The Tufts Daily - Monday, March 25, 2019

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Alum Wilnelia Rivera reflects on her journey at Tufts see FEATURES / PAGE 4

Jumbos keep undefeated streak alive over spring break

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A$AP Ferg, Rico Nasty, Marcela Cruz to perform at Spring Fling

by Anton Shenk Staff Writer

A$AP Ferg will headline this year’s Spring Fling, with Rico Nasty and Marcela Cruz featured as opening acts, according to an announcement by the Tufts University Social Collective (TUSC) Concert Board. The concert will take place on April 28.

Ferg, a Harlem, New York-based rapper, is famous for his songs “Work” (2013), “New Level” (2016), and “Plain Jane” (2017). Rico Nasty is a Washington, D.C.-based rapper and record producer who is currently on tour for her 2018 album, “Nasty.” Cruz is a Boston-based rhythm and blues (R&B)/ pop singer and songwriter.

Mathew Peña, a sophomore and TUSC Concert Board co-chair, expressed his excitement about the lineup in an email to the Daily.

“We’ve brought a dynamic and turnt set of performers for the 2019 lineup,” he said.

Peña said that TUSC will also be implementing a few changes to the event.

One such change requires students to provide the name of their guests when purchasing tickets for non-Tufts students.

Peña says this policy is necessary to keeping better records of who is in attendance and holding individuals responsible for their actions, and will help coordinate in case of an emergency.

Peña also emphasized that previous years’ policies — including prohibiting bags, wristlets and fanny packs — will also still be enforced due to concerns about event safety and to prevent delays at the entrance.

Peña urged students attending the concert to consider bringing outfits with pockets in case they need to hold any personal items.

A$AP Ferg A co-founder of A$AP Mob, A$AP Ferg’s first hit was his track “Work,” according to the artist’s Spotify page. Following the success of “Work,” it got a second rendition featuring artists including French Montana and ScHoolboy Q. Soon after, Ferg released the single “New Level” with artist Future credited on the song. With “New Level,” Ferg released another album featuring stars Missy Elliott, Skrillex and Lil Uzi Vert. Ferg’s most recent releases — including “Kristi” with Denzel Curry and “Moon River” with actress Elle Fanning — came out in 2018.

Rico Nasty Rico Nasty started with developing an underground reputation with her early tracks including “Hey Arnold” (2016) and “iCarly” (2016), according to the artist’s Spotify page. After gaining fame, Rico Nasty

joined Lil Yachty on a remix of “Hey Arnold,” advancing her from the underground to mainstream fame. Rico Nasty dropped her newest album, “Nasty,” in 2018.

Marcela Cruz Marcela Cruz is a Boston-based R&B performer from Lowell, Mass. who has performed across the country since 2014, according to the artist’s Spotify page. In fall of 2016, Cruz released her first EP, titled “Here We Go Again.” A three-time Boston Music Award nominee, she recently released the single “Why” (2018).

In a description of her work on her Facebook page, Cruz wrote, “My latest EP focuses on such a relatable topic about struggles within love because well, who doesn’t like writing/singing about love? …

At the end of the day my love for rnb stays at my core and I’d like to motivate and inspire as many lives that welcome me to do so.”

Two new arts spaces in Barnum Hall set to open spring 2020

by Sara Renkert

Contributing Writer

Barnum Hall, which is currently undergoing renovations, will serve as shared space for new classes between the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) spring 2020, according Dean of the SMFA Nancy Bauer.

Bauer said that both the School of Arts and Sciences and the SMFA made the decision to renovate about one year ago.

“We found out that we were … getting two large lab spaces all the way to the left of the building, closest to Ballou,” Bauer said.

Gretchen Von Grossmann, who is the director of Capital Programs, part of Tufts’ Operations Division, confirmed this location in an email to the Daily.

“The two art studios are located on the lower and second levels in the east wing of Barnum,” Von Grossmann said.

Lois Stanley, director of campus planning, explained how space within Barnum Hall was able to be allocated to other Tufts programs.

“The renovated space in Barnum is available because some programs and offices were moved to the new [Science and Engineering Complex] building,” Stanley said in an email to the Daily. “Former science labs are fairly ideal in size and utility service to repurpose for art studio use.

This is a great opportunity to repurpose the building to support the arts and make more suitable spaces available to students.”

The need for these spaces has been a common concern among dual-degree students on the Medford/Somerville campus

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Barnum Hall is pictured on April 20, 2018. looking to find areas to complete their art-related work, according to a March 2017 Daily article. The article adds that many dual-degree students find the current studio spaces located in Lane Hall to be inadequate.

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dent, said that she has had trouble finding places to get her work done away from the SMFA campus.

“I think [the studios] will be so helpful to have a space to work on art in Medford because most of us end up having to turn

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Bauer explained how the Barnum Hall studios will satisfy demands which Lane Hall does not.

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“They will be studio spaces where students can come and work and won’t just be used for classes, if they are used for classes at all,” Bauer said. “We are still in the midst of deciding how these spaces are going to function, as the SMFA is still figuring it out, but we will have it settled by the time we post courses in the fall for the spring of 2020.”

Bauer explained the final goal behind the creation of these SMFA spaces on the Medford/Somerville campus. She said she understands the difficulties that many students in the School of Arts & Sciences and School of Engineering face in taking arts classes.

“We are trying to work towards a model in which anybody can take any SMFA classes that they are prepared for on either campus, whether they are arts students or not,” Bauer said. “Many of our classes don’t require prior experience, as they are intro-level courses.”

Bauer emphasized the importance of allowing non-SMFA students to have art spaces on the Medford/Somerville campus.

“We are trying to get students who are not at the SMFA used to the idea that taking classes in art-making should be no more daunting to them than acting or music history,” she said.

Stanley said these spaces would be available for arts courses in the spring of 2020.

al Merrin Moral Voices speaker series. Kristof will discuss the media’s coverage of immigration through the past decade.

Where and when: Cohen Auditorium; 8–10 p.m.

WEDNESDAY “G5 Centers Community Town Hall Meeting with DOSA” Details: The Office of the Dean of Student Affairs (DOSA) will facilitate a discussion on the future of the Group of Five (G5) centers on campus: the Africana Center, the Asian American Center, the Latino Center, the LGBT Center and the Women’s Center. Several of the centers currently have unfilled leadership positions.

Where and when: Interfaith Center; 5:30–6:30 p.m.

THURSDAY “Deconstructing the NJB with ASAP TM” Details: Action for Sexual Assault Prevention by Tufts Men (ASAP TM) will discuss the “Nice Jewish Boy” stereotype and the intersection of Jewish identity and masculinity at an event open to all gender identities.

Where and when: Tufts Hillel; 8–9 p.m.

FRIDAY “The Cannabis Debate” Details: In the final installment of the Experimental College (ExCollege)’s Voices from the Edge Speaker Series, the ExCollege will host several cannabis experts to debate and discuss the political, medical and legal future of cannabis.

Where and when: Granoff Music Center; 12–3:30 p.m.

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Von Grossmann explained that the occupants would move in during the summer.

“The occupants of the first floor — Tisch College — expect to move their entire operations out of Lincoln-Filene at the end of 2019, since they will occupy the first level of the east wing,” Von Grossmann said.

The second of the two arts studios will be used as a film space to accommodate for the growing Film and Media Studies program.

“Film and Media Studies will be moving its operations into the space in Barnum,” Bauer said. “There will be a lot of space allocated to Film and Media Studies with computer labs that students can use to edit film or to record and edit sounds.”

Malcolm Turvey, director of Film and Media Studies, wrote in an email to the Daily that he is “very excited about the new filmmaking studios in the building.”

He explained that the policies for the use of the space have not been fully devised yet, but one of the studios will be devoted to the FMS program.

“The other will be a larger, shared studio space used by a variety of groups,” he said.

Although Bauer is also still unsure of whether the rooms will be only used as classrooms or workspaces, she remains positive of their inclusivity. She said that the spaces will be open to students that both are and are not pursuing an SMFA degree.

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continued from page 1 “Because the space in Lane Hall is limited to certain kinds of mediums, for example, it is hard to do filmmaking,” Bauer said. “This opens up possibilities for other mediums to come on the campus and for us to have more advanced classes than we could have when we had this very small amount of space in Lane Hall.”

Stanley explained the reasoning behind creating additional arts spaces other than those in Lane Hall.

“Studio space in Lane Hall was inadequate due in part to the size of the rooms and lighting,” Stanley said. “Film and media studies spaces across campus were insufficient for [this growing] program and there was an opportunity for shared space and synergy.”

In addition to being home to new arts studios, Barnum Hall will also house other organizations on campus, according to Stanley. She explained that building occupants will include the Film and Media Studies (FMS) program, the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group, Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE), the Environmental Studies Program, the Office of Sustainability and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Stanley said the renovated building will also include common spaces.

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Where and when: Women’s Center; 12–1 p.m.

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As recent controversies over the presence of confederate war monuments have shown, the role of civic art in America has become increasingly contentious. This one-day symposium is an important opportunity for artists and historians of art and architecture to engage issues of history, heritage, legacy, race, space, nation, commemoration, and identity, and to consider intersections with questions central to our discipline—those of aesthetics, judgement and the role and status of objects within society right now.

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Make Live, Let Die: Monuments to a Racial State Panel 1: Local Histories/ Contested Spaces (9:45 - 11:30am) Danielle Abrams (Professor of Practice, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University) Kerri Greenidge (Tufts University, Interim Director of American Studies) Kymberly Pinder (Provost, College of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art) Diana Martinez (Assistant Professor, Tufts University, Art & Art History)

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Tour of selected sites on Tufts’ African American Trail (12:00-2:00pm)* Tour led by Kendra Field (Associate Professor, Tufts University, History and Africana Studies) and Kerri Greenidge (Tufts University, Interim Director of American Studies)

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Panel 2: National Pasts/ National Present (2:15 - 4:00pm) James M. Glaser (Professor, Dean of Arts & Sciences,Tufts University, Political Science) Liza Oliver (Diana Chapman Walsh Assistant Professor, Wellesley College, Art History) Sky Hopinka (Film Maker, Harvard-Radcliffe Institute/Simon Fraser University) Eric Rosenberg (Associate Professor,Tufts University, Art & Art History) Moderator:

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Funded with the generous support of Hope Barkan, Tufts AG95 The Department of Art & Art History, the Margaret Henderson Floyd Lecture Series, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Tufts University Art Galleries, and the Department of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora Pictured: National Museum of African American History (Architect: David Adjaye).

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The Butterfly Effect

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hen I was a first-year in high school, I created a chart listing all of the immediate and long-term effects of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. After several months of working, I eventually produced an extensive document regarding the assassination and its effects, and turned it in under the name “the Butterfly Effect.” I was, and still am, fascinated with this pop-history phenomenon of the butterfly effect, which is centered around the idea that one seemingly insignificant action can end up having drastic effects in the future, but have since realized that my original document is incomplete; I now know that I failed to include any effects that the assassination had on music. In this column, I am going to attempt to prove, in less than 500 words, that, on June 28, 1914, two things died: Franz Ferdinand and the waltz.

A waltz is both a dance and a work of music. The dance involves a pattern of steps grouped by threes, which is supported by music written in 3/4 time. In a waltz, emphasis is typically placed on the first beat of any group of three so that the rhythmic structure is ONE two three, ONE two three, and so on.

Waltzes were primarily composed during the Romantic period, which lasted throughout the 19th century and, some historians argue, ended at the start of World War I. Composers such as Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky are known for their waltz compositions, most of which were composed with the intention that they would, in fact, be danced to. However, the most prominent composer of the waltz is Johann Strauss II, who was born near Vienna in 1825. Strauss developed a genre of instrumental music known as “light music,” which is comparable to modern-day “easy-listening” music. Light music was generally not intended for a concert, but rather for dances and social events, both of which saw a growth in occurrence during this era in Vienna.

The extravagance of Viennese culture under the Austro-Hungarian empire was cultivated until World War I, which began with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Vienna’s decline as the European center of instrumental music began when the empire started to deteriorate as it entered the war, and when the cultural center of Europe moved to both Berlin and Paris, and away from Vienna.

With the attention of the Austro-Hungarian empire having been turned towards war and away from music and culture, the golden age of Vienna, and the Viennese waltz, came to an end. There were several composers such as Robert Farnon and Eric Coates, both of whom were composers of British light music who attempted to revive the waltz after World War I, but did so with little success; it has since proven to be nearly impossible to fully revive an extinct musical genre back to its former glory.

Suggested listening: Robert Farnon — Westminster Waltz (1958) Johann Strauss II — Schatz-Walzer (Treasure Waltz) (1885) Émile Waldteufel — Les Patineurs (Skaters) Waltz (1882) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Waltz of the Flowers (1892) Megan Szostak is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Megan can be reached at megan.szostak@tufts.edu.

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Alumni Q&A: Wilnelia Rivera Part I

by Amelia Becker Staff Writer

The Alumni Series aims to create a diverse collection of experiences at Tufts through highlighting notable alumni.

Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Wilnelia Rivera (LA ’04, AG ’13) graduated Tufts with a double major in international relations and women’s studies, now known as women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She returned to Tufts to receive a master’s degree in urban and environmental policy and planning. Rivera has served stints with grassroots organization Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick’s administration and Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s campaign. She is also founder and principal of political and policy consulting firm Rivera Consulting. The Daily sat down with her for the first of a two-part Q&A to discuss her experiences at Tufts .

The Tufts Daily (TD): How did you decide to attend Tufts?

Wilnelia Rivera (WR): So my … AP Calculus teacher went to Tufts. And I had no idea what Tufts was, to be honest with you. This will age me — this is more about the era I grew up in — but at that age, especially my junior year in high school, I was convinced I was going to NYU [New York University] because I wanted to be the next Felicity and I thought that New York was the coolest thing since sliced bread. I grew up in Massachusetts, so I think that’s a factor too, like you have that itching feeling of “I just want to get the heck out of here and go somewhere else.” But I actually listened to my mother’s advice and I went to all the campuses. Even though I liked Tufts, what made fall in love with Tufts was Ms. Gerber, who was my math teacher. The truth is, she would find every single possible way to — during my junior year — talk about Tufts. She even gave me a keychain … I never really wanted to go, but, the truth is, once I applied and got to campus and got to meet some of the professors, my mom was like “I feel like this is a better choice.”

Honestly, for me, the enormity of all the other schools just scared the crap out of me … And there was something about the close-knit environment of Tufts that felt more inviting. Also knowing that home was only an hour away on a train actually gave me some comfort, even though I never really used that train that often while I was actually there.

TD: What did you study at Tufts?

WR: I was an international relations (IR) and women’s studies double major. I think, like many people that go to Tufts, I thought I wanted to be a doctor. Then I went to whatever the open house orientation kind of things are and I sat around and looked at all the people in the program and said, “Yeah, I’m not making a career out of this.”

The reality is I’ve always loved history, and I always loved politics, but I was only really doing the science thing because that’s what my mom told me to do. You know you listen to your parents when you’re younger but then you get to school and you realize you have some choices you can make on your own. And I remember going into the IR open house and not having a clue really what it was about. I just remember being fascinated and thinking, “This is what I’m going to study.”

And women’s studies — it wasn’t something that I actually went [into] saying, “I’m going to do this.” It’s more like I ended

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Wilnelia Rivera is pictured posing for a portrait. up taking lots of courses and the professors — I always remember them; Professor [Modhumita] Roy, Professor [Paula] Aymer — just really became my mentors.

And as they became my mentors, I fell in love deeper with the interdisciplinary part of women’s studies. It also gave me the opportunity to study things I wouldn’t have otherwise, like theater, art and music, so it was really cool in that sense. I feel like it complemented some of the hard, theoretical, political things that I was studying. So I ended up taking on women’s studies as a major as well. For me, I always say, my women’s studies degree was more of my cultural, civic kind of shaping, not necessarily what I ever thought I was going to do for a living.

TD: What sort of extracurriculars did you do at Tufts?

WR: When I was at Tufts, being a double major and also being a semi-nerd, not a full nerd, I actually didn’t care too much to be involved on campus. I had a close-knit group of friends. I pledged a multicultural Greek sorority my sophomore year, and they were city-wide — Boston-based and also New England-based — so a lot of my extracurricular I actually did [with] the multicultural Greek sorority. I helped establish the Multicultural Greek Council to create a structure on campus for other Multicultural Greeks to be legitimized as a student group. It’s not a surprise that I focused more on structural change than actually doing program activities. It says more about what I think is fun and what

my theory of change is. So I really focused on that while I was on campus, and really getting decent enough grades where I knew my mom would be proud enough and not get on me. For me, I just love learning, so I’m one of those few students that actually enjoyed studying for the sake of studying, not necessarily because I was doing it for the class it pertained to. I’m a dreamer — when you do this kind of work, I think there’s a part of you that’s a natural dreamer — so reading has always been part of my escape. Both of my majors honestly just complemented what I love doing anyway.

TD: What are some memorable moments that stick out as defining your Tufts experience?

WR: My junior year at Tufts was particularly tough. The reason it was tough wasn’t necessarily because of academics, but … I had a physical accident where I developed massive migraines and literally couldn’t be in front of a computer. I’m like, “How the hell am I going to write?

That’s what I have to do for all these classes.” Sometimes, when you’re in a different environment and you’re building your community, you’re young and you don’t really know what’s around you. You know you have friends, you have professors, but you don’t really know how much people are going to be invested in you. I think for me the most memorable time at Tufts was when I realized that I was reaching a wall with my health and that I needed to find

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continued from page 4 a way to navigate my way out of this. I just remember my professors and my friends all basically, whether they realized it or not, had this intervention with me, and they were just like, “Look, we see what’s happening. I don’t know if you know, but you can get … a medical leave for a semester; do what you have to do. We’ll work with you to make sure your financial aid crosses over; it means you’re going to have to take classes in the summer but you’ll be able to figure it out.” Those professors and those friends are still core people in my life to this day. That’s something I always carry with me, because it was such an easy moment [when] I could’ve gone inward and not asked for help, but I actually did and went to the village I had built, and it’s something that, as a value, I carry with me in everything I do. In particular, a lot of first-generation students struggle with building community when they’re on a college campus.

Ultimately, building that community is really what makes or breaks whether or not you’re successful in school. At the end of the day, if you’re there, you’re there because you’re smart. So that’s not the reason. It’s

the social part that makes people sink or swim a lot of times when it comes to collegiate success. It’s so easy to sometimes feel like the outsider. Sometimes you are the outsider, or there’s not more people in the room that look like you, but Tufts taught me how to engineer community. In many ways it’s actually what I’m able to do for my clients and in the work I bring, beyond the specialty knowledge, because of my ability to be in a place that might feel foreign to everyone else … and feel very comfortable.

It’s funny, because only in retrospect can you really give credit to an experience like that. When you’re an undergrad, you’re too young to really appreciate those things for what they are. I would say that’s my favorite overall experience.

TD: Who are some of those professors that helped you out?

WR: So, again, it was Professor Aymer, Professor Roy, and Professor … her first name was Deborah, she was in the poli-sci department. I can’t remember her name right now; she might not be there anymore.

The other one was professor Cruz, but she was a visiting professor, although she may have stayed there. She was in the IR department. I think a part of it, too, is that all these

three professors, with the exception of the fourth one whose name I’m forgetting, they were also my thesis advisors because I was doing a thesis for each major. You develop a closer relationship with folks because of that. And that’s why I think that they, more than anyone else, were able to see the change in my behavior academically and understood that there were other things happening that weren’t necessarily material in front of me. But yeah, Modhumita Roy and Paula Aymer. I know both of them are still there, because I crossed paths with them when I was in grad school.

TD: What is one piece of advice you have for Tufts students?

WR: Find your people. Whether or not Tufts is an environment that reminds you of home, you have to find your people.

I think that the kind of academic advice that you can receive, honestly most young people know it. And if they don’t, they have someone in their life that’s focused just on their academics. But I don’t think we focus enough on the social part that is very much make-or-break for a lot of students. So find your people, whatever that is. That means becoming uncomfortable. I know that for myself, especially my [first] year, if it wasn’t

for my awesome friends, that are to this day my awesome friends who basically, [while] we lived in Bush Hall, would knock on my door … once and week and be like, “Hey do you want to come grab dinner with us?” [it would have been hard] … especially after one semester being like, “I’m not going to survive this place like this.” Sometimes, you psych yourself up when you’re young and, in a college environment, you think … “I’m going to be this whatever other version that I wasn’t in high school,” but the reality is you need a social network and people that are going to be there for you. So that would be my number one advice: Find your peeps and make yourself uncomfortable in going through that because you shouldn’t make assumptions about who your friends are going to be. I always say about my circle of friends from Tufts that, when you look at us on paper and when you look at us visually, you would never think we’re a solid, tight group of friends, but that’s the whole point.

You have to be willing to make yourself uncomfortable and build your community.

I know that for me, that was the difference between success in college and not.

Aneurin Canham-Clyne contributed reporting to this article.

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The quotidian brilliance of ‘Gloria Bell’

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Gloria Bell always sings along. Julianne Moore, the titular star of Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio’s reimagining of 2013’s “Gloria,” made in his home country, seems to know the words to every song that comes out of the speakers. She might be in her car on the way to work, doing laundry or dancing along to her namesake tune at a wedding. And, with boundless exuberance, she always belts it out.

In a film that feels as naturalistic as life itself, small scenes like Gloria singing in her car or repeatedly discovering a neighbor’s Sphinx cat in her apartment, tell us exactly who Gloria is. We also are cued into other descriptors for her early on; she is a fifty-something divorcee with two grown children. A crappy job at a car insurance company pays her bills. Gloria anguishes over how to tell her landlord that her son, who lives above her, appears to have serious mental health issues. She goes to singles disco nights and, as the cliche says, dances like nobody’s watching.

Spelling out a long list of labels for Gloria feels foolish — she is not someone who can be encapsulated in titles or life situations.

Yet she carries an air of everydayness that, in its familiarity, makes her extraordinary.

The genius of Gloria Bell as a character lies in her ability to manifest as a caricature that we all know and admire.

Everybody knows somebody like Gloria.

Perhaps she’s an aunt’s fiercely funny friend whom you’ve met once or twice but feel like you’ve known intimately for years. Or maybe she’s a neighbor who invites you inside every time you see her when you’re out walking. Critically, we come away from our interactions with her happier than we were going in. With a word, Gloria effortlessly diffuses a hint of tension that arises over a dinner conversation about gun control. She throws her arm around a co-worker and yells out at the corporate “man” to suck it.

Gloria is decidedly not a happy-golucky imbecile we patronizingly admire, nor is she a repackaged, grown-up version of a manic pixie dream girl. Gloria lives an authentic life, clutter and all. The mother of her grandson is a transient free spirit, leaving Gloria’s son (Michael Cera) to take care of the toddler without the foggiest clue of her whereabouts. Gloria wants to help, reminding him that she’s always there to babysit or just to keep them company, but there is an imperceptible wall of pride, or regret, or something else, between them. Gloria — and the audience — can’t tell.

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Her daughter Anne (Caren Pistorius) is moving to Sweden, following a breezy bigwave surfer. Gloria lets slip at a party with her ex-husband (Brad Garrett) that Anne is pregnant. He didn’t know. When Gloria takes her to the airport, she initially complies with Anne’s request to stay in the car.

Driving away, her emotions get the better of her, and she runs into the terminal, but Anne is already through security; in this post-9/11 world she is as good as gone.

Gloria must cry alone.

Portrayed with a sensitive, livedin vibrance by Julianne Moore, Gloria remains herself, not defiantly or triumphantly so, but rather because it’s all she’s ever done or ever will do. She chooses, in the words of Nora Ephron, to be the heroine of her own story. Gloria is utterly ordinary yet quietly transfixing. So much so, in fact, that this article was supposed to be a review of “Gloria Bell,” the movie. But Gloria Bell, the woman, gently commandeers the spotlight without trying to do so. We could have discussed Lelio’s empathetic direction, or John Tuturro’s layered, vulnerable performance as Gloria’s patsy of a love interest, Arnold. But neither can hold a candle to the unassuming Gloria Bell, who is unexceptionally exceptional, ordinarily extraordinary and, above all, refreshingly, radically, expansively real.

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Mushrooms are gonna save the world, dude.”

I was skeptical at first, but, after hearing Carly Rosenthal explain her newest project, a research rabbit hole and artistic endeavor focused on the wonders of mushrooms, I might have to agree.

Carly, lacking her usual energy and enthusiasm, is sleep-deprived as she explains that she stayed up to finish her mushroom library, an installation currently in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. “Basically, it’s a giant mushroom that I built,” she clarifies, “that you go inside to learn about lion’s mane mushrooms. There are drawings, videos, books, photography and a cozy place to sit.”

With it, she aims to inspire appreciation of the nutritional and ecological value of fungi, which play a huge role in the workings of the natural world. Her next fungi project, I learned, will be a cast of her body built out of mycelium, a type of underground fungus that can be used for sustainable buildings and is also the largest living organism on earth.

Carly’s interest in mushrooms is just one niche of her ecocentric portfolio.

Between her large welded sculptures and intricate drawings, she explores how powerful and beautiful the environment is and how little the general population understands it. Her fusion of science and art meld into an almost spiritual experience, both for her and her audience.

As one of my best friends at the school, it has been wonderful to watch Carly’s progression as an artist. She came in making mostly two-dimensional work like detailed drawings and oil paintings. She has since discovered her talent and passion for welding.

She works in the welding studio, has received an award for and sold a metal sculpture in the recent RSM exhibition.

Now, she is constantly experimenting with different media, incorporating paint, steel, organic material and even items like car tires into her work.

Talking to Carly about her projects on the sleepy 8:30 shuttle ride is often the best part of my morning. She is incredibly engaged with the world around her, and her art gives you the chance to see it through her eyes. Coming from a small forest town myself, her work and appreciation of nature is comforting and relatable for me. She is always learning about something new and always more than willing to share it with you.

If you do not know Carly Rosenthal, you should make it a point to get to know her. You can recognize her by her curly hair, funky jewelry and what I can only describe as “good vibes.” She is laid back, well-travelled and easy to talk to — a shuttle ride with her is guaranteed to be interesting. And if you get the chance, ask her what she thinks about mushrooms. You will not be disappointed.

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by Nate Krinsky and Mauri Trimmer It’s widely accepted that Tufts students live in something of a bubble — between homework, midterms, clubs, sports, internships or jobs, it’s easy to forget that a whole world exists beyond our idyllic life on the Hill. But Tufts is, in fact, part of a larger ecosystem, affecting our Medford and Somerville neighbors and the broader Greater Boston area. To put it nicely, Tufts is not being a good neighbor to our host communities, and the decisions the administration has made continue to produce a justified animosity on the part of neighbors, which extends to the student and alumni body.

In our rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, where rents are steadily rising and longtime residents are being priced out of their homes, Tufts is complicit in the ongoing crisis. The administration has continuously increased undergraduate class sizes; from 2007 to 2017, the student body grew by nearly 500 students while the number of university beds increased by just 18. With 63 percent of students living on campus, including just five percent of junior and senior respondents who applied for housing, according to a survey conducted by the Daily, thousands of students are forced off campus to compete with our neighbors for a limited number of housing units. Currently, the administration is planning on increasing incoming class sizes by 100 students for the next four years with no adequate plan on where to house these students.

Additionally, as a non-profit, Tufts is not legally required to pay municipal or state taxes. Like many universities in Massachusetts, Tufts chooses to participate in voluntary Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) agreements with the cities of Somerville, Medford and Boston. PILOT payments help these towns make up for the lost taxes and enable them to pay for municipal services such as the fire department, which is called to the Tufts campus an average of 200 times per year. In Boston, Tufts pays 25 percent of what they would owe the city if their properties were not tax-exempt. In Medford and Somerville, however, Tufts paid only four percent of the taxes it would owe to each city in the agreement that ended last June, equivalent to $275,000 annually.

Last year Tufts paid Boston 100 percent of their negotiated PILOT amount, about $1.2 million. Tufts’ compliance with the City of Boston’s recommended payments shows it is possible for PILOT agreements to hold universities accountable to their communities.

Medford and Somerville activists and elected officials, enraged by Tufts’ housing policies and feeling short-changed by the meager amount paid in the previous PILOT agreement, have geared up for a fight for a fairer deal in the next PILOT agreement. President Monaco, Mayor Burke of Medford and Mayor Curtatone of Somerville will negotiate this new agreement in the coming months.

Over the past year, Tufts Housing League (THL) has been heavily involved in

the PILOT renegotiation process, testifying to the Somerville Board of Aldermen, regularly attending Our Revolution’s PILOT committee meetings and meeting with the mayors of Medford and Somerville.

THL, mayors and community members have echoed the same refrain; the administration’s policies hurt not just neighbors, but students too. Students are hurt by the lack of on-campus housing just as our neighbors are, and addressing this issue would be mutually beneficial. It is for this reason that we stand in solidarity with Our Revolution Medford and Somerville, the West Somerville Neighborhood Association and all our Medford and Somerville neighbors and demand a fair PILOT agreement that adequately addresses the housing crisis by committing to building a new high-density on-campus dorm with union labor.

If Tufts intends to fulfill its mission, to truly be the Light on the Hill, it cannot pretend that its choices have no consequences for our surrounding communities.

For too long Tufts has been a bad neighbor, complicit in a regional housing crisis and responsible for a lack of community trust. A new PILOT agreement provides an opportunity to change that.

Nate Krinsky is a junior studying electrical engineering. Nate can be reached at nathan.krinsky@tufts.edu. Mauri Trimmer is a junior studying anthropology. Mauri can be reached at mauri.trimmer@tufts.edu

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Tys Sweeney Repeal and Replace

The Confucius Institute ear fellow students,

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Tufts University has an incredibly good track record for critical world-class thought and academic freedom. I’m afraid we may tarnish that if we continue our association with the Confucius Institute, an organization run by the government of the People’s Republic of China ostensibly to encourage cultural dialogue but in reality designed to manipulate academic discourse and present a skewed version of Chinese culture and history. Human Rights Watch advises that universities should “refrain from having Confucius Institutes on campuses, as they are fundamentally incompatible with a robust commitment to academic freedom.”

At this moment, a special review committee is overdue to present its findings and recommend a course for Tufts regarding our relationship with the Institute. I urge them to recommend the termination of our contract with the Chinese Communist Party and instead to uphold our university’s commitment to honesty, integrity and academic freedom.

Our experiment with the Confucius Institute began in 2015, when Tufts signed an agreement with Hanban, a non-profit with links to the propaganda wing of the Chinese government. At that point, it was well-known that Confucius Institutes were political propaganda mechanisms. In 2011, Li Changchun, a party member and Chinese government official, related that Confucius Institutes have “made an important contribution toward improving [China’s] soft power.” But still, Tufts committed to providing office space and salaries to fulltime and part-time staff for the institute.

From the beginning, this relationship has been heavily criticized by professors, students and even government officials. Last year, U.S. House Rep. Seth Moulton penned a letter to President Monaco, noting that “ample opportunities and avenues exist to learn about the rich, historic Chinese culture and language through other means instead of an undemocratic government’s effort to restrict free expression and open dialogue on American college campuses.”

Unsurprisingly, I agree with Rep. Moulton. The university has manifold interests associated with the Confucius Institute’s contract renewal, including a positive relationship with China, a growing source of college applicants. Before a responsibility to grow application numbers comes a responsibility to academic integrity. Tufts expels students for alleged academic dishonesty. From a moral standpoint, the decision is not a difficult one at all.

Despite a history of budget problems dating back to the Madoff scandal, Tufts is a university rich with resources and opportunity. If we are committed to providing resources for Chinese cultural education, we can do so without bowing to the power of an oppressive and narrow-minded regime. Confucius Institutes refuse to meaningfully engage with issues such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, atrocities in Tibet and the current Xinjiang human rights crisis. In the face of such propaganda and academic dishonesty, Tufts should not renew its contract with Hanban and the Confucius Institute.

The review committee is likely wrapping up its due diligence. I urge all those involved to repeal our direct sponsorship of Chinese government propaganda on our campus and replace it with our own resources. We have no business sponsoring a soft power agency. This isn’t about fear; this is about integrity.

Sincerely, Tys Sweeney Tys Sweeney is a sophomore studying political science. Tys can be reached at tys. sweeney@tufts.edu.

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continued from back page other Jumbos tied for the third-most goals scored in a game.

So far, the Jumbos have held the majority of their games this season to a comfortable set of wins. Fueled by their dominant offense, which has scored an average of about 18 goals per game this season combining for a total of 147 goals, the Jumbos coasted through their games over break.

Following a strong comeback victory against Colby, the Jumbos continued on to beat Stevenson by a score of 19–7 on Tuesday.

With the victory, the Stevenson game concluded the Jumbos’ remaining non-conference games of the regular season.

On Friday, March 15, the Jumbos traveled to Waterville, Maine, to face another NESCAC rival, the Colby College Mules (3–3).

Although Colby went into the game with an 0–2 record in the conference, the

Mules proved to be strong opposition for the Jumbos. Although the Jumbos built up a 6–1 run in the first and beginning of the second quarter, the Mules rallied in spectacular fashion, scoring seven straight goals to take a 10–8 lead over the Jumbos with under five minutes remaining in the third quarter. However, the Jumbos quickly regained their footing and went on to score three goals to bring the score to an 11–11 tie with just over six minutes remaining in regulation. Aided by a defensive crackdown, the Jumbos scored two more goals in the final three minutes of the game, saving their undefeated record and overcoming the Mules by a final score of 13–11.

The outcome of the Colby game echoed the ambitions that Tufts coach Casey D’Annolfo expressed for his team at the opening of the season towards staying mentally tough in clutch moments.

“You know, when we have opportunities to go up three or four, we can make a mental mistake, and then we’ll be back within one or back within two,” D’Annolfo said.

“We can really start to blow it up a little bit, so we’ve got to do a better job of staying mentally tough in those moments when we have a chance to start breaking open a little bit and give our wings an opportunity to spread it back in our favor.”

Over the next month, the Jumbos will face some of their toughest opponents yet as they battle for NESCAC glory.

Included among these NESCAC teams are the Amherst College Mammoths (7–0), who immediately precede the Jumbos as the second-best team in the country. The undefeated Jumbos will continue towards their goal of an NCAA championship this Saturday at 1 p.m., when they travel to New London, Conn. to battle the Conn.

College Camels (3–4).

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continued from back page since 2004, when Mika Sumiyoshi (LA ’04) placed fourth in the 200-yard IM, Socha finished sixth in the 500-yard freestyle in the first event of the entire competition. She entered nationals in the 18th seed, but her 4:58.38 time in the finals pushed her up by 12 spots, good enough for 13 team points. She beat her own school record in the preliminaries that morning in one of her best performances ever.

“There’s a roar of cheering,” Socha said.

“You can’t hear individual voices, but there was a point in my 500 and I could see the whole team cheer me on as I got up to breathe.

That was really cool. One of the things that gave me energy that pushed me more.”

Points were hard to come by for the rest of the night. Goetcheus — although beating Tufts’ record in the preliminaries for the 200 IM — just missed the consolation bracket.

With such a young team, Socha is excited for the future.

“We’re all really excited to be here this year,” Socha said. “We’re all looking forward to next year and improving on how we did. With a young team, it’s definitely possible, and we’re looking to try and get more. The goal is to keep building on the foundation this year.”

The Jumbos will have to wait until November to get back in the pool, but with the historic performance over the weekend, next season is sure to be a strong one.

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The Growing Legend of Zion Williamson

’m sure we’re all tired of talking about Zion Williamson. While the hype surrounding the most exciting prospect to enter the NBA since LeBron is certainly deserved, the media’s obsession with him is beginning to justifiably irritate fans.

However, in the spirit of March Madness, I want to look beyond the highlight reel dunks and examine Zion’s skill set, as well as his NBA future.

For someone who has achieved the mononym level of fame (Kobe, LeBron, etc.), we know surprisingly little about Zion’s game. What position will he even play in the pros? The easy answer is that it doesn’t matter; a talent of this caliber goes beyond positional labels, and the NBA has become increasingly inter-positional anyways. But he plays the nominal role of power forward at Duke, and, at 6’7”, is undersized for this position in the NBA. This could end up as a nonissue — Draymond Green, also standing at 6’7″”, has revolutionized the power forward position while enjoying monumentally less explosiveness. However, Zion will not be able to play out of the post as efficiently as he has in college unless he develops more refined moves around the basket. Not even Zion can simply bulldoze through NBA opponents as he has Duke’s hapless opponents.

Zion is currently shooting a remarkable 69.6 percent from the floor, a number which stems from the abundance of rim-rattling dunks he accrues each game.

He will be an elite NBA athlete, but the differential between him and his opponents will dramatically decrease. Zion will thus need to expand his game outside of the paint. While he has shown a more deft 3-point touch than many expected, he still shoots only 32.1 percent from behind the arc. His form appears too flat, which manifests in the ball often clanking off the front of the rim. This deficiency has also surfaced in his subpar 64.7 freethrow shooting percentage. While Zion will not need to be an all-world shooter in order to achieve NBA stardom, he will not be able to maintain even comparable efficiency unless he addresses these issues. However, there is reason for optimism — as opposed to a complete non-shooter like Ben Simmons, Zion has shown a willingness to take outside shots.

He also employs a surprisingly soft touch, especially on driving shots.

Perhaps the most unheralded aspect of Zion’s game is his defense. He has shown an incredible knack for jumping passing lanes, demonstrated by ranking top 25 in the nation with 2.17 steals per game. While he has demonstrated impressive defensive instincts to pair with his nuclear athleticism, he has also gambled and been caught out of position far too often. The same is true of his shot-blocking ability: Every highlight reel swat is matched by a greedy jump on a pump fake. These issues appear easy to fix in contrast to refining his offensive game, but the process will nevertheless be arduous — it takes time to build good habits.

All in all, the questions surrounding Zion’s game pale in comparison to his surreal athleticism and seemingly limitless ceiling. He will look to add to his growing legend this month, as Duke fights for the NCAA crown.

Nate Hartnick is a junior studying English and political science. Nate can be reached at nathaniel.hartnick@tufts.edu.

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Jumbos swim to their best nationals finish in 30 years

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Junior Grace Goetcheus swims backstroke during a swimming practice on Dec. 9, 2016.

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After a slow start in the four-day NCAA championship in Greensboro, N.C., Tufts’ women’s swimming and diving team achieved its best finish since 1990. Only one athlete competed in the A final on day one, giving the team a 20th place finish, but Tufts clawed its way back across the next three days, finishing 16th out of 50 in a monumental performance for the young squad.

On day four, the Jumbos solidified their sub-20 finish, placing 16th in the 400-yard freestyle relay consolation final.

Sophomore Lily Kurtz placed 15th in the consolation final for the 200-yard breaststroke, while junior Grace Goetcheus, firstyear Mary Hufziger, senior Colleen Doolan and sophomore Amy Socha finished 16th in the consolation final in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Hufziger commented on the Jumbos’ rise up the standings.

“I think we were just nervous starting,” Hufziger said. “We kinda just had to get our first ones out of the way. As the meet progressed we kind of realized that ‘Oh, we deserve to do this, we deserve to be here,’ and that pushed us forward to performing better.”

In Friday’s medley of events, Tufts finished 13th, their highest position across the four-day competition. Friday’s performances were highlighted by Socha’s fourth-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly championship final. Kurtz finished 15th in the 100-yard breaststroke, too. A transfer from Kenyon College, Socha took no time to adjust to Tufts’ pools. Coach Adam Hoyt commented on Socha’s spectacular performance.

“Socha was really strong for us: top eight in the 500, fourth in the 200 fly, and ninth place in the 100 fly,” Hoyt said. “She’s great, a really hard-working woman on our team. I couldn’t be more proud of her. She

had an amazing NESCAC championships and followed it up with an amazing performance at NCAAs.” For a team that consisted of mainly underclassmen and one junior and one senior, Hoyt knew he had to keep his expectations in check. Hoyt has four years of experience at the helm on the women’s team, and knew finishing in the top 20 would be difficult.

“We qualified 10 women and Doolan was the only one to make it to nationals before,” Hoyt said. “As a coach, I tried to manage my expectations, especially with an inexperienced team. The women came down here and absolutely lit it up. Finishing 16th was something we know might be possible, but I knew it would be really, really hard to accomplish that. It was a great way to cap off an amazing year.”

The Jumbos improved on their day one performance on Thursday; they scored 28 team points, broke three school records,

and moved up four places in the standings.

Socha won the consolation final in the 100yard butterfly, eviscerating Tufts’ sevenyear-old school record with a 55.22 time.

In the 400-yard medley relay, the fearsome foursome of first-year Emma Donchi, Kurtz, Socha and Hufgizer beat their own record from this year’s NESCACs by exactly one second when they finished 11th in the finals.

Sophomore Abby Claus finished 13th in the 400-yard individual medley (IM) as the 22nd seed in the competition. Her 4:27.73 time in the preliminaries was just under the previous school record that has stood since 2017. All of the aforementioned athletes from Thursday’s competition received All-American honorable mentions.

A day before and in Tufts’ best swimming finish at the NCAA championships

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No. 3 men’s lacrosse remains undefeated through spring break

by Alex Viveros

Assistant Sports Editor

Most Jumbos soaked up the sun and saw friends and family over spring break, but for the one undefeated sports team on campus, the week-long break was anything but.

This week, the 54 players of the No. 3 nationally ranked Tufts men’s lacrosse team continued on their promising start of the season by amassing victories over Colby, Stevenson and Trinity College. The Jumbos start their season with an undefeated 8–0 record for the fifth year in a row.

On Saturday, the Jumbos closed out their lucrative spring break performance with a dominating 25–12 win over their NESCAC rivals, the Trinity College Bantams (4–3). Fresh off of Tuesday’s 19–7 win against Stevenson, the Jumbos bolstered momentum and hadn’t lost yet coming into the Trinity game. Meanwhile,

the Bantams had struggled to find their footing in the notoriously tough NESCAC conference, coming into the game with a record of 4–2, losing to Bates and Williams — their only conference games of the season.

The Bantams were similarly unable to find success against the Jumbos, who are currently in a tie with Amherst atop the NESCAC. The Jumbos opened the game with a devastating offensive strike against the Bantams. Sophomore attacker Bryce Adam scored two goals in under three minutes and, with another goal by senior attacker and co-captain Ben Connelly, the Jumbos started the game with a 3–0 run. Although this run was interrupted off of an unassisted goal by Trinity senior attacker Ben Knaus, the Jumbos continued their dominating stretch, outscoring the Bantams 9–1 within the first 16 minutes of regulation.

This seemingly unchallenged narrative continued throughout the first half, with the Jumbos garnering a 12–5 lead going into the half. Coming out of the half, senior attacker and co-captain Danny Murphy, who currently leads the team in point contributions with 21 goals and 25 assists this season, had yet to score a goal in the game. However, Murphy, who was selected as a second-team All-American last year, showcased his superhuman presence by scoring a team-high seven goals in the final two quarters of play. Led by Murphy’s performance, the Jumbos nearly doubled Trinity’s goals in the second half, outscoring them 13–7 and handing the Bantams their third conference loss, solidifying both teams’ positions at the opposite ends of the NESCAC rankings.

Senior defenseman and co-captain Arend Broekmate spoke about the team’s

win on Saturday, emphasizing the collaborative efforts of the entire team in the victory.

“I thought it was a good win. I thought we played a pretty solid game for all 60 minutes, which is something we’ve been trying to work on,” Broekmate said. “Our shots were good, our goalies were good and the defense was playing well too, so I think we all worked pretty well together on [Saturday].”

Saturday’s victory also demonstrated a historical performance for the Jumbos.

The Jumbos’ 25 points are tied for the second-most goals scored in a game in team history. Along with this team achievement, Murphy tied a personal record with his season-high seven goals on the day, joining the ranks of eleven

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