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As Green Line Extension moves forward, locals hope for expansion into Medford

by Joe Walsh News Editor

The Green Line Extension (GLX), a long-awaited plan to provide light rail service to previously unserved areas of Medford and Somerville, is on track for completion by December 2021, according to the project’s website. Progress on the GLX follows the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)’s selection of a new contractor and an infusion of federal funding.

The project will extend Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Green Line service to the corner of the Medford/Somerville campus on College

Avenue and is projected to cost about $2.3 billion, split between state and federal funding. Major construction work will begin this summer, according to Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) spokesperson Lisa Battiston.

State and local officials, including Medford Mayor Stephanie Burke and State Representative Christine Barber, have expressed excitement that the GLX project — a longstanding state commitment that has seen false starts and uncertainty — is on stable footing.

“It’s a really significant step forward for transportation for people of Somerville and Medford,” Barber, who represents parts of Medford and Somerville, said. “It

will take cars off the road, it will improve greenhouse gas emissions and it will improve mobility.”

A Brief History of the GLX The MBTA issued a “notice to proceed” to the GLX contractor team last month, formally reviving the process of designing and building the extension. This announcement came on the same day that $100 million in federal funding was released, part of a $996 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

“We’re pleased to receive this good news as one more in a long list of milestones for this project,” MBTA General Manager Luis Manuel Ramírez said in a Dec. 21, 2017 press release.

The state’s legally binding commitment to extend the Green Line dates to 1990, when officials agreed to complete the GLX as environmental mitigation under the Clean Air Act for the “Big Dig” highway project, according to Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) Vice President Rafael Mares. Sixteen years later, the state once again committed to the GLX following a lawsuit from the CLF, which negotiated the 1990 mitigation.

Several years ago, the state paused the project again due to a spike in projected cost, according to the press release. After MBTA fired its contractor and redesigned the extension to make it more feasible, the federal government see GLX, page 2

TCRC awards grants to community-centered research projects

by Jessica Blough

Assistant News Editor

The Tisch College Community Research Center (TCRC) recently awarded $18,000 in total to two projects that will conduct research in the Tufts community in 2018. Four different projects applied for funding, but the award was divided between two: “Achieving Whole Health through Gender Responsive and Culturally Relevant Curriculum” and “Exploring Uses of Portable Air Pollution Monitors for Environmental Health Education.” Both projects are based in Boston’s Chinatown.

Each fall, the TCRC calls for research projects involving both an academic and a local community partner to apply for research grants, according to TCRC Co-Chair Doug Brugge. According to the Tisch College website, the TCRC will give a maximum of two awards each year, totaling $18,000. A panel of Tufts faculty and community members then reviews the proposals and ranks them based on criteria set by the TCRC.

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The projects with the highest ranking receive a grant.

Brugge stressed that the TCRC looks to fund projects with strong relationships to Tufts faculty members.

“The first thing we look for is that there has to be an equitable partnership between a community-based organization and a faculty person at Tufts, but also whether that’s a good partnership, whether it seems to be genuine and authentic, and also whether the research that they propose doing seems to be strong,” he said.

The first of these projects, “Achieving Whole Health through Gender Responsive and Culturally Relevant Curriculum,” is led by Sasha Fleary, an assistant professor in Tufts’ Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, and Asian Women for Health (AWFH) Executive Director Chien-Chi Huang.

Huang said she had initially proposed that she and Fleary would collaborate on a project to receive TCRC funding after Fleary gave a presentation to Tufts Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations through Translational Research (ADAPT ). The project received an $11,000 grant this year, according to a TuftsNow article.

The project is based on previous programs that Huang has led through the AWFH, focused on improving the overall well-being of Asian-American young women through programs that address their holistic health, according to Fleary. However, this project will focus on evaluating the success of programs like it and developing an online component.

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Fleary said that many of the program’s participants are living with depression and suicidal thoughts.

“There is also a very high rate of not engaging with mental health professionals for a variety of reasons, a lot of them having to do with culture,” Fleary said.

“This project … was designed for people who are Asian, and it was designed to replicate, basically, whole health, so mind, body and spirit, and [a] focus on well-being versus on mental health.”

The program’s participants will partake in workshops over a 10-week period focused on three main areas: health of body, health of mind and health of spirit, according to Fleary. Fleary said she and her students will be most involved in the pre- and post-evaluation part of the research to assess the impact of the program on its participants.

“The end goal will be [to] increase their awareness of the mind-body connection, as well as their coping strategies for dealing with stress and help-seeking, and their overall well-being,” Fleary said.

The second project to receive TCRC funding, “Exploring Uses of Portable Air Pollution Monitors for Environmental Health Education,” is an extension of Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH). The Tisch College website calls CAFEH “the signature study of the Tisch College Community Research Center.” A 2015 Daily article describes CAFEH as an umbrella organization that includes five community-based studies focusing on air quality near freeways.

The latest project uses the system developed by CAFEH to monitor air quality to engage high school students in monitoring

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the health of their communities, according to John Durant, an associate professor at the School of Engineering and one of the faculty leaders.

High school students will use handheld monitors to measure air pollution, later using these measurements to determine the accuracy of a mathematical model, Durant said.

“The high school students will be tasked with making air pollution measurements with portable, hand-held monitors and then comparing their results against predictions made with the model to better access the accuracy of the model,” Durant told the Daily in an email. “This project will teach students the value of making environmental measurements … [and] to use their critical thinking skills to determine why their measurements might be different than model predictions.”

According to Tufts School of Medicine research assistant Carolyn Wong, who leads this research project and was also involved in CAFEH’s original assessment of air pollutants near freeways, many Chinese immigrants in Boston have a misconception about their air quality, especially in areas close to heavy traffic, because the air appears to be clear.

Wong added that she expected participants to share their findings with family members and friends, increasing awareness in their communities.

“We expect this will be educational not only for themselves but for others in the community. Hopefully the project can spark more interest across generational divides, engaging young and older people in conversation about air pollution,” Wong said.

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Route 16 terminus to Green Line Extension would improve public transportation access for underserved communities GLX

continued from page 1 approved the GLX’s current $2.3 billion cost estimate last year.

The FTA says that this redesign and scale-back helped secure federal funding, which was initially approved in a Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) signed in 2015. The rest of the $996 million grant will be released incrementally as the project moves forward, according to an FTA spokesperson.

The first $400 million of the MBTA’s grant has been authorized by Congress in budgets over the past three fiscal years, and Congress is expected to appropriate the rest of the funding by fiscal year 2021, according to Battiston.

The MBTA also chose a new contractor to design and build the GLX last year. GLX Constructors, a consortium of companies, was selected after vying to complete its portion of the project for about $1.08 billion according to the press release. This figure is more than $237 million less than the MBTA’s affordability limit, according to a November 2017 presentation to the MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB).

Mares believes the current GLX contract is structured to control costs more effectively than previous arrangements because the contractor is required to meet its quoted price. According to Mares, the previous contractor had the opportunity to establish its own prices for future stages of the project without a competitive bid, and the state terminated the contract when costs spiked.

“The reduced price is a combination of the scale-back of the project and the fact that there was a competitive bidding process,” Mares said.

GLX Constructors has budgeted for a community path between East Somerville and Lechmere, according to the presentation. Alderman Ben Ewen-Campen, who represents parts of East Somerville, is pleased to see that the community path extension is part of the project, explaining that it will provide Somerville with a biker-safe link to parts of Boston and Cambridge.

“It’s incredibly frustrating how close we are, but how transportationally we are cut off,” Ewen-Campen said.

The GLX’s terminus at College Avenue will directly serve the Tufts campus, making the university more accessible for students, staff and visitors, Director of Community Relations Rocco DiRico noted. According to DiRico, Tufts is transferring real estate rights to the MBTA for construction and maintenance to assist with the project at no cost, and it improved the nearby Boston Ave/College Ave intersection with a planned Green Line station in mind. Tufts will also pay for the maintenance and cleaning of the College Avenue station, according to a December 2016 document from the Somerville Chamber of Commerce.

“Tufts University enthusiastically supports the Green Line Extension and we look forward to continuing to work with our host communities, elected officials, local stakeholders, and the MBTA to help make it a reality,” DiRico told the Daily in an email.

Expansion into Medford While the current phase of the GLX progresses, elected officials in Medford and Somerville say a further extension from College Ave to Mystic Valley Parkway/Route 16 would add significant value to the project and strengthen transit in underserved communities.

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The Route 16 station was previously the MBTA’s preferred terminus for the Green Line, but the state split this final station from the rest of the project several years ago to contain costs. Meanwhile, the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization (MBO) reallocated $190 million in federal and local funds that it had committed for Route 16, instead offering that money to help bring the Green Line to College Ave first, according to an MPO press release. MassDOT will pay for an environmental impact study and design for the Route 16 extension, according to Barber.

Mares and Barber both said they prefer a Route 16 terminus to a College Ave one because it would connect a larger population to the Green Line.

“The Route 16 stop in particular is one the busiest stops, so it would pull more cars off the road and pull in more riders than [many] other stops of the Green Line Extension,” Barber said.

“The ability to increase mobility and increase ridership by going to Route 16 would improve the entire Green Line Extension.”

The Route 16 extension is especially important because it would serve several state-defined Environmental Justice Communities, Mares and Barber said. Many of these communities are particularly susceptible to air pollution, Barber noted, and their residents are more likely to rely on mass transit, according to Mares.

“When you have a transit-dependent community, it’s really important to provide good public transportation,” Mares said. “Currently what we have is buses going in various directions that take longer than necessary and drive on roads that are congested.”

DiRico says that Tufts University also supports an extension to Route 16, both to serve nearby Tufts offices at 196 and 200 Boston Ave and to support the surrounding community.

In addition, Mares and Barber said that the Route 16 stop is required under the state’s original environmental mitigation agreement with CLF. The agreement states that the extension will serve Medford Hillside. However, according to Burke, locals agree that a College Avenue station would not serve Medford Hillside residents.

Burke strongly believes that a terminus at Route 16 will strengthen the Green Line’s ridership and has pushed for the state to fund its environmental impact report. She says the city could offer funds to assist with the Route 16 extension, but added that officials need to study the project’s benefits first.

“To the extent that we are able to increase, say, commercial development, if [the extension] opens up that avenue for us, then we’d certainly be willing

to consider it with the City Council,” Burke said.

According to Barber, funding has not been allocated for a Route 16 extension. She suggested that, because GLX Contractors’ bid is under budget, the state could redirect excess money to the Route 16 station.

Similarly, Mares believes that the state should return Somerville’s and Cambridge’s contributions to the project, which totaled $50 million and $25 million, respectively, and then give most remaining funds back to the MPO. The MPO can then elect to reallocate the funds for the Route 16 station, he said.

The state plans to return a portion of these contributions and reallocate unused funds to other MBTA projects if costs are below budget, according to the November 2017 presentation.

According to Battiston, MassDOT will reassess the GLX budget at a future time.

“The balance between the contract price and the affordability limit will remain part of the project’s budget, at least, until years from now when all exposure to risk has been managed and mitigated,” Battiston told the Daily in an email.

Development and Housing Affordability Officials in Medford and Somerville have emphasized that, as the Green Line Extension progresses, their cities should work to dampen the effects of a rising cost of living.

Ewen-Campen says the city should ensure that development benefits all Somerville residents, rather than just real estate developers. In particular, he supports a jobs linkage fee, which would require developers to contribute to workforce training programs. He also hopes that developers in Union Square incorporate longstanding local businesses in their mixed-use developments.

Burke said she believes Medford should work with neighboring cities to add more housing units. She says the area surrounding the proposed Route 16 stop presents opportunities for new low- and middle-income housing.

“The only way you can keep prices down is to increase the volume of availability,” Burke said. “We’ve seen everything drive up because there hasn’t been new production.”

Barber noted that ultimately, the GLX project’s benefits to all residents make it worthwhile. Likewise, Mares said she believes that mass transit is crucial for neighborhoods of all income levels and should not be denied to certain areas due to housing affordability.

“The idea that the only way you can stay put where you are is if you accept a second-rate or worse transportation system is unacceptable to me,” Mares said.

“The solution is not to expand transit in only a few places but to expand transit in as many places as possible.”

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How streaming, mixtapes have changed the music landscape

by Christopher Panella Contributing Writer

“I think this is now Spotify’s entire world,” Darren Hemmings, the head of the digital marketing agency Motive Unknown, said. Hemmings is talking specifically about playlists and how streaming platforms support the playlist format of different songs from different artists over albums from one artist, but his statement applies to the entire music industry. Since streaming giants like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Pandora launched, their convenience has made them increasingly popular. In the first six months of 2017, Americans alone completed 284.7 billion on-demand streams of music and videos. According to a chart completed

by Business Insider, in those six months, streaming accounted for 60 percent of the music industry.

When did this change in the music industry begin? Ross Gerber, in his May 2017 article for Forbes, said, “Napster jump-started this trend back in the ’90s, pirating content and making it available online, producing a generation of listeners who didn’t value music because they were able to download it for free. Then, streaming services basically continued the practice.”

Streaming has caused a change in how artists create, write and release their music, giving more power to a handful of popular singles than an entire album. Spotify’s ever-updating genre and Top 40 playlists are causing artists like Major Lazer and Coldplay to release a constant trickle of EPs and singles, rather than full albums, partially because, as Gerber concludes, streaming favors singles rather than albums. Artists like Drake have written their music specifically for a few singles to be placed on playlists and gain popularity. The full album and its traditional release format has lost popularity since around 2011 due to streaming. If anything, that old format for release belongs to big-name artists like Taylor Swift, who announced her first single around three months before her latest album’s release.

In the days of streaming, “Long lead cycles like Taylor’s [are] a relic of print medium,” George Howard, an associate

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Charli XCX is pictured posing for a portrait. professor of music business at Berklee College of Music, said.

Where does this change leave artists who can’t release full-length albums and don’t have their singles constantly added to playlists in a changing music landscape?

For Charli XCX, it leaves her in a better position to release constant music. In 2017 alone, Charli XCX released two 10-track mixtapes, a single and a video.

In a December 2017 interview with Vulture, Charli XCX said, “The way that I work and write is so fast, and releasing these mixtapes is very beneficial to that … Generally, I don’t even really tell people when I’m working on it. It just happens. I’ll tell fans the week before the release, and I’ll tell the label two months before.”

Mixtapes aren’t new to the industry.

According to Peter Shapiro’s “The Rough Guide to Hip-hop” (2001), the early days of

hip-hop found mixtapes to be an easy format to record live performances of artists like DJ Kool Herc. Mixtapes later became a way to share favorite songs from multiple artists for easier listening, making mixtapes the original playlists.

Mixtapes can now imply multiple different formats, including 10-track releases, which allow artists like Charli XCX to regain creative control from the politics of music labels and release music in a faster and more casual format. The constant release of music from Charli XCX and the mixtape format give her music both better odds at being listened to on playlists around streaming websites and more popularity throughout the year, as artists continually release new music.

In our current music landscape, streaming dominates, and with Spotify recently clocking over 70 million paying subscrib-

ers, the landscape shows no sign of changing. Albums are on the way out, as Spotify’s playlists, from Top 40 to different genres or party mixes, continuously highlight an ever-changing mix of artists and songs.

Artists like Charli XCX may have found their solutions to streaming playlists, but could these solutions apply to other artists?

Could mixtapes, constant EP releases and less time spent on album rollouts be the new norm in the music industry? For some artists, the signs point to a resounding yes, but for others, the future is murkier.

“For some artists, albums work,” Charli XCX said. “I’m trying to figure out whether that’s me or whether I could do something different.”

Charli XCX’s approach may be personal, but it applies to just about any artist who is feeling the changing impacts of streaming, playlists and the music landscape.

GALLERY REVIEW

Current exhibitions at ICA impress with innovative works

by Sofia Zamboli

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A view of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, located on the harbor front.

Leaving a museum feeling utterly inspired is a true gift, as that feeling of inspiration resonates with and excites the soul. That gained feeling of passion is exactly how you will feel after parting from the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in the Seaport District. Its current exhibitions are thought-provoking and innovative. Video installations like “Ashes” (2002– 2015) by the late Steve McQueen and the ICA’s stellar collection “New Acquisitions” (2017) showcase how much the museum has developed in the past three years. These pieces have stimulated great conversation and creativity within the art community and — hopefully — will do the same on Tufts’ campus. Perhaps after reading this review, you’ll feel inclined to head over to the ICA to check out these great shows for yourself on display through Feb. 25.

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continued from page 5 year. What better way was there to spend a first snow day than inside a museum, viewing pieces by contemporary art’s finest? The destination was the ICA, and although it was a trek to get there from the Medford/Somerville campus, it was absolutely worth it. The building that holds all of this amazing art is a piece of modern art itself.

Designed by famous architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, this building is meant to synthesize the outside ambience and its waterfront façade with the art on display inside. The outside of the ICA is thoroughly impressive, to say the least, and what the walls hold inside are even more so.

Starting at the top floor of a museum and working your way down always ensures that you do not miss a piece. So up to the third floor of the ICA you go in its spacious glass elevator. Located there is Steve McQueen’s “Ashes,” a video art installation that takes up two rooms. To the left side, a large screen is found that tells the

beginning of the story of Ashes, a young fisherman from Grenada. To the right, the second half of Ashes’ story is told. Outside of the movie are all of the stills from the film, stacked to form a large paper tower. This piece, shot on Super 8 film, has a grainy resolution that adds a beautiful vintage feel to the story, giving the illusion that one is reminiscing about a bittersweet memory. This is the effect that McQueen wished to convey, given that he previously knew Ashes from different projects in Grenada.

While the composition of the film is simple, with Ashes rocking back and forth on the bow of a boat in the middle of the Caribbean, his story is one filled with depth. It discusses issues that affected Ashes and his family and friends, like race, class and the colonization of Grenada. One finds oneself slowly growing fond of Ashes as he goes on about his life on the island.

He is a relatable character, casual and easy to listen to. McQueen does an excellent job at what filmmakers are supposed to do best, which is tell a story. With Ashes, not only does McQueen tell an excellent

story, but he transports you to the beautiful Caribbean that is filled with surprises beyond your wildest dreams.

On the same floor as Ashes is the ICA’s collection, “New Acquisitions.” This robust body of works is exciting to view, with pieces from breakout contemporary artists like Henry Taylor and Mika Rottenberg. When first walking into the room with all of the newest acquisitions, a large portrait catches the eye first.

Placed in the center of the room, Henry Taylor’s “i’m yours” (2015) is a showstopper. Taylor’s rough brushstrokes and expressive characters create an undeniably identifiable look that is sophisticated yet striking. In “i’m yours,” Taylor paints himself and his two children at staggering heights with a pink background that almost seems to merge into the foreground to create a soft yet striking look.

Taylor often paints with race in America in mind and looks to downtown Los Angeles (where his studio is located) for inspiration. Taylor also recently designed the cover of the newest edition of T Magazine, featuring a portrait he painted of Jay-Z.

Another favorite in this exhibition happened to be a piece of video art by Argentine artist Mika Rottenberg. This 2015 piece, titled “NoNoseKnows (50 kilos variant)” is a comment on capitalism and how it affects society today. This is a common thread within all of Rottenberg’s works. Set in a pearl-making factory in China, “NoNoseKnows,” highlights the kitschy and sometimes extravagant culture that has come with the growth of capitalism over the years. This is done by demonstrating the tainted and murky underground workings that go into something so beautiful and seemingly pure, like pearls. While this topic matter can seem severe, Rottenberg’s style is quite the opposite. She brings an almost comedic approach to the topic through her videos, as she creates a sort of fantasy world surrounding the factory. This dichotomy that Rottenberg brings into her work makes the subject matter tangible for her audience.

While these are a few highlights in some select exhibitions at the ICA, there are so many amazing pieces of art to be viewed. Take the time to go there for a day to explore this amazing museum for yourself. You will not regret it.

U.K. dark comedy series ‘The End of the F***ing World’ impresses on Netflix

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by Julian Blatt Staff Writer

“Black Mirror” (2011-) fans across the globe could hardly wait for the year-end release of the show’s fourth season and were far from disappoint-

ed. ( This reviewer binge-watched all six episodes over the course of a single weekend.) However, one of the darkest and most discussed episodes to date is Season 3’s “Shut Up and Dance,” featuring the incredibly awkward yet amazingly talented Alex Lawther.

Indeed, Lawther delivered such a fantastic performance that when it was announced that he was to star in the U.K.’s new dark comedy series, “The End of the F***ing World” (2017-), true “Black Mirror” fans starred its Netflix release date, Jan. 5, on their calendars.

Upon first inspection, “The End of the F***ing World” does not seem to have much to offer. With only eight episodes, each only about 20 minutes in length, one could easily make the mistake of dismissing the show without giving it as much as a second glance. However, the brevity of the series is not due to missed opportunities, but instead it is the result of the flawless culling of anything that does not advance the humorous yet heartbreaking journey of the pathetic heroes. Nevertheless, each episode is so emotionally burdensome that it is almost impossible to watch even two in the same sitting, allowing viewers to devote more time and energy to ruminating on each individual episode. In other words, this show is much more enjoyable if not binged.

The show wastes no time in introducing its two protagonists. The very first shot is of Lawther’s character, James, who sits alone in the dark, staring broodily into the distance. In voice-over, he apathetically states, “I’m James. I’m 17. And I’m pretty sure I’m a psychopath.” The son of an (apparently) absent mother and a misunderstanding father, James’ right hand is covered with burn scars from when he was younger and stuck his hand in a deep-fat fryer just because he “wanted to make [him]self feel something.”

Further evidence of his psychopathic nature includes his utter lack of humor and his constant desire to punch his dad in the face. James has loved hunting and killing animals since childhood, but now he longs the thrill of chasing … larger game.

Enter Alyssa ( Jessica Barden). With an abusive stepdad and a distant mother at home, and no real friends at school, Alyssa craves love and adventure. James initially intrigues her because he looks as lost and out of place as she feels; little does she know that he secretly dreams of murdering her in cold blood.

However, after only a short time together, they realize just how well they truly understand each other. And with just enough encouragement from Alyssa, James gives his dad a farewell knockout punch before the two rebels leave their old lives behind forever, with nothing but a need to escape to lead them on their way.

The motif of voice-over is essential to the arc of the show. Though both characters are forced to make tough choices, it is their thoughts and feelings that define them. In fact, the voiceover often contradicts what James and Alyssa say or do, almost as though each possesses a second, internalized personality. Originally, they each have completely different motives: James wants to kill Alyssa, and Alyssa wants to make James fall in love with her. Yet, the beauty of their relationship lies in their uncanny ability to appreciate and acknowledge each other’s hidden selves, to the point where they essentially become two sides of the same fight-the-system coin. No matter what obstacles they face on their journey, or the degree to which other people (and sometimes even themselves) get in their way, it is clear that they will always find each other in the end.

One other feature of the show that deserves attention is the music; specifically, the one or two songs that are frequently heard throughout. Most notable is Dinah Shore’s “Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)” (1946).

The soft jazz song perfectly complements the show’s darkness. Moreover, the repeated lyric, “I’m laughing on the outside / Crying on the inside / ‘Cause I’m still in love with you,” ties in well with both the humor and the hopeless romanticism both characters exhibit.

At times, we may feel as though we are living in a dystopia, plagued by a constant fear and loneliness that is impossible to overcome. The lesson of “The End of the F***ing World” is not that we should pretend that everything is fine and be grateful for what we have. Instead, the show suggests that, rather than despair over the current reality, we should find humor in it and appreciate that even if we are alone, we can at least be alone together.

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Over the past two years, the Tufts left has frequently lost when we ought to have won. Abolition of Greek life? An abject failure. The “Students Advocating for Students” free speech incident? It got national media coverage. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) resolutions? Passed, but barely, and under circumstances that permanently alienated our allies in liberal and Jewish groups.

The Disorientation Guide? Removed and consigned to ignominy because of two words. In the last year, we managed to alienate basically everyone who didn’t already agree with us.

The idea guiding our conduct in those fights was a faith in our obvious righteousness, and in the ability of our social circles to behave like a political movement. That idea is wrong. A friend group is not a mass movement. A hot take is not organizing.

To contextualize the defeats of the left in social fights, let us consider its successes in the last couple of years: Tufts stated its mission to protect undocumented students, the administration caved to the adjuncts’ demands, Tufts and C&W backed down and met most of the janitors’ demands, avoiding a strike, Tufts adopted Indigenous People’s Day, and the Republicans withdrew their invitation for Ben Shapiro’s 2017 visit. All these fights have three things in common: a specific, planned out program, achievable material goals and the ability to enlarge the coalition.

The labor fights, where the bosses have a real interest in winning, can serve as a guide. But even on these issues, it’s easier to mobilize people to fight for a living wage than to abolish a social institution. This doesn’t mean we should relinquish the goal of ending Greek Life.

It means we need to fight responsibly,

and in a way which builds our coalition.

Ultimately, the solidarity between people is what gives movements power. Our political opponents will try to fracture it, to render us small, closed off, and insular. We must fight against that tendency.

There was a moment last year where we very well could’ve ended Greek Life.

We pursued a strategy that felt good at the time but makes no sense in retrospect. The left could have organized the people who decided to quit Greek Life to time their defections with a messaging campaign, speak-outs and teach-ins on Greek Life, and put forward a robust alternative program for a transition away from Greek life. Instead, we chose to indulge in a round of bitter, if theoretically correct, and morally righteous op-eds and Facebook posts, followed by demonstrations against Greek organizations after we had already lost the battle for public opinion and allowed too much time to pass without building momentum. So we lost. We were right, absolutely right, in our critiques. But we lost because none of this is about being right or having the hottest take.

Political life is about building and exercising power. It doesn’t matter if you’re right. It matters if you can build a coalition for your vision. I don’t want to talk down to anyone, or tone-police, but I’m going to do exactly that. If we want to win, we need to be cool and collected, we have to approach people we don’t like where they are and bring them into the fight for justice. We have to hold each other accountable when we screw up and do that in a way that isn’t alienating, insulting or acrimonious. We have to stop being such a cliquey little social circle. The left needs to win. The world needs us to win.

Put in plain words, left-wing proposals are enormously popular, like Medicare for all, truly universal suffrage and the dismantling of our inhumane prison system. But our views and positions are deeply unpopular when expressed in terms and ways that most people find off-putting or laughable.

To most outsiders, the left is a self-absorbed, hyper-specific social scene full of humorless people where you can get called out for anything, regardless of the validity of the critique.

We have to be funny, expansive and welcoming, but also calm and dignified. It’s impossible to agitate someone effectively if you’re already as pissed as you could ever be. It’s impossible to be an effective organizer if you come off as smug, arrogant and hostile which, frankly, most of us do. Getting people to be mad at us instead of mad at power is the exact opposite of effective agitation.

Changing this doesn’t mean abandoning any of our beliefs or positions.

It means finding a way to bring them to everyone else, and it means acting in a strategically responsible manner. The alternative, continued defeat where the bulk of people support the core of our program, is not sad, or unfortunate, or the fault of forces arrayed against us, it’s monstrously irresponsible. We lost those fights by making the wrong choices at the wrong time.

What we need to do, in my opinion, is to find a way to express what we know to be true in clear ways. It means switching “capitalism” for “rule by the rich,” and “the neoliberal white cis-heteronormative patriarchy,” for “the corrupt, racist, anti-gay, anti-trans government.” “Imperialist genocide,” is a lot more understandable when you call it “war,” “murder” or “a rich man’s fight.” Instead of attacking our opponents based on immutable characteristics, which is a real problem that many on the Tufts left are guilty of, we have to address the material effects of what they do. A white guy who wants to end public schooling thinks he’s doing the right thing. It takes work and it feels shittier to explain to him why he’s wrong, and why ending public schooling will only hurt black, Latinx and poor people. However, it undermines his belief system and forces him to examine the internal flaws in his thinking in a way that calling him racist and leaving

it at that never would, and it does the same thing for observers.

Of course, the burden of this discourse ought to fall on those who are insulated from its worst effects. Maybe.

White people, particularly cis-white people need to be out there leveraging their access to social spaces and institutions to agitate, educate, and organize. But the movement can’t and shouldn’t be led by comfortable people. Fights for liberation have never been led or won exclusively by the privileged. The vanguard needs to reflect the dream of a new society, not the nightmares of the old. Workers, students and oppressed peoples must all lead the fight in one coalition.

To build this we need to reach out to people beyond our clubs and social groups, talk to them in ways they can understand and listen to their complaints. Nearly everyone suffers under this system, we need to put forward an alternative. We need to talk about green energy, the quality of work, socially necessary labor, health policy, overdoses, how the cops screw over everyone, electing your boss, owning your workplace and participatory planning.

We actually have to lay out a vision for the new world in relation to the old. This means having faith in each other, in justice and in the possibility of something greater than this boring dystopia. If you don’t believe we can win, you won’t fight for it, and no one will stand with you.

Otherwise, we’re just complaining to each other and holding signs against something we don’t really want to replace. For too long we’ve been right in an off-putting, stand-offish way, and we’ve fought like we were already going to lose and the only thing left to do was register some obscure objection and wilt at our inevitable defeat.

The point was never to describe what was wrong, or to be correct all the time, or to find other people who understood our jargon and shared our despair. The point is, and always has been, to change the world.

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Junior forward Brian Brown hits the puck during the men’s ice hockey game against Amherst College at the Malden Forum on Feb. 11, 2017.

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continued from back the second frame with goals from senior forward Matt Quilty, sophomore defenseman Andrew Pizzo and sophomore forward Antoine Desnoyers in a span of just two minutes. With 19 seconds left in the second period, junior forward Ross Sloan scored the Cardinals’ fourth goal. Cardinals sophomore defenseman Antoine FournierGosselin rounded out the scoring with a power play goal in the third period.

While the 5–0 shutout was a tough result for the Jumbos, there were still great highlights from the game. First-year forward Edward Hannon won six of seven face-offs, first-year forward Hayden Smith had four shots on goal and senior goalie captain Nik Nugnes made 18 saves in his 24:53 minutes in net.

Tufts played the following day in the tournament consolation game against Endicott College, the second-ranked team in the nation. With 4:59 remaining in the first period, senior forward Brian Brown scored his third goal of the year to give the Jumbos a surprising 1–0 lead. The Gulls

quickly tied the score before the end of the first with a goal from junior defenseman Logan Day. From that point on, the Gulls went on a scoring spree, dominating the remainder of the game.

Endicott scored three goals — from sophomore forward Luke Rodgers, senior forward Jack Musil and junior forward Daniel Kucerovy — in the first 10 minutes of the second period. The Gulls had an even more aggressive third period with four goals: two from junior forward Ross Olsson and one apiece from junior forwards Josh Bowes and Thomas Daniels.

Although the scoreboard read 8–1, the Jumbos put up a fight throughout the entirety of the game. Sophomore forward Anthony Farinacci led the team with five shots, and first-year netminder Drew Hotte made 29 saves.

“Coach has told us to trust the process all year,” sophomore defenseman Cory Gottfried said. “So that’s what we did and continue to do. The wins will come as long as we keep working hard. That weekend was definitely tough, but all we can do is move forward.”

Tufts played Endicott for a second time on Jan. 9, with a very different result: the teams tied 2–2. Brown led the Jumbos, scoring twice against the Gulls, with one at the end of the first period and the second only 42 seconds into the second period. Down 2–0, the visitors responded with goals from Olsson early in the second period and Kucerovy with 92 seconds left in the third. Both teams took three shots in overtime, but none found the back of the net.

Nonetheless, the Jumbos were excited about their turnaround performance and satisfied with their hard work paying off.

“After the Endicott game, we saw that we can compete with any team,” first-year forward Mason Babbidge said. “That tie put us in a great position leading up to our following league home games.”

Tufts hosted two league games against Amherst and Hamilton on Jan. 13 and Jan. 14, respectively. The Jumbos defeated the Mammoths 4–0 with a power play goal late in the first period from Brown, a goal early in the second from first-year forward Charley Borek (his first of the season), another tally in

the second via sophomore forward Tyler Scroggins and the last goal from Farinacci in the third. Nugnes made 33 saves for the Jumbos in the third shutout of his career.

Coming off the important win, Tufts took the ice against No. 13 Hamilton the following day.

“We knew that Hamilton was going to be a really physical game going into it,” sophomore forward Machlan Sawden said. “So myself, [junior forward] Clay Berger and [sophomore forward] Ross Delabruere knew we had to throw our weight around and step up.”

The Jumbos battled in the first two periods, with the teams alternating goals.

Just 46 seconds into the game, first-year forward Brendan Ryan scored off an assist from first-year defenseman Michael Gordon. Hamilton followed that goal with one of its own from senior forward Brandon Willett. Borek then scored for the Jumbos with only a few minutes left in the first period to put the Jumbos up 2–1.

Only 11 seconds into the second period, Hamilton junior forward Jason Brochu put one in the back of the net to tie up the game.

Less than four minutes later, Babbidge scored to put the Jumbos back in the lead — one which they would not relinquish. In the third period, Delabruere and Brown both scored for Tufts, while Brochu added his second goal of the game for the Continentals with only a few minutes remaining.

Nugnes and Brown both had impressive weekends, with the former making 32 saves against Hamilton and the latter extending his recent scoring streak to five goals in four games. Machlan also stepped up for the Jumbos, playing defense instead of forward because first-year defenseman Craig Uyeno was absent due to a concussion.

“Our sweep this past weekend was a great display of our hard work,” Stahl said.

“However, it’s in the past, and we need to keep working hard.”

Tufts will play Trinity for a second time this season at home on Friday, Jan. 19.

The Jumbos fell 5–1 to the Bantams in the season opener.

“Coming off a big winning weekend, it’s going to be a big test to play Trinity,” Borek said. “We’re excited to rematch them and get a chance at some revenge.”

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continued from back Eighteen of those 37 points came from senior guard KJ Garrett, who only played his first game of the season due to a hand injury. With six boards, three assists and three steals to boot, it was a pretty good debut for a guy who had even more to celebrate that day: his birthday.

“It felt pretty good to be back, and it just also happened to be my birthday, so my parents were able to come out and watch me play,” Garrett said.

The team’s tour de California came to an end the next night, as the Jumbos recorded a 71–63 victory against the Stags.

Similar to the night before, when it trailed 11–0 early, Tufts had to surmount an early 14–4 deficit before eventually putting Claremont-Mudd-Scripps away.

Tufts was able to make up for its shooting struggles by getting to the line, scoring 22 points from the charity strike as opposed to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps’ nine. Despite the Jumbos’ lack of size, they were also able to dominate the boards, winning the rebound battle 49–31. Top contributions included a double-double of 16 points and 13 rebounds from senior guard and co-captain Vincent Pace and 18 points and seven boards from sophomore guard Eric Savage.

“It feels like everything’s starting to gel a little bit, especially defensively,” Savage said. “Even though we’re not typically known as a team that holds other teams down on the scoring column, we’ve started to do that a little bit, and when you’re doing that you … get away with some poor offensive performances and end up pulling out some games you wouldn’t normally win.”

Savage is right: The defense is holding opponents to an average of 72.5 points per game this year, which would be its best mark since the 2014–15 season. Tufts held teams under 70 points in three of its six victories during winter break.

On Jan. 5, the Jumbos hosted the Colby Mules (then 7-3) in a first NESCAC matchup of the season that was anything but low-scoring. In an offensive barrage at Cousens Gym, Tufts put up 94 points —

tied for a season high — in defeating the visitors 94–83.

Unlike the previous weekend, Tufts didn’t need to mount a comeback, as the hosts went wire-to-wire without trailing, despite Colby’s best offensive efforts. Tufts was buoyed by Pace and senior guard Everett Dayton, who each put up 22 points. Dayton, a co-captain, impressively managed to post his nine baskets in only 16 minutes of action.

The Jumbos rode that wave of momentum into the weekend, as they cruised to a comfortable 87–65 victory over the visiting Bowdoin Polar Bears (then 9–2).

Tufts was hot from behind the arc all night, shooting 51.5 percent from deep.

The team’s 17 three-pointers were a season high, keying another low-stress win; for the second night in a row, the Jumbos never trailed. Pace and Savage each put up 16 to lead the team.

The Jumbos’ final two games of winter break — on the road against theWilliams Ephs (then 11–2) and the Middlebury Panthers (then 10–3) — also proved to be their toughest. The matchup against Williams was a test that Tufts had been looking forward to all season. The Ephs were ranked fourth in the country at the time and boast one of the best defenses in the NESCAC, allowing only 64.3 points per game.

“We spent about three or four days preparing for that [Williams] game,” Garrett said. “We weren’t even thinking about Middlebury all that much at that point.”

That preparation turned into a 69–63 win for the Jumbos when it was all said and done. It didn’t come easy, however, as Tufts found itself down 63–52 with 6:13 left to play in the second half. Williams didn’t score another point in the game.

The Jumbos’ resulting 17–0 run was a culmination of resilience, staunch defense and steady scoring that led them to their third-straight NESCAC win and ninthstraight victory overall. Savage led the team with 13 points, and Pace put up his fourth consecutive double-double with 12 points and ten rebounds.

“We were shooting well,” coach Bob Sheldon said of the team’s winning streak.

“We were getting out, we were running, we

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Sophomore guard Eric Savage dribbles down the court in a 77–67 loss to Salem State at Cousens Gymnasium on Dec. 1, 2017. played some good defense … I think we were just gelling.”

Tufts’ run finally came to an end the next night at No. 14 Middlebury. The Panthers put on a show in the second half with 42 points, and the Jumbos ultimately fell 78–63. With 50.3 boards per game, Middlebury is by far the best rebounding team in the NESCAC; Tufts couldn’t keep up with the hosts’ size, as Middlebury won the rebounding battle 70–41, thanks to 33 offensive boards.

“I think we kind of ran out of gas, so to speak,” Savage said. “Friday, we were in a dogfight with Williams. It was a hot gym, and most of the guys in our rotation played minutes in the 30s or the high 20s, so we were extremely tired against Middlebury’s relatively more fresh team.”

Sheldon agreed, noting the challenge of playing back-to-back conference games.

“Saturdays in the NESCAC are kind of weird,” Sheldon said. “You have a Friday game that you prepare all week for, and then you have a Saturday game with a turnaround of only a few hours.”

Garrett led the team with a strong 20 points and nine rebounds off the bench, a good sign after he sustained a minor ankle

injury that kept him out of the first weekend of NESCAC play. He’s recovering well and still putting up good performances, which is exactly what the Jumbos need as they enter the thick of the conference season. With the entire roster healthy except for senior guard and co-captain Ben Engvall, the team is coming to form at the perfect time.

Overall, the Jumbos sit at 12–4 on the year, with a 3–1 record in NESCAC action, which ties them for second in the conference with Middlebury and Williams. The team continues conference play with a home matchup against Bates on Saturday.

Given their winter break and first few conference games, the Jumbos feel pretty good about their prospects for the final stretch of the regular season. Another positive: four of their six remaining NESCAC contests are at home.

“I’m very confident in our guys and our team,” Savage said. “I think we can beat anybody in [the NESCAC], as well as anybody in the country. We have more talent than anyone, so all we have to do is play hard and with heart. We could go without losing another game, and it wouldn’t surprise me.”

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continued from back son we do tournaments is because it helps us get ready for NESCAC games because they’re back-to-back, and you can’t sulk on the one game because you have another game the next day. The only thing you can do is bounce back.”

And so they did, as the Jumbos were able to recover in the consolation match against the DeSales Bulldogs, with the Jumbos doubling up their opponents in an 82–41 victory. The starting five contributed 50 points, with Baptista leading the way with game-highs of 16 points and 10 rebounds, while Briggs led the bench with 12 points and eight rebounds.

Tufts also dominated the glass with a season-high 54 rebounds.

The team commenced its NESCAC season on Jan. 5 with a road game at Colby.

It seemed that the Jumbos were back to winning ways as they defeated the Camels 65–43. After Colby’s junior guard Katie McCrum hit a jump shot to open the scoring, Tufts never trailed in the game. The Jumbos’ defensive strength was on display, as they limited the hosts to just 14 points in the first half. While the second half was a tighter affair, Tufts’ lead was comfortable enough for coach Carla Berube to play most of her bench players.

The victory celebration was shortlived, however, as the Jumbos fell 66–53 at Bowdoin the following day. Tufts was unable to stop senior guards Lauren Petit (20 points, seven rebounds) and Kate Kerrigan (13 points, 11 rebounds). The Jumbos seemed to make a slow start to the game, as the Polar Bears were able to rush to a 9–2 lead; the Jumbos’ only lead in the game came after the opening basket. Tufts gave up 32 points on free throws and was out-rebounded by Bowdoin 49—36. While Tufts was able to put up 32 points in the paint, the team’s threepoint shooting was less than ideal, as it shot 1-for-13 from beyond the arc. In contrast, Bowdoin went 4-for-11 on three-pointers.

Yet the Jumbos recovered to finish the winter break on a positive note. In general, Tufts’ ability to start games strong often proved to be key to its victories.

A 77–42 win at Worcester State was followed by a tight 47–40 win at home to NESCAC rival Williams. With the Williams game a defensive, low-scoring affair, Tufts demonstrated why it was the topranked team in the nation coming into the season by recovering from a dismal five-point second quarter to eke out the victory. Both DeCandido (12 points, 11 rebounds) and Baptista (15 points, 10 rebounds) recorded double-doubles as the Jumbos returned to winning ways.

“I think it was hard this year, especially because we have a lot of Monday games right after the weekend, so we just had to be smart with the way we practiced,” DeCandido said. “If you had an injury, you had to be honest with yourself. The recovery after Bowdoin physically and mentally was a little refresher, we had to be honest with ourselves with how we were feeling. We had to get over it, watched a lot of film on it and learned how to get better and what we did well.”

A more comfortable 61–45 victory over Middlebury followed to make Tufts 3–1 in NESCAC play. DeCandido continued her strong season with 15 points and a game-high 10 rebounds, but it was Briggs who led all scorers with 16 points. In the final game of the winter break, Tufts won 74–66 at UMass-Dartmouth. Briggs and DeCandido were at it again — the former put up 12 points and six rebounds, the latter picked up 24 points and nine rebounds, while Knapp contributed 18 points of her own. Tufts also demonstrated its strength in the transition game, scoring 27 points off turnovers.

Knapp had high praise for the contributions of Briggs in recent weeks.

“Briggs has been doing a really good job — she’s really taking everything coach and what the older players have

been telling her and putting it into use,” Knapp said. “Her presence in size [definitely helps], and she’s really quick and got really good post moves. While she’s small for a post [player], that plays to her advantage because when she’s up against bigger post players, she’s definitely much quicker than them. She can also really stretch the floor, so it pulls some of the bigger players out and opens up drives for the other players in the court.”

A series of conference matches lie ahead for Tufts, as it travels to Bates on Saturday, before returning home on Friday to play Conn. College. Despite a strong start to the season, Baptista knows the team still has much to work on.

“Defense is a thing that we need to get back on,” she said. “We’re letting teams score more than the normal 42, 45 points, and we’re getting in a lot of foul trouble. I don’t think we are at all at our peak, and we’re still working on these things and making open shots, being better-spaced against zone defense …

These are weaknesses that we’ve had against Albright, against Bowdoin and in close games, but as the season goes on, we’re getting there … From Albright to now, I don’t think anyone on the team is satisfied with how we’re playing, but we’re getting better.”

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Senior guard Lauren Dillon launches a pass in the 78–49 win over Roger Williams at Cousens Gym on Nov. 17, 2017.

Jumbos record four straight wins to end winter break

by Yuan Jun Chee Sports Editor

The Tufts women’s basketball team dropped two games over a winter break that saw them slip to No. 8 in the national rankings, but recovered strongly on both occasions to remain third overall in the NESCAC standings at 15–2.

Speaking about the winter break schedule, senior forward Melissa Baptista thought it was a good growing experience for the team.

“It felt like a whole different season — the season during the school year, then there’s the season during winter break,”

Baptista said. “It started off as a low with a loss at Albright, and it was somewhere we didn’t want to be, having a loss early on in the regular season, but it allowed us to realize our holes and gaps and room to grow, pointing out our weaknesses and what we needed to work on.”

After taking a few weeks off with the end of the fall semester, then-No. 1 Tufts traveled to Montclair, N.J., for the Gelston/Paskert Holiday Tournament from Dec. 29–30. In its opening game, Tufts fell 62–59 to Albright for its first loss of the season. Tufts started strong, racing out to a 6–0 lead, and eventually finished the first quarter with a 16–9 lead courtesy

of balanced scoring from Baptista (four points), sophomore guard/forward Erica DeCandido (four points) and junior guard Jac Knapp (five points). The Jumbos were undone by a 12-point third quarter that knotted the score at 46 apiece. Albright, on the other hand, posted 22 points in the frame, led by senior guard/forward Alysha Lofton’s seven points, and senior forward/center Devan Horka’s six points.

The latter went on to finish with a gamehigh 17 points.

In a seesaw final quarter, the two sides exchanged leads multiple times.

Senior guard Jane Joyce’s two free throws with 2:40 to play gave Albright a 58–57

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lead, which grew after junior guard/forward MiKayla Lea’s layup and another Joyce free throw with 0:30 to play. Tufts first-year guard/forward Emily Briggs narrowed the gap to three with twelve seconds left, and Knapp had an opportunity to tie the game at the buzzer but her three-pointer was off the mark, as Albright held on for victory.

“After the tough loss against Albright, our seniors brought us together and were like, ‘Hey, this is gonna happen and we just need to know how to bounce back from this,'” DeCandido said. “The reasee WOMEN'S BASKETBALL, page 11

ICE HOCKEY

Jumbos go 3–1 to start NESCAC Tufts turns season around over play during successful winter break break run

by Julia Atkins

Contributing Writer

by Ryan Eggers

Assistant Sports Editor

With winter recess in session, the Jumbos were able to put down the books for a few weeks and pick up some key wins as conference play in the NESCAC began.

The team played six games during break, putting up a 5–1 record and most recently losing to Middlebury — a loss that snapped Tufts’ nine-game winning streak.

Their holiday slate began with a trip to California, where the Jumbos took on the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens (then 2-8) and

the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags (then 3-6), picking up wins in both contests.

On Dec. 28, against the Sagehens, the Jumbos were able to eke out a close 77–75 win, thanks to clutch free throws from first-year guard Justin Kouyoumdjian with a few seconds left on the clock.

Bench contributions from guys like Kouyoumdjian keyed the win over Pomona-Pitzer — the Jumbos led the Sagehens 37-5 in bench scoring — and many others during the win streak. see MEN'S BASKETBALL, page 11

The Tufts ice hockey team entered January in the midst of a four-game losing streak with an overall record of 1–7–1.

The team resumed its season at the W.B. Mason Winter Classic in Plattsburgh, N.Y. on Jan. 5–6, resulting in two more losses to Plattsburgh State (then 5–7) and No. 2 Endicott (then 13–1–1).

The Jumbos redeemed themselves the following game on their home ice, where they again took on the high-flying Gulls. In stark contrast to the team’s first matchup, Tufts tied Endicott 2–2 in overtime, mark-

ing a turning point in its season. The following weekend, Tufts shut out Amherst 4–0 and beat No. 9 Hamilton 5–3 at home, bringing its current record to 3–9–2.

“The outcome of last weekend was a result of our work ethic,” sophomore defenseman Cooper Stahl said. “We just put the past behind us and decided to move forward with our season and just play hockey.”

Tufts faced some fierce competition at the W.B. Mason Winter Classic, with its first game against Plattsburgh State.

Although neither team scored in the first period, the hosts came out very strong in see ICE HOCKEY, page 10