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Tufts releases results of mandated sexual conduct survey

by Sarah Zheng and Nicholas Pfosi determination that Tufts’ policies Executive News Editor and Staff Writer and procedures for addressing sexual assault were out of comTrigger warning: This article pliance with federal standards set

by Title IX. discusses sexual violence.

“Title IX is a comprehensive The university released the results of last spring’s confiden- federal law that prohibits distial Tufts Attitudes About Sexual crimination on the basis of sex Conduct Survey in an email to the in any federally funded education program or activity,” the Tufts community last week.

According to the Sept. 30 U.S. Department of Justice webemail, approximately 14 percent site says.

The VRA, which was signed by of undergraduate respondents reported having had at least one University Senior Vice President incident of “non-consensual sex- and General Counsel Mary ual contact” since enrolling at Jeka on April 17, 2014, but from Tufts, with five percent of respon- which the Tufts administration dents reporting non-consensual revoked its signature nine days later, was resettled on May 9 of sexual intercourse.

Of the approximate- that year.

“One of the provisions in [the ly 11,000 Tufts students who had access to the survey, around 28.7 VRA] is that we would conduct a percent responded, which is com- climate survey,” Jeka said. “So we parable to response rates for sim- did that. It had to be done last ilar surveys at other universities, spring.”

Tufts’ survey was modeled on according to University President one written by the Association Anthony Monaco.

Tufts’ survey was mandated by of American Universities (AAU). universithe federal government’s Office Twenty-six other of Civil Rights (OCR) as part of a ties, such as the Massachusetts voluntary resolution agreement Institute of Technology (MIT) and (VRA) in spring 2014. The VRA Princeton University, have also emerged from a 2010 Title IX com- used AAU-based surveys, accordplaint that culminated in OCR’s ing to Monaco.

Monaco said the purpose of the university’s survey was to understand the climate surrounding sexual conduct at Tufts and to get a baseline understanding of the frequency of sexual misconduct or assault.

“We got a lot of information which will help us understand how our interventions, training and resource focus has been making a difference, so we need this baseline to measure things going forward,” he said.

According to Jill Zellmer, the director of the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) and Title IX Coordinator, the survey was put together by the students, faculty and staff from Sexual Misconduct Prevention Task Force. The Task Force, which was formed in fall 2013, is chaired by Monaco.

“A number of those students [on the Task Force] had a lot of good information and input into the survey, which is the homegrown feel of our survey, which is why I think it’s better,” Zellmer said.

Olivia Carle, who was a student co-chair for the education see SURVEY, page 2

Tufts Attitudes about

Sexual Conduct

S u rv e y r e p o rt

24.7%

of undergraduates have experienced either non-consensual intercourse or other non-consensual sexual contact.

The survey was conducted in the spring of 2015 on Tufts Boston, Medford and Grafton campuses.

of students in our professional and graduate schools have also experienced one or both kinds of misconduct.

4.7%

22%

of students identifying as transgender, genderqueer or gender non-conforming, or as another identity other than male/ female reported having experienced non-consensual sexual contact.

The majority of students had received information about university policies regarding incidents of sexual misconduct (81.1%) and complaint and disciplinary procedures (66.6%). Most students (70.3%) knew how to seek confidential counseling about sexual misconduct.

Photo: Nicholas Pfosi / The Tufts Daily, Graphic: Shirley Wang / The Tufts Daily

Tufts Medical Center professor named to presidential advisory council

by Gil Jacobson

Contributing Writer

Dr. Helen Boucher, director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at the Tufts Medical Center, was named to President Barack Obama’s newly established Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.

According to Boucher, who is also an associate professor at Tufts, the Advisory Council is comprised of 15 experts in relevant fields. A September 2014 executive order issued by Obama in an effort to increase the research and work put into fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria required the committee’s establishment.

Boucher believes she was selected for the Advisory Council because of her specific involvement in research on and the creation of new antibiotics.

“It’s a huge honor to get to work with this group, to be chosen out of a field

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of 300 extremely qualified individuals,” Boucher said. “I’m very honored to get to serve my country this way.”

According to Boucher, the council’s role is to advise the government on how best to implement the five goals outlined in the White House’s National Strategy for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria. These goals include reducing the rate at which resistant bacteria appear and stopping infection transmission, increasing efforts to fight antibiotic resistance, furthering diagnostic tests to recognize resistant bacteria, creating new antibiotics and improving global efforts to combat antibiotic resistance.

“Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health threat across our country,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell said in a Sept. 15 press release. “That’s why it’s so important that we work together to address this challenge.”

Boucher said that the group will exam-

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ine antibiotic resistance in both people and animals.

“The five goals…include some measures to prevent the spread of resistance among animals, farm animals and our food,” Boucher said.

Boucher has spent her entire career in the field of antimicrobial resistance and has worked with the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) on two campaigns — Bad Bugs, No Drugs and the 10 x ‘20 initiative — in the last 10 years.

According to IDSA Director of Health Policy John Billington, the Bad Bugs, No Drugs initiative provides choices and ideas regarding policy on antibiotics, in addition to laying out an infectious disease physician’s perception of antibiotic resistance and its effects on human health.

Billington added that the 10 x ‘20 initiative was formed to champion proponents of 10 recently developed antibiotics by 2020.

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“Both of these [campaigns] were started to raise awareness about the crisis of antibiotic resistance, the lack of antibiotics we have to treat our patients and the need for Courtesy Helen Boucher new research and Boucher development of antibiotics to treat resistant infections,” Boucher said.

Billington expressed his support for Boucher.

“IDSA is very excited and pleased to see a handful of IDSA leaders, including Dr. Boucher…appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council,” Billington said. “We’re confident in the abilities of Dr. Boucher and others in making a real difference.”

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continued from page 1 According to another Advisory Council member, Dr. John Rex, senior vice president of the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, the council will report to Burwell, who will then relay that information to Obama.

“I am delighted to see the amount of work already underway by the U.S. government in

this area, and I look forward to engaging via the Presidential Advisory Council to further that work,” Rex told the Daily in an email.

Boucher joined the other members of the council in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 29 to begin discussing the goals and actions of the council, according to a Sept. 28 Boston Globe article.

Boucher said that after the council’s initial meeting, she feels that the Advisory

Council will be able to achieve its goals and ensure that the United States does not regress to medical conditions prior to the invention of antibiotics.

“I’m very optimistic…that our patients will be able to continue to get the therapies that they deserve [and] that we’ll be able to preserve those by…[finding] ways to prevent the spread of resistance and to develop new medicines,” Boucher said.

Administrators seek to use survey results to gauge sexual assault conditions at Tufts SURVEY

continued from page 1 and prevention working group on the Task Force, said that at first she and other students were not able to review the survey.

“Initially, students weren’t going to be allowed to review the survey before it was sent out…[but] we argued successfully [for student input],” Carle, a junior, said. “We thought it was outrageous.”

Despite being able to review the survey for input, Carle said she still felt that there were many problems with it.

“I remember the initial reaction to the final product of the survey among my activist friends was just shock and horror because it completely missed whole kinds of questions and areas it should have been covering,” Carle said.

She explained that areas missing from the survey included forms of sexual violence outside of sexual assault and rape, such as sexual harassment, catcalling and partner violence.

“That was sort of a big problem because those are huge issues, and for me sexual violence is all interconnected and it’s not a cut-and-dry sort of thing,” she said.

Zellmer acknowledged in a report on the survey’s results that the survey primarily assessed incidents of non-consensual sexual intercourse and penetration and non-consensual sexual contact and activity. “[The survey] did not focus on incidents of sexual harassment, stalking or intimate partner violence,” she wrote in the report.

“We may address those topics more thoroughly in future climate checks or surveys.”

Carle said that in addition to missing areas of sexual violence, she felt that the survey did not fully address gender identity.

“A ton of my friends were really, really disappointed in this survey,” she said. “I know it’s going to be used sort of as a backbone or a starting point for comparisons with other surveys, [but] it’s not a good way to start out because there’s a ton of information that we’re missing or that we don’t know.”

She further explained issues she had with the term “sexual misconduct,” which was used often throughout the survey.

“It puts more of a rosy tint on everything,” Carle said, “I’ve never liked the term ‘sexual misconduct’ as an individual, and I’d say sexual violence because it is violence — it’s traumatic.”

Zellmer said that the term “sexual misconduct” was used in the survey because it has become a national term understood to encompass “sexual harassment, sex and gender discrimination, stalking, domestic violence, relationship violence, sexual exploitation.”

“At most universities now that is the regulation, so I would say it’s not to diminish that it’s violent,” she said. “It’s not to diminish that it’s important, and we’re not trying to sugarcoat it by calling it ‘misconduct.’ It’s just a way to describe all the incidents in a more global way and also so it’s not triggering for anyone.”

Jeka described other stipulations of the VRA, including the changes Tufts was required to make to its sexual assault policies in order to be in compliance with Title IX. “There were a number of places they thought we weren’t in compliance with our policies, so those have now been fixed,” she said.

Jeka explained that these changes included a required training program and revisions to the Sexual Misconduct Adjudication Process (SMAP).

“They require us to train our entire community, so Jill Zellmer has been taking the laboring oar on that, and all students, faculty and staff are undergoing mandatory training programs,” she said.

According to Monaco, the university is hoping to draft a final report of the Task Force’s findings, including all of its recommendations for the future, which will likely include a steering committee.

“The working groups will continue as well, so there’s not going to be a lot of changes in membership,” he said. “It’s time to make a final report, plus the recommendations.”

Zellmer wrote in the report on the survey results that she is looking forward to working with the Sexual Misconduct Prevention Task Force this fall to review the information gained from the survey.

“We will use the data to further enhance the resources, educational and prevention efforts throughout the university,” she wrote.

According to the results of the survey, 70.3 percent of student respondents reported that they knew how to seek confidential counseling about sexual misconduct, 92.3 percent of students that they

felt happy and 95.9 percent of people that they felt safe at Tufts.

Zellmer said that students who are reporting sexual misconduct are getting resources and support on campus.

However, Carle said the available resources for survivors of sexual violence at Tufts are not sufficient.

“Mental Health Services is really lacking,” she said. “I personally wasn’t able to go there after a semester and part of the summer, [before] they said, ‘Yeah, you’re done now’ and I thought, ‘I’m not done.’

There just is clearly such a need for these mental health resources, and it’s not being provided.”

In addition to a lack of resources, Carle said her experience on the Task Force was a negative one.

“I sort of became really disillusioned with my role in the Task Force,” she said.

“A lot of really terrible things were happening in [those] meetings. I would often leave meetings really upset or very triggered, and it made it very difficult to cope for the next couple of days.”

Carle explained that she hopes the administrators on the Task Force will receive sensitivity training so that students who had experienced sexual violence will not be triggered in future meetings.

“If you were a survivor in one of those meetings, it was going to be hell,” she said. “I wasn’t being treated like a student anymore; I was being treated like a political opponent.”

However, Jeka praised the considerable effort put forth by everyone involved with the Task Force and the survey.

“The students, the staff, the faculty spent hours and hours — I don’t know how many,” she said. “It was an incredible effort by students and staff and faculty working together and side by side, so it took a little longer, but we think that was very valuable.”

Monaco said that while the university has done a lot of work — including launching its new Center for Awareness, Resources and Education (CARE) and communicating more about sexual assault issues for students in places such as the OEO website — sexual misconduct on the Tufts campus still needs to be addressed.

“Personally, I still see [the survey results] as unacceptable,” Monaco said. “[And] as you can see from these numbers, we have a long way to go.”

Corrections The printed version of the op-ed “Israeli-Palestinian conflict: myths and facts” incorrectly listed Hannah Hoang as the author.

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Christopher Rossi, assistant dean of student affairs, on his new position

by Melissa Dong

Contributing Writer

Christopher Rossi officially began his new role as assistant dean of student affairs on June 1. In his new role, Rossi concentrates on connecting with first-year students in order to assist them in their adjustment to college life. Prior to beginning work at Tufts, Rossi worked both as the assistant director of residential life at Bowdoin College and as the assistant director of academic operations for the online platform HBX at Harvard Business School.

This week, Rossi sat down with the Daily to discuss his new role and his goals for the year.

Tufts Daily (TD): What is your role at Tufts? What exactly do you do?

Christopher Rossi (CR): I’m the primary point of contact for all firstyear students. This helps in all aspects of their transition to the university…which could be anything related from conduct, students in crisis or just general support. I’m working on our relationship with the Athletics Department — working directly with coaching staffs to support student athletes. I’m also working with our [Office of Residential Life and Learning] and our residential facilities, which focus on our physical maintenance and infrastructural improvements to any residential facilities on campus.

I also run the ACE fellows, which is the Academic Community Engagement Fellows, which are seven students who live in residence. [They] are students on the ground [and] are helping with the academic transition for first-year students. So they’ll do things like academic programming, individual office hours — things of that nature.

TD: Why do you feel Tufts created this role? It’s new, so what was the need for this change?

CR: So, as far as the need for the change, the [Office of Student Affairs] last year was very lean. It’s one of the smallest ones I’ve ever seen. So I would say, given just the size of the institution, I think that we need more people in order to provide the sorts of support [needed] at an institution of this size … Given the number of people we had in the past, it’s not possible.

It’s too much work. So now this gives us a bit more flexibility to be able to do more proactive work rather than reactive work.

TD: What are your goals for this position?

CR: My personal goal is to try to meet as many students…as possible.

So, you’ll notice that we are situated in Dowling Hall, and I love Dowling Hall, but it’s going to be the rare person that walks across this footbridge and sits down in my office and says, “Chris, I’m having a really hard transition to Tufts.” The way that I’m going to be able to work with those students directly is going to be developing partnerships, for example, with our in-building staff like our ACE Fellows and our Residential Life staff and RAs, coaching staffs — people who are

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Christopher Rossi began work as the Assistant Dean of Student affairs on June 1. working with our students in different capacities.

This blends with my professional interest to be able to create a coordinated care team for students when they’re having difficulty that spans their interaction and activity at the university. I’m so interested in hearing directly from students about different things about this place that they love, different things about this place they would like to see be done differently and different ways that Student Affairs can enhance the student experience here. I have lots of things that I think are going to be great, but it’s much more important for me to help support student activity on campus and build things that they actually want to participate in. My initial goal for starting here is to learn more about the student experience directly from students.

TD: Do you have advice for students to better utilize the resources Tufts offers them?

CR: My only advice to students is to take a risk, to get past that perhaps initial awkwardness [of ] going to ask someone for help and [to] also understand that you don’t always have to pick the exact right person. Everyone at Tufts is well versed…in helping [direct] students to the right place. But I don’t have a ton of advice for students in that area, because I think we [the Student Affairs Office] should be doing a better job of making sure students know exactly how to use these resources and making them easily accessible.

TD: In what sense are you planning to make yourself more accessible?

CR: I think the way I try to make

myself a more accessible resource for students on campus and to break down some of that formality is I try to do a lot of work after hours. So, I show up to things I’m invited to, for example… the Craft Center Open House. I went to the Fraternity and Sorority Life retreat at the beginning of the year, [went] to those meetings, [went] to area meetings in the resident halls. All of these things are work that I have to do to bring myself outside of Dowling just to introduce myself at a human level, so people can see past the tie.

TD: You worked at Bowdoin College with Dean of Student Affairs Mary Patricia McMahon, so how does it feel to work with her again?

CR: It feels great. Tufts has a lot of positive things about it as an institution.

But coming from Harvard, one of the best parts about Tufts is that, first of all, it’s a relational place, and it has smart people working here who care about the work that they do. Dean McMahon is one of those people. So the opportunity to work with her again was certainly a positive factor in trying to get a position at Tufts. The only thing that I would say, also, is that I found those types of people on all parts of campus, so I’ve just been very happy with my relationship with colleagues so far.

TD: Do you have any last things you want to say in particular?

CR: I love to bass fish, and I just moved to Somerville, and so I’m having a lot of trouble finding good places to fish around the Greater Boston area. If anyone has any suggestions…striped bass, freshwater, large or small mouth bass — I’ll really take any suggestions!

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Miranda Willson Ecofeminism for All

Gentrification is real, preventable

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remember when I first learned the term gentrification. I was a small child sitting in the backseat of my dad’s car on our way to Central Park, and my dad was trying to convince my teenage sister that the neighborhood where he lived was safe.

“It used to be that you couldn’t walk around here at night without getting mugged,” he said.

“There were never any nice restaurants around here, either, before all this gentrification.”

There was my introduction to the term; gentrification, I inferred from this conversation, was a good thing. It made Manhattan’s Upper West Side safe for (middle-class, white) families like us.

Ironically and unfortunately, gentrification eventually caught up with my dad, too.

After owning a rent-controlled apartment a few blocks north of Columbia University since the late 1970s, a few years ago, his landlord threatened to sue him for not spending enough time there. The landlord wanted him out so that someone else could move into the apartment and, consequently, pay a significantly higher rent than what my dad paid due to rent-stabilization laws.

Around the same time, I learned that the “benefits” of gentrification are unevenly distributed depending on one’s socioeconomic background, race, age, gender and a host of other factors. Gentrification displaces lower- and middle-income people from neighborhoods where they had historically lived –like my dad, a former musician with a modest, unstable income. Sometimes, gentrification forces the poorest people to move farther away from their workplaces, to neighborhoods that may lack adequate public transportation, healthy food options and tax revenue in general. Other times, they are pushed into housing projects.

It’s easy to think of gentrification as this inevitable, acceptable process. And in many ways, it is, if you believe the free market should dictate housing, community and planning issues and that displacement and homelessness are simply unfortunate side effects of a free housing market.

But if you believe housing and stable communities are fundamental rights for all, then can you really accept the brutality of gentrification? When thinking beyond the framework of a completely “free” market, gentrification becomes a preventable phenomenon, and city planners can, and should, strive to prevent it, or at least reduce its negative impacts.

There are many tools planners can use to stop or reduce gentrification, such as rent control, which prevents landlords from raising the rent for tenants already living in designated units. Cities can also sell land to developers to build explicitly middle- or lower-income housing, prohibit large-scale luxury development in neighborhoods at risk for gentrification, designate certain blocks or buildings for residents of certain professions (like artists or teachers) and enact many other market-based solutions. Individuals and non-profits can also help stop gentrification by enacting programs such as community land trusts, like one program started in Austin.

Certainly one could argue that there are benefits to gentrification, but who are these benefits for? Are these benefits evenly and justly distributed? Most of the time, without government intervention in the market, the answer is no. And that’s precisely where the problem lies.

Miranda Willson is a junior majoring in environmental studies and urban policy & development. She can be reached at miranda.willson@tufts.edu.

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ARTS&LIVING Album Review

The Dead Weather’s ‘Dodge and Burn’ radiates raw intensity

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Jack White and Alison Mosshart joined forces in 2009 to form The Dead Weather. made from sliding around up the neck of the guitar. The pre-verse riff is somewhat reminiscent of The Cars’ “Just What I Needed” (1978), but is set in a very different context and with alternate instrumentation to build interest. Two guitars, panned hard during the verses, highlight the ever-so-slight variations in the riffs they play. The odd key change into the chorus creates a jarring, yet catchy transition between parts that is at times set off by a dramatic pause. Abrupt in its ending, the song is short but sharp.

In “Lose the Right,” the percussive intro leads with energy, later joined by an infectious guitar and organ riff. Like earlier tracks, the song overflows with aggressive attitude that never falters. The sound builds during the chorus as more guitars join the looming three-chord riff. Later on, a caustically toned guitar solo tears it up, followed by an especially fervent verse to close out the track.

“Open Up” starts with Mosshart screaming unabashedly, accompanied by staccato chords and drum hits. What follows is an interestingly subdued sec-

tion — most of the instruments drop out, leaving just two guitars strumming alone in unison. Subsequent riffs are anxious in tone and are flanked by quieter interludes, over which Mosshart’s coarse vocals soar.

The album closes out with the unusual “Impossible Winner,” which starts out with a lovely piano and string intro. Classic chord changes and baroque pop instrumentation make the track stand in stark contrast with the rest of the album — this is what makes it such a bold and unexpected closer. Despite the considerably less heavy sound, the song doesn’t lose any of the band’s characteristic edge and power. Dynamic in terms of percussion and musically sophisticated, Mosshart’s composition rounds out the album in just the right way.

While The Dead Weather has not lined up any tour dates to promote the album, listening to “Dodge and Burn” will make listeners wish that the band had.

The dynamic and passionate album is yet another Jack White project that far exceeds expectations.

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Jack White is like the music world’s Casanova. From the White Stripes to The Raconteurs to his “Lazeretto” days, the man can’t seem to pick a band to commit to, yet he passionately sees through every musical endeavor he takes on. A steady figure in the industry since the ’90s, White has collaborated with such prolific musicians as Bob Dylan and Loretta Lynn. But the most intense of his collaborations may well be rock supergroup, The Dead Weather.

The band, formed in 2009, consists of White, Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (The Greenhornes and The Raconteurs). With more bite than any of White’s other projects, The Dead Weather’s cutting garage rock is at once clever and angsty.

The band’s latest effort, “Dodge and Burn,” released Sept. 25, is powerful from start to finish. Mosshart and White trade off on lead vocal duties, with Mosshart doing the heavy lifting. Snarling guitar riffs and driving rhythms fatten up the sound.

The characteristic Jack White blues edge is very present in the music, but what sets The Dead Weather apart from other garage rock outfits are the diverse musical influences contributed by the other bandmates. Mosshart’s love for Sonic Youth is evident in the noisy guitars and background effects. Likewise, Fertita’s days in Queens of the Stone Age have clearly inspired the trippy desert-rock heaviness that characterizes some songs.

“Dodge and Burn” is an allaround strong album, but there are some songs that stand out on this already fantastic album. “Buzzkill(er)” starts off with simple power chords that ooze with attitude, heightened by the slick fret noise

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der and mayhem. The film’s protagonist, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt), is eager to rid the world of its evils and wants to avoid becoming one of them. The plot is unoriginal, but the newfound depth and agonizing bleakness of Villeneuve’s thriller succeed in making it one of the best of the year.

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Emily Blunt delivers a powerful performance in "Sicario," Denis Villeneuve's new thriller.

In the opening scene, Kate and her team of FBI field agents storm the premises of an alleged cartel safe house. Though initially dissatisfied by the absence of drugs or any notable criminals at first, she eventually gets more than she hoped for: room after room with bodies wrapped in bloodied cellophane hidden between the walls are uncovered by the police in their customary search. The lengthy close-up shots of the victims set the tone for the rest of the film, with superb and versatile cinematography that swings between fast-paced action and macabre stillness.

Intent on putting an end to the endemic violence that plagues the border with Mexico, and convinced that she is part of a cavalry always arriving too late, Kate joins forces with Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), an iconoclastic and trigger-happy agent from the Department of Defense, on a flash raid into Juarez to extract an essential piece of bait for the real Mexican “big fish” they are after.

Viewers nervously follow the team’s slow descent into the hellish reality of drug trafficking, where they are introduced to the cold, quiet and brazen Alejandro (Benicio see sicario, page 6

ebecca: Upon returning to Tufts this year, I found myself in a lonely Wi-Fi-less abyss. No internet meant no Netflix. I could not binge watch “Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet” (2015-present), and in desperation, I turned to podcasts. I started listening to “The Savage Lovecast” (2010-present), Dan Savage’s podcast. I have never listened to anything like it — it is honest and, at times, harsh. When a woman lamented losing her soulmate, Savage responded, “He was not your fucking soulmate. You have no fucking soulmate. You know who your soulmate is? You.” This is the kind of advice Pooja and I aspire to give. From now on, our spirit animal is Dan Savage. We at NYSD will ask ourselves WWDSD: what would Dan Savage do?

Dear NYSD, Is Yelp the new Tinder?

Rebecca: Apparently any medium that puts people in touch with people can be used as a dating app. (We’ve previously answered “Is Trunk chat the new Tinder?”)

To answer this question, I sought help from Google. I searched using the keywords “Yelp” and “hook ups.” The first link was to a thread on Yelp in which one user declared that one should “NOT date Yelpers. I repeat DO NOT.” I also learned that dating Yelpers is not ideal and, as an avid Yelper, I also learned why I am still single…but back to the question. I could see how Yelp could put two foodies in touch and that they could then go on a series of dates to five-star restaurants and complain together about a lack of bread plates. (Yes, Bottino, I am still bitter about the lack of bread plates.) So while I am uncertain if Yelp has been used as a dating website, I am certain it has the capability to be used as one.

Pooja: Yelp may not only be the new Tinder, but also the new Lulu, or worse.

If any of you are “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (2014-present) fans, you will have heard of the (not-yet-released) app Peeple, which he spoke about on his Oct. 4 show. It is literally Yelp for people, and in a world of avid (and harsh) Yelpers like Rebecca, things could get pretty ugly.

The CEO claims it will only be a platform for positive comments — but let’s be honest, there’s no fun in that. So here we pose a question to our readers: would you use Peeple? Or more importantly, WWDSD? DEAR NYSD, WHY WON’T YOU LOVE ME POOJA, SIGNED DAN Pooja: First of all: Hi Dan, I love you.

Secondly, it has come to my attention that our new form of submitting questions via email sort of ruins our entire platform of being anonymous. So, as a public declaration to our avid fans and questioners, you now have the option of signing your name. In a world where people will soon be rated like restaurants and bread plates, anonymity doesn’t seem to be a luxury worth pursuing.

That’s all for this week; please continue submitting questions! Leave your name if you’d like, or continue using our anonymous forum if you don’t want two loudmouths like us knowing you made out with your best friend’s boyfriend while she was in the bathroom in the Burren.

Pooja Sivaraman is a senior majoring in economics. She can be reached at pooja. sivaraman@tufts.edu. Rebecca Solomon is a senior majoring in economics. She can be reached at rebecca.solomon@tufts.edu.

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Film expands on drug cartel mania in media SICARIO

continued from page 5 Del Toro), Matt Graver’s associate. The two of them ensnare Kate with “all or nothing” rhetoric, from which she struggles to extirpate herself lest she lose her one opportunity to strike a meaningful blow to the Mexican cartel they are after. It is no longer a question of making a choice between good and bad for her; the options are only bad and worse. As the team deviates more and more from Kate’s by-thebook methods, her reluctance grows and eventually culminates in the depressing realization that the means in which she is engaged are vastly different from the noble end she sought.

Blunt excels in her role. Her character remains faithful to her idealistic motives while wilfully following her teammates with an untrusting gaze as they blur the lines between themselves and their enemy. The “Sicario” — which translates roughly as “hitman” or “assassin” — after whom the film is named remains the most intriguing character thanks to a brilliant performance by the cool and callous Benicio Del Toro. Brolin’s acting, though unremarkable, is well suited for his role as an American drug-busting cynic whose real motivation for the fight might rely on nothing more than the exhilaration it provides. Due credit is also owed to Johann Johannsson, whose music mimics the slow and heavy heartbeat of the viewer as they are presented with continuous images of horror.

A seemingly unrelated parallel story unfolds alongside the main plot throughout the film. This story follows the family

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“Sicario" refreshes an old storyline, breathing fresh life into the drug cartel thriller. life of an often-hungover, good-hearted and manifestly ordinary Mexican policeman named Silvio (Maximiliano Hernandez), whose son pulls him out of bed every morning to drive to soccer practice. The story’s regular and undisturbed pattern forebodes a tragic ending: Silvio, a mule for the cartel

being targeted, meets his demise when the deadly enterprise of the American team — namely, Alejandro — catch up with him.

The cinematography is varied and adroitly maintains the intensity required for the treatment of such a cancerous situation. Denis Villeneuve describes his film

as a “dark poem,” and that it is — beautiful in its unfiltered depiction of the horror that pervades its subject matter. The last scene returns to civilian life and comes full circle back to the sad reality of business as usual. Go watch the film, but save the popcorn for after.

Tufts Programs Abroad 2016-17 Upcoming Informational Pizza Parties

Tufts in Chile:

Tuesday, October 13th at 6:00pm Dowling Hall, Milmore Room

Tufts in London:

Tuesday, October 20th at 6:00pm Dowling Hall, Milmore Room

Tufts in Oxford:

Thursday, October 22nd at 6:00pm Dowling Hall, Milmore Room Other Upcoming Tufts Programs Abroad Events: Tufts in Madrid/Alcalá: Wed., 10/28 @ 6pm in Dowling Milmore Room Tufts in Paris: Wed., 11/4 @ 6pm in Dowling Milmore Room Tufts in China: Mon., 11/9 @ 6pm in Olin Laminan Lounge Tufts in Ghana: Thurs., 11/12 @ 6pm in Africana Center (Capen House)

Applications due Feb. 1 (Oxford: Dec. 1) http://go.tufts.edu/studyabroad

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Late Night at the Daily Joe: “I have not yet lost Lancy’s vessel.”

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Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis Crossword

ACROSS 1 Stirs 5 He wrote about “a midnight dreary” 8 Gobble (up) 13 Die, with “out” 14 Blog entry 15 Capital of India 16 Capital __ 17 Colorful fish 18 Took the wrong way?

19 Old Tokyo 20 Haul to the kitchen, as groceries 22 Word before or after dog 23 High-five relative 24 Poison remedy 26 Poison test site 27 Steamy stuff 30 Queen of the Goths in Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” 32 *Vandalized, in a way 33 Romantic activity 34 Words of wisdom 35 Country on the Strait of Hormuz 36 Ravel classic 39 *Head of the produce section?

43 Old-style warning 44 Rather little 45 Understand 46 Deli staple 49 Like Beethoven’s “Pastoral Symphony” 50 Horse show concern 52 They’re graphically represented three times in this grid ... and the answers to starred clues are the six longest common words than can be spelled using only them 53 2000 World Series venue 54 Yearbook, e.g.

56 Bakery buy 57 Newspaper fig.

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58 Little garden party?

59 Mazatlán Mrs. 60 End in __ 61 Facilitated 62 Suffer 63 Squealed DOWN 1 *Yielded 2 “Is it worth the risk?”

3 Knowledgeable about 4 Word before or after blue 5 Online annoyances 6 Oklahoma county in which a 2008 Pulitzer-winning drama is set 7 Work __ 8 Many AARP mems.

9 “Darn it!”

10 Ill-fated 1967 mission 11 Brush up on 12 *Place for oats 14 Member of the force 21 Darwin, for one 25 Fruit named for a Turkish town

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40 Reigning emperor of Japan 41 Regan’s poisoner, in Shakespeare 42 *Wiped out 47 “__ luck!”

48 Asteroids maker 51 Subdue 53 “Buzz off!”

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Whiting reflects on path from student-athlete to grad assistant to head coach of women’s soccer team

by Ben Feinberg

Contributing Writer

The women’s soccer team is arguably one of Tufts’ most successful teams. In 2000, it went to the Div. III National Championship, and in 2005, it competed in the national semifinals before losing to the College of New Jersey — the same team that had defeated them five years earlier. The 2005 team featured completely new faces on the field, but on the sidelines, the woman behind much of their success remained the same: head coach Martha Whiting.

Whiting has been the coach of the Tufts women’s soccer team for 17 consecutive seasons, compiling a 152-7829 (wins, losses, ties) overall record, good for a .643 winning percentage. In her 16 full seasons as head coach, only one of her teams finished with a losing record. Her teams have qualified for the NESCAC championship tournament 14 times out of a possible 15 years, won the conference championship in 2002 and finished runners-up in 2000 and 2005.

Whiting has also won numerous individual accolades. In 2000, she won the award for National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Div.

III National Coach of the Year and was named NESCAC’s Coach of the Year in 2002, 2005 and 2010.

Whiting’s rise to the head coach position on the women’s soccer team began while attending graduate school at Tufts.

She became an assistant coach under former Athletics Director Bill Gehling, and when Gehling was promoted to the Athletic Director position in 1999, Whiting was promoted to head coach.

At the helm of the women’s soccer program, Whiting’s approach has been to prioritize personal relationships with her players and to tailor her coaching style to each one.

“I believe that the biggest thing for me is to get to know my players on a personal level … [to] learn what their majors and who their friends are,” Whiting said.

“I feel that when you get to genuinely know your players on a personal level and care about [them], they’re much more likely to do what you ask them to do and be happy about doing what you ask them to do.”

Whiting’s emphasis on building relationships and mutual respect with players was echoed by former co-captain and three-time NSCAA All-Region selection Catharine Greer (A’15).

“I enjoyed every minute that I played for coach Whiting,” Greer said. “Win or lose, she never lost sight of why we all play the game: to have fun. Coach Whiting has had a large impact on my life…and my experience as a college athlete wouldn’t have been the same without her.”

Whiting’s in-depth understanding of Tufts student-athletes stems from her own experience playing for Tufts; she was a four-year starting goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team, under thencoach Gehling.

“Honestly, it was the last school I looked at [as an undergraduate],” Whiting said. “I had grown up not even ten miles from here and had honestly never been here in my entire life until I was 17 years old … I literally fell in love with the place; it was a beautiful October fall day, and I loved the campus. I went back to my mom’s car and said, ‘I love this place I need to go here.’”

After completing her undergraduate degree, Whiting made the decision to go to graduate school at Tufts, where she worked for athletics as a graduate assistant.

“I was not 100 percent sure what I wanted to do with my life, and I just loved coaching…just being around the

game,” Whiting said. “I was fortunate enough to do it at Tufts. I love being around the girls — they were awesome, still are awesome. I got the coach’s bug, so to speak.”

When asked to describe her own coaching style, Whiting spoke about the importance of setting high expectations for the team.

“I like to set the bar high and hold the girls to a high standard,” Whiting said.

“They’re all Tufts students, so they’re all overachievers. We’ve been chasing .500 all year, and I just know we are a better team than that. I see us play on a consistent basis.”

After completing undergraduate and graduate degrees at Tufts, Whiting is one of the few Jumbos that never left — and she does not see herself doing so in the near future.

“I’ve never really considered moving on,” Whiting said. “This place feels like home to me … Tufts is just a place where I get to coach amazing girls and really have the opportunity to be successful any given year. I feel fortunate that I’ve been able to continue in this profession at this school, a place I love so dearly. There’s just something special about being able to be a part of the Tufts women’s soccer program.”

Men’s Crew

Jumbos head into season under direction of new head coach

by Andre Chuong Contributing Writer

6 a.m. practice six days a week, calloused hands and the dubious waters of the Malden River do not faze the members of the men’s rowing team. Under the direction of recently appointed head coach Noel Wanner and associate coach Anna Lindgren-Streicher, the team, currently preparing for its fall racing season, has made significant changes to build and improve upon its rowing style, technical ability and efficiency.

One of the changes put into practice this season is the emphasis on proficiency in rowing a single scull. A single scull is a coxless rowing shell designed for one rower, with an oar flanking either side.

This contrasts remarkably with the coxed four- or eight-man shells traditionally used by the team for both practice and competition.

“Rowing in a single scull is perhaps the best way of learning how to move a boat effectively,” Wanner said. “The single scull gives the rower immediate, clear feedback on how his or her movements are affecting the boat — if the boat is going well or poorly, it’s all because of [the sculler].”

The result of this adjustment to the team’s training regimen was put to the test Sept. 27 at the Green Mountain Head in Putney, Vt. The regatta features mostly single-oar sculling events and thus worked well with Wanner’s vision to develop more technically skilled rowers. Tufts sent a select group of seven experienced scullers to the Green Mountain Head to compete in the men’s single event for 19 to 34-year-olds. Among their competitors were current and former members of the U.S. national team as well as Olympic hopefuls.

The most successful of Tufts’ rowers was sophomore Andrew MacMillen, who finished 12th overall in the singles event and placed second among all collegiate scullers present at the regatta.

The team is also focused on its long-term prospects.

Looking b e yo n d the renowned Head of the Charles Regatta in which they will compete the weekend of Oct. 17, the team is making use of its time Alex Cherry / Tufts Daily Archive and is preparing primarily for the Members of the Tufts men’s varsity crew team prepare to bring their boat into the dock after a long practice on the Malden River on an early October morning. onset of its spring Rochester, Minn. and continued to row group of guys who are willing to focus and racing season.

“Our goal is to be on the medal dock at the collegiate level at the University enjoy working hard on a day-to-day basis.”

According to team members, Munger’s this spring at [the New England Rowing of Minnesota. He began coaching during Championships],” junior tri-captain Zach his studies there and, most recently, was style of coaching walk-ons helps bridge Merchant said. “If we boat four entries, a coach for the Boston University men’s the gap in attitude between the varsity and we want to reach a point when we come crew team. Munger said he was drawn novice squads.

“I think the general attitude during to Tufts primarily by what he sees as home with four medals.”

An often less-publicized aspect the the growth happening in the men’s rowing practice [now] is more serious,” sophTufts crew program is its novice team. program, and comes to Tufts with a spe- omore and former walk-on Andrew Takasugi said. “At the end of the day, These athletes are walk-ons with no prior cific approach to educating the walk-ons.

“A lot of novice coaches shy away from everyone knows that we need to make the rowing experience who are interested in learning to row. Walk-ons, after their intro- doing difficult [things] early on to bolster most out of every minute we have when ductory year, can then be promoted to the numbers,” Munger said. “I went the total we’re out on the water.”

The men’s varsity and novice crews will opposite [direction]. We had a wave of attrivarsity team.

New to the team’s coaching staff is tion where about 50 percent of the walk- be competing in their first regatta of the coach George Munger, who began rowing ons decided [rowing] was not the thing fall season Saturday, Oct. 10 at the Head of at the age of 14 in his hometown ofm- for them. What I was left with was a small the Snake in Worcester, Mass.