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Dating site gives Tufts Dean Abriola named Engineering low ‘Hotness Index’ Leader of the Year

by Jacob

Passy

Daily Editorial Board

The numbers are in, and Jumbos aren’t that hot — at least not according to DateMySchool, a college dating website. Last month, the site released a “Hotness Index” ranking six schools in the Boston area: Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and Tufts. Tufts women ranked fourth and Tufts men ranked sixth in the index.

According to DateMySchool Public Relations Director Melanie Wallner, the site generated the list using data collected from user profiles. The site created a “hotness ratio” between the numbers of users from a school whose profiles were “saved” by other people on the site and the number of users from that college that posted their pictures.

“Users can save profiles as a way of letting other users know that they’re interested in chatting,” Wallner said. “What we’ve seen is that these figures do show who are the hottest users on the site.”

Boston College topped the list for both men and women. Other universities, including Tufts, had less consistent results between

the two genders. For instance, Northeastern University men were rated third, with a “hotness ratio” of about 0.74, while its women ranked fifth with a ratio of about 2.14. The difference in ratios is in part due to the greater number of female users than male users.

Many of the schools profiled in the “Hotness Index” tend to have more student users of one gender, which may have skewed or otherwise impacted the results. Over 200 Tufts women have profiles with pictures on the site, while only 160 Tufts men have similar profiles.

Tufts’ women’s ranking on the index surprised some students.

Junior Jenna Wells observed that Tufts students seem to be generally unhappy with their peers’ looks.

“I’m surprised that we were rated well because I feel like people are always complaining that there aren’t many attractive students at Tufts,” Wells said.

Senior Stephanie Fischer agreed, saying that these complaints are not just found within the Tufts community, but extend to opinions voiced by students from other schools.

“Tufts has always had this stigma that the girls are weird and unattractive because I’ve see INDEX, page 2

by Stephanie

Haven

Daily Editorial Board

Dean of the School of Engineering Linda Abriola was acknowledged for her contributions to the field of engineering last month when she became the first woman ever to receive Drexel University’s annual Engineering Leader of the Year award, picking up the honor for 2013.

After a committee reviewed alumni-nominated candidates for this year’s honor, Abriola was chosen for the award because of her unique feats in engineering, such as advising the White House and Congress about technological policy through the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and solving environmental problems through engineering, according to Drexel University’s College of Engineering Dean Joseph Hughes.

Drexel’s College of Engineering will honor Abriola, the 11thever recipient of the accolade, on Feb. 22 in a ceremony at its Philadelphia campus.

“We’re honored we have the opportunity to recognize her indispensable contributions to engineering,” Hughes told the Daily. “We want people to know of great leaders like Linda making a difference in the field of engineering.”

From Abriola’s focus on engi-

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Dean of the School of Engineering Linda Abriola was named Drexel University’s 2013 Engineering Leader of the Year last month in recognition of her contributions to the field of engineering. neering education to her interest in the relationship between engineering and society, her scholarship at Tufts is well known and respected, according to Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering Kurt Pennell.

This vision has laid the foundation for Abriola to support diverse faculty hires, research initiatives and laboratory renovation efforts, all of which benefit the Tufts community as a whole, Pennell said.

“The award provides muchdeserved recognition for the

transformative leadership that Dean Abriola has provided the School of Engineering,” Pennell said. “It represents the coming of age of a generation of female engineers who initially broke through many of the gender barriers and biases.”

According to Abriola, she was the sole female in a department with all male students and professors as an undergraduate engineer at Drexel in the 1970s.

She graduated with high honors. By contrast, this year, female see ENGINEER, page 2

Concert Board to pursue hip-hop headliner for Spring Fling

by Justin

Rheingold

Daily Editorial Board

Concert Board is preparing to contact potential artists for the school’s Apr. 27 Spring Fling concert, using the results of a survey sent out to all undergraduates last month.

The survey, which was available online for four days in December, asked respondents multiple questions, including the genre of music students prefer for the concert’s headliner band.

Hip-hop received the most votes, and the group will now

try to find a hip-hop artist to headline the concert, according to Concert Board co-chair Mark Bernardo, a sophomore.

Electronic dance, indie rock and pop music tied for second, and a band from one of those genres will likely be selected as the opener, he said.

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Concert Board is in the process of courting a hip-hop headliner for the school’s annual Spring Fling concert in April.

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This year’s survey was slightly different than that of last year, in which respondents voted by artist instead of by genre. Concert Board is not planning on sending out another survey with artist choices, Bernardo said.

The change in the survey was due in large part to the disappointment of the student body when the top choice, LMFAO, was unable to perform last year, according to Office for Campus Life Assistant Director David McGraw.

“We did genres this year because even though we put in a little blurb last year that these specific people would more than likely not be selected, people still got really upset,” he said. “We were less concerned about the individual artist that everyone wanted to bring but more concerned that we got a genre that people would appreciate.”

This year’s survey also included broader questions about the number of bands students would like to see and the aspects they find most important to a concert atmosphere.

“We decided to take this as an opportunity to look at the overall event as well, so we added the more generic questions,” McGraw said.

Bernardo explained that stu-

dents overwhelmingly prefer to have one big-name artist and a lesser-known opener rather than two somewhat well-known artists. Students also selected the headliner as the most important aspect of the atmosphere, he added.

In addition to creating new questions, Concert Board changed the survey’s host from SurveyMonkey to Tufts’ own Qualtrics system, according to McGraw. This modification was because of potential inaccuracies experienced last year when certain students were suspected of designing a computer program to circumvent the onevote-per-person limit.

“Giving [students] an opportunity to have a voice, we thought they would be a little more ethical with how they voted, so this year we decided we needed to put up some safeguards in an effort to get a good representation of everyone,” McGraw said.

According to Bernardo, about 1,400 people voted this year, and the process went smoothly.

“Our survey results are pretty accurate, and we made sure that they weren’t tampered with in any way so we didn’t experience any problems,” he said. see CONCERT, page 2

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Dating site ranks Tufts in “Hotness Index” INDEX

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met multiple guys in life who say that the girls who go here aren’t attractive,” Fischer said. “But I think the girls are very pretty, so [the results] intrigue me because I’ve always heard otherwise.”

Freshman Rebecca Cooley was not surprised that Tufts women were ranked higher than men, citing peer and societal pressure for woman to look their best.

“Society expects girls to look hot and put-together all the time. I think there’s less pressure on guys,” Cooley said. “I also think guys are often more interested in staring at pictures of attractive girls, at least in my experience.”

Cooley also said that these ratings perpetuate objectification, and she and other Jumbos are not alone in their criticism of the “Hotness Index.” According to a Dec. 19 article on Boston.com, some students at the other ranked colleges also expressed concerns about the index’s impact.

“I don’t think necessarily that any of this is meant to do harm, but it does,” Sharlene Hesse-Biber, director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Boston College, told Boston.com.

Wallner, on the other hand, argued that her site’s “Hotness Index” could be used to create a discourse around the question of attractiveness.

“Hotness is such a subjective thing,” she said. “[The index] is just what the data is telling us, but it is interesting to have different perceptions.”

Wallner reiterated that DateMySchool’s list is not foolproof, quoting the adage that “attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder.” Many Tufts students also questioned the legitimacy of these ratings.

Senior Natasha Gollin, who has a profile on DateMySchool, argued that attributes besides physical attractiveness should be considered.

“The number of times someone saves a profile of someone from your school doesn’t determine how ‘hot’ your school is,” she said. “People are looking at other things than just physical appearance in these profiles, I would hope.”

Fischer also pointed to the fact that the “hotness ratio” was determined using a small sample size — students with profiles on the site — meaning that the rankings may not be indicative of the school as a whole.

“Boston University has 853 users with pictures — that’s three-quarters of Tufts’ graduating class — while Tufts only has 201, and that’s a very small number,” she said.

Wells agreed, also pointing to the fact that the student body is always fluctuating.

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Tufts women rank fourth and Tufts men rank last in the “Hotness Index.”

“Seniors graduate and new students arrive, so it’s always changing anyway,” she said.

Other students questioned how this information would be used. Senior Adam Sax was concerned by the potential influence the “Hotness Index” could have in forming opinions about schools.

“It starts creating a very superficial environment around why we’re here,” Sax said. “We’re here to learn, right? So if we start asking ourselves if we’re going to choose a college because its attractiveness level is higher — I just don’t see that as a productive method to [be] judging the value of an institution.”

Gollin also questioned how students would use such information when choosing people with whom to associate.

“Some students might think that they’d like to date a [Boston College] guy or girl, influenced by the fact that both genders ranked at the top of this list,” she said.

Despite some students’ qualms with DateMySchool’s “Hotness Index,” many are receptive to the site itself. Created in 2010

by Columbia University students Balazs Alexa and Jean Meyer, DateMySchool has grown to have over 200,000 users at over 1,000 schools. Users must have a school email address to register, and profiles are regularly monitored to ensure that they are legitimate, Wallner said.

Selected for About.com’s 2012 Reader’s Choice Award for Best College Dating Site,

DateMySchool advertises itself as a service tailored to the needs and worries of college students. Unlike other dating sites such as OKCupid or Match.com, the site allows users to restrict who can view their profiles, Wallner said.

“We uniquely enable users to control who views their profiles, so they can filter out departments and schools,” Wallner said. She explained that this works both ways, so that a user will only see whom they want to see and will not be able to see viewers who block them.

Gollin created a profile her sophomore year after hearing about the site and appreciated the privacy settings.

“I think it’s a good website for students who aren’t looking to get creeped on by random people who are way older than them,” Gollin said. “I had heard of OkCupid but wasn’t that thrilled by the fact that a whole bunch of people can see your profile or send you messages.”

Fischer, who has not used DateMySchool, can see the benefits of a more selective site, particularly when establishing connections off-campus.

“Whenever I’m using an online site like OKCupid, I’m looking for people who go to college or are in that college age-range,” she said. Fischer also noted OkCupid’s popularity among her friends, particularly when compared to DateMySchool.

“I’ve never heard of [DateMySchool] and I don’t know of anyone who uses it,” Fischer said. “It doesn’t seem all that popular.”

Gollin remarked that the lower number of users made her more comfortable using DateMySchool, but also had its drawbacks.

“The site is still kind of small compared to others, I think, so it may be a little too selective,” she said. “Some of the same people keep turning up again [in searches].”

Wallner countered that although the site is still growing, DateMySchool has had success in some of the schools that adopted the site early.

“Our members tend to land dates within 30 minutes,” Wallner said. “And we’re responsible for more than 50 percent of the dates at schools like Columbia University and [New York University], where we have a major presence.”

Wallner said sites like DateMySchool represent the next step in online dating because of the selectivity presented by the smaller user base.

“It’s a niche opportunity and [users are] channeling their own experience,” she said. “You’re meeting the exact people you want.”

Concert Board budget lower than last year’s CONCERT

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Although the concert’s format will remain the same, with the student-band winner of the Battle of the Bands also performing, McGraw said that Concert Board’s funding is lower than last year’s budget of about $150,000. “[Tufts Community Union] Senate last year had a surplus amount of money, so they gave us additional funds as a onetime funding opportunity,” he said.

“This year, since we didn’t have that as an option, we had to go back to our original amount of money, which was about $100,000 for artists.”

According to McGraw, Concert Board is now working with the booking agency Pretty Polly Productions to narrow down the list of bands that could fit within the school’s price range.

“It’s a process of putting in a number to an artist and having them come back to tell us whether or not the date works

at the price range we are offering and then trying to lock down the details,” McGraw said.

Concert Board hopes to announce the headliner during Battle of the Bands on Apr. 7, Bernardo said.

“We may have something finalized around February, but then that could fall apart because another university wants to book them and they outbid us,” he said. “We’ll do our best to find an artist that everyone is going to enjoy.”

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Abriola first woman to receive prestigious award ENGINEER

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students compose 36 percent of Tufts School of Engineering’s Class of 2016.

“What people noticed first was the fact that you were female,” Abriola said. “You were representing your entire gender when you did anything professionally, so there was a lot of pressure.”

Although the number of women engineers has increased since then, Abriola said there are still hurdles to gender equality. To overcome such disparities and eliminate the stereotype that engineers are male, she said more female leaders are needed in the field, though she said she does not consider herself a role model.

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“The hardest thing for me was that I didn’t have any female professors and role models to look up to,” Abriola said.

“We need to bring in enough women so that they don’t feel marginalized. They have to see women as role models and look to those women to see how to balance personal and professional goals.”

While most of her peers in college worked alone, Abriola said she preferred collaborative, interdisciplinary research with people from fields beyond her own area of computer modeling.

Outside of Tufts, Abriola said she uses this tactic in projects to reduce ground litter resources and contamination.

“My personal goal would be to see that much of the research that we’ve

been doing to better handle contaminated sites becomes the common practice,” Abriola said. “There are opportunities for building upon it beyond what I’ve done.”

In 2010, Abriola was featured in “American Women of Science Since 1900,” an encyclopedia that lists 500 of the most influential female scientists in the U.S. The Association of Women Geoscientists also recognized Abriola in 1996 with an Outstanding Educator Award.

Other recipients of Drexel’s Engineering Leader of the Year award have included former President and Chief Executive Officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Jim Albaugh and Engineers Without Borders Founder Bernard Amadei.

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‘Girls’ premiere promises engaging second second season

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Young adulthood can be scary, and Lena Dunham’s hit HBO series “Girls” isn’t afraid to admit it. Since its first season last year, the

Girls Starring Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet Airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO comedy-drama has unapologetically conveyed the simultaneous awkwardness and exuberance that accompanies the transition into the “real world” by following aspiring writer Hannah (Lena Dunham) and her group of friends: Marnie (Allison Williams) is Hannah’s responsible best friend, Jessa (Jemima Kirke) is an unpredictable hippie traveler and Shoshana (Zosia Mamet) is Jessa’s naive, quirky cousin. It would seem that all the girls would clash with their conflicting personalities, yet Dunham kneads the characters into a cohesive group. All the characters share the same struggle in finding who they are as individuals and in surviving the harsh and unpredictable realities that they face as young women in New York City.

Unlike many shows on TV, “Girls” exposes a raw and often taboo side of young women venturing into the scary world of adulthood.

The post-collegiate characters in “Girls” do not have the sculpted bodies or the “perfect” lives consistently portrayed by shows like “One Tree Hill” and “Gossip Girl.” Instead, the events and characters in this show feel organic, which makes sense as they were inspired by writer, director, producer and lead actor Lena Dunham’s personal experiences. This realistic touch is apparent in the show’s character casting, plot twists, impulsive nudity and abundance of weird and awkward encounters. Now that Dunham has four Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe awards (Best Actress and Best Comedy for “Girls”) under her belt, “Girls” is garnering critical and audience traction.

The season one finale ended with a cliffhanger, with all four of the friends growing

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Lena Dunham excels at establishing strong characters and intriguing storylines in “Girls.” as characters and copng with life challenges.

Viewers were left in a tizzy as Shoshanna lost her virginity to Ray and Marnie moved out of the apartment she shared with her best friend, Hannah. Jessa married ThomasJohn, a man she barely knew. Most shocking of all was Adam’s storyline: after having fallen in love with Hannah for all the wrong reasons, he is last seen getting hit by a truck and then being taken away in an ambulance without Hannah.

In the much anticipated season two premiere on Jan. 13, “Girls” returned with a new approach. Without holding back, Dunham created an episode that was memorable, though not completely satisfying. There were many questions left unanswered from the first season, and the episode may have worked better as an hour-long special.

Season two returned with the same cast but with a few surprise twists. Hannah

seems to have dropped Adam romantically and is now secretly dating Sandy, played

by Donald Glover. Housemates Elijah and Hannah decide to throw a karaoke party that leads to awkward encounters and regrettable decisions as Marnie runs into an exboyfriend, Shoshanna and Ray meet for the first time since they had sex, and Elijah and Marnie attempt and fail at sexual intimacy.

For the most part, each actor performed excellently in the season premiere. Two main components of the show, however, were missing. First, Adam and Hannah’s tumultuous relationship does not seem to have actually ended. Hannah frequently spends time with Adam, but never tells him about her new boyfriend, which causes some confusion about her relationship with Adam. Jessa and her new hubby ThomasJohn, are seen for about 30 seconds close to the end of the episode. Their impulsive

marriage seems unsurprising to Hannah, Shoshanna and Marnie. In fact, none of the characters even mention Jessa or her wedding to a man that she’s known for only a few days. Although it has only been one episode, these important storylines seem to be lacking in any sort of realistic continuation.

Lena Dunham and Zosia Mamet should be commended for their portrayals of Hanna and Shoshanna. Both actresses engagingly provided viewers with a different side of their characters’ personalities. Hopefully, season two will return to the questions left unanswered from season one, but it’s too soon to tell. These characters have taken New York City by storm and overall, the season premiere promises viewers plenty of excitement, drama and plot twists.

Who knows? Maybe even Donald Glover will stick around.

Restaurant Review

North End’s ‘Oceanaire’ reserved for indulgent seafood lovers by

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The Boston restaurant scene is globally renowned for its emphasis on fresh catch, and some of

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40 Court Street Boston, MA 02108 617-742-2277 Price Range: $$$ the world’s best seafood can be found in local eateries and markets. Neptune Oyster, the perennially packed oyster enclave in the North End, draws businessmen and women who figure extra hours into their work travel schedules in order to pop in for a plate of fresh Maine and Massachusetts raw oysters.

But if you’re not one for long lines and no reservations, drive a little further into downtown Boston to The Oceanaire Seafood Room. Situated in the Financial District, this upscale restaurant offers an exhausting menu filled with plates that live up to their descriptions.

After dropping the car with the valet—do not attempt to park in

this roundabout part of town as it is filled with one-way streets and areas with no street parking— walk through the unassuming entryway and prepare to be awed.

The restaurant sits in a former bank that was artfully converted to a luxurious dining space.

Soaring ceilings are supported by marble columns, and the sheer size of the main dining room is a rarity for Boston. Directly in the middle of the restaurant remains a staircase leading downstairs to the vault, a nod to the heritage of the building and neighborhood. Expect to see the bar to the left packed with financial types in slim suits during happy hour, swilling back strong screwdrivers and other specialty cocktails. The bar also shares space with a large oyster bar, giving a chilly albeit sexy addition to the restaurant should one want to pop in for a few oysters and a drink.

Waiters dressed in white tuxedos trill about, making recommendations for seasonal oysters and other seafood fare while pairing them with wines.

As mentioned above, the menu reflects an exhaustive list of raw oysters from New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, as well as local pickings from Wild Onset and Island Creek. Adventurous diners should try several of the

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During happy hour at Oceanaire, the bar doubles as a spot for specialty cocktails as well as seasonal oysters. varieties offered—the sampling is addictive and delicious. Hot appetizers include a bit of a southern influence with shrimp and grits (highly recommended if you like this hard-to-find creamy food that has never quite caught on north of the MasonDixon line) but also escargots and fried asparagus. The Classic

Clams Casino is also to die for as it is loaded with bacon, butter and garlic.

New Year’s resolutions be damned, the entree menu stacks up items like fish and chips— admittedly slightly classier than the typical London street food — baked stuffed shrimp in creamy linguine pasta and stuffed lob-

ster. Though the restaurant’s very name makes it clear that seafood is Oceanaire’s specialty, the menu’s steakhouse options are also up to par.

As this is an upscale spot, the chef separates side dishes and main plates, leaving ample freedom of choice for pairings. This means a constant fight with your taste buds as you will struggle not to order the side of cheesy bacon au gratin potatoes instead of a healthier option like the sauted spinach or steamed asparagus. Oceanaire’s menu options tend toward the highly caloric, or heavenly, depending on point of view, but it is impossible to deny each dish’s perfect decadence.

Be warned, however, that small portions of vegetables may garnish an entree, thus an extra side could easily prove to be far too much food to handle at once.

Prices are unfortunately not friendly to the average college budget; a meal at this particular locale might be best saved for a special anniversary or visit from the parents. But you get what you pay for at Oceanaire, as some of the best local ingredients are prepared and served fresh and flavorfully. Your taste buds will thank you—your waistline—not so much.

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Current winning streak of the women’s basketball team, the longest in program history. The streak, which started with a win on Nov. 16th against Skidmore, has now lasted more than two months and includes four conference games, most notably a key 61-57 victory over Williams on Jan. 4. The team is ranked No. 4 in the country by the latest NCAA coaches’ poll, and has just eight games left in its regular season schedule, highlighted by a matchup at No. 3 Amherst.

Unbeaten teams left in Div. I men’s college basketball. Duke, Michigan and Arizona were all undefeated as recently as Jan. 10, ranked first, second and third, respectively.

The Wildcats were the first team to fall, with a 70-60 loss to Oregon on Jan. 10.

They were quickly followed by the Blue Devils, who lost senior starter Ryan Kelly before dropping an 84-67 decision to NC State on Jan. 12. Michigan fell soon after, lasting less than 24 hours before dropping its first game to Ohio State.

The time run, in seconds, by junior sprinter Dan Lange-Vagle to set a new school record in the 60 meter dash at the Tufts Invitational on Jan. 12. Lange-Vagle broke the record previously held by senior Vinnie Lee, who set the record last year with a time of 7.26. Lange-Vangle, who was one of four event winners on the day for the Jumbos, helped the Jumbos on their way 99 points, which was enough for a third place finish at home in their first meet of the season.

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Days after the originally planned beginning of the 2012-2013 NHL season that the first games will be played.The NHL, which has been locked out for the second time in less than 10 years, was supposed to begin games on Oct. 11. But a labor dispute between players and owners that centered around the percentage of revenue each group should receive led to games being delayed until Jan. 19. The strike-shortened season will last just 48 games.

Points scored by Tufts freshman center Tom Palleschi in the men’s basketball team’s 70-69 loss to then-No. 1 Middlebury on Jan. 5. Led by Palleschi, the team jumped out to a first half lead and led for much of the game before a late run by the Panthers closed the gap and earned the favorites a narrow victory when the Jumbos’ last second attempt didn’t fall. Palleschi has hit his stride in recent weeks, scoring in double figures in five of his six past games.

Combined All-Star appearances for the four starting pitchers named to the U.S. World Baseball Classic team. R.A. Dickey, Kris Medlen, Ryan Vogelsong and Derek Holland are the pitchers pegged to start for the team, with Dickey’s All-Star appearance in 2012 the only such achievement among the group. Instead, the team will rely on its big bats, led by Ryan Braun, to carry it through the tournament.

Men’s Basketball

Jumbos look to make it four wins in a row Following a 2-2 performance over winter break, the men’s basketball team will look to improve on its overall 8-7 record in games against NESCAC bottom-dwellers Wesleyan and Conn. College. The Cardinals and Camels will come to Cousens Gymnasium this weekend, both riding multiple-game losing streaks.

The past 10 days have been a roller-coaster ride for the Jumbos, falling in close games to Williams and Middlebury before traveling to Maine and defeating Bowdoin and Colby in back-to-back games last weekend.

Despite struggling at times earlier in the season, coach Bob Sheldon’s squad is confident about this weekend’s contests.

“The level of intensity [against Williams and Middlebury] set the standard for our team going forward,” said sophomore guard Ben Ferris, who ranks eighth in the NESCAC with 6.7 rebounds per game. “We then played very well against Bowdoin, a good team, and took care of business against Colby.

So overall, we have a lot of confidence going into the weekend.”

Despite having a sub-par 7-9 record, Wesleyan enters Friday night’s matchup against the Jumbos averaging a solid 73.8 points per game, good for fourth in the conference.

Conn. College, meanwhile, has the NESCAC’s leading scorer, Matt Vadas, who puts up just over 21 points per game on 43.4 percent shooting.

The games will hinge on the Jumbos’ ability to play tough defense to slow down the two highpowered offenses.

“The keys against Wesleyan are going to be defending their ball screens effectively and being physical,” Ferris said. “I don’t know too much about Conn. College other than the fact [that] the leading scorer in the NESCAC is on their team, so I’m guessing if we slow him down we will have a great chance for success.”

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52 feet 9 inches and took home third in the shot put with a throw of 42 feet, 7 inches.

Tufts was helped as well by key contributions from a number of underclassmen. Grace Demyan took third place in the weight throw, while freshmen Emily Smithwick, Paige Roberts, and Caitlin Keenan all had strong performances in the jumping events. Smithwick won the pole vault with a clearance of 10 feet 0 inches, Roberts earned a runner-up finish from her 5 feet, 2 inches clearance in the high jump, and Keenan finished second in the triple jump with a leap of 34 feet, 3 inches.

“It was a great chance to see what the new team members of our team could do in competition,” senior quadcaptain Sarah Schiferl said.

The Jumbos also had great success on the track, highlighted by senior Sam Bissonnette’s victory in the 400 with a time of 1:02.01. In the 800, sophomore Lauren Gormer and freshman Sydney Smith finished second and third, respectively, with times of 2:25.57 and 2:30.09. The Jumbos also took home wins in both the 4x200 and 4x400 relays, finishing second in the 4x800 relay.

Although this combined team effort was not enough to secure an overall team victory for Tufts, the strong first appearance for the Jumbos is a sign of what the Jumbos will be able to produce later in the season.

“Our goal of every meet is to win, and we fell just short of that, so it’s a bit disappointing,” junior middistance runner Bethanne Goldman said. “But as a team, we were very sup-

portive and had each other’s backs. It was really good to be together as a team.”

The strong team chemistry will be an asset moving forward, as the veteran members of the team will be able to support a freshman class that has already put up strong showings in this first meet.

With less than a month remaining until the Div. III New England Championship meet on Feb. 15, the Jumbos have already begun thinking about the championship meets that will ultimately define their season.

In the meantime, the Jumbos will split up for competition this week. A select group of distance runners competed locally last night at Boston University, while the rest of the team travels to Maine to compete in the Bowdoin Invitational on Saturday.

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Tufts continues to chase perfection against familiar NESCAC foes This weekend, the women’s basketball team will look to remain undefeated in a pair of games against NESCAC opposition at Cousens Gymnasium.

Tufts, ranked sixth in the nation by d3hoops.com and fourth by the NCAA coaches, will face 8-6 Wesleyan for the first time this season on Friday before a rematch of a December contest on Saturday afternoon against 6-9 Conn. College.

Despite their gaudy 16-0 record, the Jumbos have no intention of taking either opponent lightly. While the Cardinals have not been the most dangerous team in the NESCAC offensively — they currently rank second to last in the conference in points — Tufts will still need a complete effort on defense, according to junior guard Liz Moynihan.

“Given past experience, this Wesleyan team looks a lot like us from a year ago,” Moynihan said of a squad that managed just 32 points last season in a loss to the Jumbos. “Since the Cardinals are a huge threat even without a consistent scorer, the key will be to play with high energy and high intensity on both ends of the floor to come out with a win.”

In its previous matchup with Conn. College, Tufts handled the Camels with ease on the road in a 69-37 victory. But

in that contest on Dec. 31, junior forward Tara Gabelman, the Camels’ leading scorer and defending NESCAC Player of the Week, was only able to play six minutes off the bench.

With Gabelman ready to start on Saturday, the Jumbos will have to adapt to her physical inside play.

“Even going up against one of the top scorers in the league, we feel very confident,” Moynihan said. “This time around, in NESCAC season, all of the teams become so much more competitive and you have to forget everyone’s record.”

The weekend will be an important tune-up before the most difficult six-game stretch of their season, which includes a Jan. 29 matchup with a Rhode Island College squad that beat Tufts by more than 20 points last year, along with a key inconference game against No. 3 Amherst on Feb. 2.

“Even though we’re playing well, we still have a lot to improve upon, and we don’t want to settle,” Moynihan said. “We haven’t played our best game yet, and that’s what it’ll take to finish off the season strong.”

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In its first scored meet of the season, the women’s track and field team fell just three points short of winning the Tufts Invitational on Jan. 12, falling to UMass Lowell in the first of their four home meets of the season. Although they came up short in the team competition, the Jumbos were able to secure five event victories on the day.

“This weekend was a great beginning for the season,” senior quad-captain thrower Kelly Allen said in an email to the Daily. “There were great individual performances and also many of the new members of the team were able to seamlessly transition into collegiate action,” Allen said.

Allen herself played a huge part of Tufts’ success in the invitational. The star senior, who won Tufts’ Hester L. Sargent award for best female athlete this fall and won a double NESCAC Championship in discus and shot put last year scored 16 points for the Jumbos in two throwing events. She won the weight throw with a heave of see WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD, page 7

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Senior Sam Bissonette won the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:02.01 in Tufts’ first home meet of the season.

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Tufts finishes third in season opener Invitational highlighted by four first place finishes

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Carried by four victories and seven top-three finishes across various events, the Jumbos opened the first scored meet of their schedule with a strong performance, notching a third place finish overall with 99 points. The Jumbos were only bested on the day by Bates and UMass Lowell, who scored 147 and 130 points, respectively.

“The plan was to start the season with a lot of energy and really get behind our teammates,” junior David Sutherland said. “This mentality was seen everywhere on levels not usually seen until championship meets.”

The Jumbos executed this plan to near perfection, with their energy contributing to a slew of top-notch times and distances.

Though only the first meet of the season, it was full of tremendous performances from both veterans and newcomers. Junior Dan Lange Vagle turned in arguably the best performance of the day when he broke the school record ― set by senior Vinnie Lee just one year ago ― in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.15 seconds.

Freshman Mitchell Black, competing in his first collegiate meet, won the 600-meter run in a time of 1:22.96, looking like he was already in midseason form. Junior Jamie Norton also impressed in a second place finish in the 1000 with a time of 2:33.60.

The Jumbos’ showing in the field events was equally impressive. Senior Gbola Ajayi was particularly dominant, as he took home the triple jump title with a phenomenal leap of 44 feet 8 inches, and finished second in the long jump at 21 feet 2 inches. Freshman Bryson Hoover Hankerson jumped 19 feet 2.5 inches” to land a fourth-place

finish in the long-jump.

Senior captain Brad Nakanishi neared the school record in the pole vault by clearing 15 feet 5 inches to win the event, while his teammate, junior Trevor Rothaus, cleared 13 feet 11 inches to finish in fifth place.

Sophomore Brian Williamson represented the throwers with a solid toss of 49 feet 4.75 inches to claim third in the shot put.

While such impressive performances might not be expected at the beginning of the season, they did not come as a surprise to the members of the team.

“The cross country guys are still in great shape from their season, and the sprinters and throwers are coming off one of the best fall training seasons in recent memory,” junior sprinter Max Levitin said. “The team is set to do amazing things this year.”

The invitational brought back frustrating memories from a year ago, as Tufts once again found itself below Bates on the leaderboard. It was less than one year ago that the Bobcats edged out the Jumbos by just 10 points for first place in the outdoor NESCAC Championship, and since then Tufts has had its sights set on claiming that title for itself.

“We talked a lot during early return about how badly we want to win NESCACs, but we have to stay focused on each meet and compete every time we step on the track,” Levitin said.

“We have to set goals for ourselves as a team along the way to keep the drive and competitiveness every day at practice and at every meet.”

Last night, a small number of distance runners raced at Boston University, and the rest of the team will travel to Bowdoin on Saturday to try and put together another strong showing.

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Junior Trevor Rothaus jumped13 feet 11 inches to take fifth in the pole vault at the Tufts Invitational.