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Tufts hosts second annual Indigenous People’s Day celebration

by Jess Blough

Contributing Writer

Content warning: This article mentions sexual and domestic violence.

Tufts observed Indigenous People’s Day on Monday with a celebration that included music, dancing, food and vendors. The festivities took place in the Carmichael Hall lounge from 4 to 7 p.m.

The annual celebration began last year after faculty voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day in the academic calendars in February 2016. Tufts is the first major university in the Northeast to do so, according to event organizer Anna Del Castillo. Del Castillo, a senior, also presented the rationale behind the change as a member of Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate to faculty prior to their vote.

“Even though it’s a name change, it’s more than just a symbol,” she said. Del Castillo said organizers of Indigenous People’s Day at Tufts already are working to add an indigenous studies minor and hope to achieve greater representation of indigenous people in the student body and faculty, as well as having more programming for indigenous students.

Other event organizers included junior Parker Breza, senior Ana Manriquez, senior Benya Kraus and senior Farley Flores. Del Castillo and Breza estimate that this year’s event achieved equal or increased attendance compared to the Indigenous People’s Day Celebration in 2016, as well as including an additional hour of performances and speeches.

In addition to the main performances, the event also featured local indigenous vendors selling art and jewelry.

Elizabeth Solomon, assistant director of academic affairs and fellowship programs at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a member of the Massachusetts tribe at Ponkapoag, opened the event with a

speech commending the strength of indigenous people in the Americas.

“I honor their fortitude, their resilience and their dedication to their people and culture,” Solomon said. “Because despite all the efforts to take them away, we still have our native identity. We honor our ancestors and our cultures. We speak our truths. We are still here and we will remain.”

Following Solomon, La Piñata performance group performed a traditional Mayan ceremony incorporating song, dance and instruments. The group’s director, Rosalba Solis, referenced the four squares of brightly colored cloth in the middle of the room, remarking on their parallel to the four cardinal directions. The ceremony also included a singing portion during which attendees were encouraged to learn the traditional song being performed.

Solis also emphasized the importance of protecting the environment, tying recent natural disasters to the poor treatment of Earth and detailing the actions that both individuals and Tufts as a university can take to improve the environment.

“We’re just misusing everything that Mother Earth has given us,” Solis said. “So it’s time for us to be aware. Today, while you are celebrating, try to think about that, deep in you. If there is one thing I can change, what would it be?”

Next, Mahtowin Munro, a co-leader of the United American Indians of New England, spoke about the importance of observing Indigenous People’s Day, a day that focuses on appreciating the culture and recognizing the oppression of indigenous people.

“It’s not enough to just get rid of Columbus Day,” Munro stated. “So much harm, so much damage, has been done to us as a result of celebrating our genocide for generation after generation in this country that what we need is a day that’s a real holiday… That’s going to turn the tables on Columbus Day.”

Munro’s speech concluded with dinner, which included traditional indigenous foods. During the meal, musician and artist Geri Barney entertained visitors with both original songs and traditional music on the flute and guitar.

American studies lecturer Jami Powell spoke about the shift in recognition of indigenous people at Tufts, applauding students for changing Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day and encouraging them to continue pursuing social change on campus.

Sonya Isaac, the director of the Circles of Support Women’s Program for the North American Indian Center of Boston, next spoke on the injustices faced by indigenous women, who she said are 10 times more likely to be victims of sexual or domestic violence than non-Native women. She expressed hope over recent actions to recognize and promote fair treatment of indigenous people, as well as the community evident in movements like the protests in Standing Rock.

“We have survived everything that was developed to break us, and we have stayed resilient,” she said. “We are native.”

Next, the Nettukkuskq Singers, nettukkuskq meaning sisters, took the stage to perform a combination of both original and traditional songs, focusing mostly on friendship and love. These four women echoed Isaac’s words, singing, “For we are Nettukkuskq, native and strong.”

The final performance of the night came from the Eastern Sun Drummers, a group of drummers, singers and dancers. Each of the dancers demonstrated a different cultural dance, relating to courtship, healing or war.

The Eastern Sun Drummers invited attendees to join hands for a round dance, symbolizing friendship and camaraderie between all people.

“It’s about recognizing history and how history is taught, and celebrating the resilience of Native peoples everywhere, as well as reminding people that Native people aren’t gone,” Del Castillo said. “We’re still here, we’re very much present.”

Action and Tufts Bikes. State Senator Pat Jehlen was scheduled to speak at the event but could not attend.

Environment America is a national environmental advocacy organization, currently working on a campaign to encourage colleges and universities such as Tufts to commit to transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 and 100 percent renewable power by 2030, according to Taber. Last week, they brought their plan to Boston University, according to an Oct. 6 article in The Daily Free Press.

Taber said the purpose of the panel was

partly to introduce the event at Tufts, noting that Environment America plans to hold other events at Tufts throughout the year to help students and faculty organize toward this goal.

“Over the course of the year, we hope to work with student groups, faculty and administrators to show that bold energy goals are necessary, doable and cost-effective,” Taber told the Daily in an electronic message.

The Environment America 10-point fact sheet outlines various measures, including the use of solar heating and geothermal energy, which universities and colleges can and have implemented in their transition to renewable energy sources.

Taber said universities are uniquely positioned to successfully implement renewable energy.

“As hotspots of innovation and technical expertise, colleges and universities can propel further embracing renewable energy within the communities and states that these institutions reside in,” he said.

He added that Tufts is particularly well suited to be a target of the clean energy campaign.

“We believe Tufts has the know-how to move towards clean energy and to reduce their emissions from energy use,” Taber said.

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A group of music lovers perform Native American songs in traditional attire and instrument during the Tufts Indigenous People’s Day Celebration in Carmichael Hall on Oct. 9.

Environment America panel discusses renewable energy, role of universities

by Jenna Fleischer Contributing Writer

Disclaimer: Jake Taber is a former managing editor at The Tufts Daily. He is no longer involved in the Daily.

Professor of Chemistry Jonathan Kenny, Education and Outreach Program Administrator at the Office of Sustainability Shoshana Blank and Environment America Clean Energy Fellow Jake Taber (LA ’17) discussed Environment America’s 100 percent renewable energy and Tufts’ efforts toward sustainability at a panel on Oct. 5.

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TCU SENATE APPROVES FUNDING REQUESTS, DISCUSSES POTENTIAL PROJECTS

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met Monday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss funding requests and some ideas for new projects.

TCU President Benya Kraus opened the meeting, mentioning that the Indigenous People’s Day Celebration held prior to the meeting was the result of Senate efforts.

Kraus also announced that Associate Director of Housing Operations Matt Austin wants senators to attend a focus group about the housing lottery this Wednesday during open block.

Kraus then introduced a topic from TCU Vice President Anna Del Castillo’s section; Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon wants to include sophomore senators in a focus group designed to address life as a sophomore at Tufts. The group would focus on decisions sophomores must make like housing for junior and senior years and discussing if the sophomore class often does not get sufficient support from administration.

TCU Treasurer Emily Sim then opened discussion about funding requests from various student organizations that had been addressed in a recent Allocations Board (ALBO) meeting. The body approved

funding requests from Tufts Enchanted A Cappella, Students for Justice in Palestine, Tufts Ballroom, Computer Science Exchange, TURBO and Amnesty International.

As there have not yet been any resolutions proposed, Kraus encouraged senators to think about possible projects to work on and suggested some areas of focus. Kraus said that many student groups are working on improving sexual consent education, for which Senate could be an advocate. Kraus then brought up the possibility of working on a gender inclusive bathroom resolution, citing the recent confusion at Carmichael Hall as an example of why this issue is important to address.

The body then heard announcements about ongoing projects.

TCU Historian Jacqueline Chen asked senators to continue working on outreach for the Swipe It Forward initiative, which allows students to donate and request meals, because the meal bank is running low.

Senators were encouraged to help table and collect meal donations before the Oct. 31 deadline to donate meals.

TCU Parliamentarian Adam Rapfogel asked the body to suggest ideas for improve-

ment to the Tufts Mobile app, which Tufts Technology Services is also working on improving.

Outreach Committee Chair Charlie Zhen brought up concerns voiced by students about the inconvenient nature of the Asian American Center structure as a house and a center, and tied this into the focus on changing social space on campus.

Kraus then elaborated on the topic of restructuring social space on campus and listed new locations that will soon be available for student organizations to reserve and use for social events. Kraus mentioned that Harleston Hall, Hodgdon Hall, Hill Hall and Carmichael Hall will have spaces available for booking and use starting Oct. 13. Curtis Hall, the Baronian Field House and the Rabb Room will be open for use starting Oct. 31.

The Lewis Hall common room will be available for booking in December and will be available for use during the spring semester.

Kraus emphasized that there are many new spaces available for events and that upgrades to the spaces, such as new furniture, will happen over the next two semesters.

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Tufts officials affirm commitment to sustainability at panel ENVIRONMENT

continued from page 1 Blank said that Tufts is already planning on reaching carbon neutrality or having a net carbon footprint of zero by 2050. However, Tufts is not currently taking steps to implement Environment America’s plan.

“Environment America is an advocacy group that has proposed similar plans for universities and colleges across the country. Tufts did not request or participate in the development of the plan,” Tufts Executive Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins told the Daily in an email.

Taber said while the Office of Sustainability has not committed to Environment America’s plan, it was important for the office to be involved in the conversation.

“The campaign’s just starting so [the Office of] Sustainability wanted to be part of a conversation,” Taber told the Daily in an electronic message. “They’re not ruling out scaling up renewables but they haven’t committed to doing so.”

Blank described several steps Tufts has taken toward increased sustainability.

She mentioned the creation of the Talloires Declaration in 1990, the eco-reps program in 2001 and the Office of Sustainability in 2006 as well as University President Anthony Monaco’s signing of the Second Nature Climate Commitment in 2016.

Blank said that since Sophia Gordon Hall’s opening in 2006, all newly constructed Tufts buildings are certified by building environmental performance rating system Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). The Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) is on track to become LEED Gold certified, the second highest out of four levels, which is particularly unique given its

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Students study on the first floor of the new Science and Engineering Complex (SEC).

Accoriding to Administrator of Education Outreach program at the Office of Sustainability Shoshana Blank, SEC is one of the most efficient lab buildings in the country. purpose, she said.

“Lab buildings are notoriously energy hogs. You have to circulate a lot of air among other things,” she said. “This is really one of the most efficient lab buildings in the country right now.”

Kenny served as a member of the Campus Sustainability Council, another Tufts sustainability initiative, which explored reducing the use of greenhouse gases, energy, waste and water, according to the Office of Sustainability website. In 2013, the Council came out with a report outlining specific goals for reducing waste, water use, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Kenny noted, however, that Council members worried about a lack of accountability in achieving the goals.

“So we clamored for a new sustainability council, which was introduced just last spring as the Council for the Sustainability of Campus Operations,” he said.

Kenny reinforced Environment America’s message of the importance of universities and colleges embracing renewable energy.

“Universities are here solely to prepare people for the future,” he said. “The connection from this generation to the next is the main raison d’être for the university. We need to keep pushing them on that.”

The panel discussion concluded with a question-and-answer session with students in attendance. One student asked what they could do to contribute to Tufts becoming a more sustainable campus. Blank responded that students need to speak up.

“Advocating for policies, whether it be in an individual or especially a group capacity, to be implemented is the way that we fight environmental issues.

It’s really helpful when we [the Office of Sustainability] hear from students because it pushes the university leadership to act,” she said.

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Tuesday “Is an Inclusive Economy Possible?”

Details: A panel will discuss the future of building an inclusive economy as the workplace becomes increasingly automated and income inequality worsens. The panel includes leaders from governmental agencies, non-profit organizations and private-sector companies.

When and Where: 5:30 p.m–8 p.m., Sackler 114, 145 Harrison Ave., Boston “Common Reading Book Discussion” Details: Tufts Professor of Political Science Jeff Berry and Assistant Professor of Sociology Sarah Sobieraj will speak about their book, “The Outrage Industry: Political

Opinion Media and the New Incivility,” which was the common reading book this summer. The conversation will be moderated by Anthony Brooks, a senior political Reporter at WBUR. When and Where: 6 p.m., Alumnae Lounge Wednesday “Driving Truth into Policy Debates” Details: HUBWeek, a week-long festival exploring Boston’s future in the realms of art, science and technology, will be making its way to the Tufts SMFA campus for a panel on how fact can remain in today’s political discourse. Panelists include professors from Tufts, Williams and Northeastern and journalists.

When and Where: 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m., The Anderson Auditorium, School of Museum of Fine Arts Friday “El Amor en Tiempos de Trump: Queer of Color Criticism and Performance” Details: The 4th annual Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts focuses on the creative practices of minority subjects in the realms of “pleasure, community health, and survival.” This daylong event features several panels and ends with a performance at Oberon Theater in Cambridge; transportation will be provided.

When and Where: 12 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop St.

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New IGL Director explains his goal for the program

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New director for the Institute for Global Leadership Abi Williams poses for a portrait on the President’s Lawn on Sept. 29.

by Hermes Suen

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It is easy to walk past the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) on Packard Avenue without realizing what it is.

However, this small, quaint building is home to over 20 programs and initiatives that teach students to use innovative problem solving to tackle complex world issues.

Now, the new IGL Director Abi Williams, who began his role on July 1, looks at the institute not only for what it has done for Tufts — something he is quite familiar with as a previous student at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and participant in the IGL’s Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) program — but also for ways that the institute can be revitalized and made sustainable on campus.

An umbrella organization at Tufts According to Associate Director of the IGL Heather Barry, the IGL is a well established institute focused on bridging academic theory with real-world experience.

“The institute is now in its 32nd year, and it started with EPIIC. The idea was to provide opportunities for students to connect theory with practice and to engage them in rigorous academics,” she said.

According Barry, EPIIC is a yearlong course that takes students through a complex international issue. The subject of the first course in 1986 was international terrorism, and over the years it has tackled topics from the politics of fear, to the transformation of the global economy.

This year, EPIIC students are discussing whether the liberal world order is ending.

“It’s taking a look at the institutions created post-World War II to maintain

peace, such as the UN, the IMF and the World Bank, which were all founded on liberal values of respect for individual, human rights and autonomy. EPIIC always considers contemporary topics and ones that don’t have easy answers,” Barry said.

Barry explained that as part of the course, students design and plan an international symposium in the spring, and also participate in a separate program, Inquiry, where they Skype with high school students from around the country and guide them through a role-playing simulation that happens later in the spring.

Since the creation of EPIIC in 1986, the IGL has grown tremendously and now offers a variety of unique programs. According to Barry, there are a few student groups on campus that are affiliated with the IGL. “Tufts International Development (TID) and BUILD: India are also parts of the IGL,” she said. “They are a way to take what students are learning and actually apply it. They work with communities to see where they can help and the IGL helps with contacts and provides a home for them. We also help with funding, and other resources.”

Senior Mia Ellis is the current president of the TID team. According to Ellis, TID works with nonprofit organizations in Latin America on student-led development projects.

“We work with two nonprofits — one in Ecuador and one in Honduras — on projects we have developed. We have teams of students called student consultants that work throughout the semester to achieve project goals and either in the winter or summer we will take a trip to the project location and do some ground work,” Ellis said.

Ellis said that a lot of the work that TID does is with the help of the IGL.

“The IGL supports us in on-campus logistics and speaker events. They help us host development practitioners to hear about their work. The IGL also supports us with funding to actually go to these countries each year, which is extremely important for us,” Ellis said.

Two other unique student groups that work closely with the IGL are Engineers Without Borders and Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and Service (ALLIES). According to Ellis, the Tufts chapter of Engineers Without Borders, which aims to bring innovative solutions to developing countries through engineering and building, is the only chapter in the United States that is affiliated with a liberal arts school.

Ellis also explained that ALLIES is a discussion-based group that aims to bridge the gap between civilians and military personnel.

“The more civilian and military parts are going to have to work together, the more important it is to start building those relationships at a different level and get beyond stereotypes,” Ellis said.

According to its website, the first chapter of ALLIES was founded in 2006 at Tufts, and has since appeared in other universities, such as the United States Military Academy at West Point and Wellesley College.

New leadership brings a new lens In May 2016, founding director of the IGL Sherman Teichman retired, prompting a search for a new director to lead the IGL and its slate of programs. Last semester, it was announced that Abi Williams, who received a Ph.D. in international relations from The Fletcher School in 1987 and participated in the inaugural EPIIC colloquium in 1986, was appointed as the IGL’s new director.

Williams sees the IGL as one of the more distinct institutions on campus

and as one that plays an important role in undergraduate education. “[The] IGL’s distinctive mission is to prepare new generations of ethical and effective global leaders who can help to come up with solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. This mission is more important and urgent today,” Williams said.

While the IGL has amassed a wide variety of programs and initiatives in the past three decades, Williams stressed that it might also be time to focus the IGL’s direction.

“We have over 20 programs and initiatives, and we have to take a fresh look at these programs and ask certain key questions. Are there programs and initiatives we have to continue and strengthen, and are there some that need to be phased out? And are there things that IGL ought to be doing?”

Williams said.

According to Williams, in order to bring more innovative programs to the IGL it will take not just a fresh look at the existing IGL programs but also sustainable finances. He explained that maintaining the quality of the IGL’s programs will not be easy, and in order to function as an effective institute, it needs to establish a new funding strategy.

“Another critical challenge has to do with the financial sustainability of the Institute,” he said. “It has no endowment or annual fund, and in order for it to survive, it needs to have financial footing … We [are] generously partly funded by the Provost Office which provides 50percent and the other 50%percent is raised by the advisory board, through donations, grants and other entities.”

Another thing that Williams wants to do as director is to bridge the gaps between the IGL and different departments at Tufts. see IGL DIRECTOR, page 5

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New IGL director has new hopes for program IGL DIRECTOR

continued from page 3 “It is very important going forward that IGL strengthens its links with all the schools at Tufts, such as the School of Arts and Sciences — especially the International Relations Program — the Fletcher School, the School of Engineering, the [Friedman] School of Nutrition [Science and Policy], the Tisch College of Civic Life,” Williams said. “IGL can’t be isolated from the rest of the university.

And no matter how good an idea it is, it is always difficult to accomplish it on your own; you always need friends and allies and partners to realize an idea.”

Still, the most important aspect of the IGL to Williams is the quality of education that the students receive.

“One of the main reasons I decided to come back to Tufts was because I wanted to have the opportunity to mentor and work very closely with the students and help to prepare them for lives of leadership and service,” Williams said. “It will be essential in the coming years to make sure that both the academic rigor of IGL and the experiential component are maintained and strengthened in the coming months and years.”

According the IGL website, Barry has been with the Institute for almost

30 years, since she was a student in the 1988 EPIIC Class on “Secrecy and Democracy.” She has seen the Institute over the years and is excited to see how Williams will change the IGL going forward.

“Abi [Williams] is only our second director. The director has to come up with the different internship opportunities for the students, and he makes connections for students,” Barry said.

“He chooses the topic of EPIIC each year and is responsible for the main academic component of [the] students’ experience, which makes me excited to see what he will bring to the institute.”

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Kristen Moran Failing Big

Behind the curtain

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f I had met sophomore-me last year, I would have been jealous.

A member of six clubs, about to declare a major and surrounded by a solid group of friends, I’ve been checking all the boxes that first-yearme wanted to check.

But six clubs means six meetings a week — all an hour or longer — in addition to hours of work outside of meetings. In the past week for Tufts University Social Collective ( TUSC) alone, I’ve designed four event posters, six cover photos and two Snapchat filters. For schoolwork this week, I had my first midterm, the first stage of my Comp 15 project and a Spanish composition due, in addition to regular daily homework.

It feels like I’ve had to create three checklists just to stay afloat. One for schoolwork, with all my assignments laid out; one for club projects and those deadlines; and one for my personal schedule, which at my lowest point of the week, held a reminder to shower.

Laundry from Monday is still sitting unfolded in my hamper, and my desk organization has fallen into disarray.

It’s hard to stay on top of my personal life when it feels less important than the schoolwork and club deadlines — I’d rather grind through Comp 15 until 1 a.m. every night than set aside an hour each night for housekeeping.

While I’m succeeding in some major areas that I had set my sights on, I’ve had to sacrifice certain elements of my personal life, which can be a dangerous trade-off. In order to focus more on on-campus involvement, I had to quit my job, because I couldn’t squeeze an extra four hours out of my week, and I haven’t conditioned my hair in a week to save time. It may seem small, but lack of self-care can quickly snowball if not kept under control.

This isn’t me complaining. I love all my clubs and all the projects with which I am involved, and nothing brings me greater joy than seeing my work have a broader impact on campus, an impact that doing my laundry will never have. This is a note to younger me, and anyone out there like her, to let her know that everyone who seems to have it all figured out is probably still struggling with something.

Is it impossible to do it all? No. If I use my no-class Fridays to start Monday’s homework and always make sure to start essays and projects well ahead of time, I know I’ll be able to handle the workload being thrown my way. But some weeks, like this one, it will be overwhelming.

It will be difficult. It will be hard to get out of bed in the morning, or to find time to shower. I don’t have any advice to offer on how to handle it, but maybe, if anyone else is struggling with this, it’ll help to know that someone else is, too.

Kristen Moran is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Kristen can be reached at kristen.moran@tufts.edu.

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ALBUM ROUND-UP

For the records: ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’ edition

by Justin Krakoff Arts Editor

2017 is shaping up to be the year of the post-Disney starlet. Selena Gomez led the charge with the excellent “Bad Liar,” ahead of other former Disney stars staging their returns to the Top 40. September alone saw two of them release their latest LPs, signaling different moments for each of them career wise. Check out the highs and lows of each release below.

Miley Cyrus, “Younger Now” (2017) Following the crash-and-burn approach of the wildly uneven but nonetheless entertaining “Bangerz” (2013) era, Cyrus retreated to heartland America for her latest studio album, trading a hip-hop-inspired sound for a country one. The result is “Younger Now,” released on Sept. 29, an album that can be described as Cyrus’ least creative body of work to date, even including her days as “Hannah Montana” (2006–2011).

While it is possible that Cyrus’ exploration of a country sound could be seen as an ode to her godmother Dolly Parton, who is featured on the decent “Rainbowland,” the rest of her sixth LP suffers from banal lyrics and generic production. Lead single “Malibu,” which features an infectious chorus built around the song’s title, feels like a weird mishmash between the been-theredone-that approach of Avicii’s “Wake Me Up” (2013) and any old Mumford & Sons song. Even the aforementioned “Rainbowland” fails to generate the same sort of chemistry that comeback kid of the year Kesha was able to achieve with Parton on her cover of “Old Flames (Can’t Hold A Candle To You)” off her excellent “Rainbow” (2017).

However, the entire album is not a wash, with Cyrus providing some much-needed sonic and topical explo-

ration. “Week Without You” is a nice retro throwback, akin to Rihanna’s “Love on the Brain” (2016), reminiscing of what it would like to be away from her lover. “She’s Not Him,” a tender ballad, is a milestone for pansexual visibility in pop music, with Cyrus herself coming out in 2016.

In the end, it is the album’s title track that best encapsulates the album’s problems. “Younger Now” is a decent ode to change, but like its lyrics, it feels overwrought from the onset. When Cyrus sings “No one stays the same (oh, oh),” it is impossible not to hope that this unremarkable phase of Cyrus’ career will pass just as quickly as the song’s four-minute runtime, so that the old Miley can make her grand return.

Rating: 2.5/5 Demi Lovato, “Tell Me You Love Me” (2017) For most pop stars, facing one’s struggles in the spotlight can be career-altering. At the age of 18, Demi Lovato, who originally rose to fame in Disney’s “Camp Rock” (2008), checked herself into rehab and revealed in an NPR interview last month her struggle with addiction.

“Rock bottom hit me in a moment when I was drinking vodka out of a Sprite bottle at nine in the morning on my way to the airport,” she said.

But 25-year-old Demi Lovato has never been one to shy away from her very real and personal struggles, baring her soul on her latest release. “Tell Me You Love Me,” released Sept. 29, finds Lovato at her most honest, a radical improvement on her underwhelming fifth studio album. While Lovato has never had the antics of Cyrus nor the experimental tendencies of Gomez, her back-to-basics, R&Binspired approach might be what lifts her into the spotlight while her contemporaries have struggled as of late.

Lovato’s sixth LP opens with the roaring “Sorry Not Sorry,” featuring Lovato

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The album is Cyrus’ sixth LP and returns to her classic, country sound. successfully fusing a gospel-esque vocal performance with a thumping backbeat to convincingly tell an ex-lover off. The track’s chorus achieves proper anthem status with Lovato belting “Baby, I’m sorry (I’m not sorry) / Bein’ so bad got me feelin’ so good / Showin’ you up like I knew that I would.”

Other highlights on the record include the positively thrilling “Sexy Dirty Love” and sultry “Ruin the Friendship.” The former feels like the X-rated version of Ariana Grande’s equally excellent “Into You” (2016), providing the record with its one true dance floor moment. The latter is a

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jazzy track dedicated to crossing that line with a friend as Lovato beckons for him to “Put down your cigar and pick me up (pick me up) / Play me your guitar, that song I love (song I love).”

The album’s back half is not quite as strong as its front, featuring a deluge of downtempo tracks. However, there are some gems to be found here, notably the acerbic “Cry Baby” and the us-against-the-world “Hitchhiker.” The second closes out “Tell Me You Love Me” on a strong note, suggesting that this former teen star still has more than a few tricks up her sleeve.

Rating: 4/5

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Artist to watch: JADE

Nikki Margaretos Is This Thing On?

by Issay Matsumoto Contributing Writer

For 20-year-old Los Angeles-based musician Jade Pedrizet, songwriting is not just a craft, it’s a life’s work.

Enjoying the August release of her debut EP “PINK” (2017), Pedrizet, who performs under the moniker JADE, recalls the genesis of her life’s work as a youth in Phoenix, Ariz.

“When I was a little kid, my friends and I would pretend to be superstars and write songs,” JADE said. “Then I started actually writing songs and singing. I slowly developed into thinking, ‘Oh, I actually want to do this!’ after pretending all that time.”

Nothing about her current trajectory suggests that JADE needs to pretend any longer. Amassing over 100,000 plays on Spotify and hundreds of thousands of views for her music videos on Facebook, JADE’s steady rise to pop stardom has just begun. Her appeal lies in accessible, yet mature and nuanced lyricism and her deft skill in crafting melodies. JADE’s music possesses a potent melodicism that she cultivated from a young age.

“For the longest time,” JADE said. “I would write songs a cappella, because I didn’t know how to play guitar or piano, all I knew was that I liked to sing. So I would come up with these melodies without anything behind them.”

On “PINK,” JADE’s melodic pop sensibilities, reflective of early influences in Demi Lovato, Paramore and Lorde, come into bloom. Backed by big, slick production, her songwriting shines.

But “PINK” is not just a regurgitation of pop consumers’ current tastes.

JADE effectually wears her heart on her sleeve; her songwriting possesses an endearing honesty. With bare accompaniment, songs like “Empty Love,” which JADE composed as a sophomore in high school, demonstrate a tender uncertainty, while “Find A Place,” boasts confident, polished production, and lyrical playfulness that longs for a better place. “Somewhere far from yesterday, I’m telling you let’s get away” JADE croons.

“I wrote that entire record when I was living back in Arizona,” JADE said. “My whole life I had dreamed of being a musician. That’s a long time to sit, and wait, and go to school every day. I was a huge dreamer as a kid, daydreaming out the window in class, thinking about what life could be, and what life will be when I’m older.”

To listen to “PINK” is to immerse yourself in JADE’s dreams. At her

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Jade Pedrizet, the 20-year-old Los Angeles-based musician who performs under the moniker JADE, is pictured. strongest points on the record, on songs like “Find A Place” and “Wait For Me,” JADE is not just catchy.

JADE’s songwriting engages listeners in JADE’s life dramas. With anxiety and optimism, “PINK” invites listeners along JADE’s journey, one that promises more drama, more emotion, more hooks and more JADE. “I’m definitely on the right path,” JADE said. “I’m still trying to figure things out. There’s a lot of stress with the time limits. We only have so [much funding]. Little things that come together, that makes it scary.”

Despite these struggles, JADE remains optimistic for her prospects.

With an upcoming fall 2018 release in the works, JADE remains determined to continue her life’s work.

“I hope people stick with me, keep listening to my songs and keep giving me feedback, because we’re really moving right now.”

And at 20 years old, she’s just starting. As the first chapter in JADE’s musical career, “PINK” proves that JADE has what it takes; it is a testament to her dreams, and perhaps a revelation of her future.

nyone who knows me could tell you that I am very passionate about one argument: Spotify vs. Apple Music. In economics, we often talk about substitutes, or completely interchangeable products.

At face value, that’s what they are.

Spotify and Apple offer almost identical music-streaming services. The pricing tiers, the music available, the features… so why do people choose one over the other? I am a die-hard Spotify fan, but I wanted to find out if Apple Music had any redeeming qualities. So, I swallowed my pride and signed up for the free trial, for science of course. To compare the two, I had to dig deeper.

Starting on the home page, Apple Music has a Browse page, like Spotify, which consists of today’s top hits, new releases and the top list for each genre, which Apple refers to as “The A-Lists.” All the playlists have little icons. While Spotify uses artistic photos of musicians, or perhaps a Tumblrquality photo of a landscape to represent a certain mood, Apple has decided to use exclusively CGI animations: Imagine a bunch of little bubble-letter A’s that look like they escaped a Pixar movie. The pop icon is a shiny, pink balloon A. The hip-hop list has a diamond-studded A. The worst, in my opinion, is the playlist “It’s Lit!!!” As someone in the age bracket that is allowed to refer to something as lit, I think it needs to be said sans-exclamation points, or maybe even a period. They’ve missed rule number one of millennialism: Don’t act like you are overexcited about anything. To make matters worse, the caption on the playlist is, “Hip-hop and R&B for the club. Our editors regularly update this playlist — if you hear something you like, add it to your library.” Yikes. The second line is actually copied and pasted on most of the Browse playlists. On the pop playlist, Apple boasts about “their editors combing through countless releases” to curate the listing. It feels almost clinical, like they’re obsessed with us knowing how much effort they’ve put into this Apple ‘side-project.’ I call it that because it seems like Apple only ventured into music-streaming to compete with Spotify. By contrast, the human touch that Spotify puts into their work is what makes the difference for me. Their playlists are sometimes incredibly niche, but it just makes you realize that maybe someone else out there is also looking for the playlist “Make Out Jams.” You can’t help but smile with captions like, “Controlling the aux cord is a privilege, not a right.”

Although I did find a couple songs I liked on Apple, I think I always prefer music shared by my friends than something force-fed to me by some massive corporation. Spotify might be doing a similar thing, but at least it feels a little more genuine. Alright guys, I hope you enjoyed this because I will definitely never land a job at Apple now. If you also get fired up about Spotify and Apple, shoot me an email letting me know what you think!

Nikki Margaretos is a senior majoring in economics. Nikki can be reached at nikoletta.margaretos@tufts.edu.

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Part-time lecturers deserve better contract We all know that a Tufts University diploma is an exorbitantly priced piece of paper. Somewhere along the line, we have decided to justify steep tuitions and forthcoming debt with the notion that it will all be worthwhile. We will graduate with a sterling education, coated with wisdom passed down from prudent professors. But if professors are so pivotal in our educational experience, why don’t we pay them all that way?

We have fruit-infused water in our dining halls, heavily discounted Cirque du Soleil tickets and a glittering new Science and Engineering Complex, but some part-time lecturers hired to teach two classes a semester (the same number as many tenured professors) make only $29,200 a year before taxes.

Is this how much a university should value its professors? More importantly, is this a fair reflection of the value professors give to the university? The answer to both of these questions is a resounding no.

Tufts part-time lecturers’ union is currently engaged in a long-fought battle with the administration, pushing for better pay and job security. If left unsettled by Wednesday, these negotiations may manifest in a walkout, an event

entitled “A Day Without Lecturers.”

Part-time lecturers, instead of teaching, will unite in a demonstration to send a message to the administration.

Professors should not have to take to the street in protest for the Tufts administration to hear them. Tufts needs to prioritize fair pay for the lecturers who work with students.

To the university’s credit, it did reach a collective bargaining agreement with part-time lecturers in 2014 that significantly increased pay and benefits for part-time faculty. However, the administration has seemingly used this as a way to wash its hands of further negotiation, even though there is still a long way to go for fair pay. Full-time assistant professors in the School of Arts and Sciences made an average of $82,584 last year. Compare that to the most recent collective bargaining agreement, in which part-time lecturers in some departments are promised a base salary of $7,300 per course. That means a lecturer teaching 11 courses in one year, a preposterous amount, still would not make as much as the average full-time Arts and Sciences professor.

Despite clearly underpaying its lecturers, Tufts continues to do it simply

because it can. This salary discrepancy does not seem to hinder the hiring of part-time lecturers, as the supply of Ph.D.s far outpaces the demand from universities. Yet just because the university can underpay professors doesn’t mean it should.

Some argue that Tufts may not have sufficient funds to allocate to part-time lecturers. It is true that although Tufts tuition fares similarly to other highly selective universities, the endowment is lower than many. However, Tufts can surely reassess its $1.6 billion endowment to make room for professors’ pay. Indeed, with a $905 million budget (FY16), raising pay for the 405 parttime lecturers by $1,000 per course would, assuming each lecturer teaches two courses per semester, come out to an additional $1,620,000. While that may seem like a large number, it’s less than one percent of our total budget.

Such arguments that the university does not have the money to pay anything close to this amount simply do not hold water, especially in light of the Central Energy Plant construction project and other ambiguous auxiliary enterprises.

The most effective way to allocate funds might be to slow hiring

of extraneous administration members. The Tufts 2016—2017 Fact Book lists hundreds of administrative positions that are much further removed from the lives of students than part-time lecturers are. The finance division, for example, includes a vice president for finance and treasurer, two senior directors, four directors and two bursars. If Tufts could cut down its number of administrative roles, it would save a large sum of money to better pay its part-time lecturers.

Part-time lecturers work just as hard, if not harder, than their full-time colleagues. Many students don’t even know what their professors’ status is, because they all invest immense energy and make major sacrifices to teach us. James Rizzi, a Ph.D. candidate at Tufts, put it best in his op-ed, writing, “What amounts to a negligible part of the university’s budget could allow for pay increases that mean the world to the lecturers.” The university needs to understand this, and act accordingly.

Show your support for your professors by joining the picket line this Wednesday at 8 a.m. on Professors Row and the rally at 12 p.m. on the Academic Quad.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

by Cedric de Leon

If the part-time lecturers’ one-day walkout happens next Wednesday, October 11, I will not cross the picket line.

I encourage all faculty to do the same.

Part-time lecturers are paid by the piece: $7,300 per course base salary. For some, one course is all the work they can get.

Right now, the administration is proposing a median annual increase of 2.4 percent or about $180 per course. Assuming a fourmonth semester, this amounts to a $45 per month raise or $11 per week. That’s $1.57 more per day, not even enough for a cup of coffee. And that’s *before* taxes.

The lecturers are holding firm, but I’ve seen many negotiations in my lifetime. I can tell you with near certainty that both sides want to avoid a strike.

If our administration would come up even marginally, it could help prevent the walkout. I hope they will, because this institution can certainly afford to give the lowest paid faculty more than cost of living increases.

Moreover, if the lecturers do walk out for one day, it is imperative that the one day be an unqualified success. Put another way, if we want this dispute to end and end quickly, then the surest way to make that happen will be for all faculty to honor the picket line. That will bring the

university to a standstill, and that in turn will bring the administration to the table.

The larger issue here, however, as we know is the corporatization of the university and of higher education in general. Rather than hire tenure-track faculty to do this work, employers like Tufts have brought into being a casual workforce who can teach college at a fraction of the cost. This structural process devalues not just the work of our part-time colleagues, but the work we all do. By contrast, the lecturers are attempting to re-introduce some dignity to our collective endeavor.

I moved from Providence College to Tufts University this year, because Tufts

is a progressive institution. As a community, we are on the side of the underdog. All faculty should stand together with our part-time lecturers. They deserve every cent they are asking for.

Come Wednesday, I will be on the picket line with them.

Cedric de Leon, Associate Professor of Sociology Personal Website: https://cedricdeleon.academia.edu/

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by Hugh Roberts My compliments to Hannah Uebele for her excellent report of Zohra Drif ’s talk at the Fares Center on Wednesday ( Tufts Daily, Oct. 5).

However, she raises the question of the FLN’s resort to bomb attacks and Mme. Drif ’s own role in this and the fact that this was not discussed. I wish to make clear that there was no intention on our part to avoid consideration of this

issue, which is in fact very fully discussed in Mme. Drif ’s book “Inside the Battle of Algiers” (2017). The organizers of the event were concerned that, in her initial presentation, Mme. Drif should be free to say what she wanted to say about the war of independence as a whole and the Battle of Algiers in particular, and members of the audience were entirely free to raise the specific issue of the bomb attacks. None did so, which is a pity, since Mme. Drif

would have been perfectly willing to discuss that aspect.

Hugh Roberts Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History Hugh Roberts is the Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts University. Professor Roberts can be reached at Hugh.Roberts@ tufts.edu.

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Shantel Bartolome and Conor Friedmann Bored & Confused

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f you’re like me, you likely need total darkness and quiet to get a good night’s sleep. Even then, it’ll take over an hour of lying in bed, pretending to sleep, before you actually fall asleep.

If you’re like me, you also envy those who can fall asleep at a moment’s notice, seemingly by command. Why do these differences in sleep exist? Is there any way for a less sleep-prone person to become a person who is?

To figure out why some people fall asleep easier than others do, we should find out just why we fall asleep in the first place. The reason has to do with the body’s circadian rhythm. Circadian rhythm is a human’s sense of day and night — when to sleep and when not to sleep. The natural cycle of day and night reinforces maximum energy during the day and drowsiness after 8 p.m. to ensure a healthy sleep; however, circadian rhythm is easily manipulated by bright lights, melatonin and other sleep factors.

Moreover, there is a definite guideline for the perfect amount of time before someone falls asleep: An average sleeper should fall asleep in five to 15 minutes.

Twenty to 30 minutes is worrying, implying insomnia, whereas five minutes is too short, implying unhealthy exhaustion. So, if you’re falling asleep in only a few minutes, you might just be sleep-deprived.

Similarly, if you have trouble falling asleep, you might just need to sleep a bit less.

A powerful inhibitor of falling asleep is obvious: today’s particularly high-stress, workaholic culture. In the constant hustle of work and play, those who don’t sleep as easily can look at themselves to blame. While sleep can be the ultimate relaxer, many people have rejected sleep and instead turned toward social and leisure activities to counteract the grind toward productivity. And when they attempt to sleep, they often are still plagued by the desire to either work or play, disparaging sleep as neither fun nor productive. This rupture in sleep leads to many repercussions, completely wrecking a human’s natural circadian rhythm.

Another difference between people who sleep well and people who don’t is, ironically, their focus on falling asleep. People who don’t sleep well often cannot sleep because they become too hyperaware and stressed over whether or not they are falling asleep. Anxiety can grow so heightened that sleepless people then associate the bedroom with wakefulness, rather than rest and calm. Contrastingly, people who sleep well associate the bedroom with calm thoughts, which lead to good sleep.

Sufficient sleep is the most crucial factor to a productive, rewarding day. Without it, most people can hardly function. In today’s high-stress work environment, we tend to neglect the importance of sleep, and even when sleep is the goal, some people still have trouble falling asleep.

While that may just be due to overthinking about the amount of sleep we get, stress and anxiety are the more likely culprits.

If you are one who simply cannot get to sleep, the answer may be easier said than done: Just relax.

Shantel Bartolome is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Shantel can be reached at natasha.bartolome@tufts. edu. Conor Friedmann is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Conor can be reached at conor.friedmann@ tufts.edu.

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Formula for success: how the men’s soccer team has stayed on top in recent years

by Ryan Eggers Staff Writer

Current Tufts students see the men’s soccer team as the rest of the NESCAC and Div. III soccer teams do — dominant and happily riding a wave that includes two Div. III national championships in the past three years. Their start to the 2017 campaign has been no different. With a current record of 8–1–1, the Jumbos have made an impression, especially defensively: they’ve given up just one goal this season so far.

But cultures don’t grow overnight.

Winning isn’t a switch that can be flipped at a moment’s notice. The achievements that the team has earned and continues to earn stem from years of building up a staff and roster that buys into goals that are bigger than themselves as individuals. These seeds of success can be traced back to the man who planted them when he took over the program in 2010 — Coach Joshua Shapiro.

With two national championships and honors such as being named the National Coach of the Year and heading the Div. III Coaching Staff of the Year in 2016, Shapiro has figured out exactly how to breed success. His formula for creating and keeping that culture has been key for the Jumbos’ ever-growing win total. “[Shapiro] wasn’t recruiting us based on what the program was,” Assistant Coach Maxime Hoppenot said.

Hoppenot is in his first year as assistant coach, and was part of Shapiro’s first recruiting class. He was the captain of the 2014 team that won the program’s first Div. III title.

“He was saying more like, ‘this is a vision of what I think Tufts can be, and this is why I believe it,'” Hoppenot said.

Shapiro made quick work of that recruiting class and of the roster in general, leading the team to its first NCAA tournament bid since 1996 in 2012. Despite the growing success and talent of the squad, Shapiro’s vision never changed. Senior co-captain defender Conor Coleman, recruited a few years after Hoppenot, understood Shapiro’s message in the exact same way.

“Coach Shapiro is a very impressive guy,” Coleman said. “He’s the guy that has turned this program around, and he is quite frankly one of the best coaches I’ve ever played with, in any sport … The whole coaching staff in general really drew me to Tufts.”

And now looking at the present, firstyear midfielder Travis van Brewer feels that same support from Shapiro and his teammates. But a big factor in his decision to commit to Tufts had nothing to do with soccer: he wanted to pursue engineering.

However, many NESCAC schools do not offer an engineering major, and many Div. I schools do not allow athletes to play soccer along with studying engineering.

As such, the decision to go to Tufts was easy for Van Brewer. And this isn’t just some special case study — the academics that Tufts offers are a big part of why many recruits sign. “[Tufts] University is fantastic,” Shapiro said. “The national profile continues to get better, and the stronger Tufts is as a university, the stronger we’re capable of being as a soccer program. Our success is very much tied to the brand of the university.”

Even as all of these components have strengthened his soccer program, Shapiro hasn’t changed his coaching style or ideology from his first Tufts squad to his championship Tufts squads.

Having championship pedigree obviously eases the recruiting process and brings more talent in, but he doesn’t see that as a reason to ease up on the team’s vision.

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Josh Shapiro, the men’s soccer coach, poses for a portrait on Bello Field on May 8.

“Talent doesn’t mean much unless they’re bought in and working hard,” Shapiro said. “But I think that the culture the upperclassmen establish is a really good standard for the work you should be doing to try to get better. Guys that are coming into the program are integrated really quickly.”

Shapiro also noted that having more talent and a team that is connected between all four classes creates fierce competition, which has been key for the roster to not get too comfortable with their victories. With 26 team members who can all play at an extremely high level, every player on the roster has to fight for his role in the program.

If someone is slacking, there’s a number of men hungry for his spot.

Even when the team is performing well, there isn’t any let-up from Shapiro in practice or in the film room. Whether the team has just lost a match or won by four goals, he doesn’t allow a sense of complacency to linger into the minds of his players. “[Shapiro] has been on us harder than I think he ever has since I’ve been here,” junior co-captain and defender Sterling Weatherbie said, referring to Shapiro’s coaching style this year. “For instance, when we played Brandeis, which was one of the biggest games of the season for us, and we ended up winning, we had a film session where coach pointed out so many things that we did wrong. And I guess that’s a tribute to him as someone that’s never really gonna let us be satisfied.”

The team did finally hit a bump in the road on Sept. 30 at Amherst, losing their first game of the season. The 1–0 loss also happened to be the first and only goal they’ve conceded this year. Shapiro, having been interviewed before the loss, didn’t fret about needing to go through the rest of the season without any rough patches.

“The goal isn’t to be undefeated — the goal is to be national champions,” Shapiro said. “Bumps are not the worst things that ever happen to you in that [goal]. So if we do concede a goal, hopefully we won’t melt down. If we do lose a game, hopefully we won’t melt down.”

As he predicted, the team didn’t melt down as a result of its loss. They immediately turned around and defeated Hamilton on the road on Oct. 1, and defeated Middlebury on Saturday by a score of 4–0.

The Jumbos’ mental fortitude has been tested many times over the last few seasons, whether it be their response to being top dogs this season, or winning championships as underdogs in previ-

ous seasons. According to the squad, its consistent togetherness over the years has kept them sharp, even though each team is different.

“We know that we were successful last year, but we don’t try to completely mimic that team’s culture,” Coleman said. “Each year, we find a new identity … while we’re all so close and the core ideals that we’re trying to implement every year aren’t different, what blossoms into the team changes every year.”

The idea of having their own identity while also upholding a well-established message is one that comes up again and again in the locker room, with upperclassmen instilling the vision of the team into the younger players in their own unique way. Those underclassmen carry the torch as they mature over their time at Tufts, and no one on the team, no matter how young, gets left behind in the program.

“From pretty much day one, all the [first-years] knew a lot of people,” van Brewer said. “I met people from group chats, and knew everyone’s name after our first fitness test … I feel like I can go up to any person on the team at lunch, or just see them and say hi, and the chemistry on the field is a lot better because everyone’s comfortable with each other.”

It seems that ultimately, the best way that the team has been able to stay focused despite their success has been with the mentality that each team is different. And by keeping that focus clear with each new class of players, the team hasn’t allowed its culture of winning to get the team ahead of itself in any way.

Shapiro has done an amazing job of bringing up a team that has had sustained success over the years. The mentality of him and his squad, no matter how cliché it sounds, has always been to take it one season at a time with the program, and one game at a time within each season. While the program has won two championships in the last three years, the 2017–18 men’s soccer squad hasn’t won anything — yet.

“We haven’t done anything with this team,” Coleman said. “Everything we accomplish as this team, we have to go out and prove it — that’s our mentality.

Yes, we might have a bigger target on our back, but I really don’t care because I trust all 26 guys on our team.”

Going from unranked in the first round of the NCAA tournament to topranked in the NSCAA Preseason Poll has put the pressure on the Jumbos to live up to their new reputation, but given their well-established culture, it seems likely that they won’t disappoint.

hen Brazilian phenom Neymar was 15 years old, he was making almost $2,800 a month at Santos FC. Outside of the United States, young international soccer players are paid for their labor once they make well-known youth clubs because they are treated as investments. If and when they are sold to professional teams later in their teenage years, the youth club makes a profit.

The U.S. youth soccer system is entirely different. The financial burden to play falls on the players: if they move on to playing professionally, the youth team that developed the player is not compensated.

Accordingly, many top domestic youth club teams charge thousands of dollars a year for players to participate (which doesn’t include tournament fees, gear or transportation costs), inhibiting a huge swath of the population from participating for financial reasons. It’s no wonder that the U.S. lags behind in player development: it’s a sport only the privileged can afford. By pricing many kids out of the youth soccer market, U.S. soccer misses out on some of the best athletes in the country.

Most soccer clubs have no choice but to be so expensive. Where does the revenue come from without compensation for their product (the youth soccer player)? Currently, the only solution resides in the players’ pockets themselves.

For the U.S. to compete with elite soccer teams from around the world, this arrangement must change. Youth clubs must be compensated for their training by players’ future clubs.

When a teenager is sold to another club, the selling club is able to reinvest that profit back into its programs. There are even clauses in the contracts of players that force the buying club to give the selling club a share of the profit that they make on the player. For example, when DeAndre Yedlin signed for Newcastle United for $3.71 million, his previous club, the Seattle Sounders, received the profits. Yet Yedlin’s youth club, Crossfire Premier — which developed Yedlin for a longer period of time — received no money at all. How can Crossfire Premier be expected to continue to produce quality players without seeing any reward for it?

FIFA’s policy of “solidarity payments” ensures that youth clubs are compensated when bigger clubs “poach” their best players. Solidarity payments decree that youth clubs must be compensated five percent of the total transfer cost; in Yedlin’s case, his transfer would yield $185,000 for Yedlin’s youth teams. This money could mitigate participation costs and increase quality of development, yet U.S. law forbids clubs from collecting fees for youth players.

No domestic youth club can compete with global superpowers without ample funds, and in pushing the cost onto the players, they miss out on a vast player pool. U.S. soccer could be released from the disaster of pay-to-play only if youth clubs are compensated.

In terms of a successful system as a whole, the United States Soccer Federation should look no further than Belgium’s youth setup.

Stay tuned for next week to see how the United States can learn from Belgium, a country of 11 million that transformed from the No. 49 national team in 2007 to the No. 5 team in 2017.

Arlo Moore-Bloom is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Arlo can be reached at arlo.moore_bloom@tufts.edu.

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Sports

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

FOOTBALL

EVAN SAYLES / THE TUFTS DAILY

Junior quarterback Ryan McDonald stiff-arms a Bowdoin player to stay on his feet in the Homecoming game against the Bowdoin Polar Bears on Saturday, Oct. 7.

Tufts football dominates Bowdoin in Homecoming game

by Sam Weitzman Sports Editor

The Tufts football team (3–1) bulldozed the Bowdoin Polar Bears (0–4) in Saturday’s Homecoming game, winning by a score of 31–3.

Under a clear October sky, the Jumbos’ offense began the game unsteadily. After winning the toss and electing to receive the opening kickoff, Tufts gained two first downs before junior quarterback Ryan McDonald suffered a sack on thirdand-15. A punt by junior defensive back Alexander LaPiana pinned the Polar Bears at their own 11-yard line.

Bowdoin flashed dangerous potential early on. First-year quarterback Griff Stalcup found senior wide receiver Nick Vailas for a 16-yard third-down conversion. On the very next play, sophomore running back Nate Richam bounced off multiple Tufts linebackers on a 28-yard run. After reaching the Jumbos’ 35-yard line, the Polar Bears appeared poised to post the first points of the game. However, Tufts’ junior defensive lineman Jared Ahsler stuffed Richam for no gain on third down, and sophomore linebacker Tylor Scales sacked Stalcup on fourth down to snuff out the threat.

On their next drive, the Jumbos had to punt after their second series.

Fortuitously for the hosts, Bowdoin’s junior wide receiver Ejaaz Jiu muffed the punt, allowing Tufts’ senior linebacker Zach Thomas to recover the football at the Polar Bears’ 22-yard line. The Jumbos subsequently went three-and-out, settling for a 31-yard field goal by first-year kicker Matthew Alswanger with 4:04 left in the first quarter.

According to coach Jay Civetti, a variety of factors might explain the offense’s slow

start to the game, which included two false starts and an ineligible man downfield.

“We just had penalties that we typically don’t make,” he said. “I don’t know if it was just being back home [after two road games] or the excitement of the Homecoming game. We had a great week of practice, and guys were just eager more than anything else.”

After getting the ball back, the Bowdoin offensive assembled its only scoring drive of the afternoon. Stalcup marshalled the Polar Bears up the field, using a combination of short passes to his wideouts and handoffs to Richam and first-year running back Owen Gideon-Murphy.

Bowdoin progressed all the way to Tufts’ 13-yard line before the hosts thwarted a Stalcup pass intended for Vailas. Senior Polar Bear kicker Andrew Sisti knocked a 30-yard field goal through the uprights to tie the game with 10:14 remaining in the second quarter.

From that point onward, Tufts dominated on both sides of the football. The Jumbos strode up the field on the first drive of the second quarter, bolstered by a 17-yard reception by senior wide receiver Joe Nault and a 22-yard carry by sophomore running back Andrew Sanders. McDonald found the end zone on a 14-yard run to give the Jumbos a 10–3 advantage at the 6:22 mark.

Junior wide receiver Dan de Leon stated that Tufts’ continued faith in its game plan enabled the team’s offensive turnaround.

“Nothing really changed that much that I noticed,” he said. “Things just started to click. We had a few key plays where Ryan would complete a pass for 10 or 12 yards, and then we’d break a big run. Those plays kept the drive going.”

During the second series of the subsequent Bowdoin drive, Thomas sacked Stalcup on first down. Two plays later,

senior wide receiver Bryan Porter dropped a pass, forcing the Polar Bears to punt.

Taking over at his own 38 yard line with 3:15 on the clock, McDonald wasted no time in laying waste to the Bowdoin secondary. The signal caller took the Jumbos across midfield with a seven-yard scurry and a 21-yard completion to sophomore wide receiver Winton Blount. Three plays and a first down later, McDonald connected with de Leon for a 22-yard touchdown.

The Polar Bears ran out the remaining 1:38 on the clock, and the Jumbos entered halftime with a 21–3 lead.

Civetti described how reducing mental mistakes expanded the options available to the Jumbos’ offense.

“You go in with a certain game plan, and you’ve got to find out what works and what doesn’t,” he explained. “The hard part is that when you have penalties [which] put you in long-distance situations, your play sheet shrinks.”

Civetti added that although building a significant lead increases tactical and formational flexibility, changes to the game plan are not always warranted.

“The more comfortable you are in the game,” he said, “[the more you can] can make certain adjustments. But at the same time, when you have success, you usually stick to what you’ve been doing.”

De Leon emphasized the mental benefits associated with building a lead.

“When you do jump out [to a lead] like that, it allows you to play a little bit more relaxed, which is especially good in an offensive mindset,” he explained.

“You don’t want to have to feel like you’re playing and coming back from behind, where you need to make [a certain] play…

[When you’re winning,] while you still like to make every play, it’s not like it’s do-ordie. It’s a little bit of a pressure relief and allows you to play more freely.”

Even as clouds began to vaguely curtain the sun, the Tufts defense remained hot. On Bowdoin’s first drive of the third quarter, senior quad-captain linebacker Steve DiCienzo leveled Stalcup on second down for a three-yard loss; two plays later, the Polar Bears were forced to punt. Once the Jumbo offense retook the field, the one-two punch of de Leon and first-year running back Mike Pedrini pummeled the Polar Bear defense. Pedrini ripped off back-to-back runs of 15 and 17 yards, while de Leon followed up a seven-yard reception with a 25-yard grab that brought the Jumbos to the five yard line. On second and goal with 9:31 left in the third quarter, Pedrini took McDonald’s handoff into the end zone for his first Tufts touchdown.

Meanwhile, the Jumbo defense continued to suffocate the Polar Bears. Tufts’ senior quad-captain defensive lineman Doug Harrison played a major role in ending two of Bowdoin’s next three drives. The Lincoln, R.I. native’s third-down sack of Stalcup around the six-minute mark of the third quarter forced Bowdoin out of field goal range. Later, in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter, Harrison batted a pass at the line and picked off Stalcup for his first career interception.

The Jumbos concluded their scoring with 1:41 left in the game, when sophomore running back Jay Tyler punched the ball in from the one-yard line for his first score as a Jumbo.

Throughout the game, the Tufts pass rush imposed its will on Stalcup. The Jumbos’ fifth and final quarterback takedown came near the end of the third quarter, courtesy of senior linebacker Chuck Calabrese. The five sacks are the most the team has recorded since last year’s 44–12 win over Colby.

Up next for the Jumbos are the defending NESCAC champions, the Trinity Bantams (4–0).