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Curtatone hosts Social Community Day brings area Security, Medicare forum residents to Academic Quad

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Haven

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Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone on Friday hosted a public forum in Cohen Auditorium, leading a discussion panel on the pertinence of today’s health care issues, particularly in the upcoming presidential election.

Five speakers discussed immediate and long-term benefits for local residents of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, a law designed to improve access to affordable health care.

Panelists included U.S. Representative Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), Secretary at the Executive Office of Elder Affairs at Commonwealth of Massachusetts Ann Hartstein, Director of

Governmental Relations and Policy for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Dan Adcock, Health and Human Services Regional Director Christie Hager and Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine Raymond Hyatt.

Since the Affordable Care Act passed, each person in Massachusetts has saved $610 on health care costs, amounting to $76 million statewide, Hager said.

“Make no mistake, this is historic change,” Hager said.

Hartstein said that as 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 years old every day, the senior population is increasing along with health care see FORUM, page 2

Local arrested for sexual assault on campus by

Nina Goldman

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A Tufts student was sexually assaulted on Sept. 16 as she left the Jackson Photo Lab in the Aidekman Arts Center late at night, according to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD).

Although the sexual assault victim could not be reached for comment, police reports indicated that she did not know Jean Baptiste before he approached her, told her she was beautiful and touched her inappropriately.

The student left the scene and called TUPD from her dorm room at 10:50 p.m., according to the

TUPD police log. The alleged perpetrator, 20-year-old Berthony Jean Baptiste, was arrested by TUPD on the fourth floor of South Hall after a resident assistant (RA) there called to report a suspicious person whose description matched the assailant’s, the log said.

Jean Baptiste was positively identified by the student as her assailant and brought to the Somerville Police, who held him on a $1,000 bail for indecent assault and battery, trespassing and furnishing a false name and social security number, according to TUPD Sergeant Robert McCarthy. see ASSAULT, page 2

UIT pilots program for classroom iPad use by

Melissa Mandelbaum Daily Editorial Board

University Information Technology (UIT) will distribute 70 iPads to faculty and students this year as part of a pilot program to test their educational uses, according to Sheryl Barnes, assistant director of client services at UIT’s Educational and Scholarly Technology Services (ESTS).

Faculty members seeking to participate in the program submitted applications to ESTS in August.

Later this fall, ESTS will choose two to four small classes to receive iPad loans in the spring, Barnes said.

While ESTS prepares for the iPads for Education project, 62 faculty members on Tufts’ Medford/ Somerville and Boston campuses can borrow one of the new thirdgeneration iPads for the fall semester. Twenty-seven of the tablets

have been lent out to undergraduate professors, Barnes said.

“It’s really great that we have the capacity to do this as an experiment,” Barnes said.

The decision to loan iPads to professors and students is a onetime experiment to determine their instructional value and identify the classes in which iPads would be most useful, she said.

UIT allocated a section of its budget this year toward the purchase of the iPads, as well as lightblue protective cases and a Tufts University Police Department tracking tag for each device— an allowance they do not plan to set aside in the future, Barnes said.

“There’s no particular expectation that we’d scale up to cover more faculty or more students [in the future],” she said.

Although the iPads may also be see IPAD, page 2

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Weiner

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The 10th annual Community Day at Tufts proceeded as planned on the Academic Quad yesterday despite scattered rain showers.

The open event, cosponsored

by Tufts’ Office of Community Relations and the cities of Medford and Somerville, is designed to foster the university’s relationship with the surrounding towns and draw community residents to campus, according to Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel.

Rubel, who has overseen the event since its inception, said she is impressed with how popular it has grown to be.

“In our first year, we had maybe 200 people show up, and that’s a generous estimate,” she said.

“Attendance has grown every year since then and last year we had around 2,000 people.”

While the rainy weather deterred some and resulted in a lower turnout than in years past, Rubel said the event remained extremely well attended thanks to the diverse range of attractions set up across the Academic Quad. “[Community Day] is a chance for people in the Medford/ Somerville community to come and see what Tufts has to offer,” University President Anthony Monaco said.

Fourteen student groups took the stage in front of Bendetson Hall, including B.E.A.T.s, Blackout, Sarabande and the Tufts Irish Dance Team. The Tufts Traveling Treasure Trunk, a student-run entertainment troupe for children, and student magician Wally Napier, a sophomore, also performed.

“We don’t always interact with the Medford/Somerville community, so it’s nice to finally get the chance to do so,” junior Emma Wise, a member of the a cappella group Jackson Jills, said.

“We especially enjoy singing for the kids,” senior Laura Barnes,

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Residents from Tufts’ neighboring communities flocked to the Hill yesterday for an afternoon of musical performances, arts and crafts, educational presentations and food. president of the Jackson Jills, said.

Children were well catered for at the activities tent, where projects included face painting and necklace and mask making. In front of West Hall, the Somerville Fire Department ran an educational demonstration for children about fire safety and prevention.

“Looking around, seeing kids having fun with their families, just makes me feel happy,” sophomore

Michael Moore said. “Tufts is taking a step in the right direction with Community Day.” In addition to watching student performances, children had the opportunity to go onstage and perform themselves during an African drumming workshop arranged by Associate Professor of Music David Locke. see COMMUNITY, page 2

Volleyball spectator heckling investigation, Cadley speech highlight TCU Senate’s first meeting The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate last night met for the first time as a full present body, including all recently elected freshman senators and Trustee Representatives.

The meeting opened with guest appearances from Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman and Director of the Office for Campus Life Joe Golia, who described their roles on the Hill and their relationships with the Senate.

Reitman detailed changes to university policy in recent years that have been initiated within the Senate, including the overhaul of the university’s policy on sexual assault and the language that appears in safe-

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ty alerts sent to the student body.

Reitman also went into detail about several ongoing situations involving the participation of TCU governmental bodies. He announced that the Office of Equal Opportunity has hired an external service to investigate allegations that Tufts students shouted out inappropriate or offensive comments at a Sept. 21 Tufts women’s volleyball game.

The Senate held an internal election to fill three seats on the body’s Allocations Board (ALBO), which is headed by TCU Treasurer Matthew Roy and works with the heads of student groups to allocate

funding for student groups.

Freshmen Amy Kim and Adam Kochman won the two seats open to senators in the Class of 2016. Darien Headen, a sophomore, won a seat that was that was left open to the full body when Yihao Li, a junior senator, resigned Sept. 16.

TCU Senate President Wyatt Cadley delivered the State of the Senate report, in which he spoke of ways that bureaucratic inadequacies at Tufts have failed students and voiced his commitment to fixing them.

“Our peers deserve a powerful voice to advocate on their behalf,” Cadley said.

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Inebriation is only a fraction of what a TEMS volunteer faces on a given night.

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Student groups take stage at Community Day COMMUNITY

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“You see those kids playing the drums — they’re not going to forget that experience,” Director of the Experimental College Robyn Gittleman said. “This is a wonderful occasion for student groups and the community to get together and share with one another.”

Complimentary food was provided throughout the day, including caramel apples and elephant-shaped sugar cookies

that children could decorate.

A number of stalls promoted organizations from both Tufts and the greater Boston area. These included former student interns from the Lewis Lab, who demonstrated research they had conducted involving butterflies, as well as a hermit crab scientist, the Somerville Garden Club, the Kiwanis Club of Medford and the community service club Rotary International.

“These stalls are really great,” Monaco said. “Student clubs and

clubs from around the area can all show up, see what each is doing and get the chance to maybe form some partnerships.”

Senior David Gerner, a volunteer at the event, believes that Community Day does a great service by reaching out to the Medford/ Somerville population.

“The performances were all really cool, too — seeing everyone perform back-to-back provides an awesome cross selection of all of our student groups,” he said.

UIT loans iPads to students, faculty IPAD

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used for personal purposes, professors and students must purchase extra applications for the devices on their own, Barnes added.

UIT plans to host monthly sessions this semester to teach faculty members how to use iPads in the classroom. Twenty faculty members who own iPads have already joined the program, she said.

The first session, entitled “TeachSmart: iPad Tips & Tricks for Teaching & Learning,” took place on the Medford/Somerville and Boston campuses last month.

“I’m not quite sure yet how this can be useful in my teaching, so I [was] really looking for some guidance on that,” Associate Professor of Psychology Heather Urry, one of the iPad recipients, said.

Following completion of the trial in the spring, UIT plans to survey involved faculty members

and publish an article on the results of the experiment to aid other higher education institutions, Barnes said.

“There’s a great enthusiasm and a lot of unknowns,” UIT Senior Educational Technology Specialist Haejung Chung said.

Chung said she launched an iPad Exploration Project at Loyola Marymount University before joining the Tufts UIT staff last November.

Having someone in the office with experience incorporating iPads into university education motivated the ESTS team to launch the iPads for Education program, according to Barnes.

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Timothy Atherton expressed excitement about the iPads for Education program because of its potential to help organize scientific literature and improve remote communication with students.

Atherton applied for iPads for his graduate electrodynamics class, which consists of five to six students, he said. He hopes that the iPads will help him identify problems in a struggling student’s homework from outside the office.

“It’s not obvious the best way to use these things, but they clearly have a lot of advantages,” Atherton said.

ESTS will work with the selected courses to ensure that the technology is enhancing students’ educational experiences, Barnes said.

“The technology is a means to the teaching,” Barnes said.

Urry said she brought her iPad to the Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting in New Orleans last month and enjoyed the increased ease of note-taking on the tablet.

“I’m not sure how I would live without one now that I have one,” Urry said.

Indecent assault highlights security concerns ASSAULT

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Jean Baptiste, a Somerville resident from the Union Square area, appeared to have no affiliation with the university or any of its students and refused to give a reason for being on campus, McCarthy said.

On a separate occasion in 2010, Jean Baptiste was arrested in Watertown, Mass. for assault and battery and refusing to give his name to police.

“We don’t get that many reports [of this sort of assault],” Director of Health Education Ian Wong said.

“The only issue is, these things aren’t always reported.”

Wong said that the most common form of indecent assault entails students hurting other students.

“Those issues of someone jumping out of the bushes and assaulting you [are rare],” he said.

“Usually [the assaulter and the victim] know each other, and sometimes there’s alcohol involved.”

Jean Baptiste was arraigned and pled not guilty, and his bail was posted, according to McCarthy, but the charges stand and he has yet to see trial.

“You never know what’s going to happen from here,” McCarthy said.

“It’s not over.”

According to Wong, the university’s priority in sexual assault cases is to use the Department of Health Education and the Office of Equal Opportunity’s resources to assist the victim in dealing with the complicated aftermath.

“The challenge I think we have is how to help students who were assaulted find the support they need and feel comfortable bringing up charges,” Wong said.

Although Jean Baptiste had jewelry and sunglasses in his pockets when he was arrested in South Hall, TUPD determined that it was inexpensive costume jewelry and unlikely to have been stolen from students. However, South residents were questioned

by TUPD to search for further offenses, according to freshman Michele De Mars, a resident of the fourth floor of South who witnessed the arrest.

“None of our jewelry was taken,” she said. “I think he was wandering around the building for quite a while.”

De Mars said police also asked if the trespasser said anything inappropriate to her or her roommate. While in South, Jean Baptiste entered their RA’s room across the hall and spoke to her, according to De Mars.

De Mars said she was not scared at the time of Jean Baptiste’s arrest because she only learned of his entrance into the building after he had been apprehended. She added that she now thinks twice about leaving her door unlocked or letting strangers into the building.

“It just made me rethink security,” De Mars said. “It was just a reminder not to [let people in] because you don’t really know who people are.”

Wong, who usually focuses on the prevention side of sexual assault, said that allowing strangers into locked buildings is a definite concern.

“This has been a problem with college campuses for a long time, students letting other students in,” he said. “There’s a difference between being polite and being unsafe.”

Monday, October 1, 2012

Fluff Festival sweetens Somerville

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The 2012 Fluff Festival took place in Union Square on Saturday, Sept. 29. To see more photographs from the event, head over to the Daily’s blog, Jumbo Slice, at blogs.tuftsdaily.com.

Forum compares party health care plans forum

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expenses. The impact on cost only escalates, as an unprecedented two-thirds of people who have ever turned 65 are alive today.

“We used to talk about a balanced stool that would be there when we got older,” Hartstein said. “That stool is a little wobbly now.”

Although people frequently fault the government for high overhead costs, with a program like the Affordable Care Act fees are 10 to 25 percent less expensive than the price would be with a privatized system, according to Hyatt.

“The word ‘entitlement’ has become a bad word in our society,” Hyatt said. “It shouldn’t be.

It really is the 99 percent of us that’s affected by this.”

Because of the impending presidential election, much of the forum’s conversation also focused on the differences between the Democratic and Republican health care plans for the elderly — a topic both presidential candidates have highlighted on the campaign trail.

Adcock said that by selecting Paul Ryan as his running mate, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney chose an uphill health care battle.

Capuano compared Romney’s proposedvoucher-basedMedicare system to giving someone a $1.50 coupon for $3 of milk. Although the policy would partially help people obtain health insurance, it does not guarantee the coverage of President Barack Obama’s current plan, Capuano said.

“I think that’s a horrendous

proposal,” Capuano said. “It doesn’t make the people who proposed it evil or stupid. But it does make them wrong.”

Rather than label Medicare as Socialist — which has previously led to election losses — Romney has said he will reform the program, using different wording for the same mindset, Capuano said.

“Don’t fall for their rhetoric,” Capuano said. “Their reform will kill the program.”

If elected, Romney’s proposal would eliminate preventative care and decrease availability of some prescription drugs, Adcock said. Hartstein said she encourages voters to get involved with health care-related organizations if they are interested in blocking such changes.

“If you see health care not how you want it to be, it’s your fault,” Hartstein said. “You need to get involved.”

After each speaker gave an opening statement, Curtatone took questions and comments from several members of the audience. Jacob Wessel, a junior, asked how to get his peers motivated about health care reform.

“There are so few people who know life without Social Security, so it’s hard to motivate those to get involved when they can’t picture what it would be like without it,” Capuano responded.

While some asked for more detail about the Affordable Care Act, several began discussions about the gridlock in Congress and why the electorate votes in certain ways.

“Things won’t get done until people vote for those who want to make it happen,” Capuano said.

Visiting the Hill this Week TUESDAY “The SoBe Story” Details: John Bello, co-founder of SoBe beverages, will tell the story of the rise of SoBe through a discussion of marketing and brand building.

When and Where: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Robinson 253 Sponsors: The Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies Program “Displacement and Defiance: A Colombian Farming Community’s Fight to Control its Land and Future” Details: Land rights activist Etny Torres Moreno and human rights attorney Jorge Eliécer Reales Maza will be speaking about Columbian farming community within the context of corporations, human rights

and international trade.

When and Where: 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Cabot 206 Sponsors: The Department of Romance Languages WEDNESDAY “Meet the Producer: Tom Baer” Details: Tom Baer (A ‘57), co-founder of Steinhardt Baer Pictures Company, will be speaking about his career in the entertainment industry. Baer has produced acclaimed films such as All of Me (1984) and Deep Cover (1992). There will be a question and answer session following the lecture.

When and Where: 12 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.; Aidekman 9 Sponsors: The Communications and Media Studies Program and the Department of Drama and Dance

“Tools and Techniques of Regional Food System Planning” Details: As the first Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE) talk of the semester, Marisol Pierce-Quinonez (G ‘12, F ‘12) will discuss how to attain a more sustainable local food system through tools such as the Food System Assessments and web-based collaboration.

When and Where: 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Miller Event Space 20 Sponsors: Tufts Institute of the Environment THURSDAY “Who Are the Change Makers?”

Details: Leith Sharp, chair of the Sustainable Futures Academy and professor at Harvard University, will discuss how to usher in a new green

economy through changing the behaviors and practices of large organizations, businesses and groups.

When and Where: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.; Lincoln Filene Center Rabb Room Sponsors: The Department of Environmental Studies and the Tufts Institute of the Environment “Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture” Details: Dr. Kevin Kumashiro will be speaking about his new book, which is an exploration of the education reform debate.

When and Where: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Crane Room Sponsors: Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and

the Department of Education “Anticipating Climate Disruption: Sustaining Justice, Greening Peace” Details: The Peace and Justice Studies Association is holding its annual conference on campus in conjunction with the Tufts Initiative on Climate Change and Climate Justice, featuring a variety of speakers throughout the weekend. Panels on climate change will also begin on Friday at 9 a.m. and Saturday at 9:15 a.m.

When and Where: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Cabot Auditorium Sponsors: The Tufts Institute of the Environment —compiled by Jenna Buckle

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Certified student EMTs in TEMS respond to the medical needs of the Tufts community.

On Call, All Night: Students provide peerto-peer emergency care Student EMT volunteers play unique role on campus

Like many students, Tufts Emergency Medical Services ( TEMS) volunteers spend Saturday nights clinging to their phones.

But what sets TEMS students apart is that on some weekends, the phone does not stop ringing until 7 a.m.

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, there are TEMS students in uniform — khaki pants and a navy polo with the Star of Life emblem — prepared to respond to a gamut of medical needs, from broken bones and twisted ankles to alcohol poisoning and other life-threatening emergencies.

Unlike other volunteer ambulance service members, these certified Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) go about their daily routines while they are on the job. When a call comes in, everything else must be put on hold.

Whether it is in the middle of a class or while hanging out with friends, on duty TEMS volunteers have to leave whatever they are doing and respond to the scene immediately.

“There is a lot that goes through your mind from the start of the call to the end of it,” Executive Director of TEMS Robert Kaufman, a senior, said. “There are also a lot of quick judgments we need to make, like do we need an ambulance? How do we get the patient out of the building?”

Regardless of the call, Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) dispatches an officer to meet TEMS at the scene.

Police are there for protection — it is a felony to assault a TEMS volunteer, as with any EMT — and to provide access to areas where TEMS’ key fob does not work, like dorm rooms, Kaufman said.

While the two groups work together, anything a student tells a TEMS volunteer is kept private, even from TUPD, because of medical confidentiality laws, Geoffrey Bartlett, Tufts’ Director of Emergency Management, said.

“TEMS’ purpose there is only to help you medically and provide you with the medical care you need,” senior Laurie Merker said. “We want to make it very clear that we are not involved in the disciplinary part of that.”

Most TEMS calls do not require disciby Stephanie

Haven

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plinary action, though. Of the 486 calls TEMS received last school year, alcohol-related calls composed just about a quarter — the largest proportion of a specific kind of call, but not the majority.

Other kinds of calls included those for abdominal pain, fainting and difficulty breathing, Kaufman said.

“I think it is important for people, from someone who turned their ankle on a step to occasionally a serious emergency, to understand that TEMS is there for them,” Bartlett said. “A lot of the value for TEMS comes from the calls that they respond to that maybe are not emergencies.”

TEMS volunteers cannot discuss the specifics of calls with each other beyond discussions about medical care, Kaufman said. Outside of those at the scene, the only person fully informed about what happens at each call is TEMS Medical Director Stacey Sperling, a Health Services Physician who receives the reports that TEMS volunteers file after each call.

“There is a very high probability that we will know the patient, know the patient’s friends,” Kaufman said. “It adds an extra level of necessary privacy that we need to be extra careful about.”

To keep an eye on the campus’ emergency medical care, Sperling goes through each report — such reports are called “run sheets” — with the corresponding TEMS volunteers. She also gives a monthly lecture, on a topic of TEMS students’ choice, further benefiting the quality of TEMS’ emergency medical care.

“The students have a very good understanding of what is going on when they come onto the scene,” Sperling said. “These kids are so dedicated, so smart, so earnest and interested in giving really good emergency service to the campus.”

As a TEMS volunteer, students attend four training sessions, each two to three hours, per semester. New members get additional practice at office hours with senior members of TEMS. “No one comes out of the EMT class and gets handed the keys to the truck,” Kaufman said. “That is a big responsibility so that is something we work on a lot.”

New volunteers must have practice taking calls with experienced members before they are promoted, which helps them gain knowledge of TEMS-specific policy and the confidence to care for patients with the correct treatment. At the moment, though, there are a disproportionate number of new to old members, as many students join TEMS later in their Tufts careers, Kaufman said.

“Part of the issue is joining a student EMS service is not the first thing that comes to mind when students get here,” Kaufman said. “Those of us who got in early, got trained early, and now we have to train a lot of newer people.”

TEMS began 27 years ago as a Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senatefunded group. Two EMT-certified students approached TUPD in 1985 about creating an organization for student first-responders on campus, according to Kaufman.

Although it started small and was not around-the-clock care, TEMS formed a close relationship with Health Service’s then medical director to establish its position on campus, Bartlett said.

Not until a tumultuous, but successful, battle to include TEMS’ cost in the Student Activities Fee did the Department of Environmental and Public Safety assume managerial responsibility for TEMS, as it still does today, according to Bartlett.

Shortly thereafter, in 1991, TEMS received its first vehicle, a Ford Explorer, Bartlett said. To date, TEMS continues to operate just one car on campus, which they use to transport patients to the hospital for minor injuries and illnesses.

For more serious calls a patient is taken away by a local ambulance service, Sperling said.

Though a student-run EMS is not unique to Tufts, the peer-to-peer medical care and TEMS students’ campus awareness contribute to the quality of service TEMS provides, a standard the service is required to uphold as a member of the National Collegiate EMS Foundation.

“I think patients have a degree of comfort in knowing that it is a peer providing care,” Bartlett said. “Local providers will have the same quality care, but these [students] understand the needs of the community.”

here are certain things about Tufts that make me proud to call myself a Jumbo: active citizenship, first-rate academics, groundbreaking research, chocolate fondue night in Carmichael. But there are also certain traditions in our history which do not necessarily instill the same sense of Jumbo pride within me.

Take, for example, the now-defunct tradition of Junior Day. During the early 1900s, the junior class organized what was actually a multi-day festival replete with dances, luncheons and athletic events and, most intriguing of all, an event known as the Horribles Parade.

From what I gathered by examining the historical record, the Horribles Parade was just as its name implies: a truly god-awful procession and quasi-hazing ritual in which freshmen and sophomores dressed up in ridiculous, homemade costumes to compete for cash prizes. The hype often began a few months in advance, slowly building the excitement as students waited anxiously to see just how far the youngest Jumbos would go to win a little extra spending money.

Though the festivities wouldn’t take place until May, by the end of March, the Tufts Weekly was already announcing the parade route; in the middle of April, they began hyping the fifteen, ten and fivedollar cash prizes. The week before the 1922 Horribles Parade, the Weekly relished in describing the particulars of the parade to those who had never witnessed this “time-honored” tradition: “Dressed in anything that happens to be handy, the two lower classes will present a spectacle that would have made Barnum’s clowns turn a faint Nile green with envy Owners of window-curtains, portieres, rugs and lamp-shades are hereby warned.”

My imagination went wild, trying to imagine what these ragtag bands of students looked like as they stormed the quad.

Fortunately, the Weekly faithfully reported the results of every year’s contest. In 1926, “Five members of Beta Kappa [dressed as] ‘A Motley Group,’ won the first prize. The second prize was awarded to A. Alcorn who impersonated ‘The Last of the Romans.’ G. Govoni won the third prize as a chem. lab. cripple.” Lovely.

Unfortunately, I would consider the 1926 contest to be positively progressive compared to the costumes displayed in earlier years. Apparently, in the 1922 contest “Shoeblacking played a prominent part, several of the contestants wearing it practically unassisted [and] [t]here was evidence that some of the coeds had loaned certain articles of dress to the Horribles.” While I don’t take issue with the cross-dressing, the fact that students were rewarded for dressing up in blackface and as “cripples” is more than a little troubling as a Tufts legacy.

And, in addition to these somewhat offensive displays, there were also costumes that were just downright strange. In 1925, the Weekly tells us, “The scene in front of East Hall took on the aspect of a gang of ‘extras’ gathering for a mob scene as the time for the starting of the ‘Horribles Parade’ arrived. ghgh The second prize of five dollars went to a rather futuristic conception of the chapel organ. The spectacle seemed worthy of Bunyan and although the idea was hazy it showed originality.” While I think that final euphemism tells us what the author really thought about the poor student’s costume, I must say that with Halloween just around the corner, I’m quite tempted to recreate it.

Fortunately, the tradition of the Horribles Parade died out by the late 1920s and, if I might add, with good riddance. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of Tufts traditions I am proud of and wish we had preserved — NQR, anyone? — but this was one truly horrible tradition I don’t think anyone misses.

Alanna Tuller is a senior majoring in English. She can be reached at Alanna.

Tuller@tufts.edu.

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calling artists!

The Tufts

Africana Studies Program

is looking for a piece of original artwork with Africana themes for the Africana Studies October Celebration.

The piece can be in the form of a large art display/banner/poster; it must be at least 24x30 inches and should be wieldy. This is a wonderful opportunity to affirm and publicize your artistic skills!

Prizes:

짜 Winning Entry displayed prominently at Africana Studies events 짜 Winner announced at the Africana Studies October Celebration 짜 Winner Invited to the Africana Studies October Celebration 짜 Jumbo Cash Award

Entry Deadline is Friday, October 12th, 2012 Contacts: Program Director: Paula Aymer- paula.aymer@tufts.edu Program Assistant: Ursula Griffiths-Randolph- ugrandolph@gmail.com

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New talent dominates Boston Fashion Week’s Emerging Trends show

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Passy and Justin McCallum Daily Editorial Board

The future of fashion returned to Boston during the fifth annual Emerging Trends 2012 fashion show for Boston Fashion Week on Saturday.

Produced by The SYNERGY Events at The Cyclorama for the Boston Center for the Arts, the evening brought together 12 designers, each of whom presented a fresh take on the upcoming season’s trends. The designers who descended on Boston came from all across the globe, including Ireland, Poland and South Korea.

This year’s iteration of the fashion show strayed from tradition by integrating longer collections from many of the designers in a reformatted schedule. In years past, miniature collections were presented at the beginning of the night, saving the headliners and their more expansive presentations for the end.

This year’s show flipped the format, which allowed many designers to present more looks to the audience’s delight. By placing the less-established designers with fewer pieces at the end, the show’s organizers shone a spotlight see FASHION, page 6

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The Emerging Trends 2012 - Boston | The SYNERGY Events, “Trash”

Movie Review

‘Liberal Arts’ is nostalgic, yet fresh by

Kumar Ramanathan Contributing Writer

“No one ever feels like an adult,” an old professor quips halfway through “Liberal Arts,” writer-director-actor

Liberal Arts Starring Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Zac Efron Directed by Josh Radnor Josh Radnor’s sophomore effort. This sentiment reflects the film’s central worry: that growing up is a sham and we are eternally trapped in the roller coaster of youth. An introspective and charming film, “Liberal Arts” captures the emotional experience of college with refreshing sincerity.

Radnor plays Jesse Fisher, a 35-yearold New York City high school college counselor invited back to his alma mater for the retirement party of a former professor (Richard Jenkins). Jesse’s trip back to college is fraught with romance and tension, featuring old teachers and awkward parties.

During his visit, he meets with 19-year-old Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen) who invites him back onto campus for what turns out to be a weekend of growing up, growing down and soul searching.

It is the earnestness of “Liberal Arts” that makes it so unique. Though the film rarely lets itself get weighed down by seriousness, there is a sense of urgency here for Radnor — both as filmmaker and character — to rediscover himself in an institution that meant so much to see ARTS, page 6

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Josh Radnor and Elizabeth Olsen share a quiet moment in “Liberal Arts”

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New NBC comedydrama ‘Go On’ lacks balance

by Joe Stile

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It’s often difficult to predict how a television series will develop by watching just the first few episodes.

Go On Starring Matthew Perry, Laura Benanti, Julie White, Tyler James Williams Airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on NBC When they first begin, most television programs are in a constant flux, frequently undergoing revisions in an attempt to appeal to their audiences.

While these adjustments can vastly improve shows, they also make it more challenging to get an accurate initial impression of the series.

NBC’s new group-therapy comedydrama, “Go On,” is one of those murky starters. It’s currently too early to tell what the show will become: Will it concentrate on the main character drama of Ryan King, played by former “Friends” (1994-2004) star Matthew Perry, or will it be a legitimate ensemble comedy that focuses on each of its different, dysfunctional cast members?

Perry channels his natural manic energy and sarcastic demeanor into his character, Ryan King, a sports-radio host whose boss forces him to attend mandatory grief counseling after his wife passes away. The reluctant King is quick to deflect his own pain with jokes.

After being told his support group is for people who need help with “life change,” King cheekily retorts, “Is it mainly for people who’ve won the lottery?” Yet, though he attempts to put a funny face forward, it still seems as if King is on the verge of a breakdown.

For the most part, the show’s comedy works quite well. The supporting cast is filled with amusingly weird individuals, and the writing gives them enough see GO, page 6

Elizabeth Landers | Campus Chic Report

Does this dress make me look racist?

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hy yes, it does. Dolce and Gabbana, purveyor of global luxury and all things sexy, showed its Spring 2013 collection last week in Milan. The collection was very much in the same vein as what the design team showed last spring, which was Sicilian-inspired with hot peppers printed on full skirts and fashioned into plastic earrings. Only this time, instead of a tongue-incheek print of a vegetable, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana designed a collection with a colonial theme, complete with heavy Blackamoor imagery on the prints and plastic Blackamoor figurines for earrings. The sheer black ribbon dresses in the finale were kitsch and decidedly sexy. They were also unabashedly and blatantly racist.

Blackamoor is used to describe an artistic depiction of black Africans in fine art and jewelry that was popular in the 1700s. Small marble broaches and sculptures encrusted with rubies, emeralds and diamonds were de rigueur for a brief, albeit politically incorrect, stretch of time. Nowadays, one would expect that blackamoor brooches and jewelry would most often pass through the hands of Sotheby’s auctioneers, not tourists popping into the Dolce and Gabbana store on Madison Avenue. As a family heirloom, it could perhaps pass as a relic of time, a snapshot of the days of banana republics.

As a current fashion commodity from a top retailer, it is completely inappropriate.

Online champion of all things liberal, Huffington Post immediately commented on the runway transgression with a headline reading, “Dolce and Gabbana Black Figurine Earrings And Dress, Are They Racist?”

Refinery29.com seriously snubbed the brand in its review of the collection, saying it “rested heavily on the laurels of a long-lost colonial era, complete with all the cartoonish, debasing, subaltern imagery that would make even your politically incorrect Grandpa think twice.” The post generated multiple comments from readers, with almost all of them expressing appall over the clothing. However, much to my surprise and dismay, Style.com — arguably the most reliable source for fashion images and coverage — posted its review of the show without a single comment on the offensive racial designs. The story actually resonated better with mainstream media outlets like HuffPo and the Telegraph U.K. than it did with many of the fashion sites and blogs I browsed.

I believe this particular collection is a breach of artistic expression, and quite frankly, of good taste. Fashion has always walked a very fine line between avant-garde and potentially offensive — how about the S&M trends of late with their abounding harnesses? — but this instance reaches into a very sensitive topic, one that is woven into the social fabric of our country and many others, and one that is still at the forefront of much political debate. By capturing these images and printing them on swaths of bright silk, Dolce and Gabbana sends a very clear message that fashion is above political correctness, above racial sensitivity and even above legal ramifications.

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have constructed an empire of desirable clothes that women flock towards, but I wait patiently to see how their customers will interpret this collection. Even for women who may not personally find the clothing offensive, the notion of being viewed as a racist just by wearing them will likely be too great to overcome when it comes time to pay. Social norms no longer permit people to dress in manners like this, especially in the elite, affluent and educated circles where Dolce and Gabbana customers reside. In the end, it’s the customer’s wallet that speaks.

Elizabeth Landers is a senior majoring in political science. She can be reached at Elizabeth.Landers@tufts.edu.

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‘Liberal Arts’ themes resonate among collegiate audiences ARTS

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him as a younger man.

The supporting characters Jesse meets on campus help to carry the film. Students and professors alike chase fantasies of what it means to be young or old, all somehow running from their lots in life. Zibby tires easily of her fellow students and seeks something a little more refined, while Dean ( John Magaro) is rarely seen without a copy of the novel “Infinite Jest” (1996) in hand and his thoughts visibly far from his surroundings.

Rounding out the younger cast is Zac Efron as Nat, a friendly stoner who wants Jesse to find happiness.

“Liberal Arts” requires a certain vulnerability on the audience’s part, thanks to Radnor’s direct way of addressing characters’ concerns and emotions.

Jesse is a middle-aged man returning to a place where adolescent self-searching is the norm.

There, he finds a deeper meditation on growing up that plays powerfully to anyone familiar with such an environment.

The film is also unapologetically cloying. In between Jesse’s trips to the college, he and Zibby write each other letters by hand in order to forge an intimate connection.

Dean and Jesse discuss the power of “Infinite Jest” not solely to provide audiences with a metaphor to guide their viewing, but because the two are sincere literature majors searching for answers hidden in their books.

“Liberal Arts” can be a rewarding film, but in return it asks for indulgence of its sporadic romanticism and sheepish sincerity.

In “Liberal Arts,” college is seen as both an incubator for growth, and a trap that ensnares the human tendency to eternally hope or despair. Here, Radnor does not shy away from the bold hopefulness of youth: All of the film’s characters have growing up to do, and they will continue to do so, it seems, for the rest of their lives. These are daunting concepts to consider, but Radnor deftly gives them their due significance while finding humor in the absurdity of it all.

For the collegiate among us, “Liberal Arts” is an antidote to our culture’s hipster compulsions that dismiss earnestness and romance.

Central to the film is the idea that people want to love and to be loved, despite coming face-toface with cynical mores as they mature.

Radnor’s desire to live and love beyond the cynicism shines through “Liberal Arts,” resulting in an unexpectedly happy piece about the futility of life.

In an interview with the Kenyon Collegian — Kenyon is Radnor’s alma mater and the film’s setting — Radnor was asked why he chose not to name the college in the film.

He replied, “So it can be everyone’s college.”

And this film does speak to a universal college experience, replete with its questions and struggles. “Liberal Arts” questions what it means to grow up, asking the ever-urgent question of how to live. For those who enjoy facing that urgent question head-on, Radnor has created a gem.

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Zibby and Jesse stroll through campus. in “Liberal Arts.”

Perry’s new series is very hit or miss GO

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material and one-liners to keep viewers laughing. For example, King creates a “March Sadness” bracket, in which the group members compete to see whose life is the worst. The participants’ excitement to learn that their lives are worse than someone else’s results in a dark, but no less funny, brand of humor.

This scene also helps to introduce the show’s large cast, presenting the backstories of all the minor players right away without bogging down the script with exposition.

The supporting characters’ stories are diverse and relatable. Anne (Julie White) is stuck in the anger stage of her grief over the loss of her partner.

Danny (Seth Morris) denies that he has an issue with his wife cheating on him.

Owen (Tyler James Williams) doesn’t know how to express his feelings about his brother’s coma. Every member of the counseling group has such different personal circumstances that their jokes never feel stale even though they all, to some degree, center on their inability to accept loss.

Though it succeeds with humor, “Go On” stumbles and sometimes outright fails when it attempts to be emotional.

Ultimately, the series ends up feeling overly sentimental and forced. In a scene from the pilot that might as well have been from a bad episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” generic indie rock music accompanies a montage of cliched clips depicting each character alone. Though it tries to foster empathy for all the characters among viewers, it just ends up feeling phony.

In the first episode alone, there are countless examples of this disconnect in the show’s overall tone. In another effort to create a sense of sentimentality, therapy leader Lauren Schneider (Laura Benanti) tells us, “It’s important to laugh, but also to cry.” Instead of producing the poignant moment the show is aiming for, this sappy line will have audiences rolling their eyes — not drying them.

If the series cut out these maudlin moments, “Go On” could become an extremely strong comedy resembling classic shows like “Community” or even “Cheers” (1982-1993). As of now, the show far too often drowns itself in its sentimentality.

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Tyler James Williams plays Owen, a character who has not yet come to terms with his brother’s coma.

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Laura Benati is one of the core cast members of Matthew Perry’s new show, ‘Go On.’

Fashion Week’s trends range from gaudy to timeless FASHION

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on some unique and creative viewpoints. For instance, the show highlighted CLU? Collections’ line of women’s wear inspired by men’s tuxedos.

The event also blended the runway show with multimedia presentations.

The video productions and distinct soundtracks allowed the designers to expand on their brands and complemented the looks seen on the runway.

This was a refreshing change from last year’s runway, when the MCs awkwardly stalled with less-than-witty banter while the models changed. Some of these videos were lackluster, but most were entertaining. Among our favorites was Irish designer Jennifer Rothwell’s tropical montage that featured a model cliff diving.

As to be expected at such a large event, there were some serious technical issues strewn throughout the night.

The sound designers never quite got the microphone levels right, leading to deafening feedback whenever the hosts — Miss New Hampshire and lead organizer Reaz Hoque — addressed the audience. Additionally, the attempts at creative lighting failed on many accounts and literally left the models in the dark.

In an evening that showcased nearly a dozen different collections, it’s hard to pick a specific standout. Among the best was Trash, a Polish design house run by Angela Brejt. According to Brejt, her looks were inspired by ’60s and ’70s American comic book style, specifically King Kong. “[King Kong] is big and powerful, but has the heart of the woman,” she said, explaining her choice to feature the infamous ape. From banana-laden prints to green snake-eye dresses — an homage to Kong’s serpentine nemesis — Trash’s collection was both graphic and fun. Brejt also had a witty answer when asked to summarize her pieces.

“Trash crash! A bit of color, and some fun,” said Brejt.

Another designer who made use of very intricate prints was Rothwell. Her custom-designed textiles incorporated birds in flight and bright, tropical colors. Rothwell’s attention to detail was evident in the way the print was strategically placed and tailored to perfection.

“My brand represented timeless elegance and strong prints that come alive,” she said after her American runway premiere.

Of the miniature collections that graced the runway, Sylvia Hill’s CLU? stood out. Unlike many of the others shown that evening, Hill’s looks were utterly cohesive. Despite showing everything from a house coat to hot pants, CLU? always referenced the tuxedo inspiration. On top of all this, we adored the red accents shown in every piece.

Emerging Trends branched out of the runway show norms, showcasing collections by accessory and footwear designers. Although Annie JeanBaptiste’s platform heels veered toward gaudy and overworked, Bitru Fariel’s jewelry line was a breath of fresh air.

One of the best pieces of the entire night was the Polish craftswoman’s coral neckpiece that draped down the model’s back to resemble a string of chili peppers.

Beyond being an evening for truly innovative fashion, Emerging Trends 2012 served as a launch point for its featured models and designers. Model Jennie Ross reflected on her experience in Emerging Trends, which was one of the many shows in which she walked at Boston Fashion Week.

“I wanted to start this so I could meet bigger and better people because I feel this could be a huge steppingstone for my career,” she said, commenting that she hopes to model at New York Fashion Week in the spring.

For expanded coverage on Emerging Trends, see the Daily blog Jumboslice for exclusive videos from the runway, interviews with the designers and more.

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License plate scanning presents danger of illegal profiling On Sept. 25, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts, in conjunction with 39 other ACLU chapters across the country, filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security over the data-mining devices mounted on many police vehicles known as Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs).

Police departments in both Somerville and Medford have made use of ALPR technology.

One Medford police cruiser has two scanners affixed to its trunk, and in Somerville, two police cars use the plate readers.

The device takes an infrared photo of a license plate, converts it into a text file, and cross-checks the text file to a police hotlist that contains the license plate numbers of — to name a few — stolen or wanted vehicles, sex offenders, outstanding arrest warrants and suspended registration information.

Regardless of whether or not the device registers a hit with the hotlist, information about the photographed car including its license plate number, its photo and the date, area and time of the scan are stored in a databank for 90 days.

That is, unless an official with expressed access shows interest in a

specific set of data for intelligence gathering purposes.

In that case, the information can be kept indefinitely.

Police can take random scans or focus their scanning on a geographic area deemed of interest by higherups in the department.

According to records released by the Boston Police Department to the ACLU, an average of 3,630 license plates are read daily.

One company that produces these scanners, ELSAG North America, states that one office read over 1,000,000 license plate numbers over the course of 16 months, most likely because the ALPR in question can take 1,800 license plate reads every minute.

Additionally, ELSAG states that these devices can be used from everything from catching speeding violators to identifying students or employees with outstanding fines on a college campus.

The use of ALPRs has been contested before. In Maine and New Hampshire, there is already legislation restricting their use.

ALPRs have been abused as well: According to CBC News, after Canadian reporter Kerry Diotte wrote an article critical of their use, he was placed on such a police hotlist without the due process required by law

for police to do so.

The ACLU submitted its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Boston because of the group’s particular interest in the fact that the Boston Police Department authorizes the use of ALPRs in specific geographic areas deemed important for investigative purposes.

The ACLU’s lawsuit also seeks to publicize currently confidential police information about the use of the scanners, including the identities of the manufacturers of the systems, exactly how many units are being used, how many hits are stored in the system, and how police officers are trained to utilize ALPRs. It is time to make privacy a more democratic process.

Most police departments, including local ones, have few or no guidelines for which automobiles should be photographed, and there are not enough checks in place to prevent illegal profiling with this device.

Although these scanners can sometimes be useful to police departments, with the loose to almost nonexistent rules qualifying their use, a case like Diotte’s could happen again.

Because these scanners would be mostly funded by federal grants, it is our right as taxpayers to know what the data is being used for and our duty to prevent its misuse.

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At Tufts, we expect our students to treat fellow students with respect at all times. We have a special responsibility to treat guests from other schools with respect. This commitment is in line with the very best tradition of athletic competition at Tufts.

Athletics brings us together as a community in support of our athletes and offers important opportunities to build

character and leadership abilities. We certainly encourage our students to be enthusiastic in support of the Jumbos, as witnessed by the recent well-attended and spirited Fan the Fire events. But that support should never be an excuse for behavior that belittles, demeans or harasses others. Every Tufts game is an opportunity for our student-athletes and our fans to show our university at its very best. Combining loyalty to Tufts with respect for our opponents is essential.

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Americans should not fear a shortage of delicious greasy bacon by

Krista Brooks

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I’m sure you’re all devastated about the news of the worldwide pork shortage.

Yes, this includes our favorite meat, bacon.

Last Thursday, Britain’s National Pig Association warned that the escalating numbers of shrinking herds are going to cause an “unavoidable bacon shortage.”

This “porkapocalypse” is due to the increase in cost of feeding these delicious animals, according to the pig industry.

If you’re still reading, let out that breath you’ve been holding — bacon will not be extinct as predicted.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts that the pork production of next year will be around 23 billion pounds, only a 1.3 percent decline in America.

Worldwide, it’s predicted that the avail-

ability will only be a 2 to 3 percent decrease per-capita.

Bacon has become a fad, or obsession, for American food lovers.

In 2010, the pork consumption reached an all-time high of 33.4 pounds per person a year, according to the Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service.

Europe may experience a lack of bacon within the next few years, but only a 10-percent decrease at most.

Do not freak out. There will still be bacon.

The bacon crisis has spun into an exaggerated epidemic. We can all blame the media, but let’s get serious. If there were a terrible shortage of bacon in our future, we would all want to know about it immediately.

Thankfully, this issue is not as bad as forecasted by the United Kingdom, but the word “unavoidable” comes across as very serious and scary.

The bacon in the United Kingdom is also

different from the bacon that Americans eat with scrambled eggs and toast. The bacon in this region is from a different part of the animal, a meat familiar to us as “Canadian bacon.”

YouTube series “Epic Meal Time” will be happy to know that the price of bacon in Canada, however, will not be raised as high as in the U.S. This predicted scarcity was due to a recent drought and rise of corn price.

This may raise the price of pork-perpound within the next few years.

Steve Meyer, a consulting economist to the National Pork Board, predicts that prices will be raised at most to $3.75 per pound. This price is only 25 cents higher than present costs. If you were freaking out about the loss of bacon — I know I was — rest assured that it will only be raised by a measly quarter, a price us bacon-lovers will have to pay.

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The Benghazi boondoggle by

Adam Edelman The Tech

It is the morning of Sept. 11, 2012.

Things seem to be looking up for President Obama — a slew of polls have come out showing that the president maintains a lead in a handful of swing states he will need to win come November. Today is the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and to commemorate this solemn occasion President Obama is heading off to Las Vegas for a ritzy fundraiser. Of course, with the good domestic news on his mind, the president doesn’t attend his daily intelligence briefing — this will be the sixth straight day that he has not been personally briefed. That can, of course, come later. Osama Bin Laden is dead after all — what could possibly go wrong, especially on Sept.

11? Since his inauguration, the president has attended the Presidential Daily Brief approximately 44 percent of the time, even less in the last year and a half.

Halfway around the world the U.S. ambassador to Libya is worried: During the last few days, there has been concrete intelligence that American embassies were at risk of attack and that American diplomats in Libya were “not secure.” Furthermore, Al-Qaeda’s leaders have posted YouTube videos urging Libyans to attack Americans and the ambassador is worried that he is on an Al-Qaeda hit list.

Yet this morning, Ambassador Stevens is traveling unprotected as there is still no Marine force in Libya

to protect Americans, as is standard protocol. The Obama administration has not heightened security measures in Libya, leaving security in the hands of local Libyans. In a few hours’ time, much of the local security force will abandon the ambassador as a militia force storms a U.S. safe house and kills four Americans, including Stevens.

The lack of preparation for and the response to this terrorist attack are shocking. Earlier in the day, as a mob descended on the U.S. embassy in Egypt, the embassy issued a statement which did not condemn the attacks on the embassy, but instead apologized to those who had been offended by a YouTube video that insulted Muhammad — reportedly the cause of the riot.

Additionally, for over a week the administration’s official stance on the Benghazi attack was that it was not a coordinated terrorist attack, but rather a spontaneous riot resulting from tensions over the video. Last week, amidst riots at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan, President Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared in TV ads apologizing for the Muhammad video.

This isn’t simply appeasement, this is blaming the victim, and it is just one example of how the administration has emasculated the U.S. Pakistan, Egypt, Libya: these were numerous attacks against U.S. citizens on sovereign U.S. soil. The proper response is not an “I’m sorry,” but a “how dare you.” In administrations past, the potential retaliation to

force used against the United States served as a deterrent. It was the job of the commander in chief to exude confidence in the righteousness of America’s ideals (including freedom of expression).

And yet, for over three years President Obama has managed time and time again to defang America.

His first speech in Cairo contained an apology for our “dictating” to other people. America has abandoned Poland, an ally, to appease Putin and the Russians. We have committed to “engaging” Iran in dialogue for over three years, all while no progress has been made to halt Iran’s march towards The Bomb. We have released terrorists from Guantanamo Bay who have come back to attack us (one such terrorist helped coordinate the Libya attack). We continue to supply aid to Pakistan, which, in all likelihood, harbored Osama Bin Laden next-door to an army compound for years. Obama shook hands and posed with Hugo Chavez, a man who has called the U.S. the most “murderous empire that has [ever existed].” In short, America is now viewed as a pushover.

This administration needs to wake up. Just because Osama Bin Laden is dead does not mean that America’s security interests merit less attention than a fundraiser. Threats against America are a very real concern and when we are attacked it is important to make clear that such attacks will not be tolerated. Strength and resolve, not appeasement, make America the strong nation it is.

Science fiction novelists and filmmakers have exposed us to the futuristic world where robots and humans coexist. We have seen robot takeovers in “I, Robot” (2004), docile cleaning robot mice in Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles,” and now we are seeing robots in our very own real-life world.

The concept of artificial intelligence is well known and has become intertwined in much of the machinery we use today. However, as technology has advanced, the intelligence of the machinery developed has grown more autonomous, raising the question: Is artificial intelligence starting to look like real intelligence? The possibility of robots developing capabilities and behavioral patterns akin to those of humans is heavily debated — some deem it impossible, while others deem it inevitable.

In June 2012, The Economist published an article about the morals of machines which stated, “as robots become more autonomous, societies need to develop rules to manage them,” indicating that the actions of robots as individuals need to be monitored. The article detailed the rise of robots in the military and the potential ethical dilemmas that could occur if robots gain even more autonomy. Though this article raised interesting questions, it did not address the distinction between scientific autonomy and philosophic autonomy.

Scientific autonomy is certainly developing quickly — robots are becoming more and more advanced and human control is becoming less necessary. However, philosophical autonomy directly addresses the human trait of free will and the mental cognitive ability to be creative, spontaneous and empathetic. The robots of today are far from possessing these traits. Sure, a robot can be instructed to rob a bank — but it’s not making that choice; its creator is. Robot morality, at this point in time, revolves more centrally around human usage of robots rather than independent robotic actions.

However, computing power doubles every 18 months — at this rate, many enthusiastic technologists predict an imminent occurrence of technological singularity, in which machines will reach -— and possibly surpass — the threshold of human intelligence.

Research has already indicated that human mental cognitive functions have the potential to be simulated by machines.

Interestingly, countries have already begun implementing laws regarding robot ethics.

In South Korea, a code of ethics was created to prevent humans from abusing robots and vice versa. Additionally, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is supposedly creating a code of conduct for robots, especially those utilized in elderly-care homes.

The Economist article established three steps to facilitate a safe presence of robots in modern day society.

The first step is to determine who is responsible if the robot’s actions cause harm — the creator or the robot? This is especially critical, considering the proliferation of robots being used for military purposes. The second step is to ensure that ethical systems imbedded in robots match the societal values that dictate human behavior. Though “moral machines” don’t exist yet, it is important to implement a functional morality that is sensitive to ethics and societal values in the prototypes that are currently being developed. Finally, collaboration between policymakers, lawyers and engineers must be established in order to maintain consistency in governing machinery.

It is important to draw a clear distinction between science fiction and the real world.

Robots who think and act for themselves remain a ways off, and societies should not dwell on the potential ramifications that could occur if such technology were to ever be produced. Rather, ethical codes of conduct need to be instituted in machinery today to help guide the path of development for the robots of tomorrow.

Neena Kapur is a sophomore majoring in international relations. She can be reached at Neena.Kapur@tufts.edu.

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Latest win propels Jumbos up rankings FIELD HOCKEY

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overtime period, the Jumbos were awarded a penalty corner. Sagerman redirected a feed from sophomore Maggie Chapman to secure Tufts’ seventh straight victory and preserve its perfect record at home.

“I think we’ve really progressed as a team throughout the season,” Sagerman added.

“We have done an excellent job of improving each day and taking the mistakes from previous games and fixing them. Our constant fight and determination says a lot about the heart of our team.”

The Jumbos dominated possession — as they have all season — and outshot their opponents by a 21-10 margin, taking a

16-9 edge in penalty corner opportunities.

The victory, which came against an evenly matched NESCAC opponent, solidified the Jumbos’ position among the top ranks of the conference and the Div. III rankings.

Next, Tufts hits the road again to take on conference rival Conn. College next Saturday. The Camels are below .500 in the NESCAC and sit seventh in the conference rankings, but the Jumbos know not to take any NESCAC opponent lightly.

“The win on Saturday was huge for us, especially with regard to putting ourselves in a good position for NESCACs,” Sagerman said. “But now we have to turn our focus to Conn. College. Our conference is so competitive and every game counts.”

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The No. 13 field hockey team scored undoubtedly its most important win of the season against Amherst on Saturday, improving the squad’s NESCAC record to 4-1.

Tufts pushes on after Homecoming loss FOOTBALL

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back John Dodds, who attempted 70 passes in the rain on Saturday afternoon. His 40 completions went for 363 yards, but that was not enough to claw the Jumbos out of the hole they had dug for themselves.

But Tufts was given a glimmer of hope with 2:37 to go, when the Bobcats coughed up a fumble on their own 33-yard line that the Jumbos promptly turned into a touchdown by running back Marcel Pitre. But when the Jumbos failed to recover their onside kick, the window of opportunity had slammed shut, leaving the team frustrated with yet another loss.

For head coach Jay Civetti, the most obvious cause for his team’s 0-2 start has been their first quarters, in which Tufts has now been outscored 35-0 over the first two games.

“I don’t think any team can get down as soon as we’re getting down,” Civetti said.

“Playing from behind is something that you never want to do. When you’re down, you can’t make mistakes.”

Civetti noted that part of those early struggles might stem from a lack of experience on the defensive side of the ball.

“Teams identify that we’re thin up front,” Civetti said, referring to his defensive line.

“Bates’ offense is really good, they run the ball very well and their offensive linemen were fantastic, but we’ve gotta tackle the football better.”

Tufts’ defense let up 387 yards of total offense, with 309 of those coming on the ground. Although the Jumbos prepared to shut down Bates’ rushing attack all week, they simply could not execute out on the field.

“There were a lot of missed assignments,” said junior linebacker Sean Harrington on the defensive unit’s first quarter. “We knew what we were getting and we got it, we just didn’t play as well as we could.”

That lack of execution plagued the offense as well, which picked up 370 total yards but also turned the ball over five times on the afternoon.

“We’ve really been the only ones that have been stopping us,” Dodds said. “We’ve been picking apart defenses the past two games, but the offense keeps making mistakes and not capitalizing on our situation.”

Throughout the game, when Tufts was handed a short field by Bates, the offense struggled mightily to turn those chances into points. The defense forced two turnovers, but a minus-three turnover differential is nearly impossible to overcome for even the strongest of teams.

“We can’t turn the ball over that much,” Civetti said. “As a team, we need to value the football more and value possession more.”

Though holding onto the football was a problem in Saturday’s slippery conditions, no member of the team could find fault with the competitive fire the Jumbos demonstrated in front of the packed Homecoming stands.

“We’ve got good fight in this team,” said Civetti. “I don’t think there’s one guy in this team who isn’t looking to get out there and fight regardless of the situation, but we have to focus that fight in terms of execution to be able to win.”

Now standing at 0-2 for the second time in as many years, the Jumbos are already looking ahead to their game at Bowdoin next weekend, attempting to fix mistakes that they believe are correctable. The team continues to stay resolved and focused on not letting its slide corrupt the attitude at practice each week.

“There was a lot more head-hanging last year,” Harrington said. “We’ve got some good leadership in [this] senior class and everyone comes in Monday ready to go. We all understand what happened and that it’s not the outcome we wanted.”

For a closer look at Saturday’s game, check out our video highlight package of the Tufts-Bates game on The Tufts Daily’s blog, Jumbo Slice at blogs.tuftsdaily. com.

Quarterback Dodds finds success with numerous receivers NOTEBOOK

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He’s big and strong, and I think that’s the next step in his development as a wide receiver.”

‘Pat Nee is a monster’ Dodds connected with almost all of his wide receivers on Saturday, but perhaps no connection was as strong as the one he had with junior Pat Nee. Nee, who caught just 17 passes last season, made plays all over the field, flashing a level of athleticism he hadn’t shown since late 2010.

“It’s always been there,” Nee said. “I want everyone to know that I can make these plays, and it just feels good to finally break out in a sense — it feels good to not be shut down as much.”

Nee had seven catches for 70 yards — second only to senior tri-captain wideout Dylan Haas, who had 12 for 99 — including five that went for first downs. On 4th-and-1 in the second quarter, he hauled in a high pass at the Bates 5-yard line, falling backwards as he secured it.

“He is a monster,” Dodds said. “That fourth down on the goal line, he made a ridiculous catch. That’s just typical Pat Nee.” Nee knows he’s capable of performing that way every Saturday, and if he does, it makes the Jumbos’ receiving corps that much more dangerous.

“Pat runs good routes, he’s tall, he’s got good hands, he makes plays,” Hauser said. “I think Pat’s a good receiver; I think he’s a receiver who can get better as he starts to catch the ball, break a tackle and make something happen.

Pitre’s new home: the end zone The Jumbos’ top three tailbacks — sophomore Zack Trause, junior Ryan Pollock and junior Marcel Pitre — are listed at 5-8, 180 pounds; 5-9, 185 pounds; and 5-9, 190 pounds, respectively.

None of these frames exactly scream “goalline back,” but Pitre, the biggest of the three, embraced the role on Saturday.

Pitre scored all three of Tufts’ touchdowns against Bates on a trio of goal-line runs, twice getting stopped at the line of scrimmage before making impressive second efforts.

“That’s what you need in a running back on the goal line,” Hauser said. “The first two that he scored, a lot of guys wouldn’t have gotten in because they wouldn’t have had the feet or the intensity to get it in the end zone.”

The third touchdown came on a wellexecuted fake handoff, and Dodds pitched it to Pitre with plenty of room to run to the outside and find the end zone.

In one game, Pitre scored as many touchdowns as he had carries in his freshman and sophomore seasons.

Flicker of hope Down 28-10 and driving into Bates territory in the third quarter, Hauser made a bold decision on first down: He called for a flea flicker.

Dodds threw a screen pass to the right side to sophomore running back Zack Trause, who then tossed it up toward senior wideout Marty Finnegan. The play call worked to perfection — Finnegan was wide open — but he twisted, turned and ultimately was unable to reel in what surely would have been a touchdown.

Two plays later, the Jumbos were forced to punt. It was a crucial missed opportunity to blindside the Bobcats for six points, espe-

forced to make another comeback against a 3-5-3 defense.

“If a team blitzes you, you’ve got to hurt them in the blitz and then they’ll stop blitzing,” Hauser said. “If a team plays an eightman front, you’ve got to hurt them in the eight-man front to get them out of the eightman front.”

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Tufts’ offense played well against Bates, with junior wide receiver Pat Nee picking up 70 yards on seven catches. cially for a team that has struggled to make big plays in the air.

“What we need right now is someone who can catch the ball and do something with it,” Hauser said. “Our yards after the catch

aren’t very good, and we have some guys who I think are capable of doing that, but we haven’t done it yet.

“You need the big play, and it’s time for us to start making some big plays.”

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Volleyball

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The volleyball team swept through its NESCAC competition this weekend, scoring four-set victories over both Wesleyan and Conn. College.

Rare Homecoming game results in victory for Jumbos by

Alex Baudoin

Daily Editorial Board

For the past several years, the volleyball team has been hoping to have the opportunity to play in front of a loud Tufts crowd VOLLEYBALL (8-4 Overall, 3-1 NESCAC) at Cousens Gym, Saturday Wesleyan Tufts

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on a Homecoming Saturday. This weekend, the Jumbos took full advantage of the occasion, crushing NESCAC rival Wesleyan 3-1 in Cousens Gymnasium.

“We were all really excited to play on homecoming weekend,” said senior tricaptain Kendall Lord, who finished Saturday’s match with 34 assists and is now fifth in the conference with an average of 9.09 assists per set. “We went into the weekend with a focus to improve on last weekend where we struggled a lot against some competitive teams, and we knew we had two more competitive games.”

Coach Cora Thompson’s squad started strong right off the bat, taking the first set 25-15 and showing that the Cardinals had no answer for the Jumbos’ dominating

presence at the net.

Tufts, which leads the NESCAC in blocks per game, combined for a staggering 27 blocks in the match, which proved crucial in slowing down the Cardinals’ offensive strategy.

The Cardinals did manage to take the second set 26-24, but were then overwhelmed by the potent Jumbos offense in the final two sets.

“We just wanted to keep our energy and keep our momentum going,” senior tricaptain Kiersten Ellefsen said. “We were all very excited. We could finally own some of the homecoming spirit that we had been feeling on campus all week. It felt good to take part in that.”

Tufts’ best individual performance was the impressive showing from sophomore outside hitter Kelly Brennan.

Brennan, who has paced the Jumbos’ offense all season, recorded 23 kills and seven digs on a .422 hitting percentage and has now climbed to fourth in the NESCAC in kills per game.

“Kelly has been great,” Lord said. “She is such a hard worker, and she works 110 percent every day in practice and brings that intensity into every game. She’s stepped up her game a lot this year, but she’s also stepped up as a leader. With a small upper class, she really has taken on a leadership role on the team.”

On Friday night, the Jumbos managed to rally from behind to take down conference foe Conn. College in four sets. Tufts looked sluggish out of the gate and quickly fell behind to the Camels 5-0. Conn. College maintained its high level of play to take the first set 25-13.

Down early, Tufts knew that something had to change.

“We took a beating in the first set [on Friday,]” Lord said. “In between the first and second set, we decided it was time to go all out and start playing as hard as we could.

We decided to start playing like a team.”

“We were kind of forced with a choice, to allow ourselves to be flustered mentally or simply choose to go all out like we had been talking about and ramp it up for the rest of the game,” Ellefsen added. “We were able to be successful because we all put in the effort, both on the court and on the bench. We fed each other well and worked well as one cohesive unit.”

The Jumbos came out of the huddle with fire and, after going back and forth with the Camels for a few points, took control of the set behind two momentum-swinging service aces by sophomore outside hitter Hayley Hopper. Tufts took a seven-point lead before eventually winning the set 25-19, and went on to win the second and third sets 25-21 and 29-27, respectively.

“We kept our momentum and positive energy going,” Lord said. “We were also able to dictate the tempo of play. That was our focus, and I think we accomplished it.”

Sophomore middle blocker Isabel Kuhel led the attack with nine kills with no errors and one block assist while Lord provided her usual steady play, accumulating 36 assists and 22 digs. Hopper and Brennan combined for 24 kills and 30 digs.

The Jumbos improved to 8-4 on the season and now sit in a tie for third place in the NESCAC. Tufts plays UMass Boston on Tuesday before traveling up to Lewiston, Maine to take on Bates this weekend.

Athletics Department Awards

Schmidt, Allen win Best Athlete awards as seven Jumbos honored On Friday night, seven members of the Tufts community were recognized for their achievements over the past year, as they were given awards at the Athletics Department’s 2012 Annual Awards Ceremony for being the best that Tufts has to offer. Below is a breakdown of who won and why.

Best Male Athlete: Johann Schmidt The program’s first national title in thirty years was more than enough to earn junior diver Johann Schmidt the Clarence “Pop” Houston award for Tufts’ best male athlete. In the 1-meter diving finals earlier this year, Schmidt beat out the finest divers in the nation to take first place, to go along with his double NESCAC championship in the one and three meter events. Schmidt will look to defend his crowns and his Tufts records throughout this diving season.

Best Female Athlete: Kelly Allen On the women’s side, senior Kelly Allen was given the Hester L. Sargent award for best female athlete for her prowess in the discus. Throughout last season, Allen was a centerpiece of the Jumbos’ track and field team, which culminated in her double NESCAC championship in the discus and shot put, along with a second place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships last spring. Allen returns as a senior in 2012-13, looking to move up one more spot and take home the

trophy for best in the country.

Best Multi-Sport Male Athlete: Sam Diss Senior Sam Diss won the Rudolph J. Fobert Award for the second straight year. An All-American midfielder on the lacrosse team and all-NESCAC defensive back on the football team, Diss scooped up 30 ground balls while helping the lacrosse team reach the national semifinals. On the football field, he had 52 tackles and formed a potent onetwo kick returning punch with classmate Dylan Haas.

Best Multi-Sport Female Athlete: Allyson Fournier Allyson Fournier, a sophomore, was one of the best softball players in the country her freshman season. She ranked first in Div. III in ERA (0.55), strikeouts per seven innings (12.1) and hits per seven innings (2.97), ultimately leading the Jumbos to a fifthplace national finish at the NCAA Finals. At the NCAA New England Regional, she was named the Most Outstanding Player, and at the end of the season she was named a First Team All-American. In the winter, she also swam breaststroke and freestyle on the swim team.

Male Positive Attitude/Persistence: Scott Barchard Barchard (LA ‘12) earned the W. Murray Kenney Award after overcoming a broken

ankle that forced him to miss much of his junior season. He came back last year to lead the hockey team in goal, earning AllNESCAC honors. The all-time saves leader at Tufts, Barchard was also the program’s first-ever All-American as a sophomore, when he led the nation with 817 saves.

Last season, he helped the Jumbos earn their first-ever home playoff game.

Female Positive Attitude/Persistence: Kate Barnosky After having surgery to remove the torn meniscus in her right knee in the summer of 2010, Kate Barnosky (LA ’12) made a full recovery for her senior season and led the women’s basketball team to the NCAA Sweet 16. As a cocaptain last winter, Barnosky averaged a team-high 9.2 points per game as well as 6.1 rebounds and was named to the All-NESCAC and All-Region teams. She also played over 25 minutes per game — without a right meniscus.

Sports Writing: Ethan Sturm Senior Ethan Sturm was honored with the Timothy J. Horgan Award for Sports Writing to recognize his contributions as a member of the Daily sports staff and his overall coverage of Tufts athletics. Sturm, a four-year writer and editor for the Daily, has also participated in webcasting Tufts sporting events with Jumbocast, as well as working game operations at various sporting events.

t’s not easy to play a professional sport. “Tell me something I don’t know,” you may be thinking to yourself.

In the world of sports, a dedication to the game is needed starting at a young age. From there, add in a wealth of talent and incredible amount of drive and you start to see the development of a professional athlete.

In baseball specifically, it seems like there are 100 minor league levels that a player has to pass through before making it to the show.

Even once a player makes it all the way to the bigs, a 162-game season is a grind. There are the emotional highs and the lows of a season. There are the flights from Boston to Seattle to Tampa — while playing games every night.

If we could just experience what this is like with the constant pressure to perform because of big contracts and expectations from fans, then maybe we could see why a player might choose to take steroids, right? Wrong.

Steroids are cheating. Cheating at any level of the game is the utmost form of disrespect to the player, his organization, his teammates and to the game itself.

Last week, a news story was released that outlined an accusation made by former reliever Éric Gagné.

He alleged in his upcoming book that “80 percent of the Dodgers players were consuming [steroids].”

Now do I personally believe that 80 percent of players in that Dodgers clubhouse took steroids?

Absolutely not. It looks like a cheap plug to sell a couple more copies of his book. However, one thing I do know is that any number above zero percent is too high.

Let me say it again. Players who take steroids are cheaters.

They cheat the game, the opposing team and themselves. For this, they earn the honor of being Cheater No.1 Cheater No. 2 is every player in Major League baseball that allows this type of action to take place. They are enablers.

If I were a clean player fighting for my spot on a professional team and I lose my job because of a player taking steroids, then I have been cheated.

Where is the outrage over this? Players should be taking a stand publicly pressuring and exposing those who cheat.

Lastly, Cheater No. 3 is Major League Baseball.

What are they really doing to rid the game of steroids?

The current protocol for those found to have used steroids, which conveniently was instituted after baseball reaped the rewards of the steroid era, is a first time suspension of 50 games, second of 100 games and third a lifetime ban.

A 50-game ban to a pitcher on a surefire playoff team in the middle of the summer heat is considered a punishment?

If a pitcher were to take steroids one of two things would happen. Either they would a) receive the benefit of the steroids with enhanced numbers or b) have the two hottest months of the year to rest and prepare for the postseason.

That doesn’t sound like much of a deterrent.

If baseball wants to eradicate the problem, then I propose that the first punishment is a lifetime ban. That would get the player’s attention, wouldn’t it?

Steroids are a choice. It’s been proven in nearly every case that the busted player knowingly took the substance, which tells me that the punishment is not harsh enough. Players still think that they will be able to get away with using them or are willing to take the punishment if they do not.

Steroid usage is a problem that ruins the integrity of baseball and needs to be completely eliminated from the game. Until this happens Cheater No. 1, Cheater No. 2 and Cheater No. 3 — you’re sacked!

Jordan Bean is a freshman who has yet to declare a major. He can be reached at Jordan.Bean@tufts.edu.

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Football slips early again, cannot recover against Bates by

Marcus Budline

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A second slow start, a second scoreless first quarter and a second unsuccessful comeback attempt all FOOTBALL (0-2 Overall, 0-2 NESCAC) at Zimman Field, Saturday Bates Tufts

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paved the way to a second-week loss for Tufts football by a score of 31-23 to Bates.

Before the Jumbos snapped the ball 10 times on Saturday, the Bobcats had already sprinted out to a 14-0 lead on the strength of their triple-option rushing attack, which gashed the Jumbos for 105 yards in the first quarter alone.

Although the Jumbos did settle down after the opening period to bring the halftime score to 21-10, any sense of offensive balance disappeared as they looked to stretch the field and come back.

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Senior quarterback John Dodds threw for 363 yards against Bates, but the valiant effort wasn’t enough as Tufts fell to the Bobcats, 31-23.

Field Hockey

Jumbos score overtime win against No. 12 Amherst by

Kate Klots

Daily Editorial Board

The No. 13 field hockey team is on a roll, and on Saturday, the Jumbos rallied in front of a Homecoming crowd for their second overFIELD HOCKEY (7-1 Overall, 4-1 NESCAC) at Bello Field, Saturday Amherst Tufts

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time victory in just seven days. After defeating Trinity with a strike in the 77th minute last Sunday, Tufts returned home to host No. 12 Amherst and defeated the Lord Jeffs 4-3 in extra time, as senior co-captain Lia Sagerman tapped in the winning goal during the first overtime.

With the victory — the Jumbos’ seventh straight — the team improved to 4-1 in the conference. Tufts remains locked in third place behind No. 2 Middlebury and No. 17 Trinity.

And while it was Sagerman who capped off the win, fellow senior Kelsey Perkins paved the way for the Jumbos, laying down a three-goal performance in regulation to set up the extra time scenario.

The win marked the first for the Jumbos this season in which they were not the first team to score. Early on, the visiting Lord Jeffs had control of the game, and had a golden opportunity to score, only to be denied by Jumbos sophomore goalkeeper Brianna Keenan.

But Amherst capitalized on the pressure shortly thereafter, as the Lord Jeffs were awarded a penalty corner opportunity. Senior tricaptain Katie McMahon scored off a rebound to put Amherst up 1-0 at the 7:47 mark.

Tufts responded immediately. Just five minutes later, senior co-captain Rachel Gerhardt knocked the ball into the circle and Perkins drilled a shot into the lower left corner of the cage to equalize for the Jumbos.

“When they scored first we didn’t let it get to us,” Sagerman said. “If anything, it gave us even more fire. We prepared and worked hard leading up to the game, so we were not going to give up just because they scored first.”

But the Jumbos could not keep Amherst at bay before the half. Ten minutes later, Amherst sophomore forward Ellie Andersen recaptured the ball after a defensive save from Gerhardt and tapped the ball in to the back of the net.

The goal meant that the Jumbos entered halftime trailing at home for the first time.

“Since Amherst scored the first goal of the game it was imperative that we started converting offensively,” Perkins said. “The whole team really stepped up with a sense of urgency and put the pressure on. At the beginning of the second half we knew we had to score right away.”

After the intermission, Tufts came out with a new intensity. Sagerman and Perkins connected four minutes into the second half to tie the game in the 39th minute.

Then, just two minutes later, Perkins fired on cage again. After taking a shot, the senior followed up on her own attempt and finished a look past sophomore keeper Rachel Tannenbaum for her third goal of the day.

“Both of those goals were a result of the entire team working together to put the pressure on their backs and move the ball up the field,” Perkins said. “Our forwards controlled the ball on the baseline and were able to put the ball into the stroke spot where the shooting angle is best.”

Midway through the second half, the Lord Jeffs retied the lead on a penalty corner strike from junior midfielder Alex Philie, who deflected a pass from Andersen into the cage.

In the closing minutes of regulation, the Jumbos dominated possession but were unable to find the back of the cage. Tufts and Amherst entered the overtime period locked at 3, but the Jumbos held the edge in extra time experience.

“Going into OT against Trinity [last Sunday] prepared us for Saturday’s game,” Sagerman said. “Overtime is sudden victory, so we just wanted to put the ball on cage as soon as we could.”

In their second overtime game in a week, the Jumbos came out cool-headed against the Lord Jeffs, who had not yet played an extra-time contest. Four minutes into the first see FIELD HOCKEY, page 10

Football

Notebook: Airing it out by

Aaron Leibowitz

Daily Editorial Board

When senior John Dodds took over the quarterback job for the Jumbos in the first quarter of last week’s game against Wesleyan, he knew he’d be asked to throw.

What he couldn’t have predicted, however, is that in two games he’d throw 115 passes and rack up 533 yards. No one could have predicted that.

The bulk of Dodds’ workload came in Saturday’s 31-23 loss to Bates, when he attempted 70 passes — one shy of tying the Tufts record — for 363 yards.

“I knew we were going to be throwing the ball a lot, but I definitely didn’t think we were going to be throwing 70 times,” Dodds said.

So far, Dodds has done everything the Jumbos have asked of him, and more. “[Dodds] threw the ball well,” offensive coordinator Frank Hauser said. “I thought he played tough the whole game, took some big hits and came back from them.

I think he got better from the first game to the second game, and I think that the reason we were in the game was because he was able to move the team down the field.”

Not only did Dodds help the Jumbos pull within a touchdown after they trailed 28-10 to start the

fourth quarter, but he also did it while completing multiple passes to eight different receivers. That’s a testament to Dodds himself, as well as to his deep receiving corps.

“We have a lot of talented receivers,” Dodds said. “They were getting open, I was just finding them.”

Still, tipped balls were ultimately Dodds’ and the Jumbos’ downfall, leading to three interceptions including one for a 60-yard Bates touchdown.

Trailing the entire game, Tufts had little choice but to throw. But when you throw 70-plus times, picks are hard to avoid.

“There’s going to be interceptions when you throw the ball a lot, but tipped balls a lot of times are a function of a ball that isn’t thrown exactly where it needs to be, and also that should have been caught and wasn’t caught,” Hauser said. “When a tipped ball goes high in the air against a secondary with twin safeties, you’re going to run into problems.”

Dodds said on Sunday that, if he had to, he could have played another game that day. Still, he’ll now get some much-needed time to rest his arm, and probably won’t be called upon to throw 70 more passes any time soon.

That is, unless the Jumbos are see NOTEBOOK, page 10

Men’s soccer splits against Amherst, Bates; women held scoreless

Oliver Porter / The Tufts Daily

The men’s soccer team saw mixed results this weekend, falling to No. 2 Amherst in a lopsided 2-0 match on Saturday before rebounding to win by a score of 4-0 against Bates on Sunday.

The Amherst match was the first loss for the Jumbos this season. Tufts looked overmatched and allowed a goal in the first nine minutes of the game. The Jumbos looked much better against Bates, scoring two goals in each half. Meanwhile, the women’s team’s struggles continued, as the Jumbos again failed to score and lost 2-0 to No. 6 Amherst on Saturday before a scoreless draw on Sunday against the Bobcats. Full coverage of the soccer games can be found in tomorrow’s sports section, along with coverage of the tennis teams’ performances at the ITA tournament.