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VOLUME LXVIII, NUMBER 40

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Community health to become primary major

by Dana Guth

Daily Editorial Board

Starting next fall, community health will be offered as a primary major at Tufts, rather than a secondary double major as it is now, according to an Oct. 24 announcement by the Community Health Program.

The change has been in the works for years due to student and faculty demand, according to Community Health Program Director Jennifer Allen.

“There was an overwhelming desire expressed by students in the department who said that having to fulfill another major’s requirements in addition to ours was burdensome and unnecessary,” she said. “It really took them away from what they were passionate about.”

After transferring to Tufts her sophomore year, senior Rebecca Goldberg said she discovered community health as an area of interest where she

would have liked to focus on more while at Tufts.

“I love everything about the department,” she said. “It’s my home, and I hope it can be a primary major on my diploma.”

These sentiments are echoed among other students in the program, including sophomore Sophie Maki, a prospective peace and justice studies and community health double major.

“We’re exposed to an idea of health that goes beyond simple medical care and looks at the way society can change to really create a more healthy population,” she said. “We can get rid of social structures that act as barriers to healthcare justice.”

Allen, who said she has been pushing for the program’s approval since she joined Tufts faculty last year, submitted the proposal in late September see COMMUNITY, page 2

Wellforce provides collaborative health care

by Audrey Michael Daily Editorial Board

Tufts Medical Center (MC) and Lowell General Hospital have finalized an agreement to create a new health care system, Wellforce, to provide more integrated and coordinated care to patients at both hospitals, according to an announcement last month.

In an Oct. 22 press release, CEO of Lowell General Normand Deschene said that Wellforce “turns the traditional health care model on its head” by focusing on prevention, community health and investment in technology, instead of solely on hospital equipment and buildings.

Deschene first proposed the idea of an affiliation in September 2013. The proposal was a response to a changing health care landscape in light of the Affordable Care Act, according to CEO Emeritus and Vice Chair of the Tufts MC Board of Trustees Ellen Zane, who will also serve as chair of the Wellforce board.

“Wellforce is aligned with the revolution occurring in health care,” Deschene said in the statement. “The ACA and trends in health care costs in the United States demand a new vision for care delivery.”

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Republican Senator of Kentucky Mitch McConnell, here pictured on the campaign trail with Mitt Romney, at left, and his wife Elaine Chao, was reelected for his sixth term. McConnell will be Senate Majority Leader.

GOP triumphs in midterms: Republicans take Senate, Baker projected to win in tight race According to last night’s election results, the Republicans captured more than the required 51 Senate seats, giving them a majority in the Senate for the first time since 2006. Republicans won contested Senate seats in South Dakota, Iowa, North Carolina, Arkansas, Montana and Colorado, while also staving off challengers to Republican-held seats in Kansas and Georgia.

Elsewhere, high-profile Democratic candidates including Wendy Davis, famous for her filibuster in the Texas State Senate, Jason Carter, grandson of Jimmy Carter and sitting Senators Mark Udall and Kay Hagan all lost their races in an election that is being depicted as a GOP wave. High profile GOP candidates, including Iraq war veteran Tom Cotton (LA), Iowa farmer Joni Ernst and controversial Governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Rick

Scott of Florida all won their respective races.

In New Hampshire, Tufts alumnus and former Republican Senator Scott Brown eventually conceded to sitting Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen, after coming back from an early collapse in voting returns before finally surrendering late into the night.

In the Massachusetts race for Governor, Republican Charlie Baker is projected to win at time of publication with 98 percent of precincts reporting.

Coakley, who has been criticized for poor campaign skills after her loss to Scott Brown for Senate in 2010, underperformed dramatically in traditionally Democratic areas, including Lowell and Worcester.

State Democratic candidates swept the rest of statewide races. Maura Healey won her race for Attorney General, becoming the first openly LGBT

Attorney General in the United States, while Suzanne Bump and Deb Goldberg won their own statewide elections, for auditor and treasurer respectively. The Massachusetts Congressional delegation remained entirely under the control of the Democrats, as Seth Moulton defeated Republican Richard Tisei in the 6th Essex district.

On the ballot questions in Massachusetts, voters rejected Question 2, the so-called “Bottle Bill,” and Question 3, which would have eliminated casinos and the casino law, meaning the casino law will remain in place. Voters approved Question 4, to give workers earned, paid sick time, and Question 1, which repeals the automatic indexing of the gas tax to inflation. ­—by Nicholas Golden

Sackler School researchers team Relay For Life to host fall up to combat breast cancer kick-off event tonight see MEDICAL, page 2

by Dana Guth

Daily Editorial Board

by Gabriella Zoia Contributing Writer

Tufts Relay For Life will host its kick-off event today at 8 p.m. in the Game Room of the Mayer Campus Center, rather than Hotung Cafe, where it has been held in previous years.

The event will feature discounted registration for the final April 10 event as well as performances by Tufts student groups, including sQ!, Enchanted and Cheap Sox. Food will be provided

by Chipotle for the attending guests, according to Elana

Shapiro, co-chair of Relay For Life.

“We have this kick-off event every year, twice a year, so this is our fall kick-off — our purpose is to bring attention to Relay For Life and to get people to sign up for the April event,” Shapiro, a senior, said. “The relay is in April, but we fundraise all year round and people start teams as early as now.”

Rachel Coyne, co-chair of Relay For Life, added that there will be more similar events later in the year. see RELAY, page 2

Two researchers from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences began a collaboration in October to investigate the environmental causes of breast cancer.

Funded by a three-year, $5 million grant from the Art beCAUSE Breast Cancer Foundation, the research is intended to find out how so many people fall victim to the disease with no family history of cancer, according to Gail Sonenshein, professor of developmental, molecular and chemical biology. Sonesheim is the principal researcher along with Charlotte Kupperwasser, associate professor of develop-

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mental, molecular and chemical biology.

The two will be working alongside three other researchers in the field, including Stefano Monti, associate professor of medicine and biostatistics, and David Seldin, professor of medicine and microbiology at the Boston University School of Medicine. David Sherr, professor of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health, will be leading the project.

“There’s a lot of accumulating evidence that environmental chemicals are contributing to a real majority of cancers,” Sherr said. “You can’t change your genes, but you might be able to change your environment. So, if

we can find how certain chemicals work in a cell, we can start to see how bad they really are.”

For Sonenshein, the most convincing argument that environmental factors are likely to have a role in cancer development is that about 90 percent of breast cancers are caused by sporadic or somatic exposures, meaning exposure that happens to the body in its environment, rather than genetic predisposition.

“This [research] group [as well as backer Art beCAUSE] very strongly believes that there is a real environmental role,” Sonenshein said. “The best way to cure breast cancer is to presee CANCER, page 2

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Le Laboratoire in Cambride offers a fresh new space to explore scientific and artistic innovation.

Field hockey earns semifinal berth with win over Amherst.

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Tufts Medical Center and Lowell General collaborate on new healthcare system

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Deschene’s vision was different than most hospital mergers and affiliations occurring today, Zane explained.

“He noticed in the market that most hospitals, usually big hospitals, acquire little hospitals,” she said.

Zane said an academic hospital such as Tufts MC would usually do the same, but Deschene suggested a more egalitarian relationship between Tufts MC and Lowell General.

The two hospitals have similar numbers of beds, and Tufts MC has a longstanding history of providing specialized services at Lowell General, according to Zane. She said both Tufts MC and Lowell General are ranked as high-quality facilities on every parameter used to measure health care quality and are ranked as more cost-effective than other hospitals of the same caliber. Deschene envisions the two hospitals integrating care and reducing costs.

Though Wellforce now owns Tufts MC and Lowell General, both hospitals will retain much of their organizational autonomy. The primary difference in care is that Tufts MC will now provide higher-level services in Lowell “so people can get the care they need closer to home,” Zane said.

Zane said the affiliation has a perspective on providing care that differs from most hospital relationships: It focuses on patients and doctors as the central aspect of care rather than hospitals. She said this perspective will focus on keeping people healthy and out of hospitals.

“The paradigm shift for us is saying, ‘let’s think of this as concentric circles with patients and doctors in the middle, and everything else circling around that as tools to help keep patients in the best shape they can be in from a health care standpoint,’” Zane said.

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Tufts Medical Center’s new partnership with Lowell General will be cost effective, in light of the Affordable Care Act. The affiliation will also improve both hospitals’ abilities to provide patients with seamless, high-level care at a lower cost, according to Zane.

“If a patient needs something we can only provide at [Tufts MC], let’s say a transplant — we will be able to work especially closely with Lowell, so that the patients and the doctors all talk to one another and work with one another,” she said.

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC), which monitors changes in the health care marketplace and uses a 30-day review period to analyze the potential effects of changes in hospital ownership, determined that the affiliation under Wellforce would not

likely raise costs. David Seltz, executive director of the HPC, says it might actually save patients money.

“Both [Tufts MC and Lowell General] have relatively low prices compared to their peers,” he said.

The HPC also concluded that the affiliation will likely result in more patients being referred to Tufts MC rather than more expensive hospitals in downtown Boston, Seltz noted.

Seltz added that unlike in other situations the HPC has reviewed, Tufts MC and Lowell General are not direct competitors. When competing hospitals merge, Seltz said, costs often rise, but this would not be the case with Wellforce.

Zane said she was glad the HPC made

the decision that it did. She believes regulators in Massachusetts such as the HPC are looking at Wellforce as a prototype for the future of health care.

“The idea is not for providers to come together and raise costs … it’s for providers to come together so they can provide care better and therefore reduce costs to create value,” she said.

In the future, Wellforce aims to bring other hospitals under its purview, and Zane said they have already begun talking with some provider groups about becoming a part of Wellforce.

“We think there are a number of community hospitals and physician groups out there in eastern Massachusetts that will find this model attractive,” she said.

Due to popular demand, community health will no longer require additional major

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with support from students, faculty and staff.

“The Association of American Universities has already stated that all students should have access to the study of community health,” she said.

“Most other liberal arts colleges already have this as an option. So this change is really putting us on par with our peers, especially with [Tufts’] Bachelors

to Masters program in Public Health and Health Communications.”

Incorporating elements of sociology, biology, psychology, international relations, economics and nutrition, Allen said community health is an interdisciplinary area of study.

“It gives students a very broad set of tools to eliminate inequity,” she said.

Students who select community health as a primary major will have slightly different requirements from

Kick-off event to feature student group performances RELAY

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“We’ll have many more events after this, but this is to welcome the teams and to get to know each other and other people,” she explained.

Relay For Life, an overnight event on campus hosted by the American Cancer Society (ACS), is designed to honor cancer survivors, remember lost loved ones and raise money for medical research on cancer. In past years, the spring event has attracted over 1,200 people, according to the Relay For Life website.

Acording to Shapiro, the event takes place from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. and features traditions intended to mirror the journey of a cancer patient, progressing through the consecutive phases of cancer: diagnosis, treatment and recovery.

“The purpose of having a large event on campus is to bring together anyone who has been affected by cancer, whether it be caregivers or survivors themselves, and the point is … that everybody has been touched by cancer in some way, so this is everybody’s cause,” she noted.

Coyne, a senior, explained that the committee’s goal is to raise $95,000 by April, after having raised $78,000 last year.

In addition to fundraising for the April event, the Tufts branch of Relay For Life is working to diversify its activities on campus. The organization again plans to host JumBonnaroo,

a weekend-long music festival where Tufts bands perform at fraternity houses, from Nov. 20 to 22.

“Our purpose is to raise awareness for Relay For Life by hosting events that Tufts students will be interested in attending,” Shapiro said. “That’s an adaptation, or continuation, of events that we’ve done in the past, and we’re looking to bring some new events to campus.”

Coyne added that Relay For Life will be hosting a lecture series in which researchers will speak about the different types of cancer and dispel common myths.

“We want people to know where their donations are going to — we’re hosting a lecture series in which we hope to get researchers that are working with ACS grants,” she explained.

Laura Coughlin, head of publicity of Relay For Life, agreed with the mission of the lecture series.

“Many people know what cancer is, but not the science behind it and the chemistry involved,” she said.

“There are a lot of medical students at [the Tufts University School of Medicine] with ACS grants that we’re hoping to bring in to speak at our lecture series.”

Coughlin, a junior, added that they are trying to raise awareness about different types of cancer and to have an event each month to publicize April’s event, including a bake sale for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.

those who have been a double major in the subject, according to the Community Health Program’s website. The main changes include two additional required courses — one in research methods and one in global health — which will make the major a total of 12 instead of 10 required credits. The program also is going to eliminate the need to file courses into “clusters,” according to Allen.

“This will give students greater flexibility to focus in on their interests

instead of having to define them or categorize them in a certain way,” she said.

According to Allen, the Community Health Program will not encourage upperclassmen who have already chosen an additional course of study to drop the primary major they have been completing. “[Students have] already invested so much time, and students shouldn’t drop a major they’ve already put a great deal of work into,” she added.

Research team to investigate environmental causes of breast cancer CANCER

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vent it. So, if you can track down these causes and eliminate them, then we would hopefully be preventing a bulk of the cancers.”

She added that the research focuses on the role played by environmental pathways.

“Our work has been innovative and paradigm-shifting in that many people only used to look at the points within patients that have been caused by these carcinogens,” Sonenshein said. “What we’re saying is that it’s not just mutations, but environmental pathways which, through the carcinogens themselves, are playing a major role in turning normal cells to cancerous ones. Our group is hoping to develop signaling markers that allow us to test these cascades.”

Sherr explained that the motivation for the project arose from an increase in the perceived need among the biomedical community to raise awareness of the harm of certain chemicals and processes — often those encountered in everyday life.

“It’s about calling a duck a duck,” he said. “The fact of the matter is most people and federal agencies just don’t appreciate the contribution that environmental chemicals make to breast cancer in particular.”

According to Sherr, there are 80,000 chemicals registered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that people encounter every day in the

United States. At any given time, people could find several dozen of these chemicals in their bodies, but only 1,500 of them have been officially tested for cancerous properties and general safety, he added.

“Of the chemicals tested, a very high fraction — 25 to 30 percent — are actually carcinogens,” Sherr said. “We need to do more research into the effects of hydrocarbons, for example, which are released anytime anything is burned: gasoline, plastic, charcoal, oil … anything.”

According to Sonenshein, the work is being divided between five labs in Boston to increase efficiency and make the most headway in learning more about these thousands of chemicals in relation to breast cancer.

“It works so much better with a consortium like this, where we have five wellestablished, creative scientists, each with expertises that overlap but are unique, so everyone can bring something different [to] the table,” Sherr explained. “You get much more bang for your buck.”

Art beCAUSE, currently the only research foundation dedicated exclusively to researching environmental causes of breast cancer, planned the funding as a three to five year launching pad for the project, according to Sherr.

“After these initial phases, we expect it to become self-sustaining,” he said.

“We hope the amount of vital information it generates will allow us to bring in more resources, more agencies and more people.”

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Architect and designer Neri Oxman explains the meaning of her cocoon-like sculpture, which provides a unique sensory experience as a part of the Vocal Vibrations Exhibit.

Le Laboratoire creates interactive space for groundbreaking innovation in art, science

by Gabriella Zoia

Contributing Writer

Fresh from its Parisian success, Le Labaratoire (Le Lab) has arrived in Cambridge as a brand new way to experience brand new ideas. The art and design center was founded in Paris in 2007 by David Edwards, the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Idea Translation at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Its purpose is to straddle the juncture of arts and science innovation in a participatory environment. Cambridge will be the concept’s new frontier.

Le Laboratoire Cambridge will continue its practices of discovery overseen by the ArtScience Labs, a global educational organization for the development of “the most radical ideas that transform the way we live, imagine and evolve,” according to its website.

According to Edwards, between two to four percent of many countries’ GDPs goes toward lab research, and by extension into innovation. The purpose of Le Laboratoire is both to enable innovation that otherwise might not come to light and to invite the public to experience those scientific and artistic innovations. The hope is that visitors will have a unique sensory experience as they access these breakthroughs.

“It’s part-museum and part-lab, with a strong participatory element,” Edwards said. ”We want to bring the public into that process … into the project sort of voyeuristically and sort of [participatorily].”

Author of “The Lab: Creativity and Culture” (2010), Edwards has taught at Harvard since 2002 and initiated the Lab @ Harvard project that ran from 2009 through 2012. According to its website, Le Lab Cambridge stemmed from this project, and will be home to experiments by students at Harvard and in Boston Public Schools.

The idea is for designs to turn into collections, and for collections to have an impact on daily life and manifest themselves into social practices, Edwards said.

Le Lab Cambridge’s current exhibition is “Vocal Vibrations,” an experiment with audio and voice hosted by composer Tod Machover. Although Machover is accustomed to writing music that has a beginning and an end, the music for this exhibit was designed to play all day.

People are invited to sit and listen and to disconnect from the world; to turn off their phones and expose themselves to a different auditory experience.

To this end, Machover has included a unique orb in the exhibition to allow people to hear vibrations of their voice when they speak into a microphone.

Machover said he wanted people to learn from their own voice and to change the relationship that they have with it.

“Too many people don’t like the sound of their own voice, yet it is what we hear, how we communicate and express ourselves,” he said.

The project was widely successful in Paris, so he is excited to bring it to Boston, Machover said.

Le Laboratoire is the result of the collective dedication and effort of many, including Carrie Fitzsimmons, the executive director of ArtScience Labs.

“Three years ago, we started talking about the idea of having a center in Cambridge,” Fitzsimmons said. “The one in Paris was very successful [and] embraced internationally, so we thought about setting up headquarters in Boston and quickly came to the conclusion that there wasn’t a better space than right here in Kendall Square, in this biotech and technology hub between MIT and Harvard.”

Fitzsimmons also described Le Lab as a culture lab, which according to Edwards is a relatively new term, not having truly existed until around when Le Lab opened in Paris.

“We sought to bring a culture lab right

in the middle of [Boston], right at the interface between art and science,” she said. “But it’s more than art and science, it’s more of an interdisciplinary dialogue where true innovation and creativity can happen.”

According to Fitzsimmons, the funding that allows ArtScience Labs to bring the creative process to fruition comes both from individuals and from corporations.

Each year, ArtScience Labs hosts educational programs to research the most pressing scientific needs of the world. This year’s theme is biodiversity, Fitzsimmons said.

Café ArtScience, also a part of Le Lab Cambridge, is a new concept connected to Le Laboratoire that seeks to provide a different restaurant experience through innovation in both food and drink. By being a creative enabler for innovation, Edwards expressed his hope that people would not come in just to eat or drink, but also to think and discuss creative ideas with colleagues or friends. “[By turning the] restaurant into a sensorial café, they hope to incorporate innovative practices such as edible packaging,” he said.

Although innovations such as these aim to reduce waste and raise social consciousness, their true vision is more broad. “[The vision is to] pioneer the future of eating and sensorial experience,” Edwards said.

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Founder David Edwards, to the left of director Carrie Fitzsimmons, discusses the origin of his ideas for Le Laboratoire and his goals for what it can provide to the community.

ronically, I wrote last week’s piece on the merits of getting out and exploring spaces beyond Tufts, but this week I am all about the merits of bringing people to you and the weirdly satisfying joy of sharing your day-to-day experiences with another. Throughout the past two weeks, between hosting for Voices of Tufts Diversity Open House and the occasional visitor on fall break, I have shown five people around. While tiring, this has ultimately been so rewarding and has really opened my eyes. There is no better way to understand how you feel about a place until you welcome a stranger into that space and guide them yourself. In these experiences, I have come to understand my emotional relationship with Tufts better than I have in the past two semesters, and it would have been impossible without the impetus of hosting visitors.

After many calls articulating how to navigate from South Station to Winthrop, pictures of the Joey for reference and explaining how, “Yeah no, Tufts isn’t really in Boston,” and “Yep, you’re right, it is kind of far from Davis Square on this chilly evening,” all my guests, thankfully, arrived safely and down to sleep anywhere. No matter who, whether it be an old friend, arch nemesis, prospective student or Honk! band member, you will have an abundance to discuss and discover together as you roam a place that is so unfamiliar to your companion.

Together, the two of you learn from each other, even if all that means is introducing them to Carm’s wings night because you’re too tied down to even think of leaving campus on a Monday. You feel?

The point is having someone who cares to learn more about your day-to-day routine, like where your internship is, or how many minutes it takes to get from Wren to Tisch or even something as mundane as understanding the hills around campus.

These are cool experiences to share in the sense that they make you feel more connected to both your visitor and your surroundings.

It is this combination of the lovely time spent with both friends and strangers — and the discussions they bring you — from challenging certain aspects of campus you may have ignored or thought commonplace to just wondering what the social life here is like, that really gives you a full-circle experience. Don’t get me wrong, hosting is not easy. You have to work around your work schedule, your homework schedule and your procrastination schedule while having an extra person in your cubicle of a dorm. So yes, it is a commitment. But heck, those problems are so mundane and add nuance to the experience. Drag them to your classes to keep them busy, show them every nook and cranny and secret short-cut of the campus, get their opinion on your favorite places to grub. Any minor connection you make is one less care you have about the accommodating aspects of the hosting process.

A cheesy-as-heck friend once told me, “Every person is a lesson.” With hosting you not only learn by listening to the lessons of your visitor but also from the lesson of processing your opinions in response to candid questions about your lifestyle. These are questions that are much more genuine than when your mom calls on the phone and berates you with a bunch of questions, to which the only response is, “Ya mom, it’s alllll good.”

Hosting a guest never feels like a jampacked phone session with your mom and that should be reason alone to call someone up and get him or her over here.

Lauren Samuel is a sophomore majoring in peace and justice studies. She can be reached at Lauren.Samuel@tufts.edu.

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The Flaming Lips release cover of legendary Beatles album

by Charlotte Gilliland Daily Editorial Board

Covering any work of rock genius is a pretty huge feat to take on, especially when that work is the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (1967) — an album hailed for its influence in the music industry and the psychedelic era, the soundtrack to the “summer of love.” You know it, you’ve heard it and surely, you know it’s a big deal. Or at least you’ve ordered a “Lucy in the Chai” at the Rez and (let’s hope) got the reference.

So with any great cover comes great responsibility, right? “Sgt. Pepper’s” has been covered once before with the multi-artist compilation of “Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father” (1988), featuring artists like Sonic Youth and The Fall. And on Oct. 27, The Flaming Lips released their rendition of “Sgt. Pepper’s,” entitled “With a Little Help from My Fwends.” The album certainly seems to have a lot of these so-called “fwends” too, bringing in artists like Dr. Dog, Phantogram, My Morning Jacket and even Miley Cyrus. She is featured on not just one, but two tracks.

Interestingly enough, the proceeds from the album will be aiding the Bella

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The Flaming Lips take on a lot with their new cover of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Cub Band.”

Foundation, an organization located in Oklahoma City that aids low-income pet owners with the cost of veterinary care.

As to why the Lips chose this charity —

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well, it seems like no one’s quite sure.

It’s worth noting, too, that “Fwends” see PEPPERS, page 6

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Warner Bros. to increase character diversity in sequels

by Grace Segers Daily Editorial Board

Y Moi. Still, Bundick has spent the past year working on his first studio album released under his alter ego. The debut LP, “Michael,” features 11 tracks spread out over 40 minutes of head-bobbing, foot-tapping, finger-wagging bliss.

Released yesterday, the album begins with a sample of a British person speaking. The voice commands, “talk about your newest record” — a jab directed at recent critics. Despite the fact that “Michael” is Bundick’s fourth studio album, it is still a stepping stone in his career as Les Sins, and it would only be only natural for the artist to feel a certain amount of concern in regards to critical reception. The beat then kicks up with samples of hip-hop-style vocals, and the album takes off from there.

“Michael” moves on to more experimental tracks with “Past” and “Toy,” which feature haunting melodies played on piano or flute overlaid on a bass-heavy synth and a thumping beat.

These tracks feature very few vocals and rely mostly on the daring bass. They

Warner Bros. Studios, the owners of DC Entertainment and Marvel Studios, has had a very eventful month, releasing their planned superhero movie lineup through 2020. With an abundance of new information, one must sift through the news to analyze what’s coming up next for fans of superhero film.

Here are the basics: Both studios are releasing an array of exciting sequels, beginning with this summer’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and 2016’s “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.” The trailer for “Age of Ultron” leaked on Oct. 22 and was officially released by Marvel Entertainment later that night. These movies are each studio’s answer to ensemble films, which will introduce new characters and provide a launch pad for upcoming movies. Marvel releases works in phases, and for the foreseeable future, the end of each phase is marked with an Avengers movie. While “Age of Ultron” will close out phase two, phase three begins with “Ant-Man” (2015).

One of the most anticipated movies of phase three is “Captain America: Civil War,” which will be released in May 2016. The film is presumably based on the Marvel Comics arc “Civil War” (2006 -2007), which focused on a rift between Captain America and Iron Man. In the story, Iron Man comes out for a Superhero Registration Act while Captain America opposes it. This comic’s arc is controversial, and how the story will translate into film remains unclear.

Warner Bros. and Marvel also announced new movies which will have both black and female actors starring in leading roles. Warner Bros. will release “Wonder Woman” in 2017, starring Israeli actress Gal Godot (Godot will definitely appear in “Batman v Superman” before her own film is

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Also known as Toro Y Moi, Chaz Bundick has re-invented himself again as Les Sins.

Chaz Bundick builds latest moniker with first album

by Timothy Charouk Daily Editorial Board

In 2010, Chaz Bundick, known to many as the indie-pop, chillwave, nudisco (or almost any other genre out

Michael Les Sins Company Records there) artist Toro Y Moi, began releasing music under a second moniker: Les Sins.

Under this new name, Bundick has produced more dance-worthy music, characterized by strong bass. The three EPs released by Les Sins include club-friendly songs “Fetch” (2012) and “Grind” (2013), as well as the summer dance groove “Lina” (2010). This work received mild critical acclaim, but nothing to the extent of his more famous and appreciated work as Toro

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n Nov. 1, primetime television viewers were reminded of the meaning of musical virtuosity when Prince took the SNL stage with an eight-minute set of new material backed by the female power trio 3rdEyeGirl. The seamless transitions between songs and a glimpse of what landed him on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists” list made for an electric performance.

Miles Davis once said that Prince is a combination of “James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye … and Charlie Chaplin. How can you mess with that?” I don’t think anyone has mastered the art of the groove like Prince has. He hooks you with a riff or a beat and doesn’t let go.

As far as subject matter goes, he doesn’t shy away from sex, violence and other elements that on more than one occasion called for a “Parental Advisory” sticker.

Some of the song titles themselves probably call for an advisory. And most are, in their own way, examples of the “story” song (see: previous column on the art of the story song). Although Prince’s stories often end the same way — and can be kind of dirty — many are almost naive.

Some memorable titles include: “Cream” in 2003 (let’s just say it has nothing to do with coffee), “Alphabet St.” in 1988 (the long drive to Tennessee will never be the same), 1981’s “Jack U Off” (ahh … nothing like a good metaphor), “Violet the Organ Grinder” in 1991 (this one still confuses me), 1998’s “Glam Slam” (quick, what rhymes with nipple?) and “Bambi” from 1979 (I guess you can’t help who you love).

Questlove, probably Prince’s number one fan, talks about how he used his lunch money to buy “1999” (1982) and listened to it secretly for three months until his mother found it and took it away, which, of course, just made him love Prince more.

Questlove also talks about meeting Prince at a roller skating party on Valentine’s Day, Prince sporting sparkly light up rainbow skates that he kept in their very own suitcase. To think of Questlove acting starstruck makes me feel like less of idiot for my inability to form words when meeting Captain Kirk Douglas from The Roots backstage at a Crosby, Stills and Nash concert this past summer. If David Crosby hadn’t been monopolizing the conversation I like to think we would have hit it off.

Prince created a sound that changed the trajectory of music. His incorporation of electronic sounds and synthesizers, heard in the end of “The Beautiful Ones” (1984), was revolutionary at the time. Prince quickly established himself as someone unlike anyone else. And that continues to ring true. Like Rolling Stone wrote in 2000 on a piece about the “Purple Rain” (1984) soundtrack, “when Prince sings, ‘Baby I’m a Star’ [1984], it’s a simple statement of fact.”

As an avid Prince fan myself, I can remember playing his cassettes in my dad’s Volvo on the way home from elementary school and begging my parents to rent “Purple Rain” on movie night in middle school. In my mind, there are few things that can exceed the anthemic and gut wrenching “Purple Rain” that has been one of my theme songs for as long as I can remember. And if ever given the chance to take Questlove’s course on Prince at NYU, I really would apply myself academically and maybe even go to office hours once or twice.

I was extremely reticent to listen to Prince’s newest album, but I did and the Purple One did not disappoint. Which is much more than I can say for his appearance on “New Girl” (2011 – present).

Maybe someday I will let that one slide.

Eva Batalla-Mann is a junior majoring in peace and justice studies. She can be reached at eva.batalla_mann@tufts.edu.

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Chadwick Boseman, pictured here at The Fourth Annual LACMA Art and Film Gala in Los Angeles, will star as T’Challa in the upcoming “Black Panther” movie slated for 2017.

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released). 2020’s “Cyborg” will feature Ray Fisher as Victor Stone, the titular character. Marvel Studios is also making “Black Panther,” slated for release in 2017.

The movie will star Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, the prince of the fictional African country of Wakanda with the superhero identity Black Panther. There will also be a “Captain Marvel” movie in 2018, which will focus on female character Carol Danvers (uncast as of yet).

While a host of other movies have been announced by both studios, these are the most culturally significant.

Marvel Studios has released six movies starring white men named Chris, so this new dedication to making more diverse movies is refreshing. Hopefully, it is a sign that they will continue to strive for greater representation in their ensemble casts and in films focusing on individual heroes.

Unfortunately, there was no news of a Black Widow movie starring Scarlett Johansson, unless Marvel is planning on producing it in secret and dropping it on a random day, Beyonce-style. Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, has appeared in “Iron Man 2”

(2010), “The Avengers” (2012), “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” (2014) and “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Appearances in these movies have allowed for character development and many fans had hoped, in vain, for the announcement of a new Black Widow movie.

Warner Bros. also announced two “Justice League” movies, with “Part One” slated for release in 2017 and “Part Two” in 2019. “The Flash” (2018) will star Ezra Miller and “Aquaman” (2018) will feature Jason Momoa. A “Green Lantern” movie will hit theater screens in 2020, though the cast has not been announced yet.

Marvel Studios will be producing numerous sequels, including a third “Thor” movie and a second “Guardians of the Galaxy,” both in 2017. “Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet” will be divided into two movies, to be released in 2018 and 2019 respectively.

The world will surely have a steady diet of superhero movies for at least the next few years, and fortunately there is now some more diversity to elevate the films. Hopefully both Warner Bros. and Marvel will continue to make even more films that offer both more inclusive representation and entertainment in the coming years.

isn’t the Lips’ first ambitious cover. In 2011, the group released “The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing the Dark Side of the Moon” (yes, that is the full title), their re-imagination of Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic.

And while “Fwends” hasn’t exactly been well-received by critics — it received a 5.5 out of 10 on Pitchfork and just two stars from The Guardian, which deemed the album “unoriginal”– it’s worth a listen, even just to hear the Flaming Lips attempt to go the extra mile and make “Sgt. Pepper’s” even more trippy than the Beatles’ original creation. While the auto-tuned opening of “With a Little Help from My Fwends” might be a little unsettling to any diehard Beatles fan, who wouldn’t be at least a bit excited by the list of seemingly unlimited guest appearances on each of the album’s 13 tracks?

Surprisingly, the consensus seems to be that Cyrus’ contribution is the album’s standout gueswt performance.

She appears first in “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and later in a sorrowful “A Day in the Life.” On “Lucy,” Cyrus performs a striking duet with Lips front man Wayne Coyne and can be heard chuckling in the background at the track’s close, asking “didn’t that make you nervous?” Yet she doesn’t seem nervous; her raspy, subdued voice on this track takes on a new identity from her usual “Bangerz” (2013) persona.

“Fwends” also gives tracks like “Lovely Rita” a new electric feel in deviation from the group’s usual acoustic versions, featuring guests like Teagan and Sara and Stardeath and White Dwarfs.

And just like The Beatles, the Lips go out with a largely identical bang with

“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise),” reminding us that both bands are certainly performing in good fun, whether it’s the Beatles performing as Sgt. Pepper, or the Flaming Lips performing as the Beatles.

When asked in an interview with the Wall Street Journal about the experience of treading on “sacred ground” to recreate one of The Beatles’ many masterpieces, Coyne responded that he divides the world into three categories when thinking of these types of issues.

One third of the people who listen to this album, he said, will enjoy hearing a new rendition of something they know and love. Another third will probably only know who Miley Cyrus is and have no clue about the Beatles. And the final group will be entirely too defensive of them traipsing on the Beatles’ holy ground, and may threaten to kill the Lips in their sleep if they make the same mistake again. Yet, Coyne said, “I don’t understand that thinking at all. I try to remember that even though we did a Beatles song, the other Beatles songs still exist.”

Here Coyne gets it right. The critics of Pitchfork may not be abundant with praise for “With a Little Help from My Fwends,” but the Flaming Lips have never been a group to take themselves too seriously. They’re performing to pay tribute to a band that we all know and love, to give them respect and maybe a bit of new energy. Perhaps some listeners’ only real reaction to this cover album may be to return to the original “Sgt. Pepper’s,” and reminisce on the first time they heard “Lucy in the Sky,” or “When I’m SixtyFour.” And you know what? If “Fwends” inspires one to revisit a great album, the Flaming Lips would probably be just fine with that.

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probably won’t be replayed at dance parties in the future, but they should be appreciated for their technical merit.

The album continues with the two most danceable tunes — previously released as singles to generate interest for the upcoming album — “Why” and “Bother.” The former features relatively unknown singer Nate Salman, who adds a soft and soulful vocal accompaniment to the catchy, masterfully composed beat. The song will remind fans of Bundick’s earlier work, in particular his Toro Y Moi EP “Freaking Out (2011),” with its funky disco grooves. This song is the perfect blend of happy and danceable, sure to make its way onto many a road trip CD and summer rooftop party set-list. “Bother” is one of those tracks that might be grating on first listen, but repeat plays bring out the song’s infectious side, making it a perfect choice for an adventurous club DJ or for youths at rooftop parties in Brooklyn.

While the album unfortunately peaks quite early on, there are still some gems to be found in the remain-

ing songs. “Minato” and “Call” blend harsher club beats with Bundick’s penchant for pop in very interesting ways, recreating the sweaty atmosphere of a discotheque without being too vulgar.

The album finishes off strong with “Do Right,” which will please fans of the more low-key Toro vibe. “Do Right” features Bundick’s signature recipe of catchy, ambient sounds and samples of an angelic female voice. Bundick acts as a DJ in this last song, fading his work as Les Sins seamlessly into his next album, released under Toro Y Moi. “Michael” isn’t perfect. Some songs lull and others are just too brash, but that is the nature of experimental work.

Bundick achieved success as Toro Y Moi in the same way — by paving new ground in the genre and defying expectations. One cannot begin to describe the chillwave genre without mentioning Toro Y Moi, nor can one have a low-key apartment party without his enchanting beats emanating from the speaker.

Now, Bundick is trying to make a name for himself on the dance floor as Les Sins, introducing a fresh take on the increasingly generic club track.

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“Michael” is a risky album for Les Sins, venturing into musical territory unexplored by Toro y Moi.

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Tufts should embrace its club sports Tufts’ sports teams — softball, men’s lacrosse and women’s basketball to name a few from 2014 — have all made impressive strides on the national Div. III level. Alongside these bigger varsity sports is a community of club sports and smaller activities that have blossomed and represent the unique sports culture of Tufts. These smaller sports deserve the support they need to thrive, as there is overwhelming interest in participation and growth at the club sport level.

Tufts still does not have the big sports culture is common at other schools. What we do have, however, is a lively club and intramural sports culture. Student boxers at Tufts comprise one small group that displays the best of student passion: people willing to come together, without proper fund-

ing, to convert their passion for a sport into a reality and have fun doing it.

The ultimate frisbee teams, too, serve as examples of highly passionate and prolific club sports. The necessity of traveling across the country to prominent tournaments — tournaments Tufts often performs very well in — however, presents its own set of financial problems. Many expenses are paid out-of-pocket by members of club sports teams for competition travel and equipment.

Tufts is lucky to be a school where there is a sport for just about every student who enjoys athletics, a school whose identity is not solely defined by one sport, but many. We must do more to balance our smaller sports with our larger sports, however. Tier I club sports have not fallen easily into a

category of campus activity — but this should not prevent their members, as deserving as any other Jumbo athlete, from receiving the needed funds to excel. These sports are just as valuable for both the students who compete in them and the school community, and that value must be addressed with proper monetary support and resource allocation. Furthermore, there is continuous, expressed interest in participating in and building these teams, and Tufts has an obligation to meet that demand.

If the Tufts administration and community wants a sports culture that can bring us together and be fun for everyone, we should provide the support needed for small clubs to fully pursue their passions, and for our older clubs to reach greater heights.

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Prisons should rehabilitate, not humiliate

by Matthew Brotz The Oracle

Empathy is one of the most essential components to the healing of someone who is ailing, according to a humanistic approach to psychology.

Therefore, it’s unfortunate that the minds behind the U.S. prison system don’t consider empathy a crucial aspect of rehabilitation.

Today, U.S. prisons better resemble scenes from modern horror flicks than institutions designed to transform the unruly into productive members of society. But perhaps it would be in bad faith to assume that this is actually unintentional.

American culture’s obsession with justice and harshly punishing those who violate the law overpower any consequentialists and results-orientated approaches that promote peaceful rehabilitation and therapy for those who falter.

It would be in society’s best interest to cease viewing criminals as barbarians who deserve penalty and adopt a perspective that regards criminals as misguided and troubled individuals who need help, not punishment.

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Sadly, such noble principles as rehabilitation and healing are impossible idealities in our current prison system.

According to the U.S. Justice Department, about 217,000 inmates are raped in prison every year. How could people from such an abhorrent environment be discharged and expected to have improved and abandoned their path of crime?

If anything, we should anticipate regression, or at the least no improvement in behavior. Perhaps this standard explains the country’s embarrassing and inexcusable 60 percent repeat offense rate, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

To endorse a prison system that emphasizes punishment and constructs a climate of violence is actually counterproductive to the welfare of law-abiding citizens and criminals alike. If violence begets violence, is it wise to release prisoners back into society who have just suffered through what may have been years of maltreatment in a breeding ground of disorder?

Instead of getting overly entangled in the principles of justice, consequences and results should serve as

the primary criteria for formulating a blueprint on how to deal with the dilemma of crime and those who disregard the law.

Norway has taken such an approach by embracing a much more humanitarian and rational method to solving this issue.

In Halden Prison in Norway, guards do not carry guns, prisoners are offered classes and cells contain living rooms and kitchens. Critics often claim violent criminals don’t deserve to be treated so humanely, but one must consider the actual results of this mentality.

According to the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Norway’s rate of repeated offense is a respectable and commendable 20 percent. If less crime is equated with a better quality of life for all, isn’t Norway’s approach the most beneficial?

The question one must ask is whether Americans are ready to forgo their aversion to criminals and undertake a more sensible approach to prison or whether Americans are going to stubbornly cling to the counterproductive ideals of justice as punishment.

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TW: trigger warning by anonymous As I tried to write this op-ed, I doubted what validity I had in making a judgment on the administrative policy.

More than a year ago, when I was raped on this campus by a fellow student, I chose not to take any legal action. This was informally recommended to me by the administration and those who counseled me.

The legal proceedings for a sexual assault case at Tufts then were long and unfriendly. He was a friend of my friends and I had chosen to go out with him that night. I was told I would face disapproval and questioning, making it more difficult to “get over” my experience. I saw my decision to not take legal action as an indicator of my weakness for a very long time. My decision, I thought, was my own and its repercussions were my responsibility. The same type of pain I felt then has now plagued me for the past few weeks. Although it is something that I wish I didn’t have to continue reliving, these past weeks have led me to understand that the burden I carry is not only my doing.

In May, the Tufts community rallied around the administration’s violation and later revocation of the Title IX federal guidelines. Tufts was nationally condemned and humiliated by students and an allied community until progress was made. Yet long and unfriendly are the words that still describe the bureaucratic process I went through to request exemption from highly triggering course material. The multiple phone calls to different administrative offices, the voicemails, the redirections, the crying, the waiting, the feeling of impotence, the crippling anxiety.

It has been over a year since I was attacked. I felt I should have the strength to read the required class material, to be able to function as an otherwise capable and intelligent

individual, to isolate that event in my life. I am someone who considered themselves a member of a community against rape culture, even before my assault. For me, one of the more difficult parts about being raped was the inability to reconcile that in which I ethically believed and that which I believed out of fear. I once again felt it was my weakness that was the problem here. I automatically blamed myself for not being able move on with my life.

No one can tell you how you will process a traumatic event. No one told me this, and perhaps someone should have. The few times I received help from Tufts, there was always the idea of “overcoming your experience” and “not letting it define you.” All along, I have been told there is a recovery process from my sexual assault. I can reach a point where it will be behind me. Understanding the lack of truth in this statement is probably the biggest step I have taken.

At Tufts, you are given the choice: to call yourself a victim or to live in secret. It is difficult to call yourself a victim. For me, it meant accepting my attacker had an impact on me. He took something away from me that I may not have back for a very long time.

My experience is something that will never go away. I will never wake up one morning and feel okay with what happened. I am a victim. And it does define a part of me. But it is not everything I am and it is not something I chose to be. I want the choice to pick whom I can be vulnerable with.

I am not accusing the university of malign intentions. I am not accusing them of apathy. I am accusing the administration, though, and even further the Tufts community, of a misunderstanding of my trauma: the effects, the process of healing and the extent of the impact of my rape. As a student, I should not have to go out of my way in order to be in a safe environment. A

simple trigger warning before a class or a class assignment with sexually violent content would have helped me not be caught off guard when I encountered rape mid-text. More importantly, I would have been able to request an alternative assignment, or even dropped the class if the material was a significant portion of the course content. I would have had the ability to control my environment.

Of course, I always have the option to not take the class. I could also research every text I come in contact with to ensure that I am not being exposed to anything I feel uncomfortable with. But that is not the point.

I understand that developing a system of trigger warnings for course material is inconvenient. Rape, like many other brutalities, is a part of this world and is a phenomenon we study.

This year, a similar request was made by the student body of a Californian university. The request became a national debate. The students were accused of “oversensitivity,” denying reality and desiring censorship. The truth is quite the opposite. The reason I would have appreciated a warning is because I am too aware of the reality of rape, and I relive it too often without the need to be pressured to dissect it in an academic setting.

This pressure is not necessarily emerging from Tufts professors or my community, but from myself. The pressure and obligation to be strong, to get over it. As well as the difficulty of a bureaucratic process that presses a person to identify with the binary of victimhood and a single-routed healing process. I want to be able to address my healing process, whatever this may entail, as I desire to address it. I want the space to do this with ease. I do not want to have to relive my experience, as I have been, due to bureaucratic inaccessibility. A victim should not have to jump through hoops. It is difficult enough as it is.

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Rocket explosion should spark dialogue on role of space exploration

by Athanasius Georgy The Daily Trojan

Last Tuesday, the unmanned Antares rocket, built by private firm Orbital Sciences, exploded after liftoff in Virginia. The explosion is the first NASA-contracted accident since the agency canceled its Space Shuttle Program and turned to the private sector for missions that include ferrying cargo to space stations. It launches into the public discourse the stability and efficacy of NASA’s funding and contracting with private firms. If a promising future of space exploration is to be had, missions and research need to be placed in the hands of NASA alone.

In 2011, NASA closed down operation of its Space Shuttle Program and began to reach out to companies such as Orbital Sciences and SpaceX to sign resupply contracts. Since few companies are currently capable of performing human flight into space, the United States pays roughly $70.7 million per seat to hitch a ride on Russia’s rockets. Many proponents of the privatization of space exploration seem to view contracting private firms as an investment that offers the opportunity to build more reliable and technologically advanced rockets and material.

Yet, as the explosion after lift-off from Wallops Island demonstrates, this approach can also have serious

drawbacks. A once mighty force and symbol of U.S. strength and power, NASA isn’t what it used to be. It’s hard to imagine the country that was the first — and only — nation to put a man on the moon now pays inflated dollars to its former space-race opponent.

Space exploration is the quintessential American form of might. Wielding influence and power, NASA was the mechanism through which the United States demonstrated to the world its true capabilities for success. Russia’s space exploration, for much of the latter part of the 20th century, has struggled in comparison to the success of the Apollo program. NASA has brought so much to a distinct American culture: images and audio recordings of Neil Armstrong on the moon, the first photo ever taken from Mars and aweinspiring shots of far-out galaxies and stars that have been the backdrops of so many science fiction works. NASA has accomplished great feats, but now faces setbacks due to political maneuvering by both sides of the aisle. In particular, the Obama administration, which has expressed support of NASA, but has acted otherwise with proposals like the steep 2014 NASA budget cuts.

Though Orbital Sciences is currently facing immense issues after losing almost $300 million in market value due to the crash, the issue lies not in the companies themselves, but the fragmenting nature of privatization.

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Though competition promotes innovation, in such a complex and meticulously orchestrated operation like rocket launches, it requires a unified effort that builds on itself rather than rival companies battling for contracts and funding.

While the world battles the Ebola epidemic, the rise of ISIS and human rights violations all over the globe, space exploration is on the back burner in terms of priorities and funding allocation. People need to remember that space programs not only strengthen the United States on the world stage, but also create thousands of jobs. Rather than exclusively contracting private firms for various space missions, it would be advantageous for NASA to take the lead and control operations to continue a marvelous feat in human history.

Orbital Sciences’ rocket explosion shouldn’t be viewed as a defeat or step back in the field, but rather as an event that has catapulted the debate of space exploration back onto the world stage. The mission of the Antares rocket might not have been directly related to exploration, but its planned venture into the depths of space still draws attention back to the future of the industry and the need for it to move to the forefront once again.

It is incumbent on NASA to helm the reins and continue to lead not only the United States, but also the world, with its exploration of the final frontier.

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Muscle mass and mangoes

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midst midterm season, things other than studying and ordering food to Tisch seem to fall by the wayside. Personal upkeep is often the first thing thrown overboard.

Personally, I have not seen the inside of the gym for three weeks. My first midterm killed my gym momentum (and also the fact that summer is over and no one will see me in a bikini). However, there is one individual who has made the gym her priority: the Pooj. Pooja is fully committed to exercising. In fact, she is so committed that on her walk to the gym, she takes a detour to Braker from her house off Boston Avenue (this is a big detour) to see me and our other friends before she exercises. She always claims that it is the fastest way, but what she is really doing is waiting for us to drive her to Dave’s so she can eat. A girl needs protein before she lifts! Pooja claims that she is so dedicated to training that no one can go with her, but I am left wondering what she actually does at the gym. I asked our wonderful editor, Annabelle Roberts, to check it out and it seems that Pooja just wanders between machines for an hour like Goldi Locks, trying to find the best fit.

So far, none of them have kept her attention for more than a minute. If you have any exercise advice for Pooja, she needs it. But enough about Pooja, let’s dive into the questions.

Dear NYSD, What are your opinions on mangoes?

Rebecca: Keeping with our theme of fitness, I think it is fitting to address fruit.

I love mangoes. As a kid in Brooklyn/ Queens, I remember waiting for them to be in season and contently sucking the flesh of the mango off the pit. However, I have a friend with a disorder of sorts that leaves her at a disadvantage in terms of mangoes, which also happen to be her favorite fruit. While she can eat the mango fruit, she is allergic to the skin.

Her lips swell and her eyes tear — in other words she looks terrible. In light of this, I argue that mangoes are the bad boys of the fruit scene: You know they’re bad for you but you keep coming back for more because the sweetness is worth all of the pain.

Pooja: It is funny that mangoes can relate to both a kid in Brooklyn/Queens, as well as a kid in Bombay/Madras.

Mangoes were very much a part of my life — in fact I lost my first tooth biting into a mango seed, thinking it was just more mango flesh. My favorite part about mangoes were picking them ripe off the tree outside my grandmother’s house and deciding the different ways to cut them.

Peeled, sliced, cubed or pureed, the ways are endless. So — to our friend with this mango-skin allergy — don’t worry, it’s not the skin, its what’s within.

Dear NYSD, How do I get over the daylight savings jet lag?

Pooja: I can honestly say that one of my saddest moments this week was coming out of class at 5:15 p.m. to a pitch black sky. Yes, the daylight is being saved, I got an extra hour of my Halloweekend and I feel like I’m getting a little bit more sleep, but overall this time-change has gotten most people in a funk. I think the only way to deal with the weather and time change is to look on the bright side (pun not intended, too ironic, made me sad). Remind yourself to enjoy the days now, because it’s about to get a lot, LOT worse.

That’s all we have for this week! Please keep posting your questions on our Google doc!

Rebecca Solomon and Pooja Sivaraman are both juniors majoring in economics.

Rebecca can be reached at rebecca.solomon@tufts.edu, and Pooja can be reached at pooja.sivaraman@tufts.edu.

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First-year forward Mariah Harvey-Brown fights for the ball in a 1-0 loss to Williams College on Oct. 18.

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times when we were creative attacking wise but just lost our focus defensively.”

In the team’s penultimate conference game, however, something finally clicked.

Down a goal at halftime against Hamilton in the final home game of the season, the team rallied to score three goals in the second half. The four goals were split evenly between Capone and Fortin, bringing their season totals to seven goals apiece — tied for team-best.

The win secured the team’s position in the NESCAC Championship. In their final regular season game, the Jumbos had the opportunity to play a “warm-up” against Bowdoin, the same team they would play in the quarterfinals of the conference championship.

“I think after the first game [against Bowdoin] in the regular season, we got a good feel [for] how they played and how we matched up against them,” Capone said. “I think going into the game against them [the second time], we knew what to expect.”

While the team was optimistic about its postseason chances, a Cinderella ending was not to be. The Polar Bears’ strong second-half showing, in which the team notched three goals, effectively ended the Jumbos’ season.

“We faced a very strong Bowdoin team; maybe we didn’t give them enough credit for being as good as they are,” Whiting said. “For

the first 20 minutes of that game, [Bowdoin] was having difficulty maintaining control of the ball. We had a chance to score, [but] it hit the post. We had [the] momentum and then they scored. [At that point] it was kind of just like whoa…we’ve been pressing and now suddenly we’re down a goal. We kept trying, but after that it just really became their game.”

The team might have regained its stride too late in this season, but the emergence of a strong sophomore class will lay the foundation for a team looking towards the future. “[The success of the sophomore class] is really what we expected when we recruited those players,” Whiting said. “They had a good year last year but there’s a huge difference between [the first year] and sophomore year. Players tend to really bust out in their sophomore year. They’re great players, right from the goalkeeping, through the midfield to the forwards. That’s our future.

In that group of players, we have a few very good leaders and that bodes well for us the next couple of years.”

Filling the gap in leadership will be crucial for a team that is losing both its captains, seniors Greer and Kruyff, who led the team both on and off the field.

“Carla [Kruyff] and Catherine [Greer] set a very high standard. They were very much leaders by example,” Whiting said.

“I feel like they set the bar high and their teammates follow.”

Greer, who was named to the All-NESCAC First Team last season, scored three goals this year as a defender, all from corner kicks. Kruyff was named to the All-NESCAC Second Team last season and continued her strong form this year with two goals and four assists, playing a crucial role in connecting through the midfield, especially in fast break opportunities.

But with the anchoring of players into their respective positions, the team’s longterm future looks bright. Sophomore goalie Eileen McGarry, who played just 135 minutes last season, played all but 45 minutes this season and is tied for third in the conference with 66 saves. The back line has seen sophomores Alexa Pius and Stefanie Brunswick start consistently all season.

Classmate Robin Estus will take over from Kruyff as the cornerstone of the Jumbos midfield, and first year Mariah HarveyBrown’s seven assists of the season places her second in the NESCAC. “One of our challenges [this season] was to maintain our positivity, despite all the challenges and adversity,” Brunswick said. “We really had to dig deep but I think we were able to overcome challenges 100 percent.

There was really a sense of doing all that we could, not for ourselves, but for the person on your right or left. Sometimes you’ve got to just push through together, and that really came from the cohesive environment on our team.”

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getting by you — and that’s exactly what our defense did.”

The Lord Jeffs failed to match the Jumbos’ intensity in the second half, though. Tufts coach Tina McDavitt Mattera’s side came out shooting after the break and earned three penalty corners and took three shots in the first 11 minutes of the period. On the fourth penalty corner and ensuing shot, they hit the mark.

Junior defender Alexandra Jamison took the corner late in the 47th minute and sent it into the circle where junior midfielder Dakota Sikes-Keilp, who had been firing off shots all day, got her stick on the ball and put it past the Amherst keeper.

Despite being down just one goal, the Lord Jeffs were mentally beaten and failed to get much of anything going in the remaining 23 minutes. The Jumbos’ defense held on to deliver the team’s first shutout since Oct. 2.

“Everyone was getting back on defense and doing their part,” Norfleet said. “From

the forwards all the way back to the low defenders. We stayed patient and held our system very well. We were also just determined to keep the ball as far away from our defensive circle as possible and to clear the ball out strong.”

The win erased the memory of the loss that the Jumbos suffered only a few days prior. A dominant Bowdoin team easily handled Tufts in a game that fortunately had no bearing on the standings.

Bowdoin, in true defending NCAA Champion form, came out strong and pounded Tufts early. Junior forward Rachel Kennedy, the NESCAC’s leading scorer with 27 goals on the season, put her team up early in the 11th minute with a score off of a penalty corner, and the hosts never looked back.

As Kennedy went on to add two more first half goals to pick up her fourth hat trick in the last seven games, the Jumbos offense struggled to get much going. After another tally early in the second half made it 4-0, the Polar Bears eased up and held on for the win to secure the top seed in the conference going into the tournament.

Now, the Jumbos have a chance for some payback. As the highest remaining seed, they will be heading up to Maine once again, but the stakes are a little higher for this Saturday’s competition.

A Tufts upset would likely give them the confidence and momentum to take down whoever they would play in the championship game as well, while a Bowdoin victory could mean another step toward the program’s seventh NESCAC title in the last 10 years.

“Staying composed and spreading the field will be key,” said Artz. “We need to play as a unit, connect on quick passes, convert on our scoring opportunities and just play the way we know we can.”

The last and only Tufts NESCAC title came in 2009, and the team has gotten to this same semifinal stage three out of the last four years but fallen short of that elusive championship game every time.

“The key to beating Bowdoin this weekend will be passion and gut,” said Norfleet. “It’s going to come down to who wants it more. “

om Brady and Peyton Manning are the best rivalry in Boston sports, and it’s not even close. The Red Sox and Yankees haven’t made the playoffs concurrently since 2009 and haven’t crossed paths in October since their historic 2004 ALCS. The Lakers and Celtics were both terrible last year and don’t figure to be much better this year. The Bruins are rivals with the Canadiens, who hail from Montreal and are therefore undeserving of even the most hardened Bostonian’s ire.

Brady and Manning offer a different kind of rivalry, one that’s deeply personal and always entertaining. They play for great teams in the same conference, leading to mesmerizing battles that result in epic games and unforgettable performances. Which Patriots fan doesn’t remember last season’s late November showdown, when Brady led New England back from a 24-0 deficit to stun Manning and the Broncos in overtime?

Even when the games aren’t close, they’re inevitably compelling simply because they feature two all-time greats duking it out.

Regardless of the sport, there’s nothing more exciting than that. Magic and Bird.

Pedro vs. Clemens. Ali against Frazier.

Federer and Nadal. Each one pushing each other, driving each other and ultimately bringing the best out of each other.

Manning and Brady are heavyweights.

Their showdowns are marquee events, and not just because they’re so rare.

Every time these two face off, it feels like their legacies are on the line. Every game reignites, then adds ammunition to, the decadeold argument about which quarterback is better. You can argue until you’re blue in the face about their place in NFL history — those who value postseason success prefer Brady even though Manning’s career statistics are clearly superior — but there’s no debating which one has been better when they go head-to-head. Brady and Manning have met 16 times in their storied careers, with Brady’s Patriots coming out on top in 11 of those 16 matchups. Brady’s stats are never as shiny, but he typically finds a way to guide his team to victory. It’s not that Manning plays poorly; it’s that Brady elevates his own game.

The latest chapter in their rich history was a bit of a letdown given how non-competitive it was, as New England took over early and handed Denver a 43-21 beatdown. Brady/ Manning bouts usually result in shootouts, and Sunday’s game was no different. The Patriots dominated the first half, hanging 27 points on the board while Manning’s Broncos managed merely seven. The second half didn’t go much better for Denver, which continued to struggle and never got back in the game. Forced to play catch-up from the beginning, Manning passed his way to 438 yards and two touchdowns, but was also intercepted twice. Brady was a bit sharper, notching four TDs against only one pick — his first since Sept. 29.

The game was a showcase for both quarterbacks, each of whom continues to excel in spite of his advanced age (Manning is 38, Brady 37). Unfazed by the biting cold and drafty conditions at Gillette, they combined for 67 completions on 110 pass attempts, six touchdowns and a whopping 771 yards in the air. Pass after pass zipped through the swirling winds, finding their targets with remarkable timing and accuracy. It was truly a sight to behold.

I really hope they meet up in the playoffs again, and not just because New England needs to dish out some payback for last year’s ugly AFC title game defeat in Denver. I want to see another Brady/Manning duel, the best matchup football has to offer.

Tyler Maher is a senior majoring in economics and English. He is also a Sports Editor at the Tufts Daily. He can be reached at tyler.maher@tufts.edu.

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Strong sophomore class bolsters season

by Alison Kuah Daily Editorial Board

The women’s soccer team’s season came to a close this past weekend with a 4-0 loss to

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Bowdoin in the first round of the NESCAC Championship tournament. The loss marks the end of a challenging season for the Jumbos, who, despite posting a 7-7-2 overall record, finished just 3-6-1 in their conference.

But the record alone does not begin to describe the team’s tumultuous journey throughout the season.

Tufts started the season with a five-game undefeated streak, including a 6-0 blowout of Bates in their season opener and a 4-0 thrashing of MIT — a team now ranked in the top 20 in the nation. The Jumbos set a program record by scoring 24 goals during those five games, surpassing the previous record held by the 1985 team, which scored 20 goals during that timespan. The team’s dynamic, well-balanced attack featured an even distribution of scoring opportunities, with eight different players finding the back of the net in the team’s first four wins.

Arguably the turning point of the season came in a home game against a weak Suffolk team on Sept. 23rd. Ten minutes into the game, senior Alex Farris collided with Suffolk goalie Melissa Brouillette, suffering what would

be a season-ending injury. The game clock was stopped for 20 minutes as players from both sides waited for Farris to be carted off the field.

“The first 15 minutes of play after Alex [Farris] was taken off the field, we were bad,” coach Martha Whiting said. “We were bad to the point I was nervous and that really shook us up.”

But the team stepped up, with sophomore Jess Capone breaking the goalless stalemate with her fourth goal of the season and adding another in the second half.

Classmate Brooke Fortin put up a hat trick, and the game became a 10-0 rout.

Despite the seeming invincibility of the Jumbos’ offense even without Farris, their 10 goals in that game were followed by only 11 more total throughout the remaining 11 games. The team went on to lose five consecutive NESCAC games, with three of which were decided by just one goal. This story would become a familiar narrative for the team: a high-intensity offense simply unable find the back of the net, followed by brief lapses in defense that opponents capitalize on. With each loss, the Jumbos found themselves playing catchup, both in games and in their conference. “[After Suffolk], we entered the meat of our season and played a number of highly-ranked teams in a row,” Whiting said. “I don’t think we ever got it all together against those teams. There would be certain NESCAC games where we got it together defensively, let in one goal but then couldn’t score one. And then there were see WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 11

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Junior midfielder Rachel Terveer evades a Hamilton player in a 3-2 victory on Oct. 25.

Tufts holds on for win, moves on to NESCAC semifinals

by Maclyn Senear Daily Editorial Board

After taking down Amherst in the quarterfinals Saturday, Tufts is once again set to enter NESCAC

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semifinal action this weekend in a high-powered matchup against Bowdoin that will feature two of the conference’s perennial leaders.

Taking down the defending Div. III National Champions, however, would likely require the best performance of the season for the Jumbos, which they were not able to put forth in their matchup

against the Bowdoin Polar Bears last week.

In the final game of the regular season on Wednesday, Tufts couldn’t get much going against Bowdoin, losing the road game 4-0. Although disappointing for the team, the loss did not affect the Jumbos’ position in the NESCAC standings.

But Tufts was able to overcome both the fresh loss to Bowdoin and a loss to Amherst earlier in the season to come out on top in a close 1-0 battle with the No. 4 seed, advancing to the next round of the tournament.

“We knew our game against Amherst was a do-or-die situation,” senior co-captain Brittany Norfleet said. “We were focused in practice on making that game our best game yet this season, and I think we really came together.”

Coming off of a tough October in which they were constantly under fire, the Jumbos’ defense held strong against the Lord Jeffs’ attack. For its part, Amherst stifled Tufts’ offense and kept them from getting a shot off until almost 11 minutes in.

Tufts senior goalkeeper Bri Keenan’s brilliant save in the 30th minute on a backhanded shot from Amherst midfielder Mary Margaret Stoll to keep the game scoreless epitomized the first half — a few close scoring chances rebuked by tough defenses from both squads.

“Our defense played so tough,” sophomore forward Annie Artz said. “Our coaches always say that defense is a mentality — playing with an attitude that nothing is see FIELD HOCKEY, page 11

Inside the NFL

Patriots make a statement with victory over Broncos

by Joshua Slavin Contributing Writer

On Sunday, the Patriots honored former players who had been part of the three Super Bowl winning teams from a decade ago. Among them was fan-favorite running back Kevin Faulk, who donned a hoodie emblazoned with the words “University of Belichick.”

It proved fitting, because coach Bill Belichick and his Patriots took the Broncos to school. The Patriots outcoached, outclassed and outplayed Peyton Manning and company en route to a 43-21 blowout.

As the Patriots enter their fall break (bye week), this showdown served as their midterm exam, an indicator of where they stand about halfway through the football semester. And they passed with flying colors.

Entering Sunday’s matchup, the Patriots’ standing in the power rankings of the NFL was somewhat unsure. They started the season with a meager 2-2 start, including an embarrassing beat-down at the hands of the Chiefs on Monday night five weeks ago.

But they followed that with a fourgame win streak, regaining confidence and composure and finally starting to round into a quality football team. They entered Sunday at 6-2 and atop the AFC East, though these standings came without beating a truly high quality opponent.

The Broncos came into Foxborough at 6-1, having 10 days to prepare for the matchup. They were widely regarded as the best team in football, commanded by

Peyton Manning, who recently broke the NFL record for career touchdown passes.

The biggest storyline, of course, was the meeting of the quarterbacks. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are the two best quarterbacks of this era and likely of all time. The barstool debate over which is the superior player has gone on for years and will rage for decades to come. Because of these two players, there was more hype for this game than for any other regular season game this year. All of this set the stage for a game as important as a Week 9 game can be.

This was a chance for the Patriots to prove their merit against an impressive foe, and they took it.

Manning got his stats, as he always does, throwing for 438 yards and two scores. However, he threw two interceptions that both led to Patriots touchdowns.

Brady racked up 333 yards through the air and four touchdowns. His one interception came off a throw deflected by Patriots receiver Danny Amendola, which Amendola should have caught.

As the game drew to a close, the Patriots faithful at Gillette Stadium deliriously chanted “Brady’s Better” over and over. In his postgame press conference, Manning said that he “stunk.”

With the victory, Brady’s teams improved to 11-5 in matchups with Peyton.

Belichick deserves heaps of credit for designing defenses that seem to consistently befuddle one of the smartest and most cerebral quarterback to ever play the game. Perhaps Manning’s greatest strength is his ability to decipher what

the defense is doing before the play and adjust his offense to beat it. All afternoon long, the Patriots disguised their coverages and masked rushers, not giving Manning a clean look at what they were doing. All this served to throw Manning off his game slightly, especially on third and fourth down. The Broncos converted only three out of 11 third down opportunities, going 0-for-5 in the first half. They were 0-for-4 on fourth down conversions.

The result was a victory in a game that was never close. Moreover, it drastically affects the playoff picture in the AFC. The win gives the Patriots the tiebreaker over the Broncos should they finish with the same record. Holding the tiebreaker and

the current best record in the conference, the Patriots have the inside track for the top playoff seed. That means that they would possess homefield advantage through the playoffs, and that in a hypothetical rematch, the Broncos would have to come back to Foxborough.

This was a statement game for the Patriots. After faltering slightly at the beginning of the season, New England has regained its form and established itself as a top flight team once again.

Though midterms are not worth nearly as much as the final exams of January and February, it’s always satisfying to ace a test.

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Led by veteran quarterback Tom Brady, the Patriots dominated their Week 9 matchup with Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos.