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Monday, march 9, 2015
VOLUME LXVIV, NUMBER 32
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TCUJ to hold info sessions after rewriting bylaws by Alexander Spring Contributing Writer
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Tufts alumna Shuba Satyaprasad (LA ’96) talks to students interested in law professions as part of the 2015 Law Day on the Hill program hosted by the Tufts Lawyers Association on March 5.
In its 12th year, Tufts Law Day on the Hill connects students alumni by Patrick McGrath News Editor
The Tufts Lawyers Association (TLA) hosted its 12th annual Law Day on the Hill event on Thursday, March 5 in Alumnae Lounge, with the goal of teaching interested students about law school and the legal profession and providing an opportunity for networking, according to Associate Director for Preprofessional Advising Stephanie Ripley. The event kicked off at 6:00 p.m., featuring a simulated law school classroom session led by Michael Simon (LA ’89), followed by an alumni panel on “Engineering, Science and the Law” and a networking event for students and alumni. Tom Dunn (LA ’00), who currently serves as TLA’s treasurer and was co-chair of this year’s event along with Dan Valentine (E ’93, G ’95), explained that the event provides an opportunity for students to learn more about a potential career in law. “The idea of it is to give an introduction to Tufts students about what to expect in law school, what to expect as a practicing lawyer — whether in government or in private practice, whatever field that they may do,” he said. “It’s an opportunity to have the students ask questions to alumni that attend, and also in recent years we’ve done a simulated classroom exercise to give attendees a sense of what it’s like to attend a law school class.” Ripley explained that she communicated with TLA in advance of the event to convey what Tufts students are hoping to get out of it.
“I’m bringing more of the student perspective — what I think students are kind of looking for, more of the networking part of it — just things that I hear from students in what they’re looking [for],” she said. President of Tufts Pre-Law Society Demetra HatzisSchoch emphasized the value of the simulated law classroom session. “It’s really great,” she said. “You kind of get to see a mock law classroom, and you get to participate … It’s a really interesting case usually.” According to Dunn, this year’s panel’s topic of engineering, science and the law was in part inspired by an engineering student’s question at last year’s event about what it would be like for an engineering student to go to law school. “The panel discussion this year has Tufts grads that have an engineering or science background, all of which also attended law school and [are] serving in different ways using their law degree in their professional careers right now,” he said. Ripley added that the panel’s emphasis may serve as an attraction for both liberal arts and engineering students at Tufts. “So we’re doing a little bit more of the partnership between engineering students and the students going on to law school,” she said. “We try and set it up so that it will be a great program for both engineers and liberal arts students.” The networking event after the panel helps encourage students to connect with alumni and ask questions, but
it also serves as a good opportunity for alumni to give back to current students, according to Ripley. “I think it’s great too for the alumni to be able to come back to campus for such a great and large event, so I think it’s wonderful for them to be able to network with the students and really to be able to tell them about their careers and their professions,” she said. Gaining a more nuanced understanding about law school and careers in law is important before going directly to law school, Hatzis-Schoch, a senior, explained. “I think law school is a very serious thing to undertake, and people should really learn as much as possible about it before they commit to it, and they shouldn’t just go because they don’t know what else to do,” she said. “It should be a genuine interest in the law or something to do with a legal degree.” Dunn underscored that both alumni and current students stand to gain from the event. “It’s been a great experience for each Law Day I have attended for the students and for the alumni,” he said. “The alumni obviously get out of it an ability to reconnect with people who are deciding to go to law school, give some of the lessons learned, maybe things that worked for them or didn’t work for them, share that with the undergrads. For Tufts students, they get to ask the question that’s on their mind, they get to hear about what law school and practicing law is like.”
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The newly-rewritten Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Judiciary bylaws, which are meant to hold student groups more accountable and which were recently approved by the Committee on Student Life (CSL), are now going into effect. The Judiciary is holding two question-and-answer sessions to further clarify any misconceptions about the new bylaws, which will be held in the Mayer Campus Center today, Monday March 9, in room 203 and on Thursday, March 12 at 7 p.m. in room 112. “The reason we changed the bylaws was because they were not stringent at all,” TCU Judiciary Advocacy Chair Sophia Gomez, a first-year, said. “What was happening was that a lot of the student groups that were poorly run, or that weren’t following the rules, were starting to fall through the cracks.” Seniors Becky Goldberg and Jonathan Zfira, chair and vice chair of the TCU Judiciary respectively, spoke to Director of the Office for Campus Life Joe Golia about the big issues that were facing student groups, according to Zfira. “The amount of groups on campus was one of the big issues,” he said. “We want an as inclusive and vibrant community of student groups as possible, but there are some constraints [such as space and funding], so we have to ensure that the groups
we have are actually contributing something.” “We’re moving away from just the group of friends who have a shared interest and more towards an organization that is doing something for the campus,” Goldberg said of the function of student groups. At a school of roughly 5,000 undergraduate students, Zfira and Goldberg stressed that having 300 recognized student groups with 60 new groups applying for recognition every year is concerning. “The ratio is off,” Goldberg said. Although this was the first time in recent memory that the bylaws have been completely rewritten, with the last update being in 2012, Goldberg said the changes are relatively minor. “To be perfectly honest, we’re just changing language,” she said. The changes to the bylaws impact three facets of how groups on campus function: their membership requirement, proof of events and funding. Every semester, each student group must organize three events, although publication groups, performance groups such as S-Factor and traveling groups such as Tufts Mock Trial need only one event or publication each semester, Goldberg noted. “We’ve always required ‘three proofs of activity,’ but we did change the language to ‘three proofs of events,’” she said, adding that events such as panel see BYLAWS, page 2
Read by the River promotes literacy by Kathleen Schmidt News Editor
Hundreds of participants turned out for Read by the River, Tufts’ annual literacy carnival, which took place yesterday in the Gantcher Center from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. The goal of the carnival, an initiative of Tufts Hillel, is to get kids from kindergarten to fifth grade excited about reading, according to senior Alexandra Zeitouni, the event’s co-chair. According to Zeitouni, in the week leading up to Read by the River, organizers visited several schools in the area to give short assemblies to kids about the carnival. The organizers handed out short book reports for kids to complete and turn in at the beginning of the carnival, she explained. “At the carnival, different volunteers will talk with them about the books that they’ve read and go over the book reports with them,” she said. “Then they get a free movie pass in exchange for that, so it’s kind of to incentivize them to keep reading.”
After the children discussed their book reports with student volunteers, they each received a free welcome book, Read by the River Co-chair Steven Hefter said. Hefter, a junior, is also a sports editor at the Daily. Lauren Bloom, faculty advisor for Read by the River, explained that the event included 20 to 25 booths, each managed by different Tufts organizations and institutions in the community such as Medford and Somerville’s police and fire departments and the libraries of Medford, Somerville and Tufts. Zeitouni said that student organizations with booths included Greek life organizations, several Hillel initiatives and the Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) Kid’s Day. Each booth is staffed by about six volunteers and has a different activity such as making bookmarks, doing word searches and face painting, she said. “Most of them are literacy related, but some of them, like face see READ, page 2
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The Hill sees first installment of “A Taste of Tufts” lecture series.
Women’s basketball survives overtime battle with St. John Fisher to advance to Sweet 16.
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Visiting the Hill this week MONDAY “BME Seminar: Mariah Hahn” Details: Mariah Hahn of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be speaking as part of the Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series. When and Where: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., SciTech Center Room 136 Sponsor: School of Engineering “Sounding the Inexpressible: Postwar Musical Memory and the Case of Schoenberg’s ‘Survivor from Warsaw'” Details: Jeremy Eichler, chief classical music critic at the Boston Globe, will discuss how concert music impacted the American postwar cultural memory. He will specifically focus on Arnold Schoenberg’s ‘Survivor from Warsaw,’ the first musical memorial to the Holocaust written by a major composer. When and Where: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center Varis Lecture Hall Sponsor: Department of Music “A Keynote Conversation with Michael Nyman and Michael Kunichika” Details: Michael Nyman, a pianist and visual artist, and Michael Kunichika, an assistant professor of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University, will speak about Nyman’s visual art exhibition, “Images Were Introduced,” which runs at the Tufts University Art Gallery through May 17. When and Where: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center Distler Performance Hall Sponsor: Tufts University Art Gallery
TUESDAY “The Civilian in Wartime: H. G. Wells and the First World War” Details: Sarah Cole, author of “Modernism, Male Friendship and the First World War” (2003) and “At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland” (2012) and a professor of English at Columbia University, will be speaking. When and Where: 4:00 p.m., Center for the Humanities Fung House Sponsor: Center for the Humanities at Tufts “Fertility Decline and Missing Women” Details: Seema Jayachandran, associate professor of economics at Northwestern University, will be discussing her research on fertility decline and gender-selective abortion in India. When and Where: 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m., Braker Hall room 118 Sponsor: Department of Economics “Understanding Boko Haram” Details: A panel of international experts will discuss the origins and expansion of Boko Haram, an insurgent group that has displaced over three million people in northern Nigeria and the surrounding area. The panel will also explore existing and potential international policy responses to Boko Haram in light of the group’s continued atrocities in the region. When and Where: 5:30 – 7:00 p.m., Cabot ASEAN Auditorium Sponsors: Humanitarian Action Society, Human Rights Project, Africana Club, Fletcher Students in Security
“Careers in Social Impact” Details: This event features an evening of conversations with a group of social impact professionals who will discuss how students can find their place in the social impact field. Alumni will share their experiences and then split into in-depth breakout sessions with attendees. When and Where: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., Alumnae Lounge Sponsors: Tufts Social Impact Alumni Network (TSIN), Career Services, Tisch College WEDNESDAY “Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series: Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown, (LA ’81)” Details: Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown (LA ’81) will speak to the community as part of the Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series. When and Where: 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Cabot ASEAN Auditorium Sponsors: Tisch College, Department of Political Science “Great Powers and Conflict Management, 1914 to 2015: War in the Balkans” Details: James Lyon, associate researcher at the University of Graz in Austria, will be discussing his forthcoming book “Serbia and the Balkan Front: 1914”″(August 2015). The talk will be followed by a conversation with journalist Anna De Lellio, who has written two books on events in the region. When and Where: 4:30 p.m., Center for the Humanities Fung House Sponsor: Center for the Humanities at Tufts
Law Day 2015 includes engineering, law panel LAW DAY
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Planning for the event usually starts the year before, according to Dunn. “Typically [planning] starts in the early fall, late summer of the year preceding,” he said. “That’s when the chair of Law Day is asked to serve as chair. Through
the fall and the start of winter, typically then the program description, the speakers are all lined up, and by January we want to get in on the website and get the event up so people can register.” Although Tufts students are not involved directly in the planning, Tufts Pre-Law Society helps publicize the
event and increase awareness among the student body, according to Hatzis-Schoch. Dunn added that in the future, he would like to pair up alumni and students individually, but he said this will remain dependent on equal numbers of both signing up and a sufficiently early registration period.
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Children come to Tufts to do arts and crafts at Read by the River, Hillel’s children’s carnival which promotes literacy in local k-5 students on Sunday, March 8.
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painting and finger painting, are also there to switch it up a little bit,” Zeitouni added. According to Hefter, approximately 700 children attend the event each year, accompanied by their families, making Read by the River a huge event. A board of about 20 people began planning for Read by the River in September, Hefter said. Zeitouni said the event featured a performance by Tufts BEATs and a visit from New England Patriots tackle Jordan Devey and offensive lineman Bryan Stork to read to the kids.
Along with promoting literacy for kids, Zeitouni said she hopes the event connects Tufts to its surrounding community. “Another I think really important thing that comes from it is that Tufts does engage with the local community because we go to school here, and yet I don’t really feel like we interact with the community,” she said. “To put on an event like this that brings families to our campus and gets them talking about reading … it’s a good way to engage the local community.” According to Zeitouni, approximately 80 Tufts students volunteered for the event. “It’s really exciting that the carnival is happening again this
year and that so many people in the Tufts community want to get involved, whether it’s just the general volunteers or the organizations that actually host booths at the carnival,” she said. “So I think it’s a really great reflection on the Tufts community that everyone year after year puts in so much work for this … really important cause.” Bloom added that she hopes both the kids and student volunteers enjoyed the experience. “It is also very important to see the Tufts community come together for a day of service — a day to support the communities in which we are a part,” she told the Daily in an email.
THURSDAY “ME Seminar: Julie Adams, Vanderbilt University” Details: Julie Adams of Vanderbilt University will give a lecture on human factors as part of the Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series. When and Where: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Nelson Auditorium (Anderson Hall room 112) Sponsor: School of Engineering “On Hairdos, Polynomials and the Shape of the Universe” Details: Eli Grigsby, a topologist at Boston College, will give this year’s Martin Guterman Undergraduate Lecture. In a talk aimed at undergraduates, Grigsby will discuss the mathematics of braids, complex polynomials, three-dimensional spaces and quantum computers. When and Where: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Pearson Chemical Laboratory room 104 Sponsor: Department of Mathematics FRIDAY “Opportunities for Regional Energy Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Role of Cyprus” Details: Republic of Cyprus’ Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Yiorgos Lakkotrypis will discuss energy cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean as part of the Charles Francis Adams Lecture Series. When and Where: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., Carmichael Hall Chase Center Sponsor: Charles Francis Adams Lecture Series, Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy —by Audrey Michael
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discussions and guest speakers that counted before will still count, and that collaborations between groups will count for both groups. Goldberg made it clear that the groups do not need to do anything out of the ordinary. “They don’t need to get more funding or book Cohen Auditorium, they just need to have the events with the intent that the group will benefit the rest of the Tufts population,” she said. “We did this because some people were coming up to us saying [they] put up some posters or tabled in the campus center and that was [their] activity for the semester. That’s great, but if you’re reserving a Campus Center room three times a week and are getting funding from [TCU] Senate, you have to do more than that,” Zfria said. Groups can now hold open meetings, which other members of the Tufts community can attend, as proof of an event under the new bylaw changes, Goldberg said. Goldberg added that the membership requirements for those meetings have also been reshaped. “The membership requirement is now and always has been a strict 15. However, we’re being more flexible for religious and cultural groups because we understand the population of those students is less,” she said. Zfira added that the proof of membership requirements have also been strengthened. “When you have an e-list of 300 people, it’s hard to see who is actually attending the meetings,” he said, explaining that the requirements for meeting attendance — which were previously not enforced — will now be enforced. Funding for student groups is the last major change involved in the new bylaws. In the previous bylaws, there was a clause stating that student groups could be recognized with-
out funding. Zfria said that, for a lot of reasons, that was never really used. “We went through a lot of different iterations to see if that made sense to bring that back or if it made sense to make a tiered system,” Zfira said. “But after a lot of attempts to formulate something that would work between the TCU Judiciary and the CSL, we never really came to an agreement or a mechanism that made sense and that didn’t divide student groups based on funding. We didn’t want a tiered system or a difference in recognition status. So we got rid of all funding requirements.” Every group that is recognized now has the opportunity to receive funding from the TCU Senate, which is now entirely responsible for regulating funding, according to Zfira. “This will be more work for the Allocations Board, and it may be a bit harder for groups to get funding, but it will allow all the groups to be on the same level,” Zfria explained. “We are going about the implementation of the new bylaws in a somewhat gradual way for this upcoming re-recognition process,” Zfira added. “Though we are doing a full-scale evaluation on every re-recognition, we will draw more from the old bylaws. We will be forward about what we need, but if some groups are on the border we will work with them to make sure they understand what we need.” For example, TCU Judiciary is allowing the three proofs of events to come from September 2014 to present day, instead of just the fall semester. “We don’t want groups to get upset with not understanding what is happening. We want to really promote the bylaws and promote a more involved community,” Gomez said. “If groups are doing what they are supposed to be doing, they’ll be just fine, and we’ll just be updating them,” she added.
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watched “Napoleon Dynamite” (2004) not too long ago. At one point, as Napoleon’s grandma is preparing for a day of ATV shenanigans down at the dunes, Napoleon asks her what he can have to eat while she’s gone. Frustrated, she tells him to make “a dang quesadill-a” if he gets hungry. Her words resonated with me. Fast forward three hours later, and I’m taking the first bite of my experimental dining hall quesadilla. If you ever find yourself jonesing for a quesadilla at 12:30 in the afternoon and simply cannot wait until Hodgdon fires up the burrito station in the evening, read on. Making a quesadilla in the dining hall takes a bit of time, but if you take a few minutes to put one together, you’ll very likely be the only cool kid eating one. They’re best during lunch, when a bunch of the taco-related fixings are out. Vámonos: via Tufts Daily Archives
Tufts University Associate Professor of Child Development Calvin “Chip” Gidney at the Elliott Pearson School on April 29, 2009. Gidney spoke about his work at the “Taste of Tufts” lecture series on Friday.
'A Taste of Tufts': Professor Calvin 'Chip' Gidney discusses his research on children’s cartoons by Nina Joung
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With an opening lecture from Calvin Gidney on the linguistic perpetuation of stereotypes in children’s cartoons, the Experimental College’s (ExCollege) “A Taste of Tufts” lecture series returned to campus on Friday, March 6. An associate professor at the EliotPearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Gidney, known as “Chip,” emphasized the large influence that television still has on the development of social concepts — especially among children — despite the growth of the internet. According to Gidney, children ages 2-11 spend 26 hours a week watching TV. At age two, 90 percent of children regularly watch 1.5-2.5 hours of TV per day. Gidney points out that the American Psychiatric Association recommends that children don’t start watching TV until they are two, preferably three, years old. This allows time for children to acquire the skills to discuss the images and concepts they see on TV rather than blindly accept them. Gidney said that the significant amount of time young children spend watching TV establishes it as a powerful source of knowledge. Whether what it portrays is true or not is irrelevant to children. “One thing is clear: That children learn not only on television who they are, children also learn ‘who are … other people?’” Gidney said. “Even though those other people might not fit the stereotype, we still have a stereotype.” One way in which cartoons influence children’s perception of self and others is through the use of dialects. According to Gidney, sociolinguists believe that dialects are indicative of other social categories such as ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, romantic orientation and age. This was made clear to Gidney over 20 years ago, when he went to see “The Lion King” (1994). While many see the movie as a classic, Gidney saw a classic example of racism in the dialectical differences between its characters. Gidney identifies multiple different dialects in “The Lion King” that promote different racial stereotypes. Simba and his father Mufasa, for example, speak in the Standard American English dialect, the dialect most Americans use, Gidney said. This dialect is associated with power and institutions — which is befitting of the story’s heroic protagonist and his equally heroic and honorable father, the king of the wild, according to Gidney.
On the other hand, Gidney said, villainous characters like Scar, Mufasa’s brother, and Scar’s evil followers, the hyenas, bear characteristics of people of color. “One cannot help notice that Scar is darker than his brother, then you have the evil henchmen of the evil Scar, which are the hyenas,” he said. “Now, the hyenas are black in this [movie] — that’s the first thing — [and] they live on, and I’m not making this up, ‘the other side of the elephant graveyard,’ which to me is a very clear reference to ‘the other side of the tracks,’ and, to my dismay, they speak African American English and Chicano English.” After watching these portrayals, Gidney was inspired to start his current research project at Tufts, the Children’s Television Project (CTV project). Gidney created the CTV project along with Communications and Media Studies (CMS) Director Julie Dobrow, Ph.D. They work alongside Dr. Jennifer Burton, a professor of the practice at the Department of Drama and Dance as well as a filmmaker. As part of the project, they analyze the content and production of children’s cartoons as well as the messages that they convey about race and gender. CTV is a three-phase research project, Gidney said. The first phase is analysis of children’s cartoons through survey coding. This is done by having coders identify the race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class and other social traits of each speaking cartoon character. The coders rate cartoon characters on a scale from one to five in response to a series of questions designed to gather data on a character’s traits. This data is recorded for three episodes of the top 20 children’s cartoons. The coders consist of Tufts students (over 150 undergraduate and graduate students since its beginning in 1996) who can conduct research for the project for class credit, according to Gidney. “We code for demographic information, physical characteristics and we also code for personality traits as well,” Gidney said. “We also code for dialect, and we look at what dialect is spoken … we also talk about the vocal qualities.” According to Gidney, the project is moving into its second phase, which is a qualitative study of the production of children’s animated TV. In this phase, the project will analyze the conscious decisions made in children’s cartoons by producers and the implications of these decisions. This is especially significant for cartoons in which a character’s image, voice and personality are all decisions coordinated by the production team.
“[Phase two involves] talking to producers and asking them about why they make the decisions and how they make decisions,” he said. “How do you voice a character, how do you decide how the character going to look like? We want to talk to the creative team that puts those things together.” Finally, phase three of the project will involve children themselves. For this part of the project, Gidney plans to bring in children so that researchers can study their understanding of TV images as well as their thoughts about TV. Although the CTV project has only conducted phase one, the data that the researchers have collected has yielded some interesting findings. According to Gidney, based on data from the project’s first year, male speaking characters outnumber female speaking characters more than two to one, which reinforces the idea that boys’ stories are more important than girls’ stories and makes female-led stories less favorable to children. Additionally, data shows that female characters are significantly thinner and more beautiful than male characters in cartoons. Gidney said that this teaches young girls that their physical attributes are their most significant trait, while boys are able to lead stories without the same expectations of standard beauty. The data also shows that white characters hold an overwhelming majority over characters of color. The cartoons analyzed featured 180 white characters, 30 Asian characters (mostly from the popular children’s cartoon “The Legend of Korra” (2012-2014)), 27 black characters and three Latino characters, Gidney said. One thing that Gidney found interesting was that compared to non-white characters, white characters tended to be more violent and less intelligent. According to Gidney, it seems that while children’s cartoons reinforce obvious racial standards, they also encourage atypical representations of race as well. Gidney hopes that current and future findings of the CTV project will get the attention of popular press as well as academic journals, and that this will encourage TV producers to consider the weighty decisions they make about character representation as well as children’s impressionable state of being. “In terms of the people who produce the cartoons, I hope it would raise their awareness about these questions,” he said. “I hope it will disturb them in a way. I hope they will think about it.”
1. Grab a tortilla. These are usually available around the deli area. 2. If you want meat on your quesadilla, make sure it’s ready to put on your tortilla. For example, if you want grilled chicken, cut it into bits before, not after, putting it on your tortilla, or you risk mauling the most important part of your quesadilla (and your integrity). Any shredded meat works nicely, too. 3. Layer one half of your tortilla with some shredded cheese. I like a cheddar and mozzarella blend. If for some reason the dining hall has Oaxacan cheese one day, use that. 4. On goes the meat. I think this goes without saying, but put all the toppings on the same side, keeping in mind you have to fold this thing over at some point. 5. Add your veggies of choice. Make your mother happy and use at least two other than lettuce. Peppers, corn, black beans and pico de gallo (tomato salsa) are all good options. 6. Guacamole is a must, if it’s there. Apply liberally. 7. Add some more cheese to the top. Make sure that you can close the tortilla, ensuring that you haven’t overloaded your creation, before folding it up. 8. Put the whole thing on a panini press. To do this without disemboweling your beautiful creation, you should use two spatulas. This looks professional and cool, anyway. Close the press, and let your quesadilla sit for a few minutes. I can’t tell you exactly how long I left mine there for, but I made a banana milkshake while I waited and however long that took was the perfect amount of time. ( You can find the article I wrote explaining how to make your own shake by searching for it on the Daily’s website). 9. Use two spatulas to take it off the press. If the cheese isn’t melted or the tortilla isn’t crispy, leave it on a bit longer. 10. Cut the thing in half and eat it with your hands. This is more fun than using a knife and fork. If, in the process of grilling your quesadilla, some of your toppings fell out and glued themselves to the panini press, take some time to scrape them away with a spatula. With a great lunch comes great responsibility. One last piece of advice: Saying “quesadill-a” is way more fun than saying it the “proper” way. P.S. If you ever want to try one of my devious concoctions but don’t want to/ don’t have the confidence to make it yourself/would like to be waited on, I’ll happily make you one in exchange for being swiped in. Cheers! Nico Johnson is a senior majoring in political science. He can be reached at nicholas. johnson@tufts.edu.
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Concert Review
Rollersnakes, Blue Ives bring energy to JumBonnaroo by Nika Korchok Executive Arts Editor
The first night of JumBonnaroo played like a scene from “Animal House” (1978). More specifically, it played like the scene in the film where Delta Tau Chi is getting down to the live band’s version of “Shout” (1959) by the Isley Brothers, clad in togas and flailing their limbs to the sounds of a blaring horn section. While JumBonnaroo was devoid of togas, it was not devoid of high energy and wild trumpet solos — though it did take a while for the energy of the concert to get there. Rollersnakes, the first band of the evening, is an indie rock outfit with a raw centrality but refined edges. Playing Weezer’s “Say it Ain’t So” (1994) and the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” (2003), the band was able to highlight the strong voices of its two vocalists, Dave Igliozzi and Harrison Kim. Kim’s gritty voice perfectly mirrored the energy of the band’s harder rock anthems, while Igliozzi’s soared and dipped in synchronicity to its slower pieces. The relatively slow and small crowd that was present at the beginning of the show, however, made it harder for the band to find its foot-
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Harrison Kim sang with raw intensity as Mike Nuzzolo powered through pieces on the bass at JumBonnaroo on Thursday night. ing. Without energy from the audience to feed off of for the first half of its set, the band had to provide twice the power in order to bring listeners into the concert realm. The band was up for the challenge, however, and
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Reverb Artist Spotlight: Mr Twin Sister by Ascher Kulich Contributing Writer
Reverb is a weekly collaborative music review within the Arts section that explores new albums and covers new artists, whether indie or mainstream. Our goal is to explore and examine everything that modern music has to offer and to educate anyone who cares. Who is Mr Twin Sister? A better question might be, “Who are Mr Twin Sister?” as the formidable indie-pop act is actually a fourman, one-woman quintet. Although it has existed since 2008, the troupe has undergone some changes since its inception. In fact, in early 2014, the group altered its name, adding the “Mr” title and creating a not-so-subtle gender contradiction. Blurring the lines of societal norms isn’t novel; performers have bent gender stereotypes since David Bowie’s rise to popularity, perhaps made most famous by his turn as Ziggy Stardust in “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” (1972). Challenging gender norms, however, has become a more popular trend in the past decade. Mr Twin Sister, alternatively, strives to separate
itself from similarly profiled groups, as the group’s identity is entirely based on uncertainty. Listeners don’t know what to expect from it next, just as the group is still determining how to characterize itself. Assigning any label to it is difficult, as it is subject to change at a moment’s notice. In late 2014, Mr Twin Sister continued this trend, releasing its second, self-titled studio album. On the album, Andrea Estella, the lead singer and singular female of the group, sings about her struggle with gender-related uncertainties and fears and, eventually, the comfort she finds in her lazy, drunken, reclusive state. Though it debuted in 2014, the album sets up the group for great success in 2015 and beyond, and thus it remains a necessary piece of musical education. Each of the eight songs on “Mr Twin Sister” takes place in the midst of hazy synthesizers, simple drum patterns and slumbering guitar riffs. Estella fits the setting, basking in the privacy of her own thoughts and emotions and, oftentimes, shining through the fog. She’s full of indolence and full of conviction; listeners believe see TWIN SISTER, page 6
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Mr Twin Sister rebels against gender norms with its eponymous 2014 album and its continuing work as a band.
proved its skill by closing out on a high note. Blue Ives elevated the energy to the next level. Playing a mix of modern see JUMBONNAROO, page 6
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Dan Deacon appeals to pop music sensibilities by daniel komanoff Contributing Writer
Electronic composer Dan Deacon has never been one to take the easy route. Known for going on extrava-
Gliss Riffer Dan Deacon Domino Recording Company gant tours with 30 piece orchestras in tour buses made of garbage and creating massive electronic tracks with seemingly infinite layers of sound, Deacon has been a popular force in the indie electronic scene since his album “Spiderman of the Rings” (2007) which brought him more widespread recognition. Now, at 33 years old, Deacon must come to terms with the fact that the electronic music scene has changed immensely over the past eight years. With the rise in popularity of electronic music festivals and the ever-growing alternative R&B scene, Deacon must try harder than ever to carve out his own niche. On “Gliss Riffer” (Feb. 24), his first album in three years, he experiments with pop structures — most likely in an effort to win over new fans — while also sticking to the layered electronic atmospheres of his previous releases. “Feel the Lightning,” the first single and lead track, proves to be an example of this pop experimentation paying off. This song is one of the catchiest Deacon has ever released, and it serves as a great introduction to his signature sound. Thick synths pile on top of one another, creating a wall of sound that Deacon manipulates to great lengths. The chord changes are predictable, but when paired with the rhythmic pounding of drums, they give the song a hymsee GLISS, page 6
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nfortunately, my dear readers, you won’t be hearing from your favorite literary columnist for a couple of weeks. We’re less than five days from spring break, something that — for me at least — doesn’t seem real. This semester has been crazy and disjointed, so it’ll be nice to relax and spend some time reading instead of worrying about classes. I will be taking a lovely excursion to Mexico, and you can bet anything I’ll be spending most of my time relaxing on the beach with a good book. While hopefully no one is too swamped with work, spring break is my favorite time to get started on a few new books. Below I’ve listed some of my recommendations, each falling under very different categories. I’ve never been one for celebrity memoirs, as I’ve often found them to be uninspiring and poorly written, but recently I have found a few that are surprisingly well worth the read. An avid fan of “Parks and Recreation” (2009-2015), “The Office” (20052013) and “30 Rock” (2006-2013), I knew I had to try out Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and B.J. Novak’s books, entitled “Yes Please” (2014), “Bossypants” (2013) and “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories” (2014), respectively. Each book takes readers deep into the mental recesses of the brilliant actors who wrote them as they describe the paths they each took to get to the successful place they are today. I couldn’t get through more than five pages at a time without laughing aloud. If you’re looking for lighthearted, funny and absolutely genius writing, then look no further. I’ve also found that truly relaxing reading often comes in the form of short stories. Because of their confined length, short stories can be more intricately detailed than longer novels. The concentration needed to sort out the fine details, however, takes me out of the world I’m sitting in and completely transports me to the world of the story. My most recent find, which makes me think so much of spring, is “The Architect of Flowers” (2011) by William Lychack. His stories deal with simple interpersonal interactions of love, anger and sadness, and they focus on parts of our everyday lives that most people often don’t acknowledge. There is a magical quality to Lychack’s writing, making each story a beautiful song in a larger, elaborate symphony with every turned page. Last week, I had the immense pleasure of discussing one of my favorite essay authors, David Sedaris. Over the course of this week, I’ve devoured another of his collections. This one, entitled “Me Talk Pretty One Day” (2001), describes Sedaris’ life throughout his childhood and during his years spent living in France. In one essay, “Twelve Moments in the Life of the Artist,” Sedaris discusses his failed attempts at attending art school, and how he instead joined underground art collectives that made “art” out of the garbage collected from trashcans. In “The Great Leap Forward,” he talks about his ridiculous employment under a woman named Valencia, who was unbelievably wealthy yet pretended she was struggling to get by. Sedaris writes with a humor unlike any other author, as his life experiences are seen through the eyes of a timid, selfconscious and overanalyzing man. I truly believe reading is the best way to de-stress. To me, television and movies don’t have the same appeal as curling up in silence or with ambient music to devour page after page of an excellent book. I can’t wait to spend my week reading as much as I possibly can and getting to every book I haven’t yet had a chance to read. Enjoy your week off, and happy reading! Helen Schmidt is a sophomore majoring in biology. She can be reached at helen. schmidt@tufts.edu.
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nal effect. Much of the music on the album follows this formula, and many of the songs paddle along like war chants or mantras. This effect, in part, comes from the vocal work, which like the synths, is heavily layered. Using a variety of filters to distort his voice, Deacon sings on more than half of the tracks, which helps add to the overall pop theme that prevails throughout the album. Even voices with higher, almost feminine pitches are his own, sped down and slowed up in the recording process to produce this effect. While on previous releases his singing often felt more like shouting, there are plenty of distinct lyrics and repeated melodies on “Gliss Riffer.” Songs like “When I Was Done Dying” and “Learning to Relax” revolve around Deacon’s singing, which makes them quite accessible. The abundance of lyrics also gives Deacon an outlet from which to express his own views on a variety of issues, such as his personal struggles with stress and aging.
A major theme of the album is that less is more. Deacon mentioned in interviews with NPR and Baltimore Magazine that while making this album, he moved away from his process of working with multiple musicians and constructed the whole album himself as a way of relaxing and dealing with his self-diagnosed addiction to working too hard. Lyrics such as “I try not to worry, but I always worry” and song titles such as “Learning to Relax” emphasize Deacon’s willingness to open up about his personal troubles and his attempts to deal with these issues. There is also a sense of wonder that prevails throughout the album, as if Deacon is constantly thinking about what the future has to offer. Lines such as, “I’m having visions, infinite visions / Of something new / You feel it changing, slowly but changing/ About to break through,” on “Feel the Lightning” give an uplifting atmosphere to the song and start the album off on a prophetic note. Similarly warm and harmonizing melodies appear elsewhere on the
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Dan Deacon has been a formidable presence in the electronic music scene since 2007. His new album “Gliss Riffer” (released Feb. 24) marks a shift to a more widely appealing sound. album, making it a pleasurable listen throughout. Yet, if Deacon is predicting some sort of future for music and the world in general, this album will not be the one to bring about that future. Deacon
fails to push his songs to new heights as he did on “Bromst” (2009) and ends up with a slew of songs such as “Mind on Fire” and “Sheathed Wings” that don’t bring much to the table aside from mindlessly repeti-
tive drum patterns and overly simple chord changes. The big difference is that this music is more widely accessible than Deacon’s other releases, and in this sense, “Gliss Riffer” succeeds as an album.
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Andrea Estella is the band’s lead singer and only female member. She sings about her struggles with gender identity on the band’s eponymous album.
and classic favorites, blending soul, funk and hip-hop, the group increased the voltage on the party’s energy and then some. Travis Pearcy crooned to perfection while Gabe Rothman rattled off trombone solos with the ease of a dog shaking off water. With infectious energy, the group interacted with the audience and pulled them in, encouraging everyone to move closer to the eightmember group until there was almost no space between the musicians and the listeners. The group’s set, after that point, became a sort of musical collaboration with the audience, singing lyrics together and laughing as they spouted off guitar, bass and sax solos with ease, bringing the audience to a dancing frenzy. After Beyoncé’s “Love on Top” (2011), the collective played Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” (2015). As an encore, the band played “Shout” (1959), which it warned the audience its members had never played together all the way through. The warning proved unnecessary, however, as Gabe Terracciano wailed out the song with vocals comparable to Otis Day and the Knights of
“Animal House.” With the subset of blues bands on campus being significantly smaller than that of electronic of indie rock groups, it’s clear that Blue Ives is very capable of carving out a space for itself in the Tufts music scene — and leaving a lasting impression at that. While the night wouldn’t have been complete without the set by Waldo, the third act’s performance was lackluster. Despite the precision of its multi-layered chords and guitar solos, the band lacked energy and brought down the intensity after Blue Ives’ set to a soporific state. Seemingly lacking focus, the band see-sawed between ’90s grunge and millenial lo-fi chillwave. Its musicality did not suffer — indeed the band was technically strong and provided pleasant listening — but its performance and stage presence felt empty, especially as a follow-up to the 1000watt power of the group before it. Alternating between genres and providing an accessibility to multiple genres for Tufts students, JumBonnaroo proved its success as a music festival for the third semester running. All proceeds from JumBonnaroo will go toward Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society.
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what she’s saying because she’s conveying it in her calm, un-intimidating way, allowing listeners to venture into her odd and insular world. In some places, such as on “Blush” or “Out of the Dark,” listeners hear her at her most comfortable, singing in a distant manner over a swaying beat. On “Rude Boy,” Estella questions the forwardness of a hopeful suitor and completely dismisses his advances. Elsewhere, Estella treads on the subject of her identity, singing “I’m a woman, but inside I’m a man / and I want to be as gay as I can” on “Out of the Dark.” The production is wonky and weird, but danceable, a testament to the talent of the producers behind the table — for example, one of Mr. Twin Sister’s older songs was sampled on Kendrick Lamar’s “The Recipe” (2012). Mr Twin Sister is in no manner bereft of talent; each beat is crisp and every instrument is flashy. The alternation between slow, lazy guitar riffs and drum and bass fills adds to the uncertainty, often punctuating an empty soundscape with fervor.
“In the House of Yes,” one of the album’s high points, lifts the tempo up a level, and Estella is suddenly without a care in the word, drinking and dancing to escape the present and reach a socially-forbidden sanctity. She says, “Now that I’ve had two or three, I can get a little free,” and later, “Break out of these walls I have built around me.” It’s groovy and it’s sonically limitless. Saxophones come in as a final layer of the wonderful excursion away from reality she’s created. In other places, such as on “Twelve Angels,” her pleasant presence is nowhere to be found; instead, she’s completely lost herself, and Mr Twin Sister’s electronic outfit takes over her voice and demeanor. The album is inherently upbeat and layered at times, but seemingly empty and deconstructed at others. It is the devolution of Estella’s character (or is it complete selfrealization?), however, that makes Mr Twin Sister successful. The band poses questions, yet doesn’t seem to reach any tangible answers. Instead, it reminds listeners of the power of self-acceptance and the preciousness of mental sanctity.
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Travis Pearcy and Gabe Rothman of Blue Ives elevate the energy to “Animal House” (1978) levels at the first night of JumBonnaroo on Thursday night.
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Bailey Circus in 1881 and, due to his great size and calm temperament, immediately earned the circus great fame and fortune. Sadly but heroically — as many a campus tour guide will articulate — Jumbo perished only a few short years later after being hit by a train during a valiant effort to save the life of a baby elephant stuck on the tracks. But, as is true with most folklore, this is not the whole story. By the time Jumbo became part of the Barnum & Bailey Circus troupe at the end of the 19th century, he had suffered a life of mistreatment and difficulty in his journey from Africa to North America. Captured just prior to the beginning of an historical era now deemed “the scramble for Africa,” Jumbo became the property of Europeans in 1862, serving as a token of societal advancement during the Romantic movement, when European culture shifted its focus to an interest in the contrast between nature and the rapid development of industrialized society. Mascots serve an important purpose at universities, acting as the center of school spirit and creating a common symbol around which the student body may rally — a purpose that necessitates critical thought and conscious decision making when it comes to choosing such a character. The word “Jumbo” itself — which the university
so proudly names as the “only college mascot in Webster’s Dictionary” — is derived from the Swahili word for chief, “jumbe,” and is now used without cultural reference or understanding for the purposes of English speakers’ semantics. And while the story of Jumbo as a non-human hero may, theoretically, foster a tradition of inspiring bravery and sacrifice, there is another narrative that is inseparably written into the elephant’s tale: one of European colonization, exploitation of foreign resources and peoples, and cruelty toward a great creature that was captured for the sole purpose of juxtaposing “advanced” civilization against the wilderness of the rest of the “natural world.” There does not need to be a withdrawal from the use of Jumbo as a mascot, but when using this animal to represent us we must understand everything that Jumbo represents. The question we should all be asking is, “what this all mean in terms of Jumbo’s role as Tufts’ mascot?” This issue must be examined in light of the recent shift of moral tolerance in the public opinion, and perhaps through the lens of a little more historical context than the fragmented story that remains in a peanut butter jar in the basement of Barnum Hall.
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“Alcohol, alcohol everywhere, nor any a drop to drink.” I may have taken some creative license with Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s words, but the sentiment rings true. I sat down with members of my coeducational fraternity [at Dartmouth] last night to lay down the law as its president — no hard alcohol for anyone, anywhere or anytime after March 27. Needless to say, the reaction within my own slice of Dartmouth mirrors what I’ve seen from campus at large — most of the members resent the hard alcohol ban on principle. But this is an opinion piece — I’m not here to recap the views of others. Personally, I’m not against the idea of banning hard alcohol. In fact, I’ve decided that the policy is motivated by a genuine desire to do good and to make students’ lives safer and more productive. It’s gutsy, and though it lacks nuance, it’s a step in the right direction. Administrators are clearly willing to double down for the sake of achieving progress in student social life, and they have refused to fall into the trap of pursuing piecemeal reform. It is that very adherence to a strictly all-or-nothing notion of progress, however, that will doom the ban to failure. I predict the hard alcohol ban will ultimately be a zero-sum game — we may end up trading fewer liquor-related medical transports and pregames hosted in dorms for fewer Good Sam calls and more sexual assaults, as
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the drinking culture is pushed into private rooms and residences. It will likely fuel escalation between students and administrators, who will quickly find themselves on opposite sides of an unbridgeable chasm. The reality is that certain things are beyond our control — in spite of the vast resources that will no doubt support this endeavor, it will likely prove near impossible to eliminate hard alcohol on this campus. There are just too many loopholes. What’s more, our culture and our choices surely can’t change by the order of magnitude that “Moving Dartmouth Forward” has in mind. The ban’s rollout and the subsequently announced sanctions for violations are sloppy and nebulous at best. Though some may support the new alcohol policy, the number who express confidence in its potential to change behavior remain few and far between. Particularly laughable is the sheer lunacy of the idea that all of campus — despite the severity of the penalties of transgressions — will simply choose to uniformly adhere to these policies, even as many complain that they are unclear and unfair. The College seems to have adopted an unfortunate brand of paternalism that would hardly be out of place in the writing of Rudyard Kipling. It isn’t a stretch to see parallels between administrators’ attitudes and the traditional Hobbesian view that a productive and mutually beneficial civil society is a fundamental public good that must be provided in exchange for authority. Public good, however, can take many forms. What
College President Phil Hanlon and his loyal, hardworking team are trying to accomplish here is the provision of an intangible public good — student life. In his role as sovereign, he wants nothing more than to guarantee an environment that looks out for the safety and security of students. It is this Hobbesian treatment of Dartmouth, though, that — to extend the metaphor — has led to what the students consider a palpable breach of contract between a sovereign and his citizenry. As the leader of this community, Hanlon faces a challenge — how can he mobilize his large constituency behind such a significant change? What this new alcohol policy lacks is what us government majors like to call a focal point — an equilibrium of mutually agreeable behavior, or the point where both opposing parties’ interests are maximized. Instead, we have two parties — administrators and students — disagreeing on the best way of fixing our drinking culture. There is, then, no single equilibrium, and neither side will likely budge in its preferences. The sweeping consequences of this ban — from infringing on individual rights to running the risk of sending drinking culture underground — implicates administrators in the business of passing judgment on social practice, and that is neither their prerogative nor their job. It falls far beyond the scope of their professional mandate. I can only hope that this becomes clear when the time inevitably comes to re-evaluate the hard alcohol ban.
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Why ‘gay marriage’ isn’t as important as people think by Nissa Koerner
I came out to my parents when I was 12. I’m pretty sure they thought it was a phase at first — because, really, who knows that they’re queer when they’re not even a teenager? But they were supportive, assured me that they loved me no matter what and moved on with their lives. Despite growing up in Berkeley, Calif., I was very selective as to who I told about my sexuality — regardless of where you live, middle school and high school kids can be vicious. Until college, I could count on two hands the number of people who knew I was bisexual. Once I got to Tufts however, I practically started shouting it from the rooftops (actually, I think I did shout it off the roof of Tisch one night). I started going to the Bi/Pan group at the LGBT Center, got active in LGBTQ rights and came out very publicly on Facebook on National Coming Out Day in 2013. Throughout all of this, I’ve grown increasingly concerned as I’ve watched the LGBTQ rights dialogue be pigeonholed into the following phrases: “I totally support gay rights!” “Gay marriage should be legal everywhere!” “I give ‘X amount’ to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) every month!” (My personal favorite). Let me start by saying that none of these are bad things. LGBTQ rights legislation is something that is desperately lacking in this country; marriage equality should be legal across the United States and the world, and the HRC does some good things. But doing that and saying things such as those listed above is pretty much the bare minimum of what you could be doing. Don’t get me wrong — I’m absolutely thrilled every time another state’s law prohibiting marriage equality is overturned. It’s one more state where being queer will (hopefully) become more normalized and accepted. One more state where LGBTQ couples will be able to legally share their love for their partners. One more state where I would be able to live and not worry about what would happen to my partner after I died. But, that’s pretty much all it means. So why don’t I care more? It’s one step closer to gay people being accepted, yay! Because, truth be told, it’s not. Sure, the LGBTQ community will have marginally more freedom in that state, but there’s still a lot to be done. In many states in my home country, a country that I love, a country that I want to help lead one day,
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Dec. 28: 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn. Jan. 5: 23-year-old Eylül Cansin Feb. 11: 19-year-old Melonie Rose Feb. 15: 15-year-old Zander Mahaffey Feb. 26: 16-year-old Ash Haffner The five names listed above have two things in common: They were all transgender people, and they all took their own lives. These are five lives that have been lost. These are five people who felt that their lives were not worth living. This does not even begin to cover every transgender life lost, or every transgender person assaulted, threatened or murdered. “Transgender” is a foreign word for a lot of people. I never even learned about gender identity until I saw a transgender man on a talk show and saw everything I had been feeling reflected in another person for the first time in my life. Eylül, Melonie, Zander and about one million other people in the U.S. identify as transgender, someone whose gender does not match their biological sex. I like to think of it as having a girl’s body and a boy’s brain, or vice versa, rather than being born cisgender, where the brain and the body match.
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my friends and I can still be very harshly discriminated against. There are only 18 states with laws banning public and private workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (21 states have laws banning discrimination based only on sexual orientation). This means that the majority of LGBTQ individuals in this country can be fired because their boss doesn’t agree with their “lifestyle choices,” despite their actual work ethic or abilities. Fourteen states have obstacles or outright bans on LBGTQ adoption. Currently, there are more LGBTQ couples looking to adopt than there are children in the foster care system. Add that to the fact that LGBTQ couples are more likely to adopt older or disabled children; states are depriving children of a happy, healthy and supportive home environment because their law makers believe that LGBTQ people are inherently wrong and sinful. Only 14 states have hate crimes legislation that address sexual orientation and gender identity. That number goes up to 29 if you exclude hate based on gender identity as a crime. Nine states have legislation facilitating trans* people to change their gender on their driver’s license or birth certificate (22 states facilitate one or the other, but not both). I could add to this list all day long.
My point is that “gay rights” is more than just “gay marriage.” It’s my ability to work, live and love in any city, county and state in the country without having to worry about how the laws there will dictate what I can and cannot do. It’s that my friends, whether straight-passing or genderqueer or flamboyantly gay, can live their lives as they please without looking over their shoulders everyday, wondering if they’ll be fired, or denied a child or worse, all based on who and how they love and express themselves. This isn’t to place the blame on every straight person out there — far from it. The media, the Democratic National Committee, NGOs (like the HRC!) and the government as a whole are to blame for these issues. Instead of framing the fight as the LGBTQ community being discriminated against in a vast number of ways (and isn’t marriage equality just the most ridiculous?), these issues have been pushed to the back burner, and we have been told that it isn’t the right time to push for our rights and freedoms. So, yes, 37 states now have some form of marriage equality. Yay! Great! Fantastic! But “gay marriage” is not the be-all end-all of the LGBTQ rights movement, and I’m tired of the rest of the country thinking it is. Nissa is a junior majoring in international relations. Nissa can be reached at nissa. koerner@tufts.edu
Hashtag memories are not enough by Jordan
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For me, transgender is who I am. My parents decorated my room before I was even born with pink and white wallpaper, pink and white furniture and a pink rug just because the doctor told them that they were having a little girl. My mom still has a picture of me dressed in a pink and white dress with a pink bow planted on top of my head. My dad referred to me as his “little princess,” but that’s not me. I came out as transgender when I was 14, but my parents were not happy to learn that their little girl was really a boy. Like many other transgender kids, I was tormented at school. I have been called an “it” to my face. I was almost arrested for standing in line for the women’s restroom. My dad told me that he was worried that me becoming a man would make him stop loving me. My mom openly laughed when I tried to explain to her how hard it was to survive. For a long time, I thought of taking my own life, if only to make everything stop hurting. #HerNameWasLeelah. #HisNameWasAsh. We are just like everyone else. We sit through lectures and struggle over homework in the library. We apply for jobs and stress over what happens after we graduate. We want to be happy, but because of being transgender, we face extra chal-
lenges. We lose family, loved ones, homes and jobs because of who we are. Just because someone looks a bit different does not mean that they are not worth fighting for. When a child walks into oncoming traffic because she cannot fathom continuing to live as a boy, there is something wrong. When a child is kicked out of his home because his parents can’t accept their child, there is something wrong. When the message that transgender people receive is that their lives are not worth living and suicide is a viable option, we need to change the message. Leelah, Eylül, Melonie, Zander and Ash were just kids. Their lives were full of potential. They had dreams and goals and aspirations. These are lives lost because of ignorance and fear. These kids deserve to be remembered for what they accomplished, not the fight they lost. Something needs to change. We cannot let any more kids down. Hashtag memories are not enough. It is time to turn the “was” into an “is.” My name is Jordan. I am transgender. My life is worth living. Jordan is a Tufts student who wishes to remain anonymous.
ear Spring Break, Finally, your presence has crept up on us. And I’m not talking about the iconic “Spring Breakers” (2012), Riff Raff kind of spring break. I’m talking about the week of solace colleges offer, characterized by a mass exodus of student to different locations and activities. While there are many options and forms, all can offer, in some way, a mental break from the rigor of collegiate life. And foam parties! That’s right, the first option is the classic white T-shirt contest, Daytona Beach, foam party blowout spring break. There should be substantial amounts of wrestling in substances. Mud wrestling, pudding wrestling, Tide ‘High Efficiency’ laundry detergent wrestling, etc. A key element of this type of break is a hot location that is cheap enough for fiscally restricted college students. I hear Arkansas is good for the Clinton-lovers tour and Duggar clan aficionados! If you’re feeling like 2002 Reese Witherspoon, Alabama may be your spring break cup of tea! And if you want to recreate my favorite season by far of The Real World (1992-present), make sure to go to Cancun, where you can sip on mango margaritas and the souls of spring breakers past. Additionally, one can only listen to songs on the Billboard 100 remixed by someone named DJ Fuze or DJ Statik or maybe even DJ Whoa. If your head is not bopping, you’re in total #fomo territory. Get it girls! Another choice for spring break, and my personal preference, is the return home to enter a complete state of physical and emotional stagnation. It is safe to assume that almost everyone understands the negative impacts college places on your body, such as lack of sleep and odd dietary choices, but emotional impacts may be a bit more furtive in their nature. I had tears in my eyes the other day when the dining hall had actual guacamole. I also burst into laughter yesterday while watching the sunrise, with no knowledge as to what provoked it. Basically, everyone’s sensory systems and hormonal balances are in complete chaos, and spring break at home is a great time to regulate. Also, returning home means being able to return to your high school and have a very powerful affirmation of how much better your life has gotten. Seeing all those young plebes locked up in a cesspool of puberty and artificial cafeteria pizza will easily remind you how great the privilege of freedom in college really is. Plus, seeing all of your hometown friends is always a special treat. Go on a walk with them and reminisce! You will cry! I will cry! Tears for everyone! Lastly, for some, spring break cannot be a time of escape, as they have to remain on campus for the week. But do not fret! All of this free time means plenty of opportunities to switch things up and explore new possibilities. For example, if your roommate is bouncing out, take a nap or two in their bed (discretely, of course). You will quickly gain some new space perspective, and you can totally tell a lot about a person by the way their sheets smell. Trust me. Another option is to visit people who live close to campus and are going home. People quickly take pity when you are sans-family, so chances are you will be welcomed very warmly. If you can’t see your family during this time, assimilate into someone else’s! Or just take a bunch of benzos and act like you’re surrounded by millions of friends. Same difference. I had no idea what to write about this week, Henry
Henry Jani is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at henry.jani@tufts.edu.
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time. This has led to an increased scoring role for Morehead and an added dimension to the team’s offensive capabilities with her and Dillon generating offense together. The duo has helped spark perimeter scoring for the Jumbos following the injury to senior tri-captain guard Hannah Foley. “I mean, you just have two really good ball handlers and two players that see the floor really well and make good decisions with the ball,” Berube said of the offensive setup. “It’s nice to have Kelsey at the 2, who’s a pretty good outside shooter, and she struggled a little bit in the first half, but came alive in the second. It’s nice having the two of them on the floor.” Other key contributions came from Kanner, whose and-one layup at the 8:17 mark kicked off the late comeback surge and got the crowd into the game. North, despite struggling from the line (2-7), also played a pivotal role, battling down low to convert on shots the Jumbos needed if they were going to advance past the Cardinals. Although Tufts had a definitive size advantage over St. John Fisher, which only has one player on its roster 6’0″ or taller, St. John Fisher found success packing the paint with defenders and double-teaming Tufts’ front court when the ball was dumped down low. This gave Tufts trouble when it couldn’t knock down outside shots when the ball was kicked back out. Slowly, though, Kanner and North found some rhythm, and aided by strong scoring from Morehead, Roberson and sophomore guard Josie Lee, it proved to be enough to get the win. “Well they packed it in a lot, so our post players weren’t really open underneath,” Berube said. “And then we finally found some openings — high-post area, corners started to open up a little bit, and it just took us staying composed, completing passes and then being ready to catch and shoot, being ready to catch and drive in. I thought Josie and Emma did a good job of getting in the lane and making plays and kicking back out to shooters. So yeah, St. John Fisher had a great game plan. When we couldn’t make open shots in the first half, you know, you become a little tight, and it’s hard to hit those shots. But things started opening up in the second half, and the great thing is we kept a lot alive by getting offensive rebounds. Again, Josie got in there, Emma got in there, as well as our post players.” Velasco and Bloomstein finished with team-highs of 17 points apiece,
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knocking the goal off its moorings. The referees felt Brown had done so intentionally to save the goal and sent him to the box for a delay of game penalty. The Jumbos were then forced on the penalty kill, and despite preventing the Lord Jeffs from scoring, they lost valuable time for evening the score. “We wouldn’t have been in that game without Brian Brown,” Murphy said. “He led our team in scoring, but he’s also a freshman. You know, we killed the penalty off and the last minute we had a few chances, but they didn’t go. I don’t really think it changed the game.” The Jumbos set their sights on the NESCAC championship at the beginning of the season, a lofty goal for a team that finished in the conference’s cellar last season. Despite not reaching their goal, Murphy is proud of his team for reaching the semifinals.
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Senior tri-captain guard Kelsey Morehead shoots a layup in the first round of the NCAA Div. III Championship. Morehead was a big contributor off the bench for the Jumbos this weekend. while Cusack scored 15 points with three makes from beyond the arc and three steals. Four Jumbos finished in double-digits for scoring: Morehead (19), North (18), Kanner (13) and Roberson (10). North posted a double-double with 14 rebounds, while Kanner and Roberson each pulled in eight rebounds and Lee grabbed five. Six of Roberson’s eight rebounds were on the offensive glass. The Friday night first-round matchup with Pine Manor College was a totally different experience for Tufts. Presented with another notable size advantage, the Jumbos had their way offensively in an 87-46 routing of the Gators. Pine Manor, which averaged over 70 points per game with a high-powered, fast-paced offense during the regular season, was stymied in the team’s opening game of the NCAA tournament, shooting just 33.9 percent from the floor and 8.3 percent from beyond the arc. Tufts outscored Pine Manor 52-32 in the paint and controlled the pace of the game from start to finish. North tied her career-high of 25 points and also finished with a gamehigh 13 rebounds. 12 Jumbos scored in the contest, and Tufts had 37 points off the bench. Senior Hannah Artner, one of those coming off the bench, scored eight points and grabbed four rebounds for the Jumbos.
The Gators were led by first-year Erica Jones’ 16 points and four rebounds and sophomore co-captain Maria Vaughan’s 12 points and four rebounds. With the wins this weekend, Tufts has earned hosting rights for the next round of the tournament, meaning the Jumbos will be at home for another set of weekend games. Tufts will take on Eastern Connecticut State University on Friday night; a win would send the team on to either Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityFlorham or SUNY-Geneseo on Saturday. For a team that’s undefeated at home and in search of another Final Four berth, this advantage is crucial. “It’s awesome. We’re obviously really excited,” Roberson said. “We weren’t sure if we were gonna be hosting because I know FDU[-Florham] is in our bracket and I think they had one loss too. They’re a great team and had a lot of wins this season, so we weren’t sure if we were gonna be hosting, but we found out today and we’re all really excited. We’re looking forward to Friday’s game, definitely, and … being at home. We always love being at home with our fans, they’re awesome. And then we seem to just play better at home. It’s nice that we don’t have to travel to New Jersey. We’re gonna try to get through Friday’s game, and then after Friday hopefully we can get a win Saturday.”
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“Regardless of whether we achieved our goals we built that bridge for the next group,” Murphy said. “We established a culture of winning that I don’t think we’ve had with other groups. The guys were really down after the game, and that’s a good sign because it means they wanted to win and they thought they should have won.” With the season over, the team can still look back on the individual accomplishments of its senior defenseman, Blake Edwards. Edwards earned allNESCAC honors last week after he was named to the second team, marking the second such honor of his career. “I think he should have been on the first team, but that was full of guys from Amherst and Trinity, which makes sense because they finished first and second,” Murphy said. “Blake is very competitive, very athletic. People don’t see how hard he practices. He played a lot of
this season with a very bad hand. He went through a stretch of a few weeks where he couldn’t shoot a puck. I think most importantly his effort in practice is what really stands out, it makes everyone around him better.” For seniors like Edwards and Sellers, the season represented the culmination of four years of hard work. “Although right now it stings losing in the semi-finals, it’s been a fun season, certainly an improvement over the last two years,” Sellers wrote. “Although we maybe could’ve had some more regular season success, I think I can look back and say this has been one of the best season’s in Tufts hockey history. It’s tough to describe, but a lot of sacrifices are made into the building of a hockey career, not just by you but your parents as well, and to have it end in this way was definitely bittersweet.”
ue to the sheer volume of viable fantasy outfielders, I will only be discussing several sleepers and busts for your upcoming drafts. Jorge Soler has been discussed for a long time in fantasy circles, but he belongs on my sleeper list because ESPN has him listed as their No. 38 outfielder. I have him ranked 26th after he posted a line of .325/20/53/77 at four different levels in 2014. Soler is already penciled in as the Cubs’ starting right fielder and will have plenty of run-scoring and run-producing opportunities in a young, potent offense. Kris Bryant and Javier Baez are the Cubs’ prospects that have been receiving the most buzz, but Soler has a lower strikeout rate than both of them and has no one to battle for his job. Washington’s Jayson Werth is another guy that I would draft above his Average Draft Position (ADP). He has consistently hit around .300 for four consecutive seasons, is a lock for 80 runs and RBIs when healthy and will hit between 15 and 25 HRs this season. If he hits north of .300 with 25 HRs, he becomes a clear top-25 option. Werth is an especially great option in leagues where walks matter, as is his teammate, Denard Span. After the All-Star break, the Nationals center fielder hit .346 with 16 SBs. In addition to filling out those two categories, Span will almost certainly be among the league leaders in runs scored, the most forgotten offensive category in fantasy. In the AL, I think Dalton Pompey is not getting enough respect. ESPN has him ranked 72nd, but I have him 18 spots ahead of that. He hit .304 at five levels last year, but his best quality is his speed. He swiped 53 bags last season and since Michael Saunders has undergone knee surgery, Pompey is a lock to start in Toronto’s outfield on opening day. In terms of fantasy busts, I have never understood people’s fascination with Jason Heyward. He had one great year in 2012, but before and since then, he has always finished below his ADP. Over the past two seasons, he has averaged 12.5 HRs, 48 RBIs, and 11 SBs. He also has a career .262 average, so why does this injury prone outfielder deserve to be ranked inside ESPN’s top 25? Fantasy analysts say every year that the breakout is coming, but I am tired of waiting. Another player I will be avoiding is Yoenis Cespedes. The Tigers’ new outfielder is a great, not elite power hitter. He is a career .263 hitter and has never hit over 26 HRs. Average, 20+ HR guys can be found much later in the draft. Cespedes is ranked 17th on ESPN, but Oswaldo Arcia and Marlon Byrd’s lines look eerily similar to Cespedes’ 2014. Those two are ranked 49th and 80th, respectively. I am not saying they will outperform the Tigers outfielder, but they will be close enough so that I cannot justify drafting Cespedes at his ADP. Finally, though I have no problem with Mookie Betts’ skill set, playing time is a major issue for him. He will undoubtedly be the Red Sox’ starting right-fielder before the All-Star break, but for now, he is nothing more than a highly-touted platoon center fielder. He is ranked 30th on ESPN, ahead of guys such as Ben Revere, Gregory Polanco and Melky Cabrera. When I draft a top-30 outfielder, he better be penciled in to play everyday. More Potential Sleepers: Jake Marisnick, Torii Hunter, Khris Davis, Austin Jackson, Steven Souza, Charlie Blackmon. More Potential Busts: Bryce Harper, Ryan Braun, Avisail Garcia, Wil Myers, Steve Pearce, Alex Rios.
Wil Glavin is a junior majoring in English. He can be reached at william.glavin@tufts.edu.
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Jumbos survive opening rounds of NCAA tournament with home wins by Alex Schroeder Sports Editor
Last year, it was Liz Moynihan’s (LA ’14) desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer in overtime that carried the Jumbos
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through the second round of the NCAA Div. III tournament, keeping their Final Four hopes alive. While this year’s opening rounds at Cousens didn’t end with quite the same photo finish, for the second year in a row, the Jumbos overcame a tough overtime matchup to advance to the Sweet 16 for the fourth time in as many years. Tufts didn’t lead once throughout regulation in the Round of 32 contest against the St. John Fisher Cardinals, but a baseline jumper in the final seconds of regulation from sophomore Michela North tied the game at 60-60. From there, Tufts was able to take control of the momentum in the extra period of play and earn the victory. “St. John Fisher played an awesome game and fought to the very end,” coach Carla Berube said. “It took us just chipping away at the lead they had when they went up 10 [with 13:53 minutes left]. It’s just getting defensive stops and, you know, making sure we’re coming down with those defensive rebounds. And then our players just started making plays. I mean [senior tri-captain] Kelsey Morehead just started to make plays, and
[hit] big shots — Michela made some big plays underneath. I think we’re experienced in games like this, and we got the stops we needed and the scores down at the other end.” St. John Fisher gave Tufts plenty of trouble with tight defensive play, doubling the ball when it entered the paint and coming up with steals that it converted into fast-break points. In the first half, Tufts turned the ball over nine times and shot just 26.5 percent from the floor. North, who exploded for 21 first-half points in Tufts’ first round matchup on Friday with the Pine Manor College Gators, was held to six points on Saturday, while senior tri-captain Hayley Kanner shot just 1 of 6 from the floor for five points in the first half. The game was never out of reach for the Jumbos, but throughout regulation the Cardinals were always able to match any offensive spurt the Jumbos could put together. Junior Mary Kate Cusack gave the Jumbos trouble on both sides of the ball, hitting big 3-pointers to extend the Cardinals’ lead as well as playing tight zone defense to pick up steals. Senior cocaptains Sydney Bloomstein and Portia Velasco also led the Cardinals with high shooting percentages and an ability to finish easy layups down low. St. John Fisher had built a four-point lead heading into intermission. “I think we came out kind of slow,” junior Emma Roberson said. “Definitely everyone was a little nervous, obviously in the NCAA tournament … there were definitely some nerves. We didn’t have a great start, and then I think at halftime our seniors and our captains talking to us — we were down four at half I think, it was still a pretty close game — but we just kind of talked about things we could work on. We had a lot of turnovers in the first half that led to easy scoring opportunities for the other team. They had a lot of fast-break points on us, so
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Sophomore guard Josie Lee attempts to move the ball around a Fisher defender during the second round of the NCAA Div. III Championship. that was definitely something we talked about at halftime. Just kind of taking care of the ball and then communicating and sprinting back on defense to limit their fast-break points.” In the second half, however, Tufts clawed its way back with clutch shooting and lockdown defense. Roberson matched up with Cusack and the other guard scorers on the Cardinals, playing stellar defense to slow down the fastpaced attack from the Cardinals. At the same time, Morehead stepped up huge offensively, scoring 16 of her game-high 19 points in the second half and overtime periods. Morehead also sparked the Jumbos offensively with her
3-point shooting, hitting five of 10 shots from downtown at a time when the rest of the team was struggling from beyond the arc and needed big buckets to stay in the game. Since her return, Morehead has gotten the opportunity to play both the 1- and 2-guard positions, meaning she can both orchestrate the offense at point guard to create opportunities for others, and also take on a more scoring-oriented position if first-year point guard Lauren Dillon, who ran the point for most of the season, is on the floor at the same see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 11
Tufts ends season in NESCAC semifinals by Phillip Goldberg Assistant Sports Editor
Tufts’ (9-15-2) postseason run concluded at Orr Rink with a close 3-2 loss to No. 9 Amherst (20-4-2). The Lord
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Jeffs, seeded second in the NESCAC, will advance to the tournament finals for the second straight year, where they will host the fourth seeded Williams Ephs. Even though the Jumbos came up short in their search for a NESCAC title, this season was a step in the right direction for a team that finished last in the NESCAC last year. Shocking the Div. III hockey world, Tufts knocked off No. 1-seeded Trinity in the quarterfinals to earn a spot in the NESCAC semifinals. Tufts hoped to carry its momentum to its game against Amherst, but Amherst prevailed. “Both teams made very few mistakes, and Amherst was able to capitalize on one more chance than we were,” senior forward Bill Sellers told the Daily in an email. Leading shots on goal 12-6 in the first period, Amherst put pressure on sophomore goalie Mason Pulde early. Senior forward Mike Rowbotham struck first for the Lord Jeffs at 5:53 off a clean assist from senior defenseman Aaron Deutsch. The Jumbos, however, struck back at 14:28 when senior forward Tyler Voigt. who had been screening senior goalie
Danny Vitale, punched in a rebound. Junior tri-captain forward Stewart Bell and senior tri-captain defenseman Blake Edwards were credited with assists. “It was a fairly even game except for the fact that we never had the lead and we really wanted to play with the lead,” coach Brian Murphy said. Amherst boasts one of the top defenses in the country and Vitale’s goals against average of 1.75 leads the NESCAC. As a result, Tufts hoped to jump out to an early lead in order to avoid playing from behind, but Rowbotham’s goal quashed that strategy. “Amherst is the best defensive team in the country, and we tried to do things around their net to create some more offense,” Murphy said. “I thought that in the third period we had some quality chances and [Vitale] really played well for them. He’s a great goalie — you look at his stats and what he does for them — but they’ve also got a great system.” Despite never trailing on the scoreboard, the Lord Jeffs were far from comfortable against the upstart Jumbos. Even after Amherst built a two-point lead in the second period, there was a sense that Tufts could rally. Deutsch fired a point shot that senior forward Andrew Fenwick tipped past Pulde at 4:32 in the second, and then junior forward Conor Brown netted a third goal for the Lord Jeffs off an assist from first-year forward David White slightly over six minutes later. White was named NESCAC rookie of the year for this season as well as receiving an all-NESCAC first team selection. “I think we played well,” Murphy said. “We worked hard. The second period, we kind of got away from what our game plan was a little bit. I think we were ner-
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The Jumbos’ offense challenged the Lord Jeffs’ much-vaunted defense. vous and feeling the pressure of being down by a goal, and then we gave up another one.” The Jumbos, desperately clinging to their season, blitzed the Lord Jeffs in the third period, outshooting them 16-9. Vitale and the Amherst defense turned down many good chances, but at 10:19, Tufts caught a break. Sophomore forward Conal Lynch finished off an Edwards pass to cut the lead to one.
With almost 10 minutes left to play and down one, Tufts had a chance to tie the game and dramatically swing momentum from scoring the last goal. The Lord Jeffs’ defense, however, as resilient as ever, refused to break again. Amherst broke out on a fast break with roughly 3:30 left in the game that ended with first-year forward Brian Brown see ICE HOCKEY, page 11