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VOLUME LIX, NUMBER 50

New record set at Boston Marathon

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TEC panelists emphasize government role in energy sector BY

BRENT YARNELL

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A group of Jumbos yesterday joined other runners in completing the 114th Boston Marathon from Hopkinton to downtown Boston. Beyond running the race, the 200 members of the Tufts President’s Marathon Challenge Team also raised funds to support the university’s healthpromotion initiatives and programs. The Boston Marathon is one of the five World Marathon Majors, and it draws the best runners from around the world. The men’s winner was Robert Cheruiyot from Kenya, who set a new course record with a time of 2:05:52. In the women’s race, Teyba Erkesso from Ethiopia came in first with a time of 2:26:11.

Panelists speaking at the 2010 Tufts Energy Conference (TEC) arrived at a general consensus that government initiatives should take a central role in combating climate change and shifting the economy toward new sources of energy.

The conference, which took place Friday and Saturday, was organized by the Institute for Global Leadership and Fletcher Energy Consortium and run by Tufts Energy Forum.

Partha Ghosh, visiting professor of strategic and innovation management at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, voiced the conference’s conclusions at a panel discussion held Saturday titled “Energy in Emerging Markets.”

The governments of India and China, Ghosh said, successfully carry out long-term planning, engaging private entrepreneurship according to the maturity of the market.

Speaking at the same panel, Michael Quah Cheng-Guan, principal fellow and chief scientist at Energy Systems and Technology, said that professional civil services, such as those in Britain and China,

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The Tufts Energy Conference, which discussed the evolution of energy, took place this weekend. enable governments to engage in the kind of long-term planning that is needed to deal with energy issues.

Ghosh further challenged students of political science to determine what the role of government should be in promoting broad change.

Nearly 400 guests attended the conference, with energy professionals paying a $60 admissions fee, according to conference co-chair Daniel Enking, a senior.

The large audience and high

admissions fee made TEC one of Tufts’ most well attended and highest grossing student-run events ever, Enking said.

The need to take a long-term approach when considering energy issues was also emphasized Friday at a panel on “Evolving Fossil Fuels,” which kicked off the conference discussions.

The panel included ExxonMobil Scientific Advisor John Robbins, whose review of biofuels inspired the company see ENERGY, page 2

With resolution, Senate aims to clarify guest registration policy

BY JENNY

WHITE

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The Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate last week adopted a resolution that recommends several changes to clarify and simplify the Office of Residential Life and Learning’s (ResLife) overnight guest registration policy.

The overnight dorm guest policy is currently outlined in Habitats, the university’s handbook on residential life. There are a number of rules related to the policy that are imprecise, according to junior Christopher Snyder, who authored the original resolution presented to the Senate.

“I read the policy in Habitats and right away noticed a few things that seemed somewhat problematic,” Snyder said.

“This resolution listed concerns I had after reviewing the policy … things that ResLife should change so that it makes more sense.”

The current policy states that any student planning to host a guest overnight, whether a Tufts or non-Tufts student, must complete a form at least three business days in advance indicating the name of the guest and number of nights he or she will spend. It further stipulates that a guest may not stay for more than three consecutive nights.

The resolution suggests that the policy should be modified to require host students to register only non-Tufts guests.

The resolution also calls for the policy to provide a more specific definition of “overnight” and to allow hosts in single rooms to register their guests without the required three-day advance notice.

Out of students polled in the Fall 2009 Senate Survey, 47.9 percent disagreed or strongly disagreed with the overnight guest policy in general.

The Senate had already identified the guest registration policy as an issue when Snyder brought his concerns to the body’s Administration and Policy Committee on April 11, according to Senator Wyatt Cadley, a freshman. The final resolution was adopted on the same day.

“Although it was not a top [Senate] priority, it was a priority, because if you looked at just the policy part of it, there were a lot of elements that didn’t make sense,” Cadley said. “The policy was not being consistently enforced, and [residential assistants] were showing a certain amount of flexibility with it. What we saw here is that the ResLife policies had good intentions but are not practical.”

Senator Jon Danzig, a sophomore, see RESLIFE, page 2

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Energy expert Sue Tierney sat down for an interview with the Daily.

Tierney: Complete switch to clean energy unlikely in near future BY

KATHERINE SAWYER

Daily Editorial Board

Sue Tierney, managing principal of the consultancy group Analysis Group, was one of the keynote speakers at the Tufts Energy Conference.

Tierney specializes in electric and gas industry policy and formerly served as assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Energy.

She sat down with the Daily to discuss upcoming developments in the energy sector.

Katherine Sawyer: You’ve done some work with solar energy, among other different clean energy sources. Do you think that renewable energy sources and clean energy sources like solar are capable of powering the country? Do you think we see TIERNEY, page 2 See tomorrow’s Daily for an interview with Bruce Everett, another panelist at the Tufts Energy Conference. can make a

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In this year’s FIELDEX, students acted out a wartime scenario.

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VISITING THE HILL THIS WEEK TUESDAY “Rakesh Satyal: Book Discussion and Dinner Conversation” Details: Rakesh Satyal, the author of “Blue Boy” (2009) and “The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers” (2002), will speak about “Blue Boy” and answer questions from the audience. This will be followed by a dinner conversation titled “How LGBT youth are portrayed in today’s media,” during which free Indian food will be served.

When and Where: Discussion: 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.; Start House; Dinner: 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; LGBT Center, Bolles House Sponsors: Asian American Center, LGBT Center “Address by Simon Rosenberg (LA ‘85)” Details: Rosenberg, the president of

Washington, D.C. think tank NDN, will speak about making the coming century successful for America, including the roles of changing American demographics and media and technology in American society.

When and Where: 4:30 p.m.; Cabot 206 Sponsors: Roosevelt Institute at Tufts, Tufts Democrats, Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service “Sweeping Measures: Terror, Trauma and Mass-Mediated Rituals of Memory in Post-Massacre Bali” Details: Leslie Dwyer, assistant professor of conflict analysis and anthropology at Princeton University, will talk about her research in Bali and the effects of state-sponsored violence in Indonesia.

When and Where: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room Sponsors: Department of

Anthropology, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Center for the Humanities at Tufts, Department of History, Department of Religion, Department of Sociology, South Asian Society WEDNESDAY “Family Ties and the Regulation of Labor” Details: Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics at Harvard University, will speak as part of a seminar series.

When and Where: 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.; Tisch Library Room 316 Sponsors: Department of Economics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy “Remember. Reflect. Respond.”

Details: Survivors of the Holocaust and the Armenian, Cambodian and Rwandan genocides will

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to investigate the production of biofuels from algae.

Ro b b i n s p re s e n t e d ExxonMobil’s report, which showed a dramatic increase in energy usage since 1850 and also an increase in energy sources from just two resources — coal and wood — to six, encompassing oil, gas, hydro and nuclear power.

Robbins said the increase in fuel sources has happened over an extended period of time and has been a slow process.

Howard Herzog, senior research manager in the MIT Energy Initiative, said the size of energy demand and infrastructure was too vast to be changed overnight.

“The scale we’re talking about is billions of tons of [carbon dioxide] per year,” Herzog said.

“Dealing with climate change is going to be extremely difficult, perhaps the most difficult task undertaken by humanity.”

Robbins said if a cheap solar energy solution came out tomorrow, chances are it would not be fully embraced for a decade.

“Industries do not change overnight,” he said. “There’s not enough engineers, not enough steel in the world.”

Joseph Stanislaw, co-author of “Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy” (2002) and co-founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, urged the imposition of a carbon tax to create an incentive for oil and gas companies to become cleaner.

“This is a technology industry,” Stanislaw said. “Put high prices on oil and gas, they will get the [carbon dioxide] out, I promise you.”

Stanislaw estimated that imposing a significant carbon tax would only have a slight impact on gas prices.

Moderator of the panel Bruce Everett, adjunct professor of international business at The Fletcher School, said states should be cautious when considering a carbon tax.

“What is being done in Europe, and included in [Sen. John] Kerry’s bill, is to set a lot price on carbon that will be enough of a price to put a cost on the economy but not enough to change anybody’s behavior,” Everett said.

Kerry (D-Mass.) is currently proposing a climate-change bill that could in 2012 potentially impose a cap-and-trade system on electric utilities.

Stanislaw also highlighted government programs that can help increase efficiency.

In Massachusetts, Stanislaw said, all residents are entitled to a free energy efficiency audit on their homes.

“Those programs have an impact,” Stanislaw said.

“Money put in the right place will drive change.”

Howard Berke, co-founder and executive chairman of Konarka Technologies, said the proposals being debated in the United States are “peanuts” in comparison to actions that China is taking to reduce its reliance on oil and increase efficiency.

“While the Americans debate it, debate it and debate it, the Chinese are building it, and building it and building it,” Berke said.

TEC also included an energy showcase in which participants were invited to exhibit their energy-related projects and technological developments. Other panels at the conference included discussions on “Urban Energy and Green Design,” “Renewables to Scale,” “Navigating the Public-Private Interface,” and “Green Technology and Entrepreneurship.”

share their stories as part of a genocide symposium. Following this, genocide scholars will speak on the subject.

When and Where: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Cabot ASEAN Auditorium Sponsors: The MA Coalition to Save Darfur, STAND, Moral Voices, Fletcher United Nations Club, PRAXIS

“Gifford Lecture: How We Learned to Love Nostradamus (Paris, 1840)” Details: Stéphane Gerson, associate professor of French studies at New York University, will discuss Nostradamus and mid-nineteenth century France.

When and Where: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Barnum 104 Sponsor: The Gifford Fund

THURSDAY “State-of-the-Art Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics Experiments” Details: Craig Gerardi, a research engineer at Argonne National Laboratory, will speak as part of the Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series.

When and Where: 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.; Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall Sponsor: Department of Mechanical Engineering

“Gay and Conservative” Details: Jimmy LaSalvia from GOProud, an organization representing gay conservatives and their allies, will share his experience as a gay Republican.

When and Where: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Lane Hall 100 Sponsors: Tufts Republicans, Queer Straight Alliance, Tufts Feminist Alliance —compiled by Saumya Vaishampayan and Ellen Kan

Senate hopes to improve communication with ResLife RESLIFE continued from page 1

recently met with Director of ResLife Yolanda King and ResLife’s Assistant Director for Community and Judicial Affairs Carrie Ales-Rich to discuss potential changes to the policy.

“I arranged the meeting with ResLife in order to try to make guest registration easier and clearer for students,” Danzig said. “At that meeting, they seemed very open to many of the changes that would end up on Chris’ resolution.”

King and Ales-Rich indicated that the changes called for in the resolution were already in practice to some extent.

According to Danzig, the two administrators said their office only enforces the policy for non-Tufts guests. They also added that the need to register three days in advance is a general guideline, not a stringent rule.

Danzig explained that with this resolution, the Senate hopes to make the registration protocol easier for students to understand and abide by in the future.

Following the meeting, Snyder submitted to the Senate the resolution calling for revisions to the ResLife policy. The final resolution will be presented to ResLife staff in the coming week or so, according to Cadley.

The Senate also hopes that these recommendations and discussions will help to improve communication between the student body and ResLife.

“The resolution also touches on a larger issue: to reexamine the way the student body and ResLife work together,” Cadley said. “This resolution takes a lot of steps in addressing interactions with ResLife.”

Snyder said that the fact that ResLife would create rules that are not enforced is misleading for students.

“The problem with ResLife policy is that there are several gaps between goals for ResLife policy and the actual policy,” Snyder said. “This goes to the heart of a number of ResLife policies. They seem like strict policies, but there are so many exceptions, as it turns out, that you might as well not follow the policy.”

Political will to tackle environmental problems does not exist, Tierney says TIERNEY continued from page 1

switch to clean energy?

Sue Tierney: Do I think there can be a switch to clean energy?

Yes. Tremendously more renewable energy and lower emissions energy can be used. Do I think that we could actually, in my lifetime and maybe in your lifetime, do everything from what we consider to be renewable fuels like solar and water and stuff? I don’t think so, unfortunately. In part that’s because solar and wind are intermittent … so there are times of the day when you can’t depend upon that now — when we don’t really have battery storage to absorb that — so we need some technological breakthroughs on things like storage to really make a huge penetration … renewables are going to play a much bigger part … but I think in the very near-term, we’re not likely to see a total dependency on those.

KS: Do you think that we as a country, from an economic perspective, can become energy independent?

ST: That’s a really important question, and there are a lot of different dimensions of it.

[When] most people think about

that right now, we think of oil, because more than half of our oil comes from overseas. It would be in part difficult and also probably not realistic to think that we could, in the near-term, displace so much international oil, that we would be just running on our own oil production.

We could do a lot through biofuels. I don’t like ethanol, but we could do a lot through other kinds of biofuels … Now if you think about natural gas, there’s a lot we can do to make sure that we are on our own on natural gas.

But now let’s think about solar.

So right now, the fuel is local because it’s on solar rays, on materials that absorb it … But when you think about producing solar panels, whether for rooftops or in solar power stations, we’re developing the technology in the United States so we can be independent on technology development stuff and intellectual property stuff. And you have to have a lot of workers to actually put the solar panels on roofs.

But in between is manufacturing, and in the United States it’s much more expensive to build and manufacture solar panels than it is in China. So it’s really hard, unless we massively change our industrial policy in the United

States, to imagine that China is not going to clean our clock. So it’s weird we send all this money to Saudi Arabia for oil, and that’s a scary thought — they’re not very friendly — and in the near term, we actually send a lot of money and jobs to China for solar panels more and more. But maybe that’s OK if we’re all interdependent…

KS: With different environmental choices like the Kyoto Protocol, there’s controversy about whether the United States is doing enough and the impact that that’s having on the world. What is your take on what we need to do to start this global process?

ST: The process obviously has started, but there’s so much more that the United States has to do to play a leadership role. If I were a decision-maker in Washington and I had a huge favorability rating, I would capture the momentum and articulate all the ways that the United States could transform itself and its economy to much more efficient energy use and cleaner technologies so that we could then be a huge player in transforming the energy market.

There are a lot of elements of that. Part of it is about technology development, research

and development in schools and universities, in the national laboratories. Part of that is about policies that the states are doing, policies like renewable portfolio standard … Part of it is about loan guarantees to help finance U.S. companies … in this business. All of those things are helpful, but at the end of the day, in my opinion, we really need a price on carbon in order to really begin to make it worthwhile for people to make some of the investments in clean energy that they might not make today.

The realities in Congress are right now that the policymaking is so polarized that even people of goodwill who might be able to develop a program … are worried that they’ll be hurt at the polls, that they’ll be hurt in the blogosphere and they’ll be hurt in X, Y and Z. It’s a very tough time, and it is a horrible conundrum because we need it, but I just don’t think that the politics are there. The economy doesn’t make it any better.

KS: What are some new technologies that the individual can use to reduce carbon emissions?

ST: The biggest and cheapest ways are the variety of ways by which

people can tighten up energy use in their homes … There is a huge amount of electricity and other energy used in refrigerators, air conditioning and heating systems in homes … Obviously, fuel economy is a big deal.

KS: Where are the breaking fields in clean energy?

ST: There’s been a huge infusion of wind projects around the country … The Economic Recovery Act includes a huge number of rebates for households, tax credits and a variety of things to help get energy efficiency going.

Those things are the near-term things in which we’re likely to see something happen.

KS: Why is this important — why do we need these clean energy reforms?

ST: The scientific evidence is overwhelming that climate change is occurring. The global mean temperature is warming up faster than expected. The developed world has enjoyed the economic benefits associated with those greenhouse gas emissions as a carbon-based economy. The planet can’t do it the way we’ve done it for the past 200 years.

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FIELDEX participants playing coalition forces had to remain vigilant for mock improvised explosive devices.

Students learn the basics of counterinsurgency on a paintball range BY

CARTER ROGERS

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This weekend, the election of a corrupt official, narrowly avoided food riots and improvised explosive devices (IED) that killed several coalition force members did not occur in a foreign war zone, but on the PnL Paintball field in Bridgewater, Mass. as part of the Field Exercise in Stability Operations, or FIELDEX. This year’s FIELDEX was a follow-up to an exercise conducted last year as part of the Experimental College course Counterinsurgency Seminar. The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES), a program within the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), played a large part in organizing this year’s event.

ALLIES is a student-led group devoted to improving communication and relations between future military and civilian leaders.

Sophomore Eileen Guo, the main organizer of this year’s FIELDEX, described last year’s exercise as more focused on counterinsurgency. “[Last year] it was slightly more kinetic and more about the fighting and paintball,” Guo said.

Guo took the counterinsurgency course last year and participated in the predecessor to FIELDEX.

“I thought that we learned so much last year,” Guo said. “It was this really great way of putting what we were talking about in class, or in the dorms, and actually getting some practical experience [in that field].

“I decided that we really needed to do this again, and I didn’t think that anyone else was going to do it, so I made it my little project,” Guo continued.

FIELDEX was set in the fictional country of Mazalastan, which was modeled heavily after Afghanistan. The fictional town Roshan was based off of Now Zad in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.

“The reason we did that is because Toby [Bonthrone (LA ’09)], who ran last year’s FIELDEX, has been doing field research in Now Zad, and I was his research assistant in Afghanistan, so I was focusing on that as well,” Guo said.

In the FIELDEX scenario, the village, a hotbed of fighting between insurgents and coalition forces, was facing upcoming provincial elections. The United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAM) was helping to conduct the hypothetical elections. The coalition forces also had to train the Mazali National Police (MNP) as well as secure the area during the elections.

“Basically, what we wanted to do was bring out all these tensions that you would actually see in a conflict zone,” Guo said.

FIELDEX had 50 participants and 10

organizational staff members. Eighteen of the participants came from the United States Military Academy at West Point, the United States Naval Academy and the United States Air Force Academy.

The other participants were Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy students or Tufts undergraduates.

“There were about eight coalition forces, eight Mazali national police, six insurgents, there were about 20 to 25 villagers, eight to 10 U.N. workers, and [freshman] Ben Ross, who was the media journalist,” Guo said.

According to Guo and Ross, none of the participants with military experience played coalition forces or MNP members.

The insurgents, the coalition forces and the MNP arrived at PnL Paintball on the night of April 16. Two former Marine Corps Sergeants and U.S. Army Lt. Col. Dale Buckner, a Fletcher military fellow, gave basic training to the participants playing coalition forces.

Meanwhile, the participants playing Mazalis took part in team building activities and a “goat war,” in which each team attempted to capture the other team’s goat (represented by a stuffed animal), which allowed the participants to learn the terrain of the town.

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Jumbos offer support from the sidelines

Boston marathon volunteers another aspect of Tufts’ presence at the race BY

CHRISTINA LUO

Daily Staff Writer

Every year, the Boston Marathon attracts thousands of runners willing and ready to run 26.2 miles. To facilitate the event are those on the sidelines, holding out cups of water and orange Gatorade, or those who help the exhausted-but-proud runners find their supporters at the end of the race. At this year’s event, some 7,000 volunteers turned up to help the marathon run smoothly.

As a major participant in the Boston Marathon, Tufts not only sends the university’s President’s Marathon Challenge team every year, but also sends student volunteers to help as well.

Before the marathon, all the volunteers were extremely energized and ready to help out. Senior Kim Farnham said she was “beyond excited” to be volunteering. “I am probably going to lose my voice from cheering,” she said.

“For Tufts University, we have four water stops,” Don Megerle, director of the President’s Marathon Challenge, said. “[The volunteers are] in charge of giving people water or Gatorade,” freshman volunteer Amy Bean said. That task was more complicated than it may seem, as the volunteers had to carefully follow instructions, holding cups by two fingers for the runners to easily

grab as they continued on their way.

The water stations were located at every mile except for miles one and 26, and Tufts volunteers were in charge of miles 10, 11 and 22. They also were responsible for returning possessions to the runners and reuniting them with their friends and families. Once the volunteers left Tufts at 6 a.m., they worked all day at their assigned station, returning to campus in the late afternoon.

The job of those working at the water stations was not just handing out water, according to Megerle. “These tables are 30 to 40 [sections] long, and they have to fix the Gatorade, fill the cups … there’s a whole host of things volunteers have to do,” Megerle said.

According to freshmen Rachel Ganz and Julia Hajnoczky, who helped at the water station at mile 11 in Natick, the work was not easy.

“We had to stack cups in multiple layers — four layers, actually — each full of Gatorade or water,” Hajnoczky said.

“There’s a whole science to it, actually,” Ganz added, describing the efficiency necessary for the water stations to help the runners.

Any Jumbo can volunteer to help with the President’s Marathon Challenge. “I got the e-mail that President Bacow sent out calling all volunteers, and I decided to do it,” sophomore Danielle Pike said. Others

volunteer because of an interest in running, like Ganz, who is on the Tufts track and field team, and Hajnoczky, who is on the crosscountry team. “[I’d] never seen or experienced a marathon before, and I run, so I thought it’d be cool to volunteer,” Ganz said. “A lot of teammates [who volunteered in the past] said it was really cool, too,” she added.

Bean also cited an interest in running as a reason for volunteering. “I had this goal in middle school of running the Boston Marathon, and my friend and I said we would run it when we got to college,” Bean said. Though that goal remains unrealized, Bean still wanted to participate in the excitement and energy of the marathon.

Hundreds of Tufts students volunteered this year, and the team even had to turn down many people. “The kind of interest to be a volunteer — it’s amazing,” Megerle said.

Tufts was accommodating for the volunteers, providing transportation and freebies for them. “We bus the kids into Boston, and we really extend ourselves to make it easy for kids to volunteer,” he said. “The whole organization is unlike any other.”

The unspoken job for the volunteers, though, is to cheer on and support their fellow Jumbos. When she volunteered the first see VOLUNTEERS, page 4

t is almost impossible for anyone who lives in a somewhat densely populated area to avoid the infamous date/time/ number that for some marks the root of euphoria and for others the pinnacle of American stupidity — 4/20, coincidentally, today. Smokers nationwide snicker every time the clock strikes 4:20; April 20 after April 20, giant clouds of smoke that give Iceland a run for its money hover over America’s college campuses. But few have taken the moment to exhale and ask why.

The Waldos: Long, long ago in 1971 in San Rafael, Calif., there was a group of high school buddies not too different from any other male high school group in the ’70s.

The Waldos — so called because they were known to hang out by a wall outside the San Rafael High School — liked to think of themselves as adventurers.

Thus in 1971, when they got word of an abandoned Coast Guard’s marijuana plot by the nearby Point Reyes station, they immediately planned to trip out to the nearby peninsula to search for it. At 4:20 p.m., the boys were to meet by the Louis Pasteur statue outside the school building, hop in one of the boys’ 1966 Chevy Impala, light up and head to the coast. Awaiting the momentous journey, they reminded each other throughout the day with a nonchalant, cryptic “4:20 — Louis,” which, requiring a few too many brain cells, later got shortened to “4:20.”

For weeks on end, the Waldos searched, and for weeks on end they failed, with no fairytale ending to follow. What they did end up with was a long-lasting tradition of smoking together the entire ride out to Point Reyes (which may have been counterproductive to their search) and a thenobscure code-word to refer to their favorite substance.

The Dead: At this point in the story, you’re probably wondering how a group of stoners who spent their teenage years baked driving around Point Reyes searching for a weed garden managed to start what is now something of a national holiday, and despite the Waldos’ show of dedication, your skepticism of their efficiency is not out of place. Luckily for them, the Waldos happened to know a few guys who enjoyed above-ordinary stoner status: The Grateful Dead.

In the ’60s, The Dead moved from San Francisco to Marin County, where, not too far from the Waldos’ hometown, one of the boys’ fathers managed The Dead’s real estate. One of the perks of knowing Phil Lesh, it turns out, was that the whole clan enjoyed free entry into concerts, practices, parties and — last but not least — smoking sessions, during which the Waldos’ term was passed along.

The golden ticket: I know, somehow Deadhead subculture still doesn’t explain how “4:20 — Louis” got from San Rafael’s Waldos to Tarantino’s clocks in Pulp Fiction and the current state of the library roof.

For that, we can thank Steve Bloom of the New York-based marijuana culture magazine High Times, who was hanging out in the parking lot of a Dead concert in Oakland in the early ’90s. Amid the hippieinfested, pot-scented mosh, he was handed a yellow flyer that would go on to become the number’s ticket to the mainstream. On it was printed “We are going to meet at 4:20 on 4/20 for 420-ing in Marin County” with a convenient albeit wrong explanation that 420 began in San Rafael as the police code for “Marijuana smoking in progress.”

High Times posted the flyer on the Internet, and the term spread like wildfire, but the origin consisted of mere myth until in 1997 one of the Waldos contacted High Times with the true reason why the air over Somerville and every college town, coast to coast, is just a little bit cloudier today.

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

Oltuski@tufts.edu.

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pants arrived for the three-scenario main event. The first scenario focused on developing village dynamics, and the second scenario had the coalition forces and MNP patrolling the village for insurgent activity.

“The second scenario kind of turned into a really chaotic situation,” Guo said. “The coalition forces and police went into the village and immediately … were fired upon.

“We had to restart that scenario … but once we restarted, it went well,” Guo continued. “The purpose of the scenario was that United Nations could actually register everyone in the village to vote.”

According to Fletcher student Emily Nohner, who played a member of UNAM, the voter registration became rather chaotic because

of a miscommunication that the registration was a food giveaway, when in fact the food was a minor incentive to get people to register.

“It was tough, because as the leader I wanted to get the food out … but it had to be done in a way that was safe and secure and [in a way] that no lives were harmed,” Nohner said.

The final scenario was the election itself. One candidate was a woman who needed a security detail to protect her from insurgent attacks. The other candidate recruited a militia to strong-arm villagers into voting for him, which resulted in his landslide victory.

Although it took place in a paintball facility, Guo insisted that the simulation was far more than a day’s worth of paintball. “A lot of people have had concerns of supporting this for that reason: They hear the word ‘paintball,’ and they immediately think, ‘This

isn’t serious,’” Guo said. “The thing is that we actually shot very few paintball guns. The purpose of the scenarios was to give people this understanding of conflict and how complex it is on the ground. It was definitely more focused on that than the paintball shooting.”

Guo pointed out that at the same time FIELDEX was taking place, a group of Marine Corps recruits were training and asked Guo why there was not more shooting in the FIELDEX training.

“We made it very clear from the beginning that this would not be about paintball shooting. It’s not about going into the woods and blowing off steam before finals.

I think we did a good job about recruiting people that understood that,” Guo said.

FIELDEX was not just an educational tool, according to Guo. “We really saw it as a leadership development thing for the people

that were planning it. It was really important to have people like Ben Ross and other freshmen helping out,” Guo said.

Ross was brought onto the planning team as a younger student so he would be prepared to plan similar events in the future. Ross played a photojournalist embedded in a squad of coalition forces, and he had to balance getting photos with staying out of harm’s way.

He was “killed” by an IED during the second scenario of the day.

“The experience that everyone brought to this was huge, and getting to interact with them, learn from them and learn how to deal with them was a really big learning experience,” Guo said.

Nohner got involved in FIELDEX through a civil and military relations course she is taking.

“I was really excited to be on the other side and interact with the military. That’s something that I

didn’t have any experience with at all,” Nohner said. “All the scenarios were very clear indications of how aid could be handled much more effectively if the security portion is coordinated well from the top level to the bottom level.

Everyone has to be on the same sheet of music to move forward in a cohesive manner.”

Not all students in FIELDEX are interested in a future in working in diplomacy or the military.

Junior Lucas Schlager, who played an MNP officer, decided to take part in FIELDEX after taking the Counterinsurgency Seminar course two years ago. Although he is majoring in biology, he felt that he took valuable lessons from FIELDEX. “The overriding lesson is: It’s all well and good to make policy, but actually executing that policy is really, really difficult, and this sort of definitely evidenced that,” Schlager said.

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time her freshman year, Farnham recalled how important support from the sidelines was. “The cheering from the crowd seemed to inspire the runners to keep going,” Farnhan said. “[The marathon runners] go out of their way and say thanks … I didn’t feel like we did anything. I mean, they were the ones running a marathon,” Ganz added.

It was even more exciting when a member of the President’s Marathon Challenge team ran by, according to Hajnoczky. “We cheered when we saw Tufts runners too, and they were so excited when they saw us,” she said.

“It’s so nice to see Tufts paraphernalia and seeing them unexpectedly

at every water stop,” Megerle said.

After the marathon was over, the volunteers at the water stations had to clean up the mountains of cups and trash heaped around the tables, while the volunteers in charge of clothing return and reuniting runners with their families began their work.

At the end of the day, though, the experience of seeing some of the world’s best runners racing through the familiar neighborhoods of Boston was overwhelming.

“Everyone was so happy when they were done,” Hajnoczky said.

So powerful was the effect of the marathon on the volunteers that many are considering running the marathon themselves in upcoming years.

Ganz and Hajnoczky both said

that they intend to run the marathon in the future and that they felt particularly inspired by the runners who were blind, deaf or in wheelchairs.

Megerle said this was a common trend: “What you find is that the next [thing volunteers] want to do is to run in the marathon,” he said. “Sometimes they run alongside their friends for a couple miles, or simply volunteer, and then they feel inspired to train for next year’s marathon.”

Megerle continued that it was a win-win situation, as the runners and the volunteers benefitted from each other, grateful that the other helped them in some way. “The whole experience is invaluable,” Megerle said. “For us, they’re awesome.”

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Tufts students who weren’t running the Boston Marathon helped hydrate the runners and return their belongings.

Rakesh Satyal

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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

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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.

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Alvin Ailey dance company inspires with pieces rich in African-American history BY

ARIANA SIEGEL

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The Celebrity Series of Boston presented the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as it celebrated the company’s 50th anniversary in the exquisite Citi Wang Theatre this past Thursday through Saturday. The performance featured bodies swathed in radiant colors perched against muted backgrounds, graceful lifts and finger-snapping sass. Fast-paced, joyous pieces were followed by the slow, measured steps of softer performances, each so expertly choreographed that it was like watching a series of paintings on stage.

Under the direction of Ailey’s protégé Judith Jamison, the company performed several pieces rich in AfricanAmerican history from its repertoire.

Each night’s line-up varied but always ended with Ailey’s most famous creation, “Revelations.”

Friday night’s three-part performance opened with “Suite Otis,” aptly named after Otis Redding, to whose music the pieces were set. The dancers were adorned with brilliant pink outfits reminiscent of the ’50s. Though a wide variety of emotions was displayed, the dominant theme seemed to be sass.

When the curtains opened, the

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as secure as the steel manufactured there, a motley gang of boys look to baseball as their escape. Forming a Little League team with nothing but enthusiasm, a home-hewn bat and a ball held together with string, the boys of “The Perfect Game” nurture World Series ambitions. Although the story is sweet, a generous helping of cheese comes with the peanuts and Cracker Jacks at this ball game.

Directed by baseball film veteran William Dear (“Angels in the Outfield,” 1994), “The Perfect Game” is based on the genuinely remarkable story of the 1957 journey of a ragtag group of underprivileged boys from Monterrey, Mexico who are coached all the way to Little League World Series glory by their tender-hearted Coach Cesar (Clifton Collins Jr.).

Fed up with enduring racial slurs and biding his time as a towel boy for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cesar returns to his parents’ roots in Monterrey to work at the steel mill and reevaluate his life. He is derided as a “gringo” by the other workers and seems lost in this new life. But things change when the cheerful little Angel Macias ( Jake T. Austin) rekindles Cesar’s love for baseball and charms him into agree-

n Feb. 11, 2009, I wrote a column titled “Foodemics” about national food epidemics — clever portmanteau, right? In the column, I talked about the E.coli outbreak in spinach in September 2006, the salmonella scare in tomatoes in the summer of 2008 and instances in January 2009 when mercury was found in brand-name products containing high-fructose corn syrup. In the year since I wrote that column, few things have changed. There was a massive recall of peanut products by the Peanut Corporation of America throughout 2009, and a February 2010 recall of products containing hydrolyzed vegetable protein, a flavor-enhancing chemical, will cause hundreds of products to be taken off of our grocers’ shelves.

Many of these foodemics and recalls have happened as a result of people getting sick from the contaminated product. Yet as more and more food issues are popping up, food manufacturers and purveyors are voluntarily recalling products that they think may be contaminated. The latest voluntary recall hit close to home. On April 17, supermarket chains Giant Food, LLC and Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. LLC — which has stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York and New Jersey and is based in Quincy, Mass. — announced that they are recalling their store brands of frozen artichoke and spinach dip because the companies are afraid that they are contaminated with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes.

While it is prudent for companies to take these preventative measures, I can also understand why it causes panic in consumers. The dip recall, for example, is another instance of a product containing spinach that has potentially fatal bacteria in it. We are left with a situation in which there are food-borne illnesses popping up with increasing frequency, corporations are trying to protect their consumers by issuing recalls without completely discrediting their businesses and making it seem like they have unsafe practices, and with each new recall, the general public is becoming more and more concerned about food production in the United States.

Sounds like we need someone to regulate all of this, don’t we?

But wait! How could I forget about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?

Isn’t it the FDA’s responsibility to regulate and monitor food safety and production? I completely forgot about the FDA! I’m pretty sure that until recently, Congress had also forgotten about the FDA, at least the “F” part. Formed in 1906, most of the laws granting the FDA its power to regulate the safety of food and drugs come from the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938. Every few years there is new legislation passed by Congress to reform or expand the FDA, mostly by amending the 1938 law. The latest set of changes, the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), significantly revamped the way the FDA certifies drugs — this massive piece of legislation only addressed the “D” part of the FDA. There have been outcries for years that instead of amending the laws governing the FDA, the federal government just needs to create an entirely new organization — preferably one that splits food and drug regulation into two different entities. With new legislation that finally addresses the “F” part of the FDA system, this is essentially what Congress is trying to do.

H.R. 875, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act, passed the House of Representatives in July 2009, and it does to food regulation what the FDAAA did to drug regulation. The bill would create the Food Safety Administration (FSA) within the Department of Health and Human Services (the Cabinet department that

Among the new additions to the Tufts permanent collection is Frank Paulin’s “Three Women on 57th Street, New York City” (1958).

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Alvin Ailey’s choreography still stirs 50 years after the founding of his company. audience was met with a single male dancer. His almost cartoon-like portrayal of the stereotypical black attitude that followed, complete with swinging arms, snapping fingers and

GALLERY REVIEW

ADAM KULEWICZ

Daily Editorial Board

Though special exhibitions that attract large crowds and significant publicity often overshadow perma-

Recent Gifts to the Tufts Permanent Art Collection At the Remis Sculpture Court, through May 23 Tufts University Art Gallery Aidekman Arts Center 617-627-3518 nent collections, the acquisition of a permanent collection is one of the most important parts of any museum’s work. This process, in which works are purchased by or donated to

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MOVIE REVIEW

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upturned chins, drew laughs from a racially mixed audience. Male and female dancers pursed their lips at

art institutions, allows museums the chance to expand the breadth and depth of their holdings, and is often ongoing. It is different from many special shows — because those often feature works borrowed from other museums’ collections — but it is no less important, and it is worthy of individual celebration.

“Recent Gifts to the Tufts Permanent Collection,” which is on view until May 23 in the Remis Sculpture Court at the Tufts University Art Gallery, displays, as its title would suggest, a sampling of the works that Tufts has recently acquired. It features 13 works ranging from collages to photographs and is unique not only because it highlights this important process of acquisition, but also because it prosee COLLECTION, page 6

‘Perfect Game’ explores race through baseball BY

EMILIE PARMLIND

Contributing Writer

All boys need a dream, and in a hot, dusty Mexican town where a future in the metal factory seems

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Little Leaguers triumph over racism and hardship in “The Perfect Game.”

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ing to coach a Little League team.

The film is like a Mexican version of “The Sandlot” (1993) with a deeply religious undertone and wholesome messages of racial acceptance. Every Caucasian male in the film is an infuriating, racist bigot, but the children manage to play through this adversity and triumph. The Little Leaguers bridge racial gaps and reaffirm their faith in God along the way with the help of the kindly, bumbling Padre Estaban (Cheech Marin) and Frankie (Emilie de Ravin), a female reporter with something to prove.

A bit of sentimentality is to be expected from any film with the label “based on a true story,” and with a title like “The Perfect Game,” this film is no exception. Be prepared to suspend disbelief as the young heroes speak English among themselves in Mexico and to take in stride unintentionally hilarious lines like, “Hey, you ruined my siesta.”

The little boys are genuinely adorable, and there are enough cutesy, chuckle-worthy moments to keep

audiences entertained. But the actual facts of the story — the triumph of a Little League team of underdogs from Mexico dominating its comparatively enormous, far more experienced American competitors — are miraculous enough without the embellishment and extreme sentimentality that “The Perfect Game” indulges in.

Over-the-top subplots include the father-son relationship between Angel and his father after the passing of the latter’s favorite son, Pedro. At one point, Papa melodramatically declares within earshot of the poor boy, “Angel will never be the son that Pedro was,” motivating Angel to succeed in the manly sport of baseball in order to win his father’s approval.

The children get their first real taste of racism when a desperate boy is denied access to a public restroom, unable to cross the “Whites only beyond this point” threshold. In one of the many sweet moments throughout the film, the boys later show remarkable racial acceptance and cultural sensitivity by sitting with an African-American boy who is segregated and alone at a diner table.

Though they do not share the same

language or cultural background, the boys are united by their youth and love of baseball. Their racial sensitivity also helps them win the aid of a baseball savvy, African-American groundskeeper who whispers hints to them that their white counterparts are too closed-minded to heed.

While racism does play a factor, the film is largely a two-hour run of uninterrupted, conflict-free laughs, smiles, baseball and prayer. The baseball scenes provide some heart-pumping entertainment, though knowing that “The Perfect Game” must occur sooner or later squashes any real suspense.

The film functions as a pleasant escape into a world where everything ends happily and where the little conflict that exists is swiftly resolved.

However, the movie sacrifices its chances of creating a greater emotional and lasting impact by relying on painfully saccharine clichés.

Moviegoers who enjoyed “The Blind Side” (2009) will probably like “The Perfect Game.” Though cloying, it’s a cute, feel-good family film that clearly conveys a message of racial acceptance.

already contains the FDA). The FSA would be an organization specifically devoted to issues related to food-borne illnesses, such as food security, food inspections and promoting research to study contaminants.

The bill also gives the FSA direct power to take action against companies that do not take adequate preventative measures against food-borne illnesses. The Secretary of Health and Human Services would have the ability to suspend the federal registration of a food manufacturer or distributor that does not meet the new inspection and prevention requirements, and will also, in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture, create a National Agriculture and Food Defense Strategy.

The bill is not merely punitive toward food companies, but also allocates resources that would allow the FSA to assist local and state governments and businesses in recovering from food and safety issues, such as epidemics and recalls. In essence, the Food Safety Modernization Act does not merely amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, but it creates an entirely new system.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee unanimously passed its own version of the legislation in November. It seemed that everything was on track for the bill to pass through the Senate quickly — just last week, countless news sources were reporting that with the Senate back from its spring recess, the bill would quickly make it through to President Barack Obama’s desk by May. As of Friday, however, the bill is no longer a main course on the Senate’s menu.

Representatives from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office told The Wall Street Journal that other legislation, such as the financial regulations bill that will bring reform to Wall Street, as well as five nominations are going to take precedence over the Food Safety Modernization Act. This is just another example of our legislature forgetting about the “F” part of the FDA. The Food Safety Modernization Act has bipartisan support, while the financial overhaul does not. I’m worried that Wall Street reform will stall on the floor of the Senate, leaving food safety to be dealt with after the Senate’s Memorial Day recess. I understand that this is a legislature that recently has dealt with its fair share of large-scale federal reform between legislation on finance and health care, but if there is something that Congress can finally agree on, why is it being tossed aside? This country desperately needs federal food reform, and hopefully it will not take another devastating foodemic for the Senate to take this off of the back burner.

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vides visitors the opportunity to see a sampling of the university’s permanent collection en masse.

The exhibition’s display in the Remis Sculpture Court may, at first, seem disjointed because of the space’s high ceiling, brightly striped windows and uneven walls. But this same structural blend complements the works on display because they are similarly diverse.

At the entry to the exhibition, visitors are greeted by Robert Hernandez’s “Untitled” (2007-2008), a large birch plywood surface covered in drawings in pencil, white Sharpie paint marker and archival ink marker. The drawings, some of which are figural, cover the surface in an irregular but dense organization, and in its complexity, the work is at once overwhelming and perplexing.

Across the gallery from Hernandez’s work are 10 photographs by renowned photographer Frank Paulin. Because they occupy nearly half of the gallery space and are displayed on two large walls, these photographs seem to form the focus of the exhibition. The majority of the photographs showcase examples of his work from urban locations like New York City and New Orleans.

Paulin’s black and white photographs, however, are not the typical big-city images to which visitors may be accus-

tomed. While many artists celebrate the community and exuberance of large cities, Paulin examines these metropolises in a different way: He depicts, instead, the more menial aspects and often harsh realities of city life.

In “Three Women on 57th Street, New York City” (1958), Paulin captures a scene in which three well-dressed women enter a building on the crowded, titular street. The women, who are arranged almost evenly across the horizontal photograph, seem to have been caught off guard by the photographer. They show expressions of, from left to right, surprise, displeasure and resignation — in short, not what one would expect from such elegantly attired individuals on one of the city’s most exclusive streets. But here, as in his other photographs, Paulin references the fact that even for its more privileged residents, city living is not without its surprises and occasional sacrifices.

Paulin’s other photographs in the exhibition explore these themes and often delve deeper into the more pessimistic aspects of urban life, such as conflict and loneliness. But regardless of what Paulin examines, his photographs possess an elegant simplicity that make them extremely compelling.

“Recent Gifts to the Tufts Permanent Art Collection” is not like most traditional museum exhibitions, because

the works are very diverse and at face value don’t have much in common. But that by no means indicates that this is not an important show. Indeed, the one bond that unites all the works is

their recent acquisition by the Tufts gallery, which represents 13 new works that can now be appreciated by the Tufts community for generations to come.

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Frank Paulin’s “Easter on Fifth Avenue, New York” (1954, printed later), captures the harsher aspects of city life.

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one another, and a couple appeared to have a battle of the wits on stage. The attitude was palpable, the humor irresistible.

The second part, “Among Us (Private Spaces: Public Places),” was slightly more solemn. The opening jolted audiences as an electric blue dancer donning a flame-like feather swayed and bounced before a background of rough, jagged paintings of black faces. At the top of the set, a pair of sorrowful eyes watched in the background as groups performed jarringly beautiful, forcefully melancholic pieces.

The dancers’ movements were ornate and powerful, yet one was struck by the silence of their motion. There was nothing but the occasional squeak of a barefoot pirouette to prove that these were in fact human beings and not angels floating over the stage.

“Among Us” was full of impossible acrobatic feats, and the pinnacle of power was one number performed by two male dancers: The pain of heartbreak, enacted separately and concurrently by each dancer, clapped like thunder through the sharp curves of their motion.

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater delves into so many topics and poses so many poignant questions.

One primary question posed on Friday night was: What stories do our movements tell? The choreography conveyed at once a sense of history and modernity, of masculinity and femininity, of surging energy and deep exhaustion.

Similar movements with slightly differing slants conveyed entirely different emotions; the elocution of a leap or a sway could change a message from muted melancholy to electric energy.

The microscopically close attention that Alvin Ailey dancers pay to their motion encourages viewers to be aware of their own motion, and take note of the message conveyed through them.

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The Celebrity Series of Boston paid tribute to Alvin Ailey this weekend. was truly nothing less than its name. To watch it was to be struck by awe, sorrow and ecstasy. Of all three sections, “Revelations” best conveyed both the sense of the history and future of African-Americans.

The deep soul of African-American history sang through the throbbing base notes of classic spirituals. The curtain opened up on a group of dancers positioned in a leveled triangle, with spread arms that moved in slow unison like migrating birds. The dancers achieved perfect unity with their parallel limbs and synchronized motion disrupted

by a sudden scattering, only to draw back together with heavy movements of impressive might. The heaviness that manifested on their limbs seemed like the weight of the millions of souls they represented on stage.

A series of heart-wrenchingly gorgeous pieces followed. In one, a single male dancer in white slowly lifted himself and returned to the ground repeatedly, as the music bellowed, “I wanna be ready to put on my long white robe.”

Later, the audience was enthralled as two dancers performed a series of lifts slower than honey, and the female

dancer held her leg up incredibly high for an unbelievable length of time.

Anyone watching Alvin Ailey’s company would marvel at the ability of the human body.

The section ended brightly with the entire troupe on stage in its Sunday best, bouncing and bringing back the sass with “Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham.” A standing ovation for an encore followed the dancers off stage.

And having had more than their fill of beauty and energy, the audience exited, accompanied by the cheerful din of an appetite for dance sated.

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Guest policy changes will still not see compliance Last week, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate proposed several important changes to the guest registration policy.

These revisions, if approved by the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife), will make the policy more practical and realistic. Even with the proposed changes, however, guest registration is likely to remain low. ResLife should therefore consider alternative means of achieving the goals for which the policy was created.

The current guest registration policy requires that students register any overnight guests they host in their rooms, whether or not the guest is a Tufts student. The Senate is proposing that the policy be changed so that students do not need to register overnight guests who are Tufts students. This is a logical and necessary change, as it acknowledges the reality of the situation: Most students are extremely unlikely to register fellow Tufts students who spend the night in their rooms.

It is unreasonable to expect that students would be able to predict three days in advance that a fellow Tufts student will be spending the night, as ResLife’s policy currently requires. On any given night, a friend or significant other may spontaneously decide to spend the night instead of walking back to his or her dorm. Very few, if

any, of these overnight guests are registered beforehand with ResLife. The current policy is unenforceable, so Senate is right to ask ResLife to not require that Tufts students be registered as overnight guests.

Under the proposed revisions, students hosting non-Tufts guests overnight will still be required to register them with ResLife. For security and administrative reasons, ResLife wants to know who is staying in Tufts’ dorms. However, it is safe to say that many Tufts students do not think to register their guests from out of town. If it is important to ResLife to have accurate data about non-Tufts guests staying overnight, the office should take steps to make the registration requirements easier and more widely followed.

One step ResLife could take would be to let students fill out and submit the guest registration form online, rather than having to print it out and turn it in to a Resident Assistant (RA). ResLife could therefore have more immediate information that would also be more accurate, as most students would be far more inclined to use a quick, simple online form. Additionally, ResLife could ask RAs to talk to their residents and remind them that non-Tufts overnight guests have to be registered, and explain how to do this.

Direct conversation like this between RAs

and their residents about guests will also help better inform RAs of who is on their floors. Unless ResLife takes these or other steps, students will continue to neglect to register their overnight guests, and the ResLife policy will remain meaningless and unenforced.

One of the other proposed changes is that students with single rooms would not be required to register three days in advance. However, since ResLife has already stated that the three-day policy is a guideline, not a rule, getting rid of the “guideline” for students with singles effectively changes nothing. A practical solution would be to have students with single rooms not be required to register any guests, as their guests do not have the potential to disturb roommates.

ResLife should accept the changes to the guest registration policy that the Senate has proposed. Yet even with the changes in place, it is likely that compliance with the guest registration policy will still remain low. When revising guest registration, ResLife and the Senate should consider the original goals of having such policies and seriously examine whether they would be met by the changes. If many of them would not, ResLife may need to reassess all of its guest registration guidelines.

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Life is like a pair of TOMS, some could say. You never know what you’re going to get.

The shoes have grown immensely popular and come in all different colors and patterns. The best selling point of the shoes is if you buy one pair, the company will donate another to a child in need.

However, buyers should not be disillusioned into thinking the footwear is going to be perfect simply because the profits are going to a great cause. For instance, if you don’t wear socks with them, chances are the foot won’t smell like a bed of roses. But if the shoes don’t fit, you can always pawn them off to someone else or send them back. One Tennessee woman did exactly that when her overseas adoption “didn’t fit.”

According to the Associated Press, Torry Hansen sent seven-year-old Artyom Savelyev back to Russia alone on a plane with a note explaining her disownment of him. She claimed the boy was “mental-

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ly unstable” and “violent,” and that she “no longer wishes to parent this child.”

Clearly, there were better ways for Hansen to have handled this situation than deporting a child back to Russia. I find it disturbing that, considering the long waiting period and extensive adoption process, Hansen did not take more time to consider preparing for the likelihood she would receive a troubled child.

Dr. Ronald Federici, a Virginia neuropsychologist and family counselor specializing in adoptions and attachment disorders, told Deborah Tedford of National Public Radio he estimates “as many as 4,000 of overseas adoption cases end up in U.S. foster care.”

“Americans are very blind,” Federici said in the interview. “They go in with the idea that a loving home is going to heal the wounds of institutional kids but it often makes it worse because of overstimulation.”

Maybe our culture is in part to blame for this mentality. “Brangelina” and Madonna are just a few celebrities who have made adopting overseas a trend.

However, intercountry adoption is not

something done on a whim. According to the 2009 Adoption Guide, the majority of adoptions from Russia cost more than $35,000. The sad truth is this controversy will make prospective parents fearful of adopting overseas, when in reality, many cases work out well.

An argument raised by many critics of international adoption is that people should be taking care of our own homeless children in America first, but my viewpoint is if someone has a heart for adoption, then it is an honorable service no matter which part of the world the child comes from.

That said, this situation is in need of some R&R: responsibility and regulation. Parents need to be realistic and accept the idea that time spent in institutions often damages children. The Hague Adoption Convention, which establishes standards for intercountry adoption, needs to be updated to include clear guidelines requiring full disclosure of children’s mental states.

Regardless, children are not like a pair of shoes that can be returned at any time.

That idea will never fit with me.

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A response to ‘Response to ‘Israeli insubordination’’

BY STEPHANOS

KARAVAS

In the April 5 edition of the Tufts Daily, Ariella Charny wrote a response to a column written by Teddy Minch regarding U.S.-Israeli relations. While this article is not meant to be in support of Mr. Minch’s article, it is in part a critique of some points made by Ms. Charny in her article and, in part, a brief analysis of some of Israel’s foreign and domestic policies.

The first point of criticism is Ms. Charny’s following assertion: That “it is not Israel but rather the United States that is tearing the alliance apart in the past few months.” Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, the United States has done absolutely nothing to worsen relations with Israel; it has only critiqued some of Israel’s policies. As is common with many states and individuals, criticism is often misconstrued with outright opposition — a misunderstanding which is not the case with the United States and Israel, because the United States is a staunch ally of Israel and thus has no reason to oppose its interests. The United States continues to invest heavily in the Israeli economy and research and development, it continues to provide Israel with mutually agreeable military contracts and Israel continues to be the consistently largest per capita aid recipient of the United States.

Contrary to Ms. Charny’s belief that the United States is tearing up the U.S.-Israeli relationship, the United States continues to wholeheartedly support Israel by its actions.

The fact that it disagrees with some of Israel’s policies does not mean that the United States is destroying an alliance it values so dearly.

Like all other states, though, Israel is bound by the constraints of fallibility and should not take criticism so harshly — even if Israel considers the criticism to be untrue.

America’s key points of recent disagreement with Israel can be separated into two categories: the Gaza War and settlement building.

The United States opposed the Gaza War for obvious reasons: It is war with a destabilizing potential for the Middle East and it claimed the lives of thousands of innocent civilians while maiming even more than it killed (not to mention damage to infrastructure). While I do not wish to discuss the war itself, the overwhelming consensus in the world media, governments and non-governmental organizations is that Israel mishandled the war mainly due to the mass civilian casualties

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(estimates of killed at 1,100-1,500). The Israeli government’s seemingly defensive posture toward criticism of the war constitutes evidence of a lack of concern for the massive damage it caused as a direct result; whether such is its intention or not, the government of Israel thus sends the message to the world that it is more concerned about its image than the human tragedy it inflicted. The United Nations and many governments and media sources were calling for an investigation for war crimes. Rather than silencing the world’s criticism by launching such an investigation, Israel elected to dismiss all allegations lobbed in its direction. Dismissal does not constitute refutation, and thus Israel actively works against its own best diplomatic interests by offering the world an attitude of indifference regarding the Gaza War (not to mention the ideological ammunition it gave to thousands of potentially violent Muslim extremists).

The United States opposes settlementbuilding on the grounds that it is a violation of international law according to the United Nations. Indeed, the fact that settlementbuilding in the West Bank and East Jerusalem

constitutes a violation of international law is indisputable, according to U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 and 478. Unlike what Ms. Charny asserted in her article, it is not Israel’s right to build in East Jerusalem. If Israel wishes to not be bound by such international laws, it ought to withdraw its status as a member state from the United Nations. If not, then it should comply with the laws of an organization it claims to uphold. The United States is completely justified in voicing criticism over Israel’s violation of international law and there should be no questions in the minds of Israeli policymakers regarding the reasons for this critique.

While it was initially commendable that Israel initiated a 10-month moratorium on settlement-building, Israel immediately lost sympathy for this move for the following reason: “Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday [Dec. 17, 2009] that Israel's announced 10-month partial moratorium on construction in West Bank settlements was only a tactical move and a temporary one,” according to Israel’s daily newspaper, Haaretz. “‘It is clear to everyone that in 10 months, we

will be building again full force; anyone who understands anything knows this,’ he told a meeting in the West Bank settlement town of Ariel.” It should be of no surprise to Israel that its 10-month ban was greeted negatively or not even acknowledged.

Whether in its dismissive and defensive attitude towards the investigation of the Gaza War or the renunciation of its obligation to uphold international law regarding settlement building, Israel has displayed an unwillingness to cooperate in the international arena while reacting poorly to international criticism, never mind taking measures to redress or disprove it. It is not just the United States but also Turkey, the United Kingdom, Australia and France who are among many nations in which Israel is losing support as a direct result of its actions and policies.

It does not matter how much Prime Minister Netanyahu says he endorses a twostate solution when Israel’s actions clearly reflect the contrary. Many Israelis ask, “What are the Palestinians doing to help the peace process?” when the right question to be asking is, “What can they do?” It complicates matters enough that there isn’t unity in the Palestinian platform due to its non-contiguous territory, but in addition, Israel has laid siege on one half of it and controls the majority of the other half. It refuses to recognize a democratically elected Hamas in diplomacy without realizing that talking to one’s enemies is how conflicts are overcome. The Palestinian National Authority (PA) is the center of a functioning democracy that is not allowed to effect much change because it is under an illegal occupation in which Israel calls the shots and not the PA. Many also ask, “Why is Israel held to such a high standard when the other Arab countries behave so poorly?” The answer to this question is one that Ms. Charny answered in her article: “Israel is the only true, stable democracy in the Middle East.” The standard for democracies is naturally much higher than the one dictatorships, monarchies and pseudo-democracies are held to. If Israel desires to be recognized as a democracy, it should expect to be treated like one as well.

Stephanos Karavas is a freshman who has not yet declared a major. He is the moderator of Dialogue, a forum affiliated with Tufts New Initiative for Middle East Peace.

OFF THE HILL | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Movies so bad, they’re good BY

HILLARY BUSIS

Columbia Daily Spectator

I’m something of a bad-movie connoisseur. In the past few months, a friend and I have laughed our way through “The Wicker Man” [2006], featuring Nicolas Cage as a cop who hates women almost as much as he hates wearing helmets filled with bees; “Gigli” [2003], which was so awful that even I found it difficult to sit through; and my personal favorite, “The Number 23” [2007], in which Jim Carrey gradually learns to fear the titular digits. “Showgirls” [1995] might have been next on our list, but I’ve already seen it so many times that I can quote nearly the entire thing from memory. (The movie’s best lines probably can’t be printed in a family newspaper like Spec, but here’s one of my favorite semiclean quotes: “What is he? A pimp? Only people I know got pimp cars are pimps.”)

There are some people who might wonder why I bother wasting my time watching crappy movies. What I don’t understand, though, is their puzzlement itself. Every so often, a newspaper, magazine, or website will publish an article that first marvels at the fact that people enjoy watching bad movies, then takes a stab at explaining this apparently mysterious phenomenon. Take “The Worst Movies Ever Made,” for example, which recently ran in Slate Magazine.

The article is mostly about a stinker called “Birdemic: Shock and Terror” [2008], which dramatizes what happens when killer hawks stop being polite and start terrorizing a once peaceful little town in Northern California. The film — which I obviously must see for myself as soon as possible — has been

making waves since it premiered in Los Angeles in February, becoming a cult hit almost overnight. Jonah Weiner, the author of the Slate article, notes that The New York Times has also run an article focusing on the swift rise of “Birdemic.”

But Weiner does more than just describe the latest latenight movie craze. He uses “Birdemic” as a lens to examine why awful cinema is so attractive to people like me. His take?

The best bad movies “drop us into a murky vortex of authorial intent, sabotage some of our most basic notions about character and narrative, and remind us of film’s power to disturb, disorient, and discombobulate us.”

I mean, yeah, okay. Or, how about this: Bad movies are funny. It’s as simple and obvious as that.

Weiner and his ilk love to overanalyze cultural garbage and project an inflated significance onto it. His article reminds me of the rash of tone-deaf pieces that were published in highbrow media outlets like the Times when “Jersey Shore” blew up last winter.

Most of these articles were written by out-of-touch critics who were somehow totally dumbfounded by the way that a low-budget reality show about a bunch of horrible stereotypes had utterly captivated American society. “Why,” they asked, clutching their pearls and softly clucking in astonishment, “do people love this crap so much?”

Well, guys, I have an easy, belated answer for you: “Jersey Shore” was hilarious, at least in its first few episodes. That is the only reason anybody cared about it.

It’s no secret that those forms of culture which fall under the general umbrella of “trash” — bad movies like “The Butterfly

Effect” [2004], terrible reality shows like “Flavor of Love” [20062008] romance novels published by Harlequin and so on — have a shameful stigma attached to them. Admitting that one actually enjoys consuming culture like this is intellectual suicide. That’s why it seems necessary to these writers to explain why some might find such media enjoyable.

In reality, though, those explanations aren’t necessary. Show me a person who can sit through the first 10 minutes of “Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000” [2000] without cracking a smile and I will be amazed, because you’ve just shown me a person that does not exist. Anyone who is flabbergasted by those who revel in unintentional hilarity just doesn’t understand very much about how most people work.

Yes, I know that instead of laughing at YouTube[.com] clips of Mark Wahlberg mangling his lines in “The Happening” [2008], I could be getting familiar with the works of Ingmar Bergman, or reading “Our Mutual Friend” [1865] for my Dickens seminar, or taking in a lovely violin concerto at Columbia’s Miller Theater. Obviously, doing any of those things would be intellectually stimulating and personally fulfilling or whatever.

But doing any of those things would also be boring. And while a score of adjectives could accurately describe “The Happening” — overwrought, ludicrous, inept — “boring” is not one of them. I know this. You probably know this. Deep down, the writers who pen pieces like Weiner’s must also know this. So please, media types, for everyone’s sake, stop writing these silly articles. Bad movies are much better if you just sit back and enjoy them without wondering why.

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Sager’s walk-off gives Tufts first win over Trinity in two years BY

DAVID HECK

Daily Editorial Board

Coming into a doubleheader against Trinity on Sunday, the baseball team had done a lot BASEBALL (19-3, 7-1 NESCAC East) Huskins Field, Monday UMass Dartmouth Tufts

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of waiting. The Jumbos waited two years to get revenge on the Bantams, who had won their last eight meetings, and they had to wait two extra days as games on Friday and Saturday were postponed due to rain.

But with one swing in the bottom of the 10th, sophomore second baseman Sam Sager put an end to all the waiting. Sager launched a walk-off home run to lead off the bottom of the inning, giving the Jumbos their first win over Trinity since April 21, 2007 and marking Tufts as the team to beat in the NESCAC East this year.

“Honestly, it sounds cliché, but I don’t even have words to describe it,” senior tri-captain Corey Pontes said. “It was unbelievable. It was just the greatest feeling, to see him do that and everyone celebrating.

It got everyone fired up.”

“It was awesome,” senior tricaptain Alex Perry added. “We had so many opportunities before, and for Sam to step up and deliver a big hit like that, it was great momen-

tum to ride going into game two.”

The two teams had been tied at four runs apiece since the end of the sixth inning. Trinity started the scoring in the top of the fourth on an RBI single and added to its lead with a two-run homer in the following frame. Tufts first got on the board in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single from junior second baseman Frank Petroskey, but the Bantams got the run back in the top of the sixth on an error.

Things weren’t looking great for the Jumbos, but Tufts managed to tie the score in the bottom of the sixth when junior outfielder David Orlowitz earned a bases-loaded walk, and sophomore catcher Matt Collins followed with a two-run single. The score would remain the same until Sager ended it in the 10th.

Junior Tufts starter Derek Miller lasted 4.2 innings, giving up three runs on five hits and four walks with eight strikeouts, while senior Trinity starter Derek Anderson gave up four runs over 5.1 innings.

Junior and reigning NESCAC Pitcher of the Week Ed Bernstein earned the victory for Tufts, pitching four scoreless innings of relief and striking out eight.

The second game saw the Jumbos trump the Bantams yet again, but in a more dominating, less suspenseful fashion. Tufts plated nine runs in the first two innings, providing more than enough of a cushion for the team’s rejuvenated pitching staff to handle.

“We knew after that walk-off that we had the momentum going into the second game,” Pontes said. “We talked about maintaining that and making sure we came out on fire in the early innings.

We knew those guys would have a tough time coming back, and that’s exactly what happened.”

Trinity lost control of the contest in the second, when Tufts jacked four home runs — one apiece from Perry, junior Ben

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see BASEBALL, page 14

Junior Chase Rose’s home run was part of the seven-run second inning in the second game of the Jumbos’ doubleheader against Trinity. Tufts ultimately won 10-6 after an extra inning 5-4 win earlier in the day.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Perfection denied: Tufts offense stymied in loss to Conn. College BY

BEN KOCHMAN

Daily Editorial Board

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Champion Ephs too strong for valiant Jumbos

After a 13-10 defeat of Western New England College last Tuesday, the men’s lacrosse team — ranked No.6 in

BY SAPNA

Over the first two weeks of April, the women’s tennis team proved that it is light years ahead of the competition at the bottom of its conference.

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the latest national poll — held an alltime school-best record of 10-0 as it traveled to New London, Conn. for a Saturday match-up with national No. 8 Connecticut College, the only other conference team with an undefeated mark.

Saturday’s game was a clash of NESCAC titans, with a lot on the line: first-place position in the conference, a likely No.1 seed in the upcoming NESCAC Tournament and the ability to keep the dream of the perfect season alive. The game was a low-scoring, see MEN’S LACROSSE, page 14

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Tufts notches eighth straight win in four-goal win over Conn. College BY

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The women’s lacrosse team’s recent domination continued on Saturday, as the team downed Conn. College 15-11.

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The win was Tufts’ eighth straight and solidified the Jumbos’ top-10 national ranking. Though the game stayed close until the second half, the national No. 7 Jumbos were able to pull away from the Camels to earn the Senior Day win and improve their record to 9-2 on the season and 5-2 in the league.

With a four-goal run early in the second half, the Jumbos pulled away from a Camels squad that had narrowed the lead to one. The streak put Tufts ahead 13-8 before Conn. College sophomore midfielder Ashley Crutchfield scored twice in a row to cut her team’s deficit to three with 7:40 on the clock.

But sophomore midfielder Casey Egan answered with back-to-back tallies of her own to keep the margin at five. Despite earning one more goal, Conn. College was unable to recover and Tufts walked away with a 15-11 win to stay tied for second in the NESCAC. The Camels dropped to 5-6 and 1-6 in the conference for second-tolast place.

“Our defense really stepped it up in the second half,” senior co-captain defender Alyssa Kopp said. “We came out kind of slow in the first half, but we decided we needed to step it up and play the defense we needed to get the win, and then the offense really fed off that and just exploded with those four goals.”

In the opening minutes, the Jumbos looked uncharacteristically timid, giving up two quick goals. But Tufts wasted little time coming back, as three different Jumbos scored in three minutes to put the host squad back on top. The Jumbos maintained a slight 6-4 lead with nine minutes left in the first half, and for the rest of the period, the teams traded goals, as Tufts’ lead remained at two heading into the break.

Senior co-captain Jenna Abelli’s goal 16 seconds before the half looked to be the game-changer, though, as Tufts came back from the break ready to dominate while the Camels were put back on their heels.

Less than eight minutes into the period, the Jumbos began the four-goal streak that

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Sophomore Casey Egan contributed three goals and three assists to Tufts’ defeat over Conn. College Saturday. The Jumbos clinched a permanent lead over the Camels with nine minutes remaining in the first half and continued to finish out the win 15-11. secured their win.

“Having momentum going into the second half like that is huge,” Kopp said.

“Scoring right before going into halftime just gave us a good feeling … It was definitely huge for us.”

Tufts led in almost every statistic in the game, holding a 40-32 shot advantage, a 20-16 edge in ground balls and an 18-10 lead in draw controls. The Tufts attack challenged Camels goalie Ashleigh Kowtoniuk with 31 shots on goal, which forced the sophomore to make 16 saves to keep her team in the game. Junior Sara Bloom stopped eight for the Jumbos.

The seniors came up big on Senior Day with Johnson leading all scorers on the day with four and Abelli notching two and an assist. Kopp and senior midfielder Michelle Crothers performed well on the defensive end, with Kopp picking up four draw controls and three caused turnovers.

“Every senior game we all take it really seriously,” sophomore Lara Kozin said.

“We all come out wanting to play our hardest for the seniors because it’s their last year, and I think we all just wanted to play our best because they deserve the win.”

The underclassmen came through as well, with Egan adding a game-high six

points with three goals and three assists.

Kozin was right behind Egan with three goals and two feeds, while classmates Steph Perez and Kelly Hyland also added one goal a piece, and attacker Kerry Eaton chipped in for one goal from the freshman class.

On Thursday, the Jumbos will look to stretch their win streak to nine as they welcome the Wheaton College Lyons for nonconference battle. The Lyons, 5-7 overall, have fallen to every NESCAC opponent they’ve faced so far this season, including Conn. College. The weekday tilt marks the Jumbos’ last out-of-conference game before their final two league matchups with perennial strength Middlebury and up-and-comer Bowdoin.

“We need to go into this game like any other game,” Kopp said. “I think we have a tendency to take some teams lightly, and because we have some big NESCAC games coming up, we need to treat this like a NESCAC, too. We need to be sure to play as a collective unit all over the field and play like we know how.”

“We have to go into every game with a lot of confidence and composure without getting ahead of ourselves,” Kozin said.

“We’re really just excited to finish the regular season strong.”

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Middlebury 1 p.m.

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Men's Track & Field

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s a general rule, I’m all for drafts. Fantasy football drafts with my friends mark some of the best times of the year, drafts allow me to proofread my papers, and I even enjoy the occasional draft of wind on a hot summer day. If I were old enough to drink, I’m sure draft beer would be delicious. Logic would follow, then, that the NFL Draft, beginning this Thursday, will be an absolute delight for me.

Not quite.

Starting later this week, ESPN and the NFL Network will trot out three consecutive days of draft coverage with 38 hours of mind-numbing boringness with the occasional college football player trotting on stage to put a hat on.

Maybe Tim Tebow will walk on water, maybe Ndamukong Suh will punch a bear, and maybe Myron Rolle will cure cancer. Other than that, though, I’m not totally invested in this.

Ever since I was younger, I’ve tuned into the draft every single year. It was a great excuse to put homework aside for a few hours, eat a couple bags of Tostitos and watch the future stars of the NFL — and potential picks on my fantasy team, because that’s all the NFL is really good for anyway — go to their new teams.

On paper, it’s exciting. Put the greatest college football players on the planet in one room with the flashbulbs popping, angry fans cheering and Chris Berman yelling, and determine their future for them. But the draft just makes me want to fall asleep.

I know what you’re going to say. I’m just complaining too much and I just shouldn’t tune in. It’s a broken concept in my mind, though, and it should be fixed to make it more appealing to viewers. After all, isn’t that the whole point of televising the selection process?

At least they are trying. With the first round in primetime on Thursday, both networks will have red-carpet shows for celebrities entering Radio City Music Hall in an attempt to turn it into the sports version of the Oscars. Oh wait, aren’t those the ESPYs? ESPN producer Jay Rothman was quoted as saying that there was a strong effort by the league to add “more glam” to the broadcast. Whether or not that’s an abbreviation for glamorous remains to be seen, but at least they have the right intentions. But is the solution to make the draft more exciting — sorry, to give it more “glam” — really to double the draft coverage to 38 hours and extend it over three days?

I love the idea of having cameras in teams’ war rooms, and extending the coverage to include the homes of at least 25 potential draftees will give the evenings a Selection Sunday-type feel.

But why move it to Thursday? If any round will be thrilling — and believe me, I’m using that in an incredibly relative sense of the word — it will be the first round. In 2007, the first 32 picks took over six hours. And they expect people who have work the next day to stay up until 3 a.m. until the New Orleans Saints finally pick to close out the round? Please.

What was so wrong with the original format of the first three rounds on Saturday and then the final four on Sunday? Even if a casual fan wants to tune into the first two rounds to see the top talent crawl off the board, he or she has to split that over two days.

Picture this: There’s a big lecture class on campus of 200 kids, of which about half fall asleep on a regular basis. So the teacher comes up with a solution to make the class more exciting: He’ll make it an hour longer, but in exchange, he’ll play one YouTube.com video and wear a fancy suit. Does the extra glamour and glitter make up for the added length? Probably not. So why do it with the NFL? Alex Prewitt is a sophomore majoring in English and religion. He can be reached at Alexander.Prewitt@tufts.edu.

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physical battle, but ultimately one team was able to make the crucial plays down the stretch to pull out the victory.

Unfortunately for Tufts, that team was the Camels, who prevailed at home 8-6 on the strength of five goals from senior Steve Dachille, who now with 37 goals on the year is far and away the NESCAC’s leading scorer.

“They’re a good team, and they made more plays than us,” senior tri-captain Doug DiSesa said. “We struggled a bit with clearing the ball and gave them some second chances, but at the end of the day they just made the plays.”

The Jumbos’ offense, which entered the game averaging a league-high 13.6 goals per game, was kept in check and held to only six goals on the day by a Camel defense that has kept every NESCAC opponent in single digits this season. While Tufts sophomore Kevin McCormick led the team with two goals and one assist, junior DJ Hessler — who remains the NESCAC leader in points even after this game, averaging 4.27 a game — was limited to only one goal and one assist in the contest.

The Jumbos had trouble dealing with the Camels’ defensive pressure and finished the game clearing successfully only 10 out of 20 times. For a team that is

loaded with offensive talent and thrives in transition, opportunities to score on Saturday were few and far between.

“We didn’t play the way we normally do,” junior Matt Witko said.

“Connecticut College limited our opportunities, and we were sloppy with the ball and didn’t make the good decisions that we have to make to win.”

Despite the Jumbos’ turnovers, Tufts stayed close with the Camels all the way through the game. The score was tied 2-2 at the end of the first quarter, and then 4-4 at the half. In the third quarter, Dachille opened up the scoring with a bullet at the 9:25 mark before the Jumbos tied it again on a McCormick goal assisted by junior Tom ButterfieldBragg. The Camels scored the next two goals — including a crucial insurance goal from Dachille early in the fourth — to turn the score 7-5 in their favor.

The Jumbos refused to fold late and made a final-minute push to keep their 2010 record unblemished. After McCormick fired one home on an extra-man opportunity with 58 seconds remaining, Tufts had one final chance to send the game to overtime. But in a play that encapsulated the Jumbos’ struggles all day, an attempted clear was intercepted by Camels senior Sean Driscoll, who beat sophomore Jumbo goalkeeper Steven Foglietta back to the

cage to drill home the game-clinching goal. “[The key was] clearing, throwing and catching — the most fundamental part of the game,” DiSesa said. “Our sticks weren’t where they needed to be, and we weren’t executing.”

“The story of the game was that they are a good team, but we can beat them,” Witko added. “We just have to make more plays next time.”

Dachille’s scoring has been crucial to the Camels’ success this season. The senior’s 37 goals on the year are more than twice as many as the secondhighest scorer on the Camels’ roster.

Tufts is more balanced, featuring five players who have scored 15 or more goals in 2010, ranging from Hessler’s 22 to McCormick’s 15.

The Jumbos’ defense knew what to expect from the Camels: that they would run their offense through their playmaker Dachille. On Saturday, however, Conn. College’s imbalanced offensive attack trumped Tufts’ more balanced approach.

“He’s one of their top players, and they had a game plan against us, which was to get him the ball,” Witko said.

“They executed that, and we let him have some opportunities, and he took advantage of that.”

DiSesa attributed Dachille’s offensive

explosion — the most goals that any individual player has scored against the Jumbos all season — partly to a lack of discipline from the Tufts defensive side.

“It wasn’t him doing anything spectacular, but us just not sticking to fundamentals,” DiSesa said. “He had some big goals … we were over-pursuing, and we had moments when we let players get top-side on us.”

Even after Saturday’s loss, the Jumbos still managed to clinch a NESCAC Quarterfinal game at home on May 2.

The rest of Tufts’ regular season will be at home as well, where the team will attempt to keep the pressure on the Camels by closing out the NESCAC season strong against familiar foes Middlebury and Bowdoin.

Up first, however, is a contest Tuesday night against non-conference opponent Endicott College, a team that Tufts dispatched last season 18-13 in a highscoring affair. The Jumbos look forward to getting their offense back on track against a team coming off a 9-6 loss to Bowdoin last weekend.

“Endicott is a great team, great program, and we’ve always had fun playing them,” DiSesa said. “We just need to focus on us, and take care of our issues, and everything else will fall into place.”

Jumbos move winning streak to nine after sweep of Corsairs BASEBALL continued from page 11

Walkley, classmate Chase Rose and Orlowitz — en route to a seven-run inning.

“I think it was guys just staying back and driving the ball, doing what they’re told, putting a bat on the ball and getting a good piece of it,” Perry said. “Our bats had cooled off a bit since spring, but guys really got after balls, had good at-bats, which was great to

see, especially moving forward.”

Tufts sophomore lefty Kevin Gilchrist improved to 2-0 on the season, tossing six innings of two-run balls in his first career start, allowing eight hits and no walks while collecting five strikeouts. Meanwhile, sophomore Trinity starter James Ramsey took his first loss of the year, surrendering five runs in just one inning pitched.

Trinity got back into the game

late, scoring three runs in the final two innings to bring the score to 10-4, but that would end up being the final score. The Bantams now stand at 14-6 overall and 6-5 in the NESCAC, while the Jumbos own a 17-3 overall record and 7-1 conference mark.

On Monday in a home doubleheader versus non-conference foe UMass Dartmouth, the Jumbos smacked around the visiting Corsairs, totaling 27 total runs in

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the two-game sweep to match last year’s win total of 19. Versus the UMass Dartmouth pitching, Tufts pounded out 36 total hits, including two home runs apiece from Orlowitz and sophomore Matt Collins. For detailed results on the game versus the Corsairs, see Friday’s Daily.

Despite all its success this year, Tufts still believes there is room to improve going forward.

“I think we still haven’t played

our best baseball, we still haven’t played a complete game,” Perry said. “We kind of let them inch back in a bit [in game two]. There’s still a lot of work going forward.

It’s great to get conference wins, but we’ve still got a huge weekend coming up [with a three-game series against Bowdoin]. I don’t think we’re the team to beat yet [in the NESCAC]. We’re playing good baseball but we need to be playing great baseball.”

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in the lineup, national No. 17 Tufts dropped a 7-2 decision to No. 2 Williams on Saturday afternoon at Gantcher Center. The Jumbos came into the match having been virtually flawless in dual matches against Div. III opponents so far this season, posting shutout victories in all but one contest. But they had yet to face anyone in the class of the Ephs, the two-time defending NCAA champions and runners-up of the last four NESCAC Tournaments.

Against the stiffer competition, Tufts put up a stronger fight than the final score would indicate, but it wasn’t nearly enough.

“If you break it down match by match and you look at the scores, it was a battle, and anytime there’s a match like that, it ends up coming down a lot to which team really truly believes more and is really able to continue to operate in the moment and play each point the same — Williams did a better job of that,” coach Kate Bayard said. “It was a great match, and I’m really proud of the team. Hopefully, we’re only going to take away confidence from this match.”

The Ephs inflated their final margin of victory in part by pulling out two tight matches on the singles end. At the No. 2 spot, Jumbo senior tri-captain Meghan McCooey gutted out a second-set tiebreaker against defending ITA New England champion Kristin Alotta before falling in the third set, 6-1. In No. 5 singles, meanwhile, freshman Janice Lam rolled over Williams first-year Nancy Worley in the first set 6-1, but wound up losing the match in three after dropping the decisive tiebreaker 13-11.

“Honestly, it was two big mistakes that lost the match for me,” Lam said. “We were both determined to win each point and run after every ball, and in the end, she

just got a couple more balls back than I did.

“We were both kind of playing the same game, and it was a matter of who could outlast the other on every single point,” she continued. “Every point was a 50-ball rally until someone missed or someone hit a winner on someone. It was a test of will and strength and who wasn’t tired and who was in better shape.”

But while the Jumbos were unable to win some of the critical points on the singles side, the opposite was true at second doubles. In the highlight of the day for Tufts, the tandem of Lam and freshman Lindsay Katz knocked off Williams’ duo of Alotta and junior Nikki Reich in thrilling fashion, marking the Jumbos’ lone doubles victory on the afternoon.

The Tufts pair fell behind 4-1 in the deciding tiebreaker, in part because Lam hit Katz on the back of the neck with a serve and subsequently double-faulted. Seemingly poised to go down to the region’s 11th-ranked doubles team, Lam and Katz fought back, winning six of the final seven points to clinch the biggest victory of their young careers.

“It was such a great win for us,” Lam said. “It’s definitely been the toughest match of the season so far, and just being able to pull it out was a big confidence boost for the two of us.”

“Watching Janice and Lindsay play in that match, especially in that tiebreak, was inspiring for the whole team to watch, especially coming from two freshmen who haven’t played that many college matches and who don’t have that much experience playing in these tough doubles matches,” junior tri-captain Julia Browne added. “It was really amazing, and we were so proud of them.”

The other win for Tufts came at first singles, during which — for

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First-year Janice Lam, partnered with fellow freshman Lindsay Katz, upset the regional No.11-ranked Williams doubles team 7-5, one of the Jumbos’ lone bright spots in a 7-2 defeat to the No. 2 Ephs. the second straight year — Browne turned a marquee matchup against Williams senior Grace Baljon into a completely one-sided affair. With her dominant 6-2, 6-2 victory, Browne improved to 3-0 lifetime against the nation’s current 11thranked player, with each win coming in straight sets.

“I’ve been working a lot on my slice and my movement, and I just seemed to be able to get a lot more balls back than she’s used to against other people,” said Browne, ranked seventh nationally in singles. “I think that my consistency and my movement was really what determined how I played and ultimately determined why I won.”

The Jumbos didn’t fare as well in the other premier matchup of the day, a showdown at first doubles between Browne and McCooey of

Tufts and Baljon and sophomore Taylor French of Williams. The rematch of the ITA New England championship went to the Ephs, who pulled away by a score of 8-3.

Across dual match and tournament play, Browne and McCooey hold a lifetime mark of 42-10, but after Saturday, they are just 2-3 against doubles teams from Williams.

“We started out pretty slow,” Browne said. “We couldn’t really get much rhythm, and we couldn’t find a way to throw off the other team. But to give credit to them, they played a really smart, solid doubles match, and judging by the way that they played, they definitely deserved to win on that day.”

After battling an injury for much of the spring, senior Erica Miller returned and played with freshman Lauren Hollender at the third dou-

bles position. The first-time pairing put forth a respectable effort against Williams’ Caroline Capute and Lucy Marchese, falling 8-5.

The match showed what the Jumbos are capable of at the bottom of the doubles lineup, especially with Miller in the fold.

“At all three spots, I’d like to think that we really have the ability to win against any team in doubles — I certainly think that’s doable,” Bayard said. “At No. 3, we’re playing around with it now that [Miller] is starting to get healthy. She’s a great player. The prospect of getting her back in the lineup is exciting, and it’s nice now that we have so many options.”

Tufts gets no respite from the stiff competition, as the team will travel today to take on national No. 1 Amherst.

Athletes of the Week SAM SAGER, BASEBALL On Saturday night, the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals played a 20-inning game that nearly took seven hours. The following day, in the first slate of a two-game home series with two-time NESCAC champion Trinity, the Jumbos were locked into a 4-4 tie in a contest that was supposed to last only seven innings. Sophomore Sam Sager made sure it wouldn’t go farther than 10.

With no one on and none out in the bottom of the 10th inning, the third baseman stepped to the plate and launched an offering from sophomore Edward Donovon, Sager’s second of the season, to give Tufts a 5-4 win, delivering the momentum needed for the Jumbos to sweep the Bantams and take over sole possession of first place in the NESCAC East.

Sager, second on the team in RBIs, is in the No. 5 hole in both weekend games, a departure from his usual slot at No. 3 in the lineup. Still, it did not affect his offensive production, as he went 3-for-7 in the two games with three runs and three RBIs. In the first frame in the second game, Sager smacked a two-run double, giving the Jumbos a lead they would not relinquish in their 10-4 victory.

Over the two-game get, Sager batted .429 with a .556 on-base percentage and a 1.143 slugging mark and was named the NESCAC Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts. In Monday in the squad’s doubleheader at home versus UMass Dartmouth, Sager followed up his performance with a 4-for-7 day.

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LINDSAY KATZ AND JANICE LAM, WOMEN’S TENNIS

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In the women’s tennis squad’s biggest match of the spring season thus far, it was the freshman duo of Lindsay Katz and Janice Lam who stepped up the most.

After rain moved the match indoors to Gantcher Center on Saturday, the No. 17 Jumbos were faced with the task of hosting No. 2 Williams, the defending national champions. Katz and Lam, playing together at the No. 2 doubles slot, garnered a huge win over the No. 11 doubles team in the Northeast of Ephs sophomore Kristin Alotta and junior Nikki Reich.

With both the Jumbos’ No. 1 and No. 3 doubles already defeated, it was up to Lam and Katz to give Tufts at least one win heading into singles play. After both Lam and Alotta held serve, the set was pushed into a tiebreaker with the score tied at eight.

In the tiebreaker, Tufts roared back from a 4-1 deficit, taking a 5-4 lead after Alotta sailed a forehand long. Lam then neatly placed a winner at the net to push it to 6-5, after which Katz smashed an ace down the middle of the court to give the Jumbos the victory.

Though both Katz and Lam lost in their respective singles matches, it was their exciting win over the second-best No. 2 doubles team in the region that was the highlight of the afternoon.

One day prior, the duo steamrolled its Wellesley opponents, 8-0, after which both Katz and Lam won their singles matches in straight sets.

On the year, Katz and Lam have lost just three matches, none of which have come after the squad’s spring break trip to Florida in March.

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