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Mostly Cloudy Read It First 48/40 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXVIV, NUMBER 33 Tuesday, march 10, 2015 TUFTSDAILY.COM New group offers support for LGBTQ pen pals

by Jei-Jei Tan group for those who are writing News Editor letters through Black and Pink. “It’s a place to work out the A new group in the LGBT details of these [pen pal] relation- Center provides a support and ships,” she said. “It’s a place to discussion space for students who work out issues that might arise, exchange letters with queer pris- because it’s not clear-cut and set. oners through the organization These are human relations and Black and Pink. interactions.” “Black and Pink is a national One such issue is the power organization … where members dynamic of the situation, Petit of the queer community of the said, citing the pen pal selection free world can come and support process as an example. According members of the queer commu- to Petit, there is a list of prison- nity who are incarcerated through ers who have requested a pen maintaining pen pal relation- pal on the organization’s website, ships,” Cecilia Petit, who founded from which free world members the group at Tufts, explained. choose someone to write. Black and Pink describes “[It’s] problematic, but it’s also itself as “an open family of hard to find another way to do it,” LGBTQ prisoners and ‘free she said. “That’s something we world’ allies who support each talked about in our first meeting other,” according to its web- — what are the power dynamics Nicholas Pfosi / The Tufts Daily site. Its work is “rooted in the there, that we’re scrolling through Juniors Noa Yee and Montane Silverman won the Richard W. Vomacka Student Speaker competition experience of currently and this list and choosing the pen pal during the National Collegiate EMS Foundation Conference in Baltimore, Md. formerly incarcerated people,” that we want, and they don’t really and its goals are liberation and get a say in that.” abolition of the prison indus- Petit also emphasized the TEMS members win speaker trial complex. Besides match- importance of setting personal ing pen pals, the organization boundaries and voicing them in produces a monthly newspa- a respectful way, while asking pen competition at EMS conference per and is involved in advocacy pals what they need and want and education. from the relationship. by Melissa Kain Vomacka Student Speaker According to Silverman, a The Tufts group, which meets “The point of [Black and Pink] Assistant News Editor competition at the 22nd annual junior who serves as the tech- every other Tuesday at 8 p.m. at is to create this queer community National Collegiate Emergency nical director of TEMS, the the LGBT Center, is not meant that’s supportive of people who Montane Silverman and Medical Services Foundation two of them presented about to be another chapter of Black don’t have a lot of support, who Noa Yee, members of Tufts (NCEMSF) conference, which concussions, concussion man- and Pink, Petit, a sophomore, Emergency Medical Services took place from Feb. 27 to explained. Rather, it is a support see BLACK AND PINK, page 2 (TEMS), won the Richard W. March 1 in Baltimore, Md. see TEMS, page 2

New graduate TCU Senate Update The Tufts Communion Union (TCU) crete plans have been made, he suggested Tufts Robotics Intel Competition, $118 student lounge Senate’s Sunday night meeting opened that the international relations program for Parnassus, $1,000 for Students for with an appearance from University may move into the hall. Justice in Palestine, $5,000 for Action opens in Curtis Hall President Anthony Monaco, who dis- on the issue of future housing, Monaco for Sexual Assault Prevention, $455 for cussed Tufts’ ongoing implementation of firmly acknowledged the need for new Anime Brigade, $190 for Psychology by Marianna Athanassiou its 2013 strategic plan. dorms on campus and locations for them. Society, $802.50 for National Society Assistant News Editor in accordance with the school’s capi- According to Monaco, two working of Black Engineers, $2,873 for Spoken tal projects, Monaco reaffirmed the groups will convene soon to discuss the Word Alliance at Tufts and $1,086.35 The new graduate student lounge university’s efforts in improving campus issue. One group will work to find suit- for Not Your Mother’s Monologues. in Curtis Hall celebrated its open- facilities. According to Monaco, the uni- able dormitory locations and to draw up Most of the approvals were passed by ing on Feb. 26. The lounge’s open- versity has raised $250 million through a business plan, and the other will further acclimation or majority vote. ing was attended by graduate stu- taxable century bonds, which allows develop the Office of Residential Life and Tufts Bikes and Another Option were dents and graduate directors, and it continued general maintenance of cam- Learning. denied approval in their funding requests, also featured a visit from University pus buildings. further, Monaco told the TCU Senate both by acclimation. President Anthony Monaco. Monaco noted that the reconstruc- that the university has taken many initia- after the conclusion of the Treasury According to Burns Healy, presi- tion of the large industrial warehouse tives to save money in order to prevent rise Report, TCU Parliamentarian Gauri dent of the Graduate Student Council at 574 Boston Ave. and the develop- in tuition for students. He predicted that Seth opened the floor for a tabled (GSC), the new lounge is meant to ment of the new Science and Engineering within a year and a half, Tufts will save $15 resolution from last week that called provide an additional on-campus Complex, located near Bromfield-Pearson million and bounce back into a surplus. for an increase in housing support for space for graduate students. Hall, are underway. Both new facilities will lastly, Monaco stated that because students doing summer research. The Currently, there is another gradu- be for academic use. student financial aid is a priority, the resolution passed on Sunday night in a ate student lounge in West Hall that Next, Monaco updated the TCU Senate university is planning a new fundraising vote of 13-3-2. has a conference room and a com- with plans for a new Central Energy Plant campaign to further its goal of raising The TCU Judiciary then updated the puter room, but it can only fit 20 of (CEP), which will be built near Dowling $100 million this year. So far, $73 million Senate on the new bylaw changes, the 1,800 total graduate students, Hall. According to Monaco, the CEP will has been raised. which now require biweekly meetings according to Irina Yakubovskaya, vice have a cogeneration plan that can cut after the guest appearance by Monaco, between the TCU President and the president of the GSC. energy costs by 20 percent and reduce the TCU Senate sorted through Allocations chair of the TCU Judiciary. According to Healy, the West Hall greenhouse gas emissions. Board requests. The meeting concluded with a lounge will continue to exist until he then revealed plans for a new The TCU Senate began with an appeal brief award ceremony for Danielle further talks with the administration academic building that a donor has from the Black Student Union, eventually Weisberg, winner of the Light on the about the future of graduate space proposed to build on top of the overturning its originally recommended Hill Award, which is “the highest award take place. planned Green Line MBTA stop near $2,073.80 and approving a new amount presented [to] Tufts Alumni by under- Prior to the creation of the lounge campus, adding that there will hope- of $3,586.35 in a vote of 16-7-1. graduates … to recognize their leader- in Curtis Hall, the graduate student fully be a bridge to connect the new T after the appeal, the TCU Senate ship within their fields and for serving population lacked a space that was stop with the main campus. approved funding requests of $500 as outstanding role models within and conducive to creating connections and Monaco explained that the Department for Major: Undecided, $597.50 for beyond the Tufts community,” accord- relationships, Yakubovskaya said. She of Biology will move out of Barnum Hall, the Protestant Student Association, ing to the Tufts Alumni website. as the building is no longer properly $4,459.20 for the Sino-U.S. Relations see GRAD LOUNGE, page 2 equipped for the sciences. Though no con- Group Engagement (SURGE), $950 for —by Roy Yang

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After Tufts’ adjunct The men’s lacrosse News 1 Op-Ed 9 faculty unionized, team continued its four other Boston offensive firepower in Features 3 Comics 10 universities joined New Jersey over the Arts & Living 5 Sports Back the trend. weekend. Editorial | Op-Ed 8

see FEATURES, page 3 see SPORTS, back 2 The Tufts Daily News Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Tufts receives HeartSafe designation thanks to TEMS training efforts

TEMS about colleges in general,” According to Bartlett, people, in a way that’s quick Nikki Margaretos, a first- continued from page 1 Silverman said. Tufts also recently received and accessible to a rescuer, year student and member agement and emergency pre- Silverman added that the HEARTSafe Campus desig- the basic skills to be able to of TEMS, also expressed her hospital care at the conference, presentation concluded with nation, which TEMS helped render aid in a medical emer- enthusiasm over Tufts’ recent combining national data with case studies on different con- earn. In order to receive this gency,” Bartlett said. “The HEARTSafe designation. data from Tufts into their pre- cussions and how they could designation, at least five per- goal of all of these efforts and “I think this is huge for sentation. be handled. cent of the campus population the HEARTSafe program is to Tufts because it shows that According to Yee, a junior Yee said that Tufts Medical needs to be trained in car- strengthen … the chain of sur- our community … is commit- who is the director of educa- Director Dr. Stacey Sperling diopulmonary resuscitation vival: The notion that in order ted to making the campus a tion for TEMS, preparations was a hugely helpful and sup- (CPR), Bartlett said. A short for someone to survive from safer place, and I think that for the presentation began portive figure throughout the video that teaches hands-only an out-of-hospital cardiac going forward, it’s going to months ago. process. CPR is offered on the TEMS emergency, there are certain be really exciting to see how “We had to submit [an “She was incredibly instru- website for any students who steps that need to occur, and many members of our campus outline] back in February mental, and continues to be,” wish to learn. they all need to occur rela- we can get certified in CPR,” for a presentation that they he said. “We are trying to provide tively quickly.” Margaretos said. described as 45 minutes, as Geoff Bartlett, who serves well as an abstract and intros as TEMS advisor as well as the and everything,” Yee said. deputy director of public and “From there, they select six to environmental safety and eight speakers, and then those director of emergency man- speakers who are selected … agement at Tufts, expressed get a chance to present at this his pride for the recent TEMS conference.” achievements. Over 1,000 collegiate emergen- “The conference week- cy medical services (EMS) stu- end was a big weekend for dents from 103 schools attended TEMS,” Bartlett said. “We’re the NCEMSF conference, accord- all really proud of Noa and ing to Haylee Rosenblatt, a junior Montane. This is actually who serves as the executive the first time that members director of TEMS. of TEMS had their abstract A large amount of work and accepted. People have to preparation went into the pre- compete for the opportunity sentation, which covered a to speak … They were the first variety of concussion-related to win this award, and we’re information, Silverman said. really thrilled … and really “We started … with a back- happy to have their hard work ground on the topic, how it’s reflect well on TEMS and Tufts portrayed in the media and University.” just presenting the issue as a Members of the Tufts whole,” Silverman said. They community participate in then discussed what a concus- a TEMS CPR Certification sion is, how to manage one class in Jackson Hall on and how it manifests itself. Saturday, March 7. TEMS has Silverman and Yee also trained nearly 800 commu- examined how colleges han- nity members, earning Tufts a dle concussions, especially in HeartSafe certification during sports. “We went through rules the National Collegiate EMS Nicholas pfosi / the tufts daily and legislation about concus- Foundation Conference in Members of the Tufts community participate in a TEMS CPR Certification class in Jackson Hall on Saturday, sions [while] tying in facts Baltimore, Md. March 7. TEMS has trained nearly 800 community members, earning Tufts a HeartSafe certification.

Group allows letter Opening ceremony sees high turnout, enthusiasm writers to discuss GRAD LOUNGE “The new center was packed to the Reitman added that while many continued from page 1 gills and there was a lot of enthusi- graduate students spend most of concerns hopes that this issue will be elim- asm,” he said. “Tufts Catering did their social time within their own BLACK AND PINK inated now that graduate students a terrific job with the food, and the departments, the lounge offers a continued from page 1 are being provided with the unique GSC planned a great program and great opportunity for students from are incarcerated and might not have other opportunities the new lounge has to provided a cake and cupcakes deco- different departments to interact. queer people around them,” Petit said. offer. rated for the grand opening.” “Most graduate students have “Mass incarceration in the U.S. is a whole “The GSC wanted to accommodate The event itself created significant their primary affiliation with the issue [in itself], but on a person-to-person the students by creating a desig- positive attention that Yakubovskaya students and faculty in their own level, I think everyone deserves someone nated social place for larger social hopes will continue with future departments and that is where they to talk to,” Nina Hofkosh-Hulbert, who had events such as movies and other events. spend almost all of their time on been writing letters through Black and Pink events,” he said. The GSC expects that graduate campus,” Reitman said. “This may for a few months before the Tufts group’s The process of creating the lounge students from across fields will take be fine for many, but there are many first meeting, said. was lengthy and collaborative and advantage of the lounge, and that others who would like to feel more “It’s been good so far, [but] definitely a lasted a year and a half, according to the lounge will help foster social connected to others in the schools little bit weird because it’s someone I don’t Healy. and interdisciplinary interactions — the new center in Curtis is a start know at all,” Hofkosh-Hulbert, a first-year, According to Bruce Reitman, dean and collaboration at all levels, in that direction that I hope we can said. “It’s different from writing letters to of campus life and leadership, the Yakubovskaya said. add to in coming years.” friends at summer camp, which is all I’d process began only once the space done before … There are so many experi- was made available after the media ences that are completely not shared.” lab moved to the mezzanine level of Hofkosh-Hulbert explained that while Curtis Hall. she believes Black and Pink is a great pro- “After a brief stint of the space gram, uncomfortable issues often come on the first floor housing a research up in the letters she exchanges. Having the grant, it became available and support group on campus helps in navigat- my office was able to make a ing these issues, she said. case of using it for graduate stu- “The idea of having some other people dents,” Reitman told the Daily in to bounce ideas off of and debrief with an email. “The Graduate School of seemed appealing because there’s so much Arts and Sciences and the School … delicate territory to be walking in this of Engineering joined our effort to process,” Hofkosh-Hulbert said. identify funding to refurbish and According to Petit, her short-term goals furnish the space.” are to get a steady group of people com- Originally, after the completion of ing to meetings, writing letters and talking the foundational groundwork, the about these issues. She also hopes that the plan was to open the lounge in the group can provide an educational space for fall of 2014, but due to structural students to learn about the conditions of damage and other minor setbacks, the people they are communicating with. this proved impossible, according to “I’d like to start bringing in articles … to Yakubovskaya. talk about what’s going on in the larger pic- In the long run, the decision to ture and the politics behind it and learning open in February rather than the more about the actual conditions of incar- original November deadline was a cerated queer people,” she said. better option, Yakubovskaya said. Petit mentioned the possibility of field Yakubovskaya said she created the trips to the national headquarters of Black guest list for the event and handled and Pink in Boston, where students could most of the planning. volunteer to sort through a backlog of letters. “I took the liberty of making artis- Hofkosh-Hulbert added that this would tic decisions such as decorations, involve inputting addresses and contact flowers and music in an effort to information from handwritten letters into make the event affordable, cozy and computers, as well as inputting data from welcoming,” she said. Nicholas Pfosi / The Tufts Daily a recent national survey about the experi- Reitman was pleased with cer- The graduate student lounge after hours in Curtis Hall on Monday, March 9. The ences of queer prisoners. emony inaugurating the lounge. lounge recently opened on Feb. 26. 3

Featurestuftsdaily.com Unionization spreads across Boston, Kendall Todd | Culture Shock throughout country False By Emma Steiner cognates Contributing Writer

When Tufts University’s part-time faculty ne of the most frustrating parts of unionized in September 2013, they were at learning a romance language is the forefront of a growing movement for that often words that look like an better working conditions for adjuncts English equivalent don’t mean the across the Greater Boston area. By now, sameO thing. We call these “false cognates,” or adjuncts at Boston University, Northeastern in French, faux amis (false friends). If that ter- University, Lesley University and Bentley minology makes you think of backstabbing University have also formed their own frenemies, just know that that perception is unions and have begun contract negotia- about as accurate as it gets. tions. According to a press release by Service The land of faux amis is a treacherous one, Employees International Union (SEIU) Local littered with pitfalls and stumbling blocks 509, the Massachusetts union represent- leading to unintentional innuendos or hor- ing these faculty, almost 3,000 Boston-area rific accidental personal insults. Example: adjuncts have joined the project. If you’re trying to say that you’re excited According to Dan Hunter, a lecturer about something, never ever use the French in playwriting at Boston University (BU), excité — that word’s connotation is entirely Tufts paved the way for schools like Boston different, making it rather improper for use University to begin discussions about in polite company. (Good news: there are unionization. alternatives. Use ravie or enthousiaste if you “Universities look at each other and believe absolutely must.) that it is a competitive market,” Hunter said. Nicholas Pfosi / The Tufts Daily Suffice it to say that the French lan- “When Tufts raised the adjunct pay, it imme- Tufts students assemble and rally for equal pay for part-time faculty at Tufts, marching from guage is quite literally full of faux amis. diately was an incentive for Boston University the Tufts academic quad to 200 Boston Ave. on Oct. 10. Anglophones practically need a road map to raise the pay, and for [part-time faculty] to to avoid them all. continue our drive to organizing because we University, said he felt students were signifi- “Before unionization, we were invisi- This poses a significant problem, because could see that it was going to bring results.” cantly affected by the working conditions ble to each other,” Lemons said. “Having there is no systematic way to tell whether or Low wages, work load, contract length and of part-time faculty. a union has enhanced opportunities for not words are real cognates. For the most other issues such as access to university “With part-time faculty making up the us to discuss issues amongst ourselves part, you just have to make your best guess resources have impeded adjuncts’ ability to majority of the faculty, our working condi- and to think together about how to and risk being laughed out of the conver- adequately teach their students, much less tions are directly related to student success, address them.” sation. Faux amis often seem utterly arbi- make a living, according to William Shimer, and that’s why I’m excited about forming our At Northeastern, unionization has not trary, as if the people who incorporated who is a part-time lecturer at Northeastern union,” he said. “Our union will help Lesley only connected adjuncts with each other, French words into English threw all the University’s D’Amore-McKim School of University provide students a richer experi- but also with their colleagues at other uni- new vocabulary into a hat and picked a few Business. ence and better education.” versities and with their students, according at random, declaring, “These words will Shimer said he teaches six courses per While part-time lecturers across Boston to Shimer. have completely new connotations in the term, which is double the amount a full-time schools focused on similar issues such as Part-time faculty have been able to col- English-speaking world! Students, despair!” instructor would teach, yet he maintains a low wages, lack of resources and job inse- laborate with adjuncts at other Boston while cackling madly. part-time status. curity, the process of unionization was very area universities, and organizers from So, yes, false cognates are incredibly con- “If you put anybody in any job in this different at each of the five universities whose different schools have come together to fusing to the Romance-language learner. But situation, you just cannot get the most out adjuncts recently joined SEIU. coordinate negotiations, Shimer said. In what I didn’t realize until very recently is that of them,” he said. “The pay is so low that you Andrew Klatt, a lecturer in Spanish fact, the lawyer that bargained for Tufts false cognates don’t just exist between the have to do what I do, which is stack up too and translation at Tufts, said he was adjuncts is also bargaining for those at romance languages and English — they exist many courses to be a really good teacher in aware that conditions at Tufts were sig- Northeastern. between romance languages as well! And I any one course, or you really are here just as a nificantly better than they were at other Throughout their push for unioniza- thought it couldn’t possibly get more difficult. side job, and you have another part time job universities, even before Tufts adjuncts tion, adjuncts at Northeastern felt support The week before last, we had a week off as well.” unionized. from students, who allied with their profes- from school for February break (don’t ask me sors by organizing a march on the president’s why — I’m as in the dark as you are). Like adjunct professors by the numbers office, among other campaigns. many of my peers, I took the opportunity to “It’s easier for students to speak out travel a bit and visit friends studying abroad because students can’t be fired,” Shimer said. elsewhere in Europe. My first stop was in “Students are paying tuition and administra- Madrid, which, though sunny and beauti- 700 adjuncts tors have to listen to students … it creates a ful, had one enormous drawback: I speak Lesley University climate where other adjuncts feel safer talk- approximately three words of Spanish. But ing about [unionization] and being publicly I figured I would be all right — Spanish is in favor of what we are doing.” a romance language, just like French, so I 750 adjuncts At Tufts, Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) didn’t think it would be too hard to decipher Boston University worked to campaign for SEIC’s Adjunct menu items and food labels. Action campaign and rally support for part- I was wrong. Faux amis struck again. time faculty among the student body. My first morning in Madrid, I went to 960 adjuncts David Kociemba, who is a lecturer at breakfast at a small restaurant near my hostel Northeastern Boston University, said he felt that support which hosted a reasonably priced (if not ter- and momentum for adjunct unionization is ribly extensive) breakfast menu. I sat down, emerging outside of Boston as well. ordered a café con leche, and surveyed my The SEIU * has grown from “I see [unionization] happening here options. One menu item simply said tarta. and in Washington D.C., Los Angeles and “Perfect,” I thought, “I love tarts!” The representing elsewhere,” Kociemba said. “I think the French word for fruit tart being tarte, I 15,000 administrators realize that the tide is assumed this was simply the Spanish spell- adjuncts at the end of 2013 to shifting and there’s a better way to run ing of the same item. In halting Spanish, I this, which is to have all of your work- asked the waiter what type of tarta was being ers have a say, so you make decisions served that morning. 22,000 informed rather than uniformed.” “Fruta,” he replied, so I ordered it and set just over a year later. Klatt has also seen adjunct mobilization to waiting. *Service Employees International Union across the country, and has heard positive A few minutes later, the waiter returned feedback about Tufts’ early success with — with a slice of birthday cake on a plate, Shirley wang / The Tufts Daily unionization. complete with frosting and chocolate Shimer said that a union will allow “Even here in the Boston area, people at “People are looking to Tufts as a success shavings on top. To his credit, there were adjuncts, the people who interact with stu- other universities that are now part of this story, not just locally, but nationally,” Klatt indeed strawberries inside, but imagine dents daily and understand the workings of wave of negotiating and organizing are in said. “I personally have received requests my surprise at finding that tarta does not the classroom, to make their voice heard on much more dire situations,” He said. for copies of the contract that we negoti- translate to tarte and thus to tart, but the administrative level. According to Shimer, According to Klatt, the public isn’t as aware ated. People in other cities, other parts of to gâteau and thus to cake! My breakfast, the university has increasingly focused its about the disparity between full-time profes- the country, other universities, are using which I expected to be a pastry crust attention on administration, overhead and sors and adjuncts as they are about inequal- our contract … as something they can work filled with fresh fruit from sunny Spain, expenses, despite adjuncts making up 52 ity in other industries. off of as they establish their own bargaining was instead two layers of chocolate cake percent of the faculty at Northeastern. “The general image of people who teach strategies and goals.” stuffed and topped with icing and the “Unionization is going to be good for at the university level and other low wage The unionization movement has grown occasional strawberry. I had been tricked everybody: For the university, because they’ll workers is very dissimilar … the unequal rapidly in the past year, uniting thousands by faux amis once again! hear a voice that really cares about teaching distribution of wealth and the great disparity of professors across the country to improve I ate the tarta and hurried back to my and students … we can now have a seat at of salaries is just as evident in the case of con- conditions for part-time faculty. hostel, where I immediately downloaded the table in a small way,” Shimer said. tingent faculty as it is for people who work for “This is a huge fight,” Shimer said. a Spanish dictionary app to my iPhone. Professors across universities empha- low wages,” he said. “We need to win this battle because I haven’t had cake for breakfast since. sized that working conditions coincide Within universities, unionization has then it will be a trend. It will be Tufts with learning conditions, and that the poor allowed adjuncts to come together and and Northeastern, both excellent treatment of professors has a negative effect support each other, Senior Lecturer in schools, and if they can treat their Kendall Todd is a junior majoring in inter- on students. Matthew White, who is an Tufts’ Department of Religion Elizabeth teachers well then everybody else national relations and French. She can be assistant professor of web design at Lesley Lemons said. should treat their teachers well.” reached at [email protected]. 4 The Tufts Daily Advertisement Tuesday, March 10, 2015

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Gallery Review daniel bottino | frost for you 'Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott' 'My captures story of segregation in 1950s November by Grace Hoyt Contributing Writer Guest'

“Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott” sense of rural serenity and quietude is a worthwhile exhibition not only pervades many of Robert Frost’s for the stunning photography com- poems. Such well known lines as prising it, but also for the story “The woods are lovely, dark and behind the exhibit itself. The exhibi- Adeep,” from Frost’s famous “Stopping by tion shows photographs by famous Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1923) almost African-American photographer effortlessly conjure up images of peaceful Gordon Parks (1912-2006), many of landscapes, untroubled by modern cares which are on view for the first time. and stresses. As a college student on a busy The exhibition at the Museum of Fine suburban campus, it is this power of Frost’s Arts, Boston (MFA) traces Gordon poetry that most appeals to me: Even on my Parks’ journey back to his hometown busiest days, I can find a calming antidote to of Fort Scott, Kan., as well as to other anxiety in Frost’s poetry. Midwestern cities. This opinion of rural peace, however, is not The photographs were originally universal. Often, instead of tranquility, a rural part of a project for Life magazine, scene arouses feelings of loneliness, bleakness where Parks worked, in which he and even evil. As Sherlock Holmes once said in set out to photograph his child- response to Dr. Watson’s enthusiasm at travel- hood classmates in a commentary ing by train through the beautiful English on life in segregated 1950s Kansas. countryside, “It is my belief, Watson, founded For reasons still unknown, the story upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest was never published, but the proj- alleys in London do not present a more dread- ect came into the possession of the ful record of sin than does the smiling and Gordon Parks Foundation. Karen beautiful countryside” (“The Adventure of the Haas, the MFA’s Lane curator of Copper Beeches” 1892). photographs, collaborated with the Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Faced with these two contradictory views Gordon Parks Foundation to help tell Photographer Gordon Parks traced his roots back to his hometown, photographing old of rural life, it is hard to find a reconcilia- a story that went untold for decades. classmates and their families in the landscape of the American South. tion between the two. Personally sympathetic The exhibition is accompanied by though I am to the view of rural life as a peace- Haas’ book, with previously unpub- According to the Ann and Graham and the prejudice that confronted ful refuge from urban and suburban stresses, lished photographs and other mate- Gund Director Malcolm Rogers’ press African Americans in the 1940s and it is hard to deny that there is some truth in rials, such as the 1927 yearbook from release for the exhibition, “These per- 1950s.” Parks was born in 1912 in Fort Holmes’ assertion. In addition to the criminal- the segregated schools that Parks sonal and often touching photos offer ity hidden beneath a rural façade of tranquil- attended. a glimpse into the life of Gordon Parks see PARKS, page 6 ity, a country landscape may seem forbid- ding in its starkness. It is this issue that Frost addresses in “My November Guest” (1913). The poems begins with a simple image of Arts News Arts News the narrator walking with a woman identified only as “Sorrow.” “My Sorrow, when she’s here with me, / Thinks these dark days of autumn rain / Are beautiful as days can be; / She loves the bare, by yotam bentov ciousness — never mind the fact that the withered tree; / She walks the sodden pas- Contributing Writer Lorde was born six long years after #TheDress ture lane.” the ’80s ended — in this case she As the narrator and Sorrow walk along Reverb is a weekly collaborative didn’t have to be there to remember. by Josh Podolsky the “sodden pasture lane” it seems that they music review within the Arts sec- But of all these nostalgic, synth- Assistant Arts Editor are locked in mild disagreement. Even in tionArtist that explores Spotlight: new albums and infused Todd throwbacks, Terjeone stands tall Reflecting on the depressing, drizzly conditions of late fall, covers new artists, whether indie or over the rest, and he is a Norwegian It took the internet by Sorrow finds the season beautiful: “She thinks mainstream. Our goal is to explore DJ with great facial hair. storm. Granted, its fame was not I have no eye for these [beauties], / and vexes and examine everything that modern Todd Terje is the mastermind unprecedented for cultural memes, me for reason why.” music has to offer and to educate behind “It’s Album Time” (2014), an but something was different about Personally, the thought of a walk through anyone who cares. album so magnificently ’80s it had to this phenomenon. People had no a light autumn rain and an uncluttered It’s been a solid 30 years since the be produced a total of 24 years after control over how they perceived landscape under a gray sky fills me with ’80s were cool, but thank the heav- the decade came to a close. But it is it — their perceptions were totally longing. Many of my most cherished mem- ens, they are back with a vengeance. perhaps the introspection and dis- unadulterated by social and cultural ories involve just such a scene, encountered Popular culture, specifically music, tance that makes the album’s sound filters, relying solely on how their during my many walks with my parents has been highly saturated with refer- so unique. The album’s opening track brains interpreted what their eyes and friends around Kittery Point, Maine., ences, shoutouts and allusions to the is “Intro (It’s Album Time).” The name showed them. So, was it blue and my hometown. But it is not an overt hap- decade of Reebok Pumps, mullets sounds a little comedic without some black or white and gold? piness that underlies the contentment pro- and Soviet state collapse. Everything background. Terje has been creat- The “it” in question is the dress that vided to me by these rural scenes. Rather, from Taylor Swift’s “1989” album ing songs and mixes with an eclec- began tearing across social media Sorrow’s name is particularly apt, for it is to Lorde’s cover of Tears For Fears’ tic mix of European indie artists (the and in turn practically the entire a sense of pensiveness and sorrow which “Everybody Wants to Rule the World list includes artists from Lindstrom world wide web, in late February. overcomes the individual in the midst of ” (1985) has been coated with a thin Rather, the “it” is the horrendously nature’s autumn beauty. layer of nostalgia and synth deli- see TERJE, page 6 lit, awkwardly framed close-up shot This sense of sorrow intermixed with of the striped dress worn by the beauty may seem contradictory. Faced with mother of the bride at a Scottish a winter whose force has often left the Tufts wedding. The poor composition of campus a frozen wasteland in the past few the photo made the dress’s coloring months, it may be difficult for us to imagine rather ambiguous, so viewers either beauty amidst the inhospitable conditions saw a blue and black dress or a white Frost describes. But perhaps a desolate land- and gold dress, depending on how scape does hold a subtle, poignant beauty. their eyes and brain made sense of With so many of us used to the energizing the awkward color balance in the busy schedule of our college lives here at Tufts, picture. we rarely have time to take any time-outs. And What is unambiguous is how when we do, our lives seem barren, purpose- huge the dress debate became. less and even sorrowful. Yet there is a solemn Both Tumblr, where the image was beauty to the quiet life, just as there is to a first posted, and BuzzFeed, which dreary November day or a winter snowstorm. churned out article after article So put some time aside for a contemplative about it, had record traffic due to walk on such a dreary day, and consider your the image. From there the image personal sorrows and trials. Perhaps thus you spread like digital wildfire along with will be able to catch a glimpse of the paradoxi- its hashtag, #TheDress. Sources as cal and comforting beauty Frost’s Sorrow sees diverse as The New York Times and in the midst of life’s burdens: Wired reported on the dress. Yes, “The desolate, deserted trees, / the faded BuzzFeed, which publishes cultural earth, the heavy sky, / the beauties she so backwash and fun quizzes, The New truly sees.” York Times, an international leader in news publication and Wired, a Kim Erlandsen vis Flickr Creative Commons magazine focusing on technology, all Daniel Bottino is a senior who is majoring Electronic producer Todd Terje shines on his nostalgic 2014 album, “It’s Album Time.” The in psychology. He can be reached at daniel. album is Terje’s first full-length effort of his career. see #THEDRESS, page 6 [email protected]. 6 The Tufts Daily Arts & Living Tuesday, March 10, 2015 ‘Back to Fort Scott’ exhibits long-forgotten photographs of pre-civil rights America Some of the most touch- One possibly under-appre- PARKS ing photographs are of Parks’ ciated aspect of the exhibition continued from page 5 childhood friends, now grown is a case that exhibits Parks’ Scott to a poor tenant farmer up and standing in front of their book, “The Learning Tree” family, yet he was able to make own homes. The locations of (1964), a novel about growing his way to become the first these photographs range from up as an African-American African-American photogra- Missouri to Michigan to Illinois in segregated Kansas, which pher to be hired full-time by to Ohio, and the pictures are was later turned into a film. Life magazine, and at the time, taken Grant-Wood-style, with It conveys Parks’ talent and he was one of the only African- the families standing in front his impressive feat of depict- American photojournalists in of their homes. Parks also ing the African-American the field. takes intimate photographs of experience across media in For the assignment on view the families on the porch, or his lifetime. According to in the exhibition, Parks went in quiet, personal scenes such Haas in the exhibition’s press back to his childhood home as a family crowded around release, the “Back to Fort and unpacked memories, as a child plays piano. What’s Scott” story really started this many of which deal with issues amazing about this exhibition, theme in Parks’ work: “With of segregation. One beautiful beyond the works themselves, the ‘Back to Fort Scott’ story, example of this is a photograph is Haas’ experience uncovering Parks showed — really for the of an African-American couple the photographs and discov- first time — a willingness to standing outside a movie the- ering the story behind them. mine his own childhood for ater called “Liberty Theater,” With her husband, photogra- memories both happy and especially poignant due to the pher Greg Heins, she traced painful, something he would fact that the movie theater was Parks’ steps through the continue to do in a series of segregated. Photographs in the Midwest to find family mem- memoirs over the course of exhibition also portray scenes bers of Parks’ classmates, his long career.” of a pool hall and a railway sta- using old notes from original “Gordon Parks: Back to tion, as well as a baseball game prints held at the Gordon Parks Fort Scott” is on view at where two African-American Foundation. Quite dismal- the MFA through Sep. 13. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston girls stand at the end, away ly, none of Parks’ classmates’ Entrance is free with a Tufts Parks’ exquisite photos allow a poignant window into the lives of African from the white spectators. homes were still standing. student ID. Americans during the 1950s.

Todd Terje returns to Debate over #TheDress takes internet synth-drenched dream of by storm

’80s in latest album #THEDRESS even had its graphics depart- — issues that, unlike how the continued from page 5 ment draw up some exam- brain processes sensory infor- ran pieces on the dress. In fact, ples of what the dress might mation, can be changed. TERJE (1980). The track explores they ran multiple pieces each look like in different lighting. Since #TheDress drew every- continued from page 5 the complicated relationship where they analyzed and over- Congress was chiming in on one in with its gravitational to Franz Ferdinand), produc- between a couple who seem analyzed the image to death. the debate too — perhaps one pull, the company behind the ing a single or short EP every delightfully surprised by the People love to argue about of the only unpolitical debates dress, Roman Originals, saw couple years or so. His 2012 EP, weight of adulthood and the the unimportant — illusions it will participate in for the the dress become 60 percent of “It’s the Arps,” is particularly need to face failure and unmet are the epitome of this genre foreseeable future. the company’s sales last Friday, notable. Fortunately for us, he expectations. This is also the of minutiae. These things fas- Maybe the banality of the according to the New York has now decided it is time for only song on the album that cinate us because they are debate is what makes it so pop- Times. Celebrities have already a sit-down-and-listen-but- includes any lyrics. insurmountable, because ular; after all, it is hard to imag- been seen wearing the infa- also-dance-your-butt-off full The album resumes its they are the result of how our ine how anyone can become mous threads in public, with LP. The opening track then giddy, danceable synth feeling brains are wired. However, offended by the debate (unless, one American Idol contestant serves almost as a PSA: Todd immediately, with the salsa such things do not deserve the of course, it gets personal). wearing the dress during her Terje is here, and he’s having tune “Alfonso Muskedunder.” attention this dress has got- Enter the Salvation Army, performance. Of note is that, as more fun than you. The song The song is fast paced, ten. The internet is a diverse whose South African division opposed to the opulent gowns oozes with sounds of disco, quickly changing and burst- forum, and when everyone published an advertisement fussed over by arts critics and fake synth horns and a raspy ing with Terje’s distinct style bandwagons onto the same in the Cape Town newspaper tabloid writers at celebrity male voice that whispers, “It’s of decorating songs with a topic and talks about the same portraying a beautiful young pageants like the Oscars, this album time.” It is only fitting host of quirky synth sounds. banal thing, the internet loses woman in a white and gold dress is accessible and retails that the track ends with the The album goes on with its purpose, which is to be a dress and covered in black and for around 50 pounds ($75.50). sounds of a literal explosion. equally elaborate and dance- source of information. blue bruises with the caption The fashion world may pivot as The second and third tracks able tracks named “Swing #TheDress may not have “Why is it so hard to see black a result of #TheDress’ appar- on the album serve as one Star” (parts 1 and 2) and “Oh crowded out other information, and blue?” The ad makes sev- ent success, with the internet long medley, supposedly doc- Joy.” There’s something dis- or maybe it did, but the point is eral important points. replacing the runway. umenting the evolving mad- tinctly cheesy about these more that the Washington Post One point that the ad In any case, Hurricane ness of a character named tracks — from their sound does not need to publish five makes can be to remind #TheDress has come and gone. Preben. The two tracks inter- and name, the tracks seem to articles on the dress, or that people that, while everyone She did some damage when play between synths, drums embody the accepted silliness the New York Times does not goes head over heels over she came in but may have done and a small violin section, all of Terje’s production. need to quote psychologists #TheDress, larger cultural and some good for the long run of which blend beautifully to The album closes with to officially remind its read- societal issues, such as (but — time will tell. And for those make a delightfully danceable what could be called the best ers that everyone’s brains work definitely not exclusively) still interested, the dress is offi- track. The next several tracks dance song of the decade differently. The New York Times domestic violence, still exist cially blue and black. explore and borrow from a so far, the electronic tour- variety of genres, from the de-force “Inspector Norse,” tango goofiness of “Svensk supposedly inspired by the Sas” to the driving ’80s internet alias of another soundtrack feel of “Delorean Norwegian producer. The Dynamite.” The album takes song is cheerful, albeit a quick breather in the form slightly melancholic — play- of a tender cover of Robert ing out like a disappoint- Palmer’s “Johnny and Mary” ing drug trip. The synthe- sizer sounds are clean like a strobe light, but dirty like a dancefloor after closing time — it’s a great song. This is perhaps the genius of Todd Terje; each song has a unique sound and is produced elegantly to sound effortless. It’s impor- tant to note, however, that Terje didn’t set out to make a well-produced album or elaborate on any interplay between light and dark. During an interview with Juno Plus, he said, “I pre- fer to have fun, play around and see what happy acci- dents occur.” Indeed, his songs do not condescend or

Rene Passet via Flickr Creative Commons seek a higher purpose. They Courtesy Noel Vasquez / Getty Images via Flickr Creative Commons With heavy synths and catchy are just there, as nuggets of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West weighed in on the debate over #TheDress as the question of whether the dress rhythms, Terje brings back ‘80s dance sensibilities and ’80s was blue and black or white and gold took the internet by storm. rhythms and danceability. synth magic. Tuesday, March 10, 2015 The Tufts Daily Advertisement 7

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“It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.” -Steve Jobs What does this dichotomy mean to you? Do you ever feel torn between these figurative paths? Should we even set up life-choices in this way?

The finalists for the 2015 Wendell Phillips Award are: Rebecca Goldberg Michael Maskin Amber Johnson

THE WENDELL PHILLIPS SCHOLARSHIP AWARD The Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship is one of two prize scholarships (the other assigned to Harvard College) established in 1896 by the Wendell Phillips Memorial Fund Association, in honor of Boston’s great preacher and orator. The award is given annually to the junior or senior who best demonstrated both marked ability as a speaker and a high sense of public responsibility. Coordinated by the Committee on Student Life 8 The Tufts Daily editorial | op-ed Tuesday, March 10, 2015

THE TUFTS DAILY Editorial Drew Z. Robertson Editor-in-Chief TCU travel budget change, lack of notice Editorial Jacob Indursky Reena Karasin problematic Managing Editors In a move that came as a surprise to about their futures on this campus. College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Audrey Michael Executive News Editor many members of the Tufts communi- Because groups like the Tufts Model that puts its student government in Daniel Bottino News Editors ty, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) United Nations team, Tufts Mock charge of off-campus travel funding. Jenna Buckle Shana Friedman Senate has removed off-campus travel Trial, club athletics and others must While it is true that the Senate may ulti- Nina Goldman funding from next year’s budget. While the travel to compete, these changes in mately decide that it has enough money Stephanie Haven Patrick McGrath Senate has emphasized that this change the Senate budget are of vital impor- to continue funding some off-campus Justin Rheingold will not necessarily be permanent and tance. If these groups cannot travel, travel for the coming fiscal year, it is clear Kathleen Schmidt Jei-Jei-Tan that they will assess the situation based they may need to fundamentally alter that student confidence in the Senate’s Melissa Wang on the status of its surplus fund later in the way that they function at Tufts, or budgeting capabilities has been shaken, Roy Wang Meagan Adler Assistant News Editors the year, this does not change the fact that even shut down. no matter what the eventual outcome of Marianna Anthanassiou it has put many student organizations at Unfortunately, due to this deci- this situation may be. It is unacceptable Melissa Kain Arin Kerstein Tufts in jeopardy with little to no notice. sion, the only real option many of for groups that depend on off-campus Safiya Nanji Sophie Lehrenbaum Ultimately, this sudden decision reveals these groups may have going forward travel funding to hear about this decision Aaron Pomerance a startling lack of foresight and has severe is to force participants to pay for in such an inconsiderate, last-minute Emma Steiner Roy Yang financial implications for the students. their own travel. The decision could way. If the numbers presented are cor- Gabriella Zoia Since airfare and hotel fees were taking cause a rift among the student body; rect, and over the past five years the TCU a disproportionate toll on the Senate’s while wealthier students may not be Senate has burned through its $65,000, Jake Taber Executive Features Editor surplus funds, it does appear as though impacted, others may miss out on the then clearly a more forward-thinking fis- Lily Sieradzki Features Editors Hannah Fingerhut the removal of off-campus travel funding chance to continue participating in cal policy should be implemented. Jessica Mow Mengqi Sun from next year’s budget was necessary. activities that they love and depend on This decision is harmful to indi- Nicole Brooks The real problem here, however, is the for community, fun, networking and vidual students, who could lose their Greta Jochem Arin Kerstein Assistant Features Editors suddenness of the Senate’s decision. Is it even resume-building. chance at extracurricular involvement Becca Leibowitz possible that the Senate did not see this There is no easy solution to this prob- on campus if they cannot come up Yuki Zaninovich coming? More importantly, if they did see lem, and it is clear that the TCU Senate with enough money to pay for their Nika Korchok Executive Arts Editor this coming, why did they leave the stu- was faced with a very tough choice. It own travel expenses. Ultimately, this Dana Guth Arts Editors Grace Segers dent body in the dark until the decision? may be worthwhile to consider the fact budget decision is not just a blip for Nitesh Gupta Assistant Arts Editors Many student groups were blind- that, according to the TCU Senate, Tufts is the Senate, but will actively harm the Jessica Mow Anjali Nair sided by this decision and are worried the only school in the New England Small student body. Joshua Podolsky Jennifer Straitz Ross Dember Executive Sports Editor Marcus Budline Sports Editors fury Alex Connors Wil Glavin Sam Gold Steven Hefter Alison Kuah Tyler Maher Alex Schroeder Maclyn Senear Chris Warren Assistant Sports Editors Ray Paul Biron Phillip Goldberg Josh Slavin Scott Geldzahler Executive Op-Ed Editor Susan Kaufman Olivia Montgomory Ruchira Parikh Ty Enos Cartoonists Fury Sheron Jennifer Lien Hannah Hoang Editorialists Katie Matejcak Natasha Khwaja Bailey Werner

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Blair Nodelman Executive Jumbo Beat Editor Rachel Sheldon Senior Jumbo Beat Editor Aastha Chadha Jumbo Beat Editors Ethan Chan Jade Chan Kristie Le Tanay Modi Nimarta Narang Grace Segers Daylight Savings continues to devastate college life PRODUCTION Jewel Marie Castle Production Director Molly Harrower Executive Layout Editor Hannah Fingerhut Layout Editors Kathy Lu Lily Hartzell Reid Spagna Off the hill | Oklahoma University David Westby Jonathan Heutmaker Executive Copy Editors Joe Palandrani Arthur Beckel Copy Editors Aastha Chadha Nina Goldman Let's talk about race Serena Kassam Michael Rubinstein by Kunal Naik and Alex Byron severe action. President Boren, Clarke in the video but also the more subtle Julia Russell Rachel Salzberg The Oklahoma Daily Stroud and all campus leadership ways that can make life on campus dif- Jei-Jei Tan will not take this lightly. They have ficult for people of color. OU Unheard Caroline Watson Yan Zhao Let’s talk about race. worked hard to make our campus a took a huge step here, opening all of Andrew Kager Despite the best efforts of Oklahoma place where everyone is welcome and our eyes to the problems a black stu- Andrew Stephens Creative Director University (OU) Unheard, Black bound together by the common goal dent can face on our campus. Over at the Student Government Association Shirley Wong Graphics Editor Student Association and numerous of learning. other student organizations and indi- In a situation like this, it can be easy (SGA), we’ve been researching how to Nitesh Gupta Executive Online Editor viduals — we still aren’t being honest for most of us to push this conver- improve our campus — taking notes Max Bernstein Executive Tech Manager with ourselves. sation aside after punishments have from programs at other universities Qinyue Yu Marketing Director And it’s time we start having this been dealt out. And while we know and trying to figure out how we can Caroline Talbert Media Coordinator conversation, but more importantly, that OU will deal with this situation best help minority students at OU. Suhyun Evelyn Kim Social Media Manager Vera Masterson Social Media Manager it’s time to implement effective change. and group in the best way possible, it’s Gaylord College, College of Arts and BUSINESS The video that circulated on social our job as students to make sure that Sciences and groups such as these are media — members of the OU chapter we don’t stop the conversation. This also taking steps to improve our cam- Chris Chininis of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) partici- is more than an isolated incident from pus culture. Executive Business Director pating in a racist, hateful chant — is the few individuals pictured. Racism The first step, one that every single Li Liang Receivables Manager Ariel Gizzi Ad Managers awful. Everyone who has seen or even is still alive in America, and OU is not person on this campus needs to take, Kristie Le Ad Director heard of this video knows that. The exempt from that. But here’s the differ- is listening. But it can’t stop there. We Joshua Morris Amanda Saban video shown is evidence of a toxic ence: We might not be able to change need to commit to action, commit to Yiran Xu institutional culture that has no place America, but we can change our cam- working hard until every student on Daphne Zhao on this campus. If administration pus. We have the power to create a this campus feels like this truly is their determines that those in the video more inclusive atmosphere. home. It’s on each and every one of us. P.O. Box 53018, Medford, MA 02155 617 627 3090 FAX 617 627 3910 are OU students and members of OU’s Let’s tackle this problem together, We believe that’s possible. [email protected] SAE chapter, they will take swift and not only hateful comments like those Now let’s get to work.

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Op-Ed Adam Kaminski | The Cool Column Greek life from the outside: the good, the bad, the ugly Would by Diane Alexander plenty of problems within it that have something wrong when fraternities and you Op-Ed Contributor been chronicled in exacting detail by sororities are perceived as the only stu- many before me, notably in an Atlantic dent entities powerful enough to avoid I have never wanted to join a Greek cover story from last year. While Tufts administrative consequences for parties, mind? organization. Greek life is by no means a stand-in and though publicizing official party f some egregious person sneakily helped Obviously, I am not alone in this — for Greek life across the country — our policies is a step in the right direction, it himself to my last magic biscuit, bashing plenty of people make it through col- rates are still relatively low, and conse- isn’t enough. There is something wrong his head with a rock might feel warranted. lege, Tufts and elsewhere, without hav- quently the on-campus presence is a when many students who are involved If some buffoon unleashed his “domesti- ing much of anything to do with fra- fraction of the one on the campuses of in Greek life ignore the problems within Icated” lion, running away might feel pretty ternities or sororities. Given the rising large state schools, particularly in the it because they’re already involved with darn natural. numbers of students joining the ranks South – it still has its fair share of very an organization and are therefore reluc- Spurred by these simple but nightmarish of the various Greek organizations serious issues, including sexual assault. tant to criticize it or see its flaws. thought experiments, one might conclude that here at Tufts, however, sometimes it Even the organizations’ good work of “The Greek community needs to be our basic instincts are symptoms of a brain that feels like there are relatively few of us charitable giving can be fraught, as less defensive when it is criticized … at evolved approximately 2.5 million years ago holding out. Many of my friends are in unfortunately the affiliate charities are the same time, I’ve had really amazing in what is now the African savanna. Since our sororities and fraternities; I have no often determined by national adminis- and productive conversations with fel- minds still engage in retributive, terrified and problem with most individuals who tration rather than by the Tufts-specific low sisters and members of other sorori- myriad savanna-esque thoughts and actions, participate in the system. I understand chapters. ties, and earnestly/desperately hold out our brains must be mostly the same, right? This that a lot of people feel a sense of kin- The thing is, Greek life is a privilege hope that these will lead to wider chang- is the theory of evolutionary psychology propa- ship, support and community from which its adherents pay for, conferring es and continued striving towards trans- gated by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby of the their respective organizations. These everything from access to parties and parency,” Scherezade Khan, a junior and University of California, Santa Barbara who groups also do a great deal of good other events to useful alumni network- director of community outreach on the have famously (or infamously) claimed that work for charities. ing with members who have graduated Panhellenic Council, wrote over email. “our modern skulls house a Stone Age mind.” Despite all that, the increasing to the aforementioned support system. In the end, I don’t hold “being a mem- Leading scientists have contended with this amount of students who rush is telling If you’re not in a frat or sorority, you ber of a Greek organization” against theory and have posed pointed and argumen- of the fact that there’s no real social- haven’t paid to get those privileges built those who are, indeed, members of tative questions: How have humans changed ly equivalent alternative to Greek life, into your college experience post-rush; Greek organizations. If you’re in a Greek neurally throughout their existence on earth? despite Tufts Admissions’ efforts to you have to go looking for them. While organization and you turn a blind eye to How have cultures and environments in flux obfuscate the rising numbers. Frats and I’ve been told there are systems in place the problems that are present therein — reinvented and rewired the way we think? sororities have a stranglehold on Tufts’ that supply financial aid to students who racism, classism and sexism being the First, some background. The genus ‘homo’ is social scene — on weekends, if you’re can’t afford to join Greek life otherwise, first that spring to mind — that is an at least 2.8 million years old; from this time up going out, chances are you’re going to I’ve also been told by many people that issue. Luckily, it’s a solvable one, and the until about 10 thousand years ago is called the a frat. Many students, especially upper- it isn’t quite enough. solution is this: Listen when people call Pleistocene epoch. It was during this period, classmen who live off-campus, have “While I can’t speak on behalf of all your organization out, whether or not according to mitochondrial timing techniques parties in their houses. For underclass- fraternities, I can say that the Tufts they are members, and listen carefully ,which assess the rate at which mutations have men who are obliged to live on cam- chapter of Theta Chi has been devot- to their complaints. Listen, understand accumulated in our mitochondrial genome, pus by university policy, there aren’t ed to ensuring that we are need-blind and work to change things. That may that humans migrated from Africa to most really other choices. If you enjoy casual … if someone we like cannot afford seem like self-evident advice, but the other areas of the world — areas of the world drinking but don’t enjoy frats as a fresh- dues, the house and brothers will always glacial pace of any major changes proves that weren’t frozen, sub-zero degree wastelands. man or sophomore, you’re more or less find a way to make it work,” said Jason that it isn’t. Considering the immense 4.54 billion year out of luck. Rathman, a sophomore and Theta Chi If you’re not in a Greek organization, history of earth, this two million year span does This is partially because of increas- brother. don’t worry so much when it seems seem rather negligible. A meta-analysis of 63 ingly stringent regulations that people Personally, I like making friends like all your friends are rushing. It isn’t studies that measured the strength of natural living in dorms are supposed to follow, independently rather than being all your friends, and you’re still under selection in 62 species, however, found that it and partially because of the sheer mag- adopted by an already established no obligation to join, regardless of peer took just 25 generations for one trait to change nitude of Greek life here. Greek life has group of people, but to each their own. pressure to the contrary. by one standard deviation. Additionally, scien- been getting bigger and thus present- There isn’t anything wrong with people Everyone has the freedom to choose. tists have estimated that at least 10 percent of ing somewhat more of a challenge to who do want that. Choosing something riddled with inter- the modern human genome has changed over those of us who don’t have any interest However, there is something wrong nal issues is every individual student’s the past 50,000 years. in it. Frankly, it’s becoming difficult to when underclassmen feel that they have prerogative — but once you’ve chosen But what does this illustrate about the brain? avoid. There should be more social life to join a Greek organization to par- that, remember that it also becomes Johan Bolhuis of Utrecht University and oth- outside of Greek life, because there are ticipate in social life at Tufts. There is yours to fix. ers have countered evolutionary psychology by highlighting recent trends in neuroscience that emphasize the malleability of the human off the hill | university of california irvine brain. Complementary to genetic changes, variations in synaptic connectivity and neural circuitry are regulated by individual experi- ence. The brain is a remarkably plastic struc- In defense of the American flag, freedom of ture; its structural and functional organization is easily molded by the interaction between an individual and his environment. “By building expression homes, planting crops, and setting up social institutions,” Bolhuis suggests, “humans co- by George Novshadyan and spanning college campuses nationwide. We remove. It should be noted that our society direct their own development and evolution.” Robert Petrosyan must affirm that as institutions of higher does not “idolize” freedom, equality and One good example of neuroplasticity is New University learning, universities should encourage plu- democracy as the legislation suggested; that complex process of finding meaning in ralism and freedom speech, not suppress it. these three ideals are the very foundation inherently meaningless symbols — the pro- UC Irvine has received a lot of atten- We pursue the ideal for diversity, but how our country was born upon. Thousands cess otherwise known as reading. Invented tion recently, but this time for all the could there be diversity without expression? have sacrificed and put their lives in danger in tandem with writing and dating back to wrong reasons. The Associated Students, How could there be inclusiveness if nothing to protect this country and its flag. the fourth millennium BC, reading allowed University of California, Irvine (ASUCI) is included? Flags are not meant to alienate, Yes, this country’s history has not humans to share their thoughts with others Legislative Council recently voted to they are meant to celebrate and share dif- always been bright, but that still does not articulately. Now ideas could consist of mate- remove the American flag, as well as all ferent cultures from all over the world. To excuse an overt attack on Old Glory. The rial more substantive than ambiguous grunts other flags, on a 6-4-2 vote. Almost imme- condemn that expression as nothing more Constitution starts with, “We the People and vaguely obscene arm gestures. diately after the resolution passed, we than hate speech is an affront to the values of the United States, in Order to form a This momentous invention rewired the have seen a large backlash, both within held in a cosmopolitan and diverse uni- more perfect Union,” and throughout our brain and continues to do so today; new path- the school and throughout the nation. versity such as this one. We realize that not history, we have been active in moving ways and linked areas form at a young age Our belief is that the legislation in ques- everyone may share the same view about toward that ideal. The flag may have been during development as children begin to learn tion, R50-70, is an attack on free expres- a given subject, but if the goal is to elimi- only removed from ASUCI’s office, but it how to read. This is not an example of genetic sion and is a misguided attempt at inclu- nate all expression that could be deemed is in that office particularly where the flag or biologically inherited rewiring. Rather, this sion that not only attacks our country and offensive, we may as well not have public should be hung, proudly and prominently. is an example of the brain adapting to new paints it with a brush of hatred, but also expression to begin with. Even that type of It should act as a reminder to all of us of tools and new methods of thinking. The end discourages diversity and pluralism by response is counterproductive, as we saw the values and ideas that led millions of result is children with neural components barring the display of any flag. Though the thousands of students strongly oppose the people all over the world to immigrate to and circuits that did not exist millions or even resolution refers to flags within the ASUCI legislation. In the public sphere, it is para- this great nation and of all the lives that hundreds of thousands of years ago. office, it is important to point out that mount to support free expression and treat were lost protecting our freedoms. In crude terms: Changes in brain wiring the Legislative Council is the representa- differences with respect and tolerance to We humbly thank Reza Zomorrodian cause changes in individuals, which in turn tive body of students at UCI and that the foster the diverse environment universities and the rest of the Executive Council for cause changes in culture; this process occurs ASUCI office is a public space open to all seek to create. vetoing this unfair legislation. They were perpetually so until the next string of inventions. students, so this rule affects more than The American flag has been a beacon correct to act on behalf of the students Cultural and neural coevolution will contin- just ASUCI. In addition, the arguments of hope for years to those who could not who voiced their opinions on this legisla- ue to change both how humans think and act that were used to justify the resolution have otherwise experienced true liberty in tion. Even though this was a testing time and what neural circuits underlie those pro- were fundamentally unfair and wrong. their respective nations; it has embodied for all Anteaters, it was good to see so cesses. The prospect of a fluid and plastic mind One of the most divisive points made in the notion that this nation offers something many students participate in the legisla- is certainly more exciting and validated than the language of the flag resolution claimed unique in its constitutional system and its tive process, and hopefully this jump in the conviction that minds are of the “stone that freedom of speech “in a space that aims democratic traditions. The fact that the activity continues for future issues that age.” Where might our brains be headed? to be as inclusive as possible can be inter- Legislative Council even voted to remove arise, so that the students’ voices are preted as hate speech.” This justification the flag is in itself proof of the amount of heard and respected. We believe that the for attacks on freedom of speech has been freedom we as Americans possess, free- veto was the right choice and we look Adam Kaminski is a sophomore who has a disturbing trend as of late, and UC Irvine doms that are ironically represented by the forward to working as a campus to restore not yet declared a major. He can be reached is now at the center of a larger controversy very flag the Legislative Council proposed to the image of our school. at [email protected].

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Jumbos prove ice hockey program is on upswing Sam Gold | The Gold Standard ICE HOCKEY continued from back They're trying Dominic Granato told the Daily in an email. “Our team to kill me goal, from the beginning of the year, was always [to win] a NESCAC championship. We believe, and have believed all hile the essence of the craft — year, that we can. Not many reporting, writing, angling people gave us any chance — remains largely intact, con- against Trinity, but knock- ventional journalism is mori- ing off the top team in the Wbund, if not already dead, its trappings razed NESCAC, who was ranked by technology. second in the nation, reaf- Sports journalism, more so than its sister firms that we can beat any- genres, has been undergoing a drastic trans- one. It took a whole team formation. When the Internet opened the effort, every player battling floodgates, a deluge of blogs and other little- for every other teammate for known sites poured into the void to challenge the whole 60 minutes.” the old guard, a phenomenon that continues Tufts finished its season today. As with any venture, failure far out- just one goal short of going stripped success, and only a few proved via- to overtime against the sec- ble, and even fewer profitable. But those, like ond-seeded Amherst Lord Bleacher Report, which did survive that initial Jeffs. While the team fell 3-2 melee have since grown — astronomically, in in its first-ever semifinal certain cases — from low-budget outfits with appearance, Tufts has the crude websites into search-engine savants. potential to be one of the At least one aspect of traditional journal- best teams in the confer- Ray Bernoff / The Tufts Daily ism that sports journalism retains, however, ence entering the 2015-16 Tufts offense gained new life in the latter half of the season. Team morale remains high for the 2015- is the ladder — the idea that one enters on season. 16 season. the ground floor and works one’s way up. “We are just focusing Although debunked in many ways by the on playing better hockey, Individually speaking, First-year forward Brian For the 2015-16 season, myth of meritocracy, it is a time-honored tra- knowing the goals will fol- the goalie play from sopho- Brown led the team in goals Tufts will lose a lot of talent dition across virtually all industries, whose low,” junior forward Keith more Mason Pulde was a and points scored (13 and 23, and leadership as seniors prominence in post-industrial American lore Campbell told the Daily in an huge factor in all of Tufts’ respectively), while senior for- Edwards, White, Shawn is bewitching even to our DIY generation. No email. “Our team can beat any success, especially down ward Tyler Voigt led the squad Power, Bill Sellers, George matter how disillusioning the job hunt, we other team in the conference, the stretch. He had a .914 in assists (11). Sophomore for- Pantazopoulos and Voigt will trudge along, despondent but wed inextrica- period. Again, this [tourna- save percentage and earned ward Matt Pugh had numer- all be graduating, but with a bly to the ascent and its spartan ingress. (This ment experience] should give seven of the team’s wins, ous key performances for the plethora of underclassman is axiomatic; just ask any senior how many us confidence, but we need including his masterful per- Jumbos, as did his classmates, talent, this team seems poised jobs he or she has applied to. Don’t expect a to know that nothing will be formance over Trinity in the defenseman Sean Kavanagh to make a deep run in next cheery response, or even a response at all.) handed to us.” NESCAC quarterfinals. and forward Conal Lynch. year’s NESCAC tournament. When The Associated Press announced last week that it would expand its coverage of college sports with robots, it quickly asserted that no jobs would be lost; the AP wire would Tufts tops Stevens, moves to 3-0 on season merely boast a broadened spectrum. For all I know, they are telling the truth; among the MEN’S LACROSSE Sophomore attackman Austin “Our team has done a great have so many players who news media, the AP is not especially men- continued from back Carbone added three goals and job competing and showing work so hard to improve.” dacious. But it overlooked something equal- Daly told the Daily in an email. an assist, and Richman scored great resilience,” Daly said. “We The season has start- ly, if not more, salient as it was touting the “We have a proud team and four goals of his own. certainly can improve on our ed on the right foot for coexistence of robots and humans: that the they have set a high standard Richman credited the team’s consistency. We have shown we the defending champion former will surely eliminate jobs that could for themselves, so I think they other units in helping the can make a lot of plays in all Jumbos, who have picked up have existed. were a little disappointed with offense succeed. phases of the game but we have right where they left off last In fairness, no journalist, let alone an up- some of the mistakes they were “Our offensive success to execute those plays more year. According to Richman, and-comer, is dying to cover Div. II basketball, making. It was great to see is a tribute to our defense regularly.” however, they are always try- which typifies the caliber of sport that has them address and correct our and face-off unit getting According to Daly, the ing to get better. been roped into the AP’s purview. Also in fair- mistakes.” us the ball,” Richman said. diverse offensive output is a “We played well but are ness, the AP, by automating scores and stats The Jumbos got offensive “My teammates made great testament to the team’s depth never satisfied,” Richman and write-ups, will indeed illuminate — inso- contributions from a large por- plays and just found me and and preparation. said. “As a team we will keep far as the public is interested — the arcana of tion of the roster. Thirteen dif- I was able to finish and get “We have great con- working on all aspects of college sports. But all this is beside the point. ferent players tallied a point. in a rhythm. Once we started fidence in all of our play- our game as it can always For us sports journalists, opportuni- The offense was led once scoring we got on a roll and ers on the roster and we improve.” ties to break into sports writing are few and again by junior attackman John we were able to protect our expect every one of them The team has a week far between; every self-proclaimed super- Uppgren, who was the fifth lead- defense by scoring goals.” to be ready for and to take between games and will fan with a pathetically encyclopedic knowl- ing scorer in Div. III last season. Daly agreed that all units of advantage of any opportu- not play its next one until edge of the NBA (disclaimer: This is not an Uppgren notched five goals to go the team have been able to be nity given them,” Daly said. Saturday, when it resumes introspective…) cannot work at Sports along with four assists. Through successful thus far, and he com- “All of our players do a great conference play and trav- Illustrated. An entry-level gig writing about three games, he has 16 goals and plimented the team’s mental job preparing themselves. els to Maine to take on the Div. II Ferris State is hardly as glamorous, but 10 assists for 26 points. toughness. We are extremely lucky to Colby Mules. plying one’s trade in obscurity is the epitome of the ground floor through which the masses file. Exceptional, after all, is not the norm. “Robotic” is not an adjective that should Athletes succeed at Last Chance Meet describe writing. Ever. Unfortunately, in this case, it applies — literally. The AP has debased WOMEN’S TRACK Concurrently, a separate Loss also competed in the in the 3,000 meter, taking itself, employing the very system that has continued from back cohort trekked down to the 500 meter, running 1:22.08 24th overall in 10:48.69. doubtless axed — directly or indirectly — some went third through seventh New York City Armory to com- for 24th overall. The DMR squad of soph- of its own writers. Under the guise of growth in the weight throw, throw- pete in the annual Eastern “Going into my race I was omore Alice Wasserman, and access, the AP has revealed itself to value ing 45’8.5”, 43’9.25”, 38’0.25” Collegiate Athletic Conference pretty nervous, just because Loss, junior Katie Kurtz and profit and expediency above quality. As if sports and 32’8.5” respectively. (ECAC) Championships on it was my last race of the first-year Margot Rashba weren’t already the most expendable section! Next weekend, Allen, Friday and Saturday. season, and I really wanted took 11th overall in run- To mechanize sports journalism will Fahey and the rest of the Junior Alexis Harrison to do well,” Prusaczyk said. ning 12:36.46. The lone field slowly kill it, along with its practitioners. It DMR will travel to Winston- clocked a season-best “I was excited, too, because event representative for will vanquish a profession whose advocates Salem, North Carolina for time of 7.80 seconds in the it was my first time at the Tufts was sophomore pole have clambered, often amidst tremendous the NCAA Division III Indoor 60-meter dash in the pre- Armory, and that is just a vaulter Keren Hendel, who condescension, for a modicum of respect. The National Championships, liminary round; in the final, legendary place.” earned all-ECAC honors by denizens of the back pages will see their mod- where they will hope to she placed eighth overall In the 1,000 meter, placing sixth overall with a est gains vanish. run fast and become All- with a time of 7.86 seconds. sophomore Sam Cox set vault of 11’4.25”. If the AP truly cared not only about sports Americans. After nation- In the 500 meter, first-year a personal best by more “Overall the meet went journalism, but about all journalism, it would als, many members of the Julia Prusaczyk was able to than three seconds, earn- pretty well,” Prusaczyk said. reject this blatant usurpation. Only thing is, team will be heading out to earn all-ECAC honors by ing herself all-ECAC hon- “Keren [Hendel] was sixth in I’m not so sure it does. Myrtle Beach, S.C. for their placing seventh overall, run- ors as well with her time the pole vault, Sam [Cox] had spring break trip, where ning 1:19.06, just .01 sec- of 3:03.18, good enough for a great PR for fifth in the they will begin the outdoor onds shy of her personal- fifth place overall. Senior 1,000 and I placed, so overall Sam Gold is a senior majoring in religion. He campaign. best. Sophomore Hannah Meghan Gillis competed Tufts performed nicely.” can be reached at [email protected]. 12

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Men’s Lacrosse Jumbos pick up non-conference win in last game before break

by Joshua Slavin Assistant Sports Editor

The men’s lacrosse team improved its record to 3-0 with a victory at Stevens Institute of Technology on Saturday.

MEN’S LACROSSE (3-0 Overall, 1-0 NESCAC) at Hoboken, N.J., Saturday

Tufts 7 5 5 2 — 19 Stevens 1 3 1 5 — 10

The No. 1 Jumbos topped the Ducks by a score of 19-10 in a game that was never close. The trip to Hoboken, N.J. was the first road game for the defending national champions. The Jumbos began their season with victories at home over the Middlebury Panthers and Keene State Owls. In those first two games, Tufts was able to pull out wins despite not always playing its best lacrosse. The team fell behind early in its season opener against Middlebury and trailed at halftime before finding its groove in the third quarter. Tufts also trailed after three quarters against Keene State before scoring nine goals in the fourth quarter to secure the victory. There was no such trouble in Saturday’s contest. “We came out a little flat in our first two games but found our rhythm late,” sophomore midfielder Zach Richman told the Daily in an email. “Yesterday Caroline Geiling / The Tufts Daily we came out hot right away and just Junior attackman John Uppgren has picked up where he left off last year with a five-goal performance on Saturday. took one possession at a time and didn’t look back.” “We just came out firing yesterday,” Stevens ended the game with a 54-52 shot Coach Mike Daly was happy with his team’s Tufts stormed out of the gates to an early Richman said. “We played Tufts lacrosse and advantage in addition to corralling 36 ground performance following its first two games. 7-1 lead in the first quarter. didn’t worry about our opponent. We were balls to Tufts’ 29. Despite the advantage in shots, “I was impressed with our team’s prepa- The Jumbos followed that by taking a 12-4 clicking on all cylinders. Our face-off unit and Stevens was only able to muster five goals against ration and focus for the Stevens Tech game,” lead into halftime and subsequently led 17-5 defense played great and our offense finished junior goalie Alex Salazar, who started in net and after three quarters of play. opportunities. It was just a great team win.” made 18 saves in over 49 minutes action. see MEN’S LACROSSE, page 11

Women’s Track and Field Ice Hockey Allen, DMR headed to nationals Jumbos end season by Chris Warren Sports Editor with well-deserved

On Friday evening, junior Marilyn Allen, the distance optimism medley relay (DMR) and a number of other Tufts athletes by Wil Glavin the team’s spirits up and con- competed at the Last Chance Sports Editor stantly saw the potential of the Meet, held at the Gantcher its young lineup. Center. Allen again showed why In the final 13 games of Tufts’ The Jumbos won two of their she is one of the best hurdlers 2013-14 season, the team went final four games in the month of in the nation, as she posted 1-11-1, including a 10-game January, giving the team a rea- another very fast 8.90 second losing streak. The Jumbos lost sonable shot at playing in the time in the preliminary round. a talented group of seniors and NESCAC tournament after miss- She won the final in 8.92 sec- would only have inexperienced ing out the past two seasons. onds, but the 8.90 second time, goalies on the roster for the 2014- Tufts’ see-saw season contin- which she has run numerous 15 season. Yet, by the end of the ued as the 7-10-1 squad went times this season, was enough year, Tufts was two goals away winless in its next four games, all to qualify her for nationals and from reaching the finals of the of which were against conference places her at 14th in the nation. NESCAC Playoffs. foes, but a win over NESCAC rival First-years Annalisa Debari and This season began the same Colby helped secure the eighth- Toluwa Akinyemi also compet- Caroline ambros / The Tufts Daily way that the last one ended. The seed in the tournament for this ed in the 60 meter hurdles, with Tufts runners compete in the Stampede Invitational in Gantcher Center on Jan. Jumbos were victorious in just enigmatic Tufts team. DeBari recording a personal 31. Last weekend, the distance team ran national qualifying times. one of their first six games. Tufts’ The Jumbos opened up the best with a 9.69 second time in The distance medley relay “Our goal is to be All- goalie play, however, was con- conference quarterfinals against the prelims to make the final team of Fahey, junior Sydney Americans and improve on our stantly improving, as was its the top seeded Trinity Bantams. (where she placed eighth) and Smith, senior Lauren Gormer ranking,” Fahey said. “I think team chemistry. This Feb. 28 fight wound up Akinyemi running her second- and sophomore Rita Donohoe, its a very realistic goal — for the The team ended up winning being the game of the year for fastest time this season in 10.12 who is also an assistant copy past two weeks everyone on the its final three games of 2014 not just Tufts, but possibly the seconds. editor for the Tufts Daily, also team has run their best for us against Castleton, Colby and entire NESCAC. While the win Tufts’ Last Chance Meet, officially punched their ticket to qualify, and I think once we Bowdoin, giving it a respectable would help the NESCAC earn two as its name explains, was the to nationals. The team posted get to nationals the competitive 4-4-1 record entering the new bids to the NCAA Tournament athletes’ final opportunity to a similar time to their time environment will help us run year. 2015 began with the Jumbos (Trinity picked up an at-large punch their tickets to nationals. at BU last weekend, running even faster.” facing three very tough non-con- bid to join NESCAC Champion The DMR improved to seventh, 11:53.38 for third overall in the The throws squad also ference opponents, followed by Amherst), it also helped the con- while Allen, unable to shave race, which is considered “fast- competed well at the meet. two critical NESCAC bouts. The ference’s anyone-can-beat-any- any time off her school-record er” than the BU time since it In the shot put, first-year team dropped four out of those one reputation. time of 8.90 seconds, remained was run on a flat track. As a Jennifer Sherwill, sopho- five games and fell behind the Playing for their season, the in 13th in the 60-meter hurdles. result, the team is now ranked more Aliza Shapiro and first- rest of the pack in the standings. Jumbos shocked the home crowd Fahey, who anchors the DMR, seventh in the nation for the year Amylee Anyoha went The leadership from senior by defeating the previously 21-2- will also be running the 3,000 event, and it has the goal of 3-4-5 with throws of 35’6.5”, tri-captains Andrew White and 1 Bantams in a 2-1 thriller. at nationals, having run what becoming All-Americans (top 31’9.25”″ and 30’6.5”″ respec- Blake Edwards, along with “I have no doubt that we is now the 16th-best time in eight). Fahey will also run the tively. This same crew, plus junior tri-captain Stewart Bell, can beat any team in the con- the nation at the David Hemery 3000 meters, as she quali- first-year Sophia Atik, also was crucial to Tufts’ quick turn- ference,” junior defenseman Valentine Invitational at Boston fied last month at BU’s David around. Along with several other University on February 13. Hemmery Invitational. see WOMEN’S TRACK, page 11 upperclassmen, these three kept see ICE HOCKEY, page 11