The Tufts Daily - Thursday, October 11, 2018

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FIRST Resource Center celebrates grand opening, announces 24/7 access

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(From left to right) Associate Director of Student Success and Advising Margot Cardamone, Associate Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Robert Mack and Student Success Advisor Jared Smith pose for a portrait outside the Office of Student Success and Advising at 20 Professors Row on May 1.

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by Madison Reid 20 Professors Row, will be open 24/7 for Cotributing Writer students who fill out an online request form, according to Associate Director for Tufts’ FIRST Resource Center held its Student Success and Advising Margot grand opening ceremony on Oct. 1 in the Cardamone.

John Kerry to speak at Tufts in November

by Daniel Nelson

Executive News Editor

Former Secretary of State John Kerry will speak in Cohen Auditorium on Nov. 28 as part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life’s Distinguished Speaker Series.

According to Tisch College’s press release provided to the Daily, Kerry will focus on his career in public service and experience as an anti-war activist after returning home from serving in Vietnam.

Kerry is one of the leading forces in Massachusetts politics and an elder statesman of the Democratic Party. He was elected a U.S. senator from Massachusetts in 1985, beginning a nearly three-decade tenure that would see him mount an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2004 and which culminated in his assumption of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairmanship in 2009.

Kerry left the Senate to become Secretary of State in 2013.

Dean of Tisch College Alan Solomont will appear alongside Kerry during the event to

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lead a “fireside chat”-style discussion, rather than having Kerry deliver prepared remarks.

“Having a conversation gives us the ability to guide the [discussion] and to talk about a variety of things, including what got him into public service,” Solomont said. “This is really an opportunity for students and faculty to get to know this figure.”

Solomont said he has known Kerry since the early 1970s from working on a community newspaper that covered Kerry’s ill-fated campaign for the Massachusetts 4th Congressional District seat. He said it was an honor to have Kerry come to campus.

Jennifer McAndrew, director of communications, strategy and planning for Tisch College, said that hearing from Kerry about his lifetime of public service will serve students well.

“Kerry is someone who has a really broad experience set in public policy, from working on local issues like education funding to experience on the world stage as Secretary of State,” McAndrew said. “I think a lot of students can learn from that.”

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The center, supported by the Office of Student Success and Advising (OSSA), is the university’s new, consolidated resource for students who identify as first-generation, low-income or undocumented, and now is one of a handful of buildings with round-the-clock access on a Tufts ID card. Inside, students can find formal and informal meeting spaces as well as free printing, according to Associate Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Robert Mack, who is also associate dean for student success and advising.

Mack said that the goal is to provide a space for building a community and increase accessibility to key resources.

At the grand opening, Mack thanked everyone involved in the center’s establishment for their passion and effort.

Mack said that he was a first-generation, low-income college student and shared his insights for students who identify in similar ways.

“Navigating the university can be challenging,” he said. “But it’s our goal to make sure it’s as easy as possible, and to make sure those barriers are not in your way.”

University President Anthony Monaco also shared his own experience navigating an Ivy League university as a first-generation, low-income student. He said that the university administration is taking steps to

grow the first-generation student presence through annual increases to its overall financial aid, and is committed to support the work of OSSA and the FIRST Center.

Monaco also said that Tufts remains committed to supporting students covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “[Students under DACA] are a very important part of our community that we will continue to fight for,” Monaco said.

Cardamone told the Daily in an interview that she hopes the new center’s round-the-clock availability will appeal to students.

“We’re hoping that with the 24/7 access, if students feel they need a place to congregate, they can, whenever necessary,” Cardamone said.

Shahjada (“Prince”) Islam, director of programming for the First-Generation College Student Council, believes that the goal of the center space is to foster a sense of belonging and community for students who may feel out of place on a college campus.

“Particularly for first-gen students, coming to Tufts can be a huge culture shock,” Islam, a junior, said. “It’s really hard to find places on campus where you think, ‘okay, I could just be here whenever.’” see FIRST, page 2

Somerville Board of Aldermen unanimously supports Yes on 3 campaign

by Austin Clementi

Assistant News Editor

The Somerville Board of Aldermen unanimously approved on Sept. 13 a resolution pledging support to the Yes on 3 coalition, a group of Massachusetts businesses, non-profits and other entities that encourages state voters to vote in favor of protections for transgender people in Massachusetts.

The Yes on 3 coalition’s focus is the namesake Question 3 on the upcoming 2018 general election ballot. Question 3 asks voters if they support a 2016 amendment to the Massachusetts Public Accommodations Law. The amendment “adds gender identity to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination in places of public accommodation, resort, or amusement,” according to the Massachusetts Secretary of State’s website.

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Somerville Alderman Lance Davis, representing Ward 6, said that he brought the resolution before the Board.

He also noted that at the time the 2016 amendment was being passed, he introduced a similar resolution to the Board in support of the amendment.

Davis said that from the time the 2016 amendment was passed, it was evident that a question to repeal it would be put on the ballot. He expressed disappointment that Massachusetts residents could be opposed to the amendment.

“That’s not who we are as a city or a state,” Davis said.

Ward 3 Alderman Ben Ewen-Campen echoed Davis’ statement.

“I think this directly goes […] against everything we stand for [in Massachusetts],” he said.

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THE TUFTS DAILY | News | Thursday, October 11, 2018

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FIRST Center builds community for first-gen, lowincome, undocumented students FIRST

continued from page 1 He added that 24/7 access will make the center a place that students feel a sense of ownership over.

Islam also said that the First-Generation College Student Council hosts biweekly hangouts where students meet over food, with games, movies and icebreakers. In the past, those activities have been held at the Latino Center or Women’s Center, but now he says they will be located at the FIRST Center.

Islam listed the Book It Forward lending library, Swipe It Forward meal bank, medical co-pays and emergency funds as several of the resources OSSA provides, which are also accessible at the FIRST Center. Additionally, there are mentors available at the center who can

support students as they navigate the academic world at Tufts, Islam added.

Prior to the center’s opening, resources for first-generation, low-income and undocumented students, such as the student success advisors, were spread across campus, according to Bizaye Banjaw, president of the First-Generation Student Council.

“Dean Mack was in Dowling, Margot [Cardamone] and Jared [Smith] were all in different dorms,” Banjaw, a sophomore, said. “Having a really physical place is the most exciting part of all of this. It makes it so much easier. You can just point somewhere and it’s all there.”

Banjaw stated that being in close proximity to the resources she needs makes her feel less stressed.

“I know the people who want me to succeed are living right downstairs from

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where I’m doing homework and that makes it easier — tenfold,” she said.

Senior Bethany Kirby said that historically, it’s been hard to build a community because it’s difficult to know who identifies as first-generation or low-income on campus. She believes the center will foster that growth.

“This provides a space for all of us to come together and to really provide that community and know one another on campus,” Kirby said.

Islam said the FIRST Center vastly improves the student experience.

“I feel like now, more so than ever before, [it] is the best time to be a firstgen, low-income or undocumented student on campus,” Islam said. “There’s a lot of support in place … and I’m just really happy that is becoming a reality here at Tufts.”

Somerville stands behind Yes on 3

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Sean Murphy (left) and Martina Tan (right), Tufts students and members of the Yes on 3 campaign, pose for a photo on Sept. 25

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continued from page 1 Ewen-Campen added that early polling data on the question caused him and Yes on 3 organizers to be more proactive in trying to get out the vote. A MassINC Polling Group and WBUR poll from May showed only 32 percent of voters supported the yes vote. MassINC Polling Group and WBUR’s latest poll, from late September, showed 71 percent of voters support yes.

The newly approved resolution describes the history of laws in both Massachusetts and Somerville protecting people based on gender identity and expression.

“The Somerville Board of Aldermen has long demonstrated leadership on the issue of transgender equality, amending, in May of 2014, the city’s non-discrimination ordinance to include gender identity and expression,” the resolution reads.

Somerville was the sixth municipality to approve such legislation, according to the document.

The resolution indicates its position in support of a yes vote on Question 3.

“Repeal of those provisions of the Massachusetts Public Accommodations Law would be contrary to the values and principles that the City of Somerville has long espoused and that we are sworn to uphold,” the resolution reads.

The Board of Aldermen also expressed opposition to any effort to restrict peoples’ rights based on gender identity or expression, according to the resolution.

Davis explained that a resolution is mostly an expression of an opinion, adding that the Board of Aldermen has limited legal authority on such matters.

“Voters are always entitled to vote how they feel,” he said.

However, Davis said that the wording of the legislation encourages some

action by the aldermen themselves.

Davis pointed out how the resolution binds the alderman to vote yes on election day.

“The members of this Board do hereby pledge to sign on to the ‘Yes on 3 [coalition]’ organized by Freedom for All Massachusetts,” the resolution states.

Both Ewen-Campen and Davis said that they each took action to support the Yes on 3 coalition beyond the vote within the Board of Aldermen.

Ewen-Campen said that he canvassed and spoke to his individual constituents regarding the Yes on 3 campaign, encouraging them to get involved on a grassroots level. He also said that he and all of the other aldermen would participate in local events, such as last weekend’s Honk!

Festival in Davis Square.

Martina Tan, who has an active leadership role in campaigning and organizing for Yes on 3 on campus, expressed her comfort in knowing that Somerville supports the amendment and campaign.

“Higher levels of government sometimes seem so distant from matters that concern the general public and I like the idea that our campus’ city council is at least able to acknowledge this issue,” Tan, a junior, told the Daily in an email.

However, Tan expressed some skepticism as to how the resolution would affect the vote itself.

“It’s a nice gesture but there’s still a lot of work to do,” Tan said.

Tan added that she hopes people will be motivated to learn more about the ballot question and sign up for volunteer action.

“There are always more voters we can talk to and active volunteers we can garner to make sure this is as far from a close vote as possible,” she said.

Police Briefs — Week of Oct. 8

by Jenna Fleischer News Editor

Lock it up On Oct. 1 at 8:18 p.m., Tufts University Police Department ( TUPD) received a call that a student’s wallet had been stolen from the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center. The student had placed their personal belongings in one of the cubbies near the workout equipment. They returned to find that their wallet was missing from their bag. TUPD is still investigating the matter, but so far there have been no

reports of JumboCash activity on the Tufts ID card that was in the wallet.

TUPD reminds all community members to use the lockers at the Tisch Sports and Fitness Center to store valuable items.

Honest to drunkenness On Oct. 5 at 12:36 a.m., TUPD responded to a medical call at Houston Hall. A student proclaimed they were “very drunk” and in need of medical attention. The student was treated by Tufts Emergency Medical Services ( TEMS) and transported to the hospital.

Goldilocks and the unlocked door On Oct. 8 at 2:09 a.m., TUPD received a call from a Tufts student who came home to their off-campus residence on College Avenue to find an unknown woman sleeping in their bed. The woman got up, apologized to the student and left the house.

The student reported having trouble locking the door to their house and seeing the woman around the area before. TUPD advised the student and other residents of the house to contact their landlord and have the locks checked. Somerville Police Department is investigating with the assistance of TUPD.

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Features

The people behind The Tufts Daily

by Jessie Newman

Executive Features Editor

Editor’s note: The Daily’s editorial board acknowledges that this article is premised on a conflict of interest. This article is a special feature for Daily Week 2018 that does not represent the Daily’s standard journalistic practices.

Tufts is the smallest university in the country to have a daily newspaper. With the complexity of such an operation, the Daily relies on countless people who work to publish a consistent stream of content.

The Daily’s managing board oversees daily production and works closely with the executive board to run the nearly four-decade-old student organization. The managing board typically consists of five people: the editorin-chief, two managing editors, one associate editor and a production director. Currently, on the paper’s masthead, there are 18 members of the executive board who lead the 14 different editorial, production and business sections of the Daily. To commemorate Daily Week, three past and current members of masthead shared their experiences with the Daily and the prominent role this organization has played in their lives.

Michael Epstein (LA ’88) started his Daily career in his first semester at Tufts. He was taking an Explorations class in the Experimental College on “Media and the 1984 Election,” and two of his student instructors were on the Daily’s executive board.

“At that time, the Daily was only four years old,” Epstein said. “They learned that I had done some high school journalism, so they peer pressured me down there and assigned me the football preview. I could not believe that [first-years] would get that topic.”

In the spring of his first year, Epstein was promoted to assistant sports editor and began to commit more and more time to the Daily. He spent his sophomore year on the executive board as an associate editor and executive editor, in the fall and spring respectively. He served as the editor-in-chief in 1986–1987, spending at least five nights a week at the Daily’s office.

“I loved being an editor, working with the younger writers, putting the paper together and leading a team,” Epstein said.

Junior Anna Hirshman explained that entering college, she knew that the Daily would be the place for her. Hirshman’s journey with the Daily also started in her first semester at Tufts, when she joined the copy section. She was promoted to assistant copy editor the next semester and once again to copy editor the semester after that.

“Grammar and editing … has always been a part of my life,” Hirshman said. “My dad and my brother instilled that in me … and my dad edited a paper. My high school paper, I was a copy editor and then the executive copy editor my senior year and there’s just something really comforting to me about editing and fixing problems.”

Hirshman served as executive copy editor in her sophomore spring, when she spent three nights a week in the Daily’s office from 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.

“You cannot do homework. You’re constantly getting articles and you do three rounds of copy editing and you read every article. [The executive editor] looks at every article at least twice,” Hirshman said.

Senior Zachary Hertz also joined the copy section in the fall of his first year. He later

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became an executive copy editor in his sophomore year, while also writing and editing for the news section.

“Looking forward towards my junior year, I knew I wanted to stay involved with the Daily. I didn’t really want to commit to being a … managing editor though because at that time having just come off of being a copy exec … the production work week is very draining, and I was trying to focus a little bit on school.

I was thinking how I could contribute in the way that I wanted to without necessarily making that level of a commitment.”

In the fall of his junior year, Hertz was the Daily’s associate editor, which is a position that manages many of the operations within the Daily not directly related to written content. As associate editor, Hertz focused on connecting with the executive editors and serving as a support system for them throughout the semester.

“I was trying to serve as a more personal voice with the execs. So I set goals with all of them for the semester,” Hertz said.

“I really feel like I know the people, and I love that.

When I end class at 7:00 p.m. on a Thursday, I’m like, ‘oh, I can just head over to the Daily for a couple of hours and just hang out.’

All my friends are in there.”

Hertz talked with the executive editors on how they could achieve their sections’ goals and kept in contact with them to continue this conversation throughout the semester.

“I think every [associate editor] tends to feel like they haven’t done much, but they all do more than the person before them,” Hertz said.

The following semester, Hertz was one of the two managing editors, who are tasked,

together with the editor-in-chief, with reading and editing every article that is published in the Daily.

While Hertz has spent a significant amount of his time on the Daily and on the managing board, some of his most memorable experiences came from writing articles as well. Hertz described his most notable article on the Daily, which focused on a Tufts Community Union Senate resolution in spring 2017 that called on the university to divest from several companies for their involvement in the Israeli defense sector.

“The resolution … was put up at a Senate meeting during Passover. There’s a lot of discussion over this one resolution [including] the timing of it and why it was presented during a religious holiday during which many students who might have wanted to comment on were at home,” Hertz said.

“There was a lot of emotion surrounding the Senate resolution [which] … many students on campus have opinions on. Basically I spent a day and a half doing nothing but covering this for the Daily.”

All three former and current staff members expressed their passion for the Daily.

“I loved writing for the Daily,” Hertz said.

The strong relationships that Hirshman has developed with her fellow Daily staffers have really added to the value of her time at Tufts.

“I really feel like I know the people, and I love that. When I end class at 7:00 p.m. on a Thursday, I’m like, ‘oh, I can just head over to the Daily for a couple of hours and just hang out.’ All my friends are in there,” Hirshman said.

Epstein said that even more special than his time on the Daily and all of the experiences that it gave him was what the Daily provided for his daughter, Alison (LA ’18), who was executive arts editor in the spring of 2018 and executive copy editor in the fall of 2015.

Epstein explained that nothing could have made him prouder than seeing his daughter find her own place at the Daily.

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Haruka Noishiki El Centro

Dancing through

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sat on a brown, wooden floor sprinkled by sunlight, drawing a cautious half-circle around my folded legs. I was four. I was on the second floor of my preschool building where we had after-school programs, first-year homerooms and an upstairs dance studio. I was at my after-school gymnastics program, twirling around in my pink leotard and tutu. White stockinged legs and pink ribbons crisscrossed the studio twice a week.

Today, I’m surprised to reflect that I had, in fact, experienced some kind of dance before ever joining a choir or singing club.

This upstairs studio at preschool was exactly where my school-organized and mandated dancing “career” began. From superhero-themed dances to mini-flag waving marches, younger students at my preschool were assigned specific dances that required hours of training, good behavior from 4 and 5-year-olds and even homemade costumes for which mothers sat in front of sewing machines for hours. This legacy carried on into elementary school, where for every field day, we practiced dances, from acts with homeroom-colored pom-poms to gymnastic formations. We would engage in practices that became the highs and lows of each day, and in the competitive spirit of the field day, sweat through many hot summer days to “beat” the other homerooms through grace and skill.

Dance is not something I’ve engaged with much as an extracurricular. Growing up, I’d always wanted to learn ballet, but every time I’d attend a trial class, I’d hate it with passion — for its rigidity, for its harshness, and would walk away happy that I could. Of course, when I attended a friend’s ballet concert, I would stare dreamily at the dancers’ feet that seemed to float through the air, to paint fairytales and tragedies, and I would continue on my quest for dance, to dance.

Now, I take Kathak dance as a class. I never imagined I’d take a dance class at college. I realize that it isn’t uncommon at Tufts, yet as a complete non-athlete, being more of a singer than a dancer, I still don’t really know why I am still in this class. Perhaps for pure enjoyment? Taking this class has helped me reconsider why I take certain classes and the point of double majoring. It has helped me reflect on extracurricular choices I make, in reflecting on committing to things I do perhaps because I always have. Dance, for me, has been an unconventional avenue of exploration, in unusual directions. Reflection isn’t all I’m gaining from Kathak. I have come to appreciate the sense of rhythm my mother, music teachers and singer peers have helped foster in me. I see the connection between my experience singing in a choir and dancing to a — albeit completely differently organized, but still similarly kept — beat. I’ve had the opportunity to reflect on what it means for a person not from a particular culture to teach a culture-specific art. I’ve had a chance to witness both very trained classmates and less experienced but just as committed peers. There are only a handful of Tufts students that I know to be deeply involved in dance, but I know many who strive to reach for dance, and I am beginning to understand why.

Haruka Noishiki is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Haruka can be reached at haruka.noishiki@tufts.edu.

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WEEKENDER

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Boston Art Book Fair comes back for its second year, shows great development

by Antonio Bertolino Arts Editor

After a successful first edition last October, the Boston Art Book Fair (BABF) is back in full force, with numerous events spanning the course of this weekend. The BABF promises to attract visitors of all ages and artistic backgrounds with fine art, radical design, independent artists and galleries, academic publications and antiquarian collectors. The schedule for the event features a ticketed preview party at 6–10 p.m. on Oct. 12, as well as discussion panels, book signings and workshops at 12–8 p.m. on Saturday and 12–5 p.m. on Sunday with free admission to the public.

The BABF was born as the result of a collaboration between the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), and Bodega, the speakeasy-inspired streetwear shop in downtown Boston. Because of the way this event was conceived, the BABF exists at the intersection of different cultural circles and artistic media. For its 2018 edition, the BABF has also attracted diverse sponsors including Carhartt, Highsnobiety and the Boston Art Review. The BABF is thus meant to provide a different experience than what one would normally get when visiting a standard museum or exhibition space.

In what is set to be its most ambitious edition yet, the BABF has more than doubled last year’s number of exhibitors present at the fair. The venue for the fair has changed in order to accommodate this growth, shifting from the BCA’s South End campus to the

iconic Cyclorama building at the center of the BCA campus.

Randi Hopkins, co-founder of the BABF and the director of visual arts at the BCA, said that the event’s success last year proved its potential in the Boston arts scene.

“I’m the Director of Visual Arts at Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), where I have been overseeing the visual arts program since summer 2013. I co-founded the Boston Art Book Fair last spring with Oliver Mak, of Bodega and also of Fourth Wall Project, a great experimental art venue that was located in Fenway,” Hopkins told the Daily in an email. “We were amazed at the great response to our first Boston Art Book Fair — both by visitors who came and were surprised and excited to see what it was all about, and also by our intrepid exhibitors, who realized what a great audience Boston is for this kind of unique event.”

Hopkins also said that an unexpected growth in the number of exhibitors led to the change of venue.

“We organized the first [BABF] last October, it took place across four venues on BCA’s South End campus — this year, we’ve grown so that we’re taking over our historic, central Cyclorama space for the fair,” she said. “We realized early in our application process for Boston Art Book Fair 2018 that we had an overwhelming number of quality applications coming in from across the country and abroad, so we decided to make the move into the Cyclorama, BCA’s signature venue.”

Thursday, OCTOBER 11 7-8:30 PM Curtis Hall

LIVING A POSITIVE LIFE A CONVERSATION ABOUT LIVING WITH HIV

Tufts Alum Mauricio Artiñano ('06) Please join us to hear the story of Mauricio Artiñano, who has been active in HIV/AIDS awareness efforts since being diagnosed with HIV in November 2015.

Mauricio emphasizes that, as a society, we have to work to overcome the fear, stigma, and silence that surrounds HIV. He will share his thoughts about living a positive and productive life as an HIV+ individual and discuss HIV prevention and anti-discrimination efforts. The event will also cover HIV prevention services at Tufts Health Services. Mauricio works for the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia and is currently a member of the Board of Advisors of the Tisch College of Civic Life.

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Hopkins added that print has been regaining its popularity as a cultural and artistic medium.

“In the past few years, art book fairs have been growing in popularity and cultural resonance across the country — I’ve been a devoted fan of the annual New York Art Book Fair organized by Printed Matter, seeing it as an opportunity for people of all ages to interact with art and artists in a fun and lowkey way.”

Hopkins also said that the BABF can serve as a space for self-expression and advocacy by bringing people together, citing the vital role print has played in politics and activism in history.

“I think [the BABF] can have political significance in the fact that it mobilizes creative, engaged people to come together and get active about topics they feel strongly about — it shows all kinds of ways that we can all raise our voices and get the word out about things we care about,” Hopkins said. “Many of our exhibitors use their printed material to advocate strongly for activist positions from HOMOCATS to Lavender Menace and The Bettys to Montez Press to Abdul Fattah Ismail/Extended Syllables.

Print has a long [history] as an inexpensive medium for strong public expression, and we hope lots of our visitors will be inspired to make good use of it.”

Hopkins explained that she has worked with Mak, the other co-founder, to keep the BABF as accessible to many people as possible.

“After many years of working with experimental and emerging art in Boston, I wanted to share the excitement of original work with a broader range of people — you don’t need a degree in art history or [an] extensive museum — or gallery-going experience to get excited about the great design work and important themes and topics that you find in

zines and album art and independent presses and low-tech prints, all these wonderful forms of visual culture are so dynamic and art book fairs are a great point of entry into them,” Hopkins said.

Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA) is one of the organizations participating in the event, according to Daisy Nam, CCVA’s assistant director. Nam told the Daily in an email that CCVA is committed to the fair and that the organization hopes to connect with the wider Boston community.

“The Carpenter Center Bookshop has a booth again this year. Come visit, we’re table #12. We carry small-press contemporary art books, magazines, and journals, with an emphasis on international publications through our collaboration with Motto Books, a bookshop and distributor based in Berlin,” Nam said. “We’re happy to be part of The Boston Art Book Fair again, as it allows us to share our books to the Boston community.”

Both Hopkins and Nam shared the events they look forward to at the BABF. “We have a full line-up of programs taking place throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday, including a panel discussion [titled] ‘Street Culture and Print’ with editorial director of HIGHSNOBIETY, Jian DeLeon, a premiere screening of Art21’s new ‘Johannesburg’ episode followed by discussion, hands-on zine-making and book-binding workshops, and live broadcast with roundtable style discussion by Demo Radio… and more,” Hopkins said.

Nam, on the other hand, said she prefers the medium of print.

“We’re fans of Hassla, Capricious and so many other publishers. As for panels Publication Studio Hudson, who will be talking on [Sunday], is great. They’ve really opened up the way that artists, galleries, art spaces can print and distribute books in a sustainable way,” she said.

CORRECTION A previous version of the Oct. 10 article “The Tide: Lucy McBath” incorrectly stated that Hillary Clinton won Georgia’s 6th Congressional District in the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump won the district by one percentage point. The article has been updated to reflect this change. The Daily regrets this error.

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Content warning: sexual assault. ith Kavanaugh confirmed, the left faces two choices: court packing as soon as the Democrats have the numbers or long-term abolition. The Republicans have put a far-right judge, who is an enemy of workers, women and minorities, on this unelected board of lawyers. Kavanaugh is emblematic of their movement as an archconservative who got along well with Never Trump neocon holdouts from the Bush era and shared the president’s taste for sexual assault and dishonesty.

By confirming an alleged rapist, anti-abortion, anti-voting, anti-worker judge, the Republicans have at last revealed the charade of the Court.

Proponents of plodding legalism see the Supreme Court as an instrument of justice and a check against tyranny; they point to Brown v. Board of Education, a decision only necessitated by Plessy and Dred Scott. They can only ever point to the moments the Court confirmed the power of organized mass movements. It was the people who won these reforms, not the enlightened wisdom of five to nine judges.

A system which sees an unelected body that can be indefinitely packed by a minority party as its highest arbiter of justice is broken.

Of course, the problems with the Supreme Court — its undemocratic nature, its class composition, its tendency towards reaction — are simply reflections of the distribution of power in the United States. It isn’t judges who should decide law in relation to a 200-year-old treaty between molasses merchants and slave owners. It is you and I who should decide the law as it relates to our everyday lives, through mass participatory democracy.

There is nothing to stop the left wing of the Democratic Party from demanding the next Democratic president pack the court.

The Republican grip on power and the neoliberal composition of the Democrats means this is only a temporary solution. Republicans will pack the court right back, and most Democrats would happily serve as willing checks on legitimate expressions of popular discontent or only grudgingly validate progress. But with five far-right extremists — including two accused sexual predators, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas — on the court, it’s time for the Democrats to unambiguously call for court packing.

Norms are just the rules rich people play by to keep them from accidentally helping the poor. They don’t enhance democracy; they just make it possible for monsters to be smarmy. And Kavanaugh is the perfect monster for this moment — an Ivy League criminal and screaming reactionary drunk.

His confirmation finally shows what socialists and many oppressed people have known the whole time: The Supreme Court protects the supremacy of the elite. The rotten facade of American institutions is collapsing, revealing the petulant cruelty and greed that has ruled this country since Myles Standish started ethnically cleansing Massachusetts.

Until there is enough strength or desperation on the left to abolish the Court, we can only make the Democrats pack it. But eventually there will be a force strong enough to hold these Ivy League criminals accountable for all the misery they’ve inflicted. Or else we are doomed to be ruled by them forever.

Aneurin Canham-Clyne is a senior studying history. Aneurin can be reached at aneurin.canham_clyne@tufts.edu.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2018

OP-ED

PILOT parity for Somerville, Medford

by Edward Beuchert Municipal governments usually fund the services they provide through taxes, and Tufts’ host cities of Somerville and Medford raise the major portion of their budgets through real estate taxes. Due to a controversial Massachusetts law, nonprofit organizations are not required to pay property taxes to the communities they reside in. Instead, the municipalities must raise the required money in other ways, including asking the exempt institutions they host for voluntary payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT).

Tufts has had two PILOT agreements with Somerville and Medford over the years. For Somerville, the first ten-year agreement gave $100,000 annually, while the most recent five-year agreement, which expired on June 30, provided $275,000 annually. This is approximately four percent of the real estate taxes that would normally be due.

The City of Boston implements a generally successful PILOT program. Boston requests that non-profits make a voluntary PILOT contribution equal to 25% of the real estate taxes they would otherwise pay, half in cash and half in services.

While there is wide variability in compliance among the institutions, Tufts pays Boston this full amount for the downtown campus.

With negotiations coming up between Tufts and its main campus host commu-

nities on the next PILOT agreement, a coalition of citizens from groups including the West Somerville Neighborhood Association, Our Revolution Somerville and Our Revolution Medford has met a number of times to study and discuss the situation. We have come to the conclusion that the only fair arrangement going forward is parity with the PILOT terms Tufts has voluntarily agreed to with the City of Boston. On April 23, before the expiration of the most recent agreement, members of our coalition had a standing-room-only meeting with Tufts’ Directors of Community Relations Barbara Rubel and Rocco DiRico to present our views and request that Tufts provide Boston PILOT parity in the next Medford and Somerville agreements.

It’s eminently fair to give Medford and Somerville the same deal as Boston. If anything, shouldn’t Tufts feel an even closer relationship with the communities on which its main campus resides than with the City of Boston? I don’t need to explain how beneficial and intrinsic the location of the Medford/Somerville campus is to the Tufts experience — there are plenty of admissions office publications that do that very well! While Massachusetts’ richest city of Weston has better resources to support a tax-exempt institution, how many students would want to attend a Tufts located out in the Boston suburbs?

Many Somerville and Medford citizens appreciate the positive aspects of hosting

Tufts in our cities, and we’re willing to pay some extra taxes to support the university as a contributing member of our communities. But our own taxes and living expenses keep going up, and some of that is directly tied to Tufts’ growth. In particular, the administration’s policy of annually increasing student enrollment without building new on-campus dormitories has had a dramatic effect on housing prices in the surrounding neighborhoods (which in turn cascades into increased individual real estate taxes). No matter what, Somerville and Medford citizens will be paying more money than they otherwise would if the Tufts campus were somehow teleported to Weston and replaced with tax-paying homes and businesses. Our request for PILOT parity still represents a 75 percent discount of otherwise due property taxes.

PILOT parity for Somerville and Medford is an issue like paying workers a living wage. While it’s true that Tufts is not legally obligated to do so, the university should treat those it depends on fairly because it’s consistent with the values that Tufts says it holds dear and promotes in its own community — and because it’s the right thing to do.

Edward Beuchert is a co-founder and current board member of the West Somerville Neighborhood Association who has lived with his family on Conwell Avenue since 1998. Edward can be reached at edward@slidingrock.com.

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Bowers named NESCAC Player of the Week WOMEN’S SOCCER

continued from page 8 despite the hosts doubling their attempts in the second period. In doing so Tufts limited Middlebury to its first draw of the season, and became the only team so far to not concede a goal against what is currently the best team in the conference.

Bowers was happy with the strong defensive performance from the Jumbos.

“I think the team’s defensive success stems largely from our constant communication throughout the game,” Bowers said.

“Furthermore, Jamie, Sarah and Taylor are

all incredible defenders with a lot of experience playing together, and they make my job easy by stopping most shots before they even happen. Each game we strive to improve and get a shutout, which incorporates the whole team. From the forwards to the defenders, the moment we lose the ball everyone is working hard defensively to regain possession.”

Despite the positive nature surrounding Tufts’ last two games, Rannali believes the team still has work to do.

“There are always things we need to work on both as an attacking and defensive unit,” Rannali said. “I thought our forwards did a

great combining with the center midfielders and we had some nice combinations to goal.

Of course we want to keep taking shots and continue to be dangerous and get numbers in to the attack. Middlebury is a very good team.

Their record and national recognition show that. We were excited for the opportunity to compete against such a good team. We were happy with the way we played at moments — we kept our defensive shape and looked to keep the ball a lot, but of course we see room for improvement.”

For her impressive shot-stopping efforts against Middlebury, Bowers was

named NESCAC Player of the Week.

Bowers made a career-high 12 saves over the course of the match, keeping the Jumbos level against an offense that has otherwise been unstoppable this year.

“I feel honored being named NESCAC Player of the Week,” Bowers said. “It was great that we were able to shut out Middlebury offensively. But now I’m focusing on the next games this weekend against Connecticut College and Trinity.”

Tufts faces off against Conn. College on Oct. 13 at noon.

Cross country teams race against competition from all divisions in preparation for championship season

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Senior co-captain Natalie Bettez races ahead of the competition on her way to winning the Purple Valley Classic at Mt. Greylock High School on Sept. 22.

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continued from page 7 terrains we were going on and our surroundings,” Slager said. “At one point, we were in the woods, and there is a good

section where we pass by the parents in all of the tents. There’s usually a big crowd there to cheer you on, and there’s also parts where you’re more alone. It’s a good time to kind of evaluate where you are in the race and pass people.”

The more secluded part of the race was where Bettez made her most pivotal moves.

She was ultimately able to pass the entirety of the Boston College pack to get into first and then maintain the lead for the duration of the race. Bettez explained that she assessed how she felt as the race progressed, and because she felt good heading into the woods, she capitalized on her position to steadily pass some runners ahead of her. “[The Boston College runners] took it out pretty hard,” Bettez said. “I was behind them a little bit, but I was just trying to make sure I didn’t go out too fast and kind of see how I felt. They were in sight the whole time mostly, but I didn’t come up on them and try to take the lead until about 1000 meters to go.”

Seeing Bettez make history was the clear highlight of the day for her coach, and an even better cherry-on-top because no one was really expecting the outcome, including Bettez herself.

Her teammates were beyond thrilled to see Bettez put on such a show.

“I went crazy—I was so excited for her,” Slager said. “Usually I walk up to her after we both finish. I was like, ‘Hey, how’d you do?’ and she was like, ‘I won’ and then they announced it. It was the first time in years that a Tufts runner had won. I went to hug her, but I hugged her too hard, so I picked her up and was just, like, holding her … I am so happy for her.”

Meanwhile at the sub-varsity five-kilometer event, the women’s team emerged with a third place outcome. Tierney, the first Jumbo finisher of the race, took 13th place with a time of 19:13.06. She was followed by junior Jennifer Jackson in 15th (19:17.06), and sophomores Olivia Martin (19:23.83) and Alexandra Wolf (19:26.75), who took 19th and 20th, respectively.

Also competing at Franklin Park this past Saturday was the men’s cross country team, which, unlike the women’s team, used pack racing to its advantage to claim third place out of 14 teams. The men’s cross country team only participated in the sub-varsity eight-kilometer race, finishing with 87 points on the meet, losing only to Northeastern (17) and MIT (51).

Leading the Jumbos was first-year John Cyprus who clocked in 26:37.70 for an 11th-place finish. Shortly behind him was fellow first-year Sam Gatti in 13th with a time of 26:40.80. The third and fourth finishers for Tufts were sophomore Patrick Nero (27:01.34) and first-year Joseph Harmon (27:04.60).

Junior Matt D’Anieri, first-year John Pappo and senior Christian Swenson rounded out the top seven finishers for the Jumbos.

Cyprus was satisfied with his team’s showing, given that the team did not feature all its best runners.

“When we are full strength, not only will we have some faster runners in there, but I think we’ll also have a little more team morale and be a little more upbeat just because we will be racing with some more people that we train with,” Cyprus said.

Tufts will send both its cross country teams to the Conn. College Invitational in Waterford, Conn. on Oct. 13, where both teams are hoping to run at full strength.

This will be Tufts’ final meet before the NESCAC Championship two weekends from now.

Moldenhauer shines at penultimate fall tournament for men’s tennis

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Senior co-captain Ross Kamin prepares to return a shot in the men’s tennis home game against Bowdoin at the Voute Tennis Courts on April 28.

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Contributing Writer

Tufts competed at the Wallach Invitational hosted by Bates over the weekend. Facing tough opponents from strong tennis programs in the NESCAC, the team performed well in both singles and doubles events.

Leading the way for the Jumbos was firstyear Jack Moldenhauer, who showed his flair in singles. After cruising on Saturday with a couple of two-set wins against Bowdoin firstyear Evan Fortier (6–4, 6–2) and Bates firstyear Wilder Geier (6–2, 6–2), Moldenhauer went down 6–2 to classmate Damien Ruparel

of Amherst in the semifinals but rallied to win the last two sets in dramatic fashion, 6–4, 10–8.

“In the beginning I was kind of playing a little hesitant,” Moldenhauer said. “I was playing a little tight and nervous. In the second set I loosened up, made [Ruparel] hang a little bit deeper and play longer points and hit shots that maybe he wasn’t comfortable with.”

Moldenhauer eventually lost in the Flight C finals on Sunday to Bowdoin sophomore Alan Delman, 6–3, 7–5, but proved himself an equal to tough opponents from strong NESCAC schools. Delman had beaten Jumbo junior co-captain Ethan Bershtein 7–6(4), 6–1 in the quarterfinal.

According to Moldenhauer, Delman possesses a big serve and forehand — his key weapon in important points in their final match-up. Moldenhauer, who said that he excels in longer points and playing far back on the court, proved himself up to the challenge.

“I played a lot of good players from Amherst, Bowdoin and Bates, and all three are very strong teams from NESCAC,” Moldenhauer said. “I competed and played very well against them, fought hard in the final two, played a good player in the final. He won, but it was a great match that was fun to play.”

Other Jumbos that competed in this event included sophomore Carl-Herman Grant, who fell 7-6(3), 6-1 in the Flight B round of 16 against Bowdoin junior Justin Patel. First-year Isaac Gorelik also fell in the same round 6–2, 6–3 against Amherst senior Zach Bessette.

Meanwhile in Flight A, juniors Nathan Niemiec and Ben Biswas made it to the quarterfinals before losing to Bowdoin sophomore Justin Wang 6–3, 6–3 and first-year Oscar Yang 7–5, 6–3 respectively. Junior Jason Scanlon and senior co-captain Ross Kamin competed in Flight D. Three doubles teams also competed in the tournament. Kamin and first-year Paris Pentousis were playing together for the first time. According to Kamin, this was a great opportunity to build rapport with each other, allowing them to find their groove to advance to the Flight B semifinals, defeating teams from Skidmore and Bowdoin along the way.

Similarly, the duo of Grant and sophomore Niko Hereford defeated Bates and Skidmore pairs to advance to the semifinals of Flight A doubles.

With only one senior on the Jumbos roster, the tournament at Bates — the team’s second-to-last of the fall season — was helpful in developing team chemistry and working out who works well as doubles partners “I think that we improved with our doubles, but we still have a lot of potential,” Moldenhauer said. “We’re going to try to use the last couple weeks of the fall and the whole winter to work on our doubles. We’ll work on our singles too and try to figure out where we are in that category as well.”

This year’s outing to the Wallach Invitational was not quite as successful as last year’s, but Kamin believes that the team still put in good performances throughout.

“Last year at [Wallach Invitational] we had [two] people win divisions,” Kamin said. “This year we didn’t win any and got to one final. So compared to last year the end results weren’t quite as good, but I think everyone competed hard, and that’s really all you can ask for. So it was still really a successful weekend all around.”

Sophomore Boris Sorkin, who won the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) New England Championships singles title on Sep. 30, will be competing at the ITA Cup in Rome, Ga. starting Thursday.

The team will wrap up the fall season at the MIT Invitational this weekend. Due to construction at MIT, the tournament will be partly hosted by Tufts.

“It will definitely be nice to be playing closer to home and not having to stay at a hotel,” Kamin said. “Hopefully we’ll get some of our own fans out there maybe. It’ll definitely be a good way to finish out the fall.”

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NFL Week 6

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

Last week’s predictions went one-forthree, thanks to the Vikings beating the Eagles in Philadelphia. Josh Rosen didn’t break out with three-plus touchdowns (only one), and the Titans lost to the Bills after I predicted a 20-point blowout.

These are bold predictions, so I like to think getting one isn’t bad, even if it was the most likely one! Onward to week six…

Patriots and Chiefs top 58.5-point over/under.

Vegas knows that this showdown between the Patriots and Chiefs is going to be a shootout. The over/under for points scored between the two teams has opened at 58.5 points. That’s the highest mark of the week and deservedly so. There will be a lot of points scored in this game, and I’ll take it a step further and predict the over on the point line.

The stats, as well as the eye test, back up my prediction here. This is a battle of two high-powered offenses led by human stat machine Patrick Mahomes and the G.O.A.T. Tom Brady. The Chiefs have scored 35 points per game this year (second in the league), while the Patriots have scored 26.6.

While the Patriots’ defense has been solid, this will be their toughest test yet.

For KC’s defense, they have struggled to the tune of 25.8 points allowed per game this year, putting them well within the bottom half of the league in that category.

There will be plenty of points scored, but I predict at least 59.

Titans defeat Ravens at home I’m rolling with the Tennessee Titans, even after their stinker against the Bills last week that undercut my prediction. They face Baltimore at home next week and are 1.5-point underdogs at home. I believe that line is generous, as the Ravens should be the favorites by a good bit. I’ll repeat it because it frustrates me: The Titans lost to the Bills last week!

I maintain that the Titans are a good football team that had a bad week against the lowly Bills, just like the powerhouse Vikings. They’ve shown flashes of brilliance this year and now it feels like they have something to prove. They’re facing a beatable team — albeit a good team — this week in front of their home crowd. Tennessee should be considered the underdogs, and I see them getting the (debatable) upset over Baltimore.

Bears get three or more picks for third straight game This may not seem like a bold prediction because Chicago’s defense has been fantastic so far. The Bears have eight interceptions in their four games so far this season, with only the Seahawks (nine) and the Dolphins (10) having more.

It just so happens that Miami and Chicago play each other this week. Ryan Tannehill has thrown five picks this year, which isn’t a staggeringly high number, but the Bears have a stout defense that has three picks in each of their last two games. Coming off their bye, I think they’ll do it again.

Bradley Schussel is a sports editor at the Tufts Daily. He is a senior studying biomedical engineering. Bradley can be reached at bradley.schussel@tufts.edu.

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Women’s soccer keeps clean sheets against Middlebury, Salem State

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Sophomore forward Liz Reed battles a defender for the ball in Tufts’ 3–0 defeat against Amherst at Kraft Field on Sept. 29.

by Liam Finnegan Sports Editor

This past week, the Jumbos picked up a 0–0 draw away against Middlebury on Saturday and a 3–0 win at home against Salem State on Tuesday. With the draw and win, the Jumbos brought their record to 7–2–2, recovering from their slight dip in form over Homecoming weekend.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Jumbos faced off against the Salem State Vikings on Kraft Field and completely dominated the match.

From the game’s onset, the Jumbos relentlessly pressured the Vikings, firing shot after shot onto the Viking goal. Within 20 minutes into the first half, Tufts managed a whopping 10 shots and barely let Salem State out of its own half. With so much attacking presence and so many goal-scoring chances, the Jumbos were bound to break through at some point.

They did just that in the 25th minute with their 11th shot of the game. Senior defender Jamie Corley picked up the loose ball just inside the Salem State half. Sophomore forward Liz Reed flicked the ball on to the flank to junior defender Tally Clark, who crossed the ball into the penalty box. The Salem State

defense failed to clear the ball convincingly as the ball fell nicely to Reed, who laced the ball into the top of the net, making the score 1–0 to the Jumbos. The Vikings held out nine more shots from the hosts for the remainder of the half.

Tufts continued its offensive dominance in the second half, and quickly got a goal for their efforts within a minute of the game restarting. Sophomore defender/midfielder Hannah Isenhart slotted a pass through to an unmarked sophomore midfielder/forward Sophie Lloyd inside Salem State’s penalty area, who placed a composed finish into the back of the net to make it 2–0 to the Jumbos. Just five minutes later, Tufts made it 3–0. After a short corner routine between senior midfielder and co-captain Emma Ranalli and Isenhart, Ranalli found herself in acres of space. She crossed the ball in low for Reed who struck just inside the 18-yard box to make it 3–0 to Tufts, the final nail in the coffin for Salem State.

The Jumbos finished the game with a massive 44 shots registered and 18 on goal. The team completely outclassed Salem State, who only managed four shots with just one on goal.

On Saturday, Tufts played NESCAC rival Middlebury (10–0–1). The game was a bitter

stalemate which stretched into double overtime but ended scoreless. Middlebury entered the game fourth in the nation and at the top of the NESCAC, and it showed when Tufts played them. Unlike the Salem State game, Tufts remained on the defensive for most of the game. Tufts had a great chance inside eight minutes, but Clark ripped a shot just over the crossbar. Besides this chance, the first half was slow for the most part, as both teams played patient, defensive games. The hosts had two chances to take the lead on the halfhour mark, but junior forward Ellie Greenberg shot wide left thanks to pressure from senior goalkeeper Emily Bowers. Bowers then saved from junior midfielder Sabrina Glaser about a minute later to keep the scores knotted going into the break.

In the second half, the Jumbos struggled to create offensive opportunities once more, with their first and only shot on target coming in the 85th minute from junior midfielder Ashley Latona. However, the Jumbos defense remained strong throughout the remainder of the game and sealed out the Panthers to a 0–0, double overtime tie, see WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 7

Bettez becomes first Jumbo to win All-New England Championship in 38 years

by Sejal Dua

Assistant Sports Editor

At Franklin Park on Saturday, Tufts senior co-captain Natalie Bettez had a performance for the record books. She clocked in a 17:57.85 time to win the AllNew England Championship, a feat that no Tufts runner has accomplished since Kathy Whitcomb in 1975. Bettez was also recently named U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association National Athlete of the Week for the second time this season.

Meanwhile, as a team this weekend, Tufts finished the five-kilometer event with 222 points, which was good for eighth place out of the 24 teams in attendance.

Fellow Div. III team MIT settled for second place with a score of 78 as Boston College claimed the victory, with a tally of 27.

First-year Anna Slager took 34th with the second-best time for the Jumbos, posting a

19:04.14. In third place was senior Olivia Barnett, who finished 61st with a time of 19:22.91. Four places behind Barnett was junior Lydia Heely, who came in a few seconds behind Barnett with a time of 19:25.79. Junior Nicole Kerrigan clocked in at 19:27.98, finishing fifth for Tufts. Seniors Julia Noble (19:42.43) and Caitlin Porrazzo (20:01.93) rounded out sixth and seventh for the Jumbos, placing 84th and 113th respectively.

This meet was quite unusual for Tufts because the team split its athletes between the varsity and sub-varsity races.

“We had to break the team up,” coach Kristen Morwick said. “We didn’t race what typically would have been our top seven in the varsity race. We kind of mixed people in both races, so it’s hard to say how we would have fared as a team if we put our best seven together.”

Morwick decided on how to split teams by simply putting the runners who did

not race the prior weekend in the varsity race, with Heely also included in that group. Senior Kelsey Tierney, a runner in the sub-varsity race, would have been Tufts’ third finisher in the varsity race.

However, it was her first meet of the season, so Morwick did not want her to feel a ton of pressure.

According to Morwick, as the meet was stacked with speedy competition from all divisions and an especially dominant pack of Boston College athletes, the Jumbos did not emphasize strategy too heavily this past weekend. Instead, their goal was to simply go out and see what they could accomplish.

The meet was certainly valuable for Tufts because NESCACs will be hosted at the same venue in just a few short weeks.

“It was a fun course to run on because there was a lot of diversity in the different see CROSS COUNTRY, page 7