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VOLUME LXVII, NUMBER 29

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Senate resolution pushes creation of education major by

Alexa Horwitz

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Hamilton Pool is scheduled to reopen today for the first time this semester.

After extended closure, Hamilton Pool reopens today Hamilton Pool will reopen today after the university repaired cracks discovered during winter break maintenance.

According to Adam Hoyt, the head coach of the men’s swimming team, the repairs were completed and the pool was refilled over the past several days.

“As far as I know, the pool is not leaking any more than it might have over the past five years ... It has always had minimal leaking just because it is an old pool,” Hoyt said. “The leaking that caused us to have to repair it [was that] it was losing about five feet of pool water over night ... in 12 hours you’re losing 20 to 30,000 gallons.”

Matt Malone, the manager of Facilities, Fields and Game Management, explained that engineers were called in to assess the pool’s infrastructure and the ground beneath the facility.

“They knew of the surface crack and went through it and did some radar to make sure that below the surface of the pool, ... the integrity of the structure hadn’t been compromised,” Malone said. “They were basically able to come to the assumption that there wasn’t any more damage and they were able to fill the cracks and ... get it ready to go again.”

While both Hoyt and Malone said that the pool is now safe for swimming, general maintenance will still be performed during its usual closure in late summer.

“In August we always shut down the entire facility for about three weeks to just go through general repairs and get everything ready for the school year,” Malone said. “We’re going to go through and regrout the pool and deal with the smaller issues that we found.”

The pool’s closure reminded people that the pool is 70-yearsold, making the community aware of the problems of an older facility, Hoyt said.

“It’s a facility that currently demands a lot of attention and a lot of resources from Tufts University so it has certainly started a lot of conversations about the possibility of building a new pool,” he said.

“Those aren’t new conversations — those are conversations that have happened in the past — but now there is a bit of a heightened sense of urgency.”

But there is no timeline for the construction of a new pool, Hoyt noted. The university is still in the planning process.

“It’s an exciting time, [but] it’s just there are a lot of priorities at the university,” he said.

“I’m sure there are other facilities that deeply impact a lot of people that aren’t as noticeable as an empty pool so it’s just a matter of trying to address all of them and that’s the challenge ... for Tufts.”

Lifeguards will work their previously scheduled shifts, after working in other capacities since the beginning of the semester, Hoyt explained.

“We were able to work with our lifeguards to get those lifeguards on work study different positions in the athletic center to ensure they were on track to receive their financial aid packages,” Hoyt said.

The pool will now be open daily during its previously scheduled operating hours, according to Hoyt.

While the swim season has ended for most swimmers, Hoyt said that sophomore Michael Winget and freshman William Metcalfe, both of whom qualified for the national championships, will be able to train in Hamilton Pool for the next two weeks. For additional coverage on the impact the pool closure had on the swim team, see the features section on page three.

—by Justin Rheingold

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate voted to support the establishment of an undergraduate education major in a 22-0-0 vote last month. Now that the resolution has passed, TCU President Joe Thibodeau said the next step is sending it to faculty to discuss how to proceed.

“Faculty members are ultimately the ones who vote for a creation of a specific major,” Thibodeau said. “The resolution alerts the administration of general student interest.”

Senator Robert Joseph, a junior, sponsored the resolution because a significant student demand exists for the major, he said. “[Education] is a subject that pairs well with other department offerings,” Joseph said. “You can graduate with a discipline that

you are knowledgeable in and able to teach in.”

According to the resolution, a 2012 Senate survey administered to the student body indicated that 69.4 percent of undergraduates believed a major in education would benefit the Tufts community.

Fifteen of 53 internship opportunities at the Tufts Internship Fair were in the field of education. Joseph said he believes this statistic bolsters the relevancy of an education major.

“There are so many opportunities that are education focused, and we felt that the lack of [a] major was a gaping hole in academic opportunity and curriculum of the school,” Joseph said.

Chair of the Department of Education David Hammer believes an education major would better prepare students to become future teachers.

“It’s great to see the rationale

for the interest,” Hammer said.

“People have gone into teaching without any real preparation, and to have undergrads say it would be beneficial to have a lot of intellectual rigor in educational training and thinking is exciting.”

Students wishing to major in education would only be able to have it as a second major, Joseph said.

“The education department agreed that it wouldn’t be substantive enough [as a standalone major],” Joseph said. “It needs to be paired with another major, like in the cases of community health and environmental studies.”

Hammer agreed with the decision to pair education with another field, because he believes teachers need to be experts in a specific topic. see EDUCATION, page 2

New online reservation system for Tisch group study rooms by

Dana Guth

Daily Editorial Board

Tufts Student Services in a Feb. 19 email announced that students will be able make advance reservations for group study rooms in Tisch Library.

Through the Tufts Space and Resource Reservation System, groups of two or more may reserve one of the 11 group study rooms for a minimum of one hour and a maximum of three hours per day from now through the end of the semester, according to the email.

Director of Tisch Library Laura Wood said this new system was put in place in response to student frustration over the lack of rooms available on a daily basis.

“Over time we have received

feedback that [the students] wanted more rooms because they had difficulty finding one that was free,” Wood said.

“That’s a very hard request to meet due to building space.

We thought to look for ways to maximize the potential of existing rooms that might otherwise always be busy.”

According to the Tisch Library website, reservations will be canceled if the study group has not arrived by 15 minutes after their allotted time. Individuals are allowed to use an open group study room, but cannot reserve rooms and would have to leave if a group needed the space.

“To reserve a room, students must simply log in to the Space and Resource Reservation System and select what room

they want,” Kartikeya Batra, a graduate student at the Fletcher School and assistant at Tisch Library, said.

Batra said all of the instructions are on the site, making it easy for students to select their preferred room, date, time and number of people. When making the reservation, students must also enter their contact information.

Wood said that the system is also meant to help students learn the locations of the group study rooms, which consist of four each on the first and second levels of the Fares Tower and three on the first level of the library next to the bathrooms and lockers.

“They’re very spread out, so see STUDY ROOMS, page 2

CMS panel discusses changing book publishing industry

by Justin

Rheingold

Daily Editorial Board

The Communications and Media Studies (CMS) program yesterday evening hosted a panel discussion with representatives from several publishing companies who discussed how book publishing has changed in the digital age.

Julie Dobrow, director of the CMS program, explained that the panel convened in response to growing student interest in the publishing industry. After introducing

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the panelists, Dobrow started the discussion, asking the panelists about the evolving book industry.

“We seem to be at a very strange juncture right now,” she said. “Recent Pew Center and Gallup polls have shown that among most demographics, people seem to be reading books more than ever, and yet the industry seems to be in decline. Independent book sellers are closing at alarming rates ... What’s going on? Are books doomed? Or are they on an upswing?”

Debbie Kovacs, a senior vice president and editorial director of Walden Pond Press, explained that the publishing industry has not felt an enormous impact since the technological boom.

“I don’t think it is as much of the publishing as it is the distribution that has radically changed,” Kovacs said. “It’s the fact of the matter there are so many fewer places to get the books. Amazon has had a really radical impact on comsee PUBLISHING, page 2

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Police Briefs BOX BURGLAR On Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 8:45 p.m. a student reported two stolen black cardboard boxes to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD). The boxes were for a used shoe collection to give to children in Africa. The student had noticed that the box placed in the Mayer Campus Center was gone and proceeded to see if the box placed in Tisch Library was still there. When he discovered that box had also been

removed, he went to the police. The boxes were later found in a dumpster.

The student received an email from a fellow student who admitted to stealing the boxes, saying he did not agree with the how the charity was operating.

The students will resolve this conflict together in the Dean’s Office.

STEALING SLEEP Officers on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 10:30

a.m. received a call from a student reporting a missing bag and cell phone.

The student had fallen asleep at 2 a.m. in a common room of South Hall. When he woke up at 7 a.m., he noticed his belongings were gone. Later that day, police received a call from the student saying that his friend had seen him sleeping in the common room and taken his bag and phone so that someone else would not. His friend had then returned his belongings.

A JOINT CALL TUPD on Sunday, March 2 at 7:35 p.m. received a call from Lewis Hall from someone reporting the smell of marijuana. Officers arrived and confronted the student from whose room the smell was coming. The student turned over a small amount of marijuana and will meet with the dean.

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Professors, administrators analyze merits of education major EDUCATION

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“You master this topic in undergraduate education,” he said. “For example, if you want to go on to be a history teacher, you need to know history. What better place to learn than through an undergraduate his-

tory major.”

Thibodeau said he believes the resolution is a positive step for the university.

“There has been demonstrated student interest in teaching and a career in education,” Thibodeau said. “The university offers majors where there are concentrations in

education such as American studies, and we have a Masters of Arts in Teaching, so it was the logical next step.”

This resolution is not the first time the Senate has discussed the addition of new majors, according to Thibodeau.

Hammer said that he believes a potential

major in education will only increase student’s interest in going into the field.

“We already have a good reputation, and the undergraduates that take our courses really love them,” Hammer said. “It’ll be great to add scholarly rigor to a field where so many students are interested in entering into.”

Panelists: despite digitization, traditional publishing to coninue PUBLISHING

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Students will now be able to reserve Tisch Library group study rooms using the Tufts Resource and Space Reservation System.

Library Director encourages students to be ‘good citizens’ STUDY ROOMS

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it’s hard to be aware of all three clusters that you can’t spot in one sightline,” Wood said. “This is a way for students to know where all of them are and which ones are available ahead of time.”

According to Wood, the development of the system started as a request from students who wanted a greater say in when they would have access to a study room, especially when working on large group projects.

“We wondered if self-service would be feasible in these situations, but none of our solutions met our criteria — we would have had to purchase a new software license,” Wood said. “It was less expensive to tie the new program into the university-wide room scheduling system already in place. The [Office of the Registrar] was able to create a new functionality for us,” she said.

The site now shows a full schedule of availability for each room through the end of the year. Although staff members have administrative oversight capabilities, only students are able to log in and make reservations, according to Wood.

Students expressed mixed opinions on whether the ability to reserve a group study room in advance will make a sizeable difference. Freshman Gabrielle Fenaroli said she is concerned about how to notify other groups of their reservations when there is no physical signal that a room has been taken.

“I think it is a good system, [but] one

thing I like about Tisch is that you can just walk up and get one on a first come, first serve basis,” Fenaroli said. “I have been in the situation where I’ve been working on a project and was kicked out, and it was quite disruptive.”

Wood said that, while there was a challenge in not having any sign dedicated to showing room availability, it is easy for students to check online to see which group study rooms are free, and they have yet to receive any complaints.

“There are enough computers around the library to check the availability if there are questions,” Wood said. “Ideally, students will be able to self-monitor this, and not circumnavigate the time limit.”

Many students agreed that the new reservation system will ultimately be beneficial for finding a guaranteed study space.

“I don’t think it will stop people from taking the rooms, but having to kick people out is not a big deal,” said junior Mark Bernardo. “This could be very helpful, especially if they eventually posted some kind of schedule to let everyone know which rooms are available,” he said.

Wood agreed that students will have to rely on each other to be willing to share the group study rooms.

“I suspect there will be some frustration as peak finals time approaches,” she said. “Still, the rooms are a community resource, and we depend on students to be good citizens for this to work.”

mercial [book stores].”

Associate Director of Publicity at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Taryn Roeder agreed with this assessment and said that the role of the publishing industry has remained the same despite increasing digital books sales.

“In terms of digital publishing versus traditional publishing, to me I feel like I’m a content provider and I don’t really care how people read their books,” Roeder said. “If people are going to be reading and everybody is going to be reading a Kindle on the beach, I’m happy that they’re reading rather than not reading ... You need to get word out about the book regardless of how people are reading it.”

Despite the digitization of many books, Roeder said she believes traditional advertising and promotion venues are still important.

“In terms of digital media ... and what makes books sell, I’m seeing that traditional media still is king,” she said. “So The New York Times is still the most important, National Public Radio, national TV is still important so that’s a very interesting ... it’s not that blogs are taking over.”

Panelists also discussed self-publishing, but generally agreed that it complicates the process of gaining an audience for one’s work. Michael Fisher, assistant director for university relations and executive editor for science and medicine at Harvard University Press, explained that selfpublishing doesn’t work for scholars.

He explained the difference between

a university publisher and a general publishing house.

“The [university press] approach to publishing is really different than if you were in an environment where you want to have a profit at the end of the day,” Fisher said. “We have to publish books that we know aren’t going to sell a lot of copies but have a scholarly benefit, but then we have to find books that are also scholarly but that we’ll sell enough of to keep us in business.”

Jessica Saint Jean, the art coordination associate at the Davis Squarebased Candlewick Press then spoke about children’s publishing and how it differs from the other forms in this industry.

“I think what’s special for children’s books is that, especially for illustrated picture books, there’s nothing better than holding it in your hands,” Saint Jean said. “I don’t think they’re going away anytime soon.”

After the discussion, audience members asked panelists about their recommendations for pursuing a career in publishing. While each of the panelists had a unique career path, they agreed that the industry is extremely dynamic, and has been able to withstand the technological changes of the times.

“When people talk about publishing they don’t think of college publishing, scholarly publishing — when you talk about publishing it’s a word that encompasses a lot of types of career paths, a lot of types of jobs and a lot of different goals,” Kovacs said. “It’s hard to make generalizations on the way to get in.”

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Panelists speak during a Communication and Media Studies program discussion on the publishing industry.

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Tufts swimming and diving teams strongly finished their season, even though they had to travel almost daily for practice.

Swimming, diving teams faced with adversity after closing of Hamilton Pool by

Maya Blackstone

Daily Editorial Board

After Hamilton Pool closed at the beginning of this semester, many students were concerned: Would the pool ever reopen its door? Would the university be forced to build a new facility?

Neither. Following a successful repair to a crack in its structure, the pool reopens today with regular hours.

“During pool draining and cleaning over winter break, the technicians found a crack in the bottom of the pool that needed to be repaired before filling the pool with water again,” senior swimmer Priyanka Bhargava said.

But the reopening did not come in time for the Tufts swimming and diving teams’ regular season, which ended last month with the NESCAC Swimming and Diving Championships. Without a pool to practice in at Tufts, the teams had to make other arrangements.

“We had just finished one of the last practices of training trip down in Florida, and our coach sat us down for a meeting,” senior swimmer Laura Burns said. “At first, it was more [of a] concern [for us] over the undesirable practice times, as we had to swim at undesirable hours, and [a] concern over what this would mean for the end of the season.”

Practices were held at both MIT and Mystic Valley Regional Charter School — each 15 to 20 minutes away from campus. Since these pools already had schedules set for this winter, the available hours for Tufts’ teams were mostly inconvenient, according to Burns.

“We had to commute to Mystic Valley Charter High School at 5:30 a.m. and [to] MIT at 9 p.m. for practices, and our home meets were held at our competitors’ pools,” Burns said. “The times made it difficult to do night practice one day and morning practice the next, since there was only about six hours in between. Obviously that made it tough for people to fit prac-

tices in their schedules and still allow for adequate rest.”

Under normal circumstances, there are four different practices that both the men and women can attend to accommodate the large group of studentathletes and their schedules. Without this system in place, Burns said, it was tougher to practice because there were quite crowded lanes.

“There is not a lot I can add to this except how impressed I have been with the attitudes of our women’s and men’s swim teams and their coaches for the positive way they have handled this unexpected circumstance,” Assistant Director of Athletics John Casey said. “They have been nothing short of spectacular with their attitudes and resilience.”

Bhargava echoed Casey’s sentiments regarding the team’s challenges.

“We have a strong and united team,” Bhargava said. “We were given our options and had to rise to the occasion. We didn’t have a choice but to be okay with the situation, and I definitely believe that we grew stronger as a team because of it.”

Although adjusting to the new situation meant practicing at different facilities and at different times, neither team received any preferential treatment over the other, Burns said.

“The men’s and women’s teams practice as one unit, so I would say that both were affected about equally,” Burns said.

Bhargava described one benefit of the relocation for the swimmers: the MIT facilities.

“I don’t think anyone was upset about swimming at MIT,” Bhargava said. “Their facilities are amazing and so much larger than our pool. The Tufts pool is six lanes, which basically means it’s impossible to fit our entire team in it. MIT is much, much larger so there is room to spread out and actually swim without smashing into each other.”

“The divers already practice there because we don’t have a three [meter]

diving board or a separate diving well at Tufts,” she added. “So it was nice to unite with the divers.”

While many team members enjoyed the larger facilities, the senior athletes, in particular, missed swimming on their home turf for their final season.

According to Burns, the seniors did not have the senior night that normally takes place during their last home meet. Despite less than ideal circumstances for their last season at Tufts, seniors worked hard to keep the team’s morale afloat, according to men’s team senior tri-captain Austin Wood.

“We knew that the team was kind of getting down, so we tried to have as many social events as possible ... like a pasta dinner before one of the big meets and another one before NESCACs,” he said. “We worked harder this year than we ever have, and we reaped the benefits at NESCACs. I think the seniors did an awesome job this year, and the legacy we left behind really sets the team on the right path for continued success.”

Freshman swimmer Adam Hotaling also described the resilience of the team, who chanted “No pool, no problem” at the NESCAC Championships this year.

“Pool or no pool, we came into this season with goals, and it would be a waste of a season to just give up or make excuses just because we couldn’t practice at our home pool,” he said.

“We may have gone into this home stretch in the face of adversity, but we did our best to just ignore it.”

The team’s optimistic attitude paid off. The men’s team placed fourth overall at the NESCAC Championships, and broke six school records. The women’s team scored seventh overall as a team, and senior swimmer Jenny Hu broke three school records.

“I don’t think that the pool situation affected our performance,” junior swimmer Scarlett Hao said. “The bottom line is that we’re swimmers, and we can swim anywhere that has water.”

elieve it or not, language is old.

People have been talking to one another for quite some time now.

There are a lot of weird, colloquial uses of language that trip up many language-learners. Unfortunately, there is also a lot of language that is not very kind to women.

Consider some of the words we use to say someone had sex. Pounded. Nailed.

Hit. (As in “I’d hit that.”) They’re all violent terms often used to describe a man having sex with a woman.

Consider, also, the way that women are referred to. “I’d hit that.” Not her, or that person. Just “that.” Or the phrase “I’d tap that a**.” There’s something uncomfortable about hearing men use language like this. Maybe it’s the complete lack of respect for the person they’re talking about. Or maybe it’s the reduction of women to sexual objects. (Spoiler alert: it’s both.)

Of course, slang synonyms for the word woman are also questionable. Chick or broad — they carry an air of objectification. However, the words themselves don’t come off as inherently sexist, so perhaps the words can be saved. More and more women are using the term “chicks,” somewhat lessening the associated stigma.

And then there’s the language associated with marriage. The old ball and chain? Guess what, she’s a person you willingly married. Of course, the saying comes from a time when divorce wasn’t as socially acceptable. Nowadays if someone felt like that, the first stop is usually divorce. I guess now, with less social pressure to marry young and stay married, people are less likely to find themselves married to someone they’d call a ball and chain or a nag. But the idea still seems crazy to me. And it’s far too closely related to the idea of women as the ones seeking commitment, and men avoiding it. Now that feels almost like an immature stance to take. Not to mention the studies that came out recently finding that married men tend to be happier. (Although I’m not providing a source, so I guess take that with a grain of salt.)

There are countless examples in other languages as well. For languages with gendered nouns, for example, a group of people is usually considered male unless it’s all female. Even if there’s only one guy, they’re still referred to in the male gender.

It’s ridiculous to expect language to change just because our values have. But there’s a theory going around about how languages shape society, so that a language with simpler words for numbers and arithmetic makes it easier to learn math. This sort of thing is hard to prove, but if it’s true, then that makes sexism embedded in language all the more sinister. It’s a cycle of negative reinforcement, with society and language bringing each other down.

Of course, things have gotten better for women. Society is becoming less sexist, not more, and the increasing unpopularity of previously sexist slang is a sign that our language is indeed changing in response.

I’m certainly hopeful about the future of gender equality. Yes, there is plenty of sexist language hanging around, but people are becoming more aware of the problem as well. While there may be no quick solution coming up on the horizon any time soon, I remain confident that, with time, society will progress past the patriarchal mess it is today.

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

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Lea Michele fails to break into mainstream with debut album ‘Louder’

by Veronica

Little

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Lea Michele, once a Broadway prodigy and now the starlet of “Glee” (2009-present), released her debut

Louder Lea Michele Columbia Records album “Louder” at the end of February.

Michele is a well-known actress with a loyal fan base. But the album is of particular note in light of the July 2013 death of her “Glee” co-star and boyfriend Corey Monteith. After a brief hiatus from the public eye, Michele remerged in spectacular fashion, joining the rest of the “Glee” cast for the show’s fifth season as well as releasing her first record.

This eleven-track album is littered with references to Michele’s grief, and marred by vocals that are too brazen and pronounced. Michele’s experience on Broadway, though perfect for her role on “Glee,” hinders her ability to reach a mainstream, non-musical-theaterfriendly audience. Michele strives for sounds similar to Miley Cyrus or Katy Perry, two artists who have also been attempting to distance themselves from their original personas. But for Michele, this transformation requires more than a few power pop ballads and gritty music videos. The album grows tiring very

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Lea Michele tries to break into pop mainstream with her debut album ‘Louder.’ quickly. It is surprising that someone with such undeniable and infectious talent would fail so spectacularly to contribute to the mainstream pop landscape.

“Cannonball,” the first single off of the album, was not intended for Michele’s debut. In fact, Sia Furler — a beloved

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songstress known for her poignant and cerebral indie ballads like “Breathe Me” — played a key role in writing the song.

After Monteith’s death, “Cannonball” was introduced to Michele who found see LOUDER, page 6

Restaurant Review

Yume Wo Katare not for faint of heart by

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Near the Porter T stop, almost completely hidden in the chilly shadow of a red avant-garde windmill sculpture, one

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Mads Mikkelson gets under viewers’ skin as serial killer Hannibal Lecter.

The first season of “Hannibal” introduced us to Will Graham (Hugh Dancy, who gives a deft and complex performance). Will, an unofficial consultant for the FBI, suffers from “pure empathy,” the ability to completely relate to anyone — even a psychopath. For Will, who is deeply conflicted but unquestionably compassionate, the ability is a nightmare, slowly driving him insane as he relives brutal murders. Will’s boss, FBI agent Jack Crawford (powerhouse Laurence Fishburne), hopes to provide Will with some stability by bringing in famed psychologist Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) to act as an anchor. Unfortunately, Hannibal is himself a psychopath — a cannibal, in fact.

Throughout the first season, Hannibal commits murder after murder, and ultimately manages to frame Will for them. In a reflection of an iconic shot from “Silence of the Lambs,” the finale ended with Hannibal visiting Will, who has been wrongly impris-

restaurant reigns supreme. There is almost no topping the treasure that is Yume Wo Katare. The restaurant’s ambience alone is deeply satisfying — a blend of casual and group effort dining , placed within a colorful setting, marinating visitors in fumes of mouth-watering, heart-stopping ramen.

But first, customers must weather the line. This is no ordinary line; by the time the restaurant has opened, there is already about an hour-long wait, wrapping around the nearby Dunkin’ Donuts as if to mock the donut shop’s empty, fluorescent-light drenched booths. People stand, shivering in masses, receiving befuddled glances and the occasional, “What’s this all about, eh?” inquiry from passing pedestrians. They scoff when they discover that everybody is “just waiting for ramen.” They do not understand.

Yume Wo Katare’s wild popularity stems from two sources. For one, the restaurant utterly embraces its hole-in-thewall personality, opting to be boisterous and campy, abandoning all pretense of elegance. The actual space is so small that only about twenty people can eat at once (hence the line). It is set up like an authentic Japanese eatery with long, bench-like tables positioned in rows so

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NBC’s ‘Hannibal’ amps up suspense in season premiere

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The show, created by Bryan Fuller of “Pushing Daisies” (2007-2009) and “Wonderfalls” (2004) fame, is adapted from the universe of the Hannibal Lecter franchise of suspense novels by Thomas Harris. The acclaimed Oscar-winning film “Silence of the Lambs” (1991) is the most famous adaptation of Harris’s work.

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Dani Bennett | Scenes from Spain

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t is now time to think what a true “scene from Spain” is. The only issue with this rather broad title is that Spain consists of a fair number of regions, each with its own unique scenes, foods, dialects and climates. Regions like Andalucía the south of Spain include the cities of Sevilla (its capital), Granada and Cádiz — one of the oldest cities in Spain. This region includes both mountains and beautiful beaches, along with places to surf, ski and watch daily bullfighting and flamenco shows.

But not too far from here are the Canary Islands to the west, offering a tropic paradise all year round on a number of different islands — one of which was supposedly the early stomping grounds of Christopher Columbus when he left Spain to discover the Americas.

The north of Spain is a whole different breed, with a slightly cooler climate and a host of other delicacies from which travelers can choose. And you can’t forget Madrid, the large, cosmopolitan, around-the-clock capital located smack in the middle of the country. As many Spaniards say, “Todo en España es muy bonito” (which means “Everything is Spain is very pretty”) — but “Todo es muy diferente” (translation: “Everything is very different”).

Although I don’t believe that we can call one particular part of Spain the most truly “Spanish,” I will say that Valencia’s traditional foods, warm climate, delightfully ornate street signs and other aspects make it a very good jumping off point to understanding la cultura española — Spanish culture.

At a restaurant on a sunny corner of the Plaza Ayuntamiento in Valencia, the older, yet agile waiter asked us what we would like to order. While the smell of fried banuelos (basically a Spanish zepolli filled with pumpkin) was tempting, we decided to go with some paella Valenciana. But paella Valenciana has meat in it, and, because we are environmentally-conscious Tufts students, some of us wanted it without meat. Needless to say, this was a relatively foreign concept to our waiter, as paella Valenciana is the traditional dish of Valencia (hence the name) and after approximately five solid minutes of describing what we were looking for, he finally understood: we did not want the paella Valenciana; we wanted it without meat. Finally, we received what we were looking for.

A real slice (pun intended) of Valencian life would not be complete without mentioning horchata — a milk-like, white drink made of chufas, the Spanish word for the tubers of the nut sedge plant (generally called the tiger nut or the earth almond). The tiger nut is typically grown in Valencia, which explains the association. Not only do the Spanish create this strong, nutty drink to be consumed mostly in the summer months (although horchata café are open year-round, of course), but they often add a dollop of horchata-flavored ice cream to go along with the already cold drink! Horchata with extra horchata — because, to those who like the drink, the more, the merrier. No wonder horchata shops are open year-round ... and no wonder Ezra Koenig decided to base the first song off of Vampire Weekend’s sophomore album, “Contra” (2010), around the tiger nut drink.

To the Spanish, it’s just that good.

A similar dining experience to our paella dilemma occurred when ordering at an old horchata joint in Valencia, called El Siglo; the waiter had thought we wanted helado de chufa instead of helado de chocolate. “Why wouldn’t these tourists want the more traditional drink?” must have been the thought process. We decided to bag our original order, and — despite the fact that we were not particularly excited about the chufa — we sucked it up and ate tradition. Not my favorite, but it wasn’t half bad.

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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its lyrics and message particularly moving. While it is difficult to critique a song that is so obviously ridden with feeling, “Cannonball” is simply not pleasing to the ear. What’s worse, any emotional weight that the song carries seems to be in competition with Michele’s desire to reach the Hot 100. The track, chronicling Michele’s emergence from grief back into the public eye, has some vague sonic references to the ‘80s with strong synth and reverberating percussion.

Unfortunately, “Cannonball” seems like a forced addition to an album already plagued with insincerity.

Though the record is difficult to enjoy, there is one redeeming track that allows Michele to showcase her talents properly. In another collaboration with Furler, Michele created the final song on the album, “If You Say So.” This track, again dealing with the emotion fall-out after Monteith’s death, contains the honesty and sentiment that the rest of the album lacks. With soaring melodies and powerful production, Michele channels the simple power and story-telling skill of Lana Del Rey. Referencing Michele’s last interaction with Monteith, this song is compelling musically and lyrically commanding. Just before the chorus,

Michele pleads, “And I can’t get away from the burning pain I lie awake / And the fallen hero haunts my thoughts / How could you leave me this way?”

Though this song has merit and style, the rest of the album fails across the board.

Songs like, “On My Way,” “Battlefield” and the title track “Louder” are painfully derivative, awkward and contain some truly nonsensical lyrics. For instance, in “On My Way,” Michelle belts, “Well, I would like to hold my little hand / And we will run, we will, we will crawl, we will.”

Furthermore, the juxtaposition of Michele’s show-tune pronunciation with the purely pop tracks is truly bizarre; just try to imagine Liza Minnelli singing Perry’s “Roar” or Rhianna’s “Stay.”

The songs feel cheap and fake, especially when placed next to the emotional powerhouse that is “If You Say So.” Essentially, Michele’s debut does not to justice to her incredible talent. It seems like Michele is particularly anxious to go toe-to-toe with the pop divas of today.

Ironically, it is the very fact that Michele is nothing like these acts that has catapulted her to stardom. As long as Michele finds her own unique voice and stays true to her sonic aesthetic, we can expect much better things in the future. Unfortunately, as for now, “Louder” is simply too disingenuous, heavy-handed and, well, loud.

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that patrons eat as if they are part of some ramen-eating platoon of ravenous foodies.

Of course, this is entirely appropriate, seeing as Yume Wo Katare only has two items on its menu: ramen with two pieces of pork and ramen with five pieces of pork. This may seem audacious — possibly even limiting.

But it serves a purpose.

After pre-paying at the front register, customers can pour themselves a cup of water from a shelf, grab some chopsticks, a soup spoon and one wet wipe from a container.

(Only one though. The staff is very adamant about this.) They then take their places beside other patrons who are sweating their way through, perhaps, the first third of their ramen.

The chef will cheerfully ask customers whether they want garlic with their meals (they do), and the entire time patrons have been paying and gathering their utensils, both the chef and the staff have been taking other customers’ finished bowls from them, announcing in tandem one of three vociferous judgments: “perfect job,” “good job” and for the more disappointing cases, “almost.”

This is partially why the restaurant is so famous. In order to get a “good job” comment, one must consume the noodles, the pork and the vegetable roughage present in the broth.

Sounds easy enough, right? Wrong. Yume Wo Katare’s ramen is an artery-demolishing blend of super-fatty pork and even fattier broth.

The broth alone is a meal; combined with the other ingredients, its decadence is almost

shameless and borders on surreal. Getting a “perfect job” entails that one has finished everything, broth and all. The staff will ask for the name on anyone who finishes their bowl so that they can announce that, “______ got a perfect!” to the entire restaurant. This receives varied levels of enthusiasm from fellow customers depending on how focused they are on trying to finish their own meal. Getting an “almost” (announced in a weary groan) is disappointing, but understandable under the circumstances.

So, beneath the cheery teal glow of the surrounding walls, customers will slowly begin to work through their meals ―— meals which proclaim that simple does not mean lacking in flavor, and that ramen does not have to be relegated to dorm room cooking.

The ramen is, despite its ludicrous composition, extremely delicious. And with everybody buckling under the mutual strain of trying to shovel down one more spoonful of noodles, there’s a sense of camaraderie — that customers have not only earned the right to partake in but which they give themselves up to entirely. Never before have a group of people been so focused on finishing a meal. With one wet wipe in tow, patrons do their best to conquer the ramen monstrosity before them — though they will inevitably do their worst. Because anybody credulous enough to wait an hour in line, simply to have somebody praise them for eating too much ramen, is already lost in some capacity. But this spectacular defeat is well worth the wait.

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oned in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

This season’s premiere begins with a bang, before lapsing into a false calm. It launches right into high-adrenaline action, opening with a fight between Hannibal and Jack — only to flash back to the present, twelve weeks prior, as Hannibal calmly serves Jack dinner. The fight between the two will not actually occur until this season finale.

Will, still imprisoned for Hannibal’s crimes, dreams of freedom and fly-fishing. Jack and FBI profiler Dr. Alana Bloom (Caroline Dhavernas) deal with the fallout from the previous season, including a potential misconduct investigation and increasing distrust of each other. Hannibal submits himself voluntarily for investigation in response to Will’s continued insistence that Hannibal, not Will, is the “sensitive psychopath” behind the rash of murders of which Will is accused.

The rest of this season promises to accelerate toward the inevitable moment when Will proves Hannibal’s crimes. Fuller has spoken of a “scrappier Will Graham”, and the premiere delivers: Will warns Hannibal, “I’m going to remember, and when I do, there will be a reckoning.”

“Hannibal” is unlike any other show on network TV, and perhaps even any show on cable. Its stunning cinematography, sym-

bolism, emphasis on psychology, gorgeous architecture and eerily beautiful culinary spreads raise it to a level of intricacy and aesthetic achievement usually found only in film. Indeed, watching the first season backto-back feels more like watching one long movie than a disparate set of episodes. The writing is first-rate, the acting outstanding.

Fuller commendably creates diverse, interesting female characters and Dhavernas — whose Dr. Bloom is certainly well-crafted — surely has an illustrious career ahead of her. Mikkelsen is the premiere actor and a frequent sexiest-man winner in Denmark but is only just gaining well-deserved recognition in English-language films.

The psychological drama is also replete with some disturbing imagery — which is rather uncommon on network television.

In fact, the gore and violence in “Hannibal” is graphic enough to have warranted a ban on certain stations in Utah, but Fuller has stated that the show will never depict sexual violence, at risk of glorifying it.

“Hannibal” is a perfect fit for NBC: while it has struggled in ratings, critical reviews declare it phenomenal and the social media presence of its fandom is immense. (Indeed, the show was trending on Twitter throughout much of the premiere.) NBC has so far offered profuse support for “Hannibal” despite its low viewership, but in the long term, “Hannibal” will need to find a larger audience, of which it is entirely deserving.

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Education major would benefit many

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate voted unanimously last month to endorse the implementation of an education major. At this point in the process, professors and administrators have begun discussions about installing this secondary major at Tufts. Weighing the merits, it is clear how this major could benefit undergraduates. Tufts stresses that its students should be active global citizens, and teaching is a prime way in which Jumbos could fulfill this goal: giving back to the global community by educating a younger generation.

Many on the hill are eager to embrace this potential major. In 2012, the TCU Senate conducted a survey, asking students if the Tufts community would benefit from an education major. Just under 70 percent of the student body agreed that an education major would be beneficial.

If the university approves this education major, it would lend itself well to being a second major for many students

(the proposal does not ask for education to a possible first major). Majors like community health and environmental studies, secondary majors currently available at Tufts, share a similar quality with education — they offer a job-applicable education that meshes well with other majors. Currently, if a student is interested in pursuing a career in education, Tufts only offers an education minor.

A double major sets students up for success. The proposed system would push aspiring teachers at Tufts to delve into other interests and disciplines.

Doing so would not only contribute to a student’s own liberal arts education, but would also give graduating Jumbos an upper hand against others from competing schools graduating with education degrees without an interdisciplinary foundation.

Last year over 35 Tufts graduates joined Teach for America, a national

organization that places college graduates in inner city and rural schools at the helm of the classroom as teachers.

Tufts ranked sixth among the medium-sized schools for having so many of its students accepted into the program — and that does not take into consideration the close to 10 percent of graduating seniors who applied for the program. Since education is so sought out by students, an education major is only a natural step in responding to student interests.

Tufts should welcome the idea of an education major with open arms.

Tufts already has the infrastructure for a Department of Education and offers very popular courses by professors, many of whom are now proponents of the proposed major. The Tufts student body has shown interest and the TCU has voted for it — now it’s up to the administrators. Create and establish the education major: it is already overdue.

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The movement toward healthier eating habits and greater awareness of nutritional information in the U.S. is already seen with small labels indicating calorie content on the sides of candy bars and soda bottles.

Consumers may soon notice adjustments in the familiar food label, too.

First Lady Michelle Obama, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg recently proposed a plan to redesign Nutrition Facts labels to show the calorie count of products in enlarged type, list added sugars and present more practical serving sizes. The purpose of these changes is to provide parents with a clear, accurate description of what they choose to purchase for their families.

While placing more attention on the caloric and sugar content of foods gives consumers an honest depiction of how “good” or “bad” a certain item is, doing so only follows trends in dieting and fails to emphasize other nutrition information that is equally important to one’s health.

When Nutrition Facts labels were first implemented, research at the time determined fat content was a cause for weight gain and obesity. However, more recent research from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute explains that an overage of “energy IN,” or overall caloric intake, is the true cause.

In an age with apps like MyFitnessPal, which allows users to calculate their daily intake down to the Sweet N’ Low packet, one doesn’t need to hire a nutritionist to know attention to calories is now the focus of weight loss.

However, while monitoring calories is a strategy many people use to lose or maintain weight, other factors on the food label such as protein, fiber, sodium and vitamins offer a more balanced understanding of food necessary for healthy living than caloric content in an increased font size.

For instance, a serving of Planters Creamy peanut butter is 180 calories — much more than the zero calories in a tablespoon or two of Walden Farms Whipped Peanut Spread. While the imitation peanut butter seems like a guiltfree alternative, Planters peanut butter

contains seven grams of protein and 150 milligrams of sodium, whereas Walden Farms Spread has no protein and 210 milligrams of sodium.

Though the revamped labels would still list this information, the enhanced calorie content alone would make a zero calorie spread seem like the better option, when in fact — though it may be a ticket to faster weight loss — it offers little health benefit.

In the same way an Iowa teacher can lose 37 pounds eating nothing but McDonald’s for 90 days, traditional dieters can lose weight by disregarding nutrition as long as they measure calories.

The only sound addition to these labels is the “added sugars” sections, which would list the amount of sugar added by the manufacturer. Currently, labels list a combined amount of natural and added sugars.

Aside from government intervention in what consumers should monitor, this alteration in food labels skews nutritional value.

Calories alone do not determine health, and people shouldn’t have to walk through the supermarket aisle with each label telling them it does.

Corrections In the March 4 News article titled “TCU Senate Update,” it was reported that Rose Mendelsohn is launching a poster campaign on behalf of first-generation college students when, in fact, the Tufts Generation Council is launching the campaign. Mendelsohn is assisting the council in identifying prospective students.

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Those without a Birthright We are writing this piece as six students who identify as Palestinian. We were born into different religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism and atheism, although none of this should matter. What matters is that all of us identify as Palestinian because our parents and/or our grandparents (and generations of our families before them) were born in Palestine. We cannot include our names because we fear being denied entry to the West Bank or Israel if we were ever to try to visit the lands where some members of our families still live.

Today we are asking you, our fellow Tufts students, to kindly read this with an open mind. Some of you may feel uncomfortable or angered by our actions during Israel Apartheid Week, and some of you may simply not care about a conflict so distant, but some of you may want to know: What were we thinking when we posed tough questions at the Birthright General Interest Meeting? Why do we wear kuffiyehs around our necks?

Why did we join Students for Justice in Palestine? Why can’t we be “neutral” or “moderate”? We are writing to you, the curious, compassionate and questioning Tufts student. We hope that our words resonate with you and form a deeper understanding of what it means to be Palestinian on this campus.

Consider this: None of us carry a Palestinian identification card. Because we do not have this ID card, we do not have the legal right to live in Palestine as Palestinians, just as our parents and grandparents did before the creation of the ID card and the state of Israel. Some of us are refugees because our families were expelled from the land in 1948 and never received an ID. Some of our families fled the wrath of what Noam Chomsky called, “the largest open-air prison in the world,” Gaza, and live as Palestinian-Americans in the diaspora. Meanwhile, some of us have lived in Palestine for our whole lives but still enter the territory as tourists with temporary visitor visas because some of those in our families had their identification cards taken when they were child prisoners.

However, if we did have Palestinian IDs, the chances of us attending Tufts would be slim. If you carry a Palestinian ID, you are not allowed to go into Israel without a permit, which means you don’t have access to the only airport in Israel and Palestine. There are ways around this, of course, but to be a Palestinian means that you have to get the Israeli government’s permission to leave your nations’s territory in order to travel to other countries.

So why mention this?

Well, imagine what it is like to walk by a Birthright poster on this campus, knowing that you have never, and perhaps will never see the very house your grandparents were expelled from in 1948. Yet, over one fourth of the Tufts population can see that house and they, simply by being Jewish, can eventually own that house, while their Palestinian fellow students cannot.

To us, Birthright is the erasure of our right to our homeland, and it promises our homeland to one in four students at this university. Birthright is marketed as apolitical. Participants are led to believe that it is an innocent trip of camel rides, hiking, clubbing and swimming in the Dead Sea. It offers tourists a chance to “reconnect” with a country to which they have never been, and often times, to which they have no immediate familial ties.

Yet for us, Birthright is not only political; it is violent. That may sound dramatic, but it is our reality. To make Birthright “fun” and “safe” means eradicating an Arab populace. It means erecting illegal walls and vanishing the Occupation. It means exiling our brothers and our sisters to refugee camps, prisons or worse. It is important that students at this university understand the implications of their so-called right. Kind reader, understand that our hearts ache when we see photographs of friends and acquaintances swimming in the sea our grandparents once swam in. Our hearts ache when we see photographs of classmates posing in front of the mosques and churches our grandparents once prayed in, but now pray to one day see. Our hearts ache when we see pictures of peers eating the fruits of the land we have grown up hearing of, but never tasted. Our hearts ache when we see our classmates posing next to exotic camels and mysterious Bedouins in a grotesque charade of our culture. Our hearts ache each time we are reminded that we do not share this birthright.

We hope Tufts students who go on Birthright realize the privilege and power they possess. Please, understand what poets Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian refer to as “the violence of loving something that does not belong to you.” For you, these events may be innocuous, exotic and enjoyable. For us, your photos create a feeling we hope no one will ever have to endure, no matter where they are from. We feel the weight of our lives that could have been, but never were.

If you are not eligible to go on Birthright and are still feeling rather distant from this “conflict,” know this: This year alone, $3.1 billion of your tax money will be sent to Israel’s military courtesy of the United States. This money is not going to Israeli hospitals, animal shelters or orphanages.

Your money is likely spent on tear gas canisters and guns. On this campus we are equals, but in the Holy Land we are on the opposite sides of the barrels of those guns. This is not an ALLIES military simulation or an abstract euphemism; these are our lives and yours too.

So we hope that when you walk by our direct action that people call “extreme” or attend one of our events that will be reported as “polarizing” that you understand this: We are here to foster a tension.

As Martin Luther King once famously wrote, “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue so that it can no longer be ignored.” We hope that our direct action brings discomfort, but does not cause harm.

All of us writing this have at some point questioned our involvement in Students for Justice in Palestine. We do not want to be seen as inflammatory by conveying the truth of our lives. We do not want targets on our heads. Given the choice, most of us would rather learn to play a new instrument, take up rock climbing, write poetry or fall in love. But for now, our primary passion is living as free people. So long as programs like Birthright exist, so long as apartheid exists in our homeland, we, as Palestinians, do not have a choice. We did not choose to be a colonized people.

Our bodies are political, whether we like it or not — and so are yours.

When you see us building mock apartheid walls, asking difficult questions and making people uncomfortable on this campus, please realize that we see it as our moral obligation, not only for us and our families, but for the silenced who cannot be here and for those who desire to live a life in solidarity with the oppressed.

We are fostering this tension to build a community: a community in which we are truly treated as equals; a community where no student has a “birthright” at the expense of another person’s freedom.

The authors of this op-ed are Palestinian members of Students for Justice in Palestine. The organization can be reached at sjptufts@gmail.com

group of about 50 to 60 students purchased nearly all the alcohol in Hotung’s mini-fridge on Jan. 24 to illustrate the need, and desire, for a space on campus for those of legal age to drink. Currently Hotung Café is the only place to “get a drink” on campus.

The reason only a single location exists to purchase alcohol at Tufts is not because there is insufficient demand, as students of all ages, and especially those who are legally able, want to drink on campus. The reasons are associated with the supply, or university policies that have increasingly encroached upon the legal consumption of alcohol on campus. Although getting off campus is fun, and I encourage it, it’s also a hassle and expensive to drink in Davis, Harvard and Boston regularly.

Despite the fact that Tufts recently revised its alcohol and drug policy to implement a student-advocated “Good Samaritan” policy, which says that no one who seeks treatment for themselves or others will receive disciplinary action, according to the Tufts Student Handbook, the university has also modified its policies to slowly eliminate oncampus spaces for students to legally drink.

My class year will be the last one to have experienced homecoming with universitysanctioned tailgates, spring fling with permitted drinking for those who are over 21 and, of course, the Naked Quad Run (NQR).

It also will be one of the last to have a Winter Bash where a 21+ area was available. I understand that indecent student behavior prompted the university to eliminate these events. I will not excuse that kind of conduct. However, I am willing to bet that most of the incidents in question involved students who heavily “pre-gamed” and are unfamiliar with responsible drinking because they were underage.

Abolishing these events, or eradicating access to alcohol at places such as Fall Ball or Winter Gala, will not solve the problem of excessive, underage drinking; it simply ensures that mentions of it don’t end up in the papers. The policies merely guarantee that underage drinking continues behind closed doors, further off campus where students are far from the university infrastructure meant to protect them.

So what does the university hope to achieve if it succeeds in heavily limiting access to alcohol on campus? A culture shift away from drinking? A pat on the back from the Board of Trustees or better relations with local citizens? As Anna Burgess points out in her Observer article “Buzz Kill: Is Tufts Out of Control or Overly Controlled,” “while the local community may see us as a nuisance at times, they don’t see us as belligerent or irresponsible neighbors.” The administration claims student well-being is at the heart of any of these policies. But the reality is that students, under or over age, will never stop drinking, because students (unbelievably) grow up to become adults, who drink. When we graduate we will be invited to after-work drinks with our colleagues, networking events, conferences and dinners, where our handling of alcohol will be judged. Thus, promoting responsible drinking is not only common sense, since consumption of alcohol is integral to American adult social culture, but it also keeps students’ well-being in mind.

I challenge the administration to be creative and forward-thinking if they hope to influence students’ drinking habits to even a minor extent, and consider a campus bar, for example, as a serious initiative. By pushing drinking culture further underground and off campus the university forsakes an opportunity to promote positive drinking habits and jeopardizes student safety.

History has proven that prohibition didn’t work; the 21st Amendment did.

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

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Senior goalie Greg Jenkins was one of the season’s pleasant surprises, as he finished the year with a 2.96 GAA and a .912 save percentage.

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season, he was number one in net.

Jenkins will end his career in the record books. This season, his goals against average of 2.96 and save percentage of .912 rank tied for fourth and fifth at Tufts since the school’s hockey program was reestablished in 1986.

Despite Jenkins’ play, the Jumbos struggled on defense. They allowed the most goals and served the most penalty minutes in the conference.

Next season, according to the NESCAC Hockey Blog, Kellenberger will be

joined in net by Ryan McConnell, who is from Medford, Mass.

For head coach Brian Murphy’s squad, this is the third time in four years they have finished in the NESCAC cellar. The players are already focusing on next season, and the offseason has started on a strong note.

“No one wants to repeat this year’s results,” Pantazopoulos said.

“Winning that last game of the season has already generated momentum.

Once we won, we remembered how much fun winning is.”

The numbers were not kind to the

Jumbos this season. They were four games behind the final playoff team in the NESCAC. They did not have one player in the top 40 in points in the NESCAC. Next year, the Jumbos hope the numbers will prove that 2013-14 was a turning point.

“From the time that I came here and got recruited I have noticed that there has been a complete culture change,” Oullette said. “We are a bluecollar team, and I am excited about the future and turning the program around. Everyone is on board.”

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his job as a defender, too,” Sheldon said. “He kind of grew up and realized he had to be that last line for us and started blocking shots. That made us better.”

Haladyna proved to be a strong shooter with a knack for making tough shots around the rim. In the last four games, he averaged just under 20 points.

“The whole first semester, he was not playing healthy,” Sheldon said.

“Once he got to full strength, those last seven or eight games, he was unstoppable.”

Meanwhile, Ferris showed why he’s so valuable when healthy: He averaged 12 points, a team-high 6.9 rebounds, and more than a steal per game.

The primary concern going forward may be the lack of depth in the current junior class. Ferris, though certainly a capable leader, is the only junior on the roster. With tri-captain ball-handlers Cohen and Kwame Firempong set to graduate in May, younger players like freshman Tarik Smith will need to step into more prominent roles. Freshman Drew Madsen, who improved as a lowpost presence, will need to keep getting better.

If all goes well, though, there could

also be a surprise reinforcement next winter. Palleschi, who thought his career was over, is on the comeback trail. He recently had successful openheart surgery and has his eyes set on Nov. 1 to start playing again — though Sheldon thinks spring semester 2015 is a more realistic goal.

Palleschi could team up with Sabety to form the best frontcourt in the NESCAC. It’s tempting to imagine. But if the Jumbos learned one thing this season, it’s to not count their chickens before they hatch.

“I feel like this team’s talked a lot for a couple years,” Cohen said. “You’ve got to just go do it at some point.”

Men’s and Women’s Squash

Advani, Stanco compete at Individual Championships Sophomore Aditya Advani represented the men’s squash team and sophomore Paget Stanco represented the women’s team last weekend at the College Squash Association’s Individual Championships tournament.

The competition was comprised of a championship bracket and two other consolation brackets. Teams from around the country sent their best players to compete. Neither Advani nor Stanco advanced past second round in the championship bracket.

“Even though I personally lost my last match against Denison, I had won several of my last matches before that,” Advani said. “I went into this tournament with confidence in my game, and confidence to win.”

Advani was victorious in his opening match against Columbia freshman Jonathan Gill in the Molloy division. With the win, Advani advanced to round 32 before losing his second match against St. Lawrence junior Ibrahim Khan. Advani ended the tournament with a loss to senior Matthew Mackin of Trinity in his consolation round.

“It was frustrating to end the season with two straight losses, but it still was a good feeling making the tournament and advancing to the round of 32,” Advani explained. “My goal for next year is to advance further in the tournament.”

Stanco, the 11th seed in the Holldean division, fell to Brown junior Dori Rahbar in the first round. She

then moved into the first round of the consolation bracket where she took on St. Lawrence freshman Emily Terry, to whom she lost as well.

Both Advani and Stanco played in the No. 1 positions for their respective squads. Stanco finished out the year as an All-NESCAC second team selection, her first All-NESCAC honor, after ending the season with an 8-10 record.

Advani earned his second consecutive All-NESCAC second team honor as well after finishing his season with a 16-7 record.

Advani and Stanco were the only Jumbos on the squash teams to be awarded All-NESCAC honors.

—by Catherine Worley

ith the NBA season about to reach its three-quarter mark, the Boston Celtics are right where they should be: toiling near the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings. They’ve lost twice as many games as they’ve won and are on track to miss the playoffs for the first time since 2007. Boston’s been in tank-mode for the last two months, their surprisingly strong start now a distant memory.

It’s all part of the plan. The Celtics are supposed to be bad this year so they can get good draft picks and rebuild around young talent. In order to contend again, they have to bottom out.

The bottoming out part just took a little longer than expected. Boston played respectable basketball for the first third of the season, and that was enough to make some noise in the embarrassingly weak Eastern Conference. With their scrappy style of play and whiz-kid coach Brad Stevens, the Celtics rose to the top of their division. More impressively, they did so without Rajon Rondo, their best player and dynamic point guard.

Basketball fans and pundits alike could hardly believe what they were seeing.

Perhaps this team had too much Celtic Pride to tank? Maybe everyone had been too quick to count them out during the preseason? If Boston could compete without Rondo, then maybe he could carry the team to a surprise postseason berth when he recovered from his torn ACL. But then, a week before Christmas, the bubble burst. Boston started losing. And losing. They dropped 19 of 22 at one point, and after a brief winning streak have lost seven of their past nine. The Celtics turned out to be just as dreadful as everybody thought they’d be. Their hot start was nothing more than an early-season mirage.

Not even Rondo’s mid-January return could stop the bleeding. So with his team in freefall, Danny Ainge did what any general manager of a tanking team should do: stockpile draft picks by trading away established talent. That’s why he dealt Jamal Crawford, one of the team’s best players, and MarShon Brooks for a spare part (backup center Joel Anthony) and two future first-round draft picks. Embrace the future.

For now, at least, the Celtics are going about tanking the right way. They’re bad, but not so bad that they’re the worst team in the league (they do have a shred of pride, after all). They don’t get blown out on a nightly basis, though lopsided losses such as their 129-98 defeat to Denver (ouch) and 26-point loss to the Knicks will happen from time to time. Boston often loses by just a handful of points, which means most of their games are competitive. They don’t roll over.

Instead, they just do what most young and inexperienced teams do during crunch time. They make mistakes, costly mistakes that sink them in pivotal moments. They fail to execute on crucial possessions and have trouble tightening up on defense. They’re still learning. Growing pains are to be expected from a young team with a rookie coach.

The hope is that all those errors amount to the franchise’s worst season since 2006-07, when an injury-ravaged Celtics squad went 24-58 and endured an 18-game losing streak.

Nobody wants to see them lose 18 in a row again, but finishing with a similar record increases their chances of landing a top pick in this year’s draft, which experts say is the deepest in years.

To do so, the Celtics just have to keep losing.

Thankfully they’ve gotten pretty good at that.

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

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Last place leaves Tufts searching for positives

In frustrating season, consistency was difficult to maintain

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Ross Dember

Daily Editorial Board

On paper, the hockey team had a dismal season. The Jumbos finished the season with a 4-19-1 record overall, and their conference record of 2-15-1 put them at the bottom of the NESCAC. They went through a stretch of 12 games without a victory, playing the whole season without senior co-captain Cody Armstrong and, save for five minutes, senior goalie Brian Phillips.

For the players, however, the season, and what it could have been, was defined by the final game of the season.

The Jumbos went toe-to-toe against Bowdoin, pulling off a 4-3 come-from-behind win against a team that is competing in the NESCAC semifinals this weekend.

“Things really just clicked that last game,” junior forward George Pantazopoulos said. “No one wanted to give up and jump ship, which was the important thing. We really wanted to turn things around and give the seniors a good sendoff.”

Offensively, the Jumbos went through the season without a bona fide scorer. Senior forward Kyle Gallegos led the team in goals and points, but the bulk of the scoring was spread out among the team. Yet as the season progressed, the offense found new ways to find the net.

Junior Blake Edwards and sophomore Brian Oullette, both defensemen, were among the Jumbos’ assists leaders.

Oullette’s improvement came from more opportunities, not any major change in style.

“I didn’t have to change up my game that much,” the 5’ 9” Oullette said. “Ever since high school I have had to use my speed and skill to make up for my size.”

The Jumbos also saw a surge in production from their forwards in the lower shifts. After being split up due to early season struggles, Pantazopoulos and sophomore forward Luke Griffin showed strong chemistry in the latter stages of the season.

“Luke is one of my good friends and I was happy that we started to click and generate some scoring,” Pantazopoulos said of his linemate. “He was a prominent scorer in high school and it was good seeing him generate some offense later in the season.”

The Jumbos expect to return 10 of their top 11 points leaders next year, with Gallegos as the lone senior on this year’s squad. These players include a trio of freshman forwards in Conal Lynch, Matt Pugh and Mike Leary, all of whom took on major roles in their first season. Junior power-play weapon Tyler Voight and sophomore forward Stewart Bell — who has the potential to be the playmaker the team needs — should also be back next year.

One of the toughest players to replace in the offseason will be the team’s biggest surprise this season: senior goalie Greg Jenkins. Jenkins had not started a game in his career entering the season, but following the loss of Phillips, he joined freshman Ryan Kellenberger in the rotation. By the end of the see ICE HOCKEY, page 11

Men’s Swimming and Diving

Schmidt, Rohrer qualify for Nationals Five-time All-American diver Johann Schmidt will be joined by freshman Matthew Rohrer at the 2014 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Indianapolis on March 19 to 22 after stellar performances at the NCAA Regional at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this past weekend.

Looking to qualify for his fourth NCAA meet in four years, Schmidt confirmed his reputation as one of the best divers in the region.

The senior tri-captain blew away the 19 other divers in the one-meter, winning with a score of 576.20 after 11 dives, almost 40 points better than Amherst junior Mark Idleman (537.55), who took second place.

In the three-meter dive, Schmidt continued his dominance by setting a school record with a score of 592.20.

He won the event and beat Amherst senior Colin White (561.35) by over 30 points.

This is the second consecutive year Schmidt has won off both boards at the regional competition.

“A lot of the meet I focused on competing against myself, and staying positive,” Schmidt said. “There’s always new

competition every year, so I was really happy to win.”

The NCAAs will be the last collegiate diving meet of Schmidt’s decorated career — he won the one-meter national championship in 2012 — and for the first time, he will be able to share the experience with a fellow Tufts diver.

After finishing in fifth place in the one-meter dive with a score of 507.30, Rohrer needed a top-three finish in the three-meter to guarantee himself a trip to Indianapolis.

His score of 546.95 was good enough for third place and improved upon the score he posted a week ago at the NESCAC Championships, where he was the three-meter champion.

As a four-time veteran of the NCAA meet, Schmidt had some advice for the young Rohrer.

“I told him first to have fun and do the best that you can, because it all goes by so quickly,” Schmidt said. “I think he’ll see that if he continues to work hard, he has the potential to be a national champion.”

—by Jason Schneiderman

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The Jumbos’ season began in heartbreak. In October, they found out that sophomore center Tom Palleschi, the reigning NESCAC Rookie of the Year, had an enlarged aorta and could no longer play basketball.

Palleschi was going to be the team’s focal point on offense and defense. When he went down, head coach Bob Sheldon scrambled to adjust. Then, after just one practice, junior guard Ben Ferris — the team’s leading scorer as a sophomore — suffered a stress fracture in his hip.

So began a season-long search for consistency.

“Tommy and Ben, those were our two leading scorers coming back from last year,” Sheldon said. “We didn’t really have anybody to go through, at first. When Ben got back [in January], it took him a while to get to that point where we could go back to him. We never really got comfortable with a go-to guy.”

More roadblocks arose: Sophomore guard Stephen Haladyna was sidelined in December with mononucleosis; sophomore forward Brian Kilgore tore his meniscus before winter break; and senior forward Tommy Folliard sat out the last three games with plantar fasciitis.

The Jumbos didn’t put it all together until the last regular season weekend, when they beat Colby and nationally ranked Bowdoin to earn a playoff spot. Then they took powerhouse Williams to the brink in the first round of the playoffs before losing in overtime.

“I think you saw in the last three games what that team is really capable of,” senior tri-captain point guard Oliver Cohen said. “It’s kind of a shame that we weren’t able to find that team mentality and togetherness until so late.”

Initially, Tufts’ goal was to make the Div. III tournament.

But after winning five of their first six games, all against non-conference opponents, the team’s weaknesses were exposed in January during conference play.

First they lost to Middlebury, 80-66. Then they lost to Amherst, 75-67. The next day they lost to Trinity, 64-54.

Suddenly, the Jumbos were 0-3 in the league and 7-8 overall.

A theme emerged: Tufts was melting down in the final minutes. Individually, there were positive signs. Freshman center Hunter Sabety, who had turned down 18 Div. I offers to come to Tufts, was a monster in the paint. As a team, though, Tufts had not quite put the pieces together.

On Feb. 7 and 8, the second-to-last NESCAC weekend, the Jumbos lost road games to Hamilton and Williams. They left Williamstown 2-6 in-conference, tied for ninth place.

They were 1-8 in games decided by 10 points or fewer, including a 71-69 defeat at Hamilton.

But on the final regular sea-

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Freshman center Hunter Sabety is a top candidate for NESCAC Rookie of the Year after averaging 14.8 PPG and 2.8 BPG. son weekend at Cousens Gym, the team tucked away a season of injuries and late-game frustrations and won when it counted most. To guarantee a playoff spot, the Jumbos needed to beat Colby and Bowdoin.

First they beat Colby in overtime by seven points. Then they beat Bowdoin by four.

As the No. 7 seed in the NESCAC tournament, the Jumbos traveled to No. 2-seeded Williams, the No. 9 team in the country that went on to lose to Amherst in the conference finals.

Two weeks earlier, the Jumbos had lost to the Ephs by 23 points.

In the playoffs, however, Tufts looked like a different team. The game featured 17 lead changes, with the Jumbos leading by four points with a minute left. Until the five-minute overtime period — which Williams won by 10 — the Jumbos were arguably the better team.

“I don’t think anyone’s ever

questioned our talent,” Cohen said. “We’re right there with [ Williams]. I guess it just shows we were capable of a lot more than we accomplished, which kind of stings for me as a leader of the team — [and] for everyone.”

On the one hand, the Jumbos left much to be desired. Defensively, they were sub-par. They finished last in the NESCAC in opponent field-goal percentage (39.0). In most offensive categories, they were in the middle of the pack.

But the future looks bright.

Sabety led the team in scoring with 14.8 points per game.

He led the NESCAC in blocked shots with 2.8 per game and ranked third in field goal percentage at 65.0. He dazzled with alley-oop dunks. He could become the third straight Jumbo — after Palleschi and Ferris — to earn Rookie of the Year honors.

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