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VOLUME LXV, NUMBER 47

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Tufts Community Union election results Several candidates in the Tufts Community Union (TCU) spring elections walked onto positions on the body last week after successfully petitioning without competition.

Class of 2015 Senate: Douglas Brewster, Bradley Friedman, Harish Gupta, Darien Headen, Mary Maloney, Dylan Saba, Gordon Silverman Class of 2014 Senate: Joe Donenfeld, Kara Lillehaug, Christie Maciejewski, Zoe Munoz, Shriya Nevatia, Stephen Ruggiero, Joe Thibodeau TCU Judiciary: freshman Becky Goldberg, junior Caroline Howe, junior Jon Jacques, freshman Leah Shaw, freshman Carter Wilkinson Committee on Student Life: junior Haydn Forrest, junior Jordan Dashow 2016 Class Council: President Julia Turock, Vice President of Social Programming Temi Owoyemi, Secretary Jason Brillon, Treasurer Gia Rowley

2015 Class Council: President Grace Michaels, Vice President of Social Programming Emily Ehrmann, Vice President of Academic Programming Maddy Ball, Treasurer Daniel Madwed 2014 Class Council: President: Patrick Kazley; Vice President of Academic Programming: Nick Cutsumpas; Treasurer: Jordanna Rose Community Representatives: Women’s Center: freshman Erin Dimson-Doyle Asian-American Center: freshman Hira Qureshi Latino Center: sophomore Lesly Ruelas Africana Center: sophomore Solana Davis LGBT Center: sophomore John Kelly Elections for empty Class of 2016 Senate seats will take place Wednesday.

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The Women’s Studies Program will change its name to “Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies” this fall.

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Senate addresses graffiti, passes several resolutions

By James Pouliot Daily Editorial Board

The Tufts Community Union Senate ended its final meeting of the semester last night with votes on eight resolutions in asession that lasted into the early hours of the morning.

Senators interrupted the session to draft a statement in reaction to the discovery of a swastika and white supremacist messages painted on structures on Bello Field Sunday. The statement declared that the body “regards these and all other instances of hate and subordination as unacceptable” and called for an “internal, critical reflection” of the history behind such instances.

Senators also passed a resolution

New name for Women’s Studies to reflect changing field by

calling for faculty and adminstrators involved with the working group developing the Critical Studies in Disparities and Diasporas umbrella program involve student members as active and equal collaborators. Senior senator Jameelah Morris and Senate Diversity and Community Affairs Officer Logan Cotton, also a senior, submitted the resolution, which called for student representatives to be re-integrated into the group.

Another resolution urges the administration to incorporate research resource aggregator Project Lever, which consolidates research opportunities, funding sources, previous theses see SENATE, page 2

The Women’s Studies Program will change its name to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies starting next fall, a move meant to better represent the department, Women’s Studies Interim Program Director Sonia Hofkosh announced at the LGBT Center’s 20th anniversary celebration on Saturday.

The faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences unanimously passed the name change at a March 6 meeting, according to Hofkosh and Secretary of the Faculty for Arts, Sciences and Engineering Jillian Dubman.

The program has been evolving since its introduction more than 30 years ago, Hofkosh said. She said she hopes the change will emphasize the importance of

Medford police search for suspects in southern Medford, Bello Field defacement Medford police and the Tufts University Police Department are investigating graffiti depicting racist symbols and messages discovered yesterday morning at Bello Field, according to an email sent to the Tufts community Sunday evening.

“Tufts Facilities Services personnel discovered that signage and other structures on Bello Field had been defaced with objectionable graffiti, including swastikas and white supremacist slogans,” the email said.

The discovery was one of many across southern Medford that morning, according to Lt. Mark Rudolph of the Medford Police Department (MPD), including at Medford’s Columbus Elementary School.

The spread of the tags on signs, streets and mailboxes across Medford indicates that the attack was likely not Tufts-centric, he said.

“[Bello Field] is the only Tufts property ... that was damaged,” Rudolph said.

Medford police are working with area gang units in an attempt to identify the signs, many of which were very specific, according to Rudolph.

Beyond swastikas and racial slurs, the tags included clovers and the words “Crew 28,” according to reporting by local affiliate FOX 25.

Rudolph noted that MPD had yet to identify any suspects as of late yesterday evening.

While the Medford Department of Public Works, as well as local residents, cleaned up the off-campus graffiti Sunday morning, the on-campus cleanup was undertaken

by Tufts staff. Further investigation will be “handled internally by [TUPD],” according to Rudolph, but they will also be working with the Medford police.

“Tufts...police are working with Medford police to investigate these similar incidents, which represent sentiments that are deeply offensive to members of our community,” the email said.

The Tufts Community Union Senate interrupted its final session of the semester to draft a response to the discovery, writing in remarks that “events such as these affect our entire campus,” and calling for “an internal, critical reflection.’

TUPD could not be reached for comment last night.

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gender and sexuality in the university and nation’s changing approach to this field.

“Experiences of women and the lives of actual women is still crucial,” Hofkosh said. “But there are other pieces that weren’t somehow being recognized in a program that was just called Women’s Studies.”

Periodically discussed in the last decade, the push for a name change began last year when a new administration took over, Hofkosh said.

After months of conversation between program faculty and Women’s Studies students, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences Nancy Bauer, who has a background in feminist philosophy, said she received the proposal.

Bauer said she led the proposal prosee WOMEN’S STUDIES, page 2

Environmentalist discusses water quality

by Justin

Rheingold

Daily Editorial Board

Craig Cox, the senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources at Environmental Working Group, spoke Friday about agriculture’s impact on water quality during his keynote address at a symposium addressing worldwide water-related issues. In the speech at the symposium, hosted by the university’s Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) graduate research and education program, Cox focused on the agricultural practices of farmers in the Grain Belt, an area of the country that includes the nation’s heartland and Great Plains.

“It’s a landscape that’s about 350 million acres and is dominated by two plants: corn and soybeans,” Cox said. “The most important thing from an ecological and environmental quality perspective is what that

landscape looks like eight to nine months out of the year — almost entirely without green living things.”

According to Cox, barren fields lead to erosion that can adversely impact the area’s water quality.

“This is why these systems in the Grain Belt are so vulnerable to soil erosion and so vulnerable to bleeding fertilizer, manure, pesticides, herbicides and everything else associated with agriculture that ends up in water,” he explained. “It causes agriculture now to be the leading cause of water quality impairment in the United States.”

Erosion and the resulting decrease in water quality have been aided by changing agriculture markets and land ownership, according to Cox. “All of these vulnerabilities are being substantially exacerbated by fundamental changes in marsee WATER, page 2

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The Jumbos record strong showings at a women’s track and field meet over the weekend.

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Visiting the Hill this week MONDAY “China and the South China Sea” Details: As a part of the Tufts China-U.S. Symposium, Professor Toshi Yoshihara of the U.S. Naval War College will discuss the security and territorial challenges in the South China Sea area.

When and Where: 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Pearson 106 Sponsor: Tufts China-U.S. Symposium “LCS Lunch & Learn: Spare Change News” Details: Vincent Flanagan and James Shearer of Spare Change News, a newspaper written and sold by people experiencing homelessness, will be coming to speak about their paper.

When and Where: 12:00 p.m.; Lincoln Filene Center Rabb Room Sponsors: Leonard Carmichael Society and Zeta Beta Tau “The Right of Return: The Inevitable Key to Peace” Details: Salman Abu Sitta, a Palestinian

scholar, will talk about why Palestinians’ return to the region is feasible and able to contribute to peace.

When and Where: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Braker Hall 001 Sponsor: Students for Justice in Palestine

New York Times as an undocumented immigrant.

When and Where: 6:00 p.m.; Barnum 008 Sponsors: Tufts Democrats and Tufts Republicans

“Ethically Green with NAACP’s Jacqui Patterson” Details: Jacqueline Patterson, director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Climate Justice Initiative, will speak on human and civil rights issues resulting from global climate change.

When and Where: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Pearson 106 Sponsor: Tufts Divest for Our Future

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“Issues of the Future Symposium on Immigration Reform” Details As a part of the eighth annual Issues of the Future Symposium on Immigration Reform, keynote speaker and award-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas will discuss his coming out in the

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“TAG Presents: Survivors Speak” Details: Four survivors from the Armenian, Cambodian and Rwandan genocides and the Holocaust will discuss their experiences of survival and how people can take action to prevent future genocides.

When and Where: 8:00 p.m.; Barnum 008 Sponsor: Tufts Against Genocide

the influence of classical Indian texts on some of the country’s most important political figures to honor the life of Bangladeshi academic Jalal Alamgir.

When and Where: 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Paige Hall Terrace Room Sponsor: South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Institute for Global Leadership FRIDAY “2013 Sixth Annual China-US Symposium” Details: During this three-day conference, speakers will explore the theme of trust in the promoting the relationship between the United States and China.

When and Where: 10:00 a.m.; Cabot Intercultural Center ASEAN Auditorium Sponsor: Institute for Global Leadership

“The First Annual Jalal Alamgir Memorial Lecture with Ananya Vajpeyi” Details: Ananya Vajpeyi, author of ‘Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India,’ will discuss

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kets that are occurring across the United States,” he said. “The most dominant one is a remarkable increase in the price of commodities, corn and soybeans.”

Despite the increased price of commodities, Cox said that land ownership has shifted from individual farmers to large corporations and landlords and that farmers must now compete to find land to farm, which increases the cost of land.

“Most of the land is now farmed by someone who doesn’t own it, and it’s increasingly farmed under annual cash-lease arrangements,” he said. “If you’re a corn and soybean farmer and you’re paying that amount of money per acre for the land, you have to push that land to the absolute limit to make this cash flow.”

According to Cox, changing technology and climate change are having adverse impacts on agricultural production — and, transitively, on water quality.

“Field cultivators are beginning to return to the Grain Belt which means there is more tillage, more soil exposure, more loss of topsoil, nutrients and pollutants from agriculture operations,” he said. “Climate change is not a hypothetical in the Grain Belt — it’s here. The first phase has been

showing us a shift in precipitation patterns with far more intense rainfall events.” These storms and expanded areas for agricultural production are resulting in more chemicals entering the water, according to Cox. “One of the first signals of this conversion is that the U.S. Geological Survey is now reporting that the Missouri River is becoming a substantial source of nitrogen to the Gulf, which creates a dead zone,” he said.

Although the use of different technologies and climate change are impacting the farm business, Cox did identify ways in which the environmental consequences can be slowed down or stopped.

He said that the United States needs to rethink its agriculture policy and force change upon landowners and farmers.

“It’s way overdue to finally admit to ourselves that a voluntary approach to managing this agricultural landscape has failed,” Cox said. “It will continue to fail if not fail more frequentl in this new regime of high prices and unprecedented pressure on the landscape. I think it’s time to begin to define what we’re calling a mandatory standard of care — some basic level of conservation that should be expected of every landowner.”

Cox emphasized the use of

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and other materials for students interested in beginning research projects, into the university’s systems.

Senators quickly passed a resolution encouraging Dining Services to use eggs produced on cage-free farms.

They estimated that the change would cost about $6 more per student each year, but that Dining Services would likely incorporate it into their normal budget, causing no additional cost to students.

A resolution to create a designated space for entrepreneurial projects in Curtis Hall was quickly passed. Trustee Representative Eric Peckham, who submitted the resolution, cited a survey showing that 20 to 25 percent of seniors plan to start a company upon graduating.

Senators also quickly approved a resolution calling for the addition of a late-night shuttle to bring students back

from downtown Boston on weekends until 3 a.m.

The Senate passed a resolution encouraging the Office of Residential Life and Learning to publish housing lottery results on an annual basis, allowing students to make educated decisions about where they might be able to live and whether they could count on on-campus housing with their lottery numbers.

The meeting opened with a 45-minute address from University Provost David Harris, who took questions from senators about progress on the provost’s Strategic Plan, which will be released November. Harris disussed with the body the possibility of using “massive online open courses” as a possible way to expand technology into the educational sphere.

The student group Tufts American Institute of Chemical Engineers was allocated $20,000 for equipment and other uses.

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Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources at Environmental Working Group Craig Cox discussed agriculture’s impact on water quality in the Grain Belt region as a part of Friday’s Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) symposium in Cohen Auditorium. precision conservation and investing in technology to help promote environmental protection. However, he condemned the attitude that government is bad and does no work.

“Probably the most overlooked part of our conservation policy is the undergirding scientific and technical infrastructure that makes everything possible,”

Cox said. “The private sector can fill some of this role, but absent a really strong undergirding of public sector investment in this infrastructure, we’re just not going to make progress. What this really means is less money for farmers and more money for infrastructure.”

Cox ended his address discussing the $11 billion Congress

spends annually on crop insurance and identifying ways in which the government can simultaneously invest in better agricultural infrastructure while reducing the deficit.

“There’s a huge amount of taxpayer money invested in agricultural enterprise,” he explaine.

“It’s just fundamentally going to the wrong places.”

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cess from the provost and to the faculty vote for approval.

Once presented, it was accepted without question.

“There was discussion among the women’s studies faculty weighing the pros and cons of making a name change, but once it was brought to the whole faculty it just seemed ... like a nobrainer,” Bauer said.

Hofkosh noted that, in the past, some opponents worried the change would leave out important elements of social consciousness that do not get as much attention in the university’s course offerings.

“I think there was concern that highlighting sexuality, as opposed to say race or class, meant that we were going in that direction, which isn’t a bad direction, but it’s making a choice to go in a certain direction and not the other directions,” Hofkosh said.

Bauer felt the name change fits well with the nature of the

program, as the subject areas the program explores have expanded in recent years. Questions surrounding gender and sexuality, such as whether a person’s body determines his or her gender, are natural to the field of women’s studies, Bauer said.

“Really, what has happened is that things have changed politically in academia so that we can bring ... sexuality and gender into the program title without worrying that we’re watering down the main focus,” she said.

Students involved in women’s studies were in favor of the change, Hofkosh said. Last year, students like Grainne Griffiths submitted a petition and letter with 90 percent of majors and minors in the program indicating their support for the change.

“From my very first classes, I realized that there’s way more to women’s studies than just feminist history,” Griffiths, a junior, said. “Gender studies [and] queer studies are ... really important intersectional aspects of a lot

of the stuff we do in women’s studies, but [currently] there’s no home for it in Tufts.”

Hofkosh saw this student support as an especially strong cause for change because, historically, students have been a dominant force in sexuality-related and feminist fields.

“Women’s studies started, really, as a collaboration between students and faculty and administrative staff,” she said. “It’s always been that.”

Hofkosh hopes the name change will make the program more in line with student’s interests. She said faculty have already begun work on gender and sexuality courses.

In the meantime, staff will be busy changing the program’s name in documents and postings in preparation for next autumn.

“We’d love people to know that this is happening,” Hofkosh said. “We think that it is a very, very positive thing, and we’re really looking forward to a renewed energy.”

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Taste of Tufts: Garden on Islamic modernity, Al-Ghazali by

Emma Arnesty-Good Contributing Writer

Assistant Professor of Religion Ken Garden finally had clear skies this past Friday — after several cancellations due to snowstorms — to give his lecture on the role of medieval Persian scholar Al-Ghazali in the stanched Islamic modernity. Last week was a salient time, though, as his favorite professor, Farouk Abdel Wahab Mustafa of the University of Chicago, who inspired the talk, passed away the previous Wednesday.

In last week’s installment of the Experimental College’s Taste of Tufts weekly lecture series, Garden began his talk about Al-Ghazali with a dedication to Mustafa.

During his time at the University of Chicago, Garden argued with Mustafa over the legacy of Al-Ghazali’s criticism of philosophers of the 11th century.

“My professor, Farouk, really did feel that because of Al-Ghazali, scientific knowledge of his age ... ground to a halt,” he said.

According to Garden, many thinkers — European and Arab alike — have come to this conclusion. Mustafa argued that the Arab world was on track to reach modernity, but did not because of Al-Ghazali, Garden said. He added that the argument is held together by the fact that philosophy was the science of the time, very different from how we view it today.

Garden started by introducing Al-Ghazali and his text “The Deliverer from Error,” in which Al-Ghazali tells of his lifelong search for a set of criteria that would provide absolute truth.

“In [Al-Ghazali’s] day, he said there were four schools of thought that promised this [knowledge]; these were theology, philosophy, esoteric sheism — so the authority of a Shiite imam who was divinely inspired — and finally, the mystical tradition in Sufism,” he said.

Garden focused on Al-Ghazali’s “The Incoherence of the Philosophers,” which raised doubts about philosophical method.

“He also found certain points of philosophy that he ... constituted unbelief,” Garden said.

Garden summarized scholar and scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s talk about the end of science in the Muslim world and Al-Ghazali’s role in bringing about this end.

Tyson referenced Arabic-named stars and mathematic terms, such as “algorithm” and “algebra,” to demonstrate the control that the Arab world once had over naming their scientific discoveries. “[Tyson’s] concerned about the contemporary American situation,” Garden said, referring to people in the United States who, for religious reasons, stop the free flow of

scientific inquiry. “He says that if you look at the science and technology today, you see the role that Europe has played, and specifically the United States. After the Second World War, you’ve got particle physics, the center of that was the United States and therefore the United States had naming rights to new discoveries.”

Tyson presents the scientific inquiry as a foundation for technological advances, and technological advances as a necessity to the future economic prosperity of the country.

“This is his argument,” Garden said of Tyson. “We are facing a situation in the United States where our period of contribution of scientific knowledge could come to an end, just as it did in the Muslim world because of Al-Ghazali.”

Garden, though, disagrees with the claim that Al-Ghazali was responsible for this change. His main criticisms of the argument blaming Al-Ghazali stem from Tyson’s talk.

“Now, first is the claim that the philosophers that Al-Ghazali critiqued, or the astronomers that ... Tyson mentions, were practicing science as we know it.” Garden said. “[Tyson’s] suggestion is that science has always been science.”

In “The Incoherence of the Philosopher,” Al-Ghazali criticizes philosopher Ibn Sina, also refered to as Avicenna, who wrote a long-standing medical text “The Canon of Medicine” and a more philosophically focused work, “Book of the Cure,” which begins with a book on the work of logic.

“Logic was the tool that one used to arrive at truth,” Garden said. “Now this is, of course, in contrast to the contemporary approach to science, which is not about logic — it’s about empiricism.”

Garden points to the fact that historians of science dedicate their discipline to the understanding of what it means to be a scientist in different eras — it can mean very different things.

“The idea that for three centuries there, from the eighth century to the 11th century, we found Muslims practicing science the way we understand it today, that their project was our project, is just a misunderstanding of what practicing science was like at that time and what it meant to the people who practiced it,” Garden said.

The second point Garden makes as a counterargument is that Al-Ghazali and the philosophers have the same aim — to reach an afterlife that was not physical but intelligible.

“My argument is that, in fact, the two had identical aims. What they differed [in] was really a question of means,” Garden said. “A central distinction for the philosophers was between the physical world and the intelligible world.” The

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afterlife had a similar distinction.

For Ibn Sina and his fellow philosophers, there were two different paths that could be taken. According to Garden, one was salvation, which was described in the Quran as being attainable for all those who obeyed religious law, and this path was thought to be in the physical realm.

The other was a higher intellectual afterlife, which ensured a closer relationship with God, referred to as “felicity.”

Philosophers — even Al-Ghazali — thought that knowledge, if obtained as pure truth or reality, would be imprinted on the soul and could then gradually transcend the physical world and achieve felicity, Gardner said.

“Avicenna was convinced that the way you would achieve this was through logic, that is to say, through syllogism,” Garden said. “You would build these chains of syllogisms and reach necessary knowledge about how the world works, and as long as the terms of your syllogism were correct, the outcome had to be acceptable.”

Al-Ghazali concluded, though, that even if the conclusions made are correct, the logic could easily lead in another direction, to false conclusions, Garden said.

“Even the philosophers must know much of what they know, not because of the independent exercise of their reason without prophetic guidance, but rather because of prophetic guidance.”

In contrast, Al-Ghazali believed a combination of correct mystical practices, such as Sufism and philosophical inquiry, were a better way to reach felicity.

Garden also mentioned that he doubted that the philosophies of these doctrines were the seed of any scientific revolutionary thought.

According to Garden, the scientific revolution and modernity are often seen as a collection of civilizations — the Muslim civilization, the Christian civilization, the Chinese civilization, Indian civilization — rushing towards this predefined goal.

“It’s better to think of the scientific revolution in Europe not as the outcome of the path generation after generation of scientists had walked but rather [as] a sort of mutation that happened in Europe,” Garden said.

The understanding of science changed in Europe in way that came to resemble something similar to Tyson’s perception.

“I think we should ask, ‘Why was it in Europe that this new unprecedented understanding of science emerged?’” Garden said.

“And maybe while we are at it, we can be broad-minded enough to ask what it is we’ve lost in coming to understand science in this way and understand our relationship to the world in this way.”

Fan the Fire holds spring kick-off

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Fan the Fire presented its first event of the spring season on Saturday to support the men’s lacrosse and baseball teams while raising awareness for the Cradles to Crayons organization, the Perseverance Foundation and the Tufts Student Fund.

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icking a favorite between Tasty Gourmet and Deli-icious, two sandwich shops that sandwich the Tufts campus, is no easy task. It’s choosing between two places that have devoted years of effort to crafting inventive deli sandwiches.

It’s also choosing between the sandwiches made by a father and those made by his son.

On Boston Avenue, Ralph Martin has served up a slew of sandwich combinations, always offered alongside a side dish and a pickle spear, at Tasty Gourmet since he opened the shop in 1996. And a short walk away, where College Avenue meets Davis Square, Ralph’s son Keith operates Deliicious, which he launched in the former home of a roast beef shop after a decade of working at his father’s shop.

The influence of Tasty’s on Deli-icious is strong, from the same choices of sides and the wax paper-wrapped pickle spear to the same cold cuts imported from Boar’s Head, right down to the identical Styrofoam containers in which each deli’s sandwiches arrive. Deli-icious also bears a few sandwiches with almost identical listed ingredients as the Tasty’s originals.

Here’s the menu listing for what comprises Tasty’s popular “Bacon Turkey Bravo,” for example: turkey breast, bacon, smoked Gouda, romaine, tomato and Signature dressing on tomato basil bread.

And here’s what goes into Deli-icious’ “Southwestern Turkey Melt”: roast turkey, bacon, smoked Gouda, romaine, tomato and chili-Dijon sauce on tomato basil bread.

They may not be identical sandwiches, but this cannot be a coincidence: The Deli-icious version is clearly the sandwich progeny of the Tasty’s version. And after trying both of these sandwiches side by side this week, I prefer the Deli-icious twist — the son of sandwich — to the original Tasty’s sandwich.

Though the ingredients are almost the same, Keith makes a few subtle tweaks to the Tasty’s formula. He takes the time and effort to grill his “Southwestern Turkey Melt” with some butter or oil in a pan, which gives the crust a bit more flavor and helps the sandwich maintain its structure, while the Tasty’s version is Panini-pressed, which causes the interior layers to get mushed together.

The Deli-icious sandwich I ate also bore a good portion of romaine lettuce, while the Tasty’s version I ate had no romaine lettuce on it. The lettuce is crucial in this sandwich — along with the tomato, it helps balance out what is otherwise a meat-heavy bite. It’s possible that the lack of lettuce was an honest mistake, but it’s a costly one.

I’ve never been able to figure out what exactly is inside Tasty’s special sauce, which the shop uses on a bunch of its sandwiches, including its consistently good tuna melt, but Del-icious’s “Chili-Dijon” variation is darker in color and has a spicier kick. I also appreciate that Deli-icious removes some of the mystery behind the sauce by identifying two of its flavors.

As my side I tried the French fries at both places, which were both decent, though are way better, like any French fry, eaten immediately after they come out of the deep fryer, when they’ve still got their crispy texture.

The kicker here is that Deli-icous’s “Southwestern Turkey Melt” clocks in at over a dollar cheaper than the Tasty’s “Bacon Turkey Bravo,” at $6.69 compared to $7.99.

Both of these sandwiches are solid options, but the price difference is yet another reason that next time I’m craving a deli sandwich, I’m likely to pass by Tasty’s and head into Davis to hit up the variation on the classic at Deli-icious.

Ben Kochman is a senior majoring in English. He can be reached at benjamin. kochman@tufts.edu or on Twitter @benkochman. Want to see what Ben ate this week? Check out his video column on Jumbo Slice at blogs.tuftsdaily.com.

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TV Review

‘Game of Thrones’ opening episode forecasts riveting third season Threat of invasion, fight for Iron Throne steer season three by

Akshita Vaidyanathan Daily Editorial Board

After a yearlong wait, fans of the epic fantasy television show “Game of Thrones” finally got to witness the start of what will hopefully be a great third season. One of the appreciated aspects of this show is the way in which it depicts characters of true evil alongside both good and morally ambiguous characters. This effective characterization, along with the heavy plot, phenomenal cast and great special effects, has made “Game of Thrones” a can’tmiss television show.

“Valar Dohaeris” starts off where the last season ended, with the lovable and comical Samwell Tarly wandering through the wintery blizzard beyond the Wall. This grim image of winter predicts that sometime this season, winter will arrive in Westeros. Throughout this episode we see snippets of all our favorite characters — or least our favorite characters post-Battle of the Blackwater.

Beyond the Wall, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) meets Mance Rayder (Ciarán Hinds), the King-Beyond-the-Wall, in a comical display during which the wildlings mock the fake civility of everyone south of the Wall. On the other side of the Wall, Robb Stark (Richard Madden), Winterfell’s heir, is becoming less likeable as he continues to put power above everything else. Finally, the current king of the Seven Kingdoms has gotten a new fiancee.

Joffery (Jack Gleeson) is now betrothed to Margaery (Natalie Dormer), whose beauty is nothing compared to her tough attitude and her unyielding determination to do whatever she wants to get whatever she wants. For audiences, she’s the perfect woman to shut Joffrey’s little mouth up. She’s definitely the character audiences have been waiting for.

Speaking of strong women, the lovely

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Peter Dinklage plays the misunderstood but clever Tyrion Lannister on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

Khaleesi, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), is finally moving forward in her goal of sitting on the Iron Throne.

Watching her growing dragons leap and splash through the water as Daenerys stands tall, sailing toward her victory, was amazing for viewers to see.

Emilia Clarke does a spectacular job of portraying such a strong female figure. Not only does she display Daenerys’ resilience and harshness with punch, but throughout the first and second season — and see THRONES, page 6

Album Review

‘Afraid of Heights’ lacks musical curiosity, freshness by

Emily Edgerly

Contributing Writer

If you liked Wavves’ third album, it’s hard to say whether you’ll appreciate the band’s most recent release. This third studio album, “King of the Beach” — for which Wavves received some muchdelayed notoriety — was a topical and beachy album released in 2010. It was a sloppy and intriguing release that managed to be nostalgic and relevant at the same time. Comparable to the band Best Coast (whose lead singer is dating Nathan Williams, Wavves’ lead singer), Wavves was a band that kind of just appeared on the music scene in a flurry of Pitchfork reviews and teen adoration.

It’s easy to see why. “King of the Beach” was everything that a debut album ought to be: easy to like, and fresh. “King of the Beach” had touches of electro-synth pop as well as full-out psych-punk jams. So, as Wavves moved forward in creating the sound they debuted on their fourth studio album, “Afraid of Heights,” it seems like they were trying to move away from their initial impression and move even further into the grungy sounds of 1990s Seattle. That transition, however, is proving a little difficult. Audiences who fell in love with them for both their eclectic and garage-band sounds are now being presented with music that only fulfills one of those categories.

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Lead singer and guitarist Nathan Williams comes across as a perfectionist on Wavves’ new album, “Afraid of Heights.”

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he New York Metropolitan Museum of Art will carry a heavy burden on its marble and stone shoulders this May when the new Costume Institute exhibit, Punk: Chaos to Couture opens. One of the premier fashion and art events of the New York City social circuit, the event rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars for the museum and debuts an exhibit that will remain open exactly 100 days. Now, let’s abandon the red carpet event for a moment to reflect on the past themes and exhibits.

The museum rose to the forefront of international fashion-curated exhibits when an Alexander McQueen exhibit debuted in the summer of 2010. Located in a large, winding gallery space, a somber mood enveloped visitors — appropriate for a designer who struggled with personal demons throughout his entirely too-short life. Starting with early McQueen commentary on construction of garments, the development of McQueen spiralled into a bizarre wall of taxidermy.

A deep fascination with bones rendered a skeletal ribcage belt; a delicate flutter of red papier-mache butterflies hovered above a stiff headband. The experience was more than just fashion. McQueen’s proud Scottish roots garnered their own explanation of various Scottish plaids. Towards the end of the display, a hologram of Kate Moss swirled in a small glass box — a reproduction of a finale to one of McQueen’s last fashion shows — and almost seemed a ghost of the designer himself. The Metropolitan was inundated with guests, and the event transcended all forms of art.

The next retrospective paled in comparison. Not only did Prada and Schiaparelli: Impossible Conversations lack the emotional intensity of the McQueen exhibit, it also lacked display pieces. Miuccia Prada, currently the creative director for the storied Italian fashion house, filmed a painfully awkward video in which she engaged in dialogue with a woman playing the deceased designer Schiaparelli. It was forced, to say the least. While the side-byside comparison of modern Prada by surrealist ’30s and ’40s looks from Schiaparelli was informative, the story lacked passion, mostly on the part of Prada. The fashion world buzzed about the exhibit, but it was constrained to a mild hum.

So what is to be expected at the opening in a month for a retrospective on punk culture and fashion? The New Yorker recently published a detailed preview, walking through the Met’s creative process with the Costume Institute director. The article isn’t entirely straightforward, as it attempts to reserve some suspense for the opening gala, but one can expect pieces from the Ramones, Patti Smith and Vivienne Westwood, including her tartans and the iconic “God Save The Queen” image, safety pins piercing her prim pout.

How does so-called punk fashion still live on? Criticism of the exhibit from former counter-culture icons laments the fact that the minute punk was picked up by the mainstream, the spirit died. Everywhere one turns in today’s retail experience, influences of punk can be found: Valentino’s clear carry-all totes trimmed with thumb-sized pyramid studs; an endless array of Zara footwear with studded cap toes on ballet flats, heels and ankle straps. Whereas Giorgio Armani remade the female pant and gown in the 1990s to hide any evidence of zipper, punk influences crop up all over jackets that have decorative zipper pockets slashed across the breast pocket.

Unlike the McQueen hoof heels or Prada’s furry ombre coats, punk seems wearable; certainly elements of the DIY essence that captivated anti-establishment artists of the ’80s now charm those seeking to differentiate themselves from the usual fare at national chains. Punk has been elevated to a nearcouture level in fashion and has been made gallery-worthy. No one ever expected that when they were making music in dingy basements of the Bowery.

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

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even in this first episode of season three — Clarke also displays beautiful motherly emotion while caring for her dragons, who are like children to her. Clarke definitely does a great job in encapsulating all the sides to a very complex character.

Similarly, Peter Dinklage and Charles Dance have to be applauded for some fantastic acting in arguably one of the best scenes in the episode. Now that he is facing such strong parental rejection after being cast off by his own sister and city, as well as being wounded during the Battle of the Blackwater, Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) deserves some of our sympathy.

Dinklage captures the subtle emotions of Tyrion with a grace and elegance that really makes the audience empathize with

Tyrion’s character and hate all the other Lannisters so much more. Tyrion is most definitely continuing his role as one of the most-liked characters this season.

This hourlong season premiere is filled with everything: action, romance, intrigue. Although it isn’t as exciting as many of the show’s previous episodes, it is definitely a great starting point for the rest of the season. With so many contenders lining up to fight for their “rightful” place on the Iron Throne, we wonder: Who truly does belong there? Is it the person there rightfully by law who belongs on the throne, or is it the person who fights hardest to get there? And on top of all that, with White Walkers drawing nearer and a change of season looming — will the question of who gets a spot on the Iron Throne even matter?

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Natalie Dormer plays the strong Margaery Tyrell, who is newly betrothed to King Joffery.

Regardless, “Afraid of Heights” is not bad — it’s just different. In fact, “Afraid of Heights” is quite an interesting and probing release. Because Wavves made such an impact with their unique sound, it may be easy for fans to be threatened and disappointed by the different direction that Wavves seems to be taking. The album accentuates the nostalgia that Wavves communicated in “King of the Beach,” while silencing the musical curiosity that made them relevant and fresh.

Instead of showcasing musical diversity, “Afraid of Heights” focuses on the grungy post-Nirvana sound. It’s apparent to the listener that Wavves — and particularly lead singer Nathan Williams — have perfectionist tendencies when it comes to the music. “Afraid of Heights” may very well be an homage to the grunge and post-punk experience of the ’90s — the music that Williams undoubtedly listened to when he was young. Channeling the nerdy grunge of Weezer, the melancholy of Kurt Cobain and the angst of the Melvins, Wavves is steeped in themes of the not-so-distant past.

It’s hard to tell whether this transition

is a good or bad thing for the band. Our present culture seems obsessed with the trends and sounds of years past. In fact, Urban Outfitters, a trendsetter for hipsters nationwide, has just introduced a line of clothing marked by crushed velvet, audacious prints and baggy pants, all of which were staple clothing statements of the ’90s.

So, has Wavves anticipated the hipster-shift before it has happened, are they attempting to preempt the trend or is their album the organic production of their late-teen musical tastes? It’s hard to say. However, with tracks like “Mystic” and “Beat Me Up,” it is plain to see that Wavves are not content with mimicry. Inevitably, Wavves are bringing in some modern touches to the sound they are trying to emulate. They have retained some remnants of their psychedelic sound, especially on tracks like “Everything is My Fault.”

Still, Wavves are clearly moving forward in a new direction. Fans of this album may not be the usual fans of the work that Wavves have done in the past. Fans of “King of the Beach” may well be confused by Wavves’ most recent iteration.

Nevertheless, this album is worth listening to, even though it’s certainly not as easy to love as their past work.

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When many rising juniors find themselves unable to apply for oncampus housing and many rising sophomores have a tenuous grasp on the housing lottery to begin with it becomes clear that it is time for the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) to improve communication and be more pragmatic with its residency requirements.

The first problem is lack of information provided to students seeking on-campus housing. Lottery numbers are given out during students’ first year, and many freshmen found themselves confused over what this random number meant for their living arrangements next year.

Secondly, there is the rule enforcing that sophomores live in on-campus housing. While appropriate for freshman transitioning to college living, the rule could potentially be eliminated for sophomores, perhaps preventing denial of rooms to juniors. Logically, most rising sophomores are going to seek on-

campus housing for another year, and they should certainly be given priority over upperclassmen. But, just as some sophomores opt to live in special interest housing or in fraternities, there are a number who would choose to live off campus. With a significant portion of juniors abroad and most seniors living off campus, the few rooms left vacant by these off-campus sophomores could take a sizable chunk out of the number of juniors who found themselves scrambling for housing. Although there are arguments to be made for the way such a change would affect campus culture, the Daily believes it to be a strong option.

The true heart of the problem lies in the misinformation. Representative of a larger communication issue within the university as a whole, it’s ResLife’s informing students so late into the process that there was not housing available to them is unacceptable. It should not be advertised that juniors and seniors can live on campus if they wish

when in reality there is a finite amount of space and many will get denied.

ResLife should provide easily accessible and up-to-date information on housing, as well as advertise honestly.

Although ResLife notes in their lottery information materials that “Rising juniors are not generally guaranteed on campus housing but there will be some limited housing available,” they assert that, “As a rising junior if you are not able to select an assignment during the lottery period, you will be able to go on a waitlist. All juniors who have been on the waitlist have secured an assignment before the start of the new school year.”

This was not seen to be the case with this year’s lottery.

When push comes to shove, the housing lottery is an extremely important part of student life at Tufts. In its current state, all that the lottery and entire process does is inspire confusion, deny housing too late in the game and add avoidable stress to students’ lives.

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On Sunday, during a highly contested matchup against the perennial basketball powerhouse Duke University, Louisville’s Kevin Ware suffered what might have been one of the most gruesome injuries in college sports. Ware left the court on a stretcher before shaken players and fans.

Ware’s injury not only reminded fans and participants of college sports about the inherent dangers of competing at an elite level, but again revealed just how unprotected college athletes are as a result of the strong financial interests of college sports programs

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and the NCAA as a whole.

CBS News reported Monday that Ware’s injury could have resulted in his scholarship getting rescinded as well as being saddled with enormous medical bills. Of course, because of the high-profile nature of Ware’s injury and the sport he plays, it’s unlikely this will happen. Doing so would draw a wave of criticism aimed at Louisville and its basketball program, which could deter future students.

However, the cold calculative nature of the university’s decision-making was on full display when a spokesperson, asked whether Louisville could guarantee Ware’s scholarship, said that he wasn’t sure the question was rel-

evant because “doctors are expecting a full recovery,” CBS reported.

It makes little sense that an academic scholarship a college athlete receives would be tied to his or her performance on the court. Regardless of what might transpire during competition, an athlete’s scholarship should be guaranteed unless academic performance is deemed unsatisfactory.

Furthermore, college athletes should be guaranteed medical insurance that covers them even if their injuries last long after graduation.

Ware’s injury unfortunately has the potential to end his college basketball career. It shouldn’t also have to end his academic one.

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The other day, I heard a truly curious argument. I was told that the reason Tufts has bottled water at Spring Fling instead of cups of water that students can refill is might be that certain staff members do not think that Tufts students would hydrate properly using the cups and water fountains.

Well, that is an interesting argument, because the last time I checked, using a water fountain is something most students have been doing since they were the age of five. Hydrating themselves using water fountains would not be difficult. I do understand that it might take more time than using bottled water, which could lead to slower hydration, but suggesting that students would be unable to hydrate themselves with a 12-ounce cup of water compared to a 12-ounce bottle of water is not a strong point in favor of bottled water.

One reason that I do not believe the hydration argument is that its logic does not hold. If staff members are truly concerned with student hydration, they should allow students to bring in empty reusable water bottles, an idea which has been refuted year after year. As far as hydration is concerned, my Nalgene holds 32 ounces.

If I were allowed to bring that Nalgene in — empty, of course — I think I would be significantly more hydrated than I would be by the 12-ounce bottle of water that is handed to students at the entrance.

Interestingly enough, by providing students with disposable bottles, the students feel free to do just that — dispose of them. How, you ask? By tossing them into a crowd of people. Since some people do not finish their water bottle before throwing it, they are not drinking enough water. In fact, most of the water in that case would end up falling onto students. If people are concerned for Tufts students’ safety, they should probably think about the fact that (1) the objects provided for hydration are used as projectiles and (2) these water bottles are not even serving their intended purpose.

A flying cup might pose less of a threat than a flying disposable water bottle, and if students were allowed to bring in their own empty water bottles, then flying plastic would not be an issue at all. It is as simple as this: I would never throw my Nalgene, because (1) I spend enough of my time making sure that I have not lost it, because I am a terribly forgetful person, and (2) I spent money on it. That would be a lot of wasted time and money for me to just throw into a crowd of people.

So why not allow reusable bottles?

There are concerns that checking students’ bottles would take time. Believe me, getting into Spring Fling is already a lengthy process. Adding in the time it takes for a student to open their bottle and turn it upside down to prove it’s empty will not change the length of

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these lines nearly enough to warrant the prohibition of reusable bottles.

This is not to say that the university has not made progress. We might have water fountains this year, which has been a no-go in the past. In previous years, I heard arguments that the nozzles on water fountains are dirty and that it would be a health hazard for students to use them. Now that we will be using them, doesn’t it make sense to allow students to use cups?

We could “diminish” that health risk by allowing students to use cups, or ideally their own bottles, to keep their faces further from the spigots and the germs that lurk there.

Now, I know that the concerned staff have our best interests at heart, but please don’t insult my intelligence by insinuating (1) that Tufts students are incapable of hydrating themselves, (2) that water fountains pose more of a

safety hazard than flying water bottles and (3) that bottled water is really the solution to this problem. I have neither the time nor the patience to hear those arguments. If I am honest, I’m tired of hearing different excuses regarding bottled water on this campus. I want an open and honest answer, because I do not really believe that “hydration concerns” are the reasons that, in the past, we have had a limited supply of water bottles versus an unlimited supply of water from a fountain and that this year the university refuses to switch from plastic bottles to paper cups. That would be an insult to the administration’s intelligence, as well as to that of the students.

Danielle Jenkins is a senior majoring in English. She can be reached at Danielle.

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Politics aren’t entertainment Meg O’Connor

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Political ambition has been hitting our television screens for the past 12 months.

I’m talking about shows like “Scandal,” “Veep” and “House of Cards.” While these shows prove to be highly entertaining, there seems to be a strong misunderstanding as to the truth of these shows.

In an article in The Atlantic that appeared last year, Hillary Clinton was quoted as saying that politicians in Burma have told her they have been attempting to understand American democracy by watching “The West Wing.” Note that this television series has been off the air since 2006. However, with the availability of all episodes on Netflix and other instant

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streaming devices, this show has come back into the hands of many.

“The West Wing,” among other shows, should not be turned to for information on how the American government is run.

While this seems to be common sense, there is a problem. In 1993, 60 percent of Americans tuned into the evening news; now only 23 percent do. Additionally, the average American watches 34 hours of TV a week. So, the trend seems to depict that more people watch television dramas than stay informed by daily news.

Personally, I found the themes and actions depicted in “House of Cards” and “Scandal” to be wildly cynical and an overall poor representation of American politics.

I understand the nature of politics

and that sometimes the only way to get ahead is to push your way to the top, but television shows like these are offering dramatic realities that could potentially be swaying their viewers in a curious direction.

Imagine the American population making voting decisions based on fictitious casts of characters versus the evaluation of actual candidates.

I understand how entertaining these shows are. I have watched them all, but we need to not be placing any kind of political merit in them.

It is my firm belief that television series such as these should be approached in a non-educational way. Don’t place merit in the actual politics being presented.

Leave that to your morning newspaper.

t the time of Richard Nixon’s declaration of a War on Drugs in 1971, he aimed to criminalize a distinct enemy: those hand-in-hand, flowertoting, cannabis-consuming, consciousnessexploring, anti-Vietnam War hippies of an anti-Nixonian persuasion. In order for the president to feel confident about his re-election chances in ’72, those political enemies of his had to be stymied. If Nixon’s administration could criminalize the consumption of certain plants and chemicals and enforce that criminalization with furious zeal, they just might be able to quell the increasingly influential voices of the New Left. Enter Jack Cole, a young police officer in New Jersey. He was appointed to be an undercover narcotics agent in 1970, one of many patrol officers who became narcs when Nixon’s administration began to threaten pulling federal dollars to states that failed to meet quotas for drug arrests. But there were very few drugs or drug users in the officers’ suburban terrain.

So it was that Jersey’s narcs traversed tunnels and bridges to buy drugs in New York. They then worked to infiltrate groups of students, befriending them with charm and convincing hippie garb. Once they gained the trust of their supposed friends, they would suggest some after-class pot-smoking. So normally law-abiding students joined in cyphers with cops. One tactic that Cole and countless other officers used to ensure that they could meet their high drug conviction quotas was to pass the Dutchie around in a circle, expecting that it would continue to be passed from person to person. From the law’s perspective, any physical exchange of any quantity of any variety of illicit drugs from one person’s hand to another’s was considered distribution. Forget money, the hallmark of any real-life drug deal. The simplest social sharing of drugs landed countless of otherwise-innocent young people years in prison and a felony conviction.

Lieutenant Jack Cole retired from law enforcement in 1991. In 2002, Cole found redemption, helping to found Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a Medfordbased nonprofit comprised of former and current law enforcement and criminal justice officials who speak about the human rights catastrophes that have resulted from the War on Drugs. Tufts Students for Sensible Drug Policy has been fortunate enough to host Cole for three presentations on the failures of drug prohibition. I have heard firsthand his stories about infiltrating, framing and arresting young people. Cole is now one of the most influential and respected anti-prohibition activists in the US, and he has helped to usher in an era in which 52 percent of Americans support cannabis legalization, according to results from a Pew Research Center poll released last week.

But until last week, residents of Massachusetts, living in one of the most progressive pot states in the country, could still be prosecuted for cannabis distribution if caught sharing their decriminalized buds with friends under the same antiquated law that Cole used at the start of drug war hysteria. On Friday, though, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that sharing pot is not distribution, and thus no longer criminal.

In two cases, argued and won by the ACLU, unwarranted police searches and arrests for cannabis possession of under an ounce proved to be illegal, even under the Commonwealth’s argument that “social sharing” is distribution and therefore deserves to be punished with a two-year prison sentence. Thanks in large part to the changing public consensus surrounding the Drug War and cannabis prohibition, inspired by Jack Cole and a growing movement of like-minded activists, a formerly favorite tactic of narcotics agents has been effectively ruled useless in Massachusetts. The War on Drugs was initiated as the wars in Southeast Asia began to subside, and the drug war is the longest war in American history. Today, a new anti-war crusade is nearing its tipping point, fighting to dismantle systems of mass incarceration, international violence and terrorism and suppression of mindfulness. Victory is not guaranteed, but we are winning.

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

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The women’s track and field team put up a strong outing at the George Davis Invitational, as they recorded four event victories on the day.

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was, I am pretty happy with how the race went,” Peterson said. “There are definitely things I can do to improve, but it was a good starting place for me. I’m really proud of how we all toughed it out and got through a pretty brutal race.”

Fisher was extremely pleased with the weekend and the team’s progression over the season.

“We’re probably the favorites to win NESCACs at this point, and that’s both a big incentive and some pressure” Fisher said. “Our team is great about encouraging one another and also not

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the game within reach until the last minute, the Orange could not pull together enough offense to upset the Wolverines.

Junior C.J. Fair dropped a game-high 22 points, but sophomore Michael CarterWilliams and senior James Southerland, who usually each score in double figures, shot a combined 3-of-15 from the floor

for seven points between the two. In the end, the Orange could not make up for the poor outings from their stars in the way that the Wolverines did.

Michigan has now shown that they are a unified team, able to share the ball and account for any difficulties an individual player might be having. Louisville, on the other hand, has struggled a bit with a weak performance from senior guard

letting anyone sell themselves short, and I think we’re all really stoked for a stellar end to the year.”

With another strong weekend in the books, the team is performing well and looks poised to be a serious contender for the NESCAC title and beyond.

and playmaker Peyton Siva in the team’s matchup against Wichita St. If Burke returns to top form tonight against the Cardinals and Michigan retains their balance from the game with the Orange, the Wolverines should be poised to escape with their first national championship since 1989.

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Andrews crossed the line with a time of 30:24.57 to take 15th. That time ranks eighth nationally and will also likely land him a spot at the NCAAs. Junior Jamie Norton, the second of the three to set a personal best, recorded a time of 3:53.78 in the 1,500, which currently stands atop the national leaderboard for Div. III. While Norton’s stellar time has all others in his rearview mirror for the time being, it will almost certainly need to be improved in order to guarantee him a spot at NCAAs. The 1,500 featured a down-to-the-wirefinish, as Norton, who finished fourth, and the top-three finishers all crossed the line within a second of one another.

Norton was the only non-Div. I competitor to end up among the top seven, with junior Jordan Schilit of Haverford securing the eighth position.

Fifth-year senior Connor Rose competed in the 1,500 as well, clocking a time of 4:05.19, which was good enough for 38th.

The 5,000 included the third and final personal best among the Jumbos, as junior Ben Wallis eclipsed his prior best time by four seconds on his way to a time of 14:51.90. Senior Kyle Marks also ran the event, placing 44th with a time of 15:01.39, capping off an impressive day for Tufts.

The next day’s George Davis Invitational, restricted to Div. III schools from around the region, was not quite as competitive as the night before for the Jumbos, but that paved the way for two wins and 11 top-five finishes across various events

on Saturday, spearheaded by senior tricaptain Brad Nakanishi and sophomore Brian Williamson.

Nakanishi cleared 14 feet 11 inches for a victory in the pole vault, outstripping the second-place finisher by nearly six inches. This clearance height matches Nakanishi’s personal best from the outdoor season of his sophomore year, but he has yet to return to his career best of 16 feet 1 inch, which he cleared last outdoor season.

In the shot put, Williamson’s throw of 48 feet 11 1/2 inches was enough for him to emerge victorious over Northeastern’s throwing duo of sophomore Kevin Rosenberg and senior Mark Mastone who finished second and third, respectively.

“I was definitely satisfied with my performance given the cold weather at the meet,” Williamson said. “It was good to know — especially in shot — that I can still throw well for myself in less than optimal conditions. I also learned a lot about what I really need to work on in practice in the coming weeks in order to be more successful individually and to be able to contribute to the team and help make something special happen at Ellis in three weeks’ time.”

Elsewhere off the track, junior Matt Johnson nabbed second place in the javelin with a throw of 175 feet 8 inches; senior tri-captain Curtis Yancy placed third in the discus with a heave of an even 141 feet, and fourth in the hammer throw with a distance of 168 feet 10 inches; and fellow senior Gbola Ajayi leaped 21 feet 5 1/4 inches into fifth place in the long jump.

Ajayi in particular regressed about a foot from last week’s performance, but, rather than attributing that to a dip in form, the shorter jump was in large part due to the poor conditions and nagging injuries.

“My performance this week was not as good as last week’s because of the conditions,” Ajayi said. “I have been nursing a few slight knocks, and the cold made it rather difficult to try [to] get warm and stay warm. I just could not seem to get my muscles fully warm, and so I was robbed of some of my speed and explosiveness.”

“I think I will get back over 23 feet,” he added. “A few hot days and a meet with nice weather and a decent tail wind would hopefully do the trick.”

Though Tufts earned its two victories and a slew of top-five finishes in the field events, it also experienced its fair share of success on the track.

Senior Sam Haney finished third in the 5,000 with his time of 15:16.90, the highest Tufts finish in any running event on the day.

The 5,000 was the Jumbos’ best event in terms of depth, with three other athletes aside from Haney finishing among the top 10. Sophomore Marshall Pagano secured the next highest finish, his time of 15:29.01 fast enough for fifth.

And in the sprints, senior Vinnie Lee ran the 200 in 23.33 to finish fifth, while junior Graham Beutler ran the 100 in 11.28 to finish fourth.

The Jumbos will look to build off these impressive performances when they reunite this coming Saturday at Brown University for the Springtime Invitational.

ou hear the phrase all the time in sports: “They got lucky.”

What is luck? Is it a No. 9 seed upsetting both a No. 1 and No. 2 seed en route to the Final Four? Is it when a group of three superstars join together to win an NBA championship? Or perhaps is it the line drive that falls inches foul in the ninth inning of a perfect game?

If you ask me — which you don’t really have a choice in doing because I’m the writer of the column — I would tell you that luck does not exist in sports. The best definition I can give to the word from a sports perspective comes from the firstcentury Roman philosopher Seneca, who said, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Being an athlete is a year-round job with extensive behind-the-scenes preparations that go unnoticed by the average fan. While we may only see the final product in the form of a well-played game, the amount of time and effort put in by athletes is incomprehensible. When the final pitch of a baseball season is thrown and a World Series champion is crowned, we shift our focus fully to football season and the looming NBA season as well.

However, this is just the beginning for the players who dedicate their lives to the sport.

Players hire personal trainers to help them build on the previous season and get better each successive year. They may take a short period of time off, but after that it’s right back to the diamond to perfect their flaws and add new skills to their arsenals that will improve the overall performance of the team.

For instance, Dominican baseball players will go to their native country and play another full season before spring training rolls around the following February.

In other sports, such as basketball, players like LeBron James will hit the gym to develop a new move each summer. College football players hold spring workouts while professionals will take to the field to try and develop a bond with new teammates, such as Tom Brady recently teaming up with the new Patriots wide-receiver Danny Amendola at the USC training complex.

We, the sports fans, see the players come in for preseason training and sometimes assume that this is the beginning of their season, but off-season training is crucial for elite athletes to remain on top of their game.

Luck is born from this offseason training.

There are no coincidences when a player or team performs well. A No. 9 seed such as Wichita State did not get “lucky” when they beat No. 1 Gonzaga or No. 2 Ohio State. The Shockers trained and competed as a team ever since their Round of 64 exit against VCU last year. They worked hard enough to give themselves the opportunity to succeed.

Legendary USA hockey coach Herb Brooks was quoted saying, “Great moments are born from great opportunities.” These opportunities are created through extensive work when no one is watching.

Saying that an individual or team was lucky is taking the easy way out. It’s failing to acknowledge the work put in when the doors were closed, the media wasn’t present, and all eyes were elsewhere. Luck will find the players who watch the extra hour of film, run the extra sprint or take the extra round of batting practice.

It’s time to ensure that we give credit where credit is due. Respect the effort that is being put in by the players outside of the lines and outside of the scope of public attention. When the season ends, a new one begins for those that love and are dedicated to the game. Remember the meaning behind the word “luck” next time you say it, because if you use it in the wrong context, you might just be sacked.

Jordan Bean is a freshman who has yet to declare a major. He can be reached at Jordan.Bean@tufts.edu.

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Jumbos impress at Princeton, UMass Lowell

by Sam

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Daily Editorial Board

Coming off a second-place finish at the Snowflake Invitational at Ellis Oval, the Tufts men’s track and field team split up this weekend, sending six competitors to represent at Princeton’s Sam Howell Invitational on Friday and the remaining to the following day’s UMass Lowell’s George Davis Invitational. Neither meet was scored, so the weekend provided an opportunity for each athlete to focus solely on shaving off seconds or adding distance.

And with the Princeton meet featuring athletes across all three major collegiate divisions, three of the six Tufts athletes posted personal bests.

Senior Matt Rand improved the most out of the three, notching a personal record by 17 seconds in the 10,000. Though he finished eighth in the field of 27, his time of 30:09.27 makes him one of only two runners in Tufts history to have gained entry into the sub-30:10 club.

Additionally, Rand’s time ranks third nationally thus far and will likely qualify him for the NCAA Championships.

“It would have been nice to break the 30:00 barrier, but I was still pleased with my time,” Rand said. “How I perform in this event at NESCACs and NCAAs will define my season, so that’s what I’m focused on now.”

A few seconds behind Rand in the 10,000, classmate Tyler see MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD, page 15

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In two meets on the weekend the men’s track team posted a number of impressive performances, including junior Jamie Norton’s 3:53.78 in the 1,500, the best in the country so far this season in Div. III.

Women’s Track & Field

Strong showing for Jumbos at UMass Lowell Saturday by

Alex Connors

Daily Staff Writer

After a strong showing at last weekend’s Snowflake Classic, the Tufts women’s track and field team hoped to build on their success Saturday when they traveled to UMass Lowell for the George Davis Invitational.

The meet, featuring teams from all over New England, was unscored, allowing athletes to focus on their individual performances. Overall, the team recorded four event wins and 13 top-five finishes.

For the Jumbos, battling the weather was as difficult as battling the other teams.

“It was a pretty tough meet for our team” junior Laura Peterson said. “Not only were we facing competition from all divisions, but we were also battling the cold and wind all day. Even though we didn’t have a lot of the performances we’re used to, it was good for us to experience adverse conditions like we did.”

As always, the senior throwing trio of Kelly Allen, Ronke Oyekunle and Sabienne Brutus led the Jumbos off the track.

Allen placed first in the hammer throw and discus, with tosses of 163 feet 5 inches and 144 feet 7 inches, respectively, along with a third place finish in shot put with a throw of 41 feet 4 ¼ inches. Oyekunle took the shot put victory with a throw of 42 feet 9 ¾ inches, and placed fourth in the hammer throw with a distance of 146 feet 1 inch. Finally, Brutus

placed second in the hammer throw with a toss of 162 feet 11 inches.

The other first-place finish at the meet for Tufts came from junior Jana Hieber, who won the long jump with a distance of 18 feet 1/4 inches. On the track, Hieber continued her successes, placing third in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.6 seconds and fourth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:04.98. Sophomore Caitlin Pohl followed Hieber with ninth-place finishes in both events, crossing the line in 16.24 seconds in the 100meter hurdles and 1:07.22 in the 400-meter hurdles.

Elsewhere, Tufts had a solid showing in the 800-meter, with sophomore Lauren Gormer placing third in 2:18.62, and freshman Hanako Shigenobu placing seventh with a time of 2:20.36. In the 3000, senior quad-captain Lilly Fisher placed third with a time of 10:27.60, and junior Abby Barker placed 8th with a time of 10:36.60.

But the best race of the day for the Jumbos was likely the 3000-meter steeplechase.

Peterson placed third with a time of 11:31.66, freshman Olivia Beltrani placed fifth with a time of 12:05.58, and freshman Alexandra Kiesling placed seventh with a time of 12:34.94.

“This was my first steeplechase of the season, and after being sick this week and for how windy and cold the day see WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD, page 15

Inside the NCAA

Louisville, Michigan set to meet in championship by

Andy Linder and Alex Schroeder Daily Editorial Board

With a long but exciting five-month season nearly in the books, Championship Monday is finally here. Two teams have risen to the top: the No. 1 Louisville Cardinals and the No. 4 Michigan Wolverines. Who’s going to take home the trophy? Here’s our take on this weekend’s games along with our pick to win it all: No. 1 Louisville finally tested, but ready for championship game Saturday’s first Final Four game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta wasn’t expected to be more than a primer for the late game, a potential blowout to set up the matchup fans were all dying to see between No. 4 seeds Michigan and Syracuse. No. 9 Wichita St. had certainly impressed with beating out No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 2 Ohio St. to take home the West region. Going into Saturday, however, analysts weren’t giving them a shot against the top seed in the tournament, No. 1 Louisville.

But with both teams shooting poorly in the first half of Saturday’s contest, the game was still up for grabs out of the break. Wichita St. had a one-point lead with the scoreboard reading 26-25, but it was hard to imagine that the Shockers could sustain such remarkable play for another 20 minutes against the Cardinals’ top-ranked defense. Nevertheless, the Louisville faithful began to break a sweat when they saw Wichita St. keep control of the game until the 13-minute mark, when the Shockers took a 12-point lead.

Unfortunately for the yellow and black, however, that’s when the tides started to turn for future Hall of Fame coach Rick

Pitino. Junior Luke Hancock, a transfer from George Mason who has averaged just 7.7 points this season, stepped up in the huge moment, draining two of his three 3-pointers and scoring nine of his 20 points in the final seven minutes to bring Louisville back. Though the Shockers were able to stay within five until the final buzzer, seven second-half forced Cardinal turnovers were enough for the Big East powerhouse to advance to the championship game, 72-68.

Now that Louisville has made it to the end, it will be interesting to see how the Cardinals match up against Michigan’s vastly improved up-tempo offense. If last weekend’s Cards show up tonight, we could finally see Burke, McGary and company go down. But, if the offense struggles early like it did Saturday, we could see a Big-10 squad finally win the tournament for the first time since 2000.

No. 4 Michigan offense does enough to advance Like the other three teams in the final four, the Michigan Wolverines were unable to unleash the consistent scoring prowess they’ve featured throughout the tournament in Saturday’s nightcap. AP Player of the Year Trey Burke scored only seven points on 1-of-8 shooting from the field and freshman sharpshooter Nik Stauskas, was held scoreless, but coach John Beilein’s group still found a way to win.

To compensate for Burke’s inconsistency, three Wolverines scored in double digits, with junior Tim Hardaway Jr. leading the way with 13 points and freshmen starters Glenn Robinson III and Mitch McGary pitching in 10 apiece.

Moreover, every player on the Michigan bench scored, including freshman Spike

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Freshman Mitch McGary and the rest of Michigan’s role players will be the key to the game tonight.

Albrecht, who was 2-for-2 from beyond the arc.

Despite some of the Michigan stars having an off day, the team was impressive

in breaking down the Orange’s 2-3 zone.

While the defensive effort of Syracuse kept see INSIDE NCAA, page 15