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Tufts community responds to UN climate change report

by Hannah Uebele News Editor

The United Nations’ Oct. 8 report on global warming has promoted student activist groups and faculty to consider if Tufts could do more to address the climate crisis.

Written by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the report details widespread climate-related risks projected to occur if the planet experiences greater than 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, according to the IPCC press release. It states that stopping the rise would require a worldwide shift in practices.

Co-presidents of Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA) Bridget Moynihan and Jenna Clark told the Daily in a joint email that the university can do more to reduce its impact on the environment and that they hope greater action will occur in light of the IPCC’s report.

“With Tufts’ recent commitment to aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050, the school is taking a step in the right direction, but we believe this isn’t nearly enough,” Moynihan and Clark, both sophomores, wrote. “With the IPCC report citing that some of the worst effects of climate change may occur as soon as 2040, extensive change is needed well before that date.”

Shoshana Blank, the education and outreach program administrator at the Tufts Office of Sustainability, said that the urgency of this report does not come as a surprise to her and others at the Office of Sustainability working in the field of climate science. She said that communal involvement is needed to create and promote significant sustainable change.

“It is really important, in order to make a difference, to do things on a bit of a larger scale rather than just individual changes. That could be getting involved in local initiatives or state or federal initiatives, or even at Tufts, in working towards a more sustainable world,” Blank said.

Blank noted ways in which Tufts can respond to the report’s call to action, explaining that the university already signed on to the American College of University Presidents’ Second Nature Climate Leadership Commitment in April 2016, committing the university to carbon neutrality by 2050. She further explained that the university is creating a carbon neutrality plan to fulfill this commitment and has hired an outside consulting firm to assist in the planning. An Oct. 23 TuftsNow article indicates that Ramboll Group, a Danish multidisciplinary consulting film, has been hired.

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“The company is tasked with creating a plan to get to carbon neutrality by 2050 for the [Medford/Somerville] campus, for our energy supply,” Blank said.

“So that is something that [the Council for Sustainability of Campus Operations] is working on now that is directly related to the IPCC report.”

Ann Rappaport, co-chair of the Council for the Sustainability of Campus Operations and senior lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, described the need for Tufts to continue implementing sustainability projects in an expeditious manner.

“We knew our job was to get carbon emissions at the university down to zero as quickly as possible, but that added urgency is something that everybody is

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sensitive to, particularly those of us who teach about it,” Rappaport said. “What we’re doing now is starting with the projects that have been in the pipeline for a while and looking for ways to do more, faster.”

Program Director of the Office of Sustainability Tina Woolston said that she does not think the new IPCC report will lead the university’s trustees to reconsider divestment from fossil fuels. She noted that a more significant action would be for the university to stop using fossil fuels altogether.

“If we could as a university stop using fossil fuels, that’s actually more significant of an impact than saying out loud that we’re going to divest when we don’t even really have [direct] holdings in fossil fuel companies,” Woolston said. “We

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don’t have any direct holdings and as far as I know we have only a very small percentage in our mutual funds. It’s so small that fossil fuel companies wouldn’t even notice, it wouldn’t impact their balance sheet so it doesn’t seem like an efficient use of our time to focus on that.”

James Garijo-Garde, a co-leader of Tufts Climate Action, said that he hopes the IPCC report will make the Board of Trustees rethink their stance on divestment.

“We’ve heard sobering scientific findings related to climate change seemingly again and again in recent years, but the Board of Trustees continues to be fearful of disrupting the status quo. The one thing that could be different about this report is its scale: [When] the international community releases a scientific report like this, it’s not a small matter,” Garijo-Garde, a junior, told the Daily in an email.

Garijo-Garde added that another way for the university to reduce its impact on the environment is to reinvest funds currently invested in fossil fuels to local green energy and sustainability initiatives instead.

Moynihan and Clark suggested that the university can further reduce its impact by turning the Medford/Somerville campus into a zero-waste campus.

“Something Tufts could do in the very immediate future to reduce its impact is striving even further to be a zero waste campus,” they wrote. “[The university is] doing some great things, such as composting in the dining halls, but other places, such as Hodgdon [Food-on-the-Run], still produce a lot of waste.”

Rappaport pointed to next week’s information and feedback session on Tufts’ efforts to become carbon neutral as another step that the university is taking to advance the sustainability dialogue. “[The event’s purpose] is to listen to people in the Tufts community articulate their values,” Rappaport said. “Once we have a sense of community values, not just students but staff and faculty as well, the contractor helping us with the [carbon neutrality plan] planning, Ramboll [Group], will then [present us] with some pathways.”

The university’s effort to add solar panels across campus is another significant sustainable action being taken, according to Rappaport. She noted that solar panels were just added to Lewis Hall this week, and said that the Science and Engineering Complex will be the next to receive panels.

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continued from page 1 even most importantly it’s reducing the risk of volatility in our energy. It’s one of these perfect things where the more renewables we use, we know exactly how much it’s going to cost us per kilowatt, we can calculate that out, and so for budgeting it’s fantastic,” Rappaport said.

Blank added that the right steps are being taken to make campus operations more sustainable. She also said that the university hasn’t ranked high in sustainability in recent years compared to other colleges and universities, noting that Harvard University committed within the last year to be fossil fuel-neutral by 2026 and fossil fuel-free by 2050.

“I definitely look to certain schools, like what Boston University just did, and I think it’s a great example of something we’re working towards,” Blank said. “[Boston University] created a Climate

Action Plan a year ago, and now [it is] purchasing renewables from South Dakota and enough to meet 100 percent of [its] electricity.”

She then explained some of the challenges that the Office of Sustainability faces in implementing everything the office wants to accomplish.

“We have two staff people working on sustainability, and we have another staff member working as a waste and recycling fellow, so we have limited capacities to work on everything,” Blank said.

Patrick Collins, Tufts’ executive director of public relations, told the Daily in an email that the university has been taking various steps to reduce its impact on the environment, citing construction of the Central Energy Plant and installation of solar panels on the Medford/ Somerville and Grafton campuses. Collins also explained that the Board of Trustees has determined that fossil fuel divestment would be ineffective and costly to the university.

“The Board of Trustees has carefully considered fossil fuel divestment and has determined that it would not be impactful and would carry significant financial cost to the university,” Collins said. “In 2017, the board reiterated its support for its current investment policy, which is based on the recommendation of the group of trustees, faculty and students that examined [fossil fuel divestment] in depth in 2014.”

Moynihan and Clark hope this report will urge people to take action rather than hold on to the mentality of climate change being a lost cause.

“We hope that what this report does is ignite the same sense of urgency that we, and many other members of the Tufts community, have been feeling for a long while,” they wrote. “We think we can capitalize on this report coming out to get more students to care about the issue and get them involved.”

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Students, faculty discuss upcoming presidential runoff election in Brazil

by Henry Allison

Contributing Writer

Brazilians will vote in a runoff election on Sunday to decide the 38th president in the country’s complex democratic history.

The clear front-runner, who won in the first round of voting by 17 points, is Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain and current member of the Chamber of Deputies who has been nicknamed the “Brazilian Trump.” Bolsonaro had, on separate instances, made misogynistic remarks against fellow lawmakers, incited violence against minorities and political opponents and expressed nostalgia for the use of torture in Brazil’s dictatorial past. He was also stabbed while campaigning early last month. On the eve of the runoff election, the Daily interviewed students from Brazil, faculty experts and political observers about Bolsonaro’s path to political success, the rise of populism and the effects of his potential presidency.

As inevitable as his presidency appears now, it was not too long ago that Bolsonaro was viewed in a different light.

“He was a total joke,” sophomore Gabriela Delela, president of the Tufts Brazilian Student Association, said. “No one thought he could take power.”

This sentiment was echoed by Vinicius Freitas, a first-year who lives in Recife, a city in the northeast of Brazil.

“There are many senators in the lower chamber of congress who do not fit a typical political profile,” Freitas said. “There is a clown that was elected; there are people from reality TV shows. I perceived [Bolsonaro] as a person like that — [one] who had extremist views but would never actually be in a position where he could be president.”

Ted Piccone, senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy and Latin America Initiative in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, agreed that Bolsonaro’s success was unpredicted.

“But at the same time the conditions were ripe either for a candidate from the left or the right,” he said. “You see in many surveys very high levels of reported dissatisfaction, frustration, anger toward the political system that it is not working, and you see very low levels of trust in political parties, political leaders even spilling over into the media.”

Brazil is currently weathering the aftereffects of a massive corruption scandal implicating the highest levels of the federal government. A 2015 investigation, codenamed “Car Wash,” uncovered a multi-billion-dollar money laundering scheme that led to the indictment of two former presidents from the ruling Workers’ Party: Lula and Dilma Rousseff. Bolsonaro has taken advantage of the fallout from this scandal by portraying himself as a political outsider who could clean up the government.

“Everyone was like, ‘OK, [the ruling party is] corrupt, we need to get them out of power,’” Delela said. “They think the only way to get them out of power is electing Bolsonaro.”

While shocking in many respects, Bolsonaro’s story is also a familiar one, echoing those of other right-wing politicians whose recent successes rested on populism.

When asked for a definition of populism, Ioannis Evrigenis, a professor of political science at Tufts, pointed to work by Princeton scholar Jan-Werner Müller.

“In a democracy, there are various people who claim to represent the truth, but if it’s reasonably well run, there’s a space in which there can be debate over different positions,”

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Brazilian presidential candidate and member of the Chamber of Deputies Jair Bolsonaro speaks at an event on May 5, 2010.

Evrigenis said. “What differentiates populists is that they make an ‘us and nobody else’ claim. The positions they represent are the genuine positions of the people … no one else has any claim to the truth.”

Evrigenis added that a populist’s claim to represent the true positions and interests of their citizens contains a darker assumption — that there are people in the country who are not “true citizens.” “[Populists] make a claim even among citizens that there are people who understand and represent the genuine American, or the genuine Greek, or the genuine Brazilian,” Evrigenis said. “There are citizens who can produce their documents but who are not genuine Americans because they have ideas that don’t conform to their own. That’s why you see hints of nationalism and other isms. It implies that there is a truth to Americanism that is not pluralistic, that is possibly ethnic, possibly religious.”

Freitas said that Bolsonaro had made clear, through his various derogatory remarks, that he does not see “LGBT [individuals], women, black people [and] indigenous Brazilians” as true citizens of Brazil.

Anjuli Fahlberg, a Tufts sociology lecturer who researches violence and politics in Rio de Janeiro’s Cidade de Deus (“City of God”) neighborhood, also gave her interpretation of who Bolsonaro does not consider to be true Brazilians.

“Those would be anyone considered to be dangerous … either physically dangerous — so black men, people in favelas — or socially dangerous, which is where we get into homophobia or violence against transgender people, or socially in the sense of challenging traditional family institutions, so feminists and people who are trying to fight against tradition norms,” Fahlberg said.

While Bolsonaro embodies this populist message, he is far from unique in employing it. Evrigenis noted the parallel with President Trump’s rhetoric as a political outsider.

“In the case of Trump … he pitched himself as an outsider. And if you do that and it’s credible, then you can pick some examples of people [from the establishment] coming

at you, you can use them to reinforce the fact that you are an outsider,” Evrigenis said.

Freitas said that Bolsonaro has, like Trump, received an disproportionate share of media coverage, much of it negative, but still seemed to gain support.

“He has been becoming well-known because of articles that are published about him,” Freitas said. “They are usually against him, but promoting hate or good things, I think it’s the same thing, because it’s promoting the candidate.”

Sophomore Carlos Irisarri, who lived in France until he was 11 and closely follows French politics, also sees a similar message in Europe, although he cautioned against identifying it only with right-wing candidates.

“Marine Le Pen, a far-right candidate who made headlines for her anti-immigrant views, will tell you that people who are not Christian and white do not belong in France,” he said. “But [Jean-Luc] Mélenchon, a farleft French presidential candidate from [a] socialist party, has a big problem with eastern Europeans studying specialized fields in eastern Europe … and then migrating to France to take jobs and not contribute to the economy.”

Piccone said that the specific criteria employed by populists to determine people excluded from true citizenship depends from country to country.

“Populists can take advantage of cleavages in some places and not others,” Piccone said. “[In Latin America,] you don’t have the same dynamic around foreign terrorism or even migrants that you do in Europe or the United States. I see it as more of a traditionally class oriented division, with elites exploiting popular anger towards elites but benefiting from it at the same time.”

Piccone added that Bolsonaro generally fits the image of a typical Latin American populist but differs from left-wing populists in his law-and-order platform.

There is disagreement over what the effects would be if Bolsonaro were to be elected president on Sunday. Freitas and Delela both cited the extremely fragmented democratic system of Brazil as evidence that many of his proposed reforms would

likely not pass. On the other hand, Piccone expressed concern, pointing out that parties with complementary agendas also were successful in the general election and might provide more votes for Bolsonaro’s agenda in the legislature.

Regardless, both Piccone and Fahlberg believe that Bolsonaro’s disregard for democratic norms could have a lasting effect. Piccone cited recent accusations that Bolsonaro’s backers took part in a multimillion dollar fake news campaign through messaging platform WhatsApp. Delela said those types of false messages have been effective.

“Brazilians love memes,” she said. “People don’t want to read the news. They have all the [renowned] sources, but they would rather just read WhatsApp.” Piccone also believes Bolsonaro’s election could further legitimize racism in Brazil.

“These sentiments are always there, sometimes hidden, shunned, but when your top leader is using them every day, it gives an OK,” he said.

Fahlberg agreed.

“It’s not even a slippery slope,” Fahlberg said. “It’s a slide that Brazil is already sliding down. I worry a lot about women, I worry about people of color, I worry about women of color, who are the majority of the people I work with in the City of God.” Fahlberg nonetheless expressed optimism at the power of civil society and public action in resisting this harmful wave of populism in Brazil.

“They are still mobilizing, requesting more schools, hospitals, systems of support and care, educating about racism and structural violence [and] consciousness of inequality. They can make art, make poems, paint, sculpt, rap. It is not just about expression, it’s about creating communities with shared values, solidarity, and relationships to social movements,” she said.

Still, this year’s Brazilian election has been shocking and difficult for many, including Delela, who summed up her reaction to Bolsonaro’s candidacy as: “You know when you are joking, and you keep joking for a long time, and then it becomes the truth?”

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TV REVIEW

Despite initial appeal, ‘The Romanoffs’ fails to connect with viewers

by Daniel Klain

Contributing Writer

The Romanovs are a mystery. After the Russian Revolution, the immediate members of the royal Romanov family were executed, while the rest of the extended family went into exile. Since then, many have claimed to be part of this royal lineage, with some even claiming to be direct heirs to the royal throne. The obscurity surrounding the family and their supposed descendants has lent the story an allure of mystique. However, for the new Amazon anthology series “The Romanoffs,” such confusion and mystery only serve to prevent it from reaching its full potential.

Series creator Matthew Weiner, also the creator of “Mad Men” (2007–2015), does not explore the story of the refugee family members and their attempt to find a new home, or even the tale of one particular “descendant” family of Romanovs. Instead, the anthology series releases a new episode every week that follows the lives of eight different descendants across the globe. The anthology format is exciting; it is always interesting to see what a television showrunner can do when he takes on a new challenge, especially given Weiner’s past excellence in storytelling in other ventures like “The Sopranos” (1999–2007) and “Orange is the New Black (2013–), among others. The lives of the characters he chooses to depict are all captivating. Though the arcs of the first two episodes are not exactly radical or original — two men struggling with their monogamy and a rich woman who ascends her preconceived notions to become more accepting — the added element of the characters’ bizarre notions regarding their lineage separates them from their archetypes.

In each of the first two episodes, the weight of the characters’ family name proves to have a long-term effect on their identities, due to either excessive privilege or extreme stress. The Romanov pretenders in

these episodes, played by Aaron Eckhart and Corey Stoll, do not share the lavishness of their forebears (although they do both live comfortably). They do share a belief in their sacred ancestry, which offers a rich history and even some automatic benefits in certain situations. Rather than create a show about privilege itself, Weiner attempts to tackle the inheritance of privilege in our time — something that feels much more apt to the current political and socioeconomic climate.

However, while this approach makes the series relevant, it is also one of the show’s inherent flaws. “The Romanoffs” is content to imagine and depict the lives of these people who believe they are descendants of royalty (and does so superbly), but never explores the “why” behind the delusion. Yes, visual mediums are allowed to have subtext and require analysis, but they must also be compelling enough for viewers to pay continuous attention. The noticeable lack of cultural or historical Easter eggs also makes it difficult for the audience to become invested.

In many ways, the stylistic aspects that made “Mad Men” so unique are also apparent in “The Romanoffs.” Both their soundtracks very adeptly mirror the emotions present in various scenes, with the lyrics directly evoking these emotions in the viewer. Many shots are beautiful yet stiff, coming off as historical portraits rather than frames in a television series. In terms of the plot, Weiner once again fails to write believable female characters.

The women in “Mad Men” were often objectified and viewed as mere sex objects. There are several women in “The Romanoffs,” including Sophie (Louise Bourgoin) and Michelle (Janet Montgomery), who promise very little character development.

With an average episode runtime of around 90 minutes, and characters who are not entirely explored, this show is not worth your time and effort. If you are looking for a recent series that also examines wealth and privilege, HBO’s “Succession” is much more deserving of a watch.

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‘American Horror Story: Apocalypse’ hurtles toward its own judgment day

by Christopher Panella Assistant Arts Editor

“American Horror Story” (2011–) has always had a taste for glamour, gore and grand performances. Since its first season, retroactively titled “Murder House,” creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have developed a world where a common cast of actors play a variety of characters. Each season tells its own story in its own setting, an anthology style that inarguably has kept “American Horror Story” from bleeding out all these years.

Murphy confirmed this style would not last long when he told fans that all the seasons were connected in 2014.

Murphy later announced that two of the show’s most popular seasons, “Murder House” and “Coven,” would have a crossover season. That crossover came earlier this fall with season 8, “Apocalypse.”

“Apocalypse” follows a nuclear war in early 2020 in Los Angeles. It seems the entire world is plunged into a nuclear winter, and the season spends its first three episodes in the mysterious underground bunker, Outpost 3.

With oddly gothic Victorian costumes and what quite literally seems to be 10,000 candles, the season creates a claustrophobic atmosphere where no one can be trusted.

Outpost 3 becomes home to variety of characters, like the dark lipstick-wearing Wilhelmina Venable (Sarah Paulson), billionaire Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt (Leslie Grossman) and her assistant, Mallory (Billie Lourd). It is a strange beginning for the season, dragging viewers along without much explanation as to how the apocalypse happened and what is to come. It is not until the arrival of Michael Langdon (Cody Fern) that the season begins to show its true horror.

Fern’s Michael Langdon is a grownup version of the antichrist birthed in “Murder House” by Vivien Harmon (Connie Britton). With long and flowing hair and eyeshadow, Langdon is terrifying, intriguing and, according to many fans, the hottest part of “Apocalypse.”

“Apocalypse” also brings back “Coven” Supreme witch Cordelia Foxx (Sarah Paulson) and fan favorites Myrtle Snow (Frances Conroy) and Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts). The season then dives into a flashback as to how the end of the world came to be, and this is currently where the show sits. With only three episodes to go, “Apocalypse” may be rushing towards its end, leaving fans with more questions than answers.

In the three-year flashback, fans learn that Mallory and Coco were witches in Miss Robichaux’s Academy, the New Orleans-based coven run by Cordelia. Mallory is the most powerful of the students at the academy, showing abilities that could be new Supreme-worthy. Coco’s power is gluten-detecting.

Meanwhile, Michael Langdon is at the Hawthorne School for Exceptional Young Men, a warlock school. The warlocks believe Langdon is the first male Supreme and want him to take the test of the Seven Wonders, which Cordelia is not here for. Langdon, in an effort to prove his power, does things Cordelia could not: He frees Queenie, a witch

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Eventually, Langdon takes the Seven Wonders test and becomes the Supreme, but Cordelia, smart as ever, reveals that she secretly planned for Michael to resurrect her dead sisters to build an army against Langdon. Hoping to learn more about Michael’s past, Cordelia has Madison travel back to where it all began, the Murder House.

“Return to Murder House,” the sixth episode of the season, is the highlight of “Apocalypse” and perhaps a highlight of the series itself. It wraps up many storylines from the first season while also allowing fans the chance to see some beloved characters, like Jessica Lange’s venerable Constance. It was Lange’s return to the series for the first time since “Freak Show,” the fourth season, and her performance gave

everything the fans needed, especially fantastic quotes. Constance’s telling Madison she doesn’t “spill a drop of tea for free” was simply iconic.

But even Lange may not be able save “Apocalypse” from impending doom.

At this point, the season has three episodes left — frankly, it seems impossible that the season will end satisfyingly. Wednesday’s episode, “Traitor,” was barely slow-burning enough to be interesting, and it seems that next week’s episode is also still in the flashback timeline. The many different timelines and characters that “Apocalypse” is trying to tie together can be confusing for the outside viewer, but it seems to be a season made strictly for the fans.

There are many theories as to how the season will end. The sloppiest theory, and one Murphy could most definitely choose, is that the witches will reverse Michael Langdon’s birth, effectively cancelling the events of the entire

first season. There are also ideas that the season will simply end with the rebirth of earth, with some fans thinking Mallory is Jesus Christ’s second coming who is here to stop Michael.

Either way, “Apocalypse” has to have a somewhat happy ending — season 5, “Hotel,” has a plot that goes to 2022, about two years after the end of the world, and with “American Horror Story” renewed for seasons 9 and 10, it seems unlikely Murphy would want “Apocalypse” to rule out any new plots in the present or future. With its final episode, “Apocalypse Then,” airing Nov. 14, the season has little time to wrap up its story. Sure, the season seems to be relying on “Coven”-esque glamour and iconic quotes, but that is not enough to satisfy the expectations fans have for this season. Here’s hoping that Murphy has something up his sleeve and does not let “Apocalypse” blow up.

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No. 2 men’s soccer finishes regular season undefeated

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Junior forward Joe Braun celebrates his goal in Tufts’ 4–0 NESCAC semifinal win against Hamilton on Nov. 4, 2017.

by Maddie Payne Sports Editor

The Jumbos wrapped up the regular season with a pair of wins that secured them the No. 1 seed in the NESCAC Tournament and a No. 2 national ranking, their highest this season. In doing so, the team finished without a single regular season loss, a first for the program since 1946, the earliest year for which its record is available. The Jumbos will host the eighth-seeded Colby Mules (7–6–2, 3–5–2 NESCAC) in the quarterfinal round of the NESCAC Tournament on Sunday.

Tufts overcame Bowdoin 4–3 in a thrilling affair on Tuesday afternoon, one of its toughest games of the season. The Polar Bears (9–4–2, 5–3–2 NESCAC) have historically been a major source of trouble for the Jumbos and were responsible for back-to-back losses in 2016. Tufts last beat Bowdoin with a 1–0 victory in 2013 and has either tied or lost every year since then.

The Jumbos got on the board first in the 15th minute when junior forward Joe Braun headed junior midfielder Jack Delaney’s free kick past the goalkeeper for his eighth goal of the season. In doing so, the Yardley, Pa. native took the NESCAC lead in goals (eight) and extended his lead in points scored (20).

The Jumbos sat on their 1–0 lead for most of the first half, until Bowdoin senior midfielder Moctar Niang, the second-leading scorer in the conference, was left open in the box, where he collected a rebound and slotted a shot into the goal. “[Bowdoin’s] first goal was on us. We didn’t do a great job defending a set piece, which is one of our goals this year,” Tufts assistant coach Matt Zinner said. “I felt the way that we responded was great. In 2015, we conceded three goals [against Kenyon], lost, and it ended our season. Whereas this time, we came back and scored four goals against a team that we haven’t beaten in five years.”

The Jumbos exerted an immense amount of pressure on the Polar Bears’ defense in the second half, getting off six shots before finally scoring on their seventh. A three-on-one situation arose after two Bowdoin defenders collided with each other, leaving junior midfielder Brett Rojas with the ball and junior forward Gavin Tasker open on the left wing.

Tasker received the ball from Rojas, cut inside and found the net just before the hour mark.

Just 22 seconds later, Bowdoin evened the score at 2–2 when sophomore midfielder Drake Byrd’s intended cross instead floated into the upper right corner of the net as senior goalkeeper and co-captain Conner Mieth could only watch.

The teams grappled for the lead through 20 scrappy minutes, with the Polar Bears coming out on top after senior defender Matty McColl’s corner was batted back out to the wing, allowing him to cross a ball that flew unobstructed into the net.

“Defending on corners, and set pieces in general — we knew that it was really how [Bowdoin] was going to score,” senior defender and co-captain Sterling Weatherbie said. “For their first goal, we just left their best player wide open … On the third one, we could have protected Mieth better.”

With their undefeated record on the line, the Jumbos needed to equalize with only eight minutes remaining in regular time. Junior midfielder Zach Lane controlled the ball in the top right corner of the box before sending a cross to Rojas, who was poorly marked mere feet in front of the goal and headed. With just 1:53 left in regulation, Rojas turned the cross into the far corner to push the game into overtime.

Five minutes into overtime, a hand ball by a Bowdoin defender on the goal line seemed like a clear penalty for Tufts, especially when one was initially declared. After consultation with the other officials, however, the referee took back the penalty to the Jumbos’ disappointment. Less than a minute later, though, Weatherbie notched his fourth goal of the season, putting a foot to sophomore midfielder Travis Van

Brewer’s corner to give the Jumbos a thrilling sudden-death victory.

“I’ve mostly scored off of corners, which I think is because we’ve had so many big targets this year that most of the other team’s bigger defensemen mark up on Jackson [Najjar], Calvin [Aroh], Joe [Braun] and Biagio [Paoletta],” Weatherbie said. “I’ve been the odd man out basically, so it’s allowed me, Ian [Daly] and Will [Raphael], who are being marked by their smaller guys, to just go in and get some scrappy goals. Our team has just put us in good situations by just taking guys away and allowing us to have more space to be able to score.”

Despite the chaotic nature of the game, coach Josh Shapiro was not concerned with the team’s performance.

“We didn’t handle plays that we normally handle, but I don’t even think there were major tactical breakdowns; it was more of an anomaly,” Shapiro said. “I don’t think we played particularly well defensively, but I’m not worried. We will not play that way again.”

On Saturday, the Jumbos hosted the Williams Ephs on Senior Day. The team honored its four seniors — Meith, Weatherbie, Najjar and midfielder/forward Jarod Glover — in the best possible way with a 3–1 win in its final regular season home game. Two goals from Braun and a third from sophomore midfielder Mati Cano gave the Jumbos a comfortable lead after 75 minutes. Braun effortlessly headed in Rojas’ corner to get the Jumbos on the board at the 10:20 mark. After the half, the Jumbos pushed a counterattack opportunity, with Tasker sprinting up the right wing, and caught the Ephs caught completely off guard.

The Concord, Mass. native slotted the ball to Braun, who took a single touch and fired a left-footed shot into the net.

“Joe has matured a lot as a player, and he is learning how he can be most successful,” Shapiro said. “When he arrived he was gangly and, frankly, awkward at times, but he’s come into himself physically and has more control of his body as an athlete.

One of the things that you have to be able to do as a striker is be able to get your feet

coordinated underneath you in order to get shots off in tight spaces, and he’s become so much better at that.”

Tufts’ third goal combined elements from its first two, with a head-turning cross to junior midfielder/defender Zach Trevorrow on the right wing.

Trevorrow’s own cross found Cano in the box for a header. Senior goalkeeper Aaron Schein got a hand to the ball and a Williams defender seemed to cleared it off the line, but the ball had actually crossed the line and Tufts was awarded its third goal. The Ephs got one back in the 78th minute off of a corner, but the Jumbos were well ahead, and the game ended 3–1.

While their regular season is complete, the Jumbos will likely have several more busy weekends this year. Should Tufts overcome Colby on Sunday, it will advance to the conference semifinals and, potentially, the title game, on Nov. 3 and 4 respectively. The NCAA Tournament draw is set for Nov. 5, with the NESCAC champion receiving an automatic bid. In the case that the Jumbos don’t win the conference tournament, though, they are still extremely likely to receive a bid due to their impressive national rank.

Last year, the Jumbos captured the NESCAC title for the first time in program history after having bowed out in the quarterfinal round in four straight years. Tufts last played Colby in its conference-opener on Sept. 8, and the game went to overtime before sophomore forward Max Jacobs sealed a 1–0 victory for Tufts. The Jumbos held a large advantage in shots taken (21– 10) and earned a whopping 13 corners.

One of the Mules’ biggest assets is their size, and their four players who are at least 6’4″ will likely mark the dangerous Braun during set pieces and corners. Despite many competitive matches between the two sides, the Jumbos have not lost to the Mules since 2010 — a streak they hope to keep alive on Sunday.

Tufts’ bid to defend its conference title kicks off at 2:30 p.m. at Bello Field.

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Football visits Amherst in matchup with championship implications

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Sophomore kicker Matt Alswanger attempts an extra point in Tufts’ 28–21 win over Williams on Oct. 20.

by Bradley Schussel Sports Editor

Tufts faces perhaps its most important game of the season tomorrow. The Jumbos, now 5–1 after last week’s win over the Williams Ephs, will visit the Amherst Mammoths (6–0) and try to spoil their undefeated season. Amherst sits atop the NESCAC standings with Tufts and Trinity one game back, so tomorrow’s tilt could very well decide the conference champion. It will be a Mammoth task for the Jumbos to emerge with a victory.

After suffering its first loss of the season on Oct. 13, Tufts bounced back to beat Williams 28–21 on Saturday. The game was a tale of two halves — one offensive and one defensive. Both teams put up 21 points in the first half, with strong play from Tufts senior quarterback and co-captain Ryan McDonald and Williams sophomore quarterback Bobby Maimaron.

The second half turned into a defensive battle, with the Jumbos scoring the only single touchdown. However, the team’s defense shut out Williams, forcing three punts, two turnovers on downs and a fumble.

Senior linebacker and co-captain Greg Holt forced the fumble, along with his game-high 13 tackles. Junior defensive back Miles Shipp had 10 tackles of his own, leading the Jumbos’ secondary in that regard.

Tufts’ offensive standouts included junior tight end Jack Donohue, who caught four passes for 72 yards and a touchdown, and senior running back Dom Borelli, who recorded a passing touchdown on a trick play to go with a rushing touchdown.

McDonald highlighted the difference between the two halves, emphasizing that it took a full team effort to clinch the victory.

“The first half was a little bit rough for the defense, and the second half [was rough] for the offense,” McDonald said. “So, [the key to the win] was really just playing a complete game as a team, with each side of the ball looking after the other.”

Coach Jay Civetti discussed the dichotomy, as well, noting that there is ample room for the team to improve.

“There are plenty of things that we’ve got to get better at,” Civetti said. “You love the adjustments that we made defensively at halftime, and offensively, we had a great first half, but they were able to figure us out. We need to have better adjustments for the second half for the offense.”

For Amherst, it has been nothing but wins in its first six games — a streak it hopes to continue against Tufts. The Mammoths continued their dominant run in Saturday’s 33–3 win against the Wesleyan Cardinals.

Wesleyan entered the game with a 3–2 record and is generally regarded as one

of the NESCAC’s top teams. Hosting the Mammoths at Andrus Field in in Middletown, Conn. and coming off of a 44–13 drubbing of the Bates Bobcats, it seemed they were positioned to make the game competitive. Amherst dispelled that notion, however, blowing out Wesleyan in a 33–3 rout.

The Cardinals scored their only points of the game on a field goal at the end of the first quarter. Meanwhile, the Amherst defense was strong, as usual, holding the hosts to 4-of-13 on third down conversions, recording six sacks and two turnovers while also notching a safety.

The teams’ total yards of offense told the story of the game: Amherst amassed 421 yards while Wesleyan managed just 101. This discrepancy could largely be attributed to the running game on both sides, as the Mammoths went for 218 yards on the ground while holding Wesleyan to -3 yards.

Amherst’s strong rushing attack is led by junior tailback Biafra Okoronkwo. On his 18 carries against Wesleyan, the Towson, Md. native went for 119 yards and two touchdowns. After the impressive performance, Okoronkwo sits second in the NESCAC in rushing with 501 yards.

Recent history suggests that tomorrow’s game will not go the same way as Amherst’s matchup with Wesleyan. Last season, Amherst prevailed in a close game at Ellis Oval, leaving Medford with

a 31–26 victory. The Jumbos struggled early on, allowing the Mammoths to grab a two-score lead, and failed to contain the visitors’ passing game.

Then-sophomore quarterback Ollie Eberth and then-senior Reece Foy combined for 315 yards for Amherst.

The Mammoths’ aerial attack is something that Civetti and the Jumbos have focused on and will look to limit, given that Eberth put up 203 yards passing against the Cardinals.

Civetti discussed the game’s championship implications and how he approaches that aspect with his players.

“We talk about it,” Civetti said. “At this point in the season, when you’re in the position that we’re in, that conversation has to happen. Amherst has been in that position before. They’re a really good team — the statistics speak for themselves. This is as close to a NESCAC playoff game as you get.”

McDonald also recognizes the challenge ahead, noting the strength of the Jumbos’ opponent.

“You’ve got to give credit where credit is due,” McDonald said. “Amherst is a really great team. They’re really wellcoached, but we’re focusing on Tufts football and what we can do well to take advantage of what they don’t do well.”

Tufts will look to take down its undefeated adversary with kickoff scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at Amherst’s Pratt Field.