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Cambridge mayor describes environmental initiatives by

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This year, the university has begun renovations on the warehouse at 574 Boston Ave. in order to provide more educational and community space.

Tufts redevelops 574 Boston Ave. warehouse

The Tufts-owned warehouse at 574 Boston Avenue is currently undergoing renovations that will result in the creation of a new functional and social space for university members.

The construction, anticipated for completion in early 2015, will update the building’s teaching and research spaces to more contemporary standards, according to Director of University Space Management and Planning Lois Stanley.

“There is a shortage of modern teaching and research space on this campus, particularly spaces that accommodate cross-disciplinary research as well as classrooms, teaching labs and research lab space for the social sciences and engineering,” Stanley told the Daily in an email.

Stanley said that plans for redeveloping the building, located at the corner of Boston and Harvard Avenues in Medford, began two years ago after the university began

to consider the best use of the warehouse.

While the exterior of the building is currently under construction, plans for the interior are being devised, according to Stanley. The building will most likely contain space for a variety of functions, she said.

“The new building will accommodate classrooms, large meeting rooms, teaching labs, research labs, office space, a cafe and informal learning spaces scattered throughout,” Stanley said.

Previously, the building housed a number of artisans who had worked there for the past two decades. Controversy arose among students and community members after the university ordered the artisans to vacate the building before May 31.

The building is comparable in size to Carmichael Hall, Stanley said. Although details are subject to change, the plan is to have community-oriented spaces occupy a third of a total 95,000

square feet across four floors.

In order to ensure that the new space is welcoming to the Tufts community, students were invited to participate in the preliminary design process this semester, Stanley noted.

She added that the new space will utilize natural light sources as part of the university’s goal to become more sustainable with its energy usage.

“It will also offer highly flexible space use through the creative application of technology and furniture,” she said. “In keeping with Tufts’ commitment to sustainability, it will be a ‘high-performance’ operation that will have low energy consumption.”

Stanley said students can look forward to the finished product, where they will be able to take advantage of an additional space for studying and hanging out.

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Mayor of the City of Cambridge Henrietta Davis discussed sustainability initiatives in her city yesterday in the Lincoln Filene Center Rabb Room as part of the university’s weekly Lunch and Learn events.

About 40 students and community members, including University President Anthony Monaco, attended the presentation, titled, “Cambridge Successes: Environment, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability.”

Davis began by emphasizing the importance of connecting with others to create solutions.

“One of the foundational things about working in sustainability is networking,” Davis said. “Nothing in sustainability happens, as ecoscientists told us a long time ago, without considering what the ecosystem is.”

She next discussed some of Cambridge’s environmental data, a city home to about 100,000 residents and multiple universities. In Cambridge, about 82 percent of carbon emissions come from buildings located in the area, 17 percent from transportation and about one percent from waste.

Davis explained that Cambridge, more so than many other communities, is concerned about climate change’s effects on the environment due to its low elevation.

“We are very susceptible to sea level rise,” she said. “We are very concerned on a practical level about what’s going to happen to the ... environment.”

In developing ways to overcome carbon emissions, Davis said she

was not as concerned about initiatives such as recycling, which only pertain to the one percent of emissions produced by waste.

“When people talk about sustainability, often their entry level discussion is about recycling,” she said. “That can be kind of frustrating when you realize that what’s really going on is energy from buildings and transportation.”

Davis instead decided to focus on targeting building emissions. In planning, she was very excited to find out that a large portion of all buildings in the city were owned by the local government, Harvard University or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and decided to begin collaborating with the schools.

“If we unite together and decide what we’re going to do about energy, that’s a lot just by itself,” she said.

Both Harvard and MIT, she explained, have already begun projects to become more green. Before Davis began her term as mayor, MIT had already announced a commitment to finding energy solutions through technology, she said.

Harvard, too, has a plan to reduce its green house gas emissions by 30 percent before 2016.

Using her new position, Davis began a year of meetings with the administrators from both universities to begin a collaboration project that would eventually be known as the “Community Compact for a Sustainable Future” (Compact).

“Between the city and the universities we had so much going for us,” she said. “United together, we would be able to make a big difference.” see CAMBRIDGE, page 2

Students discuss sex positivity, potential to host sex week by

Maya Blackstone

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Envision this: students taking yoga classes around campus, performing scenes from plays, body painting and much more — naked.

While it may sound impossible, it’s not. These activities all took place during “Sex Week” at Brown University, sponsored by the school’s student-run Sexual Health Education and Empowerment Council (SHEEC) last month.

During “Sex Week,” SHEEC encouraged students at Brown who were comfortable with the idea to participate in workshops and activities in the nude. Other events offered included Nude Open Mic Night, Nude Body Painting, personal testimonies about nudity, film screenings and a variety of workshops led by both faculty and guest speakers.

In addition to SHEEC at Brown, groups at other universities have also created their own versions

of sex week, including at Yale and Dartmouth last February and Harvard this fall.

Freshman Harry Weissman speculated on the potential for a sex week on campus.

“I think we’re accepting and liberal enough to have the potential for a sex week, but we’re not quite there yet. It wouldn’t be appropriate to suddenly have naked programming next week or even next semester,” Weissman said. “We could have a program like Brown eventually, but it would probably be a gradual process. For example, initially people only strip down to their underwear, and then in follow-up programs and events they can make it fully nude.”

Junior Ruby Vail, president of Voices for Choice (VOX), compared the success of VOX’s sex-related programs to those that would be created for a sex week. VOX, a sex education organization at Tufts, is an affiliate group of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. In the past, VOX has put together program-

ming such as a Sex Fair and the Oh Megan! event. Hosted on Nov. 4., Vail said the event was a success.

“Megan Andelloux comes to Tufts every year and gives a workshop on various topics on sexuality and the politics of sex,” Vail said. “The lecture this year was about oral sex and last year the event was on orchestrating orgasms. In both cases the presentations follow the same format which also includes issues of consent and communication.”

Vail said that hosting Andelloux on campus does much to engage a culture of sex positivity on campus.

“Megan’s being here does a lot to destigmatize conversations about sex, and she’s very inclusive.

There are people who are going because they think it’s funny, but these people ... also get a lot of information about oral sex and consent in general,” Vail said.

Sophomore Molly Schulman, who is the director of the Vagina Monologues, has a different view on the impact of events like these.

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While student organizations at Brown and Harvard have sponsored sex weeks this fall, the only Tufts programming related to sex positivity was Voice for Choices’ Sex Fair and Oh Megan! events.

“Some events, like Oh Megan!, are just not that accessible. People here don’t want to go to events to discuss feminism or sexuality. Whenever you try to bring up

feminism, men and even some women avoid the issue and are scared,” Schulman said. “It’s see SEX WEEK, page 2

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In order to demonstrate the results of the partnership, Davis played a short video showing clips of interviews with some of the university and town administrators involved in the project.

After the video, Davis explained that business and other organizations in the community also play a large role in the collaboration project. Because the Cambridge mayor’s term only lasts two years, Davis knew she had to ensure many community members were involved so that the project would continue after her term.

“One of the big things that happened

when I met with university representatives is they said, ‘It can’t just be us,’” Davis said. “It can’t just be universities working with the city. We really have to reach out to businesses in the community.”

So far, Davis has added 25 local business signatories to Compact and planned to contact two or three other businesses that day. Surprisingly, she said, many of the business representatives contacted her with interest in joining the project.

Since Compact was officially signed in May, members have begun a number of initiatives in areas such as improving energy efficiency, adopting renewable energy alternatives and encouraging

greener transportation methods.

Davis said she was grateful to head a university city, as college students are often more enthusiastic than other residents about starting environmental initiatives and making change.

At the end of the presentation, Davis encouraged the audience members to do their part in creating a sustainable future using their personal talents.

“You all have a role to play because it’s only in pulling everyone together that these very many initiatives and this great amount of work needs to be done,” she said.

A question and answer session followed the presentation.

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almost taboo to be a feminist and learn about feminism and sex.”

Schulman offered some insight from the production side of the Vagina Monologues show, and pointed out that a Tufts sex week could change perspectives on campus about sex discussion and positivity.

“People came into the Vagina Monologues expecting it to be sexualized and funny, even a spectacle. But many left with a different perspective,” she said. “Through participating in the Vagina Monologues, I became aware that any individual has the power to change what they thought of reality as before. You can say no to someone and stand up for yourself and you can talk about vaginas. A sex week has the power to change both those who participate and those who observe.”

Vail pointed out, however, that some of the student body is not necessarily comfortable with discussions of sex, citing the Sex Fair that VOX hosts.

“The Sex Fair is an evening of fun, silly activities, but it also offers more resource based programs, about birth control, consent culture and sexuality. Most people were open to the fair, but I think there were some people who were also definitely uncomfortable with some aspects, like the booth on pornography,” Vail said.

In addition, the cancelation of the Naked Quad Run (NQR) poses the question of whether the student body would be able to handle a sex week maturely.

The mythic naked run was a campus tradition until it was canceled in 2011

because of excessive alcohol abuse.

According to Schulman, right now the Tufts student body is not ready for a sex week.

“It will be a long time before I start thinking that this campus is mature and open enough to be a completely sexpositive campus and to handle an event like this. I don’t think that there is a real culture of sex positivity.” Schulman said. “In general, there is a pressure to act a certain way because of your gender and the culture of [perceiving] women as objects.”

Vail pointed out, on the other hand, that some of the student body may be mature enough to handle a sex week.

“Tufts is a mixed student body, there are people who came to Tufts for the open and activist environment and they are open to sex positivity, but there are also people who choose Tufts for the typical college experience.”

With the discussion on whether to host a sex week and the debate on whether students are mature enough to handle one, another factor to take into consideration is the administration. Interim Program Director of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Sonia Hofkosh speculated that the Group of Six would probably participate in such a week.

“If Tufts were to have a week devoted to discussions of sex, the [Group of Six] Centers and students working with the centers would mostly likely take the lead. The academic program in WGSS collaborates with the centers and there is overlap in our concerns of course. As faculty, we would

most likely participate in such a week of discussion from the point of view of classroom curriculum and research in the field,” Hofkosh said.

Regardless of varying student and faculty reactions, many are in agreement on the importance of hosting an event like Sex Week and the benefits it could provide to students at Tufts.

“Tufts is a liberal campus but it’s also a very politically correct campus. Issues involving transgender or pansexual people are not widely talked about. People don’t know a lot about these issues, and they don’t know what it’s like to think about sex on a wider scale,” Schulman said. “A sex week could give people more education on these subjects, and the way to be open is education.”

In addition, Schulman said that a sex week at Tufts could improve the discussions on campus about giving consent.

“There is not a model for sexual assault awareness, and talk about consent, or the moment of consent. I see this reflected in the student body here when I go out and also in the media,” she said. “There are so many people here who just don’t know how to have these conversations. A sex week could open up discussion and teach people about openness.”

According to Vail, the advantage of having a sex week at Tufts — or on any college campus — is that there is no standard for sex education in the U.S. “Something like a sex week is important in a country where there are no standards for sex education and events like these can make it easier to talk about sex,” Vail said.

Corrections

In the Nov. 5 News article “Tufts community explores racial injustice with Black Solidarity Day,” it was incorrectly stated that student sophomore Renee Vallejo identifies as a lesbian. In fact, Vallejo identifies as gay. In the same article, the headline was misleading. In fact, the Tufts community shared experiences, as well as views on black solidarity and anti-blackness.

In the Nov. 7 News article “Department of Biology to move to new location,” it was incorrectly stated that the Department of Biology may move to a warehouse located at 574 Boston Ave. In fact, the department may move to a new space behind Anderson Hall.

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‘Diana’ falls flat with sloppy script, dishonest characters by

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The greatest films give us what we need, not what we want. This distinction lies at the core of the some of the best

Diana Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel Starring Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Douglas Hodge, Cas Anvar films ever made — without it, Colonel Kurtz would have come home and gone to therapy, the issues of the Corleone family could have been solved over a spaghetti dinner and Jack Torrance would have written a great book. Audiences pay for what they want and seldom seek what they actually need. True to this pattern, “Diana” attempts to give audiences only what they want, and as a result, is wholly underwhelming.

Oliver Hirschbiegel’s “Diana” follows the last two years of the titular Princess Diana’s (Naomi Watts) life as she engages in a passionate, secret affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews).

While the premise holds potential, the script delivers nothing substantial to sustain it. Though it is subpar, the clumsy and awkward dialogue is probably one of the best elements of the movie, because the narrative itself is practically nonexistent.

The plot — if it can be called that at all — meanders through the twists and turns of the climactic moments of Diana’s final years. At best, it is vapid; at worst, boring and disagreeable. While Watts could most certainly have soared as Diana, the script gives her next to nothing to work with. As a result, the only reason left for audience members to empathize with the film’s onscreen protagonist is if they actually cared for the beloved late princess in real life.

Even hardcore Diana fans will be lost by the end of the film, however, as verisimilitude and honesty are thrown out the window in favor of pulp and Kardashian-

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Naomi Watts’ talent is buried under a poor script. esque conflict. Yet in the midst of such heavy plot degeneration, there is a silver lining. Cinematographer Rainer Klausmann does a spectacular job, utilizing subtle color grading and stunning deep focus to make “Diana” look, and at times feel, like a movie worth watching.

However, even Klausmann’s camera work cannot save the film from itself. Similarly, art director Mark Ragget and costume designer Julian Day deliver an understated yet encapsulating mise-en-scène of the not-too-distant past, using muted tones and punctuating highlights to bring the glamour to life. Sadly, without a story to guide it, the pleasing aesthetic can only hold the viewer’s attention for so long before losing purpose.

During her life, Diana was somewhat of an obsession in America. Something about her spunk, grace and delicate ability to balance both strength and charm enchanted Americans in the ‘90s, many of whom saw her a reflection of themselves. She was beautiful and compassionate — the epitome of class.

The true story of Diana’s life is dramatic and compelling, yet by failing to recognize the simple impact of one iconic life, the film continues to disappoint. In writing this script, Stephen Jeffreys has not only forgotten the natural drama of Diana’s life, but also ignored her naturally empathetic character. Although the film attempts to examine Diana as a victim of fame, it loses itself in excessive melodramas and plot twists. The result is dehumanizing — a fame-obsessed piece of media that makes a victim of Diana once again.

With “Diana,” Hirschbiegel attempts to give us what we want: the juicy, “real” story behind Diana’s affair and death. At its very best, “Diana” could have been a shallow and indulgent film. Forgoing the truth of her history in both narrative and character render even this superficial goal impossible. “Diana” not only fails to entertain, but it also dishonestly disrespects the very subject of the film. Put simply, the film is not worthy of a trip to the theater.

TV Review

Historical inaccuracy, lackluster plot detract from ‘Reign’

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Sometimes shows that borrow inspiration from other television series succeed by blending together separate ele-

Reign Starring Adelaide Kane, Megan Follows, Toby Regbo

Airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on CW ments to create something entirely new and enjoyable. The CW’s new drama, “Reign,” certainly bears resemblance to past shows, with a cliched love triangle reminiscent of “The Vampire Diaries” (2009-present) and the same political maneuvering style of “Gossip Girl” (2007-2012). Unfortunately, “Reign” fails live up to these predecessors.

“Reign” follows the teenage years of Mary, Queen of Scotland, as she moves to France to wed Prince Francis and secure an alliance between the two countries. She takes care to guard against her enemies in England, who attempt to steal her throne numerous times. The characters in “Reign,” however, are reactive instead of proactive. Rather than being character-driven, the plot is propelled forward by events — something that greatly reduces the show’s potential.

With a ghost loose in the castle, a mysterious and deadly forest and assassination attempts on Mary’s life, the plot could have been engaging, but instead loses its focus.

Queen Mary (Adelaide Kane) is alto-

gether too sweet and caring to be the steely queen she needs to be, but her devotion to the throne is apparent. Most importantly, she appears to have her priorities in order and usually prefers to err on the side of caution, instead of recklessly putting her life in danger.

Her betrothed, Prince Francis II (Toby Regbo), is France’s rightful heir. His character is uninspired and rather meaningless, except to provide romantic tension for the show. Thankfully, Mary recognizes these qualities and eschews him fairly early. If his character develops over the course of the season, Francis could become a likeable, redeemable man — but seems uncertain.

As the illegitimate son of the French king and his mistress, Sebastian (Torrance Coombs) is one of the show’s best-written characters. With witty dialogue and a fun, easy personality, Sebastian is a highlight of “Reign.” He has a variety of talents but lacks the seriousness that Francis, as the future king, must exhibit. Instead, his playful yet knowledgeable demeanor is a breath of fresh air.

Viewers who have studied Queen Mary will be sorely disappointed, as the series is far from historically accurate.

The show takes many creative liberties that may be unpalatable to those who actually want to see a factual snapshot of history. Indeed, this historical deviance is quite noticeable: The fashion is decidedly modern, new characters have been invented and many historical facts — especially those concerning Mary’s death — are blatantly untrue. “Reign” doesn’t necessarily need to rigidly follow the facts, but it does seem strange

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Songs from The Lumineers are featured on the soundtrack for ‘Reign,’ one highlight of an otherwise disappointing series. that so many of show’s details are fictitious. For viewers who only have a rudimentary familiarity with Mary’s life as queen, the lack of accuracy will be a non-issue, but “Reign” is definitely not for the history buff.

One of the only outstanding qualities is the show’s soundtrack, which features beautiful and catchy songs. With songs by The Lumineers and other popular bands, “Reign’s” music is an exquisite mix of pop and alternative folk. Another respectable

aspect of the show is its cinematography.

Instead of boring facial shots during a break in dialogue, the angles are edited in such a way that the footage appears fresh, original and uncontrived.

“Reign” will delight fans who want a candied version of Queen Mary, rife with romantic struggles and pseudo-politics.

It seems to work best as a guilty pleasure, but for those viewers who want an intelligent drama and historical accuracy, be sure to steer clear of “Reign.”

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was part of a group that campaigned to change that.

“Ian and a few other Tier II captains spent a lot of time last year fighting to get some funding and more access to fields,” Stinson said.

“And with the help of Branwen Smith-King in the athletics department, they were able to get that done for this year. We received direct funding this season for the first time.”

“We submit a budget, and the athletic department does what they can to get us funding,” O’Malley added. “We really appreciate getting funding this year; it really helped us out when we made the regional tournament.”

Both players stressed that while they are grateful for the developments in club funding over the last year, there are still improvements to be made.

“After finally getting funding this year, our next step with the athletic department is improving access to facilities,” O’Malley said. “We are a very competitive club and need more field space to practice during the fall. Also, athletics allowed us to have one home game this year, but in the future it would be better if we could have all of our home games on Bello [Field] so that we don’t have to pay to rent an off-campus field every time we host games.”

The fact that Tufts has an A and a B team also presents a challenge.

“We have two club soccer teams here at Tufts, which is very unique in the league that we play in,” Stinson said. “It would be great if the second team here could receive more support in terms of funding, access to the club sports van and more field space and time.”

While the battle for funding rolls on, the team continues to practice and scrimmage indoors as it prepares to compete in the

Venom Cup, an indoor soccer tournament held in Gantcher every fall semester, which also serves as the biggest fundraiser of the year. The date for this year’s tournament is still undetermined, as the teams are awaiting confirmation from the executive board that Gantcher can be reserved.

The tournament is a 5 vs. 5 competition that fields about 16 teams who play three 25-minute games. The winners of the tournament receive gift cards from local businesses such as JP Licks, Boston Burger Co., Boloco, Redbones and others.

“The last one we held was our most successful tournament,” O’Malley said.

“We usually have a couple TUFC teams, a few varsity teams, as well as teams from Harvard, BU, BC, Northeastern, Babson, Fletcher and others. It is turning into a very competitive tournament.”

In a short amount of time, O’Malley and Stinson have managed to change the culture and perception of Tufts club soccer, fielding a more competitive squad on the field and receiving more funding and recognition to support this improved performance.

“The club has come so far during my time at Tufts,” Stinson said. “It was a fun experience my freshman year, and it was great to just have the opportunity to play a few competitive games during the semester. Now, the league has become much more organized and our club has become much more competitive.”

Ultimately, the club’s renaissance could culminate with even greater success in the near future.

“This year was the first time in TUFC history that we made the regional tournament,” O’Malley said. “I really hope the team can go on to win that tournament in the future because I didn’t see any teams down there that we couldn’t beat.”

Tufts football’s last game of the season will take place tomorrow on Zimman Field at 12:30 p.m.

The Jumbos will try to snap their 30-game losing streak against the 6-1 Middlebury Panthers.

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back McCallum Foote, who leads the NESCAC in passing yards per game (337.6) and touchdown passes (19), both by large margins.

Civetti suggested Foote may be the best quarterback in all of Div. III. His skill set has affected the team’s preparation during the week.

“We changed a little bit how we practiced this week so we could get some extra looks in, because obviously McCallum Foote provides some different challenges,” Civetti said.

Middlebury is first in the conference in passing and last in rushing. At Amherst, Foote threw a mind-boggling 84 times, completing 54 passes and throwing five

interceptions while amassing 459 yards.

Middlebury lost that game, 37-16.

If the Panthers win tomorrow, they will finish the season 7-1. Meanwhile, Wesleyan (7-0) is playing at Trinity (5-2), and Amherst (6-1) is playing at Williams (2-5). If Wesleyan loses — the Cardinals are trying to snap the Bantam’s 50-game home winning streak — that will open up the door for Middlebury and Amherst to earn a share of the conference crown.

The Jumbos, who last defeated the Panthers in 2001, have little to lose.

And of course, they have their pride to protect.

“We don’t want last week to be our last taste of Tufts football,” Sobo said. “It’s important that we go out on the right note, whatever that may be.”

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Zachey Kliger

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Roughly 30 Tufts students showed up at Bello Field to try out for the men’s Tufts University Football Club (TUFC) on Labor Day weekend in 2011. In line with the intramural philosophy, all 30 made the squad.

That semester, the team was winless in all of its league games against other schools in the Boston area, finishing with an 0-5-1 record.

Following the 2011 fall season, current seniors Jordan Stinson and Ian O’Malley were elected captains of the team by their teammates, a position they have held for two years. The club does not have a coach, so the captains act as coaches, determining rosters, running practices, selecting team lineups and making substitutions during games. Of course, winning more games was at the top of their agenda. But more importantly, the co-captains strived to change the culture of club soccer at Tufts.

“When I joined TUFC, it really wasn’t too competitive. It started to get a little more competitive my sophomore year, but we didn’t win any league games during that season,” O’Malley said. “After that season, Jordan and I became captains and really decided that we wanted to turn the club around and make it much more competitive. We ended up making cuts and running very competitive practices to prepare our team for the season.”

Now, players who try out for the team endure a cut-throat tryout process, intense practice sessions multiple days a week and strong competition from teams throughout the Northeast. And the field is more talented than ever before.

“The majority of the TUFC A Team players have either played a season with the varsity team or have practiced with the varsity team in the offseason or preseason,” O’Malley said. “We have a lot of players who are close to playing on the varsity team, and we’ve also had players who could’ve played varsity but did not want to make the commitment.”

O’Malley believes that the club team has improved to such an extent that it could even be a formidable opponent for the men’s varsity squad.

“I think TUFC can compete with the varsity team,” he said. “We would love to scrimmage them. I think it would be a

very competitive game.”

This fall, around 90 players showed up for tryouts. Held over a two-day period, the tryouts began with basic drills to evaluate each player’s technical ability and gradually moved to small-sided 3 vs. 3 and 5 vs. 5 scrimmages to determine how individuals perform under pressure. This time around, Stinson and O’Malley parsed through the talent and chose the best 50 players, setting the rosters for the A and B teams.

Their results on the field improved dramatically. In 2012, the team played to a 7-1-1 record, its best mark since the club’s founding in 2006. Building off last year’s success, the team went 7-3-1 this fall, including a draw against a Northeastern squad that qualified for Nationals, a tournament reserved for the best club teams in the country. Tufts’ solid play was rewarded with a bid to the regional tournament, the first such invitation in TUFC history.

“It was awesome to see the hard work and effort that Ian and I put into the team turn into solid results for the club,” Stinson said.

“We qualified for the regional tournament in Pennsylvania for the first time ever. Although we could definitely have done better at the tournament, it was still a quality experience to go down there as one of the two Div. III schools and compete.”

The Tufts A team currently ranks eighth out of 25 teams in the official Region 1 Club Soccer rankings. The club’s performance and standing is particularly impressive considering the stiff regional competition.

“We have a lot of good competition in the Boston area,” O’Malley said. “The other schools with club soccer are basically all Div. I schools. We play teams like Harvard, BU, BC, Northeastern, Brown, UConn, Dartmouth, Vermont, [University of] Maine — and all of these schools have a lot of resources at their disposal. Many of the teams have coaches as well.”

While the turnaround on the field has been nothing short of remarkable, the club has also become more competitive off of it in the battle for funding. Men’s soccer is a Tier II club sport because Tier I is confined to club sports that do not have associated varsity sports. Up until this year, only Tier I sports could receive funding for their seasons, but TUFC see CLUB SOCCER, page 7

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Aaron Leibowitz

Daily Editorial Board

To say the odds will be stacked against the Jumbos when they step onto Zimman Field to face the Middlebury Panthers tomorrow (12:30 p.m.) would be an understatement. Tufts has lost 30 consecutive games and is coming off arguably its worst performance of the season, a 37-0 shellacking at Colby.

Middlebury is 6-1 and could win a share of the NESCAC title.

But the Jumbos have something to play for in the season finale: their pride. The players and coaches see a program on the brink of recovery. A good effort against the Panthers would set the tone for continued improvement and show outsiders that this team is serious about competing.

“Our backs are against the wall,” fifthyear receiver Nick Kenyon, the Jumbos’ lone player who has experienced multiple victories, said. “There would be nothing better than sending us out with a win.”

The game carries special meaning for the nine seniors who have stuck it out to the end: Kenyon, tri-captains Sean Harrington and Connor Glazier, Nate Marchand, Nash Simpson, Cord Deal, Jon Sobo, Ryan Pollock and Matt Johnson. (Simpson and Deal were each away from the program for a year; Johnson has not played this season due to a torn pectoral muscle.)

In 2010, the Class of 2014 was 21 deep. Now, after four, frustrating years, nine remain.

“A lot of their friends either aren’t here at school or are somewhere on campus, but they’re not out here with us,” head coach Jay Civetti said. “This group of guys [has gone] through their college career with one win, and still come out and fight, still come out and push every day.”

While the results have yet to show on the field, the seniors have watched Tufts football undergo a major culture change during their time here. In many ways, they have also helped spark that change.

“The amount of progress we’ve made is unbelievable,” Kenyon said. “When I first came in here, football was treated very lightly.

Guys weren’t nearly as committed. But coach Civetti has done an amazing job in making the program respectable on campus.”

Regardless of what happens tomorrow, the seniors know they have made their mark.

“All I wanted to do my senior year was to leave this program better than it was when I came into it my freshman year,” Harrington said. “I can definitely say that’s happened.”

This year especially, Harrington has helped establish the program’s legitimacy, keeping the Jumbos focused on the field and encouraging a more demanding offseason regimen. Sooner than later, he believes his hard work will pay dividends.

“Whether it’s this game or it’s next season, when we get that first win ... it’s gonna be like that [work] wasn’t for nothing.

Those four years weren’t for nothing.”

QB battle, again Tomorrow’s starting quarterback will either be freshman Alex Snyder, who has started the last three games and was a game-time decision last week due to an undisclosed illness, or junior Jack Doll, who started the first four games and returned Monday from a tear in his left (non-throwing) labrum.

Civetti had not yet named a starter at press time.

The battle presents a dilemma between a fresh face in Snyder, who threw four touchdowns against Williams but has had trouble since, and a more experienced player in Doll, who had his moments early in the season but also made some critical mistakes. “I think any time there’s competition, that’s a good sign,” Civetti said. “That shows that Jack’s come back and he’s hungry. Is he injured? Yeah, [but] it’s his off-throwing arm. I’m just glad he’s able to come back and compete.”

Civetti also has high expectations for the freshman from Colorado with a rocket-arm.

“Alex had a great Williams game, had an OK Amherst game, and whether you want to use the sickness as an excuse or not [against Colby], we need him to step up and make plays,” Civetti said.

Foote-ball Tufts’ biggest concern tomorrow will be Middlebury’s senior quartersee FOOTBALL, page 7

Quidditch

Tufts Quidditch looks to keep rolling after strong performance at Turtle Cup by

Ross Dember

Daily Editorial Board

The Tufts Quidditch team, the Tufflepuffs, entered the 2013 season as one of the top programs in North America, and they have only improved their reputation this season. With a program building on its recent success, the Tufflepuffs have turned a mix of young and veteran players into a formidable force that is well on its way to competing in the World Cup come April.

No. 16 Tufts has been battling some of the top teams in the country (and Canada) throughout the fall. Most recently, their results at the Turtle Cup at the University of Maryland on the weekend of Oct. 26 proved that Tufts can compete with the best in the country.

After sweeping the round-robin portion of the weekend, Tufts easily handled the University of Richmond, going on a 40-point run as Richmond dealt with early penalty trouble. By the time senior seeker BJ Mestnik grabbed the snitch to clinch the 120-40 win, the Tufflepuffs were on their way to the semifinals.

The semifinals saw Tufts as underdogs against the No. 7 NYDC Capitalists, an all-star team of former college Quidditch standouts.

Once again, Tufts jumped out to an early lead and kept the game close.

It was a marathon of a match, yet Mestnik was able to grab the snitch to cap off a 190-170 upset. An ensuing loss to No. 9 Emerson did little to dampen the mark Tufts left on the competition.

“Their beater strategy definitely won the game,” NYDC keeper Michael Parada said of the semifinals. “We couldn’t take advantage of our athleticism.”

Parada, a former standout at Penn State and one of the top players in the country, left the game impressed with the Tufflepuffs. He praised sophomore Hannah DaBaets as one of the best female chasers in college and called the team’s strategy “one of the best in the country.”

What they lack in athleticism, the Tufflepuffs make up for in depth and tactics. Tufts has taken advantage of a rule stating that, of the team’s seven players in the game, at least two must be of differ-

ent gender than the others. While some teams treat this as a handicap, junior Matthew Cardarelli considers the female players to be the team’s biggest strength. This topdown talent allows the Tufflepuffs to rely on their depth, which helped them overcome injuries to players like senior Michael Sanders during the Turtle Cup. The Tufflepuffs have made changes to adapt to a sport that is still in its relative infancy. Last year, the Tufflepuffs qualified for the World Cup (the Super Bowl of the Quidditch world) but once again failed to match their second-place finish in 2010.

But Tufts took away some key lessons from the experience.

The beater strategy that perplexed NYDC was adopted from West coast teams, who tend to use a more aggressive defense than their eastern counterparts.

With beaters such as Cardarelli, Sanders and sophomore Arlene Rosenberg playing out front, the Tufflepuffs have pushed back opponents, opening the field for their chasers while relying on

Courtesy Michael E. Mason

Coming off a strong performance at the Turtle Cup, junior keeper Steven Mullahoo and the Tufflepuffs are looking forward to the Northeast Regionals. junior keeper Steven Mullahoo to protect the net and provide additional offense.

Although juniors and seniors have grabbed the headlines, the underclassmen provide reason for optimism both now and for the future.

“Recruiting has really picked up over the last two years,” Cardarelli said. “The reason we have been

improving so quickly is ... the amount of young players that have really picked up the sport.”

The Tufflepuffs are now gearing up for Northeast Regionals on Nov. 16-17. While they will have to cope without Mestnik at Regionals, the Tufflepuffs are considered near locks to place in the top 12 and secure another trip to the World Cup in April.