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Sisters drop Chi Omega sorority in protest of Greek system by Elie Levine

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Over the course of the fall semester, Chi Omega’s Chi Alpha chapter at Tufts saw the departure of a number of members, amidst criticism that Greek life is exclusionary. Nine of these sisters — Gabriela Bonfiglio, Claudia Mihm, Chelsea Hayashi, Meg Weck, Emily Sim, Lily Blumkin, Benya Kraus, Supriya Sanjay and Zoe Miller — then wrote an evocative call for the abolition of Greek life at Tufts, published Dec. 15 on Medium. “What we are calling for is not the elimination of the type of community you hold near and dear, but a redefinition of what social life on campus looks like,” they wrote in the statement. “Yes, strong female friendships are important and empowering, but not when they are only available to white, cis, and/ or straight women and not when they depend upon financial ability as a condition for entry.” Weck, a junior, was one of the first sis-

ters to leave the sorority when she dropped while abroad during the fall semester. “As much as I felt marginalized as a queer woman in Chi Omega nationally, the women of Chi Omega at Tufts did not personally attack me for being queer,” Weck told the Daily in an email. Weck said that while she did not personally face discrimination from the women in Tufts’ Chi Omega chapter, she believes that this was mainly because her whiteness and feminine presentation allowed her to pass as a ‘typical’ sorority sister. JEREMY CALDWELL / THE TUFTS DAILY

see GREEK LIFE, page 2 The Chi Omega house is pictured on Sept. 26, 2015.

Tufts Professor Jonathan Davis leads research on neonatal medication

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Jonathan Davis, chief of the Newborn Medicine Division at Tufts Medical Center and professor of pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine, is conducting research and clinical trials to make newborn medi-

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cation safer. According to Davis, the body of research on the safety of neonatal drugs is currently limited. He explained that most organizations do not want to conduct clinical trials involving infants because of a fear of publicity disasters and malpractice lawsuits if infants are harmed by their drugs during the trials.

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“People say, ‘We just don’t want to experiment on anybody that small and that sick.’ But what I say is: If you don’t know what you’re doing and you expose the child to risk that way, isn’t that worse?” Davis said. According to Davis, currently the most widely-used method for administering drugs to newborns is diluting doses of adult drugs. “Most of the time, we don’t have drugs specifically developed for newborns. Most of the drugs we use have never been adequately tested,” Davis said. He emphasized that one of the difficulties with neonatal medicine is that doctors do not have access to the same patient input that is used to treat adults. According to Davis, it can be difficult to determine whether an infant is in pain, so doctors work with nurse practitioners to make decisions. Unlike adults, Davis explained, neonates cannot participate in most types of clinical trials, like walking on a treadmill and describing how they feel afterward. This makes it difficult for doctors and scientists to determine the long term effects of drugs on neonates. Lynn Hudson, chief science officer for the Critical Path Institute and

executive director of the International Neonatal Consortium (INC), expanded on the limitations of current medications available for specific health problems in infants. “If you or I had a seizure condition, there’s about a dozen different anti-seizure medications that we can use. Some people never respond to the first one that they’re given, and then they use some other one to see if [they] respond,” Hudson said. “Babies have exactly one drug that can be used, and when they don’t respond, there’s nothing that the doctors can do.” Davis said that most past legislative efforts have not solved this problem, but some progress has been made to raise awareness about the issue. In particular, Davis said, the United States Congress passed a law in 2012 that encouraged further study on the effects of new medication on newborns and required the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to hire a neonatologist. According to Davis, one way of supporting research about neonatal medicine is through the research consortium model. “What [organizations like the Critical

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continued from page 1 “The structure of Chi Omega does not welcome or normalize anything other than cisgender heterosexuality,” Weck said. Hannah Macaulay, president of Chi Omega’s Tufts chapter, did not respond to requests for comment by press time. Sanjay, a sophomore who spent only one semester as a member of Chi Omega, said that although members of the sorority were not explicitly or verbally discriminatory, she felt alienated by a lack of diversity at the national level and felt that the sorority could have been more inclusive. “The lack of mixers with sororities and same-sex/queer formal dates sent a message that being queer was not welcome,” Sanjay told the Daily in an email. Weck said she believed Greek life is exclusive by nature and that this cannot be reformed from within, which is why she is in favor of abolishing the system entirely. “Greek life is inherently exclusionary in practice,” she said. “There is no way that any Panhellenic sorority would agree to accepting every woman who wanted to join, especially if they couldn’t afford dues.” Kraus, a junior, expressed similar opinions. Kraus said that while she deeply appreciated the relationships she made through her membership in Chi Omega, she envisioned meeting those women through more inclusive communities. “If we continue to have a Greek system, no matter how many changes we make to it … you can’t stop that kind of exclusionary community building,” Kraus said. “Because at the end of the day, if you want to get into [Chi Omega], there’s only a certain number of spots.

How are you going to do recruitment in an inclusive way if you’re still fundamentally rejecting so many women?” Kraus stressed that the women she met in Chi Omega treated her with respect and kindness and remain some of her closest friends. She emphasized that she did not drop out of Chi Omega because she was the victim of bullying, verbal attacks or inappropriate treatment of any kind, but rather because of the restrictive nature of Greek life as an institution. Kraus said she wanted the same kindness, openness and receptiveness she received from the sorority’s leadership to be available to less privileged women. Though sisters who dropped were critical of Greek life, they offered many suggestions for reforming Tufts’ social scene. Weck said she believes Greek life is antiquated and should be replaced with organizations that aim to include. “Themed houses and co-ops are a great way to create community that aren’t rooted in oppression,” Weck said. Still, Weck said she hopes the Greek community would embrace LGBTQ communities and people of color in its structure and leadership if it continues to exist on campus. Sanjay suggested using Greek life buildings to act as extensions of the Group of Six, and she proposed that campus groups rent out the houses for parties, which would make for a more accessible social scene. Sanjay added that she hopes to see the Greek life system across the country break down. She believes it can be replaced with new, more inclusive organizations that better encourage values of community and sisterhood. Kraus, who serves as Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate’s Diversity and Community Affairs Officer, mentioned

that Senate is looking into ways to reconfigure on-campus social life. This process would involve reimagining more spaces on campus like Hotung Cafe in the Mayer Campus Center and utilizing them more frequently to host social events, she said. However, Meaghan Annett, the president of Tufts Panhellenic Council, said she could not conceive of a viable alternative to Greek life at Tufts at the moment. She added that students still involved in Greek life would be left without a support system if Greek institutions were eliminated. “I’m not sure what the best alternative is, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to get rid of something that has no alternative already in place,” Annett, a senior, said. Annett said that fraternities and sororities are currently attempting to reform the system from within, responding to complaints of exclusivity that former sisters have leveled. Chapters have created social justice committees and groups for LGBTQ women and people of color, according to Annett. Su McGlone, director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, said she and her colleagues were trying to create an inclusive campus climate for all students — those who are involved in Greek life and those who are not. According to McGlone, annual social justice trainings for Greek life leaders are an important part of this effort. “It concerns us when we hear that any students do not feel welcome or included within any group at Tufts,” she told the Daily in an email. “I hope that the current conversations about diversity and inclusion will help local and national Greek organizations make changes that contribute to a better experience for all.”

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continued from page 1 Path Institute] do is set up research consortia, get people together [and] provide the infrastructure and support to get people together and to get them talking,” Davis said. Hudson explained that the consortia run by the Critical Path Institute are focused on developing tools, methods and databases for the FDA to use to develop drugs and devices for therapies. According to Davis, the Critical Path Institute received a large grant from the FDA to form INC in 2015. Davis, a co-director of INC, explained that the global consortium incorporates about 40 different countries, along with regulators from different countries, representatives from major pharmaceutical companies, family groups and nursing groups. “We work with the regulators from the FDA, who are now working collaboratively with us to try to improve the outcomes for these babies,” Davis said. “All of these organizations come together and for the first time … we discuss neonatal problems, propose solutions and we have physicians [and] scientists from all over the globe.” According to Hudson, because companies often do not have the resources to conduct large scale neonatal studies, organizations like the INC that collect a wide range of data on neonatal medicine are critical. “Different drugs target different symptoms of a disease, so you want to

hear from the patients as to what’s most important to them. For neonatal [medicine], it’s a little bit different because you have to rely on the families for input. And for neonates, it’s really hard too, because there’s very little knowledge about longer term outcomes of whatever the neonates are being treated with,” Hudson said. For this reason, Hudson said that innovative research like that being conducted by Davis contributes significantly to improving the safety of neonatal clinical trials. “[Davis] is playing an active role in bringing in the neonatal nursing community, and that’s not a community that’s often included in research consortia and research efforts, so again we’re trying to bring in everybody that has some sort of role in developing treatments for neonates,” Hudson said. “We are starting to think beyond the typical measures that we’ve used, and we especially have to do that for infants.” The collaboration between different research consortia and places like the Tufts Medical Center is critical for developing new medical technologies for neonates, she said. “One of the areas of technology that we’re already exploring and incorporating into our other consortia is the use of wearable devices and sensors to monitor all sorts of aspects of activity,” Hudson said. “This would include sleep behaviors, so this might be very import-

ant for babies, because you could really get a sense for whether something is improving their sleep, improving their ability to wiggle around.” Hudson added that organizations like the FDA play an important role in furthering research on neonatal medicine and getting organizations like the Critical Path Institute to start initiatives in areas in need of development. Christopher-Paul Milne, director of research and research associate professor at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, has collaborated with Davis on medicine development research in the pediatric field. Milne emphasized that the study of neonatal medicine is especially critical because of the shortage of neonatologists in the United States and worldwide. “[Research on neonatal medicine] is important for public health, to help [the pharmaceutical] industry comply with regulations and to help academia,” Milne said. According to Milne, although very few pediatric studies have been tested so far on the neonatal population, collaboration between the medical and regulatory communities is essential to better understanding how we can improve the safety of neonatal medication and therapies. “We can connect people in the [pharmaceutical] industry with people conducting the studies so they can understand the obstacles and figure out how to resolve them,” Milne said.

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Turkish students discuss country’s changing atmosphere in the face of growing terrorism by Seohyun Shim

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Editor’s Note: Part of the information in this article is based on the observations of the writer, who visited Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey between Jan. 3 and Jan. 16, 2016. As of fall 2016, Turkish students form the fourth-largest international student group in the Tufts community, with 55 students across all Tufts schools, according to Director of the International Center Jane EtishAndrews. Some of these students said that due to a string of recent terrorist attacks, including one at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Eve that left 39 people dead and nearly 70 wounded, the mood in the country as a whole has taken a dark turn. “People are dying so fast in Turkey,” Tahsin Can Sarlak, a firstyear from Turkey, said. On the night of Jan. 3, Sabiha Gökçen International Airport was bustling but far from crowded. The airport, Istanbul’s second busiest international airport, is about a 40 minute drive from central Istanbul. Turkey has experienced a sharp decline in tourism, accompanied by a broader economic downturn, following the recent terrorist attacks. Though still teeming with people, Istanbul in January was also filled with closed shops and police vehicles. At Taksim Square, historically one of the most crowded places in Istanbul, there were always at least three or four heavily-armed police vehicles present. Entrances to all major public venues — including malls, train stations, movie theaters, markets and tourist attractions — were guarded by well-armed police officers and security personnel. Other tourist sites were far from crowded. Many double-decker tour buses in Istanbul barely carried two or three passengers at a time. Visitors hardly had to wait in line for anything, even for a table at the city’s once-packed restaurants. Difficulties at home With a plummeting economy and terrorist attacks targeted at civilians on the rise, Turkish people have experienced their share of difficulties throughout the past year, according to Nesi Altaras, a sophomore from Turkey. He said that recent terrorist attacks in major Turkish cities have made terrorism a more immediate reality for the Turkish public. “Terrorism has been a constant in Turkish life … ever since the late 1980s, but until recently it was more in the minds, but not in the lives of Turkish people,” he said. “In the past five to six years, [terrorism] has come to major cities like Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir … now it is a harsher reality and affects more people.” Altaras said the risk is inevitable for people who live in large cities like Istanbul. “People say we should stay away from crowded places, but the entire city is extremely crowded,” he said.

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A police officer guards a local market in Istanbul, Turkey. “You would have to avoid every [mode of ] public transportation, major shopping centers and streets. If you live like that, what’s the reason to live in a city like Istanbul?” Esra Gurcay, a first-year from Turkey, agreed with Altaras that Turkey’s experience with terrorism has changed. “When I was a kid, I never saw Turkey as a country that could be subject to so much terror and chaos,” she said. Gurcay added that many people in Istanbul are living in fear and that the local economy has been hit hard due to the attacks. “Many people are afraid to go on the streets because of the Reina [nightclub] shooting and numerous bombs, so many venues like restaurants, shops or bars are closing because they don’t have enough customers coming,” she said. “Terrorism has also been affecting tourism seriously, so Turkey has lost a great amount of profit from that too.” Ralfi, a first-year from Turkey who requested his last name not be used due to safety concerns, lives only a couple blocks from Reina nightclub where the New Year’s Eve attack occurred. He also stressed that the streets of Istanbul are relatively empty and quiet. “General sound in the street is nothing … [before] you would hear so much sound in the streets that salespeople in the shop would just scream [at] you to [bring] you to their store, but now it’s enough for them to even whisper,” he said. Ralfi added that the Turkish government has increased the number of police officers on the street, but the government still lacks an effective intelligence force. “Security-wise, [Turkish people] are well-armed. On New Year’s Eve, there were 17,000 active police officers on [the] streets,” he said. “Turkey has way more than enough vehicles, officers and military to deal with the problem, but it is about knowing where to send these

people, so I believe [Turkey] needs help with that.” Tufts and Turkey According to Altaras, some Turkish students expressed disappointment at the university’s lack of communication after the attack in Istanbul on New Year’s Eve. In a group electronic message between several Turkish students at Tufts, some students were surprised that the university had not reached out to them to see if they were safe, he said. Etish-Andrews explained the International Center usually tries to contact international students when potentially dangerous events occur in their home country. “The [International Center] normally does reach out to all communities at the time of a crisis back home,” she said. “Unfortunately, due to vacation schedules, we did not reach out to our Turkish students after the New Year’s Eve [attack] … for this we are very sorry.” Ralfi, who expected Tufts to reach out, said he felt that the university neglected the Turkish community in the aftermath of the attack. “Tufts is an incredibly understanding and loving community, but when you see the lack of interest in such cases, you question whether [the community] cares much less about [its] international community than it appears,” he said. “This should not be a ‘chore’ for [the university] … and the fact that we get disregarded … feels like we are not cared about enough.” Gurcay, agreeing with Ralfi, said the university could pay more attention to its international student community as a whole. “I think it’s incredibly important that Tufts cares about and sympathizes with not only its American students, but also its international students,” Gurcay said. Patrick Collins, executive director of

Public Relations, said that the university has always sought to ensure the safety of its students. “Like most universities, Tufts does not track students’ personal travel during breaks and over the summer. However, when students’ home countries experience significant events that pose potential dangers, such as natural disasters, the university strives to contact students to confirm their safety and provide support,” Collins told the Daily in an email. He cited an example in July 2016, when the university contacted Turkish students following an attempted coup d’etat by the Peace at Home Council, a sector of the Turkish Armed Forces. “That outreach did not occur in this instance, and we are taking steps to ensure that this does not happen again,” Collins wrote. Meanwhile, according to Director of Tufts Programs Abroad Sheila Bayne, 20 students over the last 14 years have studied abroad through non-Tufts-affiliated programs in Turkey, not including students who took summer courses there. She said that the university works hard to ensure the safety of students abroad and reviews travel applications for nonTufts study abroad programs carefully. However, Chelsea Ferrell, Global Operations program manager, said that the university’s international travel insurance policy does not apply to students returning home over break, only to students studying abroad or engaged in Tufts-affiliated activities abroad. “Tufts’ international emergency insurance does not cover students who are on personal non-Tufts-affiliated trips,” Ferrell told the Daily in an email. Nevertheless, Etish-Andrews stressed the historically positive relationship between Tufts and its Turkish community. “Tufts has always had a very strong relationship with Turkish students and their parents and alumni,” she said.

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The Noor Ensemble celebrates al-mawlid al-nawabi by Shirley Wang

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The Noor Ensemble’s lead singer, Abdou Adam, only had to sing two words last Saturday at his concert before the rest of the audience joined in. “Even when the band tried to accompany them with instruments, the audience took over once again, setting their own pace: “Wa salaat wa salaam ala nabii,” meaning “prayers and peace be upon the Prophet.” This verse, which praises the Prophet Muhammad (the central figure of Islam), echoed richly in Cohen Auditorium as the full house rose in laughter, clapping and cheers. On this day known as al-mawlid al-nawabi, about 400 people gathered to celebrate the Prophet’s birthday. The 14-player music group played religious pieces in addition to well-known songs from pop culture. These were songs to which all attendees — from the elderly family members to the small toddlers roaming around the auditorium — could sing or dance along. One piece featured the instrumentals from Lebanese singer Fairouz’s “Nassam ‘Alaina,” overlain with Arabic lyrics proclaiming “Oh! Prophet.” Noor Malki (GE ’99), who attended the event with her family, said that the concert was lively and fun — a mix of religion and culture with the ensemble engaging with the audience.

The Noor Ensemble’s annual concert at Tufts originated after Richard Jankowsky, an associate professor in the Department of Music, was introduced to the group while planning a symposium on Music and Islam back in 2012. Jankowsky said that the concert had attracted a large audience from the Boston Muslim community and he realized that there was an opportunity to create a “safe, welcoming space for members of the region’s Muslim community to come together in celebration, and for members of the Tufts community to learn about Islamic and North African culture through a genuine community event.” Since then, the concert with the Noor Ensemble has been held on campus every year to celebrate the mawlid. Moroccan music, though constantly in flux as tastes change, typically comprises of rhythms, instruments and melodies that are recognizable across genres. For example, all the singers sing in unison, as opposed to in harmony, and the music utilizes quarter-tones that create a 24-note scale. Ensemble members played instruments such as the qanun (a guitar-like wooden sound box), the lute, the bamboo flute, the violin and the cello. While some sects of Islam, such as Sufism, celebrate the prophet through music, others believe it is not appropriate, according to Program Director of Middle Eastern Studies Ken Garden. “If you go to mosque on Friday, this would be the time of communal prayer, and there would be a sermon, everyone would

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The Noor Ensemble performs in Cohen Auditorium on Jan. 28. pray collectively and there would no music,” Garden said. “Now there is recitation of the Quran, which some people would find musical, but the distinction is that it’s usually recitation or chanting, not singing.” Whether or not Muslims should be noting the prophet’s birthday at all is a point of contestation amongst the Islamic sects, according to Garden. However, as Adam mentioned in Arabic towards the end of the concert, those attending on this night should honor the prophet by unifying and praying for those who are suffering and unheard.

For attendee Amine Ghazioui, a senior at Northeastern University, Adam’s message is a reminder of the ban on citizens from predominately Muslim countries that Donald Trump enacted the day before. “By accident this [ban] happened [yesterday], and the hosts did mention it,”Ghazioui said. “It doesn’t affect Morocco, but that doesn’t exclude others we must care about, our Muslim brothers and sisters and refugees, generally all humans. This event was a reminder for us to just be grateful and see the others who all live here.”

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‘Split’ has moments of genius overshadowed by ambiguous ending by John Fedak

Assistant Arts Editor

M. Night Shyamalan, once touted as “the next Steven Spielberg,” has not lived up to this title for many years. After the commercial and cult success of his early movies, such as “The Sixth Sense” (1999) and “Signs” (2002), his career took a nosedive, and after the total failure of movies such as “The Last Airbender” (2010), it seemed he was destined for obscurity and pity. Although the release of 2015’s “The Visit” saw a relatively successful return to his roots in horror and plot-twist, Shyamalan’s latest effort, “Split” (2017), does not live up to his previous successes, with a confusing ending and

muddled story preventing the movie from achieving true success. The movie offers a promising opening. Three teenage girls, Claire (Haley Lu Richardson), Marcia (Jessica Sula) and Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy), are kidnapped. They awaken in a strange room to find that the man who kidnapped them has dissociative identity disorder (DID). As the story progresses, viewers learn the details of Casey’s troubling past, and the personalities residing in the body of the girls’ kidnapper, Kevin (James McAvoy), begin to hint at a terrible fate awaiting the girls. The concept of a horror movie centered around DID has never been fully explored, leaving “Split” in an advantageous position to claim precedence over such an idea.

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That being said, the plot of the movie plateaus and then begins to fall by the halfway mark. Additionally, Shyamalan’s use of DID as an element of the story is done so rather insensitively; it quite literally construes those suffering from the disorder as monsters and relies on outdated tropes of mental illness for its own benefit. By the end of the film, it even seems like the disorder was simply used to achieve a very specific point, leaving viewers dissatisfied and questioning the necessity of delving headfirst into a complicated issue. Similarly, Casey’s troubled past, while dealt with in a mature way, feels almost unnecessarily cruel by the end. Although her awful life experiences do, in the end, save her, this conclusion suggests that female strength can only come out of tragedy and injustice. If there is a bright side to the mostly-lackluster plot, it clearly resides in McAvoy’s presentation of Kevin. Despite the film’s misguided use of DID, McAvoy works very well with the role he was given, alternating brilliantly between Kevin’s myriad personalities. It genuinely feels as though one is watching very different people deal with personal and separate struggles. The only disappointment here for the audience is that the film does not show more of Kevin’s 23 personalities: Only a handful are portrayed in the movie. After seeing them deftly come to life, one is left wanting more from McAvoy. Taylor-Joy’s performance is solid overall, especially as she begins to relive the trauma she’s suffered. Her facial expressions convey multiple meanings at once, regardless of whether she speaks or not.

Unfortunately, the rest of the cast is simply average, with the other two teenage characters at times cliché and their dialogue cringe-worthy. Meanwhile, Kevin’s therapist, Dr. Karen Fletcher (Betty Buckley), comes across as an intelligent but misguided woman who is ultimately forgettable and unremarkable in her stereotypical role as a therapist. However, more so than any character failings, the real reason the movie flops is because the twist at the end is so unlike Shyamalan’s usual fare. Most of his movies feature a paradigm-altering revelation toward the denouement, but the ‘twist’ that “Split” presents is confusing and one that, without spoiling much, only fans of Shyamalan’s early work will truly appreciate. Furthermore, the characters are stuck in very awkward places at the end of the film, with resolution only through death or thinly-veiled hints at their various fates. These resolutions leave the viewer craving a positive outcome for at least one of the film’s many characters. Overall, “Split” is a solid movie. Yet, it does not manage to navigate the topic of mental illness without being offensive. The resolution and so-called ‘twist’ leave much to be desired, and even McAvoy’s stellar performance cannot save a movie that should have been marketed and directed differently. As they finish the film, viewers might feel a sense of unease, but not the intended types of anxiety and fear central to the movie’s best moments. Rather, this feeling stems from the movie’s failure, a sign that Shyamalan might have ultimately reached the limits of his filmmaking success.

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‘La La Land’ is what we want but not what we need by Setenay Mufti

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Without question, one of 2016’s most charming movies (and critics’ favorite) is “La La Land,” a modern-day musical written and directed by Damien Chazelle and released this past December. As awards season is underway, and “La La Land” collects numerous Golden Globe wins and Oscar nominations, the film continues to win hearts and minds. And not just those of crotchety old movie critics either, but also with younger audiences primed by “Glee” (2009-2015), Hamilton (2015) and other successes in musical-style entertainment. New York Times film critic A.O. Scott calls “La La Land” “generationally authentic as a millennial document.” The film attempts to retain the most attractive clichés from classic musicals (impromptu dance numbers and small-town girls with Hollywood dreams), while skillfully evading those that are just too much for the cynical youth to bear (true love). The balance gives the audience a pass for enjoying sappy duets and foreseeable plot twists. The movie’s lesson is frank. There’s nothing wrong with young love, even hopeful young love, and if those involved grow apart because of their ambitions and careers, that can be okay too — even if the memories jerk a tear. Unfortunately, that lesson might disappoint some viewers. We only get the slightest glimpse of the later lives of Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), although we do see happy, successful futures. The

problem is that Mia and Sebastian’s imagined, dream-sequence future together looks even better, even though their lives together would have only gotten rockier with the growing distractions of their careers. After all, why shouldn’t an aspiring actress be able to have it all? If Mia and Sebastian had just stayed together, they could have found success and kept each other all along instead of settling for other partners, or none at all. Yet it’s clear that they couldn’t have lucked out with their relationship — and careers — at the same time. Throughout the movie, their relationship is complicated more and more by their professional achievements, and their only similarities in the first place were those of all young, romantic, starving artists. ‘La La Land’ is a far cry from Chazelle’s stunning 2014 film “Whiplash,” which received a due nod at awards ceremonies, but never became the blockbuster hit that “La La Land” is now. Chazelle’s “Whiplash” follows the same logic, but with a distinct attitude. Protagonist Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) gives up every part of his life, self and sanity to become a great drummer, and by the end it’s not clear whether Andrew’s pain is from loss or growth. Gritting through scene after vicious scene, we see all the turmoil and all the fanatic satisfaction that makes everything worth it, to him at least. “La La Land” depicts a much more pleasant journey towards success, but also a less revealing one. Some good things remain, some are lost, but in the

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Sebastian’s livelihoods be more upsetting and therefore more interesting? It seems there’s not enough at stake to grab the new, cynical, career-driven generation as Scott suggests. It’s understandable that Chazelle wants to stay true to the optimism of classic musical theater (especially after the weightiness of “Whiplash”), but the “millennial document” might need to prepare its viewers for real heartbreak and a greater incentive to leave a man who looks like Ryan Gosling. Millennials don’t need to run from the battles and tragedy of life. Without life’s tragedies, life’s positive turns wouldn’t seem so wondrous anyway.

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Hiring for Fall Student Managers Tufts Dining is now recruiting to hire Fall Student Managers in all Units Looking to develop your leadership skills? Want to gain valuable experience that can prepare you for job interviews? Student Managers assist the professional management team with the oversight and supervision of selected shifts. They ensure that the operational goals of the unit are being met daily. Many of our former student managers who have graduated have shared how their student manager experience was extremely beneficial in preparing them for the first step in their careers. All Tufts Students are encouraged to apply. Starting rate of pay is $13.50 per hour If you would like to apply or learn more about the hiring process, please send your resume and/or inquiry to Anthony.mahoney_pacheco@tufts.edu, Anthony is Tufts Dining Student Coordinator. All resumes must be received by February 20th

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Was it wrong to trust Obama? by Ashrita Rau When former President Obama was inaugurated as president, third-grade me was thrilled. He was the first black president and he was a Democrat, a fact that I didn’t know much about but that I knew pleased my parents, especially after eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency. He was also, especially to young me, much more relatable than Bush ever was. He came from my city and was really devoted to his family — his promises to get his kids a puppy echoed the promises of my dad, and his relationship with his wife was both adorable and inspiring. I learned as I got older that despite this, Obama still had his faults. One glaringly obvious one was his policy on deportations. Obama had long promised to reform immigration throughout his campaign, insisting that even though his policies may be “politically unpopular,” they were necessary to help increase immigration and support undocumented immigrants. However, throughout his first year in office, Obama failed to implement the immigration policies that he had promised to establish.

It is true that Obama did make some positive changes to help immigration. In 2012, he announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which allowed for undocumented immigrants under a certain age to gain temporary amnesty. DACA protected more than 700,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as young children. However, throughout this period, Obama also continued mass deportations. He relied on the Primary Enforcement Program, which works by sharing information from the FBI’s database of fingerprints collected by local law enforcement officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This allows for those arrested by local law enforcement officials for minor crimes to be deported. Obama therefore ended up deporting 2.5 million undocumented immigrants throughout his two terms. He spent almost $18 billion on immigration enforcement in 2015, which is $3 billion more than the budgets of all other major federal domestic law enforcement agencies combined. Despite his promise that the deportations would only affect criminals, as of April 2014, two-thirds of the people that Obama deported had only committed minor crimes such as traf-

fic violations or had not committed any prior crime. All in all, therefore, Obama failed miserably to implement the widespread immigration reform that he promised. Instead, he continued deportations at a large rate. If you’re one of the people who thinks that Obama was “just doing his job” by continuing to deport undocumented immigrants, you should consider the case of Jose Marvin Martinez. His story illustrates that Obama’s policies have had devastating, real-life consequences. Martinez left Honduras for the United States after his brother was shot. In 2014, Obama’s policies sent him back to Honduras, and he was shot four months later by suspected gang members. Another failure of Obama’s policy, according to the American Civil Liberties Union’s executive director Anthony Romero, is that Obama never actually eliminated the institutions that Bush had used to deport immigrants. Instead, he curbed some and continued some, but he left the structure of institutions such as 287(g), which allows local police to search for undocumented immigrants. Consequently, these institutions are already in place for President Donald Trump to use. Obama made many promises.

However, in the end, he chose to uphold systems that had been established by previous presidents and ended up deporting more undocumented immigrants than all other presidents in the 20th century combined. His policies cost lives. Perhaps the reason that Obama’s betrayal feels most painful is because when he ran, he seemed funny and cool, with his awkward dad jokes and promise that he would do what was right even if it was unpopular. He also may be part of the reason that a Trump presidency hurts so much — Trump succeeded one of the most classy and diplomatic presidents that the United States ever had. Obama’s greatest skill may have been the fact that it was so easy to forget about him being a politician — until one learns about the lives his policies forever damaged. Editor’s Note: If you would like to send your response or make an op-ed contribution to the Opinion section, please email us at tuftsdailyoped@gmail.com. The Opinion section looks forward to hearing from you. Ashrita Rau is a junior majoring in international relations. Ashrita can be reached at ashrita.rau@tufts.edu.

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Super Bowl Preview

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Your friendly neighborhood sports editor, Eddie “Pulled-Pork” Samuels here with your Super Bowl breakdown. After a lackluster set of playoff games this season, expectations are that the Patriots-Falcons game is going to be explosive enough to make up for the blowouts and blowups. All indications are those expectations will hold true, as Atlanta’s No. 1 offense takes on New England’s No. 1 ranked defense. What can be said about the Patriots?

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They were a preseason favorite to make it this far, despite Tom Brady’s dubious fourgame suspension for the “Deflategate” incident. The Patriots boast a dominant defense and an offense buoyed by the arm of one of (if not the single) greatest quarterbacks of all time. The Pats, unsurprisingly, go into the game as the favorites, boasting a threepoint lead, and stand to win their fifth ring in 15 years. The Falcons, on the other hand, were not a popular pick. There was more Vegas money on Cleveland to make the big game than Atlanta at the beginning of the season.

The Falcons score a scorching 33.8 points per game, and while the defense is not impressive in terms of yardage or points allowed, it does boast the NFL’s leading pass-rusher in outside linebacker Vic Beasley. The incredibly talented and always-knowledgeable Daily staff is here with your Super Bowl picks. Interestingly, the pick of the winning team was split 50-50 on who would win, and all score predictions are within a similar range, with the exception of Miranda “Green Tabasco” Willson who believed the game would be a defensive battle, with only the

Patriots able to score in the form of three field goals. Jei-Jei “Nacho Cheese” Tan was the only one to pick a defensive player in Beasley, who will likely be a key to the Falcons’ defense Sunday. Brad “Buffalo Wings” Schussel selected Julio Jones as his MVP, one of two wideouts to be selected. Meanwhile, I, along with Kathleen “St. Louis Style” Schmidt, selected the presumptive regular season MVP, Matt Ryan, to clean up the awards weekend. In true Pats-fan fashion, Maclyn “Cheetos” Senear and YJ “Blue Cheese” Chee picked Tom Brady as their MVPs.

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Tufts caps off regular season at Middlebury Invitational by Caleb Symons Contributing Writer

Tufts wrapped up its regular season over the weekend at the Middlebury Invitational. Despite resting some of their top swimmers, the Jumbos — led by firstyear Tommy Gillespie and sophomore Kingsley Bowen — earned 10 first-place finishes. While the team prepared with one eye on next month’s NESCAC Championships, coach Adam Hoyt highlighted the importance of the two-day event at Middlebury. “The Invitational is [like] a championship meet for a portion of our team that isn’t attending the NESCAC Championships,” he said. “For our younger guys, it’s an opportunity to develop experience and confidence racing against college-level and NESCAC-level competition.” One such swimmer was Gillespie, who won the 1,650-yard freestyle on Friday with a time of 16:34.31. After surging off the blocks and into the lead with an opening split of 27.20 seconds, the Chevy Chase, Md. native settled into a steady pace over the remaining thirty-two lengths, with no split dipping below 29.49 seconds or exceeding 30.93 seconds. Gillespie added a second individual victory in Saturday’s 500 yard freestyle, touching the wall in 4:45.14, less than a second ahead of Middlebury junior Connor McCormick. “When [McCormick] was going out at that really fast pace, I thought, ‘stay with him and pass him in the end,’ and I was able to do that. At the end, I just had a little more left than him,” Gillespie said. “It’s a huge motivation tool to go personal best in your last race.” While the meet marked the conclusion of Gillespie’s season, it served as a tune-up for Bowen, last year’s NESCAC Rookie of the Year and an All-American honoree who is set to swim in the NESCAC Championships.

Bowen earned both of his first-place finishes on Saturday, winning the 100-yard butterfly in 52.05 seconds and the 200-yard backstroke in 1:52.35. Firstyear Trevor Serman added an individual first-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly (1:55.06), while fellow first-year Roger Gu registered the first of his three victories by clocking a time of 1:45.16 in the 200-yard freestyle. Tufts also found success in relay events, winning the 400 freestyle relay (3:11.34), 800 freestyle relay (7:08.15), and 400 medley relay (3:35.10). In the 400 free, the Jumbos led JULIA PRESS / TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES Middlebury by just .01 Then-junior Russell Weeks swims breaststroke in a dual meet against Wheaton College on Jan. 23, 2016. seconds after the first 300 yards, but Gu swam his anchor leg 2.66 in the 100-yard backstroke (53.14) and third my final meet,” he said, “and I got a call from seconds faster than Middlebury’s McCormick, place in the 50-yard freestyle (21.77). His per- Coach, and [he] was like, ‘Oh congratulations, powering Tufts to a comfortable margin of formance earned him one of the final ros- you made the swing spot for NESCACs.’” victory. ter spots on the team of 24 swimmers that With his team now turning its attention to Gu also had his team’s top time (1:44.61) the Jumbos will bring to the NESCAC the NESCAC Championships, Hoyt stressed in the 800 freestyle relay, as he combined Championships, which will be held Feb. 17-19 that the preparation would not deviate much with Bowen, sophomore Brandon Jinn and at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. from what it has been throughout the season. Gillespie to beat Middlebury by more than “I think it helps me visualize what I’m “Most of our NESCAC team members three seconds. In the 400 medley relay, the capable of and also helps me be confident that did not rest for the competition this weekTufts team of sophomore Chris Simotas, I can get times like I did in the past weekend end,” Hoyt said. “They’re looking forward to senior Michael DeCortin, sophomore Brian and then just try to have that same mentality,” much-deserved rest, fine tuning [and] just Honicky and first-year Timothy Gronet cap- Gronet said. sharpening their race strategy in practice tured first place with a time of 3:35.10. Gronet also explained that he was over the next two and a half weeks, so hopeThe relay victory capped an impressive not expecting to make it to the NESCAC fully they’ll start feeling stronger and more meet for Gronet, who also took home first Championships in his first-year campaign. well-rested and ready to race against the best place in the 100 freestyle (47.43), second place “I thought [Middlebury] was going to be in our conference.”

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continued from back made 10 of their 20 attempts from behind the arc. By contrast, the Jumbos hit just 5 of 27 three-point tries, which translated to a feeble 18.5 percent from deep. According to Feldman, Tufts also struggled on account of the injury-inflicted absence of senior tri-captain center Tom Palleschi. “Defensively, we let guys go middle way, way too much,” he said. “[Tuesday], we didn’t rebound well. We got killed in the paint. I think that [senior center] Drew [Madsen] and [first-year center] Pat [Racy] have been

doing a good job, but we really miss Tom in the middle. We can’t get rebounds. We can’t defend guys in the paint.” On Jan. 26, the Jumbos handily defeated the visiting Newbury Nighthawks (1-16), 113-74. Not since a 118-109 triple-overtime win against Keene State College on Dec. 6, 2006 has Tufts put up a loftier scoreline. Tufts started slowly, missing their first five shots and allowing Newbury to jump out to an early 7-0 lead. The entry of Garrett three minutes into the contest signaled a stark reversal of fortunes, however, as he assisted a layup by Racy before adding a layup and three-pointer of his

own to cut the deficit. By the 13:30 mark in the first half, the Jumbos had taken a 14-11 lead, which they would hold for the rest of the contest. Powered by sterling outside shooting performances by Lapham and Feldman – both of whom made several threes in the first half alone – the Jumbos took an authoritative 50-28 lead into halftime. After the break, Tufts continued their offensive success, led by Dayton’s 12 points and seven rebounds in just nine second-half minutes. Newbury failed to regain any sense of momentum despite the best efforts of junior guard Jeduan Langston,

who notched game-highs in points (33) and rebounds (10).Tufts, meanwhile, distributed the scoring load far more efficiently, with six players reaching double digits. Lapham led all Jumbos with 20 points, while Garrett added 11 points, nine rebounds and five assists in just 15 minutes of work. Also key to Tufts’ success was a significant size advantage. No Nighthawk that logged a minute stood taller than 6’3”, while five Jumbos stood 6’5” or higher, allowing them to dominate the glass by a margin of 55-40. On Friday, the Jumbos travel to Hartford, Conn. to play the Trinity Bantams (13-7) at 7 p.m.

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Tufts keeps winning streak rolling by Yuan Jun Chee Sports Editor

The 2016-17 team’s attempt to match the 2013-14 season record of winning 21 games in a row has to wait a little longer since the team’s match on Tuesday against Rhode Island College was postponed due to inclement weather. Tufts, however, extended its winning streak to 20 with a 73-44 win against Bates on Saturday, as the team returned to Cousens Gym after a seven-game road trip in January. This extends the Jumbos’ unbeaten streak against NESCAC opponents to 38. Tufts started a little slowly in the first quarter, trailing 7-3 after 2:40, but senior forward/center Michela North got the team going with a layup off an assist from sophomore guard Jacqueline Knapp to spark a 19-0 run. The Jumbos eventually ended the quarter up 24-10, shaking off the rust that plagued them early in their previous game against Emmanuel Mass. “At Emmanuel, we’ve always struggled to play there for whatever reason … and I think we just didn’t have the energy in the first quarter of that game,” North said. “Going into every game, we know we’re not going to win the game in the first quarter or anything, so we just have to have the mentality that it takes all 40 minutes to win the game and not let up at any point.” The Jumbos dominated the rest of the game. They went on another similar run with about 4:30 to play in the first half, going on a 12-2 run that was started by North’s free throw and ended with her layup to take a commanding 45-22 lead into the half. The free throw made North the all-time leading scorer in the program’s history, surpassing Colleen Hart’s (E ’11) 1422 career

points. North eventually finished the game with 10 points, four rebounds and three assists, picking up her second NESCAC Player of the Week. Offensively, the Jumbos were sharp, shooting 29 for 63 of the field goals. They also managed to turn the ball over just nine times. Defensively, Tufts was also able to capitalize on 18 turnovers to score 25 points. Junior forward Melissa Baptista led the team with 22 points. The Jumbos’ bench added 22 more, compared Then-senior guard Michelle Wu leaps over a Thomas More defender to six bench points women’s basketball championship on Monday, April 4, 2016. from the Bobcats. Even with the big margin of victory, still working on. We want a full 40 minutes of coach Carla Berube believes the team still Jumbo basketball.” has plenty to work on. For instance, the With four regular-season games left, Jumbos only put up five points in the fourth Tufts faces three conference opponents, quarter, their worst scoring quarter yet this hosting Trinity on Friday before a big match season. against Amherst on Saturday. Both Amherst “We had some good scoring opportuni- and Tufts currently stand at 20-0 in overall ties when some of the bench players came play. The match-up will likely decide which in, and just couldn’t put the ball in the bas- team takes the No. 1 seed going into the ket,” Berube said. “We were rushing things NESCAC Championship. a little bit, forcing a few things, and other “[Amherst has] to go up to Bates on times just missing shots. I want us to keep Friday night, so that’s no easy task there,” putting the pedal to the metal no matter Berube said. “We’re just preparing as well as who’s in the game, so that’s something we’re we can for both games, and they’re both as

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to score a three-pointer in the NCAA Div. III meaningful as the other. We’ll be focused on Trinity come Friday. That’s the game on the plate. After that, we’ll look to Amherst.” Berube is also looking forward to seeing a lively crowd at Cousens Gym on the weekend, as the program welcomes back its alumni and celebrates the graduating seniors on the team this year. “We’re excited that we’re home – it’s gonna be a great weekend,” Berube said. “It’s our alumni weekend, we’re going to have a lot of former student athletes here and it’s going to be senior day, so it’s going to be an exciting time.”

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Jumbos look to get back on track after road losses

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Junior guard Everett Dayton drives to the basket past two Wesleyan defenders on Jan. 20. by Sam Weitzman

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Poor shooting from behind the threepoint line has condemned the Jumbos (16-4) to two consecutive road defeats. According to sophomore guard Ethan Feldman, the team is now struggling through the most serious slump of the season. “This is the first time we’ve had two games in a row where we’re not shooting well, [and] where we’re missing open shots,” he said.

On Tuesday, the Jumbos came up short against the UMass-Dartmouth Corsairs (13-7), 91-82. Little separated the two sides during the first half, with neither team establishing anything larger than a six-point lead. Led by nine first half points by senior co-captain guard Chris Mendes, the hosting Corsairs entered the break with a slim 36-34 advantage. For the first ten minutes of the second half, Tufts outplayed UMass-Dartmouth. The two teams traded the lead multiple times in the period’s opening minutes, and

a layup by junior guard KJ Garrett with 11:20 left in the half gave the Jumbos a 58-52 advantage. After that high mark, however, Tufts collapsed. The Corsairs embarked on a 17-2 run, capped by a three-pointer by junior guard Tucker Bouchard with 8:10 remaining. The Jumbos would not quit, and slowly but surely they clawed themselves back into contention. Two free throws by junior guard Vincent Pace with 2:45 left gave Tufts a 76-75 lead, but a quick layup by sophomore forward Arinze Obiora gave the lead back to UMass-Dartmouth for good, and the Corsairs concluded the contest with a 16-6 run. The most serious deficiency for the Jumbos was poor three-point shooting. Junior guard Everett Dayton struggled the most in this respect, as he sunk just three of his 13 field goal attempts and missed all six shots from long range. As a team, the Jumbos shot 3-for-17 (17.6 percent) on threepoint tries in the second half. Feldman explained that the team was not willing to abandon its primary plan just because its failed to connect from downtown. “We don’t want to pass up open shots. We’re used to playing a certain way … and we’re supposed to take those open shots,” he said. “When we’re all not shooting well as a team, the only thing we can really do is pick it up defensively [and] try and run more in transition. But in the half court, if

they leave us open, we can’t just drive into them. We have to shoot.” Junior guard Thomas Lapham offered a similar view of how the team could find success on poor shooting nights. “[We] just keep trying to get to the rim more,” he said. “[We] just [need to] get easy layups, and running in transition is big for us.” On Jan. 28, Tufts fell to the Bates Bobcats (15-6), 84-72. The two teams were neck-andneck for much of the first half, with a dozen lead changes in the first 15-minutes of the game. A pair of free throws by senior tri-captain guard Tarik Smith tied the contest up at 26 with 5:33 left in the first half. After that, however, the Jumbos would not regain any semblance of the upper hand. Bates’ senior forward Marcus Delpeche scored seven straight points and the Bobcats entered the break with a 39-31 lead. The Jumbos did not fare much better after halftime, and the Bobcat lead grew to as large as 18 with 11:58 remaining in the second half. Delpeche finished as the game’s leading scorer with 28 points, and senior guard Jerome Darling added 21 points to Bates’ total. For the Jumbos, Smith contributed 19 points, six rebounds and five assists. Additionally, junior guard Ben Engvall put up nine points and a game-high 12 rebounds. The most decisive factor in the final outcome was once again a severe disparity in accuracy from the long range. The Bobcats see MEN'S BASKETBALL, page 11