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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

University to update registry to reduce noise violations by

Minyoung Song

Daily Editorial Board

In response to recent nuisance ordinances passed in the cities of Medford and Somerville, Tufts is working to acquire updated contact information for students living off-campus in order to increase its ability to monitor the high-density areas in which students live.

The City of Medford in August passed a nuisance ordinance that allows the city to fine landlords for the disruptive behaviors of their tenants. The City of Somerville passed a similar ordinance at its Board of Aldermen meeting on Oct. 13.

The Registrar’s Office will issue reminders to encourage students to revise their outof-date information listed on Webcenter.

Webcenter serves as the primary means through which the university obtains students’ contact information, according to Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman.

Some of the information that students submit on Webcenter — including students’ names, email addresses and phone numbers — is displayed publicly,

while other information, including students’ addresses, is kept confidential, Reitman noted.

The university will use the updated information to identify the areas that have the highest number of off-campus student residents, he said.

“It will be useful for the university to know where people are living,” Reitman said. “In that sense, there is the cooperation between the cities and the university in being able to tell what parts of the city are in fact student-rental areas, so the city can plan better and the university can work together [with them].”

Students have run into public disturbance problems with neighbors each semester, according to Tufts’ Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel.

“For years and years, there have been instances where groups of students living in the neighborhoods around the campus have caused disruption to the neighborhood,” Rubel said.

During Medford town meetings, resisee NOISE, page 2

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The Tufts Community Union Senate voted last week to forgive the debt of five student groups in full and another in part, but decided not to forgive its own debt.

Local community group Senate forgives five student pushes for hiring ordinance group debts, not its own

by Stephanie Strauss

Contributing Writer

Somerville Community Corporation (SCC) is currently endeavoring to pass the Local Hiring Ordinance, a law that would require projects receiving more than $50,000 in city funds to fill 30 percent of the generated jobs with Somerville residents.

SCC worked to develop the ordinance and staff have been working closely with Somerville’s Board of Aldermen gain approval for it, according to SCC community organizer Cecily Harwitt.

SCC is a local group that works with lowand middle-income residents to achieve economic sustainability in order to preserve the diversity in Somerville.

A project that receives more than $50,000 in city subsidies, Harwitt said, would be

subject to the new ordinance, guaranteeing jobs to Somerville residents. She added that Somerville residents are paying the taxes to support these city projects and therefore should profit from their investments.

The ordinance was modeled after similar pre-existing ordinances according to Harwitt.

In collaboration with city officials, the SCC introduced the ordinance to the Somerville Board of Aldermen in June, according to Harwitt.

The entire board unanimously supported it, she noted, and the Legislative Matters Committee is currently reviewing the ordinance.

Alderman at Large andVice Chairperson of the Legislative Matters Committee Bill see HIRING, page 2

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Gabrielle Hernandez Daily Editorial Board

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate opted earlier this month not to forgive a penalty fine that it accrued for overspending on its budget last year.

The Senate discussed seven student groups that overspent their budgets last semester, including the Senate itself. The Senate decided to forgive all groups in full or in part, except for the Senate, which will have to pay its own penalty.

When student groups overspend their allotted budgets, the Senate may issue financial penalties based on the amount by which groups overspent.

A group may appeal this penalty if it

can explain the over-expenditure at the beginning of the academic year, according to TCU Senate Treasurer sophomore Christie Maciejewski, who makes all final decisions regarding budget penalties for student groups.

The body traditionally forgives penalties when the Senate itself can be held responsible for over-expenditures of student groups, according to TCU President Tomas Garcia, a senior.

Maciejewski put seven groups’ financial penalties up for discussion by the Senate, including the Vietnamese Students Club ( VSC), Tufts Film Series, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Sarabande, Tufts Mock Trial, see SENATE, page 2

SPEAC promotes dialogue through identity project by

Corinne Segal

Daily Editorial Board

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A newly proposed ordinance in Somerville would guarantee jobs to local residents on city-funded construction projects.

Inside this issue

Campus peer education group Students Promoting Equality Awareness and Compassion (SPEAC) is continuing its work this semester on an effort designed to highlight diversity on campus called the Tufts Identity Project.

The project includes Tufts students’ responses to the questions “Who are you?” and “How do other people perceive you?” accompanied by their pictures, according to Associate Dean of Students and SPEAC Coordinator Marisel Perez.

The Tufts Identity Project is modeled after The Hapa Project, a work by artist Kip Fulbeck, according to SPEAC member

Audrey Wilson, a junior.

Fulbeck photographed people of halfPacific Islander descent, also called Hapa, and asked participants to describe their identities. He then compiled the photos and responses online.

SPEAC, formerly known as BEAT Bias and rebranded in 2010 to reflect the group’s proactive new approach, aims to start conversations about incidents of bias and intolerance on campus through education and events. Such incidents can be reported online on WebCenter.

“What we want to do, as a group, is create a safe space on campus to have these kinds of conversations about intolerance,” Perez said. see SPEAC, page 2

Today’s sections

A look at some of Tufts’ most fashionable professors.

Bondir offers a unique, ever-changing menu.

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see ARTS, page 5

News Features Arts & Living Editorial | Letters

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Op-Ed Comics Sports Classifieds

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Tufts responds to new noise ordinances in host communities NOISE

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dents have vowed to relocate if occurrences of public nuisance continue, Chairwoman of Medford City Council’s Subcommittee on Public Safety Breanna LungoKoehn told the Daily.

Lungo-Koehn identified rowdy parties, public urination, crowded apartments, trash build-up and absentee landlords as some of the most common problems in areas with high student populations.

“Sometimes students do not take into account that average, working people do not start their weekends on Thursday nights,” Rubel explained.

She noted, however, that only a minority of the student body causes problems.

“It is a very small percentage of students who attract police attention,” Rubel said.

Lungo-Koehn said she hopes that the university will work to “keep track of where their students are living and patrol those areas more often to give the city more relief.” She is hopeful that the new ordinance will serve to improve relations between Tufts and its host communities.

Rubel is optimistic that the new efforts to build up the off-campus registry will improve town-gown relations.

“From the university perspective, we want students living off campus to live safely and act as we know they can,” Rubel said. “We are willing to work with the cities and neighbors to achieve that goal.”

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The university is stepping up its efforts to acquire the addresses of off-campus students in order to decrease the number of noise complaints from neighbors.

Senate debate to forgive VCS debt contentious SENATE

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Midnight Café and the Senate itself.

The Senate forgave ASCE, Sarabande, Mock Trial and Midnight Café in full. Only two groups, VSC and Film Series, drew enough debate for Maciejewski to table the decision on those groups for a later date.

Maciejewski later made the final decision to forgive Film Series in full, as well as $475 out of the over $600 penalty for the VSC. The only group that the body decided to penalize in full was the Senate itself.

“We’re the same as every single other TCU group, we fund ourselves, and it’s our responsibility to be fiscally responsible,” Garcia said of the decision.

Although Maciejewski withheld the exact amount by which the Senate overspent, she disclosed that the penalty was close to $2000.

It is common for the Senate to overspend its budget, Garcia noted.

“A lot of programs get added over the course of the year,” he said. “They’re programs that serve the wide student body, but there’s always unforeseen costs to us.”

Money to repay the deficit penalties will come out of the Senate and VSC budgets for this year, Garcia added.

If student groups need to exceed their budgets during the semester, they may apply for buffer funding, a Senatecontrolled fund providing grants to groups for “unforeseen expenditures,” according to Maciejewski.

The Senate can also apply for buffer funding as well as approve the use of buffer funding for its own purposes, Maciejewski noted.

The decision to penalize the Senate will hopefully set an example for other groups to apply for buffer funding instead

of going over budget, Garcia explained.

Senators have historically voted to forgive their own penalties as a body, he added.

Debate surrounding VSC’s penalty was especially contentious.

The group overspent its budget by over $600. A VSC student representative explained to senators that the group overspent because it loaned money to newly formed student groups for culture shows.

The group was unaware it had exceeded its budget, the student representative said.

Maciejewski tabled the discussion due to the lack of a clear consensus, she said.

The debate is part of a larger Senate conversation about the importance of group co-sponsorship, in which groups fund each other’s events, Garcia said.

“Co-sponsorship is kind of a contentious issue on the body,” Garcia said.

The Senate encourages groups to co-sponsor each other, but VSC lost track of its budget, he said.

The debate brought VSC under harsher scrutiny than other groups, Diversity and Community Affairs Officer Joe Thibodeau, a sophomore said.

“I think that Senate seemed to almost handle the dialogue with this group differently than with other groups, and that was kind of uncomfortable for me,” Thibodeau said. “We need to just be aware of the dialogue we use and how it affects other groups.”

The Senate should be careful to treat student groups with respect, Thibodeau noted.

“If groups are going to view us as a successful resource, we need to treat them with respect, show interest in what they’re involved in despite our own passions and our own interests, and look at how what they do benefits the interests of the Tufts community,” he said.

SCC hopes for final review of new hiring ordinance by December HIRING

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White Jr. told the Daily that the committee is responsible for reviewing the legality of the ordinance, which is still in its draft state and is in the process of being amended.

Once the committee approves the ordinance, a public hearing will be held to allow residents to express their opinions on the ordinance, he said. The final product will then be presented to the Board of Aldermen for a deciding vote, according to White.

In addition to reserving 30 percent of jobs for Somerville residents, the ordinance stipulates that such projects must also provide 10 percent of those jobs to disadvantaged workers. The

ordinance defines a disadvantaged worker as having an income below a certain level or facing an employment barrier, such as being homeless.

White noted that the local courts have been very strict in terms of passing such ordinances. Nonresidents who work in Somerville oppose the ordinance on the basis of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which forbids the abridgement of rights of citizens, according to Matt McLaughlin, an SCC board member.

McLaughlin, who is also the founder of local group Save our Somerville, is surprised that the ordinance is meeting such opposition because the other 70 percent of jobs from the city projects would still be offered to non-

Somerville residents, he said.

Residents are paying to live in Somerville, McLaughlin said, and many of them need jobs during these tough economic times.

Harwitt added that the city has been investing heavily and it would be beneficial to the economy if unemployed residents could receive work.

Local groups like SCC, will continue to push and gain support for the ordinance in hopes of presenting it the Board of Aldermen for final review by December, according to McLaughlin.

“We have to get people to support the ordinance, put pressure on our elected officials and make sure it gets passed,” McLaughlin said. “We are not going to stop until it’s done.”

SPEAC implements Tufts Identity Project to encourage discussion about social identity SPEAC

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SPEAC comprises half of the university’s Bias Response Team; an Administrative Support Team that includes Chief of Staff in the President’s Office Michael Baenen, Director of Diversity Education and Development Margery Davies and Perez makes up the other half.

The project went through a pilot period last semester, according to Wilson.

Last semester, the group collected 130 photos and responses to the question, “Who are you?”

SPEAC added the second question, “How do other people perceive you?” this semester.

SPEAC has collected approximately 75 responses this semester, according to SPEAC member Kate Salwen, a senior. The group has set up tables in Dewick at advertised times to collect student responses, she said.

Members hope to eventually put responses and photos online,

Wilson added.

Having the responses online would help make the conversation about diversity more widespread, Perez noted.

“The electronic environment is very powerful because other folks — maybe students who are coming to Tufts [and] students who are here — can relate to the expression and self-identification of the students that are here now,” she said.

Salwen hopes the project will help inspire discussions about personal social identity at Tufts.

“I think that students at Tufts are generally very intelligent people and are people who want to learn and grow, but these conversations about identities are so personal, that they’re very difficult conversations to have, no matter how interested you are,” Salwen said.

“The more we get out there and are able to create a safe space to have these conversations, the more they’ll happen, and the

more we’ll be able to understand each other as people,” she said.

Unlike The Hapa Project, the Tufts effort does not aim to focus specifically on ethnic diversity, but rather every aspect of students’ identities, Wilson said.

“Rather than talking specifically about ethnicity … it would be good for people to be able to claim their own identity without any boundaries,” she said.

“This project really seeks to shed light upon the diversity of people, not only through race or ethnicity or gender, but also who they are and how they think,” SPEAC graduate intern Arielle Levy (LA ’11) said.

The project will help demonstrate all types of diversity within the student body, according to Wilson.

“It has a lot of potential and is a really valuable opportunity to allow the Tufts students to express themselves individually and as a collective. You can see how unique we are,” she said.

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Book Smarts — Tufts Professors’ Sartorial Scene

Alison Williams and Sarah Gottlieb | Generation SEX

Wrap it up

Compiled and Photos by Justin McCallum In the midst of midterms, it would be all too easy to hate on those heartless souls up at the whiteboard that make us stay in Club Tisch until 2 a.m. every night. But have you ever looked past the piles of reading that those professors assign you to notice what they’re wearing? Sartorial Scene has, and we’ve been impressed by the diversity of styles to be found among the Tufts faculty. Let’s take a look at these eclectic looks that combine fashion, academia and the occasional dose of quirkiness, and let these sartorial professors sound off about their own fashions as well as the trends they’ve seen their students sport.

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When you’ve got a jacket, a tie and a vest, you can be creative with how you mix those up, be a little bolder with the colors or the tie patterns. I have a thing for jackets. I’m pretty open to the different styles, different lengths. I keep up with whatever the cutting-edge trend is by seeing what [students] are wearing. When I was an undergrad here at Tufts, I always tried to be more in style, but I was probably five to seven years behind the trends — that’s why this look is good, because it’s not something that goes out of style.”

—David Proctor, administrator of the Department of Classics & Archaeology Program (pictured top right)

“I’d say my style is basically eclectic, classic but with a twist — like wearing cowboy boots with an A-line skirt. I like this swing coat: It’s got a very 1950’s feel and reminds me of Grace Kelly.

I’ll make a confession — I rarely throw anything away. I tend to mix old and new pieces.

—Kelly Greenhill, associate professor of political science

“When I was in college, my favorite poet was a Frenchman by the name of Charles Baudelaire. He wrote, ‘We are all of us celebrating a funeral,’ and he was describing the way he dressed — which was all in black It appealed to my college-boy mind. I just like black. I like black humor, I like noir films.

When I was a student in prep school and had to wear a tie and jacket to class every day, I resented it. It kind of stayed with me. I went through my purple bell bottoms with brass buttons in the ’60s, but that was in California.

If a student walks into my classroom wearing a cap... and I don’t think this particular person has made a series of careful choices about what he’s putting on his body... I might ask him to take his hat off.”

—Roswell Angier, head of photography for the School for the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts This feature will continue next week. If you have a professor you find especially stylish, tell us at features@tuftsdaily.com

“What I might wear out to a date I would [also] wear to class, because I’m the same person in every situation. I don’t ever censor myself, so... how I dress is more a reflection of what I feel that day, rather than where I’m going or who I’m seeing. I think if you can rock it out, you should just wear it! I like the really short skirts right now; I think they’re great. “ —Geraldine Grimm, lecturer of German

“I proudly accept the title ‘Prince of Argyle’ — all of my good friends buy me argyle for presents.

I love the geometric patterns. I’m so excited it’s coming back in and people are wearing it again. I try to wear something I feel comfortable in — that’s my criteria. After that I try to wear something a little bit colorful and fun. The other thing is I’m going to be covered in chalk, so...I’m going to have to do things that are somewhat washable.

Tufts... kids actually do the right amount of dressing up. People wear interesting, nice clothes that are what I would call business-casual, and I think that’s appropriate.”

-—Ben Hescott, senior lecturer of computer science

It’s tempting for people my age to try to look younger or to give up altogether on having a style. I wear things that I hope make me look like I’m not trying too hard.

I have four kids and they’re all stylin’, so they keep me on my toes. Because I ...am out there in the world as a feminist, people aren’t always expecting me to dress the way I do. When I’m home, I’m wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt and flip flops, but professionally I make an effort to throw people off a little bit.

—Nancy Bauer, associate professor of philosophy

“After a certain age … people develop their uniform, which is their own voice.

For me, it’s causal with a touch of my own personality. I like bracelets, I invest in leather products — jackets, belts, shoes — and I love bags! Latin women like to mix it up; we like to be eclectic. When I was in college, all of my peers were very prone to listening to what the magazines were telling us to do, and ... nowadays students are much more independent.

They listen to the established voices of fashion but they put a very real twist that is all their own.”

—Consuelo Cruz, associate professor of political science

o it’s time for that awkward conversation: To wrap it or not to wrap it? Everyone has different preferences and opinions about the condom. Some Jumbos use them regularly, swearing by them in their war against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and babies. But others make excuses. Don’t they make it difficult to feel anything? They ruin the mood. They don’t let me feel close enough to you. I’m too lazy. Aren’t they superexpensive? If you think sex without a condom is no big thang, check yoself before you infect yoself. They aren’t just for preventing baby Jumbos. No one wants dirty junk.

Whatever (or whomever) you’re doing, condoms are important. A common misconception is that condoms are only important because they prevent pregnancy. Sure, condoms are the most widespread method of contraception, but they’re also important for preventing many STIs. Condoms help prevent the transmission of genital herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, genital human papillomavirus and HIV/AIDS in both men and women. You may roll your eyes and assume that everyone knows this, but we’ve both heard a lot of people around this campus ask these questions about condoms.

One general assumption for women is that the pill (or other forms of contraception, such as injections), cancel out the need to worry about condoms. This may hold true for people in exclusive hookups where both partners have been tested for STIs, but it doesn’t apply to most of the general population. Let’s face it: A lot of people get drunk, go out and have sex without using the proper protection. While intoxicated, most people either forget to use condoms or don’t notice when they break or fall off. Even if you’re using another form of contraception, you could be exposed to a number of STIs. You may think that everyone on this campus is clean, but that’s simply not the case. Many STIs won’t show symptoms for the first few weeks, if at all. No matter who you’re hooking up with, condoms provide important protection that can prevent you from developing some serious diseases later on. Sex is great, but it’s way better when you’re safe.

Additionally, you can contract many STIs orally. For oral protection, pick up some dental dams at the closest CVS. These are designed to prevent the exchange of bodily fluids that can transmit infections. In fact, you can make your own dental dam by using Saran wrap or simply unrolling a condom, cutting the tip off and cutting down one side. You learn something new every day, right?

There are many brands of condoms out there, including Trojan, Durex and LifeStyles.

There are even female condoms. While you can find reviews of the top condom brands out there, it’s really a personal preference as to which condoms are the best. One of the most popular brands is Sir Richard’s, the company that makes the plaid condoms you may have seen at Health Service recently. Why are they fantastic? For each box of condoms bought, the company actually donates condoms to countries in need. Their tagline is “Doing good never felt better.” We’ll leave it up to you to decide, but we think that’s pretty amazing.

Most condoms are made of latex, but what if you’re allergic? There are many non-latex options when it comes to condoms. The most common non-latex condoms are made of polyurethane, and some are made of other synthetic materials such as polyisoprene.

Unfortunately, condoms made of synthetic material are usually more expensive. Start saving up your spare change, because condoms definitely aren’t something you should cut out of your budget if you’re sexually active.

Have questions? Worried that you’ve contracted something? Head on over to Health Service where you can get confidential STI testing. And remember: Just wear it.

Alison Williams is a sophomore majoring in English and Sarah Gottlieb is a sophomore majoring in psychology. Williams can be reached at Alison.Williams@tufts.edu and Gottlieb can be reached at Sarah.Gottlieb@ tufts.edu.

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In recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Tufts University Information Technology (UIT) has made a recent push for awareness about the security risks associated with mobile technology. On campus, Blackberries and iPhones abound, and as UIT Director of Communications and Organizational Effectiveness Dawn Irish told the Daily, “students … now use mobile technologies far more than their desktops.”

Here’s what the campus had to say about keeping the information on their mobile phones away from prying eyes.

I personally think that I have a lot more personal information on my phone than on my computer, so I think that if someone were to get a hold of my phone, there would be more on there. I feel like people who are businessmen in actual jobs would have a lot more personal information on their computers, but I know that I personally don’t open links on my phone. I do that on my computer.

—Sonya Bakshi, sophomore

I click fewer links on my phone because I think that someone else will pick up my phone and see my history.

—Alexis Donnaruma, junior

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I do open links. I don’t really think of it as unsafe, but then again nothing really seems safe, so this is just as bad.

—Jessie Partridge, first-year graduate student of urban and environmental policy and planning

My email is the only thing I worry about; I don’t know if that’s wrong. I have no valuable information except for credit cards. I have no secrets, so...

—Alex Wais, sophomore

I tend to be more worried about my computer, primarily because there is more on there that I would stand to lose if something hacked [it]. I don’t think of my phone as having that kind of capability to open junk stuff.

—Rachael Jackson, sophomore

I’m definitely worried about safety, because you never know what’s in those links.

You might get viruses or something that can damage your hardware, so I’m definitely concerned.

—Mark Bernardo, freshman

I don’t really have a smart phone anymore, but when I did, I used to check my bank account on it. I don’t really worry about my computer security nearly as much as I should. All of my passwords are definitely the same for everything, which is really bad.

—Alexis King, senior

—compiled by Victoria Rathsmill and Margaret Young

In the aftermath of Wall Street’s orgy of greed, 44 million Americans, including 1 in 5 children, live in poverty. Too-bigto-fail banks are even bigger. The politicians in their pockets, who opened Pandora’s box by deregulating them, bailed them out with your money. Then they let the bankers walk and flipped the 44 million the bird.

Where are your tax dollars going this year?

The Pentagon will spend $1 trillion on weapons, its vast empire of bases, bankrupting wars, and more.

Not your problem? Really? Or do you want to learn more?

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Restaurant Review

Jordan Teicher | The Independent

Bondir offers diners different and exquisite menu choices every day

Kiss my tuches

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Offering an impressively arrayed, elegantly prepared menu on a regular basis is one thing, but doing it with constantly rotating

Bondir 279A Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 661-0009 $$$$ dishes is another thing entirely. Bondir, the culinary progeny of head chef Jason Bond, not only makes good on this ambitious promise but does so almost effortlessly.

Bondir’s menu changes daily — read that again if you need to. Where most purveyors of high-end cuisine tend to rely on the old standby of seasonal changes, Bond throws out the book entirely. Don’t expect a standard appetizer-entree-dessert pattern either, as you won’t find it here. Instead, you’ll be greeted by a trim sheet of the day’s selections, featuring both half and full portions.

The genius of it all lies in the menu’s incredible diversity of flavors. With four half-portions per dining pair, it’s possible to sample a clear majority of the menu. Then, when you return — and you will — a brand new slate will take its place.

But enough about concept and innovation, since the quality and execution of Bond’s dishes quite possibly trumps them.

The first taste was a trio of breads, featuring a simple nine-grain, another made with corn flour and duck cracklings and one known simply as “The Sea.” Though this mysteriously named offering is essentially a black slice of bread, it

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Bondir’s rotating menu offers diners fresh experiences every day. was full of surprises. Its unusual coloring comes from squid ink, while its flavor comes from a combination of seaweed and dehydrated shrimp. The result was surprisingly subtle — even delicate — in light of its component ingredients.

Unexpected combinations made another appearance in the first course, a butternut squash soup served with roasted pumpkin seeds, spiced marshmallow, caramelized shallots and bee pollen. By virtue of each element’s suspension in the base, every spoon delivered a slightly different set of flavors, each clearly delineated and

Movie Review

Unfocused script and poor performances

by Cage, Kidman plague ‘Trespass’ by

Emma Starr

Contributing Writer

From director Joel Schumacher, the latest heist thriller, “Trespass,” chronicles the not-so-tragic downfall of the Miller family

Trespass Starring Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet Directed by Joel Schumacher as both they and the audience are forced to endure the longest, most exhausting and least entertaining home invasion to ever hit the big screen.

The film opens on a beautiful, sun-soaked afternoon as Kyle (Nicolas Cage) speeds down a country road in a silver Porsche, mumbling in a semi-patrician accent strangely reminiscent of Frank Langella’s.

In case this introduction doesn’t make the point clear enough, here’s how you know the Miller family is rich: They have a white house. Every item inside said white house is white. They have a private lake, a private swimming pool and — perhaps even more telling — marital neglect, a rebellious teenage daughter and shameful indiscretions.

The Miller family’s seemingly perfect upper-crust existence is thrown off the rails as they enter a game of cat-and-mouse with four deranged thieves. Kyle, his beautiful wife Sarah (Nicole Kidman) and their see TRESPASS, page 6

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Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman star in the latest unoriginal heist film, ‘Trespass.’

distinctive. This allowed the sweetness of the marshmallow and toasty crunch of the pumpkin seeds to be accentuated, rather than become lost.

That ability to marry individual tastes without blending them into one another would continue throughout the meal, including the next two courses of olive oil-poached bluefish and braised chicken served with housemade fusilli pasta. With both, the accompanying paired vegetables felt more like a well-thought-out component of the dish’s see BONDIR, page 6

Music Review

Ma and Mena bring Symphony Hall to its feet by

Panharith Chhum Contributing Writer

On Oct. 13, Yo-Yo Ma teamed up with Spanish guest conductor Juanjo Mena to deliver Antonín Dvo ř ák’s Cello Concerto at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO) Symphony Hall. A name like Yo-Yo Ma tends to speak for itself, but, as this performance came to prove, he deserves his acclaim. Not many cellists have the ability to make a 40-minute piece feel as if it happened in a few minutes.

Dvo ř ák’s Cello Concerto enjoys a reputation as one of the most well-known cello concertos in popular repertoire. Besides the virtuoso cello part, the genius of the cello concerto lies in the careful textures that Dvo ř ák’s crafts between the orchestra and the soloist. These textures demand a seamless connection between orchestra, conductor and soloist.

Mena was able to execute these fine relationships as if he had been conducting with the BSO for years. He smoothly lead the piece between its tricky alternating high and low registers. His process was as pleasant to watch as it was to listen to; with his animated and almost balletic conducting style, he made it look easy to guide an orchestra.

Dvo ř ák’s Cello Concerto is a three-movement work that is see YO-YO, page 6

like Robert Downey, Jr. as an actor. He has more than enough charisma to excel as both Tony Stark and Sherlock Holmes, and he brings effortless polish to all of his roles. Off-camera, he seems like a decent guy: He overcame alcoholism, stays classy in public and charms the press. He struggled with personal issues in the past, but he is a changed man — and Hollywood loves a comeback.

Last Friday, Downey received the 25th American Cinematheque Award for his acclaimed work in motion pictures. The gala was held in Beverly Hills, and many celebrities were there, including Jennifer Aniston, Jodie Foster and the desperate Mel Gibson.

Gibson actually presented the award to Downey, Jr. — the two are close friends — and then, instead of blandly thanking half of Los Angeles as most celebrities do when winning an award, Downey used the opportunity to ask the American public to forgive Gibson. Downey said to the crowd, “Unless you are without sin … you should forgive him and let him work.”

Initially, I rolled my eyes when I saw the headline. Why should I forgive the antiSemitic, homophobic, racist and abusive guy who is best known for playing Martin Riggs in the “Lethal Weapon” series? But Robert Downey, Jr. is right about one thing: We should all forgive Mel Gibson for the things he has said and done in the past.

Gibson has certainly suffered. Some of you may not know that earlier this year he tried to revive his career with a film called “The Beaver” (2011). Gibson plays the main character, a failed father, husband and CEO of a toy company who develops an alternative personality he channels through a beaver hand-puppet to cope with his struggles.

Reread that synopsis. Now, read it again.

That may actually be the dumbest plot summary ever.

I never saw “The Beaver,” but I remember getting a migraine just watching the trailer. The film had a production budget of $21 million and domestically earned less than $1 million at the box office.

Gibson’s other famous friend, Jodie Foster, directed the movie and played the role of his wife, but the verdict was clear: People do not want to see a Mel Gibson movie.

He has found ways to alienate just about everybody.

And for this reason, I am willing to listen to what Robert Downey, Jr. is saying. I am willing to forgive him. The man lost his family, his career and just about all of his dignity. He said some of the most ignorant things possible and attacked multiple minority groups, but we should be the bigger people and forgive.

To the second part of Downey’s plea about letting him work, however, I personally want Mel Gibson to know that if he were in a movie with Ryan Gosling — my favorite actor — and Michael Mann — my favorite director — I still would not pay one cent to support the revitalization of his career. There is a huge difference between forgiveness and respect.

Although I consider myself atheist, my family is Jewish, and I will never, ever respect the man who once said, “F-----g Jews … the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” My advice to Mr. Gibson is to find a new career that is not reliant on ticket sales and public support. Plus, if “The Beaver” is the best he can come up with, he is really doing all of us a favor.

Actually, Hollywood does not love a comeback. Hollywood only loves a comeback if you drink yourself into a stupor or snort enough cocaine to satisfy Tony Montana and Michael Bolton. But if you verbally abuse enough people, you’re just an idiot. At that point, not even Iron Man can save you.

Jordan Teicher is a senior majoring in English. He can be reached at Jordan.

Teicher@tufts.edu.

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primarily structured as a theme and variation form, meaning that the piece repeats a fundamental melodic base with alterations. The powerful main theme introduced by the forte orchestra foreshadows the entrance of the soloist; this theme is heard in variation over the course of the entire piece.

Theme and variations tend to be more difficult to conduct. Since there’s less wholly unique material to work with, the performers must focus on keeping each variation sounding fresh. Mena handled the task at hand adeptly; rather than articulating each reprise as a simple continuation of the main theme, he gave each an individual direction by allowing the piece to unfold naturally.

At the professional level, the most important aspect of concerto performance is the chemistry between soloist and orchestra.

Oftentimes, concerto soloists have difficulty listening to the orchestra as well as performing with it. Ma’s ability to effectively communicate with the orchestra came through in his mini duets with woodwinds, brass and string players; he complemented the other parts rather than eclipsing them.

Ma even smiled and made eye contact with the concertmaster during the second movement.

What sets Ma apart from other cellists is his ability to create a broad spectrum of tones. He made his cello sing during the tranquil and lyrical second movement and, only minutes later, played octaves and double stops that effectively pierced through the orchestra. Ma never lacks in tone, even when he plays at the high register of the cello. Dvo ř ák’s Cello Concerto offered the perfect opportunity for Ma to display his technical repertoire in a way that is just as musical as it is virtuoso.

Though the main theme was addictive, the most memorable part of Ma’s performance came during the third

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Yo-Yo Ma brought virtuoso artistry to Dvoř ák’s Cello Concerto at the Boston Symphony Orchestra from Oct. 13-18. movement, in which the resolute piece unexpectedly eases its way into a sweet elegy. Ma took the piece completely off its trajectory to offer one last lyrical and memorable moment before the orchestra built back up and concluded the piece. Interestingly, this coda was added after the death of Josefina Čermáková, a piano student in whom Dvo ř ák’s was romantically invested. It is rumored that the coda of the Cello

Concerto is a tribute to Josefina.

In some ways, Dvo ř ák’s Cello Concerto is as physically demanding as it is mentally demanding. Ma’s playing style is very dynamic, and puts a lot of stress on his body. He performed with the cello leaning very far back, whereas older performance videos show Ma in a more conventional posture. This indicates that Ma might be having slight back complications; fortunately, if that

is the case, it did not seem to affect his performance at all.

At the end of the performance, applause thundered, and the crowd saluted the musicians with a standing ovation. Ma and Mena walked side by side, laughing and smiling at each other as Ma shook hands with the performers and called all the orchestral parts to stand up. The spell was only broken when the lights came back on.

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Nicholas Cage offers a disappointing performance in new heist thriller ‘Trespass.’

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angsty teenage daughter Avery (Liana Liberato) are far from innocent victims as they slowly — very slowly — unravel the motives behind their captors’ violent pursuit of money and revenge.

We’ve all seen this story before: A poor little rich family is taken for all its worth by a gaggle of unwashed thugs. The family gets tied up, beaten up, chased, blah blah, et cetera. This plot has been recycled countless times in the likes of David Fincher’s “Panic Room” (2008) and Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” (1971).

What stops “Trespass” from cashing in on this generally gripping story line is its execution: Somehow, each element of the film is almost impressively unconvincing and inauthentic.

The Miller family, undoubtedly the protagonists of the film, could not be further from sympathetic. Cage plays an emotionally detached and mildly corrupt businessman, while Kidman and Liberato portray hollow versions of the poor, female collateral damage Cage leaves at home. The

actors take their cues from an unoriginal script that depicts them as cliched versions of themselves.

For example, the Miller marriage is in shambles. This is not made clear by any display of meaningful emotional frustration between Kyle and Sarah, but instead by the fact that Sarah waits impatiently in a kitchen in a sexy black dress that Kyle ignores.

The group of villains, led by Ben Mendelsohn and Cam Gigandet, act the way villains are supposed to act. They curse loudly and often; when the Millers are unwilling to show them the money, Mendelsohn and Gigandet portray vexation by speaking in too-close proximity to the family members’ faces and spitting wildly in exasperation.

Because these characters are so hackneyed, they leave the audience pretty much apathetic to the plight of both the cats and the mice in this disturbed little game.

Without interested viewers, the bizarre and relentless twists and turns of Karl Gajdusek’s original screenplay become both distracting and meaningless.

Perhaps the flashbacks and zig-zagging

storyline are attempts to bring elements of psychological drama to the film, but the techniques come off as frustratingly unfocused. Though unoriginal in concept and execution, “Trespass” certainly would have fared better without the unnecessary plot surprises.

Unfortunately, the acting did not do much to save this flop. Cage plays Kyle’s yuppie persona with little believability.

Perhaps the strangest aspect of Cage’s performance is his aforementioned inexplicable accent that is representative of neither his upper-crust breeding nor any possible foreign nationality.

The combination of Gajdusek’s weak script and Cage’s unusual delivery trivializes serious moments by eliciting the audience’s laughter. Even Kidman, who seldom disappoints, is given very little to actually do besides act frightened and dress scantily.

While the movie’s unintentional comedic moments provide fleeting entertainment, “Trespass” spends most of its 91-minute run making both the Miller family and everyone in the theater beg for the heist to just end already.

overall thrust than a simple add-on.

For the bluefish, a bed of shaved vegetables, green beans and mushrooms provided a nice counterpoint to the richly seasoned, delicate flesh of the fish. And for its counterpart, a medley of crisped red kale, Scamorza cheese and sweetened chunks of pumpkin balanced the savory chicken and starchier pasta with multiple, but always complementary, textures.

Main dishes, however, would go on to surpass everything that had been tasted before. A set of Scituate scallops accompanied by leeks, potatoes, okra, roasted eggplant, hazelnuts and smoked sea salt froth matched a seared, firm outside with a succulent interior. The mutton shoulder that followed presented the boldest flavor of the night, perfectly handled. Served with an arc of crème fraiche, a red wine reduction, wheatberries and cubed Asian pear, the heavier quality of the mutton didn’t dominate the dish, but packed a delicious autumnal punch.

Delicate preparation and carefully linked flavors characterize Bondir’s approach perfectly. Bond has managed to create tastes and textures on a small, precise scale that are as unique as they are effective.

And if you worry that the identity of each delectable morsel you’re enjoying might slip your mind, fear not — a revolving staff will warmly and unpretentiously describe the contents of each dish as it’s presented.

Dining at Bondir, it’s difficult to avoid the feeling that you’ve somehow stumbled into a wonderful home in the French countryside. The simultaneously relaxed and refined atmosphere, coupled with superbly prepared cuisine, is beautifully disorienting, and, fortunately for diners, the host happens to be one exceptional chef.

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As a result of Medford and Somerville passing ordinances aimed at quelling the noise from house parties, Tufts recently announced that it will begin encouraging students living off-campus to ensure that their addresses are accurate in the university’s systems.

Once the administration knows where students are living, they plan to work with Medford and Somerville to improve the management of neighborhoods with the highest densities of students. While we strongly implore students to respect nonTufts residents’ schedules and property, we believe that this raises a bevy of concerns regarding students’ privacy.

The problem of off-campus parties is not a new one. The groundwork for the Somerville ordinance was laid in 2007, when local officials began calling on Tufts to accept increased responsibility for disorderly students. In August, the city of

Medford passed an ordinance that punishes property owners for unruly parties and other nuisances, and this month, the city of Somerville adopted a similar ordinance as Medford.

The Somerville ordinance includes specifications for allowable decibel levels: For example, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., noise coming from a private residence for a duration between 10 minutes and 2 hours must be below 50 decibels, which is the equivalent of a quiet conversation.

The desire to gather more student addresses is a clear push toward increased police presences in these neighborhoods, which represents a prejudiced disparity of policing around Tufts students in order to shut down loud parties.

It is troubling that the punishments imposed in the wake of parties are by no means consistent. There have been horror stories of new tenants being watched and

patrolled because of the rowdy reputation their house’s previous inhabitants. In addition, Tufts imposes $300 fines for reported noise violations in the Medford and Somerville communities with the threat of a doubled fine. As a result, we have concerns about this plan.

So what is the solution? First off, students living off-campus should recognize that their neighbors aren’t necessarily fellow students and should make every effort to respect residents’ different schedules and their property. They can start by being a good neighbor and giving their phone numbers to neighbors, therefore giving them a way to quiet down parties before resorting to calling the police.

However, we are skeptical of a policy that encourages selective policing in order to shut down parties, instead of devoting law enforcement resources to fighting actual, dangerous crime.

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Zachary Davis

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It seemed like a plot right out of a Hollywood espionage film.

A foreign country, one suspected for being slightly over the edge, slips up and has one of their would-be assassins caught — all on American soil.

Like many movies, it appears all is not as it seems with the recent stopping of Iran’s assassination attempt. While an action as brazen and crazy as the supposed Iranian assassination plot of Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, may sound plausible to many, there are those who claim it simply doesn’t make sense or even fit the Iranian style.

Yes, as crazy as Iran and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have been perceived in the past, this is too much.

However, when people delve into some of the possible reasons, there appears to be a much better planned element to the whole matter.

All is not united and joyous in the country of Iran, unsurprisingly. For some time now, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has been severed into factions -- one of which was apparently behind the planning of the assassination attempt.

Their reasons? Well, if you’re a conspiracy buff, then it’s probably going to

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sound familiar.

The goal of the assassination attempt on Ambassador Al-Jubeir was apparently not so much his death but the reactions it would cause in the international community. In this regard, the plan seems to have been pretty successful, as we’ve had politicians from both sides of the aisle clamoring for some retaliation.

This threat of retribution from the West is what some say the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps wanted all along.

According to former Iranian Consul Mohammad Reza Heydari, “There is a portion of the Revolutionary Guards who want to create an external crisis so they can consolidate their power and push to unite different groups inside Iran.”

When I heard this, I recalled the claims many people had following the attacks on Sept. 11. According to some conspiracy believers, the events of that fateful day were a false-flag operation meant to give the government an excuse for more power, both domestically and abroad.

While I think people believing the Bush administration was behind the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history may have a few loose screws, it’s hard to not see why such a theory garnered some support.

In the months following Sept. 11, we saw certain actions performed by the government that would never have been allowed

a year earlier. The USA Patriot Act, the invasion of Afghanistan and later Iraq were all done under the claim of stopping possible terrorist attacks.

It’s funny to see how similar Iran and America can be at times, though neither may admit it.

When one looks back on the previous dealings of the Revolutionary Guards, it seems much more apparent the assassination plot was probably not the goal. The Quds Force — a branch of the Revolutionary Guard that is being accused of the plot — has long had its hands in plots against foreign countries, yet they are usually carried out through proxies, ones trusted to complete the jobs.

Transitioning from using groups like Hezbollah to carry out their plans to using a 56-year-old Iranian-American seems far too prone for failure. Iran has too much to lose from such an attack, and not nearly enough to gain to warrant such a risk.

As with many things involving Iran, there seems to be more than meets the eye. Should this really allow a consolidation of different groups in Iran, it would be interesting to see what it means for the country and their international relationships.

All we can do now is try to uncover more about the plot while avoiding any hasty jumps to action. The last thing we need is to escalate this in fear and get ourselves stuck in another war.

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The ‘discovery’ of America by

Meghan Gillis

For most students, a day off from school is a godsend. It means sleeping in, spending the day with friends and having more time to fend off the never-ending schoolwork. Columbus Day is no exception. However, a day of Tufts students lounging on the quad and playing Frisbee holds a different type of significance for some people.

Native Americans remember Christopher Columbus for a lot more than just the “discovery” of America, but instead for the genocide and manipulation of their people. In his quest for gold and glory, Columbus and his fellow Europeans pillaged indigenous villages, killed and raped their inhabitants and introduced new diseases that caused havoc among the tribes.

On top of that, Columbus enslaved and brought over 1,000 natives back to

Amanda Johnson | Senior Moments

Europe in conditions that killed all but know the difference, but it is a huge 300, launching a long tradition of slav- step for those of Native American ery and abuse. This destruction was so descent and could help spread a bit of great that just 100 years after the arriv- historical accuracy. al of Columbus, as many as 90 million You might be asking, why should Native Americans had died. Columbus we care about events that occurred even wrote about these atrocities in his hundreds of years ago? Because every personal diary, effectively recording figure that we recognize in history says the exploitation and mistreatment of something about America as a country and her ideals. There are only two indigenous people.

Yet this confirmed genocide is holidays that bear the name of an indioverlooked by most, and there is an vidual, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and entire day off in honor of his name. Columbus Day. These holidays honor The states South Dakota and Hawaii a man who fought for the freedom and have recognized the controversies equality of an oppressed people and associated with Columbus, and they gave his life for the cause, and a man have changed the holiday to Native who was responsible for starting the American Day and Discoverer’s Day, Transatlantic slave trade and one of respectively. Cities such as Berkeley, the greatest genocides in history.

Sebastopol and Santa Cruz, Calif., have Indigenous People’s Day. I think that Tufts should seriously consider Meghan Gillis is a freshman who has not following suit. Most students won’t yet declared a major.

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Obama should stay out of protests by

Anastasia Dawson The Oracle

The Occupy Wall Street movement has extended far past New York City’s Zuccotti Park over the past few weeks.

Even the White House has picked up the cause.

According to BusinessInsider.com, White House spokesman John Earnest said Sunday that President Barack Obama “will continue to acknowledge the frustration that he himself shares” with the protesters, as well as fight to ensure that the “interests of the 99 percent of Americans are well represented.”

It is good to know that the president is looking out for 99 percent of his constituents, though one would hope he would have the best interest of all at heart. However, the sincerity of Obama’s alliance must be called into question, as Obama’s advisers have ties to the financial industry, according to the Washington Post.

Though one can only speculate the collective aim of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it is clear that it is fueled by a general distrust of financial institutions and a desire to stop government cuts.

Obama has recently taken to targeting individual financial institutions, calling Bank of America’s $5 monthly debit card fee “exactly the sort of stuff that folks are frustrated by,” according to the Post.

However, those fees, according to Investors.com, are a direct result of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which “President Obama signed and touted as one of the signature accomplishments of his presidency.”

The act, signed into law in 2009, will cost $2.9 billion over five years to implement and limits the fees “banks can collect from sellers when their customers make debit card purchases,” according to Investors.com.

Therefore, banks such as Bank of America have begun implementing monthly fees to make up for lost revenue.

Obama is well versed in hypocrisy.

In 2009, according to ABCNews.com, Obama blasted failing insurer AIG, which received a $150 billion bailout in September 2008 yet gave out large bonuses to employees, by saying, “It makes you angry because you’re thinking, ‘I was responsible and these folks

are irresponsible and somehow I’m paying for them.’”

Later, it was discovered that Obama’s own administration had secured AIG’s bailout and knew of the bonuses, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Obama’s presidency has been wrought with economic problems. As of September, the national unemployment rate was 9.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a far cry from the 7.6 percent that faced the president when he came into office in January 2009.

This month, the real estate market has seen the biggest drop in home ownership since the Great Depression, according to CNN, with “more than 4 million homes either in foreclosure or 90 days or more late with payments in August.”

In addition, 46 million now live in poverty, according to the Associated Press, the largest swell of Americans since the Census Bureau began tracking poverty levels in 1959.

Instead of pledging his allegiance to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Obama should begin to practice what he preaches. If he does not, he may be able to count himself among the 99 percent come Election Day.

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The right kind of legacy

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he return of many alumni for Homecoming was an illustrative reminder of the community that lives on after graduation. The wave of collective pride felt across campus blossomed into a welcomed instance of camaraderie at a university that often suffers from a deficit in school spirit.

We owe it to our alumni to cultivate bonds of friendship and strive to ensure that their college days are remembered not only with intellectual appreciation but also with some sense of emotional tenderness and affinity.

But what do we owe their children?

Considering the overwhelming majority of our peers, Tufts believes they deserve a little extra consideration in the admissions office.

This is a nod to tradition, with an inherent assumption that by extending Tufts kinship to our graduates’ children, we will yield greater loyalty and contributions to our alma mater.

But in practice, a preference for the children of alumni amounts to favoring applicants who, quite frankly, don’t need any more help.

In contrast with guidelines generally designed to favor only those historically excluded from higher education, this custom does exactly the opposite. Giving an edge to legacy applicants essentially amounts to assisting predominantly white, well-off applicants from highly educated families.

Of course, this is a sweeping generalization.

A brilliant, multi-racial exception to that archetype — one of many, I’m sure — lives under my roof. Still, in favoring the children of former students, we in essence perpetuate admissions trends tainted by comparative homogeneity.

In comparison with the quarter of our freshman class that are “students of color,” records from the 1970s show Tufts minority enrollment hovering around 10 percent, noting that these numbers are likely inflated.

Favoring legacies does more than exacerbate racial skews. Students who have parents that attended schools like Tufts are much more likely to be raised with an emphasis on education and benefit from their parents’ familiarity with the competitive admissions process. These students are also more from a higher economic rung, as Tufts alumni make significantly more than the average citizen.

Besides the demographic factors, considering a relative’s attendance slips into considering a relative’s donations — a messy prospect that opens up floodgates for corruption and adds even more leverage to an applicant’s wallet.

Some have even questioned the legal implications of favoring legacy applicants. It arguably conflicts with the 14th Amendment’s prohibition of favoritism based on lineage and civil rights legislation banning discrimination based on ancestry. As a private institution, Tufts can evade many of these legal dilemmas.

Still, approving policies that run opposite our nation’s core values is unsettling and symbolically condones aristocratic traditions.

Though often claimed to hold comparatively trivial weight, studies have shown that legacy status has the effect of adding 160 SAT points. Though Tufts does not provide admissions rates for legacies, statistics from neighboring institutions demonstrate the sway. For Harvard’s Class of 2009, 40 percent of students with legacy status were admitted, compared to the overall 11 percent acceptance rate.

This is not to say that the majority, if not all, of our legacy students are not qualified to attend Tufts. In fact, this policy inadvertently hurts those that would have gotten in without it — it allows legacy status to question the legitimacy of their acceptance and is often a lingering source of doubt in these students’ subconscious contemplations. Furthermore, recent research has found no link between legacy admissions policies and rates of alumni contribution, meaning that favoring legacies may rest on a flawed premise.

Sustaining positive alumni relations helps emanate favorable perceptions of Tufts across America, but this can be achieved without giving preferential admissions treatment to their children. Abandoning these structures of archaic ancestral privilege would also swell our school pride, making our legacy one of equal opportunity.

Amanda Johnson is a senior majoring in international relations. She can be reached at Amanda.Johnson@tufts.edu.

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Tufts finishes season with mild success

Rangers hope second straight pennant leads to first-ever World Series championship by

Ethan Sturm

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The Major League Baseball postseason has, for all intents and purposes, devolved.

In the two pennant clinching games, the four starting pitchers combined to pitch a total of 11 innings. The Cardinals’ Edwin Jackson, whose team eventually won the game and series, only played two innings. The League Division Series averaged fewer than nine runs per game, while the League Championship Series averaged more than 11.

So where does that leave us for the World Series? Well, the Texas Rangers scored 15 runs in their clinching game to the St. Louis Cardinals’ 12, so that’s a start. In all seriousness, no one should be surprised by the teams that have made it here. The Rangers are the best all-around team in the American League and looked dominant in both of their matchups. The Cardinals had all the momentum in the world entering October, outpitched the Phillies and then outhit the Brewers.

But St. Louis has hit the end of the road. They won’t be facing another senior circuit team in the Fall Classic; instead, they will be up against a real big-league team in the Rangers, and no distracting squirrel can save them from that. Here are five reasons why: 1. Been there, done that The Texas Rangers will be representing the American League in the World Series for the second consecutive year, becoming the first team to do so since the Yankees ran the gamut from 1998-2001. Since 1970, junior circuit teams are 9-3 in the World Series after having played the previous year. The Rangers have not changed all that much in a year, and six of the team’s starters from Game 5 of the 2010 Series will likely be in the lineup tonight.

The Cardinals, on the other hand, haven’t been to the Fall Classic since 2006. This year’s iteration has only three holdovers from that squad: Albert Pujols, Chris Carpenter and Yadier Molina. So while the franchise has been there before, this team has not. The Rangers’ experience will undoubtedly play a part in the coming weeks.

teams’ fans have at times lost their juice — think Milwaukee Brewers fans booing Shuan Marcum or Detroit Tigers fans nearly going silent during Game 5 of the ALCS — those crazy Texans just keep on going at it. Having the best hitters’ ballpark in the league according to ESPN’s Park Factor hasn’t hurt that power-heavy Rangers lineup either.

While the Cardinals have home-field advantage, they will likely need to win a game

The No. 5 Tufts women’s tennis team concluded its fall season this weekend at the three-day New England Women’s Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament, which featured players from 17 schools throughout the Northeast.

The Jumbos’ No. 3 doubles pair of senior Nathalie Schils and sophomore Rebecca Kimmel performed well for the Jumbos, as the pair advanced to the semifinal round of the B flight. Meanwhile, Tufts’ No. 1 doubles team of junior captain Lindsay Katz and sophomore Shelci Bowman reached the quarterfinals in the A flight.

The tournament was formatted differently from usual, as paired doubles teams competed against each other in three matches — two singles and one doubles. The first doubles team to win two out of three matches moved on to the next round.

To begin tournament play, Schils and Kimmel faced Babson’s No. 4 team of junior Victoria Lorido and freshman Courtney Fischer.

The Jumbos won the matchup 2-1, with wins in the doubles match and Kimmel’s single match. Later, the duo shut out Wheaton’s third team, 3-0, in order to advance to the quarterfinals.

There, Tufts lost to Trinity’s No. 3 doubles team, but both Schils and Kimmel won their singles matches to march past the Bantams, 2-1. In the following round, however, the Tufts pair was eliminated from the tournament when they lost 3-0 to No. 2 Williams’ fourth-ranked team of freshman Monica Pastor and sophomore Lindsay Thygesen.

“We both played really well. It was our first time playing doubles together,” Schils said. “It was excit-

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Outfielder Nelson Cruz was unstoppable in the ALCS, belting six home runs to lead the Rangers past the Tigers.

2. Don’t Mess with Texas The Rangers finished the season tied for the second-best home record in baseball, and with good reason. Rangers Ballpark can be an intimidating place, especially come October. After dropping their first game of the postseason at home when Tampa Bay’s Matt Moore decided to be the second coming of Cy Young for a night, they have rattled off four straight home victories as the crowd rallied behind them with towels waving. While other

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Why victory is in the Cards

After an improbable run, St. Louis Cardinals show no signs of slowing down by

Aaron Leibowitz

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Before we tell you why the St. Louis Cardinals will soon be World Series Champions, it is important to note that, not too long ago, they were considered a mediocre team.

On Aug. 25, they were 67-63, sitting 10.5 games behind the Atlanta Braves in the Wild Card. Then, in an occurrence understandable only to the baseball gods, the St. Louis went 23-9 to finish the season, while Atlanta lost 20 of its last 30 games.

Entering the final day of regularseason play, both teams had 89-72 records. You know how that ended.

On Sunday, the Cardinals punched their ticket to the World Series after beating the Milwaukee Brewers 12-6 in Game 6 of the NLCS. Now, they will face off against the Texas Rangers, with Game 1 set for tonight in St. Louis. Here’s why the Redbirds will win it all.

1. They’re red-hot This season reminded us that the baseball campaign is really, really

long, and what matters is who’s hot in the end — something that the Braves and Red Sox learned the hard way. The Cards are scorching.

Including the postseason, they’ve won 30 of their last 43 games.

To make the playoffs, they had to stay sharp until game 162. When the playoffs began, they had clearly hit their stride. The same cannot be said of the Phillies and Yankees, who clinched their respective divisions in mid-September before being upset in first-round playoff matchups against the Cardinals and Tigers, respectively. The Brewers clinched the NL Central on Sept. 23, the same day the Rangers won the AL West.

The Rangers have looked like the better team for most of the year, but the Cardinals are better now, and that’s what counts.

2. Tony La Russa’s bullpen In their six-game NLCS victory over the Brewers, the Cards became just the second team in postseason history to win a best-of-seven series in which their relievers recorded more outs than their starting pitch-

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ers. The bullpen, like the entire team, saved its best for last.

On Sunday, manager Tony La Russa worked some magic, pulling starter Edwin Jackson after two innings and relying on the motley crew of Fernando Salas, Marc Rzepczynski, Octavio Dotel, Lance Lynn and Jason Motte to do the rest.

They were up to the task, allowing just two runs in seven frames.

La Russa has used Salas, the Cards’ closer for much of the year, in the third, fourth, sixth and eighth innings this postseason, and he has a 1.86 ERA. Dotel has earned two wins and a hold pitching in the fifth, sixth and seventh, while Motte has four saves and a flawless ERA in eight innings of October work.

3. Balance of power The Cardinals’ lineup is solid, one through eight. In the heart of the order, however, are the big guns: Albert Pujols, Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman, all of whom are having solid postseasons. Look NL PREVIEW, page 12

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David M.

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Daniel R.

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Mike Napoli

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Yadier Molina

Lauren F.

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Matt B.

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Chris Carpenter (top left) and the Cardinals were an afterthought in September, but the momentum from their late surge has carried them to the Fall Classic.

Cardinals on an unlikely postseason roll NL PREVIEW continued from page 11

further down the lineup, and Yadier Molina is giving pitchers problems — he hit .333 in the NLCS and has reached base in nine of 11 playoff contests.

There is also a balance between veteran leadership and young talent. Furcal, Molina, Pujols and Berkman have each played in over 40 playoff games, and know what it takes to win in October. They will help younger players like Jon Jay, Allen Craig and David Freese to stay calm under pressure, shouldering much of the burden and letting the youngsters focus on their jobs.

4. The savior is a Carpenter For the first time this postseason, the Cardinals will send ace Chris Carpenter to

the mound in a series opener. Carpenter threw a three-hit, complete-game shutout in the decisive Game 5 against the Phillies, and he tossed eight shutout frames in his lone World Series start in 2006. He’s 7-2 lifetime in the playoffs with a 3.11 ERA, and St. Louis has won all three games he’s started this postseason. If the World Series goes seven games, he will likely be out there for three of them.

Meanwhile, the Rangers will go with lefty C.J. Wilson in Game 1. Wilson is a lowly 1-4 with a 5.40 ERA in seven career postseason starts.

5. The Freese effect No one saw this one coming. David Freese, the 28-year-old third baseman who had 10 homers and 55 RBI this season, has had a

heroic October. In Game 4 of the NLDS, with the Cardinals facing elimination, he had a home run and four RBIs. In the NLCS, he went crazy, compiling 13 hits, three homers and nine RBIs to earn series MVP. Worrying about Pujols, Holliday and Berkman is already enough to drive a pitcher insane. Throw in Freese — who didn’t reach the majors until he was 26 and has never played more than 97 games in a regular season — and the Rangers’ arms will be having nightmares.

Freese will likely hit in the six-hole, which adds depth to an already strong lineup and makes life harder for Texas manager Ron Washington. As Brewers skipper Ron Roenicke told reporters on Thursday: “I can’t keep walking Albert [Pujols]. They have too good of hitters behind him.”

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in Texas to take the title, and that will be a tall task.

3. Forever Young Remember in February when Michael Young, after being told he would be the designated hitter in 2011, was demanding a trade out of Texas? Those days are long gone.

After giving up his third-base job to Adrian Beltre, Young hit .338 with 106 RBI for the season, eventually earning the cleanup spot in manager Ron Washington’s lineup. He was even seen playing first base in Game 6 of the ALCS; during that series, Young had a home run and five RBIs. Young is likely to man that position again in the games played at Busch Stadium.

Who do the Cardinals have to counter Young at DH for games three through five?

They will likely start Allen Craig, who has yet to play a full season’s worth of games in the Majors. Sure, Craig hit .315 in 200 at-bats this season, but he has more strikeouts than hits this October and a meager .222 batting average. The edge here clearly falls to Young, only further solidifying the Rangers’ advantage at home.

4. Going, Going, Ogando What we have learned over the course of this October is that you don’t actually need a good starting pitching staff to be successful. In fact, both the Cardinals’ and Rangers’ starting rotations posted ERAs over 6.00 in their respective Championship Series, and the teams instead relied on strong relief work.

But while there is no real edge in the bullpens — both have been superb — the Rangers have the advantage of being able to turn the ball over to Alexi Ogando if one of their starters gets shelled early.

With a record of 13-8 and a 3.51 ERA as a starter in the regular season, many teams in the league would be more than happy to have Ogando at the top end of their starting rotations. But Texas has enough pitching depth to use him in long relief. The benefits have been significant: In 10.1 innings of postseason work, he is 2-0 with a 0.87 ERA and a 6.00 strikeout-to-walk ratio. When pitchers start imploding over the coming week — and let’s be honest, in this postseason, they are bound to — Texas has the advantage in the middle innings.

5. Disarming Sir Lancelot The strength of the Cardinals’ lineup is the heart of the order, which features the terrifying trio of Albert Pujols, Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman. Unfortunately, the last of those three has a glaring weakness in his game — Berkman struggles to hit left-handed pitching, and he was benched in Game 4 of the NLCS when the Brewers started Randy Wolf.

In 2009, the switch-hitting Berkman logged a .710 OPS against southpaws. Last year, that number plunged to a horrific .517.

And even though Berkman showed some improvement versus lefties this season, he still hit 27 of his 31 homers against righties with an OPS nearly 200 points higher when batting left-handed.

Unfortunately for the Cardinals, the Rangers’ postseason rotation features three southpaws and only one righty.

Game 1 starter C.J. Wilson will lead the way for Texas, before Derek Holland and Matt Harrison pitch later in the series. That means Berkman’s bat will be neutralized for the majority of the Fall Classic, placing even more pressure on Pujols and Holliday to keep up with the potent Texas offense.

or those that missed Alex Prewitt’s column yesterday, we are in the middle of a Fantasy Fantasy Baseball Draft series, in which we draft teams of the greatest fictional players of all time.

The three of us researched hard — OK, we opened some crappy BleacherReport.com articles and some Wikipedia pages.

While my competitors looked for the biggest numbers, my team is a group of oldschool baseball lifers who just love to play the game. So here they are, “The Damn Summer Motor Kings in the Outfield.”

1st round, 1st overall: Roy Hobbs, Right Field, “The Natural” (1984): The Adrian Peterson of fantasy fantasy baseball drafts, there was no other first pick.

Grantland’s Bill Simmons estimated that in the season depicted in the movie he hit .350 with 44 home runs in just 115 games.

2nd round, 6th overall: Casey, 1B, “Casey at the Bat” (1888) I get it. He struck out in one of the biggest at-bats of his career. But the best hitters in baseball don’t come through 65 percent of the time; just ask Alex Rodriguez.

3rd round, 7th overall: Bobby Rayburn, Centerfield, “The Fan” (1996) You want clutch? This guy hit an inside-thepark home run on cue to save his son from Robert De Niro.

4th round, 12th overall: Bingo Long, Pitcher, “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings” (1976) An ace pitcher, jokester and charismatic captain all rolled into one. He was able to beat a team of Negro League All-Stars in the movie’s climax, which is more than good enough for me.

5th round, 13th overall: Morris Buttermaker, Coach, “Bad News Bears” (1976) A team of old-school players needs a curseslinging, alcohol-drinking manager.

6th round, 18th overall: Ryan Dunne, Pitcher, “Summer Catch” (2001) The southpaw has a lot of promise, and with the help of my veteran pitchers he’ll develop quite nicely. As a bonus, Jessica Biel will be hanging around the clubhouse plenty.

7th round, 19th overall: Ray Mitchell, Third Base, “Angels in the Outfield” (1994) It’s easy to forget that he had a strong bat and Gold Glove-caliber fielding skills to fill out my lacking infield.

8th round, 24th overall: John Dowd, Designated Hitter, “MVP Baseball” Sports editor Aaron Leibowitz came up with this pick. Dowd, EA Sports’ version of Barry Bonds after they could not get rights to use him, has all the numbers with none of the attitude. I’m going to go ahead and say he doesn’t even use steroids.

9th round, 25th overall: Billy Chapel, Pitcher, “For Love of the Game” (1999) Chapel pitched a perfect game at the age of 40 without realizing it. He may be toward the end of his career, but he will make a great pitching coach when he retires.

10th round, 30th overall: Joe Hardy, Left Field, “Damn Yankees” (1955) The man was actually engineered by the devil for the sole purpose of playing baseball.

Plus, how great would bench-clearing brawls with Ben Kochman’s Al “The Boss” Angel be?

Favorite Pick: Dave King by Alex Prewitt Move over Billy Beane, Prewitt has found sabermetric gold with a player that can do nothing but walk.

Least Favorite Pick: Clubhouse Chemistry of Ben Kochman While a room featuring three pre-pubescents, a man who kills chickens, the second coming of Reggie Jackson and Charlie Sheen would make for a great sitcom, it would make for a much worse baseball team.

Ethan Sturm is a junior majoring in biopsychology. He can be reached at Ethan.

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ing that as the tournament progressed, we really got to know each other’s styles of play better. After our first match we were playing a lot better together.”

Katz and Bowman beat Middlebury’s third-ranked team 2-1, followed by another 2-1 victory over MIT’s secondranked team in the round of 16.

A rainstorm forced the pair’s next match against Middlebury indoors and shortened the contest. Despite the changes, however, Katz and Bowman won their doubles match 8-5. In singles play, Katz won her match 8-4 to clinch the Tufts victory.

Katz was very successful in her next singles match against MIT as well, winning both sets at love. Bowman, however, lost in a close three-set match.

In doubles, they beat the MIT pair of freshman Michelle Dutt and senior Anastasia Vishnevetsky, 8-1, in order to advance to the next round.

In the quarterfinals, the Jumbos’ top team fell 3-0 to No. 1 Amherst’s topranked team, which ended up winning the tournament without losing a match.

Sophomore Jordan Brewer and senior Laura Danzig won the ITA New England Tennis Tournament in the beginning of October, and the pair remains the top doubles grouping in Div. III women’s tennis. “[Bowman and I] have been playing pretty well together, so we wanted to give it everything we had. Overall, we played great doubles,” Katz said.

“I definitely think I improved in my singles throughout the tournament. It was a great way to end this leg of the season.”

Junior Lauren Hollender and sophomore Samantha Gann were Tufts’ No. 2 pair this weekend. They beat Amherst’s third pair 3-0 but fell to Williams’ third team 2-1 in the next round.

The pair won their doubles match, 9-7, but they dropped both singles matches.

Hollender fell 6-4, 6-1 to Ephs senior Caroline Capute. Gann battled it out

against Ephs senior Taylor French to force the match into a decisive tiebreaker, but French prevailed, winning 10-7 to eliminate the Tufts pair from the tournament.

With the tournament marking the end of the fall campaign, the team moves into the offseason ready to prepare for a tough spring in which they will face top teams including No. 3 Emory and No. 8 Washington and Lee, as well as, of course, their NESCAC rivals Amherst and Williams — currently the top two teams in the nation.

The team is relatively happy with their performances this fall but hopes to improve before the spring.

“Overall the fall season went fine.

Generally people were happy, but we know what we want to work on in the off-season,” Katz said. “Everyone knows where their weaknesses are.

Specifically [Bowman and I] need to work on reaction time in our doubles play. When we were playing Amherst, they were hitting balls at us a lot faster and harder than we are generally used to, so the problem was that when they hit the volleys at us, we were just reacting instead of actively placing the volleys in a specific place. We were reacting just in time to make it back, but we weren’t setting up the points.”

The team’s two freshmen, Sophie Schonfeld and Sarafina Nance, as well as sophomore Eliza Flynn, have been injured the entire fall season, but all three plan to play in the spring, which will help to revitalize the team.

“The fall season is always an interesting time with the new freshmen coming in. Since they were injured this year … I’m really excited for the spring to see them on the courts. And with Eliza back in the lineup, we’re definitely going to be stronger in the spring,” Schils said. “One of the things our team does particularly well, which not all the NESCAC teams do, is take advantage of the time we have off.

We’re lifting, practicing a lot and running sprints. We come out for spring break in great shape and ready to compete.”

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Senior captain Lindsay Katz teamed with sophomore Shelci Bowman to reach the A flight quarterfinals.

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