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Medford cancels auction of Native American artifacts, citing federal law

by Alexander Thompson Staff Writer

On the morning of Nov. 17, Medford City Solicitor Mark Rumley, acting at the behest of Medford Mayor Stephanie Burke, requested that Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers remove seven Native American artifacts owned by the Medford Public Library (MPL) from a Dec. 1 auction, according to Rumley.

The seven artifacts from the northwest United States — donated to the MPL in 1880 — included a totem pole valued at $800 to $1,200 and two shaman’s masks both valued at more than $30,000, according to figures since removed from Skinner’s website, but cited in a Nov. 17 Boston Herald article that first reported this issue.

A public notice was released on Nov. 13 by Shab Khan, Medford’s chief budget and procurement officer, announcing the auction.

According to MPL Director Barbara Kerr, the library deemed the objects as “surplus goods” at a meeting of the library’s Board of Trustees in the spring, and the auction proceeds were intended to fund the construction of the new public library.

“I was concerned about what would happen to [the artifacts] while [the library was] moving,” Kerr said. “We thought that

putting them into the auction would be the best solution because it would get them into the hands of someone who could care for them properly.”

Concerns about the auction centered on the fact that the sale may have violated the 1990 Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), according to the Boston Herald article.

Shannon Keller O’Loughlin, executive director of the Association on American Indian Affairs, said that NAGPRA requires federally-funded organizations that possess Native American sacred objects or cultural patrimony to inventory these items and begin to work to repatriate these items to their respective tribes. She added that the sale of these items is considered illegal trafficking and can result in criminal penalties.

O’Loughlin, a member of the Choctaw Nation, said that MPL’s failure to inventory the objects with the federal government and the proposed sale were both illegal.

Rumley said that he contacted Michael Evans, director of American Indian and ethnographic art at Skinner, on the evening of Nov. 14 about the Boston Herald’s inquires, and formally requested the withdrawal of the artifacts Nov. 17.

Burke issued a statement Nov. 19 announcing the move and Rumley issued

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Shelves of books in the Medford Public Library are pictured on Dec. 4. a legal opinion for the city Nov. 20 concluding that the artifacts were protected under NAGPRA. “As soon as [Burke] became aware of the issue, she ordered that these objects be withheld and the law be examined, and that happened the very next morning,” Rumley said.

Burke said that the city is waiting for Skinner to return the artifacts and

has already been contacted by parties volunteering to help the city repatriate the objects back to tribes pursuant to NAGPRA. “Once it was brought to our attention, we take an oath to follow the law, and whether the law be local, state or federal, we will comply with it. That is what our see NATIVE ARTIFACTS, page 2

Dining Services considers combining JumboCash, Rhino Bucks systems

by Jessica Blough News Editor

Tufts Dining Services is exploring the option of combining the JumboCash and Rhino Bucks campus currency systems into a system that would allow students to manage their campus currency on a single card, according to Patti Klos, director of Dining and Business Services.

Klos said that this process would entail combining the Tufts ID and the Rhino Card into a single ID card, getting approval for these cards, purchasing new card stock and determining when the cards would be distributed to students. This change would require most incoming School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts students to switch to the new ID. “We have a pretty good understanding of what the various steps are that would be required to combine IDs, which actually means issuing a different kind of ID, and typically we would try to phase that in over

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several years and each new class matriculates,” Klos said. “Ideally, we could work on this in the coming semester and the summer to be ready for next fall.”

The JumboCash and Rhino Bucks systems existed on the Medford/Somerville and the Fenway campuses, respectively, before Tufts purchased the SMFA, according to Klos. While JumboCash can be spent with a Tufts ID, Rhino Bucks require students to carry a separate card, according to Taoli Shen, a first-year combined degree student who uses Rhino Bucks.

“There’s not really enough food for students at the SMFA, so we have to scavenge for food ourselves at places around the campus, and fortunately there are a lot. At many of them we can use Rhino Bucks to buy food there,” Shen said.

Shen said that these places currently do not accept JumboCash.

The Rhino Card is only used to make purchases with Rhino Bucks. There is no way for students to directly transfer Rhino

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Bucks to JumboCash or vice versa, according to Laura DaRos, assistant dean of student affairs at the SMFA. “Both programs wanted … the ability to have a campus debit card that was a convenient way to access funds on your Tufts ID, which you’re really expected to carry with you at all times,” Klos said. “It’s convenient to have this program, but we’re in this place where because the two schools have merged, can we successfully merge those two cards together?”

Rhino Bucks is part of the Boston Campus Cash network, according to DaRos. The program allows students to use their Rhino Bucks to make purchases at over 80 businesses in the Fenway area, including restaurants, grocery stores and art supply stores, DaRos said. The Campus Cash website lists 64 participating establishments.

“The reason why people liked Rhino Bucks so much is because you could use it for things at outside places, like a restaurant, that accepted Rhino Bucks,” Gabriella Melchiorri, a junior BFA student, said.

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“Geographically, I don’t know if it makes sense for those businesses to also take JumboCash, which is mainly used in the Medford/Somerville area,” DaRos said.

“For SMFA students, Rhino Bucks make sense, because they’re for the places right in their neighborhood.”

The company that managed the Boston Campus Cash system, CardSmith, was acquired by Blackboard, the company that manages JumboCash, in 2014, according to a press release. Klos said that merger could make a transition to a singular currency more convenient.

Klos added that combining the cards will require several pieces.

“One piece is the ID itself and the way that card is encoded, another is the software in the background that’s used to supply services, and the third component are the devices or card readers that are used around

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continued from page 1 oath was and that is how we will operate,” Burke said.

Skinner determined that the most expensive artifacts, the two shaman’s masks, came from the Tlingit people.

Desiree Duncan, manager of the native lands and resources department in the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, told the Daily in an email that the masks in question appeared to be Tlingit, and that the department will be submitting a NAGPRA claim for the objects after it is determined which categories the objects fall under.

Darren Lone Fight, a lecturer in American studies at Tufts and member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, said he was surprised when he learned of the attempted auction of the artifacts.

“This seemed like a pretty clear violation of federal law,” Lone Fight said. “When I had read about it, I was surprised not only because it seemed to indicate an ignorance of federal policy regarding cultural artifacts of Native peoples but also that it seemed to be being sold just for short term profit.”

Kerr said the MPL had discovered the artifacts in the mid-1990s and had then stored them securely, but was unaware of its obligations under NAGPRA. “That is something the auction house should have picked up. We trusted to their expertise with the legalities; we trusted that they’d read the fine print and do the research and they didn’t,” Kerr said. “If they had, we never would’ve gotten to the point of putting things in the auction because we would’ve [known] that we fell under NAGPRA.” When Rumley asked Skinner if the objects were covered by NAGPRA and if the city was violating the law, he said Evans told him that the act is not applicable for

libraries and for artifacts that were “crafted for sale.”

However, Chip Colwell, senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, who has written extensively on NAGPRA, said that if the library receives any federal dollars, the act applies. Colwell also questioned Skinner’s claim that NAGPRA does not cover Native American artifacts that were “crafted for sale.”

“There’s nothing that I know of in the law that says that if an item is made for sale or turned into a commodity in any way, that it is not subject to the law,” he said.

Colwell said that the law’s original goal was to establish a process by which Native American artifacts — many of which had been procured by theft, fraud or grave robbery — would be returned to tribes.

“I’ve seen through my research that largely repatriation restores a sense of dignity to native community members.

It allows them to embrace their humanity and their human rights to control their own heritage, and it can lead to spiritual healing, even physical healing,” Colwell said.

O’Loughlin said that Skinner has an ethical and professional obligation to provide due diligence to prevent this from happening.

“I look more down on Skinner … for taking these items from a public institution. Medford has that legal responsibility but Skinner also has a responsibility not to sell stolen items, not to sell items that are obligated under law to be repatriated,” she said.

Skinner CEO Karen Keane declined to answer questions but provided the Daily with a statement from the auction house.

“Skinner Inc. recognizes and respects the importance of objects of material culture to the indigenous people who created

them and whose heritage they represent.

Skinner Inc. also respects and complies with [NAGPRA] and all federal laws governing the transfer of tangible property,” the statement read.

The artifacts in question were originally donated to the MPL by James G. Swan, a Medford resident who went to Washington state and became an U.S. Indian agent and ethnographer, according to Kerr.

“He has a very good reputation as somebody who bought stuff from the people who made them,” Kerr said.

Lone Fight said that Swan was one of the first collectors of artifacts for the Smithsonian Institution, learned the Chinook language and occasionally advocated for local tribes, but was someone who was “intemperate.”

“It’s very difficult to say whether something sold under duress to an Indian agent who has a significant amount of power over the group of people can be sold in good faith,” Lone Fight said.

Mindy Nierenberg, senior director of programs at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and 15-year Medford resident, wrote a petition against the auction when she heard of the news on Facebook.

Nierenberg took students on eight trips to the Navajo Nation as part of a class she co-taught at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and said her Navajo friends still suffer from the effects of generations of discrimination.

“Although the artifacts in Medford are not Navajo, the issues are the same in their unjust ‘collecting’ by profiteers and museums,” Nierenberg told the Daily in an email. “I think the City needs to reflect on how the original decision to have the auction was made so that poor decision-making processes are minimized in the future.”

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continued from page 1 campus and at various merchants in our host cities that accept either Rhino Bucks or JumboCash as a form of tender,” she said.

Shen said that a combining of the campus currency might face backlash from SMFA students.

“Rhino Bucks [is] the official currency for the SMFA, and they don’t want to give that up and use JumboCash because that

sounds like they’re giving in to that system, like they [are abandoning] an aspect of identity of SMFA students,” he said.

Klos explained that merging of the currencies is a way to increase fluidity between the campuses.

“The SMFA, it’s important that they maintain their identity,” Klos said. “But I think in many ways because the SMFA is part of the university, and more importantly part of the [School] of Arts and

Sciences, the more that we can make moving between those worlds as seamless as possible is highly desirable, giving everyone the same access to the same kinds of things in one ID card.”

Melchiorri said that the potential merging of the campus currency will not have a meaning impact on SMFA students.

“I don’t think people will be upset by it, I just think it might become a nostalgic thing in the future,” she said.

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Lawrence Memorial Hospital closes emergency room, extends urgent care hours

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MelroseWakefield Healthcare announced that it will be closing the emergency room at Medford’s Lawrence Memorial Hospital (LMH) but extending the hours of the hospital’s urgent care services, according to an email sent to LMH staff by MelroseWakefield CEO Sue Sandberg. While LMH serves students treated by Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS), the closure will not affect TEMS procedure, according to Zay Smolar, executive director of TEMS. MelroseWakefield Healthcare has a clinical affiliation with Tufts Medical Center through the health care consortium Wellforce, according to MelroseWakefield Healthcare’s website.

Sandberg’s email was forwarded to the Daily by Rob Brogna, a spokesperson for MelroseWakefield Healthcare. The Medford Transcript reported that Sandberg sent the email on Nov. 7.

Sandberg said in the email that the closure was due to a recent decline in emergency room visits at LMH. It has become the least-used emergency room in the state

in FY18 due to several other emergency departments in the area, according to Sandberg’s email.

“Increasingly, we’ve seen evidence that patients want healthcare closer to home and outside of a traditional hospital setting,” Sandberg wrote. “The Lawrence Memorial Hospital satellite emergency facility receives less than one patient on average an hour during the daytime, and less than one patient total, on average, between the hours of midnight and 7 a.m.”

According to Sandberg, the hospital’s urgent care facility, which will be open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and extend its current operations by 36 hours per week, will be staffed by the facility’s current emergency medicine providers.

“We will be the only urgent care provider in the area offering this level of expert, extended-hour service to the greater Medford community,” she wrote.

Sandberg also said that LMH will provide more specialized care in lieu of the emergency services, including care for people with diabetes and for issues specific to women’s health. She added that there will be a greater focus on advanced

outpatient care, as well as internal and family medicine.

“These changes reflect the direction the healthcare industry is taking as patients want to remain, and be cared for, in their communities by local, expert providers,” Sandberg wrote.

The hospital’s closure will not affect TEMS procedure because TEMS does not provide transportation services, according to Zay Smolar, a senior.

“If we have patients who need to be transported, either Armstrong Ambulance or Cataldo Ambulance usually transports them to whatever’s the most appropriate hospital,” Smolar said. “The closest hospital in Medford is Lawrence Memorial, so if someone gets transported by Armstrong Ambulance in Medford, the uphill side of campus, they usually will go to [LMH] unless they need some special service.”

Tufts’ Executive Director of Health and Wellness Services Michelle Bowdler said that the closure of the emergency room at LMH would not affect Health Service procedure, noting that there are several emergency rooms in hospitals near

Tufts, including ones at Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge Hospital and Winchester Hospital.

“I don’t think it’s going to have an impact on [the] health and safety of our students in a way that I feel deeply worried about,” Bowdler said.

Marianne Coscia, a nurse manager at Tufts, explained that she plans to be in contact with the nurse practitioner at LMH to discuss the change in services.

Coscia added that urgent care facilities can provide many of the same services as emergency rooms, including assessments of broken bones or pneumonia.

According to Bowdler, the closure will also not affect procedure in mental health emergencies because these cases are already treated at other hospitals with facilities better equipped for this problem. She added that Tufts plans to continue its relationship with LMH. “Our relationship with LMH has always been excellent [and] collegial,” Bowdler said. “We are lucky in being near so many wonderful hospitals and having such high quality medical care that is adjacent to us.”

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Campus tour guides express concern that lack of compensation limits financial diversity

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Third-year BFA + BA/BS combined degree student Martina Tan, an Admissions tour guide, recounts the history of Tufts’ mascot, Jumbo, to a group of prospective students outside Packard Hall on Nov. 15.

By Ellie Murphy

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For many prospective college students, a positive campus tour experience is the deciding factor for whether they ultimately choose to apply. This holds true at Tufts, where many students cite their tour as the reason for their application. For first-year Sarah Unterberger, her tour was a significant factor in her decision to apply early decision.

“My tour guide described how curious and passionate the students are [at Tufts]. I knew I wanted to be a part of that community,” Unterberger said.

Since tour guides play such critical roles in the admissions process, becoming one is highly competitive. The students who are ultimately selected are required to participate in several training tours, during which they shadow a current tour guide.

Not only are tour guides expected to showcase the university in the brightest light, but they are also responsible for knowing history and statistics about Tufts’ campus to provide prospective students with this valuable information. According to first-year Rachel Wang, a current tour guide applicant, tours last between an hour and an hour-and-a-half. Tour guides are required to lead several tours each semester, meaning that students who participate in the program typically devote a large amount of their time to showcasing Tufts.

Dean of Admissions and Enrollment Management Karen Richardson explained that tour guides play an essential role in the admissions process.

“We depend on our tour guides and appreciate the dedication and enthusiasm that they bring to their roles.

They help to bring the best of Tufts to life for our applicants and visitors,” Richardson said.

As Tufts tour guides are considered volunteers, they do not receive pay. This differs from many other NESCAC schools, including Amherst, Bowdoin and Trinity, where tour guides have similar responsibilities and are paid for their work.

While there are differing opinions around the issue, some current tour guides at Tufts believe that, because students are passionate about sharing their college experience with prospective students, Admissions can continue offering the position as a volunteer job.

Junior Hannah Read, a current tour guide, feels that the large number of applicants for tour guide positions provides no incentive for Admissions to make the position paid.

“I think Tufts can bank on the drive and passion of students and can get far enough and meet the Admissions department’s goals without paying as much as it should,” Read said. “I believe that Tufts students who want to … be tour guides are so driven and excited that there has historically been a high enough number of people interested … [to offer the position] without pay.

Many Tufts [tour guides] might not have to worry about financial security.”

While offering the tour guide position as a volunteer role ensures that applicants are genuinely passionate about showcasing Tufts to prospective students, it may also deter students who are unable to dedicate such a significant amount of time without compensation. First-year Sarah Lilian explained that she ultimately decided not to apply for the position because it would require a significant commitment for which she would not be paid.

“I seriously considered being a tour guide when I first heard about the opportunity, but once I looked further and realized it was a volunteer position, I decided against pursuing it,” Lilian said. “It would be too difficult to manage my job, my workload, classes and clubs with volunteering to be a tour guide. If it were a paid position, I would have participated because [I’d] love sharing my experience at Tufts.”

Read added that in maintaining a volunteer-only tour guide position, the university sacrifices financial diversity in its admissions process.

“By keeping the position unpaid, Admissions is limiting [the] financial diversity [it presents] to potential new students,” she said. “In keeping the position a high-commitment, volunteer activity, many voices that comprise the Tufts student body who have unique experiences to share are limited because of financial constraints.”

Read noted that she sometimes wonders whether being a tour guide has been worthwhile, since she does not receive compensation for her significant time commitment.

“I … have often considered whether or not it is worth it to keep participating in the program when I could spend the time picking up another shift at my on-campus job or have more flexibility in my class schedule, since most tours are during the most popular class-time blocks,” Read said.

Richardson noted that universities that pay their tour guides require them to have more responsibilities than they hold at Tufts. She added that Tufts is not the only university to offer the position as volunteer-only.

“It is true that most NESCAC schools pay their tour guides, although some require students to perform additional admissions-related duties beyond tours. However, it is important to note that we have significantly more visits per year — approximately 55,000 — than other NESCAC schools,” Richardson said. “And a number of other universities that also have high annual visitation, such as Boston University, Boston College, Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University [in St. Louis] and the University of Virginia, to name a few, also do not pay their tour guides.” see TOUR GUIDES, page 5

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continued from page 4 Richardson explained that the Admissions staff regularly meets with tour guides to give them an opportunity to address any concerns to to improve the experience for other tour guides.

“We know that some tour guides have raised questions about the program and have suggested changes. We’re reaching out to those students directly to set up a meeting to discuss their concerns and ideas,” Richardson said.

Richardson added that paying tour guides would significantly impact the Admissions budget. She noted that tour guides learn valuable skills, includ-

ing in public speaking, which provide a different form of reward.

“Practically speaking, paying tour guides would add a considerable expense to the Admissions budget,” Richardson said. “We know that many former tour guides say that volunteering to lead large groups and to speak publicly about life at Tufts was a valuable and rewarding experience that helped them build confidence and skills that they have used in their post-collegiate careers.”

Read agreed that tour guides gain important skills from the experience. She added that speaking to high school students is rewarding for her, since the college application process can be difficult.

“Being a tour guide gives me the opportunity to share a little bit about my time at Tufts with potential students. I like to think that being a tour guide allows me to be a part of the college selection process and my take can help people find a great fit for college, even if that means figuring out Tufts is not for them,” Read said. “Being a tour guide allows me to share which of my personal experiences stick with me, and maybe some of those experiences will resonate with people looking for a place to go for college. After each tour, I find myself feeling excited about Tufts and love the idea that others could be excited about it, too.”

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Democrat had not won a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona since 1988 — only two years after John McCain began his 30-year career in the Senate — when Dennis Deconcini was reelected to a third and final term. Arizona has long been seen as a solidly red state, with the exception of the 1996 Clinton election, with roots in the western vein of American conservatism focusing on liberty, limited government and the legacy of Barry Goldwater. With its expanding urban centers and rising Hispanic populations, Arizona has been trending bluer in recent years, and many see it as a toss-up state in the 2020 presidential election. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema’s victory last month only confirms the worst fears of Republicans.

Sinema was born in Tuscon, Ariz., and her family’s stability quickly unraveled from there. After her parents divorced, Sinema’s mother remarried and moved her and her siblings to a small town in the Florida Panhandle. After Sinema’s stepfather lost his job, her family lived for three years in an abandoned gas station.

After graduating high school as valedictorian at age 16, Sinema attended Brigham Young University. Having been raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Sinema felt she would attend a traditionally Mormon school. Sinema graduated from BYU at age 18 and left the Mormon church.

She obtained her master’s, doctorate and law degrees from Arizona State University.

After years of working as a business law professor and social worker, Sinema was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona Senate in 2004 and 2010, respectively. Following the 2010 redistricting of Arizona’s congressional districts, Sinema was drawn into the newly created 9th District. In the 2012 Democratic primary, she positioned herself as a pragmatic centrist Democrat who had worked with Republicans in state government to get things done. She won the primary in a three-way race with more than 40 percent of the vote.

Sinema’s tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives made her a rising star in Arizona politics. She was ranked one of the most bipartisan members of the House. When Jeff Flake announced in 2017 that he would not seek a second term in the Senate, Arizona Democrats knew that Sinema was their best choice to wrest a Senate seat from Republican hands.

The 2018 U.S. Senate race in Arizona was unique in many ways: It was the first time two women were on the ballot for a Senate seat from Arizona. President Trump made countless stops to support Republican candidate Martha McSally, and the recent death of Sen. John McCain loomed large. On election day, incumbent Republican governor Doug Ducey won in a landslide, while Sinema clinched a narrow victory, meaning that hundreds of thousands of Arizonians cast a ballot for both a pro-Trump governor and a Democratic woman for the U.S. Senate.

President Trump’s disdain for both Flake and the late McCain were poison pills for McSally in her election, and Arizona’s changing demographics will likely make it a target for Democrats in two years, when they try to unseat Trump himself.

Matt Rice is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Matt can be reached at matthew.rice@tufts.edu.

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Zachary Hertz and Brady Shea Cheeses of Suburbia

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achary Hertz (ZH): It’s the final edition of your favorite dairy-based review of decade-old music, the Cheeses of Suburbia! This week it’s just your hosts, two seniors who listen to pop punk and eat junk food because it’s cheaper than therapy. Before we get into Green Day’s “Dookie” (1994), I’ve prepared homemade mozzarella sticks! It’ll be hard to stay impartial here, but Brady, what are your thoughts?

BS: They’re so flavorful. I can taste Parmesan, and it’s not greasy — definitely better than most of the places we’ve had.

The cheese could’ve been more melted, probably by cooking it at a lower temperature. I’ll go with an 8/10 because the cheese could’ve been better and the sticks are small, but the breading is good.

ZH: I’m flattered. Maybe I can make this into a career? I was skeptical about the Parmesan, but it adds much-needed flavor to the crunch. Good thing this album is short because it’s late.

BS: Also, my cold medicine is kicking in.

ZH: Then the first song probably describes us, right?

BS: “Burnout”? I’ve been burnt out since sophomore year. So many songs on this album are so stupid in concept, but I love it.

I think it gives it a kind of charm. The guitar riffs are simple but the bass riffs are super intricate, and this album is one of the reasons I’m a stan for the bass.

ZH: “Chump” fascinates me — at the end, when he [Billy Armstrong] says, “I’m a chump,” it’s unclear if it’s a self-aware admission or a bitter, ironic statement. It’s driven by a manic energy that really characterizes this album and Green Day in general.

BS: I love the way everything explodes at the end until only the drums are left, transitioning smoothly into “Longview.”

Mike Dirnt wrote this while tripping, wrote most of it down and pieced together the rest. “Welcome to Paradise” is about Green Day’s move to California. It starts with them hating it, then turns into “Some call it slums, some call it nice,” then ends on “For some strange reason it’s now / Feeling like my home / And I’m never gonna go.” Seeing this song live was one of the highlights of my life.

ZH: That “Basket Case” and “She” are iconic singles with staying power, and in an already well-produced album, makes for 10 insane minutes.

BS: “F.O.D.” is so aggressive. It stands for “Fuck off and die.” I don’t know who they were angry at or why they were angry, but it’s really funny.

ZH: I can’t say anything new about this album, but it’s a well-produced classic that’s a standout for a major label debut. 8.5/10.

BS: This is the first album I ever owned — my dad got it for me. Even today, I listen to this music, and it’s pretty cool to be able to say I knew Green Day before “American Idiot” (2004). It’s immature at times, which hasn’t aged too well, but in terms of influence and personal enjoyment, I can’t give it any lower than a 9.

ZH: To take your own cheesy tour through a selection of pop punk, check out our playlist of highlights.

Zachary Hertz is a senior studying political science. Zach can be reached at zachary.hertz@tufts.edu. Brady Shea is a senior studying computer science. Brady can be reached at brady.shea@tufts.edu.

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘The Favourite’ is pity, fear, hilarity all in one

by Setenay Mufti Arts Editor

“The Favourite,” the newest dark comedy by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, also known for “The Lobster” (2015) and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (2017), is best walked into blind. Although the film’s concept is simple enough, a power struggle between a maid and her cousin in an 18th century English court, Lanthimos brings his distinctive style and surreal darkness to a period drama that is anything but predictable.

That being said, those that have experienced, or perhaps fallen victim to, Lanthimos’ disturbing imagination will enjoy the comparable light-heartedness of “The Favourite.” The setting is the court of Queen Anne, a real historical figure portrayed with brutal pitifulness

by Olivia Colman. England is at war with France, and everyone from landowners to politicians and prime ministers put increasing pressure on the Queen to make decisions about it: namely, whether she ought to make a peace treaty immediately and put an end to an unpopular and costly war or raise taxes even more to ensure one more victory and put the nation in a better position for negotiations. But the only voice she seems to care about is that of her advisor and close friend Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz). It is immediately clear that, although Anne has the final say in every matter, she is hopelessly incompetent and sickly, leaving a razorsharp Sarah to influence her in every matter from politics to cosmetics.

Enter Abigail Hill (Emma Stone), a bright-eyed young woman fallen on hard times, who happens to be Sarah’s cousin and has come to the court to get a job as a maid. When Abigail assists Anne during a flare-up of gout, she is invited into the Queen’s favored circle, much to the annoyance of Sarah. It doesn’t help that Abigail also allies herself with the landowners pressing for a treaty while Sarah is hell-bent on raising taxes to fund more wartime glory. But when Abigail learns of Sarah and Anne’s true relationship and the power and wealth it has afforded her cousin, she realizes she must gain the love of Anne as well if she is ever to improve her station — in whatever way she can.

Lanthimos did not write this script, but his trademark stilted dialogue between characters remains present.

While the emotionless, deadpan delivery of Lanthimos’ actors often gives a feeling of unease in his films, it feels more natural here; everyone in the court gives the impression of dignity and nonchalance anyway, even if the

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A promotional poster for ‘The Favourite’ is pictured. illusion is swiftly shattered. Lanthimos’ varied and often distorted camerawork emphasize the importance of appearance and how it can be bent or misshapen, just as the supposed values of the main characters — status and loyalty for Abigail, patriotism for Sarah. But the 18th century court society is an easy target; here, men wear ridiculous wigs and makeup while wagging their canes with authority and, in a terrifying bacchanal sequence, discuss policy while throwing fruit at a naked man in the same room . It is not as groundbreaking or daring as the social criticisms in “The Lobster,” which tackles love and dating culture, and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” which takes the brutal fatalism of a Greek tragedy and sicks it on modern upper-class life.

But “The Favourite” is far more lighthearted and commercial, even if it ends with lingering darkness. This is partly due to the hilarious script, written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara. Full of profanity and bluntness, the best moments of this movie are the funny ones. The erotic ones come in close second; Lanthimos is a master at weaving sexuality into his plot in totally new and unique ways, and this is no exception, even if you already know the real history of Queen Anne’s affairs that this movie is based on. Colman is the clear star of the show, playing a woman who is as bratty as she is tragic, and Stone gives the role her all in her most dynamic performance since “Birdman” (2014). It is biting in its humor and its sadness, and the brash one-liners will stick in your head just as long as its horrifying final minutes.

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A call for a more equitable course registration process As enrollment time creeps closer, you can feel tensions rise. Every Jumbo knows that 15-minute scramble right before you hit the “Enroll” button, and that horrible feeling when the class you desperately needed to take is full — and so is the wait list. Senior year is a time to fill all those major and distribution requirements you have avoided for the past three years, but allowing first-year School of Engineering students to register before seniors in the School of Arts and Sciences makes that difficult.

Tweaking registration times and allotting a certain number of seats in specific classes to engineers would allow for a fairer process.

It is well-known that Engineering students have far more specific requirements to earn a bachelor’s degree than their counterparts in Arts and

Sciences. In addition to completing foundation and concentration courses specific to their major, engineers must complete 10–11 introductory courses, one semester of college writing, 18 semester-hour units of humanities, arts and social science courses and one or two “free electives.” Looking at the hefty workload, it is understandable why engineers are prioritized in the course selection process; they simply have more requirements they need to check off their list before graduation. However, the university needs to address the issue of giving all engineers the chance to register before all Arts and Sciences students. Courses that are highly sought after by both Engineering and Arts and Sciences students often get filled up quickly by engineers, including courses in college

writing, math, chemistry, physics and computer science.

Arts and Sciences seniors deserve to be prioritized higher than they currently are in the course registration process, since they must ensure they complete the necessary requirements for a timely graduation. Arts and Sciences seniors should be provided with the opportunity to register before first-year engineers; first-year engineering students will not have much to lose from this arrangement, either, as they will be prioritized in later years and thereby be able to complete all of their requirements, as well.

In addition, professors can also consider reserving an allotted number of seats in popular classes specifically for Arts and Sciences students. With this solution, Engineering students would

still get to register for the courses they want to take, but the problem of the majority of seats in classes going to engineers would be eliminated; Arts and Sciences students who wish to take the same classes would still have a chance to register when their enrollment time rolls around.

To make registration a less stressful situation for all of the students involved, the current process of selecting courses should be changed. By providing Arts and Sciences seniors with a chance to register earlier than first-year engineers, worries about completing graduation requirements will be alleviated. By reserving seats in popular classes for a certain number of Arts and Sciences students, those taking courses that overlap with Engineering requirements will no longer be disadvantaged.

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ime horizons should never be conservative, generalized or arbitrary, but ambitious, specific and planned. This is why attempting to make our world economy carbon-neutral and green by 2050 bothers me. Why 2050?

It’s a long way off, it’s clearly arbitrary and it’s hardly ambitious. But perhaps it’s fair — 30 years to transform an energy grid that serves a world of almost eight billion people is not too conservative. The scale is enormous, and though the technology exists to make our world green today, the pure capital required to do so would be immense.

Tufts, however, is nowhere near as large as the planet Earth. All told, our community doesn’t register as anywhere close to 1/1,000 of a percent of the global population. Why, then, is the time horizon for our university’s transition to carbon neutrality also the year 2050? I don’t know, and I don’t particularly care — what’s clear at the surface is that Tufts should be able to transition faster than the world as a whole.

I’m glad Tufts has committed to carbon neutrality as a serious goal, and I understand that the university is bound in part by how energy is manufactured in the wider electrical grid. But shouldn’t we be able to make greater strides toward carbon neutrality in a shorter amount of time? I believe we can by further expanding the university’s capacity for energy production, decreasing heat loss from dorms and other campus buildings, and replacing outdated HVAC and lighting systems with optimized electric ones. Properly planned and implemented, an ambitious sustainability plan for a carbon-neutral campus could take aim at 2020.

I’m not saying this would be inexpensive, but I do believe it to be a paramount priority. As I’ve written before, sustainability is good for society and fiscally sound. That said, here are a few specific proposals to expedite the university’s transition to carbon neutrality: 1. Expand energy production. Tufts should take advantage of the many roofs on campus and equip all with solar panels — some already are, but total coverage is necessary. Small, unobtrusive wind turbines of different types should be installed wherever possible, from corners of buildings to out by the sports fields.

2. Decrease heat and energy loss. All windows should be equipped with cellular blinds. A side effect of heat-trapping shades? More comfortable dorms with better regulated temperatures.

3. Along these same lines, there is no reason any light anywhere on campus shouldn’t be an LED. Long-lived and energy-efficient, LEDs would allow energy produced on campus to go further.

4. Invest in significant battery banks because Boston isn’t sunny all the time … or really ever. Using wind power and battery-backed solar could take Tufts off the grid.

I’m deliberately not using numbers here — I don’t know them — but a project of this scale would require significant investment on the university’s part, as well as an artificial (systemic) and real (human) decrease in energy demand. It’s possible, though. We already have our sights on it. Why wait until 2050?

Tys Sweeney is a sophomore studying political science. Tys can be reached at tys. sweeney@tufts.edu.

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continued from back one team in the NESCAC, you have to keep going higher. Williams, Amherst and Middlebury are kind of the top of the NESCAC in squash … so it was a little bit of a bigger step.”

Raho again noted his positive outlook after the weekend’s results.

“I thought our kids competed really well,” he said. “I think they’re figuring out what it takes to win a … high-level match and the quality of squash they need to play and the kind of energy and focus and skill level that’s required to win at these high levels. It was positive, even though it was a tough weekend with two losses.”

The men’s team (2–3) will close out its fall semester with trips to MIT and Bowdoin today and Saturday, respectively, before resuming play at Yale on Jan. 7.

Women’s squash On the women’s side, sophomore Chloe Kantor was the only Jumbo to pick up a victory in the team’s back-to-back losses to No. 15 Middlebury and No. 13 Williams.

On Sunday, Kantor defeated Williams sophomore Cassie Deshong 11–0, 11–5, 11–2 in the ninth position. The match’s lopsided 8–1 scoreline did not reflect its full picture, with some Jumbos forcing their opponents into extended games. In the fifth spot, first-year Megan Chen lost in a five-game match, capturing the first and third games before ultimately fall-

ing to junior Melissa Swann in a fifthgame tiebreaker (6–11, 11–9, 6–11, 11–9, 12–10). Meanwhile, sophomore Julie Yeung was defeated by sophomore Sarah Willwerth (11–1, 11–6, 11–13, 14–12) in the second position, while senior Sahana Karthik fell to first-year Alex Pear (11–8, 11–5, 9–11, 11–8) in the eighth spot.

It was the same story the previous day at Middlebury. Despite their 9–0 loss, the Jumbos hung tough against the hosts, with six players pushing their opponents to more than three games. Junior co-captain Claire Davidson fell to senior co-captain Beatrijs Kuijpers in five games in the first position (11–9, 11–13, 12–10, 6–11, 15–13). In the fifth spot, Chen captured the first game against sophomore Emily Beinkampen but then dropped three straight, to fall 7–11, 11–7, 11–7, 11–9. Yeung was defeated by first-year Ideal Dowling (11–4, 11–3, 10–12, 11–2), while Karthik, Kantor and senior Zarena Jafry fell in four games, as well.

Raho emphasized the match’s overall competitiveness despite Middlebury’s dominance on the scorecard.

“The women are very close to beating these teams,” he said. “Even though we lost very convincingly, the matches were very close. So all of a sudden if we won one, two [or] three of those matches, it’s a very close match overall.”

Karthik echoed her coach’s sentiments.

“I think everyone on the team played very well,” Karthik told the Daily in an

email. “It’s both physically and mentally tough playing teams that are ranked higher because you really have to stick through.

This is the best and strongest team we’ve had in the last [four] years. [From No.] 1 through 9, we put up competitive fights against Middlebury and Williams. Although the scores may not necessarily reflect it, all the points were long and my teammates were playing thoughtful shots throughout their matches.”

No. 19 Tufts (2–2) has just one more match before the winter break, as the team will travel to No. 26 Bowdoin on Saturday.

While the Jumbos’ season will not start up again until Jan. 7, they will be training hard in the meantime.

“I give the kids two weeks off after they finish their finals to go home for the holidays,” Raho said. “There are a bunch of big matches coming up, [so] we’re coming back early [to train] in preparation starting Jan. 4.”

Karthik explained that the team drew important lessons from the weekend’s defeats.

“After we played Middlebury and Williams, we talked about what we should be improving on from a technical perspective,” Karthik said. “We talked about playing more consistent shots, not only during matches but also during practice.

That’s definitely something we’re focusing on as we move towards the second half of our season.”

hey say criticism is the highest form of flattery. (Or is that imitation?) Mark my words, it is certainly uncommon to find a hardline New Yorker peel back the thinly-veiled veneer of their shell to admit that maybe all this “anti-Boston” sentiment originates from a point of jealousy.

For the sake of athletics, that is. Call a Boston bagel superior to a New York one and you’ve just bought yourself a ticket for a 10-minute spiel (pardon my Yiddish) about why those New York bagels have that special fluff — even if it isn’t the Catskill mountain water, we’ll still claim that it is. Wander out of the realm of sports at your own risk.

But hey! Despite my desperate deals with the devil and hapless arguments with Boston fans, Beantown just had a champion and has a legitimate chance to claim two more in the next six months. New York? Unless you’re unreasonably bullish on the Knicks’ ability to mount anything resembling a playoff push, you’re having a laugh.

Maybe it’s something in the water (and it certainly ain’t Catskill water), but Boston is as close to “Titletown” as any in the 21st century — my era of mindlessly consuming sports in any and all forms. Whether it was watching Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS, when the Red Sox came back from a three-game deficit to knock off the Yanks on my family’s small, square, standard definition television, or Kevin Garnett screamed “Anything is possible” to an endless EDM edit on YouTube, I noticed these events were converging in the same region. But why Boston? What about this city, this region, is conducive to success?

If you’re searching for a rigid anthropological study, by golly, you’ve stumbled upon the wrong source. Instead, I’m banking on 19 years of lived experience — disproportionately inhabited in New York over Boston — so take everything with the grainiest grains of salt. I do know one thing, and if you can tell anything by my style of prose, I’d like to express how my generally sharp pettiness is a product of Times-Square-sized expectations. Yankee fandom has turned me to loving beardless, pinstriped American-psycho robots because their winning certainly beats the alternative (*cough* Jets and Knicks).

What do I crave? The ability to brag.

I’m sure Bostonians love a good brag.

I’ve heard the whole pro-Boston ramble about the historical quaintness of the town and the shelly goodness of Legal Seafood, but it pales in comparison to a bagel berating or pizza pandering I could sling back at you. Perhaps your relative modesty (plus the might of a top 10 market, don’t forget) has elevated you to the top. You’re David Ortiz, not Alex Rodriguez. You’re Isaiah Thomas, not Carmelo Anthony. You rep your city, not your image.

A toast to Boston? Might as well, at this point. Think of it as my parting gift to you. Your gift to me? Well, I hear Kyrie Irving is a free agent, and I hear a certain New York team is knocking...

Jeremy Goldstein is an assistant sports editor on the Daily. He is a sophomore studying political science and film and media studies. Jeremy can be reached at Jeremy.Goldstein@tufts.edu.

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Ice hockey breaks three-game win streak with loss to Middlebury

by Aiden Herrod

Contributing Writer

The Jumbos’ season has been a rollercoaster ride so far. Despite a recent setback last Saturday against Middlebury, Tufts closed out November with dominant victories over Saint Michael’s (4–0) and Williams (6–2) in a three-game win streak that saw the team outscore opponents 13–2 and climb back to .500 to finish the month on a high note.

Tufts’ win streak ended with the arrival of December, however, as the month opened on a sour note that saw a lopsided 6–2 loss to Middlebury. Sophomore goaltender Drew Hotte continued his strong goalkeeping with 31 saves, but 37 Middlebury shots proved too much to handle in the end.

First-year forward Nick Schultze said that the team needed to improve its defensive performance.

“We want to fix our defensive zone systems [and] stay disciplined,” Schultze said. “We kind of got away from what we were trying to do.”

However, Tufts matched Middlebury in numerous statistical categories, winning 29 faceoffs to Middlebury’s 31 and matching its power-play success rate (1-for-6). Tufts junior defender and assistant captain Cooper Stahl posted two assists in defeat.

“We used our speed really well,” Schultze said. “If we keep sticking to our strengths, we should be in good shape.”

Before its loss to Middelbury, however, Tufts extended its win streak, which began with a 3–0 victory over Saint Anselm on Nov. 23. Tufts displayed its offensive potential in statement victories over Saint Michael’s and Williams on Nov. 23 and Nov. 30, respectively. Of the Jumbos’ 13 goals in the three games, 10 different players tallied a score, with others contributing assists and key plays.

Against Williams, Tufts struck early, going up 3–0 with goals from sophomore forward Mason Babbidge, junior forward Machlan Sawden and first-year forward Brendan Skarda. Junior forward Tyler Scroggins added a fourth early in the second period. Two goals from Williams first-year forward Nick Altman, the first of which came on the power play, halved the deficit for the hosts. Unfazed, the Jumbos potted two more goals to secure a 6–2 victory.

Three days earlier, Tufts defeated Saint Michael’s 4–0. Schultze put the Jumbos

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Junior forward Ross Delabruere controls the puck in Tufts’ 2–1 loss to Wesleyan on Jan. 20 at Valley Forum. ahead just past the halfway mark of the first period through assists from junior forward Anthony Farinacci and first-year forward Justin Brandt. First-year forward Angus Scott doubled his team’s lead with less than five minutes left in the second period. Senior forward and captain Clay Berger scored the team’s first short-handed goal this season to increase Tufts’ advantage early in the third, before sophomore forward Charley Borek scored the team’s fourth and final goal.

For junior defender Jordan Haney, watching his younger teammates score their first collegiate goals made the threegame winning streak even more rewarding.

“For every game that a rookie scores, we grab the puck that they scored and give it to them,” Haney said. “In that span of games, we had three [first-years] get their first collegiate goals. It’s always great to see the joy on their face.”

Defensively, Hotte and first-year goaltender Josh Sarlo allowed just two goals

in three games. Hotte recorded his first shutout against Saint Anselm and tallied 55 saves in two 60-minute starts against Saint Anselm and Williams. Sarlo pitched in with a 15-save shutout effort in a full start against Saint Michael’s. Tufts is becoming familiar with its defensive zone scheme, having gone from allowing eight goals in the opening three games to the defensive lockdown it displayed during its winning streak.

The second half of November demonstrated the team’s improvement.

“After starting 0–3, we worked hard and figured things out,” Schultze said.

Tufts has also enjoyed its roster’s depth this season, with every player playing in at least one game so far. In addition, 20 players have played in five or more games this season, with 17 contributing a goal or assist.

While veteran leaders like Berger and junior forward Ross Delabruere have led the way in scoring and assists, respectively, the young core for the team is stepping up, too, with Schutlze, Brandt and Scott all contributing three points so far.

Looking ahead, the short December schedule offers two more important matches before a month-long break for the holidays. Both matches remaining are home clashes against NESCAC opponents in Bowdoin and Colby. These games have big implications for the NESCAC standings. Tufts holds a 1–3 conference record, but victory in these two games would allow the team to improve to a .500 conference record.

The pair of games is also a chance for Tufts to better its 1–2 record at home.

With wins in these games, Tufts would find itself in a favorable position heading into break with a 3–3 conference record and a 5–4 overall record.

Looking ahead to those games, Schultze said the team’s mentality is simple.

“We’re trying to get back in the win column and put that last game behind us,” Schultze said. “Staying positive and keep working hard. That’s the mentality we have going forward.”

Strategy-wise, generating additional shots and pressure will be key to getting the offensive firepower the team needs.

Tufts begins its final stretch before the break on Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. against Bowdoin and continues on Saturday with a showdown against Colby the next day at 4 p.m.

Squash teams fall to Middlebury, Williams in challenging doubleheaders

by Yuan Jun Chee and Neal Chan

Executive Sports Editor and Contributing Writer

Back-to-back matches over the weekend ended in disappointment for Tufts men’s and women’s squash teams, as both squads fell on consecutive days to Middlebury and Williams.

Nonetheless, coach Joe Raho noted the teams’ optimism heading into the remainder of their seasons.

Men’s squash First-years Marco Rodriguez and Will Dewire recorded No. 23 Tufts’ only two victories in its 7–2 loss to No. 21 Williams on Sunday. Playing in the second position, Rodriguez led 8–11, 11–7,

11–7 against first-year Jacob Bassil before the Ephs’ player retired from the match.

Meanwhile, Dewire defeated sophomore A.J. Solecki in a five-game thriller (5–11, 11–8, 12–10, 6–11, 11–8).

On Saturday, senior co-captain Brett Raskopf was the sole Jumbo to record a victory in the team’s match at No. 20 Middlebury. The New York, N.Y. native defeated sophomore Alex Giles in the ninth position in three straight 11–3 victories.

Other Jumbos showed flashes against their Panthers opponents. In the first position, junior Raghav Kumar took the third game from Middlebury junior Jacob Ellen but ultimately fell in four games (11–8, 11–8, 5–11, 11–1). Rodriguez, playing in

the third slot, lost to junior co-captain Nick Bermingham in a tense four-game match (12–10, 10–12, 11–9, 11–5). In the sixth position, Dewire pushed sophomore John Epley in three close games, but Epley eventually emerged with an 11–9, 12–10, 11–6 victory.

Despite Tufts’ struggles, Raho expressed optimism in the men’s team’s ability to compete with Middlebury and Williams, should the teams face each other later in the season.

“I think that it’s possible that we could turn around both the results,” Raho said.

“The men were close against Williams. We won two matches, but it easily could have been four. So all of a sudden, you take a result that was 7–2 and make it 5–4, and

you know you’re right on the doorstep. I think it’s possible.”

Other first-year Jumbos performed well in losing efforts against Middlebury. In the second position, Konrad LaDow fell to fellow first-year Justin Ghaeli 12–10, 11–6, 11–3, while Dillon O’Shea fell to sophomore Wiatt Hinton 11–3, 11–7, 11–9 in the fifth slot.

In just his second year at the helm for Tufts, Raho saw improvement in the team’s performance against both Middlebury and Williams, compared to last year’s results.

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