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VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 36

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Tufts chosen to be part of climate change study by

Alexandra Bogus

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Approximately 180 local children came to Tufts on Saturday for the Leonard Carmichael Society’s Halloween on the Hill event. Children trick-or-treated in Carmichael and Hodgdon Halls, braved a haunted house at the Theta Chi fraternity and saw a performance by the Traveling Treasure Trunk, Tufts’ student group devoted to children’s drama. Above, youngsters enjoy mud pie made of pudding, crumbled Oreos and gummy worms.

A Colorado non-profit organization recently chose Tufts as one of 12 colleges nationwide to participate in a research study that focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions on college campuses. Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), the organization conducting the Accelerated Campus Climate Change Initiative, hopes to achieve a deeper understanding of the kinds of barriers schools are experiencing to reducing emissions, RMI Research Fellow Sally DeLeon told the Daily. The study’s organizers tried to pick schools that have a record of working on climate change, said Julian Dautremont-Smith, associate director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), an organization working with RMI on the study. Dautremont-Smith told the Daily that Tufts has set a strong

example of addressing climate change. “Tufts has a really long history of climate leadership,” he said. “We looked at them as kind of a leader.” The 12 colleges picked for the study differ in size and geographic location and includes public and private universities, community colleges and research institutions. The obstacles they face to reducing emissions vary. While RMI and AASHE offered advice during the selection process, DeLeon said an anonymous foundation formally selected the 12 campuses. “It was a pretty rigorous selection process. A lot [of schools] applied,” Dautremont-Smith said. RMI will officially be working with Tufts’ Office of Sustainability. Sarah Creighton, program director at the Office of Sustainability, said her office was excited to learn of its selection to participate in the study and to explore energy alternatives. “We’ve had a climate initiative see CLIMATE, page 2

Nader visits Tufts on way to record by

Gillian Javetski

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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader spoke at the campus center on Saturday as part of his “Massachusetts Marathon,” in which the activist aimed to set a new international record for the most campaign stops in one day. During his 12-minute speech here, Nader touched on a wide range of issues, including corruption in Washington, student loans, unaffordable health care, and nutrition and diet. Nader gave speeches at 21 locations throughout Massachusetts, breaking the previous world record of 15 stops in one day, according to the Associated Press. At Tufts, he characterized this whirlwind tour as an effort to demonstrate the power of localcommunity campaigning. “One of the reasons that we’re trying to break this campaignstop record is to demonstrate that an electronic campaign does not

get to the community level and does not interface with people enough,” Nader said. “We are on a campaign that takes a stand on local issues, and we have chosen to talk about them directly to local communities.” Nader cited a few statewide issues that are on the Massachusetts ballot, including his support for Question 2, which would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana if passed. He criticized Question 1, the State Income Tax Repeal, which aims to abolish Massachusetts’ 5.3percent income tax. Moving to national issues, Nader talked about issues specific to college students and identified three problems that many will have to face after graduating. “People in their 20s are going to have a hard time fulfilling their dreams because of three main issues, the first being student loans,” Nader said. “The numbertwo reason is that this is the first generation in American history

where skilled jobs are being outsourced all over the world. The third thing that college graduates are facing is unaffordable health insurance.” Nader blamed federal corruption and corporate lobbying for creating these problems. “Washington is corporateoccupied territory that has shut [out] wonderful civic groups, and as we can see from the $700 billion bailout, its leaders have become our global masters,” Nader said. “This corruption is responsible for this two-party duopoly and is the reason why you young voters have been shut out of the democratic process.” Elaborating on the subject, Nader described his desire for a day when the American people take a stand against lobbyists, interest groups and this “duopoly.” “I’m working here as a hammer, a conscience, a watchdog,” Nader said. “I’m working until the

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The Rocky Mountain Institute has enlisted Tufts to work on reducing carbon emissions. Seen here is the smokestack near Dowling.

Fletcher celebrates its 75th anniversary with remarks from German ambassador to U.S. by

Alexandra Bogus

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The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy celebrated its 75th anniversary with an on-campus ceremony on Friday featuring reflections from faculty and alumni on the importance of interdisciplinary work in today’s fragile global setting. “In these troubled times, you have to benefit from going to a good school and learning across faculty lines … in

a setting where you have not only your fellow citizens, but people from all over the world,” Klaus Scharioth (F ’74), the German ambassador to the United States, said in his keynote address in Cabot Auditorium. Scharioth went on to present the “shortlist” of the global challenges he feels are most pertinent today. He focused on the financial crisis, nuclear disarmament, terrorism, failed states, climate change and energy independence.

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He stressed the importance of having nations work collaboratively before they act, and said that the world community is facing conflicts that any single country cannot solve alone. “We have to develop a different culture,” Scharioth said, “where we get together before we make decisions in our governments. We don’t do that so far, but I think the challenges which lie ahead make it absolutely necessary that we change our ways.” Also in celebration of its anniversary,

Fletcher hosted a gala two weeks ago at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., bringing together alumni from around the world. Fletcher was founded in 1933 as the first graduate school in the country devoted solely to international affairs. Fletcher School Dean Stephen Bosworth, who offered the Friday ceremony’s introductory and closing remarks, described the school’s foundsee FLETCHER, page 2

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“Righteous Republic: The search for an Indian political tradition”

p.m.; Tisch Library Sponsor: Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service

Details: Ananya Vajpeyi, a fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, will give a lecture entitled “Righteous Republic: The Search for an Indian Political Tradition.” When & Where: 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Room 206, Cabot Intercultural Center Sponsor: Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies

“Partisans of Allah: Jihad as Ethics, Jihad as War”

Greeks host block party

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“Film Screening: Vincent Who?” Details: A question-and-answer session with producer Curtis Chin will follow the screening of his new documentary “Vincent Who?” (2008). Chin is a Los Angelesbased writer, producer and political activist. His movie documents the racially motivated murder of Vincent Chin in 1982 and subsequent civil rights work in the AsianAmerican community. When & Where: 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Terrace Room, Paige Hall Sponsors: Asian American Alliance, Asian American Center

“The U.N.: A First-Hand View” Details: A panel of Fletcher students will speak about their experiences working for the United Nations. They will discuss the current relevance of the United Nations, explain how they obtained their jobs there and offer advice for students seeking employment at the United Nations. When & Where: 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Room 206, Cabot Intercultural Center Sponsor: International Relations Program TUESDAY

“The Science and Pseudoscience of Winning Elections” Details: Donald Green, a professor of political science at Yale University, will give a lecture entitled “The Science and Pseudoscience of Winning Elections.” Refreshments will be served. When & Where: 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center Sponsors: Department of Political Science, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education

“Project Iraq Hosts the Marhabtain Institute” Details: Three veterans of the Iraq war and one Iraqi will share their experiences through a PowerPoint presentation and question-and-answer session. They hope to provoke a dialogue about Iraq and its culture and dialect. When & Where: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Multipurpose Room, Sofia Gordon Hall Sponsor: PANGEA WEDNESDAY

“Renaissance of the Citizen Soldier” Details: In its second year, ALLIES’ Intellectual Roundtable will host experts from government, industry and media to help expand undergraduates’ understanding of civilmilitary relations. When & Where: TBA Sponsors: Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES)

“Terrorism and the Rule of Law” Details: Former Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora will talk about contemporary dilemmas in American foreign policy. This brown bag luncheon is part of a weekly speaker series this fall hosted by Former Ambassador to the Czech Republic John Shattuck. R.S.V.P. to [email protected]. When & Where: 12:00 p.m. to 1:15

Details: History Professor Ayesha Jalal will put the current understanding of jihad into historical context. When & Where: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall Sponsor: Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences

“Berlin: A City in Transition” Details: Thorsten Wagner, a profesor from Humboldt University in Berlin, will be speaking to the Tufts community about why Germany is the fastest grwoing Jewish community in the world, focusing specifically on the modern restoration of the Jewish community in Berlin. When & Where: 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Granoff Family Hillel Center Sponsor: Tufts Hillel THURSDAY

“Decision ’08: Brown Bag Lunch with John Shattuck” Details: As part of the Tisch College’s weekly Brown Bag Luncheon, this week former Ambassador to the Czech Republic John Shattuck will be leading a discussion of foreign policy and presidential politics. R.S.V.P. to Doug Foote at Douglas. [email protected]. Drinks and fruit will be provided. When & Where: 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.; Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Center Sponsor: Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service

“Computer Science Seminar” Details: Johns Hopkins University Professor Scott Smith will be sharing his research with the Tufts commu-

nity about a new computer science language model called Coqua that is used for reliable multi-core programming. When & Where: 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.; H11A, Halligan Hall Sponsor: Lenore Cowen

“AConversationabout the 2008 Elections” Details: As part of the Chaplain’s Table Series, Dean of Undergraduate Education and Political Science Professor James Glaser will be leading a discussion on the upcoming races. When & Where: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.; MacPhie Conference Room Sponsors: The Chaplain’s Office, The International Center and the Fletcher School FRIDAY

“CEME Local Capital Markets Seminar Series: Private Sector Access to Emerging Local Capital Markets” Details: Center for Emerging Market Enterprises (CEME) Senior Fellows Eliot Kalter of EM Strategies, Inc. and Neil Allen (F ’76), a Fletcher School Board of Overseers member and the chief executive officer of Allen Global Holdings, LLC, will speak about facilitating private-sector access to local capital markets that are opening up worldwide. When & Where: TBA Sponsor: CEME

“Dealing With DNA Problems: Template Lesions and Replication Blocks” Details: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Graham Walker, the principle investigator at the university’s Walker Lab, will speak. When & Where: 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Barnum 104 Sponsor: Department of Biology

To submit an event to “Visiting the Hill,” send listings to [email protected].

RMI to report its findings on Internet for colleges to use CLIMATE

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at Tufts since 1999 … and we’ve been making significant progress,” Creighton said. “But we’ve learned that it’s easier said than done.” Most of the barriers that schools face in reducing greenhouse gas emissions on campus are based on financial constraints, limited access to information on climate change options and the coordination of staff, students and faculty. Creighton said that the biggest challenges Tufts has faced come from the limits of proven technology and from working in preexisting buildings. “In order to deliver heat and air conditioning on an uninterrupted basis, you have to use fossil fuels in some way,” she said. “While renewable energy is a wonderful

technology, it is not cost-effective at this point.” Creighton said that Tufts has learned a great deal so far despite these challenges. The university hopes to share its experiences with schools just starting work on combating climate change. RMI is in the process of visiting each of the colleges in the study. DeLeon said the institute will focus specifically on the campus carbon footprint during these visits. RMI plans to meet with various members of the schools’ administrations, including people working in finance, the facilities and operations departments and students and faculty working on climate change reduction on campus. RMI plans to visit Tufts in January, according to DeLeon. In the spring, experts from RMI

and AASHE will lead a workshop to discuss their findings with representatives from all the campuses. Describing the workshop as a “barrier-busting solution,” DeLeon said each school will be asked to present an anti-climate change proposal tailored to its campus. “We’re really building a network, a place where the expertise from all the campuses can come together,” she said. Eventually, RMI plans on creating a Web-based report of its findings. Colleges around the country will be able to download the report and use it to find solutions to climate change issues. This report will be a “framework to help schools so they don’t have to reinvent the wheel,” DeLeon said. Creighton said she looks forward to proposals that will allow

Tufts to move toward the next level of emissions reduction. Because Tufts is a research institution, however, the universities’ proposed solutions must not expose the campus to unsustainable alternatives, she said. “It’s not a grand experiment,” she said. “It cannot in any way jeopardize our research and education missions. The solutions we come up with have to be practical. That’s really important.” Creighton said that she is specifically interested in learning from the “mature programs” of the University of Vermont and Yale University. Other colleges featured in the study include Harford Community College in Maryland, the University of Missouri and Furman University in South Carolina.

Fletcher’s history bookended by national economic crises FLETCHER

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ing at the height of the Great Depression as “an act of great hope in a time of popular despair.” Bosworth said that as it celebrates its 75th anniversary, Fletcher is facing economic distresses similar to those it battled at its inception. “And yet today, just as then, there is reason, even more reason, to be hopeful and confident,” Bosworth said. Scharioth said the financial crisis has shown how important international organization, oversight and transparency are in today’s global economy. He added that good governance that

respects the rule of law, human rights and the market economy are critical to finding a solution. “It’s a perfect example to show that really nothing in this globalized world is a national problem,” Scharioth said. “So we need a global answer.” Fletcher Professors Joel Trachtman and John Perry followed Scharioth’s address with their own reflections. Perry, praising Fletcher’s continuous commitment to interdisciplinary learning, was disappointed that history, which he described as knowledge essential to international affairs, only makes up a small part of the school’s curriculum. Drawing a

standing ovation, Perry pushed for adding more history courses to Fletcher’s curriculum. “The prevalent crises provide a stinging reminder of the perils of not learning from the past,” he said. “Successful stewards of the future must be schooled in the lessons of the past.” Delivering the ceremony’s student remarks, Dahlia Shaham said she believes Fletcher’s founders would be proud of its diverse, free-thinking student body. “We can’t limit ourselves to one disciplinary boundary,” she said. “The wealth of perspectives is literally a breath of fresh air.”

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Leslie Ogden

Contributing Writer

Fraternities and sororities came together on Friday afternoon to host a bustling block party aimed at uniting Greek students with the rest of the student body and the Medford and Somerville communities. Enjoying the beautiful weather, students and members from Tufts’ surrounding neighborhoods gathered on Professors Row to enjoy an array of activities, including pumpkin carving, cookie decorating, tiedyeing and live music. Each of Tufts’ fraternity and sororities contributed to the event, cooking hot dogs and hamburgers, setting up activities and making whipped cream pies. The brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) generated the idea for the block party a year and a half ago. “We wanted to change the Greek image, not just among the Tufts community, but also within Medford and Somerville,” said junior Alex Kahn, a SigEp brother who served as one of the event’s coordinators. “Hopefully this will become an annual event and a Tufts tradition.” Senior Jake Maccoby, a SigEp brother and the president of the Inter-Greek Council, said the event also helped unify the Greek community internally. “The tone of the Greek community in the past has been a feeling of being scattered — a set of houses and chapters — but what’s really started to happen, particularly this year, is we’re building a cohesive community and a stronger Greek family,” said Maccoby, who is also an editorialist for the Daily. The event brought together other Tufts groups as well. The Tufts Community Union Senate provided hot dogs and hamburgers, and the Pan-African Alliance and the Association of Latin American Students (ALAS) also lent their efforts. “We wanted to have people from the community see the better side of Tufts students rather than tensions between the school and the city,” said sophomore Jose Mena, ALAS’ public relations officer. “To see all these people come together on a day like this, where all the groups at Tufts can assemble, shows how we really are all part of a larger community,” said sophomore Chris Owens, the treasurer and special projects coordinator for the PanAfrican Alliance.

Nadar praises Friedman School

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American people say, ‘If the two parties don’t shape up, they’re going to be shipped out.’” As a final point, Nader discussed Tufts’ history as a leading center for nutritional study, and he called on other institutions to follow the university’s example. “I think we should all know the history of what your university has contributed as a center for nutritional development in trying to stop this national nutritional crisis,” Nader said, referring to the Friedman School of Nutrition. “We have an obesity epidemic that has never been seen in world history. We have all witnessed the devastating devolution of diet in this country.” Sophomore Tyler Cooper enjoyed listening to Nader’s brief presentation. “I thought it was pretty good that he talked about issues that the two main parties usually avoid,” he said. “He definitely represents an important third-party voice in national politics.”

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Voting apple often falls far from the tree

Some students’ political beliefs sharply diverge from those of their parents by

Robin Carol

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Intense division along party lines is not just a characteristic of swing states in the upcoming election — stark political differences sometimes occur within the same family. “When I was in high school I didn’t agree with my parents on certain issues,” sophomore Megan Dalton said. “During 2004, we had to do an assignment where we had to watch the debates and decide who you think had won. That’s when I noticed my beliefs didn’t correlate with my parents’, especially my father.” Dalton said that her political beliefs began to solidify during her sophomore year in high school. When she registered to vote, it became clear to her parents that she had formed opinions all her own. “That’s when they found out I registered Democrat,” Dalton said. “My dad I think at first was a little shocked.” Despite the initial surprise, Dalton said that the diverse opinions in her family have led to increased political discourse. “Now [my dad] is totally fine with it,” she said. “He respects my beliefs and my opinions. This summer, we debated back and forth; it opened up a lot of discussion in my house.” Freshman Natalie Wiegand grew up in a very conservative household but has since become much more liberal than her parents. “My parents are really religious and we all went to church every week, so that’s how we got some values. I remember really well them talking

about how they hated the Clintons — even today I have this anxiety about the Clintons,” Wiegand said. After joining her high school’s debate club, Wiegand’s political views shifted. “I grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y. and it’s a pretty liberal place,

but the debate club was pretty split. At first I thought I was conservative, because my parents were, and I always had believed what they said. But in 10th grade I was like, ‘oh, actually I’m not.’” Although she disagrees with her

parents on a variety of issues, Wiegand does have some allies around the dinner table. “I have a lot of siblings … there are six of us and all of us are Democrats,” she said. Dalton and Wiegand’s experiences are not the ones shared by the majority of college students. The past two elections in particular prove that Americans are increasingly polarized along party lines, but this division typically does not extend to parents and their children. Associate Professor of Political Science Deborah Schildkraut explained that political views are usually inherited, and that it is rare for families to belong to different parties. “It’s not that common. People like to think that when they’re coming of age, that they’re independent and that their parents are square,” Schildkraut said. “But when I teach Intro to American Politics and we talk about partisanship, I ask students to raise their hands if they know their party, and then raise their hand if it’s the same as their parents. People look around and are surprised by how many hands stay up.” Dalton agreed that her experience is uncommon. “When I introduce myself I usually throw in the fact that my dad’s a Republican,” she said, because of the surprised reactions she often receives. Donald Green, a professor of political science at Yale University and co-author of the book “Partisan Hearts and Minds,” (2002) said that early influences are what often form see PARENTS, page 5

‘Great Schleppers’ overcome age barriers, hearing aids to convince elderly voters by

Carrie Battan

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“If Barack Obama doesn’t become the next President of the United States, I’m going to blame the Jews,” comedian Sarah Silverman said in a video address to visitors of the Web site TheGreatSchlep.com. On the morning of Nov. 8, 2000, a recount of ballots in Florida showed that George W. Bush held a miniscule edge of about 500 votes over Democratic opponent Al Gore. The small margin separating the two candidates led to extensive legal and personal battles, culminating in a Bush victory over a month later. The results of the election both embittered and enthralled voters, forever ensconcing the scene in Florida in the mind of disillusioned Democrats. This time around, an Internet sensation has been pushing young Democrats to sway the large and influential Floridian demographic of elderly Jews in Sen. Barack Obama’s favor. “The Great Schlep,” an effort begun by JewsVote.org and endorsed by Silverman, has urged young Jewish people to make the “schlep” to the Sunshine State and convince their grandparents to vote for Obama on Nov. 4. Silverman and supporters of the Great Schlep have taken aim at this group, who notoriously vote for the Republican candidate in higher percentages than does the general Jewish-American population. They are especially concerned with the United

States’ relationship with Israel and mumblings of Obama’s alleged association with Islam. After being persuaded by his sister to watch the Silverman video, Tufts junior Cobin Dopkeen boarded a plane on Columbus Day weekend to visit his own grandparents in Miami, Fla. “I thought it was funny and I figured, why not go?” Dopkeen said. “It was pretty much something where you go and you do it on your own … I feel like a large part of [the Great Schlep] is to get other people to notice and then go down as well.” Dopkeen said that while his own grandparents were already planning to vote for Obama and did not need convincing, he spent much of his time milling around their nursing home in search of other elderly voters he could persuade. He was surprised to find that a large portion of the residents in the living facility had already made up their minds in favor of Obama. “[I said], ‘Hi, if you don’t mind me asking, are you voting for Obama? Or are you voting for McCain?’ And

they go, ‘No! I’m voting for Obama.’ And I’m like, ‘Alright, great, thanks.’” But Dopkeen tipped the decision of one woman who had been undecided because she viewed Obama as too inexperienced to run the country. “She was going to vote for Hillary and she thought that Obama was inexperienced but that McCain was over the hill,” he said. “And so I talked to her about her views and what mattered to her, and she agreed with Obama’s policies, so I just had to convince her to give him a chance.” Coming from a liberal school in the Northeast, Dopkeen had to get on the same page as many of the elderly people he spoke with. “I definitely had to explain to them why I was there and the idea behind it,” he said. “I tried talking to an old man who, at first, I thought was ignoring me, until I see SCHLEP, page 5

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Mr. X: The ‘library is closing’ voice

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here I was, in the library, sleeping with my head against an open logic book, tumbling through some sporadic dream episodes, waist deep in a placid, slow wave snooze when, all of a sudden, the turtle in my dream turns to me and, in an uncharacteristically stern voice, says “Attention please! Attention please! The library will be closing in fifteen minutes ...” Looking down with crossed eyes, I noticed that the crevice of my logic book had filled with drool, creating a tiny stream of — knowledge? To my surprise, the turtle’s voice continued: “Please bring all materials you wish to check out to the circulation desk now.” Trying to shake off that disorienting groggy sensation of sleep inertia, for a second or two I seriously considered the possibility that the turtle had transcended the dream/reality barrier to tell me to get the hell out of the library. Since this was my first time hearing the voice in the library, I was intrigued by the source. Frequenting Tisch thereafter, I would listen to the voice, surmising the austere being it belonged to — wondering if it roamed the library like a ghost, and just how it managed that strict, no-funny-business tone while retaining a sort of friendliness. My curiosity peaked one night, and I decided to ask the bored-to-tears guy at the circulation desk if he knew anything about the man behind the voice, the God by the Quad, the Wizard of Oz-some. “Hey man, I’ve got a weird question for you...” I began. He gave me a condescending smirk as if to say, “Try me, jabronie.” So I asked if he knew who the guy was; the question didn’t faze him much, but, by the looks of him, I don’t think anything could. He didn’t know and didn’t care, but directed me to the library’s administration office with a languid point of the arm. The genial woman at the office’s front desk referred to the man behind the voice as “Mr. X” and generously made a few calls for me. She informed someone, who I believe was Mr. X’s secretary, that I hoped to speak with the man. I left unsure if I would be able to; the woman at the front desk told me I would “need to be cleared” before speaking with him and that she would contact me in the near future. I was informed via e-mail a few days later that I had passed muster and was “cleared” to contact Richard Fleischer, code name Mr. X. When the day finally came to call him, I was a little nervous. The week or so leading to this moment had imbued him with a certain mystique that made me apprehensive as I entered his phone number. I counted every ring. Thirteen painstaking rings — no machine. He picked up, and I spoke hurriedly at first, but eased as the questions formed themselves. I asked him how long the library had been using the recording. “Seven years at least, if not longer,” he responded evenly. To the best of his knowledge, he has had no predecessors — he is the first and only voice of Tisch. Remembering the time he first recorded the announcement, he said, “My goal was to alert everybody of the library’s closing and be forceful in tone, to verbally appear stern.” I assured him that he succeeded in doing that. Laughing, he added that he has recorded a number of lesser-played announcements that only a fortunate few have heard. After imagining who or what the voice might have belonged to, you can imagine my surprise when the Wizard of Oz-some told me that he runs the library’s media center during the day — working his magic behind the aisles of films and divvying out myriad movies to the masses. It makes so much sense, but who knew?! Now, every time I hear that stern old recording, I wake up and wipe the drool from my cheek — recalling his warm laugh recorded in my memory.

Michael Goetzman is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at [email protected].

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“first, i worry about climate change. it's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible.” -Bill Clinton

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Political conflict within families can lead to increased discussion, independence PARENTS

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the political views of children and teenagers. “It’s especially rare to see a staunch conservative coming out of a staunch liberal household. Part of the reason it’s rare is the people who are raised in liberal households or conservative households are subject to the socializing forces that bear conservative or liberal imprints on people,” Green said. For example, Wiegand attributes many of her views to her upbringing and attending church with her family. “I’m not very religious now but my morals are pretty well set because of religion and growing up in a religious place,” she said. “There [are] definitely a few conservative ideas that I still have.” Senior Shiva Riahi often votes for a different candidate than her parents, but still said that her family influenced her beliefs. “I grew up with the political

beliefs of my family and I can see it sort of reflected in my beliefs. I am fiscally conservative and socially liberal, but I didn’t get the social liberal policies from my parents,” she said. According to Green, those who do diverge from their parents are often influenced by others of their own age. “Peers tend to have a big influence on one’s views. That’s especially true in college,” he said. “People who go to college are often exposed for the first time to ideas that are different from ideas that they’ve been hearing at home.” Contrasting views among family members can cause conflict at times, he added. “It can be a source of distance,” Green said. “When you have family members pulling the same direction politically, there’s a certain camaraderie built up. But when you view each other as canceling each other’s votes and correcting each other’s partisan indiscretions, it can be hard.”

Though Wiegand said that her parents respect her decisions, there have been some heated arguments in her home. “[My dad] is actually openminded about things. My parents made sure [my siblings and I] were all registered to vote. We don’t talk about politics all that much, but my entire family once got into this huge brawl about gay marriage,” she said. “Occasionally something will come up and we’ll get into a big fight. When that happens I feel bad for my parents, because it’s like six against one.” Despite the obvious challenges, Political Science Professor Jeff Berry said that parents and children having to defend their political views can be beneficial. “The positive is that you hear different points of view and you’re taught to make up your own mind,” he said. This sense of independence was evident for Riahi. “A lot of the kids in my town

definitely grew up with the political values of their parents. I often found myself defending what I thought. They were a lot of times spoon-fed what their beliefs should be,” Riahi said. A difference in political views can be a very clear indication of a child’s steps toward adulthood and decision-making. “For a child it might be empowering individualism,” Schildkraut said. “You might feel more committed if you have to stand up for your views. It might lead to maturity for children to disagree with their parents over deep ideas.” Defending her political views has made Dalton even more ardent about them. “It opened up more dialogue between us, specifically with my father. When he calls me to check up, we always have to have a conversation about the latest political happenings,” Dalton said. “I want to build on my argument because I don’t want to be the one to lose. I understand where my

parents come from, but my views personally haven’t been affected. I know what I’m passionate about and I know what I stand for, so I’m not easily persuaded.” Some, like Wiegand, see their set of views as less of a permanent fixture and instead as something that is constantly shifting and evolving. “I hate to think of it this way, but it is kind of like a rebellion. When I get older, maybe I’ll be a little bit less liberal or less radical, and less extreme,” Wiegand said. But for those parents who hope that their kids’ beliefs are only a phase, they can only cross their fingers for a little longer. “You see a lot of flux during the ages of 18-29, but by the time you reach 30, views are generally pretty stable from that time on. If you had a 30-year-old write a letter to themself, they would find their 80-year-old self would agree with their views from age 30,” Green said.

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realized he just couldn’t hear me.” Hearing disabilities aside, many residents of his grandparents’ living facility were concerned with politics from decades ago — often leaving Dopkeen dumbfounded. “The hardest part is talking to people who are going to talk about politics from before you were born,” he said. “They’re talking about things from when they were 20 and I’m like, ‘Look. I’m thinking I studied this in history in seventh grade for like a little, but I

didn’t experience it.’ I’m not going to have the knowledge they do. I go down there and I’m ready to talk about what I know, which is what’s happening now and not so much what happened then.” Dopkeen’s Columbus Day schlep coincided with the release of a Quinnipiac University poll showing Obama’s popularity at 77 percent among Floridian Jews. For students like Dopkeen, who is a native of Chicago, Ill., the Great Schlep was a mechanism for influencing the outcome of the election — a goal that

they could not necessarily achieve by simply casting a vote in their traditionally blue home states. “The thing is, when I cast my vote, it’s not a huge deal because I’m from Illinois … or I could register in Massachussetts, and [in] either one, Obama’s going to win in that state,” Dopkeen said. “If I really want to do something about it, I have to go somewhere else. So I went down to Florida.” Dopkeen, a computer science major who has not been otherwise involved in campaigning efforts, said that though he is mostly apolitical, efforts like the

Great Schlep have heightened his — and other college-aged students’ — political activism. “The way I see it, [Bill] Clinton was elected and our entire childhood was within Clinton, and we [were] like, ‘Oh, everything’s great, what a good country, and everything’s going to be fantastic.’ And as we became teenagers, Bush won … And as [I was] a teenager, Bush [was] the president, and everything got progressively crappier, and you [had] that teenage angst,” Dopkeen said. “[Now] we’re like, ‘Well, this matters.’”

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‘Sex Drive’ crashes and burns in attempt at crude teen comedy Matthew DiGirolamo

The teenage sex comedy has seen many incarnations: “American Pie” (1999) told us it felt “like warm apple by

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Starring Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, James Marsden Directed by Sean Anders pie,” “Superbad” (2007) warned us to be careful with a fake I.D. and “Knocked Up” (2007) gave stoners and slackers everywhere the hope that they could get with Katherine Heigl one day. “Sex Drive” serves up several hot topics concerning sex, but sadly none give rise to anything especially enjoyable. The film stars Josh Zuckerman as Ian, a teenager who (tragically) hasn’t “gotten any” yet. He works at a doughnut shop in the mall and obsesses over women all the time (talk about a stereotype). Ian’s brother Rex (played by James Marsden) is a typical jock, painin-the-you-know-what sibling who picks on him. When Ian creates a fake profile on a social networking type Web site, he finds “Ms. Tasty,” a supposed cyber beauty who wants to meet him, thinking he is a large, muscular football player. When Ms. Tasty invites Ian to drive down in his (actually Rex’s) Pontiac GTO to have sex with her, he

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Want to go for a ride? Don’t see this movie. jumps at the opportunity, and invites his friends Lance (Clark Duke from ABC Family’s “Greek”) and Felicia (Amanda Crew) to join him. The rest of the film follows the crew across the country, showing the audience the various shenanigans that can result from a road trip involving encounters with a hobo (cameo by David Koechner), redneck families and an Amish village.

While these scenes are enjoyable, they lack sincerity, feeling and any chance for the audience to relate to the characters. The only things keeping the film going are the selfish, uninteresting desire of Ian to get it on and Felicia’s dilemma of whether or not she is in love with one of her best friends. see SEX, page 8

TV Review

‘Stylista’ brings a new bunch of catty characters to prime-time reality television by

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Most reality shows carve a niche for themselves and hold on to whatever ounce of originality they may have for 8, 12, or

Stylista Starring Anne Slowey and Joe Zee Airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on The CW even 17 seasons (think “Survivor”). The CW just premiered its new hope for reality TV fame, “Stylista,” a show about the inner-workings of a fashion magazine. The show centers on 11 contestants vying for a junior editor position at Elle magazine. Every week they must perform two tasks: an assistant task and an editorial task. The assistant task is usually something like making someone’s breakfast or running errands around the city. The editorial task can be anything from laying out a contributing editor’s page to researching and writing an article for the magazine. Bossing around these contestants is Fashion News Director Anne Slowey. Along with Elle’s Creative Director Joe Zee, the two judge contestants on their performance, style and overall personality until one is left to claim the prize. Along with the promise of a paid editor position at the magazine, the winner will also get a paid one-year lease on a Manhattan apartment and a clothing allowance at H&M. As with all reality shows, the cast is far from dull and there is always drama waiting in the wings. The cast is definitely female-heavy, containing

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Contestants give their best “Hey! Look at me, I’m on TV!” pose. only four stereotypical fashion-loving skinny men, one of whom has already gone home. To make things more interesting, the girls are possibly some of the meanest vixens in reality TV history. Kate is a big-breasted girl who dressed inappropriately on the first day, thus earning the nickname “Boobs” from the other contestants. After being told to “cover up” by Zee, she broke down about her beautiful clothes and how she is being forced to change herself by changing her clothes. Megan is all about the label, on clothes and on people, which is why she finds it difficult to fathom why Danielle, a fashion retailer without stick-thin model proportions, made it to the final round of a fashion magazine competition. For

some reason though, Danielle always gets the best critique from the judges, showing that real life isn’t always a popularity contest and real brains and talent are necessary for success. The show really isn’t going to attract an especially strong following simply because most people don’t care about the publishing world. Putting the show right after “America’s Next Top Model,” however, was a clever move, as anyone who watches a show about models will probably be interested in a show about fashion. Still, “Stylista” tries too hard to be “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006) with a rude, order-barking editor making the contestants’ lives hell. Slowey stomps see STYLISTA, page 8

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AC/DC powers through the 2000s

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ait, what? Back it up. AC/DC released a new album? Is it like, remixes of “Back In Black” (1980) or something? There must be a catch. Well, surprisingly enough, there is no catch. Actually, that’s a lie too. If you consider the fact that AC/DC is now entering its 40th year of service — and that they probably shouldn’t be releasing a new album — to be a bad omen, then that’s one hell of a catch right there. The album, fittingly titled “Black Ice,” has been in the works for nearly three years, with the band first entering the studio to begin recording sometime in January 2006. What’s truly unfortunate about the entire situation is the undeniable reality that producer Brendan O’Brien had his nasty little fingers all over the entire project. Mr. O’Brien isn’t a name familiar to most, but to me, he is the epitome of all that is wrong with music production in the modern era. If you look up his discography on Wikipedia.com, it’s likely he’s produced something you’ve heard. Most famous for his work in the ’90s with postgrunge rock bands such as Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine, O’Brien went on in the 2000s to single-handedly (well, maybe not) destroy one of my personal favorite bands, Incubus, and I can never forgive him for that. Sorry, Brendan, you’re on my sh-t list. But more to the point, O’Brien, with his uncanny ability to make any mix sound like sludge, has produced the latest AC/DC album. According to an interview with The Daily Telegraph, the jerk even had the gall to tell lead singer Brian Johnson, famous for his shrill scream-singing, to try to belt out some “soul crooning” instead. I don’t really care if Johnson has a fantastic soulful voice; that just ain’t right. After all this ranting about my dislike of O’Brien, I admit I have not actually heard the new album yet. With midterms upon us, I, like you, fellow student, have been relieving myself in my britches due to stress, and therefore have been unable to legally pick up a copy of the album. My main concern here is that the band members will commit one of the famous faux pas of rock and try to change despite knowing that they’re really in no shape for an alteration at this point. That’s why it only concerns me even more that O’Brien is in on the project, because he’s famous for doing just that. Pearl Jam and Incubus had bright futures in front of them until O’Brien stepped in preaching the benefits of mediocrity. There is hope, though. AC/DC is one of the few bands still around these days that I trust with being able to hold its own in the presence of a single-minded and bullheaded producer. If the band was able to go from 1980 to 2000 without significantly altering its style from what it wanted it to be, I feel comfortable enough that one wily producer won’t stand in its way at this point. What it all comes back to (duh) is that if the band itself wants to change, then I fully support it doing so, but its members should only do what they feel, in their heart of hearts, is right, and if the past 30 years are any sign, they just like to plain old rock out, and that’s totally legit. The biggest mistake they could make at this point is to doubt themselves and give into the ways of a coercive producer, but hey, it’s not like that’s ever happened before, right? METALLICA.

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Though it shouldn’t come as any surprise, the film is extremely crude. Whenever Marsden’s character is on the screen, every other phrase out of his mouth is a gay joke. Of course this provides some laughs in the end when the tables turn, but it can be quite annoying and degrading for the audience. The only actual sex scene in the film is quite unexpected, and it involves one of the characters running through a cornfield naked and chained to a bed frame.

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around in her designer heels like a three-year-old playing dress-up in her mommy’s shoes, rarely saying anything nice or constructive. Whether or not these contestants are assigned challenges that resemble the workplace of a magazine is anyone’s guess. Judging by the fashion show held in the middle of the office, the answer is probably no. Judging by the contestants’ initial level of success, most of them could only really be qualified for such a job after several

years of training. The show follows the reality TV formula quite well. There are challenges, eliminations and plenty of drama to keep the shallow American viewer occupied. While many consider the birth of reality TV to be the bane of modern entertainment, there must be a reason why millions of Americans tune in weekly to watch other people yell, cry, hook up and ultimately trip and fall on their faces. For these people, “Stylista” provides another outlet to laugh at caricatures of ordinary, untalented people.

The shining light of the movie is Seth Green’s character Ezekiel, an Amish man with a strange sense of humor and sarcasm. He provides a lot of comic relief and saves this movie from being a complete disaster. The whole Amish sequence is unusual: The three friends stumble upon the farm right at the time of Rumspringa, a time when some Amish teens are allowed to go wild and then decide if they want to permanently change their lifestyle or commit to living by Amish rules and customs. Also, Fall Out Boy just happens to be performing for one of their celebrations. The movie has its little twists and turns. Each segment has its own gag, and sometimes they carry over throughout the whole movie. The acting is less than superb, but who would expect it to be anything else? The soundtrack tries to make the film appealing by putting MGMT’s single “Time to Pretend” in

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One can only hope that nobody has sex with a doughnut in this movie. the trailers and the film, but is otherwise nothing special. Unfortunately, for every good teenage sex comedy, there is a bad one (or two) to spoil the fun and give the whole genre a bad rap. “Sex Drive” isn’t great, but it isn’t extremely terrible either. Then again, most people who like this film also enjoyed the box-office disaster “College” (2008). With this latest flop, it is becoming increasingly clear that there’s more to good teen comedies than just gross-out humor and sex jokes.

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Modest Mouse: “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank” Sony, 2007;

In the time of the digital information age, Web 2.0 start-ups are prevalent. Not all of them can make it big, but AJ Vaynerchuk has discovered how to make it work. Along with his brother Gary (known for WineLibraryTV) and friends, AJ started PleaseDressMe. com. This Web site indexes T-shirt retailers all over the net and makes it easy to find the shirt you are looking for. Shirts are tagged with descriptive words, and can be sorted by price. This is something truly exciting, since nothing like this has been done before. Retailers such as Busted Tees, Threadless and Snorg Tees have embraced this service, which already covers over 950 shirts. The impressive part is that AJ is a senior at Boston University, and has already made his name synonymous with success in the depths of the Internet. AJ sat down with arts editor Matt DiGirolamo to talk about his Web site, his future and his relationship with his brother Gary. For more, visit the Daily Arts Department’s blog, The Scene, at TuftsDaily.com. — Matthew DiGirolamo

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EDITORIAL

Here’s one for the record books

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Veteran activist and politician Ralph Nader broke the Guinness World Record for the most speeches given in a day on Saturday, making a total of 21 stops all across Massachusetts and topping the previous mark of 15. Currently running as an Independent candidate for president, Nader pressed the importance of having a strong third party to rival the two mainstream ones. Additionally, he tried to make the presidential campaign experience more personal by speaking directly to small communities instead of at mass rallies or via television or radio. Although formerly respected for his activism, including advocacy for automobile safety, Nader now acts as a mere distraction in the crucial election that we face. Although mildly amusing, this stunt of Nader’s is devoid of any larger meaning. As part of his motives, Nader explained that he wanted to win at least 5 percent of the vote nationally so he could participate

in future presidential debates. Nader, still under fire for potentially handing the election to President George W. Bush in 2000, now seems utterly unconcerned about doing the same thing this cycle. Third-party candidates can have an important function in elections, but Nader’s ranting is a distraction from the repressed economy, America’s weakening reputation abroad and a host of other issues that should define the election. One could argue that Nader is doing a positive service to the country by promoting a third party and giving voters more options to choose from. As a democracy it’s nice to think that we have more than two parties to consider. Additionally, third parties can often bring attention to issues that the Democrats and Republicans brush over or ignore. Nevertheless, Nader is hardly the ideal candidate for this job. In order for a third party to successfully break onto the scene, it would need

an interesting candidate who brings new ideas to the table. Even Ron Paul would have made a better third-party candidate, as his libertarian ideals seem to have attracted a surprising number of new voters. Although Nader did touch on important issues that may have not been emphasized as much by other candidates, it is difficult to believe that this played a major role in his decision to go record hunting. Historically, third parties have never played a major role in American politics, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. If Nader had wanted to do something productive, he should have dropped out of the race and either endorsed one of the candidates or stayed quiet until after Election Day. Unfortunately, Nader didn’t get the message after voters’ anger in 2000. And while another upset spurred by a third-party candidate seems unlikely, with so much at stake, that’s a hard message to ignore.

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Election years make for the best Halloweens. I discovered this in 1996, when I was overcome by the irresistible urge to borrow a jacket and tie from my father and go trick-or-treating wearing an enormous rubber Bill Clinton mask. At the time I barely understood political affiliation. But I knew the ludicrous sight of the president’s smiling face bobbing atop the body of a fourth grader would inspire generosity in even my most tight-fisted neighbors. (I like to think that when I told the adults who opened their doors that “children would die” if they neglected to add their spare pennies to my UNICEF box, I was channeling Clinton’s spirit, if somewhat simplifying his approach to international aid. But I digress.) As for my trick-or-treating companion, whom I had convinced to accompany me as Bob Dole: She wound up with a little more than half as much loot as I did, which wasn’t far off from that year’s electoral vote breakdown. Halloween at Yale may be all about cleverness and debauchery, but I still think of it as the quintessentially American holiday. Teachers go blue in the face explaining the basics of our political system to their young students, but nothing puts theory into practice quite so well as systematically harassing one’s neighbors for candy. Does sitting around the dinner table with your family on Thanksgiving do anything to demonstrate the intersection of participatory democracy and capitalism? Has any child left a Fourth

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of July fireworks display well-versed in the principles of competitive self-promotion and supply and demand? I’m convinced that the three hours I put into making appearances as Clinton in 1996 and as Al Gore in 2000 were worth 100 hours of actual canvassing. If people are going to vote, they want a face to connect with, a hand to shake. There is something disappointing in the notion of overeager college students appearing on your doorstep to campaign for a candidate when you know that somewhere else, other citizens are getting to meet the guy himself. Indeed, while there are still states to be contested and swing voters to coddle (or alienate), my New York City neighborhood will never see the likes of an actual candidate. The least I could do was give my neighbors a taste of the big time, however small and illusory. Plus, walking a metaphorical mile in Al Gore’s shoes gave me a sense of real empathy for the guy — which came in handy over the following few weeks. It was not until I had reached relative maturity that I grasped the extent to which the role-playing went both ways. Campaigns are just one protracted Halloween, and this one is getting more creative than most. Assisted by $150,000 worth of fancy clothes and jewelry purchased by the McCain campaign, Sarah Palin gets to dress up like the kind of politician who could actually run the country responsibly. Meanwhile, Barack Obama knows the alltoo-common humiliation of sticking a foot in the front door only to have one’s costume misunderstood: What’s the point of all those

years of elite education if you’re only going to be mistaken for a terrorist sympathizer? McCain, for his part, seems comfortable with the nastier side of the holiday. If I had to name the political equivalent of toilet-papering all the houses on your block, it would be the McCain campaign’s recent spate of robocalls. The initial rush of power that comes with playing dirty pranks on one’s opponent only makes the trickster forget that these things tend to come full circle. As he veers from angry to bewildered and back again, McCain reminds me of a kid in my ninth grade class who came into school on Oct. 31 wearing a printed photograph of his own face. The makeshift mask’s expression straddled the murky line that separates religious ecstasy from abject horror, and while we all knew that there used to be a genuine person underneath, the force of his pixilated grimace obscured reality. One can’t help wishing, if only for the country’s general amusement, that McCain’s advisors had noted that Halloween observances change dramatically at a certain age. A child of six can get by with only a winning smile and a vague display of imagination. But if you’re still trick-or-treating after the age of 15 — or 70 — you’d better start showing some serious skin. The candidates’ fervor this Halloween season is all the more remarkable considering the common knowledge that those are carrot sticks and toothpicks, not chocolate, waiting at the bottom of the bag. It may not be wise to bob for apples that might be concealing razor blades, but you have to envy their enthusiasm. Politicians, after all, will be kids.

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Obama and Kennedy: More differences than similarities

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by Michael Bendetson All across America, Democrats and liberals constantly announce that Barack Obama is the John F. Kennedy of the 21st century. Certain individuals feel that both Kennedy and Obama are the types of politicians that can transcend politics to improve society for the better. At the Democratic National Convention, Caroline Kennedy stated, “Everywhere I go in this country, people tell me that Barack Obama is making them feel hopeful the way they did when my father was president. It’s partly the words he uses — words that remind us that we are all in this together and that we each have something to contribute to this country that has given us so much. However, it is the life he has led that is the true source of this inspiration, a life spent fighting for ordinary people in neighborhoods, courts, in the state Senate and the United States Senate.” Even Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) during his speech on international politics in front of the Fletcher Political Forum referenced the connection between Obama and Kennedy with regards to their similar traits and beliefs. Unfortunately, the connection between the 35th president and the soon-to-be 44th president of the United States proves to be extremely superficial. Many people believe that one of the main similarities between the two is that their candidacies provided a fresh new face for Washington. This is only half true. Before becoming president, Kennedy served in Washington for 13 years as both a representative and senator. In comparison, Obama has failed to serve even four years in Washington. Kennedy may have been a breath of fresh air for American politics, but he had significant experience to back it up. With regards to foreign policy, Kennedy and Obama have major disparities in their beliefs. In his inauguration speech, Kennedy announced, “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” This quote sounds more like something that would be heard out of the Sen. John McCain campaign than out of the mouth of Obama. While Kerry touted the pragmatism that Kennedy showed during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he failed to mention Kennedy’s complete record on foreign policy. President Kennedy was a major supporter of the French-installed government in Vietnam. He provided many resources to the regime, including economic, military and political support (most

notable were his 16,000 “military advisors”). With Kennedy’s approval of the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem, Americans saw themselves committed to Vietnam in the years to follow. Kennedy even backed a coup against the government of Iraq to install a regime more in favor of American interests. These policies seem very different than the ones proposed by Obama. After all, at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Obama stated, “We must neither retreat from the world nor try to bully it into submission — we must lead the world, by deed and example.” Obama has called for a new era of diplomacy and alliances as a solution to the problems abroad. While Kennedy maintained an alliance with NATO and met with Soviet officials, he was far more of a war hawk than Obama. On domestic policies, Obama and Kennedy also have crucial differences in many areas. President Kennedy was a major supporter of across-the-board tax cuts. When entering office, he claimed, “Our present tax system ... reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment and risk-taking.” This ideology is vaguely similar to the idea of supply-side economics. The Kennedy tax cut, which later passed as the Revenue Act of 1964, decreased taxes for all members of society, but especially the wealthy. The latter’s income tax dropped from over 90 percent to 70 percent, and the corporate tax was reduced from 52 to 48 percent. With the addition of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Kennedy attempted to lower tariffs significantly to increase American trade and alleviate American consumers. All of the above policies connect stronger with the McCain ticket than with the Obama ticket. Obama has proposed an agenda almost opposite to that of Kennedy. While he intends to cut taxes for the majority of Americans, Obama will raise the income tax for individuals making over $250,000. Also, Obama will raise corporate taxes on American businesses. He has proposed to amend NAFTA and rejects a United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. While it can be debated if Obama’s economic policies will benefit the country, it cannot be debated that they are vastly different than Kennedy’s. Unfortunately, with regards to politics, perception is reality. Regardless of the facts at hand, if individuals claim that Kennedy and Obama are brothers in rhetoric, then it is a truth. Michael Bendetson is a freshman who has not yet declared a major.

Obama should be hesitant to embrace Powell by

Charles Skold

When rumors were circulating about former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s intention to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president about a week before he actually did on the Oct. 19 edition of “Meet the Press,” I confided to a friend my belief that such an endorsement would be devastating to the McCain campaign. In light of Powell’s decision to officially throw his weight into this election, I cannot pretend that his endorsement does not indeed undermine Sen. John McCain’s message and hurt his presidential campaign. Powell explained to Tom Brokaw that he views Obama as a “transformational leader,” trusts his response to the economic crisis, disapproves of McCain’s negative campaign and feels general disillusionment with the direction of the Republican Party. While these are mostly issues of domestic politics and concerns rather than a declaration of Obama’s readiness to preside over the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and other international crises, the fact that Powell, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and secretary of state under Republican administrations, can put his trust in Obama significantly enhances Obama’s national security credibility, an area in which polls have consistently favored McCain. Obama, however, should not be so quick to embrace Powell’s endorsement. There can be no denial that Powell is a lasting symbol of the Bush administration, of which Obama seems so weary, and particularly a symbol of the war in Iraq, which Obama decries. If Powell had instead chosen to endorse McCain, his friend of 25 years who he admitted would make a “good president,” the Obama campaign would have lambasted Powell as a relic of politics-as-usual, a continuation of the failed policies of President George W. Bush, and an icon of the unjust and misguided war in Iraq. Obama gained popularity for — and launched his presidential campaign on — his opposition to the war

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in Iraq, whereas Powell hinged his career upon his support for it. Even if Powell were to regret his role in getting the U.S. military into Iraq, it would not be enough to merit an open acceptance by Obama. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) regretted her role in affirmatively voting to authorize military power in Iraq, and yet that one vote proved to be the one fatal distinction between her and Obama that arguably cost her the

nomination and, potentially, the presidency. Out of respect to his dedicated anti-war supporters and to Clinton, Obama should be more cautious in accepting the advice and support of Colin Powell. Charles Skold is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major.

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than ready to put the game in the win column. Trinity had other plans though, as a Bantam last-minute breakaway into the circle drew a corner opportunity with no time remaining in regulation. Trinity forward Karli Del Rossi shot on Zak who made a save but was unable to keep the rebound out of the back of the net. In the overtime period, the Jumbos’ second of the season, they stuck to smart passing plays to maintain possession and move into the circle. Similarly to the passing strategy employed in the second half, Brown scored the gamewinning goal off of a feed from Roberts. The goal marked Brown’s 17th of the year, one shy of the program’s singleseason record set in 2007 by Ileana Casellas-Katz (LA ’08). “In overtime, we started with possession and initially [Trinity] was doing a good job connecting,” Brown said. “Our defense did a good job of being patient and making good block tackles to stop Trinity in its tracks. This helped us generate our attack and from there we had great passing patterns down the field that undoubtedly led to the goal and our win.” Tufts’ skill in connecting on passing patterns and creating breakaway opportunities could be attributed to Trinity’s AstroTurf field, which is smoother and offers faster game play than traditional fields.

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England, respectively, were also the tourney’s No. 1 and 2 seeds in the tournament, VOLLEYBALL (24-2, 8-0 NESCAC) Hall of Fame Tournament at Northampton, Mass., Friday Tufts 19 25 25 25 — 3 Smith 25 20 22 21 — 1

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Amherst’s physical front seven inhibits running game, eliminates Tufts’ Forde factor total of minus-14 yards on the ground for the Jumbo offense. When the Jumbos fell behind 24-0 at halftime they had to all but abandon the running game to try and erase the large deficit. Fucillo did all he could with his arm, throwing two second-half touchdown passes to senior wideout Dave Halas, but without the running game, the offense became one dimensional. With two games remaining on the season, Anderson said he thought that Saturday’s rushing effort was an aberration of Tufts’ otherwise strong rushing offense. “We think that we can run on anybody,” he said. “We have a great offensive line, and Will is a great tailback. Trinity and Williams both had great run defenses, so I don’t think [Amherst’s run defense] was anything too special. We just didn’t execute the way we had in the past five games.” Tufts needs to get back to what they do best, running the football on Forde’s legs, or else the team might be heading for its first losing season since 2005.

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Tufts initially missed shot opportunities while adjusting to the surface but eventually used the field to its advantage as the game progressed. The team’s focus on executing clean passing patterns during practice paid off, as the Jumbo passing game was quicker and translated into clear shot opportunities in front of the net. “Playing on AstroTurf was a huge advantage for our team because it works well for our two-touch passing style,” Kutcher said. “However, it took us a while to adjust and we had to get a feel for it. The first part of the game we needed to adjust to the speed of the surface. “Our two-touch passing was thrown off a little and we ended up passing to opposing players,” she continued. “We had trouble on corners with AstroTurf just because the speed of the ball was not something that we were used to. We adjusted well and our game and momentum improved.” Saturday’s game marked another record-breaking accomplishment for the Tufts squad. With Brown’s goals, the Jumbos increased their total to 53 goals on the year, surpassing the 2007 record of 52 team-goals in a season. If Tufts continues its winning streak against Endicott tomorrow, the team will have tied a 2007 record for most wins in a season at 13. Saturday’s victory also extended Tufts’ regular-season winning streak to 18 games, as the team finished out 2007 with six straight wins. Looking ahead, once the

Jumbos conclude their contest against the Gulls tomorrow, they will hit the road for a Halloween duel against nationally-ranked No. 2 Bowdoin on Friday. The Polar Bears also sport an AstroTurf field similar to Trinity’s. The Jumbos’ historic season is placing them in prime position for NESCAC Championship glory, but the Bowdoin match carries several key implications. A victory will silence any doubts that the Jumbos are the best team in the conference, complete the Jumbos’ perfect regular season, net Tufts the regular season league crown and give the squad the right to host the NESCAC Tournament. “When we face Endicott and Bowdoin [this] week, we need to capitalize on our shooting opportunities and our corners,” Kutcher said. “Bowdoin has an AstroTurf field so this game gave us a feel for what it’s like to play on that surface again. We might not be as lucky as [Saturday], when we had a lot of shooting opportunities, especially against a strong defensive team like Bowdoin.” “After the win today we are really excited and it’s one game closer to finishing at the top of the NESCAC,” Jasinski said. “We aren’t taking any teams for granted; [Endicott and Bowdoin] are having a great season. But at this point, we just need to recognize that we are a great team and we need to show that we deserve to be on top of the conference.”

providing for a showdown of two regional heavyweights. Springfield grabbed the first set by a score of 25-23, but Tufts then rallied to take the next two sets 26-24 and 25-20. Up 2-1, the Jumbos simply could not close the door. “We were really tired after a long tournament and a fivegame match versus Amherst,” senior tri-captain Kate Denniston said. The third and fourth sets both went into extra points, a testament to how evenlymatched the two teams were. Ultimately, Springfield came out on top, winning the final two sets 25-20, 15-11. “They just wanted it more than us,” said junior setter Dena Feiger, who was named to the All-Tournament team for her efforts over the weekend. “I still believe that we are the better of the two teams, though, and if we played them again things would be different.” The loss was the first that the Jumbos have suffered all season to a New England team, but they still boast a better record than the 26-4 Pride. Tufts’ only other loss of the year came at the hands of Union College in the finals of the Tufts Invitational Tournament. The team’s loss in the finals to Springfield came hours after another five-set battle, this time versus conference rival Amherst, though the match did not count towards either of the teams’ conference records. In their fourth five-set marathon win of the season, the Jumbos had to rally from a 2-1 deficit after they captured the first set but lost the second and third by scores of 25-22, 21-25 and 14-25 respectively. “We knew we had to play harder than we were,” Feiger said. “If we didn’t step it up, we wouldn’t win.” In a demonstration of how

they earned their position atop both the conference and region, the Jumbos came back to take the match with 25-13 and 18-16 victories in the final two sets. “Amherst was a really good game — they played very strong,” Denniston said. “They set up a big block on us, but we found ways around it. We also passed really well.” Because the match did not have any impact on the teams’ conference records, the NESCAC standings remained unchanged, with Tufts on top at 8-0 over second-ranked Wesleyan at 7-1, followed by Amherst at 6-1. This was the second time that the Jumbos have beaten the Lord Jeffs this year, the first being a 3-0 victory at Amherst two weeks ago. In the first match of the tournament on Friday, the Jumbos staged another comefrom-behind victory over Smith, as they dropped the first set 19-25 but went on to take the next three 25-20, 25-22 and 25-21. The win was the Jumbos’ eighth in a row and their second win over Smith this season. Despite suffering its second loss of the season, Tufts should have a little extra motivation this week as they head into their final week of play before the NESCAC tournament begins. They will open up their final three matches with a home matchup versus nonconference Worcester State on Wednesday before heading to Wesleyan for a critical conference match-up on Friday. The showdown between the top two teams in the NESCAC could decide who walks away with the regular season title and the right to host the conference tournament, an honor that the Jumbos have never had. “Wesleyan is another really good team in the NESCAC,” Denniston said. “There is a little bit of pressure, but [winning the NESCAC] is something we really want. We just need to keep working hard and staying mentally tough and focused.” “Friday is so important for us,” Feiger added. “We are playing a really good team, and [after the loss] we are just going to have to suck it up, but I know we will. It would be so amazing to host and win the NESCAC this year. We will go in confidently and step it up.”

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Reynoso said. The Jumbos struggled against a strong Lord Jeff defense as the top rushing team in the NESCAC was limited to negative-14 net yards rushing. One of the conference’s elite tailbacks, Forde suffered his first sub-100-yard game of the season, rushing for only 36 yards on 12 carries. “We started out pretty slow and got behind early in the game,” Forde said. “It changed our game plan so we weren’t able to run as much as usual.” “It was a disappointing game,” Halas said. “I think that Amherst was a little more physical than us overall today, and that is something that can’t happen to us; it usually never does. But I am proud of how we were able to fight back after the [first] half.” The numbers tell a mostly disappointing story for the Jumbos. The Jumbos were 0-12 on third-down conversions and junior quarterback Anthony Fucillo was sacked eight times for a total loss of 56 yards in the game. Despite the final score, the squad compiled some scattered highlights. Fucillo finished the game 16 for 34 with one interception and threw for a season-high 308 yards, while the tried and true Fucillo-Halas connec-

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The football team was well aware of the Lord Jeffs’ dominant front seven heading into Saturday’s game. “Their front seven is very physical and athletic, more so than anyone I’ve seen thus far, making it very difficult to run on them,” senior running back Will Forde said last week. As it turned out, Forde’s analysis of the Amherst defense was spot on. Football games are won and lost in the trenches, and Amherst’s defense won this battle decisively. The Lord Jeffs started off their impressive outing by eliminating Forde from the game. Through the first five games of the season, Forde led the NESCAC in rushing with 655 yards for an average of 131 yards-per-game. During Saturday’s contest, however, Forde totaled just 36 yards on 12 carries. His average of 3 yards-per-carry was a full 2 yards fewer than the 5 yards he was averaging going into the game. “They came in averaging less than 60 yards on the ground per game, so we knew it was going to be tough and we were going to have to pass the ball more than we were used to,” Forde said. “They definitely impressed us with the way they stopped the run.” The Amherst defense did not just shut down the run, however. It also displayed a unique ability to get to the quarterback. Amherst recorded 16 sacks through the first five games of the season, and on Saturday the defense continued this trend with a vengeance. The Lord Jeffs overpowered the Tufts offensive line, taking down junior quarterback Anthony Fucillo a whopping eight times for a loss of 56 yards. “I think protection-wise we weren’t all on the same page,” Forde said. “The backs, the offensive line and the quarterbacks all needed to do a better job of getting on the same page and executing our protections.” Senior fullback Kevin Anderson also attributed Amherst’s dominant pass rush to Tufts lack of execution of blocking schemes. “I think we just had some missed assignments,” Anderson said. “They blitzed us a lot and we just didn’t seem to pick it up as well as we had in the last four or five games.” Tufts’ 42 yards rushing, minus the 56 yards lost from sacks, netted a

tion was in full working order in the second half, connecting for both TD throws on the afternoon. Halas broke the single-season touchdown record with those two scores — a 53-yard pass play and another 25-yarder — giving him eight touchdowns on the season. “I had a pretty good game, but it’s bittersweet to have a game like that and not get the win,” Halas said. “I like to score touchdowns, but I would rather have the win.” Freshman defensive end Donnie Simmons also helped the Jumbos with his first career interception at the beginning of the second half that helped breathe some life into the squad as it converted that turnover into a touchdown two plays later. “He had a great play that swung some momentum for us and helped to get us back in the game,” Reynoso said. The Jumbos had an opportunity to tie the game with 4:22 remaining, but Fucillo found himself on his back twice during the drive for a total loss of 18 yards. And after a poorly timed delayof-game penalty, the Jumbos came up three yards short of a first down despite a 29-yard pass to senior receiver Stephen Black. The Jumbos gave the ball back to Amherst with 2:23 remaining, and the Lord Jeffs ran the clock out

for the key conference win. Going forward, the Jumbos know they must focus on playing consistently clean football. “We need to find our rhythm; there are too many times we make a good play and then set ourselves back with a penalty or sack,” Halas said. “We need to put play after play together, and we need to find our rhythm and exploit defenses when we get in that rhythm.” The team also said the offense must play better as a cohesive entity in order to allow the defense more rest early on in the game, which can prove crucial when the fourth quarter rolls around. “As a unit we need to get better from the offensive line to the wide receivers, to the quarterback, to the running backs,” Forde said. “It is not just one person’s fault. As an offense we need to get better [as a whole].” “We didn’t give enough support to our defense,” Halas said. “We left them stranded on the field too often. We weren’t moving the ball well and a lot of the points from the first half are on our shoulders.” The Jumbos, who host their final home game of the season Saturday, will look to learn from their mistakes in a hurry as they take on a strong Colby team that is currently tied with them in fourth place.

SCHEDULE | Oct. 27 - Nov. 2 mon

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sat

sun

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Football

Field Hockey

vs. Endicott 4 p.m

Women’s Soccer

vs. Endicott 3 p.m.

at Bowdoin 5 p.m.

at Bowdoin 2 p.m.

Men’s Soccer

at Bowdoin 2 p.m. NESCAC Championships at Bates 12 p.m.

NESCAC Open Invitational at Wesleyan 5 p.m.

Cross Country

vs. Worcester St. 7 p.m.

Volleyball

at Wesleyan 8 p.m.

vs. Trinity (at Wesleyan) 12 p.m.

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Volleyball

StatISTICS | Standings Field Hockey

Women's Soccer

(12-0, 8-0 NESCAC) NESCAC

OVERALL

W 8 Tufts 7 Bowdoin Middlebury 6 6 Trinity 5 Amherst 3 Williams 2 Colby 1 Bates Conn. Coll. 1 Wesleyan 1

L 0 1 2 2 3 5 6 7 7 7

W L 12 0 12 1 10 2 11 2 9 4 6 7 5 8 5 8 4 8 3 10

T. Brown A. Russo M. Kelly B. Holiday M. Burke M. Scholtes I. Lewnard T. Guttadauro L. Griffith

G 17 9 9 4 4 2 3 2 2

A 2 8 2 3 1 4 0 1 0

Goalkeeping GA M. Zak 6 K. Hyder 3

(7-5-0, 4-4-0 NESCAC)

T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pts 36 26 20 11 9 8 6 5 4

S S% 27 .818 5 .625

NESCAC OVERALL

W 7 Williams 6 Amherst Middlebury 6 4 Bowdoin 4 Tufts 4 Trinity Wesleyan 2 2 Bates 1 Colby Conn. Coll. 0

L 0 0 2 2 4 4 5 6 6 7

G J. Love-Nichols 4 S. Nolet 3 A. Maxwell 4 C. Cadigan 3 F. Gamal 2 B. Morgan 2 W. Hardy 1 A. Michael 0 A. Puttkammer 1

T 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1

W 12 8 7 7 7 8 6 6 4 4 A 1 3 0 1 3 0 2 3 0

L 0 1 4 3 5 4 5 7 8 7

T 1 3 2 3 0 0 1 0 1 1

Pts 9 9 8 7 7 4 4 3 2

Goalkeeping GA S S% K. Minnehan 3 15 .833 H. Jacobs 6 27 .818

NESCAC

W Middlebury 5 Trinity 5 Amherst 4 Williams 4 Bowdoin 4 Colby 3 Conn. Coll. 3 Bates 3 Tufts 3 Wesleyan 2

L 1 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 4

G D. Schoening 6 R. Coleman 3 P. DeGregorio 2 A. Lach 1 M. Fitzgerald 2 P. Doherty 2 M. Blumenthal 1 B. Green 1 N. Muakkassa 0

T 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 2

A 1 1 3 4 1 0 1 0 1

L 1 3 3 4 6 5 6 5 5 7

T 2 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 2

Pts 13 7 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Goalkeeping GA S S% P. Tonelli 2 16 .889 D. McKeon 12 63 .840

NESCAC OVERALL

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

W 8 7 6 6 3 3 3 2 1 1 0

Offensive S. Filocco D. Joyce-Mendive B. Helgeson C. Updike K. Denniston L. Nicholas C. Spieler Defensive N. Goldstein D. Feiger M. Ripecky S. Filocco C. Spieler A. Kuan

L 0 1 1 3 3 3 4 6 6 6 7

W 24 19 18 17 12 18 15 13 13 11 9

NCAA Div. III Field Hockey

(3-3, 3-3 NESCAC)

(24-2, 8-0 NESCAC)

OVERALL

W 9 10 8 7 6 7 5 8 7 4

Football

Volleyball

Men's Soccer

(7-5-1, 3-5-0 NESCAC)

L 2 5 6 10 9 12 14 10 15 13 19

Kills SA 183 23 169 0 134 1 122 5 107 14 105 3 57 17 B Digs 0 358 23 238 0 237 20 220 3 196 0 92

Trinity Amherst Williams Colby Middlebury Tufts Bowdoin Hamilton Bates Wesleyan

W 6 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 1 1

L 0 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5

PF 159 139 143 76 206 141 130 86 81 83

(Oct. 21, 2008)

PA 113 90 103 121 164 108 177 104 172 92

Rushing W. Forde K. Anderson D. Ferguson

Att. Yds. Avg. 144 691 4.8 27 108 4.0 8 66 8.2

Passing A. Fucillo

Pct. Yds TD INT 57.1 1231 11 4

Receiving D. Halas S. Black

No. Yds Avg. TD 28 416 14.9 8 17 384 22.6 1

Defense T. Reynoso T. Tassinari R. Crisco

Tack INT Sack 0 45.0 0 0 37.0 2 2 37.0 0

TD 6 1 0

Points (First-place votes) 1. TCNJ, 581 (11) 2. Bowdoin, 561 (5) 3. Ursinus, 543 (8) 4. Messiah, 535 (1) 5. Tufts, 509 (5) 6. Middlebury, 424 7. Lebanon Valley, 403 8. Johns Hopkins, 378 9. Trinity (Conn.), 364 (1) 10. Salisbury, 353

NCAA Div. III New England Women's Soccer (Oct. 21, 2008)

1. Williams 2. Amherst 3. Springfield 4. Bowdoin 4. Middlebury 6. Wheaton 7. Western Conn. St 8. Tufts 9. Eastern Conn. St 10. Brandeis 10. Keene St.

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Women’s Soccer

Tufts can’t hold on against Trinity

Men’s Soccer

Jumbos unable to find net in three periods by

Ben Waldron

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The men’s soccer team knew it had to win its third straight game in order to break free from MEN’S SOCCER (7-5-1, 3-5 NESCAC) Hartford, Conn., Saturday Tufts 0 0 0 — 0 Trinity 0 0 1 — 1

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Junior forward Ali Maxwell controls the ball during the women’s soccer team’s contest against Williams Oct. 18. Maxwell scored the lone goal in the squad’s 2-1 road loss to the Trinity Bantams Saturday. by

Neesha Bhagat

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After 90 minutes of competitive play Saturday against the Trinity Bantams, the Jumbos found themWOMEN’S SOCCER (7-5, 4-4 NESCAC) Hartford, Conn., Saturday Tufts 0 Trinity 1

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selves on the wrong end of a 2-1 result, marking their fifth loss in the last seven games. Tufts, now 7-5-0 overall and 4-4-0 in the NESCAC, took to Campus Field in Hartford, Conn., with high hopes for turning its season around. The team has been relatively successful against the Bantams in recent years, having beaten them three times since 2004. Last year, the Jumbos also lost to the Bantams by a one-goal margin. But the Bantams came out strong, scoring the game’s first goal in just the fourth minute, when Trinity freshman Jenny Lee snuck a shot past sophomore goalkeeper Hannah Jacobs after receiving a pass from senior Erika Maciaszczyk. Trinity sustained its lead until the 65th minute, when Tufts junior tricaptain Whitney Hardy’s pass was deflected into the goal by classmate Ali Maxwell to even the score at 1-1, netting Maxwell her fourth goal of

the season. The assist was Hardy’s second of the year. The tie lasted for just 12 minutes, however, as the Bantams struck again in the 77th minute, thanks to a strike from junior Caitlin Prendergast, to secure Trinity’s key NESCAC win over the Jumbos. “We worked really hard and the balls just didn’t bounce our way,” freshman midfielder Alix Michael said. “Individually, we played well but as a team, it was hard to work cohesively. In a game like soccer, it is important to have team cohesiveness and to move well together as a unit. Even if everyone plays well individually, you always need that X-factor that puts everyone’s attributes together.” The Jumbos, following a season trend, outshot Trinity 13-7. The flipside of that statistic, however, was the team’s lagging 4:10 saves ratio against the Bantams. “If we had played the way we did against Williams, we would have won,” Michael said. “But no team can always play to their potential every day.” “I think the most important thing is to come out with a sense of urgency right from the beginning instead of waiting until later in the game,” junior midfielder Fanna Gamal added. “And with the season winding down, we need to just forget about all the games in the past and focus on the future. “We’re a really young team and

our play fluctuates because of that,” she continued. “Sometimes we play amazingly for all 90 minutes and sometimes we look like we’re floundering a little. I think that comes from lack of experience, not lack of effort or passion.” With their 4-4 NESCAC record, the Jumbos have secured a spot in the first round of the postseason NESCAC tournament, scheduled to start Nov. 2. Joining Tufts in the tourney will be Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, Bowdoin and Trinity, which now boasts an identical 4-4 conference mark. Tufts will take on Bowdoin on Friday in its regular season finale, but not before hosting nonconference foe Endicott, a team Tufts hasn’t squared off against for over a decade. The Jumbos will take on the Gulls at 3 p.m. tomorrow for their last game on home turf this season. “It’s very important for us to win out-of-league games to increase our probability of getting into the national league tournament,” Michael said of tomorrow’s contest. “It’s also important to build momentum for the NESCAC Tournament this upcoming weekend.” “If we don’t bounce back from the Trinity game, we won’t get the momentum to carry us to [this] week’s pivotal game,” Gamal added. “And there are no shoulda, coulda, wouldas at that point.”

the logjam at the bottom of the NESCAC standings and ensure an easier road to the playoffs. The Jumbos didn’t help their cause Saturday against the 9-3 Trinity Bantams, dropping the game 1-0 in overtime. With just one conference contest left in the regular season, Tufts is 7-5-1 overall and 3-5-0 in the NESCAC, tied for eighthplace with Bates and Wesleyan. Although Colby and Conn. College are only one notch ahead, knotted in sixth with 3-4-1 records, the Jumbos would need a flawless game against Bowdoin on Saturday to secure a playoff slot. Thanks to its critical victory, Trinity (10-3-0, 5-3-0 NESCAC) clinched a spot in the postseason and now holds sole possession of second place in the league. The final score of Saturday’s game aptly tells the story of a tight, hard-nosed battle that required extra time to finally reach an outcome. Both squads had scoring chances during the first period, but their respective backlines stymied every offensive push. In the second half, the two teams found even better scoring looks, but both goalies kept the game scoreless through the end of regulation, with Tufts tallying nine saves and Trinity notching 10. Ten minutes into the first overtime period, Trinity’s junior forward Sam Wisner slid a pass to sophomore midfielder Peter Marlette, who was open in front of the net; he snuck the ball past goalie and senior tri-captain Dave McKeon for the game’s deciding goal. “One of their players made a nice play, and they put it away,” senior tri-captain Peter DeGregorio said. “It was a long game; we battled hard but we didn’t really get any lucky bounces our way.” “We both had our fair share of opportunities,” junior tri-cap-

tain Bear Duker said. “And they finished one in overtime, and that hurts.” After timely offensive flurries in consecutive NESCAC home victories against Williams and Wesleyan, Tufts was unable to break through against the Bantams. Saturday’s contest was the third conference road game for the Jumbos this year. Tufts lost 3-0 at Amherst at the beginning of October and 2-0 at Middlebury one week later. Saturday’s result adds to the Jumbos’ streak of scoreless road conference games, a fact that has forced the team to fight for its life heading into the final weekend. The Jumbos must now turn their attention to a Halloween matchup Friday against Bowdoin, which carries clear playoff implications. As it stands now, though Tufts is tied with Bates for the second-worst NESCAC record at 3-5, Wesleyan (2-4-2) is also technically tied with Tufts. But the Cardinals would lose the head-to-head tiebreaker to the Jumbos, who beat Wesleyan 2-1 on Tuesday. On Friday, Bates will face off at home against Colby, which, at 3-4-1 in the league, is only a halfgame above the Bobcats and Jumbos. Meanwhile, Wesleyan has a Friday home game against Conn. College, which is also 3-4-1 in league play. What’s more, a win at Bowdoin would tie the Jumbos and the Polar Bears at 4-5. Complicating the situation even further, Tufts holds a tiebreaker advantage over both the Cardinals and the Camels, but not over the Bobcats or the Mules. These factors combine for a situation in which the Jumbos’ playoff chances are largely contingent upon the results of Friday’s other league games. If Tufts loses or ties, victories or draws by Bates and Conn. College would spell doom for the Jumbos. “Mathematically it’s not a must-win,” DeGregorio said. “But we really want to win; we’ve been preparing all season … we really deserve to be in the playoffs, and so we’re going to do everything we can to win on Friday.” “We just have to come out and play hard,” Duker said. “It’s hard to go up and travel to Bowdoin, but we’ve done it before. Last time we went up to Bowdoin, we won 5-0 so hopefully we can repeat that performance.”

Athletes of the Week Tamara Brown, Field Hockey Sophomore midfielder/forward Tamara Brown continued her assault on the Tufts field hockey program’s record book on Saturday, racking up two more goals — including the game-winner — against Trinity to place her within one of the record for goals in a season, set by Ileana Casellas-Katz (LA ’08) in 2007. Brown’s performance this season has been nothing short of spectacular. She has helped lead the nationally-ranked No. 5 Jumbos to a perfect 12-0 record, the best in school history, and her 17 scores have already far eclipsed the five goals she contributed during her rookie campaign. In addition, Brown is currently the third-leading goal-scorer in the NESCAC. Against Trinity, Brown scored her second goal of the contest just two-and-a-half minutes into the overtime period and was the decisive factor in an otherwise deadlocked affair. Brown has been ruthlessly efficient with her scoring this season, converting on 28.3 percent of her shot attempts to lead the team. Brown’s goal against the Bantams was her team-leading sixth game-winner this season. After a non-conference game against Endicott tomorrow, Brown will lead the Jumbos into their final regular season NESCAC matchup on Friday, a decisive contest against a Bowdoin squad that is second in the conference behind Tufts and will determine who earns the right to host the NESCAC Tournament. Laura Schultz/Tufts Daily

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Despite a tough 24-17 loss to Amherst over the weekend, senior wide receiver David Halas had himself a banner day. He hauled in two of junior QB Anthony Fucillo’s touchdown passes, one a 53-yard reception early in the third quarter to kick-start their comeback attempt and the other a 25-yard catch to pull the team within seven at 24-17. With his stellar performance on Saturday — eight receptions for 168 yards — Halas now has eight touchdown catches on the season and has continued to extend the Jumbos’ single-season record for touchdown receptions. He also recently broke the Jumbos’ career touchdown reception record with 16 scoring catches posted throughout his Tufts tenure. With two games left in the season, Halas will likely continue to move well beyond the previous record of 12 catches. So far this season, he has tallied 28 catches for 416 yards, good for a 14.9 yards-per-catch average. He also boasts a 69.3 receiving yards-per-game average, which ranks sixth in the NESCAC. Halas will look to put a stamp on his outstanding Tufts career during his final two matchups wearing the brown and blue, when the Jumbos take the field against the two worst pass defenses in the NESCAC: Colby and Middlebury.

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In a dramatic overtime contest, the nationally-ranked No. 5 Jumbos defeated the No. 9 Trinity Bantams 2-1 on Sheppard Field Saturday in Hartford, Conn. The win cemented Tufts’ reign as No. 1 in the NESCAC for another week with an 8-0 clip and added some extra luster to its perfect 12-0 season. Tufts dropped the fourth place Trinity squad to 11-2 overall and handed the Bantams their first loss in five games. The first half ended in a deadlock, with neither team converting on its shooting opportunities. Tufts’ forwards were successful in drawing penalty corner shots in the circle, but were unable find the back of the net, missing early opportunities in front of the goal. Trinity looked to its forwards for momentum but freshman keeper Marianna Zak aggressively defended the net while Tufts’ defenders cleared the circle quickly. Zak played the full 72-plus minutes and recorded six saves. “In the first half, we had several corners, but we weren’t able to finish them,” senior tri-captain Tess Jasinski said. “Our

shots were going wide of the goal … play was back-and-forth for much of the half, but key plays by [Zak] slowed down their momentum. [Zak] had one huge save where she dove on a hit to keep the ball out of the net. We saw a great effort from our defenders in this game.” After Trinity’s block tackles kept Tufts at bay in the first half, the Jumbos came out much more collected after the intermission. Their smooth passing patterns helped evade Trinity’s defenders, and interceptions by Tufts’ midfielders helped the squad maintain possession. Tufts’ ability to hold onto possession through two-touch passing led to a second half played almost entirely in Trinity’s backfield. The offensive adjustments paid off five minutes into the second half, as sophomore Tamara Brown tapped in a rebound from sophomore Amanda Roberts’ initial shot. Tufts outshot Trinity 16-12 and had eight corners to Trinity’s five but was only able to convert once in the second half. “We were frazzled for a while but calmed down and tried to work around them,” senior tri-captain Marlee Kutcher said. “[Trinity] had great block tackles and we worked together more in the second half to move around their defenders rather than plow right through them. We also did a great job of stepping in front of defenders to receive passes and passing with lifts over their sticks … [Roberts] and [Brown’s] effort was a perfectly executed passing sequence.” With the clock winding down with under a minute to go, Tufts was more see FIELD HOCKEY, page 13

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Sophomore Tamara Brown, seen here with the ball against Williams on Oct. 18, tallied two goals over the weekend in the Jumbos’ dramatic 2-1 OT win over the Trinity Bantams on the road. Brown now has 17 goals on the season, one short of the school record set last year.

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second loss of the season, falling to Springfield in the finals and moving to 24-2 overall with wins over host Smith and conference rival Amherst. The Jumbos took on the Pride in the tournament final Saturday afternoon looking for a repeat victory over a Springfield team that Tufts downed earlier this year at the MIT Invitational. The Jumbos and the Pride, ranked first and second in New see VOLLEYBALL, page 13

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Freshman Lexi Nicholas notches a kill against Gordon last month as senior tri-captain Natalie Goldstein looks on. The volleyball team suffered just its second loss of the season Saturday.

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Either way, the Lord Jeff offense certainly stole the show. After enjoying a week that featured a momentous 17-7 win over Williams — the Jumbos’ first over the Ephs in 21 years — and senior tailback Forde’s garnering of the Boston Globe Gold Helmet Award, there was a lot of excitement surrounding the possibility for another NESCAC upset. But unfortunately for Tufts, Saturday’s game proved to be a tale of two halves as the Jumbos (3-3) fell to the Lord

Jeffs (5-1) by a score of 24-17 on Pratt Field. The Jumbos dug themselves in a 24-0 hole by the end of the first half following a pair of touchdown passes from Amherst sophomore quarterback Alex Vetras and a rushing score from junior RB Aaron Rauh. With hopes of getting back into the game, Tufts took to the air during the second half and completely abandoned a running game that failed to produce during the first two quarters. “We had to abandon the run because we were down so many points after the first,” senior wide receiver David Halas said. The Jumbos rattled off 17 unanswered points in the second half, all courtesy of the pass, bringing them within a touchdown of Amherst. But their comeback attempt came up just short, as the Lord Jeffs held on to the win. “I liked our performance in the second half but I think we could’ve played better in the first,” senior tri-captain Tyson see FOOTBALL, page 14

FIELD HOCKEY: BOW 8, COL 1 - AMH 2, WIL 1 (OT) - MID 5, CON 1 - TUF 2, TRI 1 (OT) - WES 5, BAT 4. FOOTBALL: BOW 17, WES 10 - TRI 34, MID 31 - AMH 24, TUF 17 - BAT 31, COL 21 - WIL 14, HAM 7. MEN’S SOCCER: TRI 1, TUF 0 (OT) - COL 3, BOW 1 - BAT 3, WES 2 - AMH 2, WIL 1 - MID 1, CON 1 (2 OT). WOMEN’S SOCCER: BOW 4, COL 0 - BAT 2, WES 1 (2OT) - MID 1, CON 0 - AMH 1, WIL 1 (2OT) - TRI 2, TUF 1