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VOLUME LXVIII, NUMBER 46

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SAPAC hosts inaugural event for Tufts Kashmir Initiative

by Safiya Nanji Contributing Writer

Taking place on the Tisch Library roof and featuring a guided historical tour of Kashmir, a postcard diorama and a candlelight vigil, the South Asian Political Action Committee’s (SAPAC) first event of the semester was wellreceived by the campus community.

The event also included live poetry recitals in Urdu and English and a talk from author, journalist and psychologist Justine Hardy. According to SAPAC Chair and Co-Director Gautam Kapur, the group achieved its goal of addressing the issue of Kashmir through a humanitarian, historical and social lens.

“SAPAC was able to not only raise awareness and proceeds towards Kashmir flood relief organizations through the ‘Postcard Diorama,’ but was also able to convey some of the root causes of the conflict through our ‘Historical Walkthrough’ and the social repercussions of a natural disaster through the ‘Cultural Graveyard’ exhibit,” Kapur, a junior, said.

SAPAC’s Co-Directors Niya Shahdad and Vidya Srinivasan echoed Kapur’s sentiments.

“Last night went better than we ever could have imagined,” Srinivasan, a junior, said.

“When we first announced the launch of the Tufts Kashmir Initiative, it was really wellreceived by the Tufts community, as well as by the overseas Kashmiri community. This was, of course, really gratifying, but I think we all definitely felt a bit of added pressure to give this event our all.”

Srinivasan explained that the interactive campsite on the Tisch roof allowed people to stop by at their leisure.

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Two students write postcards to show solidarity with Kashmiri youth.

“People turned out to be very receptive to this idea of stopping by the roof to learn to care about something. Even people who didn’t know about the event beforehand saw our setup as they were passing by and chose to engage with the event,” she said.

Kapur added that he felt it was rewarding to see attendees entertain a holistic approach to understanding the issue in Kashmir, rather than simply taking part in a candlelight vigil.

Sophomores Bahar Ostadan and Elena Bell both attended the event and said it was well done and had a certain pull to it.

“It’s a cozy camp, with blankets, Christmas lights, tea — even for passersby, they’ll stop by quickly,” Bell said. “We should have more events like this on campus. There’s a lot of talks where we’re just in an auditorium.”

“It’s nice that it’s on the Tisch roof,” Ostadan added. “It makes it more personal.

Everything was just very creatively done, multiple mediums to target the issue.”

Shahdad, a junior, explained that she feels particularly close to the issue as her family is Kashmiri and was stuck in the floods.

“While everyone was starting off their first week of classes, I was stuck indoors

trying to communicate with people, and they were completely sort of missing,” she recounted. “We were unable to get in touch with them for about three to four days. And so at that point, I think, all that was going through my mind was that we somehow need to raise funds, because devastation has been done on a huge scale. But I think two to three weeks after that, I realized that raising awareness was almost as rewarding in experience as raising funds because [Kashmir’s floods have] been completely neglected in the Western media.”

According to Shahdad, everyone in SAPAC was ready to help and take on this issue as his or her own.

“SAPAC launched the Tufts Kashmir Initiative,” Shahdad said. “Under the Tufts Kashmir Initiative, this is the first event for what we hope to be a year-long [initiative].

For our first phase — this semester — we are … raising awareness. In the second phase — next semester — we hope we will have built an audience through which we can raise funds.”

Srinivasan added, that as a new group, SAPAC is seeking to gain attention for its initiatives.

“SAPAC is still a relatively new group, and this year we’re trying to grow it through generative connections — building networks of individuals and organizations that we believe are deeply relevant to the issues in South Asia on which we focus,” she said.

Qaid: A Camp-in for Kashmir generated much support from Kashmiris overseas and on-campus groups like Students for see KASHMIR, page 2

Tufts Eco-Reps to host Lang talks stars, space and the unknown in upcoming book annual symposium

by Meagan Adler Contributing Writer

Eco-Representatives from a number of Northeast universities will gather at the Aidekman Arts Center this weekend for the fifth annual Eco-Rep Symposium.

The event, which will be hosted by the Tufts Eco-Reps, brings together students interested in campus sustainability to exchange ideas and talk about related programs at their schools, according to Victoria Manogue, communications intern at the Office of Sustainability (OOS).

“It’s set up so that [students] can learn from each other,” OOS Program Director Tina Woolston said.

According to Woolston, 176 students will represent 32 different universities at this year’s symposium.

Manogue, a senior, explained that the symposium will feature some speakers but will be mostly student-led. There will be panels on topics such as composting as well as successful campus sustainability competitions and incentives.

“The idea behind the symposium is that it is held by students, for students,” Woolston said.

Manogue added that students will break into small groups of

eight to 10 people and have roundtable discussions on a given sustainability topic. Students will be able to talk about the practicality and logistics of different sustainability programs that have and have not been successful at their respective schools.

Eco-Rep Co-Coordinators Arshiya Goel and Hayley Ernyey explained that Tufts Eco-Reps have been split into six groups to help organize the event. Each group is responsible for a different hosting role, such as housing, food and organizing the sessions at which student participants apply to speak.

The first Eco-Rep Symposium was hosted at Tufts in 2009. Since then, other schools have hosted it including Babson College in 2011, Brown University in 2012 and Boston University in 2013, according to Manogue.

Goel, a senior, attended the symposia at Brown University and Boston University.

“When you meet other people from other schools who are also trying to do the same thing and they see how cool your program is, you see that Tufts is doing something different and it is great,” she said. see ECO-REPS, page 2

by Greta Jochem Daily Staff Writer

Professor of Physics and Astronomy Kenneth Lang has not only worked on groundbreaking research on the sun for the last 20 years, but has also written prolifically. Lang is currently working on his 22nd book, “Star Struck,” which focuses on the movements of the universe and the role of faith in understanding it. The Daily sat down with Lang to discuss his research.

The Tufts Daily: So what kind of research are you working on right now?

Kenneth Lang: Mostly I write books. Lots and lots of books.

TD: Do you primarily teach classes and write books?

KL: For about 20 years I got more than $3 million of research grants here at Tufts to study the sun. So we used the largest radio telescope in the world in New Mexico to study how the sun explodes, how it sends out high energy particles to the space between the plants and the earth.

And we studied that for about 20 years, both with a telescope on earth and in space.

But then you keep doing the research game [and] you realize that any of the research we

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all do is just a little drop in the bucket. Most of it is confined to the dust bins of history. That shouldn’t discourage you — every once and a while we see something totally unexpected.

It’s worth doing because of that.

But writing books can result in something that might have a longer and broader implication: more readers, and perhaps lasting decades longer than recent research.

TD: How did you get into publishing?

KL: My first book was this book called “Astrophysical Formulae” (1974) – two volumes that have been translated into Chinese and Russian, and the English version is used in Europe. But that’s about 2,000 formulae and several fundamental references to formulae over the centuries. So it’s a history of astrophysics with reference to original sources.

One of my motivations for that was that physicists often take credit for ideas that are not their own. They become rather pompous and self-important about their concepts. My motivation was to track down and see where these concepts originated, why they originated, and what were the … important papers that came before and after. So, at the

time I was spending summers at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, England. And that was a very good place to begin this work.

I wrote [“Astrophysical Formulae”] primarily because I was interested in learning all about all of astrophysics, and it is all about astrophysics. A spinoff of that: a few years later I met this guy on an airplane, a Harvard professor, and he knew about this astrophysical formula book — it had become pretty well know — and he knew history went into the book. So we decided together on the airplane to write another book. It’s [from] Harvard University Press on the history of contemporary astronomy, essentially.

TD: What kind of things have you written about?

KL: I’ve written about the sun, the planets, the solar system, astrophysics … the formula behind astrophysics, the equations that go into it. “The Life and Death of Stars” (2013) was my most recent book; it came out two years ago. Now I am working on one … first I called it “Cosmic Faith,” but now I call it “Star Struck.”

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The Tufts Daily discusses the music industry with members of the indie pop band Gentleman Hall.

The men’s basketball team is poised to be a top NESCAC contender.

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Flashback Friday: Ralph Nader addresses Tufts students

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If there’s one thing that has been consistent in politics over the years, it is Ralph Nader. Though his presence has dwindled since the 2008 election, he has been involved since his first presidential campaign in 1992.

The year of his first campaign, Nader came to speak to the Tufts student body, according to a March 4, 1992 Daily article. He addressed an issue still relevant today: the role of money in politics. Nader accused politicians of being bought and paid for by corporations. As a solution, he called for a consumer advocacy department to counter the corporations’ influence.

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Ernyey, also a senior, attended the symposium at Brown University.

“You see how progressive Tufts is in sustainability and how much more it has to go,” she said.

Woolston explained that she has received positive feedback on the EcoRep Symposium in the past.

“From what I’ve been told from participants in the past, [the Eco-Rep Symposium] is really inspiring,” she said. “Also, the Tufts Eco-Reps gain a greater sense of pride for their own program because their program

is a really good model. All of these ecoprograms have been modeled after Tufts’ original idea.”

The symposium is an affordable opportunity for students to learn about campus sustainability programs, according to Woolston. Tickets cost $15 and housing is provided by Tufts students for those who come from schools further away.

“It is super low-cost, which makes it really accessible,” she said.

Woolston noted that she has been working with a regional group of campus sustainability professionals and they

have created a board of curators, consisting of staff members from different schools around the northeast, to talk about the future of the symposium.

“I hope students gain an inspired passion for the environment and the work that they are doing,” Ernyey said. “I hope that they gain an understanding that what they are doing is important.”

Goel agreed, adding that she hopes the symposium will be a valuable learning experience.

“I hope that students can learn from all the other groups and see what they are doing differently,” she said.

Prof. Kenneth Lang speaks on 22nd book, ‘Star Struck’ LANG

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TD: What is the overall topic of “Star Struck?”

KL: I wanted to talk not only about the generation of ideas and their interdependence over the eons, but also the fact that the large number of the people who made those discoveries had strong faith and belief in God. Starting with Newton for example — the subtitle of the book is called “the lives, findings and beliefs of great astronomers.”

So it … mixes not only these concepts, but it also [considers] what were these [people's] lives? What were they like? What did they believe? Many had a strong belief in God. TD: What kind of things are you talking about in “Star Struck?”

KL: Well, right now, today — this morning actually — I am writing a chapter called “Dark Places.” And it points out that the vast extent of space is dark. For example, if you go out in space and look down on earth, it’s dark. All you see is a few lights. And if you

look out into the sky, the stars occupy an infinitesimal amount of the space out there.

The dark spaces between the stars account for most of what is there and it’s largely unknown — we don’t know [what's] out there. Ninety-five percent of the universe we don’t know anything about except that it has a material counterpart, the mass counterpart, that we don’t know anything about. Not the kind of mass that we see — it’s invisible. There’s an energy called dark energy, which is propelling the expansion of the universe, which we don’t know anything about besides that it’s invisible and we see its consequences.

So astronomers are looking at things they don’t know about, like stars, and are inferring a much vaster quantity of energy that they know nothing about. And that’s what I’m writing about now. The whole section of that book is about movement.

Everything moves. You moved to come in here. You get out of bed and moved this morning. The earth moves, it spins.

Stars move. Galaxies move. There’s nothing we know about that doesn’t move.

And so why they move is the big question. How they move is what astronomers study. They study the way that plants move around the sun, the way stars move around our galaxy, the way the galaxy is receding — expanding out from earth — they study how they move but when you get to the ultimate cause of why things move, we don’t know. Some say God’s responsible.

TD: How did you come up with the idea for the book?

KL: I was intrigued by things that moved. I wanted to integrate the picture of motion through the universe from the earth to stars to galaxies. The other thing that intrigued me was change. Everything changes, that’s the second part of the book. That starts with humans — they start out babies, then teenagers, then they get older. Everything on the earth changes and that’s of interest.

SAPAC event seeks to educate community on Kashmir KAShMIR

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Justice in Palestine (SJP), according to Srinivasan.

“SJP helped us out a lot with publicity because we had conversations that tied together our groups’ supposedly disparate interests and made the situation in Kashmir feel relevant to them,” she said. “Finally, this event could not have been this successful without the tremendous support of [the Muslim Student Association]. They not only publicized our event but also sent members to be volunteer tour guides, photographers and general support. This kind of solidarity

with the people of Kashmir was really humbling to witness.”

Bell described the event as educational and Hardy’s talk especially relevant.

“I knew about the flood, but I don’t keep up with Southeast Asian news that much,” she said. “I think what [Hardy] said about rage and your anger and using it sparingly and using it for positive conversation is very applicable.”

For Srinivasan, the most poignant part of the night was Hardy’s opening address.

“She joined us straight from Srinagar with firsthand accounts of how, even though the waters have abated, the floods hang like a shadow over Kashmir,” she said.

“News stories that talk about this tragedy in terms of statistics cannot convey this kind of damage, and I think her talk reminded everyone in attendance that these people have been through something that is horrific on so many different levels.”

According to Kapur and Srinivasan, the success of this event is a significant step for SAPAC. “SAPAC’s overall guiding objective is to create space for South Asia at Tufts,” Srinivasan said. “Kashmir was not a part of mainstream campus dialogue before this, but we think this event and the rest of these initiatives will prompt people to give the region more attention.”

Corrections In a Nov. 13 article titled “New organization for first generation college students fosters safe space, combats stigma,” first generation students were incorrectly defined as “the first in their generation to attend college.” The definition is, in fact, “the first generation in their family to attend college.”

In the same article, the author was incorrectly stated as being Kendall Todd. The author was, in fact, Allie Dawson, a contributing writer.

In a Nov. 13 article titled “Jumbos to kick off season Saturday at Wesleyan tournament,” a quote was incorrectly attributed to senior Ann Bellinger. The quote was, in fact, from senior Paige Dahlman.

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Cage Rage band Gentlemen Hall discusses their origins and inspirations

by Ben Silver

“lets play some bars, play some frat houses and have a good time!” Half of us met at the dorms at Berklee — we were neighbors on the same floor!

BS: What are some memorable venues you’ve played in Boston?

RG: We played the Sinclair in May, the House of Blues, some of the best memories are just Allston house parties.

BA: Some of the best spots are the non-venues. Like, I remember that show we did with the Bad Rabbits in the basement once on Halloween, and the cops busted it. We played our set but they only got a few songs in. Honestly, frat parties where the cops are bustin’ it in the middle of your set is kind of the most fun.

RG: There is no cover charge so anyone can go … We used to do a lot of MIT frats, which is cool because the MIT student is very different from the Berklee student. I remember one MIT frat party where the sound system shut down because it over heated, so all the MIT kids were stringing up the fans and troubleshooting the situation and it was really impressive.

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Indie-pop band Gentleman Hall has gone from playing at police-busted MIT frat parties to winning a VMA and rocking Boston Calling. This Saturday, Nov. 15, they will play at Tufts’ annual fall concert, Cage Rage, sponsored by Concert Board.

Gentlemen Hall will appear alongside musical acts MS MR and STRFKR. After Gentlemen Hall played an explosive Sunday Boston Calling set earlier this year, The Tufts Daily sat down with band members Rory Given (bass) and Brad Alderman (keyboard) to talk about everything from their origins to why the band doesn’t mind if you steal their music. A lightly edited version of the interview follows. Cage Rage tickets are available to Tufts students for $10 each.

Concert doors will open at 7 p.m. and close at 8:30 p.m.

The Stage Ben Silver: How do you translate your studio recordings into your live setup?

Rory Given: For the last record, we all wrote together. It could be Brad’s chords on the keys, or a bass line I wrote. If it vibes, we continue rapping on that. Any of the guys can come in with a vocal idea or a guitar idea, and we build it together, which is really important because if it was just one of us writing by ourselves, we’d have a jazz piece, or a punk rock piece or a hip hop album.

BS: How much time goes into creating synth patches for your show?

Brad Alderman: However long it needs to sound right! Sometimes when you’re making the patch, you come up with something even better [than the patch on the recording]. That’s how songs take on a life. That’s why live music can be even better than the recording, because it’s developed more.

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Indie-pop band Gentlemen Hall will play at Cage Rage this Saturday.

BS: “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe” [2012] — definitely a crowd pleaser. Are there any other covers that you would like to arrange?

RG: We’re working on a few right now. BDKMV was such an iconic song, and it was cool to really arrange it, [with a] totally different vibe … We had to get a special vocal effects processor for that song.

BA: It is hard to cover a song and make it stand up to the original, so we tend to come up with 20-30 versions of it and try to put it together.

BDKMV took two months straight …

That reworking is kind of what we do with all of our songs, but it’s how it gets to the high level that it ends up in.

Origins BS: How was your band founded?

RG: We were all friends long before we had the band. We were all musicians and we would jam … it was something to do late at night. We thought it would be fun … there wasn’t an intention to do something big at first.

BS: What scene were you trying to break into?

BA: The Boston scene … [We thought]

The Industry BS: What are your thoughts on music distribution?

RG: When I grew up it was a blessing to be able to afford a CD. To an extent you treasure that music a little bit more because you owned it, but I think streaming music is so cool because everything is right there. I’m a Spotify nerd.

BS: I was always a big fan of downloading music illegally, because it was free.

I think anyone that couldn’t afford our music should just download it for free, and if you want to buy it and support us, that’s cool too. If they can’t afford it, then get the music anyways, and if you’re a fan, come to a show. You don’t need to be a snob about it.

Offbeat

'Serial' provides weekly entertainment and suspense

by Montana Miller Daily Editorial Board

“Serial” (2014 – present), a spinoff podcast of “This American Life” (1995 – present) hosted by Sarah Koenig and produced by Julie Snyder, breathes life into a neglected medium of storytelling, allowing its audience to fall back in love with the radio in a new way.

“Serial” investigates a 1999 murder case, delving into narratives and following leads to try to nail down what really happened.

In an age largely dominated by the silver screen, home televisions and personal tablets, radio has largely fallen to the wayside when it comes to producing narratives that appeal to the modern milieu. The brain trust behind “Serial,” however, has combined the nostalgia of radio with the accessibility of the internet, creating an episodic podcast that has topped iTunes charts since Sept. 19, 2014 — two weeks before its official release. Though marketed as a podcast, “Serial” has used the “This American Life” radio listener platform to attract an initial following.

Formally, “Serial” is exactly what the name implies: a weekly continuation of the same non-fiction story. Each week it pulls the listeners back, determined to make sense of a storyline wrought with intentional ambiguity. Like well-written television programs, “Serial” is produced in a way that leaves the listener unsatisfied and hungry for answers that will only come after a glacially slowmoving week. Just as readers waited

for installments of Charles Dickens’ newspaper serial “The Pickwick Papers” almost two centuries ago, modern listeners wait for this new series.

Koenig states in the pilot that the show came as a product of a year of investigative reporting surrounding the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, a student at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, M.D. Intrigued by the facts of the case and uncertain of the state’s decision to convict ex-boyfriend Adnan Syad for Lee’s murder, Koenig tries to ascertain truths in this complicated, fifteen-year-old case.

The show follows a similar trajectory to well-written murder mystery novels or syndicated television programs. In the world of “Serial,” leads are tailed and characters developed, all to the well-suited soundtrack composed by Nick Thorburn and Mark Henry Phillips. Meanwhile, through phone conversations with Syed, court testimony from witnesses and students, phone records and police reports, Koenig shares the facts of the case, the unanswered questions she has concerning an overwhelming lack of evidence and her own vacillations between Syed’s presumed guilt and innocence.

With one season under its belt, “Serial” still leaves many questions of the case unresolved, including who actually committed the murder. Though much of the story’s mystery endures by the end of the first seven installments, the future of the podcast is less doubtful. The show will continue to run in upcoming seasons with the same premise, grappling with

the day-to-day themes of human lives.

It is the medium of “Serial” that sets it apart from its literature and television counterparts. Though not a completely new platform from which to tell stories — Americans flocked to the radio in the mid-twentieth century for everything from news to comedy to music — the bridging of radio and internet as a foundation for narrative allows for a wider listener base in a more contemporary setting.

Completely devoid of visual components, “Serial” allows the audience to stimulate its imagination, an element completely absent from Netflix binges. Moreover, offered without a

cost of subscription, “Serial’s” availability on the Internet and radio allows listeners to engage in a narrative for free. Additionally, the story is uninterrupted by commercials, which allows for a purer listening experience. Free of targeted popup promotions and advertisements, listeners are granted solace in their anonymity and comfort in knowing they are free to submerge themselves in narrative undisturbed for as long as Koenig speaks.

“Serial” has put wind back in the sails of radio chronicles. It is storytelling in a form forgotten to most American consumers, one that may be on the verge of making a comeback.

Meredith Heuer via Mother Jones

Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder, the women behind “Serial,” stand with Ira Glass, the host of “Serial’s” predecessor “This American Life.”

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point guard and a distributor too … we kind of gave [Tarik] the keys to the car and told him ‘drive us.'”

Wings The wing position has been a point of emphasis for the Jumbos this offseason. In addition to the dynamic one-two punch of Ferris and junior tri-captain Stephen Haladyna, the Jumbos have brought in a number of rangy swingmen who could contribute serious minutes off the bench.

Ferris in particular will play an important role, as not only one of the team’s best scorers (12.0 PPG last season), but as the only four-year senior on the team (senior guard Adam Zakaria transferred from UMassAmherst before his junior year).

“My biggest role on the team in the Fall, and especially now, has been trying to be the definitive leader,” Ferris said. “I’ve really tried to embrace the role [of the senior captain] and make sure I’m getting the best out of everyone in terms of whatever they’re doing, and really push them in that sense.”

The biggest reason that Ferris can focus more on his role as a leader on the team is due to the depth the team has at the position. Haladyna came into his own last year, averaging 12.4 points per game, including a 23-point outburst in Tufts’ final regular season game against Bowdoin that helped send Tufts into the NESCAC tournament.

Junior swingman Ryan Spadaford, who transferred from Navy, should also give the team a spark off the bench with his sharpshooting. The biggest contributions should come from the freshmen class though, as

Sheldon made the wing position a priority in his search to strengthen the position following the departures of Ferris, and then Haladyna in two years.

First-years Vinny Pace, Ben Engvall and Everett Dayton should all find their way into the rotation to start the year.

“We were going for [rangy wings] because Ben will be a senior, and then Hal [will be a senior the following year],” Sheldon said. “We went and got Vinny Pace, who has been very good since day one, and he’s long, lanky and can score, and he’s going to be a real good player. Everett Dayton is a combo guard who’s going to play the wing, and Ben Engvall is kind of the opposite.

Whereas Everett is a one and a two, Ben is a three and four, so those two are going to play together.”

As is the case when a team has a glut of talent at a position, the biggest challenge for Sheldon and his staff will be figuring the best combinations and rotations of players.

“We have to find roles for everybody, and everybody has accepted them, and we’ve told [the players] to accept them and flourish in them, and enjoy the process,” Sheldon said.

Forwards/Centers While the wing position may be the deepest position on this team, it is the frontcourt for which most opponents will be game planning. The twin towers of Palleschi and sophomore Hunter Sabety should combine to be the best frontcourt in the conference, and in Sheldon’s opinion, has the opportunity to be the best frontcourt in the country.

“We think Tommy and Hunter are the best frontcourt in Div. III,” Sheldon said. “I’m not saying they’re the best players, but I’m saying together [they're the best].

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two unanswered goals in the third period to cap off a disappointing season.

“I think at the end of the year we finally started to figure out the way our team needed to play to win games,” senior defender Shawn Power said. “We’re all working to carry that momentum and attitude into this year’s season.”

Although Tufts graduated six players last year, only one of the six was among the team’s top-10 points leaders. While the team will miss their leadership, it should be in good shape heading into this season, as a group of underclassmen played significant minutes last year.

The team has shored up most positions, but the starting goalie remains undetermined.

Ryan Kellenberger, who made his debut in goal a season ago, logged the most ice time last season, and

was poised to assume the starting role. Instead, he transferred to Vanderbilt after his freshman year, leaving Tufts without an experienced presence in the crease.

According to senior forward Billy Sellers, three goalies are battling for the starting spot: sophomore Middlebury transfer, Mason Pulde, and firstyears Ryan McConnell and Ross Bendetson.

Despite new faces, Sellers expressed a positive outlook on the upcoming season.

“I think there are great prospects for the team this year,” senior forward Billy Sellers said. “We’ve got a large freshman class and probably the most talented team I’ve seen in four years. We also return almost all our key contributors from last year’s team, including all-league defenseman and [tri-]captain Blake Edwards.”

The incoming class may ultimately be the key to a bounce-back season. A successful round of recruitment brought in a number of talented players for last

Hunter can do everything by the basket. Tommy can do everything by the basket and out. Hunter has developed his shot, so it’s going to be tough.”

Sheldon has not been afraid to make significant adjustments to the offense given the strength his team possesses inside, as he has worked on transitioning the team from the four-out and one-in system it played last year to a three-out and two-in offense this year.

“Our whole offense is pretty much focused around [Hunter and Tom],” Ferris said. “Our guards are really good shooters, so the coaches have been stressing ‘shoot jumpshots’ and make the defense have to play you out there so we take defenders away from the middle of the paint. That way [the defense] has to make a decision of who they’re going to guard. It’s mostly been predicated on having those two guys inside, and playing inside-out basketball.”

Looking ahead As the Jumbos continue to work on getting back to full health and rounding out their squad, their first test of the season will come this Saturday as they take on the Johnson & Wales Wildcats in Rhode Island. The game is the first step on a long road to where Tufts wants to be at the end of the year, and for now, Sheldon is trying to keep things simple for his team.

“We took all the numbers out of it and said ‘let’s play the best basketball we can’ and see where that takes us and if it takes us to a ring then so be it,” Sheldon said. “We’re buying into the whole ‘let’s be Tufts’ and ‘let’s have an identity out there of a solid defensive team that’s going to run and pound it inside and get it to their bigs and make their outside shots.'”

year’s team, and these players flashed their skills despite a less-than-ideal overall campaign. In particular, sophomore forward Conal Lynch will look to duplicate his impressive rookie stat line, and his knack for assists will undoubtedly be in high demand on a team that struggled to find the back of the net for much of last season.

Since they comprise a disproportionate percentage of the team, first-year students will be relied upon to contribute right away. Powers added that close teams will also be key to the team’s success.

“The close games have been a focus of ours since last season,” Powers said. “I think we all feel that, with the players we have returning and the new additions to the team, we’ll be able to turn those close losses from last year into good wins, which will drastically change the outcome of the season.”

As they did exactly a year ago, the Jumbos will play their first game of the season at home against the Wesleyan Cardinals on Saturday, Nov. 15.

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said. “We have also adopted a slightly new training regimen this year, in which we do a lot of race pace training, [because] getting used to how it feels to go fast in the water will definitely help us win some meets in the fall semester.”

Tufts opens its season with a tri-meet on Nov. 22 at Middlebury against the host school and Keene State College. The Middlebury Panthers trounced the Jumbos 190-108 last year and are coming off a solid season in which they went 4-4. Tufts hopes the outcome will be different this time around, as the team will have three full weeks of training under its belt by then, including a small relay-only meet on Nov. 1 that was not scored and will not factor into the team’s dual-meet record. Bigelow views the first meet as a good time to assess the strengths and weaknesses of her young team so she can adjust practices as needed.

“We are preparing for Middlebury by working hard in the pool and the weight room, and by trying to stay healthy,” Bigelow said. “Middlebury will give us a indication of how our training is paying off and help us gauge just exactly what type of shape we are in and how much more work we still will need to do to get to where we want to be in February.”

The Jumbos are looking forward to the meet and expect their hard work in the pool to pay off. On top of the usual motivation to win, they are out to prove that they are a better team this year.

“Middlebury is always a nail-biter,” Coniglio said.

“There is definitely a lot of anticipation around this meet, and I can tell we are going to jump at the chance to show Middlebury that we are a different team than we were last year.”

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Tufts prepares for bounce-back season

by Jake Indursky Daily Editorial Board

Although the men’s basketball team is coming off a year in which it went only 4-6 and snuck into the NESCAC playoffs as the No. 7 seed, those numbers belie the promise that the 20142015 season holds.

Last season, the expectations were set high for a Jumbos team that had finished 7-3 in the NESCAC a year earlier, and was losing only three seniors. Last season, however, turned sour quickly as Tufts was ravaged by injuries. Most notably, center Tom Palleschi, a sophomore at the time, received news that he might never be able to play again due to a heart condition. In addition, injuries to guard Ben Ferris, a junior at the time, and guard Tommy Folliard (LA ’14), along with the departure of guard C.J. Moss, a junior at the time, left Tufts with a much different roster than it expected entering the season.

Fast forward a year, and all the parts appear to finally be in place. Palleschi, who is still classified as a sophomore, has made a miraculous return to the court, and Ferris is back to full health. Although the Jumbos lost key senior leadership in point guard Oliver Cohen (LA ’14), shooting guard Kwame Firempong (LA’ 14), forward Andrew Dowton (LA’ 14) and Folliard, the younger corps they will feature this year should have no problem stepping into a bigger role.

Guards The loss of Cohen, who finished third in the NESCAC last year with 4.92 assists, is not an easy one to overcome. Cohen was a big stabilizing force for the team on and off the court.

This year, it will be sophomore point guard Tarik Smith who will be in the driver’s seat of the potent Tufts offense.

Smith’s explosive off-the-bounce game and ability to finish in traffic are stark contrasts to the game-manager style of Cohen. Coming off the bench last sea-

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Senior tri-captain guard Ben Ferris drives to the basket in Tufts’ 88-81 victory over Colby on Feb. 14, 2014. son, Smith was used more for his ability to create instant offense, and one of the biggest determinants of how far the Jumbos can go this year will be Smith’s ability to control the tempo of the game

while also effectively utilizing his athleticism and quickness.

“We’re not going to hold Tarik back,” coach Bob Sheldon said. “We don’t want him to be like Oliver, we want him to be

like Tarik. We want him to use his explosiveness, get to the basket and make his open shots. We want him to be a scoring see MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 11

Men’s Hockey

Women’s Swimming and Diving

Jumbos enter first game with a chance for early season revenge

Tufts sets bar high for upcoming season

by Sam Gold

Daily Editorial Board

In a cruel twist of fate — or, alternatively, a shot at redemption — the men’s hockey team will play the same five teams, in order, against whom it kicked off last season. Four of these teams — Trinity, Williams, Middlebury and Wesleyan — hail from the NESCAC, which saw six players selected to the New England Hockey Writers Div. III All-Star Team last year. While Wesleyan finished eighth, a mere two spots above last-place Tufts, Williams and Middlebury finished third and fourth, respectively, and Trinity took home the regular season crown, boasting the best record in the conference at 15-3.

Tufts lost its first three contests by one goal apiece en route to a five-game losing streak, dropping four in a row against NESCAC opponents.

Any campaign defined by losing streaks, let alone a 10-game drought later on in the season, would be considered a disappointment, perhaps even cause for concern regarding the short-term competitiveness of the program. It was the second consecutive year in which Tufts had failed to regis-

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Sophomore Matt Pugh controls the puck during Tufts’ 3-1 loss to Wesleyan on Jan. 25, 2014. ter more than two conference victories, But, with three games left, the Jumbos squeaked out a tie in overtime against secondplace Amherst and snapped their 10-game losing streak.

Although they would go on to drop their next game, a 4-1 loss to the Colby Mules, the Jumbos pounced on an unsuspecting Bowdoin team, netting see ICE HOCKEY, page 11

by Tyler Maher Daily Editorial Board

The women’s swimming and diving team struggled last season, losing six straight meets to open the season before salvaging a win in its seventh and final non-tournament meet against Wheaton College. Though Tufts has a young team this year, the Jumbos are optimistic they will be able to build off last year’s late-season success and steadily improve throughout the winter season.

“This year we are focusing an being more competitive at dual meets and championships,” senior tri-captain Amanda Wachenfeld said.

“We want to improve our dual meet record from last year and have a strong showing at the NESCAC Championships in February, and improve over our place from last year’s [NESCAC] meet.”

But that might not be an easy task, given the team’s lack of both experience and polished talent, at least early in the season. There will be growing pains, but there will also be plenty of opportunities for growth and development.

Coach Nancy Bigelow understands that the underclassmen may be overmatched at

first, but she expects them to improve over the course of the season and become dependable contributors.

“You need the horses to run the race and I’m not sure we have studs yet, but we will find that out soon,” Bigelow said.

“We need both newcomers and returning team members to step up and fill the void left by last season’s graduates.”

For their part, the Jumbos have responded by setting lofty goals for themselves and are committed to improving. Senior tri-captain Kathryn Coniglio hopes to see the team score a top-three finish at the NESCAC Championships in February, which would be a considerable leap from their seventh place finish last year. She would also like to see several Jumbos compete in the NCAA Div. III Tournament in March, and is hopeful that improved preseason conditioning and more effective practices will help them reach these goals.

“Pre-season captains’ practices were more rigorous than they’ve been in years past, and we are definitely in better shape than we have ever been at this point in the season,” Coniglio see SWIMMING AND DIVING, page 11