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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 5

TUPD officer assaulted while making arrest by Sarah

Butrymowicz

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A Melrose man allegedly attacked a Tufts police officer as the officer attempted to arrest him near Sophia Gordon Hall early Saturday morning. Paul McClory, who is not a Tufts student, was arraigned at the Somerville District Court yesterday on charges of assault and battery of a police officer, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and breaking and entering at night with the intent to commit a felony. The Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a call at 1:21 a.m. on Sept. 6 saying that an individual had entered the Zeta Psi fraternity house at 80 Professors Row without permission. McClory fled out the back of the house toward Latin Way and Talbot Avenue, according to a police report. When police followed in that direction, they saw a crowd of people standing on Talbot Avenue in front of Sophia Gordon Hall, TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said. The group was watching two white males wander away from the gathering; the men were yelling at see ASSAULT, page 2

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The predictably congested flock of freshman Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate candidates is facing off today in an election for the class’ seven seats. Nineteen of the 20 hopefuls convened to pitch their candidacies and respond to ques-

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Students study at Brown and Brew, which is no longer open late at night or on weekends. Some students say the schedule change takes away from the appeal of the campus coffee house.

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Brown and Brew trims hours Café closed on weekends, late nights; students air disappointment

Freshman vote for senators today by

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tions at the Candidates Forum on Monday evening. TCU President Duncan Pickard attended the event. “I was really impressed by all the candidates,” he said. “I thought that they were all very well spoken and talked about some very pertinent ... issues on campus.” Today’s election began at 12:01 a.m. and will continue until midnight. Only freshmen can vote. At the forum, which was in Hotung Café, each candidate

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Freshman candidates for the TCU Senate gave statements and answered questions at the Candidates Forum in Hotung Café on Monday evening.

gave statements and answered questions — some prepared by the Elections Committee and some submitted by audience members. Many of the candidates, quick to admit that after less than two weeks on campus they still had a lot to learn about their school, landed flat-footed when trying to answer on-the-spot questions about how to remedy problems with the Office of the Residential Life, enhance public safety or improve students’ social life. Some highlighted experience in student government during high school, while others admitted to being newcomers. One even came dressed up as Abraham Lincoln, and another sang and played a Dave Matthews Band song on the guitar during his opening remarks. Twenty-one candidates originally sought the freshman seats, but Maya Kohli has dropped out of the race. The following is a list of the remaining candidates: Seth Rau, Manuel Guzman, Danielle Cotter, Aaron Bartel, Abe Stein, Elliott McCarthy, Colin Smith, Thomas Martinez, Arturo Gomez, Hershal Dave, Jason Rosenbaum, Katharina de Klerk – who did not attend Monday’s forum – Nunu Luo, Greg Dong, Jimmy Zuniga, Danny Weiner, Christina Pappas, Joel Greenberg, Syed Asad Badruddin and Jibade Sandiford.

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Students looking to Brown and Brew for late-night coffee or a sandwich on the weekend will have to search elsewhere, as the campus café is now closing at 11 p.m. and will no longer be open on Saturdays and Sundays. Brown and Brew, currently devoid of its familiar couches and coffee table, will soon have new furniture. This will complement menu changes implemented over the summer. Before this school year, the café typically stayed open until 1 a.m. each day of the week. Tufts made the weekday timing changes because Brown and Brew was no longer seeing as many customers late at night, Dining Services Director Patti Klos said. She attributed this in part to the success of Hotung Café, which underwent renovations in 2007. Klos mentioned that Tisch Library’s Tower Café is also open late. “Prior to [the construction of ] the Tower Café, students leaving the library would stop at Brown and Brew before returning home,” she said. With the construction of other late-night spots on campus, Brown and Brew’s popularity waned, she said. But some students expressed frustration with the time changes. Junior Laura Curren, a frequent Brown and Brew patron, used to enjoy the café’s long hours. She said the Tower does see CAFÉ, page 2

WEIGH IN @ tuftsdaily.com The Trail | Blogging the 2008 Election Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential pick, has re-energized the Republican Party since her nomination nearly two weeks ago. But relatively little is widely known about Palin’s positions on national issues; as a governor, most of her work has focused on reforming her own state. This week, ABC’s Charlie Gibson will be the first mainstream media personality to interview Palin one-on-one about her views on national policy. What questions do you think Gibson should ask in order to best inform prospective voters? Submit your dream questions in the open thread on our campaign blog, The Trail, at www. tuftsdaily.com/blog/thetrail. And check back in the days ahead, when we will post the submissions of some of Tufts’ foremost professors and political minds.

DiBiase, two others to be student liaisons to Board of Trustees by Jeremy

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Former Tufts Community Union (TCU) President Neil DiBiase and two other seniors won positions Sunday as this year’s TCU Senate trustee representatives. DiBiase will represent students on the Board of Trustees’ Committee for University Advancement, Laura Herman

will work with the board’s Administration and Finance Committee and Jen Bailey will be the liaison to the board’s Academic Affairs Committee. The elections were open to all interested students, but voting for the three trustee representatives was internal, with only senators casting votes. The representatives do not see TRUSTEE, page 2

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Colleges across the country struggle to keep their yearbooks afloat in the digital age.

The women’s soccer team will kick off the season on Saturday against NESCAC rival Colby.

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vote on Senate matters, but they attend Senate meetings to stay attuned to student issues. They cannot vote on board matters either; they instead provide trustees with information and suggestions. “Ultimately, they’re all in it to represent us and take our concerns to the trustees,” said TCU Historian Antonella Scarano, a senior. DiBiase believes that the central role of the student representatives is to keep trustees informed about students’ view of the university, bridging the gap between the campus and the boardroom. “A lot of trustees don’t have an opportunity to interact with students, so we try to give a good picture of what life is like on campus,” he said.

“A lot of trustees don’t have an opportunity to interact with students, so we try to give a good picture of what life is like on

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Police Briefs Identity crisis: Two addresses to match those two IDs

Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers responded to a call at 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 28 from Bartol House, commonly called the Arts Haus, at 37 Sawyer Ave. The caller reported that a suspicious male was knocking on the house’s front and back doors. Upon arriving, officers found a student at the rear of the Health Service building. When they asked the individual where he lived, he pointed to the Health Service building, which is at 124 Professors Row, and said 98 Professors Row, according to Sergeant Robert McCarthy of TUPD. The individual was asked for identification and produced two different driver’s licenses, one that indicated he was 21 and one that said he was 20. “Guess which one was the real one,” McCarthy said. TEMS was called and the individual was eventually deemed well enough to be released and then was brought back to his fraternity house.

Reveries early in the year cause late-night violations

Some off-campus parties the first weekend back at school resulted in noise violations and fines for Tufts students.

TUPD officers responded to a call at 12:40 a.m. on Sept. 1 from West Adams Road reporting a loud party. Officers from the Somerville Police Department also came to the scene and fined the residents $300 for a noise violation. Later that night, at 1:30 a.m., officers from both departments went to Ossipee Road to follow up on a report of a noise disturbance. The officers found about 25 people in the backyard playing beer pong, McCarthy said. Somerville Police officers fined the residents $300 as well.

Basement Boozin’

A resident from Miller Hall called TUPD at 11 p.m. on Sept. 2 to complain about noise coming from Oxfam Café, which is located in the dormitory’s basement. When police arrived at the scene, several people were in Oxfam, and some were drinking. They had been using Oxfam for an event, McCarthy said. Some people brought alcohol and it developed into a small party. The officers broke up the gathering and forced everyone to leave. —compiled by Sarah Butrymowicz

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each other. An officer returned to Zeta Psi to retrieve the man who had originally called TUPD. He was brought to the scene and identified one of the straying men as the person who had been inside the house. The other male was said to have had nothing to do with the break in. When the officers attempted to arrest the man for breaking and entering, he assaulted one of them, grabbing the officer and trying to throw him to the ground, the police report said. McClory was then transported to the Somerville Police Department, where he was booked. Giovanni Russonello contributed reporting to this article.

Neil DiBiase TCU Senate trustee representative Their efforts culminate in a February meeting of the Board of Trustees, at which the student representatives make presentations to their respective committees. Often, student representatives propose specific projects that they have devised. DiBiase said that he will be examining the possible repercussions on students of Tufts’ recently adopted practice of need-blind admissions, and he may encourage the trustees to subsidize events or grant some level of financial support to less affluent students. “I want to ensure that as we continue to diversify socioeconomically as a school, student life isn’t impacted and there isn’t an informal stratification of students socioeconomically at Tufts,” DiBiase said. “Where $10 for a cultural event might not be a big deal for some students, as we become more socioeconomically diverse, it might become a bigger deal for other students.” Bailey will be focusing her efforts on how to best foster a stronger sense of community at Tufts, an endeavor that will involve both speaking to students directly and combing through data from student surveys like the Senate’s annual senior exit survey and sophomore survey. “One issue that I hear repeatedly from recent alumni and even students here is that they feel connected to their friends and student organizations, but when it comes to feeling connected to Tufts as a whole, that universal community doesn’t exist for them,” Bailey said. “I’d like to look at questions that have already been asked about community and see where the gaps really lie in our programming.” Herman, who covered the Senate as a writer for the Daily during her freshman year, said that projects such as construction and renovation impact student life strongly. In particular, Herman mentioned updating the campus center, which she said lags behind other facilities on campus, as a possible goal. “I think the current state of the campus center is pretty bad and needs a lot of work, and it’s something that is at the heart of student life on campus,” Herman said. “It’s the first thing people visit when they come as prospective students. I don’t think the building is on par with the rest of the university, the way we present ourselves.”

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Students eat and study in Brown and Brew, where shorter hours have drawn gripes from some students.

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not offer a comparable environment. “Having [Brown and Brew] open late on weeknights or weekends is a good alternative to going to a party or socializing in a different way. I think it’s bad that it’s closing [earlier],” she said. “Obviously you have the library for just studying, but for places that can double as a social environment as well, Brown and Brew is the only place I want to sit in.” She added, “The Tower is right next to the library, so I don’t go there to socialize. I don’t feel bad about talking to my neighbor at Brown and Brew. The Tower is just a study place for me and not a destination like Brown and Brew.” Curren said Brown and Brew fills a distinct and important niche on campus. “I don’t feel like Tufts is a school that has that many places to go to be social and do work at the same time and be a community,” she said. “I think it’s really good that we revamped Hotung, but it has that weird neon-light-andfootball vibe. I think that a campus coffee shop is a really important aspect of a college.” Curren added that a lot of students had enjoyed relaxing at Brown and Brew on the weekends. “On weekends, when people don’t have classes, you can spend a lot of time there doing homework,” she said. Junior Helen Corless, one of the few

people sitting in Brown and Brew at 10:30 on Monday night, was annoyed when she learned her friends would have to leave at 11 p.m. “One of the reasons we came here today was because we thought we would have at least three hours to work,” she said. Klos said Dining Services removed the café’s four couches last semester because they were too worn out. Brown and blue armchairs will soon replace the couches. “We were all in agreement that the furniture was old and needed to be replaced,” she said. Klos, who was part of a university-wide committee that wrote new fire codes, explained that the furniture in Brown and Brew was purchased before the codes went into effect. Klos said some of the old furniture might have been against the new codes. The armchairs are expected to arrive this month, according to David Ford, the manager of Brown and Brew. Corless frequented the café last year when her a capella group, the Jackson Jills, practiced on the second floor of Brown and Brew’s Curtis Hall. She said that she was eager for couches to arrive and called Brown and Brew “less friendly” without them. Nathan Ricci, a fourth-year graduate student, was glad Tufts would supplant the couches. “To be honest, they looked like they needed to be replaced. They were pretty beat up,” he said. A new velour curtain will be installed

behind the café’s small stage by next week, Ford said. The stage received new carpeting over the summer. The café also received a new, lightbrown paint job this summer. Klos and Katia Porzecanski, a senior who works at the café, both noted extensive changes to Brown and Brew’s menu, including different brands of coffee and ice cream and the addition of a new waffle maker, chili and hot sandwiches. “The main goal is to offer more variety,” Klos said. The café will now offer Pura Vida coffee, which is fair-trade, and Edy’s ice cream and new toppings for the ice cream, according to Porzecanski. With the help of the new waffle maker, students can make “waffle and ice cream combos,” she said.

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Interdisciplinary studies at Tufts on the rise

Integrating different disciplines raises questions about academic focus, organizational difficulties by Jess

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The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last year that “interdisciplinarity,” which is an approach to learning, teaching and research that transcends and unites a variety of traditionally separate academic disciplines, was becoming increasingly agreed upon by the university community — a community, they added, which often tends to argue over its philosophy of learning. A quick stroll through Tufts’ academic buildings would easily reveal that Tufts falls in line with this trend. Many of Tufts’ specialized programs, from the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies to the Wright Center for Science Education to Fletcher’s International Business Program, all boast an interdisciplinary approach. Undergraduates can choose from several interdisciplinary majors, and some of the university’s most cuttingedge research is based on using an interdisciplinary approach — a concept that has broken academic barriers

while creating points of tension recognizable to both faculty and students. “There’s a new vibrancy around interdisciplinary programs,” Dean of Undergraduate Education James Glaser said. “Students are interested in programs that allow them to reach into different departments [to] make connections and have a holistic experience.” The preeminence of interdisciplinarity at Tufts today is a result of a period of growth and development that stretches back at least 30 years. Glaser remembers when interdisciplinarity was in its early stages of development. “A couple of years ago, we had a professor [ Jesper Rosenmeier of the English Department] who retired, who spent his whole career talking about tearing down the walls between the disciplines,” he said. “I think a lot of people didn’t agree with him, but that idea has been around for quite a long time.” Rosenmeier was one of the founding members of the American Studies department, which recently celebrated

its 30th anniversary. Tufts’ undergraduate International Relations (IR) program is a historically interdisciplinary major that typically graduates the most students of any major from the College of Arts and Sciences. “While other IR programs have a range of disciplines comprising their majors, my impression is that the IR program at Tufts includes a greater [variety] of disciplines than many, with 19 programs and departments represented,” Tufts IR Director and Associate Professor Malik Mufti said. Mufti believes that the IR program’s interdisciplinary nature gives it a special strength, one that is much needed in a discipline as complicated as IR. “Without multi-disciplinarity, it would be difficult for us to treat some of the most critical concerns in international affairs today,” he said. “Take our specialization in global health, nutrition and the environment. With participation from biology, civil and environmental engineering, economics and others, we can offer high quality training in issues ranging from sus-

tainable development to global pandemics.” Mufti said he recognizes, however, that interdisciplinarity may also pose challenges to undergraduates engaging in the study of International Relations. “Some students do not find focus early enough,” he said. “They risk staying on the surface and not creating a coherent and rigorous program of study in which they can build knowledge on knowledge and gain mastery over specific knowledge sets.” Mufti explained that the International Relations program is working to address this problem. “The curriculum reform process we went through recently was actually motivated by this concern,” he said. Glaser believes that, since the professors of interdisciplinary majors come from separate departments, the disciplines can be vulnerable to sudden changes. One, he said, is a “people problem” that occurs when many professors within a smaller major concurrently take sabbatical, for example. see INTERDISCIPLINARY, page 7

The yearbook: a record of the past, or simply a relic of it? by

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The Tufts yearbook can in some ways be likened to Bigfoot or weapons of mass destruction — something that is often discussed, but rarely seen. “I’ve heard of it, but I’ve never seen one and never had any interactions with it. I have no idea if I’ll end up getting one,” senior Stephen Sherman said. College yearbooks are becoming increasingly rare and unpopular. In the age of Google and Facebook.com, the question, ‘Where are they now?’ is fairly easy to answer, leaving the relevance of a hardcover yearbook under scrutiny. Colleges nationwide are weighing decreases in sales and interest against the notion of tradition. For example, Purdue University recently announced that the 2007-2008 edition was the final publication of its yearbook, the Debris. The Tufts yearbook, which is sold primarily to seniors and their families, has recently faced its own challenges. Office for Campus Life Director Joe Golia has been actively recruiting students after the majority of the yearbook staff graduated last year. “We didn’t have any students signed up,” Golia said. “I’m serving as advisor of the yearbook. We hope to not need an advisor because we’ll have students, but [for now], I’m guiding them.” After seeing Golia’s recruitment ad on TuftsLife.com, senior Emily Roitman decided to join the staff this year. “It’s something I’d been thinking about for a while, and I [wanted] to work on it as a senior because that’s when it’s most beneficial,” Roitman said. “I think it was the idea of being part of something that’s going to last. As a senior I want

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The college yearbook, formerly a method of keeping records of classmates, is slowly becoming obsolete. to leave feeling really connected with this campus.” According to Golia, the Internet is changing the role of the yearbook on college campuses. Whereas the yearbook formerly served a practical purpose, it now exists for sentimental value. “I don’t think anyone grabs a yearbook now to contact someone. They grab it to remember someone, and before they get

the yearbook, they’ll go on Facebook for that person,” he said. This has left administrators nationwide in a tough spot. “Every college is talking about this. Some administrators would say that we absolutely have to have a yearbook every year, but lots of student activities offices are seeing whether this is needed anymore,” Golia said. “Colleges

are starting to get rid of them. In this day of technology, a book is not the thing anymore.” Roitman said that she hopes Tufts is not heading in the direction of eliminating the yearbook. “I think that students realize that the two entities are meant to serve different purposes. Facebook puts a large emphasis on the individual, while the

yearbook preserves our community, the Tufts community,” she said. “With Facebook, people have privacy settings set so only their friends can look at them, and photos can be removed. [Also], some people take away their profiles when they enter the workplace, but that’s not going to happen with a yearbook.” see YEARBOOK, page 6

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Golia said that the yearbook might need to change so that it aligns with student needs. “I’m absolutely going to start looking at sales and student interest and make a decision,” he said. “Are parents just buying it or do students actually care about the yearbook? I need to see what people want. If the yearbook is not of interest to people anymore, we can do a booklet of senior portraits.” Sales of the Tufts yearbook have not suffered significantly. Over the past 10 years, an average of 700 books has been sold annually. At $85 each, book sales along with advertising cover the cost of producing the book. According to Golia, the book has been particularly popular among parents, but that too may change. “A parent will buy a book for a student and a book for themselves,” Golia said. “As parents of college students become younger and [more] tech savvy, I think the trend will be towards [fewer] books being purchased [because] they won’t think that a nice cover or leather really means anything. Parents are still at the age where they think that’s a neat thing to have.” Some students see eye-toeye with their parents on the value of a tangible product. “I think it’s still nice to have something physical that you can have in your hands and look at. It’s still important to

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Schools across the country are evaluating whether or not to keep printing people,” sophomore Molly and that would have everything I want to see,” Sherman Dow said. Still, the need for a college said. “All the information I yearbook is less pronounced need I can find online in two than it used to be among most searches. It’s the same thing for pictures of friends and students. “There’s too much that loved ones.” goes on [here] to really have a Senior Phil Marsel agreed. comprehensive yearbook that “I have my own pictures of the wouldn’t be 5,000 pages long people I care about,” he said.

their yearbooks. Although the future of the college yearbook is uncertain, for now it remains a subtle staple of the undergraduate experience. “I don’t think it’s a top priority on campus, but for sentimental reasons … I might get one,” senior Alec Lewis said. “Yearbooks have the ability

to capture a time in your life,” Roitman said. “It’s a collection of permanent memories; it’s something nice, something nostalgic. You can sit down with your family and point out pieces of your college experience. I think that’s something special.”

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Opportunities for Active Citizenship

Community Engagement Fair Monday, September 15, 11:00 - 2:00 Upper Patio, Mayer Campus Center

Co-Sponsored by Tisch College and the Office for Campus Life, the Community Engagement Fair is an opportunity to learn about groups, projects, and courses with community-based activities. Stop by to learn how you can get involved!

For more information visit www.activecitizen.tufts.edu or ocl.tufts.edu

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The Fletcher School’s International Business Program features and interdisciplinary approach.

Health studies need broad focus INTERDISCIPLINARY continued from page 5

Glaser said he knows that interdisciplinary study is subject to other obstacles, as well. “Most of our professional lives happen in disciplines, our professional networks are in disciplines, our day-to-day contacts are within our departments,” Glaser said. “It’s timeconsuming and effortful to join other disciplines and networks.” Although he doesn’t think many Tufts faculty are hostile to the idea of crossing disciplinary boundaries, he under-

“At this point in time, we are concerned that people don’t necessarily understand what an undergraduate major in community health means, in terms of what the students know and what they have studied. So if a student has studied biology/community health or anthropology/community health [etc], then when they graduate, employers and graduate programs will have a better idea of their interests and abilities.” Edith Balbach director of the community health program

stands that it poses a challenge to all involved. “In practical terms, it’s harder to accomplish,” he said. Glaser pointed to Tufts’

groundbreaking interdisciplinary research on soft robots as an example of the potential of this kind of study once these barriers can be broken down. “The kinds of collaboration going on here are really amazing. That’s a kind of thing that I think is part of the future,” he said. Edith Balbach, the director of the community health program, one of Tufts’ fastest growing majors, believes that interdisciplinarity is crucial to a student’s understanding of health. “Think of ‘health’ as meaning physical, mental and social well-being,” Balbach said. “When you do that, it’s clear that biology, anthropology, engineering, religion, history, etc. all provide powerful lenses for improving our understanding of health issues.” Balbach believes that an interdisciplinary approach to community health makes the discipline stronger. “If you only look at health as a physical phenomenon, then you will be very limited in understanding what it means to be in good health,” she said. “You will also miss pathways to prevention and health improvement.” Like the environmental science major, community health can only be pursued as a second major. Balbach said that this restriction is in place not because the major is interdisciplinary, but rather because it is relatively new. “At this point in time, we are concerned that people don’t necessarily understand what an undergraduate major in community health means, in terms of what the students know and what they have studied,” she said. “So if a student has studied biology/community health or anthropology/ community health [etc.], then when they graduate, employers and graduate programs will have a better idea of their interests and abilities.”

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Extravagant jewelry makes for bedazzled display at MFA

Priceless Art Nouveau artists take Eastern symbols and add a Western interpretation to their pieces by

Lumay Wang

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A blooming flower, a butterfly spreading its wings and a beautiful young woman are transient symbols with their

Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry

At the Torf Gallery, through Nov. 9 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 465 Huntington Avenue 617-267-9300 energy and youthfulness doomed to wane in the future. When these images are incorporated into jewelry, however, they become transfixed in time. These symbols of the brevity of life are the main focus of the Museum of Fine Art’s (MFA) current jewelry exhibit. “Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry” is a compilation of more than 120 pieces by several different artists. It brings together the stunning skills and the luminescent jewels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries into two rooms. Colorful and exquisite,

this exhibit is surely a feast for the eyes. A highly imaginative style, Art Nouveau is a reaction to the naturalistic and perhaps boring decorative style present during previous periods of time. Art Nouveau is exciting and organic and “choos[es] to interpret nature rather than imitate it,” according to the wall text. The rainbow of colors used creates a decadent and rich feeling. As a result, the jewelry, with its attention to minute details, is extravagant yet creative. An artistic conversation about the juxtaposition of ostensibly opposite concepts persists throughout the exhibit. Ideas such as delicateness, strength, permanence and transience are prevalent. Many Art Nouveau artists borrowed Japanese symbols and images and gave them Western significance. For example, the peacock, which traditionally stands for divinity and power, has become a study of detail. Stripping it of its Asian meaning, the artists explored new ways to bring out color, shine and features in the feathers. The artists take these transformations one step further when they challenge our conceptions of preciousness. Using mainly semi-precious stones and

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A single dangling pearl completes this delicate “Pendant/brooch with female bust” from the early 1900s. gold and silver, the artists forwent more rare elements such as diamonds. The thistle necklace by René Lalique,

a renowned Art Nouveau jeweler who has several works in the show, is a perfect example of the theme of opposites. Crafted from gold enamel, pearls and cast glass from 1904 to 1905, the necklace is formed from many intertwining thistle branches. Lalique has taken a normally prickly and undesirable plant and transformed it into a delicate and wearable piece of art. The prickles have been tamed with blunt edges while small diamonds accent the branches. Worn upon a woman’s neck, the necklace would appear sexy and dangerous at the same time, evoking the idea of the femme fatale. One of the most stunning pieces of the collection appears right at the entrance to the exhibit. The orchid brooch by Charles Desrosiers is a fairly large piece of jewelry. It is absolutely breathtaking, capable of stirring any girl’s heart. The petals are created from gold enamel, using a technique called “plique à jour,” or the backless technique. “Plique à jour” means that the viewer can see straight through the enamel. It is truly a difficult technique to master, see JEWELRY, page 10

TV Review

Twists, turns and complexity thrill audiences in premiere of J.J. Abrams’ supernatural ‘Fringe’ by

Catherine Scott

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There seems to be a sort of cult surrounding producer/director J.J. Abrams that grows each time a

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Movie Review

Cage’s reputation isn’t the only thing wrecked in abhorrent Thai film remake ‘Bangkok Dangerous’ by

Matthew DiGirolamo Daily Editorial Board

Every now and again, the action genre spits out films which feature a hardened

Bangkok Dangerous Starring Nicolas Cage, Shahkrit Yamnarm and Nirattisai Kaljaruek Directed by the Pang Brothers criminal or hit man who has decided to take one last “job” and then quit the business forever. And yes, Nicholas Cage has starred in the vast majority. Of course, nothing ever goes smoothly, but overthe-top action and occasional humor tend to make these films worthwhile. “Bangkok Dangerous,” however, drags on with stale acting, drab scriptwriting and just plain awful cinematography. “Bangkok Dangerous” was originally a Thai film made

in 1999 by the Pang Brothers, who returned to the project to remake it into the biggest flop of the summer. Nicolas Cage stars but has no notable supporting actors by his side. Unrecognizable foreign actors play the other characters who either get killed or do the killing. The two films remain the same only in title and basic idea; most of the plot points have changed, as well as the way in which the characters are portrayed. For example, the original film portrays assassin Joe (played by Pisek Intrakanchit) as a deaf and mute hit man who falls in love with a pharmacist while working on jobs with his friend Kong (Pawalit Mongokolpisit). The new version of the movie has Cage’s Joe going to Bangkok for his final job, falling in love with a deaf and mute pharmacist and hiring a con man named Kong — quite a difference. The movie begins as Joe blabs on about his job and the rules he lives by in order to make it work. His voice has

no emotion and will surely put any viewer to sleep. Joe completes his kill with ease and then goes on to cover his tracks by snuffing the “delivery man” who brings money and supplies back and forth from the person who placed the hit. All of this action is completed at a painstakingly slow pace, making for extremely boring plot sequences. Joe decides to take one last job in Bangkok before he hangs up his sniper rifle for good. The job consists of four kills, and each time he receives an assignment he reminds the audience, “I don’t ask why.” Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm) is one of the more interesting and entertaining characters in the film. He’s trying to understand the shady nature of Joe’s work while going to strip clubs to deliver and pick up packages from Surat (Nirattisai Kaljaruek), the man who puts the jobs into place. Kong falls in love with an exotic dancer, see BANGKOK, page 11

new movie or TV show is released with his name attached. The new FOX series “Fringe” will more than likely succumb to the J.J. mania. While the premiere has its fair share of flaws, namely the mediocre acting and somewhat clichéd plot and dialogue, the exciting and fairly original premise — a government conspiracy with the world as its test lab — grabs viewers’ attention and keeps them wanting more. The pilot opens with an international flight from Hamburg in which all of the passengers and crew inhale some kind of poison that melts all of the flesh off their bodies. Of course, the FBI is

called, and Agent Olivia Dunham (played by Anna Torv) swoops in. Dunham insists on shoving her way onto the case, only to have her boyfriend, Agent Scott, caught up in a chemical fire started by the man they are trying to catch. Scott does not die, but he is infected with the flesh-melting chemical, giving Dunham an excuse to get the real plot rolling. She tracks down the original “fringe” scientist, Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble), who is now residing in a mental institution, and enlists the help of his son Peter, played by Joshua Jackson of “Dawson’s Creek.” Together they recreate the doctor’s old lab to find a cure for Dunham’s boyfriend. The doctor, his son and Dunham decide the cure lies with the man who blew up the lab. They come to this conclusion during a drug-induced dream in which Dunham’s mind joins together with her comatose boyfriend’s. As if that storyline wasn’t complicated enough, once Dunham discovers the bad guy’s identity and cures Scott, the government and international corporation’s see FRINGE, page 10

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Art Nouveau pieces uniquely interpret natural elements, adding a modern twist JEWLERY

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and Desrosiers has executed it with perfection with his iridescent petals. The stamens are pearls, and tiny drops of dew are accented by miniscule diamonds. The orchid brooch definitely preserves the fragility of a blossomed flower. “Imperishable Beauty” features not only rings, bracelets and other popular forms of jewelry, but lesser known ones such as hair combs and spectacles. Lalique has created a hair comb of ivy leaves, rivaling the feather headpiece worn by Carrie Bradshaw in the film version of “Sex and the City” (2008) in luxuriousness. It is elegant and delicate with its large sapphires,

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René Lalique studs this carefully crafted “Hair comb with ivy leaves” using precious sapphires.

gold enamel and smooth horn. The hair comb is the ultimate piece of jewelry for the most feminine of women. Though the exhibit reflects the artists’ move away from precious elements, the pieces are not intended to confront ideas of socio-economic class. Indeed, the jewelry is impeccably crafted; only the elite would have been able to afford such beauty. Works by Tiffany and Co. are prominently displayed, for example. The Art Nouveau style as portrayed by the MFA is easily recognizable in many of today’s trends in jewelry. Its influence is far and wide, but “Imperishable Beauty” has an invaluable selection of the richest and most beautiful pieces.

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In the orchid broach by Charles Desrosiers, diamond and pearl droplets breathe life into the shimmering orchid brooch.

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conspiracy kicks in. Dunham discovers her boyfriend is in on the conspiracy, leading to his death and opening up an avenue for her to act on the sexual tension between the younger Bishop and herself in future episodes.

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The show’s acting frequently falls flat, especially in the case of Torv. Her tough-cop act is almost amusing, as she tries to intimidate while keeping up her appearance as a lifesized Barbie. The plot is complicated, but it contains nothing that a viewer of average intelligence can’t follow. Although the inspiration for the show is exciting and new, the storyline can be fairly predictable at times. There is nothing new when it comes to car chases or witness interrogations — just the same formulas viewers have seen hundreds of times before. In the pilot, even the revealed secrets that are supposed to be shocking have a tinge of the expected,

such as Agent Scott’s duplicity or the mega-corporation abusing its power. The show’s acting frequently falls flat, especially in the case of Torv. Her tough-cop act is almost amusing, as she tries to intimidate while keeping up her appearance as a life-sized Barbie. Jackson’s acting is better with his point-on comedic timing and conflicting dramatic emotions, but that could be because the writers have given him more to work with than Torv in terms of character complexity. The star of the show is Noble as the mad scientist father who seems to be an omniscient figure while the rest of the characters run around desperately searching for solutions to problems they don’t understand. The most compelling aspect of “Fringe” is its theme of losing control in the technologically advanced 21st century. The idea that technology can spiral wildly out of control if placed into the wrong hands resonates with American viewers in the world of post-9/11 uncertainty. As long as the show can keep finding new supernatural and/or technological ideas to expand upon, it might have a chance at success. “Fringe” might not be the next “Lost,” but that doesn’t mean it can’t fill the vacant hole left by “The X-Files,” which may be a little less ambitious, but necessary all the same.

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who later gets caught up in the drama surrounding the final kill. During all of these events, Joe meets a deaf and mute pharmacist while looking for some medicine and takes her out on a few dates. These scenes are particularly awkward and tedious, as Cage’s character tries to find out what the girl wants to say. Conversations over dinner at the park and visiting family are all drawn out, and it is hard to feel any connection or chemistry between the two. The film does have some decent action sequences, including a boat chase that turns into a boat and motorcycle chase. It ends with Cage jumping from the motorcycle onto the boat and completing the assignment. The film also con-

tains a strange side plot (if you could call it that) in which Joe teaches Kong how to defend himself with a weapon. The only reason provided as to why this lesson is so imperative is revealed in a line of dialogue which explains how Kong was tormented throughout his life. The scenes are unnecessary, however, as Kong does not seem to use any of what he learns for more than thirty seconds. “Bangkok Dangerous” is one of those films that should have never been remade. Cage’s action flick is unspeakably horrendous, as “Bangkok Dangerous” makes the video-game adaptation “Hitman” (2007) look like an Oscar-winner. The film grossed the most money compared to other movies in its opening weekend, but a mere $7 million debut at a time when competition isn’t all that stiff is a sure sign that, ultimately, this film won’t go very far.

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community and how these shape the lives of people who live there. Second, the course encourages students to develop life-long skills for social justice work by engaging in direct service and advocacy within a community. The community is Boston’s Chinatown, a very diverse urban neighborhood that is home to about 5,000 people. New immigrant families live side by side with many long-time residents, local businesses, Tufts Medical School and the Tufts Medical Center. Students will take a seminar at Tufts as well as engage in weekly service at non-profit community organizations and schools. Each student is placed at a non-profit community organization throughout the academic year to participate in community-generated projects. Project issues include: environmental justice, sustainable development, affordable housing, immigrants’ and workers’ rights, youth services and advocacy, public health, legal assistance, ESL, citizens’, and civil rights education. This is a year-long course and students will receive 2 credits after they complete all requirements.

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Brewing up ideas for social space Recently, Brown and Brew has begun closing at 11 p.m. during the week and remaining closed on weekends, much to the chagrin of the five or six students who frequent the Brew that late. Yes, there are occasionally students between about 213 College Ave Avenue and Halligan Hall at 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday nights, jonesing for a Roadrunner and a packet of pita chips, and they have found their hopes for a coffee-based beverage and a collegiate atmosphere most cruelly dashed. While debate has raged fiercely in the last six months over the wisdom of removing the couches from our venerable coffeehouse (some students called the move “bad” because the couches were comfortable; others called it “good” because the couches were gross), arguments reached a shrill but decidedly muted crescendo in the last week as the management of Brown and Brew elected to shut down operations after 11 p.m. and on weekends. Thwarted Tuftonians can be found wandering the streets, complaining that coffee from Hodgdon is “too commercial,” wallowing sadly in their collective despair. In all seriousness, the new closing

times affect very few Tufts students, although the Brew does serve a segment of campus that is removed from other dining establishments. In fact, to hear people talk about the charm of Brown and Brew is to be bombarded with names of other such hangouts and eateries: The Tower Café has a “library atmosphere,” Hotung is too distracting and the rest of the campus center is too boring/loud/ quiet/small. Brown and Brew too receives its fair amount of critiques from students who find it too far away for their needs. The common thread in such complaints is that there simply is not a central place on campus that fulfils students’ needs, be it for socializing, studying or staving off starvation. The campus center, designed (in theory) to fill these needs, is woefully divided. If you want to do a mix of socializing and studying, you often need to physically move from place to place. What Tufts needs is a central location where students can do all of the above — not in separate rooms, but in a big, open atrium where hundreds of students can gather without feeling that they are violating the “purpose”

of the room. The current campus center, constructed in the 1970s in a way that suggests an administration’s fear of rioting, simply cannot serve this purpose. The Hotung renovations are excellent — for Hotung. The change in furniture in front of the Commons is an improvement — for the Commons. The game room has enhanced equipment, but it is not big enough or open enough to be inviting to a large number of students. Right now, Tufts has a place where students can find everything that they need, but what Tufts really needs is a place students can enter without a purpose and find something to do. That is where you will find the Tufts students of tomorrow. This is a dream that will likely be unfulfilled; it is an enormous project that would require huge amounts of money that is currently earmarked for a new sports center, new science corridors and other worthy projects. But it is a dream nonetheless. We at the Daily offer this thought not with an expectation that we will see it completed, but with a hope that it will be considered. Until that happens, you can find us … well, somewhere.

College of Citizenship and Public Service’s Institute of Political Citizenship internship program, Carl has used his time on Beacon Hill to help college students like us be better citizens. In one example from this summer, he fought hard for a bill that would have allowed same-day voter registration, a boon particularly for out-of-state students who tend to

face higher registration barriers. He quite literally was fighting to help us become part of the process. I encourage you to join me and my friends in the Tufts Democrats to do what we can to make sure Carl wins his primary next week and allow him to continue to both engage us and be engaged by us.

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The headline of “Local rapist to be arraigned today,” an article on the front page of our Sept. 8 issue, incorrectly identified Michael Mahoney as a rapist. He is accused of rape, but has not been convicted. The headline of “Green Line extension end point may be announced this week: One option is at College and Boston Avenues,” an article on the front page of our Sept. 8 issue, contained an error. Officials may announce the end point of the Green Line extension project as early as next week — not this one.

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John McCain: the leader our country needs by

Michael Hawley

With the end of the Republican National Convention, the official general election campaign for President of the United States has begun. Rarely in the history of this country have the American people been given the opportunity to elect a man whose independent spirit so attracts, whose experience is so comprehensive and whose passionate love of country has been proven through the toughest of trials. John McCain stands ready to lead this country to peace through strength and to prosperity through the free market. As America stands once again at its quadrennial crossroads, it will choose between two very different men and two divergent visions for the future. Barack Obama, a brilliant orator and the first African-American candidate for president of any major party, appears to many as a wholly new kind of politician. But there is little new about the policies he espouses. Faced with a war on the brink of victory, he wants to retreat. Faced with an economy in trouble, he wants to raise taxes on businesses that create jobs. Faced with a looming energy crisis, he refuses to consider increased domestic oil production as central to the solution. Indeed, Barack Obama’s plans for America appear almost identical to those put forth by Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s, which were resoundingly rejected by the American people. Depicted as a transcendental political figure, his record is that of a hyper-partisan who voted the Democratic Party line more often than even the Senate Democrat leadership. Reasonable people can disagree on the issue of abortion, but surely a responsible legislator would support protection for infants born alive in abortion clinics? Barack Obama voted against just such a measure. In contrast, John McCain has a long record of opposing his own party when he feels the good of the country requires it. He joined the bipartisan “Gang of Fourteen” to find common ground on the issue of judicial appointments. He supports federal action to halt climate change. McCain championed the cause of immigration reform but has accepted the American people’s demand that the border be secured first. He opposes torture and aggressive interrogation, promising

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to close down the prison at Guantanamo Bay. He has stood fast against corruption and waste in both parties and is a tireless fighter against Congressional earmarks. John McCain has proven himself willing to risk his very reputation on what he believes to be right. From almost the very beginning of the war in Iraq, he was loudly calling for more troops to be committed — a very unpopular position. Barack Obama opposed any surge in troops, declaring: “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.” Thus, while McCain was advocating for reinforcements, Obama was demanding a phased withdrawal, effectively agreeing with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said “this war is lost.” Now, even Obama admits that the surge has been extremely successful (long after most independent observers had come to the same conclusion). However, Sen. Obama continues to argue that our impending victory is evidence that he has been right all along. While it is true that the United States will soon begin pulling its troops out

of Iraq, thanks to John McCain, they will be returning with victory. Barack Obama would have brought them home in humiliating defeat. In an absurd Daily op-ed last week, Jimmy Pianka argued that McCain’s military experience actually disqualifies him to be commander in chief. Using grievously tortured logic, Pianka suggested that a man who has been in combat and in a POW camp is less qualified to lead our armed forces than a man with no military experience who associates with an unapologetic former domestic terrorist. Pianka condemned America as “a culture still very much enamored with war” and John McCain as “shaped profoundly by violence and cruelty, whose only visible passion is the spread of American values by force,” incapable of “compassion and the basic identification with all humans as kin.” Contrast these maliciously false statements with Senator McCain’s actions. After his horrendous treatment at the hands of the North Vietnamese, McCain led the push to normalize relations with that country, realizing the need for national reconcilia-

tion and healing. McCain opposes torture on the grounds that it is inhumane to do such things, even to our enemies. On a more personal note, he and his wife Cindy were so moved with compassion for a young Bangladeshi girl trapped in terrible poverty that they spontaneously adopted her. These are not the actions of a man warped by violence and rage. Rather, McCain’s actions prove that he feels deep empathy and has a sound grasp of the subtleties of this complex world. However, he also has seen the face of evil, and America’s allies and enemies alike will have no reason to doubt his resolve in the face of danger. Obama, on the other hand, has vowed to bomb our ally Pakistan without its permission while simultaneously promising to talk to our enemy Iran without preconditions. Such a scattershot foreign policy can only serve to confuse our friends and embolden potential foes. Michael Hawley is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He is the president of Tufts Republicans.

Response: Why Palin is a problem by

Ethan Hochheiser

I was dismayed by Mr. Ladner’s Sept. 8 op-ed. Because there is no substantive evidence that Sarah Palin is qualified to be on the national ticket for the vice presidency, he resorts to ad hominem attacks, labeling democrats as the “liberal elite” with “an ideology of victimization and antiestablishment self-pity.” Yet, at the same time, Mr. Ladner seems to suggest that Palin is the victim who was ruthlessly attacked by the ‘liberal’ media and Democrats. As any reasonable person might understand, I became a little perplexed as to why Mr. Ladner accuses Democrats of displaying “perverse hypocrisy” when he both issues personalized attacks and plays the victim. It would require a short book to respond to every statement that Ladner takes right out of Karl Rove’s play book — from making a not-too-subtle insinuation that Michelle Obama is unpatriotic to somehow saying, by the end of the article, that only Republicans are patriotic because they chanted “USA! USA!” at their convention while democrats chanted “Obama!” (Although if he had watched

the DNC, he would know that the Democrats chanted “USA!” plenty. Certainly, Ladner would agree, that saying three letters doesn’t demonstrate one’s patriotism; only one’s actions do.) Mr. Ladner parodies the divisive attacks of the Republicans and attempts to rally American against American. Ladner issues sweeping generalizations about who is more in touch with “ordinary Americans,” and he completely avoids the issues and facts. Even though Ladner may not think so, Republicans and Democrats are patriots. However, that is irrelevant in terms of how one decides to cast his or her vote in the presidential election. As Sen. Obama said at the Democratic convention, “enough!” This country has had enough of presidential elections centered on superficial aspects of the candidates and their lives rather than the issues. Rather than make sweeping generalizations about how Gov. Palin is more “in touch with ordinary Americans,” it would have been more useful for the student body if Mr. Ladner had argued that the McCain-Palin policies are stronger than those of Obama-Biden.

What is really disturbing is the little time that Senator McCain spent on vetting Gov. Palin. What does it show about McCain’s management style that he evidently chose Palin to woo potential disaffected Clinton supporters and to pull the attention of the media away from the DNC? It is clear that Sen. Joe Biden is ready to be president, and after Sen. Barack Obama served eight years as a state senator, threeand-a-half years in the U.S. Senate (more experience than Abraham Lincoln had when he was elected president) and a year-and-a-half of vetting by the national media, it is clear Sen. Obama has the necessary credentials to be president. The same cannot be said of Gov. Palin, who served less than two years as governor of Alaska and served two terms as mayor of Wasilla (1996-02). While she was mayor, the population of the town, according to the 2000 Census, was about 5,470, or in other words, the size of the undergraduate population at Tufts University. Because about a third of the population is under 18, it actually has a smaller voting population than Tufts. Sarah Palin has never dealt

with national issues or foreign policy. Her entire speech at the RNC was written by George W. Bush’s speech writer Matthew Scully. She certainly can read speeches with style, but there’s no content, and Americans deserve something better than the last eight years of Bush politics flowing out of Sarah Palin’s mouth. No solutions at the RNC were presented to solve people’s problems; only venomous attacks on Obama were issued. What the McCain campaign should be discussing is how it is going to improve the economy, what foreign policy it plans to enforce and how a McCain administration would confront the healthcare crisis. Additionally, why did McCain choose a vice presidential candidate who, in July, responded to a question posed by Larry Kudlow from CNBC in this manner: “As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day.” Recently, the McCain-Palin campaign has been trying to promote this phenomenon that he is in fact the “change candidate.” One only needs to look at the McCain-Palin

records and who runs their campaign (Washington lobbyists) to understand that this is completely false. McCain voted Republican more than 90 percent of the time over the last eight years ... a real “maverick.” As mayor, Palin hired a lobbyist for $27 million and, according to Fox News’ Chris Wallace, hardly a “liberal” newscaster, asked for $589 million in earmarks as governor. In fact, Alaska got “more federal money for pork-barrel projects per capita than any state in the country.” McCain’s campaign itself is run by lobbyists. One former lobbyist, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, said just a few days ago that “This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.” Let’s make sure that we do pay attention to the issues and not get drawn in by the Rick Davis or Matthew Ladner tactics. Let’s make sure to talk about the issues of the day. Ethan Hochheiser is a junior majoring in international relations. He is also the co-head of Tufts Students for Barack Obama.

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Junior tri-captain Cara Cadigan will anchor the offense this fall after posting a school-record 19 goals last season. The Jumbos will look to prove themselves in their opening game against Colby Saturday, despite having lost seven starters to graduation last spring. by

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Exiting both the NESCAC Tournament and the NCAA Tournament on penalty kicks is hardly an easy thing to forget. But for the women’s soccer team, the graduation of seven key seniors could make putting the past behind it comparatively easier than anyone anticipated. And with eight new players joining the roster this year, Tufts is ready to

take on the 2008 campaign with a clean slate. “Because we have so many new players — we have eight new players out of 20 — I’m sure the other kids are disappointed over our loss, but it’s kind of a distant memory at this point,” coach Martha Whiting said. “Everyone is so ready to move forward, and with so many new kids, there’s a whole new kind of feeling on the team.” see WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 22

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The women’s soccer team is arguably one of the most established and successful programs at Tufts: The team has posted 13 consecutive winning seasons and has only two losing records to show for 29 years of competition, it has made the NESCAC tournament for eight straight years and has drawn five invitations to compete at NCAAs and it is coming off a 13-3-2 season in which it has competed in both the NESCAC Championship game and the NCAA Tournament (and was defeated in both by penalty kicks). And yet, with its history of excellence, this will nevertheless be a trying year for coach Martha Whiting and her Jumbos. While the tradition of success is inherent to the Tufts name, the roster will be very different. Not only did the team graduate seven starting seniors — something that would severely damage any program — but those seniors were part of arguably the most successful and prolific class in Tufts’ history. The group’s accomplishments included over 40 wins in four years, a .750 winning percentage against conference opponents and two trips to the NCAA tournament, highlighted by a run to the final four in 2005. “They were very impressive, especially in the NESCAC,” Whiting said. “Over the course of four years, this could’ve been the most successful group that we’ve had in terms of wins and losses.” “They were the center of the team for the past few years,” junior tri-captain Cara Cadigan said. “We’ll definitely need to work hard to fill a lot of their positions.” The group featured forward Lauren Fedore (LA ’08), midfielders Rebecca Abbott (E ’08) and Martha Furtek (LA ’08) and defenders Annie Benedict (LA ’08), Julia Brown (LA ’08), Joelle Emery (LA ’08) and

Jessie Wagner (LA ’08). Furtek and Benedict made an impact early on in their careers, garnering AllNESCAC second-team honors. The next year, Wagner and Brown transferred to Tufts, while Furtek improved to All-NESCAC first team status and Emery emerged as AllNESCAC second team. That was the year that the team made its NCAA run, coming back against regional juggernaut Wheaton in the Sweet Sixteen and clinching a penalty-kick victory over Oneonta State in the Elite Eight, all before falling to the College of New Jersey in the NCAA Final Four. “They were a significant part of the team,” Whiting said. “Most of them were on the field almost 90 minutes of every game. So you figure half the kids on the field at any one time were those girls. “I think that’s a really hard thing to do,” she continued. “To advance that far in a sport where there are potentially 400 Div. III teams. The fact that they went that far was phenomenal.” Over four years at Tufts, Benedict earned three All-NESCAC second team selections, while Furtek earned three first-team nods and was named an All-American in 2007. Now, in the wake of their graduation, Tufts is left with a clear and sizable void. The Jumbos will have to make up for that production from somewhere, which is part of the reason that there are eight freshmen on the squad this season. “[The freshmen are] very versatile,” junior tri-captain Whitney Hardy said. “Regionally, they come from all over the country. Their styles of play are all very different, which makes the team better because we’re playing against different styles of play every day.” “The new class is one of the most talented that we’ve had in a while,” Whiting said. “They could potentially rival last year’s see SENIORS, page 23

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Blazing ahead: professional lacrosse franchise comes to Boston by Scott Janes

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In a city bursting at the seams with professional franchises, National League Lacrosse is banking that Beantown can adopt one more. After a 12-year hiatus, professional indoor lacrosse is making its return to Boston in the form of the Boston Blazers, a team that will assume the Blazer moniker with a tip of the helmet to the former, but unrelated, Boston Blazer lacrosse franchise of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League that competed from 1992 through 1997. The Blazers will become the 13th team to compete in the National Lacrosse League (NLL) starting with the opening of the 2009 season in January. With the understanding that the team is entering one of the most fan-intensive markets in the nation, Blazers executives said they are optimistic that the team will become a mainstay in the Boston sports culture. “We believe that the city of Boston and the greater New England area is the perfect place for indoor lacrosse, and the TD Banknorth Garden is the ideal home for our eight-game regular season,” Blazers Team President Doug Reffue said. see BLAZERS, page 22

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The Boston Blazers of the National Lacrosse League hosted Blazers Day, an indoor/outdoor fan festival, at the TD Banknorth Garden Saturday to introduce local lacrosse fans to Boston’s newest sports franchise. Blazers players Sean Morris, Mitch Belisle and Jack Reid met with fans and signed autographs at the event.

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Rays of light: Tampa Bay clings to a tenuous AL East lead by

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Despite the doubters, the naysayers and the analysts who all said that the Tampa Bay Rays would tank midway through the second half of the season, their rise to power continues to be the dominating story in the American League. Tampa Bay, who has yet to play a single playoff game in its franchise history, is in unfamiliar territory. But that past has not made the Rays shy away from the limelight this year, as they hold the second-best record in baseball behind the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. After a four-game losing streak, the Rays turned things around last night with a dramatic 5-4 comeback against Jonathan Papelbon and the Boston Red Sox, giving themselves a little more breathing room — one-and-a-half games — in the standings. Tonight’s finale will prove crucial for the Rays, as it will be the difference between a relatively comfortable twoand-a-half- and a nearly invisible halfgame lead, heading into the third week of September. After this series concludes tonight, the Sox still have games against the Toronto Blue Jays, winners of ten straight; a four-game set against the 70-73 Cleveland Indians; three more against Tampa Bay; and another three against the now fourth-place New York Yankees. On the other hand, the Rays have two series against the second-place Minnesota Twins and the 70-75 Detroit Tigers. Still, no matter who finishes the season on top of the division, it is almost guaranteed that both the Sox and the Rays will make the playoffs, as the Twins are far in the rear-view mirror at six games back in the Wild Card race. In the AL Central, the Chicago White Sox , having lost three straight, hold a tenuous one-game over the Twins — not what they wanted heading into a brutal end-of-the-year schedule. The ChiSox will face each of their four division rivals in three-game sets before the season ends. That said, Chicago sits at

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Josh Beckett, who came off the disabled list last Friday, will face off against Andy Sonnanstine of the Rays tonight at Fenway. Beckett has a 2.57 ERA in three starts against Tampa Bay this year but also sports a 6.02 ERA in 10 home starts. 14 games over .500 against its division this season, indicating that it’s well within its ability to stay atop the division. The Twins, on the other hand, might have a slightly easier road. Nine of their remaining 19 games are against the Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles, two teams that are a combined 36 games under .500 and are each lingering approximately 20 games out of contention for their respective divisions. In any event, the division winner will likely emerge at the conclusion of the Sept. 23 -25 series in Minnesota

between the Sox and the Twins. Moving over to the AL West, the Angels are cruising to a division title once again. With the best record in baseball at 87-57, the Angels hold a 17-game lead over the second-place Texas Rangers. The only thing on the minds of the Angels at this point is a plan of attack for the playoffs in October. Renowned for their ability to play a smart, efficient “small-ball” style of baseball in order to manufacture runs when they are most needed, the Angels have been a perennial force to be reck-

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Mets set sights on NL East division title hoping to avoid another September collapse by

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The following events are all possible signs that you’re not having a very good September: Your shortstop, already a two-time AllStar at age 24, hits .205/.279/.333 for the month. And to boot, he’s caught stealing in four of nine attempts. Your pitching rotation, one of the league’s best, manages an ERA of 5.51. The 41-year-old ace of said rotation, a virtual Cooperstown lock, goes winless in his last four starts by allowing 19 runs (all earned, of course) in 18 innings. Your team, on paper the best in the National League, loses six of its final seven games, all at home, against a motley mix of the barely .500 and the absolutely awful. Alone, any of these occurrences can be troubling. But together, they are more than the sum of their parts — they comprise quite possibly the worst collapse in the history of the National League. Such was the story of the 2007 New York Mets. A year later, everyone in Queens is now well aware that absolutely no lead is safe. And with this year’s Mets finding themselves, just as they did a year ago, neckand-neck with the Philadelphia Phillies in the NL East race, there will be no room for error this September. The Mets have plenty to worry about this time around. Their closer, Billy Wagner, has a torn MCL and is out for the rest of this season and likely all of the next. One of their promising young arms, John Maine, is on the DL with bone spurs in his pitching shoulder. One of their best veteran arms, Pedro Martinez, is perfectly healthy but is starting to pitch like a 36-year-old. Note: He is one.

All of that said, the Mets are still clear favorites to win the National League East. And one would be hard-pressed not to believe it after the events of this past week, as the Mets won four of six against two playoff contenders, the Phillies and the wild card-hunting Milwaukee Brewers. The hard part is over. This week the Mets kick off a 12-game stretch against the division’s two bottom-feeders: six games with the bad Atlanta Braves and six with the even worse Washington Nationals, giving New York ample opportunity to pad its lead. Johan Santana is the game’s greatest second-half pitcher, and the Mets will no doubt get a boost from the 9.92 strikeouts per nine he’s averaged in 44 career September games. If Johan can be Johan, Oliver Perez and Mike Pelfrey can continue their strong second halves and 21-year-old rookie finesse pitcher Jonathon Niese turns out to be the real deal, then the Mets’ starting pitching should be fine. And none of that seems like too much to ask. A repeat of the rotation’s 2007 meltdown seems virtually impossible. The offense, one of only two in the NL — after the Chicago Cubs — to pound out 700 runs already this season, is a nonissue. That leaves the bullpen as the Mets’ only area of concern. With Wagner out of commission, the closer role falls to Aaron Heilman, a serviceable middle reliever whose walk rate has taken an alarming hike this season, especially over the last two months. After Heilman, the Mets are filling innings six through eight with a strange cast of characters. Scott Schoeneweis and Joe Smith have been two fairly solid bullpen arms this season, while Pedro Feliciano and Duaner Sanchez have been decent but

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If the Mets complete their run to the playoffs this year, Carlos Delgado will almost certainly have a hand in their success. After starting the season off sluggishly, Delgado has been on a tear since the All-Star break, hitting .288 with 16 homers and 48 RBI in 47 games. unreliable. The bullpen is capable, but the Mets can afford few slip-ups if the Phillies get hot in the coming weeks. The Mets hold their fate in their own hands for these final three weeks. If they can pad their lead against the Braves and

Nats now, they’ll be well in front for that final week. And once again, they’ll need only to survive the Florida Marlins to seal the division crown. They’ve been in that position before.

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The number of career shutouts recorded by goalie and senior tri-captain of the men’s soccer team Dave McKeon. Mckeon added his fifth in the team’s 2-0 seasonopening win over Gordon College, a performance that included a gamesaving stop from point-blank range with three minutes to go when the score was still 1-0.

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The number of seconds by which All-American sophomore Stephanie McNamara out-ran the rest of the field of 175 at the Trinity College Invitational on Saturday, the first meet of the women’s cross country season.

The potential length, in minutes, of Tom Brady’s 2008-09 NFL season, assuming his left knee injury is as severe as Patriots’ team doctors have stated. The favorites to return to the Super Bowl as AFC Champions coming into the season, the Patriots must now regroup behind back-up QB Matt Cassel to ensure a fifth trip to the Super Bowl in the past eight seasons.

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The number of winning seasons the women’s soccer team will begin its quest for this Saturday against Colby. The program, one of the most successful at Tufts, has suffered through only 2 losing seasons in 29 years.

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The number of consecutive weeks that Roger Federer held the No. 1 spot in the World tennis rankings before losing the spot to his nemesis, Rafael Nadal. His disappointment was shortlived, however, as Federer showed the world that he is still a player to fear, beating Scotsman Andy Murray in the US Open Final on Monday night.

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Loss of three out of four defenders leaves the Jumbos with a young defensive line WOMEN’S SOCCER continued from page 19

But with so many new faces making up the roster, Tufts will have no easy task at hand. “The fact that we lost so many seniors is so big because they all played such key positions on the field,” junior goalkeeper Kate Minnehan said. “Three of the four defenders were seniors and two of the midfielders and one of the forwards, so we’re kind of feeling it all over the field. I think it’s going to be important to see how the freshmen step up, not only because we lost so many seniors, but because almost half the team [are] freshmen.” But the team will hardly be short on leadership. While the Jumbo roster boasts only one senior, tri-captain Maya Shoham, the team will return with a strong core of talented sophomores and juniors who will help ease the adjustment. “We have such a great group of returning kids,” Whiting added. “Maya, along with our juniors and sophomores, [is] so ready, and they have a ton of experience. They’re really going to set the tone for the year.” “Since we knew so many people were graduating, we were all pretty prepared to step up into leadership roles and take charge,” junior tri-captain Whitney Hardy said. “As far as challenges go, for a team that lost seven seniors, it’s really important to come together early on as a team and get to know each other so we can start having team chemistry on the field.” Key for the Jumbos will also be the returning of junior tri-captain Cara Cadigan, 2007’s NESCAC Rookie of the Year. After sitting out her entire freshman year with an injury, Cadigan led the NESCAC in goals scored and obliterated the Jumbos’ single-season scoring record, tallying 19 throughout the season. After last year’s unprecedented success, Tufts will look to Cadigan to lead the charge offensively. “I always think it’s a little tougher the second year just because now everyone has played us once at least and some teams twice,” Whiting said. “They know who she is, and they will defend her very closely. But Cara is a special player. She’ll find her ways to score, whether through breakaways, beating people one-on-one, or shooting out from a distance. “I think we’ll also have kids around her that will score for us, so teams will

McNamara takes NESCAC Performer of the Week Award Sophomore runner Stephanie McNamara is proving to be a cross-country star, opening the season on a high note by winning the Trinity College Invitational on Saturday and pacing the Jumbos to a first-place finish. In November, McNamara finished 30th at the NCAA Div. III Championships and was one of three Jumbos to earn AllAmerican honors. After two of those All-Americans, Cat Beck (LA ‘08) and Katy O’Brien (E ‘08), graduated last year, McNamara was expected to pick up the slack. She’s certainly doing her part. Running the 4k Wickham Park course in Manchester, Conn., McNamara dominated the 175-runner field with a time of 16:31; over 20 seconds faster than the second-place Lyra Clark of UMass Lowell. The race marked the first time in her budding collegiate career that McNamara finished first. Her exceptional performance helped Tufts secure a comfortable victory over the other 13 teams competing Saturday. Five Jumbos finished in the top 16, giving Tufts a final score of 48 and a victory in their first meet of the year for the third consecutive season. Stonehill College came in second with 95 points. The Jumbos now look to their only home meet of the year, the Tufts Invitational, this weekend. The team finished third at their home course in Grafton, Mass. last year. — David Heck

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Junior goalkeeper Kate Minnehan will compete behind a young Tufts defensive line this season. Minnehan boasted a .789 save percentage last season, leading the Jumbos to a 12-2-2 record in games where she defended the net. have to seriously contend with other players, which might give Cara more opportunities,” Whiting continued. “She’s a goal scorer; she’ll be great for us no matter whether she scores 100 goals or three goals.” Minnehan will also be critical for the Jumbos in the backfield. After posting a .789 save percentage last season, she will anchor a defense featuring four new starters this season in freshman Cleo Hirsch and sophomores Audrey Almy, Carrie Wilson and Bailey Morgan. The season will kick off this Saturday when the Jumbos continue a tradition started in 2004, playing their opener against the Colby Mules (0-7-2), a NESCAC foe that they defeated last year 2-0. While the Mules tied Bates for the bottom of the league standings in 2007, Tufts will not be taking any NESCAC matches for granted.

“For us, as cliché as it sounds, we just have to focus on playing one NESCAC opponent at a time,” Whiting said. “We can never get ahead of ourselves, and we need to do our best to compete as well as we can each time we step on the field for a game.” But while the Jumbos remain focused on the task at hand, the team is grateful that the game with the nonconference Wheaten College Lyons, an annual contest since 2004 that usually serves as Tufts’ second game of the season, doesn’t fall until Sept. 24. The delay will give the Jumbos time to squeeze in another NESCAC home game against a traditionally weak Conn. College team before Tufts squares off against a Lyons team that has defeated the Jumbos the last two seasons. “It’s definitely going to help,” Whiting said. “Maybe Colby and Conn. College didn’t have the best years last

year, but any NESCAC game is always a battle, so they’re great preparation for playing against a team like Wheaton. We’ll be happy to have those two games under our belt.” “Because our team is so young, I think every game we can get … before we play some really competitive teams will help us out,” Hardy said. “We’re still trying to figure out how each other plays and learning our system, so I think it helps. Basically just having as many games as possible is going to be beneficial for us.” For now, the Jumbos will concentrate on a number of aspects of their game as they await the Mules, including defense, the attacking phase and maintaining general fitness. “We’re just trying to work really hard and stay focused on doing what we can do and not worrying about what we can’t do,” Hardy said.

Pro lacrosse league hopes to draw college crowd to games BLAZERS

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“Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in the country, and recent surveys by US Lacrosse [the national governing body of lacrosse] show that participation in lacrosse throughout New England has grown by 500 percent in the past decade,” Reffue continued. “We think the combination of those facts bodes very well for the Boston Blazers as we launch our franchise.” The team was purchased by Google executive Tim Armstrong in early 2007, and the franchise attempted to join the NLL for the beginning of the 2008 season. In late 2007, however, complications arose with the league’s collective bargaining agreement. When other unforeseen logistical issues cropped up soon thereafter, the team was forced to disperse its players back to the league’s twelve other teams and regroup for another — this time successful — attempt to join the NLL for the 2009 campaign. With the Blazers’ acceptance into the league official and the season a few months away, discussion moves to the team’s potential performance in a city that has recently enjoyed winning seasons and titles from teams like the Red Sox and Celtics. “In order to play for the Blazers you must be tough and athletic,” head coach Tom Ryan said. “We have something to prove to the fans of Boston and to ourselves. The Blazers will be characterized by effort and attitude.” Last weekend, the team hosted the NLL entry draft and scouting combine at the TD Banknorth Garden in what is the last major step towards constructing

the 2009 squad. The Blazer squad will be headlined on offense by the brother tandem of Dan and Paul Dawson, as well as No. 1 overall draft pick Daryl Veltman, a graduate of Hobart College in New York. “Daryl was an All-American and the leading scorer in the ECAC, and he has a very promising future with our team,” Reffue said. Defensively, the team will be anchored by recent UMass-Amherst grad Jack Reid. Reid won’t be the only local face, however, as Ryan and assistant GM Randy Fraser have made it a point to keep a hometown feel to the Blazers. Attackman Sean Morris, a native of Marshfield, Mass. and a UMass alum, is among the Blazers who call the Bay State home. This summer the team also took strides to dig deep roots into the Boston sports community in order to ensure that its first season would be a success. The team made appearances at various local community events, including the NCAA Lacrosse Championships at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. in late May. The team hopes that the time it took to meet local lacrosse families and reach out at tournaments and events will pay dividends in terms of attendance come January. “One of the most important goals we’ve set for our franchise is to welcome the youth lacrosse community of New England with open arms,” Reffue said. “We’ve been doing that throughout the spring and summer.” The team also hosted an interactive fan day, called Blazers Day, in conjunction with the draft Saturday and invited over 20 youth teams from around New

England to participate. Reffue said he hopes the weekend went a long way in helping to build a local fan base. “We thought it was very important to work together with the NLL to stage the best combine and draft in the league’s 23-year history,” he said. “To accomplish that goal, we staged Blazers Day, a full day of activities and promotions to reach out to our fans. From all of the feedback we heard from league executives, our players, coaches and the many fans who attended, Blazers Day was a tremendous success.” The team also hopes to make a splash with area college students. Citing the team’s proximity to the T and the fastpaced, hard-hitting nature of the NLL, Reffue said college students would likely be drawn to the Garden for Saturday night contests. “Blazers tickets are affordable, and our games will offer tremendous entertainment value to the college crowd who love to enjoy a night out,” Reffue said. “We hope that Tufts students take advantage of the great ticket prices, jump on the T and come out to support the Blazers.” In the end though, the Blazers management knows that Boston fans place heavy emphasis on winning and a team’s on-the-field results. “Our goal for this year is to win games and play hard so that the fans of New England will be proud to support us,” Ryan said. “Despite being an expansion team, our goal has to be to get in the playoffs.” The Boston Blazers will roll out the turf for the first time in January, making their return to the Garden Jan. 17 against the New York Titans.

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class, which is exciting. Still, they’re inexperienced, and it’ll take a while for them to get their feet wet.” That’s why Tufts will be relying mostly on team veterans to pick up the slack, at least for this year. .

“We have a returning group that is very experienced,” Whiting said. “I think we’re only starting one freshman at the outset, which is impressive considering how many seniors we graduated. I’m very excited about the group we have.” The biggest question mark for

StatISTICS | Standings (1-0-0, 0-0-0 NESCAC)

(1-0, 1-0 NESCAC) NESCAC

W 1 Amherst 1 Tufts 0 Bates 0 Bowdoin 0 Colby MIddlebury 0 0 Trinity 0 Williams Conn. Coll. 0 Wesleyan 0 M. Kelly T. Brown A. Russo M. Scholtes B. Holliday I. Lewnard B. Cilley C. Kemp

L W 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 G 3 3 1 1 1 1 0 0

Goalkeeping GA M. Zak 0 K. Hyder 1

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OVERALL

L 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1

T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

A 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 1

Pts 7 6 4 3 2 2 1 1

S 1 1

S% 1.00 .500

Amherst Bates Bowdoin Colby Conn. Coll Middlebury Trinity Tufts Wesleyan Williams

W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

M. Fitzgerald D. Schoening N. Muakkassa R. Coleman C. Flaherty A. Hart A. Kobren A. Lach J. Molofsky D. Orlowitz

L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 G 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

College last season, will be crucial to the Jumbos’ success this year. “They need to get a game under their belt to get confidence,” Whiting said. “But they’re good players, good athletes, and they understand the game. I have extreme faith in them and know

that the more they play together the better they’ll get.” “They’re learning to work together as a unit,” junior goalkeeper Kate Minnehan said. “They just need to become more familiar with each other, and once they learn that they’ll be successful.”

SCHEDULE | Sept. 10 - Sept. 16

Men's Soccer

Field Hockey

the Jumbos will be on defense where the team will be starting four new players. Freshman Cleo Hirsch, sophomores Audrey Almy, Carrie Wilson and Bailey Morgan, a transfer student who won Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference newcomer of the year for Rhodes

WED

THU

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SAT

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MON

TUE

OVERALL

W 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 A 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pts 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Goalkeeping GA Svs Sv% D. McKeon 0 4 1.00

Tufts Invitational 12 p.m.

Cross Country

Field Hockey vs. Wellesley 4 p.m.

vs. Colby 1 p.m.

at Babson 6 p.m.

Football

vs. Colby 3:30 p.m.

Women’s Soccer Men’s Soccer

at Southern Maine 4:30 p.m.

Volleyball

vs. Colby 1 p.m. at Brandeis Invitational 4 p.m.

at Brandeis Invitational 12 p.m.

vs. Gordon 7 p.m.

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