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Where You Read It First Est. 1980

Filmmaker discusses inspiration by

Amelie Hecht

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“A Moment in Her Story,” (2012) a film chronicling the challenges of the Second Wave women’s movement in Boston in the late 1960s and early 1970s, will screen tomorrow at Tisch Library Room 304, launching Tufts’ new film series featuring the work of women directors and producers.

Filmmaker Catherine Russo, a member of the Second Wave of feminism herself, will participate in a discussion with Lecturer Ronna Johnson following tomorrow’s screening.

The series, titled “A Camera of Her Own: Women Filmmakers Today,” is designed to bring attention to women involved in filmmaking, a group that is underrepresented in the industry according to Professor of the Practice in Film from the Drama and Dance Department Jennifer Burton. The communications and media studies program, the women’s studies program and the Department of Drama and Dance are jointly organizing the series.

The Daily spoke with Russo earlier this week to discuss the film that took her nearly two decades to complete.

The Tufts Daily: How did you first get involved in the Second Wave of the women’s movement?

Catherine Russo: In 1968, I was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the anti-war student movement was starting then ...

Because the student movement was so male-dominated at the time, a lot of the women starting realizing that we needed to organize as women ...

I quickly got into what was called consciousness-raising groups then and everybody did and we started realizing we had very common experiences as women. We quickly started organizing women’s sections of the anti-war movement and after doing a lot of that work, people realized they wanted to organize for women’s rights too, not just for civil rights or just for anti-war activity, but women had a movement of their own.

TD: You said the women’s movement saved your life. Why? CR: I came from a working-class background and neither of my parents graduated high school ... They didn’t have a lot of expectations for me. To go to secretarial school and when you get married if you have some extra time you should make some extra money and help your husband, that was the expectation. I had a boyfriend in high school and I didn’t really want to get married but I didn’t really see any way out of it ... So when the women’s movement came along in the late ’60s, it was like, “Wow!” and a bell went off for a lot of us ... Back then it was really an incredible sense [that] we were see RUSSO, page 2

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Tomorrow night, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary will discuss the complaint that Senior Night events are not properly inclusive to seniors who are not yet 21 years old.

Senior files discrimination complaint against Senior Class Council

by Stephanie

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The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary will hear senior Anjuli Branz’s complaint tomorrow against the Senior Class Council for its selection of Senior Night venues that are restricted to students 21 and older.

If the TCU Judiciary decides Branz’s complaint qualifies as discrimination, the Senior Class Council will have to find a site that accommodates seniors, regardless of their age, a feat that the Council said is not feasible given budget and space constraints.

“There is no active decision made to host events at 21-plus venues over some other type of venue,” members of the Council

wrote in a statement to the Daily. “A ruling that Senior Nights are discriminatory would not only fail to provide an alternative for the complainant, but ruin a long-standing tradition for the vast majority of the senior class this year and for all future years.”

Though Branz said she does not want Senior Nights to be cancelled, she said it is important to ensure that there is no discrimination in any Tufts event.

Finding a venue that does not preclude seniors younger than 21 is not the responsibility of those students, Branz said.

“If someone in our class was in a wheelchair and we went to a place that wasn’t wheelchair accessible, people wouldn’t be okay with that,” she said. “I believe there are ways to make Senior Nights exist and not be

discriminatory, but I hope I’m right about that and it can become a reality.”

Branz will not be 21 by Senior Week this May. “I don’t think it’s fair for me to feel like less of a senior because I won’t be 21,” she said.

“All events that are branded as senior events should be open to all seniors. It shouldn’t be that certain people can’t go because of certain elements of their identity.”

Because Programming Board’s Senior Class Council receives student activities fee funding through the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, a part of the Tufts tuition, its events must adhere to the TCU Constitution. That document bans TCU see SENIOR, page 2

Tufts culinary team wins silver in competition by

Patrick McGrath

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Five Tufts chefs won a silver medal at the American Culinary Federation (ACF) Culinary Chefs Competition and Conference earlier this month, impressing a panel of certified judges with a bacon-wrapped rabbit tenderloin, halibut, an apple and butternut squash soup, and other dishes under a strict time limit.

Teams at the competition, held at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, each made an entree, appetizer, soup, salad or dessert and buffet platter out of 14 different ingredients in a mystery basket, all of which have to be incorporated into the meal,

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according to sous-chef Justin Lizotte, who works alongside the Tufts teammates in the university’s Central Kitchen and Bakery. The team performed well under pressure, Lizotte said.

“I think we were both skeptical about our buffet item, and it just kind of really came together in the last two minutes,” he siad.

Central Kitchen executive chef Frederick Norregaard, who coached the Tufts team but did not participate, said the mystery basket featured a particularly difficult crop of ingredients this year.

“It’s a good learning experience to get you out of your safety bubble,” executive sous chef Toby Hewitt, a member of the Tufts team, said.

Chefs had two hours to create four plates of each of the first three courses and one hour to create the buffet, Hewitt said. The competition had four judges, who were either certified master chefs or certified pastry chefs.

“We’re pretty good at... coming up with an idea and messing with it until it comes together,” he said.

The judges scored courses based on taste, presentation, organization and creativity.

They could deduct points for portion size or courses that came in late.

Norregaard said that to prepare for the competition, he created mock mystery baskets beforehand for the Tufts team to practice preparing a meal in a restricted

time period. The hard work paid off, he said.

“I think [the team] handled themselves as professionals and did really well,” he said.

This was the competition’s second year, Hewitt said, and the event is growing.

While the competition last year only included culinary teams from colleges, two other groups participated this year.

Two other teams won silver medals based on the judges’ point system.

Any group that is a member of the ACF is eligible to participate, but most competitors are local, according to Hewitt. see CULINARY, page 2

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The Hill’s new fitness center enters its second semester with mostly positive reviews.

“30 Rock” ends its final season, tying up loose ends and saying farewell.

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Tufts team wins big at recent culinary competition CULINARY

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Hewitt explained that although he does not think there is any intention of extending the number of teams that can compete in the competition, there is talk of making the conference por-

tion of the event longer.

He also said he would enjoy going again next year.

“They’ve said that they want to keep doing it,” Hewitt said.

“I think their first year was sort of experimental — see how it worked — and I think it was a success.”

In addition to the competition on Jan. 11, there were several food-related lectures on Jan. 10, according to Hewitt.

From sustainability to healthy eating, the conference featured speakers from a variety of culinary specialties.

Director of Dining and

Business Services Patti Klos said that she was proud of the Tufts team.

“We certainly would support them if they wanted to go back next year,” she said.

“It’s not only a competition, but there’s actually an educational program as well.”

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Tufts Central Kitchen and Bakery executive sous chef Toby Hewitt (left) and sous chef Justin Lizotte (right) represented Tufts’ Central Kitchen and Bakery at Skidmore College’s American Culinary Federation (ACF) Culinary Chefs Competition and Conference earlier this month.

Director explains importance of Second Wave feminism RUSSO

reformers rather than revolutionaries.

going to change the world. I dropped out of school because I thought the revolution was coming anytime and I wanted to devote myself full-time to the revolution, and many people did that because we really thought we were going to drastically change the country and the capitalist system. That didn’t happen. Many things did happen, but that didn’t happen. But it was this amazing sense that we were living in this amazing time and we were young and idealistic and working in collectives and living in collectives.

TD: Who are the feminist stars you chose to feature in your film?

CR: In one part of the film one woman says that star-tripping was very frowned upon. We believed in collectives, we believed in collective responsibility.

We really didn’t believe anyone should be playing the role of a leader ... The women I choose are the women who were very involved in building institutions like battered women’s shelters and women’s committees and Take Back the Night and different organizations ... A lot of women who were prominent in their own political field but not necessarily picked up by the media because the media never picked up on our message. They felt safer with someone like Betty Friedan.

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TD: You said that you didn’t accomplish all of the things that the women’s movement tried to accomplish, but what are the things that you did accomplish coming out of that movement?

CR: When people think of the women’s movement now they think of equal rights, they think of women having the same pay as men, access to abortion, they think of that kind of thing. But actually the biggest part of the women’s movement in that era of late ’60s through the ’70s was a really radical women’s movement whose belief was that we needed to change the way that everybody related to everybody, the way countries related to each other.

A big slogan for us was “the personal is political.” Everything is political and everything you do is political. It wasn’t about getting equal rights for women; it was really about changing all the dynamics of oppression ... Back then we looked down upon [National Organization for Women]. They are

TD: You portray a lot of women who are, as you describe, working class, black, Latina, lesbian, socialist and, by and large, those less included in the First Wave of feminism. How did the Second Wave of feminism attempt to transcend these identity lines and form a cohesive movement? What struggles were involved?

CR: I think that as the women’s movement came out of the student movement, there was another women’s movement coming out of the community, and they were welfare activists and activists in the prison movement.

These women were leaders in their own communities. They wouldn’t have immediately identified themselves as feminists but they did join forces as the more leftist feminist movement realized that it had to work in working

class communities and had to work with third-world women. There was a lot of tension because there was a lot of difference and a lot of women on the left didn’t want to recognize difference ... It took third-world women and working class women to say, “No, we have unique challenges, our lives are different than yours.” ... Those movements sometimes came together and worked together and sometimes were in conflict.

TD: The film focuses on the Second Wave of feminism movement particularly in Boston. What made this area unique?

CR: I think because it’s a very big student area. There were tons and tons of students coming out of the colleges here so there was a huge student movement.

And, also, Boston and the Northeast tends to be a very intellectual center ... I focused on Boston because that was the movement I was a part of and knew the women and it was one of the theoretical centers of the movement. Some of the first feminist theory came out of Boston and New York.

TD: You said now is a great time for the movie to be released. Why is it relevant for men and women to learn about the Second Wave of feminism at this point in history in particular? What can we learn from these women?

CR: It’s 40 years later. Your generation of women really has no idea what happened back in the late ’60s and early ’70s. You may have some clues and you have access to some people who would tell you but it was interesting to watch the whole Occupy movement, which

Senior Nights challenged in complaint SENIOR

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recognized organizations from discriminating based on age for participation, “membership, rank or voting privilege.”

Each event funded through the TCU Senate is accessible to those 18 and older, according to the Senior Class Council statement.

Seniors pay for tickets to Senior Night, which fund the expenses for this event.

Before she filed a complaint with the TCU Judiciary this month, Branz discussed the venue switch in a meeting with the Senior Class Council last week. However, the two were unable to mediate a solution.

Branz said that she had also sent emails to individuals in the Senior Class Council as well as Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman and the Office for Campus Life.

While Branz said that members of the Senior Class Council have been receptive to her suggestions, she wishes they could have resolved the issue before she had to bring it to the TCU Judiciary.

“There’s a difference between being understanding and not perpetuating discrimination on this campus of any kind,” she said. “It’s a little frustrating that we can’t see this as we’re all students and have compassion for one another.”

At the public hearing tomorrow, Judiciary Chair Greg Bodwin said that Branz and the Senior Class Council will each receive five minutes for opening and closing remarks. TCU Judiciary board members will then ask questions about the parties’ positions. After a private deliberation, TCU Judiciary will email the body’s decision later tomorrow.

“We’re going to stay minimally involved in this process,” Bodwin, a senior, said. “We would really not like to organize events for [Senior Class Council] but just say broadly you can or cannot do so in this case.”

I was a part of, to watch them claim that working in collectives [is new] and that they are the first movement to come along and say we don’t need leaders. It has all been done before ...

It’s important for people to know about their political past in order to learn from things that were tried that maybe didn’t work and maybe try it in a different way ... I think that it’s good for people to know that people had to fight for what we have and it wasn’t just given by the government. Everything gained by people usually involves some kind of struggle.

TD: What else should viewers know?

CR: I lived in Mexico for ten years and I spent a long time making documentaries about the war in Central America in the ‘80s and made a film about the Comadres, an El Salvadoran women’s group. I really felt like I needed the experience of coming home and telling my story.

The thing that was so rewarding, the first showing of it at the Brattle Theatre before it was even totally filmed, the rough cut, was a sold out audience mostly of people my age who were involved in the movement, and they gave me a long standing ovation. That’s the biggest reward: people are so grateful that I saved a piece of their history.

I feel like that is what I have done. If nothing else happens to it, there it is on film, a piece of history. It feels great to have dug up all these photos and music out of people’s attics and basements and put it to use.

This interview has been edited and abridged from its original version.

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A semester later, new fitness center works out by

Amelia Quinn

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With New Year’s resolutions and last month’s holiday dinners on their minds, students are flocking to the semesterold Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center.

According to Fitness Director Mike Pimentel, the newly renovated fitness center has proven to be more popular and necessary for a variety of reasons.

“What many people don’t realize is that the old gym was actually two spaces originally designed for two different functions,” Pimentel told the Daily in an email.

“The first space was an intramural basketball court and the second was a wrestling room/ dance studio. The windows were high so you could not see out.”

Pimentel explained that the unification of these two areas has enhanced the space.

“Now we have a space specifically designed as a fitness center with an abundance of natural light, fantastic views and an environmental control system that give us great temperature control and fresh air,” he said.

In addition to spatial improvements, the new gym is

equipped with the latest workout equipment, which feature iPod capability and built-in televisions.

The amount of aerobic equipment has nearly doubled from 30 pieces in the old gym to 56 bikes, treadmills, stairsteppers, ellipticals and arctrainers in the current fitness center. The gym contains 80 exercise machines in total.

“We looked hard and long at other facilities both at the collegiate and commercial sectors as well as where the fitness industry is headed as a whole and determined we would go with top-of-the-line equipment which offered a marriage of technology as well as durability,” Pimentel said.

Sophomore Matthew Roy goes to the gym an average of four times a week, varying his workout to include both dead weights and cardio. Roy said that the new tech-heavy machines help him integrate workouts into his schedule.

“It’s very nice because there are times in today’s world that you might need to set aside for TV,” Roy said. “The other day, I got to watch overtime with the [Chicago] Bulls on the treadmill and part of the inauguration, so it helps you work the gym into your daily life.”

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The semester-old Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center has proved popular since its debut.

Part of the fitness center— a weight room open only to varsity athletes—is still being

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Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center appeals to both athletes and casual gym-goers alike.

expanded with new equipment.

A petition to open this space to the wider Tufts community circulated this September, gathering hundreds of student signatures.

Pimentel said the weight room will remain closed to non-varsity athletes for now, but that more free weights have been added to the fitness center free area.

“Over [winter] break we were able to put in an additional rack and Olympic platform which solved any waiting we had previously in the free weight area,” Pimentel said.

The center has scheduled a delivery of additional weight plates for this month.

Elbow room is still scarce in the new center, according to senior Mariel Marchand.

She is dissatisfied with the amount of space dedicated to stretching and abdominal workouts, she said.

“There was more mat and floor space in the old gym, everything feels so crowded now,” Marchand said. “I just don’t think there’s enough space; it seems like everything is too close together and I always feel like I’m bumping into someone.”

Pimentel said adding workout mat space is one of his upcoming projects for the fitness center.

“We have just received a delivery of special stretching mats that will allow us to increase the size of the stretching area in the new space,” he said.

Sophomore Evan Cover is impressed by the fleet of new Livestrong exercise bikes, which are equipped with a highly realistic computer interface that simulates nature trail riding.

“Biking in itself is very monotonous, but when you add the little computer screen with the trail, it makes it a little more manageable,” Cover said.

Cover is a runner who uses

the fitness center almost daily on top of his workouts on the Cousens track.

He said the new fitness center impresses competing indoor track teams from other universities.

“I like how it presents a much better face of Tufts Athletics, just from when you walk up to the entryway to the staircase leading up to the pool, gym, and track area,” Cover said.

“I think it’s better than pretty much any facility I’ve seen in recent memory.”

Cover said the new facility has also impressed other visitors to the Hill.

“When my parents came [to Tufts] during freshman Orientation, they looked at the gym, and then at me, and wondered why I was paying so much money to go here,” he said. “The new gym, with the whole new front and panoramic glass windows, looks so much better.”

The new equipment came with new policies to ensure that it, and the rest of the gym, stays clean.

Gym-goers use towels available at the upstairs desk and moist wipes to wipe down their machines.

“The moist-wipe stations are a much more convenient way to clean up machines and benches after use,” said senior Andre Figueroa, head supervisor at the fitness center.

“Patrons now have to sign out belts, foam rollers, resistance bands, jump ropes and bar pads, instead of just being able to take them as they wish.

This helps prevent equipment from going missing, which was a problem in the past,” Figueroa said.

After years of planning and a total cost of $16.6 million, the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center is finally complete, much to the delight of members past and present of the Tufts community.

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Album Review

Local Natives’ ‘Hummingbird’ falls short of expectations

by Veronica

Little

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The second studio album from Los Angeles indie rockstars Local Natives, “Hummingbird,” is as dainty and fidgety as

Hummingbird Local Natives Frenchkiss Records the animal that lends its name to the title.

This album, the long anticipated follow-up to the band’s marvelous debut “Gorilla Manor” (2009), seems to lack all of the inventiveness, eagerness and melodic brilliance that made the group’s debut attractive and exciting.

Instead, “Hummingbird” favors predictability and generically pleasing alternative phrasing over originality. The album is not offensive, and it’s not even bad. In fact, it sounds rather nice. But do you know what also sounds nice?

Babbling brooks, nature ambiance and white noise, and soothing monotony do not an indie-rock band make. “Hummingbird” falls into this category of sound. A stagnant and dreary sophomore album, “Hummingbird” is a let down and a reminder of the dangers of the sophomore slump.

This devolution is not unfounded. In 2011, the band’s bassist, Andy Hamm, made a dramatic split from the group and, just this past summer, lead vocalist Kelcey Ayer’s mother passed away. Not to be indelicate, but these traumatic and life-altering situations are often used as fodder for bands to explode into genuine and potent sound. However, this trauma had the opposite effect on Local Natives. This album is steeped in pretentious melancholy and garnished with Local Natives’ trademark and tired percussion-based tricks.

The choppy, pseudo-tribal drumming that was so instrumental to the success of “Gorilla Manor” has become belabored. This is not to suggest that an artificial transition from the voice they crafted in their debut was desirable — indeed, sophomore albums are typically perfect contexts for bands to refine and

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Emotionally drained Local Natives have released an equally drained sophomore album. explore their voices in a collaborative and safe environment. Instead of refining or exploring, however, Local Natives have seemingly given up all hope of ingenuity and cleverness. The band has transitioned from a highly inventive group to one that is content with somber odes and predictable chord progressions. Its members have almost become parodies of their

TV Review

Final season of ‘30 Rock’ to end on high note by

Dan O’Leary

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Due to the nature of television, with shows continuously needing to be renewed and the threat of cancellation always looming in the

30 Rock Starring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski Airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on NBC background, it’s often difficult to end a TV series in a way that will satisfy fans. Shows can overstay their welcome and give off the sense of treading water while characters become stagnant — just check out “The Office” — while even popular series like “The Sopranos” (1999-2007) and “Lost” (2004-2010) have frustrated their fan bases with polarizing finales. Thankfully, “30 Rock” has avoided these pitfalls and launched a strong comeback in its final episodes of the series, perfecting the show’s sharp wit and quirky humor.

Since its inception in 2006, “30 Rock” has followed the exploits of Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), head writer of the sketch comedy show “TGS.” But “30 Rock” quickly branched out beyond this basic concept, using the backstage setting as a springboard for over-the-top hijinks, eccentric humor and meta references that allowed the show to grow into one of the strangest, funniest comedies on television.

While the show was rather hit or miss in later seasons, this final run of episodes in the seventh season has been one of the strongest in

the series’ history and epitomizes all that is great about “30 Rock.”

The home stretch of the show finds Liz striving to resolve many of the issues she’s struggled with throughout the series. She’s finally made headway with an adoption agency, has found a steady partner in Criss (James Marsden) and her life generally seems to be looking up. Still, pitfalls lurk. A pending lawsuit has placed the status of “TGS” in jeopardy. Jack Donaghy’s (Alec Baldwin) promotion at Kabletown leaves him unable to save the show while Liz can find no help from her cast and crew to save “TGS,” led by Jenna (Jane Krakowski) and Tracy (Tracy Morgan).

All these events coalesce in an organic way, making the episodes in the seventh season feel like a proper build-up to a finale that will bring resolution to all of these plot threads.

Liz’s life may still be a bit less than perfect, but “30 Rock” still manages to fill each moment with hilarious punch lines and rapidfire gags. Thanks to the fantastic supporting characters, with standouts being Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) and Tracy, there has yet to be a dull moment during the past five episodes.

Jenna is still vain as ever in her attempts to upstage everyone else, and Tracy remains the king of irrelevant yet hysterical one-liners.

Kenneth has still struggled with trying to find his place in the world, but his plotline ends up arriving at a satisfying conclusion. “30 Rock” has also welcomed back fan-favorites this season, giving recurring characters such as Dr. Spaceman, Devon Banks and Colleen Donaghy one final appearance. see ROCK, page 6

former selves.

This album is especially disappointing because most of the music is devoid of heart. “Hummingbird” lacks even an inkling of sincerity, and songs could desperately use some feeling. One exception to this rule is the song “Colombia.” Heart-wrenching and touching, the song deals with Ayer’s loss and

sorrow. Driven by lyrics like, “If you never knew how much/ If you never felt all of my love/I pray now you do,” the song is a tourde-force of grief and nostalgia. However, this tiny ray of light is not enough to redeem the album en masse. see NATIVES, page 6

SAG Awards Review

2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards unfold predictably

All good movies, mostly boring fashion, a sprinkling of funny comments.

That describes Sunday night’s 19th annual Screen Actor’s Guild Awards hosted live in Los Angeles. The awards season is well underway after the Golden Globes two weeks ago. Traditionally, America’s favorite red-carpet watches are hosted by television personalities before the night progresses into a show that spans for a couple of hours. The A-listers then move to a separate venue to revel in their awards or commiserate over dashed hopes, throw back a few glasses of champagne and kick up their shoes on a dance floor. This year was just as formulaic.

The red-carpet watch began at 6 p.m. EST with fashion critiques and plenty of pre-show interviews with jittery actors. Bradley Cooper stopped by to discuss the unexpected success of “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012), which he starred in with Jennifer Lawrence.

“It’s due to, in large part, these [awards] shows which have given us accolades,” he said into the camera.

E! News host Giuliana Rancic plied him to dole out some juicy details on the last “The Hangover” installment, but he would only reveal that it will be taking place in Vegas, Mexico and Los Angeles and that it will be the final installment of the billion-dollar comedy franchise. by

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A sickly Marion Cotillard, nominated for the film “Rust and Bone” (2012), claimed she was recovering from the flu but still glowed when she addressed the importance of the night’s nominations and awards.

“SAG is, of course, very special for an actor. Being here for a French movie is something I really enjoy,” she said.

Also paying homage to her nation’s affinity for couture, she wore a blue and cream strapless Christian Dior Haute Couture gown that some might consider conservative, but was nonetheless classically stunning. The gowns, as a whole, were rather banal. Black dresses trended on the red carpet as Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Claire Danes all donned this somber hue. As for the gentlemen, tuxedos are, well, tuxedos, though Justin Timberlake dared to show up in a checkered Tom Ford suit.

Unlike the Golden Globes ceremony, which was hosted by witty duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the SAG Awards did not have a host. The awards show began with various actors and actresses, filmed in their seats inside the Shrine Exposition Center. Jane Krakowski, Helen Hunt, Hal Holbrook and Darren Criss made thoughtful and lighthearted remarks about their entrances into the entertainment industry. Colombian bombshell Sofia Vergara, however, stole the opening of the show with a saucy comment. see AWARDS, page 6

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The song “Breakers” seems more like a bastardization of beachy class act Best Coast than something plausibly written by Local Natives. Working with a new collaborator, Aaron Dessner from The National, Local Natives have adopted a slew of new producers and contributing songwriters for this album.

Perhaps these figures are to blame for the stark difference between “Gorilla Manor” and “Hummingbird.” Whether it is the fault of new collaborators or a lack of ambition within the band, Local Natives have lost their unique and relevant voice, and it is a shame.

At times overproduced and at other times completely lazy, “Hummingbird” is an amalgamation of everything that a successful band should not do on its sophomore album. It is predictable, tedious and, above all, boring. Local Natives, a band that appeared in the indie music industry in a flash, have become too comfortable with their elevated position. If this album is any

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Local Natives’ monotonous album is not redeemed by a handful of heartfelt lyrics. indication of Local Natives’ future, it’s safe to say that they will quietly make their way into musical oblivion as quickly as they made their mesmerizing debut.

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‘30 Rock’ finale to tie up plot threads ROCK

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The heart of “30 Rock’s” success lies in the mentor-mentee relationship between Liz and Jack, and the writers have highlighted this remarkably during the concluding season. The mutual admiration and respect between the pair manages to shine through the banter and gags, serving as a reminder as to what will be sorely missed when the series ends. As Jack comes to terms with what he’s looking for in life and as Liz begins to realize that her job can’t always be prioritized over her personal life, the final stretch of episodes finds the two characters remarkably developed and matured since their first appearance in the pilot seven years ago. The audience has followed both the highs and lows of Liz and Jack throughout the years, and this makes the impending conclusion to their storylines all the more satisfying.

It’s a testament to the creative power of Tina Fey and her writers that the quirky “30 Rock” has been able to survive seven years in primetime on a major network.

Even though the series finale will not air

until tomorrow night, it’s clear from these last few episodes that the writers have put much care into constructing a conclusion that will reward long-time viewers by combining the show’s trademark humor with a surprising level of emotion and sense of farewell. So even if you haven’t watched “30 Rock” in ages, there’s still time to join in and say a final goodbye to Liz Lemon and the rest of the gang at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as the show ends on a high note.

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Liz Lemon is hilarious on NBC’s 30 Rock.

Awards for Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway a pleasant surprise AWARDS

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No time was wasted introducing the first award of the evening for Outstanding Male Actor in a Supporting Role, which was bestowed upon the much-deserving Tommy Lee Jones for his part in “Lincoln” (2012). Spielberg’s historical drama scored another major win for the evening when Daniel DayLewis won Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role for his eerie portrayal of President Abraham Lincoln.

Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role went to Jennifer Lawrence for her performance in “Silver Linings Playbook,” much to the chagrin of “Zero Dark Thirty” (2012) fans who expected Jessica Chastain to strike gold once again — she already received the Golden

Globe for her role.

Though “Zero Dark Thirty” came up empty handed at the awards show, “Argo” (2012) snagged the win for Outstanding Ensemble in a Motion Picture, and a visibly shaken Anne Hathaway accepted her first SAG Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role in “Les Miserables” (2012).

If life imitates art and vice versa, Claire Danes might be in the running for closely mimicking her schizophrenic character Carrie Mathison on stage with a rushed, breathless acceptance speech for Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series for her role in “Homeland.” Brian Cranston took the prize for “Breaking Bad,” while the cast of “Downton Abbey” won for Outstanding Cast.

With its third consecutive win, the “Modern Family” cast accepted Outstanding Ensemble for Comedy Series. Perhaps the peer group was feeling nostalgic because “30 Rock” comedians Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey both won Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series right before the show’s finale this week.

Other wins included: Kevin Costner, Outstanding Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries for “Hatfields & McCoys,” Julianne Moore for Outstanding Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries for “Game Change,” Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for “Skyfall” and Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a TV Series for “Game of Thrones.”

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Anne Hathaway won her first SAG Award at this year’s ceremony for her performance in “Les Miserables.”

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Senior Nights not the place to look for discrimination The complaint leveraged against Senior Class Council Senior Night venues that restrict attendance to students of legal drinking age is an unnecessary debate and, while it might have a basis in reason, it stretches the concept of discrimination too thin.

The complaint, which the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary will discuss in an open meeting tomorrow evening, alleges that the Senior Nights held in venues that only permit entrance to those 21 years old or older are ageist and discriminatory against seniors who will not have reached legal drinking age

by Senior Week.

The Senior Class Council is responsible for planning events that take into consideration all members of the senior class. Senior Nights, however, have always

taken place in bars, which must abide by the national legal drinking age — they are restricted by a law, not a rule conceived or enforced by the class council.

The Senior Night tradition is not above skepticism, but allegations of discrimination should not be thrown around so lightly. The class council has done its best to accommodate underage seniors with other, non-restricted events. There also remains the fact that, according to the class council, none of the Student Activities Fee funds they are allocated go towards paying for Senior Night, and instead the events are funded by ticket sales to of-age seniors. There is a time and place to allege discrimination: this is not it.

The complainant is admittedly in a difficult situation. She and her fel-

low underage students are still seniors and Jumbos, and the fact that they are barred from attending an event with their friends because of their specific circumstances is regrettable. But Senior Nights, while enjoyable, are simply not wholly indicative or symbolic of Senior Week or the identity of Tufts seniors. Furthermore, opposition to the national drinking age laws that prohibit a small group of students from attending a senior class event is indicative of a dispute with the law itself, and should not reflect the class council or penalize the rest of the class. Senior students’ identity should be defined by shared struggle and triumph, moments of uncertainty in the face of opportunity and personal success — not a night at the bar.

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Last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced the US military’s official ban on women in combat positions would be lifted. According to the Department of Defense, there are currently around 238,000 positions in the military unavailable to women, and with the lifting of the ban many of those spots are going to be opened for women to apply.

According to Panetta, “If members of our military can meet the qualifications for a job — and let me be clear, we are not reducing qualifications — then they should have the right to serve.” The pronouncement comes as another historic decision under Panetta’s leadership, as he was a key player in repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” in 2011.

Obviously, the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” wasn’t without critics, and neither is Panetta’s most recent choice to open up more combat positions to women. Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a veteran, told a radio host.

“To have women serving in infantry could impair the mission’s central task in those units. That’s been proved in study after study just as a matter of nature.”

John Piper, a mega-church minister from Minnesota, has written on his blog that coed combat is “cultural cowardice,” writing that “A man who endorses women in combat is not pro-woman; he’s a wimp.”

Wayne State U. law professor Kingsley Browne has published a book about the issue titled “Co-ed Combat: The New Evidence That Women Shouldn’t Fight the Nation’s Wars.” Browne believes women shouldn’t be allowed to be involved in combat positions,

because they aren’t as physically fit as men, as well as because women being mixed with men in combat situations might cultivate more situations of sexual harassment.

What Panetta — and countless other proponents of military equality — has fought for is a new, inclusive, American military. The repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the lifting of the combat ban represent the military taking steps to offer the type of equality for which America should be known.

If there is one lesson America should have learned by now, it’s that a lack of diversity is not ideal for decision-making, and authority without diversity is a recipe for oppression and stupidity. One only has to recall President Obama’s mention of Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall in his second Inaugural Address to dwell on the poor, exclusive, and dominating decisions the country has made without different voices offering advice.

While effective and courageous, our nation’s military has earned a controversial reputation. The military has often asked the nation to take a “don’t ask; we don’t want to tell” approach to its politics and problems.

The 2012 Oscar-nominated documentary “The Invisible War” sheds light on the rampant sexual abuse in the armed forces.

According to the film, the Department of Defense estimates that over 19,000 instances of sexual abuse happened in 2010, and that 20 percent of women in the military will be sexually assaulted. And while the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” was a big step in policy for gay military equality, documented harassment still occurs in the ranks of the armed forces.

The most important impact of the lift of the combat ban is that combat duty and

experience are necessary for women to advance and be promoted in military leadership. Therefore, allowing women to apply for more combat-intense positions will increase the chance for diversity in military authority, adding important voices to the conversation of what our country will do and where our country will go.

With North Korea testing missiles and nuclear bombs, controversy over the use of both foreign and domestic drones and intervention in the Arab world always on the table, more women in the military will be better for the country.

Besides being of pragmatic benefit, increased opportunities for women in the military helps realize part of the American experiment and aids America in becoming the exceptional country it so desperately wants to be.

In the past, there has been a notion that military presence and power make America great, but in a 21st century in which both methods of warfare and ideas about equality have changed, giving women the same opportunities as men should make all Americans proud.

We cannot afford to be contrary to cultural changes due to outdated conceptions of gender and bravery, and we cannot shy away from breaking down barriers just because the systems set in place to protect against sexual abuse aren’t solid. Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall were all leaps in American progress, but occurred amidst controversy, bigotry and violence.

We should be proud women want to protect and serve, and in response we should applaud and protect their thriving in military ranks.

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I’d like to begin this letter with a brief personal introduction. I have some stronger opinions on this matter than most of the topics I discuss in my column, and I’m going to refrain from my usual hilarity — you guys do find me hilarious, I know. I do not, and probably never will, consider myself an environmentalist; I am generally a supporter of big businesses including the Keystone XL pipeline when it is working safely and carefully.

Most importantly, I do believe climate change is very, very real.

In the past year, the Tufts Divest for our Future (TDF) organization has received a great deal of attention, both on-campus and off and for good reason. They do tremendous work for a good cause; in no way is this meant to be a “take-down” piece, or anything of the sort. I am friends with several members of the group, and they are all incredibly passionate, educated and informed on the issue. However, I feel that the divestment campaign itself is flawed.

Divestment essentially means “un-investing” from a certain group of assets.

Although we most commonly use the term divestment in reference to social issues, divestment is a common strategy to avoid risk. For example, pension funds could choose to divest from an emerging market because of an impending regime change, or I can divest from Starbucks because my coffee tasted funny.

“Social divestment” has been used as a vehicle for change before, most effectively to end the apartheid regime in South Africa in the late 1980s. Using that campaign as a basis, TDF has listed 200 fossil fuel companies that they wish the university to divest from, joining a national

effort to stop university endowments from investing in such companies. But South Africa’s apartheid regime and the fossil fuel industry are wildly different; the success of divestment in one instance does not mean it will work in another.

Oil is the largest industry in the world.

Comparing the fossil fuel divestment campaign to the one used to end the apartheid regime ignores the economics of what happened in South Africa. Divestment led to capital flight, yes, but capital flight led to the appreciation of the South African rand, which led to the collapse of its export industry, and hence, its economy. There is no currency to appreciate in the fossil fuel fight. The price of oil is determined by far more than the amount of capital invested in the oil industry.

Divestment itself will do nothing.

According to the American Petroleum Institute, United States universities have less than $8.5 billion invested in fossil fuel companies in total. Though the size of these companies varies greatly, it is more than likely that most universities have the majority of their holdings in the largest companies, as these are generally seen as safer investments.

Take Exxon-Mobil, the largest publicly traded company in the world, as an example. Let’s be highly unrealistic for a moment, and assume that every endowment has the entirety of its fossil fuel holdings in one stock, and decides to close their entire position in one day. That $8.5 billion accounts for just 2 percent of all shares; even then 50% of Exxon-Mobil’s shares are held by the company.

This leads to another fundamental point about divestment that I feel has been overlooked. Let’s say all the endowments dump the stock in one day, let’s be

even more unrealistic and say this causes a massive selloff, leading to the price per share falling 10 percent. Ignoring that this is basically impossible, Exxon-Mobil still does not care. In every transaction you have a buyer and a seller; the stock doesn’t just disappear. The shares are still out there, and more importantly, companies do not make money based off their share prices. This drop would not affect ExxonMobil’s profit at all.

And that’s the real problem with divestment: it doesn’t speak to the issue at hand, and simply is not a feasible tool to stop the production or burning of fossil fuels. Divestment is like putting up a few sandbags to stop a flood. It only delays our demise.

In their proposal to the Investment Committee, TDF wrote that “we are asking Tufts to divest from the top 200 publicly traded companies that hold the vast majority of the world’s proven coal, oil and gas reserves.” This is entirely false.

More than 70 percent of proven oil and gas reserves are held by nationally owned companies in places like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela. Let’s say the divestment campaign is a smashing success on a national level, and we magically kill all 200 companies on the list. From a production standpoint, it does nothing.

The purpose of this piece is not to belittle the efforts of the students involved in TDF, it is to show that we need to be doing much, much more. I attended TDF’s teachin event which featured some prominent figures in the divestment movement, and it persuaded me that Tufts could realistically divest from fossil fuel companies. Bob Massie of the New Economics Institute said that divestment itself is not the end, but the civic engagement that

comes with it will be key to pressuring our country’s leaders.

I approached Massie after the talk and asked him about how divestment could make a difference against the privately held oil companies. He responded by saying that the divestment campaign focuses on getting people talking about the issue.

If it can change the oil industry, it will leave these corporations with billions of dollars in stranded assets, and they too will fall. According to him, it’s about “the debate.”

I disagree with the Daily’s editorial; divestment is realistic-making a difference is not. Do we really think the repurposing of $8.5 billion is going to make the heads of OPEC squirm? Bulls--t. This country runs on oil, and only a fundamental change in how we power our dayto-day lives will affect the oil industry. I don’t mean turning the kitchen light off, or walking to work. We need huge changes.

Chipping away at the profits of a handful of companies will not make a difference.

We need to do more than invest that $20 billion in “green funds,” or some other environmentally-friendly asset. We have to get off oil, not just say we won’t support it.

There is no magic fix to control the burning of fossil fuels. I’m not going to stand here and say I have all the answers, but I firmly believe that TDF can make better use of its resources and most importantly its members, finding a way to combat the industry that will cause real change.

Walt Laws-MacDonald is a sophomore majoring in quantitative economics. He writes a column titled “Show Me the Money!” for The Tufts Daily and can be reached at Walt.Laws_MacDonald@tufts.edu.

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As our economy recovers from the bursting of the housing bubble, some warn another is looming on the horizon.

Glenn Reynolds, a distinguished professor of law at the University of Tennessee, has written extensively on what he describes as the “higher-education bubble.” In his book “The Higher-Education Bubble,” he defines the term bubble as a situation that occurs “when too many people expect values to go up forever.”

How do we properly value education against its cost? We all know that tuition prices across the nation are rising and have been for years.

Data from College Board’s Trends in Student Aid, one of the most comprehensive sources of statistics on college pricing, indicate that financial aid per student in constant (inflation-adjusted) dollars has been consistently rising as well.

Because salaries for highly educated professionals have risen rapidly in recent years, an increase in college pricing is somewhat justified. Robert Archibald, chancellor professor of economics at the College of William and Mary, said this: “Everyone has three objectives for higher education: lower tuition, higher quality, and less government spending on subsidies. The unfortunate truth is that we can have any two of these, but we can’t have all three. If we mandate low tuition, we have to give on one of the other two.”

Tamar Lewin of the New York Times takes a different position,

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attributing much of the rising education cost to unnecessary increases in administrative staff in colleges across the country.

Students have a responsibility to make smart decisions in order to sustain the value of education.

College is still worth it; however, if we are not careful, we can make the mistake of overvaluing our education. Maximizing future benefit requires more than sitting through classes.

We are not entitled to a job offer or high salaries once we graduate.

In order to deserve these things, we must continue to work hard in classes and focus on enriching ourselves outside the classroom, building time management and communication skills.

According to multiple studies, students at college spend less time studying today than 60 years ago.

Social development is a crucial aspect of the college experience,

but it is not the reason tax dollars are funding federal student loan and grant programs.

Nor is enrolling in college an automatic guarantee to future success. According to the American Enterprise Institute, “Data from the National Center for Education Statistics show that only 58 percent of new college students who began in 2004 had graduated six years later.”

The 42 percent of students

who dropped out (roughly 2/3 of which cited reasons not related to tuition prices) are left holding thousands in student loans with no diploma to show for it. For these people, it may have been better if they had considered an alternative to college. For those of us who are already here, we need to continually strive to merit the generosity we have been given and work to achieve the success we dream of.

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No. 2, sophomore Zachary Schweitzer, pushing everyone up the ladder while increasing the difficulty of the opposition.

“Our team is very even, up and down the lineup,” Sophomore No. 3 Hugo Meggitt said. “I feel we have a lot of depth; it’s great having a good core of players in the middle.”

With Schweitzer expected to return this weekend, Meggitt expects a huge boost for the team, and hopes to continue to see improvement from matches against such elite opposition.

“Playing top players has helped me improve a lot,” Meggitt said. “I think it will be a big help for the team going forward, because, with Zach coming back, we’ll all be going down playing relatively easier opponents.”

The highlight match of the

weekend was once again provided by Advani, who defeated the Bowdoin senior No. 1 Andrew Hilboldt in a stirring back-and-forth, five-set affair, 11-7, 10-12, 12-10, 16-14.

“He’s brilliant to watch, and always so composed on the court,” Meggitt said of Advani.

“At his best, he seems to be toying with other team’s best players. We’re lucky to have him, and hopefully he can continue going forward.”

The team will find out their first opponent in the NESCAC tournament in the next few days.

With an inevitably tough draw ahead after going winless in conference, the team is staying cautiously optimistic.

“Our realistic goal is to take one match and move up in the rankings,” Meggitt said. “This weekend was a major improvement and a real confidence booster, so hopefully we can bring that into next weekend.”

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Freshman Tyler Lueck won both the 1,000-yard and 500-yard freestyle in the Jumbos’ 163-100 victory over Wheaton.

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tri-meet loss. But after victories in both the 1- and 3-meter dives on Saturday, he seems to be back on track, as his 1-meter dive was the highest score recorded in the NESCAC this season. His performance culminated in a NESCAC

Performer of the Week award on Monday, the second week in a row that a Jumbo has won the prize.

With the dual meet season in the books, the Jumbos are looking forward to the most important events of the year, including this weekend’s Wheaton Invitational. For the

Jumbos, it will be the final tune up before the NESCAC Championship Meet on February 22-24.

“I know we are going to do well this year with all the eager freshman that have been swimming so well and the rest of the upperclassmen looking to show the rest of the ‘CAC what we have,” Schmidt said.

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particularly proud of Maykranz’s accomplishment. “[I was] especially happy for Ali,” he said. “[She] joined the team as a sophomore with no diving experience and worked to become one of the best divers in NESCAC.” With so many Jumbos submitting such strong performances, this Tufts triumph was a true team effort. It was also the perfect way to send off the eleven graduating swimmers and divers participating in their final swim meet at Hamilton Pool, even though saying goodbye was not easy for the coaching staff.

Senior Day is always a hard one for me,” said Bigelow, who is currently coaching her 30th season at Tufts and 34th at the college

level. “We spend a lot time with our kids and develop wonderful relationships and bonds (with them). It is sad to realize they won’t be with us much longer.”

But for those 11 members of the Class of 2013, their college careers aren’t over just yet. With the regular season behind them, the Jumbos hope to build on their most recent win when they travel to the Wheaton College Invitational on February 1st to get ready for the postseason.

There, and over the next few weeks, the Jumbos will look to shave and taper before the looming NESCAC championships.

The Jumbo seniors had their last home meet on Saturday, but will still look for more of a sendoff as the championship season approaches.

Jumbos take revenge on Anchorwomen, turn focus to mammoth NESCAC weekend In a scrappy, physical affair which both teams were lucky to get out of without serious injury, Tufts women’s basketball avenged a blowout loss to Rhode Island College this past season with a 52-35 win on Tuesday night.

“Almost all of us who were on the team last year remember that game,” sophomore point guard Kelsey Morehead said. “Even though it was a different team, we still knew what happened last year, so I think we had that a little bit in the back of our minds.”

It was a difficult night for the Jumbos against a team willing to give every bit as much effort as they were. Sophomore Hayley Kanner, whose height advantage the Anchorwomen could not match, was forced out of the game for large chunks of time due to foul trouble, while classmate and team scoring leader Hannah Foley managed just two points, tied for her season low, on 0-for-5 shooting.

With her teammates struggling, Morehead picked up more of the offensive responsibility, finishing

with 13 points, including a pair of second-half 3-pointers, the only two Tufts hit on the night, which put the game away.

“Day to day, different teams play us differently,” Morehead said.

“Today, they seemed to leave me a lot more wide open because they didn’t want to let Hayley get the ball, or [graduate student cocaptain Kate Barnosky], or [Foley], because all of them have been playing very well.”

Stifling defense helped Tufts out to a 28-14 lead. But Rhode Island College slowly clawed its way back, relying heavily on freshman forward Vandell Andrade’s ability to create second and even thirdchance opportunities. Even while matched up against the much taller Kanner, she finished the game with eight offensive rebounds and 15 rebounds total.

“From last year, we know that Rhode Island College is a team that is going to get after it, and that is exactly how they played today,” Morehead said. “I don’t know if we were as prepared for it, but we did

finally fight back. They crashed the offensive boards a lot harder, and really forced us to box out every time.”

The Jumbos eventually found their footing, and started trading baskets with the Anchorwomen.

With the slow tempo of the game, time simply ran out for Rhode Island College, giving Tufts its 21st straight win.

With its final non-conference game out of the way, Tufts must focus its attention on a key road NESCAC doubleheader this weekend. On Friday, the Jumbos travel to Hartford, Conn. to take on a Trinity Bantams side with a 4-2 NESCAC record and a lot of confidence before the game of the season, a trip to Amherst to take on the No. 4 Lord Jeffs.

“We know that as much as we want to look at Amherst, we know we can’t look at all past Trinity, because they are playing really well too,” Morehead said. “It’s going to be a very challenging weekend.”

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After a string of difficult matches in which the men’s squash team struggled to find its form, their three matches this past weekend were a vital chance to a tune-up before the NESCAC Championships next weekend.

Needing positivity to take from the weekend, the Tufts finally got back to their winning ways at the end of the weekend with a win against No. 33 MIT, 6-3. But that win only came after two difficult losses to No. 19 Bowdoin, 8-1, and No. 24 Colby, 6-3, earlier in the day.

“We were outmatched against Colby and Bowdoin,” Sophomore Elliot Kardon said. “But we showed how [far] we have come as a team following those up with a great win against MIT. After defeating MIT 5-3 earlier in the season, a rematch of the closely contested matchup was expected to be a struggle, especially considering the Jumbos’ 6-game losing skid. But the Jumbos gave an inspired performance, which Kardon sees as a very encouraging sign going forward.

“We beat MIT at the beginning of the season,” he said. “And after a tough two previous matches, we knew we needed to have the victory. The team was very encouraged after such a good win.”

Tufts was led from the top, with freshman No. 1 Aditaya Advani and junior co-captain No. 2 Jeremy Ho winning 11-4, 11-6, 11-5 and 11-4, 4-11, 11-9, 11-6, respectively. The Jumbos’ four other wins came from their No. 5 through No. 8 players, with freshmen Brandon Weiss and Aaron Fernandez, Kardon and junior Ben Briggs each picking up comfortable, straight set victories.

The mid-ladder wins came from a group boosted by strong showings, even in defeat, against Bowdoin and Colby. Though they failed to earn any match victories to, Kardon, Hernandez and Briggs each took a game off of their Mules counterpart.

“The middle of the lineup stepped up our game, which bodes very well for next weekend.” Kardon said. “And for me, it was a really big step getting a game against a tough NESCAC opponent.”

The success was especially impressive, as Tufts is still missing their see MEN’S SQUASH, page 15

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Senior Jackie Cygelman was one of 11 seniors honored at the Jumbos’ senior day against Wheaton on Saturday afternoon. She swam 11:10.98 to take 3rd in the 1,000-yard freestyle.

Jumbos sweep Wheaton on Senior Day Tufts tops the Lyons in their final dual meet of the season by

Tyler Maher

Contributing Writer

The Tufts women’s swimming & diving team dominated Wheaton College in their final dual meet of the season on Senior Day. The Jumbos won all 16 events as they dispatched the visiting Lyons with a 169-98 victory, closing out the year with a 3-5 record.

Tufts started the meet off strong when junior Jenny Hu, sophomores Samantha Sliwinski and Kathryn Coniglio, and freshman Samantha Swinton won the 200 medley relay with a 1:52.54 time. Later in the meet, tri-captains Lizz Grainger, who is also a news editor for the Daily, and Christine Garvey teamed with fellow seniors Kathryn Sullivan and Aiai Ren

to win the 200 freestyle relay with their 1:43.99 time.

For Head Coach Nancy Bigelow, the relay races provided the afternoon’s most memorable highlights. “[We] were still very tired from our two-week long training trip but continued swimming hard,” she said. “It’s great that many of them are starting to swim fast again.”

If there were any lingering effects from the team’s two-week excursion to Puerto Rico over winter break, Bigelow’s swimmers shrugged them off. The Jumbos’ relay racers not only thrived when racing together, but also submitted several outstanding individual performances outside the relays.

Sliwinski secured first place in the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard

Men’s Swimming and Diving

Young Jumbo squad take care of business on Senior Day by

Ross Dember

Daily Staff Writer

The men’s swimming and diving team’s final dual meet of the season at home against Wheaton College began with a celebration of the squad’s outgoing seniors.

But it quickly turned into a tour de force of the Jumbos’ underclassmen and juniors. Freshmen Tyler Lueck, Cam Simko and Michael Winget and junior diver Johann Schmidt each had two first-place finishes in individual events. Freshmen Anthony DeBenedetto and Tanner Wiest, sophomore John Devine and juniors Drew Berman and Kyle Savidge added wins of their own, as the Jumbos took an early lead by winning the first nine swimming events and maintained it en route to a 163-100 win.

The victory capped off a 4-4 dual meet season for a program that has been above .500 every year dating back to the 19992000 season.

Although no senior won an individual event, after the meet coach Adam Hoyt was quick to praise the graduating class for its leadership and determination.

“The class of 2013 has done a lot for this year’s team and our program,” Hoyt said. “We’re all very proud of the character they have shown for four years, the way they have led the team this season, and the heart they put into their racing.”

It was senior Brian Marko who set the tone. In the first event of the day, Marko led off the winning 200-yard medley relay, opening up the Jumbos’

run of nine straight victories.

But the rest of the meet was dominated by the team’s freshmen as Winget won both the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle sprints, while Lueck swept the distance events. To cap off the day for the class of 2016, Simko was first to touch in the 100yard butterfly and had the fastest time of the day in the 200yard individual medley.

Upperclassmen were able to turn in strong performances as well, as juniors Berman and Savidge were fastest in the 100yard backstroke and 50-yard breaststroke, respectively.

In the diving well, it was a return to form for Schmidt, who struggled last week in a surprising see MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING, page 15

backstroke. Hu owned the breaststroke events, winning the 50- and 100-yard competitions, while Garvey took the 200- and 500-yard freestyle. Coniglio placed first in the 100-yard freestyle, and Grainger won the 50-yard butterfly.

A trio of Jumbo divers also contributed to the resounding victory, as junior Sami Bloom, senior Ali Maykranz, and freshman Shivani Bigler all turned in strong showings. Bloom produced personal bests and two victories with scores of 291.37 in the one-meter event and 304.50 in the 3-meter, enough to qualify for the NCAA National Qualifying meet in Springfield.

Diving Coach Brad Snodgrass had plenty to be pleased about, but was

see WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING, page 15

NESCAC Performer of the Week

Schmidt awarded, third of season After capturing two individual victories against Wheaton College Saturday afternoon, junior Johann Schmidt expanded the portfolio of his already illustrious athletics career when he was awarded with yet another NESCAC award for swimming and diving performer of the week for the Jumbos — his first of the season.

In the last dual meet of the year, Schmidt came through with a score of 375.98 in the 1-meter competition, along with a score of 377.55 in the 3-meter, to win both events for the Jumbos.

For the two-time defending NESCAC champion, Schmidt’s 1-meter dives were the best in the conference so far this season.

His high score surpassed that of his next best conference competitor by more than 40 points. The junior already held the best dive in the conference for the 3-meter competition after his outing against MIT on Jan. 19th.

For Schmidt, this weekend’s outing is another step towards defending both his NESCAC title and his Div. III championship in the 1-meter competition which he captured last March at the NCAA Championships.

But for the Jumbos as a whole, Schmidt’s own success is yet another sign of the depth of a program with an already established diving core, as he is the third Jumbo in five weeks to be given the award. Two freshmen—Anthony DeBenedetto and Michael Winget—received the honor earlier this season.

With only one meet remaining in the regular season for the Jumbos, the Wheaton Invitational this weekend, Schmidt will soon find himself poised in defense of his titles as the NESCAC championships quickly approach.

—by Marcus Budline