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Friday, November 16, 2012

Hurricane Sandy affects Tufts community at home by

Caitlin McClure Daily Staff Writer

For some, Hurricane Sandy’s arrival at Tufts on Monday, Oct. 29 was nothing more than a welcome break from classes and a cozy day inside. For students from hard-hit areas on the East Coast, though, the storm was a frightening time of destruction and disconnect from family and friends.

The New York and New Jersey areas, home to many Tufts students, suffered some of the worst damage in Sandy’s aftermath. Students from these regions experienced varying levels of destruction to their homes and neighborhoods, as well as reduced communication during the height of the storm. Many students recalled anxiety about the inability to reach loved ones.

“It was frightening not being there,” junior Matthew Montgomery of Garden City, NY said. “We weren’t able to talk for a couple days because the phone lines were down, so those few days were pretty tough.”

Graduate student Kate Barnosky of Huntington Station, NY shared similar sentiments.

“Not being able to stay in touch when I knew it was a bad storm was scary,” she

said. “Not only did they lose power, but there was no cell phone service because a lot of the towers fell down.”

Junior Katie Stuntz of Mamaroneck, NY explained that her entire neighborhood on the Long Island Sound had been evacuated.

She was left waiting for days with the fate of her home unknown.

“It was scary because we had no idea what was going on,” she said. “My parents couldn’t get there because all the bridges were closed, and no one could check it out.”

For many students, getting through the storm and reconnecting with family presented the most difficult challenges, while some are still faced with the prospect of a long rebuilding process.

Students both affected and unaffected by the storm are becoming involved on campus and in areas directly hit through relief efforts, both immediate and long-term.

“I didn’t feel like there was anything I could do here, and it was really hard to stay in contact with everyone when no one had power,” said senior Kaitlyn Fraterman of Brick Township, NJ. She began collecting canned goods, blankets, clothing, toiletries see HURRICANE, page 2

ChildObesity180 receives grant from Harvard Pilgrim by

Daphne Kolios

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The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy’s ChildObesity180 organization recently received a $1.5 million grant from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation to support its Healthy Kids Out of School program.

ChildObesity180, publicly launched last spring after the Friedman School earned a $6.9 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, works to facilitate research about childhood obesity prevention. Healthy Kids Out of School partners with afterschool programs, such as the National

4-H Council and YMCA, to encourage children to participate in physical activity, drink water and eat fruits and vegetables.

“We’re hoping over the next couple years we actually reach close to half a million children with this initiative,” Miriam Nelson, professor at the Friedman School and co-director of ChildObesity180, said. “[It is] working with the leadership in these organizations as well as implementing a grassroots effort to really target children themselves.”

Healthy Kids Out of School hopes see HEALTHY, page 2

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The Friedman School’s ChildObesity180 program was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and is moving forward with its battle against childhood obesity.

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LouAnn Westall, the university’s first associate provost for academic planning, will help oversee Tufts’ ten-year strategic planning process.

Westall named associate provost for academic planning by

Daniel Gottfried Daily Staff Writer

LouAnn Westall, an experienced consultant and academic planner, last month assumed the role of associate provost of academic planning, a new position that focuses on creating and implementing a long-term strategic plan for the university.

The university-wide strategic planning initiative, titled Tufts: The Next 10 Years, was launched by Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris on Oct. 1.

“The Provost believed that this position is essential to moving the process of strategic planning forward because garnering broad community involvement requires someone to own that responsibility,” Westall said.

In a letter to the Tufts community, Harris described the idea behind the strategic plan.

“A strategic planning process is an opportunity for all of us, as a community, to rediscover Tufts University and its role in the world and then to develop a blueprint to achieve our shared goals in teaching and learning, research and scholarship and service to society,” Harris wrote.

Many universities do not have an associate provost of academic planning, Westall said.

“At many universities and organizations, strategic planning is a concentrated effort, but often implementations of recommendations [do] not occur,” she said. “People will write a plan, the plan will get distributed, but no one is really held responsible for the implementation of that plan.”

Westall believes that her experience developing initiatives for Harvard Medical School in the school’s planning office, in addition to time spent at universities in a donor relations role, will assist her in the new position.

“I think that what I bring to the table is years of experience working in higher education and as a consultant,” Westall said. “I have a lot of experience working with faculty and working with students in a university environment, but also in a consulting environment, giving me a broad perspective on how many universities do things.”

Westall said she came to Tufts to return to being a member of what she considers a see PROVOST, page 2

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The Daily interviews Sam Mendes, director of the latest Bond film.

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to collaborate with businesses, like local grocery stores, that can provide resources for the participating afterschool programs, according to Molly Newman, senior project manager for the initiative.

“The cost of some of these resources and the access to them were some of the problems we heard,” she said. “We’re so burdened with how much we already have to take care of in our programs, we need some resources to help make it happen.”

This spring, Healthy Kids Out of School will provide an online resource for afterschool programs called the Healthy Kids Hub, which will feature educational materials, such as webinars, and ideas for physical activities, according to Newman.

The program will also use the grant money to evaluate the work and efficacy

of its branches in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. A team from the program is currently conducting focus groups in these states with local staff and volunteers from the nine affiliated after-school programs, Newman said. “[We’re] really getting feedback from the local staff and volunteers, asking what are the barriers they face every day and what makes it difficult to offer fruits and vegetables and water and to offer physical activity,” she said.

Healthy Kids Out of School is one of six ChildObesity180 initiatives that began three years ago to unite leaders from different academic fields in order to address childhood obesity, according to Nelson.

The initiative’s emphasis on afterschool, noncustodial organizations has given Harvard Pilgrim an opportunity to work with a variety of staff and volunteers, according to Karen Voci, executive director of Harvard Pilgrim.

“The idea is really to be sure that at every point in their day, healthier choices are easier choices,” she said. “The idea is really to be reinforcing these messages and reinforcing the environmental change.”

Voci explained that Healthy Kids Out of School’s tactics align with the shift in how the obesity epidemic has been approached. “[Childhood obesity] used to be seen as an individual child’s problem,” she said. “The focus now is really on changing the environment in which kids live, work and play.”

The grant is part of Harvard Pilgrim’s “Growing Up Healthy” initiative. The call for project proposals went out in fall 2011, and grants were awarded this April, according to Voci.

“We had worked with [the Friedman School] before, so we had a lot of upclose experience with the quality of their work,” she said.

Students travel to affected areas to help with relief efforts HURRICANE

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and water from students around campus to drive back home the weekend following the storm, said.

“I couldn’t just stay here for the weekend when everything was going so horribly down there,” she said.

Additionally, Fraterman and several of her housemates held a party on campus to raise money for relief efforts. By spreading awareness through Facebook and word of mouth, she was raised over $500 dollars and collected enough canned goods to fill her car. She dropped off the donations at a church to be distributed to families who had lost power, along with a portion of the money.

The rest of the money went to a local chapter of the Police Athletic League, which hosted a soup kitchen and ran a Meals on Wheels program, and to the Weather Channel, which is matching all Sandy donations, according to Fraterman.

Senior Anne Wolfe has also been active in relief efforts off campus. Although her family in Massachusetts was not hit hard by the hurricane, Wolfe wanted to get involved because she felt responsible to help those less fortunate than her in experiencing the storm’s severe effects.

Wolfe reached out to a network of Boston residents who were connected through their previous work with Occupy Boston.

Together, they formed a group called Sandy Relief Boston and have worked to coordinate relief efforts across the city and connect them to relief efforts in New York.

“A lot of people in Boston know people in New York or just want to help, but it’s always hard to know how to help other than giving a check to the Red Cross,” Wolfe said. “Having a space where people can donate whatever they have that might be helpful gives people the opportunity to be involved.”

On-campus and citywide, Wolfe and her

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Hurricane Sandy directly impacted the homes of many worried Tufts students. fellow group members have utilized their preexisting networks, blasting e-lists, emailing professors and frequently posting on Facebook to get the word out about donation information. The group set up nine donation sites in Boston, which have been flooded with donations, according to Wolfe.

“We’re taking everything from first aid kits to winter hats to canned soups and trying to keep the donation list as updated as possible to supply the most immediate needs and coordinate efforts up here,” Wolfe said.

The group coordinated with Occupy Sandy, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has coordinated relief efforts in affected sites by setting up dropoff centers, forming medic networks to conduct door-to-door checks and addressing whatever other small needs they can.

“The group has been doing a good job of getting feet on the ground and really being

able to coordinate using social media,” Wolfe said.

Wolfe traveled to New York the weekend following the storm to deliver collected goods from Sandy Relief Boston’s drop off centers, and she will be traveling there again this coming weekend.

The immediate scare is over for most, but the rebuilding has just begun and will continue to be a long and strenuous project. As direct aid transforms into long-term relief and Sandy Relief Boston adapts to these changes, Wolfe’s work remains unfinished.

“We’re aiming this to be a relief effort that is somewhat sustained,” she said.

“Sometimes it’s easy to forget that once people have power back on, it’s [not] the end of the road. It’s going to be a significant rebuilding process and all of us really want to see this through.”

Provost’s Office begins to develop long-term strategic plan PROVOST

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more permanent community. For the past several years, she has served as vice president and chief operating officer at Strategy Implemented, Inc. as well as the director at Huron Consulting Group.

“While consulting provides you with this vast broad experience, I missed being part of an institution,” she said. “It is gratifying to be part of a community. People love the institution, and they support it in a way that is vibrant and palpable.”

Westall expressed excitement about the position, explaining that it will give her the opportunity to see her planned policies come to fruition.

“I was excited by the idea that you could get involved in the process of strategic planning and it wouldn’t end when the planning was done, but the role kept carrying forward and you could actually imple-

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ment what was on the plan,” she said.

Working groups composed of students, faculty and staff will identify challenges, opportunities and resources to help shape the strategic plan, Westall said. The working groups will discuss the student experience, digital and online initiatives, modes of research, lifelong learning and alumni engagement, entrepreneurship and innovation, public service and globalization.

Senior Ben Perlstein, an intern in the Office of the President, serves as a staff representative in the Globalization Working Group, a committee that he said Westall has interacted with extensively.

“She and I have personally talked about different strategies for making this feel like a community experience, especially for undergraduates,” Perlstein said. “This isn’t a top-down strategic plan. The more voices that participate, the closer we will get to the right choices for Tufts.”

Perlstein said he is especially impressed by the administration’s transparency in its efforts with the strategic plan.

“The extent to which the administration is consulting the community and soliciting advice and [comments] reflects a really exciting time for Tufts as an institution, because this will be something that we build together and I think that everyone at the top believes that,” he said.

Perlstein emphasized the leadership role that Westall has taken in the strategic planning process.

“She is rising to the occasion and inspiring everyone around her to step up to the plate,” he said. “It is really great that we have someone like LouAnn who isn’t taking anything for granted about what the university is. She is coming in with her eyes wide open and is taking full account of everything. I think it will have tremendous results.”

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Interview | Sam Mendes

Oscar-winner Mendes discusses helming latest Bond film by

Tim Charouk

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While promoting his international boxoffice hit “Skyfall,” director Sam Mendes took a moment to field questions from the college press about the 23rd film in the James Bond franchise.

The Tufts Daily: How do you resurrect Bond from the previous films and then keep the franchise going without becoming repetitive or irrelevant?

Sam Mendes: Well, you tell a story that hasn’t been told before, I suppose, and you push the character in directions that he hasn’t been pushed before. And the nice thing is that I have producers who were willing to let me go to places that they’ve never been before in a Bond movie ... One of the lucky things is, at the moment, we are living in a world where people don’t equate large, commercial films with having to be light. In other words, now it’s possible to be dark and ... push the envelope a little bit more with bigger movies.

TD: Everyone has his or her own opinions of what they want the Bond films to be.

How do you deal with all those opinions?

What kind of Bond film did you set out to make?

SM: I think the only way to deal with opinions is to chill out, to be honest with you.

I think one of [the] things [about] a Bond movie is you’re surrounded by white noise all the time. Everyone [has an] opinion about what kind of Bond they want to see and you quickly realize that everyone’s Bond is different. You know, some people want to see more gadgets, some people don’t like gadgets. I mean, one day, I had

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Mendes notes that the high caliber of “Skyfall’s” cast made directing the film much easier. someone say to me, “God, I hope you put some humor back into it,” and literally five minutes later somebody said to me, “Thank God they’re not trying to be funny anymore.

It’s so much better now you’re not trying to be funny.” So the truth is, wherever you go, you’re going to have someone stating the opposite opinion to what you think. I think the most important thing that I discovered is to push away the white noise and try to ask yourself, “What do you want to see

when you’re sitting in a dark room and you pay your fifteen dollars?” ... I’m very happy that I was able to make a movie that’s personal enough and that I didn’t feel I got lost in, and that I [didn’t try] to make everyone else’s film.

TD: How does your personal aesthetic show in the film?

I mean, I selected every shot, I chose how [“Skyfall” is] put together and how it’s ordered and how it’s timed. It’s as personal as anything else I’ve ever done. It’s like saying to a writer, “How’s your personal aesthetic show?” Well, you wrote it. For me, it’s a film I feel no different about than anything else I’ve done.

SM: [Laughs] Well, I think it’s in every shot.

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Movie Review

‘Skyfall’ proves validity of Bond franchise’s 50 years of enduring popularity by

Tim Charouk

Contributing Writer

Celebrating 50 years of James Bond, Sam Mendes has created both an homage to and a continua-

Skyfall Starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Ben Whishaw Directed by Sam Mendes tion of the longest running continuous film franchise in history. Already declared by some to be the best Bond film yet, “Skyfall” has gone far and beyond all expectations.

Daniel Craig returns in the titular role for his third Bond film after his highly acclaimed performance in “Casino Royale” (2006) and his rather lackluster one in “Quantum of Solace” (2008). Often considered the most accurate portrayal of Ian Fleming’s James Bond character, Craig silences any qualms fans of the franchise still have over “James Blond,” as some critics have mockingly called him. His sophisticated, serious take on the role gives his films a grittier feel.

“Skyfall” takes the audience on a dangerous mission to Istanbul, which marks the third time a Bond film was shot in this metropolitan Turkish city. Bond’s partner accidently shoots him, and Bond returns weakened and more cau-

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Daniel Craig masterfully portrays a darker, more jaded version of Bond as the character returns to his roots. tious. He must then come face to face with a mysterious man from M’s past, Silva.

Silva, played by Javier Bardem, is the perfect villain: calm and put-together on the surface, but

an evil mastermind underneath the facade, with his own private island lair to boot. His target is

M, on whom he is trying to enact his revenge. M, played by Judi Dench, also offers her best performance in a Bond film yet, combining sharp wit and a stern attitude with a motherly and emotional side not often seen in Bond films. The writers have put forward some of their best work, and the dialogue between her and Bond often had the audience erupting with laughter.

The Bond girls, played by the beautiful Bérénice Marlohe and Naomie Harris, are usually the staples of all Bond films. In this film, however, they are put on the back burner, allowing Bond and M to rightfully take center stage.

M herself is the Bond woman for this film, being one of only a handful of women to form a deep, personal bond with 007.

“Skyfall” also marks the return of a character seen in most early Bond films, but who has recently been underdeveloped: Q. In previous Bonds, Q always appeared as Bond’s armorer of sorts, supplying all the new equipment and gadgets MI6 had to offer, as well as most of the films’ comic relief.

This time, though, Ben Whishaw, a much younger actor, plays Q, and the wild gadgets he would traditionally present have been replaced by simpler, less gaudy technology. This speaks to the minimalist feel the film presents, as Bond and the series return to the basics.

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TD: What defines a Bond girl for you?

SM: Well, I can only really talk about my movie. For me, there’s nothing that defines a Bond girl except, you know, she’s in [a] “Bond” [film]. I didn’t go into this movie thinking, “What do I need to find in a Bond girl that’s always been there?” I just wanted to create two interesting, complex, multi-dimensional characters that had a few surprises up their sleeve and weren’t sort of doe-eyed innocents being pushed around, but had some kind of layers and some depth ... and I hope that’s what we’ve achieved.

TD: What were some of the challenges or rewards of working with such a veteran cast, people like Javier Bardem and Judi Dench?

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As Silva, the latest Bond villain, Javier Bardem projects the perfect blend of calculating evil and leering sexuality.

Mendes’ ‘Skyfall’ nods to tradition while remaining contemporary SKYFALL

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ration between director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins. In the past, they have created some of the most dynamic and visually stunning action sequences the franchise has ever seen. Shooting in picturesque, exotic locations enhanced the film’s aesthetic, gracefully taking viewers from Istanbul to Shanghai to London.

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of “Quantum of Solace’s” principle errors: while “Quantum” was frantic and blurry, “Skyfall” is elegant and smooth, like a Bond film ought to be.

Overall, “Skyfall” takes a “back to basics” approach, while still keeping Bond contemporary. It combines the action sequences and humor that made the franchise so successful in its early years with a characterdriven story that made “Casino Royale” such a critical success. The film is full of small

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callbacks to early Bond films that reward longtime fans of the series, but not at the expense of the story. It succeeds in wrapping up this sort of trilogy set up by the previous two Craig films, and simultaneously works as a stand-alone action flick.

Though the franchise almost fell under before the making of “Skyfall,” Bond is most definitely back, and one can only imagine the path he is going to take after this landmark for the franchise.

SM: The rewards are huge, and there are very few challenges, to be honest with you, because, you know, if you’re used to working with actors, then you’ll know that these are the best in the world, and they do make your life much easier, because their starting points are where a lot of actors would be finishing. For me, it was just a pleasure and that was one of the biggest delights in working on this movie, was how, you know, we’d finish a scene with Javier Bardem and then in would walk Ralph Fiennes, and we’d finish a scene with Ralph Fiennes and then in would come Judi Dench. Not to mention Daniel Craig and Naomie Harris and Albert Finney and Ben Whishaw, etcetera, etcetera. So, for me, it was a huge pleasure and I’ve never done a movie in which every single person I offered a role to said yes. The only challenge was that Judi and Albert Finney are both in their 70s and they had to do action scenes. [Laughs] But they loved it, and they were game, and it turned out great in the end.

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Men’s Squash

With coach in place, Jumbos continue to improve

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Roughly seven months have passed since the men’s squash team last competed. But the squad’s goals are remarkably similar to last year’s: finish in the top 20, move forward in the NESCAC rankings and solidify past results in order to return to the Conroy Division finals this year. For a young team, though, achieving those goals will be a challenge unlike any the team has experienced in recent memory.

“Our team is very young, and with no seniors, chemistry will be one of the most difficult obstacles to overcome,” sophomore co-captain Zachary Schwietzer said. “[Finishing in the] top five in the NESCAC will not be an easy prospect considering [the] powerhouses ... like Trinity, and consistent topten national finishers in Williams and Middlebury.”

Exacerbating the challenge is the fact that the team came into the academic year without a coach, after the departure of long-time coach Doug Eng. It was announced two weeks ago, however, that Joe McManus had been hired as the new head coach of both the men’s and the women’s program.

Adding a head coach like McManus is a critical step in the right direction for a talented but young Tufts team.

With plenty of coaching experience as the former boys squash coach at the Groton School and the former girl’s squash coach at the Concord Academy, McManus brings the kind of experience that is lacking from a developing program.

“Joe McManus, along with our two assistant coaches, Edwin Lennox, and Eric Lamsa have fit in well with the team,” Schweitzer said. “Physical fitness has been a key point in practices thus far.”

But challenges still await McManus.

In addition to losing its head coach, the 2011-12 men’s squash program saw five of its 10 top players graduate.

However, Schweitzer, junior co-captain Jeremy Ho and sophomores Gordon Silverman, Hugo Meggit and Elliot Kardon will provide a solid foundation on which the Jumbos can build.

“This year will be a rebuilding year, as we lost three starting players in Alex Nalle, Henry Miller, and Michael Abboud, who played Nos. 2, 3, and 4, respectively,” Schweitzer said. “[But] last year we had a very strong recruiting class, with five freshmen playing in the top nine spots on the roster, and this year’s freshman class is comparable in strength.”

Among those freshman additions are Aditya Advani, a top-ranked player from India, and Brandon Weiss and Aaron Fernandez, two highly anticipated contributors from The Hotchkiss School and the Sidwell Friends School, respectively.

“Of the five incoming freshmen, we expect three or four to play in the top nine,” Schweitzer said. “Of the nine ... three or four will be freshmen, four will be sophomores, and one or two will be juniors.”

Last season, the squash program had a mildly successful campaign considering its significant losses at the start of the year, finishing with a ranking of No. 26 and a 10-12 record and reaching the finals of the Conroy Division, which features the 25th-through 32nd-ranked teams at the College Squash Association National Team Championships in February.

Tufts also managed to send top seed Schweitzer to the College Squash Association Individual Championships in March. Schweitzer reached the first round of the Molloy Division Championships but lost a tough match by a score of 4-11, 7-11, 2-11.

This season, the Jumbos look to work just as hard as last season to accomplish their goals, and with added stability coming from a new head coach and a core of returning players, the team is entering this season with a confident outlook.

Women’s Squash

New coaches, seasoned veterans to lead Jumbos by

Andy Linder

Contributing Writer

After a 2011-2012 campaign that saw the Jumbos finish 11-16 overall and 2-11 in NESCAC play, the team will be looking to capitalize on a strong mix of both new and returning players, a combination that senior co-captains Jessica Rubine and Hafsa Chaudhry believe will help the team improve upon last year.

But the roster is not the only critical feature of the team heading into the season — just two weeks ago, Tufts finally filled the vacancy created by the departure of longtime head coach Doug Eng. New head coach Joe McManus brings an extensive knowledge of squash to the teams, as he has coached previously at two Massachusetts private schools and also currently serves as the Commissioner and CEO of the Pro Squash Tour.

Meanwhile, assistant coaches Edwin Lennox and Eric Lamsa hail from South Africa and Canada, respectively, and each brings a fresh knowledge of the game as both are currently playing on the Tour. Though the team has only practiced for a few weeks with the new coaches, Rubine and Chaudhry are already noticing improvement in both their own skills as well those of the other squad members.

“While we have gotten used to having two different coaches for the men’s and women’s teams the past two seasons, the transition has definitely been smooth and practices are going really well,” Rubine said.

“Coach McManus has been tremendous for us so far, but it’s also been great to have coaches like [Lennox] and [Lamsa] to help us [because] they are each current players.”

However, the captains agree that regardless of the new coaching, the season will feature a number of tough matches for the Jumbos. All of the players are preparing themselves to

face the challenges that top opponents in the area bring to the table.

“I’m definitely looking forward to matches against Wellesley, Colby and Conn. College,” Chaudhry said. “They all provide great tests for us, but I’m confident that with our current practice and workout schedules, everyone will definitely improve and be prepared for those battles.”

Key victories for Tufts last season included a 9-0 win over Wellesley, as well as a close, hard-fought 5-4 NESCAC win over Colby last December. The Jumbos will face Wellesley twice this season, once on Nov. 28 at MIT and then again at Wellesley on Feb. 5, only a week after the NESCAC Championships. The Jumbos will also face Conn. College in a pivotal NESCAC matchup on January 19.

The women’s team also brings back five seniors from a year ago, all of which will provide a confident mentality as well as leadership skills to help the younger players succeed this season.

According to Chaudhry, having older players create a positive atmosphere is one of the most successful ways to foster team development.

“Whenever I’m working with new players, I try to stay positive and remind them that they will most definitely improve over time,” Chaudhry said. “For me included, going into matches with a low stress level and a confident attitude can make all the difference.”

Rubine believes that goals that she and each of her teammates have set for the upcoming season will contribute a successful year.

“I remind myself that anything can happen in a match on any given day,” Rubine said. “We can win any match if we put our minds to it, especially as long as we remember to also have fun as a team in the process.”

The Jumbos are set to open their season this Sunday against Boston College. Though the match is considered the home opener, it will be played at MIT.

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Johann Schmidt is manning the springboard.

As a sophomore, Schmidt won the program’s first national title in 30 years. He earned it at the 2012 NCAA Div. III 1-meter diving event, defeating his nearest threat by more than 20 points.

In addition, he placed fifth in the 3-meter event at the championships to earn All-American honors. He is also a two-time defending NESCAC champion off both 1-meter and 3-meter boards.

“Repeating as national champion will be very challenging for Johann this year as the competition is fierce, but I know that’s one of his goals,” diving coach Brad Snodgrass said. “He’s keeping the focus on improving his diving overall to compete at an even higher level, namely changing mechanics of his hurdle and boardwork and pushing himself to master harder dives

that will make him even more competitive.”

One man does not make a team, however. Returning swimmers including Olynyk, senior

“Repeating as national champion will be very challenging for Johann this year as the competition is fierce, but I know that’s one of his goals.”

Brad Snodgrass

Michael Lambert, junior Kyle Savidge and sophomore Michael Ren will need to do their part in the pool and in the locker room to ensure success, while swimming coach Adam Hoyt does his best at managing the squad during dual meets.

“I think our team is stronger,

fitter and more prepared for the season than ever before,” Schmidt said. “Everyone is excited to race and dive, but most of all the team camaraderie is better than ever.

We are all extremely close outside of the pool, and on deck our bond feels even stronger. I know this tight-knit relationship will translate to the pool deck and starting blocks.”

It is always difficult to replace senior leaders like Owen Rood (LA ’12), Lou Tamposi (LA ’12) and Reed Shimberg (LA ’12), but the team has been working to step up its performance in their absence.

“Our class of 10 freshmen arrived on campus and got right in the pool, which helped motivate many upperclassmen to work hard this preseason,” Hoyt said. “Though our senior class is small, they are a great group with a strong sense of what it means to be a team.”

Six seniors return to the team this year, a smaller class in comparison to last year’s class of 12.

With so few returning swimmers, much of the scoring will have to be done by the younger members of the team.

“We’ll look to our freshmen to step up this weekend and score some valuable points,” Hoyt said.”[But the] strong sophomore and junior class should help us to be just as strong as last season.”

The schedule, unlike the roster, will remain mostly the same for the Jumbos this season.

Other than a minor switch in a meet involving Keene State, most of the 2012-13 winter season will seem like deja vu for returning Jumbos.

“Our schedule will be extremely competitive this season with us racing two teams that finished top five at NCAAs last season [Williams and MIT] as well as another top 20 team [Conn.],” Hoyt said. “Right now our team chemistry is great and I think that may make the difference this year.

“The guys want to work hard for individual success but even

“Everyone is excited to race and dive, but most of all the team camaraderie is better than ever. We are all extremely close outside of the pool, and on deck our bond feels even stronger. I know this tight-knit relationship will translate to the pool deck and starting blocks.”

Johann Schmidt

more, they want to work hard and succeed as they know their team is counting on them,” Hoyt added.

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against, just because she’s really active and has really good instincts defensively and rebounding. With Bre, it’s tough to play against her. She’s very athletic and wiry, and it’s hard for post players to get a body on her because she moves around so well.”

McClure, who averaged 21 minutes a game as a sophomore, will likely also be a key cog in the Tufts offense with the loss of contributors like Kornegay and senior Collier Clegg, who is not on this year’s roster. McClure showed signs of excellence in her first year receiving significant minutes, including a 14-point outburst in an early season upset of Williams that set the tone for the team’s deep run. With junior guard Liz Moynihan out to start the season, the team will need even more from McClure.

The team’s offensive capabilities will also be defined by sophomore point guard Kelsey Morehead’s play. As a freshman replacing one of the greatest players in program history, point guard Colleen Hart (E ’11). Morehead was thrown right in to the fire, averaging nearly 30 minutes per game.

She proved up to the task, but Tufts still had the comfort of letting Kornegay handle the ball at times. Now the training wheels are off, and its Morehead’s show to run.

“She’s our floor general,” Berube said of Morehead. “I don’t want her to have to play 30 minutes a game, but she’s the one we want out there. She’s more confident, more vocal, and she has a better understanding of where the ball needs to be and whose hands it needs to be in.”

Luckily for the team, a deep freshman class of four guards, along with one fresh-faced sophomore forward, will likely allow everyone to stay well-rested through the lengthy season. First-year Michelle Wu has taken some of the point guard reps in practice, while Berube feels freshman Emma Robertson can handle the ball as well. Nicole Brooks and Melissa Blotner provide high energy defensive presences, while sophomore Hannah Artner gives the team some much-needed frontcourt depth.

“For a while, we forgot they were freshmen, and we were jumping into everything like they were all returning from last year,” Morehead said. “They’ve done a great job of catching onto the plays and catching on to the mentality.”

In the frontcourt, questions continue to abound. Barnosky will put in heavy minutes in her final season, but at 5-foot9, she will often be matched up against larger opponents, leaving Tufts vulnerable on the block. Sophomore Hayley Kanner, at 6-foot-2, led the NESCAC in blocked shots as a freshman with 49, but struggled at times to produce offensively.

Tufts is hoping that junior Ali Rocchi, returning after missing her entire sophomore year due to injury, will be the answer. Rocchi averaged 5.8 points and 4.5 rebounds as a freshman, but had five double-digit scoring games toward the end of the year.

What all of the talk amounts to is a lot of mixing and matching on the court in the early part of the season.

“I want to be able to play nine or 10 people a night,” Berube said. “We have 15 players on our roster, and it just depends on what people bring day in and day out whether people are going to get time on the floor.”

Despite the successes on the national stage, the Jumbos will still come into this season with a chip on their shoulder. The team started last season by dropping both games in its season-opening tournament, creating a big hill to climb. And, of course, the heartbreaking way Tufts crashed out of the Sweet 16, a 50-47 loss to St. Thomas, remains fresh in the mind of the team’s returning members.

“We didn’t end on the best note, and that’s served as a huge motivation for the offseason and heading into this season,” Barnosky said. “[Coach] Jonah [Goldshlag] emailed us in the middle of the summer and basically just said ‘St. Thomas,’ and it’s definitely motivation. We know we can compete with some of the best teams in the nation.”

Today, the Jumbos will travel to Skidmore to take part in the Skidmore Invitational,

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Senior co-captain forward Kate Barnosky will be tasked with leading a team with high expectations this year, coming off the back of a run to the Sweet 16 last season. facing the hosts tonight and conference foe Hamilton tomorrow. While the team is tempted to think big, the Jumbos know that there are many challenges ahead.

“Ultimately, we of course want to win a NESCAC Championship,” Dufault said.

“But we have other, smaller steps to climb first.”

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Expectations high entering new season by

Ethan Sturm

Daily Editorial Board

Many teams in Tufts’ position would be entering the new season with a degree of entitlement and overconfidence.

After reaching the Sweet 16 in last year’s NCAA tournament — the second furthest run in program history — and returning four starters and all but two players, the Jumbos are ranked No. 17 in the d3hoops.com preseason poll, their highest such ranking since the 2008-2009 season. Meanwhile, NESCAC rival Amherst, winners of three straight NESCAC titles and eight straight games against Tufts, is in a rebuilding phase, and is ranked at just No.15, its lowest preseason mark since 2008-2009.

But not many teams are coached

by Carla Berube.

“I really don’t care what the national perception is. I go into every year with the same outlook, and I have very high expectations,” Berube said. “I had high expectations last year for the team when other people didn’t.

The expectations are to bring it every single day in practice and play at a very high level, game in and game out, no matter who we’re playing.”

“I think it’s nice that we have some respect based off of last year, but I think going into the season that really means nothing,” added co-captain Kate Barnosky, a graduate student at the university this year. “It’s nice that people respect what we did last year, but we want to exceed the expectations and do even better than what our rankings are right now.”

The team’s workmanlike attitude comes very much from its style of play. The Jumbos aren’t

flashy — they don’t have an elite scorer, and they aren’t going to score 70 or 80 points game in and game out. This past season, Barnosky led the team with 9.2 points per game. Only one other player on the squad, Tiffany Kornegay (LA ’12), averaged more than seven points per game.

What the team does do well is play defense. Tufts has been in the top four in the NESCAC in scoring defense in each of the past six years, and had the third-best scoring defense in the nation last season. The defensive effort starts at the top with the leadership of Berube, and each player on the roster buys into the philosophy.

“We joke going into day one about how many days it will be before we take a shot,” Barnosky said. “Coach’s motto is defense first, and that’s what we pride ourselves on. The atmosphere she’s built here really catches on with every player.”

While it takes a team to build an elite defense, it also takes individual shutdown performances.

Berube has been able to draw those out of her players consistently, and Jumbos have won five straight NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year awards, with Kornegay’s the most recent. With the talented rebounder and ball thief gone, Berube is confident that other players are ready and willing to pick up the slack. “[ Junior guard] Caitlin [McClure] brings a great energy defensively, and I think [senior co-captain] Bre [Dufault] does, too,” she said. “Having both a post player and a wing player constantly talking and constantly moving is really beneficial.

Caitlin is really a pest to play see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 7

Field Hockey

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The Tufts field hockey team is only two wins away from a national championship.

Jumbos head to Final Four, will take on DePauw on Saturday with spot in finals on the line From almost any perspective, the field hockey team has had a remarkable season. After losing the season opener to No.1 Middlebury, the Jumbos rattled off 14 wins in a row, only to be halted

by No. 6 Bowdoin in the NESCAC Semifinals. But now, after downing the Polar Bears in the third round of the NCAA tournament, the Jumbos find themselves in an even more remarkable place — just two wins away from a national championship.

Coach Tina McDavitt’s team, sporting a record of 17-2, heads into the matchup against the Tigers in Geneva, N.Y. filled with confidence, especially after defeating arch-rival Bowdoin in the post season for the first time since 1996.

The Jumbos feature a diversified scoring attack that includes four players with 20 points or more, a

sign of the offensive depth that has smothered opponent after opponent this year.

In addition to averaging 2.76 goals per game, the Jumbos are only allowing 1.26 goals from their opponents per game on average, thanks in large part to the efforts of sophomore goalkeeper Brianna Keenan. Tufts has posted seven shutouts on the season and won by one goal 12 times — a testament to the team’s experience and ability when the game is on the line.

But despite the Jumbos’ impressive statistics, they will not have a walkover against a Tigers team that is appearing in the Final Four for the first time in program history. Although unranked, the Tigers proved their mettle by beating the top-ranked Panthers in the last round, a stunning overtime upset

sparked by a goal from sophomore forward Paige Henry.

The Jumbos will also have to be aware of dominating senior forward Margaret Ells, who has an incredible 27 goals on the season, along with 10 assists. Meanwhile, the Tigers also have perhaps the strongest defense in Div. III, ranking first in the country in goals against with 0.54.

Winning a national championship would be the ultimate culmination for a season filled with success. If the Jumbos can push past the Tigers, they will face the winner of the other semifinal, which features No. 2 Montclair State against No. 3 Mary Washington.

Both the semifinals and the finals will be streamed live on the NCAA website.

—by David McIntyre

Men’s Swimming & Diving

Schmidt and motivated upperclassmen to continue Jumbos’ success in 2012-13 by

G.J. Vitale

Daily Shaff Writer

Consistency has been the name of the game for the men’s swimming and diving team.

For the last seven years, the Jumbos have finished in the top three at the NESCAC Championships, and this year looks to be no different, as the strong returning swimmers are hungry for wins and will be paired with arguably the best diver in the Div. III field.

The Jumbos’ first chance for success will come this weekend as they take on Middlebury and Conn. College at the Camels’ facilities. “We’re all really excited for this upcoming weekend,” junior swimmer Craig Olynyk said. “We’ll have two days of racing against two very good teams.

Last year Conn. beat us, so we’re really looking to show them it was a one-time thing.”

As far as diving goes, the Jumbos have nothing to be concerned about as long as junior

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see MEN’S SWIMMING page 6

The men’s swimming and diving team will be looking to blend youth and experience in its pursuit of a fitting follow-up to last year’s impressive performance at the NESCAC Championships.