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Peznola appointed first executive director of IGL

by Hannah Fingerhut Daily Editorial Board

The Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) two weeks ago announced the appointment of Michael Peznola as its executive director, a new position. As the first executive director of the IGL, Peznola will focus on handling administrative tasks associated with the institute and the more than 20 programs under the IGL umbrella.

“My goals are to sustain the processes that are good and improve the processes that need improvement, so that all of the bureaucracy becomes transparent to the students so that they have a top-notch experience,” Peznola said. “Not only in the education part, but in all of the other things that support their endeavors.”

Peznola joins the IGL’s staff after 30 years in the United States Marine Corps, and more recently in the Special Operations division. He worked as assistant

chief of staff to James Stavridis, who is now dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, in U.S. European Command. “[In that work], I gained an appreciation for managing staff, working budgets, working tasks — really getting things going forward,” he said.

Peznola said those managerial skills and his interest in education brought him to Tufts. He has instructed a number of lieutenants and officers, in addition to developing specific skills courses for Special Operations.

“You look at what we do [at the IGL] and all of the different programs — many different lines of efforts, so to speak,” he added.

“I think I’m here to help take it to the next level — in terms of getting that stuff taken care of, so that the most important thing — the education of students — is brought to a higher level.”

According to Provost and Senior Vice President David see IGL, page 2

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Tufts students carry a mattress near the Mayer Campus Center as part of the Carry That Weight Day of Action, joining students at universities across the country.

Student activists "carry the weight" of campus sexual assault

by Stephanie Haven Daily Editorial Board

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A Tufts student is prepared to give blood at the annual fall blood drive.

LCS hosts annual fall bood drive

by Eeman Malik

The Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS), along with the American Red Cross, sponsored a blood drive last week in Carmichael Hall.

This month’s drive brought in a successful turnout from donors, according to Zoe Lazarus, the Blood Drive’s administrative coordinator.

“One-hundred thirty-seven units of blood were collected, which equates to up to 411 lives saved,” she told the Daily in an email. “Every donor really makes a difference. We had a total of 172 donors give blood in our first drive of the year. We’re very excited to see what our next two drives will bring.”

Zaid Qureishi, the drive’s volunteer coordinator, explained that the event usually attracts a sizable number of student donors.

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“Usually around 40 to 60 students come on any given day during the week, with about 30 to 40 units of blood being collected each day, while the remaining students get deferred for a variety of reasons,” he said.

Lazarus, a sophomore, and Qureishi, a senior, led the drive through advertising and encouraging students and staff to donate. The event was promoted through flyers and advertisements in the Daily, as well as some promotion on Facebook, according to Lazarus.

“We had a great turnout this year,” she said. “Both in terms of volunteers and donors, we were glad to see that [Carmichael Hall] Lounge was full of participants almost constantly throughout the week of the fall blood drive.”

Qureishi underscored the importance of volunteers to the sucsee BLOOD, page 2

Mattress raised above their heads, four female Tufts students hoisted uphill the bed that one had slept in the night before.

“Well, that was my exercise for the month,” senior Ruby Vail quipped as she set the mattress down inside Tisch Library.

A #CarryThatWeight poster tacked on its side, the mattress was one of three that students carried around Tufts’ campus yesterday, and one of many that college students nationwide carried around their campuses.

The idea began earlier this year at Columbia University, where senior Emma Sulkowicz has sworn to carry a mattress around campus until the male student she says raped her is expelled or leaves. Two of Sulkowicz’s friends at Columbia planned the nationwide Carry That Weight Day of Action, which included participants from Northwestern University to Carleton College, and University of Southern California to George Washington University.

Tufts student activists had not planned to participate in the national event until last night,

when sophomore Olivia Carle created a Facebook event in response to peer interest. Carle, who identifies as a survivor of campus sexual assault, carried a mattress around campus from 9:15 a.m. to 6 p.m.

While the performance art demonstration began at Columbia, the connection to Tufts resonated with Carle, who also helped organize the spring semester Stand With Survivors rally. Student activists at that time hinged their protest on Tufts rescinding its signature on an agreement with the United States Department of Education see CARRY, page 2

IFC and IGC launch Halloween safety initiative

by Denali Tietjen

Tufts Interfraternity Council (IFC) and Inter-Greek Council (IGC), together with the Women’s Center and the Tufts administration, launched a Halloween safety initiative this week that aims to increase awareness regarding racial and misrepresentative Halloween costumes and protect students against sexual assault and alcohol abuse.

Incidents of sexual assault and alcohol transports are shown to increase on college campuses nationwide on Halloween weekend, according to IFC President Evan Cover.

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“Halloween does have risks associated with it across the country,” Cover, a senior, said. “Nationwide, you see an increase in alcohol transports and sexual assaults. We recognize those risks, and we’re working with not only the administration but with the Greek houses and Greek community to start the dialogue, raise awareness and continue creating an environment in which students feel safe.”

While the campaign is multifaceted, one of its primary goals is to encourage students to be more sensitive to other cultures and communities when choosing their Halloween costumes, according to Cover.

“We’re not targeting any specific costume, we’re just asking students to be aware in general,” he said. “We’re just saying ‘Listen, be considerate when you choose a costume. If you think you’ll offend anyone — whether it be their race, their gender, their background, their socioeconomic background or if it’s a tragic event — be aware and don’t cause them any offense.’”

IGC President Matt Roy reiterated the importance of sensitivity in choosing a Halloween costume, explaining that culturally offensive or misrepresentative cossee COSTUMES, page 2

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cess of the drive. The volunteers worked at check-in, helped register donors, monitored the canteen and helped recruit donors by passing out flyers, he added.

“These jobs are important because if we have volunteers, the nurses and technicians can focus on the donation process, and the drive can run smoothly with less of a wait for incoming donors,” he said.

Lazarus added that she and Qureishi collaborated with coordinators from the American Red Cross in order to facilitate the running of the event.

Walk-in donations were welcome, but donors could also make appointments on TuftsLife a week before the drive so that they would not have to wait in a line, Qureishi said.

According to Qureishi, this blood drive was smoother than previous drives when the organizers were unable to reserve Carmichael Lounge for five straight days and instead had to move the blood drive around to other spaces on campus. Having the drive in a single location on campus made publicity easier for the organizers, and the location was convenient because many students come to Carmichael Hall to eat and the lounge provides comfortable accomodations, Qureishi said.

LCS’s blood drives have often been commended by the American Red Cross for their success in motivating people to donate, according to Qureishi.

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The annual fall blood drive collected 137 units of blood which could save up to 411 lives.

“The American Red Cross takes all blood donations and distributes them to local hospitals to help patients,” he said. “They say

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tumes can intentionally or unintentionally have a negative impact on celebrations of the holiday for some students.

“Halloween is a time that we dress up and represent ourselves in other ways, and it’s meant to be a fun time,” Roy, a senior, said. “The issue is that sometimes we turn a blind eye as to how our costumes can be misrepresentative of different cultures and communities, which can cause a lot of stress and turn Halloween into a negative experience.”

Another goal central to the campaign is reminding students of the importance of consent regardless of one’s outfit, Cover explained.

“No matter what the costume, consent is always absolutely necessary,” he said.

“Again, we’re not targeting any particular costume — it doesn’t matter who you are, what you’re wearing, what your sex is, no matter what party you are — it’s always necessary.”

To promote awareness of these issues, IFC and IGC are turning to social media to get their message across, according to Roy. IFC and IGC decided to launch the initiative just last week and agreed that a statement on every event page was an easy, yet effective way of conveying their message.

“Because we had such a short timeline, we wanted to make sure that whatever we did got the message out there without putting too much pressure on fraternities by giving them extra tasks,” Roy said. “We decided that asking them to put a blurb in their Facebook event page is an easy way to ensure that everyone attending the event sees the message.”

Cover and Roy both underscored that the Halloween safety initiative is part of IFC and IGC’s renewed effort at improving safety at Greek social events and addressing sexual assault on campus. Last month, IFC launched a series of sexual assault and bystander intervention programs for fraternities and sororities.

“These programs take the format of sending a representative to chapter meetings, having the leadership or membership attend a lecture or have them come to a hands-on workshop,” Cover said. “Just in the past week, we’ve had three fraternities reach out to our office to ask about further education on sexual assault prevention and bystander education.”

Additionally, IFC and IGC launched a voluntary administrative walk-through program this week, in which fraternities can opt to have an administrative representative assess the safety of the house before a party, according to both Cover and Roy. “The point of the walkthrough is really just to give chapters opportunities to lay out their party in a way that can be most successful for them based on the critical view of [the administration],” Roy said.

“They consider, ‘Well, there’s access to water and food around here, oh everything’s good over there, but this seems a little dark here.’ They’ll just look at it from another perspective that brothers might not notice right away and could make it a safer environment and improve the experience of everyone there.”

Cover added that already this week, the first week of the launch, three fraternities have voluntarily signed up for walkthroughs.

that one blood donation can help up save up to three lives.”

The blood drive was one of the organization’s first projects

when LCS was founded in 1958, according to Qureishi. LCS hosts the week-long blood drive three times per year — once

in the fall semester and twice in the spring semester, Lazarus added. The next will take place from Feb. 17-20.

Tufts students participate in nationwide Carry That Weight Day of Action

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after it found the school in violation of Title IX, the federal policy that bans sex discrimination on college campuses.

Carle said problems with how Tufts administrators handle cases of campus sexual assault continue.

“We’re working with the administration, along with pushing from the outside,” she said. “That doesn’t mean that we think what’s happening within the administration is correct or right or it’s moving fast enough.

So my goal personally was to say, ‘Hey, we’re still here, we still think it’s important, these are people’s actual experiences, these are our lives.’”

Yesterday’s demonstration, however, revealed some unexpected logistical problems, such

as trying to fit a twin XL mattress through a doorway. Getting to the Women’s Center with the mattress from uphill to drop off red tape — students had voiced interest in wearing a red “x” in solidarity — was too physically arduous, according to Carle.

Yet the physicality of carrying a mattress paralleled the emotional burden of being a campus sexual assault survivor, according to sophomore Allyson Blackburn, who carried a mattress three times on Wednesday.

“To see people carrying their mattresses as a metaphor for the burden that they carry everyday — that matters,” she said.

“As someone who walks around the campus with those feelings already, to have them brought forward to your attention in a way that’s so physical and visible and

present, I think that’s so powerful.”

There were vocalizations of support and chatter from nearby students who, after seeing the mattress, discussed Sulkowicz’s project with friends. There were as many as four students at a time who offered to help carry the mattress, according to Carle.

Some students also expressed confusion, according to Blackburn. She added that she heard a student yell an expletive at her from across the quad while carrying a mattress, but acknowledged that it could have been a misunderstanding.

“People have been less supportive recently because it’s no longer the big, hip issue,” Blackburn said.

“To realize that, yes, we are still here on this campus, and we are still struggling — that is something that we have to consider.”

IGL appoints new executive director

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Harris, the decision was made after long-term deliberation.

“The decision to hire an executive director with responsibility for all administrative aspects of IGL has been in the works for some time,” he told the Daily in an email. “It has been suggested

by IGL staff, members of my staff, the IGL Advisory Board and a recent external review. I decided to create the position over the summer.”

IGL Founding Director Sherman Teichman, along with Associate Director Heather Barry, also spoke to the institute’s pressing need for the new staff member in this month’s NEXUS, the IGL’s newsletter.

“He will assume responsibility for all administrative and financial matters for the institute,” the newsletter states. “We

have long needed and hoped for such a person and position to buttress our efforts as we grow and mature as an institute.”

Teichman said he will continue, as founding director, to focus on the strategic direction of the institute, and he is in charge of all of the IGL’s programmatic funding, overseeing both fundraising and grants. While Peznola handles the administrative and financial affairs, Teichman and the IGL staff will be able to more effectively pursue the IGL’s intellectual mission.

“Such an IGL ‘addition to force,’ will certainly enhance our efforts, and free us to further pursue our strategic objectives as an innovative incubator and as a crucible for transformative, immersive, multidisciplinary education,” the newsletter states.

Peznola was hired after a targeted search to fill the position, Harris said. According to Peznola, the university had his resume on file and he was contacted over the summer. “[Peznola] has a wealth of substantive and administrative experience that will enhance IGL and Tufts,” Harris said. “I am confident that his contributions will allow IGL to have an even more positive impact on a greater number of Tufts students.”

Peznola has already sat in on several Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship classes, met with student groups like the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services and spoken with students individually. “[It’s about] creating, maintaining and improving a quality education environment for the students,” he said.

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Handmade pottery is set out for sale at the weekly Somerville Flea market.

A repurposed chair and repurposed Star Wars wall hanging are displayed at the flea market.

Somerville Flea market attracts artisans, collectors and students alike

by Danielle Bennett Contributing Writer

On any given Sunday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. students and locals alike can get their fill of refurbished furniture, clothing, household items and music all in one place. As attendees listen to a bearded, usually flannelclad folk artist, they can take their pick of authentic items that have, for the most part, been hand-crafted.

This event is the Somerville Flea, a weekly market on Sunday afternoons that is steps away from the Davis Square T stop and is surrounded by quality local restaurants. The website invites locals and visitors to “come to Davis Square for brunch, stay for The Flea!”

The market itself is a hipster’s paradise with its assortment of authentic vinyl records, mason jars, vintage dresses and shoes, used books, typewriters — the list goes on and on. The Flea, as it is commonly called, is the brainchild of Greg Ghazil, the current manager. While in school for preservation carpentry, Ghazil often had to search flea markets to find old tools that he would utilize for school projects.

“More and more, I found that I was more interested in selling vintage mid-century furniture and housewares than I was in my preservation carpentry concentration,” Ghazil said.

It was in these moments that the idea for the Somerville Flea came to fruition.

Many of the vendors at the Flea are friends of Ghazil’s, but he sifts through the vendor requests to make sure that all vendors share the same goal.

“The criteria for the Somerville Flea is that whether you’re a vintage dealer or an artisan, some aspect of what

you’re selling has to involve repurposing, restoring, recycling or reconnecting,” Ghazil said in an email to the Daily.

Abby Seaman, the co-founder of ReviVille (formerly Two Girls One Truck), has been a frequent vendor at the Flea for the past two years. Seaman says she and her business partner both have other jobs. Like other vendors, this is a side job that they have always wanted to pursue.

purpose when you need it, we like to take something old and make it new again, keeping it out of the trash.”

According to Seaman, part of the Flea’s charm is the sense of community that it develops among the locals.

“It’s a tight knit community of artists and vendors and we love being part of the local arts community, which is very big in Somerville,” she said. “That is a

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Tufts student Dani Bennett talks to and laughs with vendors at the weekly Somerville Flea market.

“I am a bartender at a restaurant in Cambridge, and KC, the [other] co-founder, is a landscaper and has her own business,” Seaman said in an email to the Daily. “She also used to bartend at the same restaurant, which is where we met and became friends and then coworkers. This is a side job for both of us, but also very much a hobby.”

Seaman’s business is in alignment with Ghazil’s mission for the Flea: She fixes and sells used furniture.

“We like to refinish and refurbish furniture and home goods that need a little love,” Seaman said. “In a world of disposable furniture and goods, which totally serve a

very important part of living in a particular area for me, feeling and being part of the community. Many of the same people come by week to week, many of whom we know and recognize from living here for so long.”

The Flea attracts a wide variety of buyers from the Somerville area, all with a shared appreciation for recycling and creating new from old. Hadley Green, a Tufts senior and International Relations major, is one such customer. Green said she enjoys looking around at the assortment of distinct items the Flea vendors sell.

“I go there because it’s just nice to find something that’s unique, especially if you’re looking for a gift for someone,”

Green said. “It’s like you’re shopping in a store where everything is one-of-a-kind.”

While the authentic mapcovered desks and used Dutch clogs are the main draw, there are other aspects that make the Flea what it is. Part of the Flea’s attraction comes not just in buying items, but in experiencing the atmosphere, according to Green. Ghazil runs a truck at the market that sells apple cider doughnuts, coffee and tea, and next to these autumnal refreshments, a different artist performs every Sunday.

Ghazil explained that the musicians that perform at the Flea make shopping there a unique experience.

“For the first two years, I scheduled the musicians myself, but as the Flea grew in vendors and publicity this year, I hired a booking agent for the performers,” he said. “There’s really nothing like adding a live soundtrack to your shopping experience.”

Green said she has only bought fruit and vegetables at the Flea, and mainly goes there for the atmosphere.

“It’s a nice thing to do on a Sunday afternoon,” she said.

“Just get a cup of coffee and stroll; you don’t have to buy anything.”

Ghazil has expressed an interest in hosting a similar flea market on the Tufts campus because so many Tufts students come to the Somerville Flea. If this is the case, students might be able to buy a refurbished silver pitcher-turned-lamp on the Campus Center patio sometime soon. But until then, the Somerville Flea is just down the road in Davis Square, with many unique items waiting to be discovered.

probably had unfairly high expectations for the movie “Boyhood” (2014), as every movie critic raved about its universality and originality. In some ways, it was worth the hype. I remained captivated throughout the entire threehour film. The characters were dynamic, the dialogue was snappy and realistic and the movie’s scope was as impressive as the critics said. But by the end, I started to consider the lack of films about girlhood.

I wondered if a similar film about a girl could ever receive the same widespread acclaim and the overall feeling of wonder achieved by “Boyhood.”

The movie was in no way only about boys. Mason grows up alongside his sister Samantha and their parents also grow and change. But as the children get older, Samantha’s character becomes less interesting as Mason becomes more likeable. One of the final depictions of Samantha’s “maturation” shows her talking to Mason’s girlfriend about the abundance of “hot guys” in college. Whereas Mason grows deeper, Samantha grows into a stereotypically shallow college girl.

I don’t condemn “Boyhood” for focusing more on a boy’s experience. But I had trouble absolutely loving the movie when considering the plethora of films about boyhood and manhood and the lack of films about what it means to be a woman.

Many films that do feature female coming-of-age depict it as something that girls experience because of or in relation to men.

For example, the “coming-of-age” film “An Education” (2009), features a young, smart woman on track to attend Oxford University, when an older man interrupts her studies by seducing her. The two date, he breaks her heart, and then she realizes the importance of education and independence. Though one could view this ending as “feminist,” must the 16-year-old woman have a physical and emotional experience with an older man to reach this conclusion?

Even when films depict girls coming of age without the influence of men, the male domination of the film industry prevents these films from accurately capturing girlhood. An example is the film “Blue is the Warmest Color” (2013). Despite starring two female characters in a lesbian relationship, a straight male gaze pervades the film. Director Abdellatif Kechiche has been criticized for the 20-minute long sex scene’s resemblance to lesbian porn intended for men. New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis wrote, “As the camera hovers over [the main character’s] open mouth and splayed body, even while she sleeps with her derriere prettily framed, the movie feels far more about Mr. Kechiche’s desires than anything else.”

Of course, it’s worth noting the many great books about girlhood, the graphic novel version of “Blue is the Warmest Color” being one of them. But unlike books, films are a form of mass media constantly influencing our perceptions and prejudices, and it’s sad that such an influential industry remains sexist both on and off screen. In 2013, six percent of directors of the top 250 films were female, and only one woman has ever won the Palme d’Or, the highest prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

This inherent sexism is due to a lot of factors, some being that the industry remains a “boys’ club” whereby sons of famous directors can more easily make the necessary connections.

Frequent sexual harassment of women working on set is another unfortunate cause.

I don’t think we need to boycott “Boyhood,” “An Education” or “Blue is the Warmest Color.” I enjoyed all of these movies and would recommend them to everyone. But if we’re going to call them universal or groundbreaking, we also should acknowledge that these films aren’t breaking any new ground when it comes to gender.

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

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Bustle: a bastion of feminism, but is it the future of journalism?

by Grace Segers Daily Editorial Board

In the era of instant gratification, serious journalism can occur on the web as well as in print. Online media is allowed informality and personality that traditional reporting lacks. First person narration is permissable online — and so are memes — but being boring isn’t. The desire to remain relevant has reached web magazines, spawning a strange mixture of genuine news, lifestyle tips, quizzes and entertainment.

Among these odd mash-ups — the children of the internet — is Bustle.com, a pseudo-serious Buzzfeed with a feminist twist. Readers who visit the site will be immediately affronted with large, colorful pictures and headlines like “23 times Beyonce was the undisputed queen of throwing shade” or “17 Ebola internet memes ranked from kinda funny to painfully racist and offensive.” The verticals (or topics) for the website, listed at the top of the page, are news, entertainment, fashion & beauty, lifestyle and books. The news vertical seems to be (and appropriately so) the most serious of the bunch, with articles regarding current events, although these posts have varying levels of solemnity. From an objective lens, it may be hard to understand what Bustle is trying to accomplish. Is it trying to provide “real” news, or does it just want to promote viral posts?

But when Bustle readers set aside pretenses and relax into the alternate universe of online journalism, the magazine can be quite enjoyable. It isn’t pretending to be The New York Times, or any other traditional print source. Its mission, as stated on the website, reads: “Bustle is for and by women who are moving forward as fast as you are.”

Still, it’s interesting that a website seemingly dedicated to promoting women’s stories would have a man as its business leader. There is uncertainty as to whether Bryan Goldberg, the founder and CEO of Bustle, has a significant influence on what is produced. Is Bustle a lesson in what men think women want, and a desperate attempt to provide it for them?

Meredith Turits (A’09), one of the founding editors of Bustle and its current senior

culture editor, doesn’t think so. She disagrees profoundly with the idea that Goldberg’s position of power has any significant impact on Bustle’s content, or detracts from its mission statement.

“The entire website is run by women, and powered by women,” Turits said in an interview with the Daily. “Bryan is on the business end of things, but the entire voice — the entire site — is written by women … The entire editorial staff is women.”

Still, while Goldberg may simply be involved in the business of running the magazine, it is all too telling that a site, purportedly “by and for” women, would still have a man as its CEO. Regardless, Bustle definitely caters to young women.

Its articles include profiles on female politicians and a seemingly endless amount of fashion trends and lifestyle tips.

Bustle is certainly not lacking in quantity, and the inundation of information is deliberate.

“We post 200 times a day … [which] allows us to sort of run the gamut,” Turits said.

When asked if this method

of production caused Bustle to veer into Buzzfeed-esque journalism territory, Turits was defensive of online media.

“Buzzfeed does really meaningful journalism,” she said.

Furthermore, according to Turits, it is unrealistic for readers of web journalism to expect the same things from online as from print. Online reporting and print reporting are completely different and should be treated as such, she said.

“Readers of paper media are looking for paper media,” Turits acknowledged.

But Bustle is in the domain of web journalism, which has “several different pockets,” according to Turits. “There’s hard-hitting reporting … there’s fun, sort of GIFs-rich media.”

The very existence of Bustle bolsters the argument that news and entertainment should not be mutually exclusive, but can be housed in the same site for convenience and interest purposes, Turits said.

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trict, but we’ll also do it next to an identity post about … what’s going on, in … a hyper local area in northern Virginia,” she said.

The fact that readers can find all of these things in one place, Turits believes, has contributed to the website’s popularity.

She noted Bustle’s online success despite the early criticism it received.

“It really reflects the interests of what women really like,” she said. “We like to look at all of those things in one place.”

While reporting on “what women really like” is the focal point of the website, it is not the only aspect that truly gives Bustle its own little niche of web journalism.

“I think Bustle is important because … it allows young women who haven’t necessarily had a background to write previously to break into digital journalism,” Turits said about the magazine. “I think that’s the number one most important thing that we’re doing.”

Her assertion raises an interesting point: No matter the outcome of certain articles, Bustle is providing women with a platform to write and make themselves heard. Even though the online genre means writers’ voices are (perhaps) less polished and their stories less substantial than would be expected for print publication, Bustle still provides an online forum specifically for young women who might not otherwise be acknowledged. And Bustle seeks talent within this relatively inexperienced group.

“One of the things that has really been important for us from day one is to find really talented women who haven’t had a platform to launch themselves and to give them that platform,” Turits said, explaining one of the defining aspects of Bustle’s mission.

The inexperience of writers, however, may raise some red flags. In this day and age, anyone can be a writer. But maybe that’s the point of Bustle, and other popular new outcrops of online magazines. Because today anyone can report on what they

love and have the opportunity to be heard. Young women do not often have their opinion asked, and a website created solely to promote their ideas — flawed as it may be — can be deemed a kind of feminist progress.

It is very easy to be cynical about Bustle, its creation and its mission statement. But Bustle and its content feel truly, unusually genuine, with not an ounce of irony to be found. Less serious articles aren’t written with a knowing wink, but treated as important within the context that they are written. The Ebola-meme article, written by Gabrielle Moss, for example, argues that the crueler jokes Courtesy Bustle based on the disease “give us needed insight into the array of American reactions to Ebola, particularly the racism that’s crept into every aspect of Ebola in the U.S. from its media coverage to the actual quality of care received by Ebola-infected patients.” With Bustle, it is all about context.

The Bustle women aren’t writing for a traditional paper. They aren’t even writing for the hallowed, snarky walls of Buzzfeed.

They’re writing for themselves and for the sake of their own interests. These interests, no matter how many trivial-sounding titles glide across the homepage, are important at Bustle.

“It’s a fun place to be online,” Turits said. “People really relate to the fun voice, the positive voice. They don’t relate to the snark on the site because there isn’t any snark.”

While many, upon visiting Bustle’s site, may decry the death of serious journalism and bemoan the sacrifice of tradition on the altar of instant gratification, they’re missing the point. Bustle certainly has its flaws, but it’s fulfilling a long-existing need of a forum for young women to write and read about their passions. It doesn’t have the standards of serious print journalism, but it isn’t supposed to have those. That isn’t its purpose. Bustle’s goal is to provide news through a female lens, and disperse that content to be read by women across the internet. Thus far, it’s succeeding.

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Check out these events!

Bernadette Peters in Concert Bernadette Peters, Broadway and televi-

sion star — known for work on Broadway shows such as “Annie Get Your Gun” (1999 revival) and “Song and Dance”(1985 on Broadway) as well as the TV show “Smash” (2012 – 2013) — is performing at Tufts! Two complimentary rush tickets will be given per student who presents a valid Tufts ID. The line for tickets begins at 6 p.m on Saturday afternoon. There will be a simulcast in the Varis Lecture Hall during the performance for anyone who does

not get a ticket. (Saturday beginning at 8 p.m. in Distler Performance Hall. Free with presentation of valid Tufts ID and ticket.)

SAC Halloween Party

Tufts Art Gallery’s Student Advocacy Council is hosting a Halloween party at the Tufts Gallery to start out Halloween weekend. There will be free food, an open bar, a costume contest and a raffle. Tufts homegrown band Shark Saddle will be performing. (Friday at 7 p.m. in the Tufts University Art Gallery.

Admission is free.)

Halloween Horror Film Festival

Organized by TUTV and the Tufts Film Series, the Halloween Horror Film Festival will screen a series of “found footage horror films” made by Tufts students. (Friday at 7 p.m. in Barnum 008. Admission is free.)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

A Queer Film Extravaganza!: Co-sponsored by the Tufts Film Series and Tufts Burlesque, come in costume to the Halloween spectacle of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975). This is an event with audience participation and “shadow cast performances.” The event is BYOP (bring your own props) but there will be no rice,

confetti or toast allowed. (Friday at 9:30 p.m. in Barnum 008. Admission is free.)

Community Concert Series present: The World is a Cabaret Come and enjoy cabaret and tango

music performed by performance faculty soprano Carol Mastrodomenico and pianist Thomas Stumpf. Also performing are Michael McLaughlin on the accordion and Fausto Miro on the flute. Songs performed will include pieces by Schoenberg, Weill and Piazzolla. (Sunday at 3 p.m. in Distler Performance Hall. Admission is free.)

— by Nika Korchok

Artsy Nugget

Dothraki language app helps fans become speakers

by Abigail Feldman Daily Editorial Board

“Gi suilon!” For mere mortals, this is how one greets a friend in Sindarin Elvish. Nerdy, it’s true, but language and fandom have gone hand-in-hand for at least half a century. It began with J. R. R. Tolkien, a noted philologist and arguably the best fantasy author that ever lived, who decided that no fantasy world was complete without a brand new language or two. (In fact, Tolkien developed vocabulary and grammar for at least 15 Elvish languages alone.)

Interest in constructed languages (or conlangs) certainly did not die with Tolkien, however. Over the years, artists and linguists alike have developed all sorts of new tongues — some as well known as Newspeak, from George Orwell’s “1984” (1949), and others obscure as Tenctonese, from television series “Alien Nation” (1989-1990).

Klingon, a language from the Star Trek universe, perhaps wears the biggest crown among conlangs; at least four major works of world literature, including “Hamlet” and “The Epic of Gilgamesh” have been translated and published in the alien language.

Now, thanks to modern technology, fluency in one of television’s newest conlangs needs not be constrained merely to linguists and people with too much time on their hands. That’s right — Random House LLC recently released the Dothraki Companion, an app to help speakers of the common tongue learn the Dothraki Sea language of George R. R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones” book series. The new app, available for $3.99 from the iTunes App Store, builds fluency using flash cards and vocabulary games and includes a chat function for users looking to converse with other Dothraki speakers. The app was developed by David J. Peterson, the linguist hired by HBO to create the language for the “Game of Thrones”(2011-present) show.

Outside of the fandom, however, the app is already a subject of some scorn. A few have complained that Dothraki Companion encourages people to spend time learning a made-up

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Viewers of popular television series “Game of Thrones” can now download Dothraki Companion to take their fandom to the next level. language when they could be learning real languages spoken by thousands of people. What good is a language, critics ask, without a nation of people and a culture behind it? It’s true that conlangs lack the depth and history of real languages, but there’s something

to be said about a group of fans determined enough to create and learn a new language. After all, many of the best stories ever told are the brain children of world builders — creative geniuses who could not be confined to the boundaries of the natural world,

whether they be physical, visual or spiritual limits. If one can appreciate Martin’s skill in communicating the details of his imaginary land, one must also value the purposefulness of fans who wish to enjoy his stories in a creative way.

Top Ten

Top ten halloween mistakes everyone has made It’s that time of year again. Time to pretend to still like dressing up in costumes and sneaking hand fulls of “bite-size” candies while you drink yourself into a healthy stupor: the best way to spend a weekend. And while Halloween is actually pretty fun, it’s easy to find yourself in some pretty unflattering and/or bizarre scenarios. To prevent such shame and humiliation, the Daily Arts department offers you a cautionary list of Halloween faux pas to avoid this year (or any year probably). Whether or not you’re staying in and cooling down or heading out and turning up, this list of mistakes should help you keep your wits about you.

10. Eating candy corn:

Three candy corns deep and you’re feeling good. But the second that you pop in number four, your body will know and it’s all downhill from there.

9. Bobbing for apples:

kin that was supposed to say “boo!” on it later, you’ll regret your decision. Also, you’ll be the only sober kid on Halloween getting TEMSed — which is absolutely worse than being black out.

Strips of paper cut up in the shape of a cat are going to look horrible and weird no matter how many hours you spend on it.

It’s hard enough to negotiate a paper from an A- to an A. Your sexy cat ears and permanent marker whiskers won’t help you out.

5. Trying to prank your roommate:

7. Actually trying to trick-or-treat in Medford: Believe it or not, you’re an adult. You

4. Doing a partner costume with your flaky friend:

Nothing’s more important than stuffing your face with Twizzlers and shots of Fireball. Not even Comp 40. And it’s cool because in ten years, I’m not going to wish I had a job — I’m going to wish that I got more drunk on Halloween!

Everyone looks stupid every time they do it. Every. Single. Time.

8. Wearing a costume to office hours:

can’t trick-or-treat anymore, you just can’t. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife.

6. Carving a pumpkin with a knife from Dewick: Six dull stabs and an amorphous pump-

Trust us. You don’t wanna know what people will get up to after dark on All Hallows Eve. Some things you just can’t un-see.

Instead of a majestic volleyball, you’ll just look like a giant white wad of toilet paper when your friend with a beard drops out of being Tom Hanks. “WILSON!”

3. Trying to decorate your room with Pinterest Halloween decor:

2. Not studying for anything because of this made up holiday:

1. Going to a Halloween frat party:

It’s scary, but for all the wrong reasons.

Steam heat. Crowded basements. Weird lighting. Horrible costumes. No food. ­— by Veronica Little

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Artsy Jumbo

SaraMarie Bottaro explores communication, community

by Nika Korchok Daily Editorial Board

SaraMarie Bottaro balances her interests in peace and justice studies (PJS) and her multimedia work in graphic arts and bookmaking with the elegance and grace of a dancer. But, for the fifthyear School of the Museum of Fine Art (SMFA) dual degree student from San Diego, Calif., this should come as no surprise; Botero danced competitively with Tufts Ballroom for three years before ending her career last year to focus on her studies. She was competition coordinator for one year along with New England Conservatory dual degree student Isabelle Zeledon.

This year, she is also balancing her senior thesis at the SMFA with a PJS capstone project which is due in the spring. While her PJS project is still in the works, her current senior thesis art project deals with connection, specifically the way we relate to each other through different forms of communication. Bottaro describes her hypothesis succinctly. “[F]or meaningful connections to be formed, the action you’re doing needs to be outward-facing, self-specific and other-targeted,” she said.

Bottaro is collecting letters and delving into correspondence — her own and those written by friends — to form unique book projects that explore the history and impact of communication through letter writing. After all, letters are, according to Bottaro, not just a type of communication but “a gift.” Bottaro describes letters as a vehicle to investigate “ideas of connections … and how meaningful connections are formed between people.”

She hopes that, in the future, such ideas will guide her PJS work.

Given her dual focus, it should come as no surprise that Bottaro uses art to talk about issues she has dealt with in

Courtesy Isabelle Zeledon

Bottaro hopes to use art as a force for social progress and community development.

PJS, as well as to understand them and process their complexity.

“I don’t think I could’ve gotten through those classes without art, and without that art training of how to think and process ideas and release them in a constructive way,” she said.

Furthermore, she believes that “crucial change can’t happen without strong communities” and now is using her letters and communication project to understand how we build these communities.

Bottaro herself has been actively involved in fostering strong communities, both at Tufts and at the SMFA, for several years. She has served as an Orientation Leader (OL) at Tufts, mentoring first-year students in the intensive dual degree program at Tufts and the SMFA.

“I’m a stronger student at both schools because of my experience in being in both [the SMFA and Tufts],” she said.

Bottaro said that her involvement as an OL was about fostering a strong community at both schools and among dual degree students themselves. “[I]t’s important to me that the program is cohesive and that we all support each other,” she said.

Bottaro is now working toward her ultimate goal of becoming a practicing studio artist while still looking at post-grad jobs in both marketing and art-specific positions. With the dual degree, Bottaro has a multitude of options, and her work ethic and desire to implement positive change in the community will be instrumental to the development and progress of whichever community she joins next.

Tufts, Tailored

Tims!

I saw a lot of Tims this week. While Tims never really go out of syle, they seem to be making a resurgence right now. Lots of brands and designers are

collaborating with Timberland to create some awesome boots. Be sure to check out the Beauty & Youth United Arrows x Timberland collab which comes out on

"I hate the cold. I detest it with passion. I just like to look like chic and polished but make it kind of… funky… comfortable." — Giovanna Castro, senior

Nov. 14, as well as the Billionaire Boys Club x Timberland boot by Pharrell which came out in August. Also, all black Tims are a cool way to spin a classic look.

"I'll usually start with my bottom, so like pants, leggings, skirt, shorts and then I'll build up from there and probably do shoes last." — Leah C. Petrucelli, senior — by Jack Kamin

Nikki Blank | A SWUG's Life

Halloween Screw

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ear SWUG, How does a SWUG celebrate Halloween?

— Senior Washed Up Ghost

Dear Senior Washed Up Ghost, To quote “Mean Girls” (2004), a.k.a. the greatest film of all time, “In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.”

In the SWUG world, Halloween isn’t just a one day affair, it’s a week long marathon of mixers, costumes, sugar and insanity. It’s a week-long excuse to do exactly what you’ve already been doing all year. You can wear whatever you want, and no one can say anything about it because no one really cares.

You can drink as much as you want because you always do. You can eat as much candy as you want because “cheat week, duh.” Celebrate like you’ll never have another Halloween again, because you won’t. It’s your last chance to dress as a sexy Ebola nurse and get compliments and not snarls. Or it’s your last chance to wear that giant orange jump suit and be the convict you’ve always dreamed about since you were a little tyke. Leave behind a legacy of epic costumes and even more epic candy consumption. Everyone knows that what you are for Halloween your senior year is what you will be for the rest of your life. Experiment with sexy career choices like a policeman or a Teletubby. It’s a trial run for the real world, and the perfect opportunity to go door to door in Somerville and Medford asking people if you look like a real consultant or medical school student. People love when you ring their doorbells and ask them a lot of questions. I plan on dressing up as the scariest thing I can think of: my freshman year self.

Drink or Treat, SWUG

Dear SWUG, I was recently invited to Screw for a men’s sports team, but then uninvited a few days later. Should I be insulted?

What should I do?

— Screwed out of a Date Dear Screwed out of a Date, It sounds like this guy is a real keeper and he’s just playing hard to get. So here’s what you do: Go buy a hot dress, get your hair did and pull up those spanx. Who needs an invite to Screw anyway? Everyone will be so drunk that no one will notice that your invite was revoked, and they’ll just be happy to see another drunk face. Bring your own handle of Rubinoff and blend in with the crowd. When you see your old Screw date with his new date, go up to him and pretend like someone else invited you. He’ll be so jealous of your new imaginary date, and you’ll be lookin’ fiiiine. Flirt and make out with multiple teammates to make it seem like you’re a fun lovin’ gal who’s just looking for a good time. If anyone does question you, just offer them a swig from your handle … you’re a generous screw date, too! When the night begins to wind down and people start to pair off, lure him back to your room with the promise of a calzone. When the calzone comes, kick him out of the house, eat the calzone and go to bed.

Who needs a Screw date when there’s a buffchick calzone in your life?!

Save me a piece, SWUG

Nikki Blank is a senior majoring in English. She can be reached at Nicole.

Blank@tufts.edu.

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Make this Halloween all treats and no tricks

A recent message regarding the culture surrounding Halloween was sent to Tufts Greek chapters from the presidents of the Inter-Greek Council (IGC) and InterFraternity Council (IFC). The email lays out how Greek life can play a role in creating a safer Halloween climate for all Tufts students by taking a stance against potentially offensive costumes and spreading awareness that sexual assaults can be more frequent during this time.

This message is applicable to all Tufts University community members, including those beyond Greek life.

According to the email, Halloween costumes can discriminate based on race, gender, sexuality, immigrant or socioeconomic status and have the possibility to offend when they relate to a tragedy, controversy or act of violence. Although Halloween can be an incredibly fun holiday full of candy, costumes and merrymaking, it is important to be conscien-

tious of the perspectives and narratives of others. Tufts should provide a safe place for students, where they can enjoy themselves without feeling as though any part of their identity is being objectified, tokenized or appropriated. Cultural competency is key and should be exercised when choosing a costume in order to promote a safe and conscientious campus environment.

Additionally, students should be aware of the increase in sexual assaults and alcohol incidents that occur during Halloween on college campuses around the country. Safety during this Halloween weekend is incredibly important and students must remember that consent can never be conveyed by what one is wearing. Verbal consent is of utmost importance for all sexual interactions, regardless of what an individual is wearing or their level of intoxication. This is true in a fraternity basement, house party

or dorm room. The culture surrounding Halloween also often embraces the hyper-sexualization of women’s bodies. A “sexy” costume should not be taken as an indicator of an attitude of sexual desire, and women should not be judged by the costumes they wear or the amount of skin they do or do not choose to reveal.

The coordination between leaders of Greek life with the Dean of Student Affairs and one of our Sexual Misconduct ( Title IX) Reporting Liaisons is just one of the many steps we need to take in order to create a safe and welcoming environment at Tufts, during Halloween and on all other weekends. We hope this type of coordination will continue in the future and extend to all members of the Tufts community. Ultimately, however, it’s on us to make responsible, sensitive and consensual decisions this Halloween weekend.

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Money stifles the potential of politicians

by Austin Cook

Old Gold and Black

During the 2008 elections, over $143 million was spent by outside groups in total, including all congressional campaigns that year and even the presidential race. In the 2010 midterms, that figure jumped to over $205 million of independent spending on congressional races that year.

But at this point in 2014, total spending by outside groups has almost topped $400 million — and at this rate, $100 million of that will be spent in North Carolina alone by Election Day.The race between Democratic Senator Kay Hagan and Republican Speaker of the State House Thom Tillis has been one of the most competitive in the nation this year, and outside group spending is set to hit $103 million, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Here's the problem with that massive figure (besides the nausea it induces): the way I see it (and I really don't know how one can spin this another way), the more money there is in politics, the more corruption there will be in politics — I'm still waiting for someone to debunk that logic for me.

The fundamental problem with this

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is that as more and more outside groups dump millions of dollars into political campaigns, the less accountable politicians are to the voters and the less influence everyday Americans have in electing their leaders.

Instead, politicians are becoming accountable to the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson and George Soros. The rapidly growing influence of the ultrarich (on both sides of the political spectrum) in this country is not only immoral, but also a fundamental corruption of our democracy. With this kind of money being doled out like candy in politics, candidates are handpicked or obliterated at the whim of the very few at the top.

This level of money being spent in politics — especially considering that most of these ads are negative — is bad for our democracy and worse for our humanity.

With each attack ad demonizing a certain candidate or party, we become more and more alienated from one another — more polarized and more hostile — all in the name of ideological purity.

According to The Charlotte Observer, the Tar Heel state has been flooded with almost 80,000 TV ads only through Oct. 13. (Needless to say, one of the many

benefits of being abroad is that I don't have to watch them.)

What's most disappointing in this whole fiasco is that while our political system is hijacked by the richest of the rich, our Supreme Court — the nine Americans who are tasked with enforcing our constitution — is encouraging this, continuing to strike down various limitations on political spending, most recently in the case of McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.

As long as our political system is for sale, politicians will continue to be accountable to lobbyists, corporations and fat cats instead of the voters. After all, what Senator needs to meet with his constituents when he can meet with a businessman pledging $1 million to his next re-election fund?

If you agree that there's something wrong with the public airwaves being blanketed with attack ads, with huge sums of secret cash being dumped into Super PACs or with candidates cozying up to corporations instead of their constituents, then one thing should be crystal clear: The need for campaign finance reform — for accountability and transparency — has never been greater.

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Thursday, October 30, 2014 OP-ED

I had the experience of sitting in on Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) 2014 national conference at Tufts University.

During the open to the public panel, I listened to lectures for about an hour. They were interesting to me and informative, and I agreed with many of the things said there.

The Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is a horrible atrocity that has been going on for 47 years and strong statements need to be made by the United States in this regard. Apartheid South Africa was and should have been stopped by a people’s movement, and hopefully a people’s movement will one day stop the occupation of the West Bank — a joint Israeli-Palestinian one.

At the question and answer session, a member of the audience asked a question along the lines of, “Has the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement stopped bullets from flying in Palestine?”

Later in that session I made a point of stating my opinion to SJP that Israel needs to be looked at as a complex nation through a dialectic lens, not as a black and white fragment. Israel is everything from the fascist right to the anarchist left, which I consider myself a part of. I stated this opinion, as well as answered the question.

Due to the BDS movement, more bullets are flying in Palestine. Because more of the Israeli right is being agitated and provoked, they become more aggressive towards the Palestinian population both in the army and

within the settler movement. That is the sad truth and the true reality in Israel.

I consequently went to take my personal belongings and started walking a bit back, away from the center of the crowd. I was being booed and hissed at, as well as told by several members in the crowd to f–k off. As I was halfway down the hall, a person with a red SJP shirt approached and asked me to leave the building. I do not know if they did this out of concern for my safety or out of their will to not have dissent in the hall. This event was open to the public. I expected in a democratic society that freedom of speech and expression would be upheld. Several of the panel members made comments about me leaving the room. I would have gladly stayed had I not been told by SJP members to leave the hall after leaving my original space, as well as being vastly outnumbered and treated in a childish manner by SJP. The BDS movement needs to take a stand towards integrity and intellectual honesty. Its use of words such as “apartheid,” “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” are irrelevant in regard to Israel. They alienate everyone except themselves by taking only an anti-Israel stance. They also take no active position in changing the predicament of Palestinian society today, in regard to the thousands of workers unemployed in the occupied territories right now, and the state of governmental or educational structures inside the territories themselves.

They do nothing to support the Palestinian economy, which is what will help them form

a state, not bashing Israel. From my experience, this movement restricts freedom of speech and undermines the Palestinian cause instead of supporting it. This applies to BDS treatment of longtime Palestinian supporter and communist journalist Amira Hass, who was recently kicked out of Birzeit University for being Jewish. Hass lived in Ramallah as well as in Gaza for many years, and has been a proponent of the Palestinian cause for decades. According to Ma’an, a Palestinian news source, Ahmed Tibi, a 1948 Palestinian member of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) remarked that the expulsion was “blind behavior” marked by racism, which “distorts the struggle of the Palestinian people.”

I came to the conference with an open mind in an attempt to learn about the Palestinian struggle from activists, and left it after having found a one-sided demagogic contingent that had no room for dissent.

Restricting freedom of expression and persecuting potential allies is no way to reach a solution to the conflict. I expected a different treatment at a prestigious U.S. university, especially one that honors critical thinking.

I am hoping for a fruitful, discussion in regard to Palestinian freedom and rights in the future.

Ofek Ravid is a U.S. citizen from Israel who attended the National SJP Conference. He can be reached at ofekr253@gmail.com.

Ebola: risks and inequalities

by Rosalind Shaw and Stephen Bailey As we mull over the latest reports of Ebola in New York, does anyone recall how many people in the United States died last season from flu? In all, 108 children and probably 20 times that many adults. It was not a bad season. In 2009, we lost 348 children, and roughly 50,000 adults, out of the third of a million flu deaths worldwide.

No U.S. citizen has died from Ebola.

We have had one death on our shores, a Liberian national. For comparison, about 51 people here are killed annually by lightning.

Using an iPhone on a golf course is staggeringly more dangerous than having an Ebola patient in Massachusetts General Hospital or Tufts hospitals would be to us.

Nor is Ebola uniquely lethal if contracted.

Rabies kills every unvaccinated soul it touches. Inhalational Anthrax, HIV, Pneumonic Plague or Glanders all have untreated case death rates well above 90 percent. By contrast, Ebola seems to have about a 80 percent mortality rate untreated and only half that when victims are treated from the onset of fever. This is only a few percent more than Eastern Equine Encephalitis, which is endemic in Massachusetts. Grim, but still better odds than flipping a coin.

So it’s reasonable to ask, why are we so frightened of Ebola that we cross the street to avoid physicians working in a hospital with a case? Why do tabloid newspapers trumpet the “arrival” of Ebola, and politicians scurry to show how tough they’ll be to anyone returning from West Africa? Well, you might reply, because it’s so infectious.

But that also would be off the mark.

Infectivity is the ability of a pathogen to start an infection after exposure, while infectiousness is the ability to be transmitted from one host to another. Ebola has high infectivity. By the late stages of infection, literally billions of viral particles are present in the victim’s blood, vomit and feces.

Some particles may even be in their sweat and saliva. So once exposure has occurred, the odds of infection are high. Yet Ebola is poorly infectious. It can only be transmitted by direct contact with body fluid from a person with acute symptoms.

Ebola is not, contrary to what some media figures have claimed, spread in the air. Influenza, tuberculosis or cold viruses can literally ride air currents for minutes, suspended on microscopic sputum droplets. When they land on surfaces, they are resistant to desiccation. By contrast, Ebola

might be expelled from splatters of body fluids, but these will not travel any distance.

Sneezing or coughing are not part of the symptoms. And the virus cannot survive desiccation. Without direct contact, there is no exposure.

People near a victim of Ebola do not usually become infected; caretakers do. We cannot get Ebola from a bowling ball or subway grip, unless we create a scenario where an infected person passed vomit, blood or fecal materials onto it just before we touched it.

In the developed world, our infrastructure makes this highly improbable. We monitor temperatures, trace contacts, mandate quarantines and hospitalize promptly. For all the missteps in Dallas or New York, the more infectious an Ebola victim becomes here, the less likely they are to infect family and friends, let alone strangers.

If we’re shocked by Ebola’s appearance on our shores, that’s because we’ve been able to ignore its periodic outbreaks in comfortably distant places. Like a host of recent viral diseases, Ebola is scarcely emergent. It’s been endemic in central African villages since the 1970’s at least, and, like HIV, has animal hosts. And as with HIV, Americans’ response to the outbreak is linked in complicated ways with fears of bodies deemed to be dangerously “other.”

These fears have been shaped by lengthy histories of inequality and exploitation.

Poverty, poor infrastructure and weak political legitimacy all characterize the affected countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and now Mali. Liberia and Sierra Leone are post-conflict states. The priority for their governments and foreign donors has been to rebuild their militaries, not their health care systems.

The tragedy for these countries is less about lacking high technology — simple oral rehydration therapy can reduce mortality — than lack of the foundational: medical supplies and health workers; personnel to trace possible exposures; roads and vehicles to move victims, supplies and building materials; hospitals that allow effective isolation while protecting staff from exposure; means of safely removing waste and burying the dead.

Without such basic infrastructure, Ebola victims either move though the community and beyond as they become increasingly infective, or are quarantined in their homes and further weakened by food and clean water shortages. Their caregivers, unable to obtain even protective gloves and hand-

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A letter to Tufts University and SJP

by Ofek Ravid

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washing supplies, are exposed to bodily fluids. Some patients reach inadequate clinics or mere “holding centers,” ending their lives collapsed in chairs, prostrate on benches or the floor. There is no isolation, and little to no treatment. Sometimes, those they leave behind commit suicide rather than face a similar end.

Survivors can see their entire families wiped out. Here is the story of David, as told to a pastor from Sierra Leone who is in contact with Rosalind Shaw. David lost his wife when she went to a hospital during pregnancy complications: “I came back home and buried my wife. Two days later the report came from the hospital showing that my wife died of Ebola and the house was quarantined. In less than twenty-one days seven other members of my family died of Ebola…

Only two of us survived in this house…I am finished. I don’t know what to do…I wonder when this pain will go away.”

Ebola also undermines the networks of support through which people care for each other. Even simple daily connections like greeting and taking leave in these countries typically involve multiple human touches.

That’s now problematized. Yet many individuals and community organizations are responding with remarkable creativity. In some places, local pastors are visiting quarantined homes, bringing health information, food, water, soap and crucial emotional support. Caregivers are improvising their own protective clothing from plastic bags. Survivors with antibodies to Ebola are donating blood and working in treatment centers.

But this is not enough. A robust national and global response is needed that emphasizes care and prevention equally. If we want to protect ourselves, the first step is to help protect others far from our daily lives.

What can you do? You can raise funds for Medecins Sans Frontieres, Partners in Health, Catholic Relief Services, Africare or Samaritan’s Purse. You can tell Congress that you want more U.S. support for the fight against Ebola in West Africa. You can counter misinformation about the spread of Ebola. And you can share personal stories — like the one above — from doctors, community activists and survivors.

Rosalind Shaw and Stephen Bailey are associate professors of anthropology. They can be reached at rosalind.shaw@tufts and stephen.bailey@tufts.edu.edu.

Walt Laws-MacDonald | Show Me the Money

Apple Pay me more money

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y first experience with the Davis Square CVS Pharmacy was in April of my sophomore year. The first of several bouts of tonsillitis had kept me in bed for a few days before I eventually managed to drag myself to Health Services. After the usual “Why didn’t you come in sooner?” conversation — which was more like “Why didn’t you come in sooner, you idiot?” — I was told to schlep to Davis and pick up a cocktail of antibiotics from the esteemed professionals at CVS. After a wait that lasted 45 minutes and involved taking a breather on the floor multiple times, I shuffled back to my room in South overlooking the tot lot, and promptly fell asleep for 18 hours.

Two years later and two tonsils lighter, I stand before you a changed man.

CVS, however, is still terrible. Both CVS and fellow pharmacy chain Rite Aid announced this week that they would no longer accept Apple’s new proprietary mobile payment platform, creatively called Apple Pay. Though the move was a direct response to Apple Pay’s debut, the chains also disabled other near field communication (NFC) payment technologies, including Google Wallet and Softcard, despite accepting all three just days earlier.

NFC payments use the same technology found in our Tufts IDs to link a credit card or bank account to a transaction. Instead of swiping a card, you simply tap your phone.

While NFC technology has existed on Android phones for a few years, the current generation of iPhones are the first Apple products to support NFC. Since Apple’s way tends to become the gospel of consumers, NFC payments are expected to go mainstream as more consumers transfer to the next generation of iPhones.

Apple Pay is not a separate account. Instead, it links an existing bank or credit card to your phone. Paying with your Visa through Apple Pay is the same as swiping the card, just more convenient.

Though Apple is relatively late to the party, the mobile payment universe has been steadily growing, with upstart consumer-to-consumer services — like Venmo — competing with established players like eBay’s PayPal. Most of these services are geared towards consumers: they’re easy to use, secure and have a “cool factor” to them.

And then there’s “CurrentC,” another creatively named mobile payment service from a group of U.S. retailers led by everyone’s favorite underpaying, over-lawyered giant: Wal-Mart.

While Apple Pay, Google Wallet and Venmo use the established network of banks and credit card companies, CurrentC circumvents the system, allowing retailers to shed the two to three percent transaction fees that come with every card transaction.

For retailers, this is great news. For consumers, it sounds a bit shady. The app uses QR codes to complete transactions — an older and clunkier technology that relies on physically scanning your phone for each transaction.

Questions have also been raised about the security — or should I say, “secureT” (cue dad laugh) — of CurrentC. While NFC payments can utilize the existing infrastructure of the financial industry, CurrentC operates in an entirely different universe. While NFC payments use a secure connection and established fraud detection services to protect their users, CurrentC’s flaws have already been exposed, as the company announced just yesterday that users’ emails had been hacked.

While the bloc of retailers behind CurrentC account for 20 percent of U.S. retail transactions, Apple Pay — less than a month into its existence — already leads all mobile payment services.

Though CurrentC will probably never catch on, Apple will continue to face fierce competition in the mobile payments space, as retailers, financial institutions and the payment services themselves battle it out for market share and revenue.

Regardless, CVS will always be terrible.

Duane Reade for life.

Walt is a senior majoring in quantitative economics. He can be reached at Walt.

Laws_MacDonald@tufts.edu.

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58 Place to see RVs 59 NFL mistake

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Editors’ Challenge | Week 9 Hey football fans, the sport editors are back with Week 9 of Editors’ Challenge! We all spent Week 8 listening to Eminem together and his songs are so good that we can’t get them out of our heads.

Alex “Without Me” Schroeder left the Sports section this semester to chase his dream of working as a nude model in an art studio in Rome. But luckily he’ll be back soon, because the section feels a little empty without him.

Steven “Not Afraid” Hefter started the season in last place but didn’t let the standings intimidate him. He climbed all the way up to third place, and is trying to convince the guys at the bottom that they can do the same.

Jake “I Need A Doctor” Indursky was in first place a quarter of the way through the season, but bumped his head in Week 5 and hasn’t been the same since. Now that he’s fallen all the way to 68-53, the second worst record, he might want to go get evaluated by the team doctor for a possible concussion.

Alison “Mockingbird” Kuah just really likes to talk. You can guarantee that she’ll always have a response to anything that you say. But she’s not just talking the talk, her 75-46 record is walking the walk.

Sam “No Love” Gold keeps picking upsets, but he can’t seem to get that strategy to work for him. The underdogs just won’t show him any love this year, and he sits in dead last place with a record of 51-70.

Wil “The Real Slim Shady” Glavin is the most confusing member of the Sports section. He’s the best football reporter in the NESCAC on Saturday, but then he can’t pick football games to save his life on Sunday. No one knows who the real Wil Glavin is.

Alex “The Monster” Connors is going to have to become friends with the people who live under him in the standings, or else he’s not going to have any friends. He’s in first place by a mile with an 84-37 record.

Chris “Sing For the Moment” Warren should enjoy his brief time within reach of first place, because it’s not going to last.

Jorge “Berzerk” Monroy-Palacio had been doing very well, but went a little bit crazy and dropped a 6-9 record in Week 8. Hopefully for his sake he can put his head back on straight and make some good picks this week.

Maclyn “Superman” Senear would need superhuman abilities to finish with a respectable record, as he currently holds a 74-47 record, tied for 6th place. But if anyone can pull it off, it’s probably Superman himself.

Tyler “Love The Way You Lie” Maher needs to stop lying to himself and accept the fact that he can’t win Eds’ Challenge this year. His picks this year have been so bad that he’s considered lighting his own house on fire.

David “Lose yourself” Westby got lost on his way to layout and ended up in sports, so he’s here to give us his guest picks this week.

OVERALL LAST WEEK

Alex C 84-37 10-5

Chris 80-41 10-5

Steven 76-45 10-5

Tyler 75-46 9-6

Alison 75-46 10-5

Wil 74-47 8-7

Maclyn 74-47 10-5

Jorge 72-49 6-9

Alex S 70-51 9-6

Jake 68-53 7-8

Sam 51-70 6-9

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Freshman wide receiver Joe Nault charges up the field during a 42-24 victory over Bates on Sept. 27.

Jumbos have homefield advantage for last time this season

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586 yards), Trinity’s Chudi Iregbulum (second with 555), Amherst’s Nick Kelly (third with 495) and Williams’ Alex Scyocurka (fourth with 385).

Colby sophomore running back Jabari Hurdle-Price is ninth in the NESCAC in rushing yards with 279 and has reached the end zone just once this year.

Finding a way across the goal-line has been a big issue for the Mules this season.

The team has only been in the opposing team’s redzone 12 times this season (last in the NESCAC) and it has only scored on seven of those 12 possessions (the 58 percent success rate is last in the conference as well). These factors should allow Tufts’ defense to succeed in what could be a low scoring affair with the Jumbos potentially missing their starting quarterback.

For the first time this season, Tufts

senior quarterback Jack Doll’s health status is in question. Doll was injured in the first quarter against Amherst and was unable to return. While the senior has thrown just six touchdown passes this season, he does lead the NESCAC in completion percentage (68.9 percent) and is fourth in passing yards (1,119). Tufts’ offense appeared to struggle in his absence against Amherst last Saturday, so it will be interesting to see if Doll will be able to suit up, and if not, if sophomore quarterback Alex Snyder can step up and win his first career college football game.

Considering Tufts’ undefeated home record, the Jumbos appear to still be the favorites even with a backup quarterback taking all the snaps.

“I would not say that our home and away records have been a coincidence,” senior defensive end James

Brao told the Daily in an email.

“Having a great fan base this season has definitely given the team confidence at home games. However, on the road, it has been a lack of execution that has hindered our performance, and not a lack of emotion. At the end of the day, it’s the same team playing whether at home or on the road. [As the season winds down], the main point of emphasis has been to play our best football, both as individuals and as a team. This means knowing assignments, practicing well during the week and executing on Saturdays.”

A win this weekend will ensure that Tufts will not finish the season with a losing record. Coming away victorious from Middlebury in the last week of the season will be quite challenging, so this Colby game is crucial in the team’s pursuit of a .500 season.

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New England’s. Wasserman, like the rest of the Jumbos, has shown drastic improvement this season. Expect her to run closely to Fahey and Beltrani for the majority of the race and use them to her advantage in making passes of other runners.

But if Tufts is going to pull an upset at the race, other runners will need to step up in the numbers five, six and seven positions. The Jumbos have had some strong runners in these positions all season, but they have yet to have runners who consistently place in these spots for the team. With sophomore Lindsay Atkeson injured, junior Michele de Mars has recently emerged as a solid number five candidate, placing closely behind Wasserman at Open New Englands in a time of 19:04.91. The number six and seven positions, however, seem to be wide open at this point. Junior Lily Corcoran recently made a push for the top seven, as she dropped a huge PR at Conn. in running 23:40 for 6k.

At this weekend’s championship, the Jumbos will field 12 representatives of their team on the start-

ing line and, if the results so far this season can predict anything, all 12 of these athletes will step up when it matters and make their best attempt to propel the Jumbos to a top finish.

“I strongly believe that no one in our top group has had a race that really demonstrated their full potential this year,” Gould said. “If that all comes together and people perform at the level I think they can, then we will definitely surprise some teams, but its going to take our two through five spread to be smaller and farther up.”

Over the course of the past few weeks, coach Kristen Morwick’s squad has tailored its workouts in preparation for this meet.

“We did a tempo workout last week that we’ve never done before: a four mile progression run that got 10 seconds faster each mile to theoretically end at our race pace,” Gould said. “It was different from what we usually do, and I think it showed us all how important pacing is going to be for the rest of championship season. We recently did an all-out mile at the end of our workout that was an interesting preview for how Saturday could shake out.”

A strategy that will likely benefit the Jumbos in the race is their tight packrunning. Over the course of the season, the Jumbos’ one-through-five spread has improved signficantly. At Franklin Park, where Open New England’s took place, the Jumbos showcased a 1:00 one-through-five spread. If the Jumbos are aiming to score some upsets at NESCACs, however, they will need to tighten up their pack, which, given these runners’ talents, is achievable.

“I think the most important thing to do this weekend is to pack our girls together and motivate each other to keep moving up throughout the race,” de Mars said.

After NESCACs, the Jumbos will head to the ECAC Div. III Championship meet at Stanley Park in Westfield, Mass., as a final tune-up before they return to Williams College for the NCAA Div. III New England Regional Meet, at which they can qualify for the national championship.

“We have a really deep team this year, and we really need everyone to be confident and push themselves so that we will run our best these next few weeks,” de Mars said.

he NBA season tipped off last night.

Let it sink in. A season full of intrigue and exciting moments is upon us.

Instead of offering a preview, as I did last week, I am going to highlight some of the more interesting games of the regular season. NBA.com has released its list of the top ten “games to circle” on the NBA regular season schedule. Six of the ten games jump out at me with one common theme.

These games are: Lakers vs. Knicks, Rockets vs. Pistons, Cavaliers vs. Timberwolves, Hornets vs. Pacers, Mavericks vs. Rockets and Cavaliers vs. Heat. The common themes, you ask? Familiarity, bad blood and spurn. These revenge-type games are what make the NBA so fun and watchable. The game that comes to my mind immediately when I think of a comparison in the NFL is Brett Favre’s return to Lambeau Field as a member of the Vikings in 2009. There was so much emotion in the stadium because of Favre’s accomplishments as a Packer. But there’s something different about that night and all these NBA games. Favre only played offense, and thus was not on the field the whole game. An NBA player plays both sides of the ball, and thus we get to see more action with the players we want to see on the court.

There are myriad storylines in these games, some more apparent than others. When the Lakers meet the Knicks in Madison Square Garden on February 1, Derek Fisher will coach against the team with which he won five championships, Phil Jackson will look on as his new team faces his former team, the president of which is his fiancé, Jeanie Buss, and Jeremy Lin will return to the place where Linsanity was born. Incredible stuff.

The Rockets vs. Pistons game is perhaps less intriguing, but an interesting storyline is there underneath everything else. Dwight Howard will play against Stan Van Gundy, and who could forget the finals run they shared with Orlando in 2009? Mostly everyone, as they lost to the Lakers in 5.

On Jan. 31, Kevin Love will return to Minnesota wearing the wine and gold of Cleveland. This is the type of game we all know and love. There will be boos and there will be ecstatic cheers every time Andrew Wiggins or Anthony Bennett — the two number one overall picks sent to Minnesota for Love — make a play.

The Hornets and Pacers matchup features two teams seemingly headed in opposite directions. A big reason why is Lance Stephenson’s decision to sign with Charlotte in the offseason instead of accepting Indiana’s five-year, $44 million offer.

We’ll find out if Stephenson will thrive in Charlotte, but playing against the team that drafted him in 2010 and made him the player he is today will be emotional. Also, who doesn’t want to see a Stephenson-Hibbert meetup at the rim?

Houston and Dallas. A Lone-Star state showdown with heavier implications now that Chandler Parsons has signed with Mark Cuban. Houston was willing to let him walk, and Parsons can now get back at the Rockets by putting up a big game. What better motivation is that?

Finally, I do not even have to explain the Cleveland and Miami game. So I won’t.

These games are the most looked-forwardto because they have added implications, such as bragging rights, pride and revenge.

This is why sports are so amazing. The story unfolds right before our eyes.

Steven Hefter is a junior majoring in economics. He can be reached at Steven.

Hefter@tufts.edu. He is also a Sports Editor for the Tufts Daily.

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by Phillip goldberg

Contributing Writer

The men’s cross country team begins its postseason on Saturday with the NESCAC Championship meet at Middlebury College. As a traditionally tough conference, the NESCAC includes some serious competition for Tufts in teams like Middlebury, Amherst, Williams, Bates and Colby.

Senior Joe Poupard feels that despite low expectations for Tufts, the team will go into the meet in a strong position and with the ability to perform very well.

“It’s nice to go into the meet knowing that you’re behind because the only thing you can do is make up ground,” Poupard said. “Whereas if you’re in front, it gives you a lot more opportunity to choke because you’ve got a lot more pressure, and I don’t really see that kind of pressure being put on this team this year.”

The crowd and conditions likely won’t affect the experienced Jumbo roster.

Sophomore Luke O’Connor had only run two 8K races prior to the championship meet, but he found the experience at last year’s NESCAC Championships rewarding.

Poupard echoed the sentiment that postseason meet experience is invaluable.

“Stepping out onto the field and just … having that energy, we knew something special was going to happen that day,” Poupard said of the Tufts team that won the NESCAC meet two years

ago. “Hopefully we’ll feel the same way this time.”

Sophomore Tim Nichols is primed to contribute as one of the three strongest runners on the team, along with O’Connor and senior co-captain Nicholas Guarnaccia.

O’Connor won NESCAC Performer of the Week honors on Sept. 15 after finishing first in the Bowdoin Invitational. For his part, O’Connor is focused on getting Tufts to Nationals, going so far as to grow out his facial hair with teammates in what they call “staches for natches.”

“There [are] only a few teams outside of NESCAC that really pose a threat, so basically NESCACs really shows us where we are in the region, with the exception of maybe MIT,” Poupard said. “NESCACs is basically who we are going to be up against at New England [regionals].”

O’Connor has a strained right quad, but said that it has been feeling better recently and he hopes it will hold up during the race. Poupard also has experience with injuries, having missed the 2013 NESCAC Championship due to posterior tibial tendinitis, but is looking to contribute in his senior season.

“It’s my senior year, so I’m really hoping to punch some holes,” he said. “Where before I was sort of … in a supporting role, this year the duty is a little more on me to punch some holes, so hopefully I’ll be up to it.”

The race will be held at Middlebury

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College this year, which Poupard believes will give the hosts a slight advantage.

“I think you always have an advantage if you’re running on your home course just because you’ve probably trained on it,” he said. “You’ve probably raced on it a lot more times than other people have, and by virtue of that, you just know the feel a little more. You know when to pick it up, when to ease off … where a novice on the course might give up hope in the third mile because he doesn’t really see the end in sight … It’s definitely an advantage, but I wouldn’t say it’s a make or break advantage, it’s still anybody’s race.”

For his part, O’Connor is excited because the team does not often go to Middlebury.

“I hear it’s two large wooded loops, so unfortunately not very good for spectators, but it is very interesting to run I hope,” he said. “It looks like it from the course map.”

Middlebury is known as a hilly course, and both Poupard and O’Connor said they feel prepared for that after partaking in extra strength training with assistant coach Michael Schmidt this season.

While the NESCAC tournament ostensibly has no impact on the Jumbos’ chances of earning a bid to Nationals, beating their main competition a week before Regionals would certainly be a psychological advantage for the Jumbos. The desire to beat

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Senior co-captain Marshall Pagano runs through the rain towards the finish line. teams that will be opponents again later this postseason will provide the Tufts runners with extra motivation this weekend.

Football

Jumbos look for podium finish Tufts faces Colby in home at NESCAC Championship finale

by Chris Warren Daily Editorial Board

The U.S No. 11 ranked women’s cross country team heads into the NESCAC Championships this weekend ranked third overall in the conference, behind nationally ranked No. 3 Middlebury and No. 7 Williams. At the championship, which takes place at Middlebury this Saturday, the Jumbos will be looking to capitalize on a few weeks of rest for a potential podium finish.

Forecasts for Saturday’s championship are calling for temperatures below 40 degrees with the potential for snow, so many of the runners will be exposed to new racing conditions.

The Jumbos will be led by junior cocaptain Audrey Gould. Gould, who has a very fast 17:09.07 track 5k PR to her name, has consistently proven to both the conference and the region that she is a heavy favorite not only to win the NESCAC title, but also to be All-New England contender. Gould’s junior season has been both dominant and consistent so far. In September, she won the Bowdoin College Invitational 5k, taking the race in a quick early season 18:06.9 time. She later placed third at Williams’ Purple Valley Classic on a very difficult course and placed 15th overall at the NEICAAA Cross Country Championships in stormy conditions.

Most recently, she placed second at the Conn. College Invitational behind

Stevenson Institute junior Amy Regan, a multiple-time cross country and track and field All-American.

At NESCAC’s, Gould will have to contend with Williams junior Lacey Serletti, who ran 21:55 for 6k at Paul Short, as well as Middlebury’s frontrunner, senior Alison Maxwell, who ran three seconds faster than Gould at Open New Englands. They will both be chasing Gould over the hills of Middlebury’s Ralph Myre Golf Course this weekend.

Tufts is well represented through runners two, three and four as well.

Sophomore Kelly Fahey has emerged as the Jumbos’ number two runner this season. Fahey, who has an 18:18.20 track 5k PR to her name, has consistently improved over the fall, running a solid 18:41.3 5k at Bowdoin and a 22:16.0 6k (18:33 5k pace) at the Conn. College Invitational for fifth overall.

Junior Olivia Beltrani, a veteran of Tufts’ top seven, has also put up a solid season, placing ninth overall at Conn. College with a 22:41.0 time over the 6k course. Fahey and Beltrani work together well in races to make passes on other runners, especially on the downhills.

Sophomore Alice Wasserman has cemented herself into the number four position, running a 18:56.58 5k at Open see WOMEN’S XC, page 15

by wil glavin

Daily Editorial Board

The Tufts football team will be playing its final home game of the season on Saturday against the Colby Mules who are currently 1-5. The Jumbos have yet to lose a game at Zimman Field this year, and statistically speaking, the team has been consistently much better than its upcoming opponents.

“We definitely learned things [last Saturday]. We’ve just got to get back at it,” coach Jay Civetti said. “We have to play the next game and really look to get better. Playing at home is great.

The crowd is great. It’s a place where we have had success. We have faced adversity and have overcome it. Learning how to defend your home-field is one of the first steps to winning [and] we just try to take pride in what we do.”

Tufts is coming off a 30-3 loss to Amherst last weekend while its counterpart, Colby, lost an overtime thriller to its bitter rival, Bates.

The Mules began their season with four straight losses and were unable to score more than ten points in any of those games. However, Colby is undoubtedly playing its best football of the season after barely losing to a usually competitive Bates team following its victory over winless Hamilton on Oct. 18.

Sophomore quarterback Gabe Harrington will start for Colby. In

the team’s loss to Bates on Saturday, he posted a highly unusual stat line. Harrington completed just 13 of his 38 attempts, but still managed to throw for 234 yards and four touchdowns. He ranks fifth in the NESCAC in passing yards with 1,111 on the season and is third in touchdown passes with 10. The sophomore’s primary issue this season has been his inaccuracy.

Harrington is just 104-205 for a 50.7 percent completion rate and is tied for second in the conference with seven interceptions.

The Colby offense is one of the most pass-heavy in the conference.

Harrington has attempted the second most passes of any quarterback in the NESCAC, and his two favorite wide receivers — sophomore Ryder Arsenault and senior Nick Joseph — are both tied for second in the conference in receiving touchdowns with four. Tufts’ pass defense has allowed the third most passing yards (207.2 per game) in the NESCAC this season, so expect Harrington to be throwing early and often.

Luckily for the Jumbos’ defense, they will finally be facing one of the weaker rushing attacks in the conference. Tufts’ past four games had been against the four best running backs in the NESCAC: Bowdoin’s Tyler Grant (first in the conference in rushing with see FOOTBALL, page 15

Inside the MLB

Giants win Game 7 by a score of 3-2 The San Francisco Giants won Game 7 of the World Series by a score of 3-1, giving the Giants their third World Championship in the last five years.

The Giants kicked off the scoring in the top of the 2nd inning with a pair of sacrifice

flies from DH Michael Morse and SS Brandon Crawford. The Royals answered immediately with a pair of runs in the bottom of the 2nd from a RBI double by LF Alex Gordon and a sacrifice fly by 2B Omar Infante.

Both teams turned to their bullpens early

in the game, with Giants’ starter Tim Hudson being pulled after recording just five outs and Royal’s starter being pulled with one out in the fourth inning after an RBI single from Morse gave the Giants a 3-2 lead.

Both bullpens performed well for the

remainder of the game, highlighted by Giants starter Madison Bumgarner. Bumgarner came into the game to start the bottom of the fifth, and proceeded to close out the game, solidifying the Giants’ 3-2 win.

—by Alex Connors