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Annual Security Report shows changing crime rates on Medford, Boston, Grafton campuses

by Arin Kerstein News Editor

Content Warning: This article discusses sexual violence.

The Department of Public and Environmental Safety (DPES) released its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report on Sept. 30, breaking down reported instances of crime in 2016 on each Tufts campus. Reported cases of crime increased on the Boston Health Sciences campuses. On the Medford/ Somerville campus, reported cases of rape decreased and fondling increased from 2015 to 2016. The overall crime rate on the Medford/Somerville campus did not fluctuate much, increasing from 147 crimes in 2015 to 148 in 2016.

The annual report is released in accordance with the Clery Act, a federal mandate requiring the release of such reports for all colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid. Statistics were not provided for crimes on the university’s Fenway campus. The Fenway campus houses the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA), which was acquired by the university in 2016, the year for which the report outlines crimes. Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin

Maguire explained that the department will release the 2016 SMFA data in the future.

“For the six months we operated the SMFA in 2016 – July 1 – December 31, we reported the statistics in our current ASR, posted online,” Maguire told the Daily in an email. “We’ll amend that report from the data we’ve received from SMFA Public Safety Administration … but there were no reported crimes in any categories that were recorded by SMFA Public Safety Administration.”

Maguire explained that the increase in reported crimes on the Boston Health Sciences campus can be attributed to revised guidance on areas of mandated reporting under the Clery Act. Crimes reported on the Tufts Medical Center property and MAX LALANNE / THE TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES nearby public property have been Officers from multiple police departments, including Somerville PD and TUPD, gather outside Cabot included in this most recent report Auditorium on May 9, 2016. because the U.S. Department of Education’s 2016 Handbook for Campus Prior to 2015, rape and fondling were com- cantly, but that it is difficult to pinpoint the Safety and Security Reporting requires bined under the classification of forcible sex cause of the changes for each category of campuses to report crimes occurring on offenses. Maguire noted that the combined offense. public property “within or immediately numbers of these crimes on the Medford/ see SMFA, page 2 adjacent to campus.”

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SMFA students cite concerns about lack of resources, cohesion between communities post merger

by Emily Burke News Editor

This year’s first-year class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) is the first admitted through Tufts’ admissions policies, the first to pay full Tufts tuition and the second class to be fully designated as Tufts students after Tufts acquired the SMFA in June 2016. Some Bachelors of Fine Arts (BFA) students, however, feel that their access to resources like dining and health facilities is limited and that their time across the two campuses is disconnected.

Integration of student services Maia Lai, a sophomore BFA student who was part of the first class after the Tufts-SMFA merger, noted that the transitional phase of the acquisition was confusing for many students. Lai expressed some disappointment with the progress being made, especially in terms of limits to resources like health services on the SMFA campus, located in the Fenway area of Boston.

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things can happen,” Lai said. “There is a metal workshop, there are sparks flying, you can cut yourself, there are ceramics, working in a kiln you could burn yourself.”

According to the Student Life website, SMFA students can either use Tufts Health Service on the Medford/Somerville campus or Harvard Vanguard, a Kenmore Square-area healthcare practice about a 0.7-mile walk away from SMFA. Lai also said that the availability of mental health services on the Fenway campus needs improvement. She added that students are often referred by the Fenway’s counseling services to outside psychiatrists, even when students need a place to discuss general issues. The Student Life website, however, notes that the Fenway campus offers its own free, on-site, confidential mental health care service, apart from Counseling and Mental Health Services on the Medford/Somerville campus.

Sophomore Gabriella Melchiorri explained that although SMFA students are offered resources on the Medford/Somerville campus, the commute from the SMFA campus

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to access them is time-consuming and inconvenient.

“We are encouraged to go to Tufts for the workout facilities, and even some dining options, because we currently don’t have a cafeteria of our own.” Melchiorri said. “As much as I like Tufts and the campus, it is a hike for us to get from point A to point B. [If] you want to go to the gym and be there for an hour, it takes over an hour just to get there sometimes with traffic.”

SMFA students are offered discounts at fitness centers including Northeastern University’s Marino Center and the Huntington Avenue YMCA, in addition to athletic facilities on the Medford campus, according to the Student Life website.

Additionally, Lai explained that SMFA students can sign up for meal plans at nearby Emmanuel College, and the Cafe des Arts, an on-campus SMFA cafe, is under renovation. Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos said in a March 2017 Daily article that the full-service cafe is planned to be reopened in fall 2018.

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Changes to tuition policy For this academic year, BFA students above the first-year level pay $59,126 per year for tuition, fees, room and board, which reflects a 3.6 percent tuition increase from last year. BFA students who matriculated this year, however, are responsible for $68,372, bringing it in line with Tufts’ rate for bachelor of arts and bachelor of science students. Melchiorri also noted the lack of accessibility of resources seems particularly unfair with the increase in tuition for new BFA students.

“There are a lot of things about the school that frustrate all of us, and the tuition hike is just the cherry on top,” Melchiorri said.

SMFA Dean Nancy Bauer said that the Class of 2021 is the first class of SMFA students who came in fully aware of the merge, and noted that this class will follow the same tuition plan as all other Tufts undergraduates. She emphasized that this includes the availability of financial aid that meets students’ full demonstrated need.

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continued from page 1 “Tufts tuition is higher than the old SMFA rate by a bit, but the higher rate is offset by the fact that the university’s financial aid program meets students’ full demonstrated need,” Bauer said.

Bauer said that the merger will provide unique financial advantages for SMFA students.

“I think it is a positive thing because it’s typical in independent art schools for people to get merit scholarship money and perhaps some need-based financial aid, but it’s rare for art schools to meet 100 percent of the full demonstrated need of all admitted students,” Bauer said.

Aside from the lack of access to resources, SMFA expressed other ways they feel disconnected from the larger Tufts community. According to Lai, first-years are encouraged to only take one class at Tufts during their first semester so that they get used to the SMFA campus first. The SMFA First-Year Experience website depicts a sample schedule where English 1 and 2 are the only classes taken on the Medford/Somerville during the first and second semesters, respectively. Lai said she does not see this as an effective way of integrating the two schools, and sees this as a bigger issue than tuition hikes.

“A lot of my friends, including freshmen, are irritated but they want the relationship to get better for future students,” Lai said.

Michelle Gee, a first-year BFA student, felt that her academic schedule restricted her from the Tufts student body. Gee said that, if she were not taking a calculus class at the

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Medford/Somerville campus, she would not be aware of what was happening at Tufts and would feel even more separate from the Tufts community.

Gee said that the more demanding Tufts application requirements, including the submission of standardized test scores and additional essay questions, for the Class of 2021 did not significantly impact her decision to apply to the program, but that the restrictions on Tufts courses that BFA students can take are affecting her evaluation of the program.

Overall, Lai argued that there is a need for better integration and communication between Tufts and the SMFA. “There just needs to be better communication between the two [schools] to be the community that Tufts says they are,” Lai said.

“Academics and art go hand in hand.”

Gee also suggested that the schools communicate more directly with students about resources and changes to the program.

“I think SMFA can be a little more vocal with the resources we can use,” Gee said.

“They should tell us what resources we have.”

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Despite the lingering problems with the Tufts-SMFA merger, Melchiorri sees the transition overall as a beneficial step.

“Tufts taking over, I believe, is a positive thing for the school … Tufts is a great institution, and before them the school was in shambles,” Melchiorri said. “They’re trying to fix all of the issues. It’s taken a long time, and it’s a huge undertaking.”

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“The reason for an increase of reported fondling cases from 2015 to 2016 (from 8 to 16) and decrease of reported rape incidents (17 to 6) is difficult to determine but may be attributed to increased efforts by the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) clarifying the elements of these crimes and assisting survivors in reporting,” Maguire told the Daily in an email.

OEO Executive Director Jill Zellmer added that another reason for this discrepancy is that cases that occurred several years ago were reported during recent years, and the Clery Reports reflect these past incidents, rather than just including incidents that actually occurred that year.

“Part of that was because of the rise of national attention on college sexual assaults in those years and part of that was our continuing efforts to encourage reporting — even in [alumni] — believing those individuals, and having systems in place to respond to delayed reporting,” she told the Daily in an email.

Zellmer said that the university has also seen increases in general harassment reports on the Boston Health Sciences and Medford/Somerville campuses, along with increased reports of race/color, national or ethnic origin, gender and religion-based harassment on the Medford/Somerville campus.

“We believe this is also the result of the national climate. Most of those reports are from students who are experiencing this harassment from non-Tufts affiliates,” she said. “We are tracking those very carefully and OEO, [the Tufts University Police Department] and others are working together to try to minimize those types of incidents.”

Zellmer noted that trends in reported cases of sexual misconduct are comparable to those of similar university and college campuses.

Maguire explained that DPES conducts com-

parisons to similar institutions to shed light on the overall state of campus crime.

According to Maguire, Tufts had lower rates in 2015 for violent crime than peer and aspirant institutions, with violent crimes including murder, sex offenses, robbery and aggravated assault. In 2015, Tufts’ Violent Crime index per 1000 students was 2.58, compared to a 2.71 average for peer and aspirant institutions such as Bentley University, Brandeis University, Babson College, Boston College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he said. DPES uses a comparison tool provided by the Department of Education and an internal analysis process.

Maguire also noted that in 2015 Tufts’ Property Crime index per 1000 students was 1.05, while the average for other fouryear institutions with student housing in Massachusetts was 1.47. Property crimes include burglary, motor vehicle theft and arson, Maguire said.

The change in sexual offense incident reports on the Medford/Somerville campus follows an increase of reported cases of forcible sexual offenses from 2014– 15. Maguire and Zellmer both attributed the prior increase in cases of forcible sexual offenses to increased efforts to encourage survivors to report incidents.

According to a report by the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), four out of five cases of sexual violence go unreported to law enforcement by female students between the ages of 18 and 24. Zellmer said she believes that sexual misconduct training has increased reporting in recent years.

“This is the second year that all four undergraduate classes at Tufts have been trained in their first year at Tufts … We know that training builds awareness and a discussion of all the issues of sexual misconduct,” she said.

“We want to encourage these discussions, too, because then when something does happen, people know what to do, how to respond and where to go for resources and support.”

Zellmer told the Daily in a Sept. 25 article that she hopes that trends in reporting do not suffer based on Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ rescinding of Obamaera regulations for sexual misconduct policy.

“Students at Tufts and around the nation now have an expectation that there will be programmatic support and responses to their experiences and reports,” Zellmer told the Daily in an email. “We want to be sure that our community members are encouraged to report, know where to go to report and received the same or greater level of responses and support as they always have.”

Erin Viola, an executive board member of Action for Sexual Assault Prevention at Tufts, explained that the reporting process can be daunting for many survivors of sexual assault due to several reasons, including fear of the assaulter and fear and a lack of understanding about the adjudication process. She noted that this greatly limits what the data can tell readers about the state of sexual misconduct at Tufts.

“The only way to get a more realistic number is if more people report, and that puts a lot of pressure on survivors to come forward,” Viola, a sophomore, said.

She added that the report could go further to portray the limited nature of the statistics.

“I think [the report] needs to paint the real picture,” she said. “There should be an asterisk next to the six reported rapes in 2016 that this is a fraction of what’s actually going on and we know it’s a fraction of what’s actually going on.”

Zellmer added that while OEO recognizes that survivors have many reasons for choosing not to report, she hopes OEO’s efforts to reduce barriers to reporting will improve the university’s overall understanding of the state of sexual misconduct.

“The more accurate the sense we can get of what happens on campus, the better we are able to target prevention, resources and support,” she said.

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Students enjoy Vietnamese food during a cultural event hosted by the Vietnamese Students Club on April 13, 2015 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnamese-American war.

Decreased TCU event requirement gives culture clubs space for growth and discussion

by Sophia Boxerman Contributing Writer

In past years, a Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary requirement specifying the number of public events that culture clubs are required to host threatened the very culture of the clubs themselves, according to several organization leaders.

However, the TCU Senate opted to reduce the number of required public events for culture clubs from three to one per semester, allowing for them to spend less time planning events and more time bonding and celebrating their unique cultures.

In a March 11, 2016 Daily article, students from different culture clubs described the strain of working with TCU Senate’s restricted food budget and mandatory three-event requirement on their clubs’ purpose and community. This original threeevent requirement was specified in Bylaw 2, Section G of the Tufts Judiciary, according to the TCU Senate website. This bylaw, however, was amended at the end of last semester to best accommodate the needs of various culture clubs.

Junior Charlie Zhen, the Asian American community senator and member of the Chinese Students Association (CSA) executive board, said that he originally spearheaded this change due to an increasing dissatisfaction with the way culture clubs were run in accordance with this by-law.

Zhen said that the process of proposing and eventually passing the resolution began with discussions with various club members as well as the entire Pan Asian Council, an umbrella organization made up of representatives of all the Asian culture clubs on campus, regarding the inability of culture clubs to expand activities beyond mere event planning.

“I went to the Judiciary, I went to the [Committee on Student Life], and we changed the language to reduce the event

requirement, which means that e-boards no ing the Vietnamese people who come to this longer have to function as event planning club for a space to gather and a place to feel committees all the time,” he said. “Now at solidarity, or are serving the broader Tufts CSA, we can have meetings [that are not all community?” about events].”

Zhen said that, in past years, the CSA This past March, after meeting with the functioned similarly.

Judiciary, Zhen published an article in The “It was nothing about Chinese history, Tufts Observer titled that highlighted his being Chinese, what does it mean to be concerns with this restrictive by-law. a Chinese person on this campus or in In the article, he specified, “When meet- America,” he said. ings are dedicated Zhen said that to event planning, the pressure to logistics, delegahost three distinct tion and orderevents also forced ing food from our clubs to cut memfavorite ‘ethnic’ bership down to restaurants for the just a small e-board campus-wide comresponsible for munity to enjoy, we event planning. He de-prioritize our added that admiscommunities and sion to this selecinstead cater to the tive e-board was interests and ‘ethcentered on your nic curiosities’ of ability to contribthe rest of the stuute to events and dent body.” plan events.

Senior Tony “It was not Nguyen, the about who would president of like to be a part of the Vietnamese this community, Students Club, who would want said that before to be exposed VINTUS OKONKWO / THE TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES the resolution was Asian American Community Senator Charlie to exploring this passed, culture Zhen poses for a portrait on April 24. aspect of their clubs would rush to put together events. identity,” he said. “And it shouldn’t be “I think that this new rule makes us feel like that. It can be very alienating if better, because we can do one event and it you’re trying to get into a culture club will be intentional to serve our community and you’re not accepted. You wonder, and it will serve what we want to do rather what is this denial based off of? Is it than just put out an event because we need based off of my identity? My culture? to,” Nguyen said.

Who I am as a person?”

Rather than fostering internal community, John Fernandez, a sophomore recently Nguyen said that the three-event requirement elected to the e-board of the Association challenged the purpose of cultural clubs. of Latin American Students (ALAS), agreed “That’s the broader implication of ‘who that lowering the number of required events are we serving,’” Nguyen said. “Are we serv- for culture clubs was a good decision.

“It gives [club members] more of an opportunity to focus on learning more about that culture, promoting discussions for that culture and doing events that are tied more to that culture,” Fernandez said.

Fernandez also spoke to the small size and limited resources of many culture clubs as a hindrance in large-scale event planning, as the previous by-law mandated the same three-event requirement regardless of a culture club’s membership.

“When you look at culture clubs across campus, they generally have a much smaller [population] of the student body,” he said. “Therefore, their funding isn’t going to be as great as other clubs on campus, so having this requirement would limit them, especially since they kind of have to keep it in their minds, especially when they’re trying to get other work done and trying to promote other discussions and do other things.”

This year, with less emphasis on event planning, Nguyen said that he hopes to see the Vietnamese Students Club hold more internal bonding, build relationships and create a better student community — rather than just serving as a planning space.

“We’re doing a lot of exploration of culture, a lot of ‘what does it mean to be Vietnamese,’” Nguyen said. “And also just more hanging out. That’s really important too; we don’t need to be on the social justice side all the time.”

Zhen emphasized the significance of culture spaces on campus and reflected his optimism for CSA this year.

“We’re going to try to look at focusing on culture and identity, because there are so few spaces for that here on campus,” he said. “And I think we’re going to try to make it a social place where you can explore and learn about your identity [and] also to have a good time.”

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The Tufts Art Gallery’s new exhibition, ‘Home Town: Re-presenting Boston’s Chinatown as Place of People – Now and Then,’ features Tsen’s life-size cutout figures derived from archival photos on street corners and public square in Chinatown.

With his residency, artist Wen-ti Tsen reaches past the center

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The Tufts University Art Gallery opened its new exhibition, “Home Town: Re-presenting Boston’s Chinatown as Place of People – Now and Then,” on Oct. 2 with works by Wen-ti Tsen.

The artist — who was born in China, grew up in Europe and later moved to the United States — is the artist-in-residence for this semester through the Nat and Martha Knaster Visiting Artist grant. Tsen has worked with the Center for the Humanities at Tufts and the Consortium of Programs in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora to exhibit his large-scale mural “Pilgrim Father/Illegal Son” and life-size cutouts of former residents of Chinatown.

On Monday, Tsen addressed the Tufts community in the Alumnae Lounge, giving a lecture entitled “Art and Immigration: One Artist / Several Paths.”

The issue of undocumented Chinese immigrants is a major preoccupation of Tsen’s work and a theme that he highlights in his mural piece. The series of pictures provides a dichotomy, contrasting the journey to the United States of a modern-day Chinese man fictitiously named Tieshan with that of William Bradford, a 17th-century pilgrim who traveled to New England.

Tsen sheds light on the poor living conditions of many undocumented immigrants using the medium of photography.

The artist cites photography’s objectivity and “coldness” as a reason for his choice of medium for this particular series. The series depicts the basement in which Tieshan lives in the South Shore of Massachusetts, with a collage of a stylized human figure drawn in pencil to conceal Tieshan’s identity.

“Painting doesn’t do it,” Tsen said in an interview with the Daily. “Painting is one per-

son’s opinion. Photography can document a guy’s home. If I had made a painting, people would have thought that this was a picturesque, romanticized view of poverty. This is documenting who he is and that he has nowhere to go.”

Erin Berja, a sophomore who attended Tsen’s lecture and subsequent reception at the art gallery, thought the juxtaposition of Tieshan and Bradford was especially powerful.

“Why is the present-day Chinese laborer shunned and maltreated for moving to a country that’s not ‘his,’ while the ancient English settler is continuously venerated and considered heroic by history for doing the same thing?” Berja asked.

In other projects, however, Tsen has used painting to visually express the marginalization of racial and immigrant minorities on American soil. He is particularly fascinated by the concepts of “center” and “margin,” which, in his paintings, translate both in a literal and figurative sense.

“Center is [what was] created by the English settlers to start with,” Tsen said. “We pick up everything from the point of view of the center, so everyone who is not part of that center gets ignored.”

The strong perspective in Tsen’s paintings conveys his concern with many immigrants falling to the sides of society, while people focus on the center of the picture. This center usually corresponds with the narrative of mainstream American society, which excludes people like the artist himself. In his lecture, Tsen described the unusual position of immigrants, who are spectators of political events in the United States but are frequently afraid to speak up about their situations. Tsen acknowledged the strong political nature of his work, which he conciliates with strenuous activism.

“What I would like [out of my residency] is to get more and more people involved in this cause, let them know that they have the ability and the agency to change our society,” Tsen said.

The Chinese-American artist also recognizes that the contribution of younger generations is fundamental to bring about palpable social change. “[Activism] is important, especially for younger people,” Tsen said. “You cannot just go to college; you have to be an activist.

Activism is the engagement with society and what will change it.”

Tsen also called for action against the sociopolitical establishment.

“We cannot just allow things already in place to take over,” Tsen said.

Although the work on show in the Remis Sculpture Court is clearly connected to the artist’s Chinese heritage and his relationship with Chinatown in Boston, Tsen believes most of his work “is actually not related to Chinatown.” He did, however, emphasize his connection with the neighborhood, with which he strongly associates himself. At the same time, he does not sound as enthusiastic about the rest of Boston.

“I have a relationship with Chinatown as a community but not so much with the city of Boston,” Tsen said. “I kind of landed here more or less accidentally just because of family members here, and then I started to settle here. It’s a decent city.”

Tsen’s identification with the Chinatown neighborhood inspired one of his most celebrated works, which gave the exhibition at the Tufts Art Gallery its name. “Home Town: Re-presenting Boston’s Chinatown as Place of People – Now and Then” is made up of several cutout pictures of historical photos of former Chinatown inhabitants.

This piece shows Tsen’s concern with the

issue of gentrification, a pressing issue in the neighborhood. Many people who once resided in Chinatown have been displaced and can no longer afford to live there.

Tsen does not think this phenomenon is inherently bad but believes urban planners and local governments should be more wary of the consequences of their actions.

“Gentrification [occurs] because of a change in culture, which is not bad in itself,” Tsen said. “People used to live in the suburbs and spend a lot of money commuting [to the city], and the new generations know that that’s not ecological or viable. I have actually witnessed a lot of cities that are much more livable thanks to gentrification, like Dallas.

Moving into the city and reclaiming it makes a lot of sense, but it has to happen with a lot of consideration of what people are disrupting.”

Tsen also linked the problem of gentrification in Chinatown to the displacement of people of color and low-income families who had lived in neighborhoods bordering college campuses for a long time, but who now have been forced to move out due to rising demand for housing.

“Colleges too … are becoming bigger and more important,” Tsen said. “Local people living there inevitably cannot afford older property. To a certain degree, it is better to sell the property than to stay. It is an economic problem that is hard to solve.”

He also believes that people should be making an active effort to counter such trends and defend local businesses.

“The residents [of a certain neighborhood] have to put some kind of control so that local businesses can stay,” Tsen said. “We have to defend our bookstores, cafés and restaurants.”

“Home Town: Re-presenting Boston’s Chinatown as Place of People – Now and Then” will be on show at the Tufts Art Gallery until Nov. 30.

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Cross country keeps up competitive spirit at Conn. College

by Jeremy Goldstein Staff Writer

The Tufts women’s and men’s cross country teams wrapped up an ostensibly successful weekend at Conn. College with second and seventh place finishes, respectively. By some measures, however, the Jumbos failed to meet their high standards, providing a source of motivation for the final month of the season.

The women’s team was led by the strong performance of senior tri-captain Brittany Bowman, who placed second overall with a time of 21:55.6 in the 6k race. Bowman was followed closely behind by junior Natalie Bettez (22:05.1), who finished third. Tufts’ top seven runners — those who earn points for the overall standings — were rounded out by the steady contributions of junior Olivia Barnett (11th), sophomore Lydia Heely

(13th), first-year Carly Curcuru (19th), junior Kelsey Tierney (22nd) and first-year Sara Mitchell (24th).

“Our top two runners had great days,” coach Kristen Morwick told the Daily in an email. “Brittany has been fighting sickness for a couple of weeks and finally feels like herself again. Natalie ran faster than last year on this course, despite the rain, mud, and sloppy conditions — the course was much slower this year.”

Despite the positive results, the day fell just short of a complete success, according to Morwick.

“Our goal going into the meet was to beat Middlebury and win … so we fell just short of that,” she said.

The Tufts men’s team also posted an impressive performance but came away somewhat disappointed (coincidentally, thanks to Middlebury, as well).

“We were hoping to get our pack up with [Middlebury’s], but that didn’t happen,” junior Brian Reaney said. “I think it’s okay. Bad days happen, so we’re keeping our heads up.”

Even so, the Jumbos displayed remarkable consistency with their top four performers. Junior Dylan Jones finished 29th with a time of 26:20.2 in the 8k race, while the junior trio of Colin Raposo (31st), Andrew Doherty Munro (33rd) and Reaney (36th) all finished within 4.1 seconds of each other. Assistant coach Michael Schmidt remarked that while this was not planned, it was not entirely an accident either.

“It’s intentional for them to work together and be pushing each other in the race,” Schmidt said. “It’s not necessarily intentional to finish in that tight [of] a group.”

First-year Patrick Nero, junior Hiroto Watanabe and first-year Peter Horvath

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Junior Kelsey Tierney runs along the shore at the Conn. College Cross Country Invitational at Harkness Memorial State Park on Oct. 15, 2016.

rounded out the men’s top seven, all of whom finished in the top 50 overall.

“The [first-years] have run great,” Schmidt said. “They all should be proud of how they’ve been running. One of the biggest differences is adjusting to how the first few miles feel in an 8k [race] from in a 5k, and that’s why it is so impressive that so many of [them] are able to put in impressive races.”

Morwick echoed a similar sentiment and for good reason. The women’s team had two first-years, Curcuru and Mitchell, finish in its top seven and in the top 25 overall. The Class of 2021’s depth does not stop there, however.

“We currently have six [first-years] in our team’s top 15 and they have been making steady improvements all season,” Morwick said. “This class is going to be a force in the years to come and [has] already made an impact on our program. They work hard, are easy to coach and are a lot of fun to have on the team.”

Oct. 28 will present a new challenge for the young Jumbos, as they travel to Bates for the NESCAC Championships. The men’s team will enter ranked sixth in the conference, but Schmidt thinks his team can outperform that position.

“We will probably go in ranked sixth, but seeing ourselves in [the] top four is goal,” he said. “Our returning varsity members [are the ones to step up]. We have many rookies and varsity newcomers who have all done well, but now is the time of the year to rely on veteran leadership from the guys who have been here before.”

Reaney believes that the team will adhere to the same strategy it used this weekend at Conn. College.

“Our biggest strategy has been to run as a pack,” he said. “At NESCACs, we’ll need to really pull each other along in the race, run aggressively and make sure to stick with [Middlebury].”

Experience seems to be the critical factor for the women’s team as well.

“Our goal remains the same for NESCACs: Finish in the top two,” Morwick said. “With Williams being the clear favorite, the battle for second will be between Tufts, Bates and Middlebury… The good thing is that we’ve raced the Bates course every year for the past five or six years, so we are familiar with [it] and have run well there.”

Without a doubt, the recent meets at Conn. College could prove important for Tufts, as it heads into the conference championships. Both squads will be able to draw on their impressive consistency for optimism, while also using the losses to Middlebury as extra motivation.

Tufts prevails over Bates 1–0, Keene State 3–0 MEN'S SOCCER

continued from back lack of balance and we were bombing the ball forward without any discipline so they [Keene State] were able to come back at us if we turned the ball over.”

With less than five minutes left in the first half, senior defender Matt Zinner took a corner kick from the right side, which landed in front of the goalmouth finding the feet of senior midfielder Dexter Eichhorst. Eichhorst slotted the ball in the bottom right corner, scoring the first goal of the match and his fifth on the season.

Energized by the first goal, sophomore midfielder/defender Zach Trevorrow netted another in the bottom right corner just 27 seconds later at 41:24, assisted by first-year defender/midfielder Derek Enge. This was Trevorrow’s second goal on the season.

“I think the amount of time they had to defend eventually wore them down a little bit and that created the great chances we were able to take at the end of the first half,” Shapiro said.

Despite the final score, the Keene State Owls had a fair share of near scoring opportunities. At 18:16, Owls senior midfielder Riley Steele was able to get a shot off that sailed over the crossbar. Steele also generated an opportunity later in the second half when he crossed the ball in front of the goalmouth to create some chaos, but again the Jumbos defense proved infallible and prevented the Owls from getting a good shot off.

The final goal for Tufts came late in the second half at 79:52 after senior midfielder Tyler Kulcsar crushed the ball down the right side into the 18, where junior midfielder/forward Jarod Glover took advantage of a poorly positioned Owl goaltender and headed the ball into the back of the net. Tufts outshot Keene State 18–7, while Keene State had no shots on goal compared to Tufts’ eight.

On Saturday, Tufts edged past Bates 1–0.

The game remained scoreless until late in the second half, as both teams missed close chances and were unable to capitalize. The Jumbos dominated the Bobcats in shots (12–5) in the first half and were quick to start peppering the Bobcats goalie with a shot on

net from sophomore forward Brett Rojas at 1:23. Sophomore midfielder Zach Lane also generated many offensive opportunities for the team, with three shots on net and six shots total.

“It was a tough field to play on because it was beat up from their games in the weeks before but it was a really back and forth game based on a lot of chances earlier on,” junior co-captain defender Sterling Weatherbie said. “Towards the end of the half we started to play a little better and we got our shots off, but we didn’t play the best that we could have.”

In the 63rd minute, senior co-captain defender Conor Coleman headed the ball to the net forcing a save from Bates junior goalkeeper Robbie Montanaro as Tufts continued to apply pressure. With six minutes left in the game, Tufts was awarded a corner kick. Senior midfielder Kevin Halliday shot the ball, which was poorly cleared by the Bates defense. First-year midfielder Travis van Brewer was on hand to net the game winner at 84:13. It was Van Brewer’s third goal on the season.

“It was a really grindy win, which is good because we need to have a couple of those under our belt before going into the playoffs and postseason because there are a lot of games like that,” Weatherbie said.

Tufts has two games remaining in the regular season against Williams and Bowdoin, and the results of these games will determine the final ranking and the host of the NESCAC tournament. With two victories, it is likely that Tufts would clinch the No. 1 seed and host the tournament.

Despite sustained success and consecutive wins, the team remains conscientious of the games to come.

“Williams is emerging as one of the best defensive teams and really dynamic young players are coming through and they are hitting their stride now,” Shapiro said. “Bowdoin is a nemesis for us — just look at our record for the last five years. They’ve had more success against us than any other team in the league and they are a very challenging opponent. Our job is to maintain our intensity and focus and to figure out how to be a better team in the post season than we were in the regular season.”

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Sophomore running back Andrew Sanders races away from Trinity defensive linemen in the game against the Trinity Bantams on Oct. 14.

Jumbos set to battle Ephs on the road

by Bradley Schussel Sports Editor

Tufts football will travel to Williamstown, Mass. for a week six matchup with the Williams Ephs on Saturday.

The Jumbos’ 3–2 record puts them in sixth place in the NESCAC. The Ephs, at 4–1, are in a four-way tie for second place with the Amherst Mammoths, Middlebury Panthers and Wesleyan Cardinals. Meanwhile, the defending NESCAC champion Trinity Bantams hold a perfect 5–0 record.

Trinity’s most recent victory came against Tufts in last week’s 23–16 loss for the Jumbos at Ellis Oval.

The Jumbos were mostly able to contain the Bantams’ passing offense by holding senior tri-captain quarterback Sonny Puzzo to just 200 yards and a single touchdown while sacking the Trinity playcaller six times. The Bantams’ rushing attack proved too much for the Jumbos’ defense, however, as junior running back Max Chipouras racked up 165 rushing yards on 29 attempts (5.7 yards per carry). Crucially, Chipouras also scored the go-ahead one-yard touchdown for

Trinity in the fourth quarter to seal the visiting team’s victory.

Tufts was plagued by penalties in the game, giving up 85 yards on eight infractions. Coach Jay Civetti attributed the number of penalties to his team’s aggressive style of play.

“The teams that play the most aggressively end up getting the most penalties,” Civetti said. “It just comes with the nature and demeanor of the way games are officiated.”

The game against Tufts was Trinity’s closest of the year, as three of their five victories have been by at least 28 points, including a 51–0 shutout against the Bates Bobcats (0–5).

“We played well, but at the end of the day we made one too many mistakes,” Tufts’ junior defensive back Alexander LaPiana said. “It’s great to say you kept a game close but, at the end of the day, a loss is a loss. We’ve gotta learn from it and move on, but [the game against Trinity] was a tough one.”

The Ephs were more fortunate in their last contest, a 27–26 comeback win over the Ephs. With nine minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Panthers had what seemed like a commanding 26–14 lead.

With four and a half minutes left, Williams closed the gap partially on a 10-yard rushing touchdown by first-year wide receiver Rashad Morrison. The Ephs’ defense managed to force a punt and reclaim the ball for their team with 2:19 to go in the game. The Williams offense then ran an impressive two-minute drill to get into the red zone. With his team down five points and 15 yards away from pay dirt, first-year quarterback Bobby Maimaron found first-year wide receiver Frank Stola in the end zone as time expired. The reception clinched the dramatic 27–26 victory for the Ephs and handed the Panthers their first loss on the year.

In last year’s matchup against Williams, Tufts came out on top with a convincing 35–16 win. The Jumbos’ running back Chance Brady (LA ’17) racked up video game numbers in that matchup. Brady rushed for 165 yards on 6.1 yards per carry and scored a whopping four touchdowns on the ground, breaking Tufts’ career rushing touchdowns record in the process.

Certainly, without Brady in the mix, this matchup will be quite different from last year’s game for both the Jumbos and the Ephs. This year, the touches have largely

been split at running back between firstyear Mike Pedrini, sophomore Andrew Sanders and junior Dominic Borelli, with both Pedrini and Sanders seeing an increase in touches over the last few games.

Civetti noted that both of his underclassman running backs will see time on the field against Williams.

“Mike [Pedrini] is growing, he’s learning a lot,” he said. “He’s only a [first-year].

Then again, Andrew [Sanders] is only a sophomore. I think both of them together complement each other well. [Pedrini] had a great game last week, and [Sanders] had a couple of big runs, so I think the two of them together give us a great chance.”

Williams will deploy a few first-year starters on offense, most notably Maimaron.

LaPiana, who will attempt to shut down the Ephs’ passing attack, is not taking any lack of experience for granted.

“Williams has had some [firstyears] come in and play really big for them,” LaPiana said. “I think the whole freshman thing is overblown. If you’re playing well, you’re playing well, regardless of your experience.”

Tufts and Williams will face off at FarleyLamb Field on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

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Jumbos on five-game winning streak, remain No. 1 in the NESCAC

by Savannah Mastrangelo Sports Editor

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First-year midfielder Alex Ratzan jumps to intercept a long pass in the homecoming game against Middlebury on Oct. 7.

Victories over Bates and Keene State afford Tufts a five-game winning streak as the team maintains its No. 1 position in the NESCAC. The Jumbos defense has rendered them practically unstoppable, as they have yet to concede a goal in five games and boast a 0.08 goals against average after giving up only one goal on the season.

On Wednesday, Tufts recorded a 3–0 victory over Keene State in its final non-conference match of the regular season. The match

started out slowly for the Jumbos. During the first half, the team had trouble connecting with each other and keeping the ball on the ground. The ball was airborne, bouncing back and forth as the teams traded possessions until Tufts managed to gain control of the game toward the end of the half.

“To be honest, we were good 15 to 20 minutes of the game and then we dropped off a bit and if we didn’t take those goals late in the half I think the conversation would have been very different, “ coach Josh Shapiro said. “We were getting frustrated with our see MEN'S SOCCER, page 7