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‘Boxer (Live in Brussels)’ revitalizes the National’s After DACA cancellation, campus classic album see ARTS&LIVING / PAGE 4 groups organize events to highlight undocumented narratives Budget transparency and a lack of access for low-income students SEE FEATURES / PAGE 3 see INVESTIGATIVE / PAGE 5 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY EST. 1980 THE TUFTS DAILY VOLUME LXXV, ISSUE 57 MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, MASS. THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2018 tuftsdaily.com Jacqueline Chen, Adam Rapfogel announce candidacies for TCU President by Jessica Blough Assistant News Editor Today, Tufts students of all class years have the opportunity to cast their votes for next year’s Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate President. Juniors Jacqueline Chen and Adam Rapfogel are running for the position. Both announced their candidacies last Thursday, April 19. Chen is currently the TCU Historian, and she has served on TCU Senate for three years. Her sophomore year, she served as the Asian American community senator and student outreach committee chair. “Being in all these different leadership positions has really shown me what a pow- erful body Senate can be and really driven home to me the importance of working with administrators, and oftentimes Senators are the only people who have this kind of access,” Chen said of her time on Senate. COURTESY ALEXA WEINSTEIN AND CIEL SRIPRASERT Her campaign revolves around five TCU presidential candidates Adam Rapfogel and Jacqueline Chen pose for portraits. themes: academic opportunity, community and social spaces, dining and sustainability, agendas forward,” her campaign website “Campaigning has really given me an munity, specifically students and faculty. student engagement and social change. Her reads. “There are so many student groups on opportunity to reflect on why I have been “The Board of Trustees are largely detached campaign website lists a total of 31 reforms campus outside of Senate who are working working to improve Tufts for the past three from the goings-on of the university, so you she plans to make or recent changes she vows to improve our campus, whether it be about years,” she said. have the faculty, the teachers and staff who to uphold. worker’s rights, sexual assault prevention, or Rapfogel, also running for TCU are working here, you have the students who Additionally, Chen added that a compo- mental health, and as TCU President I will Senate President, currently serves as the have the best idea of what’s going on here nent of her platform involves making Tufts work to lift these voices up.” TCU Parliamentarian. Like Chen, he is serving day to day and what students and what the more accessible to students from different While on Senate, Chen was responsible for his third year on TCU Senate. campus needs, yet they aren’t really involved socioeconomic backgrounds. She plans to the addition of a $10 printing stipend to every Rapfogel’s platform consists of long-term in any meaningful way in the tuition process,” use the research that senior and TCU Senate student’s JumboCash, and she also spear- reforms like making Tufts more financially Rapfogel said. trustee representative Nathan Foster has headed the creation of the Swipe It Forward accessible, fairly funding the Group of Five In regards to his short-term goals, Rapfogel been doing on the Tufts affordability metric, meal bank initiative. She has worked on proj- houses and creating an equitable method of suggested creating an online system to give and she hopes to create more transparency ects such as opening up the Asian American funding student groups recognized by TCU students information on the best local land- around where the funding from increased Center, and this has allowed her to see the Senate. His campaign also has five clearly lords and how to book a house for when they tuition goes. demand for social spaces on campus, accord- defined short-term priorities: providing more live off campus. He also hopes to find funding Chen also said that she hopes to increase ing to Chen. funding for club sports, increasing off-cam- for club sports from Tufts athletics, which the transparency of TCU Senate, making Chen’s campaign outreach has been large- pus housing accessibility, creating addition- currently does not allocate any money to club Senate more accessible and supportive of ly digital, with her supporters sharing her al unpaid internship grants, making syllabi sports, according to Rapfogel. students. She expressed her admiration of Facebook page and website, as well as chang- and course evaluations available to students Rapfogel’s campaign manager, Alexa student groups on campus and her desire to ing their profile pictures to her signature “Elect before they register for classes and reforming Weinstein, a sophomore, said that the create more opportunities for partnerships Chen” frame. On April 23, Chen and her cam- the eight-semester residency requirement. short-term priorities have been a key part of between Senate and these groups. paign supporters handed out 200 ice pops at In regards to financial accessibility, “I will encourage partnerships between her “Chill with Chen” event outside the Mayer Rapfogel wants to see the tuition-setting pro- see TCU PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, page 2 Senate and student groups to help push their Campus Center. cess be opened up to more of the Tufts com- Child development and mechanical engineering classes collaborate to teach children robotics by Abbie Gruskin Children from the Eliot-Pearson Children’s “In this project, [Professor] Marina Bers still delivering the expected core content,” Staff Writer School, an on-campus laboratory school, are from Child Development and I … collaborat- Danahy said in an email. Tufts students in the courses “Children testing these technologies at Tufts, according ed together to see if we could find common Both classes met together for one session and New Technology” (CSHD-0114) and to “Children and New Technology” Professor ground between our two, very different disci- a week at Eliot-Pearson to work in small inter- “Robotics and Mechatronics” (ME-0084) are Marina Bers. plines and create an educational experience disciplinary groups in addition to attending collaborating to create learning technologies The collaboration between these two class- that, for the individual students in the individ- one class a week separately, according to Bers’ intended to help young children learn new es has been ongoing for several years and aims ual courses, delivered a meaningful cross-dis- concepts and skills, according to “Robotics to enrich the learning experience for students ciplinary experience highlighting the role of see CHILD DEVELOPMENT, page 2 and Mechatronics” Professor Ethan Danahy. in both classes, according to Bers. their learning in a real-world context, while Please For breaking news, our content archive and NEWS............................................1 recycle this exclusive content, visit Contact Us COMICS ......................................8 newspaper P.O. 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Speaking about his accomplishments candidate whose policy would best reflect Elie Levine Executive News Editor “What’s been really successful and we’ve on Senate, Rapfogel mentioned developing their needs. Daniel Caron News Editors Juliana Furgala found that students love is that we have these the Tufts app, getting the Whole Foods stop “Jacqueline and I are good friends, so we Melissa Kain Anar Kansara five priorities … so part of the campaign has added to the Boston Avenue Shuttle sched- thought it would be a little stressful going into Robert Katz Arin Kerstein been just going into these groups and saying, ule and increasing Senate transparency. As it, and it definitely has been not super easy — Simran Lala ‘we have a way to fix this, can we get you vote, Parliamentarian, he instituted a policy that it’s never easy to run a campaign — but I’m Sophie Lehrenbaum Natasha Mayor can we work together on this,’ has been really requires Senate resolutions to be available a really excited that we both really consciously Seohyun Shim Emma Steiner exciting,” she said. week before the Senate meetings where they decided to run a policy-focused campaign Joe Walsh As TCU Parliamentarian, Rapfogel says are discussed, while they used to be available … [and] to focus on priorities and long-term Jess Blough Assistant News Editors Jenna Fleischer that the requirement to read and understand for just a few days. goals,” Rapfogel said. Liza Harris Daniel Weinstein every Senate resolution has given him experi- “We’re just 35 people, we can’t possibly Elections will take place all day today, April Sean Ong Executive Features Editor Emma Damokosh Features Editors