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VOLUME LIX, NUMBER 52

In debate, candidates square off on ways to build community BY

HARRISON JACOBS

Daily Editorial Board

Hotung Café was last night crowded with students eager to hear the first of two debates between juniors Lauren Levine and Sam Wallis — the candidates for Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate president.

Coming as a surprise was Wallis’ arrival from Israel, where he has been studying abroad for the past semester. He said that just 35 hours prior, he decided to fly back for the debate instead of participating through Skype as originally planned.

The candidates discussed different proposals to improve communication between the Senate and the student body and enhance the sense of community at Tufts, among other ideas.

The debate began with Levine and Wallis sparring over the latter’s decision to make a return to Tufts, with Wallis explaining that he returned after seeing his campaign team members’ dedication and hard work.

“I was trying to sleep with a seven-hour time difference, and I just could not knowing people were out all night painting the cannon for me,” Wallis told the Daily.

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Bacow discusses DREAM act with Kerry, Brown

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ing with the TCU Treasury, during which she helped rework its modus operandi, and her work with Programming Board to help rewrite its constitution to make it more flexible.

Wallis highlighted his long tenure as co-chair of the Senate’s Services Committee, during which he worked

University President Lawrence Bacow yesterday met with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) and Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass) in Washington, D.C. to discuss, among other issues relevant to Tufts, the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Yesterday’s series of meetings with Kerry and Brown were especially significant given the recent surge in publicity about the DREAM Act, part of which would increase undocumented immigrant students’ access to higher education.

The meetings included other members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation and occur periodically as a venue for Tufts to weigh in on consequential issues, according to Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler.

Bacow on April 14 signed letters to Kerry and Brown endorsing the bill, making public his support of the DREAM Act, which would amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

The DREAM Act would give undocumented immigrant students who moved to the

see DEBATE, page 2

see DREAM, page 2

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The two TCU president candidates last night squared off in a debate.

Levine, however, felt she should have been informed in advance.

“I think that he deserves the right to be here on campus talking to people the same way I am; I just wish I’d gotten a little bit of notice,” she told the Daily.

The conversation quickly turned to discussion of more substantial issues.

Discussing her qualifications and prior experience, Levine cited her time work-

Last lecturers Coleman, Manno urge students to take charge of lives

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WHITE

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Teddy Mugabo shared her story of surviving the Rwandan Genocide.

Panelists condemn genocide denial in story sharing and discussion BY

AMELIE HECHT

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Genocide survivors and experts last night gathered in Cabot Auditorium to discuss ways to remember, reflect on and respond to genocide.

Students from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and undergraduates jointly organized the event, which was intended as an examination of genocide across generations, continents and cultures.

The evening started with the stories of survivors of the Holocaust and the Armenian, Cambodian and Rwandan genocides, followed by a panel discussion with genocide experts.

Academic Dean of The Fletcher School Peter Uvin in his opening remarks stressed the importance of hearing genocide survivors’ firsthand accounts.

“What defines genocide is the sheer size of the whole thing, but

one must remember groups are composed of individuals,” Uvin said. “It’s important to remember and listen to specific individuals to make it all real again.”

The first panelist, Lenna Garibian, is the granddaughter of an Armenian genocide survivor. Garibian shared the story of her grandmother’s escape from Armenia in 1915 when she trekked across the Syrian Desert while her mother and younger brother perished.

“These are simple stories, but to me, in their simplicity they tell so much about the families and indeed the nation that was torn apart,” she said. “No one was held accountable, and instead genocide was denied, and victims were blamed for their own fate.”

Garibian emphasized the importance of accepting and acknowledging the past, and discussed the possible outcomes of genocide denial. see GENOCIDE, page 2

Lecturer of Music David Coleman and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Provost Vincent Manno yesterday afternoon delivered their “last lectures,” sharing their advice on living life to the fullest with a roomful of students, most of whom were graduating seniors.

The Senior Class Councilsponsored event in the Cabot Intercultural Center was the third-annual “Last Lecture” at Tufts, following the model of the late Carnegie Mellon University Professor of Computer Science Randy Pausch.

Pausch, upon being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, delivered a final lecture about the fulfillment of his childhood dreams that was intended to be an enduring message for his students, colleagues and especially his children.

Tufts along with many other universities now offers professors a similar chance to share their most personal and esteemed reflections with students and colleagues as if the lecture would be their very last.

Coleman and Manno responded with autobiographical anecdotes offering advice on how to find success and happiness.

For Coleman, director of Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir, music was a means of communicating his insights to the audience. He began his lecture by confessing that he would speak from the side of his alter ego, “Funky Man,” whom he

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described as someone who preaches, sings and talks about life.

In line with this, Coleman played his keyboard on several occasions to express what he called his “most profound thoughts.”

Promoting the idea of carpe diem, Coleman sang a part of “No Day But Today,” a song from the musical “Rent,” and concluded his talk with an original composition titled “All We Are.” “We are all in control of choosing how we live,” Coleman sang. “One day soon, it just may be too late.”

Coleman emphasized that service to others contributes an undeniable value to our daily lives, adding that he often emulates his favorite superhero to inspire himself to act selflessly and find contentment by anonymously serving others.

“The importance of service was revealed to me through Superman,” Coleman said while unbuttoning his dress shirt to expose a T-shirt bearing the Superman symbol. “[My Superman shirt] is a reminder to ask myself, ‘David, what did I do today to help someone else?’” Coleman said.

“Superman’s real gift was not his powers, but how he used those powers.”

Coleman believes he has already experienced the best that life has to offer by discovering and harnessing passion in his life, especially through his love for his family and music.

“The source of passion … must be magic,” Coleman said. “The

dictionary definition of magic is ‘a quality that makes something seem removed from everyday life and is meant to delight.’ All successes have passion in common.

If someone has passion for something, they may very well succeed in it.”

Coleman emphasized that magic is the essential component not only to success but to satisfaction with life. He added that individuals who receive and reciprocate unconditional love and thoughtfulness experience fully the gifts of magic.

As he finished his lecture, Coleman performed on the keyboard as the entire auditorium snapped its fingers to the beat.

Manno took a different approach from Coleman’s musical performance. Drawing from his classroom experience, he used a PowerPoint presentation, complete with photos from his childhood and adolescence, to humorously share his thoughts with the audience.

Manno, like Coleman, highlighted the importance of being assertive to discover the truly significant things in life in all of one’s endeavors.

“I learned from Caesar, if you want to accomplish something, be the one to make the agenda,” Manno said.

He shared how he took control of his life and took advantage of the freedom he was given as a kid in New York City by riding the subsee LECTURE, page 2

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United States before the age of 16 the opportunity to enroll in an institution of higher education or enlist in the U.S. Military.

It would also grant eligible students temporary permanent residency and the eventual option of applying for U.S. citizenship.

“I was happy to lend my support,” Bacow said in an e-mail to the Daily.

“Many very talented young people are in this country illegally through no fault of their own. All they did was follow their parents. This bill (which enjoys bi-partisan support — Sen. John McCain [R-Ariz.] is a co-sponsor) would give these students a path to citizenship.”

In the letters, Bacow cited Tufts’ commitment to community involvement as a basis for

his support.

“As an institution of higher education that seeks to prepare students for a life of active citizenship in an increasingly interdependent world, Tufts University supports the DREAM Act’s goals of diversity and increased access to higher education,” Bacow said in the letter.

Kerry, who has supported the DREAM Act since its original introduction in Congress in 2007, applauded Bacow’s support for the bill.

“I’m grateful to President Bacow for recognizing the need for reform and for his leadership standing up for Massachusetts students,” Kerry said in an e-mail to the Daily.

“I’ve supported the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform for years because it’s the right thing to do,” Kerry said. “These

would-be American students and soldiers embody the inspirational spirit of countless immigrants that came before them.”

Brown has not yet taken an official public stance on the DREAM Act. He has, however, agreed to meet in the coming weeks with a representative from Student Immigrant Movement, a group advocating for the bill that organized a sit-in protest at Brown’s office and an online petition calling for the meeting.

“Senator Brown is currently studying and reviewing information on the DREAM Act,” Brown’s Press Secretary Colin Reed said in an e-mail to the Daily.

Brown has in the past opposed tax-funded programs for illegal immigrants, such as in-state tuition breaks for undocumented students.

Kerry believes that preventing

students who have grown up in the United States from attending college or enlisting in the military represents a loss to the country and is a reflection of current flawed immigration policy.

“With DREAM Act kids specifically, we’re talking about hard-working, talented young people who want to contribute to the country they love, but they’re denied the opportunity to attend college or serve in our military because they must remain in the shadows of a broken immigration system,” Kerry said.

Freshman Suzanne Lis, a member of the Somerville Movement of Dreamers, first brought the issue to the attention of the Tufts community in a Feb. 23 op-ed in the Daily about the DREAM Act and immigration reform.

Lis then drafted the letter in sup-

port of the DREAM Act for Bacow to sign, she said, after communicating with Vice President of University Relations Mary Jeka.

“The DREAM Act is really appropriate to Tufts, especially considering the fact that Tufts is in Somerville, which is really rich in diversity and has a lot of undocumented immigrants,” Lis said.

While aware that reforming the immigration system is a longterm process, Lis said that winning university presidents’ support for the bill is an important step toward its success.

“Although this is one step toward the passage of the DREAM Act and immigration reform in this country, we are still grateful for President Bacow’s support for the DREAM Act and promoting Tufts’ goals of active citizenship and diversity,” Lis said.

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way anywhere he wanted for little cost.

While attending Columbia University and later Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Manno found that mentors, friends and luck best facilitate achievement in life.

He said, however, that he learned his greatest lessons after arriving at Tufts.

“What I learned at Tufts: I learned how to learn,” Manno said. “I realized that when you have to teach something, you really learn for the first time. I learned to be adaptable.”

As an engineering professor, he has observed how to make the academic experience as meaningful as possible.

“Enjoy hard work, understand people and understand academic subjects,” Manno said.

“Understand how people and things interact with [other people and academic subjects], and then you may understand yourself.”

Manno ended his last lecture with words from Dr. Seuss’ “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” (1990) to articulate that everyone can accomplish great things with initiative and a step in the right direction — like graduating college.

“This is a special class for me — Class of 2010,” Manno said. “There are classes, and then there are classes, and you are one of those.”

Manno and Coleman were chosen to deliver this year’s last lecture after seniors were given the chance over the past few weeks to nominate two professors for the honor of delivering parting words to the graduating class.

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“Among the survivors I have known personally, most have left the world angry and sad,” she said. “We need to remind each other that as long as genocide goes unpunished and as long as it denied by subsequent governments, it will embolden the future Hitlers.”

The next panelist, Leon Rubinstein, a Polish Holocaust survivor, read a chapter aloud from his novel “Escape to Freedom” (2007) about his experience in Ukraine after being taken under the protection of a Russian captain.

Chhan Touch, who lived through the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s and ’80s, showed the audience pictures depicting the years he spent in labor camps. Touch shared chilling stories about killing camps and the year he spent hiding in a hole in a Vietnamese refugee camp.

“Negative experiences are not necessarily bad,” Touch said. “I learned to cope with it and learned to appreciate being alive and use it as a motivation. Whenever I face something I cannot solve in this country, I look back and … remember that I am one of the luckiest people to be alive today.”

The last panelist, Teddy Mugabo, was seven years old during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. She discussed the senselessness of the genocide and the feeling of powerlessness she experienced during it.

“The genocide lasted for 100 days, and 1 million people were killed while the world watched,” Mugabo said. “The people were not killed because they had done something wrong; they were killed because they were Tutsi.”

Three genocide experts were then called on to discuss one of the three theme words of the evening: remember, reflect and respond.

Gerald Caplan, international expert on genocide prevention and the co-author of “Rwanda: the Preventable Genocide” (2000) shared his interpretation of remembrance, explaining that genocide survivors from different countries rarely work together, despite the possible benefits of cooperation.

“If these groups would ever work together and share each others’ stories, it would not only be morally right and morally just, but it would offer a political leverage that they currently lack,” he said.

Caplan described the important insights

into human nature that studying genocide can provide.

“There is something terrible in the human condition that allows us to perpetrate the most horrible crimes against each other,” he said.

Caplan explained that it is critical to remember that humans always have some motivation for their behavior and that understanding those motivations and outside influences may help prevent genocide.

“None of the genocides we know about are people killing each other for no reason — there are always reasons,” he said.

Caplan echoed Garibian’s point that genocide denial is unacceptable. “If there is genocide, there is genocide denial,” he said. “There is a sickness in human beings that some of them seem to need to compound the hurt of the genocide by the hurt of denial.”

Stephen Smith, executive director of the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and co-founder of the Aegis Trust for Genocide Prevention and the U.K. Holocaust Centre, discussed means of reflection. He discussed the inspirational life of Armin Wegner — a German photographer, author and human rights activist — whom he described as a lone voice against genocide.

The final panelist, John Norris, executive director of the Center for American Progress’ Enough Project, which works to end genocide and crimes against humanity, talked about effective ways to respond to genocide.

He said that the knowledge of how to end genocide is present, but what is often lacking is the will.

“The good news is that we already know how to combat genocide … yet the hard and sad fact is that we often don’t, and we don’t muster the political will and courage to do so,” he said.

Norris highlighted the hopelessness most people feel in the face of genocide, and urged the audience to remember that collective action can put an end to possible destruction. “Crimes against humanity are not foreign things…and we collectively have the ability to instigate them and we collectively have the ability to avert them and to reverse them,” he said.

The event was sponsored by the Fletcher U.N. Club, the Fletcher Human Rights Club, PRAXIS, STAND, Moral Voices and the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur.

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Delivering their version of the last lecture, Vincent Manno shared his life experiences, and David Coleman shared his insights into living life to fullest.

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on projects such as the expansion of on campus Wi-Fi and the Merchant OffCampus Partners (MOPs) program.

A recurrent theme of the debate was building a stronger sense of community at Tufts and improving communication between the Senate and students. While both candidates agreed that these issues needed to be addressed, they proposed different means of doing so.

“The biggest issue is that we boast diversity and then have no methods of making everyone at Tufts feel comfortable,” Levine said during the debate. “It kills me that there are people that are going to leave Tufts having hated it and scoff when the Alumni Association sends e-mails asking for money.

No one is listening. No one cares. I think it is ignorant to ignore that until all 5,000 students feel welcome here.”

She proposed hosting weekly fireside chats during which she would field questions from students and listen to their concerns. Levine also suggested creating an online student organization forum to better facilitate communication between groups about scheduling and budgeting issues.

Wallis agreed that building community is the biggest challenge facing Tufts. He proposed instituting a program to improve attendance at athletic events, which he believes could be a key to creating a sense of community.

Some of his ideas included having performance groups at games and ticketing sports events, while simultaneously working with Greek organizations to organize after-parties requiring the tickets for entry.

The candidates disagreed about whether or not there are too many programs at Tufts but agreed that either consolidation of or better coordination between student groups is necessary.

Levine noted that on any given night, 15 different events could be taking place, which she believes has the effect of fracturing the student body and making it harder to create a sense of community.

Wallis proposed bringing groups with similar or identical missions together and creating a council of student groups to facilitate coordination.

Outgoing TCU President Brandon Rattiner,

a senior, believes that the debate was an overall success.

“It’s a confirmation of what I already knew — two incredibly qualified candidates are running, and the student body should be happy that these are their two choices,” Rattiner told the Daily.

Rattiner applauded Wallis’ decision to return to campus for the debate and the end of the campaigning season. He also credited Levine for taking the unexpected development in stride.

“I think that it’s great that Sam came back, because all students should have a chance to meet both candidates before they vote,” Rattiner said. “I think it showed a lot of resilience on Lauren’s part to not be thrown off by that.”

Wallis believes that the debate helped spark a lot of discourse on the issues raised.

“I thought Lauren and I were very upfront,” he told the Daily. “We confronted each other on some things, and that’s exactly how it should be. The point of this is to hash out different ideas. I think we did that.”

Levine agreed that that the debate was a success.

“I think it went extremely well, and there was a really big turnout,” she told the Daily.

“And I think that both of us really had the opportunity to talk, share our ideas and give a sense of our personalities.”

Freshman Ben Perlstein, who attended the debate, found it to be an important way to generate ideas for the Senate.

“I think that a lot of good ideas were thrown out there tonight,” Perlstein said. “I’m excited to see how this campaign plays out. It’s important for the Tufts community to have this conversation and have strong student leaders leading that conversation.”

Some questions have been raised regarding whether Wallis’ actions in flying back may have violated campaign rules, particularly those concerning expenditure limits.

Wallis said he does not know if his unannounced arrival breaks any rules but believes that no real complaint will be brought up. Levine declined to comment on the matter.

Tufts Election Commission (ECOM) Chair Sharon Chen, a sophomore, said at press time that no official announcement on the issue was available.

Ellen Kan contributed reporting to this article.

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When many think of “dancing” in college, what might come to mind is grinding in a hot, sweaty fraternity basement. But for students on the Tufts Ballroom Dance Team, dancing means perfecting their technique and showing off their skills in competitions.

Tufts’ ballroom program was established in 1995 as a team but now caters to more than just competitive dancers. It is currently separated into two components: the Tufts Ballroom Dance Team and the Tufts Ballroom Dance Club. The team dances competitively throughout New England and New York and attends two lessons per week taught by professional instructors. The club, on the other hand, meets weekly and is open to anyone who wants to have fun and learn ballroom basics from team members.

Ballroom dances are divided into four categories, and each category is then further demarcated into two similar pairs. Smooth and standard categories include dances like waltzes, foxtrots and tangos. Latin and rhythm categories include dances such as the cha-cha and the rumba.

Sophomore and ballroom team captain Alex Freedman explained that most students join ballroom with little-to-no prior experience. He said that many newcomers are interested in the team because it is an alternative physical activity.

“It’s a great option if you aren’t a varsity athlete but still want to stay active,” Freedman said.

For a newcomer’s first two competitions, the captains choose a partner with whom they will dance. After they’ve completed those two competitions, it is up to them to choose a partner.

“Over the first semester, most people dance with more than one partner to see if there’s someone they connect well with.” Freedman said. He himself ended up gravitating toward sophomore and fellow ballroom captain Dana Burton, who had no ballroom experience upon coming to Tufts but had spent 10 years tap dancing.

Dancers can compete at a variety of levels. Beginners start at the newcomer level and then move up to the bronze level after a semester of dancing. The newcomer and bronze levels are based solely on how long someone has been competing.

After another semester, dancers can move up to the third, or silver, level. In

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Ballroom team captain Montana Brown and her partner Matt Hare dance at the Eighth Annual Tufts Ballroom Competition. order for dancers to progress beyond the silver level, they must attain certain skills and earn points in competition. When they reach the gold level and eventually the open level (the highest one), they receive subsidized private lessons. The main instructor for the ballroom team is Mark Nocera, who travels to Tufts from a studio in Woburn to instruct ballroom team members.

Senior Vicki Gilbert has moved up to the open level during her time at Tufts after joining the team as a nov-

ice. As a pair moves up in level, more moves become available to them to use in competition; at the open level, there are not really any limits.

“It’s like getting up to the major leagues,” Gilbert said.

After reaching a more serious level like silver, dancers begin to specialize in a certain category of dance. Before that, most dancers compete in all of the dances in order to decide what style best suits them. see BALLROOM, page 4

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Some willing to pony up membership fees for more exercise options BY

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With spring in full force, many Jumbos are looking to get in shape for bathing suit season by losing weight gained during the long winter months. Some choose to enjoy the warm weather by running outside, whereas others take advantage of the free facilities at Cousens Gym. However, some students have opted to fork over membership fees to join off-campus gyms.

Senior Brittany Cahoon belongs to the Boston Sports Club’s (BSC) branch in Davis Square, which enables her to occasionally go to the chain’s Government Center location.

She says that having to pay for a membership actually motivates her to exercise more.

A membership to BSC costs $73 per month.

“I really like classes,” Cahoon said “It’s hard to self-motivate for working out, so I figure if I pay for it, I’ll have an incentive to go, and the aerobic instructors and spin instructors will tell me exactly what to do. It’s high energy, and I really like it.”

Though Tufts Student Resources offers low-cost exercise classes in Hill Hall, Cahoon believes that the classes at BSC are of higher quality and are more frequent and diverse in choice. Cahoon also cited social reasons for joining BSC. “I go with a lot of the girls in my sorority.

We go and take spin classes, and yesterday I took a kickboxing class for the first time,” Cahoon said.

Scott Whitney, the general manager of the BSC in Davis Square, said that quite a few Tufts students have started going to the BSC in Davis.

“We have a lot of personal trainers [and] a lot of instructors that are Tufts alums, so we have a connection there too,” Whitney told the Daily.

Whitney cited BSC’s state-of-the-art facilities as a major draw, as well as its proximity to campus and the wide range of classes available.

“We also offer 51 classes, from spin to club strength to Pilates to yoga to step to abs, total body conditioning. So we have an array

of classes that definitely appeal to a wide variety of people,” Whitney said.

With BSC’s expensive monthly rate as a deterrent, however, most Tufts students continue to use Cousens Gym. Senior Rosa Babbitt-Spaeth goes to the gym frequently, in addition to running outdoors and working out at home.

“Weeks that I go to the gym, when I don’t have a test or something, I go about three times per week for about one and a half hours,” she said. “I like Gantcher, the indoor gym. When I go to workout, [Gantcher] seems less busy than the other parts of the gym. There are lots of good spots to stretch, and there are several machines that are often free, and if there are no treadmills available I run around the track, something a lot of private gyms don’t have.”

Babbitt-Spaeth did acknowledge that there are aspects of Tufts’ gym that need improvement. “I don’t think it has a nice atmosphere,” she said. “It’s too small, see FITNESS, page 4

n most Saturday mornings, getting out of bed is a laborious process, and on rainy Boston days, when a look out of the window reveals only murky gloom, I need an especially exciting motivator to get myself up and moving. Before I was at Tufts, this motivation would be the smell of bacon sizzling downstairs, signaling the start of breakfast. But at college, I’ve had to become more creative.

So last Saturday, on one of those brutally windy and wet mornings I’ve come to know so well, with my head pounding from a long night of various shenanigans and a small pool of drool forming on my pillow, I told myself, “Today is a Dave’s day.”

During a hectic first year of college, being able to grab the occasional Saturday afternoon sandwich at Dave’s Fresh Pasta in Davis Square has kept me reasonably sane. In an ironic twist, the best sandwiches within a few-mile radius of Tufts can be found here, at a place which is not even first and foremost a sandwich shop.

Dave’s presents itself as a “specialty food and wine shop” that also does caters and sells salads and sandwiches. The shop is extremely popular in the community (as I was preparing to write this I took a quick glance at the reviews on Yelp.com, which are overwhelmingly positive) because of the extremely high quality of food that they sell, from imported olives from Italy to freshly cut pasta and homemade sauces.

Because I’m a freshman who doesn’t do too much cooking of his own, I tend to focus on the sandwich portion of the Dave’s menu. And so far, in my five or six ventures down to Dave’s, I haven’t been disappointed with any of the shop’s offerings.

Highlights include the “Steak and Blue,” a powerful flavor combination of grilled flank steak and blue cheese, with some caramelized onions for sweetness and arugula for texture, and the “Turkey and Cheddar,” which features a tasty contrast between the savory turkey and sharp cheddar cheese portion, and the syrupy-sweet honey mustard element.

The reason that Dave’s sandwiches are in a league of their own is not just that the flavor combinations presented are especially ingenious; it’s because the store simply uses better ingredients. Because it is a gourmet food shop, Dave’s can use fresh, often homemade foods to construct its sandwiches. These sandwiches just cannot be compared to those offered even at a great deli like Deli-icious or Tasty Gourmet (sandwich shops in Davis and on Boston Ave. that were featured in the April 8 edition of this column), as the ingredients at Dave’s place it on a different playing field.

In my last visit to Dave’s, for example, I tried the “Caprese,” made with handmade fresh mozzarella, homemade basil pesto, fresh tomato and a balsamic reduction, along with extra virgin olive oil drizzled on top. The addition of prosciutto is optional here, but I decided to go vegetarian for once.

As the server grilled my sandwich, I did my usual stroll around the store, which is filled with free samples of olives, cheeses and condiments. And walking home in the rain, I was unable to make it back to my dorm before devouring the meal.

The sandwich wasn’t perfect — the cheese wasn’t totally melted, and I would consider adding some honey or maple syrup to the pesto to add a bit of sweetness — but it was pretty close to it.

I can’t recommend ordering Dave’s sandwiches more than a couple times per month, since they all cost around $8 or $9 — not exactly fitting a college kid’s budget — but it is such a relief to know that a great sandwich, made with fresh, homemade ingredients, is only one Joey ride away.

Ben Kochman is a freshman who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at Benjamin.Kochman@tufts.edu.

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especially compared to other universities, and the machines are always busy.”

Babbitt-Spaeth said the exercise facilities of Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are far more inviting than Tufts’ facilities.

“The number of people that you see working out in those locations shows how many people are able to take advantage of their facilities, and it would be nice to have more space, especially as students here at Tufts have to share with the varsity and club sports teams,” Babbitt-Spaeth said.

“I wish I could go to the BSC or Health Works, and they seem like nice places, but I don’t want to pay

for it when Tufts is free,” BabbittSpaeth added.

Because Tufts’ gymnasium complex doesn’t offer everything, some students venture off campus for specific types of exercise. Senior Rachel Engelberg, for example, travels to Woburn to use a boxing gym. “I started boxing about a year ago in Australia, and I wanted to continue it when I came back,” Engelberg said.

Though she works out when she can at MK Boxing in Woburn, she also takes advantage of Tufts’ facilities. “I go to the Tufts gym at least twice a week,” Engelberg said “I’m enrolled in Tina McDavitt’s Strength Training For Women class for the third time.”

Woburn is much less convenient than Cousens, but she tries

to get off campus as much as possible in order to box. “I try to go off campus to MK Boxing as often as I can, but with trying to work out my schedule, it usually means only twice a month. Now that the year is winding down, though, I’ve been going more often — probably one to two times a week,” Engelberg said.

Though Cahoon acknowledged that exercising at facilities off campus is always more expensive and usually more difficult to get to than Cousens, some students choose to do it nonetheless, citing the high quality of off-campus facilities.

“With my on-campus job, it isn’t too difficult to make the monthly payments to go there, so it just was a wise economic and workout decision,” Cahoon said.

“When you want to be good, it’s tough to do all four styles,” Gilbert said.

In order to be noticed by the judges, ballroom dancers must conform to a mandatory costume. Men usually wear black pants, a dress shirt, a tie and occasionally a vest. Women performing in smooth and standard dances wear elegant, flowing dresses, and those in Latin and rhythm dances tend to wear dresses that show more skin. Attire for both genders can involve tassels, sequins and ruffles. As pairs move into higher levels of competition, it can be beneficial to have a good deal of makeup, stylish hair and even a fake tan.

Last Saturday, Tufts Ballroom hosted its eighth annual ballroom competition. Seventeen schools and studios were represented at the competition, a lower number than in the past. Burton said that while the team was disappointed with the number of schools who sent teams, the event was a success.

“Overall, the competition went really well,” Burton said.

Though most dancers represent their colleges, some competitors come from independent studios. Burton felt that there was not a noticeable difference between dancers from schools and dancers from studios. She attributed a pair’s dancing quality to the amount of time they spend practicing, rather than where they practice.

The next regional ballroom competition, the 2010 MIT Open, will take place this

weekend. Considered one of the biggest collegiate ballroom competitions of the year, competitors come from as far away as Texas and California. An open dance that might typically feature six competing couples at other competitions will probably have around 25 couples at the MIT event.

One of the ballroom team’s biggest goals for the future is to have a greater presence on Tufts campus.

“Ballroom wouldn’t be the first group mentioned if you asked someone about dancing at Tufts, but people do really think it’s cool,” Burton said.

Freedman agreed. “Ballroom fills a unique niche in the Tufts community,” he said.

Gilbert’s partner, junior Zach Bordonaro, has been very involved with improving the visibility of the team on campus. “[ The] biggest recruitment endeavor is the orientation show at the beginning of every year, where members of the team demo some of the different dances that we learn.”

Bordonaro said in an e-mail to the Daily.

On Thursday from 1:15 to 2 p.m. and on Friday from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m., the ballroom team will host an event on the library roof for April Open House. The team’s members will instruct and dance in order to promote the group to accepted students and to Tufts students in general.

“I want to show people the continuing relevance of ballroom and Latin dancing and to showcase the talent of our team to our friends on campus,” Bordonaro said.

The Department of Romance Languages presents

2010 Wellington Burnham Lecture Series presents

The Gifford Lecture “How We Learned To Love

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:30—6:00 p.m.

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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 Barnum Hall, Room 104 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

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Summer music festivals offer fans multitude of artists, sense of community

BY JOSH

ZEIDEL

Daily Editorial Board

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s the summer rolls around, bands around the world and across the country begin gearing up for the height of touring season. For many musical acts, the highlight of these next few months will be the major, multi-day music festivals, at which groups and individuals from every imaginable genre play together — if not on the same stage, then at least in the same vicinity. To better understand this cultural phenomenon, the Daily took an in-depth look at the evolution of gigantic musical festivals and the Tufts students who attend them.

Coachella Music and Arts Festival: Springtime in Indio

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ne of the season’s earliest major music festivals, commonly referred to simply as “Coachella” by its attendees, occurred this past weekend at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. Starting in 1999 as a two-day event that featured Beck, Rage Against the Machine and Tool as coheadliners, Coachella grew in popularity each year, changing to its current three-day format in 2007.

Senior psychology major Scott Brinkman, who attended Coachella annually from 2004 to 2006, described the festival as an incredible spectacle.

“It was really overwhelming for me,” Brinkman said. “I had never been to a music festival … and there were what looked like 100,000 people in this huge polo field, and five stages, each with a different theme. There was also an enormous tent, techno-themed, that was just out of control.”

Coachella has traditionally retained a reputation as a festival for the “raver” subculture — which revolves around dance music and Ecstasy use.

According to Brinkman, however, there was a wide range of musical genres represented during the years he attended.

“It’s so easy to get such great exposure to so many types of music,” Brinkman said. “I saw acts from Mogwai to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Franz Ferdinand, really pop-y stuff, but I also saw some more obscure rock acts, like Beck.”

There are, however, some major drawbacks to an unsheltered venue at the edge of the Southern Californian desert in early spring. “It’s grueling at

times,” Brinkman said, “Because you’re standing for hours on end in the sun and heat, not to mention how loud it is if you’re close to the stage.”

This year was the first year that Coachella stopped selling single-day passes, insisting that each attendee pay $272 for a three-day ticket. But Brinkman isn’t discouraged: “The only reason I haven’t been there the past few years was the timing — but I’ll absolutely be back next year.”

Bonnaroo: Woodstock of the South

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erhaps the largest and most famous festival east of the Mississippi River, the ninth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival takes place June 10 through 13 this year at a 700-acre farm near Manchester, Tenn. This year, some 170 music and comedy acts will be performing on the festival’s two main outdoor stages and four major tents around the clock.

Bonnaroo began in 2002 as a festival more oriented toward rock and jam bands; the headlining acts in the early years included Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Widespread Panic, The Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t Mule and Trey Anastasio, of Phish. The line-up has gradually grown to include a larger billing of diverse acts — this year’s headliners include Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Damian Marley and Nas. Senior Jessica Meyers, who attended Bonnaroo in 2007 and 2008, believes that the four-day event fosters a sense of temporary community. “It’s a great experience, because everyone is really, really nice to each other, even in the 90-degree heat,” Meyers said.

Ben Waldron, also a senior, agreed: “If you drive there, you end up waiting five hours just to get to the gate, but even though it’s hot, people are getting out of their cars, meeting each other and making friends. And any time anyone bumps into you at the festival, it’s always just apologies all around very quickly. It’s all good.”

With so many options, choosing which bands to see can be difficult, but visitors also get the opportunity to experience new types of music.

“The thing that I love about a huge festival like Bonnaroo is that you get to see acts

from all over the spectrum,” senior Jonathan Wiener said.

“I go for bands like Phish or Oysterhead, but I get to see bands that I wouldn’t normally see, like Nine Inch Nails or The Mars Volta.”

Lollapalooza: Day-Tripping in Chicago

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nlike Coachella and many other music festivals, Lollapalooza is a non-camping festival. It takes place in Grant Park, in the heart of Chicago. The location and organization of the festival can have both its upsides and downsides, as Tufts alumna Elizabeth Friedman (LA ’09), who attended the festival in 2008, noted: “You have the advantages of public transportation and the ability to explore the city if you are visiting …

The disadvantage is that there is a much bigger police presence. I didn’t feel as safe as I did at All Good, an outdoor camping festival that I went to last year.”

Because of the location and the lack of campgrounds, an urban festival, such as Lollapalooza or Austin, Texas’ South By Southwest, adds additional costs for concertgoers. “Luckily, I live outside Chicago,” Friedman said. “But I’m not sure where I would have stayed at night without having to pay for a hotel, if I came from far away.”

Friedman also noticed a difference in the sense of community between Lollapalooza in 2008 and All Good in 2009.

“I’m sure it also had to do with the difference in musical tastes at the two events, but at Lollapalooza, people stuck to their own group, and there were a lot of suburbanites, hipsters and yuppies,” Friedman said. “At All Good, I felt a much stronger sense of community, especially in the camping area.”

Festival Evolution: From Niche Markets Toward the Mainstream

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ost music festivals begin with the goal of creating a venue for a particular niche of music.

Lollapalooza, for example, began in 1991 as the brainchild of Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, and featured only alternative acts, predominantly from the punk rock and metal genres. Throughout

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British rockers Arctic Monkeys played at Lollapalooza 2009. the 1990s, Lollapalooza was a touring festival, but high ticket and concession prices gradually drove fans away.

Resurrected as a destination two-day concert in Grant Park, Lollapalooza now features a wide variety of acts from both inside and outside the mainstream; this year’s headliners will include Green Day, Lady Gaga, The Strokes, Social Distortion, MGMT, Hot Chip, Blues Traveler and others.

What causes a festival’s lineup to veer toward the mainstream? Tufts Department of Music Professor Stephan Pennington, who teaches History of Rock this semester, believes that the change stems from an event’s success.

“A lot of these festivals start off with a specific mission,” Pennington said. “But then, once the festival gets successful, and is able to make the experience better, it becomes more attractive [to mainstream acts].

To put it another way, these festivals become ways to celebrate a genre as a community … but

there exists this sort of tension between being successful and remaining small and ‘real,’ staying accessible to the original community that supported the genre.”

Regardless of which way the organizers of a festival steer their event, the effects on the community will be determined at the event itself. “What’s interesting about music festivals is that it’s this hot-house environment where all of the issues at stake in a community are pushed together, and a spotlight is put on them,” Pennington added.

As a consequence, the constituency of the festival community changes, a phenomenon that Brinkman witnessed firsthand at Coachella over time.

“Coachella gained more notoriety each year,” Brinkman said. “As more big-name, mainstream acts came, the people coming got more mainstream too. But with so many acts over the course of two or three days, there’s bound to be something for everyone.”

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TV REVIEW

‘Glee’ returns for an encore, with a stronger story BY

CATHERINE SCOTT

Daily Editorial Board

Last week the hottest new show of the year — FOX’s “Glee” — returned after an unbearably long mid-season

Glee Starring Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays Airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on FOX hiatus. Already, after only two episodes, the show has shown why it won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award this past awards season, as it continues its ascent to being one of the most original, insightful and exciting shows on the air.

The show returns to the lives of the high school misfits that make up the McKinley High glee club. Viewers find out that Rachel (Lea Michele) and Finn (Cory Monteith), the two superstars of the group, are trying to make a go of their relationship, though Finn doesn’t quite understand how to deal with Rachel’s obsessive-compulsive behavior. In swoops Jesse St. James (guest star Jonathan Groff ) of the rival show choir Vocal Adrenaline to sweep Rachel off of her feet — even though he seems to have ulterior spy motives given to him by his coach (guest star Idina Menzel).

Meanwhile, coach Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) wants to start a relationship with guidance counselor Emma ( Jayma Mays) while still reeling from his separation from his wife, Terri ( Jesslyn Gilsig). Schuester also has to contend with the return of his nemesis Sue Sylvester, the head coach of the school’s cheerleading squad, played by the hilariously offensive Jane Lynch.

The rest of the glee club keeps trucking along. Quinn (Dianna Agron) tries to make things work with baby-daddy Puck (Mark Salling), Kurt (Chris

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Colfer) and Mercedes (Amber Riley) want bigger solo parts, and cheerleaders Santana (Naya Rivera) and Brittany (Heather Morris) are up to no good, as usual.

“Glee” successfully combines standard TV storytelling with grandiose musical numbers. The songs are a combination of pop hits that any teenager would know (Kanye West’s “Gold Digger,” 2005, or Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You,” 2009) and should know ( Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” 1981, and Queen’s

“Somebody to Love,” 1976), as well as a few Broadway goodies for those who love theater.

Some critics have accused “Glee” of using the musical numbers to hide the fact that the story really isn’t all that stellar. For example, Will left his wife because she faked a pregnancy into the sixth month ... and he believed her for that long.

As the show returns, however, executive producer and creator Ryan Murphy has made sure his team focuses on the club members and their issues: teen

pregnancy, dating and love, sexual orientation and, above all, a desperate need for attention.

The writers don’t try to gloss over the bratty nature of these teenagers’ personalities; as a matter of fact, many of the lead characters (both teenage and adult) are downright unlikable. The show often vacillates between hating and loving its main characters — mostly Rachel, Finn and Will — allowing for the superb supporting cast to take over and shine, both see GLEE, page 8

MOVIE REVIEW

Edgerton’s ‘The Square’ turns out to be more of a circle BY

ALLEN IRWIN

Daily Staff Writer

Illicit tales of adulterous lovers have been part and parcel of the movie business since the

The Square Starring David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Anthony Hayes Directed by Nash Edgerton studio era. “The Square” (2008) takes the conventions of film noir, relocates from the cityscapes of ’40s Los Angeles to modern-day Australia, adds a few twists and piles on fatalism with an extra helping of tragic coincidence. While it doesn’t exactly bring anything new to the table, “The Square” is a solid exercise in suspense and the brutal logic of fate.

The film, which was released in the United States April 9, is the feature debut of stuntman-turned-director Nash Edgerton, who brings a slick, minimalist style to the story.

The plot follows Raymond Yale (David Roberts), a construction supervisor who is involved with a married woman named Carla (Claire van der Boom) who lives across the river from him. Their affair seems destined to cause them problems from the beginning: Carla’s dog has a tendency to swim across the river to Ray’s house, forcing him to return it and

constantly come face to face with Carla’s husband. It seems that fate, or coincidence, has it in for them.

Carla’s husband, Smithy (Anthony Hayes), has a few shady friends and seems to be involved in some kind of criminal activity himself. One day, Carla walks in on Smithy hiding something in their crawlspace and investigates, finding a bag full of money — not a good sign. She, of course, goes straight to Ray with the proposition of running away together with the money, and here, things begin to go awry.

Ray is hesitant to steal the money, especially since he has his own scam going — getting kickbacks from one of his construction sites. He and Carla reckon that Smithy will be sharp to their scheme if they simply take the money and run, so Ray contacts an arsonist ( Joel Edgerton) to burn down Carla’s home during a Christmas celebration, causing confusion and erasing evidence so that the lovers can make their escape.

The arsonist accidentally kills someone when the plan, unsurprisingly, goes wrong, and Ray and Carla begin a downward spiral trying to correct their mistakes. The film drags somewhat in its midsection when there are a series of convoluted plot twists that build on one another to back the lovers into a corner.

A few nice touches, however, are scenes such as the one in which Ray receives a

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The film continues down its vertiginous spiral, with each plot twist forcing its protago-

nists to make poor decisions and heightening the sense that fate has doomed them to tragedy. At times, the level of coincidence seems so high that it is hard to tell if the film is making a comment on the unreality of the genre or merely trying to create an extremely complicated example of it.

Edgerton’s direction is both a boon and a hindrance; he frequently depicts events by showing seemingly disparate scenes and then circling back to connect them after the fact, perhaps mimicking the spi-

ral-like structure of the story.

Unfortunately, his technique is not always helpful or interesting. When things become too convoluted, it becomes hard to follow each step the characters are taking.

“The Square” takes film noir and follows its conventions to the furthest point imaginable, resulting in a sometimes compelling, sometimes confusing execution of the genre. The acting is solid, and the aesthetic is appealing, resulting in an enjoyable, if somewhat rote, experience.

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WEEKENDER INTERVIEW | RUSSELL BRAND AND JONAH HILL

Comedians Brand and Hill dish on upcoming ‘Get Him to the Greek’ BY

LAUREN HERSTIK Daily Staff Writer

Russell Brand and Jonah Hill sat down to discuss their characters in the upcoming “Get Him to the Greek,” a spinoff of the hit comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (2008) by the same director, Nick Stoller. They also ruminated on consumerism, the true purpose of comedy and the proper execution of a sex scene.

Question: So there’s a lot of music in this movie; did you have any input in creating it?

Russell Brand: Well I sang all of the songs obviously, out of my face. I opened it up, and out came the vibrations. The only times I’d change [the lyrics] is if people would deliberately try to write things that sound English but don’t. But generally I’d leave them, because there were some brilliant songwriters, like Jarvis Cocker from Pulp wrote a couple, Carl Barat from the Libertines, so you know, you can’t.

Q: How do you feel when people imitate you to your face?

RB: They do that a lot! It happens all the time. But I don’t mind; it’s sort of a tribute. Also, remember, I’m used to being in England where my Englishness and English accent are commonplace.

So it’s like sort of “Gulliver’s Travels,” it’s like a Swift-ian satire, having people mimic my own accent at me. It’s good because I think, “Oh wow! This thing that is commonplace here is exotic somewhere else.”

Q: I’ve heard your American accents in your standup, and it’s really spot-on.

RB: Thank you very much, I’ve been observing you people on the petri dish called Earth.

Q: What are your findings?

RB: Well this is the dominant culture.

We’re all to a degree Americans now, now that colonialism is achieved through commerce and consumerism and not through imperialism and the military, although one could argue to a lesser degree that it still is. We are all imbibing American culture.

Q: Comparing Aldous Snow in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” to Aldous Snow in “Get Him to the Greek,” where would you say Russell Brand, the man, falls?

RB: “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” was a laugh because that was very much about restraint. That was a supporting role in Jason [Segel]’s movie, and I had to be measured and gentle. The key thing for me was to make a sympathetic villain.

The function of that character was to antagonize the protagonist.

But in this film, the character is back

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In this scene, Jonah Hill and Russell Brand learn not to piss off P. Diddy. on drugs, the arc is driven by his behavior, and it’s like a double act with Jonah [Hill].

So, I had a lot more room to explore that darkness and to show off a bit. Because I was a junkie for a long time, I was able to mine that rich resource of my own madness. They don’t muck about, these Judd Apatow people, they would ask me, “What was it like? Tell us stories.” And so there are things in this film that have happened to me. I’m playing [a character] that has moments of explosiveness and rawness.

Q: What was the worst part of filming “Get Him to the Greek?”

RB: I got set on fire once. There’s a bit in the movie where I do a concert, and there’s a wall of sparks raining down from the heavens. And it caught me on fire.

I stood in the wrong place; I caught on fire for a little. That was a bad bit. And also sex scenes. They’re actually sort of stressful. Not like actual sex — not as I know it.

Q: Follow-up on that — the threesome scene was actually really funny. I can only imagine how awkward it was.

RB: Oh it was really awkward and difficult.

Because sex, when it’s done properly, is about creating a wonderful atmosphere of intimacy, escape and adventure. Sex scenes are about hesitant, angular, cho-

What’s Up This Weekend Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir: Join the 220-voice Gospel Choir as it presents its spring concert.

Tickets are $7 and are on sale at the Granoff Music Center Box Office. (Friday at 8 p.m. in the Cohen Auditorium)

sound — influenced by artists like Jeff Buckley, with the softer, approachable style of groups like The Shins — to Cambridge tonight. Borgia has played with the likes of the Goo Goo Dolls and Sum 41. (8 p.m. at All Asia Bar, 334 Mass Ave. in Cambridge. Tickets are $6.)

Art In Bloom: Come experience the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s (MFA) celebration of spring. As part of this annual event, floral designers will set up 50 elaborate displays of flowers inspired by the MFA’s spectacular permanent collection in its galleries. The arrangements will be on view Saturday through Monday, and — as always — admission to the MFA is free with a Tufts ID. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Ave.)

Young Frankenstein: If impending finals have you feeling down, lighten up with Mel Brooks’ hilarious interpretation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Based on the 1974 film, the Broadway version of “Young Frankenstein” is full of gags and science experiments gone wrong. (Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St. )

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reographed moves. And this is a comedy sex scene as well, so it goes on for ages, and you’re standing with no pants, hunched over someone. You’re aware of each other’s breath mingling but without the baseline of lust pounding rhythmically through the act. It’s awful.

and so much beauty in these films while still making them hysterically funny. In “Greek,” I think the surprising thing is that by the end you feel some sentiment and care about the characters. I think Nick Stoller is really good at creating sentiment in a really funny film.

Q: Is Jonah Hill a good kisser?

Q: What would you do if you hadn’t ended up doing what you’re doing, and you were in our position and could do whatever you wanted?

RB: I love that kid. Yeah, me and Jonah kissed. I don’t see why that’s in the film.

We were at home when that happened.

He’s a very tender boy.

Q: So, you got to work with P. Diddy. How cool was that?

Jonah Hill: Pretty cool. I’ve got to say awesome. He really helped me get into character. He and his friends took me and my best friends to Vegas the weekend before we started shooting and gave us the full P. Diddy experience for 72 hours.

And I recommend, if you’re ever about to start a four-month shoot as the lead in a movie, the three days before should not be spent partying with Diddy in Vegas.

Q: You’re a fan of Woody Allen films. How has Allen influenced your career?

JH: Woody Allen, to anyone who makes comedic films, is pretty much the premier comedic filmmaker of all time. I think he achieved so much emotion …

JH: I kind of dropped out of school to do what I wanted. If this weren’t my job, I would do this for free. My advice to anyone: sit down and write, get some friends, get a camera, don’t make it fancy. Make little films. Make shorts, put up a play.

That’s what I’d be doing now if I weren’t getting paid for it. Just find something that you love and work your ass off at it. Hard work is the main thing. There shouldn’t be a day that goes by that you aren’t working hard at getting better at doing what you want to do. That was the “dad lecture” portion of the interview.

Q: What was it like throwing out the first pitch at Fenway [on April 18]?

JH: It was fantastic. I just felt really cool.

I felt like I had accomplished something.

I felt honored, like I had actually accomplished enough that someone would want me to go out and throw that first pitch.

TOP TEN | THINGS WE WANT TO SEE LEAKED This past week, we at the Daily Arts Department heard the rumor that a new-generation iPhone was leaked by an Apple employee. This is particularly odd given the company’s history of secrecy surrounding its new products, but we’d like to thank the Genius (pun intended) who did this because it got us to thinking about other things we’d like to see leaked in the near future.

10. (Real) naked pictures of Megan Fox: We’ve seen just about every inch of this buxom vixen in magazine spreads, in posters and in our dreams. And yet, we’re dying to see those last couple of inches. Giggety.

9. Not Fergie’s pants: So Fergie, darling, you peed your pants in a concert. Not cool. In the future, maybe you’d want to think about wearing some Depends.

8. No Doubt’s new CD: They conducted a whole tour last year on the promise that they were working on a CD for this year. So far, no date for a CD for 2010. We’re hoping it’s already done somewhere, waiting for some butterfingers to get it out to the public.

7. Eating Off of Plates: We just couldn’t get enough of the YouTube.com phenomenon “Drinking Out of Cups,” with its talking gecko spouting deranged rants. So we want a sequel, in which an animated iguana would ramble disjointedly about ceramic ware. No way. Get real.

6. The new Windows: Hey, the follow-up to Windows 7 was our idea! Because we were all thinking about how much Windows 7 sucks!

5. “Wicked Summer:” Here’s the Situation: we want more

“Jersey Shore,” and we want it Boston style.

4. Newest Nicholas Sparks novel: We’re expecting a tear-jerker that’ll be begging for a Hilary Duff movie and will put Ernest Hemingway to shame. Potential title: “Bad Romance?”

3. “Toy Story 3” (2010): Disney is back with the toys we wish we had when we were young, like the nagging, elderly Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.

2. Who really shot JFK: Nobody seems to believe that it really was just Lee Harvey Oswald. We in the Arts Department suspect Colonel Mustard, in the billiards room, with the candlestick.

1. Kegs all over Spring Fling: Bring back the beer!

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE TUFTS DAILY

Dear Miley Cyrus, We heard about your new crib, and to put it bluntly, we’re a little angry, since it’s only been some 17 years since you were rolling around, sucking your thumb and drooling in one. We’re still staying in dormitories and apartments, and you just landed yourself a 4,000 square foot property in Toluca Lake, Calif. It doesn’t seem fair somehow, considering we thought you were only old enough to be purchasing Park Place and Broadway with Monopoly money.

What really disturbs us most is that this new place of yours boasts four bedrooms.

What do you need those for? Oh, wait. It just hit us. You’re planning on populating Miley Mansion with little Mileys and Liams in the future? Now it makes sense why you called your new home a “place of love.” Excuse us while we throw up a little in our mouths. OK, back.

We’ll admit, the few things we have to comfort us are the following: the knowledge that you are inheriting a house previously owned by one Freddie Prinze Jr. (really?!), and the fact that you were stupid enough to move only 100 feet from your parents’ house. Hope you and your boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth, can keep the noise down, or mommy and daddy might drop by when you least expect it. We keep repeating these hilarious details to ourselves to chase away the images of your sprawling lawn, tennis courts and swimming pool.

Sometimes it works.

Since you’ve already signed on for this $3.4 million residence, the least you could do is invite us over and share the wealth with your fans. We hear Steve Carrell and the Jonas brothers are in the neighborhood, too, so maybe we should all get together, Nashville-style.

We’ll turn on some Britney and make it a Party in the U.S.A. If we feel like getting really crazy, maybe we can even start up a game of Monopoly.

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Awaiting our invitation, The Daily Arts Department

Supporting characters still shine in teenage musical drama GLEE continued from page 6

in terms of acting and singing.

Michele and Morrison have really settled into their characters, and though the hokey, Broadway leanings of their acting will probably never dissipate, it’s easy to watch them on screen. Monteith still needs a lot of work looking natural on camera — he’s got all of the charisma of a leading man, but Finn’s awkward, sometimes idiotic persona sometimes makes it seem as if he’s lost on camera.

Every “Gleek” has their favorite character, whether it be Quinn, the pregnant, sassy former cheerleader; Puck, the rough bad boy; Artie (Kevin McHale), a wheelchair-bound nerd; or any of the others who make up the dozen or so glee club members.

Though most of the episodes center on Rachel and Finn, some of the best

episodes — like “Wheels” — have been about the supporting characters.

Though some might expect this new emphasis on storytelling to detract from the musical numbers, the newest episodes have proven the exact opposite — especially after Tuesday night’s all-Madonna episode. A recent reexamination of the story means that all extraneous storylines have been removed, leaving more room for bigger and better numbers. Jane Lynch’s rendition of Madonna’s music video for “Vogue” (1990) is a perfect example.

The rest of the season promises to be just as grandiose, with guest stars like Neil Patrick Harris (in a Joss Whedondirected episode, no less), Olivia Newton-John and Molly Shannon. No matter what, the cast will continue to awe viewers with its talent and enthusiasm, both of which rival any other show on television.

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Return to Title IX’s original policies commendable Vice President Joe Biden’s speech at George Washington University on Tuesday announcing the repeal of former President George W. Bush’s policies regarding Title IX was significant step forward by the federal government. Title IX, the federal gender-equity law enacted in 1972, monumentally impacted women’s opportunities to play sports in schools, colleges and universities. In the years following the institution of Title IX, Americans watched schools make enormous leaps toward establishing gender equality in sports. The number of women in high school sports increased from 294,000 in 1972 to 2.8 million in 2001. Participation by women in intercollegiate sports has made similarly impressive strides: reports show a 456 percent increase from before Title IX to after its inception.

Despite these telling results of demand for gender equity in sports, in 2005 Bush’s administration enacted a policy that created loopholes regarding Title IX. Title IX originally required schools to meet gender-equity standards through one of three methods. The first is to ensure that the

percentage of female and male athletes is substantially proportionate to the percentage of female and male students in the school. The second requires schools to show that they are increasing the size of their women’s athletics programs. The third had schools prove that their programs met demands for women’s athletics from the university’s population.

The last provision was changed under the Bush administration so that schools could meet this demand by surveying female students about their interests.

Under Bush’s changes, a lack of complaint concerning students’ satisfaction with a school’s athletic programs would be taken as an indication that the school did not need to improve its representation of women’s athletics. Obvious loopholes in this method showed through when schools began claiming that lack of response by students indicated a lack of demand for women’s sports.

Repeal of this policy will return Title IX to its former strength. For the U.S. Department of Education, there is really no reason that Title IX should not be as strong

as possible. The law was founded on the idea that there should be no discrepancy between the proportion of women and men playing sports to each gender’s total population in a school. Gone are the days of antiquated misconception that men want to play sports more than women do.

Bush’s 2005 policy was allegedly based partially on the fact that increasing women’s sports departments negatively affects the men’s departments. In fact, many schools have had to cut back funds for non-revenue-yielding sports, such as men’s wrestling. While it is unfortunate that not every program has access to all the funds it needs, this is not reason enough to damage the progress that has been made by Title IX. In response to the 2005 policy, the NCAA advised its members to ignore the changes. Then-NCAA President Myles Brand even criticized the amendment, and the current president, Jim Isch, commended its reversal. Repealing Bush’s amendment is an act of shedding a preposterous loophole that sends America back in time instead of forward.

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On April 14, the eruption of a volcano in Iceland spewed ash into the air that traveled around Europe. Fearing the ash might pose a danger to airplanes, flights around the continent were grounded.

As of Sunday, 63,000 flights have been affected by the delay. A spokesperson for Germany’s Lufthansa airline said that the chaos caused by the eruption has been “worse than Sept. 11.” The image of thousands of passengers camped out in airports and uncertain of when they’ll be able to fly serves as a dramatic reminder of how difficult and unreliable airline service can be. Yet it’s hard to imagine how modern society would function without it. We rely on the unreliable.

Bad airline service is something that we’re all used to. Everyone who has flown more than once has their favorite bad airline story. If airlines were a normal busi-

ness, then all their customers would have been driven away long ago. Airlines are hated and ridiculed: the source of frustration and stress.

But none of this matters because for so many people airline travel is absolutely necessary. Businesses need it, vacationers need it and families who want to stay in touch need it. But whether your plane will be on time or fly at all is subject to the whims of fortune. Weather, the threat of terrorism and mechanical errors can shut it down. Or the pilot could just plain old be late.

Much of this is beyond human control.

Plumes of volcanic ash shutting down flights all over a continent is a “black swan” event, something that can’t really be anticipated or helped. But even in day-to-day operation airlines struggle to be adequate. The industry is the frequent recipient of government subsidies and bailouts. According to a 2006 article in The Guardian newspaper, the U.S. airline industry has made a cumulative loss in

its 120 years of existence. But if there was ever an industry that was “too big to fail,” this is it.

Recently, airlines have tried to remain profitable by cutting back services. In an era when customers are being treated constantly to new products, updates and features, the airline industry is giving customers less and less. Free in-flight meals are a thing of the past and extra bags now cost money. British budget airline Ryanair has apparently considered the idea of charging passengers to use the bathroom.

Seriously.

So what can be done? What has hindered efforts to improve airline travel is that no one really knows how efficient or reliable it can be. The comedian Louis C.K. has a routine where he mocks airline complainers: “You’re sitting in a chair in the sky!” How can you complain?

We may never know how good airlines can be because we can’t refuse bad service even if we’d like to. We need to fly.

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Corrections The April 20 article “Students learn the basics of counterinsurgency on a paintball range” incorrectly stated that no FIELDEX participants with a military background played Mazali National Police (MNP) forces. One Air Force ROTC cadet and one United States Air Force Academy cadet played MNP members.

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The future of the Democratic Party BY

BRONWEN RAFF AND SETH RAU

With the recent passing of the health care bill, one might ask, what is next for the Democratic Party? In January 2009, President Barack Obama entered office with a large vision that went well beyond health care reform, including improving our nation’s lagging economy, regulating Wall Street and big business, protecting the environment from the effects of global warming, empowering minorities and overall creating an America that will continue its strong leadership well into the future. There is no doubt that this is a huge task, so where is the Democratic Party focusing its efforts for the upcoming November elections and the future?

In the previous two election cycles in 2006 and 2008, Democrats had a much easier time running on the fact that President George W. Bush and his policies were unpopular among a majority of Americans.

However, now with Obama in the White House, the Democratic Party needs to run on its record. In the last 15 months, the Democrats have indeed achieved a lot — from passing a nearly $800 billion stimulus to removing many combat troops from Iraq to finally passing comprehensive health care reform insuring 32 million previously uninsured Americans. While the economy is still not in ideal shape, it has been improving over the last few months and looks bound to continue improving for the rest of 2010. There is no doubt that the Tea Party and many Republicans may not like Obama’s vision for America, but once America gets past the screaming, they should realize that Obama is sticking to his vision of creating a better America.

With this backdrop, how does the Democratic Party look to continue its electoral successes? The new Democratic National Committee, chaired by former Governor Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and led by Tufts alum Jennifer O’Malley-Dillon (A ’98), is looking heavily to re-engage first-time voters and volunteers who supported Obama throughout his long presidential campaign. There was an incredible surge in activism among our nation’s

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youth and from traditionally non-political portions of society. While most of these people still receive tons of weekly e-mails from Organizing for America, most have been inactive since Election Day in 2008. The key to future Democratic successes will have to lie in re-engaging these first-time Obama voters and other non-traditional voters — especially minority communities that broke very heavily for Obama in the 2008 election.

On Monday, April 26, every Tufts student will have the chance to hear a lot about the Democrats’ vision for the future when Jennifer O’Malley-Dillon returns to campus to receive the Tufts Democrats Alumna of the Year award. Currently, O’Malley-Dillon is the executive director of the Democratic National Committee, but she has been working in politics for the last 15 years starting off here as a Jumbo. At Tufts, she interned for Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), which led her to a position on former Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign. She began to specialize in Midwestern politics, which led to working on two Senate campaigns in South Dakota. Eventually she ended up as John Edwards’ deputy campaign manager for his unsuccessful 2008 presidential run. After the Edwards campaign folded,

O’Malley-Dillon became the Battleground States Director for then-Senator Obama, helping lead him to the presidency. This position paved the way for O’Malley-Dillon to become the current executive director of the Democratic National Committee.

Instead of just accepting this award in a behind-closed-doors ceremony, O’MalleyDillon wants to engage with her fellow Jumbos in a discussion about the future of the Democratic Party. We know that many of you were first time voters in November 2008, and your voice is essential if you want to continue to see our nation move in concordance with Obama’s vision for a better America. O’Malley-Dillon will be speaking in the ASEAN Auditorium in Cabot at 7:45 p.m. on Monday, April 26, and we hope that you will join us there for a discussion with a key player in the Democratic Party of the future.

Bronwen Raff is a freshman who has not yet declared a major. He is the vice president-elect of the Tufts Democrats.

Seth Rau is a sophomore majoring in International Relations. He is the president-elect of the Tufts Democrats.

America divided CHRISTIE PESAVENTO The Observer

“Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America … We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”

I remember the first time I heard these words, as I’m sure many of you do, during the election of 2004 when then-Senator Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.

Shocking though it may be, even I have to admit that Obama was right. Politics in this country have become incredibly polarized, thanks in large measure to politicians who capitalize on dividing our population along various social lines, such as liberal and conservative, black and white, rich and poor; and pitting these groups against one another in order to gain votes. Ironically, Obama’s stinging rebuke of such tactics was given in the context of supporting the vice presidential candidacy of Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), who built his presidential campaign on the idea of two Americas — the haves and the have-nots — in hopes of galvanizing the lower classes in support of his election.

Of course politicians would not employ this tactic so often if it proved unsuccessful.

As those familiar with sociological theory know, the existence of a common enemy provides a powerful unifying force among members within a given group by heightening their loyalty to the group and magnifying the characteristics of that group

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in contrast to the enemy. Politicians play on existing social boundaries within the population in order to drum up support for or opposition to public policies. Take, for instance, the recent battle over health care reform. Those who favored the legislation characterized detractors as greedy rich people who were unsympathetic toward the plight of the poor and middle class (economic divisions), while those who opposed the bill accused the other side of trying to turn America into a socialist nation (ideological divisions). By establishing this sort of “us versus them” mentality and demonizing the opposing group, politicians frequently achieve results and thus have little incentive to abandon the strategy.

The Founding Fathers had a keen awareness of the dangers that could result when various interests align against one another in “factions,” and established our republic grounded in federalism largely to control their damaging effects. Aside from a single outbreak of violence during the mid-nineteenth century, Americans have enjoyed a sustained period of relative peace at home, and the system the Founders originally designed remains intact. As James Madison predicted, our institutions have for the most part served to “refine and enlarge” the selfish views of factions, which draw upon mutual animosities to vie for power and state deference toward their own interests to the detriment of other interests or of the common good.

But today, our nation faces a factional crisis that is compounded by economic woes, a crushing deficit and an increasing number of entrenched entitlement programs that redistribute government funds to specific groups instead of using them for the benefit of the general public. Scottish historian Alexander Tytler foresaw the advent of this crisis over two hundred years ago when he warned, “A democracy … can only exist until the voters discover that

they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.” I fear that the sort of entitlement mentality that Tytler described, the same mentality that Franklin Roosevelt institutionalized through the New Deal, that Lyndon Johnson built upon with the Great Society, and that President Obama and his liberal allies in Congress are now feverishly seeking to expand, is pushing us down a path toward fiscal ruin. When the public’s greatest concern becomes “what’s in it for me?” rather than “what is good for the country?” and politicians are forced to give into these demands or risk political suicide, who is left to look out for the nation as a whole?

To avoid the fate Tytler predicted, Americans need to change how they assess public policy, with an eye toward what is best for the long-term prosperity of our country rather than simply what will bring the most short-term benefit to oneself.

There will always be differences and disagreements that divide our population, and politicians will always use them to their advantage. Entitlement debates play upon the division between the rich and the poor and are especially contentious, as reflected

by Madison’s assertion that property tends to be the most common and durable source of faction, and thus the most dangerous to the survival of the nation. The early twentieth century marked the dawn of the voters’ discovery that they could vote to redistribute public funds to certain groups. If we are to maintain our preeminent standing in the world for the foreseeable future, we cannot allow the temptation of government handouts to outweigh the need for sound fiscal policy and a concern for the public good.

ori Amos once sang, “You can keep the house … and the bank accounts, ’cause boy, I bring home the bacon.”

Two days ago marked Equal Pay Day, a day that marks how much further into the next year a woman must work in order for her income to match that of a man’s earned in the previous year. The passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963 and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009 marked progress toward a more even playing field, and the Paycheck Fairness Act, if passed, will continue the fight against gender discrimination. However, the fact remains that women’s work is still not as valued as men’s, which serves as a prime example dispelling the illusion of equality.

The sex segregation within the workplace nevertheless continues to support gender inequality. Gender roles, expectations and socialization work together in creating the sex segregation found in the labor force. In institutions from family to school, the passeddown ideologies of gender shape our futures in determining suitable jobs and careers. We believe that little Susie shouldn’t expect to fight fires any more than rowdy Joey should expect to nurse the ill. That’s why we study biology, right — to determine our appropriate future jobs while subscribing to a limited biological perspective of identity? These paradigms of gender also transfer into the workplace, affecting the hiring process, promotions, salary increases and so on, which all together then further contribute to the unequal distribution of genders among different occupations.

It is undeniable then that the number of men overwhelms that of women in higherpaying jobs and positions. The “glass ceiling” and the “sticky floor” tend to keep women in their place: the bottom of the hierarchy.

Gender stereotypes and opportunities for advancement, among other factors, often stop women’s advancement and perpetuate the problematic sex segregation. For example, a competitive woman may be perceived as too aggressive and macho; she has thus stepped out of her gender sphere and will suffer the consequences and lose the promotion to perhaps a less-qualified candidate.

Therefore, the popular discourse referring to the “He-cession” because of its myopic perspective hardly takes into account the wage gap and the lower concentration of women in laid-off executive positions. I would attribute the over-reporting and resultant shock of the aforementioned phenomenon to the hypervisibility of men’s troubles and the dismissal of women’s, because, as you know, it’s the same old story over and over again — which is exactly why we need to write a new narrative: one of equality.

A very telling study in 2008 found that females who transitioned to men earned 1.5 percent more, while men who transitioned to women earned 32 percent less. Perhaps, the stigma of a sex change explains the relatively low increase in the FTMs’ (female-turnedmale) wages, while it functioned alongside gender inequality in drastically decreasing the MTFs’ (male-turned-female) wages.

Going a little further back in history, the changes concerning clerical work in the 20th century reveals gender inequality. The gender composition of an occupation, another aspect of sex segregation affecting pay, determines its overall worth. While men dominated the field of secretarial work, they were relatively well paid. But as more women began taking on clerical duties, the pay decreased significantly. The association of the occupation with a certain gender influences its level of prestige. Despite the fact that secretaries support a foundation or company, their work was deemed undemanding and less valuable as soon as more women came into play.

Secretaries now earn less than earlier in the previous century because of sex segregation.

Considering that the wage gap has yet to close even in 2010, gender inequality is neither a problem that has been solved for the most part nor one that is going away. We can’t do wrong in supporting the freedom of gender expression and identity and equal opportunities and rights. Let’s tell women their true worth.

Elisha Sum is a junior majoring in English and French. He can be reached at Elisha.

Sum@tufts.edu.

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Harvard assistant Junot picked to lead men’s soccer team Thirty-year-old emerges from competitive applicant pool, takes over fledgling program BY

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After 20 years under Ralph Ferrigno, the men’s soccer team will be heading in a new direction come next fall. And athletic director Bill Gehling thinks he has found just the man to lead it: Carl Junot.

The 30-year-old former assistant coach at Harvard emerged from an applicant pool of close to 150 candidates to earn the title as the next head coach of Tufts. He will be replacing the all-time leader in coaching victories at Tufts in Ferrigno, a coach who basically made Tufts’ soccer program what it is today.

A field of six candidates was selected to come in for interviews. When all was said and done, Gehling and his committee saw Junot as the best fit for the program’s long- and short-term goals.

“We are looking for pretty much the same criteria for all our coaches now,” Gehling said.

“The way I define success is: a) competitive success on the field, b) experiential success — we want to make sure our student athletes have a great experience while they are here that they will never forget. Those are the two kind of main qualities, and the third is that we want somebody that will embrace their role as being a member of the community.”

The players are ready to embrace the change that Junot should carry with him to Medford. He will bring his methods from the Div. I level at Harvard, where he has worked for the last two years as an assistant to Jamie Clark. While with the Crimson, Junot was responsible for team development, in particular recruitment, video analysis and offseason player development. He worked with the likes of two-time Herman/MAC Trophy finalist Andre Akpan and was named a top assistant in 2008 by College Soccer News.

Prior to his time in the Northeast, Junot was a part of the staff at the University of New Mexico for seven years, first as an assistant and then as associate head coach. He helped lead the Lobos to the national finals in 2005 and was part of a staff that had its team ranked No. 1 nationally at times during 2004 and 2005.

“Some of the universities I have been at — two of the universities I have been at — are much more like Tufts than typical Div. I universities,” Junot said. “My undergraduate career was spent at Furman University in South Carolina, which is Div. I, but their academic mission is very similar to Tufts. And then of course Harvard I think is pretty close.

But even so, among all the Div. I schools and universities and conferences, the Ivy League is probably most like Div. III. That kind of made

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A former assistant coach at Harvard University, Carl Junot was recently named the new head coach of the men’s soccer team. He takes over for 20-year coaching veteran Ralph Ferrigno. me comfortable in making that transition, whereas if I had come from the University of New Mexico directly, I might not have been as comfortable in terms of not being able to make that connection and bridge that gap.”

Junot will be taking over a team that followed up a promising 8-6-1 campaign in 2008 with a disappointing 2009 season. Tufts won just two games all year (2-10-2) and struggled in NESCAC play, emerging with a 0-8-1 inconference record. The Jumbos were left out of the NESCAC Tournament for the second time in the last three years; under Ferrigno, the team only made it past the first round once since the tournament’s inception in 2000, when it went to the semifinals in 2001.

“I think after last season’s lack of success, the team needs something to completely reshape it and get it out of that funk, and this is something that I definitely think was necessary for the team and the program,” said Naji Muakkassa, who will be one of four senior captains for the team next fall.

Though Ferrigno will no longer be prowling the sidelines, he has left a veteran roster on the Hill that will feature nine seniors next season. With that in mind, Gehling sought the advice of three of the four rising seniors who will be captains next season — the incumbent

Muakkassa and classmates Ron Coleman and Chris Flaherty — when he and the committee had whittled down the pool. The fourth captain for next season, Josh Molofsky, was abroad, but the leaders tried to find a coach who would fit their team.

“I don’t know if any other athletic director at other schools would have taken the time out of his day to meet with us and really listen to our input,” Muakkassa said. “Once they narrowed down the field and conducted interviews on campus, the captains were allowed to speak with applicants after they had interviewed with Gehling and the athletic department committee. And he asked us to give him our input on each coach individually. I don’t know how much he looked into it, but it obviously meant something to him to ask us to write something about each candidate and for him to read it.”

Among the applicants that Muakkassa and his teammates met with, they felt an immediate connection with Junot.

“Right off the bat, he was very easy to talk to — he was very approachable,” Muakkassa said. “We started asking questions, and with some of the other coaches, for maybe the first 10 minutes it was a bit shaky, as you can imagine. You don’t really know them and they

don’t really know you, so it is a bit awkward.

With Coach Junot, right off the bat it seemed like something had clicked. He was enthusiastic about the job — not that other applicants weren’t — but he was very excited and he seemed very genuine that he wanted to come here and really change the program.”

But first and foremost, the team was looking for someone who knows the game of soccer. Junot has had an extensive coaching career since his playing days at Furman University, where he was a team captain and All-Region honoree in his senior season in 2001. The San Antonio native will bring a different style than Ferrigno, who was born and raised in England and got most of his experience there. It certainly doesn’t hurt that Junot comes highly recommended from some of the best minds in the game. Clark played in the MLS before moving on to a coaching career, and his father, Bobby, was the former manager of the New Zealand national team.

“We are looking for somebody who has expertise in the game of soccer,” Gehling said. “Coach Junot, at Harvard, worked under a coach named Jamie Clark who I know very well. And I felt that from [him] see MEN’S SOCCER, page 16

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The women’s tennis team started out its season on a strong note. But over the last week, as the level of its competition has risen, Tufts has been just a step behind.

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The Jumbos dropped their second straight contest in a 6-3 match against NESCAC rival Amherst on Tuesday afternoon that was far closer than the final score indicates. After winning seven consecutive matches with six shutouts, the Jumbos’ streak was broken with a conference loss to Williams before the loss to Amherst. The Lord Jeffs won their 22nd consecutive match against the Jumbos, a streak that dates as far back as 1992.

“They were very aggressive and didn’t give

us any opportunities,” freshman Lindsay Katz said. “Amherst especially came out really strong and ready to win.”

The Lord Jeffs took away the Jumbos’ momentum right away with a quick sweep of all three doubles matches. Ranked No. 1 in the Northeast, Tufts’ duo of junior Julia Browne and senior Meghan McCooey had an all-time 3-0 record when playing together against Amherst.

However, the Lord Jeffs duo of senior Brittany Berckes and sophomore Laura Danzig came out fighting to take a decisive 8-2 victory for Amherst over the twotime defending ITA Small College National Doubles champions. As they continued to push through each doubles lineup, Katz and first year Janice Lam gave up an 8-3 loss at the No. 2 slot, while the Jeffs kept Tufts’ third doubles team of freshman Lauren Hollender and senior Erica Miller from winning a single game, breezing to an 8-0 victory.

“We definitely didn’t come out to play the way we usually do,” Lam said. “Amherst was more prepared than we were.”

Although the sluggish start initially extinsee WOMEN’S TENNIS, page 16

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First round of playoffs providing many thrills BY

Where should Tebow go?

ALEX SCAROS

Senior Staff Writer

The NBA playoffs always promise to deliver excitement, and this year’s matchups have provided fans with just that. Most games have been competitive, but the trend so far has been the higher seeds coming out victorious in these earlier stages.

The playoffs kicked off Saturday afternoon with the No. 1-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers facing off against the eighthseeded Chicago Bulls. The game had a lot of hype going in: LeBron James returned after resting for the last four games of the season, and Shaquille O’Neal saw his first action since February after nursing a broken thumb. The Cavaliers came out of the gates as hard and fast as expected, jumping out to a 32-18 first quarter lead and never looking back.

The Bulls cut the lead to seven at one point but never posed a serious threat.

After a tough shooting night in Game 1 for LeBron, despite notching 24 points, six rebounds and five assists, he came back in Game 2 without any of the rust from the short layoff. King James dropped 40 points in the second contest to go along with eight rebounds and eight assists in a 112-102 Cavs victory.

Swingman Jamario Moon, additionally, was huge off the bench in the game, going 4-for-5 from three-point range.

Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah are doing their part for the scrappy Bulls, and they dropped 23 and 25 points, respectively, in Game 2, but their efforts were not enough to steal a game in Cleveland.

Down in Atlanta, the Andrew Bogutless Milwaukee Bucks are struggling against a Hawks team that is running on all cylinders. The Hawks exploded at the start of Game 1 and jumped out to a 34-17 first-quarter lead and led by 22 at halftime. Atlanta came at the Bucks with a balanced attack, as it had six players score in double-digits, led by Joe Johnson with 22 points. Bucks rookie Brandon Jennings scored 34 points in his playoff debut, but the two-man show of Jennings and John Salmons doesn’t seem to have enough fire power to handle the deep Hawks team.

Going into their first-round matchup with the Miami Heat, the fourth-seeded Boston Celtics were getting a lot of criticism from experts who pointed at their age, underachievement and poor home record as serious obstacles in the way of their making any run in the playoffs.

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LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers are up 2-0 on the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.

In the first two games, the Celtics have silenced their critics, winning Game 1 85-76 and Game 2 in a 106-77 slaughter despite the one-game suspension of Kevin Garnett for his actions in the opening match.

Without Garnett, the Celtics looked faster and more dynamic. Ray Allen was on fire, draining seven of nine threes on his way to a 25-point performance.

On the other side, the Heat are not giving Dwyane Wade any reason to want to stay in Miami when he becomes a free agent this July — their other four starters dropped a combined 24 points.

Forwards Michael Beasley and Jermaine O’Neal have been effectively invisible, combining for just 29 total points in the first two games. If the Heat want to make this interesting, they will need Beasley and O’Neal to get back into top form as the series shifts to Miami.

Out West, the highly anticipated Los Angeles Lakers-Oklahoma City Thunder series has been one of the most exciting of the playoffs so far. The Lakers looked strong in their 87-79 Game 1 victory, getting strong performances from Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, who combined for 32 points and 25 rebounds.

The real star of the game, though, was Ron Artest, who frustrated Thunder

superstar Kevin Durant all game and held him to just 7-of-24 shooting from the field.

Durant responded in Game 2 with 32 points, going 12-for-26 from the field and 3-of-6 from downtown. Point guard Russell Westbrook added 19 points, but unfortunately for the Thunder, the man who wears number 24 on the Lakers — Kobe Bryant — was in his rhythm all night, dropping 39 points. The Thunder had a chance to force overtime on the last shot of the game, but once again fell short, losing the game 95-92. The team will head back to Oklahoma City down two games in the series.

After Brandon Roy was forced to undergo arthroscopic surgery to fix a torn meniscus, the Portland Trailblazers seemed to be completely overmatched by a red-hot Phoenix Suns team on paper. But although the Blazers came into Game 1 as nine-point underdogs, they were unfazed. Led by Andre Miller’s 31 point performance, Portland defeated the Suns 105-100.

LaMarcus Aldridge, who added 22 points of his own, kept Amar’e Stoudemire in check, holding him to just 18 points and eight rebounds and see INSIDE THE NBA, page 19

THE WHEEL AND CHAIN

Road rash and razor raves BY

EVAN COOPER

Daily Editorial Board

Editor’s Note: Evan Cooper is a sophomore, a sports editor for the Daily and an aspiring professional cyclist. He races for the Tufts Cycling Team and for the elite amateur squad Team Ora presented by Independent Fabrication.

This series will chronicle his season as he tries to make racing into more than just a hobby.

Sliding across the pavement and off the side of the road as the pack speeds off down the road, all I could think was, “Well, that was dumb.”

If there is one question that I spend more time answering than any other, it has to be the one about why I, and all cyclists, shave my legs.

“Does it make you go faster?” everyone asks. “Is it like swimming?”

No, not really. If you take just a second to consider the physics of it, you will realize no amount of body hair fluttering in the wind could possibly create enough drag to pose a serious detriment to your performance and slow you down. I don’t care if you are as hairy as Austin Powers with a fleecy coat wrapping your body as if the next Ice Age is coming. When you’re battling the wind, it’s just not that important.

But when the pavement is your foe, now that is another story. Imagine the feeling of shedding a few layers of skin as you roll, slide and tumble across

COURTESY EVAN COOPER

At the ECCC Army race this weekend, Daily editor and aspiring pro cyclist Evan Cooper took a nasty spill on the pavement. rough pavement somewhere in the vicinity of 25 to 30 miles per hour. I’ll give you a hint: It doesn’t tickle. Now add to that the bonus of all that hair you neglected to shave being ripped from its deeply rooted follicles and you have the makings of a truly memorable experience. And hence, I present to you, the

razor. (Shaving cream and moisturizer are nice too, but that is another article in and of itself.)

The benefits of the shaved leg go beyond just pain reduction, though. It also greatly aids the clean-up process, see CYCLING, page 16

don’t like Tim Tebow.

I didn’t like his anti-abortion ad that aired during the Super Bowl. I don’t like his barking, made-for-TV, clichéd style of “leadership” — I much prefer the quiet, lead-by-example guys like Tom Brady and Eli Manning. I’m annoyed just about any time he gets in front of a television camera and has something to say — the guy preaches more than Kurt Warner (and that’s saying something).

But that said, I think he is going to be a good NFL quarterback. When a player has enjoyed success at just about every level he’s ever been at, and when he has the track record that Tebow has — two national championships, a Heisman trophy, a plethora of SEC and school records — I find it difficult to just dismiss him completely.

Yes, Tebow’s got a lot to learn. He’s got to practice three- and five-step drops.

He has to rework his throwing motion and get the ball out of his hand more quickly. But these aren’t the most monumental tasks in the world. There was another quarterback who reworked his throwing motion coming out of college a few years ago … His name was Peyton Manning. He has gone on to win four MVPs (and counting).

I’m not saying Tebow isn’t a project.

He most certainly is, and by no means will he be ready to start as a rookie in the NFL. And I’m also not saying the guy is a first-round pick. Projects don’t go in the first round of the draft, and if they do, they usually end up having the career path of J.P. Losman, who played most of last year for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League. The expectations of a first-round pick can be too much, especially if they are thrust into the limelight too quickly.

But in the late second or early third round, I don’t see a problem with selecting Tebow. The upside is just too much to ignore. You’re telling me he couldn’t eventually make the Buffalo Bills a much better team (and sell a lot more tickets while he’s at it)?

In sports, scouts and executives spend a lot of time focusing on people’s physical attributes and whether or not they fit the prototype of a certain position. That’s why guys like Ty Lawson and DeJuan Blair were taken so low in last year’s NBA Draft — and yet they’re both key contributors on playoff teams. Jameer Nelson, despite leading St. Joseph’s to an undefeated regularseason record in his senior college season, fell to No. 20 in the draft. Now he’s arguably the second most important player on a championship contender.

In baseball circles, Dustin Pedroia was always viewed as too small to play professionally, and Jason Giambi was too fat and slow. Both have won MVP awards.

In the NFL, Wes Welker has caught 346 passes for 3,688 yards in the past three years — all despite going undrafted. Tom Brady, three-time Super Bowl champion, was a sixth-round draft choice, and Shannon Sharpe, one of the best tight ends ever, was a seventh-rounder.

Now, obviously none of the above cases prove that Tebow will have similar success in the NFL — all of those players are exceptions to the rule. But the point is that maybe the rules shouldn’t be quite so hard and fast.

Tebow enjoyed a lot of advantages in college; he had a great team, a great coach and a great system. But it’s not like I could’ve played for the Gators and been just as good.

Tebow was one of the top college recruits coming out of high school for a reason — because he’s got the ability. He showed that over four years at Florida, and now he just has to work out a few kinks to make the next step.

If I were an NFL executive, I’d give him that chance.

David Heck is a senior majoring in philosophy. He can be reached at David.Heck@ tufts.edu.

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New coach gets ringing endorsement from Muakkassa, other rising seniors MEN’S SOCCER continued from page 13

that I could get a really good sense of Carl’s knowledge as a coach and style as a coach.”

As much value as Gehling and his committee placed on the aspects of what they will see on the field, they also went in knowing that a college sports program is about more than the results on the scoreboard. The group was looking for someone to fit Tufts and help bring new ideas to a program that needed a reboot.

“Just like any other program, when you have a coach who has been here for a long time, some things get stagnant, and that is natural,” Muakkassa said. “Getting fresh blood in here is really exciting.

He has a lot of different ideas and new thoughts on how to change the program and how to do things differently — certainly with style of play, practices, team mentality, stuff

like that. I think he definitely has ideas on what to do.”

“I think in terms of running the program my goal is to run a classy program,” Junot added. “And to do that with pursuit of excellence in terms of athletics, while not compromising anything there, I want to put that into the greater mission of the university.

“And that is where my experience at Harvard I think will help me,” he continued. “Not even in terms of how similar they were, but in that Harvard really asks the coaching staff to run their program within the mission of the greater university.

So that is probably going to be my number one goal in terms of running the program. I think within that I hope the players see me as an educator to them athletically, academically and socially as well. So those are kind of going to be the pillars of the program.”

Still, that doesn’t mean that Junot is not going to try to bring his own brand of play over from Cambridge.

As part of a Harvard coaching staff that brought the team to the third round of the NCAA Tournament last season, he is an accomplished coach on the field as well. Junot would like to bring similar success to Tufts and take the program to new heights.

“I think our goal is to finish within the top half of the conference and to qualify for the conference tournament,” he said. “What that means is we are going to have a pretty simple and organized philosophy. We are going to identify our offensive strengths and try to play to our strengths. Within those two areas, I’d like to be able to play a pretty exciting style of soccer, and of course that would be contingent on our current personnel.”

Gehling and the Athletics

Department are confident that Junot can turn the program around.

After a lengthy process to find a new coach to lead the program, Junot certainly stood out among all the applicants through both his credentials and his character.

“At the end of the day, you are looking to hire a person, and it was the interview process that really convinced us that Carl was a great fit for Tufts,” Gehling said. “Even though the bulk of his experience — all of his experience really — has been at the Div. I level, it was very obvious to all of us that philosophically, he was a great match for Tufts and that he really appreciates the non-athletic side of coaching.

The educational side of coaching, being a part of a community and the team building piece, he is very good at those components and really buys into the importance of those components.”

After a dismal 2009 campaign, Tufts has nowhere to go but up.

And with an experienced squad and some strong underclassmen who got the chance to play last season, it should see results in 2010. Junot sees a team that is not that far from getting back to the top half of the NESCAC, and he is hoping that he can help the team achieve that goal as soon as next season.

“Reflecting on last year in terms of just looking at their schedule and talking to some of the upperclassmen and to administration that got to know the team pretty well, there were a lot of games they lost by one goal, which kind of leads me to believe that they are very close,” he said. “And maybe just a little bit of momentum that a coach like myself can bring to the program will help us bridge that gap and end up on the winning side in a few of those games.”

Shaved legs help cyclists cope with nasty falls, Cooper says CYCLING continued from page 15

as bloodied and dirt-caked hair is not getting in the way as you delicately try to extricate the bits of road from your body.

You just had a rough date with some hard asphalt, and life is bad enough at the moment as it is. There is just no need to make things any harder on yourself.

Of course, there is also the vanity aspect of it. Shaving your legs says “I am a bike racer” like nothing else can, save maybe severe and permanent tan lines that make you appear like a human Oreo: brown on the outside, white in the middle. It confers membership to an exclusive club and, depending on who you ask, looks kind of cool.

Body builders do it, right? Why not skinny guys in spandex?

Finally, and this is only my personal theory, having shaved legs makes massages that much better. As you work your way up the ranks in the sport, the number of massages you get increases. When you are on a bigger team with a bigger budget, you can afford niceties like masseurs and physical therapists who will gladly and expertly knead your every sinew and muscle fiber, working out those pesky knots that accompany miles of training and travel. With no silly hair to get in the way, their lives are

so much easier and undoubtedly so much more pleasant, as I can only imagine the grossness of massage oil mixed with body hair (think Alec Baldwin).

Unfortunately, I am not a pro, and my massages have been few and far between (though definitely pleasant). Therefore, my reasons for shaving, at least for the time being, are largely the first two. This past weekend, though, I was thinking more about the first.

Riding along in the peloton at the ECCC Army race weekend on Sunday, I turned to a friend of mine and said, “If I try to do anything, I give you permission to just smack me.”

We had raced a time trial earlier in the morning and then, in pursuit of some quality training, myself, the aforementioned friend and one other went off for a two-hour ride on the hilly roads around the United States Military Academy.

Needless to say, I was a little on the tired side, and sitting in for most of the race would have been prudent. But, despite all this, the ringing of the bell for a preme got me excited, and before I knew it I was attacking into turn one. The next thing I knew, I was sliding along on my left side, headed straight for the guard rail along the side of the road. Fortunately, I was wear-

ing gloves and long sleeves, so that saved some skin. And, of course, my legs were cleanly shaved.

To be honest, the whole situation was quite funny. As I came to a stop, lodged under the guardrail and needing the assistance of the race marshals to get back on my feet and run to the pits to get my free lap and hop back in the race, all I could think was that I had actually just smacked myself. As soon I was back in the race, I found that same friend and told him just that, assuring him that his services would not be needed.

At the very least, we got a few laughs out of it.

It’s not so funny now, and I would definitely like to extend my thanks to the ladies at Tufts Health Service for the generous box of bandages. But even more so, I feel I need to thank the people over at the Gillette company for their Mach3 Turbo razor. Its finely honed blades and delicate padding make shaving an enjoyable experience every time. Were it not for them, I might not have had such cleanly shaved appendages, and my discomfort now would probably be all the worse for it.

Hopefully for next week’s installment, I’ll be able to keep it upright.

Trott’s hole-in-one the highlight of an otherwise lackluster performance by the golf team Playing its final two tournaments of the year last week, the golf team put forth a couple of solid but unspectacular efforts to close out its spring season.

The Jumbos ended their year placing 14th out of 16 teams at the Worcester State Invitational on Tuesday, April 20. Seniors Brett Hershman and John Trott both hit team-best scores of 89, while freshman Mike McCarthy contributed a 92 that included a nine-hole low of 41 for Tufts. The last scorer for the Jumbos was senior James Stone, who hit a 42 on the front nine but stumbled a bit down the stretch for a total of 93.

Tufts totaled a score of 363 as a team, putting it 11 strokes in back of 13th-place Franklin Pierce University and just two strokes ahead of 15th-place Springfield College. Trinity College took first at the single-day tournament with a combined score of 298, 10 strokes better than the next-closest competitor. The Bantams were led by senior Dave Anderson, who shot a two-under-par 70 to take home the individual crown.

Before that, Tufts took part in the WNEC Invitational on Thursday, April 15. The highlight of the day was unquestionably Trott’s hole-in-one on the par-3, 186-yard 15th hole. Trott went on to shoot an 85 on the day, tied for 43rd individually with teammates Stone and senior Cal Shapiro.

Leading Tufts was junior Luke Heffernan, who finished in a tie for eighth by posting a 78, and Hershman, who came in 35th with an 83.

The Jumbos’ team total was 331, tying them with Massachusetts College for ninth place out of 12 teams. Babson led the field with a total of 306, as sophomore Joe Young won the individual medal with an even-par 72 at the event.

Tufts will not play another event until next fall. The Jumbos will have current junior Danny Moll — who is currently studying abroad — back for those tournaments, but the team will also graduate six seniors in May: Heffernan, Shapiro, Stone, Trott, Brad Dreisbach and Alex Mitropoulos. This means that just three players on the current roster will be returning this fall, so coach Bob Sheldon will likely be spending some time in the offseason trying to recruit new talent.

— by David Heck

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Freshman Janice Lam posted an impressive victory at No. 5 singles, but it wasn’t enough for the women’s tennis team, which fell to national No. 1 Amherst, 6-3.

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guished the Jumbos’ spirits, coach Kate Bayard maintained a team policy between doubles and singles at every match. With a strong emphasis on developing the team’s mental toughness and focus, the Jumbos aimed to enter the singles matches with a clear mind.

“We always have a meeting, whether we won doubles or not, and agree to completely forget about it during singles,” Katz said. “We have to let it go and play our game.”

“We have to play like we’re up 3-0,” Lam added. “Every match counts, win or lose.”

The Jumbos did exactly that as they refocused and charged through three lines of singles, tying the Jeffs’ singles victories on the day. Browne, the ITA’s top-ranked singles player in the Northeast, notched her 15th singles win this year with a 6-0, 6-2 win at first singles over Berckes, exacting revenge for the doubles loss.

Lam and sophomore Jennifer LaCara added two more wins for the Jumbos with successful matches at fifth and sixth seeds.

LaCara toughed out a grueling three-set match to finish 0-6, 6-1 and 6-4.

“We came out stronger after we neutralized, and we were able to pull off quite a few singles

wins,” Lam said. “We gave them a good fight.”

Katz also pushed through a three-set match, falling just short of besting Amherst junior Carlissa King at the third singles spot by a score of 4-6, 7-5 and 6-4.

Although the NESCAC losses to Williams this weekend and then Amherst put a stop to the Jumbos’ previous 5-0 conference record, the team firmly believes in its ability to compete at the top of the conference, especially when the tournament rolls around.

“If we had another chance, I think the results would be different,” Lam said. “We’re at the top, right there with them.”

With just two matches left against nationally ranked Middlebury and Bowdoin in the regular season, Tufts holds an 11-5 record and a 5-2 mark in NESCAC play. Despite the recent tough losses, the Jumbos feel like they are primed to bounce back and return to their winning ways on Saturday against No. 15 Middlebury.

“We’re going to flip it on our opponents and not let them get into the match from the start, like Amherst did to us,” Katz said.

“We’re going to keep up the same mentality we’ve been having, taking it point by point and wanting the win.”

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forcing him to foul out in the final minutes of the game. The Suns, though, responded in kind with a 119-90 stomping in Game 2, as All-Star point guard Steve Nash and his 16 assists helped dictate a fast-paced game while getting 29 points worth of help from shooting guard Jason Richardson.

After the Denver Nuggets opened the playoffs with a 126113 victory over the Utah Jazz, Deron Williams and company evened the series in Game 2 with a 114-111 battle at the Pepsi Arena. After trailing 76-62 late in the third quarter, the Nuggets scored 14 straight points to tie the game. Deron Williams blew up for 33 points and 14 assists and was aided by Kyle Korver, who scored three

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straight buckets to end the third quarter within 90 seconds on his way to 5-7 shooting and 13 points. With the series knotted up going back to Utah, look for this one to go six or seven games, as both teams are showing glimpses of brilliance.

The Magic-Bobcats and Mavericks-Spurs series are both at 1-0 in favor of the two seeds, the Magic and Mavericks. The Magic got 32 points from Jameer Nelson in their Game 1 victory over the Bobcats. The Mavericks, who are deep and dangerous, got 36 points from Dirk Nowitzki and 22 points from Caron Butler in a 100-94 Game 1 victory over the Spurs.

As the playoffs continue down the road, look for the top seeds, as expected, to continue their recent dominance and surge on into the next round.

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