The Tufts Daily - Tuesday, March 6, 2018

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University hosts open forum on race, representation in Alumnae Lounge murals

by Stephanie Hoechst Contributing Writer

Yesterday evening, the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora (RCD) and the Tufts University Art Galleries co-presented an open forum concerning the murals in Alumnae Lounge. According to speakers at the event, the future of the murals, which fail to depict any persons of racially marginalized communities, has been an ongoing topic of debate.

The Alumnae Lounge murals, completed in 1955 by Nathaniel Jacobson and Matthew Boyhan, were painted with egg tempera on canvas, according to a description written by Tufts Communications and Marketing Professional Laura Ferguson in a brochure passed out at the event. The brochure said the murals depict the founding of Tufts, including the construction of Ballou Hall on Walnut Hill and the founding members of the university, as well as notable alumni and leadership from the time the mural was painted. Critics of the mural have taken issue because, with the exception of some white women, the mural solely portrays white, Protestant men, according to Andrew McClellan, professor of art history and museum studies advisor and one of the speakers at the event.

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The mural in debate, painted on the walls of the Alumnae Lounge, is pictured here on March 5.

Daniel McCusker, senior lecturer and head of performance in the Department of Drama and Dance, moderated the forum. The discussion began with three presentations by members of the Tufts community, who all shared different insights into the history of the mural,

its issues regarding diversity and Tufts’ image, and what different courses of action could signify within the broader conversation of art history and historical preservation.

Katrina Moore, director of the Africana Center, introduced some of

the issues surrounding the mural’s exclusion of people of color. She noted that Tufts’ emphasis on diversity, especially on its website, does not agree with the mural’s depiction of solesee ALUMNAE LOUNGE MURALS, page 2

Dewick begins opening earlier to accommodate SMFA students’ schedules

by McKenzie Schuyler Staff Writer

Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center began opening half an hour earlier on Feb. 19, opening doors at 7:30 a.m. rather than 8 a.m. Mondays through Fridays. According to the Tufts Dining Facebook page, this change was implemented to accommodate School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA) students taking the shuttle in the morning and was brought about as a response to student input.

Tufts Dining Services distributes an annual satisfaction survey to gather student feedback about various aspects of dining services. In the survey from the fall 2017 semester, several students expressed that they would like to see a shift in Dewick’s morning

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hours, according to Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos.

“We hear from students in several formats; comment cards, the annual satisfaction survey … directly [in conversation] with managers and through other staff … A number of students wrote comments in the fall survey indicating they wished Dewick was open earlier so they could get a hot breakfast before catching the 8AM shuttle to the SMFA,” Klos told the Daily in an e-mail.

This request was also brought to the attention of the Dewick staff by Dean of SMFA at Tufts Nancy Bauer and other student affairs staff, according to Klos.

According to John Beaulac, associate director of Residential Dining, the main concern in implementing this student request was whether the din-

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ing staff at Dewick, who arrive at 6 a.m., would have enough time to prepare breakfast by 7:30 a.m.

“We had to take into consideration if the staff would be able to execute [the necessary meal preparations] in time without altering their schedule … But from speaking to [the staff ], it wasn’t necessary to [alter their work hours] because they could get open in time,” Beaulac said.

Dewick’s chef manager, Jonathan Herbert, noted that the kitchen staff at Dewick have been flexible and more than willing to accommodate students’ requests.

“We told them [about the change in hours] about a week before it happened and they just rolled with the punches … It’s just a half hour for us, so it’s not that much of a change to our

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process,” Herbert said. “So far, we have seen such a low influx of people at 7:30 a.m. that it hasn’t affected us.”

Herbert estimated that between 20 and 30 students have come into Dewick during the earlier 30-minute block in the morning.

Although Carmichael Dining Center already opens at 7:15 am on weekdays, the SMFA shuttle stops at the Aidekman Arts Center, which is much closer to Dewick than Carmichael.

According to Beaulac and Dining Communications Specialist Lyza Bayard, although Carmichael already opens early, the hour change in Dewick has sought to accommodate students’ comments about their logistical needs as well.

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“[Students] were asking for accessibility to [Dewick] because it is closer to the [SMFA] shuttle [than Carmichael] … We try to put a process in place to meet the needs of the customers,” Beaulac said.

Bayard echoed this sentiment, adding that Dining Services was willing to adjust.

“It wasn’t that hard for us to make that change [to Dewick’s hours]; it was something that we heard there was a need for and we felt it would be pretty easy to accommodate,” Bayard said.

The dining team expressed their desire for continued feedback from students through the multiple avenues of communication available.

“One of the things that I want to emphasize is that we have multiple social media channels … Students sometimes Facebook message us or communicate with us on Twitter or make comments on Instagram. We welcome all communication from students,” Bayard said.

However, the nature of the suggestions and commentary should not be limited to merely operational issues, Klos explained.

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Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall is pictured on March 4. like us to introduce, see more (or less) of,” Klos said.

Klos talked about other comments that were received from students earlier this year that are currently being explored.

“We heard students would like more authentic international cuisine, in particular Asian cuisine. So we are exploring bringing a chef to campus later in the year

to train our culinary staff on authentic preparation methods,” Klos said.

Bayard reiterated that the dining halls will continue to listen to student concerns in the future, and will strive to use this feedback to inform practices within dining services.

“We listen, we learn and we try to take action,” Bayard said.

University faculty, students discuss fate of murals in Alumnae Lounge ALUMNAE LOUNGE MURALS

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continued from page 1 ly white founders, leaders, students and alumni, and makes the Alumnae Lounge feel alienating.

Adriana Zavala, associate professor of art history and director of the RCD, briefly discussed some of the issues in the mural with regard to erased cultural histories.

She explained that an RCD dinner last November engendered further conversation about the murals in the context of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville last summer and issues of representation and monuments.

Zavala then introduced first-years Sung-Min Kim and Maxine Bell and sophomore Ryan Tam, students from her fall 2017 class, The Latinx Presence in Art And Visual Culture. Kim, Bell and Tam discussed their final project for the class, which involved digitally adding symbolic “stickers” to the murals in the Alumnae Lounge to draw attention to the erased

histories in the mural and invite further research into those histories.

“We were really interested in the Alumnae Lounge mural because it was so immediate to the community, and [it is] preserving an antiquated narrative that we thought was not supported in this community,” Kim said.

McClellan then discussed the potential removal of the mural from an art history standpoint, arguing that completely tearing them down might needlessly destroy a historical object. He discussed the difficulties in treating historical objects.

“What survives from the past, and what needs to be done with that past? How do you deal with the past when ideas change? When people change? When society changes?” he asked. “My instinct … as an art historian is to want to intervene in some way that does not consign these objects to oblivion.”

Adrienne Pruitt, collections management archivist at the Tufts Digital Collections and Archives, described the degree to which the

university administration at the time influenced the mural’s production.

“While theoretically, Nathaniel Jacobson and Matthew Boyhan had free artistic reign over who to include in the murals, the administration and alumni had a heavy hand in the choices that were made,” Pruitt explained.

The conversation then opened to the audience. Speakers and audience members offered potential solutions to the issues the murals present, trying to balance preserving history and lessons about exclusion while also representing the Tufts community.

Suggestions included taking it down and creating a new mural, though the survival of the original mural was a point of contention, as its medium and age may not allow for its preservation after removing it. Other suggestions included temporarily covering it, removing it and adding a plaque to explain the community’s concerns regarding it, or keeping it and adding wall labels or more student work to preserve a teaching moment about historical erasure.

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Don’t bug me On Feb. 28 at 10:17 a.m., the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and the Medford Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at the Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) at 200 College Ave. An overactive humidifier in a lab housing insects had triggered the fire alarm. Medford FD reset the fire alarm. No insects were harmed.

Try not to leak out Later that day at 7:00 p.m., TUPD responded to a call in a Latin Way suite that the bathroom ceiling was leaking.

The source of the leak was unknown.

Facilities removed the ceiling tiles, stopped the leak and replaced the tiles.

It’s a sign On March 1 at 7:00 p.m., TUPD and Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) received a medical call at 163 College Ave., where a student had reportedly been hit by a car. However, once TUPD arrived on the

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A TUPD car is pictured outside of Sophia Gordon Hall on May 9, 2014. scene it was made clear that the car hit a sign, which in turn hit the student who was walking their dog. The student was transported to the hospital for further evaluation.

Not speaking the same language On March 2 at 9:23 a.m., TUPD and TEMS responded to a call that a pedestrian had been hit by a vehicle in front of Olin Hall on Packard Ave. The pedestrian sustained unspecified injuries and was

transported to the hospital for further evaluation.

That might come in handi On March 3 at 1:00 p.m., TUPD received a report of a breaking-and-entering of a car on College Ave. The car’s owner found their handicap placard missing from the front windshield, but nothing else was taken and there was no damage to the car or sign of forced entry.

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Behind the scenes: Preparing the campus for snow

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A university contractor employee sweeps snow on March 14, 2017.

by Kevin Doherty Contributing Writer

The scene is a classic one: reports of a storm on the horizon. Mumbled hopes of a possible snow day. Dreams of sledding the day away on the President’s Lawn. While the snow falls and Jumbos sleep, a flurry of activity occurs, both seen and unseen.

According to Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin Maguire, a long process of preparing the campus for snow is set into motion when a storm approaches. As Tufts’ police chief, Maguire ensures that the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) is adequately staffed during the time of the storm. His role also includes assisting the university’s leadership to respond to adverse weather events based on safety and security concerns.

Maguire adds that a number of different groups on campus are involved in dealing with snowstorms. These groups include TUPD, University Relations, Digital Communications, Tufts Emergency Medical Services, the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, Tufts Athletics, Tufts Dining Services and Facilities Services. With such a large number of groups, coordination can be quite the task.

“We conduct conference calls between and amongst university leadership and the Operations departments to strategize regarding our approach, if and when we may have enough information to make a call regarding closing any of our four campuses,” Maguire told the Daily in an email.

These snow storms are not all fun and games. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency warns that extreme winter weather can lead to roof collapses, communications disruptions, power outages and even fatalities. Maguire noted that it requires a lot of work to make sure this doesn’t happen — roads must be plowed, sidewalks must be shoveled and paths must be cleared.

Geoffrey Bartlett, director of Emergency Management and deputy director of Public and Environmental Safety, explained the process of making a decision on campus closings. The university’s Office of Emergency Management maintains a strong relationship

with the National Weather Service, which delivers briefing packages on the timing and severity of an incoming storm.

With four campuses — two in Boston, one in Grafton and one in Medford/ Somerville — the weather reports received sometimes vary from location to location, but never too much, according to Bartlett.

Bartlett also noted that each campus has a number of variables that determine the situation there, so each campus is considered independently.

Bartlett said that the decision to close a campus is significantly more complex than simply whether or not to cancel classes.

For example, the Boston campus includes a medical hospital and dental clinics. These facilities have a lot more riding on them than simply student schedules.

“The modern university is so much more than just a campus with classes. Tufts has patients as well as students, so the decision to close reaches more than you would think,” Bartlett said.

Bartlett added that a decision is made either the night before or the morning of a snowstorm. When the decision-makers are confident about the accuracy and intensity of a snow forecast, the decision on whether or not to close comes at night. When the forecast is a bit murkier, the decision instead comes in the morning. Bartlett gave his assurance that there will never be an instance where a decision is made and not released until the morning.

Through the Twitter account @TuftsReady, the Office of Emergency Management communicates directly with the student body to update them on winter storm situations.

Moreover, the office also provides messages on weather closings through an optional feature of TuftsAlert.

“It’s really interesting, actually. A few years ago, an intern did a project on the correlation between inches of snow and the number of impressions we receive on social media. It’s almost exactly correlated,” Bartlett said.

When the snow finally falls, it does not disappear on its own. Director of Campus Services Gary Hill told the Daily in an email how the campus gets cleared of snow. After receiving information from Bartlett and a

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variety of forecasts, Facilities Services tracks the time to determine when to begin snow operations.

“Facilities Services is expected to continue to provide services for students who are living on campus; i.e., provide power, heat, and hot water to buildings … and the clearing and de-icing of roads, walks, and lots,” Hill said.

Ground Maintenance Supervisor Greg Mellett develops and implements plans for the snow removal, according to Hill.

“Greg [Mellett]’s in constant communication with Tufts’ Grounds and Labor Team and the vendors who support snow removal and salting/sanding operations for Tufts Medford,” Hill said.

In addition to the grounds and labor staff, Tufts receives vendor support from C&W Services. Responsibilities are divided: Tufts workers take care of the “southern zone” of campus, which is encompassed by Powder House Boulevard, Professors Row, College Avenue and Packard Avenue, while the vendor handles the remainder of campus as well as the sanding and salting operations, Hill explained.

This entire operation requires a lot of resources and labor. For a standard storm, Tufts relies on around six tons of road salt and usually four snow plows and two road sanders, along with skid-steers and a front-end loader. The university has the capabilities to dispatch up to 24 employees to handle the work at any given time, according to Hill. Hill added that with a hilly campus and, at times, bitter cold, the work can be challenging, but he gave kudos to the Facilities Services team who helps everything run smoothly.

Even with the level of coordination required and a seemingly never-ending onslaught of bad weather, Maguire shared that the responsibilities of everyone involved do not change drastically in the face of a storm.

“Public Safety is a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year service, and we must deliver services on an on-going and continuous basis, without interruption, so things don’t change that much for us during or after a storm, except that we must use due care as we travel about, servicing the university,” Maguire said.

hat you eat makes who you are. I remember that before coming to the States, I worried about whether or not I could get accustomed to American food.

However, at the same time, I was really excited to dive into American food culture, which is obviously largely different from Japan’s. Today, I am going to talk about my daily experience of food in the States, especially in the dining halls on campus.

Tufts’ dining halls surprised me in a lot of ways. For example, they have a great variety of food. This includes not only iconic American foods like pizza, burgers, French fries and so on, but also many different countries’ foods, including Asian, Mexican, etc. Although there is no question that those foreign cuisines have been modified and localized for American taste buds, I appreciate the diversity, and I’m shocked by the effort of the dining halls to maintain it.

In addition to the international diversity, the dining halls offer various options for people with dietary preferences like those who eat vegetarian, halal, or those with celiac disease and so forth. While I could find a few halal foods in school cafeterias back home, the variety was relatively limited, and they did not have vegan or gluten-free food. That is why I was impressed by Tufts dining halls.

I realized that while America might be infamous for its unhealthy junk food like burgers, American culinary culture has been developed by a diverse population with different backgrounds and is constituted by various types of food. You can seek out your own diet from a range of different options.

Another thing that surprised me was the price for a meal. It is two or three times more expensive than back home!

Although given the variety and quality of the food, the price for the current service might be fair, I still believe that it is unaffordable for many students to have three meals every day in the dining hall.

This probably means that some students make do with cheaper, less healthy alternatives to the dining halls, and, worse still, that some students suffer from food insecurity, as seen in other universities and on our own campus.

In a Feb. 21, 2017 Tufts Observer article titled “Food Insecurity at Tufts”, the author, through an interview with a nutrition and marketing specialist at Tufts Dining, explained that food insecurity on campus has become a socioeconomic issue, and also considered the question of whether Tufts Dining profits off students or not.

For a long time, I have considered America to be a country full of contradictions. My column today may be just about the dining hall, but I see a larger contradiction here. At first glance, by offering culinary diversity and good food, the dining halls fulfill their responsibility of catering to the dietary needs of all students at Tufts. However, the price of meals in the dining halls is not affordable and less accessible for a significant number of students. Just fascinating.

Hayato Miyajima is an exchange student from Japan majoring in international relations. Hayato can be reached at hayato. miyajima@tufts.edu.

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EDM-country crossover

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elcome back to another episode of Is This Thing On? Today we have scheduled a seemingly impossible musical combination: EDM and… country?

Wait, is this allowed? I never thought I would use those genres in the same sentence, but Zedd is trying to prove me otherwise.

As you might have guessed, I’m not exactly the biggest country fan.

Something about trucks and why God Made Girls just doesn’t really do it for me. But I will admit that sometimes on a hot summer night I can get behind a little Thomas Rhett. However, for some reason, Massachusetts is really trying to push country music culture on Boston with not one, but two hit country radio stations, so maybe we reach a compromise.

Speaking of which, house DJ Zedd and country singer-songwriter Marren Morris recently teamed up with producer duo Grey in “The Middle” (2018), fusing their two fanbases together. After being performed live at the Grammys, the January release has peaked at No. 13 on Billboard.

I love Maren Morris for her raw and edgy rocker vibe, which makes her voice so versatile for any genre. In an interview, Zedd and Grey explained how they engineered the song before seeking out the female vocal lead. They wanted someone who could match their energy while maintaining the fragility of the bridge. In that way, selecting Morris was more of an audition than a collaboration, but she said in an interview that she “connected heavily with the lyrics.” Maybe this is because it sounds exactly like every other dance track, especially Zedd’s own “Stay” (2017) with Alessia Cara. Even the pre-chorus is oddly similar to The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” (2016). In fact, the lyrics of “The Middle” are extremely un-complex. I honestly think that I could have written them. I mean, what did we expect from EDM — are we here for the lyrics or for the drop? Definitely the drop.

Just look at Selena Gomez and Kygo’s “It Ain’t Me” (2017). They couldn’t even come up with words for the best part of the song, so they just mashed up sound bits from the verse. Despite the simplicity, “The Middle” at least makes a good workout song.

More dance-country crossover has come from Florida Georgia Line, after the country duo collaborated on a few songs with Bebe Rexha, Alesso and Hailee Steinfeld.

While Zedd seemed to strip Maren of her country flair, Florida Georgia Line is better at blending its style with the respective pop singers. About “Meant to Be” (2017), Rexha said, “I never thought a New York girl like me would have a country hit, but I guess it goes to show you that some things are just … meant to be.” Wow, if that is not inspiring, I don’t know what is.

All right, I’ve given country music its 15 minutes. Next week I might try to tackle the concept of mumble rap, so if anyone would like to defend Post Malone to me, I welcome your arguments.

Nikki Margaretos is a senior majoring in economics. Nikki can be reached at nikoletta.margaretos@tufts.edu.

KIRT THORNE FOR TUFTS INTERNATIONAL CLUB

Wuzee, a Chinese fusion dance group, performs at the Parade of Nations on March 3.

by Issay Matsumoto Assistant Arts Editor

Members of International Club held their annual Parade of Nations event in Cohen Auditorium last Saturday evening, March 3. After months of hard work — planning outreach, filming promotional videos, organizing logistics and communicating with the International Center — club members, performers and audiences came together for a show that celebrated international culture and community at Tufts.

With performances by Tamasha, Bhangra, Wuzee, Full Sound, sophomore Lydia Ra, Turbo, ROTI and RUM, Essence, Envy and Kiniwe, the Parade of Nations continued its long tradition of multicultural learning within the Tufts community. Performances were dynamic, ranging from the somber and sweet to the energetic and vibrant. Packed with friends and family, Cohen Auditorium lit up, with high levels of audience engagement and participation. The lively annual Flag Parade closed the show, with student volunteers performing brief coordinated movements and dances with flags of nations with which they identify.

Song and dance were not the only forms of celebration on Saturday night.

Before intermission, sophomore and International Club President Nidhi Rao presented the Oliver Chapman Award to

senior Sopuruchukwu Augustine Ezenwa for contributions to the international community at Tufts as an International House Manager, host advisor for Global Orientation and Tufts African Student Organization president, among Ezenwa’s many other accomplishments.

The Oliver Chapman Award is presented annually at the Parade of Nations to commemorate Oliver Chapman (E ’92), a Tufts student from Panama who passed away in 1992, and recognizes a senior “who has made notable contributions to the international community at Tufts, the Greater Boston Area, or elsewhere around the globe,” according to the program brochure.

When senior Shana Merrifield became involved with International Club during her second semester as a sophomore, she saw Parade of Nations as an event that not only celebrated international culture, but also built recognition for its community presence at Tufts.

“From what I saw, it was a lot about trying to make visible the international community here at Tufts,” she said. “I think a lot of times [the international community at Tufts] can be quite segmented, in terms of who people hang out with or their communities within the international community.

[Parade of Nations] is our statement saying, ‘We have a presence on this campus, and we are open to anyone who identifies as international or has that experience.’”

Rao also spoke to the organization’s efforts to make the event inclusive.

“I think that this show is actually unique in that it attempts to cater to the wide cultural diversity on campus, and though it can be difficult to capture and represent every single culture and nation represented on campus, I think it’s inspiring in the sense that Parade of Nations at its very heart is meant to be an inclusive celebration on campus,” Rao told the Daily in an email. “We’ve worked to help more people get involved by getting the word out about our flag show and our community video that we will showcase during the event.”

Rao, who was born in Mumbai and has spent her upbringing in Shanghai, Baltimore and New Delhi, gravitated toward the international community during her first year. To Rao, the Parade of Nations is a “celebration of the home” she has found at Tufts. Although international identity is highly personal and fluid for many people, Rao says that International Club will continue to work to promote that sense of home she found.

“I think generally speaking, the word ‘international’ has a plurality of meanings, which can cause many misconceptions,” she told the Daily in an email. “For see PARADE OF NATIONS, page 5

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FILM REVIEW

‘The Party’ is not lit

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by Setenay Mufti Arts Editor

“The Party” (2017), released in the United States on Feb. 16, had potential.

Affairs, death, politics, cocaine and the ultimate Chekhov’s gun — the makings of an epic political comedy in a one-act dinner party setting — are all there. Unfortunately, the politics and humor fall flat.

Directed by Sally Potter, “The Party” centers on Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas), and the dinner party she’s hosting is in celebration of her recent appointment as the British Shadow Minister of Health.

Her guests are a series of oddball couples. There’s her best friend, the sardonic and cynical April (Patricia Clarkson) with her newly ex-boyfriend Gottfried (Bruno Ganz), a spiritual healer and motivational speaker. There’s Martha and Jinny (Cherry Jones and Emily Mortimer, respectively), the women’s studies professor and her young wife, who is pregnant with triplets. And there’s Tom (Cillian Murphy), one half of a rich, young power couple who keeps snorting coke in the bathroom and is armed with a gun he’s unsure of what to do with. Finally, there is Janet’s husband, Bill (Timothy Spall), who at the start of the

film is already three sheets to the wind on red wine and intent on speaking his mind by the end of the night. None of the couples are happy and most, as it turns out, are cheating. We expect raucousness as the movie progresses, and we get it.

For what it’s worth, the cinematography is better than it had to be; shot in sumptuous black and white, “The Party” incorporates unconventional angles and artful close-ups to keep the audience engaged.

The big problem with “The Party” is that it just could have been funnier. It has its funny moments; Spall gives the performance of the night as a drunk intellectual who gave up a teaching position at Yale (or was it Harvard?) and now uses his brainpower to quote Catullus and Virgil to women decades younger than him.

He bonds hilariously with Gottfried, and the scenes with only Bill, Gottfried and Tom in the same room are the funniest of the movie. They also provide Bill’s funniest moments — even when he’s unconscious. Clarkson, as usual, delivers some welcome, biting one-liners. As Martha and Jinny publicly fight over Martha having once slept with a man, Jinny cannot contain her disgust. She dramatically cries out, “You HAVE had a man inside you!” to

which April quips, “You might have three little men inside YOU.” The characters are all familiar archetypes: The quack motivational speaker/ healer who scoffs at Western medicine, the cold women’s studies professor, the pregnant woman who only cares about her pregnancy and the young, attractive, drug-addled businessman. If nothing else, putting them all together in one setting for a whole movie would have been a great opportunity for new, funny interactions between old stereotypes. Unfortunately, many of these opportunities are squandered. Where is Martha’s outrage over Gottfried’s attempts to remove Bill from the “negative female energy” in the room?

April and Tom are the two most dynamic characters in the movie, but there are no scenes of them either flirting or sparring. Jinny and Tom interact alone in several scenes, but the Divine Life-Giving Woman has, inexplicably, nothing funny to say to that guy in your economics class who’s getting his MBA after graduation and loves Machiavelli. Janet, the main character, offers few funny moments herself, possibly because her character is so hard to pin down. She has some quite hypocritical anger toward her husband’s infidelity,

which isn’t really confronted. Her political loyalties are questionable: She’s quick to give up her new position in Parliament out of devotion to her husband but pauses when her husband admits that he’s sought a private health care provider after deeming their NHS benefits insufficient. That amusing detail isn’t even developed into a full joke.

Speaking of healthcare and politics, “The Party” seems intent on inserting political references into the movie. Yet it fails to develop them in any way. April mentions multiple times that she’s a cynic who’s lost faith in Parliamentary procedure, even though she supports Janet.

Is Parliamentary procedure a metaphor here for rich people’s baseless need to have dinner parties with their incompatible friends? Is Parliamentary procedure failed marriages and overlooked affairs — and if so, is significant political action represented by Chekhov’s gun? Was the fact that the manipulative middle-aged cheater shared the first name of legendary cheater Bill Clinton a coincidence? No political parallels, let alone commentaries, are explored for such an oddly political script. Like a mediocre, stuffy dinner party, “The Party” is only barely worth its sweet conclusion.

Parade of Nations makes efforts to be inclusive celebration on campus PARADE OF NATIONS

continued from page 4 some, ‘international’ means holding an international passport, for others it means having family abroad and sometimes it means to simply have a global mindset. So, in that sense, I think I-Club

is an umbrella organization that seeks to serve and celebrate the many different international identities.”

Sophomore Ansh Nemali also recognized the diverse experiences and cultures represented in individuals within the international community at Tufts. For

Nemali, celebrating that diversity offers an opportunity to build strength in relationships with his peers.

“When we come together to celebrate, we demonstrate what it means to us to be a part of a culture, but we are also joining in and binding to that interna-

tional community, which is something great,” he said. “For a lot of nations, there isn’t a lot of representation [in comparison to other demographics] on campus. I think that entire community can kind of be a safe, inclusive space to feel comfortable on campus.”

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Ask the Daily: How can I keep my roommate from singing?

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ANSWER BY YUKI ZANINOVICH

: I have a serious problem. Despite me hinting multiple times that I want my roommate to stop singing, my roommate continues to sing for about 30 minutes to an hour a day (usually from 10–11 p.m.). She’s not good and it really makes it hard to work. I really need her to stop singing, and I’ve asked several times and don’t want to ruin our relationship.

How can I get her to stop singing? : It seems like the best solution is for you to have an honest dialogue with your roommate. No matter how often or obvious you think you have been hinting, interpretation of such indirect communication is so subjective, and people aren’t mind readers at the end of the day. Simply relay to her that singing distracts you from work, and that you would appreciate her respecting the shared space between you two. If she continues to not acknowledge your need even after frankly communicating it to her, then this may be a problem worth pursuing alongside external assistance such as ResLife.

Difficulty Level: Stalking your ex on Instagram only to see that she’s doing much better than you are.

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However, I would refrain from citing her lack of vocal prowess as part of your issue, as there is a stark contrast between honesty and bullying. Mentioning that detail doesn’t bolster your argument in any way, and only functions to hurt her feelings. You’re a student who wants to get work done, not the Howie Mandel of her dorm singing career.

Having a genuine conversation with her will not only help you resolve the issue at hand, but will also establish a long-term infrastructure for you two to have a healthy relationship and living situation. After opening up, both of you will likely find it easier to bring up problems and qualms in the future with the mold broken. Who knows, you might find yourself jamming to tunes alongside her one day!

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Nesi Altaras Looking Out

Land Reform

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or decades, one of the main policy priorities of leftists across the globe was land reform. Land was the principal mean of production, and agriculture the critical sector. It has fed a country, employed its people, drove its exports and, because of cotton, even formed the backbone of textile-driven industrialization. As left-wing parties campaigned in rural Turkey in the 1960s and 70s, land reform promises were a massive appeal. The promise of fair land distribution drove huge populations to leftist ideologies in rural Latin America. Land reform was a hallmark promise of Reconstruction that was left largely unfulfilled, and it was high on the mind of Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist candidate for the President of the United States in 1900–1920.

Only after massive rural to urban migration across Africa and Asia after the 1970s, and after the Great Migration in the United States, did land reform lose its place as an important and vote-winning policy for the left. In today’s Turkey, or Peru, or United States, land distribution is not a priority. It does not directly correlate with socioeconomic disparities as it used to. Those who own land are not the extreme wealthy anymore, and land does not bring the massive income it once did.

However, in an agriculture-exporting economy like South Africa, land reform is still critically important, making the recent news on a reform law taking land away from white owners more than just a symbolic move. The disparity of land ownership between whites and blacks is massive, though it is unclear by exactly how much. While there are fears that this law could lead to unproductive food production in the short run, the law easily passed parliament. This shortterm worry is not very serious, as South Africa produces more than enough food for itself and exports. A more serious concern was the constitutional issue of taking away land without compensation, which the South African constitution proclaims a breach of private property rights. How the law will fare in the courts is unclear.

The most cynical interpretation is that this will become an opportunity for government corruption as land is taken from white owners for supposed distribution and passed on to government cronies by the notoriously corrupt ANC-led government, which was recently rocked by the resignation of President Zuma due to corruption. The follow-up to this, which many opposition members suggest, is the theory that this law is supposed to rile up the ANC base and shift the national conversation away from ANC corruption under Zuma.

Thus, while land reform should still be part of political discourse everywhere with a large agricultural sector, it is sadly being used as a tool for political opportunism. A just distribution of land will not happen by itself, just as a just distribution of income will not happen automatically. Though it is of little use when practiced by corrupt agents looking to reshuffle the news cycle.

Nesi Altaras is a junior majoring in international relations and economics. Nesi can be reached at nesi.altaras@tufts.edu.

Opinion

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

OP-ED

Pursuing economics: A call for active engagement

by Ria Mazumdar A recent article discussed the scarcity of women in the economics department and the comparatively good female faculty representation at Tufts. The article stated that the conceptual demands of the discipline cause significant attrition.

Although the presence of female faculty is undoubtedly a strength of the department, this characterization fails to advocate for what is really needed: active institutional support with the gender disparity in economics, rather than a hope of increased enrollment rates as something to automatically follow representation.

There are three things that can be done: Integrate more female thinkers and feminist economics into the mainstream academic curriculum. The idea that motherhood is unpaid labor should not be a radical concept emerging in niche, upper-level American Studies classes.

Bring more applied discussion into the classroom, perhaps by supplementing models of economic growth with a description of past financial crises and the effectiveness of different historical approaches. Offer institutional support and flexibility for minority students who want a more interdisciplinary experience with the major.

Create initiatives, panels and research opportunities targeting female and minority students. We cannot just wait for individuals to self-select into a biased system. We have a responsibility to show them that we have the demand to meet their supply.

Discussing this particular disparity requires a more thorough examination of why female students may be disheartened by economics. Attributing this to conceptual difficulty misses the issue.

The article alludes to a broader socialization problem wherein women who might even get better grades than men still feel like they are doing poorly early on in the curriculum. Yet even this doesn’t tackle the root of the matter: Students are faced with disheartening expectations of the major from the get-go. Reshaping its structure is critical.

This raises a broader question regarding the diversity within the department and curriculum as a whole. While departments obviously face constraints, economics at Tufts is upsettingly confined to highly theoretical neoclassical approaches. Why is there room for Behavioral Economics (a class that integrates psychology to interrogate basic economic assumptions) but not for an anthropological take on development (which is discussed in the

classroom with little to no mention of historical colonialism and the disproportionate harms accrued to women of color)?

There is room to discuss individuals like Rosa Luxemburg, a feminist and Marxist economist who offered a controversial but historically influential view of growth.

A liberal arts approach should welcome a discussion of such perspectives, better allowing students to form their own critical opinions of very pertinent issues. Tufts’ limited exploration of economics disincentivizes broader, pressing conversations surrounding inequality and power.

Learning economics is not important simply to understand how things work.

It is a language of power that can change the status quo, but only when there is room to have critical conversations about issues like gender inside the classroom.

We should absolutely encourage more women to enroll in the major. Yet this approach alone is insufficient. Teachers and the university at large have a responsibility to open the curriculum and discourse of economics to the many groups of people who have been historically sidelined by the field.

Ria Mazumdar is a junior majoring in quantitative economics and international relations. Ria can be reached at Ria. Mazumdar@tufts.edu.

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DIVING

Idelson and Chong dive into steep competition at NCAA Qualifier

COURTESY DAVE DECORTIN

Senior Aaron Idelson performs a pike dive at Wheaton College on Jan. 21, 2017.

by Haley Rich

Assistant Sports Editor

This weekend, first-year Amber Chong and senior Aaron Idelson competed for Tufts at the NCAA Zone Diving Qualifier at Middlebury College. Both athletes performed 11-dive routines at both the one-meter height — held on Friday for the men and Saturday for the women — and the three-meter height (Saturday for the men and Friday for the women). The top nine women and seven men at both heights qualified for the NCAA Championship in Indianapolis on March 21–24.

After the three-meter event on Friday, Chong was ranked 22nd out of the 25 competitors, with a score of 322.10. She responded with a stronger performance the following day, recording a score of 365.65 to place 20th in the one-meter competition.

MIT dominated the women’s competition, taking first place with 108 points, which outpaced second-place Amherst College by a whopping 64 points. MIT sophomore Blake Zhou took home the one-meter championship with a score of 440.50, while her teammates — first-year Deborah Wen and junior Dolly Payne — clinched third and fourth. Wen won the three-meter competition with an impressive 458.25 points. Zhou took fifth in the three-meter event, and MIT junior Morgan Matranga took eighth at both heights, meaning the Engineers will take four athletes to Nationals on the women’s side.

Going into the meet, Chong realized the competition would be stiff.

“I didn’t have too many expectations for this meet,” Chong said. “I knew I’d be diving against the best girls in the region.”

The Issaquah, Wash. native performed the same 11-dive routines that she used at the NESCAC Championships two weeks prior, but thought her execution was less solid this time around.

“At the one-meter height, I didn’t hit all the dives that I normally do,” she said.

Although the performance might not have been all that she was hoping for, diving against the top athletes in the region left Chong hungry for improvement.

“I did want to make Nationals, but overall, it was a really good experience.

Now I know what I have to do to make Nationals in the future, so I’ll start working on bigger dives,” she said.

Tufts diving coach Brad Snodgrass recognizes Chong’s potential.

“This is only her first year competing on the college level,” Snodgrass said. “She’s new to everything, so I had no expectations for her at this meet. Her three-meter was shaky, probably due to nerves on the first day of such a big competition. She was much more competitive on the second day. We have a lot of work to do over the next year, but she’s so talented — I can see her qualifying for Nationals as a sophomore.”

On Friday, Idelson placed 15th in a field of 21 divers in the one-meter competition with a score of 386.55. The next day, he improved his score by 39.6 points to take 11th place at the three-meter height with a 426.15 mark. NYU senior Connor Brisson won the one-meter competition with 510.00 points and also took second place in the three-meter event behind Union College senior Sam Hoyt, who placed first with 544.45 points. Hoyt led his team to an overall

victory at the meet, as the Dutchmen garnered 83 total points.

Fo l l ow i n g t h e N E S C AC Championship, where he placed seventh in the one-meter competition and fourth in the three-meter event (contributing 49 total points to the Jumbos’ first-ever NESCAC title), Idelson had shorter but higher-intensity practices. During the week leading up to the NCAA Qualifier, Snodgrass tried to simulate competition by having his divers do “one each” from the list of eleven dives. The repetition paid off for Idelson.

“My inward two-and-a-half has been pretty iffy for a year and a half, but I think it was my best dive this weekend,” he said. “It was awesome to be able to nail it in a competition setting.”

Snodgrass was very pleased with Idelson’s performance at the meet.

“He came pretty close to the top seven his sophomore and junior year, and I knew he was competitive to reach it this year,” Snodgrass said. “He was actually ranked in the top seven halfway through the three-meter competition on Saturday, but he missed his reverse two-and-a-half tuck — one of his harder dives — at the end. It’s really tough to nail all 11 dives, especially during a grueling two-day meet.

He did his best and felt great about it, and that’s all that we can expect from ourselves. At the end, he was smiling, I gave him a big hug, and he couldn’t have been happier.”

As Idelson is a senior, this meet closed out his competitive diving career.

“Knowing it’s over feels weird, surreal,” he said. “I’m still riding the high from [winning the NESCAC championship] last week. Everything ended in such a happy way.”

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Sam Weidner Weidner's Words

A players’ league

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he NFL Scouting Combine took place over the past week, where most of the draft locks and hopefuls hope to impress teams with their athleticism and skill. Central Florida linebacker Shaquem Griffin stole the show with the fastest 40-yard dash time for a linebacker in more than a decade, running it in 4.38 seconds.

Behind all the drills and interviews, though, there was another slightly overlooked story at the Combine. That is of Louisville quarterback and 2016 Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson, who is entering the NFL draft this offseason in a somewhat unconventional way. Rather than hiring an agent like most players typically do, he will be representing himself throughout the draft process. Jackson told reporters at the Combine that he did not think an agent would be necessary for him to navigate the draft process, given the already scaled initial rookie contracts for draftees.

While Jackson is probably right that an agent is unnecessary for a process in which salaries are locked through the rookie wage scale, it means something to see another big-name prospect bucking the usual trend. In the 2016 NBA Draft, the top prospect out of University of California – Berkeley and eventual No. 3 overall pick, Jaylen Brown, also chose to navigate contract signings and sponsorship deals without an agent. On his decision, Brown said, “Understand that you can speak for yourself and you can advocate for yourself. You don’t need somebody in every aspect to do that for you.”

One can wonder whether these decisions by Jackson and Brown were influenced at all by the actions of players like LeBron. LeBron, through his own free agency decisions and personnel control, has blazed the trail for giving power and agency back to the players in the NBA and allowing them to take some control over their earnings and their own destinies. New players coming into the NBA see how LeBron, Kevin Durant and others took control of their careers as a model.

Another recent example of power being shifted to players is Big Baller Brand. While LaVar Ball sometimes seems to be in the media too much, it is interesting to wonder if that is because organizations like the NCAA and the NBA are worried about what he might represent. A talented player like Lonzo Ball just created his own brand, instead of signing with Nike or Adidas. LaVar has also initiated talk about creating another pre-NBA league, as an alternative option to college basketball for high school prospects. His other two sons have already pushed aside the NCAA to play for professional teams in Lithuania. Despite wide criticism of many of these moves, it shows a player and his family taking power away from the big corporations and leagues that usually control sports, and putting it in their own hands.

For most of the NFL draft prospects this year, their careers will unfold in a pattern similar to those of most players who have come before. However, players like Jackson, Brown and Ball are forging a path that has the potential to fundamentally change how college and professional sports operate.

Sam Weidner is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at samuel.weidner@tufts.edu.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

WOMEN'S LACROSSE

Jumbos begin season with commanding win over NESCAC rival

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Junior defender Hedy Veith misses the ball during Tufts’ 16–8 win against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on March 15, 2017.

by Ryan Albanesi Staff Writer

The Tufts women’s lacrosse team (1–0) opened its 2018 season with a bang on Saturday, dominating then-13th-ranked Hamilton (0–1) with a score of 17–4. Tufts junior attacker Dakota Adamec led the way, scoring eight goals, tied for a program record.

Though Hamilton grabbed the first score of the game on a shot by firstyear attacker Julia Rowland only 2:26 into the first half, Tufts commanded the rest of the half, including a commanding 8–0 run over the final 17:11. Part of the Jumbos’ domination stemmed from their ability to keep the pace of play extremely fast, as their transitions from defense to offense often caught the Continentals’ defense completely off guard.

“Something that looked really good, and that the team feels really good about, was the pace that we played at,” senior attacker Taylor Meek said.

“We’ve been putting a huge emphasis on moving the ball quickly and playing at a fast pace … since captains’ practices.”

Their fast pace allowed the Jumbos to command the game in other statistical respects, as well. At the half, the squad held a large advantage, 10–2, but also led in shots (27–8), converted free-position shots (4-of-7 compared to Hamilton’s 0-for-3) and draw con-

trols (8–5). With Adamec taking most draws, supported by junior midfielder Annie Sullivan and sophomore midfielder Maddie Norman on the outside, the Jumbos were able to control possession on a majority of the restarts.

“For us on both the defensive [end] and on the attack, there were a lot of great moments, but also through the midfield with really good draw control,” Tufts coach Courtney Shute said.

Meek agreed, explaining the importance of winning draws for the squad to set up its offense perfectly.

“We practiced it so much, [and] we really dominated in the circle,” she said. “That meant some really strong players were finding the ball on their sticks because once we have possession, we can start to work the offense.”

Again coming out of the gates strong, Hamilton struck first to begin the second half and followed that goal with another after a Tufts foul. The visitors’ two quick goals generated momentum, shifting the dynamic of the game.

“Going into the half, we had huge control over the game, so I think in general the team that is down in halftime is going to come out super strong,” Meek said. “But we knew we had the leg up, and … I think we just started taking control in the middle of the field again and started getting the draws.”

As such, it was once again the Jumbos’ talented play in the circle for

the draws that allowed them to halt any hopes of a Continentals comeback. In addition, Tufts’ defense stepped up and took care of business for the entirety of the season opener, Shute noted.

“Our defensive unit played a lot of minutes, and that core group is really strong and knows each other really well,” Shute said. “I thought there was great defensive play across the board, and we had eight to 10 people in there, rooting on those spots.”

Though Hamilton mounted only 13 total shots on net throughout the game (compared to the host’s 33), Tufts junior goalie Audrey Evers performed well, stopped nine of them for a 69.2 save percentage.

“Our defense was so strong. They were all playing together and communicating well, and Audrey made some great saves,” Meek said. “We all love having her in net.”

Just like in the first half, the Jumbos swung the momentum with an unstoppable barrage of goals. After Tufts junior midfielder Maddy Schwartz caused a Hamilton turnover and sophomore midfielder Margaret Chase scooped up the ground ball, Sullivan started the scoring streak at the 25:13 mark, assisted by Adamec. The Jumbos scored six more unanswered goals before the final whistle, half of them from Adamec, who was named NESCAC Co-Player of the Week for her efforts.

“Dakota had some crazy goals, and we could tell she was just having so

much fun on the field, which is just who she is,” Meek said. “She picked up a ball that could’ve been a turnover, and she literally had almost a ‘twizzler’ shot where she just chucked it behind her.”

The Katonah, N.Y. native’s goal, on a nearly blind behind-the-back shot, made both the sideline and the stands go wild.

“You couldn’t do that if you planned it,” Meek said. “She was just so in the moment, she picked it up and launched it backwards. Stuff like that, our team thrives [on]. We were jumping up and down and sticks were flying.”

Though Adamec certainly showed incredible talent, her goals would have been impossible without the efforts of her teammates. Sophomore attacker Emily Games often cut through the defense, opening up space for Adamec to drive.

“We are not going to win with just one person dominating,” Meek said.

“The reason we played well, especially in the second half, is because we were looking out for each other and looking to set each other up.”

Even after their masterful performance against the Continentals, the No. 12 Jumbos — who advanced nine spots in the national rankings — are looking to improve their shot selection, according to Shute. The squad will continue its quest to go “1–0, 15 times” on Wednesday, when it faces off against Endicott (2–0).