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VOLUME LXVI, NUMBER 28

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University launches new threat management program by

Alexander Spring

Contributing Writer

Courtesy Keri Golembeski

The 18th annual Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) Vegas event, a casino-style semi-formal fundraiser, will take place this Friday at the Hilton Boston Back Bay hotel.

LCS to host Las Vegasthemed fundraiser by

Alexa Horwitz

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The Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) will host its 18th annual LCS Vegas semi-formal event this Friday at the Hilton Boston Back Bay hotel to benefit Spare Change News and CASPAR, Inc. According to LCS Co-Presidents Allison Jorgensen and Keri Golembeski, LCS made a number of changes to this year’s event, including moving the fundraiser to take place a full month earlier than last year’s event and making an additional 100 tickets available for sale.

Jorgensen and Golembeski believe these changes will help make this year’s event a successful one.

“We really are the only organization putting on a big event right now, so that helps to make it a popular event,” Jorgensen, a junior, said.

Golembeski explained that the fundraiser will resemble a casino, where instead of winning money, students will be able to trade their chips for tickets to raffle prizes.

LCS Vegas is organized so that students don’t have to stay for a certain period of time, Golembeski said.

“You can come for the first half, all of it, or just to say hello to people,” Golembeski, a junior, said. “It’s also nice that you can go on whichever bus you want, so you don’t have to commit to a time. We think this all ends up working out really well.”

Jorgensen added that the multiple activities available throughout the night contribute to the event’s appeal.

“The party is made up of three connecting rooms,” Jorgensen said. “We have food catered, and there is a big dance floor. And there are a ton of casino games to play.”

The co-presidents hope to achieve a goal of $3,000. Last year, the fundraiser generated $5,000, which was more than they expected, they said.

This year’s charity recipients are both local nonprofit organizations.

Spare Change News, a local newspaper written, published and sold

University officials recently established a new safety system, the Tufts Threat Assessment and Management ( TTAM) program, in order to better prevent violence on campus.

According to Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin Maguire, who serves as chair of the new TTAM teams, the program is designed to calculate possible threats by breaking down information barriers between separate sections and organizations on campus.

“The idea is to identify community members in need of services through a collaborative, multi-disciplinary ... approach and get them the help that they need before any potential violence manifests itself,” Maguire told the Daily in an email.

In an Oct. 7 email addressed to members of the Tufts community, University President Anthony Monaco announced TTAM’s recent launch and explained the importance of the new system.

“Tufts is committed to maintaining an environment in which individuals are safe to learn, work and live,” Monaco wrote. “In support of this commitment, we affirm that Tufts will not tolerate violence or threats of violence anywhere on its campuses or in connection with university-sponsored

programs.”

Planning for the program began in December of 2011, Maguire said, after the shooting at Virginia Tech inspired higher education institutions across the country to take action. Many universities realized that their employees were not trained in identifying potential threats, he explained.

“What came out of the examination of that tragedy was that the shooter had given many indications that he was on a pathway to violence to a host of personnel in different disciplines and in different offices on campus,” Maguire said. “[ Y ]et the indications, like pieces of a puzzle, were never put together because information remained in separate silos ... there was no formal mechanism to facilitate cross department / school / discipline communications.”

Prior to the program, Tufts had a number of unofficial methods for assessing and managing threatening behavior, Maguire said. After researching other schools’ programs, however, officials realized that the university could adopt a more structured and collaborative strategy.

According to Maguire, many institutions such as California State University, San Bernardino and Cornell University already have these safety see TTAM, page 2

Medical school serves poor communities in new program by

Daniel Bottino

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The Tufts University School of Medicine this year kicked off the Service Scholars Pathway Program, which aims to teach medical students how to provide appropriate care to underserved communities.

The program’s inaugural class of 10 students will complete a curriculum that focuses on communities that have been historically bereft of proper medical attention, according to program Co-director Keith Nokes.

The School of Medicine initiated the Service Scholars Pathway Program in order to rectify issues of physician distribution, which are present even

in affluent parts of the United States, Nokes said.

By encouraging more medical students to devote their services to impoverished areas, Nokes hopes that the program will increase feelings of altruism often lost in the school’s competitive and stressful atmosphere. The 10 students selected for the program are all motivated by a sense of selflessness, he said.

“They all want to serve people who need care,” Nokes said.

The Service Scholars Pathway Program will emphasize areas such as mental health and dentistry and will provide services to the local community, accordsee SERVICE, page 2

see LCS, page 2

Elections update Seven remaining positions on the Tufts Community Union Senate and Programming Board were finalized this past weekend in an uncontested election, according to the Tufts Election Commission (ECOM).

As a result of the uncontested candidate decision, ECOM will not hold its planned election on Thursday.

Andrew Hunter, a senior, and Adam Nagy, a junior, will fill the two open Senate seats.

Regarding Programming Board positions, Tomoaki Yokose will take on the position of Senior Class Council vice president of social programming.

Casey Patterson will act as Senior Class Council secretary, while Lauren Witte will fill the Senior Class Council treasurer position. Adiel Pollydore will act as Junior Class Council secretary.

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The Tufts School of Medicine’s new Service Scholars Pathway Program will train 10 selected medical students to work in poverty-stricken communities.

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Tufts Film Series hosts several free movie showings each weekend.

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by homeless people, was founded in Cambridge, Mass. with the intention to show that disadvantaged people, with the proper resources, are capable of changing their societies. CASPAR is an organization based in Somerville that specializes in helping people with substance abuse problems.

“We decided to pick less wellknown organizations this year, and we think that is really great,” Jorgensen said.

According to Jorgensen and Golembeski, tables will be set up at the event to educate students on the missions and goals of both groups.

“We think it’s important that people who come to the party know their money is going to help people in need,” Golembeski said.

Last year, LCS sold 300 tickets on campus for the event, along with an additional 150 at the door, Golembeski and Jorgensen said. Because the for-

mer co-presidents believed that the event was such a success, event organizers will make 400 tickets available in advance this year.

Jorgensen believes they will not have a problem selling the extra tickets.

“If students went and had a good time at last year’s party, there’s no reason why they won’t come back and bring their friends,” Jorgensen said.

The fundraiser will begin at 9:30 p.m. and run until 1 a.m — 30 minutes later than last year’s party, Jorgensen said. The first bus to the hotel will depart from the Mayer Campus Center lower patio at 9:15 p.m.

“We felt that no one came at the beginning of last year’s party, so we thought pushing the time back was a good solution,” Jorgensen said.

Golembeski is optimistic that students will enjoy the event.

“This event has so much going for it,” she said. “It’s really wonderful to see students having such a good time while helping others.”

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ing to Co-director Suzanne Mitchell.

“Most of [students’] experiences will be in the local Boston area,” she said.

Each of the 10 students will be paired with a mentor to develop a strong and enriching relationship throughout their four years of medical school, Nokes said, adding that the mentors all have experience in providing medical care to underserved communities.

He believes that having a mentor that shares the students’ interests and professional goals will be extremely beneficial.

“We all talk about having a moment [of realizing] that people around us share ... our mission,” Nokes said.

In addition to gaining experience under the guidance of a mentor, students will participate in monthly seminars covering aspects of medicine essential to providing medical care in impoverished areas, according to Nokes. Each student will also prac-

tice medicine in underserved communities during a competency based Apprenticeship in Primary Care (CAP), which all Tufts medical students must undertake.

At the end of four years of medical training, the Pathway Scholars will work on a final project in the same community they worked in as part of CAP. Although the Service Scholars Pathway Program is new to Tufts, other schools — such as the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Washington — offer similar experiences, Mitchell said.

She hopes that the program will expand to include more students, begin sending students to rural underserved areas like northern Maine and make a broad impact on the medical school curriculum at Tufts.

Mitchell expressed enthusiasm that the School of Medicine is making an effort to serve an urgent national need.

“Tufts is acting very responsively to what we are seeing in our nation,” she said.

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systems in place. Colleges in states that suffer the most targeted violence — Virginia, Illinois and Alabama — are required by law to have threat assessment programs.

“Having threat assessment and management teams in place at colleges and universities is now considered a best practice in the higher education community,” Maguire said.

Like most institutionalized threat assessment and management programs in the country, Maguire said, Tufts’ program resulted from efforts by the United States Secret Service to better understand and predict threatening behaviors.

He explained that Tufts consulted both an expert in the field of violence prevention and literature on the subject.

While the Department of Public and Environmental Safety provides leadership for the program, numerous other offices, including the Office of the President, Human Resources, Counseling and Mental Health Service as well as offices in many of the graduate schools are also involved.

As the university continues to evaluate threats, students should remember to reach out and report instances or people that made them feel fearful, according to Maguire.

“Recognizing and reporting early signs of a potentially dangerous situation can be crucial to preventing violence and enabling Tufts to help community members who may be in

distress,” he said.

In the case that anyone — whether that person be a student, university employee, parent or alumnus — feels threatened, that person should report the concern to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) or to TTAM, student-TUPD liaison Becky Goldberg said. “[The program] is not just for students or faculty but for anyone with relationship with the Tufts campus,” Goldberg, a junior, said. “Even if you are unsure, it’s always best to talk with someone who has been trained to assess and take action regarding potential violence.”

Community members can also report using a TTAM group email or, in cases where they wish to remain anonymous, using EthicsPoint, available on the TTAM website, Maguire said.

“You don’t have to decide whether further intervention is needed,” Maguire said. “Once you report a concern, TTAM members who are trained in threat assessment and management will be able to determine if further action is needed.”

Maguire added that the TTAM service does not replace immediate police response. When in danger, university members should call the TUPD emergency number.

“When we see something of a violent or potentially violent nature, we should say something to those in a position to act,” Maguire said. “We keep our community safe when we take action to protect one another.”

Caroline Geiling / The Tufts Daily

The new Tufts Threat Assessment and Management (TTAM) program, launched this year, aims to preclude violence on campus by accessing information from departments throughout the university.

Police briefs Neighborly love

Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) at 12:19 a.m. on Oct. 4 received a call from students throwing a party on Ossipee Road. An unhappy neighbor had entered through the open front door and exchanged words with the students inside. TUPD officers arrived and diffused the argument. The neighbor also complained about frequently finding people on top of her garage roof, which abuts both her property and the off-campus residence.

Hide your books

A male was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital at 5:35 a.m. on Oct. 4 after passing out on a stairwell in Carmichael Hall. Before going to the stairwell, the patient had reportedly gone into another student’s room and urinated on the floor in front of some books. The books were irreparably damaged.

Rough weekend

A male was transported from Hill Hall to Lawrence Memorial Hospital at 1:50 a.m. on Oct. 4 after drinking five shots

of vodka and a few beers. Another male was transported to Somerville Hospital at 4:40 a.m. on Oct. 5 after a TUPD officer found him unconscious and unresponsive on the sidewalk in front of Barnum Hall.

Blowing smoke

Department eventually managed the flames, but water damage extended to the basement. Walnut Hill Realty, LLC, the agency that owns the house, is overseeing repairs.

Easy come, easy go

Police at 11:55 p.m. on Oct. 5 responded to a fire alarm in a second floor room in Tilton Hall. The alarm was still ringing when TUPD arrived. Officers, who could smell marijuana from the room, entered after receiving no answer to their knocking on the door. Two small fans were near the open window to blow the smoke out. Students denied they had been smoking. They were reported to the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.

Officers at 9:07 p.m. on Oct. 10 noticed a male and female standing on the corner of Haskell Hall. Upon seeing the officers, the two students picked up a 30-pack of beer and began to walk away. Officers followed and then questioned the students, who said they did not have any identification with them.

The male eventually admitted he was underage and that an alumnus had bought them the alcohol. He refused to disclose a name. Officers confiscated the beer.

Fraternity under fire

Homecoming down

TUPD at 2:36 p.m. on Oct. 9 responded to a fire at the Theta Chi fraternity house. The fire possibly originated from an electrical short circuit on the third floor of the building. A fraternity brother initially tried to smother the fire with his jacket before it spread to the upstairs walls. The Somerville Fire

TUPD at 1:15 a.m. on Oct. 11 received a call about a male who had incurred a head laceration after falling down the stairs of South Hall. Officers arrived on the scene to find the student still conscious and breathing, but with blood on his face. The student reported that he had been drinking. He was sent

to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment.

Just give me a reason

Police at 1:24 a.m. on Oct. 12 discovered three individuals on the roof of Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall. The officers asked the students why they were up there. The students responded that they did not have a reason and that they were just there for the experience.

No alcohol was involved.

Sunday night football

TUPD at 8:24 p.m. on Oct. 13 received a call about an intoxicated male in South Hall. Officers came to the building and questioned the student. When asked where he had been, the student said he was at the football game. He had been drinking tequila. TUPD sent the student to the Somerville Hospital.

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Members of TFS present six film showings every weekend free of charge for Tufts students, faculty and Medford and Somerville residents.

Tufts Film Series shows free movies for students by

Nina Denison

Contributing Writer

Most students would be surprised to learn that Tufts Film Series (TFS) is one of the clubs with the highest budget on campus. Since 1982, TFS has functioned with the sole purpose of providing movie entertainment to the student body, faculty and people of Medford and Somerville.

Few students know that this free form of entertainment exists at Tufts, and the group is hoping to change that.

“It’s kind of a hidden gem,” Co-Chair of TFS Sarah Gordon, a sophomore, said.

Head Projectionist Hyung-Seo Park, who has been with TFS for three years, recounted telling his friends, who had never heard of TFS, about what the club does.

“We show free movies — quite recent ones, too, good ones that people actually want to see — on the big screen, quite often,” Park, a junior, said. “And they’ll be quite surprised.”

Tufts Film Series is part of Programming Board, the umbrella organization funded by the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate that seeks to regularly provide a range of activities. According to TFS’ website, the group hit its peak popularity in the mid 1990’s, offering up to seven shows a week for $2.00 admission.

Now, shows are free, and about six screenings are held every weekend.

Gordon said that in the club’s heyday, every show brought a full house. Despite constant updates to the group’s Facebook page and website, in the past five or so years, attendance has been low.

Park said that TFS currently sees about ten people per movie, including some couples out on dates. Gordon said that on a good night the group will see maybe thirty people in all.

“I don’t want to feel like our budget is going to waste because we really do want to bring entertainment and movies and fun to the campus,” Gordon said.

Gordon explained that because film is expensive — TFS spends roughly $1,000 a week on the films — the club’s impressive budget is a valid reason why its current low attendance is so distressing.

Fellow Co-Chair Tim Charouk echoed Gordon’s sentiments.

“It’s sad when we have one of the highest budgets of any group and only three people are showing up to movies,” Charouk, a sophomore, said. “I don’t think people know about us.”

Park thought that on weekends people prefer to be more social and hang out with friends, and perhaps a quiet

theater is not an atmosphere conducive to social interaction.

“It is definitely tough to have high attendance, especially when students have other alternatives such as Netflix or the Internet,” Park said.

Despite this, Park said that audience members tend to come either in groups of four or more or as solo viewers.

Park noted that experiencing real film that is manually projected is not necessarily what students are used to.

“Despite the fact that it’s on the big screen and the sound is pretty good, you do have to realize that sometimes there are mistakes made by the projectionist,” Park said.

The responsibilities that come with being a projectionist are not for everyone, according to Gordon, who admitted that the task was a bit daunting. For those interested, TFS requires novice projectionists to take part in two training sessions and a supervised showing.

Charouk, now an experienced projectionist, went through the established training procedure, but he said mistakes can be made even after it.

“I had a mistake with ‘Braveheart,’” Charouk said. “It was a really big film, it’s long, so it was on three big reels, and when I was rewinding it went all over the place, spilled over . . . “ Charouk said.

“Tears were shed,” he joked.

Charouk said that his “Braveheart” mishap went up on the so-called Wall of Shame in the TFS headquarters, which includes mistakes from even veteran projectionists.

According to Gordon, the technicalities of digital projection, however, will not always be a challenge for TFS, as the movie industry’s transition from film to digital projection will demand modification in technology for the club in the near future.

“The overarching challenge is the transition from film to digital,” she said. “We would have to buy a fairly nice digital projector, which can go up to $50,000.”

The high cost of new technology will need to be approved by the TCU Senate, and if average attendance at Film Series screenings remains as low as it has been, Senate and Programming Board may have difficulty justifying the purchase.

“We want to stay on film for at least a few more years, so hopefully it happens when I’m gone, because I like playing with the film,” Gordon said.

According to Charouk, despite the monetary concerns, the upcoming transition will be a positive change.

“The quality will definitely improve

— there won’t be as many mistakes [or] changeovers,” Charouk said.

The projection mishaps on the TFS Wall of Shame will soon be memorials to a film era gone by.

While their method of screening films is not yet up to date with the larger film scene, TFS seeks to remain current and in-step with popular and relevant movies, according to junior Luke Dahill, the group’s head programmer.

He explained that the selection process includes input from audience members; at the end of each semester, TFS puts up a survey on their website, where students may post suggestions about the films they’d like to see in the upcoming semester. The executive board then votes on the films suggested by the student body, and Dahill compiles the schedule from there.

“We’re doing ‘Citizen Kane’ this semester, but we’re also showing ‘Iron Man 3’ and ‘Silver Linings [Playbook],’” he said.

“Silver Linings Playbook” was shown in conjunction with a discussion of mental health awareness on campus, an event run by the student group Active Minds.

Dahill said that this event was part of the attempt that TFS is making to branch out into various parts of the Tufts community.

“A lot of other groups try to collaborate with us to try and do themed weekends,” Dahill said.

Despite the efforts to bring students together in conversation and entertainment, Dahill echoed other club members’ anxieties about lack of campuswide participation.

“People don’t know about [the club],” he said. “It’s an awesome thing we do — just free movies every weekend. But people just don’t know about it.”

According to the TFS website, however, the Office for Campus Life is always looking for ways for students to have good, clean fun. Gordon said that the club intends to provide a method of weekend entertainment to students seeking alternatives to parties and alcohol-fueled activities.

“There is a huge percentage of kids on this campus who don’t drink at all, and they all think they’re alone, but they’re not,” Gordon said. “We’re trying to find ways to bring people like that together, but also it’s just fun for anyone.”

According to Gordon, movies can be fun for all sorts of people, and the majority of Tufts students are missing out on a fantastic opportunity for enjoyment.

“There are ways to have fun on campus without getting drunk, going to a party,” Gordon said. “And we’re not bashing that, of course . . . party one night, go to a movie another.”

s we know, laws are a key part of a functioning democracy that provide — what am I saying? This week, we’re dealing with three historic bodies of work: Deuteronomy, Leviticus and the 2013-14 Tufts University Student Handbook. I think it’s safe to say I’m the first Tufts student to ever read (skim) the entire handbook.

First, let’s start off with one of the worst forms of punishment: getting stoned to death. I just want to thank Tufts for not including it. In the Bible, however, it’s everywhere. You’re stoned to death if you curse God, break Sabbath, worship an idol, rebel against your parents — wait, what?

According to Deuteronomy 21:18, a rebellious son who can’t be disciplined should be taken to the elders and then all the men of the town will stone him to death.

You need the whole town?

At this point, I just want to say thank you to my parents for being so good to me. I miss you guys so much. I’m not just saying that because of Deuteronomy 21:18. It’s completely unrelated.

Let’s move on to the Tufts Handbook. On page 17, it says that no Tufts student can carry a firearm anywhere on campus. These firearms include, but are not limited to, “shotguns, rifles, pistols and revolvers, paint ball guns or BB/pellet guns; firearm replicas; ammunition; martial arts-type weapons; explosives (including fireworks); bows, crossbows, arrows; slingshots; switchblade knives, double-edged knives, hunting (fixedblade)-style knives of any length, throwing knives or folding (pocket-style) knives with a blade length of four inches or greater; swords; axes; mace, pepper gas/spray . . . “ Jesus, Tufts, we get the idea. But read that list again; there’s no mentioning of stones anywhere. That begs the question: should stones be banned on campus?

This is a complex issue and a public forum may be necessary.

I gotta say, the 2013-14 Handbook could use some updating. In the Residents’ Bill of Rights it states that all residential students have “the right to expect reasonable cooperation in the use of shared items in the room, such as a TV and telephone.” Who shares a telephone? Is it talking about landlines? If you have a landline in your room, email me with the subject line: “I HAVE A LANDLINE.” The handbook also states, “Many students participate in social bulletin boards and websites such as Facebook, MySpace and others.”

Who’s editing this handbook?

While most of it’s incredibly boring, one section really made it worth it. Just skip to page 13: “It is a violation of university policy for a faculty member or academic administrator to engage in an amorous, dating or sexual relationship with a student whom he/she instructs, evaluates, supervises, or advises or over whom he/she is in a position to exercise authority in any way.” Okay, so you can’t have sex with your professor, but I may have found a loophole: it doesn’t mention professors who you’re not involved with. So next time you go to The Burren on a Monday night and strike up a conversation with a biology professor and you’re studying art history, you’re good to go . . . I think — don’t take my word on this one.

Deuteronomy and Leviticus also discuss 4th base. They outlaw having sex with people of the same gender, close relatives (shout-out to Freud) and animals (shout-out to Catherine the Great). Curiously, sleeping with your professor is not prohibited.

This is a major dilemma. Whose rules do you follow: God’s or Tufts administration’s?

It comes down to a classic battle: Anthony “Tony” Monaco vs. God “The Lord.” Monaco was a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford, but God created man? I’m going with Monaco.

Ben Zuckert is a senior majoring in political science. He can be reached at Benjamin.

Zuckert@tufts.edu.

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Louis Boston showcases the latest fall trends.

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The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) opened its doors on Oct. 4 to visitors ages 21 and over for its second “First Friday” event of the year. This month’s “First Friday” — which featured a “Fashion Forward” theme — included a fashion presentation with pieces from Louis Boston, a preeminent Boston-based boutique, as well as an introduction to this season’s fall

TV review

‘Homeland’ lacks intensity of previous seasons by

Claire Markoff

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The massive explosion at the end of the season two finale of “Homeland” left fans anxiously

trends from Boston Globe style writer Christopher Muther.

These ICA events are held, as the name implies, on the first Friday of every month and feature diverse themes and various special events throughout the evening. The “First Friday” nights give college and middle-aged Bostonians a unique opportunity to learn more about the museum’s collections after hours and to enjoy an evening out on the town in a fun and engaging environment.

Airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on Showtime awaiting the Sept. 29 premiere of season three. Now, two episodes in, fans and the CIA are still looking for answers about the attack that killed over 200 people right inside their own headquarters. Nick Brody (Damian Lewis) has been publicly blamed for the attack, but although he is discussed extensively in the first two episodes, Brody is currently in hiding and never seen. Again, Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) is on a mission to prove the world wrong, this time by exonerating Brody for the bombing — viewers must once more decide if she is a genius or mentally unstable.

Regular viewers will be familiar with the ups and downs of Carrie’s battle with bipolar disorder, something she has struggled with in previous episodes. Now, however, Carrie is not only dealing with her condition, but she is also fighting against the CIA and her closest friend, Saul see HOMELAND, page 6

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Movie Review

‘A.C.O.D.’ fails to live up to potential of cast by

Lara LoBrutto

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“A.C.O.D” (the acronym stands for “Adult Children of Divorce”) is difficult to categorize. It can’t be classified

A.C.O.D.

Homeland Starring Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin

The ICA offered plenty of options for attendees of the four-hour event by providing a multitude of stations organized by floor. Guests were greeted with flashing lights and pulsing music on the first floor of the ICA. Upon entering, they were invited to either make their way to the State Street Corporation Lobby — which featured a dance floor, VIP area and two bars — or to the photo booth area, where addi-

Directed by Stu Zicherman Starring Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Amy Poehler as a romantic comedy because the romance is minimal, but it’s not exactly

a comedy-drama, since it features only melodrama at best. As for comedy — in spite of a plethora of top-notch comedians — it simply falls short of funny.

“A.C.O.D.” follows the story of a grown man named Carter (Adam Scott), who believes that his parents’ traumatic divorce is behind him even when his younger brother’s engagement causes the issues of his past to resurface. To make matters worse, Carter finally learns that he was the subject of a study conducted by his “therapist,” Dr. Judith ( Jane Lynch) — who, it turns out, was not really see A.C.O.D., page 6

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Adam Scott stars as Carter, opposite Jane Lynch’s Dr. Judith, in ‘A.C.O.D.’

ast Friday, I attended a discussion for international students adjusting to the U.S. culture called “Decoding U.S. Culture” — a topic that is conveniently very pertinent to this column.

I found it oddly similar to a scene from “Mind Your Language,” an old TV show I used to watch where students from all over the world were in a classroom hoping to learn English. The main idea of the show was that if you knew the main language spoken, you could easily adapt.

This was certainly not the case in the talk last week. Although we know the language here, we have had difficulty translating some of the cultural practices to those we practice back home. It was quite amusing to watch all of us munch away at our pizza when our first words of conversation were lamenting how much we missed food from back home.

I then thought about how Americans are perceived when they visit other countries, such as Thailand. Do we refer to them as “internationals” since they aren’t from our country? No — we just think of them as Americans. Despite the vastness of the country, it seems to me that those from the United States are given the more specific label of “American,” whereas everyone else from other countries are grouped under the term “international.”

In this discussion of “American” versus “international” culture, I realized how much we international kids are sacrificing while studying here at Tufts. We have moved away from our houses, families, friends, communities, language and cultural cuisine. As admirable as Dewick is for supplying food from places around the world, I have heard students complain about how it falls short of the taste of food from back home. Maybe it doesn’t taste like authentic Thai, Indian or Vietnamese food because we aren’t in our hometowns.

But at the same time, it seems like pizza, hamburgers, French fries and other types of food associated with the “American” diet are accessible almost everywhere.

The same goes for language. English is spoken in many places around the world, but this isn’t true of many other languages.

Sure, there are people from Thailand, India and China living abroad in the United States who create close-knit communities to maintain their culture. But for international students, we have to actively seek out these communities. From what I’ve noticed back home in Thailand, many cultural practices have shifted from accommodating the locals to accommodating tourists — most of whom are Americans.

However, I have to keep in mind that I’m trying to create a link between tourists in other countries and students in the United States. The only difference I see, though, is that international students stay for a longer period of time, forcing us to adjust instead of marvel at how different the customs are.

I’m not trying to bash the American culture at all. In fact, I want to take this opportunity to share how great the magnitude of change is for international students. Just yesterday, I had my first proper Indian meal, and it felt as if home was a little closer. The discussion on U.S. culture was conveniently held just a week after Parents Weekend, when most international kids were surrounded by parents, but not their own. At the one-month mark since we’ve arrived, homesickness has become a reality for some. My suggestion is that the next time you’re talking to a friend who happens to be an “international,” ask them over to your house for the weekend. A family setting may be just what they need at this point in time.

Nimarta Narang is a freshman who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at nimarta.narang@tufts.edu

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tional cocktails inspired by the museums’ current exhibitions could be purchased.

In addition to the dance floor and photo booth on the first floor, guests could explore the designer trunk show of South Boston-based design company Pilgrim Waters, which introduced its fall lineup of hand-woven and hand-silkscreened scarves in cashmere and merino, as well as a selection of interior goods located in the ICA store.

On the second floor, guests were dazzled by avant-garde pieces from the Louis boutique featured in the fashion show and were able to learn about the latest fall trends introduced at New York City fashion week. This was held in the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, overlooking the water.

On the final floor, guests were welcomed to peruse the galleries at their leisure or take a gallery tour of the “Amy Sillman: One Lump or Two” exhibit, offered every 30 minutes. The collection, featuring work by American painter Amy Sillman, includes vivid abstract paintings, intimate drawings, cartoons and animations, all tracing the development of her work over the past 25 years.

Tufts students may not be familiar with the ICA, located in the South Boston Seaport District, seeing as it is quite far from the Medford/Somerville campus or even the Museum of Fine Arts, located in the Back Bay area.

The ICA was initially founded as the Boston Museum of Modern Art in 1936 with the purpose of solely exhibiting contemporary art. Formerly located on Boylston Street in

Boston’s Back Bay area, the ICA was moved to its current location on the Fan Pier in 2006. The new location allowed the ICA to showcase its permanent collection in a larger space and hold new programming, such as the “First Friday” events, in a more progressive and modern building.

For 21-and-over students interested in getting off campus and exploring the Boston art scene, this event is a must before graduation. Tickets can be purchased in advance online at www.icaboston.org/ programs/first-fridays/ for the next “80’s Night”-themed “First Friday.” The ICA can be reached via the Courthouse or World Trade Center T stops by taking the Red Line from Davis Square to South Station and then transferring to the Silver Line.

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Artist Amy Sillmans’ ‘Me and Ugly Mountain’ is on view at the ICA.

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‘Homeland’ actor Damian Lewis plays Nick Brody, a marine sergeant.

Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), who are all intent on blaming Brody for the attack. At this point, Danes can probably act like “crazy Carrie” in her sleep — screaming, eyes bulging, handwringing Carrie — but it is still incredibly unnerving to watch. The image of Carrie getting dragged out of a psychiatric commitment hearing is a new low point that elicits both sympathy and pity from audiences.

The writers’ new attempt to spice up the Carrie-against-the-world storyline by turning Saul into her enemy is simply not believable. While at times frustrating, the close relationship between Carrie and Saul has been one of the only constants in the show. In the crazy world of “Homeland,” where the line between good guy and bad guy is often blurred, the trust between Saul and Carrie has been a source of serenity for viewers. In the wake of last season’s attack, Saul was promoted to Director of the CIA, but it doesn’t seem realistic for him to entirely abandon his feelings of loyalty toward Carrie just because he has risen in the ranks.

The other main plotline of season three focuses on how Brody’s alleged bombing has affected his family, specifically his teenage daughter Dana (Morgan Saylor). With the whole world talking about the hunt for her father, Dana tries to kill herself. Viewers witness the aftermath of her suicide attempt, resulting in serious family drama. In a

series that frequently depicts international assassination attempts and acts of terrorism, seeing the strained relationship between Dana and her mother brings a sense of reality to the show.

However, it is clear that “Homeland” is struggling to regain some of its past intensity. “Homeland” is not “Glee” (2009-present) — for the show to focus so heavily on Dana’s teenage rebellion is completely out of place. It’s almost as if the writers conducted a Google search for “ways teenage girls act out” and picked the top three hits. They have not done a good job of justifying Dana’s sexting or sneaking out, and her anger with the world about her father is understandable but ultimately not enough. The writers have also completely ignored how Dana’s mother and brother are dealing with their own feelings — viewers are reassured they are fine and told to concentrate on Dana.

Season three would certainly benefit from the return of Brody, which is rumored to happen in episode three.

It will also be interesting to see what is in store for Fara (Nazanin Boniadi), the hijab-wearing banking analyst introduced in episode two. So far the writers of “Homeland” have demonstrated that no target is off limits and seem to have an endless supply of terrorists they can create. Now, they must either bring back Brody and tie up the loose ends associated with the CIA bombings or create an entirely new threat to give season three any hope of picking up.

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a therapist, but rather the author of a New York Times bestseller about children of divorce — for which Carter was interviewed without his consent.

Inspired by his brother’s nuptial plans, Carter plans to reconcile his mother and father and negotiate a truce between the once feuding ex-spouses.

Unfortunately, his plan works too well and his problem swings to the opposite side of the spectrum: Now he cannot tear his parents apart.

Whatever novelty existed in the storyline is erased by a mediocre script populated with caricatures rather than characters. This is Stu Zicherman’s directorial debut, so perhaps he should be cut some slack, but this movie does not presage a successful directing career in his future.

Carter is an ordinary guy — a restaurant owner who has turned over a new leaf since his parents’ divorce during his childhood. He has a good-looking yogainstructor girlfriend of four years (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), whom he has yet to propose to — though his parents imply that they are not holding their breath. His father (Richard Jenkins) is the type of man that flirts with young

women, gets manicures and has a third wife (Amy Poehler) barely older than Carter himself. Poehler’s comedic talent is wasted on the role of Sondra; in fact, stripped of a funny script and sporting a perpetual grimace, she is barely recognizable. Comedic genius and Emmy-winner Lynch as Dr. Judith is another actress whose humor was largely untapped. When Carter comes knocking on her door, she, like a less cynical version of Glee’s (2009-present) Sue Sylvester, has her own interests in mind — she sees the adult Carter as the key to another bestseller.

The movie begins with a promising plot. Carter’s parents refuse to be in the same room together, to the extent that younger sibling Trey (Clark Duke) and his fiancé矡actually consider eloping. “I’ll elope with them,” their mom (Catherine O’Hara) suggests, in the hopes of excluding her ex from the momentous occasion. But when Carter walks in on his parents having sex on the kitchen counter, the movie lost all potential. The concept is “It’s Complicated” (2009) all over again — except here the problem lies not in complexity but in simplicity.

The film stagnates at some point toward the middle, and Zicherman misses the “feel-good” factor that makes a movie

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Amy Poehler’s comedic talent falls short of its full potential in ‘A.C.O.D.’ like this worth watching. It stands in stark contrast with the surprisingly insightful and enjoyable Judd Apatow comedy, “This is 40” (2012).

For a film that tackles a serious topic — beginning with the unfortunate statistic that “one in two marriages end in divorce” — it is frustratingly shallow.

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with real-life children of divorce, it instead settles for cliches. Ultimately, “A.C.O.D” tries to do too many things at once and fails to arrive at any worthwhile conclusions. Carter is just like any other adult trying to escape his past; the only difference is — surprise, surprise — he does not have much faith in marriage.

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In light of the numerous reported instances of violence on college campuses over the past few years, the Oct. 7 announcement of the Tufts Threat Assessment Management ( TTAM) program was not a moment too soon.

Tufts’ Department of Public and Environmental Safety, which consists of the Tufts University Police Department ( TUPD), Environmental Health & Safety, Fire Safety, Emergency Management/Communications, Tufts Emergency Medical Services and Administrative Services, will be in charge of implementing and maintaining TTAM. This new program is a step in the right direction, preemptively addressing the threat of violence at Tufts and providing an additional safety resource to all three campuses at a time when crime in and around the Medford/Somerville campus seems

to be on the rise. With the introduction of TTAM, Tufts joins several peer institutions that have adopted similar systems in an effort to improve their campus safety and crisis management capacities.

The preparation and accessibility of these resources means that the administration will be able to identify and address threats to student safety in an organized and timely manner — and hopefully prevent violence on campus. Additionally, this program increases the administration’s capacity to assist community members who may be placed in dangerous situations on campus.

TTAM follows other improvements to the safety apparatus on campus regarding pedestrian safety, implemented in the beginning of summer 2012 and announced this past September. These improvements were accompanied by a short video created

by TUPD, encouraging pedestrians to practice good safety habits.

In order to maximize the effectiveness of TTAM, similar efforts should be made to educate members of the Tufts community about the new program. Although the administration states that “recognizing and reporting early signs of a potentially dangerous situation are crucial to preventing violence” and offers a short list of things to do in an emergency situation, more information should be sent out about how to communicate with the TTAM staff, as well as how to respond in various emergency situations. Increased awareness of TTAM around campus would certainly enhance the system’s value.

That being said, the creation of TTAM lends confidence to our university’s ability to protect any students who feel as if they are in an unsafe situation on campus.

years, harmless and unobtrusive, desperate for shelter from the elements.

Although he does not have a legal right to be there, the homeless man is human. He has inherent self-worth like all people. I find it reprehensible for the author to have such a callous disregard for human kindness or even a slight degree of sympathy. The sarcasm, condescension and disgust evident in the tone of the article indicates a disconnect from the unhappy facts of the world, a problem endemic in parts of the student body. There are more homes than homeless in America. Many homeless people suffer mental illness and disability. Many are veterans, mothers, fathers, children, abandoned and alone.

Rather than concern for the homeless man and his plight, the author

felt concern for herself and her housemates — understandable but reprehensible. She called this man a “horror.” She ignorantly used a term that is loaded with connotations: “an underground railroad of homeless folk.” To compare men and women who have nothing, who have few if anyone left, to “horrors” and to allege that they are similar to slaves displays the worst in the human psyche: apathy and antipathy to the weak and oppressed of the world. What right does a privileged student have to criticize some of the most vulnerable people on the Earth?

Who is she, or any of us, to judge these men and women, who undergo a cycle of suffering and misery?

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Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, While reading the right hand page of the opinion section of the Tufts Daily this Tuesday, I was greeted by a dignified and well-worded article on The Primary Source. The Primary Source, despite campus reputation as a “notorious” publication, does have a right to publish on campus.

However, it is not The Primary Source I am concerned by. To the right, a Tufts student engaged in outrageous attacks on the homeless. She referred to them as “hobos,” a derogative term, and displayed an uncanny ignorance of the real world. I ask the author whether she has been homeless or ever experienced near-homelessness. The man has evidently lived in the basement on and off for 13

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Depending on the time of day or week, advertisements are targeted at your mood.

If you’re a woman, those advertisements are targeted at your insecurities, too.

Research from media planning agency PHD offers advertising strategies aimed at women when they feel the least attractive.

PHD surveyed women 18 and older across the U.S. to determine when they felt most vulnerable about their appearance in order to choose the best time to advertise beauty products.

The results show nearly half of women feel most insecure during Monday mornings.

The firm suggested concentrating media during “prime vulnerability moments.”

It’s no surprise advertisers pay attention to consumers’ emotions in order to sell products. Their job is to convince people to purchase, and they’re completely justified in seizing emotional opportunities.

However, the blatant exploitation of women’s most insecure moments in an attempt to make profit is not justified.

Only 2 percent of women described themselves as “beautiful” in a survey conducted by global polling firm StrategyOne. More than 65 percent of those same women agreed that media and advertising set an unrealistic standard of beauty that can never be achieved.

If most women hold advertising at least partially responsible for unrealistic standards of beauty, then predatory advertisements feed off the same insecurities they help produce.

Advertising targeted at vulnerable women becomes especially problematic when compared to men. The PHD study didn’t mention men as subjects whatsoever.

A YouGov survey said that only 16 percent of women don’t typically use any skin or style products to get ready in the morning, compared to more than 50 percent of men.

Beauty product advertisers target women, and it works.

Regardless of how unethical exploiting women’s insecurities may seem, it’s perfectly legal.

In fact, many businesses take it a step further — they charge women more than men for the same product.

In a phenomenon known as gender pricing, products and services like lotion, shampoo, health insurance and car repairs are purposely more expensive when women buy them. California found that women paid $1,351 annually in extra costs and fees.

Though laws prohibit gender-based discrimination in job and house hunting, there aren’t any federal laws banning gender-based discrimination in the sale of goods and services.

Ultimately, the current advertising system perpetuates vulnerability in women and then legally exploits it to its fullest advantage.

In April, Dove ran a campaign called “Dove Real Beauty,” which demonstrated a new marketing technique. The campaign asked women to describe themselves to a sketch artist, have someone else describe them to the artist and compare the sketches.

Most women were surprised at how harshly they judged themselves in comparison to an outside opinion.

Instead of reinforcing the stereotype of an insecure woman, advertising companies should consider campaigns that empower women to feel beautiful.

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Sometimes, I feel as if I am just going through the motions. So much of my Dartmouth experience has been about next steps — deciding on how many majors to pursue, what graduate school to attend and so on. In many ways, as I look back on my time at Dartmouth to date, I feel like I have missed two years of my life.

By pragmatically spelling out my personal goals and planning precisely how to achieve them, I have not spared myself a minute in my overbooked schedule to think or reflect on my education. Perhaps even more importantly, I have not taken a moment to assess my own intellectual maturation and how I was changing as a person through that process. In my calculated trajectory toward the next chapter of my life, I lost passion to practicality. In forgetting about education’s ultimate purpose — to transform and enlighten — I certainly have just been going through the motions: riding a conveyer belt to a graduation stage, knowing that when I stood up in front of the thousands of people staring right back at me on the Green, my diploma would have honors stamped on it. But how important are those tangibles of our education — the grades, the citations

and the honors — in the long haul?

Too often, as ambitious overachievers in today’s meritocracy, we have overlooked the intangible of insight in favor of numbers. For instance, taking four classes at Dartmouth in a single term has become more indicative of success than fully investing oneself in three. Achieving straight As in three layup courses earns a student more accolades than another student who finishes with less favorable grades in a much more personally challenging schedule. Could we blame the system of higher education itself for cornering students into this almost mindless pursuit of what is deemed the highest success? Sure, but it is never going to change. Merit equals success today more than ever.

I wish that I had heard this from someone much sooner than I came to realize it myself — think below the grandeur. Instead of focusing in so closely on what comes next, whether it be Yale Law School, Harvard Medical School or an investment banking job at Morgan Stanley, spend some time in the present. There is no doubt that you are not exactly the same person, with the same interests, talents and friends, as you were the first day you set foot on campus. Where have your passions led you?

I am not here to say that enroll-

ing in a class with a light workload or high median is a bad thing, or even sometimes necessary given the rest of your schedule. But choosing to take classes term and term again for the grade that will appear on your transcript rather than their intellectual attractiveness to you is choosing to go through the motions. The same can be said for activities beyond the classroom: extracurriculars, internships, volunteer hours and athletics. Time is priceless. We only have four years of undergraduate study to find what it is we love doing and develop an undying thirst to further pursue that passion post-Dartmouth. If we do not find an utmost joy in what we are doing, then why do we continue to beat on?

The mentality of finding happiness only after being admitted to the best graduate school or employed by the most prestigious corporation is an irrational one. What happens when we make it to the next level?

Does the mindless pursuit of merit to achieve the “what’s next” end? If the Dartmouth conveyer belt is any indication, post-grad life will not slow down afterwards as much as we would like to believe. So if we simply plod along with our eyes fixed on the future, we miss out on the best years of our young lives. Why? Because we looked past their importance.

esterday, the new editor of The Primary Source ran an op-ed in The Daily explaining why he felt it was important for Tufts to have a conservative publication on campus.

Tufts does need a conservative voice on campus. Although The Source has consistently shown itself to be incapable of handling that responsibility appropriately, it is a void that is often left unfilled. If Austin Berg and his new staff can get the new publication to adequately represent that voice, then I wish them all the best in re-establishing Tufts’ “Journal of Conservative Thought.”

Sometimes, there are even issues where I’ll agree with The Source. They do have reasonable points with regards to unionization, divestment and constitutional interpretation.

But this reminded me of another point issue: Every so often, I’ll mention in conversation to a friend or acquaintance my acceptance of some portion of a conservative message, and they will use that as a springboard to ask why I can’t support a Republican. (Scott Brown was often the example used last year.) And the answer is simply this: Despite how conservative you are, no American should support the Republican Party at this time.

Now, the Democrats, or as a friend once described them to me, “those folks who are good on social issues but want to bankrupt me to fund retirement programs that I’m never going to get,” aren’t particularly great either. But I cannot see how any conservative could intellectually justify supporting the Republican Party after what they nearly did in July 2011 and what they’re threatening to do now in October 2013 with the debt ceiling.

A U.S. naval admiral who commanded our strategic nuclear arsenal was demoted and fired last month after an investigation revealed that he was gambling with fake chips. Sound familiar?

The Republican Party knows that they cannot let the country default on its debt, yet they have been willing to cause pain and hurt to millions of furloughed employees and contractors, as well as to those they help, to try to push through political positions that they could not otherwise. (They want, depending on when you ask, a delay of mandatory health care coverage or significant cost cutting to social insurance programs.)

Their threat if things don’t go their way: economic meltdown.

On CNN, there’s a countdown clock that is ticking down to tomorrow, Oct. 17. Although that is when the government will be unable to borrow more money, it is not the start date of an economic calamity. But rest assured (or not) — by the end of the month, the government must either default on its debt or immediately shut down all non-debt related payments.

The latter includes Social Security payments to the elderly; Medicare and Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals; pay to military and civilian employees and obligations to all government contractors. Essential personnel might be asked to work anyway (with the hope that eventually we might pay them later), but the Treasury Department literally does not have the technical capacity to pay only some bills and not others. In addition to that being completely illegal, noted leftist hippies such as Goldman Sachs and the American Enterprise Institute have made it clear that trying either this or defaulting on our debt would destroy any economic recovery we have had since 2009.

So, campus conservatives, you do your thing. If I’m not going to convince you that society has a moral imperative to provide extra for the poorest among us or that large corporations need greater oversight, fine. But find a way to back those positions without necessarily pushing us to support the Republican Party. Because right now only one party thinks the normal political process involves credibly threatening to destroy the world economy, and it isn’t the Democratic one.

Bhushan Deshpande is a senior majoring in quantitative economics. He can be reached at Bhushan.Deshpande@tufts.edu.

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TONIGHT, WED, OCT 16, 7:00pm, BRAKER 001 SA’ED ATSHAN Sa’ed Atshan’s doctoral research is on the politics of international aid provision in the Palestinian Territories. He has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union, the UN High Commission on Refugees, Human Rights Watch, Seeds of Peace, the Palestinian Negotiations Affairs Department, and the Government of Dubai. He is a member of Al-Qaws, an organization promoting LGBTQ rights for Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories. He is also a Lecturer in Peace and Justice Studies at Tufts University.

MOUIN RABBANI (A’86) Mouin Rabbani (A’86) is an independent writer and analyst specializing in Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is a senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies and is a Contributing Editor to the Middle East Report. He served as a Senior Analyst/Middle East with the International Crisis Group - with his focus on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Previously he worked as Palestine Director of the Palestinian American Research Center, and before that as project director for the Association of Netherlands Municipalities in a project to establish the Association of Palestinian Local Authorities. From 1988-1990 he was volunteer researcher at Al-Haq, and among other things served as General Editor for the 1990 Al-Haq annual report A Nation Under Siege. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures.

HUGH ROBERTS Hugh Roberts is the Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History and the Director of Middle East Studies at Tufts. Having conducted extensive research in Algeria, he taught politics and political history in the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia from 1976 to 1988. In 1997, he returned to academic life as a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, a post he held till 2002. In 2001, he moved to Cairo where he lived for ten years, conducting additional research on Egyptian political history and the history of Islamism in North Africa and working for the International Crisis Group as Director of its North Africa Project in 2002-2007, and again from January to July 2011.

SHERMAN TEICHMAN Sherman Teichman is the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. A lecturer in the arts and social sciences at Tufts since 1984, Mr. Teichman was a former fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Politics, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a faculty member at Boston University and Emerson College. A former adviser on counter terrorism and long-range strategic planning for the Israeli government, he was also active with Amnesty International in the former Soviet Union and Central America. He sits on the Advisory Boards for The Project on Justice in Times of Transition and Daughters for Life.

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well earned points in the beginning and again used the momentum to ultimately win,” Glickman said.

In the B singles flight, Wong won his opening match against Peter Davis of Bowdoin 6-2, 2-6, 10-6 before falling to Middlebury’s Jackson Frons 6-1, 6-0. Also in the B singles flight was fellow classmate Kevin Kelly, who lost his opening match to Skidmore’s Gabe Steerman 2-6, 6-4, 10-5.

Tufts’ best results came from the final two singles flights, where Tan and Ladwig each finished in the top four of their respective C and D flights.

In the C singles flight, Tan won his first match against Danny Lubarsky from Brandeis 7-5, 6-1 before beating Brenton Arnaboldi of Amherst 4-6, 6-1, 10-8. In the semifinals, Tan lost to Alan Jackson of Middlebury, 6-4, 6-3. Jackson would go on to win the B singles flight in the finals.

While Rosen competed along with Tan in the singles flight, he lost his opening match to Kei Yuen Leung of Skidmore 6-2, 6-2.

In the D singles flight, Ladwig won his first match by easily taking down John Neufeld of Bates 6-0, 6-0. He continued his campaign by winning another

match against Jeff Cherkin of Brandeis 6-1, 6-1. In the semifinals, Ladwig went up against Amherst’s Phillip Qu and lost in one of the closest matches of the tournament, 5-7, 6-2, 10-8.

The doubles side of the tournament only had two flights.

In the A flight, Glickman and Jacobson teamed up and lost to Eric Ruta and Patrick Ordway of Bates 8-3.

While Glickman and Jacobson’s first outing as a doubles pair resulted in a loss, they both are confident moving forward as a team.

“Rob and I were definitely disappointed after the loss, but it was our first time playing together and we have a lot to build off of,” Glickman said. “We have great team chemistry, and with a little more fine-tuning, I am confident that we can compete with any team in Div. III.” In the B flight, Tan and Rosen defeated Matt Carroll and Sam Bachelder of Colby 9-7(3) before losing to Allen Jackson and Teddy Fitzgibbons of Middlebury in a close match, 8-6.

The Wallach Invitational tournament wraps up play for the team’s fall season, which serves as a tune-up for the main spring season.

“The fall season is always a great barometer of what kind of work we

need to put in during the offseason,” Glickman said. “All of the guys are extremely motivated and excited to push each other the next couple of months in order to be in the best shape possible for the spring.”

Jacobson, too, is excited to work hard in the off-season with the team in order to improve and have a solid showing in the spring.

“The goal is always to try and figure out ways to be a better player, teammate and leader every single day,” Jacobson said. “This is something that I really believe is the key to the team’s success moving forward into the spring season. We are constantly doing the right things and putting in the necessary hours, and we are all very excited about what the spring will bring.”

Tufts played just one dual match this fall, which resulted in an 8-1 win over Babson. They competed in three invitational tournaments — the Brown Invitational, the Middlebury Invitational and the Wallach Invitational — along with the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Championships.

The next time the Jumbos are back in action will be over spring break, when the team will travel to California to open the spring season.

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for much of the first half, both teams constantly found themselves getting trapped on the outside with nowhere to go with the ball.

Late in the first half, however, the Jumbos finally struck, when Blumenthal netted his second goal of the season.

“Monil [Patel] played a great ball in from the corner,” Blumenthal said. “We were able to get a couple [people] in the box, and I think Maxime [Hoppenot] got a foot on it, and then I was just able to connect on the end of it and put the ball in the back of the net.”

The Jumbos were able to maintain their one-goal lead going into halftime and appeared to be on the path to their third straight victory in the NESCAC. However, the second half was a different story than the first.

“It was definitely a very tight first half and the stronger of our two halves,” Blumenthal said. “I think we were kind of getting stuck in the tackles more in the first half and just fighting for it more, and I think we lost that mentality in the second half.”

Although the second half remained a defensive struggle, Conn. College

came out of the break with noticeably more energy and aggression. The Camels drew three offside calls in the first 16 minutes as they consistently tried to push the ball down the field, and forced the Jumbos keeper, freshman Scott Greenwood, into his first save of the day. Greenwood, though, was not able to keep the Camels off the board much longer, when sophomore forward Matthew Bitchell took the ball down the right side of the field and sent in a cross to classmate midfielder Daniel Adair. Adair took a clear shot at the net and sent the ball past Greenwood for the equalizer.

“It was kind of a second runner toward the top of the box,” junior defenseman Sam Williams said. “We picked up the first guy coming in, but they had a midfielder coming in after those guys, and the cross went to the top of the box, and we didn’t cut the cross out. I stepped to pressure him, but he got it through my legs. It was pretty unlucky.”

The rest of the half saw both teams battling for field position and struggling to generate quality chances. The Jumbos and Camels managed only one shot apiece after the goal and entered overtime tied 1-1.

“I don’t think we bounced back from that goal very well,” Williams said. “Typically when a team scores on you, you try to pick it back up and get your energy back. We weren’t really able to do that.”

Conn. College continued to bring the pressure on a suddenly lagging Tufts team, forcing Greenwood into two more saves in the first overtime.

In the second overtime, the Camel attack finally broke through for the game-winning golden goal when senior tri-captain Billy Hawkey received a pass downfield from sophomore back Colin Patch. Hawkey was left one-on-one with Greenwood and sent the ball past the diving goalie’s fingertips for the game-winning goal.

For the Jumbos, the loss does not diminish another successful season but instead has given them more reason to strive for improvement.

“I think we just need to keep our energy up and be tough, and play as a team,” Williams said. “We’re trying to keep it positive, and it’s really in our hands now. The conference is really tight, but if we get results the rest of the way we’ll be in the competition for second place.”

Jumbos take home one win, one loss from Maine VOLLEYBALL

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during the course of the weekend,” Thompson said. “When we passed well, we were able to execute offensively, as our setters had great options.

Our serving was very tough overall, and we were encouraged to see that, as that is something we have been working on.”

Junior Isabel Kuhel, who tallied eight kills versus Bowdoin, felt the same way.

“We played at a much higher level this week in practice and throughout the weekend,” she told the Daily in an email. “We showed our competitive fighter side, and I loved it.”

Tufts’ first game of the weekend was a matchup in Lewiston, Maine against Bates. The Bobcats played well early in the match, winning the second set

25-23 after leading late in the first set, before the Jumbos snatched victory out of their hands with a strong finishing kick.

But Tufts has proven themselves to be the superior team over the course of the season, and they made that abundantly clear in the final two sets.

In set three, they posted a .625 hitting percentage and cruised to an easy 25-10 win. Their victory in the fourth set was even more convincing, a 25-7 blowout that not only clinched the win for Tufts, but also left no doubts about who was the better team.

“It was awesome on Friday to feel like we were playing at our best again,” Kuhel said. “We showed just how competitive we can be and really turned it around after a disappointing weekend last week.”

Thompson, pleased to see her team

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rebound against a worthy adversary, echoed those sentiments.

“Anytime you win in the NESCAC, it’s a good feeling,” she said. “The conference is much improved, and every match counts, so it certainly was a good victory for the team.”

The Jumbos, now 4-3 against NESCAC teams and 12-7 overall, will host Hamilton and Middlebury this weekend. Tufts is hopeful it can sweep both games and move up in the conference standings, where they are currently in fourth place behind Williams, Bowdoin and Amherst.

Given that Hamilton is winless in conference play and Middlebury is 3-3, Tufts will be favored against both opponents, but will need to continue its impressive play if it hopes to remain in the top tier of the NESCAC.

Tyler Maher | Beantown Beat

Comeback city

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unday was a pretty good day to be a Boston sports fan.

First in Foxborough, the New England Patriots brought an end to the New Orleans Saints’ undefeated season. The highly anticipated matchup pitted two of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history against each other, and neither one disappointed. What resulted was a shootout in which both teams exchanged blows like heavyweight prizefighters. New England led 17-7 at the half, only to let Drew Brees and the Saints come storming back to go up 27-23 late in the fourth quarter.

New Orleans appeared to have the game in hand after intercepting Tom Brady with 2:16 to go. But the Patriots’ defense forced a quick three-and-out to hand the ball back over to Brady on the New England 30 with 1:13 remaining. That proved to be just enough time for Brady to lead a game-winning drive that culminated with a 17-yard touchdown pass to rookie Kenbrell Thompkins with five seconds remaining.

The Patriots’ comeback would soon be overshadowed by the one that unfolded at Fenway Park later that evening. The Detroit Tigers were in town for Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, and the Red Sox were in trouble. They trailed the Tigers 5-1 in the eighth inning, and at that very moment their magical season was on the verge of unraveling. Boston’s bats had gone ice-cold at the worst possible time.

They had been held to one hit in Game 1 (a ninth inning single) and zero hits through the first 5 and 2/3 innings in Game 2. It was painful to watch. The Red Sox were going to leave Boston in a 0-2 hole, with Justin Verlander waiting to mow them down in Game 3.

Down four runs with five outs to go, Boston’s win probability was a measly 2.8 percent. The Red Sox had never won a playoff game in which they trailed by so much, so late. Fans began trickling out of the ballpark. If they had known what was about to transpire, then surely they would have stayed, but nobody could have predicted what happened next.

With their backs to the wall, the Red Sox rallied. They loaded the bases with two outs, bringing David Ortiz to the plate. If anyone was capable of turning this game around with one swing of the bat, it was Ortiz — one of the best postseason hitters of all time. It didn’t matter that he had never hit a home run off Joaquin Benoit, the Tigers’ closer brought in to exhaust the flames. It didn’t matter that he had never hit a bases-loaded home run in the playoffs before. Ortiz was going to come through.

Sure enough, Big Papi delivered. He turned on Benoit’s first pitch and belted it into the Boston bullpen, just beyond the reach of a leaping Torii Hunter. The crowd, silent for much of the night, erupted. Benoit was stunned. The game, which only moments before had looked like a certain win for Detroit, was tied. Ortiz’s momentum-shifting grand slam breathed new life into the Red Sox. After that, there was no doubt about who was going to win. The shell-shocked Tigers went down 1-2-3 in the top of the ninth, setting the stage for Boston’s dramatic walk-off victory. Jonny Gomes got things started with an infield single and soon reached third after a throwing error and wild pitch. The next batter, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, poked a groundball single through the left side of the infield to bring Gomes home and knot the ALCS at one game apiece. After coming so close to defeat, the Red Sox were charging out of the dugout to mob Saltalamacchia while “Dirty Water” echoed throughout the century-old ballpark.

Incredible. Absolutely incredible.

Tyler Maher is a junior who is majoring in economics. He can be reached at Tyler.

Maher@tufts.edu.

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Men’s Tennis

Tennis team competes in fall’s final tournament at Bates

by Jorge

Monroy-Palacio

Daily Staff Writer

Two weeks after competing at the ITA Regional Championships at Middlebury, the Tufts men’s tennis team headed to Bates to participate in the Wallach Invitational.

There, the Jumbos were represented by seniors Zach Ladwig and Austin Blau, junior Brian Tan, sophomores Rob Jacobson and Jay Glickman, and freshmen Brad Wong, Kevin Kelly and Ryan Rosen.

Jacobson and Glickman were the two competitors from Tufts to compete in the A singles flight.

Jacobson won his openinground match against Jimmy Sherpa of Skidmore, 6-1, 6-4.

In the second round, Jacobson faced stiff competition in Dan Carpenter of Trinity and fell, 6-4, 6-1.

Although Jacobson’s victory in round one appeared easy, he acknowledged that a strong game plan was necessary to

come out on top.

“Although the score reads that I won 6-1, 6-4, the match was not all that straightforward,” Jacobson said. “Coach [ Jaime] Kenney gave me a great game plan, and in the adverse situations of the match I was able to come through and play my best tennis.”

Glickman, on the other hand, drew the second seed in the A singles flight and even though his match was a close one, he eventually fell 3-6, 6-1, 10-5.

“The match ultimately came down to a couple momentum shifts,” he said. “After I won the first set, he came out strong and won some close games to take an early lead in the second.”

The ten-point tiebreaker came down to just a few points as well.

“Anything can happen in a ten point tiebreaker, and he strung together a couple of see TENNIS, page 15

Sofia Adams / The Tufts Daily

Tufts men’s tennis closed the fall season with competition at the Wallach Invitational over the weekend. The players will take the experience they have gained this fall, along with practice over the winter, into the spring.

Women’s volleyball

Jumbos split NESCAC games over weekend by

Tyler Maher

Daily Editorial Board

Coming off a disappointing weekend in which it lost consecutive games for the first time all season and fell out

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of first place, Tufts volleyball took on two more NESCAC teams, Bates and Bowdoin, on a road trip to Maine in which they went 1-1.

The Jumbos needed all the momentum they could muster in their Saturday matchup versus the Polar Bears of Bowdoin, who had won eight in a row prior to Saturday’s game. Tufts gave the red-hot Bowdoin squad all it could handle, battling through four closely contested sets but ultimately coming out on the losing side in three of them (all by the same score of 25-21). The Jumbos did score the most decisive win of the match with their 25-19 victory in the second set, proving themselves to be more than capable of hanging with the second-best team in the NESCAC. Though Tufts was forced to settle for the weekend split after the loss to Bowdoin, coach Cora Thompson saw many encouraging signs from her team’s performance in both games.

“We did a lot of things really well

Men’s Soccer

Tufts falls on homecoming in OT battle with Conn. College

by Jake Indursky

Daily Editorial Board

Despite playing in front of a raucous homecoming crowd this past Saturday, the men’s soccer team was unable to

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channel the energetic atmosphere into a win against Connecticut College, falling 2-1 in double overtime.

The team started off the game bet-

ter than it ended it, playing its typical attacking style for much of the first half, apparently feeding off of a supportive crowd.

“The fans were awesome, and we had a great crowd,” senior tri-captain Scott Blumenthal said. “I think everyone was a little more jacked up than usual at the start, but we were able calm ourselves for the start of the game.”

Despite the extra motivation, Tufts was unable to put any substantial pressure on the Connecticut keeper, getting only one shot off in the first 30 minutes of play. The Camels were similarly challenged offensively, as see SOCCER, page 15

see VOLLEYBALL, page 15

Christie Wu for the Tufts Daily

Tufts volleyball will return to Cousens Gymnasium this weekend to take on another pair of NESCAC opponents, Hamilton and Middlebury, after its win at Bates and loss against Bowdoin.

nick pfosi / The Tufts Daily

Sophomore Monil Patel’s corner kick assisted Tufts’ lone goal from the homecoming matchup with Conn. College on Saturday.