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Gauri Seth elected as incoming TCU President by Arin Kerstein

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Junior Gauri Seth was elected to the position of Tufts Community Union (TCU) President, following all-day voting yesterday on the Student Information System (SIS) online portal, according to the Tufts Elections Commission (ECOM) Technician Ryan Hartney. Seth, who is the first woman to be TCU President since 2002, said that she is “humbled” by the results of the election. “My campaign team, all week, has just given me unconditional support and love, and I could not have asked for anything more,” she said. “I’m so proud of the campaign we ran, and we’re just getting started. And next year is going to be amazing, and I’m so, so excited.” Hartney, a junior, explained that 1,441 students voted yesterday and added

that voter turnout was at 24.92 percent, more than double the 11.65 percent voter turnout last year for outgoing TCU President Brian Tesser. This discrepancy can be attributed to the fact that last year’s presidential election was uncontested, resulting in lower voter turnout than usual, Hartney said. Meanwhile, last week’s voter turnout in the general TCU elections was at 24.31 percent, with 1,404 students voting. The margin by which Seth defeated opponent junior Ryan Johnson was not disclosed. Hartney said they would not provide the specific allocation of votes, although past members of ECOM have disclosed how many votes each TCU presidential candidate received. The breakdown of votes last year for Tesser, abstentions and writein options were released, as were the exact voting numbers in the Robert

Joseph-Andrew Núñez election in 2014 and the 2013 race between Joe Thibodeau, Joe Donenfeld and Christie Maciejewski. Both Seth and Johnson had announced their candidacies for TCU President last Thursday evening and began campaigning on their respective Facebook pages “Go for Gauri” and “Ryan Johnson for TCU President.” A forum for both candidates took place on Wednesday evening before voting SOFIE HECHT / THE TUFTS DAILY opened at midnight on Gauri Seth (LA '17), the newly elected TCU Senate presiThursday. dent, pictured on Feb. 3.

Tufts alumnus and chef Dan Barber discusses future of food, envisions changing plate by Sophie Lehrenbaum News Editor

Dan Barber (LA ’92) returned to his alma mater last night as part of the annual Janover Family Lecture Series to speak about his career and the future of food with Sarah Janover (LA ’85), former chief of staff at People Magazine. The event, hosted by the Experimental College (ExCollege), took place before a soldout audience in Barnum 008. Director of the Experimental College Howard Woolf gave the introduction, during which he announced a new minor for the environmental studies track — food systems and nutrition. Woolf, who is also the associate dean of undergraduate education at the ExCollege, went on to speak to Barber’s career and accolades, highlighting Barber’s multiple James Beard Foundation Awards — an honor frequently likened to the “Oscars for food.” He also spoke about Barber’s spot as one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people and his status as a high-profile writer, as the author of “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food” and numerous New York Times and Gourmet Magazine articles. Janover relayed a series of student questions to Barber, to which the chef

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and writer detailed how he burgeoned from an uncertain senior majoring in political science to a world-renowned chef at Manhattan’s Blue Hill restaurant and Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Barber attributes his career path to former professor Sol Gittleman. “It became senior year, [and] I had no idea what I was going to be doing,” he said. “Every couple of weeks, I was calling [Gittleman’s] secretary … at that point, [he was] a little annoyed.” Barber recalled Gittleman probing him with questions about what he wanted to do, and the first thing that came to Barber’s mind was bread. “[He told the class], ‘Don’t just go into finance. I met a person yesterday who wanted to become a baker,’” Barber said. “I didn’t want to let him down … A couple of months later, I was out in LA, baking bread.” Other questions Barber answered hit on themes of forging a sustainable food system and reinventing the dinner plate, as well as the marketplace, in order to create a food culture that fits society’s needs better — all of which are concepts that Barber has championed in his book. Specifically, he spoke about how privilege restricts the ability of people to marry economics, nutrition and sustainability in cooking. “My restaurant is certainly elitist,” he said. “I charge a lot of money to

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Chef of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns and author of "The Third Plate" Dan Barber speaks in Barnum 008 in a conversation with Sarah Janover hosted by the ExCollege on April 21. sit in my restaurant, but my ideals are still egalitarian because they are about democratizing the food system … Flavor and good agriculture and good health are all the same subject.” In particular, Barber explained how the prevailing food culture in the United States differs from that of other countries like France and Italy and has perpetuated systemic food waste and overproduction. He highlighted how,

historically, the country has enjoyed large farms that made ecological sense and also made the United States the agricultural envy of the world, but that this laid the foundations for the current issues that plague food production. “The answer is not to go to small farms, [but]…we need to supply a mar-

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continued from page 1 ket where the farmer can sustain a wide variety of crops, not a monoculture,” Barber said. He explained that by incorporating crops primarily planted in rotations to promote healthy soil, people can ameliorate some of the most salient issues with modern agriculture. Many of those crops are often discarded or used for feed rather than taken to market, he said.

“The biggest challenge is that we are a country of waste … we were horrifically wasteful because we produced so much…[and] wasted in ways that shocked Europeans,” Barber said. “It was blasphemy happening at the dinner table.” He went on to explain that agricultural malpractices, degrading soils and ecosystems and food waste can be traced to problems with declining health. The result of a culture that inculcates a sense of waste could be

that foods that are depleted of their nutrients, he said. As for changes at the student level, Barber said there is a simple call for action. “Cook — just cook … When you cook, you opt out of the food chain, and when you opt out of the food chain in this country, you are opting out of a lot of bad stuff…for health and the environment,” he said. “It is important to engage with food at a developmental level.”

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Dr. Inge Auerbacher recounts experience surviving Holocaust by Paige Spangenthal Staff Writer

Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher spoke to an audience of approximately 200 people about her experience living through the Holocaust, in her keynote address for the Cummings/Hillel Program for Holocaust and Genocide Education on Wednesday night in the ASEAN Auditorium. Shoshana Weiner, one of two Cummings/Hillel interns for Holocaust and Genocide Education, opened the event and was followed by Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, the Neubauer Executive Director of Tufts Hillel, who introduced Auerbacher. The auditorium laughed when Auerbacher asked that no one call her old as she began speaking. “I’m 81 years young,” she said, before delving into her childhood experience of being deported to the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia at the age of seven, where she remained until the camp was liberated by the Red Army on May 8, 1945. Auerbacher explained that she was born on Dec. 31, 1934 in Kippenheim, Germany. There were no hospitals in Kippenheim at the time, so she was delivered in her parents’ bedroom by a doctor who belonged to the Nazi party. Auerbacher said the doctor treated her family very well and that she could say nothing ill of him because he was the person who gave her the gift of life. On Nov. 9, 1938, everything changed for Auerbacher’s family, she said. On Kristallnacht, or “The Night of Broken Glass,” Jews across Germany were attacked in coordinated riots. All of the windows in Auerbacher’s house were shattered, and shards of glass covered the floor. The next day, Auerbacher’s grandfather went to their synagogue to say his morning prayers, and in the midst of this spiritual act, he was violently arrested. Auerbacher’s father was also arrested, and they were both sent to the Dachau concentration camp. She explained that they were treated horribly at Dachau, forced to stand at attention outside in the frigid air. Fortunately, they were released after a few weeks, she said. In 1939, Auerbacher’s family moved to Jebenhausen, Germany to live with her grandparents. She said that her grandfather soon passed away from a heart attack caused by residual emotional and physical stress from Dachau. Two years later, deportations escalated, and Auerbacher’s grandmother was

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On April 20, in Cohen Auditorium, Inge Auerbacher talks about her life during the Holocaust and the three years she spent in a concentration camp. deported to Riga, Latvia, where she was shot and buried in a mass grave. In August 1942, Auerbacher and her parents were deported to Terezin. Auerbacher was the youngest of the 1,200 people who were transported. At this point in her story, Auerbacher showed the audience photographs of Jewish people being deported during the Holocaust. She pointed out the groups of people who stood in the streets and watched their neighbors being taken away. Auerbacher condemned these bystanders, saying that they did nothing to stop the horrors that were taking place right before their eyes. There were very few happy moments in Auerbacher’s life during the three years that she spent at Terezin, she said. Prisoners at Terezin lived among mice, rats, fleas and bed bugs. She recalled that they were only allowed one or two showers per year with the permission of the camp guards, and many people perished from typhus

contracted from contaminated well water. Auerbacher said she remembers seeing her first dead body at age seven. She also remembers the ever-present hunger that she felt at Terezin. The prisoners were fed small, meager meals, she said. Turnips were the only vegetable that Auerbacher saw within the walls of the camp. Auerbacher said that another little girl who suffered from tuberculosis was allowed to have an extra piece of bread with her meals, and she recalled praying that she would catch the same disease as this girl just to acquire extra food. Those who did not perish from malnutrition or disease at Terezin were sent to their deaths in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Ruth, Auerbacher’s best friend at Terezin, died at Auschwitz just before her 10th birthday. Auerbacher said that she is still greatly affected by this tragedy. In her speech, she shared a poem that she wrote about the final moments of Ruth’s life, titled “Hold Me Tight.”

Ruth was one of many children who perished in the Holocaust. In fact, of the 15,000 children who were imprisoned at Terezin, Auerbacher is a part of the mere 1 percent that survived. After being freed, Auerbacher’s family moved to the United States, she said. She soon fell ill with tuberculosis and spent two years in bed-rest. Auerbacher was near death when the drug Streptomycin was developed, which saved her life. At age 15, she said, she was finally able to begin pursuing her education. Despite all of her setbacks, Auerbacher said that she forged a path as a medical researcher and clinician. Auerbacher concluded by discussing her current life in Jamaica, Queens, where she is neighbors with a family of Hindus, a family of Muslims and a family of Christians. She explained that the families are all great friends and that she believes that her neighborhood is proof that people of all religions should be able to harmoniously coexist in the world.

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‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ returns with big laughs, mixed messages by Cassidy Olsen

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TV’s favorite post-traumatic optimist returned to the small screen on April 15 with the release of the second season of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (2015 – present) on Netflix. The much-anticipated 13-episode season was developed exclusively for Netflix and thus boasts episodes with longer runtimes and more freedom for exploration than those of the first season, which was originally produced to run on NBC. With this freedom has come more hard writers’ jokes that may have otherwise alienated general audiences, making the sitcom’s second season feel more like “30 Rock” (2006 – 2013), Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s original critically-acclaimed NBC sitcom. Between rapid-fire one-liners, pop culture references and running gags, the latest from “Kimmy Schmidt” also begins to dig deeper into its characters’ anxieties and attempted social commentary on everything from backlash culture to gentrification. While these poignant character explorations bring many of the season’s best scenes, some of the “real world” issue-tackling falls flat, feeling more like the show is defending itself against criticism than taking genuine interest in its sources. Luckily, these moments are few and far between enough as to not entirely overshadow the wit and feel-good weirdness of the rest of the season. In her signature pink-and-yellow kindergarten teacher ensembles, Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) is back in New York City after van-

Ellie Kemper of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” arrives at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan. 30.

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Waiting for ‘Lemonade’ edition by Justin Krakoff Arts Editor

As tomorrow’s release of Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” inches ever closer, let us enjoy the time we have left with the catchy hits set to dominate the airwaves this summer. After all, the past couple of weeks have yielded a number of outstanding singles. With the stage finally set, the battle for the title of “Song of the Summer” has finally begun. Nick Jonas, “Close (feat. Tove Lo)” With Justin Bieber’s remarkable career resurrection and Zayn Malik’s ascension to solo stardom, it appeared that Nick Jonas’ solo career was in danger of being forgotten amidst the shuffling of pop music’s vanguard. However, these fears were unfounded as the former teen star has returned stronger than ever with perhaps his most subdued single to date. “Close” features a veritable who’s who in the music industry, including breakout pop star Tove Lo, songwriters Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels, as well as Swedish production team Mattman & Robin. The sultry single precedes Jonas’ third solo album, “Last Year Was Complicated,” and artfully captures the tension between two lovers without being explicit. In an age of hypersexualized pop acts, this is no small feat with Jonas and Tove Lo showing remarkable restraint when they sing “Close, ooh / Oh, so close, ooh / I want

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Drake performs at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 5, 2012. you close, ooh” during the chorus. The midtempo anthem’s sleek, refined qualities are further enhanced by Jonas’ silky vocals and Mattman & Robin’s barebones production. In short, Jonas’ lead single demonstrates the ability of collaboration to produce something that is wholly unique yet undeniably a hit. Rating: 3.5/5 Tegan & Sara, “Boyfriend” On 2013’s “Heartthrob,” Canadian duo Tegan & Sara left behind the indie rock

of their previous studio albums to create one of the year’s boldest pop albums. The radio-friendly set saw the twin sisters diving headfirst into the realm of synthpop, months before Taylor Swift’s similar reinvention with “1989” (2014). “Boyfriend” sees the duo continuing to explore these newfound pop sensibilities, thanks in part to their collaborative relationship with producer Greg Kurstin. In many of their previous collaborations, see SINGLES, page 9

Friday, April 22, 2016

Parker Selman Style Spotlight

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eorgia Kay is a junior at Tufts who spoke with me about Melbourne style, her slight obsession with cravats and what she thinks are the biggest fashion faux pas. Parker Selman (PS): How would you describe your personal style? Georgia Kay (GK): It’s very Melbourne. Melbourne is the fashion capitol of Australia. There are a lot of unique Australian designers there, and Melbourne style means constantly being over dressed: no one would ever leave the house looking average. When I dress really Melbourne here, people always ask if I’m going to an interview. Now I have to make choices between my Melbourne wardrobe and my school wardrobe because Americans dress a lot more casually. PS: Has coming to Tufts changed your style? GK: It’s forced me to be more casual. I never owned sneakers before I came to the States. Also in the States, there’s an entire genre that I call pub tops. If we go out (in Australia) we’ll go out in a formal dress or a formal top; there’s no going out in jeans. I’ve been forced to buy frat boots and a frat jacket and the little spaghetti strap going out tops. PS: Do you have any fashion inspirations? GK: I really like Sincerely Jules the fashion blogger. I also like Sea of Shoes. I like Street Smith, which is a Melbourne street fashion blog. PS: What are your favorite stores? GK: Mostly Australian brands. I like Sass & Bide. They have really nice jeans and great formal wear. I like Madewell jeans and Witchery and Country Road, which are also Australian brands. PS: What are your favorite pieces of clothing? GK: At the moment, these jeans. I bought them in a little Chinese boutique. My favorite things to own are pants and boots. I have the most amazing pair of rusty-red Free People boots, and they’re my favorite thing at the moment and they have zips and a pointed toe. PS: What are some of your signature looks? GK: My cravats are my signature look. I live for cravats. The one I’m wearing now I bought at a silk factory in China. At the moment, I only have five or six cravats, but I’m always looking to expand. Madewell has some really cute ones at the moment, but I prefer the silk to the cotton ones; I’m a highend cravat girl. That should be written on my tombstone. My signature is also high-necked things. I have 100 million turtlenecks. PS: What do you recommend for fashion on a budget? GK: I really like the Gap. They get a really bad rep, but they always have a huge sale all the time. I went recently and got a really cute boat neck top. I like some of their t-shirts. I like the good section of H&M and Zara. Also Lou and Grey! It’s in the Natick Mall, and it’s owned by Ann Taylor, and they have a 15 percent student discount. PS: Are there any fashion trends you particularly dislike? GK: When people wear lululemons with leather jackets that annoys me. Also, to be honest, I think Stan Smiths have had their moment in the sun and now they should go back to the closet. I have a huge disdain for combat boots, Keds and Toms, and they’re everywhere. Parker Selman is a first year who has not yet declared a major. Parker can be reached at parker.selman@tufts.edu.

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Second season struggles with social commentary KIMMY SCHMIDT

continued from page 8 quishing her former captor Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm) in an Indiana court battle in the season one finale. The 30-year-old perennial optimist, who was held for 15 years along with three other women in a doomsday cult by Reverend Gary Wayne, has seemingly recovered from the initial shock of her freedom explored in the first season and is ready to take big steps towards the future she’s always wanted. At the outset of season two, Kimmy’s socialite friend and employer Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski of “30 Rock”) has returned to South Dakota to reconnect with her parents after her divorce, her Vietnamese immigrant ex-boyfriend Dong (Ki Hong Lee) has married one of their GED classmates to avoid deportation and her struggling actor roommate Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) is being confronted by a visit from his estranged ex-wife, Vonda (Vernell Walker). Oh, and — in the best running gag of the season — Kimmy’s landlady Lillian (Carol Kane) is dating acquitted murderer Robert Durst, or “Bobby” as Lillian

calls him, played with eerily accurate mannerisms by a bewigged Fred Armisen. (“He was my first crush. He tried to crush me,” Lillian deadpans in the season premiere.) “Kimmy Schmidt” has learned how to handle these dark topics quite deftly, using its lead character’s positivity, goofiness and general ignorance about adult life and the 21st century to lend its comedy a sort of wideeyed optimism. And season two, best watched alone with headphones, is a nonstop joke machine and an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture. Multiple viewings are also necessary to catch as many one-liners and cameo appearances as possible. Of course, this kind of comedy isn’t to everyone’s taste, but fans of the series’ first season and “30 Rock” will find plenty to enjoy. Niche jokes about BJ Novak book readings and musical theater history are peppered in between “Mad Men” (2007 – 2015) references (“The reverend was a psycho liar who claimed he came up with the ‘Buy the World a Coke’ commercial!”) and obligatory New Yorker shots at New Jersey (“If I can see New Jersey, than it can see me!”) The jokes come at breakneck speed, revealing the show

to be a writers’ sitcom elevated by wonderful, laugh-out-loud performances from leads like Kemper and Burgess. Burgess’ Titus remains the funniest, most delightful character on “Kimmy Schmidt.” Although flamboyant and full of quirks, Titus never feels like the stereotype of a black, gay actor — he’s a fully actualized individual, with a past and a future justified by his anxieties and dreams. In season two, Titus begins a new relationship with an almost-out gay construction worker Mikey (Mike Carlsen), and the storyline is both funny and emotional while pointing to real character growth. With this is mind, it comes as a jarring surprise to see Titus used as a vehicle for the show’s defensiveness against criticisms of racial insensitivity in the first season. In this season’s third episode “Kimmy Goes to a Play!” Titus dons a costume and stages a oneman show (“Kimono You Didn’t”) about his past life as a Japanese geisha. His character is then beset by criticism from an online community of Asian-Americans who find his portrayal offensive — but who, after watching his emotional performance, come to the conclu-

sion that they were only offended for the sake of being offended. The plotline appears to be a big eff-you from creator Tina Fey to the critical backlash that the first season received for its casting of a white woman (Jane Krakowski) as a Native American character who is then choosing to pass as a white woman. By positing genuine criticisms and accusations of racism as nothing but internet hate generated by the outrage machine, “Kimmy Schmidt” blatantly dismisses its audience’s concerns and completely misses the point of the outcry. The show’s confusingly adversarial position on race is an unfortunate mark on its second season, as it was on its first, and is not something to be overlooked. That being said, “Kimmy Schmidt” doesn’t linger on these weak spots and regularly works to redeem itself through goofy comedy and the emotional developments of its characters. When Kimmy finally learns to tie her Taylor Swiftred Keds at the age of 30 in the season finale, amidst larger emotional accomplishments, she demonstrates the silly, new-perspective optimism that makes the show a unique and ultimately successful one.

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continued from page 8 Kurstin’s infectious production threatened to overwhelm the sisters’ vocals, but it seems that a balance has been reached on the lead single of “Love You to Death,” the duo’s eighth studio album. The song wholeheartedly embraces new wave music and ventures into uncharted territory on pop radio as Tegan and Sara air their frustration with a lover who will not commit to a same-sex relationship. However, the song refuses to get weighed down by this emotional struggle, with the

duo simultaneously conveying both melancholy and euphoria, especially in lines such as “You call me up like you want your best friend / You turn me on like you want your boyfriend.” While “Boyfriend” is not a particularly genre-defining song, one will be hard-pressed to find synthpop more immaculately constructed than this. Rating: 4/5 Drake, “One Dance (feat. Wizkid & Kyla)” Simply put, this song should not be as good as it is; Drake is clearly benefiting from other artists’ styles and current

trends rather than reinventing his own sound. Yet the 29-year-old Canadian rapper does it so well that it is impossible to resist the charms of “One Dance,” Drake’s latest single from his hotly anticipated “Views from the 6.” Drawing primarily from the current dancehall revival ushered in by songs such as Rihanna’s “Work” (2016), “One Dance” is a hypnotic ode to finding love on the dancefloor as Drake coos, “That’s why I need a one dance / Got a Hennessy in my hand / One more time ‘fore I go / Higher powers taking a hold on me.” In terms of the song’s struc-

ture, producers Nineteen85 and 40 have a crafted minimalistic beat, emphasizing the addictiveness of the topline melody. Coupled with a feature from Nigerian artist Wizkid and a sample of Kyla’s “Do You Mind?” (2009), the track succeeds in fusing a variety of sounds as these two artists instill the qualities of afrobeat into “One Dance.” Only an artist as canny as Drake could so effortlessly pull off this warm fusion, resulting in arguably one of the best songs of Drake’s career and 2016 so far. Rating: 4/5

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continued from back scoring, the Jumbos held the Bobcats to two goals until the very last second of the half. First-year attacker and midfielder Sydney Howard capitalized on a last-second free position shot to put the Bobcats ahead 3-2 at the break. Tufts finished with 15 ground balls to Bates’ nine. The Jumbos also committed a third as many turnovers as the Bobcats — just six compared to the Bobcats’ 18. Having led 26 to 14 in shots and six to four in draw controls, the Jumbos clearly came into the game fired up and dominated possession. “On Tuesday, we ran towards winning,” Bowser said. “We knew we were capable of coming up with the win. We worked hard to get the win instead of running away from losing, which on Saturday is kind of what we did. We were a little nervous on Saturday, and all of the nerves were out of our system by Tuesday.” For her part, Bowser contributed five of the Jumbos’ 15 ground balls. She leads the team with 24 against conference opponents. “Ground balls is all a mentality and just wanting the ball more than the other team because it’s 50/50,” Bowser said. “Every ground ball I go to I just try to make sure it’s me versus that girl, and I try to come up with it as much as I can.” First-year goalie Audrey Evers allowed five goals on nine shots, saving four, while her counterpart and Bates’ senior tri-captain Hannah Jeffrey saved 13 of Tufts’ 19 shots on goal. Jeffrey leads the NESCAC in save percentage (61.7 percent), saves (79) and is third in goals against average (5.83). Evers is a respectable fifth in saves (52) and 14th in save percentage (38.5 percent). Tufts was unable to finish against Amherst, allowing a lead as large as three goals to dissipate in the second half when Amherst scored four unanswered. The Amherst Purple & White dominated possession the second half, winning every important draw control and keeping the

Jumbos off of the scoreboard for the last 20 minutes of the game. Amherst senior tri-captain Rachel Passarelli’s second goal of the game, assisted on by peer tri-captain Mia Haughton, tied the game at six with just over four minutes remaining. Sophomore defender Rowena Schenck won the draw control for Amherst, and they burned time until receiving a free position shot with 45 seconds to go. At 41 seconds Passarelli’s shot went wide. At 31 seconds, sophomore Julia Crerend’s shot was high. Evers saved Passarelli’s second attempt at 19 seconds. Just when it looked like the Jumbos might hold the Purple & White onslaught off and force overtime, Crerend fired a shot past Evers for the game-winner to deflate the Jumbos. At the beginning of the second half the Jumbos had led 5-3. Bowser netted a free position shot to extend Tufts’ lead to its largest margin, but junior midfielder and defender Hanna Krueger kept the game within reach for Amherst with her second goal only 21 seconds later. Amherst won the draw control but possession swung back and forth for 13 minutes without a goal before Haughton broke the stalemate and brought Amherst within one. The first half featured significantly more scoring for the Jumbos as they kept pace with the Purple & White for the first 20 minutes and then pulled ahead 5-3 at the end of the period. Krueger scored first for Amherst at 25:43. Senior tri-captain Caroline Ross rocketed a shot past senior goaltender Christy Forest to put Tufts on the scoreboard at 21:54. Passarelli nailed her first look of the day 28 seconds after Ross’s goal. Nowak forced a turnover on Amherst’s next possession, and Ross finished the play with a second goal, assisted by sophomore Taylor Meek. With her team up a player after Amherst’s Schenck received a yellow card, junior Caroline Kingsley scored her second goal of the season and secured the lead for

the first time all game. Amherst tied it up, but Ross added two more goals towards the end of the period to end the half up two. The Amherst game was the only one this season in which Tufts held a NESCAC opponent to fewer than 10 points and lost. As the season has progressed, the Jumbos have held opponents below 10 points more consistently. Both NESCAC opponents that Tufts faced in March put up 10 points or more, but the team improved its defense in April, allowing just two NESCAC opponents out of five to exceed 10 points. “Our defense as a whole looks amazing,” Nowak said. “They’ve really taken on the whole [idea of ] ‘team defense’ instead of one person doing it all, and that’s what I think has made our defense so great. They’re communicating a lot and, just the nature of lacrosse defense, you have to be there for each other on slides and crashing and stuff like that, so the fact that they’ve really got their chemistry down, and they’re just working as a team; it looks great.” The Jumbo captains continue to anchor the team, as Ross’ offensive potency complements Bowser’s speed and hustle in the midfield. Ross leads the NESCAC in points with 31, and she is tied for third in assists (12) and fifth in goals (19). Bowser is second in the league in ground balls (24) and tied for second in caused turnovers (16). She is no slouch on offense either, having scored 15 goals this season, tied for 12th in the NESCAC. “I’m a middie, so I like to run and getting the ball down the field is my goal,” Bowser said. “I just want to make sure the ball can get down the field safely because I know we have [Caroline Ross] on attack to take care of it once it gets down there. So if I can get the ball down to her I know we’ll be good.” Tufts next take the field against Wesleyan (1-7) on Saturday and then finish their regular season at Bowdoin (2-7) on Wednesday. The Jumbos must win at least one of the games to remain in the playoff picture.

Jumbos finish season 8-2, only fall to top 10 teams MEN'S CREW

continued from back and finished half a second in front of us, which was disappointing, but the race overall was one of the best we’ve had. It’s very, very difficult to start down and walk through a crew in the middle of a race, and I’m incredibly proud of what we accomplished.” Tufts was able to get a win in the third varsity eight, though, beating Washington College by over 20 seconds. “We felt really good about our performance, taking the lead off of the start and never giving up any ground. I was excited to feel the progress that this boat has made in both our technique and our power application,” first-year Alec Whipple said. These regattas marked the team’s last weekend of racing for the regular season,

and the Jumbos’ first varsity eight finished the regular season with a record of 8-2. The only losses were to WPI and Bates, teams currently ranked 10th and first in the country, respectively. “The team fought hard on Sunday and really showed some potential against a very skilled WPI team,” Whipple said. “Each boat has been racing well against crews that are very competitive in the championship regattas.” Looking ahead, Tufts enters the postseason in two weeks with the New England Rowing Championships on April 30. Sunday’s meet served as a dress rehearsal for that race, as the championships are also hosted on Lake Quinsigamond. “Sunday’s race has motivated us to make significant strides in the next week and a half leading up to New

England’s. I am fully confident that we will come into New England’s ready to finish in a position better than any Tufts men’s [second varsity boat] in recent history,” Horowitz said. Coach Noel Wanner’s team will look to continue an impressive season by making a statement in the New England’s as they compete against the region’s best. The goal for the team, as it has been all year, is to bring some medals back to Medford. If the team performs like it did this weekend, that is a goal well within reach. “There is an energy around the team as we get closer to the end of our season that fuels us every day … it is really exciting to be a part of, and I think we are ready to let New England know what Tufts rowing is all about,” Whipple said.

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ne month ago, Barcelona were atop La Liga, nine points clear of second place Atletico Madrid and in the quarter finals of the Champions League after defeating Arsenal 5-1 on aggregate. It had been 39 games since they had lost in any competition. In their previous 20 league games, they had won 19. In their next game, Barcelona would face their most bitter rival, Real Madrid in the biggest event in Spanish football: El Clásico. In the first meeting between the two sides this season, the team from the Catalan region left the Spanish capital victorious after a dominating 4-0 display at the Bernabeu. Their second meeting would go a little differently. Despite taking a 1-0 lead on 56 minutes, Barcelona went on to lose for the first time in just under six months. Since then, Barcelona have lost four out of their last five, with their only win coming against a 10-man Atletico Madrid side. They have been eliminated from the Champions League in the quarterfinal, and their lead over their La Liga rivals has disintegrated. Their dramatic and sudden loss of form seems as though it has out of nowhere, however hindsight provides indications that their success was hard pressed to last. The front three of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar have been brilliant this season: they have combined for a total of 113 goals for Barcelona. However, what was previously lauded as goalscoring brilliance now serves as evidence of an over-reliance on the trio. Together they account for 70 of Barcelona’s 88 La Liga goals. Considering backup forward Munir El Haddadi has scored just three this campaign, it is no surprise that manager Luis Enrique has elected to field the MSN trio in attack when they are healthy. Anyone that has ever played FIFA career mode knows that if you don’t rotate your players, they will fatigue. This is exactly what has happened to Luis Enrique’s men. Barcelona have played more games than any other team in La Liga, and it seems that this demanding schedule has taken a toll on the trio of late. Messi has scored has just once in his last six and has looked content to dictate play from the midfield instead. Neymar has looked as fatigued mentally as he has physically, often opting for the wrong decision in the final third. Even the energetic Luis Suarez, Barcelona’s leading goal scorer on the season, has cooled off. In fact, his five goals in the last 12 for club and country are his lowest tally in any stretch of the same length this season. Collectively, the trio has hit a wall, and Barcelona are struggling to cope. Despite the recent spell of bad form, now is not the time to panic for Barcelona. They are still arguably favorites in two competitions and if not for an egregious missed penalty call in the final minutes against Atletico, they would still be in the Champions League. Barcelona could still achieve a domestic double at the end of the year, but to do so, their front three must to return to their electrifying best. Ryan Schneiderman is a sophomore majoring in computer science. Ryan can be reached at ryan.schneiderman@tufts.edu.

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Tufts splits NESCAC games, thanks to Nowak’s last-minute goal by Phillip Goldberg Sports Editor

The women’s lacrosse team rebounded from Saturday’s heartbreaking 7-6 loss to No. 8 Amherst to defeat No. 9 Bates 6-5 on Tuesday in its last game on Bello Field this season. The Bates win brings No. 18 Tufts’ record to 7-6 overall and 3-5 in the NESCAC. Amherst is now tied with Colby for third in the NESCAC with a 6-2 conference record, while Bates falls to 5-3. Sophomore midfielder Caroline Nowak struggled throughout the Bates game, missing a team-leading eight shots, but her teammates and coach kept faith in her when they allowed her to take the last shot of regulation with 10 seconds remaining in the game. Her last-minute goal from the right of the net earned the Jumbos the win, preventing overtime against a tough NESCAC opponent. “It was really nice because I hadn’t necessarily been shooting my best game,” Nowak said. “It was great because at the end of the game, even though I didn’t have the best performance, my teammates had my back. They gave me the ball, and they had the confidence in me to be able to take that shot.” With the score tied at five and only a few minutes remaining, the Jumbos were able to gain possession and begin running out the clock for the last shot. However, Bates senior tri-captain Mikaela Bradley caused a turnover and corralled the ball for her team. Within the minute, the Jumbo defense was able to knock the ball away from junior Sydney Cowles and a mad dash for the ground ball ensued — both teams aware that they were fighting for the final possession. The scramble ended when Tufts first-year Hedy Veith finally came up with the ball and coach Courtney Farrell called timeout with 1:16 left in the game.

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Tufts midfielder Megan Toner (LA ‘19) dodges an enemy defender after recovering the ball in the game against the Hamilton Continentals on Saturday, April 9. “I think our defensive unit has really come together, and we have a lot of young leaders on the team,” senior tri-captain Brigid Bowser said. “Hedy [Veith] is just an amazing defender, and she’s really stepped up in a leadership role on defense. Our defensive unit is just very strong; it’s one of the strongest units I’ve played with in four years here.” The Jumbos came into the second half trailing 3-2. At 20:42, Bates junior Kaileigh Maguire fouled Bowser who netted the ensuing free position shot. First-year attacker Dakota Adamec won

the draw for Tufts and, despite a pair of errant shots from Nowak, the Jumbos maintained possession long enough for Bowser to earn her second goal of the day at 18:07. Bowser’s goal put the Jumbos ahead, and they would not trail for the remainder of the contest, as they traded goals with the Bates Bobcats until time expired. “I think what we really did well in the last game was we would make a mistake and then pick up on someone else’s mistake, so if we had one turnover the defense would get the ball back,” Nowak said. “I

think we’ve really worked on that, and that’s why we won the last game.” Senior attacker Alex Briody evened the score for the Bobcats at 13:08, but Tufts junior Kate Mackin answered back with her 11th score of the season and second of the day on an assist from Adamec just over two minutes later. Mackin scored her first goal — and the first of the game — at 26:12 in the first half. Adamec was the only other Jumbo to score in the period. Despite the relative lack of see WOMEN'S LACROSSE, page 11

MEN'S CREW

Tufts impresses in last meets before New England Championships by Soven Bery Staff Writer

This weekend, the Tufts men’s crew team competed against Middlebury at Malden River on Saturday and traveled to Worcester on Sunday to race against the host Worcester Polytechnic Institute ( WPI), Skidmore College and Washington College. The Jumbos won three out of four races against their NESCAC opponent Middlebury Panthers and finished second only to the WPI Engineers in Sunday’s regatta. The competition started on Saturday with a set of straight 2,000-meter home races against Middlebury to celebrate Seniors Day. According to Row2k, the conditions were “messy but rowable,” with a consistent 10-15 knot headwind with some white caps that contributed to those rocky conditions. Tufts beat Middlebury in the first varsity eight, novice eight and second varsity four. The Panthers were only able to best the Jumbos in the first varsity four. In the first varsity eight, the Jumbos were able to finish the course in 7:10.64, close to a minute slower than last weekend and a testament to how the con-

ditions affected this meet. However, Middlebury was much less equipped for the conditions as they finished in 7:46.95. The varsity four results were split, and the novice Jumbos finished almost a minute before the Panthers. “This was an exciting and successful weekend for Tufts crew … having an open water win under our belts motivated us to continue that performance in the second varsity eight against WPI and Washington College on Sunday,” senior Jackson Horwitz, who rowed in the bow seat of the second varsity four, told the Daily in an email. Tufts beat WPI in the novice eight and beat Washington College in the third varsity eight but dropped two very tight races in the varsity eight and the second varsity eight to WPI. In the varsity eight, Tufts was leading WPI for the first 1,200 meters of the race, but a last second surge in the final 500 meters allowed the Engineers to cross the finish line a mere 3.7 seconds ahead of the Jumbos. WPI completed the course in 5:56.89, while Tufts was right behind them with a time of 6:00.59. In another frustratingly tight race in the second varsity eight, WPI

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The Tufts crew team rows against Middlebury College on Malden River on April 16. edged Tufts by half a second, 6:06.82 to 6:07.35. “We didn’t have a fantastic start so we were a full boat length down on WPI at the 500-meter mark, but we kept our composure and walked through WPI in the middle 1000 meters, pulling ahead by two seats with 600 meters to

go. It was a phenomenal race all the way to the line, and it came down to the last few strokes,” Horwitz, who switched to the second varsity eight boat for Sunday’s races, said. “WPI pulled ahead with four strokes to go see MEN'S CREW, page 11