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Student political groups on campus alter approaches following election by Hannah Uebele News Editor

Since this year’s presidential inauguration, Tufts student political groups on campus have adjusted their approaches to political organizing in response to President Donald Trump’s administration. Many groups are choosing to focus on ongoing activism with regards to specific issues, according to the leaders of political groups Tufts Democrats, Tufts Republicans, Tufts Cooperation and Innovation in Citizenship (CIVIC) and the Tufts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Tufts Democrats and Tufts Republicans, however, will resume a larger focus on political campaigns for the 2018 midterm elections, their group leaders said. According to Ben Kaplan, president of Tufts Democrats, the group has changed its entire perspective. “Before Trump was elected, we assumed that we would spend the spring exploring different policy questions, strengthening our club membership and just kind of decompressing from the campaign. Once Trump was elected, that totally changed,” Kaplan, a senior, said. Kaplan said Tufts Democrats is still doing some policy work, but members are focusing specifically on issues that the Trump administration is attacking.

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Tufts Republicans hold their weekly meeting in Campus Center Room 012 on Feb. 14. “The most important thing that we’ve decided to do now is weekly direct action. So every single week at our meetings and throughout the week, we engage in some kind of action to fight for our progressive values,” he said. Kaplan said members of Tufts Democrats used the end of a recent meeting to write postcards to all of their respec-

tive senators about issues they were concerned about. Tufts Democrats is focusing in on a few specific issues to work on, according to Kaplan. “One of the issues most important to us is fighting for immigrant justice,” Kaplan said. “We work very closely with the group United for Immigrant Justice …

and we’re also working with all the other college Democrat chapters in the state to lobby the Massachusetts state house to pass a bill which would essentially make Massachusetts a sanctuary state.” The bill, called the Safe Communities Act, would prevent law enforcement see POLITICS, page 2

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Tufts Health Promotion and Prevention is starting a new mindfulness initiative to help reduce the stress in students’ lives. According to the initiative’s website, it was organized in partnership with Counseling and Mental Health Services, the University Chaplaincy, the Office of Residential Life and Learning and Cambridge Health Alliance. According to Director of Health Promotion and Prevention Ian Wong, this initiative will feature various programs such as workshops, classes and small events. As the coordinator of these programs, he is reaching out to alumni in the Boston area to strengthen the initiative.

Preparation for the program began after the American College Health Association conducted a survey of Tufts students in 2015 that observed students’ mental health, according to Wong. He said that the survey had produced shocking results: 90 percent of students surveyed felt overwhelmed, and 83 percent were exhausted but not because of any physical activity. “That’s what this initiative is about,” Wong said. “It is directed to students stressed at Tufts. Besides focusing on how an individual perceives and reacts to a situation, we also understand the importance of the environment that causes them to feel stressed. We are not only working with students but also

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continued from page 1 agencies from enforcing federal immigration laws or working with immigration authorities. The bill is cosponsored by Representative Denise Provost of Somerville, among other state legislators. Additionally, Tufts Democrats has partnered with Raise Up Massachusetts and the Tufts Progressive Alliance to help with the Fight for $15 campaign, which calls for a minimum wage of $15, Kaplan said. Furthermore, Kaplan said Tufts Democrats is helping to organize for the Fair Share Amendment. The Fair Share Amendment is a proposed ballot initiative by Raise Up Massachusetts that would create a graduated income tax in the state, with earnings in excess of $1 million subject to an additional tax. “If you’re one of those people who makes $22,000 a week, we think that you can afford to pay four percent more on taxes,” Kaplan said. Kaplan said Tufts Democrats is focused on taking consistent, concrete actions both on and off campus this semester, and has partnered with other Democratic groups on college campuses in this endeavor. Kaplan added that the group is relying on students to fight for progressive values. “We want to use the people power, the student power that we have at Tufts, to make change in the larger community,” he said. “I firmly believe that students can be a powerful voice, particularly at the state level of government.” Meanwhile, Tufts Republicans President George Behrakis said the Trump victory has invigorated the group to have a larger presence on the Tufts campus. “The club in previous years as I understand it … was sort of weak in between the 2012 and 2016 elections, and just in the last few semesters got going again,” Behrakis, a first-year, said. “So I saw [an] opportunity with what happened in the election … to use a more vigorous approach to solidify its presence on campus.”

Behrakis said that Tufts Republicans has seen an increase in membership of around 30 to 40 people since the 2016 election. The Tufts Republicans will continue to work toward their goal of being more prominent on campus this semester, Behrakis said. “For now, really until Senate elections kick in, we’re really just focusing on trying to increase our influence a little bit to match the [Democrats],” he said. Behrakis said that Tufts Republicans hope to attract right-of-center and centrist students on campus, as well as students from across the political spectrum who are interested in learning about the group’s perspective. Behrakis explained how members of Tufts Republicans have a range of political ideologies and are not all necessarily supporters of Trump. “I think that a lot of our club did not vote for Trump. We have a lot of Libertarians, we do have a lot of people who are kind of traditional Republicans like myself, and there are also people who are sort of centrist, very moderate,” Behrakis said. “We have a few Democrats who come because they just have not found a place within their own party, so they’ve kind of tried to venture out.” Free speech is one specific issue that Tufts Republicans will focus on, Behrakis said. He said that free speech issues are important for the group moving forward, given the country’s current political climate. “One of the things we’re trying to do is bring conservative speakers who are able to shed a certain light on that,” he said. “We’re also scheduling a few other people from Massachusetts, Republican politicians, to kind of talk about in a very liberal environment how conservative voices can still be heard and listened to. So speech issues are really key right now.” Matt Felsenfeld, co-leader of Tufts CIVIC, explained that CIVIC hopes to use the post-election political climate as an opportunity to continue its mission.

“From the start, CIVIC’s founding goal was to create a space where Democrats and Republicans from all sides of the political spectrum could come and have a conversation about current issues [and the] current state of affairs of our country, and I think now more than ever, that drive to maintain a civil dialogue is incredibly important,” Felsenfeld, a senior, said. Felsenfeld said members of CIVIC realized that the group’s work is particularly important after the election. “What we’ve found, at least in the year and a half [to] two years that we’ve been around, is that when people are able to come together and actually have conversations, then people start to see each other as people and not just as political opponents,” he said. There has been an upward trend in consistent membership in CIVIC, with a good representation of both liberals and conservatives turning up for conversations within the group, Felsenfeld added. President of Tufts’ ACLU chapter Brandon Katz said his group will try to shift toward a more active approach to organizing since the election. “In the past we’ve done educational-based stuff where the goal was to engage the community,” Katz, a junior, said. “I’ve been trying to transition a little bit away from that and more to actual action, like getting more involved in the actual campaigns of the ACLU … to really help make a difference with these issues.” Katz added that the club has seen an increase in membership since the election, and he hopes to see greater student participation in the political world. “I encourage everyone in one way or another to really get involved and get active, because I think we’ve seen over the past few weeks that calling your congressmen [and] showing that you care about what’s going on … makes a huge difference,” Katz said. “Everyone needs to realize that and everyone needs to get involved.”

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continued from page 1 looking for ways to implement changes in the campus environment.” He explained that these initiatives were also intended to prevent stressed students from making bad decisions, such as plagiarizing, copying, cheating or even abusing substances. One of the main programs that Health Promotion and Prevention is offering during the spring semester is the Koru Mindfulness Program. Jennifer Earls (LA ’08), the instructor of the Koru Mindfulness classes, explained that there will be a four-week course about meditation and stress reduction. “I’ve been teaching the program at [the Massachusetts Institute of Technology], and I always wanted to bring it back to Tufts as well,” she said. “As a student myself, I was stressed trying to fulfill many commitments at once. However, after taking a Koru Mindfulness class, I felt it transform my life.” Earls said she taught a few classes as part of the senior launch program hosted by Tufts Career Services in fall 2016, and she sees the upcoming program as a new way to let more students

participate. In each class, students will learn exercises such as breathing, meditation and walking meditation. Every week, they will go to designated groups and share their individual progress from practicing these exercises 10 minutes a day, she said. “The exercises are easy to learn and can be practiced even after the classes are over,” Earls said. “The program will be important for the students even in the long run.” According to Wong, some of the programs are directed towards Tufts faculty and staff as well. For example, faculty members will be invited to attend a speaking event by psychologist Christopher Willard titled “Positive Procrastination.” It is intended to create awareness on campus about students’ mental health, Wong said. The speech will be held on Feb. 21 in ASEAN Auditorium, according to the mindfulness website. Additionally, the University Chaplaincy has offered mindfulness programs for the past several years, according to University Chaplain Greg McGonigle. In particular, Buddhist in Residence Priya Sraman offers medi-

tation and dharma study programs, McGonigle said. “We are also interested in the secular stress reduction offerings being developed by Health Service, and we look forward to working together on those as they develop,” McGonigle told the Daily in an email. Although this mindfulness initiative is a new program at Tufts, there have been similar efforts before, according to Resident Assistant (RA) Gabby Roncone. RAs are expected to host a certain number of events each semester. Roncone, a sophomore, said that she often hosts movie nights for the first-year students in Houston Hall. Most of the events are social, but some are also helpful academically, she said. She said that she hosted an event last year for students to knit and learn how to register for their courses. Stress relief is the goal for these events, Roncone noted. “I think what’s most important is for the students to have a place to socialize,” Roncone said. “These events are multifaceted in their purposes, but mainly we want the students to come and relieve their stress.”

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Through collaborative efforts, local communities prepare for greener future

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A worker assesses the solar panels on the roof of Dowling Hall on Aug. 20, 2014. by Hermes Suen

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Though climate change is a global issue, local municipalities in the Boston area, along with dozens of other communities in Massachusetts, have been working together to take several adaptive, mitigative and proactive steps toward renewable energy usage. One such effort near Tufts is Somerville’s Be SEEN (Somerville Energy Efficient Now) program. According to Christine Andrews, the housing and environment programs coordinator in Somerville, Be SEEN is an initiative that focuses on getting residents to take the first step to install renewable energy sytems in their neighborhoods. “The idea behind it [is] that people will take action because they are perceived by the peers as being green conscious,” Andrews said. Andrews said that Somerville aims to be completely carbon neutral by 2050, meaning that the city will produce enough renewable energy to offset carbon emissions. “While it is impossible to be totally net zero, our city is hoping to offset the energy that we cannot save or produce in city bounds with other sources,” she said. Additionally, according to Andrews, Somerville is participating in an initiative with the National Grid in which the company will give the city grants if it completes more home energy assessments. “It is a state program where an advisor comes out to a home and does a home safety check at no cost,” Andrews said. “They then give instant saving measures in the form of a report. This report opens people up to low cost incentives, discounted insulation and rebates on heating systems.” A large part of the assessment is seeing if individuals’ homes are ready for solar energy. According to Andrews, Solarize Somerville, which ended registration in December, connected homeowners with a solar vendor to facilitate installation of panels. It was part of the statewide Solarize Mass program from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the Department of Energy Resources. Medford had also participated in the same program in 2013, according to Alicia Hunt, the director of energy and environment in Medford. “So the way Solarize works is each [solar] company applies and we pick one to give a group discount on our residents,” she said. “When we did it, we chose Sunbug Solar. [Sunbug] got residents to install 222 kilowatts of solar, and Tufts actually installed 99 kilowatts on the array that is on the parking garage of Dowling [Hall].”

Hunt is also working toward replacing all of the streetlights in Medford with LEDs. “Turns out we would save a lot of money by buying out the lights,” she said. “It takes a while to make the payback because you reduce the energy by only about 60 percent, but because we are paying these huge rental fees, this project will pay for itself in four-anda-half years.” Both Medford and Somerville are using existing state legislation to get cheaper solar energy to their residents, according to Oliver Sellers-Garcia, the director of sustainability and environment in Somerville. “[The legislation] allows for municipalities to actually be the agents that procure the electric supply for all of the accounts inside of the municipal orders,” Sellers-Garcia said. “What we can do is step in and buy electricity on behalf of residents in Somerville at a lower cost and use that cost differential to buy more renewable energy certificates.” However, the process of installing solar panels in Somerville can be tedious, especially because many Somerville homes are owned either by multiple households or by landlords who do not reside in them. “90 percent of our homes in Somerville are multi family,” Andrews said. “That has historically been a huge barrier. And over two-thirds of people rent, which means that they may not even be looking into solar. Additionally, lots of residents are unable to put solar on their home because they have skylights, dormers or because it is an older roof.” In Medford, Hunt said she is facing similar problems. “When you deal with a city, it takes many many months, and it gets very complicated. And in the length of time I keep trying to get solar on our buildings, our roofs keep getting older, and you should not put solar on roofs that need to be replaced in a few years,” she said. Hunt said that Tufts students can also play a role in working toward energy efficiency by encouraging the university to install more solar panels and buy green certificates. “At the moment, if you are living in a dorm, the most you can do is convince your school to buy green energy certificates. But if you pay an electric bill, you can buy these certificates too,” she said. “For every megawatt of clean electricity [that you produce], the state will issue a certificate stating that you have made that amount of electricity, and you can sell that to utility companies who are required to buy them.” Currently, Medford and Somerville are also working on releasing vulnerability assessments to better plan for the increasing-

ly intense impacts of climate change in the future, according to Sellers-Garcia. “For cities that are thinking about climate change, it is a pretty standard thing to start off your planning process by looking at your climate projections for your area and how that is going to impact the people in those areas,” Sellers-Garcia said. Sellers-Garcia said these assessments allow Somerville to see where the biggest risks are and allocate time and resources accordingly. In Medford, Hunt noted that a Tufts graduate student in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Ryan Bailey, has been working toward assembling the city’s vulnerability assessment. Hunt also pointed to the Boston Metro Mayors Coalition, a group of about 14 mayors that collaborate on common issues, as another example of a way to address climate change at the local and regional scales. The coalition has only begun to address climate issues recently. “Two years ago, [the Coalition] decided that they needed to be looking at climate change as a region and the impact of climate change on the area,” Hunt said. “So they formed the metro mayors climate change preparedness task force.” Sellers-Garcia said that the when the task force meets, it also meets with representatives from the MBTA, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security and other state and federal agencies, providing for a much more interagency approach. According to Hunt, this task force meets every two months, and it focuses on the needs of the Boston metropolitan area. “Climate change is not looking at us as individual cities,” she said. “We share borders and water boundaries with these guys, so there is no point in us doing completely independent separate studies of different things when we are going to see the same impacts.” For example, Hunt said that rather than commissioning a new study, the committee allowed Cambridge to share data regarding possible flooding risks with Medford, since Cambridge had already looked into how sea level rise would affect the Mystic River. Sellers-Garcia agreed that collaboration between neighboring cities has been mutually beneficial. “Boston has built off what Cambridge has done. We are perfectly primed to take advantage of all of the data and analysis that they did, which they shared with us so we can do our work at a much lower cost. Medford is piggybacking on us, and we are on them,” he said.

The self-care dichotomy

n the past few years, a mindset that acknowledges mental illness has become more prevalent in the mainstream: Self-Care Culture. In communities where many people suffered on a daily basis, dialogue arose reminding people to take breaks or do something to make themselves feel better in times of struggle. This kind of rhetoric quickly snowballed into a larger movement that encouraged people to remember their personal needs in a world that invalidates mental illness. In an era when teens with mental illness began to use the internet to connect without adult interference, this initial understanding of mental illness involved trying to be kinder to oneself. Posts on websites like Tumblr would validate people’s illness and then say it was okay to cry or do something to alleviate symptoms at that time. This validation of the existence of mental illness is an important step, and it makes people feel that they are deserving of things that make them happy. However, this validation model has led to self-care being primarily seen as a strategy based on distancing oneself from feelings and coping with illness in the moment, rather than the long-term. By the time these types of posts (I noticed them on Tumblr before anywhere else) gained popularity, another set of ideals for self-care arose, representing a different set of mentally ill people and their tactics for helping themselves. This counter-model was based on self-care that works by pushing oneself to maintain or regain functioning, like brushing teeth or eating balanced meals. Purveyors of this model often harbored bitterness toward the validation model and people who supported it, seeing them as naive and avoidant. On the other hand, critics of the function model of selfcare worried that prioritizing specific goals (like getting good grades) was high-functioning and adhered to outside pressure. The validation model is often a first step for learning to cut yourself slack and identify tactics to feel better when symptoms overwhelm you. In contrast, the function model represents a level of understanding of mental illness that identifies mental health as based on habits requiring vigilance and effort. This method also takes into account the value of fulfilling goals in the outside world and not just personal goals. The next step to self-care, which is both helpful for short-term coping and long-term improvement of health, is a holistic model: knowing when to be gentle to yourself and when to push yourself. This requires a much deeper emotional understanding of the self. I have benefitted from both experimenting with and observing this model to understand which situations trigger bad emotional responses and how can you strategize to minimize those situations or adapt to being in them. For example, if parties worry you, both mediate your exposure to preserve your short-term health and examine what about them is stressful to see how you can work to be more comfortable at them in the future, if that’s a goal that feels helpful to you in the long-term. Self-care is a regimen for finding balance between being comfortable now and growing over time. MJ Griego is a senior majoring in sociology. MJ can be reached at madeline. griego@tufts.edu

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Thursday, February 23 7:00pm The Economy of the Future • David Dapice, Tufts University • Dieter Ernst, East-West Institute • Manuel Muniz, The Fletcher School

Saturday, February 25 10:30am The Changing Nature of Force • Alex Crowther, National Defense Univ • Dan Feehan, US Department of Defense • Oleg Svet, US Armed Services Committee

Friday, February 24 10:30am Keynote Address: Twenty-First Century Security: Challenges and Opportunities • Dean James Stavridis, The Fletcher School

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Climate Change: A Threat to International Stability • Paul Berkman, The Fletcher School • David Titley (Rear Adm, ret), Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk

Identity, Integration and the Future of the Nation-State • Michael Bröning, Friedrich- Ebert Stiftung, Berlin • Randy Kluver, Media Monitoring System Project • Yascha Mounk, New America Foundation • Farah Pandith, Council on Foreign Relations

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President Trump could learn a thing or two from Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ by Cassidy Olsen Arts Editor

On Sunday night, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (2014–present) returned for its fourth season while its host laughingly acknowledged everything that he had to cover in the premiere’s 30 minutes — the late-night comedy news show had been on break since Nov. 13, just after the election of President Donald Trump. John Oliver chose to focus the first episode on the relationship between Trump and the truth, or more specifically the lack thereof in his preferred sources for news media. To combat Trump’s startling contempt for the free press, facts and journalistic ethics, Oliver ended the episode by revealing a very real campaign of TV ads, which will be running on cable news networks in the Washington, D.C. area. These ads aim to educate Trump in a variety of areas where his knowledge seems lacking, from the nuclear triad to the location of female sex organs. While Trump could certainly learn something from Oliver’s targeted ads, he could also stand to broaden his television horizons beyond cable news. Considering the amount of time he reportedly spends watching TV and responding to criticism from “Saturday Night Live” (1975-present) and Hollywood award shows, why not dabble in some streaming service original programming? Netflix’s “The Crown” (2016-present) could be a great addition to his repertoire. “The Crown,” which debuted to critical acclaim just four days before Election Day in November, follows the life of Queen Elizabeth II from her wedding to Prince Phillip in 1947 to the present day. The first season of the mostly-nonfiction biographical drama features the death of King George VI, Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne, the re-election of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the detonation of the Soviet Union’s first hydrogen bomb, all in the midst of various personal conflicts in a new postwar world. It’s a

stunning portrait of mid-century royalty and politics that is a must-watch for Trump, as he could surely learn the following few lessons from a quick binge-watch. A woman can lead just as well as a man. Throughout the series’ first season, Claire Foy’s Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth transforms from a practical but timid young woman into a powerful and composed leader who holds her own against the men that surround her and attempt to oversee her decisions. With the weight of the crown thrust upon her at age 26 after the untimely death of her father, Elizabeth quickly learns the gravity of her duty to the United Kingdom and strives to make ethical decisions and balance her family life. In episode seven, she even hires a private tutor to improve her practical education in science and world history in order to make her a better leader, granting her the confidence to confront the men in politics who had been doubting her abilities. This would prob-

ably sound entirely foreign to Trump, as would the queen’s ability to lead even with “blood coming out of her wherever.” Enlightening!

are more important things than vanity for a rounded, rapidly-aging man to worry about would help the president as well.

Pride and vanity can warp your perception of reality. In the penultimate episode of the series’ first season, Winston Churchill sits for a portrait by artist Graham Sutherland as a gift from Parliament for his 80th birthday. Churchill boasts of his own painting abilities and his commitment to truth, but is horrified to see his portrait upon its completion. He insists that it’s an inaccurate caricature, but even Churchill’s wife agrees that it looks like him. Churchill is clearly insecure about his age and frailty as portrayed in the painting. “If you’re engaged in a fight with something, then it’s not with me,” Sutherland tells Churchill. “It’s with your own blindness.” This is a classic lesson that could have been learned in a 10th grade reading of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1890), but Trump seems to have skipped that day. Maybe Churchill’s realization that there

Diplomacy and respect will get you far. Because Trump hates reading, “The Crown” might be a fun way for him to learn a quick history lesson about mid-century Europe and the art of diplomacy. For example, after the Soviet Union tested its first hydrogen bomb in 1953, Churchill arranged an intentional summit and invited U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to speak with him in the United Kingdom. Even though Churchill suffered from a stroke before the planned summit, he worked to ensure that his foreign visitors would not be disappointed and that the international crisis would be handled with urgency and care. Although multiple foreign leaders have already cancelled their meetings with Trump or had awkward encounters with him less than one month into his presidency, maybe see LESSONS FOR TRUMP, page 6

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Jared Harris plays King George VI in Netflix’s ‘The Crown.’

Boston Athenæum provides a gateway into a newly-founded United States by Libby Langsner Assistant Arts Editor

The Boston Athenæum was founded in 1807, when the United States was still in the early stages of its Republic. While the Athenæum has made efforts to bring the institution into the modern age, it would be difficult to enter its first floor and not feel transported back into the past. Probably the two largest and most striking sculptures one encounters upon meandering the first floor are of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and military victory and George Washington, whom some might consider the closest figure the United States has to a god. With Washington’s birthday just around the corner, the Athenæum can serve as

a kind of sanctuary to the values this country was founded on. In the midst of the nation’s current instability, as proven by National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s resignation, the Athenæum serves as a type of looking glass that could possibly show visitors how the nation got to this point and what it has lost sight of along the way. David Dearinger, the Athenæum’s Susan Morse Hilles senior curator of paintings and sculpture, co-authored “Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenæum” with Stanley Cushing, the Anne C. and David J. Bromer curator of rare books and manuscripts, to celebrate the Athenæum’s 200th anniversary in 2007. “[In] 1807, when the Athenæum was

founded … the U.S. government, then as now, was reluctant to fund the arts, and many people in a position to know were pessimistic about cultural prospects,” Dearinger wrote. “Despite this rather depressing prospect, the leaders of the Athenæum were apparently willing to step into the breach, and in their own way, take on the cultural challenge.” Slowly but surely, the Athenæum began collecting medals and coins as well as fine plaster casts of Renaissance originals. What many people do not know about the beginning of museums is the use of casts in place of originals. Casts were seen as a means of being able to learn first hand about any work of art. The pedagogical use of casts

was central to the Athenæum’s founding values, as it was an educational institution where the first American generation unconcerned with war could become connoisseurs. Dearinger wrote about how the Athenæum collected casts through the 19th century, but in a wave of expansion in 1822, the Athenæum commissioned its first work of contemporary art, Annibale Carracci’s “Portrait of a Man” (1592). Many of the Athenæum’s great works can be seen today at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but unfortunately, this movement of artwork has caused the Athenaeum to lose much of its traffic. According to Dearinger in “Acquired see BOSTON ATHENAEUM, page 6

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Robert Graves on surviving the cold

ll summer long, I hauled home bags of organic vegetables on Thursday evenings. There were leafy bundles of kale, bright squash and sweet tomatoes, vegetables overflowing from the bag onto the cutting board. They were gifts from the farmer parents of the three-year-old I babysit. I was convinced that I had turned a corner in my life and learned how to cook because of how amazing these vegetables tasted after sizzling in the pan in a little bit of olive oil. I ate them on my back porch with my feet bare. Then the cold set in. This winter, I keep buying produce that goes rotten as quickly as my mood. I found the snow sort of peaceful after the storm struck last week. Then, I remembered what it feels like to trudge through sludge for weeks, and part of me shriveled. I don’t know how to feed myself in the winter, both literally and figuratively. Robert Graves, who died in 1985, was an English poet who crafted poems that are concise and musical, little boxes you can wind up again and again. There is one I’ve been thinking of since the snow fell: “She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow.” The last two lines were quoted in a novel I read once. It was winter then, too, and I repeated them to myself a lot while I walked around: “Despite the snow, / Despite the falling snow.” It was a long time before I went searching for the poem in its entirety. When I found it, the notion of the earth still putting out flowers in the cold is what struck me. I want to believe that things can grow in the winter. I want to believe that I will think of new thoughts, cook rice, stop leaving parties early to watch Netflix, make messes and decisions and say something important in the dark hours of the morning, even if it’s just to myself. I want to believe that the cold doesn’t keep us from nourishment. I snuck a burrito into the movie theater this past weekend and ate it while watching “20th Century Women” (2016) by myself. That felt like some kind of answer, even though the burrito wrapper made too much noise and I kept worrying I was going to be kicked out of the theater. I slid all the way home while speaking on the phone with my mom. “It’s really cold here,” I said. We both sounded surprised by it, as if this doesn’t happen every winter. I tried to imagine things growing deep down in the earth, under all the snow. Robert Graves was famous for his love poems, which might make him seem like a kitschy choice for the day after Valentine’s Day. But I like “She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep” because it is ambiguous. We don’t know who she is or who she is telling her love to. It’s beautiful if, in the dark hours as the snow falls, she is telling her love to someone. And it’s beautiful if she’s alone.

Abigail McFee is a senior majoring in English. Abigail can be reached at abigail. mcfee@tufts.edu

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‘The Crown’ can teach Trump respect, pride and vanity LESSONS FOR TRUMP

continued from page 5 Churchill’s example could show him how to handle these situations. After all, Trump admired Churchill enough to bring his bust back into the Oval Office. Your duty to the public is more important than your pride. Lastly, if there’s one thing a leader can take from “The Crown,” it’s that their duty to the public means everything. Although Queen Elizabeth is obviously part of a constitutional monarchy and not a democratically-elected government, one of her roles is to set a tone of calm order and stability in the United Kingdom. Despite her family troubles, governing issues and personal struggles, Elizabeth continues to put her best self forward as the queen. Though she envied her sister Margaret for stealing her spotlight when Elizabeth toured the Commonwealth of Nations, she stuck to her work and visited every nation that was expecting a visit, thereby putting her duty before her pride. Even Churchill learns to put his pride behind

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Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a sold-out rally at Tyngsborough Elementary School in Tyngsborough, Mass. on Oct. 16, 2015. him in order to handle the Great Smog of 1952 in episode four. Of course, Trump shouldn’t (and wouldn’t) be inspired by monarchy itself but rather the intricacies and faults

of modern leadership. Maybe stepping out of his cable news bubble to watch “The Crown” would help Trump better understand what it takes to be an effective leader.

The Athenæm collects art, hosts biannual exhibitions BOSTON ATHENAEUM

continued from page 5 Tastes,” although the Athenæum has collected art and collects 10 new works a year, the building has retained the feeling of a library, with paintings and sculptures placed among rows and rows of books. Twice a year, the Athenæum puts on an exhibition featuring works from their collection. The current exhibition, “Daniel Chester French: The Female Form Revealed,”

ends on Feb. 19 and features the work of Daniel Chester French, the most prominent monument sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century. The Boston Athenæum has made many attempts to bring itself into the 21st century. However, the beautiful architecture and works of art, reminiscent of a much earlier United States, create the compelling ambience that draws visitors and members alike to the Athenæum. There is no other

place in the world where visitors can look at Neoclassical sculptures by the great Odin overlooking Paul Revere’s grave. The historical gravitas of the Athenæum is what makes it exceptional. It is a gem of the past, a reminder that those who did not know what would happen to this nation or its people still strived to make something beautiful. They went beyond what was worth knowing and also recognized that some things are worth seeing.

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The Boston Athenaeum, located at 10-1/2 Beacon Street about a half block from the Massachusetts State House, is pictured here in July 2005.

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What we can do about the ‘war on media’ William Stockton The Tufts Daily Editorial Board wrote an instructive piece on the Trump administration’s “war on the media.” The writers detailed the offenses that both President Trump and his top advisors have committed against the press corps — focusing on the role of credible journalism in the reliance of our democracy on the relentless pursuit of truth. The administration can continue to attack the press, the judicial system and individual citizens, but Trump has hit the revealing wall of politics.: conviction. Throughout his campaign, his transition and now his presidency, there has been a ridiculous conversation about, “Well, if only Trump could stick to the issues…” While it may seem obvious to most of us, Trump’s policies being born out of his words and actions show a lack of conviction that is required for successful politics. Barack Obama was an effective president, not because of his inspiration, but because of his pragmatism and decency. Trump’s lack of grace trickles down to the covetous backstabbers that surround him and allows the candor of the press to dismantle the operation of the executive branch. Watch reporters like Jake Tapper on CNN who have years of experience asking presidents and their press secretaries tough questions who are now treating the new administration to Murrow-like interrogations. To the informed viewer, these interviews reveal the dearth of policy knowledge, substance and planning required to run the government. And then if you want to really understand the new administration, I recommend subscribing to notifications for Maggie Haberman’s tweets — a minute-by-minute dissection of the president’s psyche. Haberman, from the New York Times, has an uncanny ability to court the president in offthe-record phone conversations, while simultaneously printing scathing lively stories about the inner workings of the Trump team. There are also the colorful discourses from online publications like Vox, Slate, the Daily Beast and a hodgepodge of writers that add a bit more zest to Washington. The more you read, the more you will be able to differentiate substance from sheen. But as Tufts students, we owe society more than our own education. We have to understand that while the role of the press is to hold the administration accountable, the role of the press is not to take political action. I would like to expand upon our role in this pursuit and how we can reach our potential as citizens of the world. When Trump and his team attack the media, it is not just an invasion of

fact. The Trump administration deliberately creates an aesthetic division between ‘us’ and ‘them:’ u niversity-educated coastal elites and the real American worker. Their cynical mission is to assail and isolate the people that read and trust the New York Times, the Washington Post and the bedrock of institutional journalism. But the division sought is not just over good journalism. It is over many of our long-standing norms and elite institutions. Our country does not have faith in our banking system, our social programs, our business executives, our congress — the establishments that our society needs to thrive. The same institutions that many of us endeavor to lead. On a cold January day in 1961, John F. Kennedy stood on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington and told the crowd gathered, “And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Tufts strives to avoid cliche. And so I am asking you, my fellow Tufts Students: What can we do to combat the bulls–t of the Trump administration? To understand the Tufts solution, we need to understand the Tufts problem. Our community health majors understand the outrage of repealing the Affordable Care Act. Our international relations majors understand the nuance of the Iran Deal. Our engineers, chemists and biologists understand the importance of the Paris Climate Agreement. Our community understands the horror of a Muslim ban. We are right on these issues, but we also tell ourselves that we are right on the issues. Sitting at the Tim Kaine event a few weeks ago, I felt unsettled listening to students applaud the popular vote win and Kaine’s performance at the Betsy DeVos hearing. Every cheer seemed to be a shift toward comfort, toward “everything will be okay.” It was all very abstract and self-soothing. America is in the middle of a national crisis — w e should be concerned with the health of politics in the Tufts community. Everything is not all right and it is not enough to just tell our Tufts friends that we are right and they are wrong. It is not our job to tell Kellyanne Conway that she is lying through her teeth. Let Jake Tapper do that. The Trump administration wants to drive intelligent people away from politics by turning elections, affordable healthcare and foreign policy into a show. We cannot let the people in power do that in our community. It is great to raise money for Planned Parenthood and refugee organizations. But it is important to remember that

raising these funds is a backup plan meant to keep good organizations afloat during a dark four years. Had we found a couple thousand more votes in a few swing states, we wouldn’t need to worry about the vitality of organizations that provide stability to people who desperately need it. Planned Parenthood receives about $500 million per year from federal, state and local government funding. The Mexico Wall will cost taxpayers approximately $15 billion. The Affordable Care Act is hundreds of billions of dollars below cost estimates. A small fraction of this money could be used to improve subsidy levels for middle-class people. Do the math. Politics is important. We need to understand that it may seem insignificant to the country to win a local election, but presidential elections are won by creating person-to-person trust on street corners all over America. We have the information to influence and the ability to make political change at the local level. Many of my friends feel strongly about their politics but don’t want to compete over it because they are afraid of telling someone that their values are wrong. But we are smarter than that. While we may not agree on the issues, we share values with people all over the United States who do not understand that the policies we believe in will help them. To implement the policy, we need to reach those Americans with a more human political message. This isn’t wrong or pandering; it is healthy public service. In a November 2016 interview with David Axelrod, who is the former Chief Strategist to President Obama, Van Jones, another former member of the Obama Administration, speaks of the advice his father gave him in the driveway of their house before he left for Yale Law School. His father told him that there are only two kinds of smart people in this world. There are those smart people who take simple things and make them sound complicated, to enrich themselves. And there are those who take complicated things and make them sound simple, to empower and uplift other people. His father warned, “When you come back from Yale, you better be that second type of person.” So pick up a paper. A New York Times, a Washington Post, a local paper, the Tufts Daily. Think about the issues that excite you and delve into the details. There are fascinating conversations to be had in Dewick, Carm and at the Rez. But take those conversations off campus and understand that the privilege and conviction provided by a Tufts education do not separate you from red-blooded America. William Stockton is a senior majoring in chemical engineering. William can be reached at william.stockton@tufts.edu.

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Khuyen Bui Dear Jumbo

When 2=4

he other day, I was listening to a senior friend’s conundrum about two conflicting classes that she really wanted to take. One was an outdoor field trip class. She liked the professor and knew that she would do well in the class. The other was an advanced seminar for graduate students taught by a well-known professor who specifically recommended that she take it. She had been agonizing over this for a few days now. It was her last semester at Tufts, so it was probably not a good idea to take a difficult class, but turning down that recommended advanced seminar seemed like a big blow to her pride. Yet, she imagined taking the seminar and thinking, “What if I had taken the other class?” It was a classic case of FOMO. We now know that we humans are hardly as rational as the homo economicus from EC-5. Our decision making is always tangled with a lot of emotions. Ignoring these feelings is like ignoring some data points to make the best fit curve look like a straight line. It is bad science, and it does not work. I shared with my friend two lessons I constantly remind myself about making decisions. The first lesson is that whenever we think we have to pick either of the two choices, there are actually four choices, including doing none and doing both. In psychology, this phenomenon is called “narrow framing.” “Hold on, I don’t want to do none, and I cannot do both.” I hear you. Let me continue with my friend’s story. I asked her, “What if you could do neither?” She responded, much to our surprise, “Then I’d take a writing class and my capstone and a math class, and I’d have so much fun.” I told her, “I want you to know that your eyes were sparkling as you were telling me this.” Then I asked her, “What if you could do both? What if the timing of the two classes don’t overlap?” She responded with a clear downer: “Then I’d only take those two classes and my capstone, drop my math minor and put all my time and energy into them.” The contrast between the two responses was like Christmas festivity vs. Doomsday bleakness. Ironically, the best and the worst case scenarios seemed reversed. The second lesson is that often, it is not a big decision but rather a series of small choices. For example, the first choice she can make is if she is going to attend the first field trip class. Then she can see how it goes and make another choice if she wants to go to the second seminar class. As a graduating senior, this thought is comforting. Often, the anxiety-inducing question of “What are you going to do after graduation?” does not mean “What are you going to do with your life?” but rather simply, “What are you going to do in June?” On another note, to whoever sent me the note through the Dear Jumbo form that reads, “Love, as a process and a feeling, has evolved in ways beyond [what] my ‘freshman’ self could ever imagine.” I agree. Thanks a lot for sharing, and keep them coming here: bit.ly/dearJumbo.

Khuyen Bui is a senior majoring in computer science. Khuyen can be reached at g.khuyen@gmail.com

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Despite lackluster finish, Jumbos shatter program records WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING

continued from back of 3:34.85. The relay team — manned by Lin, Doolan, Lee and sophomore Sydney Nasson — earned 42 points. In the diving meet, Reiman scored 374.10 points in the championship finals of the 3-meter diving event, earning 22 points for the Jumbos. Although the Jumbos finished the championship weekend eighth out of

11 teams, Lee explained some of the challenges within the conference. “The NESCAC is getting really fast,” Lee said. “We’re the top Div. III conference in the nation. It’s really hard to understand how well we did when you look at how we placed. On paper it doesn’t look that great, but we were breaking our program records.” The Jumbos had a successful season with a winning dual meet record,

something they have focused on since the beginning. Good thinks the key to their relatively successful season lies in their team chemistry. “We knew we wanted to have a winning record this year, so we made it our goal and accomplished it,” Good told the Daily in an email. “I can guarantee you that there is not another team in the NESCAC that is as close as ours. We make each other stronger.”

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First-year Grace Goetcheus swims the backstroke during a swimming practice on Dec. 9.

Bradley Schussel The Coin Toss

‘Hey now, you’re an All-Star’

Welcome to “The Coin Toss,” where I make bold and unlikely predictions about your favorite professional sports! A couple predictions came up short last week. I had the Bucks beating the Heat to snap its win streak. Instead, Miami won the game but later lost its streak to the 76ers. I also had Russell Westbrook putting up a 40-10-10 game in Kevin Durant’s return to OKC. I was oh-so-close, as “Brodie” finished with 47 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists. So no luck on the first two, and we’re still waiting on the third prediction, which was Jahlil Okafor and Nerlens Noel both being traded by the deadline. Keep an eye out for Okafor being dealt to the Pelicans, which is looking more and more likely. NBA All-Star weekend is coming up this week, so I’m going to make some predictions on the winners of each event! Skills Challenge: Isaiah Thomas, Boston Celtics Thomas has shown great shooting, passing and dribbling skills this season, which are all key components of the Skills Challenge. The point guard is also lightning-quick, which will help in this time-based event. His competition is fierce and includes John Wall, Joel Embiid and Anthony Davis. Last year’s winner was Karl Anthony-Towns, a big man, so there’s no guarantee that the short, scrappy point guard will win it every year. However, I think Thomas has the ideal skill set for this event. The competition is elite, but I’m taking the 5’9″ point guard from Boston to win it. Three-Point Contest: Eric Gordon, Houston Rockets Eric Gordon has been lights-out from the three-point range this year. He’s shooting 38.7 percent from the three this year and is third in the league in three-pointers made, behind only Steph Curry and James Harden. His opponents include Kyrie Irving, CJ McCollum and Klay Thompson, so it won’t be a cake walk for him to win. Even so, Gordon has been one of the best three-point shooters in the league this year, and I’m taking the Rockets guard to win the three-point contest. Slam Dunk Contest: Aaron Gordon, Orlando Magic Aaron Gordon came in second place in this event last year, and I’m among those who believe he should have won. The 21-year-old’s dunks were electrifying, especially when he jumped over a mascot and passed the ball under both legs midair. I’m very excited to see what he brings this year, and he has to be the favorite to win. His competition will be Deandre Jordan, Glenn Robinson III and Derrick Jones Jr. I believe Jones Jr. will be Gordon’s toughest competition, but Gordon will take the win in the end. NBA All-Star Game: Western Conference It’s difficult to pick against the Western Conference. Its team includes the Warriors’ big four, James Harden and Russell Westbrook. In addition, the team has Anthony Davis and Demarcus Cousins as its bigs. This is a star-studded, offensive juggernaut, and we all know that there is not much defense played in the All-Star Game. The East has a lot of talent as well, including LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jimmy Butler. This lineup, however, pales in comparison to what the West is putting on the court. The pick is in, the Best of the West will take the All-Star Game.

Bradley Schussel is a sophomore majoring in biomedical engineering. Bradley can be reached at bradley.schussel@tufts.edu

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Tufts completes regular season with two dominant victories by Yuan Jun Chee Sports Editor

Tufts (23-1) recovered from its narrow 36-35 loss at home to Amherst on Feb. 4 with two victories to wrap up its regular season. The team limited its opponents to just 27 points on both nights, with a 61-27 victory at Williams (15-9) on Friday night and a 74-27 victory over visiting Rhode Island College (5-18) on Monday night. The win over the Anchorwomen was the Jumbos final regular season game, after it was rescheduled from Jan. 31 due to inclement weather. All-time leading scorer senior tri-captain center Michela North scored on Tufts’ first possession of the game, as the team raced out to a lead it never relinquished. The Jumbos scored 20 of the game’s first 21 points en route to a 24-7 first quarter lead. The team did not relent in the second quarter, effectively locking up the win by halftime as the team entered the break with a 26-point lead. North finished the game with 15 points, eight rebounds and two blocks. Joining her in the scoring spree was junior forward Melissa Baptista, who finished with a game-high 21 points, while sophomore guard Jacqueline Knapp put 11 points on the board. Throughout the game, Tufts demonstrated what made it one of the best teams in the nation, as it constantly forced shot-clock violations by playing with an air-tight defense on the perimeter that was hard to break down, limiting the visitors to eight points or fewer in each quarter. The Jumbos also forced 21 turnovers, turning them into 27 points. Tufts was similarly aggressive on offense, securing themselves 18 offensive rebounds to keep Rhode Island College stuck playing catch-up as the team wrapped up a dominant victory. Junior tri-captain Lauren Dillon was pleased with the improvements the team showed.

“Offensively, we worked on our transition which really showed … especially against [Rhode Island College], most of our points were off steals or off empty possessions,” Dillon said. “Defensively, we got back to what we had been doing. We’ve gotten stronger and stronger because we spend every day working on it. I think what we did better is using our defense to fuel our offense and get buckets in the transition.” Tufts completed a perfect 12-0 away record for the season on Friday night with a 61-27 victory over NESCAC rivals Williams. The teams traded a series of missed shots in the first two minutes before a turnover by Ephs senior swingwoman Lauren McCall set up a layup by North with 7:14 left in the first quarter. From there, the Jumbos asserted their dominance as they assembled a 16-5 lead after 10 minutes of play. The lead only grew in the second quarter as Tufts went on a 17-0 scoring drive in under eight minutes to lead 36-11 at the break. For the game, Tufts was 25 of 62 (40.3 percent) from field goal range, as the team’s lead eventually grew to as large as 35 late in the fourth quarter. Knapp spoke about the importance of these two victories for the team’s confidence heading into the postseason. “I did think that these past two games have been really important. [When] we come out of a loss against a team like Amherst, we don’t necessarily want to take a step back but rather take a step forward and keep climbing — that’s been our motto this year,” Knapp said. “Since we did lose to Amherst, people would look to how we respond, and two good wins and playing good 40 minutes of basketball was important to get us back in the mindset with the NESCAC tournament coming up.” Tufts hosts last Friday’s opponents Williams on Saturday at 4 p.m. at Cousens Gym in the first round of NESCAC tournament play.

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Junior Jennie Mucciarone weaves through defenders during the game against Trinity on Feb. 3.

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Jumbos take eighth at NESCACs by Mackenzie Bright Contributing Writer

Tufts traveled to Bowdoin over the weekend to compete in the NESCAC Championships, where it amassed a total of 700.5 team points to rank eighth out of 11 teams. Junior Jess Lee was proud of the effort the team put in at Bowdoin. “A three-day meet at the end of a season is [tough],” Lee said. “At that point, it comes down to how much heart you have and how much support you have from everyone else who’s there.” The Jumbos started off strong on Friday, with first-year Grace Goetcheus setting two program records: in the 200 individual medley (2:06.75) and the 100 backstroke component of the 400 medley relay (57.43). In the latter event, the team — consisting of Goetcheus, sophomore Colleen Doolan and senior tri-captains Amanda Gottschalk and Sophia Lin — demolished a program record with a blistering time of 3:53.79,

earning the team 44 points. The 200-yard freestyle relay — comprised of Lin, Lee, Gottschalk and Doolan — placed eighth at 1:37.14, adding another 44 points to the Jumbos’ tally. In the 200-yard individual medley, Gottschalk swam a speedy 2:07.52, earning 23 team points. First-year Katherine Brown swam in the final of the 50 breaststroke, finishing ninth with a time of 30.68. Senior tri-captain Sarah Elghor came in 14th in the same event with a time of 31.01, with junior Meghan Casey right behind her for 15th (31.12). In the final for the 50 butterfly, Lee flew in with a time of 26.3, earning her 13th place, good for 14 points. Despite a hand injury, senior diver Kylie Reiman finished seventh overall in the 1-meter dive with a score of 394.15, adding 23 points to the team total. On Saturday, Gottschalk broke Tufts’ 400 individual medley record with a breakneck time of 4:28.66. She finished fifth overall and earned the Jumbos 25

points. Doolan and Brown also took time off of their events, with Doolan losing 0.34 seconds from her 100 butterfly, earning 11th place and 16 points, and Brown taking 0.78 off of her 100 breaststroke, earning 11th place and 16 points as well. Tufts’ 800 freestyle relay team — comprised of Goetcheus, Doolan, firstyear Hannah Truslow and sophomore Alex Good — placed seventh with a time of 7:43.17, adding 46 points to the scoreboard for the Jumbos. In the 200 medley relay, Goetcheus, Gottschalk, Lee and Lin finished seventh overall at 1:45.87, tallying another 46 points. On Sunday morning, Doolan and Gottschalk wrapped up impressive weekends with strong finishes in the finals. Doolan came in third in the championship final of the 200-yard butterfly (2:03.86), earning 27 points for the Jumbos. Gottschalk also finished third in the final of the 200 breaststroke (2:19.24) and earned 27 points for the team. Both swimmers improved on their event timings in

the finals as compared to the preliminaries, with Doolan losing 1.03 and Gottschalk dropping 1.08. Four other Jumbo swimmers competed in the 200 breaststroke final. Junior Anna Kimura placed 11th with a time of 2:23.62, while Casey recorded a time of 2:26.25 to finish 17th. Elghor came in at 2:28.80 and Brown finished at 2:30.12. Goetcheus competed in the finals of the 200 backstroke, finishing 10th overall with a time of 2:05.11 and tallying 17 more points for Tufts. Other Jumbos came close in the freestyle competitions. Lin finished the 100 freestyle in 53.63, while sophomores Christiana Hug and Ailish Dougherty competed in the 1,650 freestyle and clocked times of 18:36.48 and 18:42.59, respectively. To finish off a successful weekend for the Jumbos, the 400 freestyle relay team took ninth place with a time see WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING, page 15