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Student-professor drink budget reduced by

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The Tufts Students and Professors Integrating Reaction, Intellect and Teaching (SPIRIT) Fund, which offers a free beverage to a student and professor at the Tower Café矡and Brown and Brew to encourage informal discussion beyond the classroom, changed its policy this semester due to budgetary restrictions.

SPIRIT will now only cover the cost of drinks less than $3, according to Dean of Academic Advancement and Undergraduate Study Carmen Lowe.

“It’s great that so many professors are meeting with students beyond the classroom.

That’s really important. [It’s] what the SPIRIT Fund was really established for,” she said. “The problem is that it’s been getting very expensive [over] the past couple of years.”

Lowe, along with Director of Dining and Business Services Patricia Klos, reviewed receipts from Tower Café矡and Brown and Brew before revising the policy to ensure that the program will remain effective, according to Lowe.

“After looking at dining services’ receipts, I discovered that there are only two drinks that cost more than $3, and that’s the premium juices which are the Naked juices and Odwalla juices, and there’s a large spiced

chai beverage that costs over $3,” she said. “Everything else is around $1.48.”

Although Lowe’s estimation holds true for Tower Café, several beverages on the menu at Brown and Brew are priced at over $3.

Medium- and large-sized mocha lattes and cappuccinos, as well as specialty coffee drinks like the “Clockwork Orange” and the “Chocolate Corduroy,” would not be covered under the SPIRIT Fund.

Samantha Bloom, a junior who frequently met with her history teaching assistant ( TA) last semester, does not believe that placing price limits on the free beverages will have a significant impact on the program because most drinks are under $3 and many students enjoy the informal conversation setting.

“I felt very encouraged to reach out to my TA and have discussions with them about topics related to class even when I didn’t have direct questions about the current topic of study,” Bloom said.

Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences James Glaser established SPIRIT’s free beverage program in 2004 after President Emeritus Lawrence Bacow convened a task force on the undergraduate experience, according to Lowe. see SPIRIT, page 2

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Members of the Tufts community gathered in Cabot Auditorium last night for a faculty panel on the presidential election, which was moderated by Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris. A viewing of the second presidential debate followed the presentations.

Faculty highlights key election issues at Engage the Debate by

Menghan Liu

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The Office of the Provost last night hosted “Engage the Debate,” a faculty panel and community forum in Cabot Auditorium that previewed a live showing of the second

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Academic Affairs in the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser; Senior Lecturer and Director of the Community Health Program Edith Balbach; Professor of International Economic Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and see DEBATE, page 2

UIT promotes cybersecurity on campus this month by

Due to budgetary restrictions, starting this semester the SPIRIT Fund will only cover the cost of beverages that are less than $3.

presidential debate.

The event featured five Tufts faculty members who each gave fifteen-minute presentations on topics relevant to this year’s election, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

Panelists included Dean for

This month, University Information Technology (UIT) initiated a university-wide campaign encouraging members of the Tufts community to keep their electronics safe from security breaches.

In light of increased global awareness about the importance of password security on smartphones and tablets, UIT has declared mobile passwords its focus for the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Awareness month.

Theft of cell phones and other mobile electronic devices is one of the fastest ways that data can be stolen, UIT Director of Communications and Organizational Effectiveness Dawn Irish said.

Irish said UIT is encouraging students and faculty to enact password protection on all of their devices, as passwords can stand in the way of data breaches if the device is stolen. A thief could gain access to emails, personal information, mobile banking accounts and health records on a device that is not passwordprotected, she added.

Many people are continually logged on to their favorite web-

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sites or save their passwords in their phone, UIT Director for Information Security Chuck Young said. This is an open door for criminals to access personal information and, Irish added, leave a victim vulnerable to Facebook spam.

“We forget that we have all these keys hiding inside of our phone and so when we lose our phone or it gets stolen, it’s a sad moment,” Young said. “If the things gets lost, if there’s a password on [the phone], most people feel much better.”

The campaign for mobile mindfulness, as UIT calls it, includes posters displaying the statistic that “25 percent of people have a device stolen; 70 percent don’t use passwords.” Smartphones, tablets, e-readers and laptops are all at risk, Irish said, noting that the danger is especially high for faculty and staff on campus who have sensitive or confidential information stored on their devices.

“If they have university data on their devices, they should have it password protected,” Irish said.

Although Young believes that faculty and staff are aware of the security risks of keeping their devices unlocked, he said the issue is increasingly relevant for everyone who owns a mobile device.

“There’s certainly more work to

be done, but I think most organizations are finding that the mobile device challenge is the new frontier [in cyber security threats],” Young said.

Ahmed Hamdy, supervisor for the student employees at the Technology Support Center, said that the theme for UIT’s fifth annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month campaign is especially applicable to the modern day.

“For me, [changing] your password frequently [is important] ...

One of the easiest things to hack is probably a password,” he said.

Irish said that mobile device owners often do not think about password protection until their phones or tablets are stolen.

“People don’t always want to hear about password protecting their devices until ... it happens to them,” Irish says.

Previous National Cyber Security Awareness Month campaigns on the Hill have covered concerns like virus protection and mobile Internet security. UIT has also urged faculty to use Identity Finder software on their devices as a precaution against identity theft, Irish said.

“When a phishing attack happens, we send out a blast email to let people know, and people still fall for them,” Irish said.

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Carmichael is serving nearly 800 pounds of chili today for its annual Station House Chili Fest.

Bo Burnham, who visited Tufts on Saturday, discusses his experience in comedy.

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Diplomacy Michael Klein; Associate Professor of Political Science Richard Eichenberg and Assistant Professor of Sociology Sarah Sobieraj.

Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris acted as the event’s moderator, introducing the forum as a nonpartisan gathering intended to help listeners become more informed consumers of the presidential debate.

“Like all good professors, our job is to provide you with the tools to make your decisions and then get out of your way,” Harris said.

Glaser began the panel with a discussion about subtext and implicit issues in the election, such as issues of race, class and religion.

“Are there implicit issues of race that have come up in this campaign?” Glaser asked, noting that campaigns tap into people’s preconceptions in order to influence opinions on issues like welfare reform.

Welfare reform was introduced as a campaign issue this summer when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of “a plan to gut welfare reform.”

Glaser framed this as an implicit issue of race, as studies have shown that welfare spending is negatively impacted by racial stereotypes.

Glaser also spoke briefly on religion, stating that reli-

giosity, not religion, creates a divide in support for the candidates. He cited statistics showing that those who do not regularly attend church support Obama, while those who do support Romney.

Glaser concluded that despite these minor distinctions, election campaigns and debates ultimately consider issues on a broader level to help voters understand their choices.

“Campaigns are sledgehammers, they are not scalpels,” he said.

Balbach followed with a discussion on healthcare reform, as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, has become one of the larger sledgehammers in this season’s election. “[Obama] was trying to solve a very difficult set of problems that somebody had to do,” Balbach said.

Cost, access and quality are the main considerations when legislating healthcare, and the United States has overspent and underperformed in all three, according to Balbach.

The ACA is meant to address these problems, and, if it works, 95 percent of people will have insurance coverage within six years, she said.

Balbach closed with a breakdown of the purported $716 billion in savings from the ACA’s Medicare payment cuts.

“Is this cutting down on benefits for seniors?” she asked. “Well, you can frame it either way.”

campaigns seek to influence media coverage of the debates.

An estimated 62.7 million people watched the first presidential debate, hitting a 32-year record in gross ratings.

Sobieraj speculated that such excitement is due to an impression that debates, unlike speeches made at party conferences, provide a relatively free and open space for the public to connect with the candidates.

Sobieraj then described the process by which each campaign gears up for the debates, an undertaking which sometimes includes 200 pages of preparation questions.

“Just because they can’t script the whole thing doesn’t mean they don’t try really, really hard,” she said.

Sobieraj concluded with a suggestion to call it a dual press conference rather than a debate. “[Debate] sounds a little more lively and undermanaged than it actually is,” she said.

The faculty panel then fielded questions from the audience, which included doubts as to whether debates even mattered in changing peoples’ minds.

“The truth is, we watch these debates through our own lenses,” Harris said, adding that a focus on rallying for a large turnout can be more important than changing minds.

Harris closed by reminding the audience that many elections, not just the presidential election, will occur on Nov. 6.

Klein was tasked next with speaking on jobs and the economy.

In the interest of full disclosure, he informed the audience that he spent a year and a half working for the Obama administration in the Department of the Treasury.

“What you’re going to hear tonight in the debate is a lot of facts,” Klein said. “But facts without context aren’t very useful.”

Klein addressed concerns about weak employment levels following Obama’s economic stimulus package, noting that ,from a historical perspective, recovery has tended to be weaker in modern recessions.

“Is there something extra going on?” he asked, referring to the possibility of government overregulation.

He did not answer the question, instead encouraging the audience to think about economic context as they listened to the debate later that night.

“It should be entertaining and interesting,” Klein said,“[but] I’m not sure that it’ll be illuminating.”

As an expert on international relations and foreign policy, Eichenberg began his presentation by acknowledging that this election has focused less on foreign policy issues. He then gave a brief overview of each candidate’s foreign policy platform.

Sobieraj concluded the panel with a presentation on media management and how

Faculty to get drink coupons SPIRIT

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“One of the recommendations from the task force was putting a coffee shop in the library, which was a really radical idea back then ... to promote the Tower Café as a place where students and faculty can get together beyond the classroom,” Lowe said.

Associate Professor of Psychology Samuel Sommers said SPIRIT facilitates informal interactions between students and professors, which is important to the intellectual experience on campus.

“One of the biggest advantages of being a student at Tufts is that it’s a small enough university to allow you to get to know your professors,” Sommers said.

“In my large lecture classes, I often hold a few coffee hours over the semester when a group of students and I get together for informal conversation about a wide range of topics, both course-related and otherwise.”

SPIRIT will provide faculty members with drink coupons staring in January 2013 to better monitor where the money is being spent and what specific professors are using the fund for, Lowe noted.

“It’s just a sense of accountability and tracking and better planning, since it’s really been hard to manage this budget because I get the receipts from dining services about a month after the fact,” she said.

Campus Comment

Students who came out for the Engage the Debate event last night had much to say afterward about the discourse and the candidates’ positions.

“Obama was definitely more on his game.

He came in with much more energy. Town hall was not a good form for Romney. I think Romney came across as a bully.”

“I definitely think it was better than the last debate. There was more substance. I think social media will determine who won more than the actual debate.”

—Rebecca Dewey, sophomore

­—Catey Boyle, senior

“I think Obama did a much better job of refuting some of the mischaracterizations that Romney made.”

—Jeremy Beck, first year Fletcher student

“Romney’s position on women’s health really elicited a strong reaction from the audience today.”

“Obama did shirk some of the issues, but not as much as Romney did.”

—Aparna Ramanan, senior

—Graham Starr, sophomore

“The talk about education for me was the most relevant as a student, but I feel like neither of them really answered the question.”

—Maha Mian, junior

“I think it was good that there were a lot of issues brought up that hadn’t really been discussed yet ... I was really pleased that they talked about immigration.”

—Joey Herman, senior

“I don’t think Mitt Romney was answering the questions, and when he was he was presenting the wrong facts.”

—Emily Paine, senior

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This year’s Station House Chili Fest, held today at Carmichael Dining Center, brings local officers and students together for lunch.

Police officers, firefighters to be celebrated over hundreds of pounds of chili Shreya Bhandari Contributing Writer

In October, Tufts celebrates more than just the changing of the leaves. The annual Station House Chili Festival hosted today at Carmichael Dining Center honors local police officers and firefighters who serve the Tufts community .

According to Communications Specialist of Tufts Dining Services Lyza Bayard, the Chili Fest was originally inspired by the events of Sept. 11, 2001 as a way to commemorate both local and national heroes.

In recent years, it has evolved to reflect and appreciate the local community. “[Sept. 11] was really a catalyst for acknowledging those around us who keep us safe,” she said. “Our goal was really to reach all the local police and firefighters, spread the word and bring all the community officials from the various response departments together for a meal.”

Chili Fest invites the officers of the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), as well as the Medford and Somerville emergency response teams, to interact with each other and students in a social setting.

“The best thing about the occasion is really the connection that arises.” Baynard said. “You see the officers, men [and] women from the local emergency response departments and students and faculty sharing a table and just chatting in a positive setting. It’s amazing.”

Interaction between officers and students is normally hard to come by, according to Tufts’ Fire Marshal John Walsh.

“The event is truly a wonderful thing,” Walsh, who arrived to the Hill in August, said. “In an emergency situation, people are so rushed there is really not a moment to interact with the students, and this allows us to do so.”

One major goal of the event is to promote awareness about public and fire safety issues. The departments have representatives and booths set up in the dining hall designed to provoke questions and encourage awareness of safety in the dorms.

“The festival is, in many ways, an educational opportunity,” said Kelley. “[The displays] provide an awakening for many students, as in ‘[Wow], that can happen?’”

Similarly, Walsh says that his favorite part of the occasion is the presentations, because of their educational value.

“Unfortunately, many students think that a fire will never strike their life,” Walsh said. “As public safety officials, we love educating others. Little things can have a big impact, and this is another chance to break down any barriers.”

The event organizers’ hope is that by attending the event, students will gain a greater understanding of the loyalty and dedication our local heroes have to serve, save and protect the Tufts community.

“If you think about the role of responders in the big picture, everyone here has a mission. You yourself have a mission; it took a lot of hard work on your part and on the part of others for you to be here. We are safeguarding that mission, and it is personalized for each of you,” Walsh said. “If we prevent something that could have interfered with your mission, then we are doing our job well.”

Last year, approximately 1,200 students, faculty and responders showed up to enjoy the festivities, according to Kelley. He hopes to see a large crowd this year as well and encourages students to be actively involved with the event.

“Last year, we had about 50 to 75 comments about the food that was offered,” Kelley said. “In fact, one of the items on the menu, the Cincinnati Chili, we serve with spaghetti now because a student bought to our attention the ‘authentic’ way to serve it.”

Unit Manager of Carmichael Dining Center Kelley also mentioned the huge effort it takes to put on the event. The cooks at Carmichael contribute, with some even contributing their own chili recipes. Besides the Cincinnati Chili, the community can expect

99 pounds each of Chunky Chicken Chili and the spicy 5 Alarm Chili, and over 500 pounds of Carmichael Firehouse Chili.

“We’ve probably got close to 800 pounds of chili, and you can figure we have enough for at least 1,200 students tomorrow for lunch,” Kelley said. “It takes a small army ... [but] it’s second nature. In addition to trying to put the meal out for dinner tonight, [we’re] also prepping for tomorrow.”

Senior Nick Metcalfe has enjoyed the Chili Fest during his time at Tufts.

“On one hand, it is exciting to be treated with some dishes in the dining hall that you don’t get everyday, but on the other there is also a great response from the public safety officials,” he said. “You can tell they are very thankful and appreciate how much we care about what they do.”

Walsh says that Chili Fest stands out because of its positive atmosphere, which contrasts with many emergency situations that public safety responders face.

“We get to go to all the bad events,” he said. “This is a good event, this is a good mission.”

The Chili Fest each year welcomes back students and officers alike, and Metcalfe appreciates the event for its work in building community relations.

“There is just something about chili that brings people together,” he said.

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Students are set to taste the smorgasboard of chili options today in Carmichael.

his column is about how Amelia Earhart was the coolest woman on the planet. She was the first woman aviator to ride solo across the Atlantic Ocean, a best-selling author, a visiting faculty member at Purdue University and, most importantly, she is my spirit woman. A spirit woman is the apple of your eye. The champion of your days. The hero of your heart.

I can say with a relative amount of confidence that I am Amelia Earheart’s biggest fan — and she is my spirit woman. In terms of risk-taking women, she’s got Catwoman, Nancy Pelosi and Meryl Streep — do not deny this woman’s awesomeness — beat by multitudes. Angela Merkel at a fair but distant second.

Earhart has a pretty impressive resume.

After a number of dangerous and recordbreaking flights, she undertook a record-setting solo trip across the Atlantic in 1932. As the first woman to successfully complete this trip, she was catapulted to national fame.

She wrote a number of books, launched an educational lecture series and became somewhat of an aviation celebrity. Through her visibility, she vehemently promoted emerging women’s careers and women in aviation, both through her academic and professional aviation careers. Her style of dress and appearance was distinctly androgynous, helping her become well known as a gender-ambiguous and feminist celebrity.

Over a half-century after her death, some feminist authors praised her for being a beacon of gender-bending visibility. Both her activism and unwillingness to conform to gender stereotypes of occupation and appearance are admirable and really quite unique for her era.

Much to America’s — and my — dismay, Earhart’s impressive career and life came to an end on an attempt to fly solo around the world. Her flight lost communication with ground control, and her landing place has since remained a mystery. Reports, documentaries and many Hollywood dramas have documented where they believe Amelia Earhart landed and how she died. There is a rather strange theory among that bunch that states that Earhart made her way back to America, moved to New Jersey and changed her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. My girl Irene sued the pants off the guy that accused her of this.

While Amelia Earhart is my spirit woman, she’s more than just my spirit woman. I’m pretty sure that our lives are cosmically connected. Here are some non-trivial examples.

A completely innocuous yet interesting fact about Amelia Earhart is that she had some serious sinus issues. I get a lot of sinus infections. It’s fate. Furthermore, I did a project on her in second grade, on which I received an A+. That could be nothing short of divine connection. We both have names that start with A, and I once told my camp friends that my mother named me after Amelia Earhart.

This is totally believable, as I know my mother is super into this spirit woman idea — I’m pretty sure hers is Whoopi Goldberg. And, drum-roll for the big finish: Amelia Earhart lived for a short time in Medford. I live in Medford.

All I’m trying to say is that this woman does not receive enough acclaim for how fantastic she was. We take for granted the risks she took — flying solo, speaking out, carving a place for herself in her profession. My girl took risks.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take, right? Throw caution to the wind, throw Mitt Romney’s dog on the roof and take a risk.

Try not to crash somewhere in the Pacific, but that is less important. Our world is better and more fruitful because Amelia Earhart took the risks that she took. And Amelia — or Irene — wherever you are, thank you for being the most fantastic risk-taking, gravity-defying spirit woman I could ever ask for.

Alexa Petersen is a senior majoring in political science and peace and justice studies. She can be reached at Alexa.Petersen@tufts.edu.

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YouTube sensation Bo Burnham visited Tufts Saturday night as part of his national comedy tour.

‘Words Words Words’ with Bo Burnham, guest at Tufts last Saturday by

Melissa MacEwen, Justin McCallum

and Brionna Jimerson

Since he began posting videos to YouTube in 2006, Bo Burnham has become a YouTube celebrity with millions of views to his name.

The 22-year-old has released two comedy albums, was voted number one in Comedy Central’s Stand-up Showdown and won the “Panel Prize” at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. A Boston local, Burnham returned home on Saturday night as part of a small national comedy tour. The Daily chatted with Burnham after his performance.

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The Tufts Daily: So, you’ve been making videos online for years now. What was your transition like, going from

basically an online format to doing stand-up live?

Were you aiming for fame, or did it just sort of happen?

Bo Burnham: Well, I started doing the videos in 2006, but I haven’t posted one in a long time. And even when I was making videos at first, it’s a wonderful format but I always wanted to do it live. I would do the videos in one take. There was no editing in my videos. So it was, I think, easily translatable once I could actually get the courage up to actually get on stage because I wasn’t relying on editing.

I was just performing them like I would on stage. But I just had to kind of stick my neck out and do it. I would rather have, like, 500 people laugh than 5,000 people type, “Haha.”

BB: I don’t remember. I tell the story a bunch. Sometimes I say it was for my brother. I forget. I remember when I posted the videos, I thought I’d put the guitar down, and put the piano down and I’d be a real comedian, because I thought it was a crutch. It sort of was a crutch in my earlier videos. And then I dug into other comedians and saw that musical comedy is actually its own form that’s legitimate and actually way more conducive to the things that I would want to do in comedy.

TD: What sort of reaction did you expect when you first started posting videos?

TD: Very cool. You also do a lot of personal songs and random ones that have some see BURNHAM, page 6

Movie Review

‘The Paperboy’ proves strange but compelling nouveau-noir picture

Between recent indie hits and big Hollywood blockbusters, the film noir genre is making a comeback.

If a film could paradoxically be both by

Brendan Donohue Contributing Writer

The Paperboy refreshing and stale, a respectful hom-

Starring Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey Directed by Lee Daniels

age to old films while still falling short as a modern blockbuster, it would be “The Paperboy.”

Zac Efron plays Jack Jansen, a college dropout and paperboy who lives in the backwater suburbs of 1969 Florida.

His journalist brother, Ward (Matthew McConaughey), returns home from Miami to investigate the trial of convicted copkiller Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack).

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Zac Efron has come a long way since starring in the “High School Musical” films.

ilmed in 2006, “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”(2007) is a nuanced study of the national and social factors behind the Anglo-Irish War and the Irish Civil War. “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” is set in County Cork in the 1920s, a decade that saw the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Irish Civil War. Cillian Murphy — a favorite of this column — stars as Damien O’Donovan, a doctor about to move to England in order to practice medicine. Pádraic Delaney plays Teddy O’Donovan, Damien’s brother and an Irish revolutionary. Early in the film, Damien witnesses several instances of extreme violence perpetrated by occupying British soldiers. These experiences and his brother’s encouragement lead Damien to stay in Ireland and join the IRA. Both Murphy and Delaney give tremendous performances as brothers trapped in a conflict that originally brings them together but later pits them against each other. Murphy and Delaney demonstrate the inner turmoil created by waging a guerilla war in order to achieve peace. “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” is sympathetic to the IRA in its early 20th century incarnation. It advocates for the necessity of war to alleviate a tyrannical government, but also demonstrates the impossibility of accomplishing peace through war.

“The Wind That Shakes the Barley” received international attention after winning the Palme d’Or, the top award at the Cannes Film Festival. While most critics lauded the film, it sparked controversy among those who criticized it for its inflammatory bias toward Irish nationalists and socialists. However, many of the film’s critics refused to see it, making their comments ridiculous and invalid.

Significantly, criticism and praise for the film came from both Irish and English voices.

Director Ken Loach used the film to explore the socialist underpinnings of the Republican opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that ended the War of Independence. This opposition led to the Irish Civil War. In last week’s review, I wrote that “Michael Collins” (1996) inaccurately portrayed the Irish Civil War as a conflict fought solely over the partition of Ireland. “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” introduces social factors in order to complicate the political ones behind the Civil War. These factors are similarly more complicated than anti-partition sentiment.

In Loach’s film, the Republicans demand a reorganization of society along more equitable lines and refuse to settle for an economic and social system that impoverishes the majority of its citizens, even if that system is free of British rule. They decry absentee landlordism, an arrangement in which most people do not own their own homes and are at the mercy of their landlords. Loach introduces a crucial element into the discourse on the Irish Civil War but also reveals a strong bias toward the Republicans. Nonetheless, since Loach is a filmmaker instead of a journalist, I find this bias entirely acceptable.

Loach was also criticized for portraying the British forces as outrageously brutal. This critique is justified. In the film, British officers murder a 17 year old kid, attack an old man and ransack a family’s house. However, Loach also treats the British soldiers with compassion. In one scene, Damien has been arrested and is being questioned by a British officer.

He denounces the British occupation. The officer responds, his voice breaking, “I’m just a soldier sent by my government.” He repeats this line and then yells at Damien for his disrespect after men died for him at the Somme.

This scene demonstrates how many British soldiers, still reeling from World War I, felt powerless in Ireland.

While the intensity of this film makes it distasteful to some, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a fresh perspective on the Irish Civil War.

Megan Clark is a junior majoring in history. She can be reached at Megan.Clark@ tufts.edu.

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He’s assisted by his partner, Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo), and a woman, Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), who has been carrying on a correspondence with Van Wetter and is sure of his innocence.

Anita (Macy Gray), the Jansen family maid, recounts the story from the future in an interview shown in the opening scene.

Inhibited by Van Wetter’s unwillingness to cooperate and Jack’s love for Charlotte, Ward struggles to work with the convict to get more information about the conviction. The southern town’s establishment is against the journalists, working to hide any information that might uncover how they did not give a fair trial. Deep in the murky swamps of Florida, Ward and Yardley discover that this case will pull them into a scummy world of alligator skinners and prison masturbation, racism and ’60s culture.

This film provides an honest but exaggerated image of Florida during the end of the Civil Rights Movement. Although this is not itself a major factor of the film, the tension between white southerners and the British-born, black Yardley and the black family maid is a defining theme of the film.

Jack’s New Yorker stepmother is the character who is most disrespectful to Anita, and while her relationship with Jack is usually playful, it becomes awkward and serious after she overhears him use a racial slur against Yardley.

The loss of Jack’s mother leads him into an exploration of the human need for love after loss, as he falls in love with the much older Charlotte. She exemplifies this desire for love in her correspondence with many violent criminals.

Lee Daniels’ direction provides a wide picture of the suburban South, juxtaposing clips of alligators in swamps with shots of long highways and flashy cars. The music is well put together, an appropriate homage to the time. It often provides excitement when upbeat and positive songs pair ironically well with violent scenes of beatings and stabbings.

Matthew McConaughey’s Ward is tortured, and his portrayal of this character and his dark secrets is convincing, fresh and somewhat surprising, given McConaughey’s typically silly roles. Nicole Kidman is excellent as Charlotte, a character whom the audience will fall in love with while pitying her for her self-inflicted downfall. Her raw performance is incredibly emotional and volatile.

Zac Efron, in an attempt to contribute to a serious role following his early establishment as a Disney star, does well as the hopeful and in-love Jack. He sometimes pales next to McConaughey and Oyelowo’s Yardley, but he is strong in his youthful innocence as he tries at the same time to grow out of it. His character seems to almost reflect the actor’s own career.

John Cusack is horrifying as Van Wetter, a convincing and creepy lifetime criminal who has no respect for the woman who loves him. His family, living deep in the swamps, provides a background for his character.

“The Paperboy’s” story is sometimes choppy, with parts of plots opened up and not closed, including Yadley’s mid-movie departure and Jack’s career as a college swimmer. However, the film provides an overall satisfying story, from its in-depth introductions to the exhilarating and violent air boat climax, and offers a fresh take on old themes.

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Nicole Kidman turns up the sex appeal for her latest role.

Burnham ‘would rather have 500 people laugh than 5,000 people type, ‘Haha’’ BURNHAM

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research to them like “New Math.”

What was the hardest song that you’ve ever written, whether for personal reasons, or for research, or just coming up with lines?

BB: I don’t know, they’re all hard in different ways. You know, the ones that are more pun-ridden would just be like, I would throw a line to that song like, every once in a while, and then I’d have a list of like, 50 lines that I could assemble into a song. I always try to make the song I’m working on be the hardest song, because I like trying to challenge myself.

Even doing more serious stuff’s a challenge in a different way than trying to do more densely funny stuff is. So they’re all different.

TD: Musical comedians like yourself, like Stephen Lynch, really seem to capture the best of both worlds — like, the theatrical stand-up and also musicality.

And you do a great job melding that yourself. If you had to pick between doing strictly music and doing straight stand-up, would you ever be able to pick one?

BB: I don’t know. I’m able to do a combination of both. I think if I could choose one thing, it would be theater because I think that’s what I think my show is a bit like — a bit like a one-man show rather than a stand up show, because I get a little bored up there. That’s why it’s a little all over the place sometimes. But yeah, if I chose one it would actually be theater, because I think there are theatrical elements of comedy.

TD: Where is your music heading, do you think?

BB: I don’t know. Every hour I’ve tried to revamp as my third hour, and this feels like a big change from the last one, which was a big change from the first one.

And I don’t know, once I finish this hour, then you have this feeling like, then I have nothing.

I need to make something better than last time and that’s when

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I’ll find that out. Right now I’m focusing on polishing this hour.

TD: Where do you look for inspiration? Your songs and material are simultaneously about everything and about nothing in particular.

BB: Well, that’s a good way of saying it. A lot of it’s pretty meta and has to do with making fun of the idea that I’m even doing this in the first place. But nowadays, I’ll just take the idea of, like, what if I thought I was really deep?

And then I wrote a song about how stupid that would be. Or, like, what if I wanted to be really sappy and intimate? So a lot of it’s, like, finding the conceit.

TD: Because you came from YouTube and you’re young, who

do you think your fan base is? I think it’s different than a lot of comedians’ fan bases.

BB: Yeah, for sure. I think a decent amount of them are very young, like, young girls. And I love that before seeing me they haven’t seen comedy before.

They don’t have a judgment of what comedy should be. So it’s not like I feel like I’m coming in here being like, “Oh, I’m tearing down walls.” They’re so open to that, and I like that. And I think they’re the most valuable people to speak to and say something to, as opposed to preaching to a choir. But I hope there’s an older audience. I think there’s an older audience with it. Because I just look at the comedians I like, the comedians I’m influenced by

and they have older crowds. But I think in being particularly young compared to other comedians, I attract a younger crowd. I don’t think my act is specifically about being a kid, but it’s all very silly and fun for kids, I think.

TD: What’s your relationship like with most of the comedic community? Some comedians don’t think you’re “legitimately” famous because of your YouTube roots. Do you often encounter this sentiment?

BB: I went into this thinking, “It’s going to be miserable,” like, “I am going to hate myself.” And they have been so nice. I’m friends with a lot of comedians. I didn’t come up with a lot of comedians, but they have been very nice,

and want to teach me stuff, but also don’t want to act like they’re better than me to teach me stuff.

At least for the most part, I think people said I was fully committing to my stand-up and trying so hard to do it correctly. If the rise to fame was “legitimate,” nobody would become famous. I don’t think there’s a legitimate rise to such a silly thing.

TD: What do you want to be for Halloween?

BB: I don’t know. I never dress up.

Yeah, I don’t know. I wish I were more entertaining.

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Theater over policy once again in second debate By now, both President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney have honed their message on the election’s pressing issues down to a science. The rest of the campaign will not likely offer any more specific plans in either candidate’s stump speeches.

It will, however, offer an infinite number of opportunities for gaffes and misspeaking.

From this point forward, there will likely be no surprises in the candidates’ policy views. What the outcome of the debate season hinges on instead is a complicated dance that has elements of theatre and appearance.

The much-anticipated sequel to the first debate, in which Obama looked tepid at times compared to a stern Romney, did not disappoint as a theatrical spectacle.

The candidates began lobbing attacks at each other right from the get-go at the showdown at Hofstra University in New York.

The Twittersphere lit up immediately, and avid fact-checkers had a lot of work to do, as both men challenged each other’s claims at every opportunity.

The candidates offered their campaign pitches in a town hall setting.

Issues discussed included solutions for the federal deficit and student debt and policy on gun control and immigration. On these topics, Obama and Romney predominantly reiterated points from earlier in the campaign.

Yet the most memorable moment of the debate had little to do with policy.

When Romney challenged Obama’s claim to have dubbed the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, which resulted in the death of the U.S Ambassador to Libya, an “act of terror” within 24 hours, moderator Candy Crowley stepped in to correct the challenger and confirm that Obama was correct.

Romney had said, “I just want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack ... an act of terror,” a claim that is false, although two weeks after the incident much more about the terrorist nature of the attack was known.

Romney appeared off-kilter, and Obama came off as a confident commander-in-chief by being declared correct by the moderator on a dispute

far less important in the grand scheme of things than other issues presented in this debate, like the goverment’s role in healthcare and the strength of the economy.

The lack of new information on issues unearthed during this debate season has placed the onus squarely on theatrics like these as the decisive factor. CNN/ORC International reported poll results from immediately after the debate that said that 46 percent of viewers believed that Obama won and 39 percent had Romney as the winner.

These poll results likely reflect how Obama had fewer theatrical slip-ups than Romney, more so than they are a reflection of the candidates’ views on policy.

In the first debate, Romney appeared energized, together and able, while the president did not offer as concise and passionate answers. Last night, both candidates spoke cogently and with passion, making a clear winner more difficult to call. In one key moment, however, Obama stood tall while Romney looked foolish in a theatrical moment that will dominate today’s headlines.

vulnerable to attacks from these programs, but I claim that this is somewhat preventable.

The general population needs to be more computer literate: We need to know how computers work to understand the ways malware takes advantage of vulnerabilities in our computer systems. Even programmers — especially me — need to have more security training so that they don’t introduce vulnerabilities into their code.

Interestingly, a lot of companies are trying to automatically make the web safer for everyone by making them use strong passwords or by auto-updating software to instantly patch vulnerabilities. This way, users are much safer on the web without having to do anything complicated — like take COMP 11, 15, 40, and Network Security — to know what’s going on.

Finally, I would like to express my distaste at Kapur’s use of pathos to convey her message. An angry Girl Scout with a gun? “Shaking with fear” when we hear about malware? These are all unproductive images and ideas that do not inform or teach anything to the Daily’s learned readership. In fact, they are completely misguided: We should strive to understand malware and its virtual siblings so that we can be strong against these kinds of threats. After all, we are vaccinated with weaker versions of a virus to be able to fight against the real thing.

The same should apply here — with a little knowledge of malware, we’ll be better equipped to fight it off.

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I applaud Neena Kapur’s effort to talk about cybercrime in her Oct. 15 piece “Code as a weapon.” As a computer science major in the School of Engineering and a concerned member of society, I know that even though cybercrime is becoming more prevalent each year, not a lot of people seem to care.

Kapur was right when she said that Stuxnet was “truly revolutionary” — it definitely opened the door to a new kind of warfare between governments and, sometimes, between governments and organized “criminal” groups as well.

However, I feel that Kapur failed to convey that Stuxnet and other malware have not revolutionized the way that ordinary people think about cybercrime. Yes, we the people are

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With the presidential election three weeks away, Americans have taken to Facebook and other popular social media websites to spout their views on the candidates and their platforms.

That behavior can be positive, as it is a form of political activity. Those posts suggest that a person has been following the candidates and/or the issues and is passionate about the outcome of the election. Americans should be civically engaged.

Political statuses might also inform Facebook users who have not followed the election as closely. Chances are, more

Americans are tuned into their news feeds than the homepages of major news publications. Election-related material on the site may keep them informed.

However, that is not to say users should take every political post they see at face value. Rather, those posts should encourage them to learn more about the issues and the candidates.

Some users probably have hidden agendas and the material they post may not be all that accurate. Also worthy of discussion are the political statuses that come off as militant and overly aggressive.

Who wants to log onto their Facebook page only to find material attacking them for thinking a certain way? No one.

Then again, users have the option of hiding more militant posters from their

news feeds. Just because someone has a habit of posting hostile statuses doesn’t mean you have to subject yourself to them every time you log onto the site.

For better or for worse, people’s behavior on Facebook and other social media websites sometimes influences their interactions in the real world.

Someone who attacks a political party online might find that they have fewer friends who are willing to carry on a conversation about the subject with them in person. Their friends may even steer clear of discussing any controversial topics with them in the future. In the end, these people will likely not refrain from posting political statuses, but it does not mean their Facebook friends will listen.

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Andres Dominguez Arizona Daily Wildcat

We often think of journalists struggling against oppressive governments while dealing with threats and violence. Some of these countries include Syria, China, Iran, Sudan and, most recently, Mexico.

The drug war that has engulfed the [U.S.-Mexico] border cities for six years brings to mind immigration, drug and human smuggling and cross-border violence. Further down the list is freedom of the press.

This year, the University of Arizona School of Journalism presented the annual John Peter and Anna Catherine Zenger Award to two journalists who stand for freedom of speech: Rocío Gallegos Rodríguez and Sandra Rodríguez Nieto, for their work covering violence against women, drug cartels and related crimes for El Diario de Juárez.

Juárez has been a center for border violence for years, and Mexico has been labeled “the most dangerous place in the world for journalists.”

Since the war on drugs began in 2006, 67 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Many more are threatened, harassed and intimidated.

But Gallegos and Rodríguez represent the struggle for freedom of the

press with their struggles through the threats and harassment they receive, as well as a non-responsive government that wages a war in which it ignores its own people.

This should be a standard that journalists should strive for, regardless of how free or oppressed the media is in their home countries, because in the future these roles could be reversed.

A perfect example is the U.S., and just beyond the southern border of Mexico.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Latin America was one of the worst places a journalist could be located. With the continent covered by military dictatorships and oppressive regimes, journalists and other political activists were sometimes “disappeared” at the hands of the government, and often were never seen or heard from again.

Since those governments fell in the late 1980s, freedom of the press has certainly not flourished in Central or South America, but it has taken significant steps toward achieving a system where information flows freely.

Press freedom in the U.S. seems to be trending the other way, unfortunately. This year, the U.S. fell 27 places to 47th in press freedom in rankings by Reporters Without Borders.

This is mainly “owing to the many

arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests,” according to the organization.

There are other factors that should worry citizens about the impending fate of free information — increasingly limited access to government documents due to national security issues (perceived or real), increasing self-censorship and the recently developed phenomena of sources expecting to be anonymous instead of anonymity being an agreement under rare circumstances.

To keep journalism from declining in the U.S., reporters should look to figures like Gallegos and Rodríguez.

Even though, regrettably, the U.S. government has been less responsive to the press, it is a much easier government to deal with than with Mexico’s.

Reporters should be able to make bold decisions in order to protect the profession, and not worry about arrests, the self-censorship culture, or even governmental niceties (“We respectfully ask you not to print this.”)

If journalists can follow Gallegos and Rodríguez’s examples by being bold and accountable not to the government, but to readers, viewers and citizens, the U.S. press can rise from being one of America’s least-trusted institutions to one of the highest.

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his week’s presidential race has been relatively quiet — at least as of yesterday morning, the deadline for the submission of this article.

Morgan Freeman was recently resurrected after a dramatic Facebook death to replace Big Bird as the centerpiece of President Obama’s new campaign ads.

The economist Paul Krugman claimed that the Romney tax plan was as phony as Paul Ryan invading the Ohio soup kitchen in order to get his picture taken without actually cleaning any dishes. Vice President Joe “The Wildman” Biden won the debate with Paul “The Numbers Guy” Ryan from a policy standpoint, except The Wildman expectedly lost his candor and couldn’t stop from interrupting Ryan with laughter and snide comments like an arrogant high school honors senior facing down a new teacher. Old ladies everywhere probably thought Representative Ryan won due to his manners and love of hydration. But this all seems pretty standard in the flow of our political status quo. The calm got me thinking: What happens when disaster strikes?

A political “disaster” usually entails a gaffe or a poor debate performance.

Think of an actual catastrophe. Temporary infrastructures need to be established.

Rescue missions need to be organized.

Evacuations need to happen rapidly, but in a civilized fashion. Katrina and Sept.

11 both come to mind. Both candidates would probably react to a terrorist attack on U.S. soil in quite similar fashion: overwhelming force. Obama would refuse to look weak after killing Osama bin Laden, and Romney would see the opportunity as a chance to “nation build” in order to open up new markets for U.S. trade. But the packs would react quite differently if a disaster struck which had no human being to blame.

Hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, droughts and blizzards are not myths of a time long ago. The earth is dynamic. These are its cycles. There is no Congress, nor past president, nor foreign enemy who can be called at fault for their existence. It is incredibly difficult to declare war on the environment — though we are doing our best to quickly improve on that front. Just for a moment, close your eyes and picture the sheer devastation of a category 5 hurricane that hits Miami or a volcanic eruption in the ocean that causes a tidal wave in New York. The damage would not only destroy those cities’ infrastructures and the economies, but also take human lives.

Gentlemen, cutting taxes won’t get you anywhere now. Nor will gilded rhetoric.

Solving this problem will entail gaining international support for supplies and later investment, as well as mobilizing our National Guard and other relief organizations quickly while finding temporary and permanent housing for the newly homeless internally displaced persons. This is all technically a redistribution of wealth.

How do you react when there is a bonfire under your ass? Because the summer of fires and drought earlier this year in the Bread Basket caused a shortage in agricultural production, national food prices are up. Cattle farmers are using candy to feed their cows because of the lack of corn. What if next year brings even less rain? The aquifers in the region are nearly drained. Romney’s most likely plan is to send in Red Cross trucks full of bootstraps so people can simply pull themselves up.

Sixty seven percent of all Americans believe in climate change. Half of Republicans now believe in global warming. There are disagreements about its origin, but whether or not it is humancaused, we will need to adapt to it. Then again, this could be the perfect chance for Mitt Romney and his Bain Capital experience. He could just take all of the refugees and ship them overseas.

William Shira is a senior majoring in peace and justice studies. He can be reached at William.Shira@tufts.edu.

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Sophomore Sophie Schonfeld was part of a team that made the semifinals last weekend.

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Shelci Bowman defeated Alex Freeman and Courtney Fisher from Babson 3-0, but lost to a Williams team in the following round.

Freshman Catherine Worley played too as she teamed up with her sister, Nancy Worley, from Williams College and defeated Trinity’s Morgan Feldman and Frances Cameron 2-1 but lost in the next round. In the consolation match, the siblings defeated Simone Vandroff and Maya Vasser from Brandeis.

The entire tournament proved to be a great finish to the fall for the team, which will take the lessons learned with them into the spring season.

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have to work in the off-season to prepare for the spring, in order to play teams like the ones we played this weekend,” Lam said.

However, the Jumbos understand they need to keep improving this winter if they want to keep up with their regional competitors.

“I think all of the teams have improved through out the fall season and are only going to continue to get stronger during the spring,” Gann said. “The tournament marked the end of our fall season, and I think everyone is looking forward to a couple weeks of rest to take care of some injuries before starting the offseason training. But the weekend ended on a positive note, and we are excited to work hard in the upcoming months to prepare for our main season, which will start up in February.”

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our fifth runner only four seconds off the mark.”

It is no small feat to have delivered against 21 other respected squads from the greater New England region, but the fact that the Jumbos did so with six of their top-seven being underclassmen propelled them further up and over these other schools — and above their much-heralded NESCAC foes — into exceedingly rarefied air.

“We showed off our depth well with our top 12 not racing,” senior Adam Brosh said. “Joseph St. Pierre, Greg Hardy and James Traester [in particular] all ran very well.”

Though Tufts flaunted its enviable depth in the faces of weaker, non-

NESCAC opponents, such a display will unquestionably aid the team going forward as the focus of everyone’s attention moves to next week’s NESCAC championships.

The fact that non-scorers have raced so well speaks volumes not only about those who participated in the race, but also about the 12 runners who did not race, lending a great deal of credibility to the heightened expectations that welcomed the Jumbos heading into this season.

Tufts’ top runners are slated to return to run in the NESCAC championships at Bowdoin on Oct. 27. The Jumbos are hoping to ride this wave of momentum to that elusive conference victory, which now seems more attainable than ever before.

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more competitive league, and was eager to test itself.

But as anticipated, however, stiffer competition the likes of national No. 4 Coast Guard Academy among them, has not been all too kind to Tufts’ win column. The team’s 2-3 record is a far cry from last year’s unblemished regular season.

“I don’t feel [it] accurately reflects our performances this season, but [it] does reflect the level of competition in our league,” said sophomore starting fly half Patrick McGonagle. “Our potential as a program is essentially limitless. If we keep up our performances, we have the potential to become a Division I [team].”

Nevertheless, for a team comprised mainly of sophomores and juniors who had no experience before joining the Jumbos’ roster, the results posted thus far are not half-bad. A walloping of 15thranked Boston University at Homecoming was an exhibition of just how good this team can be.

If the team’s talent level begins to translate into wins on a consistent basis, it is well within reason to believe that the Tufts men’s rugby team can become a formidable mainstay on the national scene.

The women’s team is no slouch, either, as it has also enjoyed its fair share of success over the past year or two.

Thus far in 2012, the team has amassed a 3-2 record in the New England Small College Rugby Conference, which it joined prior to the start of the season. The squad has just one more game remaining, this weekend at home. The Jumbos line up against Amherst in a match that will likely determine which team makes it to the playoffs.

This year, the squad is made up predominantly of rookies and players who last year only played in B-side scrimmages because last year’s particularly large outgoing senior class was replaced by a particularly small incoming senior class.

The Jumbos have performed valiantly in spite of their inexperience, which is reflected in their winning record. Sophomores Kelsey Wade and Lauren Ritterband, both flankers, are among those who have risen to the occasion time and time again, competing against more experienced players.

Their two losses came against Middlebury and Bowdoin, far and away the two toughest teams in the conference. Bowdoin had held its opponents scoreless until it encountered a scrappy Tufts team in a heated showdown during which tensions flared the full length of the match.

“We kind of have a rivalry with Bowdoin,” sophomore outside center Emily Barns said, understating the extent of the enmity between the two teams. “Although we lost, we probably played our best game of rugby that day.”

Fifth-year scrumhalf Joyce Tai, a Tufts veterinary school student and one of the squad’s hardest hitting and savviest players, was the first to score against Bowdoin this season. It was the way in which the Jumbos came out that day, confident and hungry, that provided Tai with a scoring opportunity. Still, the Polar Bears proved too tough a test for a young Tufts team.

“We made a lot of good, hard, clean tackles. Rugby can often look messy, with a bunch of people jumping on top of each other and dog-piling, but this game was clean and well played by both teams,” Barns said.

Although there has been a massive influx of young students this season, the Jumbos’ core of upperclassmen starters has navigated through what could have been a season peppered with tumultuous ups and downs.

This weekend the team looks to extend its season against Amherst. Just as in the case of the men’s team, however, the women’s team will have to overcome a myriad of obstacles and depend on its leadership in order to advance.

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Jumbos disappointed with Johnson & Wales Invitational results by

G.J. Vitale

Daily Staff Writer

The men’s golf team continued its struggles this past weekend, finishing sixth in the field of eight at the Johnson & Wales University Invitational.

The par-71 Cranston Country Club was especially unforgiving on Friday.

Temperatures were in the low 40s and rainy, conditions that pushed the golfers to their limits, affecting the flight of the ball and making it hard for the players to remain consistent.

The harsh weather translated directly into the high scores for all the competitors. The individual winner of the tournament, Rhode Island College’s Ryan Butler, shot a 13-overpar 155 for the two days. RIC was also the winning team and its two-day total was 621, 53 strokes over par.

The Jumbos were not immune to the hardships of the conditions. They finished the weekend in sixth place with a 95-over-par 663.

But although the 42-stroke differential between Tufts and Rhode Island is large, the final position does not tell the whole story.

The Jumbos were only one stroke behind fifth-place Suffolk University and three strokes behind fourthplace Nichols College. If the team

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had managed to cut just four strokes from their final score they would have cracked the top half of the playing field for the first time this year.

And even though they did not do so, the team’s morale still remained high because of signs of improvement with some players—notably sophomore co-captain Alex Zorniger, whose 77 on Saturday was one of the better scores of the weekend.

“It’s good to have big Al back from summer vacation finally,” said coach Bob Sheldon, in reference to Zorniger’s solid weekend.

Meanwhile, freshman Jay Wong was once again the Jumbos’ star player, finishing tied for seventh overall with a two-day total of 158. Despite his performance, Wong wanted more out of the team’s results.

“We went into this tournament hoping that we could finish really well,” Wong said. “But after what were probably the toughest conditions of the season on Friday, we finished with a less than ideal 339.”

That 339 was not the worst team score of the day, but it was far behind RIC’s pace-setting 312 score. As has been the story all year, the golf team put itself in a hole after day one, and, despite the comeback efforts of the team, did not recover on day two.

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“We are just lacking consistency,” said Wong. “We cannot seem to string together four decent rounds in one day. Alex stepped up big for us on Saturday, and hopefully we’ll have more efforts like that two weeks from now at New England’s.”

Zorniger finished his weekend tied for 13th with a 161. Sophomore John Wawer contributed consistency in the form of a 85/83 split that tied him for 21st overall.

Senior Ben Saperstein rounded out the scores with two-day 176.

In a unusual turn of events, freshman Brendan Koh’s first-round score was omitted because he played the wrong ball. This disqualification did not affect the team’s overall score, however, because only the top four scores from each day are counted.

Despite its struggles, the team appears to have not lost its confidence or good spirit.

“We got beaten by a school that is known for its culinary prowess and it didn’t feel good,” Zorniger said. “All summer I’m going to be working for that victory dinner they owe us.”

The men’s golf team will play in its last tournament of the fall season, the New England Championship, two weekends from now on Oct. 28-29.

It will be held at Captains’ Course in Brewster, Mass.

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Split of hockey-related profits proposed by the NHL to the Players’ Association on Tuesday. The proposal came in the midst of stagnant negotiations between the league and union regarding the current lockout. The conflict mostly stems over the division of money, with the players demanding 57 percent of league revenue and the owners rejecting that figure.

There is hope that if the dispute is resolved in the next few days, there will be time for a complete 82-game NHL season, due to start in early November.

Total yards gained by the Trinity football team in its 40-7 defeat of the Jumbos on Saturday. Senior quarterback Ryan Burgess completed 11 of 15 attempts for 175 pass yards, while the Bantams racked up 361 rush yards on 50 plays from scrimmage.

Even though the game was tied at the end of the first quarter, the Bantams soon pulled away. Trinity is a perfect 4-0 in the NESCAC and stands in a three-way tie for first place in the conference, while Tufts dropped to 0-4.

Shots attempted this season by the No. 8 women’s field hockey team, which has won 10 straight games and has yielded just 85 shots on the other end. When opponents did get a look at the cage, sophomore goalie Brianna Keenan has made 35 stops and currently holds a .814 save percentage, good for third best in the NESCAC, as the team has recorded three consecutive 1-0 victories and currently sits in third in the conference standings.

Members of the women’s cross country team placed in the Top 20 at the Connecticut College Invitational on Saturday. In the six-kilometer race, the Jumbos accumulated a team score of 51, notching a landslide victory and beating the runner-up team, Keene State, by 37 points. Freshman Audrey Gould finished first for the Jumbos and fourth overall with a time of 21:58, a strong comeback for the first-year who had previously been sidelined with tendonitis.

Price paid by an unidentified Chicago resident in an eBay bid for a gallon of limited production barbecue sauce. The catch? The sauce was originally intended for use on McDonald’s McJordan sandwich, a 1992 invention named for former NBA shooting guard Michael Jordan. Jordan, a Chicago legend, helped lead the Bulls to six league championships between 1991 and 1998, and has since become an international marketing figure associated with brands such as Nike and Hanes.

Number of NFL games decided by three points or fewer in Week 6. Several games came down the final seconds, including the Baltimore Ravens’ victory over the Dallas Cowboys. With 36 seconds remaining, the Cowboys scored a touchdown to pull within two points of the Ravens. After missing the two-point conversion, the Cowboys had a chance to win after recovering an onside kick, but kicker Dan Bailey shanked the 51-yard attempt just left as time ran out.

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Ethan Sturm | Rules of the Game

Coaching for dummies

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bet you didn’t know this, but I could be the second-best college basketball coach in the country without breaking a sweat.

College basketball coaching in today’s world is an easy game. All you have to do is take a team and promise a bunch of top high-school seniors that you are operating under a oneand-done system. You tell them that after hanging out in college for a year and winning a championship with their friends, there will be no pressure to stay. After all, the next class needs its space.

But despite how easy the game is, no one but John Calipari wants to play it.

After getting a commitment from James Young a few days ago, he now has three of the country’s top five recruits heading to Kentucky. Roy Williams at UNC only has one commitment in the top 45. Mike Krzyzewski at Duke has none in the top 30.

You might argue that I couldn’t pull that off with any program, that the Kentucky name gets Calipari the recruits. But he was doing it long before he got to Louisville, taking top guys like Derrick Rose with him to Memphis. While you may not agree with his methods, it’s hard to argue against his success.

You could say that I don’t have the talent to pull a team of egotistical freshmen together and meld them into a championship team. And you may be right. Then again, Calipari isn’t going to have to worry about that much this year, seeing as he’s already recruited twin brothers — ranked second and third in the nation, respectively — to fill out his backcourt.

Must. Be. Nice.

You might think that Calipari is the only one that can pull it off, but it’s beginning to look less likely that that’s the case. UCLA grabbed two top five recruits last year, while Billy Donovan at Florida has two top 10 commitments this year, as well. After the formula resulted in a title in 2012 for Calipari — even if that title later was vacated for recruiting violations, as most of his have been — the rest of the college basketball establishment has been forced to take notice.

So if the formula for success is so easy that even a college sports columnist could do it, where does that leave the sport as it begins a new season?

Well, I think we’re headed down a slippery slope. Imagine a world where four teams split up the top 20 recruits amongst themselves each year. They turn over their entire team every year, and while occasionally a Cinderella will upset one or two of them in the tournament, in the end their skill wins out every year. Each of the four becomes a dynasty, and the 344-team Div. I becomes a four-team competition.

Stopping collapse is going to take way more collaboration between the NCAA and the NBA than we should realistically hope for. A talk between David Stern and the college sports big wigs is less likely to be productive than a debate between Romney and Obama.

The key would be eliminating the oneyear rule, either forcing college players to stay in school longer or not forcing them to go at all.

Let’s be honest here: No one is getting a useful education from a school through one year of study, during most of which they focus on basketball. Let the future NBA players play in their own little separate development league — which, by the way, would draw great ratings — and keep the college game for the true student-athletes, who will also still be able to generate strong TV ratings. It’s a win-win for everyone.

Maybe it’s not the best solution, but it’s better than the path we are headed down right now. You can keep thinking on it. I’m going to go fill out some coaching applications.

Ethan Sturm is a senior majoring in biopsychology. He can be reached at Ethan.

Sturm@tufts.edu or @esturm90.

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Jumbos play well at NEWITTs

Men’s Cross Country

Strong showing by Gann, Schonfeld in last fall tournament

by Jorge

Monroy-Palacio

Contributing Writer

The New England Women’s Intercollegiate Tournament last weekend saw the continued hard work and dedication of Tufts’ women’s tennis team. A well-played final fall tournament will serve as a confidence-booster for the squad as it enters the long winter break.

The Jumbos headed to Mount Holyoke to compete with 16 local schools, including Amherst, Middlebury, MIT and Brandeis, in the New England Women’s Intercollegiate Tournament. Each team matchup consisted of two singles matches and one doubles match, and the team that won at least two out of three moved on in the draw.

“NEWITTs is a tournament with a unique format allowing for a lot of match play in a short amount of time,” senior co-captain Lindsay Katz said.

Because of the way the format is set up, every team is constantly busy with matches. There are six events: Gail Smith — Flight A, Chris Davis — Flight B and four consolation events. This allows each team to really hone in on their skills and get a decent amount of match play under their belt.

“This tournament allowed us to see our skills improve and our confidence build from that added

match play,” junior Samantha Gann said.

The increased number of matches allowed Tufts to showcase its consistency, which has the team’s key attribute this fall. The Jumbos got off to a shaky start with a 5-4 win against MIT, but once the rust came off, the team cruised to a 9-0 thrashing over Brandeis. After their flawless play, the Jumbos then headed to the ITA Regional tournament where they continued to win, making a few rounds of 16 matches and quarterfinals. Needless to say, heading into the NEWITTs, the Jumbos were ready to take to the courts once again.

“As players, we look forward to the fall season to gain more match experience,” Gann said. “We want to learn the specific areas we need to [concentrate on] — both as a team and individuals — in the upcoming months so we can come out our strongest in March.”

While the official scores for each specific singles and doubles match have yet to be released, according to the team, Tufts especially excelled in doubles, with Gann and sophomore Sophie Schonfeld making a strong run and reaching the semifinals.

On their way to the semifinals, Gann and Schonfeld, ranked fifth, defeated Cadance Wu and Julia Hsu from MIT and then Sadie Sackleford and Lauren Amos from

Middlebury by 2-1 scorelines. The pair’s third match was won more thoroughly with a 3-0 quarterfinal triumph over Sarah Monteagudo and Isabel Camacho from Amherst.

Gann and Schonfeld eventually fell to Amherst’s Jordan Brewer and Sue Ghosh 2-1 in the semifinals.

“Sam and Sophie ... really stepped up to the competition and made it to the semifinals of a very competitive tournament” senior co-captain Janice Lam said. “I was impressed by how they fought and how feisty they were even on Sunday, when we had already played two full days of tennis.”

Gann attributes the pairing’s success to the teamwork and camaraderie between her and Schonfeld.

“Personally, it was so exciting playing NEWITTs with Sophie and to feel us really coming together as a doubles team,” Gann said. “I think the highlight for me was our 9-7 doubles win against Amherst’s Jordan Brewer and Sue Ghosh in the semifinal round. We didn’t do anything to play outside ourselves, but everything just clicked perfectly.”

Other players played well, too.

Senior Lauren Hollender and Lam teamed up and defeated Carley Cooke and Ally Bernstein from Brandeis before falling to Middlebury. Katz and junior see WOMEN’S TENNIS, page 14

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An undermanned team took sixth at the Connecticut College Invitational.

With their regulars resting, Tufts’ reserves step up to the plate

by Sam

Gold

Daily Staff Writer

courtesy pat cordeiro

The men’s team has experienced a renaissance in recent years with a new coaching staff and increased dedication.

Men’s, women’s rugby programs balance youth and experience

by Sam

Gold

Daily Staff Writer

The hiring of head coach Maurice Kauff two years ago was the first important step toward success for the men’s rugby team.

Since then, the team has flown noiselessly under the radar, growing rapidly from a laidback collection of guys into a regional juggernaut with an impressive resume of victories and growth.

Kauff brought with him, in addition to two assistant coaches in Tom Collins and Jamie Green, the kind of work ethic and structure required to create a disciplined and

thriving program. His arrival proved to be the watershed moment that jumpstarted the club’s ascent. It would be an understatement to say that his impact on the program was profound.

In 2011, as part of the New England Rugby Football Union, the Jumbos breezed through their schedule, highlighted by a 70-5 victory over WPI and a 63-0 victory over WIT. Having torn through their regular season schedule, they earned a bye and a ticket to the playoffs.

Following a first-round win against Bowdoin, the Jumbos found themselves in the New England

Final Four and national top 16, but after watching a 19-0 lead against top-ranked Salve Regina slip painfully away, their year was cut short.

They had to watch from home as Salve Regina, the defending national champions, steamrolled their remaining opponents en route to a second consecutive title.

Tufts finished the year with a 7-2 record and ranked No. 11 in Div. III, a sign that the team was continuing to improve in this new era.

This year, though, Tufts was presented with the opportunity to move up to Div. II, a much see RUGBY, page 15

Fresh off a tremendous showing at the All-New England Championship on Oct. 7, a severely undermanned Tufts men’s cross country team took to Connecticut College on Sunday to compete in the Connecticut College Invitational — the final meet of the regular season.

With Tufts’ top 12 runners spared a day of racing in preparation for the upcoming NESCAC and regional championships, a number of nonscoring runners came through to secure a sixth place finish out of a field of 22 teams, some of whom — including many of the teams that finished ahead of Tufts — ran their top seven runners.

Expectations were not as high as usual, but a slew of impressive performances, including multiple personal bests, ensured that the regular season ended with a bang.

Racing in optimal conditions in what is typically a course on which racers are buffeted by fierce winds, Tufts’ top five all shed substantial seconds off their previous best times to lift the team to a surprising result, finishing behind UConn, Connecticut College, Keene State, SUNY Oneonta and Gwynedd-Mercy.

Paving the way for the Jumbos was sophomore Joseph St. Pierre, who finished in 28th place overall with a new personal-best time of 26:13,

one minute and 20 seconds behind overall champion Ryan McGuire of UConn.

The Jumbos’ next three to cross the line did so within two seconds of one another in a thrilling photo finish.

Sophomore Greg Hardy took the 35th spot, followed by freshman Michael Curley and sophomore Colin McCrory who claimed the subsequent odd-numbered spots.

McCrory turned in an especially noteworthy performance, as his time this week was 30 seconds faster than the one he put up last week at the All-New England championship.

Freshman James Traester slashed an entire minute off his previous personal best, recording a time of 26:34 to finish in fifth for Tufts and 51st place overall. Senior Luke Maher and sophomore Sam Garfield rounded out the top seven, as Maher dipped just under the 27-minute mark with Garfield trailing him in the end by six seconds.

“I was [especially] impressed by the grit and intensity the freshmen showed today,” St. Pierre said. “Both Michael and James have run personal bests on every course they’ve run on so far, impressive feats marking the start of collegiate athletic careers that are sure to flourish in the coming years. The overall performance speaks volumes of our team’s depth and talent. Our top four all ran significantly under 26:30, with see MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY, page 14