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Monday, April 29, 2013

VOLUME LXV, NUMBER 61

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Alcohol Task Force revives push for medical amnesty

Nelly headlines Spring Fling

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Xander Landen

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Tufts’ Alcohol Task Force on Wednesday submitted a proposal to a university-wide steering committee to introduce a Good Samaritan policy and a modified medical amnesty policy in response to suggestions provided by the steering committee.

Former Tufts Community Union Senate President Wyatt Cadley, a senior, explained that the steering committee brought these policies to the attention of the task force to ensure that students have full incentive to seek medical attention in the case of intoxication.

Cadley, who serves on both

the task force and steering committee, said the steering committee charges the task force, composed of students, faculty and staff, with creating recommendations concerning changes to alcohol policy. The steering committee then reviews the task force’s proposals.

Director of Alcohol and Health Education Ian Wong, also a member of the task force, said that the proposal is currently under the review by the steering committee. If the members agree to adopt it, he said, new policies could go into effect as soon as next semester.

Wong added that the policies listed in the new proposal are not drastically different from those

that already exist in the university’s current alcohol policy.

Students who call in emergency support for dangerously intoxicated friends are not typically punished unless intoxication has led to other forms of misconduct, according to Wong.

“You may go on to [Disciplinary Probation II] after calling in, but maybe not because you were caught drinking, but because of the actions you did when you were caught drinking,” he said.

Beth Farrow, health educator and prevention specialist, said that in the past Tufts has tacitly enforced a Good Samaritan policy, but this proposal seeks see ALCOHOL, page 2

Sackler Parkinson’s researcher among business competition winners

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Students crowded onto the President’s Lawn on Saturday to celebrate Spring Fling. The event, hosted by Concert Board, featured performances from Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist Nelly, along with 5 & A Dime, indie rock group Yeasayer and Tufts student band Jay Roth.

Amanpour talks career, international journalism

Chief International Correspondent for CNN and Global Affairs Anchor at ABC News Christiane Amanpour discussed her career, modern journalism and the role of women in her field to a crowded Cabot Auditorium on Friday for the 18th annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism.

University Trustee and Co-Chairman of the Board of Loews Corporation Jonathan Tisch (A ’76) moderated the forum. The event was sponsored by the Communications and Media Studies Program, along with the Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Tisch College of Public Citizenship.

Amanpour, a University of Rhode Island graduate, highlighted parallels between the Boston Marathon bombings and the violence she has witnessed while working abroad.

As a foreign correspondent who has reported in the midst of several wars, Amanpour said

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she has learned how to repress her fear in order to share news on television.

“It was about managing [fear] and figuring out how to sum up the adrenaline and intuition to stay safe,” Amanpour said.

“Genuinely, I believe I’ve been lucky. So many of my friends and colleagues have been injured and killed.”

Though she grew up in a patriarchal society, Amanpour, who was born in Iran, said she never felt that her gender restrained her ambitions. Being a woman in war scenarios has allowed her to enter places, such as homes and hospitals, that are sometimes restricted to male correspondents, she said.

“These days, war is about women and children as well [as men],” she said. “It’s about societies where women have much more access than men.”

Amanpour also spoke more broadly about women’s issues in political and economic situations. Gender inequality is especially evident in areas like the Middle East, where men see AMANPOUR, page 2

The ninth-annual $100K Business Plan Competition last Wednesday selected winners from a pool of 13 finalists, the largest in the competition’s recent history.

Sponsored by the Gordon Institute’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (ELS), the competition awarded first place prizes to Cinzia Metallo, a fifth-year graduate student in the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and Eileen Guo (LA ‘11) in the Classical Business Plan Competition and

the Social Entrepreneurship Competition, respectively.

Metallo received $12,500 for her winning project, Myoelectra, which generated new electromyographic electrodes for the biofeedback rehabilitation of facial and throat muscles in Parkinson’s disease.

Inge Milde, director of the competition, told the Daily in an email that Metallo’s project developed customizable electrodes as opposed to standardsized electrodes that target specific facial muscles.

“Because of the intrinsic characteristics of the technology, it is more flexible, while con-

ventional electrodes are rather stiff,” Metallo said.

Guo and her team’s winning project, EDx presents ETB, developed a new MultiDrug Resistance Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) diagnostic, which allows existing diagnostic tests to provide faster results, according to Milde. Guo’s team included Johns Hopkins University students Anmol Chopra, Hiren Mistry and Anjana Sinha. Guo and her team also received $12,500.

“We started this program at Johns Hopkins and realized that see COMPETITION, page 2

TCU Elections update The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate yesterday held internal elections to name its new executive board and the chairs of various Senate committees.

Junior Senator Stephen Ruggiero was elected vice president and will serve with President-elect Joe Thibodeau next year.

Freshman Adam Kochman was elected treasurer, serving beside sophomore Solana Davis, the new associate treasurer. The rest of the Allocations Board — the most hotly contested seats, according to Ruggiero — will be composed of juniors Christie Maciejewski and Shriya Nevatia, sophomore Bradley Friedman and freshmen Hira Qureshi and Elly Day. Nevatia will also serve as the historian. Brian Tesser, a freshman, was elected as parliamentarian, and Zoe Muñoz, a junior, will serve as Diversity and Community Affairs officer.

“Our executive board is a good mix of people,” Ruggiero said. “We have a lot of straight

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shooters, a lot of people who are focused on a lot of social justice issues, a lot of people who are focused on treasury, education. We have a mixed bag of individuals, which is going to bring out the best in all of us.”

Sophomore Darien Headen was elected as next year’s Administration and Policy Committee chair, while Lesly Ruelas, a sophomore, will chair the Education Committee.

Sophomores John Kelly and Dylan Saba will chair the Student Outreach Committee. Janna Karatas, a freshman, will join junior Christie Maciejewski in cochairing the Services Committee.

The two will also serve as Tufts’ representatives to the Boston Intercollegiate Assembly.

The elections are decided exclusively by senators, including graduating seniors, according to Ruggiero. As with the recent presidential election, positions were decided by secret ballot with a ranked voting system, in which each voter ranks each candidate

by preference. Candidates were each invited to give a two-minute opening statement before the Senate to promote their run and were briefly questioned by senators. Elections for the Trustee Representatives and Class of 2017 senators will take place early next year.

Ruggiero said he anticipates a productive year as part of Thibodeau’s administration.

According to Ruggiero, the two have shared a long relationship, with Ruggiero having worked on Thibodeau’s campaign team.

Though Ruggiero said he disagrees with Thibodeau on certain topics, he believes that the debate is good for the body as a whole.

“We’re able to disagree but work towards the same goal, which I find to be a very important part of the vice president,” Ruggiero said. “We check each other. It brings out the best in each of us.”

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Today’s sections

Spring Fling t-shirts bring friend groups and clubs together in style.

Nelly mixes old charttoppers with new hits on the Hill.

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see ARTS, page 7

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Spring 2013: Semester in Review

Monday, April 29, 2013

Compiled by the Tufts Daily News Department

Administrative changes

TCU Senate updates

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate began the semester by adding a Women’s Center Representative and passing two resolutions condemning the Committee on Student Life’s ruling last semester, which allows student religious groups to apply for exceptions to the university’s nondiscrimination policy.

The Senate in April passed a resolution recommending that American Sign Language (ASL) count towards the first part of the School of Arts and Sciences language requirement, reigniting a push to revise the language requirement to include ASL. In an effort to aid students’ rights in the university’s sexual violence judiciary process, the Senate passed a resolution calling for the creation of two additional administrative student advocate positions, including a vic-

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tim witness advocate and an accused witness advocate. If created, senators hope the positions will make the judiciary process less alienating by adding advocates who are not required to be unbiased during the process.

The Senate passed a resolution calling for student input on the development of the Critical Studies in Disparities and Diasporas program in response to a perceived lack of transparency between the faculty and administrators working to develop the program and the student body.

The Senate also underwent an initiative to allocate money to Tier II sports teams, including baseball, tennis, ice hockey and soccer, for the first time.

Junior Joe Thibodeau won the TCU presidential race over junior senators Joe Donenfeld and Christie Maciejewski.

Voter turnout increased to 57.5 percent from 49.79 percent last year.

Professor of Computer Science Diane Souvaine was appointed Vice Provost of Research last November, replacing Peggy Newell. Newell departed Tufts to become the first deputy provost of Harvard University.

The Board of Trustees elected Vice Chair Peter Dolan (A ’78) to replace current Chair Jim Stern (E ’72). Stern, who has served as chair for more than a decade, will step down in November.

Professor of International Law Ian Johnstone will serve as the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s academic dean starting July 1. Peter Uvin, the school’s current dean, will begin serving as the provost of Amherst College next academic year.

Kathryn Link, a former Harvard University dean and director of the stem cell and regenerative biology department, became the executive administrative dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.

Heather Nathans (GSAS ’99), professor at the University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance and Performance, was appointed the new chair of the Tufts Department of Drama and Dance.

Nathans replaces Downing Cless, the

current chair, who is retiring at the end of the year.

Professor of Sociology Pawan Dhingra will chair the Department of Sociology going forward. Dhingra, who joined the university last fall, will replace interim chair Susan Ostrander.

Associate Director of the Communications and Media Studies Program Susan Eisenhauer will retire at the end of the semester. Edith Balbach, director of the Community Health Program, will also retire at the end of the year.

Fletcher School Dean Stephen Bosworth announced last semester that he would retire at the end of this academic school year.

The university also released several reports over the semester. The Campus Sustainability Council in March released a draft report outlining changes that the university should make to improve sustainability on campus.

Later in the month, the administration released the “Prelude to the Strategic Plan” to inform community members about the “Tufts: The Next 10 Years” strategic planning initiative that began last October.

Technology changes, new resources TuftsLife launched a new site design to better meet the needs of students, remove underutilized resources and include web applications called TuftsLife Apps, changing both the aesthetics and organization of the site.

A new Integrated Student Information System (iSIS) replaced the Student Information System (SIS) as Tufts’ web-based system of record-

Housing

The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) announced the creation of a Sustainability House, bringing the total number of Special Interest Houses up to 16.

Ten students interested in sustainable living and environmental awareness will be able to live in a Latin Way suite next year.

Due to an increase in the number of seniors choosing on-campus housing, an unusually large number of juniors were unable to secure on-campus

ing student information and registering for classes.

At the LGBT Center’s 20th anniversary celebration earlier this month, the university announced that next semester the student health insurance plan will include new benefits for transgender students to allow coverage of hormone treatments and gender reassignment surgery.

housing for next fall.

ResLife will defer Special Interest Housing policy changes until next year.

Earlier in the year, ResLife announced that it would enforce the one-year limit on living in specialty housing but changed its decision after meeting with representatives from the Arts Haus and the Crafts House.

Starting next year, a new ResLife rule will prevent Resident Assistants from dating students who live in the halls for which they are responsible.

Heating up on the Hill

Senior Anjuli Branz filed a complaint against the Senior Class Council on the grounds that it had selected a venue that required students to be 21 years of age to attend for its Senior Nights, arguing that the class council discriminated against those who were not yet 21 years old.

Twenty-seven men’s lacrosse players faced a two-game suspension after an external investigation found them guilty of “unacceptable behavior” while in attendance at a women’s volleyball home game against Smith College.

In response to several alcohol-related incidents including public urination and over 15 students receiving treatment for excessive intoxication at Winter Bash, the

Going Greek

The faculty of the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering voted to re-establish jurisdiction of campus fraternity and sorority chapters, allowing them to hear cases pertaining to the behavior of Greek organizations on campus.

The Pa n h e l l e n i c Co u n c i l approved a recommendation by the exploratory committee to invite national chapters Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Gamma Delta to join the Tufts Greek community. Kappa Alpha Theta will colonize at Tufts in the fall, while Alpha Gamma Delta will join in one to three years.

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university is conducting an administrative review of the event.

Tufts Christian Fellowship declined to apply for re-recognition by the Tufts Community Union (TCU) under the Committee on Student Life’s “justifiable departure” policy.

Signage and other structures on Bello Field were defaced with graffiti depicting racist symbols and messages, sparking a campus dialogue and an investigation by the Medford Police Department.

The TCU Senate drafted a statement condemning the messages, stating that the Senate “regards these and all other instances of hate and subordination as unacceptable.”

Nelly headlines Spring Fling

Courtesy John Hampson

Concert Board selected Nelly as the Spring Fling headliner after students voted in a survey that they preferred a hip-hop headlining act for the show. 5 & A Dime and Yeasayer were the openers, and Tufts band Jay Roth was selected to be the first opener after winning Battle of the Bands in April.

Two students created a petition advocating for Concert Board to bring in a female artist for Spring Fling after 18 years without a solo female performer.

Programming Board canceled Jumbo Jam due to budgetary restrictions earlier in the semester.

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Conferences and symposia

New programs for the university

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The 28th Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) International Symposium brought together intellectuals, government officials and other experts in student-moderated panels on this year’s theme, “Global Health and Security.” The four-day symposium included panels on bioterrorism, health care access, the drug industry, food insecurity and sexual violence.

Tufts hosted the Campus Cultivation Conference for the first time this year, providing gardening and farming workshops for students from several New England colleges and universities.

The ninth annual Emerging Black Leaders symposium featured academics, journalists and activists discussing this year’s theme, “Matters of the Body: A Cross Section of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Power.” The symposium included two panels on gender politics and current events within the AfricanAmerican community.

The fourth annual Water: Systems, Science, and Society ( WSSS)

Interdisciplinary Water Symposium featured water experts discussing issues related to the links between water and agriculture. Students involved in WSSS sponsored and organized the symposium, which included two keynote addresses and three panels.

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy hosted the sixth annual China-U.S. Symposium, which featured four panels over two days on subjects pertaining to this year’s theme, the trust between the United States and China. The panels featured research presentations and moderated discussions on Internet freedom, the Korean Peninsula, military security and economic relations.

The first annual Social Innovations Symposium, hosted by the Tufts Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship and the Tufts Compass Fellowship, featured student discussions and panels on the importance of entrepreneurship and its social impact. Panelists included Tufts alumni and Boston entrepreneurs, as well as the finalists of the Tufts $100K Business Plan Competition.

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A new environmental science and policy minor will next fall be available to engineers.

Environmental studies majors will next semester have a new track that focuses on food systems and the environment, adding to the three existing tracks within the major.

The School of Medicine launched a Doctor of Public Health degree program, which will enroll its first class next fall.

The Women’s Studies Program will change its name to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies starting next fall to better represent the changing department.

Construction and transportation

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation started construction on a project that would extend the T’s Green Line through Medford and Somerville.

Stop & Shop sponsored the creation of a new route for the Joey to Fellsway Plaza, providing students with an easy and affordable way to purchase groceries.

Tufts Dining Services plans to complete construction this summer on a kosher deli to be located in the Jumbo Express storage space near the Mayer Campus Center.

A Tufts-owned building located at 574 Boston Ave. will be converted into teaching and office space, causing the May 31 eviction of a community of artisans who have run businesses there for over two decades.

Visitors to the Hill

Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Toronto Takashi Fujitani spoke about JapaneseAmerican internment and the competition that arose between empires during World War II. Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Peter Piot discussed global health and his book, “No Time To Lose: A Life In Pursuit of Deadly Viruses,” sponsored

by Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship.

Former United States Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson (A ’70) delivered the keynote address at the eighth annual Tufts Energy Conference. Richardson discussed the importance of including science in congressional debates on climate change and asked students to make their voices on climate change heard by running for political office.

Acclaimed Asian-American photographer Corky Lee shared his photographs featuring Asian-American history prior to the opening of the exhibition, “A Place Called Asian America.”

Tufts Democrats hosted Massachusetts Senate hopeful Ed Markey for a discussion of candidacy in this year’s special election.

U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra Alan Solomont came to the Hill to discuss his diplomatic efforts in a talk presented by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service.

Chief International Correspondent for CNN and Global Affairs Anchor at ABC News Christiane Amanpour was the speaker at the eighth annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism this past weekend to discuss how people receive their news and current international issues.

Activism

Four members of Tufts Divest for Our Future met with the Board of Trustees in January to present a proposal asking for the university to divest from fossil fuels. In March, members of Divest attended an information session for prospective students and asked questions about divestment to an Office of Undergraduate Admissions officer in order to send a message to the Tufts administration and inform prospective students. The event was filmed and leaked online, gaining over 13,000 views and receiving criticism from fellow students and off-campus observers who considered Divest’s approach inappropriate.

Thirty Tufts students joined over 35,000 protesters in Washington, D.C. at the Forward on Climate Rally against the installation of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which the students believe could be environmentally damaging if approved.

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Public safety

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Courtesy Gabe Jacobs

After Winter Storm Nemo left more than two feet of snow on the Hill, the Department of Facilities Services, Emergency Management and Dining Services worked to help the campus function and recover quickly from the blizzard.

Although all academic buildings were closed from Feb. 8 to 10, the campus was re-opened by Feb. 11 at close to full capacity.

Tufts University Police Department and students from the Tufts Community Union

Senate teamed up to host the first Safety Awareness Week in response to incidents concerning pedestrian safety in the Tufts area.

Following several pedestrian traffic incidents at the Packard Avenue and Powderhouse Boulevard intersection in recent years, the City of Somerville turned the intersection into a four-way stop.

On April 15, three Tufts students sustained non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the Boston Marathon explosions.

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Task force aims to clarify alcohol policy ALCOHOL

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to formally communicate that Tufts has adopted the policy in full.

“We’re putting our practice in line with our policy because students have asked for clarification,” she said.

Cadley hopes that a clarified policy will encourage more responsible behavior among students by making them less afraid of receiving punishment for helping students in need.

“Policies inherently send messages to people and let you know what sort of behavior is incentivized,” he said. “The most important part of [the policy] is that we want you calling in for a friend if they’re too sick.”

The modified medical amnesty policy proposed by the task force would not put students requiring medical attention on probation right away, but instead would allow students to have two warning, or intervention, levels, Wong said.

Wong added that these intervention levels focus on educating students and

should not be thought of as penalties.

“It’s understandable that someone transported to the hospital for alcohol consumption does need some sort of help,” he said. “So really what we want to do is have people understand that we are trying to make big strides in helping the student get better.”

If a student is medically transported for alcohol consumption more than two times, however, they will automatically be placed on Disciplinary Probation II, according to Wong.

The task force hopes that, along with the proposal, there will be a campaign to educate students about the policies so that they can become comfortable and familiar with them, according to Wong. He hopes to work closely with Resident Assistants, Tufts University Police Department and Judicial Affairs to make this possible.

Cadley believes the proposal released by the task force is a step in the right direction.

“I think a lot of good work was done,” he said. “I think there is a pretty strong rationale behind the policies.”

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Tufts’ Alcohol Task Force last week presented two proposals, a Good Samaritan policy and a medical amnesty policy, to the university’s steering committee.

Amanpour highlights importance of objectivity

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tend to have more political power than women, she said.

Such inequality also exists in the United States, where women must demand “equal pay for equal play,” Amanpour said.

“The time is over to treat women’s issues as a social experiment,” she said.

“We make up half the world, more than half of university populations. It’s time we all leveraged our economic power and learned how to negotiate to get what we want.”

Before getting married and having someone to stay alive for, Amanpour put all her energy into her work, she said. After she left Iran in the midst of the 1979 revolution, Amanpour said she knew she wanted to be an international reporter.

“I was able to watch this revolution unfold and was old enough to appreciate it and learn,” she said. “I knew I wanted to be in there and tell the stories and somehow use this as my career.”

Amanpour also discussed current journalism, noting that reporters have

an obligation to check information and maintain objectivity in publications and broadcasts.

“We need to have a more rigorous accountability,” she said. “We’re trained journalists, and we presumably have a duty to cross-reference, check and verify sources. You cannot just rely on armchair analyses and thrice-removed social media to give you firsthand accounts.”

At the end of the discussion, Amanpour answered questions from the audience.

Many individuals, including a YouTube channel host and a filmmaker, asked Amanpour about her use of multiplatform journalism and emotional attachment to stories.

After the forum, representatives from the university’s student press asked Amanpour about reporting just the facts when some media outlets frequently incorporate emotion into their broadcasts.

“This is a profession where you don’t want to be liked,” Amanpour said. “You have to understand like an emergency room doctor what your mission is. Our job is to put out the right information.”

Courtesy Cinzia Metallo

Cinzia Metallo, a fifth-year graduate student in the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences won first place in the 2013 Tufts Business Plan Competition for her project, Myoelectra.

Metallo, Guo awarded first place for medical projects COMPETITION

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Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN and global affairs anchor at ABC News, spoke about her career, women’s issues and journalism during the 18th annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism.

we might be able to actually do something about MDR-TB,” Guo said. “People would talk about the issue of diagnosis, so that’s what we decided to work on.”

Guo also worked with Jose-Maria Fernandez, a longtime researcher of tuberculosis and its diagnosis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“We communicated with her about the idea, and she completely agreed that this was a good way to diagnose patients, addressing the six-month gap problem,” Chopra said. “She advised us in terms of things that she had tried and helped us with our diagnostic capabilities.”

Tuberculosis affects 9 million people globally every year, with 1 million deaths annually, according to Mistry.

“Our technology diagnoses patients at the first sight so that they can be shifted to the appropriate antibiotics on day one,” he said. “MDR-TB is an infectious disease, so if it spreads to the community, it can be a big burden to the community and it affects GDP a lot.”

MDR-TB can also lead to extreme drug resistance, making the team’s technology critical, Mistry said.

Both Metallo and Guo’s teams intend to use the money to finance the next stages of their businesses.

“I’m going to use the money to incorporate the company and finance the first steps, especially more fundraising, since obviously 12K is not enough,” Metallo said. “But I think what this competition did, more than the money, was that it validates your idea and your business plan so you can actually approach an investor with something more than just a business plan.”

Members of the EDx presents ETB project will continue to develop the product plan after the competition.

“We’re now more motivated after this competition,” Mistry said. “The other members will certainly help with developing the plan and using the resources we have available to get to users in the developing world.”

Second place for the Classical Business Plan Competition went to senior Becket Linn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill student Willis Kennedy, Florida Atlantic University student Steven Wright and University of California, Los Angeles alumnus Vincent Tam for their project TeemPlay, a game that crowdsources game development by creating an environment for people to simultaneously play and create video games in 3-D. Senior Brandon Cohn and Georgetown University student David Conway took third place in the Classical Competition for MyPsych, an application and website that streamlines patient-therapist communication.

Second and third runner-ups for the Social Entrepreneurship Competition included freshman Sharad Sagar with his project Dexterity Global, a mentoring and resource business for entrepreneurs, and seniors Brett Andler, Joo Kang, Tyler Wilson and Samuel Woolf for Uji, a shower head that helps users save money, water and energy.

Guo expressed excitement about her team’s win given the high-quality pool of finalists.

“This is firstly a great validation of what we are doing, since people actually believe in us and care about what we’re doing,” Guo said.

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T-shirts make for Spring Fling tradition

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Every year, Spring Fling leaves students with great memories — of the great music, of the warm weather and of the way the day’s festivities bring members of the Tufts community together. Perhaps the most memorable part of this event is the attire, specifically the hundreds of personalized T-shirts made by students.

Last year, Tufts’ tradition of making Spring Fling T-shirts became the subject of national news after the men’s crew team was admonished for wearing shirts that said, “Check out our cox,” a joke that referenced the crew position of coxswain.

The shirts violated team policy due to a lack of authorization by the coaches, and the team was barred from participating in the New England Rowing Championships, a decision that was later overturned by University President Anthony Monaco. In addition, a bias incident was filed against the men’s crew team, sparking a discussion of free speech.

The incident last year was not the first time a student group has been penalized for their Spring Fling shirts. In 2011, an inappropriate shirt was one of the reasons for Delta Upsilon fraternity’s placement on probation. In April of the same year, the Tufts Community Union Senate passed a resolution requiring all fraternities and sororities to submit their shirt designs for approval.

While no bias incidents related to Spring Fling clothing had been reported at press time, Director of the Office of Campus Life (OCL) Joe Golia affirmed that university policies continue to apply to Spring Fling T-shirts.

“The rules, policies [and] regulations do not change for Spring Fling. Should there be a problem with a shirt design, that will be handled by the policies that are already in place. Students can always ask our opinion, however they are not required to,” Golia told the Daily in an email.

Despite the negative press surrounding shirts last year, plenty of students returned to the President’s Lawn decked out in a colorful array of themed attire. Golia attributed this to it being a campus tradition.

“It’s one of those Tufts traditions that everyone really enjoys and brings the community together for an unorganized, fun sense of competition,” Golia said. “One thing I notice is that everyone is very proud of what they come up with and try to outdo each other year after year.”

While Golia could not confirm exactly when the tradition began — it has at least been in effect since he arrived at Tufts five years ago — he estimated that it was a long-standing tradition. This year, Golia added, the university got in on the tradition itself by handing out a large quantity of free shirts at a barbeque hosted prior to Spring Fling on the Mayer Campus Center’s Lower Patio as well as Tuftonia’s Day shirts the day before.

Every year, student groups organize weeks prior to the event to design their shirts. Those who get the shirts printed often turn to websites like CustomInk, which allows users to create and share a T-shirt design online, or to campusbased groups such as Tufts Student Resources (TSR), which provides T-shirt designing services.

For many students, the most difficult decision remains which shirt to wear. Naturally, as many Tufts students are involved in different activities and bond with their halls and housemates, the process of choosing what to wear on the day of Spring Fling becomes complicated.

Senior Karen Adler remedied this problem by bringing both of her shirts to the event — one made for her housemates and one as a member of Tufts Historical Society.

The latter shirt featured a play on the standard Jumbo logo with the beloved elephant sporting a top hat and monocle.

“A friend of mine came up with it — it’s Jumbo being generally historical and awesome,” Adler said of the shirt.

Adler’s other shirt was designed by a housemate as a surprise.

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This year’s Spring Fling featured a variety of t-shirts designed by friend groups and clubs, including one design that featured University President Anthony Monaco.

“It said Spring Fling and was very multicolored — it had a multicolored hedgehog with the Nelly Band-Aid,” Adler said.

“Then she put our favorite number and something about all of us on the back of the shirt.”

Another common theme seen each year is that many groups’ shirts feature jokes related to the musical artists headlining the event. This year many shirts paid homage to Grammy-award winning headliner Nelly, including those worn by students who are members of the Academic Resource Center’s Writing Fellows program. Senior Veronica Richter helped create the shirt, which referenced Nelly’s song “Country Grammar” (2000).

“We do writing, tutoring and ... a lot of grammar stuff. So we thought it would be really fun to play off of the ‘Country Grammar’ theme and Nelly’s notoriously terrible lyrics,” Richter said.

This year, one popular shirt featured a photo of Monaco edited to make him look as if he were sporting Nelly’s famous look of grills and a Band-Aid on the cheek.

The shirt gained notoriety after a student, sophomore Simon Warchol, posted on Monaco’s Facebook page asking if he could gain access to the copyrighted image that was used for the shirt.

Monaco responded with a phone number the student could call for permission adding that he would “love to have a shirt.”

When more and more students commented expressing interest in purchasing the shirt, Warchol opened the opportunity up to the Tufts community. He created a Google document for students to place orders, closing it only minutes later after over 100 orders were placed. Warchol then contacted students directly to receive payment in exchange for their shirts. On Friday, Monaco posted a photo of himself wearing the shirt to Facebook.

Monaco, however was not the only university figurehead to be honored with a shirt design. The students of Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) this year organized to create a shirt that featured a vintage photograph of Institute for Global Leadership Director Sherman Teichman with the word “Shermandipity,” a play on Teichman’s catchphrase. “[Teichman] is our teacher, but also our role model and guide for EPIIC this year. His word is ‘Serendipity,’ so we just kind of put them together,” senior and EPIIC student Nithyaa Venkataramani said. “We did a lot of weird Google Image[s] searching; somebody found it from the 1980s or something.”

Around 50 people purchased the shirt, according to Venkataramani.

Not all students, however, wore T-shirts or tank tops, preferring other, more unique

styles. For instance, the brothers of Theta Delta Chi (123) purchased personalized Hawaiian shirts for this year’s event.

“Everyone pretty much liked it because almost every brother owned a Hawaiian shirt one way or another,” 123 brother and sophomore Tony Kim said. His brothers agreed.

“It makes us stand out, and it makes us stay together all as one group,” 123 brother and sophomore Maceo TorresTrujillo added.

Some students, choosing to save money, recycled shirts used by their student groups from earlier in the year. Senior Maddie Mayerson and her housemates re-wore the shirts from their Tufts Dance Collective (TDC) dance, tie-dying them to stand out for Spring Fling.

“It’s the first year I’ve had a ‘group’ shirt and I wouldn’t do it any other way,” Mayerson said. “It’s nice because the people who were in our dance or in TDC recognize it, and think it’s so cool because we changed it for Spring Fling. And it has more sentimental value, plus we didn’t have to buy another shirt, so it’s cost-efficient.”

Students involved in political and activist groups on campus took a similar approach, re-wearing shirts from previous events and campaigns to raise awareness about their group. Junior Julia Rodgers, for example, wore a shirt that she made as a part of Consent Culture Network for the group’s consent action at this year’s Winter Bash.

The shirt was meant to inspire people to make informed decisions during the day’s festivities, she said.

“I hope that if people aren’t coming up to ask me about consent that they’re at least noticing it and thinking about it for at least a few minutes, and then after Spring Fling if they’re going to have sex — at least it will be consensual sex,” Rodgers said.

Junior Devyn Powell came to Spring Fling wearing a shirt she received for working on Congressman Edward Markey’s (D-Mass) Senate campaign. Although she said she in part wore the shirt for a lack of anything else to wear, she commented that it did have the added effect of generating publicity for the campaign.

“A lot of people have been asking me about this shirt and I’ve been like, ‘Yeah, Ed Markey and his platform are amazing.’

I wore this today on purpose to promote that, because I knew people would look at each other’s shirts and ask me about it,” Powell said.

Whether wearing the shirts for political purposes or just as a way to have fun with friends, most students noted that Tufts’ Spring Fling shirt tradition creates a strong sense of togetherness.

“I like the sense of community that it builds,” Richter said. “I like that we’re all so willing to represent these groups that we’re so passionate and happy to be a part of.”

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ongratulations! We have reached the final day of spring classes. At press time, today’s forecast was in the mid-sixties and sunny. Today is cause for celebration. Today is a day to not wear pants.

More important, today is the time to eat a sandwich filled with ice cream.

Ice cream sandwiches have been a summer staple for decades. Nowadays, they come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

On Sunday, I sampled three mass-market versions of the ice cream sandwich that I found at a nearby convenience store. Then I crafted my own variation on the classic.

Below is a rundown of my experience: Nestle “King Size” Vanilla sandwich: 230 calories, 7g fat, 22g sugar, 40g carb, 6 fl oz This one’s your standard ice cream sandwich: rectangular, with soft chocolate cookie wafers on both sides. At six fluid ounces — yes, it’s measured in fluid ounces even though it is most certainly not a fluid — this sandwich was the biggest I tried, so the “King Size” moniker may be justified in context. The ice cream itself is boring, with no apparent vanilla flavor, really just white frozen milk and cream.

The sandwich as a whole has a pleasant texture, and it’s comforting, probably because I used to chase down ice cream trucks as a kid in Brooklyn to eat these guys. Not great, but would eat again if I was in a bind.

M&M’s Ice Cream Cookie sandwich: 250 calories, 13g fat, 22g sugar, 33g carb, 4 fl oz Again, a straightforward sandwich: A pat of artificially flavored vanilla ice cream between two soft round sugar cookies. The cookies have M&M’s lodged inside and are fine, a bit doughy but respectable. Again, the ice cream itself is virtually flavorless.

Maybe the ice cream would have been better had the M&M’s been stuck inside both the ice cream and the cookie. Overall the sandwich was slightly more exciting than the Nestle “King Size,” but for all of that 13 grams of fat, I wanted a food that had more richness to it.

Skinny Cow Cookies ‘n Cream low fat ice cream sandwich: 150 calories, 2 g fat, 15 g sugar, 31 g carb, 4 fl oz I was impressed with the packaging — before you bite into this thing, it actually looks tasty. Round chocolate cookies with ridges sandwich vanilla ice cream with what appear to be appetizing specks of cookie inside. But as I suspected, this sandwich is bad news. All of these massmarket sandwiches are loaded with artificial ingredients, but the Skinny Cow in particular had a bizarre chemical aftertaste I could not place. I appreciate the attempt to make a low fat version of the ice cream sandwich, but ice cream sandwiches are simply not a diet food. I enjoy many low-fat foods — always down to snack on a kale chip — but where ice cream sandwiches are concerned, fattier might be better.

Which brings me to my version of the ice cream sandwich: one warm blueberry waffle, drizzled chocolate sauce, 1/2 crushed Rice Krispies Treat, Ben and Jerry’s Mint Chocolate Cookie ice cream, sliced banana, more drizzled chocolate sauce and another warm waffle on top.

Nutritional facts are not included, but it’s safe to say this is a sandwich for only special occasions. Using good ice cream is essential and makes a big difference.

The varying textures of the toasted waffle, chewy Rice Krispie and soft banana are delicious together. And there are cookies inside the ice cream! This sandwich got a little messy, but it was a sacrifice that I was eager to make.

Ben Kochman is a senior majoring in English. He can be reached at Benjamin. kochman@tufts.edu or on Twitter @benkochman. Want to see what Ben ate this week? Watch the video version of this column at blogs.tuftsdaily.com.

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Nearly two decades into his musical career, Nelly still made waves at Spring Fling.

Nelly, Yeasayer entertain Tufts crowd with lively, interactive sets Rapper Nelly performs old chart-toppers and new hits

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First, the school sold tickets. Then, the fences went up. By the time Saturday rolled around, the anticipation was nearly palpable, and the noise of pregames boomed across the campus. It was the day of Spring Fling, arguably the highlight of the Tufts spring semester.

After an opening set by Jay Roth, the winner of Tufts’ 2013 Battle of the Bands, 5 & A Dime was the first artist to perform. A DJ and producer from Philadelphia, 5 & A Dime got the (still relatively small) crowd pumped for the larger acts to come.

The crowd swelled considerably when Yeasayer finally took to the stage. The

by Melissa MacEwen and Benjamin Kochman

Brooklyn-based indie rockers put on a decent set, and their rendition of the gloriously psychedelic “Ambling Alp” was definitely a highlight. Yeasayer, however, undermined its performance and stage presence when front man Chris Keating responded to the taunts of an audience member and offered to fight him. The rest of the band’s set went smoothly, but the tension in the air never quite dissipated.

At around 3:50 p.m., Nelly stormed the Spring Fling stage, flanked by his longtime rap crew, the St. Lunatics. At 38, the St. Louis-born rapper and pop artist exuded a youthful swagger, ripping off his jacket to reveal biceps bulging out of a gray “Tufts Jumbos” tank top.

Nelly isn’t necessarily the most relevant artist to headline Spring Fling for 2013.

His biggest hit single, “Hot in Herre,” came out over a decade ago in 2002. But he’s a seasoned professional with a slew of chart-toppers at his disposal, many of which he played Saturday afternoon.

Nelly has been a rapper/pop star from the start of his career, but his newer music is even more poppy, filled with saccharine hooks that would be more at home in a Taylor Swift song than in anything resembling hip-hop. Thankfully, he started Saturday’s performance by playing some of his older hits. He kicked the show off with “E.I,” off his breakthrough album “Country Grammar” (2000), and continued with other “Country Grammar” favorites, including the album’s single, see FLING, page 8

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Visual Culture course enlightens high school students by

Grace Hoyt

By taking the course “Visual Culture: Discovering the Addison Collection,” high school students of Phillips Andover Academy have the unique experience of preparing for studying the arts in college by curating their own exhibit in the school’s renowned Addison Gallery of American Art. Phillips Academy is a college preparatory boarding school of about 1,100 students established in 1778 and located 30 minutes north of Boston in Andover, Mass. The Addison Gallery of American Art, on the Andover campus, was founded by Thomas Cochran in 1931 “to enrich permanently the lives of the students” and has since grown to contain almost 17,000 objects dating back to the 18th century.

The course, which runs about nine weeks every spring semester, comprises lectures by an art history professor, a curator, a museum learning specialist and other museum staff members and visiting artists.

Through assigned readings, writing assignments and research projects, students learn about the history and context Contributing Writer

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Phillips Academy students receive the unique experience of seeing gallery walls that they have curated themselves. of American art. At the end of the semester, the entire class, which has ranged from four to twelve students in size, develops a culminating project for which they design and curate their own exhibit in the Gallery.

“Visual Culture: Discovering the Addison Collection” was founded by Andover art

history teacher Elaine Crivelli, who says that the course has evolved.

“The class didn’t start out as a curating class,” Crivelli said. “It was really about looking at art in different ways, see ADDISON, page 8

hat is fondly referred to on the Hill as “nerd prom” has quickly turned into one of the most coveted tickets in Washington, D.C.’s swirl of fundraisers and power parties. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner took place on Saturday night in the nation’s capital, hosted by 99-year-old nonprofit organization the White House Correspondents’ Association and with Conan O’Brien as the master of ceremonies. The glitz of the Obama administration extracts celebrity appearances whenever and wherever a notable event is held, and the fashion ante has consequently been upped.

When Katy Perry attends, you know there is something to look at. The smattering of stars and other power players might raise an eyebrow — Korean entertainer Psy in some steezy sunglasses? But judging by the live video stream and the red carpet paparazzi pictures, everyone was dressed to impress.

Fashion Editrix and Conde Nast creative director Anna Wintour shined in a champagne floor-length gown with a conservative neckline and a white mink caplet. Despite the fact that it has been a warm spring in Washington, Wintour found a way to incorporate fur into the luxurious look. Another British editor-in-chief, Joanna Coles of Cosmopolitan, channeled her edgier signature style into a turtleneck sleeveless black gown, a metallic clutch and short black nails. The pairing somehow reflected both her younger, sexier approach to things and her magazine audience, though a high turtleneck on a sleeveless dress probably confused most people, including myself.

Self-deprecating, Twitter-obsessed supermodel Chrissy Teigen rocked a one-shouldered KaufmanFranco gown in a curious shade of cream. The beaded confection, which had asymmetrical cascades that followed the line of the diagonal neckline, was neither earth shattering nor boring. Her best accessory of the evening was clearly her fiance, John Legend, who looked classic and clean in a traditional black and white tuxedo.

There was an abundance of lace, appropriate for the warmer nights of spring and summer, as seen on Arianna Huffington and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The media mogul Huffington donned a black lace version with — gasp — a leather bodice and cap sleeves. It somehow still managed to look age appropriate and modern, proving that some women really do have it all.

Louis-Dreyfus went for a more vixen vibe in a purple, strapless Dolce and Gabbana number that wielded significant sex appeal.

Life imitated art quite accurately as well, with a White House-produced riff on “House of Cards” and stars Kevin Spacey, Kate Mara, Robin Wright and Corey Stoll gracing the red carpet. One of television’s best-looking casts, the group looked stunning. Robin Wright, who plays the manipulative wife and ice queen of the show, opted for a stunning black Rolando Santana dress, which highlighted her cropped locks, decollage and diamonds. Ironically, the devilish Mara wore a white Prada gown with three-quarter length sleeves that showed off her tiny frame. Mara and sister Rooney, of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (2012), have recently become fashion darlings, which most likely has something to do with their perfectly petite (and sample size) frames and razor sharp bone structure.

Of course the talk of the town, as it usually is whenever the President and First Lady are in attendance, was Michelle Obama’s dress. The First Lady wore a black Monique Lhuillier gown.

With a semi-sheer, beaded overlay demurely hiding her shoulders and neck, the gown was simple and tasteful, but had enough sparkle to command the attention of the room — not that she needs any help with that. Though New York Times mainstay Cathy Horyn criticized the hoopla that surrounds the First Lady and her outfit choices, Michelle and her army of stylists no doubt recognize this and try to share the love when it comes to her fashion preferences.

Elizabeth Landers is a senior majoring in political science. She can be reached at Elizabeth.Landers@tufts.edu.

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the immortal jam, “Ride Wit Me.” “Ride Wit Me” was a particular highlight because, before the beginning of the song, Nelly told the story behind his once-signature face bandage. For nearly 10 years, the pop star bore the bandage as tribute to his St. Lunatics crewmate, City Spud, who was imprisoned in 1999 on armed robbery charges. Now that City Spud has been released, Nelly has not sported the bandage in years, though hundreds of Tufts students in the crowd rocked BandAids regardless.

City Spud introduced himself in his “Ride Wit Me” guest verse, and the party rolled on. The DJ kept things moving; we often only heard small portions of each song, which allowed Nelly and his crew to cover a lot of musical ground. Sometimes this ground included rapping over tracks from other artists, such as Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop.”

Nelly played a few of his new songs, including the catchy “Hey Porsche,” but the majority of the show featured older bangers like “Air Force Ones” off the 2002 smash hit album “Nellyville,” “Hot in Herre,” as well as the massive hit and dental hygiene advertisement, “Grillz.”

We also heard from another St. Lunatics member, Murphy Lee, who played his 2003 hit “What Da Hook Gon’ Be.” There was a lot of rapping over prerecorded tracks, which was to be expected from an act like Nelly, who is a consummate performer but not nearly as musically talented as, say, The Roots, who slayed it at Spring Fling two springs

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Despite Yeasayer’s uncomfortable confrontation with an audience member, the band’s music was energetic and fun. ago. But the crowd didn’t seem to mind, as Nelly kept smiling and working the stage. Near the end of his set, he got the crowd involved when, as rap stars tend to do, he called up females from the audience to dance.

Concert Board’s sophomore N’Dea Hallett and freshman Emily Schacter were up to the challenge and kept

their composure, as did senior Jasmine Swope, who was lifted out of the pit in front of the stage to contribute Kelly Rowland’s vocals on Nelly’s classic ballad, “Dilemma.”

Nelly finished up with “Just a Dream,” yet another one of the monster hits that have made him one of the bestselling hip-hop crossover artists of all

time. The crowd was just as packed by the end as when the show kicked off. Nelly may not be the current king of pop, or the most exciting choice to headline Spring Fling. Still, all of those ill-advised Band-Aids in the crowd, bobbing to and fro, were proof that Tufts was more than happy to live blissfully in the past.

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responding intuitively and responding analytically.”

Crivelli wanted students to practice looking at art in a broader context, so she brought students to the Addison to meet staff members.

“I wanted students to really get an idea for how a museum worked,” she said.

Crivelli, after receiving positive feedback from students and staff, saw the potential for more.

“I thought...we’ve got this resource on campus which is pretty extraordinary, why not build the course around the collection?” she said.

The class’ final project was originally conducted through a virtual curatorial exhibition. But in 2005, Crivelli initiated a more hands-on approach — students curate a physical gallery on view to the public. Crivelli now works closely with the curator and education associate. Students have the opportunity to meet visiting artists and staff members throughout the semester.

“All of us really teach the course,” she said. “From there it’s just sort of taken a life of its own.”

Jaime DeSimone, a former assistant curator at the Addison who now works at the Peabody Essex Museum, described the importance of learning with access to the physical art, especially in the context of current exhibitions.

“We teach in the galleries and use the exhibitions on view...showing them how we’re different, providing them almost with a case study,” DeSimone said.

DeSimone’s favorite part of the semester is preparing the students for their final project.

“We’re trying to change their mindset to ‘I’m the creator of this,’” she said.

When developing their final curatorial project, which goes on view during the last week of the semester, students must take into account the relationship between every exhibition in the gallery.

The group project requires students to take on a lot of responsibility and make decisions as a team.

“Most students leave saying, ‘I learned more about the dynamic of working with a team than anything else,’” DeSimone said.

Mikaela Rabb, a junior at Phillips Academy, took the course in the spring of 2011 and feels that she gained valuable experience from the course.

“I really liked how we were balancing time between the classroom and handson learning,” Rabb said.

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Through the “Visual Culture” course, students gain access to Andover Academy’s impressive collection of American art.

In switching off between readings and work in the museum, she learned a lot about art and gained a deeper appreciation for museum work.

The final project of the course included many stages, such as picking which works to use, deciding on the placement of the pieces, writing the text for the exhibit and advertising for opening night.

According to Education Associate and Museum Learning Specialist Jamie Kaplowitz, the potential for the museum to play a role in a class curriculum doesn’t stop at “Visual Culture.” One U.S. history class, for example, studies how images in sequence can depict a historical narrative, and for their final project, students select among pieces from the Addison to represent a part of history.

“The skill that comes with curating is something we apply in all sorts of subject areas, whether asking them to move pieces around in the Addison or put .jpgs

in order,” she said.

Phillips Academy students interested in studying the arts in college also have a leg up on their peers at other schools in terms of the independence and handson experience that this course offers.

While other boarding schools in the area are putting more emphasis on arts education, Phillips Academy is ahead in museum learning. The Brooks School in North Andover, Mass., which hosts art history and architecture classes in the Robert Lehman Arts Center on campus, doesn’t have any museum studies courses similar to “Visual Culture,” as the school lacks the expansive collection and staff assistance.

Most high students don’t have access to a collection of this calibre, much less the chance to curate it, until they reach college. Tufts, for example, offers similar classes with hands-on collection work in the Department of Art History and graduate program in Museum Studies.

Edith Young, a freshman at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), took the course her senior year at Andover and found that it influenced her choice of what to study and what school to attend.

“The Addison’s curating course became hugely influential in my decision to take a gap year and further explore options in the art world before deciding that attending an art school was the right choice for me,” Young said.

During her gap year, she studied at the Oxbow School, an arts-intensive semester school in Napa, Cali., and worked at the Pace Gallery in Chelsea, New York.

She feels the course helped her make the decision to study art history and studio art at RISD. “If you are considering taking the plunge into the art school realm, I highly recommend this course that is completely unique to the Andover community,” she said.

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letter from the editor Every weeknight, usually around 1 or 2 a.m., a member of the Daily’s staff calls a guy named Fred. Fred works at Gannett Publishing and has a classic Irish Boston accent, which he used one night this semester to ask if I had been one of the students peeing on the floor at Winter Bash. (I hadn’t.) As the late-shift worker at the printer that makes the paper version of the Daily, he’s also one of the last cogs in the over 100-person machine that produces this paper every day.

Fred is important, but Fred is not the Daily. And neither am I. This newspaper, in all its imperfection, is an evolving experiment in putting the serious responsibility of being the most authentic and official voice of Tufts in the eager and inexperienced hands of a bunch of college kids. It’s the product of the varying commitment of over 100 staffers and the tireless dedication of their bold and savvy executive editors — all of whom are 19 to 23 years old.

It’s pretty freaky. We screw up a lot.

We sometimes miss important stories. We forget to take out Oxford commas, and we misspell names. We accidentally run ads that don’t deserve to be published at Tufts or anywhere. We can be as forgetful, lazy and ignorant as the rest of our peers.

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I’d like to think that vulnerability is thrilling and helps us learn. Not all of us will go on to report news, write movie reviews, copy edit or take photos for a living. Not all of us will carry the skill of negotiating with an administrator’s secretary or a hockey coach for a five-minute interview into the real world. Same goes for you guys, the readers: This may come as a shock, but the habit of writing op-eds to a physical daily newspaper — or even reading one — probably won’t translate into your lives after graduation.

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There has to be a line between journalism and advocacy. The job of promoting specific policies on behalf of specific groups has to be distinct from the job of disseminating news for an entire, diverse community. It’s particularly important on a campus like Tufts, where discourse is often one-sided and the loudest voices tend to be in agreement.

For the second Tufts Community Union (TCU) presidential election in a row, students had a choice between a candidate backed strongly by the campus’ activist community and one whose platform appeared more in line with the status quo. Unlike last year, this year’s activist candidate, Joe Thibodeau, won out over the establishment candidate, Christie Maciejewski. (Joe Donenfeld, the runner-up whose platform stressed his openness to all sides of campus discourse, represented something of a middle ground.) The Daily, however, once again endorsed the establishment candidate and drew a great deal of criticism as a result.

The Tufts Daily is a nonprofit, independent newspaper, published Monday through Friday during the academic year, and distributed free to the Tufts community. EDITORIAL POLICY Editorials represent the position of The Tufts Daily. Individual editors are not necessarily responsible for, or in agreement with, the policies and editorials of The Tufts Daily. The content of letters, advertisements, signed columns, cartoons and graphics does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Tufts Daily editorial board.

Walker Bristol very eloquently argued against the Daily’s endorsement in his April 25 column, “Not the student voice.”

Walker is absolutely on point when he says that students who dare to challenge the status quo should not be dismissed as “radicals” who are too polarizing to be effective leaders. But he is way off when he says that the media has a duty to fight for progressive causes or that the Daily had an obligation to endorse Thibodeau.

Activists do some of the most important work on this campus. A revised sexual assault policy, a less Eurocentric liberal arts curriculum, a more powerful voice for culture houses in the TCU Senate — these advances have all changed Tufts for the better, and we have people like Walker, who are often unfairly derided as whiners and radicals, to thank.

But activism is not the only important work that goes on here. Tufts students are engaged in all manner of research, entrepreneurial and community service projects that often have little or nothing to do with fighting for the underprivileged. Arguments that the Daily should prioritize activists’ causes over

causes that are inherently less “political” or “progressive” contribute to a campus environment in which those projects are seen as less important and less worthy of praise. Walker accuses the Daily of failing to channel “the student voice” but then goes on to say that the Daily has a responsibility to channel one segment of the student voice in particular and prioritize it over the others.

That’s the job of an advocate, not a journalist. Referring to the Daily, Walker asks, “[W]hy are we here as journalists?”

The question itself mistakenly lumps in the role of columnists like Walker with the role of newspaper editors and reporters. As a columnist, Walker only has a responsibility to the groups for which he chooses to advocate. Editors and reporters have a duty to all the stakeholders on every side of every issue. Activists may, for instance, be “here for every religious student whom the CSL policy threatens to exclude from their own community” (a policy I personally find reprehensible).

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Lauren Border, Daniel Foster, Emma Husted-Sherman and John Kelly

Today, we and several other students from the Consent Culture Network and Action for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) are sending an open letter to members of the administration, asking for changes to the policy and institutional infrastructure surrounding sexual assault at Tufts. While this letter is addressed to the administration, we hope it will also act as an invitation to all members of the Tufts community to start a conversation on concrete improvements to our institutions that adequately address sexual assault in our community.

Rape culture and sexual assault are particularly pervasive on college campuses. According to the Department of Justice, at least one in five women on college campuses experience attempted or completed rape. While statistics on the experiences of college-aged men are sparse, men are raped, both here at Tufts and beyond. The vast majority of these survivors know their assailants.

Tufts is not exempt from this reality. While recent changes to our Sexual Assault Policy improved vastly upon its last iteration, problems persist. With seven different bodies — Tufts University Police Department, Health Service, Counseling and Mental Health Services, the Office of Equal Opportunity, the Dean of Student Affairs, the Office of Judicial Affairs and Health Education — involved in prevention and response in some form or another, access to policy and resources remains difficult.

Education and awareness programs are lacking, and support systems for survivors are almost nonexistent. Student groups are left to pick up much of the slack, but we are limited in our scope and too often transient, due to our limited time here. Our institutions must adopt major changes.

With this in mind, we are sending our letter to University President Anthony Monaco, Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris, Dean of Undergraduate Education John Barker, and Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman, as well as to Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity Jill Zellmer, Director of Alcohol and Health Education Ian Wong and Judicial Affairs Officer Veronica Carter. Many of these administrators have done excellent work in awareness, prevention and response concerning sexual violence.

Tufts is much better off now than it was only a few years ago in terms of its Sexual Misconduct Policy. However, there is still a severe lack of cohesion, and efforts that do currently exist are

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both those students and the students who viewed the censure of the Tufts Christian Fellowship as a threat to their religious liberty. That the latter group is intrinsically advantaged by its privilege is not an excuse to silence its voice altogether.

Returning to the matter of the TCU endorsement, the Daily selected Maciejewski because it had more faith in her ability to execute an agenda than it did in Thibodeau’s. The TCU president’s effectiveness working in concert with administrators impacts not just the work of campus activists, but also the work of those who prioritize access to better research opportunities, more career resources and more outlets for community service. Ultimately, I voted for Thibodeau not because I didn’t think that was a legitimate basis on which to judge a candidate, but because I had more confidence in Thibodeau’s ability to work with the administration than did the Daily’s managing board. The

under-resourced.

Our letter is built from the experiences and research of many student activists, some of whom have combated issues of rape culture and sexual violence for nearly four years. It is also the product of conversations among a diverse set of student communities, whether through their involvement with the Consent Culture Network or through our outreach to different campus groups. It is a statement of the current shortcomings in policy and institutions that call for eight changes we see as essential.

Our letter addresses four key problems with the current policy and institutions: lack of access to the policy, process and resources; lack of institutional support for survivors’ healing; lack of extended support infrastructure and a lack of student body education. With this prelude in mind, we call for both short-term and more widespread changes.

In the short term, we call for the creation and codification of Victim and Accused Witness Advocates to the adjudication process in order to prevent undue burden on survivors navigating the complex judicial process on their own amidst their healing process. We also call for academic leniency and housing change options to be codified into the process. These should be available to survivors through a unified resource, regardless of whether or not they choose to pursue disciplinary action. Finally, we call for slight changes in the definition of sexual assault in the policy in order to be more inclusive of LGBTQ students and experiences.

Looking forward, widespread institutional change is necessary. We call for the establishment of a Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office dedicated to handling sexual violence, sexual assault and related issues, including coordinating the various resources and policies existing at Tufts and housing further changes as outlined below.

Similar offices exist at schools across the nation, including at Harvard University, Northwestern University and Columbia University. Many more universities have employees exclusively dedicated to sexual violence prevention. We call for this office to actively and continually engage the student body and for it reflect the diversity of our community — particularly students of color and LGBTQ students — who are affected by sexual violence in unique ways that must be treated with sensitivity and cultural competency.

Further, our letter calls for Tufts to institutionalize awareness, education and support programs and to centralize them with a mindset that promotes active consent, bystander intervention and intersectional issues; avoids victimfact remains, however, that the Daily was right to acknowledge that there are qualities worth considering in a candidate other than the extent to which he or she has advocated on behalf of marginalized groups.

The notion that such an acknowledgement constitutes a violation of journalistic integrity reflects the most problematic attributes of campus discourse. We’ve moved from criticizing those who don’t recognize the importance of rescuing the oppressed to attacking anyone who dares to acknowledge that doing so cannot be our only priority. We should be able to have conversations about sexual assault policy that acknowledge the importance of due process for both the accuser and the accused. A newspaper should be able to avoid taking an editorial opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without suffering accusations of Islamophobia. Students should be able to mention freedom of speech and religion as worthy considerations for the university’s anti-discrimination policy without being written off as privileged, heteronormative white supremacists.

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blaming in any form and continually consults students. We also call for adequate training of all staff and administrators who may be faced with sexual violence issues in the same mindset.

Finally, we call for the establishment of a 24-hour hotline for survivors and others seeking support, similar to services currently provided at peer universities such as Boston College, Brown University, Columbia University, Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis.

We believe that Tufts must adopt these changes to address the problems outlined above. This is necessary if we are to catch up to the rapid changes of many of our peer institutions and if we are to actively pursue federal laws and regulations, including the collegefocused section of the recently passed Violence Against Women Act. But our foremost reason for these demands is that we feel it is necessary to support justice and healing for survivors of sexual assault. Rape culture persists throughout society, and Tufts is no exception. Institutional support is only one small part of the cultural change required, but it is an important component that we can achieve swiftly, if we so choose.

This year, members of the Consent Culture Network, ASAP and other groups and individuals have worked actively to combat rape culture on our campus.

For years before, many other students have done the same. As April comes to a close and we reflect, it is evident that institutional change must occur for our community to better itself.

We, as students who call Tufts our home, must stand together in making our campus safe from the threat of sexual violence and assault, but we do not stand alone. There are many members of Tufts’ faculty and administration who recognize the importance of this issue.

We ask for the entire community’s support in our efforts. The letter is available online on the website of ASAP, www.tuftsasap.org. Please take the time to read it and, if you agree, add your signature. We hope that this letter will spark a conversation that lights the fire of change.

Lauren Border is a senior majoring in Spanish and minoring in women’s, gender and sexuality studies. She can be reached at Lauren.Border@tufts.edu. Danny Foster is a senior majoring in international relations. He can be reached at Daniel_L. Foster@tufts.edu. Emma Husted-Sherman is a sophomore majoring in psychology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies. She can be reached at Emma.Husted_ Sherman@tufts.edu. John Kelly is a sophomore majoring in sociology and religion and minoring in political science. He can be reached at John_M.Kelly@tufts.edu.

The fact that campus activists are advocating on behalf of the underprivileged does not exempt them from criticism. It does not mean that every intellectual challenge to their ideas comes from a place of ignorance or bigotry, and it does not mean that the Daily is obligated to treat their ideas as inherently more just or important than the ideas of other campus groups.

If any campus outlet has a responsibility to challenge ideas from the activist community — to weigh all sides of the causes for which they advocate, even the sides that we find offensive — it’s the Daily. It should give us pause as a community that campus discourse has become so onesided that student journalists are getting attacked for not becoming activists themselves.

Craig Frucht is a senior majoring in psychology and a former managing editor of the Daily. He can be reached at Craig.

Frucht@tufts.edu.

Jonathan Green | Drug Justice

The Drug Czar’s quackery

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ast Wednesday, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released its annual report. Its rhetoric is convincing.

The report admits that addiction is a disease of the brain — “a disease that can be prevented and treated.” In accord, Gil Kerlikowske, the office’s director (“Drug Czar”), has been adamant that “drug policy should be a public health issue, not just a criminal justice issue.” But there is an inherent contradiction: Drug policy, if it’s informed by compassion for addicts, cannot be a criminal justice issue at all.

The report claims the noble goal of rehabilitating drug addicts. In the strategy, the Obama administration recognizes one of the saddest realities of prohibition: that recovering addicts “face barriers to maintaining their sobriety, including a lack of access to housing, employment or even getting a driver’s license or student loan.” The strategy lists long-overdue reforms that are intended to fight that brutal reality, but I fear that they’ll make little difference to the millions of Americans who’ve been entangled in the criminal justice system for nonviolent drug offenses. Many offenders are permanently branded as felons, and it is that inescapable legal status, enforced by the ubiquity of checking the prior-conviction box, that prevents access to public resources, money and employment and ultimately lands so many offenders back behind bars. Unless there is widespread legal reform, drug addicts will continue to be demeaned as felons.

The ONDCP’s report promises the expansion of drug courts. America’s roughly 2,700 drug courts theoretically divert would-be prisoners to rehab.

But the courts often require defendants to plead guilty in order to participate, meaning many defendants surrender their trial rights. Addiction is an uphill battle, and relapse is common, especially in the absence of adequate treatment.

Drug court participants undergo frequent, mandatory drug tests, and addicts that relapse pee themselves a one-way ticket to an orange jumpsuit. The public health issue of drug use shouldn’t be an arrestable offense, and drug addicts, like other ill people, don’t belong in any sort of court — or prison.

A progressive drug policy should recognize that we, as humans, sometimes have an inclination to escape sobriety and to explore our minds and should ensure that Americans are able to do so in a safe manner. Voters in Colorado and Washington recognized that the cost of enforcing cannabis prohibition, in the face of the overwhelming popularity of that plant’s mild narcotic effects, were way too high. The Obama administration should at least allow those states to improve public health and safety by implementing their measures. But U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has yet to announce how the Department of Justice will react to state-level cannabis legalization, and Drug Czar Kerlikowske maintains that “using marijuana has public health consequences, and the most responsible public policy is one that restricts its availability and discourages its use.”

In continuing to ignore the legal reforms out west, the Drug Czar and the president are signaling that they will continue to arrest roughly 750,000 otherwise-innocent cannabis consumers yearly, casting doubt on whether the administration is serious about health-based drug policy.

That doubt can only be lifted with tangible policy reforms. There are two that grow most logically from the focuses of the ONDCP’s report: no more nonviolent drug users suffering behind bars and widespread and affordable treatment for addicts. Until prohibition is repealed, neither will fully come to fruition.

Jonathan Green is a sophomore majoring in American studies and philosophy. He can be reached at Jonathan.Green@tufts.edu.

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Tufts’ distance squad also recorded a number of top finishes, highlighted by freshman Mitchell Black’s second-place finish in the 800 and junior Ben Wallis’ third-place finish in the 3000 meter steeplechase.

Black, who boasted the most eclectic docket on the day, participating in the 800, 4x4 and triple jump, narrowly missed out on adding yet another individual title to Tufts’ collection. He fell less than a tenth of a second short of overtaking Bates’ Mark McCauley for the victory.

Given the sheer distance of the event, Wallis spaced himself out enough between the second- and fourth-place finishers that he had all but wrapped up third well before the conclusion of the race. His time of 9:12.45, among top 10 nationally this season, came agonizingly close to dethroning his personal best from last spring, when Wallis posted a time of 9:12.24 at the ECAC Div. III Championship.

Other notable distance results

include a fourth-place effort in the 10,000 and a sixth-place effort in the 5,000 from senior Matt Rand; a thirdplace effort from senior Kyle Marks in the 5,000; a seventh-place effort from junior Jamie Norton in the 1,500 and a fifth-place effort from senior Tyler Andrews in the 10,000.

Off the track, the Jumbos asserted themselves per usual and broadened the gap between them and their challengers. The jumpers in particular put on a clinic, collectively sweeping the three events and tallying 43 points.

Senior decathlete Michael Blair won the high jump by clearing the bar at 6 feet 4 inches and the long jump with his leap of 22 feet 5 1/4 inches. It was Blair’s third victory in the high jump at the NESCAC Championship and his first since 2011.

He also backed up classmate Gbola Ajayi, to whom he surrendered victory at last year’s NESCAC Championship, with a fourth-place finish in the triple jump.

Ajayi was the runner-up to Blair in the long jump this time around, but he stood atop the leaderboard by the end of the triple jump — 3 feet 6 1/2 inches

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team of senior Samantha Bissonnette, Harrison, sophomore Christina Harvey and junior Anya Kaufmann took the win.

“I was very happy with my

performance,” Harrison said.

“Our whole team performed great and left their hearts on the track.”

Another top performer for the Jumbos on Saturday was junior Jana Hieber. Hieber won the 400-meter hurdles with a

above the rest of the field.

“Personally, my goal this weekend was to defend my home runway, which I managed to do in triple,” Ajayi said.

“I wanted to jump a little further than I did, but I was a little inconsistent with my runway and then tweaked my ankle, so we shut it down so as not to take any unnecessary risks. We already had the win in the bag.”

His winning mark of 47 feet 5 3/4 inches never looked in danger of being caught, much less approached, but fortunately for Tufts, Black and Blair secured second and fourth place, respectively, in an exemplary display of Tufts’ tremendous depth in the field events.

This depth has been perhaps no more embodied by Tufts’ throwers, who yet again put forth a rock-solid group performance.

Senior tri-captain Curtis Yancy and sophomore Brian Williamson, as they have done so consistently, comprised a formidable tag-team in the shot put, the discus and the hammer throw. They placed third and fourth respectively in

time of 1:02.80 — her third consecutive NESCAC title in the event — and placed fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.87 seconds and sixth in the long jump with a leap of 17 feet 5 1/2 inches.

She also anchored the 4x400-

the shot put, third and fifth respectively in the discus and third and second respectively in the hammer throw.

“Even though we’ve placed higher in other meets (in some cases winning throws events) this was definitely the best all-around performance we’ve had all year,” Williamson said. “Maybe not everybody hit what he was trying to hit individually, but everybody still got exactly what the team needed from them.”

Though it was a dominant victory against some of its greatest rivals, the Jumbos’ season does not end here, as they will look to build off this win this coming weekend at the Div. III New England Championship hosted by Colby.

“This championship was the culmination of four years of dedication to the program from the seniors, but more importantly the culmination of a great year in which we had the hardestworking team I have ever been on,” Ajayi said.

meter relay team that placed fourth with a time of 4:00.98.

Many team members expressed delight that they were able to earn a win for the seniors in their final home meet.

“It was really great to see how happy the seniors were,”

freshman Leah Potter said. “We wanted to win this for them.”

“It feels amazing to be NESCAC champions. I was especially glad that our amazing seniors were able to experience this win,” Harrison added.

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cially against a team as talented as Trinity, who will take on Hamilton College in the NESCAC semifinals.

“I think it was our best game and our best team effort only losing to them by four goals,” Eaton said. “They scored in the last second, so we pretty much lost by three, but it was the fact that we were able to keep them on their toes and scare them. It was what we were working up to all season.”

For Eaton, who finished with three goals, Shapanka, Leidl and defenders Collier Clegg, Kerry McGinn and cocaptain Meg Boland, this game was the last time they will suit up as Jumbos under head coach Carol Rappoli.

Although the team finishes the year at 7-8 overall and 3-7 in the NESCAC, that doesn’t tell the story of a team that fought hard all season.

“I think as a whole, we really came together as a team,” Eaton said.

“Especially in the last few weeks, we went through unusual circumstances, but we were able to come together with everyone on the team supporting one another. The biggest thing I can take away is the team bonding aspect of the season.”

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The Jumbos were bounced in the first round of the NESCAC playoffs on Saturday, as they fell 12-8 to the nation’s No. 1 team, Trinity.

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The Jumbos narrowly missed out on the playoffs after losing one game to Bowdoin.

Bittersweet weekend for Jumbos

Team takes two of three from Bowdoin, but out of playoff picture

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With their backs against the wall, the men’s baseball team needed a sweep against against NESCAC East-leader Bowdoin College to get into the NESCAC playoffs but fell one game short, sandwiching a tough 4-0 loss in between two impressive wins, 11-7 and 6-1. The weekend against Bowdoin was a microcosm of the season for the Jumbos, as they showed flashes of their potential, but were unable to sustain their success throughout the weekend.

“It’s bittersweet. It was definitely bittersweet,” said junior tri-captain Nick Cutsumpas. “It’s good to know we can beat good teams, but it’s frustrating at the same time to know that we can beat those teams and still not be in the playoffs because our play is inconsistent.”

In their first game against Bowdoin, the team showed off some of the things it has been doing so well this season, as it secured some timely late-game hitting, along with a strong relief performance from freshman pitcher Andrew David, who took home his first NESCAC Pitcher of the Week award this past week.

The Jumbos scored runs in each of their first five innings, and after Bowdoin put up five runs in the second they were able to

hold the Polar Bears to two runs for the rest of the game.

In the second game of the series, however, Bowdoin’s vaunted pitching staff, which boasts an ERA of 2.99, put together an impressive performance as they shut down the Jumbos at the plate. Junior starter Christian Martin and sophomore reliever Henry Van Zant combined to blank Tufts over seven innings, racking up a combined 10 strikeouts in the process.

With the loss, the Jumbos found themselves out of the playoffs for a second straight year. Despite the disappointment, Tufts was still able to put together an impressive win in their last divisional game of the year, as junior tri-captain Christian Sbily tossed a one-run complete game, and the offense put up six runs in the last two innings, to finish with a 7-5 record in the NESCAC East.

“I think it speaks a lot about our team’s character and our team’s will to win, that we played that third game with the same level of intensity as the first two,” Sbily said.

“All the guys were still up and energetic, and the attitude and effort was still the same, and that speaks to what Tufts’ baseball is: playing as hard as you can no matter the circumstances.”

Although their season will end prematurely, there were plenty of positive

signs for a still young team throughout the year, as Tufts sits third in the NESCAC with a team ERA of 3.54. On top of that, the Jumbos went 5-1 against Trinity and Bowdoin, but were only 2-4 against Bates and Colby, the bottom two teams of the division. For a team that is still growing, those are both impressive numbers that add to the sting of not making the playoffs despite having one of the better allaround teams on paper.

“We picked our head up, we didn’t keep our heads down and [we kept] working hard,” Cutsumpas said. “It was encouraging when [we] beat teams like Trinity, but we lost focus on what made us successful in those wins. And if you can’t keep the same approach, you’re not going to have the same success.”

Now, the Jumbos are just looking to end the season on a high note and head into the offseason with something positive to look back on.

“There’s always flashes, and that’s encouraging,” Cutsumpas said.

“Looking to next year, we get to bring back most of our guys, but it’s enough time to talk, and it’s time to start doing.

That’s something we didn’t do this year, but we’re going to work our butts off in the offseason to get to where we need to be physically and mentally.”

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Tufts softball ended their regular season on a high note with three consecutive shutouts of Colby College this weekend, boosting their final record to 35-3. The seventh-ranked Jumbos were a perfect 12-0 against NESCAC East opponents for the second straight year.

Excellent pitching performances from sophomore Allyson Fournier and seniors Rebecca DiBiase and Aly Moskowitz, all of whom delivered complete game shutouts, highlighted the weekend’s wins.

Fournier set the tone by firing her second straight no-hitter in Friday’s series opener, an 8-0 Tufts win.

Fournier’s bid for a perfect game was spoiled in the top of the sixth when Colby’s leadoff batter reached base on a fielding error, forcing her to settle for her fourth no-hitter of the season.

She did, however, fan 16 of the 19 batters she faced, upping her season strikeout total to 175 and lowering her

ERA to 0.24. The Jumbos inflicted most of their damage with a five-run third inning ignited by sophomore Michelle Cooprider’s solo home run.

Tufts celebrated Senior Day on Saturday, winning both games of their doubleheader. The Jumbos took the first game 2-0 behind DiBiase’s shutout, as the senior struck out seven while yielding just one walk and four hits.

Senior tri-captain Emily Beinecke single-handedly supplied most of Tufts’ offense, scoring both Jumbo runs as part of her 3-for-3 day at the plate.

“Senior Day was great,” Beinecke said. “There were definitely a lot of nerves involved playing in front of family and friends, but our focus was to play our game. We also wanted to defend our field in the last home games of the season.”

Beinecke continued her heavy hitting in the season finale, going 3-for-3 again and slamming a three-run homer her first time up. Aided by a pair of Colby errors, Tufts built its lead to 7-0 by scoring four unearned runs in the

fourth. The Jumbos cruised from there as Moskowitz put the finishing touches on her six-hit shutout, thereby extending the Jumbos’ winning streak against NESCAC East opponents to 25 straight wins dating back to 2011.

“I’m so proud to be a part of it,” said Beinecke. “It’s something we’ve been working on all four years I’ve been here.

Players from every year contributed, and I’m very impressed by the maturity level of the younger players.”

The conference champions will get some much-deserved rest before they begin postseason play on Friday against Wesleyan University. Until then, they plan on using their days off to get healthy and prepare for the playoffs.

“We have a lot of things to work on, like putting down bunts and doing the little things,” DiBiase said.

“We’ve been working a lot on base running because pitching is better in the playoffs, so we’re going to try to get as many extra bases as we can.

Everyone’s on the same page and we all know what we have to do.”

’ve spent two semesters sitting behind my computer screen, nitpicking the problems I’ve had with the sports world. Sometimes it was a player’s action, a fan’s reaction, a rule or the myriad of other things that happened. However, while I spent all that time exposing the bad, I let slide the good just as the nature of my column.

Without further ado, let’s admire some of the things that sports do right and what keeps us coming back for more, even after our team loses in the playoffs — or doesn’t even make it — and we swear to ourselves that we’re never watching another game again.

Excitement There’s something intangible about sports: You can’t quite put your finger on it but you know it’s there. The clock is winding down in the fourth quarter.

A batter steps up in the bottom of the ninth. As a fan, you’re sitting on the edge of your seat waiting for “it” to happen. Sometimes, you don’t know what “it” is.

“It” could happen when we least expect it, such as a perfect game on a lazy July afternoon, while other times we were just waiting for “it” to unfold. The adrenaline rush of a buzzer beater or walk-off homerun just isn’t something that can be found anywhere else.

Unity Teams have the ability to unite a group of people who may otherwise not have found a common ground.

It may be at a college football game where upwards of 100,000 fans will come out Saturday afternoons to support their favorite team. It gives them a chance to share experiences with friends or even strangers. Additionally, sports give a community something to rally around in a time of need. The New Orleans Saints provided the community one of their most memorable moments in the inaugural game at the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. As recently as this past week, the Boston Red Sox provided fans the same opportunity when they took the field against the Kansas City Royals.

Entertainment Just like your favorite TV show or movie, sports are a form of entertainment. On NFL Sundays we sit in front our televisions watching the day’s events unfold. We watch in the hopes of being entertained. Sports will evoke emotions from us in a two- to threehour timeframe similar to that of an exciting movie or best-selling book.

At kickoff, there is the eagerness and anticipation of what is to come, just as when a movie is starting. In the middle, there’s a mix of emotions present. Your team blows a coverage downfield giving up an easy score, which makes you frustrated and angry. However, the returner takes the kickoff to the house on the very next play, hiking your emotions back up above the start of the game. This roller coaster of emotions is what makes sports a unique form of entertainment. It blends and mixes all these emotions into one compact three-hour time slot, and then does it again and again.

This is just a small sample of what makes sports magical. There’s the David-versus-Goliath stories, the playoff atmospheres, the players that blossom into superstars before our very eyes and more. There are the athletes like Mike Trout who burst onto the scene last spring, capturing the attention and awe of baseball fans around the country through a combination of speed and acrobatic catches. Meanwhile, we were able to track the progress of someone like Bryce Harper from his appearance on Sports Illustrated to his first Major League Baseball at-bat.

The possibilities are endless, but the message is clear: Sports are here to stay.

For those of us who love the games, that is a powerful message indeed.

Jordan Bean is a freshman who has yet to declare a major. He can be reached at Jordan.Bean@tufts.edu.

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Jumbos Sweep NESCACs

NESCAC victory at last Jumbos finish ahead of Bates by 47 points

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Daily Editorial Board

The drought is over. Tufts’ 2013 NESCAC track and field title was 22 years in the making, and the Jumbos not only won big — the gap between them and second-place Bates was 47 points — but did so on home soil. They notched six victories — five individual and one relay — en route to a resounding win, letting no doubt linger about their superiority in the conference.

Galvanized by the stellar showings of junior Graham Beutler and senior Mike Blair, each of whom won two individual events, Tufts accrued 213 points, outstripping the defending champion Bates Bobcats by 47 points. Although the Jumbos tied Williams for a share of the conference crown in 2007, they hungered for the solo title that had eluded them for so long.

Beutler spearheaded an unusually effective sprint crew, which saw Beutler take home two individual titles — one in the 200, the other in the 400 — and lead the charge in the 4x400 to secure Tufts’ lone relay victory.

Beutler won the 200 by less than three tenths of a second, crossing the line just ahead of Middlebury’s Bryan Holtzman, the 100-meter champion.

Joining him were junior Dan Lange Vagle and senior Vinnie Lee, who finished third and fourth, respectively, to give Tufts three of the top-four spots.

In the 400, Beutler won by a similar margin, this time over Jabulani Blyden of Williams. Tufts did not enjoy the same top-heavy placement, however, as there were 10 spots between Beutler and Tufts’ next entrant, freshman Woody Butler, who came in 11th.

Lange Vagle and Lee also fared quite nicely in the 100, finishing in second and third respectively. Twohundredths of a second separated the top three runners in that event, with Lange Vagle and Lee themselves only six-hundredths of a second apart.

Freshman Bryson Hoover-Hankerson ran in the preliminary round of the 100 as well, but his time of 11.42 seconds, good enough for 12th, landed him four spots short of the top eight that advanced to the finals.

Women’s Track and Field

Jumbos win NESCAC title

Upperclassmen lead Tufts to first win since 1988 by

Alex Connors

Daily Staff Writer

The women’s track and field team this Saturday captured the NESCAC Championship at home, the program’s first conference title since 1988. The team scored a meet-high 203 points, besting second place Middlebury’s 117.5 points and third place Colby College’s 109.50. The win snapped Williams College’s streak of 12 consecutive NESCAC Championships.

“It feels amazing that we won, especially on our home track,” freshman Audrey Gould said. “The energy on both the men’s and women’s teams was so incredible when they announced the results.”

Senior quad-captain Kelly Allen led the team on Saturday with her three wins in the shot put, discus and hammer throw proving crucial to the team’s

victory. Allen won the shot put with a throw of 43 feet and 1 inch, the discus with a throw of 153 feet 2 inches and the hammer throw with a toss of 172 feet 10 inches.

The Jumbos also got a number of stellar performances from freshman Alexis Harrison, who peaked at the right time on Saturday. She competed in four events, recording personal bests in all of them.

Harrison placed second in the 100meter dash with a time of 12.38 seconds, third in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.65 seconds and finished fourth in the long jump with a leap of 17 feet 6 1/4 inches. She also anchored the 4x100-meter relay team that placed first with a time of 48.27 seconds.

That time in the relay set a new NESCAC record, as the 4x100-meter see WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD, page 14

see MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD, page 14

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The women took their first title since 1988.

Women’s Lacrosse

Jumbos ousted by No. 1 Trinity by

Alex Schroeder

Daily Editorial Board

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The men’s track and field team won its first NESCAC title in 22 years at home.

Headed into the NESCAC tournament quarterfinals in Hartford, Conn., on Saturday, the women’s lacrosse team knew what it would be up against facing off with the top team in the nation, No. 1 Trinity. The Bantams had not lost in their last 22 games in their quest to repeat as both NESCAC and national champions this year. Unfortunately for the Jumbos, that streak continued, as the Bantams won their 23rd straight game with a 12-8 victory.

“They have been nationally ranked No. 1 all year, they won the national championship last year, so we knew we were going into a big challenge going into this game,” senior co-captain attacker Kerry Eaton said. “We had to put the pressure on them though. They had something to lose, not us.”

Although Trinity jumped out to a quick advantage and never trailed during the game, Tufts was successful in forcing its opponent to continuously defend their lead. There was no point where Trinity really blew the game open, as the Jumbos continued to fight back and stay resilient.

The Bantams struck early with three straight goals, the third coming from All-American senior tri-captain midfielder Megan Leonhard. Tufts freshman midfielder Brigid Bowser, however, stepped up to make the first strike for the Jumbos at the 14:47 mark. The Jumbos then scored two of the next three goals on shots from Eaton and

sophomore Annie Nero to pull within one goal of Trinity.

Though Tufts never lost energy and continued to challenge Trinity, the Bantams responded to the adversity well. A string of three more goals before the end of the half from Trinity, followed by a strike in the final minute by Tufts junior attacker Gabby Horner, left the Jumbos trailing 7-4 at halftime.

Trinity again struck first at the beginning of the second half, tacking on two more goals before Tufts could answer.

The Jumbos did not lie down, though.

They outscored Trinity 4-3 for the remainder of the game, as Eaton added two more goals, freshman attacker Caroline Ross netted a goal and put up two assists and senior attacker Kaitlyn Leidl contributed two assists. Bowser added another goal to finish with two, one assist, three groundballs and three draw controls, while senior goalie Tess Shapanka finished with three saves in her last collegiate game.

“I know they’ve had some close games, but this is definitely one of their closer games,” junior midfielder Kate Applegate said. “We never gave up, we never wanted to stop playing, which showed in the score. The last time we played them it was 13-4. This couldn’t have been a more different game.”

In a season plagued by small mishaps and close losses, it was a good experience for the team to come out and have a strong, uniform showing before the end of the season, espesee WOMEN’S LACROSSE, page 14