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ResLife film competition to resume next semester

Tufts avoids worst of Hurricane Sandy

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Following a brief hiatus, the Office of Residential Life and Learning’s (ResLife) Shorts Film Competition will return for the third time this spring due to the appointment of a new contest administrator.

Programming Coordinator of ResLife Elizabeth Hartford was selected to take over and revamp the competition starting in April, Director of ResLife Yolanda King said.

The search process lasted for several months after former Programming Coordinator Keiko Zoll left the university in the middle of the 20112012 academic year.

According to King, former Assistant Professor of English Radiclani Clytus initiated the competition in 2010 so that students could capture where they live and what their community means to them through film. Students could enter the contest individually or in a group, with the film no longer than two minutes in length and conforming to a theme put forth by ResLife. ResLife staff members judged the contest, which culminated in a showcase of all the entries. Cash prizes sponsored by Tufts’ Toupin-Bolwell Fund for the Arts were given out to the top three films.

Hartford said that she has been looking at how the competition has run previously in order to decide what changes need to be made.

“The competition will run more quickly this year, start to finish between January and March, as opposed to happening throughout the first semester,” she said. “We will continue to maintain cash-level prizes as we have done in the past.” by

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The competition ran smoothly in its second year, according to Luke Boelitz (LA ’12), who submitted a video about the Tufts Quidditch Team’s experience at the Quidditch World Cup last year in response to the “Pride in Our Community” theme.

When Zoll left, however, communication between ResLife and those who had entered the contest ceased.

King said that Zoll’s absence meant the contest could not be organized effectively, as there were no judges or prizes to be distributed for winning submissions. ResLife immediately began its search for a new competition administrator, but it was not until late in the 2012 spring semester that Hartford was chosen.

“By the time I was hired, it was too late,” Hartford said.

Many students had already been working on or had submitted their short films, King said.

“We only had a few submissions at the time Zoll left,” she said. “We explained to those students who had submitted that the competition could not happen, sent them movie passes and encouraged them to resubmit this year.”

Senior Lynne Koester, a film studies minor who won the contest in its inaugural year and helped Boelitz edit his submission for last year’s competition, said she was frustrated with ResLife’s lack of communication with contestants early on.

“People who submitted videos never heard anything, which can be extremely discouraging,” she said.

Koester added, however, that she received a $500 cash prize and a Flip camera for her first-place submission. see RESLIFE, page 2

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Tufts’ campuses and surrounding areas suffered only minor damage from Hurricane Sandy on Monday, in part thanks to abated storm conditions and advance preparedness of administrators.

Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin Maguire said that in emergency situations such as severe weather storms, an Emergency Operations Center is formed by representatives from various campus offices, includingPublicandEnvironmental Safety, Tufts University Police Department, Public Relations, the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs and Facilities Services.

From Saturday evening through late Monday night, Maguire and other members of this emergency operations team monitored the storm via updates from the National Weather Service and Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, using these sources to assess the safety conditions on all three of Tufts’ campuses.

Before re-opening the university after its closure on Monday, the group primarily assessed wind levels, which had been gusting at 60 to 70 miles per hour in the heart of the storm on Monday afternoon but had substantially subsided to around 25 miles per hour by the evening, Maguire said.

“Facilities was on campus all

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The effects of Hurricane Sandy swept through campus this Monday, resulting in widespread tree damage and minor power outages. night long moving branches, cleaning up trees, making sure the campus was ready for Tuesday morning,” Maguire said. “Tuesday morning, the police assessed the campus and determined that we could open safely.”

“There were only minor flooding problems, rain wasn’t the issue,” Maguire added. “We were very lucky in that we didn’t lose much power. No one was hurt, no one was injured. There was wind damage to trees that were older, but by and large, there wasn’t much damage.”

In total there were approximately 10 significant cases of fallen trees and branches on the

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At least 10 cases of fallen trees were reported on the Medford/Somerville campus this week.

Medford/Somerville campus, such as a large branch blocking access to the Dowling Hall footbridge, Maguire said.

On the Medford/Somerville campus, power was unaffected except in five smaller buildings: Crafts House, the Hillside House, the Africana Center, the Department of Art and Art History at 11 Talbot Ave. and the Latino Center and Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center.

Students residing in any of these buildings were placed in alternative housing until power was restored, Vice President of Operations Linda Snyder said.

“We were extraordinarily fortunate, when you look at how devastating the storm was in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, lower Manhattan,” Snyder said.

The Grafton campus was the hardest hit by the storm, losing power for two days, according to Snyder.

Maguire said that the adverse impact of electricity loss was minimized thanks to several generators, and classes at Grafton were able to resume on Tuesday. There was no damage to the Boston campus, according to Maguire.

Snyder said preparation before see HURRICANE, page 2

Women’s Center 40th anniversary to include symposium by

Melissa Wang

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The Women’s Center will celebrate its 40th anniversary this weekend with an archival exhibit, dinner, alumni brunch and symposium.

The celebration will chronicle the history of the Women’s Center since its establishment in 1972, address the current state of affairs on campus and discuss the future of the center. The commemoration is co-sponsored by the Association of Tufts Alumnae, according to Director of the Women’s Center Steph Gauchel.

“My hope with the 40th anniversary is to highlight the past and current successes of the Women’s Center with attention to gender justice issues on campus in particular and to think about what the future of feminism and gender justice will look like,” she said.

The festivities will begin tomorrow at 5 p.m. with an archival display at the Slater

Concourse Gallery titled “An Archive of Feminism: The 40th Anniversary of the Tufts Women’s Center.” The exhibition will feature photos, flyers, posters, letters and newspaper clippings from past Women’s Center events and initiatives, according to Staff Assistant at the Women’s Center Nino Testa.

“It’s cool to see a moment in Tufts history where things came and went, how things like that still happen today, and what our connection to them is,” Testa said.

The exhibit will be set up in a timeline format, starting in 1972 and ending in 2012, Testa said.

“It’s a really good visual way for guests to see how the Women’s Center came about ... and just sort of look for consistent themes across the years and see how the issues [have] changed in the past 40 years,” Gauchel said.

Following the unveiling of the exhibit, the 40th Anniversary Dinner at the Alumnae Lounge will feature speeches from Gauchel,

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former Director of the Women’s Center Peggy Barrett, Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Students John Barker and Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman.

Gauchel said that during her presentation she will focus on her own relationship with feminism, as well as the women’s rights issues that confront college campuses today.

“I’m hoping that I’ll be able to frame a bit of what the Women’s Center work has been since I’ve been here in 2008 and then talk about what the current mission of the center is,” Gauchel said.

Barrett, who served as the center’s director for 27 years, said she plans to discuss how the Women’s Center has changed since her time as director, explaining that women do not have as much reproductive freedom as they did back in the 1980s.

“I think the Women’s Center has changed because the conditions for women have changed,” she said. “Women’s rights have

decreased over these past years. I think it really is great to be celebrating the Women’s Center these days because I think we need it more than ever.”

On Sunday morning, alumni at the center’s brunch will address how they have continued their commitment to various gender and social justice issues post-graduation.

Students who attend the brunch will also have the opportunity to ask questions about life after college and network with alumni, according to Gauchel.

The two-day celebration will conclude with the Third Annual Women’s Center Symposium on Gender and Culture: Feminism 2052 at 1:30 p.m. in the Alumnae Lounge, Gauchel said.

During the symposium, faculty, graduate and undergraduate students will discuss the future of feminism in the next 40 years.

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Sandy impact remains minimal HURRICANE

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the storm helped to limit damage, as Facilities in particular made sure many tree limbs were in solid shape and manholes were cleaned out. She said she heard of incidents on campus where students helped staff over the course of the storm.

For example, where low-level flooding was beginning over a blocked manhole, a student helped quickly prevent further flooding by poking the clogged holes with his ski poles.

“It was an extraordinarily cooperative set of events,” Snyder said. “There was a really nice atmosphere, and I think that it speaks greatly of Tufts.”

In off-campus residencies, some upperclassmen faced prolonged power outages.

Micaela Bell, a senior residing in Medford, said that although her house lost electricity for over 48 hours, she and her housemates took it in stride.

“Certain things were difficult ... not having Internet, not being able to charge things,” Bell said. “But in perspective, it wasn’t that bad. With a little candlelight, we could manage.”

She added that it was also helpful to have access to power on campus and at friends’ houses.

In a press release, the City of Somerville said that over 1,600 power outages and 200 fallen or uprooted trees were reported by Tuesday. Somerville Director of Communications Tom Champion said the city had to keep schools closed on both Monday and Tuesday due to damages incurred by the hurricane, such as significant roof damage at Somerville High School.

Champion said that electricity was restored in Somerville by early Wednesday, but clean-up efforts around the city are ongoing.

“We still have a lot of work to do where we have a lot of significant damage, particularly to the schools and parks, as well as street signs and other street damage,” Champion told the Daily. “We’re going to be at it for a while.”

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The Women’s Center kicks off its 40th anniversary festivities tomorrow with an archival exhibit documenting the history of the center.

Symposium to discuss feminism WOMEN’S CENTER continued from page 1

Duchin will deliver the keynote address, titled “The Sexual Politics of Genius: Math, Art, Crime and War, Past and Future.”

In previous years, the symposium has been held on the Friday of the last week of classes before winter break in December, but Gauchel and the other Women’s Center

staff members decided to hold the symposium with the other 40th anniversary events, Gauchel said.

“We thought it would be really great to group it in with the 40th anniversary celebration so people get a chance to look through the exhibit and see that it ends with the actual symposium and how it fits into the center’s whole history,” Testa said.

ResLife revives film competition with minor changes RESLIFE

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She believes that her participation in the competition encouraged her to pursue film at Tufts.

“I entered the competition my freshman year when I was still figuring out what I wanted to do academically,” she said. “I was taking an Introduction to Film class at the time and thought the contest would give

me the opportunity to try out different forms of filming.”

Boelitz said he is glad to hear that the competition will be revived.

“As originally conceived, it is a wonderful idea,” he said. “There’s a clear emphasis that you don’t need a fancy camera to do well in the competition.

I think it will continue to be a fun contest for Tufts students interested in film making.”

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Tufts Mock Trial opens fall season with victories

Tufts Mock Trial (TMT) is off to a strong start this semester, with a second-place finish at Pennsylvania State University’s Happy Valley Invitational two weeks ago.

The results bode well for the group’s 2012-2013 season, Nick Teleky, TMT officer of external affairs and public relations, said.

Teleky, who was also a team captain at the Penn State tournament, said their overall record of 6-2-0 at Columbia University’s Big Apple Invitational last month demonstrates the strength of TMT. “The fact that we did as well as we did is really a reflection of the incredible [freshman] talent,” Teleky, a sophomore, said.

The second-place ranking at Penn State meant more than just the team’s skill, TMT Co-President Lindsey Wright said.

In the case of a tie, which is common in mock trial, the strength of a team’s opponents is also taken into consideration when deciding a winner, she explained. TMT received the second-highest opponent-strength ranking at Penn State, for example, contributing to their second-place finish.

“We faced some really strong competition,” Wright, a senior, said.

The team saw further success over the weekend when two members received awards for their performance, Teleky said.

Senior Alex Gottfried won the Outstanding Attorney Award at Columbia, and sophomore Mario Feola received a unanimous Outstanding Witness Award as all judges ranked him on the top of their lists.

“It’s usually difficult to win those awards,” Teleky said. “If you manage to get one, that means you’re doing a really good job.”

This was the first year that TMT attended the Penn State tournament. Attending this invitational helped the team understand the different ways Mid-Atlantic schools handle particular elements of mock trial, Wright said.

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“A lot of them have really big characters,” she said. “We all get the same case, but every case is very different.”

In general, Wright said it was helpful to have funding to attend a more distant tournament this year.

“This is the farthest that we’ve traveled for an invitational tournament,” she said.

“We were really excited to be able to expand where we compete.”

Teleky said that TMT is hoping to win an award at Brandeis University this weekend for the Justice Louis Brandeis Invitational Tournament meet, to which TMT will send two teams.

The fall season is a way to get the Tufts name out and scope out other teams in advance of more competitive play heading towards the American Mock Trial Association National Championship Tournament in the spring, according to Wright.

“We get to try out all these crazy different things and see how they work,” she said.

For a program that didn’t exist 10 years ago, to sit in the top 20 in the nation is a sign of its potential for growth, according to Teleky.

“I’m really excited about this year,” Wright said. “We have a lot of really talented new members.”

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Tufts Mock Trial posted wins at Pennsylvania State University’s Happy Valley Invitational and Columbia University’s Big Apple Invitational last month and is gearing up for Nationals in the spring.

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Tufts students can cross-register for classes at Boston College, Boston University and Brandeis University.

Beyond Tufts: Students pursue course options at other Boston-area schools by

Charlotte Gilliland Contributing Writer

With registration just around the corner, students find themselves sifting through the lengthy course listing to create a schedule that best fits their interests. Despite Tufts’ many departments and interdisciplinary programs, some students find deficiencies in the course options here and choose to crossregister in classes at other universities to fill the void.

Tufts allows for cross-registration at three schools within the Boston Consortium — Boston College (BC), Boston University (BU) and Brandeis University — as well as the New England Conservatory of Music. Students also have the opportunity to enroll in courses at Tufts’ graduate schools, including the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Friedman School of Nutrition and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.

Senior Alexa Stevens is enrolled in a course in Farsi at Boston University, for example.

“Farsi isn’t offered at Tufts,” she said.

“Even though Tufts itself doesn’t have every single resource that every single student would want, we’re close enough and we have enough access to other resources. It’s really nice that we’re surrounded by so many different academic institutions.”

According to Stevens, taking a course at another university is a significant time commitment.

“I go four times a week — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday,” she said.

“In all, it’s a three-hour experience [each time].”

Because Tufts’ tuition covers the cost of taking a course at another school within the Boston Consortium, Stevens did not have to pay any extra for her Farsi course. Despite this convenience, taking courses at other universities can pose logistical challenges.

“The only really hard thing is transportation,” Stevens said. “It has to be something you really want to do. If not, it’s really out of your way.”

Stevens expressed that studying at a different school after three years at Tufts

is refreshing, even if it’s only for a single course each semester.

“It’s nice to get off the Tufts campus,” she said. “It’s nice to get into a more urban environment.”

Students may take courses outside of Tufts for reasons other than personal interest. The Harvard Extension School offers continuing education courses both on campus and online, and Tufts students will often choose to take courses like organic chemistry there because it is allegedly easier than at Tufts, Stevens said.

“I have heard that those classes are far easier,” Stevens said. “Tufts is one of the hardest pre-med schools to be at [so] kids do often go to Harvard ... for orgo.”

Tuition, though, remains a determining factor.

“A lot of people do that over the summer,” Stevens said, “They’re taught by the Extension School, so you don’t have to apply to be a Harvard student.”

Tufts also offers five-year bachelor dual degree programs at the School of Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) and the New England Conservatory (NEC). These two programs offer the opportunity to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Sciences from Tufts, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts or Bachelor of Music. Students in the dual degree program split their curricula between two schools, taking heavy course loads each semester and commuting back and forth almost daily.

“You get here, and it’s so much more than you realize. I [take] seven classes right now,” junior William Russack, who is in his third year as a SMFA dual degree student, said.

The considerable course requirements and the difficulty in commuting have led to a low retention rate in the dual degree program, with many students dropping the SMFA degree and studying only at Tufts. Russack cited several reasons as to why there has been a decrease in his SMFA dual degree class size.

“There [were] only thirteen of us [and] two of them have already dropped out,” Russack said, “Paying [for] a fifth year is a financial issue. The other issue is credits. People just can’t finish it.”

The dual degree program is challenging, mentally and socially, requiring a certain drive to complete the program, according to Russack.

“If you slip up, you’re not going to finish,” he said.

Natasha Jessen-Petersen, who is in her fifth year of the dual degree program at the SMFA, discussed her motivation for completing it.

“I was passionate [enough] about my art to actually want to commit and dedicate myself to it,” she said. “I was able to motivate myself to be there twice a week, to do the commute.”

Jessen-Petersen also experienced a high rate of withdrawal from her dual degree class, with less than half staying in the program through their fifth year.

According to Jessen-Petersen, of the 16 who began in the program, only seven have remained.

Many students experience difficulty in finding guidance in navigating their dual degree, which could contribute to the low retention rate.

“I think that’s the reason a lot of people drop out,” Jessen-Petersen said, “They feel that they didn’t get the assistance they needed to properly fulfill the two majors.”

Despite the difficulty in completing the dual degree program, both Russack and Jessen-Petersen expressed pride in what they’re doing.

“This education is to teach me how to think more creatively and approach problems differently,” Russack said. “I hope that in these five years, I have something unique.”

While the dual degree program is very different from simply taking a course outside of Tufts, it still presents the same challenges — the commute, different priorities and the disconnect experienced by studying at a school other than Tufts.

Some may be disappointed with Tufts for having to go elsewhere to take courses they’re interested in, but there is a tradeoff.

“We get the smaller campus,” Stevens said. “We could be as big as BU and offer every single course and every single language, but we would sacrifice the intimacy of a small school.”

eaders should be advised: trigger warning for victims and survivors of sexual assault.

This column follows a month of media coverage of collegiate sexual assault issues. It was sparked by an Amherst student’s account of sexual assault on her campus that was followed by mistreatment and mismanagement by the Amherst administration. It also comes in the wake of many stories that rose up to corroborate this story, some of them from right at home — right here at Tufts. Last week’s “Take Back the Night” event highlighted the tragic consistency of sexual assault on college campuses, again including our own. This issue weighs heavy on my mind. When one out of three women and one out of eight men are sexually assaulted at one time in their life, I hesitate to calculate the number of students on our very own campus who are included in this statistic.

I want to take this time to have a conversation, hopefully one that continues beyond this column, about how rape is defined in college and why I think it is a problem. This is not about national politics, and I’m not about to name all the elected officials who have referenced truly abhorrent definitions of rape in the last year, although that is certainly a conversation worth having. On the contrary, this conversation is about our campus and the campuses like and around ours. The campuses where sexual assault happens every day — at parties, in dorms, in common rooms, in bathrooms, on quads in the middle of the night.

When discussing sexual assault on college campuses, I urge the reader to wonder whether perpetrators actually consider the incident in question as rape or whether they thought it was just one drunken night when things got out of hand. One intimate interaction with your significant other that didn’t go the way you planned. One night where you were blackout, and because you don’t remember anything, it doesn’t count. The fact is, we shouldn’t just be talking about the prevalence of rape on college campuses, but also how few perpetrators are actually defining these interactions as rape. I cringe to think about how many perpetrators are walking around on this campus that don’t even know that what they have committed is sexual assault. Who think that the only way to define rape is the violent assault of a woman in a parking lot by a total stranger, where brute force is used.

You might be telling yourself that the point I’m making is silly, that of course you know that rape has wide-reaching definitions. But don’t stop reading, because this is directed at you. You may know these things about rape, but there are countless students around you who do not. Countless students who are haunted by their experience without accessing the resources identified with sexual assault, and countless students who go along with their time at Tufts painfully unaware that what they did was violating in any way. How can we prevent them from doing it again, if they are painfully unaware that what they did was abhorrent in the first place?

This isn’t a conversation about the resources we have at Tufts or how well they work — although that is another one certainly one worth having. It’s a conversation about how we cannot begin to even use these resources, or hope to make our policies effective, if we cannot have a serious discourse with the student body about what rape means. It’s a conversation that we must have inside the classroom and out. And we cannot be afraid to have it. If we cannot create this discourse, we will be haunted by it in more ways than one.

Alexa Petersen is a senior majoring in political science and peace and justice studies. She can be reached at Alexa.Petersen@tufts.edu.

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Movie Review

‘Paranormal Activity 4’ answers no questions by

Akshita Vaidyanathan Contributing Writer

Fans of the “Paranormal Activity” series seeking an original or scary movie, or wanting to know what happened to the

Paranormal Activity 4 Starring Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively Directed by Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

series’ characters Hunter (William Juan Prieto) and Katie (Katie Featherson) will be disappointed by “Paranormal Activity 4.”

We all remember the series’ first installment, “Paranormal Activity” (2007), and how it was a welcome change in the horror movies genre. The pace of the found-footage film slowly built tension until its shocking climax. Director Oren Peli focused on making his film eerie and spine-chilling, rather than barefacedly gory like many horror films. A sequel followed in the wake of the film’s amazing success, this time directed by Tod Williams. “Paranormal Activity 2” (2010) showed viewers a much larger back-story revolving around Micah (Micah Sloat) and Katie, and introduced viewers to Katie’s sister Kristi (Sprague Grayden) and her family. The movie was an appreciated addition to the franchise.

However, after the second film, the story became much more convoluted and the franchise began to falter.

“Paranormal Activity 4,” directed

by Henry Joost, includes several horror movie tropes that bring nothing new to the franchise and make the picture dull.

In particular, the repeated appearance of a cat — which is completely irrelevant to the film’s plot — is used to create frequent false scares. The audience quickly becomes immune.

The insipid relationship between Alex (Kathryn Newton) and Ben (Matt Shively)

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Katie (Katie Featherston) of the ‘Paranormal’ series knows that she is haunted by an ancient demon, but she does not know why. is also something viewers have seen time and again. Alex’s endearing relationship with her adorable adopted brother Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp) is one of the only aspects of the film that viewers care about at all. Nevertheless, their peculiar

neighbor Robbie (Brady Allen), Robbie’s imaginary friend and the repetitive unexplained “noises” are such archetypal horror movie tropes that they make the film series, which was originally unique, feel hackneyed.

Additionally, the first two films left a number of questions unanswered. Many viewers presumably walked into the third and fourth installments hoping for see PARANORMAL, page 6

Theater Review

Heartfelt ‘The Chosen’ will get audiences thinking by

Alison Graham

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“A word is worth one coin.

Silence is worth two.” So begins “The Chosen,” a production that,

The Chosen Written by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok Directed by Daniel Gidron At the Lyric Stage through Nov. 17 Tickets $25-$61

despite the above line, deserves much more than one word. At the Lyric Stage Company in Boston, Daniel Gidron directs this 1999 play that Chaim Potok and Aaron Posner faithfully adapted from Potok’s 1967 novel.

“The Chosen” is a thoughtprovoking and spiritually satisfying performance that takes its audience back to 1944 Brooklyn, to the heart of religiously charged Williamsburg and to the hearts of two sons and their fathers. The two Jewish teenagers, Reuven Malter (Zachary Eisenstat) and Danny Saunders (Luke Murtha), live five blocks apart, but are a world away from each other: they differ starkly in appearance, demeanor, lifestyle and religion.

But while Danny is Hasidic and Reuven is “just” Jewish, the two soon become friends. They learn to speak to each other, but more importantly, they learn to listen. Their initial emotional

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“The Chosen” examines two different sides of Judaism. connection is a powerful surprise, and as it drives their personal growth over the next four years, the audience experiences

their respective conflicts and revelations firsthand.

The play is an expression of two juxtaposed worlds, and on

the stage, the charms of each are always visible.

Historically accurate costumes highlight the contrasting

sets of characters. Danny’s traditional, black Hasidic suit and the earlocks dangling in ringlets from his yarmulke are easily distinguishable from Reuven’s less-conservative polo shirt. The set is consistent for the entirety of the play, with each fatherson pair claiming a desk and chair on opposite corners of the diamond-shaped stage. A Romanesque window shape in the background alludes to the tablet of Moses.

The authority associated with fatherhood — in respect to both religion and household — is a constant source of conflict within and between the families.

The stage is well-suited for such developments as the two main points of focus are directly opposite one another. Though a minimalist setting, the stage does not need much to complement the constantly moving dialogue; the characters themselves, through expressive body language and genuine speech, are the source of the plot’s invigoration and development.

The script is intellectual and deeply spiritual, but the frequent Talmud references are coupled with the arrogant attitude and clever quips typical of defiant teenagers. The actors very believably convey their characters and their humor, which allows even the least religiously aware viewer to appreciate the Jewish references throughout see CHOSEN, page 6

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the show. Through the narration of the adult Reuven — who speaks the opening line — the audience is privy to not only the present but also to Reuven’s emotional, yet refreshingly witty commentary on his younger years.

“Our little Sunday game was now a full-fledged holy war,” he remarks, referring to the baseball game between the rival synagogues’ teams. This is the same place where Danny and Reuven have their first “pleasant meeting” when Danny hits Reuven’s eye with his baseball bat. It takes much more than a simple apology for the young men to

see eye-to-eye, but by the end of their discussion the two are intrigued rather than threatened by one another. With passionate recollection, adult Reuven affirms this revelatory moment.

After his eye heals, he remembers, “Everything seemed sharpened and pulsing with life.” That sentiment will describe the audience’s sensory experience, as well. “The Chosen” is full of emotionally charged and intellectually stimulating scenes. Danny and Reuven challenge expectations, their fathers and each other.

As Danny and Reuven learn, so does the audience, through both the characters and the wisdom of Freud, Franklin

Delano Roosevelt and the Talmud. The script is primarily dialogue between friends and sets of fathers and sons, but it is far from monotonous. Dramatic changes in lighting and musical interludes — whether they are the soft strum of a harp or a cacophonous rhythm — highlight moments of tense frustration and surreal revelation.

Many individual instances are especially memorable, and something different will likely resonate with every audience member, but everyone will witness the extraordinary story of two young men coming of age, as a portrait of duty versus choice is intimately unveiled over the course of the show.

answers. Unfortunately, most will leave the theater even more confused than when they walked in. We are told halfway through the first film that the “activity” referred to in the film’s name is being caused by an ancient demon. At the end of the fourth film, we know absolutely nothing more. Instead, we are left sitting in the audience pondering why Robbie is a character in the film, questioning who the strange elderly women are, wondering what this new family has to with the original family and, of course, wondering what universe Kristi’s kid Hunter is in.

Joost fails to answer any of the questions that were posed in the third installment of the film. He excessively puzzles his viewers, which causes the film to fail as a scary horror movie.

Compared to horror movies like “Insidious” (2010) and “Sinister” (2012), “Paranormal Activity 4” falls completely flat. The director takes no risks that could make the movie original and thus the storyline is much like that in the three other films: slow and uneventful for the first hour and twenty minutes, then crammed with a million different “scary” things in the last ten minutes of the film. The movie would have been much more successful if it had challenged itself and resolved the questions posed in the other films. It seems like this franchise is being milked for all its worth, and in the fourth film there is nothing left to squeeze out of the story. By now, viewers have been left with a sour taste in their mouths with regard to the “Paranormal” series.

Like the producers of the Saw and Final Destination franchises, the producers of “Paranormal Activity” seem to be adding to the pile of unanswered questions in their films just so they have an excuse to make more movies and more profit. At this rate, however, “Paranormal Activity” will have lost its remaining fans by the time the series finally ends.

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On Thursday, October 25, Tufts Stand-Up Comedy Collective hosted a show titled “Autumn Jokes.” We did not attend this event, and we are not writing to discuss the content of the show whatsoever. Rather, we are writing to address the flyer the group used to advertise its event around campus.

“DISSATISFIED WITH THE AMOUNT OF HATE SPEECH HAPPENING AT TUFTS?” the title asked, and after giving the factual information of the show, it ended by urging students to come, “TO SEE BIAS INCIDENTS IN THE MAKING.” After almost two and a half years at Tufts, we feel that the campus climate in regard to bias incidents, and the system of reporting them, is one dominated by criticism, satirical attention and jokes. This problematic reputation trivializes the process of paying attention to and reporting bias incidents that inflict insult, pain and harm to various groups and individuals in our community. According to the website of Students Promoting Equality, Awareness, and Compassion (SPEAC), a person should report a bias incident “if they or other members of the community have, in their opinion, been targeted on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression. Such incidents may but do not always include the use of slurs, derogatory language or negative images. Incidents may include chalking, graffiti, images, written messages, the defacement or alteration of signs, posters, verbal epithets and violent acts.” To make light of these situations is to invalidate the hurtful, dangerous, and traumatizing experiences of those whom bias incidents have targeted and continue to target in specific, unique, and truly detrimental ways.

The effect of denigrating bias incidents and their importance at Tufts is the further silencing and stigmatization of those people who are targeted by bias hate incidents and/or who would otherwise report bias incidents.

This attitude toward bias incidents increases the campus’ cultural accep-

tance of hate speech and actions and thereby increases the amount of hateful speech and actions on campus.

There are two extremely important pieces to consider here. First, consider the cumulative effect that these seemingly “small” or “meaningless” words, jokes, or actions have on the communities at which they are targeted. While the impact might appear “small” to the perpetrator, certainly it is not “small” or “meaningless” if you are the target. The intentionality behind the words is irrelevant here.

(For example, when a perpetrator says, “I didn’t mean to cause any hurt or harm,” or “It was just a joke.”) The importance is on how they are perceived, and on the harm they inflict, regardless of the intent. It is impossible to know how many times in one’s lifetime, in that year, or even in that day a targeted person has heard hateful language used about their race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, ability, class, sexual orientation, gender expression and/or gender identity.

Secondly, an environment in which it is culturally acceptable to target and harass people based on these social categories represents a slippery slope.

It builds the foundation for it being culturally acceptable to commit acts of violence toward and threaten the lives of individuals and groups. Tufts is not unbeknownst to this reality, lest we forget that in 2009, a white Tufts student spat on, yelled racial slurs at, and threatened to kill a group of Korean American students.

This institution supposedly guarantees the safety and protection of the members in this academic community. However, the impact of this guarantee is, in fact, asymmetrical.

The “institution” does not only refer to the administration; we mean every member of the community — fellow students, faculty and staff. Feeling safe at this school means being able to walk around campus without fearing the differential treatment, demeaning comments, or negative associations attributed to your body based on the social categories we have mentioned.

Further, experiencing personal safety refers to possessing a sense of unques-

tioned membership to this university — the feeling of belonging. Many students at this school do not have this experience, and flyers such as the one posted by the Stand-Up Comedy Collective propose and reinforce the idea that those students should not expect to feel safe. It is dangerous that what is necessary for these students’ safety on this campus can become trivialized as a joke.

An anticipatory response to the inevitable counter-argument of free speech: saying racist and sexist words toward Smith volleyball players, as an example, is not free speech; it’s hate speech, and as a community we have to stop using the guise of free speech to condone cruelty.

An anticipatory response to the inevitable counter-argument that we are naive, social justice-y, liberal arts students who don’t understand how the “real world” works: the faults of the world outside of Tufts do not grant permission for faults within Tufts.

The magnitude of these life and death realities, whereby some live in safety while others do not, pervades every aspect of our society. And this reality is exactly why it is imperative that we work towards making our current environment safer for every student and member of the Tufts community, so that we can carry on the work outside of these boundaries.

A flier for a comedy show that trivializes bias and hate crimes on campus endorses hate speech by making light of it, by rendering it meaningless. As a community, all of us need to change the perception of bias incidents at Tufts by taking them more seriously and removing the stigma associated with reporting them. But this is not the end goal. We strive for safety and belonging. We strive for a community in which hate speech and action does not exist, and we implore our fellow students and faculty to work towards this ideal.

Luke Abdow is a junior majoring in American studies. He can be reached at Lucas.Abdow@tufts.edu. Julia Rodgers is a junior majoring in women’s studies. She can be reached at Julia.Rodgers@tufts.edu.

s the sun finally cut through a still cloudy sky on Tuesday morning, Tufts let out a collective groan.

Part relief — “YES, Tisch is open!”

— and part dismay — “ but that weird acorn head is still here.” It was the sigh of a student body that had avoided the worst part of the storm — even if it did mean returning to classes.

I had kept in frequent contact with my parents at home in New York throughout the night, and my dad gave me the classic example of a jaded Manhattanite: “You know, [Mayor] Bloomberg told people to stay inside; six foot pieces of plywood are flying off scaffolding, but people don’t really care. There are some people out walking their dogs.”

But just a few miles downtown, it was — and is — a very different story. Lower Manhattan, where the New York Stock (NYSE) and Mercantile (NYMEX) Exchanges have their physical floors and the NASDAQ is headquartered, was hit with thirteen foot high storm surges and flooded tunnels, streets, and businesses.

Both the NYSE and the NASDAQ halted even their electronic systems until Wednesday morning; according to the NYSE, this is the first longest storm-related closure since the Blizzard of 1888, and I’m sure we all remember how rough that bad boy was.

Though these closures alone kept trillions of dollars from changing hands at the beginning of this week, the real economic hit will come from the tremendous amount of property damage the storm inflicted.

Flooding and water damage will likely be the main culprit, while fires in Queens and Far Rockaway, New York destroyed over 80 homes. Wind gusts close to 100 miles per hour took down trees and power lines across several states, and more than 3.75 million Americans are still without power — less than half the number afflicted power-less early in the week. The shore of New Jersey (yes , that one) was simply decimated, with some evacuees being told they shouldn’t even think about coming back for another two weeks.

Current estimates put the damage at over $50 billion with insurers covering less than half that figure. One Wells Fargo analyst predicts Sandy will take 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points from the country’s fourth quarter GDP growth.

So how does the country pay for the path of destruction Sandy left behind? Though FEMA and local governments will foot most of the bill, the financial system does have hedges against such disasters.

The most basic hedge would be your average homeowner’s insurance. Important life lesson for all you Jumbos who don’t own a home (or car) just yet: get insurance. By paying a monthly rate, an insurance company (say, State Farm) will take on the risk that a tree crashes through your roof If a tree ever does find its way into your living room — and your policy covers it — State Farm will cover the repairs. Until then, they will simply pocket the money. On the more exotic side are instruments like weather derivatives. On the CME (which owns the NYMEX) you can buy “hurricane options.” These assets, often used by farmers, estimate the number of hurricanes that will occur over a given time period, and pay out the difference from the actual number.

Similarly, ski resorts can buy snow options to hedge against warm winters. Basically, if nature goes bad, you can recoup some of your losses.

Though the worst part of the storm is over, Sandy’s death toll grew to 88 yesterday (and, sadly, it continues to rise), and it forever changed parts of the eastern coastline. Thanks to the leadership and resilience of our nation’s governments, help is getting where it needs to go. Stay safe out there, Jumbos!

Walt Laws-MacDonald is a sophomore majoring in quantitative economics. He can be reached at Walt.Laws_MacDonald@tufts.edu.

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success with the stability and chemistry that comes with playing together over a long season.

“We’re much more committed to our identity as a team and what we’ve wanted to achieve,” Ramos-Meyer said. “We have really started to trust each other when we play and realize we are capable of so much more. Our chemistry has really been great all season, but the longer we’ve been together, we’ve come to know more about each other and that’s really helped us a lot.”

However, chemistry alone does not count for the combined seven goals the Jumbos have scored in their last three games. Sophomore forward Maxime Hoppenot also credits head coach Josh Shapiro’s recently installed 4-4-2 formation, designed to accommodate late changes to the roster.

“Instead of turning teams over in our half or in the middle with the 4-5-1, we have a better chance of turning teams over in their half,” Hoppenot said. “We can just connect on three or four passes and then be on goal.”

The game on Saturday will test the progress and improvement that the Jumbos have made this season, as they look to prove how far they have come since that October loss to the Ephs. Also, they will be cheered on by a number of Tufts fans who plan to take a bus to Williamstown and attempt to mute some of

Williams’ typical home field advantage, with team parents sponsoring the trip.

Fan support aside, one notable factor in Saturday’s game will be the absence of reigning NESCAC Rookie of the Year Gus Santos.

The sophomore forward has missed the past three games due to illness, leaving the Jumbos without their second-leading goal scorer.

But in Santos’ absence, numerous players have stepped up. Junior midfielder Scott Blumenthal has shouldered a large part of the scoring burden, netting three goals off the bench in the Jumbos’ past two games.

“Gus is obviously somebody you want to have on the field,” Hoppenot said. “But I think everyone is confident in all 27 people on the team, and different players have done what they’ve had to.”

Santos’ absence does hinder Tufts’ ability to convert opportunities up front, something that has plagued the team all year long.

Despite the changes the Jumbos have made over the course of the year, the winner of any soccer game is always whoever can put the ball in the back of the net.

“We need to make sure that we’re imposing ourselves on the game and that we’re taking our chances a little better than we did the last time we played them,” Hoppenot said. “We need all 11 players on the field to play as one.”

All of the preparation both teams have made could be for nothing, if the players

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works for the Jumbos and benefits them in close matchups where opponents are unable to target one or two players to shut down.

“I think it’s important to have a balanced team,” Cannon said.

“If a team tries to mark one or two players, everyone else can make a contribution and we all do our parts. It makes it close to impossible to shut us down for the whole game.”

On Oct. 24, Tufts consistently controlled the pace of the game, relentlessly employing one of head coach Tina McDavitt’s go-to mottos. Time and time again, the Jumbos proved that their first line of defense is their own offense.

Assisted by seniors and sophomores alike, a freshman, a junior and a senior co-captain all found the scoreboard in the victory.

Meanwhile, Tufts held junior forward Katie Riley, who is among the NESCAC’s top goal-scorers and assisters, without a single shot on goal, and finished a 13 to 4 advantage in shots.

“Our offense has really stepped up as our first line of defense this year,” sophomore goalkeeper Brianna Keenan said. “They have done a great job of putting pressure on the other team’s defense which forces them to make mistakes and allows for us to turn those mistakes into scoring opportunities.”

If the Polar Bears do thwart the Jumbos’ offense and break through the defense, Tufts can rest easy in the fact that Keenan has had a sensational rookie season, combining with junior Katie Stuntz to post six shutouts.

Keenan’s .811 save percentage is third in the NESCAC and the sophomore has proved her fearlessness in coming off her line and out of the cage to shut down

one-on-ones.

“Our defense does an excellent job of busting their butts and recovering back to break up the play of a girl on a breakaway,” Keenan said. “There have been very few times this year that I’ve had to leave the cage to stop one.

I love to come out and take girls on one-on-one but it’s obviously something we try to avoid in game situations. I’ve always been a more aggressive goalkeeper, so coming out of the cage to stop the ball has always come naturally.”

Tomorrow’s matchup presents Tufts with an interesting yet familiar predicament. Just two seasons ago, the Jumbos defeated the Polar bears in a tight 1-0 regular season finale, before dropping the NESCAC championship game to Bowdoin a week later.

“It’s a different season and a different team this time,” Cannon said. “Playing Bowdoin so recently helped us learn what works and what doesn’t work for us when we match up with them, and we’re going to adapt accordingly on Saturday.”

Each team comes in with its own motivations and its sights set on Sunday’s championship game. A large prize is at stake: NCAA seeding looms in the near future. But while the Polar Bears await Saturday hoping that history repeats itself, the Jumbos hope that their hard work this season will cause a reversal of fortunes.

“We know that they are going to come out in full force after we beat them during the regular season,” Keenan said. “The first game is behind us and means nothing for the game on Saturday. We just have to stay focused on the task at hand and play as hard as we can, knowing that we are very capable of beating them if we just play our game.”

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Junior midfielder Scott Blumenthal will look to continue his strong scoring form in the NESCAC semifinals against Williams on Saturday. can’t conquer the one thing nobody can predict: nerves.

“I don’t know exactly how nerves will come into the picture,” Hoppenot said.

“Hopefully we can learn from our quarterfinal loss last year. I think we’re more mentally

prepared than we were last year, and I think that will show.”

Both physical and mental aspects of the game will come into play Saturday, and for Tufts to get a win, they will need to be ready to go in more ways than one.

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two regular season losses against defending NESCACchampion Bowdoin.

“They are one of our biggest rivals, they have been for the last couple years,” senior tri-captain libero Natalie Bruck said. “We want to go after them and get some revenge. We are excited for this game.”

The Jumbos will need to regain some of the resilience they showed earlier in the season if they hope to reaffirm their place among the conference’s elite. Tufts unraveled a bit in its final two games, failing to salvage a win after falling behind in both and succumbing to the relentless offenses of both the Ephs and Panthers.

With plenty of experience against Bowdoin already this season, Tufts will be looking to take a tactical approach to the quarterfinal match.

The teams played two very different games — one a 3-2 thriller, the other a 3-0 blowout, but Tufts lost both.

The Jumbos know that the key in the playoff matchup will be coming out strong from the first serve.

“With the past two games, we kind of didn’t know how we were going to show up,” senior tri-captain Kiersten Ellefsen said. “This time we will be more decisive about being tough from the start.

We have to actively commit to showing up strong. We’re starting this week already going strong, that’s our mindset going into it.”

Historically, Tufts volleyball has found a large degree of success in the NESCAC tour nament.

Though last year’s semifi-

nal defeat to a lower-seeded Middlebury team was a disappointment, Tufts has made it to conference final four times since 2004 second only to Williams over that period. However, they are 0-4 in those appearances and haven’t won the tournament since 1996.

And even with a relatively low seed in the tournament, there is a lot of room to push into the upper eschelon of the conference. The NESCAC is wide open, with a three-way tie in first between Conn.

College, who Tufts defeated in September, Middlebury and Bowdoin. Williams also sits dangerously as the No. 5 seed.

“The NESCAC has been really more up in the air than any other year I’ve been here,” Ellefsen said. “Going into last weekend, it was neck and neck. We could’ve been the second seed if we had won all the games, or the sixth seed, depending how it ended up.”

“There have been a lot of cross overs, a majority of the conference is dead even,” Bruck added. “It will come down to who will show up and refuse to lose, it will be interesting.

Anyone can win.”

There is no better time for the Jumbos to break through and finally beat a team they have struggled against all year than right now. An explosive, decisive win on Friday night against Bowdoin would propel the Jumbos into the semifinals with a spark of momentum and a confidence that they can compete with any team in the conference in thetournament.

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Civetti’s Wildcat formation, which provides a change of pace that allows Trause to go slash towards the offensive line with a number of different options.

“Zack [Trause has] done a really nice job of it,” Civetti said. “I think it adds a nice dimension and it will continue to be a part of our offense.”

On defense, the Jumbos will have their hands full with the Mules’ own mobile quarterback in freshman Justin Ciero, who has thrown for just over 175 yards and run for nearly 35 yards per game in his first season. He will spearhead the Colby offense along with running back Spencer Gopaul, and a Tufts unit that has struggled to stop the run will have to make sure that the same issues do not plague them again.

But success in all of these phases of the game will be for nothing if the Jumbos step on their own feet as they have previously this season. They’ve thrown twelve interceptions, lost five fumbles and had a number of costly penalties that slowed them down in crucial moments. Particularly against a team like the Mules that does not force a lot of takeaways, the Jumbos simply cannot afford to give the ball up multiple times on Saturday.

“If we expect to win, we have to take care of the ball,” Dodds said.

And make no mistake, they do expect to win. Perhaps the single most impressive aspect of Civetti’s team is their unwavering belief in the system and the program.

They’re 0-6, coming off of a dispiriting defeat, but the resolve in Civetti’s players never seems to fade. This week, that’s exactly what they need.

“We’ve just got to go out there and do it,” Dodds said. “There’s really nothing else I can say, we just have to do it.”

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Jumbos to use momentum against Ephs

by Jake Indursky

Daily Editorial Board

One down, one to go. That’s the motto for the men’s soccer team as it heads into its NESCAC tournament semifinal matchup at Williams. The shimmer of the NESCAC championship game is not enough to make the players lose focus on the game in front of them, especially when it’s a game against the tournament’s top-ranked team.

The last time the Jumbos and Ephs met, the game ended in a hard fought 1-0 win for Williams on Oct. 13. Both teams battled through scoreless play for over 60 minutes before Williams senior midfielder Peter Christman sent a stunning game-winning volley into the back of the net.

Despite the loss, the Jumbos left the game feeling good about their performance against a very strong team. Tufts took 12 shots, and Williams senior keeper Than Finan had to make several diving saves in order to keep Tufts off the board.

However, the Jumbos head into Saturday’s match with something they didn’t have the first time around: momentum.

Going into their Oct. 13 game, the Jumbos had won just three of their first seven conference contests, including disappointing draws against Colby, Trinity and Conn.

College. Fast forward three weeks, and the team enters its game against the Ephs on a three-game NESCAC win streak, including its first conference quarterfinals win since 2001.

Senior tri-captain Rafa RamosMeyer credits the team’s recent see MEN’S SOCCER, page 11

Field Hockey

Matchup with Bowdoin looms in NESCAC semifinals by

Kate Klots

Daily Editorial Board

For the No. 7 field hockey team, the road to a NESCAC championship almost always runs through Bowdoin. And even though it is No. 1 Middlebury that hosts this weekend’s conference tournament, the Jumbos must first top the No. 6 Polar Bears on Saturday if they hope to advance to Sunday’s finals, in which they will face either the host Panthers or fifth-seeded and No. 12 Amherst.

On Oct. 24, Tufts defeated Bowdoin handily 3-1 at home.

This time the Jumbos will play on unfamiliar ground, literally and figuratively, as they faceoff on a new Astroturf surface in Vermont. Bowdoin, however, has Astroturf on its home field and will hold an advantage when it comes to the slick surface condition.

“Astroturf is a lot faster and smoother than the surface on Bello,” junior midfielder Emily Cannon said. “It speeds up the pace of the game a lot so we have to be able to adapt quickly. To prepare for that, we played on Astroturf at Harvard once this week, and we also played in the cage to help improve our speed.”

Tufts comes into the semifinal in pursuit of its 15th straight win and hungry for a possible NESCAC championship matchup against the Panthers, who were the only team to beat the Jumbos this fall.

The Polar Bears, however, are similarly motivated.

The Jumbos’ Oct. 24 victory snapped an eight-game winning streak for coach Nicky Pearson’s squad and relegated Bowdoin to third place in the conference standings.

A win Saturday will significantly improve the victor’s standing in the upcoming NCAA tournament. For Tufts, such a victory will not come easily. Statistically, the Polar Bears have both scored more goals and allowed fewer than the Jumbos, and Bowdoin’s 0.90 goals-allowed average is significantly lower than the Jumbos’ 1.25.

But in a contest that is likely to go down to the wire, the Jumbos may have the advantage in close-game experience. Down the stretch of their season, the Jumbos won nine games by a single goal, including three overtime victories against conference opponents.

“When you’re only leading by one goal you can’t afford to make mistakes or let the ball into your circle,” Cannon said.

“With that experience, we know that we won’t panic. Against Williams we scored with 10 minutes left, and this past Saturday we scored with 12 left. We know what we have to do to get the job done if things get close against Bowdoin.”

Tufts does not top the NESCAC stat sheets in any team or individual categories, but instead relies on balanced play from its entire roster rather than a handful of stars. The puzzle-piece configuration see FIELD HOCKEY, page 11

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Junior midfielder Emily Cannon will be looking to continue her strong performances as Tufts looks for a win against Bowdoin in the NESCAC semifinals.

Volleyball

Football

The volleyball team will be looking to bounce back against Bowdoin in the NESCAC tournament, as the Jumbos have lost to the Polar Bears twice this year already.

Colby and Tufts are both coming off lopsided losses. Both have struggled mightily to run the ball. And both have played much of this season with a first-year quarterback under center.

But the similarities between the two teams stop at their record.

The Mules have something that this Jumbo football team needs, something so simple that they crave so deeply: A win.

The Jumbos sit at 0-6, and with a matchup looming in the final week of the season against Middlebury, their showdown this Saturday with the 1-5 Mules may be their last chance to get out of the NESCAC basement.

“I just think this is the week,” senior quarterback John Dodds said. “This is the team that we should be able to beat.”

To do so, the Jumbos will have to put their 51-7 loss to Amherst last Saturday behind them, and focus on doing what needs to be done to get their first tally in the win column. In a practice week shortened

by Superstorm Sandy, the Jumbos will try to shake the ghosts of last Saturday’s disappointment. For this team, resiliency has been a key word all season, but it has never been more important than heading into week seven.

“Everybody had a good amount of time to sit and soak in what happened on Saturday,” head coach Jay Civetti said. “But they get an opportunity to respond, and what’s better than having

Jumbos ready for Mules, looking for first win by

Marcus Budline

Daily Editorial Board

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Here we go again: Tufts faces Bowdoin for third time by

Alex Schroeder

Daily Staff Writer

Heading into the last weekend of the regular season, five teams were top seed contenders in the NESCAC. Tufts had arguably the toughest path, with matchups against Williams and Middlebury in its last two games. And the schedule played out as expected:

the Jumbos dropped both games, fell to 6-4 in the conference and settled for the sixth seed in this weekend’s conference tournament, which will be hosted at Conn. College.

The tournament kicks off tonight with the quarterfinals, which offer the Jumbos a chance to avenge their see VOLLEYBALL, page 11

another chance?”

To take advantage of that opportunity, the Jumbos will first look to take advantage of a middling Mules defense that struggles where Tufts excels. This season, Colby has given up 232 yards per game in the air, which means that Tufts’ secondranked passing offense should have space to work with and the chance to break off some larger gains than they’ve seen in the past weeks.

“The whole season we’ve been talking about making big plays,” Dodds said. “So I think what we’re really harking on this week is to play smart, run your routes and catch the football.”

It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s one that has evaded the Jumbos several times this year.

The offensive plan remains simple when the focus shifts to the running game.

Tufts has only rushed for a shade over 58 yards per game this season, but with the Mules sporting a lackluster run defense as well, freshman Justin Weaver, sophomore Zack Trause and junior Marcel Pitre will look to turn themselves into real threats this weekend.

“I think we can run the ball against them,” Dodds said. “That’s what we’re focusing on this week, just getting the running game going. Just trying to eat up some clock, pound the football and outphysical them.”

Part of that rushing attack for the week will likely include some more looks at see FOOTBALL, page 11