The Tufts Daily - Tuesday - October 15, 2019

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Somerville festival highlights musical activism

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Students host 4th annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day

by Natasha Mayor and Sarah Sandlow News Editor and Contributing Writer

The Tufts community observed Indigenous Peoples’ Day yesterday for the fourth time since 2016, when Arts and Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) faculty voted to change what was previously celebrated as “Columbus Day.” This year’s celebration took place on the Academic Quad and around 80 people were in attendance.

The event began with an acknowledgement presented by anthropology department Chair Amahl Bishara, who explained how Tufts was built on Wampanoag land and how Tufts’ Walnut Hill was a place where indigenous people would plant walnut trees to maintain and nurture.

“Land acknowledgements can act as the beginning of a promise to transform the university into a place where resources are mobilized for justice for indigenous, black, immigrant or other neighboring marginalized communities,” Bishara said.

In an interview with the Daily before the event, Bishara further commented that Wampanoag and Massachuset presence is not adequately addressed.

“Even this luxury of space, this sense of spaciousness, is a settler colonial luxury and legacy that we take for granted,” she said. “And I think we also need to acknowledge the settle colonial present that continues to erase and marginalize indigenous communities and presence and continues to be a barrier to indigenous sovereignty.”

Bishara added that she hoped the university would play a bigger role and build relationships with indigenous communities so Tufts could push people toward justice.

Following Bishara’s land acknowledgement, Hannah Norton, a member of the planning committee for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, spoke about indigenous people and how Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Tufts came to be.

“And what this has meant for indigenous people is to celebrate and remember indigenous resistance and existence,” Norton, a first-year, said.

Norton further explained how the new Native American and Indigenous Studies minor at Tufts is significant to the indigenous community, and a group unifying indigenous students at Tufts is set to be established this fall.

Cyrus Kirby, who helped organize the event, stressed how important this group is for indigenous students.

“Indigenous people are so rare on campus,” Kirby, a sophomore, said. “It’s import-

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The Nettukkusqk singers perform in front of Bendetson Hall on Oct. 14. ant for [indigenous students] and the larger Tufts community that they are acknowledged.”

Kirby said that the club meets Tuesdays in Mayer Campus Center room 203.

The Nettukkusqk singers, a group of Wampanoag and Nipmuc women, performed a series of songs that consisted of traditional and original works. The members explained how many of their songs are sung in vocables — small phrases so tribes who speak different dialects can all sing along. The group began their performance by teaching the process with which they use to learn, practice and sing songs.

“We sing songs for lots of different reasons, but in our community, singing is something that we do for greetings, for welcomings, when we’re happy, in sadness, in struggle, in celebration but in all of those times, there’s always a song,” one of the group members said.

After a few more songs, some of which included audience participation, the group concluded by singing a song of Iroquois origin to wish safe travels. Prior to the final song, one of the group members asked the audience to remember the people being held in camps at the southwest border of the United States.

“You cannot be illegal on stolen land,” she said. “These are our relatives, these are our kin, these are indigenous peoples who are being held as prisoners and as we think about indigeneity, as we think about Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I’d like to ask that all of you think about the actions that you can take to make a difference … to everything that is happening with indigenous For breaking news, our content archive and exclusive content, visit tuftsdaily.com @tuftsdaily

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peoples throughout our hemisphere and recognize what we recognize which is that we are family.”

After Nettukkusqk’s performance, Mahtowin Munro, a Lakota speaker, spoke about her happiness with Tufts students and faculty who are working on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Munro explained her attire as a gift from the Mayan people, which she was wearing in solidarity with all of the people caught at the border.

“It is time for everybody to get active and demand that the camps get closed,” she said. “This is one of the most important things that we can be working on right now … We want the borders open and we want our relatives to be free once more.”

Munro continued by talking about how the celebration of Columbus Day is an insult to indigenous people. She said on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, conversation should happen about the history of indigenous people and their survival and resistance.

Following Munro, Jesse Clingan, the fourth ward city councillor in Somerville, explained how he has been working with the city of Somerville to hold a celebration of indigenous people. Clingan, who is Mohawk, had told community members to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with Tufts and encouraged students to keep pushing administration to keep the tradition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day alive.

After dinner was served, the Eastern Sun drummers performed for the conclusion of the event. The drummers’ dances originated in the Eastern Woodland region, and performers wear “regalia” that reflect

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the region. The styles of dances they performed, a few of which involved audience participation, were referred to as Eastern social dances.

Mateo Gomez, who was at the forefront of planning the event, noted that it has evolved from 2017, when it was held in a common room in Carmichael Hall. He said that over his past few years, he has noticed that community members, including faculty and administration, have been showing more interest in Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “I’ve definitely noticed that it’s become a little more of an expectation, and that’s been really awesome to see,” Gomez, a junior, said. “People are expecting it and asking about it.”

The first Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration at Tufts was held in 2016, following the passing of a resolution written by Andrew Nuñez (LA’15) and Genesis Garcia (LA’15).

The previous planning committee all graduated this May. Since then, Gomez explained that he and other students, many of whom are Native, have taken over the reigns.

“Long term, it would be great to have a centralized club where Native students are leading,” he said.

Gomez said that funding for the event came from a variety of sources, including the Diversity and Inclusion office, the Office of Student Affairs, the Department of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora and Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate.

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continued from page 1 Julia Asfour and Leila Skinner, who are members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), explained the importance of celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “The name is definitely just the first step in the correct direction, but it definitely needs to happen because you’re acknowledging there’s a problem within the system,” Asfour, a junior, said. “It shouldn’t be named Columbus Day, not just at this institution but globally and nationally.”

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held in high regard for generations. Asfour added that the Palestinian struggle parallels the Native American struggle, making it important to fight for the rights of both groups.

“They’re both victims of settler colonialism — where their lands were taken away from them — and they’re both victims of police brutality and land grabs,” Asfour said. “As a Palestinian activist, it’s very hypocritical to not also advocate for Native Americans.”

Skinner, a sophomore added that the very land that Tufts stands on was stolen from Natives. She said SJP advocates for collective justice in freedom,

given that many struggles are intertwined.

“No one is free until everyone is free,” she said.

Somerville celebrated its first official Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 2018 at the behest of Mayor Joe Curtatone.

This year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day comes in the context of local struggles, particularly for the Mashpee Wampanoag, who last year lost their land trust, effectively dissolving autonomy in the region and preventing the construction of a casino.

Austin Clementi contributed reporting to this article.

Bullock speaks at Tisch town hall, discusses environment, impeachment, student debt

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The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life welcomed presidential candidate and Montana Governor Steve Bullock for a town hall on Friday.

The town hall was moderated by Dean of Tisch College Alan Solomont, who opened the discussion by making note of Bullock’s decorated political career. He mentioned that Bullock was the only Democratic governor to be elected in a state won by President Donald Trump in 2016.

Bullock began by noting that his motivation for joining the race stems from his dedication to ensuring the next generation of voters has better opportunities.

“Running for president, I have incredible moments, such as listening to a pastor in South Carolina and hearing all he has done, but it’s challenging, and it’s a long road. If there’s one thing I can do for the next generation, by making this guy a oneterm president, then I’d better try to do it,” Bullock said.

However, Bullock said he believes that for the Democrats to beat Trump, the 2020 election cannot focus primarily on Trump’s possible impeachment, but rather on what people want in a new president.

Solomont then shifted the discussion to talk about Bullock’s thoughts on the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry targeting Trump. Bullock further noted that while he does not want his campaign to be about opposing Trump, he does support the possibility of impeachment.

“Until two weeks ago, I’d say no impeachment, as a lawyer and a student of democracy. However, the idea that a president used foreign policy powers for personal or political gain, it puts us at a point where we have no choice. But be it impeachment or election, there will be 30% of the country saying ‘this is all

fake and just a way to bring down Donald Trump,’” Bullock said.

After discussing impeachment and divisions within the Democratic Party, Bullock then shared his ideas for improving the American education system.

Bullock mentioned that while he admits he cannot overturn all student debt, he does endorse policies such as increasing Pell grant eligibility and making education more accessible. According to Bullock, since a majority of Americans don’t go to college, cancelling all student loan debt doesn’t consider the needs of a majority of Americans.

“If you want a promise that all [student] debt will go away I’m not your candidate,” Bullock said.

Solomont followed by asking Bullock for his opinions on the implementation of gun control legislation.

“We need to look at this as a public health issue and not as a political issue. If we saw it as such, legislation could be easily passed,” Bullock said.

Bullock also expressed disapproval of Trump’s foreign policy measures, and shared how his vision would point the country on a different path.

“Trump ran on ‘America first,’ but it’s really ‘America alone.’ The knee-jerk policy of treating allies as enemies and enemies as allies is dangerous. We are losing our credibility. But I believe that our allies and enemies need to know our words matter,” Bullock said.

The moderated part of the discussion came to a close and Solomont opened the floor for student questions.

Tyler Stotland opened this portion of the discussion by asking Bullock about his plan for the U.S. to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

Bullock said that the situation surrounding climate change has become so dire that immediate steps are necessary. And

although scientists say we should be carbon neutral by 2050, Bullock said that he believes we can be carbon neutral by 2040.

However, he mentioned that he also understands why a number of Americans oppose climate change initiatives.

“We can’t leave communities behind in this transition. It’s hard for people to care about the end of the world when they can’t make it to the end of the month,” Bullock stated.

Another student, Ross Sonnenblick, asked Bullock what, after 4–8 years of being president, he would want his legacy to be.

Bullock said he wanted to try and restore unity among Americans despite differences, and settle policy on issues such as climate change once and for all.

“I would want people to say, regarding climate change, ‘finally, we took this on, finally, we did something.’ In addition, if I was your age, I would not believe this could work anymore; politics is dividing the core of who we are. I want my legacy to be bringing back unity in this country,” Bullock said.

Following the talk, Stotland, a junior, expressed her approval of the talk.

“I liked how concise Governor Bullock was, especially since I didn’t know a lot about him before the talk. It is great to learn about a candidate that is not talked about as much. In addition, as an environmental studies major, I appreciated his stance on climate change. He clearly has a depth of knowledge on the issue,” Stotland said.

When asked about the role of Tufts students in the upcoming election, Bullock mentioned that it is imperative that Tufts students know that they can make a change, and how important making a change is for them.

“If everyone 18–30 voted, you all would run this election. In addition, every Tufts student has more at stake in this election than I do,” Bullock said.

TCU Senate hears club funding requests, DCA presentation

by Bella Maharaj

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The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met yesterday in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss supplementary budget allocations.

The meeting began with a presentation from Adrienne Pruitt, the collections management archivist at the Digital Collections and Archives (DCA). The department is responsible for preserving university records in paper and digital format for the administration and student organizations. It is also the department that holds Jumbo’s tail, which can be requested to see. Pruitt proposed that TCU Senate submit records of their meetings to the DCA

for future students to be able to learn from the Senate.

“We can help you and future iterations of you by looking back to see what the Senate did previously. What’s been successful, what hasn’t been successful, when it might be time to try that issue again,” Pruitt said. If there were privacy concerns, the records could be available to be opened in 20 or 75 years.

Pruitt further explained the importance of archiving student activities.

“These records are part of the historical record of the university. We really want to document it because one of the things that sometimes gets lost in archives in general are the records of people who aren’t the administration,” she said.

Following Pruitt’s presentation, TCU Senate Treasurer Sharif Hamidi discussed the amount of money spent within the month on supplementary expenditures. Last year, the Senate budgeted $100,000 in supplementary funding throughout the entire year, of which they have so far spent $22,727. $5,177 of this money has been spent on competitions and retreats, $7,094 on campus programming, $9,075 on off-campus travel, $1,081 on annual budgeting for groups not given funding from last year’s budgeting meeting and $300 on speakers.

In this meeting, TCU Senate passed through acclamation funding for seven campus organizations, totaling $9,800.

The meeting adjourned after 30 minutes, upon which a closed meeting began.

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Music, activism converge at HONK! festival

Timing the Market

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n the financial media, there has been a lot of speculation regarding a recession looming within the next 18 months. In the face of such uncertainty, you might be tempted to sell your assets before the market crashes, and once things pick up again, you believe you can safely invest and watch prices rise.

However, the notion of trying to “time the market” is extremely detrimental behavior for investors, and it can be avoided through disciplined rebalancing.

To start off, let’s rewind to Jan. 15, 2016, when CNBC posted an article titled “A recession worse than 2008 is coming.”

Suppose you had all your money invested in an S&P 500 Index Fund, and you decided to sell everything before the predicted recession hit; once things recovered, you would buy back your stock.

Well, just 2 months after CNBC published their article, the S&P 500 was up about 8%. Fast-forward to today, and the S&P 500 has risen nearly 60%.

There are two key takeaways from this exercise. First, even for financial professionals, it is incredibly difficult to “time the market.” Sure, there can be indicators suggesting a recession, but trying to accurately and consistently act on that information is not a winning strategy — even when people are right, it is often due to luck.

Second, look at what happened when you took out your money. You expected the market to crash, which would allow you to keep your money in cash, avoid losses and repurchase your security for a lower price.

Instead, the market rose a large amount!

Not only did you miss out on a large gain, but now you have to pay a higher price to repurchase your security. To put it simply, you “sold low” and “bought high.”

So, how can you stay disciplined and overcome the urge to panic and sell? The key is portfolio rebalancing, which means adjusting the weighting of your portfolio to a target allocation.

Let’s say you have concluded that a portfolio of 50% stocks and 50% bonds will help you meet your financial goals.

Let’s assume that the stock market did crash in 2016 as the article predicted, but the bond market remained unchanged.

Because the values of stocks dropped, they now make up a smaller portion of your portfolio: your new allocation is 40% stocks, 60% bonds.

In this scenario, you should buy more stocks, returning your portfolio to 50% stocks, 50% bonds. If the stock market has risen and bonds remained unchanged, you would sell stocks to return the balance to 50–50. With such a strategy, you have “bought low” and “sold high,” all while retaining your original risk level.

Typically, it is valuable to rebalance monthly or quarterly. Rebalancing on shorter terms increases the amount of work you have to do, and trading frequently incurs higher costs, but waiting too long to rebalance could lead to “portfolio drift” — meaning the riskiness of your portfolio might not reflect your original intent.

Next time you read about a market crash in the news, don’t try to time the market: stay disciplined and rebalance.

Ryan Gell is a senior studying economics and history. Ryan can be reached at ryan.gell@ tufts.edu.

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An activist street brass band performs at the fourteenth HONK festival in Davis Square on Oct. 12.

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“We started in isolation, we didn’t know that there were other street bands,” Elizabeth Wolff said of her band. “And then we got invited to HONK!” Wolff is a member of the Leftist Marching Band, one of 25 bands that descended upon Davis Square this weekend for HONK!, an annual festival of music and activism. Bands played all day on Saturday in Davis Square, across seven venues in parks, plazas and blocked-off streets. On Sunday the festival continued in the form of a parade from Davis Square to Harvard Square. Multiple HONK! festivals take place around the country each year, but the oldest is Somerville’s, where some bands like the Leftist Marching Band have been playing since the festival’s first year in 2006.

“The first year there were 12 bands,” Ken Field, a member of HONK!’s organizing committee, said. Field has played in the festival since its first year, which he said “was kind of chaotic and crazy, but it was awesome.”

“Now we have 25 bands, 500 musicians.

So it’s grown a lot,” he added.

Field made it clear that HONK!, as a community-based event, has grown because of extensive involvement from all parts of the local community.

“We’re all volunteers on the organizing committee, so we work on it all year round to make it happen … I’m a professional musician, some of us are amateur musicians, some of us on the committee are not musicians at all, but they all love the festival and want to help us out,” Field said.

For many bands, HONK! provides a unique opportunity to play among other unconventional musical groups with a shared interest in politically focused performances of music on the street.

“The HONK! festival is made up of mostly bands that are activist street bands … the people are in it to do good things in their communities,” Field said.

Some bands signaled that HONK! is unique among festivals they have the opportunity to perform at, with its emphasis on playing in the streets as a form of activism.

“We wanted to find a brass band-specific festival for not-your-straightforwardmarching-bands, and this was the first we had really heard of … when we heard about it, we knew we needed to come,” said Mike Smith. Smith is director and co-founder of Environmental Encroachment, a brass band from Chicago which has returned 12 times since first coming to HONK! in 2006.

A common link between the performances was the fusion of the artistic and the political. “What we do is make art in a political fashion,” Wolff said of the Leftist Marching Band. “Bands have different approaches to that, but that’s basically what we’re all here for.”

Performing immediately after the Leftist Marching Band was the Forward! Marching Band, who similarly used their platform for musically based political activism. To the beat of a drum they led call-and-response chants of “What’s disgusting?” “Union busting,” and “What’s outrageous?” “Poverty wages.”

Just down the street, the feminist band Fanfarra Feminina Sagrada Profana led their own call and response, beginning with “We are women. We are strong,” to which the crowd raised their fists in solidarity.

Many of the bands seemed at home leading crowds in political expression, and have roots in musical activism.

“We play mostly at political events and protests and rallies … we did a lot of antiwar stuff, we do climate change things, labor rallies, that sort of thing,” Wolff said about the Leftist Marching Band.

Field similarly emphasized the role of political activism as the central force behind many of the bands playing at HONK! “The people are in it just to do good things in their community: play at rallies, play at protests. It’s kind of like the old folk music protest thing. That’s kind of where it’s coming from,” Field said.

In addition to the performers themselves, Davis Square was full of activists on the ground supporting various causes. “Ask me about ranked choice voting,” read the shirts of several people with petitions to reform Massachusetts’ electoral system. Other individuals distributed flyers with information on issues such as climate change, reparations and impeachment.

On Sunday, activist groups joined the bands to form a parade marching from Davis Square to Harvard Square. Among the groups marching in the parade were several Tufts-based organizations, including Tufts United for Immigrant Justice, Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine and the percussion group Banging Everything at Tufts (BEATs).

A few students in the parade participated for a unique academic purpose, immersing themselves in the festival to fully understand it as an object of study.

Several students came to do research as students in the class Myth, Ritual, and Symbol (Anthropology 132), “otherwise known as the “Honkthropologists of Tufts,” as first-year Leah Cohen described it.

“We’ve been using [HONK!] to examine how symbol and ritual can play into activism, and how we can use those to aid us in our activism,” junior Emily Gheewalla said.

By participating and fully immersing themselves, these students were able to fully understand every aspect of the cultural event they were participating in. Cohen described the festival as a “touchstone” for understanding their class’ central topics within the context of Somerville.

A major result of HONK! is the arrival of people from all parts of the local community into Davis Square. Seats were packed in the patios of Davis Square restaurants, and plazas and streets were filled with masses of people dancing to the music, all sharing the public space.

“It’s been really uplifting to be here this past weekend and meet lots of local community members who are all working towards our shared goals … and just uniting the communities of Tufts and Somerville,” Cohen said.

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Retelling a classic ‘Diego Maradona’ blends legend, truth

Once in high school, while reflecting on my past education, a peer mentioned how weird it is that so many children are taught Greek mythology. I had never questioned it and at first did not see the strangeness of it. They’re captivating stories that kids seem to love, so why not?

Yet, with more thought, I began to see the weird sense of importance placed upon Greek mythology in schooling.

These myths do not represent morals that children should be instilled with either; violence, greed and rape are often key plot points. The emphasis on mythology, I believe, is partially a product of the marginalization of other nonwhite voices. Why has Greek mythology been canonized for American children and, say, Native American folk lore left behind?

With this in mind, I had not seen the value in Greek mythology for a long time.

However, Madeline Miller coerced me into its arms by turning these epic stories on their head.

In “Circe” (2018), a book I read this past summer, she creates a wildly poignant feminist text out of “The Odyssey” (8th century BC). It is brilliantly told from Circe’s point of view, and you see the ways that patriarchy continued to crush and vilify a woman who wanted peace.

With “The Song of Achilles” (2011), she retells the “Iliad” (8th century BC) while allowing the side of Achilles that so many have speculated about come to light: Achilles being gay. She opens the door to this side of Achilles, and it drives a retelling of this classic epic in a contemporary and irresistible way.

Miller brings it into the 21st century, modernizing intricacies of the story that were forced into heteronormative boxes before.

Miller also critiques many of the atrocities and the violence of stories like the “Iliad.” She writes the book from Patroclus’ point of view and uses his aversion to violence to comment on the cruelty surrounding him. It follows Patroclus from the beginning of his life through the Trojan War and in the process the reader is allowed to see a man develop within a harsh world that does not value him because he cannot fight.

Furthermore, the amount of rape in Greek mythology in general is appalling and often overlooked. Miller includes it, but Patroclus’ aversion to it and his sympathy towards women throughout the novel lets brutality be the main focus of this violence instead of it just existing and being accepted because it was a common point of the stories.

“The Song of Achilles” is a captivating escape and one that I enjoyed every minute of — but I also enjoyed pausing and comprehending how she was deconstructing the “Iliad” and using her skill of words to rebuild it.

I have never been a huge fan of Greek mythology, but I deeply admire what Miller has done with her novels. They were a true delight to read while making important social commentary that I think is desperately necessary within Greek myths.

Devina Bhalla is a sophomore studying sociology and English. Devina can be reached at devina.bhalla@tufts.edu.

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Every modern football fan has heard the stories of Diego Maradona: coming out of poverty in Argentina, the incredible goals, the controversy on the field, the insane life off it. Never before, though, besides maybe a clip or two from YouTube or archives, has the public seen much of the truth behind the legend. Not, at least, until HBO and Asif Kapadia’s new documentary “Diego Maradona” (2019).

The new documentary is an incredible must-watch for any soccer fan. The film focuses mostly on Maradona’s time with Italian club Napoli, and zooms out to show how his seven years with the club perfectly encapsulates his epic life.

What makes this documentary so incredible is not just the stories — as noted, we know most of them already. Rather, how the stories are told is remarkable: The film is cut together entirely of found footage; everything the viewer sees is previously recorded by either Maradona, his associates or gleaned from contemporary news broadcasts.

There are, in typical documentary fashion, interviews with either Maradona himself or close friends and family, but we are never removed from the moment with a sharp cut back to these interviews. Rather cleverly, Kapadia uses these interviews as voiceover to narrate the action we see before our eyes, giving them a level of depth and context, and allowing us to never lose focus.

What really makes the use of found footage so wonderful to experience is how it contributes to Maradona’s legacy. As noted, Maradona is equally known for his celebrity as much as his soccer skills. The footage only supports that reputation. We see him at his apex, weaving through defenders to score goals most players could only dream of, leading Napoli to its first-ever Italian championship on the heels of winning the 1986 FIFA World Cup with Argentina. Kapadia cues us in intimately, allowing us to feel the euphoria of each heroic moment.

In turn, the documentary also clearly shows how each Herculean feat contributed to his tragic downfall. After moments of great success we see footage of Maradona in public, smothered. Thanks to the pure amount of press coverage, along with fans fully surrounding him, Maradona literally is only able to move by forcing his way through the crowd. None of this feels celebratory, more so incredibly suffocating.

This level of celebrity it seems pushed Maradona to the party lifestyle he became known for; thanks to old videos, photos and Maradona himself, we learn that he, during his time in Naples, was

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From this we can see why this documentary is more special than your typical celebrity biographical documentary. The mythic tales that made Maradona into the godlike figure that he became are no longer folk, but reality. This convergence doesn’t diminish Maradona to some small figure because it doesn’t negate what we think — it proves it correct in many ways. We thought Diego Maradona was larger than life, and, for better or worse, he was.

Although this may seem like a glorification, “Diego Maradona” feels much more

elegiac. The documentary posits that the legend was split between two personalities: “Diego,” the incredible wizard with a soccer ball who purely loved the game, and “Maradona,” the global superstar who took to drugs as an escape.

By the end of the film, and his time in Naples, though, it becomes clear that “Maradona” won the battle between these two figures though and that “Diego” could no longer be salvaged. “Diego Maradona” serves as a tragic reminder of how celebrity can push our most brilliant artists down dark paths.

For any true soccer fan, this documentary should go to the top of their watch list. It provides unheralded levels of access to Maradona’s life, and consequently it becomes truly gripping.

TV RECAP

‘Drag Race UK’ gets off to a smashing start

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Oi, kitty girls! Following Yvie Oddly’s well-deserved victory in the season 11 finale, the world received a welcome fourmonth break from the ongoing onslaught of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (2009–) content.

On Oct. 3, however, the reality TV behemoth finally hopped the pond. With its first two episodes, “RuPaul’s Drag Race UK” (2019–) has served up a crop of ten

sickeningly talented queens along with the BBC’s uniquely British take on the endless well of challenges and drama.

The ten pioneering British queens come from around the UK and beyond, representing a host of drag styles and aesthetic hallmarks (though some have expressed disappointment at the cast’s lack of diversity).

There are the grand dames, the old-school campy slags (their words): London’s Baga Chipz and Vinegar

Strokes, as well as Divina de Campo out of Yorkshire and Liverpool’s The Vivienne, with an impeccable Scouse accent to boot. Canadian-born Crystal holds the banner for East London’s punk queens, while Belfast’s Blu Hydrangea and her inventive eye comprise the “Drag Race UK” Irish delegation. Birmingham’s Sum Ting Wong has already established herself as a strong contender for the

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The dreaded rehearsals with Michelle Visage are a hot mess nearly across the board, though Baga and Divina do earn laughs. Sum Ting worries about her Mariah Carey-inspired character, Scaredy looks dangerously one-note and Blu strains to make an impression.

Preparation in the workroom for the Bond girl runway sees some of the season’s first drama bubble up. The Vivienne and Crystal share their growing annoyance with Cheryl and what they perceive to be her affected personality. Meanwhile, Sum Ting opens up about her complicated relationship with her family, and Vinegar and Scaredy have a nice moment discussing their experiences with drag and queerness.

The mainstage sees Ru greet Michelle, series judge Graham Norton and guest judge Maisie Williams, and the runway introduces a new pantheon of Bond femme fatales. The Vivienne sets the bar up in the sky, channeling Grace Jones in a stunning, shimmering gold look. Baga earns a great reaction from the judges as Lazer Minnelli, while Crystal scares Maisie Williams under her desk with a cracking whip and a black latex bondage-inspired bodysuit.

On Downton Draggy, Team Scaredy gives an up-and-down performance, with Crystal’s Lady Kylie and Divina’s old maid impressing the judges. Less impressive are Scaredy and Blu, who fail to garner the judges’ sympathy with weak, one-note

performances. Team The Vivienne is more consistent; everyone does well enough, but the sketch as a whole comes off as a tad underwhelming. The judges, however, disagree, awarding Team The Vivienne the win and safety from elimination, and Baga Chipz the challenge.

Team Scaredy must face the judges’ critiques, and Cheryl is first in the line of fire. In the process of being read for a lame tearaway and an unmemorable performance, Cheryl also calls out Sum Ting’s performance as subpar. Crystal receives positive critiques, while Scaredy has her flyer girl runway praised as Wes Anderson does Bond by Maisie Williams, but her whiny performance and makeup are trashed by Michelle. Blu, the judges agree, is simply fading into the background. Divina’s acting and runway look are lauded, but she becomes upset onstage, believing her performance to be beneath her capabilities.

In the lounge, Cheryl becomes the chief topic of conversation among the safe queens, who accuse her of putting on an Alyssa Edwards-meets-Gemma Collins facade. This boils over into fullfledged drama when Cheryl tries to clear the air with Sum Ting immediately upon arrival. Several queens come for Cheryl on camera and in confessionals, and a tense moment afterward results in Cheryl becoming emotional in her confessional. For now, a truce appears to have been brokered between Cheryl and chief detractors The Vivienne, Vinegar and Crystal, but this doesn’t look like the last we’ll see of this storyline.

Blu and Divina are both visibly upset in the workroom, and Blu earns a litany of hugs when she reveals her insecurity and loneliness in the competition. Divina speaks of her frustration with her efforts thus far.

With the queens’ return to the mainstage, Cheryl is saved from the bottom two once again, leaving Blu and Scaredy to Lip Sync for Their Lives to Bananarama’s “Venus” (1986) in the latter’s first-ever live drag performance.

“Drag Race UK” has two very strong opening episodes to its credit, but it still has yet to register a good LSFYL: Blu mostly just repeats a series of power moves as she stomps around the runway, while Scaredy, while not as much of a disaster as Gothy, just doesn’t have the experience to keep up. Scaredy sashays away, meaning that the first two queens to go have also been the two youngest.

If the first two episodes are a test, “Drag Race UK” so far has passed with flying colors. Its cast, challenges, looks and storylines all show great promise. Notably, however, Ru seems to have awarded the campier, old-school queens more generously than queens who step outside the box. This reviewer hopes this is only an early aberration, not a tiresome pattern in which Ru favors those who fit his visions of an irreverent queen prancing in a mahogany pub somewhere in Clapham (in other words, stop robbing Crystal FFS!).

“Drag Race UK” has built a rock-solid foundation in first two episodes. Let’s all hope they don’t mess it up.

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Rounding out the pack are the young guns: 21-year-old Gothy Kendoll from Leicester and 19-year-old Scaredy Kat from somewhere in Wiltshire.

Episode one, as has become tradition on “Drag Race,” brought a runway challenge. In a structure reminiscent of the U.S. season 9 premiere, the queens were tasked with crafting two looks for the main stage: one repping their hometown and one inspired by Her Majesty herself — Elizabeth II (though this recapper does feel the challenge would have been more fun if the queen had been left unspecified).

As is often the case with season premieres, episode one was light on drama and heavy on introductions. After whipping around the workroom to discuss Divina’s long and arduous drag career, Scaredy’s inexperience with performing, Crystal’s republican sentiments and The Vivienne and Baga’s kiki, we head quickly to the main stage.

The Vivienne and Sum Ting Wong emerge as the two to beat in episode one, with The Vivienne taking the challenge win (and, in lieu of the lavish prizes of “Drag Race” US, a RuPeter Badge) for her Pete Burns-inspired Liverpool look and her Queen-hunting-at-Balmoral homage. Sum Ting wows the judges with two creative ensembles: the biggest septum piercing in “Drag Race” herstory completes her hometown look inspired by Birmingham’s Bullring, while she hits the catwalk as Royal Mail stamp Queen Elizabeth, exhorting the judges to take a lick. Blu Hydrangea takes a similar approach as the pound coin Queen Elizabeth.

Landing in the bottom two are Vinegar Strokes, whose looks are simply a bit underwhelming, and Gothy Kendoll, whose Leicester Tigers-inspired makeup is hilariously torn to shreds by judge Alan Carr. The first ever Lip Sync For Your Life (LSFYL) UK will not go down in the history books, however, even with Dua Lipa’s “New Rules” (2017). Vinegar wipes the floor with the timid Gothy without having to be particularly memorable. And, as Gothy proudly claims the title of the UK’s Porkchop in her workroom message, then there were nine.

Episode two’s mini challenge forces The Vivienne to rank her competitors based on her assessment of the threat they pose, which is a fun wrinkle. This results in her and Scaredy, whom she ranks last, being named team captains for the “Downton Draggy” acting challenge.

The teams break along what feels like drag philosophical lines: The Vivienne

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Female genital mutilation pt. 2 Content warning: This article includes graphic descriptions of violence against women. n my last column I discussed the physical, biological and emotional ramifications of female genital mutilation (FGM) and muddled through the gray area of cultural compliance and condoning human rights violations. My stance on this issue is summarized by former President Barack Obama’s statement on FGM in 2016, “Some people say that [FGM] is a rite of passage— something families do to help prepare girls for adulthood or marriage… Just because this is a tradition in some places does not make it right. This practice is harmful, and therefore wrong whenever it occurs.”

According to TIME magazine, the prevalence of FGM has experienced a “huge and significant decline” over the past three decades. This study revealed that FGM rates in East Africa have declined from 71.4% in 1995 to 8% in 2016. This decrease can be attributed to culturally sensitive interventions centered around behavior change, education and altering social norms.

The Saleema initiative was implemented in Sudan to encourage the long-term elimination of FGM. Its goal was to “create positive cultural associations with a girl remaining uncut.” The word “Saleema” means to be intact or as God created her. Hawaa, a victim of FGM, reflects on her experience with FGM, “… my mom and dad didn’t know… about the initiative. When I went back home, I told my mother. She cried—she told me if she knew all of this, she wouldn’t have done it.”

The Saleema initiative recognizes an idea called “normative beliefs.” FGM continues to be passed on from generation to generation because the social norms of the community believe it to be a necessary practice. In addition, when people see everyone in their social circles feeding into the practice, FGM persists.

Saleema, through a four-step process, attempted to change the public’s perception on FGM. The program involved community members publicly pledging to abandon FGM, wearing the Saleema colors to show solidarity and public dialogues to spread positive messaging. These program implementations were then heavily advertised to the public.

Additionally, UNICEF paid attention to men and their crucial role in ending FGM through forums that were specifically tailored for male-identifying community members. There were also efforts to reach out to community leaders, particular Sheikhs (religious leaders), to educate them about the dangers of FGM. Some Sheikhs were actually persuaded to end the practice, while others remained neutral.

The most important component of the Saleema initiative is empowerment and helping women regain autonomy over their bodies. The Saleema pledge reads: “I am Saleema/ Because I am strong in my decisions/Because I am not afraid of change/Because what we are learning now is more than what we knew before/Because our whole society is changing for the better.” This study from the Milken Institute School of Public Health reveals that higher levels of exposure to Saleema has decreased pro-FGM social norms in Sudan and proves that multi-level interventions that radiate positivity and growth-centric mindsets can reduce harmful, traditional practices.

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Deeksha Bathini is a junior studying community health. Deeksha can be reached at deeksha.bathini@tufts.edu.

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Thoughtful, decisive, transparent leadership is needed to stem the tide of hate Last week the Daily urged compassion and action in the face of hate. The discovery of yet another act of hatred at Tufts, this time targeting the African American community, compels us to write again on the treatment of hate on our college campus.

On Thursday, Oct. 10, University President Anthony Monaco and Provost Nadine Aubry shared that a sign in the African American Trail Project exhibit in the Aidekman Arts Center had been defaced, in “a shameful affront to the African American community.” Facing recurring hate at Tufts, our administrators must take decisive action towards community healing, prevention and transparency.

Monaco and Aubry took a good first step in the process of community healing by announcing the creation of Bias Response Teams in the same email on Thursday.

These teams are reportedly intended to facilitate “community understanding, support, and engagement.” We do not know the scope or authority of these teams yet, and it has been made clear that they are “distinct” from the disciplinary process.

Hopefully, these teams will be effective in facilitating discussions, collective action and healing within our community, but this cannot be the only action taken. In fact, Tufts already has many organizations dedicated to community understanding, support and engagement, including the Group of Six, Tufts’ identity-based centers which provide education and support across Tufts and within their respective communities.

Part of the healing process on this campus must be supporting the extant organizations in their respective missions to support their communities. The LGBT Center, for example, which responded rapidly in support of victims after the incident of homophobia, is dedicated to “maintaining LGBT visibility on campus and providing campus-wide education on sexuality and gender identity as well as the effects of heterosexism, cissupremacy, and queerphobia.” In addition to setting up new teams to respond to prejudice, Tufts’ administration should dedicate additional monetary and public relations resources to the Group of Six so they are better equipped to address hate on campus head-on.

Further, the prevention process must begin in earnest. Tufts has resources dedicated to the prevention of hate, and mandates new students receive a brief lecture on bias and resources from the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO). Though these resources exist, they have not been part of any significant messaging campaign in recent weeks. In fact, messaging has been mild — in the three recent emails about “incidents of bias,” the word hate has appeared only once. Core to essential messaging will be calling these acts what they are: hate. Prevention means doing much, much more than sending reactive school-wide emails. Prevention means holding talks, events and speeches which encourage inclusivity and discourage prej-

udice. Prevention means mandating new rounds of bias training for students, either through the OEO or through students’ FYAs or CDAs. And prevention means transparency.

So far, the student body has been left in the dark. Following the reporting of the swastika, the carving of a homophobic slur and the discovery of vandalism at the Aidekman Arts Center, we have been told that investigations are ongoing. We have not, however, been informed as to whether any of the perpetrators have been caught, or if any have been disciplined.

While the university has legal obligations to conceal the identity of the vandals, the Tufts community has a right to know if and how justice has been served. Knowing the penalty and knowing that the perpetrators have been caught will hopefully both serve as a deterrent for future would-be criminals, and would put our community at ease with the knowledge that those who have committed such heinous acts have been disciplined.

The Tufts community is reeling from this string of hate. Now, more than ever, we demand thoughtful, decisive and transparent leadership. Without a vigorous, community-oriented response there is little hope of putting an end to hate crime at Tufts. We commend President Monaco for setting up independent groups dedicated to responding to discrimination, but we also expect more and continued action in the face of these attacks.

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David Meyer Postgame Press

Ball(d)-face Lie? I love baseball. I know. Shocking.

Is it boring? My baseball housemates say no. My dad says no. I say no. The public, though, may disagree. With the knowledge that the average baseball fan is older than 55 and that fewer than 10 percent of United States citizens say it is their favorite sport, some say that America’s Pastime might be past its time. Different ‘fixes’ have been suggested by fans and experts, but some are saying that this season, a fix was in.

Home runs are fun. It takes a rare person to deny that. Watching a ball get smoked into the bleachers raises my heartbeat, even when the Cubs are not in the game. I remember hearing that more home runs could bring fans back to baseball. After all, it should make sense that the most exciting part of the sport happening more often would thus make the game more exciting. It makes sense to me.

However, that is not what has happened. Home runs are hit at a higher level than ever and other base hits are, in return, down. With each at-bat getting closer and closer to being a strikeout or a homer, the excitement has not been the change expected. Not only does this lead to questions about how to ‘fix’ baseball, but it bears another question: What has been the cause of the record-breaking home run year?

According to MLB researchers and the commissioner of baseball Rob Manfred, the balls have been changed.

While others use the term ‘juiced’, just like steroid users, the balls have been ‘centered’ according to Manfred. With less drag on the ball from its pill and its seams, as main theories have posed, the ball sails farther. Now, besides the fact that this leads to more home runs and more strikeouts, as opposed to base hits, there is one more major issue with this story that is more important now than ever.

The MLB postseason started recently and has already had its share of excitement. Yet, it has also had its share of controversy, starting with, you guessed it, the balls. The juice, it seems, has been loosed, so balls are acting bizarrely compared to the regular season. The air resistance on the ball is much higher, and balls are falling four and a half feet shorter according to the St. Louis Cardinals, with whom I, as a Cubs fan, hate agreeing but do today. If a layperson like me can watch the game and see a ball that should be going, going, gone and ends up on the warning track, in a season in which it was the opposite all year, there are some problems.

The de-juiced baseballs can be seen as just the same as the regular season, but now with a batting disadvantage and pitching advantage instead of vice versa. That argument fails to realize that players and teams adjust their game with every pitch. It is silly to ask them to now adjust to every ball.

Hopefully, the MLB can figure out ball consistency soon, or questions will continue to be asked.

David Meyer is a senior studying film and media studies. David can be reached at david.meyer@tufts.edu.

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Football players run back onto the field after halftime of their 47–14 victory over Bates at Bello Field on Sept. 29, 2018.

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On Saturday night, Tufts football lost to Wesleyan 20–13 after coming out of the first half up 10–0. The 5–0 Cardinals stole the show at the death, scoring a touchdown on a 29-yard pass with just over 6 seconds left on the clock.

“That was a good team we played and, unfortunately, we made them better,” coach Jay Civetti said.

The loss brings the Jumbos’ record to 2–3, tied for sixth in the NESCAC; the Cardinals’ undefeated record is good for first in the NESCAC, tied with the Middlebury Panthers.

The Jumbos got on the board quickly, scoring in the first quarter for only the second time this season. After going three and out on the first drive of the game, the Jumbos converted when they got the ball back with a 38-yard field goal from junior kicker Matt Alswanger.

In the second quarter, senior running back Dom Borelli ran in from the goal line to extend the Jumbos’ lead to 10–0, capping off a 66-yard drive. Then, with just under two minutes remaining in the half, the Jumbos had another field goal chance, but Alswanger missed from 40 yards out.

Overall, the Jumbos defense — led by senior linebacker and co-captain Greg Holt — stymied the Cardinals offense in the first half, allowing just 87 yards of total offense and forcing five punts and one turnover on downs.

“I think the defense did well,” Holt said.

“At the end of the day, we still have to focus on our assignments, and at the end of the day we didn’t do all the things we needed to do to get a win.”

The Cardinals shifted the momentum in the third quarter. A 36-yard kickoff return from sophomore wide receiver/quarterback David Estevez combined with a Jumbo penalty brought the ball to the Jumbos’ 38-yard line. It only took the Cardinals six plays to score, as sophomore quarterback Ashton Scott found junior wide receiver Delando Clarke in the end zone to cut the Tufts lead to three.

The Jumbos struggled to gain any footing on offense in the third quarter, failing to convert for a first down on their three possessions.

In the opening minutes of the fourth quarter, the Cardinals finished off a 33-yard drive with a game-tying field goal by first-year kicker/punter Mason Von Jess. When the Jumbos got the ball back on offense, senior quarterback Jacob Carroll threw his second interception of the game. The Cardinals capitalized with another Von Jess field goal on the next drive, going up for the first time in the game with a 13–10 lead.

The Jumbos answered. A 65-yard pass from Carroll to graduate student wide receiver Frank Roche brought the ball to the Cardinals 9-yard line. Although the Jumbos could not find the end zone, Alswanger successfully completed his 26-yard field goal attempt to tie the game at 13–13.

The Jumbos soon got possession back with sophomore defensive back Brandyn Jones’ interception. With just over six minutes remaining in regulation, the Jumbos led a slow drive down the field. However, Alswanger missed his second field goal attempt in the game from 33 yards out.

With 1:48 left on the clock, Scott led his offense down the field in a drive that ultimately ended with a 29-yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Matthew Simco. The Cardinals got the extra point to bring their lead to seven, and with only six seconds remaining, the Jumbos were out of options.

“Defensively, it was concerning that they drove the length of the field in the time that they did and scored,” Civetti said.

Lack of execution on special teams proved to be costly for the Jumbos: Alswanger missed two field goals and they allowed long kickoff returns from Estevez, who tallied 88 total return yards. Along with special teams, Civetti emphasized failure to score in the red zone and turnovers as reasons for the loss.

“There’s four phases that I think are super important,” Civetti said. “You’ve got to be able to score in the red zone — we

obviously didn’t do that and haven’t done that well this year. You need to be able to win on special teams — we did not do that yesterday. You need to be able to play great defense stopping the run — which we did a solid job in the run game. And the turnover game — we turned the ball over twice and took one from them, but that still leaves them plus one. We didn’t execute in the four arenas that we want to.”

There were some positives. The Jumbos defense stood strong throughout the majority of the game up until the final drive against a Cardinals team that ranks No. 3 in the NESCAC with 29.2 points per game. Despite his two interceptions, Carroll continued to solidify himself as one of the top quarterbacks in the conference with 297 passing yards.

Tufts now has a 2–3 record — the worst record through the first five games of the season under Civetti as head coach since his first three 0–8 seasons in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Four games remain on the schedule against Bowdoin, Hamilton, Colby and Middlebury. This weekend the team hosts Bowdoin (0–5) for Tufts’ homecoming weekend.

“It’s not a difficult process to figure out why we didn’t win the game [against Wesleyan],” Civetti said. “Luckily, I don’t think there isn’t a guy that walked off that field not knowing why we didn’t win. I don’t think there are a lot of questions, just good solid work to be done.”

Holt expressed a similar feeling, adding that the team will learn what it can from this matchup.

“I’d say we look back at the game and we take the corrections from it that we can make for next week,” Holt said. “But, as far what happened within the [Wesleyan] game, we’re focused on the next week.”

The homecoming matchup kicks off Saturday at 1 p.m. at Ellis Oval.

“We have an aggressive and hungry Bowdoin team coming down for homecoming and we need to be prepared to prove to ourselves and play for each other that we deserve a victory,” Civetti said. “We have a lot of work to do.”