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VOLUME LXVI, NUMBER 50

Students gather in solidarity with undocumented students in Texas by

Abigail Feldman

Daily Editorial Board

Nearly 30 students gathered on the Mayer Campus Center lower patio yesterday to show support for undocumented students at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).

At the event, hosted by student group

United for Immigrant Justice, students voiced concerns about a controversial game at UT Austin and helped create a banner supporting justice for immigrants.

Rebeca Pessoa, who helped lead the event, explained that the student-led Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) chapter at UT Austin stirred national controversy after announcing that it would hold a game

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called “Catch the Illegal Immigrant.” The object of the game, which was meant to spark discussion about illegal immigration, involved finding and capturing students wearing the words “illegal immigrant” on their shirts.

“Students were invited to catch those see SOLIDARITY, page 2

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Tufts to install solar panels on Dowling by

Alexa Horwitz

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Tufts will begin installing a new solar panel system on the roof of Dowling Hall early next year.

According to Director of Facilities Technical Services Betsy Isenstein, the university has partnered with SunBug Solar LLC, of Somerville, to design, supply, install, operate and maintain the new system. The initiative is part of the Solarize Massachusetts (Solarize Mass) Medford program supported by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

Isenstein said the project supports the university’s commitment to environmental sustainability.

“Tufts has been active in energy efficiency and other campus greening efforts for many years,” Isenstein told the Daily in an email. “Participation in [Solarize Mass Medford] is our most recent renewables effort. We are excited to participate in the City of Medford’s program and support its greening efforts.”

According to SunBug Solar’s Vice President of Commercial Business Lisa Raffin (E ’85), Tufts entered into a 15-year purchase agreement with SunBug. The new energy will be cheaper than conventional power.

United for Immigrant Justice hosted a solidarity event yesterday for students affected by a controversial game at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). Photos of the event will be sent to UT Austin to support the 400 undocumented students enrolled there.

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Tufts takes third place in Mock Trial tournament by

Daniel Bottino

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Tufts Mock Trial ( TMT) hosted the 6th annual Mumbo Jumbo Invitational Tournament over the weekend of Nov. 9 and 10 in Anderson Hall. Tufts claimed third place behind Suffolk University and Boston University.

Ben Kurland, co-captain of the Tufts team, stated the thirdplace finish represented a considerable achievement as well as a good omen for the team’s future success.

“I think it’s going to be a good year for the program,” Kurland, a junior, said. “Obviously the goal every year is to take it to nationals and win the whole thing, and I think we’ve got some really talented people in the program that might allow us to do that this year.”

Kurland explained that, while his team was the only Tufts team to perform at the Mumbo Jumbo tournament, it is one of four teams that TMT currently fields.

Sixteen schools attended this year’s tournament, according to Kurland.

According to TMT co-captain Nina Watts, the tournament was divided into four rounds with two scoring judges per round. Each team was judged on eight ballots.

Watts was satisfied that, while the team’s final record was 6-2, TMT did not lose a single round.

“Nobody beat us,” Watts, a

senior, said. “The worst that happened was that we split ballots against two teams, which is not a loss.”

Kurland echoed Watts’ enthusiasm about the team’s performance.

“We had the highest point differential in the tournament, so we won rounds the most soundly that anyone did,” he said.

According to Kurland, the last time Tufts won the Mumbo Jumbo tournament was in 2011.

Kurland also mentioned that he was impressed by freshman Elliad Dagan, who received an Outstanding Witness Award at the tournament. “[The award] is a big deal, because there aren’t that many of those that are given out, so for a freshman to do that was really cool,” Kurland said.

Senior Samantha Sokol and sophomore Sara Weiss were in charge of organizing and running the tournament.

According to Sokol, preparing for the tournament was a major endeavor.

“It is a huge job,” she said.

“We have to recruit schools to attend, we have to recruit volunteer judges. We had about 75 attorneys and law students come [as judges], and it was totally 100 percent volunteer.”

While the team faced considerable logistical issues in preparing for the Mumbo Jumbo tournament, the successful effort served to boost TMT’s reputation, Sokol said.

“It’s a good way for our school to forge relationships with the other mock trial programs, so

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Tufts Mock Trial (TMT) placed third in this year’s sixth annual Mumbo Jumbo Invitational Tournament, held during the weekend of Nov. 9 and 10 in Anderson Hall. that when we compete against them later in the season, we know each and have a good relationship,” she said. “They are really like our friends.”

Weiss said that, ultimately, the event and planning ran smoothly.

“Facilities was super helpful with delivering everything that we needed [and] allowing us to use the rooms,” she said.

Brian Pilchik, co-president of TMT, was pleased with the overall success of this year’s Mumbo Jumbo competition. He noted

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that all four TMT teams have now placed in tournaments this year.

“The fact that our four different teams during the fall were all able to place in tournaments, including third place at Mumbo Jumbo, means that all of our personnel, no matter where they are, are capable of winning at this type of competition, which is a really good sign for the spring,” Pilchik, a senior, said.

Pilchik believes that a significant part of this success can be attributed to the freshmen

on TMT, who he said have performed admirably.

According to Kurland, the massive amount of work TMT put into Mumbo Jumbo has certainly been worthwhile.

“It’s a ton of work that people put in, just to do something that they love, and it’s really nice to have that rewarded and to do well,” he said.

“Everybody that was on our team and everybody I’ve met on the other teams are really talented mockers and could probably take it really far.”

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Tufts faculty and students weigh the pros and cons of unionization.

Collectors, scholars and browsers alike flocked to the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair.

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Police briefs How not to clean your room At 12:44 a.m. on Nov. 17, students in Miller Hall reported smelling marijuana to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD). Officers knocked on the door where the smell seemed to be coming from and entered after receiving no answer. Officers noticed marijuana on a desk, a small sandwich bag containing marijuana and a glass brown pipe. Shortly after, two female students returned and identified themselves as the room’s occupants.

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At 2:53 a.m. on Nov. 17, TUPD received a call from Hill Hall concerning two males running naked throughout the hallways. Officers followed the males to the fourth floor, where they entered one male’s room. The other male was a non-Tufts student who stated that he was visiting a friend in Miller Hall.

Officers escorted the non-Tufts student to Miller Hall and asked him to leave in the morning.

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A Latin Way smoke alarm was set off at 10:50 p.m. on Nov. 17. Responding officers discovered a strong odor of burnt marijuana coming from a room. A female occupant stated that she was in the main room eating when the alarm went off by itself. She hypothesized that the heat from her lava desk lamp had caused some papers to give off smoke and set off the alarm. The female then stated that although she does smoke marijuana, she usually smokes outside and 30 feet away from the building.

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Tufts solar contract benefits greater Medford community SOLAR

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The panels will generate 125,000 kWh of renewable power for the university, Isenstein said. Raffin expects that construction will begin in the coming months.

“It should be this January that we get to see the actual panels,” Raffin told the Daily.

Director of Energy and the Environment for the City of Medford Alicia Hunt, municipal representative for the Solarize Mass Medford program, believes the university’s decision to add solar panels sets a positive example for the Medford community.

“We wanted to provide Tufts with opportunities to help their environment,” Hunt said. “Tufts is very aware, so it is a natural partnership. They lead by example, which helps us get the word out to Medford about what is going on.”

According to Raffin, Hunt initially identified Tufts as an institution interested in potentially going solar.

“I am really excited that Tufts has made this happen because it is a major contribution to the city,” Raffin said. “This has helped to lower the cost of solar energy for the entire community.”

Solarize Mass Program Director Elizabeth Kennedy explained that, as more homeowners and businesses in a local community contract for solar energy, the city is able to save more energy and lower costs. Tufts’ decision to join in the movement will place Medford in the highest energy-saving tier.

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Beginning next semester, Tufts will install a new solar panel system on Dowling Hall. The project is part of a Medford campaign to promote solar energy. under the program increases the contracting capacity for the City of Medford, which in turn benefits all homeowners and businesses that have contracted under the program,” Kennedy said.

According to Hunt, Medford must consider both municipal buildings as well as private buildings in its campaign for renewable energy. Only three percent of Medford’s energy and greenhouse gases are

produced by buildings such as schools and fire stations — buildings under the city’s direct control.

“If we want to make a difference for greenhouse [gas] emission, we need to find a way to impact the greater community,” Hunt said. “We can’t dictate what they should or shouldn’t be doing, but we can provide them with opportunities to be environmentally sustainable.”

Students speak out about ‘Catch the Illegal Immigrant’ game SOLIDARITY

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people, bring them back to a designated spot and redeem a gift card,” Pessoa, a sophomore, explained.

While the game was scheduled to run yesterday, it was cancelled after YCT received pressure from UT Austin’s president and upset citizens around the nation, she said.

Pessoa explained that the game was insensitive to many undocumented students who live in fear of deportation.

“Obviously there are so many wrong things about this,” she said.

“There are undocumented students who go to that school, and I can’t imagine how they must have felt — attacked and targeted — and how their families must have felt.”

Daniela Salazar, who led the gathering along with Pessoa, elaborated on the problematic aspects of the “Catch the Illegal Immigrant” event. By making a game out of deportation, YCT trivialized the hardships of those living illegally in the United States, she said.

“Families are torn apart because they have relatives that were sent back to Mexico,” Salazar, a sophomore, said.

Salazar also commented on the important difference between the phrases “illegal immigration” and “illegal immigrants.”

“Their actions are illegal but humans are not illegal,” she said.

“Human beings are not illegal to be here on this planet.”

Before opening the conversation to members of the crowd, Salazar thanked those present for their support.

“We’re not only showing solidarity for the [UT Austin undocumented students] but for families across the nation who are fighting for their American dream here,” she said.

Pessoa added that, while the event was cancelled, there was still reason to support the 400 undocumented students at UT Austin as well as the estimated 11 million undocumented citizens in the country.

Latino Center Director Rubén Stern spoke next about the importance of creating social movements for change. About a third of all undocumented peoples in the United States, he began, have been in the country for more than a decade.

“We’re not talking about people who have just arrived,” he said.

Stern mentioned Tufts’ current campaign to raise $25 million for financial aid, saying that he hopes Tufts will take a stand for immigrant justice by reserving financial aid for undocumented students.

One aspect of the immigrant justice campaign, which Stern said helps to make it strong, is the fact that it is a multi-ethnic movement. He added that, historically, most social changed has stemmed from the work of activists, not politicians.

“People who know me, I am not

optimistic by nature about a lot of these issues, but I think if you look around at this movement it’s something to really be encouraged about,” he said.

Students Ramiro Sarabia and Jessica Morales spoke next, sharing their personal connections to the UT Austin game.

Sarabia, who grew up in Texas, explained that he found out about the game from one of his close friends, an undocumented student, who attends UT Austin.

Sarabia also spoke about his surprise when he found out the chairman of the YCT chapter, Lorenzo Garcia, was Mexican.

“That struck me as weird how somebody of my own heritage, my own descent, can have such an event,” Sarabia, a freshman, said.

Morales, a freshman who is also from Texas, said she was grateful that Tufts students were speaking out against the game.

“I found it sick that they would play a game like this because I am also very closely related to a lot of undocumented people,” she said.

Pessoa and Salazar next passed out small paper butterflies — a symbol, Salazar explained, of the naturalness of immigration and migration. Students wrote words of encouragement for undocumented immigrants on the butterflies and taped them to the banner before gathering for a picture. The photo, Pessoa said, will be sent to UT Austin to support the undocumented students there.

By participating in the campaign, Tufts is helping to lead other members of the community in the movement for solar energy, Hunt said.

Raffin added that she is happy to see the collaboration between Tufts and its surrounding neighborhood.

“This is an example of the partnership between the City of Medford and the university,” she said.

Hemispheres journal introduces new theme

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Hemispheres, Tufts’ undergraduate student journal on international affairs, yesterday introduced the theme for its 37th journal edition at a presentation titled ‘New and Old Wars: The Use of Air Force in Modern Warfare.’ Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Alexander, a national defense fellow at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, spoke at the event.

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Adjunct Action: SEIU’s national movement for unionization of part-time faculty In a mail ballot vote that ran from Sept. 11 through Sept. 25, part-time faculty members at Tufts voted to join Service Employees International Union (SEIU). This move makes them the only group of unionized faculty at Tufts. The union will now be the intermediary in most negotiations between the Tufts administration and the university’s part-time lecturers.

Eligible voters included all parttime lecturers in the School of Arts and Sciences who are teaching this semester or who had taught the previous two semesters. Out of the 283 eligible, 128 voted in favor of unionization, 57 were opposed and 98 did not return their ballots.

SEIU is the largest union in the United States and represents more than 15,000 adjunct faculty across the country. SEIU’s national campaign, Adjunct Action, is currently organizing in Boston as well as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Seattle. Adjunct Action has been particularly successful in the D.C. area, with part-time faculty

at Georgetown University forming a union with SEIU in May, joining their counterparts at American University, George Washington University and Maryland’s Montgomery College.

In Boston, while unionization efforts were successful at Tufts, adjuncts at Bentley College narrowly voted against joining the union, according to the National Labor Relations Board, and efforts are still underway at Northeastern University.

The cost of living in Boston is particularly high — 32 percent more than the national average and — adjuncts in the Boston area are especially under strain, according to a report from Adjunct Action released earlier this month.

In a letter sent to part-time faculty before the vote at Tufts, however, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Joanne Berger-Sweeney and Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences James Glaser claimed that benefits afforded to Tufts’ part-time faculty are reasonable.

“Tufts is far more generous than institutions that have been organized

by the SEIU,” the deans wrote.

The letter details that, compared to the national average of about $3,000, Tufts part-time faculty receive a minimum of $5,115 per course. For instance, in 38 of 41 disciplines at Tufts, the minimum course rate is at least $6,000, and part-time faculty who teach at least three courses per year are eligible to participate in the university’s Health and Wellness Plans, which include health, dental, vision, health and dependent care flexible spending accounts, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance and long term disability insurance.

In preparation for negotiations, both those for and those against the union have considered a number of issues, among them costs to the university and students, changes to course offerings, negotiating benefits, and how to maintain democratic processes through what may turn into a series of confrontational interactions.

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For unionization: Tufts part-time faculty join together, cite salary freeze as impetus to unionize

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Part-time faculty members that voted to unionize did so to increase their leverage in negotiations with the university administration. According to some adjunct faculty members, though, this move was unexpected until Service Employees International Union (SEIU) got involved and brought the national movement to unionize to light.

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, a lecturer in the English department, is a member of Tufts’ union-organizing committee.

Lecturers in the Department of English Elizabeth Leavell, Carol Wilkinson and Nan Levinson and Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages Andrew Klatt, all part-time faculty, are also on the committee.

Gibson, who has taught at Tufts since 1995, explained that, though Tufts adjunct faculty may have better benefits than they would at other schools, the faculty still have little say in their working lives.

“With a union, we can be a part of the decisions that affect our working lives. ... We’re the happy recipients

of some good decisions — but without being able to weigh in on what’s important for us,” she said. “I really think that the ideal outcome will be a sense that we can work together.”

Gibson pointed out that the opportunity to join the union came at an auspicious time.

“We weren’t looking for a union, but we slowly evolved on our own ... to a place where we were receptive to hearing about it,” Gibson said. “The union perspective gave us a sense of context that was way bigger than we had been thinking — it was really a consciousness-raising thing. We realized, ‘Oh, we fit inside a situation that’s evolving and developing in the whole country.’”

According to Klatt, who is in his 17th year of teaching at Tufts, part-time faculty have been dissatisfied with the administration as a result of a salary freeze that began in 2008.

“There has been a lot of discontent and low morale ever since the salary freeze five years ago,” Klatt said. “So, in a sense, the administration at Tufts is largely responsible for the unionization because they treated the part-time faculty poorly and disrespectfully, and so

there was a strong inclination to form a union, to get a voice and to get a legally protected way to participate democratically in the conditions of employment.”

Klatt emphasized that the situation for part-time faculty at Tufts is part of a larger problem. “[For] more than 30 years, universities have been trying to reduce the cost of instruction as a part of their operating budget,” he said. “The main way they have been doing this is to really change the model of faculty in the U.S. by hiring more and more people who don’t have tenure or tenure track, who don’t have rights to their jobs, who may or may not have benefits and who are very poorly paid. So this is an issue that has to do with a lot of people at a lot of universities.”

Adjunct Action has held two symposia for part-time faculty in the Boston area. On April 13, adjunct professors met at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, and on Nov. 1 at the Boston Central Library.

Both Klatt and Gibson attended the April symposium, along with other see FOR, page 4

Against unionization: Tufts administrators, students say union will generate additional fees, add unwanted third party by

Emily Bartlett

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According to Dean of Arts and Sciences Joanne Berger-Sweeney and Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences James Glaser in their Sept. 16 Daily op-ed, unionization may not have been the best move.

“We have worked to make Tufts an employer of choice for part-time faculty,” the deans wrote. “And we have done so without a union.”

Berger-Sweeney and Glaser also emphasized a loss of flexibility that would occur with the implementation of a union, due to the fact that a third party will now be involved with interactions between the administration and the part-time faculty.

They emphasized this lack of direct discussion in an online resource that they wrote titled, “The Upcoming Union Election — And What it Means to You.” Like the op-ed, the resource was published before the vote took place and asked that part-time faculty consider how their interactions with the administration might change.

“Do you want a single national union representative to handle those matters for the group — and become the only group of unionized faculty at Tufts — or do you want to preserve your right to discuss such matters directly with your chairs and deans?” they wrote.

But how do Glaser and Berger-Sweeney feel about this decision, now that part-time faculty have confirmed their desire to unionize despite the deans’ so clearly expresseing their disapproval of such a movement?

“Even the strongest advocates of this, I’m sure, recognize that there are costs and benefits to every decision and every new situation, and we felt it was important for us to point out what some of the costs to making this change would be,” Glaser said.

“But at the end of the day, that was not persuasive to roughly 65 percent of the people who voted. They were persuaded by other arguments instead.”

Berger-Sweeney emphasized that the administration will move forward with negotiations.

“We stated before the election, and we stated again after the election, that we will

work with the bargaining if it is elected — and it was,” she said. “I don’t know what much more to say than that.”

Glaser echoed this sentiment.

“Let’s be really clear: The administration supports the right for part-time lecturers to decide for themselves if they want to unionize and collectively bargain. ... We don’t resent people for exercising that right or for making the decision that they did,” he said.

Despite this, Glaser said he does not believe that unionization will improve the current situation.

“We don’t believe that is going to lead to a necessarily better situation ... but it is what it is. ... We will bargain in good faith, and we are still seeing our colleagues and having friendly conversations with them,” he said. “From our perspective — and I would be surprised if you found it on the other side — there’s not deep-seated anger or resentment.”

Berger-Sweeney admitted that she was slightly surprised by the vote’s outcome.

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Lily Sieradzki | Media Junkie

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or today’s column, I’m going to be straying a bit from my recent pattern of feminist-y analyses of popular TV shows. I want to bring it back to the basics — journalism, its general health and its future.

Anyone talking about media loves to bring up how journalism is either very ill or already dead. Newspapers all over the country are facing some pretty daunting foes. There’s declining readership, the conglomeration of ownership and, of course, the game changer: the Internet (bad and scary or full of exciting potential?). No matter how you look at it, traditional news structures must change — simply because in its current business model, it can no longer turn a profit.

As a possible aspiring journalist, I’ve been told to expect a low salary and have even been actively discouraged (mostly by friends of my parents) from the profession — “It’s a dying field! Why don’t you go into something more stable and secure?” Personally, I believe that people still want and need well-researched, well-written and well-rounded news. It’s a matter of finding an effective way to structure and distribute it.

And that’s where there’s a glimmer of hope. Yesterday, while perusing Twitter, I found out that Jay Rosen, prolific journalism professor at NYU and author of the critical PressThink blog, will be joining Pierre Omidyar (billionaire, eBay founder and Tufts alumnus) and Glen Greenwald (Guardian journalist who was involved in covering WikiLeaks) in a new journalistic venture. I know almost nothing about it, other than that it is temporarily referred to as “NewCo,” and it is potentially revolutionary.

Here is my (shaky) understanding of it after reading through Rosen’s post on PressThink explaining his decision. “NewCo” will be a re-imagining of a large news corporation. It will be structured around individual journalists, who have an established reputation and specific expertise, and write from an explicit point of view. It will try to serve a more general audience for news, with a focus on bringing hard-hitting investigative journalism to more people in order to make it more effective. It will be technologically up-to-date, employing multiple platforms at once to maximize its flexibility.

This is all very new, different and exciting.

To me, it seems to be the first serious attempt to significantly alter pre-existing models of news — and that’s why it’s such a novel, slightly frightening concept. But Omidyar, Greenwald and Rosen seem serious about this venture and willing to put themselves on the line to make it work.

I still have some questions about how all this will work. First of all — what exactly makes “NewCo” different from multi-platform online news as it already exists? How will it interact with print? Will it be primarily online? How domestically-oriented as opposed to internationally-focused will it be?

And probably the biggest question — what is their proposed business model? This is definitely a for-profit venture, so how do they propose to make money?

Some possibilities are floating around.

Omidyar, a billionaire, could simply make a deep endowment that would keep things running for a long time. If his donation could help Tufts go need-blind during the 2007 and 2008 admissions processes, I’m sure it could boost “NewCo” as well. But that isn’t a long-term solution. Another idea is the subscription model, which has worked well with investigative journalism before (see the French company Mediapart, which exposed French budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac’s gigantic Swiss bank accounts and currently has around 80,000 subscribers paying monthly fees).

There are many things still to be figured out as “NewCo” moves forward. This is definitely something to keep an eye on, as it very well might be the future of news.

Lily Sieradzki is a junior majoring in English. She can be reached at Lily.

Sieradzki@tufts.edu.

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part-time lecturers at Tufts and faculty members from over 20 colleges in Massachusetts.

“I was inclined to be a supporter, and attending the symposium was a good experience,” Klatt said. “It showed that SEIU had a good analysis of our problem and had the will and the capacity to lend a hand to a union for part time faculty at Tufts. In fact, the organizing committee came out of that symposium.”

Gibson said the symposium showed her what kind of interest there was in forming a union across different departments at Tufts.

“One impression that was sort of striking was that when all the people from Tufts sat around a table, there were people from all sorts of different departments who I had never met,” Gibson said. “To see other people were drawn to [unionizing], that there was this broad interest ... was quite inspiring.”

Students have also supported the adjunct unionization efforts at Tufts, most prominently the Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC). Senior Julia Rodgers, a member of TLC, said that the group tried to get word out about the campaign to students through an op-ed in the Daily, tabling in the dining halls, social media and one-on-one interactions.

“As TLC, one of our biggest goals has been supporting the janitor’s union, so when we heard that this was happening and that it was actually a nationwide campaign, I personally thought it would be really beneficial to the university, and the TLC decided that it really fit in with what our goals are,” Rodgers said.

She said that it is important for students to pay attention to this issue.

“This is so much about the environment that we go to school in. Our faculty are amazing and could be even better if they had less stress to deal with, had an easier time planning their classes and felt like their jobs were secure,” Rodgers said. “As students, we want to support what our professors are doing and their rights to self-determined jobs.”

Bill Shimer, a part-timer lecturer in management and organization development at Northeastern, where unionization efforts are also underway, told the Daily that the union is currently in the process of gathering authorization cards at Northeastern. In order to hold an election, 30 percent of eligible voters must sign an authorization card, according to Shimer.

“Forming a union is not something that immediately comes to mind as a strategy for improving the lives of professors,” Shimer said. “When you talk to professors about the fact that our working lives are really quite bad in terms of pay and stability and professional development — the things everybody’s interested in — that’s an easy sell; everybody agrees with that.

The question is how [you] improve it.”

Shimer expressed hope that the outcome at Tufts will be repeated at Northeastern and all across Boston.

“We at Northeastern are looking at Tufts. We’re envious that they’re so far ahead and want to congratulate the faculty on a successful vote,” he said.

“We hope that it is an impetus for us and the other colleges to organize in Boston.”

Currently, part-time faculty at Tufts are determining what their priorities will be in bargaining sessions with the administration. There is a preliminary bargaining survey available on the Adjunct Action website, asking, for example, Tufts faculty to rank issues — like better compensation, continued access to affordable health benefits, guaranteed compensation for course preparation if a course is cancelled — in order of priority.

Once professors have determined what is important for them, there will be a negotiation with the administration to reach a collective bargaining agreement, which the administration notes might be too restrictive to fit all situations for adjunct professors.

Both Gibson and Shimer, however, said that the SEIU has emphasized that the outcome of negotiations will be representative. “[SEIU] seems to be particularly empowering of its members,” Gibson said. “We are constantly reminded that it is our union, and it’s not them telling us what to do — and they don’t ... so any sense of there being a third intervening power between us and the administration just has not experientially been the case.”

As part-time professors at Tufts prepare for eventual negotiations with the administration, Klatt is confident that support for the union will continue to grow.

“I think that ... support will probably be increasing significantly as people begin to find ways that they can participate in what is, essentially, our lives,” Klatt said. “To use a cliché, democracy is not a spectator sport. That’s a bumper sticker, but we’re trying to put that into practice, and be active, democraticallyminded participants.”

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and tried to put forward a new system,” she said. “I thought what we’d put together was a very reasonable and fair package.”

Although Glaser did not express surprise, as evidence that the union might not have been necessary at Tufts, he did state that the benefits that part-time faculty receive are competitive when compared with those at other universities in the area.

“The fact of the matter is that there [were] in place strong benefits, competitive course rates, and we’ve had faculty who have been here for many, many years, and we have had very little turnover — which is some evidence that what we were offering in benefits and compensation was competitive, or we would have lost people,” he said. “That’s the way a market works.”

Glaser noted, however, that there may be some benefits to unionizing.

“Obviously, [adjunct faculty] feel that there is leverage they can gain by collectively bargaining — and perhaps that’s so,” he said. “We’ll be finding that out over the next six to 12 months, I think.”

Berger-Sweeney and Glaser both agreed that the bargaining process would be less personal.

“The implications of the union contract are that the administration will be bargaining solely with the union and not with individuals,” Berger-Sweeney said. “If you want my tongue-in-cheek answer, it is that there are going to be a whole lot more lawyers in the room than there were before.”

Both deans claimed that negotiations involving unions tend to be more confrontational than non-unionized negotiations.

“Just any union situation is going to be more confrontational — it doesn’t mean that people can’t negotiate and work together, but ... having worked before in a unionized environment, what is collectively good for the group isn’t necessarily good for every individual involved,” Berger-Sweeney said.

Glaser argued that the presence of lawyers could increase administrative costs and explained that these increases in spending are inevitable on both sides when it comes to unionization.

“There will be dues that have to be paid to the union, and the reason that you have those dues is because it costs money for people to represent you,” he said. “You need union lawyers and union representatives. ...

From the administration’s side, we will also have to put resources into negotiating the union contract — those are resources that we didn’t have to spend before. It will be costly to the school.”

Senior Bennett Gillogly also expressed concerns about rising costs and won-

dered where the money would come from to pay for them.

“Tufts is already one of the most expensive schools in the country,” Gillogly told the Daily in an email. “In one way or another, the costs for higher pensions, more benefits and the associated lawyers fees are going to be paid for by our already skyrocketing tuition.”

Glaser, however, suggested the cost for such expenses would not fall on students in a notable way.

“This is a very big institution,” he said.

“I can’t say exactly where the resources will come from to address the new administrative burdens that this will place on us; I’m thinking that it will probably not be something that is visible to the students on a dayto-day basis.”

In terms of Tufts’ course offerings and rigorous curricula, both deans seemed doubtful that unionization would reduce opportunities for students.

“We have to offer Spanish, we have to offer writing, we have to offer math courses — these are courses that are often taught by our part time faculty,” he said. “We will need to do that in the future, we have had to do that in the past — I don’t think our curriculum is going to change.”

Berger-Sweeney was less certain but said that a strong curriculum is a priority for her.

“I have no idea of the implications on the curriculum, except to say I’m committed to having an extremely strong curriculum in the School of Arts and Sciences,” she said. “I am always mindful of the students who are here right now. The students who walk in the door deserve the best educational experience that we can possibly provide for them.”

Berger-Sweeney added that negotiating with part-time faculty will not change this priority.

“As the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, my primary goal and role is to ensure that we have an excellent education for the students,” she said. “That’s why we’re here — that’s why we’re all here. And we will keep that in the forefront of any and every negotiation that we enter into. We’re not in this to save money, lose money — anything about money — we are in the job of providing an excellent education to students, and that’s what’s going to be our primary motivating goal as we enter into bargaining.”

Glaser likewise emphasized the dedication of part-time faculty to students.

“The lecturers are professional people, they’re faculty people — their dedication to the students has never been questioned here,” he said. “I know very well because I supervise the departments, I see the teaching evaluations, I know what kind of value they bring the university — and they bring value to the university.”

Throwback Thursday

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When Arthur Hulnick, coordinator of Academic Affairs for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), led a CIA Forum on Oct. 19, 1987 at Tufts, he was interrupted by about 15 student walk-outs who left because they were not allowed to comment on the speech as they would have liked. Hulnick paused the presentation to ask spectators if the United States should have a secret intelligence agency in a free society, and audience members reportedly shouted back, ‘No.’

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Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair in 37th year

Rare books, artifacts on sale at Hynes Convention Center Courtesy Julie Roper / CommPromo

One of the event’s highlights was John F. Kennedy’s rosary beads, which were listed at $600,000.

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t’s better than a trip to any esteemed museum, ancient library, antique store or flea market — combined. The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair returned this past weekend to the Hynes Convention Center, bringing with it over 120 dealers of rare books and artifacts from around the world. Unlike the volumes typically housed in a museum or library, these publications aren’t merely on display under thick panels of glass. Here, attendees can actually touch the covers and leaf through their pages. Many will even opt to purchase these precious pieces of history for their own personal collections. And, unlike objects from a local antique shop or secondhand bazaar, every item for sale at the fair is authenticated, so consumers can be sure what they’re getting is the real deal.

History Last weekend marked the fair’s 37th year in Boston. Originally hosted at the Copley Plaza Hotel, it later moved to the Park Plaza Castle before eventually relocating to the Hynes Convention Center in Back Bay. According to Betty Fulton, the fair’s producer, this is one of the oldest and largest book fairs in the country.

“There’s a New York fair every spring and there’s a fair in California every February ... that alternates between San Francisco and Los Angeles,” Fulton said.

These three events are the only ones officially sanctioned by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA), a national organization dedicated to helping people preserve and collect old, valuable books.

Chairman of the Boston Book Fair Committee and Brattle Book Shop dealer Ken Gloss explained that the fair was established

by ABAA members for a variety of reasons, but especially to provide sellers with a physical space where they can display their stock.

“A lot of dealers do not have open shops,” he said. “They deal out of offices, out of their homes — a number of different locations ... so they don’t have a way to actually get out [and] see the public. A show like this offers a lot of opportunities to meet new customers ... to promote the business. It’s a way to present yourself to the public for many of the places that don’t have that ability.”

Not only does it provide visibility for vendors who would otherwise remain relatively

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obscure, but it also brings sellers from around the world together under one roof — something that is positive both for the collector, who may have limited access to foreign trade, and for the actual dealers, who often exchange items among themselves. This year, dealers flocked to Boston from countries across the globe — including the Netherlands, Australia, France and Germany — making this year’s book fair a truly international event.

CommPromo An event that attracts so many international participants seems like it would require a huge number of behind-thescenes coordinators. But for the past 26 years, the Antiquarian Book Fair has been largely produced by a one-woman team.

Since 1987, Fulton — the president of the strategic marketing and event promotion company, CommPromo — has been in charge of organizing the entire weekend.

Though she has singlehandedly orchestrated the event for more than half of its history, Fulton recently brought Julie Roper on board to manage social media. In her five or six years at CommPromo, Roper has become increasingly involved in the fair, taking on additional production responsibilities.

Together, Fulton and Roper handle almost all of the planning for the book fair.

Occasionally, they will outsource one part of the work and hire independent contractors to help at the actual event. Other than that, though, they manage the rest of the operation on their own. “[We] basically act as general contractors for the event,” Fulton said. “All elements that need to be addressed like catering, [booking the] hall, tickets, any equipment rentals, all publicity and promotion, running the box office, supervising the load-in and load-out ... audiovisual [and] putting together all the programming.”

In addition to the weekend itself, CommPromo also helps arrange extra events that occur in conjunction with the fair. This year, for example, there was an exhibit featuring Isabella Stewart Gardner’s little-known book collection, as well as various other lectures and panels on specific niches within book collecting.

“We’re the 600-pound gorilla, and because all the dealers are in town that might patronize these other events, certain satellite events also spring up around the ABAA,” Fulton said.

Courtesy Julie Roper / CommPromo

The fair attracted serious collectors, literary scholars and intrigued browsers alike.

Caroline Welch, Daily Editorial Board

Fare at the fair

Browsers, scholars and collectors

So, what exactly are these dealers peddling? Ironically, Gloss notes that there are no qualifications for any of the items sold at the fair.

“I don’t think there’s any one description [of an antiquarian book],” Gloss said. “It’s more a general term. ... If you get down to an exact definition, there probably isn’t one. It’s probably not new books ... although there are some exceptions to that rule, too. But the book that you think of when you walk into a Barnes and Noble probably isn’t going to be here — at least [not] for a few years.”

And he’s right. Most of the items are old and valuable, but besides that, the titles run the gamut. Books range from leather-bound masterpieces crafted in the 1400s to literary classics of the 20th century, from autographed children’s stories to first editions of relatively recent bestsellers like “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel. Various authors from different epochs, genres and nationalities are all represented in one room — writers like Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde see just as much shelf space as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl. And books are only half the equation. Among the racks upon racks of yellowing pages, visitors will also find pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, vintage issues of magazines and newspapers, fine art, photographs, maps and atlases and even various types of ephemera and memorabilia.

This year, one of Gloss’s premier items was a 1948 copy of the Chicago Tribune that erroneously ran the headline “Dewey Defeats Truman” after that year’s presidential election — the paper is humorously signed “It was a mistake!” by Truman himself. Other objects of note included John F. Kennedy’s rosary beads and crucifix and a 1969 dollar bill autographed

by John Lennon.

And the prices are just as diverse. According to Fulton, prices range from around $60 to $600,000. Newer items tend to be on the lower end of the range — for instance, a first edition copy of the last installment of the Hunger Games series, “Mockingjay,” by Suzanne Collins, was a mere $50. But that’s not exactly the norm at the book fair. It’s quite common for items to be priced in the thousands, and many may hit six-digit figures.

An inscribed copy of “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac was listed at a whopping $128,000; Kennedy’s rosary beads alone were an astronomical $600,000.

With such sky-high prices, it seems that the book fair would appeal mostly to serious, wealthy buyers. On some level, that holds true — the demographics break down pretty clearly along gender lines and age groups.

According to Fulton, men are the majority of the buyers, though she notes that the ratio of male to female customers has become more equal in recent years. And because of the steep prices, the event usually caters to an older generation. However, Fulton and Roper are trying to change this trend by harnessing new mediums of communication and creating incentives that specifically target younger attendees. For example, this year, regular tickets ranged from $8 to $15, but on Sunday, entrance was free for college students with a valid ID. “The core audience tends to be, I’d say, 35-plus, 40-plus” Fulton said. “Hence our efforts — Julie’s efforts — to do outreach on social media, because we’re interested in getting younger people involved.”

“As an industry, [we’re] trying to cultivate the next generation of collectors,” Roper said.

The demographic may break down more evenly in terms of interests. Though Gloss said that the majority of visitors tend to be serious collectors, he acknowledges that there are others — librarians, scholars and browsers — who also frequent the fair.

Even among collectors, preferences often vary — some will collect books for their prestige in the literary realm, while others seek them solely for their aesthetic features — aspects such as ornate binding or hand painted illustrations.

Despite their differences, all collectors share a passion — a passion that Gloss believes is driven by the “hunt.”

“There could be a million different reasons why someone collects, but then the real fun part is the hunt,” Gloss said. “You come to a show like this, and you’re hoping to see something you haven’t seen before ... or [you’re] always hoping that, around the next corner, that item that you’ve been looking for for years is going turn up.”

Yet regardless of why they come, every visitor to the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair has at least one thing in common: a love for books.

“Almost everybody here, for one reason or another, has some interests — in books, in authors [and] in reading” Gloss said.

Courtesy Julie Roper / CommPromo

The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair returned to the Hynes Convention Center from Nov. 15 to 17.

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What’s Up This Weekend Looking to make your weekend artsy?

Check out these events!

Torn Ticket II Presents “The Secret Garden”: Student musical theater group Torn Ticket II this weekend will present its fall major production, “The Secret Garden,” based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The musical follows the story of Mary Lennox, a young girl who is sent to live in a manor house in Yorkshire, England and discovers a secret garden on the grounds. (Tonight and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 7

p.m. in Balch Arena Theater. Tickets are free and can be picked up at the Balch Arena box office.)

Spirit of Color: Student hip-hop and contemporary dance group Spirit of Color will be holding its fall semester show, “We Ain’t Playin’ Games,” this weekend. The show will also feature guest performances by Sarabande, Blackout and Envy. (Tonight at 9 p.m. and Friday at 8 p.m. in Cohen Auditorium.

Tickets can be picked up at the Cohen box office and are free with a Tufts ID.)

Kiniwe: Akpese: The Tufts African Music Ensemble, Kiniwe, will perform this weekend and feature the Tufts premiere of Akpese, a form of traditional dance-drumming combined with contemporary singing that draws much of its inspiration from Christian worship. The concert will also include performances by the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society, as well as two visiting artists from Ghana, Prosper Adjetey and Dominic Donkor. (Friday at 8 p.m. in Distler Performance Hall. Admission is free.)

Tufts Jazz Orchestra: The Tufts Jazz Orchestra will hold a concert featuring jazz music that has influenced North American film. The concert will feature pieces by Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Mercer and more.

(Saturday at 8 p.m. in Goddard Chapel.

Admission is free.)

—compiled by the Daily Arts Department

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‘One Thousand and One Nights of Music’ will feature numbers from a variety of belly dancing traditions.

Tufts Middle Eastern Dance ready for fall show by

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The members of Tufts Middle Eastern Dance, a campus group dedicated to performing various folkloric and regional dance styles from the Middle East are performing their first fall show this evening. The show, titled “One Thousand and One Nights of Music” will feature six dances, and include an improvisational piece to live music by Tufts percussion group B.E.A.T.s.

Until recently, Tufts Middle Eastern Dance was known as Tufts Belly Dance.

The goal of the name change, proposed by the group’s former president last spring, was to promote a professional image, both on campus and — when group members seek employment after college — in the job market.

“People usually have the wrong idea about what belly dancing is,” current President Stephanie Hon said. She added that, in addition to avoiding falling into stereotypes, the name “Middle Eastern Dance” may better reflect the group’s diverse interests and skills.

“What we do in the club also [includes] folkloric styles and performance styles, so we felt the new name was more encompassing,” Hon, a junior, said.

While the new name may sidestep some preconceived notions about belly dance, one potential danger of the rebranding is a loss of recognition on Tufts campus, a possibility that Hon and members of the group are eager to avert.

They hope that tonight’s performance will help Tufts Middle Eastern Dance build a larger profile on campus.

“The idea of having a fall performance is to [make] the group better known so ... we’ll have a [larger] following,” Hon said.

“One Thousand and One Nights of Music” will draw on the group’s large repertoire of different traditions of belly dance, including Lebanese and Armenian pieces including props like swords, veils and candles, a nod to the rich assortment of styles that comprise Middle Eastern dance.

Hon explained that the histories of different cultures often influence the types of belly dance that have devel-

oped in a particular region. Lebanese and Turkish styles, she said, are typically, “more open, fun and flirty because their culture is more secular, whereas Egyptian belly dance is more serious.”

In Egypt, belly dancers must cover their midriffs and are not permitted to perform floor dance (a more provocative style where the belly dancer works from the floor). These elements, though accepted in other countries with strong belly dance traditions, are often considered too suggestive there.

Luckily, choreographer Rachel Rivero is able to combine many styles of belly dance together to create cohesive and expressive performances. Rivero, a junior, said that she received her belly dance training as a “fusion” of different styles, giving her a blended approach that has influenced her choreography in “One Thousand and One Nights of Music.”

Rivero is particularly excited about the B.E.A.T.s collaboration, as it will give dancers the opportunity to creatively engage with music they haven’t heard before.

“Belly dance is meant to be improvised,” she said.

Audience members will be invited to participate in a belly dance workshop immediately following tonight’s performance. The women of Tufts Middle Eastern Dance are passionate about teaching other students about the dances they perform and, in addition to giving lessons, they will be educating the audience about the history of Middle Eastern dance during the performance.

“Before each piece we like to give a little introduction on the history of belly dance or on the history of the prop we’re using, so people have a better idea of what Middle Eastern dance is,” Hon said.

Hon and Rivero hope that audience members will walk away from the performance with fewer misconceptions about the style and a greater appreciation for the challenges, skill and beauty that are central to the art of belly dance.

“One Thousand and One Nights of Music” will take place tonight in Hotung Cafe at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are not required.

Courtesy Tufts Middle Eastern Dance

The members of Tufts Middle Eastern Dance look to educate viewers about the history and context of their dances during performances.

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Amazon Studios launches first original content with ‘Alpha House’ One of the most notable recent stories in television has been the rise of Netflix as a provider of original content.

After releasing entire seasons of original series, such as “House of Cards,” at once, Netflix has seen immense success, signaling a changing TV landscape. Not far behind, however, is Internet behemoth Amazon, who last week made their opening step into original programming by introducing the first series produced

by Amazon Studios, the political comedy “Alpha House.”

While there may be similarities between the two companies’ forays into original content, the innovative approach Amazon has used to choose its series sets it apart from both Netflix and conventional television. While traditional broadcast networks order pilots of shows and then decide which make it to air, Amazon made the pilots for 14 different shows available on their website in April.

The company encouraged customers to provide feedback and reviews for each

pilot. These responses helped Amazon to pick which shows would receive full series orders, marking a much more participatory process than is typical in the television industry. “Alpha House” and fellow comedy “Betas” both received a full series order, and Amazon has already lined up new drama pilots to go through a similar process in 2014.

Amazon’s original series are available to all Amazon Prime members, and the company has opted to release episodes weekly rather than via the binge style of watching that Netflix promotes.

Since its debut, “Alpha House” — which stars John Goodman and follows the story of four senators who live together — has received mostly positive reviews from critics. This, along with Friday’s release of “Betas,” will determine if Amazon Studios can successfully compete with the likes of Netflix and traditional broadcast TV. —by Dan O’Leary

Thursday, November 21, 2013

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‘Sacred Pages: Conversations on the Qur’an’ exhibits Bostonian interpretations by

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Hidden in the depths of the Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), “Scared Pages: Conversations on the Qur’an” provides visitors with the opportunity to explore the teachings of the Quran within rich artistic and historical contexts. The exhibit features an informative written and audio commentary provided by the curator, Laura Weinstein, as well as members of the Boston Islamic community.

“Scared Pages” showcases 25 loose pages from the MFA’s various collection of Qurans, which range from medieval to modern times. Each of these visual pieces has an auditory accompaniment.

Indeed, 24 people from diverse backgrounds were invited to write and record labels for the exhibition. These individuals, all of whom practice Islam, visited the museum in the early months of 2013 to meet one another and select their page.

The pages — beautiful works of Arabic calligraphy painted mainly on animal skins or papyrus — are colored in varied gold, black and red hues. The ages and origins of these pieces run the gamut. Some were made as early as the eighth century, while others were created as late the 20th century and come from widespread locations, including Morocco, Iran and Turkey.

The pages on display are organized in a clockwise fashion. Beginning from the curator’s introduction of the exhibition, the pages are placed along the four walls of the gallery in the order in which they appear in the Quran — all the while painting a comprehensive visual and historical narrative of the sacred text for the viewer. A single glass case in the center of the gallery showcases a delicate 19th century Quran — the only complete Quran in the exhibit — and a precious leather satchel. The case provides viewers with a short history of the Quran as a spoken text, directly addressing visitors through unique audio recordings of recitations of suras (verses) by quaris (reciters of the Quran).

Conventional art exhibitions usually include the standard “name, date,

Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The exhibition includes pages from the eighth to the 20th centuries. medium and period” descriptions on the placards that accompany the works. However, in addition to providing this basic information, “Scared Pages” cleverly pairs such curatorial analysis of developments in Islamic art with meditative statements from 24 Muslim Bostonians who were asked to offer their insights about the Quran pages. In this way, the art speaks directly to viewers. This unique feature of “Scared Pages” creates an entirely novel experience — one that simultaneously educates and spiritually enlightens the viewer.

“Scared Pages: Conversations on the Qur’an” illustrates the artistic finesse found in Quran pages and fluidly bridges the gap between society’s understanding and perception of Islam. The exhibition creates a visual and auditory discourse between visitors and interpreters, and challenges viewers to engage and understand the pages

of Quran as more than merely masterful works of art. The exhibition places the pages in their historical context, yet simultaneously allows viewers who are unfamiliar with Islam to explore how these objects are understood by people who practice the religion today.

“Scared Pages” makes the Quran accessible to all.

“Sacred Pages: Conversations about the Qur’an,” is on display in the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Gallery (No. 178) at the MFA and will run until Feb. 23. To learn more about the exhibit, and hear the voices of the participants visit http://www.mfa.org/ exhibitions/sacred-pages.

In addition, a gallery talk entitled “Past and Present at the MFA: Arts of the Middle East from Ancient Qur’ans to Contemporary Photography” will be held Wednesday, Dec. 11 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Sharf Visitor Center.

Admission is free for Tufts students.

The Artsy Jumbo

Axel Olson puts graduation on hold to pursue career in music It is not often that a senior decides to take a leave of absence to tour with his band in Western Europe. But that is exactly what Axel Olson is planning to do. An international relations and economics double major who has lived in Belgium since the age of two, he has been playing the guitar for over 10 years.

Olson is the lead guitarist in the Belgian band Candy Robbers, playing with his good friend Maxime Rosenberg and the band’s producer Renoar Hadri. Olson and Rosenberg met in Brussels at an open mic night at a local bar. Both 13 years old at the time, the two began a long musical relationship which culminated in the cofounding of Candy Robbers as well as the writing and producing of a self-titled EP this past January.

After finishing the EP, Olson was faced with a tough decision.

“There was always the question about whether ... I should stay at Tufts,” Olson said. The band’s popularity has been growing since they released the critically acclaimed music video for their song “1000 miles.”

“We have to be pretty aggressive,” Olson said. “It’s all about getting heard by the right people at the right time.”

Although there are uncertainties, the band’s indie-pop style has been well received, and the members hope to garner a following in Europe and then bring their music to a wider audience. The dream for Olson is to somehow make it back to Boston.

“If we actually make it, it’d be nice to pull a ‘Guster’ [and return to play at Tufts],” Olson said.

—by Veronica Little

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Cannoli from Mike’s and Maria’s

midst the bustling and charming streets of the North End, you can hear whispers of how delicious the cannoli are there.

But where exactly can they be found?

Several tourist directories, and even a few locals, will direct you to Mike’s Pastry Shop. A popular destination filled to the brim with cannoli in every flavor you can possibly imagine, Mike’s is usually teeming with hungry tourists ready to try them all. However, a select few may also let you in on the secret of Maria’s, a hole-in-the-wall pastry shop just down the road. Based on looks alone, they could not be more different. But each one makes a mean set of cannoli in its own right. So, which one truly wins? Read on to find out.

Maria’s Mike’s

Price: $2.50 $3.50

Flavor: 10/10 6/10 Location: Haymarket Haymarket Envir.: Unassuming Confining

Walking into Mike’s on a weekend evening is like walking into Macy’s in New York’s Harold Square during Christmas season. With treats of all kinds lining every shelf, and barely enough space to squeeze into the herd of visitors migrating towards the counter, Mike’s can be both exciting and incredibly overwhelming. As someone who doesn’t particularly enjoy packs of tourists, waiting in line at Mike’s was not my ideal scenario. But I held my breath in the name of good dessert and awaited my cannoli patiently. I resisted the unconventional flavors like peanut butter and caramel and went for the more traditional ricotta cheese filling. After finding a nice spot around Haymarket (and as far away from the crowds as I could get), I dug in. The cannoli was pretty large, but the ricotta did not have the sweetness or the freshness I had hoped for. The crust seemed a bit soggy, probably because the pastry had been sitting on the shelf for too long. Even worse, it didn’t have the kind of crispy flakiness that cannoli should, and, after all the hype, I was heartily disappointed by the result. I headed to Maria’s, searching for a more satisfying treat.

And, boy, did I find it. Before going to Maria’s, a friend had told me, “There’s just something about the vibe of this small Italian family happily chatting to each other as they squeeze fresh ricotta into your cannoli shell.” She couldn’t have been more correct. Without all the touristy buzz, the atmosphere of Maria’s felt infinitely more spacious, despite being about only half the size of Mike’s. Here, the options for cannoli are fewer, with only three fillings available — ricotta cheese, vanilla or chocolate cream. I ordered the ricotta and watched as they filled a fresh, crunchy shell with the cheese right in front of my eyes — yes! It was perfect. While smaller than the cannoli at Mike’s, Maria’s was also a dollar cheaper and a lot less of a headache to get my hands on, so I was perfectly happy. I could tell it was going to be good before even biting into it, and, thankfully, I was not disappointed in the slightest. The cheese was sweet, fresh and creamy, but the real superstar was the shell: perfectly crisp and flaky, with a light, buttery taste. All I could think about was going back for more. It was a clear win.

So what’s the moral of the story for this week? Most of the time, being the most famous, busy or publicized eatery doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best.

But you already knew that right? If not, take the extra time to seek out the hidden gems — in my experience, they have never let me down.

Susie Church is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at Susannah.Church@tufts.edu.

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Solar panels exemplify sound sustainability efforts

The most distinctive feature of Dowling Hall is, without a doubt, the large, bronze elephant head that greets all who enter the building. Starting next year, the Jumbo head won’t be the only thing attracting attention at Dowling: the university will be installing a new solar panel system with the support of SunBug Solar LLC, based in Somerville.

This is an incredibly important development on the Hill. Tufts not only will be supporting a local business but also will be using more sustainable energy and cutting its conventional power costs. This development is entirely in line with Tufts’ commitment to green energy and environmental sustainability, as expressed through the Office of Sustainability and University

President Anthony Monaco’s Campus Sustainability Council, and sets a precedent for responsible investment by the administration.

The initiative will also be highly transparent. The solar panels will be monitored for efficiency, and members of the Tufts community will be able to track the real-time benefits of this new system online.

Excitingly, this installation gives students a chance to participate in the Solarize Tufts Challenge. The university is calling on students to create solarpowered charging systems for mobile phones. Tufts will fund the production of the winning submission, which will then be made available for student use across the community. This not only allows students to become socially

engaged but also promotes innovation from our community and for the benefit of our community.

The administration should be lauded for its decision to install solar panels and to invest in alternative sources of energy for the university.

In addition to providing cheaper and more eco-friendly power, this project also encourages members of the Tufts community to be actively involved in sustainability on the Hill.

Beyond that, if the data reflect a positive change, we can perhaps look forward to Tufts installing more clean energy systems in the future. We can only hope that this system proves effective and the student body will see more sustainable developments on campus in the coming years.

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What matters most to you? The answer almost always starts with family and friends. In college, we tend to know each other’s friends, significant others and even co-workers — but we hardly know each other’s families in most cases.

One of the first major noticeable differences between your friends from high school and your friends in college is that you don’t know the families of most people you spend time with in college. Knowing means more than just meeting — knowing means sleepovers, dinners, carpools, playing with siblings, witnessing fights, attending pet funerals and even being chastised by someone else’s parents. Knowing is understanding a person’s family dynamic and the interpersonal relationships firsthand. Knowing means that you knew them when they were the ugly duckling in #tbt.

In college, people have the privilege of total control over their selfpresentation, without their parents or siblings meddling with the image of

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who they want to be (a few embarrassing Facebook comments aside). I’ve had the chance to meet and spend time with many of my friends’ families, especially those who live close by. I have glimpsed their pasts: visiting their childhood homes, hearing stories from their infancies and, bemusedly, finding surprising similarities between them and their siblings or parents.

But I am their present. I was in CC with them and watched them fall asleep while taking notes, while their parent may simply know that our professor was monotonous. I was with them when they found, applied for and got their dream internship, while their parents heard about it later. Most of all, I’ve watched them focus their talents and grow for four years as they changed their majors, suffered hangovers and heartbreak and rose to the top of organizations they once tentatively joined.

A part of this is how we choose to relate to our families once we’ve moved away and started moving on. In the first year, it’s all about detail — finding the balance between how many times a day, or week, to call home. In a world where communication means

everything from a Snapchat to a Skype chat, it also means finding the balance between literal face time and a quick line that signals you’re still alive. Is checking in the same as catching up?

Do you tell your family you got a bad grade? Do you tell them you’ve started seeing someone special? Do you tell them you went to CPS? And on the other hand, there is the balance of how much we choose to tell our friends about our families. Amidst the process of creating our new selves, and trying to become the people we always wanted to be, sometimes leaving the past behind is the best thing for us to do until we’re ready.

Closeness does not necessarily equate to the extent of information we know about someone. With whom are we our truest selves? There’s no answer.

Being your truest self is just being honest with yourself and others about who you are and what makes you, you.

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As November draws to a close, I have a folder full of countless cover letters, writing samples, resumes and references, and I still have nothing to show for it.

I had no idea looking for a work-study job would be so stressful. These days, I visit the University of Minnesota’s online employment system as often as social networking sites.

Ultimately, I can’t say I’m surprised. After all, there are only so many job postings each week, and with a heavily populated campus, employers may receive hundreds of applications.

However, work-study funds are an essential part of my financial aid package.

Not having a work-study job feels like these funds are the carrot at end of an obnoxiously long stick.

However, I know I’m fortunate to have work-study funds at all.

In 2011, Congress passed the Budget Control Act, which automatically cut a projected $1.2 trillion from federal programs earlier this year.

These sequestration cuts hit the Federal Work-Study Program, slicing $51 million from the student assistance program.

The blow eliminated work-study funds for an estimated 33,000 students nationwide this year, including about 500 from Minnesota.

Those remaining in the program face fewer jobs and small paychecks. Even job security may be on the line for students across the country with work-study positions.

If Congress fails to pass a budget deal soon, the so-called “second sequester” will bring additional cuts across the board in January.

If that happens, the Federal WorkStudy Program may take another hard hit.

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Students may find themselves out of workstudy jobs they’ve held onto throughout college.

The sequester also cut $38 million from other financial assistance programs for students. This baffles me when compared with the amount of money slashed from the Federal Work-Study Program.

I fear a second round of sequestration cuts could affect work-study more than other forms of financial aid, though I can’t understand why lawmakers would consider this the best course of action.

After all, there is no shortage of employable students. The 18- to 29-year-old demographic has an unemployment rate of 11.6 percent, and further limiting the amount of available work-study jobs will likely make matters worse.

Some portray college students as free-

loaders who would rather receive handouts than work for their money and education, but what combats this negative — not to mention inaccurate — stereotype better than work-study?

Work-study jobs allow students to pay their dues, as well as to cultivate a variety of relevant career skills and professional contacts.

Additionally, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found a correlation between parttime work and a higher GPA. Bureau of Labor Statistics researchers found freshmen at four-year universities who worked one to 20 hours per week had higher GPAs than their unemployed peers.

I hope Congress and the U.S. Department of Education account for these benefits before putting work-study funds in front of the firing squad once again.

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Discourse over division

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Last week was a busy but sad week for the rendition of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict here at Columbia. Hillel’s Student Center for Israel and Zionist Thought put on a student debate about the topic of Zionism, and the Students for Justice in Palestine — along with the Native American Council and other groups — held a panel discussion on education in the Palestinian territories.

But while both events happened physically on the same campus, they took place in different worlds: These two events operated with their own vocabulary, co-sponsors and audience. Last week revealed something we all know to be true, even if we publicly refuse to admit it. When it comes to challenging issues, especially political ones, students at Columbia fail to stray beyond party lines and put aside partisanship for the sake of academic rigor and intellectual openness.

On Nov. 10, Garin Lavi: Hillel’s Student Center for Israel and Zionist Thought — a student group that looks to include all opinions about Israel and Zionism in the conversation — hosted a debate co-sponsored by the Israel establishment at Hillel (full disclosure: I planned the event and spoke on the panel). The debate brought together five students with a range of views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Such voices included Israeli citizens, people who are religious but in doubt of Zionism’s legitimacy and students fully supportive of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The panelists engaged in open and heated discussion over the justifications for Zionism, claims of racism and the connection between Zionism and the land between the river and the sea. But where was the Palestinian perspective? I had attempt-

ed to find a Palestinian voice, but my search was mired by the obvious discomfort that surrounded the issue from all sides. And why were there only Jewish — and mostly religious — students in the crowd? Were there any non-Jews, let alone Palestinian students, who were interested in hearing the arguments?

Two days later, the Students for Justice in Palestine hosted “The Miseducation of Settler Colonialism: Challenging School Curricula,” part of an annual Right to Education week. The panel featured a Gaza resident involved in researching the Palestinian educational system; a facilitator at alter-NATIVE education, a group aimed at encouraging Native American students to consider pursuing higher education and an SJP student activist. The event was instructive.

Rarely do I have the opportunity to hear from a resident of Gaza in person, to understand the identity struggles of the Native American community and to consider the educational hardships of Palestinian children born into a conflict that they did not start. Around 75 students attended, but the audience was hardly diverse. Only a handful of proIsrael students had bothered to attend, and an overwhelming majority of the audience was affiliated or sympathized with SJP and the co-sponsoring organizations. Where was the rest of the Columbia community? And where was the educator from Tel Aviv on the panel to address Israeli school curricula from the Israeli perspective?

From Garin Lavi and SJP’s perspectives, these events were successful. But judged on a more challenging rubric, one measuring changing student opinion in the long term and the overall presentation of the conflict here at Columbia, these events achieved little and revealed something worse.

It unveiled the unhappy reality that even in 2013, 60 years after the conflict

began, two hostile and disconnected camps exist at Columbia. The conversation is not only on the ground in Jerusalem and Ramallah, where bullets and stones fly daily, but also on our own college campus, where we pride ourselves on tolerance, understanding and virtue. What does it say about our community when the issues that permanently divide people in the real world fare no better on campus— our temporary home and outlet for uncensored, non-political, genuine discourse?

I will not ask Palestinian students to talk to the Israeli soldiers oppressing them, nor will I ask Jewish students to engage with those who seek their state’s destruction. But can we not, as Columbia students, discuss the issues that divide us? If the goal of the university is to train citizens capable of a broad view of the world, then our university is failing. We are failing. And it isn’t only the events in the Middle East that divide us. The relationship between the campus Democrats and Republicans, for instance, is no better.

On Monday night, for the first time in recent history, there will be an event on campus that presents an alternative to this academically lachrymose picture.

Dorm Room Diplomacy: Columbia University, a new chapter that I have been privileged to lend a hand in getting off the ground, seeks to do all that we have been collectively failing to in regards to the Middle East. Looking to actively engage every perspective in discussing the region, DRD hosts weekly video conferences with students in both America and the Middle East.

Tonight DRD: Columbia will launch its first event, a roundtable student discussion on America’s current and future role in the region. It looks promising.

But the event’s success depends on students from all sides being brave enough to come and sit at the table.

English, French or neither?

onsidering I’m a confused freshman who only a few months ago didn’t know what a “JumboCash” was, my transition to college has been relatively seamless. There have been few significant speed bumps and only manageable unexpected swerves.

It’s like I’m channeling Jimmie Johnson or something.

Despite my out-of-character NASCAR metaphor, I’d be lying if I said there hasn’t been a single pothole. There has, and in areas of my road (if you’re sick of the allegory, sorry) I couldn’t have predicted. Namely, in certain teacher-student relationships.

Professors in college are supposed to be (and usually are) friendly, personal, erudite and easygoing, even if they can’t seem to schedule office hours when you’re available. They’re omniscient like mothers and easy to talk to like significant others. But what happens when you can’t talk with your professor and you can’t really understand her thoughts? What happens when both processes are in French?

This is a problem I’m sure only I’m whiny — and lousy at foreign languages — enough to mull over in French 1. Whenever the opportunity to build a relationship in the French classroom presents itself, I feel unworthy and outstandingly awkward.

Whether it’s after class, in emails or out clubhopping in Davis, I feel like language professors would rather I speak in their native (or taught) tongue. Instead of disappointing the direct dictator of my GPA, I don’t say anything at all. I’d rather my silence be judged than my lackluster understanding of a few French nouns and verbs.

The most awkward moments come after class. Often this is when there’s the most opportunity to build the sound foundation of comforting, academic friendship. But, caught in ambivalence between English and French, I speak neither. A mute language of head bobs and self-conscious smiles has become my primary method of communication, utterly useless for relationship building — pretty useless for communication, too.

As is natural for most with a sensitive theory of mind, I decided I wanted to ask others if their experiences had been at all similar to mine. Had they been as awkward?

As silly? As arbitrary and over-thoughtful?

From what I gleaned the answer is largely no, and that’s a good thing. For others, even the “umm, like potentially a little bit...” response I received wasn’t particularly reassuring. “I mean, we’re only in French 1,” mused another. She’s right. I’m doomed.

Channeling a mixture of my inner Mr. Phil and inner Aristotle, there are three likely solutions to this dilemma. One: I learn French (let’s see what the next one is...). Two: I become less sensitive and simply speak in English (sounds easy enough, I guess). Three: I stop thinking about it because, honestly, it’s probably not that awkward anyway (...). Not thinking about mundane irrelevances never occurred to me.

It’s true that desensitizing myself to the presumed judgment of my professor might lead to the more fluid construction of a relationship, but it’s also true that I could just as easily learn to accept what I’m comfortable with naturally. Though both solutions (I’ve officially abandoned learning French at this point) result in a sort of contentedness, only one results in the formation of a professor-student relationship, and that’s what counts.

The term’s almost finished and my time’s running out, but that means there’s still time. Even if in this instance the academic partnership hasn’t come easily, I know it can be just as friendly, personal and powerful with some confidence and some English. All I need is Jimmie to take the wheel again.

Adam Kaminski is a freshman who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at Adam.Kaminski@tufts.edu.

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points away from taking the match to a fourth set, but Breig’s opponent Varun Sharma sealed an 11-3, 11-1, 13-11 win.

“Williams is a top team in the country,” Advani said. “It was a great opportunity to play them. Their number-one is very good, and he was challenging to play against, but it’s always good to get to be able to compete against top-level teams.”

On Saturday, the Jumbos traveled to BU to compete against the Terriers. Tufts, ranked 31st, was able to pull out a hardfought win against 36th-ranked BU. Tufts swept the first five matches, but BU battled to take four of the last five.

Advani continued his excellent weekend when he scored the most impressive win of the day at the No. 1 spot.

After a quick first set that saw Advani win 11-2, Jonathan Chambers of BU put up a stronger fight in the second and third games. It was to no avail though, as Advani took the match, 11-2, 11-5, 11-6, only losing 13 total points.

Lee, playing No. 2 again, had a tougher first game. After a few long points, Lee ended up taking the first game 11-8. In the second and third games, Lee found his rhythm to cruise to an 11-8, 11-2, 11-3 victory.

Kardon, Weiss and Aronson — No. 3, 4 and 5, respectively — won their matches in straight games. Kardon faced the strongest opposition within the first five players, but still won his match against Ali Vohra 11-7, 11-6, 11-9.

Tufts lost the next three matches in a row, but junior Philip Weiner won the Jumbos one last match at No. 9, 11-5, 11-6, 11-3.

The Jumbos also played their home opener at the Belmont Hill School against the Northeastern Huskies on Tuesday. Despite winning the top three positions, Tufts could not hold on for an overall victory, as Northeastern took the remaining six scored matches.

Advani, Lee and Kardon won the first three matches to start things off on the right foot, but Tufts unwound, and the Huskies took all of the remain-

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The Jumbos’ next matchups come against Bowdoin, Brown and Bryant University this weekend. ing matches. Weiss evened things up in his No. 4 match after dropping the first game 4-11 and then winning his second 11-8, but the results did not hold, as Northeastern’s Stanislav Berenshtein took the next two sets 11-7, 11-8.

Four of the next five Tufts players would go on to lose in straight games.

Northeastern capped off the 6-3 victory with a five-game win in the No. 9 match, as Weiner won his first two games and then dropped three straight.

As a team, the Jumbos look to improve their performances throughout the season in hopes of breaking into the top 30.

Freshman Danny Fischer, who has opened his collegiate career at the No. 6 spot for the Jumbos, spoke about the

team’s aims moving forward.

“As for team goals, we hope to break into top 30 in the country. I think currently we are [No.] 31, and 30 is a reasonable and achievable goal,” he said.

In order to accomplish these goals, Advani thinks that experience will be a key component.

“There are some matches coming up where my experience and the experience of some of our upperclassmen will be crucial,” Advani said.

After its game last night against MIT, the results of which were not known at press time, the team will look to continue to gain experience and move closer to .500 when it takes on Bowdoin, Brown and Bryant this upcoming weekend.

Tufts to take on Bowdoin at home this weekend WOMEN’S SQUASH continued from back

in three games, 11-4, 11-7, 11-7. The rest of the match was dominated by Mount Holyoke.

The team’s next match comes on Saturday in Cambridge, Mass. against

Bowdoin. The Jumbos will attempt to do what they have been unable to accomplish thus far — win two consecutive matches. But if the team can continue to play as well as it did on Tuesday, it is sure to be successful.

There are only three more weekends

of matches left this semester, with the second half of the season starting on Jan. 18.

“Our team has a lot of potential this year, and I am really looking forward to the second half of our season next semester,” Stanco said.

NFHCA names four field hockey players to all-region team, two Jumbos earn All-NESCAC football honors Four athletes from the women’s field hockey team, ranked third in New England and 10th nationally, were named to the New England West Region Teams this week.

After the team fell to Salisbury, 1-0, in the second round of the NCAA Championship on Saturday, the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) announced the Region Teams.

Senior All-American Emily Cannon, sophomore Dakota Sikes-Keilp and senior co-captain Stephanie Wan earned firstteam honors, while sophomore Alexandra Jamison was named to the second team.

For Cannon, this comes as her third career Region Team honors, after a firstteam nomination in 2012 and a secondteam nomination in 2011. Sikes-Keilp, Wan and Jamison are all first-time honorees.

Cannon, a midfielder, finished the season with nine goals and three assists

for a total of 21 points, including two goals and an assist in the first round of the NCAA Championships against Anna Maria.

Sikes-Keilp led the team with 38 points on 16 goals and six assists at midfield.

Like Cannon, she had two goals and an assist in the first round of the NCAA Championships against Anna Maria.

Wan finished her senior captaincy with a goal and two assists at midfield, and Jamison totaled 12 points with three goals and six assists as a midfielder/defender.

All four players were strong contributors to the team’s record of 15-3 and stellar 1.00 goals against average.

The 2013 NESCAC All-Conference football teams were also announced this week, with two Jumbos receiving honors.

Freshman kickoff return specialist Mike Rando received the only first-team honors

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The return gave Tufts one final chance to win the game, although the team failed to score and lost, 20-16.

Junior defensive end Jimmy Brao received the other nomination, earning a spot on the second-team defense.

He finished fifth on the team with 39 tackles and emerged as a playmaker for the Jumbos. He tallied 9 1/2 tackles for losses, good for eighth in the league, with two of them being sacks. He also had an interception and broke up a pass. Like Rando, this is Brao’s first AllConference nomination.

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Ross Dember and Alex Schroeder | Five-feet Nothing

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oss here this week, and with Thanksgiving a week away I decided to make this week about one of the middle school sports memories I am most thankful for: my eighth grade rec. league basketball season. I wasn’t the team’s star player, nor did we reach the championship game, but for my teammates and me, it was a unique experience we all appreciated.

Going into the season, I was prepared to spend my last year of organized basketball firing three-pointers from downtown and occasionally playing defense that involved more than haphazardly swiping at the ball. After the first practice, it was apparent that that would not be the case. Our coach, Sam, would not allow it.

Now, for those of you who played youth sports, you know that there are two main types of coaches. There is the hypercompetitive one who relies solely on his talented players, ignoring pitch counts and weaker players, since winning a Little League game is more important than a preteen’s health or self-esteem. On the other side, there is the coach who is clueless about the game’s score and forgets that coaching means more than just supervising the athletes.

Sam, however, was a different kind of coach. A high school junior who had to give up the game after his freshman year, he loved basketball and knew what it was like to be a young teenager.

There was one remarkable thing about our coach: He genuinely cared about how we all developed as players and teammates.

For the only two players on our team who had any hope of playing high school ball, Sam taught the intricacies of the game, from pick-and-rolls to how to run a transition offense after a long rebound.

This extended to the rest of the team. Our biggest player, who was more of an offensive lineman than a basketball player, had been told to just get rebounds and look intimidating on previous teams. For Sam, he was a project, and a successful one at that. When Sam tried to teach him how to do a drop-step in the post, many people laughed it off as a waste of time — until he scored the game-winning basket over the best center in the league with that same move.

Sam was also quick to convert what happened on the court to life lessons. When one of our starters made his anger at being taken out of the game apparent for the umpteenth time, Sam gave him a quick talk about what being a part of team meant. By the second half, my teammate’s grunts turned into highfives when he was subbed out of the game.

What was most impressive about Sam’s coaching style was his unfiltered faith in all his players. The best example was Nick, the smallest and quietest player on the team.

Nick was undoubtedly the hardest worker on the team, yet he was not the most skilled. Even worse: On every other team he was on, he was always instructed to pass up any potential shot he was lucky enough to get his hands on.

Every practice, Sam would have Nick practice a 10-foot baseline shot, and he would encourage Nick to fire away from that spot, even if he had sent it three feet over the backboard the previous play. When he finally made a shot, he did not sprint back on defense as he usually did. He headed to the sidelines to give his coach a high-five while the parents in the stands cheered and applauded.

After our last game, the players and their parents came to thank Sam one-byone for a great, rewarding season. All of the adults remarked how shocked they were that one teenager could be such a strong source of guidance and encouragement. However, if you know my brother Sam, this comes as little surprise.

Ross Dember and Alex Schroeder are sophomores who have not yet declared majors. They can be reached at Ross.Dember@tufts.edu and Alexander.Schroeder@tufts.edu.

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The women’s squash team played four matches this week, finishing 2-2 with very different performances in each.

The team’s best match of the week took place on Tuesday, with a sweep of Northeastern, 9-0, in the team’s home opener. Not only did Tufts earn victories in the top nine positions, but all nine players also won in just three games. No Northeastern player was able to score more than 21 total points throughout her three games.

The dominant performance was led by sophomore Paget Stanco, who matched up against Northeastern’s Olivia Simone. The Huskies were without their top player, Jenny Janek, for unknown reasons, making Simone the toughest competition at the match.

However, this did not change Stanco’s gameplan.

“Regardless of the change in the ladder, I still had a harder match,” Stanco said. “As expected, the No. 1 player on every team we play is strong.”

Stanco came out on top, winning all three games by scores of 11-6, 11-9, 11-6. “[ Tuesday] night was an off night for me, personally,” Stanco said. “I was having a hard time getting my drives deep, so I got stuck behind my appointment a few times in each game, causing me to lose the point. I definitely did not bring my A-game last night, but it was a good opportunity for me to adjust in a situation where all of my shots were not going as planned.”

This success was much needed for the Jumbos, who

were coming off a 9-0 loss to Williams two days earlier.

Stanco was the only player to win any game against the Ephs on Sunday, taking the first game by a score of 10-12 and third game by a score of 7-11. But, by losing the second, fourth and tiebreaking fifth games, Stanco lost the match. The rest of the top nine positions also did not fare any better and were completely swept.

“Williams is ranked No. 13, so that was a really tough match,” sophomore Talia Hulkower said. “But everyone still played really hard. It was a good learning experience to play someone with that much talent. Now I know what I really need to work on.”

The day before, the Jumbos earned a resounding 7-2 win against Brandeis. Freshman Lynn Cheng earned a victory in the first position to start the match, and freshman Anna Bezahler and sophomore Tammara Gary won their matches in the second and third positions, respectively. After a loss in the fourth position, junior Ellie Monroe earned a victory in the fifth spot. The team won positions seven through nine by default for a final score of 7-2.

The victory was the team’s first of the season after dropping its first match of the year to Mount Holyoke by a score of 8-1 on Friday.

Junior Ann Bellinger was the lone bright spot against the Lyons, earning a victory in the fifth position, 11-5, 11-7, 11-8. Stanco gave her opponent a run for her money in the first position but fell see WOMEN’S SQUASH, page 15

Men’s Squash

Alexandra Dennett / Tufts Daily Archives

The Tufts men’s squash team started competition for the winter season this past week, winning its seasonopening match at Boston University before falling to Williams, Stanford and Northeastern.

Tufts opens winter season with mixed results

by Jorge

Monroy-Palacio

Senior Staff Writer

The men’s squash team began its season with matches against Boston University, Stanford and Williams this past weekend. Tufts also played its home opener against Northeastern on Tuesday night, in which they lost 6-3.

On Sunday the Jumbos had a difficult doubleheader at Williams, playing the No. 11 Ephs as well as the No. 25 Stanford Cardinals.

Against Stanford, sophomore Aditya Advani in the top spot secured what would be the only win for the Jumbos against Stanford, beating Parker Odrich 11-6, 11-5, 11-5.

Freshman Josh Lee played No. 2 in a see-saw match

against Stanford’s William MacFarlane. After dropping a close first set 11-9, Lee lost the second 11-1. In the third set, the match got close again, but Lee was defeated, 12-10.

The Jumbos continued to fight hard to keep matches close against the talented Cardinals, but were unable to secure another victory.

Junior captain Elliot Kardon lost 11-8, 11-7, 11-7, and both sophomore Brandon Weiss and senior Jeremy Aronson lost in four sets. Weiss lost at No. 4 11-8, 7-11, 11-6, 11-7, and at No. 5, Aronson dropped a close final set to lose 11-8, 12-14, 11-7, 11-6.

“We had some close matches against Stanford, and it was exciting, but they’ve really improved this year and were

better than I think what we expected,” Advani said.

After competing against Stanford, the Jumbos geared up to play 11th-ranked Williams.

In their toughest match of the weekend, the Jumbos found it difficult to find their stride against the Ephs.

Advani lost his first match of the weekend against Kevin Chen. After two quick sets, Advani found his range and put up a contest in the third set. It was not enough, though, as Chen eventually capped off an 11-4, 11-6, 13-11 victory.

In the seventh singles matchup, junior Jamieson Breig also lost the first two sets, while putting up a stronger fight in the third. Breig was a few see MEN’S SQUASH, page 15

Editors’ Challenge | Week 12 Boy, things are really getting interesting in the Editors’ Challenge standings. With just a couple weeks left of competition before the winter recess, here we are at Week 12, looking at almost a whole new leaderboard. Let’s figure out who stands where.

Up top we have two new co-leaders — Marcus “The Bounty Hunter” Budline and Zachey “Serendipity” Kliger. Budline has had his heart set on the top spot and has fought for it by any means necessary. After weeks lingering around the No. 1 spot, he’s now there, though he shares it with Kliger, who has come from nowhere to claim it in his last semester of eligibility. Things will surely keep changing, but we’ll see if either of them can hold onto the crown.

Next up is another two-way tie, this time for the second spot: Aaron “When Harry Met Sally...”

Leibowitz and Jason “When in Rome” Schneiderman. Leibowitz, also romantically involved with a woman he met at college, is showing strong determination at the top, refusing to take anything less than a championship this time around. Schneiderman, a first-time editor who writes no beat and is just along for the ride, is just taking advantage of his extra time off to make a run at first place. He held the spot for one week, but let’s see if he can get back there by the end of the season.

Behind these two are Matt “Because I Said So” Berger and Alex “The Heartbreak Kid” Schroeder.

Berger gets his way in the office, but we are so lucky to have him back after his semester-long hiatus.

He’s picking well and making a serious run for the title. Schroeder is taking names left and right after sitting in the middle of the pack all semester. He’s on track for a serious title shot as the exec.

Up next we have Ross “Going the Distance” Dember. He used to be the top dog, but he’s slowly fallen to the very middle of the standings. Let’s see if he can stick it out and crawl his OVERALL LAST WEEK NO at ATL PIT at CLE TB at DET MIN at GB SD at KC CHI at STL CAR at MIA NYJ at BAL JAC at HOU TEN at OAK IND at ARI DAL at NYG DEN at NE SF at WAS

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Zachey 104-58 11-4 NO CLE DET GB KC CHI CAR NYJ HOU OAK ARI NYG DEN SF

Aaron 101-61 8-7 NO PIT DET GB KC STL CAR BAL HOU OAK ARI NYG DEN SF

Jason 101-61 8-7 NO CLE DET GV KC STL CAR BAL HOU OAK IND NYG NE SF

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way back to the first spot.

Behind Dember is David “The Perfect Man” McIntyre. The revered senior editor and former exec is surely the Daily’s MVP, and he too is slowly making a climb out of the basement. Hopefully he can make an impact before his picking days are over.

Jake “Never Again” Indurksy is more than likely done for the year with no chance at winning it all.

He used to be in the top half of the standings, but the likes of McIntyre, Schroeder and others have taken over while Indursky has slipped to the bottom of the standings. He needs to get his act in gear as he prepares to be the exec next semester.

Next up is Alex “Whatever It Takes” Connors. Though Connors is giving it everything he has, he can’t seem to make any positive strides, as he posted the only under-.500 record this week at 6-9.

Gotta give the guy props — he puts forth a good effort, but it’s unlikely he will be a serious threat.

The usual suspects occupy the bottom three spots: Claire “Failure to Launch” Sleigh, Kate “My Life in Ruins” Klots and Tyler “Something New” Maher. Sleigh has had a rough time getting off the ground all season, though she has stayed above .500 and out of the last spot all year. Klots has been at the bottom all season, and it looks as though her last semester of picking will not end on a positive note. Maher needs a new strategy or something to get him out of the basement. He’s been at the bottom for the past couple of weeks, but hopefully he can turn his season around with what little time’s left.

Our guest this week is Emily “Just Go with It” Rourke. Though she claims to have very limited knowledge on the subject of sports, she might just get lucky and end up with a great week of picks.

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David 97-65 10-5 NO CLE DET GB KC CHI CAR BAL JAC OAK IND NYG DEN SF

Jake 96-66 8-7 NO CLE DET GB SD STL MIA NJY JAC TEN IND DAL NE SF

Alex C 93-69 6-9 NO PIT DET GB KC CHI CAR BAL HOU TEN IND DAL NE SF

Claire 91-71 8-7 NO PIT DET GB KC STL CAR BAL HOU OAK IND NYG NE SF

Kate 85-77 8-7 NO PIT DET GB KC CHI CAR BAL HOU TEN IND NYG DEN SF

Tyler 83-79 8-7 NO CLE DET GB SD CHI CAR BAL HOU TEN IND DAL DEN SF

GUEST Emily Rourke NO PIT TB GB KC CHI MIA NYJ HOU OAK ARI NYG NE SF