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Gardening and food experts to arrive for food conference by

Daniel Bottino

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Local horticulture experts and students from several New England colleges and universities will gather on the Hill tomorrow for gardening workshops and to share individual harvesting tips at the third-ever Campus Cultivation Conference.

This year’s conference marks the first that Tufts will host, following in the footsteps of Middlebury College, which held the first conference in 2010, and Wellesley College, which held it in 2012, according to Mae Humiston, one of the event’s organizers.

“The idea is to bring different student cultivators, be they farmers or gardeners — or maybe just people who are just hoping to grow plants on campus — together in the same rooms,” Humiston, a senior, said.

Humiston, who is a member of Tom Thumb’s Student Garden (TTSG), said the group was behind bringing the Cultivation Conference to Tufts this year. The group is active in the promotion, construction and cultivation of herb and vegetable gardens on Tufts’ campus, according to senior Perri Meldon, another TTSG member.

The conference will kick off with a presentation by a keynote speaker from Groundwork Somerville who will talk about the mechanics of urban gardening. Following this presentation, TTSG member Micaela Belles said, the conference will split into various workshops covering a range of gardening and farming topics.

Workshops in Braker and Eaton Halls

will cover canning and preserving, designing food systems and medicinal uses for herbs. Belles, a senior, said the workshops will also cover gardening techniques like maintaining soil health, pickling and hydroponics.

Associate Professor of Biology George Ellmore will lead a workshop on how to garden in the cold Northeastern climate, according to Meldon.

Humiston said that the dearth of gardening activity during the winter season was one of the reasons for the group’s decision to host the conference this year.

“I went [to the conference at Wellesley] last year and wanted to see it again,” she said. “So I said, ‘Hey, let’s make this happen.’ I want to see all these farmers and gardeners get together again this year because I think this is really valuable to our knowledge base, to gaining support [and] to food advocacy.”

Students from local universities, including University of New Hampshire, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Wesleyan University, Wellesley College and other Northeastern schools will be in attendance, Meldon said.

According to Belles, the students from outside universities are all heavily involved in student gardening initiatives on their own campuses.

“We have invited students from other Northeast-area schools who either are involved in existing student gardens or farms, or are really pushsee CULTIVATION, page 2

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The Tufts Student Fund (TSF) began its annual Alumni Thank-a-Thon fundraiser yesterday at the Mayer Campus Center with the goal of thanking young alumni donors.

Tufts Student Fund starts annual alumni fundraiser

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The Tufts Student Fund (TSF) kicked off its fifth annual fundraiser, the Alumni Thank-aThon, in the Mayer Campus Center yesterday to acknowledge young alumni donors.

Graduates from 2008 to 2012 qualify for this group, TSF President Alyssa Ridley said.

“The goal is just to get people to thank the alumni donors and raise awareness about what the donations do,” TSF Secretary Sarah Kee said.

Students were able to write personalized thank-you cards, sign a thank-you banner and express gratitude in a video for the alumni donors, Ridley, a senior, said.

She explained that this year’s fundraiser

will run until March 28, and the focus is on the number of students who participate or donate, as opposed to the total donation amount raised.

“This is really about participation and cultivating a community in the alumni and the students that has to do with participation,” Kee, a sophomore, added.

The fundraiser is essentially a challenge, with alumni or parent donors who have agreed to donate specific amounts of money based on the amount of student donors or dollars raised for a given year, Ridley added.

“We’re going to be having some Greek Life competitions and class competitions for [this year’s fundraiser],” she said. see THANK-A-THON, page 2

In Harvard scandal’s wake, reconsidering rules on collaboration

by Shannon Vavra

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Harvard University’s reputation, in all its glowing Ivy League prestige, has been tarnished by cheating. In August, the university initiated a massive investigation of nearly half the students in an Introduction to Congress course who were accused of unauthorized collaboration on a take-home final examination last May. In early February, Harvard forced about 70 students, more than half of the investigated cases, to withdraw from the university

in what a Feb. 1 New York Times article called “its largest cheating scandal in memory.” This scandal highlights the fine line between working together and cheating, and prompts questions concerning the clarity of academic integrity policies both at Harvard and at Tufts.

According to Tufts Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman, Harvard, like Tufts, has a strong tradition of maintaining a culture of academic honesty without actually instituting a full honor code. He said that Harvard maintains harsh repercussions for those who transgress.

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The line between collaboration and cheating may be hard to define in some large lecture classes like Economics 5.

“They have very strong guidelines for what happens if one is caught in an academic integrity breach,” Reitman said. “It’s very involved.

If you’re found responsible ... you leave. Their outcomes are quite harsh, some of the most severe in the industry.”

The cheating in Intro to Congress came to light when similarities between exams, such as identical answers and typographical errors, appeared, despite clear instructions on the exam that prohibited collaboration. However, some students claimed that similarities on their exams may have been based on class notes or attending the with the same teaching assistants.

Harvard College’s Administrative Board responded to these indications of cheating. According to its website, the Administrative Board holds the authority to handle all disciplinary cases for which there is a governing faculty legislation and for which there is a precedent for interpreting and applying the rules of the college, both of which applied to the situation.

The website also states that Harvard’s principle is that, with exceptions in rare cases, students involved in disciplinary cases can ultimately graduate from the uni-

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versity because students can appeal the Board’s disciplinary decision after a certain amount of time. If approved, students can be readmitted to the university.

Similarly, students at Tufts can appeal disciplinary decisions, though not if they have withdrawn or taken a leave of absence with disciplinary charges pending.

“If you withdraw with disciplinary charges pending you are not eligible to come back,” Tufts Judicial Affairs Officer Veronica Carter said.

“They can do that, but not after the disciplinary process. They have to do it before ... They never get the Tufts degree and it stays on their transcript permanently.”

At Tufts, unauthorized collaboration on a take-home examination or term paper falls in the Level III Offenses category. A student found responsible for these actions will receive an “F” in the course or a “zero” or “F” on the assignment without the option to resubmit work.

The incident would be permanently noted on the student’s transcript, and the student would be suspended or expelled. Other, less severe types of unauthorized collaboration fall in the Level I and Level II Offenses categories.

According to Reitman, more than eight years ago, a number of new faculty members noticed inconsistencies in how other faculty members were addressing breaches in academic integrity.

“Faculty members who were concerned about that brought it to the Dean and asked if it would be appropriate and necessary to make a standard across all the departments,” Reitman said.

“They decided there should be a standard. They created what you see in the Code of Conduct for Academic Integrity.”

At the time, the bylaws for faculty members changed to require them to report any suspicions of academic dishonesty to the Dean of Students and the Judicial Affairs Officer.

“Faculty no longer had the ability to take care of problems,” Reitman said. “Our business went through the roof. Some faculty members would bring us all their cases, or their most dramatic cases, or when they could not resolve it to obtain an amicable solution. So at least this created some consistency about students’ rights and responsibilities both.” see CHEATING, page 2

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Cultivation conference brings local environmental experts to talk gardening on the Hill CULTIVATION

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ing to start it on their own campus,” Belles, a senior, said.

She added that a primary focus of the conference will be to engage with students at other universities and colleges, as well as to gather students at Tufts.

“We are trying to get people who are really active in the campus gardening community to be the primary attendees of the conference,” Belles said.

Humiston is optimistic about the future of the conference.

“I’m hoping that another school will pick it up, and it will just keep going,” she said.

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Tufts will host the third-ever Campus Cultivation Conference on the Hill this weekend.

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This cause is important, according to Ridley, because over 50 percent of the Tufts student body relies on some form of financial aid.

“We want to send this out in a strong, positive message through the Tufts community,” Ridley said. “If 52 percent of our student body relies on financial aid, then that means if you don’t rely on it, the person next to you probably does.”

Kee added that philanthropy is important not only for tuition and financial aid, but also for the maintenance of campus buildings and the like.

“We want to internalize in the students that for [the] university to continue to run at the caliber that it’s at, it needs your support,”

Ridley said.

Twenty percent of Tufts alumni give some amount in donations to the university, with 17,902 alumni donating in the last fiscal year, not including current and past parents and friends of Tufts students, according to Ridley.

“Whenever I see the numbers, I’ve always [been] surprised about how low the percentage of alumni who donate is,” Kee said.

The nationwide average of college alumni who donate is 13 percent, according to a 2012 survey conducted by U.S. News and World Report.

“It’s still a significant number, but [it’s] lower than universities of our caliber and significantly lower than the Ivy Leagues,” Ridley said.

Participation in donation programs is also

a factor in Tufts’ rankings on college lists like U.S. News and World Report, where about five percent of the rankings are determined by the percentage of alumni who donate to the school, according to Ridley. She explained that it is one of the easiest ways for Tufts to change its university ranking, she said.

“We now have over 15 people working in various forms, from media representatives to representatives for classes, to [get] the message out there so that we’re hitting as many people as possible,” Ridley said.

TSF was founded in 2009 and has been growing over the years, developing from an initial participation rate of 21 percent in its first year to 23 percent in 2011, with a total $52,000 of student and matching alumni gifts in 2011, according to the TSF website.

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Reitman and Carter are aware that not all faculty members may be reporting suspicions of academic dishonesty. However, Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor and former provost Sol Gittleman believes that few instances of cheating occur in his class.

“I don’t go to the administration. I handle these things myself,” Gittleman said. “[The administration] spends a lot of time trying to get students to understand the policies.

Students don’t understand the policies. In my class, they do. I don’t think there’s any doubt in my class.”

Gittleman says that he has been giving take-home examinations for about 20 years and has had few instances of dishonesty. He maintains that his policies clarifying collaborating and cheating are clear for students.

“I have no problem clarifying [what collaboration is]. I tell them, here’s the rules, don’t screw it up ... I’m trying to find out what they know, not what they don’t know,” Gittleman said. “I don’t care how they find out what they need to know, they can look it up, they can use the book, they can do whatever they want as long as they do it themselves.” “[Gittleman] definitely explained [his policies] clearly, and he made me feel like he trusted me fully,” freshman Maddy Kenler, who is taking Gittleman’s Introduction to Yiddish Culture course, said. “I have so much respect for him as a professor, partly because he does trust us so much that I couldn’t imagine being dishonest with him.”

Other large lecture courses have similarly tried to define what forms of collaboration are appropriate, such as Principles of Economics, taught by Professor George Norman.

“There is a fine line you have to draw between collaborating and cheating. There’s a lot of work in my Economics 5 class that students do offline,” Norman said. “At the

same time the material can be quite challenging, so it’s a good idea for students to get together and form study groups. You would hope that they’re submitting their own work.

There’s an incentive to get answers.”

Freshman Catherine Caffey, who took Norman’s class last semester, said the distinction between cheating and collaboration was not always clear, especially with regards to the problem sets.

“I think that [Norman] expected us to just follow the Tufts policies and didn’t really differentiate between what he personally thought was acceptable and what the policy of the department was,” Caffey said. “It was unclear whether we were to work with others on it. The numbers were different. If you got help, no one would notice.”

With regards to examinations, Norman said that it may be difficult to directly prevent cheating during the Principles of Economics examinations in Cohen Auditorium.

“With the Principles class, there’s always a risk. It is a huge class,” Norman said. “Can I prevent them looking over each other’s shoulders? No I can’t . . .[but] I have different versions of the examination so that the chance that you’re sitting next to someone with the same examination [is] very low.”

Norman said he has had few cases of cheating to report and has advocated care when accusing students of cheating.

“You have got to be careful when you start reacting that you’re not destroying the careers of students,” Norman said. “I was not surprised [with how Harvard handled the scandal]. You have to do it carefully, you have to gather the evidence, and this was indeed a case of widespread cheating.”

Reitman outlined the disciplinary process at Tufts for dealing with accusations of cheating.

“If a student admits to an accusation of a faculty member, there may not be a hearing. It may be resolved by looking up what the particular offense calibrates to ... if they deny the offense, what happens

now is that the Judicial Affairs Officer or the Dean forms a panel with someone from our office, somebody from the Tufts Community Union (TCU) and the chair of TCU Judiciary,” Reitman said. “[If] it’s a unanimous conclusion, then action is taken without a hearing. It can be appealed, the same way as an action taken by a hearing panel would be appealed. You don’t give up your right to appeal.”

Carter and Reitman expressed concern that not all students are aware of the policies, their rights and their responsibilities when it comes to academic honesty. They said that students most likely only look up these pieces of information when they are involved in a disciplinary case.

“People say nobody knows the policy — that’s because it’s like a telephone book, you don’t read it until you need to look something up,” Reitman said.

“If I asked my students if they know the policy, I doubt very much they would say yes,” Norman said. “Maybe we should be making it clearer.”

Cheating by the numbers Below are the total numbers of cheating-related disciplinary over the past year.

27 cases of plagiarism (levels I and II) 12 cases of cheating on an exam 19 cases of unauthorized collaboration 7 cases of making work available to another student 24 cases of fraud or misrepresentation 2 cases of submitting exam for regrade after altering the original —Shannon Vavra

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Ragnar Kjartansson’s ‘Song’ surprises audience at ICA Boston by

Anna Rotrosen

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Tucked away in ICA Boston’s galleries, the video installation exhibit “Ragnar Kjartansson: Song” is easy to

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miss at first. But it would be a shame to overlook this particular exhibition.

Organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art, the exhibition transports its viewers to a variety of extreme environments, using repetition of sounds, tunes and gestures to play on the line between recorded and live performance, and between fiction and reality.

“Song,” which came to Boston last December and runs through April 7, showcases the work of Ragnar Kjartansson.

The son of two theater professionals, Kjartansson demonstrated an interest in the performing and musical arts at a young age and formed a band in his teenage years.

The videos cleverly incorporate theatricality: they are generally funny, but are at other times melancholic, sincere and rife with emotion. For the most part, though, they are enjoyable to watch — to immerse and lose yourself in. Kjartansson remarked on his work, “I try to take a theatrical approach to make it look easy. Like: “Ha ha ha! I’m enjoying myself, in opera!’”

Kjartansson entered the contemporary art scene at the 2009 Venice Biennale, during which he spent six months in a crumbling palazzo painting portraits of a friend. Repetition is a theme that appears throughout his work, and manifests itself audibly in the current exhibition at the ICA. The repetition of sounds and gestures create intense and transcendent beauty. At other times, they might express skepticism or self-aware disenchantment.

The star of the show, “The End” (2009) is a five-channel installation piece dis-

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Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson representing his country at the Venice Biennale in 2009. played on four walls. With the Canadian Rockies as their background, Kjartansson and his musical partner David Thor Johnsson play American folk music.

Sporting cowboy boots and fur hats, the pair swig whiskey as they nonchalantly strum their guitars beside a collection of rocks and fir trees. On another wall, Kjartansson sits at a black baby grand piano, contrasting starkly against a towering mountain. On a third, Johnsson plays a pink electric guitar.

It quickly becomes evident that the notes, chords and beats in each video come together to form a single track. But this track is only available in the gallery, transporting you to the snowy mountainous wilderness of Canada.

A more subversive voice emerges in “Satan is Real” (2007). In it, Kjartansson is shirtless and buried waist-deep in the ground at a public park in Reykjavik. As youngsters play unwittingly in the background, Kjartansson strums a folksy tune on his guitar, repeatedly singing, “Satan is real, and he’s working for me,” for more than an hour. The piece mocks the self-

seriousness of the folk genre. Kjartansson doesn’t seem to be taking himself seriously here, but he sure does look like he’s having fun.

Perhaps the most self-aware piece is “The Man” (2010), the sole video in which Kjartansson does not appear. Inherent in “The Man” is Kjartansson’s reflection on the legacy of American blues. The performance intentionally excludes the white artist, who is conscious that white musicians have reaped many of the benefits of an originally African-American tradition.

In “The Man,” the late blues artist Pinetop Perkins plays an upright piano in a field beside a dilapidated farmhouse.

As he enters the screen and walks toward the piano, Perkins seems as frail as the structure in the distance. Perkins, who died last year, was 96 when Kjartansson recorded the video, but the liveliness of his music fills the performance. Whether he’s tapping his toes or muttering about the out-of-tune piano, what shines through is the combination and repetition of musical tunes that will take you straight to the Mississippi Delta.

TV Review

‘The Amazing Race’ reveals new twists by

Kwan Ki Tang

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Now in its 22nd season, “The Amazing Race” has proven to be a huge draw for viewers in America and around the world.

The Amazing Race Starring Phil Keoghan (host) Airs Sundays at 8 p.m. on CBS The promise of exciting challenges and scenic travel locations has given the reality TV show multiple Primetime Emmy awards, and the show continues to attract more than 10 million viewers every episode, a testimony to its transcending popularity and appeal.

The show has seen various twists and modifications to make the race more challenging for racers. The Express Pass twist, which was introduced in Season 17, was used to give the first team — following the first leg of a challenge — the power to skip any task in subsequent legs without penalty. In this season, this power has been further magnified to give the first team the chance to determine the fate of the others: the first team gets two Express Passes instead of one. This

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Longtime host Phil Keoghan surprises competitors with new challenges and opportunities in the show’s 22nd season. immense shift in power provides that team the ability to manipulate others in its favor. In the first two episodes, Jessica and John — the couple who won both passes — became an instant spotlight

in that leg. This strong urge for teams to please each other has never been more apparent in “The Amazing Race” than see RACE, page 4

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or all of you savvy shoppers who roll into CVS, Shaws or Market Basket, ready to peruse the aisles for green labeling: stop! Greenwashing has become more and more popular as bright colors, cute icons and clever phrases are used to deceive the ecoconscious consumer. Companies like SC Johnson have made their own logos and have started certifying their own products, thereby lowering the green standard. Don’t fret though. Here is a quick guide to the most common certification schemes so you can put your money where your mouth is.

USDA Organic (Quality Assurance International) — Generally a good thing. However, it is expensive for farmers to get certified so this certification can actually hurt local farmers who cannot afford the certification. As a result, they may not be able to charge as much for their produce as a bigger farm that can spend the extra cash can.

Fair Trade — Generally a good thing, but, like organic, not all fair trade providers can be certified, which means certain Fair Trade products are losing out to others.

Cruelty Free — This logo is just a bunny with pink ears. This is not the real deal and only ensures that the final product is not tested on animals. The individual components can be tested on animals.

Leaping Bunny — This is the real deal when it comes to animal rights certification. It certifies that the manufacturer and ingredient suppliers don’t conduct or commission animal testing.

Natural — This literally means nothing.

If something costs more because it is “natural,” then don’t buy it.

Recyclable — Watch out for this vague claim. It only means that somehow, somewhere this product can be recycled. It does not mean it is made from recycled material and it does not mean that most recycling centers can take it. For example, Styrofoam is technically “recyclable” but it is too costly and intensive a process for most recycling centers to recycle it.

X percent Pre-Consumer — This is less promising than most would think. At paper plants, when they cut paper, little strips end up on the floor. These strips get picked back up and put back into the mix of paper pulp. So in reality the paper hasn’t been used before getting recycled, and the manufacturers would do this anyway to save on costs.

X percent Post-Consumer — This is the best recycling claim. It means that a consumer has used a certain percent of the content of the product before it made its way back to the recycling plant and into a new product.

Here is a quick tip: if it does not have third-party certification, be wary. Search the internet for any logo you see to make sure that an outside party is responsible for the certification and that it is not being used by a company to promote its products as “green” or “greener” than previous versions.

Decoding PLU numbers — Once you get tired of trying to decode all of the labels, take a glance at the PLU numbers instead.

A four-digit number means conventionally grown, with pesticides. A five-digit number starting with the numeral “8” means that food is genetically modified, which might not always be mentioned on the label, so it is a good bit of information to know.

Organic produce has five numbers and the first is a “9.”

Keep in mind that just because a label appears frequently does not mean that it is an honest example of a green product.

Also, a green label does not mean that every aspect of a product is green. If a certification scheme only requires that a product use slightly less plastic packaging, it can have a green label on it, even if there are dangerous chemicals inside.

Danielle Jenkins is a senior majoring in English. She can be reached at danielle. jenkins@tufts.edu.

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this in this season. It almost felt like the Immunity Idol from “Survivor” had been transplanted into the show.

Jessica and John are not the only highlights in the show thus far. The 22nd season has gathered an interesting ensemble of teams from more diverse backgrounds. Apart from the pairs of couples who use the race to affirm their love for one another, this season includes a father-son pair, both of whom were diagnosed with cancer prior to the race.

Other teams include a pair of twin doctors and famous YouTube hosts. The differing personalities and experiences of the members of these pairs have resulted in many opportunities for interesting interactions between the groups. For a reality TV show, such potential for human drama can be one of the pulling factors for the show’s high viewership.

The 22nd season of “The Amazing Race” started in the French Polynesian Islands, a setting fans of reality TV will find familiar as these islands were host to three seasons of “Survivor.” Viewing the islands again from the perspective of “The Amazing Race” is really refreshing. In the first task of the race one team member skydove from a helicopter, introducing viewers to majestic views of the islands’ sandy beaches and lush greenery.

This sunny beach paradise was a littleseen side of the islands, compared to the rocky beaches and rich forestry that hosted the “Survivor” castaways.

This season seems to have created more opportunities for teams to even out their strengths and weaknesses.

In the first leg, the placement of a second Roadblock required one member on each team to dig through 400 sandcastles in search of one of 11 clues buried inside. The second leg saw teams completing tasks in the ocean before requiring one team member to practice their strength and balance in a traditional Polynesian Roadblock.

This provided teams with the chance to catch up with others in the unfortu-

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YouTube host Meghan Camarena is one of 22 contestants in the most recent season of “The Amazing Race.” nate event of a flight delay, poor navigation or bad luck. While some viewers may find this unfair for more capable teams, this also minimized the chance of capable teams being eliminated due to unforeseen circumstances.

The 22nd season of “The Amazing Race” does not seem to promise anything new — the show formula is still the same one decade after its conception — but this season might appeal to the casual viewer who just wants

a taste of the more exotic destinations in the world. “The Amazing Race” has always been a travel show for the uninitiated, and the latest season looks to have more challenges and interesting sights to behold.

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Three Jumbos pick up NESCAC AllConference honors After helping the Jumbos to one of their best seasons in school history, three players from the women’s basketball team were recognized Wednesday with NESCAC All-Conference honors.

Senior co-captain Bre Dufault was given the sole honor of NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year, graduate co-captain Kate Barnosky was named to the All-NESCAC first team, and sophomore Hannah Foley was selected to the AllNESCAC second team.

Dufault joins a long string of Jumbos who have won Defensive Player of the Year honors under coach Carla Berube, as this marks the sixth straight year a member of the Tufts squad has claimed the award.

Tufts ranked No. 2 in the nation in scoring defense this season, allowing just 1,086 points in 25 games, or an average of 43.4 points per game to opposing teams.

And according to multiple players, Dufault was instrumental to this success, as she averaged 5.4 rebounds and 1.76 steals per game in her final season wearing brown and blue.

Meanwhile, Barnosky picks up her second straight AllNESCAC award after another season as an all-around contributor for the Jumbos.

She averaged 9.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game in her fifth year under Berube, providing a confidence that put the rest of the team at ease in pressure situations.

The forward also impressed with a 12-point, 13-rebound performance against Middlebury on Jan. 5, along with 15 points against Amherst on Feb. 2 in one of the hardest fought games the Jumbos played this season. Following the upcoming NCAA tournament, Barnosky will join Berube’s staff as an assistant coach for the 20132014 campaign.

Finally, Foley becomes just the third underclassman to garner All-NESCAC honors over the past two seasons throughout the conference. The sophomore from Massachusetts has been the Jumbos’ go-to scorer from start to finish this year, as she shot 36.4 percent from three-point range and averaged 11.6 points per game, good enough for No. 11 in the conference. Foley’s season high came in a home matchup against Wesleyan in which she scored 28 points.

Overall, Tufts equaled conference champion Amherst’s three honorees this season, and with NESCAC competition in the books, the Jumbos have set their sights on the first round of the NCAA tournament. Berube and company will begin their run at a Div. III championship tonight when they host an NCAA Regional against St. Lawrence at 8 p.m. in Cousens Gym.

—by Andy Linder

Squash

Jumbos send players to CSA Individual Championships by

Tyler Maher and Jorge Monroy-Palacio Daily Staff Writers

Now that they have concluded regular-season play, the men’s and women’s squash teams will travel to the University of Pennsylvania this weekend for the CSA Individual Championships.

Freshman Aditya Advani, who earned NESCAC AllConference second-team honors last week, is excited to showcase his skills against top opponents as the men’s team’s sole competitor.

“I am looking forward to the competitive atmosphere and the opportunity to play such good and experienced players,” Advani said. “The level of squash is going to be extremely high.”

Though he’ll face stiff competition in his first trip to the tournament, Advani believes he is up to the challenge.

“I am going to see good players this weekend and will play them the best I can,” Advani said. “I have trained hard and want that preparation to pay off. Representing Tufts is an honor, so I want to do well this

weekend for the college and for the team.”

The freshman was a model of consistency on a Tufts squad that endured its fair share of ups and downs this season. Though the Jumbos started strong, winning their first four matches of the season, they won just two of their final 14. Nevertheless, Advani is proud of his team’s overall accomplishments.

“It’s awesome how everyone here is so passionate about the sport,” he said. “We worked really hard this season. [We] pushed ourselves to the maximum and played very well.

Meanwhile, coming off an impressive run to the E Division finals of the CSA National Team Championships held at Yale University, the women’s squash team will look to continue its run at their individual championships, hosted by Trinity College. Tufts will send senior Jessica Rubine, who played in the No. 1 spot for the majority of the Jumbos’ season, as its lone representative.

At the tournament, Rubine see SQUASH, page 10

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Liz Moynihan and the Jumbos’ defense will try to slow down St. Lawrence in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Women’s Basketball

Sweet ambitions for the Jumbos

Well-rested Tufts returns to Cousens for NCAA tournament by

Ethan Sturm

Daily Editorial Board

For two weeks, the women’s basketball team’s season has been stuck in neutral. It was forced to wait out the remainder of the NESCAC tournament after an early exit and sit through the always nerve-racking process of selection for the NCAA tournament.

But, as the Jumbos prepare to put things back in drive tonight for their first-round matchup with St. Lawrence, the break was quite literally just what the doctor ordered.

“We went really hard in practice, but without a gam, it was also time for recovery,” graduate student cocaptain Kate Barnosky said. “So I think we’re feeling a lot better, physically and emotionally.”

Barnosky was just one of a host of players suffering toward the end of the team’s regular season, playing the finale against Hamilton at far less than 100-percent capacity in her surgically-repaired leg. Sophomore point guard Kelsey Morehead, suffering from concussion symptoms stemming from an incident in the team’s Feb. 1 game against Trinity, sat out the game against the Continentals and just made it back in time for the NESCAC quarterfinals against Bowdoin. Junior guard Caitlin McClure missed both games after turning her ankle.

The time off served not only as a chance for Tufts to get better off the court, but also to revive its energy in the game. Getting positive results on the offensive end became a struggle for the Jumbos by the end of the year, who had two of their five worst shooting days of the year in their final two games, converting on just 32.8 percent of their shots in each and dropping to 91st in the Massey offensive ratings, an advanced statistical system for Div. III basketball.

Sophomore and leading scorer Hannah Foley went just 2-for-12 from the field against Bowdoin and reached double figures just once in her last five games after doing so 15 times in her first 20.

Two weeks was enough time for almost a complete audit of the squad’s offense.

“We got to really go back to the basics and work on executing our offenses and breaking each offense down to find what was going wrong and where we could improve,” senior co-captain Bre Dufault said.

While the time off may also have helped the Jumbos recover from their crushing conference tournament upset, the best medicine came on Monday afternoon, when the Jumbos learned they would be hosting the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year. For a team that is 21-3 at home over the past two

seasons, there is no questioning the value of such an opportunity.

“I was pumped; it’s really exciting,” Dufault said of learning the team would be hosting. “It’s a special feeling, being in the gym. I don’t know what it is. There are the decorations, everything is all clean. It’s not stressful like traveling somewhere; it’s playing in your court where you feel comfortable.”

“Last year, hosting for the first time was awesome,” Barnosky added. “Looking back on those two games, it gives me chills, because it was just a great environment that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”

Home-court advantage will play a major role in the Jumbos’ first round matchup, especially as they go up against a St. Lawrence squad that is just 6-6 on the road this season.

The Saints’ most intriguing player is six-foot sophomore guard Kara McDuffee, the team’s leading scorer, who may not quite get the size mismatches she’s used to against a tall Tufts backcourt. Still, as a 35.4percent 3-point shooter, she’s the team’s biggest threat to get hot and keep things interesting if the Jumbos don’t put a hand in her face. Kelly Legg, the Saints’ 6-foot-2 junior forward, provides a secondary scoring threat with her similar height advantage. see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 10

Men’s Basketball

Palleschi, Anderson earn NESCAC honors Following their best season in nearly a decade, the men’s basketball team’s senior co-captain forward Scott Anderson and freshman center Tom Palleschi were honored with All-NESCAC team recognitions. Anderson was named to the All-NESCAC second team, while Palleschi was awarded NESCAC Rookie of the Year.

In his fourth season as a starter in coach Bob Sheldon’s lineup, Anderson was an all-around force for the Jumbos, averaging a career-high 12.8 points per game and 5.7 rebounds per game while

shooting a remarkable 88 percent from the line. His versatility was crucial for Tufts all season, as his ability to play in the post, handle the ball and shoot from the perimeter allowed the Jumbos to do a variety of things on offense.

Anderson put together the best game of his career in a Feb. 2 matchup against Amherst, in which he led the Jumbos with 35 points and six rebounds as they hung tight with the eventual NESCAC champs.

Palleschi became the second consecutive Jumbo to take home NESCAC Rookie of the Year hon-

ors, following in the footsteps of sophomore guard Ben Ferris.

After starting the season on the bench, Palleschi emerged as a focal point for the Jumbos offensively, combining an effective post game with a strong midrange jump shot. Palleschi averaged double-digit points per game throughout the season and in the NESCAC. He also anchored the Jumbos’ defense, accumulating 1.7 blocks per game, the second-highest total in the NESCAC. — by Alex Baudoin

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“It’s all about recognizing that that girl’s hot right now, and we need to shut her down before she gets on a run and gets some confidence,” Dufault, who was awarded NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year earlier this week, said.

On paper, the Jumbos go into tonight’s game as heavy favorites. The Massey ratings have Tufts as the nation’s No. 10-ranked team, while St. Lawrence sits all the way down at No. 138. But with the loss to Bowdoin still fresh in their minds, Tufts players will take nothing for granted.

“We need to come out hungry and on fire,” Barnosky, who was named a first team All-NESCAC player, said. “Then we just need to execute, stay composed and really take them seriously. We know every team in the NCAA tournament is a good team, and every opponent is playing for their season. It’s one game and done, so we really just have to have that fire. We have a target on our back, but we need to know that and perform anyway.”

If Tufts can get through St. Lawrence, tomorrow it will face one of two teams to which it has dropped season openers on the road in recent years. The Jumbos’ more likely opponent is No. 16 Babson College, who is favored against a tough SUNY New Paltz squad that has dropped just three games this season. The Beavers are led by senior center Sarah Collins, whose 18.9 points per game are good enough for No. 29 in the nation. She had 32 points and 10 rebounds in her team’s conference final, and was good for 18 points and 14 rebounds in Babson’s 73-64 win over Tufts in 2011.

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The Tufts women’s basketball team is confident going into the NCAA tournament.

“It’s all about our help defense, and we’re not going to let one girl beat us,” Barnosky said. “We have five people out there, and we can stop any star in my opinion. We have the NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year, and we’ll stick her on her. I also think that our starting lineup, with me at guard, adds some height anyway.”

If the Jumbos intend to get through the weekend alive, they might very well need to survive a close game, something they’ve struggled with in the past. In last year’s Sweet 16, an errant inbounds pass on the Jumbos’ final possession sealed a heartbreaking loss. In this year’s NESCAC quarterfinals, the team often struggled to find good looks quickly as they traded baskets down the stretch with Bowdoin. Any such issues this weekend could spell an early end to the team’s season.

“A lot of it has to do with experience, and I do think that we have gotten better

in close game situations now this year with sophomores on the court, whereas last year we had a lot of freshmen,” Barnosky said.

“We have pulled out some of those close games — Bridgewater, Williams — and we worked on situation drills this week, so we know better what to execute.”

The bracket has been set, and the sky is the limit for a team coming off the best regular season in program history. With a potential rematch with Amherst in the cards for the Sweet 16, there is even more incentive to prove the critics wrong and make a deep tournament run. And coach Carla Berube’s team is confident they can do just that.

“There’s a lot of hunger to do even better than last year,” Barnosky said. “We know we didn’t play anywhere near our best in our loss that ended our season, so I think we have high expectations. But we also realize that every single play can be the difference against such great teams.”

will compete in the Holleran Division, also known as the women’s B division. She is slated to face off against Columbia’s Reyna Pacheco, a freshman who went 0-1 in the No. 1 spot and 6-9 and the number two for the Lions in her first collegiate campaign.

Should Rubine advance, she would play University of Pennsylvania’s Chloe Blacker, a junior who went an impressive 14-1 between the No. 5 and No. 10 spots throughout the season. Blacker earned a first-round bye for her nearundefeated season.

According to coach McManus, determining who gets to participate from each school is a difficult task, but typically, the lower-ranked teams send fewer players.

However, Rubine, currently the top player on the Jumbos’ roster, always looked to be the easy choice.

Rubine went 6-12 in her final season for Tufts, a year marked by a series of highs and lows both for her and for the team as a whole. But, after going 2-1 in her last three matches, the senior hopes to end her career on a strong note.

“I am just looking to go into my last few matches as a Tufts squash player and play hard. It will be a good weekend of squash,” Rubine said.

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