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Tufts Climate Action calls for fossil fuel divestment outside Board of Trustees meeting

by Liam Knox Staff Writer

Student members of Tufts Climate Action (TCA) gathered outside Ballou Hall during a Board of Trustees meeting on Saturday afternoon to protest Tufts’ investments in fossil fuels.

The group’s primary goals were to meet members of the Board of Trustees as they left the building and to distribute letters explaining their cause, according to TCA member Shana Gallagher.

Gallagher, a junior, said the protest’s primary purpose was not to raise public awareness for divestment, but rather to convey TCA’s divestment message to the trustees.

“The fact is that people are in [the meeting] making important decisions about the role of our university in society, and they won’t even let students have a say in what the message our institution sends out will be,” she said.

TCA member Henry Jacqz echoed Gallagher, saying that direct contact with the trustees was important for the cause. “[Tufts] administration, like many colleges, isolates the Board [of Trustees]

from the student community’s concerns, so direct contact is the best way to make sure they know divestment is still an important issue to us,” Jacqz, a junior, said.

In the letter that TCA members distributed to the trustees, the group demanded that the board divest the university’s endowment from the fossil fuel industry.

“We demand that the board thoroughly consider fossil fuel divestment as the most powerful statement our institution of higher learning can make towards in confronting the climate crisis,” the letter read.

In the letter, TCA added that it is their members’ sense of justice that pushes them to urge for divestment.

“Today, we stand outside your board meeting to insist that, as a Trustee of this university, it is not only a moral imperative but also your fiduciary responsibility to divest our endowment from fossil fuels,” the letter read.

TCA members held posters that read “Time is running out — divest now” and “Tufts invests $70 million in fossil fuels,” prompting prospective students and their parents who were passing by

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Members of Tufts Climate Action protest the university’s investment in fossil fuels outisde Ballou Hall during a Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 7. to ask about TCA’s cause.

“It’s definitely not the only avenue to helping the climate crisis, but as far as what we can accomplish as students while still being students, putting pressure on our institution to divest is extremely important,” Gallagher said to

a passing parent.

Another one of TCA’s signs referenced the Talloires Declaration, a document promoting civic responsibility in colleges and universities, which was see PROTEST, page 2

TCU Senate Update

TCU Senate receives gender pronoun training, discusses funding, updates

by Roy Yang News Editor

Nino Testa, director of the LGBT Center, opened the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting last night with a workshop on gender pronouns and how to create a safer environment on Tufts’ campus.

Every senator introduced themselves with their pronoun series at the beginning of the meeting. Testa then spoke about the various contexts and situations in which Senate would have to use pronouns.

“The contexts are many,” Testa said.

“All across the board, we use pronouns for everyone and the social situations in which we find ourselves will determine that in a lot of ways.”

Testa referenced a quote from someone who had faced embarrassment regarding the misusage of gender pronouns to highlight the importance of correct pronoun usage.

“It is difficult to not make assumptions about what pronouns someone

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takes,” he said. “I found it striking because each of us has a unique relationship to our pronouns, and it represents a sense of self … It might not resonate with us, but if someone started using the wrong pronouns, it probably won’t feel so great.”

Testa then went through common pronouns that many are likely to encounter, such as the “he” series, the “she” series, the “ze/zir” series, the “ze/ hir” series and the “they” series. He explained that non-binary pronouns are legitimate and need to be respected, and that pronouns change over time. When in doubt, it is safer to refer people with the “they” series pronouns rather than assigning certain pronouns, he said.

One part of the workshop consisted of an activity where a sheet of paper was passed around with Cinderella’s name with an assigned certain pronoun.

Senate members broke up into pairs and were instructed to hold a conversation about Cinderella using the assigned pronouns.

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Afterward, members of Senate reflected on the level of difficulty of the activity, with various members speaking about the difficulty of breaking habit and not assigning a gender role to Cinderella. Some senators who were assigned to talk about Cinderella using the “he” series said that it was difficult not to give Cinderella the gender and sexual identity of a gay man.

According to various senators, the activity highlighted the fact that the hyper-awareness of using the correct pronoun of the individual took away from the quality of communication and conversation itself.

Testa concluded his workshop with tips that Senate members could use to make others feel more comfortable, such as not making assumptions about people’s pronouns and allowing for various possibilities regarding an individual’s pronoun. He said that Senate should also avoid gendering people during group discussions and to ask for pronoun information privately.

After Testa’s presentation, TCU

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President Brian Tesser echoed the importance of correct pronoun usage.

“It’s important for people to be educated about these issues and speak using the correct language,” Tesser, a senior, said. “I think it’s important to have in [Senate]’s working knowledge in how we discuss things throughout the year.”

After the workshop, junior TCU Treasurer Shai Slotky opened the Treasury’s supplementary funding requests.

The French Society appealed for supplementary funding of $175 for institutional membership of the French Cultural Center of Boston. Initially, the Allocations Board (ALBO) had recommended $0 in supplementary funding for the group, highlighting the fact that funding for academics is beyond the TCU Senate. However, after much debate, Senate overturned ALBO’s recommended amount and voted 18-9-1 to pass funding of $175.

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“Questions of Faith: Religion, Diasporas, and Colonialism” Details: A panel of speakers will explore how marginalized people have retooled or rejected the impact of colonialism and missionary activity in the past with current social movements. Moderated by Dr. Heather Curtis, associate professor of religion, the panel will include Dr. Natalie Avalos, visiting assistant professor of religious studies from Connecticut College; Dr. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus, assistant professor of African-American religions at the Harvard Divinity School; Dr. Linford Fisher, associate professor of history at Brown University; Reverend Irene Monroe, a writer, speaker and theologian.

When and Where: 7 p.m., Alumnae Lounge, Alumnae Hall

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Sponsor: Office of the Dean of Student Affairs Pluralism Initiatives “U.S.-Cuba Relations: Making History & Where Do We Go From Here?”

Details: Tim Rieser, the congressional and foreign aide to Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, will speak about U.S.-Cuba negotiations and his role over the past two years to advance change.

When and Where: 6 p.m., Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall Sponsor: Latin American Studies Program “World Hunger: 10 Myths” Details: Author Frances Moore Lappé will speak about climate change, population growth, GMOs and the role of U.S. foreign aid in their relation to hunger. Her talk will revolve around the question, “Why hunger despite an abundance of food?”

She argues that sustainable agriculture

can feed the world.

When and Where: 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m., Room 100, Mugar Hall Sponsor: Global Development and Environment Institute

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“Intimate Violence & the Politics of Ethnographic Representation in Egypt” Details: Lisa Wynn, the associate professor of anthropology from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, will speak about the link between love and desire, pain and violence and kinship and gender roles. Wynn will use an ethnographic case study of intimate violence and use that as a springboard to explore the dilemma of representation.

When and Where: 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m., Room 702, Cabot Intercultural Center Sponsor: Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Board of Trustees refuses pre-meeting conversation with TCA PROTEST

continued from page 1 authored by Tufts in 2005 and signed by many other educational institutions.

The declaration states that “universities have the responsibility to foster in faculty, staff and students a sense of social responsibility and a commitment to the social good” — a claim that Gallagher believes is undermined by Tufts’ refusal to divest.

The demonstration follows TCA’s Oct. 5 meeting with some members of the Board of Trustees that followed TCA’s three-day sit-in that took place in University President Anthony Monaco’s office last April, after which many of their members were put on probation.

Gallagher said that she and other TCA members wanted their Saturday protest to be less disruptive than their past actions.

“We wanted this demonstration to be less disruptive and more cooperative,” she said. “We want to have a role of informing the trustees and encourage them to take leadership on this issue.”

She added that TCA members also feared that if they chose to make their demonstration more public by talking about the protest on social media, the administration might have moved the meeting.

Gallagher said she informed the trustees of the TCA action last Tuesday,

days before the protest. In a Nov. 3 email sent to Board of Trustees chairman Peter Dolan, Gallagher wrote that the TCA “would like to have a cooperative, non-disruptive presence outside of the board meeting in order to illustrate [their] commitment to climate change solutions.”

She asked Dolan to inform them of the time and place of the meeting and extended an invitation for board members to meet with TCA for a conversation before the meeting.

In an email response to TCA, Dolan refused to meet, saying that “no further meetings [between the Board and TCA] were discussed or planned in conjunction with any Board meeting.”

He wrote that he and the other trustees who had met with TCA on Oct. 5 intended “to inform [the rest of the] trustees of [their] meeting and share the next step that we agreed to in the meeting.”

This “next step” refers to the formation of a working group in the Provost’s Office to plan a symposium on climate change and divestment from fossil fuels.

“The university and the trustees remain very committed to our significant sustainability initiatives and to taking actions that balance our multiple objectives with actions that can make a meaningful difference in addressing climate change,” Dolan wrote.

Dolan’s email did not include any information about the time or place of

the meeting, so TCA had to find details about the Board’s meeting through other means, according to Gallagher.

She said TCA wanted to have a presence because they did not trust Dolan’s “non-committal” promise to represent TCA’s interests at the meeting.

“For the most part they use appeasement tactics…and it’s not going to work,” she said. “Climate change is too serious.”

Dolan could not be reached for comment as of press time.

Gallagher said the university’s unwillingness to compromise with TCA would only lead to more extreme demonstration tactics from the group.

“Their unwillingness to allow [TCA] to do what we asked for — not even to sit in on the meeting but just to meet with some of the trustees before or after — is indicative that only bold action and aggressive measures will lead to anything productive,” she said.

The TCA members were ultimately only able to distribute their letter to a few of the trustees — including Bruce Grossman (LA ’85), who sits on the board’s investment committee — since not all of the members left the building after the meeting. Not all members who left the building agreed to take the letters.

Before leaving Ballou, Jacqz told the police officer guarding the door to the building to let the rest of the trustees know that “they can come out now.”

Senate overturns Allocations Board decision to refuse supplementary funding for French Society SENATE

continued from page 1 Senate then approved funding of $1,804 for Tufts Amnesty International, $201.1 for the International Club and $240 for Mixed Martial Arts.

Tufts Hemispheres appealed for their entire budget because they missed out on initial budgeting with ALBO and requested $6,682 according to Slotky. Senate ultimately approved ALBO’s recommended amount of $6,222 for the publication.

Senate then opened the bylaws, the rules and responsibilities that detail the operations of Senate to make amendments for the role of the TCU Historian.

According to the proposed amend-

ment, the TCU Historian will oversee communication between Senate and any person or persons outside of TCU in their role as the public relations officer of Senate. The amendment also states that representatives from Senate to outside organizations will report to the TCU Senate Historian, and the historian will be responsible for maintaining the Senate portion of the TCU website in conjunction with the TCU Webmaster.

According to the current TCU Historian Max Hirsch, a sophomore, the purpose of this amendment was to quantify and clarify the roles of the historian. The amendment to the bylaws passed by a vote of 26-1-2.

Toward the end of the meeting, Senate proceeded with general updates.

According to Tesser, Senate is currently looking into the specific departments that contribute money to the Late Night Dining program to better understand what Senate can do to financially support and sustain the program.

Tesser wrapped up the meeting with the results from the campus shuttle survey that went out in the “Two-minute Thursdays” Senate update videos. The results have led to plans for members of Senate to meet with public safety administrators in the coming weeks to discuss issues that students raised in the survey, including the shuttle’s unreliability in its time schedule.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Features

University programs work to promote emergency preparedness

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TTAM, which communicates with TUPD, was developed in 2013 to prevent violence on campus.

by Kendall Todd Features Editor

Since Oct. 1, five shootings have occurred across colleges and universities in Oregon, Arizona, Texas, Tennessee and North Carolina. As these acts of campus violence reignite national debates about guns and mental health, Tufts added a reminder to students’ home pages in Student Information Services (SIS) about the university’s prevention initiative, Tufts Threat Assessment and Management (TTAM) program, which University President Anthony Monaco announced in an open letter on Oct. 7, 2013.

“In order to ensure that we can identify, evaluate and address potentially threatening situations affecting members of the Tufts community, the university has recently established the [TTAM] program, whose trained threat assessment and management teams will evaluate and address violence and threats of violence made towards members of the university community,” Monaco wrote in the letter.

Consisting of teams from different schools and departments, TTAM aims to create a safe environment through early identification of danger.

“This multidisciplinary approach to threat assessment and management has been developed in close collaboration with senior leaders across the university, with assistance from nationally recognized experts on how to prevent violence on campus,” Monaco wrote.

Perah Kessman, the case manager for TTAM, explained that the program is responsible for accepting and evaluating reports of threats in order to defuse a situation before it becomes violent.

“TTAM is designed to identify people on the Tufts campus — or in the Tufts community, rather — who are exhibiting threatening behavior or are making threats to harm other people,” Kessman said. “The program is designed to identify those folks, then make an assessment as to whether or not the sit-

uation is one that requires a TTAM type of intervention, which is essentially connecting them to a wide array of supports to avert a… threatening crisis.”

Kessman emphasized that TTAM approaches reported threats under the assumption that individuals often approach violence gradually rather than suddenly.

“People don’t just snap,” Kessman said.

“The good news about that is that if they’re on a pathway [to violence], we can get them off the pathway. We can intervene.”

“One of the things that we try really hard to do is to look at behavior and not look at people or characteristics,” she said. “A lot of times, people will become concerned about someone because they dye their hair or pierce their whatever, and that’s, to us, not indicative of someone who is threatening … Those are outward manifestations, but they’re not actual threatening behaviors.

We’re looking more at what is the person doing that makes other people afraid.”

Kessman explained that, in order to be effective, TTAM relies on the Tufts community to report potentially threatening behavior over the phone or through the TTAM website. Then, TTAM teams can begin to piece together a puzzle. By collecting reports from various individuals and offices, a fuller picture of the individual in question emerges, and TTAM determines the proper course of action.

“Once we take in a report and we determine that it is going to be screened into TTAM, we’ll conduct our own internal investigation that is a confidential investigation, [which] is simply a fact-finding mission,” Kessman said. “We’re trying to pull as many tangible facts about the person who’s come to our attention…as possible.”

Kessman said that the team will look at such subjects holistically during this anonymous investigation. She mentioned that if the person is a student, they will look at the student’s academic performance, extracurricular involvement, social situations and interactions with university administrators.

Not all threats, however, are of the same

magnitude, she said. Depending on the situation, Kessman said TTAM might take various approaches.

“The goal is to ensure that situations or behavior that members of the community worry may be threatening are looked at carefully in the interests of campus safety.”

“One of the primary things that we’re trying to do is highlight that we’re not an adversarial program,” she said. “We do work a lot with other offices and departments within the university to connect people to really a wide variety of supports. So sometimes it’s as simple as getting someone connected with the Counseling Center, or with Health Services in general, or sometimes they need financial support, maybe they’re here on a visa, maybe there’s something going on in their social relationships outside of the university. It really depends on what the situation is, but our hope is really to identify a gap and then connect the person with whatever type of resource is going to fill in that gap for them.”

Michael Baenen, President Monaco’s representative on the TTAM policy group, agreed on TTAM’s role in terms of providing support for the individual accordingly, reiterating that its role is largely to collect and evaluate submitted information.

“The goal is to ensure that situations or behavior that members of the community worry may be threatening are looked at carefully in the interests of campus safety,” Baenen told the Daily in an email. “The teams are designed to include input from a see TTAM, page 4

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Henry Jani Lexiconversation

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ord of the Day: Trepid adjective \TREP-id\ timorous, fearful While I may not be the proudest resident of Cleveland, Ohio, I can attest that the city has one of the best public park systems I’ve ever encountered. The Metroparks serve as a great place to relax, spend time with family and run alongside the infamous Cuyahoga River that caught fire in the ’60s (it’s apparently cleaner now — but I’d take that with a grain of salt).

Despite the possible E. coli in the water, the trails and greenery are truly a great place to enjoy nature. I ran there almost every day during the summer. Every day, until the attack.

It was late evening time — darker, but the sun’s amber light was still enough to clearly illuminate my surroundings. I think that I was shamelessly listening to Dinosaur by Kesha at the moment, so I probably deserved what was coming. As I rounded one of the final corners of my run, I felt a sudden, violent tugging on the back of my head. In that very instant, I accepted that my time had come. You see, despite the many beautiful aspects of the Metroparks, it also unfortunately has a reputation for occasional criminal and sexual assault. My life flashed before my eyes in that split second: I saw my family, quintessential occasions of happiness and a certain descent to hell, considering that one time I laughed at my church’s very obese priest for farting halfway through his sermon.

But when I turned around, not a person was in sight. I faced forward again to search for the perpetrator, and felt another tug behind me. This was clearly a mastermind I was dealing with. And then, I saw its shadow overhead. My gaze was met with that of a gigantic owl, wings completely outstretched and sharp claws pointed to go in for another attack. My memory at this point becomes a little fuzzy from pure terror, but I remember letting out noises I don’t think I could ever reproduce, flailing my arms vigorously and sprinting for about five minutes as the owl continued to mercilessly swoop down above.

It had thankfully disappeared by the time I got to my car. I hypothesized that this was a freak accident, in which this bird was clearly blind to consider that it could pick up a six-foot tall human and enjoy it for an evening snack. Nevertheless, I became irrationally paranoid about running there afterward. I even dreamt one night that a flock of owls swept down and carrried me off to their lair, where I adapted a pseudo-Tarzan narrative and flapped around for the rest of my life.

I finally managed to convince myself against the dangers of avian violence in the end. The owl, of course, was coming to its brethren. Owls are my spirit animal, and what seemed like an attack was just an unconventional display of love.

Through denial and a good dose of delusion, I was able to overcome my fear of that particular path in the park. I haven’t been contacted since, however. Maybe I’ve been disowned.

Henry Jani is a sophomore majoring in English. He can be reached at henry.jani@ tufts.edu.

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Tufts seeks to prevent violence with active-shooter simulations, monitoring system TTAM

continued from page 3 variety of different perspectives, and the process is structured to ensure that there is consistency and thoroughness in the approach.

Even when the process determines that an individual who is brought to TTAM’s attention does not pose a threat to others, the process can help connect that person with helpful resources.”

“We are obviously very much affiliated with TUPD, but we are not TUPD, so we really want to stress that we are more a university program than a public safety directed program.”

TTAM, like Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), operates within the Department of Public and Environmental Safety, but while TUPD plays a role in threat response and works closely with TTAM, Kessman pointed out that the two departments are not the same and have different missions on the Tufts campuses.

“We are obviously very much affiliated with TUPD, but we are not TUPD, so we really want to stress that we are more a university program than a public safety directed program,” Kessman said.

Geoffrey Bartlett, the deputy director of

Public and Environmental Safety and director of Emergency Management, explained that while TTAM is a crucial aspect of incident prevention, TUPD is trained to react should an incident occur. One way in which this training takes place is through incident simulation. Over the summer, Tufts held an inter-agency simulation of an active shooter incident on the Medford campus, titled Operation “Spartan Shield.” “‘Spartan Shield’ represents the response should an incident occur, and we have to be prepared,” Bartlett said. “Even if the likelihood of an active shooter incident is incredibly low, it could happen, so we need to be prepared to respond to that kind of an incident.”

Operation “Spartan Shield” represents the highest level of complexity as a full-scale exercise, Bartlett explained. Tufts holds these types of simulations every other year during the summer and involves many different agencies in and around the Tufts community, he said. “Spartan Shield,” for example, involved staff at the Tisch Library. “[Library staff], of course, were aware that an exercise was taking place, and we made sure that they wanted to participate — nobody had to participate if they didn’t want to,” Bartlett said. “But one of the things that we wanted to both evaluate and strengthen was how people who are not public safety responders responded in that kind of an incident … The library staff…didn’t know exactly what the scenario was going to be.

We’d provided them with training and then we simulated an incident and asked them to respond as they think they should, based on what they learned from their training.”

The operation also involved volun-

teers, who acted as general citizens throughout the simulation. According to Bartlett, this added an important degree of realism to the simulation.

Aside from full-scale exercises like Operation “Spartan Shield,” the Office of Emergency Management also engages in other, smaller-scale exercises throughout the year. Such exercises include one to two operations-based exercises on each campus every year, along with various discussion-based exercises, according to Bartlett.

“We also do what we call ‘tabletop exercises,’ which is a discussion-based exercise,” Bartlett said. “We sit in a room and talk through a given scenario. We’ve done that with multiple agencies, and we’ve done that with much smaller groups … We usually do a couple tabletop exercises a year on different topics.”

Bartlett also explained that, although TUPD does not discuss the details of its planned responses to violent incidents, the university process involves giving people specific instructions regarding how to stay safe.

“If…an [active shooter] incident took place, [students would] get an alert message which provided them succinct instructions to take shelter. University police would respond; notifications would occur that would begin to engage university administration.”

Bartlett continued to explain how an emergency response would generally play out, emphasizing the role of the community.

“There would be an immediate public safety response, which would deal with the immediate situation at the location of the incident,” he said. “But then more broad-

ly, members of the university would come together in what we call an Emergency Operations Center…either by telephone, or eventually we’d get together in the same room and address the broader needs of response for the university, assisting victims and survivors, beginning to make some decisions about what this means as far as university operations … It’s much bigger than just first-responders responding to the scene; it’s a whole community response.”

For the Office of Emergency Management, awareness is key, just as it is for TTAM. Both organizations have published brochures and flyers, which are distributed in high-traffic areas around campus. In addition, Bartlett emphasized the Emergency Management Twitter account and Facebook page, both of which are under the name “TuftsReady.”

He also encourages students to look at the Emergency Operations Plan, which includes general university response plans to various emergencies. “[Awareness is] an ongoing conversation; it’s an ongoing communication,” Bartlett said. “We try to use social media, blog posts; when there are incidents that occur on campus that generate interest, like lots of snow, we try to use those opportunities to say that, while you are interested in emergency procedures, please also let us tell you about these resources that we have that we’d like you to be aware of.”

Kessman noted that it is TTAM’s job to evaluate the magnitude of a threat and emphasized that individuals should not hesitate to submit a report if they are concerned.

“One of the things that we also say, too, is that it’s not your job to decide if you think something is threatening,” she said.

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Acting I: DR 10, 3 sections M/W and T/Th Physical Comedy/Clown: DR 94-05, T/Th Cabaret: DR 94-06, Wed Directing II: DR 156, Fri Public Speaking: DR 27, 2 sections M/W Voice and Speech: DR 28, M/W

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Monday, November 9, 2015

ARTS&LIVING ALBUM REVIEW

‘Cornerstone’ lays foundation for sophomore album

by Josh Podolsky

Executive Arts Editor

Nico & Vinz, the Norwegian pop duo whose hit “Am I Wrong” (2013) has rocked airwaves for the last year and more, are back with their latest musical effort, “Cornerstone.”

The EP, released Nov. 6, shows that the charm, complexity and addictiveness of “Black Star Elephant” (2014), their previous studio album, were not merely a fluke.

No strangers to critical recognition, Nico & Vinz have featured prominently on Scandinavian song charts ever since their early days, when they performed under the

name Envy. Even more interestingly, the two musicians played the Nobel Peace Prize concert in 2013 in Oslo. They debuted on the American music scene rather abruptly in 2014 after signing with Warner Bros. Records, who suggested the change of name to avoid confusion with other groups. Since finding success stateside, Nico & Vinz have toured and put forth mostly remixes and remasterings of their old material, which they extensively promote through their Twitter.

“That’s How You Know,” a single that closes out the five-track EP, is emblematic of the variety in Nico & Vinz’s music. The expletive-laden song tells the story of the musi-

cians’ struggles, from Nico’s cocaine habit to Vinz’s unemployment issues. Featured artists Kid Ink and Bebe Rexha chime in, taking verses along the way, but mostly just sing about other people’s problems. While Nico and Vinz’s verses are endearing and personal, the featured artists’ seem more like filler. For all the problems listed in it, “That’s How You Know” is more celebratory than analytical, with catchy whistling and acoustic guitar giving this song serious pop chops.

The rest of “Cornerstone” takes a more serious approach to its material. That is not to say the musical content loses any of its playfulness or charisma, but the subject matter does get more substantial.

The effortlessness with which the two singers bounce between light and heavy material is reflected in the ease with which they transition between musical genres.

Indeed, it is easier to describe the duo’s music by the moods it inspires than it is to describe it with any elaborate combination of genres. As for its influences, in an Oct. 29, 2014 interview with Idolator, Vinz attributed them to “a lot of stuff, varying from the African music in our households to West Coast

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VIDEO GAME REVIEW

‘Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again’ is competent yet uninteresting

by John Gallagher

Assistant Arts Editor

It is, by and large, Valve Software’s Steam and other digital distribution platforms that allow small, independent game developers to sell their works to gamers. The rise of digital distribution is almost entirely responsible for creating the demand that has led to the release of dozens of celebrated, independently developed titles over the past few years.

Recently, Valve has “Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again” offers a functional experience but fails to also become less selective about what it sells and now allows YouTube personality John “TotalBiscuit” gamers to choose which games end up Bain bemoaning the volume of so-called on Steam through a program called Steam “tat” that is available on the service.

Greenlight. These changes make it easier Valve has also made it possible for develthan ever to get a game on Steam, but they opers to sell their games to fans before the also mean that, for every break-out indie hit, final product is ready via the Early Access there are many obscure titles that never see program, an approach that is supposedly any meaningful sales numbers. This relaxed a win-win for both customers and develapproach has earned Valve some criticism opers. Ideally, devoted fans, by purchasing from industry commentators, with noted an Early Access game (normally at a dis-

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counted price), get to play something they are excited about early, while developers get invaluable feedback, as well as extra funds to put towards making their game. At worst, fans are left with an unfinished product foisted on them by an unscrupulous developer promising more down the road.

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Magic and madness: exploring magical realism

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agical realism is one of those impossibly slippery genres; it is difficult to define and changes shape with every work that it categorizes. It has the strange powers and creatures of fantasy, whether it’s girls with wings or men with claws, and yet it’s grounded in the real and ordinary world of today, which accepts these new developments with varying degrees of grace. The best known incarnation of magical realism is probably the work of Gabriel García Márquez, the brilliant Colombian writer whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1967) traces the Buendia family and the town they establish for a hundred years of life, love and death. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the defining works of the genre and an immersive, magical reading experience, but with its dense prose and elaborate family tree, it may not be the best place to start. Here are two books that provide a perfect way to ease into the genre.

“The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender” (2014) by Leslye Walton chronicles the history of the Roux family and their doomed love affairs, culminating in the story of the winged Ava Lavender.

This book is filled with beautiful prose that has a rhythm all its own, flowing naturally from phrase to phrase until each chapter culminates in a string of dazzling images.

There’s a bit of a fairytale feel to it, especially as the older Ava introduces her family story in the first few pages of the prologue; yet the characters are undeniably real and flawed — much more so than the traditional fairytale types. I’m especially fond of the relationships between Ava and her family, from her baker grandmother to her silent twin brother to the good-hearted lodger who silently pines for her mother. The love between these people practically jumps off the page in all its complications, mistakes and triumphs. Ultimately, it’s Walton’s ability to capture all the different shades of love and longing, along with the promise that love has the power to redeem even as it makes fools, that makes this book so memorable.

“The Probable Future” (2003) by Alice Hoffman follows another family of women, each gifted with a different power. Elinor Sparrow can tell when someone’s lying, her daughter Jenny can see people’s dreams and her granddaughter Stella can foresee death. Hoffman is a master of setting and atmosphere, so the small New England town where most of “The Probable Future” takes place is depicted in vivid detail. It feels exactly like the kind of town where women would acquire powers on their 13th birthdays, with the kinds of townspeople who wouldn’t exactly be sure how they feel about it. The plot elements all slot together into a satisfying puzzle; the relationships between the women are filled with fights and reconciliations aplenty, and Hoffman’s prose propels it all forward at an engaging pace. At its best, her work strikes the perfect balance between otherworldly prose and very human problems, which lies at the heart of the appeal of magical realism.

Natalie Girshman is a senior majoring in history and drama. She can be reached at natalie.girshman@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 5 gangsta rap and reggae music. So I think all those influences and our backgrounds definitely carry on in our music.” Listeners will hear West African rhythms mixed primarily with EDM and R&B in their latest works.

“Cornerstone” is chock full of infectious hooks and emotive licks that would be right at home among pop’s chart toppers. Yet these songs — unlike many hits that make their way to top 40 radio stations — tell compelling, nuanced stories. “Praying to God,” the penultimate song on the EP, is one such

example and is perhaps the most beautiful track on the EP, with the duo’s voices interacting in a way that makes the track relatable and emotional.

As a whole, “Cornerstone” makes one big arc. Beginning upbeat, it transitions into more staid love songs before diving down into deeper, heavier material and swinging back up in the end for a grand celebratory finale. As a result, the EP is a journey to listen to, and Nico & Vinz, true to form, transport listeners from the highest highs to the lowest lows, finding the good in the bad and leaving listeners on a high note.

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Again” is a fantasy roguelike/platformer where players must rescue a captive king from a haunted castle by slaying enemies and avoiding environmental hazards. The fact that “Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again” can be boiled down to such a generic description nicely illustrates the uphill battle the game faces in trying to differentiate itself from the many better-known roguelikes/platformers on the market. Unfortunately, “Princess.

Loot.Pixel.Again” only moderately succeeds in this respect and instead offers a mostly competent, albeit familiar, experience.

The game begins with hero selection, where players are invited to choose the hero they will play as during their attempt to rescue the king. For now, players are limited to choosing between three old fantasy standbys: a warrior, an archer and a wizard — although the developer plans on adding more later on. Each character behaves exactly as you would expect: The warrior swings a sword and can take the most punishment, while the archer and wizard have ranged attacks (arrows and magic missiles, respectively) but are more fragile. The player roams through a haunted castle searching for the end of the level while avoiding traps, slaying enemies and finding equipment to enhance their character. After finding the

door that marks the end of the level, the player moves on to the next, and, after a certain number of levels, the player must fight a boss. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. The gameplay is, ultimately, standard roguelike fair.

The formulaic gameplay is matched by equally formulaic presentation. “Princess.

Loot.Pixel.Again” is rendered in a pixel art style designed to be reminiscent of ’80’s classics, and the game executes this style well. Unfortunately, pixel art has been done to death recently, and “Princess.Loot.Pixel.

Again” does nothing to stand out from the crowd visually. The game also features a chiptune soundtrack, which is par for the course for games in this genre. Though nothing unexpected, the game’s soundtrack is a well realized and surprisingly enjoyable accompaniment to gameplay.

Beyond its standard gameplay and presentation, “Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again” is also riddled with localization problems. Phrases in broken or incorrect English dot the game and read like something one might find in one’s spam folder. An upgrade for the player’s bombs for instance, elucidates its purpose by simply declaring “bombs very stronger.”

At this stage in its development, “Princess.

Loot.Pixel.Again” introduces nothing new to a formula that has been thoroughly played out. Fans of roguelike platforms will enjoy a competent entry into the genre, but everyone else should wait and see if the game becomes more interesting as it develops.

“Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again” is available for $4.24 on Steam.

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Obama’s Keystone XL decision is about more than just the environment President Obama finally vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline project on Friday after keeping it on the table for the past seven years, bringing an end to nearly a decade of activist and political drama. The move demonstrated a turn in Obama’s growing pro-environmentalist leanings as he prepares to enter his last year as president.

While the dialogue around whether or not the Keystone pipeline should pass has been largely centered around the “environmentalist versus industrialist” dilemma, there are several less-mentioned issues at play in the debate surrounding the integrity and necessity of the pipeline that reveal much about the president’s decision.

Had it been approved, the pipeline would have connected Canadian crude oil production facilities to U.S. refineries in Texas, ensuring a secure supply of crude oil to Americans and increasing industrial investment for Canadians.

Some labor leaders were also in favor of the pipeline because of the amount of jobs it would have created and secured. The pipeline appealed to many as part of a larger political effort to wean the United States off its dependence on Middle Eastern states, such as Saudi

Arabia and Iraq, for oil, and shift instead to dependence on less-risky Canada.

Environmental concerns stem from the fact that Canadian oil sands are known to be damaging to the environment, as well as from the fear that the United States invests too much in furthering the oil industry and not enough in developing the renewable energy sector.

Another aspect of the Keystone project debates that received relatively little coverage is the impact the pipeline would have had on Native American tribal sovereignty. The pipeline would have cut directly through several South Dakota reservations of the Sioux Nation — a fact which led the Rosebud Sioux Tribe to call approval of the pipeline a declaration of war. The pipeline’s installation, the tribe’s president argued, would have represented a breach of tribal sovereignty and would have posed serious community health problems.

Debate over the pipeline became heavily politicized, largely due to its international nature. Because it would have extended into Canada, the pipeline required presidential approval, thus putting most of the decision making on the Obama administration and imposing a deep partisan divide. This

also allowed activist groups on both sides to target Obama in their campaigns and protests, which hit their peak in 2011.

Despite all this action, Obama’s decision, it seems, ended up centering mostly on economic issues, demonstrating how often money, rather than interested people’s desires, determines political decisions. Mexico recently opened its oil industry to foreign investment, which will likely lead to an increase in their domestic production of oil and provide the United States with another non-OPEC supply of oil. Canada, too, has streamlined its transportation of crude oil by expanding continental rails and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico.

Furthermore, domestic oil production is increasing dramatically compared to that in OPEC states. With crude oil becoming cheaper and cheaper, the short term need for the Keystone XL pipeline is not as high. Thus, it seems money drove the project’s rejection. Though Obama’s decision to veto the pipeline is a favorable one for those concerned with the environment, the politics of the decision seem to ignore and undermine the voices of concerned people who have the most to gain and lose from the pipeline.

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his past week, President Barack Obama’s administration announced it would reject the proposal to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, ending a long-running debate. Ahead of the world’s most important climate talks in years, it is an agenda-setting move.

The pipeline would have further connected Canadian crude oil to American refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. It is worth noting that TransCanada, the oil company involved, has already built a pipeline connecting the two.

Keystone XL would have just allowed for more oil to be transported more quickly.

But without turning this into a petroleum engineering lecture I am (definitely) not qualified to give, the nature of the pipeline was a seemingly dangerous one. For one, the Athabasca oil sands, from which Keystone XL oil would come, involve a water, chemical and energy-intensive process of extraction. Second, the new pipeline would further increase the risk of oil spills, particularly around the Ogallala Aquifer, from which 30 percent of America’s water for irrigation comes.

The decision is more than an environmental one, however. It’s a lot easier for a president to make a decision like this when unemployment is at five percent as it is now compared to, say, eight percent or 10 percent. The pipeline would obviously create and sustain (mostly temporary) jobs. Perhaps not the tens of thousands some advocated, but jobs nevertheless.

For the President to announce his rejection of the proposal just days after one of the best jobs reports in recent memory is no coincidence.

Think of the perception Americans would have had if Obama were to have rejected the pipeline when unemployment was higher.

Obama campaigned and won an election on an “all of the above” energy strategy involving investment in renewables and fossil fuels, but he governed over one of the largest oil booms in history. America is now importing almost a quarter less oil now than it did when Obama came into office, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Now, however, it seems the Obama administration is (finally) moving on climate change.

Last month, the Department of the Interior announced a freeze of drilling lease rights in the Arctic. Again, the motivation was probably not entirely noble and had more to do with low oil prices and a lack of discoveries (Shell, for instance, ceased its Arctic drilling), in addition of course to the environmental dangers of offshore drilling.

Canada itself will probably end up moving the crude oil elsewhere, perhaps to its Pacific Coast and to China. Almost all of Canadian petroleum either stays domestic or heads to the United States. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed disappointment, I doubt Canada will have trouble finding a way to sell its oil.

In about a month, United Nations members will meet in Paris for the Conference of Parties (COP) 21 climate change talks, and President Obama will be in attendance. The White House has already started to shape the tone. The preisdent’s recent moves will only increase momentum heading into what may be the most important talks since COP 3, the 1997 negotiations that resulted in the Kyoto Protocol. By rejecting the Keystone XL extension, he prioritized the environment, and not lobbyists, oil companies or some amount of jobs. It’s this type of decisiveness and commitment that the world will need come Paris.

Aren Torikian is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at aren.torikian@tufts.edu.

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by Paris Sanders Today marks the 62nd day of the “Red Zone.” The Red Zone is a term coined by the media to describe “a period of vulnerability for sexual assaults, beginning when first-years first walk onto campus until Thanksgiving break,” according to a Sept. 10, 2014 BusinessInsider article.

When we were first-years, we were concerned about making friends, impressing the people in our halls, the people that we all hoped to make our friends. We consequently felt pressured to do things that we didn’t want to — pressured, for example, to go to parties where we may not have felt totally comfortable and to do certain things because we assumed that was what people did in college.

This is the reality: guys have grinded on us at Tufts Dance Collective ( TDC) parties, and at a frat party someone put their hand up my skirt without my consent. When some guy was grinding into me at TDC even though he was a lot older than I was and even though I didn’t like it, I put up with it because he was one of my choreographers.

When we were first-years, we didn’t know the power dynamics that were in play between upperclassmen and firstyears. We didn’t know that when people

grabbed my ass in frat basements, it counted as sexual assault. We’ve had Tufts University Police Department officers ask us, “Why were you out?” and “Why didn’t you call SafeRide?” when we were harassed on the street during a short walk home from a friend’s house.

We have had people — friends, family, authority figures and otherwise — tell us that we can avoid these situations if we don’t go to parties, if we don’t drink, if we don’t dress a certain way.

However, the problem with this advice is that sexual violence can happen in any situation. It can happen when you’re in your dorm room and when you’re stone cold sober. It can happen with someone you know, trust or are even in a relationship with. Either way, these suggestions, although intended to be helpful, are inherently dangerous as they negate a lot of real experiences and take away agency from the assailant and place responsibility and blame on those affected by sexual violence.

The days between the first day of school and Thanksgiving Break during first year are when most sexual violence on college campuses occurs, but that is only one small part of the problem. The stories read during the last two years of It Happens Here have not only been

from first-years but from childhoods, other school years, senior years. Our assailants have been strangers, friends, family, men, women, genderqueer people and members of Greek life or sports teams. We, the members of Consent Culture Network and the organizers of It Happens Here, are evidence that trauma can live in all of us, regardless of our religion, our race, our gender identity, our sexual identities, our ability or class.

As an organization, we strive to be trauma-sensitive and survivor-centric, and we hope to end the silence around sexual violence. Yes, sexual violence is a horrific and traumatizing reality that exists on this campus, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t be sensitive of that and try to change the way we talk about it. Be respectful of your peers, and be sensitive to their experiences — as we all know too well, these stories are far more common than you would think.

If you’re interested in hearing more about what we do at Tufts or how to get involved with Consent Culture Network or It Happens Here, email tuftsccn@ gmail.com Paris Sanders is a sophomore majoring in philosophy. She is part of the Consent Culture Network Executive Board, which can be reached at tuftsccn@gmail.com.

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continued from back training with the team every day in an extended assessment by the coach. They would play matches against members on the team; they performed well and were ultimately selected to be permanent team members.

“For me it was [an] uncertain [time] because for two and half months, I didn’t know if the coach would take me on permanently or not,” Peleg said.

He noted, however, that despite this uncertainty, he fit in well with the culture of the team. Cary agreed.

“It was a big team to begin with, so the addition of two extra guys didn’t make the guys [already] on the team think about it that much,” Cary said. “It put a little more pressure on us to get along with everyone, which we had no problem doing.”

Although Cary and Peleg were being added to an already large squad, they did not blend in with the crowd, senior tri-captain Rob Jacobson said.

“Nick and Roy really stood out,” Jacobson said. “They held their own and earned their spot on the team. It was an impressive thing to do.”

He also agreed that Cary and Peleg fit in well with their new teammates.

“There was no animosity — we were happy to have them because they could play at a level where they could help our team,” Jacobson said. “At the end of the day, the most important thing is making the team better, and they certainly did that.”

Over the next two years Cary and Peleg, along with three others in their class, including Jacobson, became integral members of the team. Now seniors, they have earned the respect not only from their fellow classmates, but also from underclassman teammates as well.

“Nick and Roy really stood out ... They held their own and earned their spot on the team. It was an impressive thing to do.”

Peleg and Cary began to compete in the spring season of 2014, contributing to victories over Wesleyan, Conn.

College, Brandeis, Colby and Hamilton during their first season.

“My criteria for a walk-on is, ‘Could you impact the starting line up — the top eight?’” coach Karl Gregor said. “So I don’t need a guy who can walk in and be better than my last player. I need someone who can come in and help the team win matches. That’s what Nick Cary and Roy [Peleg] were able to do that year.”

There was a general consensus among the seniors that the presence of walk-ons was a positive force, in that it pushed the team members to work hard-

er and be better.

“I think its good because we had more competition,” senior Nik Telkedzhiev said. “They started from the bottom and tried to climb all the way, and they have.

This was definitely motivating for me.

It made me push harder and try to get better every day.”

Both Cary and Peleg have been elected senior captains alongside Jacobson. Although Telkedzhiev and senior Jay Glickman do not carry the title of captain, their role on the team is no less important, Cary, Peleg and Jacobson said.

“It’s a very cool thing that they were able to walk on and then were able to lead,” Jacobson said. “It shows a lot about who they are as people.”

The captains were voted on by each member of the team, as well as the head and assistant coaches. Peleg felt that for him, being able to serve as captain in his senior year was a huge achievement.

“Its been shaped in part by the fact that for both Nick and [me], this experience wasn’t handed to us, and we didn’t take it for granted,” Peleg said. “So to have that kind of appreciation at the end of the day has given me the kind of perspective that I hope [will] be of value in a captain.”

Since 2013, no one else has walked on to the team. Although Gregor holds tryouts every year, he has said that no one has come close to the level necessary to play on the team.

This is perhaps due to the increase in rigor of recruiting that has occurred over

the past three to four seasons. Before 2012, recruits for Tufts were generally rated in the two-star range. In the last three years, however, both the number and quality of recruits have increased. In 2013, Tufts had a four-star recruit (Glickman), several three-stars and the Bulgarian under-18 No. 2 (Telkedzhiev). Following that, Tufts has consistently had strong recruiting classes.

In 2014, Tufts recruited eight new players, four of whom were either three or four stars.

“It would be very rare for a kid to come here [who] I didn’t know about,” Gregor said. “I have a wide net in my recruiting that if someone were good enough to play, I would have known about them before.”

The sentiment was echoed by Glickman.

“We have gotten better and better each year with overall talent, seriousness of the program, quality of the recruits,” Glickman said. “This is largely due to the attractiveness of the new athletic facility and our new coach.”

Although five seniors are graduating in 2016, the size of the team means that it will be an uphill battle for potential walk-ons next fall. Four-star recruit Nathan Niemiec has recently committed to Tufts, as will several others throughout the coming months.

The Jumbos look ahead to the spring season, where they will be competing for the NESCAC Championship. The three new recruits this year have already shown themselves to be strong players, with all of them contributing to victories in the fall season.

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continued from back two huge blocks on the perimeter that sparked both touchdowns. On the first one Ben actually blocked two guys on the perimeter and allowed [me] to go off, and, Mike — it wasn’t even his job.

He just went and found work, and both of those allowed me to get into the endzone and get Player of the Week, so I owe those guys a lot of gratitude.”

Colby junior tri-captain quarterback Gabe Harrington dropped back on third-and-9 on the possession following the fumble but had no chance when multiple Tufts pass rushers beat their blockers and closed in from all directions. Junior linebacker Mike Stearns was the first to get to Harrington, sacking him for a loss of 12 and forcing a punt from sophomore John Baron.

Rando called for a fair catch at the Mules’ 35, and the Jumbos’ drive began with 3:57 remaining in the first. As if atoning for his earlier fumble, Brady raced around the right edge of the defensive line and zipped up the right sideline. There was no one there to catch him as he rocketed into the end-zone in just 10 seconds.

Despite Baron’s converting on a fourth-down fake punt, Colby’s next drive stalled out at Tufts’ 33. Sophomore linebacker Zach Thomas added to his sack total on the drive with his NESCACleading eighth sack of the season.

Tufts displayed its season-long commitment to the run game on its first drive of the second quarter. Brady drew a face-mask penalty on junior defensive back Justin Lamere when he cut-back to the right, outran a defender and carried two tacklers for a few yards.

The play advanced the Jumbos to their own 49-yard line. Slipping through a tiny window open for only a fraction of a second, Brady ripped off another gain of 20 yards and followed that with a tough inside run for eight yards. Junior running back Max Athy spelt Brady and converted the first down with his own seven-yard run. Colby coach Jonathan Michaeles was concerned with his team’s collapsing run defense and called a timeout to allow the defense a breather. Colby halted Tufts’ forward progress at its 14-yard line. Junior kicker Willie Holmquist missed his field goal attempt wide left from 31 yards out.

The offense came up empty-handed on their prior possession, but Rando’s 41-yard punt return started Tufts off with excellent field position at Colby’s 49-yard line. Rando originally made as if he were going to return to the left but instead bolted up the right side, maximizing his gain with his blistering speed. Usually an inside runner, Brady followed Rando’s lead. Brady again rounded the right edge and sprinted past the too-late defenders into the end zone. Brady’s 49-yard touchdown run was his longest run of the season and his NESCAC-leading 11th score. “[I felt] a lot of [discomfort] outside,” Brady said. “Both of those plays were designed inside, but that’s just not where the look was. I’m still saying I’m an inside guy. I must have had extra burners that day. We did have a good dinner the night before.”

Hurdle-Price, second in the NESCAC in rushing yards after Brady, appeared poised to put Colby on the scoreboard.

Colby’s offensive line gifted Hurdle-Price his first clean look of the day on second-and-7 from its own 31, and the play

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Tufts junior QB Alex Snyder is protected by junior RB Chance Brady as he prepares to pass the ball in the game against Trinity on Oct. 17. should have resulted in a long Colby gain. However, sophomore defensive back J.P. Garcia committed a heads up play, running full tilt from the secondary and bringing down Hurdle-Price just as he hit the gap. Colby earned a couple of first downs before its drive petered out. Garcia’s big play-saving stop is representative of the way Tufts’ defense played as a whole.

“It feels great,” Garcia said. “It’s really a result of everyone else doing their job.

I just get lucky to make a run and get the tackle, but if it [weren’t] for the 10 guys in front of me taking up blocks [and] making sure the fit is right, I wouldn’t be there making the play. So it is really a testament to the whole defense working together.”

At the end of the first half, Harrington managed to scramble out of bounds after a 17-yard gain to set up a field-goal try. Civetti’s strategy of calling two timeouts to ice opposing kickers failed twice, and Baron’s 37-yard try was good. The Jumbos led 14-3 at halftime.

“Part of my focus at halftime with the guys was saying, ‘Hey, look, this game isn’t over — we’ve got to put 30 minutes together,'” Civetti said. “‘We’ve been in this situation before, [I said.] ‘We’ve got to stay focused.’ And I was so impressed by our seniors and by our team. They were so focused on playing one play at a time and weren’t looking at the scoreboard.”

The Jumbos did not take kindly to the Mules’ getting points on the board. Rando, a perennial threat as a punt- and kick-returner, received Baron’s kick to begin the second half.

Rando faked a counter handoff and blazed past the confused, recovering Colby kick return squad. Once he had crossed midfield, it became clear no one could catch Tufts’ speedy return man. Rando earned his second touchdown of the season on an 85-yard kick return. Only one other player in the NESCAC has returned a kickoff for a touchdown this season.

“It felt great, especially coming right out of the half,” Rando said. “We needed a big play, something to spark us. It felt good to be the kid to get in the end zone and get us going in the second half there. I’ve been returning kicks since [my first] year and haven’t found the end zone so it was nice to finally get in there off a kickoff return.”

Just over a minute and a half later,

Tufts started a drive at midfield. Snyder picked up a first down after escaping pressure to the right and turning a scramble into a 17-yard gain on third down. On fourth-and-1 at Colby’s 24, Tufts elected to go for it rather than attempt the field goal. Brady not only picked up the first down, but also somehow slipped through a dog-pile of players for a 20-yard gain. “[ The] bad week against Amherst… left a sour taste in my mouth,” Brady said. “To try and promote myself as a premier back in the league and then go off for 40 yards is not good, and against Colby, I just wanted to get back to the roots. We are a team that can run the football, so I can open up routes for Snyder to pass it [and] bring all the dimensions of our offense back.

I just really want to re-establish the run game.”

Brady finished with 212 yards and leads the NESCAC in rushing touchdowns and yards.

“Chance carries a lot more than just the football on Saturdays,” Civetti said.

“His toughness, his work ethic, his resilience — he gives everything he’s got for this team. When he’s on and he’s having a great day, people feed off of him. He gives you that extra inch, and you know that it’s because it’s so important to him that he [give] that to you.”

On third-and-goal from Colby’s 6, Snyder dropped back to pass. Rapidly running out of time with pass rushers closing in, Snyder calmly delivered a strike to sophomore wide receiver Mike Miller, who was streaking right in the middle of the end zone. Miller leapt over the cornerback and pinned the ball against his chest with one arm.

On Colby’s lone score, Harrington connected with four different receivers before Hurdle-Price converted his one-yard try. It was the last score of the game, as Harrington was intercepted to end Colby’s last two possessions. First-year defensive back Tim Preston intercepted Harrington first, tying him with two other players for most interceptions in the NESCAC at five. Senior linebacker Patrick Williams effectively ended the game when he intercepted Harrington with just over a minute to go.

Tufts plays the final game of the season at home against Middlebury with a chance to finish 6-2 for the first time since 2001.

teph Curry of the Golden State Warriors is off to one of the hottest starts any player has had in NBA history. He is clearly the No. 1 player in the world right now, (sorry Mr. James) and is leading the Warriors to an undefeated season thus far. His shooting numbers are off the charts, and his per game numbers are astounding.

The most incredible part of his production so far, however, is that he is doing it all while playing only 32 minutes per game. Imagine what his numbers could be if the Warriors weren’t blowing out their opponents by an average of about 20 points a game.

No offense to some of the greats, but Curry is the best shooter of all time. His range and ability to shoot off the dribble have never been seen before and could very well never be seen again. He has a rare ability that gives NBA teams nightmares and forces them to change their entire defensive scheme. When he entered the league, he was known as an incredible three-point shooter, but he has developed into so much more. He now has the ability to take players off the dribble and score in a variety of ways in the lane as well. To be frank, there is little Steph Curry cannot do.

To put Curry’s incredible 2015-2016 season so far into perspective, he is currently shooting 47 percent from three-point land while hitting 38 threes through seven games. That means Curry has hit more three pointers than six NBA teams. Last season Curry hit only 21 threes through seven games and still finished with an NBA best 286 three pointers on the season. If Steph continues this hot shooting for the entire season, he will hit an unfathomable 445 three pointers. Even if his hot shooting slows down and he does not get anywhere near that number, I expect him to make at least 300 threes on the season and break the alltime single season three-point record again. The previous record holder?

Himself.

Most people expected Curry — having come off an NBA championship and MVP season — to come into this season unfocused and a little off his game. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Somehow just several months after having won an MVP title and NBA championship, tallied the highest jersey sales and highest number of All-star votes and landed multiple endorsement deals, Curry has remained as focused as ever. He continues to strive to take his game to new heights and who knows how good he could be. He is reinventing the way basketball is played in the NBA and paving the way for undersized guards to take over the league. Who knows what is next for Steph Curry? Curry for POTUS?

Zach Ohara is a junior majoring in economics. He can be reached at zachary. ohara@tufts.edu.

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Tufts beats Colby for fifth win

by Phillip Goldberg Sports Editor

Seven seasons. A combined record of 11-45. Multiple 0-8 seasons. The Jumbos’ futile and heartbreaking sea-

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sons from 2008 to last year’s respectable 4-4 finish loom over each new season, threatening to invalidate the tremendous effort expended every year. These ghastly memories were exorcised on Saturday, however, when Tufts defeated Colby in dominant fashion to earn the team its first winning record since 2007’s 5-3 finish.

“I think the Colby game is always a hard game,” coach Jay Civetti said.

“They are well coached. They are resilient kids. They are very strong. Tufts hasn’t won there since, I think, 2003.

It’s an overnight experience, which also just adds a different layer of distractions. Sometimes confidence or overconfidence allows you to play to the level of your opponents, and that can be a challenge.”

The final score, 28-10, belies the one-sidedness of the game. Tufts seized an early lead in the first quarter and never looked back. It was not until the waning moments of the first half that Colby managed a field goal, setting the score at 14-3 and preventing a shutout. Two third-quarter touchdowns by the Jumbos later, and the game was all but out of reach for the Mules. Colby junior running back Jabari Hurdle-Price’s one-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter brought the score back to respectable range.

Colby’s first two possessions and Tufts’ first possession ended in punts as Colby struggled to find running room against Tufts’ solid defensive front.

Senior co-captain linebacker Matt McCormack in particular played the run well, racking up three tackles on just two possessions. Colby senior defensive tackle Harry Nicholas sacked junior quarterback Alex Snyder to derail the Tufts’ first possession. “[McCormack’s] a special player,” Civetti said. “He’s a great captain. Guys just love playing hard for him. He’s got a great demeanor. He’s worked so hard to get to this point, and I felt terrible for him when he was out with the shoulder injury. But he’s been excellent. This week I think he was [firing] on all cylinders.”

Tufts looked ready to break open the game on a drive that began at 8:13 in the first quarter from its own 46-yard line. Snyder hooked up with junior wide receiver Ben Berey on the left sideline for a chain-moving gain of 18 on third down. Junior running back and All-NESCAC Offensive Player of the Week Chance Brady rushed up the middle for three yards on the ensuing first down but found room outside on the next play when Snyder pitched to the right. Brady dodged one wouldbe tackler before being brought down for a gain of 11. Junior wide receiver and All-NESCAC Special Teams Player of the Week Mike Rando gained four yards on a quick pass, and the Jumbos were at the Mules’ 14. Brady spun through Colby’s defensive line, but Colby junior defensive lineman Chris Marano poked the ball loose, allowing Colby to recover.

“It’s great,” Brady said of his AllNESCAC honor. “It’s the first time I’ve ever won it. I actually owe a lot of credit to Mike Rando and Ben Berey. They had see FOOTBALL, page 11

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Tufts junior RB Chance Brady charges forward on the gridiron after receiving a handoff from junior QB Alex Snyder in the game against Trinity on Oct. 17.

Cary and Peleg: walk-ons turned varsity co-captains

by Maddie Payne Staff Writer

In the fall of 2013, then-sophomores Nick Cary and Roy Peleg tried out as walk-ons for the Tufts men’s varsity tennis team. Little did they know that they would soon be permanent team members and that by their senior year they would be selected as team captains.

In 2013, extenuating circumstances set the stage for Cary to join the team.

Cary was a sophomore transfer from Trinity College and had walked on to the varsity tennis team there in his first year.

Arguably, he had already proven that he had the skill set necessary in order to compete at a varsity level at a NESCAC school. Peleg, on the other hand, had not been recruited anywhere during high school and after a year away from competitive tennis, had spent the summer before his sophomore year rebuilding to a level where he could successfully walk on to the team.

Walking on to a varsity sports team in college has always been regarded as no easy feat, even in a Div. III program like Tufts’. Cary and Peleg had tried out in the fall, spending the entire fall season see men’s tennis , page 10

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Senior Nick Cary prepares to serve the ball during a match against Connecticut College.