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TCU Special Election results

by Sarah Zheng

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The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held a special election yesterday to fill one seat on the TCU Judiciary and the Women’s Center representative position.

According to Tufts Elections Commission (ECOM) Chair Paige Newman, 10.95 percent of the eligible student body voted, with 636 students voting in the election.

In elections open to the entire Tufts student body, Arman Smigielski was elected to the TCU Judiciary out of six candidates. Smigielski, a sophomore, will join the six members already on the Judiciary.

The remaining open two Community Representative positions were filled in the election, with sophomore Walae Hayek

elected as the new Women’s Center representative over one other candidate and sophomore Janet Nieto, who was running unopposed, becoming the new Latino Community representative.

Judiciary Treasurer Michael Kalmans, a junior, explained at the Sept. 27 Senate meeting that the position on the TCU Judiciary opened up because a member of the judiciary body has resigned the week before. The special election was also held because no one had run for the Women’s Center and Latino Community representative positions during the September election.

The election turnout was higher than that of most special elections that the Senate has held in the past, according to Newman, a senior.

ECOM Head of Public Relations Ania Ruiz echoed this, saying that there was

greater interest in this semester’s special election.

“The [Judiciary] candidates were very widespread grade-wise…so there was a lot of interest [from] the entire community,” Ruiz, a sophomore, said.

She added that she was pleased with the increased interest in the Community Representative positions, which historically have had difficulties being filled.

A few of the interested candidates had missed previous deadlines for the September election, which is why they ultimately ran for the special election, Ruiz said.

Ruiz said the results of the special election reflected that there is greater interest in Senate in general.

“It’s good to see…that more people are in the know about how to get involved with student government,” she said.

Tufts student wins this year’s Global Peter Drucker Challenge

by Elise Westervelt Contributing Writer

A Tufts junior is being recognized at the seventh annual Global Peter Drucker Forum for winning the 2015 Global Peter Drucker Challenge. The Drucker Forum is held today and tomorrow in Vienna, Austria.

Tufts student Khuyen Bui was selected as the grand prize winner of the challenge, an essay competition in which submissions focus on Peter Drucker, an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator and author.

Challenge entrants were required to write an essay between 1,500 and 3,000 words in length about the topic “Managing Oneself in the Digital Age,” a topic inspired by Drucker’s 1999 essay “Managing Oneself,” according to the Drucker challenge website.

Bui’s essay was selected from 148 entries written by students and professionals around the world, according to a press release by Tufts Deputy Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins. As the challenge winner, Bui will be awarded €1,000 or about $1,086 and will have his travel expenses and Drucker Forum admittance fee paid for.

The competition was created by the Peter Drucker Society Europe, a “central hub for information and orientation about…initiatives relating to Peter F. Drucker’s core themes,” according to the society’s website.

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According to the Drucker Challenge website, the Drucker Forum is one of the leading conferences on management. “[ The forum] brings together thought leaders that followed Peter [Drucker] and practiced his leadership,” Joan Snyder Kuhl, one of the judges for the Drucker Challenge, said.

Bui said he was looking forward to the opportunity to travel to Vienna for the Global Peter Drucker Forum.

“I’ve never been to Europe before, so I’m excited,” Bui said.

Bui also explained that he Jeff McNeill via Flickr is excited to meet Peter Drucker was an Austrian-born American management conthought leaders, sultant, educator and author. decision makers 1909, Drucker became a prominent and policymakers.

According to the Peter management consultant and published Drucker Society’s website, Drucker is a number of books and articles that known as the “father of modern management.” Born in Vienna, Austria in see DRUCKER, page 2

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Nancy Bauer discusses philosophy, pornography at Author Talk

by Robert Katz Staff Writer

Nancy Bauer, philosophy professor and dean of academic affairs for Arts and Sciences, discussed her new book “How to Do Things With Pornography” in the Hirsch Reading Room yesterday afternoon. “How to Do Things With Pornography” was released this past April.

Bauer was the second speaker in the library’s ongoing Author Talk program, which is hosted by Friends of Tufts Libraries. The first, held in mid-October, featured a talk by biologist and Tufts alumnus Noah Wilson-Rich (G’11). According to the Tisch website, Bauer’s book models a new way to write philosophically about pornography, women’s self-objectification, hook-up culture and other contemporary phenomena.

Bauer began her talk discussing the differences between her own upbringing and her childrens’. However hard parents may try to shield their children, the fact is that kids these days have practically unlimited access to sexual content online and through social media, she said.

Bauer then introduced the philosophical view of pornography as described by American feminist and scholar Catharine MacKinnon, who adopted Karl Marx’s interpretations of capitalism for her theory of sex differences. According to MacKinnon and proponents of her views, pornography perpetuates the subordination of women by showing women enjoying their submissive roles. “[They argued that] pornography at the end of the day is sex discrimination,” she said.

In the 1980s, MacKinnon and others built a new definition of pornography that frames pornography as a civil rights violation against women, according to Bauer.

“We define pornography as the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women in pictures or words,” MacKinnon wrote in 1995.

MacKinnon worked to help pass an ordinance in Indianapolis that would allow women to file sex discrimination charges against porn producers, Bauer said.

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continued from page 1 However, the ordinance was ultimately challenged in court and overturned.

Bauer referenced Rae Langton, a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, in her talk. She argued that MacKinnon’s claim that pornography constitutes the subordination of women in and of itself makes sense when studied from the perspective of speech-act theory — a theory based on the claim that words themselves can make a difference in the world and sometimes cause harm.

Pornography, from this perspective, should not be protected by freedom of expression laws, since it silences and legitimates violence towards women and ranks them as inferior.

Bauer next talked about consent, discussing the difference between “‘no’ means ‘no'” policies and “‘yes’ means ‘yes,'” or affir-

mative consent, policies. Affirmative consent policies, which require that both parties involved in a sexual interaction clearly indicate that they want to engage in any sexual activities, have been adopted by many schools — including Tufts — in recent years. However, even affirmative consent has problems and cannot eliminate miscommunications in sex, she said.

“Sometimes people say ‘yes’ because they’re afraid,” Bauer said, discussing the issues of affirmative consent. “Also ‘yes’ isn’t always said during consensual sex.”

The issue at the heart of Bauer’s discussion was the importance of talking about sex.

“We are unable to talk as a culture about sex in an honest way, and this is causing problems that ramify in our confusion in how to think about sexual assault policy,” she said. “In porn, everyone loves sex, and everyone has orgasms eventually.

In sex education classes, kids are told a thousand times to be safe and not to do what they want to do. What we don’t talk about with ourselves or with our kids is that having a physical relationship with another person is often no less confusing or messy or Sofie Hecht / The Tufts Daily complicated than Professor and Dean of of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences Nancy any other human Bauer talks to members of the Tufts community about pornography in interaction.” the Hirsch Reading Room on Nov. 4.

Bauer con“Most important,” she said. “Are these cluded her talk by posing questions to the audience. Should there be more models for the sorts of questions that philosophers should be asking?” discussing sex and relationships?

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continued from page 1 established him as a leader in effective management and ethical leadership.

The Drucker Society works to keep his ideas alive and to share them with the younger generation.

Bui said that he first encountered Drucker’s ideas during the fall semester of his freshman year when he took an Experimental College class called “Organizations, Leadership, and the Business Model of ‘PlayerCoach.’” Drucker’s work and ideas

immediately stood out, Bui said.

“Drucker’s work is important… because he was the most influential management worker,” he said. “To a student, his work is important because everyone in our world should think of oneself as one’s own manager.”

Bui said he heard about the challenge from Kuhl, who is the co-author of “Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions,” a recently published update of one of Drucker’s novels.

Kuhl said she spoke at an engineering breakfast at Tufts earlier this year, where

she first met Bui and took notice of his enthusiasm for Drucker’s work.

“He’s such a great, dedicated student of the subject,” Kuhl said.

Bui’s winning essay, entitled “Know Yourself and Focus and Contribution — A Reflection on Drucker’s ‘Managing Oneself,'” had two key messages, according to Bui. His essay tried to convey the importance of “really knowing ourselves by being disconnected from the internet and taking time to reflect,” as well as the importance of “taking time to think about our contribution [to society].”

According to Kuhl, Bui was the clear winner of the contest. “[His essay] was so easy to read, it was really engaging and it was spot on,” she said. “He’s really easy to connect with …

He talks about his journey to be better and to accept who you are now.”

Bui said that the best part of the Drucker competition was the opportunity to organize and share his beliefs.

“The very act of writing itself is rewarding,” he said. “I think the message that I want to share is important, that one should learn about oneself.”

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TCU Senate seeks to gain student input on housing issues

by Diane Alexander Contributing Writer

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate this October created an ad hoc committee to gather student input about the future of housing at Tufts.

Students’ advice and concerns collected by the committee, led by TCU President senior Brian Tesser and Vice President junior Gauri Seth, will be submitted to the university-led Residential Strategies Working Group (RSWG).

The RSWG — comprised of faculty, administrators and students — was created last semester to compile data on the student residential experience both on- and off-campus, and to subsequently recommend future strategies for university housing plans. Tesser and Seth, along with fellow senators, senior Caroline Higley and sophomore Emily Tannenbaum, serve as the group’s student representatives.

Though the Senate has no power over university housing policy, Tesser and Seth felt it was important to gather more student input about housing issues.

“What I realized was there’s only so much student representation on that committee,” Tesser said. “And as [TCU] representatives, we’re there to represent everyone.”

Thus, Tesser and Seth formed the TCU’s ad hoc Housing Committee to allow students to discuss housing concerns alongside the RSWG, according to Seth.

On- and off-campus housing has been a growing concern for the university in recent years. Under Somerville’s new Ordinance Regulating University Accountability, which went into effect on Sept. 1, the university is required to report various details about students living off-campus, including their status, graduation date, telephone number and local address.

The Somerville Board of Aldermen’s decision to pass the ordinance in January coincided with increased scrutiny of housing violations — town officials last year began enforcing long-standing ordinances in Somerville and Medford that cap the number of unrelated adults sharing an

apartment at four and three people, respectively. The crackdown caused some students to be evicted from their homes in 2014.

Seth hopes that the new working group will not only address future housing concerns but also those facing students at the present.

“The university definitely recognizes that housing is a really big issue in students’ minds for various different reasons,” Seth said. “We’ve heard a lot of problems with landlords not being great, houses that aren’t safe, very high rents, etc. So I think something I hope will happen [as a result of the RSWG] is not just a long-term fix, but also a short-term ‘how can we help students right now?’”

About a dozen people, all of whom were TCU senators, attended the first ad hoc committee meeting, though according to Tesser and Seth the meeting was intended to be open to any students who had input.

Tesser said the Senate plans to hold more meetings and publicize them better in the future.

The RSWG, too, has only had one full meeting, which took place in September; however, the RSWG’s two subcommittees — Residential Strategy Subcommittee 1 (RSS1) and Residential Strategy Subcommittee 2 (RSS2) — have both met several times, according to Tesser and Seth. Provost David Harris, Dean of Arts and Sciences James Glaser and Dean of Engineering Jianmin Qu chair RSS1, and RSS2 is chaired by Harris and Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell. Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon explained that working group members chose to join one or both subgroups during the RSWG’s first meeting.

According to the “Residential Strategy (RS) Working Group Charge,” RSS1’s goal is to discuss current housing trends while taking factors such as cost and quality into account. RSS2 aims to determine the target enrollment number for the undergraduate body and to layout the ideal housing strategy for Tufts.

“To this point we have focused on data collection,” Harris told the Daily

in an email. “In the next week or two we will turn to data analysis.”

Harris explained the RSWG plans to have preliminary recommendations ready by the end of 2015, and a final report by the end of the academic year.

According to Seth, each of the four senators involved in RSWG — Tesser, Seth Higley and Tannenbaum — receive emails from both subgroups and attempt to make sure at least one senator can attend every meeting.

Seth recognizes, however, that having one senator at a subgroup meeting is still not fully representative of the student body’s experiences. “[The aim of the ad hoc committee] was to get everyone’s opinions and make sure we’re going into the RSWG with not just, ‘This is what I think and what I have experienced,’” she said.

“Because at the end of the day, we’re only four senators, and that’s not necessarily reflective of everyone’s experience. And we want to repeat it, because an hour isn’t a very long time to hear from a lot of people.”

The administration has been largely supportive of the Senate’s efforts, according to Seth.

McMahon, who is part of both subgroups within the RSWG, expressed her support for the senators’ desire to incorporate a variety of students’ opinions into the discussion on housing.

“The idea that they would be pulling a lot of different perspectives in makes sense to me, and it’s appropriate for them as student leaders who are on the committee not only to give their own opinions, but also to represent the broader perspective of student opinions,” she said.

Provost Harris also praised the Senate’s ad hoc Committee. “[The ad hoc committee] is great, and consistent with the RSWG,” he wrote.

While Tesser is proud of student involvement thus far, he acknowledges that there are more perspectives and opinions yet to make their way to the RSWG. “I do feel like the student voices have been heard,” Tesser said of the RSWG meetings so far. “But our goal is to have more voices be heard.”

e tend to think of the math and science fields as being particularly hypermasculine and sexist.

A class like creative writing, on the other hand, is seen as something “anyone” can take. People love to pretend creative writing allows us to understand “universal” human values that transcend differences of race, gender, sexuality, class, etc. But in reality, creating characters, universes and settings is a deeply personal and political act.

This is why I feel uneasy about the fact that everyone in my 12-person creative writing class is white and cisgender. When my professor describes different narrative perspectives, he explains that third person means “he and she.”

Every character in the stories we write is white, or their race is unspecified. No one in my class creates characters who use gender-neutral pronouns, perhaps because it would be considered “grammatically incorrect.” Almost everyone in my class writes about straight, white, vaguely “middle-class” suburban America, occasionally throwing a queer character into the mix.

Of course, writers need to write about what they know. It’s probably better for straight, white male writers not to write fictional stories about queer people, people of color or women. if they don’t know how to portray them. As Ava Duvernay, director of “Selma” (2014) said during a talk she gave this summer, representation does not mean having white artists add characters of color to their work in order to fulfill some kind of diversity checklist.

“The diversity problem is not Wes Anderson having only two people of color in his film,” she said, giving an example of a director who casts predominantly white actors. “It’s that that no one is allowed to be the black Wes Anderson.”

In an April 20, 2014 piece for The New Yorker, author Junot Díaz wrote about the unbearable whiteness of creative writing classes, drawing from his own experiences in a creative writing course at Cornell. “[My] workshop reproduced exactly the dominant culture’s blind spots and assumptions around race and racism (and sexism and heteronormativity, etc.),” he wrote. “In my workshop there was an almost lunatical belief that race was no longer a major social force (it’s class!). In my workshop we never explored our racial identities or how they impacted our writing — at all.”

Nor are any of these issues addressed in my creative writing class, which is perhaps the reason why my class is so overwhelmingly straight, white and privileged. Furthermore, ALL the creative writing professors at Tufts are white. If these classes are taught by professors with little understanding of experiences different from their own, it is probable that the classes will filter out certain students, regardless of the professors’ intentions. And it’s important for white people to understand that it might not be merely coincidental if no students of color enroll in a specific class.

If Tufts doesn’t actively work to hire professors from different backgrounds and with an understanding of privilege, especially for classes as intimate as creative writing, this problem will only get worse. It’s bad enough that the majority of books students read at public high schools are written by straight, white, American men. Shouldn’t private universities be doing a little better?

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

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Give Graham a shot

For a Republican primary debate, last week wasn’t much of a show. Suffice to say it was far from the most interesting debate. Perhaps it represents the broader staleness of the Republican primaries, despite many claims that the race has never been so unpredictable and exciting. Either way, some rightly remain horrified as two zany outsiders sit atop the field of candidates.

Many concerned conservatives — and those hoping to have a shot at beating Hillary Clinton come November 2016 — are right to wonder how, if or when the Donald and Dr. Ben Carson will tank and drop out. GOP supporters and debate moderators feel powerless in the face of Trump and Carson’s logic-defying policies and support time and time again.

Yet one possible solution to the outsider problem lies right in front of the Republican National Committee (RNC): elevating Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to the first tier debate. He clearly outmatches his tier two peers, offering a wealth of experience, a unique personality and a consistent message. In combination, these advantages could amount to added pressure on complacent candidates and a confrontation of the TrumpCarson hegemony.

Senator Graham is clearly too qualified to have his campaign wasted on repartees with Governors Bobby Jindal,

George Pataki and former Senator Rick Santorum. The South Carolina firebrand has been identified by a vast majority of experts as a winner in each of the last three Republican primary debates. That said, from Trump to the experts, critics are fair in pointing to Graham’s flailing numbers. The South Carolina senator only managed to grab two percent of likely primary voters in his home state, according to a recent poll. Yet what Senator Graham lacks in national support he makes up for in experience and in his diversity of views. As chairman of multiple senate defense, terrorism and foreign policy-related subcommittees, Graham, it’s safe to say, has experience in foreign affairs. On the domestic side, Senator Graham has shown his moderate views in embracing and endorsing bipartisan regulation on immigration reform and climate change throughout his nearly 15-year tenure in the Senate.

The sum of these experiences is added pressure on outsider candidates to provide more specific views and plans in any and all policy areas.

Arguably, Graham’s greatest strength is his fiery charisma. The man who said “we’re going to drink more” under his presidency has proven graceful in dealing with coarse mudslinging. When Donald Trump released Graham’s private cell phone number, the Senator calmly responded with a clever instructional video on cell phone demolition tech-

niques. This knack for charm and confidence will serve the Republican establishment well in quelling Trump’s success.

Unlike many of his fellow candidates, since declaring his candidacy in June, Graham has remained consistent, clear and on message, especially with regard to foreign policy: America needs stronger, bolder leadership to tackle Islamic extremism via coordination with partners and troop deployments nearing 10,000.

America must confront the threat of radical Islam before it reaches our shores yet again. Whether or not one agrees with the Graham campaign on this issue or any other, such a strong, straightforward theme forces less energetic and less focused candidates like Governor Jeb Bush to step up their game.

Guided by biased moderators, the last Republican debate was gladiatorial. The next debate should facilitate a sustained and intense “free market” of competing ideas. As in economic policy, low barriers to entry are a sacred Republican value.

For the sake of party and country, it’s time the RNC and major networks shake up the race. CNN altered the rules for Carly Fiorina. The Wall Street Journal and Fox News should give Senator Graham the same opportunity.

Zach Shapiro is a senior majoring in international relations and an op-ed contributor. He can be reached at zachary. shapiro@tufts.edu.

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The outlet also reported that “Hello” had become the 24th song ever to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

The single was streamed 2.3 million times on its first day of release alone, garnering 5,000 more streams than One Direction’s July release “Drag Me Down,” which previously held the title. The song’s sepiatinged music video broke records on Vevo for most views in 24 hours and fastest time to reach 100 million views.

These numbers are perhaps particularly impressive because Adele has largely remained out of the spotlight since 2012. Until the release of “Hello,” moreover, there had been little information from the artist about a new album. A vague tweet in 2014 temporarily had the internet buzzing when Adele wrote, “Bye bye 25…See you again later in the year x.” The rest of 2014 came and went, however, without so much as a blip about a new album release date. Fans were left puzzled and hoping and waiting for more news.

It wasn’t until last month, however, that fans received the update they had been so eagerly waiting for. On Oct. 12, a 30-second commercial on an episode of the British singing competition “The X Factor” (2004 – present) announced Adele’s comeback. In the ad, Adele croons to the millions of unsuspecting viewers, “Hello, it’s me.”

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One could easily argue that British songstress Adele is currently basking in her own imperial phase. By any standards, her last album “21” (2011) was a once-in-a-career achievement, selling over 30 million copies worldwide, including 11 million here in the United States alone. Many anticipated that her next release — whenever it came — could reach even greater heights. With “Hello,” the newly released lead single from her upcoming third album “25,” already shattering records left and right, “25,” which will drop on Nov. 20, seems poised for similar success.

On Monday, Billboard reported that the song had sold a whopping 1,112,000 downloads in its first week, crushing the 636,000 previous recorder holder Flo Rida saw for his hit “Right Round” (2009).

fans had been waiting for new music from the British songstress after her hiatus from the music world. “Hello” was released in full 11 days later on Oct. 23 to near-universal praise from fans and music critics alike.

With November finally here, the release of “25” is just around the corner, and, according to the AC/DC rule, the album is likely to be a massive success.

The AC/DC rule says that an artist’s initial album sales are a product of the success of the artist’s previous release. Since “21” still stands as one of the most successful albums in music history, the AC/DC rule would indicate that “25” has the potential to reach similar heights. Initial projections for the album have already placed it well north of one million units in its opening week. These estimates put Adele on track to break yet another record — the highest first-week sales by a female artist. Britney Spears currently holds the title for “Oops!… I Did It Again,” which sold 1,319,000 copies back in 2001.

If pop music history can tell us anything, it is that one should never attempt to place a ceiling on a blockbuster release (see: Taylor Swift’s zooming past the original 750,000 copies-sold prediction for last year’s “1989”). With “Hello” already off to a stellar start, perhaps “25” itself will continue to break records. Could it become the album with the highest first week sales of all time? In this industry, only time will tell.

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by Josh Podolsky

Executive Arts Editor

Sometimes people express affection in funny ways, and sometimes those “funny” ways aren’t actually funny. Case in point: the relationship between college students and campus art.

From the mural on the lower campus center patio to the hidden graffiti of the Lorax on Eaton to the myriad statues that pepper Tufts’ campus, the Hill is a veritable open-air gallery. For the most part, it seems that Jumbos really enjoy the talent on display around them — after all, Banjo, as the ostrich head formerly at the base of the steps to Tisch Library was known, even got his own Twitter account, and “The Colossal AcornHead” — now between Eaton

and Goddard Chapel — has inspired many strange comments, conversations and (unconfirmed) cults.

Not only do students enjoy the art, but they also find meaning in it. The arrival of the Jumbo statue outside Barnum Hall last spring played stage to one of the most vocal local protest movements of the academic year, as students contested the relative extravagance of the artwork and its unveiling after the university announced its plan to cut a number of janitorial staff employees.

Yet the Hill is not a friendly place for public art. Banjo is known by all too few Jumbos because he had to be returned to the lender.

Students reportedly packed the statue in snow, dribbled paint on it and smashed a pumpkin over its head. There were even allegations of students urinating on the statue.

Where, then, do students land in their relationship with campus art?

Is the art loved? Are these acts of vandalism really just misguided attempts to show affection for the art? In the case of the more serious incidents, probably not. Sometimes people do stupid things — especially when those people live on a college campus where the weekRay Bernhoff / Tufts Daily Archive ends are full of parties. To “The Colossal AcornHead” is sprayed with water early on paraphrase a character Monday morning on Nov. 3, 2014. from a popular animated series: this is why we can’t have nice things. shenanigans, not everyone is in on the joke.

While students may mean well with their Have fun with the art, but don’t break it.

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Sophia Grogan returns to Tufts after year of travel

by John Gallagher

Assistant Arts Editor

Guitarist and singer Sophia Grogan, a sophomore who matriculated with the class of 2017, returned to the Hill this semester after taking a year off to complete a whirlwind tour of Europe and South America.

“I took the year off because I wanted to understand more what I wanted to do here at Tufts,” Grogan said during an interview. “The original idea was to see how cheap I could travel while supporting myself on music…busking, playing at bars. I started in the Czech Republic… [went to] to Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, into Italy, took a boat to Spain, then went

down to Morocco, flew into Scotland, then went to England, then Northern Ireland.

Then [I] flew into Buenos Aires and traveled up to Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. And then came home.”

When asked for the rationale behind her choice of destinations, Grogan said, “I started in Europe because that’s my heritage…and then Latin America because I feel it’s the best place to go if you’re a low-budget traveler and you have a trade, because the people there seem to really respect musicians in general.”

In addition to using her trip to help clarify her goals at Tufts, Grogan hopes to use her experiences to produce a resource

for other college students — musicians or otherwise — who want to travel on a budget. This project will likely result in a travel guidebook that Grogan plans to make freely available around campus in the near future. In the more distant future, Grogan also plans on creating a website that links traveling musicians to venues in order to facilitate DIY tours.

Grogan plans to continue traveling and hopes to ride her motorcycle up to the Arctic Circle this summer, playing music as she goes. Grogan regrets not documenting her previous trip and hopes to document this one through a “rough documentary.” It will almost certainly provide an interesting inside look at Grogan’s next great adventure.

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Top 10 iPhone apps to keep your life from falling apart

by Merilla Michael Assistant Arts Editor

It’s officially November. Midterm season feels like it will never end, you’ve lost your binder, or, if you still have it, it’s a complete mess. You probably feel like you will be perpetually behind until finals.

Lucky for you, these little things called phone apps are here to help. There are so many organizational tools available for phone, and, though they can pose a serious distraction, they can also help those who need help being organized in order to get through the rest of the semester. Here are the top 10 apps to keep your life from falling apart, in no particular order:

1. iStudiez Pro for iOS, $2.99

This is the only app on this list that isn’t free, but the Pro version is so worth it. It’s essentially a calendar for your classes, but it can easily be synced up to your Apple calendar. There are also options to enter your grades for classes, enter office hours and contact information for professors and set due dates for assignments.

The design is geared toward an academic schedule, which is perfect for college students. For the extra three bucks, the Pro version has enough perks to make it worth the investment.

2. Pacifica, Free

This app is perfect for anyone who just

needs periodic breathers throughout the day. Pacifica records your mood as often as you want it to (you can set reminders for yourself in the app). It can track how much you sleep and exercise and how much caffeine, water, medication and alcohol you take in, as well as how often you spend the day with your romantic partner, friends or doing something active outside. If you use it for a while, the app will show you correlations between your mood, stress or anxiety levels and other factors in your life, which can be helpful.

3. tv show tracker 3, Free

Don’t be put off by the questionable all-lowercase title; tv show tracker is essential for any serious — or even not so serious — TV-watcher. As you can probably infer from its name, the app keeps tracks of all the shows that you watch and lists when the next episode will air. It provides a convenient schedule of all your shows so that you always know how many episodes of a series you have left to watch and can budget your time accordingly. tv show tracker includes both shows on-air and those that have already concluded.

4. Duolingo, Free

Treat yourself once in a while. Duolingo is a fun and interactive way to start learning another language (looking at all of you who finished your six-semester language requirement or are engineers and

What’s Up This Weekend?

“Rain Man” (1988) Screening

The Coalition for Autism Support at Tufts (CAST) will host a screening and discussion of this seminal film. (Thursday at 8 p.m. in Granoff 155. Admission is free.

No tickets required.)

“V For Vendetta” (2006) Screening

“Remember, remember, the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot.” If this ditty sends a shiver down your spine or awakens your inner child, don’t miss Tufts Film Series’ showing of the dystopian film on which it’s based.

(Thursday at 9:30 p.m. in Barnum 008.

Admission is free. No tickets required.)

secretly wished you had the time to take a language class). Taking 10 minutes out of your day to play games in Italian or Turkish will simultaneously give you a break from studying and also make you feel productive.

4. Google apps for iOS, Free

Maybe it’s because my laptop is broken that I find these so helpful, but Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Photos and Drive have been essential to my survival the past two weeks. You can essentially carry all your notes with you and edit them on the go without having to bring out your laptop or run to the library.

5. Wunderlist, Free

Wunderlist is a fancy, aesthetically pleasing to-do list, and everyone needs it.

It will change your life.

6. Venmo, Free

It still amazes me that some people don’t have Venmo. It makes paying people back a thousand times easier. Late nights of studying and splitting a huge order of Helen’s can be done with the click of a button.

7. Mint, Free

Mint is an easy-to-use budgeting and financial tracking app that is perfect for college students. You can easily see where your spending is going ($40 a month on Blue Zones?) and use this information to budget your money more wisely or unwisely — whichever you prefer.

Torn Ticket II’s “Little Shop 8. Find My iPhone, Free of Horrors” Nothing is worse than losing Torn Ticket II’s Fall Major production kicks off tonight. The story of a man named Seymour and his escapades with his carnivorous plant, “Little Shop of Horrors”shouldn’t be missed. (Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. in Cohen Auditorium.

Tickets are free at the OCL box office in the Mayer Campus Center and on tuftstickets.com)

Laughter is the Best Medicine Theta Chi is hosting a night of comedy, with performances from groups such as The Institute, Major: Undecided, Cheap Sox and the Stand-up Comedy Collective.

Proceeds from the event will go to Timmy Global Health. (Saturday 9:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. in Dewick. Tickets are $5 at the OCL box office and at the door.)

your phone except losing your phone and realizing you didn’t install Find My iPhone.

Just download it. Your future careless self will thank you.

9. GroupMe, Free

This app is for those who are part of a million clubs, all of which have three separate group messages. GroupMe is an easy and efficient way to organize all your group chats so that you never miss anything important.

10. GrubHub, Free

GrubHub is a food-ordering app that is perfect for those who hate talking on the phone or who change their mind on what they’re ordering constantly. All the best restaurants in the area are on GrubHub, and there are often coupon codes available.

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had one thing in common with almost every Chinese-born person I met this summer in Beijing: I am an only child.

“You are Chinese!” they would joke, smiling welcomingly as I had suddenly gained membership to their private club.

It is true that a majority of Chinese people born in the past few decades share the experience of being an only child. In spite of the recent change to a two-child policy, the new paradigm built around only children is not disappearing anytime soon.

The fact is, the one-child policy has changed more than just demographics: it has transformed China’s culture. Thirty-five years of living under these laws has made a desired standard out of what was once an unwanted limitation. Many couples no longer want the financial strain of additional children, even as the government hopes that families will get back on the baby bandwagon and restore youthfulness to its labor force.

In China, only children get a bad rap. They are known as “xiao huangdi” — “little emperors.” Far from complimentary, the term highlights the fact that they are doted on and spoiled by their parents. It turns out that the negative language is not entirely without precedent. TIME magazine discusses a study in which adults born before the implementation of the policy were compared with adults born right after. Through a series of targeted games, it revealed that the only children held a series of negative characteristics that made them poorer applicants for jobs.

Interestingly, according to some studies, only American children do not exhibit the same traits. In fact, these studies show that sibling-less kids in the United States are often predisposed to greater social and academic success than their peers. Jeffrey Kluger, author of “The Sibling Effect” (2011), attributes this to the fact that they “grow up in a culture with a whole mix of family types, who learn that whatever pampering they get from their parents is not what all kids get.” The excess of only children in China, then, and not their lack of siblings alone, is responsible for producing a unique brand of individual.

Others, like journalist Mei Fong, do not believe that Chinese only children are as spoiled as they are made out to be. In an interview with the New Yorker, she emphasizes the pervasive nature of the one-child policy, which seeps into every individual’s life choices, “like who you marry, what kind of job you have, [and] how…you grow old comfortably.” She believes that the “little emperor” generation carries a burden: both of being their parents’ only prospect and of being their only caretaker.

Living as an only child in China carries different weight than it did for me as an only child who grew up in New York City. Our personal experiences may have been similar: a strong ambivalence about single-child status, fluctuating between the adamant belief that siblings are overrated and an equally intense sense of loneliness. But being an only child in China goes far beyond that. It means bearing the burden of representing an entire generation. Children born of the one-child policy live under a magnifying glass — not only that of their own families, but also of their entire nation. I cannot claim to be part of that club.

Lara LoBrutto is a junior majoring in international relations and minoring in Chinese. She may be reached at lara. lobrutto@tufts.edu.

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‘Beasts of No Nation’ captivates with gorgeous cinematography, writing

by James McClellan Contributing Writer

“Older men declare war. But it is the young that fight and die.” While Herbert Hoover’s words apply to warfare in general, they seem particularly relevant in regards to the child soldier crises in parts of Africa. The tragic plight of these children is at the center of director/writer/ cinematographer Cary Fukunaga’s film, “Beasts of No Nation” (2015), which follows the life of Agu (Abraham Attah), a young man from West Africa whose life is torn apart by a violent civil war.

Agu’s voice narrates much of the film, and he begins by explaining that, since his country is at war, the schools have shut down, forcing him and his friends to find ways to amuse themselves. As Agu and his friends roam around their village, the viewer sees glimpses of the pervasive conflict and poverty that plague Agu’s world.

At the same time, the film also shows a child who is perfectly content with his surroundings, largely oblivious to the significance of these problems. In many ways, Agu has a great life. He has a tight-knit family comprised of loving, thoughtful parents, and a fun-loving older brother, all of whom gather around the dinner table in an early scene to share food and laughter.

Then, suddenly, invading soldiers storm the village, turning it into a combat zone.

As the battle intensifies, Fukunaga’s camerawork suddenly becomes frenetic and disorienting, creating an adrenaline-fueled atmosphere. Indeed, this

feverish cinematography continues throughout the film’s many action scenes, mirroring the chaotic, crazed nature of warfare.

Before long, Agu finds himself alone and scared, forced to flee into the jungle. There, he runs into a guerilla battalion of soldiers, some of whom look no older than Agu himself. The Commandant (Idris Elba) who leads the battalion takes advantage of Agu’s vulnerability and convinces Agu to join him.

Netflix via MCT At first, Agu appears conflicted Idris Elba stars as a manipulative warlord in “Beasts of No Nation.” as the battalion battles across the country, killing, raping and looting along manipulative warlord who exudes confi- ing action sequences that cannot truly be the way. Before too long, Agu’s narrative dence and swagger, which manifests itself appreciated on a computer or television voice falls into relative silence — almost as in everything from his clothing to the screen.

That aside, this is a strong American if he has become numb with disbelief — intonations of his voice. This bravado, as if he is living in a bad dream. Fukunaga however, takes the place of any real charis- film debut for Cary Fukunaga, who preemphasizes this nightmarish mood with ma and makes the Commandant appear viously directed the Mexican indie thrillhallucinatory color effects, dissolves and immature and amateurish. These qual- er, “Sin Nombre” (2009) and the British low, ominous tones — the type which fans ities are even further accentuated when romantic drama, “Jane Eyre” (2011), both of season one of “True Detective” (2014 the Commandant meets with his faction’s of which were critically acclaimed. At only – present), another project directed by leader (Jude Akuwudike), who appears 38, Fukunaga’s future appears bright, as he to be far more refined and intelligent in seems to wield both the camera and the Fukunaga, might recognize. pen with profound skill.

Still, the film has its deficiencies. For comparison.

While the film is often heartbreaking “Beasts of No Nation” is the first Netflix one, it spends little to no time delving into the political failures that have given original movie which subscribers can and violent, it still manages to create a rise to myriad civil wars and child soldier stream online. This means that the film is certain sense of hope and grace, largely crises. Furthermore, the film can be a bit only being shown at a handful of theaters due to the film’s beautiful cinematography melodramatic, especially in one scene, in around the country, so most people will and Attah’s sympathetic, nuanced perforwhich Elba somewhat overacts in his role not be able to view this film on the silver mance. Through Agu, the film successfully as the Commandant rallying his troops screen. This is a shame since, as previously portrays the consequences of a tragic, mentioned, the film is a visual spectacle yet under-reported humanitarian disaster. before a skirmish.

Still, Elba — who also co-produced featuring gorgeous aerial shots of beauti- Hopefully this film will bring much needthe film — largely succeeds at playing a ful countrysides and intense, heart-pump- ed attention to the issue.

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continued from back defense to commit to stopping the run and allowing more one-on-one matchups in the secondary.

Though the Jumbos currently have NESCAC’s leading rusher in Brady, the Mules junior running back Jabari HurdlePrice is close behind him with 611 yards to Brady’s 625. Hurdle-Price, however, only has four touchdowns this season, while Brady has nine.

“We’ve got to make sure we’re maintaining our gaps and getting good strike at the point of attack,” Civetti said. “If you give these guys a seam, [Hurdle-Price] will make you pay. Chance [Brady] has had a great season, and I love to think that he’s the best tailback in the league. But they’ve got a guy who’s right on his heels.”

By stopping the Colby running game, the Tufts defense would create big play opportunities for its star pass rushers, sophomores Zach Thomas and Micah Adickes, as well as a secondary that has managed eight interceptions on the year.

Led by first-year cornerback Tim Preston, the Jumbos’ secondary will be looking for big plays when the Mules put the ball in the air. Preston himself has managed four of the Jumbos’ eight interceptions this season.

The Colby passing attack, led by sophomore quarterback Gabe Harrington, has been inconsistent this season. Harrington has thrown for 783 yards, but he has only one touchdown and nine interceptions.

This has been one of the major causes of Colby’s offensive struggles. The team has averaged 12.7 points per game, the lowest in the NESCAC. Colby will likely be forced to turn to the passing game early to keep up with the punishing Tufts offense, led by Brady who will no doubt be eager to prove himself after being bottled up last Saturday.

The Colby defense has also struggled this year, allowing opposing teams an average of 24.3 points and managing only three interceptions and nine sacks this season.

Hauser, however, characterized the Colby defense as solid.

“They’re pretty sound defensively,” Hauser said. “They’ve been running the same defense for a number of years, so they know what they’re doing. They have a couple young guys in the secondary; we hope that we’ll be able to take advantage of that a little bit.”

Following last week’s loss — and with only two weeks remaining in the NESCAC season — the Jumbos are no longer in contention for the conference title. Though this is disappointing for a team that started 3-0, the final two games still will be significant for the Jumbos.

“The umbrella goal of this program is to be NESCAC champions,” Civetti said.

“Mathematically that’s out of contention.

The other part of that goal is to have a winning season. To have five wins around here is a big deal. We want to finish [with] the best record that we can, 6-2, [and] in order to get to six we have to get to five.”

The Jumbos will travel to Colby to face the Mules in the penultimate game of the season, where they hope to get one game closer to achieving a winning season. If they accomplish this, it would be the first for the team in eight years.

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Ken Whisenhunt: Two head coaches have already been fired this season.

Whisenhunt was relieved of his coaching duties by the Titans this week following a 3-20 loss at home. Whisenhunt, like Joe Philbin before him, was a middling head coach at best, and to most of us the question was not if but when he would get fired. Whisenhunt has had a long career in this game and will likely find an offensive coordinator job next season. He’s been uninspiring all year, and with young playmaker Marcus Mariota at quarterback, uninspiring simply will not cut it.

Injuries: Sunday was one of the most brutal days of the NFL season. There’s a day like this every year, but this year’s was especially tough to watch. Veterans and young players alike were stricken by injury at a terrifying rate, and it’s still unclear as to how many will even play football again. Among these players is Steve Smith, the 36-year-old receiver for the Baltimore Ravens. Smith will no doubt be remembered as the Panthers’ greatest player of all time; but for right now, he has to evaluate whether or not he’d like to play football again after he tore his achilles. Other big names hurt Sunday include Reggie Bush, Jadeveon Clowney and Le’Veon Bell.

The Packers: Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning squaring off on national television is a guaranteed shootout right? Wrong! Instead of giving football fans the game they deserved, the Packers offense fell apart and allowed Peyton Manning to get out to an early lead and then comfortably run out the clock. The Broncos defense absolutely manhandled the Packers and made the team look foolish for even trying to pass the ball.

The Lions: There is no better time than the present to reiterate how terrible the Lions are. At 1-7 there’s no way the Lions will backdoor their way into a wild-card playoff spot, and that means that everyone who plays football in Detroit has declared this season a loss. It’s like they’ve decided there’s no reason to even pretend to play sensibly or decently.

I’ve been a Matthew Stafford apologist for a long time, but after the season he’s had this year, I think it’s unlikely he’ll be the Lions’ starter at the beginning of next season. That, paired with Calvin Johnson’s massive salary cap figure, means the Lions are likely in for a major restructuring. Unless MegaTron is willing to take a big pay cut to stay in Detroit, the future hall-of-famer will probably be in search of a new team.

With all of that said, the NFL season has surpassed its halfway point, and with that comes exciting stories of underdog teams possibly making a playoff run. For Rams fans like myself, this part of the season is the time to get very hopeful, only to have your dreams crushed like always.

Eddie Samuels is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at edward.samuels@tufts.edu

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Jumbos look to secure winning record with game against Mules

by Eddie Samuels Staff Writer

With just two weeks remaining in the season, the Jumbos are looking to finish with a winning record for the first time since 2007. The 4-2 Tufts football team will travel to face 1-5 Colby on Saturday.

Despite Colby’s record, Tufts coach Jay Civetti wants to be sure his team does not get complacent in the season’s final weeks.

“We could be 1-5 just as [easily] as [they are],” Civetti said. “We’ve won in overtime; we’ve come back from being down 14 [points]. The Bowdoin game is really the only game we’ve had true ownership of. Amherst put us in our place this past weekend, so we have no right to feel we’re any better than [Colby is]; we’ve just had a little more success. The reality is [that] Tufts hasn’t won at Colby since 2003.”

Against Amherst last Saturday, Tufts managed only 19 yards rushing and a single touchdown. After struggling offensively in that game, the Jumbos will turn to their dominant run game early, giving the ball to NESCAC leading rusher, junior Chance Brady, in order to try to prevent a similar situation from arising against the Mules.

Offensive coordinator Frank Hauser is confident that committing to the run game early is going to present more opportunities for Tufts junior quarterback Alex Snyder.

“I think we’ve got to run the ball better,” Hauser said. “Running the ball is what’s

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Tufts junior RB Chance Brady sprints towards the Trinity end zone during a game on Oct. 17. kept us going most of the year. Once we can run the ball well, we can throw off it. We’re going to establish the run and get back to the things we’ve been doing all year.”

Benefitting from that dominant run game are Tufts wideouts senior Jack Cooleen and junior Mike Rando who have 310 and 257 receiving yards this season,

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Tufts drops regular season finale to Middlebury

by Joshua Slavin Sports Editor

The Jumbos suffered a defeat at the hands of the Middlebury Panthers on Saturday, falling in four sets in their final match of the regular season.

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With the loss, Tufts fell to 17-7 on the season and 7-3 within the NESCAC. Middlebury is 17-6 with an equal 7-3 conference record. Because of the head-to-head win, Middlebury will earn the higher seed in the postseason. The seeding, however, will make little difference as far as determining each team’s first opponent: fourth-seeded Middlebury will take on fifth-seeded Tufts in a NESCAC quarterfinal match tomorrow at Bowdoin.

This first round bout will be a rematch of a game the Tufts team members hope to put behind them.

“Since we just played Middlebury, they are fresh in our mind,” first-year Angela Yu told the Daily in an email. “This week we definitely have the ‘all or nothing’ mentality, which will hopefully bring great energy into Friday’s match.”

In the first set of the Saturday match, the Jumbos jumped to an early 12-6 lead. The Panthers chipped away before eventually tying the score at 21, and the visitors scored four of the set’s final five points to win the first set.

“After taking the first set, there was a sense of ease and relaxedness and I think we went into the next three sets back on our heels because we thought we had it in the bag,” first-year Katie Zheng told the Daily in an email. “We were too passive with our efforts and didn’t adjust to the Middlebury offense quickly enough. Also, Middlebury did a great job of being in-system and playing clean, crisp volleyball.”

Tufts fell behind early in the second set before going on a run to take a 13-11 lead.

The teams then exchanged short runs until Middlebury gained a 24-23 lead. A kill from first-year Isabel Sessions decided the second set in Middlebury’s favor, tying the match at one set apiece.

The third set of the match started tightly,

with both teams within three points of the other. Middlebury pulled ahead in the middle of the set, scoring three straight to take a 14-9 lead it would not relinquish. The Jumbos pulled within two at 21-19, but the Panthers held on and took the set 25-20.

The fourth set played out largely similar to the third. With the set tied at 11, the Panthers began to pull away behind four straight points, eventually winning the set 25-19. The Jumbos tried to keep the defeat in perspective with the postseason still ahead of them.

“Of course we wanted two wins this past Friday and Saturday as our [NESCAC tournament] seed depended on them,” Yu said. “But, any team that we are to play will compete with us and we just need to focus on each match as it comes.”

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Senior outside hitter Maddie Kuppe winds up for a hit against Springfield College on Sept. 9.

Tufts senior Maddie Kuppe tied Sessions with a match-high 15 kills. Middlebury sophomores Becca Raffel and Eliana Schaefer contributed 13 and 10 kills, respectively, while Tufts first-year MacKenzie Bright finished with 11 kills of her own.

The day prior to the Middlebury contest, the Tufts team had traveled to Hamilton, coming away victorious while Hamilton’s record fell to 6-17 on the season, including 1-8 in conference play.

The Jumbos easily dispatched the Continentals in straight sets, winning the match 25-14, 25-16, 20-21. Kuppe and junior Elizabeth Ahrens tied for a match-high nine kills each.

With the regular season behind them, Tufts is looking forward to a rematch, and a chance for some revenge, against Middlebury in the first postseason match.

“It’s frustrating to take a loss anytime,” Zheng said. “But I think this loss against Middlebury has fueled the fire for practice, and the fact that we get to see them right away on Friday has pumped us up so much. We have never been so eager to get in the gym and get right to it.”

According to Zheng, the imminent postseason has increased intensity during practice as the team prepares for the NESCAC Tournament.

“There is a lot more physicality,” Zheng said. “Practices have been tougher on our bodies physically because we are giving our 100 percent for every single drill and we have more consequences when we make mistakes. But you can tell every single member on this team wants it more than anything, so practices have been so intense and so full of energy.”