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(09/23/20 5:03am)
Perhaps the one thing no viewer ever wants to see, Week 2 of the NFL season was defined by the slew of injuries that occurred from the start of the kickoff to the last play on Monday night. It was another one of the devastating side effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the sports world, as a canceled preseason made players particularly vulnerable to injury. The cruelty of the week was known coming in, as it was already a week that saw stars such as San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle, New Orleans Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas and Denver Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay out for their respective games, but it eventually took a turn for a brutal Sunday. While the 49ers won their game against the Jets, the defending NFC champions will have plenty to mull over as they saw their starting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, star defensive end Nick Bosa, defensive tackle Solomon Thomas and RB Raheem Mostert all leave the game due to injury. A pair of generational RBs went down, with Saquon Barkley tearing his ACL, while Christian McCaffrey picked up an ankle injury. An over-dependence on both means that the New York Giants and the Carolina Panthers, respectively, will have to find ways to restructure their offense if they want to keep any sort of relevance in the league this year. Though, Clemson University QB Trevor Lawrence is always an option! More notable injuries include Chicago Bears RB David Montgomery, Giants WR Sterling Shepard, Broncos QB Drew Lock, Broncos WR Jerry Jeudy and Los Angeles Chargers QB Tyrod Taylor. Rather than a game of football, the NFL resembled the likes of an Antietam battlefield on Sunday. Here is a recap of some of Sunday’s games.
(04/24/12 12:00am)
Dear Editor,
(04/08/09 12:00am)
While the majority of next year's Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate body was automatically elected on Thursday in uncontested elections, 13 freshmen will vie for seven Senate seats today in a general election. All members of the Class of 2012 who have paid the Student Activities Fee are eligible to vote in today's online vote, which was scheduled to begin at 12:01 a.m. and to continue until 11:59 p.m. This election season saw many uncontested seats result in automatic elections, including the six of the seven seats on the TCU Judiciary, two of five positions on the Committee on Student Life (CSL), four Senate seats for the rising senior class and 10 Senate seats for the rising junior class. After a candidates meeting on Thursday, the Elections Commission (ECOM) verified the eligibility of all candidates running for uncontested positions. Current juniors Callie Kolbe, Xavier Malina, Brandon Rattiner and Antonella Scarano will represent next year's senior class in the Senate. Scarano is the outgoing TCU historian; Rattiner, an outgoing co-chair of the Senate's Education Committee, intends to run for the TCU presidency this year. Each class is allotted seven Senate seats. When fewer than seven candidates run, the remaining seats drop down to the next class. The three unsought senior senator positions therefore moved to the junior class, making 10 junior senator seats available. Ten candidates thus ran for just as many spots, resulting in all the candidates' automatic elections. Current sophomores Nedghie Adrien, Edward Chao, Eoghan Conway, Jack Dilday, Chas Morrison, Dan Pasternack, Bruce Ratain, Tomas Valdes, Sam Wallis and Samia Zahran will represent next year's junior class. Both Morrison and Zahran are planning to run against Rattiner for TCU president; Morrison is the outgoing chair of the Senate's Administration and Policy Committee. The six new members of the Judiciary are Guktae An, Elizabeth Doyle, Lindsay Helfman, J.P. Kaytrosh, Shayan Purkayastha and Colin Smith. Junior Brandon Sultan and freshman Andrew Thorne will serve on the CSL next year. The one remaining Judiciary seat and the three remaining CSL seats will become available in the general election at the start of the fall semester. Meanwhile, an open forum for candidates for the Class of 2012's Senate seats took place on Monday. Freshmen Aaron Bartel, Danielle Cotter, Jonathan Danzig, Kate de Klerk, Luke Fraser, Tomas Garcia, Joel Greenberg, Manuel Guzman, Nunu Luo, Elliot McCarthy, Sigourney Norman, Shantal Richards and Abraham Stein, are on today's ballot. ECOM Chair Adam Weldai said the competitive freshman election resulted from a highly motivated and vocal freshman class. "This freshman class that we have now is incredibly active," said Weldai, a senior. "They are more vocal than any other class I've seen at Tufts. These people pay attention to their issues, and they really want to get involved." Wallis, a senator who was automatically reelected last week, shared this sentiment. "The freshmen do have a tremendous amount of passion about things," Wallis said. "I think some senior members of the body next year will be able to direct that energy." Kaytrosh, who will serve on the Judiciary next year, said that he believes his class' leaders have a lot of potential but also need specific goals. "As a group, we haven't quite figured out what specific measures we're going to channel this energy into," Kaytrosh said. "There's a lot to be expected from this class in the future … Only now are we just starting to get our voice." According Weldai, several current juniors, including outgoing TCU President Duncan Pickard, have foregone reelection in order to pursue other goals, such as seeking out trustee representative positions on the Senate. Last year's TCU president, senior Neil DiBiase, took this route. "They have served the TCU as best they can as senators and would like to run for trustee representative in the fall," Weldai said. The majority of this year's Senate executive board was comprised of juniors. Weldai said that this year's election distinguishes itself somewhat from those in years past. "We have an underclassman-heavy Senate coming," he said. "It's also different because in most elections in the past, some seats drop down to the rising freshmen." Some senators who are not seeking reelection cited frustrations with the structure of the student government's legislative body. "I'm not running because I think that a lot of the things I'm passionate about can be accomplished without being in the Senate," said Shabazz Stuart, a sophomore who served as a senator this year. Stuart said that while the body's lengthy Sunday evening meetings are not necessarily inefficient, a lot of extended bureaucratic measures can be avoided in committee meetings, where he believes progress is best made. Freshman Jimmy Zuniga, who also served as a senator this year and is not running for reelection, said he disagreed with how the Senate functions. "Things I've accomplished this year, I have done outside the capacity of the Senate," he said. "I don't need a title to continue bringing change to this campus."
(04/07/09 12:00am)
After the initial decision on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate recovered funds, I co-wrote an op-ed on Feb. 4 concerning fiscal and moral responsibility. I believed, and still believe, that the two can coexist and that we can serve our constituents while still being fiscally responsible. I believed that was true until the final vote concerning the recovered funds. In the final TCU Senate meeting of the year on Sunday, April 5, the TCU Senate voted to allocate $230,000 to the Tufts Mountain Club (TMC) to build a Trips Cabin as an addition to the existing Loj facilities in New Hampshire. The property is owned by the University but is managed by the TMC. I find this absolutely appalling and a far cry from fiscal or moral responsibility. We voted down the Loj as a possibility during the initial discussion on the recovered funds, but things have apparently changed since then … somehow. I spoke about this during the meeting, so I have nothing to hide concerning my true feelings on the subject. Under any normal circumstances, I believe that I would support adding to the Loj. I have used it and enjoyed my visit. I plan to go in the future. However, as senators we have an obligation to vote how we believe our constituents would vote. Over the past few days, I have talked to a number of people and I have often asked, "Do you think that an addition to the Loj is an appropriate use of the recovered funds?" The answer that I got that came closest to approval was that of ambivalence. Given that information, I went to the Senate on Sunday night with the intention of allocating no money for this project. I went, endorsed the motion of $0 and entered debate. As debate drew on, I could sense that the body was moving toward awarding the full amount. A total of four senators, consisting of two seniors, one sophomore and me as the lone freshman, spoke up against the allocation of any money for the Loj. Yet the amount passed through the Senate with only five dissenting votes, with another senior senator adding her resounding "no" when the role call vote came around. I left that vote infuriated but hopeful that the money would ultimately be spent wisely. I hoped that I was wrong in my initial reaction. I realize now that my initial reaction was correct and that it is money wrongly spent. I have the utmost respect for those in the Senate but find myself very disappointed with them. The TMC argued that Senate uses the Loj for our retreats and that we know how much an additional sleeping facility would mean to the Loj experience. The majority of the Senate seemed to vote with their own experiences in mind rather than what would best serve their constituencies. This self-service went so far as to even lead senators to ignore potential conflicts of interest. While no one is forced to do so, senators are encouraged to abstain from a vote if they are part of the organization being voted on or have other things to gain from the vote. For instance, there are two members of the Senate who are proud to admit that they are members of TMC. They spoke passionately about their side of the argument, as I did. However, when voting came around, rather than abstaining, they voted "yes." I don't know if they forgot or simply chose to ignore it, but they had a conflict of interest in this vote that was neglected. Concerning the remaining senators in the room, I realized an interesting trend after the vote had finished. Of the five seniors that were able to vote, three of them ultimately voted "no." This was the highest ratio among the other classes, with the "no" votes ultimately coming to 0 juniors, one sophomore out of 10, and only one freshman out of seven. Is it possible that, since the seniors will not be returning in the fall, they have clearer heads as to how the Tufts community would want them to vote? Is it possible that, in their time at Tufts, the seniors have gained a higher level of understanding of what is truly important to the students? Possibly. I have been talking to people since this vote and have not found a single person who is pleased with the decision. The best I have gotten is ambivalence. This leads me to believe that the Loj is not a proper use of the money that truly belongs to every student at Tufts, the money known as the recovered funds. I think that we senators need to get back in touch with those whom we represent and really vote based on what they want. With this vote, we effectively exhausted the recovered funds that were not already allocated for a Student Activities Endowment to be set up by the Senate. In addition, we as a body blatantly disregarded how our constituencies would have wanted us to vote. We could have achieved so much, but rather chose to effectively give a single group $230,000. This is absolutely ridiculous to me. It is ridiculous that most senators did not consider how their class would want them to vote. A few said that they had spoken to some people and a few of them said that those people advocated for the Loj. In these cases, I suppose it just depends on who you talk to. For the people that I talked to, the Loj was not even an option to be considered. So to those senators who voted based on what they were told by their constituencies, I apologize and I do not direct my frustrations at you. Later that night, the Allocations Board, the financial leg of the TCU, came to us with a recommendation of giving no money to Torn Ticket II. Torn Ticket II wanted to replace the sound system in Cohen Auditorium, a system in dire need of repair, cleaning and potential replacement. Yet the Senate did not approve any money, on the grounds that the University would eventually take care of it, even though this would not necessarily occur in the foreseeable future due to the economic crisis. The same was said for the Loj earlier this year. They said that the University would provide the renovation at some point, while not necessarily in the foreseeable future. Although the Cohen request was only for $15,000 and the nature of the requests were completely different, I still believe that the cases of Torn Ticket II and TMC seem to follow the same logical train of thought, yet in the end, they yielded different results. If you are as angry about this decision as I obviously am, tell your senator. You are all represented by the Senate and the members deserve to know your feelings on this. If you support the decision, let them know. If you disagree with it as I do, tell them that, too. If you really do not care one way or the other, then they deserve to know that. Do not sit idly by and watch your money go to waste! Stand up and make your voice heard.
(02/04/09 12:00am)
To students, $20 is a lot of money and deciding how to spend $100 constitutes a big decision. So when the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate was given the task of distributing $687,780, it was a downright scary amount of money. There were literally thousands of ways to mess up the decision and spend it unwisely. The fear of wasting the money ended up overwhelming the TCU Senate, eventually leading to an ultra-conservative decision to save nearly all of it. Out of the whole sum, only $88,000 was spent directly on student groups or projects.
(09/12/08 12:00am)
Freshmen turned out in record numbers yesterday to elect their seven new Tufts Community Union (TCU) senators.
(09/11/08 12:00am)
Freshmen turned out in record numbers yesterday to elect their seven new Tufts Community Union (TCU) senators.
(02/28/06 12:00am)
Five car-related crime incidents occurred on the Tufts campus in five days last week. Based on the close proximity of the acts' times and locations, police suspect a connection between them.
