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The Daily tells you who is likely to take home trophies at Sunday’s Emmy Awards.

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Students parking on campus are paying more for their permits.

On paper, the Tufts women’s soc-cer team’s match against Wesleyan looks just like any other the team will play this year: nothing more than an early-season game against a familiar middle-of-the-pack NESCAC foe. But take a peek at Kraft Field tomorrow, and you’ll quickly real-ize that the spectacle in front of you is anything but typical. From the school president handing out T-shirts at the door to the huge crowd to the 8-year-old girl sit-ting on the sidelines, the game has quickly become much more than a simple sporting event.

Half sporting event, half carnival As the inaugural event of the Fan the Fire initiative, the game has the weight of the school’s administration thrown behind it. Just for showing up, students will receive free food and T-shirts, some of which University

President Anthony Monaco will be handing out. One lucky fan will walk away with far more, too, as the winner of the halftime penalty kick shootout. The prize for the con-test was recently announced to be a pair of 50-yard line tickets to the New England Patriots game against the Miami Dolphins on Dec. 24. The event is being funded by the University Advancement Division, which focuses on alumni relations. “It’s really a win-win for everyone involved,” Melissa Burke (LA ’11), the co-creator of the idea, said. “The fans get free food, the team gets extra support and a great cause gets extra attention.” Beside all the giveaways, fans can stop by the tent of Team IMPACT, which matches children facing adversity with collegiate athletics teams. Not to mention that in the middle all of this, there is still a soc-cer game going on — a prospect that the team’s members are quite excited about.

“I think it will great for our team,” senior defender Cleo Hirsch said. “At Homecoming, it’s such a big dif-ference when people come out to the game and get really excited. The energy is always so much higher with a lot of fans.”

From thesis to reality This great idea all started with a senior project. Burke and Amanda Roberts (LA ’11), both former members of the Tufts field hockey team, had no visions of grandeur when they began a project for their Communications and Media Studies minors. The two threw around ideas for a while, and they eventually settled on develop-ing a plan to better advertise Tufts Athletics. “It was clear that a lot of Tufts doesn’t care when it comes to athlet-ics, so we were looking for a way to better market it,” Burke said. “We

Tisch Library this semester boasts a new library director as well as new technology, including iPads set to be available for student use later this semester. Former Harvard Divinity School Library Director Laura Wood expressed enthusiasm for her new position. “It was an opportunity I couldn’t resist,” she said. “I think that what Tufts is accomplishing as a univer-sity is really terrific. I’m excited to find ways [Tisch] can continue to advance its services.” Wood’s goals for Tisch include improving the library’s collections and space, and facilitating student access

to both, she said. “Libraries are about conversations,” she said. “Being a librarian is about providing access to and facilitating those conversations whether they hap-pened two hours ago, or 200 years ago.” Head of Library Information Technology Support Thomas Cox feels that it is important for Tisch to provide students with new technology for use. This semester, students can, for the first time, rent laptops from Tisch for up to four hours for use outside the library, Cox said. These laptops will be accompanied by five new iPad tablets, which Tisch aims to purchase sometime this semes-

In response to a recently reemerging student demand for a change in the university’s race and ethnic studies offer-ings, and specifically calls for an Africana studies depart-ment, Dean of Arts and Sciences Joanne Berger-Sweeney today announced plans to develop a new academic program offer-ing study tracks in a wide vari-ety of race and ethnic concen-trations. The program will offer expanded options for the study of Africa and the African Diaspora, but could also include faculty and courses focusing on race and ethnicities from Asia and North and South America as well as some gender, sexual-ity and urban studies. While the specific academic

content remains undetermined, Berger-Sweeney pledged her support for the program by guaranteeing a group of three new tenure-track faculty hires and the appointment of a pro-gram director as early as the 2012-2013 academic year. An eight-member faculty committee, which convened for the first time Wednesday, proposed the program’s con-tent for consideration by the full faculty, who must approve any new academic program, Berger-Sweeney said. “This group really needs to think about what is the core mission of this programmatic entity and ...what are we trying to achieve,” Berger-Sweeney said. “What should be the pur-pose of a new program that we create? What’s going to be cut-ting edge? What’s going to serve

Here are the uncontested winners from Wednesday night:

Senior Senate SeatMichael Vastola

Sophomore Senate SeatsArielle EvansMax MeansDavid RicheStephen RuggieroAli Silverstein

TCU JudiciaryJesse Comak, junior

Committee on Student LifeDavid Huang, sophomore

Freshman Class CouncilMaddy Ball, secretaryGrace Michaels, vice president for social programming

Community Representative for the Asian American CenterWilliam Huang, senior

Five Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate seats were filled last night at the Candidate’s Meeting by sophomore walk-on applicants after one seat from the class of 2012 and two in the class of 2013 went unfilled and dropped down to become available to sophomores. One senior also walked on to the body as a senator, and one junior filled the only empty seat on the TCU Judiciary, which oversees the recognition of new student organizations. A senior filled the open community representative seat for the Asian American Center, and the community representative position for the Africana Center went unfilled and will be filled through a special election later in the semester. A student on Monday submitted an applicaton to the Africana Center to run as its community representative but did not continue with the application process beyond that point and is therefore not a candidate. Two seats on the Freshman Class Council, the vice president for social programming and the secretary, were filled in an uncontested election. The remaining empty positions on the Senate and Freshman Class Council will be filled after an online school-wide election on Sept. 20. A referendum on the use of $20,000 from the Student Activity Budget Surplus to TuftsLife for the purpose of leasing and operating a text messaging short code for 12 months will also appear on the ballot.

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Africana studies major incoming, Dean says

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Elections update

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New director sets goals for university library system

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CandidatesThe following freshmen will run in the Sept. 20 school-wide election. There are seven open freshman senate seats, and three open-ings on the Freshman Class Council.

Freshman Senate SeatsHarish GuptaDarien HeadenDan HealyJacob Indursky Robert JosephDan KatterBen KurlandAndrew NunezChloe PerezMatt RoyJessie SerrinoKelly Vieira Lesley Wellener

Freshman Class Council President CandidatesSantosh SwaminathanFay Syed-Ali

Freshman Class Council Treasurer CandidatesBoyu AiRyan CairnsMeaghan McGoldrick

Freshman Class Council Vice President for Academic Programming CandidatesMarcus BudlineLindsay Rogers

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Tisch Library plans to purchase five new iPads that will be available for students to borrow.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Team looks to boost support‘Fan the Fire’ designed to entice fans

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Campus parking permits for students and faculty this year increased 10 percent.

For many seniors returning for their final year at Tufts, the realities of post-graduation life are becoming much clearer; finding a job, getting an apart-ment, learning to pay the bills. But imagine if your plan for life after grad-uation instead included no running water, no electricity, no roads and no English. Enter the Peace Corps. Founded in 1961 by President John Kennedy, the Peace Corps program sends thou-sands of volunteers to 76 countries around the globe to promote world peace and international cooperation. Peace Corps members commit to a 27-month time frame, during which they specialize in a specific volunteer category. These can include education, youth and community development and HIV/AIDS. Volunteers are typi-cally placed in rural areas where little English is spoken, allowing for total cultural immersion. Given Tufts’ emphasis on both community service and international affairs, the program appeals to many students who are looking to serve abroad. A total of 497 Tufts graduates have served as Peace Corps volunteers since the organization was founded over 50 years ago, according to Director of Career Services Jean Papalia. There

are currently 20 Tufts alumni engaged in the organization in a variety of sites, including Guatemala, Honduras, Lesotho, Mongolia, Rwanda, South Africa and Ukraine. “Given our focus on service and leadership at Tufts, training and vol-unteering with the Peace Corps may seem like an extension of a Tufts edu-cation,” Papalia said. “Tufts graduates who served in the Peace Corps always remark on what a life-altering experi-ence it was. The skills they developed during their time in the Peace Corps serve them well throughout their future careers.” Tufts students considering join-ing the organization affirm that their attraction to the Peace Corps origi-nates both from a drive to give back to the community and an interest in having a new cultural experience. Callie McHugh, a senior who plans to apply to the Peace Corps, said the isolation of living alone in a new coun-try piqued her interest. “I think it would be such an incred-ible cultural experience to be 100-per-cent immersed in the sense that you have no Americans with you in the other culture,” McHugh said. “It’s something I’ve always imagined myself doing as a way to give back and per-sonally develop.” Other Tufts students share McHugh’s enthusiasm. “Simply put, my reasons

for wanting to join the Peace Corps are three-fold: service, language and immersion,” junior Matthias Maier, who is considering joining after he graduates, said. “I feel that grassroots community service is really important for inspiring change and what better way than to live in a community and work from the ground up,” he said. Both students also agreed that their Tufts education had brought the Peace Corps to the forefront of their consid-erations for post-graduation plans. “A key thing for me would have to be the atmosphere of Tufts,” Maier said. “I would say that the campus vibe that really supports international involve-ment ... I find the attitude toward service and being a global citizen an inspiration to continue to reach out and, as cliche as I know it is, try to save the world.” McHugh was similarly influenced by her experiences at Tufts. “I think the general focus on service at Tufts and giving back to the community and using resources yourself, your energy, your intelligence older people don’t have the same level of freedom and openness, and I think Tufts does a good job of helping people recognize their blessings and they should help other people with those things.”

The price of Tufts Medford cam-pus parking permits has increased by approximately 10 percent for the 2011-2012 academic year in order to better cover the cost of running the campus parking facilities, according to Vice President for Operations Dick Reynolds.

The cost of a full-year permit for a residential student has increased from $500 last year to $550 this year, while a full-year permit for employees or commuting students has increased to $275 from $250, according to Louis Galvez III, administrative service coordinator for the Tufts Department of Public and Environmental Safety. Half-year permits have increased in cost from $250 to $275 for residential

students, and have been raised from $125 to $138 for employees and com-muters, Galvez said. The cost of daily and monthly parking permits did not increase, according to Galvez. The Department of Public and Environmental Safety, which includes parking operations, raised permit costs to better support Tufts’ parking

Jumbos in the Peace Corps serve abroad by Maya KOhli


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The Sept. 14, article “Defense moves forward without three starter” incorrectly stated that Ferras Albitar was the team’s leader in tackles last season. In fact, Albitar ranked second on the team in tackles to Matthew Murray.

The Sept. 14 editorial, “Campus post office should stay open” incorrectly stated that Tufts charges the United States Postal Service (USPS) $1 per month for rent. The university actually charges the USPS $1 per year.

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costs, Galvez said. “The income that is being generated by the sale of permits for employees and students is not fully supporting Tufts’ parking department,” he said. The Department of Public and Environmental Safety relies on funds from parking permits to cover the costs of its maintenance obligations, including running the Dowling Hall and Lower Campus Road parking garages, according to Reynolds. Because only a minority of stu-dents purchased permits to park on campus, parking operations had to rely on the university for additional funds, according to Reynolds. “We just thought it wasn’t appro-priate for the overall university to subsidize people who wanted to have parking on campus,” Reynolds said. This marks the first time that per-mit costs have changed since fall 2008, according to Support Services Manager Sheila Chisholm. It is customary for the prices of parking permits to increase annu-ally, Chisholm said. The university

refrained from raising permit costs for the past three years because of the strained economy, Galvez said. “Prior to the last three years, there was an annual increase of 4 to 5 per-cent,” Reynolds said. Had the university pursued its annual policy during this time, the prices of parking permits would be even higher now, he noted. “It is relatively a small raise if you look at it across three years,” Reynolds said. Chisholm noted that Tufts was unique among its peer universi-ties such as Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and Boston College for holding the same prices of parking permits for those few years. “Over the last three years, [the prices of ] student permits have gone up every year for those institutions,” Chisholm said. Chisholm and Reynolds added that nearby schools charge more than Tufts in parking fees. “Tufts compares favorably to sur-rounding universities,” Chisholm said.

Elizabeth Rodgers (LA ’00), was guided by many of the same sentiments when she joined the Peace Corps in 2001 as a volun-teer in Uzbekistan. After being evacuated after the Sept. 11 attacks, she was able to complete her service in 2002. “The emphasis on volunteerism at Tufts definitely influenced me,” she said. “I hadn’t gotten as involved in volunteering as I would have liked while in college, so was look-ing for an opportunity to ‘give back’ after I graduated,” she said. “Peace Corps offered me the opportunity to travel, live overseas, learn a language and give something back after the many years and many dollars that had been invested in my education.” As a health extension volunteer, Rodgers went through an intensive three-month training period, spending 20 hours a week in language classes and another 20 learn-

ing the technical skills required for her job. After training, she was transferred to a small town called Juma. “I was the only Peace Corps Volunteer in Juma, and lived with an Uzbek host family,” she said. “They spoke no English, so it was a wonderful opportu-nity to become immersed in the language.” During her service, Rodgers participated in a variety of public health projects. “We worked together with nurses to develop community education programs for these women and other young women in the community on topics like nutrition, anemia prevention, breastfeeding and baby care,” she said. “I also started a youth group in my town for 7th and 8th graders, where we discussed a multitude of topics like goal setting, decision making and reproductive health.” In contrast, Cho-Yau Ling (LA ’06) had a Peace Corps volunteer experience in Kazakhstan that more closely resembled his

life back in America. “Unlike the experience Peace Corps adver-tises where you live in a small village where standard of living is much lower than in the U.S., my year of service was very different. I lived in a nice apartment with wi-fi internet, and went to coffee shops with friends,” he said. “I think it opened my eyes to realize that the “third world” no longer existed as it was when Peace Corps was created. Instead, low-income and middle-income countries are becoming wealthier and expecting more from the global economy, and Peace Corps volunteer has to adapt to this.” While both Rodgers and Ling empha-sized their wonderful experiences with the program, they also encouraged students considering the Peace Corps to weigh the decision very seriously. “Make sure that you are choosing a pro-gram or country that you are interested in. I know a lot of volunteers that told Peace Corps

they didn’t care where they work and what they do, when in actuality they had a certain ‘experience’ in mind,” said Ling. “For example, some volunteers in Kazakhstan thought all volunteers lived in a small village working on a field project, but instead were disappointed when they found themselves living in a large city and working in an office.” Rodgers had similar advice. “Peace Corps is definitely not for everyone,” he said. “Make sure you do your homework and learn about the program. Also, consider whether you will be able to be away from friends and family for two years,” she said. “While straight out of college is generally a great time to serve in the Peace Corps, sometimes people’s personal circumstances just aren’t right at this time. That said, if you can do it, I highly recommend taking advantage of the chance to get the experi-ence of a lifetime and make a difference in the world.”

ter, according to Cox. Cox said he is hoping to purchase iPad 3s, which are rumored for release between this fall and early next year. If the new iPad 3 is not available by the end of the semester, they may pur-chase an older version, he said. This year, Tisch has also created a working group of four Apple enthusiasts to track new iPad apps as they come on the market, including dictionaries and other tools that could be useful for stu-dents, Cox said. “The strides Apple has taken to make the user experience easier and more interactive are exciting,” he said. “We are always on the lookout for forward-leaning technology to augment Tisch.” “When students think of libraries, they think of technology,” he said. “As new platforms for content come into play, we want to figure out how stu-dents use them and eventually provide them.” Tisch circulation desk employee Josephine Herman said she was enthu-siastic about the opportunity to learn more about using iPads.

“I think [iPads at Tisch] would be great for people like me who haven’t seen the appeal but are open to learn-ing how they can be useful,” Herman, a junior, said. “It’s great that there’s that opportunity.” Wood also noted that Tisch has increased its volume of e-books and will continue to do so in the future. “The fact that many books are using e-publishing formats is very promising,” Cox said. Tisch also contains a new Digital Design Studio (DDS), which offers students the resources to create academic multime-dia presentations. The studio, located on the third level of the library, boasts six iMac editing stations, a presentation and recording room, as well as support for digitizing sources. DDS allows students to become actively involved in content creation, Wood noted. “It used to be that you had only packaged content [in libraries],” Wood said. “But that’s not the world we live in anymore. Students can generate their own content now, and I am very excit-ed about the energy that surrounds that process.”

today and tomorrow’s students? What should students be able to major and minor in? What will have enough substance and content?” Berger-Sweeney cited in her announcement ethnicity and identity-focused academic pro-grams at Stanford University, New York University, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles, which offer compara-tive race and ethnicity analysis in addition to academic tracks specific to particular races and ethnicities. “I do believe that these institu-tions have programs that, as far as I can tell, are highly regarded and very interesting and cutting edge,” she told the Daily. “I believe that we can take them as some mod-els, but that we can do something even more interesting, exciting and unique to Tufts.” Berger-Sweeney said that the new program will house a num-ber of new majors, including Africana studies. “Africana should be a core component of it,” Berger-Sweeney said. “We don’t want to go completely away from some of the original requests.” The faculty committee con-sists of Professor of Biology Frances Chew, Professor of History Peniel Joseph, Assistant Professor of Political Science Natalie Masuoka, Professor of Anthropology Deborah Pacini

Hernandez, Associate Professor of English Christina Sharpe and Associate Professor of Psychology Samuel Sommers. Assistant Professor of History Kris Manjapra and Assistant Professor of Music Stephan Pennington will advise the committee as junior faculty consultants. Chew is a former director of the American Studies Program. Joseph and Pacini Hernandez both served on the task force on Africana studies. Chew and Pacini Hernandez serve on the faculty Curricula Committee for the School of Arts and Sciences. “I also wanted to make sure I had a balance of people who both were in classic humanities departments and those who were more social science oriented, so we just had a breadth of ideas coming into the room to think creatively,” Berger-Sweeney said. Berger-Sweeney said pro-fessors with experience in the American studies and Africa in the New World programs would be able to consider potential changes to the existing curricu-lums in their departments fol-lowing the introduction of a new program focused on race and ethnicity studies. Without imitating any one exist-ing program at Tufts, the new pro-gram will likely be developed in a similar vein to the International Relations program, which does not have a defined set of faculty but instead draws its staff from relevant departments.

Berger-Sweeney explained in an interview with the Daily that she chose to implement a program rather than promote the option of a department specific to the study of the African Diaspora based on the report she received from the task force on Africana studies, which she convened in February. They delivered their final recommenda-

tions during the summer recess. A program would serve a wider swath of the undergraduate pop-ulation and act as a more flex-ible solution to the university’s approach to race and ethnicity-specific studies, she said. “The question existed before I came to Tufts University and it’s in some ways a question that every

generation asks about what should be taught and how it should be taught,” she said. “I had to stop and think about what was the best decision for Arts and Sciences and what I thought I truly support, what I thought I heard the faculty supporting, and … [what] student voices [were saying].” “We could have simply upgrad-ed the current minor to a major,” she wrote in her announcement, citing the existing but floundering Africa in the New World minor, which some have requested be updated to meet the demand of an Africana studies department. “But that doesn’t seem a suffi-cient improvement,” she contin-ued. “The future I seek suggests a comparative model where stu-dents and faculty from different groups can think both horizon-tally; that is, across the discrete subject areas of race and ethnicity and possibly gender and deeply within them.” The cluster hire of three new faculty across different depart-ments intended to enhance the program would mean new classes to supplement the existing cours-es that could also fulfill require-ments for the program. “The ability to hire new faculty who would be a part of the pro-gram almost ensures or guarantees that there would be new courses that would be developed as a part of it,” Berger-Sweeney said. Berger-Sweeney said she expects an update from the fac-ulty committee in the spring.

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Berger-Sweeney announced a race and ethnicity studies program.

Gonzalo López-Gallego’s “Apollo 18” (2011) has conquered new frontiers of flopping. Here is

a movie of such astoundingly poor quality that it even misses the “so bad it’s good” territory, settling instead into the realm of painful, absolute disaster. Set in the middle of the Cold War, this film profiles two men who are ordered to land on the moon, allegedly to set up machines to detect intercontinental ballistic missiles coming from Russia. As their time on the moon transpires, a chance encounter with a dead

Soviet cosmonaut leads Captain Ben Anderson (Warren Christie) and Commander Nate Walker (Lloyd Owen) to slowly under-stand the dark reason they were sent to the moon in the first place. Shot in documentary style, the film alternates between handheld and fixed cameras in the Apollo 18 shuttle. This movie clearly endeavors to be the next evo-lution of “Paranormal Activity” (2007), and while the prospect of “Paranormal Activity” in space is awesome, “Apollo 18” for-gets the two very basic reasons it was such a success. Firstly, “Paranormal Activity” only really worked well as a gimmick in the original movie, and secondly, the use of a tripod ensured the audi-ence would not be sickened by wild, jerking flails of motion. As it stands, the astronauts spend the majority of their time walking around on the moon, holding the camera to the side. While this is certainly realistic (one could hardly expect them to keep the camera up at all times), it also

means that the shots swing aggres-sively around the surface of the moon. Perhaps a rock aficionado will be overjoyed to see such atten-tion to his hobby, but the rest of the audience will have to endure bor-ing shots of moon turf for nearly one quarter of the entire run time. Moreover, because this is the year 1974, it stands to reason that the cameras would be unre-liable and switch frequently to static, have the picture re-adjust or produce grainy, unfocused pictures. These nauseating tech-niques are used to cut between different shots, lurching between angles, lighting and computer-generated imagery. It honestly appears as though director López-Gallego either has absolutely no understanding of proper filmmaking technique or has chosen to ignore the past 60 years of film history in favor of an amateurish auteurism that may be even more sickening than his magnum opus (if that’s possible). The overall feeling is reminiscent of 1980s MTV commercials that

jump wildly from image to image — the kind of ad that is barely tolerable even at 30 seconds, let alone 90 minutes. And, because, “In space, no one can hear you scream,” the director brings further affront to the film-making institution: There is no sound in the entire movie aside from technical beeping, heavy breathing and two unlikeable char-acters either trying to find a radio signal or jumping at the noises they’re hearing outside. From the perspective of any moviegoer, these directorial deci-sions are close to inexcusable but can be forgiven as long as the monster of the monster movie is in any way compelling. However, “Apollo 18’s” version of a moon monster is laughably stupid and would have had the audience in stitches if the cinematography hadn’t made everyone too dizzy. Apparently the satellites set up on the moon were actually bea-cons to draw a bunch of moon rock spiders. These little guys (and I mean little) are everywhere,

growling and knocking stuff over like passive-aggressive house pets and are virtually indistinguish-able from the rest of the moon. After one of the crewmen becomes infected by the spider venom and slowly deteriorates, the other makes every attempt to escape while being hunted by his partner and some scary-looking stones. But this leaves a few things unanswered: How did every other astronaut that landed on the moon survive this ordeal? How could the U.S. government find out about these predatory rocks? The answer, of course, is a resounding, “Eh, whatever.” So that’s “Apollo 18.” Apparently our space program was cancelled because the moon was just far too lively a place for us to keep up with. Sent off with a pathetic cliff-hanger, this mess of a movie adds nothing to catalogues of art and stands as a giant sneer in the face of basic and exceptional movi-emaking achievement. Calling it a “film” is truly the greatest insult to the industry.

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This Sunday, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will be handing out the 63rd annual Emmy Awards. This year’s nominees include many fan-favorite shows and critically acclaimed productions. The actors, actresses and shows that the Daily feels should win are italicized, while the ones that are believed to win will be high-lighted in bold.

Outstanding TV Miniseries or Movie Nominees “Cinema Verite” “Downtown Abbey” “The Kennedys” “Mildred Pierce” “The Pillars of the Earth” “Too Big To Fail” In the past, this category has been domi-nated by HBO productions, and this year is no different. “Mildred Pierce,” the year’s most-nominated show, is the clear favorite — and for good reason. “Mildred Pierce” has the high production values of an Oscar-worthy film and features one of the most talented casts on the small screen. Todd Hayne’s miniseries is truly worthy of all the acclaim it’s sure to garner.

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Nominees Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie” Tina Fey, “30 Rock” Laura Linney, “The Big C” Melissa McCarthy, “Mike & Molly” Martha Plimpton, “Raising Hope” Amy Poehler, “Parks and Recreation”

“Parks and Recreation” is one of the best comedies on television today, and much of that is due to Poehler’s performance. Poehler is always hysterical, and at the same time capable of keeping her charac-ter realistically grounded. Unfortunately for Poehler’s fans, Emmy awards tend to go to movie stars, and darker roles carry more weight than silly ones. Because of these preferences, Linney is likely to walk away with the statue this Sunday for her role as a cancer-stricken mother and wife.

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Nominees Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock” Louis C.K., “Louie” Steve Carell, “The Office” Johnny Galecki, “The Big Bang Theory” Matt LeBlanc, “Episodes” Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory” Louis C.K. is the director, star, editor and writer for every single episode of his show “Louie.” No one else in television history has ever taken on all of these roles. He deserves some recognition for his dedication in creat-ing such a high-quality show, as well as for the many hats he dons in its production. Still, the Emmy voters will most likely give the award to Carell, who has yet to win an Emmy award and has just finished his last season as “The Office’s” iconic Michael Scott.

Outstanding Comedy Series Nominees “Big Bang Theory” “Glee” “Modern Family” “The Office” “Parks and Recreation” “30 Rock”

Oftentimes, the Emmys reward the same shows year after year and tend to go with safer picks. “Modern Family” is a very safe choice for Emmy vot-ers — it closely follows the conven-tions of older sitcoms and is reminis-cent of the family comedies of yes-teryear. While “Modern Family” is a decent show, “Parks and Recreation” is a more consistently witty series with more sustained character development throughout its entire season.

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Nominees Kathy Bates, “Harry’s Law” Connie Britton, “Friday Night Lights” Mireille Enos, “The Killing” Mariska Hargitay, “Law and Order: SVU” Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife” Elisabeth Moss, “Mad Men”

Julianna Margulies was the favor-ite to win last year but was upset by Kyra Sedgwick. Emmy voters are likely to make it up to Margulies by finally recognizing her for carrying one of the most-watched and well-respected shows on network television. However, despite Margulies’ contribution, Moss is probably more deserving of the Emmy. She finds extraordinary depth in her character and stands toe-to-toe with some of television’s top actors. To stand out in “Mad Men’s” stellar cast takes some amazing and award-worthy acting.

Outstanding Actor in a Drama Nominees Steve Buscemi, “Boardwalk Empire” Kyle Chandler, “Friday Night Lights” Michael C. Hall, “Dexter” Jon Hamm, “Mad Men” Hugh Laurie, “House” Timothy Olyphant, “Justified”

Since perennial favorite Bryan Cranston is not in the running this year, this award is up for grabs. Emmy voters are likely to give the statue to Hamm, as “Mad Men” is a proven Emmy favorite and Hamm has yet to win the award, despite being “Mad Men’s” lead. Hopefully though, Buscemi’s performance will not go overlooked. Although “Boardwalk Empire” may not have lived up to its hype, Buscemi has crafted a three-dimensional character that has stolen the scene throughout the entire season. He deserves the award for being much better than the material he is given.

Outstanding Drama Series Nominees “Boardwalk Empire” “Dexter” “Friday Night Lights” “Game of Thrones” “The Good Wife” “Mad Men”

One thing is for sure: Emmy voters love “Mad Men.” The show has won Best Drama for the last three years, and that streak isn’t likely to end anytime soon. “Mad Men” has consistently high produc-tion values, a talented cast and takes risks in its storytelling. It has established itself as the most compelling drama on televi-sion week after week.

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smaller numbers could work to our advan-tage. We can have more individual time at practice and we can be more of a cohesive group. It’s still going to work out.” Browne was not only a stellar tennis player but also a natural leader, and her absence has hit the team hard. With Browne gone, Katz is stepping into the role of captain at a crucial time when the team needs a central motivator to keep its spirits high. “It’s different without Julia, but Lindsay has been doing an amazing job as leader,” Gann said. “She’s filling Julia’s shoes very well so far. It’ll also be better once everyone really gets over the fact that Julia’s not here.” Browne helped out at practices for the first two weeks of the season but is now preparing to travel to Turkey where she will be playing tennis professionally. The team’s main assis-tant coach since 2009, Jaime Kenney, left the women’s team this fall in order to become the head coach for the men’s team. Replacing Kenney is Barbara Schafer, a longtime tennis

companion and friend of head coach Kate Bayard. Meanwhile, the injuries that plague soph-omore Eliza Flynn and freshmen Sophie Schonfeld and Sarafina Nance will force all three to sit out for the majority of the fall sea-son. All three, however, hope to be cleared to play during the more important spring cam-paign. “The fall season is more for practice and it’s a chance for the new team to bond,” Katz said. “We want to be a unit and build relationships with the freshmen.” The injured freshmen are in especially unfamiliar territory, though, considering that they are unable to physically practice and play with teammates that they are just getting to know. The veterans on the team are working hard to make them feel included. “It’s obviously tough when girls on the team are injured but [Sophie and Sarafina] have been at practice and have been going to treat-ment,” Gann said. “I felt like they were part of the team before they even got here.” The Jumbos plan to rely heavily on the

abilities of their doubles players, which have always been a strength of the Tufts team. “Last year we had probably the top doubles in the country, and this year it’s not going to be any different,” Gann said. “[Coach Bayard] does a really good job working with doubles, especially in the fall, and that will put us at a big advantage.” Katz will likely take Browne’s spot and join sophomore Shelci Bowman at No. 1 doubles. Gann and junior Lauren Hollender will be at No. 2, and junior Janice Lam and sophomore Rebecca Kimmel will be in the No. 3 spot. Some much-needed positive energy for the team comes in the form of brand new tennis courts, renovated over the summer. Not only are the court surfaces now much better to play on, but there is additional viewing space and seating areas for fans and spectators to better enjoy the matches. With the courts in great condition, Tufts, for the first time in years, has the opportunity to host the conference championships in the spring. “[The courts] are so amazing,” Katz said.

“Obviously we play better because we used to have a few dead spots on the court. It’s also a confidence boost almost because everyone’s really excited to go out and play, and hopefully we’ll get a lot more fans.” The team begins every new season with a goal to beat the top two teams in the coun-try — NESCAC rivals Williams and Amherst — whom the Jumbos have not been able to upset in decades. The Jumbos’ first chance this 2011-12 season for a victory against the Ephs comes tomorrow, when they play at Williams for their season opener. Tufts is especially hopeful that it can be successful this sea-son, because Williams graduated both members of its No. 1 doubles pairing Nikki Reich and Lucy Marchese. “We always have great matches against Williams. In my mind, what better way to start the season than to start it against them,” Gann said. “I always prefer to play against Williams than a weak Div. III school. The better the competition, the better our team will do in the spring.”

girls feel strong and confident coming out of this summer with a solid base. We are all confident that the time we put in to stay-ing healthy is going to benefit us come championship races.” With plenty of time between now and the championship races, the women look to con-tinue to improve and push each other in workouts. Working as a team during each workout and race is a big focus of the team this year. “There is a lot more of a team mentality because we have a lot of returners who now have a whole year of running with each other under our belts,” Price

said. “I think that will make us more a cohesive unit in both races and off the course.” Looking forward to those important races is inevitable, and the Jumbos are excited for another opportunity to prove themselves as a New England standout. “We want to set the tone for championship season by work-ing as a team throughout the year to improve and stay strong and healthy,” Melhado said. “If we do that, we are confident we can do well in November.” Until November comes around, the Jumbos will focus on improving their strength and testing themselves against the best teams in the region.

They will race first at the Maine Invitational at Bowdoin on Sept. 17, where the Regional Championship will take place just over two months later — a great opportunity to learn the terrain of the course. Without a clear frontrunner, the varsity contributors are sure to mix things up over the course of the season, which the team thinks is a good thing. “This year we have a larger group of girls that have the capacity to contribute in cham-pionship meets,” Creath said. “So many girls have set them-selves up for very successful sea-sons and I think the new depth of our team will work to our advantage.”

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talked with the head of Communications about it, and she thought it was a great idea.” Before long, the idea had grown wings and taken off. Burke and Roberts were given the opportunity to present to the Board of Athletics Overseers, and their proposal was met with widespread approval and excite-ment. After graduation, Burke was offered a part-time job in Advancement under the direction of Christine Sanni. Though Roberts could not stay on campus due to a job she already had lined up, she has been in constant contact with Burke about the plan. “Melissa and Amanda were really the cre-ators of the concept and the idea behind it,” Sanni said. “Their continued work on what was originally their senior project got this to where it is. It likely would never have made it here without them.” In a matter of just a few months, the plan had gone from being an idea in the head of a pair of seniors to a major initiative of Tufts Athletics.

Spirit, Sports, Service The project was refined during Burke’s time in Advancement. It was there that the final piece of the puzzle was added: active citizenship. “[Mike Sherman], my art director, said we should really try to find the connective tissue between athletes and non-athletes,” Sanni said. “And that tissue is active citizenship. Tufts students are brought into Tufts with the expectation that they will be active citizens,

so we wanted to find a way to leverage that to get non-athletes to support athletes. When you show up for a game, you aren’t just sup-porting the soccer team; you are also sup-porting the greater good.” Once that was in place, the name — Fan the Fire: Spirit, Sports, Service — soon fol-lowed. In many ways, it is the project’s con-nection to citizenship that separates it from past initiatives to garner support for the ath-letics department. While some students may struggle to connect to a sporting event, ser-vice is very much a part of the Tufts maxim throughout the school’s colleges and depart-ments. Many of the athletic teams were already involved in volunteer work of some kind or another, so the idea was a natural fit for them as well. “Our feeling was that if we wanted to generate more attention to sports at Tufts, it needed to be about more than just sports,” Tufts Director of Athletics Bill Gehling said. “We wanted to use sports to unite the Tufts community, so this idea of active citizenship, which is a core concept of this university, played well into that.”

Making an IMPACT When it came to choosing a team and organization to build the program’s first event around, Team IMPACT and its relationship with the women’s soccer team seemed to be a perfect fit. Team IMPACT, the brainchild of a group of largely Tufts alumni, follows a simi-lar model to the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, which matched Adrian Misic — a young boy with a brain tumor — with the baseball team in 2009. “The concept behind Team IMPACT is that

when there are children facing life-threaten-ing or serious conditions, we are trying to help them out with a built in support net-work,” Dan Kraft, who serves on the board of Team IMPACT as well as Tufts’ Board of Athletics Overseers, explained. “At hospitals you see kids going in and initially they have a lot of guests, but as the treatment lengthens the only people left are the parents and sib-lings. Team IMPACT gives them an enhanced family.” Over the summer, Team IMPACT paired the women’s soccer team with Joli Vega, who lost an eye to retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer that she was diagnosed with at the age of two. The team first met Joli during summer games and had adopt-ed her in a small ceremony before the school year began. She has quickly become a part of the team, sharing birthdays, eating in the dining hall and sitting on the bench during pre-game. In fact, she even has her own number. “She has really become a part of the team,” senior Laney Siegner said. “For an 8-year-old, she’s not shy at all. She’s always right in the middle of the action. She came to our prac-tice a couple of weeks ago with her mom and we all made friendship bracelets together.” But while the program may seem on its surface to be all about helping out a child in need, Hirsch feels that in many ways Joli’s effect on the team may be larger than the team’s effect on Joli. “We are probably getting more out of it than she is,” Hirsch said. “She’s so cute and funny and I feel like I have a new little sister and best friend. It’s not every day that you get to meet someone from a different age group

than yourself that you get close to and it’s really exciting and fun.” Kraft says this type of reaction is not atypi-cal. “One of the things I really love about the organization is that the athletic teams get a lot out of it as well,” Kraft said. “I think it grounds them and they see that people are suffering in the world and they can make a real difference.” For any fans that are interested in learning more about Team IMPACT or Joli’s story, the organization will have a tent set up at the game. And of course, Joli will be on the side-line cheering on her team.

The start of something big The athletics department hopes that this can be the first in a series of events through-out the year and across all of the university’s sports. But that is all contingent on the suc-cess of the premier event. “This is the starting point,” Burke said. “How successful this first game is will deter-mine how many more events like this we can do and how much funding we will get. So we really need everyone to come out.” The gates open at 11 a.m. with the wom-en’s game kicking off at noon. The men’s game, also against Wesleyan, will start at 2:30 p.m. There are undoubtedly high expecta-tions for the event. “I’ll be surprised if we don’t have a big sup-porting crowd on Saturday,” Gehling said. “I will be disappointed, but more than anything I will be surprised. It’s going to draw a lot of people, but it is another challenge to keep drawing a lot of people. I hope that people get there and see how much fun it can be.”

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After a groundbreaking 2010-11 cam-paign, in which the men’s tennis team won its most matches in 15 years and reached the NESCAC Championships for the first time since the tournament went to a six-team for-mat in 2006, the Jumbos’ program appears to be on the rise. With a deep roster that returns almost all of last year’s starters, the squad is set to begin its fall season under the direction of new head coach Jaime Kenney. While Tufts lost to Bowdoin, 5-1, in the first round of NESCACs this past May, Kenney was coaching the women’s team to its first NCAA Quarterfinals appearance. Although she was the women’s assistant coach for the last two years, she took over full coaching duties while head coach Kate Bayard was pregnant, and she was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Assistant Coach of the Year. In August, Kenney was hired to run the men’s program, making her the only female coach of a men’s tennis team in the NESCAC. So far, she likes what she’s seeing from the squad. “I’m impressed because from the day they stepped out on the court it looked like all of them worked hard over the summer,” Kenney said. “It looked like they put a lot of time into being prepared when they got back, and it’s just nice to see as a coach that everybody looks like they’ve come back thinking, ‘This is the year.’” The players are also on board. “I think overall everyone is on the same page, as in we’re trying to win,” said senior Morrie Bossen, who is a tri-captain along with classmates Kai Victoria and Sam Laber. “Everyone has fallen in line with coach Kenney’s plan for the team, and as a result I think we’ve had some good practices so far.” The Jumbos graduated only two seniors after last season and are returning their entire lineup from the NESCAC tournament. Their roster includes three seniors, four juniors, five sophomores and one freshman, and, unlike in past years, that’s what the team will

consist of all the way through the spring. “The policy for this team going forward while I’m coaching is, ‘I want to look down the courts and feel like that’s my teammate for the next year,’” Kenney said. “I think it’s very hard to build a team atmosphere when you don’t know if that’s going to be your teammate two months from now.” Still, the lineup is hardly set in stone, and a few minor injuries as well as the absence of junior Mark Westerfield — who is abroad for the fall — will lead to some lineup shifts come springtime, assuming everyone stays

healthy. The fall season, which is less than two months long, is a time for players to work on skills and see where they stack up individu-ally at the ITA Regional Championships in late September. “We have a good enough [fall] schedule that I can see them compete, but also a light enough schedule that we can really work on some things in practice,” Kenney said. “The fall season gives the guys an opportunity to work on their game, to practice some things that you don’t want to practice when you’re

in the thick of the season in April.” The spring season, on the other hand, is more critical, featuring conference match-ups, conference championships and poten-tially NCAAs. To bring the Jumbos to where they want to be in the spring — a top-four finish in the NESCAC — Kenney has made a cou-ple of minor tweaks to the system, such as focusing more on drills and less on match play in practice. In addition, Kenney will emphasize an aggressive style of doubles play that she believes is crucial to the team’s improvement, and she recently ordered a new Macintosh video system that she hopes to use as a teaching tool for doubles strate-gies. New assistant coach Karl Gregor — who attended and coached at the U.S. Air Force Academy, served for five years as an Air Force Captain and competes in the Boston Pro Tennis League — is reinforcing these changes. Under Kenney and Gregor, every player will be treated equally. “[They are] increasing the accountability and equality in terms of everyone’s commit-ment level to the team, which I think is a good thing,” Bossen said. “It’s a uniform set of expectations for everyone.” Now, with the necessary pieces in place for Tufts to become a formidable NESCAC opponent, it’s up to the players to make it happen. “It’s an individual sport,” Kenney said, “but really the only thing I care about is our team winning. I want to see them all suc-ceed, but what’s important to me at the end of the day is that we’re winning matches. And it takes everyone on the team to do that.” As the program improves, the goals get loftier. “Last year our big goal was to make NESCACs, and we made it, but once we got there Bowdoin beat us relatively easily,” Bossen said. “I think our goal is definitely making NESCACs again, but this time win-ning some matches there — not just being happy to be there.”

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tied for first after the opening slate of games is Daniel “tommy Pickles” Rathman, our fearless leader whose inspirational capabilities match the football-picking ones demonstrated in his 11-5 showing. inside his diaper is a plastic screwdriver, and inside his brain is sheer brilliance.

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in sole possession of seventh place, a far cry from the abymsal 4-10 Week 1 he put up in 2010, is Ben “Squid from Rocket Power” Kochman because of his supple frame and super-cool hipster glasses. For real, though. anyway, Kochman’s 9-7 week is good enough to put him within striking distance of first, but he’s got alex “Grandpa Phil” Prewitt and Matt “Shrine of the Silver Monkey” Berger one game behind him at 8-8 each.

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tri-captain Sam laber is one of theree seniors on an experienced squad.

the team put in his best sum-mer of training yet, according to Antokal. “I feel pretty great about how my training has gone leading into this season in particular, and it’s great that I have guys like Matt around me to continu-

ously push me,” Marks said. “We have a great group of guys to train with. I’d like to improve on a weekly basis compared to how I did last year and ultimately perform better at a regional and national level.” The runners will get their first taste of competitive action at the Maine Invitational at

Bowdoin on Saturday. The race will serve as a chance for the team to gauge its fitness and to run on the course that will play host to the NCAA New England Div. III Championships on Nov. 12. “We’re there to check out the regionals course and to see what the terrain is like and get

a feel for the different strategic points so we can make use of them at the regional’s meet,” Antokal said. “Also we’re look-ing to get an indication of how fit everyone is and see where their base lines are, but not go so hard that the first race of the season is our best race. We want to save that for late October and

November.” With all the base training under their belts, now the real work begins for the Jumbos. “The senior class is really excited to have such an energet-ic, disciplined and driven team to end our TUXC career on,” Antokal said. “We couldn’t ask for better guys to do it with.”

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After a summer of intense training, the women’s cross country team looks to take advantage of its fitness and improve on its eighth-place fin-ish at the Div. III New England Regional Championships. Even with the graduation of All-American Amy Wilfert (LA ’11), the team comes into the year with valuable experience and a core group of talented sophomores and juniors itch-ing to prove themselves on the national level. New England is a notably deep and talented region with two of the top teams nationally in Williams and Middlebury. The Ephs and Panthers typi-cally capture the top two spots at the national qualifying meet, so the battle to qualify in the remaining slots is sure to be a dogfight — and the Jumbos are right in the thick of things. Returning in great form are tri-captains senior Anya Price and junior Lilly Fisher, as well as a slew of Tufts’ top young 2010 performers. Junior Melanie Monroe and sopho-mores Lauren Creath, Abby Barker and Laura Peterson are all coming off great var-sity campaigns and looking to reach new heights. Two of the three tri-cap-tains, Price and senior Caroline Melhado, are returning from a spring semester abroad look-ing to lead a team stacked with juniors and sophomores who have improved immensely in their absence. The third, Fisher, emerged as a top runner for the

Jumbos last year and posted a 37th-place finish at Regionals. Though there is an undeniable void left by Wilfert’s departure, the team isn’t worrying about making up for that difference. “We gained a lot of depth this year with a group of talented sophomores and juniors com-ing back with more experience,” Price said. “Obviously, we lost our number-one runner, but our depth and improvement from front to back is going to give us a big advantage.” Part of that improvement can be attributed to motivat-ed and smart summer train-ing. Knowing how much work needs to be put in, many team members stepped up their dis-tances with hopes of achieving their goals. “A lot of girls made signifi-cant jumps in their mileage from past summers,” Melhado said. “We all know how much work we needed to put in to reach the next level, and a lot of girls were very motivated to help this team reach another level. The mileage should help everyone stay strong and fit over the entire season, which we will need to be successful.” One of the runners who made strides this summer is Creath, who was an important contributor for the Jumbos last year with a 67th place regional finish. “The biggest difference between the attitude this sum-mer and others is just our core group being more experienced and really trying to push our-selves,” Creath said. “A lot of

After one of the program’s young-est and deepest years, the men’s cross country team looks to pick up where it left off last fall, this time with a more experienced squad and a drive to best its eighth-place Regional finish. The Jumbos will once again be led by the duo of juniors Kyle Marks and Matt Rand. The pair returned this fall stronger and more experienced, and both appeared on the national scene last year. Marks and Rand earned NCAA All-Region Honors with their finishes at the Div. III New England Regional Cross Country Championship race, placing 13th and 17th, respectively. Marks’ per-formance earned him a berth in the NCAA Div. III National Championships, where he placed 64th. Rand returns to competition with significant national experience, fresh off an All-American finish in the 10,000-meter run in out-door track. And although the Jumbos’ hopes of earning a team berth to nationals last fall fell short, the squad returns even more determined for the 2011 season. “The team looked really great last year going into late October and early November,” senior co-captain Erik Antokal said. “We had high hopes for regionals, but a couple of variables didn’t go our way. The good thing now is we’re coming into this season with a big chip

on our shoulder and a lot of competitive ambition. Guys are ready to run hard and run fast.” Returning six of the squad’s top seven runners and 10 of the top 12 looks like a promising start. The biggest losses to graduation were Chris Brunnquell (E ’11) and Jeff Ragazzini (E ’11). Ragazzini was the fifth highest scorer for Tufts at the regional meet in 2010, and the pair earned All-Region honors in the 2009 season. “We [had some losses], but really when you look at the region we’re com-peting with, we didn’t suffer as many losses in leadership or in personnel as some teams did,” Marks said. “We’re both blessed and cursed with a young squad, and we just need to turn poten-tial into some good races.” Along with Rand and Marks, other big contributors last fall were sophomores Liam Cassidy and Ben Wallis and junior Tyler Andrews, each in his first season suiting up for Tufts. “It was great to have Ben and Liam get the experience of being in the regional meet as freshmen, and so I’ll like to see how they perform coming off of an impressive freshmen year,” Marks said. “I’m also excited to see how Connor Rose and [co-captain] Scott McArthur perform in their senior years.” After putting in all the miles this sum-mer, the team is confident in its fitness entering the season. Each member of

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after gaining national experience last year, junior Kyle Marks expects to improve throughout this season.

Last season was a historic one for the women’s tennis team, as the Jumbos successfully climbed from a national No. 9 ranking at the start of the season up to a program-best No. 5, and then reached the national quarterfinals for the first time in school history. It might come as a surprise, then, that after such an exciting season, the Jumbos are starting off the fall on a worrisome note. The Jumbos took their first blow when three players graduated last spring, one of whom was the nation-ally ranked No. 7 Julia Browne (LA

’11), one of the best tennis players in Tufts history and the 2010 NCAA Div. III National Singles Champion. In addition to that loss, two team members — senior Jennifer LaCara and sophomore Dana Siegel — decided independently to leave the team in order to have more time to focus on academics and per-sonal ambitions. Even worse for the Jumbos is the fact that three play-ers, including both of their recruited freshmen, are currently injured. With just seven able players in a sport with six starting singles spots, a completely different atmosphere exists among the team. There is very little room for error this season. “It’s definitely a totally differ-

ent feel at practice,” sophomore Samantha Gann said. “We’re han-dling it pretty well right now; we’re just trying to get psyched up for the season to start. Once everyone’s healthy we’ll be even more mentally there.” The team remains optimistic and is doing its best to turn the small numbers into an advantage for itself. “We’ll be fine because our lineup is very deep. We’ve always had a lot of people that could play, so I think everyone that’s playing is obvi-ously capable of doing well,” junior captain Lindsay Katz said. “And the

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Doubles play was a major strength for the Jumbos in 2010, and they hope that will remain the case this fall.

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