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Study ranks Tufts 87th in gender parity among leadership

by Conor Friedmann Assistant News Editor

Tufts ranks near the bottom of gender parity among Massachusetts colleges, according to a new study released by the nonprofit Eos Foundation on Sept. 27.

The report, developed in partnership with the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, surveyed the prominence of female leadership across 93 Massachusetts-based colleges. It ranked as Tufts as 87th overall. “[Tufts] has never had a female president, their board chair is a man, and their board and deans of degree-granting programs are predominantly male,” the report read. It placed Tufts in the “Needs urgent attention” category — the lowest categorization used. There are 19 schools under this category, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College and Boston University, according to the report.

Andrea Silbert, president of the Eos Foundation, said that the results startled even the commissioners of the report. see STUDY, page 3

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Rabbi, transgender ally speaks at Hillel about trans rights

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Rabbi Mike Moskowitz, a transgender rights advocate whose outspoken views on gender identity prompted his ouster from an Orthodox congregation in Harlem, N.Y., spoke Monday at the Granoff Family Hillel Center about his advocacy, Question 3 on this year’s Massachusetts ballot and interpreting religious texts to find support for transgender people in the Jewish community.

Moskowitz is an ordained ultra-Orthodox rabbi and a member of Keshet, a national organization that advocates for LGBTQ equality in Jewish communities. He is now a scholar-in-residence for trans and queer Jewish studies at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, a progressive, LGBTQ-inclusive synagogue in New York City. His talk was sponsored by Jewish Queer Students at Tufts (JQUEST) and organized with the help of Tufts’ Jewish Chaplain, Rabbi Dr. Naftali Brawer, and Keshet, according to JQUEST Chair Eli Rosmarin.

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Mike Moskowitz, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and advocate for transgender rights, speaks at an event in the Granoff Family Hillel Center on Oct. 22. cy. Moskowitz said he began speaking in favor of transgender issues after receiving a series of texts from a struggling transgender teen. The exchange left him emotional and motivated him to advocate for inclusivity.

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“Faith is a call to action,” Moskowitz said.

Moskowitz’s outspoken advocacy soon led to his being asked to resign from the Orthodox Old Broadway Synagogue, where he was Rabbi. Since then, he has been writing letters to transgender people, counseling parents

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whose children are gender non-conforming and helping people navigate religious spaces according to their gender identity.

Moskowitz said he recently began advocating for Yes on 3, a campaign to approve Massachusetts ballot Question 3, which concerns a transgender anti-discrimination law passed by the state in 2016.

Moskowitz advised voters at the event to vote yes on Question 3, noting that the wording of the question is “tricky” because an affirmative vote would keep the law rather than repeal it. He said that a ‘no’ vote could have wide-reaching consequences.

“If [the anti-discrimination law] gets repealed, then navigating society and life will become harder for transgender people,” Moskowitz said.

The importance of the ballot question, according to Moskowitz, is to protect transgender persons from discrimination in public spaces. Adding to the importance of the measure, Moskowitz said he believes that if transgender protections can be repealed in Massachusetts, then opponents of

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University students and administrators are responding to a Financial Times story released earlier this month about the Trump administration’s previous consideration of a ban on student visas for Chinese nationals.

The proposal came from White House immigration hawks, including Senior Advisor to the President Stephen Miller, as a means of combating Chinese espionage in the United States. However, the proposal was ultimately shelved due to its potential to fray diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries, according to the report.

This comes after the administration released its national security strategy last year, outlining a number of steps to combat economic aggression and theft from non-traditional intelligence collectors.

According to the Financial Times, Miller argued the ban on student visas for Chinese nationals would punish elite U.S. universities where students and faculty have spoken out against the current administration.

Tufts students have expressed their concern over the possible implementation of such a ban. James Liao, co-events chair for the Chinese Students Association (CSA), dismissed administration officials’ concerns about espionage, instead highlighting the diversity that Chinese students add to U.S. educational settings.

“Globalization is a beautiful thing.

People are exchanging information about each country,” Liao, a junior, said. “Having friends from different cultures — that’s also a beautiful thing.”

Having studied in the U.S. on a student visa since the start of high school, Liao explained his desire to have a high-quality education and an opportunity to grow as a person during his time in the country. He added that he feels that he has become more accustomed to the United States and its culture over the course of his education. Liao also noted that discussions surrounding a ban on student visas are an example of institutional actions that make students like him feel unwelcome.

“I feel like I’m alienated by this country that I actually want to stay in,” Liao said.

“It makes me angry and sad. Just imagine that you really want to stay in this country, you love this country, but this country doesn’t want you or any of your people.”

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Liao emphasized his willingness to participate in student activism efforts surrounding a ban if the Trump administration revisits the subject.

“There will definitely be protests,” Liao said. “There are countless Chinese students studying in the U.S.” Most universities will oppose such a ban because of the financial impact that other countries have on U.S. educational institutions, among other reasons, Liao added. For one, international students provide universities with significant amounts of tuition money. In the 2016–17 academic year, China sent the most international students to the United States, followed by India, according to a report by the Institute of International Education.

Tufts administrators added that international students contribute a great deal to both the university’s educational mission and community members’ learning experiences. Senior International Officer and Associate Provost Diana Chigas reiterated the university’s recent opposition to the Trump administration’s attempt to limit the number of students from foreign countries on U.S. campuses.

“We strongly believe that universities and colleges should be able to welcome students, faculty and scholars from around the world so that our communities can benefit from their unique life experiences, skills and perspectives,” Chigas told the Daily in an email. “At the same time, we believe these opportunities help foster greater understanding between countries and their citizens, particularly as international students return to their home countries and share their experiences.”

For now, Liao is relieved that no such ban has gone into effect, adding that he hopes to continue living in the U.S. after completing his bachelor’s degree.

“I just don’t want to leave everything behind because of my … status,” he said.

Sino-U.S. Relations Group Engagement (SURGE), a student organization focused on educational efforts surrounding the relationship between the China and the United States, also opposes a ban on student visas for Chinese nationals. Connor Akiyama, deputy director of the organization, stressed the importance of cultural and educational exchanges between the two countries.

“Any decision to ban Chinese students from studying in the United States would be met with great disappointment by all members of Tufts SURGE,” Akiyama, a sophomore, told the Daily in an electronic message. “We believe that any action to restrict student visas of Chinese students will be one of the worst blows to Sino-U.S. relations in recent history and sincerely wish that no such proposal is passed.”

As of now, the ban does not appear to be under active consideration by the current U.S. administration, according to Chigas. Tufts will continue to monitor updates surrounding this issue. “[We] will continue to work with others in higher education in support of our ability to bring to Tufts talented individuals from around the world, including China, and to retain and support the Chinese students who are already members of our community,” Chigas said.

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Moskowitz explained that he is satisfied knowing that pro-LGBTQ activism from him and others means that people can embrace multiple identities.

“People felt they had to choose between their queer identity and their religious identity because religious spaces often exclude people from a relationship with God,” Moskowitz said.

He added that after speaking engagements, he often receives encouraging emails from rabbis and others in attendance.

Moskowitz was asked if he uses religious texts to support transgender identity. He referred to articles he had written about clothing, identity and gender roles in Judaism throughout the talk.

Senior Ashley Smith said that Moskowitz’s religious interpretations were a key takeaway from the event.

“It was very enlightening to hear very concrete ways that [being transgender] fits into Judaism,” Smith said. “They were powerful and necessary for advocacy within Orthodox Jewish communities because transgender people exist there, too.”

Moskowitz cited the need for more inclusive spaces, considering the discrimination that the transgender community often faces from religious organizations.

“Religion, as a whole, has kind of been viewed as very traditional in [terms of] values,” Rosmarin said. “When you look at the texts, it is not as earth-shattering to allow spaces for [transgender] people.”

To Smith and Rosmarin, Moskowitz’s textual interpretations offer compatibility between religion and supporting LGBTQ

individuals while also providing a hopeful attitude for improving inclusivity in Jewish communities.

Rosmarin felt the event was important because of the current political climate regarding transgender issues.

As Moskowitz comes from an Orthodox Jewish background, Rosmarin believes that he is a strong example of an ally for the transgender community.

Citing Question 3 and a leaked memo indicating that the Trump administration is seeking to restrict the definition of gender to biological sex, Rosmarin noted that the event was especially timely, not just for LGBTQ individuals but for all potential allies.

“The textual studies he’s done relate to the Torah and how queerness and being trans fit within it,” Rosmarin said. “These progressive interpretations allow for a lot more inclusivity within Jewish spaces.”

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Report places Tufts under ‘needs urgent attention’ category in overall gender parity STUDY

continued from page 1 “We were very surprised how low Tufts was ranked, due to its image as a very progressive institution,” Silbert said.

Silbert said Tufts ranked low due to lack of women in leadership positions.

“I think it’s just a lack of intentionality,” she said. “Tufts has women, but they’re just at lower levels.”

She also said that complete parity means more than securing a critical mass in influential positions, which she defined as 30 percent of women in such positions.

“People think that 30 percent [male-female share of positions] is good until they’re pushed. We need to push in all sectors for parity. Parity is our new benchmark,” Silbert said. “Lots of colleges think they’re good because they have some women in high positions, but they don’t have parity.”

Tufts’ ranking also surprised Judy Neufeld (LA ’05), a Tufts alumna and consultant who works for the Women’s Power Gap Initiative.

“As a Tufts alum, I was horrified how close to the bottom Tufts ranked,” Neufeld

said. “I never looked at Tufts leadership as a student, but looking through a new lens, I think we can do so much better.”

Neufeld suggested that the university consider the women’s power gap in influential positions when it hires new people.

“The most important area for Tufts to improve upon is that Tufts has never had a woman president,” Neufeld said. “I also hope that the Tufts board starts to take gender parity seriously as they search for a new provost and new deans.”

Silbert, however, said that a push on the community level is necessary to bring out the change.

“We put the data out there and the tools out there, and we expect people from the Tufts community to run with it. We expect it to be a movement, to get this in front of the president’s office and say, ‘we have to do better,’” Silbert said.

Neufeld echoed with Silbert’s sentiment.

“Students have a lot more power than you think,” she said. “We really encourage students to go to the [Women’s Power Gap Initiative] website. Email [University] President [Anthony] Monaco directly from

the website. The more students, alums, board members that let the president know that people care, the more likely that change will come.”

Tufts’ reaction to the report has been positive. Patrick Collins, executive director of public relations, outlined the administration’s perspective.

Patrick Collins, Tufts’ executive director of public relations, told the Daily in an email that the university recognizes room for improvement. However, Collins pointed out that the report didn’t include other senior positions held by women at the university.

“Tufts University has made diversity in all its forms a top priority, and while the university has made significant strides in many areas, more work clearly needs to be done,” Collins said. “Though we were disappointed that the survey did not include other senior positions at Tufts that are held by women, including our senior vice president and general counsel, our provost ad interim, and our vice provost for research, we recognize that we must do better and are committed to doing so.”

Barbara Clarke, former president of Tufts University Alumni Association (TUAA), outlined her disappointment in Tufts administration’s response.

“I have reached out personally to a number of Tufts alumni and I’ve been disappointed that very few men have replied,” she said. “As a former president of [TUAA], I worked hard to make the Alumni Council more inclusive. We made some progress but not enough, and some progress was not sustained after my term.”

Clarke said she hopes that the upcoming alumni conference will be a platform to talk about the report.

“There is an upcoming conference called [LEAD IT] and I suspect this report will be discussed by many people. I know I will be discussing it with fellow alumni,” Clarke said.

Silbert said that she is optimistic Tufts will make an improvement.

“I am hopeful about Tufts,” Silbert said. “Tufts has [multiple] open deanships, and the provost position is open.

We’ll know in six months what will happen.”

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Students, survivors discuss the impact of the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings

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Attendees of the Oct. 9 Survivor Speak Out rally, organized by Action for Sexual Assault Prevention, write notes in support of sexual assault survivors.

by Kenia French Features Editor

Content warning: This article discusses sexual assault.

In the aftermath of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s subsequent confirmation to the Supreme Court, Tufts students shared how this emotional process impacted them.

Junior Celia Bottger noted that while she was upset to hear Ford accuse Kavanaugh of sexual assault, she was ultimately unsurprised by it considering the many similar testimonies shared by women in recent months.

“When I first heard that there was a woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, I was very unsurprised,” Bottger said. “I mean, obviously, I was disgusted and upset, but these men who are in positions of power usually have, in my opinion, a string of women that they’ve victimized. They’ve only gotten to that place of power because of a lot of people that they’ve used in the past.”

Bottger explained that she followed the hearing process very closely, “obsessively” checking the news for updates, in part because it reminded her of her own experience with certain men.

“I think I was so interested in following the Kavanaugh hearings because I went to high school with a lot of people that could become Kavanaugh,” she said. “It just hit very close to home,

which is why I think a lot of people felt very invested in it and felt very shattered when he was confirmed.”

Another junior, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the Daily about her experience witnessing the FordKavanaugh hearings as a survivor of sexual assault. She noted that, at first, she tried to disengage from the media onslaught surrounding the hearings, knowing that following it closely would make her very upset.

“I felt like I was getting slammed in the face with Kavanaugh all of the time, and I very much avoided the media,” the student said. “I had five people text me on that Thursday that [Dr. Ford] was taking the stand like, ‘I’m here for you, I support you and love you. I hope you are doing okay — today is really hard,’ and I was like, ‘Why? What’s so hard about this?’ I knew that [this happened] because I had been intentionally disengaging from this because I knew I was going to get very upset. Then they texted me … and I engaged with it, and it felt very devastating.”

She described how the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings stirred up traumatic memories from her own healing process.

“I think talking with other survivors, a lot of triggers started happening,” the student said. “A lot of people, in their healing journey after assault, maybe they work through their triggers … and then something like this brings it all back up. And then you start having triggers that you haven’t had for two years. That was happening to me — I was having very awful physical trig-

gers of my own assaults, and that was terrible.”

These triggers were amplified by the high-profile nature of the hearings, as she watched political leaders and citizens alike brutally attack another survivor’s narrative.

“I was really thinking about what would it look like … if, in 30 years, my perpetrator was going to be on the Supreme Court.

What would they ask him? What parts of my story would fail? How would I be villainized?

What would happen to me, as a woman of color, [since] this white woman already had to move out of her house and was sent death threats: What would happen to me?” the student said. “And that’s a very terrifying thought, to think about all of the flaws in your story when you are constantly told … ‘It’s not your fault, you are believed, it happened, none of this is on you, someone did this to you, it’s not your fault.’”

She described the challenge of going through her daily routine, like going to class, after the hearings.

“You don’t want to tell your professors.

It’s weird to say something in the news affected me so much that I might start crying in class,” she said.

Hope Freeman, director of the LGBT Center, discussed coping with trauma inflicted by recent events.

“There has been an onslaught of troubling and frightening news in the past few months and sometimes it feels very hard to manage; with the victim blaming and shaming out of the Kavanaugh hearings, to the constant policing of black bodies, to the constant attempts from the current administration determined to erase trans

and non-binary people from the narrative,” Freeman told the Daily in an email.

Freeman added that the LGBT Center strives to ensure that people who are going through intense trauma feel visible. She noted that sexual assault affects every survivor differently and that it is important to make people with different identities and experiences feel seen and supported.

“What we try to do is let students know that we see them, we will fight for them, and we will hold space for them,” Freeman said. “The LGBT Center’s Facebook [page] is very active in posting articles, resources, and events that affirm various identities with a focus on LGBT experiences.”

She emphasized that sexual assault impacts members of LGBTQ communities, as well, and that it can be very difficult for people who hold these identities to feel legitimate in their narratives when sexual assault is defined from a heteronormative viewpoint.

“When we talk about survivors, we have to be mindful that they can hold various gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations,” Freeman said. “We want to be sure we are not looking at the survivor story through a heterosexist lens, that erases queer, trans, and non-binary stories.”

Junior Isabella Spaulding is the co-president of Action for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP). In the aftermath of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, ASAP held a “Survivor Speak Out” rally at the the see HEARINGS, page 5

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Spaulding said that in addition to the Survivor Speak Out, ASAP holds survivor space events throughout the semester that seek to create a network for survivors. Spaulding noted that she has seen more people reaching out about survivor spaces after #MeToo and the FordKavanaugh hearings.

In addition to ASAP’s survivor spaces, Freeman identified the Center for Awareness, Resources and Education (CARE), Counseling and Mental Health Services (CMHS) and the university’s Chaplaincy as confidential resources for survivors.

Spaulding said that ASAP has worked closely with CARE in combatting sexual assault at Tufts.

“We had a couple of faculty members come to the Speak Out,” she said.

“Alexandra Donovan was there from the CARE office. She’s just been an excellent support system for ASAP, and we’ve been … working closely with her for trainings for community groups because she does Green Dot [Bystander Intervention] training.”

Overall, though, Spaulding noted that the university lacks adequate resources to support survivors, especially since the sexual misconduct resource specialist position is still vacant following Nandi Bynoe’s promotion to assistant dean of student affairs in April.

In addition to filling Bynoe’s former position, an important step the university

could take to support survivors would be to hire more CMHS therapists who work with people healing from traumatic events, according to Spaulding.

“I also think generally having more mental health support for survivors, like … CMHS having more people trained in exposure therapy for PTSD and more explicit therapists with quality training in trauma work … would be a great thing,” she said.

For Spaulding, these changes would represent a crucial shift toward prioritizing survivors during the judicial process, whether it is on or off campus.

“The [judicial] process for students who choose to take … legal action against their perpetrators — the way that it exists now — … is the most traumatizing thing,” she said. “People, as we saw with Ford, are put [on] the stand, are questioned about their every motive, are asked inappropriate questions, are forced to often be in the room [with the] perpetrator and listen to their perpetrator’s side of the story … There [are] ways to center survivors and survivor well-being that I don’t think [are] happening.”

Despite the anger, pain and hardship that Kavanaugh’s confirmation caused, Bottger has found her peers’ understanding of consent as a reason to retain hope.

“I think the discourse around sexual assault [and consent] is changing, and …

I think that the peers that I’ve talked to understand a different level of consent than was understood in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s — that it’s not only ‘no means no,’ but it’s ‘yes means yes,’” Bottger said.

Bottger hopes that once her peers, armed with a deep understanding of and respect for consent, will ultimately prioritize people whose rights are currently being attacked.

“I’m extremely disenchanted with our political system, but it does … give me hope that once people of our generation are in positions of power in politics or elsewhere, I hope and I think there will be a much different mindset about women’s rights, about trans rights, about how we talk and how we react to sexual assault,” Bottger said.

Overall, Bottger believes that empowering people to have difficult conversations about toxic masculinity, consent and sexual assault is one way to begin moving forward.

“I think there is a need for more deeper conversations that goes beyond these individuals [like] Kavanaugh and Dr. Blasey Ford — they are representative of millions of experiences that are very similar,” she said.

Spaulding added that for many people in the Tufts community and beyond, these experiences are real life.

“I think people forget how very real this is for many people and how Dr. Blasey Ford never thought that she was going to be on the stand, questioned in the most public trial, and [that] most survivors of course never think that that’s going to happen,” Spaulding said. “People really need to think about what that means to a survivor … All people, I guarantee, are friends with [or] love a survivor [or] are survivors themselves.”

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utton-downs, t-shirts, suits, shorts, heels, baseball caps, sweaters, blouses, jeans, khakis, miniskirts, ball gowns. Every day we have the choice to wear any type of combination of tops and bottoms, gowns or even onesies. Yet, it is harder to find someone who is not wearing Tufts gear nor jeans nor leggings nor North Face jackets nor sweaters this season unless they are in some type of uniform. Why are there certain types of clothing we tend to reach for if we have all the world’s clothing categories to pick from?

Last year, I’d often find myself dressed up in formal outfits for no reason. I would pick out A-lines with ankle boots and pencil skirts with cardigans and would go weeks without wearing a single pair of jeans.

Almost every day when I was dressed up, particularly when I was wearing dresses, people would ask what the occasion for the outfit was. The answer, at times, was indeed that I had an international relations speaker event or that I had an interview.

More often than not, however, I would give an explanation repeated so often that, by the end of the year, I had made it into a formula. I would explain that when I’m sleepy, or when I’m stressed, I dress up to brighten up my mood. This reply was then received at times with a look of slight amusement and confusion, and we’d share a shrug.

On rare occasions, I would run into a kindred spirit. I can recall exactly two interactions last year when I shared an odd moment of understanding. We would ask each other why we dressed up and would be surprised to find that the other was dressed for the same occasion.

I call this odd because what we had in common was not a strong sense of fashion or professional artistic inclination, but rather a busy schedule and a desire to be successful in our respective fields.

While focusing energy on fashion may seem like a deterrent from success, fashion can serve the dresser well not only in presenting them as coordinated and capable to the outside eye but also in setting the tone for their own frame of mind. In Japanese, there’s this phrase “ki wo hikishimete” which roughly translates to pulling oneself up, standing tall and composing oneself in preparation to tackle whatever may come their way. I believe that dressing nice serves as the string that tilts people’s heads up, straightens their backs, and adds a spring to their step and grace to their gestures.

Dressing up, whether in a floral dress, a pantsuit or in clothing that is unconventional to American college campuses, brings to the attention of others that the dresser is ready to provide a capable hand, a careful measurement or an elegant composition.

CORRECTION A previous version of the Oct. 23 article “CIRCLE finds young people more civically engaged than ever” incorrectly stated that the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement’s poll found that youth engagement in online activism is increasing. It is youth engagement in offline activism that is increasing. The article has been updated to reflect this change. The Daily regrets this error.

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Haruka Noishiki is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Haruka can be reached at haruka.noishiki@ tufts.edu.

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ilm has long been an artistic medium used to process historical events, both recent and distant. Sometimes films use historical events as a jumping off point or a backdrop for a mainly fictional story, like the way Oscarnominated film “Dunkirk” (2017) uses World War II to tell stories about fictional people. Sometimes the links are more direct, with specific events and people taking the main focus of the film. English filmmaker Paul Greengrass’ most recent release, “22 July,” has been facing a storm of controversy due to the fact that it falls into the latter category.

Greengrass’ film focuses on the terror attacks that took place on July 22, 2011 in Oslo, the capital of Norway, and Utoya, an island about 20 miles northwest of the Norwegian capital’s center. The terrible events of the day left 77 people dead and hundreds injured, with many of the fatalities being teenagers. The film follows victims of the attack and its impact on their lives.

It also devotes a significant amount of the film’s 143-minute run time to the perpetrator, focusing on both him carrying out the atrocity as well as his criminal trial. In the wake of the release of “22 July” on Netflix and in select theaters, there has been some public outcry, with many arguing that the subject matter is too sensitive to be made into a film.

Here is what I am interested in: Where is this line? What are we allowed to create art about and what are we not? And within that, how do we remain respectful?

Some have argued that there is enough space between the events and the release of this film, with the seven-year gap between the two being, albeit marginally, larger than the five-year difference between the events of the 9/11 terror attacks and the release of another of Greengrass’ successful films, “United 93” (2006), whose structure is in much of the same vein as his most recent venture.

“United 93” was received very positively, with Roger Ebert going as far as to say that the film “does honor to the memory of the victims,” awarding it four stars out of four.

This brings us to the third clause of my line of questioning. Was “22 July” a respectful dramatization?

The film, despite taking place in Norway, exclusively features dialogue in Norwegianaccented English, an artistic decision that I am torn on. The use of English as opposed to vernacular language is not my favorite trend; it doesn’t make any narrative sense.

Honestly I’ve never found reading subtitles terribly difficult, but I understand why it occurs.

Norwegian filmmaker Erik Poppe’s recent re-telling of the tragedy in “Utoya: July 22” (2018) was received more positively, but it hasn’t received the same global distribution as Greengrass’ film. It would be naive to overlook the fact that Norwegianlanguage films do not carry the same global appeal as English-language films. One could argue that the choice to make the film in English allows the film to bring more awareness to the atrocities of the event. It is clear, however, that when it comes to coping with tragedy, we all speak the same language.

Alexi Reich is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Alexi can be reached at alexi.reich@tufts.edu.

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Students perform during a dress rehearsal of the upcoming musical, ‘Violet,’ (1997), which will open on Oct. 25.

by Ruijingya Tang

Assistant Arts Editor

The Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies will stage the musical “Violet” (1997) in the Balch Arena Theater over the next two weekends, from Oct. 25–27 and Nov. 1–3.

Adapted from the short story “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts, the musical is composed by Jeanine Tesori with libretto from Brian Crawley. “Violet” premiered off-Broadway in 1997 and debuted on Broadway in 2014 with revisions. The musical tells the train journey of its eponymous female protagonist to an evangelist preacher, whom she believes can heal the facial scar left by her father in a wood-chopping accident. On the trip, Violet encounters two American soldiers, Monty and Flick.

Her respective friendship and romantic relationship with them ultimately become central to defining the symbolism behind her “healing.”

The team behind the Tufts production of “Violet” includes director Bridget Kathleen O’Leary, music director Todd C. Gordon, an all-faculty design team and an all-student cast. O’Leary is a Boston-based artist actively involved in numerous theater programs and companies. She is the associate artistic director at New Repertory Theatre, literary chair of the executive committee for the National New Play Networks, and the co-founder of Phoenix Theatre DC. She also has worked as a freelance director for Speakeasy Stage Company, Actors Shakespeare Project, Gloucester Stage Company and the Nora Theatre Company. As a second-year visiting artist in directing in the Tufts Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, O’Leary directed the department’s “Fires in the Mirror” last spring.

To find out more about the upcoming production, the Daily sat down with O’Leary for an interview.

The Tufts Daily (TD): What is “Violet” about?

Bridget Kathleen O’Leary (BKO): [The play] is set in 1964, right after the Civil Rights [Act of 1964] has passed …

It’s kind of looking at the external scar that [ Violet] carries and what it is for [Flick] to travel through the world as a black man in the ’60s … It is of great cost to him to be a black man out in the world, and she is struggling to be a woman that does not believe she has external beauty. There is this really beautiful refrain in a couple of the songs that they both sing, where they say, “Look at me.” “Really look at me” is what they ask of each other. It’s this idea of “can you see beyond the exterior to get to the heart of who I am.”

TD: What kind of role does race play in the musical?

BKO: [Reference to race] is only clear in that [Flick] is able to talk to [ Violet] about things that are not attainable for him because of the color of his skin. [Race] exists in this really honest and tangible way … [and] we have a mixed-race cast … So is race explicitly discussed? No, but it’s explicitly explored.

TD: The production’s casting process was not color-conscious. What does that mean?

BKO: [Color-conscious casting means] we are consciously saying that we are going to cast people of all races in these roles. And that is not what [“Violet”] is. The people that are not white in this play have to acknowledge that as part of their existence in this world and what that means in 1964, especially as you are going through the Bible Belt … The races of the people in the show matter … because of the setting of [the musical]. I cannot cast a person of color in the show without acknowledging what their experience is going to be on this bus in every city it stops in.

TD: You said that “Violet” was chosen by you and a selection committee within the department. What made you choose the musical?

BKO: I am very interested in telling stories that empower female protagonists. And I think that Violet is a very strong, beautiful and human character. And it’s painful to watch all of that strength … possibly undermined by her belief that this scar in some way diminishes her value in the world. The journey she takes throughout the play is very complex. But I find it very gratifying to be able to watch her overcome all these things, to figure out who she is. [Initially,] there is something about Violet not seeing herself as a romantic interest in either of [Flick and Monty].

So she can be very unassuming, upfront and real with them. And because of that, Monty feels drawn to her, because she is the only person that probably hasn’t treated him as an object, and he treats everyone as an object.

TD: Can you also speak to Christian presence in the musical?

BKO: The religious aspects of [the play] are less important than faith or having faith in something. Having faith in something greater than yourself, but also acknowledging that the ability to have faith in something greater than yourself gives you the permission to have faith in yourself.

TD: You mentioned that the musical deals with self-image. Can you elaborate on that?

BKO: The metaphor of the play for me is that whenever we take a journey, our baggage goes with us — who we are goes with us, our past goes with us. So the design concept … is that the entire world of the play is going to be made up of suitcases of different sizes. They will create tables and beds and bus seats. see VIOLET, page 7

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continued from page 6 Every character in the play has baggage that they bring on and off stage.

TD: How are you recognizing the gap between theatrical aesthetics and real-life austerity in the production?

BKO: Our job is to create a tension between the beauty of the music and the grit of the lyrics. The music is absolutely beautiful, but the words that they are singing and where people are emotionally when they are singing it aren’t necessarily

coming from a beautiful place. The world of the play is striving for something more beautiful than what is there in front of us … [Yet] most of things that are tragic are beautiful because they are human.

TD: What kind of role do you think theater plays at large in the contemporary society? What kind of reaction do you hope to draw from your audience?

BKO: Theater is an opportunity for there to be a conversation between the play and the audience. And when theater is at its most dynamic, the play’s job is to provoke

the audience to engage with a part of themselves or the world that they are unaware of. It can be entertaining, but it shouldn’t be easy. Theater should be compelling and able to create conversations around difficult subjects. I want you to leave a show of mine and have a conversation with someone about the way in which it impacted you and what it made you think about; what you’ve either discovered about yourself or discovered about the people in the play or the people around you; how you connected your experience in watching the

play with something outside of the physical room that you saw the play in.

Tickets to “Violet” can be purchased online through a ticketing link on the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ website. Depending on the date of the performance, ticket prices for Tufts students may range from $1 to $10, and a wine and cheese reception will follow the show on Oct. 26.

Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

senior commencement speaker

NOMINATIONS The Wendell Phillips Award

Each year, one graduating senior is chosen to be the class speaker at Commencement, and the speech takes place during the Baccalaureate Service. Established in 1896 and named for Wendell Phillips, the speech is intended to deliver a message related to civic engagement in our time.

Faculty, staff, and students may nominate seniors to apply to be the Wendell Phillips Speaker, and seniors many self-nominate. Nominees will be invited to apply by January with a resume of leadership and service activities and a recorded speech.

Applications are reviewed by the Committee on Student Life (CSL), who will invite finalists to audition at an open forum in March before selecting the winner. This award also carries a modest cash prize.

Wendell Phillips Nineteenth-century American lawyer, orator, fervent abolitionist, and advocate for women’s and Native People’s rights

Nominate today and learn more: http://chaplaincy.tufts.edu/wendellphillips For more information, please contact University Chaplain The Reverend Greg McGonigle at chaplaincy@tufts.edu or 617.627.3427.

Nomination Deadline: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 5 p.m.

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A response to ‘Breaking the culture of sleep deprivation’ To the editor, We in Tisch Library are committed to providing a welcoming, inclusive environment for the Tufts community.

We appreciate and share your concerns about student health and wellness addressed in your Oct. 23 editorial on “the culture of sleep deprivation.”

Balancing work and life can be challenging (for us as well!). However, it’s for precisely this reason that many university libraries — including Tisch, during final exams — are open 24 hours.

The library is here to serve the greater Tufts community. We strive to meet the needs of a diverse group of students, which includes early birds and not just night owls, graduate students with all kinds of sched-

ules, people with work and family obligations and students enrolled in online courses. In addition, we are dedicated to supporting Tufts’ faculty, staff, and researchers with a variety of information needs.

One of the most frequent requests we get at Tisch is to expand our hours to accommodate the variety of schedules and preferences of our community, and to meet the growing need for a safe, quiet place to be on campus. The library staff recognizes that not all students at Tufts have the same schedule, or the same pressures. In fact, we are working towards being able to open earlier on Saturdays and Sundays to meet these requests.

We certainly don’t want any expansion of library hours to be interpreted

as encouraging sleep deprivation. We continuously strive to better understand how use of the library fits into the lives of our students, faculty and staff, so we can provide a wide range of resources and services that contribute to success. Yes, we want you to take care of yourself. But we understand that, for some, self-care and stress reduction may be helped by having the ability to work quietly in the library early in the morning.

Sincerely, Dorothy Meaney Director, Tisch Library Dorothy Meaney is the director of Tisch Library and can be reached at Dorothy.

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Tys Sweeney Pretty Lawns and Gardens

Medford’s proposed bag ban does not go far enough

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n Oct. 17 Daily article reported that Medford will likely be joining neighboring municipalities in implementing a partial plastic bag ban, affecting “thin film” plastic bags, by the end of the year. I’m always excited when a state or municipality takes the initiative to protect our environment, but in Medford’s case, I’m disappointed. Though it is certainly a step in the right direction, by allowing the continued use of heavier plastic bags for bagging meat and other wet materials, Medford will still prioritize consumer convenience over community and environmental well-being.

The purpose of a plastic bag ban is to remove hazardous materials from circulation and prevent them from entering our ecosystems, watersheds and landfills. A law like that under consideration here in our community fails by including a rather arbitrary exemption for plastic bags used to bag bulk items, frozen foods or meat, or wet materials. By creating this law, Medford should effectively be guiding business owners and customers to make communally beneficial decisions, but this gaping hole in the proposed ordinance does not provide that encouragement. A conscientious consumer already brings reusable canvas or insulated shopping bags to the store, and these bags are capable of safely holding the meat and wet materials Medford is concerned about protecting. But this law, while penalizing shopkeepers for providing bags, fails to address the need for conscientious consumers, and by exempting heavier plastic bags, doesn’t force the consumers to seriously adjust their behavior as much as the merchants.

I’ve made it clear that I believe the proposed ban doesn’t go far enough. It doesn’t incentivize conscientious consumerism, and it penalizes business owners who are only responding to a lack of conscientious consumerism by providing disposable plastic bags.

So what adjustments could Medford make in order to create standards rather than follow regional trends with minor adjustments?

A complete ban on plastic bags should, as this ordinance does, come with increasing levels of fines for merchants that fail to comply. Along with this, however, tax incentives should be offered to businesses that go above and beyond, such as businesses that source recycled paper bags or those that give discounts to consumers who bring their own bag. A pass-along tax incentive in that vein would benefit merchants and encourage conscientious consumerism.

While perhaps these suggestions could improve Medford’s ordinance, I believe none would be effective without a complete ban on plastic bags. Business owners could easily avoid the ban by purchasing thicker bags, and there should be no exceptions simply because a consumer forgot the proper shopping equipment — a canvas bag — and now wants to buy something that would ruin a paper bag — frozen food slowly defrosting. Ban the bags, and a cleaner economy will follow. People have been shopping longer than plastic bags have existed. Please, Medford, be a leader on this issue, and show our neighbors that it is possible to clean up our local economy.

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

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continued from page 12 replaced by players who played sparingly throughout the fall in senior co-captain Brian Creonte and firstyear Travis Clauson. In his first college appearance, Clauson was a bright spot on the Jumbos’ scorecard, carding an eight-over 80 in the first round and a four-over 76 in the second round. The Martinez, Calif. native’s Monday score was especially impressive, as only 11 other golfers in the 113-strong field carded a score of 76 or better on Day 2.

“We were happy to play a couple of the new players, and they did really well,” Pendergast said.

Honigford led the way for the Jumbos, finishing in a tie for 11th thanks to a superb pair of rounds.

He closed out the first round with a 5-over 77 and showed a steely consistency by carding a 6-over 78 the next day. Honigford’s Day 1 score of 77 was just four strokes behind the tournament’s individual champion, Middlebury senior co-captain Reid Buzby. Meanwhile, Buzby’s co-leader after the first round, Worcester State first-year Jake Poitras, fell into a tie for 16th after posting a 12-over 84 on Monday.

Meanwhile, Tufts sophomore Harry Theodore finished tied for 30th with a 16-over 160, Creonte (21-over 165) tied for 59th and first-year Mac Bredahl carded a 25-over 169 to tie for 81st.

The Jumbos were pleased with their performance at Cape Cod, feeling that it wrapped up their fall slate on a positive note.

“Overall, we did a good job battling through the conditions to finish out a

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Sophomore Harry Theodore sinks a putt on the 12th hole of the NESCAC Qualifier at Indian Hill Golf Club in Newington, Conn. on Sept.

30, 2017. very successful fall season with a solid effort,” Honigford said.

Earlier this month, Tufts secured a bid to the NESCAC Championship, which

will take place in April, with a fourthplace finish at the conference qualifying tournament. The squad could look different in the spring based on the

players’ performance, but the team will look to return the same fierce competition and spirited play that defined its string of success in the fall.

The Tufts University Psychology Department presents The Fifth Annual G.V.R. Khodadad Endowed Lecture on the Neurobiology of Aggression

Developmental origins of human aggression A bio-psycho-social approach Friday, October 26th at 1:30 PM 253 Robinson Hall, 212 College Ave, Medford, MA Refreshments will precede the lecture

Professor Richard E. Tremblay Winner of the 2017 Stockholm Prize in Criminology

Prof. Tremblay conducts longitudinal and experimental studies on the cognitive, emotional, and social development of children, focusing on the development and prevention of antisocial and violent behavior and substance abuse.

For additional information, contact Dr. Klaus A. Miczek (Klaus.Miczek@tufts.edu) or visit us on Facebook at: https://tinyurl.com/khodadad-lecture

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Eight seniors celebrated on Senior Day, but Jumbos fall to Ephs WOMEN’S SOCCER

continued from page 12 sented by the defending national champion Ephs, it was also Senior Day for eight Jumbos.

Before the game, the team honored Bowers, Aronson, defenders Taylor Koscho, Jamie Corley and Lexie Miller, defender/midfielder Alessandra Sadler, and a pair of midfielders, Sarah Grubman and co-captain Emma Ranalli.

“All eight of us felt the outpouring of love from our teammates, and it was really fun to have all of our families there supporting us, too, because we would not be here today if it weren’t for their endless support,” Corley said. “I think all the seniors would agree that this team means everything to us. It’s just such a supportive and determined group.”

Miller spoke to the seniors’ camaraderie and shared experiences from their time at Tufts.

“Our class has been through a lot of ups and downs in the last four years and that has made us really close,” Miller said.

“Senior Day is when it really hits you that this is close to coming to an end, but we feel like we still have a lot of season left.”

With emotions running high and the stage set for a battle of two NESCAC teams near the top of the conference standings, the host Jumbos came out firing. The defense locked down, while the forwards applied high press on Williams’ back line.

Tufts was able to control possession and put itself in position to score, but, as has been the case in many games this year, the final piece of the buildup was missing.

“We felt like we had the upper hand on them during the game,” Corley said.

“We had the possession and more shots on goal — they just got the job done and we didn’t.”

Scoring on Williams, much less achieving victory, is easier said than done. The Ephs have not lost since Oct. 24, 2017 and have given up just five goals all year.

Still, the Jumbos know there were missed opportunities. Tufts actually outshot its opponents 13–7 but was frustrated by Williams senior goalkeeper and co-captain Olivia Barnhill, who made four saves.

The Jumbos’ profligacy in front of the goal was eventually punished, as they conceded an 82nd-minute goal to sophomore forward Sydney Jones, who scored her ninth score of the season, sealing a victory for the unbeaten NESCAC leaders.

“It [was] just one chance, and credit to them — they converted their opportunity.

But we had control the majority of the game,” Aronson said.

Though they would have loved to see a victory on Senior Day, the Jumbos’ confidence is still high. If the team wants another crack at the defending national champions, it will have to ride its fourth seed through the fifth-seeded Wesleyan in the NESCAC Quarterfinals. The Jumbos have earned the right to play that game at home, and they got the better of the Cardinals in a 2–0 win on Sept. 12, with goals from junior midfielder Izzy Moore and first-year forward Melina McDevitt.

Aronson said the team needed to get back to playing the way that it knows it can in order to achieve success against Wesleyan.

“High press, stop their kick-and-run style, and play crisp from the backs into our offense,” Aronson said. “We just have to stick to our game plan. We know we can win, but if we don’t play our game, we know we can lose — the Bowdoin game taught us that if we did not know already.”

The Jumbos’ postseason action begins on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Kraft Field.

Before anything else, we are all human.

It’s time to embrace diversity.

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Rethink your bias at lovehasnolabels.com

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Bradley Schussel The Coin Toss

NBA awards

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elcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold predictions about your favorite professional sports.

Let’s take a look at last week’s NFL predictions: Prediction Outcome Did I get it right?

Jaguars 4+ sacks

1 sack

No

Panthers over Eagles

CAR 21 - 17 PHI

Yes!

Baker May215 yards field 300+ passing yards

No

So 1-for-3 in the NFL’s Week 7. Since the NBA’s season just started, I’m going to do some way-too-early picks for all of the season awards. Let’s get to it…

MVP: Anthony Davis Expecting LeBron? To be honest, LeBron could win the MVP every year, but he doesn’t, despite putting up MVP-worthy stats.

So why The Brow? Davis played exceptionally well after DeMarcus Cousins went down last year. Now that Cousins is gone, the Pelicans will have to lean on Davis for scoring, rebounding, defense and any other aspect of the game you can think of. I think he’ll use this opportunity to put up some big numbers and take home the MVP trophy. He has the talent for it, so The Brow is my pick.

Rookie of the Year (ROY): Luka Doncic This one feels like a no-brainer at this point in the season. Doncic was NBA-ready the moment he stepped on the court for the first time. Doncic will get a ton of assists as the Mavericks’ primary ball handler, kind of like last year’s ROY, Ben Simmons. His offensive game is well-rounded, with a solid jumper and good driving ability. He’s the most talented rookie in this class, and I believe he’ll show that this season.

Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY): Kawhi Leonard I thought about putting last year’s winner, Rudy Gobert here but Leonard didn’t play last year. “The Claw” has already shown how dominant he is on the defensive end during his first few games with the Raptors. He’s already getting steals, and that’s just part of the story. Expect Leonard to return to form in his first year back from his ‘injury,’ and take home DPOY honors.

Coach of the Year: Mike Budenholzer You can think it’s Brad Stevens all you want, but this award will go to the coach who takes their team further than anyone thought. The Bucks are about to surprise people this year in a weak Eastern Conference. Budenholzer did a lot with a little in his Hawks days, and I think he will win the award for the second time this year.

Sixth Man of the Year: Terry Rozier Here’s a Celtic that will win the award!

Rozier was fantastic in Kyrie Irving’s absence, and he now acts as the team’s sixth man.

“Scary Terry” is the most talented player on Boston’s deep bench. He’ll put up numbers while running the second team and take home the hardware.

Most Improved Player (MIP): Jamal Murray Murray has loads of untapped potential and is one of the main pieces in a good offense. He averaged 16.7 points and 3.4 assists per game last year, and he’ll only get better as he develops. As the season goes along, I think Murray will prove he’s an excellent MIP candidate.

Bradley Schussel is a sports editor. He is a senior studying biomedical engineering.

Bradley can be reached at bradley.schussel@tufts.edu.

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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Women’s soccer advances to postseason despite back-to-back defeats

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Sophomore forward Sophie Lloyd fights for possession in Tufts’ 1–1 draw with Hamilton on Sept. 30.

by Onat Tarimcilar Staff Writer

Tufts closed out its regular season this week, suffering a pair of 1–0 losses to NESCAC opponents Williams and Bowdoin. Despite the results, the Jumbos (9–4–2 overall, 5–3–2 NESCAC) will advance to the conference tournament for the sixth straight year.

The Jumbos faced a difficult road test against the Bowdoin Polar Bears (7–6–2, 3–6–1 NESCAC) on Tuesday afternoon.

On top of the grueling mid-week travel schedule, the cold and rainy weather did

little to help the cause for the visiting Jumbos. Senior forward and co-captain Alex Aronson admitted that the team did not play to the best of its ability.

“We did not deserve to win that game. We came out with no fire,” Aronson said. “I think we kind of assumed we would get a win because we knew we were the better team. We already knew that we were locked into our spot for the playoffs and, unfortunately, that just resulted in us not playing our game.”

Bowdoin’s superiority reflected on the scoresheet. The Polar Bears had more than twice as many shots as the visiting Jumbos

(14–6) while committing fewer fouls than the visitors (11–4). Despite Bowdoin’s barrage of shots on senior goalkeeper Emily Bowers, the hosts put just one past the the All-NESCAC First-Teamer.

Nonetheless, first-year forward Julia Adelmann’s 63rd-minute tally proved enough as Bowdoin clung to victory.

Adelmann’s goal came in the midst of the Jumbos’ best stretch of play, as junior forward Paige Vigliotta and sophomore midfielder/forward Sophie Lloyd had their shots saved by firstyear goalkeeper Penny Rocchio prior to Adelmann’s strike.

“Honestly, as much as you never want to be outplayed, I think this game was a good wake-up call for us,” Aronson said. “We know that we can’t take a single game for granted, especially in this league, and our days could be numbered for this season.”

Meanwhile, Saturday’s game against No. 3 Williams (13–0–2, 9–0–1 NESCAC) was billed as the biggest matchup of the year by many of the players before the game. On top of the stiff competition presee WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 11

Golf team wraps up fall season, places seventh at NEIGA Championship

by Aiden Herrod

Contributing Writer

Tufts wrapped up its fall campaign on Monday with a respectable seventh-place finish at the 84th annual NEIGA Championship, hosted by The Captains Golf Course in Brewster, Mass. Tufts finished with a total score of 636, powering through both the 23-team field and challenging conditions. The mark was 23 strokes behind eventual winner Babson, which finished with a score of 613 and leapt the first-round leader, Williams, on Monday to capture the top spot.

The Jumbos posted a score of 320 on Day 1 to place ninth and improved

their score by four strokes on Sunday to move up two places. Tufts’ second-round mark of 316 was one stroke off of Western New England’s 315 but it propelled the team ahead of both Johnson & Wales and Endicott, who finished tied for eighth with matching 638s.

The tournament occurred during an ugly stretch of weather, which significantly affected the players’ performance. Coach George Pendergast revealed that the Jumbos battled through windy, rainy and cold conditions, with sub-50° temperatures.

“It was probably the toughest conditions I’ve ever played in,” sophomore Alex Honigford said.

The challenging weather reflected in the teams’ performances. Williams took the first-round lead despite shooting a 22-over 310, while Babson, the eventual winner, finished the tournament at 37-over par. Strong winds veered shots off-course, forcing players to play low punch shots, and a saturated course led to uneven lies and slowed balls from the fairway to the green. Of the top 10 teams, the average two-round score was 52.6 shots over par.

While the course did not do the Jumbos any favors, Pendergast praised his players for their preparedness.

“One of our strong points is [that] we always seem to play well with bad conditions,” Pendergast said. “We usu-

ally prepare well; we dress warmly. We thrive in bad conditions, and we take some pride in that.”

The Jumbos focused on minimizing mistakes on a course latent with danger and working with the conditions they were given. Pendergast praised the team’s putting, which was made more challenging by soggy and unpredictable greens.

Tufts also played the match without some of its more experienced players, as Pendergast revealed that junior Brandon Karr and senior co-captain Justin Feldman sat out to focus on midterm exams. The veteran duo was see GOLF, page 10