rolled over Babson 8-1, and — playing on the brand-new Voute Tennis Courts on Professor’s Row — the team looks good heading into the spring season, which starts March 10 at home against Colby.

False starts by the Chicago Bears in the first half of Monday night’s 24-13 loss to the Detroit Lions, breaking an NFL record.

Chicago, playing in front of a raucous crowd at Detroit’s Ford Field, had nine false starts total in the contest. Three came from left tackle J’Marcus Webb, two from tight end Kellen Davis and one each from running back Matt Forte, right tackle Matt Omiyale, left guard Chris Williams and special teamer Chris Conte.

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f you’re an NFL fan and also one of Time Warner Cable’s 14 million customers nationwide, you’re getting squeezed out of the greatest revolution in how we consume sports since the advent of the Internet, rivaled only by the rise of high-definition television.

Time Warner and the NFL Network have been at a standstill since the network launched NFL RedZone two years ago. Not having access to RedZone isn’t as bad as, say, missing at least the first two weeks of the NBA season, but having experienced its pleasures for the few weeks of this NFL season, I can never go back.

And neither should you. It is the most purely entertaining way to watch sports in the world.

This is probably what being on crack feels like, except it’s cheaper and has fewer side effects, and it’s football!

Take Week 2, for example. I’m sitting on a friend’s couch — they’ve got a big-screen television and snacks — and watching Ryan Fitzpatrick, who oh my gosh by the way went to Harvard, march his Buffalo Bills down the field in the final two minutes against the Oakland Raiders. CBS host James Brown has excitedly sent us here for Bonus Coverage.

It’s 4:09 p.m., there’s around 30 seconds left in the game, Fitzpatrick goes back to pass inside the Raiders’s red zone and ... wait. CBS goes to commercials. The network is contractually obligated to switch to the Pats-Chargers game, which starts at 4:15.

Plates of grilled cheese are overturned in anguish. You can hear the screams of anger spill out from all the other houses on Sunset Road in which people watching football have been similarly trolled. But though my friends are upset, they ultimately slouch back into their seats, resigned to their fate.

With NFL RedZone, there’s none of this nonsense. RedZone shows the consumer every single scoring play from every game every Sunday, including every last-minute drive. If by cosmic coincidence two games are in a game-culminating two-minute drill, the channel goes to a split-screen or frantically switches back and forth.

This is the only channel, besides maybe the Tennis Channel during the major tennis tournaments, I’ve experienced that has purely the fans’ interests in mind. Or at least the type of fan that cares about his fantasy team almost as much or potentially more than his home team, which — sorry, sports fans — is millions of people, including both those with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and those without ADD. You don’t need to have ADD to appreciate touchdown after touchdown after touchdown.

RedZone’s even better than DirectTV’s Sunday Ticket, which gives you access to every game, because RedZone has an editor who does all the switching-around work for you. With ten or so games going on at once, RedZone consumers get to sit back and watch the mayhem ensue. Plus, on RedZone, there are none of the mind-numbing commercials that make NFL broadcasts so tedious.

There is a hangover effect to this football entertainment binge, though, besides the headache that accompanies staring at a screen for six hours straight. Any true fan of a team will not be satisfied with only seeing his team’s scoring plays, so RedZone is not a viable replacement to full-game NFL coverage.

Instead it’s a gorgeous supplement that eliminates annoying commercials and crappy network TV contracts and gives an already information-saturated fan base what we want: highlight after highlight, in real time.

With this kind of heavenly experience available with one click of the remote, I might never shell out the dollars to sit in a cold NFL stadium and watch just one game ever again.

Ben Kochman is a junior majoring in English. He can be reached at bkoch.tufts@ gmail.com or on Twitter @benkochman.

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Women hope to split off, start own club water polo squad

In the past few years, the number of women on the Tufts co-ed club water polo team has been on the rise. There were three in 2009, five in 2010, and this year the 30-person roster consists of 10 women. With this surge in interest, the women of the Tufts club water polo team — spearheaded by juniors Maddie Mayerson and KJ Kroetch — have taken it upon themselves to work on starting their own squad.

With water polo being such a physical sport, it is difficult for the women to compete against males of bigger size and stature. Most of the schools that Tufts faces field all-male teams, making Tufts’ co-ed makeup unique. According to Kroetch, UMass Amherst and Williams are the only other teams that feature females, and each school has no more than three.

“With co-ed teams, there’s a big size difference,” Kroetch said. “In a sport like water polo, it’s really important to be able to match up to your opponent, so playing against all guys, girls are always at a big disadvantage.” by

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Playing with men is especially frustrating for the five women who have experience playing water polo.

“My biggest problem is that I know exactly what to do because I know the strategy and all the plays and the moves, but I’m smaller and weaker and slower than the men we play against so I physically can’t keep up,” said Mayerson, who has played the sport since eighth grade.

“I’m not able to play the game the way I want to and the way I know I can. … I can’t compete with them at that level even though I know what to do.”

The co-ed team is led by senior co-captains Alex Strittmatter and Benji Koltai, who are both committed to getting all the women to play in the games as much as possible.

The women end up getting their most significant playing time when the team has a substantial lead.

Having a lead is not unusual for the team, which has seen considerable success. In 2009, the Jumbos won the Div. III club National Championships, and last year, they had an undefeated season heading into the Championships, where they finished fourth. Mayerson was one of only two women in the

entire tournament. So far this season, the team has won six of eight matches, with both losses coming against Amherst.

Mayerson first had the idea to start a women’s team her freshman year in 2009. Then-senior Mack Carlson (LA ’10) had expressed an interest in starting a separate women’s team, but there was not enough interest at the time.

Kroetch and Mayerson contacted Club Sports Director Carol Rappoli and Assistant Director of Athletics Branwen Smith-King with the idea, and they are currently applying for Tier II club sport status from the university.

The co-ed team is a Tier I club sport, which means that it gets some funding and support from the university. According to Mayerson, however, there is currently a moratorium on Tier I club sports, meaning that if club status is eventually granted, the women’s water polo team would be forced to fund itself.

“Water polo is a huge thing in California and on the West Coast,” Mayerson said, “but in the Northeast there are fewer teams so it would involve more traveling and potentially more tournaments further

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will carry though and everyone will be stoked to play.”

The men are also excited for the women to start their own team.

Alex Robb, a third-year student at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and one of two graduate students on the team, previously coached Wellesley’s women’s team and is willing to help coach and support the Jumbos.

The women hope that having a separate team will garner more interest and encourage new people to join the sport.

“For a lot of girls who might consider playing water polo, they don’t want to play with a bunch of guys,” Schrier said. “But having a girls’ team would allow more girls who don’t have a lot of experience to come out and play.”

To match the success of the co-ed team, the women recognize the need for new bodies in the pool.

“The 10 players we have now is enough, but in order to practice well, we would want at least 15,” Kroetch said. “Any number of new people that wanted to play would be terrific. The interest we have now is pretty solid, but it’d be great to expand that.”

Women’s Soccer

Jumbos engineer 2-0 victory over MIT

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Freshman midfielder Gus Santos’ goal sealed Tufts’ comeback victory over the Corsairs.

Freshmen key to victory over UMass Dartmouth The men’s soccer team rallied from two goals down to defeat the UMass Dartmouth Corsairs, 3-2, in non-league action on Tuesday at Kraft Field. Freshman midfielder Gus Santos scored his second golden goal of the season in the 102nd minute, as the Jumbos improved to 5-2-2 on the year while the Corsairs fell to 7-4-1.

Tufts came out of the gate sloppy, surrendering two goals in the first 13 minutes of play. Corsairs freshman goalkeeper Tim Walsh kept the Jumbos off the scoreboard for a while with four first-half saves, but Tufts finally broke through in the final seconds of the period on a goal by freshman defenseman Sam Williams.

“That play was huge for us,” junior midfielder Rafael Ramos-Meyer said. “We were really frustrated up to that point, and to be able to go into halftime only down 2-1 really calmed us down. It let us come out confident and with all the momentum to start the second half.”

The Jumbos let a golden opportunity slip away in the 58th minute when senior tricaptain Matt Blumenthal missed a penalty kick that would have knotted the score. Tufts continued to apply the pressure before finally converting in the 77th minute. The equalizer came off a free kick from just outside the box. Ramos-Meyer delivered a pass into the penalty area, where freshman defenseman

away, which would be really difficult without any funding at all.”

The team, though, is not completely discouraged.

“We won’t be guaranteed pool time or even given funds to join the women’s water polo league in the spring so that makes it hard, but it’s not an impossible barrier. It’s not something we can’t work around,” Kroetch said.

In order to compete in the women’s tournaments in the spring — the main season for women’s water polo — it is necessary that the club be approved by Rappoli and SmithKing. For the Jumbos to compete in the College Water Polo Association (CWPA), they need to have club recognition from Tufts.

If the women’s team is successfully created, the Jumbos will likely compete in the North Atlantic division of the CWPA Div. III, against schools like Middlebury, Bowdoin, Wellelsey and MIT. “Setting anything new is a bit of a challenge,” freshman Laura Schrier said. “If we become our own team, we’ll need to work on finding the leadership and getting the cohesiveness. But there’s a lot of enthusiasm that I’ve heard and hopefully that

Peter Lee-Kramer was able to get a head on the ball and deposit it into the back of the net for his firts collegiate goal.

Freshman midfielder Kyle Volpe nearly delivered the knockout blow in the final seconds of regulation. After receiving a wellplaced through-ball from sophomore forward Jono Edelman, Volpe drilled a shot to the upper left corner of the goal. Walsh saved the day once again for the Corsairs with a huge punch-out save to force overtime.

Following a relatively uneventful first overtime period, the Jumbos capitalized on their very first opportunity of the second frame.

Less than two minutes into the second overtime, Santos delivered the decisive blow. He took a pass from Volpe, spun past a defender and, from just outside the 18-yard box, launched a shot past Walsh’s outstretched arms and into the far-left corner of the goal.

The tally was Santos’ second game-winner of the year — his first came against Trinity on Oct. 2 — and it put the finishing touches on a thrilling comeback victory. Despite the one-goal margin, the Jumbos had 22 shots in the game, while the Corsairs managed only six.

Tufts will return to NESCAC play on Saturday at 2:30 p.m., hosting Williams in a Homecoming showdown.

—by Zachey Kliger

With a pivotal NESCAC match against No. 14 Williams just four days away, it would have been easy for Tufts to look past their midweek matchup Tuesday with non-conference foe MIT, ranked No. 7 in New England. A similar situation a week earlier had led to a 2-0 loss to Endicott, but this time the Jumbos looked strong throughout, earning a valuable 2-0 result over the host Engineers.

“Endicott kind of taught us a lesson: that we need to come into every single game with 100 percent intensity,” junior midfielder Alyssa Von Puttkammer said.

“We had a really good practice on Monday, and that energy kind of translated into [Tuesday].” After fighting a back-and-forth game for much of the first half, Tufts once again turned to sophomore forward Maeve Stewart for its first breakthrough. Following an Engineers turnover in the 28th minute, senior forward Jamie Love-Nichols played in to Stewart down the left side.

Stewart took her chance well, deftly slotting one into the far, top corner for her fourth goal of the season.

While MIT was eager to find a way back, the Jumbos’ backline remained resolute. Though the Engineers managed three shots in the half, sophomore Kristin Wright was not forced to make a single save. MIT was also undone by

a couple of critical offside calls. In the second half, Tufts came out looking to put the game away, and the Jumbos got their opportunity just 11 minutes in on a free kick at the top of the box. Von Puttkammer stepped up to take the kick and got it up and down over the wall.

Freshman goalkeeper Emilee Johnson, making just her first collegiate start, initially misjudged the shot, and though she got a hand on it, she could not keep it out. The goal was Von Puttkammer’s second of the season.

Down two goals and needing to push the envelope, the Engineers began to create some chances. But junior netminder Phoebe Hanley was up to the task, making three saves to preserve the shutout and give Tufts a strong nonconference result.

With MIT in the books, the team is now prepared to focus on Williams, which is tied with Tufts for second in the NESCAC. The game, on Saturday at noon on Kraft Field, could very well decide the second seed in the conference tournament, and the Jumbos believe they are ready.

“Yesterday’s game definitely got us really excited for this weekend,” Von Puttkammer said.

—by Ethan Sturm

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Junior midfielder Alyssa Von Puttkammer notched her first goal of the season on Tuesday with a perfectly executed free kick.