The Tufts Daily - Monday, October 22, 2018

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Arts and Sciences graduate students ratify first contract in unanimous vote

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Tufts Ph.D. candidates Anna Phillips, Andrew Alquesta, Ryan Napier, Ashlynn Keller and Alia Wulff pose for a portrait in the Mayer Campus Center following the vote to ratify the new graduate student contract on Oct. 18.

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Graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) unanimously voted to ratify their first contract with the administra-

tion Thursday, making Tufts the third private university in the United States to have a recognized graduate student union under contract.

Voting took place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Mayer Campus Center, after which the votes were counted and the results were

announced. The union did not disclose how many ballots were cast, though 270 graduate students were eligible to vote, according to Ryan Napier, a Ph.D. candidate in English and member of the union bargaining committee.

Two representatives from Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 509, Matt Dauphin and Cory Bombredi, along with several graduate students, helped administer the vote. Anna Phillips and Alec Drobac, both Ph.D. candidates in physics, counted the ballots.

According to a document summarizing the terms of the contract provided to the Daily, article 18 of the contract includes an increase of 12 to 19 percent in the minimum stipend for graduate workers in each department over the next four years, beginning in fiscal year 2019. Article 21 details the benefits available to graduate students, including 12 weeks of paid parental leave and the option to request a sixth year of health insurance.

The contract makes Tufts the first private university in the United States to provide paid parental leave for its graduate student workers, according to Andrew Farnitano, a spokesperson for SEIU Local 509.

The contract expires on June 30, 2023.

“Before, all of this was informal,” Napier said. “Now they’re legally required to pay certain things and provide certain protections

and benefits, and we have a formal grievance process that we can go through if we feel that our contract is being violated. Whereas before, you could complain but nobody had to listen to you.”

Napier added that the contract only protects graduate students in their capacity as workers, and that the protections listed in the contract do not necessarily extend to their work as students.

“We have certain rights now that we didn’t before. We have certain avenues, ways to interact with the administration if we don’t like the ways some things are going. We have union representation that will help us get the things that we need,” Andrew Alquesta, a Ph.D. candidate in English and member of the union bargaining committee, said.

The graduate student union began drafting their contract with Tufts in December 2017, according to Farnitano. During the subsequent contract negotiations, which concluded on Sept. 21, the union, represented by an 18-student bargaining committee and Dauphin, met with Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Robert Cook, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser and two lawyers representing the university, according to Napier. see UNION, page 2

‘Female Voices in the Quran’ examines role of women, encourages religious dialogue

by Connor Dale News Editor

The Tufts University Chaplaincy and the Boston Islamic Seminary co-hosted “Female Voices in the Quran,” a workshop that examined female voices throughout the religious text, in the Tufts Interfaith Center on Oct. 6.

The event, attended by about 25 people, explored “the values and virtues that Quranic female speech imparts and investigated how women’s interactions with the divine and angelic realm compare and contrast to men’s,” according to a description of the event on the Chaplaincy website. The workshop was the culmination of a partnership between the Muslim Chaplaincy at Tufts and the continuing education program at the Boston Islamic Seminary, according to Celene Ibrahim, Muslim chaplain at the University Chaplaincy.

Ibrahim led the workshop, which welcomed community members with all levels of familiarity with the Muslim faith.

“The role that female figures play in the Quran is game-changing, high-stakes

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and incredibly important, but also subtle,” Ibrahim said.

Ibrahim recited poetry to commence the workshop. She then invited participants to partake in a moment of reflection and prayer, called dhikr in Arabic.

“Even in a state of lack, what we do have is each other and the sincerity of our hearts,” Ibrahim said.

Ibrahim then shifted the conversation and identified major female figures in the Quran and the role they play in the verses. Ibrahim encouraged participants to ask questions and to contribute to an ongoing dialogue about the significance of these female roles.

“I grew to understand the variations in the roles that women mentioned in the Quran played and the small but key differences in the titles they are referred to by,” Nuha Shaikh, a first-year who attended the event, told the Daily in an email. “There are so many words in the Quran’s Arabic to describe their different titles.”

Later, the workshop focused on the specific speaking parts of women in the Quran.

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Amalia Teglas (middle), staff assistant in the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, speaks with two other women during the ‘Female Voices in the Quran’ event at the Tufts Interfaith Center on Oct. 6.

The participants broke into small groups to discuss the presence of female voice in distinct Quranic verses. The groups then reconvened to discuss women’s voices through the

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continued from page 1 “It’s awesome to have somebody in your corner,” Alquesta said. “SEIU did a phenomenal job representing us, and I go forward with confidence that if I or any of my colleagues have some sort of problem, I know that SEIU has my back.”

The bargaining committee consisted of graduate student-worker representatives from departments within the School of Arts and Sciences, with the number of representatives on the committee based on the number of graduate students eligible for the union, Napier explained.

According to Napier, the Tufts administration was cooperative in negotiating with the newly formed union, unlike other universities in similar negotiations. The administration initially took a stance against unionization, as reported in a May 18, 2017 Daily article.

“Tufts obviously doesn’t want there to be a union, but they have been better about this than a lot of other schools,” Napier explained. “Tufts actually came to the table and negotiated with us, and maybe that doesn’t seem like anything, but that is big that they actually did that.”

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Tufts’ Executive Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins told the Daily in an email that the administration is pleased to have concluded negotiations and expects that the contact will benefit students, faculty and staff.

“Although complex and lengthy, our negotiations were characterized by a spirit of professionalism and cooperation,” Collins said. “We value the contributions of our doctoral students to the educational mission of the university and look forward to working cooperatively with the union toward the implementation of the agreement in the months ahead.”

Phillips, a sixth-year graduate student, said that she has been working on the unionization effort at Tufts since 2016, shortly after a National Labor Relations Board decision granted graduate students at private universities the right to unionize.

Phillips noted the difficulty of generating long-term commitment to the cause since many graduate students do not expect to be at the university for more than a few years.

“It poses challenges for the unionization effort that we are a transitory unit,” she said following Thursday’s vote. “But I’m glad to have seen it all the way through. It’s really exciting to see two years of effort pay off.”

“It’s very fulfilling to see that the people who voted unanimously agreed with the work that we put in. They like what we did for them,” Ashlynn Keller, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and a member of the graduate student union bargaining committee, said.

With this vote to ratify, A&S graduate students join their peers at New York University and Brandeis University in inking contracts with their respective administrations. Graduate students at other private universities, including Harvard University and American University, are also in the midst of formal contract negotiations.

From here, the union will set up a standing committee of graduate students who will liaise with administration, opening up a line of communication with the university administration, according to Alquesta. The committee will also inform graduate student workers of their rights as part of the union.

“The contract is no good unless you have an organization that can help let people know what their rights are and enforce them and be organized,” Napier said.

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continued from page 1 “Slightly over a dozen different female figures have speech that is represented in Quranic verses,” Ibrahim said after the discussion. “Taking into consideration all instances of female speech, we see that

Quranic depictions of the female voice are consistently celebratory of the figure’s intellect or virtue, or both.”

The event concluded with summative reflections and an opportunity for Asr prayer.

Sophomore Najma Jama said the event allowed for all participants to interact with

scripture in a meaningful way and provided an enjoyable space of growth and learning.

“The greatest lesson to absorb is the interconnected nature of Islam in regards to identity,” Jama told the Daily in an email.

“Women in the Quran serve a greater purpose beyond their person, as do all peoples of the Quran.”

TCU Senate passes resolutions in support of trans rights, dining workers

by Noah Richter

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The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to hear supplementary funding requests, an appeal of an Allocations Board (ALBO) decision by the Tufts Ballroom Dance Team, as well as vote on two resolutions that would affirm the Senate’s support for a “yes” vote on Massachusetts Ballot Question 3 and support Tufts Dining Workers in their ongoing contract negotiations with the Tufts administration.

TCU Treasurer Izzy Ma, a sophomore, began the meeting by introducing the Tufts Ballroom Dance Team, who appeared before the body to appeal a previous ALBO recommendation.

According to Ma, the student group had made a supplementary funding request for $1,700 to cover transportation to the Brown Ballroom Competition on October 28. ALBO had declined to meet the entirety of the request, and instead voted to fund $1,496, subtracting 12 percent in personal contribution fees that are attached to most ALBO recommendations.

Tufts Ballroom Dance Team Treasurer Graham Bright, a senior, said that the personal contribution added to an already high financial burden for members that most other student groups are not subject to.

“Each article of clothing for the leaders (shirt, shoes, pants, vest) is upward of $100.

Followers have to pay for dresses which are often several hundred dollars as well as shoes. Fees for the competitions are $4050,” Bright told the Daily in an electronic message. “I therefore don’t think students should also be expected to pay for transportation to the events.”

After a debate and vote, the Senate voted to overturn the recommended $1,498, instead

voting to fund the entirety of the requested $1,700 by a vote of 19-6-1.

The Senate then turned to hear supplementary funding requests.

The body approved supplementary funding requests for the following groups: $1,000 for Tufts Tap Ensemble, $1,000 for Tufts Culinary Society, $750 for the Crafts Center, $169 for Tufts Bhangra, $225 for Amnesty International, $4,012 for Tufts ALLIES, and $880 for Enchanted A Capella.

Next, the Senate moved to hear and vote upon two resolutions.

TCU Parliamentarian Sharif Hamidi, a sophomore, introduced the first of the resolutions, intended to affirm “the TCU Senate’s support for the 2018 Massachusetts Ballot Question 3,” according to resolution documents provided to the Daily.

Affirming support for the ballot question would guarantee that, “the TCU Senate fully and unequivocally stands behind the passage of Massachusetts Ballot Question 3 and equality in public accommodations for the transgender community at Tufts,” according to the document.

The resolution, authored by Diversity and Community Affairs officer Grant Gebetsberger, Class of 2019 Senator Shane Woolley and LGBTQ+ Community Senator Kathleen Lanzilla, a sophomore, also states that the “TCU Senate urges all members of the TCU to stand in solidarity with transgender students, faculty, and staff by supporting the passage of Massachusetts Ballot Question 3.”

Gebetsberger, a sophomore, argued that the resolution is important as the Senate has often passed resolutions in favor of the greater Tufts community, and should continue precedent.

“In the past, the TCU Senate has stepped up to condemn racism against the Asian American community in the 1980s and homophobia on campus in the 1990s. TCU

Senate has endorsed positions on ballot questions as recently as two years ago, along with its support for the Safe Communities Act,” Gebetsberger told the Daily in an electronic message. “TCU Senate has a long and recorded history of taking strong stances, and it’s crucial that we continue to speak out in the face of injustice.”

The body passed the resolution by a unanimous vote.

Next, the body moved to consider a resolution in support of the Tufts Dining Service employees, who are currently engaged in contract negotiations.

Submitted by Woolley, senior Mia Lambert and sophomore Jesse Ryan, the resolution states that, “the TCU Senate urges Tufts University to continue to bargain in good faith and fully respect the dining workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain.”

Additionally, the resolution calls for the administration to, “negotiate a fair and just contract with the dining workers’ union that meets their demands for a living wage … affordable and comprehensive health care provided by Tufts University, dignity and inclusion in the workplace, and a fully staffed workplace in which dining workers are not overworked or forced to work outside of their job descriptions,” according to the text of resolution.

After the Senate discussion, the body passed the resolution by a 24-1-0 vote.

Finally, TCU President Jacqueline Chen took the floor to announce an upcoming special election to fill currently vacant two Class of 2020 Senator seats, a First Generation Community Senator seat and an International Community Senator seat.

Chen said that the general interest meeting will be held on Oct. 29, the candidate’s meeting will be held on Nov. 5, the candidates forum will be held on Nov. 7 and the election will be held on Nov. 8.

Monday, October 22, 2018

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Computer science department sponsors students from underrepresented groups to attend conferences

by Ananya Pavuluri Contributing Writer

The Tufts Department of Computer Science (CS) has been pushing since 2014 to send more computer science students, especially from underrepresented groups, to technology conferences in the Boston area and across the country, according to Kathleen Fisher, department chair and professor of computer science. Fisher explained that the department has subsidized students’ attendance at technology conferences to present them with important networking and experiential learning opportunities.

“We send students to conferences to give them an experience that they can’t get at Tufts,” Fisher said.

Several Tufts students went to Houston, Texas in September for the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, an annual three-day conference that foregrounds the achievements and interests of women in computing.

According to Fisher, the CS department primarily sends students to conferences focused on underrepresented groups in the tech world. Fisher explained that some other diversity-oriented conferences to which Tufts has sent students include the Association for Computing Machinery’s Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, the National Society of Black Engineers’ conferences and the Lesbians Who Tech summit.

“At Tufts, we can’t provide [students with] the experience of not feeling like the minority,” Fisher said. “At these conferences, they can feel a broader sense of community.”

Fisher noted that computer science students who are actively involved in research are also sent to conferences, which often offer student volunteer programs, diversity workshops, networking and other hands-on

learning opportunities. According to Fisher, faculty research mentors sometimes provide the funds for students to attend research conferences if the students do not have the means to attend otherwise.

Senior Vera Guttenberger, a CS major, recently attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

According to Guttenberger, the conference featured workshops and talks given by women in the industry, introductory lectures for various fields of technology, discussions about being a woman in tech and large career fairs.

“In terms of looking for jobs, it was really valuable and really overwhelming,” Guttenberger said. “I had exposure to a lot of companies I didn’t know about before, and companies I wouldn’t have known about otherwise.”

According to Guttenberger, many students who attended the Grace Hopper conference spent a large portion of their time in career fairs, where they were able to hand out résumés and be interviewed by the companies. Guttenberger explained that a handful of Tufts students who attended in previous years were able to land jobs or internships in the months following the conference.

Aside from the career fair, Guttenberger also attended talks, seminars and workshops on her areas of interest in human-computer interaction and product management. A talk that stood out to her was about an application created for use by autistic children in underprivileged areas. Overall, attending this conference allowed Guttenberger to learn about applications of technology that may not have been covered in a traditional classroom setting.

“In the classroom, you’re learning about concepts and you get projects and assignments. At these conferences, most of your

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learning is through talking to people, and you get to see how technology is applied in the real world,” Guttenberger said.

Senior Emily Sim, also a CS major, attended the Grace Hopper conference for the second time this year. Last year, her attendance was sponsored by the organizers of the conference themselves. This year, however, she was sponsored by the Tufts CS department.

“The two experiences were distinctly different,” Sim said. “Going with the CS department provided another unique experience because I got to bond with women from this department more.”

In addition, being sponsored by the CS department allowed Sim to attend an event at the Grace Hopper conference dedicated to networking with Tufts alumni, which was organized by Donna Cirelli, the department’s project coordinator.

“Last year, I attended Grace Hopper myself, and what I realized is that a lot of my alums who are now in the industry are now there representing their companies,” Cirelli said.

After reaching out to alumni who have graduated over the 10 years she has worked in the department, Cirelli organized a brunch event which took place during the Grace Hopper conference. She described it as a way to “network offline” — that is, in person, away from the career fairs and in a manner that also gave Tufts CS alumni an opportunity to catch up.

Although Cirelli has not yet arranged alumni events for other major conferences, it is something that the department has considered.

“As a department, we are trying to do more alumni outreach and keep in touch with our alumni more, so this seemed like a no-brainer,” Cirelli said.

Tufts students who attended the brunch, including Sim, were greatly appreciative of this opportunity.

“There [were] a surprising number of [alumni], despite the fact that we are on the smaller side compared to other schools’ CS departments,” Sim said.

Sim explained that students involved in computer science can apply to be sponsored to attend the Grace Hopper conference via an online form. Sim described applying for a sponsorship as a “painless process,” with the only downside being that not everyone who applies can be accepted due to the expense and high demand. According to Cirelli, seniors are normally favored in the applicant pool since they will not get another chance to be sponsored, but all who are interested are encouraged to apply.

According to Sim, significantly more Tufts students were able to attend this year compared to last year. Cirelli noted that the department has also begun offering partial funding for attending such conferences to benefit a greater number of students.

“What’s been happening is that [students] try to buy their own tickets to go to Grace Hopper, and we try to partially fund them [where] they may not otherwise be able to go,” Cirelli said.

As for other conferences, students normally approach department faculty and staff with the details of the specific conferences they want to attend, then apply for ad hoc funding, according to Cirelli.

“In general, I feel like the … department is super supportive of things like this. They care about students and want to open up opportunities like this for them as much as possible,” Guttenberger said. “I wouldn’t have been able to go [to Grace Hopper] without their help.”

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Home

ou know that weather app that comes with the iPhone? I think my mom added a Medford tab to hers because a couple days ago, out of the blue, she nagged me about wearing my puffy winter coat and an extra layer of pants since the temperature had dropped to below 10℃ .

I did not, but I told her I appreciated her concern. Her reminder did, however, make me feel a little homesick.

This time of year invariably brings my thoughts closer to home than usual.

As I was scrolling through Facebook and musing on my seasonal homesickness, I came upon a post written

by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen is the author of “The Sympathizer,” a book about a North Vietnamese mole in the South Vietnamese army and the subsequent life he leads as part of an exile community in the United States.

Nguyen is an immigrant himself. In his Facebook post, he talked about how people claimed he wasn’t truly Vietnamese because he spoke the language imperfectly. He then described his intrinsic ties to Vietnam, including an image that stuck with me for days: a father telling his child to eat rice.

My own family moved around a lot due to my parents’ work, so I could relate to having people say that I’m not truly Vietnamese. When I was in elementary school and we lived in Washington, D.C., my parents would tell me and my sisters that we had to communicate in English to learn the language. Outsiders thought it was hilarious: We would speak in English and our parents would reply in Vietnamese. For my mother, English was a bit of a struggle. Thus, when she speaks English to me, I can feel her effort to communicate in a language that my sisters and I prefer. My mother is also quite unemotional in Vietnamese and always tells me she loves me in English, which tugs on the heartstrings.

After reading Nguyen’s post, I asked a few friends where they consider to be home.

Melanie Becker: “Home to me is the summer camp I went to as a kid and worked at last summer. I’m from Parkland, Fla.” William Hsu: “Taipei is home for me. As for where I’m from, I guess both Taipei and America?”

Nivi Nath: “I was born in India, but my family moved every three to four years, so I’ve lived in India, New York, Arizona, Minnesota and Connecticut. There’s a sense of familiarity when I go [to India], but I wouldn’t necessarily consider it home … There are parts of every place I’ve lived in that I consider home.”

As for me, Vietnam isn’t really home either. Maybe my home isn’t even a place but a group of people — my family, my closest friends. Regardless, as Massachusetts grows colder, I’m glad to have half of home here with me and the other half keeping tabs on me through iPhone temperature apps and messaging media.

Quinn Pham is a sophomore studying international relations. Quinn can be reached at quinn.pham@tufts.edu.

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Goo Goo Dolls wax nostalgic, think forward in 20th anniversary album tour

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The Goo Goo Dolls perform at the House of Blues on Oct. 17 as part of their ‘Dizzy Up the Girl’ tour.

by Christopher Panella Assistant Arts Editor

“It’s a 20-year-old album, what the f***?

On one hand, it’s cool that it’s held up,” lead singer and guitarist of the Goo Goo Dolls Johnny Rzeznik said to a packed audience at the House of Blues on Wednesday night.

“On the other hand, it’s like, ‘You’re old Johnny, what the f***?’ But what am I gonna do? B**** about it?”

In that moment, it became clear that the Goo Goo Dolls, who came together over 30 years ago, are younger than ever. On a tour commemorating the 20th anniversary of its most critically and commercially successful album, “Dizzy Up the Girl” (1998), the band has showcased an energy that caters to fans old and new.

The Goo Goo Dolls’ performance at the House of Blues was the 13th stop on their tour, in which their setlist includes the entirety of “Dizzy Up the Girl.” Robby Takac, the band’s other vocalist and bassist, noted that this tour is different from any the band has ever done.

“We knew we were going to come out and play the whole album first — that was going to be the first thing we did,” Takac said. “And then we thought we had two ways to go about it after. We could go out and nail [the audience] with a few hits and be out of there, or we could go deep, deep, deep. Nervously, going deep is what we decided to.”

The depth of the Goo Goo Dolls’ discography is astounding: 11 studio albums, a string of singles and 34 music videos. The band has produced decades of musical content, including global success “Iris,” one of the top hits of the 1990s. The Goo Goo Dolls’ lesser-known hits include

“Two Days in February” and “There You Are.” The band’s “Dizzy Up the Girl” anniversary tour explores the whole breadth of its music, providing a strong variety for fans to enjoy.

“We actually close the show with our first single we ever put out, which is pretty wild,” Takac said. “It’s actually the song people know the least, but by that point, we’ve dragged them along that far where it’s just a big party. Everyone’s having a good time at the point.”

By its conclusion on Wednesday, the concert truly was one massive celebration, packed with generations of fans screaming lyrics, dancing and simply enjoying the band’s infectious energy. The stage was set simply during the Goo Goo Dolls’ first set, a top-to-bottom performance of “Dizzy Up the Girl.” While the band was truly the centerpiece, a large framed version of the album cover hung behind them.

The Goo Goo Dolls aimed for authenticity in their performance of “Dizzy Up the Girl,” as Takac shared the context in which the album was produced.

“We play it the way it originally sounded,” Takac said. “Between ‘A Boy Named Goo’ [1995] and ‘Dizzy Up the Girl,’ Johnny had written ‘Iris’ for the ‘City of Angels’ [1998] soundtrack, which also had Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette. We didn’t expect to get much notice from that situation, but our song ended up being one of the biggest on that record. We were walking into making ‘Dizzy Up the Girl’ already knowing that ‘Iris’ would be on the record and was already … a hit, so we definitely had a different vision of what was going on. And guys from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were hanging around in the studio and Snoop Dogg was down the hall with Dr. Dre, so our

world was much different than it was prior to that record, for sure.”

Fast forward 20 years, and the making of “Dizzy Up the Girl” is still cemented in the band’s mind, as are memories of the ever-changing relationship between its founding members, Rzeznik and Takac. “[Our relationship] has changed as drastically as we have as people, and both of us are drastically different people than when we were 19 years old,” Takac said.

“Some of the craziness that was in our lives in the years past has been removed through various stages, and I think it’s one of the reasons why we’re still here and still able to throw down. I really feel like our relationship is as solid as it’s ever been.”

Takac said that the Goo Goo Dolls’ music-making process has also changed significantly.

“You probably couldn’t even recognize us as the same band from our first record,” he said. “Johnny didn’t even sing on our first record, quite honestly. We were a much different band. But we’re in a different place than a lot of people, and we grew up in the public eye. We were being documented musically, and in the first 10 years, we were still trying to figure out how to do it. In the process of that, we were learning to do it in front of people.”

After 30 years of maturity in the music industry, Rzeznik and Takac are now clearly masters of their craft, engaging the audience at every chance possible.

In between songs on Wednesday, Rzeznik bantered with the band’s fans, talking about Boston and the Goo Goo Dolls’ history with the city.

“Boston is the first place outside of Buffalo we ever played,” Rzeznik said. “We were f***ing terrified of you people.”

At the end of its performance of “Dizzy Up the Girl,” the band briefly disappeared, while the framed album cover was taken down and a virtual screen was set up.

Rzeznik returned to the stage, performing some older hits with a virtual version of himself. Virtual Rzeznik and real Rzeznik had a funny banter, with the former sometimes playing the guitar while the latter sang. It was a light-hearted break in the concert, adding a touch of the future to the band’s timeless performance.

The audience enjoyed every moment, laughing with Rzeznik and Takac and rocking to every song as the Goo Goo Dolls finished out the concert with some of their older hits and a spotlight of their touring band members. At one point, Rzeznik casually tuned his guitar during one of the songs. It is this simple humanity that makes the Goo Goo Dolls accessible and understandable — sure, they are performers, but they are people too.

As for the band’s future, Takac revealed that a new album is on its way.

“We’ve got about half of it written, maybe a little bit more,” he said. “We have another live release coming out, too. Very, very soon, we [will] have a huge announcement about something we’re doing next summer, and that’ll be exciting.”

While there is great anticipation for the Goo Goo Dolls’ next steps, their “Dizzy Up the Girl” 20th anniversary tour is nothing short of nostalgic — a perfect blend of old hits, fan favorites and all-around fantastic live performing. It is a reminder that the band is still growing, still learning and always ready to put on a crowd-pleasing performance.

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Monday, October 22, 2018 | Arts & Living | THE TUFTS DAILY

‘Halloween’ gives iconic slasher franchise a softer edge

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A promotional poster for 2018’s ‘Halloween,’ starring Nick Castle and Jamie Lee Curtis, is pictured.

by Setenay Mufti Arts Editor

Content warning: This article discusses violence.

The most underrated quote from NBC’s “The Office” (2005–13) comes from Robert California, as he muses on Halloween: “Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships? It’s funny isn’t it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear?”

The seminal film “Halloween” (1978) used the simplest of camera techniques and musical themes to distill what we most deeply fear — uncompromising, unrelenting cruelty — and embody it in the murderer Michael Myers (Nick Castle). If the original “Halloween” is a dark tribute to the evil that has and will always exist in our everyday world, this year’s sequel gives a more formulaic, satisfying exploration into how we can overcome it (for now).

The original film, directed by John Carpenter, was the most influential horror film since “Psycho” (1960) and was one of Carpenter’s greatest works, along with “The Thing” (1982). It established conventions of modern horror like the slasher-stalking teenagers, the virginal heroine and the increasing feints at a jump scare — dread-filled build up and all. It proved so influential that, watch-

ing today, we might call it clichéd — except that “Halloween” was the first to create those clichés. But the film holds up 40 years after its release not because of the teenage sex interrupted by a butcher knife or even the violence itself, but instead because of its buildup and the way it follows Michael’s terrifying, inhuman presence.

Carpenter was a master of suspense. As his camera steadily pans in front of Michael’s main target, Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis), he forces the audience to follow her walk to school through a nice suburban neighborhood with a voyeurism the audience realizes is Michael’s when the shoulder of his trench coat steps in front of the frame and its wearer watches Laurie walk away. Michael is scary because of his lack of explanation — all the viewer knows is that he’s there and he’s single-minded. He never speaks, he always hides his face under his iconic white mask and, most terrifyingly, he never runs. He knows he will catch up and kill again with otherworldly certainty. And although Michael is treated like a man, his mortality remains unclear, as he manages to survive shootings and stabbings and disappear from view in an instant. The movie ends with Michael’s seemingly lifeless body going missing and with only his steady breathing remaining, reminding us that he is never really gone.

As it happens, Michael reappears in 10 other sequels and remakes leading up to the series’ 2018 installation.

Although the original “Halloween” gives a barebones backstory for Michael (he stabbed his sister Judith to death when he was six years old and escaped from lifelong imprisonment in a mental institution 15 years later), the other movies delve much deeper into his psychology and lack the subtlety of the original masterpiece. The results were considered lukewarm at best, which is why this year’s “Halloween” wisely decides to ignore all of them and to instead follow the original plot directly, 40 years later.

Now, Laurie is a grizzled, hard-drinking grandmother whose paranoia and survivalist obsessions drove away her daughter and distanced her from her granddaughter, a local high school student. But now, for the second time, Laurie is right to be afraid: Michael has escaped from captivity again while en route to a maximum security prison under the watch of a different psychologist, Dr. Ranbir Sartain (Haluk Bilginer). He returns to the little town of Haddonfield, Ill. to provide the (hopefully) final installment with a final showdown.

John Carpenter is credited as a composer for and executive producer of this year’s “Halloween,” but it is directed by David Gordon Green, who is not nearly as skillful in his cinematography.

Although the climactic fight scenes deliver, most of the buildup follows a conventional Hollywood style that doesn’t strike quite the same creeping dread into its audience. The mini love story involving Laurie’s granddaughter, Allyson, feels contrived, and the beginning of the movie is slowed down by two obnoxious radio journalists attempting to get a scoop on the historic murder in the 1970s.

But this sequel gives due diligence to the original, and there are some great subtle references for the most hardcore horror fans. Once Michael makes it to Haddonfield, the movie ramps up. Curtis is truly fantastic as a transformed Laurie, and she plays the character with a tenderness, vulnerability and anger that carries a lot of the movie’s power. Her desire to finally kill Michael (she prayed for years that he would return) demonstrates a violent need to destroy the evil lurking in the world. But, it also traumatizes her and drives her family away, even leading to her losing custody of her 12-year-old daughter. In the end, after confrontations at some critical moments, the three generations of women must come together to defeat Michael and put an end to the trauma and fear he represents.

In it resolution, the 2018 “Halloween” displays a soft side and takes a more mainstream route than the mysterious and provocative original film. It is not about Michael and murder; it’s about fear and overcoming it. But that’s okay.

Because while the original movie shows the dark and visceral psychological effects of fear through horror imagery, this version shows how fear can bring people together. It is the same reason why people dress up in costumes together and let strangers in their doorways and send each other scary videos one time a year. As a police officer tells Laurie, “There’s a reason we’re supposed to be afraid of [Halloween].”

There will always be things in the world to fear (hint: stay after the credits), but every once in a while, female badassery and teamwork win.

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Evan Zigmond Out on the Town

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HONK!

he weekend of Oct. 5 was no ordinary weekend for Somerville. Over the course of three days, activists and musicians from around the world descended on Davis Square for the yearly HONK! festival, a lively combination of music and activism.

Since HONK!’s inception 12 years ago, the event has provided an opportunity for participants in a growing activist street band movement to meet in Davis Square, play music and advocate for progressive causes. Being both a jazz musician and a leftist, it seemed this event was perfectly catered to me, so I was very excited to go.

HONK! takes place mostly in Davis Square, so it is very easy to get to. One may walk if they are able and willing. If not, the 96 bus leaves from the corner of Boston Avenue and Fairmount Street, across the street from Nick’s House of Pizza, stopping directly in Davis Square. Of course, the Joey is also a great option — if you can catch the darned thing.

I arrived at HONK! on Saturday the 6th at about 11 a.m. As I got closer, I heard some pretty raucous brass music. There was a brass band playing a tune on a large concrete slab behind the T station, and a crowd had gathered around them.

I stayed for a few tunes, observing the crowd. Everyone was beaming from ear to ear. Many audience members had instruments themselves, and they honked along with the band. There was a grassroots feel to the whole morning, which definitely rubbed off on me — I felt great.

I decided to leave for an hour or two, since Saturday’s events were officially starting only in the afternoon. When I returned, two blocks of Elm Street were roped off, allowing HONK! attendees to walk freely through the square. Activist street bands stood on every corner, alternately playing and advocating for different causes. Being able to walk from band to band was very convenient. However, finding a spot to get a meal, or just to sit indoors, was difficult with all the foot traffic on Elm Street. After a brief tour of the area, I decided to come back Sunday for the parade from Davis Square to Harvard Square.

Sunday’s parade was a sight to behold.

Groups sported face paint, huge signs and matching shirts. I saw two people on stilts. For this parade, I was with a student group taking part, so I was able to walk in it, rather than observe it. Over the course of two hours, we walked from Davis to Harvard, straight down Massachusetts Avenue. On either side sat thousands of parade watchers, cheering us on and waving their own signs. Bands blasted music at intense volumes. Positive energy radiated from every square inch of the parade, and I left Harvard Square that day with the best headache I’ve ever had. HONK! is a lot of stimuli, but it is a memorable, festive and completely free experience.

Evan Zigmond is a sophomore studying music. Evan can be reached at Evan.Zigmond@tufts.edu.

CORRECTION A previous version of the Sept. 25 article “Students, faculty react to OCR’s decision to re-open Rutgers case” incorrectly stated that the Department of Education’s new definition of anti-Semitism considers Judaism as an ethnicity. The definition does not do so. The article has been updated to reflect this change.

The Daily regrets this error.

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THE TUFTS DAILY | FUN & GAMES | Monday, October 22, 2018

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LATE NIGHT AT THE DAILY Aidan: “I’m so alone here, Danny.”

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LINDA C. BLACK ASTROLOGY

Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22)

Get your partner’s view. Listen and provide support. Let go of an old assumption. Find out something new.

Not everyone thinks the same.

Difficulty Level: Being spooked by your midterm grades

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Monday, October 22, 2018

Opinion EDITORIAL

Current course registration system does not promote academic success Tufts students continue to trudge through midterm season. The days are getting colder and darker, and we may not even realize what’s quickly approaching next week: the advising period for spring course registration. Likely the last thing we are thinking about amidst this hectic time is: “What classes should I take next semester?”

The advising period is set to start on Oct. 29 with undergraduate course registration beginning two weeks later on Nov. 14. Assuming that you are able to get an appointment with an advisor on the first day of the advising period, you only have about two weeks to fully plan out your next $35,000 semester.

Although it is possible to view what classes were offered during previous semesters on SIS, the specific course offerings change year to year. Organizing a productive and intentional course list takes time, and all the nuances in course offerings make this planning difficult. We must take into consideration when classes

are offered, the professors teaching them, whether or not they fit into our schedules and if they satisfy the hefty distribution requirements that Tufts imposes. Majors can require upwards of 12 courses, meaning that double majoring, adding a minor or planning a study abroad is as difficult as ever. Tufts should consider this reality for students who have to diligently organize their four years to attain the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in their respective field.

When students, especially first-years, are deciding what classes to take for the fall semester, it can be difficult to navigate the course registration process. For example, a student may decide to wait to take a class until second semester, only to realize that course is not offered in the spring.

If there were a more proactive system in place to allow students to plan further in advance, this problem would be solved.

Currently, there is no clear system in place that outlines the general patterns of when

particular classes are offered. Having a note of when classes are generally offered (i.e. fall, spring and summer) on SIS will promote better planning. Students can either be relieved when they realize that their waitlisted class is offered the next semester or go to an advisor if there is not clear indication of when to take said class.

Perhaps Tufts should consider opening course offerings for the entire academic year in the summer — when students have the time to peruse the interminable catalog of classes. Students should not have to guess and check when it comes to planning, especially first-years who are already nervous about transitioning into college. Any student who has gone through the class selection process knows how stressful registration can be with class carts overflowing and little red dots appearing on labs and recitations. A better and more organized course registration process is necessary to ensure the success of students.

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Anita Ramaswamy Anita’s Angle

Where is the competition?

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ompetition is the driving force behind capitalism, the engine that fuels innovation and provides incentive for growth. Adam Smith’s famous concept of the “invisible hand” is supposed to lead to effective allocation of resources through competition and ultimately result in the best outcome for consumers. American values have always been abstractly pro-competition, but our institutional makeup does not always reflect those principles, especially today. In a sharp contrast from the focus on antitrust regulations marking much of the 20th century, the last two decades can be characterized by an increase in consolidation and an oligopolistic streak among top firms. The Economist found that of the approximately 900 sectors that make up the American economy, two-thirds became more concentrated between 1997 and 2012, with the weighted-average share of the revenue of the top four firms in each industry rising during that time from 26 percent to 32 percent. And despite the fact that entrepreneurship has become a trendy concept in popular culture with the rise of Zuckerberg-style founder stories, the birth rate of new firms in the United States has declined from over 13 percent in the late 1980s to around eight percent in 2015.

The impacts of this trend toward consolidation are potentially worrying, depending on your vantage point in the marketplace.

Shareholders in consolidated industries have benefited from abnormally high profits, though it can be argued that businesses’ use of these profits for dividends and buybacks is shortsighted. Customers and employees, though, are likely worse off. Without a healthy level of competition in the economy, consumers face higher prices and fewer choices, and employees must contend with the fact that firms in consolidated industries can afford to pay their workers less given the lack of other options.

The same phenomenon has played out in politics. Former Gehl Foods President and CEO Katherine Gehl and Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter explain in their 2017 report, “Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America,” that the political system is unique in its position as “a private industry that sets its own rules.” They argue that polarization, special interests and big money are merely symptoms of this root cause — a design flaw in the system. The advantage of incumbency and the dominance of the two major political parties only serve to exacerbate this systemic weakness. The book recommends four pillars for reform: restructuring the election process, restructuring the governing process, reforming money in politics and opening up near-term competition without waiting for structural change. None of these changes are particularly simple fixes given their fundamental nature, but they are also too important to ignore.

Economic competition cannot increase without government regulation, from enforcement of antitrust laws to prevention of predatory pricing practices and support of labor rights. Firms in our current system cannot be expected to do anything but maximize profit, using every advantage available to them within the limitations of our legal framework. But if our government continues to trend towards oligopoly — therefore diluting its incentive to regulate — businesses will do the same.

Anita Ramaswamy is a senior studtying political science. She can be reached at anita.ramaswamy@tufts.edu.

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Sam Weidner Weidner’s Words

Where select contracts fall short

Field hockey shuts out Haverford, Williams in push for postseason

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he NBA G League made a major announcement this Thursday when it revealed its new “select contract” route. These are the $125,000 contracts that the G League will offer to elite high school prospects who are at least 18 but are not yet eligible for the NBA draft. Previously, recent high school graduates l had this option, but they were only able to make the standard $35,000 G League salary that is earned by the rest of the league.

This is the NBA’s attempt to invest in its minor league and to provide an alternative to the NCAA for players.

Beyond just the higher salary, players going into the G League would be free to market their own brand and likeness and to sign any endorsement deals that they wish, as they would not be in violation of any NCAA rules by doing so. The offer may seem attractive at first glance, but if the NBA is hoping to model its minor league off the success of those in baseball and soccer, this change will not do enough to tip the scale.

Players coming straight out of high school still have far too much incentive to go into the college game, and the disadvantages of the G League for their own development and marketing are too great. The average age of players in the G League is 25 years old, which means that no matter how talented and athletic these 18-year-old prospects are, they will still be thrust into a situation where they are completely overwhelmed by the size, strength and athleticism of their competition.

Additionally, these players may not even see much court time in the G League. The coaches of these teams do not have a large incentive to play young players, who may not win them games, for the sake of those players’ development, especially when the players have no official ties to — and will likely never play a minute of basketball for — the affiliated NBA team. Finally, the select contract prospects will come into this league facing animosity from their teammates, who would make significantly less money, even though they may be doing more in the moment to help their team win games.

Expecting elite high school prospects to jump at this opportunity is asking them to give up all the glamour and exposure that comes along with high-profile Div. I college basketball, and potentially the future of their career, for one year of a $125,000 salary. If the past year’s FBI report on corruption in college basketball is any indication, almost all of the ‘elite’ players that would be invited to this G League opportunity are already receiving this amount of money without the aforementioned drawbacks.

The NCAA as it currently stands is a deeply flawed and corrupt institution, but it still holds far too much power for a handful of select contracts to shake up the whole system.

Sam Weidner is a junior studying mathematics. He can be reached at samuel. weidner@tufts.edu.

Monday, October 22, 2018

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Junior midfielder Marguerite Salamone battles a Williams player for possession in Tufts’ 2–0 win on Oct. 20.

by Ryan Eggers Sports Editor

Entering the final stretch of their regular season schedule, Tufts made major statements with a pair of 2–0 shutout victories against Haverford and No. 16 Williams. The impressive defensive performances were the fourth and fifth straight shutouts for the Jumbos (13–1).

The stakes were high when the Jumbos hosted the Williams Ephs (10–4) at Ounjian Field on Saturday. Not only was it Senior Day for the hosts, but the game carried serious NESCAC implications: A Williams victory would have vaulted them into second place in the conference, as they would own the headto-head tiebreaker with Tufts.

It didn’t take long for both teams to get into gear. There were penalty corners and shot opportunities on both sides of the field a mere six minutes into the match. A particularly dangerous Williams rush evaded firstyear goalkeeper Andie Stallman, but senior defender Issy Del Priore was positioned well to stop the attack.

The rest of the half continued in a similar fashion, with both teams fighting for penalty corners and scoring opportunities. The Jumbos had one last chance in the first half with an onslaught of shots from junior forward Rachel Hamilton, but Williams senior goalkeeper and co-captain Emma Santucci did not relent.

The Jumbos found themselves in a familiar position at the end of the half: The first period ended scoreless for their fourth straight game, leaving 35 minutes to break the tie. After finding the net — and the win — in their three previous contests, the hosts did the same Saturday.

“In the first half, I think we’re trying to figure out what the other team is doing,” coach

Tina Mattera said. “Then in the second half, we’ve figured it out and then we’re able to really get after them.”

Seven minutes into the second half, Hamilton placed a pass to sophomore midfielder Beth Krikorian for a shot, which was blocked before it could get to Williams junior goalkeeper Abby Lloyd, who entered the game after halftime. First-year midfielder Claire Foley made contact with the ball after the deflection, sending it into the net for the game’s first goal.

Nine minutes later, senior forward co-captain Gigi Tutoni sealed Williams’ fate with an unassisted gem, her 10th goal of the season.

The goal marked her 28th in her Tufts career, tying her for seventh all-time in career goals scored for the program.

“I feel really confident in our forward line,” Tutoni said. “We have a really deep bench, so we’re always running. It’s great that we have so many talented people; we have so many different people scoring from the first-years to the seniors.”

The Ephs managed just two more shots in the final 20 minutes of action, both of which were handled by Stallman in the waning seconds of the match. Despite a bit more success generating offensive chances, the Jumbos were unable to score a third goal.

“It was just so surreal — I can’t believe I’m already a senior,” Tutoni said. “I feel like it was just yesterday when we were all in preseason freaking out about the run test on the first day. It was just nice to be there with my fellow [classmates] and seeing that we’ve all made it this far. It’s been such a good run.”

Mattera praised the senior class for the contributions that it has made to the team.

“Our seniors are a phenomenal class,” Mattera said. “They’re awesome all over the field. They play a bunch of different positions,

and they’ve just been great leaders. This year they’re really about the team, and that’s shown — they’ve been a lot more about action and not just talking about things.”

The Jumbos defensive dominance was also on display earlier in the week against the Haverford Fords (6–8), when, for the fourth straight game, they held their opponents to less than two shots on goal. While the Tufts offense warmed up and started pressuring the offensive third, Haverford struggled to keep possession and find meaningful opportunities on the other end of the field.

Once again, though, the Jumbos were unable to convert in the first half. The team got off 10 shots and had a few convincing penalty corners, but nothing made it past Haverford first-year goalkeeper Hannah Roth. It took a halftime break for the Jumbos to put points on the board.

Foley was once again the first Jumbo to find the net, with an unassisted goal in traffic to put the Jumbos up 1–0 in the 48th minute.

Hamilton provided insurance a few minutes later with a strike off of a penalty corner from junior midfielder Marguerite Salamone.

The only response from the Fords was a penalty corner with 10 minutes remaining, ending in a shot that went wide of the net. The final score was a 2–0 Jumbos victory, with the week’s success bringing their overall record to 13–1 and NESCAC record to 8–1, good for second in the conference.

With one game remaining, the Jumbos are locked in to the No. 2 seed for the NESCAC conference tournament. A loss against the No. 11 Bowdoin Polar Bears would not change that, as every team below the Jumbos has three conference losses. Due to Middlebury’s win against Tufts earlier in the season, the team is also unable to capture the top seed.

Nonetheless, the Jumbos hope to win the final regular season game and use it to make adjustments before entering the postseason, as well as to cement their resume for the NCAA Tournament.

“I tell the [players] all season that there are two ways to make the NCAAs. [They] either win the conference or have a really good record,” Mattera said. “So I think adding one more win under our belt will really help us. We plan on winning the NESCAC, but if we can’t, having a super strong record will hopefully allow us to grab an at-large bid into the NCAAs.” Tutoni concurred, noting the Polar Bears’ strength.

“Bowdoin is always a really good team,” Tutoni said. “So even though it doesn’t mean anything to [the team’s] standing … beating Bowdoin … really sends a message to the NESCAC and the rest of Div. III field hockey in general.”

Tufts will travel to Brunswick, Maine on Wednesday, with a 6 p.m. start time for the regular season finale.

Thousands flock to the 54th annual Head of the Charles Regatta The 54th annual Head of the Charles Regatta took place amidst chilly, windy conditions in Cambridge this weekend.

Close to 11,000 athletes, ranging from Olympians to high schoolers and hailing from 23 different countries, competed in the world’s largest two-day regatta.

Tufts’ men and women’s crew teams competed in six different events. The men’s team competed in the club eights and the

championship double on Saturday, as well as the quads on Sunday. Meanwhile, the women’s team raced in the lightweight fours, collegiate eights and quad events.

Results Men Club Eights: 15:41.56 (13th) Men’s Championship Double: 20:24.99 (18th) Women’s Quads: 21:05.56 (23rd)

Men’s Quads: 18:59.49 (18th) Women’s Collegiate Eights: 19:17.66 (7th), 19:46.48 (11th) Women’s Lightweight Fours: 22:08.44 (11th) The Daily will provide more detailed coverage of the Head of the Charles Regatta later this week.

—By Yuan Jun Chee