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Monday, March 14, 2011

Bacow ends Naked Quad Run

Matt Repka and Ben Gittleson Daily Editorial Board

The university will no longer sanction the annual Naked Quad Run (NQR) due to concerns over participants’ safety and the risk of student death, the Daily has learned.

The decades-long tradition, in which students partake in a large-scale, clothing-free sprint around the Res Quad to celebrate the end of fall semester classes, will no longer be permitted to take place, University President Lawrence Bacow revealed to the Daily.

In both interviews with the Daily and an op-ed published today, Bacow said the university can no longer tolerate the event in light of the inherent dangers it presents, particularly the serious risks to student safety from a combination of dangerous levels of alcohol consumption, icy roads and cold temperatures.

The president has directed Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman, along with Tufts Community Union President Sam Wallis and Programming Board Co-Chair

Sarah Habib, both seniors, to drive a search for an alternative event to replace the naked run.

“Given that we can no longer manage the run, we cannot allow this ‘tradition’ to continue,” Bacow said in the op-ed. “Even if I did not act now, NQR would end some day. The only question is whether a student has to die first.”

“We cannot allow this to happen, and the Naked Quad Run will not continue,” Bacow continued.

The announcement comes as the university continues to handle the fallout from this year’s event. Officials ended the December run earlier than usual, resulting in the arrest of one student amid accusations by attendees of police misbehavior.

Alcohol abuse also increased, Reitman said in January.

In his op-ed, Bacow said the university has tried to manage NQR, but that it ultimately had become too big to control, putting students at a greater — and potentially even fatal — risk.

The university president told the Daily on Friday that he originally consulted with

senior administrators and members of his leadership team in a debriefing after December’s run, but that it fell to him to make the call.

“In the end, it’s my decision,” Bacow said.

Trustees express concerns NQR was one subject of a Board of Trustees discussion last month on the topic of alcohol and risk, which took place during the trustees’ regular meeting on Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus. The plenary session brought in university health officials, student leaders and administrators.

At the discussion, trustees learned of increases in both the number of instances of student alcohol abuse and the levels of intoxication health officials have encountered, according to Stacey Sperling, a physician at Health Service who is the medical director of Tufts Emergency Medical Services. Sperling presented data on alcohol abuse at Tufts, including numbers from Spring Fling and NQR. The trustees listened and asked thoughtful questions of many of the presenters, Sperling said, but left any decision about a

potential course of action to be determined by the president.

“By the end of the meeting, there was no consensus from the board, but they were clearly very interested and concerned,” she said. “They were not either condoning or not condoning the Naked Quad Run.” Ian Wong, the director of health education, spoke at the session and said that, in addition to NQR, the discussion touched on how to best prevent alcohol abuse, particularly among freshmen.

Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler last month said that the monitoring of alcohol use on campus falls under the trustees’ duties.

“It’s one of their responsibilities to keep an eye on potential risks at the university and make sure that things are being handled appropriately and so forth,” she said.

At that meeting, Wallis and Habib spoke to the trustees about NQR. Wallis spoke of the changes to the university’s alcohol policy, while Habib focused see NQR, page 2

Tufts students in Japan safe after earthquake, tsunami by

Corinne Segal

Daily Editorial Board

The seven Tufts students studying abroad in Japan are safe after Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the country’s east coast, according to Director of Programs Abroad Sheila Bayne.

Five students are studying on the Tufts program in Kanazawa, located on the west coast of Japan, while two other students are enrolled in Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, located in the southern part of the country, with a non-Tufts program, Bayne said.

At the time of the earthquake, four Tufts students were in Kanazawa, though the program is currently between semesters. A fifth was traveling in Tokyo, while the other two students were in Osaka, according to Bayne.

Bayne e-mailed students at 9 a.m. EST on Friday to check that the students were safe. She received news about all the students, either through e-mails they directly sent or through friends of the students by 10:20 a.m.

Ezra Salzman-Gubbay, a Tufts junior studying in Kanazawa, did not feel any of the tremors from the quake, he said in an e-mail to the Daily.

“Kanazawa seems like one of the safest places to be right now,” SalzmanGubbay said.

Japan seemed well-prepared for the earthquake, he added.

“Japan is no stranger to earthquakes. They happen often, and they’re accepted as part of life,” he said.

Japan has strict building regulations to ensure that buildings can survive earthquakes. The government also circulates educational literature about earthquakes, equips workers with emergency supplies and maintains shelters in the case of a disaster, Salzman-Gubbay said.

But the tsunami hit Japan too quickly for many measures to be effective, he said.

“The size of this quake was unexpected, and the proximity of the plate shift to the water surface caused one of the worst tsunamis possible,” he said. “The wave made certain preparation measures irrelevant,” he said.

Salzman-Gubbay said it was difficult to cope with such a large-scale disaster.

“We’re definitely shaken up emotionally.

The loss and the heartbreak is immense,” he said. “I think the whole country is feeling quite a bit of psychological turbulence,” he said.

He noted that the Japanese people are not outwardly emotional about the disaster, adding that he has seen many people forgo their own concerns to help each other.

“In the States, we wear our hearts on our sleeves, but here people express themselves much more subtly, so it didn’t surprise me when people seemed no different than usual,” he said.

“The Japanese have a strong sense of community,” he said. “I think this results in a much different person-to-person reaction than in the rest of the world.”

Though Salzman-Gubbay plans to remain in Kanazawa, several friends of his who were not Tufts students had decided to return home in response to the unfolding nuclear crisis. As of yesterday, four nuclear plants in the country’s northeast region have been affected by the natural disaster, including a nuclear plant in Fukushima, which exploded due to the shutdown of its emergency cooling system, two other plants which have experienced or are at risk of partial meltdown and one which has emitted high levels of radiation.

“After the news about the explosion at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, some of the other international students made the decision to return to their countries,” he said. “Clearly everyone is having a unique reaction.”

Salzman-Gubbay thought the earthquake — a disaster that can touch nearly any part of the world — drew attention to Japan’s plight in a way that other enduring global issues may not.

“It’s easy to feel disconnected from the millions that die each year from povertyrelated causes because we can’t empathize with such a dramatically different experience from our own,” he said. “It’s unfortunate, sad and took a tragedy in the developed world for me to realize it.”

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Jawanza Kunjufu gave the keynote address at the seventh annual Emerging Black Leaders symposium, calling for stronger male role models in the African-American community.

Sympoisum draws discussion about racial criminalization by

Elizabeth McKay

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Tufts’ seventh-annual Emerging Black Leaders Symposium on Saturday drew a diverse range of speakers to discuss disciplinary practices in schools and the criminalization of African-American and Latino young men.

WGBH radio personality Callie Crossley mediated the symposium’s two discussions, which addressed the theme “Prepping for the Penitentiary — An Exploration of the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” The theme illustrated the social and institutional mechanisms driving up levels of incarcerated youth.

At the symposium’s second panel, focused on the impact of educational practices, Boston anthropologist and attorney Lisa Thurau-Gray said that young African-American and Latino men experience disproportionate levels of criminal punishment.

“There’s [an] open season on AfricanAmerican and Latino youth right now in the United States; it starts in school and extends to the streets,” she said. “Those policies … have criminalized, marginal-

ized and destroyed lives.”

Former NYPD Detective Marquez Claxton at the same panel criticized zerotolerance policies and the use of legal punishments for in-school infractions in primarily African-American and Latino communities.

He said schools commonly punish certain behaviors that were in the past expected of adolescents.

“My generation has forgotten what it was like to be a child,” he said.

Richard Celestin, who manages the Supervised Release Program of the Criminal Justice Agency, a program providing alternatives to detention and bail for felons in Queens, N.Y., noted a defeatist mentality among African-American and Latino youth.

“There is more of an expectation of failure if you look a certain way or dress a certain way,” Celestin said, going on to advocate vocational training as an alternative for classroom schooling in certain cases.

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Visiting the Hill this Week MONDAY “The Arab Uprising: Revolution and its Aftermath” Details: Tufts professors Oxana Shevel, Malik Mufti, Enrico Spolaore, Ryan Centner and Robert Devigne will conduct a panel exploring the historical parallels to the current groundswell of democratic movements in the Middle East.

When and Where: 7 p.m.; Coolidge Room Sponsors: International Relations program, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Economics

When and Where: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Olin 012 Sponsor: Department of Romance Languages

“Return of the Repressed: Italian Cinema and Holocaust Memory” Details: Yale University’s Millicent Marcus will deliver the annual Langsam/Barsam/ Simches lecture, followed by a reception in the Laminan Lounge.

“An Evening with NY Times Journalist David Rohde” Details: Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Rohde, kidnapped in 2008 by members of the Taliban for more than seven months,

TUESDAY “Israel and Palestine: Past, Present, Future” Details: Scholar and author Norman Finkelstein will lecture on Gaza, Lebanon, Egypt and the flotilla incident in May 2010.

When and Where: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; ASEAN Auditorium Sponsor: Students for Justice in Palestine

will speak about his book narrating the experience. A discussion and book signing will follow.

When and Where: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Barnum 008 Sponsor: Institute for Global Leadership WEDNESDAY “From Medford to Madison Avenue” Details: Belle Frank (J ’76), advertising executive and Executive Vice President at Young & Rubicam, will discuss careers in the advertising industry.

When and Where: noon to 1 p.m.; Eaton Hall Room 206 Sponsor: Communications and Media Studies Program, Imaginet “DUI: A Powerful Lesson” Details: Mark Sterner, an alcohol awareness speaker, will recollect the alcohol-fueled

car accident in which his three friends were killed and speak about the dangers of mixing alcohol and driving. The event is mandatory for all new members of fraternity and sorority chapters.

When and Where: 8 p.m.; Cohen Auditorium Sponsor: Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs “Medicine at the South Pole” Details: Mark Klinker will speak about his service at the South Pole as the United States Antarctic Program’s only physician and how start a career in modern healthcare.

When and Where: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Cabot Intercultural Center 206 Sponsor: Tufts Premedical Society —compiled by Martha Shanahan

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er rates of depression among African-Americans compared to Caucasians. She said modern culture is fraught with negative messages for minorities.

“We live in a uniformly hostile environment that’s driven by anti-black animus, that’s shot through with homophobia, sexism, classism and a number of other issues,” she said.

Thurau-Gray, whose organization Strategies for Youth develops practices that have been used to train police officers across the country, encouraged college students to get involved in ending these patterns.

“Mentoring can be hugely helpful for young people,” she told the Daily. “Silence is the greatest culprit here. If we’re seeing something that’s hurting young people, it’s up to us to get up there and say no and do something about it.”

Celestin said Tufts students could help by supporting underprivileged youth in the nearby area.

“Within a college campus you can develop clubs like the Emerging Black Leaders where you can get funding from the school itself and then turn around and provide programming for young people in the community,” he told the Daily.

Celestin encouraged successful

African-American and Latino college students to set an example in their communities.

“Every person that … becomes a professional or is a success or develops programming like this that’s dedicated to giving back, you’ve already started to chip away at that stereotype that’s been in existence for the longest time,” Celestin told the Daily.

“Being in college is no small task. You’ve had to overcome a lot to get to that particular point,” he said. “You have a story.

It’s a matter of making sure that your story is heard by the people that can learn from it and can grow from it.”

In the symposium’s keynote address, Jawanza Kunjufu called for more African-American male role models in schools and families. He also expressed his support for dividing genders in urban schools, which he said allows girls to be more confident in math and sciences.

Sophomore Joshua ReedDiawuoh, the EBL’s community outreach co-chair, hoped the symposium’s messages would resonate with students and encourage them to bring about change.

“I hope that people come away from this with a sense of immediacy and urgency and know that this is an issue that for a lot of people is

crucial,” he said.

EBL Co-President Junior Josette Castillo delivered the symposium’s closing remarks, stressing the need for continued dialogue on the national “schoolto-prison pipeline”.

“This is an issue that affects everyone,” Castillo told the Daily.

“Yes, it targets mainly black and Latino boys, but it does affect everyone,” she said.

“You need to be aware of everyone’s culture and everyone’s differences and everyone’s struggle in order to understand your own experience and how you relate to one another as human beings,” Castillo added.

Tufts abandons NQR; Bacow says, ‘No tradition is worth sacrificing a life’ NQR

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more on the programming aspect of the event, she said.

“I think the trustees were surprised to hear about some of what went on during NQR,” Wallis said.

Habib said the event was valuable in that it raised school spirit. Though the trustees acknowledged her concerns, some of her exchanges with the trustees on the topic were “heated,” she said.

“At the end of the day, [school spirit] concerns do not outweigh student safety, so we lost,” Habib said.

Both students were made aware of Bacow’s decision last Thursday, according to Wallis.

“I was disappointed,” Habib said of the final decision, “but at this point I just want to make the best of the situation.”

Wallis, too, expressed disappointment, but looked for an upside.

“We view this as an opportunity to come up with something really cool,” Wallis said.

“Clearly, the administration feels that it’s not safe enough,” Habib said. “At the end of the day, we’re not going to debate the decision the administration made.”

History, tradition, alcohol NQR, which has traditionally taken place on the evening of the last day of classes in December, has long been steeped in controversy.

The university officially began providing support for the run in 2003 in order to ensure student safety, and Tufts University Police Department officers and those from other departments have over the years policed the event.

But logistical headaches, safety issues and liability concerns have marred the running of NQR — more formally recognized by administrators as the Nighttime Quad Reception — since its informal beginnings as an exam-week tradition in the 1970s.

University officials have over the years expressed displeasure with the run, which has been one of few campus-wide events that bring together a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body.

In January, Reitman told the Daily that the university and police have never been comfortable managing an event in which they are effectively permitting public nudity to occur and in which they encounter an abnormal amount of alcohol abuse.

Because of the winter season in which it

has occurred, snow and ice have historically made running the Res Quad course a slippery proposition, elevating the risk of injury.

As the event grew over the years, its association with dangerous levels of alcohol consumption intensified. Binge drinking in preparation for the run became a staple of the event, a phenomenon that not only exacerbated the potential for injury but also introduced the threat of alcohol poisoning. Several students were hospitalized following the 2002 run, which put the event’s future in jeopardy.

Administrators elected to continue to permit the run, setting up barricades and hay bales along the course and limiting access to West Hall to assuage safety concerns from overcrowding.

Formal recognition of the run has had limited success in diminishing alcohol consumption from the event’s function. This year, two students were hospitalized with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of greater than 0.3, according to Bacow.

In testing, a BAC of 0.25 amounts to a lethal dose in 50 percent of animals, according to Sperling.

More recently, an increased use of camera phones and cell-phone video has also heightened privacy concerns. In 2007, the Somerville Journal newspaper videotaped the event and posted it online, prompting concerns about publicizing participants’ identities. A nudism website published photographs taken at that same run.

The end — and a new beginning?

Bacow’s decision perhaps marks the final chapter in NQR’s history, but the announcement should not necessarily come as a surprise. From the beginning of his tenure, the university president has never disguised his opposition to the event.

In 2002, he decried the run in an e-mail to the student body.

“The combination of consumption of alcohol with a mad dash through an icy, hilly campus at night cannot continue,” he said at the time.

Asked on Friday about a potentially unfavorable student reaction, Bacow made no apologies.

“If this is all Tufts is to students, we have failed them,” Bacow said. “Tufts is a hell of a lot more than the Naked Quad Run.” “It’s very easy … [to] advocate for a position if you never have to take responsibility,” he said. “It’s really easy to argue that this thing should go on if it’s not your responsi-

bility in the end if a tragedy occurs.”

Bacow said his concern lay in doing what he felt to be the right thing, however unpopular.

“This it what it means to have responsibility for making a decision — to have responsibility to the institution, to do what is right, not what is easy,” he said.

Should students attempt to continue the tradition anyway, they will face consequences from the university, Bacow said.

Reitman plans to convene a meeting of the Committee on Student Life, composed primarily of both faculty members and undergraduates, to determine what that punishment that will be, according to Bacow.

“Other institutions have faced this problem before and have taken actions and have brought to a halt activities that are remarkably similar to this one, so we’ll do what we have to do,” he said.

In his op-ed, Bacow envisioned establishing an alternate campus-wide tradition to replace NQR. Because of the relatively short time students spend at college, campus traditions can be established quite quickly — and can disappear just as fast, he said.

Bacow said the university would solicit student input in building a new tradition.

“I think that this is one where we could

use advice and guidance from the student body, you know, what would make sense,” Bacow said on Friday. “I think that’s the whole idea that Sam and Sarah have suggested, is why don’t we turn this into a competition and see what we can do — let students be creative.”

Wallis said that at last month’s meeting, the trustees had some ideas of their own, including reviving older school traditions that have fallen by the wayside in recent years.

“They were convinced that with the right resources, we can find another way to promote school spirit,” Wallis said.

Habib emphasized the need for a replacement tradition to fill the void.

“We understand there are safety risks, but we don’t want the removal of NQR to hurt the morale of the student body,” Habib said.

“We are disappointed in the decision, but now Sarah and I are going to talk with Senate and [Programming] Board about moving forward,” Wallis said. “At this point, the decision’s made, so we just have to look forward.”

A plan to do so is already in the works, with details expected to be announced to the student body this week, according to Habib and Wallis.

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In this video still taken at last semester’s NQR on Dec. 17, TUPD officers are seen arresting a student.

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Professor sheds comedic light on human mind

After book’s release last month, Dennett now teaching in Beirut

by Sarah Strand

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Daniel Dennett is a busy man. Considered one of the “four horsemen of New Atheism,” Dennett has contributed to numerous books and spoken all over the world on topics ranging from religion to evolution to cognition. Between public appearances, Dennett is the Austin B. Fletcher professor of philosophy and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts.

His new book, “Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind,” grew out of a collaboration with Matthew Hurley (LA ‘06) who studied under Dennett as an undergraduate at Tufts.

Dennett initially attempted to dissuade Hurley from writing his proposed dissertation on humor; Dennett had dabbled in the area himself and felt the topic was too complex. After persistent writing and research, Hurley was able to rope Dennett and Reginald Adams, an assistant professor of psychology at the Pennsylvania State University, into the project. The three celebrated the publishing of their book by MIT Press this month at a release party at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, where Dennett lightheartedly described one of the benefits of the book.

“It saved my bacon because I had promised a book on humor, and I hadn’t fulfilled it,” Dennett said. “I had a nagging feeling of an unfilled commitment.”

Besides serving as a foray into the realm of humor, the book also helped Dennett delve deeper into a field he is much more familiar with: cognition.

“What I think is most interesting about the whole project is that it shows much more vividly and persuasively than I had ever thought possible the role of emotion in cognition,” Dennett said. “It’s helped to turn me quite around on some issues there.

People in cognitive science have tended to view … emotion as a sort of add-on, and in fact that is just wrong. Emotion is not just central to cognition; it is the control

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Professor of Philosophy Daniel Dennett’s latest book, “Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind,” was published earlier this month by MIT Press. system of cognition. What you think about next is determined by emotional state.”

Now that his most recent book has been released, Dennett is ready for his next project: Lebanon. On Thursday, Dennett left Tufts for the remainder of

the semester to teach at the American University of Beirut (AUB) as a visiting professor in its philosophy department.

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NFL player’s legacy focuses on athletes’ health Impact of athletics on mental health goes under the microscope Amelia Quinn

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It’s easy enough to shake off a mild concussion if you’re a serious athlete; for football players in the National Football League (NFL), getting knocked around is practically part of the job description. But unbeknownst to professional, collegiate and even high school players at the time of injury, these athletes may be incurring long-term neurological damage.

Brought to light in a Feb. 19 New York Times article, Dave Duerson, a retired

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Chicago Bears defensive back, committed suicide on Feb. 17, but not before he asked that his brain be studied postmortem. Duerson seemed to believe that he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease that manifests in dementiarelated symptoms, including depression and aggression. Duerson’s family contacted Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (BUCSTE).

CTE can only be confirmed post-mortem due to the fact that it involves extensive staining of brain slices, and it takes several

months to complete the process, according to Christine Baugh, the research coordinator for BUCSTE. Thirteen out of the 14 deceased NFL players whose brains have already been studied by Boston University researchers have been found to have suffered from CTE. “The main thing that we know [about CTE] is that it is caused by repetitive brain trauma,” Baugh told the Daily. “Although repetitive brain trauma is necessary, it is not sufficient — there are other things involved as well. We have a lot to learn. Other critical see ATHLETES, page 4

n a rare move not seen since the closing passages of “The Odyssey,” the sun agreed to wait an extra hour before rising on Sunday. Interesting strategy, Cotton.

This past weekend, the time warlocks came in and snatched an hour of my life. And just like every year, I was rull rull confused. 2:00 a.m. rolled around, jumped immediately to 3, and suddenly I’m wondering if someone spiked the punch real hard. Now it’s already Sunday afternoon, and this column was due two hours ago (Sorry, editors).

Anyway, I thought I’d dive into a little Daylight Saving Time (DST) history. Fun fact, there is no “’s” after Daylight or Saving. Who knew? In 1895, the worldrenowned mustachioed entomologist G.V. Hudson from New Zealand proposed the idea for modern DST. Several years later, some British golfing chap by the charming name of William Willett thought up the same idea and then celebrated with tea and crumpets. Will Will, however, was a plagiarizing clown and clearly never went to his freshman year panel on academic integrity. In 1915, he died of the flu. Karma’s a b****.

Although many people believe that DST was adopted to help farmers, whose schedules revolve around the sun, it actually came about as a wartime move to help reduce energy costs.

True story. Midway through fighting the French army in WWI, a couple of Germans yawned, took a nap, woke up, ate some Bratwurst, checked to see that the French were still retreating and then passed legislation to defy Ra, the Egyptian God of the Sun. Once it became clear that the Sun God was not going to smite them, other countries jumped on the German bandwagon (I think it was a Volkswagen).

DST, however, suffered a bumpy ride in its early years. After the war ended in 1918, people weren’t too concerned with energy usage. Woodrow Wilson tried to keep it around, but DST was repealed in 1919. Wilson’s successor, Warren G. Harding, turned out to be a real prick, as well as a terrible president. He thought that people should man up and go to work earlier in the summer. To that end, he actually ordered federal employees in D.C. to start work at 8 a.m. instead of 9 a.m. in the summer of 1922. A year later, during a conversation with his wife, Harding died suddenly. Yes, Florence Harding literally talked her husband to death. Again, karma.

Nowadays, Daylight Saving Time is observed by all continental U.S. states except for Arizona, which is too busy expelling illegal aliens and encouraging racial profiling to focus on much else.

Critics of DST complain that it complicates work schedules and computer applications, and that they can’t figure out how to skip the appropriate amount of sand in their hourglasses. Businesses that support leisure activities, however, boast massive economic gains due to DST. A 1999 study found that revenue in the European Union’s leisure sector jumped by about 3 percent due to the extra hour of sunlight.

What are my thoughts on DST? Well, for starters, it sounds way too much like STDs, which I generally avoid. Other than that though, I’m all for it. It gives me an extra hour to wear obnoxiously colored sunglasses. It makes barbecuing easier. It makes me feel like less of a bum when I wake up at 2 in the afternoon.

And last but not least, it gives me a solid excuse for sending this article in several hours late. Sweet.

Stephen Miller is a senior majoring in English. He can be reached at Stephen.

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connected to the school all his life, Dennett is thrilled to take up his own post, he said.

“It’s been a lifelong dream of mine. My father taught at AUB; he was an Islamic historian, and my mother met him there,” Dennett said. “We lived in Beirut when I was a little boy, and my sister went to school there. I’ve considered myself sort of an alumnus of AUB my whole life, and now I finally get to go there and teach.”

Temporarily relocating to Beirut might daunt some, but Dennett, a seasoned traveler, is unfazed. The Year of Darwin, celebrated by the science community in 2009 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” and the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, caught Dennett in a whirlwind of travel, including visits to Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Canada, Mexico and Uruguay.

He keeps in touch with friends and colleagues from all over the world and chuckled over a New Year’s card he received from Russia during his interview.

While at AUB, Dennett will teach a graduate seminar related to his book “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life” (1995).

“I’m teaching a course on evolution, using my book … as the skeleton basis and going on with later stuff because that was published 15 years ago,” Dennett said. “That book is an attempt to clarify the ideas of evolution and natural selection and to show just how widely it can and should be applied in understanding phe-

nomenon in the world, not just obviously biological phenomenon but many others.”

Dennett acknowledged that teaching a course on evolution in the Middle East might be a risky undertaking, but he is not concerned about his reception.

He gave a guest lecture at AUB in April 2009 and describes the student body as open, lively and sophisticated.

When he is not teaching or traveling, Dennett plans to continue working on his next book.

Since Dennett is well-versed in the material he will be teaching, he expects to have ample time to further his writing on how humans can improve the way they think, he said.

“I’m working on a book on thinking tools. ‘A toolkit for thinking’: that’s the subtitle. I haven’t decided on a title,” Dennett said.

“It’s looking at arguments, thought experiments, use of examples, terms. I think that being a bit more self-conscious about the tools we use to think will help people see what a misuse of a tool is and what a proper use is.”

Dennett stressed that the new book will not simply outline effective thinking tools, but will give readers insight into developing their own methods. In effect, he said, the book aims to help people think about thinking.

“A good cookbook doesn’t just give you recipes — it shows you how to make up your own recipes. It gives you the principles,” Dennett said. “And I suppose I like to think of my book on thinking tools as providing you with the know-how to construct and dismantle your own thinking tools, to repair them, test them.”

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components are genetics, age, types of hits and time between them.”

While the disease itself is not necessarily fatal, sometimes the impulsivity problems will lead people to behaviors that they would not otherwise have, raising the risk of suicide, according to Baugh. As CTE is a progressive neurological disease with no known cure, symptoms will only worsen with time.

“Every case is a little different,” Baugh said. “The main symptoms we see in people with CTE — diagnosed after death, which is all we can do at this point — are impulsivity, a short fuse, depression, increased irritability, memory problems, cognitive deficits, changes in personality and behavior and, depending on age and duration, finally full-blown dementia.”

When head injuries are so commonplace in a sport, it can often be difficult to link later behavioral changes and mental deficits to an incident that was shaken off and forgotten, Professor of Psychology Robin Kanarek said.

“One of the problems with [CTE] is that you have something that occurs with someone when they’re older, and you’re trying to connect it with something that happened when they were younger,” Kanarek said. “If you think about the brain, it makes sense: As we get older, we lose nerve cells anyway, and if you’ve got damage early on, you may not see it … and it’s not until later when the cells start dying that you’ve got deficits.”

While it may seem easy to classify CTE as a disease that can only hit NFL-caliber athletes, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Baugh said.

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many hits or what kind of hits or what age, but we do know that CTE can start early. It was found in an 18 -year-old and a 21-yearold athlete, the captain of the football team at [the University of Pennsylvania] who passed [away] recently,” she said. “These repetitive hits to the head are a casual thing, but any athlete who is incurring hits to the head is putting themselves at an increased risk, from the youth level to the high school level and beyond.”

Boxing is the sport perhaps best known to lead to neurological damage, but the real surprise, Kanarek said, is that CTE can develop with a much lower level of damage.

“The concept of being ‘punch drunk,’ fighters taking so many punches to the head is [familiar],” Kanarek said. “I don’t think that [most people] realize that it’s extending down to college and even high school athletes — I think that’s where the new information really is.”

Sophomore Sam Stone, who is a center on Tufts’ football team, has been playing the sport since eighth grade, though his injuries have not proven particularly severe.

“I’ve gotten two concussions,” Stone said. “They were both pretty mild, though … both happened during practice. One was from the whiplash of tackling somebody, the other I just went head-to-head with somebody.”

Stone said that both of his concussions occurred during high school and that Tufts’ Athletics Department has provided necessary provisions and education to prevent and treat injuries.

“Recently the school’s done a better job in teaching kids how not to tackle,” he said. “We started doing these concussion tests in the begin-

ning of the year that all freshmen have to do. It tests your memory and establishes a baseline so that if you do get a concussion, they can tell right away.”

Though he is aware of football’s inherent danger, Stone doesn’t let the threat of brain trauma affect his attitude on the field, he said.

“I do think that the consequences of these injuries that I’ve sustained are on the back of a lot of people’s minds,” he said. “It’s not something that [I] dwell on too much though, because there are so many other things to worry about, too.”

Despite researchers’ progress on uncovering the details of the disease, Baugh stressed that the research on CTE is still in its early stages.

“We’re fortunate that word got out fairly quickly about our initial findings, and we’re now trying to find out more about the intricacies, [like the] genetic components,” Baugh said. “There’s a lot more that we can still learn. … We want everybody to be able to play whatever sport they want to, but we want them to play it safely.”

Duerson’s last wish to donate his brain to research may help to increase the awareness of the sporting community, though even before the athlete took his life, measures were already being implemented on a national level to protect athletes.

“I think that not long ago, a concussion was something that people would just shake off and not think about too much, and I think that is changing drastically,” Baugh said.

“Changes in [national] legislation [have been made] to protect youth athletes by not allowing them to play after they’re been concussed, and the NFL started penalizing brutal hits and put up posters in the locker rooms.”

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Martin Guterman Undergraduate Lecture Euler, Graphs, and Surfaces

John Meier

Professor of Mathematics, Lafayette College Day: March 15, 2011 Time: 4:15pm Place: Robinson 253 Tea: 3:30pm in Bromfield-Pearson 7

Abstract: Leonhard Euler was an 18th century mathematician with remarkable insight whose proofs show great creativity (but not always great mathematical rigor). In this talk I will explore connections between three topics that were of interest to Euler: combinatorial graphs, surfaces, and a numerical invariant of graphs and surfaces that is now called the Euler characteristic. My story will be example driven and should be accessible to anyone who is, or is considering being, a mathematics major.

Bio: John Meier received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Cornell University. He has received several teaching awards including the 2010 James P. Crawford Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America. John is the co-author of a book on using writing as a tool for teaching and learning of Mathematics. He was awarded a Centennial Research Fellowship from the American Mathematical Society in 2003.

He has around 40 research publications in academic journals as well as 8 articles concerning the pedagogical aspects of teaching and learning of mathematics. He is also the author of Groups, Graphs, and Trees which is a textbook for introducing undergraduate and graduate students to the world of Geometric Group Theory.

The Guterman lectures bring to campus some of the best expositors of mathematics for undergraduates.

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Wendell Phillips Award Finalist’s Presentations Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:45 am in the Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts center The presentations are open to the Tufts Community.

All are welcome to attend.

Each Finalist will present a 3-5 minute response to the following topic:

The new documentary film "Waiting for Superman" claims that there is a wide gap between Americans' self-perception of their educational level and the "real" level of their achievement or ability in relation to the rest of the world. Reflect upon an experience you have had while at Tufts that draws attention to a gap between self-perception and assessment (whether personal, social, or institutional). What were the consequences of that gap?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The finalists for the Wendell Phillips Award are:

Nan Lin Michael Hawley Brian Agler Melissa Reifers Tomas Valdes

THE WENDELL PHILLIPS SCHOLARSHIP AWARD The Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship is one of two prize scholarships (the other assigned to Harvard College) established in 1896 by the Wendell Phillips Memorial Fund Association, in honor of Boston’s great preacher and orator. The award is given annually to the junior or senior who best demonstrated both marked ability as a speaker and a high sense of public responsibility. Coordinated by the Committee on Student Life

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Gallery Review

Social justice groups take message to gallery ‘We Shall Not Be Moved’ confronts foreclosure through photography by

Ashley Wood

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For centuries, art has been used as a means to create and communicate social and political messages. From

We Shall Not Be Moved At Gallery 321, through March 30 The Washington Street Art Center 321 Washington Street Somerville, MA 02143 (617) 623-5315 documentary photography to political cartoons to mural-sized paintings like Picasso’s famous “Guernica” (1937), images have often been used to spread powerful messages.

It comes as little surprise, therefore, that City Life/Vida Urbana and the Bank Tenant Association — two groups working to fight eviction and foreclosure in Boston — would partner with photographer Kelly Creedon to help convey their message and bring attention to their goals. Currently on exhibit in Somerville’s own Washington Street Art Center, “We Shall Not Be Moved” is a collection of photographs depicting individuals and families experiencing the process of foreclosure.

Sensitive and heartfelt, Creedon’s documentary photography captures the dignity and strength of 10 families standing in the face of financial adversity. Rather than highlight the

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Kelly Creedon’s exhibit depicts the struggles individuals and families face during the foreclosure process. tragedy of their situation, Creedon depicts the relentless hope and won’tgive-up attitude that is reflected in project’s title.

Creedon’s photographs usually depict her subjects in one of two situations: either in front of or inside their homes undergoing foreclosure or in the process of participating in the larger movement orchestrated by the Bank Tenant Association. Beneath each segment

Movie Review

Fantasy and reality collide in ‘Uncle Boonmee’

by Joseph Stile

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” is a unique fusion of the

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Starring Thanapat Saisaymar, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Matthieu Ly Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul bizarre and the mundane. The film, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, is a visual experience that creates its own world, whose composition and meaning are usually

just beyond the viewer’s grasp.

Though the film has very little in the way of plot — this is no comfortable Hollywood film — all the fantastical images keep the audience’s attention piqued. Although most viewers will find themselves at a loss to explain what is going on or what it means, it is not a waste of time. “Uncle Boonmee” is a philosophical, introspective piece of film, and the plot matters less than the feelings the images impart.

Weerasethakul has an uncanny skill for depicting the supernatural and finding the magic hiding in ordinary, day-to-day life. His film hints at a link, and even some interplay, between the real world and the world of ghosts. In the film, at an ordinary family dinner, the ghost of a long-lost wife docilely shows up to proclaim, “Heaven see UNCLE, page 8

of photographs, the subjects’ stories are posted alongside quotes from the many interviews Creedon conducted.

Reactions to their foreclosures range from pain to shame, but eventually move toward hope and optimism; the shift may be credited to the work of City Life/Vida Urbana.

City Life/Vida Urbana convincingly see MOVED, page 8

Book Review

Hymowitz’s new book ‘Manning Up’ makes a weak case by

Allison Dempsey

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Girls, we’ve all been there: dealing with the guy who just can’t grow up and face the relationship in a mature

Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys Kay Hymowitz

Basic Books way. As frustrating as it can be, however, your immature male counterpart may not be the only one responsible.

According to writer Kay Hymowitz, an alumna of the Tufts master’s program in English literature, we are in fact dealing with a recent cultural phenomenon.

In her latest book, “Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys,” Hymowitz praises the rise of women in society, which many have attributed to both the birth control pill and feminism. The first three chapters extol the virtues of the female sex, citing endless statistics about how women earn more bachelor’s degrees, dominate in the advertising and marketing worlds and have progressed in general over the past half century.

This shift in girl power is manifest not only in “real life” but also in the development of TV shows and movies.

Hymowitz cites shows such as “Friends” (1994-2004) and “Sex and the City” (1998-2004), both of which, she says, portray women as sexy and successful, which set a precedent for how women would model themselves in real life.

Though the entertainment industry is not solely responsible for the reversal of

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Just a casual dinner party at Boonmee’s with his 20-years-deceased wife.

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Eugene Kim | Alleged But Not Convicted

Human gross-ipede

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ook, let me get this out of the way early. “The Human Centipede” (2009) is a super gross movie — it has been listed under the fairly new genre of “biological horror.” It’s poorly written, has weak characters with little to no motivations and is overall a piece of crap (har har har). But, it does have a place in the pantheon of notable movies worth seeing … maybe not next to “The Shawkshank Redemption” (1994) or “The King’s Speech” (2010), but somewhere.

For the normal people out there who don’t know what “The Human Centipede” is, it’s a movie. It’s about a doctor. This doctor attempts to create the next step in human evolution — unfortunately for three tourists in Germany (of course it’s Germany), it means surgically attaching people bottom to mouth. He also cuts some ligaments so you can’t walk upright, but essentially his goal is to create a macro-organism with one single digestive tract: a “human centipede.” Let that soak. Mull over the implications.

Imagine walking as a single unit like that, with all the pulling at the seams.

Picture being the middle person (the “B”). Consider the nutritional value of the “food” the last person in line gets.

Now you understand what a biological horror movie is.

It’s disgusting. It’s definitely not a movie you’d want your mom to see and it makes me distrust all German doctors for the rest of my life. I’m not going to call it art because it’s simply shock horror. Themes are not explored, there’s no character development (I mean, how could you develop a character when her mouth is stitched to the bottom of a Japanese man who speaks no English?). But really, after some time apart from it, I have to say it was worth watching. I hear it’s available streaming on Netflix, but don’t rush to your nearest computer with a stomach full of chili and baked beans.

I watched it with a group of people who were all as grossed out about it as I was. It was shared misery and that was what made it so much fun.

I remember someone starting to dry heave and another person just refused to watch scenes because it was so nasty.

It was the difference between watching the Super Bowl alone and with some buddies who are cheering for different teams, between playing some Xbox at midnight in my parent’s basement and with someone in the room to smack talk, or between cooking up Easy Mac for yourself and making a meal for some close friends — it is a communal experience. It’s why you laugh harder in a group than alone, and it’s why scary movies are more awesome with people.

On its own, “The Human Centipede” is a piece of garbage. That’s not hard to argue. The director even had to lie to his investors about what the movie was about in order to get funding. But by coming together and getting super grossed out together, we can make a movie about forced surgery not too bad. The more the merrier and the funnier the movie.

Oh, and by the way, you’re going to want to have a movie like “How to Train Your Dragon” (2010) ready to go. You’ll need something to wash that nasty taste of “Human Centipede” off your palate (too soon?). Especially considering that the sequel (oh yes, there will be a sequel) is allegedly going to contain a 12-person centipede, you are going to need to up your gross tolerance quite a bit. Keep an eye (or mouth) open for that, and start convincing your friends to see it with you.

Eugene Kim is a senior majoring in biology.

He can be reached at Eugene.Kim@tufts.edu.

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gender roles in many respects, Hymowitz argues that it played a significant part.

The next four chapters focus on Hymowitz’s overall concept of the “childman,” the 20-something of this generation who moves back in with his parents after college, spends his days playing video games and “looking for jobs” and gets his kicks watching Adam Sandler movies and Comedy Central. Hymowitz argues that the rise of women has contributed to the spawn of this generational hybrid, and having these men as dating and husband prospects is the price that successful women must pay for their own accomplishments.

Hymowitz’s arguments seem, at the outset of the book, to be valid. Women have definitely overcome a great deal of genderrelated adversity over the decades, and so their success (as she praises) is every bit as deserved as she makes it out to be. When commending one gender’s achievements, however, it doesn’t seem necessary to condemn a portion of the opposite gender that appears to have regressed.

I, for one, don’t consider myself to be a raving feminist. I think women have accomplished a lot in recent years and that definitely deserves commendation.

But I found myself becoming offended

by Hymowitz’s chronic reference to the “child-man.” She cites the fact that men are more frequently becoming beta testers, bloggers and social media professionals — careers that barely existed 10 years ago — instead of working in the financial sector, or an equally traditional

job, as a sign of regression. Yes, technological advancements and societal factors beyond our control have created a slew of careers as far from the financial district as can be. Yet societal constraints should not contribute to such grave overgeneralizations of an entire gender.

Hymowitz seems to have something to prove with her book. She is an English scholar exploring a sociological topic: Clearly, the fact that she is branching out of her comfort zone must mean that she has a serious point to make. Was she perhaps wronged by a child-man herself? This doesn’t seem likely, since she cites other women’s experiences with this unique breed rather than her own personal anecdotes. Is she experiencing her own great success as a 20-something and wanting to exalt her gender?

No, since she graduated from college in 1970. Then it’s settled: She must choose to victimize the opposite sex in such a way because she is herself forever doomed to spinsterhood.

Wrong again. She is married and lives in Brooklyn with her three children.

“Manning Up” presents itself as a little out of context. Hymowitz makes many valid points, but they would be better bolstered with personal anecdotes and stories. On the whole, the fact that she is not part of the generation of the “childman” makes her seem generally out of touch with the age group she is so thoroughly criticizing.

On a side note, she refers to Charlie Sheen as an “adorable bad boy.” Clearly this book went to print before certain recent events transpired.

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City Life/Vida Urbana, the Bank Tenant Association and Kelly Creedon have teamed up to rally individuals and families facing foreclosure.

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Author and Tufts alumna Kay Hymowitz has some peculiar ideas about the male work ethic.

argues that, with over 12,000 foreclosures in Massachusetts in 2010 alone, and few buyers purchasing the foreclosed properties from the bank, home-owners should be allowed to continue to pay rent in order to stay in their homes. City Life/Vida Urbana specifically looks at the potential of a nonprofit bank, Boston Community Capital, to purchase the houses in risk of foreclosure at realistic prices, offer the tenants rent and eventually look to sell it back to the tenants in the future.

Many families have been thrown off by adjustable mortgage rates and predatory loans and could afford to pay rent, but not mortgage payments, on their homes.

Creedon brings strength to this argument in her photographs of abandoned rooms, drawing attention to the sparse piles of “junk” that used to be part of a home, such s a single Christmas stocking hanging from the doorway in an otherwise desolate building. The message seems to highlight the uselessness of an empty and foreclosed property that has the potential to give shelter to a whole family.

In addition to photographs, the exhibit includes a slideshow of four families experiencing foreclosure and a voiceover of them describing their stories.

One individual, Ken Tilton, describes the success he and his partner had experienced earlier in life when they

were the owners of two boutiques and a restaurant in Massachusetts. Their success ended when Tilton’s partner was diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer and their attention and finances quickly shifted from their businesses to fighting the disease.

In the multimedia presentation, Tilton explains the way the movement helped him hold onto his home and the community and support he found with the Bank Tenant Association. His story is enhanced by vivid color photos of Tilton in his home, close-ups of the small details that personalize the rooms, like family photographs, refrigerator magnets and images of Tilton attending City Life meetings and participating in canvassing and protests.

Each of the visual and audio installments focuses on the power of acting collectively and how it has changed the way individuals see themselves in the world. Although “We Shall Not Be Moved” focuses on eviction and foreclosure, Creedon seems mostly interested in her subjects’ personal journeys through a difficult time, as well as documenting how people come together and fight for something bigger than themselves. By choosing a topic as relevant as eviction and foreclosure, Creedon draws attention to the power of collective action and community discourse.

“We Shall Not Be Moved” is on exhibit at the Washington Street Art Center in Somerville until March 30.

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is overrated. There is nothing there.” In another movie, this line might serve to critique religion in society; here, it is simply a haunting facet of Weerasethakul’s world — a world that may look like our own, but is somehow something more.

Early in the film, Uncle Boonmee (Thanapat Saisaymar) is shown living a simple life.

Boonmee works on a small farm in the northern part of Thailand and has recently learned he is dying of a kidney disease.

He seems at peace with his own death. Boonmee’s sisterin-law, Jen ( Jenjira Pongpas), and his friend, Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee), stay with him to look after him in his final days.

The ghost that interrupts

their dinner is the ghost of Boonmee’s wife, Huay (Natthakarn Aphaiwonk), who has been dead for 20 years. Her apparition is calm and unquestioning; she acts as though there is nothing strange about her presence.

But just as the characters and viewers alike adjust to one dead spirit, another one comes along. Boonmee’s long-lost son, Boonsong (Geerasak Kulhong), enters the house, emulating his mother’s composure. Unlike her, however, he is unrecognizable: His spirit has taken the form of a very hairy and very large monkey with burning red eyes. He explains that he looks like this because as a ghost he fell in love with a mythical, Bigfoot-like being, known as a Monkey Ghost, and the two spirits fused (this comes across

less ridiculous than it sounds).

The importance of this dinner lies not in the oddity of these guests, but in Boonmee and his family’s rapid acceptance of and adjustment to their presence. The spirits and humans do ordinary things together, leafing through photo albums and talking about old times — it’s as though no one ever died.

“Uncle Boonmee” also discards chronology in order to tell Boonmee’s tale in even more peculiar ways. Interjected into Boonmee’s story is a fable-like anecdote about a young queen who meets a talking fish at a waterfall. The two make a connection and eventually engage in cunnilingus. The film takes this otherwise absurd account and makes it a natural and resonating part of the story.

The world “Uncle Boonmee”

creates isn’t strictly one of fantasy, though this remains one of its most powerful aspects.

Real-world concerns poke through the absurdity in unexpected ways. For example, the ideas of communism, karma and immigration are discussed honestly. These concepts come into play when Boonmee wonders if killing socialists while in the army when he was younger has caused everything that is happening to him now. The director balances these supernatural and physical worlds with remarkable concentration and dexterity.

Even if the plot is strange and slow for a general audience, the powerful, poignant imagery glues eyes to the screen.

The images in the opening sequence are particularly riveting. The camera lingers on a

lone buffalo in a forest just as the sun is setting. Smoke and mist rise around the buffalo until it starts to look unnatural, which epitomizes the film’s melding two distinct worlds.

When the buffalo starts to run, it is quickly captured and confined by a man who springs out of nowhere.

What does this have to do with the rest of the movie? The film never explains it, but that’s not really its focus: It would rather make the viewer feel than understand.

If I said I understood everything in “Uncle Boonmee,” I would be lying. There is too much mysticism and symbolism for a viewer to grasp it all completely. But much like a dream, even when logic is absent, the emotions and feelings are still as vivid as reality.

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Author Kavita Ramdya discusses the dating and marriage process as viewed and interpreted by first and second generation Hindu Americans. She explores the influence of Bollywood – the Hindi-language film industry – and the impact of inter-racial and inter-religious marriages on these generations.

Her talk will be followed by a dinner and discussion.

Kavita Ramdya received her B.A from New York University and her M.A. and Ph.D from Boston University. She is a regular Arts Op-Ed columnist for “News India Times” and writes about culture and current events for “India Abroad” and “The Indian American”. She also co-chairs the Women for Women International London Junior Leadership Circle, a charity which provides financial and emotional assistance to women survivors of war. She is currently working at an American bank in London.

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NQR’s end an unfortunate yet necessary decision University President Lawrence Bacow has decided that the university will no longer allow the Naked Quad Run (NQR) to continue. The ritual of streaking around the Res Quad is a decades-long Tufts fixture, and its loss is regrettable, but we at the Daily support Bacow’s decision to put an end to it.

As Bacow rightly wrote in his op-ed, it is only a matter of time before NQR results in a fatality. Every year, the tradition is invariably marred by multiple cases of alcohol poisoning — sometimes from nearly fatal levels of alcohol consumption — as well as injuries resulting from falling naked on the concrete surrounding the Res Quad. It is not difficult to envision that a drunken mass of naked students, all sprinting along the same icy path and surrounded by a crowd of spectators, could result in a death or a serious injury; we should count ourselves lucky that it hasn’t already.

Ideally, extra safety precautions and additional police supervision would minimize the risks to participants and NQR would be able to continue. But the university has tried that. Since the 2002 run — which resulted in multiple hospitalizations from falls, collisions and alcohol consumption — the administration has expended considerable resources to provide adequate

police supervision and make the route safer for runners.

Eight years later, in spite of the university’s best efforts, accidents are still a yearly occurrence. The chaos from last semester’s event — in which police officers became involved in physical confrontations with some students — is proof that TUPD could not maintain order during the run. Regardless of one’s opinion of TUPD’s conduct during last December’s run, it is clear that the department does not have the capacity of controlling such a vast crowd of students, many of whom are heavily intoxicated.

Furthermore, the police departments of Medford and Somerville have decided to no longer help enforce the event. We cannot reasonably expect TUPD and university administrators to single-handedly ensure the safety of several-hundred participants.

Nor is it fair to ask officers and administrators to do so. It puts them in the uncomfortable position of having to physically subdue nude college students while avoiding touching them inappropriately; according to Bacow’s op-ed, some TUPD officers have expressed concern that requiring them to police NQR may breach federal sexual harassment statutes.

Though many are able to participate

in NQR civilly, each year police officers must endure insults from naked, disrespectful, drunken students and then face accusations of police misconduct when they try to subdue those who have grown too belligerent.

Yet ultimately, our support for Bacow’s decision is not out sympathy for TUPD officers or administrators.

There is something inherently positive about shedding inhibitions and partaking in a school-wide event that overcomes taboos. Instead, our position stems from the recognition that some students — perhaps a small population out of all the event’s runners — do not have the ability to drink and act responsibly at an event that clearly has the potential to quickly turn dangerous.

NQR brought the student body together like no other event on campus, and the Daily regrets its end. But its history has been marked by too many mishaps for the administration to allow it to go on. With this in mind, bringing the tradition to an end was a responsible decision by the university.

Bacow’s announcement will undoubtedly be met with a great deal of opposition from the student body.

Rather than protesting its end, we should set to work on developing a new tradition to fill that void, because NQR isn’t coming back.

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Green-washing marks good start for companies by

RaeAnn Handshy

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In an interview with USA Today, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was asked to describe Starbucks 40 years from now. His response was that “In 40 years, the core of our mission will still be about achieving that fragile balance between profitability and social conscience. Without the latter, the former is unsustainable.”

In so many ways and a thousand times a day media is telling us what to value, and increasingly that message has been centered on social and environmental responsibility. It’s true that in some cases companies are greenwashing; they are making environmental claims that aren’t completely accurate.

However, it could be argued that these messages are still beneficial; that this new focus on respecting our natural resources and recognizing our place in a global citizenship is changing the way that we think about our world.

[Earlier this month], Indra Nooyi, Chair and CEO of PepsiCo, spoke at the [ Technology Entertainment Design ( TED)] Conference. Nooyi

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used her time on the TED stage to tout her company’s Performance with Purpose and Pepsi Refresh programs.

These programs are designed to highlight Pepsi’s commitment to environmental stewardship and support for non-profit organizations. Nooyi’s talk has been criticized for highlighting the $20 million Pepsi donated to local nonprofit and community organizations but failing to address major issues like water scarcity and plastic waste pollution.

While this may be a valid critique, the fact is that Nooyi had approximately 15 minutes to make an impression on millions of TED viewers around the world, and she chose to speak about Pepsi’s commitment to positive social change.

In the grand scheme of things is this really a horrible message to send?

In a society [overrun] by consumerism, diseased by stress and isolated from community, we need as many positive messages as we can get. The more committed our corporations are to expressing value for real people and our planet, the more our collective mindset shifts. These statements about what we should be valuing as

individuals and as a community are gradually creating a new set of standards for health, safety and environmental issues.

While some messages may be misguided or exaggerated, the priorities they communicate are sinking into our psyche and changing the way we value life. This thought and values revolution is slow but every commercial, magazine ad and newspaper article that promotes values of equality, respect, compassion and responsibility makes a tiny impression.

While transparency is necessary for a truly sustainable marketplace and legitimate efforts must be made to [effect] real change, this initial priority shift is a necessary first step.

Consumers who value social and environmental accountability will expose the green-washers. A society that values human rights over the latest fashion will determine responsible supply chains and educated moms who demand safe toys will influence industry production methods.

Our values are shifting and although their execution may not be perfect, corporate messages of responsibility are helping to transform our society.

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NQR reconsidered by

Lawrence S. Bacow

In 2002, I had my first encounter with the Naked Quad Run (NQR). That year, two students nearly died the night of the run due to alcohol poisoning. In addition, we had many reports of broken bones and sprained ankles and wrists; we also heard accounts of students being tripped and groped by spectators. At the time, the event was completely unmanaged. When I saw the carnage, I sent a message to the community expressing my own strong opinion that it should end.

I was persuaded otherwise by students and alumni who argued that the run was a cherished tradition at Tufts and that it could be managed to make it safe. I was also persuaded by those who argued that if we tried to eliminate the run, it would only reappear in other forms that might pose even greater risk to our students.

After consulting the dean of student affairs, the director of public safety and the president of the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, I agreed that we should try to manage the run rather than end it.

Since then, the Facilities and Construction Department has erected barriers to eliminate dangerous bottlenecks and keep spectators away from the runners, put out hay bales to protect runners and salted and sanded the course. The Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) has limited access to West Hall to prevent overcrowding. The TCU Senate and the Programming Board have sponsored the Nighttime Quad Reception to provide food to those who otherwise might be running — and drinking — on an empty stomach.

Unfortunately, our efforts to manage the risks associated with the run may only have

helped it grow. An activity that once engaged only a modest number of students now draws a significant portion of the undergraduate population. Moreover, our capacity to manage the run has declined over time. Medford and Somerville police, who previously assisted in providing security for the run, now refuse to do so, pointing out that this activity would be illegal at any other time or place. Our own police association has written to me saying that our police officers are themselves uncomfortable working the event, noting that students are not only nude but also routinely inebriated and disrespectful. (Members of the Dean of Student Affairs’ staff report that drunk, naked students often taunt those who are working the event, provocatively flaunting their nudity.)

Some members of TUPD have even suggested that requiring officers to continue to work the event might constitute a hostile work environment in violation of federal regulations governing sexual harassment.

As has been reported in the Daily, this year’s run led to a student confrontation with police, which led to an arrest. In addition, we had 12 medical transports to area hospitals on the night of the run. Drunken students who showed up at Lawrence Memorial Hospital to check on a friend who had been transported disrupted emergency room operations, placing other patients in jeopardy. What is most disturbing, two students were hospitalized that night with reported blood alcohol levels in excess of 0.3 — four times the legal limit for driving while intoxicated in Massachusetts. Medical personnel tell me that there is a 50 percent probability of death for anyone with a blood alcohol level in excess of .3. Clearly, this past December we once again only narrowly avoided a tragedy.

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When we have had problems with other large events at Tufts, such as Winter Bash or Spring Fling, we have taken actions to ensure the safety of our students. While not always popular, these changes have been effective in reducing the risks associated with these events. Moreover, they have been designed and implemented through consultation between student leaders and members of the administration.

If I thought similar measures might render the Naked Quad Run safe, I would consider them. But as the Daily has also observed, alcohol fuels NQR. Most students say that they require it in order to fortify themselves to shed their inhibitions and run in subfreezing conditions. Given that we can no longer manage the run, we cannot allow this “tradition” to continue. Even if I did not act now, NQR would end some day.

The only question is whether a student has to die first. We cannot allow this to happen, and the Naked Quad Run will not continue.

Other institutions have faced similar questions and have developed new opportunities to build community while ending traditions that are dangerous to students. I have asked seniors Sam Wallis, president of the TCU, and Sarah Habib, co-chair of the Programming Board, to work with Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman and others to come up with a plan to create a new campus-wide winter event that will engage the larger community. Traditions are important and we want to encourage them, but they also need to be safe. No tradition is worth sacrificing a life to preserve.

Lawrence S. Bacow is the president of Tufts University.

Fight the legislative ‘war on women’

by Isabel Hirsch and Rachel Erin Greenspan

Have you been paying attention to U.S. politics lately? The U.S. Senate thankfully just voted down a bill to defund any family planning clinic that offers abortion, including Planned Parenthood. Abortion already cannot be federally funded. Instead, the Title X funds in question serve to create affordable pelvic and breast exams, HIV and STI testing, cancer screenings, birth control and related doctor’s visits. Eliminating funding for Title X would make the continued existence of Planned Parenthood nearly impossible. The disappearance of Planned Parenthood would keep millions of Americans from access to basic healthcare. As Planned Parenthood functions on a sliding scale of payment based on income, this disappearance would have the harshest effect on low-income families without health insurance, who see the greatest benefit from Title X funding.

But thanks to the enormous wave of public support through petitioning and contacting congress, the legislation has been struck down for now — but negotiations on it are set to resume, and separate proposals have already reentered the House. Instead of breathing a collective sigh of relief that Planned Parenthood has been allowed a brief continuance, we need to push even harder against new legislation — legislation that the media has begun to call a “war on women” because of its multifaceted and insidious attacks on women’s rights.

To put it simply, this fight will not be easy. The House has recently seen an influx of freshmen Republican representatives who are pushing forth bills touted as ideological warfare. These bills have raised criticisms from the media for attacking not only women, but also the poor, the young and blue-collar workers. These bills, if nothing else, are undeniably divisive.

Representative Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) introduced a bill (H.R. 358) that would allow hospitals the right to refuse to provide emergency abortions, even when necessary to save a woman’s life. Another bill (H.R. 3), introduced by Representative Chris Smith (R-N.J.), would make obtaining health insurance covering abortion nearly impossible in two ways. First, it would impose tax penalties on families and small businesses

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if their private insurance covers abortions, which pertains to 87 percent of existing insurance plans. It also stipulates that if an individual receives federal funding for health insurance, their policy cannot cover abortions. Bills such as these ones, stemming from an ideological extreme, serve to magnify party lines and strengthen the divides within Congress.

Outside of Washington, D.C., there has been a staggering wave of legislation attacking women’s reproductive rights. There are currently bills presented in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota that would decriminalize the murder of an abortion provider, equating it to justifiable homicide. In Georgia, a bill has been introduced that would require criminal investigations of all miscarriages to rule out “human involvement.” This bill makes “human involvement” in miscarriages a felony, punishable by life imprisonment or the death penalty.

If the legislation only aimed to reduce access to abortion that would be one thing, but, in fact, budget cuts in Congress and in state legislatures are focusing on cutting programs that aid lowincome women and families in general.

House Republicans aim to significantly cut funding for the Women, Infants and Children nutritional program, Head Start and maternal and prenatal health care.

Maryland significantly cut funding for preschool programs for low-income children.

In Georgia, legislation was introduced that would rename victims of stalking, domestic violence and sexual assault as “accusers” instead of “victims” in a court of law.

As David Bernstein of The Boston Phoenix

explains, the attempts at union-busting in Wisconsin have been focused on reducing the bargaining power for female-dominated professions such as nurses, teachers and social workers, while leaving police officers and firefighters unscathed.

These kinds of budget cuts are generally unpopular in the United States, and many Americans are calling for cuts in the homeland security and defense budgets instead of an extension of Bush-era taxcuts. Republicans are employing the tactic of introducing a high volume of controversial legislation simultaneously, making it difficult to draw public attention to every potentially harmful bill. We can’t let these kinds of budget cuts happen. While sacrifices need to be made in order to decrease the deficit, social service programs that benefit low-income women and families are not the programs that should lose funding.

In fact, these social service programs ultimately save taxpayers money. For every dollar invested in Title X, taxpayers save slightly less than four dollars.

Talk to your friends, call your senators and representatives, go to a protest, and send the message that you don’t support cutting funding that currently helps poor women and children. Check out Tufts VOX on Facebook for updates.

Isabel Hirsch is a senior majoring in women’s studies. She is the president of Tufts VOX. Rachel Erin Greenspan is a sophomore majoring in anthropology and peace and justice studies. She is the communications director of VOX.

Muammar the maniac

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hus far, 2011 has not been a good year to be the leader of a North African nation. January saw Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia for over 23 years, flee to Saudi Arabia after a 28-day popular uprising against him. In February it was Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who was forced to step down after 30 years of autocratic rule.

Libyan protestors took to the streets in the seaside city of Benghazi just days after Mubarak stepped down. The protests were initially triggered by the arrest of human rights activist Fethi Tarbel and soon escalated into a broader, anti-government movement against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya’s leader since 1969. Libya is located between Tunisia and Egypt, so there is no doubt that the people of Libya have drawn inspiration from the events that have taken place in neighboring countries and are continuing the domino effect that is making its way through the region.

Qaddafi reacted to the protests in the same way any ruthless dictator of over 40 years would: by resorting to violence.

During the early parts of the movement, the police and Qaddafi’s mercenaries broke up the protests. When it began to gain traction, Qaddafi allegedly flew in mercenaries from Chad to increase his numbers. People were reportedly offered large cash rewards and fancy cars to join Qaddafi’s fleet of thugs.

Sound familiar? If you’ve read my column before, it should. If you haven’t, you should (read my column that is). Shameless plugs aside though, these tactics are eerily similar to those that were employed by Mubarak before he stepped down on Feb. 11.

Though there are similarities between what happened in Egypt and what is happening now in Libya, there are also major differences.

In Qaddafi, it seems the world has been graced with someone even more stubborn and delusional than Mubarak, which didn’t seem possible six weeks ago. On Feb. 24, Qaddafi ludicrously claimed that the protests had been sparked by Osama bin Laden and Nescafe spiked with hallucinogenic drugs. He has alleged more recently that Western powers such as the United States, the United Kingdom and France are behind the protests, in an attempt to gain control of Libyan oil. Furthermore, despite the fact that discontent among the people was blatantly widespread by the end of February, Qaddafi on Feb. 28 proudly proclaimed to the BBC, “all my people love me.”

While much of what he says is highly amusing, the situation in Libya is anything but. Due to his refusal or inability to acknowledge reality and his insistence on reacting to the protests with violence, the situation has essentially dissolved into a civil war. Wednesday saw the rebel-controlled city of Ras Lanuf hit by air strikes from the Libyan government.

President Barack Obama on Feb. 26 called for Qaddafi to step down, and with continued violence, the reaction from the international community has been increasingly anti-Qaddafi. France on Thursday became the first nation to recognize the opposition leaders based in Benghazi as the country’s legitimate representatives. The international community has collectively been working towards imposing a no-fly zone above Libya, which would legally prohibit Qaddafi from using air strikes against his people.

Some have even discussed putting the international human rights doctrine of “responsibility to protect” into action, which would result in an internationally coordinated intervention within Libyan territory.

R2P, as it is known, was created to deal with situations precisely like this one and to avoid the repetition of previous failures of the international community to respond to genocide and crimes against humanity.

But for all the talk that is taking place, once again, little is being done. The time to act is now; there is little time to waste.

Ashish Malhotra is a senior majoring in international relations and political science. He can be reached at Ashish.Malhotra@tufts.edu.

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Derek: “Your drink looks like something that came out of my butt.”

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Kirwan’s six goals propel top-ranked Jumbos at home

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If Saturday was any indication, the men’s lacrosse team has no intention of relinquishing its No. 1 national ranking anytime soon.

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Junior attackman Sean Kirwan scored a game-high six goals and senior quadcaptain attackman D.J. Hessler tallied four assists for the Jumbos, who never trailed NESCAC rival Amherst and rolled over the visiting Lord Jeffs 13-9 on Bello Field in the season-opener.

Senior midfielder Matt Witko kicked off the scoring assault at 13:20 with an unassisted goal past Amherst freshman goalkeeper Greg Majno. Shortly after, senior quad-captain Alec Bialosky and sophomore Matt Callahan, both defensemen, forced a turnover off the Lord Jeffs’ counter-attack, allowing Hessler to put Tufts up 2-0.

At the end of the first quarter, the Jumbos led 5-1 on scores from three additional players: Kirwan, senior quadcaptain attackman Ryan Molloy and junior midfielder Kevin McCormick.

For Amherst, junior co-captain midfielder Evan Redwood fed a ball to see MEN’S LACROSSE, page 17

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Senior attackman DJ Hessler, left, had four assists in his season debut Saturday at Bello Field.

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Sophomore attackman Kerry Eaton, pictured above in a Feb. 26 scrimmage, had two goals in season-opening win over Amherst Saturday.

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Jumbos kick off season with defeat over Jeffs Aaron Leibowitz

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The women’s lacrosse team on Saturday made it clear that it has turned the page on the 2010 season, defeating Amherst 14-13 at WOMEN’S LACROSSE (1-0, 1-0 NESCAC) at Amherst, Mass., Saturday Tufts Amherst

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When you spend the vast majority of your four years of college eating, sleeping, training, traveling, playing and winning NESCAC and national championships with a team, you tend to grow fond of it.

Or so says Evan Crosby (LA ’10), a former defenseman on the men’s lacrosse team, who last fall took up a position as an assistant coach on the Amherst men’s lacrosse team. On Saturday, the Jumbos beat the Lord Jeffs, 13-9, in the two teams’ seasonopener, leaving Crosby in unfamiliar, bittersweet territory, or perhaps mostly bitter territory with just a touch of sweet.

Crosby was a major part of the Jumbos’ defense over the past four years, but when he found out about an open coaching position at Amherst, his passion for lacrosse outweighed — albeit ever so slightly — his allegiance to his former team.

“I had an interest in going to graduate school at UMass for sports management, so I reached out to [Amherst] coach [ Jon] Thompson,” he said. “I just asked him, ‘What’s your staff like right now?’ and at the time they had a second assistant position open, so I interviewed for it, and that’s how it came about.”

Crosby’s fiancee is also an assistant

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With 12:50 remaining in the second half and the game tied at 10, freshman attack-

man Gabby Horner scored one of her five goals to put No. 13 Tufts ahead for good.

Junior midfielder Steph Perez followed with her second goal just over a minute later, giving the Jumbos a two-goal advantage. The No. 17 Lord Jeffs pulled within one goal three times in the final sevenplus minutes, the last time coming from sophomore attackman Marta Randall’s game-high sixth goal with just under two minutes to go. But Tufts’ defense kept Randall and company in check as the clock wound down, and when the final horn sounded the Jumbos had squeaked out a narrow one-goal win.

“Our defense played really well together as a unit,” junior attackman Lara Kozin see WOMEN’S LACROSSE, page 19

For any freshman, it’s a difficult task to join a team with a lot of upperclassmen starters and immediately break into the lineup. With older, more experienced players ahead in the rotation, many freshmen end up waiting a season or two on the sideline until they have the skills and the awareness necessary to compete at the required level.

Freshman attackman Gabby Horner has followed the exact opposite route in the early stages of her Tufts career.

In Horner’s first collegiate start on Saturday against Amherst, coach Carol Rappoli’s faith in the youngster paid immediate dividends: Horner led the team with five goals, including the game-winner, en route to a thrilling 14-13 victory.

“It’s a great thing, because it shows we can pass the ball to anybody,” senior tri-captain goalkeeper Sara Bloom said. “We had a great contribution from everybody, and we know we have a bunch of players who can step up when they get it and score goals.”

Horner is just part of the strategy Rappoli is using to combat the loss of last year’s two leading goal-scorers, attackman Emily Johnson (LA ’10) and midfielder Jenna Abelli (E ’10), who together accounted for 41.8 percent of Tufts’ goals. But with Horner and junior attackmen Lara Kozin and Kelly Hyland netting nine goals between them versus the Lord Jeffs, the team seems well on their way to filling this void.

“It was nice to make such a great debut,” Horner said. “I just wanted to get off to a strong start to the year and five goals is a great way to begin.”

Horner showed a penchant not just for scoring goals, but also for scoring them at critical junctures in the game. With the game tied at 10 and time ticking down in the second half, the Allentown, N.J., native scored an unassisted goal, beating freshman Amherst goalie MC McClellan and giving Tufts a season-opening win.

“I know they beat us twice last year, so it was great to avenge our losses with the tight win,” Horner said. “But I really have to credit my goals to our defense, who got me the ball so many times and made it all possible.”

Of course, one game, especially the first game, is not always a good indicator of performance over the whole year. But by excelling against a rival like Amherst — which knocked Tufts out of the conference tournament last year — Horner proved that she has the skills to excel in the ultracompetitive NESCAC, which this year includes seven of the country’s top 20 teams.

“I do play only high attack, so I definitely plan on scoring more goals this season,” Horner said. “But even though I think I can score, I also want to continue to help the midfield and the rest of the team, and not just focus on goal-scoring.”

Horner credits her teammates, especially Hyland, Kozin and junior midfielders Casey Egan and Steph Perez, as well as sophomore attackman Kerry Eaton, for her quick learning curve.

“They’re the ones who have made the transition from high school to college lacrosse possible,” she said.

“They’ve given me tips at every practice. Without knowing the dynamics of the team, it would be almost impossible to score, so I owe a lot of it to my teammates.”

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Connor Rose and Jeff Marvel finish 10th and 12th nationally Despite hopes going into meet, both Jumbos just miss out on All-American status by

Lauren Flament Editorial Board

In their first appearance on the national stage, junior Connor Rose and sophomore Jeff Marvel both had their eyes set on All-American honors in the 800meter run this weekend at the Div. III NCAA Track and Field Championships.

But despite strong performances from both, the pair came up short.

Marvel entered the meet seeded seventh with his season best of 1:52.72, while Rose, who is also a senior staff writer for the Daily, was in ninth with 153.04. Among 12 athletes, however, Rose finished 10th and Marvel in dead last on Capital University’s track in Columbus, Ohio.

Rose ran in the first of two six-person preliminary heats on Friday evening.

Unfortunately for him, this heat proved to be much slower than the second, with only three athletes qualifying for the finals, while five qualifying times came from the other heat. In a sprint to the finish, Rose crossed the line as fifth in his heat at 1:54.99, just 0.75 seconds behind the leader, University of St. Thomas junior Mike Hutton with 1:54.24. The race was tight until the end, with the all six runners finishing within one second of each other.

The heat went out slowly and all six runners stayed in a close pack. While others runners wasted energy jumping around looking for position, Rose hung onto the back end, waiting to make his move. The race picked up its intensity with 400 meters to go, but the pack still did not separate with a lap left.

“With 200 to go I thought I was in a great spot and I was really confident in my finishing speed,” Rose said. “I thought I was going to go around everyone. Just because of my injury I found it

Courtesy of Scott Wilfert

Competing in his first national championship, sophomore Jeff Marvel finished 12th in the 800-meter run at NCAAs on Friday, accompanied in the race with a 10th place finish by teammate junior Connor Rose.

too difficult to sprint. … It hurt too much and I couldn’t use all my speed. Because of the nature of the heat it could have been just as likely that I could have gone right around everyone, but instead half a second makes a difference between qualifying and not.”

Rose has fought off an Achilles injury all season, and sat out the beginning of the indoor season. Though it did not stop him from running the national qualifying time and breaking the 19-year-old school record — along with Marvel — it stood in his way of making the finals this weekend.

Marvel was up next on track. Having the advantage of knowing what time they each needed to qualify, the second heat went out hard and ran a much more consistent race than the first. Right in the center of the pack with a lap to go, Marvel just didn’t have enough closing speed and fell back to last in his heat, finishing in 1:55.66. The front-runner clocked in at 1:52.87.

“It was a pretty steady-paced race until the last 200 meters when everyone started really kicking and trying to get a qualifying time,” Marvel said.

“There was really a tight pack and then a sprint to the finish. I thought I got out well and that I was in a good position with 150 left, but then I just ran out of gas at the end.”

Despite failing to make Saturday’s finals, neither athlete left Ohio disappointed with their season. Though coming home with All-American honors was the goal, being one of only 12 athletes competing at Nationals was enough of a victory for Marvel and Rose.

“Obviously it would have been great to make finals, but [if you look at] my race in isolation, I ran well, and that’s see MEN’S T & F, page 2

Women’s Track & Field

Nakiesha Jones earns fifth All-American honor in triple jump Meet mixed bag for Jumbos; valuable experience gained at NCAA Championships

by Steven Soroka

Daily Staff Writer

Junior Nakeisha Jones returned from the NCAA Division III Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships this weekend with her third consecutive All-American honors in the triple jump.

Jones was one of seven Jumbos, including two freshmen, to represent the women’s track and field team at NCAAs hosted by Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

Jones jumped a distance of 37-8 ½ for a sixth-place finish and her fifth All-American honor in the triple jump. She has now earned this award after every indoor and outdoor season of her collegiate career.

Williams sophomore Tanasia Hoffler took home the national title in the triple jump with a jump of 40-2.

“This was my third time doing it,” Jones said. “So I knew what to expect, it really was not anything new.”

Like many athletes on the team, however, Jones was not totally satisfied with her performance. She had previously come in fourth place at the 2009 NCAA Championships and second place in 2010 NCAA. “I went abroad last semester,” Jones said. “So this season was really about trying to get back into shape and eventually getting back to where I was. I didn’t accomplish that.”

It was a weekend of heartbreak and near wins for the track team. In particular, senior Amy Wilfert’s mile time of 5:00.85 was 0.49 seconds away from qualifying for finals.

Although Wilfert led the sec-

ond of two preliminary heats for much of the race on Friday, her competitors blew by her in a sprint to the finish. The times in the heat were spread by less than two seconds.

Wilfert returned to the track less than 2 1/2 hours later as the anchor leg of the Distance Medley Relay (DMR), which clocked a time of 12:16.93.

The relay’s ninth-place finish was just short of earning AllAmerican honors.

The foursome consisted of freshman Laura Peterson with a personal record in the 1200-meter leg, senior Kaylee Maykranz in the 400, freshman Jana Hieber in the 800 and Wilfert closing in the 1600.

Although the Jumbos will lose key seniors Wilfert and Maykranz to graduation, the team has a solid and young foundation for future success in the DMR. Racing in two events proved difficult for Wilfert, leaving the squad disappointed with its finish on Friday. The Jumbos have a history of success in the DMR at the national level, with national titles in 2009 and 2008 and a runner-up finish in 2007. Wilfert led off the relay with the 1200 leg when the squad took home the title in 2009.

Junior Heather Theiss, who cleared a height of 11-6 1/2 in the pole vault, was not able to hit her PR of 12-0 1/2 from last weekend at the ECAC Championships. Theiss’ jump earned a 14th-place finish. The pole vault was unusually competitive this year and Moravian College junior Abigail Schaffer set a Div. III Championship meet record of 13-8 1/4.

Junior Dayorsha Collins also competed this weekend, finishing 15th in the high jump with a height of 5-3 1/4. The title was taken home with a clearance of 5-7 3/4. Collins cleared 5-5 3/4 last outdoor season and earned AllAmerican honors in the event, which on Saturday would have been good for fourth place.

While some of the performances may have been disappointing, the team gained valuable experience in Ohio.

Travelling away from New England and competing against the top athletes in Div. III can be a difficult adjustment.

“We had a lot of first time girls,” Jones said. “There were a lot of nerves. It’s a new meet and everyone did well, considering. Now that everyone sees what the meet is like, they can return even stronger for the outdoor season and next year.”

Along with gains in competitive experience came a few lasting memories. Not often do the best athletes in the nation congregate in one place.

“The best part is the Thursday before the meet starts,” Collins said. “There is so much suspense and so much adrenaline. I liked just being in the gym and looking around at all of the competition.”

The NCAA Championships signal an end to the indoor season. Yet the Jumbos are already thinking about what lies ahead.

“I hope to be able to make it to outdoor nationals,” Jones said. “I want to be able to win it.”

Courtesy of Scott Wilfert

Freshman Laura Peterson led off the Distance Medley Relay this weekend at NCAAs, which narrowly missed All-American honors, finishing ninth among 10 teams.

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Evan Crosby (LA ’10), right, at a March 7, 2009 game, used to stifle Amherst offenses as a Tufts defenseman. Now he’s joined NESCAC rival Lord Jeffs as their newest assistant coach.

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coach on the women’s lacrosse team, which he noted as another reason to work for the Lord Jeffs.

In preparation for Saturday’s game, Crosby tried to use his knowledge of the Jumbos’ inner workings to help the Jeffs compete to the best of their abilities. It’s very possible that Crosby’s knowledge helped; Amherst kept a potent Tufts offense to 13 goals, leading to the Jumbos’ closest opening game since 2007.

“One of our main goals was to limit the transition opportunities because that’s where Tufts thrives,” Crosby said. “Did we execute it perfectly? No, but we have a very young team, and I think the guys did a great job against the number-one team in the nation.”

The Jumbos know, however, that as much as Crosby may have helped Amherst with his inside knowledge, it was probably more of his general skills and knowledge of the game that helped his defense succeed.

“Crosby is an absolute competi-

tor and I am sure he wanted nothing more than to beat us,” senior quadcaptain Ryan Molloy, an attackman, said. “He’s a great teammate who will always have your back and had a great season last year for us as a senior.”

Leading up to the contest, some of Crosby’s former teammates heckled him, but when game time rolled around, it was all business for both parties.

“Many of the teammates didn’t make it too easy on me, sending me text messages, letting me know they were going to bring their ‘A-game,’” Crosby said. “I had an incredible experience here at Tufts, and while I’m grateful for that, I’m a pretty competitive person by nature, so leading into the game I prepared myself as if I were a player, you know, for the Amherst side.”

“Obviously it was awkward walking onto the field when those guys were warming up,” he continued. “That was my practice field, my game field, so going through the motions on the opposite side of the field was definitely different.”

Crosby said that the Tufts lacrosse family is incredibly tight and that there was no hostility towards him as a coach for the opposing squad. But this may have had less to do with the eternal love between Tufts lacrosse players and more with the fact that the Jumbos were so entirely focused on winning the game that they weren’t thinking about Crosby on the other sideline.

“It was just another NESCAC game.

Honestly I didn’t even think of the fact that Evan was on the other sideline while the game was being played,” Molloy said. “Of course it makes for a more exciting storyline to the game, but in actuality it was just another game which we approached the same as any.”

For now, Crosby’s competitiveness requires that his allegiance lie with the Lord Jeffs. And, thankfully, his current team’s game against his former team came in the season-opener — if it happened to be at the end of the season for a NESCAC title, his emotions might really have been befuddled.

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sophomore midfielder Ramsey Bates for the Jeffs’ lone score of the period.

“The biggest thing was that Tufts was the first team we’ve seen that actually stretched out on us,” Redwood said. “I can’t really speak to how their youngness played into that, but I know they definitely came out at us and that was difficult.”

In the second period, Amherst struck quickly, netting back-to-back scores in a 14-second span. Kirwan and Witko each scored twice more, however, and McCormick converted on an extra-man opportunity, while Redwood tacked on another assist and a goal of his own in a four-score quarter for the Jeffs, narrowing the Tufts lead to 10-5 at halftime.

The second half was significantly lower-scoring, as Amherst opened the third quarter with goals by Bates and junior attackman Cole Cherney, before Kirwan notched Tufts’ lone third-quarter tally to make the score 11-7.

Kirwan continued his scoring assault in the fourth quarter, finding the net twice in the first three minutes off feeds from Hessler and Witko, bumping the Jumbos’ lead to six goals.

The Jeffs, however, had the last say in their losing effort. With eight minutes remaining, freshman attackman Devin Acton, scored his second goal

of the game on a feed from junior midfielder Alex Fox, while classmate midfielder Aaron Mathias recorded a score with 12 seconds remaining.

Despite defensive lapses, including the one that gave Mathias his second goal at the end of regulation, the young Tufts defense proved in the season-opener that it can pressure the ball and shut down skilled attackers.

Fox and Redwood, who last year led the Lord Jeffs in scoring, were held yesterday to a total of one goal and three assists.

Sophomore defenseman Sam Gardner came up with five ground balls, while Callahan and John Heard, also a sophomore defenseman, had big games as well. Junior goalkeeper Steven Foglietta recorded 12 saves on the day.

“The Tufts style of play is a lot of fun,” said Callahan, who transferred in from Div. I Fairfield. “We like pushing it a lot and a couple of the goals we gave up were just little mistakes.

“We didn’t go out with any matchups, we just focused on sliding and reporting,” he added. “Our defense is really young. There are a lot of sophomores. Sam Diss and [junior] Will Duryea are both defensive middies, and played really well. Once they have some good experience they’re just going to get better.”

The breadth of Tufts’ scoring threats extended well beyond the dynamic duo

of Molloy and Hessler. While Kirwan dominated the stat sheet on Saturday, five Jumbos scored, and seven of Tufts’ 13 scores were assisted. Witko finished the day with three goals and two assists, while McCormick also notched two scores for the Jumbos.

“We have a lot of weapons when we have our guys out there,” Kirwan said.

“Without a doubt, anybody that we put on the field has the opportunity to put the ball in the net and it just goes to show you how good our team is.”

The Tufts midfield dominated control of the ball, giving its attackmen countless opportunities to score.

Junior faceoff specialist Nick Rhoads picked up 15 of 25 faceoffs, and led Tufts with seven ground balls. The Jumbos, who converted on 20 of 29 clears, demonstrated their ability to transition quickly, a talent that left Amherst defenders unprepared and unorganized.

“The first quarter they kind of took it to us real quick with that run-andgun, but after that we kind of slowed them down. That was our goal on offense, to slow them down and get our looks,” Redwood said.

By outscoring the Jumbos 4-3 in the second half, the Lord Jeffs demonstrated that they are a resilient unit that will not give up easily in close games. But Tufts never lost control of this contest, nor its tight grip on the top spot in the rankings.

ere at Rules of the Game, we aren’t limited to simply analyzing rules.

We can also create some of our own. So for the first time in Rules of the Game history, I am adding a rule to sports fandom: At the end of March Madness, it is mandatory that you stick around to listen to “One Shining Moment.”

There is little argument that March is the best month on the sporting calendar. No other sporting event in the world has the drama and ecstasy of the NCAA Tournament.

The sports world loves being corny.

There are the epic monologues — all of which I am convinced are read by James Earl Jones — that stations run before big games. There are the Disney World commercials and the ceremonial coin flips, puck drops and first pitches.

But nothing compares to “One Shining Moment.”

“One Shining Moment” is a song written by David Barrett and sung by a variety of people. From the time that I’ve been old enough to appreciate it, it was always sung by Luther Vandross, who passed away not long after recording it. CBS plays it at the very end of their broadcast of the NCAA Championship Game, after the nets have been cut down and much of the country has gone to sleep. But staying up is worth the lack-of-sleep hangover the following morning.

As the music starts, the accompanying video collage starts out with some shots of the crowds, the bands and the cheerleaders. Then once the lyrics begin, the video goes along with it: “The ball is tipped, you’re running for your life, you’re a shooting star.”

The song is such an emotional roller coaster that my girlfriend compares me watching it to a teenage girl at a Justin Bieber concert. When it peaks, players are jumping and celebrating; when it hits its lows, tears and heartbreak are instead on display. Most importantly, when the instrumental solo comes up, it means only one thing: buzzer-beater time. You get to see the big shots from the tournament and the live calls that accompanied them.

Finally, the last part of the song is dedicated to the game that ended just an hour earlier, and as the final “One Shining Moment” is sung, the winning team is shown in celebration, forever enshrined in history.

Now, I may be for a sucker for nostalgia, but I’m not sure I have ever made it through the song dry-eyed. The song condenses the greatest month of sports into four minutes, and the result is perfection. I may sound like a groupie for a boy band, but you have to trust me on this one.

Perhaps what makes it so special is that you only get it once a year. It is not uncommon for me to await it more than the game come Championship Monday (let’s be honest, the best days of the Tournament happen weeks before the final).

Yet this past year, CBS did its best to ruin the integrity of the enterprise. The network replaced Vandross with Jennifer Hudson, a corny sports moment equivalent of giving Snooki the lead role in a remake of “Titanic” (1997). To top it off, the station kept showing video of her singing during it, leaving even less time for highlights.

I can only hope that CBS doesn’t make the same mistake this year, as I’m not sure I could take that two years in a row.

If you are already a March Madness fanatic, I implore you to give “One Shining Moment” a chance. If you are less into the tournament, then just wait for the montage, and maybe it will convince you to watch it in its entirety next year. You may be up an extra hour, but for that one (shining) moment, it’s all worthwhile.

Ethan Sturm is a sophomore majoring in biopsychology. He can be reached at ethan. sturm@gmail.com.

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technically my second-fastest time ever, even though it went out slow,” Rose said.

“It’s nice to know that I have the strength to compete and try to qualify for finals at nationals. I just wasn’t healthy enough to do it, which is frustrating, but I am not too worried about things that are out of my control.”

“This was my first time at nationals, so I obviously I was happy to just be there, and I think I would have been happy with anything I did,” Marvel said. “I’m

still a sophomore, so I have plenty of time to go back to nationals and be able to do it again with more experience and maybe have a better result.”

And the pair will come away from this weekend knowing what to expect and how to better prepare in future races of this scale.

“It was definitely a learning experience,” Marvel said. “The whole procedure is different that any other meet I’ve been to, so it really helps to have seen that so I can be comfortable with that going into it next time. Just being there

once will definitely take the pressure off for next time.”

The top two finishers from each heat combined with the four next-best times for the finals of the race on Saturday.

This proved to be a much faster race.

The pack again remained tight, but an exciting sprint down the home stretch gave Amherst junior Ben Scheetz the title in a time of 1:51.26. Scheetz passed Wabash College junior Jake Waterman within the last five meters, beating him by just 0.06 seconds.

“At a lot of championship meets, the

race gets out a little slower, but [the finals] got out at a decent pace,” Marvel said. “It was really tight bunch for a lot of the race and then with two laps to go, it really started spreading out as people started kicking to the finish and then it came down to a sprint to the finish for a few guys, so it was a really exciting race to watch.”

This weekend wrapped up the season for Marvel and Rose, but the pair will shift their sights to the outdoor season, which will kick off with the Snowflake Classic hosted by the Jumbos on April 2.

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said. “They communicated, our transitions were really effective and on attack we were really dynamic. Everyone on the field contributed to every goal, every ground ball — we were just really intense the entire game.”

Horner’s five goals led the Jumbos, whose balance on the attacking side of the ball was the key to securing a victory. Kozin and junior attackman Kelly Hyland had two goals and two assists apiece, sophomore attackman Kerry Eaton had two goals and Perez added an assist to her pair of goals.

In addition to Randall’s six

goals, senior attackman Kelley Trapp had four assists for the Lord Jeffs, while freshman goalie MC McClellan made eight saves but was tagged with the loss.

Tufts’ zone defense was successful in its first test without senior tricaptain defenseman Lily Colahan, who was sidelined after fracturing her hand in a scrimmage against Stonehill. Colahan plays the vital “roamer” position in the zone — responsible for picking up offensive cutters — and on Saturday coach Carol Rappoli considered using a man-to-man defense. But she instead chose to stick with the zone, and junior Maggie Casey and senior tri-captain Yael Tzipori proved that they were more than

capable of the “roamer” duties on defense.

“We sometimes practice in a man so that [our offense knows] what to expect in games, and we were doing it really well, so our coach told us that if our zone wasn’t working out in the game she would maybe have us switch,” junior defenseman Katie Lotz said. “But because we played so well in our zone we didn’t end up switching, which was awesome.”

The two teams were evenly matched, trading goals throughout much of the afternoon. Trapp opened the scoring and the Lord Jeffs held their only lead of the day for the next two-and-a-half minutes. The Jumbos stormed

back with three goals in just over two minutes, the only three-goal streak all afternoon. The squads swapped goals for the rest of the half and Kozin scored with under a minute left to give Tufts a 7-5 lead at halftime.

Amherst managed to tie the game at nine, midway through the second period on consecutive goals from junior defenseman Meredith LaRose and Randall. After Kozin’s second goal put Tufts ahead, Randall again knotted the score before Horner put home what would prove to be the game-winner.

The Jumbos won despite shooting at a less-efficient rate than the Lord Jeffs: Tufts took 25 shots while

Amherst took just 16 and scored on 81 percent of its attempts.

While any NESCAC victory is significant, this one was crucial for the Jumbos, who have the big picture in mind. Tufts will try to avenge another 2010 loss on Friday as they head to Colby for the second of four straight road games.

“One of our team goals for the season is to avenge our losses from last season, so beating Amherst in that sense was a big deal,” Lotz said. “Just the fact that we were able to win our first game against a good team is really important for our mentality and how far we can go in the NESCACs.”

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