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Tufts Student Fund plans end of year events by

Meredith Braunstein Daily Editorial Board

The Tufts Student Fund (TSF) will kick off its annual spring campaign on March 27 with Tuition Runs Out Day and will run for four weeks until late April.

According to Assistant Director of Volunteer Management Alexandra Hyde, Tuition Runs Out Day marks when a student’s Tufts education is no longer supported by tuition alone, and private support from donors pays for student life through May. “This year we will be increasing the visibility of the Student Fund on campus and focus on engaging students in a conversation about philanthropy,” Hyde told the Daily in an email.

“Tuition Runs Out Day will be a much larger kick-off to the campaign than it was in previous years. There will be a strong marketing component, and we are hoping to engage students via various social media channels throughout the day and the next four weeks of the campaign.”

Hyde said that the TSF was formed in 2009 after switching from a Senior Class Gift campaign to an organization that incorporates all undergraduate classes and where all contributions support financial aid.

“The strategy behind this change was that we really wanted to engage all class years as a way of both increasing participation and educating students early on about the importance of philanthropy and giving back,” Hyde said.

TSF secretary Jason Brillon said that they will continue to work on being seen around campus frequently for the remainder of the academic year.

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VOLUME LXVII, NUMBER 37

Scholarship fund created in memory of Class of 2011 alumnus by

Daniel Gottfried

Daily Editorial Board

Three Tufts graduates, in collaboration with the Communications and Media Studies (CMS) Program, have established the CJ Saraceno Memorial Scholarship to provide financial assistance to students interested in a summer media internship in Los Angeles.

The scholarship was created in memory of Christopher “CJ” Saraceno (LA ’11), a Tufts graduate who died last year while working in Los Angeles, according to Dan Rosen (LA ’10), a friend of Saraceno and co-creator of the scholarship.

“It was an immense tragedy that should have never happened,” Rosen said. “The world has lost a really great person.

People always say that ... but I truly feel that in his way, CJ was destined to change the world.”

Rosanna Xia (LA ’11), another friend of Saraceno who helped with the creation of the scholarship, explained that Saraceno was employed by NCLUSIVE, Inc., a Los Angeles-based firm that manages social media and branding campaigns on behalf of celebrities and professional athletes.

“He was so fascinated with audience engagement,” she said. “One of our last intellectual conversations ... was how to get someone to connect to an issue, to think about something — how to convey a brand. He loved to influence which direction an issue was going in. He was just a force.”

While at Tufts, Saraceno was a brother at Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp), wrote for The Primary Source and the Observer and contributed a column to the Daily, Rosen said. He majored in political science and minored in communications and media studies.

Julie Dobrow, director of the CMS program, explained that Xia approached her about honoring Saraceno’s legacy.

“Rosanna, who had worked with me closely when she was at Tufts, called me

Courtesy Rosanna Xia

The Communications and Media Studies Program in coordination with several alumni created a scholarship fund in memory of CJ Saraceno (LA ‘11), a Tufts graduate who passed away in September. up and said that she and a group of CJ’s other friends wanted to raise some money, and was there anything that I could think of that would be an appropriate tribute to him,” she said. “And I immediately thought of how CJ was determined to make his way in Los Angeles.”

Dobrow said that achieving success in Los Angeles can be difficult for students.

“A lot of our students who are interested in pursuing careers in film and television, [and] that is where they need to go,” she said. “And if you don’t have family in Los Angeles, it isn’t easy to do. It is expensive

Mock trial team qualifies for national championship tournament

by Justin

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The TCU Senate held a brief meeting last night to allocate funding to various groups. The American Chemical Society, a new group, received $383 in startup allocations; the Institute for Global Leadership’s ALLIES program received $1,450 for its FieldEx conflict simulation event; Tufts Action for Sexual Assault Prevention received $2,574.96 to use for the group’s “It Happens Here” campaign.

The Senate also allocated $1,400 to Anchord to fulfill its CD contract; Torn Ticket II received $200 to purchase the rights to its show; Tufts Middle Eastern Dance group received $100 to hire a photographer for its Spring Show; 180 Degrees Consulting received $3,280 to attend a conference in Chicago; Young Entrepreneurs at Tufts received $634.08 to attend a Tufts Entrepreneurial Accelerator Conference in New York City; and Tufts Global China Connection received $150 to pay for a guest speaker.

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For the fifth straight year, the Tufts Mock Trial (TMT) team qualified for the American Mock Trial Association’s (AMTA) National Championship tournament which will be held from April 11 to 13 in Orlando, Florida.

While two Tufts teams (TMT A- and B-teams) competed in the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) competition last weekend in Philadelphia, only the A-team will advance, TMT co-president and A-team co-captain Brian Pilchik explained.

“I think everyone who was there would agree it was one hell of a ride,” Pilchik, a senior, said. “It was a very intense weekend [and] the competition was fierce. It was challenging, but we had some really phenomenal rounds against some really great teams, and it went well for us.”

According to Pilchik, Tufts’ A-team

to live [there], it isn’t easy to get around, there isn’t good public transportation, and it can take some time to get a good job in the media industry.”

Xia, Rosen and Nancy Shrodes (LA ’11), in collaboration with some of Saraceno’s friends from Los Angeles, organized a fundraising effort thatincluded parties in New York and Los Angeles, in addition to online donations through the scholarship’s website, Rosen said.

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Where You Read It First Est. 1980

Courtesy Brian Pilchik

— by Justin Rheingold

Tufts Mock Trial A-team will compete in the American Mock Trial Association’s upcoming National Championship tournament in Orlando, Fla.

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Tufts Against Genocide prepares for annual Survivors Speak event, works to increase presence on campus.

‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ is latest masterpiece from director Wes Anderson.

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Visiting the Hill this week MONDAY Environmental Careers: Alumni Panel & Networking Details: The Career Center will host a networking event with Tufts alumni who work in environmental fields. Pre-registration is required.

When and Where: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Dowling 745 Sponsors: Tufts Career Center, Tufts Environmental Alumni TUESDAY Constructing Political Will: Women’s Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Details: Alison Brysk, the Mellichamp professor of global governance at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., will speak about the role of global gender equality in U.S. foreign policy.

When and Where: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Barnum 104 Sponsors: School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering WEDNESDAY Hawaiian Sovereignty and the Contradictory Politics of SelfDetermination Details: J. Kehaulani Kauanui, an associate professor of American studies and anthropology at Wesleyan University, will give a lecture on Hawaiian nationalism.

When and Where: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; 40

Talbot Avenue Sponsors: American Studies Program, Peace and Justice Studies Program, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Department of Anthropology THURSDAY Cities and Climate Change: Building Resilience by Stealth or by Spotlight with Elisabeth Hamin Details: Elisabeth Hamin, a professor of regional planning and head of the Department for Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst will speak about the need for cities to prepare for climate change, and more severe and variable weather.

When and Where: 12 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.; Rabb Room Sponsors : Environmental Studies Program THURSDAY 2014 Wellington Burnham Lecture Series Details: Rachel Kranton, a James B. Duke professor of economics at Duke University, will present a lecture entitled “Identity, Groups and Social Preferences,” in which she will speak about income usage and distribution across different social groups When and Where: 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Barnum 104 Sponsor: Department of Economics

THURSDAY Town Hall Meeting Details: University President Anthony Monaco will host a town hall meeting during which members of the Tufts community will be able to share ideas and observations with Monaco and senior university leaders.

When and Where: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; ASEAN Auditorium Sponsor: Office of the President THURSDAY Martin Guterman Undergraduate Lecture Details: Robert Devaney, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Boston University, will speak about the fractal geometry of the Mandelbrot Set. When and Where: 4:30p.m.; BromfieldPearson 101 Sponsor: Department of Mathematics THURSDAY The First Annual Africana Studies Distinguished Lecture — Decolonization of Knowledge: Fanon in Black Studies Details: Lewis Gordon, a professor of philosophy, African American studies and Judaic studies at the University of Conneticut, will speak about the decolonization of knowledge and the role of Martinique philosopher Frantz Fanon in black studies.

When and Where: 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Bromfield-Pearson 101

TSF events seek increased participation TSF

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having a lot more tabling,” Brillon, a sophomore, told the Daily in an email. “Jumbos will find us weekly in the campus center. We are trying to increase our overall presence on campus, especially during Senior Week.”

Hyde said that TSF will have a presence at annual events hosted by Alumni Relations, such as the Half-Way There reception for sophomores on April 17.

“One major addition [to the spring campaign] this year is an end-of-campaign reception for student donors and their honorees,” Hyde said.

“We are really encouraging students to make a gift in honor of someone on campus who has had some kind of impact on their [lives], whether that be a coach, faculty member, or a cook in one of the dining halls. This reception will take place on Tuftonia’s Day and will celebrate both students who supported the Student Fund campaign as well as those folks on campus who have had a meaningful impact on students.”

While Hyde said that TSF’s

financial goal this year is $4,000, she noted that the TSF emphasizes student participation. Their aim this year is to raise the student participation rate higher than last year, which had the highest participation rate so far.

“The Student Fund focuses more on participation than dollars raised,” Hyde said. “Last year we achieved 27 percent participation from the undergraduate student body, which is the highest it’s ever been.

This year we are aiming for 35 percent participation, which is approximately 1,800 donors.”

According to Hyde, the Alumni Thank-a-Thon in February was the first Student Fund event of the spring, during which students stopped by the table in the Mayer Campus Center and wrote thank you notes to young alumni donors and signed a thank you banner. Brillon said it is important to come in to the Thank-a-Thon with ambitious goals.

“We aim high, always attempting to beat our records from last year and ensure a substantial percentage of the student body demonstrates their support for alumni donations to Tufts,” Brillon said.

Hyde said the TSF already has plans for what they would like their calendar to look like during the 2014-2015 academic year.

“Moving forward, we’d like to start the campaign even earlier in the academic year,” Hyde said. “The Alumni Thank-a-Thon will likely take place in November this year instead of February, and that provides flexibility if we want to officially kick-off the campaign earlier in the year.”

Hyde said that Tufts alumni have been active in helping to match gifts and provide contributions for financial aid.

“Last year, we had a financial aid challenge where two very generous Tufts alumni pledged to match gifts by various amounts for the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering,” Hyde said. “This year we will have a similar challenge, and all gifts to the Student Fund will have an even greater impact due to the match.”

Brillon agreed that the generosity of donors is helping to fuel plans for the spring campaign.

“The [TSF] is grateful for all those who donated in years past, and we members are excited to see such donations continue this year,” he said.

CMS scholarship to fund film internship in Los Angeles SARACENO

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“A couple months ago, we began with a message on Facebook and a simple website, and it turned into something very large,” he said. “People pitched in from around the world, because this story really affected people.”

According to Rosen, the scholarship fund has now raised enough money to provide the scholarship for three years, and will provide students with a $4,000 stipend each year, he said.

Dobrow contacted Albert Berger (A ’79) co-founder of Bona Fide Productions — a company that produced films including “Little Miss Sunshine” (2006), “Little Children” (2006) and “Cold Mountain” (2003) — to arrange an internship to

accompany the scholarship.

“Albert and his colleagues at Bona Fide have always taken Tufts students in as interns, so I just thought that he would be open and amendable to have the first CJ Saraceno intern work with him, and indeed he was,” she said. “We procured that spot, and worked with folks in the advancement office to put together language for this internship, and we have rolled it out, and are recruiting students to apply for this now.

It will be a rigorous and robust selection process.”

According to Dobrow, the recipient of the scholarship will be selected both based on need and his or her embodiment of Saraceno’s spirit, she said.

“We are looking for somebody

who, first of all, would benefit from this opportunity, and may not otherwise have an opportunity to do an internship at Bona Fide — somebody who is creative as CJ was, who is passionate about telling stories in film and has some of the tools to be able to do that,” Dobrow said.

Xia hopes that Saraceno’s legacy will live on through the scholarship.

“Within the CMS community, there is always that one kid that is going to make it big and [who] goes beyond the realm of Tufts media studies,” Xia said. “CJ was that guy. He always had the best ideas and coolest projects.”

According to Dobrow, this year’s CJ Saraceno Intern will be selected by the third or fourth week of April.

Sponsor: Africana Center, Africana Studies Program, American Studies Program, Peace and Justice Studies Program, Department of Philosophy FRIDAY How to Pitch a Perfect Presentation (Tufts $100k Boot Camp Series) Details: Entrepreneur and Tufts graduate Monique Maley (LA ‘88) will deliver a lecture on marketing and finding investors for entrepreneurial ideas.

When and Where: 1 to 2 p.m.

Sponsor: Tufts Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, Gordon Institute FRIDAY Planning for the Possible Conference Details: Guests from Québec and the Northeastern U.S. and university officials will discuss the changing urban and regional planning process during a panel presentation. Conference participants will discuss what cities can be, instead of what they are likely to become.

When and Where: 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.; ASEAN Auditorium Sponsor: Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning; Government of Québec, Government of Canada —compiled by the Daily News Department

Mock trial hopes to build on previous success

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finished with five wins, two losses and a tie during its competition, placing sixth overall.

Senior Samantha Sokol also won an individual Outstanding Witness award.

Both TMT teams had an opportunity to compete against top schools around the country and the results were very close, Pilchik explained.

“We had one round where the result was based on a tied ballot, and [another] ballot that was decided by a single point,” he said. “These ballots can go up to dozens of points in favor of one team or another, so I think we did as [well] as we possibly could have.”

Both Tufts teams faced Yale University, the winner of the tournament, and the B-team additionally faced University of Delaware, the runner-up. Mandy Xu, a co-captain of the B-team, said that despite having many new members, her team handled the competition well.

“We were the only team to take a ballot off the top team at [ORCS],” Xu, a junior, said. “Even though we didn’t qualify, I’m super proud of [the team members] and they all have wonderful potential.”

Xu explained that some of the match-ups are chosen at random, but Tufts was still fortunate to face the top teams.

“It’s sort of the luck of the draw,” she said. “We ended up hitting the second place team our very first round and the firstplace team our last round.”

Despite competing against Yale before the B-team, TMT A-team was unable to provide much assistance as they faced Yale on different sides of the case, TMT Co-President and A-team Co-Captain Nick Teleky explained.

“We were able to give [Tufts B-team] some help about [Yale’s] style, especially for their attorneys, [but] we weren’t able to help a whole lot because we didn’t know what they would be doing,” Teleky said.

Although TMT only qualified one team for nationals this year after qualifying two in 2013, the team has grown stronger, according to Xu.

“This year we’ve grown a lot as a program,” she said. “We’ve taken a lot of new members [and] they were all exceptionally talented. It was our hardest year managing because we have limits on how many people we can take to these competitions so it has been very hard ... because everyone is at such a high level.”

Part of the added strength comes from the addition of new freshman members, according to Pilchik and Xu. Freshman Eve Feldberg, a member of the A-team who had no mock trial experience before coming to Tufts, said the teams were fortunate to face such tough competition.

“Going into it I was definitely very nervous because it was the highest level of competition that I had ever been in before, but during the rounds it was really a lot more exciting than it was scary,” she said. “All of the teams we went up against were very good and when we go up against good teams, our performance is better as well.”

Going forward, TMT members will work together to ensure the A-team is well-prepared for the national championships.

“Our goal as a program is to make sure our A-team does as well as possible at nationals and so when they call on us, we’re going to do as much as we possibly can to make sure that we can help them get ready,” Xu said.

According to Teleky, TMT’s biggest achievement at nationals was a third place finish in 2011. While the team did not officially place last year, he is optimistic about this team’s capabilities and said preparations will be rigorous.

“In the last week and a half or so [before ORCS] we practiced two or three hours each night just to make sure we had everything ready to go and it paid off,” he said. “Going into nationals, I’m expecting us to have a similar level of preparation. Our team this year is one of the strongest we’ve ever had so we’re hoping that with the right amount of practice, we’ll be able to go to Orlando and make some noise.”

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TAG invites genocide survivors to campus, collaborates with local community by

Nimarta Narang

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Tufts Against Genocide (TAG) is working to expand awareness and initiate discussion on campus about genocide in both its historical and presentday contexts. This Wednesday, TAG will host its annual Survivors Speak event, where survivors of the Holocaust and the genocides in Darfur, Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia will visit Tufts to share their stories and discuss ways to prevent future violence.

Current TAG co-president Sofia Shield, a senior, helped plan the first Survivors Speak event in 2011. The focus of the event is to create a forum for survivors to compare their experiences.

“It is a unique opportunity to bring survivors of different genocides and atrocities together to look at similarities and differences between each,” Shield said.

As survivors of many genocides, particularly the Holocaust, get older, TAG sees bringing individuals together to share their stories as an important opportunity for both students and the survivors themselves, she explained.

“The number of living survivors is dwindling,” Shield said. “We want them to have this opportunity while they can.”

One major mission of TAG is to spread awareness of mass atrocities that occur even today, according to the club’s copresident Liat Litwin.

“Our focus has been primarily on education and awareness on campus, and less [on] activism,” Litwin, a senior, said.

With this goal in mind, TAG has sponsored educational events and programming both on and off campus. Most recently, the group has collaborated with the Boston Latin School, a college preparatory school for students in seventh through 12th grade, to promote genocide education.

“We wanted to expand into the community, and reach out to different schools,” Litwin said.

Boston Latin School has a strong program for genocide studies, according to Litwin. The school has a Stand for Human Rights club with which TAG has been working.

TAG hopes to increase collaboration

with the school in the future, according to Shield. It can sometimes be difficult, however, to raise interest and attract attendance from high school students because programs often occur after regular school hours, she said.

“We didn’t realize the differences between doing this work on a college campus versus a high school campus,” Shield said.

By extending its reach, however, TAG hopes to share its goals of genocide prevention and education with the students of Boston Latin. Members from TAG have visited Boston Latin’s after-school programms, and the school’s students will also be attending the Survivors Speak event.

With this partnership, TAG will look to not only to spread education on the topic of genocide on high school campuses, but also to aid students with their transitions to college.

“It’s cool to feel like a role model and talk about how to continue [genocide education] involvement in college, and also to pursue one’s interests without it having anything to do with [a student’s] major,” Shield said.

In addition to TAG’s work off-campus, its most recent focus has been coordinating the upcoming Survivors Speak event. University Chaplain Greg McGonigle will act as the moderator of the event. TAG plans to use a question and answer format so that students can be as involved in the discussion as possible.

“Tufts students are very excited,” Litwin said. “People know the uniqueness of this event, and they know that it is a one-time opportunity.”

Litwin speculated that Tufts’ emphasis on social justice and civic engagement creates a community that is very receptive to these kinds of events. Given the nature of the discussion, however, Shield acknowledged that it is difficult to listen to survivors’ accounts.

“It isn’t an easy experience, but it is an important one,” she said. “It is not very often that one is able to hear first-hand testimony, and it is a way to connect the facts read in history books to meeting actual people and seeing the survivors.”

Shield stressed that she hopes to reach out to all Tufts students with this event.

“This isn’t something just for peace and justice or anthropology majors,”

Shield said. “We want everyone to learn something, share what they learn and get engaged in some way.”

Noa Rosen, a sophomore member of TAG, said he believes that the club has been a valuable addition to his Tufts experience.

“I have only been in TAG since the fall semester,” he told the Daily in an email. “[But] we have brought in speakers with a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences with genocide, from a partisan fighter during the Holocaust to the panel of speakers from around that world that are coming [this week].”

Much of the work done by TAG includes researching and reaching out to survivors and genocide experts in the Boston area. Shield and Litwin said they are working to expand the club’s size and reach on campus, both by including more underclassmen and working with other student organizations.

“We’re hoping to see more members and more diverse involvement across all grade levels,” Shield said.

“We want to continue [and] grow in collaboration with other cultural and religious groups on campus,” Litwin added.

One future event that Rosen said he hopes to see is a 20-year commemoration of the Rwandan genocide in April, which would incorporate a wide range of voices from the Rwandan community.

Additionally, he reiterated Litwin’s and Shield’s wishes to extend TAG’s mission to all students on campus.

“I think that finding ways to involve student groups not directly related to human rights issues could be a great way to get more people interested in TAG’s work,” Rosen said According to Rosen, one of the most important aspects of genocide education is raising awareness of the existence of current atrocities and the ways in which to prevent future genocide.

“My education at Jewish day school always stressed the importance of ‘never again,’ and when I got to public high school, I realized that most students’ genocide educations consisted of a small blurb in their history textbooks about the Holocaust,” Rosen said. “Many assume that genocide was eradicated after the Second World War, and TAG works to teach people that this is far from the truth. There is a lot of work to be done still.”

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TAG is in its fourth year of hosting genocide survivors to speak at Tufts. Last November, TAG brought Holocaust survivor Moshe Baran to speak at Tufts Hillel as part of the club’s programming.

Lex Erath | Sugar & Spice

Spring Broken

H

appy Monday, everyone, and welcome back to campus. I’m just as thrilled to see all of you as you are to be here, which is to say, not at all.

The Monday before break I went on a bit about my distaste for Daylight Saving Time, but promised you a more sugary column celebrating my amazing spring break upon my return. Well, that’s simply more proof that even the best of us have to eat our words sometimes, because, at the moment, I’m not feeling sweet at all.

However, this is not to say I didn’t have an incredible spring break — believe me, I did — but more because I am now feeling thoroughly spring broken. I fled Tufts last Friday to escape from a crazy schedule and mountains of stress, thinking a week of sunny, Puerto Rican R&R would leave me refreshed and ready to tackle the second half of the semester. Seems pretty reasonable, doesn’t it? Turns out it’s one of those things that’s better in theory than in practice. Here I am at Tufts mid-Sunday afternoon, and I’m feeling pretty unmotivated, even to write this column! You see, spring break was just this little taste of summer, happiness and no stress.

Now that we’ve all realized what it’s like to be truly happy, how can we come back to school?

Okay, now that I’ve thoroughly depressed myself and anyone else who has managed to make it this far through this little piece of doom and gloom, I’ll try to turn this column around.

Optimism is the name of the game, right? So now I’ll try to think of reasons that I’m happy to be at school. (Cut me some slack; this could take some time and more mental energy than I’ve expended the entire last week).

Let’s see. First off, I can now shower with hot water. That’s a plus! The hotel I stayed at over break, although located on the beach, unfortunately did not supply this particular amenity. As a result, I am probably going to kick ass at yoga this week, because I’ve become an absolute pro at holding a gravity-defying back bend for the full time it takes to shampoo (and condition) my hair, in order to ensure that the freezing stream of water hit only my head and no part of my skin.

There’s also the fact that I can now eat something besides sugarless cornflakes for breakfast — and what’s more — I can actually eat as much as I want! Three full meals a day! On vacation, my friends and I tried to save money by skipping lunch whenever possible, eating only the cardboard breakfast our hotel provided and generally eating the barest minimum to survive. Healthy? Not particularly. Costeffective? Most definitely.

What else? (Can you tell I’m struggling?) Well, I definitely won’t miss the mosquitos. And I can now step outside without SPF 30 — whereas if I tried to pull that down south, my Irish skin would protest by immediately turning a fabulous shade of fire truck red, which is not exactly in vogue right now.

That’s all I’ve got. Spring break was just so awesome, I can’t think of anything else bad to write about (and that’s saying something, coming from yours truly). And in the aftermath, sitting here looking at all the work I’ve got to catch up on and the miles of running I’m behind on, I’m feeling pretty spring broken. But don’t get me wrong — I’m not saying spring break shouldn’t have happened; I’m just saying I’m counting down the days until spring break 2015.

See you then!

Lex Erath is a sophomore majoring in economics. She can be reached at Alexandra.

Erath@tufts.edu.

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Wes Anderson delivers a masterpiece with ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Christopher Garcia

“The Grand Budapest Hotel” is more than just a movie; it is a full-bodied experience that immerses its viewers in an unfamiliar, by

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The Grand Budapest Hotel Directed by Wes Anderson Starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Willem Dafoe exciting world. The film certainly lives up to many of the expectations requisite of a Wes Anderson film: quirky characters full of idiosyncrasies and insecurities, novel-like levels of storytelling and an immaculate eye for the smallest details. What makes “The Grand Budapest Hotel” so ... grand is that Anderson achieves the perfection of the tropes that he, as an auteur, has developed and cultivated throughout his career. This mastery is achieved by pushing the typical Anderson characteristics into bold new territory. “The Grand Budapest Hotel” does not merely transform the old; it also incorporates new elements that may come to define future Anderson movies, and potentially make this film one of his seminal works.

Everything within “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” from the acting, to the set design, to the music, to the almost innate wit found within the screenplay, is a success. “Grand Budapest” takes place in a fictional Central European country during the interwar period, a time full of excess and lavishness that is accentuated at either end by rapid and all-encompassing change. The hotel itself,

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Ralph Fiennes is a scene stealer as concierge Gustave H. in ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel.’ the Grand Budapest, seems to provide the perfect escape for wealthy patrons seeking to get away from the rest of the world.

Within this supposed paradise, guests find the concierge-extraordinaire, Gustave H., played exquisitely by the usually serious and

surprisingly funny Ralph Fiennes. Fiennes performance as the concierge-turned-gigolo for rich old women is incredibly natural, and his character is truly a scene-stealer see BUDAPEST, page 6

Concert Review

Snarky Puppy wows at Berklee Performance Center by

Gabriel Gladstein

Contributing Writer

“Game of Thrones” will be darker than ever Last year, when the “Game of Thrones” (2011-present) episode dubbed the “Red Wedding” (actual title: “The Rains of Castamere”) aired, everybody — whether or not they were an HBO subscriber — seemed to be talking about the brutal bloodbath that rocked the popular drama.

Don’t let their name fool you — the band Snarky Puppy is no joke.

In fact, the only funny thing about Snarky Puppy’s March 14 concert at the Berklee Performance Center was the expression on band-leader and bassist Michael League’s face when his band did something genius — which meant that this astonished, elated countenance was present during just about every moment of the show. League, who composes and arranges all of the band’s songs, was wonderful to watch, and the energy at the show sizzled. Audience members knew how lucky they were to be witnessing what was happening on stage, and it was clear that this spirit drove the band to new creative heights in each song. They pushed so far outside of original studio recordings that, at times, their music became nearly unrecognizable; that is, until the band synchronously returned to the song’s main theme and the audience grew ecstatic.

Many fans were first introduced to Snarky Puppy a few months ago when the band published their now viral YouTube hit, “Something,” featuring the remarkable vocals of R&B singer Lalah Hathaway. At this point, Snarky Puppy was still a jazz diehard’s band: if you were to ask any avid jazz listener about the group, his or her eyes would have widened in excited surprise — a reaction to both the band’s talent and to the fact that someone else had actually heard of them.

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Emilia Clarke stars as Daenerys Targaryen in the new season of HBO’s popular ‘Game of Thrones.’

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“Abduction is Love”

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ur next love trope is both particularly unrealistic and particularly disturbing. Known as “Abduction is Love” on the Internet, it could also go by the name “Stockholm Syndrome.”

Kidnap your soul mate, have a lot of objects and insults thrown at you, be incredibly sorry about the fact that you had to kidnap them, eventually win them over with your library or a less impressive form of chivalry and voilà! It’s happily ever after (except for the six months it took to get there).

“Beauty and the Beast” — originally published in 1740 — is the strongest candidate for the trope originator. Admittedly, the degree of abduction varies from telling to telling. In some, Beauty refuses to accept her father’s offer to take her place and insists upon going to the beast herself.

In others, she’s faced with the possibility of her father’s death if she refuses to go, or is practically coerced into going by her (requisite) wicked sisters. But she never would have stumbled upon the castle, and the beast within it, if not forced to go, and abduction is inevitably the trigger for their story. Personally, I love “Beauty and the Beast” in all its incarnations. It has a bookish heroine who saves the hero rather than waiting for a prince to find her, an emphasis on her intelligence and courage rather than her looks and the beloved 1991 Disney version even includes singing teapots. Yet the way that this story starts always makes me hesitate, worrying what lesson it leaves.

Of course, we’re able to discern fact from fiction. We know that the things we see and read don’t always reflect the world that we live in. When the brothers of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” a 1954 Metro-GoldwynMayer musical inspired by the legend of the Rape of the Sabine Women, carry off the women they’ve fallen for, or when the Phantom kidnaps Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera” (1909) and threatens her childhood love Raoul in an attempt to force her to marry him, we know that something is wrong. But when abduction works — when the seven brides eventually give up their resistance, or when Christine kisses the Phantom (which, admittedly, then prompts him to let her go) — maybe we start to believe in a magic formula for love. The true danger of this trope isn’t that it encourages us to abduct our loved ones (despite the slightly alarming trend in young adult fantasy for the hero to suddenly grab the heroine and run from any number of evil creatures), but that it teaches us that love comes with an instruction manual, “Five Easy Steps to Win a Soul Mate” or “How to Become the One in Ten Days.” Tropes like “Abduction is Love” promise us that there are steps we can follow and precautions we can take to ensure our happily ever after, and that may be the greatest deception this trope presents.

There are some truths in love, some qualities that every relationship needs to survive, but everyone falls in and out of love in a different way. Despite all the love tropes that I like to analyze, and even despite the kernels of truth at the heart of them, no one trope will ever capture the entirety of a relationship. We have to make our own paths, falling into traps and fighting our way out of them, and anything that promises a magic shortcut is probably lying. Perhaps that’s why tropes like this one exist, to tell us what not to do, to warn us of the dangers that come with looking for the easy way out, to keep us from going over the edge in the pursuit of love and to remind us that while a universal magic love spell may not exist, we each have the chance to find our own.

Natalie Girshman is a sophomore majoring in history and drama. She can be reached at Natalie.Girshman@tufts.edu.

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In January, all that changed.

Snarky Puppy and Hathaway received their first Grammy award, in the Best R&B Performance category, for “Something,” defeating betterknown artists like Miguel and Tamar Braxton. For the first time in Snarky’s 10-year existence, they received national attention.

No group could be more deserving. The 10-person (or sometimes more) band has been waiting for this moment for a long time, churning out underground jazz-fusion gold for years, while developing their standout sound. Snarky’s style goes beyond just jazz; many of their songs have pop melodies with synthesized layered harmonies; others are reminiscent of Latin or salsa themes, while some channel traditional African rhythms.

But every Snarky song has a few core elements: each one is entirely a group effort, with every member contributing something unique and ingenious on their instrument.

The songs are all full, intense, diverse and subject to extended and unexpected bouts of improvisation. And each one

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Band leader Michael League impressed audience members at Snarky Puppy’s recent Boston concert. allows a single member of the band to take center stage, with their band mates in supporting roles, making it abundant-

ly clear why the lead performer is in the spotlight.

At the Berklee Performance Center, Snarky played five songs

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While this moment in the series was particularly shocking, “Game of Thrones” doesn’t show signs of slowing down in season four.

In fact, cast members have promised that the show is darker than ever this year — which is hard to imagine on a show that routinely kills off major characters.

Yet, from the tidbits of information showrunners and the cast have offered, “Game of Thrones” does seem committed to delving into increasingly sinister territory. There will be war — Daenerys Targaryen’s (Emilia Clarke) army will probably not be heading home on furlough — and innocent characters will commit not-so-innocent acts, although there have been precious few details on this front.

Fans can also expect to see the lavish wedding between King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) and Lady Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) — which is set to feature a pie stuffed with live birds — as well as numerous grand and expensive battle scenes. The usually taciturn Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) will probably be a bit more talkative, while his ex-lover Ygritte (Rose Leslie) will be on a quest for vengeance.

The fourth season will premiere on HBO on April 6 and will likely bring in impressive ratings.

Tatiana Maslany impresses on “Orphan Black” Arguably the best show on television, “Orphan Black” (2013-present) has had jaw-dropping performances, spectacular plot twists and one of the most passionate fan bases around. And yet, many television viewers haven’t even heard of it. The buzzy Canadian series on BBC America has received universal acclaim from critics and is beloved by its fans, but it has not yet found a place on the radar of mainstream audiences. This will hopefully not be true for long: word-of-mouth, DVD sales and a prominent online fandom have certainly bolstered the show’s profile since it premiered last year.

The sci-fi clone drama is deserving of the attention it receives because, to put it simply, there is nobody else like star Tatiana Maslany on TV today. Maslany plays Sarah Manning, a drifter and a thief who discovers she is a clone. She soon becomes involved in a dangerous world that involves both other clones and mysterious organizations bat-

from their most recent album, “We Like It Here,” as well as a few audience favorites, including “Thing of Gold” (2012) and

tling for control over them. Maslany stars as (all) the clones, which means she is in nearly every scene — and often times she is playing three roles at once. Maslany’s ability to make each character distinct and memorable is stunningly impressive, so it’s no wonder the show’s rabid fans are eagerly looking forward to the April 19 second season premiere.

A new clone plagued with a mysterious illness, schoolteacher Jennifer Fitzsimmons, will be introduced, and her condition will likely shed light on the sickness that fellow clone and evolutionary developmental biology student, Cosima, suffers from. Scenestealing supporting characters, like Jordan Gavaris’ Felix and Kevin Hanchard’s detective Art Bell, will also be instrumental this season as they begin to explore worlds they were not previously privy to. Fans have a lot to look forward to — and with any luck, the second season of “Orphan Black” will live up to the steep expectations it faces.

“Mad Men” enters final season The final season of “Mad Men” (2007-present) begins in less than a month, but details about upcoming episodes are scarce. This is likely not surprising to fans, who have

“Binky” (2012). Many fans were looking forward to hearing the band perform one particular track off its new record called “What About Me” — a funky, catchy tune that utilizes every horn, keyboard, drum and guitar and embodies Snarky’s uniqueness. Unfortunately, “What About Me,” played at the beginning of their set, was disappointing. The band didn’t sound in sync and the sound mix was off. It simply was not the Snarky that the audience had come to expect.

As it turned out, the band had arrived at the Performance Center only 45 minutes before, after their tour van went off the road during their drive to Boston. They were discombobulated and rushed, and consequently got off to a shaky start.

It was even more impressive, then, when by the third song, Snarky snapped into place and sounded like the cleanest jazz/funk/pop out there.

The group had the crowd on its feet, hooting and hollering: “Preach it!” yelled one audience member during League’s solo. And that seemed fitting: the Snarky show was, in many ways, a musically religious experience.

come to expect little in the way of spoilers and teasers from series creator Matthew Weiner. Weiner has developed a reputation for being rather secretive about his show — and as season seven’s April 13 premiere approaches, the ever-reticent executive producer is maintaining near silence. This information embargo has also extended to promos, production stills and his cast, whose recent appearance at PaleyFest provided infuriatingly few details about the upcoming season. What is clear, however, is that Don Draper’s (Jon Hamm) life is still rather messy. When season six closed, Don had been forced to take a leave of absence from his job, and his marriage was on the rocks. It appears in the new season that he will be grappling with these issues when the show premieres next month.

Although season seven begins in April, it will not conclude this year — like the final season of fellow AMC hit “Breaking Bad” (2008-2013) the last 14 episodes of “Mad Men” are being split into two mini seasons.

The first seven installments will air this spring, but fans will have to wait a year to watch the final batch of episodes, set to premiere in spring 2015.

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whenever he appears on screen.

The rest of the cast members excel in their varied supporting roles. Fiennes shares the lead with the lovable Zero (played by newcomer Tony Revolori), Gustave’s accomplice who works as a lobby boy at the hotel.

There is also the exceptional presence of Willem Dafoe as the leather jacket-clad private detective employed by the main antagonist (Adrien Brody). And because it wouldn’t be an Anderson film without at least a brief appearance by living legend Bill Murray, he also has a small but significant role. His character serves as a sort of deus ex machina, coming to the aid of Gustave and Zero when they need it the most. While great acting and writing have always been two cornerstones of the Anderson formula, these are not the only impressive aspects of “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” Where Anderson has really excelled in this film is in his masterful use of cinematography and design.

In the past, Anderson has utilized symmetrical framing to create centered shots that give the viewer a better perspective of a character. While symmetry has always been essential for appealing camera shots, certain directors have been known to elevate symmetry to another level. This was something that director Stanley Kubrick was able to

master with his use of one-point perspective, which allowed viewers to hone in on details that were central to a more visceral appreciation of the film. Now, in “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” Anderson’s use of framing almost reaches Kubrickian levels of greatness. Take almost any of the countless shots and you will find that, if not perfectly centered, they are either level to a certain line or focus on one or two points of interest. This is an astoundingly impressive level of detail, and it would take multiple viewings to fully process the enormous scope of this technique within the film.

“The Grand Budapest Hotel” is definitely Anderson’s most ambitious film so far, and this ambition is met with masterful poise. The movie carries a different feel than the more intimate “Moonrise Kingdom” (2012) and Anderson’s broken-family tragicomedies such as “The Royal Tenenbaums” (2001), “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” (2004) or “The Darjeeling Limited” (2007). Still, “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is not too far away from classic Anderson — there is enough quirkiness to appease even the most diehard fans. However, the movie does manage to stand out from the rest the director’s body of work, an acccomplishment that very well may make “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Anderson’s best film to date.

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‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ features many returning Anderson favorites, including Bill Murray.

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This week, the recently inaugurated mayor of Boston, Martin J. Walsh, announced his intention to launch a much needed city-wide reform of rental housing. In previous years, nearly every one of the tens of thousands of annual apartment inspections throughout the city was provoked by tenant complaints.

In an effort to preempt complaints and prevent tragedies, Mayor Walsh is sending a team of city inspectors to examine 150,000 apartments in search of problems that will subsequently be addressed before residents bring them to the city’s attention. Additionally, Mayor Walsh will begin working to ensure that most apartments in Boston are inspected a minimum of once every five years, and that special attention will be paid to landlords with previous offenses or a history of complaints. Efforts such as these will undoubtedly force property owners to clean up and maintain their properties, and will help to keep tenants safe.

With the majority of underclassmen currently in the middle of applying for oncampus housing next year, and most rising upperclassmen opting to, or having no option but to live off campus next year, housing is a pressing issue at Tufts. With on-campus housing not guaranteed after sophomore year, undergraduate students are often left to fend for themselves in the process of securing housing for their third and fourth years at Tufts. If Somerville and Medford were to employ similar tactics to those proposed by Mayor Walsh, students would at least have the peace of mind knowing that another party is looking out for their safety, and working to prevent landlords from taking advantage of young, inexperienced students who are desperately in need of a place to live.

And then there’s the infamous and inevitably asked question: Where is the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife)?

What are they doing to help students find safe and affordable off-campus housing?

Tufts needs to recognize that they have just

as much obligation to aid upperclassmen in the process of finding reliable landlords and safe living conditions as they do to place underclassmen in suitable dorms.

Unfortunately, as many students who have had to navigate through a few years of housing will vouch, ResLife often falls short of meeting these responsibilities, and students frequently are forced to turn to unreliable third-party options and housing search resources. While ResLife does, in fact, have an entire web page dedicated to providing resources to students seeking off-campus housing, the site is rife with broken links and seems to be missing any kind of recent update to its rent and utility cost estimations. When figures are obviously out-ofdate, it begs the question whether other facts listed on the page, like tenants’ rights and obligations, are as well. Before students can benefit from any government efforts to clean up the rental property market, ResLife needs to display that it can effectively help both students on and off campus.

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It has been over 30 years since Carl Sagan’s original series, “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” (1980), inspired a generation of scientists. The series brought the desire to learn and discover to the forefront of many people’s minds. It instilled in all its viewers a sense of wonder and an appreciation of the majesty of the cosmos, and it challenged them to search for the answers to all the questions of science.

Now, a new series, “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” (2013), is following in the footsteps of the original. Neil deGrasse Tyson, a former student of Sagan’s, takes the reins for this reboot of the original series, but with him comes much more original content.

Tyson is trying to instill that same sense of wonder and fascination with science into a new generation. He even says that maybe one of the current viewers will one day answer questions that have thus far been unanswered by science.

Today, the importance of science is a topic that is talked about not only by scientists like Tyson, but also politicians, TV talk show hosts and countless book writers. America has fallen behind in education, especially in the

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areas of math and science. Just as Tyson said, any of those watching the new “Cosmos” could one day become a great scientist who brings about massive changes for humanity and our understanding of our place in the universe. Children should be encouraged to pursue the sciences, and should be openminded and think critically about the world around them.

Just as the original “Cosmos” was shown in classrooms around the nation and the world, this new edition of the show should also be shown to students. Some say that the series has a negative attitude towards Christianity, especially because of the first episode’s depiction of the Church in the story of astronomer Giordano Bruno. However, the story told on the show is actually a watereddown version of Bruno’s conflicts with the Church; it didn’t go into the horrific ways he was tortured in an attempt to force him to recant his beliefs, nor the incredibly painful way he was executed.

The show is still an inspiration to future scientists, with Tyson telling those watching, “There’s no shame in admitting what you don’t know.” This is true for all things.

You will not always be right, and sometimes you will fail, but the only true failure is if you fail to learn from the experience. Science is

the quest for knowledge and understanding. Even if an experiment fails, learning still occurs: The original hypothesis was wrong, but that opens the door for new experiments to find out why.

When we look out to the vastness of the cosmos, we want to know where it’s all going, where it all came from and how it all works.

This show, in all its wonder, brings us back to a time when we were more curious — when we looked to the heavens and stood in awe.

We have gone to the heavens; the footprints of men are on the moon. With those endeavors, we realized a dream that was centuries in the making. Surely, we can dare to dream like that again. To quote from “The West Wing” (1999-2006), we should be asking ourselves, “What will be the next thing that challenges us? That makes us go farther and work harder? ...

Surely we can do it again, as we did in the times when our eyes looked towards the heavens, and with outstretched fingers, we touched the face of God.” It will be a new generation of scientists that answers those questions and investigates new ideas and places. Hopefully, this new “Cosmos” will inspire these future scientists to continue to seek knowledge and explore the wonders of the universe.

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Kendall Reingold

The old adage goes that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But who exactly is this beholder? Any feminist will tell you that beauty should be defined on a woman’s own terms, but in many cases, it is the voice of patriarchal society that tries to be the so-called beholder for all women. I’m hardly the first one to complain about this issue, but a discussion on street harassment at the Women’s Center’s First Friday Luncheon a while ago got me thinking about what’s at play when objectification rules our world. The presenters, Andrew Culler and Shannon Mackey from Smith College’s School of Social Work, defined objectification as “the experience of being treated as a body (or collection of body parts) valued predominantly for its use to (or consumption by) others.” They then went on to define something that I think is at the crux of this problem: self-objectification. In their words, self-objectification is “internalizing the objectifying eye: evaluating oneself, consciously or unconsciously according to the terms and perspective of the objectifier.” This struck a chord with me. Self-objectification is when I order salad on a date not because I love kale, but so I don’t look like a girl who eats too much.

It is when the slogan “touchably smooth” makes me re-read an advertisement as I subconsciously run my fingers up my shin to see if indeed, a guy would deem me “touchable.” It is when I hear myself rated on a numerical scale of physical attractiveness and no matter what I do, I can’t get that pesky little number out of my mind.

So what’s the point of all this? Anyone can complain about feeling objectified.

We all know the story of how the media puts us into boxes, dividing people up into neat little categories of race, gender, sexual orientation, class and ability, as well as how these divisions in no way encompass the broad spectrum that is humanity. When our personal category, or intersection of multiple categories, doesn’t conform to what the dominant category deems “normal,” we become targets of objectification. We are fetishized, tokenized, slut-shamed, fat-shamed, belittled and dehumanized. But this power dynamic isn’t limited to the media.

It’s time to stop blaming human degradation on some abstract entity, when in

fact, people around us are permitting these actions every day, and many of us have internalized this dehumanization so much that we are stopping ourselves from doing anything about it.

My message to you, reader, is one of which I have struggled to convince myself: that objectification is not okay.

As a self-identified feminist, I am aware of the problematic dynamics at play in street harassment. A definition I like comes from stopstreetharassment. org: “Unwelcome words and actions by unknown persons in public places which are motivated by gender and invade a person’s physical and emotional space in a disrespectful, creepy, startling, scary or insulting way.” Street harassment is indicative of entitled people of power and privilege asserting their dominance over marginalized groups, and it is disgusting. Still, I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes it’s hard to see it that way. As a white, heterosexual, able-bodied, cisgender woman from a privileged background, my experience is of course very limited, but I hope that it will resonate with at least some of you.

I couldn’t count the number of times that men have catcalled me on the street.

My logical side is outraged, but still I get a weird sense of validation every time some creepy stranger whistles at me or comments on my appearance. “I must look hot today,” I think, as if I actually need the approval of strange men to feel good about myself. Unfortunately, it goes the other way, too. I recently experienced a hurtful interaction in which I was labeled a “slut” (which shouldn’t be something people use as an insult, but that’s another can of worms). And you know what? I bought it. I started feeling guilty for actions that were no cause for guilt, and I felt physically sick with the thought that I had become a repulsive human being, even though I knew that my reactions were completely unfounded. This is what worries me about the implications of self-objectification: if I, a generally confident, well-educated feminist scholar who is facing these problems in some of the mildest possible forms, can’t free myself from the degradation that I have internalized, then who can?

Clearly, we have to change the way we as a community think. If there is to be a

generation of empowered, equal human beings, the corrosive system of accepting the objectification of any group of people needs to be wiped out.

I don’t intend to send you into a pit of despair. Although I’m not sure what the solution to this broad societal problem is, I’m confident that through some collective shift in consciousness, there is a solution. I don’t pretend to have the answers, but I do think that the first step to remedying any problem is recognizing it when it happens. Andrew and Shannon had some great tips about pushing back against street harassment, many of which I think apply to a lot of forms of objectification. As they said in their presentation: “Be gentle with yourself. Keep thinking about it. Look for ways to express yourself that feel empowering. Report harassment to police, to transit authority workers, to [the] employer of [the] harasser, etc. Know your rights. Look at IHollaBack. org. Report harassment at school to Tufts’ Office of Equal Opportunity. Share stories online on websites like IHollaBack. org, StopStreetHarassment.org and EverydaySexism.com. Form a group.

Talk to people who have been harassed.

Talk to local councilpersons. Talk to local police departments. Talk to businesses.”

I would also like to add one final thought.

You are not a failure if you don’t feel comfortable speaking out when someone objectifies you, and it is not your fault if you experience street harassment. However, next time someone makes you feel like crap or like less of a person, I encourage you to think about why you feel that way. Today, I am making a promise to myself to evaluate every criticism I receive. If the intent is to help me be a better person, great. If, however, it sounds like a way to objectify me or put me in a box, I hereby pledge to work toward not letting myself be hurt. I know this is easier said than done, and if this goal doesn’t sound possible for you, it is not because you are less of a feminist than anyone else. Please join me, reader, in whatever quest to move from self-objectification to self-validation feels right to you.

tice; it appears confusing and irrational in promoting any sort of message.

Moreover, distributing fake eviction notices around campus does not lead to dialogue about how to fix the conflict; it simply highlights an anti-Israel sentiment. By performing these actions, SJP is actively alienating itself from other groups on campus that seek to have civilized conversation and formulate responsible action in regard to the conflict. Even if there are groups on campus that specifically focus on the state of Israel, that does not mean that discussion cannot happen; a lack of discussion is essentially the basis for the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict to begin with.

To simply state that the Israeli government is an occupier and promoter of apartheid is a gross oversimplification of an extremely complex issue.

The truth is, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at a stalemate. Israel, while understanding that it is persecuting a group of people living in the West Bank and Gaza, cannot just evacuate while terrorist groups (namely Hamas) control parts of the territories and threaten the people living on the Israeli side of the border. Both groups continuously cannot compromise; each time compromise fails, the stalemate looks as though it becomes more permanent. Just the other week, armed confrontation between both groups reached a boiling point with the discovery of Iranian rockets shipped

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ry as you might, it’s quite a hard deed To find appropriate time to read Novels for pleasure throughout the semester Without it becoming a lame source of pester, Know this, there’s a way to stay literary That isn’t nearly as time-consuming or scary As committing yourself to the vast hours needed To ensure your new book will get read-ed, Literature comes in all kinds of forms Including one category that always bends norms, Whether haikus or free verse or whatever you call ‘em That’s right, this is the poetry column!

So please excuse this gimmick and these lame rhymes But you wouldn’t believe the number of times I’ve found myself torn between dueling desires Raging in me like unquenchable fires The desire to pursue my bookish ways To satiate curiosity or vanquish malaise And the need to do all the things I must do The studies and whatnot I commit myself to, Sometimes it seems that I can’t catch a break To get time to myself for some bookish intake But luckily poetry offers a way To ingest dreams and stories that won’t take all day, Sure, there are lyrical poems and epics and stuff But as for short poems, there’s more than enough For bite-sized punches of words so pristine That can fit nice and cozy into any routine A poem a day keeps illiteracy away ... is something this one dude named Kevin will say Okay, this poem is losing its steam Maybe a better choice for a theme Would have been...

to Hamas and aircraft bombings by Israeli warplanes. Unfortunately, the Palestinians living within the restricted borders are victims of circumstance and have no way of escaping their situation without a dual compromise between both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.

I want to emphasize that I am in no way against the mission statement of SJP, which is “to promote the cause of justice and speak out against oppression.” However, the method with which the Tufts SJP goes about accomplishing this does not, I believe, accurately reflect their mission statement.

SJP seems to be isolating itself from the rest of the Tufts community with their radical demonstrations around campus, while the solution needs to come from joint cooperation, understanding, and communication.

Rather than divide campus, SJP should lead a joint effort to raise awareness of the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict to those both within and outside the Tufts community to make a real difference. I believe that actions such as this meet the standard of the aforementioned mission statement of SJP, and ultimately provide the most awareness, support and aid to the conflict itself.

Jonathan Sirota is a freshman who has yet to declare a major. He can be reached at Jonathan.Sirota@tufts.edu.

Kevin Criscione is a junior majoring in English. He can be reached at Kevin.

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Kendall Reingold is a sophomore majoring in Spanish and women’s gender and sexuality studies. She can be reached at Kendall.Reingold@tufts.edu.

How SJP is sending the wrong message

As a freshman, I found many of the demonstrations and events hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in the recent week before break quite appalling. I was stunned by the implicit message many of these events sent about Israel as a whole. In my opinion, these events, at least from a neutral perspective, left a lingering anti-Israel aura, rather than a clear message of needing to provide humanitarian aid to those Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

First, using words such as “apartheid” and “white supremacy” to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depicts a false scenario. The idea that Israel is systematically segregating, enslaving, and murdering a group of people on grounds of race is an extremely narrow, naive, and ignorant view of the situation. For starters, the word “apartheid” cannot possibly be accurate, as there are Palestinians living both inside and outside the borders of the West Bank and Gaza, and those Palestinians living in Israel live as full Israeli citizens. To compare this conflict to the devastating and evil acts of those in power in South Africa from 1948 to 1994 is inaccurate, and also offensive to the actual Apartheid that took place.

Second, SJP seems to use a strategy of aggression in promoting its agenda. Running around campus with fake machine guns does not promote any message of humanitarian jus-

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Okay, I’ll just go on ahead and call it quits right there.

Many of you probably reserve summers and breaks for leisure reading, but for those of us that want to keep our literary diets interesting during a semester that may not have any room for the more liberal artsy courses, poetry offers an ideal solution for bitesized/grab-and-go/other-fast-foodcliche imaginative stimulation. From E.E. Cummings to Shel Silverstein, there are a variety of popular poets that work with short form poetry one could pick up read with just a few free minutes.

Book of the week: “Life on Mars” by Tracy K. Smith. For the past few weeks, I’ve been occasionally picking up this cosmic collection of interplanetary poetry, reading a poem or two now and then and it’s made for a wonderful reading experience. In fact, I’m just going to use the rest of this column to rave about this volume of poetry. In almost every poem, Smith makes use of intergalactic imagery to express and complement forays into her feelings, memories of her father (who incidentally worked on the Hubble telescope), her thoughts of the future and our collective imagination in relation to the final frontier. The space-age wordplay and references to the cosmos help her personal sentiments and thoughts resonate more deeply, adding a sense of wonder that magnifies the emotions without overpowering them. By alternating between grandiose poetic explorations of our society’s relationship with the future and bittersweet personal recollections, frequently within the same poem, Smith manages to bring universality and cosmic significance to what otherwise might just ordinary sentimentalism. Highlights include the titular poem, “My God, It’s Full of Stars,” and the poems whose titles end “&co.”

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Facing a 4-0 deficit, the Jumbos responded with a 4-1 run. Senior cocaptain midfielder Kate Applegate, sophomore midfielder Brigid Bowser, junior attack Kali DiGate and freshman midfielder Annie Artz each scored, to bring Tufts within one goal. It looked like the Jumbos would end the half down 5-4, but two late goals by the Bantams to make it 7-4 would spell doom for the home team.

In the second half, the Jumbos’ zone ride system worked well, as the Bantams were only able to connect on three of their eight clears. However, Tufts was unable to find any gaps in the Trinity defense and sophomore goalkeeper Emily Mooney, who led the NESCAC in goals against average last season.

Trinity was able to slow down the game in the second half after junior attack Molly Cox scored in the opening minute.

The Bantams won the draw and groundball battles that allowed them to control the pace, giving the Jumbos few opportunities to stage a comeback. Late goals by Ross and senior co-captain attack Gabby Horner were not enough, as Trinity took the NESCAC matchup 11-7.

Earlier in the week, Tufts took care of an easier opponent in Wheaton College.

In the first half of the game, the Jumbos scored three quick goals. Junior midfielder Lindsey Walker’s first of three goals was sandwiched between two goals from Horner, who currently sits as the secondleading goal scorer in the conference.

DiGate added two more goals to give her team a 5-2 lead heading into halftime.

It was a relatively slow start for the Jumbos offensively, but junior goalkeeper Rachel Gallimore’s five saves in the half kept the Lyons from making a substantial run.

In the second half, Gallimore would have less to worry about. Horner added two early goals to give her a game-high four on the day. The Lyons relied on sophomore attack Jenna Tewksbury who had four goals of her own, and gave the Jumbos a scare with three unanswered goals to make it 11-7 with 10 minutes left to play.

The Jumbos responded by scoring the last four goals of the game. Bowser netted two goals and added an assist during the stretch, to ensure the 15-7 non-conference victory. Tufts’ 10 goals in the second half were yet a further showcase of an impressive and improved offense.

“A key change this year has been patience,” DiGate, who scored three goals off the bench, said. “There have been fewer unforced turnovers because we have looked more for the best opportunity and not necessarily the first look.”

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stretch would prove to be the most exciting. Going in as the underdog against Colby, who was ranked eighth in the country leading up to the game, Tufts played with the same uptempo style that has come to define head coach Courtney Farrell’s first season.

Throughout the game, Tufts struggled to contain Colby’s two-headed attack of senior tri-captain Katharine Eddy and classmate Lindsey McKenna. Eddy — tied for second in points in the NESCAC — had six goals and three assists, while McKenna netted five of her own.

While the Wheaton game saw only three assists on 22 total goals, the more fluid Colby game saw 21 of the 30 goals come from assists.

The teams started out evenly matched, with the first 10 minutes of play resulting in a 3-3 tie. For the rest of the game, both Colby and Tufts continued to go on a series of runs, with neither successfully breaking away.

The Mules ran out to a 6-3 lead on the heels of two Eddy goals, but the Jumbos responded with a 4-0 run themselves.

All four goals came from assists. Horner scored two of her five goals during the stretch and Ross had two of her three assists. A late goal by Colby sophomore midfielder Abby Hooper tied the game 7-7 heading into the intermission.

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goal out of the break, McKenna netted four consecutive goals to give the Mules an 11-7 lead. Sensing the game getting out of hand, Tufts’ seniors took control.

In a 6-1 run, senior midfielder Eliza Halmo scored her third goal of the game and assisted on three goals, while Horner netted her fourth and fifth goals and assisted on two more to give the Jumbos a 13-12 lead.

A goal from Eddy with eight minutes left in regulation tied the game at 13-13.

Shortly after Eddy’s goal, the Jumbos controlled the ensuing draw. Bowser carried the ball up the right side, outmaneuvered the defense and slipped a shot past junior goalkeeper Claire Dickson for an unassisted goal. Five minutes later, Bowser added to the lead, finding Artz, who brought the score to 15-13.

Eddy’s goal with 1:31 left to play brought the Mules within one, but a goal from Ross within the final minute capped off scoring at 16-14.

Despite a four-game stretch that saw the Jumbos play admirably against three likely NCAA tournament teams, the team is still finding ways to improve as it continues its season.

“Every game we are getting better and learning,” Ross said. “Each part of our game is clicking at different times. We are getting ready for it to all come together when we go up against the big teams.”

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as NESCAC wins over Colby and Trinity served as bookends to the break. The Jumbos improved to 5-1 overall and 3-0 in the conference.

More recently, Tufts squared off in Hartford, Conn. against the Trinity Bantams on Saturday. After their underwhelming performance against defending national champion Stevenson earlier in the week, the Jumbos needed a strong performance to get back on track.

“There were some things we had to address coming back and going into Trinity,” senior tri-captain defenseman Kane Delaney said. “We did that, definitely, and today against Trinity we wanted it more.”

The Jumbos started off with an offensive prowess that has been typical throughout most games this season. Prior to the loss at Stevenson, Tufts was averaging 21 goals per game. Against the Mustangs, they could not break into double digits and were limited to just nine. On Saturday, however, the Jumbos found their stride and put up 22 on the Bantams.

Senior attackman Jack McDermott tallied the first goal of the game and his second on the season to get the ball rolling for the Jumbos. By the end of the first period, Tufts had mounted a 6-1 advantage led by junior attackman Chris Schoenhut’s four goals in the period.

The second quarter saw continued dominance by Tufts: The team blanked Trinity and took a 13-1 lead going into the intermission. Senior tri-captain midfielder Beau Wood and junior attackman Cole Bailey each tacked on two scores during the period, as it appeared Tufts was on its way to a commanding victory.

“I think it was the extra amount of focus that we put into, ‘How do we react to a loss,’” McDermott said. “I think we put our best foot forward, and the only thing worse than a loss is then going and playing a poor game on top of that. I think we did a really good job of focusing, and we didn’t take Trinity lightly either. We knew they were going to be a skilled team, so we went out there and scored a bunch of goals.”

Though Trinity, led by junior midfielder James O’Connell’s pair of goals, outscored Tufts 6-4 in the third quarter, the Jumbos regained control to seal the win in the fourth, firing in five straight goals before the Bantams could answer with just 1:20 remaining in regulation.

“I think, overall, we played a lot quicker,” Delaney said. “[Head] Coach [Mike] Daly tells it to us a lot: ‘Play fast and quick, but don’t hurry.’ I think we really did that well ... [against Trinity]. We swarmed the loose balls in the middle of the field.”

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Senior tri-captain Beau Wood’s impressive play over spring break earned him his secondever NESCAC Player of the Week award. earned a 40-25 advantage against Trinity. athleticism or skill, but when you’re play “That type of stat is usually indicative ing a top team like them, they’re going to of who is being the hunter, and today we expose some things.” were definitely hunting,” Delaney said. “It The first contest of the week-long spring was really good to see — especially com- break came against Colby College on Mar. ing off of a game where we were really 15 in the team’s second home game of the disappointed with the effort we had against season. Though the Mules kept it close through the first three quarters, the Jumbos Stevenson.”

When the Jumbos traveled to Maryland went on a 12-0 run in the last 25 minutes of on Tuesday to take on the Mustangs, they play to cap off a resounding 20-8 victory. knew they had their work cut out for them. Tufts was led by sophomore attackman “They’re defending national champi- John Uppgren’s five goals and three assists, ons, and we went into the game fully and Wood’s four goals and one assist. As a expecting for them to dominate,” Delaney result of Wood’s play in the Colby game and said. “Being who they are, they made a lot 10-point performance in a big win against of plays, and really at the end of the day, Stevens Institute of Technology on Mar. 11, they played a lot better us and earned the he was named NESCAC Player of the Week for the second time in his career. win without a doubt.”

Stevenson controlled both ends of the The Jumbos also dominated in most field against Tufts, posting huge numbers statistical categories, boasting a 55-35 defensively and offensively. Sophomore advantage in shots, a 52-36 advantage goalie Dimitri Pecunes made a career- in groundballs and a 22-10 advantage in high 16 saves between the pipes, while faceoff wins. three Stevenson players — junior mid- In the midst of a busy schedule, the fielders Tony Rossi and Colin Dabney, and Jumbos also got out for a day of commusenior attackman Glen Tompkins — posted nity service over the break. Pairing with Cradles to Crayons of Boston, an organicareer-highs in point totals.

The Mustangs also limited a previously zation dedicated to providing children in red-hot Jumbos offense to just 39 shots, a low-income or homeless situations with mark 22 shots below the Jumbos’ season essential items, such as clothing, toys and average at the time. Tufts came within one school supplies for free, the team helped goal of Stevenson at the 4:44 mark in the make packages that are sent out to families second quarter after Wood and senior mid- in the Greater Boston area. fielder Dan Leventhal scored back-to-back Though the team has recovered on the goals, but then three straight goals from field and looks to be in top form heading Stevenson left the game out of reach for into the remainder of the season, the loss good. Stevenson did not trail Tufts once to Stevenson will be something Tufts learns from as it progresses. during the four quarters of play.

“When you play a great team like that “I think it was a good experience for the — when you make a mistake, they’re going team,” McDermott said. “I think, going to make you pay for it,” McDermott said. forward, those are going to be the types of “That’s what we saw there. There are some teams that we are going to have to play. So games where we can kind of make up for I’m happy that we got it out of the way in our own mistakes, whether it’s based on March and not come May.”

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load for the Devils, scoring 17 of their 42 points on 8-of-18 shooting as the game’s top scorer. North led the Jumbos with 13 points off the bench, going 5-of-7 for the night. Tufts’ bench outscored FDUFlorham’s bench 23-6.

Friday night also saw the return of one of the Jumbos’ top scorers this season, junior guard Hannah Foley, who had injured her ankle against UNE and missed the last two games.

“Most of us felt like we should have won that game [against FDU-Florham], and that was the toughest part,” Moynihan said. “There was a little bit of frustration, but that [frustration] decreased as the night went on, especially because we were celebrating [the birthdays of] Pat Cordeiro, our athletic trainer, and Shannon Curley, our Team Impact player.”

The Jumbos played for third place in a consolation match the next day against last year’s NCAA Div. III runners-up, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, losing to the Warhawks 72-54.

“It’s the ultimate show of pride and character to play in the consolation match,” Kanner said. “Both teams just lost their opportunity to win a national championship, and you have to turn right around and play a game the next day. It’s a testimony to the coaching staff and the captains, who sat us down and told us it’s an honor to even be here.”

For the second straight night, North led the Jumbos with 14 points. She was a perfect 6-of-6 from the field and added six rebounds and three assists. Rocchi contributed eight points and six rebounds for the Jumbos.

“There were three seniors on this team [tri-captains Moynihan, Rocchi and

Caitlin McClure] and this was going to be our last game ever,” Moynihan said. “The game [against Wisconsin-Whitewater] was also a very tough game and things didn’t seem to be going our way. But, we rallied together as a team, which is very easy to do when you’re playing on a team with your best friends.”

The bittersweet end to a whirlwind season didn’t detract from what the team achieved this season, according to Kanner.

“Two losses mean nothing to this team,” Kanner said. “The countless experiences and memories are enough to last a lifetime, let alone make up for this end to a season. I think [making it to the semi-finals] has made us even hungrier. These past two games there might have been a [few] jitters being on the ‘big stage,’ but coming back next year we now know that we can compete with these [top] teams.”

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uring spring break, I had the fortune of attending a European League soccer match between Benefica of Portugal and Tottenham of England.

While, to me, the game itself ended in a disappointing 2-2 draw, the outcome wasn’t what entertained me most.

The joy started when I stepped onto the metro to go to the match and a sea of red engulfed me. Everyone was showing support for their team, even those not attending the game. The chants started as the metro reached the stadium’s stop. I couldn’t understand a word of what was being said, but I could feel it. I could feel the energy and passion everyone around me had for their team.

Thousands of us were crammed through a tunnel beneath the main road in order to enter the stadium. The first thing I noticed upon entering the outside terrace of the stadium was the policemen. They lined the railings as far as the eye could see, to the point where I wasn’t sure I knew what I had gotten myself into. It didn’t seem to faze anyone else as the crowd excitedly surged forward to get ready for game time.

Once I got to my seat, I took a second to just look around and take it all in. As I was craning my neck to get a panoramic view, I noticed a cluster of black amidst the crowd that looked largely out of place. The cluster turned out to be about 3,000 Tottenham fans that had made the trek from London to Portugal for the game. Upon further inspection, I saw a thin net enclosing the fans in their sections along with several stadium officials standing in the bottom rows. I was told that the net was put up in order to protect the players from objects being thrown onto the field from opposing fans, not a problem we usually have in American stadiums.

I whispered to my sister that the fans must be crazy to travel here for the game, but she quickly shushed me before I might have said it too loudly and attracted unwanted attention from the intense crowd around us.

The game started off relatively slowly, with only one goal in the first 75 minutes. The low scoring didn’t suppress the ardor and intensity of the crowd, which was blowing its screeching eagle whistles each time a call didn’t go its way and exploding in delight when a call did. This rowdiness didn’t quiet the Tottenham legion of supporters as they tried to keep par with the noise, although greatly outnumbered.

In a flash, the game shifted. Tottenham scored twice within the next 10 minutes to take the lead. With only five minutes of regulation to play plus stoppage time, there was a peculiar lack of urgency from the players, although the crowd was anxious.

As if scripted, the home team Benefica was given a penalty shot while down 2-1 in the last seconds of stoppage time. The goalie dove one way, the shot went the other. The crowd erupted, players celebrated and fans began to file out of the stadium happily.

Well — some of the fans left. A message that played twice over the loudspeaker politely requested that all Tottenham supporters remain in their seats until the rest of the stadium had cleared out, presumably to avoid confrontation between the two sets of supporters. As I walked out of the stadium and back through the tunnel, I could still hear these loyal fans singing their team’s song inside.

I can’t help but imagine how this kind of atmosphere would rejuvenate American professional sports leagues. It’s time to breathe the life back into the stadiums.

It creates a better environment for players, fellow supporters and fans around the country, but until this happens to the fans — you’re sacked!

Jordan Bean is a sophomore majoring in economics. He can be reached at Jordan.

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NESCAC Champions. Liz Moynihan’s shot. A Final Four berth. A season filled with highlights and accomplishments

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came to an end on Saturday, when the women’s basketball team fell in the semifinals of the NCAA Div. III Championship to eventual national champions Farleigh Dickinson-Florham University (FDUFlorham), 42-39.

Three of the Jumbos’ last four games had come down to the wire with resulting victories, but the Jumbos finished just short against the Devils, despite keeping the score close for most of the game.

Tufts staged a comeback to derail FDUFlorham’s attempt to pull away in the second half. The Devils held a 40-32 lead over the Jumbos with 8:30 remaining in the game after a basket from Devils sophomore forward Shalette Brown. Tufts freshman forward Michela North, senior tri-captain forward Ali Rocchi and sophomore guard Emma Roberson all responded to close the margin to 40-38 with just over six minutes left on the clock.

For the remaining time, offense seemed to come to a standstill. Both teams totaled just three points for the remainder of the game — shooting a collective 1 of 8 from the field. With a layup from FDU-Florham’s Brown and a North free throw, the score was 42-39 with 23 seconds remaining.

FDU-Florham junior forwards Brown and Kyra Dayon missed two free throws, but secured each other’s offensive rebounds following the misses, forcing the Jumbos to foul three times in as many seconds.

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Freshman forward Michela North paced the Jumbos all weekend long, scoring 13 and 14 points in the semi-final and consolation games, respectively.

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The No. 18 women’s lacrosse team came into spring break as a surprising upstart. But just a week later, the Jumbos

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On Mar. 15, Tufts opened the academic break with a 16-14 upset over No. 12 Colby on the road. Five days later, the team headed to Southern Massachusetts, where it took care of Wheaton, 15-7. No. 6 Trinity, however, would snap Tufts’ twogame winning streak on Saturday, with a score of 11-7.

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After a timeout taken with 17 seconds left in the game, Roberson stole an inbounds pass to give Tufts a final chance to take the game into overtime.

The Jumbos came up the court and called a timeout with nine seconds left to set up their last attempt. But the shot was off the mark, and the Devils advanced to the championship game.

The would-be game tying shot was all too reminiscent of senior tri-captain guard Liz Moynihan’s buzzer-beater against University of New England (UNE), which gave Tufts the win in the second round of the tournament.

“It stings,” junior forward Hayley Kanner said. “It still hurts. You don’t really want to think about what could have been. You don’t want to think about however many plays before that, however many missed layups [or] missed foul shots [happened], because, at the end of the day, nothing [is] going to change. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t replay the moment.”

The Jumbos held the Devils to just 1-of17 from the field to start the game, but never managed to truly pull ahead. A 20-14 lead for Tufts with 2:38 left in the first half quickly disappeared, with FDU-Florham tying the score, 22-22, at the half.

“I think that we played incredible defense,” Moynihan said. “We played a team that averages 81 points per game, and we held them to just 42 points. At the same time, it’s hard to win a game, any game, when you’re scoring 39 points.”

Both teams had sluggish scoring, with the Jumbos shooting 34.8 percent — just 2-of-14 from distance — and the Devils shooting just 27.6 percent on the night.

The Devils outrebounded the Jumbos 40-33 overall, tallying 19 offensive rebounds to the Jumbos’ eight, and notched 58 shot attempts to the Jumbos 46.

“The Devils are a very athletic team, and they did a great job of getting their hands in the passing lanes,” Moynihan said. “It was tough to even get open and they did a great job of pressuring us.”

The Jumbos were also undone by their turnovers — 19 total — which led to 18 points for the Devils.

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Sophomore midfielder Brigid Bowser scored and assisted on two of Tufts’ final three goals to seal the win over No. 8 Colby. come to No. 3 Middlebury, No. 2 SUNY Cortland and No. 3 Trinity. All three of those teams made the NCAA semifinals last year and are strong contenders for this year’s national title.

For now, the Jumbos have embraced the expectations and accolades that come with being a nationally-ranked team.

“It’s a big deal,” sophomore attack Caroline Ross said. “We are proud of it and feel it is deserved. Now, we have to

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live up to it and keep playing like we are playing.”

Tufts started off surprisingly slow against Trinity, allowing four straight goals in the first 11 minutes to open the game. Trinity junior midfielder Lindsay Mullaney netted two of her three goals during this stretch. She was one of three Bantams to score three goals in the

2 Stevenson University to hand the Mustangs their first loss of the year on Mar. 19.

This year, No. 5 Stevenson returned the favor on Mar. 18, besting the Jumbos 15-9 at Mustang Stadium in Owings Mills, Md. It was the only loss sustained by the No. 3 Tufts team over the spring recess,

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