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Hopkins, local mayors discuss community by

Abigail Feldman

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Rob Hopkins, founder of the international Transition Town Movement, spoke last night in Cabot Auditorium on how communities around the country are changing to develop more sustainable and resilient economies and social networks.

Hopkins was joined by community leaders Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn and Mayor Lisa Wong of Fitchburg, Mass., who explained how they were making important environmental and social changes in their own towns.

The event, hosted by the Peace and Justice Studies Program, drew audience members from all over the state and lasted an hour and half.

Event moderator and Assistant Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program Dale Bryan began by connecting the event to the university’s ongoing debate on fossil fuel divestment.

“It’s a critical issue for our society and civilization to consider: What are we going to do to safely, cooperatively and constructively transition to a post-party world and a new economy?” he said.

Hopkins’ Transition Town Movement seeks to build community resilience in the face of global challenges. “Transition Initiatives” utilize local assets

and citizen-led action to generate environmental change while still respecting the culture and nature of the community.

Hopkins explained that, nowadays, people face four main challenges to creating a sustainable future.

The first challenge, he said, is that our economy has changed to favor large businesses. This is a problem because local businesses are what give local economies their resilience, Hopkins added.

“If we’re serious about those local economies, [small businesses] are where the kind of future we need to face comes from,” he said.

The second challenge comes from the idea that economies must always aim for growth. Growth, however, does not necessarily result in progress, Hopkins said.

“If our children just continued growing forever, exponentially, it would be terrifying,” he said.

“But for some reason we imagine that the economy ... can grow indefinitely.”

In reality, he said, economic growth results in increased economic inequality and carbon emissions. Twenty percent of economic growth goes to the top one percent of earners and not to regular people.

According to Hopkins, the final two problems that transition seeksee TRANSITION, page 2

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In a Center for the Humanities at Tufts lecture yesterday, author Lara Vapnyar spoke about her experience as a foreign-born writer in the United States.

European authors speak on moving to America by

Marissa Peck

Contributing Writer

The Center for Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) yesterday hosted its first installment of “European Writers on the Move,” a lecture series exploring the different barriers that exist for foreign writers in the United States.

Yesterday’s lecture, titled “Shopping for a Better Country,”

featured authors Josip Novakovich and Lara Vapnyar, who shared their work and participated in a question-and-answer session with the audience.

Jonathon Wilson, director of CHAT, kicked off the event by explaining the purpose of the series.

“It is good to hear from people who speak a different language, because we realize they write bet-

ter than we do,” Wilson said.

Novakovich was born in Croatia and studied medicine in Serbia before moving to America and beginning his career as a writer.

He wrote the novel “April Fool’s Day” in 2004, as well as three short story collections — “Yolk” (1995), “Salvation and Other Disasters” (1998) and “Infidelities: Stories of see AUTHORS, page 2

Collective connects student musicians at Tufts by

Maya Blackstone

Contributing Writer

Through a collaborative effort, music majors and musicians alike have come together to advertise concerts, share equipment, organize events and bounce ideas around. The Musicians Collective is dedicated to linking student musicians across the Hill, whether they’re just starting to explore the music scene or are seasoned musicians looking to share their work.

Although the Musicians Collective used to bring together members for meetings, it is currently using a Facebook group as its central hub. The group currently has over 200 members and frequently updates members with new posts.

“The status of the group depends on who is in charge and who is running the group that particular year, and if they have any sort of budget,” junior Maeve Bell-Thornton, a three-year member of the collective, said.

Organization efforts and collaboration within the group can vary, according to Bell-Thornton. Last year, for example, the Musicians Collective organized a performance for members of the group at the Tufts Distler Performance Hall. The show gave bands and solo performers the chance to showcase their work for each other and the Tufts community. In other years, however, events have not been as organized and the group has existed only as a forum, which, Bell-Thornton added, isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

“The mindset of the collective doesn’t call for a specific leader,” she said. “Even though there’s no one in charge, things get accom-

plished and it’s a collective effort.”

Specific leadership has always been a mystery for the collective; according to members, no one knows who founded the group.

“No one seems to actually know when the group was founded or by whom,” senior Peter Stone, a member, said.

According to Stone, who is also a member of the band The Rare Occasions, this does not affect the workings of the collective.

“It’s a promising way for people just entering Tufts to get a footing in the music scene here and to get an idea of what’s going on here,” he said.

Students just entering the music scene at Tufts can request to be added to the group, and they can then check the page for updates on happenings in the music scene.

Bell-Thornton was enthusiastic about the potential the group has for connecting people who wouldn’t otherwise know about these outlets on and off campus.

“The music scene is difficult to find. There are limited places to have music events and not everything is advertised to public audiences,” Bell-Thornton said.

Freshman Aaron Herman commented on how difficult it has been to define himself as a musician on campus.

“One of the struggles of being a freshman is trying to narrow down the many options that I have. But there’s also the problem of not knowing people, so if I want to do my own thing rather than join some pre-existing group, there was not really anywhere to start,” Herman said.

Herman said that he first heard about the Musicians Collective because a friend

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The Musicians Collective has helped musicians from around campus come together and share their music, but hopes to improve its advertising to prospective new members. of his had joined the group on Facebook, and Herman decided to look into it himself.

Herman said he hopes that the Musicians Collective will enable him to participate in an activity he enjoys with the right time commitment.

“I’m hoping that the Musicians Collective will help me find people to play music with, or to play music I’ve written, without the need to form a defined band or make any

consistent time commitment,” Herman said. “[The collective] seems like the type of thing that would be informal but very effective, and hopefully it will live up to my expectations.”

Senior Hayes Peebles, who has been an active part of the music scene on campus since his freshman year, found that the see MUSICIANS, page 2

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Speakers explore environmental and social initiatives TRANSITION

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ers face are climate change and oil dependency. While the large-scale efforts of governments and small everyday efforts, like switching to more efficient light bulbs in homes, are important, the missing element in making a change is getting together with one’s community. This is what Transition initiatives aim to do, he said.

“How do we make the politically impossible politically inevitable?” Hopkins said.

“That starts with us, in the places where we live, making that happen.”

Since the first transition movement began in Totnes, England, about 1,400 transition organizations have cropped up all over the globe — from Portugal and Brazil to Great Britain and Japan. Each organization is tailored to and run by community members and their specific needs, according to Hopkins He said that people hoping to become more active should not feel restricted by lack of financial resources.

“What transition does is unlocks enthusiasm that you could never buy with funding,” he said.

Hopkins encouraged audience members to continue building their communities and to start Transition efforts.

“You don’t need somebody to come from England to give you permission to start your transition, and if you do, you just got it,” he said.

McGlynn then discussed Medford’s myriad environmental undertakings over the

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Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Town Movement, spoke last night in Cabot Auditorium about ways that local communities can create more environmentally friendly and socially resilient environments. last several years. Since McGlynn’s time in office, Medford has constructed a wind turbine, implemented curbside and singlestream recycling systems and expanded community garden space, among many other projects.

The community has responded positively to all these efforts, he said, noting that Medford is recognized as one of the most environmentally active towns in the nation.

“We’re addicted to trying to do good

things for the environment,” McGlynn said.

Wong explained how her background in economics helped her turn Fitchburg, one of the poorest municipalities in the state, into a thriving community through the support of town members.

“People started, through those informal networks, working with each other ... and that all happened organically,” Wong said.

“That really made me really proud. That unlocked something.”

Forum for musicians still has room for improvement MUSICIANS

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group helped strengthen his connection to campus while abroad last year.

“The Musicians Collective supplies a ground work not only as a first step, but for people to use after they graduate, or, while they’re away from Tufts, they can continue to use it to get opinions and see what others are doing on campus,” Peebles said.

The Musicians Collective also acts as a bridge between academic and social music on campus, according to Bell-Thornton.

The Department of Music is well aware of the group and its activities.

“All the faculty were really excited to see the music being made outside of the department,” Bell-Thornton said.

As an example, Bell-Thornton cited a TuftsNow article from 2012 about

the “Sunset Sessions,” a series of video recording jam sessions on a rooftop in Somerville, which generated excitement from the department.

While the Musicians Collective has potential to be helpful to students, musicians at Tufts report that the group may have some limitations.

“There is a tendency to get lost in the online part of the group,” Peebles said.

“It’s positive because there are a lot of voices, [but] negative because it becomes just another Facebook group, and a notification overlooked.”

Stone pointed out that part of the challenge in using Facebook to manage the collective is that reaching out to new students, who are not yet connected to the music scene at Tufts, can be difficult.

“It’s a way to share music with people you already know are interested in music, so it’s

an ineffective way to advertise,” he said.

Stone said that having more shows can be a good way to change how the collective advertises itself.

“I hope there are more opportunities for bands to play through the Musicians Collective and more people who want ... bands to play at their parties,” Stone said.

“Sometimes when bands play at frat parties people care, but it can be a mixed bag because people go with the feeling that it is a party, not a concert.”

Although there are problems with the group currently, Stone looks forward to future expansion.

“It would be cool if more people would be added but it’s kind of hard to find and no one really knows about it,” Stone said. “More people should be involved to form a better music community and expand the music presence on campus.”

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War and Lust” (2005). Novakovich is also known for his collections of narrative essays, including his most recent work “Shopping for a Better Country.”

The author was a finalist for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and he has received a Whiting Writers’ Award and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.

At the talk, Novakovich read several of his works, including his short story “Soccer Game,” depicting an unruly soccer match during which a crowd becomes incensed when a player misses a penalty shot. Spectators pour from the stands and onto the field to deliver the player his fate: getting thrown into a cage with two grizzly bears.

Novakovich’s writing, which resembles stories told around the campfire, is described as a conversation.

“I like to play with absurdities,” he said.

Upon the author’s arrival in the United States, he found himself astonished by American culture.

“When I came here, I didn’t realize I could be anything I wanted,” he said.

Novakovich believes that translations of his work into other languages do not do the writing justice.

“I live in English, I write in English ... it’s a matter of geography,” he said.

The event continued with remarks from Vapnyar, a Russian-born author of several critically acclaimed works. Her writing has been featured in magazines like The New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine.

Vapnyer’s novels include “Memories of a Muse” (2006) and “The Scent of Pine,” set for publication next January. She has also written two-short story collections, “Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love” (2008) and “There are Jews in My House” (2004).

Although Vapnyar majored in Russian literature in college, she said she has never written any short stories or novels

in Russian. She highlighted the importance of trial and error in the writing process.

“In Russian, I would be a perfectionist,” she said. “In English, I allow myself to make mistakes because I don’t realize I am making them.”

Vapnyar then gave a reading of her short story “Fisher vs. Spassky,” in which the main character concludes that the promise of a better life cannot replace the intimacy of home.

The writer connected the character’s revelation to her own, as Vapnyar said she experienced a feeling of lost identity when she first arrived in America.

Young and without any knowledge of the English language, she longed for her native country.

As she gained a better grasp of the language, however, Vapnyar found solace and identity in writing.

“Writing was a way for me to feel at home in a new place,” she said.

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Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival marked by success Free music festival appeals to all ages

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What has been referred to as “Boston’s biggest block party,” the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival certainly did not fail to disappoint last Saturday in Boston’s South End, marking its 13th year of bringing jazz, blues and groove acts to music fans. And with not one, but three stages, the event offered attendees a little taste of everything — the festival also featured an endless amount of activities and vendors.

Perhaps the best aspect of the festival was its price tag — free of charge, the event was open to audiences of all ages. This year’s show was based on the theme “Jazz: The Next Generation,”

and, fittingly, the festival focused on up-and-coming artists in the jazz world.

A highly anticipated, diverse event produced by Berklee College of Music, the festival typically draws a crowd of around 80,000 people annually. There was, most obviously, plenty of jazz for listeners to enjoy. Yet, the event was not just limited to music — many parents decided to make the day a family affair and brought their children, who were entertained by other pavilions, including a petting zoo in the main park. With 70 vendors set up over six blocks, there was absolutely nothing missing from the event this time around. Part of its success is due to financial support from

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The Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival featured three separate stages.

outside sources; the Beantown Jazz Festival wouldn’t have been possible without a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which has helped to fund the festival for the past four years.

Among some of the standout performers were Meshell Ndegeocello and Will Calhoun Trio. Ndegeocello, showcasing work from her 10th studio album, “Pour une ᬥ souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone,” was an amazing addition to the lineup. Drawing by far the largest crowd of the afternoon, she used her unique, Nina Simone-esque sound to captivate the audience and engaged them until the very last note of her set. The energy exuded from Ndegeocello was contagious, to say the least, and you could feel the crowd tapping their feet in time with her magnetic jazz beats. Although there were thousands of people watching in open air, Ndegeocello made the concert atmosphere feel as intimate as a downtown jazz club — quite an impressive feat.

Following Ndegeocello was Will Calhoun Trio, whose namesake lead was a graduate of Berklee College of Music himself. Bringing the percussion side of jazz to the table, Calhoun and his group did not miss a beat, with outstanding drum solos that lasted minutes on end without once dragging on past the interest of the audience.

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Will Calhoun and his group Will Calhoun Trio delivered a standout performance at the festival last weekend. memorable and distinguished their performance in a sea of excellent acts.

The center of the festival contained a huge open park, complete with a third stage, as well as numerous activities for children.

KidsJam was the clear-cut highlight for all the children at the festival — the music education program is designed to teach kids about music through interactive musical activities like singing, playing instruments and sound exploration. KidsJam tends to emphasize the jazz genre, something that sets it apart from other programs of its kind. It isn’t often that young children are exposed to jazz, and KidsJam makes this style more accessible to kids.

And no festival would be complete without a nearly endless number of food tents — this year a wide range of options were offered, including a Mexican stand, a Jamaican pulled-pork vendor and various other immensely popular food trucks. Indeed, to get a whoopee pie from the “Whoopee Van,” people had to set aside at least 30 minutes of their day to spend in line. Nevertheless, the pumpkin-spiced treat was well worth the wait.

As The Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival continues to thrive, fans can look forward to another successful event next September. It doesn’t look like this tradition will be ending anytime soon.

Movie Review

‘Gravity’ stuns with visceral yet unsettling experience New take on ‘Space Odyssey’ will be film to remember

by Timothy Charouk Daily Staff Writer

Ever since his highly acclaimed “Children of Men” (2006), audiences have eagerly waited for another Alfonso Cuarón film. His

Gravity Directed by Alfonso Cuarón Starring George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Ed Harris most recent release, “Gravity” — complete with a spectacular unbroken 17-minute opening shot — will elate viewers, taking them through an adventure in space.

In the past, Cuarón has experimented with many different genres, but he seems to be settling into one he seems most comfortable with: science fiction. His earlier works, including “Great Expectations” (1998) and “Y Tu Mamá También” (2001), featured

more low-key romantic plots. In 2004, he was selected to direct the third installment of the “Harry Potter” franchise, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” to which he added his own vision — making it one of the darkest films in the series and, arguably, one of the best. Later, he developed a taste for action and adventure, moving on to direct the fast-paced “Children of Men” (2006). He has now embarked on a new mission to create one of the best depictions of space since 1968’s epic “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Despite all the scientific and technological progress in the past 20 years, the space movie genre has remained largely untapped.

Sure, “Apollo 13” (1995) was fun, but the film failed to evoke that sense of that isolation viewers should feel when watching space scenes — the movie simply cut back to the ground too frequently. In “Gravity,” however, the audience really does feel trapped and alone in the infinite expanse of space.

Watching the film is a totally visceral experience — one that is completely unsettling.

Though Cuarón, who both wrote and

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Sandra Bullock gives a breathtaking performance in ‘Gravity.’

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Panoramic shots of outer space are visually stunning in ‘Gravity.’ directed the film, has captured this atmosphere perfectly, there is not much depth when it comes to plot. Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a medical engineer on her first space mission after a hasty training, and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), a veteran astronaut on his last mission, are in space when debris starts careening towards them. The debris cuts them off from their spaceship, and they are forced to find a way to survive for all of 90 minutes. Thankfully, the experience of being in space with these characters is enough to keep the audience engaged, but one can’t help but feel a bit cheated. Amid the beauty of the film, the narrative itself seems to be just an afterthought. It’s a lazy reason to set the movie in space, as if Cuarón had the concept and just needed a reason for it to happen.

The casting choices also seem a little strange. Cuarón could have showcased the talents of lesser-known actors, yet he chose to cast big name stars like Clooney and Bullock. There are no complaints to be made about Bullock’s performance — except that

the absurdity of seeing the actress, known for her other less serious roles, in space is somewhat distracting. Bullock’s acting, however, compensates for this. At times, the audience was holding their breath alongside her, nearly gasping for air when some of her sequences were over. There were moments when the theater was filled only with the audience’s heavy breathing, fighting the deadening silence of space.

“Gravity” is a terrifying film for anyone afraid of wide-open spaces or isolation, as well as anyone who is claustrophobic, gets dizzy easily or hates silence. Ultimately, though, it is an exhilarating experience — something like riding a slower version of Space Mountain at Disneyland — and to simply describe it would not do it any justice. Despite a lacking plot, and even if viewers find the story gimmicky, this film will be remembered for years to come. “Gravity” is an important new leaf in the science fiction genre, setting a high bar for future cinematic ventures into space. This is truly 2013’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

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ing efforts.

“I encourage the players on my team to let me know about the good players out there,” Shapiro said. “I trust my guys to say, ‘Hey, this is a really good player on my team, I like him as a person, and I think he’d fit well here.’”

Shapiro not only utilizes his players to find recruits, but also to serve as examples for the younger players on the team.

“The fact is, if you come through a program and you’re an older, reputable guy, you are going to be somebody that younger players look up to,” Shapiro said. “When you’re dealing with all these kids that have Div. I stars in their eyes, sometimes the best thing to help temper that is an upperclassman who’s come from the same school, telling them, ‘Hey, this is still pretty darn good.’”

The 2012 recruiting class brought in a new wave of talent, including another Princeton

product in Pinheiro. The midfielder largely attributed his decision to attend Tufts to the presence of Hoppenot and Lee-Kramer. “[Peter, Max and I] were all good friends, and I saw that as a positive about coming to Tufts,” Pinheiro told the Daily in an email. “It was nice to have friends who had been in the same position I was just a year before. I was able to draw from their experiences, and that helped me make my decision.”

Shapiro does not have any specific plans regarding his future recruiting efforts, other than to continue scouting a wide range of locations. If the talent is present in Princeton, the trend could certainly continue.

“We want to have a really diverse team, but at the end of they day, I’m not overly concerned with having a player from every state in the union,” Shapiro said. “I just want to have the best players who we can be exposed to, and for the last couple years, there’s been a number of them from Jersey.”

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and winning is not possible without strength,” Dawe said.

The team’s next race is the Seven Sisters Regatta against UMass and Ithaca on the Connecticut River on Sunday, Oct. 13. The Jumbos are eager to get stronger as the fall season progresses.

“The most exciting part about the future is the team’s excitement to

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grow and change,” Siegler said. “This was our first race, and since last year we have dramatically improved our team’s depth and strength.”

“I think people are waking up to their responsibilities to each other and will become as strong as they can,” Dawe added. “Going forward, I see the development of ownership, engagement and commitment to other people as the most encouraging sign.”

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to its typical base 4-3. Much like at Bates, the challenge for Tufts will be to anticipate and contain the run.

“Just like Bates did, if [Bowdoin is] rushing 70 times, you’re not gonna give up less than 100 yards,” McCormack said. “So it’s about keeping them out of the end zone at the end of the day.”

Offensively for Tufts, junior quarterback Jack Doll and his receivers will look to build on what they established last week, when Doll broke a school record by completing 46 passes. For the first time, the Mater Dei High School product looked comfortable commanding the team’s no-huddle, spread attack, and he has become willing to throw to a handful of targets. Among them are junior Greg Lanzillo, sophomore Jack Cooleen and freshman Ben Berey, all of whom had career highs in receptions against Bates.

For Bowdoin, junior Mac Caputi — whose father Dave has been the Polar Bears’ head coach for 14 years — is the starting quarterback. Senior Thomas Romero, who saw the bulk of the playing time last year, has thrown 10 passes in each of the first two games.

The Jumbos hold the all-time advantage against Bowdoin, 58-47-2, and they last beat the Polar Bears in a Homecoming classic in 2009, when Adam Auerbach (LA ’12) hit a 37-yard field goal in the fourth quarter to tie, and a 35-yarder in overtime to win.

Tomorrow at 1 p.m., with temperatures expected to rise past 70 degrees inside Ellis Oval, the Jumbos will try to rekindle the magic that has been all but absent since Auerbach’s triumphant moment. “[The players] know when it’s real and when it’s not — and I think they know it’s real,” Civetti said. “They know what they should be. They know what they’re capable of. The new challenge becomes, how do we accept that opportunity ... and how do we finish it? Saturday’s the only test to be able to decide that.”

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I get more sleep than I did in high school

Not being able to balance soccer and academics

Robin Estus to themselves Freshman Midfielder and don’t Women’s Soccer compromise their

Pretty much my twin sister

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Chance Brady The unlimited meal Not having a car, and Being a freshman Freshman Running Back plan pretty much being doesn’t mean seniors Football clueless all the time necessarily hate you

Conner Calabro Freshman Women’s Tennis

The people

Learning to find a new building, and looking like I’m in a daze when I walk around

How not judged or self-conscious I feel

Failure

That classes were going to be super, super hard

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The funniest person on campus

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Football

Home opener presents golden opportunity by

Aaron Leibowitz

Daily Editorial Board

Better performances beget increased expectations. For the football team, which played one of its best games in three years last week at Bates, it would not be unreasonable to expect a win in tomorrow’s home opener against Bowdoin.

Still, a few facts make it difficult to count the Jumbos as favorites.

Tufts has not won in its last 25 tries. The Jumbos’ roster features 52 freshmen and sophomores. Only nine players have tasted victory in their collegiate careers.

But the team showed tangible signs of improvement in its 20-16 loss to Bates, a 5-3 squad in 2012, and now Tufts has a legitimate shot to beat Bowdoin, its weakest remaining opponent. The Polar Bears, like the Jumbos, are 0-2, and Middlebury and Amherst each defeated them handily, 27-5 and 27-11.

The key for Tufts is to keep improving. As fifth-year tight end Nick Kenyon pointed out on Sunday, the Jumbos have taken steps forward before, only to backtrack the next week. So far this season that has not been the case, as the team continues to mature.

“We’re right on schedule,” head coach Jay Civetti said after practice Wednesday. “Everything’s starting to happen right as it should.”

Does that mean there will be added pressure on Saturday?

“The first words my five-month old [daughter] said — she said, ‘Dad, we gotta win this one,’” Civetti said, tongue-in-cheek. “Do people say things? Yeah. People care; that’s why they say things. But has there been, ‘You must [win]’? No. All I hear is people that are constructive [saying] how they want to help us get there.”

The players may feel a little extra motivation this weekend — it’s the

first home game, Parents Weekend and an opportunity to snap the streak — but they also know that tomorrow’s game is not the end-all.

“It’s not that ‘this is the one,’” sophomore linebacker Matt McCormack said. “It’s just that we’re really confident. We really believe, not necessarily for just this one, but for future games, as well.”

To convert their confidence into results tomorrow on Zimman Field, the Jumbos will need to deal with junior running back Zach Donnarumma. Last year against Tufts, Donnarumma returned from a bout with mononucleosis to rush for 137 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner with 2:36 to play. The host Polar Bears won, 17-10.

The senior has eclipsed 100 yards rushing all three times he has faced the Jumbos, and tomorrow he will likely be motivated by a subpar performance — 13 carries for 13 yards — at Amherst in Week 2.

“He’s been an Achilles’ heel for us for years,” Civetti said. “I think [Bowdoin] called ‘Power’ 27 times versus us last year. He, along with his offensive line — they singlehandedly put us away.”

Slowing him down will require a team effort.

“It’s a matter of playing your assignment, doing what your job is,” junior defensive lineman James Brao said. “For me, on the rush, it means playing just my gap and hitting my movements and stunts when they’re assigned. Stopping a player like [Donnarumma] isn’t a single-person job.”

Against Bates’ triple option offense, Tufts added four or five new defensive fronts, and every defensive player got a new assignment.

This week, the defense has returned see FOOTBALL, page 7

Men’s Soccer

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Sophomore Rui Pinheiro (with ball) is one of four players with ties to Princeton, New Jersey.

The Princeton pipeline: Recruiting success in Jersey

by Jake Indursky

Daily Editorial Board

Kramer sends a ball deep to Pinheiro. Pinheiro pushes the ball forward to Hoppenot along the sideline. Hoppenot cuts to the middle of the field and scorches one past the opposing keeper for a goal.

It’s the Princeton connection.

Sophomore midfielder Rui Pinheiro, junior tri-captain forward Maxime Hoppenot and junior defenseman Peter Lee-Kramer, along with freshman walk-on midfielder Zach Halliday, make up a contingent of Jumbos that either grew up in Princeton or played at Princeton Day School. Together, they have contributed 12 of Tufts’ 42 points this season.

As the men’s soccer program has blossomed over the past three years, the Princeton pipeline has played a critical role in the team’s success. Though it may seem like head coach Josh Shapiro has been funneling players from Princeton into his program since the start of

his tenure in 2010, his recruiting presence in the area was more of a chain reaction.

“I got to know Peter [LeeKramer] ... at the camp I worked at Georgetown,” Shapiro said. “Sort of through Peter, we learned about Max [Hoppenot], and through Max we learned about Rui [Pinheiro].

And through Max and Rui, we learned about Zach [Halliday].”

For Shapiro, the event that started the Princeton chain reaction was the discovery of LeeKramer, the only player from the area on whom Shapiro was initially focusing. At the time, Shapiro was building his first recruiting class at Tufts, which was enough to hook Lee-Kramer.

“I knew every single person through high school soccer or club soccer, because they were all from Massachusetts or New Jersey,” Lee-Kramer said. “I basically chose Tufts because I knew my recruiting class.”

Although Shapiro learned about Hoppenot through his recruiting of Lee-Kramer, he did not know that

the two were best friends growing up. Ultimately, that friendship played a significant role in their matriculation to Tufts.

“Peter and I were in contact a lot our senior falls about college and where we were going to play,” Hoppenot said. “One day, as I’m making my final choices in schools, he calls me and tells me he just got off the phone with coach Shapiro and he had committed. So I said, ‘Okay, I’ll call him now too.’”

The pair teamed up to play in every game of the 2011 season, with LeeKramer starting 11 games at defensive back and Hoppenot finishing second on the team in goals with six.

But even considering all of their contributions on the field, they have arguably made a bigger impact off the field.

Following the 2011 season, Shapiro — who came into the job with only his remaining connections from Georgetown — relied on players like Hoppenot and Lee-Kramer to aid in his recruitsee MEN’S SOCCER, page 7

Women’s Crew

Tufts faces wide range of competition in Vermont

by Steven

Hefter

Contributing Writer

Women’s crew kicked off its fall season at the Green Mountain Head Regatta in Vermont on Sunday, and fielded a total of 15 boats. Like most fall races, the Green Mountain Head was a head race, with boats going off at five-second intervals and the rowers racing against the clock.

The regatta featured both men’s and women’s events in a range of age groups from under-19 to over-75. Tufts was represented in the under-19 women’s singles by freshman Nika Wakulich, who placed second, and fielded six singles and nine doubles in the 19-34 age group. There was no team competition in the regatta, so every Tufts boat technically rowed as an individual team.

In the fall, the team focuses on sculling, which is different from sweep rowing — used in the spring — in that every rower has two oars. Many women on the team began sculling at the start of the fall season three weeks ago and did well given their limited experience.

“For many of the sophomores and freshmen, this was

their first sculling race ever, most of them learning to scull in the past three weeks,” head coach Brian Dawe told the Daily in an email.

Tufts faced a range of competition, from high school athletes just getting their feet wet in the rowing world to seasoned athletes such as Olympian Gevvie Stone.

“The day was beautiful and calm, the river was barely flowing and the team reacted very well in this environment,” Dawe said. “It’s always

a charge to find yourself on the water and in the same event as Olympians and World Champion scullers.”

The team performed well given the competition. The 19-34 singles category featured Stone and other elite athletes, most of whom were in their mid-to-late 20s. Senior tricaptain Caroline Ricard had the best performance for Tufts in the division with a time of 23:31.4. She finished 19th out of 31 rowers with a finishing time three minutes off of first

place, which Stone took handily. Sophomore Emma Wells finished second for Tufts, about a minute behind Ricard and 24th overall.

In the doubles, the Jumbos also faced elite competition, although not at the same level as the single races. The top rowers, who finished the course in close to 20 minutes, occupied the first three places. Pressing in on the elite boats, however, was the sophomore tandem of Katie Grosch and Rachel Siegler, both of whom competed in their first sculling

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The women’s crew team made positive strides at the Green Mountain Head Regatta in Vermont on Sunday.

race Sunday. They finished in 22:40.1, fourth overall, with a second sophomore double of Claire Sleigh, who is also a sports editor at the Daily, and Grace Reilly eight seconds behind.

“I think that our team performed very well at the regatta this past weekend,” Siegler said. “It was our first one of the season, and for many of us our first time racing in sculling boats, so we were all very excited to race. Overall, it was a great first race, and a great effort by the whole team.”

The three-mile course was upstream for the first 1.5 miles with a complete turn around two buoys to come back downstream for the second half.

Dawe believes his team’s greatest strength thus far has been its leadership, not only from the captains, but also from the underclassmen.

“Several sophomores are contributing to this, and the team morale is as high as it has ever been,” he said.

Although the Jumbos performed well at the Green Mountain Head Regatta, there is room for improvement.

“We’re still not strong enough; rowing well is easier when you are stronger see WOMEN’S CREW, page 7