The Tufts Daily - Friday, October 4, 2019

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Public Safety releases annual Clery report see NEWS / PAGE 2

An exploration of footwear in ‘Between Two Ferns’

Football prepares for NESCAC rival Bates see SPORTS / BACK PAGE

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TUPIT hosts 2nd annual symposium

by Elli Sol Strich

Contributing Writer

The Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College (TUPIT) held its second symposium on Oct. 3 and 4, titled “Engaging Justice: Inside/Outside Prison.” Hosted in the Aidekman Arts Center on Thursday and in the Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room on Friday, the symposium presented panels, workshops and a film screening.

Tufts students, faculty, local organizers, professionals and formerly incarcerated individuals spoke on their experiences. The event aimed to engage the Tufts community with the impacts of education in prison and the issues surrounding mass incarceration, according to the TUPIT webpage.

Throughout the year, the TUPIT program, directed by Hilary Binda, a senior lecturer in Visual and Critical Studies, focuses on connecting Tufts students and faculty with incarcerated individuals to provide equitable access to higher education.

The symposium was organized by undergraduate students Claudia Guetta and Nora Maetzener. Both credit the TUPIT programs for their initial involvement with incarceration issues.

TUPIT initiatives include a national chapter of the Petey Greene tutoring program, and an “Inside-Out” course with Tufts students and Tufts incarcerated students in the same class, according to Maetzener, a senior.

Since the last symposium in February 2018, TUPIT has expanded its initiatives to include a Bunker Hill Community College three-year associate degree program with

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Stanley Andrisse, the founder and director of From Prison Cells to Ph.D., talks about the importance of hope in the Alumnae Lounge on Oct. 3.

Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Concord (MCI-Concord) and the Pathways to Tufts program, which facilitates the hiring of formerly incarcerated people, Binda said in an email to the Daily.

The symposium began with a panel of Tufts students and faculty sharing their experiences with the Inside/Outside Program and the Tufts program at MCIConcord.

Guetta, a sophmore, spoke of taking the “Inside/Out” course titled Mass Incarceration and the Literature of Confinement. She was one of 10 students that traveled to Concord to take a course with a Tufts professor and 10 incarcerated peers, an experience she found impactful.

“I was going to this prison and I was learning with them, rather than learning

about the criminal justice system in a sociology class,” she said.

Kim Ruane, a math professor, believed that teaching in the MCI-Concord program affected her both personally and professionally.

“Seeing people that didn’t come from the background you came from — how

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Annual security report shows general decline in crime on primary campuses

by Matthew McGovern Assistant News Editor

Content warning: This article discusses violent crime and sexual assault.

Tufts published its annual Security and Fire Safety Report on Monday, which gives statistics of reported criminal offenses on each of the Tufts campuses: Medford/ Somerville, Boston Health Sciences, Grafton, Talloires and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). The university creates and distributes this report

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annually in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, which requires universities participating in federal financial aid programs to publish their health and safety statistics, as well as the Drug-Free School and Communities Act and the Drug-Free Workplace Act. Overall, there were 86 reported offenses in 2018 on the Medford/Somerville campus, a major decrease from 2017, which saw 187. The wide discrepancy between these numbers is due primarily to “Violations

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and Disciplinary Referrals,” which accounted for 68 of 86 offenses in 2018, and 164 of 187 offenses in 2018.

On the Health Sciences campus, there were 18 total offenses in 2018, less than half of the 44 offenses reported in 2017. Unlike the Medford/Somerville campus, there has not been a “Violations and Disciplinary Referrals” offense in the last 10 years.

Between these two campuses, there are marked differences in the rates of violent crime, a trend that consistently shows up in the annual Clery reports. In the last

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three years, the Boston campus has seen 18 robberies to Medford/Somerville’s two, and 25 aggravated assaults to Medford/ Somerville’s six.

Clery reports from the last decade show that there have been an average of eight reported cases of rape per year on the Medford/Somerville campus. The past three years have been below average in this statistic, with the three reported rapes in 2017 being the lowest year out of the last 10.

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continued from page 1 they experience education — you can really learn from that,” she said.

According to Guetta and Maetzener, planning for the symposium started at the beginning of the 2018 spring semester. The student co-organizers fundraised, sought out co-sponsors for the event and contacted the keynote speaker Stanley Andrisse, the founder and director of From Prison Cells to Ph.D. Tisch College, Concord Prison Outreach, Partakers Program and Petey Greene Program sponsored the symposium.

The event was held on Thursday from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m., and will be held on Friday from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Friday’s symposium will feature letters read from the Tufts Concord students and perspectives from formerly incarcerated individuals who did college while in prison, according to Binda.

Andrisse spoke yesterday in a talk titled “Education Over Incarceration,” emphasizing the effect of education on recidivism rates and speaking of his own experience in the criminal justice system.

Andrisse opened the talk with statistics on the state of mass incarceration in the U.S., stating that 700 per 100,000 people

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in the United States are incarcerated, the highest rate in the world. He said the United States’ prison population makes up 25% of the world’s prison population, despite the fact that the U.S. population makes up only 5% of the world population.

Around a third of formerly incarcerated people hold a GED, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Andrisse said around 75% of these individuals received their GEDs while incarcerated. However, he stressed that only 4% of formerly incarcerated individuals hold a college degree, compared to a third of the American population.

Andrisse then described his experience in the criminal justice system, saying that, as a child growing up in Ferguson, Mo., he began dealing drugs and had encounters with the police from a young age. In his 20s, Andrisse said he faced 20 years to life in prison for drug distribution. Andrisse described his experience in court with a prosecutor who painted him as a “career criminal.”

Andrisse said that he was arrested with two other black people and two white people. According to Andrisse, the white individuals did not get prison sentences.

“I can only imagine that, I guess the prosecutor saw hope in their whiteness, and hopelessness in my blackness,” he said.

Throughout the talk, Andrisse similarly emphasized the difference in treatment between people of color and white people in the criminal justice system. While one in 17 white men will experience prison time in their lifetimes, one in three black men will go through prison, Andrisse said.

After leaving prison, Andrisse was eventually able to go back to college at Saint Louis University, eventually earning his Ph.D. in endocrinology. He teaches at both Howard University and Johns Hopkins University.

Andrisse closed his talk by emphasizing the importance of increasing access to education for incarcerated individuals, citing U.S. Justice Department statistics that education reduces recidivism rates by 43%.

In addition to the part of the symposium that occurred on the Tufts campus, Andrisse also spoke to incarcerated individuals at MCIConcord on Thursday, according to Guetta.

Regarding the impact of the event, Binda said, “Getting involved in at least thinking about the issues raised by this work and these people is critical and should be a central part of your college education. Getting involved in doing more than thinking about justice is equally critical.”

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continued from page 1 There was a spike in the reported incidents of fondling on the Medford/ Somerville campus in 2016, which saw 16 cases, while 2018 saw a relative low of four such cases. The report also indicates that there were the same number of fondling offenses on the Boston campus in 2018, as well as one reported rape in the past three years, which occured in 2016.

There have been no reported cases of rape or fondling neither on the Grafton and Talloires campuses.

There is a large discrepancy between the number of offenses reported in the Clery report and the number which the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) provides on its website. There are a few reasons for this, including the geographical limitations of the Clery report and the rules that OEO adheres to in processing their sexual misconduct cases. Essentially, figures from these two sources will not ever align, according to Jill Zellmer, executive director of the OEO and the Title IX coordinator and 504 officer for the university.

While the Clery report statistics indicate that the past three years are the lowest of the decade in terms of number of rape and fondling offenses, OEO statistics found on its website show a high rate of sexual misconduct cases in the past three years.

The number of sexual misconduct cases that OEO reports was almost twice as high

in 2018, at 208 cases, than it was in 2015, which saw 109 cases, a trend that Zellmer attributed to the #MeToo movement.

Marley Hillman, a Green Dot ambassador and End Rape on Campus regional rapid response team member, was skeptical of Zellmer’s analysis. They said that, while the #MeToo movement could have led to more widespread reporting of sexual misconduct, the increase could also reflect an increase in incidents of sexual violence.

Hillman noted that the discrepancy could result from people, in particular people of color, being uncomfortable approaching the police.

Zellmer also shed light on some of the key differences between OEO’s statistics and those presented in the Clery report.

“TUPD [Tufts University Police Department] standards of law are a higher standard than the Tufts OEO policies,” Zellmer said in an email. “If a community member makes derogatory comments or slurs based on a protected category to another community member, these words are not enough to meet the threshold of a hate crime based on race, national origin or other protected category.”

The Clery report indicates that there have been no hate crimes on the Medford/ Somerville, Grafton and Talloires campuses in the past three years. On the Boston campus, there was an instance of intimidation based on ethnicity in 2018,

in addition to a case of simple assault with a racial bias in 2016.

The data presented in the annual report is published by the Tufts Department of Public Safety, but it collaborates with numerous departments and host city law enforcement agencies to create the report, TUPD Deputy Chief Linda O’Brien said in an email.

O’Brien also detailed how the university assessed the data in order to address the threat of crime and inform policy decisions related to campus safety.

“The University routinely reviews crime data, safety concerns, physical security and community concerns to enhance the safety and security of our community,” O’Brien said. “For example, the data might suggest where to deploy prevention programming and outreach and education efforts.”

Providing knowledge of how to report incidents and information about access to resources for survivors was another important aspect of the report that O’Brien emphasized over email.

Besides two burglaries on the Grafton campus, there have been no reported crimes on the Grafton, SMFA or Talloires campuses for the past three years. Furthermore, there have been no incidents of murder or manslaughter in the last 10 years on any of Tufts’ campuses, except for a 2017 murder on the Tufts Health Sciences campus.

Austin Clementi contributed reporting to this article.

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Between 2 pairs of shoes

by Daniel Klain

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There are many things of note in the new Netflix film “Between Two Ferns: The Movie” (2019). Mainly, ferns and comedians. It doesn’t veer away from its structure that made it a hit web series: Zach Galifianakis awkwardly interviews celebrities, the interviews sometimes descending into hostility.

The premise is technically a thing that exists in this movie too. Galifianakis is a loser working on public access television in North Carolina when he almost drowns and kills Matthew McConaughey. His punishment from bolo-tie wielding Will Ferrell is to make more episodes of “Between Two Ferns.” It’s a pretty dumb setup to allow the interview bit to repeat and for the comedy to ensue, à la SNL films from the past like “Night at the Roxbury” (1998) or “Tommy Boy” (1995).

The funniest part of “Between Two Ferns: The Movie” is what is between the two ferns.

Watching Galifianakis push the boundaries of social norms and conventional interviews is still funny. There are some humorous moments with Paul Rudd, Keanu Reeves and the wife-lover himself Chance the Rapper, but after about half an hour of Galifianakis misreading names or asking incredibly rude and direct questions, the most interesting part of the film becomes apparent.

The best part of “Between Two Ferns: The Movie” is still between the two ferns, it’s just below them as well: the shoes.

As you start to see interview after interview, interspersed with narrative scenes, the “Between Two Ferns” sets start to blend together, so you notice what stands out or the few things that separate each interview from the next.

For someone it could be the jackets, of which there are a myriad of in this film.

Awkwafina sports a pretty cool black overcoat, and John Legend wears a maroon suit that is smooth and something only John Legend could pull off.

But for some reason, maybe due to footwear’s cultural supremacy right now, the most interesting thing to see is what each celebrity is wearing on their feet.

Let’s look at a few examples to highlight the quality of the footwear. First off, David Letterman wears brown leather cowboy boots. It’s still slightly weird to see Letterman have this totally different postlate night persona, but you have to respect someone at 72 years old casually wearing cowboy boots as their choice of shoes.

The ageless Paul Rudd, in what is definitely one of the funnier interviews in the film, shows off black and red Chelsea boots, which to the best estimate appear to be Blundstones. With his legs crossed for the entire interview, the boots aren’t cut off by the frame or pant leg, but are the cen-

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Zack Galifianakis interestingly starts with a pair of worn red Asics, but after they get soaked he seems to stick with what appears to be a pair of brown moccasins for the rest of the film. It makes sense; if you’re going to do interview after interview you might as well be comfortable.

The list goes on and on, though: Benedict Cumberbatch wears a high fashion pair of white sneakers, which honestly feels very fitting for Benedict Cumberbatch. Jon Hamm laces up in what looks between a cross between high top Converse and Reebok ZigTech (RIP).

After so many interviews, the focus of the film switches from “what are the jokes going to be?” to “what shoes are they wearing?” All in all, you can’t help but marvel at some of the choices, in good ways and bad.

It becomes a way to judge the celebrities we see in the short amount of time they’re on screen. You can’t help but examine their choices and infer some traits about their personalities.

Most of the time in film, when celebrities are on camera they’re in costume as their character. However, since each celebrity in this film is playing themselves, this is one of the few times in films or television where we get to see celebrities dressed how they would normally dress.

Not to extrapolate, but since this film uses the awareness of celebrity as a tool for humor, it would only be fair to use their celebrity style either for or against them as well. Who knows how much say these people really have in their wardrobe? It’s still amazing to see all the different choices across a sample size of our favorite actors and actresses and see how they differ, and in turn what it makes us think about them.

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TV deals and the 2-horse race phenomenon

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n late August every year, 20 Spanish horses jump out of the gate, their powerful thighs churning into the Iberian mud. Within seconds, two horses — one draped in Catalonian blue and red, the other in Castilian white — spring out of the pack. It is clear even before the first turn that one of the two will win the race. The rest are left behind.

Such is the state of La Liga, Spain’s top soccer league. With their rosters loaded with more treasures than a pharaoh’s crypt, Barcelona and Real Madrid dominate headlines, championships and domestic TV deals.

The two are sharks amongst minnows.

Just as they leverage their global fandom for lucrative TV deals for the entire league, they also take the lion’s share.

To illustrate: in the 2010–11 season, Real Madrid and Barcelona received about half of the $799 million Spanish clubs earned from TV rights, according to a study published in April of 2012 by University of Barcelona accounting professor Jose Maria Gay. What this means is that other La Liga teams cannot compete with the wages or transfer fees that Real Madrid and Barcelona pay for players, leading to the aforementioned two-horse race.

It has improved — slightly. After government intervention in 2014, La Liga was forced to adopt a more equitable rights distribution arrangement. Implemented in the ’16/’17 season, the new system led to 18 teams receiving record payouts in the ’17/’18 season. More importantly, the ratio between the highest-earning team and the lowest-earning team moved from 8:1 in 2014 to 3.6:1 in 2018.

The gap is shrinking.

One caveat, though: Madrid and Barcelona were guaranteed they would receive no less than they did in the old arrangement, so they won’t fall off anytime soon. A bigger pie overall — a $1.5 billion TV pool in 2018 compared to a $799 million pool in 2011 — means they’re making more than ever.

How does Spain compare to other leagues?

The English Premier League is by far the most equitable league, helped in part by the mammoth TV deals it garners as the world’s most valuable sports league. The ratio between the highest and lowest earning team is a solid 1.6:1, with aggregate TV revenue of around $8.14 billion from 2013–2019. The more equitable system ensures that Everton can afford players like Moise Kean, Andres Gomes and Theo Walcott.

But the times are changing. With the rising value of foreign TV rights in mind, the Premier League imposed a merit-based system for foreign TV money. The traditional “top six” argued that they are the reason the Premier League product is more valuable, and should thus be compensated equitably. Other executives argued the new system unbalances the historically competitive Premier League.

One step forward, two steps back. Either way, the horse that fights its way out of the pack and wins the race on the last straightaway is increasingly an exception that only proves the rule.

Arlo Moore-Bloom is a junior studying international relations and history. Arlo can be reached at arlo.moore_bloom@tufts.edu.

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Junior running back Mike Pedrini fights for extra yards during Tufts’ 28–21 win over Williams on Oct. 20, 2018.

by Henry Molot

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In what has been a wild season for NESCAC football thus far, no team has established itself as a clear favorite.

Similarly, not a single school appears out of the running for the division crown, as even the winless teams still pose a threat to conference powerhouses.

The Tufts Jumbos (1–2) will look to get back in the win column as they travel up to hostile Lewiston, Maine, on Saturday for a date with the gritty Bates Bobcats. The Bobcats (0–3) are one of those sleeper teams without a win who are still very capable of giving their opponents fits.

Despite falling 28–0 in week two against division-leading Middlebury, the Bobcat’s defense and special teams units were able to force four turnovers.

Against a Jumbo team that has given up eight forced turnovers in their last two games, fumbles and interceptions will once again largely dictate the outcome of the game.

While this turnover issue has created a lot of extra possessions for the Jumbo defense, senior defensive back Miles Shipp does not appear fazed by the Jumbos turnover line.

“Turnovers are part of the game,” Shipp said. “We just try to go out and do our job no matter the circumstances.”

Despite the second-worst offensive point total through three weeks — in front of only Bates — Shipp and the Jumbo coaching staff still have confidence in the ability of their offense.

“We have a lot of trust in what our offense can do,” Shipp said. “We’d like to force some turnovers of our own to give them some extra possessions.”

Even though the Jumbos lost in back to back weeks, falling 26–16 at home to a talented Amherst team, there were certainly signs of improvement from the Williams thrashing just a week prior. Senior quarterback Jacob Carroll started to come alive, especially in the second half, combining with graduate student wide receiver Frank Roche and

junior wide receiver Brendan Dolan on huge TD stikes to keep the Jumbos in the game. Tufts coach Jay Civetti, who noted that this was only Carroll’s second game playing in the past five years, lauded his quarterback’s 300-plus-yard performance.

“He did a great job on those plays, and the offensive line did a great job protecting him,” Civetti said. “He’s a very talented thrower who’s coming into his own.”

Carroll will once again have his hands full against a fast Bates defense.

“They’re an aggressively coached team,” Civetti said. “So taking the ball away and creating more possessions for their offense will be a point of emphasis for sure.”

Offensively, Bates features yet another running QB in junior Brendan Costa. The Westport, Mass. native has lots of experience against the Jumbos, having started for three straight years for the Bobcats.

“Costa is a really good player,” Civetti said. “His first college play was against us up there, and he took it 70 yards to the house.”

So while Bates may lack the supreme wide receiver talent of Trinity, Williams and Amherst, its run game will be an important part of getting the offense going.

“They are a little more spread-based than Williams and Amherst, and they do some different things to utilize the skill set of Costa,” Civetti said.

The Jumbos defense will have to be efficient in plugging the gaps and containing Costa. Shipp lauded praise on Costa and the Bates run game.

“They have really physical backs, and obviously Costa provides a lot of similar threats to the running quarterbacks of Williams and Trinity,” Shipp, a native of Monroe, N.J. said. “We have to be really disciplined in our assignments once again.”

The Bates run game has been quite evenly split among four members of the backfield, not including the mobile Costa. Running backs junior Liam Spillane, first-year Tyler Bridge and senior Matt Golden have all carried the ball 15-plus times this season. Against the Jumbos, however, one might expect

to see junior running back Jaason Lopez taking a large chunk of the Bobcat carries. At five foot seven inches and 175 pounds, Lopez runs downhill with a lot of physicality and will be a difficult player to contain for Jumbos senior defensive leaders defensive lineman Kevin Quisumbing and linebacker and co-captain Greg Holt, along with the rest of the Tufts secondary. The Jumbo defense looked strong against Amherst, especially in the first quarter, only allowing 11 rushing yards. They will need to produce a similar performance all game if they want to contain this run-heavy Bates offense.

The run game will be a point of emphasis, not only for the Jumbos defense but for the offense as well. The Jumbos were only able to produce 56 net yards of rushing against Amherst, yet their most effective drives came when they got the run game going on first down. It should help Carroll greatly if the run game can put the jumpy Bates defense on their heels from the start.

Civetti said he expected Bates to crowd the box similarly to Amherst and Williams, in hopes of forcing the Jumbos out of their comfort zone by providing a lot of different looks up front.

“They have a ton of hard-working kids on defense,” Civetti said.

So, despite gearing up for what may be on paper one of the most favorable matchups for the Jumbos this season, Civetti does not see their path to the NESCAC title getting any easier.

“Never in my life would I say we have easier games ahead of us,” he said. “You know, Bates has led against us at halftime [last year].”

The Jumbos have had a mentality of keeping their heads down and focusing on their own job this whole season, and that does not seem set to change versus Bates.

“We’re gonna focus on ourselves, travel up to Bates and play in a tough place on the road,” Civetti said. “Hopefully we get the job done and get back in the win column.”

Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. Saturday in Lewiston.