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Rebranded student environmental group looks to redefine its direction

by Johanna O'Neil Contributing Writer

The student environmental group on campus formerly known as the Tufts Sustainability Collective (TSC) has changed its name to Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA). The change comes after a decline in involvement, and the group hopes to inspire new membership by clarifying the organization’s purpose, refreshing its message and allowing its branch groups to operate with more independence, SEA directors noted.

No longer under TSC, environmentally-focused groups will apply to become their own independent clubs and will now set their own budgets and manage their own schedules, according to Bianca Hutner, head of Tufts Climate Action (TCA), which used to be a TSC branch.

Hutner, a junior, is excited about the transition and believes it will be logistically easier to manage TCA as an independent organization.

“The groups were not actually that related. Logistically now

this makes more sense,” Hutner said. “In theory, having a group that is meant to foster collaboration is a good idea, but [TCA’s] personal goals don’t overlap with other groups.”

SEA Co-Director Alexa Bishropic said that previously, TSC acted as an umbrella organization and a facilitator, allowing students with an idea for a group to form a branch under TSC without having to go through the formal process of creating a club.

Bishropic, a first-year, explained that students could remain in TSC for whatever period of time was necessary to focus on a particular project.

This structure caused confusion when advertising to the student body, Director of Sustainability Tina Woolston said, recalling that it was sometimes difficult to define the group’s purpose.

“The directors of TSC always felt like they didn’t know how to explain what TSC was and how to get people to come to the TSC meetings,” Woolston said.

According to firstyear Aberdeen Bird, SEA’s other

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Tufts Climate Action member, junior Bianca Hutner, poses for a portrait in Tisch Library on March 7. co-director, the structure of TSC was not promoting the goals that the group had in mind, and it had become idle.

“It wasn’t activities based, it was more for discussion. And that doesn’t encourage people

to come back if they don’t have something that they will be doing to focus on,” Bird said.

Bishropic added that the group was not acting as a structure to connect different environmental groups on

campus. As groups became more distinct, there was less of a need for the facilitator role TSC previously maintained, Bishopric said. see ENVIRONMENT, page 2

NPR correspondent moderates panel on civic life post-election

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Speakers from a variety of fields addressed the current state of civic engagement in the United States at a panel discussion in a mostly-full ASEAN Auditorium last night. The event, entitled “The Civic State of the Union,” was part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life’s Distinguished Speaker Series.

The event’s panelists were Professor Robert Putnam from the Harvard Kennedy School, Tisch College Associate Dean Peter Levine and Shirley Sagawa, visiting senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, all of whom were familiar with different aspects of the civic landscape. Mara Liasson, the national political correspondent for NPR, moderated the panel.

Tisch College Dean Alan Solomont opened the event with an overview of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)’s latest research. CIRCLE, an initiative of Tisch College, surveyed young voters about their views on politics before and after the presidential election last November, with the goal of studying millennial voters’ reactions to the election.

Solomont then began the event and introduced the speakers.

“At tonight’s event, we take a step back from considering specific issues and policies in order to examine the broader context of civic and political life in the United States,” Solomont said. “Is the civic state of the union strong?

And if not, how do we go about strengthening it in these times that challenge our democracy?”

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continued from page 1 “The original purpose of the club was not being fulfilled, and members of the other clubs were not coming to our meetings,” Bishopric said. “We weren’t acting as a group to bring people together. It was more individual, and membership started to decrease.”

With its new title, SEA wants to become a more all-encompassing option for students looking to be involved with environmental awareness at Tufts, according to Bird and Bishopric. The two co-directors hope that this will attract more people to join and become active members.

Defining the new direction the club hopes to go in with its new structure, Bishropic said, “We want to be a broad environmental group on campus that

can fulfill a lot of different interests: an eclectic environmental group to promote sustainability on campus, to promote awareness on campus and to be a space where people who are environmentally minded can engage with that.”

Now that the branches are separating, the Office of Sustainability at Tufts will play the role of a facilitator between the groups to ensure there is continued collaboration, Woolston said.

“Our office is going to try to organize a meeting a semester and bring the students together to talk,” Woolston said.

“We are most concerned about making sure organizations know what other organizations are doing so they’re not duplicating projects.”

The co-directors of the rebranded SEA agreed that there will still be discus-

sion between the independent groups despite the new independence.

“We want to have a kind of sustainability roundtable, where all of these clubs meet twice a semester and talk about what we are doing so that we can collaborate more, because it seems that a lot of us have similar goals and we don’t want to overlap, and if we do overlap it would be better to work together,” Bird said.

Organizations cannot apply to be official clubs in the spring, so this semester will act as a transition period for the groups to continue clarifying their goals and their roles, Bird said. She mentioned a transition to broader goals and more discussion based on members’ interest.

“It is better right now for us to keep our goals open to what the members want,” Bird said.

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continued from page 2 Liasson opened the panel discussion by commenting on the mood of the room.

“There’s actually a lot of suspense in the room this evening,” Liasson said. “We don’t know if we’re going to leave here depressed or with little bits of hopefulness about the civic state of the union.”

Liasson went on to contemplate civic society today in relation to President Donald Trump. She described Trump as a “stress test for democratic institutions,” and said that she has been tracking how those institutions — the judiciary, Congress, the media and citizens — have been affected by his administration.

“We’ve seen the studies, young people are losing faith in our democracy,” Liasson said. “On the other hand, look what’s happening. Those town halls are not astroturf … We don’t know what exactly to make of these stirrings.”

Liasson’s first question for the panelists asked them to describe the current moment in American politics and civic life in relation to the past.

Putnam spoke about how the internet has shaken up all aspects of civic engagement, in both good and bad ways. He said that the internet can be dangerous because it replaces face-to-face interactions with remoteness, but that the inter-

net can also be beneficial for fostering connection.

“I think that what we’re seeing now, out in the country, is wonderful amalgam of internet-based connections … but also real face to face connections,” Putnam said. “I’m not actually so much impressed by marchers or demonstrators or tweet storms. That’s not what’s going to turn this country around.”

According to Putnam, the only way for the country to right itself is through faceto-face organization. The internet, he said, is risky because of its inherent remoteness. He spoke about his findings interviewing young Americans, including one working-class millennial named “Mary Sue,” who Putnam said voted for Trump.

“If we don’t do something about the Mary Sues, we are at risk of having an authoritarian demagogue take over this country,” Putnam said.

In addition to concerns about Trump, the panelists expressed concerns about the state of national service. Sagawa, who remains active in the field, said that people need to shift their views on those who work in the national service sector.

Sagawa added that Americans should be willing to open their doors to those who are serving the country in some capacity. She also spoke about the changing nature of politics within society.

“Now people have a 360-degree view of their cause orientation and their civic

participation in the world,” Sagawa said.

“You think about what you eat, and it’s political what you eat. You think about where you shop, and its political where you shop.”

Levine said that the politicized society, in which the number of choices for news outlets has risen sharply, has given rise to a reality where people become more politicized, or pushed out entirely.

“People who are politically involved make choices that corral them into their specific groups, and a lot of people just choose to avoid politics all together,” Levine said.

During a question-and-answer session at the conclusion of the panel discussion, students asked the panelists to share their views on a number of topics, including what role the government should play in closing the socioeconomic gap in internet access.

Putnam said that this digital divide does not stem from a gap in accessibility, but rather in the knowledge of how to use those digital tools productively.

“Its not access to technology,” Putnam said, noting that underprivileged children still have smartphones.

“In Silicon Valley, somebody said to me, about a whole string of problems, ‘Yeah, we have an app for that.’ And I said, ‘But these kids don’t have somebody to hug them.’”

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Students discuss perks, difficulties of working for university calling center

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Students work at Tufts Telefund’s calling center, located in the basement of Eaton Hall on Feb. 27.

by Hannah Shin

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Despite the prominent advertisements aimed at recruiting students to join Tufts Telefund, many students are unfamiliar with how the organization works.

Tufts Telefund Manager Justin Levin said that Telefund works with the university to fund various aspects of student life, including financial aid, clubs and sports teams. The organization does so by hiring undergraduate or graduate students to call alumni, as well as parents and friends of the university on occasion, to ask for donations.

Although the Telefund office is located on campus in the basement of Eaton Hall, the job is considered off-campus employment because the organization is run by an outside company, Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL). According to its website, the company provides “technology-enabled services, software and consulting for higher education enrollment management and fundraising.”

Levin said that the focus of Telefund’s work is fundraising specifically for Tufts student activities and financial aid.

“This is something that happens not just at Tufts, but at almost every university.

This is how the university raises money for student scholarships and activities,” Levin said. “I think some prospects think we’re raising money to build a statue or something silly, but that’s not the case at all.”

The starting salary at Telefund is $11 per hour, according to Luke Murphy, a senior and a current Telefund supervisor.

Student employees, who are required to work at least nine hours per week, have expressed varying degrees of satisfaction with the expectations and the work environment of the job.

Sophomore Shyra Costas said that over time, she adjusted to the aspects of the job that initially made her uncomfortable.

“I’ve had a lot of friends who hated it, who hated their time there, thought it was too monotonous, and I understand because a lot of the complaints that my friends had were that it’s a lot of pressure to be on the phone and ask someone for money,” Costas said. “That is just a very hard thing to get used to. Once I got over that fear part of it, because it was very hard talking to people at first … I honestly loved the job.”

Junior Walae Hayek, who worked at Telefund for the 2015-2016 academic year, said that the repetitiveness of the job is

common complaint among those who work there.

“Most students enjoy the environment but hate the repetitive calls or the stress of convincing someone to donate to Tufts and the pressure that comes with,” Hayek said.

“Others just find the job unfitting. But I also know so many people who do enjoy and stay at Telefund. So it depends, I guess.”

According to Murphy, students are given scripts to read to callers, with each conversation depending on the potential donor.

“I’ll start with talking to them about their experience at Tufts, maybe their professional life, answer questions they have about the school,” Murphy said. “But a lot of times, they’ll want to hear about you.”

Levin said that Murphy and the other supervisors typically train the new employees.

“I have my supervisors actually do all of the training,” Levin said. “I feel like it’s better when other students learn from other students rather than myself because I oversee the more managerial side of it.”

He added that while most of the people who pick up the phone are polite and sometimes happy to hear from Tufts, some individuals respond negatively to the Telefund’s calls.

“That’s the hardest part of the job — overcoming rejection,” Levin said.

“Ultimately, every call is different.”

In particular, he noted that the months before the 2016 presidential election were unusually difficult for callers because the impending election affected the dynamic between the callers and alumni. “[Alumni] were unsure about their financial futures,” Levin said. “Those are tough calls because the callers don’t share their political opinions over the phone.”

But Murphy said he rarely encounters irritated alumni.

“The vast majority of people are very pleasant, and then you get a couple of people who say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to talk right now.’ For the most part, everyone is real nice,” Murphy said.

Murphy also said that working for Telefund can provide opportunities to network with alumni.

“We’ve had kids on the phone who have been offered jobs from the people they’ve called,” he said.

Another perk of the job, Murphy said, is the incentive-based games that the students play, wherein callers who successfully lock down certain types of donations can win prizes.

“We’ll usually play games based on performance, like if you get your gift on a credit card you move up the board, and if not, you move down,” he said. “We also do a caller of the month, so they win a gift card. I think in March we’re giving away Celtics tickets.”

According to Levin, prospective donors to Tufts are organized into three categories: alumni who have never donated before or have not donated in the last 20-25 years fall under acquisition, alumni who gave donations between the last two to five years ago but have not donated in the past year fall under the category of reacquisition and donors who have a history of giving to the university each year are called retention donors.

“For new callers, I usually put them in Arts and Sciences acquisition alumni, so what that means is they’re calling people who have never donated before who graduated from Tufts with a degree in the Arts and Sciences,” Levin said.

However, Costas, who worked at Telefund in the fall of 2015, said that she would have liked to make more calls with the individuals who had the potential for giving a higher donation. The monotony of only receiving small donations, she explained, could be broken by making calls to more generous and regular donors.

“We had some set-in alumni leadership callers … leadership meaning … people [who] would call very high donors,” Costas said. “I was put in leadership now and then, but it was weird to go from leadership to doing $10 calls.”

Murphy explained that student callers help direct the callers to the different parts of the university that they can donate to.

“We’re able to designate their money wherever they want it to go, so if they want to donate it to a particular department or club or sports team, we can do that for them,” he said. “You’re having a conversation with them, but you’re also facilitating their gift. You’re there to make it easier for them.”

Levin noted that despite students’ hefty academic and extracurricular commitments, many of them continue to make calls.

“I have supervisors who take five classes, and they’re in eight different clubs and Telefund is like the ninth thing they’re part of,” he said. “They still manage to come here, so I like to be flexible with the students as long as they’re making the required calls each month.”

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MJ Griego Mind the Gap

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Mediocrity

just want to say that I am writing this to procrastinate studying for two exams. Focusing has been a continued challenge this week.

Focusing is a challenge over and over.

I went to a professor’s office hours last Tuesday to check in after a personal event had shaken my heart. We talked about the upcoming exam and how I was feeling. My professor mentioned postponing the test and then told me this: “It’s okay to be mediocre.”

A fun word to pronounce, mediocrity is also a “fun” (and by fun I mean wild and bizarre) concept once you get down to it. In my days of severe depression, the idea burned me invisibly like steam. I panicked over and over about the possibility of not being the smartest or most diligent person in the room, and that anxiety debilitated me until I could barely wake up every day. Perfect was what I had to be to prove my worth.

Universities don’t want to boast students with C averages.

Now, after about a year since I last felt severely depressed, I find myself edging closer to the idea of being average (or worse) in the eyes of this institution. My GPA, due to me being so scared of not being smart enough at this school that I couldn’t leave my room for most of sophomore year, is a 2.5. I am forced over and over both by circumstance and by my own mindset to rethink: Do I have to be afraid of being less than the best?

A change in mindset for me comes with a reversal of roles. As a marginalized queer Latinx, I came to this school feeling that I had to prove I had resources to give to Tufts to make me valuable. This is unfair to me, turning my unique experience and skills into currency in a larger social and political system created with little regard for my existence or my health. I find myself trying to assert the truth — “I do not have to make myself valuable to the larger institution to be valuable” — Over and over I try to care less about numbers and more about myself and my own growth.

Over and over it feels like other people also view their time here as a complete representation of their success or failure as humans. This is where pushing over and over for subversion has kept me going: time here is a resource for me. Opportunities here are a resource for me. Classes here are a resource for me, my brain and my future. My personal growth is what I will keep with me in 10 years when I won’t have to look at daily memes about the Carm/Dewick rivalry. In some ways, being “mediocre” in school might be necessary for me to keep my mental health. Living with the internalized ideals of this education system forces us all to see our bodies and minds as currency: giving our energy out to meet unreasonable standards until we don’t remember who we are underneath. In a place of “exemplary,” I hope to make space for realizing that “mediocre” isn’t an adjective to describe people. Over and over.

MJ Griego is a junior majoring in sociology. MJ can be reached at madeline. griego@tufts.edu

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‘Feud’ explores ageism and sexism in Hollywood Executive Arts Editor

Ryan Murphy has surely proved himself to be the hit maker of modern TV today, even more so than the beloved Shonda Rhimes. Between “Nip/Tuck” (2003-2010) “Glee” (20092015), “American Horror Story” (2011-present) and “American Crime Story” (2016-present), Murphy has defined and redefined the zeitgeist over and over again, each time bringing innovations to a medium that is arguably living its ‘golden age.’ One of Murphy’s biggest strengths is his awareness about the industry’s shortcomings; he likes to fill the void that other executive producers cannot. For example, Murphy revives genres that have been long dead: musical in “Glee”

and horror/anthology in “American Horror Story.” Lately, he’s been experimenting with historical shows/biopics with “American Crime Story” and, most recently, “Feud” (2017).

What’s peculiar about both “American Crime Story” and “Feud” is that both shows tell unoriginal and tedious stories. The trial of OJ Simpson is one of the most worn-out stories in Hollywood as hundreds of books and movie adaptations have been released on the topic over the last 20 years. Similarly, the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford feud that is the central story arc on “Feud” seems like something only a grandma would find entertaining, at best. Yet Murphy is able to find aspects in both stories that are heartbreakingly relevant to the social and political climate today. With “American

Crime Story,” it is racism and race relations in contemporary America. With “Feud,” a story about the competition of two washed up starlets, it is certainly the sexism and ageism found in Hollywood. Ironically the show itself is evidence that ageism is still an issue in the movie industry today.

“Feud” features a star-studded cast, comprised mostly of women. In addition to Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon playing the leads of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, respectively, the cast includes Judy Davis as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and cameo appearances by Catherine Zeta Jones as Olivia de Havilland and Kathy Bates as Joan Blondell. Of the five actresses, one (Lange) has won two see FEUD, page 6

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Susan Sarandon stars as Bette Davis and Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford in Ryan Murphy’s anthology about Davis and Crawford’s rivalry.

TELEVISION REVIEW

‘Jane the Virgin’ finds its footing after midseason twist

by Cassidy Olsen

Assistant Arts Editor

If you’re a “Jane the Virgin” (2014 – present) fan who has continued watching the series after February’s season three, episode 10: congratulations. A shrine should be built in honor of your strength, compassion and ability to forgive. You are so patient and optimistic, you probably don’t even resent Tufts_Secure for its unreliability and unexpected outages.

If you’re a “Jane the Virgin” fan who hasn’t even seen season three, episode 10, read no further. Don’t let this be your version of Justin Baldoni’s spoiler-filled Instagram feed. You’ve been warned.

All this, of course, refers to the big mid-season twist of Michael’s death.

In the typical telenovela style that the series both teases and embraces, “Jane” had viewers on the edge of their seats with the season two cliffhanger that left Michael’s (Brett Dier) fate in limbo immediately following his big wedding to Jane (Gina Rodriguez). Thankfully, audiences were quickly reassured

that everything would be okay when Michael was still alive at the opening of season three. At least, that’s what we thought.

The first half of the current season explored Michael’s slow recovery and struggles to adapt back to everyday life outside police work, as well as Jane’s trauma after almost losing her husband. Never a show to stay in one place too long, plenty of other interesting plotlines and some less interesting character arcs were incorporated alongside their marital drama in the first nine episodes, including the appearance of Jane’s mysterious cousin, Catalina (Sofia Pernas), the new relationship between Xo (Andrea Navedo) and her old flame Bruce (Ricardo Chavira) and the ongoing murky business of Petra ( Yael Grobglas) and the Marbella Hotel.

Things were looking increasingly normal and positive for Jane and Michael until episode 10, when a heart attack induced by his previous gunshot wound suddenly killed Michael.

Gina Rodriguez, whose stunning performance as Jane has brought tears to many eyes and earned her a Golden

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Globe, deserves another award for the scene following Michael’s death alone.

Although the show’s narrator had dropped subtle hints alluding to Michael’s fate in previous episodes, most viewers were caught off guard by the twist. Even fans who had always considered themselves Team Rafael ( Justin Baldoni) when it came to the show’s love-triangle were still heartbroken by the death, and Team Michael fans were outright betrayed.

The show’s decision to jump three years into the future after Michael’s death felt like a cop-out and a way to side-step the immense grief that Jane would obviously be feeling. At the same time, it was also hard to understand why this kind of heavy drama had a place at all in a series as comedic and uplifting as this one. How can “Jane the Virgin” possibly be the show it started out as with its titular character now a young widow?

It has come as a pleasant surprise to see just how deftly the show has actually handled the time jump and see JANE THE VIRGIN, page 6

James Crews on what we lose

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he thing about poetry books is that they are often slim: they fit easily into purses and suitcases, fall unnoticed into the crack behind your bed. That’s where I found my copy of “The Book of What Stays” (2011) yesterday.

The author, James Crews, is not dead. He lives on an organic farm in Vermont, according to my occasional Google searches. “The Book of What Stays” is his first collection of poetry.

Since I discovered it two years ago in a Colorado bookstore, its spine emerging from the single shelf marked “Poetry,” Crews’s collection has stayed with me.

It has traveled on planes and buses and spilled its words onto the margins of my math notebook.

I’ve taken it with me even when I shouldn’t have. One of my favorite poems in the collection, “Revision,” deals with moments from the past that we can remember but never relive. It ends with the speaker stepping out of a room in his memory, where his ex-wife is bathing during their honeymoon, leaving her to sing to herself undisturbed.

Naturally, this was the poem I chose to read aloud to a guy who, soon after, I would spend months trying to get over.

After the relationship ended, whenever I read the poem’s opening lines — “What hubris to believe you could save / this moment or that and tuck it away” — they didn’t comfort me. They reminded me of the moment I had wanted to tuck away: sitting cross-legged on my bed, reading the poem aloud to someone I really liked, who had gazed up at me intently (probably confused as to how they had stumbled into an unsolicited reading). The lines made me feel that loss.

But that’s the thing, isn’t it? We can’t talk about “what stays” without first talking about what doesn’t stay.

In “What Light Does,” Crews writes, “And how / can I not think then of what Willa Cather said once, / that burnished talk of shine and beams and shafts can never / capture the sun’s real movements, how the words / ring hollow as false notes. No, she wrote, you must trace / the absences of light, those shadows, to say what light does.”

Crews excels at tracing shadows. “The Book of What Stays” is inspired in part by the dissolution of his marriage when he came out as gay. Some of the central poems also channel the grief he felt after his father died. He renders loss so skillfully that my mom cried in the car after I had read a short poem to her from the passenger seat. But Crews isn’t interested in “the absences of light” because they’re sad, or because they’re fodder for self-pity: he’s interested in them since they allow us to understand “what light does.” He’s interested in what is lost because it tells us what remains.

I am probably not finished holding onto moments that I would be better off letting go of. But when I read “Revision” now, I don’t feel a pinch in my chest. Crews seems to say that yes, sometimes things are lost, but sometimes they are things we need to lose.

Abigail McFee is a columnist at the Tufts Daily. She is a senior majoring in English.

She can be reached at abigail.mcfee@ tufts.edu.

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continued from page 5 Academy Awards, three have won one each (Sarandon, Jones and Bates) and one has been nominated twice ( Judy Davis). All five actors are over the age of 45, and a quick IMDb search will reveal that all of them are struggling to find good roles in films recently.

Luckily, the ‘golden age’ of TV has come to their rescue. In fact, cable and

online programming have been a refuge for talented older (by Hollywood standards) female actors for a while now. The trend started with the Showtime series “Nurse Jackie” (20092015), “United States of Tara” (20092011) and “The Big C” (2010-2013).

This year, ambitious television series starring past ‘it girls’ have been premiering back to back. HBO’s “Big Little Lies” has Nicole Kidman and Reese

Witherspoon. Netflix’s “Santa Clarita Diet” has Drew Barrymore. These shows have been receiving critical acclaim and good ratings.

The pilot episode of “Feud” features a scene in which Crawford tries to convince Davis to sign the contract for “What Happened to Baby Jane?” (1962).

Crawford bluntly states that, at their age, female actors would simply not get cast. Crawford’s statement is con-

firmed when film executive Jack Warner (Stanley Tucci) asks the director of the movie whether he “would you like to f–k them.” This line of thinking is still present in Hollywood, and actors — such as Amy Schumer with her sketch “Last F–kable Day” — often voice their criticism. Classic Hollywood as we know it still has to reply to criticisms, but at least TV offers an alternative career option for older female actors.

‘Jane the Virgin’ continues to impress despite plot twist JANE THE VIRGIN

continued from page 5 Michael’s absence in the three episodes following the twist. Although it feels wrong to see some characters in new situations without having been able to see their growth, such as post-prison “Zen” Rafael (now with a beard and a new girlfriend), it’s clear that Jane is still very much herself. While trying to manage her career goals on top of raising her son Mateo alone, Jane faces panic attacks triggered by reminders of Michael and memories of the weeks following his death.

The show allows viewers to follow Jane’s memories back in time, giving a glimpse into the grief that is still very real for her. At the same time, other plotlines, such as Mateo misbehaving in school and Petra’s scheming, continue to hold viewers’ (and Jane’s) attention. In a way, it’s all very familiar and rhythmically comforting to see Jane as an independent woman again as the world turns around her, even with Michael’s death in the back of everyone’s mind. But as Rafael reminds her in episode 13, she has other goals to pursue that will keep her moving forward.

As “Jane the Virgin” usually has 22 episodes per season, plenty of time remains for things to change for better

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Jane (Gina Rodriguez) talks to her husband Michael (Brett Dier). or for worse before season three draws to a close. Considering that episode 13 featured Rafael breaking up with his girlfriend and Jane reflecting on her

previous relationship with Rafael, it seems likely that the show’s writers are preparing to align Jane and Rafael’s paths romantically once more some-

where down the line. For now, Jane certainly needs more time to grieve and figure out her new life alone, and the rest of us do, too.

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Khuyen Bui Dear Jumbo

Don’t be yourself

“I

’m sick of this whole job application thing where I have to fit in a specific mold, measured by GPA and resumes that do not define who I am.”

You may have heard or even experienced a similar sentiment before. Think about adapting to the norms of new friends or applying for jobs (hello seniors!).

Some of us work hard to fit in societal boxes and then struggle to escape them.

If that describes you, you have my admiration. As someone who is often unapologetically myself, I have never quite understood that sentiment until a mentor told me about the two different sets of skills: conformity and authenticity. One is about fitting in; the other is about standing out.

Tufts, and Western culture in general, values the latter more. Just look at the kind of advice we often hear: be original, celebrate your identity, follow your passion, find your true self.

I think both are valuable in different ways, and here I want to defend the value of conformity.

To conform, we need to be aware of the environment — what is acceptable and what is not. This is no small feat: It takes a lot of energy initially to figure out the rules and the impact of our actions on other people. I have made friends and even bosses feel weird, ashamed and even frustrated without knowing it because of the underlying assumption that if people aren’t okay with me, they will let me know so that I can be better. Alas, such assumption reveals a fair dose of tactlessness and irresponsibility, and it has cost me dearly. First, it’s not good for relationships: Most people won’t bother spending energy to tell me how pissed off they are. They will just leave. Even those who care enough to tell me will eventually get tired. Second, making someone frustrated, whether intentional or not, is unproductive. It will leave people with a bad taste, like finishing a nice dessert and discovering a fly at the bottom of the plate. *It is important to be liked.* If that sounds obvious to you, know that it wasn’t for me. While I used to believe that there are more important things to do than being liked, experiences have taught me that oftentimes, people need to like me first before those important things can get done. Whether you call this skill of fitting in diplomacy or social intelligence, it is reality.

So here is the message for those who have yet to feel comfortable in their own skin, who struggle to break out of the predefined molds: You’ve got a skill that many covet.

You are considerate and tactful. You can read the situation well and build rapport.

We need both authenticity and conformity so that we can be pleasant to others and ourselves. We need both to have meaningful Define The Relationship moments with the people in our life.

On the last note, I find it quite amusing that while some people spend way too much time getting approval, some don’t do it nearly enough. For the latter group — the misfits like me — sometimes *don’t be yourself* is the better advice. What has your experience been like about these two skills? Let me know at bit.ly/dearJumbo!

Khuyen Bui is a senior majoring in computer science. Khuyen can be reached at Khuyen.Bui@tufts.edu.

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So you protested Governor Baker Rachel Wolff You’ve succeeded, you believe. The Boston Globe covered your protest and discussed the issues. The Tufts administration, at which you were angry for inviting a speaker whose platform you did not support, was embarrassed by your actions. You are sure this means that they will not be inviting any more “controversial” speakers in the future. You believe Governor Baker went home that night to sleeplessness, troubled at the “fascism” of his policies; you believe that the following morning he declared Massachusetts a sanctuary state and raised the education budget and ended the militarization of the police. The issues of today are gone; you solved them, with a few loud chants and some name-calling.

You are sorely mistaken. I appreciate the immense concern you have for the well-being of members of our community who are threatened by the current political administration. I am interested in your stories, in your facts and figures, in your arguments. Though your protest — an attempt to shut down a conversation to bring up another — angered me, I understand the necessity of using a public platform like that to make your voice heard.

Despite disagreeing, I find it hard to ignore the sudden attention given to the causes you brought up.

This is why I was shocked when you refused to discuss the issues any further.

You got the platform you needed. You got people listening. Tufts CIVIC — which provides an open forum for political discus-

sion between Democrats, Republicans and others — specifically reached out to you to see if you would be interested in explaining the issues and representing them at the next few meetings. They even set aside three weeks’ worth of conversation topics for the three issues that you brought up.

Only two of you attended. The rest of you did not, as you said you were busy.

When I spoke with some of you after the protest, you told me that you had put hours and hours of research into the event, looking up Baker’s specific policies until you found evidence to protest him. This information was not shared with anyone outside of the protestors.

To everyone else, it seemed like a load of unsubstantiated claims. People showed up en masse to CIVIC’s discussion on sanctuary cities, hoping to hear the stance that was so strong that it had to be represented by a protest. This stance was not represented.

I struggle with this for the same reason I struggled with your protest tactics : shutting down dialogue to make a point.

You spoke without listening and shouted to drown out discussion and dialogue to bring attention to your stance. You restricted the opportunities of others to listen to engage and dialogue — despite the fact that many of them may have held the same views as you — to be sure that your voice was heard. You asked questions and left before getting answers. You responded to civic discussion with name-calling, chants and anger. I understand the necessity of some of these protest strategies, even if I disagree with them.

People are interested and concerned and wanting to learn. You say these topics are “not up for debate or discussion,” forgetting that at one point or another every issue in politics must be up for debate and discussion. You say you refuse to compromise on human rights, but no one is asking you to compromise. We are asking you to explain. With every passing day that you refuse to do so, you are alienating people who want to help.

I don’t think you understand what a position of privilege you are in for being given these forums for learning and understanding. If you were in Thailand, you would be given between three and 15 years of jail time for speaking out against a government official. In Iran, you would be lashed. Even in other places in the United States, people would be so angry at your protest strategies that they would refuse to listen to the actual issues.

Here you have large groups of people who want to learn. They want to listen. They want to understand. Use this privilege you have of being in this environment to support the issues and people who you want to support. We have given you the space to share; now it’s your move.

Editor’s note: If you would like to send your response or make an op-ed contribution to the Opinion section, please email us at opinion@tuftsdaily.com. The Opinion section looks forward to hearing from you.

Rachel Wolff is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Rachel can be reached at rachel.wolff@tufts.edu.

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Bradley Schussel The Coin Toss

NFL Free Agency Predictions

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

Last week, I went two-for-three on my NBA predictions. I had the Celtics upsetting the Cavaliers in Boston, and the Celtics won 103-99. I was proved correct as the Nets broke their losing streak, beating the Kings 109-100 to end the 16-game skid. I said the Wizards would beat the Raptors in both of their two games last week. The Wizards won the first game, but went on to lose to the Raptors at home.

The NFL’s free agency period starts tomorrow, March 9, at 4 p.m. How about some predictions for some of football’s topbilled free agents?

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Bryson Hoover Hankerson (LA ’16) and Francis Goins (LA ’16) compete in the 200-meter dash at the Tufts Sunshine Classic at the Dussault Outdoor Track on April 23, 2016.

No new qualifications for Jumbos at Final Qualifying Meet MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

continued from back Etkind is ranked 11th nationally for the 60-meter hurdles with his time of 8.16 he earned at the NEICAAA Championships on Feb. 24. Duvivier is ranked second for the high jump with his dominant 2.10 meter jump from the NEICAAA Championships.

With the exception of Nichols, this NCAA Championship will be the first for the qualified Jumbos. Nichols has extensive experience, as he has been to two NCAA Championship events for track and four for cross country. The North Lima, Ohio native also has three All-American titles to his name (one for track and two for cross country).

While he, Etkind and Duvivier have never been to an NCAA Championship meet before, Watanabe believes in the first-timers’ ability to perform at the national level.

“I think [we] are used to the competition that’s going to be there,” Watanabe said. “Stefan [Duvivier] will have a real shot at winning the high jump, and anything can happen with Josh [Etkind] on the hurdles, so it is just a matter of how his race goes on the day and how he’s feeling.”

Coach Joel Williams also believes that the level of competition won’t phase the Jumbos.

“I am not worried about NCAA experience or lack thereof,” Williams told the

Daily in an email. “We spent the last few weeks competing against the top athletes in the region and in Div. III, so I am confident they will continue to perform at a very high level. I always say that the NCAA meet, or any championship meet, is just another meet. If you do what you did to get in the meet, you will perform well.”

Williams and the team are looking forward to showing what they can do at nationals.

“The guys are quite excited and well prepared,” Williams said. “Our hope is to improve on last year’s 21st place finish. The goal is top 15.”

The NCAA Indoor Championships will be held in Naperville, Ill. on March 10 and 11.

Jumbos to face reigning-champion Panthers Saturday WOMEN'S LACROSSE

continued from back emphasize is just doing and executing what we want on the field. One of our goals this year is definitely to be a dominant force in the NESCAC,” Adamec said.

“It’s early in the season, so it’s hard to tell [where we’ll finish], but anything can happen in the NESCAC. One of our other goals that we have is being 1-0 15 times.”

Tufts faces a major early season test this Saturday when it travels to play Middlebury (1-0). The Panthers are not only a NESCAC rival, but are also currently the No. 1 ranked and reigning national champions. Last year, the Panthers beat the Jumbos 17-9.

To prepare for games like this, the captains and other upperclassmen have been preparing the younger members

during the off-season, Veillette said.

“We’ve always played Middlebury as one of our first games the past couple of years, and obviously every year is different,” she said. “I think a majority of the team knows it’s a past rivalry and how important and hard this game is going to be, but that’s kind of what is exciting. We are going to be starting off the season with a challenge.”

Adrian Peterson: New York Giants There has been plenty of rumors and conjecture surrounding the pairing of Peterson and the Giants, including a cryptic tweet from AP himself. I think it will culminate in a signing. There’s no chance Peterson goes back to Minnesota, and the Giants are a perfect fit. With a talented veteran QB and a star wide receiver, the Giants should look to replicate the Steelers’ model of offense. AP is worth much more than a quick look for the G-men.

Alshon Jeffrey: Tennessee Titans There is talk of Jeffrey going back to Chicago, but I don’t see why he would want to. The team is in disarray, and Jeffrey is in the prime of his career. He needs to go to a team with a ton of cap space, a promising young QB and a need for a No. 1 wide receiver. The Titans are that team, and they have a strong running game to round out their offense. If I’m Alshon Jeffrey, I’m looking to catch passes from Marcus Mariota rather than who-the-heck-knows for the Bears.

Dont’a Hightower: New England Patriots (re-signs) Coming off a Super Bowl victory, the only reason Dont’a Hightower would want to leave New England is if the money is better elsewhere. While that could be the case, the Patriots have over $60 million in cap space going into this free agency period. Plus, the Pats traded several talented front seven players in 2016. It only makes sense to re-sign Hightower.

Jamaal Charles: Philadelphia Eagles Eagles’ HC Doug Pederson coached Jamaal Charles in Kansas City, and a reunion makes a lot of sense. Last season, the Eagles ran a platoon of Ryan Mathews and Darren Sproles at the running back position. Those two rushed for 661 and 438 yards, respectively. Charles would be a major upgrade at a position of need for the Eagles. Carson Wentz, going into his second year, could certainly use some help. If Jamaal Charles can stay healthy, he can provide that help in a big way. The injury-prone RB is worth the risk for the Eagles.

AJ Bouye: Houston Texans (re-signs) Unless they’re looking to spend on a quarterback, I don’t see why the Texans wouldn’t aggressively try to re-sign Bouye.

He’s a 25-year-old lockdown corner who helped Houston’s defense become the top defense (statistically) in the league last year.

Bouye will have many suitors, as he’s one of the best defensive players on the market.

However, the Texans still remain a good fit for him, and they should be looking to bring him back this offseason.

Bradley Schussel is a sophomore majoring in biomedical engineering. Bradley can be reached at bradley.schussel@tufts. edu.

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Simultaneously tripped and knocked to the ground, then-first-year midfielder Cecily Freliech attempts a shot on the goal in the game against Middlebury on March 12, 2016.

New faces power Tufts past MIT in season opener

by Sam Weidner Assistant Sports Editor

The Jumbos (1-0) kicked off their season on Saturday with a 12-5 win over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers (1-1), easily handling MIT’s offense and securing a comfortable victory.

While Tufts only led 1-0 after the first 11 minutes of play, sophomore attacker Dakota Adamec then scored twice within 20 seconds, and Tufts rode the momentum to a 6-3 lead at the intermission. The Jumbos continued to roll in the second half, as they outscored the Engineers 6-2 in the period and cruised to victory.

Throughout the game, Tufts led in

almost every statistical category: draw controls (12-7), shots on goal (31-11), ground balls (27-18) and turnovers forced (27-19).

This game also served as an audition of sorts for some of the 11 new faces on the team. First-year midfielder Maddie Norman and first-year attacker Emily Games both scored twice for the Jumbos in their debuts, while first-year midfielder Lily Baldwin won four draw controls.

In addition to the strong rookie class, the Jumbos are also returning a 13-member-deep sophomore class including Adamec, who finished the game with five goals. She explained that even after her impressive rookie season, during which she was sixth in goals scored, the

expectations were higher for her coming into this season.

“Definitely [after] becoming a sophomore, there’s a lot more responsibility and a lot more pressure to succeed and do well on the team,” Adamec said. “Now that we’re not freshmen anymore, we know how the team operates and we know our goals.”

The Jumbos are enjoying new depth this season, which they have not had in recent memory. Twenty-one of the 31 players on the roster played on Saturday, as opposed to just 16 Engineers who saw action. This change has allowed Tufts to change its style of play with the revamped roster and a much more up-tempo game.

Senior quad-captain defender Olivia Veillette explained that the new mem-

bers have fundamentally altered the team’s strategy.

“We are definitely trying to push the pace. We have a lot of numbers and we’re definitely using that this year,” Veillette said. “We have a lot of fast midfielders and we’re using a lot of subs even on the defense and attack ends …

In the past it has mainly been one or two fast girls who push the pace, but this year we’re trying to do it as a team.”

Despite a lukewarm 5-5 in-conference record last year, Tufts is hoping to take the NESCAC by surprise as an up-and-coming team.

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MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD

Tufts secures four NCAA bids

by Liam Finnegan

Assistant Sports Editor

No. 11 Tufts men’s track and field competed in the Tufts Final Qualifying Meet in the Gantcher Center on Saturday. This race was the last chance for runners to earn a spot at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships.

With a few exceptions, only athletes within the top 15 times are invited to compete at the national championship meet.

This past weekend, none of the Jumbos secured nationally-ranking times that newly vaulted themselves into the top 15. However, many athletes set personal records or improved upon times that had already earned them qualifications.

Sophomore mid-distance runner Hiroto Watanabe won the 800-meter

race with a time of 1:53.50, which improved upon his 13th ranked time of 1:54.13 and brought him to 11th nationally. Senior sprinter Blake Coolidge broke the Tufts school record for the 60-meter, the third time the record has been broken in this season. Coolidge ran a 6.95, winning the race and overtaking junior hurdler Peter Clark’s previous time of 6.99.

Even though Coolidge ran a school-record-breaking time, his mark only brought him to 30th in the nation and was not enough to qualify. Sophomore mid-distance runner Colin Raposo ran his best mile of the season with a time of 4:16.92, placing seventh at the meet but several seconds outside of the top 25 nationally.

The Jumbos had a number of runners on the brink of national qualification.

The 4×400 relay team — composed of senior tri-captain sprinter Nick Usoff, junior hurdler Andrew DiMaiti, sophomore mid-distance runner Thomas Doyle and first-year long sprinter/ long hurdler Billy Witrock — improved upon their season-best time of 3:21.49 with a new time of 3:20.43. This new time bumped the foursome up to 20th nationally. Senior tri-captain Luke O’Connor’s season-best time of 8:24.21 in the 3000-meter is currently ranked 19th, but he did not improve his time at the meet and fell just short of the top 15 as well.

Four Jumbos — Watanabe, junior jumper Stefan Duvivier, senior distance

runner Tim Nichols and sophomore hurdler/jumper Josh Etkind — have earned qualifying times to represent Tufts at the NCAA Championships.

Watanabe explained that he did not expect to be on his way to nationals in only his sophomore season.

“I’m really surprised I’m headed there,” Watanabe said. “I’m just overall really happy and excited.”

Nichols qualified for both the 5,000meter and 3,000-meter races. Nichols is the second seed in the 5,000-meter with his 14:19.45 mark from the Tufts Cupid Challenge on Feb. 4. He is also ranked 13th in the 3,000-meter with a 8:21.51 he ran at the Tufts Stampede Invitational on Jan. 28. see MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD, page 11