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Tufts teaches high school students bioinformatics

by Dana Guth

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Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Donna Slonim and Robinson Professor of Chemistry David Walt collaborated to teach a class this summer on bioinformatics, the intersection of genomic sequencing and computer science, to 18 high school juniors and seniors from across the country who are interested in biology.

The class, titled "Bioinformatics Inquiry through Sequencing," took place from July to August on the Medford/Somerville campus, and the goal of the course was to increase hands-on research experience for college-bound students, according to Slonin, who is also a professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

The class was funded through a five-year, $1.3 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Award intended to increase outreach efforts in bioinformatics education, Slonim said. The award will help fund the class for the next three years.

"We basically want to get people interested in bioinformatics by doing more and more really hands-on, sequencing-based projects," Slonim said.

She added that the NIH grant, in addition to funding the summer class, also includes increasing resources for local teachers to learn more about the field, bringing materials to undergraduate and high school students and having them interact and propose individual research projects.

Walt explained that the students who participated in the class had all previously shown an exceptional aptitude for the sciences.

"This year, we specifically chose high school students who were good at science because it was the first year we ran [the class]," he said. "I don't think the specific material is as important as immersing the students in a genuine research experience. This format gave them a feel for what scientists really do — after all, we don't sit and read textbooks and do homework and follow recipes in the lab."

Slonim said that bioinformatics deals with the use of software, computer programming and mathematics to analyze biological data, or in other words, biology's transition to becoming an information science. Since high school students typically have very little experience with these fields, the course aimed to increase students' exposure to their interdisciplinary uses, she said.

"They won't ever learn it much later if they don't get interested in it young; they'll go do something else," Slonim said. "They learn it in part by doing real work with real sequence, and real projects that are sometimes kind of messy and don't have right or wrong answers.

There's no back of the book. That's something kids don't get to experience in most high schools."

Candice Etson, a postdoctoral fellow in Walt's lab, said the students benefited most from the innovative nature of the class' lab.

"I helped design the curriculum for the summer course, and I taught about half of it — parts that were done in the lab," Etson said.

"We designed the labs around open-ended questions, and I think that kind of experience is really wonderful for high school stusee BIOINFORMATICS, page 2

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Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris delivers an announcement after the noncompliance protest at the Stand with Survivors at Tufts: Rally for Title IX Compliance on May 1, 2014.

Tufts revamps sexual assault policy

by Stephanie Haven Daily Editorial Board

Tufts has over the past several months implemented a number of changes to its sexual assault policy, hired two campus sexual assault specialists and increased mandatory student and faculty training since the Department of Education's (DOE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found it in violation of Title IX on April 28.

The university previously backed out of a voluntary agreement it had with OCR, but after student protests and additional communication with OCR, Tufts reconfirmed its commitment to the agreement on May 8. The school's compliance with Title IX, the federal law that bans on campus gender discrimination, how-

ever, remains in limbo, according to a DOE spokesperson.

This fall, the university's Sexual Misconduct Prevention Task Force, a group of administrators and students, is scheduled to review the Office of Equal Opportunity's (OEO) Adjudication Policy which consists of the steps university administrators take to determine perpetrator punishments.

The same group reviewed and revised the school's sexual misconduct policy during the spring and summer terms according to its 2013-2014 progress report.

Publication of the revised document, which was scheduled to be released at the start of this school year, is contingent upon approval from OCR, according to OEO Director and

Title IX Coordinator Jill Zellmer.

The policy changes respond to a more diverse set of experiences with sexual misconduct as well as a new definition of consent based on an "enthusiastic yes," Zellmer said. This new definition was built around student efforts nationwide to create momentum around an affirmative consent of "yes means yes," rather than the original "no means no."

The revised policy also includes a list of the interim housing and academic resources available to those involved in sexual assault cases, as promised by administrators in the joint statement following the May 1 protest.

In the joint statement, administrators also said they see TITLE IX, page 2

YouthBEAT explores the effects of music education on children

by Natalia Kastenberg Daily Staff Writer

As she dropped her son off at the Berklee College of Music for the Five-Week Summer Performance Program, Dr. Kathleen Camara was amazed at the sight in front of the Berklee Performance Center.

"There were hundreds of young teenagers hanging out on Massachusetts Avenue arguing about music, carrying their bass guitars and all their instruments and just talking and playing music on the street," she said.

This was a stark contrast to what Camara had read earlier that day in a Boston Globe article about the problems facing city youth in Boston, including gangs, violence and drugs.

Inspired by what she saw and curious as to why no one was writing about these youth who were participating in the summer music program, Camara, an associate professor of child development in Tufts' School of Arts and Sciences, reached out to the administrators at Berklee College of Music and expressed her interest in working with them.

Camara learned that Berklee was seeking external evaluation for their City Music

program. The Berklee City Music program, along with its network sites around the country, runs summer and year-round programs that provide contemporary music education to youth from underprivileged communities throughout the country.

Students attend the program with no cost to their families, receiving scholarships and donations from community members.

The newfound collaboration between Camara and Berklee led to the foundation of YouthBEAT, a research and evaluation project on arts and development, which is run through Tufts and directed by Camara.

Camara and the Berklee worked together for several years before the research project was ready to begin.

"We worked from 2006 to 2008 planning the project and talking about what questions [the teachers and administrators at Berklee] wanted to have answered and questions I thought would be important to find out about youth development," Camara said. "We were both in agreement that the project would really be one that focused on positive youth development, meaning that we were

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looking at the strengths of youngsters [who came to the program.]"

According to the YouthBEAT statistics provided by Camara, the study has collected data from 764 participants, including "youth, families, staff and community members at seven sites in Boston, Anaheim, Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia and Phoenix."

The project uses methods involving faceto-face interviews, research instruments and questionnaires.

The research staff has also "conducted over 2,000 hours of observations at the Boston and network sites of musicianship and theory classes, ensemble rehearsals, special events and performances," Camara reported.

According to Camara, YouthBEAT studies participants' "leadership, social skills, musical achievement, academic achievement, sense of purpose, musical and cultural identify, self-esteem and perceived confidence in a number of different areas."

Through this research, Camara and the Tufts YouthBEAT team of both undergradu-

ate and graduate student researchers have been able to follow the success of students who participate in the program.

While the program focuses on music, it also "helps [students] prepare scholarship applications and college applications," Camara said.

Participating students are also influenced by the program's location on a college campus, at Tufts.

According to an informational brochure published by Berklee about the collaboration between Tufts YouthBEAT research and Berklee City Music, "96% of the City Music students interviewed reported that they wanted and expected to go on to college." "[They] get a little bit of a sample of what college life is and even if they're from a family that has never gone to college or doesn't have that kind of experience, [the students] now see something that opens up opportunities for them and many of these students see this as an opportunity and they get excited about it," Camara said. "All of the sudden, we see in see YOUTHBEAT, page 2

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10th and 11th grade, [participants'] grades start getting a little bit better in school."

Tamara Win (LA '14), who worked as an undergraduate research assistant for YouthBEAT for several years, echoed similar sentiments about the influential impact of a sense of community on the participants.

"I felt like a lot of the community they felt from music resonated with me because that is the way I felt," she said. "It was moving to see my own similar experiences mirrored in the way these students were interacting with their music programs."

Win and Gabriel Rothman, a senior, both remarked on the rewarding aspects of being involved in the program. For Rothman, a visit to the Chicago network site was one of the most gratifying parts of his time spent at YouthBEAT. "We went on a site visit in June to one of the programs in Chicago," Rothman said.

"And I got to go to the site with [Camara] and sit in on the program and talk to students and staff — that was a really cool experience."

Tufts students like Win and Rothman have been very involved in YouthBEAT, and

some have even continued to be a part of the project after they have graduated.

"We have been fortunate to have so many Tufts students participating in the YouthBEAT research projects," Camara said in an email.

"Over 120 graduate and undergraduate students have participated as observers, interviewers, coders and analysts over the past six years. Many who have graduated have gone on to become research assistants and coordinators, program evaluators, and administrators in arts organizations or have entered into doctoral programs."

Under the direction of Camara, along with the help of Tufts undergraduate and graduate assistants and Berklee, YouthBEAT has been able to grow and expand. Looking to the future, Camara is excited about Amp Up NYC, a new project that is developing in collaboration with Berklee and Little Kids Rock.

"Basically, they are going to be providing the kind of music program that Little Kids Rock has been doing across the county," Camara said. "They are introducing modern band, which is sort of a rock music and contemporary music, to youth and in this program they are working with teachers in New York City schools, teaching them how to

teach music in ways that do not necessarily rely on reading music, but really have to do with listening to sounds, creating improvisational music and creating music through aural means."

The program will use a music learning program created by Berklee called PULSE, which can be accessed through the Internet and provides online lessons and materials about theory, music history and the background of the songs they are learning.

YouthBEAT will also be a part of the collaboration in gathering information to evaluate the program, according to Camara.

Camara expressed optimism about the project, as well as YouthBEAT's goals for the upcoming year.

"This year we will be completing analyses of our data, and will be sharing with the professional community some of the positive outcomes we have identified from our analyses of youth participation in these programs," she said in an email. "Our work has already been presented at several national and international conferences and our findings thus far demonstrate the importance of involvement in music and other arts for youth development."

Summer class covers new territory in biology research, computer science BIOINFORMATICS

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dents. It's a much more genuine experience of scientific research."

Walt said the students' major summer project was to formulate an original proposal and sell it to the class directors. On a day-to-day basis, Walt had the students working at the bench on a variety of lab projects, including the observation of genetic mutations in a sequence and their own personal metagenomes, according to Slonim.

"They actually took a sample of the bacterial populations that live on their skin and sequenced that to try to see what was living there," she said.

Slonim added that the course touched on the basics of computer science just enough for the students to understand and appreciate the discipline's underlying concepts as it relates to biology. She added that the true task at hand was pushing the students into new territory.

"The goal is to figure out what it is

that we're looking for, to get into the realm of doing things where we don't actually know what the data is going to show us," Slonim said. "It's really eyeopening for a lot of these kids. There's so much out there, so much ability to use computers to put all these previously untapped pieces together."

The students showed incredibly positive responses to the hands-on learning techniques employed in the class, with some expressing strong interest in studying the material further, according to Walt.

Tufts works to reform sexual assault policy following Title IX compliance controversy

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would publish "guidelines for disciplinary sanctions" — the standards by which punishments are determined — by the start of this semester. Such information has not yet been made public.

"It seems like this is the kind of thing that Tufts is really good at — not doing this," senior John Kelly, one of the lead organizers of the May protest, said. "This seems like another iteration of the same game that Tufts has been playing."

At the year's first Task Force meeting on Sept. 18, Zellmer said student and administrator attendees will decide who among them will determine setting punishment guidelines. She said administrators over the summer decided to delay the decision until the fall when more students would be on campus.

"Some people aren't going to be happy with that because they think we didn't do it over the summer and we were shirking our duties, but the reality is, I think, this is a better approach because more students will be able to have input then," Zellmer said.

Following the May student protest, Tufts administrators also agreed to hire a sexual misconduct resource specialist in addition to the sexual misconduct prevention specialist position they had already created. Sexual Misconduct Prevention Specialist Alexandra Donovan was hired for the position in July, while the Response and Resource Coordinator Nandi Bynoe (A '09) was hired this week.

Bynoe will begin in October, according to an email Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon sent to staff members.

While the two are affiliated with different departments — Donovan in Health Services and Bynoe in Student Affairs —

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they are the only two faculty members at Tufts tasked solely with handling campus sexual assault.

Unlike Donovan, who is a mandatory reporter — an individual legally required to file a sexual assault report if told about an incident — Bynoe has a "policy-based" confidential role, according to the joint statement. Bynoe was not available for comment at the time of publication.

Alongside existing start-of-year trainings, Donovan has introduced bystander intervention trainings during a meeting about issues such as fraternity party hosting and Women's Center conversations. She said her goals are oriented toward cultural change.

"I want to meet someone before you get into a difficult situation," Donovan said. "I don't want to stop people from having fun, certainly not stopping people from having sex. I just want to make sure everyone is on board and it's something that we are consensually all agreeing to."

Donovan said she is in the initial phases of creating a cohort of student "social health educators" trained to have conversations with other students about issues surrounding sexual assault, such as consent in popular culture. These interactions are most effective when they're peer-to-peer, she added.

"I think people find it really difficult to talk about," Donovan said. "Even saying the word 'relationships' already alienates people because they're like 'I'm not dating, I'm just hooking up.'

Finding the language is even hard to start that. But let's talk about what's happening, let's talk about what we're all doing. The more we talk about it the more we're aware of it."

According to federal regulation that will take effect on Oct. 1, colleges and universities will also be required to provide consent and bystander training throughout students' four years of school. While this semester juniors and seniors will be required to take an online training course called Haven, by next semester freshmen will have to participate in a three-part training program, which began during orientation, McMahon said.

Current freshmen will also be the first required to attend OEO training sessions about consent and the new sexual misconduct policy in groups of 35 to 40 students later this month and in early October, according to McMahon.

Beyond these new requirements, freshmen orientation switched its consent programming from last year's presentation Sex Signals to a different one called Speak About It, a show created by former Bowdoin College students. McMahon, a former Bowdoin administrator, said she worked with the Speak About It team when they originally devised the show in 2009.

"It was designed to be an interactive program that ... helped students think about a bystander model, that helped students think about consent and getting consent," McMahon said. "I came in looking to make this a focus before all this happened [last semester]."

Approximately 30 members of McMahon's Student Affairs office will also participate in prevention training with Donovan during a staff-wide meeting on Nov. 4. McMahon said that those faculty members, as well as others from offices that fall under the Student Affairs umbrella such as Greek Life and Residential Life, will attend trainings from the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center the week of Oct. 23.

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TV Review

Netflix series 'BoJack Horseman' offers well-executed, dark satire

Black comedy provides entertainment and thoughtful commentary

by Nick Golden

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Alison Brie plays a ghostwriter trying to reinvent BoJack, or at least his career.

BoJack Horseman Starring Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie, Paul F. Tompkins Available on Netflix

Netflix's recent success at producing original series — most notably "House of Cards" (2013-present) and "Orange is the New Black" (2013-present) — has created high expectations of quality for subsequent endeavors. The first season of "BoJack Horseman," an original animated comedy released last month, is both entertaining and rewarding and marks a new move for the online media company.

"BoJack" stars Will Arnett, the voice actor behind the show's titular character, an anthropomorphic horse living in Los Angeles. BoJack is a has-been actor whose Cosby-sweatered '90s sitcom, "Horsin' Around" leaves him a washed-up D-list celebrity. At times emotionally desperate and bitterly cynical, BoJack finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to face up to himself, his lay-about roommate Todd (Aaron Paul), his pink cat agent Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) and his over-earnest golden retriever rival Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins). Also in the picture is Diane (Alison Brie), the ghostwriter tasked with creating an intriguing and optimistically career-reviving portrait of day-drinking and loneliness that has overtaken BoJack's life.

Made available for streaming all at once, the season focuses on the ins and outs of BoJack's efforts to rise above his bitterness and return to stardom. The primary conceit of the season — getting his autobiography published — directs the plot deeper into BoJack's past, helping the audience to get acquainted with its grumpy protagonist. Meanwhile, Diane tries to push BoJack

to change, and ultimately, to acquire the material she needs for her story.

In one episode, "Zoes and Zeldas," Diane persuades BoJack to act as a mentor to Todd, but instead he decides to sabotage his couch-surfing roommate so that he doesn't have to be alone in his "stately manse." And in "BoJack Hates the Troops," BoJack gets into a media debacle with a Navy Seal (yes, an actual seal) named Neal McBeal (Patton Oswalt) after calling into question the uber-patriotic tendency to declare all troops heroes.

Despite the desire for a re-vamped career, BoJack proves almost too stubborn to stop his bad media nosedive.

Like many people (and horses?), BoJack's desire to be loved leads him to try to be a better person — he attempts to make amends with a dying former friend — and to desperate moments that many will recognize. For example, he convinces himself he loves his ex-girlfriend so he can get her to stick around.

Despite the intense focus on BoJack's character, the show gives non-trivial attention to others as well. "Say Anything" follows Princess Carolyn, giving Amy Sedaris time to shine as a snide, professional woman, her character walking the line between a workaholic's life and a happy one. Fortunately, interactions between the side characters give breadth to the humor and quasi-fantastical world that the show occupies. In the animated and animal-stocked version of Hollywood, "BoJack's" writers are free to poke fun at talent agencies, start-ups and film while the crux of the show focuses on the turmoil, and ultimately, the hollowness, of

celebrity. Overall, satisfactory character development gives the show a sense of maturation during the first season, as our colorful animal and human cohorts grow.

The conceit of animals acting as people also gives the show a consistent vein of humor that deepens its character examination. Quick snippets of humor — a maggot-man runs the funeral parlor, a rooster jogs past houses yelling "Wake up, it's morning!" — keep the spirit of the show weird. That weirdness, from an end theme performed by GroupLove to a sublimely disturbing opening segment, keeps things from turning too bleak.

While the comedy of the show is certainly familiar — deadpan humor and contemporary references recall "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (2000-2011) as well as the more recent (and also animated) "Bob's Burgers"(2011-Present) — later episodes take a more reflective and serious tone. Though risky, the show's slowbut-steady explorations of celebrity and the true meaning of happiness emerge. It also helps that "BoJack Horseman" uses bleak humor to prevent these existential yearnings from becoming too sentimental. Instead, they come through effortlessly. It's that sense of humor that allows us to laugh when BoJack yells at a crowd "you're just jealous because I'm welladjusted!" (He most clearly is not.)

"BoJack Horseman" depicts a sympathetic jerk of a character with excellent execution, but its true success comes from its elegant and daring critique of Hollywood. With a great cast, fantastical colors and weird and absurd sense of humor, BoJack charms.

Album Review

Blonde Redhead experiments with 'Barragán' NYC-based band continues legacy of unique, multi-genre work

by Sedef Seker Contributing Writer

From the beginning of its twenty-year music career, the alternative rock band Blonde Redhead has not wasted a second of

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Blonde Redhead Kobalt time. On Sept. 2, the prolific band released its ninth studio album. As its listeners know, Blonde Redhead always brings innovation to each album it releases, and its new album, "Barragán," follows this trend. "Barragán" is easily distinguishable from the band's previous works, utilizing different techniques to create a variety of new, experimental moods.

For instance, the majority of the album has a repetitive and minimalistic melody structure. Even though the new songs lack the band's striking melodic quality, listeners will certainly appreciate the heavy atmosphere of the album.

"Barragán"starts off in an unusual manner, combining distinctive sounds such as birds, flute, car noises and classical guitar in the intro. Even listeners who are used to Blonde Redhead's inventive techniques might be surprised by these tactics in the opening title track, "Barragán."

The next track, "Lady M," attracts listeners with its clever arrangement. Even though the song blends together a wide variety of instruments, it is crafted so successfully that the overall sound is not chaotic. The simple melody and the rhythm of the track epitomize the album's minimalistic approach.

While this stark style creates issues on the

later tracks of the album, it's a point of interest in the beginning.

In "Dripping," Kazu Makino and Simone Pace share the microphone as lead vocalists. Though Pace showcases his subtle falsetto with the chorus "I saw you dripping sunlight/ I saw you dripping moonlight," the fans of their older work may be disappointed by the lack of stronger vocals. And truly, while the song's lyrics and beat are engaging, "Dripping" does not live up to either Pace's singing talents or the band's songwriting potential.

Next up, the improvisational guitar solos and occasional dissonance in "Cat on Tin Roof" leave the song feeling unpolished. But Blonde Redhead seems at least partially aware of this result. Perhaps Makino breaks the fourth wall with the words, "Maybe we should work on it a little bit more"— a hint that the feeling of incompleteness that characterizes "Cat on Tin Roof" may be intentional.

Later on, Makino's pure vocals are emphasized and instrumental production is left in the shade in "The One I Love." As the instrumentation gets denser, the mood grows dark with the sounds of cello and flute. Similarly, "Mine To Be Had" layers guitar solos on top of looping bass and percussion to add a rich color, enhancing the flavor of the song. While these textured techniques are at first pleasantly interesting, "Barragán" overuses the same snippets, incorporating them into every instrumental break. What starts out as intriguing becomes monotonous.

Thankfully, the chord progression in "Defeatist Anthem (Harry and I)" is especially impressive. The unexpected minor chords in the melody add a striking quality to the song. Another nod to its innovative roots, Blonde Redhead introduces a new technique by combining three melodic sections of distinct musical styles. Although this approach might not appeal to those who crave consistency within a song, it is a

creative break from the general minimalist structure of the album.

The band reaches its full potential toward the end of "Barragán" with "Penultimo," a song that uses dual harmonies to create a magical atmosphere.

Here, the band defies the conventional tools of dark music and chooses the road not taken by using staccato and quick tempo. A fitting end to the album, the final track, "Seven Two," reflects the dream pop genre with its unusual melodic structure and chord progression. The unpredictable melody resembles a literal dream: a journey with no course.

Blonde Redhead has never owned a settled sound — instead, they choose to play with different styles as they grow and produce new work. The band's open-minded character helps them to avoid monotony, but — as is the risk of all experimentation — sometimes leads to dissatisfactory results.

The band dips a toe into a variety of genres, each with distinct fan groups. Individual listeners will have their own expectations and hopes when anticipating "Barragán." To appreciate Blonde Redhead's creativity and talent, it helps to consider its newest release as a standalone product, independent from the body of work that came before it.

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versatility. Capone, who played all 90 minutes of the game, was outstanding on both sides of the field. She not only opened up the scoring, but also added crucial contributions on defense, beating everyone down the field in the 79th minute to clear the ball and prevent an MIT goal. Two freshmen, Chandler Quinton and Margret Zahrah, played their first collegiate minutes during the game, substituting for co-captains Kruyff and Greer, respectively, just over 30 minutes into the first half.

"Catharine Greer, who is like our world, she hurt her knee 20 minutes in and she didn't come back in, which was scary," head coach Martha Whiting said. "We had a freshman play back there and it's definitely challenging."

With 28 players on their roster, MIT used 16 substitutions during the game to keep their players fresh. This strategy nearly paid off in the second half with Tufts running low on energy. With the Jumbos leading 3-0, the Engineers failed to capitalize on three opportunities to tie the score, one of which saw Tufts goalkeeper McGarry parry a hard, low shot from MIT senior tri-captain Ambika Krishnamachar in the 57th minute.

"I thought that our backs did a great job just considering the fact that [Stoj] and [Quinton] were playing out of position and at that point of the game, we didn't have a lot of subs," Whiting said. "But I really thought that they gutted it out."

Just five minutes before McGarry's save, a one-on-one matchup between McGarry and MIT's Olivia Struckman drew arguably the sophomore goalkeeper's most impressive save of the day.

McGarry honed in on the approaching Struckman and stood her ground, waiting for Struckman to make her move before clearing the ball to the left of

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the post. McGarry, who did not play as a freshman behind four-year starter Kristen Roberts (LA '14), has shown tremendous confidence over the last two games, earning her second shutout in as many starts.

"I think that [McGarry] is playing on instinct. At that position if you think too much and over-analyze you become tentative," Whiting said. "Eileen is a very good, natural goalkeeper and just has [that] instinct."

The win against MIT comes after a historic win on Saturday, in which Tufts opened the season with six goals against Bates, scoring the most goals in a confer-

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Goals that the Tufts men’s soccer team scored before it allowed its first goal this season. After two dominating performances, beating Bates 4-0 on Saturday and trouncing Umass-Boston 8-0 last Wednesday, Tufts scored first against Suffolk and then allowed its first goal of the season. The Jumbos went on to score three more times to earn their third victory of the season.

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ence game since the team's 6-0 victory over Conn. College on Oct. 28, 2007. The Jumbos outshot the Bobcats 19-13 overall, and they had 12 shots on goal compared to the Bobcats' four.

The Jumbos had five goal scorers in the game, with sophomore Brooke Fortin scoring twice. Joining her were seniors Nikki Blank, Weiller, Pykkonen and Greer. Harvey-Brown tied a Tufts record with three assists, the only three recorded throughout the game, in her collegiate debut.

The two convincing wins may well signify that Tufts will no longer be the underdogs in the NESCAC, following

29 Interceptions thrown by New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning in his last 17 games played. Manning, the NFL leader in interceptions thrown last season, threw two in his first game this season.

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the team's strong NESCAC tournament showing last season, where it defeated the third seed Bowdoin en route to its first semifinal berth since 2009.

With the pressure mounting, a phenomenon common to teams on the rise, Tufts has adopted a new keyword for the season: fun.

"Playing just for the fun of the game is one of our keywords this year, we just want to have fun when we're out there," Weiller said. "Just having that thought when we're out there, just playing the game that we've always wanted to play, it makes everything so much better and so much easier."

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Jumbos notch 10 goals in first two games

by Alison Kuah

In 2012, the Tufts women's soccer team scored just 14 goals all season long. This year, the Daily Editorial Board

WOMEN’S SOCCER (2-0 Overall, 1-0 NESCAC) at Kraft Field, Wednesday MIT Tufts

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Jumbos have nearly equaled that total in just two games after a 6-0 thrashing of the Bates Bobcats on Saturday and a 4-0 routing of the MIT Engineers on Wednesday.

The No. 15 Engineers came into the matchup with four wins under their belts. In their last meeting with the Jumbos in 2013, the Engineers came away with a 2-1 victory. But Tufts was quick to show MIT that it was a new team, getting on the scoreboard just eight minutes into the game when sophomore forward Jess Capone converted on

a through ball from senior Alex Farris on the left side of the box.

The goal was the first conceded

by MIT all season but was just the first of four conceded on the day by MIT goalie Lauren Ullmann.

"We scout [our opponents] when we can, obviously we know what's going on [with] whoever we're playing," junior forward Allie Weiller said of the team's pregame preparations. "But for our team, we try to take each game one at a time. Any day any team can win, [so] it's really great to go in with confidence."

Four different Jumbos scored against the Engineers, and freshman Mariah HarveyBrown added two more assists, bringing her total to five on the year. The second goal came in the 23rd minute, off a corner kick from senior co-captain Carla Kruyff that found the head of fellow co-captain Catharine Greer, who rose above the defense to head the ball into the back of the net for her second goal of the season.

Weiller's goal in the 51st minute extended Tufts' lead and sophomore Sarah Pykkonen's goal in the waning minutes was the final nail in the coffin for MIT.

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Senior Victoria Stoj battles for possession in a Sept. 29, 2013 game against Trinity at Kraft Field.

With an abridged roster of just 19 people (reduced to 18 this past Wednesday with junior center back Nicole Campellone sitting out due to injury), the game against MIT saw multiple play-

ers step up. This was especially true for Tufts' defense, which had been spread thin following the loss of Campellone and due to the second half absence of Greer, who left the game with an injury.

Senior Victoria Stoj, typically a staple in the forward line, was inserted into the back line against MIT, a testament to her see WOMEN'S SOCCER, page 7

Men's XC

Tufts strives to reach NCAA Championship for fourth consecutive year

by Blake Coolidge Daily Staff Writer

The men's cross country team enters the 2014 season in pursuit of its fourth straight trip to the NCAA Championship meet. If all goes according to plan, the Jumbo runners will send a squad to Mason, Ohio on Nov. 24 to once again stake Tufts' claim as a competitive cross country program on the national level.

But the team has a long way to go and a long season to navigate before it can realize

this goal. Last fall the team placed 17th out of 32 teams at Nationals, scoring 446 points.

It was the third time in as many years that the Jumbos ran their way to Nationals, and they hope to continue their streak this fall. However, it may not be as easy as it has been in the past.

"After three straight years of competing at Nationals, we have a team that should again contend for a berth to the NCAA championships, but this will perhaps be the toughest year for us to qualify of

the past four," assistant coach Mike Schmidt said. "We have a smaller and slightly less experienced squad than last year in cross country terms, and we graduated four of our top seven runners."

The three remaining runners from last season's top seven are sophomore Tim Nichols, senior Nicholas Guarnaccia, and sophomore Luke O'Connor.

The trio will lead the team this year, and the Jumbos' success will depend heavily on how well these three runners are able to perform.

While the NCAA Championship meet is the ultimate goal for the team, its toughest competition may lie within the NESCAC. Last year, rival Williams placed fifth at Nationals with a score of 218 points and Middlebury placed seventh with 297 points. Preseason polls indicate a continued dominance by these NESCAC teams, so an improvement on last year's third place finish at the NESCAC Championship may be unlikely.

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The men’s cross country team is set to start its 2014 campaign this weekend at the Bowdoin Invitational.

the best, and that's no different this year," senior cocaptain Marshall Pagano said.

"Preseason polls don't mean that much, but they're ranked 3rd overall in the nation and that's pretty good. They're definitely the team to beat."

In the NCAA preseason poll, Tufts ranks 27th in the nation.

However, Schmidt and Pagano are both confident that the team has the work ethic and talent necessary to surpass this ranking, a feat that the Jumbos pulled off last year. After starting the season ranked behind division rivals Bowdoin and Bates, Tufts finished well ahead of the two squads at the NCAA Championships.

"Staying healthy and keeping a long-term focus are essential to our success this year," Schmidt said. "If guys keep doing what they're doing and take things one week and one race at a time, I believe they'll be in a great spot come our championship season."

The senior class, with nine runners, is the largest on the team. While Pagano hopes that this veteran leadership will help the team gel, improve and succeed throughout the season, he is also looking forward to seeing the success of the squad's younger members.

"I wouldn't be surprised if one or two freshman really click and make some noise down the road," Schmidt said.

The Jumbos travel to Maine this Saturday for their first scored meet of the season, the Bowdoin Invitational.

The meet will be more of a tune-up for the squad and a good way to gauge fitness levels and areas of weakness that can be improved as the season goes along.