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TCF loses official TCUJ recognition, plans to appeal by

Martha Shanahan

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The student dance group Sarabande will again be offering Open Dance Classes in the Jackson Dance Lab after its cancellation last month.

Sarabande Open Dance Class back after cancellation by

Melissa Mandelbaum Daily Editorial Board

Sarabande’s Open Dance Class has been reinstated after its initial discontinuation by the new Director of Dance Renata Celichowska last month.

The weekly class is taught by members of the student dance ensemble Sarabande and open to all Tufts students interested in learning modern dance.

The cancellation was due to a miscommunication with Celichowska, who expressed legal, safety and insurance concerns.

Although the Department of Drama and Dance has no direct jurisdiction over Sarabande, the group must meet with the department each semester to reserve time in the Jackson Dance Lab for the classes.

In early September, Sarabande was informed that they would not be allowed to use the space in Jackson for the Open

Dance Class, according to Sarabande President Kathryn Eckert, a senior.

Celichowska then notified Sarabande via email on Sept. 28 that Open Dance Class could return as long as it was restricted to currently registered Tufts students, after discussing her concerns about Tufts’ liability for student injuries with Director of the Office for Campus Life Joseph Golia.

Sarabande last Sunday held its first Open Dance Class of the semester, attended by seven students, coordinator of the classes Yessenia Rivas, a junior, said.

Sarabande had hoped to have Open Dance Class participants perform in the group’s semester shows on Nov. 15 and 17, but the month-long halt on the class has prevented those plans from moving forward, Rivas said.

The group expects to be able to have participants perform in the spring semes-

Patrick McGrath

Daily Editorial Board

Tufts Food Week will be held for the first time starting today, featuring a number of different events focusing on food and food-related issues.

Food Week is organized by Tufts Food for Thought, a student group co-founded by seniors Emily Wyner and Mariah Gruner last October in response to the campus’ lack of an organization that addresses food-related issues such as the growth, production and preparation of food, according to Wyner. Tufts Food for Thought became a branch organization of Tufts Sustainability Collective in January.

Food Week was planned to coincide with the national celebration of Food Day on Wednesday, according to Wyner, director and co-founder of Food for Thought.

“The hope was that we just would broadly raise awareness for some of these issues,” she said. “So the idea was to have as many little events as we could in a week.”

Events for the week include a film screening of the documentary “King Corn” and tours of the Davis Square Farmers Market and Tom Thumb’s Student Garden.

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Food Week kicks off today by

Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) has lost its official recognition as a Tufts Community Union (TCU) student group over alleged discriminatory clauses in the group’s constitutional requirements for its leaders.

TCF leadership says the group plans to appeal the decision.

The group’s Vision and Planning Team (VPT) failed to make revisions to their governing document that would bring it in line with the TCU Constitution’s non-discriminatory clause, Judiciary Chair Adam Sax, a senior, said.

As an unrecognized group, TCF will lose the right to use the Tufts name in its title or at any activities, schedule events or reserve university space through the Office for Campus Life and request and receive funding allocated by the TCU Treasury, Sax said.

TCF is the Tufts chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, an evangelical Christian mission on college campuses across the country, and also has ties to the university Chaplaincy.

The group had been operating in a state of suspended recognition after the Judiciary found that the group’s consti-

tution excluded students from applying to leadership positions based on their beliefs. The clauses in question require that any TCF member who wishes to apply for a leadership role must adhere to a series of tenets called a Basis of Faith, or eight “basic Biblical truths of Christianity.”

The Judiciary last month recommended that TCF move the belief-based leadership requirements from the constitution’s bylaws, which are legally binding, to its mission statement, which is not.

By the first week of October, TCF had not submitted any amendments, so Sax set a deadline of Oct. 18 for the group to do so.

“It was long enough for the [Judiciary] to say, ‘This is something that needs to start getting done,’” Sax said.

The VPT solicited feedback from TCF members and submitted a proposal for a new draft to be reviewed by the Judiciary. The revised constitution, among other changes, shifted a clause requiring leaders to follow the Basis of Faith to the constitution’s opening article and reworded several clauses in the article on leadership selection.

After reviewing the revised constitu-

Tufts Culinary Society on Thursday will be hosting a cooking demonstration for students interested in learning how to make butternut squash pasta and apple crisp.

Some of the events hosted during Food Week are organized or co-sponsored by other organizations on campus, including Tufts Hillel, according to Wyner.

Sara Gardner, a freshman, proposed the idea for Food Week during Food for Thought’s first meeting last month.

“The first Food for Thought meeting was a giant brainstorm session of ideas of projects that we could do throughout the year relating to food, and so I brought out this idea,” Gardner said.

Much of the early development and planning for Food Week was spearheaded

by Gardner and senior Eric Siegel, but members of Food for Thought worked collaboratively to plan the week’s events, according to Gardner.

“I would love to see people starting to really think about their food — where it comes from, what it’s made with, who does it affect, what does it affect beyond the immediate tangible action of eating,” she said. see FOOD, page 2

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JumboBooks, a student-led textbook donation program, is looking to expand its services this semester.

Student launches textbook donation program

by James

Pouliot

Daily Editorial Board

Students frustrated by high textbook costs may soon have another means of accessing books for their courses.

This fall, sophomore Tyler Agyemang opened a campus-based book donation program to alleviate the cost and inconvenience of purchasing textbooks. JumboBooks, which currently exists as a Facebook page, is hoping to expand its audience to become a viable alternative to bookstores and rentals.

Agyemang developed the idea for JumboBooks this summer when he real-

ized that he had hundreds of books in his home that he did not plan to read. He then decided to launch an on-campus hub for free, used textbooks on LibraryThing.com.

The concept, however, has yet to get off the ground, Agyemang said.

While a book “drop-off day” was announced earlier this semester, only 10 to 15 donors actually showed up, he said, adding that he received approximately 100 books. A general interest meeting scheduled for Oct. 16 in Hodgdon Hall went unattended, according to Agyemang. see TEXTBOOKS, page 2

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Tufts’ chapter of J Street U joins the IsraeliPalestinian conversation on campus.

Blue Man Group brings down the house at its College Media Night performance.

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Visiting the Hill this Week TUESDAY “Modernity and Religion, Gender and Islam: New Heretical Imperatives” Details: Durre Ahmed, senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of Gender and Culture, Lahore, will be speaking.

When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Cabot 702 Sponsors: Department of History WEDNESDAY “People of Color Blindness: Racial Politics After Coalition” Details: Jared Sexton, associate professor and director of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, will give the inaugural lecture for Tufts’ Africana Studies Program.

When and Where : 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Braker 001

Sponsors: Africana Studies Program and American Studies Program “The Story of Stuff: Annie Leonard Talk” Details: Annie Leonard, author of this year’s undergraduate common reading book “The Story of Stuff,” will be speaking. Leonard will be available for a question and answer session and book signing after the talk. Tickets are free at the Aidekman Center Box Office.

When and Where: 8 p.m.; Cohen Auditorium Sponsors: The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering, the Office of Sustainability, Tisch Library, the Tufts Institute of the Environment and the Freshman Class Council

JumboBooks a potential alternative to textbook market TEXTBOOKS

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“There are multiple problems,” Agyemang said. “I think the main one is publicity and labor force. It’s just me, so far. There’s also the problem of making people willing to donate — most people will sell the book for $5 instead of giving it away. It’s just running off of human generosity, which is a very small fuel.”

JumboBooks currently runs entirely out of Agyemang’s room, he said. Donated books are stacked and stored there for later use, and all transactions are arranged via Facebook.

Nicola Chang, a sophomore who donated to JumboBooks, supports the concept but remains skeptical about its prospects.

“It’s a great idea and he’s got so much heart behind it, but he needs more people and a more official event,” Chang said. “Put it in the [Mayer] Campus Center and let everyone come and browse books. I think it works theoretically, but it needs more participation from the school administration.”

Chang suggested that JumboBooks would benefit from visibility on websites like RaptorAttack.com and GetchaBooks. com, which provide course planning and textbook price-comparison services, respectively, for Tufts students.

Given the poor response to his program, Agyemang said he has no immediate plans to seek student group recognition from the Tufts Community Union.

JumboBooks also faces the difficulty of integrating into a marketplace that is responding to the need for cheaper textbooks on a much greater scale.

The Tufts University Bookstore has already addressed this problem by offer-

ing rental books at 51 percent off retail price, according to Store Manager Carolyn Laquaglia. She does not feel that the bookstore is threatened by the introduction of a book donation program.

“What’s been more detrimental to our sales has been competition, prior to us offering rentals,” she said. “Now that we have rentals, you have the convenience of not ordering online and paying the same or less.”

Laquaglia noted that textbook publishers are attempting to push alternatives out of the market by making their products available digitally.

“Publishers are reacting to the rental process,” she said. “They can only change editions so frequently without it being too costly for them. Publishers have a huge incentive to push all of their content to digital to stop the rental process and to offer it on a cheaper basis digitally.”

Publishers are also beginning to protect their business by bundling books with single-use access codes to databases and other online/offline integration services, according to Laquaglia. Since the codes are non-transferable and often cost as much as the book itself, donation programs like JumboBooks may soon become obsolete for textbook-dependent disciplines such as biology.

That possibility does not intimidate Agyemang, who believes that JumboBooks will ultimately act as a catalog of cheap books that are easy to donate.

“We’re really open to anything,” he said.

“The cheap books, the ones that you use for literature class, that’s what we have more of.

So long as we’re alleviating the burden on people, that’s the main goal.”

TCU Senate update

TCU Senate discusses university initiatives, toilets University President Anthony Monaco conducted his annual check-in with the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at its meeting last night, speaking and taking questions from the Senate and the public for a total of 30 minutes.

Monaco spoke optimistically about the hire of Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris, whose office will be responsible for setting institutional and academic priorities. He then discussed the universitywide strategic plan, an approach untested at Tufts on this scale.

Monaco also spoke about the need for more diversity at Tufts, arguing that his new committees on diversity would be more effective than previous taskforces because they will use past and present data to measure the university’s progress.

“I’m a very data-driven person,” Monaco said. “We want to make sure that we’re doing things that keep us on target.

The needle hasn’t moved. If anything, it’s gotten worse.”

Senators were next joined by two members of the Tufts community in questioning Monaco on his other policies.

The president showed interest in the creation of a design lab for students involved in entrepreneurship, adding that there should be a place for like-minded students to gather and discuss their ideas.

He rejected a proposal that Tufts avoid investment in fossil fuel companies, explaining that the university’s funds are invested indirectly through fund managers, making it impossible to see the eventual recipients of the investments.

Senator Bradley Friedman, a sophomore, was given permission to petition the administration to invest in “blue cubes,” dissolvable blocks which are fitted into urinal toilets. Freidman claimed that the cubes would allow toilets on campus to use 99 percent less water because they avoid the necessity of flushing the toilet after each usage. Instead, the flushing handles would be removed and the toilets flushed manually by cleaning staff each night.

The body approved $600 in supplementary funding to small-concert provider Midnight Café矴to defray the unexpected cost of hiring staff for an upcoming event. The Caribbean Club received $1,260 to partially fund the transportation, lodging and speaking fees for their upcoming “Cuba Reconsidered” event. The Robotics Club was appropriated $1888.32, the majority of which will go towards buying parts to build a “combat robot” to enter in competitions. Allocation of the $100 registration fee was denied, as the club had yet to specify a competition.

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THURSDAY “Africa’s Turn? The Promise and Reality of the Global Economy’s ‘Final Frontier’” Details: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy will be holding a conference on Africa and the global economy featuring a variety of faculty and keynote speakers. The symposium will continue on Friday at 9 a.m.

When and Where: 10:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; 51 Winthrop Street Sponsors: The Institute for Business in the Global Context at the Fletcher School, the MasterCard Foundation and Hitachi, Ltd. “Eating Steel: The Green Revolution and its Alternative in India” Details: Nick Cullather, professor in the Department of History at Indiana University, will be speaking as part of the 2012-2013 Tufts Seminar Series, “Exploring the History

of Humanitarianism and Development.”

When and Where: 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Center Sponsors: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Department of History and the Department of Religion SATURDAY “Urban Foraging Walking Tour” Details: David Craft, author of Urban Foraging: Finding and Eating Wild Plants in the City, will be leading an urban foraging walking tour around the Medford/Somerville campus and beyond.

When and Where: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Tufts University Art Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center Sponsors: Tufts University Art Gallery —compiled by the Daily News Department

Food for Thought hosts activities this week to raise awareness for food issues FOOD

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Gardner explained that members of Food for Thought were able to head specific events if they wanted.

“If you have a real interest in this thing, you have the ability to lead this activity, but where people weren’t so interested, we would just sort of pick up the slack and do it as a group and a big cooperative thing,” Gardner said.

Both Wyner and Gardner expressed interest in continuing the tradition of Food Week in years to come.

“This year I’m sure in many ways will be a learning process for us to see what worked and what didn’t,” Wyner said.

Wyner said the group aims to increase awareness about food-related issues through the events and activities planned this week.

“I think it’s a very easy issue to overlook, and there’s a divide [between] people who care a lot about food and food systems [and] those that don’t and are unfamiliar,” she said. “I would hope to sort of bridge that divide in a fun, creative, inclusive way.”

New dance course to be held in spring SARABANDE

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ter show, she added.

Spirit of Color’s (SoC) Open Class was unaffected by the policy, according to Rivas, who also performs with that student dance troupe. Rivas believes that Celichowska, who is in her second month at Tufts, was unaware of SoC’s program.

“We were a little confused as to why we were getting singled out ... for something that we thought was benefiting the Tufts community,” Eckert said.

Celichowska said Sarabande is now free to arrange dance classes at its discretion.

“We don’t have anything to do with it,” she said. “My concern is that everyone in the dance studio is safe.”

Celichowska has also cut a master ballet class popular with Sarabande members. For the last two years, the Dance Department has subsidized six nonacademic classes taught on campus by local ballet instructor Dean Vollick at the request of Tufts students involved in both the Dance Department and Sarabande.

Special Topics: Advanced Ballet will instead be offered by the Dance Department during the spring semester.

Rivas believes the cancellation of Open Dance Class was partially due to confusion surrounding Vollick’s master ballet classes.

“Even when she was talking to us, we could tell she didn’t quite understand the difference between the advanced ballet class and the open classes,” Rivas said.

Since many of Sarabande’s dancers were trained in technique during high school, they benefited from ongoing professional instruction, which was particularly convenient on campus, according to Rivas and Eckert.

Eckert said Sarabande members have been attending drop-in classes at the Dance Complex in Cambridge this semester, but transportation and participation fees present obstacles to group members.

“We’re not really equipped to giving ourselves the technical critiquing that we look for when dancing, and so I think it was that component that we’re missing this semester,” Eckert said.

Both Celichowska and Eckert expressed interest in improving the relationship and communication between student dance groups and the Dance Department.

“We feel like things were a little onedge between Sarabande and the Dance Department during certain points of our Tufts career and want to foster a positive relationship between the two for the future,” Eckert said. “In the end, we’re just really happy that [the Open Class] is back.”

TCF to persist despite derecognition TCF

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tion, the Judiciary found that the clauses about leadership selection still excluded students who did not share a certain belief system, Sax said. TCF decided to accept derecognition rather than continue to revise the document.

“In the end, we felt we couldn’t satisfy their suggestions,” senior Elaine Kim, a member of the VPT, said.

The group has ten days to appeal its derecognition, according to Sax. It must file paperwork with the Committee on Student Life (CSL) requesting that a panel of students and faculty re-examine TCF’s recognition status and either uphold or strike down the Judiciary’s decision.

“We’re deciding to appeal this decision because we feel like just the purpose of our organization is to...encourage understanding and celebration of each belief [in the Basis of Faith], and the best way to fulfill that purpose is to have leaders

that are centered on and unified by these beliefs,” Kim said.

“We feel like we have the right to be selective on the basis of belief for our leaders since we’re a student group that is trying to encourage understanding about a faith-based set of beliefs,” she added. Her sentiment is echoed in her Op-Ed, “TCF to appeal derecognition,” on page 9.

It is a familiar process for TCF, as the Judiciary derecognized the group in 2000 after a student alleged that she had been denied a leadership role because of her sexual orientation. TCF appealed to the CSL, which reversed the decision and reinstated the group’s recognition.

Kim said that while she cannot predict the outcome of the planned appeal to the CSL, TCF will continue to exist as a student group based in the Chaplaincy should its derecognition be upheld.

“We don’t know what the results are going to be but we’ll continue to read the Bible and pray together,” she said.

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J Street, led by President Jeremy Ben-Ami, is a pro-Israel, pro-peace organization that supports a two-state solution and is the larger umbrella for J Street U.

J Street U joins the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue on campus by

Amelia Quinn

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Amidst Israel Peace Week and Israeli Apartheid Week, back-and-forth editorials published in the Daily and broader questions of the U.S.-Israel relationship, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the subject of heated debate on campus last spring. The new Tufts chapter of J Street U, a self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” organization, aims to steer this conversation in a productive and inclusive direction.

“I was very much troubled by the campus climate last spring, in the conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I felt like there were some very strong opinions being voiced, and none being represented were my beliefs,” Tufts J Street U co-President Eve Lifson said. “I think a lot of students felt alienated from the events that existed, and were really looking for more complex conversation that really got at the heart of the matter.”

J Street U is the student-organizing arm of larger non-profit organization J Street. According to J Street U’s mission statement, which was ratified by 75 students from 42 universities at the Summer Leadership Institute 2012, the fates of the people on both sides of the conflict are intertwined and a two-state solution is the desired outcome. These tenets, along with bringing depolarizing conversations to campuses, form the foundation upon which the organization is built.

“One thing that’s really important to making progress with the IsraeliPalestinian conflict is to not shut out any voices about it,” Lifson, a senior, said. “We do have a strong political stance that we support a two-state solution, but we’re not hiding from any facts, and we’re really excited to engage different perspectives.”

Although still in its fledgling stage, the Tufts chapter of J Street U has already demonstrated its desire to bring together different voices in a productive environment. Though SJP and FOI both engage with the issues in the Middle East, they do not often engage in them together. Tufts Hillel follows its parent group’s policy, which refuses to co-sponsor events with organizations that advocate for boy-

cott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, including SJP. On October 10th, J Street U and SJP co-sponsored “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Roads to Peace,” which featured two guest speakers, Jeff Halper and Daniel May. Halper is the director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, and May is the director of J Street U. “The event was very successful,” SJP member Hani Azzam, a sophomore, said. “Friends of Israel [FOI] can’t cosponsor events with SJP, so that was a definite chasm between both our groups, but J Street provides a different outlet.”

Azzam emphasized the positives of having another group on campus to assuage the dichotomy between SJP and FOI. “I think that they’re somebody that we’ll look for in the future going forward to co-host events; even though our views don’t align exactly, we still feel is a partner we can engage in a serious and meaningful dialogue with on campus, so I think that there will be a relationship in the future,” he said.

FOI has also reached out to the new group on campus, according to FOI President Shira Shamir, a junior.

“We had a meeting the beginning of the semester, where a couple leaders from FOI and J Street U sat down for a while and fleshed out what the goals of each organization were for the semester and how we could come together and be productive,” Shamir said.

“Two pro-Israel organizations could compete with each other, but why should we do that? [Working together] brings depth to the conversation, and at Tufts, that’s what we’re looking for,” she said.

One initiative that these two groups have already created is Cafe Dilemma, which will be a once-a-month facilitated discussion about issues pertaining to Israel in a friendly environment.

“A certain topic will be chosen, from internal Israeli topics to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict to your own personal relationship [with] Israel, led by questions and articles that we’ve handed out from every side of the spectrum so people can educate themselves and discussions can flow,” Shamir said. “I don’t think anyone is entirely set in

their opinions; there are always more things to learn and more ways to challenge each other in a safe space.”

Beyond collaboration with existing groups on campus, Tufts J Street U has leapt into its own projects during the fall semester, such as a postcard campaign geared towards the United States Congress.

J Street U is a non-partisan organization and therefore, will not be lobbying for specific political candidates.

Instead, they are working with the larger national initiative to influence any newly elected Congressional representatives come January with student voices from across the country.

“For this semester, our largest campaign involves having students sign postcards in support of a two-state solution saying that they support strong U.S. diplomatic leadership in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Lifson said.

The question of how the student body at-large will respond to the formation of the new group persists as J Street U develops on campus.

“I think we do realize that students are coming to the issue with a variety of perspectives. Some students are more interested in it because of the humanitarian issues related to the conflict, whereas others are more interested from a policy perspective,” J Street U co-President Natalya Minoff said. “So we’re going to try to bring a variety of speakers and try to look at the issues through all different lenses in order to interest students from as wide a range as possible.”

May, the Director of J Street U, emphasized the global impact that young students can have on an issue of conflict is tremendously significant.

“If we can continue to grow and find thousands of young people who are tired of the choice between Israel or Palestine and want to rise above the name-calling to build an organization that can be smart and strategic, J Street U can make an enormous impact,” he told the Daily in an email. “J Street U Tufts can transform the conversation at Tufts. But J Street U Tufts with [Brandeis, Harvard, Wellesley, Williams, U Mass Amherst] — that’s when politicians start noticing, and that’s when students can really make a huge difference.”

icture this scene: It’s a crisp, autumn afternoon and you’ve just finished classes for the day. As you wander the President’s Lawn under a canopy of golden foliage, you find the perfect tree under which to sit and catch up on some reading. As the warm sun filters through the leaves you begin to feel drowsy, and maybe you start dozing off in your book. Then, out of nowhere: CLANG CLANG CLANG! I cannot tell you how many of my pleasant Prez Lawn naps have been interrupted by the daily din of the Goddard bells. To be honest, the bells and I have never had a great relationship — I almost never recognize the songs, they have a frequent habit of interrupting my sleep and they’re just so damn loud that you can’t escape the racket even on the farthest edges of campus. The records seem to indicate, however, that the bells weren’t always such an aural nuisance.

Before the grandeur of the 25 bells currently housed in Goddard Chapel, from 1854-1856 students were called to classes with the use of a simple hand-bell that a student would ring while standing outside of Ballou Hall. The bell was later placed on the roof of Ballou and apparently the position of bell-ringer — or “chimer,” as it is formally known — was one of the most sought after jobs on campus. Chimers were paid a yearly stipend of $100 for their daily duties during the 1870-1871 school year, or a little over $1,600 by 2012 standards.

The simple bell that sat atop Ballou for half a century was deemed insufficient by the early 1900s. Perhaps it wasn’t loud enough to reach every set of ears on our growing campus. The class of 1898 donated a bell in honor of its 10th anniversary, and in 1908 it was the first bell installed in the tower of Goddard. Weighing in at just over half a ton, the new acquisition affectionately became known as the “A” Victory bell, which, unsurprisingly, was rung after every football victory at Tufts.

Eugene B. Bowen (A’ 1876) was arguably the most prominent chimer in Tufts history. Bowen played the bells to pay his way through Tufts and, to mark the 50th anniversary of his graduation, donated the eponymous Bowen chimes in 1926.

Nine bells were added to the original 1908 Victory bell and allowed chimers to play the catchiest hymns of the day instead of ringing one lonely bell.

After the hoopla surrounding the Bowen chimes subsided, the record goes silent for a while — maybe the campus was simply in a state of bell-ringing bliss for two solid decades. All of that changed, however, on Dec. 4, 1964 when a bold headline screamed from the front page of the Weekly: “New Electronic Bell System Installed in Goddard Chapel Tower This Week.” Gone was the era of chimers frantically running around the tower to play the enormous set of bells. Just like that, they were replaced with a keyboard.

And, with the addition of another 15 bells in 1966, Tufts entered a fantastic new era of bell ringing. Steve Kenety, chimer for the 1973-74 academic year, played a vast range of tunes on the chimes. As noted by the Tufts Observer in 1974, “Mondays he generally plays hymns ... Wednesday is ‘Broadway hits day,’ and features songs from such musicals as ‘West Side Story’ and ‘The Sound of Music.’ On Fridays, Kenety ... plays primarily rock tunes.”

Frankly, it seems like we missed out on the golden age of the Goddard bells.

Don’t get me wrong, I can put up with a good hymn every now and then. But if we could get some Beyonce blasting from Goddard, I think the bells and I would get along just fine.

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

Tuller@tufts.edu.

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Celebrate Crime Prevention Month October 2012 For a fun and safe Halloween, the TUFTS POLICE Crime Prevention Unit offers the following safety tips: Be aware of your surroundings at all times!

Use common sense if you are attending a party! Don’t put yourself in a situation you have no control over!

When out at night, walk in well-lit areas of the campus! Go with a friend and use the GoSafe service.

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Before leaving for a Halloween function, make sure your residence hall room door is locked! Windows and security screens should be secured. Be sure to tell someone where you are going, and what time you’ll be back!

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The Blue Man Group finishes the show with its classic “crepe paper finale.”

Sound, color, feeling coalesce at Charles Playhouse with Blue Man Group by

Marcus Budline

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Synesthesia is typically a gentle touch in a performance, an artistic device that lies beneath the surface but adds a slight feeling to certain colors or sounds.

This is not the case for the Blue Man Group. When it performs, colors, sounds and feelings combine into one sensory overload that is sustained from the show’s beginning to its end.

The audience simultaneously sees the sound as rolling drums spit neon paint into the air and feel it as the seats quake from show’s new age, bassheavy soundtrack.

Last week, on October 17th, the group

opened its doors to Boston’s universities for the group’s famous College Media Night performance. Hosted at the Charles Playhouse, as it is throughout the year, the theater was full of eager college students and adults, which produced a surprisingly intimate and exciting atmosphere for the three blue men to do their work.

Running just over 90 minutes, the show used the entirety of the stage and held the crowd rapt throughout, even when it was silent. The show was divided into different segments and styles of entertainment, but no matter how they performed, the blue men produced a riveting and impressive show.

The most significant aspect of it all

was the organic musicality of the blue men. The performance opened with the group drumming on large metal barrels, and showcased a rhythm that continued throughout, as the blue men continued to beat on a variety of objects with perfect timing.

Accompanying the blue men’s own numbers and playing some of their own was a neon-clothed band that sat above the stage. Together, they created the same sort of musical atmosphere that one might expected from a full-fledged rock concert, with hands clapping and feet tapping to the beat of the drums.

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TV Review

‘30 Rock’ begins final season by

Alex Kaufman

Daily Editorial Board

With witty jokes, slapstick comedy and a whole lot of self-reference, “30 Rock” is back for its seventh and final season. As

30 Rock Starring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski Airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on NBC always, the Emmy Award-winning NBC comedy series, created by and starring Tina Fey, continues to entertain audiences with face-palming humor. This season, the show tosses all comedic conventions out the window to make even more room for the ridiculous.

For those unfamiliar with the series, “30 Rock” follows the behind-the-scenes goings-on of a fictional live sketch comedy show called “The Girlie Show with Tracy Jordan,” which airs on NBC. If this rings a bell, it’s because the show’s concept is based off of Fey’s experience as head writer of “Saturday Night Live,” NBC’s live sketch comedy show.

The aptly titled season premiere, “The Beginning of the End,” sets the season up for a sequence of events that will surely be able to carry it through its 13-episode final season. The final premise is revealed when writer Liz Lemon (Fey) discovers that Jack Donaghy, the network executive played by the quirky, quick-witted Alec

Baldwin, has been trying to tank the network. In her comically ruthless fashion, Lemons asks, “How long has this been going on? Seven years?” This quotation suggests that NBC has been subpar for as many years — and she’s right.

Though not quite as tight and fastpaced as it has been in previous seasons, “30 Rock’s” comedy still employs several key principles of comedy: parody, irony and slapstick. Fey’s script exemplifies her mastery of the genre with inlaid comedic timing, self-reflexive jokes and situations whose laugh-factors don’t peter out in the middle.

The beauty of the series is that it never lingers too long on one plotline, which allows the show to shuffle from scene to scene with direction and humorous clarity. At the same time, each comedic moment is given its due air- and reaction-time. The expert level of timing comes not only from the script’s attention to detail, but also from the highlevel performances from each actor in the ensemble.

Fey and Baldwin are joined once again by actors Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer, along with their recurring characters that breathe life into Fey’s writing on the small screen.

The chemistry that exists between the cast members can only be described as serendipitous because of how naturally every scene glides to the next. The cast lands each self-aware line and witty snipe at product placement without missing a beat.

Though it is hard to be disappointed with “30 Rock’s” storyline when it’s written by Tina Fey, the season premiere’s plotline between Kenneth (McBrayer), Tracy (Morgan), and Hazel (Kristen Schaal) left much to be desired. As per usual, Morgan delivered his lines in his typical one-note fashion that’s bound to

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Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin return for the final season of “30 Rock.”

s Boston poised to supersede NYC as the reigning hub of fashion fine art exhibits?

Possibly. The home of the Kennedy family, an abysmal Sox season and clam chowder just took its first step towards high fashion last Wednesday with the preview of the Mario Testino “In Your Face” and “British Royal Portraits” exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts. Always skeptical of the place of true couture fashion in Boston, I was very much surprised by the avantgarde content of the collection along with the slew of bold-faced names that showed up to the opening gala later that night.

Mario Testino, along with Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel and a handful of others, is revered in the fashion industry as the cream of the crop in terms of editorial fashion photography.

He considers Kate Moss his leading lady and muse, and refers to Anna Wintour, editor extraordinaire of Vogue, simply as Anna. This exhibit proves exactly why. His photos embody luxury, quality, joie de vivre and sex.

“In Your Face” consists of 122 portraits, lined on hip-height ledges in the basement of the MFA. A true testament to Testino’s popularity and influence, several images are recognizable, even to those who aren’t entirely obsessed with fashion. Take, for example, Tom Brady’s fall cover for “V Man” where he’s barking with a dog beside him. Or Princess Diana’s photo shoot for Vanity Fair, five months before her death in 1997. Or any of Lady Gaga’s “Vogue” covers. Then, there are his blatantly sexual Gucci ads, along with a gaggle of other bare bums, breasts and limbs from the tautest bodies in the world, languidly lounging on beaches, yachts and in studios.

And then there’s the occasional celebrity portrait from various events, comprising some of his personal work. Candid pictures of Oprah, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tom Ford and Robbie Williams balance the explosion of colors and complex staging with stark black and white composition that shows his strength in capturing people in real life, not just people in fashion editorials.

The theatricality transitions from full throttle to nearly zero upon entering the petite “British Royal Portraits” gallery. The small space reflects the intimacy of the portraits hanging on the wall of a family that is known for compulsively controlling its public image. Later in the press conference, Mr. Testino spoke about an especially eerie photograph of the late Princess Diana.

“She had something special, something other-worldly,” he remarked.

The press gathered in an auditorium after the gallery tours to hear a Q&A between Testino and the museum’s director, Malcolm Rogers. For a man who somehow produces some of the most raw images of the most guarded people in the world, Testino spoke with warmth, humor and honesty. Considering my greater interest in fashion than photography, I was especially intrigued by his relationship with Wintour. Wintour actually helped internally curate the collection, suggesting to Testino that he pull three images that she found unfitting.

Testino also spoke about the idealized version of beauty that he and top industry insiders adhere to.

“Magazines need to be aspirational,” he said, stressing the fact that even top models can come into a shoot looking drab.

He seemed very aware of the gravity of his role in the industry and its quest for often unachievable standards of beauty. Perhaps he is trained to be in the limelight, but Testino was full of advice.

“You’ve gotta be you — we are often in awe of other people, but you have to do you,” he advised. He seems to practice what he preaches, so I shall be taking those words quite seriously.

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

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blue men never broke character, staring into the crowd even as they drummed on thin pieces of piping. Not once did it feel like the group was unaware of its surroundings.

After all, the performers’ interaction with the audience is largely the hallmark of any Blue Man Group performance. Seats and rows were left unfilled so the blue men could prowl through the theater and make the audience feel even closer to the performers. The luckiest members of the crowd were those who were pulled up on stage and got to actively participate in sketches or be painted blue with everyone watching. Every moment of those interactions added to the theatre’s vibrant and intimate atmosphere.

When the blue men weren’t playing music or spraying food into the audience, they were using props to create fantastic scenes that poked fun at modern culture and the use of technology today. At the College Media Night, giant iPads dropped down from the ceiling and the sketches that followed proved

to be the most fun anyone could ever have while watching someone use an iPad. This modern addition was inventive, creative and absolutely hilarious.

In every portion of the show, the visuals and the sounds added a layer that was unparalleled as far as other performance troupes go. The thumping drums were coordinated perfectly with the light displays, and they all worked in tandem to produce the feeling of a modern sensory bubble even in a rather antique theatre.

In toying with the audience’s senses, perhaps where the blue men succeed the most is in making college students act and feel the way children do when presented with such visual displays.

Twenty-year olds sat on the edge of their seats, followed the blue men in pumping their fists and jumped out of their chairs to punch balloons back into the air. The same smiles and emotions you would expect to see on seven-year olds after the show were the ones worn by college kids attending the event.

The blue men succeeded in their

comedy without even speaking, and this created a show that someone of any age can enjoy. The bright colors mixed with the booming bass and blended with the perfectly choreographed motions of the performers give new meaning to the saying “feeling blue.”

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The Blue Man Group’s sketches about technology and creative tunes rocked the house.

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crack a smile on any viewer’s face. As for the other two, the comedy sagged a bit during their lines. Thankfully, a Jenna/ Liz bride “dramedy” scene compensated for the dearth of laughs by being over the top, making light of the ‘bridezillas’ trend and giving Jenna (Krakowski) some levity in acknowledging her own vanity.

“30 Rock” is a smart, driven comedy targeted toward the young to middleaged and educated sector of the United States. However, Fey made a smart call by choosing to close the curtains on the beloved comedy before it grows stale and people wonder why it’s still on the air.

Though audiences will be sad to see it go, especially given the scarcity of good programs on NBC, it’s time for “The Girlie Show with Tracy Jordan” to close shop and make way for more 10-star shows to debut. Oh, heck, they’re all going to be fives, anyway. It’s going to be hard to beat “30 Rock.”

Album Review

Singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding crafts unique sophomore album by

Caroline Welch

Daily Editorial Board

Ellie Goulding’s most recent album bears a rather misleading title. “Halcyon,” the British singer-songwriter’s second

Halcyon Ellie Goulding Polydor Records Ltd. release, does not, in fact, invoke nostalgic feelings of idyllic happiness. Instead, Goulding’s new record is more like a splash of cold, harsh reality to the face.

The singer-songwriter herself agrees with this assessment.”Giving it that name does seem a bit ironic because it’s quite a sad album,” the singer admitted on her website.

Though listeners will be hit with a fair share of tonal, lyrical heartache and sorrow, the experience is ultimately refreshing. Goulding’s sophomore venture is anything but stale. The thirteen-track compilation is essentially a musical miscellany: each song is a collage of sounds, a melange of instrumentation ranging from cascading harp notes and subtle piano to synthetic percussion and crisp chimes. Playing over everything is Goulding’s breathy soprano voice, a voice that manages to be simultaneously ethereal and soulful, velvety and rough. This is no ordinary pop production: Goulding has created an album that is both distinctive and compelling, an invigoratingly honest glimpse into her world.

“Halcyon” opens with “Don’t Say A Word,” a particularly unconventional lead-in. The beginning is long and relatively quiet: In fact, a full 45 seconds pass before any actual words are sung. The first minute consists of an almost inaudible, scratchy “static” noise played behind Goulding’s eerie, echoing vocals. The track sounds slightly Middle Eastern, as if Goulding were singing in a remote, barren desert. A haunting, solemn spirituality fills the first few measures until finally, in the second minute, it picks up with the entrance of a driving, almost tribal

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“Halcyon’s” ironic title effectively showcases its simple message.

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Ellie Goulding’s echoing, soprano vocals remain appealing and poignant throughout the album. beat. The pulsating percussion continues for the remainder of the song, beneath a conglomeration of synthetic reverberations and Goulding’s airy, layered vocals.

Altogether, “Don’t Say a Word” makes for an interesting introduction, captivating listeners right from the get-go.

Goulding’s fourth track, “Only You” is also quite unusual. The song starts with a strange dissonant humming from Goulding that serves as the background rhythm. The humming is reminiscent of the incessant buzzing of an Australian didgeridoo or the South African vuvuzelas. While it’s not entirely pleasing to the ear, this beginning is nonetheless intriguing. And like “Don’t Say A Word,” the middle of “Only You” marks an escalation to a more electronic sound.

Despite this upbeat twist, the song’s lyrics are raw and painful. “Only you can be the aching in my hear / My enemy / Only you can see the emptiness I feel / When you’re with me,” Goulding chants bluntly. Ultimately, the song relies on

simple repetition: the first line reappears three additional times in less than four minutes. It is this minimalism that makes “Only You” so innovative and unique.

Following “Only You” is the album’s title track, “Halcyon.” Musically, “Halcyon” is the polar opposite of its predecessor.

The light plucking of an acoustic guitar gives way to the delicate tinkling of a muted xylophone. The cacophony that is “Only You” contrasts sharply with this enchantingly melodious composition.

But thematically, “Halcyon” is just as, if not more, melancholic. Here, Goulding delivers another tender account of a relationship on the brink of collapse. “When it’s just us / you show me what it feels like to be lonely / you show me what it feels like to be lost,” she sings. A mournful ode to a dying love, her performance is poignant and heartrendingly emotional.

Though she later asserts, “[It’s’] going to get better,” the audience is unconvinced. That snippet of hopefulness is not enough to counter the generally sor-

rowful nature of the song.

Yet there are some moments on “Halcyon” where optimism shines through. The album’s first single, “Anything Could Happen,” is one of the more traditionally poppy tunes on the record. A synthetic bass-line vibration along with low, quick-paced piano chords set a lively tempo. This cheerful rhythm and Goulding’s perfectly cadenced voice propel the song forward into an almost euphoric chorus. Over a joyful series of “ooh’s,” Goulding exclaims that “anything could happen!” With this blissful declaration, Goulding leaves her listeners with at least a little positivity.

Though most new artists experience a “sophomore slump,” Goulding has far surpassed expectations for her second artistic endeavor. Despite the album’s serious and somber nature, Goulding prevails with musical diversity and powerful vocals. Both unusual and inspirational, “Halcyon” is certainly not to be missed.

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Editorial

Takeaways from Amherst sexual assault

Last Wednesday, The Amherst Student ran a firsthand account of former Amherst College student Angie Epifano’s experience with sexual assault. The piece, in which Epifano describes her rape by a male student and the Amherst’s administration’s subsequent failures in dealing with her case, has prompted others, including one Tufts student, to share similar stories.

There are many important takeaways from Epifano’s ordeal, the most important of which the anonymous Tufts student highlighted in her Friday submission to In the ’Cac, website centered on schools in the NESCAC, aptly titled “#ItHappensHere.”

Epifano’s article recounts the ways she feels the Amherst administration mistreated her as a victim of sexual assault. In many instances, Epifano said, the administration actually worked against her when she sought help through the channels they provided. She claims she was denied a change of residency to a different dorm, told not to press charges and was advised to “forgive and forget.” The story goes on to say that after making suicidal remarks during a session at the school’s counseling center, Epifano was sent to a psychiatric ward, from which she was only reluctantly readmitted to campus. When she did return,

she was barred from studying abroad and from participating in certain potentially “traumatizing” programs and studies onand off-campus. All of this occurred while Amherst allowed the alleged rapist to continue to live on campus and, eventually, to graduate with honors, Epifano said.

According to a letter penned Thursday by Amherst president Carolyn “Biddy” Martin to the Amherst community, others have come forward to share similar stories with Amherst’s administration in the wake of Epifano’s story. And In the ’Cac, ran one anonymous Tufts student’s account of her own sexual assault on Tufts’ campus.

Though Tufts’ sexual assault policy has seen changes over the past few years, including a re-interpretation of Title IX to prohibit sexual discrimination in cases of sexual violence and harassment, these measures were not enough to make the student feel safe in reporting her assault. In “#ItHappensHere,” she wrote, “I did not go to the administration because when I asked the counseling center what the process was of reporting an assault, I was told that I would have to go to therapy, maybe leave school for a bit and deal with the judiciary — made up of both students and faculty.”

Survivors of sexual assaults are under-

standably wary of confronting red tape on college campuses — the numbers are not in their favor. It’s one explanation as to why, according to a study by the Center for Public Integrity, 95 percent of rapes on college campus go unreported to an official. Meanwhile, a 2010 Boston Globe investigative report of Massachusetts schools that included Salem State College, MIT, Northeastern, Tufts and Amherst from 2003-2008 revealed Justice Department documents of 240 reported cases of sexual assault. Out of those 240 reported cases, only four students were expelled from their respective institutions, according to the Globe’s report.

Sexual assaults are undeniably widespread on college campuses, and active support and investigation must trump any administration’s concern with its reputation.

According to Epifano’s frightening firsthand account, the Amherst administration’s fear of outside perception preceded the school’s concern over helping a student recover. It is our hope that Epifano’s and the anonymous Tufts student’s stories have resonated with Tufts’ community and its administration, and that, going forward, our school will do everything in its power to make victims of sexual assault feel comfortable seeking help and justice.

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Too little interest in South America

by Julia

Greenwald

The Eagle

Hugo Chávez was re-elected president of Venezuela, a position he has held for 13 years, on Oct. 7. His re-election not only has grand implications on Venezuela and South America but also on the United States.

Nevertheless, this significant event has seen little attention by both the U.S. media and its citizens.

In a phone call aired on state-run television around mid-evening during voting day, Chávez said these elections “will be a triumph for democracy” and asked that there be no violence.

However, all those familiar with Chávez and Venezuela know that there was nothing democratic about these elections; instead, they were riddled with corruption.

“Half of Venezuela is speechless,” engineer Alejandro Colmenarez, 32, told USA Today of the re-election of Chávez to a fourth term as president. “We were looking for something better after 14 years.”

Although there is no concrete evidence that corruption took place, there are indica-

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tors of Chávez’s unfair advantage.

Chávez’s opponent, Henrique Capriles, spoke against the re-elected president’s use of the country’s oil money as bribes to gain supporters in the form of “vote-buying” through giveaway programs targeted at the poor.

“The use of state oil funds for this kind of electioneering is driving Venezuela’s budget deficit for the year to the astounding level of 20 percent of GDP, an incredible figure for an oil-exporting economy at a time of very high oil prices,” Capriles said.

Chávez and his regime also control and manipulate the mass media inVenezuela, specifically the television system. Broadcasters covered hours of Chávez’s campaign trail but devoted limited coverage to Capriles’ campaign and events.

The Venezuelan government under Chávez also relies on a constant atmosphere of threats. Under Chávez, there have been high crime rates, and the police often do not provide protection but instead aid criminals.

Venezuela sits on the largest oil reserves in the world and is a major petroleum exporter to the United States. Despite this, Chávez’s problems with the U.S. are plentiful. Chávez

is not only a supporter and admirer of Fidel Castro but is also allied with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He also often rails against the U.S. and its “imperialist allies.”

Other countries in South America are following his lead, promoting corruption, socialist democracy and an anti-U.S. sentiment.

In September, thousands of Argentines protested against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner due to corruption scandals, violent crime and her ever-tightening controls over the economy. Many Argentines fear the female populist president will do away with term limits and extend her rule due to her control of Congress.

As Americans, we have to pay attention to the lack of democracy and increased corruption in South America. While our relationship with Venezuela is rocky, our economic ties with them are important.

With other South American powers following in Chávez’s footsteps, we can see possible long-term problems economically and in regards to foreign policy.

While South America is no Middle East, it cannot be ignored. We may find that our interest in the region is too little, too late.

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TCF to appeal TCUJ derecognition by

Elaine Kim

This semester, the InterVarsity Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) has been suspended, and now derecognized, by the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ) because of clauses in our constitution addressing faith-based requirements for leadership.

Specifically, our constitution states that leaders should demonstrate support and advocate for the letter and spirit of TCF’s Basis of Faith. The TCUJ expressed to us that they consider this leadership requirement to be a violation of the non-discrimination clause of the TCU constitution.

Our Basis of Faith reads as follows: “The Tufts Christian Fellowship is dedicated to understanding and celebrating the basic Biblical truths of Christianity. We believe in the only true God, the almighty Creator of all things, existing eternally in three persons Father, Son and Holy Spirit — full of love and glory. We believe in the unique divine inspiration, entire trustworthiness and authority of the Bible. We believe in the value and dignity of all people: created in God’s image to live in love and holiness, but alienated from God and each other because of our sin and guilt, and justly subject to God’s wrath. We believe in Jesus Christ, fully human and fully divine, who lived as a perfect example. We believe in justification by God’s grace, to all who repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. We believe in the indwelling presence and transforming power of the Holy Spirit, who gives to all believers a new life and a new calling to obedient service. We believe in the unity of all believers in Jesus Christ.

We believe in the victorious reign and future personal return of Jesus Christ giving over the unrepentant to eternal condemnation but receiving the redeemed into eternal life.”

Myself and other members of TCF’s student executive leadership team, the Vision and Planning Team (VPT), have been in communication with the TCUJ regarding these clauses in an attempt to reach an

agreement. The VPT accepted some of the suggestions the TCUJ presented for changing our constitution, but ultimately did not feel that we could fully satisfy their recommendations without compromising the central beliefs that we gather around. We decided to stand by our leadership requirements, and the TCUJ decided to derecognize TCF as a student organization.

TCF now has the option to appeal the decision of the TCUJ to the student and faculty Committee on Student Life.

The purpose of InterVarsity Tufts Christian Fellowship is to be a dynamic, Christ-centered community that seeks to strengthen its members and reach out to the entire Tufts campus.

Our community is ever changing, and each person’s story is incredibly and beautifully different. Beyond being diverse and dynamic, TCF is meant to be a community that is centered on Jesus Christ. As such, our mission is to encourage the understanding and celebration of our shared beliefs about Jesus. We feel that the best way to fulfill that mission is to have leaders who uphold and are unified by those beliefs. The VPT also feels that the best way to be honest and transparent is to openly express in our constitution the expectations we hold for our current and future leaders. Therefore, our constitution states our desire for leaders to uphold the Basis of Faith.

As an organization that is part of the greater Tufts community, it is our desire to add to the discussions and activities on campus. Since we are an organization dedicated to the understanding of a set of faithbased beliefs, we feel that we have the right to be selective of our leaders on the basis of belief. This is not to govern the behaviors of the fellowship’s members, interested leaders, or current leaders, but to ensure that TCF remains centered on the traditional evangelical Christian beliefs on which it was founded. We want to be an organization that can appropriately provide guidance and a forum for discussion to other students

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who are interested in the discovery of the joy and satisfaction of following Jesus Christ.

Going forward, the Vision and Planning Team plans to appeal the decision of the TCUJ. As we move forward with the appeal, we hope that this is an opportunity to further dialogue between communities on campus. What does it mean to value a truly diverse campus? To what extent should the university set specific policies regarding leadership selection for faith-based organizations? How do students’ beliefs influence their ability to lead those organizations? We welcome you to engage in this dialogue with us, and look forward to hearing from you.

Elaine Kim is a senior majoring in sociology and a member of the Tufts Christian Fellowship’s Vision and Planning Team.

She can be reached at Elaine.Kim@tufts. edu.

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So, what about the other economic issues? by

Oklahoma Daily Editorial Board Oklahoma Daily

Polls have shown the economy is the highest priority of voters. The candidates’ most specific plans have focused on taxes and spending. But many other factors affect the economy and the recovery — factors that have received significantly less focus from both candidates.

Wages: In 2008, President Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to increase the federal minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour. He planned to raise it to $9.50 an hour by 2011 and then raise it to compensate for inflation periodically. He has failed to take action on this promise since taking office and has not yet mentioned it in his 2012 campaign.

Republican candidate Mitt Romney originally favored raising the minimum wage as well and also favored adjusting it yearly for inflation. But Romney changed his mind after an outcry from supporters concerned about job losses and now has come out against raising the minimum wage at this time.

The president supported and signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which gave women more freedom to sue over pay discrimination. Romney never has come out in support of equal pay and refuses to release his views on related legislation.

Wall Street regulation: Obama signed the Dodd-Frank bill, an answer to the financial crisis designed to limit the risk in future recessions.

This legislation provides for oversight on risks to the financial institutions most essential to the economy, consolidates regulatory organizations, creates a nonbankruptcy mechanism for the takeover of “too-big-to-fail” institutions and

limits consumer financial fees, among other regulations.

Romney’s campaign website promises the candidate would “repeal Dodd-Frank and replace with a streamlined, modern regulatory framework.” A more efficient regulatory system sounds nice, but Romney so far has offered few specifics on how this will be accomplished. No president should work to repeal a law before developing a workable replacement with some chance of passing Congress.

Outsourcing/foreign markets: Romney has emphasized the need to go after China for currency manipulation, unfair trade practices and the violation of existing economic agreements. Obama largely agrees with this stance but has drawn criticism for not doing enough to protect America’s interests.

Obama’s website says he will eliminate tax breaks for companies that outsource and create incentives for businesses to bring jobs back to America.

His opponent has declared he would not support such an elimination of tax breaks. Romney also would eliminate taxes on profits American businesses earn on foreign soil. This could encourage business growth, as Romney claims, but it is just as likely to encourage businesses to favor foreign markets and move jobs overseas.

Other regulation: The largest new set of regulations Obama has added fall under the umbrella of health care reform. The Affordable Care Act forces insurance companies to provide more fair coverage to all Americans. Insurance companies no longer will be able to deny citizens policies on the basis of pre-existing conditions, charge exorbitant fees for medical services or cap the amount of coverage available to a person in the course of a year or in the course of his or her lifetime,

among other restrictions.

Romney has vowed to repeal this law as quickly as possible, allowing states to waive its requirements in the meantime, though he has said he would keep some unspecified measures of the law.

The Republican candidate also has expressed support for a “regulatory cap of zero dollars on all federal agencies,” meaning federal agencies would not be able to pass any new regulations that have associated costs. This would indeed keep additional costs from being passed down to the consumer — Romney’s stated inspiration for the cap — but it also would tie the hands of agencies responsible for ensuring the educational quality, consumer safety and environmental health of this nation.

As Romney’s website puts it, this would restrict new regulations “no matter what the social benefits.”

The grades Based on the candidates’ tax and spending plans and their views on these other economic issues, we have assigned each a letter grade for how well their position fulfill the goal of economic recovery.

Obama: B Though the president has weathered a difficult economic recession and done much to help soften the impact on citizens, he could stand to be more aggressive in his tax and spending reforms. And he has failed to give proper focus to some important issues connected to the economy.

Romney: I We would give him a solid C for tax and spending plans that would achieve the desired result, but do so at too high a cost to consumers. However, considering the lack of specifics in his other stances related to the economy, we have to give him an incomplete until he does his homework.

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ith the upcoming elections, healthcare has been a hot topic of debate. While Governor Romney and President Obama are struggling to propose a feasible and effective solution to the currently dismal state of the US healthcare system, engineers at IBM think they have the solution for issues that doctors face every day.

Meet Dr. Watson, the newest member of the medical community. Dr. Watson, though, didn’t graduate from medical school — he came from the labs of IBM. The world first met the supercomputer Watson when it made its debut on “Jeopardy!” and proceeded to destroy the show’s best human contestants. Watson demonstrated awesome computational power, processing the language of the question asked, identifying its context of and effectively delivering the correct solution in the correct format.

Now, IBM thinks that Watson can aid doctors in diagnosing patients’ conditions. Watson can go through 200 million pages of information and provide a response in less than three seconds. Why not have it sift through millions of medical records to determine the kind of cancer a patient has, based on inputted symptoms? Diagnostic error results in a significant number of malpractice lawsuits. Watson could help change this.

Though clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have been around for decades, Watson surpasses them in sophistication and capability. Previous generations of CDSS worked in the way Google does — the user would need to manually sift through the results to find relevant data. Watson changes things. As demonstrated on “Jeopardy!,” and many test runs in the IBM lab, Watson has the capability to not only process and search for the solution to a question, but also interpret the results.

The implications of Watson’s potential applications in the realm of healthcare are numerous from an economic standpoint.

IBM sees Watson helping doctors and patients reduce the number of tests and treatments necessary for diagnosis, therefore saving up to $750 million annually.

A current obstacle in Watson’s application relates to the accessibility of medical records in medical communities. In many hospitals, a large percentage of decisions are not grounded in already published data, but rather previous medical records and processes that, due to privacy concerns, are not released to the general medical community. At this point in time, entrepreneurs and healthcare providers are working to create databases with more concrete evidence and records.

There are many objections to the implementation of Watson, and rightfully so — many of come from doctors themselves. As revolutionary as Watson is, the possibility that doctors may grow dependent on it could harm, rather than help, the medical community. Just as we have become overly reliant on using GPS devices in our cars, the convenience of Watson could dissuade doctors from maintaining their own mastery of the subject.

This is certainly a valid concern, but it must be understood that the purpose of Watson is to be a doctor’s aid, not a doctor. Doctors would still identify symptoms, communicate with patients and provide treatments.

Recently, IBM partnered with WellPoint insurance company and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The company is expected to offer Watson commercially to hospitals within the next few years. Implementing Watson will speed up the process, and increase the accuracy of patient diagnosis and will push the medical community to create effective databases to enable both doctors and machines to more easily access previous medical records and information. Though your physician in the white lab coat will be the one listening to your heartbeat and pointing a light in your eye when you are feeling ill, Dr. Watson could be helping to find a solution behind the scenes.

Neena Kapur is a sophomore majoring in international relations and computer science.

She can be reached at Neena.Kapur@tufts.edu.

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Senior tri-captain Rachel Aronchick, seen here celebrating with her teammates, scored the first goal of her collegiate career as Tufts downed Hamilton 4-0.

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Field, drubbing conference rival Hamilton College, 4-0.

The Jumbos entered Saturday’s matchup tied for 10th in the league, on the outside looking in for one of the eight berths in the NESCAC Tournament.

Meanwhile, the Continentals came to Medford sitting comfortably at 8-3-1 as the fourth-place team in the conference.

But from the opening whistle, it was the Jumbos who reeked of desperation and the Continentals who looked all too complacent.

Freshman forward Allie Weiller got things started in the early going, breaking past the Continentals’ defense for a breakaway opportunity in the ninth minute. Weiller’s first shot attempt banged off the upright and trickled

right back to her feet. She collected herself and then fired a ball past Continentals keeper Liza Gergenti and into the back of the net for an early 1-0 lead.

“We came into this game knowing we needed to play really well,” junior goalkeeper Kristin Wright said. “It was our senior day, so we were especially pumped up. We wanted to win it for them.”

The Continentals played the Jumbos tough for the remainder of the first half, out-possessing the Jumbos and generating a few scoring chances, all of which were ultimately denied by senior tri-captain keeper Phoebe Hanley, who had a number of clutch saves in the first frame to keep the Jumbos ahead.

Tufts was finally able to extend its lead just before the end of the opening period, when junior Sophie Wojtasinski capitalized on a costly Hamilton mistake in its own zone. The forward anticipated a pass from a Continental defender and wisely stepped in front of the ball just outside the 18-yard box. Before the Hamilton defenders could react, Wojtasinski drilled a ball that deflected off the far post and into the net. Just like that, it was 2-0 Jumbos at the break.

“Getting that first goal was a huge momentum boost for us,” senior tri-captain midfielder Rachel Aronchick said. “It confirmed our belief that we can put the ball in the back

of the net, and gave us a nice cushion. We’ve scored six goals in our last two games.”

The Jumbos came out of the intermission intent on putting the game away.

Four minutes into the second frame, they managed to do just that, capitalizing on what was one of only two corner-kick opportunities in the whole game. Junior defender Bizzy Lincoln lofted a ball into the center of the box, and Aronchick managed to leap above the pack, get a head on the ball and direct it past a diving Gergenti and into the lower right corner of the net.

The header, Aronchick’s first ever collegiate goal, gave Tufts a decisive 3-0 lead that it did not relinquish.

Wright entered the game in the second half in place of Hanley and was equally stellar, collecting five saves overall en route to the Jumbos’ seventh shutout of the season.

“This was definitely one of the best games we’ve played this year,” Wright said. “We are really clicking on all cylinders right now.”

For good measure, the Jumbos tacked on a fourth and final goal in the 87th minute, once again coming off a Lincoln-Aronchick connection. This time, Aronchick took a set piece from Lincoln and used her right foot, as opposed to her head, to knock the ball in.

“This was absolutely our best game of the season,” Aronchick said. “We came together

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The second long ball set up a 74-yard drive to bring the score to 21-7 and put the game out of reach.

After the Jumbos’ opening touchdown, Dodds’ offense struggled to get any sort of momentum, with his longest completion of the game going for only 19 yards. The Jumbos had nine drives on which they

ran fewer than five plays, surrendering the ball with punts, interceptions and fumbles.

The Jumbos finished the day with five turnovers, to go along with a blocked punt on which an Ephs special teamer snuck into the backfield to get in front of Finnegan’s right foot.

Those miscues and some uncharacteristic penalties had Civetti pointing to his team’s youth and inexperience, par-

ticularly on defense.

“We’re showing our inexperience on the field,” he said.

“But we have to realize that regardless of the lack of experience that we have, we still have to step up and make plays.”

The Jumbos had opportunities when the Ephs’ offense faltered, but instead made more miscues that came back to haunt them. Without these mistakes, the game might have

and played for each other as a team. We were connecting passes, saving shots and scoring goals. We came out and did everything we needed to do to win.”

With the win, the Jumbos improved to 4-6-3 on the year. However, the sub-.500 record reflects early season struggles that have since been erased, as Tufts is 3-1-2 in its last six matches, a stretch in which the Jumbos blanked five of their opponents.

Now, they are more cohesive and confident than they have been all season.

Still, Saturday’s victory marked only their second conference victory of the season, and the Jumbos will still need some help to make it into the NESCAC tournament. Tufts will close out the regular season against Bowdoin at home on Tuesday. A win combined with some other favorable results around the league could mean postseason action for the Jumbos.

When they play like they did on Saturday, the Jumbos are virtually unbeatable.

“We’re approaching Tuesday’s game like we have nothing to lose,” Wright said. “Everything else is out of our hands, but the one thing we can control is how we play. We’ve said it before: Our record is not reflective of how we’ve played. We’ve come together now at the right time, and we’re confident that we can play with anyone.”

had an entirely different tenor, and the Jumbos recognize that all of their contests could have been very different if they cleaned up their play.

“We hurt ourselves a lot of times,” Haas said. “Those small things slowed down our drives, and the way that we were moving the ball yesterday, big penalties can really just kill you.

We don’t have room for errors like that.”

The Ephs were able to avoid some of those missteps and to play a cleaner style of football than the Jumbos did. In doing so, they avoided losing their fourth game in a row.

“I think we were the better team,” Dodds said. “And when we didn’t make mistakes we clearly outplayed them. We had some mistakes that killed us, and it’s stuff you can’t do if you want to win the game.”

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Sophomore forward Maxime Hoppenot (12) and senior co-captain defender Pat Bauer were the heroes for Tufts on Saturday, with Hoppenot giving the Jumbos the lead in the 54th minute and Bauer putting Tufts ahead for good in the final minutes of the game.

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half, and we were trying to do that all game,” Bauer said. “It just paid off for us in the second half.”

After the goal, Tufts buckled down on defense, limiting Hamilton to one shot for the next 25 minutes. But in the 79th minute, the desperate Continentals were able to tie the game up on a chip from senior Anthony Balbo.

With the game tied, a combined nine out of the 20 total shots taken came in the last 10 minutes.

Finally, with just over a minute to play, sophomore defender Sam Williams played a through ball to Hoppenot, who got the ball in the box and sent it to a wide-open Bauer in the middle. Bauer calmly put away

the game-winning goal with less than a minute to play, giving Tufts a 2-1 advantage.

“The last-minute goal was really just an effort play by Pat,” Hoppenot said. “He was all the way on the left side of the field and he ended up in the middle of the box in perfect position. It was mostly Pat putting in the extra effort.”

Hamilton took one last shot at goal, but a save by junior keeper Wyatt Zeller sealed the victory for the Jumbos and moved them to 4-2-3 in the conference.

Now, the team is looking forward to Saturday, when a home game against Bowdoin will decide which team gets a home game in the NESCAC tournament. Tufts needs only a tie to take fourth place and play its first tourna-

ment game on Kraft Field.

Hoppenot didn’t mince words about what the team needed to do on Saturday.

“We just need a result,” Hoppenot said. “They’re a good team. They have one of the best scorers in the NESCAC. We need a shutout and we have to start putting up goals again.”

Bauer sees the match against Bowdoin as not only a big game for home-field advantage, but also as the last shot the team has to make sure it heads into the tournament on the right foot.

“Winning is the biggest thing, but we just want to keep playing well,” Bauer said. “We’re confident with our ability to play with any of the teams in the NESCAC, and we want to go into the tournament on a positive note.”

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“You don’t really want to have to run a play like that because of the high risk,” senior tri-captain wide receiver Dylan Haas said. “We need big plays on our normal plays and schemes. We need to turn a three-yard slant into a 60-yard touchdown.”

Running the Wildcat Civetti is looking to utilize Trause’s quarterback experience as much as possible. Against Williams, they debuted a Wildcat formation with Trause in the shotgun and freshman running back Justin Weaver as his pitch option.

The Jumbos ran the Wildcat with limited success, as Weaver and Trause each averaged around two yards per carry.

Even more than they need big plays through the air, the Jumbos desperately need to find a way to establish the ground game. On Saturday, Tufts was out-rushed 97-30 and has now been out-rushed 1,197-247 on the season.

The Jumbos hope that, with a little refining, the Wildcat will help that cause.

“We’re trying to put our best talent on the field,” Civetti said. “If you’ve got Justin Weaver and Zach Trause in the backfield, that’s pretty good. They both can’t play at tailback [at once], so let’s put them both in there to do some other things.”

Placing Trause at quarterback also

takes some of the weight off Dodds’ right arm, which has thrown 226 times in five games. Dodds did line up at wide receiver a couple of times on Saturday when Tufts used the Wildcat, but he wasn’t planting any monster blocks on defensive backs.

“The number one thing coach Hauser told me to do was not to get hurt,” Dodds said.

The Finnegan factor At wide receiver, senior Marty Finnegan has always done all the little things right.

“When we watch the film, he’s always harassing DBs, he’s taking guys off their feet and being extremely physical and aggressive,” Haas said. “He’s been making a huge impact. It just hasn’t really gotten much notice.”

On Saturday, though, he did the big things, catching seven passes for 91 yards and his first career touchdown. His previous career high was 39 receiving yards.

For Finnegan, it was a well-deserved moment in the spotlight.

“Marty’s a great kid, cares a ton about the team,” Civetti said. “[He] works very hard. You put on the film every week, and he might not run the prettiest routes, but that kid plays 100 percent, 100 percent of the time.”

Saturday’s performance was muchneeded for Tufts, especially because junior Pat Nee, who has emerged this year as one of Dodds’ favorite targets, was not in uniform.

Finnegan’s life on the football field is

hardly glamorous. In addition to playing wide receiver, he is the Jumbos’ punter and place-holder. Against Williams, he averaged 40.8 yards on five punts, including a 52-yarder and one that landed inside the 20.

He is, as Haas put it, a Renaissance man.

“He’s got some diverse skills,” Haas said. “I guess it’s just natural.”

Should’ve gone for it?

After a 20-play, 68-yard drive that lasted more than nine minutes, the Jumbos were faced with a 4th-andgoal from the Williams 10.

Down 22-7 with 3:05 left in the fourth, Civetti elected to kick and sophomore Connor McDavitt missed wide left.

Hindsight aside, if McDavitt had converted the Jumbos would have pulled within 12 points — still two touchdowns. On the other hand, a touchdown would have made it a onepossession game.

Civetti explained the reasoning behind his decision.

“I have a lot of confidence in our defense, and I have a lot of confidence in Connor McDavitt,” he said.

“Honestly, I wasn’t worried about our defense stopping them and us getting two more scores. There was still a lot of game left. Take the points.”

Civetti added that, even if the Jumbos had scored a touchdown, they still would have needed to convert a two-point conversion either then or later on, which is no easy task.

hat do you mean, who’s that guy?”

That guy is the Yankees fan who can’t believe his team was swept by the Tigers and didn’t win the World Series — again. It’s the guy who can’t look past Alex Rodriguez’s hitting struggles when the team as a whole set a record for the lowest batting average in postseason history with a minimum of seven games.

He will blame C.C. Sabathia for being the first pitcher ever in the playoffs to give up 11 or more hits and record less than 11 outs – all in an elimination game.

Who could be naive enough to be that guy?

Oh, wait — I am.

I’m the spoiled Yankees fan who can’t understand why the team I root for doesn’t win the World Series every year.

I grew up with legends like Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera coming through in the clutch moments. It was an era of prosperity unmatched by any sport in recent history.

It appears that, for now, those days are over.

Over the past decade, the consistently highest payroll in baseball has produced one mere championship.

“What do you mean, one mere championship?” says the Pirates fan whose team hasn’t experienced a winning record in over 20 years. “You don’t know what it’s like to start a season lacking the quality to even put together a .500 year.”

To that fan I respond, “You’re right.” I don’t know what it’s like to go into a season not expecting to win the World Series. The answer to why I feel this way is simple.

The expectations are higher when more money is spent.

Why is it that teams such as the A’s or Baltimore are considered great stories if they reach the playoffs?

Money.

A team without a high payroll is not expected to compete over a 162-game season with the perennial powerhouses Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers or Angels.

Spending the inordinate amount of money that they do sends a message: Anything less than a World Series ring at the end of the season is a failure.

By that criterion, this season was not a success.

The worst part of the postseason was that it was not just Rodriguez struggling, but he was only the one getting the blame.

There was a team-wide inability to hit a baseball thrown from 60 feet, 6 inches.

The team batting average was .188 throughout the nine games. I could go into the specific numbers but it would be a waste of space. All you need to know is that Cano, Swisher, A-Rod, Granderson, Chavez, Martin and everyone else not named Ibanez𤸠or Jeter produced little to nothing.

My favorite statistic about the Yankees hitting struggles is this: Chris Carpenter, a pitcher for the Cardinals, has three hits this postseason. Five Yankees hitters — Rodriguez, Cano, Granderson, Martin and Chavez — had three hits or fewer.

Chavez, who was the replacement for the struggling Rodriguez, went hitless.

The overlooked part of the pitiful offensive display was that, with the exception of Sabathia in Game Four of the ALCS, the Yankees pitching staff was stellar. What was looked at as the Yankees’ biggest weakness entering the postseason inevitably was their greatest strength.

Pettite was the consummate professional that he has always been. C.C. pitched like the ace that he is before the meltdown in the final game. Kuroda put in two exceptional outings and Phil Hughes gave them quality innings.

Without the Yankees starters and bullpen, there would have been no late inning Ibanez heroics.

In a culture of winning, anything less is considered a failure. The bar is set high for the Yankees every year. So to all those Yankees fans out there, me included, that fall into the category of “that guy” — you’re — we’re — sacked!

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

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heading into Saturday’s match against Hamilton on Kraft Field. Instead, thanks to the late-game heroics of senior cocaptain Pat Bauer, the Jumbos found themselves with a much-needed win and the inside track for home-field advantage in the NESCAC tournament.

Before its win against Hamilton, Tufts had lost its past two games against MIT and Williams by only a one-goal margin. While some teams would be deflated by such tough losses, the players strived to stay positive and confident in their abilities.

“The two losses were both pretty disappointing,” Bauer said. “In the Williams game and even the MIT game, we probably had more chances than the other team. We were disappointed,

but we really didn’t feel we played all that bad.”

Instead of looking behind them, Tufts made sure to concentrate on converting its opportunities against a Hamilton team that needed a win to keep its tournament qualification chances alive.

The Jumbos came out aggressively to start the game, firing two quick shots in the first 10 minutes. The last 35 minutes of the first half, though, only saw one shot apiece from Hamilton and Tufts, as the Jumbos struggled to get comfortable in a new formation.

“In the first half, we had to get adjusted to a new system, with a 4-4-2. We were hitting long balls a little bit too often,” sophomore forward Maxime Hoppenot said.

The game opened up in the second half, though, as the Jumbos started keeping the ball on the ground more.

And finally, in the 54th minute, the Jumbos broke through on Hoppenot’s team-leading seventh goal of the year.

Bauer attributed the goal to an emphasis on constantly pressuring the opposition.

“We wanted to play pretty aggressive and really pressure them in their own see MEN’S SOCCER, page 11

No. 8 Field Hockey wins 12th straight, Volleyball goes 2-1 at Hall of Fame Tournament

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The national No. 8 field hockey team continued its incredible run this weekend, downing Hamilton by a score of 4-1 for its 12th consecutive victory. Sophomore midfielder Maggie Chapman (pictured) scored a goal and assisted on another, as the Jumbos improved to 8-1 in the NESCAC by downing the Colonials, who are winless in the conference. Meanwhile, the volleyball team also had a strong weekend, snapping its four game losing streak while going 2-1 at the Hall of Fame Tournament at Mount Holyoke, including strong wins over Swarthmore and Bridgewater St. See tomorrow’s Daily for full coverage of the field hockey and volleyball games, as well as stories on the Head of the Charles and the men’s tennis team’s performance at home against the Coast Guard Academy.

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Miscues cost Jumbos against Ephs by

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would decide the game. The offense needed to create more of them when they had the football, and the defense needed to keep the Ephs from taking deep shots down the field.

The Jumbos were right: Big plays did change the game, but Tufts was on the wrong end of many of them, and the Jumbos ended up falling to 0-5 on the season with a 25-7 loss.

The afternoon looked promising early on, as the Jumbos

went 75 yards on 12 plays to take a 7-3 lead at the beginning of the second quarter.

After junior running back Marcel Pitre burst through the line to convert a 4th-and-1, senior quarterback John Dodds finished off the drive with a 13-yard toss to senior receiver Marty Finnegan.

“In that drive, everyone did their job,” senior tri-captain Dylan Haas said. “No one made a particularly huge athletic play, we just did what we were supposed to do and ran the plays well.”

But then the Williams offense got going.

After a long return, sophomore quarterback Tom Murphy marched the Ephs down the field on a 10-play, 69-yard drive in which Murphy picked up big chunks of yardage at a time.

“We did pretty well against the run,” senior tri-captain

Chris Toole said. “But as a defensive line, we have to put more pressure on the quarterback and the pass.”

Without that pressure, the Williams offense was able to find time for long connections throughout the game. When the Ephs next got the ball, Murphy found junior wide receiver Greg Payton alone behind the Tufts defense and aired it out down the middle for an 82-yard touchdown catch.

On their first possession of the second half, the Ephs used the same play to pick up 58 yards and set up their third touchdown of the game.

“It shouldn’t happen twice in a game,” head coach Jay Civetti said. “The things that they like to do are get some big plays, and we had to stop them.” see FOOTBALL, page 10

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Senior quarterback John Dodds threw for 215 yards and a touchdown, but it wasn’t enough as Tufts fell to Williams, 25-7.

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A lack of big plays has been an issue for the Jumbos all season. Above, freshman Chris Chininis is corralled on a kickoff return by a pack of Ephs during Tufts’ loss Saturday to Williams.

Notebook: Flea flickers, Finnegan, fourth-down decisions by

Aaron Leibowitz

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Trailing 22-7 and in need of a big play late in the third quarter against Williams on Saturday, the Jumbos attempted a flea flicker.

Step one went well: Senior quarterback John Dodds converted a screen pass to sophomore tailback Zach Trause. Step two did not: Trause’s return throw sailed over Dodds’ head, leaving a loose ball in the backfield to be picked up by the Ephs.

If anyone had a shot to execute the play, it was Trause, who was recruited to Tufts as a quarterback.

But what had worked several times in practice did not carry over to the game.

“The thing about trick plays is, if we had hit it, we’d be geniuses right now,” head coach Jay Civetti said. “You have to have the stomach, and you have to have the confidence and trust in your team to make that call.”

The miscue was one of many deflating moments for the Jumbos in front of a large Parents Weekend crowd

this past weekend at Zinman Field, where Tufts turned the ball over five times and fell, 25-7.

While the flea flicker was a risky call from the Jumbos’ own 30-yard line, Civetti does not regret the decision.

“You have trick plays in a game either because you’re looking for something exciting to do or you see an opportunity,” Civetti said. “When I told [offensive coordinator] Frank [Hauser] to make the call, I had a ton of confidence in our defense that if something went wrong our defense would stop them. And sure enough, our defense stopped them. I’d call it again.”

The Jumbos have been searching for a big play all season — their longest play from scrimmage in their first five games has been 29 yards — and on Saturday they turned to trickery to try to make it happen.

Still, they would rather find ways to break big plays while sticking with the short-yardage strategy that has been successful. see NOTEBOOK, page 11