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The Tufts Black Alumni Association ( TBAA) launched a demo of its new website at a Boston regional alumni event held in the Remis Sculpture Court last Friday. TBAA President Biodun Kajopaiye (LA ’07) said the new website, developed by Tufts alumna Kristen Ransom (LA ’13), was created to make space for an “opportunities board” where alumni can make posts about job opportunities, internships and fellowships that are open to students. “My approach for TBAA is low intensity but high impact,” Kajopaiye said. “I want to create low-intensity opportunities that alums can participate in that can have significant impact on the alumni association and current students without having them feel overwhelmed in participating.” TBAA, a chapter of the Tufts University Alumni Association, aims to maintain the bond between Black alumni and students on campus through programming and events, according to Tufts Alumni’s website. “Our mission is to connect Tufts alums with undergraduate students… and maximize opportunities for their future,” Kajopaiye said. According to Groom Dinkneh (LA ’13), a TBAA member who works as a mentor in the group’s mentorship program, many students are able to secure internships through the relationships they foster with TBAA alumni. Students involved in the TBAA mentorship program, which was launched in 2014, are not only able to think about the job search earlier while learning from and working with their mentors, he said, but are also able to share experiences that they feel are unique to them as Black students. TBAA Alumni Ambassador Jared Smith, a senior that was a mentee in the TBAA program last year, said he had a positive experience with his mentor, according to an October 2015 article in the Daily. see TBAA, page 2

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A new six-course Environmental Studies (ENVS) minor on food and nutrition systems was approved last month for launch in the fall 2016 semester as part of the ENVS program, which currently includes the fivetrack ENVS major and the environmental science and policy minor offered to engineering students interested in environmental studies. According to ENVS Program Director Professor Colin Orians, the minor will focus on the importance of sustainable food production and access to quality food, among other nutrition-related topics like the current ENVS Track IV major, food systems, nutrition and the environment. “For a number of years, we were hearing students wanting to do a minor focusing on food systems,” Orians said. “Given that we have a strong Nutrition program, it made sense to create an environmental track within the major.” Cathy Stanton, senior lecturer in the anthropology department, is the advisor for the minor, which was developed in consultation with faculty members on the ENVS Executive Committee, the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Friedman School, according to Sara Gomez, assistant director of the ENVS program. According to Gomez, the food system and nutrition minor was created in response to the strong interest about food systems at Tufts expressed by both students and faculty. “We have a number of faculty working on food-related issues in different departments at Tufts…not to mention all the great work being done at the Friedman School of Nutrition [Science and Policy],” Gomez wrote to the Daily in an email. “Within the student community, you will find countless student groups dedicated to food like Food for Thought, Tom Thumb’s [Student] garden, The Tufts Culinary Society, etc.” Orians explained that the “food systems, nutrition and the environment” ENVS major track was very popular among students, often as a double major. “Some students did not fit into a double major with ENVS, so we thought there was room for a new minor,” Orians said.

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Professor of Anthropology Cathy Stanton talks about the development of the new minor, food systems and nutrition, in front of Eaton Hall on April 14. The creation of the minor was the obvious next step to formally bring together faculty and student interest under a common umbrella, Gomez said. “My hope for students completing the minor is to give them a solid and cohesive understanding of our food systems,” Gomez added. “I hope we prime them to start asking questions about the food they are consuming and how it impacts themselves, the environment and the society they live in.” She explained, however, that the task of creating an interdisciplinary program that integrates faculty interests in a comprehensive manner can be tricky. “Colin Orians managed to do just [that] by bringing together a large number of faculty from very diverse departments to put together a proposal last spring,” Gomez wrote. “Almost everyone at Tufts working around food issues was consulted about the minor at some point.” Orians explained that getting the minor approved involved a yearlong process comprised of several meetings with the ENVS Curriculum Committee, which finalized a plan by October 2015. “We started in March last year, kept meeting in the summers and the fall, filled a number of forms and submitted [our proposal] after getting vote of the entire faculty,” he said. Gomez noted that the minor was finally approved last month after many meetings and revisions of the program. She added that Orians has worked closely with a number of people during the development process

including herself, Jennifer Allen of the community health department, Alex Blanchette from the anthropology department, Ujjayant Chakravorty in economics department, Sigrún Svavarsdóttir from the philosophy department, Ben Wolfe from the biology department, Robin Kanarek in the psychology department and professor at the Friedman School, as well as Diane McKay and Ed Saltzman from the Friedman School. Orians agreed that the process of creating the minor was extremely collaborative. “There were quite a few faculty [members] interested in this…so it wasn’t very difficult to initiate this,” Orians said. “I feel Tufts is very receptive to faculty willing to take the lead to create a new program.” According to Gomez, many students seem interested in the new minor. “We are getting fantastic enrollments so far in the new interdisciplinary class that serves as a gateway for the minor,” Gomez explained, referring to the ENV 009 Food Systems course. Gomez explained that the vision behind the ENVS program is to provide a platform where people can teach, conduct research and learn about food issues, regardless of their backgrounds and interests. “Whether students are interested in social sciences or natural sciences, we want to provide a hands-on curriculum that allows students to obtain real-life

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merica needs a new map prioritizing our urban regions. We are as strong as our weakest link, and our urban regions are weakened by municipal and state boundaries, forcing us to think small and plan small. Municipalities and states fight to attract businesses and fund transportation links. Resources are scarce and arguably even scarcer when regions aren’t thinking as a whole. Brooklyn used to be its own city, which itself was a consolidated city from various towns. Eventually, Brooklyn was annexed controversially into greater New York. The Brooklyn Bridge, which Jumbo helped to test, catalyzed this consolidation, and the New York City Subway would eventually connect four of the city’s five boroughs. In other industrialized countries, this kind of regionalization is rather normal. But the United States was only founded because the former colonies agreed to limited federal powers, in order to unite against the British Empire. Most power remained in the state capitals, and in turn, a lot of that power was delegated to municipalities. Moreover, American polarization is often split between liberal urban and conservative suburban interests, with race playing a role that is largely irrelevant in relatively homogenous Europe. Most of America has little interest in public transit. Our 50 states drive our political system, but it is our regions that (literally) drive us. Socially and economically, many Americans are more connected to their regions than their states. Infrastructure lines cross state and national boundaries in order to form metropolitan clusters, but political boundaries make infrastructure spending difficult to coordinate. They also make it difficult to operate services. For instance, the Port Authority’s PATH subway does not physically connect with the New York City Subway; the two systems aren’t even shown together as rapid transit lines on their respective agency maps. And at Penn Station, the country’s busiest rail station, a lack of through-running leads to a lack of service and more congestion and delays. Since creating a 51st state in order to coordinate the New York region is highly impractical, can we reorganize otherwise? As it stands, institutional disconnects are suffocating the Northeastern megalopolis, home to more than 50 million people and 20 percent of America’s GDP, centered around New York. Seventy percent of Manhattan employees commute from outside the borough. The region historically was entirely within New Netherland, but the British split up the area along the Hudson River. Today, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are governed by state capitals that are relatively far from the Big Apple. It’s not just New York. Commuters to Chicago from Indiana need to cross time zones, and commuters to D.C. from Maryland or Virginia can elect to ride the Metro, while D.C. residents can barely elect politicians. State capitals concentrate federal and state resources far from the D.C. metropolitan area and consistently fight to pay less. Moreover, since D.C. is governed by the federal government, which cares about every state more than its own backyard, the Metro is, essentially, a ping pong ball in a black hole. Bridging this institutional disconnect and planning beyond boundaries in order to regionalize will be key to keeping America socially, economically, politically and physically on track in the 21st century.

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“I am still in touch with my mentor to this day, and I definitely would never have met someone from the Class of ’07 without the program,” he said. While other universities have mentorship programs, most do not have anything as comprehensive as what the TBAA, Dinkneh said. Moreover, the TBAA mentorship program allows both students and alums to get more involved with the Tufts community. “A number of students walk away feeling extremely confident,” he said. Although still in its early stages, the website is an important tool to help students of color on campus to break into an increasingly competitive workforce, Dinkneh said. The new demo website was released in the midst of several other TBAA projects. Dinkneh said the TBAA is in the process of reviewing applicants for its mentorship program and will be holding interviews in the next month or so before selecting the next class of students. Furthermore, Kajopaiye said that the TBAA has raised money for the Bruce-Griffey scholarship, award-

them a form of income. This scholarship is named after two female African-American Tufts alumnae who passed away unexpectedly, according to Kajopaiye. He said that the new website has an important role in the progress of these projects. “In this case, we are creating the opportunity…[for students] to get financial assistance, but the job board is related because we’re creating opportunities for people to connect with alums who are willing to support their future interests or their interests in internships in the professional world,” Kajopaiye said. Kajopaiye said that the TBAA is interested in collaborating with all cultural groups on campus to work towards improving the undergraduate experience at Tufts. “The Black experience is a pivotal part of the Tufts experience, and our goal is to make sure that it continues to improve for not only students of color but for all students who step on the Tufts campus,” he said.

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continued from page 1 experiences,” Gomez added. “We want them to have a broad understanding of the food systems while at the same time being able to specialize in a particular area such as sustainable production, policy, nutrition, etc.” Josephine Watson, president of Tufts Food for Thought — a club dedicated to promoting discussion on contemporary food issues — said she believes it is extremely important to study the cultural and historical aspects of food in order to understand the food system in general but also explained that it is necessary to take classes to gain political and economic context. “For this reason, I believe the vision behind the new ENVS minor program is to allow students with a passion for food systems to concentrate on various modern issues surrounding food production and consumption, while also focusing specifically on a major, such as political science, anthropology or economics, that will provide them with applicable skills with which to work on issues within the modern food system,” she said. She expressed positive sentiments on how the new ENVS minor can help Tufts students to approach the intriguing, cross-departmental subject of food

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Environmental Studies Director, Professor Orians, talks about the new food systems and nutrition minor in front of the Jumbo statue on Friday, April 15. systems in a manageable way. “I also feel as though it’s a big step for the university, towards embracing

the subject of food systems as a dynamic new area of study that, due to its relation to sustainability and the well-being

of future populations, is increasingly important in the modern world,” Watson said.

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Beyoncé turns lemons into visual epic ‘Lemonade’ by Cassidy Olsen

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“Ashes to ashes, dust to sidechicks.” Queen Bey is back, everybody. And we aren’t ready for what she’s brought us. Going into Saturday night, very little was known about “Lemonade,” Beyoncé’s hour-long HBO event that had been announced just a week earlier. The special’s mysterious trailer featured the pop icon whispering questions in her distinctive rasp over quick shots of red-tinted rooms, burning rooms and dancers painted with Laolu Senbanjo–inspired Afromysterics face markings, like some experimental fever dream. Everyone was full of questions and predictions. Is it going to be an autobiographical documentary like her 2013 HBO special “Life Is But A Dream?” Or will she just release a lengthy concept video? There were whispers of “visual album,” but the thought was almost too much to bear. Could she really do it again? If you had your money on “musical-visual epic on the nature of infidelity and forgiveness followed by the release of her sixth album” and are still breathing to tell everyone “I told you so — ” congratulations. Not only did you not let the patron saint of the world-stopping digital drop fool you

twice, but you also apparently survived the yaas-queen Tidal wave of emotions for fans (and the internet) that followed the release. Now, take a step back: what did you just watch? As a visual and musical experience, “Lemonade” is divided into 11 sections, each introduced by a title reminiscent of the stages of grief — intuition, denial, anger, apathy, emptiness, accountability, reformation, forgiveness, resurrection, hope, redemption — and separated by spoken word interludes, in which Beyoncé recites adaptations of the works of the Somali-British poet Warsan Shire. Each section has its own visual theme and features an accompanying track off the album. The pre-released “Formation,” the only video that does not fall under a titled section, comes after the short film’s credits, much like “Grown Woman” did in her self-titled 2013 release. Despite this structure and the immensely collaborative nature of the production (which featured the work of six directors led by Kahlil Joseph, not including the artist herself ), “Lemonade” is more cinematic and cohesive than the visual album that accompanied “Beyoncé” (2013). It’s unabashedly experimental, jumpsee LEMONADE, page 7

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Tufts student Jeremy Slavitz prepares to release second game by John J. Gallagher Executive Arts Editor

Tufts Junior and Computer Science Major Jeremy Slavitz has been making video games for years, ever since a promotional giveaway exposed him to Apple’s App Store. Slavitz received an iPod Touch with his first Macbook, beginning his path in game development that has continued in college. “I was playing a lot of games on the iPod Touch, and I became curious about how the games were built, so I looked into XCode,” Apple’s suite of software development tools that can be used to create apps for iOS devices. Back then, [XCode] was super complex, a little bit too complex for me to understand,” Slavits continued. “Eventually, Unity (a cross-platform game development tool) came along, and I built a little game for the iPhone.” Entitled “Wormholes,” Slavitz’s first game was a clone of Valve Software’s hit puzzle game “Portal” (2007) and released in the summer of 2011. A year later, Slavitz released a significant update to “Wormholes” that introduced new levels and in-app purchases (premium content that players could pay to access). According to Slavitz, the updated version received a “non-trivial” number of downloads after its debut on the App Store. Unfortunately for Slavitz, the updated version of “Wormholes” caught the attention of Valve, who felt that Slavitz’s work was a little too similar to their own. “Valve actually eventually found [the game] and told me to take

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Jeremy Slavitz, a junior computer science major, realeased his first game in 2011. He will release his second game this summer. it down,” Slavitz said, and complied, “Wormholes” is now no longer available for download. “After that experience … I wanted to make another game,” Slavitz said.

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nly four months in, I’ve encountered a serious contender for the best episode of television I’ll watch in 2016. This week, my world was rocked by a cinematic, heartbreaking script brought to life by two extraordinary actors — each of them less than half my age. Underground co-creators Misha Green and Joe Pokaski have made a habit of subverting expectations, crafting narratives about enslaved Black people in antebellum Georgia without indulging the White gaze’s fetishization of the mortification of Black flesh, and foregrounding the psychosocial dimensions and insidious, sadistic, self-serving logics of White supremacy. Green often says, “it’s not about the occupation, it’s about the revolution”; indeed, Underground is a showcase of Black resilience, Black ingenuity, Black dignity, Black resistance. As a non-Black person of color, engaging with these narrative themes is essential to my unlearning. And this week, Green and Pokaski reminded me not to overlook the singular horrors of Black childhood in this world. In Underground’s premiere, a mother drowned her newborn to spare him a lifetime of suffering. This week further explores the painful limits this world places upon Black parenthood. Ernestine’s sexual relationship with her White master can’t keep her beautiful little boy in the Big House; James and his uncalloused hands are forced into the cotton fields, where he gradually resolves to give up his “softness,” drink the dirty water to which he is unaccustomed, keep the shout song in his head and make weight. In eventually rejecting his White half-brother and those conciliatory Necco wafers, James reclaims new kinds of dignity, but the triumph is bittersweet: Playtime is over, and Ernestine ultimately cannot protect him from this cruel life. Meanwhile, angelic little Boo finds shelter with two White abolitionists. Instead of a similar progressive loss of innocence, we discover the damage is already done: A series of fairytale-like flashbacks reveal her last tender moments with her father Moses—and then his murder by slave-catchers as he carried her to freedom. As she continues north, her mask now firmly in place, we’re left mourning the sweet girl who brought so much light and hope to those who loved her. With the maturity and nuance of actors several times their age, Maceo Smedley and Darielle Stewart did justice to unflinching writing. I cannot imagine the pain these beautiful children felt reliving, in their own ways, these profound traumas—especially because they resist neat confinement to the distant past. (Smedley’s own grandmother picked cotton, and far brighter minds have written extensively about the ongoing adultification of Black children, especially within the criminal (in)justice system.) But in me, they’ve got a fan for life. Hidden Gems: Renwick Scott (Henry) and that eerie children’s chorus (kudos, John Legend et al) Exhortation: Fellow NBPOC—lend your views/support to these incredible Black industry professionals. Thank you for your labor: Feminista Jones, Bethonie Butler, Shannon M. Houston, Stacia L. Brown, Joshua Alston, Stacy Parker La Melle, Niki McGloster, and all of Black Twitter. Your coverage of this show is invaluable. Vidya Srinivasan is a senior majoring in international relations. She can be reached at vidya.srinivasan@tufts.edu or on Twitter @vidyals.

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Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ features bold, iconic visuals LEMONADE

continued from page 6 ing between aspect ratios and cinematographic styles as it does from black-and-white to color and back again. At times, it recalls the work of midcentury French auteurs like JeanLuc Godard, at others the striking and spare contemporary films of Steve McQueen. Visual themes of fire as destruction, water as rebirth and the overgrown Louisiana landscape as a place of both inescapable history and constant change unite the sections, in addition to incredibly rich visual explorations of Black female power and vulnerability. Throughout the film, Black women of every age are front and center, often wearing white dresses and dominating southern gothic spaces — a motif that was

introduced in “Formation” upon its release in February. In the section titled “Denial” featuring the bouncy Caribbean-inspired track “Hold Up,” Beyoncé emerges from a flood wearing a ruffled mustard yellow gown and begins gallivanting around the city streets, wielding a baseball bat with which she takes out her frustrations on street signs and parked cars. The image is instantly iconic and brings together the film’s celebration of the power of individual Black women with the central current of anger and self-doubt over infidelity. Although the album demonstrates a personal process towards ultimate forgiveness and love, both for her partner and for herself, Beyoncé devotes much time on the album to these dark, painful feelings, leaving many speculating over cheating accusations (and divorce

rumors) directed at her husband and Tidal business partner, Jay Z. The lyric “He better call Becky with the good hair” from “Sorry” in particular has led to an online witch-hunt for designer Rachel Roy, who was rumored to have had an affair with Jay Z in the past. In a wild misunderstanding, poor celebrity chef Rachel Ray was forced to delete her Instagram account after receiving misdirected hate from some confused and aggressive Beyoncé defenders. Regardless of the celebrity reasons (including a major Serena Williams cameo) behind its massive and immediate cultural impact, “Lemonade” holds real weight as an experimental epic, a tour-de-force of style and substance. It also features appearances from the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown holding portraits of their late sons, tying into

the “Formation” support of the Black Lives Matter movement and bringing another degree of social and political weight to the already revolutionary exploration of Black womanhood. The significance of the visual album’s title is elucidated before its final section in a clip from the 90th birthday celebration of Jay Z’s grandmother, Hattie White. “I had my ups and downs, but I always find the inner strength to pull myself up,” she says. “I was served lemons, but I made lemonade.” That process of turning lemons into something sweet is on full display throughout the album; it’s arduous, but Beyoncé doesn’t stop at anything to make it happen. The “Lemonade” visual album is currently available on iTunes, Amazon and Tidal. See the Daily’s full “Lemonade” album review in the 2016 commencement issue.

Jeremy Slavitz’s ‘Metamorphic’ nears release SLAVITZ

continued from page 6 standpoint, because it wasn’t my own idea, [the game] wasn’t at all well-received by the people that were playing it, which was unexpected and a little off-putting.” After finishing work on “Wormholes,” Slavtz, still inspired by puzzle games like “Portal,” began work on a new game, that would be no mere clone but instead would introduce new and innovative mechanics. “There are very few games outside of ‘Portal’ that I really like to play,” he said. “And I feel like that’s because ‘Portal’s’ mechanics are so differ-

ent from basically any other game I’ve seen … I was trying to make a game that emulated the newness of ‘Portal.’” Slavitz worked on his second game on-again-off-again for roughly three years. He initially planned to release the game on iOS but later moved toward the PC, after the game’s complexity grew beyond what would play well on mobile. Slavitz describes his new game, “Metamorphic,” as a “first-person puzzle-platformer that lets the player manipulate physics to get through each puzzle.” This past February, Slavitz listed “Metamorphic” on Steam Greenlight,

a service established by Valve Software that allows gamers to vote on games they would like to be available for purchase on Steam, Valve’s digital storefront. If a game receives a positive reaction on Greenlight, Valve will allow the developer to release its title for sale on Steam. “Metamorphic” received an overwhelmingly positive response on Greenlight, and Valve approved the game for sale roughly a week after Slavitz first listed it. According to Slavitz, “Metamorphic” will likely see release on the PC this summer, after he finishes polishing the final build. Slavitz chose to release his game

through Greenlight, rather than a more traditional arrangement with a publisher because he prefers to work alone. But he is not opposed to working with a publisher to perhaps bring “Metamorphic” to consoles in the future. The innovative mechanics and high production values of “Metamorphic” would make the game a valuable addition to any console’s library of independently developed games. Interested readers can follow the game as it nears its release by visiting metamorphic-game.com or liking the game on Facebook at facebook.com/ morphicgame

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Standardized testing and income inequality In the age of Common Core, standardized testing has taken on a renewed sense of urgency. Success on the tests increasingly determines the rest of one’s path through education and opportunity. Even earlier on than the dreaded SAT, students who are deemed faster learners are separated into separate classrooms where they receive more challenging coursework and, in theory, more enriched learning experiences. This practice has taken on a few different names: “gifted learning,” “tracking,” or as in the case of Boston Public Schools, “Advanced Work Class.” The idea of separating students based on ability and performance stems from a pedagogical truth: students learn at different paces. Yet, the current implementation of tracking programs in public schools, especially elementary schools, separates students more by income than by academic ability. In many large cities like New York and Boston, admission into a gifted learning program is based solely on standardized tests. The system of standardized tests replaced a previously holistic admissions process, which was based more on teacher observations and less on exams. While basing

admissions on standardized testing was intended to make the system fairer, it has instead demonstrated the exact opposite effect. It has been consistently proven that higher-income students perform better on standardized tests. Wealthy students are provided with a much broader range of resources than their lower-income counterparts. They are much more likely to have access to extracurricular activities, summer camps, tutoring and most notably, preschool. Preschool provides children with a greater level of preparedness as they enter the schooling system, giving them a boost up when it comes to being tested and placed into gifted programs. Despite all of this, gifted learning and tracking programs continue to be utilized by many school systems. Some teachers claim that tracking actually makes them better at their job. An article by The Atlantic showed that 43 percent of teachers feel, to some extent, that their classes are too mixed in terms of their ability for them to properly teach. While this is a legitimate concern, it is exacerbated by the fact that many teachers are faced with classrooms of more than 20 students. The

issue of student manageability could thus be better addressed by allocating more money to the American education system, thereby creating smaller classes that are easier to administer. The problem with tracking programs is that they are contributing to a widening achievement gap. Tracking programs begin in elementary or middle school, but the selected students carry the benefits of these programs well into high school and college. Often, lower income students and students of color get the short end of the stick. In one New York district, for example, Black and Latinx students together composed 70 percent of the population, but they were only offered 15 percent of the seats at specialized high schools. These high schools are a gateway to college for many students. If lower-income students are less likely to go to college, they are also significantly less likely to get a job. The unemployment rate for those with only a high school diploma is almost double the unemployment rate for those with a bachelor’s degree. In this respect, standardized programs are not only contributing to the achievement gap but also to the income gap as well with grave consequences.

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Bernie HELP! Tuition costs are rising! BY ALLISON MEROLA

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Rebecca Solomon and Pooja Sivaraman New York Style Dehli

Shortcomings

ebecca: This week, I went home for Passover and was reminded of my shortcomings. My mom sent me out to buy Coca-Cola. As I entered the supermarket, I realized that the sodas I needed were on the highest shelf, and the front layers of them were already taken. I knew that getting a Coke would not be simple. I tried climbing the shelves and even thought about settling for Pepsi, but both seemed impossible. So I flagged down a stranger carrying Doritos and asked him to get them for me. As I held his Doritos, he climbed the shelves and took down two bottles of Coke for me. As a person who is 5 ft. 3 in., being short is a constant in my life. I am used to not being able to reach things. I am not, however, used to being short on other things, like time in this wonderful bubble which we call Tufts. Pooja and I have less than a month left here now. We are so grateful for the friendships and the connections we’ve made. My interaction with the kind, Doritoholding stranger has reminded me that we all must ask for help sometimes, and I am so glad that two of my four years here were spent acting as the Dorito-holding stranger to some of our readers. This column and Pooja have been my Dorito-holding stranger for the past four years, a place to vent and seek advice. With our last column, I’d like to thank our readers and our submitters. Q: Dear NYSD, did you hear about the guy who humped Jumbo? NYSD: Clearly there is a senior out there who realized Jumbo may not be on JumboSmash and really wanted to take advantage of whatever time he had left with our statue. So no, I didn’t hear about him, but to you, Jumbo-humper, good on ya. I hope there wasn’t a tour going on during your hump session. That being said, no one minds turning a trunk day into a hump day. Q: Dear NYSD, I am a heterosexual girl who only seems to fall for homosexual men. What should I do? NYSD: Don’t worry, reader, there are many girls who fall in the same trap. All I can say is, sexuality is a spectrum, so you never know who may or may not be attracted to you — don’t go by first impressions. That being said, consent is also important. Unlike Jumbo-humper, you should ask before you try anything. Hump day is only fun with two consenting adults. Q: Dear NYSD, my roommate cracked an egg on my head today. What’s a good comeback? NYSD: There are several far worse things you can do. Try putting an egg in their pillow or somewhere in their sheets. Wait until they do laundry after a really long time. Stand outside the door. Video tape the reaction. You got this; you’re a warrior.

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There it is readers, the last questions we will ever answer for you. If you still have questions, I’m sure Rebecca and I will still be reading our anonymous Google doc while we’re unemployed in our mothers’ basements. Rebecca Solomon is a senior majoring in international relations. Rebecca can be reached at rebecca.solomon@tufts.edu. Pooja Sivaraman is a senior majoring in economics. Pooja can be reached at pooja.sivaraman@tufts.edu.

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Bernie should drop out for the sake of his revolution by Adam Rapfogel There is tremendous power in the campaign that Bernie Sanders has run, and he’s absolutely right on a great many issues. He’s right that the American economy is rigged. He’s right that climate change is currently the greatest threat to the United States, yet our country has done little to nothing to fight it. He’s right that Wall Street banks need to be reigned in, and he’s right about the costs of war. Most importantly, he’s right that a corrupt campaign finance system stands at the center of many of the most pressing problems our nation faces. But by remaining in the race, he’s actively fighting against a solution to them. Much of his campaign has hinged on the idea of a “political revolution,” a rising up of the working- and middle-classes to take back their country by electing politicians who focus on them, rather than the millionaires and billionaires. Throw in Bernie’s Brooklyn accent and trademark hand gestures, and it’s no wonder that his campaign has seen the level of enthusiasm that it has. In another world, Sanders could take his base into a general election and likely defeat Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. But let’s look at the world we’ve been given: Sanders trails Clinton by 277 pledged delegates, a lead so large that Clinton would remain ahead in pledged delegate count even if she were to lose every remaining primary and caucus by 16 percent. Yesterday, that pledged delegate gap expanded; Sanders lost Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and lost closely in Connecticut while only winning Rhode Island — two states with a total of 103 delegates up for grabs. To put that number in context, Pennsylvania alone has 210 delegates up for grabs, and Maryland has 118. Simply put, Sanders has no viable path to the presidency at this point. His continued presence in the race is largely symbolic, and the thing about symbolic campaigns is that they are just that: symbolic. The time for symbolism is over. To be blunt, when Bernie talks about a political revolution, he is talking about electing progressives and liberals to the House and Senate. People who will fight for the issues at the center of Senator Sanders’s campaign. If Bernie really cares about the type of revolution he has been advocating for, he should ask himself what it will take for such a revolution to actually take

place in light of the dramatic pledged delegate gap. The answer isn’t complicated. For progressives to do well on down-ballot races, two things need to happen: (1) they need to raise enough money to compete against candidates backed by corporate donors, and (2) they need to ride the wave started by the Democrat at the top of the ballot — and that wave must be large enough to help carry them to victory. The first is fairly intuitive: it takes money to get your name out there, and funds raised are the number one indicator of election result. The second is perhaps a bit less clear: when voters have relatively little information about the candidates for a given position, they generally vote for the candidate representing the party that voted for atop the ballot. A political revolution is possible — especially if the Republican candidate is as polarizing a figure as Trump or Cruz — but it takes money and wide margins in the presidential race. Let’s start with money. Currently, the Clinton campaign has just over $30 million in cash on hand. If Sanders continues to fight on, Clinton will have no choice but to continue to campaign aggressively in states featuring upcoming contests. She will be forced to spend millions of dollars in expensive media markets like the ones in California, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. And as her fundraising has slowed in the past few months, she will likely enter general election season strapped for cash. But if Sanders were to drop out of the race tomorrow, she could refocus her efforts away from campaigning and into fundraising in order to raise enough money to flood media markets with ads in support of both herself and down-ballot Democrats in the months leading up to the general election. And how about margins? Well, in contrast to the brutal campaigns run by the Republican presidential candidates, the Democratic race has been quite civil — but despite the relative civility of the Clinton and Sanders campaigns, the Democratic party is deeply divided. As Sanders has attacked Clinton as a member of the “establishment,” many Sanders supporters have made clear that they do not plan to support the former Secretary of State in the general election. Some say that they will write in Bernie Sanders’s name, and others even say they will turn to his ideological opposite in the race, Donald Trump. If large numbers of supporters choose either option,

the number of potential down-ballot Democrat supporters will decrease dramatically. By stepping out of the race before he is mathematically eliminated and powerfully backing Mrs. Clinton, Sanders will send a message to his supporters that sometimes picking the lesser of two evils can lead to a tremendous amount of good. The longer Bernie waits to exit the race, the less time his more ardent supporters will have to accept Hillary Clinton as their new best option to lead to the type of change they seek. That means a decreased chance of the Democrats taking back the Senate and making strides toward taking back the House of Representatives and also a decreased chance of the 45th president being a Democrat. The next president will choose the next two or three Supreme Court appointments, and the party he or she represents may mean the difference between the overturning of Citizens United and continued attacks against the democratic process. For supporters of a candidate who fights so hard for campaign finance reform, sympathetic Supreme Court appointees and a Congress willing to fight to uphold the voting rights of the American people should be the ultimate goal. And by dropping out of the race, Sanders significantly increases the prospects of both of those things. Some say that Sanders should remain in the race so that Democrats will continue to receive media coverage and keep their supporters engaged in the process. But if you’re one of the many who believe this, ask yourself this: would it be so bad if the media focused a bit more on the candidates seeking the Republican nomination? Would it be so bad if independents and former Sanders supporters were overwhelmed by the sheer insanity of Cruz and Trump’s ideas and rhetoric for another month or two? If anything, it would highlight the radical differences between the two parties and demonstrate just how dangerous a Cruz or Trump presidency would be. Kasich supporters would have to suffer through another month-plus of hearing the two GOP frontrunners hurl insults at each other, and many of them would begrudgingly reach across party lines to support Hillary. For some, their decision to support a Democrat for the presidency would lead to them supporting Democrats down-ballot as they see the Republican party leaving them behind. Others say that Bernie should stick it through to the convention to con-

vince superdelegates to reverse course and back him instead. But entering the convention and seeking to convince superdelegates to shift their support him — even though he has received almost 2.7 million votes fewer than his competitor — would be the very type of undemocratic, disgraceful move that he has railed against throughout his campaign. Sanders’s biggest strength has been the perceived genuineness of his desire to make the democratic process reflective of the true will of the people. He’s spoken out against the undemocratic use of superdelegates to determine the party’s nominee, and rightly so. He’s criticized closed primaries and caucuses which prevent millions of voters from participating in either party’s contest. Good for him. If Senator Sanders is willing to enter the convention and try to convince superdelegates to turn their backs on the will of the people, he must be willing to accept that objectionable means can sometimes be justified if they are in pursuit of a morally just goal. With that in mind, how can he justify claiming — as he has throughout his campaign — that “you can’t change a corrupt system by taking its money?” Clearly, even Senator Sanders understands that some ends can justify lessthan-perfect means. I don’t claim to be comfortable with the fact that Super PACs have raised over $60 million for Secretary Clinton over the course of this election — and believe me, I’m not — but at this point, the only viable path to anything remotely resembling Bernie’s revolution relies on the unification of the Democratic party. Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president. That much is clear; the only question is when she can begin to focus her efforts on the general election. For Mr. Sanders and his supporters, the path will not be what they envisioned or hoped for, but in this case, the ends absolutely do justify the means. Bernie should drop out, for the sake of his revolution. Editor’s note: If you would like to send your response or make an Op-Ed contribution to the Opinion section, please email us at tuftsdailyoped@ gmail.com. The Opinion section looks forward to hearing from you. Adam Rapfogel is a first-year student who has not yet declared a major. Adam can be reached at adam.rapfogel@tufts.edu.

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Tufts aims to beat Bowdoin tonight, head into playoffs with momentum WOMEN'S LACROSSE

continued from back ended in a heartbreaking 7-6 loss to Amherst and the second in a redeeming 6-5 win against Bates. Adamec corralled a ground ball at 2:27 and from that moment on she was unstoppable as she clinched the win for the Jumbos. Meek assisted on Adamec’s fourth goal with 53 seconds left in the game, and Adamec controlled the subsequent draw. Thirteen seconds later, Ross found Adamec for her fifth score, effectively ending the contest as her team went up 13-10. Adamec won the final draw, a fitting end to an impressive game from the first-year. “Even when it was happening I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, I just did that,'” Adamec said. “My entire team helped create that moment, and it was completely exhilarating with the win.” “[Adamec] had a great game,” Ross said. “She was named NESCAC Player of the Week, deservedly so. She really just put the team on her back and made the most of her opportunities, which was great. It’s a really good sign. With such a young team, we need people to take control of the game and be leaders on the field and really put the ball in the net.” Adamec came into the contest with five goals on the season, only having played nine games this season due to an early injury. She doubled her scoring total in a single game, adding an assist and three draw controls. After this contest, Adamec, with eight scores, is fourth on the team in goals against NESCAC opponents. “At first, I was battling just trying to find my place on the team as most freshmen or new players will have [to],” Adamec said. “But what our captains and our coach really fostered throughout the season in us is ‘there’s no seniority, there’s no hierarchy, we want you to play to best of your ability so shoot.’” True to form, the Jumbos’ usual leaders had strong games as well. Ross scored twice and assisted twice while Bowser collected four ground balls, assisted a goal and won three draw controls. “As the season’s gone on, I think we are finally starting to find our mojo, or everything is starting to click,” Adamec

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But in the much tighter match on Sunday, Tufts gave another higher-ranked NESCAC opponent a run for its money but ultimately lost to No. 8 Wesleyan 5-4. Despite the defeat, the Jumbos were once again able to take an early lead with their strong doubles play. While Louks and Karamercan lost to the sophomore pair of Eudice Chong and Helen Klass-Warch 8-2 in the first position, Calabro and Iwasaki beat first-year Victoria Yu and sophomore Aashli Budhiraja 9-7. Hayashi and Miller followed that up with an 8-5 victory over sophomores Nicole McCann and Dasha Dubinsky to give Tufts a 2-1 lead heading into singles play. Iwasaki and Calabro followed up their doubles win with victories in each of their single matches. Iwasaki beat McCann 6-0, 6-2, while Calabro saw off Klass-Warch 6-3, 6-2. But Wesleyan’s two strongest players, Chong and Yu, were able to defeat the Jumbos’

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Tufts attacker Caroline Ross (LA ‘16) hits an opponent as she shoots at the net in the game against Middlebury on Saturday, March 12. said. “Our coach [Courtney Farrell] always says ‘the little things are the big things.’ So off the field [and] on the field, we are always trying to support each other. Things are definitely falling into place as NESCACs get near.” Senior goalkeeper Nina Labovich saved seven of 20 shots for the Cardinals while Jumbo first-year Audrey Evers saved two of the 12 shots on goal she saw. Despite winning the turnover battle 14-17, Ross thought the number of turnovers was too high. “We had more turnovers than we usually do, and we just didn’t capitalize on a lot of our opportunities, but in the end we really did pull away and it [was] a good win,” Ross said. Tufts finishes its regular season at Bowdoin (3-6) this evening. For Bowdoin, the game is a must-win to make the NESCAC playoffs, while the Tufts squad looks to cap off its regular season with a win and build some momentum before playoffs.

“My whole career, we’ve had close games with [Bowdoin], and it’s really always a battle,” Ross said. “They’re playing to get a spot in NESCACs so they’ll come out hard, but we are prepared for that.” Although the Jumbos’ opponent in the opening quarterfinals round of the NESCAC tournament depends on this week’s results, the team is currently locked into the seventh seed regardless. They will face the No. 2 seed in the first round, which could be Middlebury, Trinity or Amherst. “I’m so ready to face all of those other teams,” Adamec said. “The team is really getting ready to kick it into high gear against all of these NESCAC teams. I think the team definitely wants to take down any NESCAC team, but in particular Middlebury [and] Trinity because … we knew that we could have beaten them and something just fell through. I think Middlebury will definitely be a revenge game.”

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own seeded players. Chong, the top ranked player in Div. III, beat Louks 6-2, 6-4, while Karamercan fell 6-4, 7-5 to Yu, the nation’s ninth-ranked player. Hayashi lost 6-2, 7-5 against Budhiraja, as Dubinsky avenged her doubles defeat by beating Miller in the singles 6-4, 6-2 to clinch the win for the Cardinals. As the Jumbos look to win their final two regular-season matches against the Bowdoin Polar Bears and the Williams Ephs at home this Saturday to improve their postseason seed, Baum believes that the team’s strengths in doubles make them a tough competitor and enable them to duke it out with the nation’s best teams, many of which also play in the NESCAC. “I think we need to continue our doubles which have been very good this year that’ve continuously been going up 2-1, and taking the lead after the doubles going forward which is important,” Baum said. “I think after that, it’s just a matter of a couple points here and there, and we just have

to continue being gutsy with the big points and going forward, playing to win, playing aggressive.” Baum and Hayashi recognize the significance of this weekend’s conference matches, as they come against two of the NESCAC’s best teams. Bowdoin is 5-2 in conference play, while Williams is 5-1, so Tufts will need to pull off big upsets. Then again, the Jumbos will have home court advantage. “Our goal obviously will be to win both: it will help us tremendously in the NESCACs in terms of our confidence and our ranking — they’d be really big wins for us,” Baum said. “I think we have the talent and confidence to do so. It’s going to be a long day, but we’re going to have fight through it and really be mentally tough going in.” “Especially since [they are] home games and [they are] NESCAC game[s], it gives [us] our last two opportunities to prove ourselves,” Hayashi said. “[To prove] that we’re here, we’re good and we can be [one] of the top teams. So these are super important.”

his past Sunday, my beloved New York Yankees lost a thoroughly uninteresting game to the Tampa Bay Rays. The loss dropped them into last place and saw their highest paid player exit with an injury. Sunday was also the best day of this young baseball season. If not in the Bronx, the thrilling games in Washington, D.C. and in Phoenix reminded me once again how baseball can be so weird, so wild and so unlike any other game we have. In Washington, Bryce Harper continued his Barry “Roy Hobbs” Bonds impression with a game-tying, pinchhit home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. As the game went into extras, the Nationals ran out of available pinch hitters. Such is the curse of playing in the league that still requires players who can’t hit to…well…try to hit. The Twins scored in the 15th, and the Nationals were down to their last out. Oliver Perez was their last hope. Perez had not had a Major League plate appearance since I was an underclassman in high school, and I graduate college in less than a month. He didn’t stand a chance. I listened on the radio as he laid down a bunt. The catcher threw the ball away. Tied game. The Nationals would hit a walk-off home run the next inning. A pitcher who can’t hit had somehow saved the game. Baseball. In Arizona, Paul Goldschmidt hit his own game-tying home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. It was his second homer of the game. Bryce Harper who? As the game meandered through extra innings, both teams began to run out of position players. After the Pirates scored two runs in the 12th, the Diamondbacks were forced to use Zach Greinke, their ace pitcher, as a pinch hitter. He got a hit. Of course he did. Arizona tied the game. For the next inning, they were forced to use another newly acquired hurler, Shelby Miller, as their left fielder. The game began to resemble one of the Little League contests where every player gets to try out every position; these were usually the ones where one kid would be told to play second base and would go and stand on the base until told to move. After Pittsburgh infielder Sean Rodriguez drove in the clinching run on a double, he hit over Miller in left field, and the Pirates turned to Jon Niese, yet another pitcher, as their pinch hitter. Niese would single and drive in an insurance run. Two pitchers. Two pinch-hit singles. The game would end when the Diamondbacks were forced to let two pitchers hit for themselves in the bottom of the 13th. They both struck out. A disappointing end, yes. But even the baseball Gods knew that the impossibilities had to stop eventually. As this season ambles on through the summer, most everyone will forget about these two wacky games on this Sunday in April. The baseball season is long and unforgiving. The sports world moves on to bigger, flashier and newer stories each and every day. Sometimes, I need to take a moment to appreciate the fleeting ones.

Eric Smiley is a senior majoring in mathematics. He can be reached at eric. smiley@tufts.edu.

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Adamec scores five, clinching playoffs for women’s lacrosse by Phillip Goldberg Sports Editor

First-year Dakota Adamec scored five goals against the Wesleyan Cardinals (1-8) to lead No. 16 Tufts (8-6 overall, 4-5 NESCAC) in a 13-10 playoff-clinching win on Saturday. Adamec’s performance earned her NESCAC Player of the Week honors, the first of her career.

Junior Liana Mathias opened the scoring early for the Cardinals with a free position score at 28:23 in the first period, but Adamec answered back with her first goal of the game roughly four minutes later. Senior tri-captain Caroline Ross put the Jumbos ahead 2-1, and the Jumbos never again trailed in the contest. Mathias scored her second of the game to tie the contest, but again, the

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Tufts attacker Dakota Adamec (LA ‘19) moves the ball behind the enemy net in the game against Castleton on Monday, March 7.

Jumbos added two goals in response. First-year Cecily Freliech won the ensuing draw control and notched her 12th goal of the season on an assist from senior tri-captain Brigid Bowser. Firstyear Annie Sullivan extended Tufts’ lead to 4-2 on an assist from Adamec 34 seconds later. Wesleyan controlled the next two draws, and each quick possession ended in a goal for sophomore Julia Black, once again tying the contest up. The Jumbos went on to score three times in a row, including a rapid 10-second possession capped off by a goal from sophomore Jenn Duffy. Jumbo sophomore Caroline Nowak won a draw control and threw it ahead for Ross, who assisted Duffy’s score. Then Sullivan and Ross each earned their second goals of the contest, and the Jumbos led 7-4 with just over eight minutes remaining in the half. Wesleyan junior Becca Phillips got the last score in the period to get her team within two as they went into halftime. Tufts picked up right where it left off in the first half, this time scoring the first goal of the second period when Adamec capitalized on a free position shot two minutes into the period. Exactly a minute later, Cardinal junior Rachel Aronow kept her team close with her own free

position goal, and the teams continued to go back and forth in the fastpaced game. Ross won the draw control, and Nowak scored her 13th goal of the season, bringing the Jumbos’ lead back to three. Tufts first-year defender Hedy Veith was tagged with a yellow card, leading to Aronow’s second goal on a man-up free position shot. Both teams locked down on defense for the next nine minutes and the score remained 9-7 until junior Kate Mackin broke the stalemate at 17:08 on a free position shot. Aronow, taking command of the Cardinal’s offense, scored for a third time at 16:14 to bring the score to 10-8 in favor of the Jumbos. Mathias scored next for her third of the game, bringing the score within one for the first time since 9:14 in the first period. With the pressure mounting, the Jumbos trusted Adamec to shoot with sophomore Taylor Meek feeding her for another score at 4:49. Adamec won the draw control, but senior Emily Gretsky kept the Cardinals within striking distance with a free position score two minutes later. The Jumbos, leading 11-10 now, were in a familiar situation; the team also led by one in the final minute of their most recent two games. The first see WOMEN'S LACROSSE, page 11

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Jumbos see mixed results in always tough NESCAC play by Yuan Jun Chee

Assistant Sports Editor

The No. 15 Tufts women’s tennis team lost two of three games over the past week as it completed the last away match this season. The team’s 9-0 victory over Conn. College on Friday was sandwiched by a 6-3 defeat at Amherst on Wednesday and a 5-4 loss at Wesleyan on Sunday. The Jumbos fall to 10-5 in overall play and 4-3 in conference play. Despite the setback, this season has still seen marked improvement over the last one when the Jumbos went 8-8 overall and 3-5 in the NESCAC. Despite the losses, the Jumbos continue to remain confident after consistently keeping matches against some of the top teams in the country close and competitive. “We’ve had a lot of really close matches this season which have shown that we are a really competitive team. But it is frustrating that we’ve not been fully proved that through a victory,” junior Chelsea Hayashi said. “It shouldn’t affect our confidence going into next week, especially when they’re three-setters, especially because on another day, you never know what could happen — we have the capability and the skills to do well, and even though it stinks to lose, we’d try and take confidence from these losses.” On Wednesday, Tufts faced its toughest challenge this season, No. 5 Amherst. The Jumbos, who have been strong in doubles play throughout the season, failed to take the lead after the doubles matches for the third time this year. While sophomore Lauren Louks and first-year Mina Karamercan beat Amherst seniors Sue Ghosh and Sarah

Monteagudo 8-4 in the first doubles position, Tufts senior co-captain Conner Calabro and first-year Olivia Popa fell 8-5 to No. 20 first-year Kelsey Chen and sophomore Vickie Ip in second doubles. In a thrilling match in the third doubles position, first-year Tomo Iwasaki and junior Jacqueline Baum were finally edged 9-8 (3) by senior Rebecca Pol and junior Avery Wagman, giving Amherst a 2-1 lead after doubles play. In the tightly contested singles matches, the Jumbos pushed their generally higher-ranked Purple & White opponents to three-setters in four of the six matches. The contest was so competitive that it lasted through the sunset, and the teams had to pause play as the sun went down to move indoors, a factor that coach Kate Bayard believes might have affected the outcome. “Amherst was a completely even match that could have gone either way. At the time we had to stop, two of the [singles] matches, [Karamercan’s] and [Hayashi’s], had just split sets, and in both of them we had won the second sets,” Bayard said. “In the other matches that were still on, [Iwasaki] was at 4-4 deuce in the third, and [Louks] 4-4 in the second. Obviously there was no way of knowing how it would have gone if we stayed outside, but it was anyone’s match at that point. When we were back on the next day [on an indoor court], [Iwasaki] had a tough couple of points at the middle of 4-4 and deuce, and certainly the momentum shifted after we went inside. It took [Karamercan] a few games to adjust but battled that out, and [Louks] had it go her way. It was just one of those matches where we were even with them.”

As the two teams moved indoors, Amherst was up 3-2, and any momentum Tufts may have been building for a comeback stalled with the pause in play. Louks overcame a 7-5 defeat in the first-set in No. 1 singles and a delay in matchplay to beat Ghosh 5-7, 7-6 (6) and 6-0. Karamercan, however, was unable to make a similar comeback in the final set in the second position after the restart, losing to Ip, 6-1, 3-6 and 6-4. In No. 3 singles, Iwasaki took the first set against Monteagudo in a tiebreak but eventually fell 6-7 (4), 6-1 and 6-4. Hayashi also also battled to three sets against Wagman before she lost the final set 6-3. She had battled back from a 7-6 (6) first set defeat to take the second 6-1 before the break in play but was unable to continue her comeback after the pause. Calabro was the only other victor for the Jumbos in the singles, seeing off junior Jackie Calla 6-4, 6-2, while Jumbos sophomore Zoe Miller found herself on the reverse side of that same score against Chen. The Jumbos recovered on Friday against the Conn. College Camels, winning all nine of their matches in a dominant victory. Tufts gave up only three games total in doubles play. The LouksKaramercan pair showed their dominance throughout the season with an 8-1 victory over sophomore Aleksandra Drljaca and senior co-captain Charlotte Marcoux 8-1. Iwasaki stepped in to partner with Calabro in the second position, but they seemed to find some cohesion as they locked out the sister pair of sophomore Angelica and first-year Mariah Warren 8-0. In the third position, Hayashi and Miller teamed up to beat first-years Emily Migliorni and Brinley Bartlett 8-2. The singles matches were never really close as five different Jumbos recorded

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Lauren Louks hits the ball during the Tufts women’s tennis matches against Colby on the Voute Tennis Courts on April 1. at least one bagel set in their match ups. Hayashi and Iwasaki both racked up two bagel sets in straight sets 6-0, 6-0 singles victories over Mariah and Angelica Warren respectively. Karamercan and Calabro both won their matches 6-1, 6-0 against Migliorni and Marcoux, while Miller defeated junior Susanna Studwell with a similar score of 6-0, 6-1. Louks also won her match in the first position against Drjlaca 6-1, 6-2, and the Jumbos regained their confidence beating up an overmatched Camels squad. see WOMEN'S TENNIS, page 11