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Tufts Democrats brings gubernatorial candidate Bob Massie to Tufts

by Ani Hopkins

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Bob Massie, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, spoke at Tufts on Tuesday night at an event co-sponsored by Tufts Democrats and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life.

The event, held in the Terrace Room, was the third and final installment in the Tufts Democrats’ three-part 2018 Gubernatorial Series co-sponsored by Tisch College.

The series has already brought Democratic candidates Setti Warren and Jay Gonzalez to Tufts this semester.

After a brief introduction by Jaya Khetarpal, the political director for Tufts Democrats, Massie began his remarks with a personal parable relating his childhood experiences of exclusion due to disability and transitioned to the broader themes of exclusion and oppression, which formed the backbone of his talk.

Massie argued that issues of sustainable community building and social justice can be viewed through an economic lens.

Massie also highlighted issues including affordable housing, public transportation, renewable energy initiatives and workers’ rights in a world of increasing automation.

Early in his remarks, Massie prompted the audience of about 18 with two questions. He asked them what they wanted the world to be in 20 years, and what they wanted themselves to be in 20 years.

Answers to the first question included “just,” “empathetic” and “prosperous for all people.”

Answers to the second question included “happy,” “mature” and “satisfied [with] 20 years of Democratic rule.”

Massie mentioned his advocacy for improvements to Massachusetts public transit.

Former Tufts president Lawrence Bacow to serve as Harvard’s president

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Lawrence S. Bacow, who served as president of Tufts from 2001 to 2011 and worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was selected to become the 29th president of Harvard University on Feb. 11. According to the Harvard Gazette, the decision process was extensive; the search committee sent out 375,000 emails to students and faculty for suggestions. When

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the committee kept receiving encouragements to consider Bacow for the position, they decided to interview him. The article said that Bacow himself had been part of the presidential search committee, but he withdrew in December when Bill Lee, the committee chair, asked him to join the pool of candidates.

In a message to the Harvard University community, Lee said that Bacow was chosen not only due to his passionate comsee BACOW, page 2

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Bob Massie, Democratic candidate for governor, speaks in the Terrace Room at an event hosted by Tufts Democrats on Feb. 27. and voted for Trump once will not react [to increasing job loss in the future] with fear and grief and anger, you’re wrong,” Massie said.

Misha Linnehan, a senior and the president of Tufts Democrats, moderated a question-and-answer session at the end of the talk. see MASSIE , page 2

ID card scanner improves accessibility in Women’s Center

Lawrence Bacow, the newly appointed president of Harvard University, poses for a portrait.

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“The economic vitality of the whole state depends on people being able to move around, not necessarily with cars,” Massie said.

Massie also critiqued current Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker for his inaction on expanding transportation.

“The Chinese have managed to build 12,000 miles of high-speed rail in the last 15 years, and the United States has zero. This governor is not doing anything about it,” Massie said.

He also spoke about automation and the future of work, weighing the danger of increasing job loss due to automation.

“One of the first things I would do is appoint a commission on the future of work, in order to assess these [automation] problems immediately. Because if you think that this will remain a stable democracy as millions and millions of people who already feel that the system is rigged against them

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The Women’s Center announced in its Feb. 12 newsletter that it had installed an ID card scanner to expand student access to the center.

K. Martinez, the director of the Women’s Center, said they led the initiative in an effort to make the Women’s Center more accessible to students who use the space. They explained that during their time at the center, they have seen that students have wanted to use the center when staff were not available to open it.

“My intention was to have a system where more people could access the Women’s Center when my staff wouldn’t be available, so that’s why I thought the key card system would allow more people to be in and use the space,” they said.

According to Martinez, the Women’s Center is now accessible to those who have signed up for key card access between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. Monday through Friday, with flexible weekend hours.

Women’s Center Publicity and Community Liaison Intern Heresa Laforce welcomed the increased access, explaining that in the past, the center had to be closed when there was no staff member in the building.

“Last year I went to the Women’s

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Center a lot and I would’ve appreciated it if I could’ve gone on weekends and heard this too last semester as a staff member,” Laforce, a sophomore, said. “If … [staff members] weren’t here for our shifts, then the center had to be closed.

So now with key card access, more people can use the space and get a feel for the Women’s Center.”

Martinez said increased access to the Women’s Center, like that to other spaces on campus, came about in response to the wants and needs of students.

“What I’m seeing is students thinking about the spaces, what they want, and if the spaces match their needs,” Martinez said. “So for the Women’s Center, that has meant key card access so more people can use the space, and similarly that reflection has happened with Start House, where students felt that they needed the space to be more accessible.”

Martinez said that initiatives such as key card access need to be part of an ongoing conversation between students and the Tufts administration.

“I think it’s really important that us at the center and us at the university keep just thinking about the current needs of students and re-evaluating what we’re doing constantly,” Martinez said.

Martinez said the center has already seen increased use since the implemensee WOMEN'S CENTER, page 2

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continued from page 1 When asked how he would react to allegations that the Massie campaign is behind its competitors in terms of organization, fundraising and supporters, Massie’s campaign manager, Mike McGinn, interjected.

“We’ve swept Northampton, Amherst [and] Lexington. We’re expecting to do fine in Concord [and] Somerville this weekend.

In delegate count, we’re beating at least one of our opponents and trailing the other,” McGinn said. “In dollars per delegate, I think

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we’re beating everybody,” he added, eliciting laughter from the audience.

In an interview with the Daily, Massie explained why he accepted the speaking engagement at Tufts.

“Young people could have much more impact than they realize,” Massie said. “I’m hoping that young people will feel inspired, not just by me and my campaign by itself, but by the idea that there are opportunities to have deep change. In fact, they can have a decisive impact.”

Attendance at the Massie event was around 18 people, not counting press and Massie’s staff.

Khetarpal, a junior, said the speaker series was designed to give students a sense of clarity on each of the candidates and their platforms.

“For people who are Massachusetts voters, we’re hoping that by attending these events, we can give them greater clarity on who they might want to vote for. For those who aren’t Massachusetts voters, but who are interested in local or state politics, we’re hoping to give them a better idea of how these campaigns are run,” Khetarpal said.

Former Tufts President Bacow discusses challenges in adjusting to new role BACOW

continued from page 1 mitment to Harvard but also for his work in higher education programs. Lee added that Bacow had devoted himself to teaching other leaders as President-in-Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 2011 to 2014 and through his current position as Hauser Leader-in-Residence at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.

He especially highlighted Bacow’s achievements as president of Tufts.

“He worked tirelessly to advance Tufts’ excellence,” Lee said. “With colleagues, he embraced diversity as a cornerstone of excellence; he strengthened Tufts’ connections with its host communities as well as alumni; he engineered a new partnership with what is now Tufts Medical Center; and he led the most ambitious fundraising drive in Tufts history, while adroitly steering the university through the Great Recession.”

Lee also mentioned Bacow’s unique family background: His parents both are immigrants.

Jyoti Jasrasaria, committee chair of the student advisory committee to the presidential search committee and thirdyear student at Harvard Law School, said that she was struck by the way Bacow shares his personal story.

“I think his story suggests a true capacity and willingness to relate to and expand opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds,” she said.

“I have heard about his transformative leadership from friends who were

students at Tufts during his time as President there.”

However, not all Harvard students were as positive about the decision. According to the Harvard Crimson, several undergraduates said they had wanted the next president to be a person of color, and that during the presidential search, some alumni affinity groups had appealed to the committee to consider candidates from diverse backgrounds.

Henry Brooks, a junior at Harvard who wrote an op-ed addressing these criticisms in the Crimson, said students critical of Bacow’s appointment needed to reconsider their reasons for criticism instead of repeating the same basic questions.

“Rather than pinpoint the problem, this allows us to sort of diffusely say, ‘Oh, look, we ended up with another white person, let’s be frustrated about that,’” he said. “If, in fact, you’re interested in inclusion and in widening the horizon of representation, we need to stop performing the same performance, and we need to [start] asking [other] questions than simply ‘Why is Bacow white?’”

In an interview with the Daily, Bacow acknowledged these issues, saying that he would strive to promote diversity as he did during his ten years at Tufts. He said that he saw his appointment as a chance to ensure that all Harvard students of future generations would have similar opportunities to those that were available to him and his family.

“These are difficult times for universities in the U.S. [and] the first time in my lifetime that people have questioned whether or not colleges and universities are actually good for the nation and the society,” he said. “So I see this as an opportunity for public service.”

Bacow said that he hoped he would have as much fun as he did during his time at Tufts. However, he acknowledged that it is a different time for the nation, and his job may be more challenging now than his ten years as Tufts’ president were.

“I think it’s a more challenging time,” he said. “It’s a divided country, and divisions are sometimes on our campuses as well. I hope to be able to bring people together at Harvard.”

Bacow also said that one of his goals was to ensure that the students at Harvard can benefit from all the schools within the university.

He said that one of the best predictors of a college experience is whether students get to know at least one faculty member that they can stay in touch with for the rest of their lives.

“Harvard and Tufts are blessed with remarkable students and faculty,” he said. “I think great things happen when you bring great students together with great faculty, and Harvard has been doing this for many years, as has Tufts. As I learn more about Harvard, I find that most students do have these opportunities, but I want to make sure that everyone has them as well.”

Bacow said that he looked forward to future collaborations between Harvard and Tufts. He said that he heard from countless people who have connections to both universities. However, he added that he also wanted to help Harvard partner with its sister institutions, both in and outside of Boston.

“I think we can all prosper and work together for common goals,” he said. “We will always be competitors in a healthy way, but there are a lots of things we can do together as well.

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continued from page 1 tation of key card access earlier this semester.

“I have already seen a growth in use and huge response from students.

We have a lot of student groups that use the space, formally and informally,” Martinez said. “I’m really happy that we’re able to partner with [ Tufts University Police Department] to get this system working, they’ve been really helpful in streamlining key card access.”

Michelle Delk, a leader in Students Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE), a discussion group that meets at the Women’s Center on Tuesday nights, said she has also noticed an increase in activity within the space.

“The night of [SAGE’s] last meeting, there was also a group celebrating Rosh Chodesh, [United for Immigrant Justice] was having their meeting and

there were students there just talking and doing work as well,” Delk, a sophomore, said.

Delk, who also serves as a Women’s Community Senator for the Tufts Community Union Senate, said the greater accessibility has helped create a stronger sense of community within the Women’s Center.

“We had a mini Super Bowl party [on Feb. 4], with a big potluck, and that was so much fun and helped to foster more of a sense of community that I don’t think we had previously to the degree we now have,” she said.

Delk explained that key card access is a welcome change for the students who use the Women’s Center.

“Being able to have a place to study, nap, whatever you need, is invaluable,” Delk said. “The Women’s Center breathes warmth, it’s a space people want to be in; it looks great, it feels great. Key card access definitely makes the center more accessible,

and both individuals and groups reap those benefits.”

First-year Trina Sanyal also welcomed the change.

“Key card access makes the Women’s Center a more open place for people to congregate outside of what were the traditional hours,” Sanyal said. “It’s nice that it becomes a more communal space that people can hang out and do homework in.”

Key card access is just one way the Women’s Center is working to increase accessibility for the student body and further develop a community space at Tufts, according to Laforce.

“We’re constantly looking to make change and progress,” Laforce said. “I think the expanded hours, as a result of key card access, will encourage anyone who identifies with womanhood, in any capacity, to come and use the space. Hopefully, this is a step in the right direction to welcoming more people into our space.”

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Tufts implements Student Life Review Committee recommendations

by Ethan Isenman and Kunal Kapur Contributing Writers

Since the Student Life Review Committee (SLRC) released its report last September, the committee has been making progress on implementing the suggested changes and plans to revamp social life at Tufts.

The report, identifying problems and outlining recommendations, focuses on improving life at Tufts across seven specific areas: safety and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, campus-wide community, first-year experience, residential experience, Greek life and space.

Notable changes have been made in the areas of physical space and safety and well-being, according to Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon. She spoke about the university’s commitment to opening up more space for student use. “[A] huge piece is 51 Winthrop … twice as many student groups reserved that space than in past semesters … because the fee for student use went from $300 to $50,” McMahon said.

McMahon also said that upcoming renovations to Houston and Miller Halls would maximize space and improve the freshman experience.

Alice Shaughnessy, a special projects administrator in the Dean of Student Affairs Office who is helping spearhead these changes, further detailed what Tufts is doing to improve its use of space.

Shaughnessy said that improvements include moving Rainbow House to 45 Sawyer Ave starting in the 2018–2019 academic year, changing the Asian American

Center into a non-residential space while offering separate Asian-American identity-based housing in Hillside Apartments and creating a First Generation Student Center (F1rst Center) located at 20 Professors Row. Shaughnessy also mentioned the new pre-orientation program, Building Engagement and Access for Students at Tufts (BEAST), which will be available for future incoming firstyears. BEAST aims to help students navigate the transition to college, and is targeted toward first generation students.

These changes to accessibility are in order, senior Ania Ruiz explained.

“I have an English lit class under the basement of … Jackson Gym and there’s a dance class during that class,” Ruiz said. “Space has been an issue my entire time at Tufts.”

Shaughnessy also addressed the postitive changes student leaders of Greek life are making, including starting a fundraising campaign for a Panhellenic Scholarship.

McMahon addressed the university’s perspective on Greek life.

“We want to invest in having a stronger partnership with Greek life leaders and other student groups,” McMahon said.

Isabel Freedman, a first-year, shared support for rekindling Greek life.

“It would be nice if Greek life came back,” Freedman said. “It’s annoying how they’re not able to have that many parties.”

McMahon also said that along with this stronger partnership between the administration and Greek organizations, students will no longer be allowed to rush until the fall of their sophomore year, and

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Tufts will focus more closely on addressing hazing.

“We think, sophomore year in the fall, people are going to have more self-awareness … of what they want from their Tufts experience,” McMahon said.

Kevin Kraft, director of community standards, said the university is reviewing its alcohol policy to ensure that it balances encouraging people to call for help when necessary and holding them accountable for underage use. Additionally, administrators are improving the process for conducting investigations into alleged student organization misconduct, Kraft explained.

McMahon mentioned that Tufts will join the second cohort of a national Hazing Prevention Consortium. The con-

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sortium, she explained, will put Tufts administrators in contact with anti-hazing researchers. She added that her office will be sending out a survey this spring to undergraduates to get a better sense of student attitudes toward hazing.

Furthermore, McMahon said that her office has taken concrete steps toward adjusting the student Code of Conduct, explaining that her office is making an effort to get student input on current policies.

McMahon shared her vision for the future of student life at Tufts.

“I want people to be engaging with intention and authentic, vital passion,” she said. “The goal for [us] is to create a really dynamic, vitally engaging environment for students.”

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Derek Castle R.E.A.L. Talk

How did we get here?

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ost R.E.A.L. students, like me, are commuters. As commuter students, there are advantages and disadvantages. I can step away from college life for a period. I have my independence and my privacy. I can come home when I want, and I don’t have to worry about my leftovers being eaten when I’m gone. Most of the time, anyway.

That also means that I must travel to go to class in the snow. If an event is happening at night or on a day I don’t have class, I must come back. I need to plan to be here if I want to be here.

I live in Revere and drive to school every day. For those of you who are not familiar with the area, that means I drive about 20 minutes each way to get to school. Some people may want to ask why I don’t take public transportation. It would take me just over an hour each way if I took the T to school.

If you add in the time it takes me to get to work after class and then get home at the end of the day, taking the T is not an option. I can only do so much homework on the bus and train.

When I started attending Tufts, I was warned to avoid the PCP routine.

Parking lot, class, parking lot. Some R.E.A.L. students tend to spend as little time as possible on campus because of work, family, etc. I can’t speak for everyone, but I came to Tufts to be at Tufts. I want to take advantage of everything that the school has to offer, and that means more than just the classrooms. There are events happening on campus more frequently than I realize because I didn’t see the flyer posted on the stairs outside of Tisch Library, or I couldn’t read the chalk outline on the ground. I forget that the cannon can be used as a form of communication.

In my first semester, I didn’t spend any time on campus. I skipped GIMs and missed lectures. I snuck into speaker events and regretted leaving early to go to work. I was a R.E.A.L. student who didn’t do anything or join any groups my first semester. I always had something else to do. Usually, that meant work, but I realized much later that I was wasting an opportunity that Tufts was giving me.

I started taking time off from work to go to events when I could. Friends came with me to the lectures on campus. This is a part of my education too. I can take classes anywhere, but I am at Tufts for a reason. Tufts is more than just a classroom or a parking lot. Tufts is the people who come to campus and the groups formed on campus. It is the speaker on Friday afternoon and the lecture on Tuesday night. Maybe I still miss the movie on Wednesday because of work, but I do have rent to pay.

Derek Castle is a staff writer at the Daily.

He is a senior majoring in English. Derek can be reached at Derek.Castle@tufts. edu.

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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Spare Change News, Somerville Homeless Coalition work toward eradicating homelessness

by Fina Short

Features Editor

There are 17,565 people in Massachusetts experiencing homelessness, according to a 2017 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Within Somerville alone, the Somerville Homeless Coalition (SHC) served 2,119 people in 2016, as stated in its annual report.

“It’s now said that Boston has [among] the greatest income inequality of any city in the country. And we have very little affordable housing,” Mark Alston-Follansbee, executive director of the SHC, said.

Somerville has become an increasingly expensive area to live in, with an online estimate by Zillow citing an eight percent increase in housing costs in the past year. At the same time, nonprofits like Spare Change News and the SHC have worked to help individuals throughout the area, including formerly homeless veteran Jerry Harrell.

Born and raised in East Boston, Mass., Harrell left the city in 1970 to fight in the Vietnam War. After years in combat, Harrell found himself back in the United States as a war veteran with nowhere to turn.

“My mom passed away,” Harrell said.

“I was staying with my dad, then he couldn’t cope, and so I had nowhere to go and ended up in the shelter system.”

While he was staying in homeless shelters in Boston, Harrell heard of a new organization called Spare Change News, which partners with those experiencing housing insecurity to provide jobs producing content for and selling its newspapers.

“A gentleman who was a [Spare Change] vendor … brought me into the paper and told me about it,” he said.

Today, Harrell is no longer homeless.

He has overcome troubles with addiction to raise an 18-year-old daughter and gain stable housing, all while working with Spare Change.

“I love it out here this morning,” Harrell said, clutching a stack of newspapers outside the Davis Square Starbucks early one Tuesday morning. “You want one? They’re $2 each.”

Harrell is one of the hundreds of formerly or currently homeless people who have worked with Spare Change since its inception in 1992.

“Jerry was one of the first vendors with Spare Change,” James Shearer, co-founder of Spare Change, said about Harrell. “He’s been around with us in the beginning.”

Shearer and a group of friends started the organization in Boston with the aim of changing the conversation around homelessness.

“I founded Spare Change to give homeless people a voice,” Shearer said.

“We were all homeless at the time.”

Despite lacking housing, Shearer was determined to expand the options available for homeless people to work toward stability and long-term home options.

“We felt that the system of shelters for homeless people was not doing the job,” Shearer said. “It was supposed to help you move forward and move off the street. It wasn’t doing that.”

Beyond his goal of expanding job opportunities, Shearer also hoped to

change the societal image of those experiencing housing insecurity.

“Homeless people would be portrayed as all substance abusers, all mentally ill,” he said. “We tried to create something to show people what’s really going on when it comes to homelessness.”

Shearer himself was able to escape addiction while leading Spare Change, citing the organization as a key factor in getting his life back on track.

“I was using substances; a lot of my life wasn’t right,” he said. “I managed to pull myself together through Spare Change.”

He cites those who have overcome homelessness or gained job skills while at Spare Change as the organization’s greatest success stories.

“It’s been able to provide a resource for homeless people to actually get off the streets, to help them restore their dignity and well-being and make money and eventually get them housing,” Shearer said. “They can’t get rich off the paper but it opens the door to other things.”

Joe, who requested that his last name not be published due to privacy concerns, is a Spare Change vendor often spotted in the Davis Square MBTA Station. Today, he is no longer homeless, but he likes to sell the newspaper because it keeps him in touch with the community.

“I get involved so I don’t forget where I came from,” he said. “I was homeless. I’m not anymore.”

Joe, who was born and raised in Boston, also began working for Spare Change while experiencing problems with addiction and housing.

“My father lost our house,” he said.

“I’m a recovering alcoholic. Thirty-two years.”

He said that selling Spare Change has helped him reach out and help other people out of homelessness.

“It’s helped me get to know people, talk to people. I reach out to people with the cups and everything,” Joe said, referring to people using cups to solicit change. “I tell them, ‘You should sell these [newspapers].’ I got a few people doing that. I reach out to a lot of people.”

While Spare Change News helps those experiencing homelessness work towards long-term job and housing opportunities, other organizations in Somerville work to provide more immediate, concrete solutions.

The SHC, led by Alston-Follansbee, has provided a diverse array of resources for the homeless around Somerville since 1985.

“We have two shelters. We run the biggest food pantry in Somerville — Project SOUP,” Alston-Follansbee said. “There’s also our housing program, and then our prevention program.”

Aside from offering beds and temporary shelter, the SHC also works with clients on case management, aiming to place them in permanent housing.

“This has been kind of a natural progression,” Alston-Follansbee said. “We started with shelters because you have this emergency need … Finally, we started doing case management, which works with people to help them get through these systems that are not easy to navigate.”

While working with the homeless to place them in long-term housing, AlstonFollansbee and the SHC began to recognize that they would never have enough resources or space to house everyone in need of shelter.

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Jerry Harrell, Vietnam War veteran and Spare Change News vendor, sells newspapers in Davis Square on Feb. 27.

“What we realized was that [for] people who don’t have anything, any little crisis could potentially push them into homelessness. So we’ll do whatever it takes to keep them housed,” AlstonFollansbee said.

Instead, the SHC aims to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place through prevention programs, working with families and individuals through immediate crisis management.

“If somebody’s car breaks down, they can’t go to work. If they can’t go to work, they can’t get paid. Then they can’t pay their rent — so we’ll just fix the car. We’ll do whatever it takes so that they can stay housed,” Alston-Follansbee said.

According to the organization’s annual report, the SHC’s prevention programs kept 236 people in Somerville out of homelessness in 2016. Nevertheless, Alston-Follansbee says there remains much more to be done, especially with housing costs in the Boston area continuing to rise.

“I worked in Cambridge for [nearly 13] years before I came here,” he said. “We could always get people apartments in Somerville. So now we have people coming in our door who are from Somerville, they want to stay in Somerville and they’re being forced out.”

He cited income inequality in Boston and the geographical density of Somerville as factors pushing people out of the neighborhood.

“People are having to go to Lynn, or they’re having to go to Fall River, which is further and further away from their support systems,” he said. “How are they going to commute?”

When asked how individuals could get involved or help, Alston-Follansbee said getting politically involWWWved and advocating for improved mental health resources has never been more important.

“It goes back to poverty being a political issue,” he said. “Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost that sense of what our responsibility is to ourselves and to our community and sense of community.”

He stated that working to get people housed in any community benefits everyone.

“It will cost people less money if we have people housed than to have them homeless,” Alston-Follansbee said. “So why don’t we give them the basic necessities, improve their quality of life, and it’ll make it easier on everybody. We could change this dynamic quickly if we put our mind to it.”

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Berlinale films challenge audience’s assumptions of cinema

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The Berlinale Palast during the Berlin Film Festival in 2007.

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Prominent film festivals such as the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) offer red carpet events, press conferences, screenings and after-parties to those in the film industry. For many locals, however, Berlinale means an overcrowded city, fully booked restaurants and a frustrating hunt to find tickets. Occasionally, film aficionados might discover the works of talented directors under the festival’s Forum and Panorama sections or even score a ticket or two to the competing films. The process of purchasing tickets is tough: Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.

three days prior to the screening at and almost always sell out within seconds.

Despite failing to see Wes Anderson’s world premiere of “Isle of Dogs” or any of the award winners, this reviewer was lucky enough to attend screenings of three movies, two of them competing for the Golden Bear, the festival’s top prize. Overall, these movies respond to the audience’s perceptions regarding a group or nation’s cinema by rejecting, accepting or complicating them.

A Queer Anti-Romance: “Tinta Bruta” Queer narratives saw some mainstream success in 2017, namely through the release of Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name.” Such success fostered debates on the sheer (im)possibility of

depicting intimate queer romances without a larger statement or narrative. “Tinta Bruta” responds to such debates by offering a queer anti-romance. The movie’s protagonist is Pedro, a shy introvert who earns his living through gay chat rooms and faces criminal charges for assaulting a bully. Although Pedro is in a queer relationship, the romance is never front and center. The movie chooses to focus on Pedro instead, and does a tremendous job portraying a character trapped by the adversities he faces as a queer man. With this goal, the movie ultimately shifts and reverses the debate and asks whether queer narratives can exist without concentrating on romance. Featuring stunning neon visuals involving and a catchy soundtrack including a feature from Anohni, “Tinta Bruta” is a rewarding discovery.

Rating: 4/5 Throwback to Hollywood Mid-Budgets: “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot” “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot” is Gus Van Sant’s much-anticipated return to the spotlight after critical flops “Restless” (2011), “Promised Land” (2012) and “The Sea of Trees” (2015). It is an adaptation of cartoonist John Callahan’s memoir of the same name, which centers on Callahan’s battle with alcoholism and physical disability. Joaquin Phoenix plays Callahan, and the film features an allstar cast including Jonah Hill, Jack Black, Rooney Mara and Carrie Brownstein.

The casting, along with the uplifting storyline, makes it clear that Van Sant’s main inspiration is Oscar-winning Hollywood mid-budgets of the ’90s and early 2000s.

Although Phoenix’s performance is top notch and the script has plenty of amusing moments, the movie fails to bring anything new to the table. The director’s ultimate offense is conforming too much to Hollywood conventions. Although the movie was well received at Sundance, it is surprising to see itamong the more ambitious, challenging movies in the competition.

Rating: 3/5 Dark, Bloody Comedy set in Contemporary Iran: “Khook” In a December 2010 TED Talk, visual artist Shirin Neshat declares, “Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political.” Mani Haghighi’s “Khook” verifies this. It provides a commentary on social media in a time in which the Iranian public’s access to it is denied and displays the government’s control over Iran’s film industry by having a blacklisted director as its protagonist. Yet, more importantly, “Khook” shatters Western audiences’ assumptions about contemporary Iran as well as what constitutes Iranian cinema. A complete inversion of the subtle, humanist filmmaking of famed Iranian directors Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi, “Khook” is loud, vulgar and awfully entertaining to watch. It features several murders, a costume party and a dream sequence involving a neon tennis racket and Persian hard rock.

Unjustly (but expectedly) overlooked at the awards ceremony, “Khook” will most likely remain an audience favorite instead of a critical darling.

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M.C. Escher is reborn at the Museum of Fine Arts

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The door of the Charlotte F. and Irving W. Rabb gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) is now open to an alternative universe. From Feb. 3 to May 28, 2018, the gallery is dedicated to the first display of the fantastical prints and drawings by Dutch printmaker M.C. Escher.

M.C. Escher (1898–1972) was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. After studying at the School of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem from 1919 to 1922, Escher embraced his passion for printmaking. It seems Escher was incredibly sensitive to geometry’s paradoxical perfection of mathematical shapes and unreasonable optical illusions. Escher was particularly intrigued by symmetry for its allusion to reflection, a concept that he found fascinating.

Escher’s early works of nature are simultaneously familiar and sentimental. “Rippled Surface,” a color linocut created in 1950, depicts a disturbed reflection of the moon and tree branches in water. The silhouettes of the branches are rendered flat by an unvaried hue of black. The moon, a piece of white negative space, only stands out in contrast to its surrounding, dim brown background. It doubtlessly conforms to the stereotypical connotation of the moon as a reserved and feminine goddess. The quiet scenery poetically captures the posi-

tive aspect of loneliness, as a widely beloved conduit for self-reflection. The two systems of concentric ellipses represent water ripples, adding movement to the otherwise still image, and reveal the imageries of the moon, the night sky and the tree branches as water reflections. The ripples threaten the viewers against engaging deeply with the imagery by revealing the piece’s illusory and ephemeral nature.

Escher’s fascination with reflections is even more evident in “Puddle.” The 1952 color woodcut depicts a puddle among footprints and wheel marks on a muddy road. In the puddle is another reflection of silhouettes of trees, the moon and the night sky. This woodcut is especially reminiscent of Japanese art, both visually and thematically. The apparent outlines in the scene give the figures an almost cartoonish character, resembling the countryside scenes in Miyazaki films. The general use of fine lines in “Puddle” creates texture and depth, alluding to the meticulous delineations in traditional Japanese paintings and ukiyo-e prints.

“Puddle” speaks to the spirit of Japanese art on a deeper level through the adoption of the principle of wabi-sabi, the appreciation of the imperfect. In Japanese art, wabi-sabi can be embedded in various structures and textures, such as asymmetry in architecture and cracked porcelains.

Similarly, all the subjects in “Puddle” are, in a sense, incomplete. Neither the road nor the reflections in the pud-

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The footprints on the road are similarly incomplete as representations of people. Desolation lies at the core of “Puddle,” a depiction of presence through absence, emotional ecstasy through loss.

Notably, the very process of printmaking is one of reflection. The printmaker etches patterns and outlines on

a hard surface before replicating them on paper. The final prints are literal mirror images of the carved surfaces. Printmaking also relates to reflection conceptually via the prints’ removal from their respective prototypes. The relationship between the artist and the artwork in printmaking is much less intimate than that in drawing or painting. The printmaker is partially deprived of control over the final product by the intermediate step of carving. see M.C. ESCHER, page 6

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continued from page 6 Similarly, reflections are inevitably distorted reproductions of the physical objects or images they mirror.

Escher’s later, more surreal prints are based on repetition and metamorphosis. “Circle Limit III,” a 1959 color woodcut, depicts a myriad of fish organized so geometrically and symmetrically that there is no negative space left in the round image. The size of the fish decreases as the fish radiate from the center of the circle to its edge. However, the structure of each individual fish and the organization of the school of fish remain the same. The consistency in these frameworks of the overall image

touches upon the concept that all beings are essentially the same, and corroborated by the prevalence of mathematical concepts such as the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence in nature.

Meanwhile, “Metamorphosis II” (1939–1940) illustrates the cyclical nature of time and invokes the concept of reincarnation. The incredibly long and panoramic color woodcut starts and ends with crossword puzzles with only the word “metamorphose,” but it gradually morphs into other patterns and figures as the viewer’s eyes move toward the middle. The gradual change from one substance to another shown in “Metamorphosis II” also suggests the essential sameness among all existence

in the universe. The identical ends of the print allude to the repetition of life cycles through reincarnation.

By installing two almost identical entrances to the exhibition, which are also exits, the MFA’s curatorial staff created a space that resonates with the theme of repetition and cycles in Escher’s works.

As some visitors enter, others exit. The end and the beginning coincide, and so do life and death symbolically.

The magical space that Escher’s works and the MFA’s curatorial team created invites visitors to both stretch their vision to the land of imagination and scrutinize the familiar world from quirky perspectives, both literally and metaphorically.

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Christopher Panella A Column From A Galaxy Far, Far Away

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his week, I’m talking about female characters in movie and web series “Forces of Destiny” (2017–). Now, as I’ve previously stated, my favorite character has always been Leia. She’s strong, resourceful and the leader of the Rebellion. She didn’t shed a tear (onscreen) when her home planet was blown up. That, my friends, is a tough character. I did, however, have new favorite characters when “The Force Awakens” (2015) and “Rogue One” (2016) were released.

After watching both of these films, I fell in love with their characters. Rey became my favorite character for a while. I loved her struggle with identity, the suddenness of her being pulled into this galaxy-wide conflict and her discovery of being this extremely powerful Force user. Sure, audiences can see loneliness and sadness in her, but she doesn’t spend the entire movie talking about it (cough, Anakin in the prequels, cough).

I hated those articles and viewers that claimed she was a Mary Sue. She isn’t a Mary Sue, and you can guarantee I’ll have a column about that soon.

“Rogue One” brought me a new favorite character in Jyn Erso. I loved Jyn’s story, especially since it really showed this transformation from being uninvolved with anything to literally sacrificing her life for the Rebellion (spoiler, but also, if you haven’t seen “Rogue One” by now, you have a problem). One of my favorite things about “Rogue One” was that there wasn’t a forced romance subplot. I was fearful that she and Cassian would fall in love, especially considering they were both doomed to die from the moment the movie was announced.

I remember getting so frustrated watching “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) because I hated that Leia fell in love with Han. It felt extremely forced

by Lucas. An unpopular opinion, sure, but also, it just felt like there was little context for this relationship to build off of from “A New Hope” (1977).

Now, as Disney continues to bring us amazing female characters and hopefully continues to explore previous female characters (give me more Ahsoka, please), I have to say how thankful I am that it seems Rey won’t be pushed into a romance plot. There was context for a relationship with Finn, but then Rose took a Crait ski-speeder and wrecked that idea in “The Last Jedi” (2017).

With “Forces of Destiny,” fans like me have gotten to explore these characters more deeply and watch short episodes solely following these characters.

There is no denying the fact that Disney has done a fantastic job providing the canon with interesting, strong female characters and exploring the canon’s already-established female characters.

I now have multiple favorite characters, from Leia to Rey to Jyn. Disney is doing these characters justice, and it makes me so happy. From “Forces of Destiny” to expanding plots, one can only hope that this is the permanent future of the series. I’m personally excited to see Emilia Clark’s character, Qi’Ra, in “Solo” (2018) this upcoming May. As always, may the force be with you and feel free to email me any thoughts!

Christopher Panella is a first-year majoring in film and media studies. He can be reached at christopher.panella@tufts.edu.

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Aneurin Canham-Clyne Red Star

The lesser weevils

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We’re capitalists,” Nancy Pelosi told a young voter at a town hall last year, to the jeers of the thirteen million people who voted for a socialist in the 2016 primaries. Pelosi’s statement, the election of Tom Perez as DNC Chair and the Democrats’ strategy of resistance by surrender show one painful truth: the party will not and cannot save us.

Whether refusing to support Democratic Socialists, passing a disastrous Heritage Foundation white paper for a health program, bombing seven countries or passing a stimulus too small by half, the Democrats have proven uniquely incompetent, both in government and resistance. Democrats have chosen center-right market paths even when their base demanded social democratic reform. They rely on fear of the Republicans — see the Alabama Senate race where a cardboard cutout narrowly defeated a gun-toting pedophile — to win elections.

There are two reasons for this: an anti-democratic party structure and class interests.

With party leadership agitating for a new Cold War because thirteen dudes destroyed democracy by convincing lifelong Fox News viewers that Hillary was bad, the Democrats are busy blowing the political opportunity of a generation. Just like they did in 2009–2010.

Instead of digging in on DACA and the Wall, they offered Trump a deal, which he rejected, because the Republican party knows how to get its base stoked. The fate of those kids now lies in the courts. Pussy hats and pablum are all the Democrats have left. They offer tiny subsidies and tax tweaks to fight historic income inequality and apocalyptic warming.

The major resistance victories came from grassroots organizing (airports, ACA, anti-racist activism) while all its defeats (taxes, immigration, refugees round two, net neutrality) happened when democrats failed to offer a positive vision or even the sort of determined resistance that galvanizes people.

There’s real energy on the left. It will go nowhere if it’s channeled into a party where all the money, the posts and the power are controlled by an unelected clique of operatives and officials no more than a few thousand strong. The Democrats are undemocratic. You can’t vote for a party leader, can’t join a mass organization or read a formal party magazine, the way you can in a socialist party. Power flows from the donors, and the democrats will do nothing to offend them, hence the lack of social democratic reforms in their platforms, the bland battalions of John Ossoffs and the fetishism for an army beyond public input.

These arrogant cowards even rehabilitated the vilest mass murderer of the 21st century, George W. Bush.

Vote, I guess, it takes five minutes. Maybe campaign for some Social Democrats. But to defeat the center-right, we must break their game. Join unions, organize reading circles, build a political life that is social, interpersonal and radical. Protest, occupy, give direct mutual aid, join a socialist party, demand a good wage. Don’t put your faith in the Democrats, they don’t have faith in you. The people will solve this crisis. The Democrats will continue their death march, chewing through a whole society, heedless of the consequences.

Voting blue is no solution; let’s build a revolution.

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

Opinion

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Sex Health Week brings essential dialogue to campus Content warning: This article contains discussions of sexual assault.

Last week, the Florida House of Representatives declared porn a public health risk. This week, Tufts is bringing a gay porn star to campus.

Tonight’s talk with activist and pornographic film actor Conner Habib, discussing intersectionality and consent, is just one of the many highlights in Tufts’ first annual Sex Health Week. The events throughout the week, organized by Tufts Sex Health Reps in partnership with the Center for Awareness, Resources and Education (CARE), incorporate a wide scope of activities. Some integrate serious themes of race, religion and gender, while others are more lighthearted (check out “Sex Toy vs. Dog Toy” tomorrow in Miller Hall). On Friday alone, you can go from “sexy kickboxing” to a conversation with Muslim Chaplain Celene Ibrahim about female sexuality in the Quran.

Creating a safe, sex-positive environment on college campuses is crucial. A recent Harvard study estimated 60 percent of its undergraduate population is sexually active, while only 59 percent of those students are using protection for vaginal sex and even fewer for anal and oral sex.

National estimates show that 15 percent of college students report never using any protection at all. With this many sexually active students, a fair amount of whom are not engaging in sex safely, promoting

a dialogue around sexual enjoyment and protection is critical on our campus.

In the past year’s onslaught of sexual assault allegations, we have seen that words alone can create tangible change. For what seems like the first time in history, hugely successful men are being toppled by a range of accusations, courtesy of the brave survivors willing to tell them. Tufts students, too, have engaged in discussion of #MeToo, sharing their own personal accounts as well as weighing in on the movement as a whole.

Unfortunately, as these stories fade from the headlines, there is a lurking danger that this disgusting culture could creep back up. Sex Health Week succeeds in reinvigorating campus concern around this national conversation, while still celebrating sexuality in an uplifting manner.

In all of this discussion of sexual responsibility, it is hard to ignore Tufts’ own murky history with sexual misconduct. The university has been found in violation of Title IX in the past, as the Boston Globe reported, for issues involving “a number of Tufts’ policies on handling sexual assault complaints.” Tufts policies around consent and sexual harassment have been called into question time and time again. We must remember, amidst this celebration of sexual pleasure, the dark underbelly of sexual harassment on our campus and the real toll it has taken on our peers.

Of course, sexual misconduct at Tufts is not limited to the instances that make

headlines. Nearly 25 percent of surveyed Tufts students reported experiences of non-consensual sexual contact and intercourse. Perhaps what’s most daunting about these statistics is that most of us aren’t shocked by them; we understand this to be the reality of social life in college, even at a college like Tufts.

These gross statistics, and the insidious nature of sexual assault on our campus in general, make conversations around safe, consensual sex that much more important.

Sex Health Week serves not only as a celebration of sexuality, but also signals the importance of communication and mutual enjoyment of sex. It adds a much-needed levity to conversations around sex; when so much of the recent news is littered with sexual worst-case scenarios, these events underscore all of the amazing things sex can do for you as well. It brings a useful, intellectual lens to the labyrinth of college hookup culture and is a reminder that Tufts has the resources — from condoms and STI tests to training workshops and counseling — to build a community engaged in sex that is healthy, enjoyable and, most importantly, consensual.

Let’s use Sex Health Week as a jumpstart to reshape the way college students interact with sex and further these dialogues of sexual health, positivity and consent far past this one week.

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David Meyer Postgame Press

Teammates in finance

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ecently, there have been rumors that former NFL cornerback Charles Tillman, affectionately called “Peanut” by Bears fans such as myself, is now working for the FBI. Considering the amazing movie prospects, this is a great thing. It also reminded me of an old study that was released many years ago. When I found the Sports Illustrated (SI) report from 2009, it unsurprisingly said the same thing as it had when I first read it: 78 percent of NFL players go broke or are under financial stress within two years of being out of the league.

When the study came out, there was shock from players and fans. How could players go broke? There was especially confusion regarding star players such as Terrell Owens and Clinton Portis, who earned (and lost) over 80 and 43 million dollars, respectively. How could someone spend that much money? Well, there were many factors. The players’ lack of education was pointed to, as was misinformation about investing and to whom their money should be trusted. People also villainized the oft-praised traits of living a lavish lifestyle and helping family and friends. By the end of the SI article, it was clear that there were plenty of ways to avoid going broke. It was also clear that the blame should not completely rest on the players, but on the league and the entire system, as well.

This is not a sad column about those who went broke though, but is instead a positive column about how change has come. The number is no longer 78 percent of players. There is now an NFL Continuing Education Program for former and current players to earn a college degree or achieve higher education through the NFL. Even more important is that players are now being helped more by their fellow NFL players. Marshawn Lynch is a prudent example. He not only has reportedly saved almost all of his career savings, but he also helps his teammates with their finances. Seattle Seahawks players used to talk about how Lynch helped them with their 401k retirement plans, even during practice. Lynch was once asked why he is so frugal with his spending and smart about his saving. His response: “If you came from eatin’ cereal with roaches in it before, dawg… Feel what I’m sayin’? You wouldn’t want to do that again, right?”

Retired players have also taken to helping current ones make good financial decisions. Former football player Jack Brewer started a company to help professional athletes complete their education and invest wisely. Rod Smith advised teammates when he was a player and continues to do so in retirement. An entire NFL Personal Finance Camp was created by former player Patrick Kerney in 2015 for players and their families.

There are now many more resources for NFL players to keep their finances stable and safe once they are out of the league. I can only hope that more and more take advantage of the resources they have and keep on the path of financial success.

David Meyer is a sophomore majoring in film and media studies. David can be reached at david.meyer@tufts.edu.

Sports

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

MEN'S SQUASH

Jumbos finish third in Conroy Cup, close season ranked 27th in nation

by Arlo Moore-Bloom Assistant Sports Editor

This weekend, the Tufts men’s squash team finished third in the Conroy Cup, the fourth-highest division of the Collegiate Squash Association (CSA) College Men’s Team Nationals. After defeating then-No. 29 Conn. College on Friday, the Jumbos fell to top-seeded Hobart (then ranked 25th in the country) in the semifinals the next day.

The team wrapped up its season with a consolation win over then-No. 30 Haverford on Sunday.

The Jumbos worked on their fitness levels in the weeks prior to Nationals, knowing a change was necessary after a disappointing performance at NESCAC Championships in early February. Sophomore Raghav Kumar, who typically plays in the top position on the ladder for Tufts and was recently named to the All-NESCAC second team, commented on the team’s change in regimen.

“At NESCACs, we realized that we were not really at the fitness level of the other NESCAC teams,” Kumar said.

“So the last few weeks, we were doing a lot of running and sprinting to get ready for Nationals. It definitely paid off in the end.”

Tufts played all three of its matches this weekend at Wesleyan in Middletown, Conn. The atmosphere at both venues reflected the excitement that postseason matches bring. According to Kumar, there were fans at every match, and the Jumbos were shouting words of encouragement to their teammates, contributing to the boisterous atmosphere.

“It’s unlike any match you play during the season. Everyone’s yelling for each other, you have parents and fans coming out,” Kumar said. “My parents flew out from San Francisco to watch me play. It’s a special environment because it’s the last weekend of the season and everyone’s competing their absolute hardest.”

Tufts junior Alan Litman, also a second team All-NESCAC recipient, echoed Kumar’s sentiments.

“It was pretty packed,” Litman said.

“I’ve played at Wesleyan a few times, but I’ve never seen it as crowded as it was then. It was a great atmosphere.”

Tufts’ 6–3 win over Haverford in the third-place match proved to be the easiest of the weekend. The Jumbos had won the same matchup, 7–2, on Jan. 16, so the Fords entered Sunday’s match looking for revenge. Haverford also had momentum after an upset win over then-No. 27 Hamilton in the first round of the tournament. With Tufts having lost the day before, coach Joe Raho was nervous that his team wouldn’t be up to the task. But the Jumbos proved otherwise.

“No one had their head down after the loss to Hobart. We regrouped and made a monster effort on Sunday,” Raho said.

“It’s hard to come back after a tough loss, get your energy up and get your focus back into a match. Haverford really wanted to prove that they could beat us.”

The Jumbos’ second match of the weekend was a different story, however. In another rematch — Hobart

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Junior co-captain Brett Raskopf kneels to hit the ball in a match against Dickinson at Harvard’s Murr Center on Jan 20, 2017. defeated Tufts 5–4 in Palo Alto, Calif. on Jan. 10 — the Conroy Cup’s top seed again displayed its superiority, winning 6–3. Raho was ultimately disappointed with his team’s performance.

“I don’t think we did amazingly well against Hobart,” Raho said. “I think we played okay. We showed a ton of courage and heart, but in terms of actual quality, I think we were probably capable of playing slightly better than we did.”

Litman was upset about the loss to the Statesmen because until he sustained an injury midway through the match, the Jumbos appeared to be in a good position to pull off the upset.

“I fell on my ankle weirdly,” Litman said. “I couldn’t put any weight on it, so I had to forfeit the match. My team was counting on me to get a win, so it was rough. In the end it wasn’t close, but you never know what could’ve been.”

Junior co-captain Aidan Porges also had a tough match against Hobart. The Philadelphia native took on Hobart senior Jack Shannon in the fifth position in what proved to be a very even battle.

After Porges and Shannon split the first two games, the pivotal third game lasted 34 points, as Shannon ultimately won 18–16 before wrapping up the win with a victory in the fourth game.

“The guy that I was playing was my size, so it was a very physical match — something you don’t see that often in squash,” Porges said. “It was tough. I was doing my best to return every ball and I fought for every point. He was just a bit stronger that day.”

Tufts’ first match of the weekend, against Conn. College, was critical. While the Jumbos nabbed a higher seed at Nationals, the teams split their regular season meetings, with the men from Medford victorious on Jan. 16 and the Camels on top at the NESCAC Championships. The match was especially big for Kumar, who had split matches against his first-position opponent, Conn. College first-year Alex Snape, in the regular season, as well. Kumar claimed a gritty victory in the rubber match, winning in five games: 7–11, 11–9, 7–11, 11–9,

11–8. Junior co-captain Brett Raskopf commented on the importance of his teammate’s match.

“For Raghav to beat him at Nationals, when it mattered most, was huge,” Raskopf said. “It was cool for him to win in five [games], too. There were a ton of people watching, and I know he really wanted to beat the kid.”

Raho was pleased with his team’s performance against Conn. College, dubbing it a B+ effort.

“We played well against Conn.

College,” Raho said. “We came back from two games down in some matches or winning some in five. We showed a lot of heart and determination to pull out these really close matches.”

The weekend wraps up Raho’s first season at the helm for the Jumbos, and he was pleased with his team’s overall performance in his inaugural campaign. Raho faced a sharp learning curve, but Tufts’ progression in the final national rankings — from No. 28 last year to No. 27 this year — illustrates his positive contributions.

“In college squash, moving up these ranking spots is really hard,” Raho said.

“This year, we moved up one spot. It was difficult, but it was earned, and it was only earned through hard work and dedication as a team. I’d love to keep pushing up and hopefully move up into the No. 10–20 [range], which would be really impressive.”

Raskopf evaluates the season similarly and thinks that Raho deserves a lot of the credit.

“It’s a testament to our coach,” Raskopf said. “He’s a first-year coach and he implemented a completely different practice schedule. It was more intense and rigorous, more fitness off of the court. The ranking speaks for itself. We moved up one spot this year, and if we move up a few next year, we’ll be contending with some of the best in college squash.”

Although the competition marked the end of team play for the Jumbos, Litman and Kumar will compete at CSA Individual Championships this weekend at George Washington University.