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Center for Humanities hosts third European author by

Marissa Peck

Contributing Writer

The Center for Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) yesterday afternoon hosted the third installment of the “European Writers on the Move” series, a program showcasing European authors and thinkers.

Yesterday’s lecture, titled “Spending Time or How I Won the Cold War: Reflections on Innocence and Revolution,” featured accomplished writer, poet, photographer, playwright and actor Péter Zilahy, who shared his insights on identity.

Zilahy, a Hungarian-born artist, has written four books to date, according to the CHAT website. His 1993 poem collection, “Statue Under a White Sheet Ready to Jump,” won the Móricz Zsigmond Prize. Zihahy also wrote a dictionary novel, The Last Window Giraffe, which won The Book of the Year Prize in Ukraine in 2003. This novel is said to have influenced the Orange Revolution, a series of protests and political events in Ukraine in 2004, as many activists at the time distributed pages of Zilahy’s novel to inspire change in a corrupted and repressive political system.

Due to illness, Zilahy chose to abandon his original lecture plan and instead talked freely about life behind the Iron Curtain.

In Hungary, Zilahy explained, it was only possible to vacation outside of the

country every three years, since there was not enough hard currency in circulation to enable more frequent travel.

The author was 13 when he first exited Hungary, he said.

“As soon as we arrived to Germany, there were American soldiers everywhere,” he said. “They had big bikes ... And we just panicked, me and my brother. We were begging our parents to go back behind the Iron Curtain, it was so scary.”

Growing up in Eastern Europe also gave Zilahy a unique perception of time, he said.

“You could visit your friends at 2 a.m.

Pitch dark, no problem,” he said. “Do you know why? Because you were equally unimportant. When you are unimportant, you have all the time in the world.”

Zilahy believes time in the Western world, on the other hand, must be bought. He said it is an abstraction defined by appointments, schedules and previous obligations.

He also commented on the social differences between wealthy and poor countries.

“In the West ... everybody is so important,” he said. “In America, you can wish for everything, versus in Eastern Europe, where you can wish for very little. [In America], most people are interested in how much they have compared to their neighbors. In Hungary, people have just see AUTHOR, page 2

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Students gathered on the Tisch Library rooftop with the Consent Culture Network, a student group formed to address the university’s policies related to sexual misconduct.

Sexual assault taskforce to change misconduct policies by

Dani Bennett

Contributing Writer

Tufts reported 48 sexual assaults to the U.S. Department of Justice in accordance with a grant program for New England universities run by the department, according to a Boston Globe article published in 2010. The university had been receiving $1.3 million in grant funding since 1999 to put toward efforts to improve resources for victims.

Last year, a university-wide Sexual Violence Working Group formed to replace Tufts’ Sexual Assault Policy with the current Sexual Misconduct Policy.

But when former Sexual Violence Resource Coordinator Elaine Theodore left

her position at Tufts a few years ago, no one was hired to replace her. During the 20122013 year, there were 63 reported cases of sexual assault in a broad number of categories, according to the data from the Office of Equal Opportunity.

In light of these ongoing issues, a sexual assault taskforce has been formed in an attempt to streamline the way that Tufts deals with sexual assault on campus.

President Anthony Monaco acts as chair of the taskforce, along with Mary Jeka, senior vice president for university relations and general counsel. Students are involved in the group’s operations as well.

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Professor speaks on Turkey’s position in business and politics by

Adam Kaminski

Contributing Writer

The Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC) continued its speaker series at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy yesterday, featuring Dr. Soli Özel, professor of international relations and political science at Istanbul’s Kadir Has University.

In a talk entitled “Between Patient Ambition and Imprudent Self-Delusion: Turkish Foreign Policy in the Wake of the Arab Revolts,” Özel discussed the political state of Turkey. The event served as a kickoff for a conference on the country set to take place next year on April 10 and 11 at the Fletcher School. Özel has been an advisor to TÜSIAD, a voluntary civil society organization established by Turkish industrialists and businessmen to represent the business world, for 16 years. He is also a columnist at the Habertürk, a highcirculation Turkish newspaper. Özel’s writing has been published in many international newspapers and academic journals.

During the presentation, Özel spoke at length about Turkey’s current political climate.

“Over the last 10 to 12 years, Turkey has enjoyed a great deal of autonomy,” he said. “Turkey could pursue its interests in a more carefree way. That space for that autonomous activity appears to be shrinking.”

By the end of the 1990s, Özel said, Turkey began to create openings in its foreign policy and become more engaged with the Middle East, Central Asia and the Balkan region.

“Following the Cold War, Europe was no longer the strategic area of the world,” Özel said. “Turkey, the capitalist, secular and democratic state in a radical and turbulent region, would be America’s solution to post-Cold War problems.”

The IraqWar then exacerbated an already delicate situation, according to Özel. Though he admitted to faults in Turkish Middle Eastern foreign policy, he claimed that U.S. intervention actually brought the wall down. As a result, Iran became a dominant power in the region, a region whose instability was worsened, he said.

“That gave Turkey the opportunity to engage with the region as a balancer of Iran and as a country that could bring some level of stability to a turbulent region,” Özel said. “It would do so because of strategic interest and because of a domestic dynamic.”

That domestic dynamic is due to a Turkish government ready to serve a budding entrepreneurial class, which needs untapped markets that can be found in Central Asia, the Balkans, the Middle East and Africa, according to Özel.

He also noted the failures of Turkish foreign policy, which mirror previous American failures. Özel believes that throughout the Bush era and the Iraq War, the

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Dr. Soli Özel, professor of international relations and political science at Kadir Has University in Turkey, spoke yesterday at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy about the political state of his country.

United States wasted resources and damaged its prestige.

Turkey has shown self-delusion in its dealings with the Middle East, he said, as well as with the latest protests in Syria.

“Instead of maintaining a secular approach to the conflict, Turkey situated itself as a party to a civil

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war,” Özel said. “It took positions that actually put it in the sectarian divide that the war has generated on the Sunni camp, thereby putting aside the secularity of Turkish foreign policy.”

By making no profound impact in Syria, Özel said, Turkey discredited itself as a world and even a

regional power.

“Turkey is no longer one of the major actors in the Syrian conflict,” he said. “Its own rhetoric brought the conflict into its own population, and it remains the only bellicose country dealing with Syria. I consider this the result of an almost incomprehensible mismanagement.”

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as little, or just as much. It’s so relative.”

Zilahy also spent time discussing the relativity of identity.

“You are defined from the outside,” he said. “Your identity is forged under pressure.”

Identity emerges when one is in a place that they do not belong to, as foreign environments demand classification and explanation, Zilahy said. People must remember, when making labels, that we all share a basic heritage, he added.

“I know I have left Europe when suddenly I am European,” he said. “First and foremost, I am a resident of Buda, then Hungarian, then European. But by and large, I am home anywhere on the planet.

Though of course, some continents are more welcome than others.”

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European artist Péter Zilahy spoke yesterday during the third installment of the Center for Humanities at Tufts’ ‘European Writers on the Move’ series.

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Prevention is designed to ensure that Tufts is doing all it can to effectively combat all forms of sexual misconduct,” Jeka told the Daily in an email. “This includes addressing sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, sex or gender discrimination, stalking and relationship violence as well as sexual assault.”

Part of what prompted the taskforce’s formation is that the problems with sexual misconduct and the policies surrounding it have frustrated and angered many Tufts students. Various groups have been developed in order to address these issues, among them Prevention, Awareness and Community at Tufts, Action for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) and the Consent Culture Network, which is an educational offshoot of ASAP. While these groups have hosted many workshops about sexual misconduct, students are still unsatisfied with the sexual misconduct culture and policies at Tufts.

On April 29, ASAP sent a letter to the Tufts administration, calling its attention to three key ways in which they failed to address sexual assault security policy for students, which included a lack of access to policies, processes and resources, as well as a lack of support infrastructure and a lack of education about sexual assault.

The letter began with the shortcomings of the Tufts sexual assault policy, and then outlined the improvements that could be made to the policies.

A response from Monaco expressed that there are insufficient resources at Tufts to accommodate those who lack education about sexual assault and those who are survivors searching for academic and emotional support. His response called for the new sexual assault taskforce.

“Such misconduct has no place at Tufts,” Monaco told the Daily in an email.

“My goal in convening and chairing the Sexual Misconduct Prevention Taskforce is to ensure that we address this important issue effectively ... to support our community needs.”

Jeka noted that creating a group of people ready to tackle such sensitive problems can be difficult, but the taskforce is well on its way.

“The taskforce is well-equipped to ensure that Tufts is continuously monitoring our efforts in all these areas, staying ahead of best practices, and making improvements [where necessary],” she said. “Our members include graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and administrators from the Boston, Medford and Somerville and Grafton campuses with a variety of professional expertise and knowledge of individual schools and campus cultures.”

Junior Kumar Ramanathan, who was one of the core writers of the letter and is now a member of the taskforce, said that the new sexual assault taskforce has begun the first few of its meetings this semester. The first was to discuss preliminary logistics, he said.

Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) Jill Zellmer explained that the group decided to break into working groups to split the workload and divide up the responsibilities. The subgroups, Ramanathan

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said, include awareness and prevention, resources and adjudication policy.

Zellmer said that another focus that the prevention working group factored in was education.

“Prevention and education [will] instill greater awareness, education and support programs and train and educate staff and administrators and students,” she said.

The resources working group will focus on establishing a more extensive support infrastructure for victims and their friends and supporters, while the policy group will work on revising and publicizing policy as necessary, according to Zellmer.

Although the first meeting did not lead to any policy changes, Ramanathan viewed it as a critical step forward, especially in that it gathered enough student representatives from the Group of Six who were interested in contributing.

“No one had committed to ... changes at that point. It was just a planning meeting, but it seemed to go very well for us,” Ramanathan said.

At the second meeting, the subgroups presented their information to Monaco and other administrators on the committee. The fundamental request was for a streamlined program on sexual assault.

“We want to see an establishment of a formal sexual assault office. We want everything to be housed within the office,” Ramanathan said. “But specifically, support for survivors has to be institutionalized.

There are a lot of departments involved [currently], but it is not centralized.”

The taskforce claims that the vast amount of information about sexual assault at Tufts is scattered at best. Ramanathan pointed to one important example — flaws in the support that the housing and academic systems provide for sexual assault victims.

Survivors can talk to their dean and request academic leniency, which notifies their professors of the situation. They may also feel uncomfortable in their current living situation and desire new housing arrangements, which they can obtain by talking to Yolanda King, director of the Office of Residential Life and Learning.

Ramanathan said that while Tufts has definitely taken a step in the right direction by allowing these kinds of arrangements to take place, more could be done to ease the burden on those affected by sexual misconduct.

“It is just too many people that a traumatized victim has to tell his or her story to,” he said.

To combat this, the sexual assault taskforce hopes to create one centralized office and one primary contact where all of these procedures can take place in order to alleviate some of the inherent burden placed on a victim.

Junior John Kelly, the LGBT community representative in the group, said he would like to see changes in the infrastructure that deals with sexual assault victims based on his own experiences.

“I was raped during my sophomore year,” Kelly said. “I am interested in changing the model for sexual assault policy because I went through the process.”

Kelly said that Tufts does not have an impressive track record related to sexual misconduct, and therefore, members

of the Tufts community have a right to be concerned.

“Tufts is considered one of the top schools for repeat offenders. In the last ten years, Tufts has been investigated three times for sexual misconduct due to an overwhelming amount of complaints from Tufts students,” he said. “The current Tufts policies regarding sexual assault have made me feel unsafe in my own community, and the taskforce aims to change that for everyone.”

Nina Bernstein, another student active in the taskforce, commented on the increase in reported sexual assault cases at Tufts.

“It’s good that reporting is on the rise because it means that people are coming forward with it, but it’s bad because it means we need more resources for students,” Bernstein, a senior, said.

Currently, the OEO deals with all sexual assault cases as they come in. The office exists so that the university complies with all laws relating to anti-discrimination, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title IX. Outgrowing its former office in Ballou Hall, the OEO now occupies space at 196 Boston Ave., a welcome change, according to Zellmer.

“Many faculty, staff and students have told us that they appreciate how much more confidential and welcoming our new space is,” she said. “We are also using swing space on campus when we can — Health Service, the Campus Center, Dowling and other places. We always ask people where they are most comfortable meeting us.”

Ramanathan agreed that the office has made strong efforts to have open office hours and to meet with more students post-move. Although the OEO has been working to improve efforts to tend to the needs of sexual assault victims, Bernstein said that the sexual assault taskforce hopes to create a separate office that will provide even more resources for students.

“There needs to be a continual effort in terms of sexual assault prevention. The office for sexual assault prevention and response would be essential in coordinating different policies,” Bernstein said. “It would really make a difference for supporting survivors. I am hopeful that this will soon be a reality.”

The taskforce will reconvene once a month to work toward the goal of providing victims with more resources.

“Right now it is no one’s job to run a sexual assault hotline at Tufts — but we want it to be someone’s job,” Ramanathan said.

This would be just one of many. At their meeting, the taskforce also called for hiring sexual assault advocates for Tufts students — either full time Tufts advocates or professionals from the Boston Advocate Rape Center to work part-time. Additionally, the taskforce wants a comprehensive website with a list of all the resources; they believe that the current web listings are not centralized enough.

“These are highly dedicated individuals who really care about addressing the issues in a thoughtful way,” Jeka said. “The fact that senior leadership, including the president and the senior vice president for university relations, are personally involved is further indication that the taskforce will have a real impact.”

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‘Elementary’ starts second season with bang

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CBS crime drama “Elementary” has returned with a spectacular start to its second season, complete with explo-

Elementary Starring Johnny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Rhys Ifans, Aidan Quinn

Airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. on CBS sions, secrets and even an estranged brother. A modern New York version of Sherlock Holmes, “Elementary” is a fresh take on the detective persona, showcasing Holmes’ uncanny knack for details against the background of today’s technology-dependent society.

As a modern interpretation of the beloved classic, there are some notable and positive changes to the framework of the story. One of the more refreshing is tthe casting of women in more prominent roles than ever before.

Here, Dr. Joan Watson — traditionally a male figure — is a played by Lucy Liu. Watson’s charm and down-to-earth attitude meshes well with the bitter, caustic side of Holmes ( Jonny Lee Miller). A recovering drug addict with a great deal of emotional baggage, Holmes returns from rehab and is forced to live with Watson, an addiction specialist, who helps him maintain his sobriety. As Holmes resumes his job as a New York City police consultant, Watson accompanies him on various jobs and ultimately ends up working with him to crack the cases.

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Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu return for the second season of ‘Elementary.’

Having lost a patient after making a mistake in the operating room, Dr. Watson has retired from surgery — which is why she is able to act as Holmes’ sober, live-in companion. By the second season, though she is still plagued by her malpractice, Watson begins to work past some of her personal demons with Sherlock’s help.

Watson has traditionally been a sidekick character, but in “Elementary,” Lucy Liu portrays Watson as a heroine with a smart, sarcastic personality. Watson develops her own detective skills with extensive aid from Holmes, and the second season sees Watson not only as a main character, but also as a detective in her own right.

This season jumps right back into this detective mindset. One of the most unique things about “Elementary” is the originality of its crimes, such as murders committed by 3-D printed guns or for the fame of working out an unsolvable math problem. All of these are more than plausible in today’s high-tech world. And with gritty, realistic characters that drive the story emotionally, “Elementary” avoids the mistake so many other rookie detective shows make: assuming that there have to be likeable and relatable characters to link each individual case together.

By not devolving into the simple case-ofthe-week format, the series becomes a

cohesive unit — each episode incorporates something new that ties it back to older episodes.

More than anything, the show delves deeply into the background of the two main characters. Miller creates a Sherlock who, behind his brilliance, struggles — he is a character with believable faults. His addiction to drugs seems to stem from an inability to turn off his deductive mind, and his knack for connecting thoughts, places and people is ultimately his weakness.

The first episode of the second season dives back into the deductions and diversions that only Holmes could find, and his wit and temper add amusement to any situation. Hopefully the writers will bring back that same spark this season.

The second season also sees the arrival of Holmes’ estranged brother, Mycroft Holmes (Rhys Ifans), during Sherlock’s stint in London. Mycroft is a welcome addition to the show, and his character seems to develop within the episode. He ranges from enigmatic and deceptively pleasant to a strikingly vulnerable yet quirky man who ends the episode with a bang. If his character remains for only two or three more episodes, the show will lose a potential goldmine of interesting situations and tension between the two brothers, who never had a good relationship.

“Elementary” brings a full dose of freshness, not only to the Sherlock Holmes world, but also to the detective genre in general. Viewers can only hope that this season will live up to the first, and with a cast of fleshed-out characters and a wealth of different cases to be explored, the second season of “Elementary” is sure to be a must-see this fall.

Movie Review

‘Runner Runner’ is a film to walk away from

by Josh

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With big-name stars such as Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, how could “Runner

Runner Runner Directed by Brad Furman Starring Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck, Gemma Arterton Runner” not generate intense anticipation? Despite the hype, the film fails to deliver and leaves audience members disappointed on many fronts.

At the film’s start, we see a financially struggling Princeton graduate student named Richie Furst ( Justin Timberlake) being reprimanded for bringing gambling onto the Princeton campus — a habit he picked up as a way to pay for tuition. The audience quickly learns that Furst comes from a broken family and has a gambling-addicted father, whom he desperately tries to help even in Furst’s own miserable financial situation. Soon, Furst decides he has no choice but to invest his life savings in an online gambling website, and consequently discovers he’s been cheated by the system, losing all his money. He then makes his way to Costa Rica, where he meets offshore entrepreneur Ivan Block (Ben Affleck), the elusive and infamous king of online gambling.

After proving to Block that he was cheated, Furst is offered a job with Block’s online gambling company and begins a career in

his 20s earning a seven-figure salary in a dangerous business.

“Runner Runner” ultimately has an unimaginative ending that can easily be predicted within the movie’s first five minutes.

The action film archetype could not have been more closely followed. Viewers are presented with the central conflict during the collegiate-set opening scenes, but it takes way too long to break into the excitement.

The film could be salvaged if there was some real character development to complement the plot, but that is noticeably absent. Quite honestly, Furst might as well be twiddling his thumbs until the action begins.

Throw in an attractive romantic interest Rebecca Shafran (Gemma Arterton) — off-limits to the underdog — and about an hour into the movie a discernable storyline finally emerges.

Overall, Timberlake’s acting seems horribly forced. The oneliners he delivers in serious scenarios seem unnecessary and, at times, corny. After all, Furst is supposedly a Princeton graduate student — he shouldn’t need to crack sexual remarks every time the dialogue simmers down. On the other hand, Affleck does a much better job portraying Block — his depiction is actually on par with the level of acting we’re used to seeing from such A-list stars. Although he plays the classic good-guy-gone-bad, Affleck manages to make his character sympathetic. It is clear he’s going to end up on the dark side, but audience members will want to believe that Block is different — even while he bathes in millions of dollars and objectifies women.

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Ben Affleck draws viewers to his side as a gambling tycoon.

The Costa Rican setting of the film provides a tantalizing background of beautiful women and gambling sharks. The juxtaposition of the gambler’s lavish lifestyle with the poverty of the natives feels realistic — a breath of fresh air amid the smoky atmosphere that encircles Block and his colleagues. Furthermore,

Block’s pressing need to pay off government officials in order to stay in business is another subtle highlight of the film.

In deciding whether or not to see this movie, potential viewers should remember to adjust their expectations. As a typical action movie in every aspect of the phrase, “Runner Runner”

is decent, and watching stars Affleck and Timberlake does have a certain appeal. However, if you’re looking for the caliber of quality entertainment that these two gentlemen should be producing, you might be better off spending your evening listening to Timberlake’s new album.

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To that end, Civetti has been putting the pressure on his players this week in practice to avoid complacency, and emphasized that every player’s job is on the line — an approach born more out of bad results than anything else.

“It can’t really get worse — we’ve had one good drive a game,” Civetti said, referring to the sputtering offense that has the lowest scoring average (10.5) in the conference. “It’s a formula, and we’re trying to find the way to win, trying to put the right guys in positions to be successful.”

In particular, Civetti did not explicitly say whether Jack Doll will be the start-

ing quarterback on Saturday, after the junior was lifted in a three interception performance against Trinity. Freshman quarterback Liam O’Neil relieved Doll against Trinity, but despite Civetti’s coy demeanor, it appears as though Doll will at least be given the chance to start against Williams.

From the players’ perspective, the increased scrutiny can only push every individual to improve his play.

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you keep improving.”

Williams’ team statistics are remarkably similar to those of Tufts. Like the Jumbos, the Ephs have struggled offensively (11.2 points per game), and they have posted middle-of-the-road marks in terms of yards allowed. Williams has also struggled to run the ball effectively, an offensive area that Tufts started to focus on more against Trinity last weekend.

“We’ve always known that we could run. It’s more of a gameplanning thing,” sophomore wide receiver Jack Cooleen said. “But it’s nice to know that we have it and we can rely on it if we need to.”

Beyond the X’s and O’s, both sides

are anticipating a game that could very easily come down to a few critical plays. Tufts has already lost two of those types of games earlier in the year against Bowdoin and Bates. The Williams showdown represents another chance to finally get it right.

“The better team that shows up will win — not the better players, or the better program,” Civetti said. “When you have two 0-4 teams ... the one that plays together and isn’t pointing fingers or looking for excuses will be the one that’s victorious.

That’s where not being complacent comes in — we try to draw as much strength as we can from the experiences that we’ve had. You can learn a lot from losing.”

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seven saves, but it was the one shot that he could not get to that made the difference in the match.

In the 35th minute, the Engineers countered one of Tufts’ many first-half attacks and secured the game-winning goal. Junior midfielder Chester Chambers led a breakaway downfield and lofted the ball up field behind the Jumbos’ defenders. Senior midfielder Matthew Monheit was the first to the ball. He settled the pass and came within a few feet of a fast-approaching Moeser before lacing a shot inside the far post to give the Engineers the lead.

“The MIT goalie played a hell of a game,” Tufts junior defenseman Michael Miele said. “We took 32 shots; 15 were on target. However, we played totally different in each half. The first half we were defensively a bit unorganized, which led to the goal we would normally never give up.”

Neither team would put one in the net in the second half, as the strong play on the backline continued for both teams. The Jumbos outshot the Engineers 32-18 and controlled possession, only to drop one of their more frustrating games of the season.

In all, Tufts has posted seven shutouts this season and held its opponent to under two goals in all but two contests.

While their backline, typically led

by Greenwood, has been consistently strong, an alarming trend has developed up front. Since their opening two games of the year, the Jumbos have failed to score more than two goals in a game, and have been shutout four times.

“During the second half, the ball was in their half the entire time, and we looked like the team we know we should be.” Miele said. “Looking forward, we feel really good despite the result.”

With the loss, Tufts fell to 6-4-1 on the year, a disappointing mark for a team that jumped out to a 4-1 start.

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Junior Max Hoppenot contributed to the Tufts attack with three of the 15 shots on goal for the Jumbos. Despite the offensive control in the second half, the Jumbos could not convert and fell to MIT 1-0.

“It is a perfect time to get clicking again, as we know we need to finish out these last three games with positive results,” Miele said.

The Jumbos will look to right the ship on Saturday and gain ground in the NESCAC standings when they travel to Williams

to take on the 7-3 Ephs. Saturday’s contest is the first of three that Tufts will play against NESCAC opponents to close out the season, with remaining games against Hamilton and Bowdoin.

“Saturday at Williams is a huge game,” Schaible said. “They’re always one of

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Though no hurricane is in the forecast for next weekend, the weather will likely once again play a role in the tournament dynamics. As a result, the golf team has placed added emphasis on being not just physically but also mentally prepared for the tournament.

“We have been focusing on being mentally tough,” coach Bob Sheldon said. “We have the physical ability, but need to be better mentally to really compete.”

Though this year’s fall season has not been as successful as the Jumbos might have hoped, the team has a

chance to prove itself in a high profile tournament and build some momentum before the spring season.

“Our team goal is to place in the top third of a 40-team tournament,” Sheldon said. “Individually, we would like everybody to play well and have at least one round [with a stroke count] in the 70s.”

Sheldon’s goals appear achievable: Wong, Wawer and Zorniger, with a few exceptions, have consistently shot in the 70s throughout the fall, and the team is coming off its highest place finish of the year, a tie for 4th at the Rhode Island College Fall Invitational on Oct. 4.

Sheldon expects Wong and Wawer to lead the team in Brewster next weekend, as they have all season long. Both were recently named to the all-NESCAC second team and have had significant success this fall.

“Thus far, the fall season has been just okay — we had everybody play well, but at different times,” Wong said. “We absolutely have the talent to compete with all the teams we play with, and I know that our experience this year will afford us better results next year.”

The New England Championship will also provide an opportunity for Tufts to assert itself among its NESCAC

the best teams in the NESCAC, but we feel we match up well against them. We need to get back to playing our game for each of these last three games. They all count for the NESCAC standings, and coming out of these three with nine points is the goal.”

rivals. Last year, the Jumbos finished ahead of both Wesleyan and Bates in this tournament, and the Jumbos seem poised to best both schools again after finishing ahead of them in the NESCAC Qualifier tournament in September.

Though the Jumbos finished sixth in the NESCAC Qualifier, preventing them from advancing to the NESCAC championship in the spring, they will use this final fall season tournament and the spring tournaments to continue to gain experience and increase their overall mental toughness. With a team led by sophomores and juniors, Tufts seems poised to improve in the coming months and years.

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Jumbos to miss out on national championships SAILING

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Yale won the regatta for a second consecutive year and No. 2 Boston College secured the second qualifying spot with its second place finish.

Without qualifying for nationals, the Jumbos find themselves prematurely moving on to the next part of their season.

“We’re done in match racing and keel boats,” head coach Ken Legler said. “The focus for the remainder of the fall and spring is two-person din-

ghies and some singlehanded Laser sailing.”

Following the meet, the Jumbos declined to discuss their subpar result. The fourperson unit has been one of the most successful sailing groups in Tufts history, and with all four graduating this spring, they will have no chance to reclaim their title.

While they are all strong sailors in the two-person dinghies — Haeger and Grasberger have served as the top team for the early meets this season — they miss out on what has been the

marquee event of their careers.

Despite the disappointing finish, it is difficult to call the result shocking. Although highly ranked, Tufts lost to four teams that were ranked higher. Yale and Boston College are the top two teams in the nation, while the two teams that beat them out for the remainder of the spots in the semifinal, Brown and Roger Williams, are ranked No. 8 and No. 7, respectively.

The Jumbos did not wish to discuss the fairness — or lack thereof — of the qualification

system in college sailing, but there’s no question that Tufts was hurt by its geographic location. Competing in the New England region, the Jumbos have to face the toughest teams in the country just to get to nationals, while teams in other regions have an easier road.

Last spring, the Jumbos faced a similar predicament when they missed out on qualifying for nationals despite clearly being one of the top teams in the nation.

While the focus was on the New England Sloops,

the Jumbos had teams competing throughout the New England region. With senior Viktor Wettergren and freshman Alex Tong sailing in the A division and sophomores Rolfe Glover and Kate Wasynczuk in the B division, the Jumbos took fourth at the Nicholas Barnett Trophy.

Next weekend, Tufts looks to find some bright spots to the season following this past weekend’s results. They head to the Captain Hurst Bowl at Dartmouth and the Navy Fall Invitational in Annapolis, Md.

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ing together just four shots in the opening half.

Wellesley failed to capitalize on two penalty corner opportunities, and Tufts’ defense regathered quickly to shut down dangerous fastbreaks as the half drew to a close.

Tufts nearly doubled its advantage at the end of the period when senior co-captain midfielder Steph Wan took a threatening shot on cage, but Mscisz was able to block the ball out of the way.

Coming out of the intermission with a slim lead, Tufts hoped to push the tempo and earn quality offensive possessions. But instead, the Blue forced the Jumbos into a battle in the midfield.

In the 52nd minute, Wellesley junior forward Nathalie Gruet received the ball off of a penalty corner and sent in a hard shot, but junior netminder Bri Keenan was there for the Jumbos to preserve the lead.

“Wednesday really tested our defense, and we were able to see what we need to work on,” senior midfielder Katy McConnell said.

Just minutes later, the Jumbos pressured at the other end of the field. Looking to add to her successful week, Yogerst launched two more shots on goal, one of which sailed just wide, and Mscisz managed to get a piece of the other.

As the clock wound down, things grew tense for the Jumbos.

The Blue possessed threateningly inside the 16-meter circle and tried to earn a penalty corner.

They were unable to do so, however, allowing Tufts to squeak out of the contest, 1-0.

On Saturday, the Jumbos return to NESCAC play at Williams. A win over the Ephs would propel Tufts to a 7-1 conference record, putting the Jumbos in better seeding position as the regular season winds down.

“A lot of good things came out of the Wellesley game and we were very happy to come out with the win,” Wan said. “We want to continue working on our layers and defense to not let anyone through and keep our momentum going to come out strong at Williams.”

“We’re excited for this weekend,” McConnell added. “Williams is defi-

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Sophomore Allison Rolfe assisted Tufts’ lone goal en route to a 1-0 victory over No. 13 Wellesley.

Elephants in the Room Favorite Tufts alumnus

Sam Williams Junior Men’s Soccer

Tufts soccer alums

Shelci Bowman Senior Women’s Tennis

I love all of my tennis alumni, but I really enjoyed seeing Lindsay Katz this homecoming!

Andrew Shapero Senior Men’s Cross Country

Elaine from Seinfeld

“If y’all don’t know by now, I’m talkin’ ‘bout...”

Best Homecoming memory

The crowd on Homecoming is...

What you did after Homecoming

Beating Williams freshman year

Wild

Go out with my team.

Chi-town

Snuggled with my tennis freshman and then watched Zoolander while eating everything in sight.

How I want to kidnap Tessa Ruben’s Goldendoodle.

Chatting it up with President Monaco at the football game!

He’s the best.

I didn’t really go to Homecoming events, but I did go to the soccer game my sophomore year which was fun.

Sober...?

Nectar

I saw my friend’s band, Semi-Serious (a Tufts’ band), at Harvard.

Lemmings. They’re little rodents that jump off cliffs.

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Tufts takes down No. 13 Wellesley on road by

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The nationally ranked No. 3 field hockey team notched another victory over a ranked

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opponent on Wednesday afternoon, topping No. 13 Wellesley College 1-0 on the road as Tufts continues its climb toward the top of the national rankings.

The Jumbos’ defense notched its fifth shutout of the season, while head coach Tina McDavitt’s squad improved to 10-1 overall.

Over the weekend, Tufts improved two spots from its previous No. 5 position in the NFHCA rankings. The non-conference tilt on Wednesday will not affect the Jumbos’ current position among conference opponents.

This time, the Jumbos, who tallied 11 goals in just two games last week, faced a tough defen-

sive battle from the Blue and the two teams combined for just one goal on the afternoon.

In the first four and a half minutes of play, Tufts came out strong, sending four shots towards Wellesley senior cocaptain goalkeeper Brit Mscisz and earning two penalty corner opportunities.

Fewer than five minutes into the contest, the Jumbos pressured inside the circle and forward Allison Rolfe found a familiar face. The sophomore slipped the ball to senior co-captain forward Chelsea Yogerst on the right side. Yogerst redirected it past the veteran Mscisz to give Tufts an early 1-0 advantage.

The strike came on the heels of a seven-goal performance from Yogerst last week, who became the school’s all-time single game scoring leader on Thursday.

The Blue settled in after the Jumbos strike. But while the Wellesley defense held Tufts to just five more shots in the first 35 minutes, the Blue’s offense struggled at the other end of the field, piecsee FIELD HOCKEY, page 7

Football

Tufts works to stomp out complacency before Williams Battle of winless teams looms in Williamstown David McIntyre

For any team near the bottom of the standings, an inevitable amount of “grading” occurs with the remaining games on the schedule, at least from outsiders. Every game counts the same, but clearly, matchups against fellow strugglers take on an added significance.

Prior to the start of the season, this Saturday’s road game with Williams would not have been one of those targeted games. But halfway through the season, the storied Ephs program has suffered just as badly as the Jumbos’ (0-4), sharing the bottom spot in the NESCAC with an equally poor record.

For a Williams team that won the NESCAC championship just three years ago, that’s quite a dropoff. But for Tufts, the Ephs’ precipitous decline has opened up yet another opportunity to break by

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The Jumbos are on the road at Williams (0-4) after dropping two home games at Zimman Field. The Ephs, tied for last place in the NESCAC with the Jumbos, are off to their worst start since 1947. the 27-game losing streak that has cast its pall over the program for three years.

Head coach Jay Civetti, however, is taking nothing for granted heading into this weekend.

“They’re fantastic, they’ve got some really, really talented athletes,” Civetti said of the Ephs.

“They’re a good team that’s played some really good teams, and I think they’re 0-4 for the first time since 1947. People can say, ‘Oh, they’re 0-4, you’ve got a great chance,’ but it’s still Williams College. I don’t think we’ve won there since 1980.” see FOOTBALL, page 6

Men’s Soccer

Tufts drops defensive battle to MIT by

Zachey Kliger

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The men’s soccer team has dropped two in a row after falling to host MIT, 1-0, on Wednesday in a closely contested, defensive affair.

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The Jumbos have thrived this season using a simple formula: combine strong play on the backline with opportunistic play up front. On Wednesday, MIT beat Tufts at its own game, relying on 15 saves from junior goalkeeper Sam Cannon and a strong backline to hold off the Jumbos and ultimately squeak out a victory.

Cannon, with a little help from the crossbar, stymied the Jumbos’ offense which had chance after chance from the opening tap to the final whistle.

Tufts controlled possession in the first

half, only to see each set piece or scoring opportunity in the box end with a deflection off the crossbar or a great save from Cannon.

With just over four minutes remaining in the first half, Cannon came up with what was probably his best save of the day, deflecting a line drive destined for the upper corner just wide of the net to keep the Jumbos off the scoreboard heading into the intermission.

“It was a frustrating way to lose, especially when we had around 30 shots and

Sailing

Slippery Sloop: Jumbos stumble to fifth place

most of the possession,” sophomore defenseman Connor Schaible said. “It was definitely an opportunity lost, but at the same time, we’re taking a lot of positives out of that game that will be good to utilize in the coming weeks.”

Cannon’s performance masked a stellar game from the Jumbos’ goalkeeper, sophomore Nick Moeser, who was starting in place of injured freshman Scott Greenwood. Moeser tallied see MEN’S SOCCER, page 6

Men’s Golf

Tufts headed to New England Championship

No. 13 Tufts came into the New England Sloop Championships last weekend filled with hope. The event was the last obstacle on the way to what the team was anticipating would be another national championship run. Instead, the Jumbos will now have to stay at home on Thanksgiving weekend following a disappointing fifth place finish at the regatta in Newport, R.I. With the team now out of competition in the biggest meet of the fall season, the Jumbos find themselves in a strange and unfamiliar spot.

Sailing in the larger keel Yngling boats, Tufts sent out its best squad.

Senior Will Haeger, a day removed from accepting the Clarence “Pop” Houston Award as the best male athlete at Tufts, was skippering, while classmates Paula Grasberger and David Liebenberg served in crew and fellow senior Solomon Krevans filled his role as tactician.

These same four won the national championship last year, yet tough competition and winds that reached up to 18 knots threw a wrench into the qualifying rounds, as the Jumbos were one spot out of reaching the semifinals. Tufts could only watch as No. 1

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Next weekend, the men’s golf team will compete in the New England Championship tournament in Brewster, Mass., the final event of the fall season.

The championship is one of the largest gatherings of teams from NCAA Div. I, II and III schools in one location in the country. Teams from as many as 40 schools will be attending the two-day tournament, which begins Oct. 27 and concludes the following day.

The Tufts team will feature sophomore Jay Wong, juniors John Wawer, Sebastian Vik and Alex Zorniger and either sophomore Brendan Koh or senior David Carson in the fifth spot.

Last fall, Tufts finished tied for 24th out of 35 teams in a tournament cut short by the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, resulting in a disappointing finish to the fall season.

“New England is always a tough test because the temperatures are usually in the 40s with the winds blowing,” Wong said of the championships. “Last year, we only got to play one round and it was right before Sandy hit, so the elements were definitely a factor.

see SAILING, page 7

The Jumbos finished fifth at the New England Sloop Championships last weekend, yet the top-5 finish was not enough to secure them a spot in the national championship field.

see GOLF, page 6

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