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Curtatone keeps mayoral seat in Stephanie Burke re-elected mayor Of Medford Somerville election

by Robert Katz News Editor

Joseph Curtatone will continue his tenure as mayor of Somerville for at least the next two years, beating out Payton Corbett 73.21 percent to 26.79 percent as of press time during yesterday’s municipal election, according to unofficial results from the city. Curtatone has served as mayor since 2004.

In elections for the Board of Aldermen and School Committee, several incumbents lost their positions to challenger candidates.

In the Alderman-at-Large race, John Connolly, Jr., Mary Jo Rossetti, Denis Michael Sullivan and William White, Jr. ran for re-election, with Stephanie Hirsch, Will Mbah and Kevin Allen Tarpley running as well. Hirsch and Mbah took enough of the vote to oust Connolly and Sullivan, while White and Rossetti will maintain their seats.

In Ward One, incumbent Matthew McLaughlin won for re-election against Elio LoRusso; in Ward Two, Maryann Heuston lost re-election against J.T. Scott; in Ward Three, Robert McWatters lost re-election against Ben EwenCampen; in Ward Four, Jesse Clingan beat Omar Boukili for a vacated seat.

In Wards Five, Six and Seven, incumbents Mark Niedergang, Lance Davis and Katjana Ballantyne ran uncontested and remained the Aldermen of their respective wards.

For the school committee, Emily Ackman beat Kenneth Salvato in a vacant seat in Ward One and Dan Futrell won re-election against Susan McDonald-Nionakis in Ward Two. Lee Erica Palmer of Ward Three, Andre Green of Ward Four, Laura Pitone of Ward Five, Paula O’Sullivan of Ward Six and Carrie Normand of Ward Seven won re-election uncontested.

All election data is based on the unofficial results posted on the city’s website as of press time. These results do not include absentee, provisional, overseas or military ballots.

In his run for mayor, Corbett, a prounion teamster, emphasized his support for municipal union workers and disdain for the influence of wealthy developers over Somerville housing development.

Communications and Policy Director of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 888 Rand Wilson was enthusiastic about the presence of a mayoral candidate representing the working class in Somerville, although

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he emphasized that, as Local 888 had not endorsed either of the mayoral candidates, he spoke about both candidates as an individual and not as a member of the organization.

“It’s long overdue that working class people elect people of our own class rather than professionals, managerial people, lawyers and real estate agents who are mostly the people that run whose interests aren’t the same as that of the regular workers,” Wilson said in an interview prior to the election.

SEIU Local 888, which includes more than 8,500 public service workers in the state, according to the union’s website, did endorse McLaughlin, Scott, EwenCampen and Clingan in the contested Board of Alderman elections.

Curtatone had been endorsed by multiple aldermen, including Niedergang, McLaughlin and Heuston, according to Joe Lynch, host of “Greater Somerville” on Somerville Community Access Television (SCAT). He was also endorsed by both U.S. senators of Massachusetts — Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey — according to Curtatone’s campaign website.

“Mayor Curtatone has the courage to stand up for what is right, compassion for the range of struggles families face and the know-how to make real change happen at the local level,” Warren said in an endorsement statement posted on Curtatone’s campaign website. “Mayor Joe Curtatone fights for all of Somerville’s families, and I’ve seen firsthand the extraordinary social and economic progress he’s achieved for his city. Our Commonwealth and our country need strong progressive leaders like Joe Curtatone.”

Corbett, meanwhile, received endorsements from labor groups such as the Greater Boston Labor Council and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW ) Local 2222, according to Somerville Labor Coalition’s website. Our Revolution Somerville originally supported Corbett, but the group rescinded its support after the Boston Globe published an article revealing racist and sexist Facebook posts Corbett had made in 2009 and 2013, according to a Sept. 14 Somerville Journal article.

Corbett later called the comments “mistakes” but criticized Our Revolution from withdrawing its endorsement, arguing the good he could do for working people outweighed these comments, the article said. see SOMERVILLE ELECTION , page 2

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Stephanie M. Burke, the mayor of Medford, speaks in the mayoral debate in Cohen Auditorium on Nov. 2.

by Daniel Nelson News Editor

Stephanie Muccini Burke was re-elected mayor of Medford yesterday, defeating challenger David McKillop, Sr. with a landslide 61.27 percent of the vote.

The unofficial results, announced in the City Council Chamber of Medford City Hall at approximately 9 p.m. last night, placed the vote at 6,867 to 4,301 with 30.1 percent turnout.

The city council remained unchanged after yesterday’s vote. Councillors Richard Caraviello, Frederick N. Dello Russo, Jr., John C. Falco, Jr., Adam Knight, Breanna LungoKoehn, Michael J. Marks and George A. Scarpelli were all re-elected. They beat out seven challengers.

McKillop also runs a restaurant and function hall in Salem and served on the North Shore and Salem Chambers of Commerce in the past, according to his campaign website.

Burke, in contrast, had the incumbency advantage as well as a long history in Medford, serving as a Medford city councillor and director of budget and personnel for the city.

But McKillop’s inability to differentiate himself from Burke presented a major challenge to winning, according to Zachary Going, a junior and lifelong Medford resident. “[McKillop] didn’t have any big proposals thats were different from what [Burke] wanted,” Going said. “He just wanted to go bigger and better than everything she was already doing.”

Dan Kennedy, associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University and moderator of last week’s Medford Mayoral Debate held at Tufts, told the Daily at the time that he did not notice significant differences between the candidates.

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David Todisco, campaign coordinator for Mayor Burke’s re-election campaign, said that Burke will focus on building upon her past successes in her second term.

“She is going to see out all the projects that she began in her first term [going forward],” Todisco said.

Todisco mentioned that Burke plans on paying particular attention to revitalizing and expanding Medford Square.

“She wants to welcome more businesses to Medford Square,” he said.

One avenue that could come with major change is the current term length for Medford mayors. The Medford city charter sets the mayoral term length at two years.

Todisco said that the frequency of elections can present issues for Medford businesses.

“A lot of people in our city, they want to know who they’ll be working with in the next 12 months,” Todisco said.

He expressed his personal support for revisiting the city charter to make city government more efficient and accessible. Burke shares those goals, he said.

McKillop could not be reached for comment at press time.

Going saw value in revisiting the term length question.

“I think if the terms were extended to four years our city councillors would spend a lot less time worrying about re-election,” he said.

Rachel Wahlert, a senior and Medford voter, ran into trouble educating herself on the candidates’ stances on various issues.

“I was annoyed with how difficult it was to find information about those that were running for office,” Wahlert told the Daily in an email. “The city of Medford’s website presented polling locations and a sample ballot.

However, I had to search thoroughly to find out the stances of our future leaders.”

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Tufts alumna releases Raftr, new social networking app for students

by Simran Lala

Assistant News Editor

Raftr, a social network for campus groups and events co-founded by Sue Decker (E ’84) and developed by her company Tripledip, officially announced its partnership with Tufts in the Jumbo Digest on Oct. 15. Tufts is serving as a pilot school for the app, according to Mickey Toogood, communications and multimedia specialist in the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, who is currently working on promoting the app at Tufts.

Raftr is geared toward creating private social networks based in particular college communities, according to its website. Decker, former chief financial officer and president of Yahoo, explained that she wanted to create an app that fills a gap in the market of existing online social networks.

“There wasn’t an app at Tufts specifically towards social purposes, so I wanted to introduce a network with a college specific domain, that was digital and in real time,” Decker said.

Decker explained the process of gauging support for such an app.

“We created a survey for college kids from Tufts, Tulane, Stanford and Columbia in which over 150 students expressed an interest in an app like Raftr,” she said.

Decker added that Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon also believed that a network like that was exactly what the university needed.

“Raftr’s goal, in a nutshell, is to help build online communities and foster dialogue around common interests,” Toogood told the Daily in an email.

Decker explained the logic behind the app’s name.

“The mascot for the app is an otter and a group of otters linked together is called a raft,” Decker said. “Rafts can include hundreds of otters connected with one another by holding hands and we use this as a metaphor for our communities.”

According to Toogood, the app is different than existing social media options. “[Raftr] connects students to fellow classmates and events in real time in ways that are more thoughtful and intentional than other social media platforms,” Toogood said.

Upon downloading the app, students are automatically connected to three rafts: “What’s Happening Today?”, “Ask Me Anything” and “Free Food,” the first of which is run in combination with the Office for Campus Life (OCL), Decker said.

Toogood stressed that the “Free Food” raft also allows students to find free food on campus in real time and to spread awareness about events where free food is being served.

“In other words, Raftr is not just as a place where you can post information, but it’s a dynamic tool for promoting events and initiatives at Tufts,” he said.

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There has been significant student involvement in promoting the app, Toogood said, including senior Eugenia Naamon and Decker’s daughter Caelyn Dovey, a junior.

Through tabling in the Mayer Campus Center, putting up flyers and distributing “otter bottles,” student ambassadors have begun introducing various student groups to Raftr.

Decker said that organizations on campus such as Tufts Community Union Senate and Tufts Dance Collective have already created rafts on the application. She added that there are features to

make rafts private so as to suit the needs of different groups.

In the future, Decker said that there would be a rollout of the app in various other colleges, starting in 2018. She added that universities as far as South Asia and Latin America have shown interest in Raftr.

Joseph Golia, director of the OCL, sees a positive future for Raftr.

“Raftr seems to be unique and connecting students on different interests and topics,” Golia said. “If they start to use it regularly, it could be a very effective application on campus.”

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continued from page 1 Lynch wondered whether the endorsements Curtatone and Corbett received had a significant effect on their performance in the race.

“I’m kind of ambivalent about endorsements,” Lynch said. “Unless endorsements translate into money and support, they’re not worth a whole lot in municipal elections.”

Lynch acknowledged, however, that Curtatone’s endorsements from both Warren and Markey were a blow to Corbett. Regarding the issues of unions and affordable housing, Lynch hoped the pressure from progressive and labor-centric candidates would pay off in Curtatone’s upcoming term.

“I hope he changes his tactics, no matter what, with the unions in the city.

I hope that he gets the message loud and clear,” Lynch said. “He’s a good mayor.

I wouldn’t to go backwards to where we were before [Curtatone’s] tenure. I think he’s still got some things to learn in terms of the treatment of unions and how he deals with them and I think he needs to make a more concerted effort to show he has the distance from the big deep-pocketed developers.”

Similarly, Wilson believed Corbett’s run for mayor could empower future candidates with similar visions.

“He’s already shown the mayor’s vulnerabilities and brought the issues up that he’s articulated as an important critique of this administration and that, I believe, will pave the way for other [labor candidates],” Wilson said.

The week prior, some members of Tufts Democrats tabled in Mayer Campus Center for students to vote in the Somerville and Medford elections, informing students of their polling places depending on where they lived, according to club Vice President Ben Kaminoff. Also, the club canvassed for incumbent Medford Mayor Stephanie Burke’s campaign over the weekend leading up to the election.

However, Tufts Democrats did not openly support either of the Somerville mayoral candidates.

“We are the home for the Democratic party at Tufts Un i v e r s i t y,” Kaminoff, a senior, said. “If two Democrats are running, we can’t endorse one over the other, although some individual members might support one or the other.”

Meanwhile, city groups such as the Welcome Project, an advocacy group for S o m e r v i l l e’s immigrant community, encourVIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS aged residents to Somerville mayor Joseph A. Curtatone speaks at the Green Line Extension groundbreaking on Dec. 11, 2012. vote.

“We try to keep people in the loop of what’s going on. When there was a citywide mayoral debate we told people to go, find out about the candidates, It’s Raining Tiles p.m. A student had replied to a post for a research them, that type of thing,” The Tufts University Police Department personal assistant and was sent a fraudulent Executive Director Ben Echevarria said. (TUPD) received a report on Oct. 30 at half check. The student deposited the check into “We did a little bit of door knocking of past midnight after ceiling tiles fell into a their account and lost money, realizing after anyone we know who’s an immigrant dorm room in Metcalf Hall. Facilities was it was a scam. The TUPD is still investigating and a registered voter, and generally if notified about the problem and it was the incident. Tufts Student Services was notiwe’re the organization that registered determined that a leak in the ceiling was the fied about the issue. them we do reach out and remind them cause. The ceiling was repaired. to vote.”

This is Halloween The evening of the election, These Shoes are Made for Runnin’ On Oct. 30 and 31, TUPD officers identified Lynch and Keri Rodrigues, found- A student reported a theft to TUPD on several students trying to place pumpkins er of Massachusetts Parents United, Oct. 30 at 6 a.m. when she realized that high up on the roofs of Dewick-MacPhie discussed the significance of the her pair of black and white Nike shoes had Dining Celter, Carmichael Hall, Dana Lab and races during an episode of “Greater been taken from Harleston Hall. The shoes Mayer Campus Center. The officers referred Somerville.” were last seen on Oct. 28 outside of the the students to the Office of the Dean “Municipal elections are the elec- student’s dorm room but the student did of Student Affairs and had the pumpkins tions that make the greatest difference not realize they were missing until two days removed. in our community. A lot of people like later. The person who ran off with the shoes to vote in the glamorous presidential is unknown and the shoes have not been Mr. Steal Your Bike elections … but this is where it hap- recovered.

On Nov. 6 at 11:30 p.m., a student reportpens,” Rodrigues said during the show. ed his red Specialized bike stolen from the “This is where the most important Checking it Twice…

Campus Center. The bike had not been decisions are being made about your Another incident of check fraud occurred, secured. TUPD officers investigated the theft community.” this time with a job that was posted on Tufts and managed to recover the bike and return JobX. TUPD received a report on Nov. 1 at 2 it to its rightful owner.

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ALBUM REVIEW

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Pacific Daydream is the 11th studio album by American rock band Weezer, released on Oct. 27. of these elements blending together, they feel forcibly glued to each other, creating a sound that feels too lifeless to evoke any reasonable emotional response.

All of the power in power-pop is gone in this record. The energy that drives 2016’s “Weezer” is completely absent in “Pacific Daydream.” Only in a

few fleeting moments does this record ever shine, like in the catchy opening track, “Mexican Fender” and the bubbly closer, “Any Friend of Diane’s.”

All of the tracks, while not painful to listen to, just lack the substance that makes a good Weezer album. Despite see WEEZER, page 6

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ trades spark for spunk

by Elliott Shin

Contributing Writer

A foretold apocalyptic event looms over Thor’s (Chris Hemsworth’s) kingdom, Asgard. The arrival of Hela (Cate Blanchett), the self-proclaimed goddess of death, prompts his journey to save Asgard from destruction and the universe from invasion. All of this sounds heavy, but doesn’t seem so when you actually sit down and watch.

“Thor: Ragnarok” (2017) cranks the punch line dispenser knob to 11: a clear change of pace for the Thor series after a tepid reception to the titular character’s previous outings. Taika Waititi takes the directorial reins and injects his jocular style into every scene, maybe too excessively. A retro ’80s feel similar to that of “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014) replaces the series’ traditional fantasy epic tone. He references past Marvel movies, poking fun at them at every corner while managing to ridicule a divisive element of “Avengers: Age of Ultron” (2015) too.

The hammer swinging and smashing is presented in full force, as expected, and will definitely appeal to those yearning for a tighter partnership between Thor and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

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Weezer pulls a Weezer, releases unamusing ‘Pacific Daydream’ When Weezer dropped “Weezer” (2016), its fourth eponymous record known by most fans as the “White Album,” Rivers Cuomo and his crew seemed to have finally figured it out again. After an ugly 2000s for the band, it seemed as though the awkward but lovable rockers had found their formula on the Californian summertime record, full of catchy hits like “Do You Wanna Get High” and “King of the World.”

With a sound that blends the older style of their classic albums “Weezer” (1994, “Blue Album”) and “Pinkerton” (1996) with an upbeat beach aesthetic, Weezer had finally put out another record that’s great front to back.

Weezer attempts to expand upon this sound in its newest project, “Pacific Daydream” (2017), which maintains the upbeat and happy aesthetic by polishing it with tight production. Given the success of this sound last year, it has to be even better now, right?

Wrong. Somehow the band took everything that made the “White Album” fun and exciting and threw it out the window during the recording process for the album. They rewrote their formula and created an album that sounds like Weezer’s version of Mad Libs. Everything is there: catchy tunes, edgy lyrics, Cuomo’s unique voice. The only thing that might be construed as inherently bad is the overproduction and badly placed autotune that producer Butch Walker brings to the table. The problem is that instead

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The casting, as for most Marvel films, hits the mark. Hemsworth and Ruffalo create an entertaining back and forth dynamic that the “Avengers” films didn’t capitalize on. Loki ( Tom Hiddleston) appears for the first time since “Thor: The Dark World” (2013), acting as a reluctant anti-hero rather than a mustache twirler, which is a welcome change of pace. A new hero is also introduced in crowd-pleaser Valkyrie ( Tessa Thompson), a renegade warrior who drinks, slashes and punches her way through every possible predicament. The show stealer is Thor’s newfound friend, Korg ( Taika Waititi). Waititi, in motion capture, lets his improvisation run amok, conveying a dimwitted, but extremely amiable personality. Nonetheless, it is awkward that the best parts of a “Thor” movie outshine the titular character.

Despite a compelling team dynamic for the heroes, the villains and a couple of supporting characters receive the short end of the stick. Cate Blanchett gives her all, chewing the scenery as the nigh-invincible villainess, but lacks the necessary screen time to make a significant impression. Moreover, she spends a good portion of her scenes explaining

her origin and sinister plan, compromising any character development.

Karl Urban stands around as Asgardian turncoat Skurge and doesn’t do anything noteworthy until the climactic action scene. By far, the best villain is the Grandmaster ( Jeff Goldblum), and he’s a tertiary antagonist at best. Still, this portrayal of a hedonistic overlord features Jeff Goldblum at his most Jeff Goldblum, which doesn’t fail to amuse. “Thor” veterans Odin (Anthony Hopkins) and Heimdall (Idris Elba) are swept aside and only utilized when the plot demands it.

Abandoning self-ser iousness, Waititi burrows into his actors’ comedic sensibilities and stresses Hemsworth’s charisma. The film’s colors are far more saturated and wacky, only topped by “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017) and “Doctor Strange” (2016) in terms of liveliness.

Surprisingly, Waititi seamlessly integrates a few high-profile cameos into his film without coming off as forced.

Though unrelentingly entertaining, “Ragnarok” doesn’t catch its breath or slow down to develop its storyline see THOR, page 6

ith the “Fast and Furious” (2001–) franchise in the news after the stunningly emotional feud between Tyrese Gibson and Dwayne ”The Rock” Johnson, it seems appropriate to revisit the series that went from a gritty crime thriller to a bizarre bonanza of all things bro in just eight movies.

When Paul Walker got behind the wheel in the early 2000s as an FBI agent ready to hunt down some high-speed thieves, he probably didn’t expect to spend the remainder of his career undermining the legitimacy of its beginning. What was once a franchise grounded in car culture and vaguely offensive stereotypes has instead become a series of two hour explosion orgies that occasionally feature Kurt Russell.

Vin Diesel remains the stalwart figure of the series as Dom, a bald dude who is often angry but is also into emotional growling — kind of like an average Tufts student. This viewer has lost track of how many times his girlfriend or sister or someone has died and or returned from the dead, but through his performance, you can tell that Diesel also has.

When it got too boring to just show cars leaping off of cliffs and oversexualizing all female characters got old, the series brought in The Rock, who I think portrays a law enforcement officer, but might also be the Hulk or just Dwayne Johnson wandering around the set hitting things, unaware that he is being filmed. Every time he talks I am almost convinced it is the latter. His arrival cements the classic franchise “oh-darn-I-think-we-justwent-die-hard-sequel-ridiculous-buthey-we’re-profiting-so-let’s-blow-morestuff-up” moment that nearly every action franchise has reached, but he has helped steadily growing box office receipts to a total of more than five billion dollars. If the world spent that money instead on say, climate change, that would be a total shame because then we wouldn’t get to see a lot of bald dudes hit each other with metal. In addition, we get high-level set pieces like a submarine rising through ice or weird shots of Paul Walker’s brothers standing in for him after his death.

Of course, there are still cars. Every once in a while in one of these movies, a character will get behind a wheel and rev the engine, as if to remind the audience what movie this was at least intended to be. There are appearances by actors who seem to not have realized how many people might see them lose their dignity while padding their retirement funds. Wonder Woman is here, I guess, but not in a fun Wonder Woman way.

Jason Statham plays the same character he plays in every movie he has ever been in, and it seems vaguely to fit until The Rock attempts to crush his skull. Watching Dwayne Johnson in this series while simultaneously listening to him sing in “Moana” (2016) is an experience I cannot recommend, but I cannot not recommend, if you get my drift. Get it, drift? Like drifting in cars?

Remember, because the Fast and Furious was about cars? It’s okay. They forgot too.

Matthew Soderberg is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Matthew can be reached at matthew.soderberg@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 5 the record’s short tracklist and 34-minute runtime, it drags on through most the second half with almost nothing of note.

Because this is Weezer, this is a disappointing but expected release. The band has released 11 studio albums now, and might be a legitimate contender for the most inconsistent band ever. For a band that has released some of the greatest alternative rock tunes in history, it is exceptionally good at also releasing music that is nothing but bland. This effort is a bad zag to the zig that was the “White Album,” and another notch in the not good column of its discography.

Though, to be fair to the band, there is one praise that can’t be taken away

in this album: The choruses are menacingly catchy. As Cuomo approaches 50 years of age, he’s definitely nailed down how to write a tune that is easy to sing along to. The sad fact is that the album is too forgettable as a whole for these choruses to last very long in the minds of Weezer fans, old and new.

On the bright side, Cuomo has confirmed that the “Black Album” is on the way and should be released in 2018. The “Black Album” was originally intended to juxtapose the “White Album” with a darker tone and was supposed to be released right after the 2016 project. The decision to interject “Pacific Daydream” (2017) in the middle of the two is probably the best indicator of how much of a throwaway Weezer album this really is.

While it’s strange to simply ignore a project from the band and hope

for better in the future, that’s exactly what has to happen here. “Pacific Daydream” is extremely technically sound, has its catchy moments but overall is unmemorable, similar to many of their failed 2000s projects (looking at you, “Raditude”). In the meantime, fans can at least look forward to next year’s summer tour with Pixies that comes to Mansfield, Mass. on July 17.

In a brief summation, Weezer’s effort here was not bad, but definitely not good either. There isn’t much lasting appeal within any of these tracks, and the album will probably leave many fans hoping that the “Black Album” can grab their interest. It would be fair to say that despite some of the technical developments of the album, it’s probably the safest Weezer record yet. But in this case, safe means boring.

Waititi's 'Ragnarok' is a reactionary Marvel film THOR

continued from page 5 and emotions. Some scenes literally stop in their tracks to deliver more jokes, undercutting tension. Waititi also overplays a couple of gags that are initially funny, but later become off-putting. The film’s humor has been heavily praised in some circles, but the absence of a serious tone negatively affects the drama.

The bombastic orchestral score normally associated with the series plays rarely, making room for Mark Mothersbaugh’s technopunk-influenced compositions and a couple of action scenes set to Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” (1970). These changes, while exciting, are an overt abandonment of the series’ roots, which seems reactionary on Marvel’s part.

It seems that Marvel was so ashamed of its lukewarm past efforts that they felt compelled to revamp the tone of “Ragnarok.”

While crowd-pleasing, these creative decisions impair the stakes in a film supposedly concerned with an apocalypse. Marvel is not only a welloiled machine, but is also one that is clearly capable of taking risks and upping emotional stakes. The emphasis on comedy over serious drama prevents “Thor: Ragnarok” from being more than just popcorn entertainment.

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‘Thor: Ragnarok’ is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor. It is the sequel to 2011’s ‘Thor’ and 2013’s ‘Thor: The Dark World.’

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very summer my family would travel to the local farms to pick our own berries. It was a tradition for us to pick gallons of fruit, which we then used to make our own jams. As such, we created recipes which incorporated our jams.

This recipe for raspberry cream cheese cake falls under that category. Although I generally think of enjoying this cake in the summer, I would argue that Mother Nature has extended that season long enough that there’s no reason why we can’t enjoy it now.

For this cake, start by combining two and a quarter cups of flour with three quarters of a cup of sugar in a large bowl. Add one and a half sticks of cold butter, cut into thin slices.

Using a fork or your hands, incorporate the butter into the flour and sugar until the mixture resembles bread crumbs. I find that this step is easier with my hands, but it certainly isn’t neater. Once the batter has a crumb consistency, remove a cup of crumbs and put it to the side; we’ll return to them at the end of the recipe. Add half a teaspoon of baking powder, half a teaspoon of baking soda, a quarter of a teaspoon of salt, three quarters of a cup of sour cream, one egg and a teaspoon of almond extract to the rest of the ingredients and blend them well with a fork. Pour the batter into a nine- or 10-inch springform pan that has been greased and floured.

Spread the dough evenly across the bottom of the pan, then form a crust by smoothing dough along the inside wall of the pan. The border you make should be about two inches high and a quarter of an inch thick. The batter will be sticky, which can pose a challenge as you try to spread it around. Just go slowly and keep at it and it shouldn’t be an issue.

With the base of the cake complete, it’s time to work on the filling! In a small bowl, combine a quarter of a cup of sugar with one egg and eight ounces of cream cheese. Mix the ingredients until there aren’t any lumps.

Pour the cheese into the center of the cake and spread it evenly across the bottom. Next, spread a thin layer of raspberry jam on top of the cheese mixture. Be careful to preserve the cheese and jam as two distinct layers. Now, spread the cup of crumb mixture and some sliced almonds over the top of the cake, and it’s ready for the oven. Cook at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until the cream cheese filling is set and the crust is a deep golden brown. This should take about 45 minutes. Once the cake is done, give it 15 minutes to cool before you remove the sides from the pan. I personally find the cake greatly improves once it has had time to cool in the refrigerator, but I totally understand the appeal of eating a nice warm cake as well, so feel free to try it both ways!

Happy baking!

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Benjamin Corey is a senior majoring in international relations. Benjamin can be reached at benjamin.corey@tufts.edu.

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Paris Sanders P.S. …

In mass shootings, domestic violence affects all of us

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n the aftermath of America’s most recent mass shooting, it’s easy to engage in several discussions. The first, and most obvious, is perhaps the most daunting — how to impose meaningful gun control, or at the least, how to introduce legislation that limits or fully bans the purchase of silencers, “bump stocks” and other military-grade accessories.

The second is a desperate attempt to rationalize the actions of the shooter — was it ISIS, Al Qaeda, a lone wolf? Did they post a manifesto online or allude to their plot on social media?

Unfortunately, this discussion proves to be as futile as the first, and less trivially, creates two separate narratives — one for shooters who are white, and one for those who are not.

The third variety of conversation, which often comes alongside the second, is a discussion about who ought to have access to firearms in the first place — on the Right, this conversation is often part and parcel with the mental health debate, particularly when the shooter is a white male.

It should go without saying, but approximately 20 percent of Americans will suffer from mental illness in their lifetime, and while gun violence affects more Americans per capita than in any other industrialized nation, far fewer than 20 percent of Americans are violent shooters, and over half of civilian guns are owned by just three percent of the population.

The Sutherland Springs Shooter, 26-yearold Devin Patrick Kelley was among many other things, a white male. He pledged no allegiance to ISIS, or any other group for that matter. But this is only one component of the Sutherland Springs story, though it is not one that is to be ignored, especially in light of the immediate calls for racial profiling, immigration prevention and all together bigotry advocated following Halloween’s truck attack in New York City. Much like Kelley, James Hodgkinson, and the Colorado Springs or Newtown shooter before them, were white men. Importantly, each also had a history of domestic violence. It has been widely reported that Kelley had served in the Air Force but was discharged in 2012 for assaulting his wife and child.

Though Omar Mateen (Orlando), Cedric Anderson (San Bernardino) and Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech) were not white men, each had domestic or sexual violence histories. In at least 54 percent of mass shootings, the perpetrator also shot an intimate partner or relative. American women are 11 times more likely to be murdered by a firearm than women in any other developed nation.

Eighty percent of people killed by firearms annually are women, and a woman is fatally shot by a current or former partner every 16 hours. Finally, though James Fields’ deadly weapon was an automobile, he too had a history of violence against women.

Often, it is said that “no one could have known” when mass shooters would strike.

While with many young shooters, such as in the case of Columbine, this may be the case, a significant number of America’s mass shooters do have a documented pattern of violence — unfortunately, however, one where those affected are routinely shamed and questioned. Want to fight gun violence? Pay better attention to domestic abuse.

Paris Sanders is a senior majoring in philosophy and political science. Paris can be reached at paris.sanders@tufts.edu.

Opinion

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

EDITORIAL

Tufts Career Center has room for improvement College students are painfully aware of how much more difficult it is to get a job now compared to during our parents’ generation. Automation and mechanization mean that jobs lost in recessions often become extinct, while increasing global competition leads to a demand for higher-skilled people. This difficult environment has permeated the undergraduate sphere, with increasing importance placed on internships as a key step to finding a job: 69 percent of medium and large companies in 2012 offered full-time positions to their interns, according to one survey. In a job market such as this, where connections, ambition and skills are crucial to getting a job offer, career services offered by colleges and universities play an important role in ensuring employment for graduates.

These data suggest that Tufts students, however, do not have a strong relationship with the Career Center. A senior survey released in 2016 showed that fewer than half of Tufts students visited the Career Center throughout their entire four years at Tufts. Yet this does not mean that Tufts students are failing to get jobs or internships. At the time of the survey, of those who graduated in 2016, 91 percent had a full-time job, were pursuing a fellowship or were enrolled in graduate school within six months of graduation. Furthermore, 89 percent of these same graduating seniors completed at least one internship while at Tufts.

The issue is not that Tufts students are not prepared to enter the job market; it is

that many students enter it without much help from the Career Center. More specifically, only 42 percent of seniors graduating in 2016 found their jobs through the Career Center.

The importance of networking, and specifically of alumni network, is highly recognized throughout the country. The plurality of the Tufts 2016 graduating class stated that they found their job through networking. The Tufts Career Center does hold various networking nights with high profile alumni — the CFO of Morgan Stanley comes to mind — to connect students.

Yet it is impossible for the center to have a group for every career interest — some will invariably be left out, especially those not interested in consulting, technology or finance, which the Career Center has been accused of favoring.

This bias becomes clearer when examining the career advisors; there are two specifically geared towards finance and consulting, larger than any other group. Perhaps this would be understandable if these careers were the most popular among Tufts students. Yet over the past three years (2014, 2015, 2016), the number of graduates entering finance and consulting has decreased to a point where it is now trailing engineering and technology (which only has one designated advisor) and is about even with the healthcare/medicine, research and environmental field (no designated advisors).

This bias prevents students in different fields from accessing specialized resources on their career paths, and while the Career Center may not offer them, Tufts’ alumni network may.

The largest opportunity for this (in terms of group size) that is mentioned on the Career Center’s webpage is the Tufts Career Networking Group, a LinkedIn group with upwards of 7,000 members.

This is not particularly conducive to oneon-one exchanges — the most recent post at the time of this editorial had zero likes or comments. More troubling is that the Tufts Online Community, which has the emails of thousands of former alumni, is not listed anywhere on the site.

However, it must be acknowledged that the Career Center is improving. Over this past summer, it launched Handshake to replace Jumbo Jobs. This was a much-awaited change that provides a friendlier user interface and a consolidated site for all things jobs, internships and career events.

Additionally, the addition of the Career Fellows program is a useful step in making Career Center resources more available by creating more drop-in areas across campus and increasing the hours for résumé reviews and job search strategies.

While these are significant steps forward for the Career Center, there are other changes it should make, such as better representing certain industries and emphasizing the Tufts alumni database, that would enable it to better serve the Tufts community.

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Higher education: a profit-driven gateway leaving poor students in the dust

by Parker Breza, Elizabeth Dossett, Rosy Fitzgerald and Amira Subaey Young people in this country are in a moment of crisis, and have been for some time, but no one is talking about it. Meanwhile, big banks and loan corporations like Wells Fargo, Sallie Mae, SunTrust and U.S. Bank are making money off students’ need and desire to get an education.

Corporations and the top 1 percent of the United States have developed an entire system to extract money from the most vulnerable through higher education. This means that many people can’t afford to go to college, are rejected from universities because of their financial need or attend only to be laden with crippling debt for the rest of their lives; rising costs at private and public institutions alike have necessitated private loans, which come with massive interest rates and years of repayment plans. At the same time, higher education has become a need, not a want, for many in the United States. The American economy continues to demand more educational qualifications from the American workforce.

College has become a marketized gateway to employment leaving People of Color and poor people out of the economic equation altogether.

The dominant narrative that promises students access to the college of their dreams as long as they work hard in high school is, put simply, a lie.

Institutions of higher education like Tufts practice discriminatory policies that exclude students from receiving admissions letters because they

have demonstrated financial need.

Even if students do gain admission to Tufts, education is by no means accessible when a diploma carries the weight of hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. While students struggle under this massive burden, corporate higher-ups sit comfortably on boards of private universities, hiking tuition costs and funneling the money towards their own private interests, rather than investing in educators and communities.

Financial aid packages offered to students may also be involved in systems seeking to profit off of students.

Tufts includes institutional loans in our financial aid packages, embedding us in the same profit game as the large financial institutions making money off of students.

Countries around the world are providing accessible higher education to young people while many colleges in the United States have tuition costs that exceed the nation’s median household income. It is time for us as to recognize that higher education should not be a privilege for the wealthy few, but a human right for all. Governments and lawmakers could easily address this issue by making higher education a government-funded public good, regulating corporate influence over higher education, or a variety of other measures to open educational opportunities up towards all communities. A conversation must be started about the inaccessibility of higher education in the United States, and at Tufts in particular.

Tufts students are going hungry, working long hours on top of aca-

demic work, and many have struggled with health issues while unable to pay copays for medicine under university health insurance. Low-income students are constantly met with insurmountable financial obstacles, often being told that they ought to be grateful for the opportunities college gives them. And still, with the odds stacked against us, students are changing the world. Every day we are dreaming of a brighter future, and we are in a unique position to ignite a movement for educational justice for all.

As a national student movement, we have members at universities across the country engaging in a national campaign to make higher education financially attainable and accessible for all. Corporate higher education causes millions of people to suffer under crushing debt while others remain in poverty due to lack of access and opportunity for advancement. We will not stay silent at Tufts, as students attending a university that runs on a $70,600 tuition, but this issue is also bigger than us, and it is time to make a change.

Parker Breza is a junior majoring in American studies. Parker can be reached at parker.breza@tufts.edu. Elizabeth Dossett is a junior majoring in American studies and clinical psychology. Elizabeth can be reached at elizabeth.dossett@tufts.edu.

Rosy Fitzgerald is a junior majoring in American studies. Rosy can be reached at rosa.fitgerald@tufts.edu. Amira Subaey is a junior majoring in international relations. Amira can be reached at amira. al_subaey@tufts.edu.

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The Democrats’ rift grows thanks to Donna Brazile

by Christopher Panella

Donna Brazile’s Nov. 2 article for POLITICO was well-written, well-expressed and definitely a great promotion for her new book, “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.” It was interesting to read the excerpt about her time as the interim chair of the Democratic Party after Debby Wasserman-Schultz stepped down in July 2016. In the article, Brazile specifically recalls her shock at learning about the Clinton campaign’s financial control of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). What I did not enjoy, however, was the destructive impact the article had on the Democratic Party’s already prevalent rift between establishment Democrats and Bernie Sanders’ progressives.

The DNC has faced a financial problem since Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election. Political scientist Daniel Galvin argues that Obama left the DNC financially dry in favor of supporting the 2013 Obama-team nonprofit Organizing for Action (OFA). This decision is, according to Galvin, not unlike previous Democratic presidents, like John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter, but its impact was a direct cause of the problems the DNC had in the 2016 election. Brazile’s article touches on this and showcases multiple other factors leading to the DNC’s 2015 decision to form a shared fundraising committee with the Clinton campaign.

While Brazile does not use her article to directly claim that the primaries were rigged, she does point to the agreement being strange, effectively giving the Clinton campaign control of the DNC’s “finances, strategies, and all the money raised” and requiring the DNC “to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.”

Boris Heersink, an assistant professor in political science at Fordham University, writes about the details of Brazile’s article in The Washington Post’s article “No, the DNC didn’t ‘rig’ the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton.”

Heersink explains that many of the details, including the DNC’s staff showing favor to Clinton prior to her becoming the nominee as revealed in the 2016 DNC leaked emails, is historical to the party. The 1999 DNC senior staff had major relations to Al Gore, most notably the chairman and the finance chair.

It is also important to remember that the leaked DNC emails showed Brazile providing Hillary Clinton’s campaign with debate questions before primary debates, meaning while Brazile may be looking to shed light on the problems in the party, it is all doing more harm than good. The Clinton campaign’s actions, however, are not the primary problems that need to be discussed. What the Democratic Party really needs to focus on is the common enemy: Donald Trump.

With 2018 midterm elections coming, Democrats have the opportunity to do major damage to the incumbent

Republicans. In September 2017, a CNN poll conducted by the SSRS claimed that 29 percent of Americans held a favorable view of the Republican party. In August 2017, it was reported by a Gallup poll that 16 percent of Republicans approved of the job Congress was doing compared to the 12 percent approval from Democrats.

These polls show a clear consensus: 2018 could be disastrous for the party and for Trump’s presidency. The Democratic Party could flip Congress and change the tide of the presidency. While this sounds hopeful, it is possible, but only if the Democratic Party unites the current rift and focuses on the common problem.

Instead, thanks to Brazile’s poorly timed article and book, the party is more divided than ever. Democrats are furious and the party is back where it was: wondering why it lost.

It is frustrating that the party cannot move forward and understand that the current civil war is not the biggest problem. Regardless of the factions in the party, regardless of the frustrating problems of the 2016 election, the party needs to move on. There are suggestions of new leadership, fresh faces and modern directions. Regardless of how the party fixes its internal problems, the ultimate problem is outside of the party.

Brazile seemed to forget this and thanks to her new article and book, so will the factions in the Democratic party.

Christopher Panella is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Christopher can be reached at Christopher.Panella@ tufts.edu.

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Sailing roster tested during competitive weekend

by Jeremy Goldstein Staff Writer

The Jumbos set sail for a busy weekend on Nov. 4–5, returning with impressive showings in numerous environments in both individual and team efforts. These regattas featured all along the East Coast, including two strong individual showings in sunny Florida.

Senior Alp Rodopman and first-year Talia Toland competed at the highly competitive LaserPerformance Singlehanded Nationals at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Yacht Club. After 12 races, Rodopman earned 80 points, including a first-place finish in the 11th race, which was good for sixth out of 18 in the overall standings. Rodopman finished sixth overall in the same regatta last year, as well.

Toland placed 12th in the 18-person field, wrapping up the weekend with a total of 110 points in 12 races. She came in second place in the ninth race before closing the weekend with a third place finish in the final race.

“It was extremely tough competition and light breeze the whole time — not my favorite,” Toland told the Daily in an email. “I had lots of good moments throughout the weekend but had trouble connecting those moments together, leading to a result that wasn’t as strong as I was hoping for.”

The Jumbos also sent teams to other competitions over the weekend. The Jumbos finished sixth in an eight team interconference field at the Hap Moore Team Race at Conn. College with a team headed by junior skippers Jack Bitney, Jackson McCoy and Christopher Keller and featuring seniors Lara Dienemann and Michelle Chisdak along with sopho-

more Emily Calandrella as crew. Tufts finished with a record of three wins and four losses, with the victories coming against BU, the University of Virginia and Roger Williams. “[The] showing [had] strong in-course plays, but generally [was] lacking in starting technique,” Bitney told the Daily in an email. “[The] breeze was light, so there were around two hour postponements both days. [The] current was strong, primarily from the West, and eddying within the racecourse, and the water was flat.”

The Mike Horn Trophy, an in-conference regatta hosted by Harvard, featured Tufts first-year skippers Wells Drayton, Leyla Senocak and Austen Freda alongside junior crews Marisa Permatteo and Sabina Van Mell and sophomore crew Duke Saunders. The team finished the weekend in sixth place, which included a victory over Brown.

The Jumbos also competed at the Sister Esther Open, another in-conference regatta hosted by Salve Regina. The A division team of first-year Marley Hillman, sophomore Kelsey Foster, junior John Duncan and senior Aaron Klein scored 115 points to claim 11th place out of 20 schools.

In Division B, the Tufts team of seniors Julian Guiot and Tyler Paige combined with junior Nicholas Giacobbe and firstyear Matthew Keller to place sixth, with 69 points. These two finishes combined had the Jumbos finish eighth overall.

The Jumbos also sent four pairings to the eye-catchingly named “It’s the Crew’s Regatta” promotional competition at Northeastern. The Tufts team of senior Molly Pleskus and junior Taylor Hart placed fifth in the A Division by winning its final two races, while the duo of sophomore Grace Materne and first-

year Marley Hillman finished seventh.

In Division B, the two Tufts teams led the way. Senior Lucy Robison and junior Sabina Van Mell topped the table, and the pair of first-years Maria Brush and Lindsay Powers finished second after winning two races. Thanks to the high finishes in the B division Tufts came first overall, beating Mass Maritime in a tie-break thanks to a lower score in the A division.

The Professor No Ringer, an in-conference regatta hosted by Brandeis, capped off the busy weekend, with the Jumbos competing in both the A and B divisions.

As the weather slowly turns from a warm fall to a cold winter, the Tufts sailing season transitions from full activity to select regattas. With the weather plummeting, as it does during a New England November, a few knots of wind become a few dozen, perhaps more than the forward-thinking Tufts student in Adidas slides ties in a year. That does not mean all optimism, however, is lost.

“The fall season is pretty much over, but I’m looking forward to getting stronger and improving throughout the spring season,” Toland said.

The season will officially conclude next week with the Atlantic Coast Championship at SUNY-Maritime in New York, N.Y. “We’re sending our best team and hope to perform well to set ourselves up for next season,” Bitney said.

Even in the hazardous New York waters and some of the most untenable weather conditions of the year, the sailing team persists. It certainly will be a team effort, but the fleet seems ready. Considering the busy weekend they just completed, what’s one more?

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continued from page 10 weren’t going to score. It’s great to have a group that believes so much in their capabilities, because that’s probably 90 percent of the game.”

A punt from Bowers allowed Reed to use her speed to get hold of the ball and get it between defenders and past the keeper at the 64:38 mark. With two defenders following her and senior goalkeeper Emily Dumont coming out of the net, Reed maintained textbook composure.

Soon after, the first-year duo of Reed and Lloyd connected to score the team’s final goal and Lloyd’s 10th of the season at 70:34. Lloyd is now ranked second for goals in the NESCAC. “[Lloyd] is a very athletic, smart player.

She has an intangible grit about her and she cannot be denied. When she loses the ball, she wins it back. She has a knack for getting the ball where it need to be,” Whiting said.

As soon as the excitement of making the NESCAC final set in, the Jumbos realized they had less than 24 hours to recover.

“The hotel was only 10 minutes away, so we could head straight back and just rest,” junior forward Alessandra Sadler said. “Some girls dumped ice into the hotel tubs to make ice baths, we had a bunch of rollers, and luckily we had an extra hour of sleep due to daylight savings. It’s actually fun to have away double-headers because there’s a lot of team bonding in the hotel overnight, and that gave us some good vibes going into the game the next day.”

Good vibes calmed the Jumbos’ doubts as they faced off the Ephs for the second time this season, having suffered a 3–0 blow from them on Oct. 21.

“There was nothing to lose going into the final. If we won, it’d be the cherry on top, and if not, it’d be good practice for the NCAA tournament,” Bowers said. “Williams is an incredible team and we respect them a lot. But we also knew we didn’t play our best the last time they beat us, so we felt we were coming into the final as a different team than they thought we were.”

The first half of the game was quiet, with lots of play in the center of the field.

Williams senior forward Natasha Albaneze hit the left goal post in the 13th minute and Reed had a shot on goal for the Jumbos eight minutes later, but the shot was blocked by junior goalkeeper Olivia Barnhill.

“After Williams had shut us out just a few weeks earlier, we were pumped about entering the second half tied up at zero,” Bowers said. “It showed that we were making them play to our level instead of playing to their level.”

Later in the second half, Sadler flicked a throw-in to Reed, which went out of bounds. Reed then quickly threw back in to Lloyd before the Williams defenders could cover her, enabling Lloyd to pass off to Sadler at the top of the box. Sadler took a touch and cleared a shot past the goalkeeper at 58:56, creating a 1–0 lead for the Jumbos.

“I was falling as I made the shot, so when I got up, I almost wasn’t entirely sure of what had happened. Everyone was screaming and excited, but we immediately had to refocus,” Sadler said.

At 80:23, the score was equalized when a crowd struggled for possession in the Jumbos’ penalty area. Eph junior midfielder Natalie Turner-Wyatt gained possession and took a shot on goal, which was saved by Bowers. TurnerWyatt then made a second shot with an assist from first-year midfielder Victoria Laino, and was ultimately successful, tying up the score at 1–1. Bowers then made a huge save, scrambling to her left to keep the scores level as the Jumbos struggled to recover from the late equalizer. It remained tied for the rest of the regulation, pushing the game into overtime.

Four and a half minutes into overtime, Albaneze passed off to sophomore forward Alison Lu who swiftly scored, clinching the Ephs’ eighth NESCAC title.

“I feel disappointment for them, because it just didn’t happen for them,” Whiting said. “They really deserved it; they were so committed every single day.

I’m very proud of the way they displayed themselves yesterday. It was a phenomenal game.”

The at-large bids for the NCAA tournament were released on Monday, and fortunately, Tufts clinched a spot, alongside Williams, Middlebury, Conn. College and Hamilton representing the NESCAC. “Our coach said to us, ‘We’ve had the talent for a long time, but this year, the team has a little bit of magic that we haven’t had in the past,'” Sadler said.

The next magic show for the Jumbos will be the first round of the NCAA bracket on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. against Virginia Wesleyan at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, N.J.

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What we learned this super Sunday

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t might be tempting to just write off the title race this season as completely done. Manchester City is, after all, eight points clear, scoring goals for fun with about a third of the season played. Kevin De Bruyne looks completely unplayable, and David Silva doesn’t seem to be slowing down his production rate for the league leaders. They’ve scored the most goals in the Premier League this season and have let in the second-fewest of seven. Gone too, seem the frailties of the goalkeeping position, and the inability to defeat the ‘small’ teams.

But to simply giftwrap the Citizens the title right now would be to forget that Manchester City still has difficult away games to play this year. Sure, they came through with a 1–0 victory at Stamford Bridge which was mightily impressive. But they still have to go to Anfield, Old Trafford, Wembley and, to a lesser extent, Arsenal.

That’s not to say City can’t win those games away from home, but the team will still be put through very stern tests between now and May. Arsenal offered us a tiny clue to some of the weaknesses that Manchester City might possess, namely at leftback. Fabian Delph was clearly at fault, leaving Alexandre Lacazette to freely score on Ederson. While Delph has enjoyed new life — and has performed well — at Manchester City due to Benjamin Mendy’s long-term injury, it is safe to say he’s the weakest link in City’s backline.

Teams might want to seek to exploit that going forward, as it seems to be the only weakness in the City team right now.

Over in London, City’s neighbors Manchester United struggled at Stamford Bridge. Barring the opening 10 to 15 minutes, Chelsea were the better team by a mile. Chelsea has the archetypal championship-winning team. A good, organized defense, a powerful midfield pair of N’Golo Kanté and Tiémoué Bakayoko (boy have they missed the former) and sheer creativity in Eden Hazard and Cesc Fàbregas, who completely ran the game against Manchester United. With performances like this, talks about Chelsea’s decline are complete hogwash.

The big story of the day was arguably the battle of the two No. 9s: Romelu Lukaku and Álvaro Morata. Morata easily won this contest, looking dangerous every time he got forward. I know I’ve made my fair share of criticism of Lukaku, but what was the big guy supposed to do without any service? Manchester United looks lost since losing Paul Pogba. At Stamford Bridge, United’s midfield was completely outmuscled and overpowered by Chelsea. Every time Chelsea went forward you had a sense that the team could have killed the game off had its players been more clinical in front of goal. With United, I found myself groaning at the misplaced passes and poor decision-making. While United has been able to squeeze out results in Pogba’s absence, it’s clear that the original early swagger of six wins and one draw to start the season has given way to a brand of more tentative, uncertain soccer. The good news for United fans is that he might be back soon, having trained this past week.

The bad news is, with the way Pep Guardiola’s team is playing, it might not be enough.

Yuan Jun Chee is a sports editor at the Tufts Daily. He is a junior majoring in history and international relations. Yuan Jun can be reached at yuan.chee@tufts.edu.

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continued from back early lead. The Jumbos battled their way back from a 12–6 deficit, to secure the victory with a 25–21 score. The Jumbos ran away with the third set, earning a 25–15 score, and swept the Mammoths with a match score of 3–0. Regarding the team’s victories Friday and Saturday, Thompson shared that Tufts focused on playing the volleyball that got them so much success throughout the season.

“It is much harder to beat good teams the second time around so we were prepared to play a different version of our opponents,” Thompson said. “We knew full well that [our opponents] would make strategic adjustments since the last time we played them and we were prepared. However, on our end we really wanted to focus on competing as the best version of ourselves while staying true to the game plans and strategies that earned us the [No. 1] seed in the first place.”

On championship Sunday, Tufts faced a foe the team had played only a week prior: Wesleyan. The team had defeated Wesleyan in its recent match on Oct. 28, with a score of 3–1 to secure the top seed of the NESCAC tournament. But the tables turned Sunday, and the Cardinals were the ones celebrating this time. Tufts was victorious in the first set, notching a 25–22 score and taking the early lead in the match.

However, from that point on, it was all the Cardinals. Junior outside hitter Mackenzie Bright explained that the team struggled to respond to alterations

Wesleyan made during the match.

“On Sunday, we had a very good first game,” Bright said.

“Then Wesleyan made a lot of adjustments to what we were doing, and we honestly just had a hard time adjusting back. I think on Friday and Saturday we were a lot more flexible with our game plan.”

Wesleyan went on to win the second set, 25–23, and then the third set SEOHYUN SHIM / THE TUFTS DAILY 25–17.

Heading Tufts players huddle before Tufts’ 3–0 win against Amherst on Nov. 4. into the fourth set, the Jumbos trailed the Cardinals 2–1 in match score. While was in system and executed better than “We are incredibly excited and Tufts began the fourth set with a spark, us earning the win.” thankful for the opportunity to keep with the score tied at 11, Wesleyan While the tournament ended in our season going,” Thompson said. began to run away with the set. The heartbreaking fashion for Tufts, the “We are looking forward to playing Cardinals secured the fourth set with team’s spectacular season earned this weekend against some great a score of 25–14, thereby taking down Tufts its ninth NCAA berth with an opponents. We know UMASS well and the Jumbos with a match score of 3–1. at-large invitation to the tournament. will be prepared for any of the teams Thompson noted that the match came This is the team’s third trip to the we cross over with. At this point, we down to well executed performance. tournament in the last four years. want to stay loose, have fun and really “This match was about execu- Last year, Tufts made it to the quar- enjoy the process of working together tion,” Thompson said. “Having played terfinals where the team was defeat- towards our ultimate goal. Sure we each other so recently, major adjust- ed by Southwestern University in are disappointed in the outcome of ments across the net were not likely. Texas. The Jumbos will open tourna- the conference tournament, but it was Ultimately, this was going to be a game ment play against the University of one match and overall we have had an of execution and mental endurance. Massachusetts-Boston in a NCAA incredible season. [Monday] we were The team that stayed in system the regional hosted by Johnson & Wales ready to turn the page and focus on our most while taking care of the ball would University. Thompson shared that the next challenge.” end up on top. Unfortunately, Wesleyan team’s focus is now on what lies ahead.

And so the Jumbos charge on.

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First-year forward Sophie Lloyd takes on a defender in the women's soccer home game against Lesley on Kraft Field on Oct. 17.

Tufts falls to top-seeded Williams in NESCAC final

by Haley Rich Staff Writer

This weekend, the women’s soccer team reached the NESCAC final for the first time since 2005 with a 3–2 semifinal victory over Hamilton on Saturday in Williamstown, Mass. Unfortunately, the fourth-seeded Jumbos fell 2–1 to the top-seeded Ephs of Williams on their home turf the next day in an intense overtime battle.

Although the Jumbos defeated the sixth-seeded Continentals 2–0 on Oct. 8 on their turf in Clinton, N.Y., going into the semifinal round, they knew that this time around might not be so simple.

“Of the three teams remaining in the NESCAC draw, we thought we had a good match up with Hamilton,” coach Martha Whiting said. “But the last time we played

them, they were just coming off a double overtime game the previous day, so they were probably exhausted. And, we didn’t get a shot off them in the second half of that game. We knew they were a solid team and that they probably didn’t have their best showing during our first game, so we were ready for a battle.”

The Continentals are known for modifying their formation, so the Jumbos were prepped for their opponents to use two different types of formations, but knew they would stay put with theirs.

“Our team plays best when we stick to what we know, so we focused on our own style of play,” Whiting said.

The Jumbos’ 3-5-2 formation, consisting of three defenders, five midfielders and two strikers executed even under the pressure of a 1–0 deficit only 39 seconds into the first half. Hamilton senior mid-

fielder Katja Dunlap passed to senior forward Katie Kreider who finished the play with a quick shot into the lower-right corner of the goal.

“They were very dangerous in the first half, and obviously, being scored on in the first 40 seconds isn’t ideal,” junior goalkeeper and recent NESCAC Women’s Soccer Player of the Week Emily Bowers said. “But afterwards, we got in our huddle, and joked about it to shrug it off. We were saying, ‘We have 89 minutes and 20 seconds to win this game.’ We couldn’t have started worse off, but we could only go up from there.”

And that they did, with first-year forward Sophie Lloyd tying up the game at 20:06. Fellow classmate forward Liz Reed took the ball out of the corner and slipped, causing the ball to skid toward Lloyd who beat two defenders and got just enough

space to take a perfectly placed shot off her left foot from right above the top of the 18-yard box, tying up the score.

The Continentals took the lead again at 34:24 when Dunlap received passes from first-year forward Cat Gambino and junior forward Jessie Murray and scored off Bowers.

During halftime, there was no motivating speech or change in momentum; for the Jumbos, it was only a matter of staying focused and executing what they knew they were capable of.

“We were attacking with numbers, we were playing well, so I told them to just stick to the game plan and maybe turn up the energy just a bit,” Whiting said.

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Championship game ends in heartbreak for volleyball, still headed to NCAA Tournament

by Emily Burstein Staff Writer

The Tufts volleyball team hosted the NESCAC tournament this past weekend, with aims to finish what they could not last year, as they lost in the championship game. The Jumbos entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed for the second year in a row, after finishing the season with a 10–0 record in NESCAC play. After decisive victories in both the quarterfinals and semifinals, the team was taken down by No. 2 seed Wesleyan

in the championship game. Coach Cora Thompson expressed that the Jumbos were well aware that they would face tough competition in the tournament, and entered ready to battle.

“Every time we step on the court, we have another opportunity to improve our game,” Thompson told the Daily in an email. “[The NESCAC] tournament is always so competitive and full of teams who on any given day can compete for the title so we knew we were going to have to put forth our very best mentally and physically.”

On Friday, the team opened NESCAC tournament play against No. 8 seed Bates. The Bobcats climbed to an early lead in the first set at 8–3, but once the Jumbos got going, they took control. Tufts won the set with a decisive 25–16 scoreline. The team stormed into the second set, taking the lead until Bates tied it up at 15 all. Tufts and Bates exchanged points from then on, but Tufts regained enough control to end the second set in victorious fashion, with a score of 25–23. The Bobcats stole the third set, winning

with a score of 25–23, putting pressure on the Jumbos. However, Tufts played a strong fourth set to defeat Bates with a set score of 25–19, and a match score that favored Tufts 3–1.

In the semifinal matchup Saturday, Tufts faced No. 5 seed Amherst. Tufts conceded the lead in the opening moments of the first set, but climbed back to win the set with a score of 25–22. The second set mirrored the first, as the Mammoths once again took an see VOLLEYBALL , page 10