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Computer science Chair Kathleen Fisher inspires colleagues, students see FEATURES / PAGE 3

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Active Minds at Tufts hosts Mental Health Monologues

by McKenzie Schuyler Staff Writer

Active Minds at Tufts hosted its third annual Mental Health Monologues on Monday night at Goddard Chapel. According to the Active Minds at Tufts Facebook page, Mental Health Monologues is an opportunity for people to share their mental health stories and to bring about awareness and acceptance of mental health challenges. The event featured 15 speakers who either read their own monologue or that of an anonymous writer. More than 150 people were in attendance.

The co-presidents of Active Minds, senior Kari McNeil and junior Brianna Pastro, introduced the speakers.

“We are in awe of the bravery and strength of everyone who contributed a story for this event,” Pastro said in the introductory remarks.

“The stories you will hear tonight are stories of struggle, triumph, recovery and always courage. We accepted all submissions and they are unedited apart from ensuring that they met our safety guidelines,” McNeil said.

The content of the stories included trauma, eating disorders, depression, panic

attacks, chronic illness, suicidal ideation and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Multiple resources were available throughout the night, including crisis support lines listed in the program. Additionally, Walker Bristol, Humanist Chaplain, and Nandi Bynoe, Sexual Misconduct Resource Specialist, acted as on-site resources.

Pastro discussed the work that Active Minds put into hosting the event, most notably in reviewing and editing story submissions and balancing authenticity with audience safety.

Sabrina Fleishaker, a first-year who was a reader at the event, shared her experience speaking at the event.

“For the first time, it was definitely surreal. The fact is that so many stories go unheard. Every human experience is valuable. And so, stories need to be heard whether they are from the mouths of the people who wrote them or not,” Fleishaker said.

Ycar Devis, a senior who also read at the event, commented on mental health awareness in the Tufts community.

“I think it’s a really important event that should get more recognition at Tufts.

The size of the crowd tonight does indicate that there is a population at Tufts

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Senior Kari McNeil and junior Brianna Pastro, co-presidents of Active Minds at Tufts, pose for a portrait at ‘Mental Health Monologues: Strength in Stories’ in Goddard Chapel on April 9. that does care about mental health,” Davis said.

McNeil, who has been involved with Mental Health Monologues for three years, explained what she hopes that audience takes away from the event.

“I want people to heal through community and hear themselves being rep-

resented [in these stories] while at the same time hearing others’ struggles and validating them ... [Monologues] was just as powerful this time as it was the first time,” McNeil said.

Following the event, audience members were invited to decompress in Eaton Hall with snacks and discussion.

Tufts Jewish Voice for Peace tables Citing overspending, TCU Senate urges clubs to cut back for a boycott of Birthright trips on expenses

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Tufts Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) tabled in Mayer Campus Center on March 28 encouraging Jewish students not to go on Birthright trips to Israel, according to Tufts JVP member Hannah Nahar. The Facebook event was titled “Return the Birthright: Teach-Out and Tabling.”

The tabling is part of the JVP national organization’s #ReturnTheBirthright campaign.

Nahar described the goals of JVP’s anti-Birthright campaign.

“We are out here to say we are young Jews who are boycotting Birthright. We care about being Jewish, and we care about justice in Palestine and Israel for all people who live there. We don’t believe that Birthright is something that Jews should do, and we don’t want our money being funneled toward it,” Nahar, a senior, said.

According to the Facebook event, JVP boycotted Birthright trips in response to Jewish people being given a right to return to Israel while Palestinians have not been given the same right.

“Since 1999, the Birthright Israel program has sent over 500,000 Jewish young adults on a

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free ten-day trip to Israel ... These trips, funded by the government of Israel and the North American Jewish Federations ... aim to promote the idea that young Jews from all over the world should feel like the land and State of Israel belongs to us and is our homeland. But while all Jews worldwide are handed this free trip ... Palestinians are barred from returning to the homes and villages where their ancestors lived for centuries,” the event page reads, quoting from JVP’s #ReturnTheBirthright manifesto.

Sara Legasey, the program associate of Tufts Hillel Birthright programs, said the Tufts Hillel trip does not exclude Palestinian narratives.

Legasey clarified Tufts Hillel’s stance on the conflict.

“Tufts Hillel – and all of our Israel organizations in the coalition Tufts Students for Two States – strongly supports a two-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians live in the region in peace and security,” Legasey told the Daily in an email.

“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an important topic explored on our Birthright Israel trips. On the Tufts Hillel trip, we discuss multiple narratives, including Palestinian narratives, so that our students engage with diverse viewpoints.” see BIRTHRIGHT, page 2

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According to TCU Treasurer Emily Sim, a junior, concerns involving the possibility of the TCU Senate going over its budget into the next academic year has prompted certain TCU Allocations Board (ALBO) members, such as TCU Associate Treasurer Finn McGarghan, to ask clubs and organizations to cut back on spending.

An email McGarghan sent on March 29 to cultural groups in Council 1, which he chairs, suggested budget changes for clubs and asked that clubs send him these cuts by March 31. The email explains that TCU Senate had surpassed its hard cap of $1.9 million for all student groups and needed to cut at least $25,000 from the sum of all the budgets of student groups in the council.

“Everyone needs to look in their budget and find places to cut,” McGarghan, a sophomore, wrote. “Things like decorations, prizes, games/activities, even food can easily be cut from your budgets. Decrease the frequency of events and parties. Don’t have a DJ at every single party, just use a playlist

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and a speaker (seriously this would save a ton of money). Take the T instead of ubering to the grocery store.”

A follow-up email, which Sim sent out to the TCU Treasury email list on March 30, confirmed McGarghan’s assertions that the budget cuts are necessary.

“Please understand that the Allocations Board and I put a lot of time and thought into making sure all of your needs were heard and did our best to include the increases many of you have asked for … I have to view all of your budgets from a holistic perspective, and when everyone’s increases were put together, we went incredibly over budget,” Sim wrote. “[We are asking for these cuts] out of pure necessity.”

Although, according to Sim, the amount of funds allocated to clubs and organizations for the 2018–2019 academic year saw an average gain of 15–20 percent, ALBO did not provide many clubs with the higher increases they asked for, in part because clubs in past years often did not spend large portions of their allocated funds.

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continued from page 1 “The principle that we tried to work off of was that we looked at how much groups received last year (2016–2017) and how much they actually spent. As a result, we see their financial capacity, and we noticed that most groups don’t spend what they ask for, and some groups don’t even spend half of what they ask for.” Sim said.

McGarghan added that he decided to contact the clubs via email because he is unaware of their inner workings and wanted to consult with them and ask for feedback before altering their budgets.

“I didn’t feel comfortable cutting the budgets of cultural groups without asking them because I’m not sure which events they feel are more important or how many events they need to celebrate their culture at Tufts,” McGarghan said.

Singapore Students Association (SSA) Treasurer Lionel Oh, whose club falls under McGarghan’s Council 1 list, was surprised by the requests. According to Oh, McGarghan had initially approved SSA’s budget, which was the lowest of all of the cultural clubs, and found McGarghan’s suggestions to cut back jarring and lacking context.

“When we initially looked at our budget with Finn, he seemed to have no issue

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continued from page 1 Molly Tunis, a member of JVP, said she disagreed with the idea that Birthright trips are inclusive of both the Israeli and Palestinian narratives. “[Birthright] tries to push this idealistic version of Israel without mentioning a lot of the history that is really important to acknowledge,” Tunis, a sophomore, said.

Junior Zach Rosh, who attended Birthright Israel with Tufts Hillel in January, said that the trip included arguments from both sides of the Israeli-Palestine conflict.

“Both the Nakba and the Palestinian side of the story were discussed on multiple occasions during the Birthright trip,” Rosh said in an electronic message to the Daily. “These discussions took place in structured settings such as planned talks and presentations, and were additionally encouraged to take place amongst members of the trip.”

Tunis noted that while she thought that Birthright ignored Palestinian narratives, this was not her reason for boycotting the trip.

“My main reason for boycotting is the fact that Palestinians are denied the right to return but Jews in the diaspora with no strong connections to Israel are given a ‘birthright,’” Tunis said in an electronic message to the Daily.

Andrew Goldblatt, the vice president for the Northeast region of J Street U, a national propeace and pro-Israel organization, went on the Tufts Hillel Birthright trip in the summer of 2016 after his first year at college. He said he felt that

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“It’s very important that any student can look at the money each organization gets because this money is coming directly from us,” Lewis said.

Sim responded to Lewis’ template, noting that, while she applauds his efforts to take it upon himself to create transparency, the information he provides does not tell the whole story and a large portion of his calculations — especially regarding the activities fund which was never publicly disclosed and budget surplus — is inaccurate.

“The numbers that he compiled only include groups over $4,000 in each council, and those numbers that he was looking at are for this current year, but they are not indicative of next year which is the subject in question,” Sim said. “Additionally, the website does not disclose how much surplus we have and supplementary funding we have, as there’s not a cap on supplementary funding. Lastly, the number in his template is not indicative of how much money we had last year and his student activities fee is not correct.”

Despite this, Sim agrees that Lewis should not have had to do this, and she said that she is happy to compile a similar spreadsheet if she sees demand for it.

despite the program’s pro-Israel bias, it offered an opportunity for Tufts students to engage in dialogue on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “[The Birthright trip] definitely had a bias and had a certain side, but I didn’t feel that it was completely negative. There was still the opportunity for participants to discuss the conflict. It wasn’t like there was stuff that was anti-Palestinian on the trip, it was more that it was just kind of omitted, which I think is the real problem,” Goldblatt, a junior and a Visions of Peace Fellow at Tufts Hillel, said.

Goldblatt also acknowledged that although Birthright trips are exclusive to people that identify as Jewish, he hopes that someday there will be a similar trip for people who identify as Palestinian.

“I think that the state of Israel, as a Jewish democratic state should exist. I think Jews should be allowed to visit and travel there. Do I think it’s weird that there’s this free trip that Jews can go on when at the same time there is not a similar thing for Palestinian folks? Yeah, and I hope that one day there would be that opportunity for Palestinians, [and that] there will be a Palestinian state for them to visit though that’s very far from the reality right now,” he said.

For Nahar, the Birthright programming does not reflect the relationship they believe exists between Zionism and Jewish identity.

They believe that a person who is Jewish is not necessarily in favor of the initial establishment of the Jewish homeland in Israel.

“The pervasiveness of Birthright programming at Hillel makes it feel like it [is inherent

to Judaism]. I think it’s really important to have a Jewish community, and I don’t think that Birthright programming should be implicit to that,” they said.

In response to Nahar’s concerns, Legasey asserted that though many Jews connect to their Jewish identity through their relationship with Israel, this is not the only, nor is it an overrepresented, part of Hillel’s programming. “[Jews connect to their Jewish identity] through culture, spirituality, education, holidays, social justice, religious observance, language and more,” Legasey wrote. “This is why we work to provide a diverse array of programs on campus, including but not limited to Birthright Israel trips, so that each student can find different opportunities to connect with their Jewish identity, build Jewish community, and engage with Jewish life and learning in ways that make sense for them.”

Legasey also said that Tufts Hillel is committed to keeping the conversation going with students with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Tufts Hillel is deeply committed to engaging with all students on campus in dialogue about the most productive ways to bring peace to the conflict in the Middle East and move the agenda of peace forward,” she said. “Through our coalition of groups that comprise Tufts Students for Two States, we actively work for a time when Israel and Palestine will live side by side in peace and security.”

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with it, and so we expected things to go smoothly from there. When we received an email two weeks later saying the council was over-budget, we tried to cut certain things, but being a culture club, SSA could only cut so much without cutting things such as food integral to our club and events,” Oh, a first-year, said.

Oh said there is a lack of transparency between club members and TCU Senate and believes that the amount of funds allocated to each group needs to be presented by the Senate in a more legible manner.

“I think that when calling clubs to cut their budget, they could have showed everybody what each individual club is asking for in order to prevent misinformation and to ensure cuts are made accordingly and fairly,” Oh said.

Sophomore Daniel Lewis decided to address this issue by creating a template outlining funds allocated to all on-campus groups with budgets over $4,000 and posting it in Facebook class pages.

“I know that all the budgetary information was public, but for me transparency is not just having information exist, but having information exist in a way that is easy to understand,” Lewis said.

Lewis believes that he shouldn’t have been the one to create a template and believes that

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You’re one not-so-smart cookie On April 3 at around 12:30 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a fire alarm in Wren Hall. A single burnt cookie had been left in a melted bowl in the kitchen’s microwave. TUPD was unable to identify the individual responsible.

Medford Fire Department reset the fire panel.

Confrontation on the go On April 4, TUPD followed up on a report that two of the managers at Hodgdon Foodon-the-Run had been surrounded by a group of 30–50 students. One of the students got in the face of a manager and told

them, “We won’t stand for it … we hear you’re harassing employees.” The managers called TUPD because the student group was impeding business, but soon after the group spoke to the managers, the students dispersed.

Just another acciDENT Later that day at around 7 p.m., TUPD responded to a call at Cousens Gymnasium parking lot where a parent, who had been attending their child’s lacrosse game, observed damage to the passenger side of their rental car. The parent and TUPD were unable to identify the car responsible for the damage. The parent was advised to file a claim with the rental car company.

Slip of the foot On April 6 at 3:40 p.m., TUPD and Tufts Emergency Medical Services responded to a medical call at 200 Boston Ave. An individual had slipped on the stairs, which were wet as a result of the snowfall that morning, while coming into the building. The individual cited lower back pain and was advised go to the hospital, but they signed a refusal.

Book ’em On April 7 at 8:12 p.m., TUPD received a report that a hot water heater in Tisch Library was leaking. TUPD arrived on the scene to assess the situation; no books were damaged, but the floor tiles were in need of repair.

TUPD called facilities to shut off the heater and repair the floor tiles.

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Professor Kathleen Fisher reviews accomplishments in cybersecurity, women’s advocacy

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Kathleen Fisher, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and cybersecurity expert, is almost intimidatingly accomplished, as her colleague and fellow cybersecurity expert Ming Chow attested.

“She’s done so much for not just computer science, but for women in computer science, for cybersecurity. When you look at her body of work, it’s like, ‘Oh my god,’ it’s so intimidating to talk to her,” Chow, senior lecturer in computer science, said.

According to her faculty profile, Fisher received her Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1996, before she went on to work at AT&T Labs and serve as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the U.S. Department of Defense. She has also served as a co-chair of the Computing Research Association Committee of the Status of Women in Computing Research.

Most recently, she was appointed to a task force on artificial intelligence and national security at the Center for New American Security (CNAS) and has appeared in three videos discussing issues in cybersecurity on Big Think.

However, while Fisher’s accomplishments may seem daunting to those who are unfamiliar with her, Chow noted that she is in fact very approachable and does not have the ego or personality that is common among many in cybersecurity.

“Once you actually start talking to her and working with her, that fear all goes away. I have many advisees that were initially scared to death talking to Kathleen, but once they did it was like, ‘Oh my god, she is awesome to work with,’” Chow said.

One thing Chow cites as special about Fisher is the energy she exudes as a result of her deep passion and understanding for the complexities of her cybersecurity.

“The one thing that strikes me about Kathleen is she has the gravitas to really transform a program. What I mean by that is she has that magnetic energy that actually can grab you in. She has that energy to grab you in, to make you feel comfortable,” he said.

It’s this passion for understanding the complexities of the universe that drove Fisher to pursue computer science, demonstrated in her fascination with the halting problem. According to Fisher, the halting problem is an unsolvable conundrum that exists in computer science regarding infinite loops — an error a programmer can make causing a program to run for eternity without producing an answer.

It seems that there should be a way to create a program — what Fisher terms a “termination checker” — that would check whether a program will go off on an infinite loop. However, the essence of the halting problem is that this program is impossible to create, and one can prove it.

“You can prove that [the termination sequence] doesn’t exist on the back of a napkin in about five minutes time. So it says something really deep about the universe we live in or the mathematics [of] the world we live in, and that’s something that’s accessible and understandable,” Fisher said. “I think I decided [to pursue computer science] on the spot.”

Fisher has since pursued many other fundamental challenges in the field. One example of this is her work with DARPA

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Kathleen Fisher, professor and department chair for the computer science department, poses for a portrait in the Tufts Data Center in the Tufts Administration Building on Nov. 20, 2014. in the High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems and Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning programs, where she tackled the issue of the cybersecurity of vehicles — colloquially understood as ‘car hacking.’

“In the first program that I sold, the problem was people can remotely hack into cars and take over control of basically all of the capabilities of a car. They can take over the steering, the brakes, the locks, everything is under software control,” Fisher said.

In order to solve this problem, Fisher proposed a solution to DARPA that used formal methods, a technique that would allow her to prove that there were no bugs that hackers could exploit in the vehicle’s software.

“The idea was to use mathematical-based techniques called formal methods that allow you to produce software along with a proof that [the] software has certain properties. One property, for example, is that it’s memory safe. That means that there are no bugs of a certain type — and these sort of bugs are ones that hackers know how to exploit in order to break in. It’s basically a proof that certain kinds of attacks can’t possibly work against this software,” she said.

As program manager at DARPA, Fisher led a blue team that would work on eliminating mistakes from the vehicle’s code and a red team that would periodically see if they could hack into the vehicle using vulnerabilities the blue team didn’t catch.

“We had basically teams of researchers that were working on formal methods for operating systems, formal methods for control systems, working on vehicle platforms,” Fisher said. “The program turned out to be extremely successful, so that was a lot of fun.”

According to Fisher, her tenure at DARPA directly led to her recent appointment to the CNAS artificial intelligence task force.

She explained that human cybersecurity expertise is still essential in developing artificial intelligence software.

“AI always runs on largely a computer platform, so if you haven’t made the platform secure, then the software running on top of it is not a well-oiled machine. Plus, when I was at DARPA, I spent a lot of time thinking about weaponized AI,” she said.

Fisher added that the potential for artificial intelligence to be weaponized and the transition from conventional to cyber warfare are pressing issues that the task force seeks to consider.

“I think cyber produces another front in a warfare kind of situation, where instead of launching missiles, you just launch a cyber-attack that maybe disables your enemy’s cars, or disables your enemy’s power grid,” she said.

Fisher’s accomplishments make her a role model for many aspiring computer scientists. Winnona DeSombre, a senior computer science and international relations double major, described Fisher’s presence as a professor.

“She’s an incredible, dynamic and dedicated lecturer. As a professor, then as the chair of the computer science department, she always wants to be sure that she’s making the right decisions for the good of all the computer science students,” DeSombre said. “She’s incredibly dedicated and accomplished and smart, and that exudes in her — she’s one of my personal role models.”

DeSombre also explained that Fisher accomplishes all of her academic and intellectual goals while serving as an important resource and advocate for women in computer science.

“Women in Computer Science wasn’t an organized, official club, and a lot of the things we did we had to go through the computer science department in order to do. Kathleen was always incredibly supportive of that. She also helped organize a group of femme-identifying computer science students to go to Grace Hopper every year, which is this huge conference for women in tech,” she said.

Fisher’s professional achievements aside, a core part of her personal mission is to continue to encourage more women to pursue computer science.

“There’s no evidence that women aren’t good at [computer science], we have to eliminate that narrative. And increasing the numbers will help eliminate that narrative because then there are examples of other people that are good at this and are women, and then there’s no reason to think that just because I’m a woman I’m not good at this,” Fisher said.

can’t believe the spring semester will end in about a month. Have you decided your plans for the summer break? Well, I guess that right around now, some people are busy with searching for tickets to travel, and others are busy with finding a job or internship for the summer. If anything, I feel the key word I have heard often these days is money — money for travel, working for money, etc.

That reminds me of how expensive Tufts is. As you probably know, the tuition goes up every year. As announced, the undergraduate tuition and fees for the 2018-2019 school year will be $70,941, which represents a 3.76 percent increase from last year’s $68,372.

This is quite a lot of money, I bet. To be fair, since I am exempt from paying Tufts tuition as an exchange student, I do not really know how big it is in the sense that I’ve never suffered from it.

However, given that the annual tuition for national universities back home — about $5,000 — is nearly 14 times smaller than Tufts’, I can at least say that $68,000 over four years is far from affordable for me and my family. In addition, as I mentioned in previous columns, housing and food here are not terribly cheap either. At this point, I am simply curious how much a college education costs from matriculation to graduation; it must be intimidating.

As far as I have heard, while a significant number of students receive financial support from the school, the Tufts financial aid system is not as well-funded compared to other top universities in Boston. Given that, it seems inherently true that expensive tuition without adequate financial aid leads to a large proportion of enrollment from rich families and a perpetuation of the socioeconomic gap between students.

Although administrators explain that the next year’s tuition increase is to maintain housing, dining and facilities, it is quite unclear how exactly the money is allocated. More importantly, is it properly used? For instance, I often wonder why my house — the Japanese Language House — is almost falling apart even though the school gains large sums of money from students. It is a selfish example, but I think that’s how most people feel — why is it like that, where’s our money gone?

Aside from these complaints, when I think of this issue, I can’t help but ask myself if what I have gained, learned or experienced was worth the 14-times-more-expensive tuition. This might be a bad way of thinking, but it could be a standard to evaluate myself, to check if it has been worth the money.

Rather than just complaining, I could see the tuition as investment and try to maximize the return on investment by studying hard. That is a practical lesson that I can take away from this issue, which is happening not only at Tufts but also other universities in the United States.

Hayato Miyajima is an exchange student from Japan majoring in international relations. Hayato can be reached at hayato. miyajima@tufts.edu.

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‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ returns with important message

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If we were to “look away,” as the villainous thespian Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) urges us to do in the opening theme of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” (2017-), we would foolishly give up the chance to venture into the beautiful yet tragic world of the Baudelaire orphans, whose boundless cunning and bravery necessitate a second season of the Netflix original show. Based on the fifth through ninth installments of Lemony Snicket’s beloved children’s book series, the new season follows Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes) and their baby sister Sunny (Presley Smith) as they escape from one awful and alliterative locale to another, while simultaneously discovering more about the mysterious history of their parents.

Schools and hospitals are already unpleasant institutions, but introduce a terrible actor and his outlandish troupe of henchmen who will stop at nothing to steal a family fortune and

they become truly hateful. Indeed, the audience must pity the Baudelaires – each of the Count’s schemes is more malicious and frightening than the last, and although the siblings continuously outfox him, he remains just one step behind. However, the show’s blatant acknowledgement of this ceaseless evil is also what makes “A Series of Unfortunate Events” hilarious. If you choose to ignore the warnings of the opening theme, despite the clear assertion that “this show will wreck your evening, your whole life and your day,” the narrator, none other than Snicket himself (Patrick Warburton), appears several times throughout each episode to implore you to stop watching before it is too late. Whether we refuse to listen due to successful reverse psychology or simply because of the show’s utter addictive nature is impossible to determine.

Though viewers may know Harris for his role as Barney in “How I Met Your Mother” (2005-2014), his portrayal of Olaf establishes the Count as an ideal character for audiences to lovingly despise. For

every scheme, Olaf not only changes his clothing style and affects a new accent, but he also manipulates the surrounding space in an entirely different manner.

His attempts to swindle the Baudelaires are so ludicrous and desperate that one can only hope he eventually proves victorious. As both a star and executive producer of “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” Harris clearly thinks of the show as a passion project. His enthusiasm shines through in every scene like a single ray of sunlight illuminating an otherwise forsaken cave.

However, it is the cinematographers who inject the series with the clarity and sharpness the Baudelaires require to defeat Count Olaf. Even the smallest detail, such as the nefarious crinkling of the Count’s eyes (the ones on his face, not the intriguing, peculiar one tattooed on his ankle) is shot with such painstaking care that we are transported through our screens into a universe of despair. The set design is also terrific and perfectly captures the steampunk aesthetic of the books. For example, an

entire half of the “Hostile Hospital” is merely scaffolding — not very conducive to a patient’s recovery. The meticulous weaving of these two elements produces a web that ensnares us and sends us on a tangled roller coaster of emotions, until we forget which direction is up. Like the carnival fortune teller, this confusion adds a degree of mystical uncertainty to the show, promising us an eventful journey regardless of the destination.

The miserable tale of the Baudelaires is no stranger to the screen. The Jim Carreyheadlined film “Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’” (2004) attempted to recount the first three chapters of the orphans’ escapades. However, while the movie is accurate in plot, it completely misses the moral of the story: No matter how terrible the circumstances we find ourselves in, we can overcome any obstacle if we stay true to who we are and hold tight to our humanity. In our age, this message is of utmost importance, and it is a lesson that “A Series of Unfortunate Events” is eager to teach us, if we are prepared to listen.

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The Weeknd’s pain is our joy in ‘My Dear Melancholy’

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Since his debut mixtapes in 2011, The Weeknd has captivated listeners with tales of heartbreak and empty hedonism. Born Abel Tesfaye, the singer spent much of his early career as an R&B enigma and steadily acquired a devoted fan base.

Though The Weeknd has since become a household name, appearing on the “Black Panther” (2018) soundtrack in February, older fans remain divided over the direction of his recent work. Tesfaye headed for a pop music sound with his most recent full-length album Starboy (2016), channeling Michael Jackson for a set of songs that took risks but ultimately delivered little variety or substance. The moody lyrics and immersive soundscapes of The Weeknd’s most distinct songs had seemingly been traded in for Billboard hit potential. That is, until the release of “My Dear Melancholy” (2018).

Presented as a sort of return to form, this six-track EP sees Tesfaye once again brooding over long pieces of atmospheric production. “My Dear Melancholy” boasts production credits from hip-hop titans Frank Dukes and Mike WiLL MadeIt, along with Guy-Manuel de HomemChristo of Daft Punk. As a whole, the sound is impressively cohesive and each track transitions smoothly to the next.

Unfortunately, a byproduct of the consistent production style is predictability.

The sonic palette is limited, and it is dis-

appointing to hear a lack of the experimental flair we know Tesfaye is capable of.

Artistically, The Weeknd remains perfectly in his comfort zone throughout the entire record, for better and for worse. The EP’s set of hit-making record producers creates the most remarkable difference between these songs and his early material: a more refined, trendy approach.

There is only one featured artist on the EP, techno artist Gesaffelstein. The French DJ’s contribution is felt strongly on “I Was Never There,” a highlight with its entrancing sirens and pretty beat switch. The track maintains edge and provides a welcome detour from the darkly rich yet typical instrumentals preceding it. In this way, The Weeknd has married the aesthetic of “Trilogy” (2012) to the accessible melodies and lovelorn lyrics akin to newer releases.

With a high-profile artist often comes high-profile relationships, all of which are universally publicized in the age of social media. The Weeknd is familiar with this dynamic, having dated Bella Hadid and more recently, Selena Gomez. It was anticipated that these relationships, in particular the end of his time with Gomez, would provide lyrical fuel on “My Dear Melancholy.” This has inevitably focused attention on the background of his words rather than the music itself. Several lyrics on the EP appear to reference Hadid and Gomez, some more obvious than others. On the opener, “Call Out My Name,” Tesfaye scorns having “almost cut a piece of myself for your life / Guess I was just

another pit stop / ‘Til you made up your mind.” Many interpret this as a reference to a possible kidney donation in the wake of Gomez’s lupus diagnosis, an ordeal followed by a break-up to get back with ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber.

The Weeknd indeed sounds bitter and romantically disillusioned on several tracks, sometimes to the point of conceit.

A lyrical approach Tesfaye exhausted in his ‘old’ era was solemn rumination on partying, drugs and sex. This thematic trifecta appears on “My Dear Melancholy” but as a means of mending his broken heart rather than debauchery for its own sake. Perhaps this is a mark of The Weeknd’s maturity: He is no longer content to provide audiences with lyrics that are merely explicit with no depth.

Tesfaye is at his most oddly affecting on standout closer “Privilege,” singing that he “got two red pills to take the blues away.” These moments remind us that The Weeknd is capable of progressing in a way that remains in touch with what made his music so intriguing to start with. It must be frustrating as an artist to experiment with new styles only to find original, passionate fans displeased.

On “My Dear Melancholy,” The Weeknd shows that he still does not know quite what kind of music he wants to make.

Even so, hints of Tesfaye’s genius are present as ever. A triumphant album is waiting to be discovered somewhere among the unfulfilling after-parties and romantic disappointment.

CORRECTION A previous version of the article, “TCU Senate discusses financial year 2019 budget, votes to pay its members,” which ran in print yesterday incorrectly stated that Class of 2018 Senator Jamie Neikrie voted against the Student Leadership Fund. However, no senators voted against the fund, and LGBTQ+ Community Senator Kathleen Lanzilla abstained from the vote. The Daily regrets this error.

hen someone mentions Maroon 5, the mind likely conjures images of not the entire band, but of lead singer and guitarist Adam Levine. Contrary to popular belief, Maroon 5 is composed of more than just their frontman, and it actually now has seven members. Unfortunately for the new guys, I guess Maroon 7 didn’t have the same ring. Although they continue to top the charts today, the band is actually older than most of the seniors at Tufts. In 1994, the original members met as teens in Los Angeles and performed under the name “Kara’s Flowers.” After perusing their first albums, I’ll say that if Weezer and Boys Like Girls had a child, Maroon 5 would have been it. Yet amid so many of the other similar male bands of the ’90s, I think Maroon 5’s sleek and crisp sound may have been refreshing and more appealing to a wider audience than Kara’s Flowers. Could it have been Levine’s sweet angelic voice that set them apart?

Possibly.

“Songs About Jane” (2002) rebranded the newly renamed Maroon 5 as soulful, sensual and a touch angsty.

Although the album didn’t find immediate success, it eventually became certified platinum four times over. Aptly titled, the album features the recurring theme of Levine’s high school sweetheart Jane, who inspired each song to varying degrees.

Over the decades, Maroon 5 has shown quite a bit of character growth, but perhaps not in the direction we would have expected. From garage rock band to neo-soul pop to a dabbling in electronic sounds today, their latest album is almost unrecognizable from their first. They kind of pulled a Taylor Swift before Taylor Swift made crossing into pop a big deal.

Generally, artists tend to mature as they age. Yet, Maroon 5 is peculiar because they actually seem to have regressed to younger audiences — teenage girls — and more whimsical material. Take “Don’t Wanna Know” (2017), featuring Kendrick Lamar. Experimenting with xylophones and giant bug costumes, I welcome their attempt to take themselves less seriously.

Ironically enough, although the members of Maroon 5 have aged into old guys, they made their commercial reputation as a couple of naïve young guys, illustrated well in the “She Will Be Loved” (2002) video. I had actually never seen this video before, probably because I didn’t know how to use a computer back then, but between the cringe-worthy acting and the Mrs. Robinson-esque situation, I highly recommend it for a good laugh.

So my question is, does Maroon 5 ‘still have it,’ or are they starting to feel like the weird uncles of the family? Why does Adam Levine physically not age like the rest of us? Why, with so much initial success on their earlier work, did the band sell out to the pop agenda? Their latest album, “Red Pill Blues” (2017), includes features from the likes of Future, A$AP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar. But also LunchMoney Lewis, so I’m not really sure what they were going for on that one. It’s their most synth-heavy album yet, so we’ll have to stay tuned for which genre they explore next.

Nikki Margaretos is a senior majoring in economics. Nikki can be reached at nikoletta.margaretos@tufts.edu.

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: I’m really sorry that you’re feeling burnt out, but please know that’s it’s such a common experience to have at a place like Tufts. With the whirlwind of academics, athletics, clubs, extra-curriculars, social life and everything else in between that Tufts bombards us with, it’s easy to quickly become overwhelmed, stressed and even a bit disillusioned with the Tufts experience.

When I start to feel this way, I try to remember and connect with my favorite part of Tufts: the people. As divisive as the social scene at Tufts can be sometimes, this university is also home to some of the brightest and most compassionate people I’ve ever met.

I think a lot of us have the tendency to cave into ourselves when we’re feeling stressed, tired or overwhelmed; but I promise you that taking the time to enjoy the presence of the amazing people around you is so much more energizing. Getting coffee with an old friend, having a night out with suitemates, or even inviting a peer from class to get a meal are all ways to strengthen the human connections that are so vital to the Tufts (and the human) experience. If you make an effort to be more connected with your peers, you’ll start to feel more connected with the common experience we all share as Tufts students, and you’ll feel revitalized in no time. Good luck!

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n Arabic, the root word shatata is to scatter and the word for diaspora, shataat, is literally the scattered.

Today, many communities live in this way, scattered across the globe from wherever they originated. Some returning often, others never. Some retaining their culture and passing on languages, and others not. Diaspora has become a concept for many groups — big or small.

From the large Chinese diaspora that built Chinatowns the world over, to the smaller Tajik diaspora, people are spread out. The resulting diaspora communities are new phenomena for many groups of people, occurring because of immigration, voluntary or otherwise. The term was mostly associated with Jews, who lived in lands beyond their origin for centuries.

While immigrants face many hurdles, diaspora can give groups certain power. I was reminded of this power listening to a panel on the Rohingya genocide (a group whose name is not even recognized by Microsoft Word).

One expert panelist said the lack of attention was a huge problem in moving towards any solution. People outside Burma have barely ever heard about the Rohingya, let alone cared about them. If people were educated on the atrocities there, they could put pressure on governments to condemn Burma, raise funds to help the refugees amassing on the border region of Bangladesh, and at least marginally improve the situation of the Rohingya.

Diaspora has the power to help in this process. If there were a large Rohingya diaspora that spoke English, French, German or other languages that command large audiences who lived in large cities, they could appear on CNN and represent the Rohingya. They could write op-eds for the Guardian instead of waiting for Westerners to notice and write on their own. Such a diaspora could campaign for the awareness, celebrity-recruitment, and fundraising that the Rohingya need.

Alas, such a diaspora does not exist. One of the panelists, who was a recent Rohingya immigrant to the UK, confirmed that there were very few people like him to do all the work necessary. Kurds have large diasporas, mostly in Northern Europe, who raise awareness and funds. Jews have the same. Armenians have the same. Although they are still met with doubt and even denial, these diasporas are able to shed light on the genocides of their past with the international community. Through this work we have come to learn about these atrocities, from the Halabja massacre to the Holocaust, to the Armenian genocide.

The Rohingya do not have such a diaspora. Because the Burmese government took Rohingyas’ citizenship away in 1982, they could not get passports to legally move between countries. Moreover, because their access to basic education was limited, many Rohingya couldn’t qualify for skill-based migration to any country. These hurdles were added on top of the general poverty of the mostly rural and isolated Rohingya.

Because the Rohingya have limited representation in the international public sphere, they need as much support from outsiders as possible to spread awareness about the Rohingya genocide and to raise funds for the victims and refugees. Being ‘the scattered,’ always tied to a faraway place, can be difficult. But this status, which the Rohingya lack through no fault of their own, carries some benefit in difficult times.

Nesi Altaras is a junior majoring in international relations and economics. Nesi can be reached at nesi.altaras@tufts.edu.

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On-campus social groups should all be Green Dot certified April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. As events like It Happens Here spread awareness through stories of sexual misconduct at our university and beyond, we must re-examine our campus culture to address these issues head on. We encourage as many social spaces as possible to become Green Dot certified, a pivotal first step to tackle the issues that leave hundreds of students feeling unsafe on their own campus.

In April 2016, The Center for Awareness, Resources, and Education (CARE) along with the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) began promoting the Green Dot Initiative on campus.

The sexual assault prevention program aims to outnumber red dots, instances of sexual assault or violence, with green dots, preventive measures. According to the OEO website, “Tufts’ Green Dot Programming focuses on examining what in our culture allows sexual misconduct to exist on our campus and how to respond accordingly.” CARE’s aim with the Green Dot program is to have community members look out for each other and spread a culture of active prevention.

According to Green Dot’s website, the program’s approach to prevention differs by reaching out to all students, faculty and staff as allies instead of the relying on a traditional approach that reinforces a narrow, gender binary-based conception of sexual assault — with women solely as

victims and men solely as perpetrators. In the era of #MeToo, many people have wondered how they can help to change our sexual violence culture, on campus and off. The Green Dot program provides an opportunity for everyone to educate themselves and be a part of the prevention culture.

Currently, groups at Tufts must request this program, and certification is not required for any student group.

Of the hundreds of student groups on campus, a relatively small minority have received Green Dot training and fewer have been Green Dot certified. At Tufts, certification requires a four-hour session, typically led by Sexual Misconduct Prevention Specialist Alexandra Donovan. During this time, students partake in critical conversation and various exercises to help illuminate the realities of sexual assault, as well as ways to prevent it. This commitment should be expected of any student group space where sexual assault is a possibility, including sports teams, theme houses and Greek life organizations. Even for student groups who believe they have appropriately discussed and tackled sexual assault issues, a prevention training program can only strengthen their responses to these issues, and it signals to the campus that they prioritize the safety of their peers. Everyone can take a few hours out of their lives to re-evaluate their role in this toxic campus culture.

Tufts has already taken steps to address sexual misconduct on campus, especially in the wake of recent Title IX violations. We have HAVEN, an online program mandatory for students before they even set foot on campus. During orientation, the university offers “Speak About It,” a “performance-based presentation about consent, boundaries, bystander intervention and healthy relationships,” as well as an OEO policy training session. However, as students integrate into college social life, these reminders of sexual assault prevention become few and far between. Green Dot can help continue the discussion about sexual violence on campus not just because it comes later in a student’s career, but because it is neither an online program you can rush through, nor a training session in which you can sit silently in the back on your phone. It is a conversation, and it prompts students to confront the campus environment directly. Sexual assault is not an issue we can absentmindedly click through or tune out; we must delve into it to truly combat it.

If a majority of student groups participated in the Green Dot program and had an open, honest dialogue with their peers about the culture of sexual assault on campus, our entire campus would be better equipped to protect one another against sexual violence. We hope that one day Green Dot certifications will become the norm, so that instead of Green Dot certified spaces standing out, the unsafe red dots will.

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No. 6 Jumbos continue strong run with convincing results

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The No. 6 Tufts women’s lacrosse team (10–1, 6–0 NESCAC) won all three of its games in the last week, extending its winning streak to six games leading up to what figures to be a difficult end to the regular season.

On Sunday, the Jumbos defeated the Babson Beavers (6–5) in a non-conference game in Wellesley, Mass. The hosts got on the board twice to start the scoring, but the Jumbos responded with three straight goals — including a pair from senior midfielder Caroline Nowak — to take a 3–2 lead at the 19:04 mark of the first half. The teams remained neck-andneck for much of the period, with each converting a number of their respective opportunities. With the game tied at five, however, Tufts again reeled off three goals in a five-minute stretch to enter halftime up 8–5.

Whereas the first half of play was closely fought, the second half was a different story — one that was all Tufts.

Helped, in part, by taking advantage of free-position chances, the visitors went on on a 7–0 run to swell their lead. The Jumbos were as solid defensively as they were active offensively, ultimately outscoring the Beavers 9–1 in the second half en route to a commanding 17–6 win. Nowak led all scorers with five goals, while junior attacker Dakota Adamec added three. Adamec now ranks third in the NESCAC in goals scored with 35, and Nowak slots in at eighth with 28.

Nowak, who was named NESCAC Player of the Week with 13 points in Tufts’ three games, shared that draw controls were a point of discussion at the half for Tufts, as the team sought to return to its usual form.

“We were losing a lot of the draws in the first half,” Nowak said. “[Coach Courtney Shute’s message] was go back to the basics of what we know to be Tufts lacrosse.”

The Jumbos responded, winning seven of 11 draw controls in the second half and 14 of 25 overall. Sophomore midfielder Maddie Norman and firstyear midfielder Catherine Lawliss led the team with five and four draw controls, respectively.

The day before, Tufts faced thenNo. 14 Wesleyan (7–4) in a noontime contest at Smith Field in Middletown, Conn. The Jumbos got on the board first when Adamec converted a free-position shot just under nine minutes into the game. Wesleyan quickly responded with a goal from first-year midfielder Sydney Prokupek to level the score. Less than three minutes later, Adamec sparked a 5–0 Tufts run by slotting a shot past Wesleyan sophomore goalie Allegra Grant. Adamec, herself, scored three of the five goals for a total of four in the first half. However, three key Wesleyan goals in the last five minutes reduced Tufts’ advantage to 6–4 entering the break.

The Cardinals found success at the beginning of the second half, clawing back to level footing with the visiting Jumbos. At the 13:03 mark, Wesleyan tied the game at seven on a free-po-

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First-year defender Emma Tomlinson escapes opponents during Tufts’ 26–5 home win against Wellesley on March 14. sition shot from first-year attacker Johanna Copeland. The goal proved to be the hosts’ high-water mark, however, as the Jumbos finished the game on a resounding 5–0 run to secure a 12–7 victory.

Adamec led all players with six goals, while also adding an assist and six draw controls. Norman and sophomore attacker Emily Games led the team in ground balls with four apiece. Games — last year’s NESCAC Rookie of the Year and a member of the All-Conference First Team — also netted two goals, while junior goalie Audrey Evers finished the day with seven saves. Collectively, the Jumbos dominated the circle, winning a stellar 17 of the game’s 20 draws.

Evers shared that even though the scoreline was tight at times, the team’s defensive play was steady throughout.

“I think that defensively our game didn’t change throughout the whole 60 minutes,” Evers said. “I think that was kind of the difference … that we just stayed ready. Even when we were tied, it didn’t feel like we were down. We didn’t feel like we were having big momentum swings on our end. We were just continually trying to do our best to give our attackers the ball and get it out of our end.”

On their home turf at Bello Field, the Jumbos took on the Williams Ephs (4–6) in a Wednesday evening tilt. Despite their record, the visitors promised to put up a tough fight. While Williams has only been victorious in one NESCAC game (an 11–10 win against Conn.

College on March 17), the team lost by just a single goal apiece to both Wesleyan and Bates.

Williams first-year midfielder Claire Fitzpatrick opened the scoring for her team at the 25:39 mark with an unassisted goal. It took less than a minute for the Jumbos to respond, as junior midfielder Annie Sullivan netted off Lawliss’ assist to put Tufts on the board. The score

remained close until Williams went on a 3–0 run midway through the half to take a 5–3 lead. Undeterred, the Jumbos stormed their way back into the game, going on a 5–0 run to close out the period, with Norman and Nowak each contributing two goals for an 8–5 halftime advantage.

The second half was entertaining, as both teams put the ball in the back of the net. Tufts increased its lead to 10–5 at the 23:47 mark, before Williams went on a 3–0 run to pull within two. Key goals from junior attacker Maria Dattolo and Lawliss inside of 14 minutes stopped the bleeding, though, and gave the Jumbos just enough of a cushion to survive the half. While Williams outscored Tufts 3–2 over the last 10 minutes, the hosts ultimately prevailed, 14–11.

Nowak led all scorers with five goals, including three in the second half. The Glenview, Ill. native also won a pair of ground balls and draw controls and added two assists. Lawliss tallied three goals of her own, while Norman notched two. The Jumbos also outdrew the Ephs 14–13, again holding an advantage in the circle thanks to Norman’s five controls and Sullivan’s four.

“Winning the draw is huge — [we] can’t win a game without possession,” Nowak said. “Also pushing the pace has been a big part of our identity, so pushing the fast-break transition from defense to attack will be really big to continue [our] success.”

The rest of the Jumbos’ schedule will likely pose significant challenges. The team begins by traveling to No. 4 Amherst (9–1) on Saturday for a midday matchup. After a midweek contest against Bates (7–5), Tufts concludes its regular season with games against No. 9 Middlebury (9–2) and No. 18 Bowdoin (8–3). Both the Mammoths and the Panthers currently sit one game back of the Jumbos in the NESCAC standings.

carus,” the 2017 Oscarwinning documentary, takes a deep look into the epidemic of doping in cycling and along the way uncovers a deeper scandal surrounding the Russian Olympic team and its doping problems. One thing that the documentary reveals is that if someone wants to dope or utilize some other type of performance-enhancing drug, they will be able to pass the tests. Sports science is ahead of any regulatory institutions, rules and tests. There are always ways to cheat the system.

Time, energy and money are poured into trying to prevent athletes from doping. It is estimated that the sports world and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), founded by Dick Pound, spend an average of $300 million per year on anti-doping efforts. The question has to be asked: Is $300 million too much to spend on an effort that seems to be on the losing end much of the time? The only reason why the Russian doping scandal was revealed can be attributed to a single whistleblower, Grigory Rodchenkov — meaning that nearly the entire Russian Olympic team got by those $300 million in drug tests.

It is true that removing these regulations and tests could set a dangerous precedent, given that doping has been shown to be potentially harmful to one’s health. However, there is an argument to be made that almost anything and everything professional athletes do can be potentially harmful to themselves in the long run, given that no human body is meant to maintain the level of physical abuse that professional sports require.

Additionally, the argument that doping provides an easy way out and encourages athletes not to work as hard is narrow-sighted claim. Most of the athletes caught using these drugs are at the top of their fields and have worked incredibly hard in their lives.

The purpose of these drugs is not to provide immediate performance increase, but to allow the athlete to work harder and push through more pain. As former professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton writes in his book The Secret Race, “People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite.

[Erythropoietin] granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you’d ever imagined, in both training and racing.”

Given the immense price tag that anti-doping generates, the organizations imposing the regulations should re-evaluate the way that they currently operate. The testing that they implement now is falling very short and costing a lot of money, so WADA and other similar groups have a responsibility to either change their approach to regulation or stop the regulation altogether.

Sam Weidner is a sophomore majoring in mathematics. He can be reached at samuel.weidner@tufts.edu.