THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY EST. 1980 THE TUFTS DAILY VOLUME LXXX, ISSUE 54 MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, MASS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2020 tuftsdaily.com Tufts sees decrease in mental health-related calls during COVID-19 pandemic ANN MARIE BURKE / THE TUFTS DAILY Tufts Counseling and Mental Health Services is pictured on Aug. 28. by Jack Maniaci Julie Ross, director of Ross wrote in an email to the “The decrease correlates with health. Michelle Bowdler, exec- Contributing writer Counseling and Mental Health Daily. “Although the phones are the lower percentage of students utive director of health and well- Services, described how the busy and we are working with on campus, as remote learning ness services, explained some of Counseling and Mental decrease in calls differed from many students, we had expect- makes it possible for students the ways in which the COVID- Health Services has seen a CMHS’ expectations. ed a significant uptick in calls living at home to continue with 19 pandemic has impacted stu- decrease in mental health-re- “Nationally, we are see- but have seen a slight decrease their care providers there rather dents’ lives. lated calls from on-campus ing reports of increased men- instead.” than transitioning to on-campus “This pandemic has led to students, despite the COVID- tal health-related distress and This trend is associated with care,” Ross said. fewer traditional social options 19 pandemic and restrictions somewhat decreased use of the fewer number of students Despite the decrease in calls and many clubs and activities imposed to ensure the health campus mental health services residing on campus, according to CMHS, the pandemic has and safety of students. since the start of the pandemic,” to Ross. still affected students’ mental see DECREASE, page 2 Harvard Professor Benjamin Wilson discusses elite scientists, nuclear weapons by Michael Weiskopf which includes an analysis of later became an anti-nuclear Wilson later discussed how age, had been far too simple,” Contributing Writer the military-industrial complex voice during the Cold War. He scientists who were a part of Wilson wrote. and network of military, cor- said that unknown to many what Mills called the “power He added that scientific Tufts’ Science, Technology porate and political interests Americans at the time, Bethe elite” influenced nuclear policy elites’ conflicts of interest led and Society program hosted that have a strong influence on served as a science adviser to the in favor of the military-indus- to distractions from the greater, Benjamin Wilson, assistant pro- U.S. policy, at the expense of federal government while also trial complex, despite publicly underlying issues at play. fessor of the history of science at American citizens. working as a private consultant opposing it. “Of course, they did crit- Harvard University, on Dec. 4 as He said that the notion of for the Avco Corporation, which “Stability tells us more about icize nuclear policy and the part of its Lunch Seminar Series. nuclear stability during the sought to deploy anti-ballistic the lives and social positions arms race. But what they Wilson’s lecture, “The Cold War was shaped not by missile systems in suburbs of of the people who formulate it tended not to criticize were Scientific Power Elite in the Age science or by theories of inter- major U.S. cities. than it does about a world with the powerful set of social and of Nuclear Weapons,” focused national relations, but rather by Wilson said Bethe’s story is nuclear weapons,” Wilson said. economic relations that made on the relationship between the interests of the military-in- representative of the relation- He expanded on these ideas continuous weapons develop- anti-nuclear scientists and the dustrial complex. ship between the scientific in a later email to the Daily. ment possible,” Wilson said. military-industrial complex Wilson also discussed a case elite and the military-industrial “It suggest[s] that our “This turned the Cold War during the Cold War. study involving Hans Bethe, a complex. understanding of the struc- nuclear debate, at times, into Wilson began the event by German American physicist “[The elite] is a closed group tures that drove the nuclear a kind of political theater.” discussing C. Wright Mills’ who worked on the Manhattan that protects itself from outside arms race, and our narratives 1956 book “The Power Elite,” Project during World War II and accountability,” Wilson said. about scientists in the nuclear see NUCLEAR , page 2 NEWS 1 ARTS / page 4 FEATURES / page 3 SPORTS / back FEATURES 3 Bad Bunny’s new album First-years discuss highs, Postponed games leave ARTS & POP CULTURE 4 isn’t his best of the year, lows of adjusting to cam- some teams better off in FUN & GAMES 6 but still impresses pus during COVID-19 the NFL OPINION 7 SPORTS BACK 2 THE TUFTS DAILY | NEWS | Tuesday, December 8, 2020 tuftsdaily.com THE TUFTS DAILY STS program aims to put STEM topics in social context ALEX VIVEROS Editor in Chief through humanities, social science methods EDITORIAL Rebecca Barker Hannah Harris Managing Editors Jake Freudberg Associate Editors Jilly Rolnick Alejandra Carrillo Executive News Editor Maddie Aitken Deputy News Editor Jessica Blough News Editors Tom Guan Liza Harris Alex Janoff Matt McGovern Sara Renkert Sarah Sandlow Anton Shenk Carolina Espinal Assistant News Editors Sam Klugherz Alexander Thompson Alicia Zou Ryan Shaffer Executive Features Editor Sid Anand Features Editors Amelia Becker Jillian Collins Claire Fraise Evelyn McClure Kayla Butera Assistant Features Editor Megan Szostak Executive Arts Editor Devina Bhalla Arts Editors Ryan Eggers Steph Hoechst Tuna Margalit Chris Panella Yas Salon Elizabeth Sander Colette Smith Rebecca Tang Geoff Tobia Drew Weisberg Assistant Arts Editor Liz Shelbred Executive Opinion Editor Priya Padhye Op-ed Editor Paloma Delgado Senior Editorialists Amulya Mutnuri Mike Wilkinson Caroline Wolinsky Abhilasha Bhasin Editorialists Eliza Dickson Sara Kessel Milli Lu Emily Nadler Grace Prendergast Faye Thijssen GUNNAR KLACK / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Sam Wilner Julia Baroni Editorial Cartoonists The Harvard University Science Center is pictured. Carys Kong Annabel Nied Valeria Velasquez NUCLEAR technology policy today, some “We invited Professor Wilson every year,” Duchin wrote in Juju Zweifach continued from page 1 publicly visible and vocal sci- because we think his research an email to the Daily. “We’re Sruthi Kocherlakota Executive Sports Editor Tim Chiang Sports Editors Wilson also noted after the entists are involved in behind- is thought-provoking and rep- all about using tools from Matt Goguen Jeremy Goldstein lecture that conflicts of interest the-scenes relationships that resents one of many important humanities and social science Aiden Herrod among scientists are as wide- would surprise us if we knew corners of the STS field.” to put STEM topics in social Pranav Jain Ananda Kao spread as they were during the all the details.” Moon Duchin, associate context.” Delaney Tantillo Arpan Barua Assistant Sports Editors Cold War. Samantha Fried, program professor of mathematics and Fried echoed Duchin’s senti- Jacob Dreyer Henry Gorelik “It seems like every other manager of STS and civic stud- director of the STS program, ments regarding the relevance Ethan Ling day you hear about a new case ies, explained how Wilson was said that the military-indus- of Wilson’s lecture to Tufts’ STS Arnav Sacheti Alex Sharp of medical research where ties selected to speak as part of the trial complex and idea of sci- program. Eric Spencer to the pharmaceutical indus- STS Lunch Seminar. entific elites are both frequent “In general, histories of Austin Clementi Executive Investigative Editor try haven’t been fully dis- “When we plan our roster of themes in STS courses at Tufts. defense-funded science tend Arlo Moore-Bloom Executive Audio Editor closed, for example,” he said. speakers, we look for folks who “We actually ran a whole to pop up here and there in Anne Marie Burke Executive Photo Editors Nicole Garay “The conflicts I uncovered in are working on topics that we class on Physics and Society in many STS readings and discus- Aidan Chang Staff Photographers Patrick Milewski my research were hidden by think will be interesting and the 20th Century a few years sions, because so much of the Menqi Irina Wang design … So it could be that meaningful to students,” Fried ago, and we have ‘reading labs’ science we have today derived Austen Money Executive Video Editor in critical areas of science and wrote in an email to the Daily. that touch on these themes from those projects,” she said. PRODUCTION Kevin Zhang Production Director Counseling and Mental Health Services works to accommodate Rachel Hsin Executive Layout Editors Yanqing Huang students in quarantine, isolation Laura Mogannam Campbell Devlin Layout Editor DECREASE flict related to interacting with vices are offered remotely at Daily. “And the dynamic of talking continued from page 1 others who are not adhering to this time.” to another college student anon- Tys Sweeney Executive Graphics Editor Sam Farbman Graphic Designers of great importance to students the restrictions, so it seems to cut However, CMHS has also ymously helps some people feel Freya Gupta Helen He have been curtailed,” Bowdler both ways,” Ross said. developed new ways to offer sup- more comfortable than talking to Kristina Marchand wrote in an email to the Daily. “As CMHS has remained avail- port to students. an adult, professional, or friend in Calisa Sana Ethan Schreiber well, some students have experi- able to accommodate students “We have expanded our work- person.” Ethan Steinberg Executive Copy Editors enced loss in their families and quarantining or isolating, shop/support meeting offerings Sohenee Banerjee, a junior Colton Wolk Brendan Hartnett Deputy Copy Editors other families have experienced should they come into contact in efforts to facilitate peer con- and another member of Ears for Julian Perry job loss or are in jobs as first with COVID-19.