The Tufts Daily - September 29, 2017

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Tufts gets to know host community at 15th Community Day see FEATURES / PAGE 3

Jumbos look to rebound after tough loss

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Students react to removal of NEC shuttle stop

by Emily Burke News Editor

The shuttle stop at the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) for students enrolled in Tufts’ combined-degree program has been removed, frustrating students who now face difficulties getting to and from classes on time. This comes in addition to existing issues with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA) Shuttle, which some students accuse of not accommodating combined-degree students with complicated class schedules.

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Advising Robin Olinsky, who specializes in advising combined-degree NEC and SMFA students, explained why the stop was removed.

“The NEC stop was removed due to construction near the school. We were notified about a week before the school year started,” Olinsky told the Daily in an email.

She added that the university is working to accommodate NEC students.

“NEC students have been given MBTA passes to use for transportation between the two campuses,” she said. “We have also

met with students and are exploring both short-term and long-term transportation options that balance the students’ needs and logistical considerations.”

Schedule changes to the SMFA shuttle were announced in an email to the student body Sept. 25 and went into effect the same day. Dean of the SMFA Nancy Bauer explained that the changes were intended to accommodate more students with a wider range of class schedules.

“The timing of two of the runs on the shuttle schedule [has been changed] to accommodate people who are going from Medford to the SMFA so that they can get there [from] the classes that end at popular times and not miss the bus,” Bauer said.

According to Bauer, the shuttle that had previously left at 11:35 a.m. Monday to Friday will now leave at 11:50 a.m. to allow those students with classes ending at 11:45 a.m. on the Medford campus to make the shuttle. Additionally, those with classes ending at 7:15 p.m. will be accommodated because the shuttle that originally left at 7 p.m. is now being moved to 7:20 p.m.

“There is an additional van added to the 8 a.m. run from Medford to the SMFA

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An SMFA shuttle pictured outside of Granoff Music Center on April 11. and to the 5:10 p.m. from the SMFA to Medford,” she said.

Bauer added that the administration made an effort to address the problems

with the shuttle so that students would not be inconvenienced when traveling between campuses. see NEC SHUTTLE, page 2

Tufts aims for sustainability goals with summer construction projects

by Shane Woolley Contributing Writer

Tufts worked on two major construction projects this summer, making significant progress on the Central Energy Plant (CEP) on the Medford/Somerville campus and installing two new solar installations at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Both projects were aimed at making the university more environmentally sustainable.

Construction on the new CEP on Boston Avenue next to Dowling Hall, began in the spring of 2015, and is managed by O’Connor Constructors. The CEP was initially slated to open in the fall of last year, but its timetable fell significantly behind schedule due to weather-related setbacks and the difficulties of building on the steep terrain of the build site, according to the Director of University Energy Project Randy Preston.

Preston, who oversaw the design and construction of the plant, nevertheless expressed confidence that the CEP will be operational within the next six months.

In an email to the Daily, Preston estimated that the total cost will come to around $50 million. This is four million

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dollars higher than what former Vice President of Operations Linda Snyder projected in 2015. Preston said the plant’s projected lifespan is approximately 30 years, so the university should more than break even in the long run.

Over the summer, the CEP’s cogenerator topped with 16 pistons was installed on the ground floor of the new plant. On the next floor are three boilers: two to cover the regular hot water needs of the university during the winter months and a third to back the others up in the case of extenuating circumstances and to be an additional source of power as the campus expands, according to Preston. Across from these boilers, a screen-and-dial-plastered control room commands a view of the plant’s interior.

The primary impetus to build the CEP was to replace the existing 60-year-old energy plant, which is at the end of its lifespan, Snyder told the Daily in 2015.

The new plant was also created to realize certain sustainability goals outlined by the Campus Sustainability Council in its 2013 report, according to Snyder.

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the university for goals for water, waste and energy emissions, and then this other category called cross-cutting issues, which encompass everything,” Communications Specialist at the Office of Sustainability Lauren Diamond said.

The new plant’s cogenerator and boilers will use the same fuel sources as the old — primarily natural gas, supplemented

by No. 2 fuel oil, Preston said. However, it uses this fuel more efficiently than its predecessor, burning less of it to achieve the same electrical output and decreasing the campus’ dependence on the municipal electric grid, according to Shoshana Blank, education and outreach program administrator at the Office of Sustainability. It also harnesses the waste heat generated by the fuel burning process to heat and cool water for campus buildings, she added.

Overall, the CEP is expected to decrease energy costs for the Medford/ Somerville campus by around 20 percent, according to an article on the Tufts Construction website.

“The new CEP is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4,637 short tons, or a 14.1 percent reduction in the Medford campus greenhouse gas emissions,” Preston told the Daily in an email.

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Blank explained that Tufts sold “credits” for this greenhouse gas reduction through a market for greenhouse gas emitters in Massachusetts. This ensures that — on paper — those entities are emitting below legal levels, and the state’s overall emissions decrease.

“Technically, this project helps Tufts to reduce our greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions, however we cannot claim that reduction in the Tufts GHG inventory because Tufts sold the alternative energy credits,” Blank said.

However, while the natural gas the CEP uses “burns cleaner” than alternatives such as coal or oil and expels a lower quantity of greenhouse gases and harmful particulates, environmentalists are concerned that the upstream effect of natural gas extraction on the environment negates its advantage as a fuel source. Blank alluded to the destructive impact of hydraulic fracturing as an example.

The CEP was not the only sustainability-focused project at Tufts this past summer, however. Two new solar arrays were installed at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine on the Grafton cam-

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The new Central Energy Plant is slated to reduce Tufts’ energy costs on the Medford/Somerville campus by 20 percent.

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continued from page 1 pus in Grafton. These installations will provide the Grafton campus with about 40 percent of its power, and save the university as much as $5.3 million over 20 years, according to a TuftsNow article.

The arrays were built, owned and paid for by NRG Energy, Inc.; Tufts does not own the Renewable Energy Certificates of the Grafton solar cells.

Based on a 20-year contract between Tufts and NRG, Tufts has the right to

buy the energy generated by the cells at a rate that is 60 percent cheaper than it would be to buy electricity from the grid, according to Blank.

According to Preston, Tufts Facilities Services also worked to install 75 new energy-efficient windows in Miner Hall and the Crane Room of Paige Hall. This took place in addition to completion of work on the Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), which opened this fall and was designed to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

(LEED) Gold standard, according to the Tufts University construction website.

Preston said the university will continue to take on construction projects with sustainability in mind.

“We will spend between 30 to 40 million dollars on Deferred Maintenance projects always with an eye to sustainability,” Preston said. “Lab improvement and housing projects in Medford and ongoing capital renewal in Boston, currently underway, will be environmentally-focused.”

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continued from page 1 Junior Moira Loh, a combined-degree NEC student, said that since the program was not immediately assigned a new dean for this year, combined-degree students have been in contact with Olinsky about why the stop was removed and about new ideas for solutions.

Loh explained that students now have to walk from the NEC to the SMFA to catch the shuttle, a .7– or .8–mile walk, but they did not get the opportunity to plan class schedules according to the new shuttle schedule. This has forced students to use the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), Lyft and Uber to get to class on time, which gets expensive as students are paying out of pocket.

“All our class schedules are messed up because NEC runs on a 50-minute block system, so that a class goes from 1:00 p.m. to 1:50 , and usually the NEC stop would be at 1:55 outside, and so it would be perfect timing, but now the shuttle leaves at 1:50 at the SMFA, which is almost a mile away,” Loh, a junior, said.

Sophomore Nayoung Kim, an SMFA combined-degree student, expressed similar concerns about the inconsistencies of the shuttle system.

“I think they’re trying to fix that this year because … in the past, I feel like the teachers were sort of expected to under-

stand if students were late because of the shuttle, which obviously disrupts the class,” Kim, a sophomore, said.

Daniel Cetlin, an NEC combined-degree student, expressed discontent with the lack of communication between the Tufts administration and the students in the program, which has worsened the shuttle complications.

“It’s a combination of a lack of communication with us, which often feels like neglect, because we’re such a small program… They made changes over the summer, [but] they didn’t tell us about those changes. We found out about [them] on our own, and the changes were very inconvenient,” Cetlin, a sophomore, said.

Inga Liu, a fifth-year combined-degree student with the NEC, expressed frustration with the fact that combined-degree students have been dealing with these issues for a month and that little has changed despite student efforts since before the start of classes to rectify the situation.

“We had tried really hard to solve the problem before the school year but unfortunately there was no communication,” Liu said.

Loh felt that the solutions proposed by administrators, such as giving students MBTA passes with $40 on them, have not been sufficient in meeting students’ needs. Cetlin and Loh believed that this money has already run out for most students.

Loh said that the recent changes will not necessarily help the problems NEC students face, as many students still have to leave classes 15 minutes early to walk to the SMFA stop and then arrive back at Tufts 10–15 minutes late for their other classes. Furthermore, she pointed out that the walk to the SMFA stop is more inconvenient for students who bring instruments to the NEC. Some informal compromises have made a small difference in making transportation easier for combined-degree students.

According to Cetlin, sometimes a shuttle driver will stop near the NEC, even though there is no official stop, so that students can get off closer to their destinations.

“We’re able to take the shuttle there and actually make our classes for the most part because he’ll stop right before NEC even though there’s no bus stop there,” he said. “That’s very nice, but we’re not able to hop on on the way back because they take a different route.”

Cetlin added that it is important for Tufts to show NEC combined-degree students that it values the program and their contributions to the university’s academic and arts culture.

“At the end of the day, I love my music studies at the NEC and my academic studies at Tufts, and as of now, it’s probably worth this hoop we have to jump through, but not by much,” Cetlin said. “It’s very tiring and inconvenient, and doesn’t allow for busy schedules.”

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It takes a community to build Community Day

by Emma Damokosh Features Editor

Countless tables lined the quad, representing various community groups, charities and organizations from Tufts and its surrounding cities. On the outskirts of the maze of tables, various activities for children like face painting, pumpkin painting, cookie decorating and even a mini game of quidditch, facilitated by members of the Tufts Quidditch team engaged young children and not-so-young Jumbos alike.

Tufts Dining catered massive station for an extensive barbecue lunch. Multiple tables were set up just for coolers of cold beverages, which the attendees appreciated in the 85-degree heat.

“The only thing they were missing was a cooling station,” sophomore Jonathan Smith, an attendee of Community Day, said.

Despite the heat, Tufts students, faculty and the residents of the SomervilleMedford area came together on the Academic Quad last Sunday for the 15th Annual Tufts Community Day, an event celebrating the relationship between Tufts and the local community.

Tables for people to sit, eat, talk and enjoy the performances were spread out on the quad in front of the stage where performances from Tufts groups including BEATs, The Amalgamates and The Ladies of Essence took place.

Sophomore Elizabeth McGowan performed with the Tufts Tap Ensemble at Community Day. “I always enjoy performing because the kids always think it’s really fun, and it’s great seeing them have a good time,” she said.

Her sentiment was proven by the many children who planted themselves in front of the stage or the comedy show that was going on outside of Barnum Hall.

According to the three members of the Tufts Community Relations staff, Barbara Rubel, Rocco DiRico and Alanna Fusco, Community Day originated from a conversation between former University President Lawrence Bacow and Somerville Alderman Jack Connolly in which Connolly made the

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Five-year-old Nora Karrouma plays with her friend and Jumbo the elephant during Community Day on Sept. 24. suggestion for an event to connect the communities.

“The small staff was able to reach out to university departments and community organizations to produce a modest version of today's Community Day,” the community relations staff told the Daily in an email.

Only about 200 people came to the first Community Day, according to the community relations staff, versus the approximately 3,500 people that came to this year's event.

This year’s Community Day in particular was a memorable one as the 15th anniversary of the event.

“This year, we also had a few new additions — the 'Jumbo Photo Booth' for which student volunteers took photos for guests, as well as a videographer to produce a video of Community Day to commemorate its 15th anniversary,” they wrote.

According to the community relations staff planning for Community Day is a year-

The School of HONK! performs at Community Day on the Academic Quad on Sept. 24.

long process that starts from the moment the last Community Day ends.

“The first contact to participating groups functions as more of a 'Save the Date' to put Community Day on the radar before summer begins,” they wrote. “We made sure to reach out to all our past participants, while also actively seeking out new groups to invite as our goal is to continue expanding the event each year.”

Planning the event involves much collaboration between Community Relations and many departments within Tufts. The Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), the Department of Public and Environmental Safety, the Facilities Services Department, Tufts Dining and Tufts Technology Services are all important departments involved in making this massive event run smoothly, according to the community relations staff.

There is also a large team effort in terms of publicity for Community Day. “We also collaborate with the City departments, elected officials and organizations of our host communities of Medford and Somerville in publicizing the event to ensure that the word is spread far and wide to our neighbors, elected officials and community collaborators,” the community relations staff wrote.

Student volunteers played a key role in Community Day, especially on the day of the event. They could be seen running EVAN SAYLES / THE TUFTS DAILY from table to table

attending to the various needs of participants, running activities for children and giving attendees information at the resources tent.

“We were also greatly assisted in the recruitment of student volunteers by Tufts departments and student organizations, who posted the event details in their newsletters and on their social media platforms,” the community relations staff wrote.

Over 80 volunteers helped out with Community Day, according to the community relations staff. Besides running activities and errands for the event, students are also recruited for specific day-of jobs.

“We have students fill the roles of Emcee, Stage Managers, Info Tent leader, Jumbo mascots and assistants, and Portrait and Caricature Artists,” they wrote.

Senior Nicole Morris played a vital role in the Community Day team, serving as this year's student intern.

“She did a fantastic job assisting in the outreach, follow up and confirmation of [participating] groups," community relations wrote.

The three members of the community relations staff were all very pleased with the event and proud of everyone who contributed to make it a great day.

“This was my first year managing the event, so I would say that my favorite part was seeing the event finally come together after the planning, preparation and coordination with key players and collaborators, both within Tufts and in our communities,” Fusco, the event coordinator, wrote.

DiRico pointed out that students were instrumental in the effort.

“My favorite part of Community Day was the collaboration between our students and the community groups. This year, we had a small army of student volunteers and they were key to the success of Community Day,” he wrote.

Rubel said she had a hard time picking her favorite part of the event.

“I really enjoy talking to people, old friends who are returning to the event and neighbors who are coming for the first time,” she wrote.

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'Make Room: New Shipment' showcases original compositions by students, instructors

by Setenay Mufti Arts Editor

For students looking to get out of their comfort zone and showcase their creativity, music composition is the way to go.

On Wednesday, Oct. 4, some of these students will show off the fruits of their labor in the Tufts Composers' Concert “Make Room: New Shipment.” The concert will feature both students’ and professors’ original works, with many being performed for the first time and none more than 10 years old. The concert is part of the Tufts Composers' Concert Series, which was founded by John McDonald, former chair of the Department of Music and current music and composition professor. McDonald will perform many of his own students’ pieces on the keyboard.

“What I like about Tufts is that it’ll put on these concerts where some of the faculty brings their own compositions, and some of the students do as well. I think it’s really inspiring for both sides,” Opera Ensemble Director Thomas Stumpf said.

Stumpf, an accomplished pianist and composer who has also taught at the New England Conservatory and played in the Boston Pops Orchestra, firmly believes professionals should get out of their "bubble" — precisely what concerts like this one help them accomplish.

“People are stuffy about it," Stumpf said.

"In some conservatories, the composition teachers don’t want their pieces played alongside [those of] students."

In this upcoming concert, Stumpf will be playing several students’ pieces as well as two of McDonald’s pieces written specifically for him: “To Charm with Sorrow” and “Trying Again to Charm with Sorrow.”

The pieces give a nod to Stumpf’s own style, which he describes as dark and serious.

“In a way, the character of the pieces has to do with who I am, not so much as a human being but who I am as a pianist,” Stumpf said.

In turn, he has composed a series of three pieces for McDonald to perform, called “Three Johns for John.” The title is a reference to the three composers who inspired the pieces — Mozart, Bach and Brahms — all of whose given names are equivalent to the English name “John."

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Granoff Music Center is pictured on May 7, 2014.

The inspiration, however, really came from McDonald.

“The idea for this one came when we were doing a recording session and John was fooling around playing a Mozart minuet we both loved, and he was playing it wrong," Stumpf said. "He used the right hand in place of the left hand … It was funny, but it stuck with me: picking a piece by Mozart and making it sound modern, but true to the original."

The concert will showcase ten composers, each contributing either one single piece or a group of short pieces. McDonald and Stumpf will trade off playing each student’s compositions on one keyboard on stage. Almost all the pieces are solos, save for two piano/cello duets (with faculty cellist Emmanuel Feldman), and one piece that incorporates piano, guitar and vocals: a new version of "Dying Crapshooter’s Blues" by graduate student Micah Huang. In this

case, the composition is not an entirely new piece, but an existing piece reinterpreted and reworked.

Some student composers have taken a different approach. Matthew Feder, a fifthyear senior majoring in music, composed several short, purely original pieces for the concert under McDonald’s tutelage. Over the summer, Feder began learning the piano with McDonald, which meant playing as well as composing piano music. “[The pieces] were all created with a different approach in mind. John would give me a prompt for each piece, like ‘the relationship between two notes,’ or ‘imagine a piece being played by two flutes,'" Feder said.

Feder also recalled the first time he saw his compositions performed in concert, which was last semester’s Composer’s Concert for a composition seminar. Listening to his own music was not easy.

“[Last semester] was the first time having other people play my music," he said.

"You’re kind of giving up that control … It’s always been nerve-wracking."

But an unexpected upside to this experience was learning more about his own pieces.

“I’ll be interested whether [each piece] will sound different or, because I composed all of them, they’ll all sound like they came from the same thread,” Feder said.

A longtime guitarist and music lover, Feder is unique in that he has no classical training, unlike most other composers in his class. But as he puts it, “I don’t have that type of restriction. I grew up playing rock. I write based on what I feel.”

Aside from McDonald and Stumpf, three other accomplished composers and musicians will present their pieces alongside stu-

dents’ work. One is guest composer Howard Frazin, who met McDonald while president of a local music organization called “Composers in Red Sneakers” in the early 2000s. He later went on to become founder and co-director of “Wordsong,” an organization that presents composers and performers to the public, and a teacher of Tufts graduate composer Alexander Hite, who will be performing in this concert as well. Others are Nathan Curtis, a former Tufts graduate student in music, and faculty composer Michael McLaughlin.

The composition series at Tufts was created by McDonald in 1994, and it puts on an average of five concerts per semester.

However, “Make Room: New Shipment” is unlike all the others. The concert will honor the past as well as the future, as implied by the concert’s title. Curtis’ contributions will come from a piano collection in honor of his father, and the concert as a whole is dedicated to the life of Francis Domec, the husband of McLaughlin who tragically passed away this year. In McDonald’s words, Domec was “a painter of wonderful originality and life force,” and the concert will open with two of his own musical tributes to Domec.

That being said, the concert is just as much about giving a blessing to young composers beginning their composition journeys. “[This concert is] the anticipation of new student composers entering the picture with new satchels of music in the baggage … new voices, new ideas, new approaches," McDonald said.

The concert offers somewhat of a new beginning for McDonald as well, who has spent a year on sabbatical and another as a visiting teacher at another school. In his first concert since returning to Tufts, McDonald said he is "poised for new possibilities."

The concert will be held on Wednesday from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the Distler Performance Hall in the Granoff Music Center. Admission is free and no tickets are required.

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Tufts prepares for series of three conference matches beginning at Amherst WOMEN’S SOCCER continued from back had more shots but that doesn’t always translate into goals."

The coaches also had special praise for Troccoli.

"She just covers so much ground and it’s huge," assistant coach Julia Rafferty said. "We talk a lot to the girls at the start of the season about how important

it is to win those balls in midfield… She has done that and then some."

Tufts was held to a 1–1 draw against the Brandeis Judges after double overtime on Saturday. The game was noted for its attacking nature, as Tufts and Brandeis combined for a total of 13 shots in the first half. Lloyd once again led the front line superbly and gave Tufts the lead in the 21st

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Sophomore midfielder Jenna Troccoli jostles for position during women's soccer's 2–1 loss to Williams on Oct. 22.

minute, as she put away junior forward Alessandra Sadler's cross. Tufts controlled the game with decent possession, but could not find a way past sophomore goalkeeper Sierra Dana for the remainder of the game.

Tufts was unable to hold on to its lead, as Brandeis hit Tufts on the break successfully after 56 minutes. Senior tri-captain Haliana Burhans received the ball and drove forward. Burhans then expertly released her strike partner junior Sasha Sunday, who smashed it past Bowers to tie the game.

Tufts almost restored its advantage in the 61st minute, but Reed shot over after Lloyd's strike hit the post. Tufts was almost made to pay for that mistake, but Sunday was denied her second goal of the game as sophomore defender Tally Clark cleared her shot off the line.

Tufts had a few more opportunities to win in overtime, but was denied by some expert goalkeeping from Dana, who tied a career-high with six saves, half of which came in overtime. Dana dove to first deny senior forward Mariah Harvey-Brown in the 97th minute and then junior midfielder Sarah Grubman four minutes later.

Tufts plays one more game away at conference rival Amherst this Saturday. This

starts a series of three conference games for Tufts as it hosts Middlebury on Oct. 7 before going to Hamilton the next day.

Returning to NESCAC action this weekend, Troccoli believes the team is ready to work on getting better.

"The most important thing is that we’re consistent and once we come out playing hard and consistent, we know that we can beat these teams," Troccoli said. "Consistent energy is what we need to work on a little bit because we do the best when we’re fired up and when our players are excited to be there and when we feed off each other’s energy. That’s what we’re going to focus on and the rest will fall into place from there."

Whiting wants to take some of the positives from non-NESCAC action going into into these crucial conference games.

“What we can look to is that we played two highly ranked teams very well and for much of those games we were able to control the tempo and play the way we wanted to play,” Whiting said. “We tell the girls you can’t control the outcome, whether you win or lose, but how hard you work and how mentally tough you are. When teams are this good, and you feel like you’re this good, often it comes down to these intangibles.”

Jumbo sailing makes waves at Mystic Lake

by Haley Rich Contributing Writer

Tufts sailing steered past the competition over the weekend, with the co-ed team snagging first place out of 20 schools at the 35th Professor Stedman Hood Trophy on their home waters of Mystic Lake in Medford. The Tufts A and B Division teams finished with scores of 23 and 15 points, respectively, adding up to a total score of 38 points to knock the competition out of the water. Roger Williams University trailed by 6 points to take second, and Yale placed third with an equal score to Roger Williams, but fewer top-place finishers.

"We had a pretty big advantage coming into this regatta because not only was it at home, but because we used our own boats, called 'Larks,' that no other school uses," senior tri-captain Lara Dienemann said. "But we were also sailing very well, regardless of that."

The wind conditions on Saturday were mild, but "shifty," meaning the direction the wind came from was oscillating back and forth.

"Because of the shifty conditions, we had to use a lot of pattern recognition, and that gave us another advantage," Dienemann said Dienemann and her partner, junior skipper Jack Bitney, played a large role in the Jumbos' victory this past weekend, winning the B Division with a score of 15 points. Senior crew Emily Shanley-Roberts and junior skipper Florian Eenkema van Dijk partnered to place third in the A Division, finishing with a score of 23 points. Both pairs are examples of underclassmen from last year's team stepping up to fill the roles of the many graduated seniors.

"Our primary focus for our races this weekend was getting off the line, because that's something that we have been struggling with as a team recently," Bitney said. "That's what I was thinking in my head. Having a solid start is really important in a race."

Coach Ken Legler had the team practice on starts all week prior to the races, and it clearly paid off.

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Senior Molly Pleskus and junior Sabrina Van Mell sail in a regatta hosted by Boston University on Easter Sunday, April 16.

"Once we got a good start, I could relax and think more clearly about what tactics we should use for the rest of the race," Dienemann said.

The team also competed individually at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) Women and Men's Single-Handed Championship.

The event, hosted by Roger Williams University, saw stellar performances on both the male and female sides for the Jumbos. Senior Alp Rodopman, the regatta's defending champion, battled sickness all week and was unable to practice, but still managed to capture fourth place by an impressive 16 point margin — good enough to qualify for a spot at nationals. First-year Talia Toland finished second with a score of 49 points, trailing U.S. Coast Guard

Academy senior Dana Rohde by a mere two points and also qualifying for nationals in the process.

"I came into this regatta with the goal to qualify for nationals, but optimally, to win," Toland said. "The results were a bit bittersweet; I did qualify, but I also was in first place the entire weekend until I lost three boats in the last 30 seconds of my final race, causing me to drop to second place overall."

Although she is only a first-year, Toland is not new to individual competition. In fact, sailing with a partner is a skill with which she is still trying to get comfortable.

"I love being on the boat by myself," she said. "I just recently transitioned to sailing double-handed boats and working with someone else to make

decisions while sailing around the course is definitely more challenging for me than just doing what feels intuitive. But I'm looking forward to transferring these single-handed sailing skills to double-handed boats and start winning some events for the women's team."

Thanks to their performances, Toland and Rodopman will sail in the individual Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) national championships, to be held Nov. 4–5 in St. Petersburg, Fla. From Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, the Jumbos will compete at eight different regattas in several different locations: BU, Coast Guard Academy, Cornell, Dartmouth, MIT, Fordham, Harvard and Oakcliff.`

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Tufts and Bates to do battle, try to gain ground in NESCAC

by Bradley Schussel Sports Editor

At present, four NESCAC teams remain undefeated with 2–0 records: Amherst, Middlebury, Trinity and Williams. This state of affairs leaves teams like the Tufts Jumbos (1–1) and the Bates Bobcats (0–2) on the outside looking in. In turn, those two teams will face off in Lewiston, Maine on Saturday, as the Jumbos look to get back on track, while the Bobcats hope to get in the win column for the first time this season.

Last week, Tufts suffered its first defeat of the season in a 24–17 overtime road loss against the Wesleyan Cardinals (1–1).

That game featured a 35-yard touchdown run by junior quarterback Ryan McDonald, the first career field goal for first-year kicker Matthew Alswanger and an 85-yard punt return touchdown by junior receiver Jack Dolan.

Dolan credited his coaching and teammates for his big punt return. "[Special teams] coach [Kyle] McAllister had a really great plan for the punt return team, and there was some really good blocking by the guys up front," Dolan said.

"It always feels good to break a long one, especially in a game like that."

After scraping out an overtime win against the Hamilton Continentals (0–2) during Week One, the Jumbos could not hold out against the Cardinals. Wesleyan's junior quarterback Mark Piccirillo threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Mike Breuler in overtime to seal the Cardinals' first victory of the 2017 season.

"It's one of those learning experiences," coach Jay Civetti said. "It had nothing to do with lack of effort, attitude or toughness. We were playing a good team and we need to play better. We need to finish."

In contrast to Tufts' loss, Bates' last game was not nearly as competitive. Trinity won that contest, 51–0, as the Bobcats' defense just could not stop the Bantams' high-powered offense, led by senior quarterback Sonny Puzzo. Bates' offensive, meanwhile, managed only 14 first downs and 174 total offensive yards (less than half of Trinity's 423 yards), including a measly 45 yards through the air.

Tufts and Bates last faced off at the Ellis Oval in the second week of the last season.

The Jumbos won that rain-soaked game 12–7, propelled by two field goals from kicker Willie Holmquist (LA '17) and a rushing touchdown by McDonald. Junior quarter-

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Tufts junior quarterback Ryan McDonald sneaks past defenders thanks to a block by junior running back Dominic Borelli in the season opener against the Hamilton Continentals on Sept. 16. back Sandy Plashkes provided the Bobcats' lone seven points with a 30-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Brian Daly.

Plashkes returned this fall and is platooning under center with sophomore quarterback Matt Golden. While Plashkes has attempted almost three times as many passes (25) as Golden (8), the second-year signal caller eclipses his junior counterpart in rushing attempts (20 versus 14). This disparity in usage derives in part from the Bobcats' use of Golden when running the triple option. Bates is the only team in the NESCAC to employ that scheme.

The triple option involves three players in the backfield: the quarterback — in the pistol formation (four yards behind the center) — and two rushers lined up beside and/or behind him. When the triple option play is run, the quarterback must make two reads. First, he must decide whether or not to hand the ball off to one of the rushers, depending on which player the

defense tries to pursue. If the quarterback fakes the first handoff, he must then make a similar decision with the second rusher.

If the quarterback fakes the second handoff as well, he takes it himself, hoping that the defense has mistakenly pursued the other rushers and thus overcommitted.

This unorthodox scheme has been somewhat effective so far in freeing Golden to run. The New Bedford, Mass. native has 51 rushing yards through two games, just behind his two junior running backs, Peter Boyer (84 yards) and Kyle Flaherty (62 yards).

Tufts' defense is now tasked with preparing to stop the triple option.

"To a certain extent it does [change our gameplan]," Civetti said. "I think that's why they run the triple option because it makes you have to prepare differently than you have all season. You see the ball differently, the speed of it is hard to get used to. It takes a while for the defense to get in rhythm to their rhythm."

Defensively, Bates is still coping with the recent graduation of linebacker Mark Upton ('17). A three-time member of the All-NESCAC First Team, Upton ranked third in the conference last year in total tackles (87), second in tackles for loss (14) and second in sacks (7). Attempting to fill this void are a number of players, including junior linebackers Bobby Dee (who leads Bates with 16 tackles) and Chase Fulton (who shares the team lead with 2.5 tackles for loss).

McDonald, Dolan and the Jumbo offense will look to get their team a win on the road by capitalizing against the Bobcats' defense.

"Last week we missed a couple of opportunities," Dolan said. "I think the big thing this week is not squandering those opportunities, and really making the most of all of our drives."

The Tufts-Bates matchup will kick off at Garcelon Field at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday.

Women's soccer: Tufts' unbeaten run ends at MIT

by Yuan Jun Chee Sports Editor

Tufts suffered its first defeat of the season at neighboring MIT on Tuesday night, falling 2–1 in Steinbrenner Stadium.

Prior to the loss, Tufts drew Brandeis 1–1 on Saturday. The Jumbos are now 3–1–3 this season.

"It’s frustrating because we’re good but sometimes you just want the results to back you up a little," head coach Martha Whiting said. "I think the great thing is that we still have more than half our season in front of us — we have eight games to play, which is a lot of time to prove yourself. We’re hard to beat, but we’re starting to find our rhythm and as long as we carry that through the rest of our NESCAC schedule we’re going to be in really good shape."

On Tuesday, the Jumbos became the latest victim of the 10–0 No. 15 MIT Engineers.

The Engineers entered the game with both the leading scorer and leading provider of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. Sophomore Chessa Hoekstra boasts eight goals while sophomore midfielder Emily Berzolla already has 10 assists this season.

Despite the scoreline, the Jumbos were the dominant team in terms of shots, taking 13 compared to the Engineers' nine. But the Jumbos were unable to make their chances count. Junior MIT goalkeeper Lily Mueller finished the game with a career-high six saves.

Tufts tried to get going early, with first-year forward Elizabeth Reed taking a shot on the MIT goal 19 seconds into the game. However, it was the Engineers who struck first. In the 12th minute, junior for-

ward Amy Apostol was left with too much time at the top of the box and fired a powerful shot into the top corner past Tufts' junior goalkeeper Emily Bowers.

Bowers was called into action again in the 34th minute, diving to her left to make a smart stop against MIT's sophomore forward Allie Werner to keep the deficit at just one. However, the Jumbos couldn't prevent the Engineers from doubling their lead 12 minutes into the second half. Off a long clearance from MIT sophomore defender Lily Bailey, Apostol was able to beat several defenders and lobbed the ball over an onrushing Bowers.

"They definitely challenged us in a way that we might not have faced before and they exploited our weaknesses a little bit," Bowers said. "That first goal was unfortunate because it happened early on in the game; we came back and fought

it, but then the second goal was a bit unlucky — they had a beautiful chip and so it was a bummer that they got two goals on us."

Tufts pulled one back through first-year forward Sophie Lloyd just seven minutes later. In scoring her fourth collegiate goal, Lloyd expertly converted sophomore midfielder Jenna Troccoli's assist past Mueller.

Tufts managed just one shot in the rest of the game despite pushing forward, as MIT saw out the victory.

"They’re probably the best MIT team I’ve ever seen but I do feel like it was a game that could have gone either way," Whiting said. "I don’t think that they ran the game, it was really even — there were times when they took it to us, there were times when we took it to them. I know we see WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 7