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TEX talks discuss topics from Nickelback to social media by

Anna Kelly

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How would you design the social structure of a colony on Mars? How can social media define a company, and how does it define you? Are you a music snob?

These were just a few of the questions posed to audience members by the speakers at last week’s Tufts Idea Exchange (TEX) event. Inspired by TED, the nonprofit organizations that coordinates conferences devoted to the spread of ideas, TEX was founded in 2011 to create a forum for Tufts students to share their own original and thought provoking ideas through ten minute speeches.

Each year, the event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Global Leadership and Synaptic Scholars program.

The original TED talks started in California as a way for innovative thinkers to share their ideas in a concise and creative format. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, but since the creation of the event in 1984, the talks have expanded to a wider set of subjects. Although the official annual TED conference takes place in California, there have been a series of “TEDx” talks in many places around the world that address issues and ideas pertaining to certain areas.

For example, Somerville hosted a TEDstyle conference with local professors and intellectuals. Sam Sommers, associate professor of psychology at Tufts and a speaker at the second TEX, spoke at TEDxSomerville about his book “Situations Matter” (2011), a behavioral science book that shows how human experience and behavior are dependent on their context.

“It seemed like a good opportunity to introduce the thoughts behind my book to a different audience,” Sommers said.

“We love teaching you guys and talking to academics. But it’s an opportunity to talk about what social psychologists do to a broader audience.”

This year’s installment of TEX began with a talk by Professor of the Practice Sujata Bhatia, a physician, bioengineer and chemi-

cal engineer who spoke about natural and sustainable medical materials. During her talk, Bhatia argued that the western world has to rethink its relationship with medicine in developing countries.

“People in developing countries are smart and want to use the resources they have to address medical issues,” she said.

Bhatia went on to discuss the possible intersection of agriculture and medicine if these new medical materials were introduced because materials needed to treat those who were ill could be grown in developing countries and be utilized there.

The first student to speak, junior Michael Grant, began his talk with a confession.

“I actually listened to an entire Nickelback CD,” he said.

He went on to discuss the cultural implications of music taste, and how what is determined “good” or “bad” music has more to do with social norms than the quality of the music. Grant played clips of Justin Bieber and Radiohead, pointing out similar elements in seemingly opposite songs with the purpose of encouraging the audience to remain open-minded to music that is deemed bad.

The event continued with senior Molly Wallace, who spoke about the lack of culture on campus. She described how Tufts police had shut down multiple music performances and lamented the disappearance of literary publications. She urged the audience to put the “arts” back in liberal arts.

The next talk discussed a subject that the audience was likely unfamiliar with: the possibility of human civilization on Mars.

“Right now, the only people that are addressing this problem are scientists and technicians,” senior Mark Rafferty said.

He considered the imminent colonization of Mars and the danger of viewing the accomplishment as a simply scientific one.

For example, Rafferty pointed to the new and different problems that civilization would face on Mars and the necessity for see TEX, page 2

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The three candidates for Tufts Community Union President — juniors Joe Donenfeld, Christie Maciejewski and Joe Thibodeau — answered questions about their past experiences and future goals at a debate last night hosted by the Pan-African Alliance’s.

TCU presidential candidates debate diversity, CSL policy by

Audrey Michael

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The three candidates in the race for Tufts Community Union (TCU) president fielded questions on a range of topics, from financial aid and activities funding to social justice issues, in a debate sponsored by the Pan-African Alliance (PAA) last night in Pearson Hall.

Juniors Joe Donenfeld, Christie Maciejewski and Joe Thibodeau officially declared their candidacies for TCU President Wednesday night.

Thibodeau, who is currently studying

abroad in Madrid, attended the debate via Skype.

Moderators Adam Sax, a senior, and Andrew Nu𤸬 a sophomore, introduced the candidates, who then delivered their opening statements and fielded questions about their past records on Senate.

Maciejewski discussed her successful efforts to lower the student activities fee.

“When I realized we had a $400,000 surplus, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in surplus before, I said we need to lower that fee,” she said. “I think we need to cut the costs see DEBATE, page 2

New symposium to celebrate, promote social entrepreneurship by

Denali Tietjen

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On Sunday, the Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship and Tufts Compass Fellowship will present the first Social Innovations Symposium in ASEAN Auditorium.

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Students interested in entrepreneurship and its social impact will gather Sunday for the first annual Social Innovations Symposium, hosted by the Tufts Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship (EMPOWER) and the Tufts Compass Fellowship.

The full-day event will address topics for entrepreneurs like turning an idea into an enterprise, according to Christina Goldbaum, the undergraduate coordinator for EMPOWER and coordinator of the event.

“It’s a good opportunity to bring all of the students at Tufts together for one day of conversation,” Goldbaum, a junior, said.

The Compass Fellowship and EMPOWER programs created the symposium to celebrate Tufts’ active citizenship and positive social impact, Goldbaum explained.

“There are a lot of Boston and New England schools that have conferences about general social entrepreneurship, but we thought that in the Boston area, Tufts kind of fills the niche for social entrepreneurship,” Goldbaum said.

“But since Tufts has such an emphasis on the active citizen, we thought this would be a good opportunity to label Tufts as the social entrepreneurship school of Boston.”

The event will begin with keynote addresses by Tisch College Director and Associate Dean Nancy Wilson and head of the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) at the U.S. Department of State Steven Koltai (A’76) and will be followed by a series of panels relating to the entrepreneurial process, according to Goldbaum.

Koltai’s entrepreneurial experiences include the co-founding of SES-Astra, the largest private global television system, with a market capitalization of $85 billion, and founding of Event411, an event planning website for which he raised $40 million, according to his profile on the Tufts Gordon Institute website.

“We’re hoping to make [the panels] intimate,” Goldbaum said. “They’re kind of TEDstyle 10- to 15 minute talks with two or three speakers followed by a conversation with the audience. They should be personal.”

Event organizer Morgan Babbs said that a majority of the panelists are Tufts alumni and non-Tufts affiliated Boston entrepreneurs, but the event will also feature the finalists from the Gordon Institute’s Tufts $100K Business Plan Competition, an annual contest that awards cash and advisory see SYMPOSIUM, page 2

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“Disconnect” weaves together stories of navigating a murky online world.

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Inspired by TED talks, TEX student presenters share ideas TEX

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careful selection of those who would be the first to move to Mars to establish a colony.

“I’m willing to bet that everyone in this room should see a counselor,” senior Mary Sypek said at the beginning of her talk, which addressed how the world would change if education programs worked to “de-stigmatize mental health.” She spoke about her belief that if kids were taught to understand that mental health was a necessary part of their wellbeing, they would live happier lives and raise happier children themselves.

Senior David Schwartz said his goal was to“redesign” the audience’s idea of design.

He argued that design is not just organization of objects in space, but a way of thinking. Design, Schwartz said, is the concept of perfecting a technique or a process through trial and reconstruction.

The final speaker of the night, Glenn Engler (LA ‘83, G ‘89), is CEO of Digital Influence Group, a full-service digital marketing agency. He spoke about social media, a subject very relevant to the audience of college students.

Using the example of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, Engler showed how social media can make or break a company based on their interactions, or lack thereof, with social media after a disaster like the 2012 wreck. He extended the concept to include personal Facebook pages, which can tell an employer a lot about whom they are hiring.

“We want you to tell us your story on social media,” he said, while urging the audience to use high privacy settings and think carefully about what they post.

Although there were seven speakers at last Tuesday’s jam-packed event, more than 20 members of TEX have been working throughout the year to make it happen.

“Each speaker gets three people assigned to them who choose their speaker based

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Junior Michael Grant presented at this year’s TEX talks about what determines the quality of music. on their proposal, and we work for three months on the speeches,” Schwartz said.

“I would talk my idea over with my group, they’d destroy it, and I’d be like, ‘Thank you!’ and write another draft.”

Sophomore Valerie Cleland, the organizer of this year’s event, has been involved in TEX since she was a freshman.

“It sort of helped me figure out who I was within the Tufts community,” she said. “I originally thought that I would get involved with TEX to give a talk, but quickly got into the organization side of the event. I really liked the idea development.”

Cleland added that the team was essential in making the event run smoothly, including TEX’s designer, senior Chase Maxwell, and junior team member Anisha Wadhwa.

Many of the speakers also noted the impressive organization and support they were given once they were elected to speak.

“I walked into this network where they were all really motivated to put this on,” Grant said. “There are design people, tech people, logistics people, workshoppers and lots of other parts of the whole equation.”

In first public forum, candidates debate wide range of issues DEBATE

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of education because we can’t afford this, and we need to ask why we’re being charged this.”

Donenfeld recounted his work to create the entrepreneurial leadership secondary major. Thibodeau talked about serving as the first diversity and community affairs officer, working on issues such as disability and college affordability.

All three candidates voiced their support for need-blind admissions.

The candidates then debated the problems of the student activities fee. Thibodeau believes the fee is not as connected to the student body as he hopes, and Donenfeld noted that Tufts has one of the largest student activities fees in the Boston area.

Next, the moderators asked how the candidates would handle an issue or goal they were personally against if a large portion of the student body supported it.

“I think that’s where we struggled this year,” Donenfeld said. “If there is a consensus on campus, it is the obligation and burden of the president to bring that consensus to the administration.”

Thibodeau believes it is important for the president to stay true to his or her beliefs.

“I think in order to foster a healthy debate on campus, we need someone who can speak with the courage of their convictions,” he said.

Maciejewski defended her decision to initially vote against the creation of the Africana studies major and minor as a freshman, saying she did not think it was well-planned enough at that stage.

Donenfeld believes some students do not fully appreciate the value of such a program on campus.

“I really don’t think a lot of students around campus know about Critical Studies, and I’ve seen the same students push for it in my three years on the Senate,” he said.

Students were able to submit questions via Facebook and Twitter before the debate.

A student asked how the candidates viewed the recent Committee on Student Life ruling to allow student religious groups to apply for exemption from university’s nondiscrimina-

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tion policy.

Donenfeld, who co-authored the resolution to confirm the TCU’s commitment to the non-discrimination policy and condemn the new rule, said he believed the Senate did not pass the resolution because it was afraid of the administration’s response.

In response to a student question on rape culture and sexual assault policy, the candidates agreed that conversations around sexual assault need to be reframed on campus and that consent needs to be taught both at orientation and throughout students’ time at Tufts.

Another student asked about the candidates’ roles as allies of marginalized communities on campus.

“I have stood arm-in-arm with people at sit-ins, at protests. Allies are there on the front lines every day, and I think I’ve done that,” Thibodeau said.

When asked whether Greek life excludes students of color and queer students, Maciejewski acknowledged that fraternities and sororities do have barriers that prevent less privileged students from entering and staying in, but the community has the ability to become more accepting.

“I think we need to work on lowering the costs of being in a sorority or fraternity because fraternities and sororities, at their heart, are brotherhoods and sisterhoods, and I think every student on campus really needs that sense of community,” she said.

Thibodeau said he hopes to see Greek life members engage more with the Group of Six community.

Maciejewski and Donenfeld said they would not support a resolution calling on Tufts to divest from corporations that support the Israeli occupation. Maciejewski said she did not believe altering Tufts’ endowment would benefit students, and Donenfeld said there was too much confusion on the issue for Tufts to make a strong stance. Thibodeau said he would hear the resolution, but he did not know how he would vote on it.

Another student also asked where the candidates drew the line between hate speech and free speech. Donenfeld said he believes hate speech incidents need to be tackled as a community problem, not as isolated incidents.

Although this was only the fourth TEX, enthusiasm for the conference runs high among those involved.

“I think it’s a great idea because it’s such an accessible format,” Grant said. “And I think that really works and students that I’ve talked to have really enjoyed it in the past. I think interest is really increasing.”

Other speakers reflected positively on having a platform to communicate their ideas.

“It was exciting to have a forum where I could make [my thoughts about mental health] into a coherent idea and share it with a group of people,” Sypek said. “It’s short, but they cover a broad range of topics.”

Schwartz echoed Sypek and Grants’ enthusiasm.

“I think TED talks are so important, not just because of the subjects,” he said. “I think that seeing how other people think is essential if we are ever supposed to communicate with each other.”

“I think it went really well,” Cleland said.

“There was standing room only, and no event can ask for anything more than that.”

Entrepeneurs to gather for symposium SYMPOSIUM

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services to the team with the best social enterprise idea.

“The finalists from the $100K Competition ... from the social entrepreneurial section will talk and give their pitches for their products and their ideas,” Babbs, a sophomore, said.

Other panels will discuss such topics as creating, refining and funding ideas as well as network systems, according to the event website.

“Our last panel of the day will talk about entrepreneurial support systems and how to find support systems beyond [Tufts],” Goldbaum said.

There will also be opportunities to discuss and revise business ideas with the speakers and panelists, Goldbaum said.

“It should be a really great opportunity to hear from people who have ideas for their own enterprises [and] to get good feedback from a lot of the speakers who are there,” she said.

Goldbaum said that the symposium will be a networking opportunity for attendees. A networking lunch will be hosted at 1 p.m. to offer students an opportunity to converse with Boston professionals and other aspiring Tufts entrepreneurs.

“Networking will be a focus of the event ,with different students talking with each other and sharing ideas and maybe even coming out of the day with an idea they want to pursue with other students,” Goldbaum said.

The event is free to Tufts students and $10 for non-Tufts students.

According to Goldbaum, tickets are only available online, and some students have already registered.

“About 100 people have registered — students from Tufts and from all over the Boston area along with Tufts alums and professionals,” Goldbaum said. “It should be really exciting.”

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‘Disconnect’ sends important message without subtlety Poor editing choices saved by high-quality acting by

Lancy Downs

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A cautionary tale for the Internet age, “Disconnect” weaves together the stories of teenagers and adults navigating their way

Disconnect Directed by Henry Alex Rubin Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Bateman, Paula Patton, Frank Grillo through the murky online world. Rich Boyd (Jason Bateman) is a workaholic lawyer who has little time for his wife and children.

His moody teenage son Ben (Jonah Bobo) becomes the target of a humiliating cyberbullying attack executed by a pair of classmates. Husband and wife Derek (Alexander Skarsgård) and Cindy (Paula Patton) deal with the loss of a child — he turns to gambling websites, she to online grief forums, where she strikes up a relationship with a widower — and search for the man they believe has stolen their identities (Michael Nyqvist).

Nina Dunham (Andrea Riseborough), a local reporter looking for a big break, chases the story of Kyle (Max Thieriot), a young man who works as an online exhibitionist.

As each plot unfolds, we are reminded, and not so subtly, of the real-life consequences of online behavior: “Disconnect” makes real the

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Jason Bateman gives a stand-out performance as Rich Boyd, who becomes engrossed in his son’s cyber-bullying experience. often-intangible world of the Internet. But while these repercussions are serious, they are also extremes. “Disconnect” presents us with people at their most vulnerable and

naive, and its didactic message — well-suited for our ever-plugged-in lives — loses some of see DISCONNECT, page 8

Concert Preview

Kiniwe show promises lively entertainment Class will perform Ghanaian singing, dancing, drumming

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One of a handful of half-credit Tufts music courses offered each semester that culminate in an end-of-semester performance, the Kiniwe African Music Ensemble is a class that studies and performs an amalgam of music and dance from Ghana. At 8 p.m. tonight in the Distler Performance Hall of the Granoff Music Center, Kiniwe’s students will gather together to showcase all they have learned.

Kiniwe offers its students a balanced, thorough musical experience: The class covers instrumental music, songs and dancing from the Ewe people of Ghana.

The Ewe people believe that music and dance have enormous potential to bring people of a society together, as both art forms encourage powerful emotional responses. Agbekor is one style of dance that is performed by the Ewe. Like Tufts Concert Choir, Tufts

Chamber Singers and the Tufts Symphony Orchestra, Kiniwe gives students a chance to receive class credit while pursuing something they are curious about but might not have any past experience with. It is therefore appropriate that the Kiniwe class has both a section for new students as well as a section for students who have taken the course during a previous semester — one of the perks of the class is that it can be repeated for credit multiple times. Both sections meet twice a week, which allows instructors to teach dance movements on one day and vocals and instruments on the other day. This semester, the class focused on two specific styles of Ghanaian music known as “Fume Fume” and “Adzogbo.”

This semester’s class was taught by the director of tonight’s show, lecturer Nani Agbeli, who is an Ewe man originating from the village of Kopeyia, Ghana. After receiving training throughout his younger years and studying traditional music, Agbeli was a drum and dance instruc-

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The Agbekor Drum & Dance Society and Kiniwe African Music Ensemble Students will perform Ghanaian song, dance and drumming together at tonight’s end-of-semester event.

tor at the Dagbe Cultural Center in his hometown. He moved to the United States in 2006 and has taught at several different universities since then, including Berklee College of Music, University of Virginia and Mount Holyoke College.

He is also the artistic director of the Agbekor Drum & Dance Society, a community group from the greater Boston area that was founded by Associate Professor of Music David Locke. The Agbekor Drum & Dance Society will also perform in tonight’s cultural show and will showcase more advanced techniques in Ghanaian music, dance and percussion.

The drum ensemble in Kiniwe includes several different instruments such as bells, rattles and multiple types of drums. As the course syllabus notes, all the instruments come together in playing. Each instrument has a specific phrase that fits together with the other instruments to create rich, melo-rhythmic, textured sound.

The dance aspect of Kiniwe gives students the opportunity to explore their own individual expression while also following choreographed sections. In tonight’s show, Kiniwe students will perform original dance segments — which they have worked on with partners in the class — within a larger group performance. When the drumming and dance are paired together, the drums direct the dancers through cues and act as the overall energy source of the music. Together, the art forms produce a vibrant, engaging sensory experience.

Finally, there will be the vocal part of Kiniwe’s performance, which will be sung in a call-and-response style. This style of singing involves multiple musicians separated into two groups, with the second group acting as a collective responder to the proclamations and questions of the first. All vocals were taught, and will be sung, in the local languages of western Africa.

Danielle Jenkins | Greenwise

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olystyrene, a.k.a. plastic number six, a.k.a. Styrofoam, is enemy number one in the environmental world. Why? Doesn’t that little number six mean it is recyclable? No, no it does not. In fact, those little numbers only denote the type of plastic, and not all types of plastic can be recycled. For this reason, I say ignore them. Some might respond to this with, “Well then, Dani, how do I know what to recycle if I ignore those little numbers?” Well, I’m glad you asked! Tufts has made this much easier than those little numbers ever could. Take the plastic item you wish to recycle. Hit it against any hard surface. If it makes a sound, recycle it. If not, throw it out. In other words, Tufts recycles all rigid plastics. “But isn’t Styrofoam a rigid plastic?” Yes, it has one of those numbers denoting “plastics” and it makes a sound. Okay, you got me.

Let me explain. Styrofoam is technically, on a basic level, recyclable. In fact, if recycling plants had the ability to recycle it, their doing so would save immense amounts of energy and emissions, and it would eliminate the production of harmful chemicals that go into making “virgin” Styrofoam. Unfortunately, this is not the case. It is incredibly expensive to recycle Styrofoam. Not only does the process require a solid financial input, but transporting Styrofoam to a center that can handle it is expensive as well.

For this reason, most recycling contractors do not recycle Styrofoam.

What does this mean? It means that Styrofoam ends up in landfills. Due to its high air content, Styrofoam takes up a large amount of space. So much space, in fact, that polystyrene constitutes 30 percent of landfills by volume worldwide. Did I mention that it takes 500 years for Styrofoam to degrade? This means that our cups will be around 6.4 times longer than the average U.S. citizen.

These are not the only reasons that I am anti-PS. It has been found that the chemical styrene, which, as you might have guessed, is in polystyrene, leaches into foods when heated. Since many restaurants put takeout items in these Styrofoam containers, people are consuming styrene more often than is ideal.

Perhaps of greater concern to the public is the polystyrene cups that many coffee shops put their hot beverages in. If styrene leaches when heated, then placing piping-hot coffee in Styrofoam cups is clearly a mistake.

Why is it so bad, anyway? According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, short-term exposure to styrene can cause gastrointestinal problems and, in some cases, eye irritation.

Long-term exposure can cause damage to the central nervous system, as well as damage to the reproductive system.

There is a bit of contention, as some evidence suggests links between styrene and leukemia, but it is not currently listed as a carcinogen.

I think we have two options when we look at how to deal with Styrofoam: to buy a densifier (the tool that can help cut down the cost of recycling Styrofoam by compressing it) and recycle it, or to not use Styrofoam at all. When you look at the numbers, the choice seems clear.

If every person could either request a paper cup for his or her coffee — since paper hot cups are recyclable at Tufts — or bring a reusable mug to the coffee shop, we could take one step toward cutting down on the 25 billion Styrofoam cups Americans use every year. After all, conservatively assuming that each of these cups is a 12-ounce cup and not a Big Gulp from 7-Eleven, 25 billion cups is enough cups to fill more than 3,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools a year.

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

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its punch. Instead of depicting the harmful repercussions of seemingly innocent online activity, the alreadydangerous situations unfold into further disaster and tragedy. The film’s message is spot on; its delivery, not so much.

The various plots in “Disconnect” are, for the most part, handled well. A few too many threads are left hanging by the time the credits roll — there is no real conclusion or payoff for a couple of characters — but the film thankfully does not drag its audience through a confusing, tangled web of plotlines.

That said, the film often arbitrarily shuffles between the various plots.

This doesn’t make it hard to keep up, as each story is simple enough to follow, but it does give the illusion that the film contains editing mistakes. Director Henry Alex Rubin frequently cuts to a new scene midconversation, which is an irksome and dissatisfying choice. We are left with a stunted picture of these relationships, as we are never given a chance to see interactions between characters play out fully. As frustrating as this makes watching the film, it also seems to be a conscious effort on the part of the director to reflect the Internet and its users’ short attention span.

The actors are also forced far too often to spend entire scenes acting in front of a computer screen.

It’s understandably hard to convey online interactions without characters gaping at their various devices, but “Disconnect” loses much of its dynamism and intrigue as it piles on scene after scene of unwashed faces bathed in blue-light, typing away, occasionally frowning at their computers. But for all its flaws, “Disconnect” delivers excellent performances, especially in the second half of the film. Although he is mostly absent in the film’s first

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In his role on ‘Disconnect’ Alexander Skarsgard portrays a very different character than his well-known Eric on HBO’s “True Blood.” act, Bateman, usually likeable and awkwardly charming, is engrossing and sometimes frightening as he obsessively tries to understand his son’s cyber-bullying experience. He skillfully portrays a husband whose inability to disengage from his work life has made his marriage stale and has deteriorated his relationship with his son. Yet he manages to be both sympathetic and infuriating, as Rich comes to appreciate, perhaps too late, what he truly values.

Bateman’s presence in the film’s latter half gives it a vital jolt that drives its concluding acts.

The young actor who play’s Bateman’s son, Jonah Bobo, is a mere 16 years old, but as he sullenly hides behind his earphones and long, dark hair, his sad, unsuspecting character reminds us just why it is that the Internet — and Facebook, in particular — can be so detrimental to the young. Andrea Riseborough and Max Thieriot, as

journalist and subject respectively, have a chemistry and tension that fuels their characters’ mutually exploitive relationship and provides for dynamic interactions between the two. Alexander Skårsgard, well known for playing sultry vampire Eric on HBO’s “True Blood,” is stripped of any sex appeal or masculinity here. In ill-fitting glasses and bland suits, Skårsgard’s Derek struggles to both face his rapidly deteriorating marriage and, as a former

marine, to understand his place in a monotonous suburban existence.

These actors carry the film and give human emotion to this often-moralizing tale of extremes.

“Disconnect” may be imperfect, but its solid performances prevent it from being bogged down by narrative flaws. And its didactic tone — while not subtle — does provide us with a message we should probably hear more often: Look up from the screen.

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NBA first round playoff preview

Breaking down every matchup before the postseason begins Saturday by

Cameron Yu

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Another regular season of NBA basketball has come to a close, and it came just in time for Lakers fans everywhere. It’s time now to put our attention toward the NBA playoffs, a totally different brand of basketball. There is more pressure and importance with every passing game, road teams feel like they are playing in a totally different country and legends are born over the next few weeks. It is an exciting time in basketball, and here is how the first-round matchups will shake out.

Eastern Conference

No. 1 Miami Heat vs. No. 8 Milwaukee Bucks Well, one team had to be the sacrificial lamb for the Miami Heat in their pursuit of a second straight title, and LeBron James and company couldn’t have asked for a better matchup than the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round. The Heat actually match up well with any team due to their size and athleticism but the Bucks are truly a cinch. given their recent struggles.

The Bucks had a record above .500 in the opening days of March, but have gone 10-16 since Feb. 27 to continue the tradition of a sub-.500 team making the Eastern Conference playoffs. The addition of JJ Redick and the subsequent failure to move either Monta Ellis or Brandon Jennings at the trade deadline have had mixed results for the team.

That being said, the Heat should dispatch the Bucks easily. Ellis or Jennings may go off in Games 3 or 4 at home, and overbearing center Larry Sanders may have a big game defensively here or there, but the Heat have been playing a whole new brand of basketball, both offensively and defensively. Their free-flowing offense has led to career shooting years for the Big three of Lebron, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh, and their insanely aggressive defensive rotations have the all of the league watching.

This should be easy for the champs.

Prediction: Miami, 4-0

No. 2 New York Knicks vs. No. 7 Boston Celtics Oh, how the tables have turned. Just two years ago, it was the No. 3 Boston Celtics who won the Atlantic division and rights to play the upstart New York Knicks with the newly acquired Carmelo Anthony. But this year, it is just the opposite. Injuries have depleted a very proud Celtics team, while Anthony enjoyed his best season as a pro, taking home the scoring title for the first time in his career.

The Knicks’ game plan has been obvious from the start of the season: shoot the 3-ball, and shoot it often. They have lived and died by the 3-pointer, and it has shown throughout the year, with some down stretches in the middle of the year. But now the Knicks have found their stroke from beyond the arc, and the ball has been moving more freely, with Anthony putting up big scoring numbers in April. But with more attention to detail in the playoffs from his opponents, will he still be seeing the same numbers as he did before? And, if he doesn’t, will the offense adjust?

The Celtics’ season hit the refresh button when Rajon Rondo went down with an ACL injury, but the Celtics have soldiered on with Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and a resurgent Jeff Green.

Their reward is playing the Knicks, which was actually a best-case scenario for the team. For a Knicks franchise that hasn’t won a playoff series since Patrick Ewing’s last season with the team in 1999-2000, a small inkling of doubt is all the Celtics need to gain a mental edge. Will the Celtics beat the Knicks? Probably not, but do the Knicks, or anyone, want to play the Celtics in the playoffs? Definitely not.

If the Celtics can steal a game in New York, they have a great chance to pull the upset because it is hard to imagine them losing at home, especially with the emotion that will fill the Garden in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon tragedy.

Prediction: New York, 4-3

No. 3 Indiana Pacers vs. No. 6 Atlanta Hawks Here we have a mostly boring first-round matchup, only because of the style of play of the Pacers and the mediocrity of the Hawks franchise in general. This pairing, however, does give us a pretty good matchup at the center position: the Pacers’ Roy Hibbert against the Hawks’ Al Horford.

Regardless of the series’ outcome for

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Joakim Noah will look to lead the Bulls in a first-round upset over the Brooklyn Nets. If their defense can shut down Deron Williams and Joe Johnson, the Bulls should advance.

Atlanta, expect big changes to come for the Hawks in the offseason. The team and the franchise have peaked with Josh Smith as its focus, and its fan base has grown weary of middling play.

The Pacers, on the other hand, are a franchise that has been steadily on the rise for the last three years, and it all starts with their coach Frank Vogel. What he has done to create the toughest, grittiest, defensiveminded team in the NBA cannot be overstated. And outside of offseason acquisitions such as George Hill and David West, Vogel has mainly been able to mold his team around players that have been drafted by the Pacers.

Though Danny Granger has been out virtually all season, Paul George has broken out in a big way with his newly found height. He has asserted himself on the offensive end, especially from beyond the arc, while still maintaining his consistent defensive play. After taking the Heat to six games in last year’s playoffs, expect more high-level play from the Pacers

this postseason.

Prediction: Indiana, 4-1 No. 4 Brooklyn Nets vs. No. 5 Chicago Bulls Playoff basketball has officially arrived in Brooklyn, but it doesn’t seem like the Nets have broken out like they planned before the start of the season. However, they head into their first playoff matchup in Brooklyn facing a Bulls team that continues to play the waiting game on Derrick Rose’s recovery from a torn ACL after last season’s playoffs.

But the Bulls look primed for an upset in a matchup of two completely different franchises.

Deron Williams hasn’t really played up to his expectations this year, especially given the talent that has been put around him, and despite some game winning shots, Joe Johnson couldn’t even prove that he was worthy of being second-best on the Nets.

That honor goes to Brook Lopez, who could actually be the most important player on the team despite grabbing less than seven

rebounds per game. If Lopez can dominate on the offensive and defensive side of the ball, the Nets have a good shot of moving on to the next round.

But that will be a tall task against the extremely defensively disciplined Bulls.

They have had to lean on role players all season, and they have come through time and time again with huge wins stemming from consistent basketball.

Joakim Noah is a serious Defensive Player of the Year and Most Improved Player candidate, Luol Deng put in another All-Star year, Carlos Boozer looks as fresh as he did in his Utah days, and Jimmy Butler has become a 6’7” revelation for the team due to his versatility. The Bulls may not play pretty, but they know how to play to win, and they are the team most likely to pull a first round upset this postseason.

Prediction: Chicago 4-2

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their late-season surge. Even with Kobe Bryant going down and Steve Nash uncertain in the playoffs, the Lakers are looking at the postseason as a fresh start with Dwight Howard and a resurgent Pau Gasol leading the way.

Even with two future Hall of Famers out, the Lakers still have enough star power to make some serious noise. If Metta World Peace can continue to play effectively with a recently reconstructed knee, if Gasol can facilitate the offense in the absence of Kobe and if Howard can be the defensive monster the Lakers expect him to be, there’s a chance this series can be taken by the Lakers. Expect a battle.

Prediction: San Antonio, 4-3

No. 3 Denver Nuggets vs. No. 6 Golden State Warriors This could have been the most exciting first-round matchup, but due to some key injuries for the Nuggets, the matchup has lost some of its intrigue. Make no mistake: There is going to be a lot of scoring in this series, and it will be amazing to watch.

Kudos is due to second-year coach Mark Jackson for quietly leading the Dubs to the No. 6 seed in the West, but one worries that this young team might not be ready for their first playoff appearance in years.

They’ll rely heavily on Steph Curry, who now holds the single-season record for 3-pointers made. Klay Thompson, who continues to improve his silky smooth jumper, and Jarrett Jack, who has quietly provided a steady veteran presence off the bench, will also prove important. But the most important unit will be the Warriors’ front line. David Lee and Andrew Bogut, not to mention Carl Landry off the bench, will need to dominate down low in order for this team to have a chance at an upset.

The Warriors may actually have the advantage in the paint heading into their matchup with the Nuggets, who have recently been hit with very untimely injuries like an ACL tear ended Danilo Gallinari’s season. On top of that, Kenneth “the Manimal” Faried’s availability is in question after a sprained ankle suffered with just a few games left to play, and Ty Lawson is still recovering from a sprained ankle he suffered in March.

The Nuggets have capable players to fill the voids — Wilson Chandler and Corey Brewer stepping up, but coach George Karl now faces his worst nightmare in giving Anthony Randolph and Javale McGee extended minutes. They are exciting players that fit the Denver mold, but they are overaggressive and extremely undisciplined.

Can the Warriors’ big men take advantage?

Or will the Denver altitude burn them out?

Prediction: Denver 4-2

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Western Conference No. 1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs. No. 8 Houston Rockets The West is filled with enticing matchups, perhaps none more so than the No.1-vs.No.8 seed matchup between the Thunder and Rockets. Fresh off their first NBA Finals appearance, the young Thunder will begin their run to the end once again without one of their key pieces from a year ago. Where did that player go? To the upstart Houston Rockets, who made big moves this offseason to be in the position that they are in right now.

A former sixth man for the Thunder, James Harden now finds himself in the starring role of an incredibly fast-paced, young and exciting Rockets team. Their pace-and-space system has taken the league by storm, and despite a strong defense, the offense has carried them to the No. 8 seed. This team loves shooting 3-pointers off the fast break and running endless pick-and-rolls to free Harden or Jeremy Lin in the lane. If that option is locked down, they rely on Omer

Asik rolling to the hoop or a number of 3-point shooters waiting beyond the arc. The offense has been second in the league in points per game this year, but will it continue into the postseason?

Even though the Thunder earned homecourt advantage out West, they just haven’t quite stamped their authority on the conference in the way that was expected after their trip to the Finals. Russell Westbrook continues to dazzle with his fiery play and pure athleticism, but he still makes boneheaded mistakes like taking half-court shots two seconds into the shot clock. They still have plenty of talent to carry them out of the first round, but it will be difficult, and their road to the playoffs will get much tougher with each passing round. Can they put it all together a second time through?

Prediction: Oklahoma City, 4-2

No. 2 San Antonio Spurs vs. No. 7 Los Angeles Lakers It’s incredibly weird to be seeing these two Western Conference rivals match up so early in the postseason on such polar opposites of the playoff bracket, but with the Lakers’ win over the Rockets on Wednesday, coach Mike

D’Antoni’s squad managed to sneak into the No. 7 spot and set up a series with potentially the weakest higher-ranked seed in the Spurs.

That isn’t to say that the Spurs do not deserve their high seed, but recent history has shown that under Gregg Popovich the Spurs can put together stellar regular seasons but fizzle out in the playoffs. Their elegant system of cutters on the wing, strong inside play and pass-first mentality makes the Spurs an extremely tough matchup in the regular season because teams don’t have enough time to prepare.

But in the playoffs, defenses lock down, especially as the series progress, and the Spurs’ offense could very likely be cracked. It also doesn’t help that Tony Parker’s first game back from injury against the Lakers was a massive dud, and that Manu Ginobili and others have been hampered by injuries all season.

The X-factor for the Spurs could actually be newly signed Tracy McGrady, who has a shot at advancing past the first round of the playoffs for the first time in his career. Can he pick up the Spurs’ system in time?

The Lakers’ season has been a long and disappointing one, but they have earned the right to play the Spurs in the playoffs with

No. 4 Los Angeles Clippers vs. No. 5 Memphis Grizzlies The final first-round matchup will be filled with strong play, with both the Clippers and the Grizzlies finishing off in a strong stretch of play. This matchup is a lot of fun because the teams play completely different brands of basketball, but it all starts with the big guys down low.

The Grizzlies are led by Zach Randolph, who deservedly received an All-Star nod this year, and Marc Gasol, the leading candidate for Defensive Player of the Year. Over the past two seasons, the two big men have become the most skilled frontcourt tandem in the NBA on both ends of the floor. Gasol is an excellent facilitator at the elbow with sneaky shooting range, and Randolph has the fancy footwork in the low post to school defenders and the body to box them out.

Many questioned the trade of Rudy Gay, their only legitimate offensive threat on the wings, but the Grizz picked up frontcourt depth and an enhancer to their defensive mentality by bringing in Tayshaun Prince.

With Randolph, Gasol, Prince, Mike Conley Jr. and Tony Allen, the Grizzlies have a tough, defensive starting five and have ground their way to the best defense in the league.

When you talk about the Clippers, it has to start with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin.

But with all the showtime dunks the two toss around the Staples Center, it’s easy to forget that the Clips have forged a top-10 defensive unit with their aggressive rotations.

Sometimes that leaves them vulnerable to the three-point shot, which teams have exploited numerous times against them, but that shouldn’t be a worry against the Grizzlies.

The Clippers’ trump card, however, is that they can play 10 men with confidence, as Jamal Crawford, Matt Barnes and Ryan Hollins have led the most productive bench unit in the league. But in the playoffs, when the stakes are higher and the attention to detail much more important, will coach Vinny Del Negro be able to keep his rotation? Or will the Grizzlies’ grit-and-grind style wear down the Clippers?

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Tufts hits stride heading into weekend matchups against Colby by

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Things are really beginning to click for the Tufts baseball team.

While the start of the 2013 season was a bit of a roller coaster for the Jumbos, with an up-and-down spring break trip, they have since churned out a 10-game winning streak, including a crucial three-game sweep of the Trinity Bantams, a team many considered the favorite to win the NESCAC East Division.

Coach John Casey’s squad now sits comfortably in second place in the division, trailing only Bowdoin, a team the Jumbos have yet to play this season.

“It’s been fun,” junior tri-captain pitcher Christian Sbily said of the team’s winning streak. “We’re playing loose, we’re playing good baseball, but at the same time, we know we have a lot to work on right now, and while we’ve been able to string together some wins in the past couple of weeks, we know that we still have a lot to improve on if we want to keep that going, and keep up that level of play going into this weekend.”

Leading the way during the past 10 games has been the Jumbos’ stellar left side of the infield, comprised of sophomore third baseman Wade Hauser and senior shortstop Scott Staniewicz. Hauser has improved on his 2012 All-NESCAC second team campaign by leading the Jumbos in hits, home runs and RBIs, and coming in second on the team in slugging percentage. Staniewicz, after starting only 17 games as a junior, has emerged as one of the top offensive threats in the NESCAC, pacing the Jumbo attack with a .380 batting average

out of the leadoff spot.

While the team played well in spurts earlier this season, Tufts has recently found a way to bring a high level of consistency into each contest.

“It’s tough to pinpoint one thing, but I think our overall mentality has really improved,” Sbily said. “We come to the ballpark expecting to win, and it’s not necessarily that we didn’t have that mentality before, but we have this level of confidence now that we know we are playing at a certain level. Having that mentality and playing loose has really done a lot for us.”

“We’re more confident as a team,” junior tri-captain Nick Cutsumpas added.

“We go out there and believe that on any given day, we can beat any given team. It’s not about how the other team plays, it’s about how we play. We are in control of our actions 100 percent.”

Looking ahead to the weekend, the Jumbos will travel to Waterville, Maine, to play Colby in a three-game NESCAC East series. The Mules have struggled in the NESCAC thus far this season, posting an 0-6 record, including several blowout losses to Trinity and Bowdoin. Despite some of their troubles, Colby has given the Jumbos difficulty in past seasons, including winning two out of three games last season in a crucial NESCAC series.

“Colby is always a tough team,” Sbily said.

“We know they lost a lot of guys from last year, but we will treat [this gane] just like we treat all other NESCAC games.”

Returning for the Mules is 2012 second team All-NESCAC member Jason Buco, who

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The Jumbos take a 10-game winning streak into this weekend’s matchup with the Colby is on a tear thus far in 2013 with a .415 batting average, four triples and a .610 slugging percentage. Buco has also shown exceptional speed on the bases, registering six stolen bases in only 12 starts.

Despite the Mules’ suspect play in the NESCAC thus far this season, the Jumbos know Colby remains a threat no matter what the standings say and plan on treating the team just like any other on their schedule.

“We always say that this league must

come through Medford, and everyone is gunning for us,” Sbily said. “We’re treating Colby the same way we treat Trinity, the same way we treat Bowdoin, the same way we treat Bates. We know we have to go up there and play sharp.”

“We don’t see the NESCAC opponents as different teams,” Cutsumpas added. “Each NESCAC game is worth the same amount, so we have a little payback this weekend.

We’re going to go out there and play hard.”

Women’s lacrosse

Softball drops first of two games but comes back with shutout win by

Claire Sleigh

Daily Editorial Board

In a huge upset, the 15-13 Bridgewater State Bears scraped out a 2-1 win against the 28-3 Jumbos in the first of two games at Alumni Park on Wednesday.

Tufts came back in the second game to sink the Bears 11-0 in five innings, but the loss gave them some pause as they look toward the playoffs.

Tufts is currently ranked sixth in the country, 9-0 in the NESCAC and in the top two in the region, but Wednesday’s loss snapped a 10-game winning streak, as the Bears were able to lock down the Jumbos’ offense throughout the game.

The Jumbos simply could not get it going offensively and stranded many runners during crucial run-scoring opportunities.

The offense had trouble getting a read on Bridgewater State junior pitcher Amber White, who allowed only three hits and one run in a complete game.

According to coach Cheryl Milligan, the loss came as a surprise, as the Jumbos struggled on offense, where they have not had much trouble this year.

“It was sort of one of those ‘How did that just happen?’ kind of losses,” Milligan said. “I asked the team afterwards what was going on, and they didn’t have a whole lot of answers. Not really sure why [ White] was so puzzling to us, but she certainly had our number [ Wednesday].”

The Jumbos broke open a lead during the second inning when sophomore Kris Parr rounded the bases on two errors from the Bears, but Tufts would not score again.

Brianna DeNucci gave Bridgewater State the lead in bottom of the fifth with a double down the right-field line, and the Jumbos left two runners stranded on base in the seventh to close out a disappointing contest.

“We never engaged; we couldn’t figure out the pitcher,” junior catcher Jo Clair said. “We couldn’t string together the hits we needed to win the game.”

Despite trouble on the offensive end, the

defense managed to keep the game tight.

Both Milligan and Clair highlighted the performance of senior Aly Moskowitz, who pitched a strong game giving up only four hits and two runs.

“Ali pitched very well, certainly well enough to win,” Milligan said. “We just didn’t get the job done at plate.”

A handful of fielding errors at key moments also contributed to the loss, but the most significant part was the inability to pull through with clutch hits.

According to Milligan, the Jumbos came into the game just a little bit too passive.

“We certainly always expect to go out and play a good game. We did not come out with our usual amount of enthusiasm,” Milligan said. “Our ability level certainly did not shine through in the first game.”

The Jumbos came out in the second game of the doubleheader with a vengeance, however, and buried the Bears early on.

Senior Emily Beinecke got the Jumbos moving in the first inning with a single up the middle that drove freshman Christina Raso in, and though the inning ended with three runners left on base, the Jumbos picked up where they left off two innings later.

The third inning started off with a single from sophomore Kris Parr and a double from junior Kayla Holland, and continued through the entire batting order for a total of eight hits and ten runs.

Clair sealed the deal mid-inning with a homer to left field, which brought in two RBIs and which was her eighth home run of the season.

According to Clair, the Jumbos recovered well from their earlier loss and were able to play well for the game at hand.

“I think the mentality of the second game was a lot better,” she said. “We had a greater sense of urgency to win the second game than the first game.

After losing it was a good thing that we were able to put that behind us momentarily and come out and win the second game.”

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Jumbos drop third straight NESCAC game The No. 19 women’s lacrosse team’s 13-9 upset loss to unranked Bates on Wednesday afternoon was a somber event. Coming two days after members of the team had been injured in the bombing at the Boston Marathon Monday at the while cheering on their classmates at the finish line, the Jumbos faced off against Bates in a game that was initially postponed. All three players who were hospitalized were released and are in good health.

Against Bates, the Jumbos’ defense that had held No. 12 Amherst to only six goals in a tough loss was unable to stop the Bobcats’ transition offense.

The Jumbos led 2-1 to start the game, but a 6-1 run by Bates gave it the lead it needed to take an important conference victory.

The loss came even as the Jumbos outshot Bates 33-21, as junior attacker Gabby Horner and freshman attacker Caroline Ross continued their strong seasons with three and two goals, respectively.

The Jumbos improved on shot tallies but failed to capitalize on that shooting advantage, converting just one of eight free position shots and squandering scoring opportunities.

“We have really improved on being

patient on attack and waiting for the right play to be set up rather than forcing it,” senior attacker co-captain Kerry Eaton said.

The loss moves the Jumbos into ninth place in the NESCAC with only two games remaining. As only the top eight teams in the conference qualify for the postseason, the Jumbos are on the verge of missing out on the NESCAC tournament for the first time since 2007.

The Jumbos face Wesleyan on Saturday in a must-win game at home. The Cardinals are winless in the NESCAC this season, but they have played a number of close inconference games, including a onegoal loss to Bates on March 16. The matchup will be the final home game for the Jumbos.

For Tufts to make the tournament, Williams will more than likely need to drop its final two games, a very plausible outcome given that the Ephs face No. 12 Amherst and No. 3 Middlebury.

However, the Jumbos would still need to defeat Wesleyan or No. 8 Bowdoin to have any hope of reaching the postseason.

— by Ross Dember