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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

VOLUME LXVII, NUMBER 24

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BUILD: India participating in Tufts remembers Donna Milmore Campus Network fellowship by

Abigail Feldman

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Charlotte Rea

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The Millennium Campus Network (MCN), a nonprofit organization based in Boston, recently selected BUILD: India to participate in its fellowship program and receive a grant of up to $10,000.

According to Angad Bagai, a BUILD: India member who is representing the group in the MCN Fellowship Program, BUILD, which is an acronym of the group’s mission statement “Building Understanding through International Learning and Development,” was one of several groups selected to participate and receive funding for its project. “[MCN] took in a lot of grants, went over them and the ones that they thought had the most potential ... [they] took them on as fellows,” Bagai, a junior, said.

“What the fellowship entails is that anyone who is receiving these grants attends meetings in which we discuss our various projects [and] our various organizations.”

According to the MCN website, the network’s mission is to increase the effectiveness and sustainability of groups working toward the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals.

Participation in the fellowship provides groups like BUILD: India with coaching on leadership and strategic planning.

Bagai explained that the chosen groups will receive their grants when the fellowship program ends in May. The grants will vary in size according to the group’s needs, he said.

“We will need to work with the MCN officials on how much we actually get — it would be a budget that is agreed upon by them as well as us,” he said. “We are hoping to get the maximum $10,000 and, based on [this] project, we should be able to, but a lot of it depends on both of us coming to an agreement.”

According to Bagai and fellow BUILD: India member Shobhita Narain, the Institute for Global Leadership-based program will use the funding on projects aimed at developing

Donna Milmore, assistant director of the Career Center for the past 14 years, passed away suddenly on Feb. 16.

She was 63-years-old.

Dean of Campus Life Bruce Reitman announced her death to the Tufts community in an email he sent last Tuesday.

“In her work at the Career Center, [Milmore] has touched the lives of thousands of Tufts undergraduates, graduate students and alumni,” Reitman wrote. “She will be deeply missed by all who knew her.”

At the Career Center, Milmore was responsible for consulting with students about careers, job searches and graduate school decisions, according to her colleagues Jean Papalia, the Career Center director, and Donna Esposito, the Career Center senior associate director.

“She was really a cheerleader,” Papalia said. “She always really supported people and their goals and dreams and what they wanted to do.”

Over the years, Milmore maintained close relation-

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Milmore found her ‘real calling’ as Career Center assistant director.

University begins negotiations with part-time faculty union by

Daniel Bottino

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University administrators and union representatives for part time faculty began negotiations earlier this month.

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The School of Arts and Sciences entered negotiations on Feb. 7 with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), an organization that represents Tufts’ parttime faculty.

During the negotiations, union members said they hope to discuss issues of compensation, job security and evaluation processes, in addition to presenting other demands and alleged grievances, according to Andrew Klatt, a lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages.

“Compensation for parttime faculty is far below that of full time faculty,” he said.

“Little by little ... universities have transformed the instruction workforce into a low-wage, low-paid and in most cases without-benefits workforce.”

The university is still in the process of developing positions on the individual issues being discussed, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences James Glaser said.

“Some of the proposals will come from the union, and some will come from us,” he said. “What exactly those proposals are, I don’t feel that I am at liberty to say, in part because our thinking is not fully clarified yet.”

One of the issues the union members will likely discuss is

the salary freeze for part-time faculty that has been in place for the last five years, Klatt said.

“Every year that goes by, in real terms, there is a pay cut for someone who gets a zero percent [salary] increase,” he said.

According to Klatt, the university has shown no sign of changing their compensation policy. “[ The pay freeze] was the university’s decision to impose,” he said. “Some administrators will object and say that it wasn’t in perpetuity, but in effect it was, because it’s in perpetuity until and unless they decide otherwise.”

An additional issue that Klatt mentioned involves job security for part-time faculty members, whose terms are outlined in appointment letters, he said. “[ The appointment letters] explicitly state that [the appointment] is depend[ent] on the needs of the university,” he said. “The reason it says that is because classes can be canceled for under-enrollment. We have no compensation for canceled courses.”

While it is possible they will have an agreement before the end of the semester, the negotiation process will likely extend beyond May, explained.

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Band of Horses’ live album maintains high standards of its previous studio-recorded tracks.

Sapporo Ramen a hidden gem in Lesley University’s University Hall.

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Police Briefs BREAKING BAD Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) on Feb. 21 at 4 a.m. received a call from two female students in Lewis Hall after they awoke to find that a male Tufts student had entered their room.

They yelled at him to leave the room, pushed him out and locked their door.

The male student began banging on the door and yelling to be let back in. TUPD arrived and took the student, who was intoxicated, to Somerville Hospital. He was also placed under arrest for breaking and entering.

ROOFTOP RELAXATION Officers on Feb. 22 at 2:05 a.m. received

a call about two students on the roof of Metcalf Hall. When officers asked what they were doing on the roof, the students replied that they were simply enjoying the nice night. They were sent on their way.

TURN DOWN FOR TUPD TUPD on Feb. 23 at 12:30 a.m. received a call about a loud party on Whitman Street. When officers arrived, they cleared about 150 people from the house.

THROUGH THE SIDE DOOR Police on Feb. 23 at 12:45 a.m. responded along with Somerville Police to a call

about a wild party on Curtis St. They located the house and found a note on the front door instructing guests to enter through the side door. The police proceeded through the side door and found 200 to 250 people, along with a DJ, in the basement. When the owner was questioned, he said that it started as a small party and got out of control. The sign on the door and the presence of the DJ caused TUPD to question his story.

REGISTRATION BLUES Two officers in their cruiser on Professor’s Row on Feb. 23 at 12:47 a.m. saw a vehicle speeding down Professor’s Row from Curtis St. and toward Packard Ave. The vehicle made a right turn onto

Program could receive grant of up to $10,000

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community health and education programs in the village of Thottiyapatti. BUILD: India has already been involved in the implementation of EcoSan toilets in Thottiyapatti.

“For a long time we wanted to start community health clubs in the community we work with,” Narain, a sophomore said. “Basically, this was an initiative that would kind of complement our work with the toilets we started in the community, and basically involve women ... and discussing issues of health, nutrition, child health ... and build a sense of community within the women across different age groups.”

BUILD: India’s idea was based off of a project with a proven track record according to group member Vidya Srinivasan.

“This is a model that has been used in Africa,” Svrinivasan, a

sophomore who is also a copy editor for the Tufts Daily, said.

“We noted in our application we would be the first ones to try to implement it in India ...

I think that [this] helped set our application apart because it [involves] taking something that has a proven success rate, but changing it.”

According to Bagai, BUILD: India also hopes to work on other new endeavors to provide locals in Thottiyapatti with supplementary income in a sustainable way.

Srinivasan explained that these income-generation programs are meant to use skills people already possess.

“One of the ideas ... was starting a cutting vegetables enterprise, where the women of the village would actually cut vegetables and supply [them] to [an] engineering college,” Srinivasan said. “... Cutting vegetables is a skill that almost all the women, if not all the

women, in Thottiyapatti have.

So it’s really using their existing skills instead of trying to create these trainings in order to [teach them].”

Bagai emphasized the important role the grant could play in making these initiatives come to fruition.

“What we’re hoping for from MCN is that some of the money can also go into this new income-generation program,” he said. “As a student group, we don’t have the capital to actually enable a startup, and at the same time, once we leave, it’s difficult for us to follow up [on it].”

Bagai said that his experience as an MCN fellow has been rewarding and has provided BUILD: India with useful ideas.

“It’s been a really good experience so far because it has been good to interact with other organizations from other universities [that] have similar goals,” he said.

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BUILD: India members are participating in Millennium Campus Network Fellowship and could receive up to $10,000 in grant funding to put toward projects in Thottiyapatti, India.

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negotiations over a whole variety of issues, and I’m hopeful we’ll be able to come to a resolution on them,” he said.

According to Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler, the first meeting between the union and university was “collegial” and she said she hopes the discussions remain civil and fair.

“We will listen carefully to the union’s ideas, taking into account the needs of students, the school and the university as a whole,” Thurler told the Daily in an email. “Foremost

in our minds will be supporting academic excellence and a high-quality experience for our students. We hope that our final agreement will serve as the basis for a rewarding, long term relationship with our part-time lecturers and the union.”

Klatt also hopes to reach a fair compromise with the administration, he said.

“It’s all tied up in what it means to have a middle class life in the United States, to be a professional with a professional compensation package that allows you to rent or buy a decent place to live, to have

a family, and to plan for retirement,” Klatt said.

According to Glaser, he is representing the university along with its attorneys and Vice President of Human Resources Linda Cataldo.

Students are also planning to rally support for the parttime faculty during the negotiation process, according to Tufts Labor Coalition member Lior Appel-Kraut.

“It is our role as students to support [the part-time faculty] and to not let their efforts go unnoticed and pretend like it doesn’t affect us,” she said.

Packard Ave. where the officers stopped it. The driver, a Tufts student, had a driver’s license but his registration was suspended. Because of this, his vehicle was towed and he will not be able to recover it until he registers it with the state of Colorado.

CLOSE TO HOME A local man entered the Tufts Daily office at approximately 11 p.m. on Feb. 24. He appeared to be intoxicated and TUPD was called. The man was placed under arrest and transported to the police station. Officers said the man has a lengthy record.

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Career Center assistant director passes away at 63 MILMORE

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ships with hundreds of students and alumni whom she worked with while they attended Tufts graduate and undergraduate programs, Papalia added.

“Her office [was] always covered with postcards and thank you notes, correspondence of students and alumni as they would graduate and keep in touch with her,” she said.

One such alum, Bob Curry (A ’04), who began working with Milmore as a freshman in 2000, explained that he had kept in touch with Milmore since he left Tufts. Milmore also attended his childrens’ baptisms.

“She was someone I was very close with,” Curry told the Daily. “I may have only talked to her once every six months, or once every three months, but she always was there.”

Alumnus and Associate Director of Admissions Dan Grayson, who met with Milmore during his senior year at Tufts to discuss potential career paths, said he remembers being impressed with Milmore’s ability to not only give him meaningful advice in styling his resume and cover letters, but also to make him feel confident about his plans after graduation.

“You need to be excited enough that seniors with no clue what they are doing — and I was a senior with no clue of what I was doing — can start to get excited about their own job searches and their own futures,” he said.

“But the energy needs to be wrapped in a way that doesn’t create anxiety and fear, and I think that’s a tight balance to walk.”

Grayson added that it was Milmore who first suggest that he look into jobs at higher education institutions.

Milmore began employment at Tufts later in life after gaining a background in public relations and marketing, according to Papalia. Having received an undergraduate degree from Suffolk University in 1976 and a Master’s in public relations from Boston University in 1984, Milmore held key positions at a number of businesses, including Nicolazzo & Associates, Costello Erdlen & Company and Haymarket Consulting Group. Milmore also worked as a freelance writer for the Boston Globe until 2008.

Papalia said that Milmore considered her job at the Career Center her real passion.

“This was sort of her real

calling,” Papalia said. “She loved work everyday.”

Outside of the university, Milmore, a resident of Charlestown, Mass., was an active member of the St. Mary - St. Catherine of Sienna parish and of her former parish, St. Mary’s of the Annunciation of Melrose. Esposito and Curry said Milmore’s family — three grown daughters and four grandchildren — composed the center of her life.

“She loved children,” Curry said. “She babysat [her grandchildren], got to spend time with them, and that was something she always cherished. Family was always very important to her.”

Carolyn Talmadge, who met Milmore as a Tufts graduate student, said she would miss the knowledge she gained from Milmore every time they spent time together. “[Milmore] was full of wisdom and advice and had the uncanny ability to make anyone feel instantly comfortable,” Talmadge wrote in a letter addressed to Milmore’s family and friends. “Her cheerful disposition and friendly attitude allowed her to light up any room and truly made her a pleasure to be around.”

Papalia and Esposito agreed that Milmore quickly connected with both students and co-workers.

“If you knew her for 15 minutes or 15 years, it really felt like she really knew you and really cared about you,” Papalia said.

Sophomore Alexis O’Connell, who works at the Career Center, and senior Meagan Edmonds both described Milmore as extremely caring and supportive. “[Milmore] went far beyond discussing resumes and cover letters, she took the time to get to know students as whole individuals,” Edmonds said. “[Milmore] always made a point to make people feel very comfortable in the office,” O’Connell said. “Most notably, she was always so grateful for the work that I and my fellow students did for her...The office is going to be very different without her.”

According to Reitman, the university plans to host a ceremony to honor Milmore’s life sometime later in the year.

“I think the Tufts community really lost someone special,” Curry said. “She’s going to be very difficult to replace.”

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Not So Gentlemen debut at successful AppleJam show in the Crane Room.

‘Not So Gentleman’ enters Tufts music scene Trio combine funk, rock influences with original songwriting by

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After a year of playing together, sophomore blues trio “Not So Gentleman” performed for its first audience in the Crane Room in a Tufts AppleJam concert last Saturday. It was a night they had been anticipating for quite some time.

Music has been a part of two of the band members’ lives since childhood.

Both Henry Butler, the band’s drummer, and Avram Ellner, the band’s guitarist, have played their instruments since the fourth grade.

“I just took lessons, I didn’t really play by myself much,” Butler said.

“Then in high school, I played in jazz band.”

But the sophomores said they kept their music to themselves until college, when they found other people who not only enjoyed playing, but also enjoyed the experience of playing together.

“I came from a very technical playing [background] because my guitar teacher was in a band in the ‘80s ... like an ‘80s pop metal band,” Ellner said.

At Tufts, they found each other through a mutual friend, band bassist Max Leonhardt. The trio soon began jamming together, even though Leonhardt had not played previously played the bass.

“I knew Avram [played guitar] ... and I knew Henry played drums because he was trying to find someone to play drums with, and I was like, ‘Oh, I know this dude who shreds and I know this dude who play the drums,’ and then, those two met up, and I was like, ‘This is stupid, I want to play with my friends,’” Leonhardt said. “So one night the three of us just went into Boston and bought a bass.”

Leonhardt started taking lessons through Tufts, improved bit by bit, and quickly started playing the blues with Butler and Ellner. Since then, the trio has learned to better their musical talents together.

“We slowly weaned Avram off the Daily Editorial Board

metal and into the blues,” Leonhardt said. “I came into it very ... metal.

Then one day [Henry] actually gave me like 500 blues songs — it was like Gary Clark, Jr. and Jimi Hendrix’ Blues album, like The Black Keys, stuff like that — and I was hooked, and I knew a little bit about the blues and then we started jamming some blues stuff.”

The simple construction that forms the basis of the blues, six notes, made learning to play with his two more experienced bandmates that much easier, Leonhardt added.

“You just play those six notes in different patterns ... and that was easy for me, so I just picked that up,” he said.

Although they play the blues, the bandmates’ different music tastes and experiences as musicians, give them a sound of their own.

“I’ve been telling people [that we’re] blues, rock, funk with a sprinkle of shred,” Ellner said. “The good thing is we all came into it with different musical backgrounds and you can definitely hear everything combine, sort of mish mosh together into this very unique sound.”

Sam Worthington, a sophomore and president of AppleJam, the student collective which organized the show in which the band debuted, agreed with Ellner’s description of Not So Gentlemen. He also hailed the band’s first show, which headlined Shark Saddle and included Like Wolves, Dirty Lou and Thaddeus Strauss, as a success. “[Not So Gentleman was] interesting. They’re definitely a jam band with some rock-like influences ... they definitely have some jam elements ... Also a lot of shredding — [they are] pretty virtuous,” he said. “We were pretty much at capacity of the Crane Room for the entire show but people were cycling in and out. We had probably around 200 students attend.”

Part of Not So Gentlemen’s unique sound originates in their song selection: they make their own music.

“We don’t formally write a song, we’ll just be jamming and we’ll listen to it, because usually we record every session, so we’ll listen back and find something cool,” Butler said.

“We were messing around with this one riff, and then I said to Max, ‘Well, what do you think the bass line should be?’ and he was like, ‘Oh I don’t know,’ and then sings this thing, and I was like, ‘Sing it again, sing it again,’” Ellner added. “I figured it out on guitar and gave it to him on bass and that was the bass line. Sometimes it’s just messing around and you stumble across something that you just pick up and see where you can take it.”

The bandmates have become so tuned into their own music that it’s begun to permeate their friendship — even when they’re not rehearsing.

“The other day we were hanging out, we had a guitar, and we just started jamming on the guitar and singing to it and making beats to it,” Leonhardt said. “It’s just become a large part of our life, music and making music together.”

The bandmates said they are already looking toward what is next for the group, which includes another performance in Hotung Café on Thursday.

“I’m just looking forward to being able to follow [Saturday] up again by playing another show,” Butler said At their last practice before the Saturday night, Not So Gentlemen still had a few kinks to work out of their set list.

“Anything that could’ve gone wrong, went wrong,” Ellner said, laughing. “So hopefully that was to get it out for the day, and it’ll be fine during the gig. I feel like even if we do mess up, we’d be able to go with the flow at this point.”

Before each concert, Leonhardt said their first priority is playing the best show they possibly can that night, and making sure they enjoy performing.

“I’m excited just to be up in front of people jamming and just get people moving,” Leonhardt said.

he other day, one of my male friends told me that girls are just as messy as guys. He said it as if it were some big truth, as if girls have been keeping this secret for centuries, and it’s just now come to light.

In a way, this is sort of true. This feels like a more recent idea, something that hasn’t been an issue before. But it’s also pretty ridiculous.

It’s not really fair to say that girls are messy, just like it’s not fair to say that guys are messy. Some guys are messy.

Some girls are messy, too. But not all.

Some guys are neat and organized. Some guys leave socks on the floor. Some girls don’t put away their shoes. Sometimes people are messy. Messiness isn’t a gendered thing. Having a vagina does not automatically make you a neat person.

Nor does it mean you should be messy.

How would your genitals have any effect on how neat you are?

The thing is, they don’t. It’s not the genitals that are the problem, it’s the idea that men and women are fundamentally different mentally and emotionally. The idea that you have to be one or the other, that gender is this discrete binary state that decides everything about you.

Part of me thinks this whole idea of women being the neat ones and men being the messy ones comes from the traditional “role” of women in the household.

Women were supposed to keep the house clean, so people just started assuming women are neat. Because society forced women to clean.

That’s like if someone made you eat nothing but kale, and then assumed you love kale because you eat it all the time. It’s pretty messed up.

What I don’t understand is why people are so surprised by girls being messy. One article I read made it seem like it came out of nowhere. All of a sudden, girls aren’t cleaning their rooms, and all of a sudden guys are. And for some reason, this is a big problem.

Meanwhile, as far as I can tell, how messy or neat someone is has nothing to do with gender. People just have different tolerances for mess. Some people are okay with leaving dishes out, but don’t like leaving things on the floor. Some people are the opposite.

People. Not women. Not men.

At the beginning of the school year, my soon-to-be roommate warned me that she was messy. At no point in time did I think it was so crazy that a girl could be messy. I just packed a vacuum.

Meanwhile, I have male friends whose rooms are not only clean, but also very well organized. Although I also know some guys who have messy rooms, too.

In the grand scheme of things, who is and isn’t messy really doesn’t matter.

There are bigger stereotypes that women are fighting against. But sometimes, little things can make a difference, even if only a small one. Someone who judges a girl for being messy or judges a guy for being neat because they are that gender perpetuates the idea that women have to be this way, and men have to be another way.

They reinforce the fear of any crossover between the two genders. A man certainly can’t cook or wash dishes. That’s women’s work. And a woman certainly can’t go out and chop wood. That’s way too manly. A woman who’s good at math? Absurd.

But gender stereotyping hurts all of us, as a society and as individuals. And more importantly, why does anyone even care if guys clean their rooms or girls leave everything on the floor?

This whole thing is ridiculous.

Anastasia Korolov is freshman who has not declared a major. She can be reached at Anastasia.Trombly@tufts.edu.

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Album Review

Band of Horses delivers acoustic hits, fails to show development Nika Korchok

Band of Horses’ new, live album “Acoustic at the Ryman” should sound like a branching off from the band’s usual by

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Acoustic at the Ryman Band of Horses Brown/ Kobalt sound. It should sound like a progressive step forward, or an engaging inside look at the members’ concert personalities and stage presences. It should present a new angle towards the band’s music and unique voice. It should do a lot of these things, and yet it falls short on every single one of them.

There is pure irony in a group like Band of Horses recording an acoustic album. It is like saying that Metallica is going to record a metal album or Chuck Close is going to do a collection of hyper-realist paintings. In other words, this whole idea reads as one big, “So what?”

It is not to say that the album isn’t well done. The listener is treated to a collection of greatest hits, if you will. This is a compilation of Band of Horses’ stellar somber and haunting tracks, tracks that emerged into the mainstream public eye with unsettling lyrics like those from hit song “The Funeral” (2006): “I’m coming up only to hold you under / And com-

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The band’s usual acoustic sound is simply drawn out on its newest release. ing up only to show you’re wrong.” It’s pretty easy to see why acoustic seems like something pretty normal for this band.

In fact, every song on the album sounds nearly identical to those recorded on previous albums. As great as it is for listeners in this day of hyper-manufactured pop zombies and auto-tuned boy bands, to know that a group can actually deliver beautiful live music should not come as

TV Review

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Dana Guth

In recent years, television’s repertoire of supernatural teen dramas has grown so robust that a new (or, rather, updat-

Star-Crossed Starring Aimee Teegarden, Matt Lanter, Malese Jow

ed) genre, the forbidden cross-species romance, seems to have taken over.

The modern illicit love story, between a paranormal outsider and an innocent human, is so present in current popculture that it has practically become a parody of itself. That didn’t stop the CW from developing “Star-Crossed,” which premiered last Monday and is next in line for a shot at formulaic success, this time with a sci-fi twist.

“Star-Crossed” begins as extraterres-

Airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on CW

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a surprise given their success in the indie scene.

The majority of songs, save for “Slow Cruel Hands of Time” (2012) off of the band’s second-latest release “Mirage Rock” (2012), are from albums of yesteryear. Sprinkled throughout are tracks from Band of Horses’ 2007 mas-

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Sapporo Ramen reigns as local favorite by

Anthony Martinez Daily Editorial Board

There is a small restaurant tucked away among the various eateries of University Hall, a mini-mall now also home to

Sapporo Ramen 1815 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02144

(617) 876-4805 $ Lesley University. Squeezed between the other Korean and Japanese restaurants, it would be easy to miss — it would be easy to miss, that is, if it not for the line of people wrapped around the corner of the food court waiting to be seated. This is Sapporo Ramen, the jewel of Lesley University’s ground floor.

Sapporo has a reputation for its exceptionally good house ramen, and perhaps this has made the proprietors a bit lackadaisical; around 3 p.m. the restaurant ceases operations so that the staff can have a lunch break for nearly an hour and a half before reopening to a new line of eager patrons. You could easily find yourself waiting in a substantial line for nearly 30 minutes, wishing that somebody would turn back the little hands on the adjustable “We’ll be back in _____” sign with its faded blue clock graphic.

But if you weather the line, you’ll be ferried into the restaurant by an employee who will ask you your order (there are menus if you’re unsure). The restaurant is small, and the staff are trying to fill as much space as possible, so you run the risk of being seated at a table with strangers — and it’s not

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Matt Lanter plays an alien assimilating into an American high school.

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Dani Bennett | Scenes From Spain

Shout out to the Swiss

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hen you think of Switzerland, what comes to mind? Is it the rolling, green hills? Is it the Alps? Is it skiing or watches?

Or is it the fact that you always get confused between an ambulance symbol and the Swiss flag? These are all true of the Swiss, but what you cannot skip over are the cows that graze in this picturesque, mountainous landscape — and the cheese and chocolate that their milk produces.

Looking up with glassy blue eyes, an older Swiss man named Alexandre asks if I want to churn the preposterously large cauldron of soon-to-be-cheese — a milky liquid that sits above a crackling fire. Alexandre works at one of the largest cheese factories in all of Switzerland and does demonstrations for the public twice a day. He hands me the wooden stirring tool with a smile and adamantly talks in hoarse French about what seems to be the speed at which I must stir the steaming liquid. After a few attempts, his eyes light up to let me know that I have at least temporarily mastered a small portion of the cheese-making art. His enthusiasm for the cheese he is making never stops, as I can see him smiling — content and proud — even when I leave the demonstration area to go taste some of the factory’s cheese.

While cheese may be popular in other parts of the world, nowhere is there as much enthusiasm for it than in Switzerland. From the Gruyère (hard cheese) to the Mutschli (semi-hard) to the Gala (soft cheese), the Swiss seem to have their priorities straight when it comes to food. While Spain may have 100 different varieties of cheese and various northern regions where manchego and other famous sharp Spanish cheese is found, Switzerland can boast rolling, luscious hills on which cows can graze for days.

Take a quick trip from Geneva — a town known for its beautiful Lac Léman and flower clock — to Gruyères, where cheese lovers can bask in the glory of endless cheese fondue shops situated next to one of the most breathtaking views you can experience.

While there are various types of fondue, the two main varieties that dominate in cheese country include raclette and traditional fondue. While traditional fondue is exactly what you expect, raclette involves a block of cheese and a heating machine: the cheese is placed on the heating machine, and soon, bubbly goodness awaits. After a few minutes, the block of cheese begins to melt and crisp, and you can scrape off the gooey top layer.

Chocolate in Switzerland, unlike many other countries, is pretty much exclusively milk chocolate. Dark chocolate, on the other hand, is not quite the Swiss specialty; you’d better go to Spain or other parts of Europe if you (like me) prefer the rich, bitter taste of dark chocolate. Spain’s conquest of the Aztecs allowed the Spanish to begin importing chocolate from the New World back to Spain, and their chocolate secrets then began to spread to the rest of Europe. But it was the Spanish that discovered the exotic flavor first — evidenced by the dark chocolate that is produced in mass quantities in Spain.

Like the Spanish, though, the love of sugary and fatty dairy products in Switzerland does not lead to overweight bodies and bloated faces. If anything, a typical Swiss person is healthy and active — often because activities such as hiking and skiing are within an hour from most of the major cities, like Geneva and Zurich.

It’s official: The Swiss love their milk chocolate and cheese as much as the Spanish love their dark chocolate and churros — a match made in gastronomical heaven.

Dani Bennett is a junior who is majoring in English and spending this semester abroad in Spain. She can be reached at Danielle.Bennett@tufts.edu.

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unheard of for one solo diner to be placed with another to consolidate space. The forced intimacy, simultaneously brusque and endearing, is one caveat of the restaurant that is perhaps oddly indicative of the entire dining experience — casual and cozy.

Sapporo Ramen is a grungy venue, but it carries itself well.

From the pea green walls to the packets of chopsticks stuffed in wooden centerpieces on the tables, the restaurant has small, classy touches that keep it from diving over the edge into a fullblown dive. There are pros and cons to the size — into which about 20 diners at a time can fit. On one hand, once you’re seated you can sit back in relative peace, watching the chefs prepare your food in the exposed kitchen, savoring the smell of fresh ramen. On the other hand, if you’re one of the sorry suckers waiting in line, the low seating capacity means that you may have a bit of a wait ahead of you.

Overall, the atmosphere is pleasant and the service is efficient and accommodating.

If you’re a first-timer, you should really order the house ramen. Sapporo boasts a soup base full of natural collagen and

fresh vegetables, a broth that’s been boiled over high heat for more than ten hours. And there must be some merit to this, because the house ramen is delicious. It comes with tender pieces of pork that have been sprinkled with mung bean sprouts, corn and half a hard-boiled egg.

A single small strip of seaweed garnishes one edge of the bowl.

The broth is a thick creamy yellow. It’s mildly spicy, savory and incredibly filling — every bite is a tiny explosion of flavor. While the house ramen is the cornerstone of the menu, the restaurant still has a variety of other items (including the highly renowned spicy miso).

Sapporo Ramen deserves its reputation as a diamond in the rough. This restaurant is indeed a hidden gem — albeit a wellworn one that’s been around the block. The dining experience may not be for everybody, but for those who enjoy more adventurous locales, Sapporo Ramen carries a certain informal charm that can’t be found at more stodgy haunts. With such high quality food at such low prices, it’s almost difficult to justify eating anywhere else nearby.

Be aware, though, of the possible drawbacks: the food may be good, but the line is long.

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The casual décor of Sapporo Ramen is likely to put visitors at ease, once they get a table, that is.

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trials called the Atrians land in current day America. They are peaceful beings, but they receive a not-so-welcome greeting and are forced — against their better judgment — to fight back against the hostility. As all the rules for the standard alien story necessitate, the visitors are immediately deemed a threat to the militaristic human race. One little girl can see past this, however, and shows syrupy sweetness towards a young Atrian she stumbles upon in hiding.

Fast-forward about a decade in the future, and the Atrians are attempting to assimilate into life on planet Earth (read: suburban American high school).

The divide between conservative objectors and progressive advocates has blatant racial parallels, in the same vein of “Avatar” (2009) and even “E.T.” (1982).

Complete with picket-sign rallies outside a recently integrated education facility, the depiction of the conflict between humans and Atrians is rife with political and historical undertones — despite

there being very little physical distinction between the two. However thinly veiled, these are not inherent flaws, and in fact could contribute to the show’s overall depth if given the chance.

But the creators of “Star-Crossed” seem more concerned with romantic boundaries than racial ones, leaving most of these racially tinged issues to float aimlessly in the background. Stealing the limelight instead is Emery Whitehill — played by Aimee Teegarden of “Friday Night Lights” (2006-2011) — the aforementioned young girl who has blossomed into the series’ gorgeous protagonist. Her fated pursuer Roman (Matt Lanter) is, of course, the boy Emery encountered in the show’s opening. They immediately recognize each other on the first day of school, and all the complications of a cross-cultural romance ensue.

If the title is not enough of an indication, “Star-Crossed” is modern television’s latest rendition of “Romeo and Juliet” (1597), or basically any good-girl-lovesforbidden-boy drama written thereafter.

The show’s writers did make a wise choice

in developing other aspects of the plot, such as Emery’s best friend’s bout with cancer and the Atrians’ gritty living quarters. In fact, the potential lovers’ relationship is almost subdued in the pilot episode due to a need for extensive world building.

Nuanced elements like these allow “StarCrossed” a wider appeal than what simply honing in on Emery and Roman would offer. One gets the feeling, however, that it will only take another episode or two for their “unexpected” love story to unfold and take center stage.

This expectation most likely stems from the weariness that accompanies audiences’ rapid-fire exposure to fantasy-driven romances. It seems even more contrived when taking place in the laughably stereotypical high school setting for which networks like the CW are known. The crossover between two of television’s most frequently used genres gives rise to an infinite supply of clichés from too-easily categorized cliques to dramatic cafeteria fights. This is not to mention the use of a 30-year-old actor (Lanter) to pass as a high school stu-

dent — a frequent occurrence in teen dramas. At least the network’s writers are consistent.

But can anyone really blame them?

Shows like “Teen Wolf” (2011-present), “True Blood” (2008-present) and “The Vampire Diaries” (2009-present) continue to enjoy immense success. Like the lovers in these standard plotlines, the themes present in “Star-Crossed” have proven durable enough to survive even the harshest critiques. Series along these lines can have an inexplicably entertaining quality.

Glossy hair and superhuman muscle tone do not make a perfect show, but they can carry one quite far on the teenage romance circuit. So although “Star-Crossed” might not escape any of its expected limitations, it has definite potential, even if only as a guilty pleasure.

Still, each time an overused teen show trope is worked into the script, it becomes more and more challenging to take the actual storyline seriously. This new series is light and amusing, but unfortunately, “Star-Crossed” is still light-years away from creating anything original.

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terpiece — the gloomy album “Cease to Begin,” which produced such popular hits as “No One’s Gonna Love You,” “Detlef Schrempf ” and “Marry Song.” On their own albums the tracks are beautiful, and compiled together they should be a roiling triumph, yet listening to “Acoustic at the Ryman” feels like the mixed tape compilation of a very lovelorn and musically mature teenager. There is no commentary between tracks, nor do Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke, the band’s two co-founders, share funny stories or provide thought-provoking interludes. There is simply music, which is a lot less appealing stripped-down than one might expect.

A live album should not be impossible to execute. Bruce Springsteen has been doing it for years with great success. While it would be an unbelievable disservice to The Boss to compare Band of Horses to his years of brilliant artistry, his work stands here for comparison’s sake to show what a real live album should be: wild, unpredictable, fun. Acoustic or slower tracks, anything off of Springsteen’s “Nebraska” (1982)

for example, are never left out in the cold to fend for themselves on live recordings. They are given captivating epic stories that rival the grandeur of the songs themselves. Band of Horses does none of that.

Despite these faults, there still are several standout tracks on the album.

“Everything’s Gonna be Undone” (2012) and “Older” (2010) shine as faster, folksy gems. While much of Band of Horses’ work relies on a woodsy ambience reminiscent of Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver, these two songs are more evocative of a Mumford and Sons-esque banjoplaying jamboree. Their pure dissimilitude from the rest of the album makes it worth a listen, and the evolution from the same tracks off earlier records shows hints of growth for the band.

However, the majority of the work on this album reads as lazy, or simply tired.

The songs are beautiful but now, barely ten years old, Band of Horses has set out an album that indicates the band may have run out of steam. It is only the hope that fans of the band’s work aren’t witnessing the musical funeral of a truly unique group any time soon, and that the band can revive itself and its image with innovation in the future.

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Band of Horses show little differentiation between live and recorded sound.

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Salary freeze and low job security problems for adjunct professors In September of last year, Tufts’ adjunct professors voted to unionize. The School of Arts and Sciences has now begun negotiations with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), representing the university’s adjunct faculty. In a recent statement sent to the Tufts community, the administration announced that, “Tufts is committed to a good working relationship with the SEIU and hopes to work productively and with mutual respect toward a contract.” They promise to engage collegially with the union, and hope to reach amicable, fair terms.

This is the first step to resolving conflicts between the administration and more than half of the professors that Tufts enlists every semester.

A part-time faculty bargaining committee has been established to advocate for part-time professors. This committee has a list of well-defined demands and grievances. From compensation, to medical and retirement programs, to office space and other benefits, part-time faculty have a plethora of issues worth addressing. First on that list is compensation, and for good rea-

son. In 2009, Tufts placed a freeze on the salaries of many part time faculty.

That restriction, nearly five years old, has yet to be lifted. If the university hopes for a “rewarding, long term relationship with ... the Union,” it should start with lifting the freeze.

Granted, when the freeze was first applied in 2009, Tufts, along with the rest of the country, was going through a major financial crisis. The salary freeze, while not ideal, was certainly understandable and even necessary.

Since then, financial markets have stabilized, the stock indexes have grown to new heights and the country has emerged from recession, yet part-time professors’ salaries remain frozen.

The discrepancy between full-time professors and their part time peers has also grown. According to an op-ed in the Boston Globe, in the 20122013 school year, assistant professors at Tufts in the School of Arts and Sciences made an average of $77,829 a year. Adjusted for the percentage of compensation attributed to research and service to the university, assistant professors made just under $13,000

per course taught, while adjunct professors earned a little over $5,000 for the same.

To be clear, we do not advocate that part-time faculty should receive exactly the same benefits as full-timers. While some differences in compensation are understandable, such drastic disparities are worrisome. Professors without sufficient salaries often have to work at multiple institutions, which can make scheduling office hours difficult, and may limit the time that these instructors can spend in preparing and investing in their classes and students here on the Hill. And all of this ignores that part-time professors are beginning to take on exactly the same obligations as full-time faculty. To that point, there has discussion within the Tufts Community Union Senate to allow adjunct professors to serve as student advisors.

Students, by and large, interact no differently with full-time versus part-time faculty. Yet the administration draws a distinct line between the two. As initial negotiations begin between the Union and the administration, a salary thaw should be a first step.

presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, MA ACLU representative Arnie Reisman and many others, as well as a string of television anchors and reporters.

Yes, Arianna Huffington has been spoofed on SNL. So has Brian Williams. And Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour and some of our other Murrow Forum headliners. Being the target of late night comedy or talk shows doesn’t mean that someone isn’t doing interesting, innovative and important work. Huffington’s contributions to creating a new kind of vehicle for online news are significant. So is her position as one of the relatively few women in senior management in media.

News is dynamic. The Daily is right to suggest that “now more than ever, the lines are blurred” between news, opin-

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Taking back Zionism

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by Shira Shamir

In 1894, a French-Jewish officer, Alfred Dreyfus, was unjustly accused of treason, eventually convicted and sentenced to life in prison. A young journalist from Vienna, Theodore Herzl, covered the events, witnessing boisterous rallies in the streets, hearing crowds chant “Death to Jews!” a reflection of the increasingly vicious anti-Semitism that characterized Europe at the time. Three years later, in 1897, Herzl organized the first Zionist Congress, a meeting of 200 delegates from 17 countries, to discuss the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people.

It was a bold project, one that would be the salvation for a population soon to face near annihilation at the hands of Nazi-controlled Europe and one that would face constant internal and external challenges. Ultimately though, Zionism would transform the identity of a people tied together by religious tradition and history into a unified nation.

This, however, is not how Zionism might be described today. Rather, you might hear the words racism, expansionism, imperialism and settler colonialism associated with the movement. As Israeli Apartheid Week prepares to sweep campus once again, I wanted to take this opportunity to address an issue that is too often misrepresented.

The false portrayal of Zionism in much of the media today, and by leaders in the Arab and Muslim world, stands in stark contrast with the goals and values of the movement. Whether it’s in a tweet by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, written out on a sign at an anti-Israel protest or codified via a United Nations General Assembly resolution (later overturned), Zionism has been consistently maligned and berated for its so-called racist ideology. But this is not the true philosophy of Zionism, nor the spirit of the movement, and both Israel’s detractors and its supporters need to be reminded of that.

The Zionist movement is neither simple nor monolithic. It’s important to note that not every Jew is a Zionist, and not every Zionist is a Jew, even within Israel today. Many different strains of the ideology emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and they continue to shape Israeli society and politics. But Zionism, at its core, is the simple desire for a homeland for the Jewish nation and the desire of the Jewish people to freely determine their own fate after centuries of persecution and helpless wandering.

And it is based on this fundamentally just philosophy that I comfortably and proudly call myself a Zionist.

The troubling perception that Zionism is akin to racism and settler colonialism, or that Zionism exists to deprive the Palestinians of a state, continues to pervade the current discourse in interna-

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tional media and in anti-Israel rhetoric.

This is not the Zionism I know. To equate Zionism to racism is to unjustly single out Jewish nationalism and to maliciously twist the history and purpose of the movement. Similarly, comparisons of Zionism to settler colonialism misunderstand its historical context and goals.

European colonialism sought to conquer land in the name of an empire and to rob that land of its resources. Zionism, while initially supported by the British Empire, sought refuge for a homeless people, themselves victims of Europe.

Early Zionists had foreseen that the walls of the ghetto would soon begin to rise and understood that the Jewish reality in the Diaspora was untenable. They saw that general disunity and assimilation had weakened Jewish identity and culture. And so they sought a new beginning and prosperous future in a desert historically inhabited by Jews for 3,000 years.

Still, I believe that a true Zionist should empathize with other nations seeking independence and the right to self-determination. After all, Zionism intended to liberate a people, not to occupy another.

Like the Jewish nation, the Palestinian nation deserves the right to a state and is granted such under international law.

Zionists acknowledged this right in their acceptance of the 1947 U.N. partition plan, which proposed a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian state, a plan the Arab states vehemently rejected. Israel has since acknowledged this right through several rounds of negotiations, starting with the Oslo Accords of the early ‘90s.

While many are skeptical about the progress of current negotiations, and while I do not agree with many of the current Israeli government’s policies in the West Bank, I continue to believe that there is a space for both nations to thrive. It is as a Zionist that I support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the majority of Israelis agree on this point.

In the spring of 2013, I had the privilege of studying abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Living in the heart of East Jerusalem continuously shaped and reshaped my understanding of the often-

difficult realities on the ground and my own identity as a Zionist.

As I took in each new experience, my Zionism appeared in a myriad of unexpected places. At a Purim fair on Ben Yehuda Street where I saw children in all forms of costume running around happily, I was reminded that the Zionist dream saw a prospering nation espousing the family values so evident on this most joyful of days. While visiting Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, I was confronted with the hatred and loss that inspired Herzl in France over a century ago. Even when witnessing instances of discrimination or racism — decades of conflict between cultures have almost ensured its existence — I was reminded that there is still much work to be done.

Israel was meant to be a “light among nations,” and there are areas that it shines as brightly as ever despite constant challenges, but other areas which need attention and reform to truly reflect the values of “freedom, justice and peace” as stated in Israel’s Declaration of Independence.

Today, the word Zionism and the movement it represents is laced with negativity and associated with decades of war and occupation. But as any Zionist will tell you, this perception could not be further from the true spirit of Zionism. Still, many supporters of Israel are hesitant to label themselves Zionists and to align themselves with a movement with such a marred reputation. We have allowed the world to define the Zionist movement when it was not theirs to define, and we have allowed Israel’s detractors to undermine its purpose and values. It is not a perfect movement. It must be questioned and nurtured. It must be forced to evolve and to take accountability for the consequences of its history. But Zionism still matters. If Israel is to grow as a democracy and reach the utopian potential that Herzl and his contemporaries dreamt of, it needs Zionism. So I’m taking it back.

Shira Shamir is a senior majoring in international relations. She can be reached at Shira.Shamir@tufts.edu

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Realities dictate athlete orientation is important to us by

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The landscape of LGBTQ athletes in professional sports in the United States is changing with what seems like an increasingly rapid pace. Basketball player Jason Collins and football player Michael Sam are both expected to become the first openly LGBTQ active players in the NBA and NFL, respectively, and both have become frequent topics of conversation in the greater LGBTQ movement.

In a story that ran in The Crimson White titled “First openly gay athletes should be judged on performance,” columnist Matthew Wilson opined that while Collins and Sam both represent steps forward in the struggle for equality, the LGBTQ identity of athletes ultimately “shouldn’t matter.” Wilson instead argued that athletic ability should be the primary indicator of a player’s merit.

While this view has noble enough intentions, I am wary of language used to discuss athletes like Collins and Sam that emphasizes propriety instead of reality.

Should Sam’s being gay matter? Sam’s gay identity itself will not improve his team’s performance on the field.

But what about off the field? Sam’s gay identity doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

His announcement carries the weight it does because it was made in a world where LGBTQ people are silenced, defined as other and oppressed by the dominant paradigm. When we devote time to talking about what “should” be, we run the risk of derailing conversations about what actually is. LGBTQ discrimination is still very much a reality, and that context cannot be separated from the experiences of Sam or Collins.

It is important to consider the significance of figures like Sam and Collins

in the fight for LGBTQ representation and visibility. In her 1995 article “Queer Visibility in Commodity Culture,” feminist scholar Rosemary Hennessy wrote that LGBTQ images in mainstream media “can be empowering for those of us who have lived most of our lives with no validation at all from the dominant culture.”

While an athlete’s being gay may not be a big deal for some, it is a very big deal for LGBTQ people who look to people like Sam for empowerment. Young LGBTQ football players may soon have an openly LGBTQ player to model themselves after, and that simple fact alone is enough to matter.

Sam’s publicist made waves earlier this month by saying that Sam “is a football player, not an activist.” With respect, I disagree with that last part. Sam has a role to play simply by existing publically as an LGBTQ person in a historically nonLGBTQ space.

he average woman spends about a year of her life worrying about calories and her weight (over an average 67 years of lifetime this equates to 355 days), according to an article that appeared in The Daily Mail on June 26, 2013.

In the months preceding my arrival to campus freshman year — in the midst of fretting about who my roommate was going to be and how I was going to register for classes — I was worried about my weight.

I understand that everyone’s relationship with food and his or her body is personal, but I want to discuss mine in the hope that what I have learned over the years about this might help someone improve his or her own relationship. And I think it’s also time that as a student body we begin a conversation about these issues that I seldom hear discussed.

My story begins before I even had a chance to step foot on campus as a matriculated student. In high school, I was the kind of the girl that used to eat four Five Guys cheeseburgers in one sitting and never considered seriously dieting.

Although I can’t claim I never thought about my appearance or weight (it was high school), I never consciously tried to do anything to change it.

This attitude was transformed when many of my college friends returned for holiday breaks my senior year, telling tales of the unavoidable “freshman fifteen.”

Many claimed it was due to their dining hall food, excessive consumption of beer or the ordering of too many late-night pizzas; regardless, they all agreed it was responsible for extra poundage they were dissatisfied with.

So when a friend recommended a new diet book, which she claimed caused her to lose ten pounds, I decided that it was at least worth a read. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. The book encouraged its readers to adopt a vegan diet in order to lose weight, and although I had never had the inclination to eat vegan and loved cheeseburgers dearly, I was too concerned with preventing the unpreventable “fifteen” to care about the sacrifices.

I completely bought into what the book said, and without going into details, I radically changed my lifestyle in order to lose weight. Thus at a time when I should have been focusing on my academics, meeting new classmates and becoming an active member of the Tufts community, my attention was drifting to what I was going to eat, when and how I looked nearly every single moment of every day.

I hadn’t bargained for this hypersensitivity about my body when I started reading the book, and it led me down a slippery slope I continued on long after I gave up the diet. Of course, school and friends were always a priority, but it wasn’t until I started thinking about my body and food more positively that I was able to refocus this wasted energy on happier and more intellectually and personally rewarding aspects of my life.

Developing a healthy relationship with food and your body is difficult, especially in an environment where the lines between being health-conscious and obsessed are blurred. Advertisers pray on your insecurities to sell products that will “fix” them.

I urge you to resist these negative influences and messages. At the end of the day, the freshman fifteen doesn’t matter; what does is how you become a better person during your time here. Instead of thinking about weight, food or how you look today, think about solving global issues, what you’re learning in class and enjoy the precious moments you have with your friends. I promise you won’t regret it.

Carolina Reyes is a senior majoring in international relations. She can be reached at Carolina.Reyes@tufts.edu.

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Jumbos upset Bowdoin to finish on high note ICE HOCKEY

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Six minutes into the second period, both teams were hit with penalties. Bowdoin took advantage of the open ice when Barrington’s cross-ice pass found senior Kyle Lockwood.

Lockwood one-timed a slapshot past Jenkins to give Bowdoin a 2-1 lead.

A minute later, the Jumbos evened the score at 2-2 when senior Tim Mitropoulos found freshman Patrick Lackey in front of the net.

The game got more physical after the nine-minute mark when Bowdoin senior co-captain Jay Livermore got whistled for taunting. Gallegos, Tufts’ leader in penalties and penalty minutes, responded by one-upping Livermore, earning penalties for roughing and hitting after the whistle. Later in the period, Gallegos pulled off the rare feat of being called for three penalties in one period after being whistled for cross-checking.

The back-and-forth affair continued into the final period. Bowdoin junior John McGinnis gave the Polar Bears a 3-2 lead when he carried the puck into the offensive zone, weaved around defenders and unleashed a wrist shot for an unassisted goal.

Once again, the Jumbos responded quickly. Sophomore Stewart Bell picked off a Bowdoin clearing attempt and took a shot at the net. Mitropoulos blocked the puck, but sophomore Brian Ouellette sent the rebound through to tie the game 3-3.

With less than six minutes remaining in regulation, the Jumbos took their first lead of the game. Jenkins stopped Bowdoin’s three-on-two breakaway, and the puck took a hometeam bounce toward freshman Matt Pugh. Pugh unleashed a long pass to Bell, who sent a shot past Messina’s five-hole to give Tufts a 4-3 lead that held up despite a late offensive charge

by Bowdoin.

The final goal was a rare break for head coach Brian Murphy’s squad after a season filled with tight losses.

“This year it felt like the hockey gods were out to get us,” Murphy said.

“But the guys did their work on and off the ice, and to end the season with a win against a good team was a great way to finish.”

Gallegos shared Murphy’s view that the win reflected the team’s talent more than its record did.

“We really didn’t do a lot of things differently,” Gallegos said. “We just finally

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Sam Cox said. “We did have scorers in most of the events we entered, so that was a bright spot in our day.”

In the field events, freshman Keren Hendel tied Colby freshman Keltie Vance for fourth in her postseason debut for the Jumbos, clearing the vault at 10’ 10”. Hieber returned from a busy day on the track to place in the long jump. She took All-New England honors with her leap of 17’ 10 1/4”, good for third in the event. Junior Grace Demyan also threw her way

onto the podium, taking seventh in the shot put with a throw of 39’ 8”.

“I was really proud of the team’s performance,” Harrison said. “Everyone gave it their all and that’s something I really respect. It’s hard to take third after winning the meet last year but the team is showing a lot of promise for the outdoor season and I think everyone can only get better from this point.”

Although third place was not what the team had hoped for, the disappointing finish also gives them added motivation moving forward, Cox added.

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caught a couple of bounces that went our way.”

Saturday’s loss to Colby, however, told a more familiar story.

Colby senior Ben Chwick opened up the scoring with the lone goal of the first period, a simple tap-in after some textbook passing from his teammates. The Jumbos responded early in the second period, when sophomore Luke Griffin forced a neutral zone turnover. Griffin hit freshman Conal Lynch with a pass, who in turn fired a wrist shot that found the net.

From there, it was all Mules. The Jumbos had no answer for Chwick, who added two assists and a penalty shot goal en route to a four-point performance. Despite constant pressure and playing the last two minutes with an extra skater, the Jumbos failed to score, falling 4-1.

With the season over, the Jumbos now face an offseason of necessary growth following a rough season.

“It’s going to take a lot of work,” Murphy said. “We do play a lot of freshmen, and the young guys were not as consistent as we would have liked, but they had stretches that were really impressive and showed their talent. We are not in this league to finish last.”

at the Div. III NESCAC meet, held at Roxbury Community College’s Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center, in two weeks.

Harrison also noted that, although Williams may have won the battle on the day, there is still a lot of time left in the school year.

“We are definitely looking to defend our NESCAC title this outdoor season so we’re not going to let Williams take it without a fight.” Harrison said. “We know that Williams is coming for us but if anything, the loss to them at Div. IIIs fuels our fire to beat them.”

DAILY DIGITS 2 Jumbos that earned All-NESCAC honors in squash. The No. 1 players for the men’s and women’s squash teams were each named to their respective conference second teams.

For men’s squash, sophomore Aditya Advani was named to his second straight All-NESCAC team, while sophomore Paget Stanco was named to her first All-NESCAC team on the women’s side.

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Tufts players who registered points in the women’s basketball team’s 74-46 thrashing of Wesleyan in the NESCAC quarterfinals on Saturday. Junior guard Hannah Foley was the only Jumbo to score more than 11 points — she had 24 — but 13 other Jumbos saw the floor and only two failed to score. Tufts will look to keep its hot hand going when it hosts Trinity in the semifinals this Saturday.

10 Straight Big 12 regular season titles for the Kanas Jayhawks men’s basketball team. The No. 5 Jayhawks secured their most recent conference title with a win Tuesday night over the Oklahoma Sooners, 83-75. Led by freshman phenoms Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid, Kansas has only lost two games to conference opponents, and looks to be a legitimate title contender.

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The new weekly salary of Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney, who signed a contract extension over the weekend that keeps him on Man. United until 2019. Many have criticized the contract given to Rooney, 28, who has demanded to be transferred in the past and shown a lack of discipline on the field. However, the former Everton player has scored 151 goals for Man. United and now will have a great chance to break Sir Bobby Charlton’s club record of 208.

6 Conference titles for senior diver Johann Schmidt, one of which he earned in the one-meter competition at the NESCAC championships at Bowdoin this past weekend.

Schmidt broke pool, school, NESCAC and conference championship meet records with a onemeter score of 578.15. He finished his career with three one-meter titles and three three-meter titles.

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Consecutive 25+ point, 10+ rebound games for Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love.

This is the longest of such streaks since 2001 when Shaquille O’Neal of the Los Angeles pulled off the feat in 13 consecutive games. Love currently leads the league in double-doubles with 47 and is on pace to be the first player to average over 26 points, 13 rebounds, and four assists since Kareem AbdulJabbar in the 1975-1976 season.

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f every sports fan loves a good comeback story, then Red Sox fans are particularly spoiled. They experienced the greatest comeback of all-time in 2004 when Boston became the first team in baseball history to win a best-of-seven postseason series after losing the first three games. Three years later, Jon Lester came back from cancer and was the winning pitcher in the decisive game of the 2007 World Series, which the Red Sox won despite trailing 3-1 in the ALCS. Last year the team went from worst to first, winning the World Series again thanks to rebound seasons from the likes of Lester, John Lackey, and Shane Victorino.

This year’s outfit has another compelling comeback in the works. The subject is center fielder Grady Sizemore, formerly of the Cleveland Indians. Sizemore was one of baseball’s best players in the mid-to-late 2000s before injuries derailed his career, causing him to miss 57 percent of his team’s games from 2009 through 2011. He didn’t play at all in 2012 and 2013, the result of undergoing seven surgeries in four years.

Now 31-years-old and playing on two surgically repaired knees, Sizemore is attempting to salvage his once-promising career. Last month he settled for a one-year, $750,000 contract that barely pays more than the league minimum but includes playing time incentives that could escalate his salary to $6 million.

It’s peanuts compared to what most of his peers are earning, but Sizemore isn’t playing for money anymore — he’s trying to prove he still has something left in the tank.

Boston is giving him the opportunity to do that. Jacoby Ellsbury’s departure left a gaping hole in center field, one the Red Sox expect to plug with Jackie Bradley, Jr. But Bradley batted just .189/.280/.337 in his major league debut last year, so he might not be the answer. That’s why Boston took a chance on Sizemore: they could have a job opening soon if Bradley’s struggles continue.

For now, Sizemore is a backup and will remain one until he proves he can handle big-league competition again. He must overcome a broken down body and the rustiness that results from missing two entire seasons.

Those obstacles may prove insurmountable for someone who hasn’t played a full season since the second Bush administration. Sizemore has admitted that he’s unsure of what he can contribute to the Red Sox this year, or if he can even stay on the field. He knows the odds aren’t in his favor.

But spring training is a time for optimism, and few players in Red Sox camp are generating more positive news than Sizemore. He got good reviews in controlled offseason workouts earlier this winter, and the latest reports from Fort Meyers sound equally promising.

Manager John Farrell is “encouraged” by Sizemore’s performance thus far and has every reason to be: Sizemore is hitting home runs in batting practice and running full speed in drills, re-establishing the skills that made him the sport’s most valuable outfielder from 2005 through 2008.

More importantly, he’s working hard to get in shape and put himself in position to succeed. The Red Sox aren’t expecting Sizemore to be a key contributor, so anything he can do to help the team is a plus; there’s even the off-chance he plays like the three-time All-Star and two-time Gold-Glover he was in Cleveland. Sizemore has the potential to be more than just a feel-good story. He was great before; maybe he can be great again.

It’s a longshot, but at least he’s come to the right place.

Tyler is a junior who is majoring in economics. He can be reached at Tyler.Maher@ tufts.edu.

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This season has not been easy for the hockey team. Injuries and close losses have defined the season. But this past

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weekend, the Jumbos ended a 12-game losing streak to pick up their first home victory of 2014.

On Saturday, Tufts hosted Colby, the only NESCAC team it had defeated earlier this season, and lost 4-1. The next day, in the final game of the season, Tufts defeated Bowdoin 4-3 in a backand-forth game to end the year on a high note. Since they failed to qualify for the NESCAC playoffs, the Jumbos end their season with an overall record of 4-19-1 and a conference record of 2-15-1.

Before Tufts took on Bowdoin, the team honored its eight seniors in the final game of their careers. For two of its seniors, it was an especially bittersweet moment. Co-captain Cody Armstrong, who sat out the entire season after suffering from multiple concussions, and goalie Brian Phillips, who played five minutes this season before he was sidelined with a lower leg injury, joined their classmates on the ice one final time.

“They have stuck around and bought into the team,” senior Kyle Gallegos said of Armstrong and Phillips. “They have been at every single team event, and it has been great being their team-

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Senior Kyle Gallegos ended his career with a win, as Tufts beat Bowdoin 4-3 in its final regular season game. mate these past four years.”

Despite the pre-game emotion, Tufts fell behind just 35 seconds into the game when Bowdoin freshman Mitch Barrington skated around Tufts’ defense before firing a wrist shot past senior goalie Greg Jenkins. The Jumbos

responded six minutes later when junior Tyler Voigt’s shot slipped under senior Steve Messina’s pads. Gallegos, the team’s leading scorer, tapped in the rebound to tie the game 1-1.

Though the game was tied at the end of the first period, the Polar Bears

looked to be in complete control. They outshot the Jumbos 22-10, but as he has done most of the season, Jenkins kept the score close with 21 saves in the first frame. see ICE HOCKEY, page 15

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Jumbos fall short in bid to recapture New England title by

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The reigning Div. III New England indoor track champions returned to the oval at

Springfield College last weekend looking to defend their championship. Strong pushes from Williams and MIT, however, were just too much for Tufts. The Jumbos ended up in

third place at the championship meet.

Williams took first with 150 points, while MIT was second with 119. Tufts finished third in the competition with 94 points.

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Senior tri-captain Laura Peterson picked up valuable points for her team with a fifth place finish in the 1000meter run.

“We knew we had a target on our backs going into the meet since we won it last year,” sophomore Alexis Harrison told the Daily in an email. “The goal was for everyone to give 110 percent in their respective events and cheer each other on to keep the energy going.”

Harrison was able to get a big victory in the 60-meter dash, as she just edged out senior Naomi Bates of Amherst by 0.02 seconds. Harrison’s time set a new school record for the event, and was a new personal record for the relatively young sprinter.

She broke the record set earlier in the day by senior tricaptain Anya Kaufmann, who has been a force to be reckoned with in the sprints all season.

Kaufmann’s time of 7.85 seconds in the preliminaries was a new school record for a few minutes. Her time qualified her for the finals, in which she placed eighth overall.

In the 60-meter hurdles, the Jumbos went to sophomore Marilyn Allen and multi-event specialist senior Jana Hieber to score their points. They grabbed the fifth and sixth qualifying spots in the preliminaries, respectively, and later returned in the finals.

Allen placed fourth overall by clearing the barriers in 9.13

seconds, while Hieber was sixth with a time of 9.24 seconds.

The sprinters also had impressive performances in both the 4x200 and 4x400 meter relays, placing second in both events. Both relay teams set new season-best times, as the 4x200 team came in right behind Williams with a time of 1:45.50, while the 4x400 team also finished behind the meet champs with a time of 4:02.91.

As the battle for points progressed throughout the day, Tufts earned a valuable seven points from the 600-meter run. Junior Lauren Gormer and Hieber went fifth and sixth in the race, crossing the line in 1:40.03 and 1:40.22, respectively.

Senior tri-captain Laura Peterson and senior Grace House were also able to place in the race. Peterson, a subthree minute athlete who set a personal record in the mile a few weeks ago at the Tufts Stampede, took fifth by running a time of 3:05.96. House placed seventh overall out of the first heat, as she won her section in 3:07.67; just 0.15 seconds off of her personal record.

“Everyone just needs to keep their eyes on the jerseys in front of them, no matter what team they might be,” freshman see WOMEN’S TRACK, page 15