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Mental Health Task Force continues to assess student mental health

by Emily Thompson Contributing Writer

The Mental Health Task Force, launched in the fall of 2016, is continuing to evaluate and address the state of student mental health across the university by considering student input and evaluating university policies and resources.

Starting about four years ago, Tufts saw an increase in the number of students visiting Counseling and Mental Health Services (CMHS), according to Jacklyn Varela, project administrator for the Office of the President and lead staff member supporting the task force.

“On the Medford/Somerville campus, there was a 25% increase last year in students accessing our mental health services,” Varela told the Daily in an email. “We conduct a survey every two years called the Healthy Minds Survey, and that data was also indicating increased need.”

The task force was formed in response to increased national awareness of mental health issues’ impact on college students, according to the website of the Office of the President.

There are four subgroups within the task force, including the full task force and three working groups: one focusing on undergraduate students (UWG), one focusing on students in the graduate and professional schools (GPWG), and the Models of Care group focused on clinical services related to mental health, according to Varela.

“Each working group has developed its own approach depending on the critical needs it has identified and the date available,” Varela said in an email.

Mary Pat McMahon, Dean of Student Affairs and chair of the Models of Care task group, said that one of the main goals of the task force is to assess what resources and services Tufts already has in place and to address what might help improve these services. “[Our goal is to] raise awareness of the ongoing efforts to create the healthiest possible environment for Tufts students at the graduate and undergraduate level, [and] to examine and identify possible ways we can enhance our efforts to create a holistically healthy campus,” McMahon said.

There are multiple ways the task force collects student input, including

an online form for students to submit input and listening sessions where members of the task force have met with students to hear their concerns. The UWG, co-chaired by Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering Raymond Ou and Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Advising at the School of Engineering Jennifer Stephan, has held a total of ten listening sessions.

“There were two listening sessions that were general and not targeted at any specific student group. For the other sessions there was more intensive outreach … toward specific communities including international students, SMFA, engineering, low-income and [first-generation] students, and communities represented by each of the Group of Six,” Ou and Stephan told the Daily in an email.

According to Ou and Stephan, task force members also attended meetings of several student organizations and conducted private interviews with individual students in order to solicit input on student mental health.

The task force wanted to make sure to collect input from a variety of student

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The Counseling and Mental Health Services Building is pictured. populations to get a complete picture of student mental health, McMahon said.

“One of the things we want to make sure we think about is where are there places where multiple identities are converging, creating unseen narratives around how one’s mental health is impacted,” McMahon said.

John Matias, Associate Dean of Admissions and Enrollment and Student Affairs at the Tufts School of Medicine and chair of the GPWG, said that his working group held more than 15 listening sessions with students at the Boston, Grafton and Medford campuses. see MENTAL HEALTH TASK FORCE, page 2

Trustees change policy for all Committee on Student Life boards in wake of Scaramucci case examines, considers revisions to Code of Conduct

by Natasha Mayor News Editor

On Jan. 29, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees approved an addition to its policy regarding the removal of a member from a Board of Advisors, according to Tufts’ Executive Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins.

“Removal – The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees in consultation with the Dean/Program Director, Provost, and Chair on the Council of the Boards of Advisors, may, by a majority vote of its members, remove any member of a Board of Advisors,” the addition on the website for the Office of the Board of Advisors reads.

This change comes as a result of the uncertainty that surrounded Anthony Scaramucci’s (LA ’86) position as a member last year.

In a Nov. 16 meeting, outgoing Provost David Harris had acknowledged there was no policy or precedent for removing a member from the Board of Advisors, given that such an issue had never arisen before.

Harris said that, accordingly, a draft of such a policy would be presented to

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the Board of Trustees when they met in January 2018.

“The policy change is in response to the board’s recognition that there was a gap in existing guidelines,” Collins said.

In Scaramucci’s case, a review process was never initiated because he resigned from the board on Nov. 28, before the process could commence.

When the Board of Advisors convened on Jan. 29, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, which is comprised of the Board of Trustees chair, vice chairs and president, were presented with the proposed change to the language.

“The one-sentence addition was drafted by staff and presented to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees,” Collins told the Daily in an email.

Sophomore Angela Sun, a former Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate Trustee Representative, said that as a student representative, she attended meetings with the academic affairs committee of the Board of Trustees. see BOARD OF ADVISORS, page 2

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This semester, the Committee on Student Life (CSL) has commenced a comprehensive analysis and review of student life policies within the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). Committee members are specifically examining the Code of Conduct.

The 18 committee members include student-elected undergraduate and graduate representatives, appointed professors and four ex-officio nonvoting members that provide counsel to the group. Ex-officio nonvoting members include Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon and Director of Community Standards Kevin Kraft.

According to senior Ania Ruiz, who is the student co-chair of the CSL, the review process is just beginning in earnest.

“The [Dean of] Student Affairs Office has been preparing for this since last semester, but the CSL was recently officially charged

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with reviewing the policies by Mary Pat [McMahon]. We’ve had one meeting so far and will continue the process throughout the semester,” Ruiz told the Daily in an electronic message.

Kraft explained that at the moment, the committee has a broader charge to examine issues relating to student life at Tufts in addition to holding hearings on student organization misconduct. Kraft elaborated that every year, the group decides to focus on pertinent policy matters, with this year’s item being the comprehensive policy review.

“A policy review is just a healthy thing to do for an organization. Obviously reality changes and policies need to stay up to date with it,” Kraft said.

He went on to explain that the Student Life Review Committee, which was created by University President Tony Monaco in December 2016, had also recommended that the CSL prioritize the review of certain polisee COMMITTEE ON STUDENT LIFE, page 2

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Mental Health Task Force to hold town hall with TCU Senate MENTAL HEALTH TASK FORCE

continued from page 1 After conducting listening sessions at the undergraduate level, Ou and Stephan concluded that students were particularly interested in Tufts’ policies and practices regarding mental health, and so the UWG chose to focus on a thorough review of relevant policies.

“For the past several months the working group has focused on this work and engaging academic and administrative stakeholders to explore opportunities for potential policy changes,” Ou and Stephan said in an email.

Ou and Stephan hope to continue to engage with students in an upcoming town hall held in conjunction with the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, which is being coordinated by

TCU Senators Grant Gebetsberger, Sharif Hamidi, Rebeca Becdach and Janey Litvin, all first-years.

The town hall will consist of a panel including McMahon, Executive Director of Health and Wellness Michelle Bowdler, a representative counselor from CMHS and representatives from student groups, according to Litvin.

“It would be about thirty minutes of them presenting on what Tufts has to offer, services that people might not know about, where they see the current standing of mental health on this campus, how they think changes could be made in the future,” Litvin said. “The next hour would be a discussion between the panel and students, who could give feedback and suggestions, and really just make the administration more aware of our issues.”

Litvin says she hopes the town hall will produce suggestions on what the administration can do to improve, and also help to make students more aware of resources that are available.

According to McMahon, the town hall will be a good way to offer up some of the task force’s proposed changes and get student feedback, which is the ultimate goal of the task force.

“Getting a better understanding of how our current campus environment is supportive of holistic student health is an ongoing, iterative process. We are always going to address and partner with students to think as comprehensively and inclusively as we can about student well-being,” McMahon said.

“Any kind of student input is always going to be helpful.”

Board of Trustees approves policy change to remove Board of Advisors members BOARD OF ADVISORS

continued from page 1 Sun stated that trustee representatives are allowed to attend the first part of trustee meetings, which are “open.”

Afterwards, trustees go into a closed session during which they discuss and vote on a variety of matters, Sun added.

Sun noted that she did not think the Board of Trustees changed its policy very often. She expressed her thoughts about the policy change.

“If someone is not doing their job or if everyone else on the board no longer feels that they’re representing the interests of the school, then I don’t see reason why they have to be there,” she said.

TCU Senate Trustee Representative Nathan Foster, a senior, said that student

knowledge of Executive Committee decisions is very limited. He said he attends the Administration and Finance Committee meetings and that the majority of information discussed is confidential and cannot be passed along to TCU Senate.

Foster added that although he did not know the process of creating a new board policy, he wishes students could be more involved in university decision-making processes.

“Even something seemingly as boring as the process for removing members from the Fletcher Board of Advisors can be extremely important, as the Scaramucci controversy shows,” Foster said. “I hope that Fletcher students had a voice in this policy change.”

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Committee on Student Life implements comprehensive policy review COMMITTEE ON STUDENT LIFE

continued from page 1 cies as an action item. The committee decided to take a more comprehensive look at how existing policies interact with each other, rather than examining them in isolation.

“In discussions with the CSL members, we decided that instead of taking [the task of examining policies] as piecemeal, let’s sort of look at all these things … because there are interconnections,” Kraft said. “The better way to go is to look at all [of the policies] in one coordinated review.”

Kraft highlighted that over time, policies have been evaluated on an individual basis, but he could not point to an overarching student life policy examination such as this one in recent institutional memory.

“I’ve talked to my colleagues who have worked at Tufts a long time, and they can’t remember a top-to-bottom review of the policies in over 10 years,” Kraft said.

McMahon echoed Kraft’s estimate of the time frame since the last review.

“We’ve known for a while that we want to have a comprehensive conversation around the Code of Conduct, and student input is vital in that,” McMahon said. “We want to establish a proper sort of exposure point to people in the university … and I am hoping that it will look comprehensively at our community standards and the complexity of our living-learning environment.”

However, she elaborated that for an effective examination to take place, the right mechanisms had to be in place. McMahon emphasized that feedback from students in particular provides a barometer of campus climate.

“When I got here in the spring of 2014, I knew [a comprehensive review] was some-

thing that we would do within a short frame of time … but I needed to have the right people in place to take that on, too,” McMahon said. “Coming in and looking at the division of student affairs … we needed to think about building a team to work with faculty, staff and students.”

McMahon and Kraft explained how student input will be part of the process. The university has placed links for members of the community to provide commentary on highly-trafficked pages of the Tufts websites and in newsletters and listservs.

Kraft expressed a mixture of pleasure and surprise at the volume of student responses thus far, although he urged any community member interested in sharing their input to reach out to the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs or members of the CSL. The CSL has also enlisted help from beyond the Medford campus, according to Ruiz.

“We’ve had the privilege of working with Eulogio Guzmán from the SMFA as well as adding a wider grad student perspective, and together with the members of CSL, we’ve had good engaging discussions about the policies we’ve seen so far,” Ruiz said.

Ruiz said that she wants to ensure that the policy review integrates feedback from all corners of the university in order to capture a breadth of voices and viewpoints.

“Tufts is rather expansive, and keeps growing, so being able to participate in these discussions is valuable and productive,” Ruiz said.

Kraft stated that five broad categories are under review: the code of conduct, the student handbook, the academic integrity policies, the housing policies and the student judicial process.

He specified that the committee will not be scrutinizing university-wide sexual mis-

conduct and non-discrimination policies because they fall beyond the scope of the three undergraduate schools that the CSL is charged with reviewing. Still, Kraft explained that the student handbook contains myriad policies on alcohol use, drugs, hazing, theft, assault and violence, and the judicial processes used to address violations in these areas. “[We want procedures that] make the community safe and make sure the environment we all live in together is appropriate for studying, living and participating in classes and we want people to learn something going through the process,” Kraft said.

Because of the careful consideration that the committee wants to guide its decision-making process, Kraft explained that there is no explicit deadline for completing the review; the general consensus of the group is to strive for quality rather than meet a time crunch. With that in mind, McMahon loosely aims to introduce preliminary recommendations by the fall semester in order to allow the community to respond to the committee’s draft of potential changes.

By collecting feedback to inform suggested changes and then seeking responses to the potential new policies the CSL will recommend, the committee hopes to implement reforms that fall in line with the prevailing currents and common values of the Tufts community.

“There is only so much we individually have been exposed to, so we are attempting to get as much and any input we can,” Ruiz said. “If a member of the Tufts community has an experience they want to share, or has ideas about specific policies, those conversations are valuable and necessary for this

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Students shape course offerings as members of the ExCollege Board

by Justin Yu

Contributing Writer

Since 1964, the Experimental College (ExCollege) has been an integral part of Tufts’ academic experience. Students have the opportunity to be involved in the ExCollege in plenty of ways. In addition to taking courses, students may become first-year advisors, as well as designing and teaching courses. However, a lesser-known way for students to get involved is by serving on the ExCollege Board.

The ExCollege Board selects the courses and the lecturers for the ExCollege, according to ExCollege Director and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Howard Woolf. The board is made up of six undergraduates, one graduate student and six faculty members, with year-long, one-year renewable terms, Woolf said.

“Students are full voting members,” Woolf said. “When we get [course] proposals in from outside, which is how we find the people to teach our courses, the students become involved initially when we, the staff, make a first cut.”

Woolf explained that this first cut involves the ExCollege staff narrowing the applicant list down to those who meet a certain standard and who offer a course that is rigorous enough for Tufts students. Once the first cut has been made, the remaining applicants are set up for interviews.

“Each of the students on the board will be part of an interviewing committee, so they will be teamed up with an outside faculty member, not a faculty member on the board,” Woolf said. “A faculty member on the board will be teamed up with an outside student.”

These student and faculty interviewers who are not on the board are volunteers who have expressed their interest. Once the interviews are completed, the board meets together to discuss all the candidates. “[Each interviewing committee will] interview four or five of the applicants and report to the whole board,” Woolf said. “Then, [the board] will meet once late in the process to go through all the materials.”

Once all the applicants have been discussed thoroughly, members of the board will vote on the courses that the ExCollege will offer. According to Madeline Oliff, a sophomore and board member, the board received a little under 100 course applications this year which it had to weed down to just 15.

Woolf explained the criteria that the ExCollege uses to choose its courses and lecturers.

“We are looking for people with expertise and passion … What an applicant needs to do is get [us] excited. He doesn’t have to convince you that this is something that you should know, he just has to convince you that this is something that would be interesting to learn,” Woolf said.

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Howard Woolf, director of the Experimental College, poses for a portrait in his office on Feb. 22.

Additionally, student board members will pay close attention to how the applicant interacts with the student interviewer.

“I’m interested in if they’re asking me questions, because at the end of the day, they don’t need to impress the faculty member, [as] they’re going to be teaching students,” Oliff said. “So, we want them to be able to connect with the students and excite them.”

Oliff is also interested in the content of the courses that applicants are proposing.

“I think of the ExCollege as expanding education outside the four walls of the classroom, so I love to see interdisciplinary, multimedia homework and work,” she said. “I also like to see field trips and out of the ordinary things that really liven up two and a half hour classes at night.”

In addition to selecting ExCollege courses for the following year, student board members join a working group in the spring. “[This group] is essentially the five students on the board, plus two of my staff, plus any students who we know that are really interested in a particular issue that we’re dealing with,” Woolf said.

The working group plans and organizes several on-campus events. Most importantly, this group is responsible for planning the ExCollege’s signature Voices from the Edge lecture series.

“Every year we have the Voices from the Edge lecture series, where we bring one speaker in,” Oliff said. “And we [reach] out to student organizations that would be interested in bringing their people in.”

At the end of the year, the working group also works closely with the new incoming board for the following year, preparing them for their responsibilities, according to Oliff.

The significant role that students play as board members reflects the central

objective of the ExCollege. According to Woolf, student involvement is key to the success of the ExCollege. “[The ExCollege] should be a place where students [not only] have a say but also have a responsibility as well. And, choosing the courses that 1,500 of your classmates may take, is a good responsibility,” he said. “This is how we walk the walk: Students play a vital role in not just helping us but in fact in shaping what happens.”

Woolf’s beliefs are echoed by student members of the ExCollege Board.

“I’m really passionate about education, and I’ve long been vocal about my opinions that the way we think about teaching and learning deserves reconsideration, which I feel the ExCollege does,” senior Sara Newman, a board member, said.

The ability to serve on the ExCollege Board is an attractive opportunity for many students because of what the ExCollege has to offer. After falling in love with her Explorations course her first year, Oliff knew she wanted to continue being involved in the ExCollege.

“I was really excited to be able to carry on [with] what I had gained so much from,” she said.

Furthermore, students are enticed by the opportunity to have their voices heard.

“I felt drawn as a freshman to a place where my voice as a 19-year-old would be considered as seriously as a faculty member’s,” Newman said.

Prospective student board members must first fill out an application form about their interest in the ExCollege and criteria for a good ExCollege course, in addition to sending in their resumes.

Then, according to Woolf, students will go through a two-step interview process: First, they will interview in front of the current student board members. If suc-

cessful, they will move on to a second and final interview in front of the entire board.

Interviewees will be judged based on a few criteria.

“They must convince the [board] that they have, first of all, enough of an interest in what the ExCollege is doing, but also that they can hold their own,” Woolf said. “It doesn’t mean that you have to talk all the time, it means that you have to be a good listener, and when you have something to say, be able to articulate your position.”

According to Woolf, an unprecedented five seats will be open on the board for the 2018-2019 academic year, as current members are graduating or studying abroad next year. Applications will be due on March 5.

While students on the board play a large role in the success of the ExCollege, the time commitment is reasonable. “[The students] may meet once a week for a few weeks if there’s something going on, and they may not meet for a month if there’s really nothing going on. But the average meeting is a couple of times for an hour or during one of the open blocks every month,” Woolf said.

While student board members do not have to devote too much of their time, they are able to make a huge impact. Newman emphasized that student involvement is essential in allowing students’ voices to be heard and represented, and it allows the ExCollege experience to be best tailored for students.

“It is incredibly important to represent the needs and interests of Tufts students in decisions that are made on our behalf,” she said. “This is one of the only direct avenues that I’m aware of that allows students to speak for themselves and as representatives of their fellow Tufts students.

We know best what we need, and student voice is taken seriously on the board.”

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How to prepare for the Oscars without watching the movies

by Cassidy Olsen

Executive Arts Editor

March, the most Boston of months, is upon us at last. With midterms, St. Patrick’s Day and spring break all on the horizon, you may have completely forgotten that the 90th Academy Awards are this weekend! What’s that? You haven’t seen any of the best picture nominees because you were too busy crying over the sensual grace of Olympic pair skating? Don’t fret, because the Daily has you covered with nine ways to prepare for the ceremony without any of the hard work of watching a movie.

9. Wander over to the pool and stare longingly at a NESCAC champ swimmer to get a sense of “The Shape of Water” (2017).

Sure, our boys might not exactly be god-like fish creatures dredged from the Amazon, but those abs are good enough.

Bonus points if you offer one a hardboiled egg!

8. Ask a history professor to join you in the Granoff practice hallway and

shout about the individual battles of WWII over the noise to capture the tedium, anxiety and trombone sounds of “Dunkirk” (2017).

If you accidentally fall asleep, there will always be a trombone nearby to startle you awake.

7. Ask a different history professor to just do a Winston Churchill impression and yell at you directly to understand “Darkest Hour” (2017).

Let’s be real, we don’t need to nominate two WWII movies each year. There’s no quota. But Oldman’s jowly Churchill leaves an impression, to say the least.

6. Give your mom a quick call that explodes into a tearful 45-minute fight about your post-grad plans, haircut and weight to sum up “Lady Bird” (2017).

Even for a film as detailed and emotionally rich as “Lady Bird,” this kind of argument covers most of the bases. No, Mom, the pink hair isn’t a phase! Bonus

points if you cry to Dave Matthews Band afterward.

5. Head over to Admissions and ask about the economic and racial diversity of Tufts’ undergraduate population to experience the acute, topical horror of “Get Out” (2017).

Jordan Peele’s allegorical film broke box office records and introduced a new type of horror to many American audiences, but why go to the movies when you can get those jump scares by looking at our own incredibly lacking demographics report?

4. Got a tip about university misconduct? Feed it to the Daily and the Observer at the same time to create an editorial race for greatness rivaling that of “The Post” (2017).

The only winner will be Meryl Streep.

3. To get a sense of “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017), make an inflammatory Tufts Secrets post that

garners so much attention it results in three Daily op-eds and a vague email from the administration.

Listen, it’s controversial. Check out the article opposite this one for context.

2. Looking for love? Try talking with your hot philosophy TA until your willthey, won’t they sexual tension turns into a deeply affecting coming-of-age experience like Elio’s in “Call Me By Your Name” (2017).

If this sounds like too much to handle, you may just want to grab your last hookup and a piece of fruit from Dewick and see where things go.

1. If your newfound love turns out to be an uptight artist type with a lactose allergy, honor “Phantom Thread” (2017) by ‘accidentally’ feeding them cheese and making it impossible for them to boss you around.

This might sound cruel, but cheese won’t kill them, and the inverted power dynamics could spice things up in your relationship! Or it could just make them hate you. But the drama, dear readers, is what wins you an Oscar.

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From left to right: Fionn Whitehead in Dunkirk (2017), Daniel Kaluyya in Get Out (2017), Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird (2017) and Meryl Streep in The Post (2017).

The Academy is diversifying, but will Sunday’s ceremony reflect that?

by Christopher Panella Staff Writer

Diversity amongst Oscar nominees and the Academy has a murky past. After the past few years of #OscarsSoWhite, it seemed that the Academy took the hint in 2016 when it welcomed 683 potential members, with 46 percent of the invitees being women and 41 percent being people of color. The trend continued this past year, when the Academy’s record-breaking 774 new members boasted 39 percent women and 30 percent people of color.

Some of the 2017 new class includes actress Gal Gadot from “Wonder Woman” (2017), actress Sarah Paulson from “12 Years a Slave” (2013), director and screenwriter Barry Jenkins from “Moonlight” (2016) and director and screenwriter Jordan Peele from “Get Out” (2017).

This year, the Academy’s nominations are receiving praise for their diversity, specifically in the Best Director category with Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig. Peele is the fifth black Best Director nominee and Gerwig is the fifth female Best Director nominee. If Peele wins he will be the first

black Best Director winner. If Gerwig wins, she will be the second female Best Director winner. Many, like Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr, are excited for this change to allow new voices and stories to be told.

“They have been consciously, in the past couple of years, trying to diversify the Academy,” Burr said in an interview.

Burr sees that pay off in last year’s Best Picture winner, “Moonlight” (2016), which won over the critic-predicted “La La Land” (2016). Burr’s editor, Janice Page, foresees the Academy’s diversity push impacting the Best Picture win this year. On Sunday, Page predicted “Get Out” (2017) will win Best Picture.

“I’ve been having this conversation with Janice, my editor and friend,” Burr said. “She thinks [“Get Out” is] going to win, and she has a point, because the membership isn’t playing by the old rules anymore, especially in this moment and political situation being what it is.”

With these new rules also comes the expectation that the Oscars will continue its active inclusion of women and people of color. Despite the active changes in the past few years, the overall Academy is still just 28 percent women and 13 percent

people of color. Additionally, decreasing “It’s not going to play out until there’s percentages from 2016 to 2017 are con- more representation in places where you cerning; however, the Academy has set a can’t see it, you know, with the people who goal of doubling its female and minority push the button and make it happen,” membership by 2020, following the 50/50 Burr said. by 2020 initiative started earlier this year for workplaces and industries.

Noting that there is more work to be done, Burr said that nothing will really start to change until the diversity goes beyond directors and actors.

As women and people of color begin to fill positions of power in the industry, the films made and nominated will VIA IMDB diversify even Sam Levy and Greta Gerwig on the set of Lady Bird (2017). further.

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‘Three Billboards’ hurtles toward Oscar controversy

by Tommy Gillespie Arts Editor

Coming off its Venice premiere in September (where it received a standing ovation), “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017) received a flurry of early awards season buzz. Critics heaped their initial praise on its timely themes — violence against women, corrupt police and casual small-town racism — its gallows humor and its raw, mesmerizing performances, particularly from lead Frances McDormand as Mildred. Going into Sunday’s Oscars, in a crowded, diverse field including A24 darling “Lady Bird” (2017), fantastical romance “The Shape of Water” (2017) and horror-satire “Get Out” (2017), British-Irish writer-director Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards” is the narrow favorite to take Best Picture. And that has many inside and outside the industry shaking their heads.

“Three Billboards,” which has been steadily gaining momentum since it nabbed the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama, has been courting controversy ever since it transitioned from festival fare to serious Oscar contender.

Ira Madison III of The Daily Beast likened the film to “an attempt at emotional manipulation,” branding it “wholly offensive.” Pacific Standard’s Hanif Abdurraqib called it “hopelessly bad on race.”

Conversely, just Tuesday, The Guardian’s Rachel Aroesti published a piece titled “Why ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ should win the 2018 best picture Oscar” in which she claims the film

“preserves fiction’s right to nuance and complexity.”

The backlash over “Three Billboards” largely comes from the film’s treatment of racial issues and police corruption and brutality. In particular, the redemption arc for Sam Rockwell’s corrupt, racist cop Jason Dixon has gathered scorn, with many calling it unearned, lazy and heavy-handed. The character (who is known by the whole town to have tortured black men in his custody) is seen brutally beating an innocent bystander in the film’s second act. The callous manner he adopts toward the destruction he leaves in his wake have led many to question his so-called redemption.

Equally concerning to many, however, is the glib racism of, well, everyone else in the eponymous town. Woody Harrelson’s terminally ill police chief, whom we are constantly reminded is a ‘good man,’ is perfectly willing to detain Mildred’s friend indefinitely (one of the film’s only black characters) on minor charges to get leverage on Mildred. Mildred herself, in her righteous anger over her daughter’s rape and murder, sees no problem in casually tossing around racial slurs when bantering with Rockwell’s character. That particular scene was cited in Abdurraqib’s criticism of “Three Billboards,” and he also noted that it seems to be curiously absent from many other critics’ praise of the film.

The clumsiness with which “Three Billboards” handles race is complicated by the fact that race is not really the film’s central concern. On the surface, it is a story of female rage, small-town social

politics and unspeakable violence against women. Police corruption is only the lens through which the film views this conflict.

Of course, discussions of race are necessary when talking about police corruption, yet the decision by the filmmakers to make police corruption such a central part of the film also brands each of “Three Billboards’” interactions with race as a deliberate choice. As Abdurraqib more eloquently points out, “The movie didn’t need racial provocation to get its point across, and McDonagh clearly wasn’t the writer to handle it.”

The foregrounding of racial issues in a film that is not about race is what causes “Three Billboards” to ultimately fail.

To take these considerations out of the film would have also left it incomplete, but it falls so flat on racial issues, not to mention its incessant mockery of Peter Dinklage’s character for his dwarfism and its often cartoonish writing (Mildred’s final feuding words to her daughter, “I hope you get raped!” being one particularly unfortunate example), that one wonders exactly what the filmmakers were trying to accomplish. Madison’s piece calls it a film in which “white people learn how to be good to one another at the expense of black people” and predicts it could become “the next ‘Crash’ (2004).” One sincerely hopes that “Three Billboards” will instead crash out.

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Frances McDormand in ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ (2017).

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continued from back and a 7–2 victory by the sabre squad wasn’t enough to cover the deficit. The FDU team also experienced a player shortage, competing in the épée and sabre rounds with only two fencers. Tufts senior sabre fencer Nayab Ajaz led the Jumbos by winning a pair of bouts and claiming a forfeit.

Tufts was able to rebound following the loss, claiming a pair of dominant victories against Queens College (23–4) and Hunter College (23–4). In the match against Queens College, Tufts won in foil and sabre by matching 8–1 scorelines, also claiming the épée competitions, 7–2.

The foil bouts saw junior Zoe Howard and first-year Georgia Kollias each sweep their opponents. In the sabre round, Ajaz and sophomore Lucy Pavlovich both recorded unblemished 3–0 records. Gates also competed in the match, defeating two opponents and claiming a forfeit victory in the épée competition.

Against Hunter College, Tufts posted a 9–0 sweep in foil, as well as a pair of 7–2 victories in sabre and épée. Hunter competed with only one fencer in sabre, forfeiting six of the nine bouts. Junior Phoebe Yang won all three of her bouts in épée.

In the final two matches of the day, against Stevens College and Drew College, Tufts fell short. The latter was the only team to defeat Tufts in all three weapons (6–3 in foil, 8–1 in épée, 5–4 in sabre) at the FDU Invitational. Senior Bridget Marturano provided a sole bright spot with two wins in the sabre competition.

While the team split its results, coach David Sach said the true focus of the Invitational was to build on individual performances with an eye toward larger competitions.

“We used FDU to up individuals’ win percentages for the season and to make sure that we qualified as many people as possible to NCAA Regionals on March 10th at Brandeis,” Sach said. “The back-to-

back schedule did make the team a little bit tired in FDU, but I was really happy about their performance, especially when Phoebe Yang switched to épée to help the team out and did tremendously well.”

The previous day, Tufts traveled to Mount Holyoke to compete in the NEIFC Championships. The Jumbos ultimately finished seventh of the 14 schools schools that competed at the tournament.

Sabre was the most successful weapon for Tufts, as the team tied Vassar and Sacred Heart for first place in the competition, each with 27 wins. However, Vassar led Tufts in total net touches (71–63) to claim victory in the sabre. In the foil, 24 victories earned Tufts fourth place behind MIT, Wellesley and Smith. Finally, the Jumbos’ épée squad took 10th place with 12 wins.

As for individual results, Marturano finished tied for third place in sabre, while Ajaz finished in seventh place. Marturano reached the elimination bracket on the strength of her performance in the pool rounds, where she won four of five

matches. Ajaz finished fourth in her pool to make it into the eight-player elimination round. The Cambridge, Mass. native was eliminated in the first round

by Smith’s Elysia Wang. Marturano won 15–12 in the first round against Wellesley first-year Lauren Park before falling to Wang in the second round.

“I knew going into the bout that it was going to be tough,” Marturano said.

“Elysia Wang is a good fencer with a lot of experience. I had beaten her earlier in the day, 5–3, and after my quarterfinal bout against Lauren Park, I felt confident. I felt collected and focused during the bout, and even though it had been a long day, I pushed myself as hard as I could to work for each touch. In the end, Elysia outfenced me but I’m not disappointed about the loss at all. It was a great bout, and even though I didn’t win, I definitely walked away happy with how I fenced.”

The Jumbos look to close their season on a high note at the upcoming NCAA Regional at Brandeis.

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Another key contest comes later this month, as Trinity — ranked third nationally in the NCAA’s preseason rankings — comes to town on March 24. The Jumbos lost to the Bantams twice last year, once in the regular season and again in the quarterfinal of the NESCAC tournament. In fact, Tufts was unable to pick up a victory against any of the four teams (Middlebury, Hamilton, Trinity and Colby) that ended tied atop the conference standings last year, so there will be plenty of opportunities for revenge. Winning itself, however, is much more important to the Jumbos than beating any specific team.

“We want to go 1–0, 15 times,” Adamec said. “We don’t worry about the games later, we don’t worry about the games that happened — we just go 1–0 each game, and we want to do that 15 times.”

It all starts on Saturday afternoon at Tufts’ Bello Field. The Jumbos look forward to improving upon last season’s performance, as they recognize that last season’s statistics and record don’t tell the whole story. With a fresh season on the horizon, the team has a chance to redefine its narrative.

“Our record may say one thing, but when you watch us play from years past, we’re so much faster, the lax IQ is better

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Junior midfielder Maddy Schwartz guards an opponent during Tufts’ 16–8 win over Claremont-M-S on March 15, 2017.

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Jumbos kick off season with weekend double-header

by Julia Atkins Staff Writer

The No. 9 Tufts men’s lacrosse team opens its 2018 season with a pair of away games this weekend, traveling to Clinton, N.Y. to face Hamilton at 1 p.m. on Saturday before playing SUNY Cortland the following day at noon. Tufts worked hard in the offseason, and after a successful scrimmage against Babson on Feb. 20, the team feels prepared and excited going into the season opener.

“We had a really good offseason,” senior midfielder Drew McLaughlin said. “We worked hard in the weight room, at captains’ practices and throughout preseason. The biggest thing right now is getting the underclassmen up to speed with the program and getting better every day.”

Those first-years took to the Bello Field turf for the first time against Babson. With a 20–7 victory in the preseason game, Tufts feels confident heading to Hamilton.

“We had a good tune-up against Babson,” McLaughlin said. “We are excited to play against someone else, especially a NESCAC opponent. Opening our season with Hamilton brings immediate urgency to the beginning of our season.”

Last season, Tufts registered an impressive 18–6 win over Hamilton

at Bello Field, marking the team’s 11th consecutive victory to open the 2017 campaign. The Jumbos are looking for a similar outcome on Saturday in order to take the momentum of a 1–0 start into their big game against the Cortland Red Dragons. Cortland enters the season ranked seventh in the nation, just ahead of ninth-ranked Tufts. The Jumbos have been preparing and strategizing for the game throughout the preseason in practice and in the film room.

“Cortland is a very talented team and we know that,” McLaughlin said. “This upcoming game will be a good opportunity to see where we are physically, and to see how we perform as a team against a skilled opponent.”

The Jumbos’ 2017 season began with an impressive 11 consecutive wins, before their streak ended with a 21–15 loss to the Amherst Mammoths. Tufts went on to lose four games in a row against NESCAC opponents to close its regular season. The Jumbos then progressed to the semifinals of the NESCAC tournament, where they lost to the Wesleyan Cardinals for the second time in less than a month. After a 26–14 blowout of Keene State kicked off its NCAA tournament, the team fell

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Sophomore midfielder Nick Shanks competes for a ground ball during a game against Williams at Bello Field on April 5, 2017. to Wesleyan for a third time, 17–8, to conclude its season.

Although the Jumbos are excited for a chance at revenge on April 7, they are currently focusing on the games directly in front of them.

“Right now, we’re concentrating on this first weekend and coming out of it feeling as though we played our best,” senior midfielder and co-captain Cam Irwin said.

“We’ve been playing with the same 50 kids for months, and I think we’re all just ready to compete with other players.”

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The Jumbos graduated nine seniors last season, many of whom led the team’s offense or were major pieces on defense, but this year’s squad isn’t too concerned about filling their shoes.

“We graduated a few kids, but it’s always been about the next man up,” McLaughlin said. “We’ve graduated kids before and gone on to have great seasons, even after All-Americans and Players of the Year leave. Our team has a lot of promise, and I have a good feeling about this season.”

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Jumbo fencers compete at Mount Tufts to open 2018 campaign against Hamilton on Saturday Holyoke, Fairleigh Dickinson

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Junior foilist Zoe Howard fences at the Northeast Fencing Conference Multi-Meet hosted by Boston College on Jan. 28.

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The Tufts women’s fencing team faced a packed schedule over the weekend. The Jumbos competed in backto-back tournaments on Saturday and Sunday. A day after competing at the New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference (NEIFC) Championships at Mount Holyoke College, the Jumbos traveled to the Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) Invitational in Hackensack, N.J., where they competed against six other schools. Tufts won three of its six matches, recording victories against Long Island University (LIU)-Post, Queens College and Hunter College.

On Sunday, Tufts started out strong against LIU-Post, winning the match 16–11.

Tufts dominated the foil competition, winning 8–1, as the LIU foil squad only fielded one competitor. The Jumbos’ sabre squad also out-performed its opponents, winning by a 5–4 decision, but the épée team suffered a 6–3 loss. Sophomore épéeist Brie Gates, who suffered an ankle injury at the Northeast Fencing Conference MultiMeet on Feb. 10, competed against the Pioneers, although she fell in both of her contested bouts.

In Tufts’ second match of the day, against host Fairleigh Dickinson, Tufts fell by just one point (14–13). Tufts lost in both the foil and épée competitions, 6–3, see FENCING, page 7

The No. 19 Tufts women’s lacrosse team will kick off its 2018 season on Saturday with a home matchup against its NESCAC rival, No. 13 Hamilton. The team hopes to build momentum for the rest of the season with an opening-day victory, as it did last year against MIT, though it won’t be so easy.

In 2017, the Jumbos put up a respectable record of 10–6 on the season, with a 5–5 record in NESCAC play. The key to their success was a high-powered offense: Tufts scored 200 goals last season, which was good for fourth in the conference. On a per-game basis, Tufts led the NESCAC with an average of 12.5 goals per game.

A large part of that offensive display came from the spectacular rookie season of now-sophomore attacker Emily Games. The Wayne, Pa. native scored 49 times last year and put up 15 assists, which were both team-highs (senior attacker Taylor Meek also had 15 assists last year). Games was named the NESCAC Rookie of the Year and also made the All-Conference First Team for her efforts.

An encouraging sign for Tufts entering the 2018 campaign is the number of young players, like Games, who will return to the team. Nine of the Jumbos’ top 10 goal scorers in 2017 are back in action this year, as many of the team’s best players last season were first-years and sophomores who now have a year of experience under their belts.

“I think what’s really good [about the offense] is that we have a lot of return-

ing attackers,” Games said. “I think what we’ve done this past year is starting to come together … and I think we also have a lot of freshmen coming in who have different skill sets that we can use to our advantage.”

However, the Jumbos did lose four seniors in Kate Mackin, Casey Briody, Caroline Kingsley and Olivia Veillette. The group combined to start 50 games last year, which creates openings in the starting lineup that will have to be filled by younger players this season.

Notably, Veillette and Briody were key defensive players for the squad last year.

“They definitely were tough losses for us,” sophomore midfielder Johanna O’Neil said. “But the juniors now, who were under them, have definitely learned a lot from them, and they’ve stepped up this year. I think they’re strong leaders and strong players. Under their leadership, we’ll be okay.”

Handing over the reins to the younger players should be a little more seamless this year, thanks to the continuity within Tufts’ defensive system.

“This will be our second year working with the zone defense,” junior attacker Dakota Adamec said. “We implemented it last year. We did well with it, but now that it’s our second year [running it], we’re going to have a little bit more experience.”

Right off the bat, the Jumbos have a chance to get some early revenge for last season’s road loss to the Continentals.

Tufts traveled to Clinton, N.Y. in early April, falling 10–6 to then-No. 15 Hamilton. see WOMEN'S LACROSSE, page 7