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Impeachment papers retracted, funds allocated for Spring Fling opening act The two Tufts Community Union (TCU) senators who last week filed papers with the Senate calling for the impeachment of TCU Treasurer Matthew Roy, a sophomore, have withdrawn their submitted papers in the interest of avoiding disrupting the upcoming budgeting season for student groups, which begins this week. Sophomore senators Jessie Serrino and Darien Headen, who submitted the papers last week, said they have no plans to resubmit any new calls for impeachment. The Senate at last night voted to revise its bylaws to clarify rules about releasing internal documents without the consent of the proper Senate authorities. The Senate also voted to amend its bylaws to reflect additional language clarifying Senate procedures in the event of any future impeachment proceedings. In the Treasurer’s report, the Senate allocated $45,000 to the Concert Board to hire talent for April’s Spring Fling concert. Concert Board has already hired the headlining band and plans to use these funds to book opening acts. The board has not yet released the names of the bands that will perform at the concert in April. The Senate allocated
the student group Tufts Association of South Asians $6,984 to send its Bhangra and Tamasha dance teams to competitions at other universities. Funds were deducted based on Senate precedent against paying for hotels, then partially re-added to cover food costs. Another student organization, Tufts Urban Policy, Planning and Prosperity, was allocated $68 from funds for new groups to cover advertisement and speaker fees for potential upcoming events. The Tufts Student Garden was granted $625 to host a sustainability and agricultural conference at Tufts. The Tufts chapter of the international organization Students for Sensible Drug Policy was allocated $350 to cover speaking fees for an event tomorrow featuring drug policy reform advocate Jack Cole, the former executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. The Senate allocated to the Tufts chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers $155.10 for a career path event to increase awareness of opportunities available to students after graduation.
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Winter Bash is currently under review by university administrators following “unprecedented” alchohol-fueled misconduct at this month’s event at the Westin Copley Place Boston Hotel.
Misconduct prompts plan for adminstrative changes to Winter Bash by Stephanie
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A multi-department administrative review of Winter Bash will likely result in major logistical changes to the event in the wake of alcohol-fueled student misconduct at this year’s event. The review, conducted annually after most major campus events, has been underway since the Feb. 1 event at the Westin Copley Place Boston Hotel saw an unprecedented level of alcohol-related incidents, including public urination and over 15 students’ receiving treatment for exces-
sive intoxication, Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman said in an email to the Daily. Several offices, including the Office for Campus Life (OCL), the Tufts University Police Department, Programming Board, the Department of Public & Environmental Safety, the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs and Event Staff will continue to re-evaluate the event’s purpose and develop plans to prevent such behavior at Winter Bash — and other campus-wide events — in the future. “What many o anticipation among the student body that the Winter Bash is a drinking
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The Tufts Garba Team, also known as JumboRaas, performed Friday at the Tufts Association of South Asians (TASA) Culture Show this weekend in Cohen Auditorium. The show also featured pieces by the South Asian dance troupes Bhangra, Tamasha and Pulse.
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opportunity,” Reitman told the Daily in an email. “There has been talk of a change in the focus of the event to make it special again.” Reitman, in an op-ed piece submitted to the Daily explaining the review, cited students at the event who urinated and vomited in the hotel bathrooms and lobby, and behaved rudely to hotel and university staff at the event. He also placed blame on the “15 to 20” intoxicated students hospitalized at the event. “This year was kind of in shambles,” Programming Board
The Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund ( TNSF) in December awarded 32 grants, totaling over $20,000, to nonprofit community organizations surrounding Tufts’ Medford/Somerville, Grafton and Boston campuses. According to Assistant Director of Community Relations Susan Fuller-DeAmato, every year the Tufts Community Appeal gives staff and faculty members the opportunity to donate to various organizations including Tufts Financial Aid, charities of preference and the TNSF. The TNSF was established in 1995 and is made possible by these annual donations from Tufts faculty and staff. “It’s important for people to understand that it’s not the university giving away money,” Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel said.
“This is people who work for Tufts putting their money into the fund. They appreciate that recipients are local and involved with the university.” Fuller-DeAmato said that in 2012 the TNSF received 49 applications. The number of applications matched 2011’s total, and the $20,380 available to give away was an increase from the 2011 amount of $19,500. The largest grant for the year was $2,000 to the Community Cupboard Food Pantry of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Medford for needs such as paying off increased operational and fuel costs in the winter months and accommodating a higher number of clients. Some other Medford/ Somerville organizations that received funds were Medford Family Resource Coalition, Community Action Agency of see COMMUNITY, page 2
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In the new installment of “A Taste of Tufts,” Nina Gerassi-Navarro gives her take on race and science.
The Bowdoin Polar Bears upset the Jumbos 60-54 in the NESCAC tournament quarterfinals.
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Visiting the Hill this Week TUESDAY “Poetry Reading and Book Signing by Tracy K. Smith” Details: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith will read from her numerous works, including “Life on Mars.” “Duende” and “The Body’s Question.” A question-and-answer session will follow. When and Where: 4:00 p.m.; Ballou Hall, Coolidge Room Sponsor: Center for the Humanities at Tufts “The Globalization of BME” Details: Muhammad Zaman, the associate chair of biomedical engineering for undergraduate affairs at Boston University, will discuss his research in designing inexpensive and accessible solutions to improve quality of life and medicine in remote areas. When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room
Sponsor: Biomedical Engineering Society WEDNESDAY “Goldner Hillel Scholar Series” Details: Israeli security and counter-terrorism expert Jonathan Fine will discuss how the Arab Spring movement, the elections in Egypt and the changes in Syria will affect Arab-Israeli relations in light of recent Israeli airstrikes. When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.; Granoff Family Hillel Center Sponsors: Tufts Hillel “Killing Mockingbirds: Cultural Memory and the Central Park Case” Details: Presidential Professor of the Humanities and professor in political science at Williams College Joy James will discuss her new work, titled “Memory, Shame and Rage: Interracial Rape Beyond
the Central Park Case.” When and Where: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Braker Hall 001 Sponsors: American Studies, the Africana Center and Peace and Justice Studies “Students for Sensible Drug Policy Presents Jack Cole” Details: Jack Cole, former lieutenant for the narcotics division of the New Jersey Police Department and co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, will discuss the failures of the war on drugs and possible alternative solutions. When and Where: 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Barnum Hall 104 Sponsors: Students for Sensible Drug Policy
THURSDAY “From Redeemer to Enforcer Nation: The Militarization of American Foreign Assistance, 1964-2012” Details: Michael Adas, the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University, will speak as part of the 2012-2013 Tufts Seminar Series titled, “Exploring the History of Humanitarianism and Development.” When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 206 Sponsors: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Department of History and the Department of Religion, with the support of Tufts Collaborates!
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Outside the Lines Studio, a Medford-based art studio, received $500 from the Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund this past December to purchase art materials.
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Somerville and Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services. The Community Harvest Project in Grafton, an organization dedicated to growing and donating fresh produce for hunger relief, received a $500 grant, which allowed the organization to improve its automatic irrigation system, according to Executive Director of the Community Harvest Project Kristin Bafaro. Last year, the Community Harvest Project donated 250,000 pounds of produce to the local community, she said. “Upgrading our irrigation system helps us in becoming more energy efficient,” Bafaro told the Daily. “The grant gave us money to replace irrigation
sensors out in the field. New sensors will tell the computer system when the soil is dry. We also hope the new system will increase what we are able to donate to hunger relief.” Nonprofit organizations must meet certain qualifications before they can submit the one-page grant application for the TNSF grants, Fuller-DeAmato said. “Organizations that apply must be nonprofits in one of our Tufts communities — Medford/Somerville, Grafton and Chinatown — and need to have Tufts students, faculty, staff or alumni volunteering there,” she said. Grant recipients vary every year and serve a wide range of causes, Rubel said. In the past, funded projects have included environmental education programs, wig banks for cancer patients
and musical instruments for a youth marching band. The TNSF committee, composed of faculty members from departments throughout all three campuses, selects which projects will receive the grants. According to Rubel, most proposals initially came from organizations located around the Medford/Somerville campus, but, over time, proposals from the Grafton and Boston communities have increased. In 1995, the Grafton campus only received two proposals, but this year received nine, she said. Since the beginning of the economic recession, Rubel said, it has been difficult for the TNSF to attain funds. This difficulty has continued even into this year, she said. “This has been a tough year to raise
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co-chair Christopher Blackett, a senior, said. “We expected some problems, but I don’t think we could’ve foreseen the level that occurred.” Results of the review — and the expected changes — will not likely be made public until later this month,
Blackett said, adding that cancelling the event is not an option. Instead, the event will possibly be replaced with a new format, like a formal dinner. Any changes will include downsizing the event by limiting the number of tickets made available in an effort to address the high number of students treated for intoxication, Blackett said.
The annual, fall-semester Fall Ball event is also now subject to examination and possible changes in light of the transgressions at this year’s Winter Bash. In addition, members of the university’s Alcohol Task Force are investigating the implications of the night’s events for campuswide attitudes towards alcohol abuse and preparing solutions that might mitigate the
money,” she said. “It has been hard for the community organizations we fund, and for faculty and staff to make generous donations. Unless there is some serious windfall, we will only have $18,000 for next year.” The most the TNSF has been able to distribute in a given year is $24,000, Rubel said. Specific project proposals tend to be funded more frequently than nonprofits’ personnel or operational costs. Donations to organizations range from $250 to $2,000, and the larger donations most frequently go to food pantries and funds for the homeless, where the TNSF committee believes there is the greatest need. “The committee wants to give money where they think it will do the most good,” Rubel said.
frequency of similar incidents in the future. The OCL and next year’s Programming Board co-chairs will likely begin planning next year’s event this summer, Blackett said, but the behavior of this year’s Winter Bash attendees’ may affect whether local venues will be willing to host a university event.
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Last Friday’s installment of “A Taste of Tufts: A Sampling of Faculty Research,” sponsored weekly by the Experimental College, featured Associate Professor of Latin American Literature Nina Gerassi-Navarro. Gerassi-Navarro spoke about her research on how knowledge, particularly scientific advancements and understandings of race, circulated between the United States and Brazil in the mid-19th century. “There has been a shift over the last decades [towards] cultural studies as a means of using different approaches and methods to study how meaning is constructed,” she said. “Ideas circulate between different nations and I like to look at how countries have influenced each other.” Gerassi-Navarro’s presentation focused on Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), a Swiss geologist and Harvard professor whose research trip to Brazil influenced contemporary attitudes on science and race. According to GerassiNavarro, Agassiz was prominent in the science world because of his work as a paleontologist and glaciologist in advancing knowledge of the Earth’s natural history, as well as his work at Harvard. “He came and reshaped the teaching of science at Harvard because he said, ‘Go out!’ In books we make things fit; in nature they’re dirty,” Gerassi Navarro said. “He professionalized science and was instrumental in creating research institutes.” Compared to his wife Elizabeth Cabot Cary, Agassiz’s role as the founding president of Radcliffe College, Louis Agassiz’s own role at Harvard proved to be more controversial, due to his approach towards race and evolution. “Agassiz is a well-known figure; he’s problematic because in addition to being very progressive, he was also extremely racist,” Gerassi-Navarro said. “He was a rock star . . . he would give a talk and 5,000 people would go.” According to Gerassi-Navarro, Agassiz was egalitarian in terms of
educating women; he wanted to see them in his classrooms alongside their male counterparts. However, he had never seen an African-American person before moving to the United States and was struck by Samuel Morton’s study of craniometry, which compared skulls of different races, with Caucasians as the superior race. This influenced the direction of Agassiz’s research towards racial origins. “Agassiz became involved in the debate on the origin of races and how to understand them,” GerassiNavarro said. “He went to the South and observed the culture of plantations. He commissioned antebellum photographs of naked slaves as a form of documentation, trying to use science as a way to measure and categorize people.” Agassiz subscribed to polygenism, the theory that races came from separate origins, were inherently unequal and could be grouped into climate zones like plant or animal species. After Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking theory of evolution in 1859, Agassiz emerged as a leading spokesperson against evolution in the United States. He claimed that Darwin used deduction, rather than facts, in his work. According to Gerassi-Navarro, this stance contributed to later disregard of Agassiz’s work. Agassiz finally headed to Brazil in 1865, on what would become known as the Thayer Expedition, in an effort to refute Darwin’s theory. The expedition’s primary purpose was to explore the distribution of Brazilian freshwater fish. Jacques Burkhardt, a Swiss painter, served as Agassiz’s personal and principal artist and produced a masterful collection of zoological paintings and landscapes. These works are currently on display at the Ernst Mayr Library at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Brazil during the Thayer Expedition (1865-1866) was a focal point of interest for the United States, as plantation owners sought to explore opportunities in South America amidst rising tensions before the Civil War
According to Gerassi-Navarro, Agassiz and his party spent nine and a half months traveling upriver and were instrumental in opening up the Amazon River. His wife Elizabeth saved letters and wrote about the trip, discussing the nature and the people they encountered. Gerassi-Navarro said that Agassiz, unlike his wife, used the trip to augment his interest in the origins of races, specifically by looking to prove the racial inferiority of the people of indigenous and African descent in Brazil. “Agassiz himself believed that he could observe the deterioration consequent upon an amalgamation of races, which he said was more widespread in Brazil than in any other country in the world and which was rapidly effacing the best qualities of the white man, the negro and the Indian,” Gerassi-Navarro said. “He took crass photographs . . . [where] he made the subjects of his photographs start undressing,” she said. “These photographs were found interspersed with postcards of Greek statues, which reflected a ‘superior race.’ To him, these photographs were going to document how inferior the other races were.” Today, much of Louis Agassiz’s legacy has been discredited. A Cambridge elementary school north of Harvard University, as well as its surrounding neighborhood, used to be named in his honor. However, in 2002, the school’s name was changed to the Maria L. Baldwin School due to concerns about Agassiz’s racism although the neighborhood still bears his name. Harvard is also extremely sensitive about sharing his photos, Gerassi-Navarro said. However, Gerassi-Navarro maintained that it is important to use Agassiz’s work to gain insight into the cultural and scientific advancements of his time. “With the reading of the text, the letters surrounding the photographs avoid a one-sided interpretation,” she said. “There are different meanings — there is always more than one reading. It’s important for us to be able to take a photograph or a text and not discredit it, but see how much it can teach us.”
studied French for several years and, besides the language itself, there are three things that I learned in that time. (If we’re including the language, the total still comes to three. Maybe fewer.) They are: 1) The French actually have a national academy that regulates the usage of the language by determining grammar and vocabulary standards. L’Académie Française holds the official monopoly on the creation of new French words (more on this in a later column), and maintains a secret police force of highly trained linguistic special agents who engage in covert operations to enforce the usage of proper grammar. (Not really. But I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wished it were legal to arrest people for using awful English grammar. I was hoping France might have a head start on that.) 2) If you were to anthropomorphize body parts, the French tongue would be a masochist. Just try saying anything five times fast in French, let alone pronouncing it correctly once. Your tongue needs to be a Chinese acrobat just to ask where the bathroom is. My tongue was always more of a heavily tranquilized bear, so kudos to those who’ve mastered rapid-fire French. Extra points to those who can pronounce th ‘r’ in French, which sounds something like a cross between gargling water and pressing frappé in a blender. 3) No matter how many times I watch a movie in French, the subtitles on the screen will never match what I think I’m hearing the actors say. Or rather, what I think I’m hearing the actors say when I can actually distinguish individual words, because like I said: Chinese acrobat. 4) I know I said three, but I thought I’d add that I’m currently writing this while taking a bus back to Boston from New York, and I’ve literally just realized that the people sitting next to me are, of course, French. Please don’t read this over my shoulder, guys. Or maybe you’d like to proofread? The fact that I can distill the entirety of my French education down to three flimsy generalizations and a limited ability to ask for directions in Marseilles is both pathetic and an example of my word for the week: “gâchis.” This French word translates literally to “waste” or “mess,” and gives rise to the expressions “Quel gâchis!” (What a waste!) and “un beau gâchis” (a fine mess). Its connotation, however, is a tad more severe. “Gâchis” refers to a wasted opportunity, one squandered by multiple levels of ineptitude thrown at it from all directions. Hence the reference to my French education. It was certainly a wasted opportunity. But was it squandered by ineptitude? I like to think that most of my wasted opportunities are squandered by laziness, not ineptitude. Wishful thinking, perhaps. A better example of “gâchis” might be Congress’ recent inability to pass, well, anything really — important or not. If that trend continues, the November election will have been “un gâchis.” Or the Star Wars prequel trilogy. I could attack that one from so many angles that it’s almost not even a joke anymore. Needless to say, anyone who’s had to sit through that staid dialogue, George Lucas’ fanatical devotion to green screen and Hayden Christensen’s acting will agree that those movies were most definitely an opportunity squandered by staggering levels of incompetence. Another example? That one time that Mr. and Mrs. Alois Hitler had sex. I mean, there are a thousand other things that they could’ve done that night. Read a book, go to bed early, watch paint dry. They really didn’t think that one through. Quel gâchis!
Falcon Reese is a junior majoring in sociology. He can be reached at Falcon.Reese@ tufts.edu.
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The Vaccines are the UK’s bestkept secret. Hitting fourth on album charts across the pond in 2011 with their debut studio album, confidently titled, “What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?,” they made their indie rock sound an incontrovertible part of Britain’s club scene. Headlining at the Paradise Rock Club on Jan. 29, the Vaccines joined the company of The Police and Tom Petty who began their careers headlining at the venue. Their 1950’s-style rock and roll has postmodern kids in jean jackets tossing back their parted fades and social swing dancing. With all the catchy melodies, guitar riffs and recognizable forms that remind you of indie hits like the Strokes, the Vaccines encapsulate adolescent anger the same way the Ramones and the Misfits did during the punk revival. They are single-handedly reinvigorating a musical scene devoid of definition and in need of new direction. There are no frills, no theatrics. With Justin Young playing vocals and second guitar, Arni Arnason on bass, Freddie Cowan playing lead guitar and Pete Robertson on drums, they are a standard four-piece band, an idea that seems to have been forgotten. Their live performance lacks no entertainment, however. Instead of additional theatrics, classic tricks like having the
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It was a crazy summer vacation for “Community.” Creator Dan Harmon left the show to go work on other
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smooth transition into the postHarmon era with a solid first couple of episodes, and will likely continue its reign as the smartest comedy on television. “Community” is set at Greendale Community College and follows the lives of the members of a peculiar study group: slacking, self-centered Jeff Winger ( Joel McHale), quirky, pop culture obsessed, Abed Nadir (Danni Pudi) who is best friends with the trusting Troy Barnes (Donald Glover), kind and pure Annie Edison (Alison Brie), buzz-kill Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs), highly religious mother Shirley Bennett ( Yvette Nicole Brown) and finally, the conniving and stubborn Pierce
Restaurant and Bakery in Somerville’s Union Square has been serving up heaping plates of Portuguese lunches as breakfast foods since the early 1980’s. Although the original manager, Mario Borges, died in 2001, the rest of the Borges clan, under his sister Sheila’s management, has kept the restaurant going. Possibly because of the Borges’ encouragement of family business, the restaurant itself seems a touchstone for Somervillians. This is not to dishearten the non-regulars, however, as the Borges family welcomes everyone — as is written on their outdoor awning — into their simple dining room. Walk in and grab any open table. One of Neighborhood’s two friendly waitresses will be with you shortly. With any breakfast entree comes unlimited coffee and a cup of orange juice that is slightly larger than a shot glass. While the menu maintains that either a bowl of cream of wheat or fresh fruit will precede your entree, you may be lucky enough to score one of Neighborhood’s mouthwatering baked apples. This warm treat is enough
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’ve been trying to start this column for a while now, but every time I try to type, I find myself gazing at my keyboard in quizzical fascination instead. Interesting things are happening on my nails right now — things such as microbeads and polishes and postmodern nightmares — and it’s just not conducive to writing, man. So, today I’m going to talk about my complicated feelings toward nail art, which not even my therapist wants to hear, but too bad, kiddos! Anyway, aren’t you just the teensiest bit curious as to why I have microbeads on my nails? Technically, I don’t think these are beads at all, because don’t beads have holes in them ... historically? Instead, these are holeless “caviar pearls,” recently gifted to me by a magazine editor (whom I worship). “Oh!” I said, staring at the three kits of — why, God, why — Nail Rock she’d pressed into my hands. “These are ... uh —” “The ugliest thing in the world,” she confirmed. “I thought you could use them for your column.” “Hideous,” I agreed, deeply relieved. (She owns real Louboutins, guys. Her opinion counts.) “Column title: Trends that work for absolutely no one!” You will notice, however, that this column is not called “Trends that work for absolutely no one,” but “Hard as nails.” It’s because these stupid caviar nails are growing on me, and I’m having a “hard” time coming to terms with that. I never promised clever headlines. Anyway. Though manicures have been a beauty mainstay for many moons, nail art has been “having a moment,” as we say in the fashion biz, this past year. Everybody’s walking around with friggin’ watermelons and newsprint on their fingertips, and it’s making handshakes and high-fives pretty stressful. Some people accredit the trend to a disastrous economy, because polish is a cheap way to level-up your look. I heard of a study that attributed the craze to touchscreens: the more you swipe, the more you notice your fingers, no? Nail caviar, so named because it covers the nail in caviar-like bubbles, is not even the craziest nail art trend. Sally Hansen, for example, makes a magnetized manicure kit, which involves waving a magnet over wet nails to make crop-circle-y designs. The London-based nails inc sells polishes that mimic textures like leather, feathers, and concrete. Ciat,inventor of the caviar manicure, also makes a velvety-type polish. Honestly, I think it’s all kind of bananas. When I whipped out the caviar nail kit at my apartment, I announced to my roommate, “We’re putting gross crap on our nails together,” because I thought it would be the worst. But! Truth be told, I’m digging it. Because it’s a pretty overwhelming look, I went for an accent nail, which means I only caviar’ed one nail on each hand. I painted on two layers of gold polish, which came with the kit, and dipped my nail into the pot of caviar before it dried. After a little gentle pattingdown and a drizzled-on topcoat to keep the colors from smearing, I was set! For, like, a day. Two layers of polish is a transient adhesive for beads-that-aren’teven-really-beads. At present, these frothylooking caviar clumps are clinging to my nails like some festive fungal infection. Hello, gentlemen suitors! There is no real moral to this story, except that I hate this nail art trend like I hate Taylor Swift: vehemently. And yet, people, she’s so right — I did know he was trouble when he walked in. So, shame on me, now. Rebecca Santiago is a senior majoring in English. She can be reached at rebecca.santiago@tufts.edu or on Twitter at @rebsanti.
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Hawthorne (Chevy Chase). The gang is also frequently visited by the slightly mad ex-Spanish teacher cum security guard cum dictator Señor𮰠Chang (Ken Jeong) and the eccentric, Dalmatian loving Dean Pelton ( Jim Rash). In the fourth season of the show, the study group is completing its senior year at Greendale. For a sitcom, there are a ton of plot arcs that can take place in this shortened season. The main storylines include Troy and Britta’s budding relationship, Jeff ’s pioneer meeting with his father while graduating a semester earlier than the rest of the group because of his summer class credits and Señor Chang’s contraction of “Chang-nesia.” Additionally, the writers were forced to write Pierce out of the show by the end of the season, as Chase has chosen to leave the show after this season. And if all of that weren’t enough, on a recent AMA on Reddit, one of the writers for Community revealed someCourtesy Gage Skidmore via Flickr Creative Commons thing huge that’s going to Ken Jeong’s character Ben Chang, who returns during the fourth season, has contracted “Chang-nesia” after occur at some point this season. The first episode in season ferent from the smart, quirky The beginning of the episode Fred Willard playing a kinder four played off of general fears show that “Community” fans depicts Greendale as if it were version of Pierce. However, that the show would be much have come to love now that a typical sitcom, including a it is soon revealed that this worse and significantly dif- Harmon is out of the picture. laugh track, plenty of puns and version of Greendale is only
in Abed’s head and the episode soon returns to reality. This first episode was original and funny and picked up right where season three left off. As promising as the first episode was in assuring high quality for the rest of the season, the second episode brought those expectations back down to earth. The second episode was a little too formulaic and most of the jokes were pretty weak. Based on these first two episodes and the previous seasons, season four of “Community” will probably be a mixed bag of genius episodes along with some average ones. The plot arcs alone are interesting and if the writers toss in some clever parody episodes — like the completely unexpected video game episode at the end of last season — then this season should be as memorable as the rest. Although “Community” has been the most original sitcom of the past decade and has developed a devoted cult following, NBC has yet to renew Community for a fifth season. However, if “Community” can get a B+ or higher this semester (which is definitely possible), then expect a fifth season. If things go exceptionally well, maybe Abed can get his “six seasons and a movie.”
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for breakfast in and of itself, but there is no need fighting the additional calorie load yet to come. Breakfast choices include any variation of eggs, home fries and a meat (bacon, sausage, ham or linguiça Portuguese smoked pork sausage seasoned with garlic and paprika), omelets with meat or vegetables, and pancakes/French toast with almost any of the aforementioned options. If deciding on one particular entree leaves you unfulfilled, don’t fret. You can add on a side of any of these yummy breakfast treats for an additional $4 or $5. All breakfast meals are under $10 unless you’re craving steak before 11 a.m., and specials run $11. If you’re thinking of sharing one of these giant-sized portions, though, do remember the $3 sharing charge that comes with pairing up. This might not be a bad way to go, though, if you plan on eating sometime later in the day. When plates are served, an additional plate of Neighborhood’s homemade buttered toast and cornbread hits the table and the sheer deliciousness of these extras would make it a shame to let them go to waste. The lunch entrees offer a more Portuguese
feast. Meals can still be found in the $10 range, but the larger seafood plates go for $15 or $20. Meat is the main star on every plate, from the breakfast menu favorite, linguiça to roasted chicken, to Portuguese style pork to seafood items like clams, shrimp and lobster. Pick your favorite protein and let the Borges family pair it with one of their many homemade sauces highlighting flavors like garlic, parsley and red wine. To keep up with the generous breakfast menu, all lunches are served with one of Neighborhood’s renowned homemade soups or a green salad, as well as homemade bread. In the spring and summer, the Borges open up the dining area to an adjacent courtyard, where eaters are sheltered by a lush green lattice and every table has its own colorful umbrella. Inside, the restaurant’s sorbet green and pink-colored walls are just the right amount of funky, and the numerous framed photo collages on the walls remind regulars of past memories. Whether you’re heading to Neighborhood first thing in the morning or for a late lunch, the bottom line is that you will get a super satisfying amount of grub for a small amount of cash, and you will most likely have a smile on your face for the rest of the day.
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Justin Young played second guitar during the Vaccines’ concert at Paradise Rock Club in Boston.
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kids in their late teens and folks in their early thirties, though the Vaccines’ audience clearly has its own distinguished style. There’s a certain look at a Vaccines show that the young pull off -clean cut and devoid of brand names. For better or worse, any Vaccines show will probably be a sing-along, dance-until-the-music-stops affair that will leave lyrically iconic sounds ringing between your ears and whistling past your teeth. The Vaccines are infectious and high energy on stage in ways few bands still have passion to replicate. Few bands are attempting the style The Vaccines have already trademarked. Universally, independent music is becoming more and more clearly dictated to popular audiences. At some point, people started deciding to go with the format rather than fulfill a vision. This is something the Vaccines have always refused to do. That’s not to say modern independent work is bad —
that would be far from the truth — but it is to say that very few artists are all that distinguishable anymore. It’s just predictable. It’s on the radio. It’s on your iPod. You’d probably feel comfortable playing it at parties. That’s why you like it. The Vaccines will make you feel differently. You’ll want to play them at parties because they’re doing something innovative and people will recognize that. They will be what Albert Hammond Jr. was to the 1990’s. They’re part of a ‘50s and ‘60s throwback music movement that you haven’t heard about yet. Cross-reference The Postelles for a better idea of what you’re missing. It remains to be seen as to whether or not the Vaccines’ US tour will have them playing through car stereos anytime soon. It is apparent that they are the leaders of a new style within independent music that few bands have ventured to experiment with in modern music. The ground floor of the future of indie music is priced at roughly fifteen dollars, making it well worth getting in on.
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Winter Bash behavior merits serious reflection The description in Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman’s op-ed of widespread student misconduct at Winter Bash—attendees urinating in the lobby of the Westin Copley Place Boston Hotel, vomiting on the floor, acting rudely toward hotel and university staff and, according to Reitman, requiring hospital treatment for intoxication — is appalling and unbecoming of the Tufts community. Winter Bash is intended as a welcome diversion from classes, to usher in the new semester as a collective group outside the confines of campus, and to do so in style. This year’s event, despite the vast majority of students who enjoyed themselves responsibly, was anything but. Changes are desperately needed and, apparently and rightfully, imminent. Though it’s convenient to place the blame squarely on the students, whose shortcomings were most notice-
able and quantifiable, to do so simply overlooks the larger systemic problems in the event’s conception and the drinking culture surrounding it that have led to perpetual issues year after year. This year’s Winter Bash is reflective of a larger culture of irresponsible drinking habits. They’re not necessarily unique to Tufts, but they are certainly alive and well on this campus. There’s no doubt that addressing alcohol abuse and its excessive consumption, either through classes, seminars or among friends, has its merits. It isn’t an unreasonable request to hold ourselves to a higher standard, have the good judgment to refrain from becoming so obscenely drunk as to forgo all notions of acceptable behavior, and represent Tufts in a positive light off campus. The idea of incentivizing alcohol consumption by bussing students to a massive party off campus is a
recipe for disaster. The University’s expectations were clearly set low to begin with, as event administrators anticipated drinking-related issues by calling for additional ambulances for intoxicated students at this year’s Winter Bash. Yet, actions like these only sweep the underlying problems under the rug, pushing them back until the next time. The problem isn’t alcohol consumption so much as it is a small group of people who abuse it. What this most recent stain on our reputation should warrant, if nothing else, is a comprehensive review of both logistical and moral concerns regarding Winter Bash and events of this nature. Because our proven track record of misconduct at both on-campus and off-campus school-sponsored parties, the purpose of such events should absolutely be reconsidered.
ist to be selected to perform based on something as stupid as their gender. Let’s not cheapen music or awesome female artists by making gender the only criterion for our choice. Remember, don’t make the mistake of equating underrepresentation with merit. Let’s get someone who can rock out, and forget about their downstairs mix-up. I’m not saying, “Don’t book a woman.” I am saying that our choice for a Spring Fling artist should be based on merit and our collective desire for an awe-
some springtime concert that we can all enjoy. In my personal fantasy, we would get Janis Joplin, Sharon Jones and Nina Simone to come perform in a trio. Since that’s not really an option, I would put forward Anais Mitchell or Grace Potter and the Nocturnals as some great contemporary performers that we could probably get.
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Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, Let’s think about our selection of an artist for Spring Fling for a moment. I know people have been promoting the idea of a female artist for Spring Fling, but I think it is motivated by the wrong reasons. We shouldn’t be trying to get a female artist. I understand that people want to see some ladies performing, and I’m fine with that! What I’m getting at is that we should be trying to get a good artist, regardless of who they are. I think it is insulting to any art-
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I have heard several accounts of this year’s recent Winter Bash in which students say they loved the event. But unfortunately, I have heard many others in which students have expressed dismay and embarrassment at the behavior of their fellow Tufts students. I was there. I saw both. Clearly, the vast majority of those of you who attended the event were able to enjoy each other’s company and the setting. But I have to tell you that an alarming number of students were in no condition to enjoy anything and spoiled it for others. And I am not referring only to the 15 to 20 of you who spent most of the night in the
medical triage room, where the paramedics were trying to make sure you didn’t die due to your level of intoxication. I am referring also to the friends of those fifteen who facilitated their drinking. I am referring also to the several students who interfered with event staff trying to help some of the drunks who couldn’t quite walk on their own. I am referring also to the rude, arrogant individuals who apologized for disdainful behavior towards several Tufts staff by saying, “Sorry, I thought you worked for the hotel.” I am referring also to the myriad students who threw up all over the place and everyone who thought it was okay for the hotel staff to clean up the mess. And I’m referring to the male student and the female
student who decided that urinating in the middle of the lobby was okay. Really? The Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, the Office for Campus Life Event Staff, Programming Board and the Department of Public Safety have begun to review Winter Bash. There is strong consensus that the planning for any future event has to address the evidently widespread belief that Winter Bash is a time to get outrageously drunk and go to a classy Boston hotel. We have to do better. Bruce Reitman is the university’s Dean of Student Affairs. He can be reached at Bruce.Reitman@tufts.edu.
peaker of the House John Boehner is a tough guy to figure out. He’s known as a “hard-core conservative,” yet he nearly ignited an open Tea Party revolt in the House last month. He has a reputation as a pragmatist, yet he presided over the least productive Congress in history in 2011 and 2012. Boehner isn’t a deft negotiator, a charismatic leader, or close to being a beloved figure among his fellow Republicans. But until a 2016 presidential contender takes the reins that were held by Mitt Romney, Boehner remains the most visible face of the badly fragmented Republican Party. When the party does eventually coalesce around a stable identity, a more intriguing figure will supplant Boehner’s primacy. It could be Chris Christie, the true pragmatist, Marco Rubio, the young establishment figure thirsty for the national spotlight, or Rand Paul, probably the most powerful Tea Party politician in the country. For now, however, it’s Boehner who will be in the news every day offering a counterpoint to President Obama’s proposals and whose agenda-setting power will dictate how far House Republicans are willing to take their brinkmanship. This means that while the party desperately tries to reinvigorate its brand and expand its shrinking base, a man dripping with old-school, “Mad Men”-style politics will be its main ambassador. A gruff, straight, white, chain-smoking male who, before he became Speaker, was perhaps best known for handing out campaign checks from cigarette lobbyists on the floor of the House. If I didn’t know Boehner was a real person, I’d think I was describing a character from an Aaron Sorkin screenplay. And based on the way Boehner described himself, I have to wonder if he’d even take issue with that characterization. In an interview with Bob Woodward last year, this is how Boehner summed up the disparate personalities of himself and the president: “[A]ll you need to know about the differences between the president and myself is that I’m sitting there smoking a cigarette, drinking merlot, and there is the president of the United States drinking iced tea and chomping Nicorette.” I don’t like to get too bogged down in out-of-context sound bites, but this is a rare case where a remark merits somewhat more attention than it received (it received none). What distinction, exactly, was Boehner trying to draw here? That he enjoys the tastes of a self-made man’s man, whereas Obama is what? More uptight? More health-conscious? Less masculine? Maybe I’m reading too much into what is mostly a case of harmless ribbing at the president’s expense, except we saw so much of this attitude after Obama was re-elected in November. Republican politicians and pundits from Romney to Ann Coulter framed his victory as a defeat for the “makers” at the hands of the “takers.” According to this narrative, the stereotypical American success story — a young whippersnapper who pulls himself up by his bootstraps and opens a hardware store or a feed shop — suffered a defeat at the hands of his inferiors. Boehner’s comment may well have been innocuous. That isn’t the point. What matters is that the Republican brand has become bathed in more hyper-masculine rhetoric than a lot of Americans can stomach. It cloaks the party’s rhetoric on all manner of social and economic issues, from gun control to gay marriage to tax reform. It’s not a brand that sells, as evidenced by Romney’s inability to win over more than 44 percent of women and 22 percent of gays, lesbians and bisexuals. But Boehner, the party’s present de facto leader, is an impediment to Republicans as they look for a new direction.
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Saturday’s upset much resembles Bowdoin’s triumph in 2010, in which the Polar Bears came to Medford and defeated Berube’s team in a quarterfinal battle that went to overtime. “I tell my women that when you get to the playoffs, you let everything go and that all the other wins and losses don’t matter,” Shibles said. “We have high expectations in our program for the postseason, and it’s a special time so we want to make the most of it.” Dufault agreed that the team had bowed under the intense pressure. “We needed to keep our focus, but they wanted it more tonight than we did. They
brought a higher energy to our gym and we didn’t defend it like we should have.” Now that the NESCAC season is over, the Jumbos will look ahead to the NCAA tournament, for which they can still qualify with an at-large bid. Since the team has held a top 10 ranking for most of the season, Tufts will likely be able to plan on receiving a tournament invitation despite Saturday’s loss. “With the season over, we have two weeks of practice to work hard and get better, so hopefully with a bid we’ll be ready,” Dufault said. “We’ll work on offense, defense, and executing our plays, so if we don’t come out flat like we did tonight I’m confident that we can bounce back.”
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With twelve top-five finishes over the weekend, the Jumbos claimed the Div. III New England Championship at the University of Southern Maine. Tufts finished with 116 points, beating out MIT by just seven, and were led by senior thrower Kelly Allen’s two event victories. See tomorrow’s Daily for the full story of the Jumbos’ win, along with coverage of the women’s swimming and diving team’s third-place finish at NESCACs.
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The Bowdoin defense harassed the Jumbos into 32.8 percent shooting from the field as they pulled off the shocking upset, beating Tufts 60-54 .
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what the Jumbos had hoped for. But as their 13th and 14th conference matches were both painful losses, the outcome could have been anticipated. “It was a pretty brutal feeling closing out the season the way we did,” sophomore forward George Pantazopoulos said. “One of our goals this season was to make playoffs — it’s too bad our two seniors had to go out the way they did,” he added. “I’m sure they are very disappointed with the way the season turned out.” On Saturday, the Jumbos’ season concluded with a 6-2 loss at the hands of the Colby Mules. The Jumbos missed another chance to repeat as hosts in the NESCAC tournament by a mile, instead retiring their skates for the winter with a dismal 2-14-2 conference record. The game started out physically, as if the frustrations of an entire season were building up for the Jumbos. Sophomore forward Andrew White was whistled for elbowing just 6.5 minutes into the game. And in the 16th minute, senior co-captain defenseman Nick Metcalfe was ejected from the game for fighting, and saw an early exit to a disappointing senior campaign. “It’s hard not to have built up frustrations with the way our season went,” Edwards said. “Sometimes, emotions get the better of someone and that may
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have happened to [Metcalfe].” Senior co-captain Cory McGrath put the Mules up first, gathering a shot that ricocheted off the post and burying it past freshman keeper Derek Metcalfe for the 1-0 advantage. But about a minute later, the Jumbos knotted things up with a power-play strike from junior forward Kyle Gallegos, who took a feed from first-year Brian Oullette and slipped it past goalkeeper Sam Parker to equalize. But almost immediately, the Mules took the lead again and carried a 2-1 advantage into the second. Early in the second period, Tufts sophomore defenseman Blake Edwards found space and collected a rebound shot, putting the puck behind Parker to tie things back up. Edwards’ strike would be the last of the Jumbos’ season, however, as Colby rebounded to pile on three unanswered goals in seven minutes, despite Tufts’ subbing junior keeper Brian Phillips in for Metcalfe. “Colby just outplayed us in the second half of the game,” Pantazopoulos said. “Penalties got the best of us and it allowed them to capitalize on the fact that we were down a man for the majority of the third period.” Tufts traveled to Brunswick earlier in the weekend and dropped a 6-1 decision to the Bowdoin Polar Bears, ranked No. 4 in the USCHO.com rankings and first in the NESCAC. The loss to Bowdoin offi-
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Number of assists dished out by Clippers point guard Chris Paul in Sunday night’s All-Star Game. Paul was named the MVP for the second straight year as the West took a 143-138 victory over the East, as he added 20 points and 4 steals to his dimes. Paul took over in the fourth quarter and controlled the flow of the exhibition game in the same way he’s led his Clippers throughout the regular season.
Number of blocks averaged by Kentucky center Nerlens Noel this season before he went down with a torn ACL in an SEC matchup with Florida, the highest clip in the country. Noel also been averaging 10.5 points and 9.5 rebounds per game this season, as was expected to be one of the top picks in next year’s NBA draft but will now face a long rehabilitation process that will likely hurt his standing in the draft.
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Age of Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers since 1979. Buss died Monday after battling cancer, according to the Associated Press. With Buss at the helm, the Lakers won 10 NBA titles and became an iconic sports franchise. He also owned the team in the early aughts, when Los Angeles won three straight NBA championships .
cially eliminated the Jumbos from the postseason, removing all possibility of Tufts’ sneaking into one of the top eight conference positions. In the first period, Bowdoin junior Ollie Koo and senior forward Robert Toczylowski each beat Phillips to give the Polar Bears a 2-0 advantage. Koo delivered his strike when a shot rebounded off of Phillips’ pads and the junior was able to direct the ricochet into the left post. Bowdoin then forced a turnover in the middle of the ice, and Toczylowski received the feed, flicking it past Phillips to double the lead. The Polar Bears then notched a third goal just 18 seconds into the second period, as senior forward Daniel Weinenger craftily drew Phillips to the right and dished the puck into the empty left side of the net. And with fewer than two minutes left in the period, sophomore forward Tim Coffey added to the onslaught, closing in on Phillips to deliver a close tap-in that slipped by into the left post. Freshman forward Dom Granato eventually found the back of the net on a rebound of Edwards’ shot, but the single goal was little consolation to the Jumbos, who skated off knowing that they would miss out on this year’s NESCAC tournament. “Its an awful feeling,” Pantazopoulos said.” We worked way too hard to have our season end the way it did.”
5 Number of school records set by the women’s swimming and diving team at its NESCAC championship meet this weekend. The Jumbos placed third in the conference with 1,107.5 points throughout the weekend. Those records were turned in by senior Christine Garvey in the 200 meter butterfly, sophomore Samantha Sliwinski in the 50 and 100 meter freestyles, junior Jenny Hu in the 100 meter breastroke, and the 400 meter freestyle relay team.
ast week, Wisconsin and Michigan produced an instant classic by playing to a 60-60 tie in regulation before the Badgers completed a 65-62 upset in overtime. While the talent of the players on the court helped create the memorable contest, the ineptitude of the coaches on the bench was just as relevant. With the game tied and Michigan holding for the last shot in regulation, Wisconsin had multiple fouls to give, which would have forced the Wolverines to inbound the ball once again while draining valuable seconds off the clock. The risk was allowing a shooting foul, but even when presented with the perfect opportunity for a foul on the floor ― in the midst of a handoff, the Badgers chose not to. Tim Hardaway Jr. hit a 3- pointer, and Michigan had the game all but sealed up with less than three seconds left. With Wisconsin now needing to go the length of the court, all Michigan had to do was foul the player catching the inbounds pass, sending him to the line for just two shots with his team down two. The Wolverines chose not to, and a half-court shot sent the game to overtime and helped to end Michigan’s run as No. 1 in the country. Coaching in professional sports has become about not messing up instead of trying to do what’s best for your team. Either coach would have been crucified if fouling had resulted in a shooting foul because it’s the less used play, and in a smaller sample size, a negative result looks worse to the untrained eye. It’s also not what a coach is “expected to do,” as though we must follow a hundred year-old, unwritten creed, advanced statistics be damned. This isn’t a basketball-specific phenomenon. Football coaches love to say that “you don’t go for two until the fourth quarter” even though there are now simple modeling programs that can tell any Joe Schmoe exactly whether they should at any point in a game. It almost cost Jim Harbaugh at the Super Bowl, when, down 22, his team scored and chose not to go for two. If they had and failed, they could have recovered by converting the next two. By waiting, his team left it up to one roll of the dice, with no recovery for a failure. Baseball coaches may be the worst offenders. Sabermetricians have proven again and again in recent years that sacrifice bunts and stolen base attempts are almost always negative value plays. Yet coaches continue to go to those calls because it’s what’s expected at this point. A Baseball Prospectus study found that almost every Major League coach loses his team value through his decision making. The goal now is to lose your team as little value as possible. These coaches get millions of dollars, but a five year-old chewing Hubba Bubba could do as good a job without doing much of anything. All of this makes it so easy to appreciate when a coach makes the right decision while going completely against the norm. John Harbaugh, instead of punting out of his own end zone up five in the closing seconds of the Super Bowl, instead elected to have his punter run around the end zone before taking a safety. To make it even better, he had all of his linemen intentionally hold to give the punter more time, knowing the worst the referees could do was call it at the end of the play and award a safety anyway. This perfect execution gave the 49ers no chance at a comeback. The Harbaughs are two of the best and most innovative minds in the game, and it’s no surprise that their teams met in the Super Bowl. We can only hope that the trend continues until our professional athletes are finally being fed the right decisions all of the time.
Ethan Sturm is a senior who is majoring in biopsychology. He can be reached at Ethan. Sturm@tufts.edu or on Twitter @esturm90.
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After finding his team down six points in the second half to the Bowdoin Polar Bears Saturday MEN’S BASKETBALL (17-8, 7-3 NESCAC) at Cousens Gym, Saturday Bowdoin Tufts
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afternoon in the NESCAC tournament quarterfinals, one thought went through senior cocaptain Scott Anderson’s head: “Not again.” “In my mind, I thought of the past years and how we’ve let games slip like that,” Anderson said. “I think the one thing our team has focused on all year is to not let games like that get away. This team is not one to give up right away, and that’s why we have been so successful.” So instead of repeating the experience, the Jumbos managed to rally past the Polar Bears in the final 10 minutes in a 24-8 game-ending run, launching the team into the conference semifinals for the first time since their trip to the title game in the 20052006 campaign. Although they had to mounted a late comeback, Tufts controlled most of Saturday’s contest and the entirety of the first half, in part due to a confident mindset. “Last year, we lost the last three coming into this game, and we were pretty nervous, [we were] playing not to lose,” sophomore guard Ben Ferris said. “This year, we’ve been winning a lot of our games, so we feel like we are going to win every [one].” The team’s confidence was evident from the opening tip, as Tufts shot just under 60 percent from three in the first half, with Ferris and Anderson contributing 13 and 15, respectively. Some shaky defense, a problem for the Jumbos all year, allowed Bowdoin to remain within strik-
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Sophomore guard Ben Ferris dropped 24 points in the 82-71 NESCAC quarterfinals over Bowdoin, propelling the Jumbos into the conference semis. ing distance and let them shoot 57.1 percent from three and just under 50 percent from the field in the first half. Nevertheless, Tufts went into the break with a lead, 43-37. “We wanted to play better defense in the second half,” Anderson said. “We were playing well on offense and knew we could score on them, but we really wanted to play better defense — which was easier said than done.” Bowdoin came out firing in the second half and, after hitting their first three shots from beyond the arc, the Polar Bears took the lead on a dunk from
sophomore center John Swords, 58-56. The Polar Bears continued to extend their lead until, with 10 minutes to go, they went up 64-58, with no signs of slowing down. But when the Jumbos made a switch on their defensive assignments, they began to clamp down on the Polar Bears, as neither of Bowdoin’s guards scored in the final 10 minutes of the game, marking another strong defensive performance in the clutch. “They were scoring almost every possession, and that’s been our biggest issue all year, getting stops,” Ferris said. “When it really comes down to it though,
we’re able to get stops, and we proved that to ourselves.” On the offensive end, the Jumbos came alive to finish the game strong and snuff out the Polar Bears’ chances of an upset. Cohen dished out seven of his career-high 10 assists from that game in the second half, and senior big man Matt Lanchantin scored seven crucial points in the second half that helped Tufts surge ahead of Bowdoin. Ferris and Anderson both had big games, scoring 24 and 20 points, respectively, but credited the stingy defense down the stretch as the key to the win against Bowdoin.
Women’s Basketball
No. 8 Bowdoin shocks No. 1 Tufts in NESCAC quarterfinals by
Andy Linder
Daily Editorial Board
The women’s basketball team’s record-setting 2012-2013 campaign came to a screeching halt on Saturday WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (23-2, 9-1 NESCAC) at Cousens Gym, Saturday Bowdoin Tufts
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afternoon as the Bowdoin Polar Bears upset the Jumbos 60-54 in the NESCAC tournament quarterfinals. Bowdoin became just the fourth No. 8-seeded team ever to beat a No. 1 across all sports in conference history. The Jumbos were hurt by a slow start from which they couldn’t recover. While both teams struggled to find rhythm in the opening minutes, the Polar Bears threw the first punch in the opening period, hitting six of 12 first-half 3-pointers and heading into the locker room with a 29-25 lead.
Bowdoin held Tufts to a mediocre 32.4 percent shooting percentage from the field and just over nine percent from long distance in the first period. As the second half began, it seemed that the Jumbos would find their footing, regain their composure and begin to hit the high-percentage shots that had carried them to a 23-1 regular season record. But poor shooting hindered the Jumbos the rest of the way, and they found themselves in a deep hole after Bowdoin extended its lead to 11 points with just over 12 minutes left, 45-34. The Jumbos went on a 16-4 run over the next nine minutes, but it was not enough to avoid the upset. Strong 3-pointer shooting carried the Polar Bears on Saturday, as Bowdoin shot almost 58 percent and scored 33 of its points from beyond the arc in the contest. While the Jumbos knew they would get all they could handle from Bowdoin’s senior co-captain Kaitlin Donahoe, the league runner-up in scoring who averaged 15.4 points per game this season, freshman Selena Lorrey was the star of
the game. Lorrey scored 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting and at times seemed unstoppable, even going against the Jumbos’ top-ranked defense. Meanwhile, the Jumbos had three players score in the double digits, led by junior Ali Rocchi, who scored 10 points off the bench on 5-of-7 shooting. Senior co-captains Bre Dufault and Kate Barnosky added 13 and 11 points, respectively, and also chipped in a combined 14 rebounds to lead their squad. Despite those efforts, the Polar Bears managed to head home with the first win in NESCAC women’s basketball tournament history for a No. 8 seed. “[The victory] feels great, and I’m really proud of my kids since we went through a lot of adversity this year,” Bowdoin coach Adrianna Shibles said. “Tufts is an amazing team and we feel fortunate to get out of here with a win.” The last time the two teams matched up on Jan. 11, the Jumbos dispatched Bowdoin by 18 points, adding to the shock felt this weekend. see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 14
Tufts will face a much taller task this upcoming Saturday in the semifinals, when they travel to meet an Amherst team that averaged 84.4 points per game in the regular season and beat Tufts 100-89 at LeFrak Arena back on Feb. 2. “It’s definitely going to be a challenge, because Amherst has a high powered offense, but we know we’re going to score,” Ferris said. “We put up 89 on them last time, but the problem was just they put up 100. If we can focus on every possession this time around,and rise to the challenge of getting stops, I think we’ll definitely win.”
Ice Hockey
Jumbos eliminated from NESCAC playoff contention by
Kate Klots
Daily Editorial Board
After notching its second season NESCAC victory against Hamilton last weekend, the men’s hockey team dropped ICE HOCKEY (7-15-2, 2-14-2 NESCAC) at Brunswick, ME, Friday Tufts 0 0 1 Bowdoin 2 2 2
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another pair of conference matchups to close out all hope of making the NESCAC playoffs. Losses against Bowdoin and Colby on Friday and Saturday, respectively, brought about the end to a frustrating season. The 0-for-2 road trip to Maine was not see ICE HOCKEY, page 15