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VOLUME LXVIII, NUMBER 59

Somerville revises housing ordinance, prepares for vote

by Justin Rheingold Daily Editorial Board

University administrators and Somerville city aldermen collaborated to revise the city’s proposed University Accountability Ordinance during the Dec. 3 meeting of the Board of Aldermen’s Legislative Matters Committee.

The proposed ordinance, which was initially introduced during the board’s Aug. 28 meeting, would require universities that have students living within Somerville limits to submit a list of student addresses and the number of students living in each apartment to the city.

The city of Somerville has an existing zoning ordinance that limits the number of unrelated adults sharing an apartment to four. According to Section III of the proposed ordinance, the collected information would allow the city to better enforce this existing regulation.

According to Tufts Community Union ( TCU) President Robert Joseph, who attended the committee meeting on behalf of the student body, university administrators were successful in working with committee members to resolve wording problems with the draft ordinance.

“We shifted the focus away from evicting students and toward student safety, which was really what we were hoping the ordinance would be geared toward doing,” Joseph, a senior, said.

“I would not be surprised if Somerville did pass the ordinance … I think the biggest thing that could come out of it is that we could partner with the city of Somerville to help students ensure that they have reasonable living conditions.”

On Dec. 1, Senior Vice President see HOUSING, page 2

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Men’s soccer takes home national title

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The Tufts men’s soccer team poses with the National Championship trophy after defeating Wheaton (Ill.) 4-2, at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Mo. on Dec. 6.

by Jake Indursky Daily Editorial Board

When the field of 64 was set in early November, Tufts was little more than an afterthought for title contender, as the bracket was littered with past national champions, All-Americans and longtenured coaches. The Jumbos had won fewer NCAA tournament games than some teams had won NCAA titles. They had a head coach who was entering his fifth year with the program and making his first appearance in the NCAA tournament. And they had only snuck into the

tournament with an at-large bid.

But none of that mattered. In the NCAA tournament, all that matters is that for 90 minutes, a team plays better soccer than its opponent — and all through November and into December, nobody played better soccer than Tufts.

“Being underdogs fueled us, because there was nothing to lose,” senior midfielder Gus Santos said. “Whatever team we were playing were the favorites to win, and we kind of took this to our advantage, and going in we all had the faith we could do this. I know not a lot [of] people believed in us — there’s the Div. III boards

that say certain things, and obviously all these other teams have their legacies, but it never really got to us; it never really sunk in that we [didn’t] have a chance.”

Now, after their miracle run through the NCAA tournament, punctuated by a 4-2 win over the Wheaton (Ill.) Thunder in the national championship game this past Saturday, following their 3-0 semifinal victory over the Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops the day before, the Jumbos can shed their underdog title and adopt a new mantle: best team in Div. III. see MEN’S SOCCER, back

Tufts students lead #IndictAmerica protest

by Nina Goldman Daily Editorial Board

Tufts students led a march that shut down major thoroughfares throughout Somerville and Cambridge on Friday evening as a part of the national #IndictAmerica movement.

Reacting to the recent non-indictments of white police officers in the killings of black victims Michael Brown and Eric Garner, over 600 protesters lay down in front of five Red Line stops to stage a die-in, according to the Boston Globe. At each stop, participants laid down for four-and-a-half minutes to represent the four-and-a-half hours that Brown’s body was left in the street after he was shot in Ferguson, Mo. this past August. The protest lasted for over three hours, moving nearly five miles from the Mayer Campus Center to the Harvard Bridge over the Charles River.

Event organizers emphasized the need for this sort of peaceful protest in order to take student activism beyond flyering and posting on social media.

“Staying on the Tufts campus is not enough,” Amber Rose Johnson, a senior who led the march, said. “We need other people to see that Tufts is a

place that cares about this.”

Johnson compelled students to go beyond recognizing that black lives matter and to move toward addressing their own roles in perpetuating antiblack violence. In a call-and-response, those gathered chanted, “Tufts is not silent. I am complicit. This is my issue.”

Students held signs, some of which were made to resemble human corpses, as they marched. Some students passed out cupcakes and sandwiches to fellow protestors as the crowd announced, “What do we want? Justice!

When do we want it? Now! If we don’t get it, shut it down!”

The students were joined along the way by Somerville and Cambridge residents, some with their children. A driver whose car was caught in the middle of the Davis Square die-in put on his hazard lights and lay down with the crowd.

Students from other universities also traveled to join the march.

“At Wellesley it’s been pretty silent,” Julie Chen, who attended along with several other Wellesley College students, explained. see #INDICTAMERICA, page 2

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First-year Josh Ferry joined protesters as they staged a four-and-a-half minute die-in on Dec. 5 in Harvard Square, representing the time Michael Brown’s body was left on the street.

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TCU Senate Update In its final meeting of the fall semester, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held elections for an open position within the TCU Allocations Board, voted on an amendment to a bylaw on outreach and listened to updates from various chairs.

Allison Aaronson, the senate’s diversity and community affairs officer, opened the meeting by discussing the recent non-indictments of two white police officers after the killings of two black men. Aaronson, a sophomore, publicly condemned the Missouri and Staten Island grand juries which made the respective decisions.

“I’m addressing these current events because I want to acknowledge that these events pertain to Tufts,” she said.

Aaronson explained that Tufts community members cannot simultaneously exist in a bubble and be active citizens, adding that “this affects everyone at Tufts.”

She asked senators to “reflect on who benefits from [the Tufts University Police Department] and who is profiled by them.”

Noting that incidents of police violence against black men do not exist in isolation, Aaronson also asked senators to

hold four-and-a-half minutes of silence.

She then opened up the discussion for senators to comment and share opinions.

“If we want to give Senate the legitimacy we think it’s due, then that requires us to sort of step up to be those community members that mirror the sentiment of campus and that work constructively to meet the needs of campus,” Senator Sam Berzok, a junior, said.

Dan Johnson, a senior and chair of the Tufts’ Elections Committee, then began the elections for a vacant spot on the Allocations Board for spring 2015. Senator Jack Colelli, a first-year, was elected.

TCU Treasurer Adam Kochman, a junior, reported that there were no new requests to the Allocations Board.

He added that a state of the treasury speech will be made upon the Senate’s first meeting after break to discuss how much money is left in the supplementary fund and to address potential changes for next year.

Senator Brian Tesser, a junior, explained the details of a new proposed amendment to Senate Bylaw Seven on outreach. He explained that the proposed change would make the Senate more accessible by assigning a set num-

ber of student groups to each senator, who would then serve as the “pinpoint person for that group.”

Under the new amendment, Senators will report back to the Student Outreach Committee when they communicate with their assignment groups, Tesser explained, adding that they have not finalized exactly how groups will be assigned to senators, but senators will be assigned groups with similar characteristics.

The Senate passed the resolution 24-0-1.

TCU President Robert Joseph then gave a report on the current housing ordinance being discussed in the City of Somerville, explaining that the focus of the ordinance has shifted away from evicting students and toward ensuring the safety of students, perhaps through new reporting mechanisms.

He said that the ordinance will go to the city’s Board of Aldermen in January, but added that he is confident that the ordinance will protect students from potential evictions.

Trustee Representative Joe Philipson, a senior, voiced his concern over students reporting their housing information, cit-

ing privacy issues that could ensue.

Aaronson then spoke about her project to increase the number of gender neutral bathrooms on campus. She said the project aims to develop a policy whereby students will have to opt out of housing with gender neutral bathrooms to receive gender segregated bathrooms. Aaronson, noting that Tufts is in a “state of emergency,” added that academic buildings would have both gender neutral and gender segregated bathrooms. All single-stall bathrooms would be open instead of gender specific. The project received unanimous approval.

The TCU Judiciary then announced that groups including Tufts Business Opp Council and the Latin American Society were recognized, while Quiz Bowl, El Tit and Animal Welfare were not. Applications from Psych Society, Pan Asian Council and InterVarsity Tufts Christian Fellowship were tabled until the spring semester.

—by Patrick McGrath

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for University Relations and General Counsel Mary Jeka and Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel sent a letter to Alderman Mary Jo Rossetti, the chair of the Legislative Matters Committee, affirming the university’s commitment to working with the city, but addressing concerns with the draft ordinance’s language.

According to Jeka, who spoke at length about the university’s position during the Dec. 3 meeting, the university is concerned about the welfare of students who live off campus and hopes that the ordinance can address these concerns.

“We want the focus … to be on the health and safety … and the compliance with the local codes of these housing units,” Jeka said. “We feel that it is the appropriate responsibility of the landlords and we fully and 100 percent support that. We want our students to be safe — that’s very important to us.”

Jeka, who was accompanied at the meeting by Rubel and Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon, expressed concern, however, that the language of the current draft ordinance implicated the university in enforcing its provisions.

“It kind of imposes responsibility on Tufts University for determining violations … of this proposed ordinance, and that is not a responsibility that Tufts is

able to take on, because we feel that that would be the responsibility of the city to take on,” Jeka said. “We would of course notify our students of this ordinance and make sure that they are quite aware that the ordinance prevents any more [than] four students from living together.”

Jeka and Rubel explained how the university is working to comply with a city of Boston ordinance of the same nature, and explained that the university is willing to provide Somerville with a directory of student addresses.

They emphasized that student names would not be included in the information given to the city, a provision with which the aldermen agreed.

Alderman At Large John Connolly and Ward 5 Alderman Mark Niedergang further addressed the process through which non-compliant housing units would be inspected, and Niedergang explained that communication from inspectors should go through students’ landlords.

“It’s really the landlord’s responsibility,” Niedergang said. “I actually think that in most cases the students are unaware of [the zoning ordinance], and it’s not their fault. I think the reality of it is that we all know that many houses have more than four unrelated people living together — it’s very common, it’s matter of course, it’s not enforced that broadly.”

Meeting attendees also heard from

Full-time lecturers file for union election On Friday, Dec. 5, several full-time, nontenured Tufts lecturers went to the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston to file for an election that would create a union for full-time lecturers after reaching the required threshold of 30 percent of full-time faculty showing interest in a union, according to a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spokesperson.

Once the request for an election has been processed, the National Labor Relations Board will take over the election process, working with Tufts and the full-time lecturers to organize a mail ballot election, according to the SEIU spokesperson. All full-time lecturers will receive a ballot in January or February and will vote on the creation of the union.

Sheriden Thomas, senior lecturer in the Department of Drama and Dance and chair of the Organizing Committee for the full-time lecturers union, explained that the main goals of many lecturers are to get fairer pay and better job security.

“Teaching is what the university is about, and the lecturers at the university currently teach over 50 percent of the classes, and we’re all strong teachers, and there’s just an imbalance in pay and representation,” Thomas said.

As an example, she explained that Tufts recently announced its decision to have all full-time lecturers teach two additional courses without discussing it with them or offering a pay raise. Thomas also cited her promotion to senior lecturer, which did not come with a pay raise.

“We’re the unrepresented; we’re the ones that aren’t unionized so we don’t collectively bargain, so when the corporate structure that’s becoming more and more a part of the university kicks in with their bottom line, we’re the ones they can move around the most easily because we are not in the room hearing about the process,” she said.

According to Thomas, at this point in time there has not been a negative response from the university, and there has been support from many tenured faculty members.

“You have to feel supported where you work,” she said. “When you’re struggling and the communication is bad … that’s what the union can work for.”

—by Kathleen Schmidt

Michael Glavin, the executive director of Somerville’s Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development, who explained that the university would be assisting the city in finding properties that may have health and safety code violations. He added that the city’s Inspectional Services Division would seek to enforce the existing ordinance preventing more than four unrelated adults — be they students or non-students — from living together.

“We’d like to be able to coordinate our efforts with the university, perhaps distributing a pamphlet with our help,” Glavin said. “This is supposed to be a win-win scenario, safer for students, safer for the community, making sure landlords are responsible.”

In addition to seeking revised language to ensure the university itself would not have to notify students they are in violation the ordinance, Jeka and Joseph spoke about the increased rent many students are facing due to landlords seeking greater profits. Joseph, in particular, told aldermen about students signing leases with only four names but with the expectation that more would occupy the apartment and pay rent. If those extra students were to be evicted — an action that may be easier if their names are not on the lease — the other students could potentially be held accountable for their rent.

Rossetti, however, explained that many residents other than students are

also concerned about high rents.

“The homeowners, who are my bosses, are angry with the taxes that they are paying for their properties and their upkeep, and if they’re living next door to a home that has more than four students, they feel sorry for you if you’re going to get that higher rent, but it’s not their headache,” she said. “Their headache is that they’re abiding by the ordinances in our city and some are choosing not to.”

The meeting was productive for the university and its students, according to Joseph, who commended the administration for its efforts.

“I think the administration has responded appropriately … they recognized the possibilities and realities of harm to students living around here, and the administration is now aware of the issue … and they have been responding to it,” Joseph said. “I was at the meeting with three administrators, and I really appreciated the fact that they all turned out from 7 to 9 on a Wednesday night to [come to] this meeting to try to convince the city of Somerville that this ordinance, as it was, was not going to work out and was not in the best interest of students.”

A revised version of the draft ordinance will be discussed at a committee meeting on Dec. 16, and if committee members vote in its favor, the full city council could vote on it when it meets in early January.

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While some people stuck in their cars due to the die-ins approached the protesters angrily, the majority showed support for the movement.

Onlookers applauded several of the die-ins.

Jean, a taxi driver whose cab became stuck during the Harvard Square protest, said he welcomed the inconvenience because he supported the movement.

“Even though I’m working here, I don’t mind,” he said. “You cannot judge.”

Jean was one of hundreds of observers who rushed to snap photos and shoot video of the protesters. Johnson reminded marchers, however, that the protest was meant as more than a cool photo opportunity.

“This is not a march that we’re doing so you can take a picture,” she said. “This is a march that we’re doing because black people are dying.”

The chorus of chants was accompanied by the hum of police motorcycles, which escorted the marchers down Massachusetts Ave. As many

as four police helicopters at a time buzzed overhead.

While there was no violent confrontation between police and protesters, the two dozen Cambridge and state police officers who lined up to hold the protest in front of the Harvard Bridge were met with shouts of “Hey hey, ho ho. These racist cops have got to go!”

After several minutes in which white participants pushed to the front of the crowd in case the officers decided to put their batons and ziptie restraints to use, the protesters were allowed to pass onto the bridge.

There they formed a circle for one last long moment of silence, after which they called out the names of some of the hundreds of black men who have been killed by police officers.

Before they dispersed, Johnson reminded the protestors that it would take much more than one march to end these systemic problems.

“Recognize that your work is not over because you’re leaving a protest,” she said. “This is not just a black problem, this is your problem.”

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Turning rage to action: Indict Tufts seeks to shatter silence, fight anti-blackness

by Lily Sieradzki Daily Editorial Board

Late on the night of Monday, Nov. 24, junior A.J. Enchill was watching the news following the Missouri grand jury’s nonindictment of white police officer Darren Wilson, who shot unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson on Aug. 9.

Hundreds of people in Ferguson, Mo. were pouring into the streets in rage about what they saw as a miscarriage of justice and an inherently discriminatory justice system.

This August, Michael Brown, 18, was walking with a friend in Ferguson when he became involved in a physical altercation with Officer Wilson, who had pulled his car over to the young black men to get them out of the street. According to The New York Times, Wilson fired shots from within the car and then stepped out of the car and fired again on Brown, who was unarmed. Brown’s body lay in the street for over four hours, and private autopsy report later revealed that Brown had been shot over six times.

Throughout August, protests in Ferguson erupted and were met with increasingly harsh police responses and the entrance of the National Guard.

As Enchill sat in the LGBT center with friends, watching the nation begin to burst into uproar about the nonindictment, he felt grief for the family of Michael Brown, for the people of Ferguson and for the eyewitnesses who saw what happened between Brown and Wilson.

“I just got to thinking to myself, ‘I know that my emotions are definitely tied to this decision. I clearly am not the only one who is watching this right now,’” Enchill, who is black, said. “Why aren’t we together right now? Why are we sectored off?”

Enchill sent out a message on Facebook asking if people wanted to meet up to process the events together. By around 2 a.m., about 20 to 25 students had gathered in Eaton Hall, according to sophomore Anissa Waterhouse. From this initial gathering, Indict Tufts was born.

“We spent the rest of the night making posters, chalking and just feeling things through — talking, crying, really channeling all the different feelings we were [having] and processing [them] into action,” Waterhouse said.

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Senior Amber Rose Johnson speaks with police as a representative of the protesters on Dec. 5.

According to Waterhouse and sophomore Jonathan Jacob Moore, who have taken on active roles in the group, Indict Tufts is about exactly that — transforming feelings of fury and grief over this specific case into action against systemic racism.

“There’s not an end to this pain. There’s no being over it. You can convince yourself to be over it, and that’s dangerous,” Moore said. “That’s what Indict Tufts is, allowing ourselves to sit with this pain and raw anger and not let it dissipate.”

Moore said that he was not surprised by the non-indictment of Wilson, which he called a “sham,” and felt personally affected as a black man.

“It was a reminder that in the [United States] my body is worthless in the eyes of the state, in the eyes of millions of Americans and apparently in the eyes of courts, [which] are tasked with ensuring justice and integrity,” he said.

Dira Djaya, a junior who is active in Indict Tufts, reacted to the non-indictment with grief.

“This happens every year in which we have a giant case and it blows up and then protests happen,” Djaya said. “This year I had this visceral, bodily reaction in which I

just started crying on and on. I’m invested in [this] work, and it was a very emotional experience.”

Associate Professor of Political Science Pearl Robinson was also following the news coverage. Robinson, who specializes in Comparative Politics, Africa and African American politics, tried to place the nonindictment within a historical context.

“It was very clear to me that the repeated killing of young black men, unarmed, by police — it means something,” she said. “It’s more than the individual killings.”

Actions and reactions That night, students stayed up into the early morning postering and chalking phrases including “black lives matter” and “white supremacy kills” as a way to both express themselves and raise awareness on campus about institutional racism, according to Waterhouse. When they woke up the next morning, however, most of the posters and chalking — including chalking on horizontal surfaces, which is permitted by Tufts’ policy on advertising and posting — was gone. see INDICT, page 4

Trustees approve new Sustainability Investment Fund

by Jei-Jei Tan

Daily Editorial Board

The Tufts Board of Trustees approved an initiative to establish the Tufts Sustainability Investment Fund at its Nov. 8 meeting, which will allow donors to designate monetary gifts to be earmarked for investments that meet environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, a series of general criteria used to evaluate the sustainability and ethical impact of investing in a corporation.

The sustainability fund is being implemented on the recommendation of a working group appointed last year to look at issues of divestment from fossil fuels, according to Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell. The working group consisted of students, faculty and trustees.

Lecturer of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Ann Rappaport, a member of the working group, explained that the group began meeting in May 2013 and prepared a proposal for the Feb. 8, 2014 meeting of the trustees.

Rappaport noted an increasing interest in socially responsible investing, with investors successfully pressuring organizations into providing socially and environmentally responsible investment opportunities. She said that the fund will only be invested in companies that value ESG factors.

“More and more people and institutions are becoming interested in having their money in ESG funds,” she said. “People want to invest in organizations that have values and practices that are consistent with what they think are important.”

Campbell explained that an advisory group is being appointed to determine the definition of sustainability and consider the investment options available.

“The term sustainability can be very broad,” she said.

She added that the final investment decisions will be made by the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees, although the advisory group will consist of staff, faculty, students and members of a professional investment office.

The university will initially seed the fund with one million dollars, Campbell said.

“That will be the start, and we’ll see how well it does in terms of earning a return and who might be interested in seeing their endowment gift invested that way,” she said.

Rappaport explained that the fund will be used to support green initiatives at Tufts, both in operations as well as in academics and research.

“It’s really hard for many universities to get the money they need for operations,” she said.

Rappaport said that although donors typically get excited by ambitious programs

and new buildings, funding for facilities is necessary for an energy-efficient campus.

Ben Weilerstein, a member of Tufts Climate Action (formerly known as Tufts Divest) who was also in the working group, expressed his frustration that the group did not seriously explore the option to fully divest from fossil fuels.

“We were very excited at first when they created the working group because we thought … they wanted to hear what we had to say, but once we actually got to the meetings, we found that they had an idea of what would come out of these meetings and that was what was going to happen,” Weilerstein, a junior, said. “They weren’t really interested in having a serious conversation about how to get Tufts to divest — more so they were interested in trying to prove why we couldn’t divest.”

Rappaport noted that there were some difficulties in coming to agreements on certain issues.

“There was this challenge of reconciling the data that was in front of us versus our expectations of what might happen over the next several years and that made it very hard to come to a consensus,” Rappaport said. “There was general agreement about some things, there was disagreement about others.” see SUSTAINABILITY, page 4

Lex Erath | Sugar & Spice

Murder

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aving recently completed Psych 1 (yes, I started my major requirements a bit late; what of it?), I now feel compelled to psychoanalyze everything in my life. You know the feeling; you’re studying so intensely for one class that it consumes your entire life, and everything you do reminds you of it.

For example, last year during my one shower of finals period, I’d been studying so much for orgo that I started identifying the cracks in the tiles (“trimethyl butane, acetic acid…”)

In any event, a couple of nights ago some friends and I were discussing favorite childhood games, and The Sims was brought up. For those who did not in fact have a childhood (or maybe just a sad and lonely one), The Sims is a computer game where you basically play God and control all aspects of a virtual family’s life, from big things like life aspirations to little things like whether the kids do their homework.

As in all things, cheating is rampant, and you soon develop all sorts of ways to get around the game’s few constraints, most of which involve killing your Sims (as the goal of the game is for them to succeed in life, bringing about their deaths requires real creativity).

Anyway, my Psych 1 radar perked up as soon as the conversation took this murderous turn, and I realized the manner in which we slaughtered our innocents was really quite telling. I will not, of course, be divulging my personal inclination (got to keep some mystery alive), but if you’re really curious, look into the recent death of CleverDog. Friend 1, a fan of the related Zoo Tycoon, where you build your own theme park, enjoyed trapping guests in exhibits with dangerous animals and watching the blood fly. She clearly has primal jungle instincts buried deep in her subconscious. Friends 2 and 3 were Sims connoisseurs like myself. Two preferred the classic make-them-goswimming-and-then-delete-the-poolladder-so-they-can’t-get-out approach.

She must be suppressing her urge for torture, particularly waterboarding.

Friend 3 had perhaps the most concerning method: she left them trapped in tiny doorless rooms until they wasted away. This is consistent with the actions of a psychopath.

Not only does this cruelly prolong the agony, but it’s also particularly concerning to me. The doorknob of my bedroom is very loose, and if you’re not careful it can completely fall off, trapping me in or out of my room. As I’m the only one who can consistently turn it without catastrophe, I leave a sock on the outside — not because I’m always getting some action, but so that unskilled Muggles think twice about touching it. The other day, Friend 3 “accidentally” pulled off the outside knob, trapping me in my room for a couple minutes. So you can see why the discovery of her preferred murdering style is especially alarming to me, when she actually can trap me in a tiny room until I die. Since I have strong self-preserving instincts I will of course do everything I can to stay in 3’s good graces, but I’m also composing my last will and testament and choosing a casket, just to be safe.

In case I don’t make it to January, it’s been an awesome third semester of S&S. Thanks for following, and I hope you enjoy reading these half as much as I enjoy writing them. With any luck I’ll be back to brighten up your Mondays next semester as well, but if you don’t see me around campus after break, we all know what happened. Remember me fondly.

Lex Erath is a junior majoring in economics and biopsychology. She can be reached at alexandra.erath@tufts.edu.

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Waterhouse and Moore expressed outrage about this move, which Moore called erasure.

According to Moore, white students wrote “All Lives Matter” over the chalked slogan “Black Lives Matter” as black students stood by.

“It puts black students in a position where they are not allowed to actively express our pain without being seen as dangerous or antagonizing,” he said. “Complicity in white supremacy and racism on campus doesn’t look like racial epithets being shouted at someone, it doesn’t look like people being threatened — it looks like silence.”

Waterhouse was also disappointed in the university-sponsored reflection held in Goddard Chapel the next day. Director of the Africana Center Katrina Moore and Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris, both of whom are black, spoke, but Moore and Waterhouse felt that the event was put together hastily and that the space was dominated by white students and faculty.

“There were so few black students that felt comfortable speaking in such an immensely white space. I didn’t feel comfortable standing in the space, I just had to leave,” Moore said. “It’s unfortunate because there were black students who needed that space … it seemed like a sloppy afterthought.”

“The hardest thing about the university is that as a student of color on this campus, I already know I’m not their top priority,” Waterhouse added. “By being at a predominantly white institution, the white students and people on this campus are going to have more support than the students of color.”

Moore was also among the 80 Tufts students who participated in a rally on Tuesday, Nov. 25 in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, where about 1,400 people marched to the South Bay House of Correction. The protest was organized by Black Lives Matter Boston, a community organization focused on ending racist policing, according to its Facebook page.

According to Moore, the rally had an important role in spurring himself and other students into action. “[It gave] people from around the area a place to scream and shout and release how they felt, to stand up against police brutality that black bodies are constantly facing — that was very therapeutic, at least for me,” Moore said. “It incited in me a sense … that I could not return to Tufts and allow business as usual to go on.”

Indicting Tufts The end of Thanksgiving break resulted in a flurry of planning for many students — both those present and absent at the initial gathering on Nov. 24. Propelled by both their informal meeting and the Black Lives Matter rally, students planned actions loosely and organically through the “Indict Tufts” Facebook group, based on whoever wanted to and was available to participate.

Indict Tufts’ actions this week included protests in Dewick and Carmichael dining halls on Monday, Dec. 1, where students chanted “black lives matter,” eulogies held every 28 hours and an open town hall

meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 3 to discuss future actions.

“Every 28 hours a black body is murdered at the hands of police brutality and state-sanctioned vigilantism,” Waterhouse said of the eulogies. “It’s finding a space on this campus where we can honor those who are dying as we are sitting here thriving at this university.”

Indict Tufts, according to Moore, has no concrete demands for the university. Rather, for Moore, these actions are fundamentally about disruption of normalcy on campus, to highlight the systematic injustices and violence being done to black bodies both at Tufts and nation-wide. He emphasized that to remain silent about this oppression is to be complicit in it.

“I don’t need bureaucracy, I don’t need a committee, I don’t need officers,” he said.

“I need students to sit in their discomfort.

Being black at Tufts and in America is discomfort epitomized.”

Moore added that white people, people of color and black people are all equally complicit if they remain silent. He addressed the issue of students, particularly white students, not being equipped with the language or background knowledge needed to have these conversations.

“I say there’s Google for that,” Moore said.

“It sounds harsh, but if people are fighting for their survival, how daunting is it to survive the aggressive attack on their humanity on one hand, and to balance the education of the people active in their oppression on the other hand?”

“Go out and do the work yourself,” Waterhouse added. “This affects every person in this country, regardless of what color you are.”

Waterhouse described how students within Indict Tufts take on different roles depending on their race. Djaya, who is Asian-American, has been a part of oncampus activism with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

“My main personal objective with [Indict Tufts] was, as a non-black person of color, to interrogate anti-blackness in Asian American communities and try to mobilize … Asian Americans,” she said. “A lot of the work that we’re doing is primarily about centering black voices.”

Moore noted that Indict Tufts is not the only group on campus doing anti-racist work. Tufts Pan-African Alliance (PAA) is a student collective that “aims to build consciousness with the Tufts community in hopes of creating spaces to nurture and empower the African Diaspora through history and culture,” according to its website. In the wake of the Wilson non-indictment, the group released a statement on Facebook, sending support to all students mobilizing and posing questions like “If we agree that the system is poison, why do we keep trying to breathe within it? What do we have to lose? What do we value? What should we be valuing?”

On Monday, Dec. 1, the PAA held an open community meeting in which several concerns with Indict Tufts were raised surrounding the language it uses, its longer-term goals

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Protesters participate in a die-in during the Davis Square march, which went from Tufts University, through Davis Square, and to the Harvard Bridge on Dec. 5. and its emphasis on black death rather than black life.

“There are ways to be pro-black and there are ways to bring attention to antiblackness,” Enchill said. “I think that in the world that we live in, those two things are inseparable. If anything, I hope that we can inspire and encourage ... pro-blackness.”

Moore emphasized that Indict Tufts does not seek to step on the toes of any campus groups, but rather to create a space where any individuals can do this work together.

He said that he hopes campus activists can work in solidarity.

“These efforts need to be open, need to reflect a group consciousness but not consensus,” he said. “Indict Tufts does not speak for black Tufts. It doesn’t speak for any students at Tufts other than those involved.”

“We can’t breathe” On Wednesday, Dec. 3, a New York grand jury released its decision not to indict New York Police Department officer David Pantaleo for killing Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, by putting him in a chokehold after attempting to arrest him on Staten Island for selling cigarettes illegally on July 17. Garner’s last words were “I can’t breathe,” which can be heard on a widely circulated video of his assault.

Protests broke out in New York City on the last five consecutive nights.

“I want to be surprised about this decision, but I’m not,” Waterhouse said. “That said, I refuse to lose sight of the greater purpose and let Eric Garner to have died in vain.”

Indict Tufts’ actions this week culminated on Friday with a march of over 150 Tufts students from the Mayer Campus Center into Davis Square. After a fourand-a-half-minute die-in to represent the number of hours Brown’s body lay on the ground, the march continued through Porter, Harvard, Central and Kendall squares, with die-ins at each location. The number of protestors swelled to around 600, according to the Boston Globe. The march was stalled at the Massachusetts

Ave. bridge by state police, before they stopped traffic on the bridge and let the protesters through.

“I think that the students are trying to make sense out of this,” Robinson said of Indict Tufts’ actions. “Anytime that you have a demonstration that’s trying to do more than just respond to the event but try to make sense of it, put it into larger historical narrative … I think that that’s very healthy, if people are doing it seriously and particularly in a questioning way. And the obvious question [is], why does this keep happening?”

Enchill, like Robinson, is trying to place these recent deaths of young black men from police brutality within the context of history.

“Are we really applying this to how things have occurred in this country on a historical level? [Because] that’s what needs looking at,” he said. “We’re not in this post-racial world that we think we live in. We need to examine things critically.”

“What I hope we can get to is moving toward a situation where these communities of pain become communities that have the self-affirming knowledge that we want to be free. I heard King talk about [that] the first time I ever saw him,” Robinson, who was active in anti-apartheid movements, added. “I’m hoping that this generation of students are going to figure that out.”

Going forward, Indict Tufts hopes to connect with other local college and community organizers and place itself within the national protests against the non-indictments, while keeping the focus centered on the Tufts community.

Moore and Waterhouse are not making projections about how far into the future Indict Tufts will last, or what any longer-term actions may be. But they agree that action will continue as long as it needs to.

“It’s safe to say that this isn’t something that’s just going to end, because black [people] aren’t going to stop dying after winter break,” Waterhouse said.

“Wherever the minds and spirits of black people on this campus are going, that’s where this will go,” Moore said.

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The proposal eventually included divided opinions, according to Weilerstein, one of which was the recommendation to establish a sustainability fund.

Rappaport added that the fund could attract potential donors who had never given to the university before but would be encouraged by the sustainability fund.

“My hope is that there is a big spike in both numbers of new donors and in amounts,” she said. “I hope people will say, ‘Tufts is really taking sustainability seriously, and I’m going to reward that.’”

Andrew Hastings-Black (LA ’08) said that he looked forward to donating to the sustainability fund.

“It sounds like it will be presented to the donors on equal footing with the endowment,” Hastings-Black told the Daily in an email. “If so, that’s terrific.”

Rappaport said she hopes that the returns from the sustainability fund will be as great or greater than the returns from the conventionally-funded endowment.

“If they are, then you have a business case for divestment,” she said. “[The sustainability fund] is a small step in the right direction, but it may be a really important step. If the

returns are as good or better, then of course we would divest.”

Campbell said that compared to divestment from fossil fuels, which would be a political statement, she thinks the current actions offer a more practical solution.

“There’re actually ways of using our resources that are more sustainable as an institution,” she said.

Devyn Powell (LA ’14), a member of the divestment working group, said that Tufts should use the fund to invest in renewable energy and viable alternatives to fossil fuels, as that would make it increasingly possible for the university to divest from fossil fuels. She added that she hopes that the university will not see the sustainability fund as the end to the divestment process, but will instead use it as a launching pad to take further action.

“Overall, while I commend Tufts for taking this great step, I don’t think it’s enough to sit here and pat ourselves on the back,” Powell said. “There’s still more to be done.”

Lila Kohrman-Glaser, another member of Tufts Climate Action and part of the divestment working group, agreed.

“I am happy to see that the Tufts administration is making a fund that is sustainable, and I’m happy that the Tufts divest-

ment campaign was able to help them get to that point,” Kohrman-Glaser, a senior, said.

“However, a small sustainability fund does not negate the fact that Tufts is profiting from investments in the fossil fuel industry.”

Weilerstein, however, underscored the necessity of Tufts divesting completely from fossil fuels.

“If that doesn’t happen, Tufts is continuing to put money into an industry that is responsible for millions of deaths annually from climate change and pollution,” he said.

Weilerstein noted Tufts’ interest in oncampus energy sustainability, which he said is good but not satisfactory, especially compared to the amount of money and global impact of the university’s investments.

“These little things aren’t bad things, but the problem is that they’re used to mask … the greater harms that Tufts is causing,” he said.

As a result of a national divestment movement, the financial sector has started to create more opportunities to invest without fossil fuels, according to Weilerstein. He said he hopes that Tufts will join other organizations in pledging to divest and then work to create co-mingled funds that do not include fossil fuels. He is also optimistic that alumni who care about the issue will withhold their donations until Tufts divests from fossil fuels.

“We want [alumni] to really show the university that one million dollars is not comparable to 70 billion [that Tufts currently invests in fossil fuels] and that this greenwashed ESG fund is not the same thing as making a powerful moral and political statement like divestment,” he said.

Weilerstein said he believes that divestment is possible if the Tufts community continues to put pressure on the administration. He said that conversations to establish a sustainability fund had been initiated a number of years ago, but the trustees at the time claimed that it was too expensive. After the divestment campaign, however, the fund’s implementation was no longer in doubt.

“That shows that if you get students organized, if you get people putting pressure on the university, then things can happen,” he said. “Things that they said couldn’t happen before now can happen.”

Hastings-Black said he hopes Tufts can have more of an impact in the world regarding climate change.

“I applaud Tufts continuing to reduce its campus carbon footprint, but I urge the university to take action as a ‘global citizen,’” Hastings-Black said. “Tufts must be an advocate for international action to fight climate change.”

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“I urge and challenge musicians and artists alike to push themselves to be a voice of the times that we live in.”

Ahmir Khalib Thompson, aka Questlove, drummer for the Roots, posted the above sentiment last week to his Instagram account as part of a lengthy caption underneath a photo of a person’s silhouette centered in the crosshairs of a gun. In light of the recent decisions not to indict the police officers who killed Eric Garner and Michael Brown, Questlove eloquently urged action from not only the hip hop nation, but “ALL artists” to produce “songs with spirit in them,” “songs with solutions” and “songs with questions” to mobilize social change.

Music and protests have gone hand-inhand for decades, from Woody Guthrie’s guitar boasting that “This Machine Kills Fascists” in the 1940s to Bob Dylan’s 1964 album “The Times They Are A-Changin’” to N.W.A.’s “F**k tha Police” (1988), which became critical in the early ’90s after the Rodney King beating. So where have the voices of musicians, rappers and artists been in the responses and recent protests that have taken the streets of almost every major city in the past week?

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Ahmir Khalib Thompson, known as Questlove, is promoting awareness of social justice issues.

According to Questlove, hip-hop hasn’t been active enough about Ferguson. On the other hand, in the weeks after Michael Brown’s death, J. Cole quickly released “Be Free” (2014), a somber elegy for Brown

featuring testimony from Dorian Wilson, Brown’s friend and witness to his death.

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Arts & Living: A semester in review

by Abigail Feldman Daily Editorial Board

Finals period is quickly approaching, and we’ve reached the part of the semester when students realize just how much they didn’t get done in the past three months. Even studying all year, those final projects are bound to sneak up on you, and chances are, amidst all the assignments, staying updated in the arts and culture scene hasn’t been a top priority. Have no fear — the Daily Arts department is here with a semester review to catch you up on what you might have missed.

Some of the semester’s most exciting events took place in our own backyard.

Drama majors and non-majors alike impressed their peers in on-campus productions, including: “She Loves Me” (1963), “The Children’s Hour” (1934) and “From Orchids to Octopi” (first performed in 2010). The productions tackled topics ranging from evolution to love letters. Other students, like musician Lila Ramani and painter Neha Sandeep, made their own ripples in campus culture while pursuing indesee REVIEW, page 6

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Taylor Swift released pop album “1989” to record-breaking sales, then broke up with Spotify and released a hugely successful music video for her single “Blank Space” from the album.

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Frozen Hoagies brings delightful cold treats to Powderhouse Square

by Drew Robertson Daily Editorial Board

Two brightly lit windows, frost-covered and shedding warm, yellow light onto a dark street, look like an advertisement

Frozen Hoagies 864 Broadway, Somerville MA 02144

mary@frozenhoagies.com $ for holiday cheer. But the dazzling panes of glass and the store behind them are

very real – in fact, the windows are the two most prominent features bedecking the stark white storefront of Powderhouse Square’s newest eatery. The sign above simply says “Frozen Hoagies Sweet Shop.”

Frozen Hoagies opened Nov. 21, quietly moving into the neighborhood during the Thanksgiving holiday break and discarding the “Opening Soon” window sign that had lingered for months. But while most Tufts students were away for its opening, the store was bustling on Saturday night. Business is picking up, as students and local residents alike discover this charming, hole-in-the-wall shop.

While the ability to draw a steady stream of customers is a feat for any new

store or restaurant, it is especially impressive for Frozen Hoagies, which specializes in ice cream sandwiches. Deep in the December chill, cravings for frozen treats can be expected to lag, especially in comparison to the high-demand summer months. Perhaps in an effort to combat this very pitfall, Frozen Hoagies offers many seasonal delights in addition to traditional ice cream fare.

Apple crisp and cider fill out the menu, as do traditional gingerbread person cookies, which come — just like in the storybooks — with three buttons, M&M eyes and a little red nose. Specialty IBC see HOAGIES, page 6

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ell, book-lovers, we’re nearing the end of our journey together. As finals season and winter break approach us, I thought I’d take the opportunity to recommend some excellent escapes, whether they be from the stress of studying or from quality family-time. Even if none of the following strikes your fancy, I do urge everyone to take a break and just read a book for fun. It’s the perfect distraction from end-of-semester stress and helps put everything into perspective.

Are you dreading facing your family over the holidays? Do your cheeks already hurt just thinking about how many times your relatives will pinch them? Are you counting the days until you’ll be free from your siblings? If so, you should read “The Corrections” by Jonathan Franzen. It follows the reunion holiday season desperately arranged by mother Enid Lambert in an attempt to bring her children home for the first time in years. Having been separated by horrible past arguments between herself and her children, Enid can’t bear the thought of never having her children home for Christmas again, so she is willing to do anything and everything to bring them back to her. Whenever I have problems with my family, I always reopen this book, as it serves as the worst reminder of how bad families can be. I guarantee you, very few of your family problems can compare to those of the Lamberts.

Can you not stand the thought of seeing your superficial friends from high school?

Does your head hurt already imagining the hour-long conversations you’re barely a part of? If so, your winter break read should be “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger.

In one of my favorite books of all time, Salinger takes us into the mind of Holden Caulfield, a bitter yet attentive teenager navigating his own winter break after being expelled from boarding school and leaving for home early. Unbearably cynical at times and darkly humorous at others, Caulfield says what we’re all afraid to. He refuses to settle for the simple and “phony” facades of life, knowing it’s all rotten underneath.

Struggling with what he wants to see as beautiful and what he knows won’t last long enough to be worth anything, Holden expresses the ultimate feelings of alienation while trying to find a friend to help him through it all.

Do you grow weary of the unending happiness of the holidays? Do you just want everyone to settle down with all the holiday cheer? Are you the Grinch of your family? If so, you should read “Stay Up With Me” by Tom Barbash. This collection of short stories contains melancholic stories about different people living in New York City. On the surface the stories don’t seem too sad, but through the implications of certain characters’ actions, their truly depressing aspects shine through. As someone who rarely feels especially gloomy while reading or watching movies, I can honestly say I’ve never read stories as heartbreaking as these. These stories remind me of what’s important and to never let something I care about pass out of view. They’re incredibly well-written in a minimalist style, leaving a lot of details available for the reader to supplement based on his or her unique experiences.

I hope these recommendations appeal to some of you, as winter break is the perfect time to sit down with a new book.

It’s been a wonderful experience writing these columns every week, and I hope you’ve all had as much fun reading each one as I’ve had writing them! Reading is a true passion of mine, and I hope through my column you’ve been able to find some new books and adventures. Happy reading, bookworms!

Helen Schmidt is a sophomore majoring in biology. She can be reached at helen. schmidt@tufts.edu.

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Questlove, Killer Mike call for political activism through music ACTIVEMUSIC

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nying caption on SoundCloud. An excerpt of the caption reads, “Rest in Peace to Michael Brown and to every young black man murdered in America, whether by the hands of white or black.” Cole has also attended several protests regarding the situation in Ferguson.

Another artist, Michael Render, known better as Killer Mike of hip-hop group Run The Jewels, has been quite outspoken regarding the situation in Ferguson and the Eric Garner decision. He even co-authored an op-ed denouncing the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal courts. Shortly after Brown’s death, Killer Mike posted a photo to his Instagram account of Michael Brown’s mother and stepfather, saying in a longer caption, “I care that we as humans care as much about one another more. I care we see past Class [sic], race and culture and honor the humanity that unites our species.”

Render also made an emotional speech before a show in St. Louis just after the decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson was announced.

“These motherf**kers got me today …

It is not about race. It is not about class.

It is not about color. It is about what they killed him for. It is about poverty. It is about

greed. And it is about a war machine. It is about a war machine that uses you as a battery,” Render said.

While Killer Mike has emerged as a strong, powerful voice for change in the hip-hop community, The Wu-Tang Clan recently released a music video capturing the sentiments around the country in its video for “A Better Tomorrow,” (2014) a track off of its recent reunion album of the same name. The video doesn’t visually feature any members of Wu-Tang, but instead opens with footage of President Obama’s speeches regarding the killings and continues with protests around the country.

The track is mixed with protesters’ chants of “I Can’t Breathe,” and closes with a list of names of people killed by police officers while unarmed from the past decade, ending with the statement and follow-up question, “This is not all of the names. WHEN WILL IT END?” With the videos’ release, the group wrote, “This visual was created

by Wu-Tang Clan in the hopes of inspiring change and promoting unity throughout the world.”

Clearly, artists like Killer Mike and the Wu-Tang Clan have made sure their voices are being heard, yet some have questioned artists with even greater visibility — like Eminem and Kanye West — for their silence at such a tumultuous time in the United States.

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The Wu-Tang Clan wrote a song and created an accompanying music video to show solidarity with protestors.

“Kanye West has 11 million followers on Twitter,” writer Alvin Aqua Blanco published on Hip-Hop Wired on Dec. 4. “Combine that with the fact that there are Yeezy devotees who hang on to his every word as gospel … him speaking up about Eric Garner or Mike Brown could potentially spark more people to at least be aware of the volatility of what’s happening as opposed to looking past it as another blip in the news cycle.”

So the question remains: Will artists incite the change for which Questlove has urged so strongly, calling for “New Dylans. New Public Enemys. New Simones. New De La Roachas” and “New ideas!”? Will more artists, beyond J. Cole and The Wu-Tang Clan, produce work that taps into the present abundance of energy in the country for social change? Or instead will musicians, beyond a limited few in the hip hop community, remain quiet, missing a gravely important opportunity to lead a movement?

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sodas are available for purchase alongside a variety of floats: Milkshake, Root Beer and Hot Cider.

The majority of the menu, however, is dedicated to the impressive variety of ice cream and cookie flavors that can be paired together to create custom sandwich orders. Ice cream choices are fairly wide-ranging; patrons can choose from chocolate or vanilla, maple or mint explosion, pumpkin or apple caramel and many more. The cookie choices are homemade, vary from day to day and include traditional chocolate chip, chocolate peppermint (Nutella cookies studded with sugary shards of peppermint candy), vanilla bean and even macaroons.

Once the combinations are selected, customers are handed a “sandwich.” In a paper-lined bowl, the homemade cookies hug the sides of an (un)healthy dose of ice cream. While the scoop-to-sides ratio

is, admittedly, a bit out of whack — if not downright intimidating — there are several techniques for conquering the cream, including eating the frozen hoagie like a sandwich. Insider tip: Remove the cookies to keep them from getting soggy. Then use a spoon to whittle away at the ice cream Everest before you, and — when you feel brave enough — reassemble the sandwich, then lift (using paper to stop drips) and proudly bite.

Other plausible methods of consumption include breaking the cookies into bitesized chunks and sprinkling them on top to create a cookie sundae, or using a spoon to spread ice cream onto the cookie, like dip on a cracker. While thinking outside the bowl is to be applauded, beware: The more creative the method, the messier it will be.

Like the Froagie eating experience, the atmosphere of the sweet shop is unusual and — necessarily, given the food’s messiness — casual. Most of the shop’s interior is dedicated to the kitchen space, left open

for patrons to see behind the glass display case. While this behind-the-scenes view is interesting, it leaves much to be desired in terms of seating. Three stools sit at each of the two tiny bars inside the restaurant that run alongside the windows, giving limited options to visitors who want to stay and enjoy their snack; there is simply no way for groups to talk or socialize comfortably.

Similarly, the barren, white walls (graced with only the menu board and a black and white photo or two) feel uninviting, and even a bit clinical. Perhaps this is the result of the origins of the concept itself — Frozen Hoagies began as a truck-based company, like Tufts own Scoop ’n’ Scootery — in which issues like seating and messy presentation were not likely to be concerns.

Despite these few inconveniences, however, the Sweet Shop (Frozen Hoagies’ first permanent location) is a nice new addition to the Powderhouse neighborhood. Frozen Hoagies is located at 864 Broadway, and is open noon to 9 p.m. daily.

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pendent projects. Of course, not all the entertainers on the Hill were students; the fifth annual Cage Rage concert featured STRFKR and Gentlemen Hall, along with headliner MS MR, generating mixed responses among concertgoers.

It wasn’t all art for good fun, either.

Students held the first ever Indigenous People’s Day Rally on Oct. 13, following Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passing a resolution urging the university to reconstitute Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s Day. Nearby in Arlington, Mass., Mad in America held its first international film festival, where students were invited to explore new perspectives on the mental health system. These activist events preceded the larger recent Indict Tufts march and similar movements around the country.

The Daily also caught up with a few Tufts alumni making their names in the real world. Jill Lepore (LA ’87) published her book “The Secret History of Wonder Woman” on Oct. 28, which explores the famous character’s mysterious origins and the controversial life of her creator through the lens of American feminism. October also held in store a conversation with Meredith Turits (A ’09), one of the founding editors of Bustle, about the future of journalism. And with any luck, Tufts University Television ( TUTV ) alumni Noam Ash (A ’13) and Austin Bening (A ’13) will soon see their original “My Gay Roommate” miniseries, based on their first-year experience at Tufts, become a full-length show.

Fall brought with it a slew of new films fated for box office and Academy Award success. The latest installment of “The

Hunger Games” raked in ticket sales, as did “Gone Girl,” the thriller based on Gillian Flynn’s popular novel. Somewhat more esoteric films like “Interstellar” and “Birdman” quickly became critical favorites, though audiences generally responded less enthusiastically.

Those who consider themselves homebodies need not leave their beds to catch up on the culture scene.

On television, the highly anticipated premiere of “How to Get Away with Murder” (2014 – present) proved full of potential, as did season three of popular series “The Mindy Project” (2012 – present). Other series like Amazon’s “Transparent” (2014 – present) and HBO’s “Olive Kitteridge” (2014) came out more quietly but likewise gripped audiences with their subtle intricacies.

This semester also came with an explosion of new albums — everything from Les Sins’ indie chillwave soundtrack “Michael” to pop sensations like Taylor Swift’s “1989.” Speaking of Swift, the artist made headlines after pulling her music from Spotify, to the chagrin of those hoping to enjoy the album for free, and again with the release of her widely viewed “Blank Space” (2014) music video. Time will only tell what the next phenomenon will be.

Yes, now’s the time when everyone is getting too busy to enjoy themselves, but a few opportunities, such as access to the “Goya: Order and Disorder” exhibit at the MFA, remain open and free to students through the end of the semester. So, take a few study breaks.

This semester has been full of new releases and artistic endeavors, and the next one promises to be just as exciting.

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Sustainability fund should not be the end of the road

Few student organizations garner as much attention on campus as Tufts Climate Action (TCA), formerly known as Tufts Divest, and with due reason. The cause for which they fight fervently — to push the administration to divest from fossil fuels — is one that involves every member of the Tufts community and every person who benefits from the financial well-being of the university. In May 2013, a working group comprised of faculty, trustees and students began meeting to determine the definition of “sustainability” and to discuss investing exclusively in socially and environmentally conscious institutions. One tangible outcome of the working group was the recommendation of the Tufts Sustainability Investment Fund, a proposal made at a trustee meeting held in February 2014.

While the formation of a working group and the promotion of open discus-

sion about the environmental impacts of the companies in which Tufts invests is a step in the right direction toward campus sustainability, these efforts alone are not enough. As many members of TCA have pointed out, although the administration and the board of trustees are working toward a more environmentally friendly strategy of investing Tufts’ finances, the university is not, in fact, divesting.

While Tufts must have sufficient funds in order to continue as a prestigious academic institution, this conservative approach does not sit well with those interested in the cause of divestment — and rightfully so. Perhaps the best thing that can be said of the sustainability fund is that it aims to prove to trustees that divestment and, likewise, investment in sustainable companies, can be a business move as well as an environmental one. Critically, the fund’s

creation signals a practical, rather than ideological, approach to sustainable investing. It will be used to gauge how financially feasible divestment might be — and how popular environmental sustainability is among donors. The fund will only invest in companies that have reached set environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, and will support green research and academic initiatives. Large donations directed toward the sustainability fund would help to make a business case for divestment at Tufts.

The student body should recognize that although the Tufts Sustainability Investment Fund is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, pressure should still be put on the administration to invest in an environmentally conscious manner. In short, the fund is not the equivalent of complete divestment.

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Letter from the Editor

More than just a No. 7 ranking

While I may still have three semesters left on this campus as an undergraduate student, and while I will most definitely be working for our student newspaper in some capacity during that remaining time, I cannot help but feel nostalgic for the Daily knowing this is our last issue of the semester. As much as all of my extracurricular time has gone into preparing and planning each day to keep the Daily going strong, so much growth and friendship comes with observing all of this publication’s workings (and all of its talented, dedicated and supportive staff) from the inside out. It is an undoubtedly exhausting process, and we’re all students with commitments that reach beyond journalism. But the work that we have done this semester makes the Daily something I am incredibly proud to have managed along with the rest of the executive board.

One of the first things someone walking into the Daily office at Curtis Hall will notice is a chalkboard filled with scribblings from members past and present.

There are jokes and old messages from former student journalists who have since graduated from Tufts and moved on. Most clearly, one will see the words, “Welcome back, Tufts Daily — the No. 7 college newspaper in the country!” This is, of course, something we like to hang our hats on, something that we think reflects our commitment to reporting in the Tufts community.

But I’d like to take this time to express what really makes this newspaper so

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remarkable, and how the Daily team can always work to be even better.

Most of the Tufts community will have noticed our new website by this point in the semester, which was launched in early September. I cannot stress enough how this has helped us to not only make our coverage more accessible and timely, but also to make our production processes more efficient. It has completely overhauled the back end of the paper, and we think this has led to an enhancement in what you see everyday in print and on the web. And, best of all, it was a team of our own students that put in the extra effort over the summer and into this semester to get it up and running.

We have also done extensive work with the photography, layout and online sections to give the community new ways of understanding what is happening on campus. Just take a look at our stories on the Tufts Mountain Club’s Peak Weekend, the resilience of the boxing club, the part-time faculty’s contract agreement with university representatives and Sarabande’s fall show “Little Bit of Love.” These pieces are four examples of coverage that combine the usual paragraphs of text with media and creative layout to give a more developed and compelling idea of the initiatives our community members are involved with and passionate about.

For examples such as these, along with the usual work all sections are contributing every day of the semester, I want to thank and commend the Daily staff. All of

our members deserve credit for making this paper better than ever.

Before next semester begins and a new round of editors have the opportunity to make their impact on the newspaper, though, I would like to sign off with some words about what remains to be done.

We can be even better.

The Daily has recently developed an Intentionality and Inclusivity Committee to make our internal space more welcoming and intentional as well as make our relations with and coverage of each community on campus stronger and more deliberate. Our organization must focus on how it can best understand and shape our role in interactions with students, staff and faculty.

I have been lucky to call the Daily my home this semester, and that is due to the people that have surrounded me. We can make this place a home for more people on campus who want to engage with all of the inspiring work both inside and outside of the Daily. We can make the Daily a better forum for exploring and discussing what the people of the Tufts community are doing. It’s necessary for us to push each other to make that happen.

I know the Daily will be in good hands going forward with next year’s managing and executive boards, and I look forward to the remaining time I have working with this determined group of students.

Sincerely, Alex Schroeder Editor-in-Chief

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Off the Hill | University of Texas at Austin

Adam Kaminski | The Cool Column

To effect positive social change, make being compassionate cool

by Jeremi Suri The Daily Texan

I am not sure how to measure it, but I am certain that American society is filled with more public expressions of hatred today than anytime since the 1960s. Public officials now routinely condemn their adversaries — fellow Americans — as “evil,” “weak,” “dangerous” and “lawless.” The personal accusations recklessly thrown at established leaders — in business, in universities and in government — reveal a willingness to take people down at all costs. This venom spills into our everyday lives, where it is now acceptable to condemn citizens we do not like and deny attention to those who are suffering and in need of help. We seem to have defined freedom in the last few years as the right to hate those who are not like us or do not serve our interests.

Of course none of this is new. I am a historian who has studied, taught and written extensively about the presence of hatred in human society. I am also a Jew with a South Asian background, so I have witnessed violent hatred in some of its most extreme forms.

What has changed in the last few years is the willingness of educated, established and elite citizens in our society — including students — to accept and reproduce hatred.

It fills the way we talk about presidents, administrators, police officers, protesters and others. It underpins our willful silence about poverty, injustice, exploitation and bullying behavior. We are all so rich with resources and possibilities as Americans, but we have decided in recent years to use what we have to help ourselves, neglect others and justify it all by hating those who stand in the way or are left behind.

What I call the “common hatred” of our current lives is more prevalent because its

traditional counterbalance, shame, has been lost. This is how, as a historian, I know that we are more hateful today. In the 1970s and 1980s, citizens in cities were ashamed of the poverty, the homelessness, the poor-performing schools and the violence around them. They made these public issues of the first importance, and they showed their civic sensibility by working toward common solutions with people very different from themselves. In the 1990s and early 2000s, business leaders and public advocates were ashamed of the racial and gender inequalities in society, the poor health of whole communities and the digital divide that separated the technologically able from those left out. They transformed the culture of leading organizations to embrace diversity, and they made real policy reforms a top priority. Both Presidents Bill Clinton (a Democrat) and George W. Bush (a Republican) emphasized “compassion” when they ran for office, and they criticized those who defined society by profit and self-interest alone.

Oh, how far we have fallen in a few short years! When was the last time a major public figure spoke of compassion for those who have different views? When was the last time we acted, as a society, to put our resources behind reforms that manifested compassion for the suffering and needy rather than simply more for those who already have a lot? We have lost the shame of our selfishness, and we have embraced self-righteous hatred in its place. How else do we explain the millionaires who more stridently than ever condemn public efforts to provide the less fortunate with education, health care and housing?

The debate is no longer about government, which certainly needs reform. Our public rhetoric displays a hatred for those

who, many now believe, cannot help themselves. Those who feel hated by the privileged adopt a return hatred of their own.

Poor, repressed and unrepresented populations do not believe they can succeed in the present system. They do not buy into the American Dream, and they do not think of themselves as stakeholders in society.

This removes the shame surrounding violence and criminality, allowing more of that behavior to manifest itself in self-defeating ways after a public incident or an unfavorable court decision. If you see the rule of law as a protection for hatred, then it becomes easy to hate the law.

I opened this article with a reference to the 1960s because I believe that was the last time our society witnessed public hatred on a similar scale in the violence of Southern segregation, Black Power and various extreme groups on the political left and right. The great accomplishment of the 1960s, and the civil rights movement in particular, was to shame Americans into rejecting the public hatreds that had festered so long around race, religion, gender and sexual orientation.

Hatred did not disappear, but it became less acceptable in public and therefore less manifest in our society’s behavior.

The time has come to restore our shame and compassion. A new generation, like the civil rights generation, must stand up and say, “No more!” We must stop attacking one another and devote our resources to working together again. This begins on our campuses. Reach out this holiday season and work with someone or some group you disdained before. Find common ground, define a project that helps those in need beyond yourself and create a model for others.

Make compassion cool again. Take it upon yourself to help repair the world and reject those who cannot transcend their hate.

Off the Hill | University of Southern California

Students should make the best of this season of giving

by Rebecca Ruben The Daily Trojan

This is, by and large, my favorite time of year to buy gifts for others and find incredible deals on gifts for … well … myself. I feel a little guilty admitting this, but if something is a great deal, it’s worth it, right? Do I really need that pair of J.Crew boots for half-off or that $20 shirt that they’re practically giving away? These “to buy, not to buy” decisions are time consuming and, with finals, an easy distraction from the end-of-semester stress we’re all facing.

It’s the last month of the year, which means Americans are shopping till we drop.

The National Retail Federation projects that Americans will spend $619.9 billion from November through December. While the economy has been improving these past few years, a report found 80 percent of nonprofits reported an increase in demand for services, and 56 percent of these nonprofits were unable to meet the demand.

I’m making this the year that I give up just one item that I’ve been coveting and commit to donating a gift of the same dollar amount to my favorite nonprofit. For the past six months, I’ve been meaning to get involved with L.A. Kitchen, but life has been nonstop.

Instead of waiting, I decided to close that browser window with my online shopping cart and, instead, make a donation.

As a graduate student, time is hard to come by, and this was an easy opportunity to give up something I never needed for something filled with meaning for someone else. There’s no shortage of need in our backyard. Did you know that Los Angeles has the second largest homeless population in the United States? How about the incredible 841 museums and art galleries

in Los Angeles County? We are awash with organizations, movements, art projects and creative human services that have projects they’re desperate to fund.

The Trojan community has long been a hub of community-based philanthropy.

The Office of Civic Engagement estimates that USC dedicated an incredible $35 million in support of community initiatives last year. Let’s build on USC’s commitment to our community and give in a way we’ve never done before. If we can be one of the thousands of fans filling the Coliseum, then nothing is stopping us from coming together to pass on our next online purchase and share that amount of money with a meaningful cause.

This idea of forgoing one purchase and making a donation to support a nonprofit to make a difference is tied into

#giftchange. We’ve heard over and over that there’s power in numbers and power in doing good. But did you know that you benefit directly from being generous? Researchers discovered that the act of making a donation activates the brain’s reward center, the mesolimbic pathway, which delivers a euphoric response. There’s so much to gain from giving. Let’s not pass up this opportunity to come together, feel good and make someone else feel good, too.

As we begin to wrap up 2014 and celebrate our many holidays, I challenge you to give up one purchase and give to your favorite nonprofit instead. Tell your friends what you did (on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, wherever) and challenge at least three of them to do the same. Join the #giftchange. You never know when a little change will go a long way. Happy holidays, and fight on!

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December dreams

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hat’s something every college student wants more than an A grade come December?

Besides a free education and I’ll-do-your-laundry-for-you tokens, I’d guess sleep. So in honor of sleep and as a thinly-veiled ploy to get more of it, or at least to feel productive when I succumbed to it, I pledged to try documenting my dreams and analyzing them. Maybe I’d find my innermost soul, delineate my innermost desires or sleep twice as much as I usually do.

The project started successfully. On my first night of recording, I dreamed that I was inexplicably running up a tower, empty except for a spiral staircase. I was probably being chased by something rather formidable (because I know I’m not trying to catch the Joey, and why else would I ever run?) but this dream had a porous plot at best, so I couldn’t have been sure.

When I got to the top, there was a locked door I couldn’t seem to open. I didn’t have the key. Next I found myself dangling from the banister of the spiral staircase, unable to pull myself over its edge and moments away from my imaginary death. I wasn’t off to a great start with this dream stuff.

Although I’m still a dream-interpreting amateur, the “concealed” content of this dream seemed disturbingly lucid. At the risk of sounding obscene, it was clear that the phallus, ejaculation and sexual impotency are written all over this lazily hidden piece of my subconscious. It’s like my clumsy psyche tripped and broke my tools of repression.

As sure as I was of this rather sobering interpretation, I made sure to consult the gurus, the Trelawneys and the Freuds of the bowels of the internet to corroborate my findings. In effect, I consulted dreammoods.com.

This seductive website, complete with live psychics and alphabetized indices, reassured me that a dream in which you find yourself climbing a tower does not always denote the phallus — although it does most of the time. Phew. Instead, I was told it may signify my quest for spirituality and “subconscious ideas that may be surfacing.” Intriguing.

To unlock what these subconscious ideas are, I next searched for what the inability to unlock a door means. Here dreammoods. com was a little too literal, dry and mundane for my outlandish taste in dreams. But besides the obvious truth that I’m being “kept out of something,” I noticed this golden nugget: “Perhaps an aspect of yourself is locked up inside and it needs to be expressed.” I bet it’s my burgeoning ideas! They must be really important, so I continued.

The interpretation of the last clue, my unexplainable fall — I soon learned — depends on my emotional state during the incident. This begged for an unreasonable assumption. I remembered my fall distinctly, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember if I sobbed or scoffed at the prospect of my own death. Assuming the latter I’m an indefatigable champion. Assuming the former I’m an insecure outcast.

I chose the latter.

So the legitimized analysis goes something like this: There’s this guy (me) who has ideas but can’t find them and doesn’t really care. I’m not sure whether or not this is more depressing than my sex-centric analysis I began with.

As exciting and elucidating as this one dream was, its presence in my column is a fairly accurate representation of my subconscious week. I did not have, or remember, many dreams, and the ones that I could recount usually involved hats and bodies of water (and there’s no way I’m sharing anything as personal as a wet dream).

Nevertheless, dream interpretation is a great way to procrastinate from studying and validate sleeping.

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

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Jan. 6, Rhode Island College on Jan. 8 and Middlebury on Jan. 11.

Men’s Ice Hockey The men’s ice hockey team will also be busy over break, with three road games scheduled before the start of classes. Tufts travels to Oswego State University in New York for the Pathfinder Bank Oswego Classic, which will take place on Jan. 2 and 3. Tufts won’t have to travel nearly as far for its last winter break game, a Jan. 10 bout at Suffolk University.

4-4-1 at the break, the Jumbos will look to extend their current threegame winning streak.

Men’s Swimming & Diving The men’s swimming and diving team does not have any meets scheduled over break, but will return to the pool on Jan. 17 against MIT. Though MIT—one of the top teams in Division III—figures to pose a serious challenge, junior tri-captain Michael Winget believes Tufts will hit the ground running.

“I think we are in a great position to do great things,” Winget said. “The team is working really hard and we will continue to work hard next semester. We have put ourselves in a position to succeed.”

The Jumbos’ final meet this semester was the MIT Invitational this past weekend, at which Tufts ranked third out of six teams after Day 2. The Jumbos are 1-1 after splitting their first tri-meet of the season at Middlebury.

Coach Adam Hoyt was pleased with the way his team ended the semester and believes their success will

carry over into the next phase of their season.

“Our hope is that some great performances this past weekend can be used as motivation to train smart, stay healthy and stay focused as we move into winter break, which is a critical part of our season,” Hoyt said.

Men’s Squash The men’s squash team will practice in Florida for a week over break, and will also squeeze in a conference road game on Jan. 13 at Bates, where the team will look to get back on track following a 2-5 start.

“The squash team will take a break, and the players will be training at their home facilities in December,” coach Joe McManus said. “During the second week of January we will spend a week training at the David Palmer Squash Academy in Orlando, Fla. We made the same trip two years ago, and the players requested to return again this year.”

Senior tri-captain Elliot Kardon says the team is excited for the upcoming trip, and he hopes to see improved results from the additional conditioning. Until then, the players will be expected to train and stay in shape on their own.

“We get to train with David Palmer, an ex-world champion squash player,” Kardon said. “We went two years ago and did a ton of fitness, so we’re looking forward to it. We look forward to getting better on-court and bonding as a team off-court. Additionally, coach [McManus] is sending out a winter break training program for the teams. Players on the team will be expected to keep up with fitness, as well as squash, over winter break.”

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the six first-place finishes against Middlebury, to drive the team’s high hopes for the rest of the season.

Women’s Track and Field This past weekend marked the start of the women’s track and field season at the UMass Boston Indoor Open, offering a taste of the team’s potentially dynamic contingent of athletes.

The highlight of the meet was junior Alexis Harrison’s tie for second in the 60-meter dash with an 8.01 finish. She tied with Holy Cross senior Mackenzie Arndt in the final. Tufts junior Marilyn Allen also competed in the event, finishing sixth in the preliminaries (8.11) and just missing a podium spot at fifth in the final with a time of 8.12.

The non-scoring meet featured athletes from Div. I, II and III. Tufts did not compete as a full team, but had strong performances nonetheless.

Senior Lauren Gormer placed seventh in the 800-meter with a solid time of 2:22.99, but first-years stole the show this past weekend with Julia Prusaczyk finishing the 500-meter in 1:20.81, good for seventh place. Classmate Jennifer Sherwill notched a 35 feet 11-andone-quarter inch shot put throw to place ninth at the meet. In the weight throw, Amylee Anyoha led all Jumbos at 37 feet 6 3/4 inches, good for 11th place.

“This meet was huge as a meet to gauge for everyone where we’re at, so a lot of [first-years] were able to show their abilities,” Harrison said. “Winter break is key in our training — it could really make or break [the season]. It’s very important to stay on top of things, stay motivated over winter break, and it can be hard for first-years to understand that. I have high

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Tufts senior forward Hayley Kanner goes up for a layup during the first half of Tufts’ 88-48 victory over Fitchburg State on Saturday. hopes for the team and confidence that we can achieve our goals this season.”

The Jumbos will be looking to continue their strong start at the Dartmouth Relays on Jan. 11, before hosting their first event of the season, Tufts Invitational I, on Jan. 17.

Women’s Squash The women’s squash team has had a busy winter season, finishing 2-8 of the 10 matches played in a three-week span, the most recent loss being a nail-biting 5-4 defeat at the hands of Colby. Firstyear Devin Mullaney won at the first position for Colby College to put the Mules up 1-0, but the team found itself in a must-win situation after dropping the next four games. Tufts senior tri-captains Paige Dahlman and Ann Bellinger won 3-1 and 3-2 in the second and third positions respectively, while first-years Lauren Banner and Anna Bezahler each won 3-0 in the fourth and fifth positions.

The Mules won the next three games to level at 4-4, and won the ninth spot by default, as Tufts

did not have a player to compete.

The team has five new players this year, four of whom are first-years.

All four have found themselves in the starting lineup due to the team’s small roster.

Tufts will have a second opportunity to play Colby in the spring.

The Jumbos will be bolstered by the return of former first position player and junior tri-captain Paget Stanco. “[Colby] was our overall best match we’ve played as a team. Maybe not the individual matches were the best ones, but as a team it was by far the best we’ve played,” Dahlman said. “Paget Stanco will be back next semester and [sophomore] Lynn Cheng will be back from an injury, [so] we’ll have an even stronger, deeper ladder. Having both of them back next year, you’ll see more Ws for us. This semester as a team we haven’t been able to get as many wins as we would have liked, [but] I’m expecting that we’ll do significantly better.”

The team will resume its season on Jan. 13 at Bates.

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Jumbos defy odds in NCAA tournament run

Luke Machamer | Back Around the Horn

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knew the game was far from over.

“Going 2-0 into the second half, we basically said the next goal would determine how the game would potentially end,” Santos said. “If they scored one goal, we’d be in trouble, because they know how to impose. They have really dangerous guys.”

Exactly as they were hoping, though, it was the Jumbos that struck first, only five minutes out of halftime. Again, it was Hoppenot that put Tufts in a position to score, as he got the ball outside the 18 and made a beautiful cut to split two defenders and get one-on-one with the goalie. Hoppenot’s shot went right at Paprocki though, who knocked it out for a corner kick. On the ensuing corner, one of Wheaton’s defenders mistimed his leap and, as he came down, inadvertently hit the ball with his hand, giving Tufts a second PK. This time it was Santos’ turn to take it, and he sent a rocket into the top right of the goal to give his team a whopping 3-0 lead that appeared to put the game out of reach.

However, the Thunder offense, which had been threatening all game, finally started to find the holes in the Jumbos’ defense.

Part of the improved attack came from Wheaton using its height advantage more by continually lobbing balls into the box over the top of Tufts’ defense.

“At the beginning of the game they really wanted to play on the ground, and it wasn’t really until they started to use their size and their physicality that they started to have more success,” Majumder said.

The strategy paid immediate dividends for Wheaton, as just four minutes after Santos’ goal Wheaton was awarded a PK after Jordan Golz was knocked to the ground in the box by Greenwood as Golz ran onto a long lob ball.

Greenwood guessed wrong on the ensuing PK, and Anthony gave his team its first goal of the game. The goal seemed to spark a fire in Wheaton, who then put Tufts on its heels for the next 20 minutes. Part of the difficulty for Tufts was not the initial balls into the box, which senior center backs Sam Williams and Lee-Kramer got their heads on, but instead the clearances, which would often barely make it outside the box, giving the Thunder several opportunities to get good looks on net before the

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Senior forward Maxime Hoppenot fights for possession against Wheaton midfielder Brendan Finnerty in the NCAA National Championship final on Dec. 6, 2014.

Jumbos could set up on defense.

Tufts also fell into the trap of playing too conservatively, often frantically clearing balls out of its half instead of trying to play the ball back and build up an attack. That strategy came back to the bite them, when after several clears and resulting Wheaton pushes forward, Hollingsworth found a seam in the Tufts defense and sliced across the field to the left of the box before sending a beautiful low cross into the box.

Jordan Golz got a shot off that Greenwood stopped, but the rebound didn’t travel far, and there were far more white jerseys than blue jerseys, allowing Anthony to find the ball and tap it into a wide-open net to cut the lead to just one.

“I think we became too comfortable with the lead, and maybe too excited to think about any repercussions for sitting back a little bit more,” Santos said. “We got really excited, and that got the best of us, because they are a really good [opponent], and that kind of kept us on our toes a little bit, and I think that’s what also

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Sophomore midfielder Nathan Majumder gets clipped by Wheaton defender Noah Anthony in the NCAA National Championship final on Dec. 6.

woke us up to reimpose ourselves and to stop sitting back.”

With the Jumbos suddenly in serious danger, they began to try to take advantage of the aggressive Thunder attack and created several counter opportunities.

“I think we were able to adjust pretty well,” Majumder said. “There was a little period where they had it in our end more, but that only opened them up for counter attack more. I was, and Maxime was, offsides a couple times, but once they started moving everybody into the box and playing balls in over and over, as soon as we got one we could break on, we got very good chances multiple times.”

Majumder and junior midfielder Jason Kayne came tantalizingly close to scoring an insurance goal with 15 minutes left to play when Kayne dribbled right past the defense and drew the goalie out before dishing to Majumder in the middle of the box, who took a difficult touch before sending the ball over what was a wide-open net. Luckily for Majumder, he did not have to wait long for redemption.

Only six minutes later, Halliday found Kayne in a very similar spot, and again Kayne brought the ball into the box on the left side and passed across the box to Majumder, who ran the ball down and deposited it in the corner of the net to give his team the safety goal they were waiting for.

“The first one that I put over, and then in my mind I was like ‘Oh my god, I could have just cost us this game,'” Majumder said. “That was going through my mind when he took it down the left side again, and when he played the ball across I was like ‘There’s no way I’m going to miss this one,’ and I just hit it without really thinking about it.”

For Tufts, and coach Josh Shapiro, the national title marks the culmination of four years of rebuilding a program that was rarely in the national Div. III soccer picture. Although Shapiro and the returning players will soon start preparing for next year, for members of the senior class, Shapiro’s first recruiting class, finishing their careers as national champions is more than they could have dreamed of four years ago.

“It’s surreal still,” Santos said. “Just to see everybody grow together as a team, and our class, [helping] to change the program from what it started as and what it has become — it gets really emotional sometimes. Seeing something change so drastically, and now obviously this is a picture perfect ending. It really couldn’t have ended any other way.”

he goal of this column was to ask questions about the world of sports journalism. Over the past weeks we’ve looked at journalistic conflicts of interest, sports personalities ranging from Darren Rovell to PFTCommenter, and suspensions of both professional athletes and professional pundits. There was, and always will be, plenty to gripe about.

But in our last week together, let us not just complain. Let’s zoom back out to the most macro level and ponder one more time the sports we love and the people who cover them. In this week’s column, I’ll take a look at why sports are king and why no matter how bad the journos get, sports will always be king.

Some people care about things other than sports, such as music or movies. To put the coverage and purpose of sports into perspective, it may be helpful to take a look at the coverage and purpose of some of those other things. The most recent South Park episode provided interesting perspective on the entertainment industry and its portrayal in the media.

In the ninth episode of the currently airing 18th season, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone continued the running joke that Randy Marsh, a 45-year-old geologist, is actually pop singer Lorde.

Upset with his (her?) embarrassing performance at a concert, Randy-Lorde voices his concerns to a high level music executive. The executive scoffs at the notion that the performance was bad, and his evidence is that it generated comments.

Entertainment, he claims, is not about making anything good, but simply giving people something to talk about.

This is where we are lucky to be sports fans. Although one could argue that sports and certainly the sports entertainment industry exist to give people something to talk about, mentions and comments can never be the sole determinant of worth.

We are disciples of competition, and at the end of the day that competition will serve as the judge. Some players and teams perform well and win -- others the opposite.

Undue attention can be cast on undeserving players for stretches, but it can only last for so long before correcting itself. Take for example former ESPN darling Tim Tebow.

After being forced down the throats of Americans for years, Tebow disappeared from coverage because no NFL team considered him worthy of a roster spot. The feedback mechanism of competition helps guarantee that the players and teams talked about are the ones actually worth talking about. In other sectors of entertainment, popularity seems to determine success. Thankfully, with a large enough sample size, it seems to operate the other way around in the world of sports.

This is an incredible source of strength and longevity for sport as a source of entertainment. There is no need for tastemakers or academies to determine the best of the year — there are games for that. Perhaps that is what keeps fans loyal and keeps professional and collegiate sports front and center. The ultimate safeguard against bad sports journalism is the fact that we don’t need anyone to interpret things for us. Sports are delightfully quantitative in nature, and therefore, they are consumable outside of traditional spins or agendas that may plague other entertainment sectors.

We still need to watchdog the industry to make sure the coverage is ethical and that injustices within the leagues we love are brought to light, but a million idiot jockclub announcers can’t stop us from watching and genuinely enjoying sports.

Luke Machamer is a junior majoring in economics. He can be reached at lucas. machamer@tufts.edu.

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Despite rarely being favored in the tournament, Tufts made its title run look shockingly easy, never having to play extra time. However, the finals provided the teeth-grinding drama that was mostly absent from Tufts’ previous games.

Part of the difficulty for Tufts was that it was going up against a team that has arguably one of the most individually talented groups of offensive players that the squad has seen all season. The aptly named Golz brothers, Stephen, a junior, and Jordan, a senior, accumulated 21 and nine goals this season, respectively. They are joined by junior forward Marshall Hollingsworth, who tallied nine goals and eight assists this season en route to being named CCIW Player of the Year. One of Wheaton’s most talented goal-scorers isn’t even an offensive player; senior defender Noah Anthony was second on the team with 10 goals.

But according to first-year right back Matt Zinner, the team’s philosophy stayed the same.

“All year, our philosophy [was] to defend as a team, [with] all 11, so that starts with Max up top setting the press, through the midfield with Kayne, Rui and Halliday, and Brown and Gus out wide, and they really help protect us as a back four,” Zinner said. “It was the same strategy [Saturday].”

The Thunder’s offensive prowess was on display early too, as they immediately began to pressure the Jumbos. However, Tufts was equal to the challenge, as both teams spent the first several minutes knocking the ball back and forth, trying to gain control of the field.

“We knew from the beginning that they pressed equally as hard as we did,” Santos said. “That’s where we decided to sit in a little bit and let the game solve itself out.

In the first 15 minutes it was truly just a battle of territory.”

The Jumbos also had to get adjusted to not playing with a lead right out of the gate; unlike their previous two games in which they scored go-ahead goals within the first two minutes, the Jumbos were forced to build up their attack and open up the field.

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Senior Peter Lee-Kramer, left, and junior Connor Brown celebrate after Kramer scored the first of Tufts’ four goals in the NCAA Div. III Championship.

“When you’re playing with a lead, you can pretty much play more defensively,” sophomore forward Nathan Majumder said. “When it’s 0-0, we know you have to grind the game down. In the beginning of the game, it’s going to be knocking it back and forth, opening up the game a little bit, but then we knew once the game started to settle down, you have to settle in to your own style.”

Tufts and Wheaton both play similar styles of soccer — both teams attempt to play through the midfield and keep the ball on the ground, trying to link up with forwards around the box. While both teams were able to generate chances, it was Tufts that was able to convert first.

Off of a goal kick from sophomore keeper Scott Greenwood at the 27-minute mark, the Jumbos controlled the ball in Thunder territory. Senior co-captain forward Maxime Hoppenot held the ball up on the left sideline before playing it back to first-year midfielder Kevin Halliday.

Halliday then hit Hoppenot, who released

down the sideline immediately after he gave the ball up, executing a perfect lead pass. But as Hoppenot ran onto the ball he was taken down by a Wheaton defender, giving Tufts a dangerous free kick below the 18-yard mark from the left of the goal.

As he has done all year, junior midfielder Rui Pinhiero took the set piece and sent a low ball at the near post. Senior keeper Matt Paprocki got his hands on the ball, but deflected the ball right in front of the middle of the goal. Seeing the empty net, senior center back Peter Lee-Kramer slid in to knock the ball home, just beating a Wheaton defender to the spot.

“We took every chance we got, and kind of buried every chance we got,” Santos said.

The goal gave Tufts a 1-0 lead, but it was Wheaton that continued to build up better attacks, forcing Greenwood to make several diving saves to keep Wheaton off the board.

Despite the pressure put on Greenwood and the defense, it was the Jumbos who struck again, this time in the 37th minute.

Off of a throw-in from Zinner, the Jumbos passed the ball around outside the 18-yard box on the right side of the field.

Zinner ended up getting the ball back and taking two touches into the box. On his second touch, Zinner got tripped up by a Wheaton defender and was awarded a penalty kick (PK).

Majumder calmly stepped up to take the PK, and sent the ball into the lower left corner of the goal to give Tufts a 2-0 lead.

Zinner, who was coming off a goal in the semifinals of the tournament, has provided Tufts with a nice offensive spark from the back line all season after being inserted into the starting lineup.

“Coach is always giving me the confidence to go forward, and I try and link up off my other teammates as much as I can,” Zinner said.

After the goal, Tufts was able to hold off several more advances from Wheaton and enter the half up 2-0. However, the team see MEN’S SOCCER, page 15

Men's winter break preview Women's winter break preview

by Tyler Maher Daily Editorial Board

While many Jumbos will spend winter break lounging around the house in their favorite pajamas, exploring Netflix and relaxing before the start of spring semester, men’s sports teams will be hard at work in the gym, on the court and in the pool. Some will have already resumed playing games before classes re-start on Jan. 14, and if they haven’t they’ll at least have some additional practice time under their belts. Here’s what the

major men’s teams will be up to over the next five weeks while you’re sipping hot cocoa and shoveling snow.

Men’s Basketball Men’s basketball will look to get back on track in its final game of the semester tomorrow night at Plymouth State, after losing both games this weekend in the New England Big Four Challenge. The team has three games during break — all at home — versus Newbury College on see MEN, page 14

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Sophomore goalie Mason Pulde makes a save during the Jumbos’ 7-2 loss to Trinity on Nov. 16.

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Women’s Basketball Currently in the midst of a seven-game winning streak to begin the season, the team is coming off an 88-48 thrashing of Fitchburg State, besting its season-high point total by 10 points. The team will take on Bridgewater State tomorrow at 7 p.m. before going on an extended break, playing its next regular season game on Dec. 28. The Jumbos are averaging a 25.4 point win margin, and hold a season average of 45 percent shooting from the floor while keeping opponents to just 34.8 percent field goal percentage.

The Jumbos are led this season by the tri-captaincy of seniors Hannah Foley, Hayley Kanner and Kelsey Morehead. Foley, a guard, is the team’s top scorer with 14.9 points per game, shooting 60.5 percent from 3-point range, and Kanner, a forward, is averaging 13.1 points per game. Morehead, the team’s point guard, powers the team’s high-assist offense with her 4.6 assists per game, while the Jumbos average a leaguehigh 19.6 assists per game.

Tufts is ranked No. 3 nationally, but will face its first test in the NESCAC on Jan. 11 against Middlebury, just before the spring semester officially begins. The toughest matchup of the regular season will follow this game, with the team hosting Amherst on Jan. 16. Amherst is ranked No. 4 nationally, and was the 2013 NESCAC Champion.

“It’s nice to have some time to rest our bodies before we get to the heart of our season,” Foley said. “Right now we’re a little banged up, we have a few injuries — [sophomore forward/center] Michela [North] has a hurt ankle but she’ll be back soon, [junior guard] Nicole [Brooks] and [senior forward]

Hannah Artner have concussions, but with the two to three week break they should be totally fine. It’s a great period of time to work on individual stuff — we’re not allowed to have official team practices, so for me personally, I try to work on finishing inside.

Obviously, I like to shoot threes, but come next semester a lot of outside shots will be taken away from me, so [I’ll be working on] my ball handling, finishing with contact and being more creative with driving.”

Women’s Swimming and Diving The team began its season with two losses in the season-opening tri-meet against Keene State and Middlebury, despite winning three events: the 200 backstroke, 100 butterfly and three-meter dive. The Jumbos struggled in the MIT Invitational meet this weekend, finishing Day 2 of the competition in seventh place out of eight teams.

Tufts will be looking to build on the strong performances of several first-year and sophomore athletes, who displayed their potential during the opening tri-meet. First-year Kelsey Gallagher won the 200-yard backstroke with a 2:10.88 time after finishing second in the 100-yard back in 1:02.59, and classmate Anna Kimura narrowly took the 100 butterfly, beating out Middlebury’s Meg Griffin by 0.34 seconds. Sophomore diver Kylie Reiman won the three-meter dive with 232.80 and came in second in the one-meter.

Tufts will resume its season with a dual meet against MIT on Jan. 17, looking to get back on track toward accomplishing its goal of a topthree finish at the NESCAC Championships in February. Despite the team’s seventh place finish last year, Tufts will look to capitalize on improvements early in the season, such as see WOMEN, page 14