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VOLUME LXVIII, NUMBER 49

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Students collect socks for the homeless

by Aaron Pomerance Contributing Writer

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ZBT brothers sell raffle tickets to various coupons and prizes to raise money for the Boston Children’s Hospital.

Greek life offers broad range of philanthropic events

by Yennie Jun

Contributing Writer

Greek life may be most often associated with vibrant social life, but the importance of philanthropy to these organizations cannot be downplayed. This semester, fraternities and sororities have displayed an active com-

mitment toward helping those in need through a series of social philanthropic events involving the whole Tufts community and raising significant sums of money. These events include Get on the Ball, the Zombie Run and Thetathon, among others.

In October, Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) fraternity hosted its annual Get on

the Ball fundraiser, a week-long effort for the Boston Children’s Hospital. As part of this event, brothers rolled a six-foot ball around campus to raise awareness and support for the hospital.

“We collect any monetary donation and then people sign see PHILANTHROPY, page 2

The Office of Residential Life and Learning (Reslife), the Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) and Tufts Hillel have partnered to bring the “Knock Knock Give a Sock” donation campaign to Tufts this semester, with donation boxes available on campus until Dec. 1.

The Knock Knock Give a Sock organization aims to address the need for socks among the homeless and to “add a social component to charity,” according to Adina Lichtman, who started the initiative last November.

Lichtman, a junior at New York University (NYU) studying social work, said she began the organization after meeting Diego, a homeless man living in New York City.

Lichtman said she was delivering sandwiches to the homeless when Diego stopped to tell her that what the homeless really needed right before winter was socks.

Lichtman then went back to her dorm, only to realize her socks would not fit the homeless man, she said. She proceeded to knock on the doors

of her floormates, collecting 40 pairs of socks. The next day she gathered 25 more pairs.

From there, Knock Knock Give a Sock was born, according to Lichtman.

The campaign has grown from a small organization at NYU to a nationwide initiative that has representatives on 18 college campuses nationwide and about 20 high schools and academies in New York and New Jersey, according to its website.

“I feel like I’m working a full-time job,” Lichtman said. “I didn’t expect it to be this big.”

After Knock Knock Give a Sock collected 12,000 pairs of socks in its first year, Lichtman reached out to LCS Co-President Gemma Stern this summer in order to bring the initiative to Tufts.

Stern said she thought this was a “great and simple idea to donate socks and help the community.”

Stern then sought out other groups to co-sponsor this campaign with LCS. She reached out to Becca Leibowitz, who chairs Hillel’s service-oriented Tzedakah Committee, as see SOCKS, page 2

Tisch College announces Annual Student Leadership Dinner groups for 1+ 4 program sparks outreach, collaboration

by Greta Jochem Daily Staff Writer

The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service announced in October the selected locations and organizations for its 1+4 Bridge-Year Service Learning Program, which was officially unveiled last February. The program will allow up to 50 new students to participate in a year-long community service project either in the United States or abroad before their first year at Tufts.

Tisch College Senior Program Director Mindy Nierenberg said the school selected sites that combined “meaningful service” with an “education component.” She added that she was surprised by the overwhelming interest in participation she received after the initiative was launched.

“We just had avalanches of emails,” she said. “I had people asking me if we could start the program [earlier].”

According to the Tisch College website, the students will have the options of serving in Los Angeles, Calif., Detroit, Mich., Philadelphia, Penn., Tucson,

Ariz., Oaxaca, Mexico, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Madrid, Spain and León, Nicaragua. In the selected cities, Tufts has partnered with organizations including LIFT and City Year, for which students will work during the entire year.

A committee of students, faculty, alumni and Tisch College board members selected the organizations included in the program’s inaugural year, according to Nierenberg. The committee spoke with members of the organizations over the phone and visited the sites last summer, she said.

The 1+4 Bridge-Year Service Learning Program includes sites tailored to areas of community service, according to Leslie Eme, regional director and Youth Ambassadors Program manager at AMIGOS de las Américas, which has partnered with the Tufts program in Mexico and Nicaragua.

Within this organization, students can participate in one of three programs: Puente a la Salud Comunitaria, which is focused on community health and related businesses, CAMPO, see BRIDGE, page 2

by Daniel Bottino Daily Editorial Board

On Nov. 13, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate Student Outreach Committee hosted its sixth annual Student Leadership Dinner, which brings together the leaders of student organizations across campus, at 51 Winthrop St. The aim of the dinner was to generate dialogue about what student groups have been doing on campus, according to TCU Senator Brian Tesser, who organized the event.

“We do this event every year, and every year we put a little bit of a different spin on it,” Tesser, a junior, said. “[This year,] we realized we wanted to put the focus on the student groups that are coming. We think that each [group]brings something really unique to this campus and something special that we want to be able to learn from you.”

Attendance this year consisted of about 150 student leaders — an increase of about 20 students from last year’s dinner, according to Tesser. Most of the student groups sent two representatives, and each group was assigned to one of 15 round tables. Each table hosted several groups and was staffed by at least one TCU senator.

Tesser explained that every senator had been supplied with a list of questions to stimulate discussion at each table, but he encouraged students to engage in fluid and wide-ranging conversations.

“If different conversations come up, let them go,” he said. “We want to hear what you have to say. This event is about you [all].”

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Graham Goudeau, who represented the Futurism Society at Tufts, said that the dinner was extremely productive. The Futurism Society was able to interact positively with student representatives from the Tufts Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) and begin planning a co-hosted event with them, he added.

“We are collaborating with the STOMP group to work on writing a curriculum together,” Goudeau, a sophomore, said. “[The Futurism Society] actually has plans brewing to do education type stuff, so it was convenient … It seems like a great opportunity to actually act on our plans for education and for outreach.”

Ryan Johnson, co-founder of the newly TCUrecognized Cheese Club, said that the dinner represented a good way to increase campus awareness of the club, which focuses on appreciating cheese as well as discussing the politics behind the food.

“I’m sure a lot of people by now have heard of Cheese Club, but [the club would like] to show that we’re hoping to work with other groups on campus on various interdisciplinary projects — just show that we’re open to branching out and getting to know new people and meeting new groups,” Johnson, a sophomore, said.

The Tufts Muslim Student’s Association (MSA) also expressed enthusiasm about the Leadership Dinner. Umar Shareef, MSA’s vice president of religious activities, noted that one of the group’s goals in attending the dinner was to expand its outreach beyond the Muslim community. see DINNER, page 2

Today’s sections

3Ps’ production of “The Children’s Hour” is poignant, well acted.

Men’s soccer advances to Sweet 16 in NCAA Div. III tournament.

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News | Features 1 Arts & Living 4 Editorial | Op-Ed 5

Op-Ed 6 Classifieds 7 Sports Back

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Night at the Museum 4

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fter weeks of talking about it, monitoring the tab for “Astronomy After Hours” on my web browser and even making a failed attempt to go a few weeks back, we finally made it to that damn planetarium. Well, planetarium is a rather gracious word for it, more like an observatory, but it was weirdly one of my most surreal Boston experiences yet. Running between 8:30 and 10 p.m. on the roof of the Museum of Science is an observatory that is open every Friday from March until the week before Thanksgiving (yep, this is time sensitive information because this Friday is the last one!). So, in typical Lauren-and-her-friends fashion, we decided to go around 9 p.m. during the penultimate week. After mentally preparing myself to get out of the warmth of my bed, I was pleasantly surprised at the painless simplicity of the trip.

It’s really easy for me to pretend that Boston is another universe, a space beyond our bubble that only the brave of heart can venture into if you give yourself half the day. But, surprisingly, even these 90-minute trips are so worth it.

Perhaps it was seeing the breadth of the open sky from a slit in a gargantuan engraved dome while standing upon the roof of a grand museum, surrounded by the glimmering lights of Boston skyscrapers and the twinkling of the water along the Charles, but I suddenly realized how close everything is. For the first time, I really understood the bounty of what is around us, and the very real worth of venturing out. I know, these are pretty surprising conclusions for spending 20 minutes outside to see two stars in a telescope.

You see, “Astronomy After Hours” is really just a line of people formed on the roof late at night, waiting to go into a dark, domed observatory to use a high-power telescope and see whatever stars are visible that night. Yes, it was quite cold, but the view that surrounds you is a decent distraction and many times there will be some museum experts reciting some interesting astrological facts as you await your turn.

To be honest, in many ways the “event” is disappointing. While the rose-lit observatory is an interesting space with photography materials scattered across the counter and a telescope the size of a cannon in the center pointing out into the depths of the night, all you really get to do is hop on a ladder for three minutes and see a (very blurry) star or two. Yet, for some reason, everyone comes out with a grin. I think it’s a mixture of the concept of space and the fact that even if this wasn’t a rocket sending me out to the moon, it’s still an interaction with the universe that I certainly don’t get to have 99.9999 percent of my days. To commit even just an hour to acknowledge our tininess in the grand scheme of all that is not just around us, but that which is enveloping us, is pretty wild. For me, it was a necessary break from the self-importance of college and a real way to ground me. As I looked across the faces of my companions I kind of knew that they too, in their own personal way, were reflecting on the greater connotations of going to an observatory, and that, the acknowledgment of a whole universe beyond my routine path of Wren à Carm à Eaton à repeat, is what makes “Astronomy After Hours” so worth it. If you’re in need of some accessible mysticism, I encourage you to check it out.

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

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Students show high interest in 1+4 Bridge Program BRIDGE

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which is focused on the environment, or Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca, which is focused on technology and engineering, according to Eme. Nierenberg said that they hoped to include a broad range of programs.

“What I was really trying to do in building those choices and options was, number one, think about Tufts students and know what they are interested in and really provide a range,” she said.

“You could do this and have everyone working in a school or an orphanage which is really stereotypical … these are very unique opportunities that people would not get otherwise.”

While participating in the program, some students will take an online class — administered by Tufts — in order to connect their academic background with their service work, according to Nierenberg.

In each of the eight sites, there will be between three and seven fellows, Nierenberg added. She said that in all the domestic placements, fellows will live together at nearby universities; Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich., the California State University in Los Angeles, Calif., Temple University in Philadelphia, Penn., and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz.

All students placed abroad will live with host families, with the exception of fellows in Madrid, who will live in an

apartment and share meals at a children’s shelter, she noted.

First-year Isaac Lasko explained that he took a gap year in South America before coming to Tufts this year and benefited from the experience.

“After the gap year, I feel like I have so much more context. I have a much broader perspective on what goes on in the world — [I have] so many more ideas about what I want to do in life and so much more inspiration for where I want to be in 10 years,” he said.

Nierenberg said that she hopes the program will continue to expand.

“There are many people who would like to see it grow,” she said. “We would love to see it grow.”

Boxes in dorms encourage students to donate socks SOCKS

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well as Liz Hartford, Reslife’s programming coordinator.

Hartford said that since Tufts does not permit door-to-door solicitation on campus, they would instead set up donation boxes in dorm laundry rooms and at Reslife events such as weekly hall snacks in dorms.

The role of LCS in the initiative, Stern explained, is to be the link between Hillel and Reslife and to oversee the campaign. Stern credited the other two organizations for providing much of the legwork for organizing the collection of sock donations on campus.

Hartford said that she is enthusiastic about the program and its ability to bring together various campus communities.

“Becca and Gemma are excellent people to work with,” she said.

Stern contacted Leibowitz soon after Lichtman brought the idea to Tufts, in order to start organizing donations and the logistics of collecting socks on campus. As an involved member of Hillel, Leibowitz, who is also a Features writer for the Daily, said she had already introduced sock donation boxes at Hillel for the High Holidays earlier this semester, because these holidays bring many Tufts students to Hillel.

“The baskets are almost full,” she said.

Hillel and Reslife will donate the socks collected after Dec. 1 to various Medford and Somerville homeless shelters with help from the Somerville Homeless Coalition.

Lichtman said she sees Knock Knock

Give a Sock as “trick or treating meets changing the world.” She emphasized that what makes this campaign special is that it adds a social component to giving, with a small commitment leading to a large payoff.

Lichtman added that she hopes that Knock Knock Give a Sock will be implemented in the same manner on college campuses on an annual basis.

The efforts of Reslife and Hillel will help Lichtman work toward her goal of seeing 10,000 pairs of socks donated in the fall semester. Because apparel company Planet Sox has pledged to match Knock Knock Give a Sock for every pair of socks it collects, Lichtman is hoping that in total, the campaign will be able to donate 20,000 pairs of socks this winter to those in need.

Student groups seek connections at TCU-hosted dinner DINNER

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“[ We would like to] broaden our outreach, our presence, on the campus, so that we are no longer only exclusive to Muslims, but rather anyone that feels that they can benefit from our organi-

zation,” Shareef, a sophomore, said.

At the end of the dinner, which lasted almost two hours, Tesser said that he was pleased with the attendance and the interactions among students.

“From what I heard from people, it went over really well,” he said. “I think

that people generally were able to talk to other groups and get different insights that they maybe didn’t have before … and I think above all else it’s an opportunity for other groups on this campus to get a sense of how Senate can help them in different ways.”

Fraternities and sororities raise significant amounts for charity PHILANTHROPY

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the ball, so we have a visual representation of support for the hospital and we also have a monetary component of fundraising,” ZBT President Jason Brillon said.

This year, Get on the Ball coincided with Parents’ Weekend.

“I really like the event,” Brillon, a junior, said. “I think Tufts campus does as well. It’s fun to roll around a giant ball.

We can show the larger Tufts community, and parents and family of Tufts students, what we as ZBT are about.”

A few weeks ago, Theta Chi fraternity held the Zombie Run, another philanthropic event. According to senior Jake Lipson, president of Theta Chi, this year’s run was a spin-off of last year’s Prism Run, and was formed in the spirit of Halloween to get people out and running again. Volunteers painted the participants’ faces like zombies before they ran.

This year, about 70 participants showed up to run, according to Lipson. All proceeds from this event went to the Jimmy Fund of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a center for cancer research and treatment located in Boston.

“It was the perfect number to have people on a race course,” he said. “Everyone felt close together and finished roughly at the same time. We were initially worried that because it wasn’t the sheer volume of people that went to Thetathon, we were going to have less of a success. But I think we realized that a better barometer of success was the amount people who came who could have fun.”

Thetathon, the first major event for Tufts’ newest sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, raised $10,700 to donate to Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), an organization promoting court-appointed advocates for neglect-

ed or abused children. The idea for Thetathon came from an event called THON at Penn State, a school-wide 46-hour dance marathon that raises funds for research and treatment of pediatric cancer. Building on this idea, Theta organized a much shorter event that lasted four hours.

“The event went relatively smoothly,” Theta’s Chief Marketing Officer Christie Wang, who helped plan the event with the philanthropy chair, said. “For every bump along the road a lot of the girls in the chapter knew exactly what to do. It was the best-case scenario.”

Beyond raising money for CASA, Theta also sought to bring together the campus community for a fun, successful event.

“We wanted to target people who were non-Greek life,” Wang said. “We wanted to benefit not just them, but everyone …

What could we do to create something positive for this campus — not just for us, not just for Greek life, but for all of Tufts? What can we do that’s inclusive and not awkward for someone who’s not in Greek life to show up? A dance marathon seemed like a good solution – you show up, and you just dance.”

Junior Melissa Hwang, who attended Thetathon but is not affiliated with a sorority, considered the event a success.

“I liked Thetathon,” she said. “I enjoy music a lot, and having an event like that with four hours dedicated to music was very enjoyable.”

Though disappointed that the event ended early due to a fire alarm, Hwang said Thetathon was a success, and appealed to what the typical college-age student likes: food, music and good company.

Greek life organizations on campus have been willing to innovate, to expand on old ideas and bring in new ideas in order to attract more students. They tend to operate under the understanding that

students need incentives to give their time and money to philanthropy events.

“I think generally, events that offer the opportunity for students to do things are the ones that are more popular,” Brillon said. “For example, getting to write on a chalk board for [ZBT's] Tufts Gives Back, or dancing at Thetathon, or getting to run in the Tufts Zombie Run. When you have the opportunity to donate but also take part in something, then you’re also getting something out of it, so it’s not just strictly altruism. I mean, altruism is great, but it’s only going to get so many people.”

Sophomore Eliza Schreibman, who is not affiliated with Greek life but has attended several events hosted by Greek organizations, expressed the importance of drawing students to these events.

“I don’t think people really care about the philanthropies,” she said. “I don’t think people look it up and know where the money is actually going. People just want food and ice cream.”

Hwang has found the new events hosted by sororities and fraternities to be inclusive to both Greek and non-Greek members.

“It’s time we have some new things going on,” she said. “Tufts is big on tradition, which is great. However, it was very refreshing what Theta was trying to do with this event. People are attracted to these new ideas and events.”

Lipson said there’s a real initiative from the sororities and fraternities on campus to initiate new events that all students are excited to attend.

“We want to keep innovating,” he said.

“I think that’s a big draw for students that participate – it’s not just about putting in money and time for a good cause, it’s also about a really exciting experience. And there are a lot of fun experiences out there.

So we want to keep providing creative, fun, new experiences, rather than asking people to come back to the same thing.”

Arts & Living

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Theater Review

'The Children's Hour' is sorrowful, but well-executed

by Priyanka Dharampuriya

“The Children’s Hour,” a 1934 stage play written by Lillian Hellman, opened at the Balch Arena Theater at Tufts this weekend. The show is set largely at a fictional boarding school run by two young women and close friends, Karen Wright (Grace Whittom) and Martha Dobie (Kristin Reeves), who must deal with a disgruntled student, Mary Tilford (Anna Bornick), spreading rumors that the two are having a lesbian affair. Mary lies to her grandmother, Amelia (Pinar Yasar), and blackmails her classmates into supporting her claims, which leads to extreme social repercussions for Martha, Karen and Karen’s fiance, Joe (Ben Fuligni). The show portrays serious subject matter and comes with a trigger warning for homophobia and suicide.

In many ways, the play is unusual for what it is. Written in a time when any mention of homosexuality was banned from the Broadway stage, the Contributing Writer

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Characters Martha and Karen suffer when attacked by rumors of an “unnatural” relationship fly in the 1930s play, “The Children’s Hour.”

Album Review

TV on the Radio gracefully returns to indie rock world with latest release

by Dana Guth

Daily Editorial Board

TV on the Radio’s fifth studio album “Seeds” should have been a colossal letdown. It’s been eight years since the jangling, alt-synth rockers shook their punk Brooklyn stomping ground with 2006’s critical darling “Return to Cookie Mountain,” and three slow years since they released anything at all. Meanwhile, the band was forced to part ways with major label Interscope, fresh on the heels of bassist Gerard Smith losing his battle with lung cancer. This has practically handed “Seeds” every excuse to be a lazy wash-up of an album, a eulogy to

the band’s fizzling status as indie rock vanguards.

Instead, TV on the Radio (TVOTR) bundled up every would-be death sentence — changing band members, insane mainstream commercial success, an old studio so gentrified it’s been turned into a J. Crew — and used them as fuel for their sturdiest, most surprisingly genuine work to date. Released yesterday, “Seeds” is the superior follow-up to 2011’s lackluster “Nine Types of Light,” bursting with color against a backdrop of unshakable loss. The product is a perfect balance of earworm hooks, angsty sleaze and pathos for the dance floor. It is, quite simply, a beautiful new album.

“Seeds” pulls listeners right in with “Quartz,” an opening track that rumbles with layered chants and singer Tunde Adebimpe’s trademark gravelly crooning. His voice dripping with melodic, ethereal synth, Adebimpe beckons fans into the kind of waking dream conjured around a desert campfire or a trippedout hipster seance — a little bit sinister, a lot irresistible.

It’s an apt segue into TV on the Radio’s latest sonic phase, one characterized by catchy, radio-ready bits and pieces woven into a much darker, much shadier landscape. No doubt, see TVOTR, page 4

Arts News

Highs and lows: Woody Harrelson returns to SNL

by Drew Robertson Daily Editorial Board

Woody Harrelson appeared on Saturday Night Live (SNL) on Nov. 15 as a guest host, reminding audiences that this weekend marks, “almost to the day,” the 25th anniversary of his first time hosting the show in 1989, a significant moment in his career to be sure. According to Rolling Stone, Harrelson’s recent appearance also constituted a turning point for SNL — writer Zach Dionne accused the show of churning out disappointing episodes in recent weeks. Harrelson’s comfortable and irreverent presence came as a much-needed breath of fresh air.

“This is what Season 40 looks like when it’s on fire: an hour and a half of hilarious, half-insane sketches … and a host with range, grace and dead-on line delivery,” Dionne wrote.

But what, exactly, did Harrelson do to deserve such praise? Well, for one thing, he talked about drugs. Harrelson starts

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“Hunger Games” cast members joined Harrelson for an awkward sketch on SNL’s recent episode.

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Eva Batalla-Mann | How to Make a Mixtape

An Xmas message from Yoko

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ince my column last week regarding premature holiday merriment, I have been enjoying, albeit reluctantly, the onset of the holiday season — even if all that means is that I’ve been listening to Joni Mitchell’s “River” (1971) over and over again, with its surprisingly heartbreaking echo of “Jingle Bells” (1857). In my opinion, only a true genius could pull that off.

Unlike Joni Mitchell, whose song “River” is an original piece that endures throughout the entire year, many artists have made the sometimes questionable decision to make holiday albums. It’s like the obligatory “Ave Maria” (1853) cover or requisite album of traditional Mexican folk songs… or maybe only Linda Ronstadt did that with “Canciones De Mi Padre” (1987).

These Christmas albums include, but are most definitely not limited to, Bob Dylan’s “Christmas in the Heart” (2009), The Carpenters’ “Christmas Collection” (1996), “Christmas with Johnny Cash” (2003), “James Brown’s Funky Christmas” (1995), “A Very Arcade Xmas” (2002) by Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens’ “Songs for Christmas” (2006).

Some more bizarre but possibly thoughtprovoking albums include Bette Midler’s “Cool Yule” (2006) — by the way, watch her cover of TLC’s “Waterfalls” (1994) on Youtube — and Ru Paul’s 1997 album “Ho Ho Ho” (seriously). Others include “The Regis Philbin Christmas Album” (2005), the very rare Yoko Ono promotional CD, “An Xmas Message From Yoko 1991,” “Hello, I’m Shelley Duvall … Merry Christmas” (1991) and Boys II Men’s “Christmas Interpretations” (1993). These albums somehow get made, yet there remains a definite lack in the supply of Hanukkah and Kwanza music (however “Kwanza” does happen to be the name of Archie Shepp’s lesserknown album from 2006).

I think there is something about holiday music that makes people feel connected.

Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, watching the sailor-hat-wearing, eighty-year-old Rotary Club president lead Christmas carols at the local Christmas tree lighting in your hometown can be pretty special. My parents strongly encouraged me to attend these events growing up and not singing was never an option. This was difficult to work through as a preteen but now I have made peace with it.

Communal music experiences are now something I seek out. Over the summer I was part of a headphone choir in New York City. The piece of music that we sang, composed by Pete M. Wyer, was based on the Dylan Thomas poem “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” (1933). All the different parts (soprano, alto, etc.) started in various locations throughout the city. Then, with an app we all had downloaded to ensure we all started at the same time, we sang our parts independent of the other groups and walked along mapped out routes. Slowly, our paths began to converge and we all ended up singing together in Rockefeller Park overlooking the water on the most gorgeous June afternoon. People were staring and confused and a few distracted altos almost got hit by a car, but it was a powerful unifying experience.

I think that is why so many people (even Ru Paul and Yoko) are drawn to Christmas music.

In a way, it represents a sense of togetherness and something that you get to share with the people around you. So I think the point is this: sing together. If what you are singing is a Christmas song, I will suggest “Christmas Conga” (1998) by Cyndi Lauper. But it doesn’t really matter what you sing. A Time magazine article on singing and the brain addresses group singing, saying that “it takes something incredibly intimate, a sound that begins inside you, shares it with a roomful of people and it comes back as something even more thrilling: harmony.”

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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3Ps brings to life 1930s play, still relevant to Tufts students

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acclaim when it was first performed that objections were ignored so that it could continue. Visually, the set is somewhat sparse, with few changes; the play takes place entirely at the boarding school and Amelia’s home, two locations that are aesthetically quite similar. This setting, however, fits the nature of the show and the structure of Balch Arena, and the audience gets a complete, vibrant view of the characters even in limited dramatic space. The costuming is also aesthetically pleasant, creating a visually interesting picture that complements the set. Together, the set and costumes provide an engaging backdrop for the tumultuous tangle of falsehood, slander and questionable intentions that color the play.

The show is wisely split into three acts with two brief intermissions. While the first act gets off to a slow start, pacing and emotional intensity pick up in the second and third acts, in which there is little room for lightness or humor. However, this slow build works in the context of “The Children’s Hour.” The characters are portrayed with enough depth and complexity early on that the audience becomes invested in their stories.

The first act, in fact, contains most of the actual story development; many of the plot points that are discussed for the rest of the play happen in this section. Additionally, much of the “action” of the play — the court case to determine Karen’s and Martha’s guilt, for example — happens offstage, underscoring the premise that the play is really about the characters’ reactions to unfolding events, and not about the actual events themselves.

The second and third acts map how the men and women of “The Children’s Hour” deal with fear and guilt, requiring the actors to give a convincing portrayal of characters who never quite

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Pinar Yasar gives a stunning performance as Amelia Tilford in the 3Ps production of Lillian Hellman’s play. mean what they say. The quality of the acting is consistent across the cast in every scene of the play. Notable performances include Bortnick’s role as the somewhat shrieky, manipulative Mary and Yasar’s portrayal of grandmother Amelia, characters which are simultaneously unlikeable and painfully understandable. Yasar’s portrayal of the old woman is incredibly convincing and recognizable, and Mary’s energetic physical humor provides some of the show’s few moments of comic relief, including her faked heart attack near the beginning of the story. The other

half of the show’s comic relief comes from Phoebe Cavise’s performance as Lily Mortar, Martha’s freeloading, narcissistic thespian aunt. Additionally, the dynamic between Whittom and Reeves as Martha and Karen is interesting, though sometimes too awkward; one can believe that their relationship is a one-sided love affair, but not necessarily a friendship.

In many ways, the play is emotionally unsatisfying. Wronged characters do not get retribution and wrongdoers do not receive consequences. While “The Children’s Hour” was never going to be

a show with a happy ending, the play works well as an exploration of human character. Though the story is clearly dated — in the world of the play there are bus rides that cost a nickel, telegrams and apron-clad maids — and the content is much less controversial now than when it was first performed, it retains the edge and freshness that likely made it appear on Broadway in the first place. Hellman’s elegant, if slowpaced, script is in good hands with 3Ps, and the performance certainly deserved the enthusiastic applause it received at its conclusion.

TV on the Radio blends melancholy and melody in new release TVOTR

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Tunde Adebimpe’s gravelly tones create unique and distinctive flavor for TVOTR’s newest release.

this change has been directly influenced by the band’s literal move across the country to record their new album, shedding the weightier aggression of New York for the baked, sun-scorched, lush oasis of Los Angeles. “Seeds” is their newest experiment in mixology, its surreal fusion of light and dark working gorgeously throughout the next three tracks: “Careful You,” “Could You” and “Happy Idiot.”

If the middle of the album slumps into overly sentimental territory — and one could certainly argue that “Test Pilot” and “Love Stained” edge up to Coldplay-level self-pity — it does so with a crunchy pop earnestness that renders the band immune to too much cynicism. TVOTR has endured real loss and molded it into soulful phrases that the listener can feel rather than mock.

So when Adebimpe whines lines like “I was such a fool, thinking you’re the only one,” we can cut him some slack, shrug our shoulders and keep on dancing.

This is an impressive feat given the indie heroes’ trajectory from experimental wizards to producers of dreamier, more accessible and arguably

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out by reminiscing about the year 1989, and — naturally — making fun of Taylor Swift’s new album by the same name.

“With all due respect to Miss Swift, I think I know a little bit more about 1989 than she does … Even if the memories are a little fuzzy –’cause of the drugs,” Harrelson joked. To prove it, he then sang a parody of Swift’s music, assisted by Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence (because, just in case anyone needed a reminder, “Mockingjay, Part 1” will be hitting theaters this Friday).

While Harrelson looked comfortable and affable onstage, his “Hunger Games” costars seemed noticeably less so, particularly Jennifer Lawrence, who stood by awkwardly as joke after joke fizzled. A boring start to the evening, it might have been better to leave the Mockingjay at home for this one, especially considering the ill-concealed publicity stunt behind her inclusion.

Thankfully, the “Hunger Games” crew did not linger long, but were quickly replaced by the amazingly talented (not to mention manic) guest performer Kendrick Lamar, who drew far more cheers later in the episode.

For his part, it seemed that Harrelson could do no wrong, as audiences continued to crack up at sketch after well-executed sketch, despite the actor’s self-deprecating promise: “I’m telling you guys, I smoked a lot of herb before I came here tonight.” And the drug references did not end there. A later segment poked fun at the new NYPD policy under which citizens will no longer be arrested for carrying under 25 grams of marijuana.

The sketch features Harrelson, wearing a wig of blonde dreadlocks, as he leads a group of euphoric weed-lovers down the streets of New York, only to be crushed when they are told that yes, they can have their baggies, but no, they still cannot smoke in public.

watered-down music. With “Seeds,” the group grabs at undeniably stronger pop influences: the off-key catchiness of LCD Soundsystem sieved through a Sonic Youth blanket of fuzzy, atmospheric grooves. It’s more familiar than ever. Gone are the days of the clanging, aggressive, what-instrument-arethey-even-playing-right-now energy of TVOTR’s older albums.

But who’s complaining? TV on the Radio doesn’t need stadium-sized guitar bursts or an on-top-of-the-world mentality to hold their ground as a consistently great rock band. They have mastered a balance between funk, gloom and likeability, and their production is more polished than ever before.

“Seeds” might not be TV on the Radio’s most inventive work, or their most notable. But this time around more and more listeners are invited into their sexy, melodic murk. New fans have an easy access point while veterans experience a gentle transition as the classic band mourns and matures without letting anyone down.

After years of growing pains, TVOTR has gracefully smoothed out the jittery, jumbled sound of years past. Listeners can collectively sit back, take a breath and thank them for it.

Whether or not Harrelson meant it when he admitted to doing cocaine in the eighties, the drug references are evidently working for him now. This positive reception is especially notable at a time when, after the tragic deaths of Cory Montieth and Philip Seymour Hoffman (another “Hunger Games” actor), celebrity drug use just doesn’t feel funny.

Thankfully for SNL, though, the mixture of lighthearted jokes and snappy political commentary delivered by Harrelson seems to have skirted the darker side of this tricky subject, or at least won audiences over.

For better or worse, the controversial material seems to have garnered far more belly laughs than furrowed brows.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014 Editorial

Tufts 1+4 Program supports gap year alternatives

The Tufts administration has promoted the new Tufts 1+4 Bridge-Year Service Learning Program a great deal over the past year. The program allows incoming students to take a gap year through the Tisch College to work in locations ranging from Santa Catarina, Brazil to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for one year before their next four at Tufts.

Students engaged in the program will spend an entire year at their placements, learning about the cultures and sometimes the languages of the communities where they will live. This program is a material example of the Tisch College’s work to inform Tufts students’ lives as active citizens both at Tufts and around the world, welcome additions to the opportunities students have to learn and grow.

High school seniors with a yearning to see the world and make a change can find a rewarding experience by giving back to a community. At the same time, students who are unsure about jumping right into the career-building academic experience of a four year college can take that extra year to see and know a larger world. As a high school senior who may have never left his or her town before encountering life at college, engaging in a year’s worth of work in a very different place may provide a stepping stone between one phase of life and another.

Having a specific program that is marketed to incoming students may be important in its own right. Many students arguably do not even consider the prospect of taking a gap year. A student who could benefit from taking a

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gap year could be dissuaded from doing so because of the absence of a clear, well-reasoned option. By providing a menu of options, the university can offer uncertain students the tangible possibilities that make a gap year more conceivable.

Current undergraduate students will not be able to take advantage of this new program, but we as a student body would do well to inform each other and people considering Tufts of the possibilities included in the 1+4 Program.

Gap years deserve more attention as an option for those who are privileged enough to have them. Students should rightly be excited and a bit jealous of the incoming students who can access this option to broaden even further the experience of being and learning at Tufts.

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by Alice Wilder The Daily Tar Heel

Title IX is having a moment. The federal law, which prohibits gender-based discrimination in any school that receives federal funding, is no longer just thought of as the law that increased girls’ access to athletic programs.

Due in part to the work of studentbased organizations like Know Your IX, the law is now associated with campus responses to sexual assault cases.

Because of this great work by students and administrators, Title IX is everywhere at this university.

But all of these great developments tend to leave one big group of students out: high schoolers. Most high school students I talked to while writing this told me they had no idea Title IX applied to them.

I wish I’d known about Title IX during driver’s education. A boy from my school and I took turns driving in Charlotte, at dark, oftentimes in the rain. I gripped the wheel, terrified and listened to my partner and the teacher tell jokes about women drivers.

“Why don’t women drive?” my partner asked, chortling.

“Why?” responded the teacher.

“Because you don’t need a license to get from the bedroom to the kitchen.”

As if learning to drive in a big city isn’t hard enough.

I wish I’d known about Title IX when a teacher stopped my friend in the hallway to tell her she should wear a longer skirt because “teenage boys have thoughts.” Or when the same teacher joked that girls shouldn’t wear v-neck shirts to class because he’d end up looking down our shirts.

I wish I’d known about Title IX when my friend and I went to the principal and were told that in the future, female teachers would correct dress code violations.

No mention of the fact that she was never violating the dress code in the first place.

Today I found out from UNC administrators Christi Hurt and Howard Kallem that my school’s driver’s education program was covered under Title IX. It took almost five years for me to find out that I had an actual, legal right to demand my driving partner stop

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making jokes about making me dance on the pole of a stop sign. At the time, I knew something was wrong. I knew that I shouldn’t have felt so much fear in that car, but I didn’t tell anyone. I was afraid my teachers at school would laugh at me or treat me like I was wasting their time.

Title IX can make our schools safer spaces where students are free to learn, free from fear of discrimination or harassment.

The past several years have seen a flood of Title IX investigations across the country, but they’ve mainly been restricted to higher education. This isn’t because harassment and discrimination don’t occur in high school, but because many students don’t know how Title IX applies to them. Some organizations are doing work around this, most notably New York City-based organization Girls for Gender Equity, but more needs to be done.

High school is hard enough without harassment based on gender or sexuality.

Students need to know they can do something to stop it.

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recently purchased a soothing cucumber nighttime eye gel. You may ask why, but I am well aware of the fact that it is a completely useless purchase. I have recently discovered that I have a problem — yes, my name is Pooja Sivaraman and I am a CVS addict. At first I thought it was a harmless problem. I indulged a little in the gummy vitamin aisle and dabbled a little in the purchasing of different types of lip balm (they all have such different effects, I swear). But then it turned into somewhat of an infection. I purchased a hairbrush lined with a cotton towel that claimed to dry your hair 70 percent faster. I also bought spray that makes your nail polish dry faster, on-the-go breakfast in the form of a milkshake and three extra large bags of post-Halloween candy. But you guys have to admit, there’s a certain thrill that comes from walking down the CVS aisles and finding all sorts of new inventions that you’re pretty sure were “Sharktank” (2009-present) rejects. I recently discovered that this problem seemed to stretch to other places — Starbucks, for example. We all know the Starbucks snacks are really useless, but give me an enthusiastic barista and suggestive promotional nudges and you’ll have me buying all of their birthday cake lollipops.

So dear readers, if you have any advice for me on how I can get over this addiction, please let me know. It’s getting serious.

Dear NYSD, why does Kim Kardashian’s “Break the Internet” photo place so much emphasis on glazed donuts?

Pooja: So if you are an avid Google doc user like Rebecca and I, you’ll know that for a brief period on Monday night, Google docs stopped working, at least for us. After a couple minutes of frustration I realized that it was true — Kim Kardashian’s butt had literally broken the Internet and the dawn of the apocalypse now awaits. But in terms of glazed donuts, I was actually just having a conversation about how her photoshopped butt really resembles a Krispy Kreme donut. My apologies if that comparison has ruined Krispy Kreme donuts for you. To answer your question, my guess is that it’s probably because she is very overoiled. However, I liked glazed donuts and would prefer to not associate them with Kim’s butt. She’s already broken the internet, let’s not let her break our appetites.

Dear NYSD, does Obama mean family?

Rebecca: As I surveyed the forum for a question to answer, I never imagined that I would stumble upon one as special as this. While I am unsure of any meaning of Obama aside from the last name of the President, I think I understand where this mix-up came from. As an eight-yearold, “Lilo and Stitch” (2002) was one of my favorite films. It was one of the first films that taught me a foreign language.

I learned that “family” in the language of native Hawaiians is “ohana,” descended from the Maori word “whanau.” It’s an easy thing to confuse, Obama and ohana, and I cannot hold it against anyone, mostly because I recently learned that there is a “p” in the word “raspberries.”

Dear NYSD, will cheaters always be cheaters?

Rebecca: Growing up, my mom always taught me life lessons through expressions that usually dealt with animals or some sort of creature. After telling me she thought I was pretty, she would always follow the compliment with, “Every mother cockroach thinks her baby cockroach is beautiful. Have you ever seen a beautiful cockroach?” Though this seems harsh, her point was definitely delivered, so I am going to answer this question with a piece of my mom’s advice. A zebra never changes its stripes: A cheater will most likely always be a cheater. While there are exceptions, we cannot be optimistic to a fault. We can only expect the worst but hope for the best.

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.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

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Inclusion means undocumented students too: an open letter to the Tufts community

by Tufts United for Immigrant Justice Dear Tufts, We are writing to you as Tufts United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ), a student group dedicated to supporting immigrant rights on campus, in Massachusetts and nationally. As Tufts students, one of our most important and immediate goals is to push for equal opportunity on our campus for undocumented students.

As we write to you, we think about the high school senior we met this year, who cannot accept the prestigious scholarship she was recently awarded for high scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) because she is not a citizen.

Tufts is her dream school, but because Tufts does not provide clear information or resources about its admissions policies for undocumented students, she is unsure if she can even apply.

We think about an undocumented friend of ours who graduated with high honors from Boston Latin in 2012. After being accepted to Tufts as an international student, he had to decline his acceptance because he was not granted any financial aid. Two years later, he is still not enrolled in college due to exorbitant tuition rates and no financial support. He has had to put his education on hold as he fights for immigrant justice. Had he been granted the needbased financial aid award he deserves, he would be graduating from Tufts with the class of 2016.

We think about current and past undocumented Tufts students, who study here with little support or resources from the Tufts community. A current Tufts student who enrolled as undocumented shared with us, “I think the hardest thing about being at Tufts is feeling like no one understands what you have gone through, the sacrifices that you and your family had to make for your education [...] I am realizing that most people do not understand or care about the privilege of being able to receive financial aid and how it has affected my emotional health more than I ever thought it would.”

This past Sunday, the TCU Senate passed a resolution calling for more inclusive admissions and financial aid policies for undocumented students. The Senators adopted this resolution unanimously and without debate, a nearly unprecedented move. The resolution challenges current Tufts admissions and financial aid policies, which define undocumented students as international students. Not only is this an inaccurate representation of the experiences of many undocumented students, but it eliminates the possibility of Tufts acting to meet these students’ demonstrated need through financial aid awards. This effectively prohibits many, or most, undocumented students from attending our university.

Our “Resolution to Establish Equal Opportunity for Undocumented

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Students” urges the administration to consider undocumented students as domestic rather than international students, and to grant them the same need-based financial aid that domestic students are awarded.

We are proud and excited about the swift passage of this resolution, but at the same time, the resolution by itself changes nothing and needs to be followed up with persistent and determined action by students to push our administration to recognize the ways that Tufts is failing to meet the needs of undocumented students.

Colleges and universities across the country including Dartmouth, Notre Dame, University of Chicago, Harvard, Whitman and more explicitly state that they welcome undocumented students’ applications, admit and enroll students regardless of citizenship and use non-governmental resources to grant undocumented students financial support. In light of Tufts’ reputation as a national leader in establishing progressive policies, we expect our administration to prioritize these reforms as many of our peer universities have already done.

Certain members of the Tufts administration have proposed considering students with deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) status under the category of domestic students. However, there are many barriers preventing individuals from applying for DACA status, including a lack of clear information, a $465 application fee and the justified fear of providing personal information to federal agents. As of March 2013, only 46.7 percent of Massachusetts DACA applicants had been approved. Furthermore, given its strict eligibility requirements, not all undocumented students even qualify for DACA. Although we appreciate this proposal, this step alone is problematic. Much more comprehensive policy changes are necessary to be truly inclusive of undocumented students.

This process will span multiple semesters, and we are asking you, the Tufts community, to act in solidarity with us.

Commit to making Tufts a DREAM school in the following ways.

Tufts students, we ask that you:

Acknowledge citizenship as a privilege.

Consider the history of U.S. international intervention and imperialism that has shaped migration paths.

Ask yourself and others to respect, learn and appreciate immigrant narratives.

And finally, show the administration that you support the recently passed TCU Senate resolution by signing our online petition, which can be found on the Tufts United for Immigrant Justice Facebook page.

Tufts Admissions Office, we ask that you: Establish an explicit, uniform admissions policy for reviewing undocumented student applications as domestic applicants.

Present the policy online for prospective and enrolled students, parents, staff and faculty to read.

Show the AS&E Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, Dean Glaser, Provost Harris and President Monaco that you support our efforts and believe that these demands are in line with Tufts’ admissions values.

Tufts Financial Aid Office, we ask that you: Follow a need-based financial aid policy in determining financial aid awards for undocumented students.

Determine undocumented students’ financial aid packages on the same basis of those of fellow domestic students.

Tufts Administration, we ask that you: Recognize that this issue is complex and intersectional.

Pursue strategies to encourage undocumented students to apply to and attend Tufts. These strategies must include but are not limited to: application fee waivers, support for families filing financial aid documents and access to scholarships that students can apply to outside of Tufts.

Support undocumented students during and after their time at Tufts.

We urge the Tufts community to acknowledge that the needs of undocumented students applying to and attending Tufts are not being met. As a community, we must mobilize to establish equal opportunity for undocumented students. We need your support as we push our university to live up to its values of inclusion and equal access. Join us in a conscious and deliberate effort to make our campus one that is decidedly pro-immigrant.

In solidarity, United for Immigrant Justice Weekly open meetings: Tuesdays 9 p.m. in Eaton 203

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Tufts United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ) can be reached at tuftsuij@gmail.com.

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Senior forward Maxime Hoppenot works to dribble past his opponent in the team’s 2-1 victory over Dickinson in the first round of the NCAA Div. III tournament on Nov. 15.

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ning challenges, beating guys on the ball and pressuring hard surmounted Dickinson’s attempts to play.”

Despite both teams playing an up-tempo game, neither side could get on the board.

Play only picked up further until the Jumbos were able to draw first blood in the 60th minute with a goal from junior midfielder Connor Brown.

“The first goal was the epitome of our strategy against [Dickinson], and that was exploiting their outside backs,” Santos said.

“I received the ball with time and space from our midfield and I was lucky enough to pick out Connor Brown, who made a spectacular run across the six-yard box, who capitalized on a header.”

The Jumbos scarcely had time to celebrate, though; the Red Devils responded with a goal only four minutes later. Junior midfielder Isaac Pitkow got a shot off only a few feet away from sophomore keeper Scott Greenwood. Greenwood made the stop, but the rebound went straight to junior forward Alfred Hylton-Dei, who put away the easy opportunity.

However, Tufts was able to turn to its simplest yet most successful formula for a quick strike late in the game: get the ball to Santos. In the 79th minute, senior center back Sam Williams did just that. His clearance from Tufts’ own third traveled past the Dickinson back line, and Santos, who was tracking the ball the whole way, found himself in open space from 30 yards out. After gathering the ball and beating the remaining defenders, Santos finished the play by sending a finesse

shot into the right half of the goal, giving Tufts the lead for good.

The win sent Tufts to the second round against the sectional host, Wheaton College, a team coming off a convincing 5-0 win over Daniel Webster in the first round. Entering the game, Wheaton was tied for sixth in Div. III with a whopping 67 goals, but Tufts was prepared to shut down the high-flying Wheaton offense.

“We did make an emphasis to defend really well and really intensely against Wheaton,” coach Josh Shapiro said. “We think they’re a very good playing team, with a very, very dangerous attack. If all 11 of us weren’t bought into that side, we were going to struggle.”

Coming from the NESCAC, where aggressive, physical defense is paramount, Tufts gave Wheaton more than it could handle.

Tufts constantly pressured the Wheaton back line and made it impossible for Wheaton to build up any cohesive attack for most of the game. This effectively eliminated any opportunity for Wheaton to get the ball to its dangerous forwards in a position to score.

“We tried to start the game off flying and trying to pin Wheaton in their own half,” Santos said. “We knew coming in that we had the ability and energy to expose their back four, and so we felt a responsibility to break them down from the beginning.”

The Jumbos’ aggressive gameplay paid immediate dividends, as Williams scored his fourth goal of the season only four minutes into the game. Williams was able to send a cross from junior left back Monil Patel into the lower left corner of the goal to give Tufts a crucial early lead.

The Jumbos, who let up only one goal over the weekend, also benefited significantly

from having its back line — which consisted of Williams and senior Peter Lee-Kramer at the two center back positions, Patel at left back and freshman Matt Zinner at right back — at full force for the first time in several games.

“When our first group is together, we just don’t give up a lot of goals,” Shapiro said. “They weren’t together at Bowdoin, they weren’t together at Conn. College, and those are the last two games where you’ve given up any number of actual goals. When our back four is together and healthy, we’re going to be very hard to break down.”

Despite the excellent defending, Greenwood was still forced to make several difficult saves as Wheaton turned up the heat, including a point-blank stop in the 75th minute and another impressive save only one minute later from a ball that was redirected after hitting a defender.

Finally in the 80th minute, the Jumbos were able to ice the game thanks to a goal from junior midfielder Jason Kayne. The play developed from a free kick by Patel that found Brown in the corner of the box. Brown sent the ball back to Kayne in the center of the box, who took a settling touch before sending the ball into the left corner of the net to put his team up 2-0.

Tufts will now spend the week preparing for Muhlenberg College, whom it will play on Saturday after making the nearly six-hour drive to Pennsylvania. While the competition will only continue to ramp up for the Jumbos as they move deeper into the tournament, they are confident and prepared to make the most of their last chance to continue playing this fall.

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defense was repeatedly gashed almost every time it took the field.

Tom Brady’s performance was as unimpressive as it had been in almost two months.

His two first-half interceptions had Patriots fans worried, but they proved irrelevant.

Brady played much better in the second half, and the team managed to gain 248 yards on a whopping 41 carries against Indy’s Swiss cheese run defense, proving that the Patriots can be a great team when Tom Brady doesn’t have a great day.

The Patriots’ dispatching of the Colts showcases two teams on opposite sides of the playoff picture. The Colts will likely win their division and host a first-round playoff game. However, they don’t have the look of anything resembling a true contender. In a rush to anoint third-year star Luck as a pre-

mier passer, the fans and media also seem to have rushed to laud this Colts team — but as the Colts showed Sunday night, they need lots of work.

On the other hand, the Patriots cemented their position amongst the NFL elite. So far, they have been the best team in football.

At this point, there is a decent sense of the best teams in the league. In the AFC, the team currently playing the best football outside of New England is the one that most recently defeated the Patriots: the Chiefs.

They sit at 7-3 on a five-game win streak, and have to their name a blowout victory against the Pats earlier in the season. The Broncos have an incredible amount of talent and, in Peyton Manning, maybe the greatest quarterback of all time, but they were knocked around when they visited the Patriots in Week 9 and lost on Sunday to the far-from-great Rams, falling to 7-3.

The NFC is home to the team with the best record in football, the Arizona Cardinals.

Their 9-1 record thus far is a function largely of their aggressive defense, efficient offense and great coaching, seeing as backup Drew Stanton was able to lead them to a victory over the Lions this week.

But the team in the NFC playing the best football right now is the Packers, who have won six of their last seven. In each of their last two contests, the Packers put up more than 50 points. Green Bay seems like it’s shaping up to be the counterpart to New England in the NFC. Like the Patriots, everything seems to have clicked into place for the Packers.

A lot can happen between now and the end of the regular season in December, but the playoff picture is starting to come into focus. The Patriots, as they always seem to be, are right in the middle of the conversation.

Right now, they stand atop the masses.

ot stove season is underway, and the Boston Red Sox are reportedly all-in on third baseman Pablo Sandoval.

He was even in town on Monday to meet with his prospective suitors. Gulp.

Landing Sandoval is likely going to take a six-year commitment worth upwards of $100 million. That price tag is too high for a player as flawed as Sandoval, who does not have an ounce of speed, plays mediocre defense and does not hit well enough to compensate for those deficiencies.

First off, Sandoval’s power is merely adequate for a corner infielder, as his .170 career Isolated Power (ISO) is nothing special and he has had a sub-.140 ISO in each of the past two seasons (the league average is typically around .140). Need tangible proof for his lack of power? Look no further than his middling home run totals: Sandoval has failed to top 16 home runs in four of his past five seasons and has never eclipsed 25. He doesn’t offer the game-changing power Boston needs to supplement aging sluggers David Ortiz and Mike Napoli. Consequently, Sandoval doesn’t drive in or score many runs. Obviously runs and RBI’s are team-dependent stats and he’s played on some pretty weak offenses in San Francisco, but long balls are the most efficient way of scoring runs. Since Sandoval doesn’t swat many, he doesn’t drive himself or his teammates in very often.

It’s also troubling that Sandoval is already a poor defender who can’t run and hasn’t even attempted a stolen base since 2012. His plate discipline is atrocious, as his 48.1 percent chase rate was easily the highest in baseball last year and he worked just 33 walks. Furthermore, his career already appears to be in decline, as his on-base and slugging percentages have fallen every year since 2011. At 28, he should still be in his prime, but three straight seasons of sagging production is a worrisome trend that can’t be ignored. He missed 99 games between 2011 and 2012 combined, then missed 21 more in 2013. Weight has always been an issue for him so unless he slims down considerably (and keeps the weight off), his decline will only accelerate. Thicker players like Sandoval tend to fade quickly because their skill set is already so limited, as opposed to the more athletic types whose all-around abilities age slowly and gracefully.

The Red Sox have a clear hole to fill at third base, as Will Middlebrooks is incompetent and Brock Holt’s breakout was likely a fluke, but there are more appealing alternatives that won’t cost nearly as much. Chase Headley’s a good bounceback candidate who should be affordable coming off a down year, and Adrian Beltre might be available via trade. The Sox could move their shortstop, Xander Bogaerts, back to the hot corner, where he played a good amount last summer after Stephen Drew returned. They don’t have to splurge on Sandoval to upgrade their hot corner situation.

I like that Boston is aggressively pursuing big-name free agents, but Sandoval is the wrong guy. Throw that money at an ace rather than pissing it away on Sandoval, a solid player but by no means a star. If you’re going to spend superstar money, you better get a superstar in return, and a corner infielder who’s averaged 14 homers, 72 RBI and a .280/.335/.424 line over the past three years isn’t close to one.

Sandoval is a good hitter, but that’s all he is, and he probably won’t remain one for much longer. Boston should spend its money elsewhere and let Sandoval be someone else’s mistake.

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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Jumbos advance to Sweet 16

by Jake Indursky Daily Editorial Board

The men’s soccer team lives to see another weekend after winning its first and second round

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Sophomore forward Matt Pugh carries the puck behind the net during the team’s 7-2 loss to Trinity on Nov. 16.

Tufts opens season with two losses

by Wil Glavin

Daily Editorial Board

This weekend, the Tufts hockey team opened its season with two home games,

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first on Saturday against Wesleyan (which finished with a record of 11-12-2 last year) and then against Trinity (21-5) on Sunday. The Jumbos lost to both teams twice last season.

In the second match of the weekend, Tufts faced off against Trinity. Tufts sophomore forward Conal Lynch committed a tripping penalty two minutes into the game, which led to a quick 1-0 lead for the Bantams courtesy of sophomore forward Sean Orlando’s power-play goal.

“We need to make sure we do a better job focusing on our first shift of every period,” senior tri-captain Andrew White told the Daily in an email. “We need to win the first five minutes of every period which will do a good job of preventing our opposition from gaining momentum in the beginning of a period.”

Junior defender Brian Ouellette evened the score with a power-play goal of his own 10 minutes later. Tufts took a whopping 14 shots in the period, but Ouellette was the only player able to find twine against the staunch goalkeeping of junior Nathaniel Heilbron.

After junior forward Elie Vered scored with 1:21 remaining in the first period, the Bantams led 2-1 entering the locker room.

Sophomore defenseman Sean Kavanagh, who had two assists against Wesleyan, tied the game up with his first goal of the season in the final min-

ute of the second period.

After a scoreless second period for Trinity, the team exploded in the third. Firstyear forward Tyler Whitney led the way, netting two of his team’s five goals in the final period, giving the Bantams a convincing 7-2 victory.

The day before, Tufts began its season at home against Wesleyan.

“I think that Wesleyan is a very skilled team with plenty of experience in net and Trinity, in my opinion, has the best line in Div. III hockey,” coach Brian Murphy said.

First-year defender Marty Rubin opened up the scoring for the Cardinals and senior forward Jay Matthews followed suit eight and a half minutes into the first period.

Tufts responded, however, when White netted his first goal of the season late in the opening period after Wesleyan goalie Dawson Sprigings went behind the net to retrieve a loose puck but was unable to control it. This allowed White to cut the deficit to one. Despite possessing the puck for much of the latter half of the first period, the Jumbos went into the locker room still down by a goal.

In the second, Matthews was able to score on the Wesleyan’s first power play of the game to put his team back up by two. The Jumbos, on the other hand, had numerous power play opportunities of their own in the period due to the Cardinals’ four minor penalties, but were unable to capitalize.

“We were pretty tense and tight on the power play,” White said. “We needed to simplify our game and focus on getting pucks to the net as opposed to playing on the perimeter and settling for low quality shots. We need to establish our presence in the offensive zone and not rush our decision making. I am confident our power play will be successful in the coming weeks.”

Early in the third period, Wesleyan’s sophomore forward James Kline had a break-

away along the right side with just Tufts senior tri-captain defender Blake Edwards to beat. Despite Edwards’ best efforts to poke check the puck away, Kline deked left and fired the puck past first-year goalie Ryan McConnell, opening the margin to 4-1 and leaving the Jumbos grasping at straws for the rest of the game.

Tufts was able to get one back, however, as senior forward Tyler Voigt added his first goal of the season later in the period assisted by Kavanagh and first-year forward Chad Goldberg. It was the final goal the Jumbos could muster against Sprigings and the Cardinal’s defense.

The Wesleyan goalie was nearly perfect, saving 31 of 33 Tufts shots in the team’s 5-2 victory. Although the Jumbos lost by three, they still outshot their opponents in every period and also dominated the faceoffs, winning 43 of 71.

“I think there are several positives to take out of the Wesleyan game,” White said.

“First, I thought we outplayed them in all three periods. We outshot them 33-23 and had the majority of the chances. Despite falling behind early, we continued to battle and clawed our way back into the game. I think we showed a lot of resiliency and heart as we continuously battled back from goal deficits.”

While the final scores from the opening weekend were not what Tufts was anticipating, the team is still confident moving forward and saw a lot of key contributions from its underclassmen. “[Our underclassmen] will be sprinkled throughout the lineup [this season],” Murphy said. “We don’t distinguish between classes. I know a lot of our underclassmen can make us better and they will certainly [continue gaining] experience [this year].”

Looking ahead, the 0-2-0 Tufts squad will search for its first win of the season as it faces off against 0-1-1 Middlebury and 1-0-1 Williams on the road this weekend.

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games in the NCAA Div. III tournament. On Saturday, Tufts took down Dickinson College by a score of 2-1. The team followed up that victory with a convincing 2-0 win over sectional host Wheaton College on Sunday, making it one of only 16 remaining teams in the tournament.

Coming off a disappointing first round exit to the Conn. College Camels in the NESCAC tournament,

the Jumbos made sure that they did not make the same mistakes in the NCAA tournament.

“We knew that we had started off flat against Connecticut College,” senior midfielder Gus Santos told the Daily in an email. “Although we pressed with extreme energy in the second half [against Conn. College] it was too late to pull a victory. Our mindset was to take this same energy and extend it from the beginning of the first half until the end of the second half against the next opponent. By refusing to let our foot off the pedal we are able to open teams up and play through them.”

On Saturday, Tufts certainly looked like it had learned from its mistakes against Conn. College. The Jumbos came out aggressive and confident to start the game, keeping the ball moving and getting off five shots within the first 27 minutes.

“When playing in the first round I believe our team capitalized on this idea of being ‘relentless,’” Santos said. “In this game in particular, the level of energy from our players winsee MEN’S SOCCER, page 7

Inside the NFL

Patriots dispatch Colts, stand alone atop AFC

by Joshua Slavin Daily Staff Writer

Andrew Luck is a very good quarterback on a good Colts football team. At some point, probably soon, he will be a great quarterback on a great Colts team. That time, however, has not yet come.

Indianapolis was coming off a bye week and sitting atop the AFC South entering its Week 11 matchup with New England. The Patriots, too, just had their week off and a five-game win streak of their own to defend.

The Colts entered Sunday night’s primetime matchup with the best offense in football. They had scored the most points in the league and Luck had passed for more yards than any quarterback in the league.

The Patriots, at 7-2 and atop the AFC standings, came into the contest

widely regarded as the best team in the league. For Luck and his Colts, this game marked an opportunity, at home, to assert themselves as a true contender, both in the conference and for the Super Bowl.

Instead, they fell flat, and in a big way. The Patriots ran the ball down their opponents’ throats for four quarters all the way to a 42-20 victory. The win came largely due to the performance of former practice squad running back Jonas Gray, who finished with 201 rushing yards and four touchdowns, the latter of which is a team regularseason record.

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Rookie running back Jonas Gray rushed for 201 yards and four TD’s in the Patriots’ 42-20 victory over the Colts on Nov. 16.