The Tufts Daily - Wednesday, October 16, 2019

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Administration responds to TCU resolution 19-7 calling for a carbon-neutral endowment

by Elli Sol Strich

(TCA), a group which focuses on systemic change to address the climate crisis, according to TCA organizer Celia Bottger.

The resolution reiterated parts of earlier ones surrounding the topic of divestment, but called for carbon neutrality rather than divestment. According to Bottger, a senior, carbon neutrality is a crucial first step toward fossil fuel divestment, and the resolution reflects an attempt to reopen the dialogue between administrators.

In 2013, a TCU Senate resolution, a student referendum and a written proposal called for divestment from fossil fuel holdings, according to a 2014 letter from University President Anthony Monaco. These actions prompted Monaco to establish the Divestment Working Group, comprised of students, faculty, administrators and trustees. Along with investigating a sustainability fund, the Divestment Working Group was tasked with examining the impacts of divestment on the institution, according to the letter.

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Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate published an Oct. 7 letter from Executive Vice President Michael W. Howard regarding his plans to establish an advisory group to the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees for the purposes of reviewing issues with the university’s investments in fossil fuels.

The letter was in response to TCU Senate Resolution 19-7, “A Resolution Calling on Tufts University to Transition to a CarbonNeutral Endowment,” which urged the Board of Trustees to publish annual reports on Tufts’ investments, specifically in the fossil fuel industry, and to initiate a process toward carbon-neutral endowments.

The resolution passed in the Senate 24–0– 0. According to TCU Parliamentarian Finn McGarghan, the resolution holds leverage as it conveys to the administrators what the student body wants as a whole.

The resolution was submitted on March 31 by members of the Tufts Climate Action

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Tufts Community Union Senate holds its regular meeting on Oct. 14 in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room.

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Eliot-Pearson implements mentorship program for first-year graduate students

by Alexander Janoff Contributing Writer

This year, in an attempt to make the transition to graduate school more seamless, a pair of master’s students at Tufts’ EliotPearson Department of Child Study and Human Development are implementing a new mentorship program that pairs firstyear master’s and Ph.D. students with a more experienced student mentor.

According to Nick Woolf, co-president of Eliot-Pearson’s Graduate Student Association (GSA), the program pairs first-year master’s students with a second-year master’s student who acts as a peer mentor.

Jessica Somogie, co-president of GSA, first brought up the possibility of this program over the summer. She saw the benefit of matching first-year graduate students with a mentor based on similar personalities and academic interests, among other factors.

Rachel Milah, a second-year master’s student and a mentor in the program, echoed this sentiment. According to Milah, not only are

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students matched based on academic similarities, but also on their extra-curricular interests. “[My mentee] and I are both kind of bubbly and excitable people,” Milah said. “It seemed like there was definitely a personality match there.”

According to Somogie, the mentorship program would give first-year graduate students a person with whom they can ask general questions and talk about classes.

“Having this emotional support in addition to being a graduate student is really important,” Somogie said. “I feel like in order to feel like you’re able to succeed, you need to have that emotional support.”

According to Woolf, the program is helpful in making sure first-year graduate students are both comfortable in their new environment and are put in a position to succeed in their education.

“You’re building a strong relationship with someone who has kind of been in your shoes,” Woolf said. “And it gives you ideally that kind of sense of psychological safety where maybe you don’t feel comfortable asking a classmate the question or asking your teacher questions.”

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Libby Hunt, a first-year graduate student and mentee in the program, said that the perspective of another, more experienced student can be useful to incoming first-year graduate students when it comes to acclimating to a new environment.

“It’s helpful to have somebody who is already in the midst of it or has already gone through the things that you’re going through now,” Hunt said.

The benefits of this mentorship program go beyond a graduate student’s time at Tufts, according to Woolf. They include a future platform for networking and someone from whom to seek career advice.

Furthermore, this mentorship program is not just helpful for the incoming first-year mentee, Woolf said; a mentor can also benefit from participating in this program.

For example, according to Woolf, a mentor that recommended a mentee carve more time out of their schedule for self-care, planning or exercising might end up spending more time on these activities themselves.

“I think just the act of helping someone else forces you to be introspective and reflec-

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tive on your own growth in your own rituals that are helping you to be productive and healthy,” Woolf said.

Milah experienced this benefit of mentoring a student firsthand. She gives her mentee credit for helping to widen her perspective.

“In addition to me kind of supporting her and telling her about my experience last year, she’s been able to just give me a different side of things and to [tell me] what she’s going through with different professors,” Milah said. “I really like the connection that I have with her. I do feel like we’re both learning from each other and becoming friends too.”

Since graduate students come from a number of backgrounds, from straight out of undergraduate school to a career or otherwise, the program is designed to include everyone entering the graduate programs at Eliot-Pearson, regardless of their background.

Somogie and Woolf see a future at Tufts where this direct and more involved mentorship can take hold within the under-

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Senate hopeful after Howard's response to divestment resolution ENDOWMENT

continued from page 1 Monaco released a letter to members of the Tufts community in Feb. 2014 stating that the Divestment Working Group’s report ultimately advised to refrain from divestment, citing a $75 million loss in market value in the following five years.

“It would not be prudent to expose the university to that kind of risk at this time,” Monaco wrote. “We will, however, continue to examine the feasibility of divestment in the future.”

The Divestment Working Group ceased to meet after submitting the report to Monaco in 2014, according to Ann Rappaport, a senior lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and a member of the Divestment Working Group.

She said that she, along with other members, was aware of the lack of options with commingled funds. However, because of the increasing pressure of the financial management community to come up with more investment options, they were adamant that the university’s decisions be reviewed.

The response to Resolution 19-7 was emailed to McGarghan and TCU Historian Rabiya Ismail on Oct. 7, and TCU released it to the public two days later after receiving permission to do so from Howard. According to Ismail, the letter was received with hopefulness as a substantial first response.

Bottger emphasized how the letter conveyed Howard’s willingness to engage. She

explained that TCA is looking forward to communicating with Howard, whom TCA has emailed without response. She added that his past actions as Vice President of Smith College are promising.

Rappaport echoed this sentiment. “Smith has taken a whole lot of measures, campus sustainability related and related to their investments, to align both with their mission and values,” she said. “I think there’s a strong sentiment that we can do that.”

The hope from the letter, according to Ismail, a sophomore, is that the advisory group will contain student input, which will shift the Investment Committee towards divestment.

Rappaport emphasized this importance of governance strategies to more effectively acknowledge future generations. She said that faculty-initiated divestment proposals in the past have not had the traction they were looking for, but that she believes student organizations will be productive with persistence.

“It just seems immoral not to consider future generations in decision making, and it hasn’t happened. And so I think this may just be a foot in the door, but it’s a really important one both for the university and for TCU,” she said.

TCU President Shannon Lee was appreciative of the communication and review but expressed concerns that student demands pushing for divestment will not be reflected in TCU Senate’s work with the Board of

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continued from page 1 graduate schools, especially with incoming first-year graduate students.

“I think it would work really well for freshmen coming in so that they would come in having someone to go get dinner with,” Somogie said. “It’s not someone necessarily that needs to do every single thing with you but at least you have someone committed to it.”

Hunt also sees a mentorship program of this kind working well with first-year graduate students. She noted the academic benefits of pairing a first-year graduate students with an upperclassman to create that same mentor/mentee relationship featured at Eliot-Pearson.

“On an undergraduate level, it would be really helpful to have a sophomore or junior or senior who’s going through, or who’s already gone through the things that you’re encountering for the first time,” Hunt said.

According to Woolf, the first step would be to extend the mentorship program to the undergraduates studying child studies and human development, but the ultimate goal is to make it a university-wide program.

Ultimately, both Woolf and

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Somogie expressed high hopes for the future of this program.

“I think [mentorship programs] can be really impactful, both for the mentor and the mentee helping with professional development with personal growth,” Woolf said.

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Trustees. She said that with student input in the Divestment Working Group in 2014, the group still ultimately refused divestment.

In response to Howard’s letter six months after the resolution, McGarghan, a senior, explained the lengthy process of creating formal statements on a topic as big as investment.

“It has to be cleared by the person writing it, it has to go through the legal team, it has to clear so many hoops for it to be public information. And unfortunately, it has to be written so formally, and usually pretty vaguely.”

Hanna Carr, a senior TCA leader who was one of 10 who submitted the resolution, expressed worry that the process for reviewing the endowment procedures may not reflect the urgency of the matter.

“We only have 11 years, under a business as usual emissions scenario, to stop some of the most catastrophic effects of climate change, and we’re worried that by dragging their feet and building out a long drawn process to review endowment procedures, they’re squandering time that could be used to move our endowment toward more sustainable sources in the meantime,” she said.

According to Ismail, the letter, in mentioning the planning of an advisory team, ties the administration to their words.

“It was still specific enough at the end that it shows that if they don’t do what they’re saying in this letter, they’re going to be held accountable for it,” she said.

On Oct. 8 at 3:52 p.m., the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and Medford Police Department responded to a call off campus regarding a suspicious individual. A Tufts affiliate was waiting for their landlord on St. Clements Rd. when the suspicious person appeared in their foyer and spoke to them for 10 minutes before unsuccessfully asking for money. The suspicious person then identified themselves to the Tufts affiliate and left the premises before police could arrive.

On Oct. 9 at 1:25 p.m., TUPD received a report from a student whose Fitbit went missing. As they passed in front of Eaton Hall earlier that day, somebody called to them to say that they had dropped something. The individual then saw another person reach down to pick up an object. They made eye contact, and the person who picked up the object quickly walked away.

The person who reported the incident later realized they were missing their Fitbit and called TUPD. No Fitbit has been turned in to the lost and found.

On Oct. 10 at 10:49 a.m., TUPD responded to a firm alarm in Lewis Hall. When they

Hunt agrees, and she is hopeful that both she and her mentor will continue to be helpful to one another once they leave Tufts.

“Hopefully we will continue to just be good resources for each other as we both leave graduate school and enter the job force,” Hunt said.

arrived, a resident informed them it was caused by a water leak; a hot water pipe in the second floor bathroom had burst and set off the alarm. C&W Cleaning Services and Residential Facilities assessed the situation, and a plumber was called to the dorm to address the problem. The dorm sustained moderate water damage.

On Oct. 11 at 12:31 p.m., staff in Tisch Library received an email from an individual with a history of trespassing on Tufts property, stating that they were currently on the premises. Officers arrived and did a search of the area, but the individual was no longer there.

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Tisch College dives into how Distinguished Speakers are chosen

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On a college campus, a unique opportunity presents itself: attending free talks from a variety of speakers. This semester, speakers at Tufts have ranged from Republican political consultant Karl Rove to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Although many departments at Tufts organize campus speakers, the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life has hosted many prominent speakers through its Presidential Town Hall series and Tisch College Distinguished Speakers series, including presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and civil rights activist Tarana Burke.

Jessica Byrnes, special projects administrator for Tisch College, mentioned that one of the most difficult aspects about the process of inviting campus speakers is bridging the ideological gap.

“Certainly, Tufts is a more liberal campus; I was a student here. [The] Tisch [College] is non-partisan but it can always be tough at Tufts, in Boston and even Massachusetts to have more conservative speakers come and share their perspectives,” Byrnes said.

In politically charged times, it can be difficult to maintain non-partisanship as a school. Byrnes commented on this polarSizing political climate and her experiences seeing speakers as a student at Tufts.

“Finding conservative voices that students will want to hear from and will be a valuable experience for the Tufts community is challenging. As a student here, some of the most memorable events that I went to were the people I actually vehemently disagreed with. Hearing their perspective was useful and challenged me to make my argument of why I believed a certain way stronger,” she said.

Byrnes also mentioned the difficulty of obtaining such distinguished speakers.

“For every speaker that we have there’s probably double the number of speakers that we aren’t able to get. And that’s because of scheduling conflicts … It’s always a crapshoot of who do we want here and who can we actually get,” she said.

Deciding who speaks at Tufts is a continuous process, according to Jennifer McAndrew, director of communications, strategy and planning for Tisch College. Tisch College keeps a running list

of possible speakers based on current political or civic events.

“At any given point, we could be in conversation with many different people about coming to campus. We’re always talking to people, reaching out to people, eliciting help from alumni, faculty, people on our board and other folks to try to reach out to people we want to come to our campus,” McAndrew said.

Striking the balance between ideological differences can be challenging, however. Arguably even more difficult is finding a diversity of experience when it comes to speakers.

“Being an elected politician is not the only way to contribute to civic and democratic life in this world. We want to think about those who represent all those different pathways to civic life,” she said.

One example of such a speaker that McAndrew mentioned is chef José Andrés.

“He is an entrepreneur, a very successful one, and now he is using his wealth and privilege to serve people in extreme need and disaster zones through his World Central Kitchen,” she said.

In addition to seeking out diversity in speaker choices, the Tisch College also tries to include students in the process, whether that be by suggesting speakers or helping in the planning process.

“We love to hear from students on who they would like to hear speak. We also like to hear from students on logistics.

For example, ‘this is a really bad time’ or ‘why don’t you ever bring speakers on weekends.’ That kind of feedback would be really helpful as well,” McAndrew said.

Another way that students can get involved in the speaker process is through a closed panel. For its Distinguished Speaker Series, Tisch College asks the speakers to hold closed-press roundtable events, as well as public forums. Students are selected to be part of these smaller, private events through recommendations from the event co-sponsors or simply by emailing Tisch College.

“If you see that, for example, Eric Holder is coming to campus and you are interested in talking to that person as part of the round-table, definitely let us know.

We can’t always make it happen, but we try very hard,” she said.

Timothy Leong had the opportunity to meet Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). When asked about the process of sitting in on the

roundtable, Leong, a sophomore, said it was just a matter of asking.

“I’ve been to a few of the events before, so I knew that Jess Byrnes was the person to talk to. I emailed her asking if there was going to be a meet-and-greet before Markey’s speech and she said yes.

It was a very simple process,” Leong said.

According to Leong, this roundtable event was a very different environment than the larger public forum.

“Markey came and talked to us a little bit individually, which was really cool since there were only about 20 students there. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the chance to ask questions. He told us a little more about what he has done with respect to the Green New Deal and why he was visiting Tufts,” he said.

Leong also commented on the interesting, more informal dynamic he witnessed between Markey and the students.

“In the roundtable, we really got the vibe of his personality and how he interacts with constituents. He’s running for re-election, so seeing him interact with potential voters was cool,” he said.

Tisch College hosts speakers mainly through the Distinguished Speaker Series, which is comprised of three to four events per semester. This program is co-sponsored by the Provost’s Office, although each individual event is separately co-sponsored by relevant student groups. They also host speakers through the Presidential Town Hall Series and the Civic Life Lunch Series.

“A lot of environmental groups and offices co-sponsored Markey’s talk because it was specifically about his role in the Green New Deal. We had different co-sponsors for Karl Rove, for example,” McAndrew said.

Many of the speakers who come to Tufts speak about political or politically-related topics. According to Byrnes, students should try to consider other perspectives beyond their own beliefs when choosing which talks to attend.

“I would encourage students to go to a speaker who they disagree with, whether that is on the far-right or the far-left — and we’ve had speakers on the far-left who have garnered criticism from students. It’s really an opportunity to challenge them and ask thought-provoking questions and either hone your argument or consider their perspective,” Byrnes said.

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Nate Rubright Somerville with Townie Tim

Having children

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e all live in various bubbles of insular thought, and one of mine is about to be broken. Up until now, I have been your humble correspondent, the typical neo-Somerville resident. My wife and I moved here from other parts of the country seeking a cool living situation in a relevant part of the world.

We came here for our jobs and chose this city because we thought it would be a good community; there are lots of young people and lots of things young people like to do. Those years ago, we did not necessarily think of Somerville as a place to raise a family or as a place that could be our “forever home.”

Our thinking, dear readers, has changed. This month, my wonderful wife (Mrs. Townie Tim) and I will be welcoming our first string bean of a child into the world. Somerville will be her first home. Over the last year I’ve gotten to tell stories about this place.

Through those stories and the shared experiences we have had with this community, Somerville has become more than a cool place to live. No matter what, for the rest of our lives we will say that we began our family in this town. If that is not the definition of planting roots, I don’t know what is.

And the wonderful thing is, now that we have started down this road, we have found so many wonderful folks traveling alongside us. Did you know Somerville is the 34th best city in the U.S. to raise a child? Did you know that there are food pantries and clothing swaps for new parents? Did you know that at almost any hour there are parents walking their strollers along the community path? I certainly did not until a few weeks ago. But now I am overjoyed to be living in a community that embraces the next generation.

If anything, I regret that I did not know more about raising children in Somerville. When we first moved here, we tended to try to just consume the good things about this place. All the farmers’ markets, local shops, Sox games and places to eat were just things we did to have fun. We participated in all those activities with folks that were by and large similar to us: working regular jobs with no kids.

Now with a child on the way, I am realizing how much value there is in a community that embraces its youngest members. I realize now that I am cheating myself when the company I keep is only a reflection of my age.

Understanding the different parts of our community should not be something that I experience when I have to, it should be something that holds the generations of our town together.

I can’t wait to tell my daughter stories about the Broadway Bridge construction, rides on the T, crazy winters and all the questionable columns her dad wrote for the Tufts Daily. Thanks for making this community a wonderful place for our daughter.

Nate Rubright is a member of the Somerville community. Nate can be reached at nathan.rubright@gmail.com.

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Mason Goldberg What’s the Mood?

Rainy day tunes

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f the Apple Weather app is correct one week in advance, then today should be a rainy day. As a self-proclaimed optimist, I’m gonna assume that it is. I’ve always loved rainy days — being inside on a rainy day, that is. Back at home, three walls of my room were mostly just windows, so when it rained hard, I felt like I was sitting inside a car in one of those fun drive-through car washes. On days like those, these were some of the songs I liked to listen to: 1. “Time In A Bottle” by Jim Croce 2. “A Long Time Ago” by Jim Croce 3. “Morning Crawls Towards You, And I”

by Good Luck Finding Iris 4. “Fantasy Theme” by Kevin Krauter 5. “Necromancer” by Joy Again 6. “Pyotr” by Bad Books, Manchester Orchestra, Kevin Devine 7. “Fade Into You” by Mazzy Star 8. “Out Like a Light 2” by The Honeysticks 9. “Sleepwalking” by Modest Mouse 10. “Lovers Rock” by TV Girl 11. “Getting It On” by SALES 12. “Still Crazy After All These Years” by Paul Simon 13. “Transatlanticism” by Death Cab for Cutie 14. “Such Great Heights” by Iron & Wine ​First things first, Croce is the absolute G.O.A.T. of rainy day music, up there with SALES and Iron & Wine. He had a very short career and only produced three major albums in 1972 and 1973 before he died in a plane crash at the age of 30. However, those three albums are gold mines for soft acoustic tunes, perfect for staring wistfully out a rain-covered window like you’re in a music video. In most songs, his warm voice is accompanied by two guitar lines, played by himself and Maury Muehleisen, which create a very intimate feeling as if you were hearing him up close around a campfire.

His lyrics are incredibly sentimental, and coupled with the intricate guitar parts and vocal harmonies, this makes Croce truly one of the great singer-songwriters of the 20th century.

I’ve also got to point out two songs ​ that I honestly think are two of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard, “Morning Crawls Towards You, And I” (2017) and “Fantasy Theme” (2016), both written by fairly unknown artists. They’re both pretty simple songs with maybe one or two instruments, so you can really focus on the singing and lyrics. I find that the music is enhanced by the low-fi acoustic sound, making them sound as if they were recorded in a makeshift studio in someone’s bedroom (which, to be fair, is a characteristic of a fair amount of the music I listen to anyways). “Necromancer” (2017) also has pretty similar vibes, and I’d lump it in the same low-fi acoustic category with those two other songs. ​Whether you’re watching the rain come down on the windows in Carm or you’re literally anywhere else, I invite you to play these songs for your enjoyment. And if today isn’t a rainy day, then I really screwed that one up.

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Mason Goldberg is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Mason can be reached at mason.goldberg@tufts.edu.

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COMEDY REVIEW

Rachel Bloom impresses at Chevalier Theatre

by Samantha Kelleher Contributing Writer

Rachel Bloom dazzled audiences in her “What Am I Going To Do With My Life Now?” tour at the Chevalier Theatre in Medford on Oct. 12. Bloom is best known for co-creating, executive producing and starring in the CW and Netflix musical dramedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” (2015–2019), for which she won a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award and most recently, an Emmy award. She is also known for her voice work in movies like “The Angry Birds Movie 2” (2019) and the upcoming “Trolls World Tour,” (2020) and various online skits posted on her YouTube channel, racheldoessstuff.

Bloom, who specializes in musical comedy, performed many fan favorite songs from “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” including “A Diagnosis” and “Sexy French Depression,” alongside original songs never featured on the show like her viral hit, “Jazz Fever.” Her bold and brassy voice stood out in her delightfully witty songs, and her dance moves were seriously impressive, especially for a woman who recently announced she is approximately four months pregnant.

The show was certainly geared to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend fans — Bloom even said, “This show is not for you,” to members of the audience who had never seen the television series — but her charisma made it impossible not to love her, whether or not you were a long-term fan before the show.

Beyond the songs, Bloom’s stand-up bits were also extremely entertaining. From her confusion about how young pop stars are

nowadays to her rants about how she is a horrible wife and her complaints about the pains of pregnancy, it was impossible not to laugh.

The format of the show was very loose with very little linking each of these sections, yet her infectious joy had the audience following along with no issues. The one consistent link between all of her routines was her unflinching honesty. She did not shy away from heavy topics like religion, sexism and mental health; rather, she faced these issues in a way that was somehow both cynical and accepting. Her set seemed polished without seeming overly rehearsed, as she embraced improvisation when unexpected moments came along, like when a fan threw a bra onto the stage. Along with her witty humor, she was not afraid to resort to classic physical comedy, miming how her husband puts on sunscreen in a way that had the audience roaring.

Opening up the show was fellow “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” alum Danny Jolles, who has been friends with Bloom for almost 15 years after appearing together in multiple online sketches and live shows with the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City. Jolles performed a series of bits about relationships, self-image and Disney movies. He was also fantastic, earning immense applause during a routine about overprotective boyfriends when he said, “You date her. You don’t own her.” Jolles appeared again during Bloom’s segment to help her out with some bits, including another fan-favorite song from the television series “The Math of Love Triangles.”

Overall, the show was a hit. Bloom phenomenally combined her dirty, brutally honest sense of humor with her charm-

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ing and mischievous personality, taking the audience on an exhilarating ride. Her routine was cynical, yet uplifting, and distinct, yet universally relatable. Her infectious joy made the two-hour show fly by quickly, and left audiences humming a tune on their ways out.

Rachel Bloom’s “What Am I Going To Do With My Life Now?” tour will continue in Dallas, Texas, at the Majestic Theatre on Oct. 23 and then will finish up on Nov. 21 at the Paramount Theatre in Denver, Colo.

GALLERY RECAP

‘Kogei-Kyoto at Society of Arts + Crafts’ walks us through nature

by Ramona Meng Xi Contributing Writer

“In a world of sameness, craft illuminates difference.”

Words like “hand-made,” “unique” and “unpretentious” illuminate the spirit of “Kogei,” a Japanese term that does not have a clear-cut meaning but embodies the long-rooted culture of craftsmanship. In contrast of Kogei, “Kogyo” has a strict definition of industry, representing artificiality, repetition and mass production.

The vaguely defined word Kogei indeed corresponds with the creative and individualistic array of Japanese handcrafts in the exhibition “Kogei-Kyoto at Society of Arts + Crafts Boston: Contemporary Innovators in Japanese Arts and Crafts” until Nov. 10. The creators of these crafts are members of KogeiKyoto, an artist group from Kyoto, Japan, that aspires to preserve Japanese craftsmanship and traditional artistic culture.

“Kogei-Kyoto at SA+C” presents both old-fashioned tools and innovative works that highlight distinctive personalities and expertises of creators, culminating in a diverse range of Japanese ceramics, lacquer, woodworking and fabric dyeing. The absence of rigid orders and rules among the pieces forms a sharp contrast with the monotonous layout of consumer goods in the nearby retail shops that exude characteristics of mass production.

Apart from the visual novelty and diverse artistic forms, the recurring theme of natural elements further enriches the experience as a refreshing escape from the busy city life. Artists from Kogei-Kyoto capture the subtle beau-

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Gyokusen Mochizuki’s work ‘The Blessings of Nature’ is displayed in the Society of Arts + Crafts on Oct. 12. ty of the natural fineness and communicated their feelings through carefully designed crafts.

The flow of water, the dynamics of wind and the colors of seasons are presented with clean lines, primitive colors and simple mediums. Yet through the fusion of various simplicities, each work resonates vibrantly with the almost negligible details in our daily lives. In this tranquil and harmonious environment, time almost stops ticking because it wants to linger a bit more.

The clean and minimalistic style of the layout along with the emphasis of natural elements moreover reflects the harmony

between humans and nature in Japanese culture. Everything related to nature is a “kami,” which means god in Japanese, and all four seasons are highly cherished. The sense of awe and respect toward Japan’s natural beauty has fostered the simple and frugal pursuit of lifestyle as well as the gratitude for all things — whether magnificent or trivial — in life. Such value is manifested in the exhibition since everything, tangible and intangible, is aesthetically appreciated.

Glazed with a layer of uniform red that represents auspiciousness in Japanese culture, the sculpture “The Blessing of Nature” takes the abstract form of a seed to symbolize the birth of new lives; the mixed media work of “Colors of the Wind” vividly personifies the formless natural force into an intricate glass plate with wavy texture and subtle color changes. Interestingly, descriptions for each work are absent except their names, mediums, and artists’ names.

Most of the works seem simple and straightforward in their forms and meanings, but the lack of exactness leaves the audience to wonder and create their own interpretations to truly amplify their essence and uniqueness.

A particularly meaningful facet of this exhibition is its purpose of celebrating 60 years of friendship between Boston and Kyoto as sister cities. “Kogei-Kyoto at SA+C” is Kogei-Kyoto’s first exhibition in the U.S. Its spirit of traveling across the globe to spread their passion for crafts corresponds with The Society of Arts + Crafts’ aim of “preserving, perfecting, and promoting the spirit of artisanship,” allowing a warm embrace of friendship between Boston and Kyoto.

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CORRECTION A previous version of the Oct. 11 article “ResLife to replace CDAs, FYAs with RA positions” incorrectly stated that the future RA position would be compensated with a full room credit and a $1,500 stipend. RAs will instead only receive a full room credit, not the $1,500 stipend. The article has been updated to reflect this change.

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ately, I’ve been having some trouble being present. I don’t know when exactly my mind stopped honing in on the “now” the way it did over the summer and shape-shifted into one that is always thinking about the next thing on my to-do list: who I’ll be meeting for a meal (when sometimes I’d rather just grab Hodge and sit in my room), what exam I need to study for or which paper I need to write. I’m upset that I’ve had to think about scheduling in the things that undeniably make me a happier person.

After a full year here, I’ve learned that this is just a part of college, albeit one that doesn’t typically manifest itself in the narrative we tell our friends back home. I get it. During midterms, it’s not a bad thing for that sense of excitement that we have about the beginning of the year to fade — everyone is stressed.

But I can’t escape the number one thing that is driving my frustration and distraction up the wall: my phone.

It’s unfortunate that we’ve become so reliant on technology, but that’s been said time and time again. Frankly, there are a lot of advancements to be thankful for. However, I’m not thrilled about cell phones interfering with my learning experience, which is the main reason why we’re all here. Something I have really admired in my experience at Tufts is that the smaller discussion-based classes do not allow any technology, forcing the students to be present and to engage with the material (many of the larger lectures also do this — kudos to professors Sommers and Shin in PSY0001 for creating an environment that is conducive to learning a lot of material in such a large lecture hall without much distraction). This is good: Studies have indicated that students who take notes longhand perform better on conceptual exam questions than those who take their notes on a laptop.

Most of the time, it works. However, sometimes we have to check our devices.

You’ll see 50 messages from your group chat, 10 emails about some sale that a store is having, a couple of Instagram DMs and whatever else may appear.

Casually we check but then before we know it, it’s been 10 minutes of slyly scrolling or texting back, and we find ourselves completely separated from what preceded the material at hand.

It can feel like every event in our lives is just another stepping stone toward something in the future, and that it’s a bad thing to step back and process the craziness because it takes time away from what we could be doing to move forward. But what are all of our efforts for if we never get to enjoy aspects of the future that we’re working toward?

I’m committing to stepping back from the craziness of life for 10 minutes each day to be present. We all have 10 minutes. It’s okay to sit and just be.

Allie Birger is a sophomore studying sociology. Allie can be reached at allyson. birger@tufts.edu.

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by Ronald McNutt Former Tufts professor Sam McLaughlin celebrated his 95th birthday on Oct. 6, 2019.

During the spring in 1976, my sophomore year, he taught the most exciting class I ever took: Psychology 10, “Altered States of Consciousness.” It was Sam’s last year teaching before he retired to move with his wife to his farmhouse in Limerick, Maine.

Sam was an inspiring and energetic speaker himself, and he offered a wide variety of amazing and accomplished speakers to the students would who assemble three afternoons per week in Goddard Chapel. The course inspired me to form and lead a student organization named the Tufts Altered States of Consciousness Organization, and we became lifelong friends.

In preparation for this tribute, I called Sam and asked him about his experience and impressions. He told me that he had taught the course for several years, once per year.

Sam was inspired to offer the course based upon his own experience with psychedelics.

He would always invite guest speakers, and in 1976, he had so many speakers he hardly had the opportunity to give lectures himself.

The course had grown to the point that he had enrollment limited to 300 students, and he had to hold it in Goddard Chapel because of its size. He wanted his final year to be a course that no one would forget.

Sam and his guests discussed the science and spiritual aspects of states of consciousness, such as in dream states, meditation, kundalini yoga, and those brought about when using psychedelics, like LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca, peyote and marijuana.

We learned how different parts of the brain are active in different states of awareness and that it is beneficial for people to navigate through different moods and states of awareness. We studied the many levels of consciousness and perception, how perception plays a role in creativity and the curious role of the unconscious mind. Scientists explored near-death experience, spontaneous healing and how the mind can cause psychogenic diseases but also promote the innate and miraculous healing potential, not unlike spiritual awakening. We learned about the benefits of mystical experience, characterized by the perception of unity, a sense that it is more real than waking consciousness and the feeling of transcending space and time.

Our textbooks and lectures revealed not only the traditional uses of plant hallucinogens, or entheogens, in history and contemporary indigenous cultures, but also how they and LSD recently had been used

successfully in psychotherapy and in experimental research.

Dr. Norman Zinberg, a psychiatrist who had experimented with the effects of marijuana on humans, stressed that social reinforcement has a major role in helping to minimize the great dangers of addiction, and that when a substance is illegal there is not as much information coming from older generations. Walter Clark, a professor at Andover-Newton Theological Seminary and author of a book about religious use of psychedelics, spoke about his experience with group psychedelic therapy sessions led

by Dr. Salvador Roquet. Dr. Roquet had been able to help about 85% of his patients in sessions that would begin with creating a sense of chaos and leading people to synthesize their feelings and achieve a sense of vitality.

Dr. Harvey Cox, a professor at the Harvard Divinity School, spoke about his participation in the peyote ritual of the Huichol tribe of north- and central-Mexico. This had a deep spiritual impact on him and provided lasting benefits including becoming more receptive to other religious experiences.

We learned the importance of the “inner life” and the long-term benefits of deep relaxation states. Tufts professor Seymour Simches, founder of the Tufts European Center, shared teachings of Carl Jung who viewed dreams as a source of inner wisdom to expand our limited sense of identity. A psychotherapist invited students to a new way of life simply by being committed to honesty with our feelings. Various speakers shared information about meditation, yoga and religion. They invited us to use meditation to help direct thoughts away from selfishness and occupy space more graciously so that we could be more centered, and dark aspects of life would loosen their hold on our emotions.

Ram Dass (A’52), a Harvard University psychology professor who helped pioneer research into the potential of psychedelics, shared wisdom he learned under the guidance yogi Neem Karoli Baba. In a calm and peaceful way, punctuated with humor and love, he spoke about identifying with our souls and not being attached to desires and expectations.

He taught that devotion to something higher than ourselves allows us to love the perfection around us and in one another.

When the class was nearing its conclusion in the spring, Sam invited interested students to discuss forming a student organization to continue learning about consciousness after he retired. The following year, I attended three meetings with the Committee on Student Life and faced strong opposition to the proposal from some of the professors. The Altered States of Consciousness

Organization became a recognized organization, however, thanks to the University Chaplain Robert Miller, who spoke up in favor of preserving free speech principles and encouraging thought and inquiry.

The organization presented various speakers on topics ranging from temporal lobe epilepsy and transcendental meditation to a series on marijuana including author Bill Novak, Dr. Norman Zinberg and entrepreneur Laurence McKinney. Sam returned to speak a couple of times, and Clark spoke again about religious use of psychedelics. Dr. Carl Ruck, a classics professor at Boston University, discussed his research into the possible use of a psychedelics in ancient Greece with Albert Hofmann, the chemist who discovered LSD and synthesized psilocybin, and R. Gordon Wasson, the writer who discovered ceremonial use of psilocybin in Mexico.

The mid-1970s marked the end of a promising period of funded research into the potential for therapeutic usage of entheogens. Pioneers like Ralph Metzner, Bill Richards, James Fadiman and Stanislav Grof preserved an interest in their potential to evoke spiritual transformation. As Michael Pollan’s recent book “How To Change Your Mind” (2018) describes, some of the work continued underground. And in 2006, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal, upholding the right of practitioners of a religious group in New Mexico to use ayahuasca, which has been used for centuries as a sacrament.

Recently, New York University’s Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Study has produced careful research on using psilocybin to help people with serious cancer diagnoses facing the anxiety of death, and this past September, Johns Hopkins University announced its Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research.

When psychedelics or entheogens are used in socially-sanctioned settings, consistently with community standards and as part of culturally cohesive practices, their potential can be realized, and the substantial risks of adverse reactions can be minimized. Sam’s courage and honest clarity have been part of our culture’s opportunity to awaken to the potential offered in these mysterious plants from our Creator that may help people find purpose, develop humility, gratitude, empathy, affection and intuitive capabilities and to be more fully alive.

Ronald McNutt recieved a B.A. from Tufts in 1978. Ronald can be reached at ronaldwmcnutt@gmail.com.

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continued from back Jumbos in the second half that just missed the net.

The contest was sent into overtime, and then double-overtime, eventually ending in a 1–1 draw. In both overtime periods, the Jumbos capitalized on possession, but their shots did not place.

“Hamilton is a team that works hard and is very organized,” Lane said. “They played well, mostly on defense. They were tactical with how they scored and used the penalties to their advantage. It was another game in which the opportunities were there but we just couldn’t necessarily finish.

We played well enough to win the game, and unfortunately, a few bounces didn’t go our way in the end.”

The day before, Tufts came out aggressively at Amherst, nearly scoring its first goal in the first two minutes of play. Van Brewer sent the ball to the right post of the goal, finding Lane whose header was saved by Amherst sophomore goalkeeper Bernie White. Amherst sophomore forward German Giammattei quickly responded, but his shot was blocked by Tufts defenders. A following corner kick was also cleared

by Tufts defense.

The first goal came in the 16th minute of play. Sophomore defender Ian Daly tossed the ball to Lane, who then found Tasker in the 18-yard box. Tasker skillfully fired a shot to the top left corner that found the goal, giving Tufts a 1–0 lead.

The lead was cut short, however, as Giammattei scored the equalizer in the 23rd minute of play off of a pass from senior midfielder Dane Lind. Giammattei’s shot to the left beat out junior goalkeeper Will Harned, tying the score up at 1–1. The Jumbos had one more opportunity to move into the second half with a lead when Trevorrow was tackled from behind, earning a free-kick.

However, the shot did not place.

The second half was a back-and-forth contest. Both teams created clean opportunities to secure the lead; however, neither offensive unit could find the back of the net. Cano came close with 22 minutes left to play in regulation, taking control of the ball off a corner and making a deflection shot that caused White to dive for a clutch save. Rojas rebounded Cano’s shot yet again, but it soared over the net.

As the clock was winding down, the tempo of play intensified as both teams continued to battle for the lead. With less than 10 minutes of regulation time remain-

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Junior forward Mati Cano crosses the ball into the box during Tufts 4–0 win over Colby on Sept. 21. ing, senior forward Joe Braun sent the ball to Lane who took a left-footed shot from the top of the box. Again, White made a diving save, and the game was sent into overtime.

Giammattei took charge seconds into overtime play, charging down the field and firing a shot from 20 yards out. The ball flew by Harned, and Amherst took home the 2–1 victory. With this win, Amherst took Tufts’ No. 1 NCAA Div. III ranking and No. 1 NESCAC ranking.

“It was a pretty even game,” Lane said.

“Either team could’ve won. It was a super

high-intensity game, with No. 1 in the country versus No. 2 in the country. [Amherst] has the frontrunner for NESCAC player of the year. [Giammattei] was the difference in the game, but besides that, we had chances to win that we didn’t take and [Giammattei] did in overtime.”

After this weekend’s double-header, Tufts is now 8–2–2 and 4–1–2 in NESCAC matchups. The team will take on Conn.

College at home on Bello Field Saturday, Oct. 19 at 2:30 p.m.

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continued from back Even more impressive was the fact that the traveling Jumbos were coming off an impressive victory: a gutsy, comefrom-behind triumph away at Amherst the day before. In a noontime Saturday contest at Hitchcock Field, the Jumbos fell behind early after Amherst sophomore forward Alexa Juarez scored on a penalty kick in the fifth minute.

The breakthrough would come in the 67th minute when first-year midfielder Madeleine Pero passed the ball in the box to junior forward Sophie Lloyd. The Los Altos, Calif., native coolly finished to level the scoring.

Remarkably, the game stayed at this evened score for a mere 23 seconds. Reed chipped past the Amherst keeper on a ball from Lloyd to put the Jumbos up 2–1. Tufts was in control for much of the second half of the game, outshooting the Mammoths

14–7 in the second half and 23–12 on the day (11–4 in terms of attempts on target).

The No. 12 Jumbos look to continue their momentum next week against Conn.

College as they embark on the final three games of their schedule, all home at Kraft Field. Victories in all three contests would ensure at minimum a second-place finish in the NESCAC standings, depending on results from the Middlebury Panthers in other games.

“Conn. College has always been a tough opponent for us, and they’ve been seeing some great results this far,” Sykes said. “I think that if we continue to play the way we have been playing we should be able to come out on top. That means playing fast, countering quick and playing with high intensity and high press all over the field.”

Tufts plays Conn. College on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 12 p.m.

The Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences presents st

21 Century Water Security Challenges: The View From Space Dr. Jay Famiglietti (’A82) has studied GRACE satellite data that reveal the redistribution of surface and groundwater over the past couple of decades - producing areas of water “haves” and “have-nots” around the Earth.

James S. Famiglietti, Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing Executive Director of the Global Institute for Water Security University of Saskatchewan

“The world’s wet regions are getting wetter and its dry areas are getting drier much more quickly than previously thought, changes that threaten the availability of fresh water and create new risks to people’s health, the food supply, and the environment”

Friday, October 18 3:30 PM Lane Hall, Room 100 Dr. Famiglietti is a 2019 recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Tufts University Alumni Association

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Arjun Balaraman Off the Crossbar

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ust as baseball uses the minor leagues and basketball uses the G-League to develop their young players, all professional club sides in Europe have reserve and youth teams which they use to develop players through their academy system. But while basketball instated a pre-draft age limit, there are no such restrictions in soccer that prevent teams from using their younger players. If a teenager is deemed good enough, he is often thrown into the first team to play against fully-grown men.

While transcendental talents like Ronaldo and Messi managed to maintain excellent form even with their early professional starts at the very highest level, it left a whole host of players burned out before they reached their primes. Think of someone like Alexandre Pato, who dazzled for A.C. Milan from 2007–2013 when he was between 18-24 years old. After that superb stint in Italy, Pato fell off the map and is now back home playing for Sao Paulo in Brazil.

In the NFL these days, a new trend has emerged with young quarterbacks.

Following the success of Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes, many teams have started “redshirting” franchise quarterbacks during their rookie years. Rather than exposing a QB to the NFL straight out of college, teams nurture their signal-caller for a year so they can learn the system outside the spotlight and be more ready for the pros. A variant of that system has been around in soccer for a while — sending players out on loan to slightly lower-level clubs.

For much of the last decade, Chelsea has been criticized for its so-called “loan army.”

The Blues have had notoriously good youth teams in the 2010s, winning seven of the last 10 FA Youth Cup’s in England, but their first-team managers over that time have also been infamously unwilling to grant younger players game time. Rather than warming the benches or playing for the reserve team, these players were loaned out to smaller clubs to get more accustomed to playing professional soccer without being constantly scrutinized if they were in the first team at Chelsea. (Every club does this, Chelsea just stood out for sheer numbers.)

Last winter, though, the club was hit with a 12-month transfer embargo. In the summer, Chelsea appointed former star — and academy graduate — Frank Lampard as its new boss. When the young players returned from their loaned clubs, Lampard granted fellow academy products like Mason Mount and Tammy Abraham the chance to start in the first team. Despite both being under 22, being out on loan had allowed the pair to play more than 150 professional league games between them prior to starting for Chelsea. They were able to handle the pressure of starting for the Blues and have been excellent thus far in the season.

While some generational talents (like Zion Williamson) might be ready and deserving of the attention at a very young age, the success of Mahomes and the Chelsea youngsters shows that maybe it’s time we gave these young athletes a little more time and space to develop before throwing them into the limelight.

Arjun Balaraman is a junior studying quantitative economics. Arjun can be reached at arjun.balaraman@tufts.edu.

by Jeremy Goldstein Sports Editor

The traveling Jumbos could not be tamed in their bus tour across the surprisingly temperate Northeast.

Tufts’ women’s soccer team came out victorious in back-to-back road contests against competitive NESCAC rivals, downing Hamilton 3–0 on Sunday after triumphing over Amherst 2–1 on Saturday.

The wins leave the Jumbos sitting at 10–1–1 with a 6–1 conference record, good for first place in the NESCAC standings with 18 points (two more than second-place undefeated Middlebury, who have a game in hand). The victories also give Tufts a fivegame winning streak and its their unbeaten run to ten games, with its only loss coming in a 2–1 away defeat at Williams back in September.

An 11 a.m. Sunday morning affair against the Hamilton Continentals got off to a sweeping start for the Jumbos, as sophomore midfielder Lily Sykes lit up Love Field in the third minute with a strike just inside the 18-yard box to give Tufts the early advantage.

From there, the Jumbos were clean sailing and quickly capitalized on the momentum. In the 12th minute, junior forward Liz Reed sprayed a ball into the box to senior forward and co-captain Jenna Troccoli, who neatly corralled it and finished, putting the Jumbos up 2–0. Two minutes later, Reed sent another ball into the box. The Hamilton defense failed to clear, and junior Hannah Isenhart poked the ball in to put Tufts up 3–0.

“I think getting that first goal is huge,” Sykes told the Daily in an email. “We knew they were going to come out firing, and to get that first goal and then two more within those first fifteen minutes completely shifted the momentum in our favor and gave us confidence for the rest of the game. Once we got one, we knew there was room for more.”

The rest of the contest fell on the defense to resolutely protect momentum from falling back in favor of the Continentals. The Jumbos were more than up to the task, particularly the NESCAC player of the week,

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Senior midfielder Sarah Maloney prepares to make a pass in the homecoming women’s soccer game against Amherst at Kraft Field on Sept. 29, 2018.

Tufts’ first-year goalie Hayley Bernstein. time Hamilton failed to score this year and Making herself a “jumbo” presence in net, marked the seventh clean sheet out of 12 Bernstein saved all six shots on target (17 games for Tufts. total) and marshalled a defense against see WOMEN'S SOCCER, page 7 five corners. This was only the second

Men’s soccer competes in difficult double-header weekend, loses No. 1 ranking

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Tufts men’s soccer was on the road this past weekend, competing first against Amherst on Saturday followed by Hamilton on Sunday. The Jumbos, who came into the weekend ranked No. 1, fell 2–1 in overtime play to the Amherst Mammoths, who assumed the Jumbos’ first-place position.

The following day’s contest at Hamilton finished in a 1–1 tie after reaching double-overtime play.

Tufts was coming off of its first regular-season loss since 2017 to Babson College moving into the weekend. Despite the chip to their record, the Jumbos said this loss only pushed them to work harder.

“If anything, the loss to Babson positively affected us,” senior midfielder Zach Lane said. “I think that it re-centered our focus, and it was a little bit of a wake-up call. We had to change our attitude moving into each game.”

After a highly competitive game against Amherst the day before, Tufts took on the Hamilton Continentals on Sunday.

“The Sunday of a doubleheader is always a tough one,” senior midfielder Brett Rojas said. “A lot of the guys were pretty tired. We were still leading early and I thought we were dominating. The second half we had a few penalties and personal errors. We created good chances, but we just couldn’t get the results. It wasn’t a terrible performance by any means, but we should’ve done better.”

Similarly to the Amherst game the day before, Tufts had many shots and opportunities to score, but they just were not placing. Within the first 20 minutes of play, senior midfielder/forward and co-captain Gavin Tasker sent the ball to junior defender/midfielder Calvin Aroh, but the shot went high. Just after, Hamilton earned a prime scoring opportunity when sophomore midfielder Roth Wetzel was left undefended at the top of the box. Wetzel fired

a shot to the right that sent sophomore goalkeeper Erich Kindermann diving to make the save.

The first goal for Tufts came in the 32nd minute of play. After Tufts earned a foul from 25 yards out, junior midfielder Travis Van Brewer tossed the ball to the right post, finding junior defender Biagio Paoletta, who headed the ball into the back of the net to give Tufts a 1–0 lead moving into the second half.

In the 51st minute of play, Hamilton senior forward Aidan Wood scored the equalizer for Hamilton off a penalty kick. Shortly after, Hamilton senior forward Jefri Schmidt nearly put another one up on the board for the Continentals. Schmidt accepted a cross and fired a shot, but Kindermann made the save for the Jumbos. Junior midfielder/forward Mati Cano, senior midfielder/defender Zach Trevorrow, junior forward Max Jacobs and Lane all made scoring attempts for the

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