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BØRNS to perform at this year’s Spring Fling concert Indie pop artist BØRNS is confirmed to be performing at Tufts on May 1, the date of which the annual Spring Fling concert organized by the Tufts Concert Board takes place this year. The announcement was made in a now-removed March 28 post on the artist’s Facebook page about his performance lineup for the coming weeks. BØRNS is the stage name for Michiganborn artist Garrett Borns, who released his debut studio album “Dopamine” last October. Concert Board Co-chairs Ben Averill, Samantha Berg and Kanika Kamal told the Daily in an email that they are unable to publicly comment about whether BØRNS will be the headliner or an opening act for Spring Fling. They said the full lineup will be announced “very soon.” Concert Board is also holding a “Battle of the Bands” event on April 7, where five student bands will compete to be one of the opening artists for Spring Fling. The five

competing acts are Dirty Nalgene, Space Ink, Tarik, Korumbus and Water Walk. Despite not confirming BØRNS as a Spring Fling performer, Concert Board has teased news about this year’s lineup. On its Facebook page, the board posted a now-deleted link to a Youtube video titled “Spongebob - Where’s the Leak Ma’am” and writing a post that read in part, “We were børn ready for Battle of the Bands 2016.” Last year’s Spring Fling headliner, Kesha, was announced to the Tufts community through a Snapchat Geofilter from the Concert Board’s own Snapchat account, according to an April 5, 2015 article in the Daily. Late last night, Concert Board posted an image on the Spring Fling Facebook event page that encouraged individuals to connect to a “Springfling” Tinder account. In addition to Kesha, previous spring concert headliners included artists such as Childish Gambino, Nelly and Lupe Fiasco.

Third mumps case confirmed on Medford/Somerville campus recent outbreak of the virus in universities across the Boston area including 16 confirmed cases of mumps at Harvard University and three confirmed cases at Boston University, according to a March 25 article in The Harvard Crimson. Higham said that last week, she had a phone conversation with the Department of Public Health and officials from all of the other universities in the Boston area that have been affected by the recent mumps outbreak, and learned that that the test normally used to confirm mumps was less effective than officials previously thought. “When mumps occurs in people who are already vaccinated, the tests

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One additional case of mumps was confirmed on campus yesterday, bringing a total of three confirmed cases of the virus by the Health Service. According to Medical Director of Health Service Margaret Higham, the diagnosed student was a contact of one the students diagnosed earlier in the month. She said that the student had been fully immunized with two doses of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine, as was the case with the other previously diagnosed students. The diagnosis comes in line with a

that we usually use to diagnose mumps don’t work very well,” she said. “The special virus tests that we do are only accurate about 50 percent of the time.” She explained that people who had previously received the MMR vaccine have less symptoms and carry much less of the virus when infected with mumps, making it harder for the test to detect the virus than in those not previously vaccinated. While she initially knew that the test was not 100 percent effective, she said she thought that the test was closer to 80-90 percent effective in detecting the virus. However, new information shows that health officials must rely on clinical diagnoses about the inflammation of

the glands. “It doesn’t matter what the test shows, if you have swelling of those glands, that’s sort of by definition mumps,” Higham said. Accordingly, she encouraged students to continue to practice good hygiene in order to prevent infection. “We continue to ask students with mumps-like symptoms… to come to Health Service for evaluation,” Higham later told the Daily in an email. “According to the Department of Public Health, the best way to limit the spread of mumps is to isolate students when the illness is detected, and to encourage students to have good respiratory hygiene.”

Police Briefs Stolen Jacket Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report of a stolen jacket from the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center at 5:20 p.m. on March 16. The student reported that she entered the fitness center, put her jacket in a cubby and discovered it was gone when she returned. Her wallet and keys, which were in the jacket pocket, were also missing.

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Fire Alarm TUPD and the Somerville Fire Department responded to a fire alarm that went off at 144 Professors Row at 12:45 a.m. on March 18. A released fire extinguisher triggered the alarm. When they checked the area, no fire was found and they called for a panel reset.

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Displaced Stop Sign TUPD saw three males and one female physically remove a stop sign from the corner of Professors Row and Packard Avenue at 1:20 a.m. on March 18. The officers approached the group, who then took off running and left the stop sign behind. Facilities Services has replaced the stop sign.

Fire Alarm TUPD and the Somerville Fire Department responded to a fire alarm that went off at Latin Way at 9:30 p.m. on March 23. A student had attempted to cook a large pot of maple syrup sap, which had activated the alarm. When they checked the area, no fire was found and they called for a system reset.

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When I was a kid, like many other children across the country, I had to make a family tree. My teacher showed us some samples she kept from previous years. They were lightened by the sun, and included old black and white photographs. Some of them went way, way back, some to the founding of this country. Some even had family crests, and legacies for their ancient family names. It was if each of these students were living in the newest generation of a never-ending fairytale. Incredibly excited to learn about whatever centuries old saga my family was taking part in, I asked my mom when our family history started. “Bueno,” she started. “I came to this country in 1977, your father in 1962.” My known family tree begins not too far behind those dates; great-grandparents are as far as it goes. No roots to royal families, elaborate crests or fancy black and white photographs for us. As a first generation Latino immigrant, I felt rejected from what seems like the canonical American background narrative. The family tree exercise, which I grew to hate over the many, many times I had to make one for school, is a constant reminder of the struggles forgotten by mainstream history, and those in my family I will never know anything about. My family’s history is a narrative I will never be able to fully read, a part of my own story that will always remain dark. Several chapters have been torn out of the book; this isn’t the kind of story anyone is supposed to go looking for. America is known for being a melting pot and yet, our narrative of immigration is so limited. As a child, the only way I learned about immigration is through the story of the Mayflower Pilgrims (which was so universalized that I was absolutely convinced my ancestors had been there) or Ellis Island. This is even more bizarre when you realize that I grew up in Miami, where there were maybe two people for whom this was relevant; and yet, it was the dominant American narrative that we learned. Having a family story in itself is a privilege many immigrant families and families of color aren’t afforded. Centuries of conflict, violence, migration, obscurity and poverty not only scatters family members, but it scatters records and names. Not to mention the more recent pain migrant parents feel, memories I can’t necessarily ask them to open up to just for the sake of enriching my personal story. From the little I have gleaned pre-“we came to this country,” I know that my father’s side lived in Cuba for a few generations, leaving during the revolution, and before that, northern Spain and the Canary Islands. From the dates, I can only imagine their migration was due to the rise of Franco’s regime. I know my mother’s family lived in Uruguay for a few generations, and before that, Italy. From that we only have one artifact: an old clock, broken, sitting under a bed. That will have to do as the start of my family tree.

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ARTS&LIVING POP CULTURE ROUNDUP

The Daily explores lower-profile pop culture offerings worth tuning into this spring by Lancy Downs Arts Editor

This spring is turning out to be a busy season for pop culture watchers. “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” roared into theaters this weekend, garnering almost $170 million at the box office. The ever popular “Game of Thrones” is set to air its highly anticipated sixth season on April 24, and acclaimed cable dramas like Starz’s “Outlander ” (2015-present) and FX’s “The Americans” (2013-present) are also premiering new episodes this spring. Meanwhile, Netflix just dropped season two of “Marvel’s Daredevil” (2015-present), and in the music world, big names like Zayn Malik and Gwen Stefani are promoting their new albums. Amid all these high-profile releases, lesser-known pop culture gems can get lost in the shuffle. The Daily takes a look at some more offbeat choices worth checking out this spring.

“Catastrophe”

This British import (2015-present) is the rare sitcom with the ability to make viewers actually laugh out loud. The comedy, which American fans can watch on Amazon Prime, stars comedian Rob Delaney as Rob, an American who hooks up with Irish schoolteacher Sharon (Sharon Horgan) while in London on business. She winds up pregnant, and he moves across the pond in an attempt to make the relationship work. Delaney

and Horgan, who also write the show, have impressive comedic chemistry and are able to lend their characters’ fledgling relationship a genuine tenderness without sacrificing any of the crackling humor. The supporting cast CLEFTCLIPS VIA FLICKR is equally funny, Comedian Rob Delaney stars in laugh-out-loud British comedy none more so “Catastrophe.” than Carrie Fisher, who stars as Rob’s foul-mouthed in the new podcast by actor Josh Malina and overly critical mother. The writing is and musician/composer/podcaster bitingly honest and desperately funny, Hrishikesh Hirway. The pair have teamed the situations outlandish without being up to host the “The West Wing Weekly,” too absurd. The six-episode first season which will revisit each and every episode is available now on Amazon. Season two of Aaron Sorkin’s acclaimed drama “The will be available on the platform starting West Wing” (1999-2006). As fans of the on April 8. TV show already know, Malina himself is a “The West Wing” alum: he starred “The West Wing Weekly” as speechwriter Will Bailey for severThis year’s election season may have al seasons of the drama. Despite this turned into a neverending nightmare in rather high-profile status, Malina has which everyone’s favorite racists and/or always been impressively game to go out misogynists Donald Trump and Ted Cruz of his way in order to engage with fans attempt to out-crazy each other on each (just check out his charming and often and every platform available to them. silly Twitter account and weekly blog for But political junkies weary of the sound Entertainment Weekly to see just how and fury that is the presidential camsee OFFBEAT POP CULTURE, page 7 paign can find respite from the madness

ALBUM REVIEW

Gwen Stefani struggles to find her ‘Truth’ on first solo album in 10 years by Justin Krakoff Arts Editor

In the chorus of her debut solo single “What You Waiting For?” (2004), singer-songwriter Gwen Stefani rhetorically asks the listener, “What you waiting / What you waiting / What you waiting / What you waiting / What you waiting for?” Well Ms. Stefani, what have you been waiting for? With more than a decade passing since the release of said single and the multi-platinum certified “Love. Angel. Music. Baby.” (2004), Stefani’s extended absence from the pop music scene has the left the California native’s solo career in limbo. After achieving astonishing success in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s as the frontwoman of the ska band No Doubt, Stefani chose to strike out on her own while the band went on hiatus, producing the insanely popular singles “Hollaback Girl” (2005)” and “The Sweet Escape” (2006). Despite her flourishing solo effort, Stefani took a break from the music scene for a few years and eventually embarked on a shortlived reunion with No Doubt (see 2012’s highly underrated “Push and Shove”). Due to such a rather long period of inactivity, Stefani’s career remained stuck in the early 2000s with her sophomore effort “The Sweet Escape” (2006). Yet 2014 saw Stefani attempt to make a comeback with the release of the tepid single “Baby Don’t Lie” and the

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Gwen Stefani and Adam Levine perform at the 57th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. downright embarrassing album “Spark the Fire,” which sadly, was produced by “Hollaback Girl” collaborator Pharrell Williams. However, Stefani’s life was turned upside down last year following a very public and nasty split with

then-husband Gavin Rossdale. “Last February, I think a lot of people know that my life fell apart,” she told NPR’s Rachel Martin in a March see STEFANI, page 7

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ver spring break, the CW did a thing. Characters on both “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and “Jane the Virgin,” which air back-to-back on Monday nights, explicitly interrogated whether their women-led stories pass the Bechdel test. Each show’s writers could’ve strung together an episode’s worth of suitably passing moments to present their “progressive” approaches to gender — after all, the Bechdel test is increasingly touted as the feminist standard against which various media should be assessed. But to my delight, both shows unapologetically violated Bechdel’s three cardinal rules, instead using this opportunity to probe the limitations of the test as a whole. It validated my belief that there isn’t — shouldn’t be — a universal rubric for what makes television “feminist.” Disabusing myself of such rigid expectations has allowed me to recognize feminism in unlikely places, including Sherlock Holmes adaptation and police procedural “Elementary.” Let’s first deal with the Union Jack-clad elephant in the room: CBS’s casting Lucy Liu in a role Martin Freeman also plays is not, to me, feminist in and of itself. Nor is the fact that “Elementary” strives to be less misogynistic (and racist, and homophobic) than its British predecessor — that’s just common decency. But deviating from much of Holmes neo-canon by making Watson talented and independent, in addition to fiercely loyal? That’s feminist — and risky. If Watson is no longer the moon, solely existing to establish Sherlock’s brilliance by juxtaposition — is he really so remarkable? Are his adventures even worth watching? I certainly believe so, because this revamped Holmes-Watson dynamic offers a nuanced, thoughtful take on genius. There’s no denying Sherlock’s keen mind, his appetite for puzzles, his extraordinary ability to see past obvious conclusions. But most compelling are his flashes of humility. Coming to terms with the utter unextraordinariness of his heroin addiction causes Sherlock to see his investigative skills in a new light and recognize Watson’s natural talent for detective work. Over the past three odd years, her evolution under his mentorship and her growing confidence in her new career have been a joy to watch. I’ll never tire of seeing Sherlock and Watson pulling all-nighters tackling giant files together, but Joan’s ability to work cases alone destabilizes Sherlock as the absolute center of this world, allowing for so much added richness in the form of new, Holmes-less relationships, conflicts, and storylines. For all the ways TV disappoints me, I’m always thankful that Joan Watson — Asian American, no less — exists in all her infinite agency. She isn’t the vessel of Sherlock’s salvation; she pushes him to hold himself accountable and strengthen his emotional intelligence. She can’t “cure” his addiction, but she’ll always be mindful of his sobriety. She sets boundaries, she finds healthy ways to address her insecurities, and despite her regard for others, she always trusts her own judgment. She is, in short, my feminist favorite, even if she fails the Bechdel test from time to time. Hidden Gem: Watson and Holmes’ ongoing co-parenting of their tortoise, Clyde. #RelationshipGoals: Since Moriarty/ Watson sparring opportunities remain few and far between (inter-network negotiations strike again!), here’s to Watson/Bell—often overlooked, but always rewarding. Selectively Forget: That Watson bests Kitty in singlestick without ever really “aiming for the pate.” Vidya Srinivasan is a senior majoring in international relations. She can be reached at vidya.srinivasan@tufts.edu or on Twitter @vidyals.

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British series ‘Catastrophe,’ new podcast ‘The West Wing Weekly’ are offbeat gems OFFBEAT POP CULTURE

continued from page 6 very endearing Malina can be). The first installment of “The West Wing Weekly,” which premiered on March 23, sees Malina and Hirway discussing the storylines in show’s pilot episode, reflecting on how today’s political climate has shifted since “The West Wing” was on the air and rather effusively expressing their love of Sorkin’s characters. With

153 episodes of the drama still to get through, “The West Wing Weekly” will likely offer political junkies an escape from election insanity for many months to come.

“Gaycation”

This Viceland travel docuseries has at least one high-profile name behind it: actress Ellen Page. Page, who came out as gay two years ago in an emotion-

al speech at a Human Rights Campaign conference, hosts the new series with her best friend, filmmaker Ian Daniel. The show follows Page and Daniel to Japan, Brazil, Jamaica and the United States, as they explore what it means to be queer in different countries across the globe. Though “Gaycation” begins as a rather lighthearted travel adventure, the tone soon becomes much more serious as the show documents the

violence inflicted on queer people in each country Page and Daniel visit. The pair also accompany their interviewees through intense and emotionally raw interactions with friends and family, and though it undoubtedly feels a bit odd to have such intimate moments captured on camera, “Gaycation” mostly manages to avoid feeling exploitative and voyeuristic. All four episodes can be found online on Viceland.com.

Gwen Stefani’s new album not worth decade long wait STEFANI

continued from page 6 13 interview. “My family fell apart. Everything fell apart. And there was a moment where I was talking to my girlfriend and I felt quite embarrassed. And I just felt like, God, I got to — somehow I got to turn this around. Like, I can’t go down like this. I just knew that I needed to turn to music, and that’s what this whole record documents is working through it, like, having faith and, like, believing in myself and wanting to do something about it.” After a nearly a decade of waiting, Stefani’s long-awaited third solo album, released March 18, is finally here. Titled “This Is What the Truth Feels Like” and conceived in only a matter of months, Stefani’s breakup record features producers J.R. Rotem, Mattman

& Robin and Greg Kurstin and writers Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels, who co-wrote Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” (2015) and Selena Gomez’s “Hands To Myself” (2015). By drawing upon the strength of her newfound collaborators, Stefani largely succeeds in forging a new musical direction for herself, with her comeback record pivoting between her attempts to move past her painful breakup and revel her new relationship with fellow “The Voice” (2011-present) judge Blake Shelton. The first half of “This Is What the Truth Feels Like” contains the album’s strongest material and signifies a huge departure from the hip-hop sounds Stefani explored her in early solo work. “Misery,” the album’s opening track, is a rather deceptive song because it sounds nothing like the title suggests

it might; instead, the funky synth tune is an upbeat anthem about finding new romance rather than despairing over lost love. The fantastic “Make Me Like You,” fourth on the track listing, continues to explore a more disco-pop sound and sees Stefani taking on a sassy, pouty demeanor, especially when she sings “Hey, wait a minute / No, you can’t do this to me / Hey, wait a minute / No, that’s not fair.” Unfortunately, Stefani’s comeback album really takes a nose dive in quality over the course of its second half. “Send Me a Picture” is an extremely boring ode to sexting that fails to draw upon tropical house music . “Asking 4 It” features a stale verse from hip-hop star Fetty Wap and a beat that is dreadfully outdated. “Red Flag” and “Naughty” border on the unlistenable with Stefani poorly

choosing to emote in a rather tasteless speak-sing manner. Despite this rather bad string of songs, lead single “Used to Love You” reminds the listener why Stefani has been such a durable star three decades into her career. Recalling the melodrama of the classic No Doubt single “Don’t Speak” (1995), the electropop ballad features a devastated Stefani questioning her past relationship with her ex as she sings “I don’t know why I cry / But I think it’s cause I remembered for the first time / Since I hated you / That I used to love you.” In short, the song perfectly sums up the dilemma of “This Is What the Truth Feels Like;” while the album features some incredible highs, it ultimately falls victim to moments of inauthenticity and reductiveness that inhibit the record from becoming a landmark breakup album.

TECH REVIEW

Galaxy S7 Edge impresses with design, misses mark with user experience by Michael Seltzer Contributing Writer

A new curved screen. A water resistant design. A virtual reality experience. Although this sounds like the feature set for some type of do-itin-your-bathtub scuba experience set, the Galaxy S7 Edge brings all of these features and more that might not be expected. The incredible waterproof design, terrific camera and interesting VR experience on the S7 Edge make it an excellent device, but the user experience may not be enough to make users choose it over other phones in the crowded market. The S7 Edge is a gorgeous device. The curved display manages to fit an incredibly detailed 5.5” screen into a small form factor — the sloped front and back make the phone easier to handle than most phones with a screen this size. People with smaller hands, however, may still find the phone to be unwieldy. The phone is also water resistant up to five feet for 30 minutes, according to Samsung. The phone is fast. It speeds through reading email, sending texts and browsing the web mostly without any problems. The battery life is good, lasting a full day and charging in roughly two hours. But even though the phone performs well, I felt occasionally slowed down by the user experience. When typing, some of the keys are right where the screen curves, which makes hitting the “q” key more difficult than it should be. These days, beyond communication, most users expect their phone to include an excellent camera. Most of our photos are taken in poor lighting situations — at night or in a dimly lit room — and they have the grainy qual-

ity to show it. The S7 Edge has a much larger aperture than most competing phones, which means that photos look better in low light, and all those snapchats taken at night won’t look quite so bad. The camera app on the S7 Edge allows for photos to be quickly taken with two taps on the home button, meaning fewer blurry and missed photo ops. One of the phone’s more out-there features is a virtual reality headset that Samsung calls Gear VR. A highlight of the Gear VR is the Netflix app, which transports you to a living room in front of a huge TV. As you turn your head, the light from the TV reflects off of the couch and table in front of you. Seeing a 360-degree Cirque du Soleil performance or going for a deep sea dive through the VR experience is a unique add-on, even if the headset isn’t the most attractive outerwear available — I personally wouldn’t recommend using the Gear VR in public. The S7 Edge also includes a buffet of smaller features. From camera tricks (like holding up your hand to take a selfie) to the Edge display (which can show you a constant news feed if you’re so inclined), there are simply too many features to list, but the novelty of many of them wears off after a few days. Many of the features other than the Edge display are buried in menus and mostly stay hidden if you don’t want them. It’s cool to have a heart rate monitor on the back of your phone, but it’s hardly something that most people will have a reason to use on a regular basis. The model I reviewed was the Verizon Wireless Galaxy S7 Edge, which came with a ton of preinstalled Verizon apps, including two competing messaging apps that can’t be removed but can

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A screenshot from a YouTube preview of the new Galaxy S7 Edge phone. be disabled. Although this isn’t a huge deal, buying a device and then realizing it came with a bunch of preinstalled junk is annoying. The S7 Edge comes in one version with a storage space of 32GB and on Verizon costs $792.00 off-contract, or $33 per month. Samsung also offers a version of the phone without the Edge display, the S7, which also has 32GB and costs $672.00, or $28 per month. Apple’s iPhone 6s, for comparison, costs $649.99 on Verizon, or $27 per month for a 16GB model. Both the S7 and S7 Edge have removable storage, which costs roughly $20 for a 64GB card, allowing a user to easily increase the amount of space for photos and videos.

The Galaxy S7 Edge is one of the best phones on the market. It brings speedy performance, a camera that takes great photos even in low light and a water resistant curved design. But most of the software tricks, while interesting, don’t have much lasting value. For iPhone users, features like iMessage that allow users to easily send group messages are a large draw to the platform. Samsung has not created as excellent of a messaging experience and that may keep some from switching. Although the software experience on the S7 Edge is not quite as good as it could be, the stellar camera and water-resistant design stand out as major differentiators and make this phone a top pick.

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Thirty-six Tufts Anime Brigade members and three alumni joined an estimated 25,000 people who attended Anime Boston, an annual three-day convention celebrating Japanese animation and pop-culture. The event, which kicked off last Friday at the Hynes Convention Center, has become the fifth largest anime convention in North America since it began in 2003. Many attendees, such as those pictured here, engage in cosplay — the practice of dressing up like characters found in movies, TV series or comic books. In addition to enjoying the art, merchandise and anime series on display at Anime Boston, several Brigade members — seniors Matthew Bogan and Lara Halamka, junior Dalia Berkowitz and alumnus David Heilbrun (LA’15) — presented panels on various topics concerning anime shows and video games.

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A convention attendee cosplaying Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid.

“This was the fifth year we attended as a club, and the convention always exceeds our expectations,” Bogen and Halamka, Brigade treasurer and president, respectively, said. “We love the opportunity to meet and spend time with anime fans we wouldn’t have encountered otherwise.”

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Giving equal attention to terrorist attacks in nonWestern countries Last week, the airport bombing in Brussels received international attention and multi-day news coverage from CNN and Fox News. Numerous editorials and commentaries plastered news sites and Facebook news feeds. Indeed, the attacks on Brussels were an outrage and deserved the spotlight they garnered. However, this coverage completely drowned out many other formal terrorist organization attacks that occurred in the days before and after the attack in Belgium. In Turkey recently, two separate bombings — a car bomb and a suicide attacker — took the lives of scores of Turkish citizens, and injured hundreds more. In Nigeria, Boko Haram attacks occurring last Thursday killed 13, the second Boko Haram attack in the country in March alone. Attacks in Europe and the United States get more media coverage because often they are perceived

to be a more direct threat to those in the West. But we are an international university with international students whose families come from every corner of the world — it is against our aspirations for a better world to be stingy with our care and compassion. The aftermath of terrorism is just as severe in non-Western countries as in Western countries. Groups like the Taliban, and many civil wars, are all tied to Western imperialist expeditions and scheming. Horrifying violence and deep instability are results shared in the United States and Turkey, Belgium and Nigeria. In Turkey, the implications are a decline in the tourism industry they are economically dependent on. This is in addition to reciprocal violence and government overreach, which threaten serious political repression, and extend all the way to the families who mourn lost lives.

We need to actively pay attention to news stories regarding attacks in these countries and in all non-Western nations. We need to treat them as global tragedies suffered and mourned by everyone. We should not separate the terrorist attacks that are in the West and those that are not, or create a hierarchy of attention. The media is not a monolithic structure that can’t be changed — it has the ability to give voice to everyone. Finally, the Tufts community also needs to stand with our international students from Turkey, from Nigeria and from all regions of the world struck by terrorism. We at the Daily intend to work to make that happen too. While we may stumble and make mistakes in the process, our intention and desire is fundamental. We must show that we are not putting a price tag on life — that we stand with victims of terror across the world.

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Luke Sherman Earth On Fire

Free trade and the climate crisis e are at war with the earth.

The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide stands above 400 parts per million, likely the highest level in the past 20 million years. Oceans are acidifying so intensely and so rapidly that scientists warn that coral reefs will probably disappear within the next 25 years. In 2014, researchers discovered that as a result of our combustion of fossil fuels, the Southern Ocean had begun to swallow the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which contains enough water to wipe out coastal cities like Miami, Venice and Amsterdam. Why do we treat the planet with such blatant disregard? What has caused us to fail so miserably to adequately address the increasing threat of climate change? Contemporary environmentalists have sought to answer these questions for generations, and increasingly they have made the connection between the implementation of free trade agreements and the dramatic rise of global greenhouse gas emissions. Take any introductory economics class and you’ll learn that economic actors trade with one another because of comparative advantages, which allow them to produce particular goods and services more efficiently than their counterparts. This theory explains why high-tech companies concentrate in highly educated areas like Silicon Valley and why agricultural firms grow corn and soybeans in the fertile soil of Iowa and Nebraska. Free trade agreements follow the same logic: certain countries can produce products like cars, clothing and beauty products much more inexpensively than others. By removing barriers to competition, consumers across the world can maximize their well-being by having access to cheaper goods. Arguments like these catalyzed the passage of the highly controversial North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and animate supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But as award-winning author Naomi Klein notes in “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” open markets have shifted emissions and ecological degradation away from the developed world and toward poorer countries like China and Mexico. Their capital able to flow more freely, multinational corporations have moved their factories from countries that have relatively stringent environmental, health and labor standards, like France, toward those that do not. Thus, companies moved to Mexico from Canada and the United States after the implementation of NAFTA not because Mexicans are more skilled or educated than their North American counterparts, but because companies can pay Mexican workers terrible wages and release great quantities of pollutants into the environment without fear of government fines. So while Americans may spend less on t-shirts and electronic goods as countries have progressively removed barriers to trade, this has come at an enormous cost for both environment and human health. In theory, trade fosters more efficient production. But in practice, industrialized nations have simply shifted the dirtier sectors of their economy to developing countries — where the same production has a far greater carbon footprint. As we consider new agreements, we must ensure that all accords we sign contain rigorous environmental standards. The health of the planet depends on it. Luke Sherman is a senior majoring in Environmental Studies. He can be reached at Luke.Sherman@tufts.edu.

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On the stigma of depression (part 1) by Maxine D Trigger Warning: Extensive discussion of eating disorders I think anyone who has been through a mental illness wants to spare other people the harm, and I hope that by sharing my story, I can generate some awareness regarding this matter. I was around ten when my mental illness began. For a year I was up all night, every night, nauseous and convinced that I was going to throw up, which scared me enough to not eat during the day. My mom tried everything, from serving me chocolate at all times, seeing every doctor there was, but they found nothing to be wrong. I rapidly lost weight and my energy disappeared. Coincidentally, it was also around that time that I started to get bullied. At the age of twelve I then began consciously hating my body. On the outside I was still cheerful, ever so busy with my abundance of friends, extracurriculars and near-to-perfect grades. But I continued to be bullied until ninth grade and until then, my school friends decreased until none were left. I still remember all the ridiculous insults, for example, my full lips were a sign that I ate too much. I was called ugly, stupid, fat and many other things on an almost daily basis. And although therapy helped me see these things weren’t true and that the people who said them may not even have believed them, it could never make me forget them. It was the little things,

that most people could easily ignore, that hurt me the most. How for example I was uninvited to parties, just so my hopes of finally belonging could be crushed. Or that one birthday where a girl I barely knew instructed everyone to ignore me and not mention my birthday. Or the tricks they played during swim meets, hiding and stealing my things, making sure I was never congratulated on any achievement. These psychological mind games were played on irregular schedules, so that I never knew when the next attack would come. I started competitive swimming during that time and the pressure to eat little, swim faster, run longer, play piano better, speak the most languages and have the best grades was overwhelming. One of my “friends” who swam in my club and attended my school would taunt me with the fact that she had only had two strawberries before working out intensely for four hours and would not eat after because she had piano at 10pm, encouraging me to eat less and be more active. My parents didn’t notice what was going on, I rarely saw them and when I did they figured this was what teenagers were like. We were all distracted from acknowledging how fast things were going downhill. I was still strong academically, and even though I always looked tired, I had long hair, extravagant clothes and I was skinny and tall, at least that’s what other people said I was like. I only remember avoiding mirrors, punishing myself for anything but an A and trying to avoid the night-

mares at night. I didn’t seem to fit the criteria for depression. But mental illnesses can’t be compartmentalized into checklists, just because you’re good at keeping a fake life doesn’t mean you aren’t sick. The whole process of treating mental illnesses is so standardized and therapists often assume we’re all sick for the same reasons and consequently treat us the same way, thereby depriving us of real help. Throughout middle school, my self-destructive habits kept getting worse. I would work out until complete exhaustion, in hope that my mind would stop torturing me if all my energy was depleted. I stopped being able to swallow every time I felt stressed or pressured and consequently I would often go for up to two days drinking barely anything and not eating at all. One day I collapsed before school and my mom decided I needed to stay home and after a meager fight I lay in front of our front door crying for hours. During the following weeks I barely moved at all. I would lie in the most uncomfortable corners of our house, because I didn’t deserve to lie on sofas or beds and a few weeks later I fell severely sick. My doctor refused to treat me and instructed me to go to a hospital, but I knew once I went to hospital, I wouldn’t be getting out anytime soon. I lay on his floor with a panic attack, until my mom had convinced him to treat me. For most of the following week I was unconscious, but I remember my mom staying next to me 24/7, making sure I didn’t stop breathing, coaxing water and

nutritional shakes into my mouth every time I stirred. Once I was somewhat stable again my mom began looking for rehab centers. We developed a little ritual of driving to a center with me in the front seat, followed by talking to some director of a rehab center with me glaring at him while he judged me as if I wasn’t in the room, after which I got in the back of the car and refused to talk to my mom for the rest of the day. I was misdiagnosed many times and almost all therapists came up with the same reasoning that my mother had pushed me too hard and I was just tired. I was asked the same questions over and over again and no one saw just how far I’d already sunk. Since none of the rehab centers would treat my depression (German doctors seem to believe it is impossible for 14 years olds to have major depressions, you need to be at least 16) and my mom was equally fed up with the irrelevant questions I was asked, she let me start treatment from home with one of the few therapists who seemed to understand me. But I although I gained weight and started drinking and eating again, my depression kept getting worse and my suicidal tendencies increased. My parents hid all the medications in our house, purposefully kept only blunt knives in our kitchen and never left me alone for long. Maxine is a student at Boston University. Her last name was omitted at her request.

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continued from back ups, highlighted by a pair of come-frombehind victories. At the fourth position, Iwasaki overturned a 4-6 first-set loss to first-year Kaela Bynoe, winning the next two sets 7-6 (0), 10-8. Junior Chelsea Hayashi overcame a similar 4-6 deficit against first-year Katarina Stevanovic with two tie breakers of her own, winning 7-6 (2), 10-2. “It was a nice confidence booster for the team to beat such a strong Chicago team by a score of 8-1,” Bayard said. “Winning two out of three doubles matches set the tone for that match. I was proud of how we played with so much composure and fight throughout the entire singles line-up.” The team just missed out on going a perfect 4-0 over the break though with a 6-3 to Pomona-Pitzer Colleges on Thursday. Playing against some of the top players in Div. III, the Jumbos struggled to put together enough upsets to come out with the win and could not beat their third higher-ranked opponent in four days. Miller fell to senior Samantha Mae Coyiuto 1-6, 6-3, 6-0, while No. 26 sophomore Mary Zhao defeated Calabro 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. Louks, in the first position, was unable to overcome first-year Caroline Casper, losing 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. In a bright spot for Tufts, Karamercan pulled off the shock of the afternoon as she beat No. 6 first-year Joy Kim in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. Despite the loss, the team considers holding its own against one of the nation’s best teams a promising sign. “Pomona-Pitzer is currently ranked No. 3 in the country, and that match was completely even all the way through. Although we obviously would have rather won that

match, losing such a close match to that team will help us down the road,” Bayard said. Reflecting on the spring break performances, Meltzer is positive for the team’s prospects going forward against stronger opponents this year. “Each match was a bit tougher than the last and we stepped up our game for each team, and Pomona was definitely our toughest match but we fought extremely hard and put everything we had out on the court for that match,” Meltzer said. “Unfortunately the match didn’t go our way that day but I am confident we will be able to beat a team like that going forward this season — something we haven’t been able to do in the past.” The team now prepares for its first set of home games starting on Thursday against Babson, which is 11-3 on the season so far. Tufts then plays a Colby team on a fourmatch win streak on Friday before facing Bates on Saturday, a team that is conversely winless in its last four. Tufts looks to build on its strong doubles performance from spring break. “We are looking forward to our triple header coming up this weekend,” Meltzer said. “One of our goals is to be up after the doubles either 2-1 or 3-0, because that has proved to be crucial for us in our matches this past week.” Though still resting from the spring break trip, the Jumbos are readying themselves for a packed weekend, just the start of an intense April schedule. “We have an extremely demanding schedule this spring and we are taking one match at a time,” Bayard said. “We know exactly how we need to prepare for our next match on Thursday, and we will get to work early this week.”

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The men’s and women’s track and field teams began to ease into the spring outdoor season over spring break as a number of athletes from both teams competed at various meets across the country. Less than two weeks after the NCAA Div. III Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 11 to 12, the women’s team took a spring break trip to Texas and competed in a non-scoring tri-meet on Wednesday at Trinity University along with St. Benedict. Senior quad-captains and NCAA indoor veterans Alexis Harrison, Sydney Smith and Marilyn Allen led the team in Texas and all three made themselves strong candidates for the NCAA outdoor championships by posting top ten times nationally. Harrison, who was second in the 60-meter dash at the NCAA indoor championships earlier this month, won the 100 meters in 12.10 seconds, a mark that places her third on the NCAA qualifying list at this point in the season. Smith, fresh off her eighth place in the mile at NCAA indoors, won the 1500 meter in 4:45.60, the seventh-fastest time nationally at the time. Allen won the 100-meter hurdles with a 14.81 second mark, which is fourth nationally, and also came in second in

S P O RTS S H O RTS the 100 meters behind Harrison. Tufts also took home wins in both the 4×100 and 4×400 meter relays, with junior Rita Donohoe, first-year Sydney Ladner, Allen and Harrison making up the 4×100 team and Donohoe, Smith, Allen and sophomore Julia Prusaczyk comprising the 4×400 team. Sophomore Jennifer Sherwill dominated the throwing events, winning the discus, hammer and javelin throws for the Jumbos. Meanwhile, the men’s team officially kicked off its outdoor season in San Diego with a limited squad competing at the Point Loma Nazarene University Invitational on Saturday, placing ninth out of 21 teams on the backs of several top 30 national marks posted by the Jumbos. The same day, a squad of Jumbo throwers traveled down to Bridgewater State University to compete in the non-scoring Bears Track and Field Invitational. Tufts put up strong showings in San Diego as the team competed against tough NESCAC opponents Williams, Middlebury and Colby. Sophomore Andrew DiMaiti and junior Nick Usoff headlined a strong 400meter hurdles race for the Jumbos, with DiMaiti’s 54.37 second time good enough

for fourth at the meet and fifth nationally while Usoff’s 55.76 second time earned him eighth in the race and 21st nationally. Like the women’s team, the men’s team turned in top finishes in the relays. The 4×400 team of DiMaiti, Usoff, senior Alex Kasemir and first-year Nico Agosti placed third out of 18 with a time that is fifth on the national list, while the 4×100 team of first-years Thomas Miller and Anthony Kardonsky, sophomore Peter Clark and first-year Brandon Levenstein placed sixth with a time that also got them a top-10 national mark. For the throwers, senior Corey Burns, junior James Aronson and first-year Jeffrey Brown represented the Jumbos at Bridgewater State, with Burns leading the team with a fifth place in the hammer throw, a sixth in the shot put and an eighth in the discus throw. The outdoor season gets fully underway this weekend as the men’s and women’s teams host the Snowflake Classic at the Ellis Oval on Saturday starting at 10 a.m., while the men’s team will also send a limited squad to Florida for the Pepsi Florida Relays on Friday. by Macyln Senear

Tufts to play home opener against Babson today SOFTBALL

continued from back in the first game, County’s first since the 2014 season. She was tagged for 14 hits and six runs over seven frames after posting an impressive 1.68 ERA last season. The second game against Whitworth featured sophomore Raina Galbiati and first-year Amolee Hawkins making their first appearances on the mound for Tufts. Galbiati started and took the loss, giving up five hits and five earned runs over 3.2 innings, while Hawkins allowed a hit and an earned run over the last 2.1 innings. Junior first baseman Cassie Ruscz also picked up her first home run in game two, a two-run blast that represented the team’s only scoring on the day. After the initial shock of losing the first two games, things began to get better for Tufts. Later on Sunday, the Jumbos bounced back to shut-out the Worcester State University Lancers 7-0 to pick up their first win of the season. County pitched a seven-hit shutout to get her first win of the season, and the Jumbos came alive as four different players tallied two hits and the roster tallied 11 total to give County plenty of run support. “During [the Worcester State game], our offense, defense and pitching all started coming together and we saw the potential of what our team could become and what we could achieve together,” senior co-captain Christina Raso told the Daily in an email. Tufts followed up the Worcester State win with another shutout the next day, beating Wellesley College 8-0 in six innings as County picked up another shutout, coming close to a no-hitter after giving up just one hit. Ruscz, like the Jumbo offense as a whole, began to get comfortable at the plate, going yard twice more in the game. “Our 8-0 shut out against Wellesley was a great in-region win for us that we were all very proud about,” County said. From there, Tufts began to pick up some momentum, topping West Virginia Tech 16-11 later on Monday in an extra-innings affair with five runs in the eighth. On Tuesday, the team beat Salve Regina University 6-5 in another eight-inning contest, with Ruscz knock-

ing in the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth before sophomore left fielder Michelle Chisdak threw out the potential tying run at the plate in the bottom of the eighth in dramatic fashion. Tufts continued to flex its muscle with an 11-2 win over Stevens later on Tuesday as the team lit up Stevens’ pitching for three home runs, including another from Ruscz — her fifth on the season and fourth over the MondayTuesday span — and one each from Chisdak and sophomore Samantha Siciliano. After an off day on Wednesday, the win streak continued into Thursday as Tufts pounded Allegheny College 9-0 in a short five inning game that featured Ruscz’s sixth homer of the season and her fifth in a five-game stretch. County, also settling down on the mound, picked up her third shutout of the week to improve to 4-1. Tufts’ six-game winning streak ultimately came to an end later on Thursday though ,with a 5-3 loss at the hands of Hood College. Hawkins, who got the start and struggled off the mound early, giving up three earned over three innings, was saddled with the loss as the Hood College Blazers’ pitching quieted down the Jumbo bats that had been hot going into the game. Tufts bounced back again the next day, besting Buffalo State in a strong 10-2 win, led at the plate by junior first baseman Summer Horowitz, who went two for three with three RBIs and two runs scored. But in a dismal finish to the break, the Jumbos dropped the last game 9-1 against the College of Saint Benedict Blazers this past Saturday, with junior Shelby Lipson scoring the lone run for the Jumbos. Hawkins, County and Galbiati all made appearances and gave up runs as Tufts struggled to stem Saint Benedict’s offense. In the aftermath of the busy week, the Jumbos hope to learn from the spring break trip as they look forward to the rest of the season and their home-opening doubleheader against the Babson College Beavers this afternoon. “We started to form and work as a team back in September when we began lifting and practicing together,” Raso said. “Since then, we have continued to build on our team chemistry. We

have created a cohesive team in which each member adds value and contributes to our success.” The team’s leadership is also pleased with the contribution of the rookies so far this season. “The freshmen are all finding ways to contribute to our team and they all bring a lot of positive energy, which has been great for our team chemistry,” County said. “The spring break trip is also a greater way to get the team to bond since we are constantly together for a week together in Florida. We always get a lot closer as a team during that trip.” With fourteen veterans and eight new first-years, forming a cohesive team and trying to fill in the roles of last year’s seniors will be essential. Rather than look backward on their three national championship titles, the team looks forward to the season as a new unit. The Jumbos can look to Ruscz, who earned NESCAC Player of the Week honors after hitting nearly 500 over the trip with six home runs through the first 11 games, to lead them at the plate, and County began to find her rhythm on the mound more as the trip went on. “The team is very driven and determined, and we have great chemistry and cohesion, which is expected with the great leadership we are getting from our seniors and juniors,” coach Cheryl Milligan told the Daily in an email during the trip. “We have several [players] hitting very high averages — our seniors did a great job. We have yet to find our best lineup and have some defense plays and technical things to work on, but overall we feel positive about where the team is. Our goals are intact and fully achievable, despite being a different team than last year.” “Looking forward, we want to keep improving as a team every day,” Raso added. “Our goal is to be the best team we can be when [the] postseason arrives in May and to give ourselves the best chance at winning a national championship.” Though they may have started off in a hole, the Jumbos continue their quest to return to the national championship game with games against the Beavers this afternoon at 3 pm and 5 pm at Spicer Field.

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he entire premise of higher education is to allow for the mind to explore and develop, and to provide a place for students to discover their true passions to prepare them for their professional careers. That’s what we’ve all been told right? So why don’t colleges allow for their student-athletes to major in their sport? Let me explain. In the context of being at a top-tier liberal arts college like Tufts, I don’t believe that having a football major or basketball major would be a good fit here. However, for a majority of Div. I institutions I think it would be a great opportunity for student-athletes to be able to major within their sport. It is unfortunate that many athletes are labeled as jocks, who take sketchy paper classes through departments that have adopted practices of easy grading or looking the other way. A sporting major could definitely counteract these incidents. The curriculum could include classes on sports business, finance, contract law, sports psychology, anatomy, kinesiology, etc. These classes would definitely align more with athletes’ interests, especially in comparison to traditional majors like philosophy or English. It would also help prepare them for the real world, as collegiate athletes would most likely need these skills to manage their athletic careers in their ensuing profession after college. You still might be conflicted. How can the star quarterback majoring in football be held to the same standards as a pre-med student majoring in bioengineering? Well, for one it would have to be rigidly structured and graded just like any other major. For example, drama, dance and music are all performance subjects, which requires a significant amount of practice, teamwork and study. If we view sports as an entertainment performance like ballet or the symphony, we can better understand how this curriculum could fit within a traditional collegiate model. Musicians are often given credit for their practice time, but are also subject to learning musical theory, history and technique. Any performance-based art has this academic requirement, just like a sport major should. In previous columns, I discussed sports’ relational connection within society, politics and business. Preparing collegiate athletes to understand these interconnections is important in order to prepare them for a potential professional career and also to allow them to work within their passions instead of taking academically fraudulent classes like the incident with the University of North Carolina football team. Being able to study something you are passionate about can go a long way for athletes for whom the majority of their time is occupied by preparing and practicing their sport. Even if they don’t become professional athletes, they will undoubtedly be able to apply the skills they’ve learned within their major as potential future coaches, sports agents, administrators, and so forth. Learning how to sign contracts, manage finances and understand sporting business is invaluable for anyone with a passion for entering the sports world. So let’s give athletes a greater opportunity to succeed after their collegiate careers end. Whether they become professionals or not, helping prepare athletes to align with their passions is something all colleges should consider. Nicole Brooks is a features editor at the Tufts Daily. She is a senior majoring in history and minoring in communications and media studies and can be reached at nicole.brooks@tufts.edu.

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Women’s tennis starts the season 3-1 after productive spring break trip by Yuan Jun Chee

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The No. 22 women’s tennis team got its spring season off to a great start over spring break, winning three of its four

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contests in California ahead of a busy April and a host of NESCAC matches. The team beat Pacific University 9-0 on Sunday, March 20 and went on to upset higher-ranked opponents Lewis and Clark College 7-2 and the University of Chicago 8-1 on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. But a 6-3 loss on Thursday against Pomona-Pitzer Colleges ranked No. 3 in the nation, prevented Tufts from having a perfect trip. “I am pleased with what we have accomplished during our first four matches of the season,” coach Kate Bayard told the Daily in an email. “It is early in the season, but we have already shown that we are capable of beating any team out there.” Tufts opened its 2016 spring season with a dominant victory over Pacific University in Malibu on Sunday to kick off the Southern California trip, winning every match-up. Tufts sophomore Lauren Louks beat junior Kaitlyn Lomartire 6-4, 6-1, while junior Jacqueline Baum won with a pair of bagel sets over senior Carlee Rhodaback in a match characteristic of the Jumbos’ strong play on the day. This was mirrored by the 6-1, 6-0 win of junior co-captain Conner Calabro over first-year Chantelle Baclay and sopho-

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Former member of the team Catherine Worley (LA’16) reaches for the ball in a Tufts Women’s Tennis match against Williams on April 12. more Zoe Miller’s 6-0, 6-2 victory over classmate Marissa Hayashi. The team moved to 2-0 the next day, beating No.19 Lewis and Clark 7-2 to deliver the Pioneers their first loss of the season. One of the closer matches saw Tufts first-year Tomo Iwasaki defeated 7-5, 6-4 in a tightly contested match by sophomore Christine Eliazo. Louks, ranked 30th in the nation, duked it out in the first position with nationally ranked No. 7 sophomore Summer Garrison, but was unable to pull off the upset, falling 6-1, 6-3. But those were the only two defeats on the day for the Jumbos, who went on to win all the other match-ups. Tufts first-year Mina Karamercan put on an

impressive performance, defeating senior Aurora Garrison 6-0, 6-2, while teammates Baum, Calabro and Miler also took home singles victories. The team’s doubles play was strong again as the doubles teams completed another clean sweep. Louks paired up with Karamercan to beat the No. 23-ranked pair, the Garrison sisters in an 8-2 finish, while Calabro and first-year Otilia Popa defeated their opponents 9-8. Iwasaki put her singles loss behind her and teamed up with Miller to beat the No.14 pair of Eliazo and senior Claudia Lew 8-2. “Our team is so close and there is a tremendous amount of respect between the underclassmen and upperclassmen

which is not always the case on many teams,” junior co-captain Alexa Meltzer told the Daily in an email. “Our doubles performance this past week proved this as all of our teams are comprised of players of different ages. Because of this mutual respect and closeness within our team, each doubles team uses this to their advantage and was able to execute throughout our matches in California last week.” Tufts then took on another top-20 opponent the next day, beating the No. 14 University of Chicago 8-1 on Tuesday. The singles players won all their matchsee WOMEN'S TENNIS, page 14

SOFTBALL

Softball opens season with tough spring break trip by Isabel Banta

Contributing Writer

Tufts softball is 7-4 to start off the 2016 season after finishing its annual spring break trip to Clermont, Florida,

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with a relatively disappointing start for the three-time consecutive NCAA Div. III national champions who went undefeated last season. The four losses, the most the team has suffered in its spring break trip since going 6-7 in 2011, equal the total number of losses the team has suffered over the 2014 and 2015 seasons combined. Though they didn’t get the start they had probably wanted to their season, the Jumbos see no reason to panic yet, believing that they have still made some

early season progress in forming a more cohesive team and getting back to form. “The goal for our spring break trip was to get progressively better throughout the week,” senior co-captain Erica County told the Daily in an email. “I think we accomplished that goal. I think we’re beginning to gel as a team and figure out how we work best together. Overall, the spring break trip was challenging but [it] also put us in a great position to hit the ground running at home this week. I’m happy with our performance. It wasn’t the best softball we could play, but it showed a great amount of potential as we move through our season.” In an abrupt end to its NCAA record 53-game win streak dating back to 2014 and a serious blow to its national status, Tufts dropped back-to-back games to Whitworth University to open the season — the first time Tufts softball has lost two games in a row since April 2011. The Jumbos were topped 6-0 by a strong Pirates squad in the team’s season opener in Florida on Saturday, March 19. After the game later in the day against Concordia University of Michigan was

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Tufts outfielder Carrie Copacino (LA’17) swings during Tufts’ softball 10-0 victory against Bowdoin at Spicer Field on Saturday, April 11, 2015. cancelled due to rain, the Jumbos moved on to a rematch against the Pirates on Sunday. The second game, despite featuring Tufts’ generally prolific offense scoring, still resulted in another Whitworth win, this time by a 7-2 margin.

County — one of the best pitchers in NCAA Div. III softball history — has attempted to fill the shoes of Allyson Fournier (LA ’15), but took the loss see SOFTBALL, page 15