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Tufts wins Pinnacle Award for second consecutive year Tufts received a Pinnacle Award for excellence in transportation sustainability options at the Massachusetts Excellence in Commuter Options (ECO) Awards ceremony at Fenway Park last Thursday.

This is Tufts’ second consecutive year receiving the Pinnacle Award, the highest level of recognition awarded at the ceremony, according to the Office of Sustainability (OOS) website.

The award was given through a collaboration of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), MassCommute, the Massachusetts Coalition of Transportation Management Associations and MassRIDES, a staterun travel options program, according to Becca Cyr, the MassRIDES Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Communications Coordinator.

Tufts was honored for excellence in transportation sustainability “Basically, it’s a group of awards options at the Massachusetts Excellence in Commuter Options (ECO) that recognize MassRIDES and Awards ceremony last Thursday.

MassCommute partners across the state for their efforts in transpor- Additional recognition was given ing options and explained the signiftation management and providing through five Spotlight Awards for icant role they can play in the overall sustainable transportation options,” organizations that demonstrated health of the Tufts community. leadership in incorporating sustain- “Tufts is in a pretty dense Cyr told the Daily.

The awards ceremony was able transportation options, accord- area, and by allowing [employees] different ways to commute held to encourage collabora- ing to the MassRIDES website. tion on transportation options Fannie Koa, the Communications to and from the area, I think among various employers, and Outreach Specialist at OOS, it improves health overall and according to Ari Ofsevit, the identified the specific transporta- quality of life in the area by MassRIDES Worksite Outreach tion options that Tufts provides that lowering vehicle miles traveled enabled it to receive the award. by single occupant vehicles,” Coordinator.

“When we get everyone in one These options include employee Kurcharsky said. “It really shows place, we get to talk about what access to shuttle services like the that there’s an understanding of different companies do and it’s a Joey, providing showers, lockers and how Tufts is part of the greater good way for companies and col- bicycle maintenance supplies for community in recognizing the leges to find out what their peers employees, subsidizing employee importance of transportation membership in a car-sharing pro- sustainability.” are doing,” Ofsevit said.

Companies, organizations and gram and providing discount park- The university will continue to seek improved transportation susuniversities that are members of ing for carpools.

MassCommute or MassRIDES can “We are committed to get- tainability and additional commuter self-nominate for the awards based ting people to be green commut- options, according to Koa. on three levels of criteria, accord- ers,” Koa said. “We’ve been doing Tufts is currently working on adding to MassCommute’s Executive more and more every year and ing electric vehicle charging stations, Director David Kurcharsky. He hopefully now that Betsy Byrum Koa said. explained that there were 130 nomi- [the new OOS Education and “Hopefully next year we’ll have nees for the various awards, with 46 Outreach Coordinator], is here, an even better list of things we’ve receiving the Pinnacle Award, meet- we’ll be able to do more outreach done in the past and will be able to get one of the Spotlight Awards.” ing specific criteria for the lower for employees.” level Pacesetter and Leader Awards Kurcharsky emphasized the importance of sustainable commutas well.

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Where You Read It First Est. 1980

LGBT Center to celebrate 20th anniversary by

Denali Tietjen

Daily Staff Writer

The Tufts Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center will celebrate its 20th anniversary at the Mayer Campus Center tomorrow with food, a formal program and a dance party.

The sold-out event will honor the Center’s history and progress since its founding in 1983, as well as celebrate the LGBT community on campus and connect generations of students involved with the LGBT Center, according to LGBT Center Director Tom Bourdon.

The LGBT Center most recently held a celebration for its 15th anniversary, but the 20th anniversary is a substantial milestone because 20 years is a very long time in the LGBT community, Max TanguayColucci, an undergraduate intern at the Center, said.

“The 20th anniversary is particularly significant because Tufts has really been at the forefront of LGBT issues,” Tanguay-Colucci, a sophomore, said. “Twenty years is a big deal and that just shows how important these issues are to students at Tufts.”

Bourdon said that the LGBT community at Tufts is very strong, with eight to 12 percent of students identifying as non-heterosexual according to senior surveys.

To put the 20-year mark into perspective, Northeastern University’s LGBTQA Resource Center was founded within the past five years, according to Kris Polk, a student at Northeastern’s College Student Development and Counseling

Program and intern at the Tufts LGBT Center.

The anniversary celebration will begin at 7 p.m. with hors d’oeuvres, followed by an oral history program at 7:30 p.m. and a dance party later on, Bourdon said. The oral history program will feature several speakers including former LGBT Center directors Dona Yarbrough and Heather Wishik and Massachusetts State Representative Carl Sciortino (LA ‘00), who is one of seven openly gay Commonwealth legislators.

“I think it’s going to be fascinating as well as very touching to hear about people’s experiences over such a long period of time in relation to LGBT identities and experiences on this campus,” Bourdon said.

“It will be really nice to capture what’s different and what’s stayed the same, and I think it will really help inform us as to where we want to go in the future.”

The program will also feature an archival slide show that chronicles the history of the campus’ queer organizations prior to the establishment of the LGBT Center, according to Tanguay-Colucci.

Bourdon also revealed that an important announcement is going to be made at the event by a student who will discuss the news on a personal level.

“We have two announcements that are going to be made,” he said. “One might not be a surprise to people, but the other is a huge, extremely exciting LGBTrelated announcement.” see LGBT, page 2

History on the Hill: Barnum Hall by

Charlotte Gilliland Daily Editorial Board

This article is the third in a series exploring the historical background of sites and buildings on Tufts’ Medford/ Somerville campus.

Jumbo the elephant, who stands proudly outside Barnum Hall, represents the famous real elephant that once resided within the walls of what is now the Biology department. Both the Jumbo statue and Barnum Hall itself are embedded in Tufts history and its changing structures.

Barnum Hall was founded by Phineas T. Barnum in 1883, as the Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tufts, according to Andrew McClellan’s 2011 article from the Journal of the History of Collections, “P.T. Barnum, Jumbo the Elephant and the Barnum Museum of Natural History at

Tufts University.” P.T. Barnum, after spending most of his life managing his traveling circus, wanted to “secure a positive legacy through the creation of an unambiguously serious institution.”

Barnum worked as a showman and circus entrepreneur with the Barnum and Bailey Circus, according to Anne Sauer’s Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History.

He also served on Tufts’ Board of Trustees and as a benefactor to the university. Before donating to Tufts to create the Barnum Museum, he re-opened the American Museum in New York City and also supported the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Barnum was also a member of the Universalist Church.

“He was the Donald Trump of his day,” said Sol Gittleman, the

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Barnum Hall was originally founded in 1883 by circus master P.T. Barnum as a Museum of Natural History.

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Bourdon could not share much information regarding the announcement but stressed its significance and said it is related to the structure of the LGBT community.

Along with a raffle, the center will auction off the complete “Wicked” book series, autographed by author and Tufts alumnus Gregory Maguire (G ‘90), Bourdon said. The auction is the center’s first fundraising effort to raise money for a scholarship fund for LGBT students who find themselves in emergency situations.

“We’re hoping to create an emergency fund — which some schools

now have — which is there to provide students with financial assistance if they find themselves in an emergency situation where they’ve been rejected or disowned by their families,” he explained. “Sometimes students will find themselves in a situation where they need some immediate cash on hand.”

Before the dance party there will be a showing by local performers who are involved in the LGBT community, according to Bourdon. A professional hula-hooper and a member of an all-female drag crew, called “All The Kings Men” (ATKM), are among the performers.

Bourdon also urged the community

to recognize that not all LGBT students will be comfortable enough to attend such a public event.

“It’s important for people to realize that a lot of students who connect with the center aren’t necessarily comfortable publically acknowledging their connection,” he said. “We often work with students who are struggling with their gender and sexuality, so to show up at an event like this and show their support for the center is wonderful, but I also recognize that publically celebrating it isn’t comfortable for a lot of people. I just hope they still know we’re here for everyone on campus whether you feel comfortable coming to the event or not.”

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Before it housed the biology department, Barnum Hall was museum of natural history BARNUM

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Alice and Nathan Gantcher university professor and former Tufts provost. Gittleman is the author of “An Entrepreneurial University: The Transformation of Tufts 1976-2002.”

The Barnum Museum was founded during the presidency of Elmer Hewitt Capen. He proposed the addition of several buildings, including a science building, saying, “We must be progressive and aggressive if we expect Tufts College to maintain the rank it has gained among the New England institutions,” according to McClellan’s article.

Capen requested a donation from Barnum, who agreed only on the terms that the gift would be a secret and the building would always be called the Barnum Museum of Natural History. He donated $50,000 to fund the building and intended it to be the best-known natural history museum on the East Coast.

The first collections to be housed in the museum were put together by Tufts’ first professor of geology, mineralogy and chemistry, John P. Marshall. According to McClellan, Marshall’s collections were supplemented by Barnum’s donations of dead animals from his circus.

Barnum’s most significant donation to the museum was the skin of Jumbo the elephant, which Barnum bought in 1882, according to McClellan. Jumbo was the star of The Greatest Show on Earth, but after he died, Barnum gave his hide to Tufts and his skeleton to the Smithsonian

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in 1884. The taxidermied elephant became a central piece to student life — particularly in 1939, when students began several traditions with Jumbo.

“Kids used to come by and drop pennies in the trunk before exams,” Gittleman said.

In the late 1930s, Barnum Museum transitioned into Barnum Hall under the direction of Russell Carpenter, a faculty member in the Biology department, according to McClellan. Jumbo and the bust of P.T. Barnum were the only artifacts that remained of the museum and the rest of the building was dedicated to academic functions. The addition of another wing for laboratory spaces was added in 1935, according to Sauer. In 1963, the Dana Laboratory was added to supplement the Department of Biology.

Barnum Hall stood strong until a fire burned down the building in 1975.

“In the 1970s, we didn’t take care of the buildings, we had no money to take care of the buildings,” Gittleman said. “It was an electrical fire. Barnum is a lot of flagstone, so the inside burned down but the outside stayed. Jumbo went up like a candle.”

Luckily, Phyllis Byrne, an administrative assistant of the athletic department, thought to sweep Jumbo’s ashes into a peanut butter jar the morning after the fire, according to a 2002 Daily article. His ashes now remain in a “makeshift urn” located in the office of the Athletic Director and are brought out to inspire athletic teams.

Gittleman said that the fire was symbolic

in the context of the university as a whole.

“Tufts was teetering on the edge of extinction and that was when Barnum burned down,” Gittleman said. “The fire was symptomatic and symbolic of the tough times that Tufts was going through.”

Former university president Jean Mayer, who helped reform the university by greatly increasing the endowment, raising admissions and academic standards and helping the university form a new sense of identity. The rebuilding of Barnum symbolized these positive changes, said Gittleman.

“The university has never looked back since then,” Gittleman said of Mayer’s presidency.

Barnum Hall was rebuilt within the original stone facade, according to Sauer, but to a much lower height than it previously stood. The Dana Laboratory remained unharmed by the fire. The building now serves the biology department and hosts large lecture courses.

In an effort to return Jumbo to the Tufts’ campus, the university purchased the statue of Jumbo that now stands outside of Barnum Hall. The return of Jumbo continues Barnum Hall’s strong ties to Tufts’ history.

Gittleman predicted the building’s function might change over the the next few years.

“It’s no longer functional for the [biology] department,” he said. “What will happen to Barnum in the next ten years, I don’t know. This could be a nice change.”

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‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ far exceeds expectations

Rarely does a movie promoted with so much hype and such huge promises not only deliver in ways audiences expected, by

Brendan Donohue Contributing Writer

The Place Beyond the Pines Directed by Derek Cianfrance Starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne but also go beyond preconceived notions in a powerful and moving way. “The Place Beyond the Pines,” written and directed

by Derek Cianfrance, is a sprawling tale of fatherhood, love and family. The film does an incredible job of telling a breathtaking story while maintaining an ability to defy any expectations of its massive scale and emotional impact.

The film chronicles a community of people in Schenectady, N.Y., beginning in the 1990s and continuing to the present.

Ryan Gosling is Luke, a daredevil motorcyclist in a traveling carnival. He is covered in tattoos but still takes the time to sign autographs for a group of adoring children.

He lives his life in motion, and his occupation and appearance belie somebody who is goodhearted, but who has nothing to lose. Things change when he discovers the existence of his son whose mother, Romina

(Eva Mendes), is ready to move on with her life without Luke. Here we see Luke’s qualities shine as his life begins to change.

Befriending a local mechanic, he begins to use his talents learned from the carnival to rob banks to help Romina raise their son.

In the same small city is Avery (Bradley Cooper), a rookie police officer with a law degree, who is the polar opposite of Luke.

He is eager to move up in the police force, and the city’s new “Motorcycle Bandit” seems to present him with an opportunity.

When Avery and Luke’s paths cross, the entire city is shaken, and the effects on their families are irreversible. The interactions between their sons are especially moving, and the relationship between them is shocking.

Perhaps because of the success of his last film, “Blue Valentine” (2010), Cianfrance decided to stick with telling a story that felt incredibly real at a deep and emotional level. This time, however, he chose to explore the lives of families instead of separating lovers. He does so extremely effectively — he tells a story that expands far beyond the scope of a two-person relationship. The setting provides an almost timeless city, an upstate city in New York with both rural wilderness and crowded suburbs. The forests that line the highways here give an isolated feel to the city, as if the events portrayed in the fifteen years chronicled here are untouched by events outside. Here, Cianfrance focused on the hometown of his wife.

Ryan Gosling here takes on a role much like his silent, yet empathetic character in “Drive” (2011). He does an excellent job as a criminal whom the audience will root for, as when he shrieks at customers in a panicked state of desperation while trying to support his son. After spending months learning to ride a motorcycle for the role, Gosling’s preparation for the role shows — his tattooed body and sincere give-it-all attitude for his family paint a character who can be simultaneously lost but also so sure what needs to be done. Bradley Cooper excels as the tortured cop who is stuck between his job and his family, his loyalty to the police force and the honesty he learned in law school. He is a stark and clear contrast from Ryan Gosling — clean-cut versus tattoo-covered, Ivy League grad versus middle school dropout. Ray Liotta too shines as the corrupt detective who makes the audience uncomfortable for the characters he manipulates in order to access both money and power. The tense scenes between Cooper and himself are strong and scary.

Overall, “The Place Beyond the Pines” is a tale both much longer and inclusive than what was forcasted by previews. Although the film stretches sometimes to fill its two and a half hours and is told like a phenomenal novel, it still manages to take its audience through a series of worlds without becoming boring. The film will likely please all audiences on its nationwide release, and will certainly not be forgotten by next awards season.

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Ryan Gosling stars as Luke in Derek Cianfrance’s sweeping emotional drama, “The Place Beyond the Pines,” a Focus Features release.

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Cianfrance talks documentary background, collaboration with Gosling by

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The following is from a roundtable interview the Tufts Daily attended and participated in with Derek Cianfrance, writer and director of “The Place Beyond the Pines.”

Question: Ryan Gosling shrieks in this movie. When you heard that for the first time, were you unbelievably excited?

Derek Cianfrance: Here’s what happened — I’m always trying to find this collision, right between real life and fantasy. I’m always trying to take actors and kind of drop them into this aquarium of life and see how they swim. There’s real cops this in movie working with Bradley Cooper, real or retired judges on the stand. I can’t teach somebody how to be a judge, but I figure they can teach me. My concept see CIANFRANCE, page 4

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Bradley Cooper stars as Avery in Derek Cianfrance’s sweeping emotional drama, “The Place Beyond the Pines,” a Focus Features release.

Danielle Jenkins | Greenwise

What up, water?

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remember my first two-minute shower. I was at camp. We had to pump quarters into the showers in order to keep the water going. It was an excellent conservation technique, but my twelve-year-old self was terrified.

The older girls who had gone before me told me about how the water had shut off and soap had run in their eyes. They detailed the drama of trying to find their quarters and then the slot to insert them as their eyes streamed with soapy tears. So I went in, set my quarters in the soap dish and desperately tried to wash off that day’s dirt in my allotted time. To be honest, I don’t remember if I was successful, or if I got soap in my eyes, or even if I had trouble finding my quarters. Either it was so traumatic I blocked it out, or I managed to take my shower and it was no big deal.

I do not take a two-minute shower every day, or ever, but I have developed a few techniques to save water in the shower. Hopefully these tricks will help you find water conservation nirvana.

1. Condition and shampoo every other day. Most shampoos strip hair of the natural oils it produces. Over time your hair produces oils more frequently in order to replace the oils it “knows” will be regularly removed. This means you have to wash your hair more often to keep it from becoming too oily. There is even a movement away from shampoo entirely, called the “No ‘Poo” movement. It’s pretty interesting.

I was skeptical about it at first, but I’ve slowly started removing shampoo from my regiment and the days that I don’t use shampoo I get more compliments on my hair then the days that I do.

2. Try alternatives to shaving. If you are fond of your razor, turn off the shower and fill a cup with warm water to dip your razor in. This will let you save water while continuing to use a razor.

For those of you who are brave enough to face hot wax, go for it. Perhaps for the most adventurous an epilator is a good investment. It’s a tool that has little, electric tweezers. The first use is painful, the second time less so and the third time it barely tickles. The best part is it can be used wet or dry, so little or no water consumption is required.

3. For the most pious water savers: Navy showers. Step 1: Turn on the shower and get in. Step 2: Once wet, turn the shower off. Step 3: Shampoo and soap. Step 4: Turn shower on and rinse. Step 5: Turn water off. If you use conditioner, repeat steps 3 and 4 with conditioner instead. Step 6: Great success! According to The Huffington Post, Navy showers can reduce shower water consumption by ninety-five percent.

Go team.

4. Don’t shower when you are too sleepy. I know, this is a strange piece of advice, but I have a friend — who will remain nameless — who falls back asleep in the shower while standing up.

This is an impressive feat, but I don’t doubt that after a long night of work and only a few hours of sleep, I too could close my eyes and drift off upon stepping into a warm shower.

By no means do I think every day every person should shower for two minutes or less, but cutting shower time is a step towards water conservation. Older showerheads have an average flow rate of over four gallons per minute. This means that cutting a ten-minute shower down to five minutes saves twenty gallons of water, which seems well worth any shower-time sacrifice.

Danielle Jenkins is a senior majoring in English and environmental studies.

She can be reached at danielle.jenkins@ tufts.edu.

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was, I would put all real tellers who had been robbed before, and all people who had been in bank robberies before. So we take the first take, and Ryan came in, and no one was scared. Everyone was just relieved that it was Ryan Gosling robbing them instead of a real guy, so we didn’t get the reaction we were looking for. They were just taking their cell phones, taking pictures of him. I told him, “ If the guns [are] not scaring them, you better scare them.” All 15 takes, he just kept trying harder and harder, and by the end he was just so desperate, he was screaming at them and his voice was cracking, and they were scared. It didn’t happen the way I thought it was going to happen. His performance got so much more interesting because of this desperation of him as an actor.

Q: What did your documentary background bring into the film?

DC: I want to be surprised when I watch a movie. When I see “Pirates of the Caribbean” (2003, 2006, 2007, 2011), I know I’m never going to be surprised. I know that no matter what, Johnny Depp’s never going to be in any real danger. He’s not going to get stabbed. I want to see movies where something is actually happening, I want to see actually life on the screen. That’s why I love documentary films, anything can happen, anything can break at any time.

Q: In terms of production, you had a lot more takes than with “Blue Valentine” (2010). Did you find production to be smoother on this?

DC: Well, I had 47 days on this; “Blue Valentine” was 23. I tend to, in the edit, choose the first takes or the last takes. In “Blue Valentine,” the shower scene with Michelle [Williams] and Ryan, we shot that for two days. Because on the first day,

they were like naked and cute and giggly.

But by the eighth hour of the second day, they wanted to get out, but they had to stay in there. It’s the Stanley Kubrick thing, that model of experience. This is the same way. There’s a scene where they’re supposed to count money. Then all of a sudden Ryan’s playing Bruce Springsteen, and there’s all these little dogs, because I told him he should have a junkyard dog but he thought the little dogs would work better.

Sometimes it just happens.

Q: Did Springsteen allow that?

DC: Well, we shot it with the music. So I wrote to Springsteen, and I said you know, I’ve always loved your music, I’ve always loved to make films like your songs, just about regular people struggling to fall in love or make ends meet, human stories.

I sent him the scene, sent him the screen, and he said yes.

Q: The first scene, was that all one take?

How did you make sure nobody messed up?

DC: The three biggest challenges of that scene {were that] we can’t have anyone look at the camera because it keeps unfolding. Well, I wanted to do long takes at the beginning of the movie, and long takes throughout the film. I feel like there’s a truthfulness in the unbroken take, in the not cutting. And we were looking at the scale of this movie and we realized that we should start it out with this long, unbroken take, and we came up with this shot.

So the trick was to have people not look in the camera. I don’t know how we did it but we did. The next hardest part was, there’s 22 people in America that can do this globe of death trick, and Ryan Gosling is not one of them. We had to do a Texas switch, which is in there. The third thing is my cinematographer, who was a war photographer, insisted that we go to the center of that cage. And, well, he ended up in the hospital with a concussion.

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Jumbo riders upset region, qualify for Zone championships by

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After toppling several schools in the area to win the region last week, the Tufts equestrian team will progress to Zone Championships at Mount Holyoke this Saturday, facing off against some of the northeast’s premier programs as they try to take a bid to the IHSA National Championship Show. The Jumbos qualified as a team because of their first place finish in the region, and will be sending one rider in each of eight categories in addition to

two riders who made the cut individually.

Individually, senior co-captains Katie Lazarski and Kennon Ulicny both qualified at last Friday’s regionals, meaning Lazarski will compete in the Intermediate Fences while Ulicny will participate in the Open Flat both individually and for the Jumbos as a whole.

Coach Katie Schaaf selected the riders who will represent Tufts as a team this weekend, with senior Risa Meyers in Open Fences and Intermediate Flat, Ulicny in Open Flat, sophomore Ally Boxer in Intermediate Fences

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Senior Risa Meyers will compete in Open Fences and the Intermediate Flat competitions at this weekend’s Zone Qualifying Championships.

and Novice Flat, sophomore Ann Bellinger in Novice Fences, freshman Maris Nyhart in Walk-Trot-Canter and junior Emily Rourke in Walk-Trot.

The team from Tufts will compete against squads from Mount Holyoke, University of New Hampshire and University of Rhode Island, which all won their respective regions to qualify. The top two teams will progress to nationals, while the individual competition will be judged in a different category.

Qualifying as a team is quite a feat for Tufts Equestrian as they compete throughout the year as a club sport against several varsityfunded programs. The team does extensive fundraising, but their budget does not match that of varsity programs, nor are they able to recruit riders.

“There are several varsity teams in our region and we are a club team,” Schaaf said.

“It’s a major hurdle to overcome and this year we did it.”

To advance to the Zone Qualifiers, the Jumbos had to beat Stonehill, their main rival in the area, on March 23. Of the 11 teams that send riders to the region qualifiers, Stonehill is typically the strongest, as the Skyhawks have won nine out of the past 13 titles. They have, however, had the championship taken from them by the Jumbos twice in the past.

Tufts won the region two years ago after an 11-year dry spell, and see this year’s win as proof that 2011 was not simply a stroke of luck.

“The fact that we’ve [won the region] twice in three years wasn’t a fluke,” Lazarski said.

“We’ve upset the region and people need to

look out for us.”

Now, Tufts has moved onto the regional stage. There are four regions that each progress one school, providing a platform for qualifying for the IHSA National Championship Show, the top level in collegiate equestrian competition.

The team is keeping realistic goals in mind while. focusing on its shortterm success of winning this weekend’s competition.

According to Lazarski, making it to Nationals as a club team would be groundbreaking.

“To win regionals as a club team is a huge deal ... to go to nationals would be incredible,” she said.

The classes range from beginner to advanced, with novice riders starting with the Walk-Trot and the most experienced riders competing in the open groups. As they participate in more shows, riders have the opportunity to move up levels over the course of their careers.

Lazarski qualified for regionals in the first show of the year. She made her mark in the intermediate level, which bumped her up to the open level for the rest of the year until this past weekend when she showed in intermediate.

Because riding is all based on the opinions of the judges and only rankings are given, not scores, it is hard for the team to quantify their success over the years.

“This year is the year that all of the hard work really came together,” Lazarski said. “It’s probably going to be the hardest part about

Inside the NCAA

Emotional Final Four matchups a clash of styles by

Andy Linder and Alex Schroeder Daily Editorial Board

After an exciting few months of hoops, the best of the best have surfaced to the top and the most highly anticipated set of games in college basketball are finally upon us. We have a Cinderella, a couple of perennial powerhouses, and just one No. 1 seed left from a field of 68. And with that, here’s our take on the 2013 Final Four:

No. 1 Louisville vs. No. 9 Wichita St. Almost every year, one unexpected team shocks the nation and is able to make a deep run in the NCAA tournament. Fittingly, this year’s Final Four Cinderella squad is none other than the Shockers from Wichita St. A No. 9 seed in this year’s tournament, the Shockers came into March with a relatively unknown resume, as AP first-team AllAmerican Doug McDermott and his fellow Creighton Bluejays soaked up much of the attention in the Missouri Valley Conference this season. The Bluejays defeated the Shockers in two out of their three head-to-head meetings, including one in the conference title game by three points, 68-65.

Despite the heartbreaker, coach Gregg Marshall’s group has nonetheless looked like a title contender since the opening round, during which they took down No. 8 Pitt by 18 points.

Since then, the Shockers have also taken down controversial No. 1 seeded Gonzaga in the Round of 32, as well as No. 13 La Salle in the Sweet 16 and No. 2 Ohio St. in the Elite Eight.

Strong rebounding was the main reason for such strong play in the tournament has unquestionably been rebounding, as Wichita St. ranks 27th in total boards across all Div. I teams, averaging 38.4 per game. Marshall features a very balanced offense

when it comes to scoring, but senior forward Carl Hall certainly leads the charge on the glass, grabbing 6.9 per game.

Although the Shockers have performed extremely well against some of the nation’s best in this tournament, they’ll have to get through the overwhelming favorite and No. 1-overall seed Louisville Cardinals in order to reach the championship game.

The first thing to know about future Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino and his Cardinals is that they haven’t lost since a five-overtime, three-point loss to Notre Dame back on Feb. 9. They’ve been outstanding since, first cruising to a second-straight Big East Tournament title, outscoring Syracuse by 30 points in the second half of the championship game to win by 17. And by the way, in four tournament games thus far, the Cardinals have outscored their opponents by 87 points.

Another reason for Wichita St. to fear Pitino and company: sophomore guard Kevin Ware, who gruesomely broke his right leg against Duke on Sunday in an attempt to block a 3-pointer.

Though the unfortunate injury brought tears to those both on the court and at home, Ware has since undergone successful surgery and will be with the team in Atlanta as the Cardinals chase their first NCAA title since 1986.

The Shockers might be on a roll, but there isn’t a worse possible time for a meet-up against these emotionally charged Cardinals. As they have done all season, experienced guards Russ Smth and Peyton Siva will look to control the tempo, with junior center and Senegal native Gorgui Dieng ready to pounce on the offensive glass and seal a ticket to Monday’s championship game.

The Pick: Louisville Cardinals No. 4 Syracuse vs. No. 4

Michigan On the other half of the bracket, the face-off between South Region champions Michigan and East Region champions Syracuse will be an explosive affair following extremely impressive victories from both teams within their regions.

Syracuse has been a dominant defensive force over the course of the past two games, allowing just 89 points to No. 1 Indiana and No. 3 Marquette combined in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight, respectively. Sophomore big man Cody Zeller of Indiana was practically ineffective up against the zone defense of the Orange, scoring just 10 points on 3-of-11 shooting from the field.

And against Marquette, the Orange held the Golden Eagles to the lowest number of points in an NCAA tournament regional final since 1986 in their clash last Saturday. The length and speed of the Orange 2-3 zone has really hurt teams, especially when the opposition is unable to shoot the long ball well. In addition, the backcourt tandem of sophomore Michael Carter-Williams and senior Brandon Triche has not only shut down smaller guards who try to penetrate the zone, but has also contributed heavily to coach Jim Boeheim’s offensive attack. CarterWilliams scored 24 against Indiana and 12 against Marquette, while Triche added 14 and nine to the respective contests.

While ‘Cuse may be rolling as a defensive unit, the Orange may face problems against an unpredictable and high-energy Michigan offense on Saturday.

Much like the 1993 Final Four team that featured five freshmen in the starting lineup, the Wolverines’ current squad excels due to its strong recent recruiting classes. This is Michigan’s deepest run into the tournament since the Fab Five, and they’ve survived largely due to remarkable play from sophomore guard

MCT

Peyton Siva and the Louisville Cardinals have looked nearly unstoppable coming out of the Midwest region and will look to continue their dominant play in the Final Four.

Trey Burke and freshman forward Mitch McGary.

Down by five with 21 seconds to go in the Sweet 16 matchup against No. 1 Kansas, Burke and the Wolverines fought back to within three points before the sophomore drained a triple from well beyond the arc to send the game to overtime.

The Wolverines stunned the Jayhawks in the extra period as Burke, recently crowned AP National Player of the Year, dished out 10 assists to add to his 23 points, all of which were scored in either the second half or overtime period. McGary also recorded a double-double in the matchup, scoring a game-high 25 points and snatching 14 rebounds.

A strong offensive presence, both down low from McGary and from the 3-point line with Burke and freshman guard Nik Stauskas will be necessary to break down the Syracuse zone and keep the game on-edge.

Clearly, both teams are hot coming in ― the Orange have been frustrating opponents with the defensive prowess, while Michigan is playing like the AP No. 1 team it was back in February. But the game will ultimately be decided by whether the offensive threats of Michigan or the lockdown defense of Syracuse prevail. In a close call, we have to give the edge to the experience and consistency of Boeheim’s squad over the raw talent of Michigan.

The Pick: Syracuse Orange