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New Digital Library Student hikers rescued in New interface updates Hampshire mountains organizational features

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Tufts Digital Collections and Archives collaborated with University Information Technology Educational and Scholarly Technology Services (UIT ESTS) to launch a new user-friendly interface for the Tufts Digital Library, an online service for sharing resources related to Tufts.

The collection, found at dl.tufts.edu, includes student and faculty scholarship as well as historical materials associated with Tufts, such as photographs, old issues of the Tufts Daily and audio recordings of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow’s radio show, according to Digital Resources Archivist Deborah Kaplan.

Although Digital Collections and Archives and UIT ESTS had been discussing the redesign for several years, the interface only took one year to create, Director and University Archivist Anne Sauer said.

“We had a period of very intense design and planning by

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meetings in the spring and early summer, and since then it’s been focused on the development side of the work,” she said. “This was a major undertaking, and the fact that we were able to get it done in a year took a lot of hard work from a lot of people.”

The new interface was designed using Hydra, a system that will make it easier for viewers to search, add and organize new materials, according to Kaplan. As Hydra is an open source project, the Tufts collections are now public and globally accessible, she said.

“Hydra was used partly because it is so easy, and partly because it was something that our peers were using that was easy to use and that we could see was going to have continuing support,” Kaplan said.

The old interface was custom-designed using Java and coded entirely from scratch, Director of Education and Scholarly Technology Services Gina Siesing said. Although see DIGITAL, page 2

Obama nominates Tufts professor for U.S. chemical safety board by

Daniel Gottfried

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After being nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board on Sept.

20 of last year, Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine Beth Rosenberg was officially confirmed to the position by the United States Senate on Jan. 1.

Rosenberg will be leaving Tufts for five years to serve in Washington, D.C. and plans to return to campus at the end of her appointment, she said.

She arrived in the nation’s capital earlier this week.

“I am very sad to leave my home at Tufts,” Rosenberg said. “I was [at Tufts] for 15 years and there are many people in my department whom I love. I feel like I am going off on a big adventure, and I will come home in a few years,” Rosenberg said.

The role of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is to

investigate industrial chemical accidents and to discover their causes, according to a mission statement on the board’s website. The board then makes safety recommendations with the hope of preventing future accidents.

“One of the advocacy roles is to convince other agencies and other stake holders, whether it is the Occupational Health and Sa f e t y Administration (OSHA), or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), or the National Fire Protection Association, or the chemical industry, about what steps need to happen next in order to prevent the incident from happening again,” Rosenberg said.

After applying for the position, the process leading up to confirmation took about 10 months, according to Rosenberg.

“To be confirmed felt exciting and a little scary, because I had been thinking for the last 25 years about what makes work places safe and see ROSENBERG, page 2

Six members of Tufts Mountain Club ( TMC) were rescued early Saturday morning after taking a wrong trail during their return hike down Mount Pierce in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest.

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department dispatched a four-person rescue team after receiving a 911 call from the hikers at around 6 p.m. on Friday. Rescuers found the students at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday and guided them to safety.

The hikers reached their car at 5:15 a.m. and returned uninjured to the Loj, TMC’s base camp in Woodstock, N.H., according to sophomore trip leaders Emily Melick and Glen Zinck.

“It’s a wake-up call in terms of no matter how many times you go out into the woods to enjoy the outdoors, to go on these hikes, to go on these adventures, it doesn’t matter how experienced you are because you’re always going out into nature,” Melick said.

The group’s excursion was one of many hiking trips that TMC oversees every weekend, according to TMC President Julia Ouimet, a junior. The club has nearly 580 members and regularly sends out hiking, kayaking and rock-climbing trips from the Loj. Ouimet said the incident see MOUNTAIN, page 2

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Six Tufts Mountain Club (TMC) members were rescued from New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest during the early morning hours on Jan. 12 after taking a wrong trail while hiking down Mount Pierce.

Health Services out of flu vaccine After administering the flu vaccine to over 40 percent of full-time Tufts students and employees on the Medford/ Somerville campus last fall, Tufts Health Service announced that it ran out of the vaccination and will not be receiving any more this school year.

According to Senior Director of Health and Wellness Services Michelle Bowdler, 3,000 Tufts community members received the vaccination at Health Service last semester.

The vaccination is generally 60 to 85 percent effective against preventing the flu, Bowdler said. All of the students who were diagnosed with the flu while at Tufts last semester had not been vaccinated before falling ill, she explained.

Although this year’s flu outbreak came earlier and with greater intensity than usual, it is no more threatening than it had been in past years, Medical

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enough sleep and staying home when one experiences a fever or flu-like symptoms. The most common symptoms include fever, body ache, headache and severe cough.

The flu can be particularly dangerous for those suffering from chronic medical problems such as bad asthma and those taking immune-suppressing medication, Higham said.

Bowdler said that the outbreak should not cause excessive anxiety because so much of the Tufts community has received the vaccination.

“If you have a small community and a huge percentage of the community is protected, it seems likely that not only will this be helpful to those who are vaccinated, but also to those who have not been vaccinated,” she said. “We can hope that less will spread to them.”

Director of Tufts Health Service Margaret Higham said.

“It’s not any different from the flu we’ve been seeing in the past couple of years,” she said.

“It’s not the [Influenza A] H1N1 [virus], not some new strain.”

The Boston Globe reported in a Jan. 11 article that over 750 cases have been found within the city so far this season, a number significantly higher than the 70 that had been confirmed at this time last year.

However, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s declaration of a flu emergency in the city of Boston was mostly an attempt to mobilize efforts to acquire more vaccinations and make citizens aware of preventative measures, Higham said.

According to a Jan. 10 blog post by Higham on the Tufts Emergency Preparedness website that was linked to in an email to the Tufts community, preventative measures include proper hand washing, getting

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Get to know two members of the Class of 2017 before they head to the Hill.

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healthy, and now I have a chance to implement what I have been learning, and it is exciting,” Rosenberg said.

Rosenberg decided to apply for the role at the recommendation of Professor Rafael Moure-Eraso, a professor in the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Rosenberg’s doctorate alma mater.

Moure-Eraso is currently Chairperson and CEO of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

Rosenberg said that the government was very concerned about conflicts of interest for members serving on the chemical safety board.

“The White House Office of Personnel [Management] went over my finances to see if I had any investments with chemical companies that might present a conflict of interest,” she said.

Tufts University School of Medicine Professor and Chair of Public Health and Community Medicine Aviva Must said that Rosenberg’s colleagues in the department will miss Rosenberg when she is in Washington, D.C. “We will find people to cover the courses that she teaches and take over the responsibility in the department, but she is not replaceable,” Must said.

“She is a unique individual that has exceptional assets, but we are looking forward to her return from Washington with the experiences that she gained from this government agency, and it enriching her teaching to make her an even more valuable asset to Tufts.”

Rosenberg explained that she hopes to fight for the average worker in her time on the board.

“I hope to be a bridge between the

chemical safety board and other agencies that can improve worker health, and although it sounds trite, I really hope to make a difference in the lives of people who work in the petrochemical industry because it is a really dangerous industry,” she said.

According to Rosenberg, she has spent part of the past seven years researching health and safety conditions at former nuclear weapons sites, influencing her perspective on the role of the worker in forming safety regulations.

Rosenberg said she developed a belief that workers’ voices need strong protection during time she spent in the early 2000s in Chinese and Vietnamese garment factories with Associate Professor of Economics Drusilla Brown as well as Ann Rappaport and Francine Jacobs, both lecturers in the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department.

“I learned that workers need a collective protected voice in order to have safe working conditions, and that means a strong union,” Rosenberg said.

Rosenberg also previously served on the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act’s Science Advisory Board, an experience that required negotiating skills that she can use on the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, she said.

Rosenberg is confident that her experience in Washington will aid her work in the classroom when she returns to Tufts.

“I look forward to going to Washington and doing interesting and valuable things, and then coming back to Tufts and teaching students about what I have learned,” she said.

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Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine Beth Rosenberg will leave Tufts for five years to serve on the presidentiallyappointed U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

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The Tufts Digital Library, which can be found online at dl.tufts.edu, now has a new interface which allows faster ways to search for and organize digital archives.

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groundbreaking at the time, that system was almost 10 years old, which according to Sauer is extremely old in computer terms. This led to shortcomings in functionality for users, she said.

“Hydra allows a much more flexible and functional interface to access the materials that are in the depository,” Sauer said. “It is much easier to find things using the new interface than it was in the old.”

The Tufts Digital Library is unique from other universities’ archives because of its large variety of content, Siesing said.

In some cases, materials stored in the Tufts Digital Library are used in unexpected ways, Kaplan added. For example, she said, Medford and Somerville locals used photographs of the area around the Tufts campus to compile a legal case about open spaces in the city.

Several classes at Tufts also use the Digital Library as part of their curriculum, Siesing said. Associate Professor of Music David Locke, for example, uses the service to store a collection of African drum recordings that he uses

in his ethnomusicology class. Assistant Professor of History Kris Manjapra also uses collections from the repository for assignments in his history courses.

Siesing said she hoped more professors would include materials from the Digital Library in courses in the future.

“Students use it to do research, faculty use it to distribute their scholarship,” Kaplan said. “There are also a lot of outside users. For example, we have a large collection of street directories of the city of Boston in the 19th century and a lot of genealogists use those.”

Other hopes for the new Digital Library include increasing student use and community feedback about how it can continue to change and improve, Kaplan said.

“We think it is just more enjoyable to browse and discover in the new interface,” Siesing said. “We hope that people will find more of the rich materials that are available, and browsing will happen more frequently.”

The Digital Library will continue to improve and expand, Sauer said.

“It is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what the repository can be,” she said.

was an anomaly.

“As far as I know, no one has had to be rescued by an outside source,” she said. “Everything’s sort of been taken care of by the club. It’s not something that happens very often in TMC.” Although the university is working with TMC to debrief the incident, the students seemed to have properly implemented emergency protocol, according to Tufts Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler.

“They were well equipped with a compass, extra food and headlamps, and they had the supplies to build a fire,” Thurler said. “When they became unsure of their location, they knew to call 911. It seems that the planning and the preparedness that we try to instill in Mountain Club members paid off.”

Melick and Zinck said that the group adhered to all TMC policies before setting out on Friday morning, including filling out a trips form with everyone’s contact information, reviewing the route, checking gear and preparing food.

While descending Mount Pierce in the mid-afternoon, the hikers mistakenly took a left instead of right turn, Zinck said, putting them on a different trail that had been washed out by Hurricane Irene.

The group, equipped with snowshoes, hiked through snow four feet deep on the damaged trail until realizing at 3:30 p.m. that they were not on the correct path.

“Since there was so much snow at times, we didn’t see a lot of the signs,” Zinck said.

The map indicated that the trail they accidentally took would have also led back to Route 302, their intended destination, Melick noted.

“We knew which direction we needed to go [in],” she said. “The only thing we weren’t sure about, simply because we didn’t have a GPS, was how much mileage we had until the road.”

Knowing it would get dark outside, the students stopped hiking at 5:45 p.m. to call for help, according to

Melick.

The Fish and Game Department responded to the call and said that the volunteer rescue team would hike out to them using GPS coordinates and arrive at around 1 or 2 a.m. on Saturday, Melick explained.

“Because [the rescue team] knew roughly where we were and what trail we had been following and where we had come from and where we were headed, it was a lot easier for them to locate us,” she said.

After starting a fire and keeping it ablaze for the next seven to eight hours while they waited, as Zinck said, the students heard a whistle and saw headlamps at 2:30 a.m., according to Melick. They signaled back with their whistle, cleaned up the area and hiked to the rescue team.

Melick and Zinck emphasized that group collaboration, proactive thinking and awareness of everyone’s capabilities contributed to their safety when the unpredictable happened.

“I think one of the most amazing things was not, ‘Oh, as leaders, we were prepared,’ but that as a group we worked together,” Melick said. “We knew when to ask for help. Everyone was phenomenal. When we needed to lean on each other, we did. When we needed to take charge, we did.”

TMC leadership over the past two years has worked with the university to develop a comprehensive emergency response plan that is currently posted at the Loj and available to all club members, Ouimet said.

“That protocol was followed,” she explained. “From a planning and preparedness standpoint, these students did nothing wrong. So we’re kind of counting it as a success of all the planning that previous [TMC] boards have put into this kind of thing.”

Ouimet hopes to continue to stress preparedness, awareness and communication among TMC members in light of the incident.

“It isn’t so much a matter of preventing future TMC members from accidentally taking the wrong trail,” she said. “It is a matter of ensuring that they are prepared to handle the situation when they do.”

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Fresh faces from the Class of 2017 Erynne Van Zee: a renaissance woman

by Shannon Vavra

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While many high school seniors have their sights set on Tufts, only a small number of students received acceptance letters to join the Class of 2017 in the first round of Early Decision on December 15.

One of these incoming freshmen, Erynne Van Zee, cannot wait to join her class and the Tufts community this fall. Van Zee, who hails from Corvallis, Ore., decided on Tufts because of the strong support she expects from students, administrators and faculty in anything she decides to pursue on the Hill.

“I identified with the individual passions of each student in a collaborative pursuit for local and global impact,” Van Zee told the Daily in an email. “When I visited, everyone I talked to loved Tufts so much and seemed so happy there.”

Van Zee, who was born and raised in Corvallis, is ready to build on her considerable accomplishments there. She is currently the Student Council treasurer for Crescent Valley High School and the co-president of her school’s Students for Environmental Awareness chapter.

Van Zee races with a Nordic ski team and plays the cello in the Corvallis Youth Symphony.

“Music has been a passion of mine for about nine years,” Van Zee said. “I rely on my cello to do a lot of community service around Corvallis, such as playing quartet music weekly at a soup kitchen for the homeless.”

Van Zee hopes to continue to play the cello, ski and work on environmental activism on campus next year, while exploring new activities.

“I also want to take my four years at Tufts as an opportunity to try something new and find new interests,” Van Zee said. She is interested in joining Tufts Engineers Without Borders and Tufts Global Health Network.

While Van Zee does not know yet in which major she will declare, but she is considering studying both environmental engineering and community health.

She also has experience with multiple languages. Van Zee studied French from kindergarten through seventh grade, has studied Spanish since eighth grade and participated in an exchange program in Paraguay for two months in 2010. At Tufts, she is interested in adding Arabic to her resume.

Van Zee is considering studying abroad in Chile or Peru, to continue practicing Spanish, as well as in Morocco, to perfect her French and improve her Arabic.

She eventually wants to look into a career in sustainable development and hopes to pursue this interest in these countries.

“I also saw Tufts has an exchange program to Nepal, which also seems very interesting and completely different from anything I’ve ever experienced before, so

Newly accepted Jumbo Erynne Van Zee’s interests include cello, Spanish and environmental activism. maybe I would go there instead. Who knows?” Van Zee said. “There are so many places to choose from.”

Because of her wide variety of interests, Van Zee’s largest concern about adjusting to college life is balancing

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everything she wants to do.

“Tufts has so many things going on that I want to join or experience, I just don’t know how I’ll fit it all in,” Van Zee said.

Céili Hale: not a typical southern belle by

Charlotte Gilliland Daily Editorial Board

Incoming freshman and Missisippian Céili Hale was not originally drawn to Tufts for its reputation or rigorous academics. Rather, she was attracted by a certain elephant mascot at a college fair at her high school.

“They came down here with a couple of other schools my junior year. The first thing that caught my eye was the Jumbo mascot,” she said.

After that memorable first impression, Hale researched Tufts and decided it was the school for her. She was accepted in the first round of Early Decision applicants.

Several aspects of Tufts appealed to Hale, including its take on experimental learning and the university’s academic range.

“I like the Experimental College, and I want to study English,” she said. “When I looked at the English courses, I noticed that there were interesting classes. More than just Shakespeare.”

Hale has many aspirations for her career both at Tufts and beyond.

“I want to minor in Film Studies and be a screenwriter for television shows or movies,” she said.

Hale toured the campus over the summer and was struck by the view of downtown Boston from the Tisch Library roof. “It felt . . . like immediately where I wanted to be,” she said.

Hale originates from Gluckstadt, Miss., a very small town about thirty minutes from Jackson, Miss.

“We have a Krystal [restaurant], two gas stations and four stop lights,” she said.

Hale says that she is not a typical Southerner, in that her opinions differ from those of her environment.

“I used to really hate it,” she said. “I actually wrote about this in one of my essays. It helped me learn how to talk to people who are different from me.”

According to Hale, most of her differences stem from her opinions about religion.

“We have a lot of Southern Baptists. I’m an atheist and people really don’t know that,” she said. “Anytime I try to bring it up, people will try to convert me.”

At Tufts, Hale is looking forward to being in a new environment, where she hopes that her peers may share some of her values.

“I know that up North in general is more compatible with the way I view politics and religion,” she said. As one of the few from her hometown who have heard of Tufts, let alone considered applying, the transition from Gluckstady to a city like Boston will be daunting.

“Even though Tufts isn’t right in Boston, it’s close to Davis Square, and I’ve never even been around something that big,” she said.

She said her parents have expressed the usual sentiments of uncertainty at having their child go to school far away, compared with most of her friends who will attend Mississippi State or the University of Mississippi.

“I think that they have always known that it’s something I wanted to do. They’re really nervous.

The more they learn about Tufts, the better it gets,” she said.

Although the transition from her hometown in Mississippi to life in New England holds some trepidation for Hale, she seems overjoyed at the thrill of her start at Tufts, and is excited to arrive on campus in fall 2013 and begin life as a college freshman.

“All my friends get kind of annoyed because I talk about it so much,” she said. “I kind of, like, stalk Tufts.”

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Hale, a native Mississippian, is excited for life on the Hill.

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Louis C.K. delivers dark but hilarious comedy C.K.’s standup covers same territory as ‘Louie’ by

Claire Felter

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Although comedian Louis C.K. has gained prominence in the last few years for his leading role on the critically praised FX television series “Louie,” C.K. continues to reach out to live audiences across the country. The television show utilizes a mixture of scripted storylines and C.K.’s stand-up comedy routines, providing viewers with a taste of C.K.’s self-deprecating humor. While the show features original material for each episode, C.K.’s live stand-up shows parallel the stories within “Louie” as he describes his everyday ordeals with his daughters, women and the rest of society.

C.K. performed several stand-up shows at the Boston Symphony Hall from Jan. 3 to Jan. 5 on his most recent tour. Each night consisted of an early show beginning at 7 p.m. and a late show beginning at 10 p.m.

For the late show on C.K.’s final night in Boston, comedian Gary Gulman opened the performance with a 15-minute routine.

Gulman, who has appeared on both “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and“The Late Show with David Letterman,” also earned the spot of runner-up during two seasons of “Last Comic Standing,” and received a positive response from the Boston audience. Gulman, employing a Boston accent, played up the show’s location by presenting a well-liked bit on the New England Patriots’ Tom Brady.

When Gulman introduced C.K. onstage,

the audience applauded wildly, clearly eagerly anticipating the next hour and a half. C.K. introduced his act with a short anecdote about his first trip to Boston Symphony Hall, when he came with his father to see a classical music performance. C.K. divulged that this trip marked the first moment he realized he had full control over the act of killing himself. The audience roared with laughter in response.

C.K. is known for telling simple stories that simultaneously resonate with broader existential concepts, and this evening’s performance was no different. C.K. continued life and death themes throughout various segments of his show, including a hilarious piece on why people are so lucky to have time on earth. While audience members who may not be familiar with C.K.’s style might have expected a more uplifting indicator of the human race’s good fortune, C.K. fans were unsurprised when the comedian reduced the equation to, “We get to have sex!” The joke itself does not necessarily appear original or creative when taken out of context, but C.K. succeeds because he forms clear connections with his audience. In his fearlessness, he keeps nothing from them and in doing so builds up a bond similar an old friend who knows us at our best but more particularly at our worst. The awkward, the painful and the crude are all fair play because of this trust C.K. establishes. We are all in the same position as he is and we all share similar experiences.

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TV Review

‘1600 Penn’ predictable, yet to hit stride by

Lancy Downs

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Ultimately, “1600 Penn” is a standard dysfunctional family comedy. This particular dysfunctional family just happens

1600 Penn

Starring Josh Gad, Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman, Martha MacIsaac Airs Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. on NBC to live and work in the White House.

A talented cast leads its First Family: Josh Gad of the musical “Book of Mormon” (2011) is Skip Gilchrist, the eldest son of President Dale Gilchrist (Bill Pullman), who is once again sitting in the Oval Office. Jenna Elfman is the semi-new step-mom/first lady, Emily.

Together, these three lead a cast of characters that, as of the first two episodes, seems capable only of hovering at the edges of storylines.

The pilot opens with Skip’s accidentally setting fire to a fraternity at his college, where after seven years of education, he is still three credits short of graduating. His leader-of-the-free-world father whisks him back to the White House, where we are introduced to the rest of the family. Step-mom Emily is struggling to be a parent to the President’s other children. There’s perfect college-graduate Becca (Martha MacIsaac) and two younger ones, Marigold (Amara Miller) and boy-genius Xander (Benjamin Stockham). We soon learn that Becca is pregnant from a one-night stand — and by the end of the second episode, the First Family and frazzled press secretary (Andre Holland — who seems to be the see PENN, page 6

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Louis C.K. has built a name for himself as a comedian by delivering self-deprecating humor that is deliciously painful for both him and his audience. show was without a doubt his finale, which the comedian began by explaining that he often views events and ideas with an “of course, but maybe” mentality. For example, he first states that “of course” safety measures should be taken for people with nut allergies. “But maybe,” C.K. continued, those who are so allergic that contact with

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Jessica Chastain is devastatingly convincing as CIA officer Maya in “Zero Dark Thirty.”

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ evades audience expectations by

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Zero Dark Thirty Starring Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

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Even before it began to stir discussion as this year’s most controversial Academy Awards Best Picture nominee

Actor Josh Gad’s amusing portrayal as first son Skip Gilchrist has the most potential on NBC’s new comedy “1600 Penn.”

nuts is fatal should be allowed to die. He went on to set up another instance using the Make a Wish Foundation and the audience began to murmur and groan, deeming the topic inappropriate for humor.

C.K. maintained his hold on the audi-

for its depiction of torture, “Zero Dark Thirty” faced a few key challenges as a film. It was bound to come under scrutiny after director Kathryn Bigelow’s previous film “The Hurt Locker” (2008) made her the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, setting lofty expectations for whichever film she chose as her follow-up project.

By making a film based on the U.S. hunt for Osama bin Laden, Bigelow

faced a challenge unique to filmmakers focusing on recent current events: How does one fully engage the audience when it already knows how the story ends? She did not even come close to succumbing to these issues, and instead delivered gripping, tensionfilled drama that easily propelled “Zero Dark Thirty” to stand among the best films of the year.

“Zero Dark Thirty” traces the intelligence career of Maya ( Jessica Chastain), a CIA officer stationed in Pakistan, whose goal is to investigate any and all information that could lead to discovering bin Laden’s whereabouts. Over a period of eight years, the film shows Maya as she evolves from a shy newcomer to a forceful and harddriving officer insistent in her beliefs.

The plot is fleshed out by a group of Maya’s colleagues and superiors at the CIA, portrayed by a cast that includes Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke and Mark Strong. For most of its runtime, the film see ZERO, page 6

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functions like a procedural as it follows the challenges, false victories and twists that Maya encounters on the years-long path to the U.S. Navy SEAL raid on bin Laden’s compound.

While the plot’s climax is—unsurprisingly—the raid itself, Bigelow’s realtime portrayal of the strike manages to make it an intensely gripping sequence despite the audience’s familiarity with the outcome. Bigelow’s directing ability shines through at its strongest in the raid sequence, which moves at a deliberate pace that slowly ratchets up the tension level by successfully utilizing helmet cameras and night vision

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ence, however, and moved on to the subject of soldiers being killed in action. At this point, heads shook and “oh mans” could be heard across the theatre, but C.K. interjected, “Hey, you laughed at those other ones — you’re all in this with me now.” The now complicit audience laughed with a sense of guilt as C.K. finished the bit. They recognized that the master comedian had proved that there is a comic dichotomy: a comedian can remain distant from a subject and stay on the outside, never taking a chance with a controversial punch line for fear of going into the politically incorrect, or a comedian can allow themself to be pulled into the comic abyss and find side-splitting and profound humor in even the darkest of subjects. C.K. has always chosen the latter, and his ability to balance with the scandalous with the thought-provoking and the profound speaks to his immense skill.

to let the viewer experience the action from the perspective of a SEAL. Close-up shots of the soldiers are also used to great effect, allowing one to truly understand the weight of the decisions affecting the SEALS on their mission.

The raid sequence is just one example of Bigelow’s approach to “Zero Dark Thirty,” which eschews typical Hollywood tropes in favor of a more grounded and realistic dramatic approach. One particularly effective technique that Bigelow utilizes is including actual news clips of terrorist attacks over the years to serve as landmarks in the film, such as a snippet of a report from the 2005 London bombings and audio from 911 calls on 9/11.

These brief snippets serve to reinforce

the context in which Maya’s search is taking place and also act as reminders to Maya and other CIA officers of what’s at stake if they continue to come up short in their hunt for bin Laden.

One of the biggest strengths of “Zero Dark Thirty” is Chastain’s performance as Maya, which anchors the entire film and demonstrates the effects of Maya’s search for the proverbial needle in a haystack. Chastain’s transformation over the course of the movie is startling, as she transitions from a shy agent who is visibly uncomfortable while observing a torture session to a commanding agent who is running the sessions herself. In the midst of all the chaos associated with this manhunt, Chastain’s performance

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emphasizes Maya’s resilience and confidence that her lead is the key to finding bin Laden, despite opposition from colleagues and superiors who insist that she drop the case to work on “protecting the homeland.”

Regardless of the controversy that continues to surround “Zero Dark Thirty,” Kathryn Bigelow has crafted a heartpounding thriller that gives an inside view into the frontlines of the U.S. War on Terror, both on the field as well as in the backroom strategy sessions. Anchored by Chastain’s no holds barred performance as Maya, “Zero Dark Thirty” displays a combination of personal drama and tension-filled action sequences that makes it one of the year’s best films.

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President’s only staffer) — are fighting off a press corps eager for a scoop on the first grandchild.

Although the show hasn’t yet hit its stride, “1600 Penn” does have significant potential. In particular, there are some excellent bits of comedy from the three leading actors. Gad’s Skip is truly funny as an earnest, eager-to-please man-child. He has both heart and great awkwardness, which the writers demonstrate quite effectively in the first two episodes, as Skip’s well-intended attempts to help out his father and sister inadvertently turn into fiascos.

For example, in addition to the fire at Skip’s alma mater, the pilot also features Skip’s accidentally setting another fire — this time in the White House during a summit with Latin American leaders. Furthermore, in “The Skiplantic Ocean,” Skip tries to deflect the press’s attention from Becca, only to wind up revealing her baby’s less-than-admirable conception.

These miniature storylines are some of the show’s funniest — and Gad gives them his all — but they also reveal the

show’s weaknesses when they both get tied up too easily and quickly. Hopefully Skip’s role will become more diverse as the show progresses; the writers will have a hard time keeping people watching if they stick to the formulaic, as they have done thus far. Gad is talented and his character shouldn’t be confined to the same plot arc each episode.

Elfman nails stressed, people-pleasing first lady Emily, who is trying desperately to get her step-children to accept her. Thus far, she has shared few scenes with on-screen husband Pullman, which is unfortunate — we never get to see these characters try to parent together, nor do we have any sense of their marriage. Pullman, for his part, plays the President as a loving but easily angered father. Though he does have some funny scenes — such as when he discusses parenting advice with the Joint Chiefs of Staff —there is much richer comic material that he could, and should, explore.

Interestingly, “1600 Penn” makes the choice to stay far away from anything resembling political humor and is currently so stubbornly nonpartisan that it seems unlikely to dive into that sphere of comedy. It’s an understandable choice

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Bill Pullman plays both President and father on NBC’s newly premiered “1600 Penn.”

— the show’s focus is on the family, not politics — but the material needs to be richer to make this comedy thrive. Gad does a masterful job with what he’s got, as do Pullman and Elfman, but the often cliche jokes and storylines are hard to make fresh. “1600 Penn” has the potential to be laugh-out-loud funny, but for now, it is still trying to find its groove.

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I’m confused, Tufts. In one ear, I hear that our university is home to a community that promotes institutionalized prejudices, casual racism, and a dangerous culture of sexual aggression and violence. “That’s terrible!” I think.

“Shouldn’t we, our generation’s best and brightest, be above all that?”

But then another voice catches my attention from the other side. Now I hear that our campus is a zone of stifling political correctness, where better judgment is lost amidst a sea of tattletales and bias incidents. Personal offense, it tells me, is given so much consideration that we’ve insulated ourselves from the realities of a world that necessitates the thickening of skin and the turning of blind eyes.

Again, I’m confused, and more than a little disheartened. What are we? What am I? Do I have to choose between the socially just and the comfortably biased?

Or is it between the chronically out-oftouch whiner and the realist with a sense of humor? Are these my only options?

This duel-leveled polarization is detrimental to the community as a whole. More importantly, the spectrums themselves are irrelevant and unproductive. Now, and this is important, the debate between the need to provide a safe, healthy environment for all students and the need to protect our avenues of free speech is one that we absolutely should be having here at Tufts. This very discussion has occurred time and time again, from local schools to the Supreme Court. Tufts should not be an exception.

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The issue is, I rarely see the debate over bias and social justice waged on that spectrum. Instead, I see my community and my friends starkly divided over matters of personal taste. I see my Facebook news feed flooded with ad hominem attacks based on a few hundred words in a newspaper, or an apparently egregious status update. It comes from both sides, and the antagonism only serves to further divide a campus that should be coming together over these issues, not drifting even further apart.

I understand that the stakes are high, and very often, personal. Topics like racism, sexism, and homophobia are hard for many not to identify with. Yet if we are to find a balance between protecting the persecuted and protecting free speech, individual responses and emotions need to be separated from a discussion of what are essentially our rights as Tufts students. If someone does not see whatever insults or threatens us as indicative of the community at large or requiring administrative action, that does not mean that they in turn back our perceived oppressor. Likewise, if we find a particular piece of speech to be inconsequential or even comical, it does not mean that those who are troubled by it do not deserve consideration.

Yet time and time again I see the conversation devolve into an argument over whether or not something is “actually” offensive. These arguments are rarely civil and never productive, as they are almost always simplified into an emotional “us versus them” in which the Tufts student body as a

whole becomes the enemy on both sides. There are no winners in this argument, and when everyone views the community at large as the problem, we all end up losing.

That is not to say that the personal needs to be permanently suppressed. If we are offended, be it on issues of prejudice, politics or matters more trivial, we should have every right to say so, and to try and convince others that our convictions are valid and worthwhile.

We can even use public forums like this one right here to do so. I would suggest, however, that our goal be to hold ourselves and those around us to a higher standard, not merely to shame those whom we find disagreeable.

Yet individual beliefs are not grounds for community action or inaction. If we do believe that community or administrative change is desired, then it should be on the basis of protecting our educational environment as a whole. If we are opposed in that endeavor, it should be on the basis of free speech, not personal taste. Most importantly, we should remember that the best way to create an ideal environment for learning and expression here at Tufts is through rational discussion and empathy, not through antagonism and division. The best way to overcome the barriers between us is to reach across them, not to silence or ignore those on the other side.

Peter Ellis is a senior majoring in history. He can be reached at Peter.Ellis@ tufts.edu.

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Discrimination by any other name is still discrimination, and any sanctioned policy that allows for exemption from the university’s nondiscrimination clause will inherently undermine the entire Tufts community. At the end of last semester, the Committee on Student Life (CSL) decided to allow Student Religious Groups (SRG) to exclude their members from holding leadership positions based on their personal identities by means of a newly-created “justifiable departure” from the university’s nondiscrimination policy. While the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate holds no power to appeal the ruling of the CSL or to revoke any group’s recognition, the TCU Senate does bear two other extremely important responsibilities. First and foremost, in accordance with the TCU Constitution, the Senate serves to “represent the needs and interests of the TCU ... before the Faculty of the undergraduate colleges, the administration, and the Trustees of Tufts College.” Secondly, the Senate must “oversee the allocation of the Student Activities Fee.” Bearing in mind these duties of our elected positions, we find it unconscionable to remain silent.

To begin, the TCU Senate has the privilege of representing the student voice to administrators, faculty and staff. We are called upon to articulate the perspectives of the Tufts undergraduate population to the best of our abilities. In our opinion, this is the most sacred and important duty we hold as a Senate. Deserved or not,

the fact that administrators and faculty give credence to the opinions put forth

by Senate means that the TCU Senate has opportunities, resources, and social capital that should be leveraged for the promotion of the beliefs of the student body.

And this allocation of social capital must not happen solely when Senators lobby for a cause like Jumbo Day, fund a statue of Charles Tufts or debate the meaning of the word “nerdy.” If anything, when circumstances begin to affect aspects of students’ experiences at Tufts, when decisions and policies strike at a student’s identity, when the fundamental beliefs and values that we hold as a community are put in jeopardy, the TCU Senate would be a failure if it did not speak.

In this moment, such a state of affairs has arisen so that we view it necessary and proper for the TCU Senate — as a mechanism for student voice — to be clear, to be thoughtful and to be accountable to the very students we are charged to serve.

The Committee on Student Life’s decision to create a means for “justifiable departures” from the nondiscrimination policy is a strike against diversity, inclusion and the aspiration of a hospitable and open campus. We find the decision ill-advised and as one that counters our community’s principles to give primacy to religion as a means of discrimination against other identities. We find it problematic and hypocritical that Tufts would parade values of inclusion and togetherness when the university puts forth a policy that suffocates any notion of a welcoming and accepting campus. We abhor the notion that faith

and love of our neighbor should be placed in contention with one another — as if the two were enemies rather than necessary for one another’s fulfillment.

In addition to being the voice for the students, Senate also has the power to finance. Every undergraduate student at Tufts University pays a Student Activities Fee that Senate then uses to fund all student groups. Senate has the responsibility of funding groups for the pursuit of their missions “without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, national or ethnic origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or an individual’s previous affiliations in criteria for membership, assignment of voting privileges, or rank, except as otherwise provided by federal or state law or university policy.” It is in the Senate’s power to allocate the Student Activities Fee as it sees fit. We find it unjust to have students pay for groups that would limit their members’ participation on the basis of their identity. Thus, this Senate finds it improper to fund groups that request “justified departure” from the university’s nondiscrimination policy. Recognition alone due to the CSL’s decision does not mean Senate must fund a student group; it is within our purview to edit our Treasury Procedures Manual to make sure that happens. Any group that wishes to divorce itself from our principles, from the student body’s belief in nondiscrimination, should also expect to be divorced from the student body’s pocketbook.

Made immensely clear to us in the days since the CSL’s decision is the fact that

Tufts students, our constituents, find the position put forth by the CSL counters the values they hold and is in direct conflict with the values of the university they call home. Through social media, phone calls, community forums and conversations, there has been a collective dismay and confusion regarding the policy and how it contradicts the student body’s values of equality, inclusion and tolerance — indicative of a moral constitution that views something like a “nondiscrimination policy” as a good thing, that sees no sense in making it permeable and violable. As a community, we recognize that we are imperfect, that there are moments in which our own actions obstruct our progress, but we also affirm the better aspects of our nature: the core belief that we are our brother’s keepers; we are our sister’s keepers.

For there is no Tufts without Tufts values.

Logan Cotton is a senior majoring in international relations. He is a member of the TCU Senate and the Diversity Community Affairs Office and can be reached at Logan.

Cotton@tufts.edu. Meredith Goldberg is a senior majoring in political science.

She is the TCU vice president and can be reached at Meredith.Goldberg@tufts.edu.

Andrew Núñez is a sophomore majoring in American studies. He is the TCU historian and can be reached at Andrew.Nunez@ tufts.edu. Joseph Thibodeau is a junior majoring in international relations. He is a member of the TCU Senate and can be reached at Joseph.Thibodeau@tufts.edu.

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The title of Philip Starks and Rebecca Spiewak’s Dec. 6 op-ed “Balancing Religious Diversity and Nondiscrimination” is patently false regarding the Committee on Student Life’s (CSL) decision to create a policy addressing Student Religious Groups (SRGs) and their interaction with Tufts’ non-discrimination policy. Though the policy comes at a time of great internal strife over the values of religious freedom and non-discrimination (terms which should not be placed in an “either-or” situation, for they are not mutually exclusive) at Tufts, the CSL’s actions adversely affect members of the student body and of multiple SRGs on campus.

The false dichotomy this policy creates between “membership” and “leadership” is inherently discriminatory: it implicitly forces on SRG’s an unequal, hierarchical model where leaders are seen as “exemplars of that particular religion.” This hierarchy creates the sense that students are above one another in something akin to spiritual status, forcing incoming members of an organization to look to the leadership as “exemplars” of the prescribed belief, whether the members wish to or not. I say “implicitly forces” based on the op-ed’s treatment of the term “exemplars.” It should be noted that the language of “exemplars” has been consistently used by, and only by, InterVarsity Tufts Christian Fellowship (IVTCF). In my many interactions with various SRGs on campus, no other group has used that terminology to describe their student leaders. This direct pulling of terminology from the plaintiff of the original CSL case is troubling: there is an obvious conflict of interest.

Starks and Spiewak write, “The leaders of SRGs are considered the exemplars of the core religious beliefs of that group’s particular religion. Their job is to not only guide the SRG itself, but also to teach and model their faith for others within it.” This reinforces the idea of a monopoly on religious truth by those who have privilege within the religion. It stifles the reality of pluralism in how different members of religious communities view their religion. I do not deny that the idea of an exemplar, particularly a spiritual one, is important for many people; this however is achievable through the normal democratic process of elections.

Students whom the majority of an SRG feel are fit for leadership, whether that means they

are excellent planners, superb treasurers, or religious exemplars, will be elected to leadership positions naturally. Allowing SRGs to discriminate when selecting leaders prevents change within a group. Because leaders are the only ones able to attain or dissolve exceptions, there is little likelihood that groups can change and grow in leadership as new students come to the Hill and replace their graduated peers.

That student groups on campus, whether religious or not, should provide transparency in what they believe, support, and stand for is an idea that I uphold. My main problems with the CSL policy’s treatment of transparency are as follows.

The policy uses vague language when requesting an “explicitly state[d] and justif[ied]” reason for an exception if “leadership criteria are in conflict with Tufts’ nondiscrimination policy.” This sets a bad precedent for SRGs to define their own reasons for exceptions, paving the way for a return to discriminatory policies by religious groups, as demonstrated in 2000 when Julie Catalano was denied a leadership position on the Tufts Christian Fellowship because she chose to “act on her [homosexual] impulse.”

Another issue is how “this information must be easily obtained by any interested community members” according to the official TCU decision. Though I directly brought my issue with this language to the attention of Spiewak she does not share my concern, which I find distressing. I believe that, while the CSL means well in this statement, the reality is that “easily obtained” will come to mean in the SRG’s Constitution and nowhere else.

At a meeting on December 5 with Spiewak, Interim University Chaplain Reverend Patricia Budd Kepler, and members of other SRGs on campus, Spiewak and Kepler told us that transparency meant constitutional transparency only. While this would extend to the Chaplaincy website eventually hosting each SRG’s Constitution, in addition to a separate list of exceptions, this does not increase the policy’s potency regarding transparency.

It makes the campus comfortable that the information is available and obtainable, easily even, with a few clicks of one’s mouse. This is deceptive because the number of students — particularly first years, who interact with multiple SRGs during the Fall Activities Fair — who would visit the Chaplaincy’s website, find a group’s specific Constitution, and read

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through it is minimal. As a student who interacts with many groups on campus, religious or not, I have only read the Constitutions of two groups: I am on their executive boards.

I have not read other groups’ Constitutions because I never felt I would need to in order to understand what a group stood for; what they told me could be taken at face value. Most student groups at Tufts are incredibly open about their stances, through their name, literature, or interactions with members. The CSL’s new policy allows SRGs to actively step back from providing the “truth in advertising”, to quote the Starks and Spiewak op-ed, while still remaining true to the letter of the policy.

Thirdly, the policy gives inordinate power to the university chaplain regarding the recognition and de-recognition process of SRGs and strips the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCU J) of much of its authority over an important aspect of the TCU. We should not take this power lightly. Under the new policy, the University Chaplain receives the power to disregard Tufts’ nondiscrimination policy if she believes an SRG has “doctrinal grounds.” Religion is a mutable, evolving, and confusing part of identity. The idea of a singular doctrine within a religious or spiritual group is laughable. Religious groups come together around a set of beliefs which they affirm, challenge, and interpret every time they worship. It is impossible to truly represent any individual member’s beliefs in the lifeless doctrine of a power-on-high. In giving the University Chaplain the power to grant exceptions based on the false idea of “doc-

trinal justification,” the CSL has overstepped their bounds and does the student members of religious groups a disservice. As I previously stated the democratic process is an effective method of ensuring a SRG’s leadership reflects the SRG as a whole.

The CSL was right in acting: Tufts needed to bring the issues of how we talk about religious freedom and nondiscrimination to a head.

However, the CSL’s creation of a discrimination policy does not “foster and protect cherished diversity here at Tufts” as Spiewak and Kepler claim. Instead, it destroys students’ ability to express that diversity if their SRG has “doctrinal grounds” to discriminate against their becoming a leader “because of race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, including a transgender identity, genetics, veteran status, retaliation and any other characteristic protected under applicable federal or state law,” which historically was prohibited by Tufts’ non-discrimination policy. Being religious and white, religious and Sudanese, or religious and queer are not contradictions; they are equal and immutable parts of oneself and the CSL’s discrimination policy explicitly tramples this underfoot in the misguided crusade to find “a balance among various protected aspects of one’s identity.”

Duncan MacLaury is a senior year majoring in history. He can be reached at Duncan.

Maclaury@tufts.edu.

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Lord Jeffs pulled away with four unanswered goals to top the Jumbos 6-2.

The game included a promising start for the Jumbos, who saw immediate contributions as they returned several starters from injury. However, their impact was not enough to overcome a skilled Amherst squad ranked third in the NESCAC standings.

Lord Jeffs junior forward Brian Safstrom kicked off scoring with a tally four minutes into the contest. Jumbos sophomore forward Tyler Voigt, returning to competition from injury, tied things up less than a minute later on a power-play feed from senior co-captain forward Dylan Plimmer.

Amherst senior co-captain Brandon Hew put the Lord Jeffs back up with a strike past Jumbos freshman keeper Derek Metcalfe, who started in place of Phillips, just a minute after Plimmer’s equalizer.

Continuing the back-and-forth play, Tufts sophomore forward Andrew White, also returning to action after an MCL injury, finished a goal past Lord Jeffs’ senior net minder Nathan Corey to tie things up at 2-2.

Amherst senior co-captain Mike Moher found the net on a power play in the 16th minute to put the Lord Jeffs up by one entering the second period.

Out of the intermission, it took Amherst just over a minute to extend the lead to 4-2 on a strike from senior forward Nick Brunette. Junior forward

Andrew Kurlandski closed out the period with two more scores, and the Lord Jeffs’ 6-2 advantage held through the final period.

A week before the Jumbos’ disappointing NESCAC showing, Tufts managed to notch a non-conference victory on Jan. 5 over SUNY-Canton, capitalizing on a 23-shot margin to defeat the Kangaroos 3-2.

“I think that was a good game for us because we were on a bit of a losing streak, so that was good for team morale and to get some positive energy going into our next couple of games,” freshman forward Conor Helfrich said.

The game opened with a first period during which neither team managed to find the back of the net. Midway through the second stanza, Jumbos freshman forward James Randaccio received help from linemates sophomore defenseman Blake Edwards and senior co-captain defenseman Nick Metcalfe and sent a shot past ’Roos sophomore keeper Morgan Barr to put Tufts on the board first.

SUNY Canton answered three minutes later, when junior defender Cory Giczewski beat out Metcalfe to equalize at the 14:27 mark. The tie held until midway through the final period, when the Kangaroos seized the lead on a power-play score from sophomore defenseman J.R. Lafferty.

Trailing 2-1 at the halfway mark, the Jumbos kicked things into high gear, as freshman defenseman Aidan Hartigan answered Lafferty’s strike in

Jumbos decipher Colby, bring record above .500 MEN’S BASKETBALL

continued from back However, despite the team’s confidence, it was Colby that came out of the gate firing.

The Mules went up 16-9 to open the game, and had Tufts back on its heels for the second game in a row.

“When we went down initially, we weren’t freaking out by any means, but we knew we had to pick it up,” Anderson said.

“We knew we had to just slow down and play our game.

We needed to realize what they were doing on defense, and once we did, we could take advantage and come back.”

A barrage of threes, coming from Moss, Ferris, Anderson and freshman Stephen Haladyna, helped sneak Tufts to a 28-24 lead to end the half.

Part of what contributed to the Jumbos’ slow start was Colby’s unusual defensive scheme, in which every time Tufts ran a pick-and-roll, Colby would fall back into a 2-3 zone. The Jumbos were unprepared for the zone, and often were forced into quick shots.

However, Tufts adjusted at halftime, and was prepared to

run its set plays in the second half to set up its shooters in the face of the Mules’ zone.

The tweaks paid off, as Tufts opened the second half on a 16-6 run that put them up 44-30.

Twelve second-half points from Haladyna and 11 from Anderson helped keep the Jumbos on top for the entire second half, and although the game ended 70-63, the score was only that close due to Colby going on a 10-0 run in the final two minutes.

With the win, the Jumbos moved above .500 for only the fourth time all year, and evened their conference up at 2-2.

Overall, the team was pleased with the effort and improvement it showed, especially from freshmen Haladyna and Tom Palleschi.

Palleschi in particular has taken huge steps, as he combined for 62 points over winter break, including a monster 27-point performance against Middlebury.

However, the Jumbos are still not satisfied with where they are right now, and will need to continue to pile up the wins if they hope to meet their goal of winning the NESCAC title.

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Junior forward Kyle Gallegos is the Jumbos’ leading goal-scorer this system, and notched his eighth in a 3-2 victory against SUNY Canton. the 14th minute. Junior forward Kyle Gallegos, the team’s leading scorer, followed suit almost exactly a minute later.

Gallegos tallied his eighth goal of the season at the 14:12 mark to push the Jumbos’ lead to two, and Tufts managed to keep SUNY Canton from challenging in the closing minutes.

Metcalfe finished with 21 saves, while his counterpart Barr was forced to make 43 saves in the Kangaroos’ loss.

The Jumbos now stand ninth in the NESCAC, with a dismal 1-6-1 conference record just slightly better than Colby’s 1-8-1 mark. In the coming

weeks, Tufts faces a tough schedule, and it is crucial that the Jumbos continue to take advantage of the now-healthy players returning to the season’s roster.

“Everyone’s keeping a level head, and being mentally tough is important,” sophomore forward George Pantazopoulos said. “Everyone staying out of the penalty box is going to be important, and I think everyone on the team thinks that we’re very capable of winning games for the second half of the year.”

This weekend, Tufts will hit the road for another confer-

ence doubleheader against Trinity and Wesleyan, who both stand middle of the pack in the NESCAC rankings.

Looming in the more distant future are rematches against some of the NESCAC’s strongest opponents, including No. 12 Williams and No. 4 Bowdoin. Currently, the Jumbos sit outside of contention for the NESCAC tournament, and if the Jumbos continue to struggle against teams like Hamilton, the remainder of the regular season could fast turn into a long, icy road ahead.

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of ours, and I think we got extra hyped up for the Williams game,” Barnosky said. “And we always talk about treating every game the same, but I think that a lot of energy went into the game the night before, so it was tough to get that exact same mentality less than 24 hours later.”

But the Jumbos’ defense stood strong, forcing nine first-half turnovers and holding the Panthers to just 29.2 percent shooting from the field. Middlebury senior guard Tracy Borsinger, the NESCAC’s leading scorer, managed just two points in the first half and four points on the game. The result was a 20-18 halftime lead for the coldhanded Jumbos.

Tufts finally began to find its shot in the second half, especially from beyond the arc. Foley hit a 3-pointer immediately after the Panthers tied things at 20, and Barnosky and Moynihan each had two 3-pointers of their own. Middlebury was still within seven points with three minutes to go, but the Tufts defense held strong, earning a 54-41 win.

As in recent years, defense has been the backbone of the Jumbos’ success. As of Jan. 13, Tufts was fifth in the nation in scoring defense, allowing just 45.4 points per game.

“It is our energy that has been the key on defense. No matter who comes into the game, keeping that energy high has made us success-

ful,” Moynihan said. “The way we play defense fuels our game, we have some great defenders with inyour-face ball pressure that are able to create steals and turnovers. We also have post-defenders that can play with anyone.”

After nearly a week off following the Middlebury game, Tufts made its first NESCAC road trip of the year, traveling to Maine last weekend to take on Bowdoin and Colby. While both the Polar Bears and Mules have proud histories, both schools are suffering through frustrating seasons, and the Jumbos took advantage. Against Bowdoin on Friday night, Tufts allowed only six firsthalf points, holding Bowdoin to just 3-of-18 shooting while forcing 13 turnovers. The pace picked up in the second half, but the Jumbos went stride-for-stride with the Polar Bears, scoring 43 second-half points, led by eight points each from Barnosky and Morehead, which propelled Tufts to a 62-44 win.

Following that game, Tufts completed a perfect 4-0 start to their NESCAC schedule with a victory over Colby. After five early points from the Mules, the Jumbos responded with 14 unanswered of their own, eventually stretching the lead to 15 by halftime. Colby got within nine in the second half, but a strong half from Kanner, who finished the game with nine points and three blocks, was enough to close the door.

The team’s three sophomores — Kanner, Foley and Morehead — have been a revelation for

Berube’s squad. Kanner is 30th in the nation in blocks per game and has improved dramatically on the offensive end as well. Foley, along with her conference player of the week award, leads the team in scoring at 11.8 points per game, while Morehead has embraced the role as the team’s go-to point guard, playing nearly 30 minutes a night and running the offense, while turning the ball over an average of just once per game.

“The three of them were all major contributors as freshmen last year, but what’s even better is that they all really wanted to get better in the offseason and they did,” Barnosky said. “They are all stepping up in games and becoming huge parts of our team.”

Following the team’s 64-40 win on Monday against Wheaton, the Jumbos are just eight games away from a perfect regular season. But the road only gets more difficult from here, with nationally ranked in-conference opponents and stingy tests outside of the NESCAC. To get through those games, the Jumbos know they are going to need to play nearly flawless basketball.

“We all know that we have a target on our back every single game, and I think it’s something that we like,” Barnosky said. “It shows we have respect from other teams and coaches, but it also means that we have to bring it every single game. Which is a good thing, because then every single game can make us better.”

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Women’s Basketball

Undefeated, but far from perfect by

Ethan Sturm

Daily Editorial Board

There are plenty of numerical accomplishments to measure the historical significance of this WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (16-0, 4-0 NESCAC) at Brunswick, Maine, Friday Tufts 19 43 Bowdoin 6 38

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at Waterville, Maine., Saturday Tufts Colby

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at Cousens Gym, Monday Wheaton Tufts

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season for the women’s basketball team.

There is the season-opening winning streak, which was extended to a program-record 16 games on Monday with a 64-40 victory over Wheaton College. There is the national recognition, which has earned Tufts a program-high No. 6 ranking in both the NCAA and d3hoops.com polls. Then there are the long-term markers, like coach Carla Berube’s 200th win, which came in a 54-41 victory over Middlebury on Jan. 5, making her the first Tufts women’s basketball coach to achieve that feat. There was sophomore Hannah Foley’s careerhigh 18 points, which came on Dec.

31 against Conn. College, and her classmate Hayley Kanner’s careerhigh 16 points, which came on Dec. 1 against Regis College.

But accomplishments only mean as much as those involved choose to let them, and for a Jumbos squad that is always taking things a game at a time and looking to get better, all of those stats were just a means to an end. And, 16 games into its regular season and nearly halfway through its conference slate, the team’s true goals are still a ways away.

“We always set big goals,” graduate co-captain Kate Barnosky said.

“There are certain teams that we always want to beat, and we want to make it to the tournament and so on and so forth, but I think that we really just try to focus on getting better every single day. It’s great that we’ve won all of these games so far and have this winning streak, but they won’t mean anything if we don’t get it done in the NESCAC tournament and from there on, and the competition is going to get a lot tougher.”

Tufts returned from its holiday break on Dec. 31 to take on NESCAC rival Conn. College in a non-conference matchup. In their first chance to send a message of their intentions this season to the rest of the conference, the Jumbos opened the game on a 25-5 run, all but putting it out of reach just over 10 minutes into the contest. This gave Berube the chance to go deep into her bench in the second half, and play nearly the entire team at least five minutes as Tufts cruised, 69-37.

Three days later, and just 48 hours before their NESCAC opener, the Jumbos once again dominated the first half, opening up their Jan. 2 contest at Clark University with a

Hockey

Struggles continue for Jumbos over winter break by

Kate Klots

Daily Editorial Board

After starting the season undefeated, the ice hockey team’s recent skid continued in a series ICE HOCKEY (5-7-1, 1-6-1 NESCAC) at Amherst, Mass., Friday

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of winter break contests.

The Jumbos, who entered the winter vacation with heavy injuries and a fourgame losing streak, started its vacation slate with a nonconference win before dropping a pair of contests to NESCAC rivals No. 10 Amherst and Bowdoin. Last night Tufts came away with 2-0 victory against non-conference foe Wentworth Institute of Technology, bringing the team’s record on the season to 5-7-1.

On a two-day turn-around, following a loss the night before to Amherst, the Jumbos traveled to Clinton, N.Y. to face Hamilton on Jan. 12, but ultimately fell 3-1.

The Jumbos have not won a

NESCAC contest since Nov. 17, when it defeated Wesleyan 4-2.

The Continentals edged Tufts 3-1 despite outshooting Tufts by just five. The Continentals took an early lead when Hamilton senior forward Anthony Ruberto notched an unassisted goal at the 17:21 mark.

Tufts freshman forward Stewart Bell equalized with a tally of his own in the 16th minute of the second period, and the two teams entered the final stanza in a deadlock.

The contest stayed tied up for the majority of the period, but with four minutes remaining Hamilton freshman defenseman Scott Vazquez found the back of the net, finishing a shot past Jumbos junior keeper Brian Phillips to put the Continentals back up 2-1.

In the final minutes, the Jumbos failed to re-tie the game and Hamilton junior forward Dominic Jancaterino polished off a goal in the final minute of the contest to push the Continentals’ margin to two.

The day before, the Jumbos dropped another tough conference contest to Amherst.

Tufts stayed in the game until the end of the first period, but the nationally-ranked see HOCKEY, page 11

33-8 run. The Cougars came charging back in the second half, shooting 54.2 percent from the field and forcing Berube to keep her starters on the court for longer than she may have planned. But in the end Tufts never let the lead shrink down to single digits, finishing the Cougars off 65-53.

The Jumbos opened their conference slate with a key matchup at home on Jan.4 against Williams.

The Ephs entered the game 9-1 on the season with a long history of success against Tufts. But the Jumbos grabbed the initiative with yet another fast start, opening on a 13-4 run.

The upperclassmen took over early, with Barnosky scoring the team’s first five points before junior guard Liz Moynihan came off the bench and went to work, adding six of her own. But it was Foley who the Ephs could not seem to answer.

She went into the locker room with 11 points, helping the Jumbos to a 35-26 halftime lead. Foley earned NESCAC Player of the Week honors for her performance in the team’s four games that week, averaging 13.8 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.5 steals.

Tufts seemed to have the game under control in the second half, but the Ephs responded, bringing back memories for Tufts of a devastating overtime loss to Williams two years earlier on the very same floor.

Down nine with less than two minutes to go, Williams managed to cut the lead down to four after Jumbo miscues, forcing Berube to call a timeout.

“We’ve made mistakes in the past, so we just talked about situations,” Barnosky said of the team’s talk during the timeout. “We discussed what we wanted to do defensively and the

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Graduate student Kate Barnosky helped pull the Jumbos to a 4-0 winter break to continue their undefeated season. She is averaging 9.4 points per game. type of offense we wanted to play and how much time was left. I think we just need to be more aware of specific situations.”

Tufts ran the shot clock down before taking a shot, and though it went wide, senior co-captain Bre Dufault outworked two Eph defenders for the rebound. After running the clock down once again, the ball went out of bounds with little time left to shoot. But Moynihan was able to pick out sophomore point guard Kelsey Morehead driving through the lane on the inbounds pass, feeding her a pass for a quick layup that served as the dagger. The Jumbos held on for the win, 61-57.

“It’s always great to beat Williams, but I don’t think we played any-

where near our best in that game,” Barnosky said. “When it came down to it, we made plays when we needed to, we got shots when we needed to, and people just stepped up and got it done.”

The following day, the Jumbos looked to notch Berube’s 200th victory against Middlebury. But playing on consecutive days for the first time this season, the team came out flat. The Jumbos shot just 23.2 percent from the field in the first half, and excluding Kanner, who was able to use her size inside to consistently get to the basket, combined to go just 3-of-22 from the field.

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Men’s Basketball

Tufts starts conference season 2-2 Two NESCAC victories bring record to 8-7

by Jake Indursky

Daily Editorial Board

While most people got a new book or some clothes for Christmas, the men’s basketMEN’S BASKETBALL (8-7, 2-2 NESCAC) at Brunswick, Maine, Friday Tufts Bowdoin

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at Watertown, Maine, Saturday Tufts Colby

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ball team received the opening of its NESCAC season in its stocking. The team had four games over the winter recess, including difficult matchups against national No. 3 Middlebury and national No. 10 Williams, to go along with games against Colby and Bowdoin.

Although most teams would not view two games against top-10 teams as much of a gift, the Jumbos relished their challenge and put up valiant efforts against both the Ephs and the Panthers. But Tufts fell to Williams 83-68 and Middlebury 70-69.

The Middlebury defeat on Jan. 5 was a particularly tough

loss for the team to stomach, as the Jumbos actually led the then-No. 2 Panthers for the majority of the game, and entered the second half up 37-30. From there, the Jumbos continued to prove that the first half was no fluke, as they built their lead up to as much as 13, and stayed up by double digits until 10 minutes to go in the game.

From there, the Panthers, who benefited from sophomore forward Hunter Merryman’s eight points in the final 11 minutes, clawed their way back into the game and, after two foul shots from senior guard Nolan Thompson with five minutes to go, had the game tied 61-61.

Finally, a lay-up from senior forward Peter Lynch gave Middlebury the lead for good, 65-63, and the Panthers held on to win, despite a questionable non-call on junior cocaptain Kwame Firempong’s missed layup as time expired.

“Middlebury would have been a great win, against the No.2 team in the country,” sophomore guard Ben Ferris said. “But either way, we played very hard in that game and, even though it was disappointing, it set the tone for our next two games and we were able to go up to Maine [where] we did what we had to do in order to get two wins.”

The first of those wins came on Jan. 11 against a hot Bowdoin team that had won seven straight and, despite falling behind 13-3, the Jumbos remained calm, going into the second half up 40-39, thanks to a late jumper from sophomore guard C.J. Moss.

In the second half against Bowdoin, the Jumbos kept their momentum rolling. After trading baskets with the Polar Bears, Tufts broke away thanks to a 3-pointer from Ferris, who put his team up 62-56. The Jumbos, who have been all too familiar with giving up late leads, kept their foot on the gas pedal and cruised for an easy 82-69 victory.

The win gave Tufts its first conference victory and put the team at an even 7-7 on the year while giving the Jumbos a healthy dose of confidence heading into their game against Colby this past Friday. “ The game against Middlebury proved we could play against anybody,” senior co-captain forward Scott Anderson said. “We went into Maine with a lot of confidence and we knew we could beat Bowdoin, and after we beat Bowdoin, we went into the game against Colby prepared to win.” see MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 11