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Naftali Brawer to succeed Jeffrey Summit as executive director of Tufts Hillel

by Austin Clementi Staff Writer

Rabbi Naftali Brawer, a published writer and the chief executive of a London-based think tank, will succeed Rabbi Jeffrey Summit as the Jewish chaplain and Neubauer Executive Director of Tufts Hillel, according to Patrick Collins, Tufts’ executive director of public relations. Brawer has taught in Jewish communities in Chile, Colombia and Venezuela, as well as in London. In 2008, the Jewish Chronicle listed Brawer as one of the 100 most influential Jews in Britain.

“He’s just a really thoughtful, talented, visionary individual, and we thought he could do extremely well in the many roles that the executive director plays,” Ted Tye (A ’79), the chair of the search committee, said.

Tye also was a part of the search committee for Tufts’ new athletic director, according to Tufts’ athletics website.

The search committee has been active since last summer, Tye told the Daily in an email. He added that the committee was composed of University Chaplain Reverend Greg McGonigle, Tufts Hillel’s student representative and Executive Board President Paulina Ash, a senior.

“Approximately 90 individuals were reviewed, about 10 were interviewed, and five were invited to spend a day on campus,” he wrote, adding that a parallel to Rabbi Summit was not the objective of this committee.

“Our goal was to find a new leader capable of moving the organization forward from the great base that Rabbi Summit has built,” Tye explained.

Summit, who removed himself from the process of searching for his successor, emphasized the importance of finding someone who will recognize the leadership potential in students on Tufts’ campus.

“I just think [this position] is a really important opportunity to engage the people who are going to be running the Jewish community in north America sooner than they realize it,” Summit said.

Before Brawer’s hiring was announced, Rabbi Jordan Braunig, director of Hillel’s Initiative for Innovative Community Building, said that he hoped for a new perspective that recognized the importance of change in the Tufts community. “[Summit’s successor should] have a vision for what is coming next,” Brauning said, “[but be] able to lead with the same sense of openness that [Summit] has brought to the work.”

Braunig seemed hopeful that Brawer would be able to accomplish this goal.

“In my short time with Naftali, I was impressed by his keen listening, his passion for a pluralistic Jewish community and his understanding that the more spaces we create for meaningful, Jewish engagement, the richer and deeper our time on campus will be,” he said in an electronic message to the Daily.

As Summit prepares to leave the role he has held for 39 years, Tufts has recognized his commitment to the university. On Feb. 8, Summit was

awarded the Hosea Ballou Medal by the Board of Trustees, an honor given to only eighteen members of the Tufts community since 1939.

The purpose of the Ballou Medal is to “recognize members of the Tufts community who have rendered exceptional service for the institution,” according to Tufts’ Office of the Trustees website. Summit was given the medal during a ceremony in Breed Hall, according to an article in TuftsNow. Summithimselfspokeattheevent,talkingabout what he calls“resistance against business as usual.”

“I talked about the social justice work we’re doing and the kind of work that we’re doing to get people across differences to be in nuanced deep conversation with one another,” Summit told the Daily in an interview.

Lauren Bloom, assistant director of Tufts Hillel, praised Summit’s career at Tufts. “[Summit] is open, caring, empathetic, passionate and wise,” she told the Daily in an email.

“His vision and leadership has made Tufts Hillel a warm and welcoming organization for all.”

McGonigle described Summit’s contributions over his tenure at Tufts in an email to the Daily.

“Rabbi Summit, over his distinguished 39-year tenure, working with his staff and many students, parents, alumni, and friends, has built Tufts Hillel to be what it is today—truly one of the finest Jewish campus life programs in the country,” he said.

University President Anthony Monaco highlighted some of Summit’s specific accomplish-

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Rabbi Dr. Naftali Brawer poses for a portrait. ments in an email to the Daily.

“During his time here, Tufts Hillel has been recognized nationally for its focus on social justice and active citizenship, interfaith and intercultural cooperation, Holocaust and genocide programming, Israel engagement and advocacy, and the promotion of coexistence and peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians,” Monaco said.

Summit, who teaches classes on ethnomusicology and social justice in Tufts’ Music Department, said he was honored by his reception of the award.

“I’ve been so fortunate to work with people who I respect deeply, and to have people who you respect decide to honor you … it’s a really impactful experience in my life,” Summit said. see TUFTS HILLEL, page 2

Women’s Center discusses bodies, After gun magazine clip sexuality in annual symposium discovery, Medford School Committee discusses school security, closes school today

by Shantel Bartolome Staff Writer

The Women’s Center hosted staff, professors and students on Friday for its 2018 Symposium on Gender and Culture.

The symposium’s theme, “Metaphors of the Body,” explored the body’s role as an analogy for larger, universal forces.

“I was thinking about … how our bodies carry historic trauma and how we carry the impacts of larger forces like climate change, displacement … and how our bodies are also sites of resilience and also healing,” Women’s Center Graduate Assistant Koko Li said.

Women’s Center Director K. Martinez explained the importance of the symposium for the Tufts community and the timeliness of the theme.

“The symposium is a reflection of our women, and … every year it’s cool that the Women’s Center has created this tra-

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dition where we’re asking folks to reflect on our moment,” they said. “And in terms of a Women’s Center and this political moment right now, [it is important to talk] about the body and who has autonomy over our bodies and women’s bodies and transgender bodies.”

Martinez said before the event that the Women’s Center designed the symposium to serve as both an exchange of ideas and a convivial gathering.

“We really focused on ‘What does symposium even mean?’… If you look at the definition, it’s a two-parter: one is an exchange of ideas, and the second meaning that we really liked is [a] ‘convivial’ gathering and joyful and fun … and so we want a space where folks can share ideas … We will have art, we will have film, we will have discussions,” they said.

“We wanted to make sure it was broad and fun.”

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A gun magazine clip found in an auditorium at the McGlynn Elementary and Middle School in Medford went unreported to the police by Medford Superintendent of Schools Roy Belson for close to seven weeks, according to a story in the Medford Transcript. A cleaning company discovered the clip, containing three or four bullets, under a seat at the back of the school auditorium on Dec. 29, according to a Feb. 20 statement on the City of Medford’s website by Belson.

The statement says the cleaning company turned the clip over to the in-house custodian, who locked it in McGlynn Middle School Principal Jake Edwards’ office.

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According to the statement, Edwards may have thrown away the clip.

“Jake Edwards was in his office on December 30, 2017, for the purpose of cleaning his office and he claims he threw several items away that could have included the clip,” the statement says.

The statement also said that while Superintendent Belson and the School Resource Officer were notified shortly after the incident took place, neither of them informed the police. Resulting from this incident, Belson’s office put Edwards on paid administrative leave, according to a statement delivered by Medford Mayor Stephanie Burke at a Feb. 22 press conference. see SCHOOL COMMITTEE, page 2

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At committee meeting, parents express concern about gun control in Medford schools SCHOOL COMMITTEE

continued from page 1 According to the Medford Transcript, police first heard about the incident from an uninvolved third party, not the school administration, but found nothing to investigate. Police were first informed when concerned school employees contacted Medford City Councillor Breanna Lungo-Koehn, who reported the incident to the police herself, including a photograph of the loaded clip, the Medford Transcript reported.

Medford Public Schools will be closed today “to work with faculty to review the district’s safety and security policy,” according to a statement released by the district.

On Thursday, Feb. 22, the Medford School Committee — which is chaired by Burke — and Medford Chief of Police Leo Sacco, held a Committee of the Whole meeting in the Medford High School theater to discuss security measures and policies for Medford public schools. The meeting lasted a total of five hours.

After opening comments from Burke, Sacco commented on the ongoing investigation into the security threat.

“The goal [of this investigation] is to go backwards with the hope of finding the individual who actually owns the magazine clip,” Sacco said. “[Police are] hoping for someone to come forward and we’re talking to all people who may have had access to that auditorium … during that time period.”

Sacco also said he hoped that someone licensed to carry a weapon had accidentally dropped the clip.

“We’re hoping that it’s something as simple as that and not something as serious as some malicious intent to use that for bad reasons,” he said.

On Feb. 20, police from Medford and surrounding towns brought in K9 teams to sweep the McGlynn Middle School, Sacco said. On Feb. 22, 17 teams searched every school in the city, he said. However, they found nothing.

According to Burke, former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley will conduct an independent investigation into the matter as the police investigation moves forward.

Lungo-Koehn took the microphone ten minutes after the start of the meeting, criticizing Mayor Burke and the Committee in general for allowing Belson, who had failed to report that the clip had been found, to sit at the meeting.

“I don’t know how you start to [restore public confidence] by allowing Mr. Belson to [sit here],” she said.

Her statement was met with applause and calls from the audience for Belson to resign.

This sentiment was reiterated both before and after the committee invited participation from the audience.

Belson, who remained silent during the first portion of the event, stressed that he took responsibility for the delay in action.

“I want to make it clear [that] … responsibility for reporting belongs to me and [Principal Edwards]. The decision was made … based on a community view of what needs to be

done,” Belson said, emphasizing that the decision was a mistake.

A Medford Vocational High School student asked Belson what he would do if his child attended McGlynn. Belson said that tragedy in Medford schools was rare and emphasized that this incident occurred while students were on winter break.

“This was a situation that took place when schools were out,” Belson said. “I thought that rather than raise anxiety about it at that point in time, [we should] pursue it on our own. But you know what? I made a mistake.”

Belson stated that increasing anxiety of students was not his intention, but that it is important for school communities to move on.

“I thought I was doing the right thing … but I made a mistake… the key idea is to make schools conducive to learning,” he said.

“I’ve learned a valuable lesson…but let’s not bash everything that goes on because I made a mistake. I accept that responsibility, he added.

Belson also stressed that parents’ concerns for safety and suggestions for improvement would be addressed.

“I know that this school committee, this mayor, this police department are going to insist on increased security, increased measures—they will take your best ideas and work on them.” he said.

Responding to a question concerning two fifth grade Medford students who allegedly threatened to shoot the school, Belson said “No community is immune to bad behavior,” adding that police were notified and concluded that whether the students meant what they said was unclear.

Parents were skeptical of Belson’s claim to responsibility. Rose Poto Gifford, a Medford parent who attended the forum with one child at Medford High School and one at Andrews Middle School, was disappointed with Belson’s attitude. “[Belson] is so laid back about this … For two months, children were in [McGlynn Middle School] when there could have been the gun that belonged to that clip somewhere in that school,” she said in an interview with the Daily.

Gifford also called for Belson’s resignation.

Duringtheforum,severalparentsalsovoiced concern about the School Committee’s lack of disciplinary action against Belson.

Mea Quinn Mustone, vice chairperson of the Medford School Committee, said toward the end of the forum that the Committee has discussed possibly calling an additional meeting to discuss consequences for Belson.

She said that for personnel issues, the Committee goes into an executive session for 48 hours, which gives the employee time to hire a lawyer.

“It’s hard because I feel parents need immediate action, but because of School Committee regulations and open meeting law, there is a process which I know is frustrating,” Mustone said.

Mustone also stated that the Committee itself played no role in putting Edwards on administrative leave, citing the fact that principals are not directly under the purview of the School Committee.

Throughout the event, parents said that they felt they were not notified through the proper channels.

Michelle Wayland, another parent whose children go to Medford High School and McGlynn Elementary School, said in an interview that she was notified about the incident through a text message from a neighbor.

“I was furious,” Wayland said.

Gifford, who said she found out about the incident on the Medford Moms Facebook page, suggested that Medford schools use a reverse 911 line in the future to alert parents, echoing the sentiment of many audience members who participated.

“I think if we can get [frequent calls] to tell us ‘Coffee with the councilors is next Tuesday’ and ‘Don’t forget Monday’s a holiday’…then they can do a reverse call like that for [this incident],” Gifford said. “I just can’t wrap my head around the way this entire thing was handled.”

Mustone stated that as a response to parents’ anxiety for student safety, the School Committee has implemented new measures to ensure the safety of students at school, spending “$200,000 to have [school security cameras] up to date” as well as “checking the doors.”

Mustone added that she was sickened by the incident.

“My heart really broke for [the people at the forum] that they were so sick from thinking about what could happen at our own schools,” Mustone said.

During the forum, the possible implementation of Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate (ALICE) training in Medford as a response to active shooters was also discussed.

Sharla Randazzo, an educator and advocate for ALICE who participated in the forum, spoke of the training as the preferred option to the traditional lockdown.

According to Randazzo, most school districts use ALICE trainings. According to the ALICE website, 4,200 school districts use the training.

Randazzo also said the ALICE model is based on responses to previous active shootings, adding that police departments learned the lockdown method was not actually the best practice.

“That’s how people were dying, [because] they were stuck in these rooms with no escape route and then were not fighting back if they were actually coming into contact with the shooter,” she explained.

Instead, ALICE teaches people how to evaluate a crisis situation and determine where a shooter is in the building, according to Randazzo. She went on to say that part of ALICE’s response to active shooter situations includes allowing teachers to buy time until police arrive in an active shooter situation.

“It takes four minutes for [police] to get to the school once they’ve gotten the call, so … the people inside the school have those four minutes to figure out how to protect themselves,” she said.

Randazzo expressed hope that Medford would adopt ALICE, saying that, by continuing the traditional lockdown method, the city is years behind.

“I resisted having a Hillel center for many years [because] I wanted to develop the program…but when it became clear that there were so many more people who wanted to be engaged and involved and there just wasn’t room,” Summit said.

Tufts Hillel under Summit has also been focused on social justice, in addition to creating Jewish life on campus. “[Hillel] is here to serve the religious, cultural, educational [and] social needs of our Jewish students on campus but also to be contributing to the university as a whole,” Summit stated, citing inter-

faith and school-wide programming led by Tufts Hillel, including scheduling a visit from President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards.

According to Summit, his role at Tufts Hillel includes organizing the Jewish community at Tufts, connecting with outside Jewish organizations and talking to students one-on-one.

Rabbi Summit said that after stepping down as executive director, he will continue to teach classes with the music department at Tufts and be involved in social justice programs outside of the university.

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continued from page 1 Summit described how Hillel has grown since he started at Tufts.

“Hillel was in this little room in Curtis Hall … and students had Shabbat dinner in that room. If there were six people having Shabbat dinner, that was a big Shabbat,” Summit said. He noted that now between 80 and 150 people attend Shabbat dinners weekly.

Tufts Hillel has experienced other significant changes during Summit’s career at Tufts, including the construction of the Granoff Family Hillel Center.

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TCU Senate shares updates from JumboVote, hears funding requests

by Daniel Weinstein Assistant News Editor

The Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate met in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to hear a presentation by JumboVote, table a supplementary funding appeal, approve supplementary funding requests and hear committee updates.

After brief introductions from the newly elected Class of 2020 Senators Danny Cashman and Alexa Weinstein, and First Generation Community Senator Alejandro Baez, the TCU Senate then heard from senior Annie Roome, a leader in JumboVote, and Student Outreach Coordinator for Tisch College Marian Woznica (LA ’17) about JumboVote, an on-campus organization dedicated to registering Tufts students to vote.

Roome and Woznica began their presentation by noting that Tufts students have a voter turnout of 63.2 percent, and they want to improve this to 70 percent or above. After, they mentioned that JumboVote is looking for volunteers to help with their upcoming events, which include voter registration week in September of next year and VoteFest, an event with live music, food and voter registration. They then noted that it is important for them to drive students to the polls and emphasized that they believe it would be very important for them to have the Senate’s support.

Following Roome and Woznica’s presentation, the TCU Senate moved into the treasury section to hear supplementary funding requests.

Pu b l i c Ha r m o n y ’s re q u e s t for $1,155 for transportation to a performance was passed with 27 in favor. Generation Citizen’s request

for transportation to school sites was passed by acclamation.

The TCU Senate then moved to hear the supplementary funding appeal from the C. Stacey Woods Programming Board, a group working to promote evangelic Christian programming on campus, for their disaster relief trip to Houston during spring break. The request had been previously tabled.

The coordinators of the trip shared their updates on their initiatives to acquire funding from sources outside the TCU Senate in order to fund 18, rather than six students to participate in the trip. They noted that the Tufts University Chaplaincy declined their request and that they have an interview with the Tisch College Civic Life Fund for Civic Engagement, from which they are looking to receive a maximum of $1,000 in funding.

Following a brief three-minute question-and-answer period, the senate opened the floor for Allocations Board (ALBO) members to discuss why they made their initial funding recommendation to adhere to the six-person rule and grant $1,741 in funding to the trip.

Class of 2020 Senator and ALBO member Kevin Gleason spoke in favor of adhering to the six-person rule, arguing that is what the TCU Senate has traditionally done and it is important to follow the Treasury Procedure Manual ( TPM) guidelines.

Class of 2021 Senator and ALBO member Izzy Ma said she agreed with Gleason and mentioned that although many groups have amazing causes similar to that of C. Stacey Woods, ALBO still almost always sticks to the six-person rule when granting funding, and nothing differentiates this particular group as an exception.

The TCU Senate decided to hold a debate in order to vote on ALBO’s initial recommendation of $1,741 to the C. Stacey Woods Programming Board.

During the debate, Class of 2020 TCU Senator Shannon Lee argued in favor of ALBO’s initial recommendation because the six-person rule is only broken when groups must travel to pursue opportunities not offered locally. Lee then argued in favor of ALBO’s recommendation to stick to the six-person rule because there are many alternative community service opportunities available in the local Medford/ Somerville area.

Cashman argued in favor of voting against ALBO’s recommendation because the trip could be a very powerful experience not only for the students who participate but also for the people in Houston who would know that students were willing to travel long distances to help them rebuild.

Following other statements by TCU Senators on both sides, the TCU Senate voted on whether to fund the Houston trip, adhering to the six-person rule, which passed with 20 in favor and 10 opposed.

The Senate then moved to hear additional supplementary funding appeals from Major: Undecided, Tufts Bhangra, Jumbo Jugglers, Tufts Make, Tufts Culinary Society, Tufts Minority Association of Pre-Health Students (MAPS) and the French Society.

Major: Undecided’s request of $200 for gas and food in order to attend a retreat was passed, Tufts Bhangra’s request of $2239 was passed by acclamation, Jumbo Jugglers’ request to hold their annual Wombat event was passed and Tufts Make’s request of $680 to help fund a smart cane project involving constructing a cane that

would help elderly people locate their belongings was passed. MAPS’ request of $114 for parking was passed by acclamation, Tufts Culinary Society’s request of $300 for a culture crawl event was passed and the French Society’s request of $208 for food for cultural events was passed.

The TCU Senate then moved to hear updates from TCU Vice President Senior Anna Del Castillo.

Castillo spoke of two opportunities for students, one being the Provost’s Office fully funded two-year summer research project of the student’s choosing, and the other regarding volunteering for Read by the River, a Hillelsponsored event where children from the local area come to Tufts for a literacy carnival.

After, the TCU Senate heard Administration and Policy community updates from TCU Trustee Community Senator Nathan Foster regarding affordability and economic accessibility metrics and from Class of 2018 TCU Senator Jordan Kemp about the progress of the Brown and Blueprint initiative.

Updates from the Education Committee followed, regarding the possibility of students getting credit for IB courses taken in high school.

The TCU Senate then heard an update from the Student Outreach Committee about the upcoming Student Leadership Dinner to be attended by all senators.

Lastly, Class of 2019 TCU Senator and Historian Jacqueline Chen discussed the return of the Swipe It Forward initiative that will run during the week of March 12 and where students can donate meal swipes to those in need.

Then the meeting adjourned.

Students, professors focus on mindfulness, community in annual symposium WOMEN'S CENTER SYMPOSIUM

continued from page 1 Li added that this approach ensured that the symposium explored bodily experience in all its facets.

“You can’t really convey a lot of what your body’s experiencing through just words or theorizing, so we’re really excited about having a lot of art and … movement and more creative ways of expression,” they said.

Martinez said the diversity of the symposium’s presenters reflected the openness that the Women’s Center staff wanted.

The symposium’s morning schedule featured “Movement Session,” led by senior Amanda Ng Yann Chwen; “Reading from The Body Papers,” led by English professor Grace Talusan; “Women as Wives and Ghosts: Spirit Possession in Indian Psychiatry and Film,” led by senior Priyanka Padidam; and “Anatomy and Personhood: From Lobotomy to Pharmaceuticals,” led by junior Zoe Schoen.

The afternoon schedule included “Sexual Violence and Quranic Resources for Healing,” led by Muslim Chaplain Celene Ibrahim; “The Body as a Midrash: Silence, Judaism, and Gender,” led by senior Merissa Jaye; “Finding New Old Selves: Being Jewish and Genderqueer,” led by senior Emma Youcha; and “Logged: A Body Manifesto,” led by senior Hannah Shevrin.

The Women’s Center selected its presentations through an open call for submissions, according to Martinez. This open call resulted in many speakers who wished to speak about the intersectionality between the body and faith.

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Bulletin board at the Women’s Center Symposium on Feb. 23.

“I’ve found in the Qur’an wisdom and insights for thinking through questions raised by the #MeToo movement,” Ibrahim told the Daily in an email. “My presentation is based partly on my dissertation work with the Qur’an and partly [on] my experience as a chaplain, at times working with issues related to sexual trauma. It’s important, I think, to approach these very complicated issues from both spiritual and intellectual angles, and to do so in community … It can be very helpful to have exposure to how different faith communities understand issues related to sexuality.”

Talusan spoke about the body’s autonomy, explaining that being mind-

ful of the body is key to achieving progress and peace.

“You have to know what you need,” she said. “I never even asked myself the question, ‘What do I need at this moment?’ until very recently. So once you answer that question you might find out what you need.”

In an interview with the Daily, Talusan emphasized the importance of community for acceptance of one’s own identity and body.

“We need spaces where we can focus on marginalized voices and celebrate them too … I always think that no matter where you are, you try to find your people,” she said. “There are communities

here [at Tufts], where you can find … people who have similar beliefs, desires, missions, things they want to work on, whether that’s art or political movements … [but] you have to make an effort to find people … [and] I think it’s worth it.”

Li explained that the Women’s Center looked to facilitate this type of community and encourage greater awareness of the body through the symposium.

“I hope that folks are able to think more about their own relationship to their body and think about all the things that they carry in their own bodies,” they said. “Hopefully, folks can be more grounded and present in their bodies as a result of this.”

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Ross Sonnenblick The Tuftonian Dream

Dancing to the same music

When you were young, you maybe had a dream. You were going to fly to the moon, pass EC 5, cure cancer.

Then, you grew up. You cut your hair, chose your major, changed your outlook. You changed a lot, but did you change your dream?

Many years before junior Marlon Krippendorf, a German exchange student, ever joined Public Harmony, his mother carried him in her arms to his first concert. Four-year-old Marlon watched his father strumming away on the bass, and he determined that he “always wanted to be on the stage and play music as well.”

Marlon explains, “The dreams I had evolved with the life I was living.” His father was a musician, so he wanted to be a musician. He started playing soccer the next year, so he wanted to play professional soccer. He learned from his second-grade teacher on a daily basis, so he wanted to teach, too. Still, he acknowledges, “I was always aware where the boundaries were.” His best friend routinely beat him in soccer, so he retired his dream of hoisting the World Cup trophy. He comments, “At some point, I realized that I wouldn’t be able to and didn’t want to.”

Shortly thereafter, he set aside his desire to become a rock star. In his characteristically modest manner, Marlon remarks, “I always did fairly well in school, and I decided to continue with that.”

Upon graduating from high school, two notable occurrences transpired in tandem. He says, “I realized that the studies required to become a teacher wouldn’t allow me to dig deeper into the field I’m interested in.” Simultaneously, he traveled to Paris to spend a year as an ambassador in the Franco-German Youth Office.

As a boy, Marlon always knew where his boundaries were, but in France, Marlon recognized that he hopes the member states of the European Union (EU) look past theirs. He recalls, “I had the feeling that as long as you work towards a common goal and try to understand the viewpoints of the other party, you can actually create a sense of group spirit which transcends national borders.”

Of course, airplanes just fly over national borders, which is how Marlon arrived in America this year with the objective of “gaining insight into the American culture.” At Tufts, Marlon has participated in several competitions with Tufts Ballroom Dance Team, but he did the most meaningful dancing of his life four years ago outside of the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, France. With his fellow youth ambassadors from across the continent, Marlon had spent his day discussing ways to cultivate a shared European identity and he describes, “There was a huge crowd of all these people you’ve discussed EU ideals and the future with, and in the evening, you were just celebrating with them in front of a stage, dancing to the same music.”

They spoke in different languages but they danced on common ground.

Now, when asked about his future career, Marlon declares in English, “Why not aim big? Why not say member of the EU Parliament?” Marlon has talked the talk and he’s eager to waltz the waltz.

Ross Sonnenblick is a sophomore majoring in psychology and ILVS. Ross can be reached at ross.sonnenblick@tufts.edu.

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Faculty, graduate students discuss scarcity of women in economics department

by Maya Hamberg Staff Writer

There are fewer women than men among both professors and students in the economics department at Tufts, according to Professor Dan Richards, chair of the Department of Economics. Richards told the Daily in an email that 35 percent of undergraduates majoring in economics or quantitative economics at Tufts are women.

On Feb. 2, The New York Times published an op-ed, “Why Women’s Voices are Scarce in Economics,” by University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers.

According to the article, the national proportion of economics majors who are women has declined from its peak of more than 40 percent in the mid- to late-1990s to just 35 percent in 2016, according to estimates from the American Community Survey reported in the op-ed.

Richards noted that at Tufts, this statistic has held steady over the past five to six years, unlike the trend at other schools or nationwide.

“We haven’t seen a downturn that some other places have seen. I think that is partly because if you look at our faculty, among economics departments, we have a very high proportion of female faculty members,” Richards said in an interview.

In the op-ed, Wolfers also cited multiple causes for this trend, such as women economists being held to higher standards and not being given credit for their work. Professor Lynne Pepall explained that female students may be disheartened by the difficulty of studying economics, resulting in greater attrition.

“When I go to graduation and I watch all them march go across the podium, I’m going ‘Where are all the women?'” she said. “Part of it is that it is a discipline that for some women is very discouraging because they do not excel right away. It is a hard discipline, very demanding conceptually. I think that makes women, our women students feel intimidated.”

Professor Margaret McMillan concurred with this sentiment.

“People think economics is common sense, so all the classes should make sense, but really it’s like learning a foreign language that gives you tools to have deeper insight into the way the world works. So people should not think that [they] cannot do it, if they don’t get it the first time,” she said.

Richards said that female students may hold themselves to higher standards in Tufts’ introductory economics class.

“Men, because they have maybe been thinking of a business career from the start, they might get a C- in EC 5, but they still want to continue, while women may get a B+ in EC 5 and think they are terrible at this. It is an amazing difference, there is something quite different about the response. We do try and encourage those who get a B or B+ in [EC] 5 to continue,” he said.

Pepall spoke to the efforts of the department to try and reverse this trend.

“The Chair [Richards] has been very sensitive [to] trying to think of ways we can encourage women to stick with

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A graphic comparing the proportion of female students and professors in economics departments nationally and at Tufts. it and the women who do very well. I dislike seeing women thinking they are not well suited,” she said.

Nonetheless, the young women who become economics majors do very well. Richards reported that over the past five years, women made up 38 percent of economics and quantitative economics majors graduating with summa honors and 36 percent of magna honors.

He added that women have also made up a significant proportion of winners of undergraduate awards in the economics department over the last six years. Charles G. Bludhorn Prize and Linda Datcher Loury Award recipients are 40 percent female, Daniel Ounjian Prize recipients are 44 percent female, while the Marion Ricker Houston Prize recipients are 66 percent female.

Girija Bahety, a first-year Ph.D. student in economics and public policy, shared that she and other female economics students have many role models within the department who they can aspire to emulate.

Pepall recounted that she had the same experience from her first day at Tufts, before serious conversation about the representation of women in the field even began.

“When I came to Tufts, there were already other women here, which made a big difference. When I joined the team, it was almost like we had achieved a critical mass, and from there it just became easier and better.

I have had a very atypical experience,” she said. “Tufts was very fortunate … to [have] been proactive on attracting women before it became a cause.”

First-year PhD student in economics and public policy Marina Ngoma remarked that knowing other successful women has also encouraged her to pursue further study of economics.

“In my point of view, having success stories, women sharing these stories, can influence how we can attract more women in the field. When I was in high school, I would read women success stories and I think it really inspired me to keeping dreaming, take my hopes higher,” she said.

The op-ed reported that women made up 14 percent of full professors in

departments with doctoral programs.

At Tufts, there are 11 women — 44 percent — out of 25 full-time faculty, including 10 out of 23 tenure-stream faculty, according to data provided by Richards.

Pepall spoke to the importance of having greater gender diversity among economists.

“Generally, just having women at the table changes the conversation, just the tone, the manner,” she said. “It’s subtle. Diversity of any kind is good for thinking.”

Bahety emphasized the integral part that women have played in the advancement of economic research.

“From a development economics perspective, there is a paternalistic attitude about what works and doesn’t work, and that has been breaking.

There is a new angle. Plus, you have more equitable study. Now, there are so many studies about women and that would not have happened without women,” she said.

Pepall noted that, given the outsize influence of economics on public policy, it is imperative for there to be even more female voices in the field.

“So many of the important policy issues that your generation will be facing — income equality, environment, immigration — every one of them has a big economics piece and to not feel empowered in that piece, I think that really limits you,” she said.

McMillan said that knowledge of economics will help female students make better sense of the world around them.

“I would like to tell young women that whatever you want to do … having an economics major helps. Helps raise your salary, helps you understand how the way things work, gives you tools to help you read things and understand them, such as policy. It’s not that hard, but if you don’t have the background, you can’t understand it,” she said.

Bahety hopes that more women will choose to study economics despite the current gender disparity.

“Never get intimidated, you’ll face a gender imbalance in parts of your life, so let’s just face it and see what it does — facing it rather than falling to it,” she said.

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ARTS&LIVING TV REVIEW

Tutorials are an overlooked aspect of games

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Joel Kinnaman appears in a promotional poster for ‘Altered Carbon’ (2018). where an investigator’s inability to resurrect and interview a Catholic victim is presented as a major inconvenience.

“Altered Carbon” does meditate on the implications of an immortal social elite, but the show’s ham-handed meditations on the matter are far from thought-provoking. Meths, for instance, live in mansions lofted above the clouds on enormous skyscrapers in a painfully obvious allusion to their effective divinity.

Kinnaman delivers a mostly wooden performance as main character Takeshi Kovacs. Kovacs, a centuries-old former terrorist, is an almost comically cynical, hard-boiled protagonist who regularly spouts drivel about the nature of death and pain. But what Kovacs lacks in fully realized dialogue, he makes up for in his capacity for violence. The character is a regular participant in magnificently choreographed fight scenes, where Kinnaman’s imposing frame and perpetual frown are an asset.

Kinnaman’s performance as Kovacs illustrates the problems with “Altered Carbon” in miniature. Kinnaman delivers his poorly written lines unconvincingly but brings an impressive physicality to his many, many fight scenes.

And just as Kinnaman is able to redeem his weak performance with excellent fight scenes, “Altered Carbon” somewhat recovers from its bungling of the weightier themes by falling back on sex, violence and visual splendor.

Ultimately, “Altered Carbon” comes across as a poor man’s “Westworld” (2016–). Netflix clearly spent lavishly on the show’s production, sparing no expense where visual effects, props and fight choreography are concerned, but “Altered Carbon’s” writing does not live up to its production values. Sciencefiction fans might appreciate the visually well-realized setting, but general audiences will find nothing more than a sexand violence-filled romp set in the future.

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ recap: Snatch game, soupermodels, more

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There are five queens left, and with Chi Chi and Aja gone, the competition is revving up fast. It’s time to start our engines and dive into another recap of episodes 4 and 5 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars” (2012–)!

Noteworthy Moments Snatch Game: Everyone’s favorite challenge came back, and this season the results were, well, all right. BenDeLaCreme, to no one’s surprise, nailed the challenge with her hysterical impersonation of 1970s comedi-

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Netflix’s ‘Altered Carbon’ collapses under brilliance of its premise “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel,” begins William Gibson’s seminal dystopic science-fiction novel “Neuromancer” (1984). Set around 2035, the novel imagines a grimy, “cyber-punk” future where hyper-advanced technology has done nothing to rectify social ills and where protagonists lead lives filled with drugs, cybercrime and all-too-real violence.

Netflix’s new series “Altered Carbon,” based on the Richard K. Morgan novel of the same name, is cast in the image of “Neuromancer.” But where “Neuromancer” dwells on the implications of global computer networks and artificial intelligence, “Altered Carbon” concerns itself with immortality. In the universe of “Altered Carbon,” reverse-engineered alien technology allows the human mind to be stored on a small disk, called a “stack,” implanted at the base of the neck. Should a person’s physical body die, they can be placed into a new body if their “stack” is intact. As most everyone has a stack, all of humanity is theoretically immortal — catastrophic neck injuries non-withstanding. In practice, however, only the members of an outrageously wealthy social elite, dubbed “Meths” after the long-lived biblical figure Methuselah, have the resources to achieve something approaching immortality. The series follows Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman/Will Yun Lee), a long-dead terrorist, who is resurrected by a Meth, Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), to investigate an attempt on the latter’s life.

The idea that human consciousness could be shorn from the physical body is a fascinating idea, which, like any good science-fiction premise, raises endless questions. How do notions of race, gender and age work in a world where people can reasonably expect to inhabit widely different bodies during their lifetimes? What are the societal implications of an immortal social elite? What role does religion play in a universe where humanity has effectively conquered death?

“Altered Carbon” is certainly cognizant of all these issues but addresses each of them clumsily. The idea of an identity divorced from any physical characteristic is barely explored, and the religious implications of immortality are given scant consideration. Catholics refuse to be resurrected in new bodies after death, but the idea is only really considered in the context of murder investigations,

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an Paul Lynde. It’s doubtful that many “Drag Race” viewers knew the character, at least none in this viewer’s living room, but DeLa’s performance was campy, cheeky and it rivaled her season six rendition of the Dowager Countess. Aja’s Crystal Labeija, the legendary drag queen featured in the 1968 documentary “The Queen,” was fiery and perfect for her biting personality and New York background. Another favorite was Bebe Zahara Benet’s raunchy Grace Jones, and the queen from Cameroon continued to impress with, as Nicole Byer described it, her elegant “fudgsicle

dipped in flowers” runway couture. But poor Chi Chi… Her “Mya” Angelou was the flop that got her eliminated. Despite her lackluster run on “All Stars,” we’ve seen a lot of growth from the constantly self-doubting Bayou Queen since season eight. Overall, however, not even a cameo from Kristin Chenoweth could save this Snatch Game from being a bit of a yawn.

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utorials are an often-overlooked aspect of a game, which can make a significant difference in your gameplay experience. For someone who has been playing games for years, their primary use is teaching you the specific controls and intricacies of the game, but for someone new to a controller, they are crucial to shaping your entire experience.

The game that has arguably the best tutorial is “Portal” (2007). It starts you off with no means to create your own portals — instead, the game only allows you to use the portals that it puts in the environment. This lets the player learn the basic concept of “Portal” (a blue portal leads out of an orange portal and vice versa), while not plunging new players into complex puzzles before they learn the basics.

The game then gives you the ability to place one color portal, increasing the complexity but not overwhelming a new player.

Throughout all of this, “Portal” teaches the player the simple-yet-mind-bending physics of portals. Although “Portal” stands out as one of the best examples of teaching its mechanics to new players, it fails to engage returning players.

Being forced to patiently wait before you gain access to the full portal gun makes the first hour of subsequent playthroughs a pain to come back to. Although one could argue that “Portal” is only meant to be played once, I see it as one of the best experiences games have to offer and would otherwise enjoy replaying it all the way through.

In contrast, the tutorial from “Dark Souls” (2011) is perfect for a returning player. It thrusts you right into the action, and the only instruction comes from messages on the ground, which a new player can stop and read, whereas a returning player can simply skip over them. While this is fitting for a game such as “Dark Souls,” which is based on not explicitly guiding the player, other games should take note.

While tutorials serve to teach a game’s controls and mechanics, they also exist to teach players new to a controller how to use one. This past long weekend, my sister encountered this aspect of tutorials. While she has played countless hours of PC games with a mouse and keyboard, she had never gotten the hang of a controller. Until she played the tutorial for “Titanfall 2” (2016).

In a brilliant stroke of game design, “Titanfall 2” has a timed gauntlet where you continually race against your personal best.

Unlike other tutorials, which take you out of the action and don’t allow you to truly practice before getting to the main game, “Titanfall 2” presents a tutorial that is a race against your own time, where you tangibly see the improvements you’ve made as the seconds come off of your personal best.

At the beginning of the weekend, my sister took over two minutes to complete the gauntlet, but by the end, she had learned how to use the controller and brought her time down to under a minute. But beyond just teaching new players, “Titanfall 2”managed to give us a tutorial that turned out to be a fun test of skill that I enjoyed playing alongside my sister.

Alec Provost is a junior majoring in history. Alec can be reached at alec.provost@ tufts.edu.

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Fortunately, she survived a dramatic round of elimination and really found her stride during the Warhol Ball challenge in episode 5. The queens were tasked with delivering two looks: a Warhol-inspired “soupermodel” can and Studio 54 disco queen couture.

Trixie owned both looks, first with her excellently designed can of “Pep/Abysmal,” filled with “nonrefillable, prescription only, habit forming, heart-slowing goodness,” and then with her gorgeous, disco-inspired glittery pink bodysuit and matching headband. It’s thrilling to see Trixie finally getting a win under her belt, but we’ll have to see what the Milwaukee queen gives us in this week’s “Kitty Girls” girl group challenge.

Ben and Shangela: How are our top two doing? Well, DeLa slayed the Snatch Game, and Shangela brought another one of the best looks so far this season: a stunning, floral rendition of Beyoncé’s 2017 pregnancy announcement. Her impersonation of “Black-ish” (2014–) star Jenifer Lewis secured her the win, along with DeLa. What followed was one of the best “Drag Race” lip syncs of all time to Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” (2008). It was a curious song selection, given how poorly it has aged — even Katy regrets it — but DeLa and Shangela’s risqué rendition breathed some life into it. Shangela started with a “hot teacher” look and gradually stripped down to lingerie

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The 14 contestants of the 10th season of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race.’ (2009–). before grinding with DeLa, throwing breath mints at her and finishing with a death drop. Coming off of Snatch Game, both queens seemed untouchable, but neither fared particularly well during the next episode’s Warhol Ball. Shangela’s two months of sewing classes definitely did not show, with her disco queen look consisting of a few golden records hot glued to her body, and her “Halleloops” soup can was just all right. DeLa’s “CremedelaCreme” soup can was better, and her disco runway couture was one of the best looks of the night, but

as judge Ross Matthews pointed out, we expect 120 percent from the Seattle-based queen. Now that we only have five queens left, the competition is getting fierce, and we’ll have to see if DeLa and Shangela can reclaim their spots in the top three.

What to look forward to Elimination drama: We have a lot more elimination drama coming in the next few weeks. As Kennedy’s elimination of Milk has shown, things are getting personal. In the past two weeks, we had “notegate” drama, which threatened to

had Bebe’s shady elimination of Aja even after she helped make her “homosexual carwash” disco look. Now that Chi Chi’s gone, an easy elimination after consistently placing in the bottom, all of the queens left are strong contenders in this competition, making each round of eliminations all the more controversial.

More from Kennedy: This recapper is ready to see Kennedy compete at the same level as DeLa and Shangela going into the final episodes. She’s proven over and over that she’s one of the strongest queens in the game, and even after her mediocre “Grandma Kennedy’s Pot Licka’ Juice” soupermodel look and middle-of-the-pack impersonation of Phaedra Parks from “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” (2008–) on Snatch Game, we should expect more stunning runway couture in the coming weeks from the Dallas queen.

A handmaid’s explanation: We also have an explanation for “The Handmaid’s Tale” (2017–) gag to look forward to. Each week, we’ve seen the eliminated queens get jumped by former “All Stars” winners Chad Michaels and Alaska in dystopian red robes from the show, and in this week’s episode we should expect some new development. Maybe one of the eliminated queens will return to the competition, or maybe Bebe is actually a mole sent by RuPaul to spy on the other queens, like some on the internet have speculated? Either way, Thursday night’s episode should have us gagged.

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CORRECTION A previous version of the article, “JCC*, UIJ co-host day of remembrance event to memorialize Japanese-American Incarceration,” which ran in print on Feb. 22, incorrectly spelled panelist Alejandro Baez’s name. The article has been updated online to reflect this change. The Daily regrets this error.

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Sociology: Sociology Majors Week Event—12:00-1:15pm, Eaton 124 Join Sociology faculty, current majors, and alumni to learn more about the Sociology major and what you can do with it, along with a free lunch!

Religion: Religion Majors Event — 12:00-1:15pm, Eaton 302 Meet students and faculty, learn more about the major and minor, and hear about our upcoming fall courses. Includes a tasty lunch too!

Music: Music Major 2.0 Info Session — 12:00-1:15pm, Granoff Music Center Lobby Come learn about our new Music Major, pick up useful information, grab some snacks and swag, and connect with faculty and other students about our exciting, highly inclusive music curriculum.

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Education: Education Majors Week Event — 12:00-1:00pm Paige Hall First Floor Hear about some projects done by Education students!

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Child Study & Human Development: What can you do with a Child Study & Human Development Major? —12:00-1:15pm Hotung What can you learn with a major in Child Study and Human Development and what can you do with it? You'd be surprised at the variety of things!

Chemistry: Chemistry Majors Week Event —12:00-1:15pm Pearson 104 Information session on chemistry and biochemistry majors for sophomores and first years.

Drama and Dance: Drama and Dance Majors and Minors Mixer—12:00-1:15pm Balch Lobby, Aidekman Arts Center Come and enjoy a delicious pasta lunch while learning about our majors and minors.

Political Science: PoliSci Department's Majors Week Coffee Chat — 3:00-5:00pm Packard Hall 3rd Floor Lounge Come converse with PoliSci Professors over coffee and cookies!

Architectural Studies: Architectural Studies Now! — 12:00-1:30 pm 11 Talbot Ave Meet Diana Martinez the new Director of Architectural Studies and discover how the major will enhance your learning experience and future career Film and Media Studies: Film and Media Studies Major and Minor — 12:00-2:00pm 95 Talbot Ave 2nd floor Faculty and staff from the Film and Media Studies Program will be on hand to discuss the FMS major and minor Africana Studies: Africana Studies Majors Week Social — 12:00-1:15pm Eaton 124 Please join Africana Studies faculty and students to learn about the program.

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Democrats need to ignore the conspiracies and make gun control their issue The case for idealism

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uring a time that has been called the “most peaceful era in human history,” millions of people continue to suffer throughout the world from what I believe to be preventable afflictions.

We already produce enough food to feed the world’s approximately 795 million malnourished individuals. Wars that seem intractable continue to ravage countries.

Many believe that humanity’s problems are so deeply entrenched that they are unsolvable and have given up the fight, as evidenced by my generation’s disillusionment with politics and lack of community engagement.

But why do I believe these afflictions are preventable? There is a case to be made for idealism.

Humans, many believe, are so awful to each other because it is in our very nature.

We’re rational and competitive. It would be naive to think that humans could ever share, or collaborate, or act in each other’s interests. After all, realists tell us that life is a zero-sum game.

I’m not sure I buy this argument for two reasons.

First, the very concept of human nature is transient. Interracial marriage, for one example, was illegal in the United States until 1967.

People are certainly capable of changing their minds on fundamental issues, so human nature in and of itself is not necessarily fixed.

Second, the existence of collaborative institutions disproves the idea that humans are fundamentally selfish. Individuals often choose to stand in solidarity and work for the collective good; the existence of public education systems proves this.

Let’s look at a story that will help us understand.

In her book, “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics,” Katrine Marçal asks us to imagine a scenario in which two men are stranded on an deserted island — one of them has a bag of rice, and the other has 200 golden bracelets. Although the golden bracelets would have held a high value in urban society, on the island, the rice is far more crucial to survival. Conventional economic models would tell us that the two men would trade, or perhaps that the individual with the bag of rice could refuse to trade with the other.

The scenario would be analyzed transactionally. But, as Marçal aptly points out, “these stories never allow for the possibility that two people abandoned on a desert island would start talking to each other, that they might be feeling lonely. Scared. Might need each other.

After conversing for a while, they’d realize that they both had hated spinach when they were children and had uncles who were alcoholics.

After discussing this for a while, they’d probably share the rice.”

Ultimately, Marçal poses a crucial question.

“That we humans can react in this way, doesn’t that have economic importance?”

This plausible scenario is just one example of why I have faith in humanity. It may seem small, but large-scale change always occurs on the individual level before it reshapes society. I’m not saying that we can solve all of the world’s problems by holding hands, but I do believe in the fundamental good in humans. If we lose that faith, we will lose our reason to fight.

Anita Ramaswamy is a columnist and former executive opinion editor at the Daily. Anita is a junior majoring in political science and can be reached at anita.ramaswamy@tufts.edu.

by Christopher Panella The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is still creating waves, and that’s a good thing. Prior to Parkland’s mass shooting on Feb. 14, it felt like Americans were desensitized to mass shootings and school shootings.

A shooting would happen, politicians would provide their thoughts and prayers, and there would be online outrage. Give it 24 hours and people would move on.

It was a process; a circular upset in the usual media cycle and lives of millions of Americans. Parkland, however, seems to have broken that process.

Politicians aren’t exactly sure how to explore this new territory. Students across the nation, from Broward County in South Florida to high schools in Texas, are protesting almost daily and walking out of classes. They are destroying NRAfunded politicians, coming for any sign or smell of blood. They are calling out the Florida state lawmakers who did not pass a bill on Tuesday that would ban the sale of assault weapons in the aftermath of Douglas. They are speaking on CNN, CBS and ABC, often providing more eloquent answers than many of the adults usually

seen on these outlets. It’s a reckoning of all sorts.

With this uplift comes backlash, but not in the usual way. This backlash isn’t as much about fear over losing guns. It’s senseless backlash against Douglas students, calling them “actors” working for anti-gun groups who travel around the country to the sites of mass shootings.

David Hogg, a survivor of the Douglas shooting, has become a strong voice for change. As well, he has received criticism for his father’s connections to the FBI, specifically that his father coached Hogg to speak out against Trump. These criticisms are being taken seriously. For example, Donald Trump Jr. liked a tweet on Tuesday that suggested that the mainstream media was lying about Hogg and his motives. Benjamin Kelly, an aide to Florida Representative Shawn Harrison, emailed the Tampa Bay Times suggesting that some of the Douglas students travel to different incidents as crisis actors.

Twitter seems to be the platform for not only attacking these students but also questioning the media’s presentation of them. Bill O’Reilly asked, “Should the media be promoting opinions by teenagers who are in an emotional state and facing extreme peer pressure in some cases?” in a tweet on Tuesday.

These personal attacks are absolutely deplorable. Their goal seems to be to disregard the progress these students are making, and that goal won’t be accomplished. If anything, the attacks showcase the need for voters, activists and especially Democrats to back these students and help keep this issue and their voices in the limelight. The idea that these students are crisis actors need to be ignored.

There can be no assumption that voters see these issues and the lack of progress the Republican Party is making. There can be no assumption that people will flock to Democrats in 2020 and push gun control. Instead, this issue and these students must continue to talk about gun control and call out NRA-funded politicians and groups.

Democrats need to step up to the plate with this issue. Gun control needs to be the heaviest topic for the party up and down the ballot in the 2018 midterms. With Republican donors funneling enormous amounts of money into this midterm season, Democrats need to organize, find a leader and drown the media with discussions and opinions on gun control. Right now, that doesn’t seem to be happening.

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Sports

Monday, February 26, 2018 | Sports | THE TUFTS DAILY

Tufts bounced from postseason by top-seeded Trinity ICE HOCKEY

continued from back The shutout was Morin’s fourth of the year, as the St. Hubert, Québec native only had to make 15 saves. Nugnes recorded an astounding 41 stops for the Jumbos in the last hockey game of his collegiate career. Combined, the teams only had four penalties, and neither scored on their power play opportunities. Tufts finished with 15 shots on goal (compared to Trinity’s

43), as well as 22 face-off wins versus Trinity’s 39. Sophomore forward Tyler Scroggins had three shots on net for Tufts and 11 of his team’s face-off wins.

“This is clearly not the outcome we wanted to see,” sophomore defenseman Cooper Stahl said. “Playing a team like Trinity in the first round of the playoffs is always going to be a challenge. We held them off until the end and did our best to comeback from the 1–0 deficit.

Things didn’t fall into place for us this

time around, but we’re excited for what’s to come next year with our young team.”

Trinity has now defeated Tufts in five consecutive matchups, including twice in the NESCAC quarterfinals. The Bantams will host the NESCAC Final Four and are set to take on seventh-seeded Williams Ephs in the semifinals on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Jumbos close the book on their 2017–18 season with a final record of 5–16–4.

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First-year forward Charley Borek fights for the puck in a home game against Colby at the Malden Forum on Feb. 17.

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Arlo Moore-Bloom The Equalizer

U.S. Soccer’s million player problem

J

onathan González plays for C.F. Monterrey in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, and at 18 years old, the U.S.-Mexico dual national from Santa Rosa, Calif. is one of the top youth prospects in North America. In early January, González’s decision to play for the Mexican national team instead of the United States, which he had played for at the U17 through U20 levels, brought the U.S. Soccer Federation’s (USSF) ability to appeal to top Hispanic players to the fore.

In the months leading up to the decision, González wasn’t called up to the U.S. Men’s National Team (USMNT), even though he won Liga MX Best XI honors with Los Rayados. Days after switching allegiances, Mexico featured him in a friendly against Bosnia and Herzegovina — a game that was played in San Antonio, Texas — rubbing salt in a wound that U.S. Soccer is still reconciling.

Soccer has been pegged as a white, suburban sport for decades. It was originally marketed in the 1970s as an alternative to dangerous American football and time-consuming Little League baseball, and as a sport that the whole family could enjoy (both girls and boys play soccer). While American youth soccer is still largely made up of white suburban kids, this quick generalization does not tell the whole story.

Go to any Hispanic community in the United States — or almost any immigrant community, for that matter — and you will find people playing soccer, watching soccer and talking soccer (or rather, fútbol).

They follow and play the game more than white suburban communities, many of whom see soccer as a mere extracurricular.

The problem for the USSF, though, is that these communities aren’t a part of its soccer culture: Liga MX is the most watched soccer league in the U.S. on television, and Mexico outdraws the USMNT in fan attendance when its games are played on U.S. soil. If the USSF wants to maximize its country’s potential, it must do a better job of integrating these communities into the higher levels of American soccer.

Hugo Salcedo, a Mexican immigrant who has been involved in U.S. Soccer for decades, said in an interview with Soccer America that there may be a million players in the country, most of whom are Hispanic, that are unaffiliated with the USSF. This lack of connection to the USSF means that players do not have a clear pathway up the domestic soccer pyramid.

Talking to experienced members in the field, like the coaches at González’s youth club, Atletico Santa Rosa, could help the USSF better understand areas that need improvement. Hiring experienced Hispanic coaches to youth regional and national team setups could help change the white suburban culture with which the USSF is associated. Many hope that as a Hispanic immigrant himself, new USSF president Carlos Cordeiro will galvanize efforts to bring in these communities.

González wasn’t the first dual-national player to leave the United States, and he won’t be the last. Until soccer-loving communities are properly drawn into the fold, players like González will continue to fall through the cracks at the expense of U.S. Soccer.

Arlo Moore-Bloom is an assistant sports editor at the Daily. Arlo is a first-year who has not yet declared a major and can be reached at arlo.moore_bloom@tufts.edu.

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Sports

Monday, February 26, 2018

SPORTS FEATURE

ICE HOCKEY

Nutritionists Knudsen and Clark piece together Jumbos’ season ends dietary puzzle for Tufts athletics in first round of NESCAC tournament with loss to Bantams

by Haley Rich

Assistant Sports Editor

Among Tufts’ graduate schools, often overshadowed by the Tufts School of Medicine and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the lesser-known gem that is the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Ranked second in the nation and fourth in the world for Nutrition and Dietetics by the Center for World University Rankings, the Friedman School is staffed by respected biologists, epidemiologists, economists and political scientists. Also acclaimed is the Tufts athletics program, which achieved its highest-ever Div. III Learfield Directors’ Cup ranking in the 2016–17 academic year, placing third behind Williams and Washington–St. Louis. With numerous cutting-edge nutritionists and high-caliber athletes condensed into one institution, it seems natural that Tufts athletes would be treated with information from knowledgeable sources in the field of sports nutrition.

This semester, Tufts athletics welcomed Molly Knudsen as its new nutritionist after previous nutritionist Hannah Meier finished her year-long internship with Tufts. Knudsen is a first-year M.S. candidate in the Nutrition Interventions, Communications and Behavior Change Program at the Friedman School. She graduated summa cum laude from Texas Christian University in 2017, where she earned her B.S. in Nutrition, along with the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist credential. For Knudsen, switching from a major in biology to nutrition during her undergraduate years was a spontaneous choice.

“I had always meshed well with biology and chemistry, but sitting at biology orientation in college, I just realized that it wasn’t what I wanted to do,” Knudsen said. “Changing course the way I did was a spur-of-the-moment decision, but as soon as I attended my first nutrition class, I knew it was exactly what I wanted to do. I love the mixture of both science and helping people.”

Tufts athletes can reserve 30-minute consultations with Knudsen to gain dietary wisdom and optimize their performance. Knudsen deals with students from a broad range of backgrounds, activity levels and dietary limits and needs, and personalizes advice for each. For this reason, she describes her job as a “jigsaw puzzle.”

As her first step to solve the puzzle, she asks each athlete about a typical day: What they eat, when they eat and how much they eat. From there, she makes adjustments and carefully constructs a game plan that fits with the student’s schedule. Although she is only available for consultations on Tuesdays — meaning she is just two days into the job so far — Knudsen has already made an impact on the football program.

“Some of the football players have been coming to see me because they’re looking to lean up,” Knudsen said. “I’ve been helping them through small changes — just saving a couple hundred calories a day by paying more attention to the portion sizes of some sneaky foods, like nut butters and trail mix, which may be nutritious but are also very calorically dense.”

In addition to their one-on-one consultations with Knudsen, many Tufts ath-

by Julia Atkins Staff Writer

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Molly Knudsen, a student at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, serves as a dietitian for members of the Tufts athletics community. Here, she poses for a portrait in the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center on Feb. 24. letes have taken part in team-wide meetings with internationally recognized nutritionist, weight coach and author Nancy Clark. In addition to working with a variety of Tufts teams — including field hockey, sailing, tennis, hockey, cross country, track and soccer — Clark was a team nutritionist for the Boston Red Sox for three years and has consulted the Boston Celtics and Olympic athletes. The Simmons College graduate has published food guides for runners, marathoners, cyclists and soccer players, and her book, “Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook” (2013), has sold over 600,000 copies.

Both Knudsen and Clark highlight the key roles that glycogen (the major storage form of carbohydrates in humans) and protein play in an athlete’s diet.

“There’s a misconception that, for athletes, protein is a cure-all, but protein is surely not the only nutrient you need,” Knudsen said.

Clark agreed, noting that athletes tend to glorify protein-packed shakes, bars and supplements but shy away from carbs.

“You deplete your glycogen levels when you work out. Protein helps repair and rebuild muscle, but it doesn’t refuel your body. After a hard practice, it’s important to have a combination of protein and carbohydrates,” Clark said.

For this reason, Clark believes in the holy grail of post-workout snacks: chocolate milk. With a combination of protein and carbohydrates in addition to calcium and vitamin D, Clark swears by it (and for lactose-intolerant athletes, she assures that chocolate soy milk is a sound substitute).

When it comes to working with students who balance a heavy academic workload in addition to their hours spent on the field, court, track and in the weight room, one of the biggest struggles they face is fueling on the right schedule.

“One of the most common mistakes that my clients make is that they often don’t eat before morning practice because they don’t have the time, or they’ll be so rushed to get to class after practice that they don’t take the time to refuel,” Knudsen said.

Similarly, Clark is a huge proponent of encouraging athletes to eat more during the day, a practice she calls “front-loading.” Because athletes are busy or hesitant to practice on a full stomach, they tend to

undereat during the day, which she says hurts their performance and causes them to overeat at dinner and crave sweets and junk food.

Clark speaks to college athletes to convey the idea that food is not to be feared, but enjoyed. Among female athletes, there is a disconcerting prevalence of low energy availability (often caused by eating disorders), amenorrhea (i.e. the absence of a menstrual period) and osteoporosis (decreased bone density), called the female athlete triad. Depending on the sport, age group and screening methods, the rate of clinical eating disorders among female athletes can range between 16 and 47 percent — much higher than the national average, which lies somewhere between 0.5 and 10 percent among the nonathletic population. These rates tend to be even higher in sports that emphasize physical appearance and leanness, such as ballet and running. Because of this alarming epidemic, Clark stresses self-acceptance and body positivity.

“Your body is your best calorie counter, so why not listen to it?” she said.

“Athletes look like athletes; they don’t look like models.”

Dan Kopcso, the head strength and conditioning coach for Tufts athletics, notes that an unhealthy body image is not an issue for solely female athletes.

“So many men in sports have this misconception that they have to fit the image of the extremely ripped, Olympian-like bodies they see on television. In reality, it’s often beneficial to have a build that is a little softer, meaning a diet with more carbohydrates, to improve performance,” Kopcso said. “The cycle of the female athlete triad and eating disorders among all athletes can be hard to break.”

Kopsco agrees that seeing a sports nutritionist can help steer athletes in the right direction, whether they’re undereating or simply looking to clean up their diets to improve their performance.

Although many athletes tend to forget it, diet plays a sizable role in execution, whether it’s championship season or the offseason. With the guidance of a budding nutritionist in Knudsen and the veteran Clark, the Jumbos can learn how to navigate the jungle of options in Dewick and piece together meals that propel them to the top of the NESCAC.

On Saturday, the Tufts men’s hockey team traveled to Hartford, Conn. to take on Trinity in the first round of the NESCAC tournament. The defending NESCAC champion Bantams defeated the Jumbos in a 2–0 shutout, improving their record to 18–5–2 and putting an end to the visitors’ season. Trinity holds the top seed in the conference tournament and is ranked eighth in the nation by U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO), so Tufts knew it would be facing a formidable opponent.

“We knew what we were getting ourselves into,” sophomore defenseman Cory Gottfried said. “Trinity has always been a talented team, but we also know how to play with them and keep up.

Obviously, the score doesn’t depict the work we put in, but we played hard and gave it our all.”

Although the first two periods were scoreless on Saturday, the Bantams completely dominated throughout the entirety of the game. Tufts, which barely squeaked into the postseason thanks to a victory over Bowdoin on the final weekend of the regular season, was outshot in the opening 20 minutes, 12–5. At the midway point of the period, Trinity first-year forward Blake Carrick hit the pipe with a shot that beat Tufts senior goalie and co-captain Nik Nugnes.

It was a similar story in the second period, as the Bantams recorded more than twice as many shots as the visitors (15–7). While Trinity continued to generate solid scoring chances — including a point-blank opportunity for sophomore forward Barclay Gammill, which Nugnes turned aside — Tufts managed to stay level.

Tufts had arguably its best chance of the game late in the period, when first-year forward Edward Hannon was denied in front of goal twice by Trinity senior goalie Alex Morin.

The Jumbos were able to hold off their top-ranked opponents until five minutes into the third period. After Trinity sophomore defenseman Nick Fiorentino’s shot was stopped by Nugnes, first-year forward Nicholas Polsinelli backhanded the rebound into the net. Sophomore forward Adam Anderson was also credited with an assist on the goal.

With a 1–0 score and only a few minutes remaining, Tufts removed Nugnes to add another skater in hopes of scoring. However, with 17 seconds left in the game, Trinity senior forward and co-captain Anthony Sabitsky stole the puck from the Tufts defense and scored an insurance goal on an empty net to make the final score 2–0. see ICE HOCKEY, page 11