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Monday, October 6, 2014

VOLUME LXVIII, NUMBER 19

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University surveys internal communications

by Alexander Spring Staff Writer

The Internal Communications Working Group, led by Christine Sanni (LA ’89), executive director of Advancement Communications and Services, and Michael Baenen, chief of staff in the Office of the President, conducted a survey among Tufts faculty and staff across all schools last spring to gauge how effective Tufts is at relaying relevant information to its employees in a timely fashion.

“Basically we did a gap analysis,” Sanni said. “We wanted to figure out what kind of information [the employees] are seeking from the university, how they currently get information and if those sources are useful.”

The survey, which was offered to all employees at Tufts, was completed by 21 percent of faculty and staff, according to Sanni. The sample size included a wide variety of time of service at Tufts, from new employees to those who have been at Tufts for many years.

“The main thing we found is that most faculty and staff are looking for more information as employees of the university,” Sanni said. “They feel like they get good information about things like research that faculty is doing and what’s going on with student life. However, they don’t feel like they get enough good information about what it means to be an employee here at the university.”

A significant number of faculty and staff indicated that they want to receive more information via email, Sanni added.

“There was confusion over the emails that the university sends,” she explained. “Employees felt that there was duplication in some instances and lack of information in others. So [the working group] recommended mass emails, cleaning up the ones we send to faculty and staff and just [creating] a more streamlined way of communicating.”

Another finding of the survey is that the Tufts Now website, which posts news, events, social media and more, is widely used by university employees, Sanni said.

“We know that Tufts Now has been used the most, and contains a lot of good information about what faculty and students are doing,” she said. “So our recommendation to them was to include more information about staff, such [as] information about parking stickers, the Wellness Center and benefits changes. Information that is usually sent in emails, we want to relay through Tufts Now, because it’s sent on a weekly basis and widely accessed.”

Sanni said that this survey is not just helpful in the improvement of person-toperson communication, but also in the planned redesign of the Tufts.edu webpage, which will be kicking off this week, according to Director of see COMMUNICATIONS, page 2

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Local residents enjoy activities during yesterday’s Community Day on the Academic Quad.

Twelfth annual Community Day draws big turnout

by Jei-Jei Tan

Daily Editorial Board

The 12th annual Community Day at Tufts, co-sponsored by the Office of Community Relations and the cities of Medford and Somerville, was held on the Academic Quad yesterday afternoon with student performances, food, activities and table displays by local and on-campus groups.

“It’s really just a day to welcome residents from Medford and Somerville so ... they can see all the exciting research and activities that are going on right in their backyard,” Assistant Director of Community Relations Susan

Fuller-DeAmato said. “Each year it gets bigger — we have more participating groups, more guests.”

Fuller-DeAmato estimated that about 2,000 people attended the event.

Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel explained that the good weather played a major role in the high turnout.

“Half the people I’ve spoken to have started up by saying ‘what a beautiful day you have for Community Day,’” she said. “We really lucked out … People want to be here on a day like this.”

According to Fuller-DeAmato, about 35 Tufts groups and 45 local community organizations set up

TCU Senate Update In its second meeting of the academic year, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate allocated funds to several student organizations and approved a resolution supporting a pay model for part-time faculty, which would mimic how full-time lecturers are paid.

The resolution, which is specific to part-time faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences, lays out a three-year timetable in which part-time faculty would earn the same per class wages by 2017 that full-time lecturers currently make. Most part-time faculty have not received an increase in wages since Tufts froze all faculty incomes in 2008.

“We really would like to see Tufts bring its practices in line with its stated values,” Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages Andrew Klatt, a part-time faculty member of Spanish, said. The passage of the resolution was “a real success in our bargaining progress.”

Several senators raised concerns about the resolution, including its effect on already rising tuition costs. While one of the resolution writers, Daniel Weaver, a sophomore, expects the wage increases would cost $1.5 million, he said it would be possible to reallocate existing funds to pay for the difference.

“Tufts 100 percent is able to implement a pay-parity mechanism,” Weaver, a member of Tufts Labor Coalition, said.

“This isn’t something that will sky-rocket tuition. Tuition is rising already, and Tufts has reduced [part-time faculty] wages.”

Preceding the resolution’s approval, TCU President Robert Joseph delivered a State of the TCU speech in which he spoke about Tufts’ handling of campus sexual assault cases and the resulting protest, offand on-campus housing for upperclassmen, the ongoing searches for the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering deans, as well as the college’s Student Affairs Pluralism Initiatives.

“The scars of historical marginalization are joined by fresh wounds,” Joseph said.

Senate should “create coalitions of students to tackle the many issues laid out in this speech.”

TCU Treasurer Adam Kochman, a junior, also delivered a State of the TCU Treasury speech, in which he said that the body has retained a $280,000 surplus from last academic year after allocating more than $1.8 million to myriad student groups.

However, TCU Senate is operating this year with a smaller supplemental budget than in years past, according to Kochman.

Following Kochman’s address, TCU Senate voted to allocate money to each of the eight organizations that requested funding. While Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) had initially requested $2,580 to host the organization’s national conference at Tufts, the national chapter

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later indicated that Tufts’ SJP would be responsible for funding all keynote speakers’ travel and lodging costs. Subsequently, SJP appealed to the TCU Senate to increase their allocation.

Although conference attendees pay a $25 registration fee, that cost just covers participants’ meals during the Oct. 24 - 26 conference, which is estimated to attract approximately 350 SJP members from across the country, senior Dylan Saba said.

While senators questioned some of the additional requests, including a $100 allocation for a speaker’s taxi ride and a $500 speaker fee, the body ultimately approved a $5,880 allocation.

Other allocations include Tufts Mock Trial, which received $7,527.90 to attend a competition in California, the Korean Students Association, which received $1,251, Spirit of Color, which received $535 for a Boston competition, the ENVY Step Team, which received $2,446.85 for a Chicago-based completion and the International Club, which received $570 for bonding events. Tufts Society of Latino Engineers and Scientists and Tufts Podcast Network, which had missed the spring deadline, submitted and received allocations of $2,750 and $743.03, respectively, for their 2015 fiscal year budget.

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tables to showcase the work they were doing.

Among the attending organizations were Friends of the Medford Public Library and Friends of the Somerville Public Library, which gave away books at their tables, and local rescue shelter Kitty Connection, which had informational displays with photos of animals up for adoption.

“We have the old favorites … like the Smile Squad from [the School of Dental Medicine] and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach,” FullerDeAmato said. “They bring Legos, see COMMUNITY, page 2

Consortium hosts inaugural workshop on colonialism

by Patrick McGrath Daily Editorial Board

The Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora hosted its inaugural workshop, titled “Comparative Colonialisms: Approaches to the Global Humanities,” on Saturday in Alumnae Lounge. The event, which featured four individual sessions and a keynote lecture, covered a variety of topics related to the study of colonialism in both a historical and contemporary context in different parts of the world.

Partha Chatterjee, professor of anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian and African studies at Columbia University, and honorary professor of political science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, presented his paper, titled “The Afterlives of Empires: Nationalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism,” for the keynote lecture of the workshop.

Kris Manjapra, associate professor of history, introduced Chatterjee, citing his contributions to the field of colonialism studies.

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Visiting the Hill this week MONDAY Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series: “Music, Mediation, and PostSecular Religion” Details: Jeffers Engelhardt, associate professor of music at Amherst College, will present the program’s first colloquium of the semester.

When and Where: 12 – 1:30 p.m., Varis Lecture Hall, Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center Sponsor: Department of Music The Power of We: The Role of Business in Solving Society’s Challenges Details: Jonathan Tisch will lead a lecture on the role of business today.

When and Where: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., Mugar 200 Sponsor: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Against the Odds — Economic Development in Myanmar Details: David Dapice, associate professor of economics at Tufts, will lead a discussion on economic development in Myanmar.

When and Where: 6 – 7 p.m., Murrow Room, Goddard 210 Sponsor: International Relations Program Congressman Michael Capuano: With Test Resistance Rising Nationwide, What’s Next for Federal Education Policy?

Details: Congressman Michael Capuano

(D-Mass.) will host a discussion on federal education policy.

When and Where: 6 – 8 p.m., Distler Hall, Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center Sponsors: Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Citizens for Public Schools Memory Works: The Politics of Art and Memory Details: Tufts Hillel’s Moral Voices Program, the Institute for Global Leadership and the Latin American Studies Program will host a lecture and presentation by Marcelo Brodsky, Argentina’s leading human rights photographer and conceptual artist.

When and Where: 8 – 9:20 p.m., Downstairs Chapel, Granoff Family Hillel Center Sponsors: Tufts Hillel Moral Voices, Institute for Global Leadership, Latin American Studies TUESDAY Low Emissions Development in an Era of Cheap and Abundant Fossil Fuels Details: The Stockholm Environment Institute-U.S. Center will host a discussion on how to protect the planet from climate change, focusing on the role of fossil fuel lock-in risks, the implications for poverty alleviation in forgoing fossil fuel production and the growth of Low Emissions Development Strategies.

When and Where: 1 – 4 p.m., 51 Winthrop St. Sponsor: Stockholm Environment InstituteU.S. Center

Chatterjee speaks about enduring relevance of colonialism studies

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Chatterjee opened his lecture by noting the contemporary aspect of the discussions thus far in the workshop.

“I was particularly struck by the number of speakers who explicitly acknowledged that their treatment and looking back at the histories of colonialism [were] very much prompted by our concerns today, that in fact there is a very presentist position from which we feel compelled to look back on the history of colonialism,” he said.

Chatterjee discussed the history of colonialism and the anti-colonialist movement in India through the lens of three themes: nationalism, internationalism and cosmopolitanism.

He spoke about the beginning of the anti-colonialist movement and the development of democratic nationalism in India. He added that the new nationalists rejected the principles of colonialism, claiming that Indian self-rule would serve as a better form of government than one controlled by a foreign power.

“Democratic nationalism was incompatible with empire,” Chatterjee noted.

The development of a bilingual middle class in India that was educated or traveled abroad also brought in new ideas and inspiration from similar struggles or movements in other parts of the world, such as in Italy, Ireland or Japan, according to Chatterjee.

He also discussed the different concepts of statehood and sovereignty espoused by Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Lenin at the beginning of the 20th century.

Chatterjee underscored the inequality in terms of which countries qualified for independent statehood and how countries were categorized based on their perceived social development insofar as concerned the League of Nations, which was first proposed by Wilson, noting the double standard for recognition of countries such as Albania.

“Despite the fact that their sovereign status was ambiguous, they qualified as members because they were seen to be potential or actual nation states,” he said.

The League of Nations ultimately perpetuated the old liberal colonial project, according to Chatterjee. He added that this period also endorsed international supervision of standard government practices around the world for fields such as safety, health and sanitation.

“Much has been said of the ineffectiveness and indeed the failure of most of these efforts of the League of Nations,” he said.

Chatterjee also discussed the history of the communist movement in regard to the “colonial question.”

He explained that Lenin believed in supporting the working class in European colonies to fight against capitalism and imperialism, but there arose a similar debate over the stages of social development in different colonies. Further, there was a strong centralization of the international communist movements from Moscow, and only one communist party in a country could be affiliated with the Communist International.

“The Communist International, while opening up entirely new dimensions through its consideration of the colonial question … ended up as dominated by the foreign policy interest of the Soviet Union,” he noted.

Chatterjee also discussed the development of the agendas of the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and their influence on postcolonial states. He added that NAM in particular encouraged ideas of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, nonaggression, non-interefence, equality and peaceful coexistence.

He also spoke about the normalization of the nation state as the dominant form of the world order, the struggle for self-determination in African and Asian postcolonial countries, the debate surrounding intervention and the continuation of colonial power structures, as embodied in the United Nations Security Council, according to Chatterjee.

“Even though the old forms of imperialism and colonialism may no longer exist, there are new forms of imperial power that remain the object of theoretical critique and political resistance today,” he said.

Chatterjee concluded by underscoring that the lessons he has drawn from his research are based on historical studies of political movements, rather than purely theoretical studies.

The workshop was co-sponsored by the Toupin-Bolwell Fund for the Arts, the Department of English, the Department of History, the Department of Religion, the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literatures, the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Peace and Justice Studies, International Literary and Visual Studies, the Center for the Humanities at Tufts and the Digital Library of the Center for South Asian and Pacific Ocean Studies.

SURGE: Economic Cooperation Between the US and China Details: Kathleen DeBoer, deputy head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Washington Center, will discuss economic cooperation between the United States and China.

When and Where: 8 p.m., Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 205 Sponsor: Sino-US Relations Group Engagement WEDNESDAY Art, Politics and Human Rights: A Conversation with Marcelo Brodsky Details: Marcelo Brodsky, Argentina’s leading human rights photographer and conceptual artist, will speak.

When and Where: 12 – 1:30 p.m., Chase Center, Carmichael Hall Sponsors: Latin American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Drama and Dance, Department of History, International Literary and Visual Studies, International Relations Program, Peace and Justice Studies, Department of Political Science, Department of Romance Languages, Department of Sociology, Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Toupin-Bolwell Fund for the Arts

Securing Affordable Housing in Hot Market Areas Conference Details: The Four Massachusetts Planning Schools (4P) and the Massachusetts American Planning Association (MassAPA) Annual Conference will take place at Tufts this year. Rachel Bratt, a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning, will deliver the keynote address.

When and Where: 4:30 – 7 p.m., Cabot ASEAN Auditorium Sponsor: Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning EU After the Great Recession Details: Michael Quinn, professor of economics at Bentley University, will discuss the future of the EU in light of current issues the union is facing.

When and Where: 5:45 – 7 p.m., Mugar 200 Sponsor: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy FRIDAY The United States and Greece Details: David Pearce, U.S. ambassador to Greece, will present on the history of diplomatic relations and current issues involving the United States and Greece.

When and Where: 12:30 – 2 p.m., Chase Center, Carmichael Hall Sponsor: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy —by Patrick McGrath

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Digital Communications Jean Ayers.

Ayers told the Daily in an email that the redesign “depends on results of the discovery phase of the project, which will include audience research and stakeholder input.”

Sanni added that with almost 5,000 faculty and staff members, communication is not as easy as it may seem.

“Tufts has a pretty complicated communications structure,” she said. “There is a central communications office, but then every school has [its] own communications person.”

Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler agreed with the goals of the working group.

“Effective communication across all of Tufts’ campuses and schools is vital, and the work of the [working group] is of real importance to Tufts,” Thurler told the Daily in an email.

Sanni said she hopes that bridging the different communication entities will spur healthier relationships between staff on campus that will lead to more engaged employees, higher work satisfaction and more knowledge about the community as a whole.

The working group, which was launched two years ago, deals with a variety of both internal and external communications issues, according to Sanni. Communication committees are nothing new to Tufts, and there have been several iterations of this committee in years past, she said.

“The committee struggled in the beginning as to how we could unearth what the issues were involving internal communications,” Sanni said. “So rather than just throwing darts at a wall, we decided to conduct a survey.”

Sanni said that they saw just how important internal communications are at Tufts.

“We decided that internal communications is a huge issue at the university,” she said.

Community Day welcomes local residents to the Hill COMMUNITY

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[and the] Smile Squad brings toothpaste and toothbrushes.”

The Tufts University Police Department arrived with its cruisers, while the Medford Fire Department set up its smoke house, a simulator where children could learn about fire safety at home.

Lieutenant Neil Rosie from the Medford Fire Department said that it was an opportunity to teach the community about fire safety and fire prevention.

“The kids are here, you got a group of them … for maybe a couple minutes, but every little thing you can teach them [helps],” he said.

Many of the groups have returned year after year, including the Zonta Club of Medford, which was represented by Julie Kaufman.

“I love getting involved in my community and my neighborhood,” she said.

Other Tufts groups that participated include the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, the Department of Biology and the Tufts Association for Women in Math, according to Fuller-DeAmato.

More than a dozen dance, music and a cappella groups, including the Jackson Jills, the Beelzebubs, sQ!, Garba and Sarabande, performed for an audience on the main stage, while activities such as dance lessons from La Salsa and a game of Kidditch with the Tufts Quidditch Team took place on a side stage.

Two tents were set up for children’s activities, which included face painting, pumpkin decorating and more. Chinami Michaels, a fifth-year student in the dual degree program with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, drew portraits and caricatures.

“It’s nice seeing the kids and meeting their families, and it’s nice to see them enjoying Tufts too,” she said.

According to Fuller-DeAmato, volunteers are critical to making Community Day a success.

“A huge help is having our interns Justin Rheingold and Abby Tresalus,” she said.

“The student interns really know how to connect to other students and get them to be involved and help out with recruiting volunteers and performance groups.”

Many families with children find the event particularly attractive, but Community Day provides entertainment for all ages, FullerDeAmato said.

“Because we have so many [activities], everybody finds something that they enjoy,” she said.

Eva Sadowska, a local resident attending Community Day for the first time, said that her daughters had a great time at the event.

“I think it’s really awesome, I’m very impressed with the quality of things,” she said, noting the paper plates and wooden cutlery, which would all be composted, as an example. “I’m definitely going to come back.”

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Tufts Office of Sustainability promoted the Clean Air Challenge last month to encourage more sustainable travel among community members.

Tufts goes green with MassRIDES Clean Air Challenge

by Ian James

Contributing Writer

Stuck between a need for grocery shopping and a limited amount of parking options, students are often in need of transportation methods other than personal cars. In order to encourage more environmentally friendly transportation options, Tufts’ Office of Sustainability (OOS) last month promoted the annual Massachusetts Clean Air Challenge, a program designed to challenge people around the state to travel more sustainably.

Although the event was sponsored

by MassRIDES — the Department of Transportation’s free program to improve air quality and reduce traffic congestion — OOS also took the opportunity to advertise many of its own initiatives.

“We really wanted to encourage students, faculty and staff to take advantage of sustainable transit at the university,

and to learn more about how they can get around in an environmentally friendly way,” OOS Communications Specialist Lauren Martin said.

These programs include bike sharing services such as Tufts Bikes and Hubway, a service that lets members borrow bikes from stations across the Greater Boston area. “[Bikes] are great if you want to go the grocery store or to a coffee shop to meet a friend, and that’s just a little bit too far for you to want to walk,” Martin said.

This year the challenge also incorporated a commuter rewards system called NuRide. NuRide is a website that provides commuters with rewards yearround for traveling sustainably, but also offered special promotions during the Clean Air Challenge.

“If you go to [NuRide.com] and sign up, it creates your profile, and then you are able to log your miles if you walk, bike, take public transportation or use

some other form of green transportation,” Martin said. “Once you accumulate a certain number of miles, you will earn discounts at local businesses, and during the clean air challenge, people who log miles were eligible to earn prizes from MassRIDES.” NuRide encourages users to travel sustainably not only by offering awards, but also by illustrating some of the effects of environmentally friendly travel.

“It will tell you how many miles of gas you saved, how much money you saved from not using gas and how many calories you burned,” Martin added.

NuRide proved an attractive incentive to students at Tufts who wanted to become more environmentally aware.

According to Martin, more than 40 new users were registered during the week of the Clean Air Challenge. In total more than 70 Tufts students and faculty logged see CLEAN AIR, page 4

Religious students explore off-campus options Tufts is home to students and faculty with a broad spectrum of faiths. It is this diversity that has driven Tufts chaplaincy to provide members of every faith with the representation and resources they need.

Tufts’ religious population has access to three main centers of worship on campus: Goddard Chapel, Hillel and the Interfaith Center. To accommodate the many different kinds of prayer and ceremony, these religious centers are often used flexibly, according to Gregory McGonigle, the University Chaplain of Tufts.

“The numbers and variety of spiritual life programming at Tufts are truly astounding — at least 20 regular gatherings that take place every week, plus many one-time gatherings,” McGonigle said. “We also open our spaces to related social justice, educational and musical programming.”

McGonigle noted, however, that the religious spaces on campus cannot always fill all the needs of every group on campus.

“Capacity for programming really depends on the type and community,” he said. “If it is a religious minority on campus, there might be smaller numbers, but for high holidays of various faiths we are often at capacity or need overflow spaces.”

McGonigle also acknowledged that the nature of Tufts’ religious spaces creates difficulties for certain groups, most notably Tufts’ Muslim population.

“The main issue we have been facing recently is finding appropriate, accessible and consistent space for Muslim prayer every day throughout the day,” McGonigle said. “Our growing Muslim community uses our beautiful Interfaith Center for Jumah prayers on Fridays, but

if someone only has 15 minutes between classes, it is not always easy to go to 58 Winthrop Street, pull out prayer rugs, wash, pray, put rugs away and get back to class on time.”

Lauren Samuel, a sophomore, is an observing Coptic Christian. As the only Coptic Christian on campus (as far as she knows), she sought to look off-campus for places of worship.

“Finding a local church [has] been pretty hard,” she said. “There was a [Coptic Christian] church for all the Boston college students that was supposedly in Boston, but really it was in a suburb almost an hour away.”

Time restrictions and the church’s location often made it difficult for Samuel to attend.

“By total coincidence I had met a woman in Medford who attended and would give me weekly rides after picking up some students at Tufts Dental,” she said. “If I hadn’t met her I would have had to catch the van that the church operates for college kids at Northeastern.”

While students like Samuel use off-campus spaces due to necessity, some use them out of preference.

Reverend Allen Fairfax of Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church says that a number of Tufts students decide to make use of their space.

“We typically have more students attend who are part of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,” Fairfax said. “Last year we had around a dozen students attend from there, half of [whom] were regular attenders.”

Fairfax believes that his church is particularly suited to the internationally-minded Tufts community.

“We have many members who work professionally in the international relations field, and our community really has a strong focus on social justice, so we are a good fit for them,” he said. “We also hold at least one international fellowship event during the winter months.”

Reverend Tess Baumberger, of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford, said that Tufts students form a part of her congregation as well.

“I believe we have some students who attend services during the academic year,” she said. “We also are one of the hosts for incoming first-years during orientation.”

McGonigle said that relationships with these off-campus spaces are important for Tufts’ religious population.

“We encourage student, faculty and staff participation in local religious and philosophical communities, and many have congregations off campus,” McGonigle said.

In the future, McGonigle hopes to collaborate more with local religious groups, as he believes they have valuable resources to offer.

“We … take students to retreat centers in the local area for educational and service visits to regional hubs like the Islamic Center of Boston and the Humanist Community at Harvard, and to make connections with communities that might be smaller on the Tufts campus, like for Quakers and Christian Scientists,” he said. “We have engaged with local clergy and congregations in interfaith initiatives and shared social justice issues, and we hope to do more of that.”

—by Jake Taber

o, I might be a couple of weeks late with this column, but if you’re keeping up with current events by reading S&S, you probably need to reevaluate your life anyway. At this point, everyone and their mothers have heard of the Tufts plague, and by now, chances are you’ve experienced it.

What is the Tufts plague, you might ask?

(If so, that means you haven’t had it yet, so come over here so I can cough on you.)

It’s a way of describing that awful series of weeks where, at one point or another, everyone on this campus gets sick. We’re currently finishing up round one, but if memory serves I believe the TP will make a reappearance sometime in mid-winter and then again in early spring. The plague also appears to intentionally coincide with horrible things like midterms in order to maximize suffering among the Tufts population — it happens far too often to be a pure coincidence.

Luckily (or unluckily, depending on how you look at it), I am always one of the very last people to fall sick. These last two weeks I’ve been prancing around in full health and (relatively) high spirits (hey, it’s midterms), while my classmates sniffled, coughed and side-eyed my youthful health with increasing resentment. But just a few days ago I started feeling a little under the weather myself, which is obviously less than ideal for me, but is good news for everyone else because it means the plague has almost run its course.

Almost, but not quite, so I thought I’d dedicate this column to helping you all prepare for the next bout of the Black Death. Beating the plague requires a strong immune system, lots of Vitamin C and a good deal of luck, so if you want to increase your chances, here are some insider tips from an insider who’s currently experiencing what you definitely don’t want to: 1) Be a freshman. There’s nothing like living packed like sardines in a tiny Tilton dorm room to bolster your immune system. Your body will be so constantly inundated with minor germs (example: the communal shower) and viruses (that’s what roommates are for, right?) that by the time the plague sets in, you’ll be more than prepared. As long as none of your 40-plus hallmates fall ill, you’re set.

2) Go out drinking. Feeling a little under the weather right as the weekend rolls around? Common wisdom tells us to stay in and “nip it in the bud.” This just goes to show that commoners are idiots, as the smart thing to do is really to go out and party harder anyway. You see, your white blood cells are working just as hard as you are, and they deserve a break, too!

Take your immune system’s mind off the losing battle it’s currently waging, and treat yourself to a night on the town.

Bonus points for sharing drinks with as many people as you can.

3) Indulge yourself in the dining hall.

Forget eating healthy — you deserve a treat for how hard your body’s been working, so go ahead and have that carrot cake, that extra slice of pizza or that third trip to the ice cream station every Sunday night. Eating healthy is for healthy people, and let’s face it: during plague season, no one’s truly healthy — some people are just less sick.

You see, staying on top of your game is quite simple if you just follow my advice — this of course applies to all aspects of life, not just the anti-plague advice above.

So check back next Monday for more guidance from yours truly, and, to my fellow plague stragglers, feel better!

Lex is a junior double majoring in economics and biopsychology. She can be reached at alexandra.erath@tufts.edu.

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trips, a large enough number to make Tufts the winner of the challenge.

Students were quick to praise the positive effects the website could have.

“If someone who doesn’t really pay attention to how much they use less sustainable transportation is forced to account for how they travel, then they will have those moments where they are like, ‘oh, there was that time this week I took the car here,’” Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning graduate student Peter Ciurczak said. “I think that could help raise awareness.”

The simplicity of the website was also an attractive feature.

“The app is really straightforward,” Ciurczak said. “It lets you plug in routes and set how many times a week you take them, and simplicity is best. There are definitely a lot of commuters who come to Tufts who should download the app, because once you set up your route and let it go, it takes care of itself.”

NuRide did receive some criticism, however, for not including all forms of sustainable transportation. According to Andrew Tirrell, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, the university recently installed electric car char-

gers on campus, but the NuRide website did not have an option to log commutes in an environmentally friendly vehicle.

Tirrell expressed frustration with this missing feature.

“We have the technology now [so that] carpooling isn’t the only option,” Tirrell said. “We should celebrate that we don’t have to choose between living close enough to bike to campus or doing something we can’t be proud of. Let’s talk about how many people are driving to campus with hybrids and really promote that.”

Although the Clean Air Challenge has ended, Tufts students will be encouraged to continue sustainable transportation habits through other programs. Another event that aims to get students and staff to switch from four wheels to two is Bay State Bike Week, which will run from May 10 to May 18, according to Martin.

Students are also hoping to see greater publicity for the challenge in future years.

“If the people promoting the Clean Air Challenge came in and talked to some classes and had more of an interactive presence, it could really encourage students,” Ciurczak said. “If they could come in and talk about what it is, what its effects are and what it does, you would probably get more people in that way.”

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Fincher succeeds again with captivating 'Gone Girl' release

by Timothy Charouk

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David Fincher may just be the most consistent director working in Hollywood right now, producing yet another deeply enthralling roller coaster of a thriller.

Gone Girl Directed by David Fincher Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry There is no way to delve into the plot of “Gone Girl” (2014) without revealing too much. Let it simply be said that a man, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), comes home on the day of his fifth wedding anniversary to find that his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has disappeared. What happens next will shock you.

Much of the film is told through the eyes of the media, and their story is full of sensationalism, turning Nick’s life into something resembling a Lifetime movie. The film’s portrayal of the 24-hour news cycle is biting and unforgiving.

One “reporter” closely follows the Nancy Grace approach to reporting, quickly taking sides on the story, her ruthlessness providing some much-needed comic relief to ease the nail-biting tension in the theater.

There is a surprising amount of humor in this brutal thriller, albeit a very dark form of comedy. Lines and even entire scenes are just crazy

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The acting in "Gone Girl" doesn't hit one false note. enough to make the audience laugh almost uncomfortably and almost unwillingly. In most comedies, the humor comes from one zany character and his crazy antics. “Gone Girl,” however, builds comedy around the struggles of normal characters to exist in a psychotic world, a ploy which generates laughs that feels fresh and new and frightening. An example of this pleasant new direction is Tyler Perry’s performance as Tanner Bolt, the TV-famous lawyer dealing with Nick’s

case. Bolt serves as a much-needed voice of reason and as something of a mouthpiece for the audience’s feelings. Affleck himself also delivers a few deadpan lines that completely diffuse tense situations for a few seconds until something else happens and viewers are drawn back into the mess.

All acting performances in this film are to be applauded. The two police officers (Kim Dickens and Patrick Fugit) see GONE, page 6

Album Review

Jennifer Hudson's new album entertains, but lacks consistency

by Josh Morris Contributing Writer

While she has managed to stay out of the spotlight over the past few years, Jennifer Hudson has returned to the front

JHUD Jennifer Hudson RCA Records of the music scene with the release of her third studio album, “JHUD,”on Sept. 23.

Returning from a three-year break since her last album’s drop, many expected

Hudson to come back on a high note.

Unfortunately, however, “JHUD” does not fully meet these expectations.

It’s no secret that Jennifer Hudson is talented — she has the pipes to prove it — so in listening to her album, the standards are high. Listeners can focus on the album’s cohesiveness and their enjoyment of each track instead of simply asking “Is this singer any good?”

“JHUD” is stacked with big name features including R. Kelly, T.I. and Iggy Azalea. While some of these voices come as welcome additions to the album, other contributions leave the listener a bit confused.

For instance, “It’s Your World” starts off with a strong, soulful and almost nostalgic feel from Hudson, a vibe which is

completely thrown off by R. Kelly’s verse.

In this case, R. Kelly offers very little to enhance the song, and his feature on the track includes a lot more riffs and “oohs” and “ahhs” than anything of substance.

And when Iggy Azalea teams up with Hudson in “He Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” — an attempt to reinforce the “girl power” motif present throughout the album — the result is similarly disappointing. Once again, Hudson introduces the track with powerful vocals, and just as the audience starts to get a feel for her direction Azalea comes in and sends listeners on a 180. As opposed to R. Kelly, Azalea’s verse has a little more meat to it, but it just seems out of place with the see JHUD, page 6

Theater Review

'The Lion King' opens Broadway in Boston season, delights all ages

by Jennifer Straitz

Contributing Writer

If you found yourself walking through the campus center on the morning of Sept. 17, you may have been puzzled by

The Lion King Directed by Julie Taymor Playing at the Boston Opera House 539 Washington Street, Boston MA the line wrapping itself from the downstairs ATM machines up to the second floor and back down again toward the Rez. However, avid theater lovers knew

exactly what they were waiting for: a ticket to Broadway’s “The Lion King” on tour at the Boston Opera House — the Lexus Broadway in Boston’s 2014/2015 season opener. Coordinated by the Tufts Entertainment Board and the Office of Campus Life, 58 tickets to the world-acclaimed show were made available to students, some of whom were willing to wait four hours for their shot to see the musical. And for Tufts students lucky enough to grab a seat, the show did not disappoint.

For those who don’t know, “The Lion King” was first brought to the silver screen by Disney in 1994, and follows the story of Simba (played in this production

by Jelani Remy), a young lion born into a pride on the African savanna. A vivacious

cub, Simba’s youthful happiness turns to dismay and despair after the death of his father, Mufasa (L. Steven Taylor). Simba subsequently leaves the pride lands, and is adopted by Timon (Nick Cordileone) and Pumbaa (Ben Lipitz), an unlikely prairie dog and wildebeest duo who teach him how to live by their motto: “Hakuna Matata,” or “no worries.” In this way, Simba is able to shun his past … at least until duty requires him to return once more.

The musical compellingly captures both the artistic and emotional beauty entwined in this story of love, hope, despair and, ultimately, redemption. From the moment the score begins see LION, page 6

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t was Stephen King who said there are three kinds of scare tactics: the “gross out,” horror and terror. A gross out is when a pile of heads rolls down a flight of stairs to your feet, splashing blood on the walls as they fall; horror occurs when something supernatural or disturbingly deformed appears suddenly and refuses to leave your dreams; and you experience terror when you’re aware of a breath on your neck, feel the presence of a body behind you, but you turn around to find there was never anything there to begin with.

Terror is a fear so deep-seated and penetrating that it claws at your mind until it is consumed completely with blind fright. The genre of horror is generally thought to be limited to movies, but books that are able to encapsulate true terror are even scarier than any horror movie could be.

Reading is an intimate activity, one that is experienced in readers’ heads and theirs alone. No two readers will experiences the same fears and images, as books are able to bring related memories of fear to the front of the mind, making the fiction-induced distress seem even more real. Books are able to blend the line between unwavering certainty of reality and what exists only between the pages of a book.

Horror movies rely on jump tactics and an overwhelming sense of dread to keep audiences on the edges of their seats. These are scary in certain situations, but I tend to grow tired of the predictable attempts to scare me. It’s clockwork how movies insert scares, and instead of watching, I eventually just time the movie to see how long they wait between jump scares.

Books, on the other hand, are the perfect masters of suspense, because the reader determines the pace. Because they can’t physically have a demonic clown pop up from the pages (although pop-up horror novels would be amazing, now that I think of it), books have to rely on carefully building suspense through precise descriptions and event chronology. They develop a fine balance between pulling out the big guns with every disturbing character they can think of and the subtler insertion of ideas that are so realistic they infect the lives of readers where they least expect to find them.

One horror novel in particular that is more terrifying than its 1980 film adaptation, known as one of the scariest movies ever made, is “The Shining” (1977) by Stephen King. King certainly knows a thing or two or about writing, and although he’s written more than four dozen books and nearly 200 short stories, he’s never lost his edge when it comes to horror. “The Shining” is undoubtedly the scariest book I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading, and although I first read it more than six years ago, I do sometimes find those mysterious topiaries in my dreams to this day.

“The Shining” follows Jack Torrance and his family as they stay at the near-empty Overlook Hotel during the winter off-season, when Jack accepts a job as caretaker of the hotel. The hotel tries to claim the very souls of the Torrance family, especially the father of Jack, turning him into a demonic animal that tries to kill his wife and son on a murderously destructive rampage.

“The Shining” has a perfect delivery; it captures the tense interactions as little Danny approaches a fire hose he’s convinced will come to life and strangle him.

Beautiful descriptions allow the reader to examine the characters’ unhinged mind games as Jack spends nights drinking with ghosts. King masterfully inserts the reader into the shoes of each character, making their fears come to life and chase readers from the pages to the very deepest parts of their minds, a kind of horror simply lacking on the silver screen.

Helen Schmidt is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at helen.schmidt@tufts.edu.

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break free from the stereotypical roles of the dumb detectives, so often obstacles to uncovering the truth. Thankfully, these two make smart, realistic decisions, as actors Dickens and Fugit work off each other to produce some comedic moments as well.

Even the choice to cast Emily Ratajkowski turned out to be for the best. Known mainly as that girl who danced topless next to Robin Thicke in the controversial “Blurred Lines” music

video, Emily played the role of the clueless girl — be it accidentally or on purpose — perfectly. Ben Affleck too truly captured the essence of being lost and utterly confused, timing his squints to perfection.

All this, however, leads up to Rosamund Pike’s unforgettable portrayal of Amy. Her performance as the manipulative, psychotic, ensnaring, irresistible gone girl is, without trying to sound too flippant, fantastic. Her version of the “cool girl” is unlike any other, and is sure to make every man

in the audience wary of the women in his life. With the help of expert camera work she is able to capture all the subtleties of her character, executing each and every meaningful look or offputting smile to perfection.

The camera work and editing supported these performances, and sometimes even acted alongside them, to terrific results. Fincher experiments with his style throughout, and makes some daring editing decisions. Where most films attempt to make the editing seem invisible to the audience so

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as to suspend disbelief, “Gone Girl” often tries to create ambiance rather than mimic reality. The sound editing and score, too, help enforce the sense that no one is safe — catastrophe could strike at any moment.

“Gone Girl” is a no-holds-barred roller coaster of emotions that, despite the 149 minute run time, will pass by in a flash, leaving audiences wanting more.

Most sinister of all, after “Gone Girl” men and women never see each other the same way. This is the perfect movie for date night.

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with “The Circle of Life,” audiences are likely to be blown away by the puppetry used to depict the animals lumbering, leaping and prancing across the stage as a paper sun slowly rises from the floor. Two “giraffes,” comprised of two humans walking on four stilts that support them several feet in the air, appear next, prompting gasps of surprise and admiration. Even an elephant makes its way into the fold of animals bowing down towards Pride Rock as the young Simba is lifted into the air and presented to the animal kingdom.

As the opening scene ends, we are introduced to Scar (Patrick R. Brown) and his evil plot to win the kingship for himself, and in the subsequent scene to Rafiki, the pride’s shaman — played by South African Tshidi Manye in various productions since 1999. Manye’s portrayal of Rafiki is thrilling, as is the character’s sense of humor (he knocks Simba over the head to help explain to him why he has to put the past — and his pain — behind

him). In addition to lending a lighthearted flare to the show, Manye embodies wisdom itself as Rafiki helps Simba see that his father’s spirit lives on in those who love him. Funny and wise, Manye’s character emblematizes both the hilarious and more serious sides of the show.

Musical-goers are also treated to some tongue-in-cheek pop culture references, delightful jokes that stray from the original script. One such example was the advice of Zazu (Drew Hirshfield), the king’s advisor, to Scar. When asked by the stewing lion how to feel better about his troubles, Zazu lauches into his rendition of “Let It Go,” the chart-topping single from Disney’s most recent animated feature film, “Frozen” (2013).

Overall, the ageless story — brought to life with beautiful costumes (designed

by Tony Award-winning Newton, Mass. native Julie Taymor) and delightful humor — is a moving experience for young and old alike, and well worth a trip into Boston (if you can get a ticket, that is). “The Lion King” will be playing in Boston until Oct. 12.

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"The Lion King" impresses with witty references and a timeless story.

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rest of the song and even the album as a whole. The only feature that seems to do “JHUD” any justice is T.I.’s performance on “I Can’t Describe (The Way I Feel).” T.I. and Hudson have admirable vocal chemistry, and the pair fit together seamlessly on this track.

A second problem with “JHUD” is Hudson’s struggle throughout the album to identify a single genre for herself. Most of the tracks maintain a pop feel, with hints of soul. Album opener “Dangerous” and “Say It,” which appears toward the end of the

album, are good examples of this pop/ soul blend. However, Hudson goes for a stronger R&B vibe in “Walk It Out,” which includes Beyoncé-style sounds clips that once again, don’t seem to fit with the track. This trend is as confusing to the ear of the listener as it is annoying. Hudson takes yet another turn on “I Still Love You,” introducing a disco flavor that is too antiquated to be considered pop. While none of these varying tracks are necessarily of low quality, they simply are not consistent with each other, leaving gaps that inhibit the listener from fully establishing a connection with the album.

Furthermore, while Hudson proved her ability to rattle off a ballad in her numerous film appearances, the slower songs on “JHUD” leave much to be desired. The lyrics in “Just That Type of Girl” might be interpreted as empowering — “Me and my girls just came to party / it’s that simple,” Hudson sings — but the song’s lyrics are not backed up with a solid beat. Even worse, the piano background sounds like elevator music, doing little to engage the audience.

Hudson closes out the album with “Moan,” another slower song, reminiscent of Hudson’s days singing show tunes. Ballads are the perfect opportunity

for Hudson to showcase her acclaimed pipes, and she just doesn’t rise to the occasion. The track in general ends the album on a disappointing note; “JHUD” might feel more satisfying if it featured an upbeat sendoff.

Despite some noticeable issues, the individual elements of “JHUD” are truly entertaining. Each track brings something new to the table, and on a songby-song basis the album is a relatively pleasing glimpse into Hudson’s talent.

Still, “JHUD” lacks unification — there is no glue holding these tracks together — making it hard for listeners to fully engage with the entirety of the album.

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Jennifer Hudson's famous vocal skills can't save this unfocused album.

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On Sunday, Tufts hosted its 12th annual Community Day, a celebration of the vibrancy of the Medford/Somerville area.

The event showcased a diverse collection of local organizations, from the Medford Fire Department to the Kitty Connection animal shelter, as well as many student groups, including the B.E.A.T.s and the Quidditch team. Held on the academic quad, over 2,000 people attended the event, and for several hours, the quad was scattered with young kids and student volunteers.

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… and the more than 2,000 Gazans killed this past summer.” When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraq was not a democracy. Nor is Gaza today. Scholars are not dismissing these cases, but they simply cannot be applied to the argument, since the liberal democratic peace theory discusses an absence of war only between democracies.

Additionally, Ms. Willson attempts to delegitimize the concept of war by calling it socially-constructed. I’m not someone who roots for body counts, death, devastation and destruction, but many things are sociallyconstructed. The concept of peace is socially-constructed. Newspaper

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Ecofeminism, it could be argued, is socially-constructed.

As I write this letter, I realize that the author and I differ on a paradigmatic level. To put a spin on a phrase from Iggy Azalea, “first things first, I’m a realist.” I hope Ms. Willson finds a paradigm of international relations theory that fits her beliefs.

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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, I continue to grapple with Miranda Willson’s Thursday, Oct. 2 column entitled “The Limited Lens of IR.” It is perfectly fine to make claims about the flaws and biases of modern international relations theory. But, all due respect to Ms. Willson, challenging a thousand-year old academic tradition is ambitious. Especially when the author, as she herself concedes, is “in Intro to IR,” and has only “read 21 articles.”

In arguing against liberal democratic peace theory, or as she describes it, “the ‘obsolescence’ of war among democracies” she argues that scholars are “discounting bloody civil wars in the Middle East, the death toll in Iraq

Respectfully, Zach Shapiro Zach Shapiro is a senior majoring in international relations. He can be reached at zachary.shapiro@tufts.edu.

Corrections In the Oct. 1 Features article "Finding comfort through pets at Tufts," it was stated that volunteers begin training with Canine Companions for Independence dogs when the dogs are eight months old. In fact, training begins when the dogs are eight weeks old.

In an Oct. 3 article titled "Tufts professor receives grant for cellular research," the Daily incorrectly described the purpose and context of the grant Igor Sokolov, the Bernard M. Gordon senior faculty fellow and a professor of mechanical engineering, received.

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Ben & Jerry's must stand up against hazing

by Veronica An The Daily Trojan

Ben & Jerry's, the Vermont-based ice cream manufacturer and store, recently received complaints asking the company to change the name of one of its flavors, Hazed & Confused.

In 2008, Harrison Kowiak died during a fraternity "hell week" hazing ritual at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina. His mother, Lianne, was offended by the flavor name, and suggested retitling the chocolate hazelnut ice cream to "Harrison's Hazelnut Hooray," in honor of her son. Instead of merely rechristening the flavor, Ben & Jerry's should take this opportunity to speak out against hazing culture.

Ben & Jerry's has already offered a statement to the family, and, in an email to the Huffington Post, made it clear that they never meant to associate the name with hazing rituals. "Ben & Jerry's believes that hazing and bullying have no place in our society," the company said in the email. "No individual, group or entity should benefit by marginalizing others." The company's spokesperson, Sean Greenwood, adds, "The ice cream contains hazelnuts, so it was always meant as a pop culture reference to 'Dazed and Confused,'" a Led Zeppelin song as well as a 1993 teen comedy.

Ben & Jerry's is a socially minded company with clear political views and clever flavor names. It should take this unintentional association as an opportunity to put their ice cream where its press statement is and speak out against hazing.

Given the company's prominence and popularity with college students, an antihazing campaign could make an impact.

According to Bloomberg, the Kowiak's

late son was a Ben & Jerry's fan. It seems that raising awareness about hazing culture would be a better tribute than simply renaming the ice cream.

Hazing is the use of peer pressure and other coercive means to make individuals participate in often strenuous and humiliating activities. Though most commonly associated with fraternity and sorority initiation, hazing can take place in a number of contexts. Incidents range from psychological abuse to physical harm, such as forced displays of public nudity or forced, excessive consumption of alcohol. These rituals ostensibly initiate new members into an organization, bonding them together through traumatic experiences. Instead of using harmful tactics to create bonds, organizations should use positive experiences to form relationships.

Even though the blending of ice cream and social causes might seem like a stretch, Ben & Jerry's has successfully combined company political views with ice cream in the past, in addition to using non-genetically modified ingredients and recyclable packaging.

In 2009, Chubby Hubby — a notoriously popular ice cream flavor — was renamed Hubby Hubby in support of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Vermont. According to Cone Communications, the ice cream name change and accompanying promotional campaign increased Freedom to Marry web site traffic by 720 percent,and prompted a 45 percent increase in signers to the nonprofit's Marriage Resolution.

The same year, Ben & Jerry's introduced Yes Pecan! ice cream to support President Barack Obama and raise funds for the Common Cause

Education Fund. This month, the company unveiled Satisfy My Bowl, a flavor not currently available in the United States, which gives proceeds to Bob Marley's 1Love Foundation. Despite the name's allusion to marijuana, the company has not received significant adverse reactions.

Ben & Jerry's seems to know when to rename and when to let the flavors speak for themselves. This should also be the case for Hazed & Confused.

Despite complaints from the conservative One Million Moms group about their limited-run Schweddy Balls flavor, the ice cream company stood their ground. The ice cream name is a play off a 1998 Saturday Night Live skit featuring Alec Baldwin as baker Pete Schweddy, and demonstrates the ice cream company's love of the show.

According to the Huffington Post, the flavor in question soon became one of the company's most popular. The immense customer response to the fudge-covered rum ball ice cream shows that the name was not risqué enough to put people off their ice cream. Similarly, their Karamel Sutra ice cream — with its clear sexual innuendo — has yet to evoke public criticism. Thus, Hazed & Confused's unintentional association with hazing should not be grounds for the company to modify it.

In fact, Hazed & Confused should be used to promote social awareness of hazing culture. Now is the ideal time for Ben & Jerry's to capitalize on this naming issue. Ben & Jerry's has the resources and visibility to turn this public relations fiasco around by using its chocolate hazelnut ice cream for social good. Nothing could be sweeter.

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Media hysteria over Ebola blows issue out of proportion

by Nathanial Haas The Daily Trojan

Media coverage on the Ebola virus appears to be spreading through the general population with greater speed than the virus itself. With all the scary headlines, it seems almost certain that readers won't even get a chance to pick up this column in the racks this morning.

When a falling acorn hits Chicken Little on the head in the classic fable, instead of any sensible reaction, the poor bird screams, "THE SKY IS FALLING!" Ebola is this year's acorn — in light of the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States, it seems to have fallen out of a tree and hit the media on the head. They're telling us that the sky is falling — but it's not, and the following is a much-needed common-sense reminder of why.

Ebola first got the journalists scrambling when it grew to epidemic-level proportions in several African nations, including Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Then it reared its head again when news outlets began reporting every time a hospital tested someone in the United States for the disease.

Those articles conveniently fail to inform Americans that Ebola possesses similar symptoms to the common stomach flu, which meant the testing really wasn't all that unusual.

But that was all just a buildup to the media's big heyday. On Sept. 20, a Dallas man named Thomas Eric Duncan returned to the United States from a trip to Liberia. He reported to the E.R. a few days later with stomach flu-like symptoms, was sent home, returned two days later and was diagnosed with the Ebola virus, the first known case to be diagnosed in the United States.

You would think that not just the sky, but also the entire universe and all its contents, had fallen on the state of Texas. "Dallas ER Sent Ebola Infected Patient Home," screamed one headline. "Dallas Ebola patient vomited outside apartment on way to hospital," said another.

A better illustration of the hysteria comes in this shocking statistic: before Duncan, the Center for Disease Control has responded to 94 Ebola inquiries in the United States, and Duncan is the first to test positive.

But to further reassure those scared among us, let's take two walks: one down fact-check lane and the other down memory lane.

Fact: It is very difficult to get Ebola.

It is not an airborne virus like the common cold. It is so difficult, in fact, that to be at risk for the disease, you need to come into contact with the spit, vomit, blood, semen, sweat, urine or feces of a person who may have Ebola.

If you haven't, you do not have Ebola.

If you live in Dallas, but didn't happen to lick up the vomit that the headlines were so concerned about reporting, you do not have Ebola. In countries like the United States, containing and eliminating the disease is very simple.

Anyone who gets it is quarantined, along with those they have come into contact with. Eventually, the disease disappears. This explains why the only areas significantly affected by Ebola were poverty-stricken regions of Central Africa that fall victim to poor health care systems. Even more affluent nations in Africa like Nigeria and Senegal were able to stop the disease cold when 20 people were infected last July.

Do not get me wrong — Ebola is a terribly deadly disease, and the Center

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for Disease Control is right to pay careful attention to containing it both in Africa and in places like Dallas, where it has now surfaced. But it's not going to kill us all, not by a long shot. A lot of the scare factor surrounding the disease is that it is such a painful killer, essentially eating the body's non-essential organs from the inside out.

But media hysteria needs to stop — and a walk down memory lane reminds us why. In 2009, it was the swine flu — and in one week during that year, the Project for Excellence in Journalism documented 43 percent of the airtime devoted to the disease.

That caused people to behave irrationally. Mexicans were quarantined who had no connection to the disease, and Egypt slaughtered 300,000 pigs despite not having a single case present in the country at the time. This time, parents in Dallas are pulling their children out of school, despite the fact that Ebola is only contagious when symptoms develop, which can take up to 21 days — meaning anyone Duncan touched won't have symptoms until at least a week from now.

The United States knows how to deal with diseases — and there is no reason to think this one is any different. For context, the regular flu (which no one is terrified of ) kills [an average of ] 100 people in America [per] day.

There remains some optimism in all of this. Recently, a benign and factheavy CBS article titled "Ebola in the U.S.: What you need to know now" was the most popular story on their website. The second most-read story?

"Report: Two teachers accused of sex with the same student." Number three? "Baby Clinton leaves hospital."

At least readers have their priorities (somewhat) in order.

Adam Kaminski | The Cool Column

Eating with company

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t’s simple to see why Hodgdon On-the-Run exists, and I’ve been thankful for its existence more than once. Can’t sit down for a meal between classes? Here’s an MGH. Lazy and want to leech off 9:45 p.m. leftovers?

There’s probably an old brownie with your name on it. Want to peeve your Hodgdon employee friends? Ask them for a burrito.

The convenience and efficiency of a place like Hodgdon (well, save for peak hours and cluttered cashiers) are vital resources in the midst of hectic college days. What seems like a blessing, however, shouldn’t necessarily develop into a habit. Easy meals, wherever they come from — your roommate’s fridge, that recital’s buffet, bedside snacks, etc. — shouldn’t replace meals with some effort attached. In other words, easy meals shouldn’t replace communal ones.

I say “effort” even if it’s as lazy as sending texts to your few friends who may be willing to contribute to a potluck, or, lazier still, grab a round table at Dewick.

Admittedly, I usually don’t put in even this modicum of effort. My weeks are filled with quick (and rushed to the breaking point) breakfasts and lunches and dinners with small groups of friends, sometimes.

I decided this would be my new project this week. I was going to eat fewer meals alone, less “on-the-run” and more catchup-with-friends-I’d-been-meaning-to-see.

You know, to let them know that I do, in fact, still care about them.

First I developed a simple grading method to quantify my progress. Every shared meal would be worth one point, every solitary meal would be minus one, and every non-meal — those times in between classes when it’s just unrealistic to sit down anywhere — would be zero. Additionally, if I ate with a group of four or larger, I’d award myself two points.

During my typical week, I estimated, I scored about a minus five. Yes, that bad. I had been eating most of my meals, obviously, alone. Many people, from nutrition professors to people I wouldn’t trust with a whisk, agree that eating meals in solitary confinement is bad for one’s health, physically and psychologically.

When people eat alone not only do they tend to eat more, but also, according to such prestigious nutrition websites as calorie count, they tend to eat unhealthier. The thought process goes like this: I can’t be completely honest about my biweekly M&M cups until I’m sure you’re just as bad … or until I trust what you think of me. When alone, you self-regulate, and I think we all know what disasters can come from such independence.

If you’re one to read the backs of things, you’ll have found that to-go meals are high in fat, salt and calorie content anyway, which without strict moderation will do wonders for anyone’s sumo career.

These reasons weren’t why I undertook the challenge. If they were, I would have probably gone to the gym to supplement healthy living and failed miserably. The real reason was to rekindle and tighten friendships. So, did I improve? Here is the data: Monday: two sit-down meals — one with a friend. Tuesday: two sit-down meals; — both with a friend. Wednesday: two sitdown meals — one with a friend and a few strangers, the other with a friend and a few of her suitemates. Thursday: two sit-down meals — one eaten alone, the other eaten during a meeting. Friday: two sit-down meals — both with more than one friend.

My new score was plus four, a huge improvement from my typical week of minus five, which, to be honest, I’m still feeling a little shameful about. I won’t be so silly as to keep quantifying my sociability in the future, but I felt a positive boost in my relations with others, and that is priceless.

Adam Kaminski is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at adam.kaminski@tufts.edu.

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26-yard dart to sophomore wide receiver Ben Berey on a 2nd-and-10. After a holding call pushed the Jumbos back, Doll found Trause for an 18-yard completion.

The senior running back was then able to run it in from two yards out to give Tufts a 14-13 lead in the 2nd quarter.

Once again, Bowdoin immediately answered back. Grant carried the ball four more times and ran for his third touchdown of the half on this possession. His 12-yard score would not have been possible, however, were it not for senior quarterback Mac Caputi’s 11-yard scramble on 3rd-and-10 on the Jumbos 38-yard line.

The Polar Bears seemed likely to enter the half with a 20-14 lead, but with less than two minutes to play Doll began leading his squad down the field.

Starting from his own 25, Doll found Berey for a 29-yard grab and then hit senior wide receiver Greg Lanzillo for a 16-yard gain. In the final minute of the half, the Jumbos had the ball on the Polar Bears’ 30, down by six points. Tufts seemed destined to take the lead, but on 2nd-and-10, Doll was intercepted by sophomore linebacker Bjorn Halverson at the 23.

Despite the anticlimactic end to the first half, the determined Tufts squad, led by Doll, came out of the half as strong as ever. The senior quarterback completed passes to Trause, junior wide receiver Jack Cooleen and Lanzillo to bring the Jumbos into Polar Bear territory. A costly pass interference call allowed Tufts to move even closer to the home team’s end zone. On 2ndand-5 at the Bowdoin 14, Trause was able to slide by the Bowdoin defense for his second touchdown of the day.

The score was then tied at 20 after a missed extra point.

The scoreboard did not read 20-20 for very long however, as the Caputi-Grant combination was able to lead the home team down the field once again, culminating in a 30-yard field goal. The lead that Bowdoin gained on this play would not be relinquished for the rest of the game.

Tufts struggled to move the ball late in the game, with its succeeding four drives all ending in punts. The Jumbos were unable to make it past the Polar Bears’ 45-yard line until the final play of the game.

“We missed tackles and we lacked the necessary effort,” coach Jay Civetti said.

“We had a few decent individual efforts on the offensive side of the ball, but that’s it. We can’t win as individuals. We win and lose as a team. The loss was really hard, but we’ll watch plenty of film and digest it all this week.”

On a positive note, Tufts continued to keep the game close throughout the third and most of the fourth quarter, thanks to the defensive unit’s strong play. Bowdoin, however, continued pounding its workhorse, Grant, until he eventually broke past an exhausted Tufts defense for a 42-yard touchdown. The 33-20 victory was the Polar Bears’ first of the year, after they were blown out twice to open the season.

The Jumbos’ offense managed to put up 430 total yards, 349 of which came from the arm of Doll. What really hurt Tufts was its inability to halt the bruising Bowdoin rushing attack. The Polar Bears ran the ball 66 times for 254 yards, and were able to completely control the clock throughout the second half. The home team dominated the time of possession category, 63.8 to 36.2 percent. Fatigue definitely seemed to play a factor in the Jumbos’ run-stopping struggles.

Despite the loss, Tufts still has a winning record, and will attempt to improve to 3-1 as it travels to Hartford next weekend to face Trinity.

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showing from his team’s back line.

Sophomore defensive midfielder Zach Halliday continued his stellar play, and freshman back Conor Coleman got the first start of his career and was a key cog in preserving the shutout for Greenwood.

“I thought that as always our defense was solid, we defended well as a team from our forwards to our defenders and kept them in check,” Hoppenot said.

While Coleman’s play was a testament to the incredible depth of Tufts this year, it was Hoppenot’s performance up front that is the best sign for the team moving forward, as it hopes to convert more chances into goals.

“Max [Hoppenot] was the player of the game up top,” Brown said.

“He played super well, he was very dynamic, beating guys all over the place and holding the ball up.”

Although walking out of Middlebury with a tie was not what Tufts would have hoped for as it tries to keep pace with Amherst and Wesleyan atop the conference, the overall team play bodes well for Tufts in the long-term.

“We’re playing well as a team,” Brown said. “It’s just going to take a little bit better finishing and I think we’ll be fine. I don’t think anybody is worried about where we’re at — it’s a little bit frustrating not seeing the ball go in the back of the net, but we’re playing good soccer right now, and I think we’re still pretty excited about where we’re at as a team.”

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“We got a little disconnected through the midfield, [so] we had some trouble building our play and playing our style. On a day like today, [the ball] was bouncing [and] it was skipping in the pouring rain. We had our chances, [but] we didn’t get it done.”

The reverse was true earlier in the week against Lesley, where Tufts took an easy 2-0 lead on two goals from freshman Mariah Harvey-Brown before allowing a goal in the 77th minute for a final score of 2-1. With the win, the Jumbos halted the Lynx’s unbeaten home streak at 23.

The Jumbos built up a lead early on with a goal from Harvey-Brown in the 14th minute. She scored on a deflected ball after sophomore Robin Estus’ initial shot on goal was blocked by Lesley keeper, junior Jackie Berard.

Harvey-Brown scored what proved to be the game winner in the 67th minute on a one-timer off a pass inside the box from sophomore Jess Capone. The Lynx later cut the lead to one score on a goal by Alexis Giusti, and threatened to take the game into overtime with the Jumbos playing a man down after senior co-captain Catharine Greer was sent off the field with a red card.

“We had a little bit of a tougher time on the turf, and getting used to that,” sophomore defender Stefanie Brunswick said. “[But] after 15 minutes, I think we changed our game to fit how we need to play on the turf. It wasn’t necessarily pretty soccer, but we supported each other and just went after [the win].”

Tufts now holds a season record of 5-2-1, but with both losses of the season coming at the hands of NESCAC opponents the team has now fallen to the sixth position in the conference, with Bowdoin and Amherst tied for first (with five wins apiece)

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Sophomore forward Brooke Fortin fights for the ball during Tufts' 2-0 loss to Amherst on Homecoming. and Conn. College, Williams and Bates tied for third (with three wins each). The Tufts attack has been stellar this season, the Jumbos being the only team since 1980 to score more than 20 goals over the first five games of the season, but their inconsistent performance against other NESCAC schools has been troubling.

The three games that Tufts has not won (two losses and a tie) have all been against NESCAC opponents. Middlebury had come into the matchup against Tufts having won just one NESCAC game, a narrow 1-0 victory over Colby, a team Tufts beat 3-1. Against Wesleyan, Tufts was unable to pull ahead, eventually settling for a tie against a team sitting firmly at the bottom of the NESCAC, having lost all of its conference matchups besides the tie against Tufts.

But the Jumbos have played just half of their conference games, and still have both

the time and the talent to push ahead in the NESCAC. Tufts dismantled Bates 6-0 in its season opener, a team that is now ranked ahead of it in the NESCAC. The team is still a long way from its chance to beat conference-leading Bowdoin, which will play Tufts in the final game of the regular season. The true test for the Jumbos will come on Oct. 11 and 12, when the team plays two back-to-back away games against conference opponents Conn.

College and Trinity.

“This weekend we have two more NESCAC games against Conn. College and Trinity,” Brunswick said. “We’re all looking forward to these upcoming games, creating another momentum shift and getting back on that win streak.”

In the meantime, the team will take on Endicott at home on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.

Luke Machamer | Back Around the Horn

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t’s been over a month since Josh Gordon acknowledged he would be suspended for the 2014 NFL season due to a violation of the league’s substance abuse policy. Gordon tested positive for marijuana. It’s been over two weeks since that one year suspension was reduced to 12 games. However, the story of Josh Gordon hasn’t quite faded to the background.

On Oct. 1, ESPN ran a story on Gordon written by senior staff writer Elizabeth Merrill. The article can be found online and in ESPN The Magazine’s Oct. 13 Cleveland Issue. The title of the article as it’s currently running on ESPN.com is “What’s Next for Josh Gordon?”

That’s a fair question. Despite only playing 14 games last year, Gordon led the NFL in receiving. He caught 87 passes for 1,646 yards and nine touchdowns. When looking at the current offense of the Cleveland Browns and the fact that the team’s leading receiver is the 5-foot-7-inch, 180-pound Andrew Hawkins, one would hope that the answer to “What’s Next for Josh Gordon?” is that he will return to the Browns in Week 12 and catch some damn passes from Johnny Football.

Of course, Merrill’s answer wouldn’t be that simple. At the top of the ESPN webpage where the story runs is a green header with “Hot Read” in black text. According to ESPN, the “Hot Read series takes an in-depth look at the people and issues shaping the NFL’s present and future.”

The piece is long form and fit to print in a magazine. Merill took some time to get personal with Gordon in her article. In doing so, she brought back to the surface the tired, reductionist sports media trope of fitting the story of every single suspended black athlete into a redemption narrative.

The article reads formulaically. It explores Gordon’s day-to-day life as a suspended NFL player, and also peeks back to his childhood. It talks about Gordon’s mother, their financial situation and his older brother. It talks about the urine tests he has to take constantly, and the rehab programs Gordon checked himself into. The arc is simple. It is not as if the article vilifies Gordon. In fact, it’s the opposite. It tries so hard to humanize the story of Gordon. But Gordon already is human. All he did was smoke some weed.

The article goes on to portray the NFL as a savior, as life-changing structure. It posits that Gordon’s terrible marijuana problem is something only an institution as fine as the National Football League can cure. This attitude is lazy, dangerous and inconsistently applied. The NFL isn’t doing anyone any favors. If I was Gordon’s doctor, I’d rather have him blazing occasionally than taking the type of full strength, head-on collisions that have become characteristic of the NFL. Additionally, we need to take a look at who gets these articles written about them. Broncos’ receiver Wes Welker was suspended this off-season for amphetamine use. Nobody wrote articles about his family. When the drug use is believed to be performance enhancing like Welker’s was, it is almost written off. But heaven forbid it be recreational.

I’m not really sure what will be next for Josh Gordon. I hope that he returns this year and has a long NFL career. However, I hope the NFL does not serve as his moral center. His suspension isn’t constructive; it’s an annoyance. Josh Gordon is not a bad person for smoking weed, no matter how badly the NFL wants us to think so.

Luke Machamer is a junior majoring in economics. He can be reached at lucas. machamer@tufts.edu.

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by Wil Glavin

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On Saturday, Tufts traveled to Bowdoin to play its first away game of the season.

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game, as they looked to continue their improbable run at an undefeated season.

But the Bowdoin Polar Bears, behind a strong rushing attack, were able to halt the Jumbos’ winning streak at two, defeating them 33-20.

The home team received the ball to start the game, and immediately drove down and scored. Sophomore running back Tyler Grant had eight carries for 24 yards and a one-yard touchdown on this opening drive.

Grant was the game’s most valuable player, running the ball a whopping 43 times for 208 yards and four touchdowns in what was one of the best rushing games of the season for any NESCAC player.

After a quick three-and-out on their first possession, the Jumbos had a textbook second drive of the game.

Sophomore running back Chance Brady carried the ball five times for 42 yards, while senior quarterback Jack Doll was 3-3 with 28 yards. Due to the missed two-point conversion by Bowdoin, Brady’s 15-yard touchdown run put Tufts in front with just over three minutes remaining in the opening quarter.

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Senior quarterback Jack Doll makes a pass during the team’s 42-24 win over Bates on Sept. 27.

But the Jumbos’ 7-6 lead was shortlived, as the Polar Bears easily moved the ball downfield in a drive that took just three minutes and 10 seconds. Grant continued to pound the ball for Bowdoin,

adding four more carries for 41 yards and his second touchdown of the contest.

The scoring barrage continued on Tufts’ very next drive, beginning with a 60-yard kickoff return by senior running back Zack

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ended up having to deal with cold and rainy conditions throughout the game.

“The weather was pretty awful,” Brown said. “At first, I thought we had a lot of trouble with keeping the ball on the ground. It was a little bit too quick for us, and [the ball] was kind of bouncing over our feet [and] we weren’t able to keep possession too well.”

Despite the inclement weather, Tufts was still able to generate several opportunities in the first half. In the 16th minute, junior midfielder Jason Kayne received a chip from junior defender Monil Patel, but had his shot rejected by sophomore keeper Greg Sydor. Sophomore forward Nathan Majumder’s shot off the rebound also sailed high.

Minutes later, a Majumder header off a cross from junior midfielder Rui Pinhiero went left of the goal.

After fairly even play in the first half, the Jumbos began to take over, keeping their foot on the pedal the entire second half.

“In the first half, although [Middlebury] didn’t generate a lot of chances, they kept the ball a lot of the half, which was kind of tough,” Brown said. “We didn’t get a lot of looks in the first half, but in the second half we got pretty creative offensively, and we were able to keep the ball in their half most of the half.”

One of the best looks the Jumbos had was from senior co-captain forward Maxime Hoppenot, who found himself alone on the left side, but was stuffed by Sydor, whose inspired play in net was a big factor in keeping his team in the game.

Although Sydor faced an aggressive attack for most of the second half, Tufts sophomore goalie Scott Greenwood had a relatively quiet game thanks to another impressive

Junior midfielder Jason Kayne dribbles up field during the Jumbos' 1-1 tie with Amherst on Homecoming.

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The Jumbos’ confidence continues to grow, despite not having added to their win total in the last

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four games. Tufts submitted another impressive performance on Saturday against Middlebury, but an inability to finish chances left the team with another tie, this time by a scoreless 0-0 deadlock.

Heading into the game, Tufts saw a chance to pick up a crucial three points against an opponent that had just come off a grueling double-overtime loss to Williams, and hoped to attack Middlebury early and often.

“We knew Middlebury was big, and they had just played double OT against Williams, so they would probably be tired,” junior midfielder Connor Brown said. “We [also] were playing on turf, which is something that we like to play on, because we like to keep the ball on the ground. Our game plan was pretty much keep the ball on the ground, keep the ball in play, and try and generate chances, score goals and get ahead early.”

Although the setup appeared ripe for a quick start, the Jumbos did not anticipate Mother Nature playing a factor, as they

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Trause, who was eventually taken down at Bowdoin’s 36-yard line. Down 13-7 with great field position, Doll completed a

After five games undefeated, Jumbos drop two of three

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After starting the season with a 4-1 record, the Jumbos have dropped two of their last three games, bringing their season record

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to 5-2-1. The Jumbos suffered their first loss of the season on Homecoming against Amherst. They bounced back a couple of days later with a 2-1 victory on the road against Lesley before finding themselves on the wrong side of a 1-0 loss to Middlebury.

Against Middlebury on Saturday, Tufts conceded a goal from senior midfielder Claire Nishioka in the 77th minute off a cross from teammate junior Hannah Robinson. “[The goal was scored off a cross from the outside,” Tufts sophomore Alexa Pius said. “There was a scramble in the box and [the ball] popped out. We initially defended it well, but there was a [Middlebury] player waiting just outside the 18 and she had a great shot. It was a tough shot to defend.”

Tufts had difficulties with the attack, taking just three shots compared to Middlebury’s 15.

“It was raining and the conditions were tough, but it was a matter of playing a solid 45 minutes in the second half,” Pius said. see WOMEN'S SOCCER, page 11