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Number of New England schools in $50,000 tuition bracket to double BY

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VOLUME LIX, NUMBER 46

Markey, officials meet at Tufts to discuss energy

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The number of schools in New England that next year will join Tufts in charging $50,000 or more for yearly tuition, room and board will likely more than double, according to a survey The Boston Globe conducted of over 20 colleges and universities.

Schools costing over $50,000 for the first time include Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Brandeis University, Wellesley College, Dartmouth College, Brown University and College of the Holy Cross.

They will join many schools that this year began charging over $50,000, including Tufts, Boston College (BC), Boston University, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and Babson College.

As the number of colleges and universities that cost over $50,000 per year for tuition increases, schools are assessing why these increases are necessary and how to help families afford higher education.

University President Lawrence

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Boston College will be joined by many schools in the New England area that will be charging more than $50,000 a year.

Bacow believes that much of the issue with the rising college costs lies in the inherent competition between schools to be the best.

“The biggest issue for higher education in the United States has to do with cost and access, and what a lot of people don’t understand is that competition in higher education in the United States actually drives

Accident sends injured student to hospital BY

CORINNE SEGAL

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A Tufts student on Saturday at approximately 3:45 p.m. was struck by a motor vehicle while crossing the street at the intersection of Boston and College Avenues, raising concerns about the safety of the intersection.

The accident occurred when a vehicle took a right turn from Boston Avenue onto College Avenue, according to Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) Sgt. Robert McCarthy, McCarthy, who could not disclose the identity of the student, said that the student suffered a broken ankle and a fractured jaw from the accident. He was transported from the scene of the accident to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment. McCarthy indicated that he believes the student is still receiving care in the hospital.

McCarthy said the Medford Police Department was already present when TUPD officers arrived.

According to McCarthy, the driver of the vehicle lived in Medford and was not affiliated with the university. “It wasn’t a Tufts person driving the vehicle,” he said.

TUPD does not know the specific cause of the accident because Medford police conducted the investigation, McCarthy said.

Contacts at the Medford Police Department could not be reached for comment.

Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman and Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel both said that there were problems with the organization of the intersection that made it difficult to navigate.

“What makes it difficult is that there’s

costs up,” he said in an interview with the Daily.

Many valued features in schools — including smaller classes with more hands-on learning, more student-faculty contact and more extensive co-curricular activities — cost more money and this causes tuition to rise, Bacow said. see TUITION, page 2

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Co n g re s s m a n Ed w a rd Markey (D-Mass.) and Undersecretary of Energy Kristina M. Johnson on Thursday sat down with industry leaders and a limited number of Tufts students and faculty to discuss energy and environmental issues.

Although the meeting in Ballou Hall was closed to the press, Markey later spoke to the Daily in a phone interview, explaining that the discussion addressed the possibility of a “cape-and-trade” system.

“The conclusion of the community was that we need to put a price on carbon,” Markey told the Daily.

Markey, who is the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, also discussed his co-sponsorship of a recent energy bill in the House of Representatives that incorporates such a capand-trade policy.

The Wa x m a n - Ma r k e y Climate and Energy Bill, which targets greenhouse gas emissions, last June passed the house and has taken the formal name of The American Clean Energy and Security Act. Markey hopes a similar bill that the U.S. Senate is currently considering will pass within the next two months.

Both bills establish a “capand-trade” policy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, with the House version requiring a 17 percent reduction in such emissions relative to 2005 levels by 2050, according to Markey.

Markey believes that this bill will inspire further environmental changes and advancements. “There would be an explosion of development of technology to solve the problem of global warming,” Markey said.

He explained that this technological revolution will then see MARKEY, page 2

Senate candidates debate the body’s student outreach at forum The 11 rising sophomores who have announced their candidacy for the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Sophomore Senate last night gathered in Hotung Café to address the student body at the Candidate’s Forum.

Freshmen Ard Ardalan, Faith Blake, Wyatt Cadley, Logan Cotton, Meredith Goldberg, Yulia Korovikov, Hemali Patel, Shawyoun Shaidani, Jared Snead, Arlen Weiner and Tabias Wilson spoke to a small group of students, introducing themselves and outlining their plans for Senate.

The candidates began by introducing their plans for the Senate if elected.

Incumbent senators running for reelection outlined their experience from the past semester, while new candidates named the activities and qualities that would make them good senators.

The 11 candidates then responded to questions from audience members and Tufts Election Commission (ECOM) representatives.

The relationship between the Senate and the student body was a major issue brought up by the candidates and the audience.

One question asked was how each candidate would work to bridge the gap that has prevented students who are not involved in Senate from being familiar with Senate’s projects and decisions.

Candidates’ suggestions ranged from the creation of an online newsletter and weekly e-mail or bulletin board to making a greater effort to forge personal connections with students around campus.

ECOM Chair Sharon Chen, a sophomore, said that the issue of Senate’s outreach to the wider study body will continue to be addressed. “That’s a persistent problem that also has ongoing solutions,” Chen said.

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The candidates for the Sophomore Senate last night addressed the student body in the Candidate’s Forum at Hotung Cafè. decisions from this year with which they disagreed, as well as their own personal strengths and weaknesses.

Each listed the issue they consider the most pressing for Senate to address in the coming semesters, with responses ranging from the advising system, the university’s alcohol policy, an online reporting system for facilities problems and complications with course registration.

Freshman Adam Sax, a member of the TCU Judiciary, was impressed by the candidates. “Good things happened tonight,” Sax said. “We have some strong candidates and I can’t wait to see what happens on Wednesday.”

Chen agreed with Sax about the quality of the candidates. “They would all be wonderful additions to the Senate,” she said.

Bronwen Raff, a freshman, highlighted what she felt was poor turnout for the event. “It’s appalling that there aren’t more people [here]; these are the people that are going to affect our futures,” Raff said.

The election will take place on Wednesday and will involve only the current freshman class, as all the current sophomore and junior candidates ran uncontested.

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Police Briefs SHOWER CASUALTY Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a call at 1:30 p.m. on April 5 reporting that between 1 a.m. and 1:15 a.m. on the morning of April 4, a student in Bush Hall left his room to take a shower and came back to find his wallet missing.

There are no suspects for the theft.

A FEW BAD EGGS? TUPD officers noticed at 3:50 p.m. on April 6 that several males outside of South

Hall appeared to be throwing objects at each other.

When an officer exited his vehicle to investigate, the students scattered. One of the fleeing students was carrying a carton of eggs. There were also broken eggs on the ground. The person with the eggs denied knowing anything about what they had been doing.

“He was very uncooperative,” TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said.

When questioned, two of the students claimed to be on the tennis team and playing

a prank on freshman members of the team.

McCarthy said that officers discovered the students were members of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. “It sounds like they were throwing eggs at the pledges,” he said.

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The officer knocked on the door and received no response; soon after, the resident arrived at his room. The student allowed the officer to enter the room, where he discovered marijuana, rolling papers, a grinder and a digital scale in the room, which the officer then confiscated.

A TUPD officer in Tilton Hall at 9:30 p.m. on April 10 smelled marijuana coming from one room.

“A strong odor could be smelled,” McCarthy said.

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Markey is co-sponsoring a bill targeting climate change that would institute a cap-and-trade system.

Markey pushes for climate change legislation MARKEY continued from page 1

significantly reduce energyrelated costs.

“The benefits of the bill is that it is going to create a green energy revolution, reducing the amount that is spent on gasoline, on electricity because there will be a much more efficient vehicle that people will be driving, much more efficient appliances,” Markey said. “So over the long run, consumers are actually going to save money.”

Although such a sweeping change may prove beneficial to the environment and the economy, the bill has many opponents and passed the House by only a slim margin.

Markey said that the opposition is unfounded and is largely being propagated by industry players keen to slow down reform.

“I think it is mostly political,” he said. “I don’t think that there’s any science that contradicts the conclusion that global warming is happening. I think that the oil industry and the coal industry have a huge stake in slowing down the passage of legislation.”

While political motivations may infiltrate the climate change debate in the United States, many European countries do

not face such politicization, a fact that Markey said is due to outside interests.

“Europe does not have a significant oil-gas and oil industry, so there’s a greater political tension in the United States,” he said.

Coming on the heels of expensive health care legislation, passage of the climate bill could be an uphill battle during a congressional election year where polls show a tight race for control of Congress.

Markey, however, said that the bill should aid the slowly recovering U.S. economy.

“As each week goes by, those gasoline increases go higher,” he said. “That tax on consumers at the pump can only be rectified by creating a clean energy bill that does not allow the oil industry and [Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries] to tip consumers upside down and shake money out of their pockets.”

Markey also defended the bill against criticism from environmental organizations that claim the reform is too weak.

“It’s 17 percent by 2020, 42 percent by 2030 and 83 percent by 2050,” he said. “That’s an extremely ambitious set of goals to reduce carbon emissions.”

quite a few streets coming together at odd angles,” Reitman said.

“I think that there are a number of things that make it particularly complicated, but principally it is the geometry of the intersection because it doesn’t come to a neat right angle,” Rubel said. “It’s very hard to see where traffic is coming from.”

Rubel noted that this could be behind many of the accidents that have occurred at the intersection.

“There are a couple places where it’s very difficult to see what, if anything, is coming,” she said.

“Even for a driver, it’s sometimes difficult to know who has the right of way.”

Reitman explained, however, that safety at the intersection has improved after traffic lights were installed there eight years ago.

“Before the lights were put in, there were many more accidents because it was kind of a free-forall,” he said. “I believe it was just a flashing red light before. It’s better than it was. It was scary before, but it’s a lot more manageable now.”

Rubel said that the Medford Police Department, which performs safety evaluations for different intersections in Medford, has not found the

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A Tufts student was hit by a car at the intersection of Boston and College Avenues. intersection of Boston and College Avenues to be one of the most dangerous.

“I do know [that], as challenging as it is for us, it doesn’t rise to the level of the most dangerous intersections in Medford because the police actually gather that information,” she said.

None of the intersections deemed Medford’s most dangerous are located near campus, Rubel said.

Despite this, Rubel explained that Tufts has requested a state evaluation of the intersection’s safety before the Green Line extension’s expected 2014 completion.

“We’ve requested that they

[evaluate] that because we think that automobile traffic is only going to increase, as well as pedestrians, if there’s a subway station there,” she said.

Reitman believes the intersection’s safety will receive more attention, since one of the new Green Line T stations will be built next to it.

“The next fix for it will likely happen with the Green Line extension — the whole thing will have to be reworked,” Reitman said. “Maybe that will provide an opportunity to entirely revisit how the intersection can work and make it safer.”

Jenny White contributed to the reporting of this article

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“In other industries, competition tends to drive costs down, but in higher education it’s different because we actually know how to make the cost of higher education cheaper … but all you have to do … is walk outside and see all the tours, and what everybody wants is exactly the opposite,” he said. “So that’s what drives cost.”

Director of Public Affairs at Boston College Jack Dunn feels similarly. He told the Daily that the $50,000 tuition charge represents the constant competition among some of the top schools in the nation to be the best.

Dunn explained that currently approximately 15 schools — including Boston College and Tufts, New York, Columbia, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and Carnegie Mellon Universities — charge more than $50,000.

“These are all schools that are rated among the best in the nation,” he told the Daily. “I think the reality is that with excellence comes the price.”

Bacow said that Tufts in particular spends money to keep the student-faculty ratio low and to facilitate closer studentprofessor interaction.

According to Bacow, among research universities, Tufts ranks within the top five with regards to both most classes enrolling less than 20 students and least classes enrolling more than 50.

“Where we put our money is

in trying to ensure that students have small classes and trying to make sure they have a lot of student-faculty contact,” Bacow said.

Given the prospect of increasingly high tuition, Bacow sees it as the university’s responsibility to provide adequate aid for students.

“I’ve tried to make this a priority for us to ensure that we have adequate financial aid resources so that we can admit students regardless of the ability of the family to pay the full price of an education,” Bacow said.

“Nobody pays the full cost — even people with no scholarship support whatsoever — because the endowment supports the cost of educating students.”

Dunn explained that the situation at Boston College is similar, where need blind admissions and an extensive financial aid program help mitigate the high cost of tuition.

“Overall, 70 percent of BC students receive aid,” Dunn said.

“Forty percent receive pure institutional aid that comes from BC alone, pure institutional needbased aid.”

Dunn pointed out that Boston College is one of a select few schools that run a needblind admissions program and guarantee to meet the demonstrated financial aid needs of every student.

“We’re fortunate because we take students regardless of their ability to pay tuition,” Dunn said.

“We are one of around 20 uni-

versities in the [United States] that meet the full need of our students, and I think that helps to mitigate tuition increases.

Families with need realize their need will be met.”

The situation is similar at Harvard, where despite a 3.8 percent increase in tuition for next year, students can expect to pay only what they can afford.

Harvard announced that although its tuition will increase to $50,724, a good portion of that money will go toward a nine percent increase in financial aid.

“Among other reasons, many of Harvard’s costs continue to increase, including the $13 million increase in financial aid outlined in the announcement,” Senior Communications Officer for Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeff Neal told the Daily.

Although Dunn believes the higher cost of tuition is necessary to maintain quality, he says that Boston College has embarked on a comprehensive program to keep tuition rates from increasing more substantially.

“We have a hiring freeze …

We’ve implemented an early retirement with non-contract personnel and have embarked on a comprehensive university-wide energy reform that has reduced our carbon footprint and our energy costs, so those are just some of the measures we’ve employed,” he said.

Ellen Kan contributed reporting to this article.

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BUILD to extend reach to India this summer

Group hopes to lay groundwork for long partnership with new community

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A Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD) team this summer will be heading to India for the first time, in addition to participating in the BUILD: Guatemala mission now in its third year.

Both BUILD missions will follow the same pillars of learning and partnering with local communities to encourage sustainable development.

Sponsored by the Institute of Global Leadership (IGL), BUILD is an entirely student-run program that aims to form enduring coalitions with rural communities in order to catalyze the institution of sustainable methods of development. It began with a partnership in Nicaragua that has since branched off into a successful partnership in Guatemala.

BUILD: Guatemala will enter its third summer traveling to the agrarian community of Santa Anita la Unión and will continue to expand on existing development projects while implementing a new ecotourism project, according to junior Michael Niconchuk, co-founder and one of the leaders of the program.

BUILD: India, on the other hand, is just getting off the ground this July by initiating evaluations of potential partner communities.

“BUILD is at a position where we’ve been working in the community in Guatemala for two years now, so as a group we started to see whether there were other options to grow the program,” Nithyaa Venkataramani, a freshman member of BUILD, said.

Brainstorming for potential new locations ended with the selection of India, according to Niconchuk.

Venkataramani said the group already has a number of potential partner villages in mind in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

The group aims to this summer visit prospective locations and conduct research on the areas based on the criteria of need and the ability to form relationships with the people and organizations at work there, according to Niconchuk.

“To decide where’s best, we’re going to talk to [non-governmental organizations] and do socioeconomic evaluations,” Venkataramani said.

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Senior Max Goldman arrived on the Hill with plans to pursue his passion for politics by majoring in either political science or International Relations.

But after taking several political science courses, Goldman realized that they just weren’t the right subjects for him.

“I had been really involved in politics, and because I cared so much about it, I thought [political science] was a really cold way of looking at it,” Goldman said.

On a whim, Goldman signed up for Introduction to Philosophy. Several philosophy classes later, he declared a major in the subject.

Had Goldman or any of the 37 senior philosophy majors at Tufts attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, their preferred course matter would not have been available to them, as the university eliminated its philosophy major last spring after years of declining enrollment.

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Though this summer will be BUILD’s first time in India, the group has run a successful Guatemalan program for the past two years.

The process will follow the model created and successfully employed two years ago by BUILD, which outlined four pillars on which to found the program — education, action, solidarity and leadership — according to Niconchuk.

“We’re building upon the model of Guatemala, using the same core values, the mission statement and four pillars for this project,” Venkataramani said. “It will be a similar development project, with a starting team that will establish a partner community.”

A third BUILD initiative was initially planned for the 2010 summer months to establish a partnership with a Nigerian village, according to Niconchuk. He said, however, that the proposed West African project faced too many obstacles to be feasibly implemented this year.

“BUILD: Nigeria was going to happen, but then there were too many security concerns given what we were seeing on the news,” Niconchuk said. “[Nigeria] has become a lot more unstable in the past couple of months,” junior Kathryn Taylor, a co-founder of BUILD: Guatemala, said. “There was a lot of violence in the center of the

country, and a couple months ago, a violent clash on a highway about 40 miles from where we would be staying. Then we found out the airport in Enugu was shut down for a year.”

Taylor is doubtful that the program will successfully launch in the future because a return to stability in Nigeria is unlikely to happen soon, not to mention the huge expense involved in a trip to Africa.

Though the anticipated BUILD: Nigeria program was cancelled, Niconchuk explained that the India initiative was successfully created because it could be implemented on a smaller scale.

He cited the fact that although the price of a plane ticket to India is as high as one to Nigeria, there will only be a maximum of three or four students traveling to India.

Niconchuk further explained that the participating students have ties to South Asia as well as the linguistic skills needed to communicate with local organizations in order to get a project started — another element see BUILD, page 4

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Relevant” examined schools like the University of Louisiana that are changing their academic curricula to appear more “career-geared.”

For example, according to the article, Thomas College of Maine guarantees prospective students that if they can’t find a job within six months of graduation, the school will either allow them to come back to take more classes or pay their student loans for a year.

Similarly, at the University of Texas at Austin, the English department implemented a course called “The English Major in the Workplace” that puts just as much emphasis on networking as on analyzing literature.

At a liberal arts school like Tufts, the idea of taking an English class in which one learns how to network might seem ludicrous.

Is the Tufts belief in the value of a liberal arts education elitist? Do students have the luxury of choosing a “less practical” major because they go to a top-notch school, and will this luxury slip away, so that someday soon Tufts will revamp its academic approach to appear more “career friendly?”

Professor Nancy Bauer, the chair of

the Department of Philosophy, doesn’t think so.

“People at other schools may be under the impression that they need to major in something that will help them get a job … This doesn’t mean that it’s true,” Bauer said.

Bauer added that she is certain employers continue to prefer hiring students who are well-rounded and intelligent.

“I still think that — actually I know that — most employers think … that being a well-educated person in any field is most important,” Bauer said.

“Employers are looking for people who can think on their feet, think deeply, speak intelligently and contribute thoughtfully and reflectively.”

She said that while people who are certain they want to go into a very specific field, like radio broadcasting, for example, should attend specific colleges, most entry-level positions do not require a specific set of skills, and thus students do not need certain majors to apply.

“The fact of the matter is that having see MAJORS, page 4

n high school, big words were prized possessions. Everyone had a few classics stowed away (“copious,” “supercilious,” “cantankerous” — you know the ones I’m talking about) that always seemed to prove surprisingly useful in counteracting the many run-on sentences in thesis-less essays about books we hadn’t read.

Little did we know that when that very last bell rang that was all to change; a new era began. The five-paragraph essay was no longer, “I” wasn’t blacklisted from all things written, it was OK to make up words as long as they sounded cool, and suddenly verbosity was last summer’s trend.

No sir, this is no longer the reign of “antidisestablishmentarianism” with its many, many knowledge-filled syllables. That elitist kingdom has been overthrown by the underdog army of the long forgotten everyday words. This is a kingdom — nay, a democracy! — in which little words have big voices; in which a little word can go a long way. This is a world in which sometimes, big words make you sounds stupid, and little words make you sound smart.

The one I’d like to talk about today is one that graces our conversations constantly throughout the day without so much as a fleeting thought given to it. Yes, perhaps it’s time to pay some homage to the good old reliable article, “the.”

In July, the renowned New York Times language columnist William Safire (recently deceased) devoted one of his columns to a question he received from a reader. It should be noted that, having read about the exact same Q&A topic in Esquire Magazine some time ago, I would love to be pointing fingers, but unfortunately I do not recall who was the copycat here.

The reader wanted to know why the Times (as well as many other publications) insists on including the article “the” before nouns that are used to identify names (e.g. job titles); why, for example, is it “the notorious Tufts embezzler Jodie Nealley” or “the food vendor Moe” rather than simply “notorious Tufts embezzler Jodie Nealie” or “food vendor Moe?” Or, if word count is a driving force, why not, “Jodie Nealley, a notorious Tufts embezzler” or “Moe, a food vendor?”

His answer gave me a new respect for the sophisticated little word.

Quoting The New York Times deputy news editor Phil Corbett, Safire explained that publications veer away from the “notorious Tufts embezzler Jodie Nealley” and “food vendor Moe” format to avoid calling people by titles that don’t really exist. “President Bacow” or, to use the example that Corbett gave, “General John Smith,” seem like valid ways to address these people because their titles are official (capitalized, no less) titles indeed. But promoting “notorious Tufts staff embezzler” or “hotdog vendor,” or any job title for that matter to the official status of president or general seems a bit odd and definitely not correct.

On the flip side, the alternative format — as in, “Jodie Nealley, a notorious Tufts staff embezzler” and “Moe, a hotdog vendor” — makes the publication sound like it doesn’t really know what it’s talking about — like that kid who proudly introduces a revelation that everyone already knows about.

Safire himself seemed a bit skeptical of “the trendy the,” playfully challenging Corbett with a, “What’s wrong with the trend-resistant ‘architect I.M. Pei?’” Still, it’s an impressive role for the little “the” to play, and besides, a little conformism once in a while won’t kill the independent mind (which, if you’re a “copious” or “supercilious” kind of guy or gal, you’ve already figured out).

Conclusion (as our five-paragraph essay would call for): If you want to sound smart, minimalism is the name of the game. You can finally flush the Princeton Review flash cards and start thinking more about the words you learned in preschool.

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

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a particular skill may or may not help you to get a get a job, but being articulate and interesting and reflective and thoughtful may very well get you a job,” Bauer said.

Jean Papalia, director of Career Services, echoed Bauer’s support for liberal arts educations. She said that her office encourages Tufts students to choose majors based on their interests and passions.

“Unless you are pursuing a very technical career, the value of your experiences and skills, gained through internships, volunteer work, extra-curricular activities, class work, and part-time jobs will have a greater impact on your job search success than your academic major,” Papalia said in an e-mail to the Daily.

Papalia called particular attention to a passage from the New York Times article that she said supports her claim.

According to the article, a poll conducted by Association of American Colleges and Universities of employers who hire 25 percent of their employees from colleges found that employers often value broad preparation rather than narrowly focused education.

The poll said that 89 percent of respondents hoped colleges taught “the ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing,” 81 percent wanted students trained in “critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills,” and 70 percent of respondents wanted employees who were taught how to be innovative.

For his part, Goldman said that he has been satisfied with his major at Tufts.

He said that his philosophy courses have challenged him to enhance his analytic abilities and improve his writing skills.

“I think that no matter what you study in philosophy, you come out with a really good capacity for argument … I’ve spent four years here writing papers about the most absurd things, and it’s definitely helped my analytical

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A liberal arts major does not harm one’s chances of getting a job post-graduation, studies have shown. thinking,” Goldman said.

Next year, Goldman plans to apply to law school — a task for which he believes his philosophy major has prepared him. He says that he never worries that his major could weaken his résumé. In fact, Goldman said that he’s heard philosophy majors do best on the Law School Admission Test.

Whether Tufts students major in philosophy, chemical engineering or Spanish, Papalia believes that their education renders them well-positioned for

career success.

“Tufts students are well-rounded high-achievers, leaders in their fields, confident decision makers and effective communicators,” Papalia said.

“Tufts students are educated as independent and critical thinkers. They contribute to progress and profitability in their varied careers and industries.

They are leaders who thrive across all industry sectors and make decisions that will impact and improve our rapidly changing world.”

that was missing from the proposed Nigerian trip.

One of BUILD’s primary aims for this year was to recruit new students who could become leaders for the program in upcoming years, Niconchuk said.

“The program has a less centralized structure than in the past,” Niconchuk said. “A lot of the leadership is in a transition phase. [This August] we’re going to make a conscious effort to introduce new leaders to the community. We plan to hold a meeting with the people of Santa Anita so they get to know them.”

Comprised of a younger generation of leaders, BUILD: India will be launched as a trial, according to Venkataramani, but one that has the benefit of using a proven method from the previous programs and taking instruction from experienced student leaders.

“What we’re able to do in India next summer, everything depends on this scouting trip,” Taylor said. “I’m not sure it’s possible that we will be able to create projects on as large of a scale in India as we did in Santa Anita. Guatemala and India are two very different countries; so many things will have to be done differently. But they’ll follow the same general philosophy.”

That philosophy is the backbone of the BUILD program and holds to fundamental goals like research, education, solidarity and development.

“Our goal is to learn and immerse ourselves in the theory of sustainable development,” Venkataramani said.

“One of the ways [India] will be successful is to form a long-lasting, cross-culture relationship with the community we’ll be working with. We’re a student group, so we’re hoping to just learn as much as possible.”

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Students strike poses for Lux Fashion Show to benefit Tufts China Care

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Ever wondered what it would be like to command the catwalk? For Lux, Tufts China Care’s Annual Charity Fashion Show, 31 students will do just that as they become models for the night and strut their stuff across a red carpet wearing Marc Jacobs, BCBG and other designers.

The event is a way for the Tufts branch of the China Care Club to raise money and, hopefully, improve a life.

The group needs $4,400 to pay for one two-year-old orphan’s heart surgery in Beijing, a goal it hopes to reach through ticket sales for Lux. “It’s very hard for people to adopt kids with disabilities,” said Lou Tanyu, a senior and the show’s producer. “The surgery is really essential to them finding good homes.”

Tanyu has been working since September along with co-directors and juniors Jessica Zhang and Yen Alexis Yuen, as well as communications manager and sophomore Helen Chen, to organize the show. She explained that although there are plenty of fundraising event options, members of the Tufts China Care club thought that a fashion show would bring a fresh form of entertainment to campus.

“The concept in pairing [China Care and the fashion show] was to create a fundraiser that’s different than what we normally see at Tufts,” Tanyu said.

“This is something that never really happens on campus and that brings a lot of people together.”

Bringing a variety of social circles together was one of the main goals of

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Lux models Hyomi Carty, Krizia Malave, Kenneth Burris, John Speed Meyers, Arianne Capirci and Shreya Ishita pose for the camera. the foursome in charge of the 2010 Lux Show. While the lineup of models has been strictly female in the past, the girls decided to add on 13 male models to this year’s performance. Tanyu, Yuen, Zhang and Chen held an open casting call in November and were kept busy with around 75 auditions. Along with a powerful catwalk, the girls sought out dedication and variety; they looked for students who demonstrated a genuine concern for China Care’s charity efforts and who brought a unique campus persona to the show. All models were required to learn about the China Care Foundation, and some have even volunteered for the organization locally and internationally.

“We’ve got everyone ranging from sorority sisters to track stars in the show,” Chen said. For the organizers, this variety hopefully means that they’ll get more people in the audience supporting their friends in the show.

“We put a lot of thought into picking our models, who represent different student groups on campus, because they are the spokespeople of Lux and Tufts China Care,” Yuen said. “In the past, the [fashion show] has gathered mostly the Asian community at Tufts, but this is a way to hopefully get everyone involved — and more people to see LUX, page 6

MOVIE REVIEW

Newcomer Sigismondi’s ‘The Runaways’ falls short with patchy acting, weak plot BY

ANNA WILLIAMS

Daily Staff Writer

Greatness can be overwhelming. For the members of The Runaways, a band with short-lived success in the ’70s, the

The Runaways Starring Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart, Michael Shannon Directed by Floria Sigismondi public spotlight changed the course of their lives and their outlook on the world. The girls in the all-female rock group were forced to rediscover what music and fame meant to them. The

movie of the same name, however, takes on too much by incorporating aspects of youth and femininity, resulting in a flat story with disjointed plot lines and incomplete character development.

Directed by newcomer Floria Sigismondi, “The Runaways” is a coming-of-age story that follows the lead singer, Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), on her journey to find her self-expression through rock and roll. Together with guitarist Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart), band manager Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) and the rest of the girl rockers, The Runaways are formed on the streets of Los Angeles.

This film documents their rise to fame, from the early days of success to the hatred and jealousy engendered by their popularity.

“Runaways” attempts to go beyond the inevitable story of all rock-androll bands by emphasizing the gender, age and vulnerability of the girls in the band. Cherie, the face of the band and the movie’s protagonist, battles with drugs, her sexuality and her sense of self while touring abroad as a mere 16-year-old. Joan, a rocker to the core with a true knowledge of herself and her talents, struggles with her expectations and the realities of making music.

One night while on tour, Cherie and Joan have some sort of undefined, vague, sexual relationship. The film neglects the encounter by refusing to mention it again and simply separating Joan and Cherie from further interactions. The disconnect between the characters in the film makes the entire story seem unconvincing.

Additionally, the exclusion of the other band members from the main plot emphasizes Cherie more than the band itself, taking away from the potential power of the film. The underdevelopment of the various storylines seems incomplete, making the film confusing and uninteresting.

The plot is only one of the underdeveloped aspects of this movie. While women should be empowered to see the story of an all-girl rock group, the feminism and the female role itself are both squandered in the face of Kim’s desperation to get the band members to act how men would want them to act. Instead of being herself, Cherie changes and becomes overly sexualized, doing photo shoots and performing in sexy lingerie. Many of the group’s members turn to drugs, and Cherie especially is transformed

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Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning bring to life ’70s girl rock band The Runaways.

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here are two things in life that I avoid like the plague: organized sports and technology. I can’t handle the anxiety of sports — I do not understand how people religiously follow a sports team without having a heart attack from the stress of it all. As far as technology/the Internet goes, I am always the last person to get on the techie ball; I didn’t get a Facebook.com account until a few weeks before college, I didn’t get a digital camera until junior year of high school, and my family only recently purchased a DVD player.

But with that-thing-happening-onMay-23-that-I-don’t-want-to-talk-about looming in the not so distant future, I’ve decided to turn a new leaf, start embracing change and conquer my ridiculous and completely unfounded fears. I’m attending my first professional sports game ever on Friday — hopefully I will not melt into a ball of nerves in the stands — and I have decided to finally join the 21st century and get a Twitter.com account.

OK, so I don’t actually have an account yet, but it’s going to happen. I recently started a blog for the first time ever, which was a huge step in overcoming my technology fears, and the Twitter will come in due time. And I am fully aware that, in the words of the Black Eyed Peas, I’m “so 2000 and late,” but I’m trying.

The main reason I am going to join Twitter is so I can immerse myself in our culinary culture via constant tweets from food writers, restaurants, chefs, bloggers, you name it. Food has taken over Twitter, and it’s about time that I jump on the bandwagon.

Twitter has become the go-to news source for all things food — Paula Deen, for example, has over 110,000 followers, and Jamie Oliver has approximately 403,000. Celebrity chefs, food writers and bloggers use Twitter in traditional ways, posting their whereabouts, linking to their published articles or alerting people to new blog posts. A lot of foodies use Twitter as a platform to talk about their daily food activities, like tweeting about a meal they cooked, bragging about a restaurant they went to, sharing recipes or giving a shoutout to their favorite grocer or specialty store. Food publications use Twitter to break news and spread their latest articles to their thousands of followers — Food & Wine magazine, for example, is just shy of 37,000 followers.

But the mother of all food Twitters is Whole Foods, with just over 1,755,000 followers. The store uses its “fresh organic tweets” as a way to advertise in-store promotions, get recommendations and answer questions from customers. Its Twitter is both the ultimate branding tool and the perfect platform for customer service.

Foodies are also bridging the traditional Twitter gap, using the social networking tool in very interesting ways. The Seattle Times published an article on April 6 about small, local restaurants that use Twitter to connect to their clientele. One of the most interesting restaurants featured in the article is Tidbit Bistro, which has over 12,000 followers on Twitter. Its chefs tweet early in the morning about the fresh ingredients they have received, and ask their patrons for suggestions on how to use them for their daily specials board. With just 140 characters, the chefs are able to offer a more personal dining experience — and get some free advertisement for their dinner specials. In a similar vein, a March 19 Reuters article highlighted food vendors in New York City who use Twitter to alert their patrons of their whereabouts each day.

In the end, I have to decide between holding onto my irrational fears and embracing techie, foodie culture. If millions of other foodies can do it, I can too.

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

Horowitz@tufts.edu.

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ARTS & LIVING

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know about China Care.”

It also helps that the show itself promises to be a lot of fun. The night will feature a live DJ — Matthew Seaton (LA ’07) — and guest performances from the Jackson Jills, Turbo and the Burlesque Troupe. Three couples from the cast of student models will perform the cha-cha and tango while showcasing their formalwear, and audience members will have the chance to vote for their favorite model during the intermission. Small items such as cosmetic compacts will be on sale, and other items will be raffled off, including a coveted Black Bruna bag by Marc Jacobs that sells for $1,295 in stores.

Models will show off two semiformal outfits and one formal ensemble. The clothes themselves are chic — donated pieces from Lux’s official sponsoring stores ALO and Soo Dee, as well as items

by J. Crew, Nautica, Calvin Klein and more. Yuen admits she’s excited about

a blue, cinched number worn by model May Igawa in the show, while Tanyu favors a playful pink origami dress by BCBG. “We’re going for really professional,” Yuen said.

And it shows. During rehearsal, Yuen calls out an eight-count to a pulsing background beat controlled by Seaton, and the models complete choreographed turns and then make their way down an imaginary carpet to strike poses and blow kisses. Slick photographs and invitational videos of the models are popping up throughout campus, and the event’s presence on Facebook.com is astounding.

“Facebook actually told us to stop spamming people,” Tanyu admitted with a laugh.

Lux: Tufts China Care Fashion Show is a one-night only event this Thursday in the Cohen Auditorium from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Tickets can be bought in advance for $8 or for $10 with five free raffle tickets.

Tickets purchased at the door will be $10, not including raffle tickets.

2010 Birger Lecture Series

Repairing the Financial System: Short-Run Stabilizations and Long-Run Reform Presented by:

Jeremy Stein Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics Harvard University

Fanning, Stewart fail to impress RUNAWAYS continued from page 5

from an innocent child into an insecure adult. Kim’s patriarchal influence makes it seem as if Sigismondi is attacking women in the film, eliminating any hope that “Runaways” has of becoming an inspiring story.

The acting in the film varies from disappointing to satisfying. Fanning and Stewart both had to do their best to sing in Currie’s moan and Jett’s growl, respectively, and both have moderate success.

Fanning’s portrayal of a teen transforming from a delicate girl to a drug addict with reckless abandon then to a recuperating adult was fulfilling, if not quite up to the quality of her acting in the past.

Nonetheless, Fanning’s acting was outstanding compared to Stewart’s. Stewart allows her stoic, expressionless face to

permeate all of her films, and viewers can easily see the fragile Bella Swan of the “Twilight” series beneath her rocker exterior. While it was not Stewart’s fault that Joan’s character did not have enough of an active role in “Runaways,” Stewart’s screen time was utterly forgettable. Even by giving Stewart a mullet, slinging a guitar over her shoulder and shoving a cigarette in her mouth, one can not force her to learn how to play with her emotions and develop a character.

“Runaways” acts as a memoir of a period of time in the lives of five girls as they find out who they are and realize the significance of music and fame.

The movie, however, fails in its overall attempt to move beyond the basic music biopic in terms of plot and falls back on stereotypes through its exploitation of the female characters.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:30—6:00 pm Barnum Rm. 008

Rakesh Satyal

Author of Blue Boy , Editor at Harper Collins

Tufts University Department of Drama and Dance presents

for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

by Ntozake Shange directed by Monica White Ndounou choreographed by Mila Thigpen April 15-17 & 22-24, 2010 at 8 pm

$7 Tufts ID/Seniors - $12 General Public $7 on April 15 - $1 on April 22

Balch Arena Theater, Tufts University

617-627-3493 for tickets & information

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Music & the AS&E Diversity Fund

Blue Boy Blue Boy, Satyal’s debut novel, is a comingof-age story about Kiran Sharma, a young Indian boy growing up with immigrant parents in 1990’s suburban Ohio. As an only child, Kiran discovers that his interests don’t align with “standard stuff for a boy of his background,” and becomes a social outcast for his reluctance to follow his parents wishes.

However, one day, he has a revelation, and “a long, strange trip is about to begin” for Kiran.

Rakesh Satyal graduated in 2002 with a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing from Princeton University, where he won the 2002 Ward Mathis Prize for best short story written by an undergraduate. He has been published in a variety of anthologies, including the Lambda Award-winning The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers. Rakesh is currently an editor at Harper Collins in NYC.

Everyone is welcome to events with Rakesh!

3:00 - 4:15pm

Tuesday, April 20

Reading, Q&A, and Discussion on Blue Boy With English 2-29 (Asian American Experience) Asian American Center, Start House, 17 Latin Way

5:00 - 6:30pm Dinner Conversation: “How LGBT youth are portrayed in today’s media” (Indian cuisine will be served) LGBT Center, Bolles House, 226 College Ave Sponsored by Grace Talusan’s English 2-29 (Asian American Experience), Asian American Center, and LGBT Center For more info: asianamcenter@tufts.edu and lgbt@tufts.edu

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Eating disorders need inclusive insurance coverage Imagine a woman who weighs only 75 percent of the normal body weight for a woman her size. She is anorexic, and when she was hospitalized, she weighed only twothirds of the normal body weight. However, because of her insurance company’s narrow definition of anorexia, at 75 percent body weight she no longer qualifies for in-patient care and may have to be discharged long before her doctor’s treatment plan would dictate. Because of health care guidelines for diagnosing mental disorders, this dangerous situation has occurred for millions of Americans with eating disorders.

The guidelines for diagnosing eating disorders, as outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, distinguish between anorexia, bulimia and “Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified” (EDNOS). If a patient does not display all the symptoms of anorexia or bulimia, as they are described in the manual, he or she is put into the EDNOS category. Millions of people with dangerous eating practices are simply diagnosed as EDNOS, which provides their insurance companies with very little information regarding the severity of their disorders.

A variety of different eating disorders fall into the EDNOS category, many of which are dangerous or even life-threat-

ening. People whose disorders fall under this category include those who are diagnosed as compulsive binge eaters, people who are anorexic but still menstruating and people who are of normal weight but are still purging what they eat (the main symptom of bulimia). With such a diversity of eating-disorder patients lumped into the same vague diagnostic category, many insurance companies have room to deny patients coverage that would be afforded to those labeled as anorexic or bulimic.

This frequently results in those with mental eating disorders falling through the cracks of the health care system.

A recent study in the journal Pediatrics found that more than 60 percent of people labeled EDNOS met criteria for hospitalization. Especially striking is the finding that most had more significantly deteriorated health than patients diagnosed with bulimia. That means that those people may struggle to get insurance coverage for their medical treatment, a struggle that they would not have to endure if guidelines were revised to include more subcategories of eating disorders than just “anorexic” and “bulimic.”

With only two specific eating disorder diagnoses and one nonspecific blanket label

for everyone else, millions of Americans with dangerous mental disorders are not receiving insurance coverage for the medical treatment they need. For example, binge eaters alone constitute 25 million Americans who struggle to receive medical treatment that could potentially help them prevent heart disease and other long-term, obesityrelated medical conditions.

The current guidelines mean that many patients who could receive treatment before their condition begins to severely harm their health do not qualify for treatment coverage.

These patients should not be turned away from health care simply because they sought treatment before it became life-threatening.

As long as definitions of “anorexia” and “bulimia” remain so narrow, many more people will continue to receive inadequate medical treatment. While people with a broad spectrum of eating disorders continue to fall under the same imprecise EDNOS label, millions of dangerously unhealthy Americans will continue to go without insurance coverage for their treatment. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders must be revised so that eating disorders can be diagnosed with specific language that provides sufficient information to insurance providers.

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Keeping free speech free BY

LUCAS WACHOB The Breeze

A recent court decision has fanned the flames of outrage at the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), a group known for protesting the funerals of American soldiers.

The extremist group believes that the deaths of American soldiers-in-combat are one of many punishments from God in retaliation to our society’s acceptance of homosexuality. They were recently sued by the father of a fallen soldier for “defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”

A federal appeals court ruled in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church, declaring funeral pickets to be protected speech by the First Amendment. On March 30, the court ordered the plaintiff to pay the legal fees of the church — estimated at around $16,000. News pundits who sympathize with the soldier’s father have offered to pay those fees for him.

The publicity generated by the case has given new momentum to groups and individuals opposed to the WBC. Like many others, I feel disgust at the thought

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of people using the funerals as a soapbox from which to preach hatred toward the gay community. Their picket signs, which commonly read “God hates fags” and “Thank God for dead soldiers,” make my blood boil. I have nothing but sympathy for families that have to endure that hateful speech while mourning those they have lost.

The renewed outrage has led to a grassroots movement to lobby for legal protection against the WBC’s military funeral protests. A Facebook[.com] group called “Make It Illegal to Protest at Military Funerals” now has more than 300,000 members. While many states have laws regarding how far from a funeral you have to be to picket, and even the national government passed legislation imposing a 300-foot minimum distance, this group of citizens wants a wholesale ban on funeral protests.

I understand their emotion but reject their goal. Freedom is a two-way street, and just as we expect to be tolerated, we must tolerate others even if they preach hate. They don’t break the law; they just offend people. Offensive speech can’t be legislated away, and allowing the govern-

ment to restrict the right to protest to situations that are deemed “appropriate” sets a dangerous precedent. Like it or not, if we truly value our liberty and our First Amendment freedoms, we must allow them to exercise their rights.

There is a better way for angry people to handle the situation, and it’s already been done. In 2009, the WBC attempted a funeral picket in Buffalo, N.Y., but it was peacefully cancelled out by citizens and students from the University of Buffalo who held up white sheets to shield the victim’s family. No one’s rights were obstructed, and the family didn’t have to deal with the emotional trauma of seeing the WBC’s hateful protestors.

As James Madison said, “Liberty is to faction what air is to fire.” Our freedoms permit hateful speech to be spread, but we can’t allow our disgust at a minority faction to justify restricting civil liberties.

Instead, we should concentrate on exercising our right to speak and protest in opposition and peacefully shield funeral mourners from offensive demonstrations. We can be decent and free at the same time.

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OP-ED

The Public Editor: More than just a ‘campus writer’

BY SCOTT SILVERMAN

On Sunday night, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate voted down an appeal by the Media Advocacy Board (MAB) to fund a stipend for the public editor next year. This was a significant setback not only for the future of this position, but also for the entire Tufts community.

During the approximately 30-minute-long budget appeal process, it became clear that few questioned the importance of the public editor; most agreed that the position served a valuable role on campus. As such, this piece primarily will focus not on the value of the public editor position itself, but rather on the importance of funding its stipend.

First of all, a stipend provides the public editor a certain authority. The money says to our campus community, “This position is important. It is something we believe in and value so much that we will provide its holder compensation.” For a position like the public editor, establishing authority is paramount. It is the role of this individual to provide commentary on campus journalism issues — often ones of an ethical nature — and also to spark a meaningful campus dialogue. Without an established position on campus, the public editor will be little more than just another voice.

Beyond establishing authority, a stipend also helps to attract quality candidates. The public editor position is still new and, like any two-year-old position, is in its early stages of development. It is still growing, evolving and establishing a reputation. For that reason, it is of the utmost importance that we work to attract and employ the most qualified candidates possible.

Most frequently, these qualified candidates will be juniors and seniors: those on campus who have the most experience and perspective. Unfortunately, juniors and seniors are also the most committed students on campus and therefore the least likely to take on the additional burden of an unpaid position. For upperclassmen to consider applying, the public editor position needs to compete with jobs, internships and research opportunities. There is no better way to do that than with a stipend.

At Sunday night’s Senate meeting, one of the most frequently heard arguments against a public editor stipend was that no other campus writer receives any kind of compensation. This is true, but they were missing the point. The public editor is no simple “campus writer.” In fact, it’s a position unlike any other at Tufts. The public editor is a writer with weekly responsibilities and one who oper-

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ates completely independently of all other campus publications. There is no repository of story ideas, no editorial staff and no one to turn to when a deadline cannot be made.

The public editor is required to be an active, regular reader of all campus publications and produce weekly articles on a one-man team.

Unique positions call for unique circumstances, and the public editor is certainly a one-of-a-kind position.

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of sitting in on a meeting of the TCU Senate or Tufts Allocations Board, you have certainly heard frequent references to “precedent.” Senate decisions are frequently driven by precedent, except, it would seem, in the case of the public editor.

For Sunday night’s decision, clearer precedent could not have been set: In October

2008, upon the creation of the public editor position by the Media Advocacy Board, the Senate passed a resolution titled, “A Resolution Supporting the Independence of the Tufts Public Editor.” In this resolution, among other things, the Senate declared, “the new Public Editor an important step in creating a more responsible and informative campus media.” The Senate also confirmed that it “voted to fund the salary of the Public Editor.”

Even if you don’t believe that the public editor position is unlike any other at Tufts, even if you disagree that a stipend would provide the public editor a certain authority, and even if you disagree that a stipend would help to attract quality candidates, how can you disagree that the TCU Senate should, at the very least, be following its own precedents?

In this case, precedent is important because applicants for the past two years have expected a stipend in exchange for their work as the public editor. The abrupt removal of the stipend serves as a disincentive to apply.

Ultimately, a salary for the public editor is not much: a simple $500 stipend from the TCU Senate’s well-over-$1 million budget. In comparison, the TCU President and Treasurer each receive a $1,500 and $2,500 stipend, respectively. Given the importance of this growing campus position, $500 is a small price to pay.

For a moment, I ask that you consider a hypothetical situation. Imagine that a campus publication prints a blatantly racist piece in an issue of their magazine. This piece completely disrupts campus, making an entire community of students feel insulted, unwelcome and threatened. A few months later, the entire campus is still reeling from this incident, and everyone is searching for answers.

Where is the line between free speech and harassment? Should the publication be punished for its editorial choice? What steps can be taken to prevent something like this from happening again?

Now, I want you to imagine that out of this horrible incident arises something positive: a position to serve as the watchdog of campus media, comment on ethics in journalism and generate a meaningful campus discussion.

This new position is called the public editor.

By now, you’ve probably realized that this hypothetical situation is not so hypothetical.

It happened at Tufts in 2006.

Through years of work, a Declaration on Freedom of Expression and a dash of institutional forgetfulness, our community has eventually come to terms with the 2006 incident. After all this time and effort, one of the most important elements to rise from the controversy was the public editor position.

I opened this piece by stating that I would not focus on the value of the public editor position itself, but rather on the importance of funding its stipend. However, it turns out that they are inherently connected. If you believe in the importance of the public editor — in its ability to improve the quality of life on campus — then you believe this position is important enough to deserve funding. For if we lose this position, either due to a lack of interest or a lack of qualified candidates, we have lost more than just another “campus writer.”

Scott Silverman is a senior majoring in biology. He is the chair of the Media Advocacy Board.

The Bloom Box and the Tufts Energy Conference BY

PAIGE COLTON

The future of energy: a small black box that can literally be held in one hand? The designer of this newfangled technology claims that one of these sitting in your backyard can produce all of your family’s electricity needs — well, two, if you are talking about a typical American household. Sixty-four of these grouped together can power a Starbucks coffee shop. But there is no combustion. And it doesn’t need to be connected to the grid at all — distributed energy generation at its finest. In fact, they want to replace the grid entirely with this technology. It is generating a huge buzz: veritably the bee’s knees of the energy world right now. It is The Bloom Box. But how does it work? Each small box is made up of lots of ceramic plates and metal alloy plates stacked on top of each other (akin to a stack of floppy disks) — a bunch of solid-oxide fuel cells. Natural gas, for example, and oxygen are fed into the box, and electricity comes out. But remember, no combustion. Instead the energy is derived from an oxidation reaction.

Cool stuff, right? And all our energy problems will just disappear? Poof! Well, let’s slow down for just one second. So, will it solve all our energy problems? What

about the already occurring crises caused by global climate change — will it reverse these? And energy security issues — will it solve all those? How about the fact that our world’s population and average rate of consumption continue to grow with no end in sight? Will we be able to provide energy to all these people, in the amounts they need? What about powering transportation, or making plastics or fertilizers and pesticides, all of which still require combustion of fossil fuels?

I’m not trying to totally depress you; I’m just trying to make a point. Don’t get me wrong: These new technological developments are great. I, as much as anyone, would be ecstatic to see the Bloom Box make it and become a household name. But this one advancement in technology will not be some miracle savior that will solve all our energy problems. There is no such thing … And I don’t think there ever will be. Solar energy, wind power, geothermal — none of them alone will ever provide us with all of our needs. Simply reducing consumption and population will not solve our problems. Instead, we need to do all of these things in combination. New technologies and other distributive generation ideas? Alright! Scaling up renewable energies like solar energy, or the Bloom Box? Sure thing.

Family planning and educating women? Sounds great.

Redesigning cities to be more livable and energy-efficient? Keep it coming.

If you want to learn about any of these things —renewable energy, up-and-coming energy technologies, building cities efficiently and more — come to the Tufts Energy Conference this Friday and Saturday (April 16 and 17). It will explore how we can adapt our energy system to the challenges of today: a formidable challenge. Come talk with leading energy experts, network with faculty and professionals and see what your fellow students think.

Registration is $5 for Tufts students, and you can register online at TuftsEnergyConference.com. If you want to see what energy research Tufts students are doing, check out the Tufts Energy Showcase in Cabot Intercultural Center at 6 p.m. on Friday (free for Tufts students). I hear there will be a hybrid racing car. And who knows? Maybe one of our own student research groups will develop the next Bloom Box. Paige Colton is a sophomore majoring in International Relations and environmental studies. She is the marketing director of the Tufts Energy Conference.

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STATISTICS | STANDINGS Men's Lacrosse

Women's Lacrosse

(9-0, 6-0 NESCAC)

(7-2, 4-2 NESCAC)

L W 0 10 0 9 3 4 3 5 3 6 3 5 3 4 4 6 5 6 6 4

W 6 6 3 3 3 3 3 2 1 0

Conn. Coll.

Tufts Amherst Bowdoin Colby Middlebury Williams Wesleyan Trinity Bates

L 0 0 4 5 4 3 5 5 5 6

Individual Statistics G A P D.J. Hessler Ryan Molloy Matt Witko Kevin McCormick Sean Kirwan Mike Droesch Brian Donovan Jamie Atkins Nick Rhoads Doug DiSesa Team

18 17 17 11 14 9 7 4 4 4 123

22 13 3 7 2 1 2 3 2 2 72

40 30 20 18 16 10 9 7 6 6 195

Goaltending Steven Foglietta Bryan Petillo

GA 35 28

Sv S% 47 .573 37 .569

Softball (14-7, 5-1 NESCAC East)

NESCAC

NESCAC OVERALL

NESCAC OVERALL

Trinity Bowdoin Colby Tufts Amherst Middlebury Williams Bates Conn. Coll.

Wesleyan

W 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 0

L 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 5 6

W 8 6 8 7 6 5 5 4 4 3

L 1 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 8

Individual Statistics G A P

USILA Div. III Men’s Lax

Baseball (15-3, 5-1 NESCAC East)

NESCAC

OVERALL

as of April 4, 2010

OVERALL

East Tufts Trinity Bowdoin Bates Colby

W 5 6 2 2 0

L 1 3 1 4 4

T 0 0 0 0 0

L 3 4 5 7 8

T 0 0 0 0 0

East Trinity Tufts Bowdoin Colby Bates

W 6 5 1 0 0

L 0 1 2 3 6

T 0 0 0 0 0

L 7 7 8 13 16

T 0 0 0 0 0

West Wesleyan Williams Amherst Middlebury Hamilton

7 4 5 2 0

2 2 4 4 6

0 19 6 0 11 9 0 12 9 0 5 11 0 6 16

0 1 0 0 0

West Middlebury Wesleyan Williams Amherst Hamilton

5 4 2 1 0

1 2 1 2 6

0 14 6 0 15 9 0 6 13 0 11 9 0 2 14

0 0 0 0 0

W 15 13 19 12 9

Individual Statistics AVG HR RBI

Individual Statistics AVG HR RBI

Emily Johnson Lara Kozin Jenna Abelli Casey Egan Steph Perez Kerry Eaton Kelly Hyland Sterling Champion Kaitlyn Leidl Emily Pillemer Team

34 15 23 21 13 9 7 5 3 2 132

12 17 8 6 6 5 2 2 2 0 61

46 32 31 27 19 14 9 7 5 2 193

Caleb Sims Ben Walkley Ian Goldberg Frank Petroskey David LeResche Sam Sager David Orlowitz Chase Rose Nate Bankoff Alex Grzymala Team

.500 .455 .452 .391 .351 .348 .308 .302 .300 .267 .317

0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 6

0 10 11 14 11 18 15 14 11 2 125

Goaltending Sara Bloom Tess Shapanka

GA 88 8

Sv 60 3

S% .405 .273

Pitching Pat O’Donnell Dave Ryan

W L ERA SO 3 1 2.30 11 2 0 3.21 18

W 12 14 16 4 2

Casey Sullivan Emily Beinecke Stefanie Tong Lena Cantone Lizzy Iuppa Christy Tinker Mira Lieman-Sifry Kim Miner Julia Silberman Izzie Santone Team

.443 7 20 .439 1 13 .368 3 11 .353 1 16 5 .328 0 .286 0 116 6 .268 0 .267 0 10 .246 3 10 1 .222 0 .313 16 98

Pitching Aly Moskowitz Izzie Santone

W L ERA SO 4 0 2.17 16 3 4 3.42 17

Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) 1. Salisbury (14) 2. Gettysburg 3. Stevenson 4. Corland 5. Dickinson 6. Tufts 7. Roanoke 8. Conn. College 9. Geneseo

IWLCA Div. III Women’s Lax as of April 5, 2010

Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) 1. Salisbury (20) 2. Franklin & Marshall 3. Hamilton 4. Trinity (Conn.)

5. TCNJ 6. Colby 7. Gettysburg 8. Cortland 12. Tufts

ITA Div. III Women’s Tennis as of March 30, 2010

Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) 1. Amherst 2. Williams 3. Chicago 4. Emory 5. Washington & Lee 6. Denison 7. Depauw 8. Pomona-Pitzer 17. Tufts

Crucial series against Trinity looms this weekend BASEBALL continued from page 12

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seven-inning early game on Sunday, registering just six hits to the Mules’ nine, even though Tufts ultimately came out on the right end of a 2-1 pitchers’ duel. Junior lefty Derek Miller shut out the Mules for four innings before finally yielding a run in the fifth, picking up his second win of the season by saving his best pitches for the toughest jams.

“I didn’t think this was my best outing in terms of limiting base runners,” Miller said.

“But I thought we played great defense and had timely hitting, and I was able to limit the damage.”

Colby’s starter, junior Dominick Morrill, was the tough-luck loser, pitching a six-inning complete game and striking out eight.

Tufts picked up a run in the first on an RBI single by junior outfielder Ian Goldberg, which plated classmate and tri-captain David Leresche, who led off the game with a walk and stole second. Tufts scored again in the third when Walkley smacked a two-out double and was driven home by junior first baseman Nate Bankoff.

A leadoff walk finally led to Colby’s only run in the top of the fifth, as sophomore pinchhitter Will Greenberg drew the free pass and came around to score on a single by senior first baseman Ryan Conlon.

Junior Ed Bernstein and sophomore Chris DeGoti each tossed a scoreless inning in relief of Miller, with the latter picking up his sixth save of the season. Bernstein, who pitched 2.2 innings last week and did not allow a run, was recently named the NESCAC Pitcher of the Week for his lockdown relief efforts.

The Mules had the tying run at third base and the go-ahead run at first in the final frame, but DeGoti induced a harmless grounder to third from sophomore third baseman Mike Mastrocola, Colby’s leading RBI man, to finish it off.

Friday’s contest, which the Jumbos came from behind to win 10-8, was the worst played of the three, but was arguably the most exciting. The Mules chased Tufts sophomore starter Dave Ryan in the fifth inning, during which they batted around, collected seven hits and jumped out to a 7-4 lead. Ryan was on the hook for his first loss of the season

after surrendering eight hits and a walk in 4.1 innings of work.

But after Colby tacked on another run in the sixth against freshman reliever Alex Cronkite, the Jumbos found a groove at the plate. Tufts’ second three-run outburst of the game forced the Mules to turn to their bullpen, as senior starter Matt Moore departed without recording an out in the sixth. Moore was ultimately charged with seven runs in five innings; he did not strike out or walk a batter.

An RBI groundout by senior tri-captain catcher Alex Perry and a two-run single by junior second baseman Frank Petroskey brought the Jumbos to within one. Senior Tom Hill and junior Ed Bernstein then held Colby scoreless through the eighth, when the offense found a way to pull the Jumbos ahead.

Walkley pinch-hit and drew a base on balls to get the wheels in motion and eventually scored when Goldberg was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Sager then drew a walk to bring in the go-ahead run, while Bankoff subsequently was hit by a pitch to give DeGoti an extra run to work with in the ninth.

DeGoti nailed down the 10-8 victory with a scoreless frame, allowing only a single and never putting the lead in doubt.

Tufts will return to action at Huskins Field in a pivotal three-game series against the defending NESCAC champion Trinity Bantams (13-4 overall, 6-3 NESCAC East) on Friday at 3 p.m.

A doubleheader will follow on Saturday at noon. The Jumbos have dropped their last eight meetings against Trinity, but they are confident that the momentum of 11 wins in their past 12 games will breed success in the biggest matchup of the season so far.

“This was an important series for us, and we knew we needed to sweep Colby with Trinity and Bowdoin coming up,” Miller said.

“Trinity is a great team, and we’re going to need to keep playing as well as we have so far.

It has been a great series the past few years, and hopefully it’ll go our way this time.”

“We are going to need everyone to contribute this weekend,” Walkley added. “I know that we have all been looking forward to this weekend series for a while, and just taking it one game at a time and not settling for anything less than our best is crucial.”

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INSIDE THE NHL

After Flyers edge Rangers, playoffs set to start BY

ALEX PREWITT | LIVE FROM MUDVILLE

Loveable Lefty

ADAM PARDES

Senior Staff Writer

After a wild last day of the season, 16 teams are matched up and ready to contend for the prestigious Stanley Cup. As late as Sunday afternoon, the final spot in the Eastern Conference was still up for grabs. The Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers, with just a point separating each in the standings before Sunday’s action, laced up their skates for their last — and most important — regular-season game of the year.

Only two days earlier, the Flyers failed to clinch a playoff spot thanks to a disappointing 4-3 loss to the Rangers at Madison Square Garden. But unfortunately for the blue shirts, the Flyers would get the last laugh on Sunday.

The victors of the rematch in Philadelphia assured themselves at least four more games of hockey, with the loser forced to watch the postseason from a recliner. After 81 games, the chance to earn a playoff spot and compete for the Stanley Cup came down to one showdown for these two division rivals.

Not even four minutes into the opening period, Ranger enforcer Jody Shelley picked up his second goal of the season with a nifty deflection off a Michael Rozsival shot, giving New York an early 1-0 lead. Shelley’s only other goal this year had come against Philadelphia in the 4-3 win on Friday, which had ended a season-long scoring drought for the burly forward.

Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist made 18 saves in the first period alone, almost single-handedly keeping his team in front on the scoreboard for the majority of regulation. Despite furious action both ways, it wasn’t until the seven-minute mark of the third period that either team lit the lamp once more.

Flyers defenseman Matt Carle collected a Jeff Carter pass to backhand the puck behind Lundqvist, tying the game at one goal apiece. The power-play goal held up for the remainder of the period, sending the 1-1 game into overtime.

The relatively quiet extra stanza featured only two shots on goal for each club, with none finding the twine. With a playoff spot on the line, the game went into a suddendeath shootout.

Philadelphia opted to shoot first, and Danny Briere smoothly stick-handled Lundqvist right out of the crease and put a shot through to put the Flyers ahead 1-0 in the shootout. At the other end, Brian Boucher stopped Ranger Erik Christensen, keeping the home team’s lead intact.

In the second round, captain Mike

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Despite Henrik Lundqvist’s spectacular 46-save performance against the Flyers on Sunday, Philadelphia prevailed in a shootout to clinch a spot in the playoffs, while the Rangers were left scratching their heads in defeat.

Richards failed to score on Lundqvist, opening the door for P.A. Parenteau to tie it. Parenteau improved his shootout record to three-for-three after beating Boucher with a quick shot.

Lundqvist, who made 46 saves in the game, wasn’t able to deny Claude Giroux in the third round, giving Boucher a chance to win it for the Flyers. Olli Jokinen tried to sneak a puck through Boucher’s five-hole, but the netminder held strong to lift his team to a 2-1 shootout victory, clinching the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference.

The rest of the Eastern conference playoff matchups have a similar look to those of last year, with the Rangers and the Carolina Hurricanes exiting the picture in place of the Ottawa Senators and the Northeast Division Champion Buffalo Sabres.

Ryan Miller, who became a national hero after his spectacular performance in goal for the United States during the Olympics, is the primary reason for the Sabres’ success this season. Miller finished second in the NHL in save percentage and goals against average, helping to lead Buffalo to its first postseason bid since the 2006-07 season.

The favorite in the East, however, has to be top-seeded Washington, whose 54-15-13 record is best in the league. The Capitals have lost just once in regulation in their last 14 contests and have an unbelievable plus85 goal differential, the most in the NHL by more than 20 goals.

The Western Conference looks completely different than last year, with four new teams

entering the playoff picture. Among these teams are the Los Angeles Kings, who hadn’t clinched a top-eight spot in the Western Conference in almost a decade.

Joining the Kings will be the Nashville Predators and Phoenix Coyotes, two teams that have never won a playoff series. The Predators, who have made the postseason four of the last five years, will be facing a Chicago Blackhawks club that many have favored to win the Cup. The Coyotes, meanwhile, are one of the great success stories of the 2009-10 season.

With numerous questions surrounding their ownership and a possible relocation, first-year coach Dave Tippett has kept his team focused on one thing: winning hockey games. And that’s exactly what it has done.

Much due to trade deadline deals that brought in sharpshooter Wojtek Wolski from the Colorado Avalanche and Lee Stempniak from the Toronto Maple Leafs, Phoenix has earned itself the fourth seed in the West and its first postseason berth since 2002. While a trip to the Stanley Cup finals would be a Hollywood finish to the Coyotes’ Cinderella season, it won’t come easy.

This time of year, every game becomes much more intense. It’s win or to go home, which is exactly what makes playoff hockey exciting to watch.

This year’s Stanley Cup playoffs will certainly be no exception, and with the wealth of talent around the league, each of the 16 teams competing has a real chance to be lifting the Cup in a few weeks’ time.

Jumbos look to continue momentum versus Wesleyan MEN’S TENNIS continued from page 12

victory at the No. 5 singles spot, rolling over Hamilton’s Mike Moreno 6-3, 6-2. In the other singles matches, Laber defeated Hamilton’s Greg Kreitzer 6-1, 7-5, at the No. 4 spot, while junior Tony Carucci emerged on top against Hamilton junior Peter Erwin 7-6(2), 6-0, at the No. 6 spot.

“We were very confident that we could win the singles matches,” Barad said. “In the doubles matches, we tried to get balls in and keep it in play. As a team, we tried to consistently get our returns in play, and that was when we had some of our best play.”

Tufts’ next matches will be this afternoon at home against NESCAC rival Wesleyan University and next Saturday on the road in Williamstown, Mass. against the Williams Ephs. The Jumbos will look to keep their positive momentum going against the historically weak Cardinals — who are coming off a 9-0 loss to NESCAC heavyweight Middlebury — while the matchup against Williams, whose last match was an 8-1 non-conference victory against Skidmore and who has yet to play a NESCAC match but who is usually dominant in-conference, looms as a potential test of the Jumbos’ mettle.

“We feel Wesleyan is very beatable — they won 5-4 against Hamilton — so we feel that if we can play our game, especially at home, that it’s a winnable match,” Rosen said.

“Williams has always been one of the top programs, and it will be a very tough match, even if we played our very best tennis, so we basically have nothing to lose against them, and we will give it our best effort.”

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Senior tri-captain Dan Landers helped the Jumbos at the No. 1 doubles spot in the Jumbos’ 7-2 victory over the Hamilton Continentals.

icture this. It’s the 2010 Masters.

One golfer, a few months removed from family issues and swirling media attention, somehow manages to find his stroke on the links once again, proving to everyone his greatness as a player and as a human being. Great story, right? And it happened to the man no one saw it coming from.

Philip Alfred Mickelson. Lefty. No animal-themed nicknames here — just Masters greatness.

On Sunday, Mickelson held off Lee Westwood and fired a 5-under 67 in the final round, winning the Masters by three strokes and capturing his third green jacket. Vintage Mickelson was on display, as he made an incredible shot on the par-5 13th hole between a pair of towering Georgia pines with a 6-iron that landed neatly on the green, three feet from the cup.

In a sense, that’s what Mickelson’s life has been about these past few months. When faced with a nearly impossible situation to overcome, he somehow finds a way to get his golf ball past those overhanging branches and rough terrain.

With most of the crowd rendered tearyeyed by the moment on the 18th green, Mickelson’s wife, Amy, emerged from behind the pack at the first tournament she has attended since she was diagnosed with cancer before last year’s Players Championship.

Though Amy stayed in bed for most of the week, she made it out onto the course for the final moment, to watch her husband do the unthinkable.

Additionally, Mickelson’s mother, Mary, has breast cancer. In short, it’s been a tumultuous year for the world-renowned golfer, one few of us can even imagine. But you’d never be able to tell from the way Mickelson happily carried himself at Augusta.

The made-for-TV movie practically writes itself at this point, even without the unbelievable golf Mickelson played. He sandwiched a 71 in the second round with three 67s, only bogeying six holes in the entire tournament. Westwood, for reference, had 10, including three in the final round, while that guy named Tiger had 14.

On the note of Tiger, it would have been a fantastic story had he won. The word “redemption” and “comeback” would have bombarded media publications. His Thanksgiving transgressions would have taken a backseat to arguably the biggest return since Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France fresh off of a bout with cancer.

(And no, I did not just compare cheating on your wife to getting cancer, only the level of public attention to each story.)

But it would also have been a great story — at least, for the media — had Tiger flamed out and missed the cut. We would have had a field day discussing the reason for the poor performance. Did Tiger finally crack under the pressure? Were there more family issues we don’t know about? Or was he simply not ready to return? (Incidentally, Tiger’s curt responses to media questions and continued cursing throughout the tournament showed us that maybe, at the core, he hasn’t really changed. But that’s not relevant, because this is about Phil.)

Most importantly, Tiger didn’t win, finishing in fourth instead. He struggled with the fourth hole the entire weekend, setting off a few inconsistent rounds that ultimately spelled doom. Had, for instance, Tiger won and Mickelson come in second, 95 percent of the media attention would have gone to the former. Unfortunately, when faced with two redemptive stories — Tiger from infidelity and Mickelson from his family’s illnesses — sex will always sell better than cancer. It’s stupid, but whatever.

Thankfully, it didn’t turn out that way.

Because I would much rather have it this way.

Give me good golf from a fan favorite willing to sign autographs and relate to the common man rather than from some elitist golfer who somehow feels entitled to cheat on his wife.

There were no paparazzi necessary to catch anyone coming out of sex rehab. No mysterious late-night car crashes, just unbridled devotion to family and to the game of golf.

Chalk one up for the good guys. Finally.

Alex Prewitt is a sophomore majoring in English and religion. He can be reached at Alexander.Prewitt@tufts.edu

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Juniors lead Tufts to weekend sweep of Colby at Huskins Field BY

DANIEL RATHMAN

Daily Editorial Board

Both the Tufts baseball team (15-3 overall, 5-1 NESCAC East) and the visiting Colby Mules (9-8 overall, 0-6 BASEBALL (15-3, 5-1 NESCAC East) Huskins Field, Sunday Colby Tufts

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NESCAC East) entered this weekend’s NESCAC East matchup having played excellent baseball over the previous couple of weeks; Tufts came in with eight wins in its last nine games, while Colby was riding a six-game winning streak. Clearly, something would have to give.

After patiently waiting out the inclement weather on Friday afternoon, the Jumbos outscored the Mules 23-10 over three games

on Saturday and Sunday, completing a resounding sweep of their conference foes.

The series finale was the highlight of the weekend for Tufts, as the team’s powerful offense backed a stellar effort from junior Pat O’Donnell on the mound en route to an 11-1 rout.

O’Donnell improved to 3-1 on the season by hurling eight innings of one-run ball, during which he allowed just seven hits and two walks. The righty struck out three batters and pitched to contact effectively, helping the contest move at a brisk pace.

Meanwhile, the lineup made quick work of Colby’s starter, sophomore Connor Sullivan, who lasted just 2.1 innings, surrendering five runs on four hits and four walks.

Sullivan served up the lone long ball of the weekend, as sophomore second baseman Sam Sager launched a booming solo home run over the centerfield fence leading off the third.

Junior Ben Walkley had two doubles and four RBIs in the contest, pacing both of the Jumbos’ biggest rallies of the afternoon, a three-run first frame and a four-run sixth. Walkley now leads all of Tufts’ regulars with a .455 batting average,

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Ian Goldberg, the Jumbos’ No. 2, led the offensive assault as the Jumbos rolled over Colby in a three-game series this weekend to move into first place in the NESCAC East. nine doubles, a .571 on-base percentage and a .727 slugging mark on the season.

“Coach [John Casey] always talks about going up there with a game plan — an idea of what you want to look for and what the situation calls

for in the game,” Walkley said. “I had had a couple of poor at-bats earlier in the series, so I really wanted to focus in and look for my pitch in the third game. I was able to make some adjustments from my earlier at-bats, made the pitchers throw a lot of

pitches to help the team and got the ones I liked. It was definitely good to help the team in that sense.”

The Jumbos had a significantly harder time scoring runs during the see BASEBALL, page 10

MEN’S TENNIS

Losing streak ends with dominant victory at Hamilton

BY JESSE

WEINBERG

Senior Staff Writer

After a tough start to the season, the men’s tennis team got back into the win column with a thorough dispatching of the MEN’S TENNIS (4-5, 1-2 NESCAC) at Clinton, N.Y., Sunday Tufts Hamilton

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Hamilton College Continentals 7-2, giving the Jumbos their first NESCAC win and

improving their overall record to 4-5. After three tough matches last weekend against top-ranked Middlebury College, 13thranked Bowdoin and a strong Brandeis University team, the Jumbos finally put together all the pieces and prevailed on a windy day in upstate New York.

“The Hamilton environment ended up being windy,” senior tri-captain Andrew Rosen said. “We tried not to get frustrated, and we felt going in that if we played our game against Hamilton, we would win.”

The Jumbos were dominant in both singles and doubles, winning five out of six singles matches and two out of the three doubles matches. In doubles, the Jumbos had to use a makeshift lineup at the No. 1

spot, pairing sophomore Kai Victoria with senior tri-captain Daniel Landers instead of his normal partner, junior Jake Fountain.

The pair fell to their Hamilton competitors 8-5. However, the Jumbos responded well, and the No. 2 team consisting of freshmen Ben Barad and Andrew Lutz won 8-5, while sophomores Morrie Bossen and Sam Laber also won by the same score at the No. 3 spot.

“We had a bit of a disadvantage because Jake Fountain was not playing, so we had to go with a makeshift lineup at No. 1 doubles,” Rosen said. “Kai Victoria and Daniel Landers played well, but they came up short. Sam Laber and Morrie Bossen had a really impressive performance, as did Ben Barad and Andrew Lutz under very windy

conditions, which were very frustrating, but they really stayed focused and ultimately pulled out the win.”

In the singles matches, Rosen won the Jumbos’ first match in the first singles slot, beating Hamilton freshman Jon Franzel convincingly 6-4, 6-0. Rosen was locked in a tight first set against Franzel, when at 4-4 the Tufts captain hit a strategically placed lob over Franzel on game point, which proved to be the turning moment in the match.

The first-year Barad also performed well in his No. 3 singles match with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Hamilton freshman Jordan Petit, and his classmate Lutz had an impressive see MEN’S TENNIS, page 11

Women’s tennis continues to roll over NESCAC foes For the women’s tennis team, the month of April has just become repetitive.

Following two sweeping victories last weekend versus lowly NESCAC opponents Trinity and Hamilton, the Jumbos have now moved to 5-0 in conference play during the current month and have won those five games by a combined 44-1 margin. Tufts, the 17th-ranked team in the nation, has continued to roll over its opponents and looks strong heading into a showdown on Saturday with defending national champion Williams.

“We had two great, decisive wins,” senior tri-captain Laura Hoguet said. “Neither of the teams are our toughest competition, but in those matches, it’s a time to try new things and gain confidence to practice being in a match and just taking it point by point and having that good focus throughout.”

Most recently, the Jumbo squad downed host Hamilton 8-1 on Sunday, marking the first time Tufts had lost either a singles or doubles match during its five-match winning streak. The loss came at No.

3 doubles as junior Edwina Stewart and freshman Lauren Hollender fell in a tiebreaker, 9-8 (5). Other than that, however, it was all Tufts in the NESCAC match.

Freshman Lindsay Katz took her singles match at No. 3 by a 6-0, 6-0 margin, as did firstyear Janie Lam at No. 5 and Hollender at No. 6. Stewart, at No. 4 singles, had a similarly easy time dispatching her opponent in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1.

Junior tri-captain Julia Browne, Tufts’ top singles player, gave up three games in a set for the first time in NESCAC play this entire season, but rebounded with a sweeping second-set victory to take the match 6-3, 6-0. Meanwhile, senior tri-captain Meghan McCooey won at No. 2 singles by a 6-1, 6-1 margin.

Facing Trinity two days earlier in its spring home-opener, the Jumbos swept the doubles matches, with both the No. 1 and No. 2 teams winning by 8-1 margins. Freshman Lauren Hollender and junior Edwina Stewart additionally cruised to an 8-4 victory at No. 3.

In singles, it was more of the same as McCooey and soph-

omore Jennifer LaCara each won 6-0, 6-0, while Browne downed Bantams freshman Hillary Hoyt 6-0, 6-1. Stewart, Lam and Hollender all won in straight sets, as the six Tufts singles players ceded just 12 aggregate games in as many sets on the day.

Before the showdown with the nationally ranked No. 2 Williams Ephs on Saturday, though, the Jumbos must turn their attention to home matches with Brandeis today and then Wellesley on Friday.

Between the contests, the young squad will focus on strengthening its overall game, specifically in doubles strategy and closing at the net, to prepare for the Ephs.

“It’s great for [the younger players] to get some wins under their belt in their college career and to gain confidence on the court,” Hoguet said.

“Experience is important, especially in doubles, so we just want to [practice] new things and experiment with what works and what doesn’t and gaining confidence with what works best for each player.”

—by Alex Prewitt

SCOTT TINGLEY/TUFTS DAILY

Senior tri-captain Meghan McCooey took down her Hamilton opponent at No. 2 singles by a 6-1, 6-1 margin on Sunday.