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Full-time, non-tenured faculty to vote to unionize

by Sophie Lehrenbaum Contributing Writer

After a semester of gathering signatures and garnering support, full-time, non-tenured Tufts faculty members will vote on Jan. 28 and 29 to determine whether they will unionize.

The vote, which will be held on campus, is a result of the preliminary efforts made by a group of non-tenured faculty who officially filed to hold elections to form a union through the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), according to Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Spokesman Jason Stephany.

Stephany said that after a significant number of signatures are collected, they can be submitted to the NLRB to demonstrate that a considerable portion of the workforce is interested in pursuing unionization. He further explained that standard procedure places the onus on the NLRB to engineer the elections for individuals within the bargaining unit—in this case, the approximately 90 full-time, non-tenured lecturers—to express whether or not they support unionization.

If a majority of the professors within the bargaining unit elect to unionize, which Stephany said has been the end result of every other on-

campus organizing effort in the past 12 to 18 months, a union will be formed and will promptly draw a contract with the administration. Stephany noted that the process is archetypically democratic, with numerous elections held to attain the ultimate desired end of an official, organized group to represent the full-time, nontenured faculty, allowing them to coalesce, discuss issues and magnify their voices.

When Tufts’ part-time lecturers began their drive to unionize in 2013 and became the first Boston-area faculty to form a union through the SEIU, the motion inevitably acted as an impetus for fulltime lecturers to seek a union of their own, according to Penn Loh, lecturer and director of the Master in Public Policy program and community practice.

Instances of faculty groups succeeding in unionizing have inspired faculty across the country to also create organizing bodies for their own representation, Stephany said.

Over 22,000 unionized faculty have joined the SEIU in the past year alone, 2,000 of which hail from Boston-area schools, according to Stephany. Various faculty members at Tufts, Northeastern University and Lesley University have already see UNIONIZATION, page 2

Gehling to step down as Director of Athletics

by Meagan Adler Assistant News Editor

After 16 years serving as Tufts’ Director of Athletics, William Gehling (LA ’74, G ’79) will officially step down from his current position on July 1 to assume the new role of senior advisor

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University Director of Athletics Bill Gehling, (A ‘74), will step down from his current position over the summer.

to University Advancement.

According to Gehling, the search for a new director is currently underway.

In 1979, Gehling started working at Tufts as the first coach for the new women’s soccer program, continuing to coach the team for 20 years, he explained.

During that time, he also coached for the men’s golf team.

Ten years into his term as women’s varsity soccer coach, Gehling took on the position of Assistant Director of Athletics, and assumed the role of Director of Athletics in 1999.

Gehling said that he has enjoyed the relationships he has developed with students, athletics department staff and Tufts faculty during his time as director.

“As director, I have enjoyed and cherished the continued relationships with students,” he said. “I love supporting our teams and representing Tufts in [the National Collegiate Athletic see GEHLING, page 2

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Parking kiosks have recently been installed throughout the City of Medford, including outside the Tufts Fitness Center.

Parking meters installed along Boston, College Avenues With the recent installation of parking meters along Boston and College Avenues, university staff and students will likely have more difficulty finding free parking on the Medford/Somerville campus.

According to the City of Medford website, workers have installed parking meters and kiosks in the Medford Hillside area—adjacent to the Tufts campus—Medford Square, West Medford and South Medford.

Parking will cost $0.25 for 15 minutes, and most spaces will have a time limit of two hours.

The spaces around Tufts will have a daily maximum rate of $5.00 and will not have a time limit.

The city created a parking committee in 2009 and has been developing a pay-to-park program for several years, according to a Dec. 29 Medford Transcript interview with Medford Police Chief Leo A. Sacco Jr., Assistant Treasurer/ Collector Judith Johnston and Republic Parking District Manager Daniel Nash.

The Tufts University Director of Community Relations, Barbara Rubel, explained that the university spoke with Medford Mayor Michael

McGlynn on several occasions before the program was developed and after it was announced on Oct. 7. However, because the streets surrounding campus are public, the city maintains the right to develop parking regulations, Rubel said.

“The city is sensitive to the equity issues associated with granting special considerations to any group, so areas adjoining Tufts will be treated the same as other parts of the city in regard to enforcement,” Rubel told the Daily in an email.

“With a Green Line station coming to College Avenue, it was inevitable that the city would create new parking rules and enforcement.”

Students and faculty who have traditionally parked on Boston and College Avenues for free will have several options going forward, according to Rubel.

“We would love to see more students, faculty and staff take advantage of public transportation, but for those who drive there are options,” she said.

“One can purchase a university decal for full- or part-time parking on campus, park in Dowling [Hall] on a per-day basis or pay for onstreet parking in Medford.”

Rubel encouraged students and faculty to avoid parking on side streets, however, as the City of Medford will also be stepping up parking enforcement in residential areas. According to the Dec. 29 interview, Republic Parking will operate two vehicles to enforce parking regulations.

Residential and visiting parking permits are available, but a vehicle must be registered to a Medford address in order to be eligible for a $10 annual residential permit, according to the Parking Medford website. Tufts students living in Medford will be unable to obtain residence permits unless their vehicles are registered to their current address.

For residents who do not own vehicles but will have occasional guests, visitor parking permits are available for $10, and there is a limit of two per household.

Enforcement of parking will begin in business districts tomorrow and on residential streets on Jan. 26, according to an update from the City of Medford.

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Somerville tackles unshoveled sidewalks

by Melissa Kain Contributing Writer

This winter, Somerville’s Board of Aldermen voted to crack down on residents and landlords who do not clear their sidewalks after a snowstorm.

According to Somerville Alderman at Large Jack Connolly, the city has created a new ordinance that amends its original snow removal policy. Previously, the city mandated that snow

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needed to be shoveled within 24 hours of falling; however, Connolly said that time frame was unnecessarily long for snow removal and often led to icy sidewalks or unsafe conditions.

“These days … everybody knows the storm is coming two or three days in advance, [with] all the social media warnings [and the media coverage] … so the idea of clearing the walkways becomes a pretty important issue,” Connolly said.

According to Connolly, the newly amended ordinance increases the fines for uncleared sidewalks and changes the acceptable timeframe for snow removal. For failing to shovel sidewalks, the city will now fine residents and landlords $50 on the first day, $100 on the second day, $200 on the third day and $300 on the fourth day. This is an increase from the see SIDEWALKS, page 2

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Students advocating One Health emphasize the link between human, animal and environmental health.

Women’s basketball team travels to Puerto Rico for games over break.

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Gehling to assume new position with University Advancement

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Association] and [the New England Small College Athletic Conference]. I love supporting our students, our coaches and our institution.”

In particular, Gehling explained that he has enjoyed having the responsibility to hire the staff that makes up the athletic department.

“My favorite part is hiring coaches and staff members,” he said. “I think it is by far the most important part. If he or she gets that right, a lot of good follows.”

Gehling has brought many improvements to the athletics department as a whole, including the Fitness & Individual Development at Tufts pre-orientation program and the Tufts Personalized Performance Program, according to Interim Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser. He added

that Gehling has also played a major role in improving individual fitness and health in students.

“It’s not just being the champion,” Glaser said. “There are a lot of joyous moments around athletics.”

Gehling, a Tufts alumnus, noted that he earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the university. He received a bachelor’s degree in child development in 1974 and a master’s degree in education in 1979. Gehling added that during his time as a student, he also played soccer and was a member of the Beelzebubs.

“I have built a lot of relationships at Tufts,” he said. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my years in athletics as coach and director, but I’m ready for this new challenge.

I’m very excited.”

As University Advancement prepares for its next university-wide capital campaign,

it has been working to build the capacity of its staff, according to Vice President for University Advancement Eric Johnson.

“We are very much looking forward to [Gehling] joining our staff,” he said.

According to Johnson, Gehling’s depth of experience, deep connection to alumni and proven passion for Tufts made him a good candidate for the role of senior advisor. He added that he thinks University Advancement will gain stronger alumni connections to the university and see increased fundraising when Gehling takes on this position.

“I’ve enjoyed so many aspects of [the position of Director of Athletics],” Gehling said.

“After 16 years, I’m ready for my new challenge, and I think [Johnson’s] offer came at the perfect time.”

Glaser expressed his gratitude toward having Gehling serve as Director of Athletics.

“We’ve been lucky to have such a terrific [Director of Athletics],” he said. “I’m glad he’s been with us for so long and that he is going to continue to stay with us.”

Gehling said he is eager to take on his new position at the university.

“I am really looking forward to working with and learning from [Johnson] and his leadership team,” he said. “He has some really talented people working for him.”

Gehling added that he is excited to reconnect with students that he has met throughout his years at Tufts, and to meet other alumni through University Advancement. He said he also looks forward to developing relationships with others who love Tufts and want to see the university thrive.

“I think Tufts is an incredible institution very much worth investing in,” he said.

City holds landlords accountable for unshoveled sidewalks

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previous fine, which started at $25 for the first day and rose to $50 on the second.

Furthermore, residents and landlords must clear snow before 10 a.m. if the snow ceases falling before sunrise, and no later than 10 p.m. if the snow ceases falling after sunrise, Connolly said.

Connolly used Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, in which early Boston resident Hester Prynne is forced to wear a large, red “A” stitched into her clothing as punishment for giving birth to a child out of wedlock, to describe another change to the policy. Offenders of the new snow removal policy will suffer a consequence similar to Prynne’s; a ticket will be hung on their door, which Connolly compared to a “scarlet letter.”

“It’s going to be an orange or brightly colored ticket or door hanger that would be quite visible to anybody … entering the building or passing by … [Often] people would chastise the city for not getting after the absentee property owners who weren’t responsible and, even though a ticket may have been issued, there was no way of knowing,” Connolly said.

According to Connolly, the new policies are being implemented to crack down on absentee landlords, and to allay concerns for the safety of Somerville residents, especially senior citizens.

“If snow falls and [is not cleared] … it can be very treacherous to walk on. It can be a real hazard, particularly if you’re a senior. If you’re a senior, and you’ve got a walker, it becomes … really dangerous,” Connolly said.

Connolly also said that help with snow removal will be available for seniors. For example, the city’s youth department will arrange for young adults to help shovel seniors’ sidewalks.

Somerville resident Mary Ann Szypko shared her opinions surrounding the new policies, saying she believed resi-

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Landlords and residents will now be held more accountable for snow removal on Somerville sidewalks. dents should be warned before receiving a fine.

“I think putting a warning on your door might be fine … but I think getting fined immediately is a little drastic,” she said.

Szypko said she had discussed the ordinance with other residents of Somerville, who were surprised to learn about the new policy.

“We’ve never heard of anything like this

before in any other town,” she said.

Szypko said that she believed the new policy will be helpful in keeping sidewalks cleared for the many residents who walk to and from work or the subway, and will also add to the community feeling in the city.

“Somerville is half-residential, half-urban, so it’s a very interesting city-town in that sense … I think [clearing sidewalks] adds to the

Non-tenured faculty increase unionization efforts UNIONIZATION

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achieved representation, while faculty groups will hold elections in coming weeks on the Boston University and Bentley University campuses, Stephany said.

Loh said he has observed several existing issues that transcend departments to ubiquitously impact fulltime, non-tenured lecturers.

“Certainly there are a number of issues that are of concern … [such as] trying to ensure that we have equitable and fair workloads that are backed up with compensation that is on-par,” he said. “[ We seek] compensation, benefits and professional support [as well as] job security and making sure we are not dismissed without cause and are able to count on contracts.”

According to Loh, unionization will give lecturers more power to address these issues.

“We are interested in unionizing for many of the same reasons as our parttime colleagues,” Loh said. “We want a collective voice at the table in terms of decisions regarding our employment, in the same way that both part-time and tenured faculty have through their unions.”

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Dance Sheriden Thomas

echoed Loh, expressing similar motivations for her vehement support of the unionization effort. Colored by her personal experiences as a parttime employee at Tufts, Thomas said she has become a firm advocate of forming a union to protect the rights that she believes should be endowed to full-time faculty, and to combat the grievances she has faced at the hands of administration.

“A few years ago, without talking to me at all, I was suddenly told that I had to teach two more classes and there was no pay raise,” Thomas said. “That alerted me to the fact that [administration] was not paying enough attention and giving [us] enough respect. We do 50 percent of the teaching and are not paid equally … length of contracts can vary with no explanation; you can be fired with no explanation. You are reapplying for your job every time your contract is renewed. I have been here for more than a decade … to systematically put you through reapplying for your job doesn’t make sense.”

Both Loh and Thomas agreed that their tenured and part-time colleagues have responded positively to unionization efforts and have offered support in the unionization process.

Thomas explained how a group of ten-

ured faculty submitted a letter to the administration, imploring them to refrain from engaging in any negative campaigning or battling the attempts to unionize, terms which the administration reportedly refused to agree to, according to Thomas.

However, Thomas said she remains positive about the administration’s response, citing their non-adversarial dealings with part-time faculty as they tried to unionize and lauding Tufts’ generally good ethics in ensuring that employees are treated well.

“We really hope that the administration stays as neutral as it can as we approach the vote,” Loh said. “As our formal employer, they can wield some level of power over us, and we wouldn’t want them to use that in ways that misinform people about what unionization might be. We have strong hope that the administration will continue to deal with us and our hopefully tobe-formed union in the same way that they established very productive, good relationships with the part-timers.”

Numerous students have also adopted the cause of the full-time faculty as their own. Tufts Labor Coalition showed robust support for non-tenured, parttime faculty as they attempted to unionize, according to TLC President

community aspect of it … [It encourages residents to] do the good, neighborly thing and shovel [their sidewalks],” Szypko said.

Connolly echoed Szypko’s sentiments, explaining that keeping sidewalks clear serves as a courtesy to other members of the community.

“You’re helping everybody else in the building … That’s the way it should be,” Connolly said.

Lior Appel-Kraut. She expects the organization to become more vocal in their support in the coming weeks.

“As efforts pick up and it feels helpful for the student body to become active and visibly supportive, TLC will definitely hope to start talking to nontenure[d] faculty about how we can be supportive,” Appel-Kraut, a sophomore, said. “When our teachers have the best working conditions possible, we have the best learning conditions possible … [and] students have the power to show the administration that we care about the treatment of our professors.”

Ultimately, unionizing seems like a natural recourse for full-time, nontenured faculty like Loh and Thomas, who believe that a fundamental part of investing back in the institution and the students, and ultimately improving the university, begins with supporting the faculty that are instrumental in Tufts’ role as an academic pillar.

“Administration has grown two-andone-half times faster than enrollment and three times faster than faculty,” Thomas said. “A union will ensure that a balance is restored and a sense of good faith and fair play [is established] when it comes to salaries and [contract] renewal.”

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Jordan White, center, and Beth Smith, right, two students at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, visit Cookie, a horse with dermatitis.

Students strive to establish One Health initiative at Tufts

by Arin Kerstein Contributing Writer

This spring, students from various health and environmental fields will take part in a new course, brought to Tufts as part of a global initiative known as One Health, that hopes to compel them to think along interdisciplinary lines.

“One Health is the idea that human, animal and environmental health are all inextricably linked, and we should no longer research these fields in siloed manners,” junior John Ramatowski, who founded a student group in September 2013 that promotes One Health at Tufts, said.

As health-related issues become more complex, the One Health approach promotes cooperation as the path to new solutions.

“We need to make sure that the next generation of physicians and health professionals can speak with an informed voice to a variety of healthrelated topics,” Ramatowski said.

Ian Wong, director of the department of health promotion and prevention at Tufts, explained the concept by pointing to physicians’ confusion when it was discovered that monkeypox was transferable to humans.

“It seems so funny, because here’s one group who is perplexed by it, and here’s one group who has been working on it for years and treating it,” Wong said. “If only the two had come together and talked, a lot of humans would not have had to go through the pain and struggles.”

According to Ramatowski, he meets with four undergraduate team members on a weekly basis who strive to actively promote One Health on the undergraduate campus in order to try

to grab students’ attention before they become locked into specialized tracks.

This student team has been working with Wong and Beth Farrow, health educator and prevention specialist, along with many other professionals throughout the university.

The group is pushing to implement a number of measures to increase interest in the concept on campus, including creating an academic track to study One Health and identifying a common reading book to be distributed to an incoming class before matriculation.

“Our additional goals include developing a One Health track, which consists of several courses that educate students about a variety of health disciplines; so epidemiology, animal behavior, community health, all these different aspects, and we propose to have a One Health track similar to a pre-med track developed and implemented on the undergraduate campus within three years, and within six years we would like to see One Health as a secondary major established on the undergraduate campus,” Ramatowski said.

Ramatowski also heads the Peer Health Collaborative, an umbrella organization for health-related organizations on campus. He hopes to expand the collaborative to include members from a wide scope of disciplines, and is currently working with TCU Senate to contact related groups. He plans on surveying these groups to identify a local issue that the collaborative could work together to solve, a process that he hopes will eventually form a One Health Foundation.

“We would like to ultimately select a project either in Medford or Somerville that could draw on all of our groups’ expertise and show how all of these dif-

ferent health groups can be used to solve a real world [problem],” Ramatowski said.

Dr. Jennifer Allen, head of the department of community health, has also been working with the student group to further develop the initiative and is teaching the new course this semester.

She said that she proposed a summer course in One Health last year, but she had to cancel it; however, she later received a Tufts Innovates! grant through the provost’s office in order to teach the course this semester.

The course is a fully enrolled senior seminar in the Community Health department that will focus on an understanding of agent-host relationships, overlap between human and animal health, infections and chronic disease and the greater effects of climate change.

“Our goal is to identify One Health issues that are local, so that we can actually go into the field and help community organizations that are already working on these issues and contribute to the community agenda,” Allen said.

According to Allen, she is leading the course along with Christine Rioux, research assistant professor of public health and community medicine at the medical school, and Joann Lindemayer ( V ’85), associate professor of public health in the department of infectious disease and global health at the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Allen said she and Lindemayer will be teaching the course, while Rioux will focus on field activity.

“As people become increasingly specialized, it’s harder … I think it’s important to think about the education for undergrads, before people become sort of immersed in their professional silos, [so that] it’s easier to think about the

larger systems that are in place that influence the health of all species,” Allen said.

According to Wong, the concept has been explored for over 20 years by Tufts veterinary students, but due to a lack of organization and communication between campuses, this student initiative has been the first real push to make One Health a university-wide movement.

“It has been on the administration’s mind, but students are now really pushing the creation of the One Health concept at Tufts,” Ramatowski said.

“Students are the ones who are driving the administration to allow crossenrollment at different schools, and making sure that students have all these different and new educational opportunities.”

According to Farrow, President Anthony Monoco and Provost David Harris have been embracing the student initiative as a great opportunity to transform Tufts into a “true university” by creating bridges across majors and campuses rather than maintaining several isolated schools and programs.

“I think it’s one of those areas that could be very unifying for the universities,” Farrow said. “You really could have most of the schools be part of this in some way.”

Allen believes that Tufts is uniquely positioned to propel the initiative,because of its unique resources.

“Tufts has a unique constellation of schools that really lets us bring very different disciplinary lenses to the field of One Health,” she said. “There are not many schools that have a vet school, med school, school of public health, school of nutrition, school of international relations and public policy. All of those things make Tufts really uniquely positioned to carry forth a One Health agenda.”

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Movie Review

'Selma' triumphs with multifaceted performances

by Nika Korchok Arts Executive Editor

For a movie that takes on a largerthan-life man in the midst one of the most triumphant acts of his career as

Selma Directed by Ava DuVernay Starring David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Oprah Winfrey its subject matter — namely, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. — “Selma” finds its greatest highlights in the quiet and subdued moments of its 127-minute run.

With a critical eye and a hyper-awareness of mise-en-scene and characterization, director Ava DuVernay makes good use of her powerhouse cast — which includes David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Wilkinson and Cuba Gooding Jr. to name a few — while making intense dialogue the focus of the picture. Rather than falling into the trap of excessive grandeur and over-the-top, triumphant cheesiness, DuVernay’s “Selma” more closely mimics “Milk” (2008) and “Lincoln” (2012) with its balance of quiet and chaos. It tackles historical subject matter through a narrow and carefully positioned lens.

“Selma” begins with King (Oyelowo) and his wife in a hotel room, getting ready before he accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

The scene is lit in warm yellow tones, a motif that is carried out throughout the rest of the film, and the characters are framed in medium-close-up and close-up shots. There is an intimacy to the scene, and to the film, that is rarely found in historical dramas of this weight. In fact, characteristically close fram-

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The powerhouse cast of “Selma” constructs evocative moments in the film with sharp dialogue. ing and rapid-fire dialogue leaves scenes nearly claustrophobic. As a result, the audience is invited into the private world and mind of Dr. King himself, and the proximity to a man on the cusp of so much achievement yet intensely aware of the enormous weight which he carries can be uncomfort-

able. David Oyelowo portrays this balance — between a public beacon of hope and a man in turmoil — with grace and radiant warmth. Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King is his cool, crisp counterpart and emotional rock; the two are an even and perfect match onscreen.

The film also succeeds in humanizing its famous subject. The King known to history as an exalted preacher is also depicted in tender moments, rendered near-speechless as he comforts the famsee SELMA, page 6

TV Review

'Marvel's Agent Carter' fights villains, sexism in ABC's new series

by Grace Segers Arts Editor

If it were possible to write an article composed solely of excited squealing, this review would be a page of high-decibel happiness.

Marvel’s Agent Carter Starring Hayley Atwell, James D’Arcy, Chad Michael Murray, Enver Gjokaj

Airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on ABC “Marvel’s Agent Carter,” which premiered on ABC on Jan. 6, is the latest expansion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and gives viewers a taste of how refreshing a female-led superhero story can be. The seven-week series stars Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter, a character introduced as Steve Rogers’ love interest in “Captain America: The First Avenger” (2011). However, Atwell and her character have proved in “Agent Carter,” and in a 2013 Marvel “One Shot” short film of the same name, that Peggy Carter is no simple ingenue, but a hero in her own right.

The series takes place in 1946 New York City, an era with a shimmering aesthetic that the show playfully incorporates into its narrative. The booming brass soundtrack, vintage cars and sharp ’40s outfits ground the show in reality, but also heighten its almost-nostalgic charm. It’s a simpler time; families listen to the radio, every suit is pressed and everyday sexism is even more blatant and extreme than it is today. Carter is working as the only woman in the Strategic Scientific Reserve, the precursor to modern-day Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D., and is treated by her male co-workers as a secretary rather than an agent.

The historical backdrop of the show intensifies interpersonal drama. While many of the characters in the show are male, their misogyny toward Carter and their inability to take her seriously is turned against them, allowing the show’s creators to portray the men’s behavior as a great weakness and even foolishness. Although the ostensible villain is a Hydra-esque shady organization that Carter is tasked with bringing down, her true nemeses on the show are the men who wish to belittle her and prevent her from doing her job.

She is able to circumvent the limitations of her workplace environment by using the feminine identity they misunderstand and underestimate, playing up their miscon-

ceptions to her advantage. Watching Carter interact with men — both those who treat her with respect and those who treat her with misogynistic contempt — is one of the most entertaining aspects of the show. She is always one step ahead of her boss, Roger Dooley (Shea Wigham), and his lackey, Jack Thompson (Chad Michael Murray), frequently leaving the duo confused. She is able to outsmart and beat up men with class and aplomb, making her a hero worthy of both that decade and this one.

One of the most intriguing aspects of “Agent Carter” is how clearly the protagonist is paralleled with Steve Rogers. Carter must listen to radio broadcasts which dramatize Captain America’s exploits, often

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Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) as a sleuthing agent at the Strategic Scientific Reserve and Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy) the butler of Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) form a perfectly balanced pair.

featuring him saving a female character from certain death. In the series’ second episode, Carter’s fight with a man is juxtaposed with a radio broadcast in which the fictional Cap is beating up a Nazi.

Both Captain America and Agent Carter win their respective matches, saving the day and proving their worth. The setting of “Agent Carter” may not be a woman’s world, but Peggy Carter is certainly carving out her place in it.

Carter’s partner in the show is Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy), Howard Stark’s (Dominic Cooper) polite yet hilarious butler. Jarvis provides the show’s comedy as Carter’s bumbling sidekick, unaccustomed to a life of espionage. The pair’s buddy-cop dynamic adds warmth and humor to the show. Cooper is likewise entertaining as a guest star, reminiscent of a 1940s-style Robert Downey Jr. (as Howard Stark is Tony’s father, this parallel is entertaining and appropriate). Enver Gjokaj is also excellent as Daniel Sousa, Carter’s SSR colleague who was wounded in World War II and is one of the only men to recognize her talent.

“Agent Carter” can be campy, but its importance should not be overlooked.

The show brings a powerful female character to the screen, one who doesn’t compromise her femininity or her strength.

Since the “Captain Marvel” and “Wonder Woman” movies are yet to be released, “Agent Carter” is the only female-led comic-based story that currently exists in television and film. For right now, “Agent Carter” brings enough action-packed fun for a superhero fan and feminist to be satisfied, and hopefully the success of the series will signal a continuation of such stories on screens both big and small.

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Album Review

Dan Mangan + Blacksmith combine old school rock, 21st century electronica

by Nika Korchok

“Club Meds” is a busy and chaotic blend of synth and noise that creates a joyride of musical exploration and adventure for listeners.

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Club Meds Dan Mangan + Blacksmith Arts & Crafts Productions With his fourth studio album, Dan Mangan is not afraid to smear together sounds of old and new, compiling pieces from synth samples and heavily melodic vocals. “Club Meds” is a wild, dizzying and fearless exploration into the new musical world, where the 21st century’s popular diversity of sounds must rely on oldschool musicality to succeed — and succeed “Club Meds” does.

The album’s opening track, “Offred,” features slow and carefully layered synth beats which bring the listener into spaces that feel at once old and new, as though audiences have been trapped between blinking lights in a pinball machine. A voice repeats an inaudible word on loop before a driving guitar and screeching chords enter the mix of instrumentation. And then there is Dan Mangan’s voice, pure and stripped of electronic assistance to balance the precision of a computer-based sound. A bare-bones opposite that lies in contrast to the electronic backbone of the song, the track nearly veers into the campy feel of a “Final Fantasy” soundtrack. The videogame parallel does not escape Mangan, who, perhaps inadvertently, names the sixth track “XVI.” Mangan’s vocals act as a strong overture, singing lyrics like, “Between fists of fury and feats of strength / I will not fight dirty,” while a steady oscillation of electronic keyboard scales sounds off in the background. With an auditory world like this, one might not be able to avoid imagining picturesque CGI landscapes where characters run around swinging glowing swords to fight masked cyborg villains.

However, the repetition of scales combined with the huskiness of Mangan’s voice makes the track sound nearly folksy, challenging the videogame comparison. After all, Mangan is playing with paradigms, allowing the listener

to slip into nostalgia for the world of vintage arcade games while remaining grounded in the present by a timeless voice. The rest of the album continues in this vein.

“Vessel” makes use of digital layering, as monophonic sounds are stacked together like Jenga pieces. The whole piece blends fun and playful instrumentation, with a trumpet coming in for the last fifteen seconds of the track.

Yet the gamelike quality, found on “Offred” and continued through “Vessel,” becomes an accent piece to the more driving quality of Mangan’s singing. It is with this track that the band establishes that there is more to this album than the initial strains of easily danceable beats might suggest.

A choral-like background of vocals surrounds Mangan’s voice in “Mouthpiece,” while a lonely guitar forms the key instrumentation.

There is nothing empty in the breaks between lyrics in the songs on “Club Meds.” Every space is filled to the brim with sounds and added noise — minimalist, the album is not.

However, the songs never feel overburdened ,and while busy, they are well-orchestrated.

With the playful nature of an album name like “Club Meds,” Mangan is inviting listeners — no, daring them — not to take him seriously.

Mangan urges his audience to get lost and then prevents them from falling completely into an escapist fantasy by bringing in haunting vocals just often enough to remind the listener that he is there. “Club Meds” is clever and unassuming at first, initially feeling as crowded as a club dance floor, and then cultivating a lonlier sound If Mangan pulls listeners into a video game world, he abandons them for some time to find their way back to earth, with sparse sonic breadcrumbs as their only path home.

It is during this quickly shifting path into a variety of musical realms that Mangan loses the listener, in a well-meaning but meandering journey that goes a bit too far for its own reach.

“XVI” is raw and emotional. It is an abrupt shift, featuring the gentle harmony of a violin and only the steady pacing of a snare as background. “XVI” is a new sound for the album. In fact, listening to only “XVI” would likely leave a listener doubting that synth could exist on the same album.

Then there is “War Spoils,” which features a muffled Mangan’s voice talk-singing in a melancholic drone. Vocals are heard through

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Dan Mangan’s fourth album offers creative synth beats and haunting vocals. a fog, and a lonely guitar picks its way through a barren and empty space. The piece is beautiful, but feels a bit too out-of-left-field to really mesh appropriately with the initial pieces at the beginning of the album.

The album finds itself again with “Forgetery,” as a snare drum with stronger and more aggressive pacing is balanced by the reverb of an electric guitar in the background. The track is new-but-not-too-new, and Mangan’s vocals are audible and reflective. “Forgetery” ironically seems to remem-

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ber everything that the album sets out to do at its beginnings, and begins to pick up the breadcrumbs to find its way back to sure footing.

A meditation on the hyperactive and unfocused cyber world, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith tease listeners and then urge them to step forward and take the reins. As the album seems to warn, a world with simple and easily digestible synth sounds — a space that exists only on the club dance floor, with meds to guide you through it, is easy and dangerous.

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ily of a young black man shot by police following a peaceful protest. The preacher from Mississippi, who led the Civil Rights movement and changed a nation, is not reduced to a figurehead and an idol in “Selma.” Dr. King’s flaws are present. In one scene, he is rendered silent by a conversation with his wife about his multiple extra-marital affairs, presenting a sharp contrast to his normally eloquent manner. The film’s unrelenting desire to drive deeper into his character adds a much needed element to a very human story — a story that is as much about history as it is about the future.

It is not just the balance between historical milestones and personal battles that makes the story about King and Selma most effective, but also the film’s treatment of those iconic battles. Fortunately, the film is not distracted by one thousand moving parts, and doesn’t attempt to give a comprehensive account of the Civil Rights movement or depict the life story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Remarkably, it is able to do both incredible justice by simply focusing in on the march and its preceding events.

“Selma’s” faults are slight and almost unnoticeable; the end credits that roll past several important characters at the end

feel premature, leaving them with only a few lines to conclude their screen time. The film has drawn criticism for its “historical inaccuracies” — namely its depiction of President Lyndon B. Johnson as more bullish than supportive with initial legislation of voting rights. However, critiques of the movie in the New York Times and Politico neglect comparative analysis of other works that examine Johnson’s own role. For instance, Bryan Cranston’s masterful depiction of President Johnson in the Tony-award winning play “All the Way” (2012) portrays the president’s relationship to all legislation — from voting rights to Medicare — as aggressive and unrelenting due to his exceptional track record in the Senate, and far from King’s close ally. With this honest, if harsh, depiction of another great leader, DuVernay again triumphs.

The picture’s release is perfectly timed; it rides on the heels of national dialogue, frustration and outrage over recent events in Ferguson, Cleveland and New York City and is set to play in theaters through the national holiday named for its subject.

Encouraging dialogue by depicting the Civil Rights Movement as succeeding as much through protest as it did through conversations, “Selma” may be more than just revolutionary — it is necessary viewing.

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Sommes-nous vraiment Charlie?

Since the horrific attack on the offices of Parisian magazine Charlie Hebdo, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie has become hugely popular as a representation of solidarity and support in France’s time of grief. While the hashtag is certainly a catchy way for people to express their outrage, as the initial surge of support gives way to more complex analysis, the question emerges: Are we really Charlie?

If nothing else, the one thing we must take away from what happened is that the incredible power that comes with the right to free speech does not come without certain responsibilities. This understanding has been largely absent from the discussion so far. As is often a problem with online activism, distilling a complicated issue into a tiny hashtag does not make for a productive debate. In fact, blindly identifying with Charlie Hebdo can be viewed as a gross oversimplification of the situation, hindering the possibility of learning from this tragedy.

Before we go any further, let us be clear: absolutely nothing could justify an attack such as this. There is no rationality for responding to media with murder. But that does not mean we should

blindly praise Charlie Hebdo or exempt the magazine from any form of criticism because of what occurred: Endorse free speech, not how they were practicing it. We are in dire need of a nuanced international discussion about the meaning of the right to free speech in our modern, media-driven world.

Free speech is enshrined by law and is a central tenet of democracy. However, it is up to the individual to be aware of the broader meaning of what he or she is saying. Charlie Hebdo published racist cartoons. Is it technically acceptable to publish offensive and bigoted content, even through satire? Well, yes.

But it’s far from heroic. Satire is at its best when it critiques those in positions of power, not when it maliciously attacks minority groups that are already subject to excessive criticism at every turn. To exercise free speech with reckless abandon by publishing openly Islamophobic material under the guise of “satire” is dangerous for society, and it ignores the sobering influence of media.

But to fall whim to those who wish to suppress that speech is just as dangerous. Free speech, even when it is offen-

sive, must be protected at all costs.

One could spend hours arguing whether or not Charlie Hebdo is indeed a source of legitimate satire or simply racist, shock-value media. Regardless of how harmful it may be, offensive speech deserves to be protected. But this does not mean that it should be encouraged, or lauded as heroic.

If we want to defend the right to free speech at all costs – and we certainly should – we must also acknowledge our own duty to apply that right evenly and fairly. With the legal right to free speech comes the ethical responsibility to consider the influence that that free speech can have on a society. So far, the debate surrounding #JeSuisCharlie has failed to address this, instead painting this issue as quite black and white.

Situations such as this have no right answer, and can cause vacillations on right and wrong, on acceptable and intolerable. But certain things are clear: Violence is never admissible, free speech must be protected and exercised with a sense of responsibility, and although we may not all be Charlie, we are all in mourning.

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The last few weeks provided some muchneeded rest for Daily editors, writers and photographers, but while, as individual humans, we may have been lounging around in our pajamas sipping cocoa, the paper itself has not been resting. The renovation and re-launch of the Daily’s website at the end of the summer sparked a period of innovation, allowing us to expedite and diversify our content. This momentum continues to propel us today, the first day of classes (and more importantly, the first print edition of the Daily in 2015! We know you’ve been counting down the days).

One direct result of this development is Picture Tufts, the Daily’s new photo blog. In the wee hours of this morning, the link to Picture Tufts went live on our

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by Anthony P. Monaco

Since its founding in 1852, Tufts has embraced a campus culture that encourages the free and unfettered exchange of ideas. It is what defines us as a university in pursuit of discovery and knowledge, and it is what prepares our students to take on the complex challenges of our times. We cannot have the benefits of education without being open to ideas that test us and sometimes make us uncomfortable.

Our own Declaration on Freedom of Expression at Tufts University, which the Board of Trustees approved in November 2009, states: “Without freedom of expression, community members cannot fully share their knowledge or test ideas on the anvil of open debate and criticism. Without freedom of inquiry, community members cannot search for new knowledge or challenge conventional wisdom.”

Academic freedom has been fundamental to American higher education since the early 20th century. It is essential not only to the teaching and research of our faculty, but also to the contributions they make to informed public debate on matters of consequence to our society.

Colleges and universities are also where young people can freely examine their own assumptions, beliefs and perceptions through a diversity of lenses and develop the critical thinking skills that will shape their personal and intellectual growth. It is our responsibility to offer and encourage opportunities for our students to debate and contemplate a gamut of opinions, ideas and viewpoints — in classroom discussions and readings, in the laboratory, in our studios and performance halls and through the speakers and conferences we host on campus.

These kinds of exchanges, both formal and informal, will help our students become active and engaged citizens of the world.

The seeds of social change are often sown on college campuses. University students at Tufts and elsewhere have been leading voices in the civil rights, environmental, labor, women’s and peace movements. Members of our community have challenged the administration, and each other, on social and political issues, most recently on fossil fuel divestment, sexual assault, international affairs and Tufts’ relations with its custodial staff and part-time faculty. I welcome and encourage these exchanges. With issues as complex as these, we cannot broaden our insights without a full airing of many viewpoints.

It is certainly not my expectation that every member of our community will

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by Anonymous Trigger Warning: This article discusses rape and sexual assault.

I finally told someone.

In truth she was far from the first person I’ve told about being raped. Very far from it. But my new doctor might as well be the first ‘grown up’ I’ve ever told. To be clear, I’m not a child. I am a 21-yearold college student who is incredibly stubborn and has always preferred to sort out my problems on my terms.

There have been a few times when I almost disclosed my predicament to figures of authority, but each time I have succeeded in keeping quiet.

It’s hard to stay silent. It’s hard to speak. I still haven’t figured out which is more difficult or more necessary. It’s been five years. I have never ‘sought justice.’ That thought never even crossed my mind. I had no proof, and I had no

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Tufts students protest Isael Defense Forces Legal Adviser Shamir-Borer’s Nov. 10 visit to campus. embrace every perspective and every point of view. My hope is that these debates and discussions are civil and respectful and that we always engage in constructive dialogue, even though we may not always agree. Make no mistake, we will not tolerate speech or conduct that involves threats, intimidation or harassment or interferes with the rights of members of our community to participate in campus life. At the same time, we need to protect all points of view, no matter how unpopular or pro-

vocative, to advance our mission as an educational institution.

I have been deeply troubled by calls on our own and other university campuses to silence speech. At some institutions, commencement speakers have been denied the right to be heard. Here at Tufts, we have been urged by members of our own community, both on and off campus, to cancel programs and speakers. When debate is stifled, everyone loses.

I strongly believe that the best

response to offensive speech is more speech. And I fervently defend the principles of academic freedom and the right of all members of this community to express their views on any issue.

These principles are the foundation of Tufts University and all of modern American higher education.

Anthony P. Monaco has served as president of Tufts University since August 2011.

I Finally Told Someone interest in spending years of my life fighting a ‘he-said she-said’ battle in the public eye of my small town. In my sophomore year of college I met a girl from my town who actually had fought that battle, and she confirmed that there was no point of burying your own reputation and sanity for such a criminal. Except of course, if he did it to someone else.

I stayed silent. For the most part I still do because any figure of authority threatens to break the carefully constructed defenses around my fragile psyche. I don’t react to any other kind of triggers. He isn’t worth that. I have achieved a state of being where I know he isn’t deserving of causing me pain.

Few people are, but especially not him.

I am quite comfortable with this state of being, but I know it is precarious.

When I entered this doctor’s office for the first time, I stared at the familiar ‘new patient’ questionnaire. I’m sure you’ve all seen one. I hope that you have

no problem filling one out, that you don’t get snagged on the ‘prior conditions’ or ‘allergies’ questions, and I hope your heart doesn’t skip a beat at the ‘sexual assault’ question.

“Have you ever been sexually assaulted?”

I had to skip the question.

What was I supposed to say? “Yes?” That would be the honest answer, but something about circling those three letters makes it so undeniably true, that it threatens to open the floodgates. What will happen? What will they ask? Will they ask if I got a rape kit? Will they ask for evidence? For me to recount what happened? Or worse, will they not care?

I went back to the question at the end because I felt that circling nothing was worse than lying. I started talking to the new doctor. She was very calm, very reassuring. Then she asked me the same question.

“Have you ever been sexually assaulted?”

I swallowed hard, still not knowing if I was going to be honest, or just how honest. I’ve only been raped once, but I’ve been assaulted more than that — after all I am a female American college student. I still had time to lie, to leave her wondering if I was a statistic or if, by some miracle, I would be joining the ranks of the girls who sleep well at night.

Suddenly I was telling her. “There was an unfortunate incident, before I came to college.” Her pained look might as well have been lifted straight out of a pamphlet which gathers dust on the shelves of college clinics. I told her that I had dealt with it, that I was good now, and that my rabbi helped. Half-truths really, but more honesty than any figure of authority would get from me.

I don’t know why I told her. I’ll leave that to the shrink who will never hear about my rape.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Op­-ed

by Diane Alexander

Every college to some extent has departments that are rendered nearuseless by the endless bureaucracy involved in managing higher education. According to my friends at other schools, however, one particular branch seems to be almost universally labeled incompetent. The Tufts variant, as you may have guessed, is the Office of Residential Life and Learning, or ResLife for the less pretentious.

ResLife at Tufts impacts every single student on campus – possibly the only Tufts Department that does, besides Admissions. However, while the student body likes Admissions and its primary staff, it dislikes ResLife and its primary staff in equal measure.

On first glance, ResLife seems like a functional enough office. Their website lists contact details, information about the residence halls, and some vaguely dubious suggestions about off-campus housing. As any student who isn’t a freshman will tell you, though, figuring out housing is a nightmare and tends to have ruinous effects on many friendships, but that can more or less be chalked up to a trick of the lottery system. For the majority of students whose only point of contact with ResLife is their Resident Assistant, the housing lottery is their primary glimpse further into ResLife – and even that small peek is often unpleasant.

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ResLife Blues be more conducive to keeping friends together,” said a current sophomore. “Perhaps instead of averaging two lottery numbers for doubles, the pair could use their highest number instead. That wouldn’t work for suites and apartments, but it could save some students from the notorious horror of losing a friend because of something as stupid as housing selection.”

Resident Assistants, or RAs, on the other hand, are theoretically exactly what they sound like. They are students who live in the dorms and are there to help other students and ensure that people are following the rules. Most RAs who have been spoken to for this article – all are former RAs, including myself, since current RAs are under contractual stipulations not to tell us anything – have been united in saying two things: Firstly, that they are in it mainly for the free housing, and secondly, that it’s not exactly the most amazing job. Sure, it’s rewarding to help someone figure something out, but it may not make up for the lessrewarding aspects; in my own case, I know I made plenty of unfortunate calls to the night janitor when residents hadn’t gotten to the bathroom in time after a night out. Then again, any job has good and bad.

Besides that, different RAs do the same job differently. When an RA encounters a minor student issue on rounds, they are obligated to report it, but that doesn’t always happen. The ground level enforcement of Habitats varies wildly – some RAs are much stricter about the rules than others.

“Nobody likes an RA who writes up

their residents all the time,” an ex-RA said. “If you want to be useful to your residents and do your job properly, you can’t be the RA who reports everything back to your boss, unless your boss is both understanding and available, which not all Area Residence Directors, or ARDs, are. A couple of them are helpful, but a couple can be hard to reach or unfair, from what I’ve heard – that’s how the RD system was last year, too.”

Another agreed: “Your residents won’t tell you when they have serious problems if they know they’ll have to have uncomfortable conversations with the adult staffers of ResLife. If they don’t trust you, you can’t really be the ‘assistant’ you’re there to be. That’s a problem. A lot of times, there’s a disconnect between what ResLife wants RAs to do and what the students need them to do, even though ultimately the students are the ones paying ResLife’s wages through tuition.”

Aside from the highly variable RA-ResLife relationship, the office has a reputation for not responding in a helpful or timely manner to student needs. The ripples of this are substantial – students who went abroad in the fall of this year and requested on-campus housing did not receive their assignments until Jan. 6, resulting in many finding off-campus living instead. The reasoning behind this is unclear, as both applications for spring housing and forfeits of it are due in November, well before winter break.

“I honestly thought I was going to have to couch-surf all semester,” one junior said. “They say that everyone who applies gets housing, but when

the fine print says it’s not guaranteed and you don’t hear anything until the week before school starts, it’s pretty nerve-wracking.”

The root cause of ResLife’s woes, dare I name just one, is the lack of accountability to the students. The only people calling the shots for ResLife are other Tufts administration officials. RAs are not in an empowered position – they are employees of ResLife, so they can’t take issue with certain practices without risking their jobs. This is not to say RAs should form a union and agitate for more of a say in policies, as there is far too much turnover for that because not many people are tolerant enough to do the job for more than one year, but someone should be giving ResLife student input. Technically, RAs can do that – but oftentimes, in my experience, when RAs make suggestions they get quickly overridden. The solution probably lies in a staff position for a student ombudsman to tell ResLife what is and isn’t working so they can adjust accordingly.

Of course, that is incredibly unlikely to happen. Bureaucracies in general tend to resist such changes, and ResLife in particular has a penchant for treating Tufts students with kid gloves. But, after all – one can dream.

No current RAs or other employees of the Office of Residential Life and Learning were spoken to for this article.

Diane Alexander is a junior majoring in political science and a former Resident Assistant. She can be reached at diane. alexander@tufts.edu.

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Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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Jumbos bounce back after Tufts surpasses last season's dropping first game of break win total with win over break

by Alex Schroeder Sports Editor

The women’s basketball team started last season 21-0 before losing its first contest of the year to Babson in mid-Febru-

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ary. While the No. 7 Jumbos have certainly started this year’s campaign with similarly commanding play, winning 11 of their first 13 games by double-digit margins, they suffered their first loss of the season against the then-No. 6 University of Scranton Royals, falling 52-42 in the first game of the winter break stretch.

Tufts went on to take the final four games that were played over the winter recess, most recently defeating Middlebury by 20 points in the team’s NESCAC opener.

The Jumbos traveled to Vermont on Sunday to tip off against the Panthers in their NESCAC opener. Despite going into halftime tied 23-23 after a series of scoring spurts in the first half, Tufts was able to pull away in the last 10 minutes of the second half on an 18-2 run. The Jumbos kicked off the game with seven unanswered points, which turned into an 11-3 run, but the Panthers answered with a 16-4 run of their own to take the lead 19-15 with 8:43 to play. Senior tri-captain forward Rachel Crews scored 11 of her team-high 14 points for Middlebury during the first half, while sophomore forward Elizabeth Knox netted all eight of her points during the first frame.

Slowly, however, Tufts pulled away and put the game out of reach. Senior tri-captain forward Hayley Kanner and sophomore forward Michela North recorded nine points each in the second half, as the Jumbos shot 46 percent from the floor compared to the Panthers’ 18.8 percent.

Kanner scored a game-high 19 points, North grabbed a game-high 13 rebounds — securing her fourth double-double of the season — and first-year guard Lauren Dillon tacked on a team-high five assists.

This win marks an important point in the Jumbos’ season as they begin their search for a second consecutive NESCAC championship. The team knows, however, it will not be an easy road, and there is always a need to improve in preparation for the competition.

“Day in and day out we need to get better in every facet of the game,” coach Carla Berube said. “Our defense needs to get better. Our rebounding, limiting second-chance shots, is crucial come NESCAC season. And then execution — executing our offenses, executing by making open shots, executing by seeing and reading double teams. There’s a whole slew of things that we have been talking about and focusing on.”

Prior to the trip north to Vermont, Tufts played one game on the road and one at home just after the new year. On Jan. 5, the Jumbos made the short trip to Babson College to take on the Beavers. The nonconference matchup saw three Jumbos — Kanner, North and Dillon — score in double digits as Tufts won 57-43. Senior tri-captain guard Hannah Foley added six points on 2-of-2 shooting from beyond the arc.

It was all Tufts in this one, as the Jumbos scored six unanswered points to start the game and stretched their lead to as many as 19 points at the 14:38 mark in the second half after a Foley 3-pointer. Babson responded with an 8-0 run to cut Tufts’ lead to 11 with 10:36 left to play but Babson could not muster a comeback. The Beavers shot just 32 percent from the floor and committed 22 turnovers.

Two days earlier, Tufts took on Regis College at home, defeating the away team 57-44 in Cousens Gym. After a difficult first half in which Tufts shot just 25.8 percent from the field and trailed Regis 24-23 at the break, Tufts battled back to gain the lead for good. Kanner and North combined for 12 points in the first six minutes of the second half to push see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 15

by Wil Glavin Sports Editor

Tufts kicked off the new year with non-conference losses against the 10-2-2 Oswego St. Lakers and the 8-6-1

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St. Scholastica Saints. On Saturday, however, the Jumbos notched their fifth win of the season, defeating the Suffolk Rams 7-4.

After winning just four games in its last season, the hockey program has righted the ship, boasting a 5-6-1 record entering the most important portion of its schedule.

Saturday’s victory over Suffolk began with Tufts sophomore defenseman Sean Kavanagh scoring an unassisted goal after beating junior goalie Brandon Smolarek.

Kavanagh and senior forward Tyler Voigt starred for the Jumbos, with the former finishing with two goals and two assists and the latter scoring once in each period for a hat trick.

Voigt beat Smolarek in the waning minutes of the first period, with Suffolk playing a man down following a boarding penalty committed in the 17th minute.

The Jumbos outshot their opponents 15-7 in the first, and sophomore goalie Mason Pulde continued to shut out the Rams until the fourth minute of the second period, when junior forward Zack Capozza finally got around Pulde and the Jumbos’ defense.

“Goaltending [has] definitely [been a positive]. With three younger guys in net this year, it’s been really impressive the way they have come in and performed.

Our team is confident and excited to play in front of them every night. Our focus right now is on learning to win those close games,” junior tri-captain forward Stewart Bell told the Daily in an email.

Clinging to a dubious 2-1 lead, Voigt, picking up right where he’d left off, beat see ICE HOCKEY, page 15

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Tufts’ offense came alive in its 7-4 victory over Suffolk.

men’s Basketball

Jumbos take two of three over winter break

by Steven Hefter Sports Editor

After a dispiriting 3-6 start to what the men’s basketball team had hoped would be a promising season, the Jumbos used

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their time off this winter break to regroup before returning to campus early. They then played three games over eight days, winning two, including their biggest win of the season over the Middlebury

Panthers, who entered the game with a 9-1 record.

In Tufts’ biggest game of the season to date, it rose to the challenge, trouncing Middlebury 80-63 this past Sunday.

Sophomore guard Tarik Smith led the Jumbos with a team-high 20 points off the bench. He hit all eight of his free throws and went 5-of-7 from the field. Tufts shot the ball well overall, making 53.4 percent of its attempts on the night, and shot 61.5 percent from the field in the second half.

The Jumbos dictated the first half with help from sophomore tri-captain forward Tom Palleschi, who poured in 10 points and grabbed five rebounds, three of them on the offensive glass. After taking a 12-point lead into the locker room at halftime, Tufts saw its lead evaporate after a 21-9 Middlebury run, capped by a 3-pointer from junior forward Connor Huff to tie the score at 47 with 13:50 remaining. Smith responded with a 3-pointer of his own to halt the Panthers’ momentum, and the Jumbos did not trail again in the game, despite Panthers senior forward Dylan Sinnickson’s 25 points.

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Tufts tri-captain sophomore forward Tom Palleschi leaps above a defender in a contested shot attempt on Dec. 3, 2014.

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the lead to five. By the 8:31 mark, the Jumbos had widened the lead to 13. The Pride cut the margin to six with just over six minutes remaining, but free throws down the stretch sealed the deal for the Jumbos. Kanner, North and Foley all recorded double-doubles for Tufts, but it was Regis senior co-captain guard Emilee Marro who led all scorers with 16 points.

At the end of December, Tufts kicked off winter break play with a trip to Puerto Rico to play the University of Scranton and Baldwin Wallace University. This type of travel is something the team tries to do every four or five years, according to Berube. This time around it provided the team with an opportunity for development given the challenges it faced, especially in the loss to Scranton.

“I think we definitely learned a lot from it,” Berube said. “And I think it opened their eyes to where we need to get better — where they need to get better individually and as a team. I do think it was a great experience and definitely a time for us to kind of look at ourselves and grow from that.”

On Dec. 29, the Jumbos took home a 57-44 win against the Yellow Jackets of Baldwin Wallace. Tufts, powered by a balanced scoring attack, maintained control throughout the contest. Foley led the team with 10 points, Dillon put up nine, and four players — North, Kanner, junior guard Emma Roberson, and sophomore guard Josie Lee — scored eight in the win.

Tufts outscored Baldwin Wallace 23-6 in points off the bench and outrebounded the Baldwin Wallace 38-31.

The day prior, Tufts fell to Scranton in a game that posed problems for Tufts offensively. The Jumbos shot just 15-of-53 from the field, their lowest shooting percentage of the season. With a 19-day period in between Tufts’ last game and the contest in Puerto Rico, Tufts had a hard time getting things to click.

“We had a long time off for break,” North said. “We had like 15 days or something like that. So it was on us to get into the gym and get shots up and everything like that. And I don’t know if we didn’t do enough of that, or if we just weren’t on the same page when we got back. We only had two practices before that game until we were on the plane to Puerto Rico.”

Despite hitting just 3-of-16 shots from 3-point land, Tufts stuck around and battled Scranton until the waning minutes of the second half. At the 6:52 mark, Foley hit a 3-pointer to tie the game at 37 apiece. Almost two minutes later, a pair of free throws from senior tri-captain guard Kelsey Morehead put the Jumbos ahead 42-40. The Royals, however, ended the game on a 10-0 run to take the victory.

“They’re a top-10 team for a reason,” Berube said of Scranton. “They have some quality players and very talented players and they played very well. They had a much shorter break than we did and you could tell that we were the more rusty team coming back from a long break. That’s no excuse; we should’ve played a lot better than what we did. So yeah, it was a tough game, but then we were able to bounce back against a talented Baldwin Wallace team the next day.”

North paced the Jumbos with 14 points and seven rebounds, while Morehead added eight points and six rebounds.

Senior tri-captain forward Meredith Mesaris netted a game-high 15 points for Scranton.

While the matchup with Scranton may have been a difficult one for the Jumbos, they will have to use the learning experience from that game to prepare for an even taller task come Friday: taking on No. 3 Amherst College. The Lord Jeffs are undefeated and will be back at Cousens Gym for the first time since the Jumbos defeated them in the 2014 NESCAC championship, the first NESCAC title in the program’s history.

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Smolarek for a second time on yet another powerplay to give the Jumbos a 3-1 lead entering the final period.

Suffolk first-year forward Luke Miller guided the puck past Pulde early in the third to cut the deficit to one, but Tufts’ electric offense quickly eliminated any opportunity for a Suffolk comeback.

Senior tri-captain forward Andrew White scored the Jumbos’ third powerplay goal of the game, and Kavanagh and Voigt both followed suit with their second and third goals of the game, respectively. First-year forward Brian Brown tacked on the game’s final goal in the last minute of play on an assist from senior defenseman Shawn Power.

While Suffolk added two late goals, Tufts still won handily courtesy of its seven-goal explosion.

“I think part of the sudden rise in our offensive output has come from just more game experience. It takes time for guys to build chemistry and learn to play together, and with so many new players in our lineup, I think some time was needed to adjust to one another,” senior forward William Sellers told the Daily in an email.

On Jan. 3, Tufts fell to St. Scholastica 9-2 in the PathFinder Bank Oswego Classic.

Tufts’ first-year goalies Ross Bendetson and Ryan McConnell were unable to stymie the potent Saints attack led by sophomore forward Derek Sutliffe, firstyear forward Luke Simpson and junior forward Dylan Nowakowski.

The game began as a defensive battle with both teams struggling to get shots

off, but eventually St. Scholastica senior forward Dave Williams was able to score his fourth goal of the season to break the 0-0 tie. The teams took a combined eight shots in the period as the Saints clung to a 1-0 lead.

St. Scholastica’s offense started to click early in the second period when the team scored three goals in a five-minute span.

While Tufts’ offense took 11 shots in the second, St. Scholastica fired 19 and forced the Jumbos into a deep 4-0 hole entering the third period.

The Saints continued their blitzkrieg and would take an 8-0 lead before the Jumbos’ first-year forward Scott Majkowski tickled the twine twice with only a few minutes remaining in the game.

Although Tufts fell to St. Scholastica 9-2, it had played much better against Oswego St. the night before. Entering the game, the Lakers were 8-1-2 and had one of the better offenses that the Jumbos have seen thus far. However, for the first 30 minutes of the match, Tufts kept pace, as its defense, anchored by Pulde, thwarted numerous assaults.

At the end of the first, the score was tied at one, but Oswego St. netted the game’s next three goals, giving Tufts little chance to come back. The Jumbos received their two goals from Bell and White in the team’s 4-2 loss.

After facing non-conference opponents in six of its last eight games, Tufts will now face only NESCAC teams from here on out. The Jumbos will travel to upstate New York on Friday to face 3-5-4 Hamilton, followed by a Saturday afternoon bout with 9-2-2 Amherst.

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Tufts sophomore forward Michela North shoots during the second half of Tufts’ 74-51 victory against Brandeis in Cousens Gym on Nov. 22.

The Jumbos know how important it is for them to be focused and ready heading into important conference matchups that could very well foreshadow the playoffs come February.

“I mean, NESCAC is always the harder half of the season, the more competitive games,” North said. “We just have to do the same things I was just saying. The energy is really everything

for us. We don’t want to come out and have to come back during the game, we want to start out with the lead. We also have to pick each other up … We really just have to bring each other up and make sure we keep scoring and getting stops. Everything starts with our defense. Once we get a good stop on defense we can transfer that energy and get a score on offense.”

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“Against Middlebury, I just played aggressive and took what the defense was giving me on offense,” Smith said.

The closest the Panthers would get to regaining the lead was at the 10:46 mark, when senior co-captain guard Dean Brierley sunk a pair of free throws to bring them within six points. An 8-0 run — four scored by junior tri-captain guard Stephen Haladyna — pushed Tufts’ lead back to double digits.

The Jumbos outrebounded Middlebury 37-28, with senior tri-captain guard Ben Ferris and Palleschi pulling in seven rebounds apiece.

Earlier in the week, Tufts faced Rhode Island College at Cousens Gym, and RIC escaped with a 61-58 win.

The game was a tight contest throughout, and neither team held more than a one-possession lead for the final 10-plus minutes of the game.

“Being able to compete with a team who made a run in the NCAA last year is promising for us,” sophomore center Hunter Sabety said. “We are still a young team and are getting better and better every day.”

Junior guard Ryan Spadaford scored 19 points off the bench, hitting five 3-pointers, including one at the 3:30 mark of the game that gave the Jumbos a 56-55 lead.

Tufts took a three-point lead after an offensive rebound by Ferris and two free throws by Sabety, who tallied 10 points in the game. Senior forward Chris Burton scored the final six points of the game for Rhode Island College, which improved

to 9-3 on the season. Tufts was unable to tie the game, with a 3-pointer in the final seconds missing its mark.

“The game against RIC helped us realize we have to stay focused on every possession,” Smith said.

The first game Tufts played in the new year came at home against Newbury College on Jan. 6. Twelve Jumbos scored in the game, led by Sabety’s game-high 19 points, en route to an 80-53 victory. The game was close for the first 10 minutes, but Tufts took a commanding 49-25 lead into the locker room with the help of some stellar play from its reserves, who outscored Newbury’s bench 43-17 in the game. Freshman guard Stefan Duvivier scored 10 points and corralled seven rebounds off the bench for Tufts, while sophomore forward Drew Madsen scored eight points, hauled in six rebounds, and dished out two of the Jumbos’ 21 assists “When we got back everybody was ready to play and we got right to practicing,” Sabety said. “Playing Newbury allowed us to get back into the swing of things and realize that we are a team with a lot of potential and can make a big run in the NESCAC.” The Jumbos worked efficiently, shooting 50.8 percent from the field and outrebounding the Nighthawks 53-32.

Sophomore forward Kenny Ramos led Newbury in scoring with 15 points, and senior guard Kwame Thompson scored 13 points off the bench in his season debut for Newbury.

Tufts will look to build momentum off of its win over Middlebury with conference games at No. 25 Amherst on Friday and Trinity on Saturday.

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