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11 Tufts students receive Fulbright grants for 2017–2018 academic year

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Eleven Tufts alumni were awarded grants through the Fulbright Program, an international exchange program for college graduates and alumni sponsored by the U.S. government for the 2017– 2018 academic year. This makes Tufts a top producer of Fulbright grantees among research institutions nationwide, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Anne Moore, program specialist in the Office of Scholar Development, stated that this is the second consecutive year that Tufts has been recognized as a top producer of Fulbright students. The recipients of the Fulbright grant were chosen from a pool of 52 Tufts applicants, 30 of whom moved on to become finalists, according to Moore.

For the 2018–2019 school year, the current application cycle, there are 22

finalists out of a pool of 45 Tufts applicants, according to Moore. These finalists will find out if they are Fulbright recipients at staggered dates in the coming weeks, Moore said.

According to the Fulbright website, the program offers exchanges in more than 140 countries to college graduates and graduate students. Moore stated that the program consists of both English Teaching Assistant grants and research grants, both of which are offered almost anywhere in the world. Tufts students have gone to India, Indonesia, Mexico and China.

As the point-person who works with students to help them determine which programs and scholarships fit their interests, Moore highlighted the support system available to Tufts students in the midst of the Fulbright application process.

“The bulk of my one-on-one work with students over the summer is about Fulbright applications,” Moore said in a phone interview with the Daily.

She added that the application process

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Anna Del Castillo wins Wendell Phillips Award, will speak at Senior Baccalaureate Service

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Anna Del Castillo, Tufts Community Union (TCU) vice president, is the winner of the Wendell Phillips Award and will be the senior baccalaureate speaker.

The Wendell Phillips Award, established in 1896, is given annually to a senior who demonstrates skill in public speaking and a sense of civic responsibility.

The Committee on Student Life (CSL), with non-voting administrative support from the University Chaplaincy, selects the Wendell Phillips Speaker, through a six-month process that begins with open nominations and includes nominee applications and finalist auditions. This year, there were many nominations, 19 applications and five finalists — seniors Del Castillo, Travis Percy, Ana Karen Manriquez Prado and Rachel Wahlert — according to University Chaplain Greg McGonigle.

Del Castillo, who was nominated by several fellow students, found the initial audition prompt interesting.

“This year’s [prompt] was about the advice we’re given: Don’t talk to strangers,” Del Castillo said. “I thought, so much of my Tufts career has been talking to strang-

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When Del Castillo was chosen as a top-five finalist, she and the other finalists were given the choice to write either a longer version of the same prompt or a social justice message for our time. Del Castillo chose the latter, citing her passion for social justice issues.

“Upon coming to Tufts I became a part of the BLAST [Bridge to Liberal Arts Success at Tufts] program, which is mostly for first-generation and low-income … students,” Del Castillo said. “As the only student in my class from Mississippi and being a Latina, I feel like my experience has been having these identities that are different or not necessarily the norm at Tufts.”

Benya Kraus, TCU president and Del Castillo’s friend, has served alongside Del Castillo throughout the past four years.

Initially holding positions as TCU Diversity and Community Affairs Officers, and now as President and Vice President, Kraus and Del Castillo have worked together on a variety of TCU Senate projects. Among these are the initiative to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous

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Events on the Hill — Week of March 26 MONDAY “Civic Life Lunch — Against Invisibility: Chinese America, History, and the Family Album” Details: Associate Professor of American Studies at Brown University Robert Lee will discuss Against Invisibility, a digital project that explores Chinese Americans’ use of photography to investigate narratives of belonging and nationality in this event hosted by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life.

Where and when: Rabb Room, Tisch College; 12–1 p.m.

“CIVIC Police Accountability” Details: Tufts Cooperation and Innovation In Citizenship (CIVIC) will discuss the public’s relationship with the police in their meeting.

Where and when: Eaton 206; 8–9 p.m.

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for change. This event is sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Where and when: Cabot Intercultural Center, ASEAN Auditorium; 4:45–6 p.m.

“Visiting Artist Talk: Daniel Assayag” Details: Daniel Assayag, a visiting Paris-based artist, will give a talk at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA). Assayag works in photography and multimedia and teaches and researches at The Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity in Paris.

Where and when: 230 Fenway, B209; 6–7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY “CS Colloquium: Algorithmic Market Design” Details: Ian Kash, a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, will discuss advertising auctions and convex characterizations in this colloquium hosted by the Department of Computer Science.

Where and when: Halligan, 102; 3–4 p.m.

“Beckwith Lecture: Arthur Jafa and Christina Sharpe” Details: For the Museum of Fine Arts’ annual Beckwith Lecture, cinematogra-

pher Arthur Jafa will be in conversation with English Professor Christina Sharpe.

Tickets are required; a limited number are available free of charge for SMFA and Tufts community members.

Where and when: Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; 6:30– 7:30 p.m.

“Cecile Richards: Merrin Moral Voices Lecture supported by Tisch College’s Distinguished Speaker Series” Details: President of Planned Parenthood and pro-choice activist Cecile Richards will deliver this year’s lecture in Tufts Hillel’s Merrin Moral Voices lecture series. The event is being presented jointly with Tisch College as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series.

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Where and when: Cohen Auditorium; 8 p.m.

THURSDAY “Fletcher Community Book Discussion: Pamela Rotner Sakamoto” Details: Fletcher alumna Pamela Rotner Sakamoto (F 90, F 97) will discuss her award-winning book, “Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds.”

Where and when: Cabot Intercultural Center, ASEAN Auditorium; 5:30–6:45 p.m.

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continued from page 1 underselling your abilities or coming across as arrogant,” Moore said.“[My goal is to help] students really use the application process as an opportunity to hone [in on] an articulation of what matters the most to them about their research, what draws them to their research [or] why they want to teach.”

Both current and past Fulbright grantees from Tufts spoke to Moore’s central role in the application process, both in guiding students to applying in the first place andin helping them with the process itself. “[Moore] seems to be the beacon on all things Fulbright,” Alison Awtrey Graham (LA ’16), an english teaching assistant in France, said. Graham added that Moore was “a force in … keeping us all reassured.”

Nathaniel Tran (LA ’17), a current Fulbright research grantee in Argentina, added in an email to the Daily that Moore was crucial “in helping me and other applicants shape our separate research and personal statements to be cohesive and build off one another.”

Abigail Feldman (LA ’16), who also received her grant in 2016 and currently works as a program assistant for the philosophy department at Tufts, shared Tran’s appreciation of Moore’s guidance in the process.

“Tufts has a really great support system … I don’t think I would have gotten my grant without [Moore],” Feldman said.

Fulbright grant recipients Feldman, Graham and Sara Gardner (LA ’16) attributed their success getting into the program to Tufts’ support system for its applicants. Many also added that Tufts’ student body inspired them to apply.

Feldman said Tufts’ diverse student body also leads to a high acceptance rate.

“There are just so many really interesting people at Tufts, so it’s not surprising to me that a lot of people would get chosen for a grant,” Feldman said.

Moore also pointed to Tufts’ international focus as a potential reason for its status as a top producer of Fulbright recipients. “[Tufts has] a really strong international orientation, so a lot of students

are looking to work for … the foreign service or the state department or [are] looking to work with immigrant populations in the U.S.,” she said, adding that Tufts’ intensive language requirement as well as its emphasis on study abroad contributes to students’ candidacy for Fulbright grants.

Though Tran acknowledged that Moore and Tufts students play an important role in making Tufts a top producer of Fulbright grantees, he also told the Daily that Tufts’ status as an elite institution with a predominantly white student population could contribute to its position as a top producer.

“It would be disingenuous of me to ignore the fact that a disproportionate amount of Fulbrighters come from elite, private, predominantly white institutions,” he said. “[This] raises questions of representation and distribution of resources.”

Moore also stated that Fulbright research grants often build off of a recent graduate’s senior or master’s thesis.

Gardner, who was awarded a research grant to Madrid, Spain in 2016, said she had the opportunity to expand her Tufts research into Sephardic Jewish cuisine after 1492 during her Fulbright grant.

“I wanted to get the other half of what happened before [1492] that influenced how the food would change in the diaspora [of Sephardic Jews from Spain],” Gardner said in a phone interview with the Daily.

Gardner, who now works as the associate director of Young Adult Programs at the Hebrew College in Newton, Mass., added that her research during Fulbright has affected her life after the grant. “[My experience through Fulbright allowed me to better understand] the diversity of Jewish communal life,” she said.

Ashley Wilcox applied to the Fulbright program through the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, but worked with Moore while completing her graduate degree in the English department at Tufts.

Wilcox spoke about the importance of the support system she received at Tufts.

“Throughout the grant, we send in various reports and meet with our host country advisors to discuss our progress and any roadblocks we may encounter,” she said. “That said, the work itself is very independent and requires a lot of self-motivation.”

Like Gardner, Wilcox’s research in Germany through the grant relates to her academic work. Wilcox is researching Walter Benjamin, a GermanJewish scholar who wrote about the violence he lived through and observed during the World War II era, in the Walter Benjamin Archive. She is focusing on his views on the violence of the World War II era.

Although Wilcox said she wishes to focus on the works in the Walter Benjamin Archive for her Fulbright grant, she added that her research will be a valuable tool for her studies beyond the grant period.

“Benjamin’s theory is integral to my dissertation, so the grant will also inform my doctoral work,” Wilcox wrote in an email to the Daily.

Janna Karatas (LA ’16), who is currently an English Teaching Assistant in Spain, saw the program as an opportunity to study abroad and explore career paths.

“I became more interested in education during my time at Tufts, and, not having had the opportunity to study abroad, the combination of teaching and facilitating exchange and mutual understanding in another country appealed to me,” she wrote in an email to the Daily.

Garon Lizana (LA ’17), a current grantee researching topics on anthropology and sociology in China, reflected Karatas’ sentiment.

“I saw Fulbright as a great way to achieve a lot of personal goals all at once. I wanted to get more experience conducting research, improve my Chinese and get more experience living overseas,” Lizana wrote in an e-mail to the Daily. “I felt achieving these goals would help advance and clarify my future career path.”

Feldman, however, emphasized that the program can be beneficial even without direct relation to academic work or a current career path.

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continued from page 1 People’s Day and the movement advocating for tuition transparency and affordability.

They also attend biweekly meetings with University President Anthony Monaco, Provost David Harris and Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon, where they have “developed a really good rapport to bring up and advocate for student concerns effectively,” according to Kraus.

As senior baccalaureate speaker, Del Castillo hopes to connect with members of her graduating class.

“I want to speak about that, the faces that we don’t see at Tufts and the people who can’t afford to come to Tufts,” Del Castillo said. “Those issues have been central to my experience on this campus, [as well as] trying to create positive change by making Tufts a more inclusive space for students like me who are considered to be nontraditional.”

Post-graduation, Del Castillo will attend the Harvard Divinity School, where she will study the intersection of religion, politics and ethics, in pursuit of a Master of Theological Studies degree. One

day, Del Castillo hopes to advocate for fair policies for immigrants and other marginalized communities through exploration of public policy and religion.

Kraus is enthusiastic about Del Castillo’s next journey.

“Knowing her has inspired my own faith, reminding me of where to draw the strength to stand by my values,” Kraus told the Daily in an electronic message. “I think this next educational experience will help her channel the inspiring power she already has to so many more places, using her faith to

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While Del Castillo said she feels nervous to speak in front of her classmates, friends and family, her apprehension was overshadowed by her excitement to be the Wendell Phillips commencement speaker.

“One thing that makes me feel at peace about it is that so many people that I will be speaking to are people who have inspired the speech,” Del Castillo said. “For me, that takes the nerves away and makes me excited to be able to share this message with people I really care about.”

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Ross Sonnenblick The Tuftonian Dream

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hen you were young, you maybe had a dream. You were going to fly to the moon, pass EC 5, cure cancer. Then, you grew up. You cut your hair, chose your major, changed your outlook. You changed a lot, but did you change your dream?

Junior Dylan Sivori was six years old when he sat on his cousin’s motorcycle.

Back then, he just wanted to be “a guy who rides a motorcycle all day.” One memorable afternoon, Dylan’s cousin picked him up, placed him on the cushioned seat and proceeded to take him nowhere.

“We didn’t move. I just sat there, but hey! Getting on that thing doubled my height,” Dylan recalls.

Fou r t e en y e a r s l at er, although Dylan’s height hasn’t quite doubled, he has infinitely increased his number of expected college degrees. The first half of college represented a painful period of uncertainty for Dylan, but he now reveals with relief that he will major in film and media studies and minor in entrepreneurial leadership studies. Dylan emphasizes that “people who knew what they were going to do going into college kind of can’t relate to how stressful it can be.” He elaborates, “It’s a snowball of stress where I don’t know my major, so I don’t know which industry I’m going to go into, so I can’t get a job, so I don’t have money to live.”

Doctors have money to live, though, which is why in second grade, Dylan started telling people he wanted to be a doctor, “not because I wanted to, but just because that’s what people said.”

Progressing through high school, no class ever piqued his undying interest, and his discontentment peaked last fall when he took a psychology class. Dylan thought, “Why am I studying physiological psychology if I have no intention of being a psychologist?”

Through all the swirling frustrations of his first two years at Tufts, sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Office” sustained him. Dylan has always maintained that he’s just “here to amuse,” and two weeks after the declaration deadline, Dylan finally embraced his purpose and declared his major. Now, when he asserts that he wants to “pick [people] up when they want to be picked up or make them laugh when they have nothing to do,” he knows that he has put himself on the right track.

The old Dylan used to describe writing a successful sitcom as an “unrealistic dream,” but Dylan 2.0 says, “What’s the difference between Hollywood and starting your own business? You have a product; if it’s good, people like it, and you have a job.” After college, Dylan might apply to work at a production company in Los Angeles, or he might go to business school. Or both. In the meantime, only eleven months removed from declaring his major, Dylan stresses that “step one is to finish Tufts.” If he could relay one life message to the aspiring “motorcycle guy,” he would advise, “Stop overthinking things. Do what you love to do.”

Eventually, Dylan wants to make people laugh for a living, but for now, just like when he was six, Dylan wants to enjoy the ride.

Ross Sonnenblick is a features columnist for the Daily. He is a sophomore majoring in psychology and international literary and visual studies. He can be reached at ross.sonnenblick@tufts.edu.

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‘Riverdale’ Chapter 29: The one where everyone runs for office

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The following is a public service announcement for any of you people who quit watching “Riverdale” (2017–) this season because it “went downhill”: “Riverdale” is good again!! Seriously!

It is important to note that classifying “Riverdale” as “good” in no way indicates any amount of actual quality, but the past few weeks have been a ton of fun with just the right of amount of the show’s signature creepiness. This week’s “Primary Colors” was no exception. It was over the top and outright ridiculous in all the right ways, and it ended with an absolutely gut-wrenching turn of events for poor Cheryl. She really just cannot catch a break.

This week wastes no time addressing last week’s “cliffhanger,” with Alice admitting to Betty that the reason Chic doesn’t have Blossom blood is because he’s not Hal’s son. Surprise, said literally no one. Alice does assure Betty that FP is not Chic’s father, but it’s not time to toss out that theory yet. Who else could it possibly be? There are only about 16 people in this entire town, so baby daddy options are limited.

Betty still doesn’t trust Chic, so she decides to scare the crap out of him (and America) by holding a Zippo lighter to his face while he’s asleep. Betty, sweetie, it might be time to take a step back and examine your life choices.

Chic also immediately retaliates by outing Betty’s kinky wig-involved sex with Jughead to Alice, so who really comes out on top here? Having your face burnt off by a lighter might be

more pleasant than being a teenager and having “the talk” with your mother.

Over at The Pembrooke, Hal is interviewing Hermione about her mayoral candidacy, when all of a sudden ANDY COHEN appears. If Andy Cohen’s agreement to cameo on “Riverdale” isn’t proof enough to you that this show is worth watching, then you’re a lost cause. Anyway, Andy endorses Hermione and hm, is anyone else considering supporting Hermione for mayor now? What maximum security prison? Also, just bouncing ideas around, if Hiram’s plans with Pop’s fall through, maybe Andy can get Pop a job at SUR. Also, apparently Fred Andrews has decided to run for mayor too, but honestly this feels like old information, so it’s unclear why this is being treated like a big reveal. And Molly Ringwald is back in town to help out Fred with his campaign and to yell at Archie for being an idiot, so that’s just some more business as usual.

It’s not just the adults who are involved in an “intense” political battle.

Over at Riverdale High, it’s time to elect a new student body president, where tensions are already high because of the Lodges’ business plans. Ethel/Barb decides to channel “Glee” and tosses a Pop’s milkshake in Veronica’s face in the cafeteria. ( They must not have a slushie machine at Riverdale High.)

Veronica manages to keep her cool (no pun intended), but loses it later when Reggie insults her dad, and she punches him in the face. Looks like Veronica’s been spending too much time with Red Circle Archie.

This whole ordeal somehow prompts Veronica to seek even more attention for her family and run for president of Riverdale High. Betty agrees to be her running mate, and all is going well until Josie — who also has it in for Veronica and the Lodges — helps Ethel reveal to the school that Veronica knew about her parents’ plan to turn Southside High into a prison. Betty, hurt that Veronica lied to her about this, ditches Veronica’s campaign and decides to run alongside Jughead instead. Yes, Jughead is now running for president too.

Haven’t heard much from Jug this week yet, have we? Well, that’s because he’s been off hunger striking and chaining himself to fences to protest the demolition of Southside High. This all fails, however, and culminates in Archie forcibly removing Jughead from the chains himself. The core four is really in trouble, guys. But now Jughead has decided to channel the power of the ballot box, and he’s got his wig-loving, lighter-wielding girlfriend by his side. What could go wrong?

The Lodges, Coopers and Jones’s really need to get a grip though, because some people in this town have real problems. Namely, Cheryl, who is pretty certain her mother and uncle are trying to kill her and her grandmother. After a much-missed River Vixens dance practice scene, which featured a particularly impressive routine from Toni Topaz, Cheryl invites Toni, Josie, Betty and Veronica over to her house (this is before the Veronica Burn Book page gets released) for a sleepover. She admits to them, howev-

er, that she really invited them because she’s afraid to be alone in her house (and also to spend some quality time with her new love interest, Toni). Betty obviously tries to make this about her and how she’s scared to be in her house with Chic (Betty, leave), but this all gets interrupted by a crash that turns out to be the sound of Nana Rose falling down the stairs.

Nana Rose is not going down that easily, however, and survives the fall.

After talking to a doctor at the hospital, Cheryl becomes sure that her mother and uncle had been poisoning Nana Rose with tannis root, which causes paralysis, and then pushed her down the stairs.

Before Cheryl can do anything about it, however, Penelope drags Cheryl to the car and tells her she’s clearly lost her mind. Unfortunately, Cheryl does not throw herself out of the car and winds up at what appears to be a mental institution posing as a convent.

Next thing we know, Sister Woodhouse enters Cheryl’s room with some medieval-looking medical tools to presumably put Cheryl through conversion therapy.

The only ounce of hope we have in this dark, dark hour is one Toni Topaz, who does not buy Penelope’s claim that Cheryl has randomly gone off to boarding school. Sorry everyone, Bughead and Varchie are out; Choni is the only “Riverdale” pairing that matters. This is besides, of course, the professional shipping of Kevin and Andy Cohen. We all know Kevin was born for Bravo.

“Riverdale” airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW. Full episodes are available on cwtv.com and Netflix.

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‘Rupaul’s Drag Race: All Stars’ fallout, season 10 premiere

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We don’t get a break! With “All Stars 3” all wrapped up and season 10 underway, let’s take a look at the past two weeks of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (2009–).

“All Stars 3” Finale: It was a rough one. The Drag Race world was in shambles after the shocking conclusion of the third season of “All Stars.” All expectations were tossed in the bin when the top two were determined by a jury of this season’s eliminated queens. With all the losers (one self-imposed) back on set, all of the elimination drama from episodes past came roaring back to center stage. After a one-take choreography challenge to RuPaul’s “Kitty Girl,” Bebe, Trixie, Kennedy and Shangela served their best extravaganza eleganza on the runway, with the real standout being

Shangie’s floor-length silver gown. Next came the “Jury of Their Queers” to determine the top two queens to lip sync for the crown. Unfortunately, the law was anything but impartial. The eliminated queens, posing intimidatingly on a sofa in the work room, seemed to care about two things: honesty and queens’ success before “All Stars.” Bebe was out of the running after refusing to reveal which queens she would have chosen to eliminate and revive after DeLa’s shocking exit, so the decision came down to Kennedy, Trixie and Shangela. In a bizarre turn of events, the jury of eliminated queens settled on Trixie and Kennedy, snubbing Shangela — the queen with the best run on “All Stars” by far — of a chance at the Drag Race Hall of Fame.

After a finale that felt eerily similar to the 2016 election, we’re all still confused, and many of us were too disappointed to

really celebrate the coronation of Trixie Mattel — a beloved queen whose run on “All Stars” was good but not show-stopping. Is the “All Stars” model broken when a queen who clearly deserved to be at least in the top two is left behind because of personal allegiances and personal drama? Anyway, we’ll always look back at Shangela’s gag-worthy looks of “All Stars 3” — the Beyoncé baby bump, her corn gown — with misty eyes and quietly celebrate the queen who was robbed of the title.

Well, we have season 10 to focus all of our attention on now, and now that each episode is 90 minutes followed by 30 minutes of Untucked, we have a lot to take in. With the premiere last Thursday night, controversially only a week after the “All Stars” fallout, let’s chat about some early favorites.

Miz Cracker: The queen from Harlem and “Jewish Barbie on Bath Salts” stunned as soon as she strutted into the newly redesigned work room in a gorgeous, glittery blue gown, a “grapefruit” shaped blonde wig and proclaimed, “OKAY. IT’S TIME FOR DINNER!” Adding to the hype around Miz Cracker, the drag daughter of season eight winner Bob the Drag Queen, is her rivalry with fan favorite Aquaria. The producers have already set up hostilities between the two New York queens, including some drama over eerily similar eyeshadow for the “Drag on a Dime” runway look, so viewers should expect more tea in the coming episodes. In the meantime, Miz Cracker delivered an Upper East Side widowed heiress look with a 1940s peplum jacket constructed out of shower curtains and broad-brimmed hats. She narrowly missed winning the challenge to SoCal’s Mayhem Miller, who stunned in a black gown made of trash bags and rubber gloves. Still, Miz Cracker garnered praise from guest judge Christina Aguilera and has established herself as a strong competitor out of the gate.

Monét X Change: Another one of this season’s five queens from New York, Monét wowed early on by snatching the runway mini-challenge, a runway challenge surrounded on all sides by queens of seasons past. Monét swept, literally, with a broom, through the workroom entrance and continued to dazzle in the mainstage challenge, crafting a gown out of yellow and green sponges and heavy black eyeshadow painted across her brow. She missed landing in the top of the pack, but she’s shown a level of talent and humor that is sure to carry her through the next few weeks of the competition.

Blair St. Clair: The 22-year-old Indianapolis queen and, as Aquaria called her, a puppy-faced “boy scout” out of drag, surprised the most Thursday night. Breaking out of the Broadway niche she carved herself early on, she crafted an artsy, sci-fi-esque black and silver gown made of trash bags and windshield sun shades, which almost put her in the same stylistic camp as season seven’s Pearl. If Blair can keep showing that she’s got more in the toolkit than the aesthetic of theatrical divas who inspired her, she’ll be a strong contender against the New York queens who have owned the show so far.

We have a talented group of queens to keep our eyes on in the coming weeks, and with the popular Vanessa Vanjie Mateo booted out of the running, season 10 has already become cutthroat.

Let’s report back in two weeks, when the drama has escalated and we’re down to 11 queens.

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Alec Provost The Art of Games

SOMA has one of gaming’s greatest narratives

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OMA is a horror game on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. While I normally avoid horror games, SOMA’s addition of a “safe mode” makes this game one that everyone should experience. Normally, the monsters in SOMA will attempt to chase you down; in the “safe mode,” they are simply eerie residents of the broken world you explore.

And what a world it is. SOMA’s world feels truly lived in, with the environments feeling real and telling just as much of a story as the rest of the game. It is this story, the one told both passively through the environment and told directly through dialogue, that makes SOMA stand out among games.

Without spoiling anything, SOMA tells the story of a derelict research station named PATHOS-II on the sea floor. A unique setting, SOMA takes full advantage of the claustrophobic atmosphere of its dark, wet and enclosed spaces. Although “safe mode” takes the fear away from the monsters, there is an ever-present feeling of dread.

Alongside the enclosed spaces inside the station, walks along the ocean floor provide a change of scenery and help to reinforce just how isolated you are. These stations, although crumbling when you encounter them, feel as though they were once living places. Opening lockers and reading computer files reveals the day-to-day life on board the station, adding to the sense of decay. Interacting with the corpses that litter the stations gives you a glimpse into the last moments of their lives. These moments allow you to slowly piece together the tragic story of PATHOS-II. Both the backstory of this world and the story that you experience while playing are among the best I have ever experienced — not just in games, but across media. The questions it poses are thought-provoking and often have implications more horrifying than the monsters scattered throughout PATHOS-II. Delving into topics such as the definition of life and humanity’s legacy, SOMA is not afraid to explore topics usually ignored by games.

The only area where SOMA did not shine was the gameplay. While “safe mode” made the game less scary, I still did my best to avoid the monsters, in order to keep a level of dread. If you do not play along, though, a significant aspect of the atmosphere is lost when the monsters cease to be threatening.

Even with “safe mode” off, however, the gameplay consists mainly of running away and hiding from the monsters.

This is particularly infuriating when a monster stops you from interacting with the environment to learn more about the world. In cases such as this, “safe mode” is the better option, even for a horror fan, as the story is where SOMA shines, rather than the gameplay.

In spite of SOMA’s lackluster gameplay, its story is so incredible that it deserves a place in any game library.

Alec Provost is a junior majoring in history. Alec can be reached at alec.provost@ tufts.edu.

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by Zachary Berman and Nathaniel Berman The cafeteria was crowded with students enjoying lunch between summer exams.

In an instant, a bomb concealed in a bag left near a table exploded, tearing flesh from limbs. Corpses lay on the floor, while survivors wailed, covered in blood. Seven people were killed, including five Americans; about 80 people were wounded, including Israelis, Arabs, Americans and South Koreans. The attack, perpetrated by Hamas at the Hebrew University’s Frank Sinatra International Students Center, in July 2002, occurred during the Second Intifada, a period of increased Israeli-Palestinian violence. From 2001 to 2006, 1,070 people were killed and 6,384 were injured by Palestinian terrorists who selected targets with the intent of inflicting maximum civilian casualties: supermarkets, school buses, nightclubs, malls and hotels. Since 2002, however, there has not been another terrorist attack at Hebrew University; the Israelis learned from the attack, and campus security was improved.

Tactics introduced by terrorists in Israel often spread abroad. Terrorists attack nightclubs in Tel Aviv and then in Paris.

Public transportation is bombed in Israel, and then trains are blown up in London and Madrid. Cars and trucks are used to ram passengers waiting at bus stops in Jerusalem and then they are used to kill pedestrians in London, Barcelona and New York City and injure students and professors at Ohio State University. Knives are used to kill civilians in Israel and then they are used to attack shoppers in St. Cloud, Minn. And then, of course, there are the seemingly endless attacks on schools and other public spaces by lone gunmen using handguns, automatic rifles and IEDs, motivated by hate, paranoia, disaffection or a sense of political or social injustice. Israel

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has been forced to learn to confront and contain all of these threats.

That is why the March 4, 2018 “Letter Regarding TUPD Training in Israel,” written

by Associate Professor of Anthropology Amahl Bishara, is misguided. Signed by more than 200 members of the Tufts community, it criticizes the university for sending Tufts Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin Maguire, whose responsibilities include overseeing the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and Tufts emergency management, to a counter-terrorism seminar in Israel.

Experience has shown that there are no public spaces immune from the scourge of violent attacks on civilians — including university campuses — and it is naïve to think (or plan) otherwise. Indeed, Maguire is obligated to ensure that TUPD, Tufts Office of Emergency Management and Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) are prepared for all eventualities, even though Professor Bishara may be correct that there is “little reason to believe that terrorism is a pressing threat to our campus.” It is unpleasant to contemplate a violent attack occurring at Tufts, but recent events demonstrate that such a possibility — call it terrorism or call it a “school shooting” — is not unfathomable. Maguire’s job is to fathom such events and to ensure that Tufts is prepared to prevent and respond to catastrophes.

It makes sense that Maguire — the person responsible for the safety of over 10,000 students, 1,500 faculty and 3,300 staff on Tufts’ campuses — would seek to learn from other law enforcement institutions in the United States and abroad, including Israel, that have experience dealing with these types of threats.

It seems quite likely that some of what Maguire learned in Israel about counter-terrorism is translatable to other, more likely threats to an American college campus.

Professor Bishara expresses concern that the university has suppressed information regarding Maguire’s visit and speculates (or

accuses) that Maguire returned from Israel having absorbed what the Tufts chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) characterized in their recent op-ed in The Tufts Daily as racist ideologies and tactics. It may well be, given the hyper-sensitivity surrounding this subject, that the university should be more transparent in explaining to the Tufts community the nature of the training Maguire received in Israel. However, the implication, for example, that Maguire’s visit will translate into nighttime raids on Miller Hall because the Israeli army conducts anti-terror raids in the West Bank, is fanciful. It also does not seem likely that Maguire’s takeaway from the training he received in Israel would be to focus on keeping a closer eye on students of color simply because Israel’s anti-terror efforts are focused on Palestinian terrorists; rather, it seems reasonable to assume that Maguire is aware that it is far more common for a terrorist or gunman in United States to be a white male.

Professor Bishara’s letter, like the SJP op-ed, appears to be motivated less by a real concern about possible “militarization” of campus police departments but rather by a desire to advance the agenda of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which insists that Israel is undeserving of economic and cultural engagement with the international community, including hosting Americans at security seminars.

Israel is imperfect, including in the realm of security, but at least its citizens, artists, intellectuals, news media and civilian and military leaders struggle with those imperfections in the context of a very challenging security situation, which is often more than can be said about many of its opponents and adversaries.

The suggestion by Tufts SJP in the op-ed that Maguire would have learned techniques such as racially profiling all black and brown people as “terrorists” and “enemies of the

state” ignores the dual and complex reality that is modern Israel. Israel’s police and army must confront a real and ongoing Palestinian terrorist threat (which BDS supporters often deny, rationalize or ignore) while, at the same time, being tasked with protecting a diverse population of black and brown people — brown Jews, expelled from Arab countries, who now make up more than half of Israel’s Jewish population; black Jews airlifted from Ethiopia; over 1 million Arab Israelis; and guests and visitors from all over the world.

Thus, it is disingenuous to argue that Israel’s security forces target brown and black Middle Eastern people because of a racist ideology; Israel targets suspected Palestinian terrorists because the most significant terrorist threat in Israel is posed by Palestinians. The reliance on inflammatory buzzwords plucked from American social and political discourse to advance arguments against Israel shows either a deep misunderstanding (or denial) of the very real threat of Palestinian terrorism faced by Israel or a desire to demonize Israel above all else.

Just as Israel has an obligation to protect its citizens, the university and TUPD have an obligation to protect this campus.

Denying that there is anything to be learned from others with experience is unwise. That does not mean we are unsympathetic to the concerns expressed by those in the community who agree with Professor Bishara and SJP but, absent evidence to the contrary, we are unwilling to assume that Maguire and TUPD are incapable of implementing what was learned in Israel in a way that ensures the rights, safety and peace of mind of all those on the Tufts campus.

Zachary Berman is a first-year majoring in biology. Zachary can be reached at zachary.berman@tufts.edu. Nathaniel Berman is a first-year majoring in geology.

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continued from back let up in her focus at all and had a game style that involved coming to the net a lot.

She was forward in her movement and that made a huge difference.”

Miller added a 6–4, 6–0 victory in fifth singles, as Tufts dropped just two matches to record the win over Whitman.

Due to an illness that affected eight members of the team, Tufts was forced to cancel its second match of the trip against the tenth-ranked University of Chicago on Tuesday. However, the team was able to play the following day against Claremont-MuddScripps in Claremont, Calif. The Jumbos struggled with their weakened lineup, as they fell 5–4 to the Athenas, who are currently ranked third in the country.

The hosts eked out a 2–1 advantage in the doubles matches, as Karamercan and Popa were the only Jumbos to record a win over their opponents. The Tufts duo defeated senior Lindsay Brown and sophomore Nicole Tan by a score of 8–4.

Trailing by one, Tufts needed to take four of the six singles matches to defeat a ClaremontMudd-Scripps team that had opened its season with 15 straight wins. Ultimately,

Tufts could not overcome the deficit, as the teams split the singles matches. Despite the disappointing result, the Jumbos’ ability to compete so closely with one of the top teams in the nation gave them positive energy heading into their final match of the week, against the No. 5 Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens on Friday.

“The Claremont match was so exciting to play. Even though we lost closely, it shows how consistent we are with the top level,” Miller said. “We have never had that close of a match against Claremont and it really could have gone either way — it was down to a few points.”

Against Pomona-Pitzer, a pair of doubles wins — the first from Karamercan and Popa, the second from Miller and Wiley — gave Tufts an early lead. In singles play, Karamercan and juniors Tomo Iwasaki and Julia Keller clinched wins for the Jumbos.

Karamercan defeated Pomona-Pitzer junior Summer Garrison in a decisive 6–1, 6–0 victory. Iwasaki also won in straight sets, beating senior Shivani Doraiswami 7–6, 6–4 in the fourth spot.

With the overall score even at 4–4, Keller’s match against Pomona-Pitzer first-year Jacinta Chen decided the contest. Keller —

a native of Lidingoe, Sweden — fell behind early, with Chen taking the first set 6–2.

However, in the first singles match of her spring season, Keller did not show any nerves.

“I knew … that if I kept playing my game, I could ultimately win,” Keller said.

“It was really tough, though. In the second set, there was a point that I could have gone up 5–2, but we played a 20-minute-long game, and I lost that. Toward the end of the second set, it became 4–4 in the match and more people came to watch. It was so incredible to have people cheering for you every single point. I think that really helped me in the third set.”

Capitalizing on the support and energy of her teammates, Keller won the second set 6–4 to even the score and force a third set. Keller went on to win the third set by a 6–4 scoreline to clinch Tufts’ first victory over Pomona-Pitzer in three years.

The team traveled back to Medford on Saturday with added confidence from its key win over Pomona-Pitzer. Tufts now enters the NESCAC portion of its schedule with work to do, having fallen to No. 4 Middlebury in its season opener. The Jumbos will host the Trinity Bantams (3–3) on Thursday.

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Arlo Moore-Bloom The Equalizer

New NWSL season brings same problems, old solution

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lthough a powerhouse on the world stage, the U.S. Women’s National Team’s (USWNT) success has not translated to success in domestic club markets.

The first fully professional women’s soccer league, the Women’s United Soccer Association started shortly after the USWNT’s 1999 World Cup victory and played its first season in 2001, but folded in 2003 due to financial problems and a lack of public interest. For the rest of the decade, women’s teams bounced around different leagues, with no league surviving more than four years until the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), whose 2018 season kicked off this weekend, was unveiled in 2012.

The Boston Breakers, one of the oldest professional women’s teams in the country, folded earlier this year, while average attendance continues to rise and fall according to proximity from an international tournament. For example, after the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada, the NWSL saw a rise in fan attendance for the next two seasons. But in the 2017 season, the average attendance dropped 8.5 percent to 5,558, well below the the 2017 average MLS attendance rate of 22,106.

U.S. Soccer and its NWSL teams have struggled to develop relationships between fans and teams since its inception, and with so much competition from other professional sports, it’s essentially impossible for NWSL teams to get revenue from television deals.

U.S. Soccer would do well to look to its neighbor, Mexico, to fix professional women’s soccer. Mexico’s recently implemented professional women’s league is thriving, and it is structured entirely differently from the NWSL. Instead of establishing a brand new league, the Mexican Federation worked closely with the Liga MX Femenil, which fields 16 teams associated with respective Liga MX clubs (the first division of men’s professional soccer). When Club América Femenil plays in the same stadium as its male counterpart, fans are more likely to attend because they already have a relationship with the club. It’s akin to every NBA team having a sister-team that plays the same opponents and plays on the same court.

The structure of the Liga MX Femenil allows greater fluidity between fans of the men’s and women’s game. It’s a win-win: The female players and league see more revenue and popularity, while the club brand reaches more fans, growing its own popularity.

It’s no wonder, then, that the most popular women’s team in the United States — the Portland Thorns — is affiliated with the Portland Timbers, an MLS franchise. Clearly the Timbers organization understands the value of having a club fans can identify with.

The Liga MX Femenil averaged 3,500 fans a game in 2017 — not bad for its inaugural season. The second leg of the championship match garnered 32,466 fans — more than most MLS teams manage throughout their whole season.

The U.S. Soccer Federation must not look any further than its southern neighbor to improve women’s professional soccer in the United States. The Mexican Federation’s hands-on approach has paid off for the Liga MX Femenil, and it won’t be long before the U.S. wonders how Mexico caught up so quickly.

Arlo Moore-Bloom is an assistant sports editor at the Daily. He is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Arlo can be reached at arlo.moore_bloom@tufts.edu.

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WOMEN'S SWIMMING

Kimura sets school record, earns honorable mention All-American honors in final meet

by Haley Rich

Assistant Sports Editor

For Tufts senior co-captain Anna Kimura, there was no better way to finish off her collegiate swimming career than to compete at her first national championship. Kimura, the only member of the women’s team to travel to the NCAA Championships, competed in the 200-yard individual medley, the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard breaststroke over the course of the four-day meet, which began on Wednesday in Indianapolis.

The Bellevue, Wash. native kicked off her meet with the preliminaries of the 200 IM on Wednesday. Kimura swam a time of 2:07.69 to place 30th at the Indiana University Natatorium. While she failed to qualify for the finals, Kimura improved on her seeding of 34th. For Kimura, the best part of her first race was the finish.

“I usually get tired and slow down in the last 50 meters of the 200 IM — the freestyle,” she said. “But this time, I actually hit a good split for the last 50 meters, which I was very excited about.”

Kimura was fortunate to have a day to rest between the 200 IM and her next race, during which she put in a recovery swim and cheered on her teammates on the men’s side.

In Friday’s 100-yard breaststroke preliminaries, Kimura again bested her seeding by placing 26th with a mark of 1:04.76, shaving off over seven-tenths of a second from her 31st-ranked qualifying time of 1:05.47 and setting a new personal record.

“I was very happy with my 100 breast,” she said. “The athlete in the lane next to me was

ahead of me, so I thought I was swimming slower than what I wanted and hesitated to look at the scoreboard after touching the wall. But once I saw the scoreboard, I realized I had actually dropped time.”

On the final day of competition, Kimura dove into the pool for the last time in the 200yard breaststroke. Kimura entered the event, her best, seeded 12th in the 40-person field.

“Going into the race, I was thinking about how it would be my last and how I wanted to swim with no regrets,” she said.

Kimura did just that in the preliminaries, smashing her qualifying time and setting a new personal record with an impressive mark of 2:18.52. The mark also set a new school record, beating Amanda Gottschalk’s (LA ’17) 2016 time of 2:19.05 by over half a second. In the finals, Kimura posted a time of 2:19.28 to place 12th overall and earn honorable mention All-American honors. Tufts coach Adam Hoyt was very impressed with the senior co-captain’s performance on the national stage. “[Kimura’s] performance at Nationals was unbelievable,” Hoyt said. “To be able to set personal records and improve upon her seeds in two of her races was incredible, not to mention earning honorable mention. I’m proud of her. She works super hard, is a great leader and a great teammate and has done a lot for our program. She took advantage of her final opportunity, and she deserved it.”

With the five points from Kimura’s 12th-place finish, Tufts finished 43rd in the nation. Emory captured the national championship with 603 points, while Kenyon finished second with 500 points, followed by

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Senior co-captain Anna Kimora swims the butterfly in a meet at Wheaton College on Jan. 21.

Tufts’ NESCAC rival, Williams, with 412. and some of my teammates tagged along to “Throughout the meet, my main advice cheer me on.” for [Kimura] was to enjoy the experience,” Although Kimura and Hoyt were both Hoyt said. “Enjoy watching other athletes ecstatic with her performance, the occasion compete at the highest level and enjoy com- was bittersweet. peting herself.”

“It was hard not to have emotions during Not only was this Kimura’s first time at the her 200 breaststroke, knowing it was her last NCAA Championships, but it was also her race,” Hoyt said. “We’re going to miss her first time competing without the rest of the a lot from a program standpoint, but we’ll women’s team. remember these moments, and they’ll make “Nationals was definitely a different us happy when we look back on them.” atmosphere. Not only was it more hyped and Kimura echoed the same sentiment, a level up from any meet I’ve been to before while noting that she doesn’t know what’s in competition-wise, but I also was competing store for her future. solo,” Kimura said. “But the men’s team was “It hasn’t hit yet that my swimming career very inclusive and supportive, and my mom is over,” she said. “We’ll see how it all unfolds.”

WOMEN'S TENNIS

Tufts closes successful West Coast swing with upset of No. 5 Pomona-Pitzer

by Delaney Tantillo

Assistant Sports Editor

The No. 8 Tufts women’s tennis team went 2–1 in its three matches in Southern California over spring break, bringing its record to 3–2 on the season.

The Jumbos began their trip in Northridge, Calif. on March 18 with a 7–2 win over the No. 27 Whitman College Blues.

Coming off a 9–0 victory at Wellesley the weekend prior, Tufts’ confidence was high going into its match against Whitman.

The Jumbos won all three doubles matches to take an early 3–0 lead over the Blues. Playing in the No. 1 spot, juniors Mina Karamercan and Otilia Popa dominated the Whitman pair of sophomore Andrea Gu and senior Hanna Greenberg in a quick 8–1 victory. Sophomore Kat Wiley and first-year Patricia Obeid won the sole competitive doubles matchup, with a 9–7 win over juniors Lori Sheng and Mary Hill in the second position. In third doubles, Tufts senior co-captains Zoe Miller and Lauren Louks handily defeated their opponents by an 8–0 scoreline.

Heading into singles play, the Jumbos were in position to comfortably defeat the Blues.

“We have the goal [in] every match we play to be up after doubles because it creates a lot of momentum going into our singles matches, and is really important in getting to the five winning points,” Miller said. “It was great to see the energy across all three doubles matches, and it really made a difference in the confidence we

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Junior Mina Karamercan eyes the ball during a match against Middlebury at the Gantcher Center on March 10. had going into singles.”

Obeid won in No. 1 singles for the third consecutive match to begin her collegiate career, defeating Hill in straight sets (6–3, 6–0). Karamercan and Wiley also had standout performances in

the third and sixth positions, respectively.

Karamercan conceded just one game to Sheng in recording a 6–1, 6–0 victory for the Jumbos, while Wiley went one better by not losing a single game in her straightsets rout of Whitman senior Jenna Gilbert.

“[Karamercan’s] energy throughout the match could be heard across all of the courts, and it set the tone for all of the singles [matches],” Miller said. “[Wiley] didn’t see WOMEN'S TENNIS, page 11