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Former ambassador talks US-China trade relations at annual conference

by Michael Dianetti Contributing Writer

Former United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Charles W. Freeman Jr. took a hard line against the Trump administration’s approach to U.S.-China trade, at one point comparing the “disgusting” and “incoherent” policies to sheep innards, in a keynote speech at Saturday’s New England Chinese Language Teachers Association (NECLTA) Conference in Cohen Auditorium.

The event began with opening remarks from Senior Lecturer of Chinese Mingquan Wang, as well as from Provost and Senior Vice President ad interim Deborah Kochevar.

Freeman’s speech provided insight gleaned from his three-decade career in the U.S. Foreign Service, much of which he spent focusing on SinoAmerican relations. He served as the main interpreter during President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, as Director of Chinese Affairs at the State Department, as United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.

December marks the 40th anniversary of the normalization of U.S.-China relations, Freeman said. He highlighted how impactful that initial bond, forged between President Jimmy Carter and Deng Xiaoping, has been to the development of China.

“[Deng] saw U.S.-China normalization and ‘reform and opening’ as parts of a single bold gamble with his country’s future,” Freeman said. “His vision enabled China to risk a search for inspiration in America and other capitalist democracies, to which the Chinese elite promptly entrusted its sons and daughters for education.”

Freeman countered the Trump administration’s opinion that China alone benefits from the current trade partnership, noting that China was the United States’ third-largest receiver of exports last year. He added that U.S. consumers and workers have benefitted directly from the relationship.

“Imports from China have kept U.S. consumer prices low, saving an average American family an estimated $850 each year,” Freeman said. “About 2.6 million American jobs are now linked to exports, imports and investment flows between the U.S. and China.”

He noted that the longstanding symbiotic trade relationship between the United States and China is now on the verge of collapse.

Freeman also unleashed a blistering assessment of the Trump administration’s bilateral-over-global trade outlook, attacking it as impossible and self-defeating to its core.

“The American position is an incoherent blend of unrelated and mutually incompatible demands — the foreign policy equivalent of a haggis,” he said, invoking the Scottish term for what he noted is a “hodgepodge of animal innards.” see FREEMAN, page 2

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Senate meets with Dean of Student Affairs, hears supplementary funding requests

by Noah Richter

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The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met Monday evening in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to have a discussion with Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon, hear supplementary funding appeals, announce upcoming resolutions and hear committee updates.

TCU President Jacqueline Chen, a senior, started the meeting by introducing McMahon for a discussion with the Senate.

Historian Rebeca Becdach, a sophomore, opened the discussion by noting that senators had been asked to come prepared with questions for McMahon, which would serve to drive the topics of the discussion. Much of the subsequent discus-

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sion centered around the overcrowding of campus spaces for students, including community spaces and housing.

Also discussed was the lack of accessibility on the Medford/Somerville campus, and how the university is planning to address that issue moving forward.

McMahon shared with senators that the tiered housing system has been structured to mitigate concerns that have been raised about the potential for socioeconomic disparities among students to lead to housing segregation.

“The … system we’ve developed is distinctive from that of most schools because financial aid travels with students and adjusts so that they don’t have to pay more in a higher tier,” McMahon told the Daily in a follow-up email. “We did this to offset

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concerns about perception that higher cost housing was for students who could afford to live there.”

McMahon expressed her support for the tiered housing system at the meeting. “[The financial aid system] and the fact that we’ve pegged our upper end tier quite closely to the off-campus market are the two reasons I’m supportive of our tiered housing decision,” McMahon wrote.

McMahon also highlighted how the renovations of Miller and Houston Halls are part of the university’s push to make the campus more accessible.

“Houston and Miller will both have new elevators and add a number of accessible bedrooms on all four floors of each building,” McMahon wrote. “This expands our accessible housing significantly.”

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“[CoHo] will also have at least one fully accessible house … and over the summer Campus Planning also enhanced accessibility for Stratton Hall and Ballou Hall, which is graded for greater accessibility now, too,” McMahon wrote.

Throughout the discussion, McMahon also referred several of the senators to a variety of appropriate contacts who could better address their individual questions.

Becdach said that future meetings would be discussed in the coming weeks.

Senate then moved on to hear funding appeals and supplementary funding requests. TCU Parliamentarian and Associate Treasurer Sharif Hamidi, a sophomore, first introduced the Tufts Trading

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Freeman said those inconsistencies have no place in Sino-U.S. trade relations.

“China is home to the most adventurous eaters on the planet, but haggis has not found a market there,” Freeman said. “I very much doubt that it now will. Nor will the disgustingly incoherent American negotiating position on future trade with China.”

Trump’s justification for the trade war is China’s increasing challenge to the United States’ economic supremacy and a belief in the necessity of U.S. self-sufficiency, Freeman said. However, he countered that the increase in American self-sufficiency is simply increasing China’s self-sufficiency as well.

Freeman called Trump’s policies relics of mercantilist economic theory, two centuries out-of-date. The current administration simply does not want American imports to exceed exports to China, even if it is economically beneficial to maintain a trade deficit, he said.

“Under the Trump administration, the United States has come to stand explicitly for mercantilist bilateralism and protectionism, economic coercion, an end to support for foreign economic development or refugees and the unilateral abrogation of international agreements,” he said.

Freeman contrasted Trump’s hardline approach with China’s own emphasis on tapping into the world’s existing global economic institutions, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization. He suggested that with the United States isolating itself,

China can now expand trade abroad into the European Union and establish a Chinese sphere of influence in the developing world by trading with nations in South America, Africa and East Asia.

He noted the different timelines which each country’s respective policies seem to take.

“It is said that Chinese plan in years, decades and centuries, while Americans calculate what must be done in terms of weeks and [months],” Freeman said. “We are about to have a test of that thesis.”

Freeman also warned that tensions surrounding Taiwan, the situation in the South China Sea and the trade war threaten to transform from ideological disputes into tangible conflicts.

“The solution is something called diplomacy, but that seems to have stopped in 2016,” he said. “[I’m] hoping Trump will just agree to small concessions that will allow him to claim personal victory.”

Freeman ended his speech by emphasizing the importance of studying the Chinese language in the current political climate.

“In a world of fake news and stupefyingly misleading narratives, the ability to speak, read and write Chinese and other foreign languages supplies the key to direct personal observation of what is actually happening,” Freeman said. “To know another man’s language is to know something of his soul.”

Wang, who also serves as the Chinese program language coordinator, reiterated the importance of language in a follow-up email to the Daily.

“Language provides insights into ways of thinking, feeling and perception in a particular culture,” Wang said. “To be able to understand people who come from a different culture and who speak a different language, a good understanding of their culture and a good command of their language are indispensable.”

The Chinese program at Tufts offers courses aimed at giving students a sound understanding of Chinese literature and culture, as well as a proficiency in the Chinese language.

Wang further stated that educators have an outsize role in ensuring smooth relations.

“I firmly believe that Chinese language educators have made significant contributions to the mutual understanding between the people of the United States and China through Chinese language and culture education,” he said. “We will continue to do so in good times and bad.”

Deputy Director of Tufts Sino-U.S. Relations Group Engagement (SURGE) Connor Akiyama described “a sense of regret” over the trade policies in a statement on behalf of the group.

“The general SURGE sentiment supports the international economic order and opposes dangerous escalation,” Akiyama, a sophomore, told the Daily in an email.

“We understand the pessimism towards the future of the Chinese-U.S. relations, but ultimately most of us believe that a more positive and bilateral relationship will emerge in the future. All of SURGE, however, values the potential economic, cultural, and economic relationships that the U.S. can bolster with China.”

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continued from page 1 Fund (TTF) appeal for an additional $1,358 to their annual budget.

During a brief debate, the Senate discussed the merits of TTF’s request and questioned the transportation costs and methods for the group’s planned networking trip to New York. The body ultimately granted $748 in additional funding.

Senate also voted to match the Allocations Board (ALBO) funding recommendations for the following groups: $32 for Tufts Democrats, $120 for Tufts Buddhist Mindfulness Sangha, $1,777 for Tufts United for Immigrant Justice, $400 for Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine, $2,644 for Computer Science Exchange, $622 for Tufts Quidditch, $612 for Tufts MAKE, $805 for Sino-U.S. Relations Group

Engagement and $1,165 for Vietnamese Students Club.

Following the funding requests and allocations, Hamidi introduced two new resolutions — the first this year — that the body will debate and vote on in coming weeks.

According to Hamidi, the first resolution “will reaffirm the Tufts Community Union’s support for the Tufts dining workers’ union in their ongoing contract negotiations,” as well as “call on the university to fully respect workers’ rights to collectively bargain and be paid a living wage with benefits,” while the second resolution will “affirm the Tufts Community Union’s support for the passage [of ] Massachusetts Ballot Question 3 on November 6th, 2018, in the interest of fostering an inclusive environment for all students, especially transgender/non-binary students, within our community.”

The Senate is likely to vote on these resolutions sometime later this month, according to Hamidi.

Chen led a brief discussion on improving senators’ communication with faculty members for raising concerns, which was met with a good response. Following that, Chen introduced former TCU Trustee Representative Nathan Foster (LA ’18), who is running to be an alumni trustee.

Foster briefly spoke with the body about his experience at Tufts and why he believes he can bridge the gap between students and trustees.

“I am running to address the tuition crisis, support workers, and ensure the Board of Trustees is connected to the community it serves,” Foster told the Daily in an email.

“Tufts should put its people first.”

The Senate will vote in the coming weeks on a resolution to endorse Foster as alumni trustee, according to Hamidi.

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Henry Stevens The Weekly Chirp

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t’s always fun to examine the beautiful, crazy, wild, extravagant species of birds from around the world online, but at the end of the day, there’s nothing better than going outside and actually seeing birds yourself — even if they don’t happen to be pretty and decorated like a bird-of-paradise. Turns out, our campus attracts all sorts of cool birds annually.

In just four years of data collected by a handful of bird nerds, we’ve collectively recorded 136 species of bird! On the right day during spring migration in May, you could walk from Dewick to Dowling and find over 20 species in 10 minutes. Hard to believe, right? At first it doesn’t seem possible, but if you consider where we are located geographically, it starts to make some sense.

Alright, imagine you’re a black-throated green warbler (if you don’t know what this looks like, look it up). The warbler is a pretty little yellow/green/black songbird that frequents New England from late spring to early fall. Given the cool fall weather, you decide it’s time to migrate south to your winter home in Central America. You’re flapping along like a boss, imagining all the delicious bugs you’re going to eat, enjoying the beautiful reds, oranges and yellows of the New England forests below you, and suddenly, you start to see gray. You know what you’re seeing is no longer forest, but instead some sort of structured rock formation. Huge animals whiz by beneath you along gray, frozen rivers. Enormous albatrosses sing songs of thunder as they take off over the ocean.

You start to panic — where could you possibly land here without risking death?

Then, you see it: The Pres Lawn. The small concentration of trees bursting out from a sea of gray. Perhaps not a luxury five-star resort like the insect-laden tropical forests of Central America but definitely a good stopover area until you recover enough energy to make the next leg of your trip.

You’re not alone in your attraction to the area — hundreds of other songbirds stop and hang out, too. Not necessarily because they want to, but because there’s nowhere else to go!

Now, this may seem silly to read, but it’s not far from the truth. To migratory birds, small patches of trees within large cities like Boston and New York resemble islands of inhabitable space surrounded by a useless, gray ocean. Combine this with the role of the coastline as a guide for many migratory bird species (many birds follow the coastline from their breeding grounds to their wintering grounds and vice versa), and the result is a funneling effect that concentrates species in usable habitats around urban areas. This is why places like the Pres Lawn, the Fenway Victory Gardens and Central Park host an array of bird species from year to year and why, even though we aren’t in the tropics, we can still see some awesome birds in our collegiate backyard! Next time you’re about to have a meltdown from school stress, just close your laptop, go outside and find some birds. They’ll change your life — take it from me.

Love, Henry Henry Stevens is a senior studying biology.

He can be reached at henry.stevens@tufts. edu. Interested in birds? Email Henry at tuftsornithologicalsociety@gmail.com.

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James Ray The Starving Aesthete

‘Surrealistic Pillow’

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mong certain segments of the hipster community, there has arisen a consensus that the world actually ended sometime in the ’60s, and that the three subsequent generations have just been milling about the wreckage waiting for the other shoe to drop. In 1967, the undulating protoplasm of capitalism shifted from tragedy to parody, and a generation of promising young stockbrokers and gas station attendants left their posts and decided to sit in their closets staring at flowers for the next 50 or 60 years. Enough of them remained, of course, to keep society plodding along — but most of the intelligent boomers surrendered to the ennui that accompanies a real cultural solar eclipse, and buggered themselves off of the main stage. And when the circle rounds itself and our descendants experience that same moment of clarity our grandparents did, I give it even odds that blame for all of this is placed squarely on the slumping shoulders of “Surrealistic Pillow” (1967).

Jefferson Airplane’s sophomore album is so tied to the time and place of its creation that it makes it hard to discern the actual emotional content of the piece beneath the many layers of cultural contextualization heaped upon it. And perhaps this is as it should be; the album could not have been made anywhere other than San Francisco, nor at any other time than the Summer of Love. However, the external imagery of “angelheaded” high school dropouts dropping tabs to the tune of “White Rabbit” fails to capture exactly what that really means.

In his cosmological magnum opus “A Vision,” poet W.B. Yeats lays out a binary vision of world history in which the competing tendencies of concord and discord — of unification and dissolution — oscillate between peaks and troughs of supremacy.

The more that individuals of a society are practicing one kind of thought, the less they are practicing the other, as symbolized by the phases of the moon. The ’60s were the height of the last discordant wave — the point where the dissolution of cultural norms reached its maximum, the full moon which signified the apotheosis of critical, analytic thought — and “Surrealistic Pillow” is what followed.

The album is inconsistent, messy and generally listless, much like the interregnal period in which we find ourselves; but it presents a vision of a world completely opposed to the capitalist hegemony from which it was born. It’s a world too complicated and vast to provoke any response beyond reverence, a world in which ungrounded assertions must be made and actions taken in the face of one’s own ignorance, because the relevant questions are too large to answer. The album sifts through the remains of our values to find the few too resilient to dissolve under the grinding wheels of the 20th century, and from these fragments, it begins to create a new world of positivistic assertions. As a work of art, “Surrealistic Pillow” is the first tumble down the slope that faces us still and the first faltering step up the next rise. It will remain relevant until the gyre spins back on itself, and we once again find ourselves staring the fabric of our reality in the face. Give it a listen — it’s on Spotify.

James Ray is a senior studying political science and film and media studies.

James can be reached at james_m.ray@ tufts.edu.

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

MOVIE REVIEW

‘A Star is Born’ is an absolutely authentic, rich remake

by Christopher Panella Assistant Arts Editor

Content warning: This article discusses alcohol abuse, drug abuse and suicide.

In a scene from “A Star Is Born,” Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) invites love interest and up-and-coming singer-songwriter Ally Campana (Lady Gaga) on stage at a concert to perform “Shallow,” a song Ally had just begun writing. It is at this moment that both Cooper and Gaga make their case to audiences that this third remake of the original 1937 film is the most authentic to date. “A Star Is Born” showcases some of the best chemistry, characterization and music in a film this year.

“A Star Is Born” follows country rock musician Jackson, an alcoholic and drug addict who somehow still manages to shine under a spotlight. Jackson finds love in Ally, whose tough personality and thunderous voice spark a complicated love story. The two meet by chance, fall in love and marry. Soon, they find themselves at odds as Ally’s career continues to evolve while Jackson’s wilts.

The film flows rather well, with its original songs often serving as quick breaks in a rather complicated and heavy plot. There are moments of pure hilarity — the drag bar sequence where Jackson meets Ally features some fan-favorite drag queens from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (2009–), including Willam Belli and Shangela. There are also heart-wrenching scenes, like those depicting the relationship between Jackson and his much older brother, Bobby (Sam Elliott).

In the beginning, “A Star Is Born” plays with too much exposition of Jackson’s backstory and Ally’s crowded home life. It is a lot of information to handle, but the film does not spend too much time in these spaces; it rarely revisits Ally’s family and home again. Once the two characters truly connect and begin performing together, “A Star Is Born” combines incredible music with perfect costar chemistry before taking viewers on an emotionally tumultuous ride.

Ally’s rise to stardom, featuring a stereotypically difficult manager (Rafi Gavron) and some so-bad-it-is-good pop music, plays out alongside Jackson’s spiral into further abuse. Cooper owns his character’s freefall, delivering a performance that can only be described as award-worthy, especially coupled with the fact that this movie is also Cooper’s directorial debut. As for Gaga, she fills the role well. In a way, Ally seems to represent a younger Gaga — her nose problem, creative differences with her manager and losing a lover on her rise to success. With these personal experiences, Gaga inhabits Ally in a genuine way, grounding her in one of the most honest performances of the year. She dominates the screen in almost every scene, giving seasoned actor Cooper a run for his money. In many ways, Gaga is in complete control of “A Star Is Born.”

It is Gaga and Cooper’s music that showcases their story better than the dialogue. Some songs, like “Shallow” and “I Don’t Know What Love Is,” are rich duets between the two. Others, like “Diggin’ My Grave” and “Alibi,” have more groove. Inarguably, the showstop-

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Much of Gaga’s musical performance is reminiscent of her latest album “Joanne” (2016) and her Grammy Award-winning Tony Bennett jazz duet album “Cheek to Cheek” (2014). At the film’s most country-rock, Gaga may sound as though she is at home, but it is not Gaga — it is Gaga in character, giving audiences a purely fantastic performance. Her rich, vibrant voice fills scenes, accompanied by Cooper’s scratchyyet-smooth baritone. Cooper reportedly transformed his voice for the role, which he said hurt his esophagus for the first few months of shooting. Jackson sounds far from the Cooper audiences are familiar with — perhaps that is what makes his performance so shocking and interesting.

While the film’s soundtrack may drive the plot forward, Ally and Jackson’s relationship is its focus. At times, their connection is so strong and real, it seems almost rude to interrupt their intimacy.

Even when the two are performing on a large stage in front of thousands of people, it really is just the two of them finding themselves in each other. At other times, their fights over Jackson’s substance abuse

become volatile and toxic, making the scenes uncomfortable to watch.

Jackson’s spiral ends tragically: After some time at rehab and a scolding from Ally’s manager, Jackson commits suicide.

He had previously attempted to do so as a child, but his father did not notice; an ongoing issue in the film was how Jackson seems to idolize his father, also an alcoholic. Jackson’s passing is the breaking point in “A Star Is Born,” leaving Ally damaged and alone.

The final song of the film is “I’ll Never Love Again,” a solo written by Jackson for Ally that she sings at his funeral. It is undoubtedly the defining song of “A Star Is Born.” Gaga’s expressive vocals and performance are a one-two punch, sticking in memory in long after the credits have rolled and the audience has stopped crying.

“A Star Is Born” is a big story. It is heavy with exposition, but Gaga and Cooper easily weave the film’s elements into an new and emotional remake. For Gaga, it feels like a personal story. For Cooper, this directorial debut is one for the books. With its music, genuine storytelling and authentic acting, “A Star Is Born” creates a true masterpiece. While Cooper’s direction and acting are the bones of the work, Gaga’s performance fleshes out the body, giving the film true life. These two stars, and their ireplaceable chemistry, make “A Star Is Born” one of the best films of the year.

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I too left Tufts — in 2015 Content warning: This article discusses sexual assault and suicide.

Dear Ms. Katherine Sloan Snedaker, Your brave op-ed on Oct. 1 moved me very much because your experiences were so similar to mine and because my experiences prove that Tufts has misled you about the extent to which it has changed how it handles sexual assault at an institutional level.

I was raped in September of my first year at Tufts in 2013. I was 18. My rapist lived one floor above mine in Hill Hall, and the rape occurred in his dorm room. I loved school then and was proud to study my dream major at my dream college. I negotiated for hours to leave his room, and when I finally did, I could not sleep. I took a really hot shower for a really long time. It wasn’t enough. I washed my clothes, my sheets, everything. I fell asleep watching the sun come up.

Two days later, a hallmate saw me sneaking in the back entrance of Hill. He guessed that something was wrong with me, and I told him the story in tears. He took it upon himself to take me to my resident assistant’s (RA) room. My RA looked scared when I told him what had happened, like a deer caught in headlights. This was how I reported my rape.

The next month was a blur of nurses, needles, police officers, paperwork, phone numbers. Who knows how much I went to class?

I moved out of Hill Hall and into Tilton Hall.

My rapist began harassing me once he was notified that I had filed a report against him.

Over the next few weeks and months, I would see him several times weekly as he loitered outside my classes, my best friends’ dorms, my dorm. The No-Contact Order imposed on both of us after the report had been filed stipulated that either of us could face suspension by seeking out the other person. I reported the harassment to the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, but every time, instead of doing something about it, an administrator simply repeated to me his claims that the incidences were all coincidental. I could not understand why, if Student Affairs had to haul my rapist into its office every week, it would not consider asking deeper questions. I was afraid and on edge. When I brought my frustrations to a staff member I trusted and mentioned that my parents had started speaking to private attorneys, I was told that Tufts’ Title

IX legal resources were best qualified to handle my concerns and had my best interests at heart. I thought I could trust her.

During the spring semester that year, I lost hope and considered taking my life. Instead, I texted another Tufts student who ran to my room and talked me out of it. It was a dark spring semester where I isolated myself from my friends and holed up in my room.

You said you left out of fear. I left out of hopelessness. I had followed the path prescribed by Tufts and then was failed by its reporting system. I reported my rape in September, and I did not receive the university’s response until the week before my spring semester finals. I spent the whole academic year hiding from my rapist and begging Tufts to do something about it. At the end of the investigation, the decision was that Tufts would suspend him for one semester. The decision explicitly stated that the adjudicating panel believed from the evidence collected that my rapist had committed an act of sexual misconduct against me. The disciplinary handbook at the time defined suspension as appropriate for “non-sexual assault” and expulsion as appropriate for “more serious assault.” I could not understand why, then, the panel felt it safe for him to return. I felt hopeless the semester he returned: hopeless about leaving my room, hopeless about turning in my homework, absolutely hopeless about my future. There was no more fear because there was nothing left to fear. I had walked the path to the very end. It was during the spring semester he returned, my second lonely spring semester at Tufts, that I learned I indeed had to choose between my dream college and my dreams. Even with changes to Tufts’ sexual misconduct reporting system and after 30 years, the end result was the same. Once I had withdrawn and returned home, I too cut off all my hair, but it was to cleanse what Tufts did to me. It took two years to rebuild myself enough to transfer to another university.

I learned that Tufts never prioritized my well-being. Instead, its administrators encouraged me to utilize their own medical and advocacy services when they knew I had access to unbiased support systems through my parents. They ignored my complaints about my safety once they were certain I was not a legal threat. I do not know how anyone

is expected to survive four years under such conditions. Tufts continues to uphold these conditions despite sending you an official apology and admission that there were many others like you that had contacted Tufts with similar stories.

Details did not matter. I was praised several times throughout my reporting process for how my detailed story never changed. Belief did not matter. The panel convened to review the investigation report believed me. What mattered was that no one cared enough to protect me. Tufts’ two official resources for survivors of sexual assault and harassment were its Office of Equal Opportunity (the Title IX office) and its Student Affairs office. The Office of Equal Opportunity did its best to help me, but its staff struggled to meet my needs given its conflicting interests as both university administrators and protectors of equal opportunity. The Student Affairs office flat-out did not seem to care and instead manipulated my vulnerability at every turn.

Although this conversation currently swells at a national level, change happens at all levels. Change must happen at Tufts, especially if it will not happen in any of our branches of government. Sufficient change did not happen at Tufts in the thirty years between when you dropped out and when I dropped out. In fact, change now threatens to move in the opposite direction. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will soon release a set of new, looser guidelines for Title IX compliance on college campuses, with the goal of easing the supposed burden on those accused of sexual assault. We must now pressure Tufts both to maintain the standards of the Obama administration’s Title IX guidelines and improve its implementation of these guidelines, especially with regards to investigation timelines and No-Contact Orders. It will be in the university’s economic interests to adopt the laxer policies, but students like you and me cannot afford it. This is why, on occasion, when asked why I left Tufts, I will say the real reason: Tufts refused to protect me from my rapist, and it changed my life.

Audrey Chu is a senior studying international relations and mathematical finance at the University of Southern California.

She studied at Tufts for two years. Audrey is a sexual violence and reproductive justice activist, and can be reached at audreychu1995@gmail.com.

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Nesi Altaras Takeaways

Uyghurs of East Turkestan are under attack — don’t look away

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he issue of the Chinese government’s repression of Uyghurs became a subject of international attention after a U.N. report released toward the end of the summer laid bare the severity of the situation.

However, the world was already aware of the mistreatment of these people. It is no secret that China has been extremely harsh against the Uyghur national minority. Uyghurs are an ethnic Turkic Muslim people who have lived in East Turkestan — a phrase the Chinese government has criminalized and replaced with Xinjiang — for thousands of years. Much like the invasion of Tibet, China took over this land and its people and has refused to allow cultural rights or rights to religious freedom, let alone any semblance of national self-determination. As part of this effort, in the last few years, China has banned the use of the Uyghur language, a critical part of Uyghur culture, in schools. The government has also banned Islamic baby names, which means Uyghur people can no longer pass on the names that they have used for generations.

It has taken steps to prevent Uyghurs from observing the fast during Ramadan by ordering restaurants to stay open and restricting access to mosques, and even forcing people to eat and break their fast in some instances.

As the Guardian reports, “The hard-line policies started shortly after the appointment of Chen Quanguo as Xinjiang’s party secretary, a strongman who had previously pursued similar policies in Tibet.” The intention behind the policies is to break down and ultimately end Uyghur identity and their existence as a separate people from the Han Chinese, as it has done (and continues to do) in Tibet.

Yet, all of these horrible restrictions and violations of human rights were only the buildup to a truly indefensible policy of concentration camps. The term “concentration camps” is truly bloodcurdling for many in the U.S. and Europe well-educated in the horrors of the Holocaust — the idea that an ethnic group could be herded into camps for “re-education” through hard labor is a jolt into action for even the most uninterested observer. There are reports of forced disappearances and the killings of an Islamic scholar and Uyghur students in police custody. These concentration camps were described in January as holding approximately 120,000 people.

More recent reports say they hold closer to one million people at any moment. One million people. More than the population of the city of Boston. One expert said “that nearly every [Uyghur] born between 1980 and 2000 has been interned.” The camps have become sites of intense psychological torture, where Muslims have been forced to eat pork and drink alcohol. Of course, China denies this, even saying Uyghurs are “happy” and denying any discrimination — a flat-out lie.

For such a horrific situation, the fleeting coverage is alarming. The media drumbeat must continue; China cannot get away with cultural destruction, psychological torture and concentration camps against the Uyghur Muslim ethnic and religious minority, trying to live in peace in their own land in East Turkestan.

Nesi Altaras is a senior studying international relations and economics. Nesi can be reached at nesi.altaras@tufts.edu.

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THE TUFTS DAILY | OPINION | Tuesday, October 9, 2018

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BY NASRIN LIN

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Tuesday, October 9, 2018 | Sports | THE TUFTS DAILY

Sailing team shines at various events, looks to finish fall schedule strong

WEEKEND SCORES FOOTBALL (4–0) at Bowdoin

28–0

FIELD HOCKEY (8–1) at Middlebury

1–2

VOLLEYBALL (11–7) at Amherst Trinity

2–3 3–0

MEN’S SOCCER (9–0–1) at Middlebury

1–1 2OT

WOMEN’S SOCCER (6–2–2) at Middlebury MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY All-New England Championship WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY All-New England Championship

0–0 2OT

3rd of 14

8th of 24

CO-ED SAILING Hewitt Trophy Division 1st, 6th of 16 1 at Dartmouth Hewitt Trophy Division 5th of 17 2 at Dartmouth Great Herring Pond Open at Mass. Maritime 2nd, 4th of 10 Coed Showcase A 6th of 18 Regatta at MIT Sister Esther Open at 9th of 18 Salve Regina WOMEN’S SAILING Susan Rogers ’75 Memorial at Cornell Stu Nelson at Conn.

College

7th of 8 8th of 13

COURTESY KEN LEGLER

Senior Chris Keller and sophomore Juliana Testa navigate the waters of Mystic Lake during a Tufts sailing team practice on Sept. 21.

by Jason Schwartz Contributing Writer

The Jumbos’ fall season has reached its halfway point, with the sailors from Somerville having participated in over 30 regattas in six weeks. The team cranked out yet another seven-regatta weekend, posting impressive results and reinforcing their ability to compete at a high level.

Sophomore Delilah Roberts noted that the conditions enabled the Jumbos to perform well on the water.

“The weather at most of the regattas [was] optimal for sailing, with medium to light breeze[s] [meaning] technical sailing at venues across the board,” Roberts told the Daily in an electronic message.

Tufts sent two boats to the Coed Showcase A regatta, hosted by MIT. The A division duo of senior skipper Jackson McCoy and junior crew Emma Clutterbuck sailed in a Firefly dinghy and scored 113 points to place fifth of 18 teams. The B division side sailed in FJ sailboats and tallied 102 points, finishing fourth. Senior Cam Holley skippered the first 12 races, while senior co-captain took over the skipper role for the final five regattas.

Senior co-captain Ian Morgan handled crew duties in all 17 races. With a combined score of 215, the Jumbos finished sixth overall on the Charles River, in the top half of competing teams.

After a six-hour trek through the Berkshires and the rolling hills of upstate New York on Saturday morning, the Jumbos arrived at Cayuga Lake for the Susan Rogers ’75 Memorial regatta, where southerly winds carried in a squall of intense rain. After a delayed start, Tufts sent out an all-first-year team of skippers Lera Anders and Alexandra

Talbot and crews Audrey Becker and Paige Tyler. In A division, Anders and Becker recorded 163 points, while Talbot and Tyler matched that score in B division. With a combined score of 326, Tufts finished seventh of eight teams, far behind host Cornell, which was carried by its A division boat (30 points) and put up a total mark of 115.

The sailing team also traveled to the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut to participate in the 13-team Stu Nelson regatta, hosted

by Conn. College. First-year skipper Abbie Carlson and senior crew Taylor Hart maneuvered the A division boat to a total of 89 points for an 11th-place finish. Meanwhile, junior skipper Charlotte Lenz and sophomore crew Marley Hillman took home a sixthplace result with 53 points in B division.

The Jumbos also competed against seven schools at the Great Herring Pond Open in Buzzards Bay, where they sent two teams. First-years George SidamonEristoff, Taro Sochi and Mallory Hood combined with junior Margaret Veltri to accumulate 25 points and a second-place result for the “Jumbos 1” squad’s A division boat. Robison skippered the B division side with Roberts and first-year Margo Muyres as crew.

The trio put up 22 points to secure a second-place overall finish for the “Jumbos 1” team. The “Jumbos 2” team finished right behind in third, as junior crew Kelsey Foster and first-year crew Vinicius Freitas both got experience alongside junior skipper Elena Gonick in the A division boat’s third-place finish. Salve Regina won both divisions to key its overall victory.

Meanwhile, the Jumbos also competed at the Sister Esther Open in Newport, R.I. The squad earned five top-three finishes in twenty races, amassing a total

of 172 points overall to clinch a ninthplace finish. The Jumbos’ A division boat was helmed by sophomore skipper Talia Toland and first-year crew Ann Sheridan, while the B division side was made up of sophomore skipper Bram Brakman and first-year skipper Alex Fasolo with sophomores Jacob Whitney and Maria Brush on crew.

Further north, Tufts sent three boats to compete in the Hewitt Trophy, hosted by Dartmouth. Two groups raced in the Division 1 group, while one competed in Division 2.

The Division 1 side of seniors Chris Keller and Sarah Bunney finished first with 64 points, winning four of its 16 races. First-year skipper Charlie Hibben and senior crew and co-captain Sabina Van Mell steered the team’s second entrant to a sixth-place finish with 95 points. Meanwhile, firstyear skipper Sam Merson and junior crew Emily Calandrella placed fifth in Division 2, accumulating 100 points.

Sophomore Evan Robison remarked that the team has fostered strong chemistry this season, empowering returning sailors to perform well and integrating its new members seamlessly.

“A lot of people have been sailing for a couple years now, [so it is] drama-free when it comes to our pairings,” Robison said.

After an impressive performance in the weekend’s myriad regattas and with the second half of the season on the horizon, the sailing team is brimming with excitement and confidence. Tufts will make the short trip to Marblehead, Mass. this weekend for the New England Match Racing Championship, while also visiting Brown for the Women’s Showcase Finals and making a return trip to Dartmouth for the Captain Hurst Bowl.

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David Meyer Postgame Press

Sports

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

4–0 football trounces Bowdoin in first shutout since 2006

To the pain

T

o the pain. Westley from “The Princess Bride” (1987) demands a duel not to the death, but to the pain. I do not plan on ever getting into a duel, certainly not one that ends in the gruesome way he describes.

But sports may be described as “to the pain.” We cheer and give our hearts to teams when only one can win it all.

As a Chicago Cubs fan, this past week was not my favorite. We ended up in a tiebreaker game for the division title with the Milwaukee Brewers. We lost it. We then had to face the Colorado Rockies in the Wild Card game and lost that as well in 13 innings. Bam. Within two days, we had gone from potentially winning the division to knocked out of the playoffs. That was a crushing end to the season.

Why do we, sports fans, do it? After all, only one team gets to win each year. Why do we cheer a team on for 16, 82 or even 162 games? It may end in a loss. It will probably end in a loss. Yet we do it anyway. What is it about sports that keeps us watching, despite the fact that the odds are, more often than not, against us? Perhaps it’s hope.

What else could explain Cubs fans continuing to cheer over 108 championship-less years? I was only around for 18 of those, but those years of heartbreak — to the pain — made the win all the sweeter. The Cubs’ 2016 World Series victory was not just a win; it was a triumph. It was the breaking of a curse and the revitalization of a fan base.

I started writing today to try to rid myself of the pain caused by the Cubs’ brutal losses. Now, luckily, I know the point of the article: to keep cheering, keep loving and keep getting hurt. If you are a fan of a team that is heartbreaking to watch, keep going. I cannot guarantee a win. I cannot guarantee that this year is the year or that the next one is or that in 70 years, you will be rooting for a team with a title. But it is so worth it. Cheer for a team. If you do already, good for you. If you do not … find one.

Sports are about feeling a sense of belonging. They are about hope and the belief that people out there can achieve the improbable and attempt the impossible. Sports allow us to watch incredibly talented people do incredible things. We can bond over them and cry over them. There is something very human about sports.

In other words, they are individually meaningless: No game, itself, changes the world, per se. But sports connect people together through the power of shared emotion.

So get a team. Be a part of a community that puts its heart and soul into every moment. Believe in sports.

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

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Senior quarterback and co-captain Ryan McDonald runs with the ball during Tufts’ 47–14 Homecoming victory over Bates on Sept. 29.

by Noah Stancroff Contributing Writer

Tufts traveled to Brunswick, Maine to face Bowdoin in the 113th gridiron meeting between the two schools. It was a decisive victory for the undefeated Jumbos (4–0) as they beat the winless (0–4) Polar Bears 28–0 in their first shutout since a 7–0 victory over the Colby Mules in November 2006. With the victory, Tufts remains tied atop the NESCAC standings with Williams (4–0) and Amherst (4–0).

The Tufts defense was relentless throughout the entirety of the game, never allowing the Bowdoin offense to possess the football inside of the Tufts 35-yard line. The defense held Bowdoin to 230 total yards of offense and was led in tackles by junior linebacker and co-captain Greg Holt with six, bringing his season total to 34, good for fifth in the conference.

“It was just a whole all-around great defensive team effort,” Holt said.

“Everybody [was] executing their jobs.”

Tufts held Bowdoin sophomore quarterback Austin McCrum in check throughout the game, allowing him to throw for only 162 yards while completing 21 of his 47 passes in the contest. The Jumbos’ defensive backs were nearly impassable, rarely allowing the Polar Bear receivers to get any separation. Sophomore defensive back Michael Mughetto consistently caused problems for the Bowdoin offense, hounding receivers at times and providing pressure on the quarterback at others. Senior defensive back Tim Preston also had a tremendous game for the Jumbos. The Nashua, N.H. native was responsible for Tufts’ only defensive takeaway when he intercepted McCrum’s pass on an attempted flea flicker with 9:27 left in the fourth quarter.

The run game for the Polar Bears was also stagnant, as they played without their star running back and NESCAC

leading rusher in junior Nate Richam.

Richam’s inexperienced backups found very little success against the Jumbos’ dynamic front seven, totaling only 61 yards on 20 rushing attempts. Tufts forced eight three-and-outs and 11 punts in total.

Despite the defense’s dominant performance, Holt said there is still room for improvement.

“I think there are areas that we are still going to look to that need to be improved, and every week, we are looking to get better,” Holt said. “We were able to get a shutout so we improved some things, but we are also focused on the [upcoming] weeks and making sure we are ready to play whatever team is next.”

The Jumbos’ offense found tremendous success, totaling over 500 yards of offense for the second straight week — the first time that has ever been done in coach Jay Civetti’s tenure.

The Jumbos were led by senior quarterback and co-captain Ryan McDonald until he was replaced in the middle of the third quarter. After McDonald turned the ball over in Bowdoin territory on Tufts’ first two drives of the game, he settled in nicely. McDonald completed 76 percent of his passes for 231 yards in just the first two and a half quarters of play — the most yards passing in a game for McDonald since last year’s matchup with Williams.

“We are really just sticking to our strengths,” McDonald said, when asked about the offense’s recent success. “We have got an awesome offensive line, a stable of great [running] backs and just plenty of skill guys on the outside to make plays.”

McDonald threw for two touchdowns, both in the third quarter, just under three minutes apart from one another. The first came on Tufts’ first offensive possession of the second half which lasted only three plays and 57 seconds. Senior wide receiver Jack Dolan, who was on the receiving end

of the touchdown, caught McDonald’s quick pass and maneuvered around defenders into the end zone to give the Jumbos a 21–0 lead just under two minutes into the second half. Tufts got the ball back less than 30 seconds later after three straight incompletions for Bowdoin. The Jumbos needed just six plays to put their fourth touchdown on the board, as McDonald capped off the drive with a four-yard touchdown completion to junior tight end Jack Donohue in the corner of the end zone.

The rushing attack for the Jumbos featured six players with at least five touches, as they combined for a total of 271 yards. Sophomore running back Mike Pedrini was the only Tufts rusher to record a touchdown as he found the back of the end zone twice in the second quarter on four- and one-yard scores. After Pedrini saw most of the action in the first half, rushing for a total of 52 yards in the game, senior running back Dom Borelli took the majority of the touches early in the second half. Borelli led the Jumbos in rushing with 73 yards, followed by McDonald’s replacement, senior quarterback Ryan Hagfeldt, who rushed for 53 yards after entering the game in the second half.

Civetti emphasized that his players’s superb execution has allowed the offense to dominate opposing defenses in the past two games.

“Just players,” Civetti said. “It has nothing to do with the play calls, it has nothing to do with the play designs, it just has to do with having really good players, guys that play hard and work at getting better each week … and playing the game the way it is supposed to be played.”

The Jumbos will try to match last year’s win total on Oct. 13 when they travel to Hartford, Conn. to face the talented Trinity Bantams (3–1), whose only loss of the season came at the hands of the Williams Ephs.