The Tufts Daily - September 18, 2017

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Search for new Latino Center director sparks controversy

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Tufts hired Julián Cancino in August 2017 as the new director of the Latino Center at Tufts University. The decision drew controversy, with outgoing Latino Center Director Rubén Stern criticizing the hiring process in a letter to the Daily.

The hiring concluded a nationwide search to replace Stern, according to Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon. Stern retired from the center in July after 24 years at Tufts.

According to an email sent by McMahon and Linda Daniels, the senior director of diversity, pluralism and inclusion, the search committee consisted of co-chair Robert Mack, the associate dean for student success and advising; senior Anna Rodriguez, a peer leader for the Latino Center; junior Hernán Gallegos; Women’s Center Director K Martinez; LGBT Center Director Hope Freeman and Recruiter for Human Resources Marika Francis.

In his letter, Stern was critical that the leaders of the Africana Center, International Center and Asian American Center were not included in the search committee, stating all center leaders are usually included in the search process.

Additionally, Stern called the process “ not transparent” and “a sham.” In his letter he asked the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs to restart the search process. Stern declined to comment beyond his initial letter to the editor.

McMahon noted all Group of Six center leaders were involved in the hiring process, though not all sat on the search committee.

“All G6 members present on campus during the finalist interview days had opportunity to meet the finalists and provide feedback as part of the campus visit days; two G6 directors were on the 7 person search com-

mittee itself,” she told the Daily in an email.

McMahon explained that the retirement of Stern in July prompted the search committee to conduct the hiring process over the summer to fill the role promptly. While there are fewer people on campus in the summer, McMahon said there was always an effort to include students, faculty and staff in the search process.

“Generally, we have two or three students on the search committee. We try to have a lot of student representation by having dedicated sessions with the students,” she said. “Student involvement is vital to us … we can’t have every student talk to the candidates, but I think we did a pretty good job.”

Women’s Center Director K. Martinez criticized the manner in which Stern expressed his dismay with the search process.

“Ruben is definitely entitled to his opinion.

However, the way he expressed his opinion … [in his letter] is really immature. I feel like if he had complaints or concerns, he could have addressed us directly.” they said. “He could perhaps asked [us] to be involved in the search process … [instead of] putting [the letter] out there without talking to us about it.”

In his letter, Stern also faulted the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs for appointing a director who does not have a master’s degree, one of the basic qualifications listed on the application website. Stern argued if the job description was posted as only requiring a bachelor’s degree, more people could apply and committee members could choose from a wider audience pool.

Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences James Glaser and Dean of the School of Engineering Jianmin Qu wrote a response letter, defending Cancino’s qualifications.

“The position parameters initially required a master’s degree for consideration.

The search committee ultimately decided a master’s was preferred but not required,” they

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The Latino Center is co-hosted with the LGBT Center in the house located at 226 College Ave. The selection process for newly-hired Latino Center Director Julián Cancino has been controversial. said. “This is consistent with Tufts University hiring policies which allow for experience to be considered in lieu of advanced degrees unless the degree is required by licensure or accreditation standards. The committee then considered several candidates who held bachelor’s degrees and significant experience relevant to this unique role.”

Acknowledging Stern’s criticism, Martinez said that requiring a master’s degree is exclusive, and hopes it will no longer be listed as a requirement going forward.

“I also think as so far as an institution … we need to ask ourselves is a master’s degree required for director level positions,” they said.

“Who will be excluded if we keep a masters’ degree required as a qualification? Queer, trans, and specifically, trans people of color … have so many barriers to higher education.”

When asked about the controversy in the

hiring process, Latino Center Director Julián Cancino declined to comment on the hiring process, reasoning that he was not a part of the search committee.

“I would like to highlight that during my hiring process, I got to meet current students, staff, and faculty. As a continuation of the university’s commitment to equality, I would like to get to know our students … Their needs and desires are a priority.” Cancino said.

Martinez said they hope students will give Cancino a chance, despite the speculation that Stern’s letter may have caused.

“I hope that [the students] on campus keep an open mind and give Julian a chance [to see] why he is qualified in this position,” they said. “People may cast some speculation about him, and it doesn’t really send a good message to him … about how welcoming the Tufts campus can be.”

TCU APPOINTS NEW TRUSTEE REPRESENTATIVES, PASSES 12 BYLAW CHANGES The Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate elected three new trustee representatives in its meeting last night: sophomores Angela Sun and Kristen Moran and senior Nathan Foster.

The three representatives will serve on the academic affairs, administration and finance, and university advancement committees of the Board of Trustees, according to Senate Historian Jacqueline Chen.

Trustee representatives serve as liaisons between the Senate and the Board of Trustees. While trustee representatives sit in on Senate meetings, they are non-voting members. Six candidates applied for the three avail-

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able spots, according to Vice President Anna Del Castillo.

Sun said she is excited to serve as a trustee representative and hopes to use her role to give a voice to marginalized groups.

“My goals are to become more involved within the student body and underrepresented groups on campus to be more aware of the different circumstances of different students,” Sun said. “I felt like I am a part of many groups that I’d like to give a voice to at [the meeting of the Board of Trustees.]”

Del Castillo, a senior who oversaw the selection process, said she is confident in the results of the selection process.

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“I have so much faith in [the new appointees] based on the things they presented tonight and the information they brought in,” Del Castillo said “I think they will do amazing jobs and really represent the student body well and the many perspectives that exist on this campus.”

Following the vote for trustee representatives, TCU President Benya Kraus announced the Social Spaces Optimization plan, which will make eight additional buildings available for social meeting reservations by a flexible deadline of Oct. 1.

These buildings with expanded availability are Hill Hall, Carmichael

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Hall, Hodgdon Hall, Lewis Hall, Curtis Hall, Harleston Hall, Baronian Field House and the Tufts Administrative Building. Spaces in Carmichael Hall and Hodgdon Hall are expected to be open for reservations in two weeks.

The Senate also passed 12 bylaw changes, and tabled one. Major bylaw changes include requiring a vote by absolute majority for resolutions, requiring at least one week’s advance notice for resolutions and requiring the Senate to notify the Tufts community for all proposed bylaw changes that are not stylistic in nature.

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EVENTS ON THE HILL: WEEK OF 9/18 MONDAY “CIERP Research Seminar: Vehicle Electrification in China: Preferences, Policy and Technology Trajectories.”

Details: John Paul Helveston, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Boston University, will be speaking on what influences the transition to environmentally sustainable technologies.

Where and When: Cabot 205, The Fletcher School for Law & Diplomacy; 12:30–2 p.m.

Sponsor: Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School TUESDAY “Allen Discovery Center Opening” Details: Distinguished biological speakers will present during morning and afternoon sessions, followed by a panel with researchers at the new Allen Discovery Lab in the Science & Engineering Complex. A reception will

follow and lunch is provided. Registration is required.

Where and When: Morning and afternoon sessions at Distler Performance Hall, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Panel and Reception at Science & Engineering Complex 4–6:30 p.m.

Sponsor: Allen Discovery Center at Tufts “Fascism in the White House” Details: Jeffery C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, is discussing the ideology of Steve Bannon and his “rage against the enlightenment.”

Where and When: Alumnae Lounge; 4:30–7 p.m.

Sponsor: Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Tisch College of Civic Life and Center for the Humanities at Tufts THURSDAY “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America”

Details: Yale Law Professor James Foreman Jr. will discuss his new book of the same name.

When and Where: Alumnae Lounge; 5–6 p.m.

Sponsor: Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College, School of Public Health, Visual and Critical Studies, Sociology, Community Health, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Consortium of Studies on Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Peace and Justice Studies and Educational Studies “¡Viva Chile!”

Details: Tufts Spanish Language House is hosting its first “Noche Hispana,” a celebration of Chilean food and culture.

Where and When: Chandler House, 125 Powder House Blvd.; 8–10 p.m.

Sponsor: Spanish at Tufts, Tufts Spanish Language House

Tufts continues mentoring program for non-preorientation participants and first-gen students

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This past summer, 248 first-year and new students signed up to participate in Tufts’ Mentor Collective, according to Associate Dean for Student Success and Advising Robert Mack.

The Mentor Collective is a program run by the university that connects students who, for the most part, do not participate in a pre-orientation program and/or who identify as first-generation college students (first-gen) with staff members in the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife), Mack said.

Although the program started two years ago, this summer marked the first year students were paired up based on where they were assigned to live on campus, according to both Mack and YooJin Yoon, a first year assistant (FYA) in Harleston Hall this academic year who served as a mentor last year. When the Mentor Collective began, first-year and new students were assigned a mentor based on what they were interested in, Yoon, a junior, said.

According to Mack, the Mentor Collective allows first year assistants and new students to discuss expectations about the upcoming academic year prior to classes starting.

He explained that students who did not plan on attending a pre-orientation program and/or who identified as first-gen were all invited to sign up for the Mentor Collective this past summer. However, if a student wanted to be assigned a mentor and participate in a pre-orientation program, efforts were made to accomadate this request.

This past summer, 902 incoming first-year and new students participated in pre-orientation, of which 88 identified as first-gen, while 254 signed up to participate in the Mentor Collective, according to Mack.

The Office for Student Success and Advising (OSSA) created the program last summer under Mack’s leadership, after receiving feedback from students who had not participated in a pre-orientation and expressed feelings of isolation once they arrived on campus, Mack said.

“I think that the inspiration behind this program was thinking about the opportunity to make sure every student felt that they were connected to some other student at the university so when they arrived on campus for orientation, they would have a contact or a touch point for their transition,” he said. “Certainly, we’ve heard from students throughout their time who felt that they had started orientation and didn’t feel as connected as some of their peers who

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A poster of profiles of FYAs and CDAs on the wall inside Harleston Hall is pictured here, Sept. 12, 2017. Tufts has changed its peer mentoring collective program since this summer. they saw engaging with other friends.”

Yoon explained that, in preparation for mentoring first-year and new students, FYAs underwent an hour-long training led by a representative from OSSA in addition to the general ResLife training. While mentors did not receive specific training related to supporting first-gen students, they did receive a general awareness training. “[The training] talks about diversity, culture, socioeconomic background.

[Awareness] was a reoccurring topic throughout the FYA and [community development assistant] training so it wasn’t just like one moment or one hour they tell you, ‘Hey just be aware,'” Yoon said. “It was more like continuously telling us to be aware of these things as we go through our duties or as we interact with our residents.”

Associate Director for Residential Education Sarah D’Annolfo reiterated the importance of continuously having conversations related to diversity and inclusivity with student leaders throughout the year.

“Through training offered at the start of the school year and, throughout the year in bi-monthly department meetings, individual, hall and zone meetings, FYAs share and learn about how to best support individuals and support inclusive communities in the halls,” D’Annolfo told the Daily in an email.

In addition to attending a mandatory training, mentors were expected to reach out to their mentees via text message or email and arrange at least two Skype calls, one in July and one in August, according to Yoon. “[Last year,] I got matched with three mentees over the course of the summer. I reached out to them to tell them about who I was, what my interests are and what I was studying, and then

they would respond and say what they were interested in,” Yoon said.

To better prepare mentors to speak with students about resources available to them on campus, the university has used software from Shearwater, a company focused on student development programs, since the collective’s inception, according to Mack and Yoon.

“Shearwater … supported us with data, which [includes] outreach, contact hours and people who aren’t responding … If an FYA wants to talk with a student about a particular topic, they have a curriculum … related to the topic of interest,” Mack said.

Yoon explained she has found the curricula provided by Shearwater to be useful in discussing financial resources and stress-management on campus. However, she also felt that improvements could be made to the software.

“I like how there’s a specific website for you to log on to and see who your mentees are and what you guys should talk about [through] the modules,” Yoon said. “Other than that, I felt uncomfortable reporting every interaction I had with my mentees.

It asked me questions like how long did you guys talk for, what did you guys talk about, are they having a hard time, are they having a good time at Tufts.”

Yoon sees the collective as absolutely necessary going forward.

“Coming in as a freshman and not knowing anything or being concerned, especially for first-gen or low-income students, I think it’s a good thing to match with someone with similar backgrounds so that you feel comfortable and so that you feel that you’re in a safe space to be able to ask questions you wouldn’t be able to ask elsewhere,” Yoon said.

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Tufts Labor Lab works to improve countries’ working conditions, serves as place for female empowerment

by Michelle Kwon Staff Writer

Disclaimer: Ana Antolin was previously a columnist at the Daily. She was not involved in the writing of this article.

While the Tufts Labor Lab conducts research on working conditions in developing countries around the world, the lab’s physical space is confined to one office in Braker Hall. The lab’s founder and one of the current principal investigators Professor Drusilla Brown states that the lab does not have a standard lab environment like other departments at Tufts do. What also sets it apart from other lab environments is its research team of faculty and students — most of whom are women of color.

As the director of the International Relations (IR) Program, as well as an associate professor of economics, Brown had spoken to the IR core faculty when first conducting her research. Eventually, the team’s numbers grew into what is now the Labor Lab’s staff. According to Brown, 70 percent of the people the lab looks at are women, the vast majority being women of color.

“We are looking for people who are genuinely interested in the kind of work that the lab does and you will notice that it’s often women of color,” she said. “It’s more likely that students of color and particularly women of color are [going to be] interested in the questions we’re looking at.”

According to its website, the lab utilizes a combination of social psychology, management science and economics to promote progress in the working conditions and worker well-being in factories, particularly those located in developing countries.

“We mostly use randomized control trials in experimenting with different kinds of innovations and interventions to see if we can improve conditions of work,” Brown said.

Dirayati Djaya (LA ’16), the lab’s program manager, added that the research has both humane interests and economic interests in mind.

“We’re trying to make the case that not only is human rights in the workplace

important in a human rights perspective, but also that there is an economic case behind it,” Djaya said. “So, I think our most important work is when we convey, using our data, to our clients that there is a business case involved and that it is more profitable to treat your workers right.”

According to Brown, a trade economist by profession, the lab first started by conducting compliance experiments in which firms were inspected by auditors. Such projects are still running throughout hundreds of factories in eight different countries. Brown stated that they look at whether factories become more compliant over time as well as how workers process the improvements of working conditions.

The lab also focuses on other common labor management malpractices including verbal abuse, sexual harassment, human trafficking, forced labor, excess hours, pay deception, and occupational safety and health, according to its website. Such research has been conducted or is currently being conducted in countries including Bangladesh, Cambodia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Lesotho, Nepal, Nicaragua, Myanmar, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.

According to Brown, the Labor Lab’s staff is largely composed of undergraduate students from Tufts who learn a variety of skills such as organizing data files to elementary levels of data analysis and depiction of findings. Data is collected in approximately 17 different languages, requiring students to learn how to process and use computer software programs to process audio files. Brown believes that granting such responsibility to undergraduate students is what makes the Labor Lab so distinctive.

“I don’t know of another lab that uses undergraduates at as many levels of the analysis as this group does,” she said.

“One hundred to 150 years ago, we were living during the time of the gentleman scientist. In the 1960s, it felt like science was on a track where it was just going to become more and more specialized, complex and inaccessible … But now it’s the gentlewoman scientist in this lab. Students realize that they have the creativity and the skills and the tools to make real, meaningful, pathbreaking contributions to this kind of work.”

Ana Antolin, a senior and senior researcher at the Labor Lab, also spoke to the gender divide in research and how the Labor Lab defies the norm. “[The lab’s environment] is really great because it’s women in a quantitative setting,” she said. “We often talk about how women are huge in liberal arts degrees but not very much in STEM in a lot of ways.

So, to have a ton of women who are in this really cool field but also working with quantitative skills is really a unique place.”

Djaya also commented on the empowerment she feels from working in the lab.

“A huge thing is the fact that I have female bosses,” she said. “We’re seeing sexual harassment in factories, but sexual harassment is prevalent everywhere. The glass ceiling is so real but I don’t have the same kind of issues. [Working in the lab] has really given me great role models and [taught me] what it’s like to be a female in the workplace.”

When asked about any challenges that the lab faces, Brown cited having a space on campus to handle confidential data as the lab’s biggest issue. She explained that while the lab collects data over a secure field, all information is de-identified. Currently, the lab possesses around 25,000 records containing workers’ surveys, according to Brown.

“We need to protect the confidentiality and the security of the data, but there’s no place to do that at Tufts,” Brown said.

Despite such a challenge, Djaya and Antolin, who have been working in the lab since 2014 and 2015, respectively, described their jobs as rewarding, academically fitting and a constant source of intellectual stimuli.

“We’re all very close with each other,” Antolin said. “It’s a very supportive environment in [many] different ways.”

Djaya added that the people involved at the Labor Lab and the impact of the lab inspire her.

“The number one thing that makes working in this lab really great is that everyone is really passionate about the work that we’re doing because, at the end of the day, this [work] is going to create some sort of impact and we’re always reminded why we’re doing this,” she said.

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First-years and flamingos

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returning Tufts student may arrive on campus with many thoughts, feelings and desires, many of which differ greatly from the year before.

But alas, one experience of our fall beginnings will never change: the mass congregations of first-years. The seniors, juniors and even some sophomores have found and accepted their niche in the Jumbo community, but the first-years wander aimlessly from building to building, event to event, in massive hordes, laughing, balking, complaining…

Upperclassmen indubitably witness these spectacles throughout the levels of our campus twice or thrice a day, but the question of why remains. What brings them together in such staggering accumulations?

Excitement? Fear? Sexual angst?

Perhaps the answer lies in the behavior of the American flamingo, resident to the saline lagoons of the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. These tropical, exuberantly pink waders, much like baby Jumbos, form dense feeding and breeding groups year-round known as colonies. The size of an American flamingo colony may vary depending on the time of year and the locality, but numbers may at times exceed 1,000 breeding pairs in one area.

While one may never be certain as to why they do this, ornithologists believe this social behavior of congregation increases the likelihood of survival for each individual flamingo. This makes sense if we take the perspective of a flamingo hunter like the canine — narrowing 1,000 flamingos into one target poses a more difficult target than simply hunting down one individual.

Does fear drive this congregative behavior in first-years then? Perhaps, but the American flamingo may provide yet another possibility. Reintroduction initiatives for re-establishing American flamingo populations in smaller islands of the Caribbean (Cuba, for example) have been executed with relative ease and success as compared to initiatives for other species. The plans weren’t complicated either — conservationists simply installed mirrors within smaller flamingo colonies and let them do the rest.

How does that work?

The answer lies in the exploitation of another behavior exhibited by all species of flamingos worldwide: when flamingos see other flamingos “consummating,” it gets them in the mood to do so as well. The installation of mirrors facilitated this process by deceitfully duplicating the number of apparent breeding pairs in the colonies of interest, thereby enticing the real flamingos to breed and as a result increase the local population.

But if the first-years horde together for protection against predators and to breed wildly, why do their colonies dissipate after the first semester? Do the predators switch to another food source after the first semester, or do the first-years simply have no further desire to breed with each other after their 14-week period as a colony? Baby Jumbos are such socially complex creatures, and extensive further research is required if we hope to understand the psychological cues behind these great gatherings observed every September.

Until next time, Henry Henry Stevens is a junior majoring in biology. Henry can be reached at henry. stevens@tufts.edu.

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‘Broad City’ season 4 premiere takes us back to the beginning

by Libby Langsner Arts Editor

Comedy Central’s “Broad City” (2014–) debuted its fourth season on Sept. 13. Diverging from the third season’s two-part finale, which was set on a satirical Birthright trip, the fourth season brings the show back to its usual setting, New York City, to show how the lead characters met in 2011. The show follows the lives of best friends Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) and Ilana (Ilana Glazer), a pair of seemingly unlikely friends, and all the adventures and realities of living in New York.

While Ilana and Abbi have always been politically engaged characters, with episodes ranging from Ilana joining the Clinton campaign to Ilana’s roommate naturalization, this new season promises to shift the show toward a more politically poignant direction.

The season premiere “Sliding Doors” follows two different versions of how Ilana and Abbi initially met. As the title of the episode suggests, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson were inspired by the 1998 film “Sliding Doors,” where one moment changed the trajectory of the main character’s life. Similarly, the premiere poses two different situations in which Abbi and Ilana met. In one situation, both Abbi and Ilana miss the train and end up sparking a conversation on the platform. In the other scenario, Abbi and Ilana do get on the same train and end up not speaking.

Following the scenario in which they meet on the platform, Abbi and Ilana end up spending the whole day together. This plot line follows the origin stories of Ilana wearing her hair naturally curly and Abbi’s infamous Oprah tramp stamp. Although Abbi and Ilana have a great day together, they visit a psychic who says they’re going to die that very day. The prophecy comes out

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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer head to Florida in Comedy Central’s “Broad City” Season 4. The show portrays the life of two unlikely best friends in New York City. true at the end of the episode when Abbi and Ilana run in front of a bus trying to avoid the cops, revealing that the ideal scenario is in fact the one that never happened.

The alternative plot, where Abbi and Ilana don’t miss the train and ride in the same car but never speak, follows how a typical day in the life of the characters functioned before they met.

Ilana is accidentally kicked in the face by subway performers, forgets that she has to give a presentation in one of her lectures (and proceeds to sing, hilariously, of course), and gets roasted by her uptight roommates. Abbi also has

a miserable day and ends up eating froyo alone, never a signifier that one is in their best state. However, Abbi and Ilana eventually crowss paths near Abbi’s favorite pizza place, and the two end up smoking weed together, just like the Abbi and Ilana of the present.

A noteworthy quality of “Sliding Doors” is that the episode follows a less linear but more challenging and thought-out plot line than previous Broad City episodes. Hopefully, this season will prove to be the show’s most cinematographically interesting one yet. The blurring of past, present, and the characters’ perception of the

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future allows for more complex jokes throughout the show and a sense of recurring elements that a linear plot line cannot accommodate.

With many nods towards Donald Trump, whose name they bleep out for this season as evidenced by the trailer, the premiere sets the scene of what is sure to be a more complex, challenging, but still hilarious assessment of contemporary culture. Although the premiere focuses on the beginning of Abbi and Ilana’s friendship, it demonstrates a new beginning for the show and the comedic limits they are willing to push this season.

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Mina Ghobrial Thoughts From Places

The ASEAN Auditorium

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y view from the third row in the Cabot Center’s ASEAN Auditorium made it increasingly possible for me to dismiss the sheer size of the room I was in.

As my watch ticked nervously toward 10:30 a.m., more students continued to shuffle into the room. Some were visibly anxious, others were beaming with delight and more than a few brought the bare minimum with them. My first college class left me with the boon (or possibly the curse?) of two additional professors. All three were pacing in the front of the room, pausing occasionally for huddled whispers. I took time to look around the auditorium, and I was left with a lingering sense of awe. This one class housed more students than there were in my entire graduating class just two short months ago. While it may have been easy to scroll through the lengthy roster on Trunk, the presence of so many warm bodies brought months of anticipation to reality.

For the past two years, the college experience has been lauded, criticized and analyzed as a critical part of my day-to-day life. The final months of high school were packed with stress, anxiety, relief, excitement and eventually celebratory ceremonies, perhaps not in that exact order. There was no shortage of this electric vibe in the introductory phase of college. From the empowering speeches to the exhilarating declaration of matriculation and the totally not cultlike Illumination Ceremony, the first 24 hours of college were all spectacular.

The thing about spectacles is that they are simply performances or displays.

This particular one was finally fading into an unforgiving reality.

In my journey to Tufts, I toured various colleges, both small and large.

Each promised that I would not be alone when it came time to tackle the beast that is post-secondary schooling.

While I did, and continue to, believe the promise made by Tufts, it would be foolish to discount the severity of this shift in academic scenery. Putting aside the changes in lifestyle (dorms, personal responsibilities, free will, etc.), there exists an unexplored valley of scholastic competition. ASEAN is presently filled with anywhere from zero to 250 high school valedictorians.

In four years, the same group will only produce so many students with highest honors on the commencement stage.

Jumbos are inherently loving, caring and kind beings, but both time and mathematical calculations of grade point averages are altruistic.

Congratulations were in order a week ago, maybe even a year ago. Today, however, the unsettling realization that the journey to college is over and the actual experience has finally begun exists alongside introductory lectures and jittery firstyears. The road to college may have had hundreds of possible outcomes, but the road ahead forks into millions of unique paths. Luckily, the same statistical reasoning that damned a five-thousand-4.0-GPA pileup has blessed us with a priceless resource when it comes to dealing with our futures: a large sample size of equally remarkable peers.

Mina Ghobrial is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Mina can be reached at mina.ghobrial@tufts.edu.

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Top trend takeaways from NYFW

by Cassidy Olsen

Executive Arts Editor

The second New York Fashion Week (NYFW) of 2017 drew to a close this past Wednesday with Marc Jacobs’ Spring 2018 show, where the brand’s tropical yet textile-heavy collection made an impact. While it was by no means the most adventurous collection of NYFW, Marc Jacobs S/S highlighted and played with some central trends that were on display throughout the rest of the week, from vibrant hues to exaggerated silhouettes and redefined femininity. As London Fashion Week kicks off and tumbles into Milan and Paris to come, let’s take a look back at the biggest trends of NYFW that will be creeping their way onto the red carpet and into our wardrobes in no time.

Yellow, yellow and more yellow The sunny hue lit up nearly every runway last week on gowns, shoes and jackets. Rather than the mustard, ’70s-inspired shades we’ve seen for recent fall/winter collections, canary yellows are center stage for spring. At Naeem Khan, yellow tulle and satin were used to construct both accent details (floral embroidery, wrap heels) and entire gowns. At Marc Jacobs, an oversized, soft yellow rain jacket was layered over a sparkling turquoise gown and an exaggerated turtleneck for a striking volume-play look. Christian Siriano and Tom Ford each had bright yellow gowns on display, and at Prabal Gurung, more casual pieces like a playful yellow accordion skirt and oversized canary knit sweater made appearances.

If wearing yellow strikes fear into your heart, don’t fret — there are plenty of

ways to work the season’s hue into your wardrobe without looking like a school bus. The softer, pure yellows we’re seeing now are friendlier to all skin tones than neon and mustard shades, so you won’t look washed out or sickly. If you’re still not interested in trying a full yellow dress, suit or sweater, accent pieces like shoes and handbags can do the work for you, transforming your look with just one shade.

Glitter, but refined If yellow isn’t over-the-top enough for you, try the glitz and glam of glitter and shimmery fabrics. Oscar de la Renta’s collection featured numerous gowns with thick layers of jewel-toned glitter dripping down their bodices. Tom Ford interpreted this heavy-metal top style for the office professional with two-toned glitter tops featuring long sleeves and slight turtlenecks. Even the embroidery-reliant Naeem Khan walked a model in a shimmery, art-deco silver gown.

Most people either love or absolutely hate glitter, but NYFW urges us to consider its applications outside of prom dresses, club heels and Gossip Girl headbands.

Strong metallic glitz can be as interesting and assertive as a well-tailored suit, so use these collections as inspiration when crafting your next look for a night on the town or an important meeting at work.

These shimmering fabrics and add-ons will undoubtedly be making the rounds come next season.

Florals? For spring?

To paraphrase Miranda Priestly, there’s nothing groundbreaking about wearing florals when the weather gets warmer.

But NYFW has shown us that there’s still room for interpretation when it comes to the iconic and feminine pattern. Christian

Siriano’s collection featured painterly, colorful florals — think pink rosebuds and blooming wildflowers — seemingly floating on shimmery and sheer fabrics that made up both suits and gowns. Jason Wu’s florals were smaller and busier and paired with competing patterns in black and white. At Naeem Khan, the smallest and most delicate tulle flowers covered entire gowns in shades of red, yellow and green.

Florals may seem friendlier than glitter and bright hues, but they can still be experimental. Try mixing patterns of similar density — two pinpoint-style florals or two large, watercolor-style patterns — to create a look both romantic and contemporary.

Big hair and headwear Fashion weeks of late have been replete with the iconic, sleek chignons and low ponytails with minimal to no accessories.

This year, however, designers and stylists are drawing attention to the head with more voluminous styles and headwear. At Marc Jacobs, every model had their hair completely covered with silk wrap-style turbans in shades of burnt orange, turquoise and black. Marchesa’s models were styled with highly textured and natural hair, and Delpozo’s models all wore woven wicker-style bows and headbands. Naeem Khan even brought the flower crown back with a more sophisticated interpretation.

If you’re someone (like this writer) who tends to do nothing with their hair and rarely wears head accessories, more power to you. But fashion is turning towards embracing natural texture and having fun with playful accessories for the first time in a while. Next time you’re considering a look, don’t rule out making a statement from head to toe.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Introducing our columnists Today marks a milestone in every semester for The Tufts Daily — the start of daily production. From now on, you’ll be able to start every weekday by picking up a copy of the Daily. And with the first week of daily production now underway, so comes the first week of Daily columns. It is my pleasure to introduce you to this semester’s columnists who all offer interesting and insightful views on Tufts campus and beyond.

Starting off the week for features is Henry Stevens’ “The Weekly Chirp,” which will explore a different bird species and its significance every week.

Stevens is followed by Kristen Moran’s “Failing Big,” which will focus on her goal of finding community at Tufts by meeting new people and trying new things, and Hayley Oliver-Smith’s

“In defense of the butterfly effect,” which will explore unique connections between events at Tufts and around the world. On Thursdays, Benjamin Corey’s “Eat your Heart Out” will highlight family recipes and the stories behind them.

Arts will lead with Mina Ghobrial’s “Thoughts from Places: Tufts Edition,” which will discuss Tufts locations’ impact on student experiences similar to the YouTube series of the same moniker. After that, Nikki Margaretos is back after a semester off with “Is This Thing On?” exploring the relationship between today’s music and U.S. pop culture. Every Wednesday, Matthew Soderberg will comedically try to explain why a seemingly bad movie is, in reality, good in “Citizen

Shame,” and Haruka Noishiki will close the week by interviewing international students and students from multicultural backgrounds on the impact of music from outside the United States in “Majors and Minors.”

Nesi Altaras is back in the opinion section, discussing global affairs in “Looking Out,” Shantel Bartolome and Conor Friedmann’s “Bored & Confused” looks at spontaneous happenings in everyday life and throughout time, Paris Sanders’ “P.S. …” explores contemporary global, political and social issues, and Luke Murphy’s “Murphy’s Law” considers Tufts culture and U.S. politics.

Phil Goldberg kicks things off for sports with “Bird’s Eye View,” which will examine the idea of sports reflecting broader society. Arlo Moore-Bloom’s

“The Equalizer,” which discusses U.S. soccer, has the floor on Tuesdays. Then Yuan Jun Chee comments on soccer, its players and its drama in “On the Spot,” and David Meyer explores high-profile sports events outside of gameplay in “Postgame Press.”

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here are currently multiple companies that have created computer programs capable of replacing a team of lawyers and paralegals with a computer program and a few lawyers. There are firms that are testing programs capable of doing project management jobs in many contexts. You have probably unwittingly read a newspaper article written by a bot. Self-driving cars are not a fantasy or a product of science fiction: they are here, driving around Pittsburgh and from coast to coast.

This is the world of automation we live in now. As we are being swamped with think pieces on the future of work, it’s important to understand what this is: Rapid and successive breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning have made it so that many tasks, previously thought to be exclusive to people, can now be done by computer programs. This is called automation.

Unexpectedly fast and exponential advances are pushing the boundaries on which tasks can be automated every day. The ground is moving out from under our feet at such a fast and accelerating rate that anything written on the subject a decade ago has already become obsolete.

Companies across the world are developing computer programs that will replace human labor, both physical and otherwise. There is no way of avoiding this fact. A landmark study from 2013 estimated that approximately 47 percent of all U.S. jobs can be automated. Many of these jobs fall in the blue-collar category, though the employment prospects of the educated who see themselves as immune to this are not safe either; many white-collar jobs from project management to journalism to finance to medicine are within the scope of existing automation technology.

We cannot say, “We won’t have to worry about that for another hundred years,” like the shortsighted remark made by the current Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. A revolution in employment is upon us and we cannot wish it away. Many aspects of our lives, from how we provide for ourselves to unemployment insurance to universal basic income to the 40-hour workweek, the 8-hour work day, the concept of weekend, intellectual property and copyright regimes, our work-based self-identity and lifestyle and many other things will have to be reimagined and reconsidered.

These developments, while making many businesses more productive, will disrupt labor markets and will happen soon. Instead of ignoring the problem or arguing over whether it will actually happen, we need to discuss adjustments and solutions. We cannot kid ourselves by comparing the present to the Industrial Revolution and claim that new jobs will magically come into existence. They won’t. And, even if they did, not quickly enough to avert the automated future.

Nesi Altaras is a junior majoring in international relations and economics. Nesi can be reached at nesi.altaras@tufts.edu.

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Jumbos shake off slow start to overcome Continentals FOOTBALL

continued from back but badly missed the long field goal attempt as the game went to overtime.

In Div. III, both teams get at least one possession in overtime starting at the opposing 25-yard line. The Jumbos won the toss, elected to go first, and scored a touchdown on a nerve-wrack-

ing quarterback sneak from Hagfeldt on the goal line. The snap was bobbled, but Hagfeldt was able to recover it and dive across the goal line for the game-winning touchdown.

On Hamilton’s possession, the Jumbos’ defense executed and sealed the victory. The last play of the game was an incomplete pass by Gray that was well covered by the Jumbo defenders.

There was a flag thrown on the play, but the Jumbos celebrated as the penalty, after a thoroughly dramatic pause by the officials, was called on the Continentals’ offense and the game ended with Tufts ahead, 35-28.

Tufts looks ahead to its first away game on Saturday. The team will travel to Wesleyan for its first and only evening game of the season at 6 p.m.

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Junior quarterback Ryan McDonald slips past a pair of Continental defenders in the season opener against Hamilton on Saturday, Sept. 16.

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Drowning Kaepernick’s activism in punditry

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olin Kaepernick, the former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is unemployed. The flavor of this NFL offseason was every pundit, reporter and former player weighing in on whether Kaepernick is blackballed or is simply not talented enough to be picked up. I believe the former, but not for the reasons you might think.

On the surface, the league is blackballing Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem, played at the beginning of every NFL game. A sizable contingent of NFL fans perceive Kaepernick’s high profile actions as unpatriotic. The Baltimore Ravens looked into signing Kaepernick this summer, but a deluge of negative fan mail quickly put that rumor to rest. Why would a NFL-caliber quarterback entering the prime years of his career with tens of millions of dollars in earning potential on the line do something as un-American as protest the flag?

“Ultimately it’s to bring awareness and make people realize what’s really going on in this country,” Kaepernick said in an August 2016 interview. “There are a lot of things going on that are unjust, people aren’t being held accountable for. And that’s something that needs to change. This country stands for freedom, liberty, justice for all. And it’s not happening for all right now.”

Colin Kaepernick kneeled in 2016 to protest police brutality against black bodies and to use his platform as a high-profile professional athlete to spread awareness for the cause of Black Lives Matter. Maybe we knew this a year ago when the whole drama began, but somewhere in the last year, the meaning behind Kaepernick’s stance was lost.

Headlines transitioned from The New York Times’ Sept. 1, 2016 article, “This Time, Colin Kaepernick Takes a Stand by Kneeling” to the “roundup of protests from around the league” that SB Nation published last week entitled “Michael Bennett sits during national anthem, others protest in Week 1.”

It is the centering of the action; kneeling, raising a fist or linking arms, that creates a disconnect between why the players are protesting and how their protesting is perceived.

In a recent Sports Illustrated MMQB video, fans were surveyed on Kaepernick’s protests at preseason games. Their opinions predictably ran the gamut, from calling Kaepernick a hero to saying he is un-American. One notable response involved three women leaning towards the latter pulling a complete 180-degree switch upon learning the reason for Kaepernick’s protests.

It’s easy and convenient to blame the media for covering Kaepernick and the growing number of NFL players’ protesting in a way that obfuscates the purpose of their protest.

Certainly in the infinite world of online sports journalism, where the only barrier to entry is a wifi connection, there are trash articles. That ignores the excellent work of publications like the MMQB, which recently interviewed two NFL players — Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins — on the motivation for their protests.

In the end, the disconnect between player and fan serves the NFL’s interests by discouraging high profile athlete activism and underscores the need for Kaepernick’s brand of protest. Kaepernick is using his platform to speak for those who traditionally haven’t been heard.

It’s on the media to relay that message and it’s on us as fans to open our ears and listen.

Phillip Goldberg is a sports editor at The Tufts Daily. He is a senior majoring in political science and can be reached at phillip.goldberg@tufts.edu.

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Tufts running back Andrew Sanders, a sophomore, rushes into the end zone in the season opener against the Hamilton Continentals on Saturday, Sept. 16.

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Jumbos win home opener in overtime thriller

by Bradley Schussel Sports Editor

The Tufts Jumbos hosted the Hamilton Continentals on Saturday in their home opener and came away with a 35-28 victory after an intense overtime period. This was the first game between the Jumbos and the Continentals since the first game of the fall 2015 season.

In that matchup, the Jumbos came out on top by a field goal, also in overtime, 24-21 over the Continentals.

The Jumbos opened up the scoring on Saturday. While driving down the field on Tufts’ first possession, junior quarterback Ryan McDonald scrambled to his right and flipped into the end zone for an 11-yard rushing touchdown that put his team up 7-0.

McDonald, a dual-threat quarterback, recorded 647 yards and 5 touchdowns on the ground last season.

Hamilton struck back on its first drive of the game, as sophomore quarterback Kenny Gray hit his wide receiver, sophomore Joe Schmidt, on a crossing route. Schmidt then broke away from a defender and took it all the way to the end zone for a 70-yard touchdown. Hamilton’s special teams failed to convert the extra point after a botched snap, so Tufts led 7-6.

Schmidt scored his second touchdown of the game just four minutes later on a 51-yard pass from Gray to put the Continentals up 13-7. This time the Jumbos’ secondary left Schmidt wide open on the left sideline, allowing him to easily reach the end zone. Surprising many at Ellis Oval, Schmidt scored four

receiving touchdowns in the game. In this year’s season opener, Schmidt doubled his total of two touchdowns from the entirety of last season.

Tufts coach Jay Civetti attributed Schmidt’s performance simply to his abilities and the coaching behind him.

“He’s a great player,” Civetti said.

“They really put him in some good positions versus our defense, exploited some things that we were trying to do.

Hats off to them and their game plan.”

In the second quarter, Tufts came back with a vengeance. After showing his skills on the ground, McDonald took to the air for a couple of touchdowns.

The first score for the Jumbos came early in the second quarter, as McDonald found sophomore wide receiver Winton Blount for a 27-yard touchdown.

The Jumbos’ next five drives ended in either a punt or a turnover on downs.

Then, on a third-and-six in the red zone, McDonald found junior wideout Jack Dolan on a short pass that Dolan extended into a 16-yard touchdown.

This gave Tufts a 21-13 lead that they took into the half.

The Tufts defense, especially its defensive line, really found its stride after the first quarter, when it allowed two early touchdowns. Senior defensive lineman Micah Adickes was particularly successful, recording two sacks and accounting for three QB hurries, the bulk of which came after Hamilton’s 13-point first quarter.

“Thirteen points is never time to hit the panic button,” Adickes said. “The first game last year [the defense] started off a little slow against Wesleyan.

That’s how it started this year, but we were able to throttle down, relax a little and just stick to our training.”

Adickes attributed his two sacks largely to his teammates on the defensive line.

“The whole D-line, the entire day, was completely getting after their offensive line,” Adickes said. “Everybody was productive, we were just pushing the quarterback into each other’s laps.”

In the third quarter, good defensive play on both sides prevented either team from scoring. The Hamilton secondary suffocated Tufts’ receivers, leaving no window for McDonald to throw.

The Continentals’ interior defensive line was able to stuff any inside runs that came its way, holding the Tufts running game to minimal yardage.

At 12:21 in the fourth quarter, Hamilton recorded the first score of the second half. Gray found Schmidt for their third touchdown connection, as the Continentals tied the game at 21-21.

Tufts responded by scoring in a tough situation. On fourth and one on the Hamilton 31-yard line, sophomore running back Andrew Sanders shook off several Continental defenders and took the ball 31 yards for a Jumbo touchdown. This gave Tufts a 28-21 lead.

That lead didn’t last very long. On the next possession, Gray found Schmidt for the pair’s fourth touchdown of the game.

This tied the score up once again, 28-28.

On the Jumbos’ next drive, McDonald went to the bench with an unspecified injury and junior quarterback Ryan Hagfeldt took over the offense. Civetti remarked that the team is unsure of the extent of the injury at this time.

Civetti noted that he was not at all worried about playing his backup quarterback in the fourth quarter of a close game.

“I wasn’t [nervous],” Civetti said.

“I’m 100 percent confident in Ryan Hagfeldt. He’s a hard-working kid and a good student of the game. He has ice-water in his veins, always has. We didn’t even bat an eye when we put him in there.”

Hagfeldt had trouble finding his rhythm, throwing several passes that were nearly intercepted by the Hamilton defense.

“You can always look back and say ‘I want that play back,'” Hagfeldt said.

“In general, it’s just on to the next play, my one goal is just to get us into the end zone.”

The quarterback also noted that it was helpful during that fourth quarter knowing that he had the support of his teammates, his coaches and even the Tufts community.

Tufts’ last chance in regulation came with 1:38 remaining. Hagfeldt led the Jumbos into field goal range, only to be pushed back by a holding penalty. Penalties were a problem on both sides, as the two teams combined for 21 penalties, including a plethora of false starts and holding calls.

Tufts attempted a daring 51-yard field goal to end the half, a distance rarely attempted by NESCAC kickers. The Jumbos sent out senior linebacker Zach Thomas to kick the field goal. Thomas recorded a couple of tackles on the day, see FOOTBALL, page 11