October 27, 2015

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Dr. Craig Best named as new head of Physicians Organization

by Hannah Uebele Contributing Writer

so we had the experience of previous Sharewood board members to support us,” she said. “Compounded with a great Student Advancement Team and the assistance of Rebecca Scott, the senior director of development and alumni relations and Paula Gagnon, office manager of the office of student affairs at [Tufts University Medical School], made the entire process of getting donations and figuring out logistics a fairly seamless process.”

Dower said that the Sharewood Project serves over 500 clients in the greater Boston community every year.

“Sharewood has been serving the greater Boston community since 1997 by providing basic health care services such as chronic disease management, school physicals, sexual health testing and counseling and case management services,” Dower said.

Additionally, Lefland said that Sharewood’s case management services

Dr. Craig Best will assume his new role as president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center’s 500-doctor Physicians Organization (PO) in January, a year and a half after Tufts Medical Center started its search to fill the position.

Best, who is currently the medical director, business development lead and chair of the obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) department at Reliant Medical Group in Worcester, Mass., will succeed Michael Wagner, who left the post in 2014 to become the president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center, according to an Oct. 15 Boston Globe article .

In his new role, Best will work with Wagner and department chairs to further Tufts Medical Center’s success in providing medical education and care to the community, according to an Oct. 16 press release.

“I hope to get resources from [the department chairs], to be able to look at some of our current operations and see how we might improve those things and to be able to act as sort of a go-between for our specialists and the community physicians,” Best said.

Best believes his career experience in medicine and business has prepared him for his new position at Tufts and he is excited to apply what he knows.

He explained that when Reliant Medical Group hired him to be the OB/GYN chair, they also hired him to work at St. Vincent Hospital, where he ran the OB/GYN department for about four years before transitioning into business development. “[The] experiences I’ve had in business and networking will come in handy,” he said. “I like the business development side, and probably about 50 percent of the PO job will be getting out into the community, meeting with the primary care physicians and making connections between them and our tertiary specialists, so I’m really looking forward to that.”

Dr. Paul Summergrad, chair of Tufts Medical Center PO Board, said he has been acting as the interim CEO of the PO during Tufts’ search for a permanent CEO. He believes the PO will gain valuable expertise with Best as its leader.

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A student walks under a brightly colored tree on the Academic Quad on Tuesday, Oct. 13.

Tufts School of Medicine’s Sharewood Project holds silent online auction

by Isha Fahad

Assistant News Editor

Tufts University School of Medicine’s student-run health education program the Sharewood Project completed a two-week-long online silent auction yesterday.

The Sharewood Project also provides free healthcare to underserved clients, according to Sharewood General Project Director Ariel Lefland.

“It is led by volunteer medical students and physicians affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine and Cambridge Health Alliance, with help from other professional students and interpreters from Tufts University,” Lefland said.

According to Executive Director of the Sharewood Project Joshua Dower, the goal of this year’s auction is to raise $8,000.

“Our silent auction is a fundraiser we hold every year to help keep Sharewood running,” Dower said.

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As of press time, the auction had raised $5,217, according to the Sharewood Project’s online auction website.

The auction included 67 items that range from gift baskets to artwork to sporting goods. The winners were scheduled to be notified after the auction at 5 p.m. on Oct. 26, according to Lefland.

“All the bids made are anonymous, which is why the auction is termed silent,” she said.

Fundraising is always difficult for any nonprofit program, and the Sharewood Project is no exception to that rule, Director of Advancement Ann Cheung added.

“Considering the scale of clients we see, we have to be fairly aggressive with grant-writing and fundraising, but thankfully, we do have a lot of support from the community and Tufts given the mission we have,” she said.

Cheung said the auction was arranged smoothly, without any difficulties.

“The Sharewood Silent Auction has been happening for some time now,

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“Larry Summers: Tisch Distinguished Speaker Series” Details: Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University and the President Emeritus of Harvard, will speak as part of the Tisch College distinguished speaker series. Summers, who was also the Treasury Secretary under former President Bill Clinton, will discuss international affairs and economic issues, focusing on the United States using its economic clout for foreign policy.

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When and Where: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Center Sponsors: Environmental Studies Lunch and Learn Program and Tufts Institute of the Environment

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Ongoing silent online auction helps fund the Sharewood Project SHAREWOOD

continued from page 1 help its clients register for MassHealth, obtain food stamps, find safe housing and receive other social services.

According to Lefland, a diverse client population with a variety of needs benefits from the Sharewood Project.

“In addition to our general health clinic, we have sexual and women’s health departments and we also offer special services including dental care, ophthalmology, nutrition counseling and dermatology,” she said.

Since December 2014, the Sharewood team has seen 845 clients — from infants to 84-year-olds — for various medical concerns. Many clients first come into contact with the U.S. healthcare system through Sharewood, Lefland said.

She explained that many of the project’s clients often experience inequities in health outcomes, lack access to even the most basic care, and often face additional challenges, such as language barriers and poor health literacy.

“Sharewood is playing an important role in connecting this key [underserved] population with primary care services and providing for these clients until they are able to do so or return to their home countries,” Lefland said.

According to Cheung, these facts

illustrate the impact Sharewood has on its community.

“We’ve continually evolved to make sure that we provide medical interpretation for those who are unable to speak English or expanding our services to include dental counseling,” Cheung said.

“Personally, I think our success lies in the enthusiasm that the students have, not only for the study of medicine, but spreading that knowledge to each other and the clients we serve.”

Both Dower and Lefland said that along with the auction, the Sharewood Project is funded through grants and fundraisers such as Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation, Massachusetts Medical Society, AthenaHealth, March Madness Brackets and Tufts University School of Medicine Patagonia Fleece sale.

Sharewood also relies on donations from alumni and other members of the Tufts community, Dower added.

Lefland said that the project accommodates people at different price points and provides an easy platform for reaching a large number of people.

Sharewood’s budget is completely funded through grants and fundraising, so events like the auction are extremely important for helping the project, she explained.

“The auction this year is open to the

public and features over 60 great prizes ranging from Red Sox and Celtics tickets to gym memberships, collectible items, gift certificates to local restaurants and much more,” Lefland said.

The Sharewood Project has much to offer educationally, according to Cheung.

“On the most basic level, our students gain more experience educating and counseling the clients who come to Sharewood under the supervision of licensed Tufts-affiliated physicians,” Cheung said. “Additionally, the students learn to work in teams in addressing the health concerns of our clients, which can encompass medical, dental, nutritional and social concerns — just to name a few.”

She explained that the students are able to take on a greater amount of responsibility as board members, which may include administrative roles like the ones that she, Dower and Lefland occupy or roles that have a specific interest in medicine.

Lefland said that she and the Sharewood Project’s volunteers are proud of the effect that they have on the community.

“Everyone who volunteers at Sharewood is really proud of what we do, and it is extremely rewarding to have such a positive impact on our clients and our community,” she said.

Best brings networking and business connections from career at Reliant Medical Group MED CENTER

continued from page 1 “[Best] brings several things that are very, very important,” Summergrad said.

“Number one, he’s an accomplished and experienced physician executive, and he also has the experience of being a physician entrepreneur and developing and running his own company … I think he’ll bring tremendous skills as far as that’s concerned.”

Summergrad also said that Best has deep knowledge of the Boston area physician and hospital market. This is valuable

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to the Tufts Medical Center, which collaborates with many different groups, he said.

“We have relationships with literally hundreds of primary care specialists and physicians throughout eastern Massachusetts, and he will be a great resource for us,” Summergrad said.

Dr. Michael Wagner, president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center, was quoted in the press release saying that Best will be able to lead the physicians organization, while connecting with the community. “[Best] will do an outstanding job of not only providing strategic and opera-

tional leadership within the PO, but also in ensuring that we forge even stronger connections to physicians in the community,” Wagner said.

Best added that he has a lot to look forward to when he starts working for Tufts.

“Tufts has a fantastic culture,” he said.

“I’ve spent some time at other academic institutions in Boston, and I think the culture that you have at Tufts Medical Center is transparent, open and collaborative, and I really like that. So I’m really excited about getting involved and working with the folks there.”

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Cummings School receives $5 million from Commonwealth for FY16, sparking debates

by Becca Leibowitz Features Editor

On July 30, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine was granted $5 million from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the 2016 fiscal year. The Cummings School, located in Grafton, Mass., has received money from the Commonwealth for years, and recent budget negotiations have prompted a debate about why any public money goes to a private institution like Tufts.

In an Aug. 28 open letter in the Somerville Journal to Senator Patricia Jehlen of Somerville, Representative Denise Provost of the 27th Middlesex District and Representative Christine Barber of the 34th Middlesex District, Somerville resident Jim Bossi questioned why Tufts receives any state funding.

“I find it very hard to understand why a school with an endowment of almost $2 billion would receive any aid at all,” Bossi wrote.

Provost answered Bossi in a Sept.

2 open letter in the Somerville Journal and explained how Tufts had come to receive the $5 million.

“The FY 2016 budget, which the legislature sent to [Governor Charlie] Baker, had an appropriation for $5 million for the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University,” she wrote.

According to Representative David Muradian of the ninth Worcester District, he and about 20 of his colleagues proposed an amendment to raise this appropriation to $5.5 million, which is the amount that the Cummings School received for the 2015 fiscal year.

Through a conference committee, the Senate, which had proposed $3 million for the Cummings School, negotiated with the House to set the appropriation at $5 million, Muradian said.

According to Provost’s letter, Baker then vetoed $1 million of this appropriation, lowering the amount down to $4 million.

The House overrode this veto 144 to 10, finalizing the appropriation at $5 million.

According to the state’s final budget for the 2016 fiscal year, Tufts is allowed to use the money on several conditions.

The budget stipulates that “[the] funds

shall be expended under a resident veterinary tuition remission plan … [and] shall support bioterrorism prevention research related to diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans.”

The budget also requires that the Cummings School “work in consultation with the Norfolk County Agricultural High School on veterinary programs.”

Muradian explained that a large budget deficit required Baker to utilize his veto power in this instance.

“Unfortunately, Governor Baker had to [veto some of the Cummings School appropriation] to try to balance the budget,” Muradian said. “He came into the legislature with a $750 million budget deficit, so he had to make some tough decisions.”

Barber, one of the House members who voted to override the veto, explained the importance of the Cummings School’s contribution to public health.

“I think it is important that we have a vet school here [in New England] for a number of reasons, but the biggest one for me is, honestly, the public health component,” Barber said. “The Veterinary School is able to treat and study infectious diseases which of course can move from animals to humans and affect the health of people as well. So I think it’s helpful to have a school that’s focused on that.”

Muradian also emphasized the contributions of the Cummings School to Grafton, the hometown of both Muradian and his predecessor George Peterson.

“The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is in my community … [In my work] over the last seven years, I’ve come to have such a great appreciation for the Veterinary School and all [it does] for the Commonwealth,” Muradian said. “It’s an amazing…public-private partnership between the university and the Commonwealth …

Tufts University [has]…really the only veterinary school in the northeast, and I would argue it’s one of the most… known throughout the world.”

Muradian said that the Cummings School is a special case, as no other private institutions of higher education receive funding from the Commonwealth.

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“I think that this is a unique situation [because] there’s not a public veterinary school within the Commonwealth, so…that’s why individuals recognize the need for it,” he said.

While Provost acknowledged the value of the Cummings School, she explained that just because it is the only veterinary school in New England, that does not necessarily mean it should receive state funding.

“There are a lot of other programs that are not available through the public system, and we don’t make direct appropriations to those programs,” Provost said. “The state doesn’t offer, for instance, a Master of Library Science degree [or] a Master of Social Work degree. Private institutions do, but we do not fund that directly … It’s certainly important to have trained people for a variety of professions and occupations, but, you know, we don’t fund other private institutions to provide a training which is not available in the state system.”

In her Sept. 2 open response to Bossi’s letter, Provost expressed her agreement with him.

“I do not believe that the taxpayers of the Commonwealth should be providing operational funds to a private university with — as you point out — a substantial endowment,” Provost wrote.

According to Kim Thurler, director of public relations at Tufts, it is common practice for veterinary schools in the country to receive significant state funding.

“State funding is very important in helping to ensure [the] Cummings School’s future,” Thurler told the Daily in an email.

Thurler said that the Cummings School provides important services for the surrounding community.

“The school not only educates future veterinarians, many of whom are Massachusetts residents, but it also serves as an important catalyst for economic development in central Massachusetts and provides critical services for the life sciences sector in Massachusetts,” she said.

She added that when the Cummings School opened in 1978, there had been no veterinary school in Massachusetts since the 1947 closing of the one at Middlesex University.

According to the Cummings School’s website, tuition for Massachusetts residents is subsidized by about $5,000 a year, contingent upon funding of state appropriation.

Over the past several years, state funding for the Cummings School has increased steadily, from $2 million for the 2012 fiscal year to $5.5 million for the 2015 fiscal year, seeing a slight dip with the most recent $5 million appropriation, according to the budgets posted on the Commonwealth’s website each year. This growth is in part due to Muradian’s efforts.

“If you look back in the last 20 years or so of funding, we’re actually at one of the highest marks that we’ve ever had for the veterinary school, which I’m proud to say is through my advocacy and obviously [that of ] the previous Representative George Peterson,” Muradian said. “I think see Cummings, page 4

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Clara Wagner To Life, Sincerely Clara

An open letter to Halloween

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ear Halloween, It’s four days until you’re here.

This is the first year that I haven’t carved a pumpkin and my costume-situation is looking pretty sparse. Plus, is decorating dorm rooms for Halloween even a thing? Long story short, this Halloween already feels different — but I think that might be worth writing about.

Most holidays can be categorized by the age that they most appeal to. New Year’s is for adults, Easter is for kids and Christmas is just an overall family holiday. But Halloween, you’re more complicated than that.

Halloween is most popular with two different age groups: five to 10 and then 17 to 22 (I’m guestimating here). The thing is, those two age brackets celebrate very different Halloweens.

Think about it — for kids, Halloween is about planning the most awesome costume months in advance, going door to door, being secretly terrified of the decorations on your neighbor’s house and gobbling candy. On the other hand, the side of Halloween that we’ll likely seeing this weekend is centered on parties, alcohol and extra wiggle room for questionable outfits and decisions.

Then there’s Halloween for all other age groups. During those oh-so-wonderful middle school years, Halloween is just awkward.

You’re too old/cool to go out, you’re too young to “party” and haunted hayrides/houses still mean mom carpools. Finally, there’s the adult version of Halloween, which involves millions of rung doorbells, lots of oohs and aahs over toddlers dressed up as pumpkins and several tons of candy for distribution.

So Halloween, I guess my point is that you serve as a kind of divider of different life phases. There’s the first Halloween without going trick-or-treating, the first Halloween spent at a party, the first Halloween giving out candy. In the moment, these might not seem like big deals — and maybe they aren’t. But I do think that you can be an interesting way to mark and measure our passage through life.

There are a million of other coming-of-age situations that serve the same purpose. Some of them — like learning how to ride a bike — are really pretty arbitrarily assigned. I mean, is it that big of a deal that a kid can pedal around without training wheels? Not really. I think people just like being able to set thresholds that give us indicators of where we’re at in the grand process of growing up and growing old.

Granted, this process is far from linear or universal, but sometimes it’s nice to be able to look at something like Halloween and reflect on where we’re at, where we’ve come from and where we have yet to go. Putting ourselves in the headspace of past, present and future versions of you can be pretty cool, actually: the giddiness of Halloween at age five, the terror of our first haunted house, the inhibition of an especially wild night out, the maturity that comes with owning a door to be knocked on, the pride of seeing children dressing up. You, Halloween, can help us orient ourselves on the timeline of life.

I appreciate that, along with all of the chocolate you’ve given me over the years. Be good to us this year, and kindly forgive my lack of a quality costume.

Sincerely, Clara Wagner Clara Wagner is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at clara.wagner@tufts.edu.

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Tufts claims bill H. 2668 is unconstitutional, will limit financial aid spending Cummings

continued from page 3 that we both hold Tufts near and dear as we know what an asset it is to the Commonwealth and especially [what an asset] the veterinary school [is] to my community in Grafton.”

Muradian is appreciative of the support he has received from other state representatives and will continue to push for state funding for the Cummings School.

“I’m thankful that…the overwhelming majority of my colleagues were on board to support [the amendment],” he said. “I’m in hopes that there [are] no…cuts that will affect it, but if there [are], I’ll certainly continue to advocate for the restored funding to the veterinary school.”

While the Cummings School is set to receive the $5 million appropriation, Provost is working to enact other legislation that would direct the flow of money from private institutions to the state. In January, Provost filed a bill, H. 2668, that would impose a one percent excise tax on all private university endowments of $1 billion or more. This bill was heard before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Revenue on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Provost explained what this bill would do should it be signed into law.

“Every year those institutions which have an endowment of [$1 billion or more] would pay one percent of that

amount into an earmarked state fund for public education,” she said.

Barber, a co-sponsor of H. 2668, explained that this bill is an important step in supporting educational access.

“It’s incredibly important that all students have equal access to education,” Barber said. “And we have a number of universities in this state — Tufts is definitely not the only one — that have very large endowments and are nonprofit universities. And this [bill] is a way of helping them do their part to help provide education to all students.”

Thurler expressed Tufts’ strong opposition to H. 2668. The bill, she said, is unconstitutional and fails to consider the logistical aspects of managing Tufts’ endowment.

“We believe it is an unconstitutional tax that singles out a small segment of colleges and universities,” she said.

“Furthermore, much of our endowment is directed for specific purposes and programs specified by our donors, and we are legally obligated to spend those funds for those specific purposes.”

Thurler went on to explain that the passage of H. 2668 would require Tufts to raise more money to make up for the loss.

“This bill would mean that we would have to raise millions of additional dollars to pay the tax rather than spending money on financial aid and other important purposes that have long-term benefits, such as increasing…access to a

Tufts education,” she said. “For example, 20 students from Somerville currently share more than $700,000 in Tufts financial aid grants.”

On Oct. 19, the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM), comprised of 58 independent colleges and universities, including Tufts, published an explanation of its opposition to the bill, asking that the Revenue Committee reject it.

“House Bill 2668 would apply to only nine institutions, which is a constitutionally flawed and stunningly inequitable attempt to solve the state’s fiscal problems,” Robert McCarron, vice president for Government Relations and General Counsel for AICUM, wrote in the testimony to the Revenue Committee.

Additionally, the bill would harm the communities that the revenue of these universities ultimately supports, McCarron explained.

“Private colleges and universities in [Massachusetts] generate more than $33 billion in economic activity each and every year,” he wrote. “This economic activity gets reinvested in Massachusetts families. Last year alone, AICUM institutions awarded more than $560 [million] in financial aid to Massachusetts students and their families — and much of that money came from endowment income.”

Aside from financial aid, salaries are one of the largest expenses for universities, according to the AICUM’s testimony.

“The resulting job losses and/or cuts to financial aid will negate any potential revenue benefit the Commonwealth may accrue via this unconstitutional tax,” McCarron wrote.

Responding to the claims made against H. 2668, Provost said colleges should contribute to the community’s education.

“So, what provision of which constitution (state or federal)…prohibits the state from expecting different contributions based on wealth?” Provost told the Daily in an email. “Colleges and universities have lots of ‘important purposes’ to spend money on — but one of them should be contributing to the general education of the whole community from which these institutions benefit — currently tax-free.”

Ultimately, despite the ongoing discussion over the direction in which public and private money should flow between the Commonwealth and Tufts, Provost resists seeing the public funding for the Cummings School as an exception.

“There are private institutions that do have unique programs in the Commonwealth,” she said. “I think Simmons College has the only Master of Library Science program…in Massachusetts … That’s another vital need … Why pick veterinarians who… once they graduate, are presumably good earners the way that doctors and dentists are[?] Why pick their institution for a direct subsidy? … I have not heard a rationale.”

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Adele performs at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif. on Feb. 12, 2012.

‘Hello’ music video adds nuance to Adele’s emotional single Executive Arts Editor

In case anyone missed it, Adele is back with her first single off the upcoming “25,” set to be released at the end of next month.

Appropriately titled “Hello,” the track marks the epic singer’s first release since “Skyfall” in 2012 and since undergoing surgery to remove polyps on her vocal chords.

Adele is not singing to her fans, as the title might suggest. This is no “Hello, my adoring public.” Rather, she is doing what she has done all along — singing heartbreakingly beautiful and plaintive songs. As always, the real strength of the song is Adele’s voice, followed closely by the lyrical content, which, in “Hello,” is far above par. At nearly five minutes long, “Hello” is a behemoth among pop tracks, but it’s one of those songs that seems to compress time, seeming far shorter than it is.

Longer still is the music video for the

new single — directed by Xavier Dolan — which clocks in at just over six minutes long. Uploaded on Oct. 22, the video has wracked up over 70 million views on YouTube as of press time.

The opening shot of the video immediately gives the impression that something is awry. A window slowly comes into focus, along with the rest of the world beyond it. In the distance, a car drives along a road, past the driveway leading to the house and out of the shot.

Filmed in a washed-out, green-tinged sepia, the “Hello” music video is reminiscent of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” (2010) aesthetic. The green-ish hue of the video perhaps serves two purposes. The first may be to make sure the video does not appear too old.

The set is clearly too modern to be placed in a strict black and white palette. Second, the color seems to suggest that all is not well.

It’s clear that the video takes place in the past; Adele’s hair and clothes are retro in style. Short shots show the singer using a flip phone as she walks

through an old, deserted house. The camera sometimes jumps to shots of Adele standing in the woods, decked out in a massive fuzzy jacket. Perhaps this is present-day Adele, narrating the rest of the video with her song.

Like any good story, this one gives some background. Appearing to take Adele’s perspective, the camera focuses on a man’s face as he cooks, smiles and looks at the camera lovingly. In a matter of shots, a relationship dynamic is established, and it’s the kind that makes viewers either want to grab a tub of ice cream and hug it (while eating it) or go gaga over how cute it is.

Slowly, however, the relationship unravels on the screen. The emotional drive of Adele’s song is relatively even throughout; that is, there is no real climax.

Still, the video captures the song’s emotional ebbs and flows, adding nuance to the song. If there were ever a single metric for measuring the quality of a music video, this would be it.

Concert Review

Mashrou’ Leila, Lebanese alt-rock band, electrifies on first U.S. tour

by Ariel Barbieri-Aghib Staff Writer

The atmosphere was electric at the Middle East in Cambridge on Monday night as Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou’ Leila played the second show of its debut U.S. tour. Blue, green, red and purple lights colored an empty stage, illuminating the instruments and mics. The crowd restlessly waited for the band to finally make its appearance. When band members finally came into the spotlights, the crowd cheered. Some fans yelled the band’s Arabic lyrics; others called out the names of the various band members.

Mashrou’ Leila — meaning either “Leila’s project” or “overnight project” — was created by violinist Haig Papazian, guitarist Andre Chedid and pianist Omaya Malaeb in 2008 at the American University of Beirut. The three musicians wanted to give students a place to voice, via music, their frustrations with both the unstable political situation and the stress of college.

This mission lives on in the band today.

Mashrou’ Leila’s music mainly caters towards the youth of Lebanon — and other Middle Eastern countries — who are fed up with the status quo in the region and the sectarian conflicts occurring there. The themes of sexuality, love,

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tolerance and revolution, which the band frequently explores, likely resonate with all its fans regardless of nationality.

Monday night’s sold-out concert was part of the band’s tour for its third album, “Raasuk” (2013), after the release of “Mashrou’ Leila” (2009) and “El Hal Romancy” (2011). From here, they will be performing in Los Angeles, San Francisco (another sold-out venue) and New York. At the Middle East, lead singer Hamed Sinno suggested that the band’s fourth album will be coming out in November. see leila, page 8

‘Veep’

he recent weird weather made for a perfect week for binge watching. I switched from my warm weather habit of watching television on the front porch of my off-campus house to watching from my comfy bed during the rain over the weekend. This week, I was lucky enough to focus on “Veep” (2012 – present), a comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who you probably remember as Elaine on “Seinfeld” (1989 – 1998).

Dreyfus plays fictional Vice President Selina Meyer, who (spoiler alert!) later becomes president. While it isn’t on Netflix streaming yet, I was able to binge watch all four seasons on DVD box set.

Selina is a pretty foreboding character. She likes things done her way and done immediately. One amusing element of the show is the myriad ways Selina doesn’t get her way — the result of her own fumbles combined with those of her staff, which includes friends, enemies and people she’s just waiting to fire at any moment.

The relationship between Amy (Anna Chlumsky), Selina’s Chief of Staff, and Selina is probably the funniest element in the show. Amy is there to help Selina try to organize her duties as vice president as well as responsibilities in her personal life. Amy basically runs everything for Selina and keeps her out of one troublesome situation after the next. For example, she even helps Selina remember facts about her own daughter (Sarah Sutherland). While Amy’s dedication to Selina is the most extreme, it definitely represents how the other members of Selina’s staff go about their jobs.

Everyone is always trying to compensate and figure out how to deal with Selina’s stumbles, like the memorable moment when Selina worries that she might be pregnant, and her staff has to figure out how to hide it from the press. Each episode is filled with different punchlines, but there are also long-running jokes that are noticed more through binge watching. In one recurring joke, Selina often asks her secretary Sue (Sufe Bradshaw) if the president has called her. The punchline? He never has.

Overall, the show is really entertaining. I don’t think that I would have enjoyed it as much, however, if I hadn’t binge watched it. There is a lot to keep track of in this show: Selina’s immense staff, presidents, not to mention family members, ex-spouses and affairs. It’s really difficult to remember everyone and what their positions are in the White House and in relation to Selena. I think if I hadn’t binge watched it as quickly as I did, I would have forgotten characters between episodes. In addition, the show is geared toward single-episode plot lines and narratives, like a sitcom, so there are few of the multi-episode arcs that make a series prime for binge watching.

I think “Veep” is a great show because it deals with a challenging environment that few television shows have ever tackled in a comedic way. While it may not give one a sense of what it’s really like to be vice president, it’s certainly entertaining.

Maya Blackstone is a junior majoring in drama and peace and justice studies. She can be reached at maya.blackstone@ tufts.edu.

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continued from page 7 Before beginning the performance, Sinno explained that he was rejected from Berklee College of Music. According to him, it was because “[he] sang in Arabic” but that “it was not that big of a deal anyways.” Sinno also proclaimed the audience to be a crowd that was “70 percent Arab, 30 percent non-Arab.” He continuously referred to this “30-70” divide, introducing “Lil Watan” (2013) — literally meaning “to the homeland” — as a song “only the 70 percent will understand.”

Sinno is also the first openly gay member of an Arabic-speaking alternative rock band, a fact that he does not hide in his lyrics. Oftentimes, the band’s songs, like “Shim el Yasmine,” tell a story from Sinno’s life. “Shim el Yasmine” is about a man whom Sino wanted to introduce to his parents as his groom. Gay relationships (and gay

marriage) are topics rarely broached

by Arabic-speaking bands that instead generally stay with the “boy meets girl” trope in order to conform to cultural norms. For Mashrou’ Leila, defying cultural norms is the norm, and because of its willingness to break with societal conventions, the band has caused its fair share of controversy over the years. With lyrics like those in “Shim el Yasmine,” the band essentially challenges the youth of Lebanon to voice their concerns with social issues like gay rights.

Mashrou’ Leila’s music is unique, not only for its lyrics, but also for the variety of instruments used, including an electric guitar, a violin and a megaphone, which is employed in various songs to alter Sinno’s voice.

At the Middle East, the crowd showed its obvious adoration for the group.

Concertgoers chanted along to its lyrics, made hearts with their hands and

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Mashrou’ Liela performs at the Baalbeck Festival in 2012. shouted out to the band members. Some fans even offered to translate the Arabic lyrics into English for those who did not

understand, creating an atmosphere that fostered dialogue and learning between Arabic and non-Arabic speakers alike.

Album Review

‘Fading Frontier’ reflects Deerhunter frontman’s recent trauma

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Deerhunter, which released its new album “Fading Frontier” on Oct. 16, performed at the Ogden Theater in 2010.

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Contributing Writer

Much of the press regarding indie rock band Deerhunter’s new album “Fading Frontier,” released Oct. 16, has been focused on the consequences of frontman Bradford Cox’s horrific car accident last year. Interviewers like Pitchfork’s T. Cole Rachel have mainly addressed a “mellowing-out” in their conversations with the historically intense and capricious artist.

Although it often feels like tabloid sensationalism or a giving into the music press’ tendency to condense album coverage in to a handful of digestible biographical facts that fit above an embedded stream, talking about Cox’s hospitalization has a surprisingly relevant place in discussing “Fading Frontier.”

The incident is imprinted on the album with the same psychological and emotional intimacy with which Deerhunter albums are always constructed, but this

time around, it feels different. Listening to “Fading Frontier” is, disturbingly, like catching up with an old friend who has unexpectedly but wholeheartedly converted to something like religion or sobriety — both of which Cox has already done. Part of the conversation is a struggle to recognize what traits remain, even if they’ve been mutated a bit in the shift, and what has changed.

Many of Deerhunter’s familiar idiosyncrasies seem to be missing. Some amount of rule-breaking with verse structure and grammatical syntax has come to be expected of Cox, but here the scope of experimentation is comparatively limited.

The sounds on the record, though often strange, are digestible where they once were challenging. INXS or Genesis is now openly cited as influences, where it used to be the Ramones or Pere Ubu. Songs like “Living My Life” or “Breaker” are just unexciting. If a pop record could be psychoanalyzed, it would not be too far off

to read this one as somehow traumatized.

What’s familiar here are moments like Cox’s strikingly intuitive delivery of “So so so so / Yeah, you should” that bridges the third and fourth verses in “All The Same.”

Although it is difficult to find elsewhere, Cox’s cryptic manner of writing is recalled on “Snakeskin” in verses like “I was trippin’ now on a city cloak / They were separated then with sunlight shrouds / I was born with a crippled man on my back / I was national, I was geographic black.”

“Duplex Planet” also sounds like it could be on any Deerhunter release, and Cox brings back his iconic vocal delay on “Leather and Wood.” The fact that many of the songs end with a superfluous but playfully interesting noise outro plays to the sense of familiarity.

In “Carrion,” Cox delivers breathtaking sincerity in his pain. Here, Cox compares himself to a mole who has dug too far into the ground to see any longer and repeats the line, “What’s wrong with me?” This

is precisely what makes Deerhunter such a unique and vital artistic presence. By closing with this song, the album necessitates a re-listen, because the ending is so familiar that the listeners must think they have missed something in the strange alienation preceding it.

Deerhunter records can be a reliable litmus test for the shifting tastes in music: on a slightly superficial level, there is the fact that their avant-punk record “Monomania” (2013) was released the same year that albums like “Major Arcana” (2013) kicked off the recent reprise of similarly noisy guitar rock. Three years later, just as Speedy Ortiz and other rising indie musicians like Mitski are making an argument against the dismissal of consumer-friendly pop conventions, Deerhunter produces its own deliberately “pop” album (although, admittedly, “Snakeskin” is a bit behind the trend of renewed interest in disco).

But there’s something bigger to Deerhunter’s “Fading Frontier” concept, something Cox has identified as a specific sort of “diminishing expectations” for his personal life, for technology and the music industry. The fact that the record is, at points, kind of boring or seemingly unambitious reflects a pattern of “indie” consumption touched upon by Hipster Runoff creator “Carles” in an Oct. 8 interview for The Fader by Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig: “There is such a large audience that has no idea that indie ‘meant something,'” he said. “The people ‘still trying to be into indie’ are into ceremonial internet album cycles of yesteryear, where they can’t even tell that ‘the artists themselves’ are tired of projecting a ‘new self’ or even an ‘actualizing self.’”

The fact that this interview was conducted over email by a satirical blog journalist, whose site was finally bought and closed this year, and who is a more successful contemporary of Cox who now curates an Apple Music “radio” program already goes some way in proving the point Cox is making. Certain notions of what needs to come from a person making art are fading. But chasing the frontier leads to a lot of hardship anyway, so who knows whether the alternative will be worse or better?

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Rethinking requirements

Miscommunication

by Cole Aronson

e are not mind readers. We do not know that someone’s passive countenance while we exhume all of our most sordid emotions is due to their keen attention and not a huge disinterest. If someone says something that somehow pinpoints one of our many insecurities, how are we supposed to know that they did not purposefully set out to jab at our pitfalls?

How are we supposed to know that what we interpreted to be an under-the-belt stab at our stupidity was actually an offhand comment with no vindictive intention whatsoever? And are we completely wrong in assuming that when someone looks pointedly at the cookie of mammoth proportions that we’re about to ingest, asking “Are you sure you want to eat all of that?” they’re calling us fat?

This guy once threw an off-handed comment at his friend, after which the latter asked him if he had just insulted her. The guy answered with the following: “I’m responsible for what I say. Not how you interpret it.”

It’s safe to say that our understanding of most events and conversations is heavily influenced by how we choose to interpret them. For example, if I happen to suffer emotionally from insecurity about my weight, I am more likely to be susceptible to comments that make reference to anything weight-related, even if the comment or action itself was not targeted toward me in any way. I might interpret someone gazing far too long at the unhealthy, grease-laden concoction I’m about to consume as their non-subtle projection of judgement. If lately I have slacked off at work and someone says something along the lines of, “Dude, your life is a freakin’ vacation,” in what is really an appraising and even envious manner, my inherent disappointment with myself might lead me to believe they are criticizing my clearly nonexistent work ethic.

And yet the fact of the matter is, they probably were not being critical, nor were they being judgmental. I was just predisposed to interpreting their actions and words in certain ways that painted them in a harsh and belittling light. Were I not to further investigate the matter, I might have chosen to feel bitter and resentful feelings toward that individual. And chances are that said bitterness or resentment is unfounded. But I don’t know that.

None of us do. And so sometimes we might interpret situations in such a way that fosters an animosity toward someone, a grudge that might even result in the cutting off of certain relationships. This miscommunication might even result in the termination of valuable relationships. And all of this could be avoided by simple communication, by openly discussing certain events or conversations that leave us somewhat unhinged. Everyone always expels the importance of communication and openness. But few people are aware of just what exactly the absence of communication might entail.

What are distributional requirements getting at? Every Yalie must take two courses in the sciences, two in the humanities and arts and two in the social sciences. She must also take two semesters of quantitative reasoning, two of writing courses and up to three of a foreign language. The Blue Book states that the undergraduate curriculum “regards college as a phase of exploration … [ensuring] that study is neither too narrowly focused nor too diffuse.” If this is truly the goal, the University has not chosen the best route. Yale’s distributional requirements make what should be the serious business of liberal education into a vexing chore, with “easy” classes substituting for knowledge of a discipline. The University should either examine students in the areas it requires they study, institute a core curriculum or scotch distributional requirements altogether.

The main problem with distributional requirements is that students can fulfill them without actually learning much.

Anyone who’s spent five minutes talking to upperclassmen knows what the easy science, humanities, quantitative reasoning, and social science classes are.

You can go through one of these history classes without getting real feedback on essay structure or writing style. You can go through a science class without performing an experiment or reaching a conclusion from evidence. And you

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Isabella Garces is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at isabella.garces@tufts.edu.

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can get credit for a math class that most intelligent high school sophomores could ace.

Students know gut classes are a racket.

Worse, they’re a waste of time for students.

At best, they provide fodder for cocktail party conversation. “Look here, old sport, I’ll tell you, this Darwin fellow had quite an idea about finches.” But a true education in a discipline? No, the mere appearance of the thing, and not even in reality, but on a transcript.

There’s an argument in favor of distributional requirements that concedes their inefficacy at providing true breadth to an education. Instead, they provide exposure. Poets have to give gravity a try, and the future CEO of TwitterFace has at least to skim through Macbeth. But is a gut class really the best way to expose someone to a great tradition of learning? If what Yale wants is to ensure no one graduates without an appreciation for Keats or catalysis or Karl Marx, it could mandate that students in the sciences take specific humanities classes (or read certain texts) and vice versa. It could then test students, to ensure they are proficient in rather than merely acquainted with the multiple traditions outside their major. On that note: does it make any sense to require students to take a language of which they may not know enough to use? Doctoral programs in the humanities often require proficiency in one or more language, and they test proficiency with exams. Is the current system of “do it, but not well” in anyone’s interest?

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by Ty Enos

Yale’s system forces students to take classes unrelated to their majors taught at a low level. It defines liberal education down.

Besides University-wide examinations in subjects currently required through token classes, there are three alternatives to Yale’s current system: the Columbia option, the Oxford option and the Brown option.

At Columbia, students take full-year courses in Western literature and political thought, and a semester of writing, of art history, of music theory and of “frontiers of science.”

At Oxford, students take many fewer classes outside their majors than most students at Yale, graduating in three years with Bachelor’s degrees earned under much more stringent requirements than those earned at Yale.

At Brown, students have virtually unlimited freedom — they need only demonstrate “competence” in writing.

Yale’s current goal of providing broad exposure to students specializing in a subject is honorable. But its “everything of something and something of everything” approach can leave students with only one or neither. Yale has three routes: it can get serious about liberal education, requiring fluency in a language, making humanities majors much more strenuous or instituting a core. It can decide its students are better off specialists. Or it can leave its students with the awesome task of directing their own learning. But if it does, it should be honest about it, ridding students and professors of these purely nominal requirements.

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Tufts shows improved doubles play during weekend matches MEN'S TENNIS

continued from back omore Zain Ali and Middlebury sophomore William de Quant — concluded with a 10-7 loss in the third set tie-breaker. “[Ali] had a lead in the first two sets, and at that point it looked like it was going to end quickly,” senior Roy Peleg said. “[His opponent] then made crucial adjustments to his strategy, and it became a toss-up. Due to the tiebreak, it could have easily gone the other way.”

The matchups against Middlebury hinged on how well the players could control crucial points and adjust to their opponents’ strengths and weaknesses.

“It all comes down to match experience,” Gregor said. “A player that has played a lot [during the season] can adjust more readily.”

The competition against BU and Colby fared better for Tufts; drawn-out matches ultimately culminated in wins rather than close loses. Ali found himself in a similar situation against BU junior

Lucas Bombonatti as he had against de Quant, but managed to pull out a win due to his composure in the third-set tie-breaker. “[Ali] played well in the third-set breaker,” Bombonatti said. “I was able to just stick in there and get it back to nine all, but he played the last few crucial points really well.”

Jacobson agreed that Tufts’ effort to improve was reflected in the 7-1 score against BU. “We were pretty dominant against Colby and BU, and the results showed,” Jacobson said. “Every time we step on the court, our mindset is to get better, and this weekend was no different.”

The doubles teams also impressed with a 3-1 showing against Middlebury.

“The wins in doubles were definitely a positive this weekend,” Gregor said.

“We had a pretty poor doubles showing two weeks ago in the Bates Invitational.

That was a big takeaway, and we spent the weeks leading up to the Boston

Invitational getting our doubles cleaned up. Based on the results of this weekend, I think we succeeded.”

The emphasis on improvement in both doubles and singles will continue into the off-season.

“We are looking forward to the off-season in order to dial in on our strengths and weaknesses and get the right action plan in place,” Jacobson said. “The off-season is very captain-led, so it will be a time for us to come together even more as a team in anticipation for the spring.”

The spring season may present more opportunities for younger players as well.

“The freshmen are great players, and though they have had opportunities to play in the fall, the older guys have been the driving force of the team for four seasons now, so it’s harder for [firstyears] to make an impact because we have all had a little more experience,” Jacobson said. “The spring season will be an opportunity for them to keep

working hard and gain momentum while we continue to grow as a team. We really do consider ourselves a family. We play for each other and fight for each other.”

This family mentality allows the Jumbos to look back on their fall season with satisfaction.

“We really delivered and put in a lot of effort this season,” Peleg said. “We supported one another this weekend and I definitely consider our play in the Invitational as a net positive for the team as a whole.”

Gregor agreed, emphasizing his hope of improving for the spring season.

“We play Middlebury in mid-April, and they are the bar to measure ourselves against in many ways,” he said. “Right now, our lineup is stronger in the fourth, fifth and sixth positions and a little weaker at the first, second and third. Based on this weekend, this can change by the spring as certain players peak at different times.”

If the Boston Invitational is any indication, the Jumbos will return in March with rejuvenated forward momentum.

Jumbos to take on top-ranked Polar Bears in final regular season game FIELD HOCKEY

continued from back tually prove costly, however, as Tufts made their temporary player advantage count in overtime almost immediately. From a corner, Jamison laid the ball off to SikesKeilp, who fired a shot off the boards from just inside the circle, granting the Jumbos the win. This was Sikes-Keilp’s second

game-winning goal of the season.

“Definitely being able to come together and regroup during halftime [was the proudest moment for the team],” senior tri-captain midfielder Rachel Terveer said. “It’s never easy being down a goal, but I was really proud of everyone’s attitude and hard work and of everyone’s…outlook toward overtime.

Everyone was on the same page, which really

helped us score early in overtime.”

Jamison added that this win was important for the team in the postseason, as the Jumbos take to the court once again this upcoming weekend for the NESCAC tournament.

“Battling back and getting the overtime win over a team as good as Williams was really exciting, and I think we are pumped and ready to go for our last regular season game

against Bowdoin this Wednesday,” Jamison said. “This win also guaranteed us the third seed in the NESCAC tournament, which means that we will have a home quarterfinal game, which is great for the team.”

Williams will travel to national No. 3 Middlebury on Wednesday, hoping to finish the season strongly, while Tufts next hosts national No. 1 Bowdoin on the same day.

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Tufts junior forward tri-captain Dominique Zarrella gains possession of the ball in the game against the Colby on Sept. 12.

Tufts wins overtime showdown at Williams

by Yuan Jun Chee Staff Writer

No. 15 Tufts came from behind to win 2-1 at No. 20 Williams in its NESCAC field hockey game on Saturday. An overtime goal from

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senior midfielder Dakota Sikes-Keilp lifted the Jumbos past the Ephs for their seventh conference win.

With the win, the Jumbos go 10-4 overall with a 7-2 record in NESCAC, while the Ephs fall to 10-4, 6-3.

Both teams started out strongly, with continuous end-to-end action. The Jumbos’ attack was particularly impressive; it dominated the Ephs, especially around the 10-minute mark. However, they were to be denied by some skillful shot-stopping

by Ephs junior goalkeeper Margaret Draper.

The Ephs eventually struck first, taking the lead in the 32nd minute after continuous and intensive offensive pressure. Shots from Williams sophomore midfielder Alex Bennett, senior forward Claire Swingle

and first-year midfielder Meredith Wright saw their efforts denied by Tufts first-year goalkeeper, Emily Polinski. Williams broke through, however, when sophomore forward Hannah Goodrick scored on a penalty stroke, picking up her sixth goal of the season.

“It was frustrating going into halftime behind, but we used that frustration to energize us instead of letting it affect us negatively,” senior defender Alexandra Jamison said. “In two other games earlier this season [against Trinity and Christopher Newport], we were actually down at halftime and ended up winning the game, so at Williams we were confident that we had the ability to battle back and get the win. After a really positive halftime talk, we came back out determined to put the first half behind us and win the second half.”

Senior forward Hannah Park was happy with the way the team adapted to the conditions at Williams.

“I was impressed by the ability of our team to adapt to the bumpy surface and adjust to Williams’ style of play,” Park said.

“There were many setbacks at first, but our team worked through them and didn’t let them hold us back.”

The Jumbos returned in the second half with more offensive pressure as they sought a way back into the match. Early shots from first-year forward/midfielder Hanaa

Malik, sophomore midfielder Celia Lewis and junior tri-captain forward Dominique Zarrella could not find a way into the back of the Ephs’ net, but the increased focus on attack paid off. Malik received a pass from senior tri-captain midfielder Maggie Chapman in the 41st minute and proceeded to lift a shot over the oncoming Williams goalkeeper into the net to tie the game for Tufts.

The Ephs tried to retake the lead with good offensive play, pounding the Jumbos’ goal shot after shot, but the Jumbos held on.

Both teams defended resiliently, playing tighter coverage on attackers and closing down the ball when they were not in possession. This made it difficult for each team’s offense to find a way to get the decisive breakthrough or to pull ahead on the score board.

With time running out, Williams senior midfielder Annie VanWangenen was yellow-carded and sent off temporarily. Tufts tried to take advantage of the situation as they poured players forward, looking to capitalize. The Jumbos earned two penalty corners in quick succession, the latter of which was at first awarded as a penalty stroke. Yet despite Sikes-Keilp’s best efforts, the Ephs held out and forced the game into overtime.

The yellow card for Williams did evensee FIELD HOCKEY, page 11

MEN'S TENNIS

Ali takes Middlebury’s de Quant to third set tie-breaker

by Alison Kuah

Executive Sports Editor

The Boston Invitational has been a much-anticipated event all season, touted as an opportunity for the men’s tennis team to flex their muscles against Colby, Boston University (BU) and Middlebury.

More schools — and thus more competitors — raised the stakes for the Jumbos as they competed in their last tournament of the fall season.

According to coach Karl Gregor,

Middlebury was the team to beat on Sunday morning. With two national championships in the past 10 years under their belt, the Panthers have consistently pushed the Jumbos to improve their game.

“Middlebury knows how to win,” Gregor said. “They expect to win.”

Middlebury’s competitive mindset was seemingly reflected in their 8-2 singles wins over Tufts on Sunday. Gregor said that decisive points may have swayed the outcome.

“Two of our matches against Middlebury ended with a tie-breaker for the third set, so only two or three points determine the winner and the loser,” he said.

Senior tri-captain Robert Jacobson agreed, saying that many matches on Sunday were close but ultimately culminated in losses.

One standout match — a grueling twoand-a-half-hour fight between Tufts sophsee MEN'S TENNIS, page 11

very fantasy player knows about “revenge games,” when a player who was released or traded plays against his prior team. I haven’t checked the statistics, but the general consensus is that players tend to have big games against their former teams — hence the revenge. With all of the player shuffling that occurs in the NFL, I limit the concept of revenge games to team swaps that have occurred within the current season or the one prior.

The Cowboys’ running back Christine Michael, who the Seahawks traded for a measly conditional draft pick, matches up with his former team in Week 8. Michael, who the Cowboys claimed would be heavily involved this week, toted the rock only five times.

Darren McFadden finally found his time machine, rushing 29 times for 152 yards and a touchdown. While McFadden earned a larger role with his performance this week, owners that grabbed Michael during the Cowboys’ Week 6 bye shouldn’t drop the untested back yet, as I can see McFadden wearing down against the Seahawks front seven and Michael having a bit of a revenge game.

Arian Foster blew his achilles tendon. First Jamaal Charles, now Foster. Both the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans are now fantasy wastelands. Travis Kelce is a legitimate TE1, you could get away with starting Brian Hoyer in a two-QB league and DeAndre Hopkins is still a WR1. Sadly, we saw how ineffective the Texans’ backups are during Foster’s earlier absence. There isn’t really a recommended pickup. It sucks for everyone.

Miami Dolphins interim coach Dan Campbell has finally instilled some balance to Miami’s offense, allowing running back Lamar Miller the freedom and touches he needs to succeed. A highly efficient back who is criminally underused, Miller turned 14 carries into 175 yards on the ground plus a touchdown, 61 yards through the air and a receiving touchdown. Miller is an RB1 talent-wise, but he has a terrible rest of season schedule and has still yet to receive 20 carries in a game, so exploring trades after this week isn’t a bad idea.

Tom Brady proved that he is matchup-proof, lighting up the Jets for 355 yards and two TDs. He even contributed a rushing touchdown, and you don’t see that every day. Brady, Andy Dalton and Aaron Rodgers lead quarterbacks in average scoring in that order. Yeah.

Let’s all welcome back Mike Evans, the massive jump-ball machine that is about to make Jameis Winston’s life a lot easier.

Evans finally looked like himself, turning 12 targets into 164 yards and a touchdown. I should cautiously prescribe WR2 status, but he feels more like a WR1 to me.

Randall Cobb is the forgotten man this year. Cobb’s 58.3 yards per game average isn’t so bad considering he averages 0.7 touchdowns per game, but owners who sank a second or third round pick into the diminutive slot-man were hoping for more. Those owners can trot Cobb out with confidence in Week 8, because Broncos shutdown corner Aqib Talib will likely stick to the right side. Look for eight catches, 80-100 yards and a touchdown.

Phillip Goldberg is a Sports Editor at The Tufts Daily. He is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major and can be reached at phillip.goldberg@tufts.edu.