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by Arin Kerstein have an opportunity to be trained and Contributing Writer safely use the equipment. “[The center is] buying all of this The Crafts Center received $6,718.20 new, expensive equipment and over- in additional funding from the Tufts hauling [the] center from [its] basic Community Union (TCU) Senate on Nov. mission as a free space where members 9 to overhaul its supplies for the remain- of the community can come together der of the academic year. The managers to create and learn, into a more [struc- of the center hope to use this grant to tured] format of that with more oppor- ensure the sustainable, long-term exis- tunities for people to go from a basic tence of the center at Tufts. level of knowledge to a higher under- Junior Charlie Wiebe, one of the man- standing,” Lusardo said. agers of the Crafts Center, explained Wiebe said he hopes to transition into that the center has an annual operat- online training, whereby students could ing budget of $5,200 and requests sup- be certified and sign a code of conduct plementary budget grants throughout online and then be allowed to use equip- the year based on specific needs. He ment based on a tag to their student explained that this year, he and sopho- identification number. more Miller Schulman, another manager The Senate used to fund a coordi- of the Crafts Center, are focusing on gen- nator for the Center, and the center eral improvement projects and capital has since struggled without it, accord- investment for the future of the center. ing to Lusardo. He said that hav- Former Crafts Center manager Nick ing Assistant Professor of Education Ben Lusardo (LA ’14) said that he, Schulman Shapiro come on board as faculty advi- and Wiebe last month approached sor last year has been a step in the right the TCU Allocations Board with a Emma Kindig / The Tufts Daily direction toward increased continuity proposal for the financing of over 20 Nick Lusardo demonstrates how to use the Craft Center’s new 3D printer, which was bought and sustainability for the center. new items, including an air filtration with money the center recently received from TCU Senate. “We’ve seen a huge growth in use and system in the wood shop, an etching participation in [the] center by a variety press, a heavy duty sewing machine and ble, heavy-duty, cost-effective,” he said. itself was kind of falling apart,” he said. of clubs, individuals, engineers — all a Silhouette Cameo electronic cutting “We wanted to get out of the cycle of “It was really poorly managed, it was kinds of folks from the school,” he said. machine. buying cheap supplies more often.” really unorganized, there was a lot of Shapiro said he is excited to see the The request, which was for over According to Wiebe, supplies are being theft, a lot of safety issues. That’s a liabil- grant come to life. $7,000, included an itemized budget and purchased and installed incrementally. ity issue, and in my experience, this is a “I think [the grant] will have a few a timeline for purchases, he said. Lusardo added that he plans to work very important thing for the school to impacts,” he said. “First, enabling the “We wanted to do a total update of on these changes throughout winter have for the students.” Crafts Center to continue to be a great the entire center,” Lusardo said. “That break in time for a grand reopening Lusardo noted that when he took on resource for Tufts students, but also includes use policies, certification pro- of the center in either late January or the role of manager, he wanted to make enabling them to explore new kinds of cesses to use specialized equipment [and] early February next year to showcase it his priority to improve the overall func- workshops and materials.” reorganization of the various sections.” its updates. All of the material purchas- tionality and accessibility of the center. If the trend of increased use of the After doing a master inventory es are scheduled to be installed by the Wiebe and Lusardo both emphasized center continues, Lusardo added, they of everything in the center, the man- end of the academic year. a shift to more informed usage of the might ask for an increase in their budget agers looked at what items could be According to Lusardo, this grant has Crafts Center throughout next year. next year. fixed and what things they wanted to been a step in the overall process of Wiebe said he is currently developing a “I think that makes sense, given that purchase anew, Lusardo explained. increasing continuity for the Crafts Center. curriculum, new policies, a training pro- if this is a space that students enjoy and “[We wanted to make] sure that we “When I became involved in Crafts cedure and safety guidelines for sections get a lot of use out of, it’s important,” were purchasing things that were dura- Center my sophomore year, the center at the Crafts Center, so that all students he said. ExCollege class hosts Basic Needs Drive for homeless youth

by Safiya Nanji “We worked with local homeless concerned, this is a short term project cation, poverty, homelessness and Contributing Writer youth at Bridge Over Troubled Waters to that will benefit the Tufts community youth, and from there narrowed down create a mural, which served as a visual and the organizations,” she said. the focus of their charitable efforts to JumboDreams, a philanthropic group awareness campaign for the kids of the Luck added that she enjoyed working homeless youth. created by the fall 2014 Experimental organization,” Luck said. “Tufts students with her classmates and receiving sup- “We started with talking about what College class “EXP 46: Philanthropy, were able to show their support for the port from the Tufts student community. we valued as a class, what issues we were Nonprofits, and Community,” raised over youth by putting their handprint or sign- “I think [the class was] brought passionate about, and the values we had $1,250 from its Basic Needs Drive which ing their name on a poster, which we together by a communal interest in giv- for organizations,” McDaniel said. took place from Nov. 10 to Nov. 21 during then returned to the organization, along ing back, and we’ve all bonded over the “The idea of being on a student board November’s National Homeless Youth with all the goods that we raised.” course of this semester’s journey and our with the ability to actually give real fund- Awareness Month. JumboDreams raised both money and work together,” she said. “I’d love to con- ing to local nonprofits seemed like an Funds raised from the drive will goods, according to Luck. The items tinue to work together with the group in incredible hands-on way to learn about benefit the AIDS Action Committee of collected ranged from hygiene prod- the future.” the sector and get involved in the com- Massachusetts’ Youth on Fire program ucts to clothing, and a comprehensive Lippe explained that the class is unique munity,” Luck said. and Bridge Over Troubled Waters, orga- list of what could potentially be donat- in that students work as a foundation Lippe, who has now taught the class nizations dedicated to helping local ed was available to view on the cam- board to award $25,000 — a donation for four semesters, has a straightfor- homeless youth, according to seniors paign’s Facebook event page, McDaniel from Trustee Emeritus Nathan Gantcher ward goal for the class: She wants stu- Anneliese Luck and Julia McDaniel and explained. — to local nonprofit organizations. dents to learn that everyone can be first-year Gabriela Bonfiglio, all of “We focused on hygiene products,” The class made their final decision a philanthropist. Hopefully, this effort whom spearheaded the community ser- she said. “We got a lot of deodorant last night to award varying amounts will spark a desire to make the practice vice project for the class. and things like that, [and] also warm of the grant to the Phillips Brooks of philanthropy, at some level, a lifelong Nancy Lippe, the program director of socks and hand warmers. But given House Association Youth Housing passion, she said. Musketaquid Arts & Environment at The that we were catering towards col- Initiative, Casa Myrna, Rediscovery’s “In the class, students learn about the Umbrella Community Arts Center, said lege students that don’t have the time YouthHarbors, the Somerville Homeless broad spectrum of philanthropic activ- that the three students took the drive to to donate items, we focused more on Coalition, Bridge Over Troubled Waters ity, nonprofit best practices and project a whole new level and helped the class to receiving online donations [through and Youth on Fire, according to Lippe, management and methods of assess- exceed the goals they had established for GoFundMe] so that we could go buy who added that the students chose from ment,” she said. “This process of func- themselves. these items in bulk.” 11 potential grant applications. tioning as a foundation board involves “All of our expectations were exceeded McDaniel noted that she has seen some “Every semester the students amaze writing a mission statement, crafting a by not only the generosity of our donors interest in keeping the project going. me with their insight, motivation, cre- request for proposals and developing a but also by the interest that [Tufts] stu- “Some students on campus ativity and commitment to making the rubric for scoring grant applications … dents had in the issue,” McDaniel said. have shown interest in turning world a better place,” she said. They learn a lot about group decision Luck explained that the project consist- [JumboDreams] into a long-term proj- According to McDaniel, the class making, leadership and the importance ed of components beyond raising money. ect, but as far as people in the class are leaned heavily toward issues of edu- of goals and metrics.”

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by Shannon Vavra social change Daily Editorial Board and listening This is part two of a two-part series onsignificant gentrification in Boston’s Chinatown.problem for Chinatown community Part one focused on the history of the fter studying at Grinnell College for a power struggle over the land. Part two will semester, my friend Berenice left school focus on the situation as it stands today. to focus on climate and social justice. She felt that what she was learning in Tufts Medical Center’s influence on classesA was not relevant to her longtime goal: housing in Chinatown to revolutionize our corporate-controlled, clas- Tufts Medical Center’s presence in the sist, racist, patriarchal and environmentally and community only adds to the demand for socially unsustainable society. So she joined housing and resulting displacement of the Great March for Climate Action, a national Chinatown’s lowest income residents. climate justice movement, to stop fossil fuel Raghav Seth, LA ’12 and a first-year Tufts infrastructure and work with communities on Medical student, told the Daily that he the front lines of climate injustices. didn’t remember anyone suggesting he Having read some of my column, Berenice live in Chinatown during his search for asked me if college had helped me “develop housing. In fact, he said that there was a as a change-maker.” push for him to live elsewhere. This question overwhelmed me. Berenice and “I vaguely have this idea of being I have similar visions and political and social cautioned that Chinatown is expensive,” outlooks, yet our paths are now so different. She Seth said. “Seeking places in JP [Jamaica dropped out of college, possibly for good, to Plain] on the Orange line, [or] maybe join a revolutionary movement. I’ve done one somewhere in Cambridge or Davis — of the least revolutionary things someone of my that was highly recommended.” socioeconomic background can do — attend Seth told the Daily about the a private university. After all, will reading about Tyler Street complex in Chinatown, whether Iran deserves a nuclear weapon, or where he resides. writing a paper about “The Sound and the Fury” “[There are] a few students in that (1929), instill the large-scale change I hope for? complex,” he said. “There are white col- Ray Bernoff / The Tufts Daily Does writing this column even make me a lar young professionals mostly. There Tufts School of Medicine student Raghav Seth explained that Chinatown was not suggested “change-maker?” Am I reaching or impacting are not a lot of people who belong to the to him as a place to live during his search to find housing because it might be too expensive. anyone other than people who care about these community in Chinatown. But on the issues already? opposite side of the street those seem to I often ignore these overwhelming questions be people who live in the community.” According to metrics from the Tufts being steered away from living in because they’re so damn hard to deal with. But Seth mentioned that several Tufts students Medical School, of all the neighbor- Chinatown. Julie Jette, the director of sometimes addressing them helps me: It reminds also live in The Metropolitan — the same hoods in the surrounding Boston area, media relations and publications for me that I wouldn’t know that many of the issues I building that represents the major win 14 percent of students ultimately reside Tufts Medical Center, did not com- care about existed if it weren’t for college. over Parcel C (a plot of land in Chinatown in Chinatown — the same neighborhood ment on these reports or their inten- Being in college and learning from feminist the former New England Medical Center in Boston that, according to Tufts’ Urban tions, but the pattern suggests a move peers has shown me how patriarchy is embed- bid on three separate times in order to and Environmental Policy and Planning toward avoiding any contributions to ded in everything — from social dynamics at build a parking garage) for Chinatown Department (UEP) and Harvard Political Chinatown’s gentrification. parties to the stories we tell. Though I’ve always community interests. Review, is most at risk for gentrification. cared about the environment, I was unfamiliar The Chinese Progressive Association Director of Media Relations and Affordable housing: Can Chinese resi- with environmental justice and ecofeminism (CPA), whose office is in the same Publications for Tufts Medical Center dents remain in Chinatown? until taking a course at Tufts about these issues. I building, declined to interview with Julie Jette did not provide comment on Director of the master in public policy also never thought critically about politics before the Daily. As part of his time at the CPA whether there are any efforts under- program and community practice in UEP conversing with other Tufts students, having this summer, junior Wayne Yeh went way to avoid adding to Chinatown’s at Tufts Penn Loh said there are some previously labeled myself a Democrat without door to door with a team of inspec- gentrification, or if there are ways that remedies that could make it possible contemplating what that identity means and tors from the City of Boston and CPA students can help. for lower income residents to remain in whether it reflects the world I want to live in. employees to collect information on Seth told the Daily that he got in Chinatown despite increased demand. Though I’m still not creating a revolution the kinds of residents living in the touch with the Office of Student Affairs “The defense against that is to have right at this minute, I see personal growth as housing units in Chinatown and the in his search for housing. housing properties that are not subject an important first step for anyone who wants kinds of rental agreements residents “They gave me information on a cou- to real estate market forces,” Loh said. to create change. Sometimes I worry that my have with their landlords. ple of realtors and they basically get us “So public housing is in that category classes don’t actually matter, but they may “There are more and more young, in touch with realtors,” Seth said. — it’s publicly owned, it’s protected, it serve me in more ways than I can imagine. business class, single occupancy white Seth found his two-bedroom unit doesn’t have to increase its rents with A liberal arts education’s strength is that it residents,” Yeh said. “They’re coming through Craigslist with Newbury the market … If it weren’t for the stock opens our minds more than it fills them up. It’s in and taking those housing [units] Associates, Inc./Hadco Management, of publicly owned and public subsidized impossible to know for sure what’s going to be … Presently the Asian American popu- however, and he told the Daily that affordable housing, the community relevant to us later on. lation is on a decline — Asian American Craigslist is a portal through which a lot of would not have been able to remain.” Moreover, change happens in many ways; families are on a decline.” students find housing. He added that the Some affordable housing units, how- perhaps it needs to come from many different Asians represented 70 percent of medical school itself provides 94 rooms of ever, have limits on the duration of time sectors of society. Sometimes it requires using Chinatown’s residents 25 years ago, and on-campus housing in Posner Hall. during which they can evade market our bodies to block the construction of pipe- this number dropped to 46 percent by “That’s a great option,” he said. “That’s pressures. lines, as Berenice is bravely doing. Other times, 2010, according to WGBH News. one big way the school helps us out.” “There are categories of publicly subsi- it requires studying the norms and ideologies Yeh said this summer he saw some While Tufts Medical Center itself dized but privately owned housing which that cause and perpetuate our society’s environ- influx from the school and shared a con- does not publicly provide tips on find- also fall into that category but often times mental, social and economic problems so that versation he had with a Tufts Medical ing housing for its employees, Tufts those often have windows [where] a pri- we can find informed solutions. School student about her reasons for University Medical School, which is vate developer … builds a private build- Just because you’re not starting a socialist living in a building that housed primar- affiliated with the medical center, and ing and promise[s] to keep it affordable revolution doesn’t mean you are not creat- ily Chinese immigrants. its Student Services and Campus Life for a [window of] 30 years,” Loh said. ing change. Change also comes from talking “Her responses were like, ‘oh the rent web site provide some resources to aid Those windows of affordability about issues you’re passionate about, engag- is so affordable for me, it’s close to class- in the housing process. Of the resources, run out, and prices can rise again, so ing with new activities, ideas, people … and es, I used to live in Allston, but the price only one mentions Chinatown as a resi- although there are affordable housing listening. Lack of listening is an often over- got too expensive for me so I moved to dence option, completely omitting it as options available to Chinese immigrant looked factor that prevents us from creat- Chinatown,’” Yeh said. “Juxtaposing the an option in the others. residents in Chinatown, the low prices ing change. It prevents us from empathizing necessity of … people trying to survive Tufts Public Health and Professional are not a guarantee. with others, which then allows our society to in a community … whereas for some Degrees Programs Office of Student According to the the UEP Department, justify prioritizing profits over people, and people it’s their option.” Services’ housing documents follow a nearly eight percent of Chinatown’s certain groups of people over others. If we According to Yeh, the group survey- similar trend — only one of its docu- housing units were at risk of losing a cannot communicate, listen and respect, we ing heard a lot of similar stories from ments mentions Chinatown as a hous- subsidy by 2012. Couple these limits on will never see a better world. many immigrant residents. ing option. Chinatown, however, is affordable housing with the construc- I’ve learned about so many new issues thanks “In Chinatown there’s a problem not listed among the neighborhoods tion of luxury apartments nearby, and to the brave, powerful communication with where a lot of people are being evict- it recommends, and no average prices conditions ideal for gentrification arise. which my peers (and some professors) have ed … because the landlords would for apartments and studio apartments Yeh pointed out that even units provided me. So to answer Berenice’s question, rather evict the immigrants and then are given for Chinatown — the neigh- labeled as “affordable housing” may not yes, college has indeed helped me develop into restructure and refurbish the entire borhood that some would argue is the be affordable enough. something – I’m not sure if I feel comfortable apartment and sell it or rent it out for most affordable for students and the “‘Affordable housing’ means differ- affirming that I am a change-maker, but at least much higher rates to Tufts Medical closest in proximity to the Medical ent things for different communities,” I’m now trying to be that. students,” Yeh said. Center. he said. “Developers are creating ‘afford- Tufts Medical Center, which is the Just as Seth was told residing in able units’ in their housing buildings, main teaching hospital for Tufts Medical Chinatown would be expensive, stu- but ‘affordable’ is so subjective without Miranda Willson is a sophomore who has not students, certainly plays a role in the dents enrolling in Tufts schools asso- yet declared a major. She can be reached at demand for housing in Chinatown. ciated with Tufts Medical Center are see GENTRIFICATION, page 4 [email protected]. 4 The Tufts Daily Features Thursday, December 4, 2014 Future development threatens residents of Chinatown gentrification Authority (BRA) to expose its weak manage- 20 years, but no specific projects are develop into luxury buildings — even if continued from page 3 ment and incompetent financial oversight. planned at this time,” Jette told the Daily that means displacing community mem- context … ‘Affordable’ in the City of Boston According to a June 2014 article in Boston in an email. bers,” Yeh told the Daily in an email. takes into account the median income of Magazine, Walsh has inherited a broken Jette said that the plan was devel- There is a lot that the community is up Central Boston — which is somewhere City Hall, and for decades the BRA has oped with the input and guidance of a against: There are bureaucratic city efforts to near $40,000-$50,000. But the median ignored and made exception after excep- Chinatown community task force. Jette build luxury towers, there are looming market income in Chinatown is around $12,000- tion to zoning regulations that limit the also said that the master plan recognizes pressures on the remaining affordable hous- $15,000. So even ‘affordable’ isn’t affordable height and mass of development projects. the land and space needs of the commu- ing units in the area, Tufts Medical Center to the community.” “Therefore, any zoning regulation or nity by committing to a future develop- has projected institutional expansion over the “The real question to ask … is whether master planning process became practi- ment plan within the existing footprint of next eight years and there is a concurrent the state and the city will allow more com- cally meaningless,” the AALDEF wrote. the campus. The IMP states, however, that increased demand for housing in the area. munity housing and development that it plans to use new buildings for inpatient The success Chinatown community mem- will actually strengthen the low and mid- Tufts Medical Center Expansion, 2012- and outpatient care. bers had in preserving Parcel C for commu- dle-income working class historic char- 2022 In other words, Boston’s Chinatown is not nity use is fast becoming a relic of the past. acter of Boston Chinatown,” the Asian Loh believes Tufts community relations in the clear. Loh warned that Chinatowns “We cannot forget that people call American Legal Defense and Education have improved drastically over the years. across the United States are seeing immi- Chinatown home and continuously fight to Fund (AALDEF) wrote in its 2013 publica- “I guess from my understanding, the grant communities completely disintegrate remain in and reclaim their community,” tion, “Chinatown: Then and Now.” relationship between Tufts New England as they relocate out of Chinatowns because Yeh told the Daily in an email. “Chinatown The city and state are unlikely to push for Medical Center and the Chinatown com- they are being displaced and out-priced. has a lot of bustling businesses and hun- further affordable housing developments as munity has evolved a lot,” he said. “There’s “I’ve often heard that about Washington dreds of visitors each day, but above all it’s evidenced by plans put forth to build South a lot more active relationships … they D.C.’s Chinatown,” Loh said. “There’s still a home to an immigrant community and Bay Tower, which would occupy 10 acres of aren’t doing this kind of thing all the time a commercial center to it in terms of you this space has a history of being created by Chinatown’s 43 acres, and stand at 800 feet, the same way it happened in the 90s.” can go there to go to a Chinese restaurant racism in the United States.” according to the AALDEF. It would surpass As Tufts Medical Center moves forward but there’s no Chinese immigrant com- Loh warned that this will have a deep the tallest skyscraper in Boston, but it would with its Institutional Master Plan (IMP), munity that actually lives there.” and long-lasting impact on the Boston be located in one of Boston’s most at-risk the City of Boston will come to play a role While grassroots organizations like Chinese immigrant community. neighborhoods for gentrification. in the coming years. the CPA can coordinate community “The Chinese Asian immigrant commu- It is these kinds of approvals, which Although the master plan proposes efforts to preserve the integrity of the nities that relied on places like Chinatown date back to the 1990s, that show the city’s expansion by 2022, Jette said that the land that Boston’s Chinatown maintains, as part of their immigration pathway willingness to approve proposals that are medical center’s master plan is not slated there is only so much that grassroots into the U.S. [can’t] continue to go there out of touch with the needs of the Chinese for completion for another 15 or 20 years. organizing can do in the face of strong because they [are] unable to afford it,” Loh immigrant community, according to Loh. “Tufts Medical Center proposes facility private interests. said. “And there are Chinatowns across the When Mayor Marty Walsh began his term updates and expansion in inpatient and “Developers are looking hungrily at country where that’s happened … Some this January, he initiated an independent outpatient settings as well as updated Chinatown and eyeing parcels of land have really ceased to be a place where new audit into the Boston Redevelopment research facilities in the coming 15 to that they can buy from the community to immigrants come.”

Campus Comment Across campus, students were asked, “What did you think of the Darren Wilson decision?” Here are some of their responses.

“As black people at Tufts, nationwide, and across the globe continue to express outrage at the little value black lives have “I think it is messed up that so many people are trying to in this nation, we move forward with the spirit of our ances- take race out of this, [but] it’s such a big role in the decision tors and lost comrades pushing us every step of the way. making. I feel like people are trying to separate [race] from These realities of police violence and criminal (in)justice being [the decision], like it’s due to the evidence, it’s not due to the exposed more and more are anything but news to black folks bodies that are involved. A white police officer and a black living [in] America — yet it still hurts, it still is a forever fresh male being killed, and so many people are not seeing that wound, constantly prodded and pricked — of course we are it’s going to play a role in the decisions. They are just saying crying out, the pain is very real.” it could have happened to two white bodies.” – Jonathan Jacob Moore, sophomore – Briyani Zain, senior

“What really struck me about the decision was that the death of Michael Brown, in a way, was not seen as worth a trial. Separate from whether Darren Wilson used lethal force appropriately, when someone is shot and there are multiple accounts of what happened, a trial is needed. I’m not saying that Wilson is innocent, or that he is guilty, just that we need to hear more, and that’s what an indictment is for.” – Ben Hoffman, junior

“The presentation of the whole thing through the media and social networks has been incredibly biased, so I haven’t been able to come to my own “I’m disappointed but unsurprised. I hope that people on conclusion of what I think should have happened.” campus are able to find and/or build spaces to constructively – Julia Rowe, junior talk about the non-indictment, Michael Brown and countless stolen black lives, Ferguson movements happening to address and fight back against the criminal justice system, and how to be involved as the active citizens that we Tufts students so like to claim to be.” – Betty Fong, sophomore

“I think the Darren Wilson decision and the ridiculous amount of con- flicting information that came out of the investigation are the strongest cases for mandating that all law enforcement officials be required to wear body cameras. While acknowledging race and fighting racism are crucial long term goals fueled by this decision, I think getting a camera on all police officers is an important short term goal to prevent future cases of blatant misinformation and needless loss of human life. It really is a tragedy that Michael Brown lost his life, and nobody knows why things had to play out this way.” – Heejae An, junior 5

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by Grace Segers varied career path was his controver- the 1930s and 1940s in Rye, New York. since Marston’s death, the early messag- Daily Editorial Board sial personal life. Marston married his Marston used the women surrounding es of Wonder Woman had impacted the childhood sweetheart, Sadie Elizabeth him as inspiration for the character he women fighting for equality decades later. Although perhaps the most well- Holloway — known after her marriage would later famously create. “The women who were marching known female superhero, Wonder as Elizabeth Holloway Marston — but in those protests and who were going Woman’s origins have remained unclear carried on an extended relationship with Enter: Wonder Woman (feminist or on strike and who were running for since her creation. The character has a woman named Olive Byrne, who also fetishist?) office — they’d grown up with Wonder been a part of American cultural history lived in the Marston family house. A Marston began Wonder Woman in Woman,” Lepore said. since 1941, when a man named William third woman, Marjorie Wilkes Huntley, 1941 and would use the character in his The childhood idol had become a Moulton Marston wrote the first comic, was also in the relationship, but she work until his death in 1947. According symbol of something greater, a power- published under the pseudonym Charles stayed with the family only occasionally. to Lepore, his character was supposed ful woman who could be enslaved but Moulton. Tufts alumna Jill Lepore’s (LA Interestingly, Olive Byrne was the to be an antidote to the violent excess- who could also fight to free ’87) new book “The Secret History of niece of Margaret Sanger, a famed birth es of the Superman and Batman herself. Wonder Woman,” published Oct. 28, control advocate and the co-founder of characters, which had been cre- attempts to fill in the blanks in Marston’s Planned Parenthood along with Byrne’s ated a few years earlier. The Book story, the character’s origins and even the mother, Ethel Byrne. When Byrne was a Yet, while Wonder Woman was “The Secret History history of American feminism. child in the 1910s, her mother and aunt purportedly to be the powerful of Wonder Woman” not In an interview with the Daily, Lepore were leading the crusade for women’s feminine response to mascu- only provides an inside argued that Wonder Woman serves as political and reproductive rights. In line comics, her stories under look into Marston’s life, an index for twentieth century femi- 1917, Ethel Byrne was even arrested for Marston’s control are quite but is also an account nism. The author rebutted the theory her efforts and went on a hunger strike. controversial. For instance, of feminism in the of feminist historical “waves” — that The Marston-Bynres family, however, Wonder Woman loses her twentieth century. is, the idea that feminism culminat- also had history on the Hill. Olive Byrne powers when she is Lepore argued that ed in 1920 with the ratification of the attended Jackson College, the wom- bound by men, and in order to com- 19th Amendment, which gave women en’s college of Tufts University, during in the early com- prehend Wonder the right to vote, and then declined the mid-1920s. She wrote for the Tufts ics she is chained Woman and in the mid-twentieth century until its Weekly and was a member of the soror- and tied this way her origins, resurgence with the women’s liberation ity Alpha Omicron Pi. It was here that with distressing the reader movement of the 1960s and 1970s. she met Marston, who was an assis- frequency. needed “Wonder Woman — which [was] real- tant professor of philosophy during her Critics have to under- ly important in the 1940s — is both senior year. When Byrne left Tufts in argued that stand inspired by the suffragists and feminists 1926, Marston did as well, and it was Marston’s fas- Marston’s and birth control activists of the 1910s at this time that the three started living cination with feminist and the inspiration for the women’s lib- together. Both Holloway and Byrne had bondage in the influences, eration movement of the 1960s … There’s influenced and assisted in Marston’s Wonder Woman and — in turn not waves at all, it’s just this generational psychological work, helping him with comics demonstrat- — the impact of connection,” Lepore said. “The Secret his experiments. When they began their ed fetishization rather the character on History of Wonder Woman” looks into unconventional living arrangement, it than feminism. According American popular the history of the superhero’s creator to was agreed that Holloway would work to Lepore, Marston’s inter- culture. understand how Wonder Woman was and Byrne would raise the children. est in binding women was “Tons of shaped by early twentieth century femi- Elizabeth Holloway Marston had two partially influenced by his people are inter- nism, which then explains her impact children by Marston, Moulton and Olive time at Tufts, where he ested in Wonder on the generation of women that read Ann. Olive Byrne also had two children, observed sorority sisters Woman,” Lepore Wonder Woman comics as children. Byrne and Donn, who were adopted by hitting each other with said. “They’re Marston but were not told as children paddles. not necessar- The life and times of William that he was their biological father. “[Martson had] ily interested Moulton Marston “So much of what was going on in that this real commitment in the history of Marston himself was a highly eccen- family was kept secret from the children, as a psychologist to the women’s struggle tric character. He was a psychologist who and there were also a lot of lies within the importance of submis- for equality, but helped invent a process of lie detecting, family. No one really quite knew … what sion,” Lepore said, attrib- the book offers which involved taking the blood pres- the arrangements really were,” Lepore uting his interest to his that because you sure of a patient and monitoring their said of the Marston family life. Despite studies at Tufts. However, can’t understand responses. He also wrote films, nov- the unusual arrangements, according Lepore also suggested Wonder Woman els and nonfiction books. Beyond his to Lepore the family lived happily in that Marston’s focus in without it.” the Wonder Woman com- While other ics was not on submis- civil rights move- sion but on freedom. ments have “The iconography embedded pow- of enslavement and erful iconic emancipation was part images in our of Marston’s mental national mem- worldview as a per- ory, the fight son who had grown for women’s up during the suffrage equality is crusades of the 1910s, one that is where women marched less pro- in chains to demonstrate lific in the their enslavement,” Lepore said. She American cultural mindset. also went on to note that Harry G. Peter, “People don’t actually know about Ethel who was the artist for Wonder Woman Byrne and her hunger strike … or when while Marston was the writer, previ- … Olive Byrne invited Margaret Sanger ously worked with Lou Rogers, a famed to come speak at Tufts’ Liberal Club, and feminist cartoonist who often showed the Tufts administration banned Sanger women in chains to highlight their from campus, so she spoke in a church oppression. Wonder Woman’s scenes of in Somerville,” Lepore said, mention- bondage were not without precedent or ing a forgotten part of Tufts history and even grounding, but Lepore did admit of American feminism. “Wonder Woman to finding its frequency dispiriting. seems to come out of nowhere and is this “The moral question is … was total creature of the 1940s, because we’ve [Marston] just borrowing those ideas really forgotten just what it was like.” about feminism and women’s power for Although the American populace has his own personal pleasure and conve- entered a new century, it is clear that nience, or did he really have this deep Wonder Woman will continue to be a commitment to political equality and large feature in popular culture in the women’s economic equality?” Lepore coming years. Warner Bros. Studios said, wondering aloud about his motives recently announced the production of behind the creation of Wonder Woman. a Wonder Woman movie directed by “The Secret History of Wonder Woman” Michelle MacLaren and starring Israeli attempts not only to resolve this prob- actress Gal Godot, to be released in 2017. lem, but to also show how Wonder The feminist implications of a female- Woman affected the feminist move- driven superhero movie may be similar ments that came after her creation. to the effects of the first Wonder Woman Wonder Woman became a symbol of comics on the women’s liberation move- the radical feminism of the 1960s and ment. Wonder Woman will continue to be 1970s, and her image even graced the an index for American feminism across Adapted from Dari Michele courtesy Jill Lepore cover of the first issue of Ms. Magazine in all types of media and cultural history. Author Lepore digs deep into Martson’s history — and that of Wonder woman — in her 1972. Even though the character’s plot- new book. lines had become increasingly domestic —Illustration by Kit Collins 6 The Tufts Daily Weekender Thursday, December 4, 2014

Events Box What’s up this weekend Looking to make your weekend artsy? Tufts Electronic Music Ensemble es and trademark choreography. (Saturday New Music Ensemble presents In C: Tufts Check out these events! presents Oh No!: Join the Tufts at 5 p.m. and again at 9:30 p.m. in Cohen NME will perform an experimental collection Fortune, Virtue and Love: An Electronic Music Ensemble as they per- Auditorium. Tickets are free at Cohen Box of music including “The Three Bs: Beethoven, Evening of Opera Scenes: Join the Tufts form a plethora of works from a vari- Office with a Tufts ID, limit two per ID.) Babbitt, Beyoncé” and an homage celebrating Opera Ensemble for a night of music and ety of artists such as Pink Floyd, J.S. the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley’s “In C.” drama as they perform works of opera and Bach and Alfonso X. Frank Lehrman Anchord presents What’s Up Charlie Guest musicians include Janet Underhill (on musical theater. Scenes to be performed directs. (Saturday at 8 p.m. in Distler Brown: Anchord performs their Fall 2014 the bassoon), Philipp Stäudlin (soprano saxo- include those from works such as “Dido Performance Hall. Admission is free, no concert this Friday. The performance phone) and Michael McLaughlin (accordion). and Aeneas” (first performed in 1689), tickets required.) will include selections from such art- (Friday at 8 p.m. in Distler Performance Hall. “Don Giovanni” (1787) and “West Side ists as Gavin DeGraw, Pentatonix and Admission is free. No tickets required.) Story” (1961). (Tonight at 8 p.m. in Distler TDC presents Kevin Bacon presents Switchfoot. (Friday at 8 p.m. in Goddard Performance Hall. Admission is free, no Loose Foot: TDC presents its fall semester Chapel. Admission is free. No tickets tickets required.) show, complete with ’80s movies referenc- required.) —by Nika Korchok

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Courtesy Andrew Schneer Ramani and fellow band members have played off campus locations like Johnny D’s. Lila Ramani: The good, the bad and the blue

by Timothy Charouk Ramani herself to embark on her own Bad and Blue. Ramani praised the facilities with Ramani’s eccentric personality alone Daily Editorial Board artistic journey of self-discovery — learn- at Tufts, expressing only one complaint. taking up half of it. ing to play the guitar as early as the fourth “I wish we could reserve more than Ramani also praised the music culture at A young Lila Ramani sat in her high grade and becoming a self-proclaimed one of the practice rooms in Granoff, Tufts, and, in particular, the many opportu- chair bobbing her head back and forth in prodigy by the fifth. Ramani complained it’s kind of hard to practice as a band in nities for bands to perform for the commu- between bites of Cheerios to the Spanish that in high school, however, practice one small room,” she said. Bad and Blue nity. Bad and Blue has performed mainly in music her parents put on the stereo. After resources were scarce; the environment is comprised of seven musicians. One Applejam shows as well as for Midnight at a checkup with the family pediatrician wasn’t particularly conducive to playing can picture the comical image of a tiny it was determined Ramani had a mild music and so she had to play under cover Granoff practice room filled to the brim see RAMANI, page 7 case of boogie fever, and was prescribed a of darkness. Once she came to Tufts, how- guitar to treat the involuntary head move- ever, everything changed for the better. ments — but the serial head-bobbing Upon her arrival, Ramani was amazed cereal eater wasn’t done yet. at the wealth of opportunities available Ramani, a junior majoring in computer for a young artist like herself. She joined science, grew up in a very artistic household. the Tufts Jazz Ensemble, meeting many “My mother runs an art space in like-minded students, some of whom Brooklyn for mixed media, and my dad would become her future bandmates and was in a Malaysian Beatles cover band. even housemates. Her band, born out of Oh, and my grandmother was a poet,” Ramani’s curiosity with ensembles, is the she said. Thus, it only made sense for now-famous (at least on campus) group,

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Thursday, December 4, 2014 The Tufts Daily Weekender 7 Tufts musician hails from artistic family Nikki Blank | A SWUG's Life RAMANI continued from page 6 SWUG Tufts. She explained that, while Applejam required them to record a few songs before agreeing to showcase their talent, Employed after being accepted, the group members benefited from terrific opportunities to rock out with their friends. ear SWUG, Ramani plans to study abroad in I went home for Thanksgiving Seville, Spain, next semester, where break and my parents and all she hopes to hone her skills in the of my friends’ parents started Spanish fingerpicking style she devel- askingD me what I’m doing after gradua- oped as a budding fourth grader. She tion. Now I’m freaking out that I haven’t also hopes to add a bit of Spanish figured out any plans, and I get so awk- flair and spice to her Amy Winehouse/ ward when I try to explain that I don’t Esperanza Spalding-influenced musi- know yet. What do I say to all these cal personality. As for the band, it’ll be people asking me about my future? taking a short hiatus. — Jobless in Seattle “We’ll have to take a break next semes- Courtesy Andrew Schneer ter, but I hope to jump straight back into Dear Jobless in Seattle, Ramani has been entranced with music since a very young age. it when I get back,” Ramani promised. Ugh. The inevitable questioning begins. Do you know what you’re doing next year? Where do you want to live? Can you get a job from your internship Artsy Nugget this summer? Are you even going to graduate? Can you pass the gravy? When being questioned, here are Bill Cosby sued over alleged assault of some possible responses that will ease the tension for both you and the adult asking: 15-year-old 1. I think I’m going to take a fifth year at school and explore the art of calligra- by Drew Robertson phy a little more. Daily Editorial Board 2. I plan on moving back home and mooching off of my parents for as long The comedy world has been turned on its as they are willing to pay for me. head of late with accusations of sexual mis- 3. I’m going to spend my parents’ conduct swirling around industry legend, money on a Euro trip, where I plan on Bill Cosby. On Tuesday, the story of the first finding myself (and a hot French boy- lawsuit to be filed as a result of recent allega- friend). tions (a 2005 case was settled out of court) 4. I’m going to move in with my boy- against Cosby broke on major news out- friend and rush into something serious lets. Over the past several weeks, about 20 that neither of us is ready for yet. women have come forward with claims that 5. I plan on moving to Austin, Boulder Cosby sexually abused them or attempted or Insert-Hipster-City-Here and learn- to do so; the most recent among them, and ing how to be a bartender. the complainant in the case against Cosby, 6. I’m going to move to a farm and is California resident, Judy Huth. learn how to live a sustainable lifestyle. In her suit, Huth describes meeting Cosby 7. I’m going to nanny for a family in 1974 on set for one of his movies in a Los on the Upper East Side and make a lot Angeles park. Cosby invited Huth and her more money than anyone else I know friend to meet him at a tennis club at a later (even the comp-sci nerds). date; the two girls accepted. Huth was 15 8. I’m going to hitchhike out west and years old at the time. On the appointed day, find odd jobs along the way. the complaint notes, Cosby gave the two 9. I’m going to graduate school teenagers alcoholic drinks and then took because I peaked in college, and I’m them to the Playboy mansion, where Huth hoping that this coolness might extend says the assault took place. into my master’s degree. Huth filed a civil lawsuit and will be 10. I’m going to find a wealthy older suing for monetary compensation for the man and hope that he spoils me and “substantial and continuing” damages maybe has some connections in the field the alleged assault caused her. The case that I say I’m interested in pursuing. attempts to address the issue of the statute 11. I’m going to become a freelance of limitations, which has expired for many writer. Hopefully my application for acts of which Cosby is accused, by claiming food stamps comes through soon! that she only recently realized the harmful 12. I’m hoping to get discovered. I effects she suffered throughout her lifetime. don’t have any talents yet, but it still News of the lawsuit came at a tumultuous could happen. I heard that’s how Paris time for Cosby. On Dec. 1 he resigned from Hilton made it. the board of Temple University, re-runs of Olivier Douliery / ABACAUSA.com 13. I’m taking some time off to recov- “The Cosby Show” (1984 – 1992) have been Bill Cosby stays quiet amid sexual assault allegations. er and recuperate after abusing my pulled from television and several appear- body for four years with debilitating ances scheduled for coming weeks have “This could possibly be one of Bill Cosby’s but I’m going to reserve my judgment … hangovers and Dewick food. been cancelled due to the allegations. last shows, if not his last,” Jacim said. I know we all have friends who have gone 14. I’m studying for the LSAT/MCAT/ Although he has kept some appearances While Cosby has declined to answer through this … It is awkward,” Goldberg said. GRE/real estate license/bartending — including one that occurred on Nov. questions or respond to the allegations While some may have taken Goldberg’s license. And I’m living at home. 28, at which Cosby performed for a sold- throughout the course of the controver- “wait-and-see” attitude to heart, the suspi- 15. I’m developing an App called out audience in Melbourne, Fla. — many sy, he broke his silence Tuesday night to cion surrounding Cosby has continued to FakeBlock. people continue to speculate if the come- thank renowned actress Whoopi Goldberg. grow in the media and among people — 16. I’m going on Birthright and dian’s career will weather the storm. Many, Appearing on The View on Nov. 18, Goldberg critics and fans alike — who have followed extending my trip indefinitely (or until including My Fox reporter Tracy Jacim, spoke controversially, expressing her skepti- his career for decades. At the very least, the they stop paying for me). reporting from outside the Melbourne cism regarding the claims. growing number of questions will demand 17. I’m moving in with my grandpar- event, have guessed that Cosby’s future “I hope that there is justice for this lady, I a swift and accurate investigation into this ents. We have the same sleep schedule. sets are numbered. hope somebody gets to the bottom of this, serious issue. 18. I’m still waiting to hear back from places. They’re playing hard to get. 19. I’m still weighing my options. Are you hiring?! Top ten things you will try to conceal from your parents for the long, 20. I’m going to be a stay at home mom. 21. I’m working on my screenplay. Do long, long, long, long break that is winter break you want to read it? 22. It’s none of your business, please Finals are happening and they’re clearly 8. That orgy: It was so wrong … so right. IMmmmmmmmmmmmm TOTALLY hand me another slice of pie. horrible. While you struggle through those soberaslkdfj tr!p[;prt.” Use any of the above, or all of the papers and those pesky in-class exams, think 7. That time you smoked a cigarette to above. Most people (besides your own forward to the beauty that will be winter look cool after some Arts Haus party: 3. Failing literally all of your classes: parents) don’t actually care about the break. It’s super long though, so the Daily You’re so deep now. Next time make sure Wanders in Space, Gospel Choir, Intro to answer that you give, just that you have Arts department has come up with a list of you capture the moment with a disposable. Community Health, Gender & Sexuality, an answer. When they move onto the things you need to hide from your parents. Peace and Justice. F,F,F,F,F. next inevitable question — “are you in Good luck. The ‘rents know all. Fools. 6. That time you stole a sweater from a relationship?” — just pull out your the bookstore: Just walk in, pull on a 2. That fist fight that happened at phone and show them adorable pic- 10. Your excessive drinking: #college sweater, walk out. It’s that easy. Helen’s: It was worth it for that corner of tures of your dog. For some reason #shutupeveryoneisafunctioningalcoholichere a lukewarm Bluezone. that’s always a sufficient answer. 5. Stealing egg salad from Dewick in Here’s to never growing up, 9. When you figured out how to bulk: What do they even put in there? 1. This is my last top ten — suck it, losers! SWUG charge JumboCash to your student It’s highlighter yellow and totally delicious. bill: Sushi from Hodgdon forever. Thanks, Mom! I know you don’t really need your 4. That time that you should have Nikki Blank is a senior majoring in English. retirement money. been TEMS’d: “I swear to Glob, —by Veronica Little She can be reached at Nicole.Blank@tufts. edu. 8 The Tufts Daily editorial | op-ed Thursday, December 4, 2014

Editorial THE TUFTS DAILY Alexander J. Schroeder Editor-in-Chief Tufts plays a part in Medford/Somerville Editorial Justin Rheingold gentrification Lily Sieradzki “Where there used to be a YMCA for While the current Tufts Medical Center scape and composition of the communi- Managing Editors Chinatown … that is now a parking lot for expansion continues to threaten lower- ty surrounding Tufts. The social and eco- New England Medical Center for Tufts,” income Chinatown residents, gentrifi- nomic impacts of gentrification often Patrick McGrath Executive News Editor Director of the Masters in Public Policy cation is not isolated to our Medical result in serious political and social con- Daniel Bottino News Editors Jenna Buckle Program and Community Practice at Center. Tufts’ presence in Medford/ flict, intensified by differences in race, Abigail Feldman Shana Friedman Tufts’ Urban and Environmental Policy Somerville is also causing gentrification, class and culture. The expansion of the Nina Goldman and Planning Department Penn Loh said. which is having a tremendous impact green line will only serve to intensify the Dana Guth Stephanie Haven Gentrification is a general term for the on these communities. Symptoms of gentrification process in Medford and Alexa Horwitz arrival of wealthier people in an urban gentrification affect both students who Somerville neighborhoods. Audrey Michael Kathleen Schmidt area, causing increases in rent and prop- are passing through and locals who have Although future construction proj- Jei-Jei-Tan erty values and leading to changes in the lived here for generations. Families must ects and development plans could help Denali Tietjen Melissa Wang area’s character and culture. The term has bear the burden of increasing rents and relieve the housing shortage students Sarah Zheng a negative connotation, often suggesting property values, caused both by college currently face on campus, the benefits Jessica Mow Executive Features Editor the displacement of poor communities students living off campus and young and consequences of future campus Maya Blackstone Features Editors of color by rich outsiders. According to adults hoping to live in an urban area expansion must be weighed. Although Hannah Fingerhut Charlotte Gilliland Loh, this is a practice Tufts University has with public transportation access. The Tufts students commonly refer to our Kendall Todd perpetuated in downtown Chinatown for resulting competition for housing and collegiate community as an independent Jake Taber Shannon Vavra decades, where the university’s expan- increasing prices forces many lower- entity, our “Tufts bubble” does not truly Sophie Dasinger Assistant Features Editors exist in a vacuum. The choices we make Mengqi Sun sion has come at the expense of an immi- income residents to move away and grant community that has resided there cut ties with neighborhoods they have as an institution greatly affect our sur- Drew Robertson Executive Arts Editor for decades. known for decades, changing the land- rounding communities. Veronica Little Senior Arts Editor Dana Guth Arts Editors Nika Korchok Timothy Charouk Assistant Arts Editors Abigail Feldman Charlotte Gilliland Amy Bu Grace Segers Alex Connors Executive Sports Editor Marcus Budline Sports Editors Sam Gold Jake Indursky Alison Kuah Tyler Maher Jorge Monroy-Palacio Maclyn Senear Jason Schneiderman Chris Warren Steven Hefter Assistant Sports Editors Wil Glavin

Annabelle Roberts Executive Op-Ed Editor Susan Kaufman Op-Ed Editors Ruchira Parikh Olivia Montgomory Ray Bernoff Cartoonists Amy Bu Keran Chen Jehan Madhani Ty Enos Jennifer Lien Nicholas Golden Editorialists Bailey Werner Naomi Ali Chloe Perez Students stock up in the dining halls. Nicholas Pfosi Executive Photo Editor Evan Sayles Photo Administrator Annie Levine Sports Photographer Ethan Chan Senior Staff Photographers John Hampson Matthew Schreiber Off the Hill | University of South Florida Christie Wu Maya Blackstone Staff Photographers Alexander Knapp Kelly Fahey Stock Image Editor Caroline Ambros Social Media Editor Ending HIV/AIDS stigma is vital to ending Rachel Sheldon Executive Multimedia Editor Blair Nodelman Senior Multimedia Editor Aastha Chadha Multimedia Editors Ethan Chan suffering Jade Chan Kristie Le where treatment has been widely avail- Even in 2014, there continue to be public Tanay Modi by Roberto Roldan Nimarta Narang The Oracle able for decades, a report from the Joint cases of this kind of humiliation, such as Josh Podolsky United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS when earlier this year Donald Sterling Grace Segers With World AIDS Day this past Monday showed that 27 percent of Americans said Magic Johnson “should be ashamed Dec. 1, people everywhere should take would prefer not to work closely with of himself” for having HIV. PRODUCTION time to think about what they can do to a woman living with the disease. Many people think that if only these end the tight grip the disease has over The fact that HIV/AIDS has historically people weren’t sleeping with every- Andrew M. Stephens sexually active adults, especially in the been associated with behaviors that have one or acting so “slutty,” they wouldn’t Production Director LGBT community. also been stigmatized by society, such contract an STI in the first place. David Westby Executive Layout Editor Although most people have moved on as drug addiction and homosexuality, It would be a shame if people’s mis- Betsy Allman Layout Editors Hannah Fingerhut from the days of HIV/AIDS being dubbed doesn’t lessen the impact the disease has guided vilification of people with HIV/ Kathy Lu “the gay cancer,” the stigma surrounding on the life of people who contract it. AIDS prevented at-risk individuals Montana Miller Reid Spagna HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted In fact, the stigma only serves to pile from seeking out new drugs such as diseases (STIs) still manifests itself in less [more trouble] onto people already fac- PReP, a new daily drug combination Noah Habeeb Executive Copy Editors Reena Karasin obvious ways. ing a life-threatening diagnosis. The used to prevent the spread of HIV, in Aastha Chadha Copy Editors The humiliation experienced by peo- National Institute on Mental Health fear of being put to shame by their Nina Goldman Sophie Krakoff ple who contract HIV/AIDS has even states that a number of studies have friends and family. Julia Russell Rachel Salzberg prompted the United Nations Secretary shown that people with HIV/AIDS are While many people may never have Jei-Jei Tan General Ban Ki-Moon to speak out more likely than the general population the opportunity or the ability to synthe- Yan Zhao Arthur Beckel Assistant Copy Editors against this stigma, saying it remains to suffer from anxiety and depression. size the drug that finally wipes out HIV/ Andrew Kager “the single most important barrier to HIV/AIDS and other STIs should be AIDS for good, everyone has the abil- Serena Kassam Caroline Watson public action.” treated like any other treatable disease, ity to create an environment in which The prevailing school of thought and the people who contract the disease people with STIs are supported rather Nitesh Gupta Executive Online Editor used to be that the more knowledge should be met with the same level of sup- than shamed. people have about the disease and the port and given the same attention as any While hundreds of millions of dollars Qinyue Yu Marketing Director Richard Yuxuan Zhang Strategy Manager more treatments became available to other sick person. might still have to be spent before a cure Caroline Talbert Media Coordinator the public, the more the stigma would Instead, many people trivial- is found, kindness and understanding fade away. ize the life-changing diagnosis by are free, and for people who have already However, it remains that even in devel- attributing the disease to person- contracted HIV/AIDS, this kind of posi- BUSINESS oped countries like the United States, al irresponsibility or moral failing. tive, humanistic response is vital. Daphne Wu Executive Business Director Li Liang Receivables Manager Chris Chininis Ad Director Correction Jade Chan Ad Managers Kristie Le In the Dec. 3 Features article “Boston Chinatown’s gentrification linked historically to Tufts Medical Center’s expansion,” the Tanay Modi Yiran Xu Director of Media Relations and Publications for Tufts Medical Center was incorrectly referred to as “Julia Jette.” Her name is, in Ariel Gizzi fact, “Julie Jette.” Joshua Morris Amanda Saban In the Dec. 3 editorial “To stay accountable, Tufts needs more transparency,” it was incorrectly stated that the Sexual Misconduct Prevention Task Force was created in response to the university’s non-compliance with Title IX. In fact, it was created in the fall semester of the 2013-2014 school year. Additionally, students and administrators are, in fact, able to talk about the working group P.O. Box 53018, Medford, MA 02155 617 627 3090 FAX 617 627 3910 meetings after they take place. [email protected]

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Op-Ed Walt Laws-MacDonald | Show Me the Money Beyond XY Franchise by Renee' Vallejo

Many people view top surgery as a trans- and fandom formative experience from which a new per- son emerges. While top surgery will impact hree and a half seconds. Knicks ball. my life tremendously, I do not view the My brother — aka Mookie procedure as a transformation at all. As a aka Mini Walt aka The Small gender non-conforming identified person, Mailman aka “he’s way cooler I acknowledge the experience of living a Tthan you” (I know!) — and I stood in sexual and gender duality. I recognize the nervous excitement, along with the capabilities and limitations that my body other 19,800 fans at the Garden that has in terms of encompassing all of my gen- night. As a native New Yorker, I have der identity. For me, that means embracing suffered through years of lost seasons, the combination of comfort with my sexual confidence-shattering midseason anatomy, but discomfort with the breasts breakdowns and painful, heartbreak- that take away from the masculine aesthetic ing last second collapses. that I express. The physical change that I “But Walt,” you might say, “What intend to undergo will not alter the person I about the Yankees and their 27 cham- have been, but it will close the gap between pionships, or the Giants and their what I experience internally and how that is Super Bowl victories over the Pats?” reflected in my physique. What I look forward No. to most about the outcome of this is wholly Just as my father before me, I have experiencing myself in the mirror of my self- been passed the torch of New York reflection. sports anguish, which I must dutifully A long journey of self discovery, explo- bear and pass on to the next genera- ration and affirmation of my boyhood has tion, just as the late, great Fast Eddie brought me to this point in my life. From did after his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers the time of my childhood, I have felt the left for California in 1957. So here I Courtesy of Renee’ Vallejo influence of my preferred gender expres- am, a Knicks, Mets and Jets fan, with- sion — along with its consequences. It was I have become comfortable in vocalizing This surgery is not a step for me, but out a single championship in my 21 mysterious to me that the importance of LGBTQ concerns as a student activist and rather the full necessary change that will years of life. In 2008, I gave up on the frills and “feminine” behavior outweighed educator. I share my story and experiences, make me comfortable in my skin and Mets. Back-to-back collapses in the the feelings that I actually had towards what but also advocate for human rights through mind. I feel that my surgery is important final game of the season were simply I wanted to do. Being excommunicated by youth outreach, events on college campuses because it is a representation of the broad too much. I haven’t watched a baseball half of my family when I came out at the and work with LGBTQ organizations. This spectrum that the word “transgender” game since. In 2011, Mark Sanchez age of fifteen taught me that who I am and active role that I have taken in my life has refers to. The fact that I am not a female- made me give up on the Jets, and I what is imposed on me will be a conflict encouraged me to think beyond the con- to-male individual does not take away haven’t been able to bring myself to that I encounter for the rest of life. This is a fines of what society and my own body have from the physical anxiety I feel within a watch a game since. common sentiment among those who are afforded me. I have come to terms with my body that does not encompass my per- Pablo Prigioni inbounds the ball to not under the umbrella of heteronormativity, physical body as a half-complete represen- sonal identity. I am proud to push the J.R. Smith. I clench my fists. Memories but the internal battle between my sex and tation of myself, but I have also learned boundaries of gender by being a non- of game-winning, fade-away jumpers gender identity was a crisis that I did not find that settling is not the way to achieve self conforming person, and I will be even are muddled by air balls, bricks and much support for. The curvy lumps on my and outward acceptance. This surgery is a more proud to bear that limitlessness in pull-up threes from barely half-court. chest made my face burn at every exami- turning point in my journey because my my physicality. On Dec. 8, 2014 my life will Melo calls for the ball. “PASS!” I nation in the mirror. I felt like I was in the physical changes will be a concrete symbol change completely and happily. scream. But J.R. cannot hear me. middle of an ambiguous place, welcoming of of the challenges, learning and self-love that J.R. cannot see me. Madison Square my biological sex but incredibly frustrated by I’ve experienced. I will be empowered by Garden, the Mecca, rocks with excite- the breasts that interfered with my masculine the outward expression of an identity I have Renee' Vallejo is a junior majoring in child ment. J.R. pulls a crossover, steps back expression. Today, explaining the fluidity of felt my whole life, and that opportunity is study and human development. They can and launches a three. The ball hangs my identity is still a challenge that I face, but invaluable to me. be reached at [email protected]. in the air. J.R.’s mind fast-forwards to tonight’s turn-up at 1 Oak. “Man, this Op-Ed party has everything. Snake Juice, DJ Baby Bok Choy and who’s that? It’s PC, the older guy who went to Dwight from How “green” is Tufts really? NYC Prep. He’s a promoter now.” The buzzer sounds as the ball smacks off by Claire Chen tutions, like Tufts, must brand itself with to cent of “green” products commit at least the corner of the backboard. Knicks lose. seem relevant. The Office of Sustainability some degree of greenwashing by hiding So why do I still watch? Why does Compassion and altruism are two traits at Tufts claims that “campus sustain- information, providing no proof, being anyone care? What’s the point? we are taught to strive toward from a young ability is now part of the fabric of [life vague, irrelevant or even by providing As the case is with almost every- age. But what happens when corporations at Tufts]”. Sure, “water use is down by false labels. As consumers and members thing I discuss in this column, it’s and institutions capitalize on that same 10 percent since 1990”, but what about of an academic institution, we are con- money. Most New York sports franchis- sense of active citizenship? No matter indirect water usage in the production of stantly being greenwashed without even es, despite their ability to shatter even where we turn, we’ll see signs or products food supplied on campus? “Students can knowing it. The bold statements made on the lowest of expectations and bring telling us to be “green and sustainable.” rent hybrid vehicles as part of a shared the Office of Sustainability’s website can grown men to tears, are worth north However, the need to live sustainably has vehicle program,” but how many of us exaggerate how environmentally friendly of $1 billion each. Sports franchises unfortunately turned into the perfect mar- are actually making use of the hybrids? campus life actually is. make money in a myriad of different keting strategy targeted toward those who While dining services does offer organic While Tufts has succeeded in the eas- ways: ticket sales, TV deals and spon- are, like myself, vulnerable and desperate and local foods, the amount of it is close ier tasks of sustainability, acts of envi- sors all contribute to the business. And to do anything to make a difference. to insignificant. Last time I checked, the ronmental destruction still pervade on a at their heart, that’s how most teams In the weeks leading up to my arrival number of organic items at Dewick at any deeper level. For instance, we are told to operate: as businesses. Even the worst at Tufts, I was scrolling through the Tufts given meal rounded out at three. I’ve seen take shorter showers but just one ham- franchises can still turn a profit, while Dining website trying to gauge what I’d be “local” apples only on the rare occasion. burger can take 660 gallons of water to the teams with the highest payrolls eating for the next few years. After read- “Renewable energy helps power Sophia make, which is equivalent to showering (*cough* Yankees *cough*) aren’t nec- ing, “By purchasing local, organic and Fair Gordon Hall, the LEED Gold residence for two months. So while we’re being told essarily bound to do well. Trade products, Tufts dining contributes to hall.” The photovoltaic and solar hot water to take matters into our own hands, there But calling a team a business ignores a more sustainable campus while increas- systems sure do sound fancy and “earth- are actually plenty of unsustainable prac- what it really is. A team is a legacy, and ing food systems awareness among staff friendly,” but what about the other hun- tices out of our control. Is it still possible an integral part of a city’s history. Owning and students,” I instantly jumped to the dred or so buildings on the Medford/ for Tufts to call itself sustainable if dining a franchise is a source of pride. The conclusion that all food served at Tufts Somerville campus? And yes, recycling is services still serves hamburgers, or other Steinbrenner family has been synony- would be organic. What I didn’t realize was part of everyday life in the form of recy- forms of meat? Can Tufts be truly envi- mous with the Yankees for decades, while that I was being greenwashed by the clever cling bins but is recycling alone enough to ronmentally sustainable if it continues Steve Ballmer’s purchase of the Clippers wording that has probably tricked many curb climate change? While I’m not trying to invest $70 million of its endowment allowed the life-long basketball fanatic to others too. With this false pretense in mind, to dismiss the efforts Tufts has put into into fossil fuel companies? We are told to live out his childhood dream. I was surprised to find that most of the food creating a more sustainable campus, I do reduce, recycle and reuse, but we are not And that’s why millions of New York was not organic or local. The only foods wonder to what extent the proclaimed told about the devastating environmental sports fans — myself included — will consistently labeled as organic were the acts of sustainability are actually what impacts of animal agriculture or about continue to allow their team to twist black beans, brown rice and nonfat vanilla they’re made to sound like. how our tuition is helping to fund the fos- every last ounce of emotion out of yogurt. Is it fair for dining services to make Corporations and institutions use gre- sil fuel industry. them. Moments like Mike Piazza’s such bold claims when the vast majority of enwashing to promote the perception If we want to curb climate change, we homerun on Sept. 21, 2001, Linsanity food is still commercially produced? While that their products, aims or policies are cannot remain fixated on and distract our- and David Tyree’s helmet catch bring the amount of organic and local food pro- environmentally friendly. Their leverage selves with minute accomplishments. We value to the franchise, and bring value vided at Tufts is miniscule in truly raising is our growing vulnerability to anything need to focus our attention onto larger, to fanhood. They make the insane feel awareness about issues surrounding the remotely related to environmental friend- policy level change. Here at Tufts, we can possible. commercial food system, it does hit the nail liness. Consumers and companies alike begin doing that by being cognizant of I had a great time with my little brother on the head from a marketing perspective. are attracted to terms such as “green” or exaggerated marketing and by demanding that night, even if the Knicks lost. I, like many others, bought into the notion “sustainable,” as it makes it seem that by more transparency. But still, goddamn it, J.R. and was greenwashed that Tufts was sus- buying a “green” product, we are doing tainable and good because of the way it our part in the environmental move- advertised itself. ment. However, the buzzwords associ- Claire Chen is a first-year who has not yet Walt is a senior majoring in quantitative The concept of “sustainability” has ated with environmental friendliness are declared a major. She can be reached at economics. He can be reached at Walt. almost become a requirement that insti- extremely vague. An astounding 95 per- [email protected]. [email protected].

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Editors’ Challenge | Week 14 Hey sports fans, the sports editors are back with Editors’ Challenge for week 14 Alex “Camp Rock” Schroeder hasn’t been seen much in the sports section this of the NFL season. In this, the final installment of Eds’ Challenge this semester, a semester, and now we finally know why. He’s been living at a summer camp for musi- champion will be crowned at last. For those of you keeping score at home...please cally gifted teens, and after developing a romance with Joe Jonas, decided he wanted get a life. to stay for the semester. With all the cold weather we’ve been having lately, the sports editors have been Wil “The Thirteenth Year” Glavin is finally going through puberty this semester, but holed up in the Daily office watching our favorite Disney Channel movies. it’s not making him better at picking NFL games. Other strange things are happening Maclyn “Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century” Senear is easily the best looking sports to him though; Wil isn’t growing up, he’s growing fins! editor, so girls flock to him like a teen pop sensation. Will you be his super nova girl? Steven “Halloweentown” Hefter is so ugly that he looks like he’s from Chris “Smart House” Warren has the full knowledge and intelligence of a comput- Halloweentown. Yikes. That was just mean. I feel bad. erized house behind him, but he’s still one game out of first place. I guess he should Jorge “Luck of the Irish” Monroy-Palacio makes his picks every week wearing a just make his picks this week and then go back to asking the refrigerator to make shamrock hat and a Boston Celtics jersey, trying to get lucky and actually pick some him a smoothie. games right. But it hasn’t really worked out for him, probably because he’s not actu- Jake “High School Musical” Indursky watches the trilogy and remembers his high ally Irish. school glory days as the star basketball player and school heartthrob. But hopefully Alex “The Even Stevens Movie” Connors is going to win Editors’ Challenge and Troy Bolton ages better than Jake, who’s old and washed up and in second to last earn the grand prize of an all expenses paid trip to a tropical island. He’s very excited place in Editor’s Challenge. What a shame. and not even the least bit suspicious about how the Daily could afford such an expen- Tyler “Cheetah Girls” Maher and his posse can be seen around campus wearing sive prize. matching leopard print outfits and clearly lip syncing horrible songs just like their idol Alison “ Stuck in the Suburbs” Kuah loves covering the soccer team because she Raven-Symoné. secretly dreams of being a soccer mom, driving a minivan and living in a split-level Sam “Cadet Kelly” Gold has been so bad this semester that his parents can’t put 45 minutes outside of Phoenix. up with it anymore. His 78-98 record is so horrible that they have decided to send Annabelle “Johnny Tsunami” Roberts brought her surfboard all the way from the him to military school next year. Op-ed section to show the sports editors her tricks and offer us her guest picks.

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Fernandez should follow in the footsteps of Bumgarner Steven Hefter | The Association The future and Sale INSIDE THE MLB of NBA continued from back tracts within players’ first six seasons rely heavily on playing time. An injury jerseys is therefore detrimental to both short- ionel Messi recently broke both the La term contracts and long-term potential Liga and Champions League scoring to sign a large contract. Fernandez will records. In September, Qatar Airways have missed a full season by the time received its five millionth Facebook he comes back and by then he may not like,L making it the second most “liked” be the same pitcher he was before. He global airline. Its social media presence has could miss out on many millions of dol- increased dramatically as the five-star air- lars by signing a contract now, but if he line has accrued over 300,000 Twitter fol- never lasts a full season again, he will lowers and placed third among airlines on wish he had a safety net like Bumgarner Instagram. What do these two accomplish- and Sale do. ments have to do with each other, and how Think of it a different way: If Fernandez do they affect the NBA? signs a $40 million contract with the Well, of course, every time Messi suits up Marlins, in the best case scenario, he in his red and blue FC Barcelona kit, he also would pitch excellently through his next markets Qatar Airways. Who does not want six seasons and sign an exorbitant con- to associate themselves with one of the best tract a few years after he would have clubs in the world? The advertisement on the had he not agreed to the extension. In front and center of the FC Barca jersey links the worst case, he flames out and makes the success of the club, and Messi himself, $40 million guaranteed during a short with the airline. This is just one example of career. If Fernandez does not sign the how advertisements on jerseys can grow and contract, in the best case, he will still develop the brand of a certain company. Yet earn an exorbitant amount of money. the NBA has not adopted this. In the worst case, however, he will have Even though ads have not made it onto the virtually no life savings. jersey, they still are heavily present in NBA Ultimately the question is how arenas. One example of this is that only two big Fernandez’s next contract might NBA arenas currently do not feature a corpo- be. Projecting Fernandez’s future produc- rate name, after New Orleans Arena became Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/MCT tion based on similar player performance the Smoothie King Center earlier this year. Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez throws against the Atlanta Braves on April 22. (and thereafter estimating arbitration These are Madison Square Garden and The results), we should expect Fernandez to Palace of Auburn Hills. Deals between fran- make roughly $25 million throughout his $40 million) over the next six seasons Fernandez will agree to the lowball offer. chises and corporate sponsors for the nam- remaining four years under team control by signing the deal, and even then, he In the end, Fernandez may be a ing rights of the arenas make sense for both in the best case scenarios. Thereafter, would likely be able to sign a contract genius. Bumgarner and Sale would have parties involved. On one hand, the franchise it would not be especially surprising if worth more than $100 million directly looked like geniuses if they waited as receives millions of dollars from the corpo- he signs a contract on the free agent after. This may seem like a small enough well. However, for every Bumgarner or rate sponsor. On the other hand, the sponsor market worth $30 million per season. price sacrifice to have guaranteed money Sale, there’s a Brett Anderson or Brandon receives a public advertisement that does not Therefore, in the best case scenarios, he upfront. However, as Scott Boras, one of Beachy, and being financially set for life always seem like an intrusion on fans’ and would be missing out on roughly $45 the toughest agents in baseball, repre- should be the first priority for a 22 year consumers’ attention. million ($25 million + $30 million *2 – sents Fernandez, it is very unlikely that old like Fernandez. The league has approved other in-arena and on-court advertisement ideas, but the issue that has created more questions than answers has been ads on jerseys. One prob- Tufts falls to 1-7 on the season lem is that owners have not figured out a system for how to share the money, which WOMEN’S SQUASH son,” Udolf said. “As a freshman I want Jumbos return, however, they will have a is the same issue that caused the lock- continued from back to absorb everything I possibly can.” busy rest of the season and will look to out that shortened the 2011-2012 season. lenging opponent: The team’s record Like Udolf, Dahlman was realistic improve their record, which currently Former commissioner David Stern stated rests at 3-1, and it has only lost to No. about the two losses. sits at 1-7. Within just the first two weeks that he was personally against the idea of 2 Trinity College. “Going into that weekend, we were of the start of the 2015 season, they will advertisements that would compromise “I needed to have taken a more expecting some tough matches — and face Bates, Haverford, Boston College, the integrity of the NBA uniform. But cur- aggressive position on court in order frankly, it would have been a big upset St. Lawrence, Northeastern and Colby rent commissioner Adam Silver said, “I to have had a closer match [against had we won,” Dahlman said. “Yet, we in matches that will likely give them think it’s inevitable,” at the 2014 IMG World Middlebury],” Dahlman said. are so close to flipping the results with ample opportunity to work out their Congress of Sports presented by Sports Luckily for the Jumbos, this is only the some of our opponents — we just need kinks. The team will also be bolstered by Business Daily/Journal. In addition to the beginning of the season. Udolf, who has to work our some minor kinks.” former top-position player and junior tri- $100 million that NBA teams could gain been playing in the top position, remains Despite the tough start to the season, captain Paget Stanco, who will be return- from these ads, Silver believes that it is an positive about not only her opportunity to Tufts will have two more chances for wins ing from a semester abroad. Where she integral way for sponsors to connect with become a better player but also her oppor- before winter break when they take on will be ranked on the team does not mat- fans and vice versa. As the NBA grows, tunity to become a better teammate. No. 32 Vassar College and No. 22 Colby ter, however, as she will provide much- Silver wants to reel in as much revenue as “I am really excited about this sea- College on Friday and Saturday. When the needed experience to the lineup. possible, and in this case, it means break- ing from the tradition of having sponsor- less uniforms. Whether you are a fan of the advertise- First-year Dillon contributes to depth of Jumbos’ team ments or not, they are coming. Silver has made great strides in marketing NBA bas- WOMEN’S BASKETBALL the ball really tires the defense. Eventually this season (albeit just six games into the ketball, and he believes that jersey ads are continued from back we’re able to get open, and often.” season), averaging eight points per game the next piece of the puzzle. One of the main was 4-of-6 from beyond the arc with six First-year Lauren Dillon played a sea- compared to the 7.8 points per game she issues with the idea is how the owners and rebounds and four assists in just 22 min- son-high 18 minutes and is averaging averaged over last season. the players will share the money. The NBAPA utes of play. the third most playing time per game Morehead’s play will also have a big and the owners both have the option of opt- Three of the team’s starters were in for a guard, behind starters senior tri- impact on the development of Dillon as ing out of the current Collective Bargaining double-digits on Tuesday night: Foley (16), captain Kelsey Morehead and Roberson. a backup point guard this season. Dillon’s Agreement in 2017, which will likely happen, sophomore forward Michela North (15) She recorded five assists against Wheaton development will be crucial to the team’s especially if there are questions about how and senior tri-captain Hayley Kanner (12). and is averaging 9.8 minutes per game on depth, especially if the the Jumbos look to revenue is being split. Tufts held a 29-9 differential in points from the season. match or surpass last season’s Final Four Ultimately, this is about making money. turnovers, aided by North’s game-high five “I’m the backup point guard so I go in showing. Opponents of the idea would say that the steals. Roberson posted a game-high six when Kelsey [Morehead] needs a rest or “It’s been awesome having Kelsey NBA does not need ads to sell merchan- assists, as the Jumbos displayed their char- the team needs a boost of energy,” Dillon Morehead as someone to look up to, dise, which is correct. Supporters would say acteristic unselfish offensive play. said. “I’m more of a facilitator, as com- because she plays in a very similar way to that this is tapping into an underutilized “Everyone was on yesterday [and] mak- pared to looking for [baskets for] myself, me,” Dillon said. “We’re pretty similar [in] resource and that the league would ben- ing shots, so it makes it easier to pick up and that’s how I’ve always played. I’m height and we have more of a drive-and- efit from increased revenue and fan engage- assists,” Roberson said. “I think that [in always looking to get my teammates the kick mindset, pass-first [mindset], so it’s ment. Either way, it doesn’t really matter. Get our team] everyone is an offensive threat, best opportunity to score as possible.” been great to be able to ask questions, and used to seeing a big fat ad on the jerseys of so [the defense] can’t really focus to take Morehead is averaging 29.2 minutes for her to be able to tell me what to do to your favorite team. away one player. Between our guards and per game this season, compared to the ease my transition into the system.” our forwards everyone can score, so the 35 minutes per game she averaged last Tufts hosts non-conference oppo- defense has to be on us to guard everyone. season, and is looking to capitalize off the nent Fitchburg State University this Steven Hefter is a junior majoring in It’s difficult to guard five people for 30 sec- additional resting time she gets during Saturday at 2 p.m. in its final home economics. He can be reached at Steven. onds on every offensive play, so moving games. Morehead has been more efficient game of the semester. [email protected]. 12

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by Alison Kuah Daily Editorial Board

Fueled by a season-high 45 points in the first half, Tufts improved to 6-0 on the sea- sonJumbos' after handing the 4-0 Wheaton45-point College first half carries team to 6-0 start

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (6-0 Overall, 0-0 NESCAC) at Norton, Mass., Monday Tufts 45 26 — 71 Wheaton 18 24 — 42 team its first loss of the season on Monday night. The Jumbos shot 47.4 percent (18-for- 38) from the field and 57.1 percent (8-for-14) from distance in the first half to build up a 27-point advantage heading into halftime. Tufts scored 13 unanswered points to start the game and rolled to a 21-4 tally, as Wheaton senior forward Abbie Brickley was the only opposing player able to get on the board in the first 11-and-a-half min- utes. Brickley scored the first four points for her team and led her team in points and rebounds, with 12 and eight, respectively. “Coach has been talking about start- ing our games with more energy,” junior guard Emma Roberson said. “We’ve come out a little flat the past couple of games, so we’d been focusing on coming out stron- ger to start the games.[The game against Wheaton] is really the best example of that.” During the Jumbos 21-4 run, each of the five starters tallied at least two points, headlined by senior tri-captain Hannah Foley’s eight-point outburst that included a pair of three pointers. Foley finished with 16 points on 6-of-11 shooting and Nicholas Pfosi / The Tufts Daily see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 11 Senior tri-captain point guard Kelsey Morehead drives to the basket during the Jumbos’ 74-51 victory against Brandeis on Nov. 22.

Women’s Squash Jumbos fall in two NESCAC matches before Thanksgiving break by Catherine Worley a lead. Unfortunately, though, I did not Daily Staff Writer manage to string together enough win- ning points in that game, or the suc- The No. 27 Women’s Squash Team ceeding ones, to win the match.” closed out a tough weekend before According to first-year Claudia Udolf, Thanksgiving break against two dif- the team is remaining positive and has ficult opponents, losing to both No. been practicing well. 15 Middlebury College and No. 16 “The team is continuing to stay Hamilton College by a score of 9-0 strong and work even harder in prac- on Nov. 23 and Nov. 22, respective- tice,” Udolf said. ly. Although the Jumbos were not able “I saw some great squash from to pull out any individual wins, there other members of our team, especially were some positives for the team, as Udolf,” Dahlman added. many of the matches were competitive. The team lost all of its individual Against Hamilton, senior tri-captain matches against Middlebury in three Paige Dahlman lost a very tight match games each, but Dahlman said that for in five games, 9-11, 5-11, 11-8, 11-6, this contest the results were not indic- 11-6. First-year Lauren Banner also lost ative of how Tufts played. Although her match in a similarly tight five-gam- Dahlman and senior tri-captain Ann er, 8-11, 11-6, 11-2, 9-11, 12-10. Bellinger both fell in close matches, “I was disappointed to lose my 11-7, 11-3, 11-3 and 11-2, 11-7,11-9, Hamilton match,” Dahlman, who played respectively, Middlebury was a chal- TUFTS Daily ARCHIVES in the second position, said. “I was up The women’s squash team fell to 1-7 on the season with losses to Middlebury and Hamilton two games and entered the third with see WOMEN’S SQUASH, page 11 last week.

Inside the MLB Jose Fernandez should accept the Marlins' lowball offer by Morris Greenberg Young players these days tend to sign a team-friendly deal, rather than having age of 25, he has made just $20 million Daily Staff Writer team-friendly contracts to have guar- to wait through six full seasons before in his career. On Tuesday, two formerly anteed money. For instance, Madison becoming a free agent. hyped young pitchers, Kris Medlen and Just weeks after the Marlins signed Bumgarner and Chris Sale, two of the Fernandez is extremely good. He may Brandon Beachy, were non-tendered by their power-hitting star Giancarlo top pitchers in baseball, are currently be the best pitcher in baseball this com- the Braves after missing all of last season Stanton to a 13-year, $325 million con- signed to six-year, $35 million, and five- ing season, even though he will miss at due to injury. Both have made under $10 tract, they offered a six-year, $40 million year, $32.5 million contracts, respec- least the first third of the season and million in their dwindling careers. deal to pitcher Jose Fernandez. tively. They are also likely the two best may give more value to the Marlins than Cherry picking a few examples is always Fernandez is in a unique situation. He pitching assets in baseball, since they either Bumgarner or Sale provides to easy to do to support an argument, but is one year removed from possibly the each could probably earn $30 million a their teams. However, there is too much Jose Fernandez is susceptible to future greatest season ever pitched by a 20 year year if they were free agents. Still, both risk involved to lose out on a guaranteed injuries too. In 2013, Russell Carleton of old, and was lights out in his 51 innings players secured their futures, locking up $40 million. He can learn from the les- Baseball Prospectus found that pitchers this past season. However, he was injured over $30 million of guaranteed money son provided by pitcher Brett Anderson. who have been injured before are eight for the majority of last season, and is early in their careers. Players can only Anderson was once considered to be a times more likely than other pitchers scheduled to miss the first two months of hit the free agent market after six years shining young star on the cusp of great- to be injured again. Additionally, con- this season recovering from Tommy John of service in the Major Leagues, so a ness, but after spending time on the surgery. young player has an incentive to accept disabled list 5 different times before the see INSIDE THE MLB, page 11