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Over 30 students gathered yesterday night to discuss and air their feelings about a Hill Hall flyer that some have called insensitive to Asians.

Organizers of the Bubble Tea Chat, a monthly event hosted by the Asian American Alliance (AAA) to discuss issues pertinent to the community, decided to focus last night’s talk on the recent flyer after news of its existence surfaced in recent days.

Senior Angela Lam, an AAA leader, said the chat was meant to be a “safe space” for students affected by the flyer, which freshman In-Goo Kwak posted last week.

Lam and fellow AAA leader Jennifer Duong, a junior, facilitated the lively discussion, which lasted over an hour and attracted students predominantly of Asian descent.

The flyer in question parodied a similar one placed in Hill Hall by freshman Alice Pang as part of her campaign for the Tufts

Tufts has plans to bring wireless Internet access to all campus buildings within three years — and Wren Hall is the first priority, according to a University Information Technology (UIT) official.

The target date puts the university on track to fulfill what has long been a perennial student demand, often expressed in campus publications and the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate.

UIT Director of Communications and Organizational Effectiveness Dawn Irish said her office hopes to complete the majority of the Wren outfitting project over Thanksgiving break in order to minimize inconvenience to residents.

Sophomore Chris Mutzel, a Wren resident, praised the decision to service his dorm but said the university needs to act more quickly to implement wireless Internet across campus.

“I think it shows something about what

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Soon, students studying in Wren Hall’s common rooms will not need to plug in for Internet access.

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Blue Shirt Café is one of a number of restaurants in Davis Square that have seen boosts in sales after Tufts students returned to campus.

Many Davis Sq. eateries avoid recession’s blows BY

MATT REPKA

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They’re dealing with a notoriously difficult industry and an even tougher economy, but many Davis Square restaurants are keeping their heads above water.

Bolstered by the return of Tufts’ student population and buffered by a multifaceted consumer base, some of the Square’s best-known restaurants and cafés feel comfortable about their futures.

The national food-service industry felt the recession’s unforgiving impact, as Americans cut down on eating out and buying expensive groceries. Regardless, expansion still seems to be the name of the game in Davis Square. The casual eatery Boston Burger

Company opened in April this year and has seen relative success since. “We’re doing alright, we’re stable, and so far it’s been okay,” owner and manager Paul Malvone told the Daily.

Dave’s Fresh Pasta, another popular spot located just off the square, expanded its footprint earlier in the year, absorbing an adjacent store and roughly doubling in size.

Many establishments are interested in attracting the freshman class’ hundreds of newcomers to the Square.

In line with this effort, a number of eateries participated earlier this month in “Discover Davis Square,” Tufts’ newest addition to its freshmen orientation program. Restaurants see DAVIS, page 2

Bernard Gordon (H ’92) pledged $40 million this summer to the School of Engineering to improve engineering leadership programs for undergraduates.

In an interview last week, he said that he hopes that Tufts will use his gift to make American engineering students more competitive by giving them more than just technical preparation for the real world. But he cautioned that his contribution, which will come in increments over a number of years, is conditional on Tufts following through on its commitment to make promised changes.

Gordon said he hopes his recent contribution to Tufts will counter an engineering-productivity decline he has watched unfold in Massachusetts and elsewhere over the years.

“Route 128 is loaded with the corpses of technology companies,” Gordon said. “Engineers took a lot of money and did not produce a product.”

Gordon, an inventor and engineering icon, has given over $200 million to bolster engineering leadership programs across the world. He recently sat on the university’s Board of Trustees for a decade and is now a member of the School of Engineering’s Board of Overseers. He is also an honorary co-chair of Tufts’ ongoing capital campaign Beyond Boundaries.

On a macro level, Gordon said, the rate of inventions in the United States has been on the decline. He linked this to a

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Trustee emeritus Bernard Gordon, left, donated $40 million to the School of Engineering to better prepare students for the real world. He is pictured here with Provost and Senior Vice President Jamshed Bharucha. fundamental flaw in the direction of engineering education at major universities.

“Over the years, many schools — and Tufts is not alone in this — have put increased emphasis on research and decreased emphasis on teaching engineers how to produce something,” he said.

Gordon says schools must instead prepare students for solving real-life problems and using their ideas to create jobs, something that he thinks is lacking at Tufts and across the country.

“They don’t know how to engineer,” Gordon said of current engineering students.

With his gift, Gordon hopes the situation at Tufts will change. His money will primarily go toward the engineering leadership minor, hiring

engineering professors with extensive experience working in their respective fields and increasing the amount of project-based learning opportunities for undergraduates studying engineering.

“The gift was given to Tufts not because I believe that I am reinforcing what Tufts is doing, but because I believe that Tufts is not doing it,” he said.

The fulfillment of his pledge, he said, will come only if Tufts actually carries out its stated goals. He said that press releases that came out when the university announced his donation early this month were misleading in that they implied that he had already given the entirety of his contribution.

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The weather’s getting cooler — so are the yogurt joints. The Pinkberry/BerryLine wave has hit Somerville.

TCU President Brandon Rattiner took to the soapbox to outline his goals for the year. Read his speech to the Senate here.

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Community Union Senate. Kwak’s spoof alluded to several stereotypes of Asians; it featured a reference to small eyes and a phrase in broken English. Kwak is Korean, and Pang is also of Asian descent.

At last night’s gathering, students’ reactions to Kwak’s posting varied. Some did not find the incident particularly egregious, while others called the flyer offensive. Several in attendance also noted that they had encountered non-Asian-American students who took significant offense at the flyer.

The group agreed that derogatory messages can arouse negative consequences even when they are not intended maliciously. And those who found the flyer insensitive and hurtful seemed to agree that it was vital to address these kinds of issues rather than look beyond them.

“I would like for you to go out into the larger Tufts community and acknowledge your opinions about race. … Race can’t end tonight, and this discussion can’t end,” Duong said to the group.

“Am I perpetuating and reinforcing these negative stereotypes or am I seeking to challenge them?”

Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman received a Residential Life incident report in response to the event, according to an e-mail that was sent to the distribution list of the “Group of Six” and was obtained by the Daily. The Group of Six, of which the Asian American Center is a member, comprises a collection of cultural centers that seek to promote diversity on campus.

Lam said her goal for the meeting was to set the record straight.

Many students, she said, were confused as to the circumstances behind the flyer’s posting and Kwak’s intentions. “I just wanted people to know the facts,” she said in an interview after the gathering.

Lam and Duong reviewed ground rules for the meeting before opening a forum for discussion.

The coordinators asked students to obey a one-minute time limit when making statements, to “challenge ideas, not people,” and to “respect the safe space that we are trying to create.”

The guidelines represented an attempt to make students feel secure in sharing their opinions and avoid threatening their privacy.

The atmosphere remained respectful throughout the forum, as students listened to each other and often nodded in agreement as others spoke. A number of attendees came into the meeting with different interpretations of the circumstances that brought them there.

“I think that people were able to discuss and learn a little from each other,” Lam said. “Some people had different views … and it was good for people to talk through these ideas and learn from each other.”

A couple of the attendees found the flyer particularly injurious because it was posted by a fellow Asian American, someone who they would have hoped would be more cognizant of negative Asian stereotypes.

In their e-mail, Group of Six leaders — including Asian American Center Director Linell Yugawa — condemned the poster, despite what Kwak may have intended.

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a plan, to modify the curriculum and the experiences of engineering students and present that plan early next year and then carry out that plan,” he said.

Tufts’ Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler said that the university generally announces the total amount of a pledge or commitment like Gordon’s, even though all the funds will not come at one time.

“Pledges often involve a commitment on the part of the university or school to fulfill the shared vision of the donor and university,” Thurler said in an e-mail.

“This is the case with Dr. Gordon’s gift.”

Tufts administrators have a good vision for improving engineering education, but the university has not yet achieved this, Gordon said.

His relationship with Tufts goes back to World War II, during which he briefly lived on campus while participating in a Navy officers training program in 1944. He previously donated $35 million to Tufts to support the Gordon Institute, the construction of Sophia Gordon Hall and other causes. Tufts’ Gordon Institute, which Gordon founded in 1984 and which moved to Tufts in 1992, has focused on providing practical engineering training for the past two decades Gordon holds over 200 patents worldwide, and says that experience has shown him what is important to increase competitiveness and productivity.

“I have made many thousands of technical jobs; I’ve invented billions of dollars worth of stuff,” Gordon said. “I’m not just preying in the wilderness here.”

With his gift, Gordon hopes that engineering students gain some of this realworld leadership experience in the classroom, instead of later in the game.

“I learned how to box by a guy hitting me,” Gordon said. “But if I teach you how to box by exposing you only to classroom theories about boxing, then you’re not going to learn to box — you’re not going become a boxer until you get hit.”

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The director of the Asian American Center, Linell Yugawa, co-authored an e-mail condemning a controversial flyer. to ‘lighten up’ and/ or ‘reclaim’ the stereotypes and words that have harmed us and our communities,” the e-mail read. “While it is one thing to mutually engage in this type of conversation, it is another to post stereotypical and racist language that is open to interpretation and hurtful to many.”

Lam said the students at last night’s event were respectful of the ground rules but also felt free to

treat the meeting as a casual affair.

Toward the end, there were about thirty students who were still eager to continue with the discussion.

At least one student said that despite Kwak’s attempts to parody the Asian stereotype, he instead reaffirmed the offensive labels’ power.

“By acting like you’re not [a typical Asian], you’re trying to disassociate from those stereotypes by making fun of them,”

the attendee said. Individual attendees’ names are not being printed, at the request of the meeting’s organizers.

Chat topics also included the Asian-American identity, the historical origination of derogatory terms and the role of the media in enforcing biases.

Alexandra Bogus contributed reporting to this article.

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our school values or at least what the administration values,” he said. “It’s kind of odd that we consider ourselves one of the top universities but we don’t have simple things like wireless Internet.”

In the past, appeals from the student body for campus-wide wireless have been met with varied success. In 2008, the Senate’s Administration and Policy Committee and Tufts Students for the Improvement of Residential Life and Community spearheaded an evaluation of the quality of Tufts’ dormitories.

After surveying a number of Boston-area schools, they found that Tufts’ residential facilities lagged markedly behind those of other schools, particularly in terms of wireless access.

Since then, UIT workers have installed wireless Internet technology in West and Haskell Halls, among other university buildings.

Bringing wireless to Wren requires re-cabling the building and installing

Ethernet cords. Officials anticipate a period of several days during this process when the building will have no Internet connection.

The university is working to outfit the campus one building at a time. Limited resources make an immediate, campuswide Internet de-wiring impossible, according to Irish.

“We are working on the campus as a whole but it has to happen in phases based on the timing of when students are here, based on when we have to remove Internet access to the buildings — and then it’s just the sheer workforce required,” Irish said. “It’s a very large campus and the buildings are old, so they require a lot of re-cabling.”

Though actual cost figures for the Wren project were not available at press time, Executive Administrative Dean for the School of Arts and Sciences Leah McIntosh, who has been involved in planning the project, said the dorm’s newest technology will be expensive.

“It’s pretty pricey because of all the ret-

rofitting that has to be done with all the cabling in the old buildings,” McIntosh said. “It’s pricier than the average person would think.”

“We have been trying to look at places where we’ve been doing work anyway, and we’ve been trying to focus on dorms where it would affect a large number of people,” McIntosh said.

Last November, the Senate considered allocating a portion of the recovered funds from the embezzlement scandal toward campus-wide wireless. The idea was later dropped when the Senate realized that it could not afford the price tag of installing a university wireless network — which would have cost over $1 million — and maintaining the technology indefinitely.

Wren residents are looking forward to receiving the technology. “I think that it’s really exciting,” sophomore Charlotte Wright said. “I think that it’ll definitely change the whole atmosphere of the dorm. The common rooms will be used a lot more.”

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contributed coupons and offers of free or discounted food, aiming to acquaint freshmen with the area over the Labor Day weekend.

“We saw a good amount of [Discover Davis] coupons” come into the store, Malvone said.

Davis Square’s multifaceted clientele has helped soften the blows that the economy has dealt over the past two years. Several restaurant managers described their customer bases as balanced between Tufts students and Somerville locals, many of whom commute via the T’s Red Line or one of the several bus routes running through the square.

“It’s a mix of students and people that live in the area,” Blue Shirt Café manager Mike Chen told the Daily.

On the weekdays, the crowd most-

ly includes locals, with the balance shifting toward students on weekends, Chen said.

The infusion of students back to campus at the start of the academic year added a boost to local eateries’ returns.

“August was slow, but at the end of August it came back right away,” Malvone said.

Carolyn Rahn, a manager at Diesel Café, similarly described Diesel Café’s clientele as “a mix,” adding that its busiest day of the year came during Somerville’s July ArtBeat Festival, when relatively few students were in the area. The arrival of Tufts students is a significant boost to business overall, she told the Daily.

“Whenever we don’t have students here, you can tell,” Rahn said. In contrast to the summer months, which Rahn described as more relaxed, the

café is currently “tremendously busy.”

For Blue Shirt Café, business “has picked up a little bit” since the summertime, but manager Chen attributed the main fluctuations in overall activity to another factor altogether: weather.

“It’s really dependent on the weather,” Chen said. “If it’s nice and warm and sunny out, our business does pick up. But when it’s cold or cloudy, it does drop down.”

Malvone agreed, saying that “nice weather and live music” outside the restaurant help to attract foot traffic, while rain can deter potential customers from visiting Davis altogether.

All things considered, life has been relatively good for these restaurant proprietors, recession or not. “We do just enough to survive and have fun and grow a little bit every year,” Rahn said of Diesel Café.

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As crowds walk across campus on a chilly day, the number of people wearing sweatshirts featuring the Tufts emblem makes it seem like the school’s name is a popular brand. Retailers are taking note of this, too: The appeal of college names and logos has created a surge in collegiate-themed items.

From a local marketing standpoint, the word “Tufts” or Jumbo’s image is just as much of a brand as the Under Armour insignia or the Red Sox “B.” From a more global perspective, the Tufts brand is hardly as recognizable as a commercial brand or even as a school.

Other more conspicuous schools, like Pennsylvania State University and University of Southern California, not only have bookstores markedly bigger than Tufts’ but also tend to do business with various off-campus retailers.

For example, both of the aforementioned schools have contracts with women’s intimate wear retailer giant Victoria’s Secret. According to a CNN Money article, Victoria’s Secret released its PINK line in 2004, which was “designed for the dorm-bound crowd.” Not surprisingly, merchandise targeted at specific colleges and universities emerged a few years later.

Victoria’s Secret PINK’s Collegiate Collection now represents 57 colleges and universities across the country. The company introduced 24 new schools this past year, and two factions of the Armed Services have also been included since the company released the collection in 2008. The variety of available items in the collection varies from school to school.

Many of the schools represented in Victoria’s Secret’s collection are also represented by another company, Masik

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Forgot the name of Jay-Z’s first album? At the University of WisconsinMadison, that could cost you an A. Most college students expect to learn about history before they graduate — but not necessarily about the cultural environment that led to the rise of a popular form of music today. However,

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Merchandise bearing college names are becoming popular outside the bookstore.

Collegiate Fragrances. Masik currently formulates scents associated with six schools and has three new collegiate fragrances set to appear soon. Penn State University was the first school to market its own fragrance, according to the Penn

State Newspaper, the Daily Collegian.

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this fall the University of WisconsinMadison announced that it will be holding a seminar on hip-hop. The seminar will integrate the perspectives of educators from diverse academic disciplines, ranging from women’s studies to sociology, to explore the cultural influences and social impact of the musical genre.

According to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, hip-hop is a relatively new movement

with modest roots. During the 1970s, hip-hop originated within the Bronx’s African-American community as a creative form of expression. Not surprisingly, hip-hop has become an increasingly popular genre in cities across the United States. Hip-hop icons like Christopher Wallace, more commonly known as Notorious B.I.G., have only helped to increase the spread of the movement.

“I think it will attract a little bit of everyone. [Hip-hop] is something many people are interested in. It’s not inclusive, so I think they’ll be people who come from broad backgrounds.”

Katelyn Jenssen junior at University of WisconsinMadison

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For students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, putting on a playlist could double as homework.

Today, hip-hop permeates diverse cultural and ethnic boundaries. One speaker in the seminar, Dr. Rachel Raimist, professor of Telecommunication and Film at the University of Alabama, sees hip-hop as a “really viable space to look at the world.” According to Raimist, “Students who believe they’re of the hip-hop generation think they know hip-hop, but they don’t have a context or understanding of hip-hop in a greater cultural sense.”

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s humans, or maybe just as Americans, we say a lot of things without even realizing it — a lot of “like,” a lot of “um,” a lot of “OK,” you name it. Even on the chance occurrence that we do put thought into our specific choice of filler, we usually leave some part of its meaning or implications entirely out of the picture.

Take “OK,” for example.

If you’ve ever gone to camp or on a school trip — or to any activity that involves a lot of icebreakers and a strange regression into a preschool dynamic — you’ve probably played (read: suffered through) the train game. It’s a moronic game in which players aim to figure out what makes an imaginary train go by, guessing over and over again whether their trains are running from one arbitrary point to another. Players spend days, sometimes weeks, trying to guess the complicated fuel that makes their trains so unreliable, while the simple answer is that it all depends on whether they say the word “OK” before stating their train’s itinerary. Train game ruined.

You’re welcome.

It’s a lot simpler than many other riddles and word games out there, but it works so well because we say the word “OK” so often without even thinking about its utterance, meaning or use. Really, we know very little about it. We use it to prove we’re listening or give the go-ahead, but is it a word or an acronym? What does it stand for? For the most part, we just take it for granted as some sort of affirmation or expression of consent.

Basically, it stands in for just that: “oll korrect.” How we got from “oll korrect” to the accepted word, “OK,” is a much more roundabout story, and, according to the famous etymologist Allen Walker Read, it actually begins right around here in Boston.

The mid-1800s brought about a fad in the Boston and New York areas of humorously misspelling words and common phrases, kind of like the AOL-lingo trend of the 1990s. “No go” became “know go,” “no use” became “know yuse,” all correct became “oll korrect.” Then they took it one step further and turned them into acronyms: KG, KY, OK, etc.

That’s right, 19th century townies abreved too.

But for the most part, this was just a North Eastern phenomenon, while “OK” made its way far past just New England.

And curiously, “OK” outlasted all of its contemporary colloquialisms.

Every sociologist of our day will tell you that it takes more than genius for a good idea — for any idea — to catch on. It takes someone with a specific sway over other people: a trendsetter, someone really cool.

For leather jackets, it was the T-birds. For the skinny look, it was Twiggy. For “OK,” it was Martin Van Buren, and damn, that guy was cool.

When Van Buren was running for re-election in 1840, his nickname, Old Kinderhook (from his hometown, Kinderhook, NY), gave name to a group of supporters, the “O.K. Club.” The initials became a moniker for the politician and even proved to be practical in signing documents quickly with an “OK,” most likely an allusion to “oll korrect.”

The two stories work in conjunction.

After Bostonians and New Yorkers started up a silly local fad, Old Kinderhook came along, revived the word and spread it.

Of course there are nay-sayers who argue that the word was derived from Choctaw or African Wolof. Personally, I like to think about the chaps a century and a half ago LOLing and B-ing RB. But to those who don’t believe such a juvenile trend could be adapted into formal, present-day English, dats kewl wif mee.

Romy Oltuski is a junior majoring in English. She can be reached at Romy.

Oltuski@tufts.edu.

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and CEO of Masik Collegiate Fragrances, Katie] Masich approached renowned perfumers in New York City and asked them to formulate a signature scent for Penn State,” the article reported.

A portion of the sales from the perfumes benefit each chosen university’s scholarship and athletic fund, according to Masik’s Web site.

However, Masik and Victoria’s Secret have so far only released collections for large or state schools. Neither Tufts nor Ivy League schools are yet represented by other companies.

One Ivy that doesn’t shy away from marketing itself as a brand, however, is Harvard University.

In August, Tufts’ crimson neighbor announced its new licensing agreement with clothing manufacturer Wearwolf Group.

According to a Harvard Crimson article, Harvard licensed the words “Harvard Yard” to the preppy, high-end retailer in order to generate funds for the university’s financial aid program.

“Wearwolf will use the phrase as a brand name for an international line of preppy clothing, beginning with men’s wear selling for prices ranging from $160 for shirts to $495 for sport coats,” the Crimson article reported. “The clothes will not bear a Harvard logo or shield but will include crimson trim around button holes and zippers as well as the ‘Harvard Yard’ brand on the neck label and the hangtag.”

While using a single aspect of a university’s name to generate profit for financial aid is certainly not a possibility for all schools, many Tufts students still view it as an interesting source of revenue.

“Personally, I think that [the concept of “Harvard Yard”] is a pretty innovative idea, in the sense that if a school has already built up a strong brand and a strong reputation, they can leverage it for financial gain,” senior Dennis Wei said. “[And in this case], it’s not even being used for financial gain — it’s being reallocated for financial aid or to benefit the University, which is a good thing.”

Despite potential Jumbo support for a similar project, the Harvard Yard model might not transfer so easily to the Hill. Not only does Harvard’s notoriety as an institution give it a leg up in marketing, but Tufts branding limitations also come into play: Tufts’ on-campus bookstore is contractually obligated to be the prime retailer of Tufts apparel, according to Store Manager Carolyn Fossas (LA ’03), whereas a school like Harvard is represented by a variety of different retailers.

Fossas explained that Tuftsbranded merchandise generated most of the revenue in the store, with much of that cash coming in during seasonal periods of heavy foot traffic.

“The way that we do our business with clothing, it’s really driven at certain times of the year, especially during Parents Weekend, Homecoming and Graduation,” she said. “That’s when we do probably 75 percent of our business in clothing.”

Although students praise the idea of using a collegiate brand to

raise funds during times of heavy financial need, Fossas said a name like Tufts holds a different connotation than a name like Harvard.

“I went here, so I do have a Tufts bias, but I don’t know if we have the same marketing power, per se, with the Tufts name that Harvard has,” she said. “I know sometimes when I say I went to Tufts, people will either know exactly what school it is and how great it is, or they will be like ‘where’s that?’ It’s a different case with Harvard, or Princeton or Stanford — [Tufts] is definitely up there; we’re just not quite as recognizable.”

Prospective Tufts applicant Sloane Snyder, a senior from Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square, Penn., agreed, explaining the difference between the two school names.

“Tufts is a name that you can wear proud, but I do feel that schools like Harvard are more able to advertise ‘Harvard’ as an apparel line and as something to wear not because you’re part of the school, but because you’re part of the name,” Snyder said,

“whereas the type of student who goes to Tufts is probably more proud of the school, rather than the name of ‘Tufts.’”

Though other universities’ brands are undoubtedly more prominent than Tufts’, the university has not let its logo, emblem and insignia fall by the wayside.

“In the last five years, Fletcher re-branded themselves, Tufts rebranded themselves, and then the Tufts athletic department rebranded themselves, so I know that there’s been a push to make an identity out of a logo or out of a certain font that’s associated with the Tufts Academia,” Fossas said.

Such changes in branding may have worked in Snyder’s case: As she perused the Tufts bookstore for Jumbo merchandise, she said she was definitely considering purchasing some Tufts apparel before she’d even applied or been accepted to the school.

“It’s a fun way to get you excited and to make you think, ‘If I want to go to this school, maybe if I sleep in their T-shirt, it will bring me good luck getting in,’” she said.

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than just a musical genre; it has a “visual art element, dance form and a rap music aspect, which is about storytelling.”

Katelyn Jenssen, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, finds value in the seminar at her university.

“Our school’s mission celebrates diversity, and I think that reflects how we’re such a diverse campus; [the University of Wisconsin-Madison] offers a broad range of everything,” Jenssen said.

Jenssen also believes students from

all backgrounds will attend.

“I think it will attract a little bit of everyone,” she said. “[Hip-hop] is something many people are interested in. It’s not inclusive, so I think they’ll be people who come from broad backgrounds.”

Many students on the Hill feel that a hip-hop seminar such as the one offered at the University of WisconsinMadison would be a success at Tufts because of its overall significance in society today. Janna Gonwa, a Tufts graduate student of philosophy, is one such thinker.

“Hip-hop plays an important role in

such a large sub-culture in our country,” she said.

Others, like sophomore Ella Kipervasser, believe that such a seminar has the potential to change the way students view a seemingly unexplored genre.

“Learning about any kind of art form that represents another culture will make [one] look at even mundane things from another prospective,” she said, adding that such a seminar would “make you look at [hip-hop] in a different way.”

Anna Fletcher, a junior, said she appreciates the creativity of WisconsinMadison’s seminar.

“It’s just a different type of learning, which I think could help [students] related with other topics,” she said. “I think it will be really interesting to see how the professors relate their disciplines to hip-hop.”

Many Jumbos agree that a seminar on hip-hop could be as entertaining as it is educational. Bogged down by traditional courses like calculus, biology and economics, Jumbos need to keep things interesting. A class on music that is popular today could be just what students need to stay interested in their studies.

“Hip-hop is just fun,” Kipervasser said.

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From L.A. to New York City, the latest trend has finally made its way to Somerville. This trend has nothing to do with what you’re wearing, though. It has to do with what you’re eating. Over the last couple of years, frozen yogurt has become the newest craze for celebrities, food junkies, yogurt lovers and health nuts alike.

With the popularization of the frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry, similar “froyo” shops like Red Mango and BerryLine have slowly been making their way to the Boston area. Thanks to the recent opening of “Spün” (pronounced “spoon”) right here on Broadway Street in Somerville, Tufts students no longer have to travel far for their frozen yogurt fix.

Like other froyo establishments, Spün offers two flavors of natural frozen yogurt every day: the standard “original” plain yogurt and a second flavor that changes daily. Spün even lets customers send in suggestions for the next day’s flavor, which in the past has included flavors like strawberry, banana, blueberry and peach.

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A lot of what could be said about Yo La Tengo’s twelfth studio album, “Popular Songs,” could be said about any Yo La

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We’ve all heard the saying “s--t happens,” and after watching the clichéd “Love Happens,” it’s clear that

Love Happens Matador Records Tengo album since the band really hit its stride backin 1993 with “Painful.”

“Popular Songs” holds up well against a strong and remarkably consistent back catalogue. In terms of quality and consistency, it’s solid, akin to its predecessor “I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass” (2006). However, it’s not the undeniable classic of 1997’s “I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One.” Yo La Tengo begins “Popular Songs” on an apprehensive note: “I know you’re worried / I’m worried too / But if you’re ready / I’ll take the fall with you,” Ira Kaplan moans on opener “Here to see YO LA TENGO, page 9

Starring Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Martin Sheen Directed by Brandon Camp the saying is true. A second-rate film that attempts to differentiate itself from run-of-the-mill Hollywood productions, “Love Happens” begins with potential but fizzles into disappointing confusion.

“Love Happens” stars Burke (Aaron Eckhart), a famous author of a self-help book who leads a touring seminar for people who have suffered the death of loved ones. At one of these seminars, he meets Eloise, ( Jennifer Aniston), who is

a florist working in the sponsoring hotel. Though he is still coping with the death of his wife, Burke is forced to confront the scars of his past and open himself up to love again.

At first, “Love Happens” appears to be just another boy-meetsgirl flick, but with some promise.

Cinematographically interesting title credits are followed by dryly comedic scenes with well-established characters and conflicts. Burke’s hypocrisy as he tosses back drinks before stepping on stage to tell seminar attendees “alcohol is a mask” intrigues viewers, who hope for an exploration of his character as the plot unfolds. The emotional backdrop of dealing with the death of loved ones provides for some powerful minor characters, including Walter ( John Caroll Lynch), who is battling internal demons created by his son’s death.

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he past two months have been very emotional food-wise for me. Two of my foodie mentors have been in the national spotlight for two very different reasons: one has received critical acclaim, while the other has reached the end of his tenure. Of course, Anthony Bourdain and Frank Bruni are fully unaware of their formal mentorship positions, but that’s a moot point.

First and foremost, let’s get to the celebrating: Two weeks ago, I finally got the Emmy Awards moment I’ve been waiting for two years to realize.

And by me I mean Anthony Bourdain, or Tony, as I like to call him.

And by Tony, I mean his cameramen.

I’ll explain.

The “Beirut” episode of Tony’s show, “No Reservations,” was on the slate of shows to be chosen as nominations for Outstanding Nonfiction Special in 2007, but it went no further in the competition. This special episode documented the crew’s experiences in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

Let’s make this clear: They were stuck in Beirut in the middle of a war and the Emmy voters didn’t think that was worthy of a full nomination? We were robbed! (And of course when I say “we,” I mean Tony and his crew, who were actually in Beirut and not on their couch in New Jersey watching the show. But that’s another moot point.) The year 2008 proved fruitless, as there were no nominations for the show.

I hoped for victory again on July 16 when the nominations for this year’s awards were announced. We came away with three nominations in cinematography, picture editing and the créme de la créme, Outstanding Nonfiction Series, and I could barely contain myself over the past three months in anticipation of the ceremony.

The moment of glory finally came on Sept.

12. At the Creative Arts Emmys, Todd Liebler and Zach Zamboni took home the award for Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming for the “Laos” episode. Even though Tony himself wasn’t actually nominated for anything, his walking Buddha aura extends to his crew members and executive producers due to close proximity, so I’m counting this as a victory for my mentor team.

The fate of my other mentor, Frank Bruni, is far from celebration-worthy: he is retiring from his post as Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times. Bruni wrote a total of 270 reviews since he accepted the position in April 2004. He expanded his critiques beyond the scope of New York City restaurants more than any other chief critic in the past, writing reviews about restaurants across the country and in Europe .

Bruni has greatly influenced the way that I think and write about food. He can be downright mean in some of his reviews — he famously took away a star from Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill, a move the celebrity chef has never commented on — but he also has a charming way of giving praise that is unparalleled.

Bruni was as quick to laud a dive-joint or a pizzeria as he was an upscale establishment with multiple Michelin stars; he has taught me that you can find award-worthy food in the most unlikely of places. He has also been open about his struggles with eating disorders, something I greatly admire him for. As a man who gets paid to eat out six times a week, he is as obsessed with his weight as he is with the food he critiques, constantly struggling to find a balance between the two.

Sam Sifton, the Times’ dining editor from 2001-2004, was named as Bruni’s replacement on Aug. 5. If Sifton keeps the post for five years as well, that would make me 26 when he retires ... probably too young for a chief restaurant critic, but with Tony and Frank Bruni as my mentors, how could they say no? But that’s another moot point.

Caryn Horowitz is a senior majoring in history. She can be reached at Caryn.

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without the toppings? Spün serves a variety of fun toppings to jazz up your tasty treat. From the traditional fresh fruit and granola, to the more adventurous toppings of animal crackers, Heath toffee and butterscotch cups, Spün makes sure froyo is anything but boring.

“Our frozen yogurt is made daily, and we use only the freshest ingredients,” co-owner Alex Arzoumanov said.

So what is it about frozen yogurt that’s just so appealing?

“I think it’s because not only does it taste good, but you also feel good after you eat it,” Arzoumanov said, alluding to the fact that frozen yogurt is consid-

ered healthier than ice cream or other frozen desserts.

Frozen yogurt fans will also be happy to hear that Spün’s frozen yogurt does in fact taste like yogurt. Although it is a little creamier than one might expect, the original plain flavor is still delicious and perfectly tart. The strawberry flavor also has a nice, light taste that seems more organic than the fake, overpoweringly sweet “strawberry” some other frozen yogurt places serve.

And as for the unique name Spün, “We were playing around with different names when [fellow co-owner] Jon Staff came up with ‘Spoon,’” Arzoumanov said. “I liked the idea, and we just decided to change the spelling to Spün ...

What I like about it is how [the logo]

even makes a smiley face.”

When asked what the inspiration was behind opening up a frozen yogurt shop here in Somerville, Arzoumanov said, “We’d first seen it in Amsterdam and we liked the taste ... don’t tell our neighbors, but we chose this location because we knew it was right by Tufts University.”

Hoping to attract Tufts students with its free wi-fi access, brightly painted walls and airy ambiance, Spün is a welcome addition to the less-thaneventful area by Powderhouse Square.

What sets Spün apart from other, more mainstream frozen yogurt places like Pinkberry or Red Mango is that as a smaller business, it hasn’t fallen into the trap of irritatingly upbeat music,

impersonal staff and huge commercial advertisements on the walls passed off as “décor.”

The chill, “city, urban theme” Arzoumanov and staff are aiming for is evident in the shop’s laid-back music and funky local artwork for sale depicting popular Boston T-stops. Although there isn’t too much seating room at the moment, with a sofa and just a few countertop seats by the window, Arzoumanov promises this will soon change as the Boston cold begins to settle in.

“We plan on ‘winterizing’ to make Spün more cozy,” Arzoumanov said.

“We want it to be a place for students to just come and sit with their laptops and stay for however long they want to.”

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mask.

As “Love Happens” unfolds, it is as if writer/director Brandon Camp was suddenly struck by the possibility of creating an emotional drama instead of a romantic comedy halfway through shooting the film and decided, “Let’s do it!”

This wouldn’t have been so bad if Eckhart’s lackluster presentation of a tortured soul didn’t pale in comparison to Lynch’s touching performance.

After the film deviates from its initial progression, Burke’s confrontation with the memory of his wife is increasingly front and center. His emotional turmoil proceeds to drag out over the next hour, overshadowing the plot’s other elements. Even Aniston, with her all-American cuteness, can’t save the film from being one long requiem for Burke’s

marriage. For example, the first date between Burke and Eloise is dominated by Burke’s awkwardness about dating for the first time since his wife’s death, instead of establishing a chemistry that allow the couple’s subsequent love interest to ignite.

The rest of the duo’s interactions are nothing more than that: interactions. As their romance is supposedly blossoming, Burke and Eloise’s ‘chemistry’ just becomes more confusing as the audience is constantly reminded of how brokenhearted Burke is. After 80 minutes, the audience is still wondering when love is actually going to happen.

Eckhart’s formulaic acting aside, “Love Happens” fails both as a romantic comedy and as an emotional drama.

Whenever Burke takes a sentimental moment to share his struggle, the scenes are comi-

cally awkward and destroy any possibility for Eckhart to give more than a mediocre performance. Other non-constructive sub-plots are edited in arbitrarily for ill-timed comic relief, further shooting the film in the foot. Moreover, the film’s clichéd origins keep reminding audiences that they signed up for a romantic comedy, not drama.

If viewers haven’t already left the theater with a headache, the plot may re-engage the audience after the typical “boy-girl fight,” as each character conflict comes to a climax after an unexpected revelation. But again, the plot cannot decide which theme to develop and a misplaced and corny bond between Burke and his father-in-law (Martin Sheen) leaves the audience groaning again. In the end, the film stays true to its romantic comedy roots as Burke and

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Eloise finally get together.

“Love Happens” suffers greatly from an identity crisis, quickly squandering what potential it had by meandering through

myriad themes and conflicts.

Mediocre acting and bad editing don’t help, either. If the previews made the film seem like a flop, that’s because it is.

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My name is Victor Wang, and I!d like to be your President for Class Council 2013. You may have heard the slogans and seen the posters, but from those, you can only tell that I have a very sophisticated sense of humor. What you may not know is that I!m actually very well-qualified for the position, having served on student council throughout high school and holding the position of student body president as a senior. I work effectively with others, and would work hard to bring exciting events to the Class of 2013.

I would be a savvy and responsible treasurer for the Tufts class of 2013 because I am excited to be involved with making the University we all love better. I enjoy planning class events and providing our class with opportunities to have an amazing freshman year. I have had prior experience with collecting money through fundraisers and planning other activities. I have then used this money efficiently to get the most bang for my buck! So vote for Julia Hajnoczky, and you wont have to fret about the fate of your finances. Cha-Ching!

Dan Kim (Ju Hyung) VP Social We!re finally here.

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Your answers may be as simple as: college is a prerequisite to a career, or, I just really love Dewick food. (Be jealous, uphillers) But, what I think that many of us forget to stop and realize is that college should be DANgerously fun! As VP of social programming, I will dedicate myself to providing our Class of 2013 the best opportunities for memory-making and having the time of our lives.

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Hi Class of 2013! My name is Sharonne Holtzman, and I'm running to be your student council secretary! I believe that my dedication to become involved and my passion for this school set me apart as the ideal candidate for Student Council. I!m organized, efficient, and will work hard to make sure that everyone has an amazing year--academically and socially.

Nobody will work harder to help you to achieve that balance, because I understand that college is as much about the social events as it is about academics.

I can promise you I will give my all to make sure that only the best events are put on and that the best new activities are brought to Tufts. Thanks, and let!s make our freshman year truly unforgettable!!

Hi, my name is Rosiris Le贸nRivera, but for you, it!s Rose; and I am running for Class Council Secretary. I am hard-working, enthusiastic, energetic, and have great ideas for all of the possible class activities. Moreover, I am open to all of your great ideas and have open ears for your complaints as well. I will work my hardest to have an amazing year with great social and educational activities that will make our freshman year unforgettable. I just need you to help me by voting for me to be your CLASS COUNCIL SECRETARY. Vote for Rose :D

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Fall.” “Here to Fall” starts the album in an up-tempo and edgy mood, but the album’s vibe quickly shifts to the safe and comforting.

On a strong Yo La Tengo album, the warmth and fuzz does not turn into a thick and obtuse mess. Rather, it is shaped by strong melody and songcraft into something intensely memorable. The band knows how to focus on and expand a good idea; when the band members focus on a key part, they add strength and nuance to it instead of drowning it in pointless musical acrobatics.

This is the case with most of “Popular Songs.” The album is soothing but not directionless.

Yo La Tengo’s other gift is a musical versatility that allows the band to borrow from and integrate different pop styles into its own work. Listeners may think, “Hey, is that My Bloody Valentine?” (“Nothing to Hide”) or imagine that they’re hearing vintage Belle and Sebastian (“If Its True”). Yo La Tengo can go from shiny noise-rock to peppy and clean duets with ease. Of course, a lot of the time band members sound like themselves: experimenters and art-rockers who, despite their innovations, write songs that remain grounded in experiences the listener can relate to.

Yo La Tengo’s ability to experiment while still maintaining an identifiable and attentionworthy sound is put to the test on the second half of “Popular Songs.” The band passes with flying colors, fully capitalizing on the opportunities afforded by musical experimentation.

The last half-hour of the band’s

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Lessons in self-contradiction: a partisan guide

The Massachusetts State Senate’s lastminute legislative acrobatics have highlighted a question that perpetually haunts the political realm: Must politicians work for the law, or must the law work for them?

Governor Deval Patrick is expected to sign a bill that the State Senate passed yesterday in a 24-16 vote allowing him to appoint a temporary replacement for the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy. The stand-in would serve only until a special election on Jan. 19 but could seriously impact the fate of the health care legislation now being discussed in Congress — as well as any other legislation that comes up for a vote.

Ensuring that a state can fill both of its allotted seats in the U.S. Senate is a noble pursuit. The Daily does not take issue with the State Senate’s decision yesterday. It is the reasons for which the bill was necessary that raise the question posed in the first paragraph.

If Patrick signs the bill, it will overturn a law put into effect in 2004 when a Democratic majority passed legislation that would have prohibited then-Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, from appointing a replacement for Sen. John Kerry in the event that the former won election to the presidency and vacated his Senate seat. The Democrats’ bill,

now law, stated that the governor could not make a temporary appointment and that the state would have to wait for the results of a special election to receive a new senator.

At the time, Romney called a spade a spade. “It is clearly partisan,” he said of the bill, according to the Boston Globe. “This is coming up because there is a Republican governor.”

With yesterday’s vote, Romney’s diagnosis has found the ultimate validation. The legislature’s decision to effectively reverse the 2004 decision no doubt hinged on the national political situation. Yesterday marked the first committee hearings in the U.S. Senate for a major health care bill. With Kennedy’s seat open, the Democrats expect to come up short of the 60 votes they need to stop Republican filibusters in a final vote on this issue. A second Democratic senator from Massachusetts would be a welcome relief for them.

The Daily is fully aware that maneuverings and power plays are as old as politics itself.

We harbor no illusions about the morality of government; our leaders are human. But the decisions of the Massachusetts State Senate highlight two disconcerting realities of U.S. politics: willfully acute partisanship, and flippancy regarding the concreteness and sanc-

tity of laws.

Partisanship at the expense of productive collaboration or beneficial compromise is all too common in American government.

Discourse between parties has devolved into inflammatory rhetoric that distracts us from the issues our country should be focusing on. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the town hall meetings on health care reform and the complementary debate on Capitol Hill — which everyday looks more and more like just another one of these town halls. The sad thing is that the rhetoric works: Americans, and people in general, tend to believe what leaders tell them. Only when those leaders are exposed to be in egregious violation of the public’s trust do they lose it — as was the case in the Watergate scandal — and this disillusionment can have even more detrimental effects on the national psyche and political discourse.

The recent events in Massachusetts also illustrate the fact that the state’s Democratic leadership is willing to flip its interpretation of good public policy like hamburgers, just in order to keep the patty tinted blue. This type of conduct undermines stability and compromises the credibility of leaders who urge their constituents to respect the sanctity of the law.

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While President Obama fights for the survival of his biggest campaign promise — health care reform — he’s found it easier to make good on another: Net neutrality. On Monday, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed new regulations that would prevent Internet service providers from discriminating against Web traffic based on its content. We welcome this effort to preserve the open nature of the Internet, which has made the Web such a boon to entrepreneurship and free speech.

Streaming video Web sites like YouTube. com would have been unthinkable in the days of dial-up Internet because the network couldn’t handle the data flow — or bandwidth — required to transfer clips. With the advent of broadband and subsequent improvements to network infrastructure, bandwidth-intensive Web sites like YouTube have boomed in popularity. The increased carrying capacity of the Internet has opened up a world of possibilities, from video chatting with your mom on Skype to Nigerian medical students observing surgeries in the U.S.

Increased bandwidth use is good for the public, but it’s a headache for Internet providers. Because most broadband services offer their customers unlimited bandwidth, there is no incentive for users to shy away from file-sharing, Skyping and other bandwidth-hogging behavior.

To continue offering unlimited access at the same speed, ISPs must find ways to either expand their capacity or discourage high bandwidth use. One of the solutions has been to decrease the download speeds of customers trying to use high-bandwith Web sites. Last year, the FCC chastised Comcast for deliberately slowing down BitTorrent, a file-sharing application, without telling its customers.

Allowing ISPs to choose which Internet activities get priority has several worrying implications. It could lead to anti-competitive behavior by ISPs, many of which also provide services that compete with new Internet tools. For example, Comcast has been widely accused of slowing the traffic of Vonage, an Internet phone service that competes with Comcast’s own similar service. (The two companies have since agreed to cooperate.) If ISPs are allowed to discriminate against content providers, they will do so in their own interests — if Comcast ever wanted to launch its own

video streaming site, it could slow down YouTube to cripple the competition.

Others fear that ISPs could start charging high-bandwidth Web sites for access to the “fast lane,” slowing down smaller Web sites that can’t afford to pay. This would be a blow to the level playing field that has allowed entrepreneurs to create online empires from humble beginnings in a garage or basement, perhaps explaining why Internet giants like Google and Amazon are among Net neutrality’s strongest proponents. What would your life today be like if someone told Mark Zuckerberg that his new Facebook.com site was using too much bandwidth?

We recognize that ISPs must find ways to ration their limited bandwidth effectively; however, this is still possible without picking the Internet’s winners and losers. Cellphone providers charge talkative people more money, but they don’t charge based on whom they’re talking to. Similarly, ISPs could charge users for the amount of bandwidth they consume, as long as they treat all Internet use equally. When ISPs start deciding which sites reach the masses and which don’t — no matter the criteria — they distort the marketplace of ideas and stifle the spirit of equality that has helped the Internet shape our world.

Correction Yesterday’s editorial, “Concocting Conversation, or Just Controversy?” stated that In-Goo Kwak’s image appears on the posters he created. In fact, the image on the posters was taken from a blog and is not of Kwak himself.

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State of the Tufts Community Union BY

TEDDY MINCH | OFF MIC

Name-calling, half truths and health care reform

BRANDON RATTINER

Editor’s note: The following is a transcript of the speech Brandon Rattiner delivered to the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting on Sept. 20.

Starting a speech is the worst part of the public speaking process. You could try humor, but I’m not funny. You could try shock and surprise, but with this cold I sound pretty unintimidating. You could try straightforward, but that will put people to sleep. So, hoping to get some inspiration from old friends, I e-mailed a few former TCU presidents and looked at the beginning of their speeches, and here is what I got: embezzlement; huge freedom of speech crisis; economic meltdown; around $1,000,000 of recovered funds to spend. Nothing too applicable, but I did realize something pretty quickly.

This might just be a pretty boring year. Without any school-wide scandal or absurd amount of money to burn, it looks like the TCU Senate might be able to spend the whole year focused on the little things: hearing our constituents, identifying problems, solving them with teamwork and innovation.

TCU Senate, welcome back to reality.

And I am comfortable with that; in fact, I am pretty thrilled. It’s really about time that senators reconnect with the student body and start doing the things we are best at. I understand that the challenges of the past put us in a pretty weird spot, but focusing on abstract conversations or unachievable projects is a waste of everyone’s time. As student leaders elected to make life at Tufts better, we must again immerse ourselves in the lives of students and simplify our mandate. This year’s Senate has the rare opportunity to do that — to focus on what’s important, to fight for what we believe in, to be an advocate for all types of students, to defend and improve different versions of the student experience.

But none of this can happen without first getting the student body’s trust.

Right or wrong, last year’s debate and subsequent decision to build the Trips Cabin in New Hampshire sparked a firestorm on campus that showed how disconnected the body was from student input. This year’s executive board has learned from the past mistakes, and we vow not to make them again. Utilizing the Web more effectively will increase our transparency, but more importantly it will allow the Senate to publish our agendas publicly prior to meetings, thus ensuring that no true surprises ever sneak up on the student body again. More effective and frequent polling will also keep the Senate honest and more in touch with the needs and desires of students. This year’s Senate is committed to being approachable, forthcoming and easily accessible.

In terms of priorities of this year’s Senate, here is a preliminary sketch.

However, before I proceed, I want to be clear that this is only a very loose framework. The entire Senate will come together at retreat to create a clear, itemized agenda and set of priorities.

1. Creating a better communicative network for student leaders and clubs.

Too often student leaders and clubs think of themselves as islands, or, even worse, as competitors. Establishing new traditions — like a networking dinner for all club presidents — and new communication vehicles — like an online workspace open only to club leaders — will infuse a spirit of teamwork into the student body. More effective co-calendaring and co-sponsorship will result, allowing student groups to use their resources and time more effectively.

2. Bolstering intellectual life on campus. The TCU Senate plans on making professors more accessible through our After Hours Conversation Series, a bi-monthly speaker series that will allow students to discuss research and academia with professors intimately and informally. The whole semes-

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ter has already been confirmed with great speakers, from Dean Bosworth to Daniel Dennett. We also will keep working on making research more accessible, while trying to get syllabi online prior to course registration.

3. Re-engaging upperclassmen.

Programs like our off-campus programming grant will encourage clubs to move some of their activities offcampus, into the houses of upperclassmen right around school. Additionally, block parties and other options will be explored to try and create a stronger connection on our streets.

These three priorities were all discussed last spring, but a new challenge has arisen over the summer, and it too will be tackled by the Senate.

4. As evidenced by Fall Ball ticketing, social life at Tufts is now being closely monitored by the administration — specifically, the student body’s use of alcohol. Over the summer, a task force on alcohol policy was established, with over 10 student representatives, who will make suggestions to an alsonew steering committee on alcohol.

I sit on this steering committee, and we will all adopt and refine the task force’s suggestions and change the alcohol policy appropriately.

However, I want to be clear about one thing. The administration is committed to changing things, and although I agree that improvements must be made, change ought to be slow and deliberate. This year’s TCU Senate will not stand by if reactionary and unfair decrees are made from members of the administration. As representatives of the students, we will not be a mere rubber stamp of student approval. The TCU Senate is committed to working with the administration as partners in re-evaluating alcohol use on campus. But the adoption of huge changes without proper student consultation — like the recent move to have first violation offenses lead to Probation 1 — is disingenuous and shows a lack of respect for student input. If we are to be partners, let us be partners. My biggest concern is that while student input is articulated on the task force, the powers that be make changes due to a variety of other factors, thus usurping the task force and negating student input. Be assured that the TCU Senate will not allow this.

But on the same token, it is important that the student body re-evaluate its own behavior. The administration has only reached this point because we have pushed them there, and at the end of the day, their concern for our safety is more important than our desire to drink. We must be partners in this dilemma too. But I want to thank the student body for a terrific and safe Fall Ball. I think we sent a message loud and clear: With enough facilities and security, students can behave themselves, so long as those necessities are provided for. This is going to be a tremendously exciting year for all those involved in the TCU, and I hope that all of us, as elected senators, do the best we can to ensure this campus reaches its potential. I hope that senators learn to work together, learn to understand that projects and programs are not owned by committees but rather that they are owned by the whole body. I hope we all realize that as a Senate, we are one team — that individual worlds and ambitions must be integrated into a larger dynamic, capable of succeeding at anything.

Ending a speech is the best part of the public speaking process. Because if you have done your job in the speech thus far, you can just string a bunch of clichés or imperatives together, ennunciate them a certain way and expect the crowd to be inspired. This is our year. Now is the time. Go big or go home. But like I said before, this year is going to be a little different. It’s just back to reality. Back to doing the small things that make a difference at the school. Back to working together for the greater good. Back to keeping things in perspective and realizing that we are just students, too. Back to being a student government, trying its hardest to make Tufts better. If we can just remember that, remember our simple goal, we will have a year met by success. And we might even have some fun doing it. Thank you all for listening, and I could not be more excited and honored to start working for everyone at this whole school. Be assured that I, this E-Board and the entire Senate will be there for you.

TCU President Brandon Rattiner is a senior majoring in political science and philosophy.

f one were dropped from one’s home in space and onto Earth and into the United States at any point over the last three months, one would have very little notion from the media of a far-away war in Afghanistan or of flaring tensions in both Pakistan and Iraq. One would have a sense that there may have been a recession in the recent past and that perhaps it’s bottomed out. One may not know that Paula Abdul left American Idol out to dry or that Tom Brady tore his ACL — but one would be convinced that the United States was engaged in all-out civil war over the idea of universal health care.

Politicians’ town hall meetings escalated into the equivalent of human cockfighting rings, with normally reasonable people yelling, pushing and creating havoc — to the point where a man’s finger was bitten off at a California health care rally (luckily the poor guy had Medicare). Never before have we seen such a complete and total loss in decorum on not only the part of the average citizen, but also on the part of career bureaucrats — quite a big statement when you consider Rep. Preston Brooks set the record for lack of bureaucratic decorum in 1856 when he caned Sen. Charles Sumner into unconsciousness.

Something unprecedented about this health care issue has been eating away at the fabric of civil society. Consider the night of President Obama’s health care speech before a joint session of Congress: Obama was in the middle of dismissing the notion that his plan would allot federally provided health care to illegal immigrants, arguing, “It is a lie, plain and simple.” South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson then screamed out, “You lie!”

— sparking a chorus of booing and noisemaking reminiscent of a middle-school classroom after one student had called another a dirty name. Wilson later issued an apology, and Obama has apparently accepted it. Rahm Emanuel is still fuming.

If you haven’t watched footage of Obama’s health care speech, do yourself a favor and find it online. Spotting the Democrats jump up and clap after Obama’s every conjunction is equally as ridiculous as seeing the Republicans hold pieces of paper high in the air with the words “Our Bill” written on them as an act of intended defiance. Everyone agrees on the need to “engage the other side’s arguments,” as Sarah Palin wrote recently, as well as the fact that “the time for bickering is over,” as declared by Obama during his speech. And yet Palin continues to highlight the inevitable creation of health care death panels that “establishment voices dismissed,” while President Obama assures that there will be no need to raise taxes to pay for his health care plan — that there does not need to be an increase in government revenue to keep new spending from increasing the deficit a penny.

Both claims are hopelessly false.

Be it Obamacare, Baucuscare or any other permutation of proposed universal health care, politicians and the rest of the nation need to actually provide concrete details and numbers, rather than avoid reality. Republicans have yet to propose a viable alternative to the Democrats’ public option, which is disappointing to see — just because the Democrats have a plan doesn’t make it a good one. In short, both politicians and citizens need to ask themselves two very simple questions: First, is universal health care a right of every American, and second, how do we as a nation finance that operation if it is, in fact, a right?

Answering those questions doesn’t require name-calling, finger-pointing, partisan-bickering or punch-throwing. Rather, it mandates that Americans grow up from the nation of unhappy seven-year-olds they seem to have become over the last three months, listen to one another and deal with reality. There can be dissonance without dissidents, if we choose to have it so.

Teddy Minch is a senior majoring in political science. He hosts “The Rundown,” a talk show from 3 to 5 p.m. every Friday on WMFO. He can be reached at Theodore.Minch@tufts.edu.

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he certainly left our group of running backs with a great model of what to do and how to do it. Hopefully, we as an offense can build on what he and our offense accomplished last year.”

The passing attack will also receive an overhaul, losing Halas and Steve Black (LA ’09), who combined for nearly 1,000 yards through the air last season. In their absence, coach Bill Samko indicated he is willing to try a number of players in prominent roles.

Among them are two passcatching tight ends, senior Oliver Gray and sophomore Nick Croteau, as well as a slew of returning receivers. “[David] Halas and Steve Black were two excellent receivers, but we have some extremely talented guys to fill in for them,” senior quarterback Tom McManama said.

“Steve Cusano, Billy Mahler, Tim Puopolo and Greg Stewart have all shown great things in the preseason. I think our speed at wideout is going to be our greatest strength. We should have a very explosive offense.”

Civetti, Samko and the rest of the coaching staff had all summer to figure out how they would replace Forde and Halas, and they took comfort in the fact that they were returning the leader of their offense: starting quarterback and senior quad-captain Anthony Fucillo. All that changed the

other night during the team’s preseason scrimmage against Bowdoin when Fucillo went down with an ankle injury, marking the offense with yet another question mark.

Fucillo’s status is still up in the air for Saturday, and Samko has not yet made a decision on who will be behind center for the team’s opener. But if Fucillo cannot go, the Jumbos will have to rely on McManama to lead their attack. As last year’s backup, McManama managed to put together a very impressive performance in the second half of the week seven game against Colby when Fucillo was injured, completing six of his nine attempts and connecting with Halas on a gameclinching, 33-yard touchdown pass with 9:03 to play.

“Although I only saw limited action last year, I definitely feel comfortable with the offense,” McManama said.

“I’ve been around our plays and schemes for the last four years and have practiced with everyone in our offense for just about as long.”

While Fucillo’s injury might mean that Tufts will be without its passing, rushing and receiving leaders from a year ago, there are still high expectations for the squad’s offense.

“If everybody works at doing their job then we are going to be more than alright,” Civetti said. “We have amazing kids in this program, and Coach Samko has done an excellent job of recruiting great talent.”

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STATISTICS | STANDINGS Volleyball

Field Hockey NESCAC

Trinity Tufts Williams Amherst Bowdoin Colby Conn. Coll.

Middlebury Wesleyan Bates

W 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0

L W 0 4 0 3 0 2 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 0 3 0

L 0 0 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 4

T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

G 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

A 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0

Pts 4 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 0 0

Goalkeeping M. Zak

GA 2

S 7

S% .778

(1-2-0, 0-2-0 NESCAC)

NESCAC OVERALL

OVERALL

T. Brown T. Guttadauro J. Perkins A. Russo L. Griffith M. Scholtes L. Sagerman M. Burke A. Roberts

T. Dyer

Women's Soccer

(6-1, 2-0 NESCAC)

(3-0, 2-0 NESCAC)

Amherst Trinity Tufts Bowdoin Conn. Coll.

Hamilton Middlebury Williams Bates Colby Wesleyan

W 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

Defensive A. Kuan K. Engelking C. Updike D. Feiger N. Shrodes B. Helgeson

NESCAC

NESCAC OVERALL

L W L 0 5 1 0 5 2 0 6 1 1 5 1 1 5 2 0 2 11 0 4 1 0 4 3 2 4 2 2 3 4 2 0 6

Offensive C. Updike D. Joyce-Mendive B. Helgeson E. Lokken K. Ellefsen L. Nicholas N. Shrodes

Men's Soccer

(0-3-0, 0-2-0 NESCAC)

Kills SA 7 78 0 59 3 51 6 38 0 20 0 17 9 12 B Digs 72 0 41 0 35 2 14 33 32 2 28 7

W 2 Amherst Middlebury 2 2 Williams 1 Bates 1 Bowdoin 1 Wesleyan 0 Colby 0 Trinity Conn. Coll 0 0 Tufts

L 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2

C. Cadigan S. Nolet A. Maxwell J. Love-Nichols A. Michael F.. Gamal W. Hardy O. Rowse B. Morgan L. O’Connor

G 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0

W 2 3 4 1 1 2 0 0 2 1 A 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

L 1 0 0 1 2 1 2 1 2 2

T 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0

Pts 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

Goalkeeping GA S S% K. Minnehan 3 13 .812

W 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2

A. Lach R. Coleman B. Green P. Tonelli J. Lewis K. Jaff F. Silva A. Kobren M. Blumenthal D. Schoening

G 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Amherst Middlebury Trinity Wesleyan Williams Bowdoin Conn. Coll.

Bates Colby Tufts

OVERALL

T 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

W 3 2 2 2 3 3 1 0 0 0

A 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

L 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 2 3

T 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0

Pts 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

Goalkeeping GA S S% P. Tonelli 8 11 .579

SCHEDULE | Sept. 23 - Sept. 29 WED

THU

FRI

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at Wesleyan 12:30 p.m.

Football

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SAT

vs. UMass Dartmouth 4 p.m.

at Wesleyan 12 p.m.

at Conn. Coll Invite

Cross Country

Women’s Soccer

vs. Wheaton 4:30 p.m.

at Wesleyan 12:00 p.m.

at Babson 4:00 p.m.

Men’s Soccer

at Springfield 7 p.m.

at Wesleyan 2:30 p.m.

Suffolk 7:00 p.m.

at MIT Tournament

UMass Boston 7:00 p.m.

Springfield 6:00 p.m.

(MIT Tournament)

Volleyball

at Duke Nelson Invitational (at Middlebury)

Golf

JumboCast

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the third lowest in the conference. In turn, this led to a pass defense that ranked in the lower half of the conference, allowing 210.5 yards per game, and a lack of turnovers, as the team managed only 14 on the year.

Sophomore defensive end Donnie Simmons, who was named First Team All-NESCAC and received NESCAC Rookie of the Year honors last season — becoming the first player in over two decades to earn both accolades — noted that much of the lack of pressure was out of their control.

“We had injuries along the

defensive line, which caused teams to be able to double team us,” Simmons said.

Nonetheless, the Jumbos managed to rank fourth in the conference in points allowed, and this year the starting defensive line — consisting of Simmons, senior quad-captain Dan Stebbins, senior Mike Cunningham and junior Alex Gresham — is healthy and looking to mix things up its schemes in order to get more pressure.

“We are going to use more blitzes to confuse the quarterback, moving ends around and blitzing linebackers,” Simmons said. “Sometimes we may even drop the ends into coverage.”

Yet sending a frontal assault

of linemen on such blitzing patterns will put more pressure on a young core of linebackers to close up holes and stop the running game. This could pose a challenge for the group, which consists of no seniors and only two juniors.

Linebacker Tyson Reynoso (E ’09), a tri-captain on last year’s squad, is gone, taking his team-leading 73 tackles with him. Also departed from the unit is Ryan Crisco (LA ’09) and senior Alex Perry, the squad’s second- and third-leading tacklers in 2008. Perry, a quadcaptain, will be playing in the secondary this season as he did in his first two years at Tufts.

However, if the new line-

backers can step up, the front seven for the Jumbos could form a cohesive wall.

Still, this season will come down to Tufts’ ability to execute on the road. The Jumbos’ calendar begins with away games at Wesleyan (1-7 in 2008) and Bates (2-6 in ’08), both of which are should-win and must-win games for Tufts if it hopes to compete for a NESCAC title. With an eightgame schedule, succumbing to even one upset can be devastating. According to the Jumbos, the key to winning on the road is maintaining focus.

“We need to go in every game the same and look at each game by itself,” Tassinari

said.

“We have some special players,” Simmons added. “We walk with a swagger on the field. In our first scrimmage, I saw fire and intensity. I’m excited. We have some real athletes. Hopefully we come to every game ready to play.”

If the defense can consistently create pressure in the backfield, this veteran squad might not let up its grip on opposing offenses all season.

The Jumbos ranked fourth in the NESCAC in points allowed per game last year, but — provided they can stay healthy — they just might make the jump to the top of the conference in 2009.

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Though he lined up at both wide receiver and safety in high school, defense always struck a particular chord with Tassinari.

“Defense wins championships — I know it’s cliché,” Tassinari said. “I like hitting people and the mentality of defense, trying to stop them.

I just figured I was a better defensive player than offensive player.”

Yet from a simple conversation with him, it becomes evident that humility, not physical strength, is Tassinari’s greatest attribute.

“I’ve been fortunate to play with a lot of good guys,” Tassinari said. “I couldn’t have gotten these awards without them. I consider this a team honor and attribute a lot of my success to the whole defense in general.”

Humility sees no recogni-

tion without skill, though, an attribute Tassinari boasts plenty of. Last year, Tassinari tied for 17th nationally in Div. III with 0.63 interceptions per game, and he returned a pick for a touchdown for the second consecutive year. But his most important impact often goes unnoticed in the box score.

“There’s nothing better than seeing a big hit or seeing a big play to get people excited and ready to go,” senior quad-captain Alex Perry said. “He’s just that type of guy who always seems to make those types of plays, even though you might not expect it. He’s a force back there and will always be.”

In 2006, Tassinari’s freshman year, he “tried to get in any way possible” and ended up playing primarily on special teams. He saw the field in just three games, recording three tackles.

But in his sophomore campaign, both starting safeties

got hurt, opening the door for the next chapter. With a work ethic rivaling anyone on the team, Tassinari quickly proved himself to his coaches and his teammates. He went on to lead the team with five interceptions and finished second on the squad with 51 tackles that year.

“We thought that Tom had ‘it,’ and when you think right, you hit it in Vegas,” Tufts coach Bill Samko said. “We did that with Tom. He is what he is, which is pretty damn special.

He certainly breaks the stereotype about what the football dumb jock is supposed to be.”

Being named a preseason All-American means a lot to Tassinari, but he is quick to note that it has little bearing on how his senior year will play out.

“It’s a nice award and all, but it’s a preseason award, and it doesn’t really mean that much,” he said. “It’s based on

the past. You still have to train as hard, maybe even harder now that people are coming for you. It doesn’t affect the outcome of the season because you still have to do all your running and lifting. It’s nice, but it doesn’t win games.”

Even with the honors, Tassinari insists that winning comes first, looking to improve on the Jumbos’ .500 mark in 2008.

“I don’t think there’s anything to get cocky about; there are plenty guys who are as good as I am,” Tassinari said.

“We could go 8-0, and I could have zero tackles and zero interceptions, and that would be totally fine with me.”

“The ideal defensive player is a leader who knows what’s going on and has a certain type of instinct,” Perry added. “[ Tassinari] embodies that type of player. It’s leading by example for Tass. He’ll do anything to get better. He deserves

all the recognition in the world for what he’s done.”

Though this fall will be the conclusion of Tassinari’s football chapter, his passion and drive make it clear that his story is far from finished.

“I’ve coached 30-plus doctors, and Tom’s at the top of what we’ve had,” Samko said.

“He’s a winner and is going to be successful at whatever he chooses to do. I tell the guys on my team, ‘be like him, be like him.’”

“He is a throwback to a time when athletes didn’t think they were owed something just because they could play a game,” Modeste added. “In the game of life, hitting someone is irrelevant. You have to be a good citizen and a good student. Playing football is a bonus, but it does not define him. When it’s over, he’ll still be Tom Tassinari, quietly walking out into the sunset.”

Just like Gary Cooper.

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Catcher Joe Mauer and closer Joe Nathan have helped keep the Twins within striking distance of first-place Detroit in the AL Central.

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Two weeks ago, the Minnesota Twins held a 69-69 record. They sat 6.5 games behind the Detroit Tigers in the American League Central division and were written off as a pretender in the ultra-competitive Junior Circuit.

Then Ron Gardenhire’s team lost its star first-baseman, Justin Morneau, owner of 30 home runs and a robust .878 OPS, to a season-ending back injury. The Twins’ top10 offense seemed all but certain to regress back the middle of the pack in the absence of its second-most potent hitter.

Or so you’d think.

Instead, the Twins went on a 7-1 roll after losing Morneau, including a series win against the Tigers that has helped propel them to within 2.5 games of the AL Central lead.

Credit Michael Cuddyer, who has taken over at first base, for supplanting Morneau’s production by delivering four home runs and 13 RBIs during those eight games. But this has been a theme for the Twins all season long; players have continuously stepped up when their teammates have gone down.

And the players who have come up big have typically been ones whom fans outside of the Twin Cities have never heard of.

Take a look, for instance, at the five members of Minnesota’s current starting rotation.

Scott Baker, Nick Blackburn, Brian Duensing, Jeff Manship and Carl Pavano — yes, that Carl Pavano.

Francisco Liriano? Nope, he’s been demoted to mop-up duty after performing erratically for most of the season. Kevin Slowey? No, he’s recovering from surgery on his right wrist. Johan Santana? Oh wait, he was traded to the New York Mets two winters ago.

There have been only two constants for the Twins this season. The first is closer Joe Nathan, who continues to be an elite ninthinning stopper, arguably the most underrated in baseball. Nathan has allowed a paltry 39 hits in 61 innings of work this year, walking 20 and whiffing a phenomenal 81. He has slammed the door on more than half of Minnesota’s victories this season, converting 42 saves in 47 chances.

The other is catcher Joe Mauer, who has been the best position player in baseball this season not named Albert Pujols — or perhaps even including the National League MVP favorite. The 26-year-old leads the league in batting average at .373, is atop the AL standings in on-base percentage at .442 and soars above his competition in slugging percentage at .608.

A left-handed hitter, Mauer has been

more effective against righties than southpaws, but even against lefties he owns an .896 OPS. His worst month came in July when he posted a .309/.377/.468 line that incredibly ranked as a disappointment for the former No. 1 overall pick.

Born and raised in St. Paul, Mauer grew up in the Twins’ backyard and was living the dream when he was selected by his hometown squad in the 2001 draft, offering him the rare opportunity to continue playing baseball in front of the fans with whom he grew up. Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that Mauer is now the leader of a team that is more reliant on homegrown talent than any other in the league.

Though other Twins players, like outfielders Denard Span and Jason Kubel, are hitting around the .300 mark and have carried their weight, there is no doubt that Mauer is the most important player on his team.

No matter what the standings-influenced voters ultimately decide, Joe Mauer — not New York’s Derek Jeter or Mark Teixeira, not Boston’s Kevin Youkilis, not Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera, not Anaheim’s Kendry Morales, not Tampa Bay’s Ben Zobrist — is the American League’s Most Valuable Player.

Mauer’s had his eyes on the prize all season. No, not the MVP hardware or the league batting title — his ultimate reward would be the Twins’ first playoff berth since 2006.

WEEKLY MUMBO JUMBO “We were a little off on Day One this weekend, as we were missing our No. 2 player [junior Danny Moll]. But we don’t make excuses. Once we throw on our Sunday gold, the Jumbos are a force to be reckoned with.

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— Senior golfer Cal Shapiro Sept. 22, 2009 The golf team overcame a slow start at the Williams Invitational over the weekend and posted a solid 10th-place finish out of 16 teams. After a lackluster first day of competition, in which a Jumbos squad adjusting to difficult playing conditions shot a combined score of 319, Tufts improved by 14 strokes during Sunday’s final round.

can no longer be surprised by what the New England Patriots do. If I woke up tomorrow morning and learned that the Patriots had traded Tom Brady for first- and third-round choices in 2015, I’d probably be convinced to spin that into a positive.

But after watching Richard Seymour in his Oakland Raiders debut two weeks ago, I am wondering why so few people bother to raise so much as an eyebrow at many of Bill Belichick’s moves. In New England’s first two games, the Pats’ defensive line was kept in check until the last drive by a Bills offensive line that featured three rookie starters, and New York Jets rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez had so much time he could’ve been a black-market Rolex dealer.

Seymour, however, had two sacks in his debut. He has transformed an Oakland defense that was so porous in the preseason that it should’ve worn square pants and lived in a pineapple under the sea.

Now, I know why the Patriots traded Seymour. How often do you get a chance to grab a first-round draft pick for a guy who is likely on the downside of his career?

Plus, that pick comes from the Raiders, who have a standing reservation in the NFL Draft’s top 10. Still, Seymour was coming off a resurgent season in which he had eight sacks, and the Patriots’ Achilles’ heel in recent years has been their abysmal pass rush, even more so than their inexperienced secondary.

I know that Seymour probably was not going to be re-signed at the end of the season, but after watching the first two games, I wish Belichick had held onto him. Bills quarterback Trent Edwards had all the time in the world when he went back to pass and nearly led his team to a shocking upset. And Sanchez looked like a savvy veteran on Sunday instead of a player in his second career game.

In comparison, Brady has spent most of the first two games dodging rushers like they were Suzy Kolber, and the Patriots weren’t able to make the adjustments against the Jets that they did versus the Bills. That is a problem for the Patriots offense. It’s not like Brady ever had the mobility of Michael Vick, and that was before his knee injury.

I’m not saying that Seymour was going to singlehandedly fix the Patriots pass rush. I’m not even going to say that this trade was Belichick’s worst personnel move ever — cough, Asante Samuel, cough — or even of the last year (just a second-round pick for Matt Cassel and Mike Vrabel?).

What I will say, however, is that I worry that Belichick now has no leash. He is arguably the best football coach of alltime, but he has always had Scott Pioli behind him to help put a team together.

Now, Pioli is gone and Belichick is free to act like a mad scientist.

Outgrow backup quarterbacks faster than a 12-year-old in hand-me-downs?

Sure. Stockpile tight ends like canned goods? Why not? And if you thought that there are no trades in football, Bill Belichick has a surprise for you!

I wonder if he has taken things too far. And we will all know if, God forbid, rookie quarterback Brian Hoyer is forced to take any snaps. Because even though the return of Tom Brady made the Patriots a trendy preseason Super Bowl pick, the team I saw the last two weeks has a ways to go to earn that status. The defense lacks depth and is susceptible to big plays, the offensive line might not be able to keep Brady clean all year, and the play-calling has been suspect to say the least.

The secret is that these problems date back to the undefeated regular season run in 2007. None of them are really all that new. And unless Belichick finds a way to address them, I might not be the only one who starts asking some questions.

Ethan Landy is a senior majoring in English.

He can be reached at Ethan.Landy@tufts. edu.

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After two of its most productive players graduated last May, the football team knew that offense would raise a number of question marks come 2009.

Will Forde (LA ’09), last season’s starting running back, put together the best season of his college career in 2008, recording 807 rushing yards and seven touchdowns on 185 carries.

Meanwhile, the Tufts passing attack was powered by wide receiver David Halas (LA ’09), who set a new singleseason program record with 11 touchdown receptions a year ago.

Although Forde and Halas combined to score roughly three quarters of Tufts’ offensive touchdowns last season, offensive coordinator Jay Civetti believes his unit has what it takes to fill the void created in their absence.

“Not too much changes in this sport,” he said. “You build on the success and legacy the guys in years past have left and you use the work ethic and commitment that those kids left here and cast it upon these young guys.

“It’s exciting to have new guys and to give people the opportunity to step up,” he continued. “There is nothing better than opportunity, and to give a kid the tools to allow him to step up for that opportunity is part of the reason we love to coach.”

Among those who will be asked to replace Forde is senior running back Darren Ferguson, who will get the start in the backfield when Tufts opens its season Saturday against Wesleyan. In four games last season, Ferguson averaged 8.2 yards per carry.

“Our offense works as a unit,” Ferguson said. “Will was both a great teammate as well as a great back, and see OFFENSE, page 13

Defense looks to leave behind ’08 road woes BY

ETHAN STURM

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Senior quarterback Anthony Fucillo could miss the football team’s season opener against Wesleyan on Saturday with an ankle injury. The Jumbos’ offense is already entering the 2009 campaign having to overcome the losses of its leading rusher and receiver to graduation.

Though it is an oft-repeated cliché, defense still wins championships. That much was proven by Trinity and Williams last year, as the conference’s top two defensive teams combined to go 14-2 and finish first and second, respectively, in the NESCAC standings. So if Tufts wants to improve on last season’s 4-4 record, it will need an improved performance from a defensive squad that put its best foot forward at home but faltered on the road.

This year, expectations are high for a defensive unit that includes nine returning starters and multiple award winners. While the Jumbos believe that they have the components to be the best in the NESCAC, they also understand that in order to have a shot at the conference championship, the defense will need to step up.

“We have a lot of returning seniors, a lot of talent and a lot of experience,” said senior quad-captain Tom Tassinari, who was named a preseason All-American safety thanks to his five interceptions last year: good for second in the conference. “Experience goes a long way on defense.”

Last season was an up-and-down one for the Jumbos’ defense. While only giving up 38 points in four games at home, they allowed 118 points in as many road contests.

Many of their problems stemmed from a pass rush that struggled to put pressure on the quarterback, averaging only 1.6 sacks per game, see DEFENSE, page 14

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Senior quad-captain Tom Tassinari (21) added a preseason All-American honor to an awards haul that also includes two First Team All-NESCAC selections.

Leon Modeste is old-fashioned.

So old-fashioned, in fact, that when the 23-year Phillips Acadamy football coach attempted to find an accurate comparison for his former player, Tufts safety Tom Tassinari, the only name that came to mind was Gary Cooper, a film actor born in 1901 who was known for his emotionally restrained Western flicks.

At the end of his movies, Cooper, a tall, lanky man, would stoically walk into the sunset, satisfied that he had saved the world one last time. Likewise, at the end of football games, Tassinari walks away quietly, seeking no pats on the back for an individual effort but rather content with the team win.

Though this stoicism links the film legend and the football star, the similarities stop there. Cooper’s film career ended in 1961. For Tassinari, his story begins on the fields of Andover, Mass. at age nine and continues through his years at Tufts. The last chapter in the “Book of Tassinari,” however, has yet to be written.

A senior quad-captain, Tassinari returns to the gridiron for one more season in what has already been one of the more prolific careers by a Jumbo safety in program history. He’s been named First Team All-NESCAC for the past two years, and in 2008, he became the first Tufts player since 2005 to be selected to the New England Football Writers’ All-New England team. Surely,

that would be enough for most, but Tassinari is always hungry for more.

For someone who was unsure about playing college football, he has certainly done well for himself. On July 28, Tassinari was named a D3football.com 2009 preseason All-American, the only defensive player from New England to make either the first or second team.

The story of Tassinari can be traced back to Andover, where his mother was the treasurer for the in-town football league. While Tassinari began playing under his mom, he eventually worked his way up to Phillips-Andover.

“He is just one of those kids who just kept coming and developing,” Modeste said. “It’s the whole package. He was just a monster his senior year … and never looked back. Tom was just great, one of those guys who just steps up.”

Modeste recalled one time in high school when Tassinari scored on the opening drive of a big game. While the entire sideline exploded in excitement, Tassinari, the “calmest person in the stadium,” flipped the ball to the official, jogged back to the huddle and readied himself for the next defensive assignment.

“Tom never said a word, but in the first minute of the game, he would stick somebody,” Modeste said. “That’s him in a nutshell. Tommy wasn’t the guy who was all hyped up before the game.

He just came out and did the right thing. He will cover the best guy or the worst guy, in zone or man.” see TASSINARI page 14