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Led by All-American Jesse Faller, Tufts’ cross country team finished third at the NESCAC Championships.

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Man arrested for breaking into off-campus student house A Medford resident was arrested last week for breaking and entering into a Tufts student’s home on Sunset Road, according to Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) Sgt. Robert McCarthy. Robert Kocourek, 36, was arrested by TUPD and Somerville police on Chetwynd Road as he fled the scene of the crime on Thursday night, McCarthy said. A female student called 911 at 9:06 p.m. on Thursday to report a man breaking into her house on Sunset Road, located near the inter-section with Curtis Avenue. Somerville police responded and alerted TUPD, which arrived at the scene first. Officers searched the area for the man, who had left the house. He was described as white, in his 40s, wearing a New England Patriots shirt and carrying a laptop.

A TUPD officer and a Somerville police officer observed Kocourek, who was wearing a white shirt and otherwise appeared to fit the description, coming out of a driveway on Chetwynd Road, which is adjacent to Sunset Road. Kocourek said he did not live there. Police officers subsequently searched the area and found a Patriots shirt along with a laptop in the yard from which Kocourek emerged. The student identified Kocourek as the man who entered her house, and Kocourek admitted guilt, according to McCarthy. TUPD and Somerville police cooperated effectively, McCarthy said. “It was a good arrest,” he said, adding, “The girl did the right thing not trying to get involved, just calling us.”

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Hip-hop artists Brother Ali and the Cool Kids will perform at Concert Board’s annual Hip Hop Show on Nov. 12 — and they’ll have a bit more breathing room than previous acts. The show, which has typically been held at Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall, will take place in the Rocco J. Carzo Cage in Cousens Gymnasium. The change in venue from Dewick to Carzo comes after the 2008 Fall Rock Show, featuring Hellogoodbye, demonstrated that Dewick was unfit for large concert crowds. “Evidently, during the show … the floor was moving as people were jump-ing up and down, and [we] brought it to the attention of the people in the Office for Campus Life [OCL],” said senior Robert Seiden, co-chair of Concert Board. Carzo Cage, with a standing-room capacity of over 900, will offer more than twice as much room than Dewick did. “There really aren’t that many locations on campus where you can have more than 350 people,” said Concert Board Co-Chair Alan Munkacsy, a senior. “The cage is real-ly the only available option that we thought would be a great spot for that kind of show.” But the new venue presents its own set of complications. Due to the cage’s status as an active athletic space, Concert Board may have to delay the event because of a volleyball game. Tufts’ volleyball team has applied to host a tournament the weekend of the concert. If Tufts is selected, the tour-nament would include a game that is scheduled to overlap with the concert by about an hour. Though the concert and game would take place in separate areas of

the gym, the time of the concert would be pushed back to accommodate the team, Seiden said. Tickets for the Hip Hop Show go on sale tomorrow in the campus center. Brother Ali, a rapper from Minneapolis, has released six albums, the most recent of which, “Us,” came out in September. The Cool Kids, a hip-hop duo that gained renown in 2007 via MySpace.com, will open the show. Revelations about capacity issues in Dewick prompted discussions between a number of departments, including the OCL, the Facilities Department and the Department of Public Safety, on how to host major social activities in the future. “Facilities, Public Safety, OCL, and Dining [Services] met and determined that events where a large group of students would be moving in unison, such as a dance or concert, were no longer safe to hold in the space,” the OCL’s Assistant Director for Campus Life Jamie Engle said in an e-mail. Engle said that Dewick will still be used as a space for non-concert events like comedy shows and the annual Mr. Jumbo competition. Last spring, the annual Jumbo Jam show, which had previously taken place in Dewick, was held at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. Jumbo Jam is geared more toward alternative and folk artists than Spring Fling and the Hip Hop and Rock Shows, making it a good fit for the theater. “It was a great success, and we hope to return there for future Jumbo Jams or even other shows,” Seiden said. The theater’s fixed seating seemed inap-propriate for the Hip Hop Show, which will be general admission and stand-ing-room-only.

Classes will be held on Veterans Day next week, after Tufts officials found the aca-demic calendar one day shy of the required number of school days for this semester. Staff will have off for the Nov. 11 federal holiday, but faculty and students must attend class. After the discovery that another day of classes would be needed, “the choice was between the 11th and the day before Thanksgiving,” Dean of Undergraduate Education James Glaser said in an e-mail. The faculty decided on Veterans Day in a vote in the spring, according to Glaser. Some see the university’s decision to hold classes on the day as showing disregard for the holiday’s message. Veterans Day honors all who have served in the military, whether in peace or in wartime.

Tufts Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) mem-ber and squad leader Sean O’Loughlin, a junior, was among several who felt that Veterans Day has a greater significance than simply being a day off from school. He said that the calen-dar mix-up should have been resolved in a way that avoided holding class on Veterans Day, suggesting that an alternate solution would have been to hold class on Columbus Day. “I think that I understand the administration was put under pressure in one way or another to eliminate a day of vacation from the schedule, but I think that they were shortsighted in choosing Veterans Day rather than Columbus Day because of the relative importance of those two holidays,” O’Loughlin said. Though schools, local gov-ernments and businesses are

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Debate over TCU funding vote exposes procedural ambiguities

BY BEN GITTLESON Daily Editorial Board

This is the first article in a two-part series taking a deep look at a fund-ing request from a student journal. The

first piece focuses on the Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate meeting at which students repre-senting the publication appealed for more fund-ing. The second piece will focus on Discourse’s tran-

sition away from Institute for Global Leadership sponsorship, and the Senate’s procedure for allocating funding to stu-dent groups.

Fifteen leaders of the student maga-zine Discourse stood in a stuffy room in the campus center last month watching

thousands of dollars and, essentially, the future of their publication debated in an intense and at times confusing Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting. The proceedings shined a light on a number of ongoing controversies over the way student publications apply for and receive funding — as well as a lapse in adherence to the bylaws that govern treasury appeals. Members of Discourse, an interdisci-plinary journal with strong connections to the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), had originally asked the Senate for $23,500 to fund two issues, to be printed in color. The Allocations Board (ALBO) voted 5-1, with one abstention, to rec-ommend that Discourse receive only $3,700, to fund one scaled-back issue.

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TCU Treasurer Aaron Bartel, middle, Associate Treasurer Kate de Klerk, left, and the rest of the Senate on Oct. 25 discussed an appeal from the student journal Discourse for more funding.

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Police BriefsTHE IMPERFECT CRIME A Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officer was advised on Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. that a student was defac-ing public property on Curtis Street near Chetwynd Road. Wet cement had just been put down there, and a student was writing her name in it. The person who originally reported the incident told the officer that the student had entered a nearby house. The officer went to the house and spoke with the perpetrator, who turned out to be a student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She came outside and smoothed out the cement. “Kind of easy to catch when you write your own name in there,” TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said.

SPIDERMAN, SPIDERMAN ... TUPD received a call at 11:40 p.m. on Oct. 28 of a male stu-dent passed out in the men’s restroom in the campus center, sitting on the floor next to a toi-let. The student was woken up, said he was all .right and refused medical care. He had consumed

several shots of alcohol and was planning to travel on a bus leav-ing from the campus center for the Senior Club Life celebration in Boston. The student was wearing a Spiderman Halloween costume at the time.

TRICK OR TREAT OR PASS OUT IN THE STREET TUPD officers found at 12:06 a.m. on Nov. 1 an unconscious female student lying down at the corner of Curtis Avenue and Whitfield Road. As the offi-cers arrived, another student approached them and reported being with the student when she fell to the ground. The first student was transported to Somerville Hospital.

GETTING SLUGGED, AS EASY AS 123 TUPD received a call at 1:50 a.m. on Nov. 1 from two female students who said they had been beaten up earlier that night at a party at the Theta Delta Chi house at 123 Packard Ave. The students said they were dancing in the basement of the house when one of them bumped into an unidentified female who they believed was a student. That person then turned around

and hit the student in the face, below her eye. The hit student fell down, and when her friend came over to help, the unidentified female and five or six of her friends started to hit her, too. Fraternity brothers broke up the fight and removed the unidentified female and her friends from the house. There is an ongoing investiga-tion on this, McCarthy said.

ROAD HEAD: THE EVEN MORE DANGEROUS KIND TUPD and Medford police officers responded to a call at 9:23 a.m. on Nov. 3 of a cyclist who hit a moving vehicle at the intersection of Boston Avenue and College Avenue. The cyclist, a student, attempt-ed to make a left turn onto College Avenue when he hit a car. He hit the windshield, and the helmet he was wearing cracked the windshield glass. The student was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and Medford police are con-ducting an investigation.

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Seiden and Munkacsy exam-ined several campus locations, including the Gantcher Center and other spaces within the Cousens complex. Despite the hurdles, Seiden

is optimistic. “I think it will be a great venue, probably even better than Dewick,” he said. Engle agreed that Carzo could potentially provide a permanent location for future Hip Hop Shows. “We are excited to use the

Cage for this year’s first show and do not see any prob-lems with the space,” Engle said. “We are able to open the show to more students and hope this can become one of the spaces we use regularly for our shows.”

not required to close on the holiday, many do, leaving some Tufts faculty who have to come to the university in a tight spot. For professors with young children, holding classes on a federal holiday forces them to make alternative arrange-ments for child care. “The Tufts Educational Day Care Center is open [on Veterans Day], but Tufts doesn’t have any child care for children under 2 years 9 months old, so that only will help people who have children in preschool,” politi-cal science Associate Professor Elizabeth Remick said. Remick is one of a number of professors with young chil-dren who fall outside of this

age range, and she must rely on external sources for day care. Many such facilities are closed for the holiday. “It means that I have to scram-ble to find some kind of a backup care arrangement,” Remick said. Though they are not required to do so, staff members who elect to work on Veterans Day will receive additional com-pensation, according to Vice President of Human Resources Kathe Cronin. O’Loughlin finds the decision to hold classes on Veterans Day to be indicative of general apa-thy toward ROTC members. “[There] seems to be an alarming pattern at Tufts of, at best, an indifference to ROTC and, at worst, an antagoniza-tion,” O’Loughlin said. “I don’t

think that the administration is intentionally doing it, but I think that it has the potential of com-ing across [that way].” ROTC members routinely par-ticipate in a memorial service on Veterans Day. The timing of this year’s service was changed to accommodate those who are attending class. “We had to move the time of the Veterans Day service,” O’Loughlin said. “Usually it’s in the morning, but we moved it to the open block.” In a September opinion piece in the Daily, O’Loughlin pro-posed a boycott of classes on Veterans Day. Although there is no official boycott, “I’ve had a number of people approach me to say that they supported it,” he said.

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In the Oct. 25 Senate meet-ing, Discourse appealed that recommendation to the body, which must approve all ALBO recommendations. The Senate, in a 13-5 vote during the meeting, approved a compromise number, $5,450, which would provide three quarters of the funding needed for one full, black-and-white issue. In a sometimes-heated debate that took up almost half of the approximately three-hour-long Senate meet-ing, senators discussed how large of a role an outside group like the IGL should play in the Senate’s funding decisions for organizations linked to those groups. Discourse’s somewhat unique position as both an IGL- and TCU-sponsored pub-lication triggered an emotional discussion about how much of a dwindling pot of funding should go to pay for accesso-ries like a professional designer or color pages. Some senators argued that Discourse should be forced to downgrade. Arguments also exposed mixed feelings about the TCU Judiciary’s practices in approv-ing new student organizations. Discourse became a TCU-recognized student group this semester after the IGL indicat-ed to student editors that they would have to look elsewhere for much of their funding because of the institute’s suf-fering endowment, students involved with Discourse told the Daily. Discourse mem-bers thought their group had already received official recog-nition from the TCU Judiciary, but upon applying for funding this semester, they discovered this was not the case. The group’s initial request would have covered two color issues, professionally designed and widely distributed on cam-pus and outside Tufts, includ-ing at other schools and book-stores. ALBO’s significantly pared-down recommendation would have funded one issue with-out the bells and whistles editors wanted. Members of ALBO argued that student publications can use the Media Advisory Board’s computer lab for design and that TCU funds should only go toward on-cam-pus distribution. While most senators agreed that, at most, scrapping a pro-fessional designer and funding only one issue was appropriate, division remained on whether the Senate should fund half or all of one black-and-white issue — or provide no funding at all. The number that passed was a compromise: The Senate would fund 75 percent of costs for one issue. “The feeling behind that number was really, we want to fund them to some extent because we think it’s a worth-while publication, but we still see it as under the IGL, and we think the IGL will match our number,” said TCU Associate Treasurer Kate de Klerk, a sophomore. The $5,450 allocation came from new-group funding, which is intended for recent-ly recognized organizations that did not participate in the annual budgeting process held every spring in anticipation of the next school year. New-group money comes from a pot that this year started out at $85,000 and, at the start of the Oct. 25 meeting, stood at

about $65,566. De Klerk was the sole ALBO member who voted against the board’s recommendation, saying afterward that it did not make sense to fund what seemed to be an arbitrary per-centage of an issue. “I thought we should fund them the way we fund other publications, which is fully, or to the point which they can function and publish,” de Klerk said, although she added that she thought the IGL would fill in the gap left by senators. Funding less than one full issue could have proved per-ilous, according to Discourse Co-Editor-in-Chief Aalok Kanani, a junior. “Any time the number went below $7,200, there goes our publication,” said Kanani, who is also a photo editor for the Daily. The IGL did pledge the next day to help Discourse reach $7,200, according to students with the journal. The Senate’s debate over numbers marked the first trea-sury appeal of the semester, and confusion reigned dur-ing portions of the process. At one point, senators voted on a number with the expectation that they needed a two-thirds majority for passage, but they were forced to vote again once a person in the room pointed out — after officers had start-ed counting votes — that only a simple majority was needed. Discourse members had notified the Senate’s Executive Board approximately 45 min-utes before the meeting began that they planned to appeal ALBO’s recommendation, and TCU officers did not have time to fully familiarize themselves with the relevant rules, a num-ber of senators said. That resulted in numerous procedural questions from senators, confusion about who could talk when and admon-ishments from the Senate’s Executive Board when mem-bers asked questions that went against debate rules. “No one really had time to prepare for it,” said Senator Dan Pasternack, a junior. TCU Treasurer Aaron Bartel is writing a procedural change that he will propose, requiring groups to notify the Senate of their intent to appeal at least 48 hours before the Senate meeting following the Wednesday ALBO meeting at which funding recommen-dations are made. Currently, there is no time restriction on groups, aside from that requir-ing the appeal to occur at the first Senate meeting after ALBO makes its funding rec-ommendation for the group. “Our rules weren’t as set in stone as they should’ve been, but that’s something we’re fix-ing in the coming weeks,” said Bartel, a sophomore. De Klerk called the Senate’s discussion “unorganized” and “a little chaotic and unprofes-sional.” “It was just sort of messy,” she said, but she added that this fact probably did not affect the outcome. “I think consid-ering that we wanted to hear them, and they wanted to pres-ent, we did the best with the situation.” In conversations afterward, senators said they felt the discussion could have been handled more profession-ally, and officers spoke at a later Executive Board meet-ing about how they hope this sort of situation will not arise again, according to de Klerk.

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Hip-hop artist Brother Ali will headline Concert Board’s Hip Hop Show on Nov. 12. The Cool Kids will be his opening act. The concert will be the first of its kind to be held in the Gantcher Center.

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The hunt is on — for off-campus hous-ing, that is. Although students may feel as though they’ve just moved into their cur-rent rooms, many of those planning to live off campus for the next academic year are already searching for their future accommo-dations. In some cases, students have even signed contracts and put down deposits “I think students have started [looking for off-campus housing] early,” Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) Director Yolanda King said, adding that it seems to be part of Tufts’ culture that students start the housing search earlier every year. Tufts guarantees housing only to first- and second-year students. According to King, only 392 senior and 368 juniors are living on campus this fall (seniors are given priority in the housing lottery). Thus, many students that would like to live on campus aren’t able to and must brave the Boston-area rental market. Roy Seidenberg, who is an employee of Boston Rental Exchange, a rental agency focused on offering apartments located along the Red Line, said the phenomenon of looking for housing months in advance is not common in the normal rental mar-ket. Seidenberg said that the primary rent-ing season is from May to September, as that is often when most leases expire. Most landlords do not start advertising until 30 to 60 days before a lease is sched-uled for termination, according Seidenberg.

“Somerville and Cambridge have a large student population, but they also have a large number of professionals as well,” Seidenberg said. “I suppose [signing a lease this early] makes sense if you’re very close to the Tufts campus.” He added that with so many students graduating each year, landlords might prefer to line up tenants as early as possible, even if most leases for houses around campus do not begin until June 1. One fear among students looking for an ideal off-campus apartment is that if they don’t sign a lease sooner rather than later, someone else will. Sophomore Jonathan Hendrickson is one of the individuals who rented an off-campus house early in order to secure an ideal location. Hendrickson and friends put down a deposit for a 10-per-son house on College Avenue last week. “It was less of a decision of, ‘We want to know where we’re living now,’ as it was, ‘Houses start disappearing if we don’t do it now,’” Hendrickson said. “[The landlord] informed me that there were people that were going to take the house later in the afternoon if we didn’t take it,” said sophomore Ian Donovan, a friend of Hendrickson. This is a common problem, according to the Boston Rental exchange Web site. “There is always a limited supply of quality housing available. What that means to you is that you do not have the luxury of ‘shop-ping around.’ If you like something, TAKE IT,” the site advises. However, students that have gone so far as to put a deposit on a house seem

to be the exception, rather than the rule. Sophomore Rebecca Wang is one of those who have just begun their housing search. “We were looking at the links on TuftsLife.com and Craigslist.org, but we haven’t got that far yet,” Wang said. Other students who are planning on studying abroad, such as sophomore Tim Lesinski, are also more likely to wait to decide on housing. Lesinski is planning on participating in the Tufts-in-Washington program in the spring of 2011 and is letting his current roommate do most of the house searching. Lesinski plans to sublet, which he said seems simpler. “You don’t have to sign a lease or any-thing,” he said. “You can sign a lot later because I know that if I were to sign a lease, it would have to be this month, and if I sublet, I can sort of make a commitment, but I don’t have to get any money together or anything for a while.” Lesinski added that he would rather sub-let than take his chances with the housing lottery. “I’m sort of being steered by my par-ents to live on campus, but I’m going to try and fight back and live off campus, because I don’t want to get stuck in a single in a bad dorm,” Lesinski said. One thing is for certain: The Boston-area rental market can be expensive. According to a 2008 report by Forbes, Boston is the nation’s third most expensive rental mar-ket, behind only New York City and San Francisco. King said that in order to avoid paying more than they should, students

This is the first article in a two-part series that profiles recent alumni and their experi-ences after graduation.

From finding a job and a new apartment to making new friends, life after Tufts can seem daunting. Yet leaving behind hour-long Dewick lunches and a campus where classes and activities are all within a 15-minute walk of each other might not be so scary. The Daily caught up with five recent Tufts alums to examine the transition to life after Tufts.

Nikki Bruce (LA ’08) Despite leaving the Hill behind when she graduated from Tufts, Nikki Bruce didn’t say goodbye to Somerville. Bruce now works as the Operations Coordinator at the Planned Parenthood Express Center in Davis Square. Her role is to oversee the daily operations of the clinic, which can include anything from managing staff to ordering birth con-trol. Apart from organizing lab results and tests, Bruce also coordinates with the Boston office of external affairs to increase Planned Parenthood’s visibility in the community. As she enjoys her work at Planned Parenthood, Bruce affirms that life after col-lege is not always something to fear. “The real world isn’t as scary a place as it sounds,” she said. “It’s really nice to have a job and have a bit more flexibility in terms of being done with your day at a certain time.” In addition to nights and weekends with-out problem sets and papers taking away free time, post-college life also offers the benefit of meeting new people. “I enjoy being out in the real world and working with people who are more experi-enced than I am,” Bruce said. After graduating, Bruce hadn’t planned on staying so close to her alma mater. “I wanted to stay in Boston and experience it as a non-student. I was open to moving and relocating, but it just sort of happened [that I stayed in Davis].” Yet she explained that as a recent graduate, Davis can seem like a totally different place. “I have a different lens on Davis Square as a non-student and as a manager of a local business,” she said. “I look to my neighbors as colleagues. It’s not just a hang-out space for me anymore.” Bruce emphasized, though, that it’s still

comforting to see Jumbos around. “I love when I see Tufts people walking around and seeing them come to the clinic,” she said. “I love seeing the Tufts sweatshirt in my office.” Content at Planned Parenthood, Bruce is unsure where her future will take her. Although she foresees enrolling at business school at some point, she is happy with her new job for the time being. “I don’t really have plans to leave Planned Parenthood any time soon,” she said.

Julia Cheong (LA ’09) Julia Cheong utilized internships to suc-ceed in finding her job despite a declining economy. After graduating in May, Cheong interned at ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability from June to August and then began another internship at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education at the end of August, where she was just offered a full-time

FeaturesFeaturesROMY OLTUSKI | WORD UP

Abraca-dabra

U p until fairly recently — okay, up until yesterday — I had given little thought to the his-tory of the famous word used

by performance magicians almost uni-versally. I need hardly say it: “abraca-dabra.” For years, I had grouped the whimsi-cal expression with the other nonsen-sical catchphrases of my childhood like the Fairy Godmother’s “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” and the more obscure “Iggy la Piggy Wiggy,” coined by the mediocre magician who visited my synagogue’s youth group every now and then. It’s magic, I thought, some-thing nonsensical in and of itself; it doesn’t need an explanation. And I had assumed there was an understanding among the teen-plus community that the word was just a bunch of silly, garbled syllables thrown together in the name of children’s entertainment. Naturally, I was shocked to find out that “abracadabra” predates Silly Billy by quite some time, finding its roots instead in Kabbalah, a mysti-cal rabbinical tradition; Gnosticism, a spiritual belief system of certain early Christian sects; and medicine, among other sources. One popular theory about the word’s origin explains “abracadabra” as a derivative of the Basilidan Gnostics’ word for the supreme deity, Abraxas (which jolts us from “bunch of silly, garbled syllables” to “God” far too quickly, in my opinion). Others suggest one of a few Semitic etymological roots, including the Aramaic “avra kehdabrah,” which trans-lates as “I will create as I speak,” and the Hebrew words “av,” “ben” and “ruach hakodesh,” translated, respectively, as “father,” “son” and “holy spirit.” Personally, I can envision the two fat magicians in “The Prince of Egypt” using any one of these magical, mysti-cal customs to do their bidding. The first official written record of “abracadabra,” though, appeared only much later, in the second cen-tury A.D. in a medical poem authored by the Roman physician Q. Severus Sammonicus. The poem “De medicina praecepta,” originally written in Latin, speaks of the word’s healing powers. Instead of reciting or chanting the word, though, you wear it around your neck in a triangular shape whose top line consists of all of the word’s letters, the next line of the entire word minus the last letter and so on and so forth until you are left with just a lonely little “a,” like so:

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The idea is somewhat metaphorical — that just as the word “abracadabra” vanishes slowly, so too does the sick-ness. Call it crazy, call it witchcraft, call it whatever you want. Until we get our hands on some swine flu vaccines, I’m not ruling anything out.

Romy Oltuski is a junior majoring in English. She can be reached at Romy.Oltuski@tufts.edu.

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should check the prices of similar housing in the area and attempt to negotiate their rent. ResLife strives to make the house-hunting process as easy as possible, according to King. She recommended the Off-Campus Housing Resource Center Web site (ase.tufts.edu/och). The site contains a house listing blog, sample leases, common ques-tions and a list of things that stu-dents should investigate, such as the presence of smoke detectors and the cost of utilities. King also stressed that stu-dents should consult their par-ents throughout the housing search. In order to aid students who are not sure if their hous-ing lottery numbers are good enough to live on campus, the ResLife office will send out a sur-vey to rising seniors this month asking if they plan to seek on-campus housing for next year. Although the responses are not binding, they will give a rough idea of which students have good enough lottery numbers to live on campus. To help students in the search for off-campus apartments, the Sophomore Class Council will host an Off-Campus Housing Information Session on Monday, Nov. 9. According to Dan Halpert, the vice president of Academic Programming for the Sophomore Class Council, the event is being held because of the success of an on-campus housing informa-tion session the then-Freshman Class Council held at this time last year. The event will feature a pre-sentation by King as well as a panel of students currently living

off campus who will talk about their neighborhoods and give out landlord information. Even though some have already largely finished their housing search, Halpert believes the event can still be a valuable one. “While some sophomores have signed leases for next year, there is still an overwhelming majority

of people who haven’t even start-ed the process,” Halpert said in an e-mail. “Regardless of whether or not you’ve looked at houses yet, this event is very useful since it gives you a very detailed over-view of the entire process, which seems daunting at first. We think it’s going to be a very helpful pro-gram for the Class of 2012.”

position as a Data Specialist. For Cheong, the job search was undeniably impacted by the economy. “There are a lot of older can-didates who have a few years’ full-time work experience that are also competing for entry-level jobs,” she said. “It wasn’t unusual for a hiring manager to tell me up front at an interview that they’ve picked five resumes out of three or four hundred.” The difficulty of finding a job made the transition to life after Tufts hard. “[The transition has] been incredibly challenging, mostly because it’s been so hard to get a full-time job,” she said. “It was just an unfortunate year to graduate.” Yet Cheong coped with these pressures by staying in the Boston area with her friends. “I stayed in Boston because I wanted to stay in a familiar environ-ment while I was going through so many life transitions,” she said. Indeed, staying in Boston at least took some of the stress out of find-ing a place to live. “Finding an apart-ment was easy,” she said. “My room-mates and I looked for two days, and we fell in love with the third apart-ment we saw. We signed the lease on that same day.” Cheong said that while she plans to work in the immediate future, she sees herself pursuing an advanced degree down the line. “I want to work for a couple more years to figure out exactly what additional skills or training I need to advance in my line of work,” she said. “Once I have that figured out, I’ll go to grad school.”

Jonathan Adler (LA ’08) Upon graduating from Tufts in

2008, Jonathan Adler started his career working as a corporate parale-gal at the law firm Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP, but he recently started a new job in the TV department of the talent agency Creative Artists. Fortunately for Adler, the declining economy did not hin-der his job search. “I was luckier than most,” he said. “I got my first job in February of my senior year; I’m not a normal case. I feel really lucky.” Now Adler helps the agent he works for find new talent, putting news anchors on the air and man-aging their careers. For Adler, this new career path is one that follows his passion. “I loved TV and entertainment,” Adler said. “I had always wanted to do this.” Despite the ease of finding a job, however, there were parts of the move to the real world that adverse-ly affected Adler. “The transition is hard,” he said. “It’s weird because it comes to you in different ways. I don’t think about Tufts all the time. It will occur to me now and again that I miss being on campus.” One thing that made this transi-tion especially difficult for Adler is that he had never lived off campus at Tufts. “I always lived in the dorms, so it was my first time signing a lease,” he said. “It’s been good, but definitely overwhelming at first.” Having just started his new job, Adler is unsure where it will lead. But for now, he is happy where he is. “I plan to pursue my interests in the field of entertainment — what exactly that means I don’t know,” he said. “I just know right now I like my job, and I’ll see where it goes.”

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Iwoke up yesterday morning to find the following text message on my phone sent from three different people: “The Elves are coming to Boston tomorrow!”

The wheels started turning as I began waking up, and I realized that the texts were referring to the casting call for season seven of “Top Chef” by Magical Elves pro-duction company in Boston today. After a few more minutes passed and I became fully conscious, frustration began to settle in as I remembered how miserable I’ve been while watching the show recently. I am completely fed up with “Top Chef.” If you would have told me when the show premiered in 2006 that I would come to loathe “Top Chef,” you might as well have tried telling me that Cocoa Krispies can boost your immune system. Who would have thought you would be right on both accounts! (In case you haven’t strolled down the cereal aisle lately, Kellogg’s has added a lovely banner to Cocoa Krispies boxes that claims the cereal “Now Helps Support Your Child’s Immunity.”) My love for “Top Chef” steadily grew during its first three seasons. The show was completely innovative, combining wild challenges with competent up-and-coming chefs and credible guest judges. (Don’t even get me started on the athletes and actors who are judges on “Iron Chef” — some of them don’t know the difference between a chicken and a turkey.) The ear-lier challenges emphasized the charac-teristics of a top chef; it makes sense for the “cheftestants,” as they’re known, to cook a meal with calorie restrictions or to cater an exclusive party for 60 people. It was a particular thrill to see icons like Eric Ripert and Wylie Dufresne taste and critic the food of younger chefs. “Top Chef” was entertaining and educational at the same time. Then season four hit and “Top Chef” became more like a reality show that involved food rather than a food show that happened to be a competition. I found myself tuning in to see what antics Spike and Andrew were up to rather than what food they were cooking. It also became extremely predictable — you knew that Richard and Stephanie were going to make it to the finals after the first two episodes aired. Season five was completely uninspiring: None of the chefs were particularly talented, and the challenges were either too mundane or too over-the-top to be realistic. The only person who was fun to watch was Fabio. I used to stop everything I was doing to watch seasons one through three, but by season five I didn’t care if I missed an epi-sode. When I did watch, I was incredibly bored and could predict who was going to be eliminated within the first five min-utes of an episode. I was extremely hopeful for season six. The cheftestants had such impressive résu-més — some chefs had been nominated for James Beard awards and had worked at Michelin-starred restaurants — but for some of them (read: Michael Voltaggio) this has led to so much snobbery I can’t stand to watch them. The Vegas-themed challenges come off as extremely kitschy; was it really necessary to randomly have showgirls parade through the kitchen on the first challenge? I think I have become completely disil-lusioned with the show because it’s been too much, too soon. There have been six seasons in three years, and season seven will probably air over the summer. Unless the producers find a way to mix things up — and I don’t mean just move locations again — I’m honestly not sure if I’m going to tune in. I’ve gotten to the point where I am voluntarily going to pack my knives and go.

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ALBUM REVIEW

Psychedelic band drops ‘Cosmic Egg’

An awe-inspiring and astonishing event took place in 2004: Australian band Wolfmother dropped out of the

sky aboard a groovy, intergalactic time capsule from the late ’60s. The band was immediately embraced upon land-ing and its self-titled album, released in 2006, garnered the group critical acclaim for its sexy, modernized-throw-back, hard rock sound. A feature in the video game Guitar Hero 2 cemented Wolfmother’s iconic rocker status. The power trio combined psychedelic lyrical imagery and heavy metal riffs to create music that was not astoundingly unique but was nonetheless impressive in scope and influence. Then two band members walked away from the group, leaving only front man/guitarist Andrew Stockdale to keep Wolfmother alive. Stockdale returns with a new album,

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!"#$%&'()$'*$+,-.$)/01$/0$)'*(23 Great American family dramas tend to climax in rowdy feuds centered on tense holiday tables. Claire Denis’ delicate French film “35 Shots of Rum”

reflects more on the subtle intrica-cies of daily interactions, quietly and slowly building the story of a father and his daughter growing apart from each other. The film revolves around a father-daughter duo living in Paris. Lionel (Alex Descas) and Joséphine (Mati Diop) share the apartment they’ve lived in since the death of Joséphine’s mother, as well as an ease in each oth-er’s company that is the foundation of the film. Lionel spends his days driving a commuter train and his evenings with

his daughter, cooking and smiling and then hugging her goodnight. The small actions paint a picture of their rela-tionship and the tender but tenuous bond of a family without a maternal influence. Their immediate circle includes Noé (Grégoire Colin), an oft-shirtless upstairs neighbor who lives alone with his cat, and sassy cab driver Gabrielle, an ex-girlfriend of Lionel who tries to be the mother Joséphine grew up without — and the mother she her-

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Cosmic Egg

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GALLERY REVIEW

One of the posters displayed in the Harvard Art Museum’s new exhibition, “ACT UP: New York: Activism, Art, and

the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993,” depicts a staunch opponent of safe-sex edu-cation and gay rights, Cardinal John Joseph O’Connor, and a condom side-by-side, with text that reads “Know your scumbags.” A note under the con-dom says, “This one prevents AIDS.” The poster serves as a fitting intro-duction to the exhibition, which runs until Dec. 23 at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and profiles the New York group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). ACT UP differed from other activist organizations in its inclusive structure; anyone who came to weekly meetings could suggest an idea for a protest or demonstration. The organization was most active from 1987 to 1993 and worked to change public policy, pass

legislation and fight for greater medi-cal resources for AIDS patients. ACT UP took an experimental

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ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 At the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, through December 23Harvard Art Museum485 Broadway, Cambridge617-495-9400

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Posters with strong messages like this one were frequently used by the AIDS activist group ‘ACT UP,’ whose work is profiled in an exhibition.

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approach to activism. The bold posters displayed at the Harvard Art Museum reflect their daring, take-no-prisoners attitude towards the AIDS crisis — one that was a matter of life or death for many of the group’s members. The exhibition is divided into two sections: one primarily of video work, and the other of visual graphics. The lower part of the gallery is filled with scattered video screens featuring sur-viving ACT UP members sharing their perspective on the AIDS epidemic. These interviews are from the ACT UP Oral History Project, and their loose organization represents the diversity and equality of the activist group. Also in this space, a neon sign read-ing “Silence = Death” (1986) is placed on a black background with a pink tri-angle. The inverted pink triangle sym-bol was once used to identify gay indi-viduals during the Holocaust and was then appropriated and flipped right side up by the gay community as a symbol of solidarity. Upstairs, a wall of activist posters nearly overwhelms viewers. Included in the display is a poster modeled after a Coke advertisement with the words “Enjoy AZT” — an antiretroviral drug used to treat AIDS. These post-ers and stickers, originally stuck to buses, mailboxes and street corners, made the epidemic visible in the pub-lic sphere and were intended to attract the attention of people who thought they were not affected by AIDS. Also in the upper part of the exhibit, a video screen shows some of the protests, which were designed to be filmed in order to attract maximum publicity to the cause. Many of the posters target spe-cific political officials. One poster by the Silence = Death Project entitled “AIDSGATE” (1987) features a demonic

portrait of President Ronald Reagan with a vacant expression, red eyes and a caption reading “AIDSGATE.” Further into the exhibit, a life-sized bus ad reads, “Kissing doesn’t kill: greed and indifference do.” It features three inter-racial couples kissing, two of them of the same sex. These images serve as examples of the way in which ACT UP ads used sex appeal as corporate advertisers do — to attract attention. Other works in the exhibition use the physical body to remind the audience of the effects of AIDS. One particu-lar poster says, “The government has blood on its hands,” with a blood-red handprint in the middle. The facts and statistics on the post-ers and stickers were used to coun-ter the misinformation spread by the government and other organizations, such as the Catholic Church, including, “One in sixty-one babies born in New York City is born with AIDS or HIV-positive.” The poignant messages of the ads also remind the viewer of the gravity of the epidemic and the pain felt by everyone touched by the disease. One poster says, “All people with AIDS are innocent.” And this simple message, even today, is sometimes forgotten. Gran Fury, an art collective that produced posters for AIDS awareness, made a final piece called “The Four Questions” (1992). It consists of the following in small, black type dwarfed by a white background: “Do you resent people with AIDS? Do you trust HIV-negatives? Have you given up hope for a cure? When was the last time you cried?” After the clever sayings and corpo-rate slogan parodies of other posters in the show, this one gets to the heart of the epidemic. Shocking statements and bold imagery aside, the psychological and emotion cost to those affected remains at stake.

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The exhibition profiles ‘ACT UP,’ which used posters like this one by Gran Fury, “The Government Has Blood On Its Hands” (1988), to promote the AIDS activist message.

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“Cosmic Egg” (2009), that elegant-ly expands on the group’s original formula and features contributions from some new faces. The album begins with head-nodder “California Queen.” Stockdale keeps the lyrics spaced out, lamenting a mysterious female figure “who slipped off into the slip stream” while still finding time to stand in front of a rainbow. The song starts off playfully with a simple two-chord structure that is upbeat and frenetic and eventually slows down into an epic four-chord jam. Stockdale, whose voice is com-parable to a more gifted (or a less inebriated) Ozzie Osbourne, effort-lessly hits all the high notes, and has all the braggadocio and cha-risma that a rock band front man should. He’s also a superbly talented guitarist, hammering out menacing chords with the passion of a young Pete Townshend. His combination of technical guitar prowess and soulful singing is so powerful that he becomes an astral mage who teleports listeners to the next dimension. He genuinely believes in the cosmic world that his music creates, and listeners can’t help but believe in it, too. Stockdale is as much a benevolent tour guide as he is his musical world’s creator. Many songs on the album fea-ture mythic and ancient themes. “10,000 Feet” transports listeners to the medieval 16th century, when “even the people so small/ Wanna see the tryant a fall.” The band only takes a break from days of old when wailing about the heartbreak of love and love lost, as on songs “Far Away” and “Caroline.” It is significant to note that the Wolfmother we hear on this sec-ond album is an entirely new band.

Curly-haired Stockdale did what any resolute rocker would do and picked up three new members to keep the ship floating. The newly established quartet maintains the hard-rock aesthetic of their predecessors, but does little to accentuate or detract from the sound that Stockdale is trying to cre-ate. It’s obvious that Stockdale is the driving force behind the ensemble. The only obvious shake-up in sound is the addition of a Rhodes piano on several tracks, adding a contempla-tive texture and melody to some of the less aggressive songs. All of the tracks on the album clock in at over three minutes, which works for Wolfmother’s style: epic rock ballads that take listeners on a journey through time and space.

The cuts from this new album are similar in length to Wolfmother’s early work, but are better composed and structured. Wolfmother is undeniably influ-enced by myriad classic bands, and is at its best when it is using this influence to create a fresh sound that is still grounded in rock tra-dition. But, at times, the group is simply recreating the music of its rock predecessors. While the band’s first album “Wolfmother” was a bit rough around the edges, “Cosmic Egg” shows that Wolfmother’s for-mula has been refined — with mixed consequences. The songs on this fresh album will have you pumping your fist and tapping your toes, but don’t expect your ears to be stimulated by novel rock ideas.

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self never got to be. When Lionel’s fellow train conduc-tor is forced to retire, Lionel begins to assess the choices he’s made and the life he has constructed. Meanwhile, Joséphine begins to move away from the quiet domes-ticity she’s become accus-tomed to after years alone with her father, experiment-ing with relationships out-side of her comfort zone. Small details within these interconnected lives tell the deeper stories of their rela-tionships. The cigarettes Gabrielle chain-smokes on her balco-ny every night while waiting for Lionel to get home reveal elements of their romantic history; it seems like a wait she knows well. The longing that Noé doesn’t know how to express manifests itself in the little pauses he takes at Joséphine’s door before he continues on to his own. Much of the film is about waiting, and much of its impact comes from glances and silence. The cinematography is the film’s greatest strength: So many shots linger for a few heavy seconds on hands and in hallways, bringing the audience into each moment that the characters spend in ambiguity and doubt. The characters spend the majority of their time in tran-sit — and this reflects the underlying mood of uncer-tainty. It’s no accident that two of the main characters make their living driving other people around. Lionel

drives the commuter rail, watching the same landscape fade in both directions every day. His itinerancy is calcu-lated: He follows the same paths, the same movements, and always returns to the same known territory. Gabrielle, on the other hand, tells one of her passengers that the thing she loves most about her job is that it’s “never the same thing.” Without a family to call her own, she has none of the same routines or obli-gations that make up Lionel and Joséphine’s lives. But the excitement she craves is ulti-mately unfulfilling. When she offers to share dinner with Joséphine, the viewer under-stands Gabrielle’s particular longing — for a life where she would be coming home to something. As a filmmaker, Denis plac-es high value in the mundane moments — he knows these are what construct a life. All of the performances in “35 Shots of Rum” are strong, but Nicole Dogue’s Gabrielle gives the film its emotional heft. She wears her loneliness in every pore of her face, no matter how hard she tries to smile or smoke it away. Alex Descas is notable too, giving Lionel a strong, stoic exterior and yet subtly hinting at the deep tragedy he holds inside. “35 Shots of Rum” works because of its simplicity. Though it could have ben-efited from fewer cutaway shots and tying up a few loose ends in its final scenes, the film is ultimately a beau-tiful meditation on the mod-ern family unit.

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Cruisin’ down the freeway, windows down. Wind in your hair. Signs flashing. Sun setting. And the first few notes of that song — the one you’ve been waiting for — suddenly float from the radio. In that second, there’s a moment of connection. Somehow, somewhere, someone understands exactly how you feel right now. A DJ, sitting behind a desk with headphones firmly in place, chose that artist, picked that album, selected that track. And you, miles away, know exactly why. But the radio changes, just like every-thing else. A few years back, I hit pre-set number three in my ancient Ford Taurus station wagon, but to my dis-may, the familiar jingle of Arrow 93.1 was nowhere to be heard. The station was gone — replaced by the anony-mous, jockey-free Jack FM. Stations like Jack — such as Boston’s 93.7 Mike FM — advertise their lack of disc jockeys as an advantage, claiming that listeners benefit from more music and less talk. On the surface, it’s true:

I much prefer rocking out uninter-rupted versus waiting for that overly enthusiastic voice to shut it and play the music already. Still, regardless of this perk, some-thing just feels wrong about Jack and Mike. In place of human conversation, a sarcastic male voice now greets 93.1’s Los Angeles listeners with the same schtick every time. Clearly, he’s too cool for school, he’s anti-establishment, he has nothing to do with those saccharin-sweet DJs who clog up the airways — because he’s a recording and doesn’t waste your time with old-fashioned niceties. Despite his rebellious tone, this dis-embodied voice represents the radio industry’s best attempt to stay in busi-ness. In the face of iPod proliferation, YouTube listening and online radio streaming, the traditional dial is in the midst of a crisis. Americans have turned away from FM and AM, and they don’t seem to be turning back any time soon. Desperate, stations have tried to inno-vate. The BBC reported over two years ago: “In an attempt to woo listeners, a number of them are broadening their

playlists, putting all the tunes on shuffle and ditching the DJs altogether.” Why did the BBC pick up the story? Because all of a sudden, America’s Jack FM had hit Oxford, too. In the end, this new form of radio could just as well be an iPod — the only difference being that it’s not your particular iPod and therefore provides some variety. But listeners don’t just tune in to the radio for a new song or two. We switch on the dial for the com-munity we find there, confident that a population of other listeners is singing along to the same melody we’re hum-ming. When we pull up to a stoplight and hear an identical bass beat out of the car by our side, we forge an unspo-ken connection with that anonymous driver. And, ultimately, we feel like there’s a person out there orchestrat-ing it all — someone who cares deeply about the tune that played before, and the one that will play next. When you’re driving down that highway well past 1 a.m. and the lanes are empty as your headlights cut through the night, there’s nothing like knowing that somewhere, far away, you’ve got company.

BY MOLLY M. STRAUSS The Harvard Crimson

It seems odd that the administra-tion has decided that classes should be held on Nov. 11, Veterans Day, a national holiday that recognizes all the people who have been or are currently in the military. Tufts administrators realized earlier this year that they had to add one more day to the academic calendar because this semester began particularly late in the year. So why did the Tufts administration choose to hold classes on Veterans Day, a holi-day that commemorates fallen heroes, over a holiday such as Columbus Day, which is of significance mainly for its commemoration of a false hero? For over 200 years, millions of citi-zens have given their time, and often their lives, to defending our country. We owe so much to the military per-sonnel who faithfully put their lives on the line when we are threatened. When they come home, they are wel-comed as heroes but often left with-out the health and monetary benefits they deserve. Tufts is not acknowledg-ing the importance of the work that the military does, and is not drawing attention to the need for sufficiently funding of the U.S. Department of

Veterans Affairs. What has Christopher Columbus done for the United States? Sure, he has been falsely accredited with discover-ing the country over 500 years ago. And yes, he may have been the first recognized European to set foot in the Americas (Norse sailors made a trans-Atlantic journey of their own centu-ries earlier, but apparently they don’t count), but does that really deserve more reverence than the people who have actively worked to protect the United States and its citizens? Should Christopher Columbus deserve any respect at all? He forced the land’s original inhabitants into slavery and led a misbegotten quest for scarce gold. Columbus eventu-ally set up a provisional colony on the island of Hispaniola, mostly by telling apocryphal tales to European elites convincing them that his New World was a glorious place begging for “civilized” settlers. Columbus used violence liberally while governing Hispaniola. This American hero was little more than a charlatan who was out to make money and a name for himself, and who administered his

middling colony so poorly that he was eventually thrown into prison and shipped back to Spain. Veterans, on the other hand, often find more sentimental appreciation than tangible assistance upon their return home. According to a 2008 RAND Corporation study, one out of every five American veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that 131,000 military veterans are homeless, and has announced a plan to confront this problem. Surely we ought to set aside a day to promote awareness of the issues plaguing those who make sacrifices for our country and come home deeply affected by their service, if not dead. When the administration is putting together the 2010 academic calen-dar, it should reconsider its choice of holidays. Veterans Day has a worthy purpose and should be observed by Tufts students. In opting to celebrate Columbus rather than U.S. military veterans, the university is trivializing the sacrifices of our true heroes.

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Well now what?

The Obama administration foresaw two potential outcomes of last month’s nullification of a purported election victory for the incumbent President of

Afghanistan Hamid Karzai. President Obama and top foreign policy brass hoped for a run-off election or some form of power-sharing agreement between Karzai and his oppo-nent, former Afghanistan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. The United States ulti-mately wanted an Afghan leadership that was not only popularly elected, but also seen as legitimate in the eyes of the people, as this would best combat the Afghan insurgency. Abdullah and Karzai both agreed to a runoff on Nov. 7 and all seemed well. But the United States never foresaw what lurked behind door number three. When Abdullah withdrew from the run-off on Sunday, the Obama administration was left speechless as Karzai, declared the de facto winner on Monday, pledged to reduce government corruption and thereby finally assume a critical role in the reconstruction of his country. American skeptics were left shak-ing their heads. Obama declared the Afghan election situation “messy” and issued his hopeful congratulations to Karzai. Debate over whether Karzai means busi-ness about significantly reducing corruption is irrelevant, as a quick look at history can eas-ily resolve the debate: Karzai will not change, never has changed and never will change. There is zero incentive for him to do so, and corruption is very firmly entrenched. The important element in this electoral disas-ter is not whether Karzai will clean up his act, but rather the influence and significance Abdullah now has in Afghan politics. Abdullah claims that “a transparent election is not pos-sible” and that any sort of legitimate political process is impossible. Abdullah knows full well that his fellow countrymen understand the extent of elec-toral cronyism in Afghanistan, and that it is but a small extension of a very corrupt Karzai administration. Backing out of the runoff affords Abdullah, if not hero status in Afghan politics, then certainly one of a politician engaged in a righteous struggle against a corrupt regime. However, Abdullah’s refusal to participate in an electoral cycle that he deems unjust is dubious; certainly the corruption in the system is known, but how does his lack of participation make the system fairer? If he were truly concerned with immediately improving the legitimacy of the Afghan democratic process, wouldn’t he risk a second defeat and at least play the game — legitimizing the system and allowing for some stability to come out of electoral chaos? Abdullah has but one chief concern in mind — acquiring power. In withdraw-ing from the runoff, totally delegitimizing Karzai’s “victory” and exposing the Afghan electoral infrastructure for the dip-your-finger-in-the-ink sham that it is, he has gained his fair share of political exposure and influence. It’s an Afghan apophasis. By claiming he does not want to participate in a political process that is hopelessly overrun with corruption, Abdullah is acknowledg-ing just the opposite — that he very much wants power and influence in the Afghan political realm, and furthermore that he deeply understands the situation and how best to not only exploit it for his gain but also to mobilize his fellow Afghans. That combination, paired with a very unpopular and ineffective President Karzai, is a highly combustible and absolute worst-case situ-ation that the Obama administration in no way foresaw some two weeks ago. Perhaps a Kandahar resident best summed up the current Afghan political situation: “Karzai has not won, and if the interna-tional community does not prosecute the thief, what will happen? This fire will spread.” Winter is fast approaching in Afghanistan. The last thing the Americans need is for a fire like this to heat up political tensions through the snowy months.

Teddy Minch is a senior majoring in politi-cal science. He hosts “The Rundown,” a news and sports talk show that airs from 3 to 5 p.m. every Friday on WMFO. He can be reached at Theodore.Minch@tufts.edu.

Mitigating the clash Religion is like science: It has the power to change the world in both wonderfully pro-found and highly divisive ways. Religion has been the catalyst for many of the great social movements of this past century. A pastor, Martin Luther King, Jr., led the nonviolent civil rights movement, while a devout Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, led the nonviolent Indian independence movement. Furthermore, religious institutions are a major provider of social capital for active citizenship. With that being said, it is undeniable that people are murdered daily in the name of religion and that even more people face bigotry because of their faith or beliefs. So, how can we approach these problems? I argue that ignoring or, worse, eliminat-ing religion would be as ineffective as plac-ing limits on scientific progress, an imprac-tical position that will lead to more harm than good. We must seriously consider our beliefs, whether they lead us to pursue a religious tradition or not, so that we can reflect on their benefits and faults. And just as scientists must come together to monitor the uses of their findings, diverse people must come together to multiply the good and combat the bad that originate from their faiths and beliefs. Interfaith action and discussion are the goals of the interfaith movement, which is brewing in the highest offices of our govern-ment and in the smallest communities of our country. The interfaith movement strives to bring diverse people to act together not only to multiply social capital, but also to create con-versations and enrich relationships among diverse people, which, in turn, lead to a greater respect for all faiths and beliefs. These three characteristics — respect for identity, mutually enriching relationships and common action for the common good — are the characteris-tics of a pluralistic community: a community that views diversity as a positive. This move-ment welcomes everyone, from those who are deeply devout to those who don’t subscribe to a faith at all. The underlying principle of the movement is that each person has values that should be respected and shared, and that each person has an interest in living in a plu-ralistic community.

However, there are certainly some chal-lenges the movement must address. We all have multiple identities, and we may not consider our beliefs to be our most promi-nent identity. However, pluralism is not just about faith; it is about common action by people of all identities. The model of inter-faith cooperation can be used for interracial or international cooperation. Furthermore, faith is often treated less seriously than the identities of race, ethnicity or sexual orien-tation, a fact that doesn’t correspond with domestic and foreign realities. In fact, stud-ies show that between 70 and 90 percent of Americans are confident that a god exists, one of the highest percentages worldwide. A second problem is that pluralism might seem nearly impossible in some locations because of the historical and political reali-ties of these regions. Renowned academ-ic Samuel Huntington predicted that this problem would eventually lead to a Clash of Civilizations. As an international relations major, I agree with Huntington’s thesis that “violent conflicts between groups in differ-ent civilizations are the most likely and most dangerous source of escalation that could lead to global wars.” However, more impor-tant to world affairs is Huntington’s lesser known conclusion that “for the relevant future, there will be no universal civilization, but instead a world of different civilizations, each of which will have to learn to coex-ist with the others.” Therefore, promoting pluralism (which is a step beyond simple coexistence and tolerance) is exactly what we should do to mitigate the clash of civili-zations on the campuses of U.S. universities and in conflict areas worldwide. On Sunday, Oct. 25, I attended the three-day-long Interfaith Youth Core Biannual Conference along with more than 600 other participants, including members of the Obama adminis-tration, directors of major non-profits such as the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, evan-gelical pastors, orthodox Muslims, rabbis, humanist chaplains, college students and many more. Each individual at the con-ference was confident that the interfaith movement would create positive changes by promoting pluralism, from bettering our local neighborhoods to tempering the Clash of Civilizations.

A powerful example of how respect for identities, mutual relationships and com-mon action for the common good can prevent a local clash exists right here on the Tufts campus. Following develop-ments in the Gaza conflict last year, our student body could have fragmented like many other universities around the world. However, six groups — the Arab Student Association, Friends of Israel, Hillel, the Muslim Student Association, New Initiative for Middle East Peace and the Pathways/CAFÉ (Conversations, Action, Faith and Education) interfaith program — decided that cooperation was the best response. This new Middle East Coalition ran a series of heated dialogues about the war, which ultimately unified rather than divided the students. It also organized the Middle East Fair, which showcased the unique cultures of the region while selling T-shirts and food to raise funds for a peaceful non-profit. This was by far my most enjoyable experience of last year, and it serves as an example of faith and non-faith groups coming together to make sure a conflict abroad did not turn into a conflict at Tufts. I will close by making two simple sug-gestions. First, the next time you are prac-ticing active citizenship, ask the person with whom you’re working what beliefs led him or her to serve others. A commitment to service is a value held by practically every religion and philosophical tradition and one that could be the foundation for cooperation among various groups. And second, I ask that if you hear a bigoted comment about a faith or belief, whether it is about evangelical Christians or those who don’t believe in God at all, challenge it. By refusing to be one of the three-quarters of Americans who say that they would remain silent, you will better the lives of Tufts students while helping the university transform diversity into pluralism. Many social movements start in college cam-puses, and with your actions Tufts can be a leader in the interfaith movement.

BY DANIEL RESNICK

Daniel Resnick is a sophomore majoring in international relations. He is the co-president of Tufts CAFÉ.

Success in our society is numerically quan-tified. Whether it’s your GPA or the size of your bonus check, we’re all measured according to our performance. A student with a 4.0 GPA is immediately perceived to be intelligent. The process begins in childhood with wall mea-surements to record your height. Perhaps my interest in this subject may be attributed to the fact I always fell “short” in this regard. Our perception of intelligence is a fal-lacy that stifles natural creativity and free thought. The tendency to reward our per-formers discounts the creative minds that don’t conform to a predetermined notion of intelligence. Our obsession with measur-ing performance in the traditional manner must change, as it severely limits our ability to progress as a society. School, as we know it, is a measure of work ethic and photographic memory. Are you lacking in these particular attributes? If you are, then your grades are likely suffering. This doesn’t mean you’re less intelligent than the girl who sits three rows in front of you and answers every question. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb. On the aver-age, when adjusted for individual strengths, intelligence is equally distributed throughout the population (with the exception of a few outliers), which means there is no such thing as smart and stupid. These notions are mere-ly a way to persuade a population to conform to a set of standards believed to provide the greatest benefit to society (at least the society our forefathers envisioned). The multiple-choice test is a tool often used to measure our performance. These tests can be difficult because of how an instructor words — or mis-words — a ques-tion, but they often do not measure under-standing; and they completely negate any creative thought regarding a subject matter.

Students are conditioned to prepare for a test by memorizing information without truly understanding it. The majority of stu-dents are capable of earning an A if they invest the time required to memorize these pertinent facts. Thus, work ethic — not intel-ligence — is measured. Some might argue this is what employers need: employees who can work hard at a task without their mind wandering distractedly through tangles of creative thought. But I disagree. Work ethic, memory reten-tion and analytical abilities do have merit. A creative thought can’t be remembered with-out memory retention. But it needs to be rec-ognized that creative individuals lacking in these other qualities are often discounted in the modern educational machine, whereas those who primarily possess one of the other three qualities are rewarded. Those who easily memorize facts for reci-

tation on multiple-choice tests have only proven their minds are efficient catalogs. Ask them for their opinion pertaining to a scenar-io involving those same facts, and the blank stare is alarming. This is because those facts were not actually processed but merely filed for quick retrieval. What employers need, and what an institute of higher education should develop, are employees who can think out-side the box — who can approach a situation from unique angles. So, as we all sit down with our No. 2 pen-cils to color skinny sheets of paper with little green circles, remember that though you may think it’s an art project in which you can make designs with the little bubbles, it is actually a measurement of your willingness to put forth an effort to play a game society has created for us. And your relative success or failure in this game will determine your job opportunities upon graduation.

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MEN’S CROSS COUNTRYNESCAC ChampionshipsManchester, Conn., Sunday

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4. Jesse Faller, 26:21 16. Kyle Marks, 27:15 18. Matt Rand, 27:20 21. Jeff Ragazzini, 27:26 32. Nick Welch, 27:44

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The men’s cross country team continued its gradual ascent into the ranks of the

NESCAC elite on Sunday, taking third at the champi-onships at Wickham Park in Manchester, Conn. thanks in large part to the efforts of senior Jesse Faller. Faller, who placed fourth in the five-mile race with a time of 26:21, helped the Jumbos to their best finish at the NESCAC race since 2005, when they won the event. In the past three seasons, Tufts finished no bet-ter than fourth place. “I thought the team ran real-ly well,” Faller said. “Everyone stepped up and ran a hard race, and it shows in the results. Hamilton senior Peter Kosgei won the race for the third straight year in 25:40, 17 sec-onds ahead of the runner-up, Williams senior Edgar Kosgey, who also finished in that spot last year.

“[My usual strategy going into a race] is pretty much to stick up with the lead pack and hang on to the leaders as a long as I can,” Faller said. “I think that strategy changes a little bit when there’s someone like Peter Kosgei in the race. I expected him to take off at some point, but the leaders took off earlier than I expect-ed, and I found myself running in seventh for most of the race instead of where I was hoping to finish, higher up.” Williams took first place in the meet for the fourth consec-utive year, scoring 40 points. While the Ephs were far ahead of the competition, the race for second place was much closer, as Amherst’s mark of 88 points was just two points ahead of the Jumbos’ total. “I think this really was a day where the whole program, top to bottom, ran aggres-sively and with heart,” senior captain Nick Welch said. “Both of our freshmen, Kyle [Marks] and Matt [Rand], just ran great races.” Marks and Rand were the first freshmen in the NESCAC to finish, placing second and third for the Jumbos in their first conference championship. Marks, who won the NESCAC Rookie of the Year award with his high finish, took 16th in the race in 27:15, while Rand rang in at 18th in 27:20. The two COURTESY GOJUMBOS.COM

Freshman Matt Rand came in 18th at the NESCAC Championship. He and classmate Kyle Marks were the top freshmen in this year’s field.see MEN’S XC, page 13

The Tufts club water polo team is at it again. Having placed third at the Div. III Club Nationals for the past three consecutive years, the team knows that it has a chance to do some dam-age at the Club Nationals this upcoming weekend at Bowdoin. Tufts enters the champion-ship as the No. 3 seed after an undefeated 11-0 regular season campaign. The Jumbos also come into the tourna-ment as the North Atlantic Club Champions, having taken down the Coast Guard in the finals of the North Atlantic Championships in order to keep their perfect record in tact. This high level of success, according to the team, is just as much due to the physical condition of the players as it is to their mental approach to each game. “The team has been very ecstatic about our accom-plishments this year,” senior tri-captain Mack Carlson said. “We lost some strong seniors last year and thought that this year might be a rebuild-ing year, but we have put in a lot of work to come togeth-er as a successful team. We have learned to calm down as a team and try to make sure that we play every quarter with the mentality that the score is 0-0. And most impor-tantly get out there, have fun and play our games, and so far it has been working.” With the loss of big-impact players to graduation, such as offensive juggernauts Pete Georgakakos (LA ’09) and Ben Mitchell (LA ’09), as well

as goalie James Longhurst (LA ’09), the team has flourished on the talent of the play-ers with less experience who have stepped up as leaders. “We have had great per-formances from [sophomore] Benji Koltai, our hole set and leading scorer, while [junior] Alex Abeger and [senior tri-captain] Braulio Rivas have done a great job locking down the opposing hole sets on defense,” Carlson said. “[Senior] Matt Miller has developed into a real offen-sive threat. Also our new sophomore Alex Strittmatter has been a great addition to our offense,” he continued. “And our new goalkeepers [juniors] Brian Canter and Matt Glenn have stepped up to protect the cage. [Senior] Matt Burke and [senior tri-captain] Lawrence Chan also have had great all-around seasons so far.” Because it is a school-recognized club, the water polo team’s league dues are subsidized by Tufts; howev-er, all transportation, hotel rooms and equipment are paid for out-of-pocket by the roughly 25-member team. As for this weekend’s trip to Bowdoin and the National Championship, the Jumbos are not thinking at all about the cost. In their minds, the task is quite clear. “We have placed third at Div. III Club Nationals three years running, and this year we are hoping to improve upon that record,” Carlson said.

Water polo looks to stay undefeated

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BY ETHAN STURM Daily Staff Writer

Participating in two signifi-cant regattas this past week-end — the co-ed Erwin Schell Trophy at MIT and the wom-en’s Victorian Urn at Harvard — the nationally ranked No. 13 Tufts sailing team was fortu-nate that the races took place in the familiar waters of the Charles River. But even more critical than the convenient location was the fact that the Jumbos sailed in the boats they’ve grown accustomed to: the FJs. “It was definitely good to get back on the FJ’s,” senior co-

captain Andrew Criezis said. The regattas were of height-ened importance because the top seven teams from the 20-team Schell field would qualify for the Atlantic Coast Championships, as would the top eight from the 16-team Victorian field. The Jumbos rose to the challenge in both instances, finishing seventh at the Erwin Schell Trophy and sixth at the Victorian Urn. On the first day of the Schell Trophy, the A division boat, skippered by senior Tomas Hornos, got off to a blazing start. With help from senior Rachael Brill, who was crew for 12 of the 20 races, as well

as senior Nathan Rosenberg and freshman Terrell Bulger, Hornos rebounded from a 12th-place mark in the first race to place 10th or better in every subsequent event, including a stretch of six top-five fin-ishes. The group’s 63 points in 12 races were good for fourth place entering Sunday. “We were able to start really well,” Hornos said. “We were up in front from the beginning of the race on. We connected all the shifts and were really consistent. [But] it took me the whole semester to do well. I blame that on myself for not

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The World Series heads back to the Bronx tonight, with the New York Yankees leading the Philadelphia Phillies three games to two after the Phillies staved off a valiant Pinstripes comeback in Game 5 to avoid elimination. Phillies starter Cliff Lee, who dominated the Yankees in Game 1, allowed five runs on seven hits and three walks on Monday night, pitching well enough to earn the win in the 8-6 decision, but only because Philadelphia’s bats finally woke up. And with that outburst, the leader of the most powerful offense in the National League might finally get some long-deserved recognition. It’s hard to argue against St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols being the most valuable player in the Senior Circuit, but Phillies second baseman Chase Utley is not as far behind as many believe. While Pujols’ obscene 1.101 OPS distinctly marks him as the best offensive player in baseball, Utley gets a boost for ranking in the top 10 in OPS while being Gold Glove-caliber at the far more difficult defensive position. In other words, El Hombre might be a supernatural talent, but the Chase Utleys of the world are not a dime a dozen. During the World Series, Utley’s performance has been unparalleled. The 30-year-old set a new record in Game 1 by reaching base in his 26th con-secutive postseason contest and hasn’t looked back ever since.

All together, Utley is 6-for-18 through the first five games of the Fall Classic. Of those half-dozen hits, one is a dou-ble and the others have all left the ballpark. That’s good for a slugging percentage of 1.222, which is made even more remarkable by the fact that the left-handed Utley has faced a barrage of southpaw pitchers in the World Series. In two games against former Cy Young Award winner CC Sabathia, Utley has smacked three home runs, and his shot Monday night against reliever Phil Coke gave the Phillies the insurance they would need as Lee and the Philadelphia bull-pen nearly coughed up a six-run lead. What Utley — a .282 hit-ter with 31 home runs and 93 RBIs in the regular season — has done during the so-called Broad Street-Broadway Series is historic. His five career World Series dingers against left-handed pitching are good enough to equal one George Herman “Babe” Ruth for sec-ond place on the all-time list of homers versus southpaws. And Utley has accomplished that feat in just 10 games, dat-ing back to last October. Moreover, Utley’s five total homers (including a three-run bomb in the first-inning of Monday’s game off of A.J. Burnett) in this Fall Classic have pulled him even with another Yankees legend, Reggie Jackson, for the most ever in a single World Series. Jackson was the hero of the Bombers’ 1977 championship

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Chase Utley, who has put up historic numbers in the World Series, clubs yet another home run.see MLB, page 15

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The saga of Rajon Rondo

Ishould be elated right now. As a fan of the Boston Celtics, I have watched my favorite player, Rajon Rondo, grow from a rookie sitting

behind Sebastian Telfair to one of the best young point guards in the NBA. And now, Rondo is going to stay with the Celtics for the foreseeable future after signing a five-year, $55-million exten-sion on Monday. And yet, I am not nearly as happy as I thought I would be. I think the best description of my present state of mind is cautious opti-mism. Because despite my belief that Rondo is the most important member of the Celtics — something that I have felt for the last three seasons — I can’t help but wonder if he is the player I want to see the team built around. Make no mistake: I have nothing against Rondo. Last Friday, I watched at the TD Garden as he controlled the game versus the Chicago Bulls despite taking only two shots, dishing out 16 assists and thoroughly outplaying reign-ing Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose. And I haven’t forgotten that Rondo car-ried the team through the playoffs last season, practically averaging a triple-double as the Celtics, without Kevin Garnett, pushed the eventual Eastern Conference champion Orlando Magic to seven games. I’m just wondering if he can carry a team minus Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce. Because that is what this contract signals to me: The Celtics are expecting that Rondo can do just that when the Big Three likely splits in the next few years. I’m not a believer. Well, not yet, any-way. As good as Rondo was at the tail end of last season, I still can tell that he has a ways to go to mature as a person (witness his spat Sunday with Chris Paul) and a player. He has to develop a jump shot, and he needs to stop trying to bait his man defensively. And if his does, then yes, he will be at the level of a Paul or Deron Williams. Regardless of this, and despite the fact that they openly looked into trad-ing him over the summer and publicly called him out in the media, the Celtics decided to pay Rondo. It is a relatively fair contract, particularly in comparison to the other top players at his position and for a player who, at just 23 years old, is clearly one of the top 10 point guards in the league. Still, I have to wonder why the Celtics changed their minds about Rondo. Was it that they knew he would get his money on the open market and didn’t want to risk having to overpay him or lose him? Or do they actually feel that he will develop into the player that President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge thought he could be when he was draft-ed out of Kentucky four years ago? Or possibly, Ainge, coach Doc Rivers and the Celtics ownership feel like I do, and that is why they were so hard on Rondo this past offseason. Maybe it is just because I love watching him play so much, but I expect more from him. I think Rondo can average 15 points a game to go along with his 12 assists and 2.5 steals, which are his current averages this season. I think he can be a perennial All-Star and lead this team to its 18th championship. And I think he can join the upper echelon of NBA players, and not just point guards, if he becomes a reliable scorer. Clearly, I am not the only one who feels that way. The Celtics have to at least somewhat agree with me, as they have put their faith in Rondo to be a cornerstone of the franchise. And now, we both have five more years to find out if we are right.

Ethan Landy is a senior majoring in English. He can be reached at Ethan.Landy@tufts.edu.

26Number of receiving yards for quarterback

Tom McManama in Tufts’ 13-3 loss to Amherst on Saturday. On a dismal day for the Jumbos’ offense, McManama wound up as the team’s leading receiver thanks to one big play. Towards the end of the

fi rst half, senior wide receiver Tim Puopolo took a lateral from his classmate and threw

the ball back to McManama, who ran down the fi eld for the 26-yard gain. No

other Tufts player had more than 17 yards receiving.

DAILY DIGITS

Number of players selected in the fi rst round of the 2006 NBA draft who signed exten-

sions by the Monday deadline. The number is the lowest of any draft class in NBA history, one less than the seven extensions signed by the class of 2005. It looked like there would only be three players who got extensions — Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge of the

Portland Trail Blazers and Andrea Bargnani of the Toronto Raptors — before Renaldo Balk-

man, Thabo Sefolosha and Rajon Rondo inked new deals before Monday.

6 22.1Average yards per carry for Jacksonville

Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew in his team’s 30-13 loss to the Tennes-

see Titans. Jones-Drew ran for 177 yards on just eight carries and had touchdown runs of 79 and 80 yards. His average is

the highest mark in the NFL in the last 50 years for a player who had at least eight

carries in a game.

Number of shots the Wesleyan field hockey team had on goal during its

NESCAC Tournament quarterfinal loss to Tufts on Sunday. The host Jumbos

displayed stifling defense in keep-ing the Cardinals away from the net, allowing just three total shots on the day en route to its fourth consecutive

shutout. With the victory, Tufts ad-vanced to a NESCAC semifinal show-down against Williams on Saturday.

02Seconds separating the top three fi nish-ers in the women’s cross country race

at Sunday’s NESCAC Championships at Wickham Park in Manchester, Conn. In an dramatic fi nish, Amherst senior So-

phia Galleher edged both senior Ravenna Neville of Wesleyan and Tufts junior

Amy Wilfert at the line to come in as the top individual in the race. It marked the fourth consecutive year that Tufts placed a runner in the top three at the confer-

ence’s signature meet.

7The number of players taken ahead of Philadelphia Phillies second baseman

Chase Utley in the 2000 MLB Draft who have never appeared in a Major League

game. Utley, the 15th overall pick in that draft, has helped keep the Phillies alive in the World Series versus the New York Yankees, despite his team falling behind,

three games to one. Utley’s five home runs have tied the World Series record

set by Reggie Jackson in 1977.

After an impressive 25-17 upset of the No. 2 seed Western Connecticut State University, the No. 7 seed men’s rugby team has advanced to the Div. III New England round of four with a championship in sight. The Jumbo ruggers, who finished the season with a 5-1 record, will face Keene State in their semifinal match this Saturday with the hopes of making it to the finals. If they do so, they will have an opportunity not only to win the championship, but also to poten-tially exact revenge on the team that handed them their only loss on the season: UMaine Farmington (UMF). “If we win this Saturday, we go to the New England Championship game against the winner of the Bryant versus UMaine Farmington,” junior starting forward Andrew Ward said. “We’re hoping to get a rematch against UMF in the finals.” The New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU) North Conference Champions in the fall of 2008, the Jumbo ruggers were usurped by UMaine Farmington in this fall’s North Conference Championship. UMaine Farmington was a new addition to the

division this year after coming down from Div. II but showed its prowess quickly in taking care of the Tufts squad to win the conference title. “Losing the conference champion-ship to UMF was a letdown because we won our conference last year. But then again, UMF is a good team, and they also won their conference last year, so at least we lost to someone good,” Ward said. “But unlike last year, we came into these playoffs as an under-seeded team and won. Last year, we lost [in the] first round of the play-offs to Plymouth State, the reigning national champions. “This was the first playoff game Tufts Rugby has won since anyone at Tufts currently has been playing rugby, so that was bloody sweet and very emotional to everyone,” he contin-ued. The team has a constituency of about 40, though about 10 upperclass-men are out do to injuries. Luckily, the team has worked hard to recruit and has gained 15 or so freshmen. The nature of the sport allows athletic play-ers to adapt quickly, which has allowed the team to burgeon despite injuries

and other obstacles. “Many of the people who come out to play rugby are ex-cross coun-try, football, track, water polo, soccer players, fencers and wrestlers,” Ward said. “It’s a sport that anyone can learn how to play quickly, just so long as they don’t mind hitting and getting hit. The majority of the starting players on our team never played before high school.” Of course, the Keene State game is the No. 1 priority for the ruggers. Progressing from a losing season three years ago to a conference title last season, the rugby team does not plan on letting anything get between it and a NERFU Championship. “Keene State? We’re going to beat the bloody snot out of them,” Ward said. “We’re going inside of ‘em, we’re going outside of ‘em — inside of ‘em, outside of ‘em — and when we get them on the run once, we’re going to keep ‘em on the run. We’re gonna get ‘em on the run, we’re gonna go, go, go, go! And we aren’t going to stop until we go over that goal line!”

Club Rugby two wins away from Div. III New England championship

— by Philip Dear

were the only freshmen to finish the race in the top 20. “We knew going in that it was going to be tough to move up place-wise in the middle miles so we took it out fast and made sure we were in good position at the mile mark,” Rand said. “Kyle caught me at about the four-mile mark, and we worked together the rest of the race, and that was definitely helpful having someone to run with. I think that this was prob-ably [Kyle’s] best race of the year. He went out really hard, and he held on strong.” “Kyle and Matt had spectacular races,” Faller added. “For their first NESCACs race, to finish as high as they did is outstanding, and I think they both ran very smart but also very fearlessly. Kyle was the top freshman, which is certainly something to be proud of.” Junior Jeff Ragazzini was the next-highest Tufts finisher, just six seconds behind Rand, crossing the line in 27:26 to take 21st place. Ragazzini’s end

result was a vast improvement from his 58th-place mark in last year’s race, though he ran the five-mile course in the exact same amount of time. Welch, who finished in 27:44 for 32nd place, rounded off the Jumbos’ scorers. Welch was recovering from an injury and competing in his first race since the Conn. College Invitational five weeks ago. “It was good to be back racing with the guys, and I think you have to be a little bit forgiving with yourself when you’ve had to deal with an injury and some time off,” Welch said. “It was definitely a bit of a shock to the system to be back at the intensity of not just any race, but a championship race … but I do think it will get a lot better, especially at Regionals in two weeks.” Next up for the Jumbos is Saturday’s ECAC Championship at Williams College. However, the top seven runners will rest for the NCAA New England Championships on Nov. 14, to be held at Southern Maine. “We had a solid performance at NESCACs, but I think our team is

going to be looking even better at Regionals,” Faller said. “I think our team as a whole is going to be stron-ger, and we’re definitely going to need to step it up again at regionals with all of the NESCAC teams coming back and throwing in a few other teams from around New England. It should be a very competitive race, but I think Tufts has enough strength and enough depth to meet the challenge.” The strength of competition in last Sunday’s meet should give the Jumbos the edge they need to be competitive in the future postseason races. “I think the [NESCAC] has defi-nitely gotten stronger during the four years that I’ve been here, but it’s good for us because we now have it confirmed that we can run with the top teams in our conference,” Welch said. “Those top teams are also the top teams in New England, so I hope that finishing where we did and with the kind of race that we had, which was gutsy and aggressive but that we all still feel we can improve on, that ought to make us very confident going into Regionals.”

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Field Hockey

Women’sSoccer

at WilliamsNESCAC Semis

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vs. WesleyanNESCAC Tourney

5 p.m.

NESCAC Semis(if necessary)

1 p.m.

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Football

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NCAA Div. III Field Hockey (Nov. 3, 2009)

Points (First-place votes)1. Messiah, 978 (48)2. Salisbury, 9003. Ursinus, 8474. SUNY Cortland, 7685. Tufts, 765 (1)6. Trinity, 7427. Lebanon Valley, 6888. Rowan, 6249. Skidmore, 52110. Lynchburg, 469

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team, blasting three moon-shots in New York’s decid-ing Game 6 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fittingly, Jackson has been on hand to witness Utley’s magic, as he now serves as a special adviser to the Yankees. While Utley has not managed to equal the Hall of Famer’s incredible single-game trifec-ta, his pair of two home run efforts is an accomplishment that the 1977 Fall Classic MVP cannot claim. Utley comes off as the reserved type, shying away from interviews and avoiding the spotlight. Perhaps that’s why the popular belief tends to be that slugging first base-man Ryan Howard — owner of 45 homers and a league-high 141 RBI during the regu-lar season — is the centerpiece of manager Charlie Manuel’s lineup card. But by following the proverb, “speak softly and carry a big stick,” Utley has proven that, in reality, Howard is the one playing second fid-dle to him. If attention and a nickname were all Chase Utley lacked coming into this World Series, he should never be overlooked again. Utley is a force — at the plate, on the field and in the clubhouse — for the Phillies, and one of the elite players in the National League. Reggie Jackson earned the moniker of “Mr. October” for his contributions 32 years ago. Regardless of whether Utley’s efforts are enough for the Phillies to overcome their deficit and upset the Yankees this year, the title of “Mr. November” now belongs to him.

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being consistent. It will click one day, and who knows if that will be [at] the [Atlantic Coast Championships].” The B division team, which consisted of Criezis and senior co-captain Jennifer Watkins, was not able to manufacture the same success. The team struggled on Saturday, ending up with five finishes of tenth or worse and only placing in the top five twice. “We got a little unlucky,” Criezis said. “The shifts weren’t really going in my favor. But that happens on the river. You get lucky, and you get unlucky. It was almost completely random out there.” Due to the subpar performance by the B division team, the Jumbos found them-selves in eighth place overall following the first day of sailing, one spot below the cut for Championships qualification. “Our coach was a bit worried that we may not qualify,” Criezis said. “We were all a bit worried, but we knew we could do it because we’ve had some good days in the past on the Charles.” Hornos and Brill picked up where they left off Saturday, stringing together

another run of impressive races, includ-ing the Jumbos’ only first-place finish on the weekend. They easily cruised to fourth place in the A division, totaling 126 points in 20 races. Though the B division team never fully righted the ship, eventually finishing in 10th, Tufts still did well enough to qualify. The strong performance by Tufts’ A divi-sion, combined with a complete collapse by Conn. College — which dropped from a tie for third at the start of Sunday down to ninth by the end of the day — earned the Jumbos a seventh-place overall finish with 327 points, 67 points ahead of eighth-place Charleston. Now, having earned a trip to the Atlantic Coast Championships, the team holds high hopes for the week-end of Nov. 14-15 at Harvard. “I think we are going to do really well,” Hornos said. “We are capable of doing very well on the Charles. Andrew and I have sailed together for a long time, and we know the competition. We are going to come in prepared and with the right mind-set — just knowing we can dominate.” Meanwhile, at the women’s Victorian Urn, the Jumbos’ A division team, made up

of juniors Catherine Swanson and Margaret Rew and sophomore Reeves Bright, placed sixth out of 16 teams, including five top-five finishes in eight races. “It was really about speed,” Rew said. “Catherine and I work pretty well togeth-er. We had the consistency to go faster than other people on the upwind. That let us pay more attention to the breeze, which kept us consistent.” Though the B division got off to a slow start that included 11th-, 13th- and 14th-place finishes, it was able to rebound, resulting in a three-way tie for seventh after placing in the top 10 in each of their last four races. All told, the Jumbos missed the top five by only four points. They qualified for the Championships easily, and much like the co-ed team, have high aspirations for the weeks ahead. “I think we’ll probably be doing about the same [as we have been],” Rew said. “It is a lot of the same competition ... We’ll have all of our top girls there. “I think everyone is pretty happy with the weekend,” she continued. “We quali-fied for both of our regattas, and I think we’re looking good.”

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THE HUMANITIES AND THE BODY III: The New Biology and the Self

Panel Discussion with:

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