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Field hockey stampedes into nation’s top spot

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Peace Corps director speaks about agency’s past, future BY

KATHRYN OLSON

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Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams spoke at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy yesterday, commemorating the agency’s 50th anniversary next year and addressing the challenges facing the Peace Corps to develop a strong future.

Williams gave a short presentation on the legacy of the Peace Corps, established in 1961 under the Kennedy administration, which he said has supplied over 200,000 volunteers worldwide since its inception.

Following the presentation, Fletcher students, faculty and staff in attendance participated in a question-and-answer session.

Williams called Tufts “a citadel for international development” during his presentation, praising the number of Tufts students who go on to join the Peace Corps.

Tufts currently has 16 alumni serving in 14 different countries through Peace Corps, and has sent 484 alumni since the Peace Corps’ founding in 1961, according to Peace Corps Public Affairs Specialist Elizabeth Chamberlain.

“Tufts is one of the great Peace Corps schools,” Williams told the Daily.

“Tufts has sent a lot of Peace Corps volunteers who then return to The Fletcher School, so from the standpoint of both, Tufts is a great school for us,” he said.

Williams noted that many aspects of the Tufts experience are valuable to the Peace Corps.

“The range of subjects taught here is a topic of interest to us, from the health sciences to the social sciences, all with a focus on worldwide issues,” he said. “The see PEACE CORPS, page 2

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After years of lingering around the No. 1 ranking in the country, the Jumbos have finally secured it. In the most recent National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) poll released yesterday, the Jumbos are in the top spot after receiving 22 of the 38 first-place votes. See page 11 for more details.

Medford and Somerville move on single-stream BY

KATHRYN SULLIVAN Contributing Writer

The City of Medford will enact a new single-stream recycling program to replace its existing system on or around Nov. 1.

Under the new system, residents can dispose of all types of recyclable material, including paper, plastic, metal and glass, in a single container, eliminating the need to sort them into different bins. The new system aims to increase recycling participation, reduce cost and prevent waste from falling into the streets during trash pick-up, according to Tufts Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel.

The program was originally slated to start on Oct. 1, but was delayed due to logistical issues.

Under the new program, Medford residents will receive new, standardized barrels, one for recyclables and the other for trash.

“Everyone provides their own garbage containers, and they’re all sizes and shapes,” Rubel said, referring to Medford’s existing disposal system. “This is the first time they’ve been provided with an official trash barrel.”

The City of Somerville will begin a similar pilot program in certain areas of Ward 5 beginning tomorrow. That program was delayed by one week due to a recycling bin manufacturer’s issue, according to Boston.com.

The pilot program will provide residents with a new recycling barrel, which will have wheels for increased mobility, according to Somerville Deputy Director of Communications Jaclyn Rossetti. “The hope is that it’s making [recycling] immensely easier,” Rossetti said.

In addition to increasing recycling, a single-stream recycling system will help improve the trash pick-up process and reduce resultant litter, Rubel said. “It will keep the streets cleaner, because it’s less likely that things will spill out into the streets,” she said.

For students living in off-campus houses in Medford, the recycling program is estimated to take effect Nov. 1. The new trash and recycling barrels will be delivered beginning this week.

Upon receiving the new barrels, students must use them in place of the old ones. see RECYCLING, page 2

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Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams called Tufts ‘a citadel for international development.’

Boston Globe announces plans to introduce subscription-based website BY

MONICA MOWERY Daily Staff Writer

The Boston Globe has devised a scheme to help bolster its revenues in a changing media landscape: two websites.

The publication, ailing financially in recent years, announced Sept. 30 that it will introduce a subscription-only, feebased website in addition to its current, free-to-access website, Boston.com, in the second half of 2011.

BostonGlobe.com will feature premium content, including all the news articles, features stories and commentary in the paper edition of the Globe.

The Globe will maintain Boston.com as a free source for local news, sports and weather information.

“We firmly believe this approach will better serve the millions of people who turn to Boston.com and The Boston Globe for news and information, better meet the needs of our advertisers, and increase our reach among consumers and our overall revenues,” Christopher Mayer, the publisher of the Globe and president of New England Media Group said in a memo to Globe employees.

The new website will reorganize the

Globe’s online delivery of news into “a bold, elegant format,” Mayer said in the memo.

“Our research shows that Boston.com currently attracts several different types of users. Some are readers whose main interest is breaking news and things to do, while others want access to the entirety of The Boston Globe,” Mayer said in a Sept. 30 press release.

“These two distinct sites will allow us to serve both types of readers with maximum effectiveness, while continuing to provide advertisers the large engaged audience they have come to expect from Boston.com.”

In charging for content, the Globe follows The Wall Street Journal, the first major newspaper to establish its website behind a paywall.

The New York Times Co., which owns the Boston Globe, said in January that it would charge for New York Times premium online content in 2011.

English lecturer Neil Miller, who teaches the course Creative Writing: Journalism at Tufts, said it is difficult for newspapers to keep up with the changing media landscape.

“Newspapers are having a really hard time these days, because more and more people see GLOBE, page 2

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Religious Americans are not necessarily the ones most knowledgeable about religion, according to a new study.

The women’s novice crew team got its season underway, while the varsity rowers prepped for the Head of the Charles.

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are gravitating to online news,” Miller said.

“There are two products — one’s free and one costs money, so of course everyone’s going to want to read for free.”

The shifting currents reflect an attempt by the newspaper industry to attempt to compensate for revenue losses in recent years, according to Miller. “The recession came along around the same time that people were all migrating to the Internet, so there was less advertising,” he said.

Media Advocacy Board Chair Shabazz Stuart said the Internet has created a saturated market for news.

“The bigger picture is that newspapers are doing what the record industry is trying to do,” Stuart, a senior, said. “The Internet allows free exchange of information. There are enough blogs and news sites for people to get news.”

“The New York Times is large and prestigious enough that it might survive doing paid news online,” he said. “I don’t see how a smaller, regional newspaper can pull that off.”

A decrease in newspapers’ popularity among young readers has deepened the effects of the economic recession on the medium, according to Miller.

“They have to find a way to woo the younger generation,” Miller said.

Stuart believes the Internet generation treats information access differently than previous generations. “People view news as a right, not a privilege,” he said.

But journalism in the future may not be entirely based on online news, Miller said.

“The reporting that’s done all over the Internet is done largely by these newspapers,” he said. “It requires money and an infrastructure to pay reporters.”

Print newspapers are institutions because they can feature investigative journalism and have the support to do so, Miller said. “The depth of some of these stories can’t be replicated” by online startups, he said.

Jenny White and Martha Shanahan contributed reporting to this article.

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The Boston Globe hopes its readers will be willing to pay for content online. Above, T subway riders read newspapers in the Davis Square station.

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Recycling trucks will take all forms of recyclables under new programs in Medford and Somerville.

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Residents are still expected to put them out on their designated collection days, according to Rubel.

“People either need to watch what their neighbors are doing or call City Hall for their pick-up day,” Rubel said.

According to Rubel, students should receive letters in the mail today or tomorrow providing further details about the program.

In Somerville, the pilot program will follow similar guidelines to the Medford initiative.

It is only being implemented in select areas of Somerville’s Ward 5.

Rossetti said the program would

probably not impact many Tufts students, because of the ward’s distance from the Tufts campus.

Although Tufts has its own recycling system separate from that of the Cities of Medford and Somerville, off-campus residents will still feel the impact of the program.

“I think it’s great because a lot of research has shown that recycling rates increase when singlestream systems are put in place,” Environmental Consciousness OutreachofficerSignePorteshawver, a senior, said.

The new recycling initiative in Medford stemmed from an increased civic focus on the environment, according to Rubel.

“Medford is really keen on environmental issues and taking steps on making the city greener. That’s a real priority for the mayor,” Rubel said, referring to Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn. “This is something that has been talked about for a while.”

While the Medford program will be in place soon, Rossetti hopes that Somerville’s pilot program will eventually be expanded to cover the whole city of Somerville.

“We’ll see, based on this pilot, how the rates fare, and we’ll make a determination based on that if we’re going to go city-wide,” Rossetti said. “We hope that it will be able to go city-wide.”

type of students Tufts recruits and the large international population ensure that students here are more invested in the global community. That’s important.”

Williams’ talk also highlighted the value of international service in today’s world.

“Now more than ever, it is important to have an international experience, to be able to live in a different culture and learn a different mindset, so that we can effectively engage in a global future,” he said.

“We want to grow with quality and be supported by the right investments,” Williams said. A budget increase over last year has left the Peace Corps looking to significantly expand within the next few years.

Williams mentioned a new Peace Corps initiative to create partnerships with federal organizations such as NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for Aid Relief, as well as leading non-governmental organizations such as Mercy Corps. He added that new partnerships are a good opportunity to train volunteers and increase collaboration.

“These are global agreements that will allow leaders in countries where Peace Corps and these groups are working to collaborate,” Williams said.

A task force dedicated entirely to expanding the Peace Corps conducted surveys of alumni around the country, Williams noted.

An audience member inquired

about whether the enlarged budget would result in a greater number of volunteers in addition to an increase of ground resources available to Peace Corps members.

“We want it all,” Williams replied. “There are lots of people who want to serve, and we want to provide a quality experience for them. By focusing on balanced growth, we can grow in a way that will be effective. We can’t expand just our volunteer base without the necessary infrastructure.”

Williams also noted the challenges the Peace Corps faces after 50 years of service, specifically mentioning the need for the agency to develop its recruiting strategy and compete more effectively with other institutions that recruit young adults.

In response to a question about the Corps’ demographics, Williams said that the Peace Corps strives to reflect American diversity. He said the agency has created projects that will improve recruiting from underrepresented communities, notably African-American and Hispanic communities.

In the question-and-answer session, Williams said that the Peace Corps is committed to improving volunteer communications and training.

“Best practices need to be shared between volunteers and we are very acutely aware of that,” he said.

Williams added that the Corps, like colleges and universities, seeks to develop stronger communications with its alumni to better solicit feedback and ideas.

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Atheists and agnostics know more about religion than believers, survey finds BY

ANGELINA ROTMAN Contributing Writer

Atheists generally know more about religion than the faithful, according to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Forum of Religion and Public Life that has garnered considerable attention. Atheists and agnostics scored highest on the organization’s religious knowledge test, with Jews and Mormons in second and third place, respectively.

The survey asked over 3,400 Americans 32 questions relating to various world religions and overall religious knowledge. On average, participants answered only half of the questions accurately, with many participants answering even questions about their own faiths incorrectly.

Those who identified themselves as atheists or agnostics answered 20.9 questions correctly, while Jewish participants answered 20.5 correctly and Mormons gave 20.3 correct answers on average.

“What this survey shows without question is that students should take more courses in the [Department of Religion],” Kevin Dunn, chair of the Department of Religion, said.

Witticisms aside, Dunn pointed out that this study is not simply a reflection of the participants’ religion but of their knowledge as a whole.

“An important, if not surprising, finding of the survey was that those who knew most about religion also had the most general knowledge,” he said. “So the most, and the most accurate, information belongs to the best educated, most curious part of the populace.”

Senior David Johnson, president of Tufts’ Freethought Society (TFS), also noted the relationship between general and religious education.

“More than anything, the study demonstrates a correlation between education and religious knowledge as well as nonbelief,” he said.

Both students and educators highlighted the importance of a better religious education for the general population.

“Although the level of knowledge revealed

Contributing Writer

Many students at Tufts say they care about environmentalism, but are often unsure about how to get involved in the cause. The campus on Sunday had the chance to take part in a “barnraising” hosted by the Tufts Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) fraternity chapter, in which teams worked together to improve the energy and water efficiency of the house, making it not only more eco-friendly but also more comfortable.

The event was part of a Global Work Party, a series of worldwide events planned for Sunday through which participants sought to make 10/10/10 the largest-ever global day of action against climate change. The initiative was overseen primarily by 350.org, an organization committed to lowering the parts per million of carbon dioxide concentration from the current level of 392 to 350 — the safe upper limit, according to scientists.

For the events at Tufts, 350.org teamed up with Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE), which was largely responsible for the organizational planning and funding, and the Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET), which provided the technical assistance and leadership, along with the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP), Fletcher GREEN, Tufts Energy Forum, Environmental Consciousness Outreach (ECO) and the Office of Community Relations.

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Identifying with a religion does not necessarily make one knowledgeable about it or other faiths, a survey by the Pew Forum of Religion and Public Life found. by the survey doesn’t seem more shocking to me than similar surveys of, for instance, Americans’ understanding of world geography, it is still lamentably low for atheist, Jewish, Mormon, Catholic and Protestant respondents alike,” Dunn said. “And one doesn’t need to look around very long to realize how important a broad understanding of religion is in today’s world.”

Sophomore Alexa Stevens, TFS’s secretary, agreed. “[The survey] shows how necessary religious education is when religion is so wide-

spread,” she said. “Given the monumental impact of religion in today’s society, knowing about it is paramount. This poll unveils the fact that many are religious without knowing the full history of their and other belief systems. Many of the world’s problems are intrinsically tied to religion, so knowing about the world’s religions is completely necessary.”

Tufts Hillel Treasurer John Peter Kaytrosh believes that one reason nonbelievers see RELIGION, page 4

ATO members transform their house into a more energy-efficient living space

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from HEET to install low-flow shower heads to decrease water flow and toilet tank banks that reduce the amount of water used per flush. Others worked on “weatherizing” the house, or using weatherizing strips around doors and caulk around windows to decrease the amount of air that escapes.

Another team went door-to-door in Tufts’ surrounding neighborhoods to conduct a Compact Florescent light bulb (CFL) exchange, providing Medford/Somerville residents with free energy-efficient light bulbs in exchange for their incandescent, less ecofriendly ones. Fletcher GREEN, a Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy environmental group, spearheaded the CFL exchange.

The most successful aspect of the event, according to Libby Mahaffey, a graduate student at UEP and a TIE intern, was that it broke down environmentalism into tangible, low-tech activities with practical and visible effects.

“I was so amazed by how easy it is,” she said. “It just makes me think that anyone can do this kind of stuff.”

Mahaffey, who planned the barnraising, said she had never been involved with energy efficiency until she started organizing the event at ATO. After this experience, she changed the faucet aerators in her home as well as at those in the TIE office. This type of hands-on activism gets people excited about setting environmentalist goals in their own lives, she said.

“Students get to be involved in this,” she said. “They learn how to do it themselves.”

Of course, there’s also the social aspect — the event fostered teamwork and gave volunteers a chance to hang out with friends while benefiting the environment.

“It’s supposed to be fun. They’re called ‘work parties,’” senior Sara Carnahan, a member of ATO who was involved in the event planning, said.

At the end of the day, participants were rewarded for their work with an “After Work Party” at Johnny D’s, where Muse Stew, a jazz band with West African, Cuban and Brazilian influences, performed to support 350.org.

Residents of the ATO house will also reap long-term benefits from the weatherization, which Carnahan hopes will allow the house to save money on energy and heating bills so that it can invest in new, energyefficient refrigerators among other home improvements.

“I’ve been at ATO in the winter, and it is really cold,” Carnahan said. “I know they could really use the insulation.”

That was largely how the ATO weatherization project began, she explained. When she heard that TIE was looking for a house to weatherize, Carnahan contacted junior Emily Shaw, ATO’s president. Shaw discussed the idea with the ATO Alumni Board, and with its approval, planning for the barnraising began.

First, TIE conducted an audit of the ATO house, the results of which were less than impressive. see BARNRAISING, page 4

n honor of Tufts’ celebration of National Coming Out Day, I, too, have decided to come out — against “gay” housing at Tufts.

Occupying an inconspicuous tract of student housing is a dormant enemy. Known officially as the Rainbow House, despite being neither rainbow-colored nor a house (it is located in the 160s of the Hillsides Apartments), the establishment “provides a ‘gay-friendly’ atmosphere where students can live and interact,” according to the Office of Residential Life and Learning’s website. This tidbit unintentionally suggests that the rest of Tufts is a non-gayfriendly” atmosphere. Apart from the offense we should all take from such an assertion is a level of ignorance incongruent with Tufts’ mantra of global citizenship.

Before I explain my reasoning, I’d like to clarify what I’m calling for with this ban, given the sensitivity of this issue. My ban will be one that will not prevent gay people from living together. Nor will we end any gay social programming or prevent students from forming gay organizations. The only ban will be on any student housing officially designated as “gay-friendly.”

I accept the anticipated consequences of writing this column, but if you’re looking for homophobia, I’m Teflon, and your charges are clumps of unsalted butter.

Exposure such as this could warrant giving my seemingly backward perspective a second look. Gay people aren’t that much different from “non-gay” people, so it’s counterproductive to designate certain buildings as officially deemed “gay-friendly.” Does being gay somehow render you unable to coexist with people who are not gay? Or are we to assume each class of freshmen entering Tufts consists exclusively of gay-haters and gay people? This assertion assumes that straight people are both homophobic and incapable of adapting to a new and diverse community. Regardless of how it’s interpreted, shielding students from encounters with different lifestyles undermines the purpose of college.

An e-mail from University President Lawrence Bacow to the student body on Monday proclaimed that Tufts is “one community.” Surely he must sense the outlandishness of ghettoizing swaths of gay students into a lone set of Hillsides suites. Unfortunately, if he did, he left it out. Ironically, enough, the e-mail did touch on the negative impacts of gay students feeling isolated.

Bacow did stress the need “to model the behavior we would hope to see in the rest of the world.” Admittedly, nothing cheers me up quite like lofty, “city upon a hill”-style rhetoric being preached to a choir of post-pubescent twerps. But convincing students that wearing a certain number of rainbow pins will get the authorities in Iran to stop hanging gay teenage boys is the job of an activist, not a university president.

My detractors will say, “CJ, it’s not really about whether our behavior will be copied by the rest of the world; it’s about doing what we think is right.” But a ban on school-sanctioned “gay-friendly” housing is the right thing to do.

This movement must start today, on Tufts’ observance of Coming Out Day, as a signal to outsiders that we at Tufts think gay people are no different from straight people. And if the world leaders happen to have their social-policy telescopes pointed at Walnut Hill, they’ll understand what being a true progressiveminded intellectual really entails.

Tufts — and the world around it — will never be immune to anti-gay hatred. The tragic recent suicide of a Rutgers student reminds us of this continued battle for equality.

Still, I think an apt response to bigotry is not one that relies upon the assumption that straight kids at Tufts are gay-unfriendly and that gay people at Tufts need to live by themselves. Instead, let us set a new standard for civil rights by creating a place where people diverse in ways beyond sexual orientation can embrace difference as they come together to form “one community.”

CJ Saraceno is a senior majoring in political science. He can be reached at Christopher.

Saraceno@tufts.edu.

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Members of ATO give their fraternity house an energy-efficient makeover

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“[The house was] ridiculously leaky; the windows don’t close all the way,” Mahaffey said. “In the wintertime, it’ll be burning hot on the third floor and freezing in the kitchen.”

The house had other major problems: Windows did not close properly, some did not fit in their frames and doors leaked heat.

With a few low-tech improvements, though, the ATO house was turned into a much more comfortable place in which to live, with increased water, heat, energy and money savings.

There are many other ways that students can do their part for the environment, Carnahan said. She recently had MassSave, a company that assesses and helps manage houses’ energy costs, audit the house she rents off campus, after which they replaced all the light bulbs for free. She encouraged other students who live off campus to do the same.

“You’ll get lots of free lighting and you can talk with your landlord about lowering your utility bills,” she said.

Carnahan is also a member of ECO, a student group at Tufts that is currently working on a bike-share project to set up bike stations in Boston, Somerville and Medford.

Still, Carnahan explained that even with all the resources available, motivating people to do something about environmental issues can sometimes be difficult.

“Any environmental campaign is an uphill battle, getting people to change what they’re doing now,” Carnahan said.

Mahaffey voiced a similar opinion, explaining that the

scored well is because they are not tied to a particular faith. “The primary thing is that atheists and agnostics scored well because they’re not tied to a particular faith so they … have done their work and have a wide base of religious knowledge,” Kaytrosh said.

Religious education is necessary not only from a scholarly but also from a spiritual perspective, senior Ben Hampson, a leader of the Tufts Christian Fellowship, said.

“Everyone should make a point to know not only what you believe in, but what you don’t believe in,” he said. “I think it demonstrates a very mature view.

[The survey] should demonstrate to individuals to look into faiths they aren’t aware of.”

While the study’s findings point to many holes in people’s religious knowledge, Christians in particular were shown to be lacking in general religious knowledge. Perhaps most surprisingly, 53 percent of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the man responsible for inspiring the Protestant Reformation.

“I think it is disappointing that some very basic beliefs are not known or maybe not expressed,” Hampson said. “I think that part of it is that people will identify themselves as culturally religious. I know a lot of Tufts students identify themselves as culturally Christian or Jewish, meaning they grew up observing some of the holidays but didn’t really practice.”

According to Johnson, the survey’s results serve an important role in dissolving false assumptions about atheism that many religious people harbor.

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ATO members weatherized their house on Sunday with the help of a number of environmental organizations — and the help of the caulk above. most effective way to attract people to the environmental cause is to use multiple tactics and find one that works.

Still, Mahaffey saw the ATO barnraising, and the Global Work Party in general, as a huge step forward for the environmental movement.

“The thing that I like so much about all of this is that I’m doing something, a concrete action, to help combat climate change,” she said.

Mahaffy emphasized the importance of active participation in environmentalism. Last year, with

350.org’s help, she organized a rally in support of an International Day of Climate Actions, she said.

This year, though, she wanted to focus on activities that actually allowed people to help the environment directly.

Carnahan echoed this sentiment, explaining that this year’s ATO event allowed people not only to spread awareness but also to effect positive and immediate change.

“This year, it’s not … just advocacy, it’s actually solving problems,” she said. “All local communities are doing things. All over the world.”

“More than anything, the study says what atheism is not,” he said. “Atheism is not the result of a lack of education. That atheists tend to know more about general religion and general knowledge speaks to the legitimacy — not to be confused with guaranteed veracity — of atheism. It demonstrates that it simply isn’t true that the stupid or ignorant turn to atheism.”

Stevens, in accord, explained that while atheists are often pegged as religiously ignorant, a wide-ranging religious knowledge is actually the basis for many atheists’ beliefs.

“To be an atheist, or a nonbeliever, is to recognize the different belief systems available and then reject them. Part of this process is educating oneself about religion and what it has to offer — inherent in the definition of nonbeliever is acknowledging that which you don’t believe, so atheists must know about other religions,” she said. “Especially in America, which is such a religious nation, atheists have to be informed in order to justify their system of nonbelief.”

The survey’s results demonstrate the importance of religious education in America and the necessity of its improvement and integration into the secular education system, Dunn said.

“Since atheists and agnostics score relatively well in the survey, it’s obvious that religious knowledge can and should come from sources outside the church, synagogue and mosque,” Dunn said.

“So, those of us who teach subjects related to religious traditions have our work cut out for us.”

Carter Rogers contributed reporting to this article.

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Vanessa Williams joins the cast of ‘Desperate Housewives’ in an attempt to make things more interesting and less WASPy.

In its seventh season, ‘Housewives’ desperate for some juicier plot lines BY

ELIZABETH MCKAY Contributing Writer

Fans of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” can usually count on a major mystery

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to keep them guessing all season. Last week’s seventh season premiere did not disappoint. This year, creator and writer Marc Cherry will keep us wondering: Where did Carlos Solis’ goatee go?

With the single exception of Carlos (Ricardo Chavira) forgoing his hirsute look, the premiere offered little that caused much of a stir.

Yet despite the apparent lack of sizzle, the show succeeds with its usual largerthan-life humor. The characters still have dirty laun-

dry, and watching it air out is still a riot.

Season seven finds Mike ( James Denton) and Susan ( Teri Hatcher) living in an apartment while they ride out their money problems.

Lynette (Felicity Huffman) and Tom (Doug Savant) have forgotten about their new daughter as quickly as they welcomed her, due to the distracting arrival of Lynette’s old college roommate. Bree (Marcia Cross) and Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) finalize the

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Life As We Know It’: A rather predictable romantic comedy

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Don’t expect the unexpected from “Life as We Know It,” Greg Berlanti’s run-of-the-mill roman-

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tic comedy. Featuring elements of cheesy and predictable slapstick humor, this movie isn’t awful, but it just screams “typical.”

The plot showcases the banal blossoming of a relationship between two people who cannot stand one another, but are brought together by a tragic event.

Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel portray two feuding acquaintances tied together by see LIFE, page 6

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Katherine Heigel suffers as she chooses between two pretty men in ‘Life As We Know It.’

quickest and friendliest divorce on record, and, in an early reveal of last season finale’s mystery, Gabby (Eva Longoria Parker) and Carlos grapple with the discovery that the daughter they have been raising is not theirs.

Adding to the intrigue, the shady Paul Young (Mark Moses) returns to confound Wisteria Lane.

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Julia Weldon to rock Brown and Brew tonight for Coming Out Day National Coming Out Day, which takes place annually on Oct. 11, aims to create a national support network for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals coming out, while also raising awareness for gay rights. But the day is about more than just civil awareness — it’s an opportunity to celebrate selfhood and sexuality. In short, it’s a reason to party about who you are — and what’s a party without a little song and dance?

The Queer Straight Alliance (QSA) has decided to add a little more festiveness to Tufts’ observance of Coming Out Day today. “We decided we wanted to make it more of a celebration for being out and the environment at Tufts,” sophomore Martine Kaplan, co-president of the QSA, said.

Organizers paired the usual daytime rally and openmic festivities with a nighttime musical performance at Brown and Brew by queer musical artist and sometimeactress Julia Weldon.

This is not Weldon’s first time at Tufts. The talented musician performed on campus last year during finals week but failed to draw the kind of crowd that Kaplan hopes will amass tomorrow.

“We’re hoping to pack Brown and Brew,” she said, adding that last year’s audience requested Weldon’s return.

“People who did see her last year really liked her,” QSA co-president Simon Katz, a senior, said.

A few minutes on Weldon’s MySpace page reveals why she’s such a popular pick for the event.

Her soulful, acoustic songs are at once poignant and full of energy, and they do not tiptoe around the issue of sexual orientation.

The artist will appear earlier in the day, too, at the Coming Out Day rally on the lower patio of the Mayer Campus Center. That will give her “good face time” with potential concert attendees, Katz said.

“We hope we’ll be able to bring people who wouldn’t necessarily think to come see a queer performer at Tufts,” he said.

Embracing personal identity is definitely a noble excuse to put off that problem set for a few hours and hit up a concert on a weeknight. Head down to Brown and Brew at 8 p.m. tonight to jam out for the sake of queer-straight solidarity.

—by Rebecca Santiago

art of being in college means loving Wikipedia. No, you can’t use it in a paper or as a reference point when talking to a professor, but, in reality, it’s nearly always the first source we go to if we want some quick information.

Unfortunately, this weekend, for the first time, I discovered the inevitable: an inaccuracy in a Wikipedia definition. Under the category of “fashion faux pas,” I found a section entirely dedicated to the Canadian tuxedo listed among the other examples of socks with sandals and visible panty lines. I’m here to tell you that Wikipedia is wrong. The Canadian tuxedo is by no means a faux pas, especially when you’re in the business of making wearable contraceptives.

In case you’ve never heard this expression before, “Canadian Tuxedo” is used to denote the act of wearing denim jeans and a denim top/jacket at the same time. Wikipedia further elaborates by adding that “often each piece has a slightly different wash, and the outfit is sometimes accompanied by a mullet.”

Now, the fashion industry has yet to go as far as to bring back the mullet (although I wouldn’t put it past them), but over the past year it certainly has had no qualms about bringing back the Village People’s David Hodo’s construction worker look.

Actually, as a side note, I think the Village People can serve as a representative for nearly the entire fashion cycle this winter. The biker character could demonstrate this fall’s leather shorts trend and the Native American could model the return to 1970s Navajo prints. All of this could be done while playing “Macho Man” (1978) over the speakers and placing a disco ball above the runway.

The David Hodo look was most present in this past year’s Spring/Summer lines. In the Chloé show, among capes, ponchos and a whole lot of khaki, the designer label revealed one model clad entirely in over-sized, slouchy denim. Furthermore, Ralph Lauren’s line from the same period went as far as to bring back overalls and denim messenger caps, since nothing says sexy like a late-1800s miner.

Additionally, the Canadian Tuxedo is not limited to a single gender, as demonstrated by Britney and Justin’s matching denim outfits at the 2001 American Music Awards. In case you were one of the lucky few to avoid seeing the vomit-worthy duo nine years ago, picture Spears in a floor-length, strapless denim gown and Timberlake in a tuxedo-style denim jacket and pants with a matching denim hat.

All of which was bedazzled, of course. I guess “Glee” forgot to mention that in their Britney episode, along with barefooted bathroom trips and head shaving.

Fortunately, while Spears delved further into insanity, Justin patiently waited for people to forget about one of the most infamous red carpet moments in fashion history. After five years of growing his manhood back, he co-founded William Rast, a contemporary high-end denim line, where he could tastefully rekindle his relationship with jeans. But after four years of building up the label, even he felt obligated to restore the Canadian tuxedo’s reputation in the world, therefore revealing understated, dark wash versions of the look in his Autumn/Winter 2010 collection.

One year, the fashion world mocks him, and 10 years later, he’s making thousands of dollars selling them back the same look. Revenge at its finest.

But before you all go out and buy denim T-shirts and overalls, Wikipedia offers a warning: “Canadian citizens should be conscious of this faux pas, as it can result in both stereotyping and cultural discrimination.” Still, my fellow Canadian students, I guess you will be getting laid this season.

Ashley Wood is a junior majoring in English. She can be reached at Ashley.

Wood@tufts.edu.

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rious “plan” for his neighbors probably does not involve a surprise barbeque. In past seasons, he has proved to be a reliable source of tension, but the fact that this is his second time playing villain definitely decreases his dramatic effect. The mystery of his new wife (Emily Bergl) is more intriguing than his vague revenge plans.

The biggest disappointment thus far has been the relative tameness of Lynette’s former roommate Renee, played by the usually vicious Vanessa Williams. Her character has been rude and meddling, but otherwise has done little to seriously shake up the ladies of Wisteria Lane. Luckily, the ex-wife of a famous Yankees player has decided to buy a house in Fairview, so Williams should have plenty of reason to unleash the full force of her diva self in future episodes.

In addition to Williams, Brian Austin Green joins the cast as Bree’s hunky contractor. His six-day-old relationship with Bree feels a little rushed, however — Cherry should have allowed more time for their tension to build.

Gabby continues to be the funniest character on the show.

She is larger than life, which aids her humor. Some gems in episode two include her theory of “sexomnia” and her reaction to Andrew’s (Shawn Pyfrom) apology for hitting her mother-in-law: “I’m gonna give you that one, ’cause I wasn’t fond of her.”

Coming in second in the funny category is Susan, whose attempts at softcore porn are hilariously ridiculous. Her sto-

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In the Scavo house, Tom and Lynette’s marital struggles are well-traversed territory. Their fight is not particularly intriguing, but their make up reminds us all of why we keep rooting for them.

That is, until we find out that there may be more to Tom and

Renee’s relationship than Lynette realizes. That revelation was the spiciest one so far and should provide some fodder for future episodes.

The second episode offers hope that fans will be blessed with more Bob (Tuc Watkins) and Lee (Kevin Rahm) time.

While their breakup was heartbreaking, their uproarious post-breakup bickering makes the separation almost worth it.

Cherry would do well to spend less time in Paul Young’s house of horrors and more time in counseling with Bob and Lee. As is bound to happen to a veteran dramedy, the seventh season premiere is considerably less spicy than previous seasons. Since the resolution of two major cliffhangers occurred in the first half of the season premiere, fans are left wondering what the driving

force behind this season will be. Paul and Renee seem to be Cherry’s answer, but as flavors go, they’re more ranch than jalapeño so far.

Overall, the premiere offered the usual “Housewives” ruckus. While a few plot lines offer some intrigue to come, Wisteria Lane remains much the same. Happily for the show, the same old Wisteria Lane is still a hoot.

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Don’t let the cute baby fool you — Heigel’s still playing a shrewish, career-driven woman.

Like many rom-coms, ‘Life As We Know It’ offers eye candy, little else LIFE continued from page 5

a serious obligation. After two mutual friends die in a sudden car accident, the combative duo is forced to live together to take care of a now-orphaned oneyear-old girl.

In the film, Heigl takes on her usual role as an overbearing control freak — the exact same type-A woman seen in “27 Dresses” (2008) and “The Ugly Truth” (2009). Typecast as a career-driven up-and-coming caterer, Heigl’s performance is nothing beyond average.

On the other hand, leading man Duhamel breaks out of his

acting shell, providing a sincere and poignant performance.

In the past, Duhamel has had difficulty with character development, offering static depictions in “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!” (2004) and “When in Rome” (2010).

It becomes quickly evident that Duhamel was cast for more than his pretty face. He really captures the chaos of being thrown into the role of a responsible adult, and his despair is tangible when he realizes how badly he has massacred his chance for a life with Holly (Heigl). Together, eye candy Duhamel and the

overly-emotional Heigl balance each other on-screen, adequately satisfying audiences for the film’s 114-minute run time.

Aside from the two main stars, familiar faces pop up in the film, like Josh Lucas (“Sweet Home Alabama,” 2002); Melissa McCarthy (“Gilmore Girls,” 2000-07); and television’s favorite secretary, Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”).

McCarthy and Hendricks prove the caliber of their acting skills as they seamlessly transition from the small screen to the big screen. Nothing is lost in that switch, as each still

aptly captures the essence of their respective character.

Seasoned movie actor Lucas plays a rather unbelievable, altruistic role. His character vies with Duhamel’s for the heart of the leading lady. Lucas’ Dr. Sam is the embodiment of every woman’s dream man: Goldenhaired, handsome and a doctor, he is full of wit and intelligence and even gives up his happiness so that Holly can follow her true love for Eric (Duhamel).

Actual character maturation adds a twist of sophistication to this shameless oglefest. Eric changes his ways and begins to live a more serious

lifestyle after realizing his love for Holly. He simultaneously hones his career and starts taking more responsibility for the child.

In the end, “Life as We Know It” is a perfectly ordinary romcom that promotes the importance of relationships, including occasional bits of humor that keep audiences wanting more. The film is good for a girls’ night out or even for a date night, assuming your date is equally interested in gawking at Duhamel and Lucas. But it’s definitely not about to take a place in the upper echelons of the genre.

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Recognizing that giving content away for free may not be the most lucrative business model, this week The Boston Globe joined the ranks of some other regional and national newspapers by announcing that it will launch a subscriber-only, fee-based website next year.

Since 2008, more Americans have accessed news online for free than have paid for it by buying newspapers or magazines, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. It costs money to deliver reliable and quality news, and as the Internet has allowed readers to avoid paying for news access, the news industry has struggled to stay afloat.

In recent years, the rise of online news aggregators has wreaked havoc on the news industry, as sites like Google News and the Huffington Post take copyrighted content from multiple sources and make it available in one place at no cost to consumers. The legality of these aggregators’ existence has become a controversial topic of late.

While many news aggregator services argue that they drive traffic to the websites of other news organizations,

thus offering them a net benefit, news providers clearly do not appreciate this “service”: Both the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse have filed lawsuits against news aggregators over the past five years. By using aggregators, Web surfers have significantly less incentive to browse individual news websites and often just read the first couple lines of an article as displayed on the aggregator site, skipping the original news organization’s site altogether. As a result, those individual sites bring in less ad revenue.

In order to survive in the Internet age, newspapers like the Globe must come up with creative ways to bring in new revenue. By maintaining free access to local news, sports and weather information on its current website and requiring subscriptions for its new site — which will feature all the content from the print edition, including all news and features, commentary and photographs — the Globe hopes to maintain readership and save itself from bankruptcy.

Whether people will be willing to pay for this premium content remains to be seen. While papers like The Wall Street

Journal have successfully convinced subscribers to pay for online material by offering high-quality, specialized content that cannot be obtained elsewhere, the more localized Globe content may not have enough of an audience to attract sufficient subscribers.

While some argue that sharing as much information as freely as possible can only benefit society, if news organizations are unable to profit, the overall quality of reporting will undoubtedly decrease. As long as media consumers feel that it is not “worth it” to pay for their online news, papers like the Globe will continue to face economic uncertainty and find it impossible to continue quality reporting. While the transition may take time, all newspapers and magazines will probably ultimately need to charge for their online content.

People have been buying print newspapers and magazines in the United States for hundreds of years, and if we want continued access to independent, accurate and timely professional reporting, we’re going to have to keep paying for it.

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Lack of religious knowledge concerning While the United States is a highly religious country, an assessment of religious knowledge has revealed that the American people are generally not very knowledgeable about matters of general theology and religious history.

The survey, conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, consisted of 32 questions pertaining to general knowledge of world religions.

Americans, on average, answered only about half of the questions correctly.

This finding begs scrutiny by religious and nonreligious people alike.

On the surface, it might seem surprising that people of faith would score lower on the questionnaire than would people who do not practice a religion, for one would think the former would make a conscious effort to learn about the intricacies of what they believe. Yet, for most religious people, their beliefs

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are either a result of the way they were raised or a product of self-discovery rather than a result of a search for historical facts.

Meanwhile, atheism can result from the accumulation of knowledge and the necessary means of trial and error to satisfy the denial of God as opposed to the acceptance of God. In other words, atheists seek such religious knowledge to affirm their nonbelief.

This suggests an intimate familiarity with religion on the part of nonbelievers, despite the fact that they do not follow what they explore.

Despite different justifications provided for the results of this study, both believers and nonbelievers have an equal necessity to know about world religions. The grounds for their beliefs do not exempt these parties from their duty to be educated about religion. The

results of the survey indicate that many Americans follow their faith without basic theological and historical knowledge of it. This is a serious problem in a country where religion plays a powerful role in politics and lawmaking.

As Stephen Prothero, a professor of religion at Boston University, rightfully said, “From time immemorial, and for better or for worse, human beings have been motivated to act politically, economically and militarily by their gods, scriptures and priests. Without making sense of those motivations, we cannot make sense of the world.”

The findings of to this survey express the need for the American public to seek religious education and become better citizens of the modern global community. The Daily advocates that all Americans push themselves to seek religious knowledge.

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Peace the Afghan way BY

FATHI EL-SHIHIBI

Just as many of my fellow Americans and I were being lulled into a sense of optimism by news of steady headway being made by our troops in southern Afghanistan and the determination of President Hamid Karzai’s government to vanquish the Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents, I was jolted back into reality by the appearance of the Afghan president visibly shaken and crying on national TV halfway through a speech he was delivering on Sept. 28. Seeing such an open display of emotion by the president, a man who exudes an aura of confidence and charisma and whose imposing physique leaves a lasting impression, persuaded me to revisit the situation in the Afghanistan and explore several issues related to Karzai’s apparently unscripted delivery. These include the precedent that the president has set to end the hostilities and stabilize a country that has not enjoyed real peace since the armies of Alexander the Great battled the Afghan tribesmen around 330 B.C. Karzai’s crying episode on the Afghan national television may take some time to be assessed, considering that many Afghans could still be scratching their heads and straining their brains to make sense of it all. However, I would be surprised if his public display of emotion produces favorable results in a society that derides men who cry openly, let alone a president who is expected to maintain his composure under any circumstances.

What should really matter in this case is whether the Taliban perceive his appearance as the equivalent of “crying uncle” in our culture and also if his supporters inside and outside of Afghanistan perceived this as a letdown.

However, one should not jump to conclusions before learning the reason for his sudden outburst and whether what he did was justifiable, regardless of the ensuing political or social fallout. Earlier in the day, prior to Karzai’s speech, a suicide attack killed the deputy governor of the Ghazni province, the governor’s son and nephew and several bodyguards. This may explain why the president tearfully departed from his script to renew his appeal for reconciliation with the Taliban insurgents and decry the state of his homeland, although he was originally expected to deliver a speech to promote education.

The second issue I would like to discuss is related to the possible ways to achieve and maintain peace in this besieged country. Let me start by saying that the success

of former President George W. Bush’s surge in Iraq could be replicated in Afghanistan now that Gen. Petraeus has become the commander of the U.S. forces, providing that there is a change in strategy and approach. As we know, the Iraq surge had two main aspects: committing about 20,000 soldiers to help the Iraqi soldiers uproot the insurgents in Diyala, Anbar, Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces, which they accomplished; and forming alliances with the tribes in these areas, which led to the creation of “Majalis al-Sahwa” (awakening council groups) that helped turn the tide against the insurgents, including the al-Qaida jihadists. Even though President Barack Obama has committed about 30,000 additional troops, the establishment of alliances similar to those in Iraq appears to be out of reach for the time being, due to a couple of factors.

First, unlike the situation in Iraq, in which the insurgents were considered outsiders operating in areas dominated by tribes that initially remained neutral but were later persuaded to join the U.S. and Iraqi troops, the insurgency in Afghanistan is being launched by the Pashtun tribesmen who actually control the territory. The efforts on the part of Petraeus to persuade factions of the Pashtun and members of other tribes — including the Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek — to join the fight against the Taliban Pashtu, or Pashtun insurgency, led by Mullah Omar, have yet to make significant headway in the southern provinces of Afghanistan.

At this juncture, I would like to explain the connection between the Taliban and the Pashtun tribe so that we will be able to see the similarities and differences between the Iraqi and the Afghan situations. In America we always hear about the Taliban as the group we are fighting against, but we hardly ever hear about the Pashtun tribe. Some people are probably unaware that the name “Taliban” (a Pashto word that means “students”) was coined as the nom de guerre for the insurgents who were mostly Pashtun and former students of Islamic law and theology.

The group later penetrated into Afghanistan through Pakistan and engaged in the destructive civil war that erupted after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union’s troops from the country in 1989. This is how the Taliban ended up controlling nearly 90 percent of Afghanistan. When the United States was attacked on Sept. 11, U.S. forces joined hands with the Taliban rivals, known as the Northern Alliance and led by Hamid Karzai (who is a Pashtun), and consequently uprooted the Taliban insurgents,

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forcing them to withdraw to the mountainous regions in southern Afghanistan.

The second factor pertains to the creation of peace partners. Although the surge in Afghanistan is similar to the surge in Iraq in terms of escalating our involvement in the war by committing more troops on the ground, it takes different political maneuvering to transform antagonists into peace partners. At this point, the U.S. government and its NATO Allies, as well as the Karzai government and the Pakistani government led by President Asif Ali Zardari, are pursuing a policy of relentless military pressure and intermittent diplomatic persuasion — or as we call it, a policy of “the carrot and the stick” to force the Taliban to lay down their arms. In order to make an alternative to conflict seem like the right choice, in his

televised appearance Karzai not only invited the Taliban to negotiate with the government, but he also left the door open to the possibility of a partnership in a coalition government. Prior to his televised appeal, Karzai had formed a council of 70 Afghan nationals whose main task was to negotiate a truce with their foes and convince them that once they forswear violence they would be invited to join the political process. I believe that the other condition that the Taliban need to meet is the eviction of al-Qaida terrorists from their midst, for this group has brought nothing but conflict, misery and isolation to Afghanistan.

Fathi El-Shibibi is an adjunct lecturer of Islam and Arabic culture at Northeastern University.

CAMPUS CANVAS | JUSTIN BINDER

Justin Binder is a senior majoring in civil engineering.

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Novices gain first regatta experience in Worcester Varsity squad continues to prepare for upcoming Head of the Charles Regatta BY

AARON LEIBOWITZ Daily Staff Writer

While the varsity rowers took this past weekend off to continue preparations for the Head of the Charles next weekend, the women’s novice crew team began its fall season at the Quinsigamond Snake Regatta in Worcester, Mass., entering two boats in the women’s eight.

There were 15 varsity and nine novice boats in the race — in other words, the Jumbos’ 16 freshmen and two sophomores faced stern competition.

The Tufts C boat took the 15th spot out of 24 with a time of 20:47, while the D boat finished 19th in 22:06. With a time of 17:04, Bates took the top spot over Wellesley by a 10-second margin.

“It was our first race of the season, so we really wanted to go out there and have a good time and learn what it was about to race, because a lot of us had never done it before,” said sophomore Katharine Fitzgerald, who was in the C boat. “There were definitely some boats that were way out of our league, but it was great to understand what COURTESY BIANCA VELAYO

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The women’s crew team, pictured here at a practice, sent two novice squads to the Quinsigamond Snake Regatta this weekend.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Jumbos fall to Ephs, but Browne remains victorious Close matches mark women’s tennis team’s disappointing loss against Williams BY

ANN SLOAN

Senior Staff Writer

The Tufts women’s tennis team fell to longtime rival Williams this weekend in a nonleague fall match at Wesleyan.

The Jumbos have historically been outplayed by the Ephs on a regular basis, though they put up a good fight in May at the NCAA Round of 16, losing a close 5-4 match, which was particularly impressive considering that then-freshman Lindsay Katz, who played No. 3 singles and No. 2 doubles, was unable to play due to an ankle injury.

Tufts lost 6-2 on Saturday, as

the team’s only two wins came — unsurprisingly — by way of senior tri-captain Julia Browne, who won handily at No. 1 singles and teamed up with freshman Shelci Bowman to win at No. 1 doubles. Browne last spring won the NCAA Singles Championship after beating Williams senior Grace Baljon in the final round. Tufts’ only conference losses last season came against Williams and Amherst.

Browne and Bowman defeated the top Williams pair of junior Krisin Alotta and senior Nicole Reich 8-6 to win the first point of the day. Browne also made it to the NCAAs dou-

bles championships last May, but the graduation of her thenpartner Meghan McCooey (LA ’10) has paired the senior with the first-year Bowman.

“It’s definitely been a hard transition,” Browne said.

“Meghan and I played together for two years, and we were best friends off the court as well. We were very comfortable playing together.”

Browne and McCooey were named ITA All-Americans and made a run to the NCAA semifinals as the No. 1 seed. But even without McCooey, the Jumbos are finding success at the No. 1 doubles slot, as Bowman has stepped up as Browne’s new

partner and proven herself a valuable member of the Tufts team.

“So far, I’ve been very impressed with how Shelci has played,” Browne said. “She’s done a great job, especially since she is a freshman and has a lot going on. She has great instinct. We’ve worked together very well, and we get along.

I’m looking forward to playing with her more and seeing how we progress.”

Browne prevailed in singles as well, knocking off Alotta in a quick 6-0, 6-1 match.

At No. 2 doubles, the sophomore pair of Katz and Janice Lam suffered a close 9-7 defeat

to Ephs partners junior Taylor French and sophomore Nancy Worley. The doubles match lasted for nearly two hours before the Williams duo was able to pull out the win.

“The team loss doesn’t show how close each of the individual matches were,” Lam said. “Just looking at the numbers, you can’t see how hard we worked for every point.”

Browne echoed that sentment.

“The final score doesn’t reflect how close the match was,” she said. “It really just came down to who could trust see TENNIS, page 13

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Disappointing weekend in Worcester leaves team with one more shot at redemption

Undefeated Jumbos hit No. 1 in national rankings

The golf team hoped to rebound after placing outside of NESCAC contention at the conference qualifiers, but an 11th-place finish at the Bison Invitational hosted by Nichols College this past weekend only added to the disappointment. The Jumbos seemed frustrated throughout Sunday, with lackluster performances across the board at Green Hill Golf Course in Worcester, Mass.

Tufts beat only two teams — Suffolk and Wentworth — although merely six strokes separated the Tufts unit from fifth place. The one-day combined score of 330, however, left members of the team unhappy with their individual performances and the team’s overall performance.

Senior tri-captain Dan Moll shot a 78 to tie for eighth place, but other team members didn’t fare nearly as well.

Fellow tri-captains Cal Shapiro and Luke Heffernan shot 83 and 85, respectively, while freshman Sebastian Vik (84) and sophomore Mike McCarthy (85) closed out the five individual performances.

“Some days you can’t get the ball in

the hole,” Vik said, “That was just one of those days.”

Vik admitted that he was extremely disappointed with his performances the past two weeks, failing to live up to the potential he had shown earlier in the season, when he finished second individually at the Williams Invitational in late September. The entire team has had better days this year, but inconsistency has plagued the Jumbos as of late.

“It’s unfortunate it’s coming to the end,” Vik said of the fall campaign.

The Jumbos still have one tournament left on the fall calendar: the New England Championships. The Championships will begin on Sunday and will give the Jumbos a shot against teams from Div. I, II and III schools. The Jumbos hope to contend among the Div. III schools, and they know they’ll have to lift their games from this past weekend.

“We’re going to get out this week and practice,” Vik said.

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For the first time in program history, the field hockey team is ranked No. 1 in the nation by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Coaches Poll. With a perfect record in the most competitive conference in Div. III, the Jumbos earned 22 of the 38 votes this week to bump from second to first with 711 points — 27 points ahead of now-No. 2 Lebanon Valley College.

For most of the season, Tufts has plugged along in second place behind the defending champions Salisbury. But, with the Salisbury’s recent loss to No. 13 Rowan University and a previous shut-out loss to No. 3 Messiah 3-0, the Seagulls have finally fallen from grace to No. 5.

Though it is undeniably exciting for the Jumbos to see their hard work recognized across the country, the ranking only makes the target on their back that much bigger.

And no one will be gunning for them harder than Bowdoin. With a 9-0 record in the No. 6 slot, Bowdoin is the only team in the top-10 that Tufts will meet in the regular season and arguably the only team with a realistic shot at dethroning Tufts before the NCAA Tournament. The Polar Bears are having an almost identical season to the Jumbos and seem to have bounced back with a vengeance after going 4-5 in the league in

2009. On Oct. 29, there will be a showdown under the lights of Bello Field as the Polar Bears will surely have climbed the rankings by then if they can stay undefeated. It will be a battle for the NESCAC title as well as the NFHCA No. 1 — setting aside the history of a double-overtime national championship game between the two in 2008 — which Tufts entered as the No. 1 seed.

But, the No. 1 ranking is well-deserved.

Lebanon Valley may be undefeated, but with a goals-per-game average of 6.33, the team is not competing on a NESCAC level.

Below them, Messiah sits in third with two losses on the season: one to No. 10 Eastern University and one to the No. 12 Lynchburg.

And in fourth is Ursinus, who has lost only to Messiah, but again — with wins like a 13-0 trampling of lowly Bryn Mawr — its 10-1 record is likely bloated by a weaker schedule.

All in all, the ranking is a long-awaited recognition of a program that has been on the rise under head Coach Tina McDavitt for the last seven seasons. And, though it is said time and again that anything can happen in the NESCAC, the Jumbos are in a prime position to hold onto the top spot for the remainder of the season.

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Senior tri-captain Julia Browne had a hand in each of the two winning matches for the Jumbos in their 6-2 loss to Williams, including a 6-0, 6-1 win at No. 1 singles and an 8-6 win in No. 1 doubles with freshman Shelci Bowman.

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their shots more. And this weekend Williams did that.”

Sophomore Lauren Hollender played a tough match at No. 4 singles, losing her first set 6-0 to Williams junior Caroline Capute.

Hollender refused to give up and successfully turned the match around with a 6-0 win in the second set, forcing the match into a third-set tiebreaker. She failed to keep up the momentum, though, losing 6-4 in the third set.

As a result of some long matches, Katz and Worley were unable to finish their No. 2 singles match as darkness

covered the courts.

An important part of the fall match, Browne says, was for the veterans to log more court time against some of the nation’s best players and for the inexperienced freshmen to grow.

Freshman Samantha Gann in particular saw a fair amount of action, playing at third doubles and fifth singles.

“It was a good opportunity for the freshman to play against one of the best teams in the nation and for them to see how close we were,” Browne said.

The match marked the final team match for the Jumbos this fall season. It brought Tufts’ record to 1-1, following a Sept. 30 victory over MIT. The Tufts loss kept Williams at a perfect 4-0.

“The Williams match was a great indication of where we are right now in the fall,” Lam said. “It showed us how hard we have to work in the offseason in order to beat teams like Williams and Amherst. I think we can do it in the spring, and we’re excited to show that we can.”

This weekend, Tufts will compete in a three-day individual tournament, the New England Women’s Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament, hosted by Amherst, Smith and Mt. Holyoke. The tournament is the last match before the winter offseason, a time for the team to train and prepare for the more important spring season.

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the competition would be like in the future.”

Given that it’s only three weeks into the season, Fitzgerald felt that her boat pulled together nicely.

“I think we did really well working together and listening to the coxswain,” she said. “Toward the end of the race you get tired and it gets a little bit sloppy, but I think that with time and more practice we’ll get a lot better at that.”

Fitzgerald added that, at the starting line, her team decided that 21 minutes would be a time to shoot for, so they were excited to learn afterward that they had achieved that goal.

“It was pretty nerve-racking at the start,” said freshman Georgiana Burruss, who was in the D boat.

“You’re lined up at the end of the river, and there are just boats all around you. But once we started going it was really fun. … We didn’t think we were going to do as well as we did.”

Burruss hasn’t even been rowing for a month, but already she feels she has learned a great deal from the sport.

“I only did individual sports in high school, like running and skiing,” she said. “Working as a team, your boat is only as strong as its weakest part…so you really have to be in 100-percent unison, which is really hard to do. It

can be frustrating at times, but it’s an amazing way to learn how to work together. There’s nothing like it when you’re flying on the water in unison — you get this rush.”

The novice team’s second and final fall competition is the Quinsigamond Fall Novice Championships on Oct. 30.

“I think we did really well working together and listening to the coxswain. ...

Toward the end of the race you get tired and it gets a little bit sloppy, but I think that with time and more practice we’ll get a lot better at that.”

Katharine Fitzgerald sophomore

As the novices start getting their feet wet, the varsity team is preparing for the Head of the Charles Regatta, the world’s largest two-day rowing event. Over 8,000 college, club and national team rowers from around the

world will gather in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 23-24, when Tufts will race a college four, a club four, a lightweight four and a college eight.

Boats that finish in the top 50 percent of their races solidify a bid in next year’s Head of the Charles, and therefore the Jumbos will try to spread their talent somewhat evenly among their four boats.

While some of the boat lineups have yet to be determined, the lightweight four will feature senior tricaptain Bianca Velayo, junior tricaptain Kathleen Holec, sophomore Ali Maykranz and senior Kaylee Maykranz. Velayo said that while it’s impossible to know just how good the competition will be, this boat certainly has the potential to do very well. On Sunday, the team had the opportunity to practice on the Charles River, which Velayo believes will come in handy in two weeks.

“It puts us ahead of the game, because crews who come from far away don’t know how difficult the course is,” she said. “It’s common for people to crash. For us to be able to have that practice on the course definitely gives us an advantage, because we can focus more on making the most efficient path. Sunday was a really productive practice, and I think it got everyone really pumped for the race.”

uring Monday Night Football last week, commentators Ron Jaworski and Jon Gruden nearly exploded with glee. What prompted such happiness from this pair of seasoned football analysts?

Well, I’ll give you the play-by-play from the Patriots’ second drive of the third quarter.

Tom Brady pass to Wes Welker, 5 yards; Danny Woodhead run for 6 yards; Woodhead run for 6 yards; Brady incomplete pass to Welker; Brady pass to Welker, 17 yards; Woodhead run for 6 yards; Woodhead run for 6 yards; Woodhead run for 4 yards; Brady pass to Welker, 15 yards; BenJarvus GreenEllis run for 4 yards; Brady run for 1 yard; Brady pass to Woodhead for 11 yards and a touchdown.

In case you were wondering, Brady, Welker and Woodhead are all white.

Even better, both Welker and Woodhead are 5 feet 9. They’re just like you and me! And rest assured, Jaworski and Gruden alluded to this fact over and over and over again. They repeatedly mentioned that kids all across the country were at this moment inspired by the prime-time success of, in particular, Woodhead.

And surely some of Woodhead’s “inspirational” mystique comes from factors other than his race, Gruden enthused in detail. The running back was born and raised in North Platte, Neb., and attended college at Div. II Chadron State in Nebraska, where he became college football’s then all-time leading rusher. ( The mark was broken one year later.) He then went undrafted and was signed by the Jets, but he saw scant playing time in the one season he was healthy. The Patriots picked him up to be a third-down, change-of-pace back after Kevin Faulk was lost for the season with an injury.

Obviously, all of these details contribute to his relatability to the average fan. As does his short stature. Both of these important details were mentioned by Gruden and Jaworski.

His race, however, was not. And that certainly was no accident. In fact, if Gruden and Jaws had mentioned Woodhead’s whiteness, they would have been quickly excoriated in the media and perhaps by fans as well.

This attitude is pretty consistent with our national mindset towards race in general. But is it a problem? Is it healthier for the commentators of the world to ignore the elephantine issue of race when talking about a guy like Woodhead (or Welker for that matter, who has many details of his career similar to those of Woodhead’s, from his whiteness and undersized stature to his undrafted-ness)? Should the question of race be ignored because, well, it’s just sports we’re talking about here?

I’m not looking to inject sports commentary into any debate over racial political correctness — the last thing we need in our lives is another one of those. On the other hand, by not acknowledging that a huge part of why kids all across the country are looking up to Woodhead is the fact that he’s a short, WHITE guy, Gruden and Jaws are tacitly lying to us.

They’re helping us deny that, for better or for worse, race is a powerful factor when it comes to identifying with other people, in our country and in others around the world. The cultural norm in the United States, however, has become to deny that race has any impact on our thinking.

Pretending that what is there isn’t there, doesn’t make it disappear. We have to be honest with ourselves. That’s true of Gruden and Jaws and you and me.

Ethan Frigon is a senior majoring in economics. He can be reached at Ethan.

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Dear Members of the Tufts Community, Two weeks ago, devastating news came out regarding Rutgers’ freshman Tyler Clementi taking his life after an incident which has been described as cyber-bullying, an invasion of privacy, and public humiliation. The news of Tyler’s death spread quickly, as did information about an alarming number of other youth who had also recently taken their lives for similar reasons. Sadly, this is not a ‘new phenomenon’ to many of us, but rather a reality. The truth had once again been exposed: as long as we live in a world where “gay” is used as a way to tear someone down, such results are sadly not surprising.

To put it simply, this makes me SAD and MAD. I, along with many others, want to see change, and we want to see it now. This will not happen until we all begin making conscious efforts towards making the world a safer place for LGBT people. As the LGBT Center Director, one of the questions people keep asking me is “where do we even start?” Here is best answer I can come up with: on our very own campus. What the LGBT community needs more than anything is the support of more Allies. An Ally is someone who stands up for the LGBT community for no reason other than the simple fact that it is the right thing to do. An Ally works towards putting an end to expressions like “that’s so gay” or jokes where someone’s sexuality or gender expression is the punch line. An Ally is proud to wear a rainbow pin or fly a rainbow flag to show support, and doesn’t care what others may assume if they do so.

Tomorrow is the annual National Coming Out Day Rally at Tufts (10/13, 12-1:15pm, Campus Center Lower Patio). However you identify, I encourage you to join us and show your support.

Finally, if you are a person who is struggling because of your own identity, be it your sexuality, gender identity/expression, or something else, I ask that you please reach out for support. There are so many wonderful resources at Tufts, such as Queer Peers (www.tuftsqueerpeers.com), Ears for Peers (http://ase.tufts.edu/earsforpeers/), the Counseling Center (617-627-3360) and the Tufts LGBT Center (226 College Ave, 617-627-3770). It can be a huge help to speak with someone you trust who might identify as LGBT or an Ally. If you have a need, please let us help.

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