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VOLUME LXV, NUMBER 56

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Students vie for presidency in three-way race

Courtesy Joe Donenfeld

Courtesy Joe Thibodeau

Donenfeld seeks improved studentSenate connection, simple solutions

by Justin

Rheingold

Daily Editorial Board

Joe Donenfeld, a junior, is running for Tufts Community Union (TCU) president on a platform of increased Senate accessibility and transparency that he hopes would enhance campus communication and unity.

Donenfeld has been a senator since the fall of his freshman year and was a member of Allocations Board where he chaired Council IV, the group that provides funding to

campus religious groups. He served on the TCU Senate Executive Board his sophomore year as historian and previously chaired the Student Outreach Committee.

His focus, he said, is on improving communication throughout the Tufts community.

“I define the presidency [as] someone who can bring people together,” Donenfeld said. “More than bringing people together, it’s also making the voices in the room stronger.”

Donenfeld explained that

many students are unaware of what Senate does and many groups are unaware of the support it can provide. Improving outreach to these groups, he said, is important to increased discussion and collaboration.

“I was shocked to find out that a lot of students that were in charge of really big clubs had never been reached out to by a senator and didn’t know that Senate was a place they could go,” he said. “That’s a see DONENFELD, page 2

Thibodeau supports diversity, increased student input by

Abigail Feldman

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Joe Thibodeau, a junior, is running for Tufts Community Union (TCU) president with a plan to create a community that better reflects students’ needs and desires.

Thibodeau, who has served on Senate since September of his freshman year, is currently abroad in Madrid but has continued to participate in Senate activities. In the past, Thibodeau has assumed positions on Senate’s Education Committee

and Allocations Board, and he served as the body’s first Diversity and Community Affairs Officer.

Since his sophomore year, Thibodeau has also chaired and participated as a member of the Culture, Ethnicity & Community Affairs Committee (CECA), a group that focuses on issues of race and gender equality and inclusion, he said. His platform is largely dedicated to creating a community that provides diverse groups on campus with better resources and representation.

“There’s a Tufts that we deserve as a student body,” he said. “We all deserve to have the resources and the opportunities available to us to pursue our own personal growth, our academic passions, our extracurricular interests.”

Thibodeau has also been involved in the Tufts community as a member of several student organizations, including WMFO, Pen, Paint & Pretzels (3Ps), Tufts Dance Collective (TDC), Freshman

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Maciejewski touts experience, dedication

by James

Pouliot

Daily Editorial Board

As a candidate for Tufts Community Union (TCU) president, junior Christie Maciejewski brands herself as a strong administrator with a long history of using her position on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate to generate immediate, tangible improvements to student life.

Maciejewski said she runs her campaign on the premise that students want their leaders’ ‘big ideas’ to be paired with smaller goals that can be achieved in the short term. In a debate Thursday and throughout the campaign she has repeatedly referred back to a list of concrete achievements accomplished during her three years as a TCU senator, including the establishment of a shuttle to the Stop & Shop supermarket, increasing the Spring Fling budget last year, using Carmichael Dining Hall as a study room during finals period and lowering the steadily-rising Student Activities Fee for the first time in many years.

“I think the student body deserves to get what they’re asking for,” Maciejewski said. “Some of the things that they’re asking for are reasonable, rational and easy to do, and if we just had someone in charge who could do those things,

the student body would benefit.

I’m running so that the students actually care about Senate because Senate helps their lives.”

Maciejewski has been involved with the body since the fall of her freshman year as TCU Associate Treasurer.ShewaselectedTreasurer in Fall 2011, and now serves as chair of the Services Committee, which works with various campus institutions to improve quality of life for students.

As Services Chair, Maciejewski has worked with administrators and other student groups on projects such as the late-night Boston shuttle, the expansion of Jumbocash to outside institutions and the addition of condoms in dorm room vending machines.

She points to projects like these as elements that separate her from her opponents.

“These sound like tiny projects, but I want to make sure Senate’s really doing things to make a difference,” Maciejewski said. “I think people get caught up in big things that they’re not necessarily able to change. You can’t ignore the big, but while you’re working on the big, set up a meeting with something small. The goal is to have students say, ‘Thank you for helping me...’ I don’t think my opponents see MACIEJEWSKI, page 2

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Students react to last week’s bombings at the Boston Marathon in their own words.

Fleetwood Mac delivered a strong showing at TD Garden.

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Orientation CommUnity Service (FOCUS), LIFT Somerville and the Tisch Scholars Program, he said. Thibodeau sees this sort of engagement as a valuable characteristic for a TCU President.

“I think something that makes a strong leader is one who can facilitate change by working arm in arm with a community, whether it’s standing at a rally with different political organizations on campus [or] meeting with different sports and going to talk to them,” he said.

Rose Mendelsohn, Thibodeau’s campaign manager, believes his activism on campus makes him popular among students.

“We have a number of senators on our team to support [Thibodeau] because they know that he takes action on Senate and that he’s gotten a lot done,” Mendelsohn, a junior, said. “I think if you look at our campaign ... and the number of people who want him to be president, I think that speaks to what kind of presence he has outside of Senate.”

Thibodeau hopes to strengthen the Senate’s connections with campus organizations, including the Programming Board and Group of Six, both by increasing Senate outreach and by bringing representatives from different communities into Senate conversations.

Previously, Thibodeau worked to give underrepresented voices a place on Senate by teaming up with groups such as Tufts Voices for Choice (VOX) and Students Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE) to create a Women’s Center representative position on Senate, he said.

“I recognize that not only is there a lack of non-men on the Senate, but there’s a lack of a gender-conscious perspective that critically analyzes gender,” he said.

Thibodeau said he has also worked to improve academic representation of racial groups on campus. According to his website, he acted as co-sponsor and writer of the resolution calling for the creation of an Africana Studies Department and also participated in the Race and Ethnicities Working Group that resulted in the introduction of an Africana Studies major and minor, along with an AsianAmerican Studies minor. Thibodeau helped to rejuvenate CECA, which, under his leadership, passed resolutions calling for increased accessibility for disabled persons on campus, gender-neutral housing and facilities, extended alumni networks for African American and Latino communities on campus and for Hindi and Korean language course options.

“I would often be reaching out to other communities, especially Group of Six communities, about issues in Senate,” Thibodeau

said. “I was sort of trying to bridge the gap between people of color, queer people, feminists and the Senate as a whole.”

If elected president tomorrow, Thibodeau said he plans to lobby for increased grant opportunities for students and bring the university closer to becoming need-blind. He said students should be able to have clear communication with the administration about the limits of their financial aid packages and have expanded work-study options. “[A need-blind policy is] not something that can get accomplished in one year, but making sure the administration knows that this is a priority and bringing it up again and again is something that’s critical,” he said.

According to Thibodeau, he began this process last year when he connected Senate with United for Undergraduate Socioeconomic Diversity (U/FUSED), a national network of student bodies committed to make college more affordable. Most recently, he has worked to change Senate campaign rules for financing in order to make the process more equitable in the future.

Thibodeau also plans to push forward medical amnesty and Good Samaritan policies and respond to Massachusetts’ new marijuana regulations, in an attempt to make the campus safer. He also intends to reform the role of Residential Assistants, giving them less of a punitive role in order to encourage students to seek them out.

“I think that we need to sort of understand that Senate’s power comes from the fact that it’s a lobbying organization with clout and social capital in terms of to the administration,” he said.

Thibodeau said he is open and willing to listen to the community and plans to use the influence of the presidential position to be a strong voice among the administration.

“I think it’s important to really sort of press the administration on issues and really sort of be an active voice and a strong voice, one that’s always willing to listen and debate but also one that’s willing, when push comes to shove, to work for the change, and lobby, and put their force and their heart behind these issues,” he said.

Mendelsohn said that Thibodeau greatly values the opinions of his opponents, believing that this quality makes him a good leader.

“People even on Senate know that making him president doesn’t mean that everything that they want to get passed is going to get passed,” she said. “They know that he will always listen to them fairly and hear them out and that he never wants to shut down a conversation. He’s always the one opening the conversation up.”

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have gotten things done in quite the same way.”

She hopes that, if elected, her presidency will herald greater satisfaction for both students and senators. She said a large part of the Senate’s inertia comes from senators’ reluctance to contribute to a body that is often contentious and rife with internal disputes.

“I think, right now, with [current TCU President Wyatt Cadley’s] administration, senators aren’t happy with Senate,” she said.

“While I want to run for the student body, I think that for us to please the student body, senators have to be happy enough and comfortable enough to actually work instead of going home from meetings and saying ‘I hate Senate, I’m sick of it.’”

Maciejewski said she wants to continue this trend of incremental increases in the quality of student life by championing causes like fiscal responsibility, increased availability of gathering spaces on campus and increased transparency within the Senate and the Senate’s Executive Board.

“I think students want a better life on campus,” Maciejewski said.

“They want the Joey to run. They want food late at night. They want Curtis Hall to be a functional space that students can use. Tuition is too

high and we need to come up with ways to get what we want, but make sure it’s efficient.”

Maciejewski’s campaign faces a unique challenge in this race in that she is a female candidate. The TCU has not had a female president for 11 years, when two women ran against each other. According to Maciejewski, no female candidate has beaten a male candidate for the presidency since 1991. Nonetheless, she does not want to be labeled as simply “the woman candidate.”

“I am not running because I’m a woman,” Maciejewski said. “I’m running because I think I’m more qualified than these men. Some of my opponents have wanted this since freshman year. I’ve worked to deserve it.”

According to her campaign manager, Samantha Nurick, the Maciejewski campaign has been focusing its efforts on making oneto-one connections with potential voters, using conversations with individuals to sway voters to the Maciejewski ticket. Nurick, a senior, endorsed this individual strategy after working as a field organizer for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. Nurick said that she decided to join the Maciejewski campaign partially because of the senator’s student government accomplishments and understanding of the workings of Senate.

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Donenfeld prioritizes student voices

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huge problem. [Senate] is meant to be a place where students can come express themselves, share perspectives, collaborate on ideas, and so the real challenge we face is how do we change that?”

Donenfeld’s campaign manager, Martha Meguerian, said Donenfeld met with many student groups while he considered running for president. She said much of his platform is based on those groups’ issues and desires.

“We made a list of all the different groups that we thought needed their voices heard more and we started going to them and having meals with them and saying ‘you know, I’m thinking about running for TCU president, and tell me about your issues,’” Meguerian, a sophomore, said. “[Joe] said, ‘if I’m running for President, I’m putting this on my platform,’ and then I would watch him put them on our Google document. I think that’s pretty unique.”

One of Donenfeld’s priorities would be to create “feedback loops” in communication between various Tufts organizations, the Senate and the administration so all parties involved can understand what is happening and can continue to make their voices heard.

An area where Donenfeld believes this feedback loop is applicable is with Tufts’ creation of a strategic plan. He has proposed a student-led strategic plan to complement “Tufts: The Next 10 Years,” the strategic plan created by the administration.

“All of these student groups on campus will work within the confines of their communities on the issues they care about, but a student-led strategic plan could congregate all of these ideas,” Donenfeld explained.

“I think it would make our voice clear and lucid. I think it would add institutional memory. I think it would give us a sword and shield to equip ourselves with.”

This student feedback, Donenfeld hopes, can contribute to sexual assault and alcohol policy reforms. A member of the fraternity Delta Tau Delta, Donenfeld explained that he has witnessed the negative impacts of both policies and is a proponent of reducing bureaucracy in the sexual assault policy.

He cited the possibility that the school will move the Office of Equal Opportunity off campus as a major concern of his.

“Students who get sexually assaulted have to deal with an intense bureaucratic process that includes seven different offices on campus,” he said. “We need to first congregate that information in one place and we also need to create an advocate that can help survivors navigate the process.”

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“She knows endless things about Senate: all the rules, all the justifications,” Nurick said. “A lot of the candidates talk in broad generalities about the things that they wanted to get done, and Christie said, ‘These are the things that I want to get done, this is how I’m going to do it.

I know the way that Senate works, I know the way that money works.’”

Maciejewski believes she works well with the administration and sees the administration as a necessary tool for improving student life and push student initiatives.

“I think I’ll be painted as a person who pals around with the administration,” Maciejewski said. “I think what needs to be said is, ‘I can speak the administrative language.’

I can listen to them and tell them why the students’ opinion can match theirs. You don’t just walk in and say, ‘I want pigs to start flying,’ you say, ‘This is how I’m going to do this tangible thing.’”

Nurick also believes Maciejewski’s strong relationships with administrators will help her achieve her campaign promises.

“Obviously, you need to have a broad base among students to understand where they’re coming from, but she also has really good relationships with the administration. They’re people who will work with her and support her to get things done for the students,” she said.

Donenfeld explained that dissatisfaction with the existing alcohol policy is an issue of campus culture. He said too often freshmen who are drinking will close the door to authority figures, resulting in frequent hospitalizations. He cited the creation of social spaces for freshmen and the creation of a non-disciplinary advisory figure in dorms such as the Academic and Community Engagement (ACE) Fellow as important improvements.

“We need to make sure that there’s alcohol education involved in orientation and extended throughout the year so that students really understand what it means to drink,” he said. “If students have a drinking problem, being on [probation level 2] is not going to solve it. We need to make sure that students get counseling, we need to support our peers, not condemn them.”

He said that increased transparency and openness, components of his platform, are also applicable to his academic policies. He believes students should be able to take distribution requirements pass/ fail to enable students to achieve a more expansive education.

“The point of distribution requirements is to get a wide breadth of education,” he said. “However, by taking them for a grade, students are led to take the easiest possible class they can get away with and the problem is that deters students from really expanding the scope of their education.”

Whether he advocates for the creation of a van fleet, for increased funding for club sports, or against the Committee on Student Life’s decision to provide a justifiable departure from the nondiscrimination policy, Donenfeld said that he will listen to the voices of the student body.

“The most important gem of information I can gleam going into this presidency is that every student on this campus is unique, every student has different priorities on this campus,” he said. “The most important thing that I can do as President is give students a voice and make sure that Senate is a place where they can express themselves and that I’m accessible to them.”

Meguerian said Donenfeld’s ability to listen as well as his his approachability separate him from other candidates and would be an important part of a Donenfeld presidency.

“I think that having the quality and the skill of facilitating [action] and friendliness is something that makes someone really qualified to be a good president,” Meguerian said. “He has gained the ability to walk into a room of DTD brothers, the Latino House or the Africana Center and be comfortable.”

Tufts Marathon Team honors runners with special ceremony

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Tufts Marathon Team members gathered for a ceremony yesterday called “A Jumbo finish for those who didn’t,” at which TMT coach Don Megerle handed out medals to dozens of Tufts runners who were unable to finish last Monday’s Boston Marathon. The marathon was cut short when two explosives detonated at the finish line.

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Campus Comment: Tufts students react with shock, horror to Boston Marathon explosions, aftermath When he was caught, it was just some silly blind nationalism. The U.S. government was involved with more extensive acts of terrorism than the events in Boston that week.

— Sam Worthington, freshman

Being from New York, it was a bit of a deja vu thing for me and Monday reminded me a lot of the 9/11 attacks.

My dad was working across the street from the World Trade Center that morning, and I have a clear memory of him coming home late after finally getting out of the city with dust from the collapsed buildings in his hair. The entire thing struck really close to home because I had been so close to the 9/11 attacks and was again so close to these.

I’m glad that it’s over and that they caught the culprits, but it was very hard for me to go out and party on Friday night. Things like this occur all the time around the world and are almost a daily occurrence in some countries and I think that people forget that sometimes because our country is so safe.

— Katherine Marchand, sophomore “It was a weird transition for the group I was with from thinking it was a potential rumor to watching police cars begin to whip by and running into a group of 30-plus [people] surrounding a radio. It felt like a scene out of a disaster ... The hardest part was tracking everyone down.We had friends running without phones or without bib numbers and the three of us having to stick together and figure out if running up Heartbreak Hill with these friends was our last time seeing them or not was the most frightening thing I’ve experienced. Having a network to reach out to allowed us to track everyone down, though.”

— Alyssa Ridley, senior

As someone from New York who had family members only a few blocks away from the Twin Towers on 9/11, yesterday really shook me up. It’s just so scary to think how close to home these attacks have been and could continue to be.

— Alison Tai, sophomore I have never been witness to acts of terror such as the ones that occurred last week. I was in a state of shock the entire time. At first, I hardly believed what was going on and so I went about my day normally. But, as I received call after call from family and friends, reality set in. How can people do this? The police and campus security, however, both acted professionally and efficiently, and I give my thanks to them.

— Ezra Schwartz, freshman

My reaction is that although everyone I know personally is not hurt, they are not okay. Boston is not okay.We are shocked.We are grasping at understanding.

It is so different for Boston to be in the spotlight and for such an unspeakable reason. I respect everyone so much for continuing today, but I think that is vital, as are the little things. An extra smile, an extra hug, an extra “Hey, how are you?” can bring more light while people try to comprehend. As we recover and wait for more news, it’s all we can do.

— Rose Pollard, junior

The lockdown was a stressful period for me, but I was confident in our police force’s ability to find him. And when they did, I was just happy that the city was able to truly relax for the first time all week.

The thing that I really found extraordinary was the fact that those same cops were out the next night keeping the city safe, even after spending an entire day combing for one teenager.

And that, to me, is what really makes them amazing.

— Gabe Rothman, sophomore

I wish there was something productive I could have done to help. I felt pretty useless sitting at Tufts. The way that people used social media was unproductive, like rubbernecking on a highway.

— James Downer, sophomore

It really put my small dayto-day stresses with school in perspective and made me appreciate the fact that I can wake up every morning safe.

Also it restored my faith in the Tufts community because we all rallied together.

— Claire LeFevre, junior

I felt a bit guilty because I was so relieved that my family and friends were safe.

Meanwhile, another family lost an 8-year-old son yesterday, and many others experienced unspeakable tragedies as well. It just doesn’t seem right to feel anything but sadness. It is a true mark that something horrible has happened when being appreciative makes one feel selfish.

— Patrick Kazly, junior

The saddest part to me was the death of the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] police officer, who I found out lived around the corner from me. I read that he hoped to become a Somerville police officer and was weeks away from being appointed.

Such an unfortunate tragedy.

— Ben Silverstein, senior

I was actually at the bombing site on Monday when it happened, a couple hundred feet away. So it definitely affected me personally. Fortunately my friends and I were okay. But it was definitely traumatizing and Friday’s events did not help. It was a hard day, but after Friday’s conclusion I feel a lot better about everything.

— Maya Navon, sophomore

Ben Kochman | Between the Slices

Comfort in grilled cheese

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oled up in our Boston Avenue house Friday, with Boston under lockdown as law enforcement searched for the Marathon Bombing suspects, a pair of housemates and I coped with the crisis by crafting a few variations on easily the most comforting sandwich in existence: The grilled cheese.

I’m not going to tell you the best way to make a grilled cheese sandwich. Truth is, there’s no one perfect way to make a grilled cheese. As long as you use good bread, good cheese and make sure the cheese is melted through, you’re going to make something delicious. It can be as simple as just bread and cheese or spruced up through infinite combinations of toppings and condiments.

If you’re reading Between the Slices, chances are you know what you’re doing, grilled cheese-wise. And you might have an intimate relationship with your specific recipe for one of these scrumptious melty ‘wiches. So I’ll try not to impose my grilled cheese values. What I will do is share the grilled variations my housemates Alden, Danny and I came up with on Friday. Our options were somewhat limited by the lockdown, but the results were pretty darn tasty and provided a small respite from a tragic, horrible few days.

Ben: cheddar, Gruyére, cream cheese, raw red onions, pickled jalapenos, and sauteed prosciutto on sourdough, panini-pressed My strategy was to create the richest sandwich possible, with big flavor and cheese that oozes all over the place. The cream cheese was the key here: it ensures the ooze factor, contrasts the acidic kick from the pickled peppers and brings some fattiness to the scene. The prosciutto adds a crunch and saltiness that pushes the whole sandwich to an almost obscene level of pleasure. The sourdough bread stands up to the panini press and keeps the sandwich structurally sound. This is not health food but, within the realm of grilled cheese, if you’re trying to make it healthy you’re not on the right track.

Alden: crumbled goat cheese, shredded Monterey jack, roasted garlic and caramelized red onions on multigrain, paninipressed Alden’s sandwich features a creative combination of textures and a nice contrast between the sweet onion and salty, crispy garlic, both of which he cooked in a pan with a bit of oil. This grilled cheese also allowed Alden to show off his impressive array of knife skills. The one problem was the bread. We didn’t have any crusty sourdough left, and none of us was willing to drive to a grocery store amid the citywide lockdown to buy the crusty loaf Alden had requested. The panini press crushed the soft multigrain bread he did use, and all of the exciting flavors got sort of lumped together.

Danny: crumbled goat cheese, pesto and “herb” turkey on sourdough, baked at 375 degrees in a toaster oven for seven to eight minutes Danny’s sandwich is simple and effective. He makes it numerous times a week, always the exact same way. I think that adding tomatoes to this sandwich would be a strong play, but at this point Danny’s an old hand at the goat cheese-pesto game, and refuses to tinker with his formula.

This sandwich is not technically a “grilled” cheese, since it’s baked in a toaster oven, but baking it ensures that the cheese gets melted evenly. We’re not sure what herbs are in the turkey, which we got at Trader Joe’s, but any deli-style turkey will do. The rich, oily pesto and tangy goat cheese are the stars, here, fusing together to create an ultimate comfort-food bite.

Ben Kochman is a senior majoring in English. He can be reached at Benjamin. kochman@tufts.edu and on Twitter @benkochman. Watch the video version of this column on Jumbo Slice or on The Tufts Daily’s Youtube page.

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Restaurant Review

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Posto’s cozy atmosphere and friendly staff complement its homey food.

Reliable Pizzeria Posto references cuisine from Naples to Napa

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At the southeast end of the hip, restaurant-filled Davis Square, just past the neon signs for Wing Works

Pizzeria Posto 187 Elm St, Somerville MA 02144

(617) 625-0600 $$ and Domino’s, is the rustic Italian restaurant Pizzeria Posto. The restaurant offers bountiful salads, antipasti, deli-

cious homemade pasta and wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas, all made with fresh ingredients and an artful attention to detail. Additionally, one wall of Posto is occupied by dark mahogany racks filled with over 50 types of wine that are served at the wine bar for a more casual dining experience.

Ignoring the jarring neon paintings of suburbia that hang on the walls, Posto’s small yellow lights and large glass windows create a warm and comfortable vibe. The waiting staff is casual and friendly with customers, and patrons are kept well stocked with water and crunchy, Parmesan-covered breadsticks. Patrons are also granted a view of the chefs as they make their

Concert Review

Fleetwood Mac rises to occasion at TD Garden

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the question: Is there a place for music in all of this? The band’s answer to this was a defiant “yes,” as Fleetwood Mac rose to the occasion and put on a powerful concert that was highly appreciated by the nearly sold-out crowd. Lead singer Stevie Nicks summed it up best in her early remarks to the crowd: “When I used to run into hard times I’d ask my mom, ‘What do I do?’ And she’d say ‘You can sing for them, you can give them music.’ So that’s what we’re going to do for you tonight.”

And sing they did. Fleetwood Mac’s commitment to delivering that night for Boston was evident from the concert’s opening one-two punch of “Second Hand News” into “The Chain.” Drummer Mick Fleetwood kicked off the evening playing the song’s drum intro with a manic energy, leading into a jubilant rendition of the opener from the band’s classic “Rumors” (1977). The energy level remained high with the band firing on all cylinders for “The Chain,” displaying all the impressive aspects about Thursday’s concert, with harmonizing between Buckingham and Nicks, impressive guitar-work by Buckingham and a rock-solid rhythm section — John McVie’s iconic bass riff on the track rumbled and shook the building.

Lindsey Buckingham colored many of the night’s songs with his inventive guitar playing.

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Fleetwood Mac held its first concert in Boston since 2009 last Thursday at TD Garden, and effects from Monday’s events could still be felt as concertgoers entered the building. Attendees faced increased security checks and ushers waved flyers printed with the suspects’ faces as they scanned tickets. It all led to

pizza, which makes the overall experience feel surprisingly homey.

The restaurant uses ingredients from local farms whenever possible, which its menu of fresh, homemade offerings makes clear. For example, the arugula salad — served with endive and bleu cheese and dressed with a tart, light and lemony vinaigrette — feels like a little bite of springtime even in the middle of the harsh Boston winter. Another delightful appetizer, the Vermont Burrata, is served on a bed of invigorating pickled fennel and blood orange, a welcoming juxtaposition to the creamy, rich taste of the cheese. see POSTO page 6

Festival Preview

Independent Film Festival hosts feast of films by

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Voted Boston’s best film festival by The Phoenix in 2011 and 2012, the 11th annual Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston) returns April 24-30 to the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. Films will also be screened at the Brattle Theatre, Coolidge Corner Theatre and new venues at UMass Boston and Theatre 1 at Revere Hotel. With an impressive lineup of over 100 films, question-and-answer sessions and discussion panels, local cinephiles won’t have to travel too far to catch some of the best in independent and documentary cinema.

At IFFBoston you’ll have a chance to interact with industry professionals, attend world premieres and see films before they hit theatres.

The festival opens at the Somerville Theatre April 24 with “The Spectacular Now,”(2013), a coming-of-age romantic drama adapted by screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, the duo best known for penning IFFBoston alum and sleeper-hit “(500) Days of Summer” (2009). “The Spectacular see IFF, page 6

Snake, rattle and roll

ashion seems to be experiencing a dearth of new names. With the explosion of Alexander Wang, Joseph Altuzarra and other freshfaced, wunderkind designers a few years back, editors and retailers wait with baited breath for the next big thing in women’s ready-to-wear. And it hasn’t really arrived.

In the accessories sector, however, there has been quite a crop of talented young designers working out of the limelight, but nonetheless crafting fashionable — and more importantly high quality — products. Cue Gelareh Mizrahi.

She looks every bit the part of a budding designer for a line of downtowncool handbags. Petite with big doe eyes and ombre locks that seem DIY enough to scream, “Oh yeah, I did this myself. I don’t trust salons to get it right!,” she rocks mysterious oversized hats and python backpacks with serious swagger in her step. The allure makes sense considering her handbag line is fashioned from exotic skins. It takes a certain kind of 20-something-year-old female designer to get down with reptilian skins. Though not a skater herself, Mizrahi dreamed up a black-and-white python wrapped skateboard that recently caught the eye of the New York Times Style section. Her collection worships the covetable high-low handbag. Think slouchy hobo-shaped bags and backpacks of exquisite snakeskin.

“I look up to artists rather than fashion brands,” Mizrahi said. This is fitting for a young woman who attended the University of Maryland as an undergraduate, then pursued her dreams of fashion at Parson’s New School for Design.

She adds, “I admire and adore Pharrell Williams, KAWS, Takashi Murakami, Friends With You and anyone else who is fearless enough to have their creative voice represented in the world.” In a sense, her handbags lack the usual signs of conspicuous consumption as they bear no logos. Instead, the rich, whimsical colors and beautiful skins speak for themselves. The goods are meticulously sourced in Italy, says Mizrahi, who is clearly invested in this aspect of her business. If the tagline on your website reads, “Give me python or give me death” — a riff on Patrick Henry’s rabble-rousing speech — you better have the best of the best. Her prices toe the line between outrageously expensive by the standards of an average consumer, but also reflect a fair payoff, considering most luxury skin bags are around $3,000 to $4,000.

The fashion industry throws around the words “edgy” and “downtown” so often that they’re almost meaningless at this point. But in the case of Gelareh Mizrahi, these terms are accurate. As a young woman who lives in the hip TriBeCa neighborhood, Mizrahi understands the desire that women have to combine luxury with a coolness factor.

Take, for example, her aforementioned python-covered skateboard or her “paper bag” sacks reworked with emerald green snakeskin. A satchel style bag — a less traditional take on the boxy briefcase — is named the “Long Live Alex Trebek’s Mustache” bag. There is something irreverent and chic about the design that screams, “carry me to the workplace, throw me around a bit on the subway.”

This tongue-in-cheek attitude has drawn attention from the likes of retailer Harvey Nicholas and The Manrepeller, who glued googly eyes onto the front of a yellow python cross body bag. Other images from the most recent lookbook include a natural python clutch topped off with an oversized Pepto-pink bow. Voila! The perfect combo of ladylike and the not-sodainty — because what woman wants to have to choose?

Elizabeth Landers is a senior majoring in political science. She can be reached at Elizabeth.Landers@tufts.edu.

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Now” premiered to positive reviews at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where actors Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley won the US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting. Director James Ponsoldt will be in attendance on opening night alongside actor and Massachusetts native Casey Affleck, IFFBoston’s new Creative Advisor.

“In a World “ (2013) will close this year’s festival on April 30 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Writer, actor and director Lake Bell will be present for a Q&A following the screening of her comedic chronicle of a woman’s journey into the male-dominated voice-over industry. Funnymen Rob Corddry, Demetri Martin and Nick Offerman co-star.

Festival highlights also include “Prince Avalanche,” (2013) David Gordon Green’s remake of the 2011 Icelandic film “Either Way.” “Prince” stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two road maintenance workers who form an unlikely friendship while spending a summer painting traffic lines together in the Texas countryside.

Academy Award winner Jim Rash, perhaps better known as “Community’s” drag-wearing dean, makes his directorial debut with “The Way, Way Back,” a tale of adolescence that already has reviewers drawing comparisons to movies such as “Adventureland” (2009). The festival will also provide audiences a sneak peak of Zal Batmanglij’s “The East,” which stars Alexander Skarsgard and Ellen Page as members of an anti-corporate anarchist group. Meanwhile, Joss Whedon of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (19972003) and “Firefly” (2002-2003) fame will offer a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s classic comedy in “Much Ado About Nothing” (2012). This year’s IFFBoston also welcomes back festival veteran Lynn Shelton, one of the directors at the forefront of the

mumblecore genre. Shelton returns with “Touchy Feely,” the story of a massage therapist who develops an aversion to touch. Fans of foreign cinema should also take note of Thomas Vinterberg’s critically acclaimed “The Hunt” (2012) or “Jagten”. This unsettling Danish drama features Mads Mikkelsen as a small-town kindergarten teacher wrongly accused of sexual abuse, a role for which Mikkelsen was awarded the Best Actor prize at last year’s Cannes.

Aside from narrative films, the IFFBoston hosts a wide selection of documentary features, ranging from “12 O’Clock Boys,” a film about a 13-year-old’s involvement in a notorious dirt-bike gang, to “The Elders” (2012), a documentary portrait series of a group of senior citizens. Local director Nathaniel Hansen will be present for the world premiere of “The Elders.”

Director Mary Jane Doherty will also be in attendance for the premiere of “Secundaria,” which follows students at Cuba’s world-famous National Ballet School. Likewise, Director Samantha Buck will hold a Q&A at the premiere of “Best Kept Secret” (2013), a moving picture about a teacher’s struggles to prepare her autistic students for the world that awaits them upon graduating. Sarah Polley, writer and director of 2011’s “Take This Waltz”, takes her first steps in documentary-filmmaking with the autobiographical “Stories We Tell”(2013). Other notable documentaries include “99%: the Occupy Wall Street Collaborate Film” and “The Act of Killing” (2012).

Rounding out the 11th Annual IFFBoston are a multitude of short films, a handful of parties where you can mingle with filmmakers and free panels on film distribution, documentary editing and the art and politics of end credits. For a complete list of films and more, visit www.iffboston. org. Tickets and festival passes are now on sale.

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Posto’s delicious pizza compensates for uninspired pasta POSTO

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The pasta dishes are also delicious, but are devoid of some of the creativity present in other courses. The Bolognese, served over homemade pasta, is certainly comforting and tasty, but is not quite as unique. However, Posto does make an effort to step outside of the box with some of its other pasta offerings, especially with clever preparations of both land and seadwelling creatures in the Rabbit Ravioli and Crab Tortellini.

Posto’s wood-fired pizza offerings are probably the most inspired items on the menu. All of the pizzas are made with a wonderfully crisp crust that bubbles at the edges. The prosciutto pizza, made with Fior di latte — a type of cow mozzarella — as well as Parmesan and fresh arugula tossed in olive oil, is both fresh and flavorful.

The pizza menu also displays some artful innovation, evident in the Tuscan kale and apple options. The Tuscan kale pizza is topped with a rich and bitter combination of smoked bacon, soft egg and roasted kale, while the apple pizza is topped with the distinctive flavor of Gorgonzola cheese, applewood smoked bacon, caramelized onion, arugula and vincotta. These delicious and unusual pizzas are unique to Posto and exemplify the farm-fresh, rustic style of the restaurant’s cuisine. They also represent a refreshing deviation from “standard” pizza flavors — you won’t find any preservative-laden pepperoni pizza here.

The inspiration for Posto Pizza came from Naples, where dough is hand stretched and ingredients are always fresh. Owner and chef Joseph Cassinelli, after successes at multiple upscale Boston restaurants, was inspired by trips to Italy and California’s Napa Valley to create Posto. Though Cassinelli had helped to bring other owners’ visions for restaurants to come to fruition, he was itching to create

Posto as his own brainchild.

As Cassinelli’s varied background would suggest, Posto’s cuisine is reminiscent of many Italian restaurants in the Bay Area. In particular, Delfina Pizzeria in San Francisco and Pizzeria Picco in Marin County offer similar locally sourced ingredients and creative approaches to wood-fire pizza.

Posto is a refreshing, delicious option and recommendable to anyone looking for a rustic, farm-fresh meal in Somerville. It’s even worth the trip for anyone in the greater Boston area.

Kudos, Cassinelli.

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Posto uses a variety of fresh ingredients, such as eggs, for pizza toppings.

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As to be expected, with no recent album to promote, though the band played two new tracks from an upcoming EP, the setlist was quite heavy on material from “Rumors.” One of the most pleasant surprises of the evening, however, was a mini-set devoted to “Tusk” (1979), the band’s underrated “Rumors” follow-up.

Buckingham kicked off this portion of the concert with energetic takes on “Not That Funny” and the title track, which allowed for an impressive display of his trademark fingerpicking guitar style.

But what was easily the highlight of the “Tusk” mini-set was Stevie Nicks’ haunting take on the gem “Sisters of the Moon,” a song that hasn’t been performed by Fleetwood Mac in over 30 years. While Nicks’ voice has lost some of its range due to age, she knew her limits and played it to her advantage, giving “Sisters” a brooding quality. Nicks was spot on in many of her signature songs throughout the night, with highlights including a beautiful version of “Dreams” and a powerful take on “Gold Dust Woman.”

The other MVP of the night was Buckingham on guitar, who had as many show-stopping moments as Nicks. The peak of Buckingham’s performance came in an incendiary 10-minute performance of “I’m So Afraid,” with Buckingham letting loose a passionate guitar solo that brought on a standing ovation once the song was finished. Buckingham performed with this passion throughout the night, coloring many of the concert’s songs with inventive playing, such as his impressive solo acoustic take on “Big Love.”

Regarding Buckingham and Nicks, many in attendance were there to see the chemistry between the former partners.

The history between the two has been a theme throughout Fleetwood Mac’s career, and Thursday’s concert offered a glimpse at a pair that finally seemed to be getting along. This relationship was best reflected in the evening’s final encore,

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Stevie Nicks offered one of the evening’s best performances with “Landslide.” where a beautiful rendition by Nicks of “Silver Springs” led into “Say Goodbye,” leaving the two alone on stage and giving a sense of closure to the evening.

Despite any reservations about holding a concert so soon after the Boston Marathon, Fleetwood Mac delivered in spades and provided those in the crowd a brief respite from the tension that had filled the week, with a concert marked by

many emotional moments. While dedicating a song to a wounded Iraq veteran in the crowd who Nicks had met many years ago, she became visibly teary and choked up as she said the final words of her intro.

“And that’s what your city does, they called him back [to life]. I would want to be in this city. I love this city.”

And with that Nicks went on to perform

a perfect rendition of “Landslide,” leaving many members of the audience in tears as they sang along. This moment showed why Thursday night was more than just a concert; it showed the power of music to uplift, even in the face of something as horrific as Monday’s events. And based on their wildly enthusiastic reaction to a triumphant version of “Don’t Stop,” dedicated to Boston, it seemed like the crowd agreed.

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Tomorrow when students vote, they again face the question of what they want in a Senate and in a president. A vote for Christie Maciejewski will mean we value formal experience with Senate processes, collaboration with administrators and a commitment to addressing the Senate’s flaws with a careful consideration of what’s best for everyone.

A vote for Joe Donenfeld, and especially a vote for Joe Thibodeau, will mean that we value the student voice above all else, even when it means stepping on the toes of the administrators whose job is to facilitate the Senate’s projects.

While perhaps popular opinion holds that Tufts undergraduates are now ready for the activist TCU president in Joe Thibodeau, the Daily values Maciejewski’s assurance that she would use her experience convincing individual administrators to approve initiatives benefiting the entire student body.

Maciejewski is by no means a departure from the normal. She is a “Senate kid,” as her opponents have been quick to point out — the type who spends vacation time doing Senate work. This aspect of Maciejewski as a candidate, rather than detracting from her viability, should give voters more reason to consider her seriously. Experience and a track record of accomplishments on the body she wishes to lead are not negatives; they make her more fit to lead.

It may, arguably, be time to depart from the norm. Thibodeau would certainly break away from the “Senate-kid” approach. He has been on the body for years, but in practice and during the campaign has branded himself as the candidate who “gets” what students underrepresented on Senate want. He has stressed his understanding of the experiences of students of color, of women and of students from other communities who have

felt marginalized at Tufts, and this sets him apart from presidents from at least the last four years.

Donenfeld has emphasized his commitment to using his personal connections across campus and incorporating the average student’s opionion. He has promised to lead with the voice of frustrated student groups in his ear.

Any candidate, however, would promise to listen to their fellow senators or students. Assuring us that they will approach any resolution or campus issue with open ears does not make Donenfeld or Thibodeau unique.

Promising a commitment to lobby for student interests isn’t new. Maciejewski has promised this as well, even asserting that she will include the Senate’s diversity and community affairs officer in frequent meetings with University President Anthony Monaco, but she is the only candidate to acknowledge the other half of the job: the push and pull of reconciling Senate and studentbody desires with the whims and frustrations of administrators, deans and faculty. A nuanced understanding of what will win in a faculty or administrative meeting trumps an antagonistic view of “the administration” that would alienate the policymakers on campus in the interest of too heavy a focus on catering to the loudest voice in Sunday’s Senate meeting.

Two of the accomplishments Maciejewski has pointed to — lowering the student activities fee and pushing Dining Services to extend Carmichael Dining Center’s hours during finals — exemplify that she is not passive in the face of an unwilling administration. When, as treasurer, she noticed that many groups were padding their budgets, leading to excessive surpluses, Maciejewski approached administrators asking to lower the fee.

When they said no, she got more data, went back and convinced them.

Maciejewski has her flaws. As president, she would be obliged to become more comfortable speaking and hearing about racial justice and the marginalization of students of color and making it clear how she would help those from low-income backgrounds. Her stances on diversity and supporting students from all backgrounds, although they don’t lack earnestness, could use more complexity and evidence of real conversation and collaboration with these groups. Maciejewski, though, has demonstrated to the Daily that she will learn what matters to her fellow students and, rather than using that as her only motivation to act, taking it into consideration along with information gleaned from other sources.

Maciejewski stands by her values in times of uncertainty: when it came time in the Senate to vote on whether their reaction to the CSL “exemption from the nondiscrimination policy” rule should include a vow to deny funding to any student group taking advantage of the CSL rule, Maciejewski held fast in the face of overwhelming support for the resolution in the room — including from Donenfeld and Thibodeau. She voted for what she saw was best for the Senate and the student body as a whole.

Passion and a penchant for social justice certainly have an important place on Senate, and they deserve as loud a voice as senators are willing to give them. It’s commendable that all of the candidates have ideas for Tufts and for Senate that take into consideration those students who have most passionately argued for these values. But that’s only one aspect of the TCU president’s role, and it’s worth it to vote for someone who can take on the people sitting outside of SoGo in a way that will make them listen.

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The current generation of college students is getting degrees through myriad mediums and technologies that no other collegiate generation has had access to before. From podcasts and live-streamed lectures to digital textbooks and virtual collaboration with fellow classmates, methods of teaching and learning in college have changed drastically in the last decade. No two professors teach the same class the same way, and the traditional theories about what exactly constitutes a classroom experience and the teacher-

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student relationship have been dissolved.

Thanks to new digital e-textbook software, teachers have the ability to become more involved in tracking the progress of student learning. An article published by The New York Times on April 8 reported on Texas A&M University’s use of e-textbooks, which allows professors to know if students have completed the assigned reading. According to the article, “[teachers] know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, not bothering to take notes — or simply not opening the book at all.”

This technology, developed by a Silicon Valley startup called CourseSmart, is being

tested at eight other colleges around the country. The technology will likely open up an important debate about student privacy policies and overbearing teacher involvement in students’ academic lives.

While the ability to see whether students are on track with course work seems more appropriate in middle and high school, data sent back to the company has the potential to create better and more accessible textbooks for students. But for now, we as students are fine keeping CourseSmart software an arm’s length away from the University of Minnesota and ask our professors to not get any crazy ideas.

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consider how others conceived and experienced big issues like justice and self-identity.

While I think students here are by and large well-informed, we all have our blind spots — and it’s easier to eliminate them in others through disarming friendliness rather than a hostile rant or pompous showboating.

I want to be clear here: I’m not saying any of my peers should pipe down because they’re making me uncomfortable. A little discomfort can be intellectually fruitful. However, I do think that what is morally sound can be tactically ineffective. Jumbos tend to miss the forest for the trees — we focus so much on structural violence academically in our coursework that we fail to realize that most of the opportunities to make a difference for other students on campus are centered on micro-level interactions.

There are many echo chambers at Tufts, and it’s easy to become smug about one’s ideological superiority when there are no audible voices of dissent. Tolerance is key to having constructive discourse about important issues, not the grandstanding or hard-line political correctness that activist students at Tufts have become unfortunately linked to.

t the last annual conference of the Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA), a powerful lobby that pushes for increased drug testing, keynote speaker Robert DuPont addressed a packed San Antonio Marriott: “If they test positive,” he shrieked, “they go to jail that day! No discussion! No discretion!”

DuPont was once the director of the federal government’s notorious drug misinformation campaign, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, while simultaneously serving as the White House drug czar under Richard Nixon.

After he helped implement the War on Drugs, DuPont teamed up with Peter Bensinger, himself an ex-Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chief, to found their very own corporation that, they boast online, “provides a fullservice solution to drug testing management.”

Today, they spend their time lobbying for the expanded use of drug tests and the continued prohibition of cannabis. Bensinger, DuPont and Associates isn’t the only moneyed interest pushing for pervasive bladder invasion.

At the DATIA conference, a representative of LabCorp, a drug test manufacturer that grew out of Roche Pharmaceuticals, remarked that he’s looking forward to mandatory drug testing of all potential welfare recipients inevitably becoming “a huge market of drug testing.”

His colleagues at LabCorp are fighting their darndest to usher in that era, focusing their lobbying interests on Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who led his Party’s effort to expand mandatory drug testing to anyone applying for welfare after receiving a total of $15,000 from the drug test lobby.

Perhaps the most helpful legislative puppet of drug testing corporations is Congressman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), who led his Party’s successful effort to amend federal rules that had disallowed states from drug testing applicants for unemployment benefits in February of 2012. Camp owns upwards of $81,000 in stock of LabCorp and Abbott Laboratories, another corporation that deals in drug tests.

Since 2011, there has been a troublesome upsurge in states debating drug testing applicants for welfare and other benefits. Today, seven states require welfare applicants and recipients to submit to urine analysis.

This month, welfare drug testing bills have moved through the legislatures of Arkansas, North Carolina, Texas and Kansas. Texas and Kansas have learned from the errors of Florida’s and Georgia’s bills, which were deemed in violation of the Fourth Amendment as searches devoid of reasonable suspicion. Last Tuesday, the Governor of Kansas signed his state’s bill into law. Today, Republican lawmakers are reviving the hysterical, racially charged rhetoric of “welfare queens” that characterized conservative America’s support for Reagan’s War on Drugs and his own gospel of drug tests, first made clear in a 1989 White House report. Ostensibly to “save the tax dollars of regular hardworking Americans,” lawmakers throughout state and federal government have responded to the endless stream of fat campaign donations that the private drug testing lobby has floated to Washington, despite the fact that potential public assistance recipients are no more likely to use illegal drugs than any other segment of society.

But requiring the poorest, least politically powerful and most disenfranchised Americans to submit to drug tests, which in turn makes those same people even poorer and less visible, is a logical outgrowth of the Drug War. In many states, drug convictions entail denials of public housing, food stamps, welfare checks and unemployment benefits, voting disenfranchisement and difficulty finding employment. Testing programs, just like incarceration, only exacerbate the illnesses of the few would-be recipients who do suffer from drug addictions by further impoverishing and marginalizing them. The history of the Drug War is replete with phony logic and exploitative motivation. It is in the prohibitionist spirit that today’s lawmakers are pushing for expanded mandatory drug testing of their most impoverished and desperate constituents. Because in the backwards world of the War on Drugs, there’s no better way to help the poor and hungry than by making them poorer and hungrier.

Alex Dobyan is a sophomore majoring in international relations. He can be reached at Alex.Dobyan@tufts.edu.

Jonathan Green is a sophomore majoring in philosophy and American Studies. He can be reached at Jonathan.Green@tufts.edu.

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Points of consideration — gaming rank voting

by Joel Kruger, Michael Lesser, Daniel

Johnson, Paige Newman and Brian Sayler It is highly atypical to have three Presidential Candidates. In fact, no current TCU member has had the opportunity to vote in a Tufts Community Union (TCU) Presidential Election with three candidates.

So, this situation presents a departure from the norm and thus, a seeming departure from precedent. With the TCU Presidential election quickly approaching, the Elections Commission (ECOM) wanted to take time to explain how this year’s voting system works.

The TCU Constitution (Article VI.B.1.4) states, “The TCU presidential election shall use a rank voting system, wherein each member of the TCU may rank the candidates numerically in the order of their preference.”

In the past, with a two-candidate race, our choice was simplified. We could vote for Candidate A, Candidate B or we could abstain from voting. In that there were two choices, voting was inherently preferential or ranked. A voter could rank Candidate A over Candidate B, Candidate B over Candidate A, or rank an abstention (implying that neither candidate was electable) higher than both candidates.

But this situation is more complex; not only are Candidates A and B running for President, but Candidate C has entered the picture. So, instead of being able to vote for

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Candidate A over B, or B over A, there are a plethora of choices (which I’m sure we can all imagine). To complicate the choices, the TCU Constitution (VI.B.1.4) also gives voters the chance to vote for any or all of the candidates. This provides a voter with even more choices because voters don’t have to make three selections — they can vote for only 1 or 2, if they believe only 1 or 2 candidates are worthy candidates.

So, ECOM hopes that at this point, TCU members’ voting options are clear and we wanted to move to a brief explanation of the paradox of voting. In preferential voting, there are a couple of theoretical situations that can impact the end result.

The first is called the “no-show paradox” and describes how sometimes not voting certain ways may allow the ‘lesser of all the evils’ to win. For example, in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, if Nader supporters had recognized that Gore would have been more effective than Bush and thus voted for Gore instead of Nader (who was not going to win the election) the Democrats would have won four more years in the White House. But, by voting for a liberal non-Democrat (Nader), Gore’s candidacy was undermined and the GOP won the election.

The second is the “thwarted-majorities paradox.” This one is simpler. Basically, even though a candidate may be able to beat all other candidates in a two-way election, that

candidate may not win the election. Again, Gore would have beaten Bush and Nader in the absence of Nader and Bush, respectively.

The third paradox concerns the presence of “multiple-districts.” Due to the fact that Tufts is one campus — with no electoral college — the paradox can’t exist in this election.

But, in a ‘nerdy’ Tufts kind of way, ECOM recognizes that it can exist.

Finally, “the-more-is-less paradox” deals with the influence of individual ballots on the whole election. If the majority of Candidate A supporters arrange their ballots in one way, say A,B,C, but others (who also like Candidate A) vote A,C,B, and the winner of the election were Candidate C, the voters who arranged their ballots A,C,B actually may have caused Candidate A to lose the election.

In the end, voicing your opinion is the best way to ensure that your favorite candidate wins, but how you voice your opinion through voting also matters. Remember to vote.

The authors are the 2013 members of the Elections Commission. Joel Kruger is a junior majoring in anthropology. Michael Lesser is a junior majoring in quantitative economics. Daniel Johnson is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Paige Newman is a freshman who has not yet declared a major. Brian Sayler is a freshman who has not yet declared a major.

On activists at Tufts by

Alex Dobyan

The most unfortunate thing about Tufts is that people who care deeply about issues like systematic discrimination, sexual violence, political/economic justice (and the rest of the issues that get talked about in this section of the paper all the time) very rarely realize that their efforts are often counterproductive. Some of you are very eloquent, and your thoughts and arguments are refreshing to hear. But too many of you are focused on characterizing issues in the strongest, most polarizing ways possible, throwing your real or imagined victimhood in others’ faces, disrupting people from their everyday worries like grades, careers and aspirations and satisfying your own desire to be heard by shouting (literally or figuratively) as loudly as possible.

As someone who is sympathetic to most of the fervent activists on this campus (at Tufts advocacy is generally a one-sided affair) — you are being counterproductive. Individually, you may just be a nobleminded, passionate defender of X cause — but collectively, I find myself writing off many of my peers as naive, insufferable ideologues. Few here are consciously participating in the deprivation of the dignity of others, and chastising others for what they perceive as innocent missteps is likely only to alienate them.

Understanding what it really means

to walk in someone else’s shoes is quite difficult. So is perfect navigation of complex social relationships based on gender, race, class, sexuality and every other category one may or may not use in self-definition. Slandering someone else for standing on the only side they’ve ever been exposed to will not win you supporters — you need to walk over to where your opposition stands, understand why they care about the things they care about and explain why the system on your side of the line is going to make life better for everyone. On this campus, I think much of the discourse is between people who agree but are talking past each other — losing much in the way of potential real change outside Tufts by squabbling on campus over semantics, turf and wounded pride.

Additionally, I think a number of Jumbos have the idea that haranguing others for their ill-formed opinions (or even sound ones articulated poorly) is a great way to feel like they are making a difference. But vitriol is not catharsis — it’s just vitriol. Leading by example and finding ways to make personal impacts on people with whom you may disagree with the most are the best ways to change people’s minds. I would still be an ignorant bumpkin from small-town Pennsylvania were it not for people more insightful than I who rebutted — not corrected — my flawed viewpoints and forced me to

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The men’s lacrosse team struggled in the second quarter of Saturday’s matchup, giving Wesleyan a lead they would not relinquish on the way to an 8-7 loss.

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left, the junior polished off a look from 15 yards out on the left wing to send the Jumbos into intermission trailing by just a single goal.

The Cardinals, however, didn’t relinquish their lead again and did not let Wood’s goal give the Jumbos any sort of momentum in the second half. Wesleyan struck first in the second half, when sophomore Quentin DellaFera scored to make it a 6-4 ballgame.

Shortly after, junior midfielder Dan Leventhal netted a score to pull the Jumbos back within one, but Lieberman extended the Wesleyan lead once again, this time slicing a shot past junior goalie Patton Watkins, who replaced Salazar between the pipes for the second half.

In need of some momentum, the Jumbos tallied another score, this time from Schoenhut, who finished a look past Simmons. Again trailing by one, the Jumbos were unable to equal-

ize as the final minutes of the third quarter waned.

Senior quad-captain long-stick midfielder Brendan Hanley opened up the third quarter with a devastating goal.

On a fastbreak, Wesleyan pushed the ball up with numbers. Hanley, a pole, controlled the ball at midfield and drove forward, taking it to the rack to extend the Cardinals’ advantage back to two.

As the final minutes wound down, the Jumbos found themselves down two and in desperate need of a goal.

The Tufts defensive unit, which saw action for much of the afternoon, was gassed, and Wesleyan used fresh legs to push the tempo.

The Jumbos squandered several opportunities to score, failing to keep a handle on the ball. Finally, Fiamengo broke through on a fastbreak to put one in the net and pull Tufts within one with just over a minute remaining.

Tufts’ frustration came to a head when Read was awarded a slashing penalty with 12 seconds on the clock,

but Wesleyan’s offensive unit patiently waited out the final seconds with a game of keep-away to deny the exhausted defensive unit.

“The loss does not define us and we know we didn’t play to our full potential,” Fiamengo said.

“We need to get better and learn from our mistakes quickly this week,” he said. “We don’t have time to dwell on it, and we need to focus purely on Bowdoin.”

Despite the heavy-handed implications of Saturday’s loss, Tufts is focused on just one thing: winning out in Wednesday night’s tilt in Brunswick.

Going into their upcoming matchup against the Polar Bears, the Jumbos know they have to win, and a loss could send the brown and blue as low as a fifth seed in the upcoming conference tournament.

For the majority of the Tufts fan base, which is used to hosting the NESCAC tournament in a comfortable No. 1 seed position, this is unfamiliar territory.

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or an Ephs loss to Middlebury, will secure the eighth spot for the Jumbos.

The Ephs are coming off a lopsided loss against No. 12 Amherst, and Middlebury, ranked second in the NESCAC, will be a tough challenge.

Although Bowdoin, currently third in the conference at 7-2, will not be any easier for Tufts, the team has had very competitive showings against the Polar

Bears in recent history.

“We are trying to carry through with the win and keep up our focus and intensity,” Boland said. “We want to play a clean lacrosse game against Bowdoin. I think two out of last three times we played them, we took them to overtime. This last game should show how we’ve progressed throughout the season.”

Regardless of the numbers, the Jumbos have a burst of energy after the impres-

sive display against Wesleyan, and this week will give them a chance to finish out the season with a strong showing.

“I think we’re very optimistic and very excited,” Cohen said. “We are reenergized after Wesleyan, and to win in such a dominant fashion was great. It got our spirits up and was a great win for our team morale. We’re excited for Bowdoin on Wednesday, and whoever we face in NESCACs Saturday.”

aking the National Football League is something that every player on a major college football team strives for. And getting picked in the NFL Draft is their chance to see dreams both be accomplished and begin at the same time. The NFL Combine is the prelude to the draft, where players are able to showcase their talents in front of scouts from every team in the league.

At the Combine, players are paired together and spend their nights in a hotel paid for by the NFL. They go through drills, interviews and evaluations. Their every move is seen and analyzed by the scouts. These scouts want to know not only how they perform on the field but also what kind of person they’re investing in and whether they can expect a fair return on their investment.

With all this happening in such a short period of time, it should go without saying that a player should be smart enough to be a model citizen, or at least put on the act of one, for the time being.

However, it looks as though the memo didn’t get sent to NFL prospects DeAndre Hopkins and Mark Harrison. Hopkins, a wide receiver who hails from Clemson, and Harrison, a Rutgers product, shared a room in Indianapolis that was found not just in bad condition but utterly destroyed.

Naturally, neither player has any idea how it happened and is denying any involvement in the incident. Hopkins was quoted, through an agent, saying that he had “as much to do with anything in that room as you did.” Curiously, though, he went on to say that his agent booked him an early flight home and “told [Hopkins] to hurry up.”

I’m wondering, why was it so important for Hopkins’ agent to book an early flight and leave quickly if, as he says, the room was in perfect condition when he left? It seems a bit suspicious that he was in such a hurry to leave if there was in fact nothing wrong with the room.

Hopkins also said in an interview with FOXSports.com that he thought Harrison “had nothing to do with the incident.”

Harrison’s former coach at Rutgers echoed this statement noting that Harrison had never had instances such as this happen on past road trips and it would be largely out of character for him to commit such an act. It should also be pointed out that NFL sources told ESPN that they don’t believe Harrison to be responsible.

Essentially what this situation breaks down to is one room that was trashed and two inhabitants of the room denying any knowledge or accountability for it. While I certainly don’t know the exact details of the situation, I know that the players are responsible for the room in which they stay.

Someone needs to take accountability for the damage done.

Players are judged on multiple seasons of work, but the spotlight doesn’t shine any brighter than when all eyes are on them for one week at the combine. The 40-yard dash is as important during this time period as their score on the Wonderlic Test. A quarterback’s ability to hit a receiver in stride is equally as important as his ability to hold an intelligent conversation with a member of a NFL team’s front office.

Whether or not either player had involvement is secondary to the fact that the act happened in their room during the most important week of their young lives.

The damage was documented by several of the scouts in attendance and opens up questions into their characters, whether fairly or not. The most important thing is that these men need to act like professional athletes. Responsibility speaks volumes about a person’s characters, and until the truth comes out, Hopkins and Harrison — you’re sacked!

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Slow starts have been a problem for the No. 7 men’s lacrosse team this season.

But for the Jumbos, it was an anemic second quarter that did the squad in against a rowdy Wesleyan team on Saturday afternoon, leading to an 8-7 loss on the road.

Senior Jeff Gioncondi secured 11 of 19 faceoffs for the Cardinals, giving them much-needed possessions and allowing the opponent to keep the ball out of the Jumbos’ sticks. Tufts did not do themselves any favors either, as coach Mike Daly’s squad committed an ugly 27 turnovers on the day, including several errant passes in settled offensive situations and hurried feeds in transition.

“We didn’t play our game yesterday. We were very sloppy. We need to learn from our mistakes and put Saturday’s game behind us,” senior short-stick defensive midfielder Sam Diss said.

Though the Jumbos struggled in the second half, Tufts did jump out to an early three-goal lead, shutting the host Cardinals out for the first 15 minutes, with freshman keeper Alex Salazar stepping up to make a whopping nine saves.

Junior attackman Beau Wood opened things up five minutes in, taking a feed from sophomore attackman Cole Bailey and driving in to slip a shot by Wesleyan junior keeper Mark Simmons.

Driving down the right wing, sophomore midfielder Peter Gill ripped another shot past

Simmons to push the Jumbos’ early lead to two.

Then, with four minutes remaining in the opening quarter, a heads-up play gave Tufts its shot.

Sophomore defender Garrett Read barreled in to control a loose ball at midfield and pushed it up to the offensive unit. From there, Bailey took control, hitting sophomore Chris Schoenhut with a feed for the Jumbos’ third goal of the day.

The second stanza told a different story, however, as four different Cardinals found the back of the net in a five-goal run that sent the Jumbos reeling. Playing without top senior defenseman Mike Robinson, the Cardinals finally began to piece things together on the defensive end, lending their attacking unit the time and space to barrage Salazar with shots on cage.

Junior Graham Macnab was the first to strike for the Cardinals, sending a low shot past Salazar at the 13:20 mark. Giambianco doubled the Wesleyan score when he sent a bounce shot from the right wing past Salazar, and senior Max Rosenman tied things up just four minutes into the period. Giambianco and junior Remy Lieberman buried two more goals to put the Cardinals up by two before the Jumbos found a way to stop the bleeding.

As halftime approached, senior attackman Andrew Fiamengo drew triple coverage and worked the ball to an open Wood. With 19 seconds see MEN’S LACROSSE, page 15

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Jumbos defeat Cardinals on Senior Day Win or Williams loss needed for postseason berth by

Alex Schroeder

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After falling to three straight NESCAC opponents, the No. 19 Tufts women’s lacrosse team exploded offensively in Saturday’s Senior Day game at Bello Field to defeat Wesleyan 17-5. With the victory, the Jumbos moved into to a tie with Williams for the eighth and final playoff spot in the NESCAC with just one more week of play remaining before the seeds are final and the postseason tournament commences.

Fittingly, it was the Class of 2013 that made the biggest impact in Saturday’s matchup with the Cardinals. The seniors combined for 10 goals in the game, with senior co-captain attacker Kerry Eaton leading the way with five of her own. Senior attacker Kaitlyn Leidl tallied a career-best six points with three goals and three assists, and senior co-captain defender Meg Boland stepped up offensively to net two goals in a game for the first time in her career.

Meanwhile, defenders Collier Clegg and Kerry McGinn led the seniors on the other half of the field, with four draw controls for Clegg and one for McGinn.

The last home game left the seniors with some mixed emotions, though, as it marked the beginning of the end for the graduating class.

“I guess it was definitely bittersweet,” Boland said. “It’s been a long and great season.

It’s great to see everyone pull together for seniors like this; we’ve worked really hard as a team. It’s really weird that it’s our last home game, but it’s exciting, and I think we played

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The Jumbos took down the Cardinals 17-5 on Senior Day, an impressive win that vaulted them back into a battle for a spot in the NESCAC tournament. a great game. I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way for our senior game.”

The Jumbos started the game in complete control of possession and tempo, scoring the first seven goals of the contest to establish the tone for the rest of the matchup.

Freshman attacker Caroline Ross scored three goals in that run, while Eaton netted two. By the end of the half, the Jumbos had extended their lead to 13-3, with two of the strikes coming from freshman midfielder Brigid Bowser, who finished with six points total.

The Jumbos played extremely efficiently and effectively on offense, outshooting the Cardinals 18-7 and outdrawing them 12-5 in the first 30 minutes.

“I think we did a good job of picking our shots,” junior midfielder Kelley Cohen said. “We did a really good job at shooting with a purpose and taking our time on offense. Our shot

percentage had been low in the game before. We did a better job looking for perfect opportunities and holding when it wasn’t there. There were very few unforced turnovers.”

By the end of the game, Tufts racked up a 29-15 shot advantage, successfully converting six-of-nine free position shots. Ross finished with four goals, while junior midfielder Emily Wright and attacker Gabby Horner won five draws and four draws respectively. Cohen finished with two caused turnovers and four groundballs.

As a result, the win puts Tufts in a great position to advance to the postseason.

They are tied right now with Williams, a team the Jumbos beat 12-5 earlier this season, for the final position.

A Tufts win in its next game against Bowdoin on Wednesday, see WOMEN’S LACROSSE, page 15

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Colby snaps Tufts’ winning streak Late inning magic carries Mules to series win

by Jake Indursky

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The baseball team’s 10-game winning streak came to a screeching halt this past weekend with two extra-inning losses to Colby. Despite beating the Mules 9-2 on Friday, the Jumbos gave up two games on Saturday, 5-4 and 3-2, and now find themselves trying to recreate the success of the past weeks.

“I think we came into the game with a lot of confidence,” junior tri-captain Nick

Cutsumpas said. “I think we actually came in with too much confidence, especially after the first game, which we won pretty handily. We got a little complacent.”

In the first game of the weekend, the Jumbos combined solid pitching with timely hitting. After scoring four runs in the fifth inning, Tufts was able to jump to a 6-1 lead. From there, the team coasted to a win by tacking on three more runs in the ninth, showing why they have the potential to be one of the best teams in the NESCAC.

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The Jumbos went 1-2 on the road this weekend, falling to Colby twice in extra innings.

“It was great to get out on top of Colby early,” junior tri-captain Christian Sbily said. “We knew that if we could get ahead of them early and get to their bullpen, we could be successful. We did a great job at the plate, of moving runners over and getting runs in when we needed to get them in, adding some insurance runs and putting them away.”

Tufts also benefited from shutting Colby out once they went to their bullpen in the fifth inning.

“On the mound we did a good job of getting ahead of hitters, and dictating the tempo of the game,” Sbily said.

Despite outplaying the Mules in many facets of the game, the players still noted some concern on the defensive side of the ball, as the Jumbos made two errors in the field on Friday.

“That first game, even though we won, we did make a lot of errors, we didn’t run the bases particularly well, and we didn’t have as good at-bats as we wanted to have,” Cutsumpas said. “I think guys were still happy with the win, but we didn’t respond as we needed to and improve upon some of Friday’s mistakes.”

Instead, during its first Saturday game, the Jumbos found themselves in an unfamiliar position, down 3-0 after the second inning. Then two Tufts runs in the 4th were followed by a run from Colby in the bottom half of the inning to extend the lead to 4-2. Meanwhile, in the sixth inning, the Jumbos managed to scrape two more runs across the plate to tie things up at 4-4.

In this game, though, the Jumbos could

not conjure up their late-inning magic, and instead Colby drove in the gamewinning run in the bottom of the ninth on a single from sophomore pinch-hitter Nils Carlson.

The late game drama spilled over into the second half of the doubleheader, as the second game of the day also went to the bottom of the ninth.

Earlier in the game, Tufts was able to get out on top first, scoring two runs in the top of the fourth. Colby did not go away, though, as they scored a run in the bottom half of the inning and finally tied the game in the bottom of the seventh.

Once again, Colby managed to come out with the late inning win, when sophomore Tim Corey scored from third because Tufts could not successfully turn a double play.

“When things weren’t going our way, and the games got a lot closer, the team morale got down,” Cutsumpas said. “We lost track of what made us so successful, and we started resorting to bad habits that got us in trouble.”

The Jumbos will be looking to put both of those tough losses in their rearview mirror and learn from this past weekend, hoping to vault back into the second spot of the NESCAC east division, where they currently sit two games back of 7-2 Bowdoin.

“If we play the way we are supposed to play, we come out on top, and if we don’t take advantage of opportunities and beat ourselves, that’s when we end up falling short,” Sbily said. “We just have to get back to it and start preparing for our upcoming games.”