Where You Rain Read It First 57/35 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXVIII, NUMBER 47 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2014 TUFTSDAILY.COM Cage Rage sees popular headliner, lower ticket sales by Jei-Jei Tan concert, according to Gibb. She noted “There were just so many unfortunate energy on stage was a lot of fun, and their Daily Editorial Board that she heard both positive and negative things about this year’s [concert],” she said, performance was impressive.” reviews of the performance, although she adding that the security measures at the According to Gibb, MS MR had just The fifth annual Cage Rage concert, believed that overall the set did get better entrance were excessive and annoying. finished a tour, and Cage Rage was its last featuring headliner MS MR and open- and still went well. MS MR, which Marber described as an show of the year ers STRFKR and Gentlemen Hall, was held Annie Gill, a sophomore who attended “indie-pop-rock boom explosion,” was very “They were really excited to close it out at Carzo Cage in Cousens Gymnasium this the concert, said that she thought STRFKR well received. with a college show,” she said. Saturday evening. was a little disappointing and that she “The crowd responded really positively Marber explained that the duo had met According to Concert Board Co-Chairs wished they had played their own songs. to them, and we confirmed this by talking each other in college, and he noted that Matthew Marber and Kathryn Gibb, Sophomore Miranda Willson said she to the artists after the show,” he said. the group was used to performing in a col- about 1,100 tickets were sold, as opposed had bought tickets for herself and her Gibb added that the audience was lege setting. to 1,350 tickets sold at last year’s event. brother, who was visiting over the week- singing along and clapping at the right “The artists were all really cool,” he said. Gibb, a junior, attributed the lower ticket end, especially to see STRFKR. They were times, showing that some of the students “They were all really willing to talk to the sales to the time conflict with many other both extremely disappointed by the set knew the songs well. student workers.” events happening that night, includ- and left before it was over. “MS MR did a great job,” Gill said. “Their Marber and Gibb estimated that ing the sQ! show, the Tufts Symphony there were about 40 student volunteers Orchestra concert and the Sarabande at the event. They helped with setting performance. up the stage the night before and on “Considering how busy the day was for the day itself, loading in sound equip- the rest of the Tufts population, I think ment and lights, setting up pipe, drape, that the amount of tickets we sold was bike racks and dressing rooms and pretty impressive,” Marber, a junior, said. getting things that the artists needed, Boston-area indie-pop band Gentlemen according to Gibb. Hall opened the show. Even though there Gibb and Marber said that the day of the were fewer students at that point given concert went smoothly. Everyone behind the show’s early start time, the students the scenes, including student volunteers, who were there really enjoyed the band, event staff and administrators from the according to Gibb. Office for Campus Life, worked together “[The band] loved Tufts too,” she added. fluidly without major issues. “Afterwards they were hanging out in the Gill agreed, saying that the event ran crowd during MS MR’s set, and it was smoothly, it was easy to enter and exit and really awesome.” most people enjoyed themselves. Marber noted that Gentlemen Hall had “I definitely had a rage in the cage,” a flute player who started the show with a Marber said. “My mind was blown.” two-minute flute solo. Gibb added that both she and Marber “It was the coolest thing I’ve ever heard,” have been on Concert Board since their he said. first year at Tufts, but this is their first The second opener, STRFKR, had a DJ semester as co-chairs. set to do mash-ups of its own music and “I think it was an awesome experience others’ music because some of the band EVAN SAYLES / THE TUFTS DAILY to see what it’s like having more responsi- members were not able to make it to the Gavin Merlot and Rory Given of Gentlemen Hall serenade the crowd at Cage Rage on Nov. 15. bilities,” she said. NYT columnist analyzes Germany's Students launch Retire position in world affairs Ronald campaign by Patrick McGrath by Emma Steiner er of Corporate Accountability Daily Editorial Board Daily Staff Writer International’s Value the Meal campaign, to get students Roger Cohen, author and With a workshop on Nov. 4, involved in the effort. journalist for The New York Tufts Food for Thought official- Food for Thought hosted a Times and International ly kicked off its Retire Ronald call-in on Nov. 13 and 14 in the Herald Tribune, gave a lec- campaign to end McDonald’s Mayer Campus Center to put ture titled “Germany: 25 Years use of mascot Ronald McDonald pressure on McDonald’s Senior After the Berlin Wall” on as a marketing practice that tar- Executive Vice President and Thursday in the Crane gets children. Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Room. His talk focused on Sydney Giacalone, a Food for Peter Bensen, according to the current state of Germany Thought member who led the Tufts Sustainability Collective in world affairs to commem- initiative on campus, explained Co-Director Shelby Luce. Luce, a orate the 25th anniversary of that the campaign, which is a sophomore whose organization the fall of the Berlin Wall. part of a project first started serves as Food for Thought’s Cohen began by discussing by Corporate Accountability umbrella organization, said his family’s move to Berlin in International in 2010, is running that students made 30-second 1998, noting that at the time, in conjunction with a week of calls to Bensen, who is in charge “the city was in flux.” NICHOLAS PFOSI / THE TUFTS DAILY live action activities in Chicago. of the company’s marketing He explained that he was Roger Cohen, a columnist for the New York Times Foreign Section, “[Corporate Accountability strategy. interested in the development speaks during “Germany: 25 Years After the Berlin Wall” in the International's] idea is that [by “It was really attacking him to of Germany and the policies Crane Room in Paige Hall on Nov. 13. retiring Ronald], fewer kids will show that he does have the power of the new government after associate McDonald’s with [a] to make this kind of choice,” reunification between East dence, a gradual shedding of “The Berlin I knew that fun and social experience,” Food she said. “I think [Corporate] Germany and West Germany the trauma,” he said. was a construction site has for Thought President Ellie Accountability [International] in 1990. After leaving Germany in become the confident capital Doyle said. “Their hope is that thought that would really get a Cohen underscored that 2001, Cohen returned to the of the new Germany,” he said. even though McDonald’s won’t message across, if you had a ton Germany was in the midst United States to assume the Patriotism, too, has been change its food, young kids of calls in one day and emails of a “debate about normality” position of acting foreign edi- on the rise in Germany since won’t be hooked on it from a and postcards.” as it entered the last period tor of The New York Times on reunification, Cohen added. young age. A big part of what Food for Thought members of post-war development. Sept. 11, 2001. He noted that “Patriotism is not of the makes people eat McDonald’s, kept the call-in as a surprise when During the period, people the increase in American inse- flag-waving kind that you see or any other fast food for that they advertised the gathering, discussed whether Germany curity post-9/11 came along- in the U.S., but it’s there and matter, is nostalgia.” according to Doyle, a sophomore. could be normal or proud of side the increase in security in it’s real,” he said. Giacalone, a sophomore, led She said it was necessary to keep itself again. Europe with a newly reunified the workshop earlier this month “There was a new confi- Germany. see GERMANY, page 2 with Hanna Saltzman, organiz- see MCDONALD’S, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s sections Concert Board imple- Netflix to tackle “A News 1 Op-Ed 9 ments new marketing Series of Unfortunate strategy with Spotify for Events” as next origi- Features 3 Comics 10 Cage Rage. nal series. Arts & Living 5 Classifieds 11 Editorial | Op-Ed 8 Sports Back see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Monday, November 17, 2014 Visiting the Hill this week MONDAY When and Where: 4:30 – 5:45 p.m., WEDNESDAY THURSDAY “STEM Lecture Series — Allan Collins” Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room “Tales from Timbuktu: Architectural “If Not Now, When: A Checklist for Details: Alan Collins, professor emeritus Sponsor: Department of Economics Destruction and Iconoclastic Power in Change” at Northwestern University, will present Modern Africa” Details: Robert Zemsky, author and as part of the Tufts Science, Technology, “Gandhi and Islam” Details: Michelle Apotsos (LA ’06), assis- researcher, will present the inaugural Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Details: Ramin Jahanbegloo, research- tant professor of art history at Williams Rosemary Johnson Lecture.