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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

VOLUME LXVIII, NUMBER 15

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Tufts students join march to fight climate change

by Sophie Lehrenbaum Contributing Writer

Over 100 Tufts students took to the streets to bring the fight for climate justice to New York City, joining throngs of demonstrators in the People’s Climate March on the morning of Sept.

21. The march, which coincided with the United Nations Climate Summit on Sept. 23, drew over 400,000 protesters, making it the single largest climate march in history.

Tufts Climate Action (TCA) helped to spearhead the effort to transport students to and from the rally and facilitate Jumbo involvement, but many Tufts students found out about the event on their own, according to TCA member Ben Weilerstein.

sure that the UN knows that," Gallagher said. "Just because there hasn't been action before doesn't mean that there is not still a chance. We still have time. People from all over the world and all walks of life care about this.”

Both Gallagher and Weilerstein said they had already planned to attend the rally before TCA's initiative, and both students said they were particularly struck by the juxtaposition between the sobering topic of climate change and all the positive energy the marchers brought to the protest.

"For me, and I think for Tufts Climate Action as a group, the goal was to build relationships

"There was not a lot of outreach on our part to tell people about [the rally] and make them interested in coming," Weilerstein, a junior, said. "That kind of happened organically."

Weilerstein, along with fellow TCA members junior Sarah Killian and sophomores Shana Gallagher and Henry Jacqz, rented two large buses through TCA, on which students then reserved spots. Gallagher discussed the importance of the event in the decision to organize Tufts students' attendance.

"Nothing in history has ever changed without people having to take to the streets and really show how much they care about something, and so I would say the goal of the march was to try to make

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Tufts students attend the Sept. 21 People’s Climate March in New York City.

Tufts Support Services to improve efficiency

by Audrey Michael Daily Editorial Board

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IGL Director Sherman Teichman speaks during last year's EPIIC Symposium.

EPIIC colloquium to focus on Russia in the 21st century

by Melissa Kain Contributing Writer

This year’s Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) colloquium will explore Russia in the 21st century.

The course is run through the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) and takes place over two semesters. It will span a wide range of topics, including the society, culture, national identity, economic structure, political system and foreign policy of Russia, in addition to the country's relationship with the United States, according to the the program's website.

“This semester is very intensive in terms of reading and papers and exams, so the students are reading about 500 pages a week and really learning the topic,” IGL Associate Director Heather Barry said.

IGL Founding Director Sherman Teichman explained

that this year's topic was chosen three years ago and is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which helped to support last year’s colloquium as well.

Teichman said that the program is now in its 29th year, and has previously focused on topics such as the future of the Middle East and Africa as well as global health, security and conflict in the 21st century.

“We deal in what we call ‘conundrum issues,’” he added.

The students who participate in the colloquium will be reading a variety of books and handouts, such as “Russia: A 1000-year Chronicle of the Wild East” by Martin Sixsmith and “The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union” by Serhii Plokhy, Teichman said.

According to the EPIIC website, the class also features a variety of guest lecturers and advisers, such as Carol Saivetz,

a research associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, James Hershberg (G ’89), a professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University, and Mark Kramer, director of the Cold War Studies Program at Harvard University.

“The first thing is to have a very solid foundation course,” Teichman said. “Students will meet close to 30 experts. Many of them are alumni.”

According to Barry and Teichman, the program emphasizes putting learning to use. Students will get involved in research projects, present a film and lecture series and plan and organize the Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium, which is in its 30th year.

The symposium is a public forum designed and managed by EPIIC students, and it features

Inside this issue

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The Tufts Effectiveness in Administrative Management (TEAM) Initiative will launch Tufts Support Services (TSS), a new organization that will centralize human resources and financial services, this December to improve administrative efficiency and expertise.

University President Anthony Monaco and Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell announced the upcoming launch of TSS to faculty and staff on Sept. 28.

“The TSS model builds on Tufts’ tradition of managing resources carefully to maintain our financial strength, and responds to feedback received through our Excellence at Work survey, in which many employees told us that we should reduce red tape and streamline administrative processes,” Monaco said in the announcement.

He added that TSS reflects the recommendations from the survey and strives to effectively coordinate administrative work at Tufts, while reducing unnecessary processes and technology.

Dick Doolin, who was recently named senior director of TSS, said the organization would consist of a 40-member staff that provides human resources and financial and transactional support with physical presences on all three campuses. TSS will operate under the umbrella of the Office of the Executive Vice President.

“This is a new and exciting position for me, to bring in a new organization that’s going to help provide administrative support to the university,” Doolin, former director of Financial Services who has worked at Tufts for over 30 years, said.

The establishment of TSS will

allow a smaller set of employees to develop expertise in specific areas of university procedure, bringing support to staff and faculty at a more efficient rate, Campbell said.

As leader of the TEAM Initiative, Campbell and her team spent the past two years looking for ways to make campus administration run more efficiently. TEAM’s research found that various offices such as human resources and finances were performing the same tasks across Tufts’ schools.

“That created an obvious opportunity to see if we could be more efficient by eliminating some of the redundancy,” Campbell said.

Campbell said that some units within the university only have one staff member performing the tasks that TSS will take over, leading to problems if that staff member is unavailable.

“People are left with no way to get their work done, so in this kind of consolidation it will help particularly smaller units to be able to always get support for certain kinds of basic transactional things,” she said.

The decentralized performance of these tasks also makes it harder to make changes to university procedures, Campbell added.

“When we want to take an activity and change it, we need to train close to a thousand people who do a component of that transaction or that function, and it’s just not efficient,” she said.

The creation of TSS may lead to the elimination of some current positions across the university, especially if TSS staff overtake most of the responsibilities performed in a current position, according to an announcement from the TEAM Initiative on Aug. 29. School, divisee TSS, page 2

Today’s sections

Perfume Genius’ new album is a thrilling musical experience.

Tufts Field Hockey’s undefeated streak comes to an end at Homecoming.

see ARTS, page 5

see SPORTS, page 12

News 1 Features 3 Arts & Living 5 Editorial | Letters 8

Op-Ed 9 Comics 10 Classifieds 11 Sports Back

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News

Visiting the Hill this week TUESDAY The Economics Department Seminar Series: The Housing and Educational Consequences of the School Choice Provisions of NCLB: Evidence from Charlotte, N.C. Details: Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut Eric Brunner will present on his findings from his research on consequences from the No Child Left Behind initiative in Charlotte, N.C. When and Where: 4:30 — 5:45 p.m., Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room Sponsors: Department of Economics The Socio-Sonic Circuitry of Afro-Latino Music in the Caribbean: From Bomba, Son Jarocho and the Palos to Hip Hop and Reggaeton Details: Raquel Rivera, Ph.D. will present the inaugural lecture of the Consortium of Studies

in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora: Tracing the Roots of Afro-Latino Musical Traditions in the Caribbean, following a performance at 12 p.m. in Distler Peformance Hall.

When and Where: 5 — 6:30p.m., Alumnae Hall Sponsors: The Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora, the Latino Center, Department of Music, the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, Department of Anthropology, the Africana Center, the Latin American Studies program, Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, Inc. Poetry at Tufts, featuring Eileen Myles and Alan Felsenthal Details: Poets Eileen Myles and Alan Felsenthal will present readings from their works.

When and Where: 6 p.m., Fung House Sponsors: Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT), Department of English

WEDNESDAY Art History Lecture Series: Passion in Paradise: Liturgical Devotions for Holy Week in a Gradual From Paradies Bei Soest Details: Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture Jeffrey Hamburger will present.

When and Where: 5:30 — 7 p.m., Fine Arts House Sponsors: Department of Art and Art History

FRIDAY Title IX Teach-In Details: The Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies, the Educational Studies Program and the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program will host a day-long Title IX teach-in to create dialogue and a forum for discussion between and among faculty, staff, administrators and students in the Boston area.

When and Where: 9 a.m. — 5 p.m., Alumnae Lounge

Sponsors: The Graduate Consortium in

Women’s Studies, the Educational Studies Program, the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, the LGBT Center and the Women’s Center

SUNDAY Tufts Community Day Details: Tufts will host its 12th annual Community Day, which is open to the local community and will feature performances by the Jackson Jills, the Beelzebubs, BEATS and more.

When and Where: 11 a.m. — 3 p.m., Academic Quad Sponsors: Office of Community Relations

Students travel to New York for People's Climate March

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and build power," Weilerstein said.

"When you take someone ... to this massive, exciting event, it just energizes you, it inspires you.”

Ana Manriquez Prado, who took part in the march, said that the event helped bring together people with similar beliefs.

“I had been to other marches before ... but at Tufts, [the march] was the first big thing that I participated in," Manriquez Prado, a freshman, said. "It definitely gave

me a sense of community, because all the people that went had the same goals."

Going forward, Weilerstein said that he hopes to capitalize on the momentum created by the march to create greater on-campus involvement.

“The People's Climate March just happened, but the People's Climate March starts right now," he said. "This is now when we start marching or keep marching because ... we filled the streets of New York City and climate change didn't end. This is totally the

time to harness all of the intense excitement and energy that everyone felt."

Director of the Environmental Studies Program and Professor of Biology Colin Orians underscored the importance of attracting attention to global climate change.

"So much is about politics and willingness to stand up and make a change,” Orians said. “Getting it to be mainstream and not something that is just on the fringes is really important."

Gallagher said that she is ready for

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sion and department leaders will be deciding how to reduce or cut positions, depending on how much time positions spend on tasks that TSS will perform upon its launch.

Doolin and TEAM intend to minimize job losses by giving internal candidates the best opportunity possible to apply for TSS positions.

“That’s our number one goal in terms of looking to fill positions,” Doolin said.

He and the TEAM project have strived to communicate the availability of these new positions across the university, as Doolin hopes to see the TSS hiring process conducted quickly.

“We’ve had a real extensive communications effort as part of the TEAM project, working with our communications and university relations office, in addition to the staff and support services,” he said.

Campbell said TEAM has met face-toface with campus managers and deans to

share information about what employees can expect from the transition to TSS, as well as provide workshops for current university employees to assist them in the TSS application process.

“We are doing a lot of things so that we can do this in an incremental and careful way for our population,” Campbell said.

Campbell said TEAM has worked to provide new information about the TSS transition as soon as it becomes available, in order, to be as transparent as possible.

Police Briefs Library Caper On Sept. 16 at 3:45 p.m., a student studying in Tisch Library reported to Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) that her wallet and pocketbook had been taken when she left her seat to make copies.

Complaint Filer On Sept. 18 at 1:12 p.m., a man entered the Office of Community Relations at 120 Packard Avenue. Upon entering, he wrote down some complaints, noting that he was not pleased with TUPD and construction on Tufts campus. TUPD officers commented that he should have come to the TUPD station in Dowling Hall.

The Real Slim On Sept. 19 an intoxicated student at Houston Hall was questioned by TUPD officers at 1:44 a.m. When asked what his name was, the student responded, “Slim.” He was subsequently transported to Somerville Hospital.

Sink Attack At 10:55 p.m. TUPD received a report of a female student suffering from a head injury in Lewis Hall.

The student was unsure of how she had received the injury, but theorized that she had fallen and hit a sink in the bathroom. She also reported that she had consumed approximately six shots and was

subsequently transported to the hospital.

Room Confusion TUPD received a report on Sept. 20 of a fight in progress in Bush Hall at 2:27 a.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they encountered a student who was attempting to enter a room that did not belong to him. However, the student insisted that the room was, in fact, his. In support of this claim, he pointed to the name on the door, which was not his name.

The student was bleeding from the mouth. Officers were unsure of the cause of his injury. The student, when questioned, gave two stories. First, that he fell on his way back to Bush Hall returning from a party on College Avenue. He then revised his story and claimed that he had been punched by someone at the College Avenue. party. The student was then transported to the hospital.

Mini-Fridge Mishap An intoxicated female was reported to TUPD at 11:58 p.m. in South Hall. The female was a visiting student from Wellesley College, and admitted that she had consumed five shots of vodka. The Tufts student she was visiting was under 21 and was seen by TUPD officers with a bottle of vodka in his mini-fridge. The vodka was confiscated.

Two First Names On Sept. 21 at 1:19 a.m., an intoxicated student was reported to TUPD officers seen leaving South Hall. When TUPD arrived at the scene, the student was soon discovered near Latin Way. The student’s eyes were bloodshot, and he had difficulty standing. He claimed not to be the person initially reported to TUPD. Eventually, the person who had called TUPD arrived and identified the student as the person he had seen leaving South Hall. When asked for his name, the intoxicated student first replied “Tommy,” and then “Anthony.”

TUPD officers eventually located his ID and discovered his real name.

After Tufts Emergency Medical Services arrived, the student was allowed to sign a refusal of treatment form.

Laptop Larceny At 9 a.m. on Sept. 22 a student reported to a theft from his Goddard Hall locker to TUPD. The student said he had locked his laptop in his locker the previous night, but it was missing when he returned in the morning.

Bag Burglary A student reported at 2 p.m. that he had left a bag unattended for five minutes in Tisch Library, but the bag had vanished when he returned. The bag was eventually discovered empty in front of Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center.

—by Daniel Bottino

—by Patrick McGrath

Tufts to assume its responsibility in terms of sustainability.

"There are just a lot of local organizations that are working on environmental justice and environmental racism issues, and a lot of people that are in Tufts Climate Action are passionate about those," she said. "We are investing in Tufts, and Tufts should be investing in our future and not profiting from these destructive industries, so I think Tufts’ administration and students have a responsibility to try and use some of that leverage."

Throughout the process, Doolin explained that the organization will be able to give more information to the community and will focus on training staff to be experts in what they do so that they can provide a certain level of support.

“Tufts is a community ... and we want to continue with that community spirit,” Doolin said. “It is a little bit of change in the community ... and I think that’s something people will have to work with us on."

EPIIC kicks off 29th year with a focus on Russia in the 21st century EPIIC

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a variety of advisers and panelists.

Students in the program will break into committees to organize the panels and speakers for the symposium. According to Teichman, the symposium will host students from Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Israel and Iraq, as well as midshipmen and cadets from military academies.

“The first objective is to have a very solid and significant class, followed by a range of different activities, all preparatory for a five- to six-day gathering at the end of February and beginning of March,” Teichman said.

Many EPIIC alumni are involved with the program. Barry said that many return as lecturers, symposium panelists or as part of the special projects run by EPIIC throughout the year.

“We’re proudly in touch with 80 to 85 percent of our alumni from over 29 years,” she said.

Twenty-two students are a part of this year's EPIIC colloquium.

According to Barry, all prospective students of this year's program were interviewed so they would have an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the program in a one-on-one setting. The colloquium meets for five hours a week.

According to Teichman, this year’s EPIIC students recently returned from an "Outward Bound" weekend immersion program in Pinkham Notch, N.H., where Joshua Rubenstein, an associate at Harvard’s Davis Center, delivered a guest lecture.

The weekend combined lectures and team building activities and is

designed to help bring the class together, Barry said.

“It’s a way to build the class as a team and a community, because they’re going to be doing so much work together and they’re going to have to rely on each other,” Barry said.

Shelby Luce, a member of the 2014-2015 EPIIC class, said she was excited to have the opportunity to be a part of the program.

Highlighting the small group size and relevant topic, she noted that her classmates were part of a dedicated and involved community.

“You get out what you put in,” Luce, a sophomore, said.

Grigory Khakimov, another member of this year’s EPIIC class, said that he enjoys being able to speak directly with the authors of books and articles that EPIIC students read, as many of these writers come to the colloquium as lecturers. A native of Russia, Khakimov also said he was interested in seeing how professors in the United States interpret the political sphere in Russia.

“It’s very interesting to see this interpretation of the facts and the historical details,” Khakimov, a junior, said. “I can analyze different information from Russian newspapers and mass media and compare this information with articles and books which we read in EPIIC.” This year, the EPIIC Symposium will run from Feb. 26 to March 1, according to the program's website.

“It’s a fun community,” Teichman said. “The rigor and enjoyment of intellectual life can be tremendously fun. It’s an intellectual team.”

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History On The Hill: Saving Tufts with earmarks

by Greta Jochem Contributing Writer

By the time of former University President Jean Mayer’s inauguration in 1976, Tufts University was plagued by financial problems so severe, they could have shut the school's doors for good.

“We might have closed. We were not viable as an institution," Sol Gittleman, once a Tufts provost and senior vice president and now a professor of Judaic studies and German, said. "That’s what the local historians were writing ... They said Tufts is not viable. And we couldn’t raise a nickel.”

He added that, before Mayer assumed office, a number of preceding presidents such as Leonard Carmichael and Nils Yngve Wessel quit because they believed that Tufts was going nowhere.

“We were not a research university, we were not even close,” Gittleman said.

“Everything was marginal. We had no money, no resources.”

According to "Light on the Hill" (1966), a book by Russell Miller that details Tufts' history, Mayer’s inaugural speech in July of 1976 articulated a long-term goal “to raise our university from excellence to greatness.”

The new president knew that funding was a priority if Tufts was to boost its prestige. According to "Light on the Hill," he emphasized the importance of acquiring funding from not just private contributors, but public ones as well.

In his book "An Entrepreneurial University: The Transformation Of Tufts" (2004), Gittleman wrote that Mayer was determined to turn Tufts around. “[He aimed] not only to strengthen its reputation, but to make its presence known to the educational world to a much greater extent than had ever been the case," he wrote.

Unlike many of his predecessors, Mayer had a background in both academic and political pursuits. He worked as an Associate Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, and was a well-established researcher in nutrition, according to "An Entrepreneurial University."

According to Professor of Political Science Jeffrey Berry, Mayer was President Richard Nixon’s advisor on nutrition, and was asked to head a national conference focusing on hunger and nutrition due to an increased focus and public outcry over starvation.

According to "An Entrepreneurial University," while at the conference, ayer met two men who would not only change the history of Tufts, but also incite a revolution in university funding: Kenneth Schlossberg and Gerald Cassidy. “[Mayer] discovered that Schlossberg and Cassidy had remarkable insights and access; their knowledge of the workings of the [United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)] was very impressive,” Gittleman wrote.

Schlossberg and Cassidy planned to use their background in policy to start a lobbying firm that would work to obtain government funds.

“Cassidy, a Democrat, began 30 years ago to search for laws that might be exploited to provide benefits to potential clients,” Washington Post journalist Robert Kaiser wrote in his book "So Damn Much Money" (2010).

The pair began to contact potential clients, including Mayer, who quickly responded just days after assuming presidency, according to Gittleman.

Schlossberg and Cassidy were able to lobby to get language put into a bill that designated funds for a Tufts Human Nutrition Research Center.

“Mayer had a reputation in nutrition as one of the world’s leading scientists, so he had some credibility,” Berry said. "And he gave Tufts credibility."

According to Gittleman, Mayer recognized the strong need for a center of its type at the time.

“Americans didn’t know anything about wellness or prevention,” Gittleman said.

“Women had no nutritional evaluation, men had no nutritional evaluation, old folks had no nutritional evaluation. Nutrition was nothing.”

According to "An Entrepreneurial University," Tufts received $2 million for construction of a 15-story building in downtown Boston, as well as $7 million annually to run the center. The center was to be run

by Tufts and funded by the USDA. Today, the center — one of six human nutrition research centers in the country — is known as the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA), and its goal according to its website is to “explore the relationship between nutrition, physical activity and healthy and active aging.”

Schlossberg and Cassidy’s work, lobbying to get language put into legislation for appropriation of funds, was an earmark, or “pork legislation.” Before this, according to Gittleman, no other university had ever done anything like it.

“It was just the beginning, it was like Genesis,” Gittleman said. "In the beginning, there was light."

According to Gittleman, after Tufts received its earmark, other schools quickly followed suit, including Boston University.

“It turned into, over 20 or 30 years, billions and billions of dollars," Gittleman said. "[Mayer] invented it; it all started with a charismatic little Frenchman at Tufts

University in 1976. Before that, there was nothing."

According to Berry, Congress has largely stopped earmarks, mainly due to Tea Party protests. Although there have certainly been frivolous examples and abuses of earmarks, Berry explained how important this funding was to the construction of the HNRCA. “There’s a limited amount of money we can get from alumni and parents of students paying tuition, so it expands the pie of money, and in our mind — our Tufts minds — we take this money and do good things with it,” he said.

Alan Solomont, dean of the Tisch College for Citizenship and Public Service, agreed that earmarks were a useful tool to fund projects that benefited the country as a whole. “[It was a] way for individual members of Congress to get funds to help what were overwhelming, important public projects,” he said.

Indeed, the HRNCA has made many contributions to its field, especially with regards to research on nutrition and health in relation to aging. For example, according to a Sept. 26, 1990 article in the New York Times, Dr. Bess Dawson-Hughes, a researcher at the center, directed one of the first studies finding a link between calcium intake and older women’s bone strength.

“Our nutrition center is one the treasures of this country,” Gittleman said. “The research that comes out is spectacular.”

Solomont agreed, emphasizing the center's importance in both its physical and academic area.

“It’s a great example of exactly the benefit that we receive," Solomont said.

"Not just "we" in the narrow sense — it’s a good thing for the university, it’s a good thing for the city of Boston, it’s a good thing for the region, it’s a good thing for the country and it’s a good thing for the world, and it’s a good thing for science.”

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Jean Mayer, University President 1976 - 1992, pioneered Tufts’ renowned nutrition center.

Somerville Boy Scouts’ long legacy continues

by Becca Leibowitz Daily Staff Board

On Thursday nights at Connexion Church in East Somerville, 15 boys, supervised by two leaders, discuss how to earn their next merit badges and prepare for an upcoming camping trip. These boys, all between the ages of 11 and 18, are the members of Boy Scout Troop 3, the third oldest troop in the United States.

According to Troop 3's current Scoutmaster Taj Goodpaster, Troop 3 was founded in Somerville in 1909, a year before the incorporation of the Boy Scouts of America in February of 1910. Willis Munro was the troop's first Scoutmaster and in 1975 Munro was honored by the State of Massachusetts for over 65 years in service to scouting.

Somerville’s Boy Scouting community has seen its ups and downs over the

years. According to Goodpaster, about 700 boys across the city were involved with Scouting at its peak, with a sharp decline in the mid-1980s and into the 1990s.

“We were down to one troop in Somerville, Troop 3, and it was kind of floundering because the Cub Scout pack had stopped, so there wasn’t that feeder group into the troop,” he said. see SCOUTS, page 4

Stina Stannik | A Jumbo in Ghana

Akwaaba!

A

kwaaba! Welcome to Ghana! Just for a minute, while you read this column, try to forget that you are in Medford, and join me instead here in West Africa, where I’m spending the semester with Tuftsin-Ghana at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra.

Tufts-in-Ghana is billed as an Englishlanguage program, but while courses at the university take place in English, we encounter other languages dozens of times a day. For one thing, Ghana is surrounded on three sides by francophone countries. Ghana is part of ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, which encourages trade between member nations, so most products in Ghana are labelled in both English and French (and often Portuguese, German, Arabic, or Dutch). I’ve met people from Togo and Burkina Faso and tried out my French 22 on them, with good results.

English and French, however, are also reminders of the colonial legacy of West African nations. Ghana’s colonial past is very much tied up in its modern identity through language, religion, dress, standards of beauty, etc. It is sometimes difficult to discern what is “authentically” Ghanaian, if such a thing exists.

Still, while English is the official language for business, governance and education here, traditional languages dominate the everyday. Ghanaians hail from an estimated 64 ethnic groups and speak 300 different dialects. This is where things can get a little confusing.

The original local language in Accra was Ga. If you have taken a Kiniwe dance class at Tufts you may have learned some Ewe, the language of the Volta region. Regardless of the language spoken at home, most people in Ghana will know Twi, which is the language of the Akan people, the largest ethnic group in Ghana, and is spoken even up in parts of Burkina Faso or over in Togo. (Borders we recognize today were drawn arbitrarily by colonial powers, after which ethnic/language groups and communities were divided.)

It is almost impossible to live in Accra without knowing at least some Twi. English is supposed to be the lingua franca — the language with which everyone can communicate, regardless of their native tongue — but in many cases that language is actually Twi. Reaching out in a person’s native language is a significant sign of respect and goodwill.

For these reasons, all students on Tuftsin-Ghana take a compulsory course in Twi for the entirety of the semester.

In some regards Twi feels like any other foreign language — it still uses subject verb order, it still requires vocab memorization and attention to tenses — but beyond that it is a whole new world.

Until relatively recently Twi was an oral language only, so spelling is often phonetic, and minute pronunciation differences can indicate an entirely different verb or tense. We haven’t even really touched tonality yet. It is the beauty of the words themselves that I love most — the word for poetry, “anwonosƐm,” translates as “to weave words.” “ƆKra” is cat, whereas “Ɔkraman,” “big cat,” is dog.

In this setting, we can put our Twi to practice right away. As I’ll explain next week, using even a little bit of Twi can drastically change a social interaction.

People — in the market, in academic settings, at restaurants — are much more likely to respond to you and open up if you greet them in Twi. If you’re lucky, they may even give you an extra tomato or kebab for free!

Stina Stannik is a junior majoring in peace and justice studies. She can be reached at stina.stannik@tufts.edu

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Third oldest troop focuses on inclusion SCOUTS

“You get to do a lot of fun activities, and I can hang out with my buddies,” he said.

When Goodpaster became Scoutmaster “We go camping a lot. We just recently did a in 2012, there were five boys on the roster. kayak trip and 18-mile trek, and I’m looking forward to paintballing.”

Today, in his third year, there are 15.

“When I stepped in, Troop 3 had been led Even though the troop has been in exisfor many years by a gentleman named Pat tence for 105 years, the lessons it teaches its Sullivan, who’s actually a deputy fire chief scouts have remained the same. here in town,” Goodpaster said. “His boys “The values that we try to instill in boys had all gone through, had all made it to Eagle are giving them a sense of responsibil[the highest rank in scouting], and he was ity and accountability,” Goodpaster said.

“The intent is that we nurture them into kind of looking for somebody to step in.”

The national organization, the Boy Scouts being responsible young men. We do that of America, has suffered backlash recently through a lot of ways. We do a whole lot in regards to its exclusion of gay leaders and of community service. We’ve done things scouts. However, local troops have largely like collect food for the local food bank, [and] we’ve done several clean ups in the avoided association with these policies. “[The national policy] is a big blem- Mystic River.” ish on the face of scouting,” Tim Sullivan, Sullivan works alongside Goodpaster to help run Troop 3. Sullivan, who has Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 3, said.

In response, the Boston Minuteman been involved with scouting since he Council, the branch of the BSA that serves was in first grade and is a former memthe greater Boston area, released a state- ber of Somerville’s Troop 3 himself, ment in July 2001 affirming its commit- recalls the important role that scouting ment to the inclusion of all youth and played in his life. volunteers, “without regard to color, race, “The scouting experience isn’t just religion, ethnic background, sexual orien- about the one meeting a week and the one trip a month thing,” he said. "It’s the whole tation or economic status.”

"There’s been a lot of backlash against culmination between all those trips, all the Scouts based on their national poli- those meetings, all the outside stuff you cies towards inclusion,” Goodpaster said. do, all the community service hours you “We certainly practice that [inclusion]. put in, spending so much time together We welcome any and all into our troop with people who enjoy things that you and really appreciate the diversity of our enjoy. I hope [the boys] get out of it what I community, and like to be fully inclusive got out of it.” like that. Like I said, it’s gotten a lot of Part of Sullivan’s job is staffing trips that bad press, and rightfully so they’ve been the scouts take and supervising them in ridiculed, but I think that our council has fun activities. really been a forerunner in showing that “It’s cool seeing kids do what they thought they couldn’t do ... when a kid overcomes a scouts can be inclusive.”

In terms of Troop 3, Goodpaster de- fear, or learns how to swim, or figures out emphasized his own role, underlining the how to light a fire with no matches, the sense of pride they get building a really good agency of the scouts themselves.

“Boy Scouts is really a boy-run organiza- shelter ... It’s definitely the most enjoyable tion so ... the boys basically kind of self- part [for me],” Sullivan said. govern, plan their activities, execute their Sullivan hopes the troop can keep up the activities, and my main responsibility is [to good work it has been doing for more than a century. ensure] that they do it safely,” he said.

One of these boys is Goodpaster’s son “I hope that the troop can continue to Alek, a sixth-grader who is beginning his not just survive, but thrive, and I hope the second year in Troop 3. Alek explained his numbers increase,” he said. “And I hope it’s the same for the whole of scouting.” favorite things about Troop 3. continued from page 3

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A guide to New England's finest apple picking spots

by Abigail Feldman Daily Editorial Board

Fall has always been a season of celebration and plenty in New England — a time to appreciate the cornucopia of harvest treats and colorful foliage that make this region special. So, when it comes time to choose your apple picking destination, make sure you take into account only the best orchards in the area. Take it from a local, and consider these spots when you plan your trip.

Brooksby Farm Located in Peabody, Mass., 25 minutes from campus by car. Note: apple picking at this farm ends as of Oct. 1 this autumn.

This orchard is the perfect stopping place for a calm weekend trip.

Considering it’s located not far from the Northshore Mall, Brooksby is surprisingly scenic and plentiful. The farm store offers some pretty delicious baked goods, as well as many festive candies and seasonal decorations.

Best of all, there’s a very cute barnyard where one can find sheep, llamas and turkeys — the farm favorites. While perhaps not the grandest farm on this list, Brooksby hits the spot.

Connors Farm Located in Danvers, Mass., 38 minutes from campus by car. Orchards are open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the week, and until 11 p.m. on Fridays and

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Apple picking is a great autumn activity for Tufts students.

Saturdays in October.

In terms of fun fall activities, Connors is in a class of its own. Yes, they have apple picking, barn animals and a market, but this farm is best known for attractions like its corn maze, pumpkin blaster, pig races and zombie paintball. Beginning in

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October, Connors even opens a highly rated Hysteria Scream Park, open Friday and Saturday nights after dark.

Keep in mind these activities can be expensive, but they’re certainly enjoyable for those looking for a little more see APPLES, page 6

Album Review

Perfume Genius’ album bound to be a classic

by Nika Korchok Daily Editorial Board

With a crooning and dramatic voice that reverberates like Arcade Fire’s Win Butler's and retains the drama of David

Too Bright

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Flour Bakery offers a wide variety of foods, suitable for a quick snack or a full meal.

Back Bay’s Flour Bakery offers simple, delicious treats

by Eva Batalla-Mann Daily Staff Writer

One of four locations, Back Bay's Flour Bakery is a vibrant and inviting hub of kind faces, tantalizing scents

Flour Cafe and Bakery 131 Clarendon St., Boston, MA 02116

(617) 437-7700 $$ and beautifully crafted food. Opened in 2013, the Back Bay branch is the youngest Flour location. After exploring the culinary breadth of New York City, Harvard graduate Joanne Chang returned to Boston in 2000 to open up this highly successful bakery and cafe that would go on to be featured in Gourmet, Food & Wine, Bon Appétit and the New York Times, as well as becoming the recipient of many Best of Boston awards.

The sunny Back Bay location, sit-

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uated across from the colorful and kid-friendly Garcia Park on Clarendon Street, is never short on bustling activity. The staff works like a well-oiled machine to quickly serve the hungry and anxious customers forming a line along a wall that reads, “Make life sweeter … eat dessert first!” The homespun-looking menu, accented with color and illustrations of avocados and lemons, showcases a wide range of delicious options. With many well-marked choices for those who have gluten-free, vegan or allergyrelated dietary restrictions, Flour Bakery seems to have something for just about everyone.

Choices include high quality revamped classics like a turkey sandwich with house-made pickles, cheddar cheese, whole grain spicy honey mustard and red onions. The menu also proudly offers a “tall, cold glass of milk," perhaps to accompany one of their “Chunky Lola” cookies with pecans, coconut, chocolate and oats.

Bowie, it is no wonder that Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas is the androgynous wunderkind set to take the music world by storm.

Perfume Genius’ Sept.

23 release “Too Bright" is carefully calculated. It is its third studio album under Matador Records — the same label that has put out work by Yo La Tengo, Interpol and Cat Power. Perfume Genius has made a step forward with this release after 2010’s “Learning” and 2012’s “Put Your Back N 2 It.” While still retaining the slow melodic sensibilities found in “Put Your Back N 2 It,” there is a new fearlessness with this album and all 33 minutes of its eleven-song multi-genre lineup. With “Too Bright,” Perfume Genius explores uncharted narrative territory, delving into complex issues of sexuality and gender in a post-modern America.

Perfume Genius is Ziggy Stardust for the millennial age, complete with electronic soundbites and eyes painted with chrome-colored eyeshadow.

As Perfume Genius, Mike Hadreas is fiercely glam. Yet the sound of this album is less like Queen’s “A Night at the Opera” (1975) and more Lou Reed’s “Transformer” (1972). While both tack-

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Comics are serious business, guys

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have always been kind of a comic weenie. I’m no alpha nerd or anything, but I’ve read the classics. I remember reading when Tony Stark — from "Iron Man" (1968-present) — lost control of his drinking habits and spiraled into depression. I’ve seen everything from spousal abuse to the trials of being a single parent unfold across the pages of comic books. I’m fully aware of the fact that comics can deal with serious topics.

But every once in a while, one surprises me.

Case in point: last week I was browsing one of my favorite websites when some anonymous stranger posted a short fan-comic about a bunch of girls from various Cartoon Network shows going to summer camp.

Helga from "Hey Arnold!"(1996-2004), Trixie Tang from "Fairly Oddparents"(2001present) and Numbuh 5 from "Codename: Kids Next Door"(2002-2008) all playing dodgeball together. That kind of thing.

The story behind this particular fan-comic is pretty cool. It started out as one artist drawing for fun, but when his or her schedule became too busy to continue updating regularly, he or she abandoned the comic.

Here’s where it gets interesting: a few people who were reading the comic happened to be artists themselves, and decided to continue the story. Since then the comic has existed in a kind of limbo. It doesn’t really have a permanent home. It shows up from time to time on image boards, and people add new pages here and there. It’s become a community effort, growing and changing with every new artist that leaves his or her mark on it. Sometimes it’s a sliceof-life story. A few times it’s kind of pornographic. But it’s always an interesting read.

Now, without going into too much detail, I’d like to discuss one particular artist's take on the story. It's a kind of like a reboot of the original comic concept simply known as "Camp Sherwood." It depicts one of the girls in what I’m going to call an “adult” scenario. I’ve been advised by my legal council (I asked my Mommy) not to go into any more specifics than that, so I’ll just say that our young lady friend is “thinking about” another one of the girls at the camp. And she enjoys it.

Then she bursts into tears. She collapses, tears in her eyes. She’s left confused and scared. All she can bring herself to say is “I’m not like that,” before breaking down and running off.

And then the chapter ends. There’s no happy resolution, no reassurance that everything will be okay, no one to tell her that what she’s feeling is perfectly acceptable. It’s just a very real, very harsh exploration of what this young girl is going through. It is, without a shadow of a doubt in my mind, one of the most realistic and emotional explorations of sexuality I have ever encountered in fiction. And it didn’t come from a major publishing company.

It came from a bunch of artists working for no pay.

In the past, the major publishers have been pretty hesitant to discuss sexuality. DC Comics was willing to publish the anarchist manifesto that is "V for Vendetta" (1982-1989), but they still refuse to allow Batwoman and her long-term lesbian lover to get married. (Marvel, however, has a long history of diversity, though that’s most likely just a product of Marvel’s “Let’s try everything imaginable” style of writing. They did make Thor a frog for a few months.)

But this comic also make me feel optimistic. Its existence means that people want to see these issues discussed in comics, and are going out of their way to make that happen. If they keep it up, hopefully the market will follow their example.

Vincent Carbone is a senior majoring in biology. He can be reached at vincent.carbone@tufts.edu.

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le issues of sexuality, public conceptions and prejudice, the subtleties that characterize Reed’s album also pervade “Too Bright.”

Reserved and aloof, Hadreas's idiosyncrasies work to flawless effect on this album.

Opening track “I Decline” begins slowly, like many songs on “Put Your Back N 2 It.” Yet thoughtprovoking lyrics like “I can see for miles,” make it difficult to take this album at face value. The song continues: “The same old line / No thanks / I decline / Angel just above the grid / Open, smiling, reach out / That's alright / I decline.” With these simple eight lines, the album is established as a refusal to accept the same old truths as command-

ments. This mentality, reminiscent of “Rebel Rebel”(1974), is what carries the album as it speaks to greater truths.

A wailing and persistent electronic back tempo combined with the soft lull of a gospel choir, the song “Queen” is anything but conventional. An intentional play on the negative and positive connotations associated with the loaded term in the queer community, “Queen” is both an invocation and a convocation.

The steady, mind-numbing beat instills a sense of fear, only to be crushed by the rise of pure, powerful voices in the background.

Later, “No Good” is a somber continuation of the slow pace.

Different than “Queen" in its instrumentation and content,

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Mike Hadreas as Perfume Genius impresses with new album "Too Bright."

“No Good,” examines personal evaluations of body image pre and post-relationship. It is an unflinching and sobering portrait, a reminder that some sides of glam rock are less-than-glam.

Meanwhile,"My Body” lurches the listener forward as though he or she is riding shotgun on a rocket ship in "The Jetsons" (1962-1988).

Everything about this album feels like the actualization of a dream, the embodiment of premonition as Perfume Genius falls back into glam rock of the '70s.

Simultaneously old and new, Hadreas constructs a mirror-like persona akin to Ziggy Stardust and then shatters it, forcing listeners to readjust their misconceptions about what exactly makes an artist glam rock. The answer? The purposeful attempt to invert listeners' expectations as they are being formed.

“Grid” offers pounding synth with the haunting warbling of Hadreas’s vocals, a literal meshing of old and new that feels as carefully and systematically constructed as the very grid about which Hadreas sings. “Longpig” has the synth to satisfy the musical element of an '80s arcade game. Plinking repetitive notes highlight exquisite monosyllabic cries by Hadreas.

“I’m a Mother” feels like it is being spoken through time zones — a track that the ghost

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"Too Bright” impresses listeners with a beautiful glam rock performance. in “Poltergeist” (1982) would have recorded if it had access to a studio and sound equipment.

Breathy and intentionally uncomfortable, the words are mumbled at best and practically unintelligible. The whole track feels ghoulish and haunting, transformative and powerful. It cultivates a strange magic, more in the vein of Macbeth’s three witches than a sprinkling of fairy dust.

“All Along” rounds out the album, bringing it to a conclusion that is not a conclusion and thus the perfect ending to this convoluted conversation starter.

“I need you to listen” is the last line of the song on the final track.

It sets the stage for more to come, and the album certainly leaves the listener hungry for more.

“Too Bright” offers the duality requisite of a great studio album — in this case one that is subtly political and inventive. It is both introverted and in-your-face, unforgiving and personal. Still retaining enough detail to give the listener the whole story, "Too Bright" invites a dialogue, but only after Perfume Genius has asserted its side of the story with brutal and gorgeous honesty.

This fall, local apple picking opportunities abound APPLES

listed as a favorite among Bostonians.

And just in case none of Honey Pot Hill’s 30 varieties of apples do it for adventure in their apple picking visit. you, it also offers pear picking on Smolak Farms Located in North Andover, Mass., weekends. Definitely check out its 1.535 minutes from campus by car. mile “Big Green Monster” hedge maze Orchards are open for apple picking 9 and enjoy a picturesque view of the landscape from the gazebo. This spot a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily.

Perhaps the most family-friendly can get pretty crowded, though, so try on this list, Smolak Farms offers not to pick an off weekend. only an impressive variety of apples Russell Orchards but also numerous fall activities that Located in Ipswich, Mass., 50 minwill appeal to your inner child, such as utes from campus by car. Orchards are “Wee Wagon” rides, face painting and open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. duck races. This 300-year old historic If you’re willing to make the drive, orchard is also home to a full farm Russell is unquestionably a worthstand — complete with a bakery and while trip. Not only is this familyan ice cream booth — and a small owned farm charming and peaceful, farm animal zoo. Alpacas, anyone? but it’s also second to none in terms of If you’re looking for a tranquil rural its apple and pumpkin picking selecsetting, however, heads up. Smolak is tion. The farm itself, located on a definitely one of the most commercial small pond and surrounded by marshfarms in the area, as well as one of the land, is quite lovely, and the animals most popular. Be sure to go early in are noticeably well cared for. Above the season, or you may just find the all, Russell Orchards sells what can only be the best cider doughnuts in orchards bare!

New England. Feel free to watch as Honey Pot Hill Orchards Located in Stow, Mass., 42 minutes the farm workers turn the apples into from campus by car. Orchards open 10 cider and pastries before your eyes, and if you’re of age, take home some a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

This 200-acre farm is frequently of their homemade wine.

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Flour Bakery and Cafe, which opened last year, offers a delicious dining option in Back Bay.

Chang's newest location is an inviting study spot FLOUR

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These classics remind customers just how good the simplest things can be if they are done right. But for those opting for an imaginative departure from the more traditional offerings, a sandwich with roasted lamb, tomato chutney and goat cheese or one with a trio of roast chicken, mashed avocado and the unlikely addition of jicama may hit the spot. Drinks range from full-flavored coffee beverages to “fiery hot chocolate” and even a house-made raspberry seltzer. However, don’t bother dropping the few bucks on watery iced tea, which, despite being "for-here," was put in a landfill bound plastic to-go cup.

Flour also provides patrons with a pleasant atmosphere. The room is bright and dynamic, creating a perfect place to have lunch with friends or to sit quietly and read while enjoying a cup of coffee and a “light-as-air” meringue with flecks of chocolate. Sandwiches and salads are made fresh in front of customers.

Chang’s mission harkens back to something wholesome in its simplicity, a different take from the increasingly popular “foodie” mentality. In a video on the

Flour website, Chang speaks to her culinary passion that lies within “bringing pleasure to people through food." She says that when crafting a menu, “if something is so good that when we take one bite, we can’t stop eating it, then that’s what goes on our menu." Chang’s enthusiasm to teach others through the Flour cookbook and cooking classes helps to expand a community of people who can proudly create something sweet for the ones they care about.

Flour offers an extensive catering menu and an array of cakes, tarts and breads to take home as accent to any meal. And if you remain unsure, just remember Julia Child’s strong conviction that “a party without cake is just a meeting."

A jaunt to Flour is the perfect way to spend an afternoon away from campus.

Whether it’s time spent with a companion or getting ahead on homework, snacks from Flour will make any trip highly enjoyable. The Back Bay branch of Flour Bakery is across the street from the Back Bay T-station, and is open Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Supreme Court decision targets minority voters According to Justin Levitt, author and counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, “it is more likely that an individual will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls.” In spite of numerous reports, including Levitt's paper, that have debunked the presence of widespread of voter fraud, yesterday the Supreme Court decided to reverse the lower courts’ decision in Ohio and uphold an early voting period that was reduced to 28 days from 35 days.

Shortening the time period for early voting most impacts minority voters and students, as voting hours were expanded in Ohio in 2004 primarily in areas with African-American and student concentrations. Additionally, 28 other states are currently circulating bills for further legal restrictions on voting. In Wisconsin, the state is considering implementing voter ID laws that would require each voter to

present a state-issued ID before casting his or her ballot. The decision in Ohio supports long-term conservative efforts to enact restrictive voting measures and curtail minority voting. Perhaps these efforts are in reaction to current projections that by 2020 under 60 percent of voters will be white.

Although voting restrictions have been an issue for a long time — some consider the new voter ID laws to be a new manifestation of poll taxes required of AfricanAmerican voters in the early 20th century to restrict minority voting — Ohio did create early voting hours in 2004 to combat the long lines that prevented three percent of its voters, mostly minority voters, from casting their ballots.

Situations like the conflict in Ferguson, with their polarizing and intense violence, can momentarily overshadow chronic issues like voting restrictions.

Nonetheless, ramping up voting restrictions equally perpetuates systemic

racial discrimination. The decision in Ohio to reduce the early voting period reflects a continued ambivalence from the Supreme Court on lessening racially oppressive legal procedures.

Additionally, the decision in Ohio could galvanize other states to pass restrictive bills. There may be expansive bills introduced in 42 states, but only 10 states have passed these bills. Because Ohio is a swing state, each vote is important. In the 2004 election, the inability of 357,000 people to vote cast doubt on Republican George Bush’s victory, as many of these voters were Democrats.

As our nation's judicial body, the Supreme Court is obligated to uphold racial justice, but its reversal of the Ohio courts' decision is precisely the opposite.

The Court, as well as the substantial number of states with voter-restrictions laws, should seriously reconsider the direction in which they are headed.

sion, the appropriate school dean implements his or her sanction.

2. Sexual misconduct is not processed or adjudicated within the Student Judicial Process as the editorial stated. It is addressed through a separate Sexual Misconduct Adjudication Policy and that policy provides a 60-day guideline for conclusion of cases. Most cases are resolved much sooner than that. Occasionally these types of matters may take longer than 60 days because of the nature of the reported incident, if an investigation spans breaks or holidays or the readiness of the complainant to move forward. In academic year 2013-2014, 94 percent of cases were resolved in fewer than 60 days.

3. The editorial incorrectly stated that there are no restrictions on accused sexual offenders' participation in class and other school activities until the complaint has been processed by the Judicial Affairs Administrator.

Again the OEO, not the judicial affairs administrator, processes all such complaints, and interim measures can be and are imposed before the OEO investigation

concludes. The judicial affairs administrator does administer Stay Away Requests and No Contact Orders, which may be attached to specific OEO reports or result from allegations. Our new Sexual Misconduct Resource Specialist Nandi Bynoe will assist in this process starting in October.

4. The editorial referred only to sexual harassment, but that is just one form of sexual misconduct. Tufts has a comprehensive policy to address sexual misconduct in all its forms, including sex/gender based harassment and discrimination, sexual assault, sexual harassment and discrimination, sexual exploitation, stalking and relationship/dating/domestic violence. It is important for our community to know this.

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Letter to the editor Dear Editor, On Sept. 22, the Tufts Daily ran an editorial about the appointment and responsibilities of Tufts' new Judicial Affairs Administrator Mickey Toogood. That editorial included some significant factual errors. Given the critical importance of the issue of sexual misconduct prevention to the entire Tufts community, we ask that the Daily quickly set the record straight both in print and online.

1. The Office of Equal Opportunity — not the judicial affairs administrator or any other member of the Dean of Student Affairs Office _ is responsible for investigating reports of sexual harassment and all other forms of sexual misconduct.

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Colgate protests for campus diversity: why it matters

by Manal Cheema

While sitting in Tisch in the early recesses of the day (read 10 a.m.), I received an intriguing message from my friend from high school who currently attends Colgate University. She is part of a group called the Association of Critical Collegians (ACC) that, like many organizations on our campus, is dedicated to bringing up issues of inclusivity on campus — focusing on gender, race, sexual orientation and more.

Attending Tufts is like living in a bubble.

We often find that the problems we face as a campus are ours alone, contrary to the true reality. Last year, we held a sit-in for Title IX to bring sexual assault to the attention of the administration, and we felt support from a community greater than Tufts. We understood that sexual assault was an issue facing all campus, and the responses we got proved that. When my friend reached out to me about this issue, I saw it as a chance to support college communities in general, including Tufts.

Inclusivity is not just Colgate’s problem, but ours as well.

For over 50 hours starting on Monday, Sept. 22 at 8 a.m., over 300 Colgate students engaged in a sit-in at the Admissions Office. Their view is that Colgate and other universities have aspects of “institutionalized racism, macro- and microaggressions,” and those need to end. It is not due to any specific incident that this movement has begun, but rather, “that a critical mass of people who are tired and desire change collectively came together to make this happen.” Students have been the victim of insensitive comments in person and on social media due to the ignorance on campus regarding various minorities, and not understanding the diversity of our world is unfair to all college students, regardless of color or origin.

The students of the ACC have proposed a list of concerns and actions to the president, dean of the college and dean of the

faculty on the basis that Colgate has not fulfilled its promise of inclusion.

The action steps presented were simple: Admissions personnel should be engaged in sustained diversity training; the visit days should be restructured to prepare students for the challenges in campus climate; the financial aid system should be held accountable for providing fully guaranteed work-study opportunities for all students; the core curriculum should be revised to include studies of power dynamics and inequities; the college should hire and retain more faculty members of color and students should represent themselves on the committees that decide this among other important proposals. Both students and faculty joined the movement, and, as part of the demonstration, those who had felt excluded from Colgate’s “diverse community” were given the chance to tell their personal stories in front of an ever-growing audience.

Sound familiar? My friend reached out to me on the belief that this issue affects every campus. It does, and Tufts is not the exception. I often lament to my friends that Tufts is not as diverse as it was advertised, that my particular identity is not as represented in the way it should be and that we divide groups based on their identities rather than bring them together.

While my sentiments may not be entirely valid, it is the very fact that I and a large proportion of other people are thinking in this manner that proves that diversity on campus is a problem.

I was lucky enough to find a group of friends and organizations that are composed of differing beliefs and backgrounds. However, there are still so many students on campus who have not been as lucky as I and probably still feel marginalized, such as those who hold conservative views. The ACC argued that Colgate is not including students of color, differing sexual orientations, opposing beliefs and more. I argue that, while Tufts’ policy technically promotes diversity, the campus

has yet to see the true implementation of that policy, especially in terms of socioeconomic diversity.

The movement of Colgate students should not end after the protest. It should continue and live on long after, and it is our duty as fellow college students experiencing the same problems to see that through. If you want to learn more, the student group has put together their reasoning and proposals on their Facebook page and YouTube page. I suggest you look at it because, frankly, I have seen this at Tufts as well.

My friend asked me to write a letter showing support, tweeting @Colgateacc or posting on social media about the movement. This is what I have chosen to do, and I hope you will do something as well. This is not meant to be a complaint, but rather a chance to read about how Colgate is moving forward and, by virtue, how Tufts can continue to move forward.

Our world is expanding, changing and reforming, and it is our duty to help progress in any way possible.

UPDATE: The demonstration began at 8 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 22, and ended at 12:15 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 26. The demonstration, in its mission to support diversity and inclusivity at Colgate, came to a mutually agreeable resolution, with the release of a 21-point road map by the Association of Critical Collegians in conjunction with the presidency and provost of Colgate. It can be found on http:// colgate.edu/colgateforall. However, even though the sit-in is over, the ACC is still working to accomplish its mission fully — working to bring what every campus deserves, and what Tufts should continue to aim for: inclusiveness of all backgrounds from socioeconomic to racial, religious to ideological.

Manal Cheema is a sophomore who has net yet declared a major. She can be reached at manal.cheema@tufts.edu.

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Watson's UN feminist speech relays inspirational message

by Athanasius Georgy The Daily Trojan

On Saturday, Sept. 20, actress Emma Watson gave an impassioned United Nations speech introducing the HeForShe campaign, a promotion through U.N. Women that invites men to join women in the conversation about gender equality. Watson's speech could not have come at a more opportune time.

After major hacks exposing celebrity private photos, domestic violence cases marring the National Football League and the Miss America pageant coming under increased scrutiny, Watson succinctly articulated the truth: Women's rights are human rights, and gender equality involves both men and women.

The year 1995 marked the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, where then-first lady Hillary Clinton proclaimed the beginning of women's rights as a global human rights issue.

Continuing in that spirit, Watson said that feminism is significantly misunderstood. Feminists are stereotyped as bra-burning, man-hating women who refuse to shave their legs. But really, feminism in its purest form is the "belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities," as Watson stated. Our societal narrative should depart from the misunderstood convention of gender equality by shifting toward a modern philosophy that fosters conversation between men and

women and paves the way for equal treatment and opportunity.

Sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and any other harm towards another individual is a complex issue to approach, in part because of the attitudes and beliefs many people in society hold about women. General examples of victim blaming are common in everyday conversation.

"Look at the way she was dressed."

"What do you expect when you wear something that short?" "Just don't take the photos." "You shouldn't have been walking alone." You hear many people make these comments when it comes to violence towards women.

It's utter nonsense.

The idea that women should be held responsible for the attacks committed against them is completely outrageous.

Instead of society teaching women how to avoid potential dangers, men need to be held accountable for the manner in which they conduct themselves and treat others. Why, then, when it comes to sexual violence, do we consistently victim-blame?

A common rule of thumb given to men is to treat any woman as they would treat their mother or sister.

Though well intentioned, that philosophy is completely anathema to the spirit of gender equality. It implies that familiarity is the sole reason to treat a woman in a civilized manner.

You should not respect a woman just because you respect your mother or sister or other familial female figure. You should respect a woman because she is

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a human being who should be treated equally and given the same opportunity and treatment as anyone else.

Women are not delicate creatures who should be thought of as fragile. Women are human beings. Feminism shouldn't just be a fight left to women. Feminism is gender equality that involves men and women working together toward one goal.

Another recent event that highlights gender disparity is the 88th Miss America pageant, which was held in Atlantic City, N.J. this September. The Miss America Organization claims to provide over $45 million in scholarships for women. It claims to foster intelligent, knowledgeable and involved citizens who are models for society.

But since when does intelligence or dignity involve a bikini competition?

And, despite being an organization that predicates itself on scholarships, the Miss America organization paid only $500,000 in scholarships in 2012, according to Esquire. Today, pageants still objectify beauty with the facade of offering an academic future.

Emma Watson spoke for everyone at the United Nations. She said what most think but are too afraid to publicly express.

In the past, if a young woman had written a speech like that, she would have been viewed as "that indie, hipster girl."

But that's the past. Men and women should engage in substantive conversation because feminism is not a female issue, it's a human rights issue. It's about time men step up their role in supporting it.

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ear introverts, For the longest time I didn’t know if I was one of you. Sitting in bed and watching depressing French movies is my favorite pastime, but I also love my weekly underground warehouse raves. I can smell the teen angst and vomit stank already.

KIDDING. But I actually do enjoy going out on the weekends and meeting new people, too. So when I took a Myers-Briggs test earlier this week, I was determined to find out where I fell on the socialization spectrum.

After 72 random questions and an advertisement for glutenfreesingles.com, I got my result: Introvert, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging.

INFJ. It’s pretty uncommon apparently — more rare than a Tufts student who hasn’t called someone out on cultural appropriation, or even conforming to gender normativity. Anyway, this discovery has since made me be extra aware of the random experiences college brings on for introverts all over.

Many people, both extroverted and introverted, do not know what introversion really means. For example, at a frat party, it’s safe to assume that the room is probably fairly evenly split between both types of people, even though the environment is generally one of extroversion and intermingling. Introverts, contrary to popular belief, actually enjoy socialization and many stereotypically “extroverted” activities. The difference comes into the type and quality of the socialization and needing designated time alone.

Dining halls are a prime embodiment of the introvert struggle. At home, some special meals for me meant time alone where I could be a greasy glutton and enjoy whatever I was eating in peace. Every Friday was my designated Subway day, where I would order my chipotle chicken footlong on flatbread after cross-country practice and enjoy the hell out of it. Tears of joy and shame were commonly shed. Mostly shame. But if anyone interrupted my food date, bad things would happen. I threw a shoe at my sister once.

Think George Bush in Iraq circa 2008. Many introverts can then attest to the struggle of college meals being a highly social activity, which is of course a very enjoyable experience and part of quintessential campus life. But every once in a while, when you’ve planned your solitary meal, another person wanting to join you can interrupt it. You can’t deny him at the risk of being rude, but your romantic meal in peace is now flawed.

Another problem is remembering names.

Introverts tend to feel more disconnected in informal social situations according to Myers-Briggs ideology, making it harder to be engaged and recall information. It says small talk tends to be rather frustrating in the definition as well. I’m not sure how this applies to me personally overall, but it is definitely true when I’m meeting new people and remembering their names. Self-diagnosed dementia, really. I’ve had to create a special game in order to recall any sort of information, forcing myself to actively learn names. For example: Gretchen, Pre-Med. Gretchen Wieners from "Mean Girls" (2004).

Diarrhea in Barnes and Noble.

Chronic diarrhea is a medical condition.

Poopy doctor Gretchen.

As long as I can associate a name, major and somewhat disturbing fact, it works. Take note. I’ll never forget poopy Gretchen, that’s for sure.

Being in lectures can also cause issues.

Naturally, introverts tend to enjoy having some empty space near them at all times, so being smack dab in the middle of a packed 400-person auditorium can be pretty irritating. Make sure you get to class early for that prime seating. This is a Southwest flight and you’re hauling for the aisle spot. While there are no sassy flight attendants and terrifying vacuum toilets in class, the same rules apply.

So while some college situations are wonky for introverts, it is a totally manageable circumstance with the right steps. And shoot, Netflix is always there for cheap therapy at the end of the day.

Henry Jani is a freshman who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at henry.jani@tufts.edu.

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The Cleveland Indians will not be playing in the MLB postseason this year after finishing in the middle of the AL Central.

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bringing pressure and failing to capitalize on scoring opportunities. Horwitz added five more saves, bringing her tally to nine on the game, and Turnbull made another impressive save in the circle to prevent a goal by Zarrella.

With under seven minutes remaining, Amherst took the lead when Keenan came out to make a save and junior midfielder Annika Nygren slipped a shot past her. Turnbull, despite being a defender, assisted on both of Amherst's goals. The Jumbos were unable to respond, ultimately falling 2-1.

“I don’t think that we played horribly as a team, but I do think that we are capable of playing much better,” Zarrella said. “I wasn’t exactly thrilled with my own performance; there were some things that I could have done differently, but I think that as a team we will be able to watch film, see what went wrong and learn and grow from it.”

By the numbers, the Jumbos held the advantage the entire game, out-shooting the Lord Jeffs 15-8 and holding a 5-3 edge in penalty corners. Amherst won in arguably the most important category, though. Horwitz made nine saves in front of the net, while Keenan only made one.

Keenan has still only given up 37 goals in her 45-game Tufts career and

gave up more than one goal in a loss only twice last year. In her third year starting in goal, the senior will likely be able to bounce back from this loss.

This setback, however, means the Jumbos will have to clean up their play, return to their game plan and keep their confidence up as they head into the remainder of the season and duke it out with more NESCAC teams for a favorable seed in the postseason tournament.

“I think we need to work on shooting more when we get into the circle and not playing with the ball as much,” McDavitt Materra said. “Just get rid of it, take a quick shot on net or draw a corner. Defensively, we just need to work on our communication from the backfield all the way up so that we’re very organized and have a lot of layers so it’s difficult for opponents to get through us.”

Tufts returns to action on Oct. 2 at 5 p.m. at home on Bello Field and looks to bounce back with a win against the University of New England.

“I think that the loss was a pretty big wake-up call,” Zarrella said. “Obviously none of us like losing, but I think that we can learn a lot from this game, and I think that, if anything, the team is even more fired up to play in our next game, and we’re going seeing this loss as an opportunity to learn from our mistakes and come back stronger.”

under for baseball teams’ records produced an RMSE of about plus-or-minus 9 wins at the start of the season, and most other baseball projection systems get similar results for minimizing RMSE. We like to think of outcomes for sports discretely. A team either makes the playoffs or not. We tend to predict whichever of the discrete outcomes is likeliest. Most of the time, the Indians will not make the playoffs, and it is quite reasonable to predict that they will not. Whenever the Indians do not make the playoffs, we will be correct 100 percent of the time, with no error. Those rare times the Indians do make the playoffs, we will be correct zero percent of the time.

Projection systems and simulators try to minimize RMSE. While the simulator or projection system will often be more wrong than the educated fan, we cannot neglect the times the simulator correctly identifies that a team still has a chance, despite the fact that fans and talking-heads have written that team off. The Colorado Rockies in 2007 won 14 of their last 15 games of the season to scrape into the playoffs (helped by an epic collapse by the Padres). The Indians just last season won their last 10 games to sneak into the playoffs. We would get those predictions wrong 100 percent of the time by just guessing who makes the playoffs and choosing the most reasonable team. The simulator is going to be off a lesser percent of the time (only 99.5 percent now for the Indians). On average, our projections and a simulator’s projections will get similar bias results. The simulator has a smaller variance, though, since it is less far off when it is wrong, and therefore has a smaller mean squared error. This is why these systems are so useful.

With three games left in the season, Cleveland needed to win all of their games and have Oakland and Seattle lose all remaining games. Even then, they may have had to play tiebreaker games against those teams. However, they had a non-zero chance, and if we want to minimize our guessing error of who makes the playoffs, we should say that, as late as last week, the Indians had a chance of winning it all.

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Eight-hundred-meter specialist junior Sydney Smith, running only her second cross country race in college, just missed placing in the top seven for the Jumbos, taking 63rd in a time of 24:30.7.

"The course wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be," Bowman said.

"Although there were one or two decent -sized hills, we have been doing hill repeats on much larger hills over the past few weeks to prepare us for the meet."

Despite the increase from the typical high school five-kilometer race to the collegiate six-kilometer race, Bowman was unfazed.

"While racing, there were plenty of runners to race the course with and enough enthusiasm from the sidelines to distract me from the fact that I was running an extra kilometer than I'm used to," Bowman said. "My strategy was to stay with the pack of other Tufts runners and to use the hills to my advantage to pass runners from other teams."

However, Bowman still saw room for improvement.

"Next race, I need to start out more conservatively at the beginning of the race so I still have some speed for a good finish, and I need to hydrate more," she said.

Although it appears that Tufts pulled off a surprise upset of No. 2-ranked Williams, whom Tufts defeated by 20

points, Williams did not run any its freshmen — some of whom could be in the top seven — in the varsity race, instead choosing to run them in the junior varsity five kilometer race. In that race, the Williams freshmen took the top four spots as well as the sixth spot en route to a resounding victory over second-place Keene State, who finished with 84 points.

"While we're psyched to have beaten Williams, what's more important is that many members of our team had great races on a tough course that we will return to later this season for NCAA Div. III Regionals," Kimball-Katz said. "As a captain, the morale-booster was that so many girls on the team came away from that race with a newfound love for hilly courses, which is something that was clear from the race results."

The Jumbos will have next weekend off and will then compete at the NEICAA Championship meet held at historic Franklin Park in two weeks, where they will face competition hailing from all three major NCAA divisions.

"All New Englands will be another opportunity for our team to race talent from all over our region as well as teams from Div. I and Div. II," Kimball-Katz said.

"It's easy to get intimidated by the enormous field entered in this race, but we can go into it knowing we are one of the top Div. III teams in New England, so that is exactly how we will race."

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Jumbos suffer first loss in homecoming upset against Amherst

by Maclyn Senear Daily Editorial Board

The undefeated streak had to end some day, and Saturday proved to be that day. No. 4 Tufts field hockey came

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out to Bello Field looking to defend its home turf and record its seventh straight win this year, but instead gave up its first and second goals of the season and failed to break down the Amherst defense in a close 2-1 loss to the nation's 11th-ranked team.

Amherst has given Tufts significant trouble in recent years. In the past four meetings, including Saturday's tilt, Tufts is just 1-3, with that lone win coming in overtime.

“Everybody in the NESCAC is great,” coach Tina McDavitt Materra said. “In my opinion, it’s the top league in Div. III, so you’ve got to be ready to play every day.”

The upset brings the Jumbos to 6-1 on the season and 3-1 in the NESCAC, tied for second place in the conference.

The only undefeated team left in the NESCAC is now Bowdoin, the defending national champion and top-ranked team in the country, whom Tufts will play in its final regular-season game.

“I think what was lacking was that we weren’t making adjustments fast enough,” McDavitt Materra said. “In past games we were able to figure out

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Tufts sophomore forward Ashlyn Salvage tracks after the ball during a 4-0 win at home against Wesleyan on Sept. 16. quicker what other teams were doing and make adjustments on the fly, but this time we were making the same mistakes over and over.”

The Jumbos were quick to open the scoring, taking a 1-0 lead in the fourth minute when sophomore forward Dominique Zarrella knocked in her sixth goal of the season off of a rebound.

For the remainder of the game, though, the prolific Tufts offense failed to find the back of the net.

McDavitt Materra’s team kept the pressure on throughout the first half, but the Amherst defense, anchored by

lockdown performances from sophomore goalkeeper Emily Horwitz and junior defender Annie Turnbull, stymied Tufts’ efforts. Late in the first half, a few minutes after a diving goal-line save from Turnbull to keep Jumbo senior co-captain Brittany Norfleet’s shot out of the net, the Lord Jeffs retaliated with a goal from senior Madeline Tank. It was the first ball to get past senior goalkeeper Brianna Keenan this season.

The game remained tied at 1-1 for most of the second half with both teams see FIELD HOCKEY, page 11

Women's Cross Country

Gould, Fahey lead Jumbos to third-place finish

by Chris Warren Daily Editorial Board

On a hot and sunny day in Williamstown, Mass., the women's cross country team faced its stiffest competition so far this season at Williams' Purple Valley Classic, hosted at Mount Greylock High School. This meet served as a tuneup for New England Div. III Regionals, featuring a majority of the top teams that will be competing against each other for an automatic or at-large bid to the NCAA Div. III Championships at this same course on Nov. 15.

Led by strong performances from junior co-captain Audrey Gould, sophomore Kelly Fahey and junior Olivia Beltrani, the No. 14-ranked Jumbos scored 95 points on the six-kilometer course to take third place, behind No. 4

MIT and No. 8 Middlebury.

The course at Mount Greylock High School is one of the hilliest in the New England region, as runners must first cross a flat field before heading into the woods toward a precipitous ascent, including a 300-meter-long hill at the end of the section in the woods. As a result, and due to the hot conditions (high temperatures were in the 70s), the athletes' times were much slower than expected.

"Our strategy for this weekend was to work in pairs or packs, since we have a very large team," senior co-captain Caroline Kimball-Katz said. "There is strength in numbers, and our team exemplifies that perfectly."

Gould, Fahey and Beltrani maneuvered to the front quickly and did not let up. Gould took third overall in the race, running 22:36.2, behind the winner,

sophomore Sarah Quinn of MIT, who ran a 22:23.9, and teammate Maryann Gong, who finished just six seconds behind with a time of 22:29.9. Fahey followed closely, running a time of 22:53.4 for seventh overall, while Beltrani was just a few short ticks away, clocking a time of 23:04.2 to place 12th overall.

The Jumbos battled hard to nab high finishes in the final two scoring positions, as returning varsity sophomore Lindsay Atkeson placed 30th overall with a time of 23:40.8, and sophomore Alice Wasserman placed 46th in a time of 24:03.4. Wasserman was followed closely behind by freshman Brittany Bowman, who finished 55th overall in a time of 24:14.8 and freshman Evie Heffernan, who finished 60th overall in a time of 24:26.4. see WOMEN'S XC, page 11

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Projecting the odds: how to predict playoffs

by Morris Greenberg Contributing Writer

Last week, nerdy baseball fans across the country pulled up the 2014 Playoff Odds on Fangraphs.com to check the status of the American and National League pennant races. Since it was near the end of the season, most of the teams had either a zero percent chance of making the playoffs or a 100 percent chance.

However, there were a few teams whose fate remained unclear.

For instance, the Pirates had a 15 percent chance of winning their division over the first place Cardinals, according to the simulator. Likewise, the Indians had 0.5 percent chance of making the playoffs, needing to jump over two of three teams — the Athletics, Royals and Mariners — to claim the last wild card spot in the AL.

Neither of these events occurred. Now that the regular season is in the books, we know that the Pirates fell short of the Cardinals by two games and instead captured the first Wild Card spot. The Indians missed the playoffs entirely. Now that we know the true outcomes of the 2014 MLB season, this is a perfect time to take a look at the projection systems that we have been watching all season.

People often do not understand why the supposedly best projection systems and simulators tend to be so centered toward the average. PECOTA, one of the most advanced baseball projection systems, for instance, predicted before the season that no one would hit more than 36 home runs this year (three players ended up hitting more than 36, and two more finished with exactly 36). Similarly, FiveThirtyEight. com was criticized for being very bearish

on European teams in their 2014 World Cup simulation (Germany won the World Cup). The Indians had no chance of making the playoffs last week based on any logical observation, yet the simulator still gave Indians fans a bit of hope.

The accuracy of a projection system is measured by Mean Squared Error (MSE) or Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), the square root of MSE. MSE is simply bias squared plus variance squared. In statistics, bias is the difference between the expected value of the estimate and the real number we try to predict. When the difference between the two is zero, the estimate is unbiased. Variance measures how much the estimate is spread out.

According to Neil Paine and Ritchie King of FiveThirtyEight.com, Las Vegas’ over/ see INSIDE THE MLB, page 11

Sam Gold | The Gold Standard

Separation of church and football

F

ootball is religion in the American South.

Though metaphorical, this aphorism is actually lived out on a weekly basis when the South — along with the rest of the country — ensconces itself in stadiums, on sofas and virtually in fantasy leagues, eyes riveted and mouths agape.

In Georgia, the phrase “football is religion” has of late morphed into “football and religion,” as the melding of the two at a public high school — where a monument inscribed with explicitly Christian verses from the New Testament is the centerpiece of the football program — has reinvigorated the debate over whether freedom from religion or the free exercise thereof should be the principle to govern our education system.

Romans 8:31 and Philippians 4:13, the verses in question, invoke “God” and “Christ” respectively. They presume the existence of God and Christ, if not the Holy Trinity, thereby associating victory in football necessarily with belief in the Godhead. The logical conclusion to this line of thought is that if Christ does not “strengtheneth me,” I cannot expect to “do all things” (Phil. 4:13); similarly, if I do not believe in God, I am conquerable, whereas if I do believe in God, I am endowed with invincibility (Phil.

4:13). These two passages contain an implicit compulsion in Christianity, which denigrates, intentionally or not, adherents of other (read: lesser) faiths and non-faiths.

As a Jewish player at Madison County High School, I could not tolerate partaking in a tradition grounded in a tradition or a set of traditions that historically has oppressed my people.

Even if I were not to partake, merely being cognizant of this blatant Christianization would bring my status as an outsider, a near-universal truth, into starker relief.

The question, however, is not whether any Bible verses are permissible, but rather whether these particular verses are. Not all Bible verses make such explicit reference to the divine — most don't; in fact, there is a plethora of verses that, once decontextualized, read nondescriptly save for their antiquated diction. It is eminently feasible for religiously motivated texts not to infringe on constitutionally guaranteed freedom from them.

Let us test a hypothetical. Romans 11:18 reads, "You do not support the root, but the root supports you." This quote contains nothing immediately unsavory to non-theists — except, perhaps, for anti-environmentalists — and would thus have passed the separation litmus test. Or maybe not.

David Niose is a board member and former president of the American Humanist Association (AHA), one organization that has demanded that the county “remove the monument immediately,” a demand in keeping with its religiophobic track record. He asserts that “[the monument] sends a clear message that the school favors Christianity, despite the fact that it is a public school that must welcome all students” – the operative word here being “favors.”

There has yet to emerge any evidence of a missionary conspiracy among the school board — the law of averages dictates that it is probably not populated exclusively by Evangelical subversives — and that the monument was erected still does not point to favoritism.

If the football program was otherwise devoid of Christian references and was it not to incorporate Christianity beyond the lettering on the statue, what would stop the monument from surrendering its religiosity? Myriad traditions were formerly steeped in some religion or other and have lost that aspect, yet retained their primary significance. Naive though it may be, the school board could have believed this to be its precise trajectory. After all, the monument was a gift, paid for by a private donor. How it graced the stadium!

Niose and his ilk make no distinction between creeping Christianity and Christianity lite. In purging public education of the former, the AHA and its counterparts — who are absolutely right in this case — must not essentialize the latter.

Sam Gold is a senior majoring in religion. He can be reached at samuel_l.gold@tufts.edu.