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Duke University Professor of Economics Rachel Kranton spoke yesterday about the ways in which people act on their self-interests in group contexts when making economic decisions.

During her lecture, which was part of the Tufts Department of Economics’ Wellington Burnham Lecture Series, Kranton addressed a recent psychological experiment conducted by Duke’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

“What I’m painting for you here is that this picture that people aren’t just selfish, [that] they might actually be fair, is very contingent on the social context,” she said.

“In situations of group conflicts, where there are different interests involved, people may not be interested in being so fair. It is all contingent on identity — who I am, who you are and the situation of the groups to which we belong.”

The experiment was conducted on a number of Duke University students who were grouped together and presented with a variety of economic scenarios, such as whether they would pay money in order to have another member of their group lose or earn money. She said that the participants’ responses served as an

indication of their particular “social preferences.”

“The term ‘social preferences’ in economics means how much an individual cares not only about their own income, but about another person’s income,” she said.

Kranton explained that many of the participants chose not to select options that would have caused others to be paid less. This led to the conclusion that people are not only self-interested, but also care about fairness and social welfare maximization. However, the unique design of the experiment revealed that not every participant was so altruistic.

“The experimental design of previous tests ... didn’t test for social context and only looked at average behavior, not individual behavior,” she said. “On average, people look fair. But when we start looking at it person-by-person, we see that only about 30 to 35 percent of people are fair.”

Kranton said that the participants in the experiment were grouped together based on their political affiliations. One group was arbitrarily assembled, for purposes of comparison, while others were classified as “Strong Democrats,” “Moderate Democrats,” “Republican-Leaning Independents” and so on. see KRANTON, page 2

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From left: University President Anthony Monaco, Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell and Provost David Harris discuss the university’s ongoing planning process during a town hall meeting yesterday afternoon.

Administrators answer questions at town hall

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University President Anthony Monaco, Provost David Harris and Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell held a town hall-style event yesterday in which they discussed the university’s strategic planning process and answered questions on Tufts initiatives.

“At the core of our mission is, of course, teaching and learning, research and scholarship and how they interact [by] bringing faculty research into the classroom and getting our students involved in faculty research projects,” Monaco said. “Both of these, either on their own or together, can have a real impact on society.”

Monaco emphasized the ways in which the strategic plan, “Tufts:

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“On implementation of this mission and strategic plan, first and foremost we should be supporting our students and faculty across the schools,” he said. “At the same time because of our schools and the unique constellation of them, we should be working across boundaries on both local and global challenges.”

Monaco highlighted several ways in which the school is furthering its mission, including the Bridge to Liberal Arts Success at Tufts (BLAST) program to support first-year college students, fundraising efforts for renovations to the Foster Hospital for Small Animals and the creation of a presidential Task Force on Sexual see TOWN HALL, page 2

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Berger-Sweeney to become Trinity College president Dean of Arts and Sciences Joanne Berger-Sweeney will step down on June 30 to become the president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. A graduate and former associate dean of Wellesley College, BergerSweeney began her current role at Tufts in 2010.

“While I am excited to begin this next chapter in my career, my announcement is tinged with sadness that my affiliation with Tufts is ending,” Berger-Sweeney wrote in a March 27 email to the Tufts community. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Tufts and will cherish the relationships I have formed and people I have met here.”

In looking for a replacement, Tufts administrators will appoint a committee of students, staff and faculty that will search internationally to find a new dean.

The process will likely not be complete until July 1, 2015, Provost David Harris explained.

“The way these things work, the cycle of academics, it’s unlikely we will have a new dean in place before Jan. 1,” he said. “The search takes a while and then these folks are doing things so they can’t come the next day.”

Until that time, an interim dean, to be announced in the next few weeks, will lead the School of Arts and Sciences, Harris said.

The Trinity College Board of Trustees unanimously voted for Berger-Sweeney’s appointment on Tuesday. Shortly after, Berger-Sweeney alerted Tufts administrators about her departure “a little before” announcing it to the university community, Harris said.

Harris praised BergerSweeney’s contributions to the

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Dean of Arts and Sciences Joanne Berger-Sweeny has worked at Tufts since 2010.

School of Arts and Sciences, which range from interdisciplinary hires to the creation of new major and minor programs.

“Joanne has been a tireless proponent of diversity and inclusion,” Harris said. “If you look at the hires that have been made, if you look at what’s happened in terms of the curriculum, it has really been a passion of hers.”

Berger-Sweeney will become Trinity’s first African American and first female president when she assumes her new position on July 1, according to a March 27 announcement from Trinity College. She was in Connecticut yesterday to meet with members

of the Trinity community. Trinity, like Tufts, is a member of the NESCAC. “She has proven herself in areas that coincide closely with, and are important to, Trinity,” Trinity’s Presidential Search Committee chair Cornelia Parsons Thornburgh said in the school’s March 27 announcement. “I strongly believe that her vision of Trinity College as an ‘elite liberal arts college with an urban pulse’ is one that will guide us, inspire us and lead us on a path to distinction and greatness.”

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Education dept. looks toward major, other depts. toward expansion by

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The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate voted unanimously last month to support the addition of an education major — a program previously associated only with graduate school. The decision has sparked programs, like Communication and Media Studies (CMS) and Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies (ELS), to discuss expansion.

The push for an education major, proposed by students, reflects a growing interest among undergraduates. A 2012 TCU Senate survey shows that roughly 70 percent of students believed Tufts could benefit from an education major, according to a March 5 op-ed published in the Daily. With both the high student interest and the Senate vote, Department of Education faculty have discussed how to transform

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its minor-only program into a broader, multifaceted major.

Steven Cohen, a senior lecturer in the Department of Education, discussed his excitement at the possibility of the new major. He has participated in meetings with other faculty to plan the direction an education major could take.

“We’d like it to be a major in the way that community health is a major, so it could be a second major for some people,” Cohen said. “We don’t think, at present, that we actually have enough courses to allow people to have as rich of an experience as a full first major, but also I think there is a lot of value in studying a particular science, or math, humanities or social science. That can help you get a sense of education, as well.”

Overall, Cohen said he is pleased that student interest in the education department has been high. But he pointed out

that it is still in very early stages of development.

“We’ve been delighted with student interest,” he said. “[The major] hadn’t been in the works at all until the students brought it up ... I don’t even know what the process is, honestly.”

Cohen outlined two subject areas for the major — teaching and learning or policy — but emphasized that administrators, not the department, determine how a major operates.

The proposed Department of Education changes are just one example of the potential expansion of Tufts academic programs.

Student interest in both CMS and ELS have grown dramatically in recent years. But neither has solidified a plan to accommodate the increased demand.

Yet the CMS department may be making progress toward see EDUCATION, page 2

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Dividing participants based on their political preferences did not influence the results of the experiment as much as had been expected, according to Kranton. She said that this result suggested that people’s views concerning money are generally selfachieved, rather than being part of any one particular political attitude.

“Individuals do have systematically different behavior,” she said. “Twenty percent of people are actually selfish all the time — across all conditions, regardless of social context — even when giving to people in their own groups.”

Kranton said that she did not believe that much could be done to alter any individual’s social preferences, other than to search

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for the origins of those preferences.

“Our main message is that people are not intrinsically fair,” she said. “Identity matters, behavior depends on social contexts and group divisions, and individuals react differently in settings of group conflict.”

Going forward, Kranton explained that the uses of the experiment’s data remain unclear.

“Of course, this leads to a really big question: What is the source of all these differences?” she asked. “This is a huge question, and I’m not going to claim to have an answer. Right now, there’s not much we can say about that. However, there could be a possible interaction between genetic endowment and the way a particular person has been brought up.”

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Misconduct Prevention. He also commended various faculty and students on recent grants and awards they received.

A large portion of the discussion was focused on the university’s financial state, and how the school can mitigate rising costs without making dramatic increases in tuition. A major part of reducing costs includes streamlining administrative and supporting services, according to Monaco. “[We are trying] to address the trend that our expenses have been rising faster than our income,” he explained. “We can’t keep just making up this gap with increasing our income, and we hope at the end of this endeavor that we can have a savings that will allow us at the school level and at the university level to invest in our future.”

In reviewing the school’s capital planning process, Monaco highlighted planned efforts to raise money for deferred maintenance projects — including an addition to Anderson Hall and a renovation to Barnum Hall. Monaco also updated the audience on the ongoing renovations for 574 Boston Ave., which is scheduled to open in February 2015.

“This is a warehouse that we owned for 25 years but never used for a functional academic space,” he said. “Forty-four different faculty will be moving in there, and that will provide teaching, research and office space for the entire Department of Physics and Astronomy, the entire Occupational Therapy Department, some groups from [Department of] Child Development, as well as the Community Health Program [and] Human Factors Engineering.”

After presenting on the school’s planning process, Monaco, Harris and Campbell accepted questions from the audience and viewers online about the university’s decision to not divest from fossil fuels, possible planning for future online courses and growth in the computer science field — an area that Harris said various schools and offices have allocated additional funding to.

“One of the good things about [the] university is they don’t flow fast to the latest demands,” Harris said. “At the same time, we have to be agile to respond to the market and to needs [and] ... we’ve had a huge increase in student demand in [computer science] ... We’ve authorized the use of some Arts and Sciences resources, [and we] have some

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funds at the level of the provost that we can allocate for helping students. As a result, you will see much more availability of computer science for next year.”

While the administrators would not comment on the ongoing negotiations with the part-time faculty, Campbell did speak about the university’s compensation practices.

“We actually look at our market, and we look at what other employers are intending to do about salaries,” Campbell said. “We also look at what’s happening with inflation. Over a long period of time, surprisingly, we haven’t had significant inflation. [Salary increases] haven’t been out of line with what has happened with the consumer price index, [and] some of our peers have actually worked to reduce benefits, which we have not done.”

In response to a question from Environmental Studies Program Director Colin Orians about reducing competing financial interests among schools, Harris emphasized that the school was working to overcome the hurdles.

“One of the key things for me, at least working through this strategic plan and other things we’ve been doing, is to recognize that this is one university, to recognize that our comparative advantage is not in our individual schools, but is both in our schools and what we can do across our schools,” Harris said. “With respect to fundraising, it’s a challenge we have to work through. It’s a challenge in that we have to be able to work with folks that are interested in philanthropy wherever they may be — across schools — and not be focused too much within schools.”

Overall, Monaco emphasized that the university is working to build its endowment, to increase financial aid and to renovate and strengthen academic and nonacademic programs.

“I think it’s a very exciting time for the university as we think about how as individual students, faculty and staff, at the school level and now at the university-wide level,” Monaco said. “We are going to go from a great university to an outstanding university.

At the same time, we’re trying to address challenges from a very complex environment of funding and regulation. We will continue to support students and maintain that studentcentered research university mission as we advance our teaching, scholarship and our commitment to active citizenship.”

becoming a larger, independent program, according to director of the CMS program Julie Dobrow.

“CMS is something that was born in the ExCollege many years ago, and it has grown and grown,” she said. “Every year we have about 65 to 85 seniors who do the minor ... and then there are hundreds of other students who come to our film screenings and other events that we have on campus, so there are a lot of people who are involved in CMS in some way or another.”

But Tufts has not made any official decisions about expanding the program, she explained.

“It has partially been a question of resources and how we allocate them,” she said. “We’re working towards having a bigger, broader, more serious program ... For us to be able to offer a really solid academic program, we need to add a lot of faculty resources.”

As student demand for business and finance classes has also increased, the ELS program could expand, according to Director of the Gordon Institute Robert Hannemann.

But the nature of entrepreneurial studies does not lend itself well to a major, nor does finance, despite a rising student interest in the field, Hannemann said.

“Many times, entrepreneurship is a subset of a business degree, but we don’t have a business degree, nor do we have a business school or a department of business,” he said.

And there has been no administrative discussion about the creation of a business department.

“I don’t know why that is,” he said. “I would be surprised if there wasn’t interest in that, but ... Tufts has its own lengthy history, and brand and focus and that has never been in the area of business.”

Rather than hope for the creation of a business department, Hannemann pointed to another area of study for those who want to pursue in a business career: economics.

“There is more that one needs to know in terms of management science, in terms of skills in management and leadership, in terms of operating companies that would be appropriate for someone to immediately jump into a higher-level business position,” Hannemann said.

“But as a four-year college degree preparing one to go into the world of business, economics is just fine, as are some of the other majors we have.”

Colin Halvey, a sophomore who is minoring in ELS, discussed his thoughts on the need for expansion in Tufts’ entrepreneurial leadership program.

“Especially given that [yesterday was] #tuftsbestdayever, which is to commemorate the contributions of [alumni] and other notable contributions to the school, ... expanding programs like the ELS program or venturing into having a business school would likely provide Tufts with a greater source of alumni funding, because those individuals tend to contribute disproportionally as compared to others,” he said.

Halvey underscored the need for expansion to develop the tools with which students enter the business world.

“This type of program is excellent for ... providing students here with the skills that they need to survive in a business environment, which is an aspect of being a global citizen — especially considering the increasingly globalized economic conditions that we encounter today,” he said.

Despite Tufts’ lack of a true business program, Hannemann noted that the ELS program continues to be of benefit to students.

“We get lots of positive feedback from our students in entrepreneurship,” he said. “We’re very happy with that.”

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Film adaptation of ‘Need for Speed’ video game franchise is tame, uninspired Aaron Paul shifts television fame to the silver screen by

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The bridge between video games and films is a tough one to cross. There have been

Need for Speed Directed by Scott Waugh Starring Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Scott Mescudi few successful attempts to adapt the fun of a video game into the complete storyline of a movie with (both figurative and literal) three-dimensional characters and “Need for Speed” is no exception.

As Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman drove off into the night in the final episode of an epic five-season journey of “Breaking Bad” (2008-2013), he realized he could now do anything. Paul himself must have come to a similar conclusion as “Breaking Bad” neared its end and ultimately decided to delve into the world of street racing.

The film adaptation of the incredibly popular game franchise “Need for Speed” tries to create a film set in a world many have already experienced. The story follows Tobey Marshall (Paul) as he travels

across the country with his financial backer’s right-hand woman, Julia (Imogen Poots), and the rest of his crew to compete in a secret race. The film spends entirely too long setting up the background for this contest: Tobey’s young racing apprentice and friend is killed in a race against his boss, Dino (Dominic Cooper), who then frames Tobey for manslaughter, sending him to jail. Two years later, Tobey is released from prison and our wrongly convicted protagonist begins planning how to get his revenge on Dino.

Nothing has changed in the two years Tobey spent locked up — there is no character evolution here. His stance on street racing remains the same, and the viewers are simply supposed to accept this because more racing needs to happen for the sake of plot progression. Indeed, the writers often take the easy way out in order to advance the storyline, without considering how their characters would actually react. Ironically, they seem to have stuck too closely to the video game genre. In the world of “Need for Speed” there are no consequences to actions and getting sent to jail is like pushing a reset button.

At several points, the racers

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Aaron Paul, of ‘Breaking Bad’ fame, plays main character Tobey Marshall in ‘Need for Speed.’ crash into other cars or innocent bystanders for no real reason other than for the purpose of entertainment-value.

If the writers assumed, however, that audiences would be fully engaged by watching onscreen adrenaline junkies slam on the clutch, grab onto the stick shift and leave behind them both a trail of smoke, they thought wrong.

The cars, however, are a particular highlight of the movie. Ranging from classic American muscle cars to beautiful Swedish supercars,

this film is an auto enthusiast’s dream. Furthermore, no CGI was used in the making of the film, which is surprising, because some of the stunts are quite impressive. Though this helps to ground the film in reality, the issue is that despite the admirable choice to actually do all the stunts, all the action seemed a bit restrained. The appeal of the “Fast and Furious” franchise is the unchecked madness of the action sequences. What keeps viewers coming back sequel after sequel is the question of

what new insanity filmmakers will come up with next. If “Need for Speed” were to have gone this route, however, it would likely be criticized for trying to copy the success of the already well-established “Fast and Furious” series.

This ultimately left “Need for Speed” in an unfortunate spot where the writers had to choose between copying a winning formula or tell a boring story. The truth is, however, they probably shouldn’t have made the movie in the first place.

Album Review

Perfect Pussy crafts fiery, assertive debut ‘Say Yes to Love’ packs serious punch by

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Sometimes it is the most convoluted, indecipherable messages that are ultimately able to have strongest impact. This is where

Say Yes to Love Perfect Pussy Captured Tracks Perfect Pussy finds its strength; despite the group’s often hard-to-understand lyrics, their music is both powerful and compelling.

Their debut album, “Say Yes To Love,” is a

forceful, fiery experience, a 23-minute tirade that seems to be on the verge of going too far without ever actually breaking down. And, it turns out, resting on this edge is satisfying.

Perfect Pussy has a rather unconventional history. After several Syracuse, N.Y.-based punk artists were invited to perform as a fake band in a film, they decided to make their on-screen stint a reality, and began playing shows and gaining a following. Singer Meredith Graves recruited some more friends and former bandmates, and eventually the musicians were writing music and performing together regularly.

The one-time faux band, however, has created an album that is anything but fake.

The eight-song “Say Yes to Love” is shockingly addictive in its replay value and delivers

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Perfect Pussy’s new album is unapologetic in its exploration of themes such as conformity and sexuality.

a bold statement although what exactly is being said is often hidden beneath the unintelligible screaming of frontwoman Graves.

“Unintelligible,” however, might not exactly be the best word; one gets a feeling that the shouting of the post-hardcore punk band surely carries a meaningful message, and when the lyrics are actually comprehensible this idea is confirmed. Indeed, as Graves stated in an Oct. 30 interview with Pitchfork, she sings about “really awful things most of the time, but they’re happy revelations about incendiary events.”

The album is both assertive and unapologetic, and although its feminist influences are definitely present (the group’s name, for starters, is an example of this), the songs strike a balance between pride in sexuality and confusion with the state of the world and relationships. Indeed, by creating a band name that is so taboo, Perfect Pussy has made a conscious decision to face potentially delicate issues head on. Any critics must also realize that the group’s ironic sense of self-awareness is present in their imperfection and vulgarity.

On the track that inspired the album’s title, “Interference Fits,” Graves wonders, “When did we all decide to give up? / Since when do we say yes to love?” over raucous noise and pleasing guitar riffs. This question of conformity is a common theme on the album, and the certainty of the lyrics is belied by hints of self-consciousness that sometimes leak through. When Graves shouts these questions, listeners get a glimpse of the cultural curiosity present on the record, and this is where the work truly shines. By using their sound as a framework for these challenges, Perfect Pussy’s questions are even more effective.

Opening with a rough introduction of guitars, soon accompanied by noisy vocals, the first track, “Driver,” leaves listeners prepared for the wild exertion that is to follow. “Say Yes To Love” is somewhat frontloaded, as the final two tracks, which encompasses about

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Frontwoman Michelle Graves shines on Perfect Pussy’s debut album. eight minutes — or a whole third — of the album, are nowhere near as intense as the earlier tracks. Indeed, these numbers, which heavily feature ambient noises and spoken words, seem to waste space on an otherwise excellent record.

Each song on “Say Yes to Love” consists of a network of sounds, and the band explained in a Feb. 25 interview with NME Magazine that they do a clean recording of the instrumentation before adding “noisepunk” in with keyboard effects and vocals.

This effect is surprising in its ease of listening — though some might worry that this sort of punk would be tough to sit through, they need not be concerned: Every minute is enjoyable. This is not to say that Perfect Pussy will appeal to all audiences. However, for those who appreciate its emotional sentiment and excellently layered sound, this album is a new classic. After listening to “Say Yes to Love,” fans will eagerly look forward to further releases from the group, which will undoubtedly continue to capture the attention of the music world.

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and Joel Embiid, Duke’s Jabari Parker and Kentucky’s Julius Randle. Of those four freshmen, only one — Randle — remains. Although Dick Vitale is surely sick to his stomach that he can’t talk about Duke or “Diaper Dandies” for the rest of the tournament, the rest of the country will be treated to fundamental basketball from teams that have been playing together for several years now.

Mercer’s upset win over Duke, and tenth-seeded Stanford’s victory over second-seeded Kansas solidified the fact that having a few very talented players does not necessarily trump having a talented team. Eighthseeded Kentucky has been the one exception to that rule this tournament, as it started all freshmen on its way to being the first team to beat first-seeded, and previously undefeated, Wichita State. Regardless, the tournament this year has been a national showcase for how far a team of “one-and-doners” can get a team in March.

The best of the rest In only five days of gameplay, a tournament of 64 teams has been reduced to 12 teams.

So who is left? Although the

results of the Florida-UCLA game were unavailable as of press time, the Gators thus far have lived up to their billing as the top team in the tournament, behind the guard play of senior Scottie Wilbekin and inside presence of classmate Patric Young. Fourth-seeded Michigan State was everybody’s favorite pick for the title before the tournament began, and has given people no reason to change their pick. The Spartans feature a well-balanced attack, with four players averaging double figures, and two, sophomore guard Gary Harris and senior forward Adreian Payne, averaging over 16 points per game. Lastly, Kentucky remains an exciting sleeper pick. Despite starting the season as the No. 1 team in the nation, the Wildcats faltered during the year and slipped in the tournament as an eight seed. Now though, with Randle dominating the paint and freshmen Aaron and Andrew Harrison beginning to play to their potential, Kentucky has become one of the most dangerous teams in the tournament. But then again, nobody ever knows what will happen during March Madness, so you’ll just have to watch to find out.

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Tufts cruises to sixth win of season by

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The No. 6 men’s lacrosse team defeated Western New England 18-7 on Tuesday in Springfield, Mass. The Jumbos improve to 6-1 on the season and now ride a two-game winning streak after their loss last week to defending national champion, No. 4 Stevenson.

Leading the way for the Jumbos were senior tri-captain midfielder Beau Wood, who notched five goals and two assists, junior attackman Cole Bailey, who recorded one goal and three assists and sophomore attacker John Uppgren, who added two goals and three assists. Senior goalkeeper Patton Watkins also had a season-high 17 saves on the game.

Similar to Saturday’s victory over Trinity, Tufts got out to a fast start, scoring the first four goals in the game. After giving up one goal to Western New England senior Adam Knapton in the sixth minute, the Jumbos went on another 5-0 run to end the quarter up 9-1. Six different Jumbos tallied points in the first quarter — including Wood, Bailey, Uppgren, senior tri-captain defenseman Kane Delaney and junior midfielder Ryan Le — all of whom contributed to a prodigious offensive assault and helped the Jumbos outshoot the Golden Bears by a margin of 21-8.

“The biggest thing was our ability to win face-offs,” Wood said. “That definitely got us the ball without them ever getting a possession for our first seven to eight goals. We also did very well on groundballs, which was another way we gave the offense procession.”

Tufts scored quickly again in the second quarter with two goals in the first four minutes, increasing its lead to 11. The Jumbos then continued on a 3-0 run fueled by goals from sophomore midfielders Garrett Clarke and Peter Gill. Western New England scored two goals late in the quarter, but Tufts tacked on one more to increase the lead to 15-4. Tufts outshot Western New England only 14-13 in the period, but, unlike the home team, it was able to convert on its opportunities.

After a first half that saw a combined 19 goals scored, the pace of the second half slowed down immensely. No

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Sophomore John Uppgren contributed five points to a well-balanced offensive attack in his team’s 18-7 win over Western New England on Tuesday. goals were scored for the first five minutes of the third quarter until Wood netted his fifth goal, unassisted, right before the six-minute mark. Western New England went on to close the quarter with two goals, but failed to capitalize on 12 other shot attempts.

“Western New England is a team we have a great amount of respect for,” head coach Mike Daly said. “We were pretty lucky to get off to such a good start mid-week on the road, but our guys also did a great job coming off of that bus and being ready. Western New England is a proud program, and they just kept coming at us.”

Goals continued to evade Tufts through the fourth quarter. The Jumbos scored the first two goals of the quarter, one from sophomore midfielder Kyle Howard-Johnson and one from senior midfielder Matt Montgomery, which was the first of his Tufts career. The Golden Bears tacked on one more goal with 31 seconds left in the game to leave the final score at 18-7.

After seven games, the Jumbos remain one of the top offensive teams in the nation.

Since Tuesday’s victory against Western New England, Tufts has gone from third to first in the nation for total offense, averaging 19.0 goals per game.

Tufts’ attack has been both potent and well-balanced, evinced no more conspicuously than in its victory over Western New England, in which 13 Tufts players recorded points.

“We have great players first and foremost,” Daly said, referring to the team’s offensive success this season. “Coach [Taylor] Harris, coach [Sean] Kirwan and coach [Scott] Rynne all do a great job with the facets of the game that lead to all that scoring, and it really is a reflection of our team.”

Tufts’ defense has also played well, limiting opponents to single-digit scoring in four of its last five games.

“On offense we push it so fast that we sometimes turn it over, which puts a lot of pressure on our defense,” Wood said. “They’ve been doing a great job of holding [the] teams we’ve been playing to low numbers.”

Junior attacker Chris Schoenhut also recorded three more goals against Western New England to increase his season total to a team-high 29. Through Saturday’s game against Trinity he is ranked fifth in the nation with 4.17 goals per game.

Tufts’ next game is this Saturday at home against the 6-2 Connecticut College Camels.

Inside NCAA

Inside NCAA: Breaking down the madness

by Jake Indursky

Daily Editorial Board

With the Sweet 16 currently in action, and the Elite Eight coming up on Saturday and Sunday, March Madness is officially in full swing. The NCAA tournament, which began on March 18, has been a whirlwind of overtime thrillers, upset specials and for some teams, devastating losses. True to its aforementioned nickname, the tournament has been true madness. With only 12 teams left standing from the original 64, the Daily is here to help break down what has happened in the first week of the tournament.

Overtime thrillers The theme of the tournament this

year has been teams needing more than 40 minutes to complete their games — and nobody is complaining. On the first day of the round of 64, four games went to overtime, setting the record for number of overtime games in one day.

The very next day, the tournament saw its fifth overtime game, which set the record for overtime games in the round of 64. Several games were instant classics: the fifth-seeded St. Louis Billikens’ furious comeback against the 12thseeded North Carolina State Wolfpack on Thursday, and 12th-seeded Stephen F. Austin State’s miracle 4-point shot with 10 seconds in regulation to tie its game with fifth-seeded Virginia Commonwealth. Although there were no overtimes in the round of 32, if the first two days are any indication, this

tournament is shaping up to be one of the most exciting in years.

Busted brackets galore It is never truly March Madness without upsets, and this tournament has been no exception. The biggest first round shock was 14th-seeded Mercer toppling college basketball-behemoth third-seeded Duke. The Blue Devils, who were 13.5-point favorites according to Bovada, were unable to handle a pesky Bears team that featured a starting lineup of all seniors. Although the 12-seed over five-seed upset is always a trendy pick, a shocking three 12-seeds lived to play in the round of 32, the most surprising of which was previously unheard of North Dakota State. No. 7-seed UConn and No. 10-seed Stanford

were also giant killers, taking down No. 2-seeds Villanova and Kansas in the round of 32, respectively. Finally, as of press time, one of the last Cinderella teams dancing was 11th-seeded Dayton, who took down sixth-seeded Ohio State 60-59 in the round of 64, and then toppled third-seeded Syracuse in the round of 32, 55-53. Although the games were entertaining, most people were left cursing their mangled brackets by the end of last weekend.

The disappearance of the “Diaper Dandies” One of the biggest themes of the 2014 college basketball season was the freshmen class: Kanas’ Andrew Wiggins see INSIDE NCAA, page 7