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Commons to take meal swipes on weekend nights

by Julia

Doyle

Contributing Writer

Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on Nov. 17 unanimously passed a resolution calling for latenight dining options in the DewickMacPhie or Carmichael Dining Hall between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. As a result of the resolution, the Commons Deli and Grill will accept the meal plan on Friday and Saturday evenings as of next semester.

The resolution, proposed by senators Christie Maciejewski and Isabella Kahhale of the Services Committee, cited multiple advantages of opening the dining halls at late hours, including creating a study space and establishing a safe area for students at night.

“The point of having the dining hall open was to create a safe space for students to gather,” Kahhale, a freshman, said. “It’s dangerous that there is no food offered on Friday and Saturday nights when people are drinking, and we don’t want students standing in the street in front of Moe’s, since that is also a safety concern.”

The financial risk of opening a dining hall for a fourth meal, which would require late night staffing and sufficient food supplies, is a concern, Maciejewski said. For this reason, the Commons Deli and Grill will offer a late-night meal option as, at least, a temporary replacement to late-night dining hall hours.

With the motive of ascertaining student interest for the late night dining option, Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos is collaborating with Maciejewski and Kahhale to develop the Friday and Saturday night meal swipe option, the senators said. Since the Commons is already open and staffed in the evenings, this option would be less costly than opening Dewick-MacPhie or Carmichael at night, though food supplies and staffing at the Commons would need to increase.

Maciejewski hopes the Commons area will benefit from the new option and serve as a community space during late hours.

“We are hoping it will revitalize the [Mayer Campus Center],” Maciejewski, a senior, said. “It is the space where you are supposed to hang out on weekend nights. Maybe this will make it a more lively space that people will want to visit.”

Kahhale and Maciejewski added, however, that adding a meal swipe option at the Commons would not necessarily mean giving up on the possibility of opening a dining hall.

This new plan, Kahhale said, is merely to gauge student interest in latenight meals.

“It is not something that we asked for in the resolution, but it is something that we have discussed,” Maciejewski said. “We continue to keep this discussion about late-night dining going.”

According to Maciejewski, the see LATE-NIGHT, page 2

Courtesy Elizabeth Palma

Sophomore Elizabeth Palma, pictured above with other members of her student group United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ), this month joined Massachusetts Student Immigrant Movement (SIM) in Washington, D.C. to advocate for immigration policy reform.

Student advocates for immigration reform in Washington, D.C. by

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Sophomore Elizabeth Palma last month traveled to the nation’s capital with the Massachusetts Student Immigrant Movement (SIM) to make a case for immigrant policy reform before members of Congress.

The primary purpose of the trip was to pressure Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner to pass H.R.15, a comprehensive immigration reform bill based on a bill already approved in the Senate earlier this year, according to Palma.

“Right now it’s crucial for a lot of immigration reform activists to go down to D.C. to lobby,” she said. “It’s up to Speaker Boehner to get the piece of legislation in the House of Representatives.”

The lobbying effort, sponsored by United We Dream (UWD), lasted from Nov. 19 to 21 and brought together over 200 immigration reform activists from across the country, according to Palma.

UWD is currently the largest undocumented youth networking association in the country. SIM, a statewide organization affiliated with UWD, sent nine undocumented students and allies down from its Boston chapter.

“It was my first experience going into Washington, D.C and lobbying, and going into Congressmen and -women’s offices,” Palma said.

She described training all day on Nov. 19 and then waking up at 4 a.m. on Nov. 20 to begin the initiatives. The first activity involved setting up an empty Thanksgiving table in front of Boehner’s residence to represent all of the undocumented immigrants who would miss out on celebrating the holiday this year. DREAMers, student immigrants who qualify to benefit from the unapproved DREAM Act, shared stories of see WASHINGTON, page 2

Tufts Idea Competition to run in conjunction with $100K Competition by

Daniel Bottino

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The Tufts Gordon Institute’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (ELP) will offer a new “Tufts Ideas Competition” this spring semester, allowing participants the opportunity to have their preliminary business ideas judged in a competitive environment.

According to ELS Lecturer Inge Milde, manager of the competition, this new initiative represents an attempt to provide an alternative to the annual Tufts $100K Social and Classic New Ventures Competition (formerly the Tufts $100K Business Plan Competition) for students whose entrepreneurial initiatives may not be at the advanced stage expected by the $100K Competition.

“Last year we had an unprecedented number of applicants for the Tufts

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$100K [Competition],” Milde said.

“What we noticed was that there were quite a few applicants who were very strong, but maybe didn’t have quite enough meat on the bone ... but they seemed like very promising ideas.”

Milde explained that by creating a new competition geared toward applicants with early stage business ideas, ELP could provide an opportunity to further develop applicants’ proposals and initiatives.

Instead of one champion, the Ideas Competition will crown three to five winners, according to Milde.

These participants will be invited to take part in a series of workshops designed for the finalists of the $100K Competition, Milde said. In addition, Ideas Competition winners will receive a $1,000 cash prize.

Milde added that the workshops would provide a golden opportunity for

the winners to advance their entrepreneurial ideas and meet useful people.

According to Milde, submissions to the new competition will be judged by “screeners” chosen by Senior Lecturer and Director of the ELP at the Tufts Gordon Institute James Barlow. These screeners, she said, will be similar to those already used in the $100K Competition, which last year included alumni and faculty members.

Milde expressed confidence that the number of the applicants to the new competition would be substantial.

“I hope that we get a lot [of submissions] because you can submit multiple times to the Ideas Competition,” she said.

Milde hoped that the Ideas Competition would encourage future applicants for see COMPETITION, page 2

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‘Foreverly’ impresses with surprising collaboration between Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones.

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family separation before a crowd of about 200 and then held a candlelight vigil.

“Boehner peeked out the window, and so did his wife, but they didn’t come outside,” Palma said.

Lobbyists and activists then visited the office of two Republican congressmen whose signatures would be crucial for passing H.R.15. While neither congressman was available to speak, Palma and others were able to converse with the staff.

“You could see that they were very moved and very touched,” she said. “It’s not about politics. It’s about an actual human story. The second person [who greeted us] didn’t want to talk to us at all.

He was very dismissive and arrogant ...

[After we spoke], his total face structure changed ... He had very much become part of the movement with us.”

Two additional actions included visiting the office of Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and organizing an act of civil disobedience in the office of Representative Eric Cantor (R-Va.). Eleven activists allowed themselves to be arrested, representing the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, of whom 1,100 are deported each year, according to Palma.

“They were very brave to decide to get arrested,” she said. “One of the ones arrested was my roommate during my three days there.”

According to Latino Center Director Rub 謠Stern, 65,000 undocumented high school students graduate every year and cannot go to college or enter the workforce.

Although some institutions, including Harvard University, Lesley University and Tufts, accept undocumented students through informal methods, administrative and financial barriers still pose obstacles to higher education access, he said.

Boehner had previously dismissed immigration reform as a priority due to concerns about the national economy, according to Palma. The day after their lobbying efforts, however, Boehner stated that immigration reform was “absolutely not” dead.

“I think little steps like that is what’s really catalyzing this movement to be something bigger and [getting] out in the media,” Palma said. “A lot of people aren’t aware that this is happening.”

Palma is also a founder of United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ), an independent student group at Tufts formed this year in conjunction with SIM. UIJ seeks to raise awareness and support around the issue of undocumented immigrants.

“The reason I’m involved in this is because my parents are undocumented and I’m very vocal about that, and this is why it resonates very heavily with me,” Palma said.

UIJ was inspired by a retreat hosted by SIM this past spring, according to Stern.

The Latino Center and SIM have a history of cooperation and co-sponsorship for awareness events, and the center sponsored several students to attend the SIM Camp last year.

“That was really intended for students — both allies and undocumented students — to learn what they could do about [the issue],” Rebecca Pessoa, a sophomore, said.

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Elizabeth Palma and other students lobbying with Massachusetts Student Immigrant Movement (SIM) visited offices of Republican congressmen.

“The idea was to inspire students to start movements on their university campuses.”

After attending SIM Camp, Palma, Pessoa and others formed UIJ and obtained Tufts Community Union recognition in September, Stern said. This semester, the group helped sponsor the “Raise Up Massachusetts” rally in Davis Square and hosted an event to express solidarity for undocumented students at the University of Texas when the University

of Texas chapter of Young Conservatives at Texas organized a “Catch the Illegal Immigrant” game.

UIJ is currently in the process of determining what its next steps for action will be at the campus level, according to Stern.

“The question now is, ‘How does this involve Tufts?’” he said. “Currently at Tufts, there is no official policy for undocumented students ... That’s a way in which [UIJ] can have an impact.”

Winners to receive cash prizes COMPETITION

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the $100K Competition.

“The idea then is that [the Ideas Competition winners] can enter [the $100K Competition] next year, and even if they’re graduating, the $100K [Competition] has recently been opened up to recent alumni,” she said.

Although the Ideas Competition, in contrast to the $100K Competition, is not open to alumni, Milde emphasized that it is also intended to be a universitywide contest that is open to Tufts faculty and staff as well as students.

“It is not just about the Gordon Institute or the Entrepreneurial Leadership Program,” she said. “This is about students at [the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences], [the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine], [The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy], the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the New England Conservatory.

All these people are encouraged to apply.”

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As a result of a Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate resolution calling for late-night dining options, Commons Deli and Grill will accept meal plans on Friday and Saturday evenings beginning next semester.

Senators push for future late-night options in dining halls LATE-NIGHT

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resolution’s popularity in the Senate mirrored overwhelming interest from students.

After evaluating about 1,100 responses gathered through the Senate Services Survey, circulated online earlier this semester, Maciejewski and

Kahhale determined that about 74 percent of students were “interested in visiting a late-night dining facility on a regular basis.” Another 61 percent reported that they “would consider increasing their meal plan if the late-night dining option existed.”

While survey responses and

Senate action seem to show a great desire for late-night dining hall hours, the decision to open dining halls ultimately lies outside Senate jurisdiction.

“The survey showed more concrete numbers about student interest,” Maciejewski said. “It’s a combination of the resolution and the sur-

vey that reflect this interest, but ultimately it is a financial decision on [ Tufts Dining Services] part.”

In the future, Maciejewski and Kahhale hope to hear from students directly in order to collect verbatim opinions that would help them illustrate student interest in late-night dining.

Visiting the Hill this week MONDAY Humanizing Megascale Details: Internationally renowned architect Moshe Safdie, best known for designing the Habitat 67 community model in Montreal, will give the 10th Margaret Henderson Floyd Memorial Lecture. Safdie owns a firm based in Somerville.

When and Where: 6 p.m.; Cabot ASEAN Auditorium Sponsors: The Department of Art and Art History and the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning TUESDAY Should Felons Have the Right to

Vote? A Discussion on Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States Details: Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union Carl Williams and Third Vice President of the Boston National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Supreme Richardson will join Assistant Professor of Political Science Natalie Masuoka for a panel discussion on felon disenfranchisement.

When and Where: 8 p.m.; Barnum Hall 114 Sponsors: Tufts Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Tufts Democrats and the Peace and Justice Program

WEDNESDAY Rembrandt’s Art as Gift Details: Michael Zell, associate professor of Baroque and 18th century art at Boston University, will discuss the links between Rembrandt’s art and gift giving, a common form of negotiation in early modern Europe.

When and Where: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; 11 Talbot Avenue Sponsor: The Department of Art and Art History

Ohio State University Michelle Alexander, a civil rights advocate, will give the Gerald Gill Keynote lecture on her new bestseller, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” A book signing session will follow the lecture.

Tickets are available at the Aidekman Arts Center Box Office.

When and Where: 7 p.m.; Cohen Auditorium Sponsor: Tufts Center for the Study of Race and Democracy

THURSDAY Michelle Alexander (New Jim Crow) Keynote Lecture Details: Associate Professor of Law at

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New group mobilizes on immigrant justice issues by

Dani Bennett

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Issues surrounding immigration and its reform are back in the spotlight, both on the national level and at Tufts. On Friday, President Obama paid a visit to activists who have been fasting on the National Mall for weeks in an effort to move progress on an immigration reform overhaul, which would provide a pathway towards citizenship for undocumented citizens. On the Hill, a new student group called United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ) has sprung into action this semester to reinvigorate the discussion of these issues on campus.

UIJ held a rally at the lower patio of the Mayer Campus Center on Nov. 20 to display solidarity with undocumented immigrant students at University of Texas Austin. The rally responded to a game called “Catch an Illegal Immigrant,” which was hosted by the Young Conservatives of Texas at UT Austin. The game was eventually canceled after the university condemned it as “out of line with [its] values.”

UIJ also joined around 700 other people in a mass rally calling for immigration reform and justice in Boston last spring, and it joined the Tufts Labor Coalition and Tufts Democrats in hosting the “Raise Up Massachusetts: Rally for a Higher Minimum Wage” rally in Davis Square on Nov. 9.

The group, led by sophomores Liz Palma and Rebeca Pessoa, came into being after the two attended a national conference last year organized by the Student Immigration Movement (SIM).

SIM is an organization that works to mobilize youth on immigration issues in Massachusetts.

“Before the conference, starting a group was something that was already on our minds, because although there are a lot of political clubs and a lot of social justice clubs [on campus], there really aren’t any that encompass immigration,” Pessoa said.

According to Pessoa, the conference was attended both by undocumented immigrants and allies, such as herself.

Hearing the immigrants’ stories firsthand empowered her to make the club a reality.

Pessoa herself came to the United States from Brazil as a baby. Palma noted that her parents’ emigration from Mexico, as well as her upbringing in a predominantly Latino community where undocumented worker immigrant issues were prevalent, made her want to join the group.

UIJ, however, includes a wide variety of Tufts students, including junior Zobella Vinik.

“We’re a diverse group of individuals from all years who are excited about bringing an awareness of, and movement toward, immigration justice on our campus,” she said.

UIJ, while new, is replacing a former Tufts group called Students at Tufts Acting for Immigrant Rights (STAIR). According to the Africana Center, STAIR sought to focus on labor and foreign policy issues in relation to immigration, such as rights to freedom from discrimination. Palma, however, noted a lack of discussion on immigration issues at Tufts.

“I think some people are just afraid to bring up these issues, and it’s unfortunate that that is the case,” Palma said. “Also, once the DREAM Act didn’t go through in 2010, a lot of people just gave up.”

However, UIJ is making strides towards filling that silence. Pessoa spoke highly of the Boston-wide immigration rally the group attended last spring, which was organized by chapters of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Massachusetts Jobs with Justice and MassUniting.

“As UIJ that was our first event, and it was really awesome to be walking in solidarity with them,” she said.

The group’s “Raise Up Massachusetts” rally showcased the close relationship of labor issues and immigration issues.

In addition to a performance by Tufts

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Students in United for Immigrant Justice joined with previously established student groups Tufts Labor Coalition and Tufts Democrats to host the “Raise Up Massachusetts” rally in Davis Square.

B.E.A.T.S., the event included speeches by Lecturer of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Douglas Cliggott and Paula Castillo, an immigrant worker on the Tufts staff from El Salvador. Having worked at Tufts for 17 years, Castillo told her story as an immigrant from El Salvador.

“She was a great example of how workers are really dedicated,” Pessoa said. “She has so much respect for Tufts and for Tufts students, and she is very dedicated to her job — and she definitely deserves more than what she is making.”

At the event, Cliggott spoke about how most people think raising the minimum wage would be detrimental to the economy and that it is not an affordable option, but that in reality, it may be much more beneficial for society.

“He used the 1930s and the Great Depression as a parallel example,” Palma said. “He said that someone earning minimum wage would take 2,000 years to earn what a baseball player earns in a year. Hearing those kinds of stats was really powerful.”

According to Pessoa and Palma, he also argued that in economics classes at Tufts, professors do not necessarily teach those principles; contrary to his claims, professors generally say that lowering the minimum wage would not help the economy, which only exacerbates the problem.

The effort was part of the “Raise Up” campaign in the United States and specifically in Massachusetts that received strong support from Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). After the speeches and performance, the members of UIJ spread out to collect signatures for two petitions: one to raise minimum wage in Massachusetts and the other to give workers paid sick leave.

Pessoa and Palma believe the event was well received.

“There were families there, lots of kids, and some older people,” Pessoa said. “It was really cool because most people that were walking by would stop what they were doing to listen.”

Pessoa and Palma said they are enthusiastic about the group’s future. They are planning to create a mural of a humansized monarch butterfly in the lower patio of the Mayer Campus Center within the upcoming semesters to symbolize the movement of immigrants from the south of the United States to the north.

“A lot of people think that immigration doesn’t affect them,” Pessoa said. “But it’s really not just a Latino issue — it affects everyone in this country, and we believe that the butterfly mural will help spread that message.”

The butterfly mural had been originally planned for November to coincide with Immigrant Solidarity Month but was postponed to next semester due to financial limitations.

Professor of Political Science Deborah Schildkraut also spoke to Pessoa’s assertion that immigration is an American issue that affects Tufts students.

“The Boston area has a high rate of foreign-born residents, and many of our students are directly connected to the immigrant experience,” Schildkraut said. “Students here who might have much experience with immigration will have their views of immigrants and immigration affected merely by becoming friends, roommates, coworkers with immigrants and the children of immigrants.”

Somerville and Medford are home to a thriving immigrant community, making immigration issues especially relevant to all Tufts students, according to Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine Cora Ruth Roelofs, who teaches a senior seminar on immigration.

“Somerville and many of the communities surrounding Tufts are home to the peoples of all the world,” she said. “[Professor of Sociology] Susan Ostrander just published a fascinating book about immigration and citizenship in Somerville with a focus on the ‘old’ immigrants to Somerville — from Ireland, Portugal and Italy — and the new ones, from Brazil, Haiti and El Salvador.”

Schildkraut said that the issues that affect these “new” immigrants are the same issue for immigrants across the country.

“For many, having access to adequate and low-cost or free English instruction is a very big issue,” she said. “Local waiting lists for English classes are way too long.

For those who are undocumented, the fear of deportation is significant.”

The Tufts chapter of Committee for Refugees from El Salvador (CORES), known as Teach-in-CORES, tries to alleviate this situation for local immigrants by offering them English and citizenship classes. Palma and Pessoa both worked for CORES last year and found the experience to be fulfilling.

“It’s so crazy, I bet if you gave the citizenship test to non-immigrants, I’m positive that the majority of Americans could not pass it,” Pessoa said. “So Americans don’t even know the answers to these historical and cultural questions, but immigrants are expected to know them.”

For UIJ next semester, Pessoa and Palma plan to show a few documentaries on campus, including “Lost in Detention” and “The Dream is Now.” The first is a Frontline documentary, produced in 2011, examining the Secure Communities program that has both cracked down on targeting immigrant criminals and deported thousands of innocent immigrants. The second film is a 30-minute documentary by Davis Guggenheim, who also directed “Waiting for ‘Superman’” and “An Inconvenient Truth,” focusing on the undocumented children of immigrants.

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The home stretch

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irst, I’d just like to extend a warm welcome back to all of the Jumbos lucky enough to get off campus for Thanksgiving break. Even though break fell unusually late this year (hello, December!), a change of scenery is always welcome, and a change from dining hall food is always needed. Those four days off were, at least for me, a much-needed respite from college, homework and just intelligent life in general (although I do love my family dearly).

And now we are entering the final three weeks of the semester (two, if you’re lucky and have early finals). One last week of classes — plus Monday, what is up with that? — and then we’re plunged headfirst into the burning hell of finals. Now, you might have read my column a few weeks back about midterm season and about how finals are infinitely preferable. Well, that’s just proof that even the best of us must sometimes eat our words: Finals are way worse.

Not only are finals crammed together so as to make studying that much more impossible (I have one a day for four days straight), but there’s also that distracting heaven right on the other side: the tantalizing freedom of winter break. Knowing that just a few exams stand between you and vacation makes concentrating that much harder; obviously I would much rather be online selecting my Christmas presents with careful consideration. And then, of course, you have those awful, awful people who have very early finals (or maybe none at all — do you even go here?) and happily leave campus a week from this Thursday or Friday. Between you and me, every time I see another rosy-faced student with a rolling suitcase boarding the Joey when I’ve still got two finals left, all I want to do is strangle them with the holly hung up everywhere, or at least smack them in the face with a snowball made of ice.

And if, god forbid, it should snow, I will have to deal with all of the little westcoasters who will run to the window the moment the skies open and ooh and aah like they’ve never seen a snowflake before.

They’ll frolic outside in the snow, taking adorable Instagram pictures and catching unlucky students like me in the cross fires of their overly enthusiastic snowball fights. From someone who’s grown up with winter, all you need to know about snow is that it’s cold, wet and has a weird way of getting inside your boots and making your socks uncomfortably soggy. It’s beautiful, yes, but it’s one of those parts of nature best observed from a distance, like a hunting jaguar or a massive tsunami.

There are some benefits to being one of the Last Mohicans left on campus. When your lucky roommate peaces out on Dec. 12 at noon, you can do all sorts of wonderful things in your now-single. No one will judge you for going without sheets on your bed (really, it’s more trouble than it’s worth), clothes are optional and when you’ve been studying for long enough, even that weekold cup of ramen noodles your roommate left behind will start to look appetizing.

And, not that you’ll have time to go, but the gym will be deserted. Yay fitness!

Overall, finals are horrible. Perhaps horrible is not a strong enough word. When I say horrible, I mean watching your puppy get run over horrible, or trudging through the wind tunnel between Carm and Olin in a full-scale Nor’easter horrible. But, not to fear, Jumbos! If you have a high tolerance for pain, a low sleep requirement and are a good multiple-choice guesser, you might just make it through finals season with enough sanity to turn off the incessant Christmas music and go back to sleep.

Lex Erath is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at Alexandra.Erath@tufts.edu.

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Everly Brothers tribute album is fresh yet timeless by

Anjali Nair

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The idea of jazz singer Norah Jones and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong

Foreverly Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones Reprise Records collaborating on a country album is plain bizarre. The smooth crooner and the punk rocker are on opposite ends of the musical spectrum — a fusion of the two would be pure mayhem ... right?

With their Nov. 25 record, “Foreverly,” the unlikely pair completely shatters any and all expectations. Inspired by the Everly Brothers’ album “Songs Our Daddy Taught Us” (1958), “Foreverly” pays tribute to the legendary duo with a beautiful 12-song collection. A project like this could have gone seriously awry had Armstrong and Jones tried too hard to replicate the original versions of the songs. However, they manage to recreate the mellifluous harmonies and old-time feel of the classic album while simultaneously giving it a fresh 21st century makeover. It certainly helped that the record they chose to remake consists of classic Americana/folk tunes that the brothers reinterpreted themselves. “Foreverly” isn’t simply a set of Everly Brothers covers; it delves into the hearts of these traditional songs and revitalizes an almost-forgotten era of music.

Vocally, the album is almost flawless.

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Gaining fame as a punk-rocker with his band Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong shows his softer side on ‘Foreverly.’ works so well with Green Day, Armstrong reveals a remarkable tenderness and subtlety. Though his Green Day repertoire does include some ballad-esque tunes (remember 2004’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends”?), Armstrong’s voice in “Foreverly” is that of a far more mature man. Alongside Jones’ silky smooth harmonies, Armstrong’s vocals are pure magic.

This, as well as tastefully added instrumentation and creative arrangements, is what makes the record so enjoyable.

Movie Review

‘Philomena’ entertains, tugs at heartstrings Alex Kaufman

A film that lionizes and questions religion in the same breath, and moments later, has us cracking up by

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Philomena Directed by Stephen Frears Starring Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark about “effing” Catholics, “Philomena” will undoubtedly leave audiences in tears — tears of profound sadness and

from sidesplitting laughter.

Based on a true story, this comedic drama directed by Stephen Frears (2006’s “The Queen”) follows an unlikely pair — the strong-willed Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) and sarcastic journalist Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) — on their search for the child Philomena gave up for adoption 50 years ago.

Supported by its own twists and turns, “Philomena” successfully flits back and forth between comedy and drama at the drop of a hat. For the purpose of telling the story of the title character and her tortured years at Roscrea Covent, this technique works quite well. The constant shift see PHILOMENA, page 8

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Judi Dench delivers a moving performance as a religious woman in search of her longlost son.

“Roving Gambler” is the perfect opening track. It starts off with the strums of a simple acoustic guitar and eventually segues into a duet from Armstrong and Jones.

The addition of Jones’ higher voice accentuates the beauty of the harmonies, further demonstrating the amazing blend of the two singers. While the intro stays true to the Everlys’ mellow version, the pace quickens as a thumping bass drum kicks in. Soon, the see FOREVERLY, page 8

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‘Doctor Who’ special honors show’s history by

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Contributing Writer

Simulcast in 94 different countries and in more than 1,500 theaters to millions of viewers around the world, the BBC’s “Doctor Who” 50th Anniversary special, “The Day of the Doctor,” was an absolutely spectacular treat for the show’s dedicated fans. This record-breaking special has certainly earned its place as one of the greatest science fiction episodes of all time.

For viewers, cast and crew alike, there was much anticipation and preparation for the special. While many fans — often known as Whovians — were thrilled about the return of the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and his former companion (Billie Piper), the writers were confronted with a difficult task. Not only were they expected to pay homage to a long line of Doctors, but they also faced the challenge of making the episode stand out on its own merit. Luckily, they have succeeded: Showrunner Steven Moffat has outdone himself, achieving a perfect balance between the two.

While some of the episodes in season seven were criticized for being repetitive and anti-climactic, Moffat has redeemed himself with the anniversary special. He brings viewers an episode full of excitement, humor and, not surprisingly, fezzes — the Eleventh Doctor’s signature hat.

Two storylines run throughout the episode and later intersect. The minor arc involves the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companion Clara (Jenna Coleman) investigating the disappearance of figures from paintings hidden in the National see WHO, page 8

Ryan Buell | This Week in Hip-Hop

The preeminence of Chance the Rapper

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y now, just about everyone who follows new music has heard of Chance the Rapper. This is remarkable considering his lack of a radio single, let alone a label backed album.

Full of unique flows, awkward squawks and drug-laced introspection, Chance’s “Acid Rap,” released this year, has taken the Internet by storm and found its way into everyone and their mothers’ headphones.

So, how did this happen? How did a relatively unknown artist explode onto the rap scene, while totally bypassing the normal means of promotion?

The answer to this question begins with the music. To put it simply, Chance’s sound is different — very different. Of course, different doesn’t necessarily equate to universal approval (just ask Yeezus). However, what makes Chance special is that almost everyone likes him — I don’t think I’ve heard a single person speak ill of “Acid Rap.” It is this combination of innovation and likeability that has helped fans realize the brilliance of his music. He isn’t just pushing the boundaries of hip-hop; he’s doing it in a way that anyone can appreciate. Chance is bringing hip-hop to new listeners, and he’s also bringing new sounds to hip-hop listeners.

His distinctive rapping style — melodic, yet lurching — makes Chance instantly recognizable. Perhaps his voice helps explain how pervasive his influence has become: If someone were hearing Chance for the first time, they would be more likely to ask who he is, simply because his style is so unique.

And the noises — oh, the noises. Plenty of rappers use ad-libs, but nobody has mastered this technique like Chance has. His hilariously enjoyable squawks intersperse his instrumentals and provide emphasis at the end of lines. He even creates an entire hook consisting of noise making on “Na Na.” It’s just one more example of Chance’s ability to make unconventional music that still appeals to a wider audience.

And don’t let me undersell his lyricism.

“Acid Rap” is something of an adolescent struggle, featuring a prominent fightthe-man theme. Through a haze of weed smoke and acid-fueled inquiries, Chance uses his music to discuss a variety of issues in the context of his life in violencestricken Chicago and his rise in the rap world, all the while effortlessly switching between lighthearted and emotional tones. How many rappers can spit puns like “Keep a tab on my exes, keep some ‘X’ on my tongue” on one song (“Good Ass Intro”), and then mourn over the murder epidemic in Chicago on another (“Pusha Man (Paranoia)”), rhyming, “I hate crowded beaches, I hate the sound of fireworks / And I ponder what’s worse between knowing it’s over and dying first.” This demonstrates Chance’s versatility and honesty — two of his most impressive traits.

Amazingly innovative and splendidly upbeat, with the ability to be goofy on one song and painfully expressive on the next, Chance has been able to reach a hugely diverse audience. And here is where I make an entreaty to you, Tufts: Let’s get Chance the Rapper for Spring Fling 2014. He has the perfect combination of fun, lively music and widespread appeal. He has been known to put on a terrific live show, and he isn’t too big or too famous to come to Tufts (nor is he too washed up, i.e., Nelly). Much of the student body would enjoy and know his music — an important factor for a great concert.

And should you find yourself doubting the viability of Chance for Spring Fling, I encourage you to go listen to “Smoke Again” and imagine yourself seeing that live come April 2014.

Ryan Buell is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at Ryan.Buell@tufts.edu.

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Gallery. Meanwhile, the Time War — the conflict between the Doctors’ own race of the Time Lords and their enemies the Daleks — rages on. In this storyline, the War Doctor (John Hurt) is about to eliminate his home planet, Gallifrey, and the Time Lords, by detonating a weapon of mass destruction in order to end the war.

In a rather unusual plot twist, the weapon develops a conscience and allows him to step into the future to see what would result if he sacrifices Gallifrey. Unlike typical sentient machines in science fiction, this weapon — called the Moment — is interested in saving a planet, not destroying it.

Because of the Moment’s actions, the Eleventh and the War Doctors jump through time fissures. They end up in the Tenth Doctor’s timeline, where hilarity ensues.

The interaction among the three Doctors is unlike any in past multi-Doctor specials.

Hurt, Tennant and Smith have undeniable chemistry as they bicker amongst one another. While Doctors Ten and Eleven pass petty judgments back and forth, the War Doctor seems in a constant state of skepticism toward his future selves. Still, it is touching to see them work together and recognize the mutual respect they eventually develop.

Hurt’s Doctor is arguably the most complex regeneration in the show’s history. As the Eleventh Doctor rightly says, “[He was] the Doctor on the day it wasn’t possible to

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Show runner Steven Moffat (center) provides excellent material for stars Matt Smith (left) and Jenna Coleman (right). get it right.” Hurt’s interpretation of this tragic role is spot on. He is torn apart by the choice he has to make, even denying himself the title of a Doctor. The anguish

he feels as he mulls over his decision is palpable and affecting.

One of the most powerful scenes in the episode occurs when the War Doctor

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mentions the Time War to the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, creating tension between Ten — “the man who regrets” — and Eleven — “the man who forgets” — that gives the term “inner conflict” a whole new meaning. It shows both the audience and the War Doctor the lasting impact of the destruction of Gallifrey.

The extermination of the Time Lords was a pivotal point in “Doctor Who” history.

It turned the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) into a bitter, battle worn character. It filled the Tenth with regret. It drove the Eleventh to forget an entire portion of his life. These emotions fueled the Doctor during those lives and motivated him even further to help anyone in need.

Unfortunately, the episode’s conclusion seems too happy to be realistic and thereby reduces the dimensionality of the Doctor as a character. Nevertheless, Moffat deserves commendation for honoring the classic “Doctor Who” series and breaking new ground.

Although the Doctors featured in the special are from the reboot and a new, forgotten Doctor is introduced, the episode also pays tribute to the old Doctors.

Perhaps the most exciting was the cameo by fan favorite Tom Baker, who played the Fourth Doctor from 1974 until 1981.

The final scene of the special, with all 12 Doctors standing side by side, brings on a whirlwind of emotions. Seeing everyone involved in its multi-decade run together in one scene only further demonstrates the lasting legacy of the series.

‘Philomena’ expertly juggles comedy, drama PHILOMENA

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in tone creates a balance — the movie avoids becoming a sappy sob-fest or a tongue-incheek comedy by handling the heavy subject matter with grace and ease.

While impeccable writing and direction help the film to successfully bridge two genres, it’s the friendship between Coogan’s and Dench’s characters that lifts this film into the audience’s heart. The two discuss religion: how it can cause people to callously tear a child from his mother’s arms, who defines sin and how religious punishments are doled out. Through their laughs and discoveries along a journey that spans two continents, the two become a family of their own.

At 78, it’s clear that Judi Dench is not only in her prime, but that she is still refining her actor’s toolkit — though that’s not to say her earlier performances, like her roles in “Mrs. Brown” (1997) and “Notes on a Scandal” (2006), are unimpressive. Her honest rendering of a seemingly average mother’s struggle to find her lost child — a secret that she has kept for 50 years — and her portrayal of Philomena’s earnest religiosity in spite of a dark past demonstrate how religion has the power to keep hope alive. A challenge indeed to perform opposite a giant like Dench, Coogan rises to the occasion with one of the best leading male

performances of the year.

The film often flashes back to Philomena’s memories of the convent, revealing the details of her pregnancy and the merciless nuns who took her son Anthony away. These expertly handled flashbacks to Philomena’s past at Roscrea are blurred and grainy — a mark of their age. Though a young Philomena — played by the relatively unknown Sophie Kennedy Clark — spends most of her time on screen without lines, she still delivers a memorable performance.

In the present day, Philomena continues her search in spite of the convent’s reluctance to give her any information about her son’s whereabouts. This forces her to continue moving forward while simultaneously keeps her past within arm’s length. After she and Sixsmith travel to America, they finally learn what has become of Anthony — renamed Michael by his adoptive parents.

It’s not a happy discovery, to say the least.

Most movies would have stopped here or taken a reprieve, compelling the audience to cry its heart out.

Not “Philomena.” The film takes a short moment to breathe, but continues to produce both poignancy and humor for its remaining minutes. And as soon as tears threaten to start pouring down, our heroine brings us laughter amid her — and our — profound sadness.

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Philomena and Sixsmith develop a heart-warming friendship as they embark on a journey together.

But Philomena’s story is no joke — something that Frear and Dench make explicitly clear. They are able to make the best of Philomena’s journey but maintain the seriousness of her pain and sadness. Both the director and his star tread this infinitesimally fine line expertly.

“I didn’t see that coming, not in a million

years, Martin,” said Philomena, aptly capturing the audience’s journey throughout the film.

“Philomena” ends where it began — at Roscrea Covent. This time, however, Philomena and Sixsmith leave with the truth they so ardently sought, a new friend and perhaps a new family.

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Norah Jones teams up with Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day to pay tribute to the classic folk work of the Everly Brothers.

energy picks up even more with a full-fledged beat accompanied by the wail of a harmonica. These elements flesh out the tune as different sections come together like missing parts of a story started by the Everly Brothers and now completed by Armstrong and Jones.

The next song, “Long Time Gone,” is another highlight of the album. Calm but cutting, the lyrics talk about leaving an unfaithful lover: “You’ll regret the day you see me leaving / ’Cause when I leave, I’ll be a long time gone.” Armstrong and Jones’ joint falsetto during the refrain, along with the momentary absence of the drums, sends chills down the listener’s spine. Aside from these dynamic changes, the guitar solo also stands out, complete with classy double bends and pretty picking patterns.

The fifth track, “Down in the Willow Garden,” digresses from

the previously upbeat tone of the album. Jones’ angelic upper register is well suited to this ominous tale of murder. In the context of the song, the purity of her voice is Siren-like — haunting and dark, yet remaining absolutely flawless. Though Armstrong may not stand out as much on this number, a close listen will reveal an emotive, heart wrenching vocal delivery. Throughout the song, gentle piano trills and long strokes of a violin create a somber backdrop that ultimately fades out, leaving eerily faint guitar feedback as an afterthought.

Armstrong takes a more pronounced role in “Barbara Allen,” while in “I’m Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail,” Jones dominates. The former sounds like a typical Green Day song with a couple of fiddles tossed in. Without Jones continually masking the rougher parts of his voice, Armstrong loses sight of some of the finer nuances that make

the Everly Brothers’ version so poignant. Similarly, when Jones takes the lead on the latter, she regresses to her signature sultry, jazzy origins. It goes without saying that her style lends itself to the music more than Armstrong’s, so in this case, the sound works to her advantage.

While neither song is bad by any measure, they don’t represent the best of the album. Indeed, the strongest moments of the album always involve stunning duets.

By joining forces, Armstrong and Jones took a risk. Needless to say, it paid off because “Foreverly” is surprisingly warm and enchanting. The success of their collaboration goes beyond just album sales.

They’re introducing a set of classic songs to largely oblivious younger audiences, rendering them timeless.

What’s more, the two have found in each other a promising collaborator who can tackle musical endeavors with prowess. Let’s just hope that this partnership lasts “Foreverly.”

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As the chilling fog of finals begins to creep up upon inhabitants of Walnut Hill, students begin to stay up later and later pining over textbooks, crib sheets and code. Not only is there last minute studying to do, but final papers and projects must be completed by professors’ deadlines.

Although the addition of late night study hours at Carmichael Hall has helped to give students a place to congregate and study if they cannot work in their room (whether because of a sleeping roommate or a simple inability to stay inside the same 12’ by 12’ box for 12 straight hours), it does not address the need for more late night study space during this week, the final week of classes.

Many classes these days do not have a final exam scheduled during finals period, but instead assign final papers, projects or other cumulative assessments. This would not be a

problem for late night study except for the fact that many professors insist on having due dates before reading period even begins. Students with many final non-exam assessments do not have the option of spreading their studying around but instead are forced to complete this work in a very short period of time.

The problem is, outside of their dorms or their houses, this week in particular, students have no place to congregate during the late hours of the night. Although the reading room is open this week, late night hours do not go into effect until next week. The only large late night study area for studying is Eaton Hall; the Tisch reading room and, now, the Carmichael dining hall does not open until next week.

While adding Carmichael back into the mix last year clearly was a step in the right direction (a late night study trial had been done during finals 2001,

though it is not clear why that wasn’t continued), there are still other places that can be opened this week, the week before finals for many. Having the Mayer Campus Center, the Lilly Music Library or even all of Tisch open for full late night study would be beneficial for students. The circulation desk could be kept closed if that is a worry, but simply having the space available would be beneficial to students who simply cannot work elsewhere.

In the long run, the benefits of keeping late night study facilities open at later hours earlier in the calendar year cannot be understated. If Tufts wants to provide anti-procrastination tools to keep its student body whip-smart and active, then it only makes sense for the university to respect the diversity of course assessments in this final week of classes and keep more facilities open for longer.

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Dining with vegetarians

by Benjamin Sylvester The Triangle

I have gone to plenty of not-vegetarian-friendly restaurants with many nonvegetarian friends. Although it may seem to present itself as a dilemma, eating out with omnivores can be a worthwhile experience.

A menu at a primarily steak-and-potatoes joint can be daunting. I’m fairly sure your server won’t know which burger buns have milk products in them. Unfortunately, the salad option becomes our stigma because vegetables are apparently lamer than a juicy New York strip steak. Yet, the trick to making a salad option worthwhile is to order appetizers that you can add to the salad yourself. Most places have some sort of baked potato (sans bacon bits) that you can order with your salad to cut up into chunks. Now we’re starting to beef up your salad, so to speak. Some places,

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like Texas Roadhouse, my dad’s favorite, even have peanuts — a free addition to a somewhat sober-seeming salad. If you are really lucky and in a somewhat healthy steak (oxymoron?)-and-potatoes place, then some restaurants will have a fruit cup as a side. Add that to your greens, and now your salad will actually look appealing.

Vegetarians have a responsibility, though, to order or eat food that is appetizing (particularly to the eyes). I have told my carnivore friends about the cruelties animals face in factory farms, and that hasn’t convinced them to go vegetarian. However, they’ve eaten vegetarian food that looked amazing and was something they had never experienced before and thus spared the life of the animal they may have eaten right then.

Take control when you can! Sometimes I’ll invite friends to a vegan restaurant and watch them struggle to decide what will actually fill them up — all of them

are shocked by the taste and quality of vegan cuisine. Vegetarians obviously do not eat salads all the time, but in tough situations with friends and peanuts at Five Guys, it’s the option we’re seen with most. It’s vital for others and helpful to animals to show how veg food can be pretty amazing.

Chances are that if you live in or near a city, it will have at least a couple vegan options. Some small towns, too, have vegan options that seem hidden away.

You can take a few friends to a coffee shop to get the one vegan brownie they have and show them that almost anything can be cooked or prepared vegan.

If you have no options like vegan cafes or restaurants with veg options, try the classic veg restaurants, like Mexican, Ethiopian and Vietnamese places. A lot of these cultures’ dishes are vegetarian just because they’ve always been made that particular way.

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Call them the Rainbow Steps by

Nate Matthews

Trigger warning: This article discusses sexual assault and rape.

“Legend has it that the staircase behind Wren was specially designed so that women could outrun a pursuer.”

So says a Tufts Daily article from 2009, describing what many on campus know as “The Rape Steps.” Alumni report that this name has been around since at least 2004. The story of their design is a myth, but the story has a very real negative impact: this name perpetuates false narratives of rape, trivializes the violence of rape and triggers survivors. I am a member of Tufts Action for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP), and in an effort to get people to stop calling these steps “The Rape Steps” we have lined the steps with rainbow colored bricks, and encourage you to start calling them “The Rainbow Steps.” Let me explain our reasoning.

This name and legend are harmful in three ways: First, the legend of the steps’ design enforces the idea that rape is when a male stranger chases a woman late at night and physically forces her to have sex. While this does happen, it is not the most common scenario: The Department of Justice reports that roughly two-thirds of survivors of rape or sexual assault know their attacker. Four in 10 rapes or sexual assaults occur in the victim’s home, and two in ten take place at the home of a friend, neighbor, or relative.

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being physically forced, such as when a person is passed out, intoxicated to the level of incapacitation or threatened with violence, rumors, blackmail or a breakup. Also, while the majority of rapes and sexual assaults are perpetrated against women by men, survivors and perpetrators can be of any gender or sexual orientation.

The narrow “male-stranger-jumpswoman-at-night” view of rape allows perpetrators that don’t fit that story to think their actions were okay, and makes it hard for survivors who don’t fit that story to name what happened to them as rape and not be ashamed to seek help and resources.

Second, the legend of the steps is tossed around as a sort of fun-fact or joke, which can be hurtful for those with direct or indirect experiences of rape or sexual assault. The legend is similar to other casual references to rape (like “that test raped me”) and rape jokes in that it can — again — make it easier for perpetrators to think their actions were okay and make it harder for survivors to not be ashamed to seek help if they need it.

Thirdly, the name is triggering, particularly when it is used light-heartedly.

A trauma trigger is an experience that brings up a memory of a traumatic experience, often causing the person with the trauma to feel anxious, dizzy, sick or nauseated, and in some cases be mentally transported back to the moment of the event, losing track of their surroundings. While it is almost impossible for someone who has survived a traumatic

incident to avoid every trigger, helping create a non-triggering environment for them can be immensely beneficial to their mental health and healing process.

That is why it’s important to avoid using potentially triggering language, and to give trigger warnings like the one at the beginning of this article. For many Tufts students, hearing the name “The Rape Steps” tossed around so casually will trigger them and shock them out of their normal routine. Therefore, eliminating the name and legend of the “Rape Steps” is both a compassionate and necessary act.

We hope that the new rainbow-lined bricks along the edge of the steps near Wren Hall will remind you to refer to the steps as “The Rainbow Steps.” In this process we have partnered with Tufts Queer Straight Alliance (QSA) to acknowledge that sexual assault and victim blaming are issues that impact not only straight individuals, but also members of the queer community. By collaborating in this project, Tufts ASAP and Tufts QSA aim to show partnership, unity and solidarity with the experiences of all individuals on our campus.

We encourage you not to perpetuate the false history of the “Rape Steps.”

Please don’t pass on the story to incoming students. Thank you, and see you on The Rainbow Steps.

Nate Matthews is a junior who is majoring in economics. He can be reached at Nathaniel.Matthews@tufts.edu.

NSFW by

Allyson Blackburn

Trigger warning: This article discusses sexual assault and rape.

No one wants to talk about porn. From a young age, we are shamed and taught that masturbation is dirty and taboo, so by extension the entire industry that facilitates our self-pleasure is hard to talk about.

However, when we ignore society’s seemingly innocuous masturbatory rituals, we also ignore the consequences that derive from what pornography teaches us.

Human rights violations exist in pornography. Pornography not only normalizes sexual violence against women, but can also cause people who were not initially predisposed to sexual violence to become sexually violent.

I would like to add a disclaimer; in this article, I will only focus on heterosexual and cisgender pornography often depicting mostly white actors. Pornography itself is as diverse as the human sexual appetite, and unfortunately, the research that has been conducted mostly focuses on this type of pornography. While the conclusions I reach may also be true of other types of pornography, I cannot claim to make the same conclusions about gender and sexuality for non-cis-hetero or white communities.

As University of Michigan law professor Catharine MacKinnon explains, “Pornography is the largest form of sex education in this country. It’s how men learn about their own bodies ... The subordination of women is what they are learning to sexualize ... People who support pornography minimize or are ignorant of the impact.” In a lot of ways, this is true.

Pornography is how a lot of people learn about sex, and it serves as a gateway for many people’s primary sexual experiences. The average person is first exposed to Internet pornography in their early teens, and about 80 percent of 15-17 year olds have seen hard-core sexual images.

Adolescents learn more about sex through pornography than they do from their parents or in schools, and this is a problem.

Most porn creates unrealistic expectations about the human sexual experience, especially for heterosexual cisgender women, though this phenomenon certainly exists with cisgender men and the trans, intersex

and queer communities. The sex we see in pornography becomes normalized for us, and unrealistic expectations are created for men and women in the bedroom about the acts we should or should not be performing, and about what our bodies should or should not look like. This also includes what sexual acts are accepted and consensual.

A common plot of some porn follows this model: Man approaches woman looking for sexual intercourse, woman rejects his advances, man forces himself on the woman, woman ends up enjoying the intercourse.

When breaking it down so simply, we recognize this as a glorified and unrealistic depiction of rape. Any time a woman denies consent and is forced into sexual acts through one way or another, it is considered sexual assault. However, the porn teaches us that “it’s okay that she didn’t give me consent, because, in reality, she wants it.” Adolescents who are learning about sexual experiences through pornography are learning that “no” doesn’t mean “no,” and in fact, with persistence and physical aggression, “no” will usually mean “yes.”

When I initially began researching the effects of pornography on violence against women, I was doubtful that the type of pornography outlined above could actually affect our perception of consent. In order to explore this phenomenon, I sent a sample of this porn, in addition to a poll, to my college-aged peers both on and off campus asking them to tell me what happened in the porn. Only two of the 30 responses would call it rape, though all recognized it was nonconsensual and an unrealistic representation of what would actually happen. We must call this depiction of sex rape and recognize it as such. This type of pornography teaches false realities of rape and therefore normalizes sexual violence against women.

Furthermore, violent and degrading porn depicting non-consensual sex not only promotes and normalizes sexual violence, but can also cause sexual violence. Section 5.2.1 of The Meese Report explains that people who watch violent and degrading pornography perceive victims of rape and sexual assault as “more responsible for the assault, as having suffered less injury, and as having been less degraded as a result of the experience. Similarly, people with a substantial

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exposure to violent pornography are likely to see the rapist or other sexual offender as less responsible for the act and as deserving of less stringent punishment.” The Meese Report explains that violent, degrading and non-consensual pornography normalizes rape culture.

People who are not initially predisposed to sexual violence are more likely to become sexually violent after they watch this type of pornography. Dr. Diane E. H. Russell explains the phenomenon using the term “Masturbatory Conditioning.” After watching a violent and degrading film and masturbating to it, people become classically conditioned to become aroused to a rape stimulus, making people who were not previously predisposed to rape aroused by these images. When we allow this type of pornography to exist, we are promoting and normalizing sexual violence in our society.

David Cameron, Prime Minister of England, has proposed a solution. England, which has a law that bans publishing images of rape, simulated or not, will edit the law in order to criminalize the ownership of rape porn, which could be punishable by three years in jail, much like the law as it exists in Scotland. Cameron has been targeting websites that have this type of pornography, saying, “These images normalize sexual violence against women — and they are quite simply poisonous to the young people who see them.” Cameron, however, has received criticism for this regulation and law because it is a form of censorship.

Pornography can be immensely empowering for all people; it provides people with a sexual outlet and a means by which to experience solo sexual gratification. However, we need to address the consequences that arise from pornography and the lack of reality in pornography. However, how much do we really know about pornography? In reality, the research that exists is limited, partially because no one wants to talk about masturbation and pornography. If we do not generate conversation about the subject, we will allow pornography to produce and promote an unacceptable rape culture in our society.

Allyson Blackburn is a freshman who has not declared a major. She can be reached at Allyson.Blackburn@tufts.edu.

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first heard of Snapchat about a year ago.

At the time, I still rocked the Blackberry (PIN: 31B5D8F4), but the app’s function was common knowledge. Send a picture to your friend, and the friend can view for anywhere between one and 10 seconds. After that, the picture is gone forever, with no history of the “Snap” ever taking place.

Though many media outlets heralded it as the next generation’s “sexting” app, the vast majority of Snapchatters use the app to make silly faces at their friends or send stalker pictures of their friends sitting in Dewick.

Stanford alums Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy created Snapchat in September 2011, and the app has shown promising growth since then. According to Snapchat, users shared 20 million photos a day in October 2012. That number has since ballooned to 400 million photos a day in November of this year.

The number of users has also grown considerably, with over 20 percent of iPhone users — myself included — now using the app.

For the average social networking startup, these numbers show substantial penetration and huge revenue opportunities. But how do advertisers decide which users to target when the app itself deletes any information its users create?

In the words of Facebook — paraphrasing here — “Eh, we’ll figure it out. How’s $3 billion sound?”

In the words of Snapchat — again, paraphrasing here — “Thanks, but no thanks.”

Spiegel, just 23 years old, turned down Facebook’s $3 billion cash offer, stating that he expects Snapchat to grow to an even larger valuation with more users. Spiegel’s assertion has already proven true, with Chinese e-commerce company Tencent Holdings preparing an investment that would value Snapchat at $4 billion.

This is not Facebook’s first attempt to conquer the two-year-old app. The site — which boasts over one billion users — introduced the “Poke” app last year, essentially a Snapchat copycat that also featured timesensitive text messaging.

Poke, however, never caught on — it quickly fell off the top apps list, and very few people use the app regularly. Facebook has had success purchasing competitors in the past — just look to last year’s $1 billion deal for Instagram, a transaction that looked insane at the time but has proven to be a very wise purchase on Facebook’s part.

Like Snapchat, Instagram had no sources of revenue at the time of Facebook’s offer.

Facebook doesn’t need the app itself — its engineers can reverse engineer a copycat application like Poke in no time. Facebook just wants the users. Snapchat users fall into key demographics that Facebook has failed to capture more recently: teenagers and people in their early 20s — arguably the age group most susceptible to advertising. Spiegel also revealed that 70 percent of Snapchat users are women.

Despite these good omens, spurning a $3 billion offer from the largest social networking site in the world sounds ridiculous. Keeping the app cool — read: young and advertising free — will prove difficult if Snapchat wants to see serious revenue streams. Snapchat has a growing 40-and-older user base — my girlfriend’s mother (hi Katie!) included — which could prove problematic if young people leave the app in the same way that tweens and teenagers have left Facebook.

As with the Instagram deal, taking the money sounds like far and away the better option, and usually the more common choice.

The “Dot Com” bubble of barely 10 years ago is still fresh in the minds of many of these young entrepreneurs, but greed has won out in the case of Snapchat.

My wise, 20-year-old advice? Don’t be afraid to sell. Do be afraid to make ridiculous faces in lecture.

Or don’t. They’re funny.

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

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Looking to put the brakes on a seven-game losing streak, the men’s squash team will next take on Bates this Saturday, as well as Bard and Middlebury on Sunday, in their final three matches before the winter break.

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to compete with Brown and Bryant.

Up against Brown, the Jumbos once again lost all of their matches. Advani gave the Bears the most trouble, winning 21 points in a three-game defeat to Blake Reinson. Kardon was moved up to No. 2, but lost in three games to Jack Blasberg.

After two losses, the Jumbos geared up to play against Bryant. Tufts was able to win three matches this time, but it wasn’t enough, as they lost 6-3.

Advani won his match against the Bulldogs’ No. 1 Harry Waterton. After decisively winning the first set, Waterton picked up a few more points in the second set. It was to no avail though, as Advani prevailed, 11-2, 12-10, 11-6.

Kardon once again played No. 2 and while he lost in three sets, his match was extremely close. After dropping the first set 11-3, Kardon picked up his game in the second set before dropping the match, 11-3, 13-11, 11-5.

Weiss played No. 3 and won a marathon match. After losing a close first set, Weiss picked up the next two by 11-7 in each set. However, he dropped the fourth set 7-11. In the deciding set, Weiss was able to outlast his opponent for the win, 9-11, 11-7, 11-7, 7-11, 13-11.

At No. 8, Weiner also contested a long match. After only being able to pick up six points in the first two sets, Weiner found his stride to win the next three and the match, 2-11, 4-11, 16-14, 11-4, 12-10.

The team attributes some of the mishaps to the shifting of roster positions since several of the team’s players are away this fall. In turn, Kardon sees the fall as preparation for the matches to come in January and February.

“In the fall there are a lot of matches, but what we work toward is the tournament in the spring. Since our No. 2 and No. 4 players are away this semester, we are all playing higher spots, which means that when they are back in the spring, we will all be bumped down,” Kardon said. “This fall is all about learning experience for the spring.”

After match play, the Jumbos fell to a 1-7 record. Their last three matches before the holiday recess are against Bates on Saturday and Bard and Middlebury on Sunday.

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scored all 10 of his second-half points in the final four minutes and began the run with back-to-back 3-pointers.

“They gave themselves a chance with about four minutes to go when they cut the lead to one,” Firempong said. “But we were able to go on a run to end the game ... We just had the confidence in ourselves and in each other that we were going to be able to weather the storm.”

Cohen credited the increased focus

on offensive execution, as well as the continued explosion of Folliard offensively this season.

“We ran our offense well and executed, and sometimes this year we’ve had problems with executing our offense,” Cohen said. “Our coaches have created a great offense for us, and when we run them crisply we get a lot more out of them. Maybe our confidence was a little higher which enabled us to execute our stuff better and get shots for guys like Tommy, who has been on fire this year.”

The win moves Tufts to 5-1 on the year, but also provided a symbolic victory for the seniors on the team.

“As a senior, we’ve lost to them every year since I’ve been here,” Cohen said.

“They’ve been pretty successful the last couple years, and they’ve been beating up on us the past couple years, so it was definitely nice to get [the win].”

Tufts will continue its non-conference play tomorrow when it travels to Worcester Polytechnic Institute in search of the sixth win of the season.

Open your eyes

ollege sports, as exciting as they can be at their best, are run by an organization that is almost laughably inept in many circumstances. There was a Marine that, after five years of service, was told he could not play for Middle Tennessee State without redshirting a year because he played in a recreational football league. A former Iowa State basketball player named Kerwin Okoro, who later transferred to Rutgers because of the death of his father and brother in a short time period, was denied a hardship waiver even though the move was intended to have him be closer geographically to his family.

Freshman Nathan Harris of Colgate was denied a year of eligibility for playing three games in a church basketball league, which was later reversed. That’s right — he played for a league at Dunwoody Baptist Church, which was initially deemed an unsanctioned league by the NCAA. A linebacker for the University of Maryland could not accept a game ball because “student-athletes are not allowed to receive gifts from their schools not available to other students.”

This is just a short list of the numerous egregious rulings from the NCAA. Sometimes all it takes is some common sense to realize that what they’re saying is outrageous.

Rules are necessary to keep an entity running with a sense of purpose and direction.

However, I also find there to be truth in the statement that rules are flexible.

It’s just too hard to make a “one-size-fitsall” rulebook. While a rule may be applicable in the majority of situations, it should not be applied the same way to every one. Rules should be administered in accordance with the situation at hand.

A U.S. Marine playing in a recreational football league is not equivalent to a recruit playing in an organized 7-on-7 league. To compare playing in the Dunwoody Baptist Church basketball league with something even remotely meaningful and competitive that should require repercussions is an insult to the rulebook itself.

I implore the NCAA to use common sense to get rid of these blemishes that show up all too often. It takes a national media uproar for them to “realize their mistakes” and appropriately change a situation when, in reality, the situation and punishment should have just been explicitly stated.

It’s hard for me to believe that a group of grown, educated adults can sit around a table and all agree that the appropriate course of action for a young man who lost his brother and father in a two-month span is to punish him for transferring. Just saying it out loud should have been enough to have at least one person in the room say, “Wait, this isn’t right,” but apparently I’m wrong.

The ridiculousness of the NCAA is hard to explain. It could be the monopoly that they have on the college sports programs due to a lack of competition. If a school doesn’t like it, what can they do about it? They can’t reasonably pull out of the NCAA because of the revenue that it generates for the school and the other benefits of being in a conference or league.

So, what’s the solution? Form a committee of independent advisors. Hire a group of outside individuals to which schools can submit proposals when they feel they have a situation that falls outside of the jurisdiction of the rules or needs special attention. Eliminate the bias of people who are viewing the rules through a narrow scope instead of taking it on a case-bycase basis.

It’s a miracle that the NCAA has been able to carry on without any form of checks and balances. Their outdated and at times contradictory rulebook has proven to be ineffective for the multi-billion dollar business that is college sports. Until next time, NCAA — you’re sacked!

Jordan Bean is a sophomore who is majoring in economics. He can be reached at Jordan.Bean@tufts.edu.

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After a successful season opener against Boston University in mid-November, the Tufts men’s squash team has struggled to find its stride.

Prior to Thanksgiving break, the Jumbos played MIT before taking on Bowdoin, Brown and Bryant a few days later on Nov. 23. The Jumbos kept the match close against MIT and Bryant but fell decisively against the rest of the field.

Against MIT the men’s squash team had wins at No. 1, No. 3 and No. 9.

Sophomore Aditya Advani defeated the Engineers’ freshman Nikhil Punwaney in the top spot. After a close first set Advani won the second by a larger margin. In the third set, Punwaney regrouped to take the win, 8-11. However, it was too late, as Advani took the match, 13-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-8.

In the five matches so far this season, Advani has played No. 1 for all of them and come away the victor four times. His only loss came to Kevin Chen of Williams.

Junior co-captain Elliot Kardon won at the No. 3 position.

His match was far more decisive as he took down freshman Thomas Cowan 11-4, 11-6, 11-5.

Junior Phil Weiner scraped out a tough five-set match against sophomore Viveka Mishra. After going the distance in the first set, Weiner steamrolled through the second, before losing the two following sets. In the fifth set, Weiner sealed the match with an 11-6 final set to win, 16-14, 11-9, 7-11, 9-11, 11-6.

In the end the Jumbos fell 6-3 to the Engineers, but prepared for their triple-header on Saturday where they were set to play Bowdoin at 12 p.m., Brown at 5:00 p.m. and Bryant at 7 p.m.

The Jumbos played against the Polar Bears at MIT and lost 9-0. Advani played No. 1 and was able to take a game away from Stephan Danyluk in an 11-7, 11-6, 3-11, 11-9 loss. At No. 3 Brandon Weiss was also able to take a game away from his opponent before falling, 11-6, 9-11, 11-2, 11-1.

Tufts had to forfeit its respective No. 9 matches against Bowdoin and Brown.

Soon after its match against Bowdoin, the men’s squash team traveled to Rhode Island see MEN’S SQUASH, page 15

by Jake Indursky

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The Thanksgiving turkey tasted a little bit sweeter for the men’s basketball team

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this year, as the Jumbos went into the break with a 77-61 win over the MIT Engineers last Tuesday, its first victory over the non-conference rivals since 2007.

Although MIT, which is looking for its sixth straight 20-win season, is not as formidable an opponent as it has been in past years, the Engineers have always been an Achilles’ heel for the Jumbos.

“There is definitely an excitement when we play MIT,” senior tri-captain Kwame Firempong said. “And especially with the last three years, where we’ve come up short, and they’ve been ranked, it’s easy to get hyped up for this game.”

However, for the first time in a long time, Tufts came into the game as the favorite and played like it, continuing to show impressive depth and skill. Led by senior forward Tommy Folliard, who scored 15 points, four Jumbos scored in double figures.

In the first half, MIT got out to a quick 7-2 lead. However, Tufts, who had just come off a near loss to underdog Wentworth, did not allow itself to get down early.

“The only way we’re good is when we are playing with high energy, and talking on defense,” senior tri-captain guard Oliver Cohen said.

“Those last two games, we had really low energy for whatever reason, and that wasn’t going to get it done against a team like MIT. So we knew we had to somehow find the energy, and the passion against a good team like MIT, and I think we did a great job [of that].”

The Jumbos responded with seven straight points to take the lead, after which the game turned into a back-and-forth affair. Tufts’ lead never grew past eight points.

“I think their size kept them in the game,” Firempong said.

“They got some second chance opportunities, and a couple of their guys got it going offen-

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Senior forward Tommy Folliard, tied for first on the team in the points per game category with 14.5, has shined for the Jumbos on the offensive side of the ball through the first six games of the season. sively. They hit a couple shots, and every time we stretched it out to about eight, they cut it back down to four and kept themselves in the game.”

Tufts went into the second half with a slim 34-30 lead,

and neither team was able to break away for much of the second half. After Tufts took a 61-53 lead with seven minutes to go, MIT went on a 7-0 run over the next three minutes to cut the Jumbos’ lead to one

with four minutes to play.

However, Tufts finally broke the game open, going on a 16-1 run to close out the game, led by Folliard, who see MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 15

All-NESCAC

Sixty-two Jumbos earn selections to Academic All-NESCAC team From all of the sports teams competing during the 2013 fall season for Tufts, 62 athletes garnered Academic All-NESCAC honors. There were 680 total student athletes chosen across the 11 teams that make up the NESCAC. The qualifications for the selection are a sophomore academic standing, a varsity letter in the respective sport and a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.35. A transfer student must have

spent at least one year at the school to be eligible.

From Tufts, the standouts come from the men’s and women’s cross country teams. Senior tri-captain Abby Barker from the women’s team and senior Andrew Shapero from the men’s team each won All-Academic, All-Conference and All-Sportsmanship teams.

Tufts had the fifth greatest number of students selected in the conference,

behind Bowdoin, Williams, Amherst and Middlebury, who had 90, 85, 72 and 70 selections, respectively.

The football Jumbos led the way for Tufts with 11 total selections, while women’s soccer came in right behind them with 10. The rest of the breakdown for Tufts was nine selections for men’s cross country, eight selections for men’s soccer, women’s cross country and field hockey and four selections for both

golf and volleyball.

Nineteen of the 62 honorees received the All-Academic honors for the second time in their collegiate careers, while 10 of the student athletes from Tufts were three-time fall All-Academic selections.

Lastly, nine of the Tufts selections for the All-Academic team were also AllNESCAC first or second team honorees.

—by Alex Schroeder