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Bentley professor discusses economic future of EU

by Patrick McGrath Daily Editorial Board

Michael Quinn, professor of economics and associate director of Ph.D programs at Bentley University, led a discussion last night on the economic conditions and current political situation of the European Union (EU). The lecture, titled “EU After the Great Recession,” was hosted by the Fletcher Political Forum at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, which hosts two events each year.

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Quinn started the lecture by discussing challenges that the EU is currently facing. He explained that the current recession has threatened the future of the EU as well as the Eurozone, but expressed his belief that both organizations do, in fact, have a future, noting the significant costs that a split in the union would incur.

“Do not underestimate the ability of people in Brussels to muddle through,” he said.

The EU has passed the most acute phase of the cri-

sis, but now it is in a more chronic phase, according to Quinn. He noted that this has led to a number of questions about short run issues.

“ What should the [European Central Bank] do with money policy? What about unemployment? What about debt?” he asked.

Quinn underscored that similar dire economic problems came about in Europe during the 1970s, explain-

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Tisch College names new associate dean

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guide the Tisch College moving forward,” she said.

She also hopes to encourage faculty members to embed civic engagement ideas into their teaching methods, as well as promote Tisch College as an advocacy group for national issues related to civic engagement, civil renewal and democratic participation.

“I really see this as a team effort with the rest of the team at Tisch College to help develop the resources to envision all the partners we need,” Nelson said.

“With a great foundation, I believe we can be among the most impactful organizations within the nation to create more prosperous and more engaged citizens. We can work with more democratic and civic institutions to make more viable communities. I think it’s a very exciting time.”

Along with her work at the John Hancock Research Center and the Friedman School, Nelson is a fellow at the American College of Sports Medicine and former vice chair of the Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee. She is also the co-founder of the multi-sector childhood obesity prevention initiative ChildObesity180.

Nelson has also conducted multiple research projects, combining them with civic engagement to affect public policy. In 1989, she received a National Institutes of Health research grant to study how strength training may affect osteoporosis in middle-aged and older women.

Professor Michael Quinn of Bentley University speaks at one of the Fletcher Political Forums on the subject of the EU and its recovery after the Great Recession on Oct. 8.

Miriam Nelson, director of the John Hancock Research Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention and professor of nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, was recently named the new associate dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service.

“She is a very accomplished scientist in the field of women’s health,” Alan Solomont, the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar dean of Tisch College, said. “Her academic interest is quite wellknown, so we’re honored to have her as a part of Tisch College.”

Nelson said that she is excited for the new opportunity.

“I’m really thrilled about this new position,” she said. “I love what the Tisch College is all about, so this was a really perfect timing for me. I have two daughters who have graduated from Tufts, so I breathe Jumbo.

I feel very fortunate that I’ve been able to really do different things and really have an impact here.”

Nelson explained that she hopes to further Tisch College’s achievements as an advocate for civic engagement, aiming to instill civic values in the students and staff on campus and beyond. She hopes to develop programs and curricula as well as extracurricular activities to teach students the knowledge, skills and values of active citizens.

“I’ve used civic engagement in my work, so my experiences around policy, civic engagement and public service will help to

Tufts students to participate in Slave Dwelling Project

DTD raises awareness for Light the Night walk

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Ten Tufts students will have the opportunity to spend the night at the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford as participants in the Slave Dwelling Project tomorrow.

The students, led by Joseph McGill, who founded the project, will spend Friday night sleeping in the slave quarters where they will be able to experience what life was like for slaves in Massachusetts in the 18th century, Co-President and Treasurer of the Royall House Peter Gittleman said.

“Students are going to have the opportunity to go on a flashlight tour of the Royall House,” he said. “They will be

able to experience the house like how it was in the 18th century. They will be able to have a conversation with McGill, and he will be able to tell them more on what it was like for the slaves.”

The flashlight tour will give students a feeling of what it might have been like to be the residents or workers in that building, walking through it at night by candlelight, according to Royall House Communications Secretary Gracelaw Simmons.

Elizabeth Ammons, the Harriet H. Fay professor of literature at Tufts, is an active member on the Royall House and Slave Quarters’s Board of Directors and helped to connect Tufts students with the Slave Dwelling Project, she said.

Ammons said she sent emails out to students in a variety of majors and put together a group of students that will be participating in the overnight stay.

She also asked and obtained, on behalf of the board, a sponsorship from the Provost that will allow them to bring McGill to speak at Tufts today.

McGill is attempting to sleep in as many former slave dwellings as possible, according to Gittleman. He has slept in more than 60 so far and hopes to draw attention to help preserve them.

The Royall House is the first one he will have slept in located in Massachusetts.

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Members of Tufts Delta Tau Delta (DTD) fraternity will participate in the annual Light the Night walk for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) this evening on the Boston Common alongside other Tufts students.

DTD Philanthropy Co-Chair Mark Meiselbach explained that the goal of the walk is to raise awareness about blood cancer, cancer research, patient services and proper treatment and support for families, as well as to support those that are fighting the disease.

“We are doing the fundraising, but we really want people to think about the cause and know about it — that’s also a huge goal for us,” Meiselbach, a senior, said. “We’re

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hoping to have as many Tufts students to come out and support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

We’ve worked with them before and we know that they’re a great charity, and we want to see the Tufts community get behind this.”

The funds raised for Light the Night will go towards advancing breakthrough therapies for blood cancer patients, according to the Light the Night website.

DTD brothers have come together as participants since 2012 to walk the two laps around the Boston Common, according to Meiselbach.

This year, they sought to extend participation to the rest of the Tufts community and organize a larger effort to raise awareness for the cause. Meiselbach said that see DTD, page 2

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slaves drives him in his quest to maintain slave quarters, according to Ammons.

“He knows a lot, he’s experienced a lot, he is deeply committed to preserving slave quarters and bearing witness to the lives of the enslaved people,” Ammons said.

The Royall House and Slave Quarters’ close proximity to campus has helped it connect with the university, Simmons noted.

“Part of the Tufts campus is a part of the property that was owned by the largest slaveholder in Massachusetts in the 18th century,” she said.

The house will also hold its annual benefit event on Saturday, which will then give adults in the community the opportunity to spend the night in the slave dwellings that night, according to Gittleman.

“Our mission is to use the Royall House and Slave Quarters to observe

northern slavery,” he said. “People see it as a southern issue. The Royall House had dozens and dozens of people who were slaves right on that property. We are trying to become more visible in the community and share our resources with Medford, Tufts and beyond.”

Simmons said she hopes students will gain a better understanding of what enslavement was really like, and through the experience, an increased feeling of the value of championing the people that are enslaved.

“I see a beautiful 18th century mansion — I see that it was very beautiful, but I see it was staffed by enslaved people,” she said. “It’s a very different way to see the world, but I think it is a more just way …

Rethinking what you see is really what I see [as] the ultimate goal for this project.”

McGill will speak at Tufts today at 6 p.m. in the Crane Room.

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DTD reached out to other Greek organizations on campus to encourage them to organize their own teams.

Victoria Lin, organizer of the Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta) team for Light the Night, expressed how excited the sorority was to participate in the event. Since some Theta members had previously been involved with the LLS in different capacities in the past, the sorority wanted to contribute to the event by organizing a team of volunteers, according to Lin, a sophomore.

The goal was for Theta to contribute at least $200 to the cause, and they achieved their goal with a fall-themed fundraising bake sale on Tuesday, Lin explained.

Collectively, the Tufts groups sought to raise over $10,000, an achievement that would give the university larger recognition for its philanthropy efforts and a coveted exclusive spot at the walk. To date, the Tufts teams, including DTD and sororities, have already raised over $10,000, according to the Light the Night fundraising website.

DTD has been the top college fundraising team in the Boston area for its past two years participating in the event, according to Meiselbach. Last year, after raising over $8,000, DTD was in the top 10 donors, right behind Swiss professional services company KPMG. Office for Campus Life Director Joe Golia echoed the positive sentiment of the Light the Night event.

Golia said that he had previously volunteered with the LLS and had tried to get the Tufts community involved when he came to Tufts in 2008.

The initiative truly took off when he met with representatives from DTD that had the same goals of helping the cause by raising funds and raising awareness.

“It’s been great for Tufts,” he said. “[DTD] also won the largest campus team last year and they’ve really spearheaded the effort at Tufts. As a continual volunteer, I’m really happy of the progress that they have made and the impact that they’ve had.”

Meiselbach explained that anyone can register to join the walk and organize their own team, or can walk with DTD at the event.

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“The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,” Nelson said. “It got a lot of press because it was [on] women of 50 and 60 lifting weights, and there was a lot of interest in how to take the research and apply it to the population.”

Nelson went on to write about her research findings in the first book in her Strong Women series, titled “Strong Women Stay Young,” which became a New York Times bestseller. Since then, she has written nine more books which have been published in 14 languages and sold over one million copies.

“Her books are more than just published information, they’re read widely by a number of people,” Solomont said.

Nelson used her research to found the public health program Strong Women in 2001. The program now has chapters in 40 states.

Nelson said that, as she missed academia, she returned to Tufts in 2000 as associate professor at the Friedman School. While serving as associate dean at the Tisch College, she will continue to serve as a faculty member at the Friedman School.

“I will spend a sliver of my time there,” Nelson said, “Our effort is generally split between a number of different things. We teach, we work on three or four research projects and we provide service. I hope that around 15 to 20 percent of my effort will be spent working on research and on projects.”

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Miriam Nelson, a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, was recently named the new associate dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service.

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ing that the United Kingdom was even forced to take a loan from the International Monetary Fund in 1976.

“I would argue we’ve seen a lot of these things before,” he said. “These are the short run concerns.”

The EU has been too focused on treating issues such as labor disputes, deficits and stagflation, but these issues are the symptoms, rather than the core of the problem, according to Quinn.

“We do have to deal with some of the short run macroeconomic stability problems,” he said.

It is important, however, to also focus on the causes of the long run problems that the EU is currently facing, Quinn added. Too much focus on short-term problems may cause negligence of the problems coming down the road, he noted.

Quinn explained that in dealing with these issues, looking at pure economics and mathematical models does not always provide the whole picture.

“I’m a big believer … in history,” he said. “You have to understand the his-

tory, you have to understand the political situation, you have to understand the institutions.”

Today, the EU does face some issues that it did not face during its economic travails in the 1970s, Quinn added, noting demographic issues surrounding the increasing relative proportion of the elderly population, falling birth rates and higher life expectancies.

“Over twenty to thirty years, it’s going to get much, much worse,” he warned.

Paying for healthcare and pensions for an older populations can create long run structural problems, Quinn explained. He added, however, that the underlying issue involves the EU’s lack of sufficient productivity growth.

Quinn said that the EU’s productivity growth was catching up to that of the United States in the 1990s, but then began to fall off. He explained that without this growth, rising wages add to the problem.

“If your wages are growing quickly, you can either devalue your currency … or your workers have to become more productive to justify having higher wages,” he said.

This lack of productivity growth is now beginning to get more international attention, according to Quinn.

He then discussed a number of different kinds of reform projects that the EU is currently pursuing, including education reform and labor market reform.

In solving some of these issues in the long run, Quinn underscored immigration as an important potential solution. He noted that immigrants often come with an entrepreneurial spirit and a sense of risk-taking that can create innovation and business development in their new country.

“The question is, how do you capitalize on this?” he said.

Quinn added that immigration in Europe faces a number of challenges, including the different cultural and religious backgrounds of immigrants that may cause difficulty with integration. Immigration, however, can serve as a solution for the EU’s shrinking labor force, decreased productivity and elderly burden, he explained.

Quinn also discussed the possibility of increasing retirement ages, but underscored that this can only be

successful if there are additional job opportunities.

“If you have more workers … that does boost the overall productivity of your workforce,” he noted.

The issue of corruption is also a challenge for the future of the EU, according to Quinn.

“When we think about what corruption does, corruption reduces your real credibility with people,” he said.

Quinn explained that the support of a country’s populace is imperative to go through with painful long-run reforms, and without faith in a country’s government because of corruption, these reforms are much harder to push through.

“Once you’ve ruined their faith in government, it’s really hard to get them on board for reforms,” he said.

Quinn also noted that corruption may impede innovation and entrepreneurship in the EU. He added that, ultimately, unlike the United States, the EU has a fairly weak central government, so enforcing some of these reforms and requirements will continue to be a challenge.

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New Tufts Chaplaincy series seeks civil dialogue on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

by Sophie Dasinger Daily Editorial Board

While there are a number of oncampus groups that support different perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is not always a great deal of successful communication between them. “Restoring Dignity in the IsraelPalestine Conversation,” a new “thirdspace” conversation series sponsored by the Tufts University Chaplaincy, aims to open up the dialogue among students.

According to the series’ facilitators, the goal is not to give students a specific opinion on the conflict, but to allow them to express their ideas and listen to others in a welcoming space.

The program, which began on Sept.

16, runs for eight weeks, with participants and the two facilitators convening at the Interfaith Center every Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. “[The Chaplaincy] thought that students needed a third space for them to express their opinions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Yousef Bashir, one of the facilitators, said.

Both of the series’ facilitators have prior experience working on promoting peaceful discourse regarding the conflict prior to coming to Tufts.

Rebecca Polivy works with Encounter, an organization that aims to bring primarily American-Jewish leaders into face-to-face conversations with Palestineans. She is working as a facilitator alongside Bashir, a Palestinian from Gaza, whom she had previously heard speak.

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Participants in the Restoring Dignity in the Israel-Palestine Conversation await instructions during an activity. tions that we got,” Polivy said.

Weinberg agreed, stressing the importance of participants whose views are not always represented in other conversations surrounding the issue.

“I would say that people represent a wide spectrum [of beliefs],” he said. “There [are] lots of people in the group that actually don’t usually engage in these kind of conversations … and don’t necessar-

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Students routinely break into small discussion groups during the meetings.

“Rabbi Summit [the Neubauer Executive Director of Tufts Hillel] got my name and then he reached out to me,” Polivy said. “I suggested we reach out to [Bashir] as well.”

Polivy and Bashir both bring a unique expertise to the series. Bashir, who is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree in conflict and coexistence at Brandeis, has previously spoken at a number of colleges across the United States.

“We have two incredible facilitators who are deeply invested and experienced, and also deeply knowledgeable” Noah Weinberg, a Tufts sophomore and participant in the series, said. “You don’t always find people like that who also want to work together.”

Students were selected to participate through an online application process.

In the application, they were asked to share what interested them about the conversation series, as well as their religious or philosophical background.

“I think there is [a varied representation of opinions] based upon the applica-

ily have strong opinions. Those are voices being heard that aren’t usually heard.”

According to Weinberg, however, there aren’t very many participants with more extreme viewpoints.

“While those voices are present, they’re in smaller numbers,” he said.

Weinberg also serves as a board member of the Tufts chapter of J Street U, an organization that advocates for American leadership in bringing about a two-state solution.

“On campus, I see our work as being very complimentary to what’s going on in this series,” he said. “We are trying to build an open, broad-based, inclusive, pragmatic and values-driven conversation about the conflict.”

Weinberg decided to get involved with the series per Summit’s suggestion.

“I feel that dialogue and this kind of conversation [are] very productive and important,” he said. “There’s a lot of polarization around this issue on campus … I wanted to encounter things that would challenge me.”

The series intends to provide a space for students to comfortably discuss the conflict, as well as listen to opposing viewpoints. In addition to providing a place for conversation, the facilitators are also aiming to promote listening skills.

“The first [meeting] was really about setting our communication guidelines and practicing what it means to really listen,” Polivy said.

According to Polivy, since there are close to 30 students attending the meetings, they split them up into small discussion groups. “[The series] is very much based on the small group model … up to five [per group] at the most is our goal,” Polivy said.

According to Bashir, the students previously participated in name games and listening exercises during the meetings.

In one meeting, they participated in an activity where they were given a statement and had to position themselves on a spectrum based on whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement.

“It’s pretty interesting to see [people] from the same identity have different approaches to the same idea,” Bashir said.

According to the chaplaincy website, the series will also include films, lectures and team-building activities.

Bashir hopes that students will continue to use the tools for listening and communication that they have learned even after the series is over.

“I hope that they think hard before they give up, and always expect that it’s going to be challenging … to ask questions and learn about others,” he said.

The lessons learned in the series are something that participants can carry with them into other clubs and student groups.

“I think that my work on campus is only going to be lifted up through this experience,” Weinberg said.

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Rebecca Polivy is one of two facilitators of the discussion.

Miranda Willson | Ecofeminism for All

#YesAllWomen ... but not you Disclosure: I’m not going to talk explicitly about ecofeminism in this week’s column. This column is about a few things mainstream feminists often have difficulty acknowledging.

Feminism originated in a white-supremacist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic society.

As I said in my first column, people who don’t identify as feminists because they don’t know what the term means deeply frustrate me. But as history shows, feminism excluded and continues to exclude — be it intentionally or unintentionally — women who aren’t white, educated, straight, cisgender, American, etc. How can we expect everyone to identify as feminists if the feminist movement does not incorporate an end to the oppression of all female-identifying people?

To illustrate how mainstream feminism has been ignorant of these issues and exclusive towards certain women, here’s a brief history of it: “First-wave” feminism began in the 19th century, driven by white, middle-and-upper-class Protestant women bent on achieving women’s suffrage in the United States While suffrage theoretically came with the 19th amendment in 1920, female minorities continued to face discrimination at the polls, such as black women in the Jim Crow South. Today, minorities still face difficulties when voting in certain (red) states due to recent voter ID laws, restrictions on voting hours, gerrymandering and other (primarily race-based) discriminatory policies. So, though first-wave feminism did achieve one important goal, this goal wasn’t extended to all women for decades, and still isn’t enjoyed equally by all women in the United States.

Second-wave feminism began in the 1960s, leading to the legalization of abortion and the passage of other laws that impacted women everywhere in the United States. But white, welloff women still led the movement, and many of their goals focused on equal job opportunities for (college-educated) women like themselves, which did not have the same impact for lower class women, immigrant women and women of color who faced discrimination and fewer job and education opportunities.

Third-wave feminism began in the 1990s and continues today. Many third-wave feminists have become more aware of issues related to race, class and gender identity, and many feminists from different backgrounds have called out mainstream feminism’s problems, but there are still improvements to be made.

Many mainstream feminists continue to ignore and marginalize women of color. Lena Dunham’s show “Girls” (2012 – present), for example, features straight, white, college-educated, well-off girls who live in diverse New York City but somehow never interact with anyone from backgrounds different from their own.

Despite the fact that Dunham’s show only represents a small portion of the female population, Dunham has implied in the past that she speaks for “all” women of our generation. Similarly, Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In” (2013) instructs women how they can “have it all:” a corporate job that probably requires eight years of costly higher-level education, a happy home life and an awesome husband. But the book doesn’t address underlying structural barriers that women — especially women marginalized by race, class, sexual orientation and gender identity — face.

Still, mainstream feminists have called both Sandberg and Dunham “feminist icons.”

Finally, some feminists today refuse to include transgender women. Even women’s colleges in the United States — including Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Smith and Wellesley — deny admission to transgender women, who are disproportionately at risk for sexual violence and therefore may need the safe space of an all-women’s college more than anyone.

Throughout most of its duration, mainstream feminism has, implicitly and explicitly, excluded marginalized groups of people. Feminism, by definition, strives for equality regardless of gender, but this goal loses its credibility if it does not incorporate the need for equality based on social, racial, sexualorientation and gender-identity differences as well.

Simply put, if the feminist movement does not become more sensitive and actively involved in these issues, it will not and should not succeed.

Miranda Willson is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at miranda.willson@tufts.edu.

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Slavery’s Physical Legacy JOSEPH McGILL JR. Founder of The Slave Dwelling Project Thursday, October 9th 6pm Crane Room, Paige Hall Tufts University Through the simple act of spending a night in them, historic preservationist Joseph McGill Jr. seeks to bring attention to America’s remaining slave dwellings.

Since founding The Slave Dwelling Project four years ago, Joe has slept in some sixty cabins and quarters across the nation that once housed enslaved people, and his goal is to stay overnight in all that remain.

Mr. McGill will talk about his experiences staying overnight in slave dwellings from Texas to Connecticut, providing a national context for his stay later that weekend at Medford’s Royall House and Slave Quarters. Located a few blocks from the Tufts campus, the museum’s eighteenth-century Slave Quarters is the only remaining such structure in the North.

This collaboration between the Royall House and Slave Quarters and The Slave Dwelling Project is generously sponsored by the Provost's Office at Tufts University.

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Mad in America International Film Festival: New perspectives on mental health

by Abigail Feldman Daily Editorial Board

The power of film, as many professional and part-time directors have no doubt discovered, lies in its ability to show us things in a new light — to take on a different perspective. Through the camera’s eye, we may find fresh meaning, strange emotions and perhaps new ways of moving forward.

Such is the hope for Mad in America’s International Film Festival this weekend, where people from all over the world will come together, joined by an interest in cinema and the examination of modern psychiatric care.

According to Laura Delano — a board member, editor and festival organizer at Mad in America, Inc. — the main goal of the film festival is to explore and contest various aspects of the mental health system. Some of the works analyze the standard of care and the single-track approach to treatment and prescription medications — solutions that are often pushed without the mention of other options. Other films try to make sense of our understanding of what we call “mental illness” and discuss alternatives to hospitalization in times of crisis.

“We really want to bring awareness to these issues and encourage people to question, get curious and open the dialogue,” Delano said.

The festival, which officially begins at 5 p.m. this evening, includes, among other events, screenings of 30 films and conversations with 40 speakers arriving from eight countries around the world.

Discussions, screenings and live events will continue throughout the weekend in Arlington’s Regent Theatre until Sunday night, when a dinner and award ceremony will conclude what Delano believes will be a very stimulating experience.

Mad in America: An online community What kind of company is hosting this four-day event of international scope? Though the size of the event may lead one to believe otherwise, Mad In America, according to Delano, is not a giant psychiatric company, but rather a grassroots organization based in Cambridge that aims to get people to

rethink psychiatry and the mental health system. Operating primarily online, the group functions not only as a publishing company and a collaborator producing original film content, but also serves as a forum for those wishing to share their voice on related issues.

“We see ourselves as a journalistic space,” Delano said. “Our website really is an online newspaper that gives a platform to a variety of different voices around this idea of rethinking psychiatry.”

The company is small with only eight employees. Some are paid; others volunteer. Yet, with few employees, Mad in America has managed to capture widespread interest and readership. Delano explained that for the people involved in Mad in America, the site represents a community and a place where often silenced people can exchange ideas.

“The main purpose of the website is to give voice to people who are so often stripped of a voice by society — people with personal experience of psychiatric diagnosis in a hospital, of being in the system,” Delano said. “It’s really important to us to highlight those voices.”

Having been a part of the mental health system herself, Delano understands the value of such a community and described the importance of being able to discuss other options and share one’s opinions.

College-age people in particular can benefit from such conversations, Delano added. After all, whether one is a part of the system or not, she continued, it can be very hard to be in college.

“It’s really important to us to create this kind of space — for all people but definitely for young people — to feel like they can be surrounded by others in exploring emotional distress and all these very difficult experiences that we go through as human beings,” she said.

The sense of community among Mad in America writers and followers proved useful when preparing for the festival.

Though Delano found many of the festival artists and filmmakers online and during the open submissions period, others were found simply by looking to the organization’s contact networks. Delano attributed this to the company’s growing prominence.

“It took a lot of work to put the list together, but I think as Mad in America has increasingly become more visible

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Mad in America performances seek to show different perspectives on mental health.

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over the last few years, we definitely have built a really wonderful international network that we were able to tap into to build the festival lineup,” she said.

Artists and activists For guests planning to spend all weekend at the festival, each day will bring a new theme and a new perspective on the psychiatry system. Friday films will focus on the history of psychiatry beginning from the “Thorazine Era,” while Saturday will explore ways of changing the paradigm for how we treat mental health challenges and investigate the experiences of people who have struggled with trauma and distress. Sunday, the final day of the festival, centers on alternative methods of treatment and features not only films but several speaker panels as well.

Friday’s program will also bring the first of two live performances — a feature showing of “Sick” (2011), a play

by Elizabeth Kenny. This live solo performance written and acted by Kenny, a local artist, depicts the true story of her experience in the mental system.

“It’s a powerful narrative of the harm that can happen even when people have the best intentions, and of how confusing and scary the experience of being in the mental health system can be,” Delano said. “The first time I saw it I remember so vividly sitting there and just having this very profound, visceral experience because I so deeply identified with her story.”

The second live performance features music by writer, actor, director and musician Dylan Tighe, coming all the way from Dublin, Ireland. Tighe will incorporate music from his debut album, “RECORD (Remix),” released earlier this year, with video and spoken word.

“It’s the creative process that he went through to make sense of his own experiences in the mental health system,” Delano said.

Delano added that tickets to both live performances, Kenny’s “Sick” and Tighe’s live music, can also be purchased separately from festival tickets.

Those interested in learning more about particular films also have the opportunity to meet several of the film directors. For example, Sera Davidow, an author, activist and filmmaker, will join the festival to present her two films, “Beyond the Medical Model” (2013) and “The Virtues of Non-Compliance” (2013), as well as to appear on one of the discussion panels.

According to Davidow, one of the advantages of film is that messages communicated onscreen reach people in ways that lectures cannot. She hopes that her first film, “Beyond the Medical Model” — screening Saturday — will help show how this inflexible system often causes more pain than good.

“One of the things that that film talks

about is that the medical model was in its history intended to be somewhat of an art form and a practice and not the rigid set of categories and things predicted based on those categories, and it’s really lost all of that,” Davidow said. “I think people are largely ignorant of how people are hurt by being approached in that way.”

Her second film, “The Virtues of Non-Compliance,” to be screened on Sunday, poses another question to audience members that have struggled with their mental health in the past: Where would you be now if you had listened to what you were told about your future? According to Davidow, the Mad In America festival in particular is a valuable place for exploring these topics because it encourages participants to discuss other models of care.

“What’s actually most different between this and some of the other film festivals and events that are out there is there’s a willingness to invite rather than just demonize other perspectives, whereas other film festivals on this topic would probably see what we’re doing as some sort of heresy,” she said.

Looking ahead

According to Delano, she and her fellow coworkers decided to move forward on creating the film festival — the organization’s first live event — about a year and a half ago, and since then she has led all organizational responsibilities. While the festival is unlikely to become an annual occurrence, Delano believes these types of real-life, nonvirtual events will be an important part of Mad In America’s future prospects.

“It’s definitely safe to say we’ll be doing more events of this general nature in the future,” she said. “For the most part, our community is online and we do really love the idea of getting into real time, out into the community, putting together events that get people face to face.”

For now, Delano is anticipating about 250 guests, coming from all over the United States as well as from Europe and Canada, and is working to promote the festival online.

Davidow expects that the festival will lead to rich dialogue that will inform the public. In particular, she hopes that people dissatisfied with the psychiatric system will be comforted to find such a large group of people who are looking to find alternative solutions.

“What I think Mad in America does for people is act as somewhat of a beacon, [showing] that there is a whole community of people who are saying those things,” Davidow said. “Knowing that there’s a possibility of some other way of thinking about things and understanding their life is a turning point for a lot of people, and that’s true even if they decide that the medical model approach is the right way.”

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Snappy sneakers I loved all the sneakers I saw this week.

There has been some talk recently about a potential Adidas comeback, with people citing the return of the classic “Stan

Smith” shoe and the company’s collaborations with Yohji Yamamoto, Raf Simons and Pharrell Williams, not to mention the upcoming “Yeezy III” sneaker created with

How would you describe your style? “Simple and casual.” — Joonhye Choi, freshman

“I like minimalist aesthetics. Simple but timeless.”

— Elza Lambergs, junior

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gans and leather jackets provide a nice contrast when paired with techy sneakers.

—by Jack Kamin

“I’ve been wearing a lot more basics. You can do all black and have it different tones, different fabrics and stuff and still make it something fun.” — Selin Ipek, senior

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What’s up this weekend Looking to make your weekend artsy? Check out these events!

Charles Bur ney’s Musical Tour: Annette Richards and David Yearsley will play a combination of harpsichord, chamber organ and fortepiano to bring to life their imaginings of a night in Dr. Charles Burney’s household. The famed English musician and historian of the 18th century will be celebrated with pieces by composers like Handel and Roman Bernardo Pasquini. The doctor’s written commentary will be presented during the program along with video projections, produced by the new collective Hyphen, that celebrate and reimagine the doctor’s musical travels throughout Europe. (Saturday beginning at 8 p.m. in the Distler Performance Hall, Granoff. Tickets are

free with a student ID with a limit of 2 tickets per person. Tickets are $10 each for general admission.)

Sunday Community Concert Series — Reflections on Time and Mortality: Resident faculty pianist Thomas Stumpf will comment on the humorous and serious sides of mortality, exploring this duality through the work of composers such as Chopin and Rachmaninoff, along with world premieres of new pieces by Stumpf and John MacDonald. (Sunday at 3 p.m. in Distler Performance Hall.

Admission is free.)

Major: Undecided presents The Spaghettisburg Address: “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth onto this Barnum 008 stage, a sketch comedy group, conceived in tomfoolery, and

dedicated to the proposition that all deserve spaghetti,” proudly proclaims the Facebook event. Join Major: Undecided for a new show that features fresh antics and plenty of references to pasta. (Friday at 9 p.m. in Barnum 008. Tickets can be picked up at the Cohen Auditorium Box Office and are free with a Tufts ID.) Shark Saddle & Kenneth Postigo @ Res Quad: Join campus band Shark Saddle as they groove with Tufts sophomore Kenneth Postigo during a concert event that is sure to start the weekend off right. (Saturday at 5 p.m. on the Res Quad. Admission is free.)

—by Nika Korchok

Artsy Jumbo

Rachael Jackson blends best of Tufts and SMFA

by Grace Segers

Daily Editorial Board

Fifth-year student Rachael Jackson may one day become the most artistic doctor in the country. Pursuing a pre-med track like many of her fellow Jumbos, Jackson’s dual enrollment with Tufts and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) sets her apart, giving her an in-depth knowledge of many aspects related to the arts and sciences.

“I’ve always really enjoyed art — my mom’s an artist,” Jackson said, elaborating on her background in the arts and why she wanted to study at the SMFA. “I

thought it was a really fun, cool thing to do. And hopefully I will be the only student applying to medical [schools] with a [Bachelor's in Fine Arts]!”

Jackson also noted certain differences between SMFA students and Tufts students. People at the Museum School tend to be more focused on developing their personal style, but are less interested in academic pursuits, according to Jackson. At Tufts, on the other hand, she has noticed more academic structure, but also more freedom to explore.

“I … get a real kick out of taking art classes [on the Medford campus], because it’s such a small thing at Tufts,

but there are so many people at Tufts who are really talented,” she said.

Jackson also discussed how the SMFA has shaped her life, even teaching her how to use art as stress relief.

She has had the chance to explore various types of art, from bronze casting to book making. And while making art for profit would “kill the fun” for Jackson, she still enjoys it on her own terms.

Whatever she decides to do in the future, her unique undergraduate experience will definitely inform and enhance her life.

“It’s so much fun,” she said of her time at Tufts and the SMFA. “I’ve gotten to do so many great things.”

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Though fifth-year Rachael Jackson is passionate about art, she said she does not plan to pursue it as a career.

top ten

Top ten things that people really need to stop Instagram-ing this fall It’s October and we all know what that means — horrible pictures of people drinking Pumpkin Spice Lattes and picking apples in their Ugg boots.

That’s right, every student with an iPhone and the compulsion to prove to their friends from home how cozy fall in New England is will be fighting to the death to take a picture of that one orange tree on the Hill. This fall, the Daily Arts section begs our loyal readers to cease and desist. Force yourself to be a little more creative and lay off of the easy fall tropes.

XOXO, Arts 10. Foliage: Dude, even people in Florida know that trees change color.

Give it up. You’re never going to get that job at National Geographic with

pictures of lonely trees.

9. Cider donuts: Though they are delicious, brown balls of dough aren’t exactly photogenic. And no, “Walden” won’t make it look any better.

8. Pumpkin patches: Fun and festive, pumpkin patches are the perfect place to get a huge pumpkin to carve or eat. But you and your buddies touching and making out with every single pumpkin out there as little kids watch in horror isn’t so cool.

7. Chunky sweaters: SO ORIGINAL — YOU AND YOUR BIG GOODWILL SWEATER WILL CHANGE THE INTERNET WORLD. 6. Beanies: Beanies are cool but you’re not cool for wearing one … especially inside. Is it a little nippy in the Reading Room, hmm? Snowing in Tisch?

5. Camping trip over Columbus Day

weekend: Guys! Just have fun! You don’t need to document every s’more, every barren tree and every stop at Dunkin’ Donuts.

4. Leaves on the ground: You’re just tilting your camera down to take a picture of nature’s garbage.

3. Starbucks cups: “They’re red now guys?! Do you see?! RED!” 2. Sexy Halloween costumes: Sexy mouse. Sexy Chewbacca. Sexy Tony Monaco. So good.

1. Nails painted in warm, neutral tones: You are taking Pinterest to the next level, that’s for sure.

Unfortunately, your finger nails are boring. So are you.

—by Veronica Little

Love and other SWUGs

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ear SWUG, I’m stuck in the sophomore (sexual) slump … drought more like … what do I doooo?

— Hopeless In Hodgdon Dear Hopeless In Hodgdon, Don’t let the lack of rain ruin your parade.

Here are some straight-forward suggestions to open up the flood-gates: 1. Get set up with a crush at screw and then make it seem like fate brought you together.

2. Offer to swipe for a crush’s meal in Hodgdon ’cause you’re not giving it away for free. But you’re also not selling yourself. Do this carefully. Maybe don’t do this.

3. Kick your roommate out of the room and turn their side into a small, but fully operating, bed and breakfast. Advertise on TuftsLife.

4. Add your crush on Venmo. Pay them random sums of money for looking cute today.

5. Frequent Hillel. It’s like an AEPi or Alpha Phi mixer but with free food.

6. Go to DU. Leave.

7. Lay on the bottom of the pool with your goggles on. Find the swimmer with the best abs.

8. Go undercover and join your crush’s sports team. Become their roommate and best friend. Reveal your true identity at the big game. Stay on the team because Title IX, bro. She’s the woman!

9. Find the biggest nerd on campus and transform them into the prom king/queen to win a bet with your friends. Hope that they don’t find out about the bet. Fall for them.

10. Fake your own kidnapping/murder.

Hide and enjoy the publicity. Beware of your high school stalker. Return home.

11. Write a Daily article about “How to Lose a Hookup in 10 Days.” Accidentally fall in love with your hookup. Find out that they have a bet with their friends about you. Sing Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” (1972) together.

12. Fall in love at first sight with a prince.

Chase your sister across a snow-covered land because it turns out she’s got magical powers. Befriend a talking snowman. Find out that your prince is a two-timing jerk.

Fall in love with an ice salesman. Realize that your love for your sister is stronger than any other love. Winter is gone!

Or just be yourself, enjoy the fact that you’re no longer a freshman, and let the chips fall where they may.

Start building your ark, SWUG

Dear SWUG, I am a junior guy and I was wondering what your thoughts are about eye flirting in Dewick. Sometimes I feel like the weekend doesn’t hold enough time to talk to a girl you might be interested in so my friend suggested trying to make subtle eye contact in Dewick during the week to make yourself known. Do you feel that this is an effective/appropriate strategy?

– Eyes on the Prize Dear Eyes on the Prize, Subtle eye contact is the sincerest form of flattery, but the chances that she can see your male gaze masked behind your layers of insecurity are slim. Save the subtle eye-f**king for astronomy lectures and flight delays at Logan Airport. You should wait for her to go up and get food and then follow her around Dewick. When she heads toward the beverages, bump into her and spill milk down her shirt. It’s a little cheesy, but hopefully she won’t have a cow about it and you can milk the opportunity to get close to her. From now on when she sees you around campus she’ll refer to you as the milkman and not “that guy who was creepily staring at me while I ate soup.” It’ll be legen-dairy!

Eye hope this works!

SWUG

Nikki Blank is a senior majoring in English.

She can be reached at Nicole.Blank@tufts. edu.

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Chaplaincy opens new space for dialogue on Israel-Palestine conflict

In light of this summer’s outburst of violence in Israel and the Gaza strip, a space for students to safely debrief and understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is more crucial than ever. The University Chaplaincy has begun to provide just that in their eight-week series held at the Interfaith Center entitled “Restoring Dignity in the IsraelPalestine Conversation.”

These discussions will serve as a safe, third space where students can constructively express their opinions and actively listen to others’ perspectives, without being influenced by any one take on the conflict. The introductory session was solely focused on fostering respectful communication skills and building group trust. Hopefully, these skills can be used outside this space for communication within and among political and cultural groups dealing with Israel and Palestine.

The two facilitators for the series have very different but highly qualified backgrounds, which can allow them to act as a bridge in the conversation. Both have promoted peaceful discourse regarding the conflict in the past, and should bring their real world experience to Tufts students in order to add degrees of nuance to the discussion that are often left out of more formal education.

The Tufts community should look to the Chaplaincy as a model for discussing the conflict. This dialogue series includes a diverse set of voices and political stances, from those who are totally uninformed on the issue, to those who are grappling with it seriously from a variety of angles. It promotes learning and respectful engagement. As Tufts students, many of us care passionately about this highly sensitive topic, which can lead to a polarized campus climate.

In order to critically engage with the conflict to the fullest degree possible, students should consider attending events hosted by Hillel, Friends of Israel, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and J Street U, each of which offers a different lens on the issue. One opportunity for engagement is the upcoming national SJP conference held at Tufts, titled “Beyond Solidarity: Resisting Racism and Colonialism From the US. To Palestine.” Another opportunity is this weekend’s Open Hillel conference at Harvard, which will host speakers from a wide range of views in an attempt to bring a more vigorous debate on the conflict to the Jewish community.

Despite the bleak prospects for peace in the region, Tufts students should, in the same spirit as the Chaplaincy, come together to work for the end of injustice and cyclical violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

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An open letter to President Monaco and Provost Harris from Tufts part-time lecturers

Dear President Monaco and Provost Harris, As you know, the recently formed Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of part-time faculty has been in negotiations with Tufts since the spring, and we have made some real progress. Tufts has moved to bring its practices into line with its averred values. In regularizing the appointments and contracts of part-time faculty, Tufts has begun to acknowledge how critically important its part-time faculty are to the full life of the university. Tufts has demonstrated a desire to address and remedy some of the inequities in its treatment of the people who teach more than 600 courses each year. But the salary schedule offered in our most recent discussion falls far short of such remedy, and perpetuates the inequities that first brought us to organize.

The administration’s salary proposal provides for some gradual increases in the pay of foreign language instructors, currently the most underpaid group among teachers in the humanities, and introduces a 2.25 percent across-the-board cost-of-living adjustment. Clearly, the university has recognized that it should cease its exclusion of part-time faculty from the cost-of-living adjustments it has given since 2009 to every other group in the university, but it has made no effort to undo or rectify the consequences of that

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exclusion. The denial of cost-of-living raises has effectively lowered our pay.

More fundamentally, the proposal fails to address the manifest unfairness of unequal pay for equal work. The university treats our work as equal when it calculates credits assigned for courses or tuition assessed to students. Our proposals have suggested only that part-time lecturers should be paid, on a per-course basis, what full-time nontenure track lecturers are paid.

The question of how part-time faculty is treated has become a much-discussed part of the national debate on income inequality, and on the responsibilities of government, institutions and citizens to address such inequality. Tufts has a long tradition of encouraging its students to inquire into and engage with their responsibilities as citizens and their obligations to lead. In acknowledging the claims of part-time faculty to fair pay, the university can model for its students exactly how an engaged leadership might, and should, act.

Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter.

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Video applications should be the new norm for colleges

by Brandon Shaik The Oracle

"I am more than just a number" is a phrase uttered by students at Goucher College, a liberal arts school in Baltimore. This year, Goucher is giving its applicants the opportunity to prove that they are more than their test scores and high school transcripts by doing away with them entirely, in favor of a two-minute video application.

Along with a short standard application and a graded writing assignment, the video is open to any format or content that the student feels best represents them. This innovative application model was enacted in response to a movement, as many colleges are adopting test-optional policies or even rejecting any test scores they receive, a policy employed

by Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This new application has the potential to transform the hectic college application process while neutralizing the skewed nature of the traditionally test-reliant application. Goucher President Jose Antonio Bowen feels that underprivileged students do not have the resources available that more advantaged applicants have regarding test prep and application knowledge.

Tufts University grabbed the nation's attention when it allowed students to supplement an application with a YouTube video. However, Goucher is the first to completely unseat the application process with a video.

Video format is also used to balance the inequality found in the application process as many students have access to video technology. However, taking a note from Elle Woods in

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"Legally Blonde" (2001) won't get you very far. By encouraging students to use simple means such as cellphone video and webcams to submit their applications, Goucher emphasizes that technical quality is not a factor in admissions decisions.

While Hampshire College similarly justifies its test score policy, the school also feels test scores are an inadequate predictor of academic success. A study released by the National Association for College Admissions Counseling found that between students whose admissions decision was contingent on test scores and those

who weren't, there was only five-one hundredths of a point difference in GPA and six-tenths of one percent in graduation rates.

University of South Florida follows a traditional application process including standardized test scores, transcripts and a recommended essay, but adjusting to the times could encourage more students to apply and increase diversity within the school.

Goucher College's new admissions process may be seen as a bold move, but future students could be putting down the number two pencil and pressing the record button.

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Anxiety and depression: handling mental health

by Shane Brandt The Daily Cougar

Exams, papers and deadlines can put an entirely different level of stress on college students.

Every bad grade can feel like wasted time, tuition and effort that push you much farther from your dreams.

College can also bring plenty of joy.

With all the fear and stress that comes with independence, there is also a happiness that comes with freedom.

Being responsible for oneself can be exciting, invigorating and refreshing for many.

That joy comes easier to some than others.

Some will find themselves overwhelmed with anxiety, and they will struggle with depression. However, it often feels easier to ignore than to talk about.

For many young adults, dealing with anxiety and depression can become a serious issue as they transition into college life. Some learn how to deal with it quickly on their own, some struggle for years and need help and some will deal with even more serious mental health issues.

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. About 18 percent of adult Americans deal with anxiety disorders. Fortunately, they are one of the most easily treated mental illnesses. Unfortunately, people rarely seek treatment.

Depression and anxiety often go hand-in-hand. Nearly half of those

diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed with some kind of anxiety disorder as well. These conditions are difficult to deal with on their own, but together they often cripple the quality of life for students and non-students.

An estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that one tenth of adults suffer from depression. Depression affects one's mental and physical health. It ruins the ability to study for a student, it prevents students from enjoying their time in college and it is much more serious than simply "feeling down."

Mental disorders go untreated and ignored for many different reasons, including a lack of available resources, finances and support. But a sad fact is many people choose not to address the issues they struggle with because they are afraid.

Those who deal with mental illness often fear what people will think of them for it. They fear being judged as crazy, weak or dangerous. It seems easier to deny that there is an issue.

The issues will then likely persist with no treatment, and occasionally become even worse.

Dealing with anxiety, depression and mental illnesses is hard enough without treatment. With treatment, though, many issues can be resolved.

Simply being able to talk about one's issues can help.

Awareness and emotional support are some of the easiest ways to help those suffering from any number of mental health issues.

The Walk for Mental Health Awareness Houston is just one group that is trying

to give that support and awareness.

Perhaps a walk does not seem like much in the way of help. Perhaps fundraising is not even the most important aspect of the organization.

The walk does much more than just exercise and fundraising. It shows those who are afraid to seek help that there are people out there who understand what they are going through. It shows that there are people out there that are sympathetic to the crushing struggles that depression and anxiety bring.

Communication, sympathy and awareness let people know that it is OK to admit their issues. It gives encouragement to seek help rather than bury the symptoms and suffering. There may be people who react negatively, but there are also many, many people who care about you as well.

If you or someone you know suffers from anxiety, depression or some other mental illness that is interfering with their day-to-day life, don't let it go untreated and ignored. Talk to someone, whether it is a loved one or someone anonymous. Share your feelings and fears, and make it a point to seek out help as well.

Anxiety and depression can ruin the joys of college for many people. It can affect grades, health and relationships.

It can have deep consequences, but there is help and there are people who care. If you are suffering from depression, reach out to a friend, a hotline or even the University's Depression Research Clinic.

It's often hard to reach out in depression, but there is hope and there is help.

Walt Laws-MacDonald | Show Me the Money!

Spinoff mania

L

ast week, two household names announced that they would be spinning off major sectors of their companies into separate entities. First, eBay, the giant consumer-to-consumer e-retailer, voted to spin off PayPal, its online payment service. Then, Hewlett-Packard (HP)announced that it would be spinning off its software and data operations into its own company.

Wall Street reacted positively to both announcements, sending shares of eBay up seven-and-a-half percent and those of HP up five percent.

Companies commonly spin off sections of their businesses when they feel that the two segments have different goals, or that one has outgrown the other. eBay is a perfect example of the former.

When eBay bought PayPal in 2002 for just $1.5 billion, PayPal was just a small startup that had pioneered a way to transfer money online.

Though eBay had invested in its own online billing system, it realized that PayPal’s market share — roughly 85 percent of all online payments — would be crucial to the business of eBay and online transactions everywhere.

PayPal now accounts for more than half of eBay’s revenue, with an estimated valuation of more than $30 billion. Such a split would cut eBay nearly in half, with PayPal accounting for more than 45 percent of eBay’s market value.

In the case of HP the software side of the business has clearly outgrown the hardware side. Founded in 1939 as a generator company, HP has gradually shifted away from PC manufacturing towards enterprise business solutions and data storage over the past decade. According to 2013 figures, HP’s hardware business now accounts for less than half of the company’s total value. Both sides have struggled in recent years, as the traditional desktop PC market has withered away.

In both cases, spinning off a large segment of the company allows the two entities to operate more freely.

PayPal faces more serious competitors now than ever before, as Apple Pay, Venmo, cryptocurrencies and traditional credit card issuers have ramped up their operations to challenge PayPal’s reign. PayPal will be able to adjust its strategy and technology much more quickly without having to worry about what eBay is doing, and eBay will likely see similar benefits.

HP, however, is fighting just to stay afloat at this point. After its board debated selling various businesses within HP for months, the hardware-software split will allow both sides to move forward as smaller, nimbler companies.

Spinning off a business also gives investors more freedom in where they put their money.

Say you really like this company “Balloons ‘n’ Stuff.” You own 100 shares, and you think it has a big upside. Those shares represent a stake in the company’s assets and any profits it might generate.

But, the company also owns a porcupine zoo — that’s the “Stuff.” As an investor, you believe that “Balloons ‘n’ Stuff” would probably be better as two separate companies: “Balloons” and “Stuff.” Maybe the porcupine zoo is expertly run and makes plenty of money, but you still think it should be separate.

Thankfully, the board listens and decides to split the company into two parts. Assuming it’s a simple 50-50 split, you now own 100 shares of “Balloons” and 100 shares of “Stuff.” You still have the same stake in both companies, and you’re still entitled to the future profits of both companies. But now you have the option to sell your stake in one aspect of the business and hold on to the other.

Though the terms of the split won’t be set until 2015, the same is true if you hold shares of eBay before it spins off PayPal. Before the split, those shares will represent ownership in an eBay that includes PayPal — after the split, you’ll have shares that represent ownership in just eBay and shares that represent ownership in just PayPal. Stock splits might sound confusing, but it’s a basic concept. In the end, you own the same thing, but in a different way.

Walt Laws-MacDonald is a junior majoring in quantative economics. He can be reached at walt.laws_macdonald@tufts.edu

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Editors’ Challenge | Week 6

Steven “Greyhound” Hefter used his unmatched canine speed to race all the way to a 13-2 record this week, the best single week record since Poodle’s 14-2 score on Week 1.

Sam “Beagle” Gold doesn’t make the best picks, but nobody complains because he’s friends with everyone. We all want him to stick around.

Wil “Chihuahua” Glavin is all bark and no bite. He talks a big game, but doesn’t back it up. The self-anointed football expert is in eighth place with a 42-34 record.

Jorge “Frat Dog” Monroy-Palacio is really fun and playful, but his health could be better, and his questionable owners are to blame. When he’s not being taken for a walk by a pledge, he’s lapping up puddles of beer in the pong room and licking the remnants of cocaine lines off of desks. It’s impressive that he’s managed to be so good this season. He’s in sixth place with a 43-33 record.

Maclyn “Husky” Senear has so much energy, when he’s not making his picks, he’s up in the Alaskan wilderness pulling sleds all by himself.

Tyler “Saint Bernard” Maher is the toughest sports editor, so tough that he sleeps outside every night and never complains. He’d brave even the toughest of snowstorms to make his weekly picks.

Alison “Labrador” Kuah doesn’t spend much time filling out her picks every week because she’s always busy with her favorite pastime, playing fetch with her family in her backyard.

David “Dalmation” Westby ran all the way here from his home at Medford Fire Station to give us his guest picks.

Hey football fans, the sports editors are back with our picks for Week 6 of the NFL season!

We had a great week last week, going 126-39 in total. This .763 winning percentage is easily the best of the year so far. But don’t go around thinking that we know what we’re doing…the only thing we found out for sure this week is that its very easy to pick winners when 30 teams play and only three underdogs win. The dogs’ struggles really saved our records, which were looking pretty bad. We love dogs!

Jake “Poodle” Indursky was a little too spoiled by his success in the first few weeks. After four weeks in first place, he thought the Eds Challenge crown would be handed to him on a silver platter. He’s in for a reality check down the stretch, as he’ll have to continue to make good picks like the rest of us commoners.

Alex “Great Dane” Schroeder is friendly and fun, but boisterously clumsy when making his picks.

Despite having a good week like everyone else, his 11-4 record this week wasn’t good enough to vault him out of second-to-last place.

Chris “Doberman” Warren is the most disciplined member of the sports section, meticulously making his picks every week, and using his evil cunning to propel himself into a tie for first place with a record of 48-28.

Alex “Scottish Terrier” Connors, the archrival of Doberman, has used his plucky, scrappy play style to keep up with the more naturally skilled Doberman. The two are tied atop the standings with identical 48-28 records.

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Chris 48-28 12-3 IND PIT NE CIN TEN GB DET DEN BAL SD ATL SEA ARI PHI SF

Jake 45-31 11-4 HOU CLE NE CIN JAX GB MIN DEN BAL SD ATL SEA WSH NYG SF

Tyler 45-31 11-4 IND CLE NE CIN TEN GB DET DEN BAL SD CHI SEA ARI PHI SF

Alison 44-32 12-3 IND PIT NE CIN TEN GB DET DEN BAL SD CHI SEA ARI PHI SF

Jorge 43-33 12-3 HOU CLE NE CIN TEN GB DET DEN BAL SD ATL SEA ARI NYG SF

Maclyn 43-33 12-3 IND PIT NE CIN TEN GB DET DEN BAL SD ATL SEA ARI PHI SF

Wil 42-34 10-5 IND PIT NE CIN TEN GB DET DEN BAL SD ATL SEA ARI PHI SF

Steven 41-35 13-2 IND CLE NE CIN TEN GB DET DEN BAL SD CHI SEA ARI PHI SF

Alex S 40-36 11-4 IND PIT NE CAR TEN GB DET DEN BAL SD CHI DAL WSH NYG SF

Sam 31-45 10-5 IND CLE BUF CIN TEN GB DET DEN BAL SD ATL SEA ARI NYG SF

GUEST David Westby IND PIT NE CIN TEN MIA DET DEN BAL SD CHI DAL ARI PHI SF

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tor at the meet taking 12th overall with 111 points. Both Glover and Beatty combined to take fifth overall out of 22 teams.

Madden explained that as the season has progressed, the younger members of the team have seen development and improvement.

“The senior class has made a huge push to work on top-down development of the team,” he said. “This means that the upperclassmen are pushing the underclassmen to get better and accelerate our learning curve as a team. I think it’s really starting to work.”

“We’ve gotten into a great rhythm, but we just have to hone in on the little mistakes that we make at our events and make fewer of them,” RuizRamon added. “Sailing isn’t a game of being perfect, it’s about making fewer mistakes than the rest of the competition, and honing in on that will help continue the successes

we’ve been having.”

Next weekend, the team will split up again, as some members will attend the New England Sloop Championships held at Salve Regina, while others will head to Larchmont, N.Y. for the Storm Trysail Big Boats Championship.

“At Salve Regina, we’ll have Duncan [Swain] at skipper and crew James [Moody] and Caroline [Atwood],” RuizRamon said. “The top two qualify for nationals, and we’ve been helping as a team to get ready for the event.”

Madden added that the team looks to keep up its strong performance as it heads toward championship season.

“For the rest of the season, we’re looking for top five finishes as we gear up for the fall championships next month,” he said. “Finding success early in the season allows us to also focus on switching up personnel and getting some younger team members into the top regattas to allow them to learn and develop.”

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Senior tri-captains Sam Madden and Alec Ruiz-Ramon beat upwind in front of Yale during the Danmark Trophy hosted at Coast Guard on Oct. 4.

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playing a large role in creating opportunities on the attack.

Just two minutes later, senior co-captain defender Catharine Greer, returning from a onegame suspension after getting a red card in the Lesley game, headed the ball from inside the box back to Capone, whose shot rolled into the arms of Endicott senior keeper Katie Donnelly.

The defense, anchored by Greer and junior defender Nicole Campellone, allowed just three shots on goal all game.

The physical pair, both listed at five-feet, ten-inches, thwarted any attempts by the Endicott forwards – junior Rebecca Litwin and sophomore Shelby McLenithan – who are both listed as five-feet, two-inches and five-feet, one-inch, respectively.

Endicott’s strongest matchup on attack was the pairing of junior left wing Paige Marinelli against Brunswick, but the defense successfully managed to avoid any counterattack by the away team.

In the 20th minute, Marinelli broke away from Brunswick on the left corner

and found herself with the ball within the six, but Greer came in and cleared the ball before Marinelli was able to get a shot off. Marinelli tried again in the 32nd minute, this time getting past the pair of Greer and Brunswick, but the shot was saved by Tufts sophomore goalie Eileen McGarry.

“The goals we set before the game [were] to have very high pressure [on the other team], even before they cross the halfway line. We were really successful in that and that really spurred our offense, it changed the

dynamic of the game,” Brunswick said. “Something that we work on a lot is having our outside backs attack and it really does kind of confuse the other team because it’s another attacker. A lot of attack does starts when we win the ball back from defense and that gives us a huge opportunity to help on the attack.”

The Tufts’ defensive line has been a consistent factor in the team’s success all season, recording four shutouts in its six wins.

The starting line – consisting of Brunswick, Campellone, Greer and Pius – has been altered just

once this season, when freshman Chandler Quinton stepped when Greer was unable to play.

The defense, with the addition of McGarry, will be the key factor to the team’s success this weekend, as they take on both Conn. College and Trinity on their home fields.

“Right now the team’s looking at coming out with two wins this weekend, because those are crucial games for determining the standings in the NESCAC, so right now our mentality is just that we want to win,” Capone said.

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Sophomore defender Alexa Pius fights for the ball during a 2-0 loss to Amherst on Sept. 27.

Capone scores only goal in Endicott win

by Alison Kuah Daily Editorial Board

Sophomore Jess Capone recorded two goals in Tufts’ 3-0 shutout over Endicott last year. She upped that

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total against the Gulls to three on Tuesday, scoring the only goal in the Jumbos’ 1-0 victory.

Capone ran on to a ball from senior forward Victoria Stoj, and sent it toward the left post, burying it in the net to give Tufts the lead. The forward had been relentless on her attack on the Endicott defense all game, forcing Endicott senior midfielder Ally

George back to aid the pair of the defenders – junior Katherine Chipman and senior Clare Mansfield – already tasked with defending Capone. Of her three shots on goal all game, Capone made this strike in the 60th minute count to give Tufts the edge over its non-conference opponent.

The goal brings Capone’s season total to five, tying her with sophomore forward Brooke Fortin for the team lead. Freshman forward Mariah Harvey-Brown was matched up with junior Betsy Albiani, possibly Endicott’s strongest defender, who was able to limit Harvey-Brown’s impact. Still, she finished with two shots that day, both on goal.

But the score was only part of the story, as the Jumbos played well against a strong 6-3-3 Gulls team, recording 23 shots to the Gulls five, a testament to the versatility of a team that can play both sides of the field well.

“Before the game [coach] Martha [Whiting] set some goals for the team — that we were to get 20 shots off, eight corners – and that kind of really helped us focus on what we did [during] the game,” Capone said.

The game saw a return to Tufts’ characteristic high-speed offense, pressuring Endicott in its half of the field for the majority of the first 45 minutes. The attack benefited from strong and aggressive play by the defense, which moved up to support the forwards and found itself creating plenty of opportunities.

The first look at goal from the Jumbos came in the eighth minute off a pass from senior co-captain midfielder Carla Kruyff to Fortin on the left wing. Fortin passed it back to sophomore defender Alexa Pius, but her shot sailed to the right of the goal. This was one of many instances of the defense see WOMEN'S SOCCER, page 11

Sailing

Sailing continues to excel into October

by Chris Warren Daily Editorial Board

The co-ed sailing team has been both very busy and very successful of late. In the past two weeks, the team has competed in four meets located throughout New England. To boot, the team performed superbly at these invitationals, taking second place overall at Coast Guard’s Danmark Trophy and Salve Regina’s Olympians Trophy, first place overall at the Hood Trophy and fifth overall at the New England Men’s Single-Handed Championship.

At the Danmark Trophy, which featured a number of nationally ranked teams, the squad came in second overall behind Yale University, scoring 228 points to Yale’s 205. In the A division, senior Alec Ruiz-Ramon, who has emerged as one of the premiere skippers in the area, teamed with senior tri-captain crew Sam Madden to score a low point total of 101, all while taking first in the fifth and eighth races and finishing as runners-up in the third, ninth and 15th races. Tufts also may have found a strong B-crew, as senior tri-captain skipper Dan Nickerson teamed up with senior crew Jamie Maffeo to take fifth overall in the divi-

sion. Tufts has shown this season that its B-crew needed a little more pruning, but the team of Nickerson and Maffeo may have given the Jumbos exactly what they need.

“It has been huge to see the B team progressing so quickly and it was really awesome that Dan and Jamie put on such a great regatta,” Madden said. “To have that click this early in the year is very exciting, but now the challenge becomes using that momentum going forward.”

That same weekend, a different cohort of Jumbos took second place at the Olympians Trophy, held in Narragansett Bay in beautiful sailing conditions. In this A-crew only race, senior Duncan Swain teamed up with junior crews James Moody and Caroline Atwood to win the third, fourth, 10th, 12th and 15th races, scoring 54 points to Dartmouth’s winning 31-point score.

Sailing conditions were perfect with breezes above 15 knots all weekend.

The weekend before, Tufts also excelled in their trophy meets. The squad won the Hood Trophy which was hosted at home at the Bacow Sailing Pavilion on Sept. 28, and was the team’s first victory at a major invitational on the season. At this meet-

ing, races were canceled Saturday afternoon due to bad winds, and on Sunday, winds were very weak and racing was especially difficult. Due to the conditions, divisions were limited to 4 races apiece. However, Tufts overcame these obstacles and scored 15 points in the A division and 20 points in the B division to take the overall victory with 35 points over second place Boston University’s 47 points and third place Yale’s 51 points.

Ruiz-Ramon teamed up with Atwood in the A division to take second overall, while Swain teamed with senior crew Erin Bondy to take third in the B division. Swain and Bondy also won the third race in the B division, which was the Jumbos’ lone victory on the weekend.

Other members of the team raced at the New England Men’s Single Handed Championship that same weekend, held in Niantic, CT. With light winds, junior Rolfe Glover placed well, leading the Jumbos with a fifth place finish and 85 points. Glover just missed qualifying for the national championships, falling short by one spot. Sophomore Sandy Beatty was Tufts’ other competisee SAILING, page 11

On Monday, the NBA announced that the television networks ESPN and TNT would retain the rights to air NBA games for the next nine years. The deal begins during the 2016-2017 season and extends until the 2024-2025 season. I could write about how influential this new deal is for the NBA in terms of gathering support for the game of basketball and marketing the NBA brand domestically and worldwide. I really could, and the NBA has never been more popular than it is right now, thanks to former Commissioner David Stern and current Commissioner Adam Silver.

But I won’t. Instead, I want to follow the money. According to a New York Times report, the deal’s value comes in at an average of $2.66 billion per year, which is a heavy increase from the $930 million per year the NBA currently makes from its TV and digital rights. Commissioner Silver has said that the new deal will also result in a “substantial increase” in team salary caps, but the methods of implementation for this heavy increase have yet to be determined.

The current Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) was agreed upon by the players and the owners in December 2011, after a lockout that caused the season to begin on Christmas Day and consist of only 66 regular season games, instead of the standard 82. During those negotiations the league argued that it was losing about $370 million annually, and that 22 out of the 30 owners were losing money on a yearly basis. The players, in order to start playing basketball, had to agree to a deal in which they received 50 percent of the league’s annual basketball-related income (BRI).

This might seem fair to split the income 50-50 between the players and owners, but when we see that players received 57 percent of BRI under the previous CBA, it is clear that the owners got the better end of the deal.

Both sides have the option of opting out of the current CBA following the 2016-2017 season, which is a mere three seasons away. With the new TV deal, along with how much NBA franchises are now being sold for, it is hard for players, especially Cleveland’s LeBron James, to believe that the owners are losing money. The Los Angeles Clippers, for example, were sold for $2 billion this past summer. Therefore, the players should fight for their share of the BRI in the new CBA. In addition, they should take advantage of the new salary cap to make decisions.

James signed a two-year, $42.1 million deal with the Cavaliers this summer, whereas the maximum deal he could have signed was for four years, $94.5 million. Why didn’t he take more money in addition to a longer contract, and thus greater job security?

“It was being a businessman,” James told ESPN. “I understand the business of this sport. It had a lot to do with it.”

James understood that, when he becomes a free agent at the end of the 2015-2016 season, he would have the opportunity to capitalize from the higher salary cap as a result of the new TV deal.

It is the way of the NBA now. There is a constant struggle between the players and owners for money. Every player must make decisions like James did — by not solely thinking of which team gives them the best situation to win and develop as a player, but also thinking about which team puts them in the best position financially. To do this, players must be educated on the evolving financial infrastructure of the league. Commissioner Silver is doing great things to market the NBA brand and gain money for the league. It is about time the players study up in order to keep what is justly theirs.

Steven Hefter is a Sports Editor at the Tufts Daily. He is majoring in economics and can be reached at steven.hefter@tufts.edu.