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FOOTBALL Kraten discusses sustainable fashion, ExCollege course Jumbos cap off season with see FEATURES / PAGE 3 close loss vs. Middlebury JPEGMAFIA brings electric energy to the Sinclair SEE SPORTS / BACK PAGE see ARTS&LIVING / PAGE 4 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY EST. 1980 HE UFTS AILY VOLUME LXXVIII, ISSUE 46T T D MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, MASS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2019 tuftsdaily.com Hearing on Baker’s vape ban to be held on Nov. 22 COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS A man exhales a cloud of vapor from his electronic cigarette. by Robert Kaplan The emergency regulation became effective Hayat speculated that the cost imposed on medical assistance to help people end their News Editor on Oct. 28 when the DPH submitted it to the business owners by the ban went beyond just addiction. Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin; the lost inventory and diminished future sales, “We’re making sure that students have and A public hearing regarding Massachusetts it will expire on Dec. 24 unless the DPH acts to especially those of convenience stores, which understand the different medicines and every- Gov. Charlie Baker’s “vape ban,” the emergency make the regulation permanent, according to offer goods other than e-cigarette products. thing else that they can use if they want to quit regulation which prohibits the sale of all e-ciga- the State House News Service. “I’d go [to a convenience store] and get men- smoking,” Wong said. rettes and vaping products, is scheduled for Nov. Municipal boards of health, and not thol ingredients and some groceries or snacks However, the legal and political debate sur- 22, according to the State House News Service. the state government, were responsi- or something, but now I can’t,” Hayat explained. rounding vaporizers for marijuana, especially The Republican governor initially ble for communicating with retailers to Hayat expressed concern that Blue Moon those for medical marijuana patients, has been announced the ban as a public health emer- enforce the ban. Smoke Shop’s Teele Square location, which even more tumultuous than those regarding gency on Sept. 24, following a study by the Doug Kress, the director of the Somerville opened only four months ago, may eventually other e-cigarettes and vaping devices. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Department of Health and Human Services, have to close due to the significant decrease in While initially included in Baker’s ban, Wilkins (CDC) that associated more than 800 cases explained that even though all stores in business since the ban was enacted. ruled on Nov. 5 that the Massachusetts Cannabis of lung disease with e-cigarette use, several of Somerville were compliant, there were no “It’s like 50% of our business is gone, or more Control Commission (CCC) is the only regula- which ended in death. instructions on what to do with the prohib- like 60%,” Hayat said. “All along we’ve been busy, tory body that may govern marijuana, offering However, the sudden ban was met with a ited product once it had been removed from but after the vape ban, it’s all gone.” medical marijuana patients using vaporizers a series of lawsuits challenging its legitimacy and the shelves. Hayat worried the ban posed a challenge temporary reprieve from the ban. decrying its effect on local businesses. “There was no guidance for us, so we to many of those who used or planned to use But the CCC announced on Nov. 12 an After Suffolk Superior Court Judge Douglas just asked them to take it off their shelves nicotine vaping products to quit smoking tradi- immediate quarantine on all marijuana prod- Wilkins ruled that the previous iteration of the and not sell it,” Kress said. “They didn’t tional cigarettes, possibly pushing them back to ucts using vaporizers, except for those that use ban must be altered to increase transparency ask for it to be locked up anywhere … so traditional smoking. the flower of the cannabis plant itself, called to the public or be lifted, the emergency regula- you’d have to ask the business owners what “You can’t stop just like that,” Hayat said. “flower vaporizers.” tion, titled “105 CMR 801: Severe Lung Disease they’ve done with it.” “People don’t want to, but feel like they have to.” The CCC’s press release cited a Nov. 8 Associated with Vaping Products,” was unani- According to Malik Hayat, manager of Blue But for Ian Wong, director of health pro- announcement by the CDC that vitamin E ace- mously approved by the Public Health Council Moon Smoke Shop in Teele Square, the ques- motion and prevention at Tufts, the ban pre- tate, an additive and thickening agent resem- on Oct. 25. tion of what to do with the inventory left his sented an opportunity to encourage students bling THC oil used in e-liquids, was associated In addition to establishing the regulation store’s owner with substantial costs because of to end their nicotine addiction altogether. with all of the samples from patients suffering through the Department of Public Health the amount of now-unsellable inventory across In addition to the publicity campaign from the mysterious lung disease. (DPH) and scheduling the first public hear- his stores. featuring posters around campus and inside As of Nov. 6, three individuals out of the 220 ing on the matter, Baker was required to file “He easily lost $300,000 to $400,000, maybe residence halls, Wong highlighted coordi- reported cases of the vaping-associated lung a statement estimating the ban’s impact on more,” Hayat said. “He tried to give back what he nation with Peter Doyle, associate medi- disease in Massachusetts have died, according small businesses. could to vendors, but it’s all gone.” cal director of Health Service, to provide to a DPH press release. For breaking news, our content archive and Please Contact Us NEWS............................................1 FUN & GAMES ........................6 recycle this exclusive content, visit newspaper P.O. 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BACK 33 / 21 2 THE TUFTS DAILY | NEWS | Wednesday, November 13, 2019 tuftsdaily.com THE TUFTS DAILY JESSICA BLOUGH Filipinx authors discuss novels, identity at AAC event Editor in Chief tuftsdaily.com EDITORIAL Ryan Eggers Justin Yu Managing Editors Mykhaylo Chumak Associate Editor Austin Clementi Executive News Editor Alejandra Carrillo News Editors Conner Dale Abbie Gruskin Liza Harris Robert Kaplan Elie Levine Natasha Mayor Alexander Thompson Daniel Weinstein Nico Avalle Assistant News Editors Andres Borjas Bella Maharaj Matthew McGovern Sara Renkert Jilly Rolnick Anton Shenk Fina Short Executive Features Editor Sidharth Anand Features Editors Amelia Becker Emma Damokosh Kenia French Jessie Newman Sean Ong Michael Shames Kevin Doherty Assistant Features Editors Akash Mishra Dorothy Neher Steph Hoechst Executive Arts Editor Tommy Gillespie Arts Editors Rebecca Tang Danny Klain Yas Salon Tuna Margalit Assistant Arts Editors Megan Szostak Elizabeth Sander Colette Smith Geoffrey Tobia Sami Heyman Tys Sweeney Executive Opinion Editor Olivia Brandon Editorialists SEOHYUN SHIM / THE TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES Sonal Gupta The Asian American Center is pictured on Nov. 20, 2017. Mikaela Lessnau Kaitlyn Meslin Amulya Mutnuri Michael Norton Siasoco began the conversation by Later in the conversation, Siasoco Elizabeth Shelbred by Sarah Sandlow Simrit Uppal Staff Writer reading a passage from his book about said he made a deliberate decision to Julia Baroni Editorial Cartoonists Christina Toldalagi the meeting of two women. Siasoco said write for a nonwhite audience, such as a Yoon Sung Cartoonist The Asian American Center (AAC) host- he wanted to write more female charac- queer, Filipino American reader, an idea ed an event called “Between the Pages: ters since his characters were predomi- he referred to as radical. Talusan echoed Alex Viveros Executive Sports Editor Ricco Siasoco & Grace Talusan in conversa- nantly men. Siasoco’s point by stressing the importance Arlo Moore-Bloom Sports Editor David Meyer tion,” where the authors spoke about their “I have to push myself and inhabit that of writers’ audiences, as well as the fact that Liam Finnegan Jeremy Goldstein new books and how their work relates to body, that being, that mentality, so it was readers need to do the work to research Savannah Mastrangelo their identities. really important to me to understand and parts of books they don’t understand, just Haley Rich Sam Weidner The event was held in the Crane Room stand in solidarity with women by writing as they would for white, male authors. Julia Atkins Tim Chiang in Paige Hall, and around 25 community two female characters,” Siasoco said. Sung-Min Kim, who often visits the AAC Jake Freudberg Noah Stancroff members attended. Talusan continued the conversation by and attended the event, said she liked to Aiden Herrod Assistant Sports Editor Aaron Parayno, director of the AAC, asking Siasoco about the ways writers can see the two authors converse with each Helen Thomas-McLean Jacob Dreyer organized the event in conjunction with create connections in solidarity in order other and that their friendship was inspir- the LGBT Center and the Asian American to develop empathy. Siasoco responded by ing to her. Caleb Symons Investigations Editor studies program. Both Siasoco’s book, “The saying that he does not often write char- “I think for me, as someone who wants Foley Artist” (2019), and Talusan’s book, acters that he likes or agrees with, but he to be a writer, hearing from the authors Seohyun Shim Executive Photo Editor “The Body Papers” (2019), were released stressed the importance of having empathy themselves, where they’re coming from and Mengqi Irina Wang Photo Administrator Anika Agarwal Staff Photographers this year, sparking the idea for this event.

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