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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

TCU Senate to offer $450,000 surplus funds by

Laina Piera

Daily Editorial Board

The Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate on Oct. 16 voted to allocate $450,000 of its surplus funds towardsbuffer funding, surplus grants and event grants in an effort to put money back in the hands of students.

The Senate, which currently has over $500,000 in surplus funds, plans to allocate $50,000 of this money to buffer funding, $200,000 toward surplus grants and $200,000 toward event grants, according to TCU Senate Treasurer Christie Maciejewski, a sophomore. The Senate will maintain the rest of the surplus.

Surplus grants will be distributed to students who propose large-scale campus projects, according to TCU Senate Associate Treasurer Ard Ardalan. NonTCU-recognized student groups can apply for the grants as well.

“The surplus grants will be capital improvements — things that will affect the entire campus on a lasting basis,” Ardalan, a junior, said.

Groups seeking surplus grants may request a maximum of $100,000. Last year, surplus grants provided funding to groups such as Tufts Bikes to implement its bike-share program and the Leonard Carmichael Society to purchase a new club van.

This marks the first year that the Senate has offered event grants, designed to encourage groups to host more programmed activities for the community, according to Maciejewski.

The new event grants program will offer funds to TCU-recognized groups when the Senate has over $500,000 of surplus.

“I’m hoping the event grant will get more students to come to events and get really excited for them,” Maciejewski said.

Event grant disbursements are expected to be roughly 20 percent of a group’s annual budget, though the Senate may decide to grant more or less money to groups on a case-bycase basis, according to Maciejewski. see GRANTS, page 2

Senior Memory Book to replace traditional yearbook

by Shana

Friedman

Contributing Writer

Due to a lack of student interest in producing and purchasing Tufts yearbooks, the university this year will offer a Senior Memory Book in lieu of a traditional Tufts yearbook, according to Director of the Office for Campus Life (OCL) Joe Golia.

Golia described the Senior Memory Book as a smaller, cheaper version of the yearbook, which will focus on seniors and senior events rather than campus-wide activities and the entirety of the student body.

Insufficient student interest created difficulties with both filling a yearbook staff and selling copies of the finished product, Golia explained.

“Our biggest problem is finding students who are interested in doing it and it’s a real challenge,” he said.

The entire yearbook staff currently consists of senior Max Almanzor. He is in the process of recruiting additional staff members.

The yearbook has faced declining popularity in recent years. Last year, only 400 yearbooks were sold to less than half of the senior class, according to Golia.

“It’s certainly something that people want, but the people who buy them are parents,” Golia said. “Students don’t seem to be interested at all.”

Golia believes that the significantly lower cost of the Senior Memory Book see MEMORY BOOK, page 2

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Timeflies and Matt and Kim played to a below-capacity audience last month during the annual Cage Rage Concert.

Lower Cage Rage turnout attributed to online ticketing, scheduling conflicts by

Mahpari Sotoudeh

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Performers at Tufts’ second-annual Cage Rage Concert last month played to a below-capacity audience, the result of unusually low ticket sales due in part to issues with the new online ticketing system.

Only 1,400 of the 2,000 available tickets were sold this year, compared to last year’s event featuring Passion Pit as well as K.Flay and Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, which sold out entirely, according to Concert Board co-Chair Kelsey Schur, a senior.

Schur and Office for Campus Life Assistant David McGraw both cited problems with TuftsTickets.com, the website

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The traditional yearbook will be replaced with a less expensive, shorter Senior Memory Book.

that the university began using this year to sell event tickets online, as a major factor resulting in this year’s lower ticket sales.

Schur said that Concert Board received a number of emails from students facing challenges while attempting to purchase tickets.

“I think that discouragement that happened with problems with the ticket service probably cost us a hundred people at least.” Schur, said. “We did what we could.”

McGraw explained that while the number of tickets sold to Tufts students was roughly the same as last year’s number — around 1,000 — there was a significant decrease in the number of tickets sold to

Massachusetts state legislators yesterday voted to approve the new Statehouse district map proposed last month, which offers greater political clout to traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

The Massachusetts Senate voted unanimously on the redistricted Senate map, while the House voted 151-3 to approve its new map. Both maps were sent to Gov. Deval Patrick for his approval after the two bodies passed one another’s map.

The state is required to redistrict every 10 years following the release of new census data. The 2010 Census reflected significant demographic changes in the state over the past decade.

The new maps will impact traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, doubling the number of House districts in which over half of the

population is composed of non-white individuals. The number of Senate districts in which traditionally underrepresented groups are the majority has also increased from two to three.

Areas such as Boston, Lowell, Springfield, Worcester, and Somerville have witnessed recent rises in their immigrant population, according to State Sen. Patricia Jehlen (D-Somerville). She said that the Special Joint Committee on Redistricting focused on keeping communities containing high percentages of traditionally underrepresented groups within the same district so that they could elect a representative from their community, Jehlen said.

Under the revised map, each district now contains about 41,000 people, according to State Rep. Sean Garballey (D-Arlington).

The redistricting committee focused on creating an equal distribution of see REDISTRICTING, page 2

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Senate to offer funding for group events, capital improvements GRANTS

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The $50,000 allocated for buffer funding will be combined with the $50,000 of leftover buffer funding from last year, making a total of $100,000 available for groups seeking buffer funds, according to Ardalan.

Buffer funding is available for student groups to access at any point during the year to cover the cost of unforeseen expenditures, according to Senator Yulia Korovikov, a member of the Allocations Board (ALBO).

“Buffer funding is dealt with every single week,” Korovikov, a junior, said.

“Groups come in and request unforeseen expenses or new groups will come in … and explain why they need whatever funds they need.”

Applications for the surplus grant are due Nov. 18, according to Maciejewski. The event grant application process will take place in two stages: The first round of applications is due Nov. 11 and the second round will be due Feb. 3.

ALBO will review all applications

and then present the proposals to the entire Senate body, which will vote on which projects to fund, according to Korovikov.

It is unusual for the Senate to have this large of a surplus, according to Maciejewski.

“It’s been growing so we’re trying to knock it down a bit,” she said.

The surplus was created by unused money from the Student Activities Fee, a cost included in students’ tuition and designed to fund the budgets for student groups.

It is important that this extra money be used to benefit current students, Maciejewski said.

“The view of the Treasury is that the Student Activities Fee is paid by every student,” she said. “The students pay it, so the students who paid it should benefit from it.”

Korovikov encourages anyone interested to apply for a grant.

“We are absolutely looking for everyone with an idea to apply, because the more ideas we get, the more likely we are to get some great ones,” Korovikov said.

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State, nation redistrict reflecting 2010 Census data REDISTRICTING

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population across districts, Jehlen said.

In doing so, it works to avoid dividing cities and towns between different districts.

As a consequence of local redistricting, State Rep. Carl Sciortino (D-Medford, LA ’00) will gain one new precinct. Garballey, who currently represents 15 precincts in Arlington and three in West Medford, will add one new precinct in Arlington to his district.

“My goal was to keep the district the same,” Garballey said. “I wanted to represent everything that I was representing. I built a strong coalition of issues and worked with all of my constituents to improve the quality of life in the 23rd Middlesex District.”

Voters were invited to participate in the process of redistricting, accord-

Cage Rage ticket sales will not impact Spring Fling

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The Tufts Community Union Senate will offer $450,000 of surplus funding to students proposing capital improvements or seeking funding for campus events and unforeseen expenditures.

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will make it a more attractive option.

Each Senior Memory Book will cost only $50, while past years’ yearbooks ran from $85 to $100, depending on how early they were purchased, he added.

The Senior Memory Book will feature senior events such as Senior Week and Commencement, as well as perennial favorites such as Fall Ball and Spring Fling, Almanzor said. He believes that seniors will appreciate the new focus on their unique experiences.

“I think [the switch] is a good idea because it’s going to focus more on what seniors are looking for in a yearbook,” Almanzor said.

The Senior Memory Book will also represent a stylistic departure from the traditional yearbook. The new book will be horizontal and will be entirely in color, which has never been done before, Golia said.

The Senior Memory Book will maintain several aspects of the traditional yearbook, including a letter from the university president, a letter from the Alumni Association, a list of senior names and a section for advertisements where parents can buy ads, according to Golia.

The new publication will still include senior portraits, a practice that Golia does not anticipate will

lose popularity.

“We will probably always keep the option of senior portraits, because that’s a service for parents and families,” he said.

Senior portraits can exist independently from a yearbook and do not require a time- and labor-intensive production period, Golia added, so they remain unaffected by the issues that have plagued the yearbook.

Senior Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senator Jon Danzig expressed dismay that the OCL did not elicit student input before making the decision to depart from a traditional yearbook format, claiming that students weren’t given appropriate notice about the change.

Nevertheless, Danzig appreciated the need for a different type of book.

“The decision to downsize the yearbook is disappointing but unsurprising given the minimal notice students had been given,” Danzig said. “Still, as long as the book includes everything important to the Class of 2012, the lowered cost is a welcome concession.”

While Golia noted that the OCL is looking forward to the switch, he is uncertain about the future of the publication.

“I can’t tell you about future years,” Golia said. “It really depends if there’s student interest for the yearbook to continue year to year.”

ing to Garballey, one of the state’s 20 House members affiliated with the committee responsible for the redistricting process.

“It was a very collaborative process with the people of the Commonwealth.

We had 13 hearings across the state. We had hearings in every congressional district,” Garballey said.

The nation has also reallocated seats in the U.S. House of Representatives to reflect the new census data, and as a result, Massachusetts, which has been growing at a slower rate than other states, will lose one of its 10 congressional seats beginning in Jan. 2013.

“The state population has grown but not as rapidly as some other states, which means that when the congressional seats are reapportioned among the states, we actually lose one congressional seat,” Sciortino told the Daily.

students from other colleges.

“Maybe it was just a bad weekend when friends weren’t visiting,” McGraw said.

Concert Board co-Chair Marc Turner noted that the use of Carzo Cage as the concert venue required them to choose a weekend when athletic teams would not need gym access, and thus the weekend available was one during which many teams had away games, a factor which could have impacted sales.

The lower profile of the performers — Matt and Kim and Timeflies — could have also impacted the number of tickets sold.

“I think most people would agree that Passion Pit are a larger and more well-known group than Matt and Kim.” Schur said.

Higher ticket costs this year — a result of the Programming Board’s overspending on the Passion Pit show — could have also resulted in the lower number of ticket sales, according to Turner.

“Last year, tickets were a little cheaper, but last year they went way over budget on the show and we had to make sure we didn’t,” he said.

Turner also attributed the lower ticket sales to the timing of the event and scheduling conflicts with I-Cruise and other weekend activities, considerations that did not impact last year’s event, which was held on a weeknight.

“Last year, it was on a Tuesday, so a lot of other people had plans already for

Saturday and I think that played a big part.” he said. “I think that we would have sold out on a weekday.”

The 2010 concert was more costly than this year’s, according to Turner, and as a result, Concert Board was unable last year to fund Jumbo Jams, the annual winter show. With the lower price tag of this year’s event, he said, Concert Board will be able to bring back Jumbo Jams and spend more money on Spring Fling.

Schur put to rest any concerns that the lower ticket sales will affect the Spring Fling budget. While the money for the two events is technically all part of one account allocated to Concert Board, she explained that the money for Spring Fling is put aside in a separate fund and is never used to finance Cage Rage.

“Spring Fling’s our biggest priority and we actually have a little more budgeted for it this year,” Turner said.

Instead, McGraw explained, the lower ticket sales from Cage Rage may slightly affect the winter concert. He said that the only difference students would see is a possible relocation of Jumbo Jams from its usual venue at the Somerville Theatre to an on-campus venue.

“It shouldn’t affect Spring Fling; if anything it may impact the location of our winter show.” he said. “I really don’t think the students will see much of an impact with the artist or the performance or anything when it comes to the winter show.”

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Tufts Greek leaders are working to address the stigma of the association of Greek houses and sexual assault.

Greek organizations take cultural change approach to addressing sexual assault

by Sonja

Kytömaa

Contributing Writer

Recent Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) emails regarding sexual assaults in the area may have indicated a need for Jumbos to take extra caution when venturing off campus.

For leaders in the Greek community at Tufts, safety on campus — even in the seeming security of a fraternity house — is just as important.

According to the U.S Department of Education, close to 9,000 sexual assaults have been reported on college campuses around United States in the last three years. In the wake of these statistics, it makes sense that fraternity and sorority members alike across campus have headed toward raising awareness and money for anti-rape and anti-sexual assault programs.

“Fraternities nationwide tend to have a stigma associated with them as being the locations where sexual assaults occur,” ATO President Matthew Sanda, a junior, said.

To combat the situation, fraternities and sororities at Tufts worked together in creating posters stating, “Not in our house,” that have been placed throughout campus. ATO, a co-ed fraternity, has indicated the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) with a number of philanthropy projects.

“We want to eliminate the stigma of fraternities being locations for sexual

assault, and that is why we actively support the BARCC with our philanthropic events,” Sanda said.

Sororities also play a part in these efforts. The Panhellenic Council and the sorority Chi Omega (ChiO) helped organize Take Back the Night, a vigil meant to empower and support survivors, as well as raise awareness, of sexual assault.

“Every year we participate in the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Walk and Take Back the Night — that is all we really do that is centered on this sort of work because that is not our main philanthropy project,” ChiO President Audrey Wilson, a junior, said. “As sisters and as members of the Greek community, we want to make sure that we are doing our part to create a safer environment on campus for students and women.”

On a national scale, anti-rape and anti-sexual assault efforts have risen to the spotlight.

With the passing of the Dear Colleague Letter by the U.S. Department of Education in April, new guidelines and regulations have been laid out regarding how schools and administrations across the country must handle sexual assaults and implement prevention programs.

These changes have made schools more accountable for sexual crimes that occur on their campuses.

Tufts Violence Prevention Education Coordinator Elaine Theodore said Tufts

is not immune to the issue.

“It is absolutely true that sexual crime happens here at Tufts, as it does on any school,” Theodore said. “A college campus is a very vulnerable spot for sexual violence for a lot of reasons, and Tufts is no different than any other college campus.”

Several factors contribute to this, according to Theodore.

“Students are away from home for the first time ... and may or may not have figured out their limitations regarding alcohol,” she said.

Theodore added that the beginning of the year is especially troublesome. “[It’s] a vulnerable time, specifically for first-year women. Especially with the normative ‘hookup’ culture, consent can get clouded,” she said. “There’s a lot of experimentation happening, and there aren’t the same rules and regulations that students have at home. It is a challenging issue for students and administration to cope with.”

Theodore believes that focusing on this heavily in different communities, including the Greek system, is a good start as they tend to take an impassioned approaches to the cause.

“People been working together on this campus to really look around and discern best practices and make specific action steps here at Tufts,” Theodore said. “There is a lot happening. It is really a multi-tiered community effort.”

Non-traditional students benefit from a Tufts education without all the pressure — or the huge bill

by Stephanie

Haven

Contributing Writer

For most undergraduates on the Hill, classes revolve around anxiety-inducing tests and essays that require countless hours of studying at Tisch Library. For some of their non-traditional peers, however, trekking uphill is far from a day job.

Through the Office of Graduate Studies and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,

Tufts offers area residents an opportunity to take classes at the university without officially matriculating. While both programs require their students to pay for classes, each is tailored toward its unique clientele.

Community Auditors: Non-Traditional Students in a Traditional Environment This semester, 33 students, ranging in age from 22 to 63, are enrolled through the

Community Auditor program in undergraduate and graduate classes, according to the Program Administrator at the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies Angela Foss.

“Being older and having lived through a considerable amount of life, I was looking for educational stimulation,” Marty Santis told the Daily. Santis, who earned his see EDUCATION, page 4

know, readers, that I have already written a column about pants. There is definitely some truth to the fact that 90 percent of my complaints somehow relate to clothing. This column, however, addresses the issue of pants from an entirely different angle. I’ve been asked by a number of people to write this, so I hope that those people are happy when they open their Daily today and see this column in the Features section about … leggings as pants!

I, like all of the people who suggested this column topic, do not agree with the use of leggings as pants. They’re not pants — it’s really that simple. You can use leggings as yoga wear, as exercise wear, as lounge-around-the-house wear, but when did this garment become a popular fashion staple? And when did it replace pants? I have many reasons to support the fact — yes, fact — that leggings make unattractive pants on nearly everyone. One: They’re tight. That’s how they were made, but it doesn’t leave much “wiggle room.” Two: They are very often see-through. Many people do not realize this upon purchasing leggings, especially cheap ones. I cannot tell you how many times the sun has shone on someone wearing these things as pants as they walk uphill, and I’ve gotten a full glimpse of the wearer’s underwear. Three: camel-toe.

I’ve said all I need to say, and if you don’t know what that means, go look it up on UrbanDictionary.com.

Leggings come in all different colors of unflattering. The winner, though, has to be flesh-colored leggings. When worn as pants, it just looks like you’re walking around naked. Nice. I feel like I should not even have to mention this as an aside, but while we’re on the topic, tights are even less acceptable as pants than leggings.

I am pretty embarrassed to admit that I saw someone walking uphill last year wearing tights as pants. I had to do a double-take — I literally could not believe what I was seeing. Not only are tights see-through, they also have a huge seam right up the middle of your butt, which gives the appearance of giant granny panties. I did laugh to myself, but only after I was a safe distance away. To this day, my friends still do not believe this story, but I swear it’s true! I haven’t seen the tights-as-pants offender yet this year, but I’ll keep an eye out.

Now, this is not to say that you should never wear leggings with a normal, everyday outfit. They are perfectly acceptable when worn with a tunic-length top, or something that’s too long to be a shirt and too short to really qualify as a dress. They also work really well as warmer versions of tights when it starts to get cold, and I will sometimes even wear them under pants as kind of a thermal layer — when it gets really cold.

There is no doubt that leggings have become a part of pretty much every female wardrobe in the United States; let us not forget, however, that leggings are not pants and never will be. I feel selfconscious when I wear them to yoga, and couldn’t imagine feeling OK with wearing them as fully functional trousers.

To each his own, I guess, but I think the grand majority of us can agree that jazzercise should stay in the ‘80s, and it would do well to take its shiny leggings back with it — only to be revived, of course, for frat parties and Halloween. Give me my leggings for yoga and workouts, and I’m good. Anything else — no thanks.

Kacey Rayder is a junior majoring in English. She can be reached at Kacey.

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undergraduate and medical degree from Tufts in 1958 and 1962, respectively, has taken 21 classes through the Community Auditors program: one per semester since he retired in 2001. He is currently enrolled in Western Political Thought.

Santis said that he feels like a peer, rather than a mentor, sitting among fellow students who have only recently graduated from high school.

“Based on my life, and my age, I might have an occasional perception that may be broader than an undergraduate may have, but I don’t think I’m a great sage sitting in class,” he said.

“I take whatever course interests me most,” Santis said. “Of course, there’s a certain spectrum of how much I’ve enjoyed each of the classes, but I have enjoyed every one of them.”

Students in the Community Auditors program are allowed to enroll in one of the university’s undergraduate or graduate-level lecture classes on the Medford/ Somerville campus within the first two weeks of the semester. Before registering for classes, these students must communicate with the professor to ensure that they

have the necessary prerequisite knowledge necessary to participate.

“Every one of my professors has been welcoming,” Santis said. “The experience has been extraordinary and I’m very proud of the school. Taking classes has been a highlight of the later part of my life.”

While community auditors don’t receive a grade or credit for courses, they can arrange with the classes’ professor whether or not to take the exams their full-time student peers are required to complete, Foss said. Other than changes in formal assignments, what community auditors experience in class isn’t all that different from their full-time peers.

“I tend to be a talkative and interested person, but I’m careful to not talk too much because I know this is the primary thing that these students are doing,” Santis said. “[The students] are forthright and speak up in a way that 50 years ago we didn’t do. I admire them very much.”

Each semester, community auditors pay $300 to take one class at the university. To qualify, these students must be a Medford or Somerville resident, a teacher, a senior citizen or a Tufts alum, Foss said.

“Students have had very positive feed-

back on the program,” Foss said. “It allows them to sit in on a Tufts course at a very reasonable fee.”

Osher: Continuing Education Among Those Who Love to Learn While Santis sits in his class this semester among 18- to 21-year-old undergraduate students, 290 non-traditional students are also taking classes through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

“It’s like going back to college without the tests or grades,” Osher Program Director Marilyn Blumsack said. “We have very attentive students, who ask wonderful questions, who just hang on every word that is discussed.”

Unlike the Community Auditors program, the Osher program hosts its own classes, separate from the undergraduate and graduate programs, each season: Fall and spring classes are eight weeks, costing $225 for two classes, and winter classes are four weeks, costing $100. Full-time students at Tufts are allowed to sit in on Osher classes for free, Blumsack said.

“There’s a great interchange and everyone benefits because of the dialogue that goes on in the class,” Blumsack said. “The feedback is phenomenal.”

Professors for the classes, who Blumsack calls “study group leaders,” are either graduate students who are paid for their time or volunteers from the students enrolled in the class, who Blumsack calls “members” or “scholars.” These students can enroll in a variety of classes, from “Health Care Models Around the Globe” to “The Sounds of China: Introduction to Mandarin Chinese.”

“It’s learning together,” Blumsack said.

“Even the study group leader learns because they don’t know at any time whether there’s a professional person that’s more knowledgeable of the subject that they’re teaching sitting the class.”

Students in Osher, who range in age from 30 to 90, can take the program’s classes at the university’s Medford/Somerville campus, online in Osher’s eLearning option or at Brookhaven, a retirement community in Lexington, Mass.

Like Santis, Blumsack is a Tufts graduate herself and has been Osher’s director since March 2001, a year after the program began. While she plans to retire this month, she said she hopes Osher will continue to flourish after she leaves.

“For me, it’s been a labor of love,” Blumsack said. “This is an incredible community of students.”

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All-star chef brings bold flavors to Coppa Oringer infuses Italian cuisine with gourmet novelty by

Ashley Wood

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Ken Oringer can do no wrong. The Boston-based chef owns seven restaurants in the hub, four of which made

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Coppa is Boston-based all-star chef Ken Oringer’s seventh restaurant. choices. After Coppa received numerous accolades from The Boston Globe, Esquire and Boston Magazine, it became clear to me that an adventure down to Shawmut Avenue in Boston’s South End was long overdue.

While Coppa has been known to sport an hour-long wait for a coveted table in the small, simple dining area, arriving for a 5:30 p.m. dinner or placing a reservation in advance allows a diner to skip the crowds and the hassle. I went with the first option and arrived at the restaurant around

Genre-bending ‘Lulu’ gives listeners unparalleled sensation Matthew Welch

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Tread lightly — Lou Reed and Metallica finally released their collaborative album, “Lulu,” on Oct. 31. Listening to this album

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Warner Bros. Records may change the world for some listeners.

In this post-“Lulu,” melancholic world, the sun doesn’t shine as brightly and the grass

opening. Considering Oringer’s fame, I was pleasantly surprised by the calm and casual atmosphere of Coppa. The decor was modest and simple, and the waiters wore comfortable, casual clothing.

I took a seat at the bar and eyed the wine list while I waited for my party to arrive. Coppa offers a wide variety of bottles but only a limited, dailychanging assortment of wines by the glass. The day’s offerings were written see COPPA, page 6

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it onto Boston Magazine’s 2011 50 Best Restaurants list. And Bostonians aren’t the only people taking notice — Oringer’s restaurants have won awards and mentions in national publications such as Gourmet Magazine, Esquire and The Wall Street Journal ever since his flagship restaurant, Clio, opened in 1997. In case you don’t follow the world of food criticism, additionally in 2008, Oringer tested his talents and came out the victor on Food Network’s “Iron Chef” — with coffee as the secret ingredient — against celebrity chef Cat Cora.

Not only has Oringer seemingly mastered the Boston restaurant scene, but he also seems to have mastered nearly every genre of food. Described as a contemporary Euro-Asian chef, Oringer’s broad talents are represented by the unique dishes served in his seven restaurants. For example, Clio serves up French-inspired cuisine, Toro has the best Barcelona-style tapas in town, Uni offers an adventurous sashimi and sushi menu and KO Prime is the perfect spot for dedicated carnivores and steak-lovers.

It comes as no surprise, then, that Oringer’s most recent endeavor — a partnership with the executive chef of Toro, Jamie Bissonnette — has been a wild success. Coppa, an Italian enoteca that opened in 2009, is known for its Italian wines, inventive menu, bold ingredients and delectable salumi

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isn’t quite as green, but that’s not to say that “Lulu” is a bad album.

“Lulu” is what happens when musicians as wealthy as Lou Reed and Metallica can afford to stop caring about the commercial viability of their output. “Lulu” is a towering tribute to nihilism, if such a thing can exist. “Lulu” goes places that make us all feel uncomfortable, but in doing so, “Lulu” becomes what no other album could: An oddly innovative perversion of low and high art, an exploration of two radically different genres and a jab at whatever conventions one might still see in the musical world. Did I mention that it’s a double CD? It doesn’t take long for the album’s disturbsee LULU, page 6

Oberon brings ‘Rocky Horror’ to Cambridge stage by

Zoey Turek

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Saying that “The Rocky Horror Show” is an all-ages production is like saying that Rebecca

The Rocky Horror Show

Written by Richard O’Brien Directed by James P. Byrne At the OBERON through Dec. 2 Tickets $20 to $55 Black is a good singer. “Rocky Horror” has, however, the amazing ability to attract everyone from crazily dressed teens and young 20-somethings to those dedicated fans who have been going every year for upward of 30 years. “Rocky Horror” is truly a cult show whose lasting effect on culture is sure to continue for generations to come.

While most people are familiar with the 1975 movie adaptation titled “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the 1973 stage version is

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o Mel Gibson walks into a bar … No, c’mon guys, I’m kidding. Just trying to lighten the mood after the past two weeks. In honor of Halloween, I’d like to focus this week’s column on the chameleon of our generation: Philip “I Want To” Seymour “Of You” Hoffman.

A month ago I saw Mr. Hoffman’s latest film, “The Ides of March” (2011), which is full of enough great performances to conquer the list of Academy Award nominations in the coming months. Hoffman’s portrayal of a veteran campaign manager for a Democratic presidential candidate may be the safest bet to lock up a Best Supporting Actor nomination come Oscar time. Do not count on him to win, however, because we all know how Hollywood likes to promote socialist beliefs and spread around the awards. Sharing is overrated, if you ask me.

Anyway, I had let “The Ides of March” and Hoffman’s sharp performance slip into the back of my mind until this past Sunday.

It’s been a tough month with midterms and degree sheets to fill out and yucky Nor’easters that came three months too early. My girlfriend even made me see “Footloose” (2011) two weeks ago. Talk about yucky.

Then three days ago, one of my housemates referenced a line from a scene with Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (2007).

So, instead of watching a commercial break during the Fox NFL Sunday halftime show, I muted the sound and loaded the movie clip on YouTube.

The scene is a three-minute verbal clash between thorny CIA operative Gust Avrakotos (Hoffman) and his boss, CIA Director of European Operations Henry Cravely (played by a smarmy John Slattery). The YouTube video is titled “Another Broken Window Scene.” Aaron Sorkin co-wrote the script, so the clip is laced with clever witticisms and shrewd verbal jousting. This is the kind of scene that single-handedly can get an actor nominated for an Oscar. Hoffman’s delivery makes his character funny, angry and controlled all at the same time.

In this regard, Gust Avrakotos — or Gus Avocado, as I have affectionately renamed him — is the quintessential Philip Seymour Hoffman character. He is a complex, rougharound-the-edges sidekick. Yes, Hoffman did win his Oscar for playing the lead role in “Capote” (2005), but other than a few exceptions, his filmography is full of sizzling supporting performances. Think of “Doubt” (2008), “The Savages” (2007) and “Almost Famous” (2000). Besides, who could forget Hoffman’s basketball skills in “Along Came Polly” (2004)? Sandy Lyle can flat-out ball.

It was interesting to see Hoffman onscreen next to my professed man-crush, Ryan Gosling, in “The Ides of March.” The two even square off in a few scenes, the best leading actor in recent years next to the best supporting actor of right now. Batman and Robin. But the leading actor versus supporting actor comparison also got me thinking about the limitations of Hoffman’s appeal.

He can squeeze a whole lot of verve into his shorter performances, but realistically, how many leading roles are out there for an overweight, pale actor on the wrong side of 40? He was great as Truman Capote, but I don’t think there are too many more eccentric, chubby blond guys ready to be turned into dynamic cinematic characters. I don’t say that to be mean — I think Hoffman has more ability than most of the leading men out there.

In fact, Hoffman’s knack for picking smaller roles in good films instead of larger roles in bad films is a very underrated skill in Hollywood. He has carved out a nice niche for himself. So Happy Halloween to Mr. Hoffman, the man with a thousand identities.

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

Teicher@tufts.edu.

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Metallica and Lou Reed’s collaboration is strangely inspired LULU

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ing nature to reveal itself. Just after the deceptively soothing acoustic chords that open “Brandenburg Gate” fade in, Reed assails the listener with his devilish vocals, which straddle spoken word and singing for the entirety of the album. The first line of the album goes: “I would cut my legs and tits off/ When I think of Boris Karloff/ And Kinski in the dark of the moon.”

Clearly, “Lulu” is not an album to listen to with the parents, or an album for the faint of heart. Anyone used to Lou Reed’s sensationalist antics will hardly be surprised — he’s covered most of this material before, albeit without the demented, senile vocal style which he uses with such unnerving gusto throughout “Lulu.”

Just as the listener thinks “Brandenburg Gate” is going to be a creepy acoustic serenade of various cultural references, the acoustic guitars drop out and Metallica’s trademark wall of distorted guitar and bass kick in. “Small town girl,” wail James Hetfield and Lou Reed, making the song a delicious parody of those Springsteen-y songs about lonely girls in the Midwest and such.

This kind of moment happens dozens of times throughout the album: You think you’re settled into one kind of approach to the music, and it changes right under your feet. The sheer impulsiveness of Lou Reed and Metallica must explain some of this — one can hardly imagine that they really decided on any structure or plan for most of these songs.

Another similar moment occurs on “Frustration,” when Lou Reed speaks over a drum solo by Lars Ulrich. Reed covers a variety of unpleasant themes, though his paradoxical ranting of “I want so much to hurt you/ I want so much to hurt you/ Marry me/ I want you as my wife” may take the cake as the album’s most confounding line. The fact that Reed’s diction occasionally adopts the odd inflections and avuncular tone of Bill Cosby only makes lines like these more disturbing.

So, what to make of this album? One could hardly say it’s musical — Metallica’s instrumental work is sub-par compared with the group’s other efforts. The album essentially plays like a Metallica demo tape that Lou Reed decided to talk over to wile away a rainy afternoon.

You wouldn’t play “Lulu” for a family gettogether, or as the soundtrack to a study session or even as an album to just plain listen

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Lou Reed and Metallica’s collaborative album, ‘Lulu,’ is worth a listen. to for its aesthetic value. No, you listen to “Lulu” because it’s a thrill ride — a morbidly humorous, hallucinatory, altogether inscrutable album that is impossible to confine to a genre. After listening to it three or four times, listeners will still have a tough time believing that the album actually exists.

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quite different. The stage version has been performed all around the world, originating in London and radiating outward to places as far away as New Zealand and Singapore. While the play waxes and wanes in popularity, the movie has remained a constant over the years.

Theaters across the United States reserve a space for “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” either seasonally or weekly. In keeping with its roots, however, certain theaters feature live actors mimicking the actions of the film on stage.

“Rocky Horror” is also famous for its audience participation: There are certain lines to which the audience is supposed to shout back a reply and throw objects at the screen during the show.

This tradition has been discouraged at live showings due to the possibility of injury to actors and cleanup costs, but callbacks are still popular, as well as audience participation during the song “Time Warp.”

Brought to you by the Gold Dust Orphans, this masterful rendition of “The Rocky Horror Show” is full of laughs. The setup of the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) OBERON theater allows the cast to interact with the audience; actors can weave through the standing crowd to reach raised platforms or dash down a flight of stairs from the top level to join the seated audience members in the middle level.

Unlike a more traditional play, the main stage is not the area of focus. It is

entirely possible to get whiplash from trying to watch the slides projected onto the screen above the main stage while the cast members move freely around the entire theater. The best vantage point is certainly in the middle of the standing area, from which one can see the main stage as well as the wrap-around balcony. And don’t forget to look up!

It is a requirement for any cast member of “The Rocky Horror Show” to be comfortable with his or her body, as the costumes run from risque to nextto-nothing.

Brad and Janet, the main protagonists, have their clothes ripped off near the beginning of the show and wear nothing but their undergarments for the majority of the performance.

Rocky’s costume often consists of gold booty shorts, though the Orphans stepped it up a notch and dressed Rocky in nothing but a gold-plated thong.

The show-stealer is indubitably Dr. Frank’n’Furter (Ryan Landry), who introduces himself as “a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania.”

Audiences will enjoy seeing Landry — who’s also the Orphans’ co-founder — play this notorious character. Landry does an absolutely superb job in this iconic role; he is fearless in his rather revealing costume. The entirety of the cast is fantastically talented, and there isn’t a sore note throughout the entire performance.

“The Rocky Horror Show” is performed live at 10:30 p.m. every Friday night through Dec. 2 at the A.R.T.’s OBERON theater in Cambridge.

Whether it was genuine courage, apathy or just sheer pranksterism that drove Metallica and Lou Reed to produce this album is irrelevant. Consumers anywhere can go into a music shop and pick up “Lulu” and listen to it. The sheer distribution that Metallica’s and Lou Reed’s names garner ensures that this

subversive gem will be available all around the world. Maybe it’s a herald of the end of times, but the fact that anyone could go to their local record shop and pick up such a joyous celebration of absurdity shows us one thing: Modern commercial music ain’t all that boring.

Coppa makes intriguing addition to Boston’s Italian restaurant scene COPPA

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on a chalkboard above the bar but, despite the limited choices, I was still unable to make an immediate decision. The bartender, demonstrating a kind of ease that was characteristic of the staff for the remainder of the night, asked me questions about my taste preferences and poured me samples of a few of the wines until I came across one I felt like ordering.

Unable to wait until my party arrived, I ordered a “stuzzichini,” or small bar snack, to accompany my glass of Barbera wine. I went with the bruschetta di zucca, which featured cold and refreshing spaghetti squash, goat’s milk feta and a hint of cayenne on top of a crunchy piece of bread.

The snack was the perfect dish to whet my appetite and leave me wanting more.

Once seated with the rest of my party, we continued with a few more stuzzichinis and antipastis, tasting the lardo — crostini with a whipped animal-fat-based cream and drizzled chestnut honey; the zesty and sweet mele e burrata — heirloom apples with charred lemon, nuts and burrata cheese; and a salumi sampler — featuring prosciutto de parma, coppa, pig’s ear terrine, mortadella and testa.

To give you an example of Oringer’s adventurous nature with meats, the previously mentioned testa is shredded pig’s head with a strong pork flavor, and the featured special of the night was a muskier yet lighttasting calf ’s brain ravioli with meaty

chicken, mushrooms and parmesan cheese.

One of the best dishes of the night, however, was a seafood pasta featuring house-made squid ink linguini with lobster, Castelvetrano olives, black garlic and tomato. The result was light, delicate and salty, with a delicious seafood flavor. My dish, the spaghetti alla carbonara with smoked pancetta, sea urchin and farm egg, was perhaps the heartiest entree of the night, featuring a creamy, cheesy sauce and peppery aftertaste.

Although maybe not the most impressive part of Coppa, a serious commendation must be made for Oringer’s and Bissonnette’s ability to create authentic Italian dishes in manageable portions meant for tasting — not gorging — and cuisine with light flavors that don’t leave diners overwhelmingly full and heavy. Even the creamy spaghetti alla carbonara could be considered light compared to other Italian restaurants.

While it may seem unusual to find the best Italian food in the South End rather than the North End, sacrificing a trip to Mike’s Pastries is well worth the benefits of a meal at Coppa. Oringer has outdone himself in this comfortable, simple and creative setting where anyone from a college student to a food critic feels right at home. With its unpretentious and authentic atmosphere, Coppa is a must-visit for anyone interested in a unique and pleasurable dining experience — and it’s the perfect introduction to the impeccable style of one of the best chefs in Boston.

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Letter to the Editor Dear Dean of Student Affairs and Tufts Daily Editors, I was appalled at the insensitivity and ignorance demonstrated by the Tufts Daily editorial staff, in regards to their editorial note “Safety first, political correctness second.”

The article vehemently defends the argument that if a woman dresses “more revealingly” she may have a higher likelihood of being raped than if she wore “more conservative clothes.” This may have been well-intentioned on the part of the Tufts University Police Department and the Tufts Daily editors, but it does not excuse it from the actual damage such statements perpe-

trate on victims of sexual assault.

This problem is not simply a matter of political correctness, as The Tufts Daily editors imply. I know several women in my immediate family and circle of friends who have been raped, and I have come to understand the real psychological trauma triggered by the use of such language, as well as the manner in which it perpetuates rape culture.

I tried submitting a bias incident report, but apparently only students are allowed to log into the relevant website (https://webcenter.studentservices. tufts.edu/login.aspx?page=bias).

I believe The Tufts Daily editors must be brought to task on this egregious display

of insensitivity. I expect the Daily to issue a prompt and unequivocal apology to the women in this community, and to follow up by publishing informed articles that put the recent string of sexual assaults on campus in their proper perspective — for example, not as isolated incidents brought upon by a woman’s inappropriate choice of attire, but rather as the sad but unsurprising reality of a culture in which one in four women, nationwide, will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.

Sincerely, Martin Hunter, Ph.D. Lab Coordinator Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Tax on unhealthy foods may not decrease obesity rates by

Rachel Farhi

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Denmark has instituted a tax on foods containing more than a certain amount of saturated fat. Approved by nearly 90 percent of the Danish Parliament, the tax mainly targets dairy and meat products. It raises retail prices of goods (such as butter, cream, certain cheeses, pork fat and especially lard) by up to 35 percent.

Danes justified the measure by citing their nation’s rising obesity rate, the desire to increase and improve Danish life spans and the health care industry’s burden of treating symptoms of obesity. The Danish lifespan of 79 years is falling below that of their Western European counterparts, and their obesity rate is almost 10 percent.

In comparison, the obesity rate in the United States is almost 34 percent.

If the Danish tax sounds like an invasion of privacy, consider that about 40 states in the United States have also adopted taxes on some unhealthy drinks and snacks; an example is sugary soda — diet soda is exempted. In contrast, many countries simply subsidize certain healthier food products,

like vegetables, in their fight against obesity.

One problem with the Danish plan is that the demand for these unhealthy products might be inelastic. Even with price increases, people will adjust and keep consuming the same amount.

If a Danish package of butter used to cost around $6, and it now costs $6.50, Danes might just pay more for the sake of their toast. Some Danes might not even realize how much more they are paying because of the tax.

This is because the relatively low price for each food item could fool people; since they do not realize how proportionately large the increase is, they might not adjust.

Danish restaurants that serve unhealthy foods are also targeted by this law. They have two choices after the increase: Either raise prices of entrees or use less of the taxed goods in the entrees. The hope of Danish lawmakers is that these restaurants will keep their prices stable and instead curb their use of butter and other fatty ingredients. But there is no way to know which option the restaurants will choose.

The owner of Relae, a restaurant in

Copenhagen, plans to raise his prices slightly but not start serving healthier items. He would rather produce what people will keep buying than risk changing his product.

If I go to Wendy’s and discover that the price of a value burger has increased from $1 to $1.25, I will still choose to buy a few of these burgers rather than the small, probably stale, $6 salad. However, if the salad’s price is decreased, consumers may be more likely to change their choices.

The same problem exists in the grocery store; even if the price of butter increases, it is still cheaper than “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.”

Adjusting prices to affect consumer behavior is common, and doing so to protect people’s health is a praiseworthy idea. Not to mention the additional revenue will bring to the Danish government.

However, the Danish government might see better results in their campaign against obesity if they simply try to better educate their citizens on the negative consequences of obesity.

Due to the global recession, this tax is just another financial burden Danish citizens will have to deal with.

Corrections The Oct. 28 article “Greeks to hold community block party today” incorrectly stated that Anthony Ferlan said that this year was the first time that the Greek Block Party had been held on Parents Weekend. In fact, Eric Swanson said this.

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Christopher Meyer Minnesota Daily

Most Americans will tell you that they support free markets. When it comes to parking policy, however, even many of the most conservative free marketeers suddenly transform into ardent communists.

They treat the right to park one’s car as an entitlement and behave as though it is the government’s solemn duty to ensure an ample supply of parking spaces wherever they may wish to travel.

Drivers complain bitterly whenever the government fails to fulfill this obligation, and the government responds by either increasing the supply of parking directly, or by passing laws that force private developers to do so.

The parking industry is thus essentially run by the principles of command economics. Government officials, rather than markets, dictate how much parking needs to be supplied. In most cases, they strive to ensure a large enough supply of parking so that it will be available for free; one nationwide transportation survey found that 99 percent of all car trips in the United States begin and end in free parking spaces.

Free parking may seem to be a good thing at first glance, but the problem with this approach is the same problem that beleaguered the Soviet Union: Command economies are woefully inefficient at distributing resources.

In the book “The High Cost of Free Parking” (2005), Donald Shoup, a professor of urban affairs at U. California, Los Angeles, dedicates more than 700 pages to explaining just how harmful our nation’s parking policies are. Shoup calculates that the size of the total parking subsidy amounts to between $127 billion and $374 billion per year. Of this, drivers only end up paying $3 billion per year.

Parking subsidies work in two ways.

First, governments provide a large quantity of parking directly with curbside spaces and government-owned parking garages.

Second, the government passes regulations that require developers to build a minimum number of parking spaces when they construct a new building.

When the government provides parking, it sets the price — which is usually zero. Furthermore, even when they charge for it, they usually charge less than what it costs to build and maintain and far less than what they’re worth if they were sold at market value.

On top of this, the federal government gives tax incentives to employers that provide

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parking to their employees. They may deduct $180 from their income taxes for each parking space they provide their employees. A few years ago, policymakers tried to even this by giving a $100 deduction to public transit, but that will go away in a few years.

Government also subsidizes parking with regulations. In 2009, at the very same time that the Central Corridor light rail was in its final stages of planning, the Minneapolis City Council voted to impose a parking overlay on the University District. This overlay mandates that developers must provide a minimum of one parking space for every two bedrooms that they build.

A four-bedroom apartment would have previously required one parking spot but now requires two. Perhaps this doesn’t strike you as too onerous. But it is a substantially higher supply than the market will bear. The cost of having to provide these extra parking spaces is one of the factors that has driven the development of luxury property in the area. And students who don’t drive are forced to subsidize those who do.

Regulations forcing builders to provide parking simply make no sense. Imagine what would happen if the government passed a law that required all restaurants to include free desserts along with meals. The price of meals would increase to accommodate the price of desserts, and people would consume far more dessert than they do now.

Obesity, heart disease and diabetes would all get worse.

In the same way, when people buy a house, or when a business buys a building, they are forced to buy parking along with

it. This increases the cost of housing and employment, and increases the consumption of parking.

Another problem subsidizing parking causes is increased congestion. Sixteen studies conducted between 1927 and 2001 found that, on average, 30 percent of the cars in congested urban areas were cruising for parking. Reflect on that for a moment: If we could provide and price parking more sensibly, we could reduce traffic congestion in central cities by almost a third.

There are a few steps we can take to fix the problem of the inefficient allocation of parking. For the parking that governments own directly, they should try to mimic free market policies as closely as possible.

They should follow the lead of San Francisco, which this year implemented a program that prices parking spaces according to demand at different times of day. The city installs sensors on each parking space that can detect whether the spot is occupied or not and uses the information to properly price these parking spots.

Governments should also eliminate parking minimums. If developers feel that there is a need to supply free parking for their buildings, let them do so, but don’t force them. If they believe that free parking is good for their business, let them give it away, but also give them the freedom to sell their parking if they so choose.

Taking these steps will more efficiently allocate parking, eliminate waste, free up money to deal with budget problems and reduce the incidence of other problems that are a byproduct of parking subsidies.

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A Frank conversation about Israel on Capitol Hill

by Harpo Jaeger and Harry Samuels

Brown Daily Herald

In the summer of 2009, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), wrote in a letter to President Obama: “I believe it is very important for the Israeli public to know that there is strong disagreement within the United States — not just within our government — over exactly how to deal with the question of settlements in the West Bank … I think it would be a denial of an important principle of democracy for the Israeli electorate not to know what the state of American opinion is regarding the settlements.” Frank echoed this sentiment in his Oct. 18 lecture, calling for an open and honest discussion of Israel and Israeli policy on Capitol Hill.

Within communities and constituencies across the United States — both Jewish and otherwise — there exists a huge diversity of opinion on Israel. The same is true here, where students and faculty come from over 100 different countries and from all 50 U.S. states. Among the hundreds of student groups, four deal explicitly and exclusively with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As members of Puzzle Peace, Brown’s Hillel-affiliated J Street U group, we seek to de-polarize the discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly within the Jewish community, and to advance a vision of a peaceful future where Israelis and Palestinians live side-by-

side in two sovereign, independent states. To this end, we often disagree with and criticize the policies of the Israeli government. We firmly believe that this makes us no more or less Jewish or pro-Israel than any established Jewish institutions.

But the sad truth is that U.S. political discourse about Israel rarely lives up to the standard of open debate that Frank calls for. American elected officials have foregone fair and open discussion in favor of a competition to show the most unwavering support for Israel. Take the recent special election in New York’s ninth district, in which a Republican and Democrat basically attempted to out-Zionist each other in order to secure the support of the district’s Jewish constituency. In such a political context, anyone who questions the actions of the Israeli government is quickly branded as anti-Israel and anti-Jewish, despite the obvious falsity of these labels — especially given a long Jewish history of open debate on difficult issues. A quick Google search reveals that Frank himself has been called a “self-hating Jew” for criticism of Israel’s 2010 raid on the Gaza Aid Flotilla. Such labels can effectively blacklist politicians, academics and clergy in many U.S. Jewish institutions.

What’s more, they contribute to a stifled discourse on Capitol Hill and to a politics of intimidation that undermines the democratic value of open discussion.

J Street, an emerging pro-Israel Political Action Committee in the United States, has shown itself capable of opening up a difficult conversation even in the context of the occasionally cutthroat political process. As an affiliate group of J Street’s college campus arm, J Street U, we realize that we can only be pro-Israel activists if we also seek out a strong and lasting peace in the region. Such a peace cannot be achieved through unconditional support of any and all of Israel’s policies, but only through open dialogue and strong diplomatic engagement. This will not be possible until we can change the current closeminded approach to the U.S.-Israel relationship in our political discourse. We must be open to a new conversation, and we must be open to a peaceful resolution.

We applaud Frank’s courage in speaking out against Israeli settlements, but this is just one of many steps needed to help the dialogue in Congress better reflect the diversity of opinions across the United States. If we treat that diversity as an opportunity for mutual growth and learning, rather than as a threat, we can work together to produce real change for those involved in the conflict, be it Israelis living with the daily threat of terror and violence or Palestinians living under a seemingly endless occupation. It’s time for our politicians to truly represent the diversity of their constituents’ opinions. The magnitude of this conflict demands nothing less.

alk to any college student about their future, and you’re certain to unleash a wave of anxiety. It’s the elephant taking up more and more space in the room as graduation draws closer and news of economic downfall refuses to wane.

I’m not worried about finding a job. This may be my own form of denial and unwarranted optimism, but I’ve waited enough tables to build some loyal references, and the copy-machine is among my recent areas of mastery.

I am quite worried, however, about finding THE job.

Youth activists and the victims of the recession have found common theater for articulating their frustrations. Joining hands to throw stones at wealthy elite and chanting in unison against the system, our peers and our parents claim a common source of anger and despair, and yet our plights are not equal.

While our elders grapple with the risks of foreclosure and flutter the poverty line, our college-educated generation is plagued by another debilitating curse: an inflated sense of entitlement.

We didn’t get here on our own. Since we were old enough to read, we’ve been programmed for the future. We grew up under the assumption that competing at the highest level assured entry to the next round and that we were meant for bigger and better things than our parents. Employers said the chance to work for free was worth more than a paycheck, while colleges promised the 50K-a-year “investment in the future” made you “qualified.”

After playing by the rules for the regular season, we have arrived at the playoffs to find that the rules have changed.

The truth is that for many of us, it’s not just about the money. Most college students are not in imminent risk that our applications for jobs will soon be replaced with applications for food stamps, and many of us could probably make more serving margaritas than at entry-level positions. It’s taking a job “beneath” our capabilities, not unemployment, that’s the ultimate defeat — it means mediocrity when we’ve been prepping for greatness.

For liberals and liberal arts students, these pressures are amplified by a strong sense of societal duty and a deep-rooted aversion to “The Corporation,” “The Man,” and “Every Employer Offering a (Paying) Position at a Tufts Career Fair.” We learned that profit is a euphemism for “sell-out,” and that a nine-tofive unequivocally hampers creativity, morality and higher hopes of humanity. Good intentions shouldn’t be discredited, but our selfrighteousness is not entirely divorced from self-interest: As much as I want the world to change for the better, I want to be the one doing the changing.

We thought a diploma could offer this seamless union between our career course and our life story. We grew up believing that we were too important for “meaningless” work, and that prominence awaits. We heard that making a life is not the same as making a living — but did anyone really expect us to believe that?

Given the outlook for the future, we may have to. Our padded egos may be another casualty of the recession as our visions of self-importance, and their intricate ties with career ambitions, may prove to be groundless.

All of this seems apocalyptic until, of course, we look at the larger context. Our crisis of identity and fulfillment is contraposed with the backdrop of a search for anything that pays the mortgage. While those who grew up after the technological boom are worried about whether they possess skills worthy of a job, the true fear the children of the digital age harbor is whether we will find a job worthy of their skills. So, college graduates of America, “occupy” from sea to shining sea — but we have to admit that it’s a much more luxurious dilemma we’re facing.

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

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Interim tag lifted, Civetti officially becomes head coach Uncertainty fades away with vote of confidence by

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Jay Civetti, who coached the first five games of the football season with an “interim” tag, was named head coach last week by Director of Athletics Bill Gehling — a vote of confidence for a coach who has dealt with a lot of adversity this season, as the Jumbos have limped to an 0-6 record.

Civetti spent three years as Tufts’ offensive coordinator under previous head coach Bill Samko, and he was promoted to the interim position in January after Samko stepped down.

Though the Jumbos have yet to win a game with Civetti at the helm and were shutout 30-0 at home by Amherst on Saturday, Gehling has been impressed with the way Civetti has handled the rough start.

“When I named him interim head coach, he had all of the qualities we wanted. But the real test is when the games begin,” Gehling said. “One of the biggest tests in a coach is how he responds to adversity, and he’s done great. Once I had decided he was the guy, it made no sense to delay it any longer.”

Civetti’s been flattered by

the outpouring of support he’s received from players, alums and parents after last Thursday’s announcement, which he views as a validation of his vision for the program.

“People believe in our message and believe in what we want, and that’s huge. It’s a big recognition,” Civetti said after Saturday’s loss.

Gehling, who coached the Tufts women’s soccer team for the first 20 years of its existence before being named Director of Athletics in 1999, said that though players and coaches often start pointing fingers in winless seasons, Civetti’s squad has stayed positive and focused amid the losing streak.

“He’s maintained his cool, and the team has continued to fight hard — that’s the sign of a good coaching staff,” Gehling said. “I’m very proud of this team in spite of their record, and I wanted to show that by lifting any uncertainty about the coaching position, so they can focus on getting better.”

In his brief tenure, Civetti has already inspired confidence in the minds of his current players. He let the squad know about his new title in

practice last week but played down the promotion, according to junior defensive back Sam Diss.

“He didn’t make a big deal about it, and we tried not to make a big deal out of it either,” Diss said. “The players love Coach Civetti; we’re trying to get wins for him as much as we are for ourselves.

We like what he’s doing, and it shows us that the administration likes what he’s doing too.”

Though the mood around the current players has stayed the same, lifting the interim tag makes a big difference in recruitment. Civetti believes that stability will make the Tufts program more appealing to high school seniors as they choose where to play at the next level.

“There’s always that question of doubt [with the interim tag],” Civetti said. “In today’s world of recruiting, you gotta have great players … To be able to say, ‘Hey, I’m going to be your head coach when you come here,’ gives that family and that kid reassurance that I’m going to be here to take care of him and mold him into what a Tufts football player is.”

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Now in his fourth year at Tufts, head coach Jay Civetti is working to turn the football program into a NESCAC contender.

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Jumbos expect better conditions at Regionals, ECACs Women’s XC

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23:56, Abby Barker was 34th in 23:59 and right behind her was Madeleine Carey in 35th in 24:00. Closing out the top seven for the Jumbos were junior Julia Hajnoczky and sophomore Laura Peterson. They finished back-to-back in 50th and 51st with times of 24:29 and 24:34, respectively.

Though this was the conference championship, the Jumbos were largely using this meet as a stepping stone to Regionals. With most of the top teams in the region coming out of the NESCAC, it was a great opportunity to scout the competition.

“We had our eyes on Colby and Bowdoin specifically, because we have had a back-and-forth competition with Colby and they are two teams we need to beat in two weeks,” Price said. “We wanted to assert ourselves this weekend and show other teams and ourselves that we can beat other top schools when it matters.

Finishing in the top three would have been great, but the fact that we finished as close to Amherst as we did is a great sign.”

A significant part of competing well at these championship races is mastering the mental side of the sport. The confidence and camaraderie the team has built over the season has provided the Jumbos with belief that they can compete at the national level.

“Our coaches wanted us to believe that we were as good as the teams that had placed ahead of us previously,” Creath said. “Amherst has beaten us many times, but we had the confidence that we could run with girls on that team. We weren’t afraid of anyone in the race. Every girl on the team understood that their performance was important to the overall success of the team and we had confidence in each other that we could run with anyone, regardless of the jersey they had on.”

The tough conditions make for both physically and mentally draining races. The physical obstacles can easily get into the heads of runners if they are not sure-footed and confident.

“Everyone has to run the same course, so physically it isn’t an advantage for anyone else,” Creath said. “But mentally, it can really get to people. I do think that we handled the swamp loop well as a team.

We do workouts in rain, mud and snow so we were ready for a meet like this. I don’t know what other team’s training is like, but I know that we were as well prepared as we could have been.”

Because racing conditions were so

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Senior tri-captain Anya Price missed qualifying for All-NESCAC honors by just five seconds. tough, the Jumbos focused on cueing off each other in an attempt to stay in contact and use teammates as motivation to keep working. Their confidence in one another enabled them to power through some of the toughest areas.

“The swampy section definitely made the course a lot tougher,” Price said. “If you didn’t come in expecting the worse it was definitely a huge mental barrier. We talked about treating it like another big hill, but it ended up being much more difficult than that. It was a great opportunity to let our strength come through.”

In two weeks, the Jumbos top seven squad will have a much different task at hand. According to Price, the team will be faced with a higher-pressure situation at Regionals.

“For our team, the Regionals course will be a good opportunity to work on running together again,” she said.

“The huge mental barrier will not be there in two weeks, so we will be able to focus on racing and helping each other rather than a physical obstacle.”

The second seven will travel to the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships hosted by Williams College on Saturday, where they will look to build momentum for the following week.

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on his back and go with him. He was having a great race and really helping out the team, running second when some other teammates who are usually up there were hurting.”

Junior Kyle Marks was just two seconds back from Cassidy in 27th place. Sophomore Andrew Shapero rounded out the scorers for Tufts with a 37th place finish in 27:06.

Sophomore Ben Wallis and junior Sam Haney rounded out the top seven in 41st and 44th, respectively.

The conditions on the 8,000-meter course were certainly difficult to fight through Saturday, between the cold winds and the sections of calf-high mud.

“It was a very difficult race because of the mud — probably the worst mud I’ve ever run in,” Rand said. “We got out very well as a team.

We had four guys in the top 10 at the mile, but unfortunately then the mud really hurt us. It took a lot out of us, and we weren’t really able to get into the rhythm to run a very solid even-paced race, so place-wise, we suffered significantly in the second half of the race.”

The mud section was just where Schmidt was able to gap the whole field, powering through the muddy loops and preventing anyone from returning to striking distance.

Though the result was a disappointing one, the real test of the Jumbos’ ability will come on Nov. 12 at the NCAA Div. III New England Championships at Bowdoin, where Tufts can redeem itself against the NESCAC schools and the rest of the region in their quest for a berth to Nationals.

“Regionals is the focus of the season; that is what our training is geared for, so we peak at that meet, not NESCACs, so no matter how we finished on Saturday, our goals for the season did not change,” Rand said. “We want to qualify for Nationals as a team, and we know we have the potential to do it. It’s just a matter of having five guys perform well on the same day.”

The Jumbos found it promising that even on a bad day, they were within striking distance of the teams they will be battling against on Nov. 12. Tufts was only 15 points behind Middlebury, which earlier this season made a statement to the region by finishing as the top Div. III school at the Open New England Championships.

Regionals will likely once again be a battle to the finish for Rand, Schmidt and Horowitz, with the addition of the top non-NESCAC runners of the region.

“Head to head I’ve beaten every other runner in the region, so knowing that, I have very high expectations for Regionals,” Rand said. “I think the course will be better suited for me than Amherst, so I think I will be able to stay near guys like Schmidt and Horowitz. I just want to stay near the front the whole race and see what I can do near the end.”

While the top seven runners will rest for Regionals, the second seven will compete at the ECAC Championships at Williams on Saturday, putting the true depth of the Jumbos on display.

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as senior goalkeeper Marianna Zak cut off her angle to the cage, Wynne’s drive hit off the post. Snite was there to follow up with the winning strike.

As time expired, the Bantams rushed the field and the Jumbos stared on in disbelief.

The Jumbos were stunned; for most of the game, it had seemed theirs to win. In the first half alone, Tufts’ offense rattled off 11 shots and earned seven penalty corners, forcing three tough saves from senior quad-captain goalie Gina Dinallo. Trinity took only four shots, but it was the Bantams who capitalized in the first half when junior Hadley Duncan made it 1-0 with 7:06 remaining.

“We were creating a lot of opportunities for shots and corners, but we weren’t capitalizing on them,” senior defender Sarah Cannon said. “Trinity did a good job of stepping up and

preventing us from finishing.

After the break, Tufts continued to dominate everywhere but on the scoreboard.

It wasn’t until just 23 minutes remained in regulation that junior forward Kelsey Perkins was able to tie the game for the Jumbos. On a corner play, classmate midfielder Rachel Gerhardt ripped a shot toward Perkins who redirected the ball over Dinallo and into the cage.

Despite Tufts’ continued dominance in shots and corners in the second half, the game was bound for extra time.

From there, things looked more even-keeled, although neither team seemed capable of staging a unified attack.

Tufts held a meager 2-1 edge in shots after the first extra frame, but eventually, the Jumbos’ inability to pounce in the open field became their weakness. After another close call that required a goal line defensive stop by senior co-captain defender Taylor

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“I think that we had some unlucky breaks in the game that definitely contributed,” freshman midfielder Maggie Chapman said. “In the end though, we simply couldn’t finish our shots.”

Overall, it was a disappointing ending for the Jumbos’ four seniors — Dyer, Griffith, Cannon and Zak. The Jumbos finished with twice as many shots and 11 more penalty corner opportunities than the Bantams, but will now have to wait for this weekend’s results to determine their fate. This uncertainty is a far cry from the decisive national championship-winning run that started their careers.

“It’s definitely not how we want our season to end,” Cannon said. “I think our team this year is definitely as good as our teams over the past three years, but we just got unlucky in a lot of close games this year.”

“Going into Saturday’s game the team was very excited,” Chapman added. “We had talked about what the postseason means, and just how important each game is, and even as a freshman I could tell that this game was huge, especially for the seniors…

The feeling of losing in the first round will be a huge motivator in the off-season.

Coming off of this game, the team is just ready to work super hard.”

But again, this extra effort may come too late, despite the fact that in some recent contests the Jumbos have looked better than ever.

Immediately prior to their double overtime battle with Trinity, the Jumbos fell just 2-1 to national No. 1 Bowdoin in a game they also dominated in shots and corners.

If the NCAA committee recognizes a team on the rise, the Jumbos’ season may not be over yet.

Ethan Sturm | Rules of the Game

Heaping on the praise

W

e have a tendency to spend too much time showing people at their worst and not enough time showing them at their best. Sure, athletes sometimes make it easy for us, by either shooting themselves, lying to Congress or cheating on their wife repeatedly.

But regardless of what goes on behind the scenes in their lives, it is up to the media to choose what to focus on and the nation to choose how to digest such information.

This past week, ex-Baltimore Ravens tight end Todd Heap made one hell of a classy move. In an era of ugly contract disputes and messy breakups between teams and players, Heap took the high road despite being cut from the team he’d played on for 10 years. Heap was still performing — he had his fifth-best statistical season in 2010 — and was still durable — having missed only three games in the past three seasons — but the Ravens decided to go young in 2011.

I’m sure you can already see the storylines forming in your head. Heap could have pulled a “Tiki Barber,” securing a pulpit on national television and lambasting his old team for it. He could have pulled a “Brett Favre,” destroying his legacy and breaking his fans’ hearts as he bounced from team to team, eventually falling in the lap of his home team’s bitterest rivals.

But Heap, who now plays for the Arizona Cardinals, did none of that.

Instead, he bought a half-page ad in last Friday’s Baltimore Sun and thanked the owner, general manager, every player and every fan. He sent his thoughts to Art Modell, the team’s former owner, on the passing of his wife. He called the fans tremendous. He explained, “While it was not my decision to leave Baltimore, I accept that change is sometimes necessary.” No tirade, no public embarrassment, no Twitter wars. Who does this guy think he is?

In a world of recession and trouble, it is comforting to hear the tale of a humble millionaire athlete. Heap, who by all accounts is adored by the Baltimore community, understands the opportunities that he has been given and is gracious to those who were there for him.

Unfortunately, very few people get to hear about his story. Had he criticized his old team in a public forum, he might have made the front page of ESPN.com. Instead, you have to dig through the NFL section and find the AFC North specific blog to read anything about it. A quick news search on Google finds exactly two articles on the subject across the entire Internet, one of which is the aforementioned ESPN piece. The only reason I have even heard the story is that a friend from Baltimore posted the image on his Facebook wall.

Heap undoubtedly deserves much praise for his actions. But what he did should be the rule, not the exception.

Yet even when athletes do act as good role models, their stories are often overlooked, so we don’t get to appreciate those who do the right thing or show those people off to the kids that idolize them. ESPN is too busy being TMZ to be PBS. We are quick to blame athletes for consistently making bad decisions. Yet athletes represent a large population, and in any population there will be those that make the wrong choices.

Unfortunately, the media circus has reached a point where it looks exclusively for those wrong-doers and crucifies them until the end of time as hundreds of good stories quietly float by. Perhaps it is not the athletes that are creating such a bad image, but the media itself that is molding it.

If that’s the case, then I hope that getting this story out can help to break the frame.

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

Sturm@tufts.edu.

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Rand finishes third at NESCAC Championships on Saturday

Jumbos place fourth at NESCAC Championships

Jumbos earn top-five finish in conference by

Lauren Flament

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A third-place finish by junior Matt Rand at the NESCAC Cross Country Championships Saturday matched the best-ever result for a Tufts athlete at the race. Rand crossed the line of the 8,000-meter course at Amherst in 26:15 among a field of 129 runners, improving eight places from his 2010 11th place finish and earning his second consecutive All-NESCAC honor.

Middlebury senior Michael Schmidt, the 2010 runner-up, took the individual title in a time of 25:51, and he did so despite losing a shoe in the mud in the third mile. While Rand was running in second for most of the race, Bowdoin sophomore Coby Horowitz made a big move during the final mile to pass Rand and cross the line in 26:11 as the runner-up.

Rand led the way to a fifth-place team finish, a disappointing result for the Jumbos who went into the race hoping to finish in the top three. However, with some of the usual scorers nursing injuries, it was up to several younger members of the squad to step up and fill the gaps on Saturday.

Williams placed all five of its scorers in the top 15 of the race, scoring an impressive 49 points. Bates and Bowdoin tied for second, each with 79 points. Then came last year’s champions, Middlebury, in fourth with 94, and Tufts 15 points behind them with 109.

“We were disappointed in that we know we can be up there with the teams ahead of us, but we were also impressed that … we could have had other people ... to fill the places of the people who were having a bad day,” sophomore Liam Cassidy said. “That showed our depth and our strength and now we’re that much more hungry for Regionals.”

Sophomore Brian McLaughlin was the second Tufts runner across the line in 26:46, good for 20th place. Classmate Cassidy was next, in 25th place with a time of 26:50, on his way back to top form after recovering from early season injury issues.

“It was a good race and it was good to get back up there place-wise after having an injury. I felt a lot stronger than the last race and I’m recovering even better as I keep training,” said Cassidy, about his second race of the year.

“Brian kept moving up throughout the race, and once I caught up to him, I just tried to stay see MEN’S XC, page 15

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Connor Rose

Senior Staff Writer

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Junior Matt Rand placed third in the 8,000-meter race, the best result in Tufts history at NESCACs.

In cross country, nothing can separate the tough from the weak like thick mud, frigid water and chilling winds. The women’s cross country team had to battle all of these while fighting for position at last weekend’s NESCAC Championships held at Amherst College.

Just hours before what turned out to be one of October’s most historic snowstorms, the Jumbos persevered through the brutal course conditions to take fourth place as a team — one spot better than last year — to set themselves up for the regional showdown on Nov. 12.

Williams took the team title with 34 points, placing six runners in the top 15. Middlebury finished second, just eight points behind Williams, after placing all five of its scorers in the top 15.

Both those teams are ranked among the nation’s best. Amherst, another nationally ranked squad, took third with 105 points.

Tufts, with its eyes set primarily on Amherst and Colby throughout the race, was only 21 points behind Amherst with a score of 126. Their proximity to one of the best teams in the country showed the rest of the conference that the Jumbos are a legitimate contender to place in the top five at the New England Div. III Regionals. Colby and Bowdoin, who placed fifth and sixth with 134 points and 148 points, respectively, also had strong performances.

Williams sophomore Chiara Del Piccolo took the individual title, running away from the field of 123 to finish the six kilometer course in 21:58, 29 seconds ahead of second-place finisher junior Keri Lambert of Amherst.

Senior tri-captain Anya Price led the way for the Jumbos, finishing 16th overall in 23:24, just two places shy of All-NESCAC honors.

Junior tri-captain Lilly Fisher was second for Tufts, placing 25th with a time of 23:42. In their usual spots, a trio of sophomores rounded out the scoring for the Jumbos. Lauren Creath finished 30th in see WOMAN’S XC, page 15

Field Hockey

Tufts falls in quarterfinals for first time since 2005 by

Claire Kemp

Daily Editorial Board

Saturday did not go as planned for the No. 16 field hockey team.

For the first time since 2005, the FIELD HOCKEY (7-4 NESCAC, 11-4 Overall) NESCAC Quarterfinals Bello Field, Saturday Trinity 1 0 0 1 — 2 Tufts 0 1 0 0 — 1

Jumbos were knocked out of the NESCAC Tournament in the quarterfinals after a 2-1 doubleovertime loss to No. 14 Trinity.

The game, in which Tufts held an advantage in every offensive statistical category except goals, will likely mark the end of the team’s season. The Jumbos, who were national runners-up in 2008, however, will practice all week in

hopes of receiving an NCAA atlarge bid.

If the NCAA decision is based on how the Jumbos played during regulation, they might feel more confident, because things didn’t go as planned for Tufts in extra time. With fewer than seven minutes left before the 1-1 deadlock would go into penalty strokes, Trinity senior quad-captain Caroline Snite made a defensive stop against a pressuring Tufts’ offense. The Jumbos had inadvertently created the worst overtime scenario possible — Trinity had a two-on-one in the midfield.

Bantams freshman Courtney Wynne collected a lead pass from Snite and beat Tufts’ only defender in the backfield, and although senior co-captain midfielder Lindsay Griffith sprinted to stop the play, her dive was too late. Wynne got her shot off and

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see FIELD HOCKEY, page 15

Co-captain defender Taylor Dyer is one of four seniors whose collegiate careers may have come to an end with Saturday’s loss.