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New provost holds town hall meeting with students Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris met with students yesterday to discuss his career path and goals for Tufts. The meeting was a part of the “A Look Within” discussion series hosted by the Office of Intercultural and Social Identities Programs. The series is meant to allow students to speak with professionals and learn from their experiences, according to Africana Center Director Katrina Moore, who introduced Harris. As provost, Harris is the chief academic officer of the university and will work on a number of financial, academic and diversity-related initiatives, he said. Harris assumed his position as Tufts’ provost on July 1 as the result of a search process that began when former Provost Jamshed Bharucha left Tufts at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year. Harris listed several goals for the year, including meeting people at Tufts and getting to know Tufts’ programs. He said that it is extremely important for the administration to communicate with by

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students while planning for the university. “Part of the challenge for us as administrators is always to make sure that we are creating and supporting institutions and environments that resonate with today’s challenges,” he said. After speaking about his background and career path, Harris answered questions from members of the audience about the promotion of diversity at Tufts and the university’s future. Harris said he believes that there should be a holistic effort in place to understand the challenges of minority groups at Tufts and that faculty, students and the Group of Six — a group of six cultural centers at Tufts that promote diversity — could all contribute to this effort. He noted that Tufts is in the process of figuring out what role research plays at the university. “It’s a university that is different from what it was 30 years ago, in the sense that it’s increasingly focused on research,” he said. Sophomore Genesis Garcia asked Harris his opinion on whether students see HARRIS, page 2

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The university will this year present a five-year plan for campus construction spending to the Board of Trustees.

University launches five-year capital planning blueprint by

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The university has begun drafting a five-year blueprint for capital expenditures on maintenance and construction across Tufts’ campuses that will lay out the priorities for each school and program, including plans for a new science building on the Medford/ Somerville campus. The long-term plan for committing funds is a move away from the university’s historically more reactionary approach to capital planning, Vice President of Operations Dick Reynolds said. “We used to ask [the schools] every year, ‘What do you need for capital?’ But then what would happen is that instead of it being put together as a

university-wide plan, it ended up just with the squeaky wheel getting the grease,” he said. The blueprint will act as an approximate agenda for capital spending across the university based on the priorities of University President Anthony Monaco and the leadership of each school. “We’re saying, let’s take a look at what are the priorities over the next five years. We can have a pretty good idea of what cash is going to be available over the next five years for expenditure in capital items, so now we’ve got to get into setting priorities and having the uses equal the sources, at least from a planning standpoint,” Reynolds said. see CAPITAL, page 2

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A student network focusing on rape culture and consent at Tufts convened for the first time this month.

Students develop network against rape culture by

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A group of students earlier this month gathered at the Crafts House to create a student network centered on discussing sexual assault and consent at Tufts. The network aims to foster communication among student groups with common interests, as well as among individuals concerned with rape culture on campus, according to President of Tufts Voices for Choice (VOX) Rachel Greenspan, a meeting organizer. “There are a lot of really wonderful groups working on similar initiatives around consent and rape and sexual assault, but there hasn’t been a mechanism for communication among the groups as well as individu-

als who are interested in this,” Greenspan, a senior, said. The meeting was attended by students from groups such as Prevention, Awareness & Community at Tufts (PACT); Students Promoting Equality, Awareness and Compassion; VOX; Students Acting for Gender Equality; The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center; Tufts Queer Straight Alliance; and the Panhellenic Council at Tufts, according to Greenspan. Although the network has not yet been named, the meeting served as a starting point for students to brainstorm the group’s goals and initiatives, she said. “We’re not an established entity yet,” Greenspan said. “So far it is just a meeting. We were trying to figure out our own pursee NETWORK, page 2

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Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner last night delivered a public address on the global economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Fernández touched upon the state of her home country, which she claimed has been strengthened by recent administrations. “If you compare Argentina today with how it was in 2001 or 2003 — a country with no strong leader, with people rallying against their politicians and unemployment rates around 35 percent — much has been transformed for the better since then,” she said. In the past decade, Argentina has experienced unprecedented debt reduction, created five million jobs and become the country with the highest minimum wage in Latin America, she said. Nonetheless, Argentina’s financial growth has stalled somewhat in the past year. Fernandez said that this is to be expected in an increasingly interconnected global environment, and she urged nations to react to this reality accordingly. “We need to join efforts in the international community in order to overcome this crisis, which is clearly becoming political in nature,” she said. “We need to come up with global instruments that are not the ones we currently have.” Fernández claimed that nations would have to adopt policies that are significantly dif-

ferent than those of organizations like the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization, which she believes have not been able to operate effectively in the global economy for the past decade. She added that economic policies would have to be dramatically overhauled in nations as debt-ridden as Greece and Spain. “Sooner or later we’ll have to see a major debt restructuring in these crisis-struck nations,” she predicted. “The situation is that urgent.” Fernández explained that this type of ingenuity must be displayed not just in the global economy, but also by organizations such as the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which Argentina is set to join in 2013. “[The UNSC] has lost its ability to operate effectively in today’s world,” she said. “The world in which it was founded ... is over. Today there are different circumstances and different problems which we have to react to.” She ended her speech on an optimistic note, stressing that economic and political challenges can be confronted effectively as long as nations are open to fresh ideas. “It’s very unlikely that the same medicine that caused the disease will also cure the patient,” she said. “You either have to get rid of the medicine, or the doctor, or both.” —by Josh Weiner

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Sci-fi thriller “Looper” provides an insightful take on a classic timetravel theme.

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pose, what are the merits of collaboration. We are trying to pull out specific initiatives so they can involve students from a wide variety of groups. There is so much creativity and so many ideas brought to the table.” Among the ideas moving forward are initiatives such as creating a print publication and a documentary, as well as holding sexual consent workshops and working with administrators, Greenspan said. Sharing ideas will allow for better coordination and collaboration among many groups on campus, according to PACT member Kumar Ramanathan, a meeting organizer. “The main purpose is to have a solid network so that the individual groups within it can achieve their goals as well as possible,” Ramanathan, a sophomore, said.

An objective of the network is to spread awareness about the sexual assault policy at Tufts, he said, adding that the group will work to educate students about the health and counseling resources available on campus. Meeting attendee Lauren Border, a senior, expressed similar feelings about the future ambitions of the group. “It’s very grandiose, but I think our overall goal would be to ameliorate the rape culture that is so prevalent on campus because we all know a survivor whether or not you know it,” she said. The network may also promote a sense of community among students with similar goals, Greenspan said. “It’s important to have support when you’re working on weighty issues,” Greenspan said. “Especially around such a difficult and emotional issue, it’s so important to have a community around it.”

Several individuals not affiliated with student organizations came to the meeting to hear and discuss ideas as well, according to Greenspan. Border said she decided to attend after learning about it through word of mouth and seeing the event listed on Facebook. “I personally wanted to get involved on campus in some preventative education initiatives surrounding sexual violence because I see how important this issue is,” she said. The group plans to meet again within the next couple of weeks and encourages all students to get involved, according to Greenspan. “There has been a growing awareness of the extent of the impact and the pervasiveness of this issue,” Greenspan said. “There was this outpour of energy. The commitment and momentum is very exciting. You don’t see that in every group.”

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should be required to take a class in social justice at Tufts. Harris responded that rather than a single required class, all classes should be conscious of diversity issues. Tufts Community Union Senate President Wyatt Cadley, a senior, asked

Harris, “Why Tufts?” Harris said he had heard Tufts described as “a university poised.” “It has aspirations and is in the process,” Harris said. “That was exciting to me.” Harris said he was also struck by meeting University President Anthony Monaco and thought that they together would

make a good team for the university. Harris advised students to stay flexible and follow their hearts in choosing what to do with their careers, as he did not foresee his career bringing him to a position of provost. “It’s nothing I had any idea I’d be doing before ten, or certainly fifteen years ago,” he said.

Construction plan to include new science building CAPITAL

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The new capital projects will draw from money already on the books, including the proceeds of a $250 million so-called “Century Bond” the university sold in March to 24 different buyers to help fund deferred maintenance projects. The plan will be proposed this year to the Board of Trustees for approval, according to an Aug. 30 memo from Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell to university faculty and staff. Before then, Reynolds said, the university will gather input from across the different schools to determine how to allocate the money. “We’re asking each of the schools and each of the major departments, like [University Information Technology] or Dining Services what are their needs over the next five years,” he said.

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Campbell wrote in her memo that a new science building on the Medford/ Somerville campus will be one of the priorities listed in the plan. “While this project was previously put on hold due to the constraints of the financial markets, the space needs for academic and scientific research remain paramount,” she wrote. Reynolds said the project is a priority for Monaco, and therefore will likely remain a fixture in the plan for spending over the next five years. “We’re pretty sure that the science building is going to make the cut,” he said. “It’s a major theme for President Monaco, and Barnum is in awful shape.” The plan is a flexible one, subject to the changing needs of each school and limited resources, he added. “We already know that there are more things that people want to do than there is cash available,” Reynolds said. “We’re now going back and just

started meeting one on one with each of the schools, with the deans and their executive associate deans, and really having just a hard talk about priorities because we’re not going to be able to do everything.” The plan will take into account which campuses and schools have been allocated funds for capital projects in recent memory. “We’re going to be looking at where [we have] been spending money over the last several years,” Reynolds said. “At some point there will be some projects that will get taken off the list that I’m sure people will be unhappy about.” Other projects, such as the last stages of the ongoing overhaul of the Hill’s athletic facilities, will be taken off the list of expenditures and will rely on donations for completion. “That’ll have to wait for someone writing some big checks,” Reynolds said.

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P!nk’s latest record is exceptional pop album

by Caroline Welch Daily Editorial Board In Pink’s 12-year career, she has won three Grammys, recorded 11 top-10 singles and sold more than 13 million records.

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RCA With all those achievements to her name, it’s about time she had a No. 1 album. Sure enough, Pink’s most recent musical venture, “The Truth About Love,” debuted at the top of the Billboard Top 200 on Wednesday morning, beating out other formidable contenders like Kanye West’s “G.O.O.D,” Music’s “Cruel Summer” and The Killers’ “Battle Born.” She deserves it. The singer-songwriter’s sixth studio release is 13 tracks of refreshingly honest, feisty and funny lyrics paired with infectiously catchy pop music. Though she stays true to her fiery, say-what-I-want persona, this time Pink pushes herself even further by incorporating more sentimentality and seriousness into her songs. This delicate balance of edginess and solemnity is what makes her new album so successful. “The Truth About Love” is a diverse collection of tunes that cover everything from depth to dancing, from profundity to partying. The album opens with “All We Are We Are,” an angry, forceful declaration that Pink dubbed, “my angry protest song.” The introduction begins with a repeated riff of what sounds like muted cheering amidst thick, heavy drumming. Then a frenzied electronic plucking starts, which produces an uneasy musical anxiety. As the chorus escalates, Pink’s distinctively rough voice breaks into the hook: “We

are the people that you’ll never get the best of / not forget the rest of, rest of / We’ve got it all, we’ve had enough, we’ve had it up in here,” she belts. With its perpetual, driving motion, “All We Are We Are” is an angst-ridden, yet introspective anthem. It’s the perfect lead-in for the next 12 songs. Three tracks later Pink, sounds like an entirely different performer. “Just Give Me a Reason” is a raw piano ballad. Compared to her other heavily produced tunes, this one is stripped-down and simple. Over aching piano chords, Pink displays her true vocal talent. She teams up with Nate Ruess of Fun. and the two sing poignantly of a dying relationship. Poetic lyrics are littered through the verses, transforming the tune from mere entertainment into art. In the third stanza, the duo echoes one another saying, “Oh tear ducts and rust / I’ll fix it for us / We’re collecting dust / But our love’s enough.” The chorus does pick up and develops into a rhythmic chanting that drowns the gentle piano in a sea of dense percussion. Though the refrain stays faithful to Pink’s pop roots, “Reason” sounds more like a confessional than the typical “bubblegum” material of the music industry. In a similar fashion, Pink again showcases her voice on “Beam Me Up,” a slow melody isolating her singing against a minimal backdrop of acoustic guitar and heart-rending orchestral strings. There is almost a sense of religiosity embedded in her words, as if when she implores, “Beam me up / let me be lighter, tired of being a fighter,” she is talking with some higher power. In the following track, “Walk of Shame,” Pink also has a conversation with God, but this time it’s a little different. “Please, God, don’t let any one see me / Please, God, I’ll do anything you’ll ask me” she promises, praying that no one sees her

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Pink’s latest album pushes her even further as an artist. while she waits for the elevator in the morning while still wearing last night’s dress. A high-pitched whistling, fast clapping noises and electric guitar notes coalesce to create a head-bobbing, foottapping, lighthearted jam. Here, however, the focus is her lyrical content: a witty, edgy and absolutely hysterical account

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Movie Review

Through modern ingenuity, ‘Looper’ reinvigorates sci-fi by

Kumar Ramanathan Contributing Writer

What happens when you meet your future or past self? Theatergoers will find out when

Looper Starring Joseph GordonLevitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt Directed by Rian Johnson “Looper’s” protagonist confronts his future self within the first half of the film in a comical scene that acts as a set-up instead of a climax. This quiet defiance of expectations characterizes the sharp, smart sci-fi thriller as an original addition to a resurging genre. From the first scene, “Looper” offers grit and realism. The audience is immediately introduced to guns called “blunderbusses” that only shoot at close range and drugs administered through eye drops. In this world, political power is organized around city-states, skinny jeans and hipster jackets are retro and telekinesis is a minor genetic mutation used as an awkward flirting technique. “Looper’s” intensively detailed world gives the film a weight and believability that engulfs the audience even before the plotline becomes evident. The film presents “loopers” as high-profile hitmen who

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives a strong performance in the new sci-fi thriller. work for organized criminal gangs from the future. The gangs send their victims back in time to be killed in the cleanest possible fashion, each kill

awarding the assassin “looper” a fat paycheck. The film opens with the titular looper, Joseph Simmons, played by Joseph Gordon-

Levitt, living in Kansas City in the year 2044. Everything goes wrong when a version of Joseph from 2072, played by Bruce Willis, is sent back

and runs loose in the world of 2044. A three-way chase ensues between the two Joes and their mob employers. Writer-director Rian Johsnon previously worked on “Brick” (2007), a neo-noir cult classic, and “The Brothers Bloom” (2009), a con-man story. In “Looper,” he places himself firmly in the realm of existentialist and individualist science fiction, a genre that has been emerging in the past decade of American film. From “Moon” (2009) to “District 9” (2009), these films balance intimate human stories against bleak, dystopian settings. In an attempt to address themes that stretch deeper than the plot, “Looper” uses time travel to ask questions about identity and morality instead of resorting to the tired trope of alternate timelines. The audience is asked to wonder whether a 55-year-old family man is in any meaningful way the same person as his hedonistic 25-year-old self. Given their different desires and moral codes, Willis’ and Levitt’s respective Joes clash from the moment they meet. The older Joe tries to get the other to work to his agenda, but the younger isn’t having any of it. Why should he abandon his self-fulfillment for a future he has not yet chosen? As with the other films in the modern sci-fi canon, “Looper” directly addresses the quessee LOOPER, page 4

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Pop star P!nk continues to please fans with her infectious, fierce songs.

A story of two selves meeting, ‘Looper’ questions the dynamics of time and space.

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as the most characteristically crass and candid of the album. From the get-go, Pink declares, “I’m not a slut, I just love, love!” The beat is driving and the music is irresistibly fun. In this case, however, it’s the comically blunt and hilariously outspoken words that are most reminiscent of the Pink audiences know and love. Lines like, “You don’t win a prize with your googly eyes / I’m not a cracker jack / You can’t go

inside / Unless I let you Jack, or Sam? / Haha f**k, what’s your name again?” are both funny and empowering, proving that Pink has not lost an ounce of her raucousness and honesty. These days, musical variety is hard to find, especially among pop artists. Pink brings back everything listeners love about her, but she also successfully pushes the envelope. She is a veteran, but also an innovator. “The Truth About Love” proves that even after 12 years, Pink still has it.

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tions of this particular time through its own cinematic conventions. The film asks whether the audience as individuals can make meaningful choices in a world where information is more often than not incomplete and choices seem predetermined by greater forces. There is enough depth in the film’s questions and answers to fill a full-length novel. “Looper” trips over its own cleverness and uniqueness, though. By including a

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few large-scale chase sequences, a forced yet brief romantic subplot and an overbearing shoot-out in the third act, the film almost ruins the tension. Fortunately, the film’s powerful and explosive ending leaves any minor missteps forgotten. Johnson deserves further recognition for making a film as bold as this out of an original story. In a time when most major box-office films screen with the expectation of a sequel, “Looper” adds an exciting element of the unknown back into the theater.

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terpieces of the system: senior quarterback Trevor Smith and senior captain tailback Patrick George, a duo which factored in all four touchdowns and combined for 167 of Bates’ 218 rushing yards against Tufts last year. With most of their offensive line returning as well, the Bobcats are now in even better position to run the option effectively. In practice this week, the Jumbos tried to ensure they will be better prepared for the triple-option this time around. “It’s an offense that you’ve got to, defensively, be very disciplined with,” Civetti said. “You’ve got to stick with your assignments, or they’ll gash you.”

Exploiting the 3-5-3 Offense is not the only area where Bates is a bit quirky — head coach Mark Harriman also employs a 3-5-3 defense, which focuses heavily on stopping the run and limited the Jumbos to 18 rushing yards in last year’s contest. “It’s a much different look than we’ve seen from any other team,” senior center Sam Stone said. “This week is something special. It’s a chance to come out with a new slate, new calls, some new plays, new preparation.” On the flip side, this should give senior quarterback John Dodds -— who is in for injured sophomore Jack Doll — a chance to air it out to his receivers. “With Dodds back there, I think we’re going to be in pretty good shape to pick them apart in ways that we’re not usually able to pick

apart teams,” Stone said. “I think that it’s a good opportunity for our wide receivers to put on a show, and I think Dodds is going to take advantage of that.” Bates is returning just three starters on defense, including AllNESCAC defensive backs senior Kyle Starr and junior Andrew Kukesh. Neighborhood watch During Wednesday night’s practice, while the Jumbos were running plays in preparation for Saturday’s game, Civetti approached a man looking on from the Bello Field bleachers. Civetti just wanted to be safe — after all, New England football teams have been caught spying before. “I’m just a neighbor watching,” the observer assured him. “As long as you’re not from Bates,” Civetti replied.

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After getting beaten by Bates 28-9 last season, the football team will look to return to winning ways against the Bobcats on Homecoming.

Inside MLB

Orioles overcome steep odds, in playoff hunt by

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Following 15 consecutive losing seasons, the 2012 Baltimore Orioles, despite their 89-67 record, don’t have the makeup of a traditional contender, and their characteristics might fail to convince many doubters that they can compete with the league’s elite clubs. The Orioles have suffered devastating injuries to starting outfielders Nick Markakis and Nolan Reimond, starting second baseman Brian Roberts, and starting pitchers Jason Hammel and Tsuyoshi Wada among others, forcing manager Buck Showalter to perpetually shuffle his batting order and pitching staff. Consequently, the Orioles have hardly dominated their opponents, having given up one more run than they have scored this season. Some critics attribute Baltimore’s success to luck, pointing to the fact that the O’s are a league-leading 27-9 in one-run games and 16-2 in games that go to extra innings. Baltimore leads in almost no team or individual statistical categories either. They rank 20th in team batting average, 13th in runs scored, 17th in team ERA, and 17th in batting average against. No Orioles regular is hitting above .300, and no pitcher in the current starting rotation has an ERA below 3.00. What’s more, the Orioles lack the star power that most other playoff contenders possess. The team’s only potential star player and its lone consistent hitter throughout the course of the season has been center fielder Adam Jones, who ranks eighth in the American League with 32 home runs, third with 101 runs scored, and 10th in the league with a .517 slugging percentage. But besides Jones, no Baltimore hitter really strikes fear in the hearts of opposing pitchers.

Therefore, it may be fair to call this team a fluke, a statistical anomaly that is defying logic and conventional wisdom and that stands little chance in a playoff series against American League powerhouses such as the Texas Rangers or New York Yankees. But there’s no denying the success of this year’s team, especially at this point in the season. With six games to play, the Orioles currently stand 1.5 games behind the Yankees for first place in the American League East and two games in front of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for the second wildcard spot. Barring a collapse and a push from the Angles or the Tampa Bay Rays, who are three games back in the wildcard race, Baltimore should clinch its first playoff appearance since 1997. The question then arises: how have the Orioles won so many games this season? How are the Orioles 22 games above .500 and in such strong playoff position despite their numerous, obvious deficiencies? One possible reason might be Showalter, the presumed favorite for American League Manager of the Year. Known for his ability to turn around bad teams quickly, Showalter has worked his magic in just his second season in Baltimore, imploring the Orioles to believe in themselves and their ability since the beginning of Spring Training. Showalter should also receive credit for the tactical moves made to help enable Baltimore’s success in one-run and extra-inning games. Another key factor has been the consistency of the Orioles’ bullpen. All-Star closer Jim Johnson leads the unit with 48 saves, good for first in the American League. But in addition to Johnson, Baltimore has gotten steady pitching out of setup man Pedro Stope

and specialty relievers Luis Ayala, Darren O’Day, and Troy Patton. New general manager Dan Duquette, who spent eight years in charge of the Boston Red Sox from 1994 to 2002, stressed the importance of a quality bullpen during the offseason and did a stellar job assembling a group that has excelled throughout the season. Finally, the Orioles have used the long ball to score runs in bunches and make up for their poor team batting average. Baltimore ranks second in MLB in home runs with 204, trailing only the Yankees. First baseman Mark Reynolds, despite hitting only .227, has been a key contributor with 23 homers. The same goes for outfielder Chris Davis, who is second on the team with 28 home runs but has struck out 160 times. Catcher Matt Wieters and shortstop J.J. Hardy have also contributed, slamming 22 and 21 homers, respectively. Until the team’s great decline over the last decade, the Orioles had one of the greatest winning traditions in the league. From 1966 to 1983, Baltimore appeared in six World Series, winning three, and had a higher overall winning percentage than any other club. In 1997, the Orioles led the American League East for the entire season and were just two wins away from appearing in another World Series championship. What 2012 has done, in effect, is make the Orioles relevant once again. Crowds are flocking to Oriole Park at Camden Yards in higher numbers than have been seen over the last several years. For the first time in over a decade, the Orioles have captivated the city with a September pennant race. Regardless of how the Orioles finish the year, the resurgence of baseball in Baltimore has surely made the 2012 season a resounding success.

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tiebreakers, which showed how tough our team is.” Earlier in the week against MIT, though, victory did not come as easily, as the Jumbos were forced to grind out a tight 5-4 victory against the Engineers in the first match of the season. Tufts, which has won its past three matches with MIT by a combined score of 23-4, got all it could handle from the Engineers, who at one point had the match tied at 2-2 until the Jumbos rattled off three straight wins to go up 5-2 and clinch their first win of the season. While the Jumbos took two of the three doubles matches, the Engineers equalized the score thanks to sophomore Lauren Quisenberry’s win over Katz. However, Hollender, Schonfeld and Lam won all three of their singles’ matches to put the Engineers away, showing the resiliency that will be necessary if the team wants to go far this season. “Our team dynamic is responsible for our wins against MIT and Brandeis,” Bowman said. The team will look to ride its growing confidence and chemistry to victory as it gears up for the ITA Regional Championship held at MIT this weekend.

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first gives us a lot of confidence going forward in the game.” The Jumbos failed to add to their lead for the remainder of the half, but entered the intermission up by two after outshooting the Nor’easters by a 15-3 margin. In the second half, Tufts head coach Tina McDavitt, confident in her team’s lead, elected to play some of the Jumbos’ younger and less experienced players, hoping to give them some in-game experience and time to mesh with the starting unit. The Nor’easters capitalized on

the change of personnel, upping their intensity to turn the pressure on the Jumbos’ defense. Just a minute into the second half, UNE junior quad-captain Casey Clark charged the cage and connected with fellow quad-captain Hayley LaPointe, who bested junior keeper Katie Stuntz to pull UNE within one. Following the goal, the Jumbos tightened up their defense and returned to the offensive. Relying on their aggressive style of play, they relentlessly peppered Warren with shots, coming through when Cannon found Sagerman on the inside. “We knew that we had been

dominating the game, so it was just a matter of regaining our composure and finding our stick-tostick passing,” Chapman said. Sagerman, experienced around the cage, didn’t hesitate, sending a lift shot past Warren to extend the Jumbos’ lead back to two. For the remainder of the contest, Tufts kept the ball in UNE’s defensive end and didn’t allow the Nor’easters a single penalty corner opportunity. When the whistle finally blew, Tufts claimed the 3-1 victory. The Jumbos completed a dominant performance, their fourth win in eight days. “We had a lot of really good

stick-to-stick passing,” Jamison said. “When we were taking it out of the backfield, we always knew where we were passing rather than hitting it blindly, so we were able to connect really well.” Sophomore Brianna Keenan and Stuntz split time for the Jumbos between the pipes. Keenan, who started the game, made three stops in the first half, while Stuntz wrapped up the contest, allowing one goal and making a stop of her own. Meanwhile, the UNE goaltender Warren was forced to make 15 saves in defeat. “Both of our goalkeepers are really strong, so no matter who’s

playing we trust both of our goalies and feel comfortable having them back there,” Jamison said. The Jumbos, currently third in the NESCAC with a 3-1 conference record, will host Amherst, who sits at 2-1, for Saturday’s Homecoming contest. “We’re really excited for another big game,” Chapman said. “We’re focusing on coming out with a lot of energy like we did versus Trinity, and really finishing on every opportunity. If we can win this one, it puts us in a great position going into the home stretch of the season and sets us up well for the postseason.”

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Notebook: Old ghosts, new opportunities Aaron Leibowitz

About halfway through the football team’s practice under the lights at Bello Field on Wednesday, head coach Jay Civetti demanded silence. “Are you just going through the motions?” he asked the 76 guys scattered around him. “I’ll tell you what’ll happen on Saturday if you don’t want to work.” Then, he reminded his players what happened a year ago against their upcoming opponent, Bates. “You got humiliated,” he said. “Have some pride.” The rest of the practice was crisp, as the Jumbos continued their meticulous preparation for a Bobcats squad that defeated them 28-9 in Lewiston, Maine last season. While the Jumbos don’t like to dwell on the past, Civetti knows the occasional reminder can be a powerful motivator. “There are certain things that you’ve got to be able to carry with you in order to be able to go forward,” he said. “I’m not trying to wake up old ghosts. I’m just trying to bring to the forefront, guess what, you can’t hold [Bates] lightly, because this team took it to you. You have an opportunity to earn back a little pride that was taken away from you.” Historically, Tufts has had the upper hand in the matchup: From 1986 to 2009, the Jumbos defeated the Bobcats 24 straight times. But Bates has now won the last two meetings between the teams, and, despite being 31 years removed from their last winning season, the by

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Bobcats are not to be underestimated. “Bates is a good team,” senior defensive back Sam Diss said. “They have a great offense, great defense. We’re not looking past anyone, nor would we ever.” Still, tomorrow’s game will present the Jumbos with a golden opportunity to snap their 16-game losing streak in front of a Homecoming crowd. “It would mean a lot [to win],” Diss said. “With players coming back who were on teams that weren’t so successful in the past, I think it would be a little more special if we did that in front of them. But if it rains and no one’s there, we’re going to be just as happy,” Diss said. For now, though, the Jumbos are not getting ahead of themselves. “You look forward to [winning], but you really can’t plan for it,” senior defensive back Tommy Castle said. “You’ve got to execute all the steps that it takes to get there, and it’s not over until it hits zero at the end of the fourth quarter.” Limiting the option Bates’ recent victories against Tufts came in the first two years of its unconventional shotgun tripleoption offense, which gave the Jumbos fits in 2011. “[Offensive coordinator Daryle] Weiss does an awesome job with that, really has a good handle on it,” Civetti said. “I think it causes a lot of problems for people. And the thing for [Bates] is, they’ve got great kids to execute it.” The Bobcats return the censee FOOTBALL, page 7

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Since losing the first game of its season, the field hockey team has rattled off six straight wins heading into Homecoming.

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After dropping its first game of the season, the No. 13 field hockey team has hit its stride, and won its sixth straight game this Wednesday in a 3-1 victory against the visiting University of New England (UNE). Junior Emily Cannon, who led the conference in points last week, got things started once again for the Jumbos Wednesday. The midfielder, who was named the NESCAC’s Player of the Week after scoring three goals and two assists in a five-day span, notched another

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assist early in Wednesday’s contest when she tapped a pass out on a corner from senior co-captain forward Lia Sagerman to sophomore midfielder Maggie Chapman. Chapman took the knock-on in stride, slamming a low shot past UNE sophomore keeper Kaitlyn Warren and into the back of the cage. The Jumbos, who are 6-0 when they score first, were out on top again. “We scored that one on a corner,” Chapman said. “It came out on top to Emily; she was able to get it to me and I got a good shot in on the ground that went between the goalie’s feet.”

Then, senior co-captain midfielder Rachel Gerhardt’s shot took an unlucky hop, catching the post, but the Jumbos managed to double their lead soon after when Sagerman controlled the ball and sent it across to classmate and forward Kelsey Perkins, who notched her third goal of the season to double the lead just over 13 minutes into the match. “It really gives us a lot more energy and allows us to get off to a positive note whenever we score first in a game,” freshman midfielder Alexandra Jamison said. “Going up see FIELD HOCKEY, page 7

Homecoming

Guide to Homecoming 2012 Tufts athletes will take the field this Saturday on Homecoming, giving the entire community a chance to come together and enjoy the sights and sounds of NESCAC competition. Here’s the Daily’s guide to all the action, along with a map displaying the sites of the events:

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After a long summer of reflection, and a few weeks of preparation back on the hill, the women’s tennis team hit the courts for the first time since its third-round loss to Williams in the NCAA Championship that marked an end to last year’s season. But the Jumbos, ranked No. 15 at the end of last season, managed to put last season’s disappointing ending behind them, and kicked off the 2012 fall season this past week with a pair of home wins against MIT and Brandeis. The victory against MIT in the season opener allowed the team to shed any rust and prepare itself for the Brandeis match two days later, in which the Jumbos swept the Owls 9-0. “We were able to get rid of any nerves that you can sometimes have at the beginning of the season,” senior co-captain Lindsay Katz said. “So by the time we played Brandeis those were sort of worked through.” Saturday’s match against Brandeis was delayed by rain for two hours at the start. But once the courts were dry enough to play, it did not take long for the Jumbos to hit their stride. Junior Samantha Gann and sophomore Sophie Schonfeld got the ball rolling in doubles, winning the first match of the day 8-1. Soon after, the senior duo of co-captain Janice Lam and Lauren Hollender won 8-3, fol-

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Junior Shelci Bowman won her match against Brandeis as Tufts captured its first two victories in the first two matches of the young season. lowed up by an 8-5 victory by Katz and junior Shelci Bowman. “I was so impressed by everyone’s attitude and effort,” Bowman said. “After waiting about three hours for play to begin, everyone was so pumped up from the moment we started warming up, and that positive energy really kept everyone playing their hardest.” The Jumbos were able to keep their strong lead going into singles play. Only needing two more wins to clinch the match, Hollender stepped up and won 6-2, 6-1 at the number five singles position. Soon after, Bowman won 6-0, 6-2, securing a

straight set win, an untouchable 5-0 overall in match play, and the Jumbos’ second win of the season. Tufts’ record in the three tiebreakers it played was impeccable, as the Jumbos not only won all three, but also held the Brandeis players to fewer than five points in each. “I think the team did an amazing job at our match against Brandeis,” Lam said. “I was amazed at how focused everyone was, and the fact that we won 9-0 against a competitive team like Brandeis. We were able to win all of our third-set see TENNIS, page 7