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TCU Senate elects new trustee representatives

by Noah Richter

Assistant News Editor

Editor’s note: The Daily has not been permitted to cover TCU Senate debates on internal appointments including trustee representatives in the past.

However, the Daily was initially told

by Senate that access will not be given for the entire meeting discussed in this article, including parts that did not concern trustee representative appointments. Senate later clarified a day after the meeting that this was incorrect.

The Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate met Sunday evening in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to elect trustee representatives, assign committee placements and review proposed changes on the Treasury Procedures Manual ( TPM) that had been shelved in the previous meeting.

According to Senate’s meeting minutes, the body read through applications, interviewed candidates and debated before electing sophomores Connor Goggins and Insiya Naim, and senior Noah Weinflash as the three new Senate trustee representatives.

The Senate-elected position speaks on behalf of TCU at meetings of the university’s Board of Trustees, according to the TCU website.

Class of 2020 Senator Pedro LazoRivera discussed the election process as well as the decision to close the meeting.

“Each candidate was given the opportunity to introduce themselves and speak on their interests in the position and underwent a Q&A,” LazoRivera told the Daily in an electronic message. “The Senate also discussed its thoughts on each candidate after each of their individual interviews and compared their performance to one another once they had left the room.”

Closed-session format allowed the senators to speak to and review candidates’ applications candidly, LazoRivera said, stating that such privacy is “crucial to making an effective appointment.”

Lazo-Rivera also said that a closed session ensured that the candidates would not be influenced by each other.

“A closed session avoided one candidate’s interview impacting another candidate’s participation, especially considering that a generally consis-

tent set of criteria were discussed,” Lazo-Rivera said.

Weinflash explained the importance of the role he will be assuming.

“I’m excited to start working with the Tufts community to figure out ways we can work with the Board of Trustees to help our students and members of the broader Somerville and Medford communities,” Weinflash told the Daily in an electronic message. “I hope that this can make students feel less disaffected on our campus, and also get the word out to Tufts students that this position exists, and can help change our policies.”

Goggins emphasized the connection he hopes to build between the Tufts community and the Board of Trustees.

“The position is a crucial link in ensuring communication between the Board and Senate, making sure each body can make well-informed decisions,” Goggins told the Daily in an electronic message.

After the elections, members of the Senate were allocated to committees for the coming semester. Newly elected first-year members will be able to

join the committees once they join the body, the minutes indicate.

The minutes indicate that the body then passed an additional amendment to the TPM, which had been passed last week regarding personal contributions. The amendment, which was tabled from last week’s meeting, sets the rate of personal contributions for Senate-subsidized travel costs as 12 percent of the total spending. The spending increase will total “to around [$]126,500 in supplementary funding with [$57,000] left assuming groups spend all of their budget,” according to the minutes.

Diversity and Community Affairs Officer Grant Gebetsberger welcomed the changes.

“I’m optimistic that the new personal contribution system will reduce the burden on students to supplement funding for group trips,” Gebetsberger, a sophomore, told the Daily in an electronic message. “I see groups being more fully funded for their off-campus competitions and conferences which will increase accessibility for all Tufts students to participate as fully as possible in campus organizations.”

to vote for candidates running for these positions, according to the TCU Senate website.

Sophomore Insiya Naim was elected to fill the vacant position of student representative on the Committee on Student Life (CSL), while first-years Jonah Zwillinger, Camille Calabrese and Max Goldfarb will fill the three vacancies on the TCU Judiciary, according to Mandelbaum. The elec-

tion of CSL and Judiciary members was also open to all undergraduate students.

Students voted via Voatz, the voting platform first introduced to the Tufts community last year. They were able to vote via mobile app, website or in person, according to ECOM. ECOM did not release the total turnout of the elections by press time.

TCU election results

by Noah Richter

Assistant News Editor

Carolina Olea Lezama, Andrew Kofsky, Rabiya Ismail, Deepen Goradia, Timothy Leong, Iyra Chandra and Melia Harlan were elected to fill the seven Class of 2022 Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate openings, according to Elections Commission (ECOM) Chair Ethan Mandelbaum. Griffen Saul

was elected to fill the vacant Class of 2021 seat, and Amrutha Chintalapudi was elected to fill the Class of 2019’s available seat.

First-year Katherine Wang will be the new Women’s Community Representative, and junior Sylvester Bracey will be the new Africana Community Representative, according to Mandelbaum, a junior. All undergraduate students were able

New center at Fletcher hosts conference on cybersecurity

by Natasha Mayor News Editor

The Center for International Law and Governance (CILG) at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy hosted its inaugural event — a two-day conference on the world of cybersecurity — in Breed Memorial Hall over the weekend.

Titled “Protecting Civilian Institutions and Infrastructure from Cyber Operations: Designing International Law and Organizations,” the conference featured presentations from cybersecurity experts in government, business and academia.

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Former Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Marina Kaljurand (F ’95), Senior Director of Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy at Microsoft Angela McKay and United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination Fabrizio Hochschild were among the speakers in attendance.

In an interview with the Daily, Joel Trachtman, professor of international law at the Fletcher School and faculty director of CILG, said the concept for the new center was developed last summer in conjunction with fellow CILG faculty director Ian Johnstone, who is also professor of

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international law and dean ad interim of the Fletcher School. It stemmed from an idea that had been floating around with the support of former Fletcher Dean James Stavridis, according to Trachtman.

Diplomacy has come a long way since the Fletcher School’s founding, as Trachtman noted.

“Today, diplomacy is health and cybersecurity and financial regulation and trade and all sorts of things,” Trachtman said.

“What Professor Johnstone and I realized is that we needed to readdress that link between law and diplomacy to broaden it and to deepen it.”

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CILG’s interdisciplinary mission is in line with Fletcher’s: to combine law and diplomacy with the ultimate goal of creating world peace, Trachtman said.

Trachtman shared that the CILG chose cybersecurity as its first area of focus. For this conference, five teams of researchers were tasked with writing papers on one of five subtopics: standards, export controls, vulnerability disclosure, attribution and compliance.

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continued from page 1 tively to produce a paper.

“Real interdisciplinary work very often has to be done by combining people with different disciplinary expertise,” Trachtman said. He added that while an individual with familiarity in two separate disciplines might find success in interdisciplinary work, it often takes a subject expert to do the job well.

Both Johnstone and Trachtman opened the conference on Friday afternoon.

Johnstone began by providing attendees with an overview of the conference’s topic: the pertinent cybersecurity issues faced by governments and citizens alike.

In his opening remarks, Trachtman also noted that the future of international cybersecurity norms remain unclear. He questioned how an area devoid of any “specific rules,” as the cyber realm largely is, might develop.

“Even if you accept the idea that sovereignty is a rule of international law as opposed to simply a principal from which actual rules are developed, the scope of those actual rules […] are completely uncertain,” Trachtman said.

The writers of each paper then presented an overview of their findings in five panels, before an expert commentator who had reviewed the paper provided additional remarks.

The first panel was about cybersecurity standards, specifically dealing with the Internet-of-Things (IoT). It included a presentation entitled “Have you updated your toaster?”

Scott Shackelford, an assistant professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University, and retired senior technology consultant at Harvard University Scott Bradner discussed topics such as the invisibility of the internet, imposing liability on manufacturers and the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017.

In their paper, Shackelford and Bradner discuss an alternate approach to cybersecurity that some companies are adopting.

“Instead of thinking about cybersecurity as an exercise of cost-benefit analysis, some are trying to think of it more in terms of corporate social responsibility,” Shackelford said.

“That flips the paradigm a little bit.”

Alison Russell, an assistant professor of political science and international studies at Merrimack College, added that the Federal Trade Commission needs to be clearer with its standards and that the government needs to be more involved. She said that IoT and big data were certainly benefiting companies but questioned if IoT was helping or hurting consumers.

“How do you know if your refrigerator is engaged in cyber war?” Russell joked.

The second panel dealt with export controls. The corresponding paper was written by Trachtman and Herb Lin, a scholar of cyber policy and security based at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Hoover Institution, both affiliated with Stanford University.

In his presentation, Lin talked about using export controls to protect civilians from attacks by foreign governments, specifically focusing on “intrusion software.”

He also discussed methods to determine the origin of software in relation to monitoring software that has been leaked to unauthorized parties.

Trachtman proposed the idea of focusing on identity rather than territoriality when distributing software to users. He said that the concept of having verified end-users is much more feasible in the world of software, where territorial borders are invisible.

George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School Jonathan Zittrain responded by considering both the pros and cons of such an end user-oriented system.

The first day of the conference ended with a keynote address by Kaljurand, who talked about the prevalence of electronics in Estonia and explained how Estonia was the one of the first countries to suffer a politically-motivated cyberattack from a foreign government. In 2007, many of Estonia’s banks and digital media outlets were taken offline — in some cases for weeks — by a sweeping cyberattack linked back to Russian IP addresses, according to the BBC. “We learned that our e-lifestyle also entails e-challenges and e-responsibilities,” Kaljurand said.

Kaljurand said the lack of definite borders in the online world necessitates inter-

national cooperation.

She reflected on the 2016/2017 Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Information Security, in which experts from 25 countries were tasked with studying existing cyber threats and creating measures to address them.

The GGE was unable to come to a consensus, a fact which many viewed as a failure, Kaljurand said. But she asserted that the GGE did not completely fail; it simply needed to be altered.

Kaljurand said the GGE can no longer be an exclusive club. Since governments alone have not been able to do this work, Kaljurand suggested that non-state actors should also submit proposals. She added that the GGE’s reports need to be discussed and distributed more widely as well.

Kaljurand also spoke about the work she is doing with the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, which she now chairs.

“The first task of the commission was to examine how existing norms can be applied to cyberspace, where new norms are needed and how to put the norms in use,” Kaljurand said.

Once the commission has worked its way through existing norms, it will then begin considering more philosophical questions that are harder to answer.

The second day of the conference included panels on vulnerability disclosure, attribution, and compliance, and featured a keynote address by McKay. The sixth and final panel featured Hochschild, Kaljurand and Rasa Ostrauskaite, coordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, speaking on multilateral initiatives in cybersecurity. They were all present for the entire conference and thus also able to provide their own insights on the matters discussed in previous speeches and panels.

Bridge Professor in Cyber Security and Policy at the Fletcher School and the Tufts School of Engineering Susan Landau closed the conference.

Trachtman said that once the papers are edited by their respective authors, they will be submitted to the European Journal of International Law for publication.

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Car Seat Headrest blends old and new at the Royale

by Ryan Eggers

Assistant Arts Editor

Commercial success seems to be the ultimate fork in the road for any artist or band that has amassed a sizable cult following. After years of self-releasing projects on streaming site Bandcamp, lead singer of Car Seat Headrest Will Toledo got his big break, signing to Matador Records in 2015.

His next big break came only a year later, when the acclaim for his band’s album “Teens of Denial” (2016) put Car Seat Headrest, and its newly recruited band members, on the national radar as one of the most compelling indie lo-fi outfits in recent memory.

It was at this point that Car Seat Headrest officially reached that fork.

With a small taste of commercial success, would Toledo continue to evolve to fit the current trends of music in an effort to appeal to a broader audience, or would he stay true to the guy who crafted beautiful lo-fi tunes as an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary?

With the release of “Twin Fantasy (Face to Face),” a re-recording of the original “Twin Fantasy” (2011), Toledo and company manage to do both. The album, a complete reworking of the earlier internet cult classic, beautifully fleshes out arguably the most important record of Toledo’s early career.

It reached No. 92 on the Billboard 200, the band’s highest peak on the chart to date.

The band has taken this success on a world tour. And last Thursday night, the band, opened by a fun new rock outfit by the name of Naked Giants, took the tour to Boston, performing at the Royale.

The band didn’t open their show with a track from one of their two recent albums, though. It wasn’t an older cut either. After a brief introduction featuring a snippet from the beginning of “The Ending of Dramamine” (2014), a song from the unreleased “How to Leave Town,” Car Seat Headrest began its night by covering the late Lou Reed’s “Waves of Fear” (1982).

It wouldn’t be the only time the band brought in outside material. They experimented with blending their own songs with covers with very positive

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Will Toledo performing with Car Seat Headrest at 100 Club in London, England in June 2016. results — “Sober to Death,” one of the favorites of “Twin Fantasy,” meshed seamlessly with the classic Neil Young track “Powderfinger” (1979). Their final jam of the night (before the encore, of course) was a pairing of their own “Something Soon” (2015) and Dexys Midnight Runners’ “Tell Me When My Light Turns Green” (1980).

Kicking back to the beginning, Car Seat Headrest started off strong after the opening cover, playing another beloved “Twin Fantasy” track, “Bodys.”

With the crowd already pleased, Toledo indulged them more with the catchy “Teens of Denial” single “Fill in the Blank” (2016).

While the evening’s setlist was rather short — 11 songs in total, not accounting for some songs and covers meshing into one — it was the breadth of these performances that truly made the night for Car Seat Headrest.

Toledo’s lovely vocals were in true form throughout the show, and his dry yet witty banter could be expected after nearly every song. The instrumental

offerings during the set were both passionate and technically skilled.

The song selection was masterfully crafted as well. Car Seat Headrest seems to have struck a balance between Toledo’s past albums and their current and future work under a label, and the band brought out the best in both of those eras to the show Thursday night.

The stellar “Teens of Denial” track “Drugs with Friends” (2016) coincided perfectly with the earlier yet newly remastered “Cute Thing” on a back-toback run.

The highlight of the evening, though, was the masterpiece from “Teens of Denial”, “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales” (2016). The sold-out Royale crowd echoed every single note, affirming an incredible live performance of the already classic track. By the time the song was replaced with the fellow “Teens of Denial” cut “Destroyed by Hippie Powers” (2016), the crowd was warmed up and ready to mosh. There was even a crowd surfing attempt, much to the dismay of security.

That energy carried through to the aforementioned Dexys Midnight Runners mashup, and didn’t end when the band left the stage. Chants of “one more song” roared throughout the venue, and it didn’t take long for the band to head back out.

The “one more song” wound up being “Beach Life-In-Death,” a 12-minute track from the original “Twin Fantasy” that became a 13-minute track on the reprised version. With a few distinct stylistic changes throughout the massively long cut, it was essentially an encore of three songs in one.

The set was short but sweet, and proved once again that despite Toledo’s recent rise into indie stardom, he welcomes his fans old and new into this next chapter of Car Seat Headrest.

While “Teens of Denial” was a full 70 minutes of new studio material, “Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)” showed that Toledo won’t be quick to forget the days of Bandcamp. The “Twin Fantasy” tour was just a beautiful reiteration.

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ur current music industry congealed in the swamps of 1950s capitalism, where due to the omnipresence of the vinyl record, music production required enterprise. The resources of record production were necessarily industrial, necessarily corporate and necessarily pop-oriented, creating a system of artists: people who own the music they created. The product of their labor solidified into the album. A Beatles album is the Beatles’ album, and to play Beatles songs is to play songs which the Beatles own, legally and metaphysically.

However, this state of affairs is more novel than we acknowledge. Until the advent of vinyl and the induction of music into capitalist modes of production, “ownership” of music was loose and circumstantial. Musical canon consisted of “standard” songs, broadly familiar to most people, the origins of which were irrelevant and inaccessible. Music existed as an esoteric fog, a floating collection of tunes which seemed to come from nowhere and spread. A vapor, if you will.

With the creation of the internet, having crested the wave of capitalism, we came upon vaporwave while tumbling down the other side. Originating in forum posts and spreading through YouTube, vaporwave was not only “not capitalistic,” it was aggressively un-capitalistic.

Vaporwave artists released their albums anonymously, though many of these could hardly be called albums — the most significant characteristic of vaporwave was an oftentimes excessive use of plunderphonics, meaning that vaporwave pieces were not composed from the ground up by artists in studios, but instead cobbled together Franken Berry-style from bits and pieces of “other people’s” music.

The result was songs that mined the depths of our society’s unconscious experience, songs you might have heard rattling through the speakers of abandoned shopping malls. Vaporwave took the detritus of late capitalism and, through surrealism and nostalgia, created an art form which paid reverence to childhood memories and deeply ingrained drives by stripping away all that was debased by industry exploitation. Vaporwave artists outright stole songs, but, like art thieves in the mansions of private collectors, they turned them out for the masses rather than using them for personal gain. Vaporwave could not be exploited for the gain of money or esteem, both because any attempt to do so would quickly bring down the hammer of outraged copyright censors, and because it leaned self-consciously into the contours of nostalgia that no one could make it much better than anyone else. The internet looked at capitalism receding over its shoulder and, shaking its head, rendered what it found into something wholly new.

Of course, vaporwave, or v a p o r w a v e, has been widely proclaimed dead for two years now. The question now stands: was it just a blip in the countercultural radar, a flash of resistance to the all consuming machinery of the capitalism which still so thoroughly suffuses us, doomed from the start — or was it the first fragile sign of a new, cresting wave? I will leave it to my readers. I’ve got Windows 95 commercials to binge.

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‘Atypical’ season debut fails to address past criticism

by John Fedak Arts Editor

Netflix dramedy “Atypical” (2017–) returned for a second season on Sept. 7, with all ten episodes available for streaming. However, while the show did well enough to merit continuation, season one garnered plenty of criticism for its hackneyed portrayal of people on the autism spectrum. The first episode of the show’s second season appears to overcome some of the failings of the original season. But by the end of the first episode, it is clear that many of the problems from the first season remain unaddressed.

Episode one, titled “Juiced!,” immediately recaps the main event from last season’s finale: Sam’s (Keir Gilchrist) father Doug (Michael Rapaport) discovering that his wife Elsa ( Jennifer Jason Leigh) has been having an affair with a bartender. Doug decides that it is best for him to live with his father for a while, and Elsa and Sam’s sister Casey (Bridgette Lundy-Paine) attempt to keep the affair secret, which only leads to further disconnect in the family. As the episode continues, Sam struggles to deal with several sudden changes in his everyday routine as Casey attempts to cope with her imminent departure to private school. Elsa struggles to bring her family together again, while Doug’s departure from home further complicates the Gardners’ upturned life.

“Juiced!” tries its best to toe the line between comedic and serious. It sometimes succeeds, striking an important balance between the drama that the Gardner family must overcome while providing small moments of relief between the more serious subject matter. Casey’s insistence on messing with Sam’s routine is funny at first, but is later revealed as a microcosm of both her self-destructive behavior and Sam’s anxiety over change, and culminates in a fight between the two that demonstrates the turmoil their mother’s infidelity has caused.

In fact, the performances of Gilchrist and Lundy-Paine are the episode’s greatest strengths, as both characters are portrayed as realistic and believable, evoking a sense of empathy and resonance with viewers. Despite the great acting in the show, not all of the episode’s writing is so well-crafted. It oscillates between believable and contrived, ultimately unable to escape cliché. For example, Sam’s narration about the sudden appearance of a hole in the seemingly-impenetrable ice of the Antarctic blends well with the hole that has ruptured his family, but loses impact quickly as the show explicitly repeats it throughout the episode. While the Gardner siblings feel real, their parents decidedly do not. Doug and Elsa’s performances are forced, and while this works in the sense that they’re struggling with Elsa’s infidelity, neither character truly portrays the anger and frustration that no doubt results from unfaithfulness.

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However, the biggest problem with the first episode is that it still does not know how to accurately portray an “atypical” family. This time around, Sam’s place on the autism spectrum is not treated like the source of his family’s problems, but the show cannot manage to bring its main characters together even after shaking off this problematic crutch.

Elsa’s affair is portrayed as complicated in season one, but now it comes across as one-dimensional, and the show’s characters suffer as a result.

Furthermore, not much was done in episode one to address past criticism of the show. After the first season aired, there was a major critique of the lack of representation in both the show’s creative team and on-screen talent. Gilchrist is not on the autism spectrum himself, and neither are any of the show’s creators.

Regardless of whether Gilchrist accurately portrayed a teen living on the spectrum, this stung for many who had hoped to see a step forward as far as representation goes. While “Juiced!” does not introduce any new characters, season two will see the introduction of Sam’s support group,

with all five members played by actors who are on the spectrum off-screen as well as onscreen. Additionally, author David Finch, who has written a bestseller on how Asperger’s has affected his life, was present in the writing room of the show’s second season. Obviously, simply adding more characters and consultants does not always mean a show is saved from criticism, and hopefully the rest of the episodes fully utilize these new resources to avoid criticism of the last season and portray people on the spectrum more honestly and accurately.

Overall, “Atypical’s” second season finds itself with a solid but not great debut. The acting is good from Sam and Casey but not its other characters, the writing is overly clichéd at times and the first episode does not single-handedly overcome past criticism. Having said that, the second season looks to be an enjoyable experience for those who binged the first, although interested viewers who sat out last season have no reason to watch this time around. “Atypical” still suffers from poor creative choices that will leave viewers confused rather than entertained.

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ow refreshing it is to arrive back on campus and watch all the starry-eyed first-years gallivanting from class to class, excited and eager to “discover themselves” and figure out “what life is all about.” Good luck with that. Many of my observations of these new college students are derived from meals at Dewick, during which seemingly thousands of first-years seem to congregate all at the same time. It is within the realm of Dewick that we can witness first-hand the “freshman 15.”

Interestingly, college first-years aren’t the only species that overeat towards the end of summer into the early days of fall.

Shorebirds preparing for migration consume excessive amounts of food and accumulate fat reserves to later burn as energy on their long-distance journeys (some birds like the American golden plover head all the way down to southern South America).

Ornithologists named this behavior “hyperphagia,” which literally means extreme consumption. Without these fat reserves, many shorebirds would perish from energy depletion. For instance, the bar-tailed godwit flies around 7,000 miles from its breeding grounds in Alaska to its wintering grounds in Australia without resting, — an unattainable feat without those fat reserves. As we speak, many shorebirds are staging, or eating, at nearby coastal areas as they prepare to continue their travels down the East Coast towards their wintering grounds.

Undeveloped coastal reserves, like the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island in Newbury, Mass., are popular staging areas for many species of shorebirds passing through the Northeast, given the high abundance of food items available in these areas (mainly invertebrates hiding just below the surface of the sand in marshes and beaches).

Sitting in Dewick yesterday, I watched in awe as one first-year vacuumed down several pieces of pizza, a burger and chicken. I wondered both how in the world he was that hungry and how it would affect him down the road. Many of us warn of and scoff at the “freshman 15,” but perhaps overeating in new environments is an inherent part of our biological processing. Maybe the extra weight is exactly the boost first-years require to adapt to their foreign environment and accelerate in the novel academic settings surrounding them. Conversely, it could simply be a product of American obesity and the increasingly common tendency for humans to overeat because they can. Whatever the reason may be, hyperphagia exists in many realms of biodiversity and in many cases can be the determining factor between life and death.

Best of luck to all you shorebirds that are about to fly down to South America — how I wish I could join you!

Love always, Henry Henry Stevens is a senior majoring in biology. He can be reached at henry.stevens@tufts.edu. Interested in birds? Email Henry at tuftsornithologicalsociety@ gmail.com.

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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

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Aneurin Canham-Clyne Red Star

A rule we ought to break

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ufts decided to require registration for all protests and demonstrations larger than 25 people.

Rhetoric aside, this policy is clearly aimed at walkouts, mass demonstrations, picket lines and coordinated disruptions. They want to keep us safe from our freedom to demonstrate. How thoughtful.

The administrators have more power than the average student, including the power to punish protesters for violation of public safety.

Unless your parent is a trustee, students have to organize collectively to exercise any power.

Only through organized disruption can we have something resembling equal footing.

Disruption is the point of demonstration; it eliminates the power gap between institutions and the people who study at them, work for them and are policed by them. A demonstration which breaks no rules goes unheard.

They don’t want to hear us.

The administration made this clear when they went after 33 members of Tufts Climate Action (TCA) after their 2015 sit-in. They made it clear when they failed to effectively address the targeted harassment of pro-Palestinian activists beyond mere words, and ignored the Tufts Community Union Senate resolution proposed by Tufts’ Students for Justice in Palestine. They made it clear when Dean Solomont sneeringly dismissed those who protested Governor Baker’s policies, saying “I don’t think they did their homework.”

But Tufts says students are supposed “to make communities they are a part of more socially just.” But this rhetoric only means ‘study hard, work for non-profits and shake hands with congresspeople!’ That’s tolerable press. Playing on their terms is a losing game; speaking on their terms only wears your throat out. We already need to break the rules; one more won’t stop us.

They had to listen to TCA’s occupation, to the Tufts Labor Coalition and janitors’ march in 2016 and to the dining workers march this spring. Campaigns can only succeed when they target levers of power, which means physical disruption, press coverage, targeted campaigns against specific trustees, alumni businesses and policies. Our right to protest is not granted by the university; it is ours alone to exercise and determine. This policy, regardless of intent, will limit that right.

When universities manage dissent, they keep politics from evolving beyond endless arguments.

They want us to be well-behaved children, to be seen by donors at civic dialogue events and grovel for jobs and scraps. Really though, we should be running the university ourselves in partnership with workers and faculty.

The problem with Tufts politics and discourse is that we have too little power.

Structurally this will not change without a dramatic moment: a microcosm of a revolution.

But we can build power slowly by breaking rule after rule, and by correctly identifying the spaces we need to control, the power sources to pressure and the coalitions to build in order to make them listen to us.

The school’s power operates through rising costs, tiered housing and rules on protests. It operates through unmarked cop cars, opaque financial aid and the rigid solidarity of the Board of Trustees. Our power cannot work through words alone. We need to level the playing field; we need to shatter their rules.

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

by Maria Fong

OP-ED

Nathan Foster, running for alumni trustee

by Nathan Foster I graduated in May. Now I’m running for a position on the Board of Trustees.

My name is Nathan Foster, and I am running for alumni trustee to help create a fairer, more democratic Tufts. The Board of Trustees is Tufts’ governing body, ultimately responsible for everything from tuition hikes and the construction of new buildings, to tenure and promotion policy for professors. The vast majority of trustees — three-quarters — are appointed by the Board of Trustees itself. The remaining seats are reserved for elected alumni.

As a result of this selection process, the Board of Trustees tends not to reflect the diversity of economic background, racial identity or lived experience of the full Tufts community. This has a real effect on how Tufts, a multi-billion dollar institution central to the lives of thousands of people, governs itself. Representation matters.

I support finally addressing the tuition crisis, treating and paying workers fairly and giving professors an environment conducive to high-quality teaching and research — something that can’t be accomplished with shiny new buildings alone. But it’s not enough to simply support these things. I am backing reforms to make Tufts more democratic by adding students, workers and professors to the Board of Trustees as full voting members. Many institutions, including Cornell University and Howard University, already do this.

Tufts was my home for the past four years. I met my best friends here; my career trajectory, sense of self and worldview have been fundamentally shaped by this wonderful, flawed school. I first began examining the structures that make Tufts the way it is as

a junior, when a friend and I filmed a fifteen minute documentary for community television examining tuition, social class and how Tufts, one of the most expensive colleges in the country, got this way.

In becoming a student trustee representative my senior year, I learned that the Board of Trustees is the institution most responsible for shaping Tufts, despite a general lack of knowledge among the students of how the Board functions. As a trustee rep, I researched admissions and the budget, obtained the release of previously private data on the economic composition of the student body and presented a plan to begin addressing the tuition crisis to the Board of Trustees. The plan was well-received, but I do not know if it was implemented.

Nonetheless, the experience taught me that trustees really do care about their job. In particular, they take seriously the responsibility to look out for Tufts over the long term.

At the same time, the Board of Trustees is extremely inaccessible to most students, workers, professors, community members and even alumni. This has a real effect on the Board’s ability to serve the entire Tufts community.

For example, as a trustee representative, I learned that the full cost of attending Tufts will exceed $100,000 per year in less than a decade. This is more than just guesswork.

It was confirmed to me that indefinite increases of around 3.5 or 3.6 percent a year are baked into long-term financial planning — enough to exceed $100,000 in nine years. I was not told where all those students willing to pay $100,000 a year are going to come from.

Additional tuition increases will have a real impact on countless low-income and

middle-class students, primarily by denying them the opportunity to come here in the first place. In the documentary, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser said that a select group of students are rejected each year solely for their financial status, due to a limited pool of financial aid.

The increases also pose a danger to Tufts as an institution. By assuming that the bottom line will be supported by $100,000 tuition, Tufts makes itself dependent on the willingness of students to pay that much.

Students with a real voice in the decision-making process likely would question these assumptions. The value of student trustees is not just that they will advocate for students; they are good for the institution. The same is true of faculty and staff trustees. Tufts is nothing if not its people.

Bringing their knowledge and expertise to the table will help ensure workers and professors are treated fairly, and it will improve Tufts as a whole.

When difficult decisions do need to be made, it is better that they be made with broad community buy-in.

As a young alumnus with close relationships with current students, faculty and staff, I will bring a fresh perspective to the Board of Trustees. As a former trustee representative, I have the experience to hit the ground running and contribute constructively to the Board’s work. If you are a part of the Tufts community, I would deeply appreciate your support. I am hoping for both individual and group endorsements.

You can learn more on my Facebook page or website, nathanfortrustee.com.

Nathan Foster (LA '18) is running for an alumni trustee position on the Tufts' Board of Trustees. Nathan can be reached at nathanfortrustee@gmail.com.

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Field hockey off to 3–0 start with wins over Babson and Bates

David Meyer Postgame Press

Fan(tasy)hood

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Senior forward Hanaa Malik fights for possession of the ball in Tufts’ homecoming 3–2 loss to Middlebury on Oct. 7, 2017.

by Ryan Eggers Sports Editor

This time last year, the Tufts field hockey team sat at 2–1, with a tinge of disappointment after a tough overtime loss against Babson. With its rematch last Tuesday, the No. 8 Jumbos had a direct chance to exact revenge and get off to a perfect start in their beginning trio of games this season.

They did just that, with a 4–2 win over the Bates Bobcats (0–3) and a 2–1 overtime victory over the Babson Beavers (5–1) in the past week. The wins keep the Jumbos’ perfect early season record intact and in a four-way tie at the top of the NESCAC in win percentage.

Saturday afternoon featured the first home game for Tufts’ young season at Ounjian Field in a NESCAC battle against Bates. While the Jumbos already had a leg up in conference play from defeating the Colby Mules in the season opener, the margins of NESCAC field hockey are thin that any given conference game has to be considered a must win.

The Jumbos showed that urgency from the opening minute, putting up an impressive 14 shots to the Bobcats’ four in the first half of action. These opportunities weren’t for naught, either, as the Jumbos struck first just after 12 minutes into the game.

With the help of a penalty corner from junior midfielder Marguerite Salamone, junior midfielder Rachel Hamilton scored her second goal of the year.

Hamilton then returned the favor a mere minute later, as she set up junior forward Shannon Yogerst with her first goal of the new season. The Bobcats, unable to get much going on the offensive end, could do little about the onslaught of Jumbo attacks and had to fend off shot after shot.

With an offense that has continued to remain dominant in possession and shots, senior co-captain and forward Gigi Tutoni believes that the team’s conditioning was the key to the high-powered start.

“I think we’ve been able to keep [the offense] up just from our physical fitness,” Tutoni said. “Our team is so in shape that if we lose the ball we are able to get immediately back, sticks down and ready to play defense. The other teams are finding

it very difficult to make it past our forward line and midfield.”

Right before halftime, Tufts turned a secure lead into a very secure one with another Salamone assist, her third of the season. This time the recipient happened to be first-year midfielder Claire Foley, who scored her first goal of her collegiate career, giving the Jumbos a 3–0 lead heading into the latter period.

The second half started with much of the same, as Tufts put up its fourth goal of the contest within two minutes of play restarting. This one featured an all firstyear connection, as first-year midfielder/ defender Marin Waddington assisted firstyear midfielder/defender Sophie Schoeni in a Jumbo goal, which were the first collegiate points for both players.

Coach Tina Mattera sung the praises of the younger players and their ability to make quick contributions this early in the season.

“Our [first-year] class has just been really great,” Mattera said. “Claire Foley has been really impressive in practice so we decided to put her out there and give her a shot and she made a beautiful goal.

Sophie Schoeni has impressed from the beginning and earned a starting spot at center-mid, and really stayed patient and put up an excellent goal as well.”

From that point on, Tufts held a relatively safe lead, but Bates did not go out without a fight. They scraped together two unassisted goals later in the half, courtesy of sophomore forward Bridget Tweedie and junior co-captain and midfielder Grace Fitzgerald. Senior goalkeeper Emily Polinski held steady, though, and the Bobcats were unable to make another dent in the Jumbo lead.

On Tuesday, the Jumbos traveled to Wellesley, Mass. to take on the Babson Beavers in a game that was surely marked on every player’s calendar before the season began. Last season, Babson handed Tufts an early-season overtime loss. With the opportunity to avenge that loss, the Jumbos took full advantage.

The first half proved to be a tight defensive battle, with the Jumbos only being able to put up five shots in the period.

Conversely, the Beavers only put up one shot themselves, but that was all they needed to get on the board first. About 20

minutes into the game, first-year forward Lauren Curley scored off of a tip pass from junior forward Tori Roche.

The half fizzled out slowly, with no further score from either side. The second half began in a similar fashion, and all the way up until the 60th minute the Jumbos were unable to come up with an equalizer. That changed when a promising attack by the Jumbo offense could only be stopped by a foul within the penalty circle by the Beavers defense.

Hamilton took the penalty, sinking it right into the back of the net for her first goal of the season.

Despite a few late attacks from the Jumbos, 70 minutes ended in a draw.

The first 10-minute overtime period commenced, and Tufts picked up their attack once again. The Jumbos put up six shots in the nine minutes of overtime, while the Beavers did not even get one real chance at the goal.

With under a minute to go in the first overtime period, Tufts had probably one realistic shot left off of a penalty corner.

Schoeni put up a fair shot that was deflected away by Babson first-year goalkeeper Cassidy Riley, but it found its way to the stick of Tutoni, who was able to deal the finishing blow and score the game-winning goal.

“The last [penalty corner] that we scored on was executed perfectly,” Tutoni said. “It was a beautiful insert, and Sophie Schoeni got a great hit on the ball.

Unfortunately, the goalie made that first save, but it got behind her feet and she couldn’t see it, and we were able to flick it in for the goal.”

The victories put the Jumbos at 3–0 for the year, and should surely kick their Div. III ranking up from their No. 8 position last week. At 2–0 in the conference, Tufts is starting the season in the best way they can. They play four out of their next five games at home, with their next match coming on Wednesday against the MIT Engineers at 6:30 p.m.

That being said, Mattera believes that Tufts still has things to work on.

“We have to continue to try to finish better,” Mattera said. “We’ve gotta make sure we’re staying patient and trying to get the best looks we can once we’re near the goal.”

eing a fan means you get to be a part of an amazing community of people with whom you have a bond as soon as you see them at the game or on the street wearing a jersey. I see someone with my team’s hat and immediately feel a sense of kinship. But team allegiances have been changed with the advent of fantasy sports.

Fantasy football has changed the landscape of being a football fan. With the ‘ownership’ of individual players on your team, you can cheer for your team to score through certain means, like a touchdown to a specific wide receiver. This can be a problem, though, when your fantasy players compete against your favorite team.

Do you want them to score? Yes. You probably want them to score multiple times so you have a better chance at winning. On the other hand, you definitely want your team to win the game in real life. If it comes down to your fantasy matchup or your real team, which do you choose?

Some fantasy owners have solutions for this. Some draft loads of players from their favorite team so that they do not have to root against them. Others care more about the money they can win than their teams.

This is usually the case for a fan of a team that is not performing well.

So the person will root for winning money instead of their real-life team that will only win a few games. One would imagine, for example, that Bills fans are rooting for their fantasy team more this year.

I have had an interesting arc in my fantasy fanhood. I used to be someone who never rooted against my real-life teams. Never. Even if it meant losing my money; that is what had to happen for a win. Real life is more important to me. Or was. Now it is getting iffy.

When my star running back is playing against the Bears, I sometimes find myself cheering for him instead of the Monsters of the Midway. My best possible scenario is always seeing a great game by my player and a victory by my team. Sometimes, though, I find myself rooting for my player as much as my team. That worries me.

Fantasy has changed what being a fan is like. I have friends who have ended their allegiance with any reallife team, only caring about winning in fantasy. NFL football becomes unimportant to them, compared to their smorgasbord roster. Does that stop you from being a real sports fan?

Do you miss out on real fanhood and love for the game? Or is it just different rooting for a team you made instead of any Super Bowl-bound roster? I win too much in fantasy to be upset, but fantasy has changed the fundamentals of being a sports fan, and in my mind, not for the better.

With sports betting now legal in more places, fans should beware.

Sometimes your bank account becomes more important than a team or an experience. And that is not what sports are about. Right?

David Meyer is an assistant sports editor for the Tufts Daily. David is a junior studying film and media studies. David can be reached at david.meyer@tufts.edu.

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The Tufts volleyball team huddles during a timeout at their 3–1 home win against Brandeis on Sept. 12.

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Junior middle hitter Christina Nwankpa and first-year opposite Cate Desler wait for a serve during Tufts’ 3–1 home win over Brandeis on Sept. 12.

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Volleyball posts strong performances against regional, national competition

by Haley Rich Sports Editor

Only two weeks into the season, Tufts already has eight games under its belt.

The Jumbos traveled over 1,000 miles south to take part in the Emory National Tournament on September 7 and 8 to play some of the top teams in the country.

Tufts picked up two wins on the first day of the tournament against Oglethorpe (3–0) and Otterbein (3–2) before falling to both Berry (0–3) and Emory (0–3) the next day.

After returning to Medford, the Jumbos responded with three decisive wins over the Brandeis Judges (3–1) on Wednesday, the Bates Bobcats (3–0) on Friday and the Colby Mules (3–0) on Saturday to finish the week at 6–2.

The Jumbos’ game against the Mules was their second conference match of the season. Tufts came in red-hot as junior setter Rachel Furash served up a six-point lead to start the afternoon.

Aggressive play, few errors and some successful fake spikes by the Jumbos made quick work of the first set, which Tufts won 25–11.

The Mules fought back in the second set and took a quick 6–1 lead. Colby’s sophomore outside hitter Elizabeth Middlebrook posed a threat with impressive spikes that brought the Mules’ lead to 10–6. But thanks to powerful strikes by senior co-captain and outside hitter Mackenzie Bright and sophomore middle hitter Jennifer Ryan, Tufts fought back to tie the set at 17–17. Once the Jumbos gained the lead at 19–18 and kept their focus in spite of a Mules timeout, they ran away with the set as Bright aggressively spiked to end it 25–22.

The Jumbos rode through a third set riddled with service errors and rapid changes of possession to close out the match. Furash aced to get the Jumbos to match point and closed out the match at 25–15 as aggressively as she first started it.

The chest bumps, high-fives and embraces amongst the Jumbos throughout the match highlighted the team’s high spirits amidst their three-game winning streak.

The night before, Tufts was equally dominant over NESCAC foe Bates. Junior co-captain and outside hitter Maddie Stewart led the team on both kills (nine) and blocks (five) as the Jumbos defeated the Bobcats 25–18, 25–21 and 25–18 in yet another dominant performance.

Although the first set started off slowly with both teams neck and neck in points, the Jumbos pulled away with defense led by sophomore libero Sophia Acker throughout the next two sets.

“Going into the Bates match, we were looking to better our overall ball control while speeding up our offense and solidifying our setter-hitter connections,” coach Cora Thompson told the Daily in an email.

“We knew that it would be difficult against a team like Bates, who is known for being one of the best defensive teams in the conference. They challenged us to stay disciplined on defense and we were able to [do] that.”

It took four sets to defeat the Brandeis Judges on Wednesday night in Cousens Gym, with the second set loss being only the fourth the Jumbos have lost all season when victorious. First-year opposite Cate Desler served up a fivepoint winning streak that assisted the Jumbos in their capture of the first set,

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Sophomore libero Sophia Acker passes the ball during Tufts’ 3–1 home win over Brandeis on Sept. 12 but the Judges clawed back to an early lead in the second and narrowly prevailed 25–22. However, the next two sets were captured by the Jumbos 25–19 and 25–17. Bright led the game with an impressive 15 kills and Acker again dominated defense with 23 digs.

“We did a great job of recovering quickly from mistakes to go and get the next point,” Bright told the Daily in an email.

“Our blockers in particular had a really great game. They stayed consistent throughout the four sets and made our job much easier defensively.”

In Atlanta the weekend prior, Tufts did not have such luck with tournament host Emory, a powerhouse this season with an 8–3 record. Although the Eagles took down the Jumbos in

three sets, each set was fairly close, with the Jumbos taking the lead several times throughout the second and third.

However, impressive kills and blocks from 6-foot-2 Emory sophomore middle hitter Finn Wilkins proved to be too much for Tufts, who fell 25–19, 25–21 and 26–24. Earlier that day, the Jumbos fell to the Berry Vikings 25–16, 25–19 and 25–18.

The day before, Tufts battled against Oglethorpe in its first match of the tournament before working through a tough five-set victory over Otterbein.

The Jumbos started off tentatively in the beginning against the Oglethorpe Petrels, but soon found their stride and defeated their opponents soundly 25–16, 25–13 and 25–15. Bright was named to the All-

Tournament team for her impressive play throughout the weekend.

“We love to be consistently challenged by high level play and we love to challenge other as well. Everyone wins when the play is fast and tough,” Thompson wrote in an email. “Our coaching staff was very impressed with our team’s level of play for it being early in our competitive season … We wanted to gel as a team and build our court chemistry against a high level of play and we did just that.”

Tonight at 7:00 p.m., the Jumbos duel the Endicott Gulls at home before hosting the Bowdoin Polar Bears on Friday night. On Saturday, the team travels to the Johnson & Wales University Invitational in Providence, RI, for two matches against the hosts and Roger Williams.