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Campaign launches to educate students about molly by

Daniel Gottfried

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The Department of Alcohol and Health Education this semester launched a campus-wide poster campaign aimed at educating students about the effects of the drug “molly.”

The campaign began due to increased coverage of the drug in the media following several molly-related deaths at electronic dance music festivals this year, according to Health Educator and Prevention Specialist Beth Farrow.

“The campaign is not in response to any incident related to molly on the Tufts campus or involving Tufts students, but we do think that with all the media attention and misinformation out there, it is important that students

know the facts about this drug,” she said.

Posters and pamphlets about the drug, produced by Tufts, are being used and distributed at schools around New England as well, according to Director of Alcohol and Health Education Ian Wong.

“We were very quick to respond and create literature about molly, so many other campuses decided to adopt our materials,” he said.

The poster, entitled “Molly: The Facts,” provides a definition of the drug, explains its effects and risks and provides resources for students to help either themselves or a friend.

Molly is an illegal drug that is supposedly a purer form of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), also known as see MOLLY, page 2

Courtesy Elayne Stecher

Students involved in Building Understanding Through International Learning and Development (BUILD) traveled to Nicaragua this summer to partner with non-governmental organizations.

Harvest Food Week promotes ‘locavore’ movement by

Abigail Feldman

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Tufts Dining Services will this week celebrate the university’s annual Harvest Food Week, serving locally grown dishes and holding interactive events to educate students about the value of buying local.

The event, which runs from today through Friday in Carmichael and DewickMacPhie Dining Halls, will feature seasonal dishes such as butternut squash bisque, apple cider and pumpkin pie.

“The ‘locavore’ movement [from proponents of buying locally grown produce] has gained a lot of momentum, so we just want to celebrate the local harvest and educate students regarding locally grown food,” Julie Lampie, Tufts’ nutrition and marketing specialist, said.

The majority of Dining Services’ produce this week comes from Carlson Orchards in Harvard, Mass., according to Lampie. Peaches and nectarines are imported from Lookout Farm in Natick, Mass., while Wards Berry Farm from Sharon, Mass. and Verrill Farm in Concord, Mass. contributed other crops.

Much of this week’s food also comes from the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, a Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy initiative that aims to improve local food systems by training the next

Student interns partner with NGOs in Nicaragua by

Menghan Liu

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generation of famers. Lampie cited heirloom tomatoes, eggplant and swiss chard among the foods from New Entry.

“It is a program here for new farmers, and we support that by buying their produce, which is organically grown,” she said.

Patti Klos, director of dining and business services, explained that this type of relationship between Dining Services and another university group is in line with Tufts’ emphasis on sustainability.

“It promotes that closed-loop concept where food that we compost sometimes ends up as fertilizer at the very farms we buy from,” Klos said. “It’s ideal and what we strive for.”

Lampie also views Harvest Food Week as an opportunity to educate students about what foods they can expect to see at this time of year. She warned that not all produce is always available at local farms.

“In New England, the growing period is very short during the summer months,” she said. “As soon as the first frost appears, basically most of the growing season ends except for hardy vegetables like kale.”

Foods like strawberries and blueberries are not available in the fall, Lampie said, but the dining halls will offer local produce such as squash, chard, tomatoes and apples at dinner this week.

Although the concept for see HARVEST, page 2

Building Understanding Through International Learning and Development (BUILD): Nicaragua successfully completed its first abroad internship program this past summer after a yearlong transition from the previous BUILD: Guatemala structure.

The two-month, student-

run program sent five students — seniors Tom Chalmers, Mark Nichols and Elayne Stecher, junior Rebecca Frank and sophomore Jordan Klein — to work with local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Matagalpa and Jinotega, cities located in the northern region of Nicaragua.

“Through BUILD, all of us were set up with different organizations,” Stecher, who

is also the executive Op-Ed editor for the Daily, said. “Our goal was to establish a longterm relationship with organizations that other BUILD members could take part in over the years.”

The BUILD program, run through the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), is designed to educate students see BUILD, page 2

Students explore stereotypes at psychology presentation

Nika Wakulich for the Tufts Daily

Associate Professors of Psychology Sam Sommers and Keith Maddox yesterday afternoon presented research from Claude Steele’s book, ‘Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do.’ During the interactive lecture, entitled ‘Uncovering Bias: How We Think and Act in Diverse Settings,’ Sommers and Maddox described how biases impact our judgment and offered guidelines for working harmoniously in diverse settings.

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Suite in Latin Way houses students dedicated to sustainability.

Boston Symphony Orchestra excites with all-Brahms opening night.

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IGL program aids Nicaraguan organizations BUILD

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about sustainable development through partnerships with rural communities in developing countries. Students research and fulfill sustainable initiatives for social and economic development. “[The goal] is to have a system set up to make the relationship as mutually beneficial as possible to make sure that the student has something to offer the organization and is simultaneously learning a lot,” Chalmers said.

BUILD: Nicaragua this summer partnered with two local Spanish-speaking NGOs: Asociacion de Voluntarios para el Desarrollo Economico Comunitario (AVODEC) and Asociacion para el Desarrollo Integral Comunitario (ADIC), located in Matagalpa and Jinotega, respectively.

“These are regions that have suffered a lot from conflicts,” Klein said. “You

see a lot of resilience in the strong NGO culture in the cities.”

Student intern responsibilities included providing design, monitoring and evaluating techniques, as well as applying knowledge from Tufts courses to help implement various nutrition and water projects, according to Klein.

Klein emphasized the collaboration that went on between students and locals.

“We didn’t go in there as experts in our field,” he said. “We just have a basic experience that gave us a context for understanding of how development works. It wasn’t, ‘We know how to do development better than you.’”

Nichols highlighted the importance of respecting Nicaraguan traditions and culture while abroad.

“We recognize that as people from the United States going to a developing country, you have to respect their way of doing things and the knowledge

that they have,” Nichols said. “We go primarily to learn.”

In preparation for interning abroad, all BUILD: Nicaragua students took a spring Experimental College course titled “Design, Monitoring and Evaluation in Development,” according to the IGL website.

According to junior Ben Berman, the director of BUILD: Nicaragua, the course is the fundamental academic component of the program and one of the changes that accompanied the program’s transition from BUILD: Guatemala to BUILD: Nicaragua.

“Ben and I worked very carefully on this,” IGL Director Sherman Teichman said. “I feel that it is an extraordinary extension of the vision. We’re doing this because we’re building partnerships in sustainability.”

The IGL sponsors BUILD as part of the institute’s mission to develop global

citizens who are able to address issues across cultures, Teichman said.

“I like people with dirty hands ... who engage in the real world,” he said. “[BUILD] is one of the most coherent [organizations] in its concept, its credibility.”

BUILD: Nicaragua held its first general interest meeting two weeks ago and plans to continue the trip next summer, Chalmers said. He expects the program’s NGO network to expand in the future.

“Our NGOs are definitely more receptive to having Tufts students go down,” Klein said.

Nichols said that participating in the program has influenced his personal ambitions.

“It was my first time in Latin America,” he said. “It is definitely a region of the world I want to continue to explore. And it definitely has impacted where I am visualizing myself.”

Dining halls serve locally grown produce HARVEST

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Harvest Food Week remains the same from year to year, Lampie explained that each harvest season is unique in terms of the local vendor products Dining Services brings to campus.

Yesterday in Carmichael, she said, students had the opportunity to sample a quinoa burger from a Rhode Island company called Jens & Marie. Students on Wednesday will be able to try Middle Eastern cuisine, including hummus, from Cedars Restaurant in Dewick, while Thursday meals will feature a line of local salad dressings. Students are invited to vote for their favorite hummus and salad dressing to help Dining Services select products for next year, Lampie said.

Klos also encourages students to help shuck fresh corn around lunchtime in Dewick.

“We’ll have a table in the lobby, and there’ll be barrels of corn that need to be shucked,” she said. “If you’ve never done it, it’s not hard, but you might be interested in seeing it. And then we will

serve it for dinner that evening.”

Since the dining hall’s regular preshucked corn is more expensive than husked corn, Klos said, staff members plan to donate the extra money to support Tom Thumb’s Student Garden.

Sophomore Molly Greer, who attended Carmichael for lunch yesterday, said she enjoyed the fall festivities.

“I thought the quinoa burger was very delicious, and it was nice to have something new in the dining hall,” Greer said.

Greer also appreciated the event’s message of creating a more sustainable food system.

“I appreciate Tufts’ attempt at trying to buy local because it’s beneficial to the global community,” she said.

Klos encourages students to reach out with comments and suggestions for how to make the experience more informative.

“Certainly, we hope that when students come to dine with us that they might notice the new and different things,” she said. “We would love feedback on the items that we’re serving.”

Matt Schreiber for the Tufts Daily

Students can enjoy locally grown dishes at Carmichael and Dewick-MacPhie Dining Halls during this year’s Harvest Food Week.

Health Service expands drug education efforts to molly MOLLY

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ecstasy. According to the poster, molly’s effects can include hyper alertness, anxiety, chills, nausea, an enhanced sense of touch and an increased heart

rate, among others.

According to a Sept. 2 article from 7 News WHDH.com, two youths died as a result of overdosing on the drug at the “Electric Zoo” festival in New York. A week earlier, a New Hampshire

teen died from a molly overdose during a concert at Boston’s House of Blues.

Since these incidents, other problems regarding molly, including three reported overdoses at the Bank of America Pavilion in Boston, have cropped up

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Since the rise of the drug “molly” in the media, the Department of Alcohol and Health Education has launched a poster campaign to raise awareness about the drug’s effects.

across the country.

One of the primary dangers of molly is that users do not always consume the drug they had anticipated, Wong said.

“Sometimes people on the street will end up buying bath salts, which can be considered a substitute for ecstasy, but is much more dangerous,” he said.

In addition to creating posters, the department reached out to faculty and staff with materials, Wong said.

“The staff was grateful that we were able move so quickly to address this issue,” he said.

Health Service did not incorporate molly into the education of student orientation leaders, although the students were trained about many other drugs, Farrow said.

“Molly’s emergence into the media happened largely after orientation was over, and we also spend the majority of orientation discussing drugs that have more of an impact on a college campus,” she said.

According to Wong, the most dangerous drug on a college campus is still alcohol.

“Alcohol is much more widely used and also has potentially very negative effects, so we spend most of our time addressing that, followed by marijuana, which is probably the next most widely used,” he said.

Health Service will continue to have information and resources on molly available to students in an effort to combat misinformation, Farrow said.

“Misinformation about molly is a concern for us, because with its prevalence in the media, a lot of falsified information gets thrown around that could potentially result in students facing the consequences,” she said.

Health Service also provides links on its website to information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse about molly and its effects.

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Students find outlet for sustainability work in specialty housing by

Emma Arnesty-Good Daily Editorial Board

Joining the 15 other special interest housing options this year, the sustainability suite in Latin Way houses 10 students looking to catalyze sustainable change on campus and create a welcoming space for the environmentally conscious to gather, discuss and live.

Alumni Danielle Jenkins (LA ’13) and Rose Eilenberg (LA ’13), who were members of the Sustainability Action Squad last year, headed the planning for the new housing option, according to Program Director of the Office of Sustainability Tina Woolston, who is also acting as an advisor to the suite.

“They had been trying for probably like a year and a half, or longer,” Woolston said. “They had submitted a proposal to [the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife)], and then they just kept following up with it after they became seniors.”

The residents now living in the Sustainability House went through an application process in March, including questions related to environmental impact and living preferences. The form also included a section where students wrote research proposals to catalyze environmental changes on campus.

All of the residents are required to work on research related to sustainability or to work with the Sustainable Action Squad, a group of students dedicated to engendering environmental changes around campus, according to the Tufts Sustainability Collective (TSC) website.

Along with this participation requirement, the group has had to develop their own programming for the suite.

“It would be great to have some kind of guidance. But then again, it is kind of fun that it’s all up to us,” sophomore resident Charlotte Clarke said. “And we kind of get to decide where this goes from here on out, which is a really exciting thing.”

The suite’s residents have agreed to meet once a week as they determine the types of programming they will facilitate on campus, according to Clarke. She said they also meet because they want to get to know each other.

“We meet about how we’re living in the suite and then there’s another side of the meeting — what kinds of things do we want to be doing to encourage sustainability on campus.” Clarke said.

Resident Jeremy Goldman explained the sustainability suite’s connection to TSC. “We technically are part of TSC. At their GIM, [one of us] went up and gave a spiel about the sustainability suite and how it’s a space for sustainability, [what our] presence on campus [will be], all that stuff,” Goldman, a junior, said. “So we’re a part of them but it’s not like we’re under them, and it’s not like their leadership directs us.”

Goldman added that this freedom was one of the things that attracted him to this particular branch of themed housing.

“We basically decided that we wanted it to be a space for environmental conversations to happen, a space for groups to have meetings — basically a space at Tufts where anyone that has an idea or an opinion can come and talk to any one of us,” Goldman said.

According to Clarke, aside from the three events that the suite is required to host to be categorized as themed housing, they also hope to set up events like dinners or small discussions that will be open to the larger community.

“We really want to be an open space that people would feel comfortable dropping by, if they just want to chat or if they have an idea for us to work on or want to talk about anything like that,” Clarke said, echoing Goldman’s sentiments.

Clarke told the Daily that the space is too small to hold large club meetings that would be of comparable size to the large group meetings that Tufts Divest From Our Future, for example, is able to hold.

Clarke described the suite as more of a social place to engage in sustainability

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The sustainability suite starts its first semester in Latin Way and plans to host more than the three programming events required by the Office of Residential Life and Learning. rather than an official location for TSCaffiliated gatherings. They have, however, held smaller meetings.

Woolston thought that creating a social community surrounding sustainable behavior could help strengthen the adoption of those behaviors that may have seemed irrelevant and foreign beforehand.

“They are going to be providing a place for people who are interested in the environment to meet and hang out,” she said. “And when you get those people together, then they can generate ideas and some momentum behind doing change on campus.”

On a more personal level, the members of the suite also focus their attention on their own sustainable behavior.

“It’s hard in a Latin Way suite, since there’s not much we can do with the infrastructure,” Clarke said. “But we are obviously turning off all the lights, we compost, ... we have an ‘if it’s yellow, let it mellow’ system.”

With the Tom Thumb’s Student Garden so close — right behind the Latin Way complex — the suite has been able to use some of the produce from the garden, as well as contribute compost to the garden, Clarke said.

While some of the members were assigned roles such as house manager and events manager, the loosely defined titles quickly shifted, according to Goldman, who described the lack of leadership as a positive.

“That way no one is getting too stressed about extra responsibilities and, on the flip side, everyone feels like they can contribute whatever they are good at contributing.”

Goldman, a self-proclaimed fan of cooking and ‘dumpster diving,’ considers food as his prime contribution to the suite.

Dumpster diving is the practice of picking up the leftover items outside of grocery stores that have been discarded when they no longer look perfect or the expiration date has passed, even though the items may still be edible.

“You can get so much food dumpster diving. I just call it ‘diving’ because it’s more euphemistic,” Goldman said. “A lot of it comes in bulk and so a lot of it is going to be wasted.”

A few members of the suite, for example, found 100 avocados in Allston.

“We’ve been making avocado pudding, avocado rice, avocado cake, avocado guacamole. People made some stuff for their faces,” Goldman said.

Recycling, too, is a significant theme in the suite’s agenda, and as such, it was the central focus of its first event last Friday: a freecycle.

As people in Medford and Somerville transitioned from summer to fall housing units, many left unwanted items out on the streets. Among the stashed goods was a giant polar bear, rugs, clothing and a Japanese umbrella, according to Goldman.

Woolston commented on the events that the suite is looking forward to hosting.

“The more outlets people have to get involved in environmental action, the better it is for the institution and for our office,” Woolston said.

Though there are many outlets around campus that have been vocal about sustainability, like the Eco Representative program and Tufts Divest, Woolston said the sustainability suite is a distinct option.

“There may be other people that don’t necessarily want to be active in that way but want to be able to live with people that have similar mindsets in the way they want to live,” she said.”So the Sustainability House provides that.”

When selecting the members of the suite, Woolston said it was very important to create as diverse a group as possible.

TSC posted on its website in February that the group was to include students from all backgrounds of environmental involvement.

“If you are with people that are exactly like you all the time ... then you don’t necessarily see or understand how things could be viewed or perceived by other people who come from different backgrounds,” Woolston said. “So if [the suite is] trying to communicate about environmental issues with the entire campus, [it is] going to need to have a lot of perspectives coming into it to be able to do that.”

This was true for Clarke, who hadn’t been involved with the sustainability movement on campus before, even though she was very interested in it.

“I think it is really important to have perspectives from people who aren’t deeply entrenched in it because they have more of a view of how other people on campus will look at us, and how other people on campus do sustainability, who aren’t directly involved in it.” Clarke said.

“And again, that’s really good for reaching out and making a bigger impact on people who might not necessarily have been in the past.”

Though programming is just getting started for the sustainability suite, Clarke said that they have high hopes for the group’s achievements.

“Our house has to put on three events a semester, that’s the ResLife requirement, [but] we’re hoping to do a lot more than that,” Clarke said.

Woolston said that the group had expressed interest in moving into a house, but that it might take some time before this happens. Clarke added that moving into an actual house could be a great thing for the future of the group.

“If we had a house, then we could have a space for our own composting bin and our own garden, and I think that would be really awesome,” Clarke said. “I think that that’s kind of ultimately the goal of the suite — to create a space [where] all of these things can be happening.”

Petar Todorov | Lab Notes

Hacking life

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o say that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are a divisive topic would be an understatement. Two sides emerge: Proponents ardently exalt the benefits of altered life, while opponents admonish anyone who will listen about the possible dangers of cutting and pasting genetic code. Unfortunately, due to the business practices of companies in the agricultural industry, “GMO” has become a dirty word around the world. Engineered crops receive most of the attention, and people seem to be ignorant of those GMOs that do not belong to agro-giants. The general public is missing the bigger picture: a colorful landscape populated by microscopic organisms.

In 1976, a small California startup called Genentech had a breakthrough: They created and patented bacteria that could produce insulin. Up to this point, the protein (which is necessary for the treatment of diabetes) had to be obtained via a complex chemical synthesis or harvested from the pancreas of cows. The approach was a step in the right direction, as most of the insulin today is made by GMOs at a lower cost than chemical synthesis and without the inherent risk of allergic reaction that comes when extracting any medicine from livestock.

The insulin-producing microbes marked the first deliberately and rationally designed GMOs. Scientists had modified cells for a few years prior, but the motivation and purpose was to study them, not to manufacture valuable substances. This got the ball rolling. Promises of new advances and broad possibilities led many scientists to become interested in tinkering with life.

However, the process of programming with DNA was, and to a large extent still remains, arduous, unstandardized and pricey. A custom design and an intricate strategy are necessary for every gene one would want to insert. Thankfully, “biohackers” have made a conscious effort to standardize their practices. These scientists, students and hobbyists operate in universities, crowdfunded do-it-yourself labs (There is one in Somerville!) or out of their own kitchens. They are the driving forces behind a new field called “synthetic biology,” which has made genetic modification cheaper and more routine.

Synthetic biology has a strong presence in our state. Every year, over 3,000 undergraduates from around the world present their work down the street at MIT in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition. The technologies are all over the map: bacteria that detect landmines, microbes that make fuel from trash and little packets that test whether the food in your fridge has gone bad or not.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the nascent field is that its members are straying from the traditional sources of funding in science and looking beyond government bodies and non-profits for their dollars. For example, most iGEM teams (like the one at Tufts) raise funds through their parent university and corporate sponsors. An even more dramatic approach was taken by Omri Amirav-Drory and Antony Evans. The two scientists led a campaign on Kickstarter, promising backers modified watercress (Arabidopsis thaliana) that is engineered to glow in the dark. Interestingly enough, the cress will not be subject to any government regulations, as it is not a food, and the modification methods used neatly skirt current legislation.

The general accessibility of synthetic biology is poised to reshape our lives as we reprogram the genetic code. The work of biomodders will lead to innovative products, but is also very likely to outpace legislation and create new challenges in privacy, security, ethics and society. Our generation might just get its technological revolution. Only this time, we’ll be hacking life instead of computers.

Petar Todorov is a senior majoring in chemistry. He can be reached at Petar.Todorov@ tufts.edu.

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‘Prisoners’ excels thanks to dark tone by

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From its trailers, “Prisoners” looks like the standard Oscar fare that can sometimes be a chore to sit through. A

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Prisoners Directed by Denis Villenueve Starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello cast brimming with previous Academy Award nominees and one winner?

Check. A suitably dark storyline that also serves as a metaphor for current events today? Check. “Prisoners” even has an up-and-coming director to round out its shot at premier Oscar material, with Denis Villeneuve making his English-language directorial debut. With all the marks of a serious drama, “Prisoners” strives to meld gut-wrenching emotional performances similar to those in “Mystic River” (2003) with the anxiety-filled procedural layout of other pictures like “Zodiac” (2007). While “Prisoners” does not reach the lofty heights of either of the aforementioned films, it remains an enjoyable thriller with strong performances in spite of its flaws.

“Prisoners” focuses on father and

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Hugh Jackman displays raw emotion and anger in an outstanding performance in ‘Prisoners.’ recovering alcoholic Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) after his young daughter and her friend go missing on Thanksgiving in small-town Pennsylvania. Keller, along with wife Grace (Maria Bello) and the parents of the missing friend, Franklin and Nancy Birch (Terrence Howard and Viola Davis), frantically

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look for their daughters before the horror sinks in that they may have been abducted. The police begin a massive town-wide search for the missing girls, but Detective Loki ( Jake Gyllenhaal) comes up dry with only see PRISONERS, page 6

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Romantic hype fizzles in ‘New Girl’ season opener by

Caroline Welch

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“Friends don’t let friends do friends,” reads the promotional tagline for the third season of Fox’s comedy “New Girl.” This witty little one-liner essentially

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra had a phenomenal opening night for their 2013 season.

Boston Symphony Orchestra opens season with powerful show by

Tamara Win

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As of last Saturday, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is officially back in town for its 132nd season, and, hopefully, this will be their last year without a musical director. Since James Levine resigned in 2011 for health reasons, the BSO has been lacking leadership. However, audiences are now eagerly awaiting the arrival of 34-year-old Andris Nelsons, the youngest musical director to be appointed to the BSO in over 100 years, who will begin his contract in the 2014-2015 season. The opening night concert seemed to reflect this excitement for fresh, young energy on the horizon, with Augustin Hadelich taking the helm on the violin solo in the Brahms “Double Concerto.”

Hadelich was accompanied by acclaimed cellist Alban Gerhardt and pre-eminent conductor, Christoph von Dohnányi, who have both previously performed with the BSO. The evening’s all-Brahms program began with his “Concerto in A minor for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra, Op. 102,” followed by the much loved “Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73.” Brahms composed the concerto for his friend, the virtuosic violinist Joseph Joachim. During the conception of this piece, Brahms spoke of it as an “amusing idea” and wrote to fellow com-

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poser Clara Schumann about the “pranks one can play” in the situation of writing such a work for a friend. As light-hearted as this piece is in comparison to Brahms’ other, more mature compositions, “Op. 102” is certainly not a walk in the park for the soloists — indeed, there are cadenzalike passages seemingly on every turn of the page.

Gerhardt was the first to enter the concerto following the powerful, striking orchestral introduction. Gerhardt’s interpretation of Brahms’ original work was free but nuanced, playful yet precise. Regrettably, Gerhardt did not seem concerned with ensuring that his sound projected to the back of the hall and was, at times, completely drowned out by the sound of the orchestra. On the other hand, Hadelich’s playing seemed much more aggressive — an impression that was undoubtedly helped by the fact that a violin’s sound floats above the rest of the orchestra with more ease. Although the players were clearly playing actively off of one another and channeling the pushand-pull of the dynamic duet writing, Hadelich seemed to be leading Gerhardt by a hair’s breadth.

Dohnányi supported the soloists by holding the orchestra under tight reins.

sets up the entire framework for the next 20-plus episodes: can two once-platonic roommates suddenly and seamlessly step into a romantic relationship?

Apparently, not without hitting a few (awkward) bumps in the road.

Last season left viewers waiting anxiously on the edge of multiple romantic cliffhangers.

The show’s four roommates — Schmidt, Winston, Nick and Jess — collectively attend Jess’ best friend Cece’s traditional Indian wedding when, right before the deal is sealed, everything goes to shambles. After various mishaps, including a rabid badger being set loose, Cece (Hannah Simone) calls off the ceremony once she realizes her true feelings for her uptight, narcissistic ex, Schmidt (Max Greenfield).

Schmidt, now dating a former college girlfriend, is flustered (yet secretly delighted) to find himself at the vertex of this new love triangle. Meanwhile, amidst all the chaos, Nick ( Jake Johnson) and Jess’ (Zooey Deschanel) culminating romance finally materializes — then ends — and then begins again, all in the span of a half hour. But at long last, the

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he 2008 film “Hunger” was a break-out movie for both its writer and director, Steve McQueen, and its lead actor, Michael Fassbender. The film portrays a series of IRA prison strikes, culminating in the 1981 hunger strike led by Bobby Sands.

This was Steve McQueen’s first feature-length film and the beginning of his partnership with Fassbender, who also starred in McQueen’s “Shame” (2011) and will have a supporting role in “12 Years a Slave” (2013).

The most salient feature of “Hunger” is the absence of dialogue. The film begins by portraying the daily routine of a prison officer in Northern Ireland. He gets dressed, he eats his breakfast and then he checks his car for bombs. At the prison, he laughs with the other guards, but the viewer only hears half of the joke — the content is not important.

Finally, we see the guard standing in the snow, looking forlorn and puffing on a cigarette. Interspersed throughout this sequence are clips of the guard icing his bruised knuckles.

Next, the narrative shifts focus to a young IRA member as he arrives at the prison.

During the mid ’70s and early ’80s, IRA prisoners organized the blanket and nowash protests in an effort to be recognized as political prisoners, as opposed to common criminals. They refused prisoner uniforms, wearing blankets instead. They also refused to bathe or leave their cells, eventually smearing their own excrement on the walls. The IRA member’s narrative proceeds with limited dialogue as the viewer watches him remove his clothes, disappear and later reemerge with several bleeding wounds. He is then led to a cell. The camera pans over it, revealing it to be devoid of furniture and covered in feces. The narrative follows this character for some time. Bobby Sands, the film’s protagonist, does not appear until the 30-minute mark, when we see him beaten by the prison officer from the beginning of the film. This departure from a traditional narrative structure gives the film an observational, unemotional quality despite the harrowing subject matter.

The most enthralling conversation in the movie, its effects heightened by the film’s frequent silences, occurs between Bobby Sands and a Belfast priest, played by Liam Cunningham, a great Irish character actor.

McQueen chose to film the entire 20-minute scene in one shot, an ambitious decision. In the scene, Bobby explains his intended hunger strike. A debate about the strike’s morality ensues. Ultimately, Bobby enacts his plan and the last 20 minutes of the film silently observe his decline and eventual death.

The lack of dialogue — and often complete silence — forces the viewer to interact with the narrative on a purely visual level. It also conveys neutrality. While the film features grotesque images, it does not sensationalize these images using music or explain them using dialogue. The film’s refusal to pass judgment is important. Upon its release, some news outlets condemned “Hunger,” claiming it glorified terrorists.

After all, Bobby Sands and the other IRA characters were not just victims of horrific prison abuse. They were also key figures in IRA attacks that killed many people, including civilians. However, this film does not defend either the IRA or the British government. It is rather a philosophical study of commitment to a cause and the violence that people will do to others and themselves in order to support that cause.

I would recommend “Hunger” with a large caveat. It is the one of the best, most challenging movies I have ever seen, but it is also thematically and visually difficult and may be disturbing to some viewers.

Nonetheless, if stark and visceral movies are something you like, “Hunger” is an amazing entry in this category.

Next week’s film: “Into the West.”

Megan Clark is a senior majoring in English and history. She can be reached at Megan.

Clark@tufts.edu.

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one suspect who is quickly released from custody due to lack of evidence.

Upon hearing this news, Keller decides to take matters into his own hands and soon kidnaps the suspect (Paul Dano). He holds him captive, hoping to gain information that could lead to his daughter’s rescue.

To describe any more of the plot would do a disservice to the numerous twists that “Prisoners” has in store — needless to say, the story takes the film to some extremely dark places. This is one area in which director Villeneuve excels; the tone of the film is just as haunting as its subject matter, with the action proceeding at a slow and methodical pace that highlights the underlying tension and makes plot twists even more suspenseful. Muted colors and steady camerawork add to the tangible sense of dread, with cinematographer Roger Deakins demonstrating his deft hand in complex sequences that never lose the narrative’s momentum. That’s not to say this methodical pace suits “Prisoners” all the time: The film has an extremely long running time and there are scenes that could easily have been trimmed down.

Besides its excellent use of tone and suspense, the other major highlight of

“Prisoners” is the performances by its outstanding cast. Jackman shines as unhinged father Keller, delivering disarmingly emotional and angry acting.

Is it a subtle performance? No — but Jackman hits home perfectly as a protective family man who is caught completely off-guard and rendered helpless by his daughter’s abduction. Like Keller, the more level-headed Loki also suffers from inner demons (although the film merely hints at and never truly explores this aspect of his character).

This personal turmoil leads to smaller outbursts from Loki, and on one level “Prisoners” functions as a basic battle of wills between Loki and Keller. The rest of the supporting cast does a fine job with their parts, but aren’t given much screen time; actresses like Davis and Melissa Leo (who is outstanding as the suspect’s aunt) have a scene or two where they truly shine, but on the whole this is Jackman and Gyllenhaal’s picture.

While “Prisoners” works well for most of its running time, it does have a few issues that unfortunately tarnish the film. While the extended length is certainly one of them, another concern is how the film treats Keller’s abduction of the suspect. Audiences witness torture and the toll it takes on Keller, but these aspects are never explored in depth. “Prisoners” encourages viewers

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Though the supporting cast does not receive sufficient screen time, Melissa Leo is the standout as Holly Jones. to consider whether Keller was justified in his abduction, but it doesn’t handle these questions of morality as well as it could. The film also runs into some problems during its climax, which occasionally devolves into formulaic genre territory that works against all the excellent character work achieved earlier in the film.

Although “Prisoners” falters as it reaches the finish line, it is still a worthwhile film that should (rightly) attract attention this awards season for its excellent performances. While the movie does have some issues that prevent it from truly excelling, the tension-fueled thrills and outstanding cast far outshine these minor problems.

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moment that every invested fan had been waiting for since day one — the Nick and Jess get-together — had finally come to fruition.

This second season get-together sets the stage for a season three getaway — literally. Nick and Jess, declaring themselves “all in” for the relationship, take a euphoric, ecstatic drive ... back to their shared apartment. It’s rather ironic, as Nick says, that after only 30 minutes of dating they’re already living together, but the duo remains undeterred until a needy Schmidt begins compulsively texting Nick for relationship advice. Cue the escape: In what ultimately becomes a bizarre turn of events, Nick and Jess drive to Mexico to flee the onslaught of pressure that comes with being a livein couple with mutual friends. After a few days of freeloading at a beachside resort, Nick is detained by hotel security guards. Frantically, Jess returns to L.A. to rally the troops and help spring Nick. Back in Mexico with Winston and Schmidt in tow, the foursome finds that the situation is, indeed, not as dire as they had assumed and share a moment of sappy yet genuine sentimentality for their friendship.

For such a highly anticipated moment, the season opener was surprisingly flat and forced. The show, in no way a cutting-edge comedy, usually relies on a basic formula of random, wacky scenarios paired with heavy character acting. “New Girl” reverts to that same comic structure in this first episode, but this time it feels like the series is simply trying too hard. Maybe the fault lies in the ludicrous road trip to Mexico. After a few nights on the run, Nick and Jess look like legitimate castaways: Jess’ bridesmaid sari has been torn, giving her a

silly “Jungle Jane”-esque look, while Nick’s heavy five o’clock shadow and sleeveless, raggedy button-down only adds to the couple’s overall disheveled appearance. It’s these small details, along with big, over-the-top scenes like Nick’s “arrest” by Mexican authorities, which remove any semblance of reality and turn the show into an exaggerated, campy farce.

Even the cornerstone comedic characters falter in season three. Schmidt, whose pompous personality and Type A ticks typically leave viewers in hysterics, fails to deliver. Forced to choose between two women (something he avoids), Schmidt becomes overwhelmingly needy — almost annoyingly so.

Seeking advice from his best friend, Schmidt continuously calls Nick, making his character appear clingy and desperate — the antithesis of funny.

Even Winston, the occasionally amusing fifth wheel of the group, can’t salvage the storyline with his weird hobbies and even stranger antics. (He has an odd obsession with puzzles and in one scene, wears a sweatshirt as pants.)

Despite the overall lackluster laughs that the season three premiere provided, there were a few moments that broke through. Winston’s train wreck of an attempt to help cover up Schmidt’s two-timing ways to Cece was so bad it had to be funny — and Nick’s clumsy, yet adorable assumption of the role of “boyfriend” was at times awkward, but overall, endearing.

Regardless of the first episode’s comedic flops, season three of “New Girl” will inevitably still have fans tuning in to watch the Nick and Jess relationship play out. The challenge will be, after all this pre-romance buildup — a la Jim and Pam of NBC’s “The Office” (2005-2013) — to find a way to keep it going.

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The new relationship between Nick and Jess is the focal point of the season three premiere of ‘New Girl.’

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An all-Brahms program began BSO’s 2013 season at Symphony Hall this past weekend.

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Though this made for an immaculate performance, there were moments when the concert could have benefitted by allowing Gerhardt and Hadelich a little more space. Overall, Dohnányi deftly lead the ensemble through the concerto, emphasizing Brahms’ particularly angular musical cadence. The last movement in particular boasted precise, accentuated rhythms contrasted by swelling lyrical lines, which Dohnányi coaxed out to the fullest. Ultimately, it was an energetic end, well received by the audience.

The second half of the program consisted of the esteemed “Symphony No. 2,” written during Brahms’ highly productive summer vacation in 1877. With all four movements grounded in major keys, the work is a deceptively happy, seemingly sweet pastoral symphony. In reality, Brahms wrote the symphony during a particularly dark and melancholic part of his life, when he was plagued by fears of being unable to live up to the greatness of the composers who came before him.

During their performance, Dohnányi and the members of the BSO seemed well aware of Brahms’ original feelings and intentions, emphasizing the emotional highs and lows of the symphony. Although the opening was unsteady and almost

tentative, Dohnányi quickly brought the ensemble together, producing a truly lush sound that filled the entire hall. The composite sound allowed the exquisite playing of the wind and brass sections to shine through, while the complex polyphony among the string sections was still clearly audible. Dohnányi deftly led the orchestra through the movements, taking full advantage of Brahms’ lyricism within the mosaic of layered voices.

The third movement ushered in a rather fast tempo, showcasing the technical abilities of the world-class musicians in the BSO. They played immaculately, with a life and vigor that brought the audience to the edge of their seats as they continued into the fourth movement. Here, Dohnányi brought the orchestra back to a slower pace under his strict baton, letting the lavish harmonies breathe and swell. Yet, at the end of the symphony Dohnányi satisfyingly released the brass, which played their grand chorale with a spectacular finish of unbridled energy.

With a brilliant opening performance, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s season is off to a strong, dynamic start. The program will be repeated tonight at 8:00 p.m.

For tickets, visit www.bso.org. And remember: When purchasing tickets online, use the “20under40” promotion to buy qualifying ticket levels for only $20.

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Awareness of time-management tools

As the fourth week of classes begins, students are becoming progressively busier.

Professors expect students to have obtained their required books and materials by this point in the semester and are looking to hold more meaningful classes than the introductory lectures of the past few weeks — a shift reflected in the larger homework load many students are already experiencing. The sheer number of students in the reading room at Tisch Library on Sunday nights is a testament to that.

Now, fall sports are in full swing, and student athletes are feeling the strain of practices and games cutting into their homework time. With weekends devoted to cross country meets or away games, free time is a limited commodity for sporty Jumbos.

With GIM season coming to a close, clubs are solidifying their membership and encouraging students to commit to meetings, fundraisers and other events.

Some of the 50-plus accepted students into this year’s EPIIC class, for example, who wanted to join Tufts’ New Initiative for Middle East Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine or Friends of Israel were forced to choose between one Middle East-oriented forum or another (or run

the risk of sacrificing their grades in order to participate).

Add in the fear of missing out that has students going out with friends rather than staying home and hitting the books, and you have a recipe for overstressed, overcommitted students left to wonder what happened to those early September days of meeting up with old friends and having enough time to sit down and actually drink their coffee at The Rez. With barely enough time to sleep, eat and bathe, students who also want to participate in important one-shot events such as the upcoming Career Fair might find that there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish everything that they want and need to do.

Unless you’ve met with a tutor at the Academic Resource Center (ARC) recently, you might not know that Tufts offers Time Management and Study Strategies (TM & SS) consulting. Tutors and mental health professionals are trained to direct any students who feel overcommitted or unsure of how to manage their schedules to this resource, but not many on the Hill seem to know that this service is available. A session with TM & SS can help students with problems such as

motivation and self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses.

Although students should be proactive about searching out appropriate resources, the administration should also ensure that Jumbos are aware of — and taking advantage of — this service. It might be helpful for TM & SS counselors to set up a table at the Activities Fair to raise awareness about their services as students jot their names down on dozens of e-lists.

Additionally, although the ARC website states that consultants periodically present workshops to student groups on management and studying strategies, these workshops should be better advertised and open to any student who feels that he or she could benefit from TM & SS guidance. Some students may feel more comfortable in a group setting, compared to a one-on-one conversation, so these events should be held more often for all students.

Jumbos are encouraged to be active citizens both within and outside of the Tufts community. As a result, the administration needs to make certain that students know about the resources that are available to help them manage their growing lists of responsibilities during these transitional times.

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Luis Ruuska

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You don’t need a degree these days to know the U.S. lags behind many European countries in education.

The U.S. ranks behind every country from Finland and Denmark to South Korea and Singapore when it comes to the younger generation’s reading, math and science skills. This hardly comes as a surprise in a country where social issues, such as marijuana legalization and gun control, constantly overshadow our crumbling public education system.

That said, there is a silver lining: The U.S.’s disturbing trend of low-quality primary education does not extend to higher education.

In fact, the U.S. has been the top country in the world for higher education since 2012.

This sounds like good news, right? Truth be told, it is good news until you take a look at just how much it costs students to attend college in the U.S. versus other countries.

No doubt you’ve heard the following two statistics before: Students are approximately $1 trillion in loan debt collectively and individually owe about $26,000 on average. But why is it this way?

The best way to answer this question is by stepping out of the confines of your own world for a few minutes. I found that by looking at what other countries are doing right with their higher education systems, I could partially locate the root of what the U.S. is doing wrong with ours.

I decided to study a 2010 report conducted by the International Ranking Expert Group

Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. I looked at how the U.S. stacks up against some European countries — particularly Germany, Norway, Finland and Sweden — in higher education financial trends.

I often heard from word of mouth that these countries offered the most affordable higher education in the world and wanted to see if the research could back those claims up.

It’s important to understand that education cost is not directly synonymous with the cost of tuition alone; it includes additional mandatory fees such as the cost of books and other study materials.

Unsurprisingly, the U.S. had the highest education cost in 2010 at $13,856. The same data showed that Finland’s education cost came in second at $1,243 while Germany ($933), Sweden ($600) and Norway ($596) rounded up the other three spots.

The average American student spent more than $1,000 on textbooks and supplies in 2010 alone. For $400 less, Norwegian and Swedish students got one year’s worth of a college education. But how is this possible?

It’s possible because many European countries have eliminated tuition fees or have placed a maximum cap on how much universities are allowed to charge annually.

For instance, German universities are only allowed to charge a maximum of 1,000 euros annually — if they charge at all.

The total cost included the combined costs of education as well as living expenses, such as housing, utilities, food and transportation.

Again, the results were similar to the education cost data: The U.S. sported the highest total cost of the five countries at $23,615 in 2010. With a slight reorder, this time Germany was the most affordable at $6,250. Finland came in second at $7,977 while Norway and Sweden followed at $8,096 and $9,265, respectively.

All in all, the IREG Observatory gave Finland, Norway, and Germany the top three spots in terms of overall affordability rankings while Sweden received fifth place and the U.S. received 12th.

Two things became abundantly clear to me after exploring all of these different rankings. One: Those word-of-mouth rumors about the most affordable higher education systems in the world in those countries were true. Two: The U.S.’s woes with the cost of attending college aren’t just a product of any single factor.

The reason the U.S. ranks so low on the global higher education stage financially is a culmination of factors.

It is the fact that colleges are continuously raising their tuition and the cost of living is still extremely high. It is the fact that the textbook industry hikes up prices each year, and it is the fact that financial institutions are continuing to charge astronomical interest rates on student loans.

Ultimately, while we may have the best higher education system in the world, what good is it if so many of our own people cannot afford to take advantage of it?

I don’t have the answer to the cost of higher education debate, but what I do know is that it is a debate we need to be having.

Correction

In the Sept. 23 Features article titled “Student-founded Dexterity Global achieves international recognition,” it was incorrectly reported that Dexterity Global was a TED Million Dollar award winning concept. In fact, it is simply listed alongside a TED Million Dollar Award winning concept in the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Most Innovative Social Enterprises for the Next Century.

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Where are you reading this article?

Maybe you picked it up on your way to grab oatmeal at Collis, but most likely you’re reading it on your computer or phone. Like most people in America, many Dartmouth students spend a solid part of their day behind a screen.

According to a 2009 Nielsen study, the average American adult spends about 8.5 hours a day looking at a screen.

That’s more than one-third of the day, and keep in mind that the Nielsen study occurred before the iPad had come out.

At Dartmouth, increased screen time is in part a result of the amount of information students must keep track of to keep up with classes and classmates. Students use their phones and computers to check Blitz and Blackboard, write papers and do online research. When social networks are factored in, the average Dartmouth day practically revolves around different apps and websites.

After spending the summer in rural Virginia, I forgot how inundated with information I would be upon arriving in Hanover. Students receive up to 100 blitzes a day, which requires sorting through and deleting the unwanted emails. It is not uncommon to walk to class and see the majority of students you pass on campus absorbed in their phones. The pace of the 10-week quar-

ter can make students feel like they must use every chunk of free time, no matter how small, to respond to emails or check homework assignments.

Otherwise, the 10 minutes between an 11 and a 12 would be a waste of time.

The Dartmouth essentially becomes 10 weeks of nonstop multitasking.

In addition, students here, like students across the nation, often bring their computers and cell phones to class. A 2011 study conducted at Johnson and Wales University revealed that two-thirds of students check social networks during class; having spent one year at Dartmouth, I can attest that this figure seems accurate. Yet, at a school that U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks as number one for undergraduate teaching, it is even more self-defeating to log on Facebook or play Candy Crush during class at Dartmouth than it is at other schools. Our four years with these topranked professors are short, so reading Buzzfeed articles can wait.

Browsing the Web during class may be the most obvious instance of illtimed multitasking, but staying glued to a phone screen while walking across campus or sitting with friends is also a misuse of time at Dartmouth. After my first three terms here, I discovered that more than half of the learning I did during my freshman year was a result of the people I hung out with rather than the classes I took. Because

Hanover is so small and the Dartmouth community is so close, there is so much room for exposure to people from all over the world, each with his or her own distinct narrative. Staying on top of Blitz and Blackboard is necessary to succeed at Dartmouth, but not to the extent that it harms your opportunity to make the personal connections that Dartmouth students are uniquely able to experience.

Dartmouth, with all of its flaws, is undoubtedly a special place, and as I begin my first week of sophomore year, I can already tell that no matter how endless some weeks feel, time goes by here at a pace that can be frightening.

Whether you just arrived on campus or you are starting your senior year, make sure you’re not spending too much time on your phone or laptop.

Dartmouth students often call each other out on face time, but screen time is worse. I would much rather see someone walking back and forth First-Floor Berry talking to every person he runs into than see someone use their walk from Kemeny to Thornton to compose Twitter drafts.

I am not encouraging you to throw your phone out the window or abandon your laptop, but rather to try to make an effort to reduce unnecessary screen time. Write your papers and check your emails; just don’t let your screen interfere with making the most of your time at Dartmouth.

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Party culture requires you to think before you drink by

Ellis Arnold

C.U. Independent

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but CU has a bit of a reputation for partying.

In 2012, Newsweek ranked CU the number three party school in the entire nation, and that statistic really sinks in when you realize that there are roughly 2,774 four-year universities in the country.

For freshmen, the freedom associated with the college party culture can become a problem if not handled responsibly. Campus is dripping with stories of roofies, Molly (MDMA and its variants), vomiting in dorm rooms and friends strapped to gurneys in ambulances. And we freshmen have only been here for four weeks.

Parties at college are nothing new, but Boulder students party especially hard. A crazy night here and there is one thing, but party culture becomes a larger problem when it swallows up the

rest of a student’s lifestyle.

“I definitely know people who never go to class. I think for some people, the social interaction and being popular in that way is more important than education,” said Heather Fischle, a 21-year-old senior speech, language and hearing major.

Freshmen who suddenly have the freedom to do whatever they want, whenever they want, seem especially at risk for falling into this kind of pattern.

“It’s kind of like when you’re a little kid and your parents are gone, and you eat all the ice cream — and you get the stomach ache the next day,” said Will Hathaway, a 21-year-old senior management and marketing major.

Groups on campus have tried to challenge the perception that partying is the norm, but it won’t change unless individual students exercise moderation.

There’s no reason to believe that someone who parties like crazy every week in college will suddenly real-

ize the error of their ways when they get handed their diploma. That’s why developing an excessive party habit can be dangerous for someone’s future.

Sociology Professor Patti Adler said that 20-somethings don’t drop their drinking habits immediately after graduation. But when done responsibly, Adler said, partying can certainly have some upsides.

“It’s a relief from stress,” she said.

“It’s intrinsically fun, and it develops close friendships.”

So, can partying be a good thing? Yes. Can it send you on a downward spiral, waking up at 3 p.m. and wondering where your pants went? Also yes. The difference is being smart about it.

Moderation is your friend. Also important is knowing that partying isn’t the only way to have a good time in Boulder. There are tons of fun things going on at C.U.: hundreds of clubs, movie showings in residence halls and sports events.

s a self-proclaimed chic and seasoned senior, I have learned a great deal about fashion during my time at Tufts. Though I matriculated clad in the generic blue-jeans-andfleece outfit of any suburban New England female, I have since acquired what I would deem “style wisdom” — and I shall share it here with you: A wardrobe reveals a lot about a person.

I would venture to say that you could infer someone’s resume by the contents of their closet. These days, we have T-shirts, hoodies, fleeces and bro tanks from every major event we have attended and every group we belong to. CustomInk.com must really love Tufts students because everyone knows we would not be caught dead at an event like Homecoming wearing a generic knit sweater. These custom-made items accumulate to adequately summarize our activities, interests and friend groups: a wearable resume.

But I have noticed somewhat of a contradiction when it comes to wearing this personalized clothing. On the one hand, custom Tufts swag indicates status. After freshman year, I remember thinking that I was extremely cool for having accumulated so many items from my year in college. I knew that I was “in” because I had the clothes to prove it. On the other hand, the general Tufts opinion frowns upon rocking the screen-printed-cotton look too frequently, and maintains that items like these should be reserved for lazy days or the rare trek to the gym. Talk about a hypocritical fashion standard!

Outside of the gym, Tufts (and the real world too, I suppose) expects us to appear put-together and dressed cleanly. While this does not assume you should don your Business Casual Attire on a daily basis, it does suggest that you avoid clothes with bold writing across your chest in order to be taken seriously during class discussions. While I do not necessarily agree with this taste, it certainly represents the norm at Tufts.

My style observations have also revealed a foolproof method that tricks others into assuming you dress with more effort than you actually did: Just add more pieces! Of course, there are some exceptions to this rule involving dangerous overboard accessorizing, but in general, I have found that the more items you throw into an outfit, the more exciting and put-together you appear. I’ll use an example for the ladies: Start with a dress — a simple, one-piece outfit. Add tall boots (Fall Fashion 101), a colorful necklace, a jacket, wide belt, scarf and some earrings if you are really feeling adventurous. Voila! You have instantly entered the world of the cool and fashionable, which also happens to be the world of poise, confidence and academic aplomb.

My final fashion observation is that students, for the most part, value poise above fashion. Some people can successfully pull off sweatpants at a lecture, while others look outright ridiculous as such.

In my experience, the key is finding a balance between your personal levels of confidence and style. The strong-willed and outspoken need not exert much effort in their outfits, while those seeking a bout of pride rarely compromise their appearance. Of course, some people gain one from the other: An outfit composed with time and care gives way to a personality that emanates confidence, and vice versa.

Most of all, scrutinizing fashion at Tufts has taught me that lots of different people can successfully rock lots of different styles, as long as those styles are paired with the right attitudes. Owning your outfit and wearing anything shamelessly is far more acceptable than even the classiest of getups. That is, of course, unless you excessively flaunt your Homecoming 2011 shirt outside of the gym.

Eloise Libre is a senior who is majoring in history. She can be reached at Eloise.

Libre@tufts.edu.

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Men’s Golf

Jumbos place 17th at Williams Invitational by

Alex Connors

Daily Editorial Board

The Tufts golf team traveled to Williamstown, Mass. this weekend to compete in the Williams Invitational Tournament at Taconic Golf Club.

The 24-team field proved tough competition for the Tufts squad, which placed 17th when all was said and done.

“It was not a great week for me personally or the team,” junior Alex Zorniger said. “There were some good numbers put up, but overall it wasn’t our best effort.”

Sophomore Jay Wong played the best on the team, shooting a 79 on Saturday and a 77 on Sunday on the par-71 course. His two-day total of 156 strokes was only 14 strokes over par and was good enough for 28th place out of 118 golfers. His score of 77 on Sunday was also the best round of the weekend for the Jumbos. Wong’s performance proved his strong understanding of how the course works.

“The number one handicap hole — the roughly 450-yard, directly uphill, par-four 16th — gives a lot of players trouble because they are scared of

its length, when in actuality, it is the straightest hole on the course with the flattest green and the least amount of trouble,” he said. “If you get your ball anywhere near the green in two shots it is an easy par. I was able to put it on the green both days and convert for a birdie the second day.”

The other four athletes who competed for Tufts were junior Sebastian Vik, junior John Wawer, Zorniger and senior Tyler McGrail. McGrail’s score was dropped in the final scoring, as it was the lowest of the five.

While the squad might not have had the success they were hoping for, it were certainly consistent. On Saturday, along with Wong’s 79, Vik, Wawer, and Zorniger shot 78, 85 and 86, respectively.

Their Saturday total of 328 had them in 17th place at the end of the day. Then, in Sunday’s round of 18 holes, the four players shot 77, 81, 83 and 86, respectively, to total 327, only one shot fewer than the day before. They again finished in 17th place.

Significant encouragement over the weekend came from Sebastian Vik, the team’s best player two years ago, who returned after a season off. His return

will certainly help the team next weekend, when the Jumbos will travel to Bowdoin College on Saturday for the NESCAC Qualifier.

“This weekend was Sebastian’s first tournament back and if we want to make any noise next week at the conference tournament, he will be an integral part of that,” Zorniger said.

As for the Jumbos’ chances in the qualifier, Zorniger said the team will face strong adversity with tough NESCAC opponents.

“We’re very excited for this upcoming weekend. The tournament at Bowdoin will be the first step on the road to nationals,” he said. “We play in possibly the strongest DIII golf conference in the northeast and so even this first step isn’t easy. We’ve never qualified for the second round of the conference tournament, so we’re looking to take that next step this year.”

“There are teams in the conference that are better than us and teams that are worse than us so we’re just going to prepare as best we can,” Zorniger added. “If we have a good performance, we will be right there in the hunt for one of the spots.”

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12th after the first two races. They had better luck with the rest of the boats, though, and were able to pull off a seventh place finish.

Senior tri-captain Kathleen Kwasniak and Liebenberg provided 18 solid races for the day in the C Division to lock up the top-four finish. For the experienced sailors, the early-season meet served as a chance to get back on the boats they will be sailing for most of the fall season.

“It was my first dinghy regatta of the season, and the first time I had sailed an FJ [boat] since the spring, so we were a little behind the pace on boat handling and speed,” Liebenberg said.

“We learned a lot and should be ready for our next regatta.”

Over at Dartmouth, it was a different story. Competing against the top women’s teams in the country, the Jumbos were unable to build up much momentum. Junior Kate Levinson

skippered the boat in the A Division with classmate Emily Linn serving at crew. They were only able to finish at the top of their division in a quarter of the races and finished in 15th place out of 16 teams.

In the B Division, freshman skipper MaryClaire Kiernan and sophomore crew Kate Wasynczuk finished in 12th place. The youngest duo to compete in either of the two big meets, the team showed promise, pulling out two firstplace finishes. Despite the low finish, the regatta gave the team a necessary learning experience.

“This weekend was great in helping us identify what we were good at, and also helping us find where we could improve,” Wasynczuk said. “The competition at this event was very good and taught us a lot. Our competitors were unforgiving and every mistake cost us a lot.”

While the Jumbos were unable to pull off any victories at the major regattas, they did take home three

smaller victories this weekend. At the Boston College Central Series, junior Duncan Swain and senior Julie Pringle finished in fourth place in the A Division. That was enough for the Jumbos to take home the win as seniors Willem Sandberg and Mara Porter dominated the B Division, winning six of the nine races.

At the Stuart Walker Open hosted by Middlebury, the Jumbos easily handled the small field. Senior Ben Weigel and junior Hannah Duggan won Division A, while freshman Scott Barbano and senior Sara Makaretz won Division B to give the Jumbos a sweep.

Back in Boston, the Jumbos won the BU Invite after finishing in second in both divisions. Sophomore Rolfe Glover and freshman Leah Fletcher sailed in the A division, and sophomore James Moody and senior Eliza White competed in the B division.

The next major meet for the women is this weekend as they head to Boston University for the Regis Bowl.

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attention to detail in every single match,” Jacobson said. “From top to bottom, we kept our energy high, and our unforced errors low. We took care of each individual point and in the end it was enough to get the win at eight spots.”

The Jumbos attributed their early success to the hard work they put in during the off-season and the hard work they are continuing to put in now.

“I think everyone’s hard work through the summer was evident in the early stages of the season,” sophomore Josh Girson said. “Additionally, everyone has put in a ton of time and effort since we’ve been back just really working hard to make the team better.”

Also over the off-season Tufts men’s tennis gained an assistant coach — Conrad Olsen. Olsen, a Middlebury

graduate, earned All-American honors in singles in 2007 and 2009, and, among other accolades, was named NESCAC Player of the Year in 2009. Conrad brings in experience and knowledge of what it takes to do well.

In just a little over a month, Conrad has become an influential part of the Tufts men’s tennis team.

“Conrad has been an amazing addition to the Tufts men’s tennis program. What he really brings to the table is database of experience and knowledge, which results from his accomplishments as a heavily decorated NESCAC player,” Jacobson said.

“He fundamentally understands what it takes to be a championship team, starting with the desire and commitment, all the way to the shot making and strategy.”

Tufts looks to continue its hard work from the off-season in order to keep up

their strong performance.

“We have the same plan for the rest of the season as we have had all year,” Girson said. “Practice hard every day and hopefully reap the benefits with good results.”

The Jumbos will stay goal-oriented as they move on through the rest of the fall season.

“We obviously have a lot of goals that we are aiming to accomplish as a team. The first was definitely to have a great performance in our first and only home match of the season, which we were able to accomplish,” Jacobson said.

Tufts looks to continue their season at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Championships tournament held at Middlebury later this week and then the Wallach Invitational tournament held at Bates in mid-October.

Aaron Leibowitz | The Fan

Winning, A’s style

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n the 10 years since Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball,” plenty of teams have tried to emulate the tactics of general manager Billy Beane and his Oakland Athletics. The basic idea is to identify the game’s “market inefficiencies” and, once you figure out what they are, exploit them to get a leg up.

Recently, smart management has helped low-payroll teams like Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and Cleveland compete for playoff spots. And yet the A’s are still unique. On Sunday, they clinched their second straight American League West title, and as of Monday evening their 93 wins were second most in MLB. The A’s have achieved back-to-back division crowns without signing any big-name free agents, and this past offseason they let Brandon Inge, Brandon McCarthy and Stephen Drew walk. But that’s not the surprising part, especially given their small-market status and Opening Day payroll of around $69 million, 26th out of 30 teams.

What’s truly remarkable is that the A’s have won without much help from their farm system. This distinguishes them from the Pirates (27th in payroll), who feature homegrown stars like Andrew McCutchen and Gerrit Cole, and the Rays (28th), who have nurtured Evan Longoria and David Price since their first professional moments.

The A’s have won with savvy transactions.

As always, there’s been luck involved — who could have guessed Bartolo Colon would share the AL lead in ERA (2.64)? But Beane deserves most of the credit.

Someone should make a movie about him.

Beane has basically assembled a group of no-names and turned it into one of the best clubs in baseball. The A’s have won with Coco Crisp, who re-signed with the team last January, hitting a career-high 22 home runs and making $7 million, third most on the team. They’ve won with the 40-year-old Colon as their ace. They’ve won by signing Brandon Moss to a minor league contract and trading for Jed Lowrie and snatching Nate Freiman off waivers.

They’ve won with Josh Donaldson, drafted 48th overall by the Cubs in 2007, as their best hitter, posting an on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) around .900. And they’ve won with just one first-round, homegrown draft pick ­— starting pitcher Sonny Gray.

You know how, going into a fantasy draft, you have your one or two sleeper picks in mind? Beane has a whole team of them.

It’s not necessarily that Beane is paying closer attention to the waiver wire and the trade market and the free agent market than his counterparts are — although it’s certainly possible. It’s that he’s paying better attention.

He will find a 40-year-old has-been who can out-duel your 23-year-old stud. His 35-yearold closer will outperform your 27-year-old flamethrower. His healthy infielders, making a combined $5.5 million, will out-hit and outfield your injured infielders making around $83 million. (Yes, it’s the Yankees.)

The Rays have received a lot of credit in recent years, and deservedly so, for executing a sort of “new Moneyball” approach to perfection. And the Pirates are this year’s Cinderella, having made the playoffs for the first time since the year I was born, 1992. Those teams are not only young, but they are also built from the ground up. They embody all that is possible with a potent farm system.

The A’s are a different kind of awesome.

They are not homegrown. They don’t have any superstars. They didn’t send a single offensive player to the All-Star game this year. But they make all the right moves.

I’m an NL guy, but I will be rooting for Oakland in October. If the A’s win it all, the baseball world will have no choice but to take notice.

Aaron Leibowitz is a senior who is majoring in American studies. He can be reached at Aaron.Leibowitz@tufts.edu.

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Men’s tennis downs Babson in home opener

by Jorge

Monroy-Palacio

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In its home opener on Friday, the men’s tennis team took down Babson in commanding fashion with an 8-1 victory.

The victory was a unifying one for a team that spent last weekend separated due to multiple away tournaments at Middlebury and Brown.

Playing together on the Voute Tennis Courts for the first time this year gave the Jumbos the extra momentum they needed to secure the win against rival Babson.

“We had amazing fan support. Having our family, friends and faculty cheer us on makes all the hard work we put in incredibly rewarding,” sophomore Rob Jacobsen told the Daily in an email.

The success for Tufts first came in the doubles matchups. The No. 2 doubles team, comprised of sophomore Jay Glickman and freshman Ryan Rosen, won its match handily 8-1. No. 3 doubles partners, seniors Matt Pataro and Austin Blau, won their match 8-4.

The only match Tufts dropped was in No. 1 doubles where sophomore Rob Jacobson and freshman Brad Wong lost a close match against Beavers Victor Vu and Roberto Perez, 8-6.

Once singles play was underway, Tufts was able to take a firmer hold of the contest.

Freshman Kevin Kelly took out Babson’s Connor DeFiore in the No. 4 singles match with a convincing 6-0, 6-3 win. No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 6 singles, Glickman, Jacobson, Wong and Tan, respectively, all won their matches in straight sets.

The closest match of the day was a contest between the No. 5 singles players Rosen and Babson freshman Davin Garcia. After a close first set that Garcia took 6-7(1), Rosen came back, winning the second 6-2. In the third set tiebreak, Rosen caught fire again, reeling off points at a time to win 6-7(1), 6-2, 10-3.

For the Jumbos, playing focused tennis was the biggest key to victory.

“I think [a] big factor is our

Sofia Adams / The Tufts Daily

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Rob Jacobson (right) won his No. 2 singles matchup against Babson Friday.

Men’s and Women’s Cross Country

Tufts opens season in impressive fashion by

Chris Warren

Contributing Writer

The nationally ranked women’s and men’s cross country teams finished second and fourth, respectively, in highly competitive fields at the University of Southern Maine Invitational in Gorham, Maine, on Saturday.

The women, ranked 29th nationally and 5th among NESCAC schools, finished with a 24-second 1-5 spread over the 5,000-meter course to place second to No. 3 MIT by only two points. The Jumbos beat out familiar foes Bates, Colby and Connecticut College.

The Jumbos were led up front by sophomores Olivia Beltrani, who finished fourth overall with a time of 18:23.74, and Audrey Gold, who finished seventh with a 18:26.95 mark. Senior tri-captains Abby Barker and Lauren Creath followed with finishes of ninth and 13th place, respectively, while classmate Laura Peterson capped off the scoring with her 21st place finish, giving the Jumbos a low 54 points on the day.

“The meet was a really good start to the season,” Gould said. “We’re able to run as a pack this season, and I’m especially happy to be running together with my teammates. We planned to go out together and run the first mile hard and tried to work off each other’s energy to run the next two together. Hopefully our top 5-7 can all move up together and get faster, along with the rest of the team, to bring us to a higher finish at NESCACs and regionals.”

Freshman Lindsay Atkeson also got her first taste of racing with a collegiate varsity squad as she was seventh in the field of Jumbos, running herself to a 18:53.64 time, good for 27th place overall. Running tandem with Atkeson was senior Molly Mirhashem, who finished just before her in 25th place.

The rest of the freshman squad also fared well in their first collegiate race, as a slew of new Jumbos finished the “5k” course in under 20 minutes.

Also posting a strong showing was the men’s squad, ranked 11th nationally and fourth among NESCAC schools.

The team sent a powerful message to

the rest of the competition with their fourth place finish. Despite a spreading sickness on the squad that left them without their top runners — senior Ben Wallace and sophomore Mike Curley — the Jumbos were able to score 95 points over the “5k” course.

Similar to the women’s team, the men utilized running with a group mentality to their advantage, riding an eight-second 1-5 spread in the race. The Jumbos were led by senior Jamie Norton, who finished 15 spots behind the field leader, Bowdoin standout Coby Horowitz. Norton placed just ahead of his two teammates, senior Andrew Shapiro and freshman Tim Nichols, who passed through the finish at 18th and 19th, respectively. Freshman Luke O’Conner, in 21st, and junior Nick Guarnaccia, in 22nd, rounded out the Jumbo stampede.

Pack running helped the Jumbos win NESCACs last season, so it may serve as a key advantage over many other teams this season.

“The meet went pretty well. We planned to go out conservatively for the first two miles, then finish hard for the last three miles,” sophomore James Traester, who finished in 64th place, said.

“We wanted to feel great going into the final mile to finish fast. We’re still very pleased with fourth place, despite missing Ben [Wallace] and Mike [Curley] from our lineup.”

Rounding out the top runners for the Jumbos on Saturday was the senior trio Benji Hansen (41st), Bobby McShane (50th) and Brian McLaughlin (51st), who also ran together throughout the race.

“Although this was a great meet for us, I definitely think next weekend’s meet at Bowdoin will help set us up for the rest of the season,” Traester said. “With the addition of Wallace and Curley into the lineup, who both put in a lot of miles this summer, and with a fully healthy squad, I think we can show our full potential.”

Next weekend, the Jumbos will travel to Brunswick, Maine, to the site of last year’s NESCAC Championships, Pickard Field Cross Country Course, for the Bowdoin Invitational.

Sailing

Tufts results mixed in nineregatta weekend by

Ross Dember

Daily Editorial Board

Once again, the Tufts sailing team was all over the New England coast as they competed in nine regattas this weekend. The co-ed and women’s teams competed in two main regattas, the Hatch Brown Trophy hosted by MIT and the Mrs. Hurst Bowl hosted

by Dartmouth, respectively, as they looked to see where they measured up against some of the top teams in the country.

It was a good weekend for the co-ed team with a fourth place finish in the three-division race, while the women’s team had to face some hard truths as it placed 14th out of 16 teams.

At MIT, the No. 12 Jumbos showed off their impressive depth and experience. They finished behind No. 3 Boston College, No. 1 Yale and No. 11 Navy, while defeating seven top-20 schools, four of which were ranked in the top 10.

Going up against tough competition is nothing new for the Jumbos, nor are the challenges that arise from sailing on the Charles River.

“Sailing on the Charles River is always hard,” senior tri-captain David Liebenberg said. “It is extremely shifty, and the wind strength is always changing.”

In the A Division, senior tri-captain Will Haeger and classmate Paula Grasberger showed why they are expected to be contenders at the national championships in November. With Haeger skippering and Grasberger filling her role as crew, the duo placed second. They were in the lead after the first three races and were able to hold on at the end for second place, despite the expected race-to-race fluctuations that plagued most of the teams.

For the B Division, juniors Alejandro Ruiz-Ramon and Sam Madden struggled at the beginning after finishing 17th and see SAILING, page 11

Courtesy William Hutchings

Tufts sailing once again divided its team among numerous regattas along the New England coast over the weekend. Despite no major victories, the group was able to capture smaller wins and build experience for the season.