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Executive Director for the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) Lois Gibbs and Stephen Lester, Science Director of the CHEJ, yesterday spoke to Tufts students, professors and alumni in Eaton Hall during open block about their experiences with environmental activism and the media.

The Communications and Media Studies program (CMS) and the Environmental Studies Program collaborated with the Director of the Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) and University Archivist Anne Sauer to coordinate the lecture on the same day as the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the procurement of the CHEJ’s donation of Gibbs’ and Lester’s papers and technical files to the Tufts DCA, according to Director of Environmental Studies and Professor Colin Orians. see ENVIRONMENT, page 2

Monaco chairs new Council on Diversity

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University President Anthony Monaco last Wednesday announced the creation of a new Council on Diversity at Tufts consisting of students, staff and faculty representatives from each of Tufts’ three campuses.

The council held its first meeting on Feb. 29 in Alumnae Hall, where it discussed the questions it would like to see addressed on the Hill.

The council’s goal is to produce a proposal by the end of the year that will recommend to the administration how to best address diversity issues at Tufts.

The council, which is chaired by Monaco, also considered past diversity initiatives at the university, Monaco told the Daily.

“We kind of touched on what’s been done before and what we are going to do now, and what are the big questions,” Monaco said.

The council is comprised of three working groups. The first will focus on administrative policies, faculty, staff issues and community engagement issues. The other two will focus separately on the undergraduate experience and on the graduate and profes-

Tufts student to appear on Jeopardy tonight Patrick Antle, a chemistry graduate student at Tufts, will appear as a contestant on tonight’s episode of the television quiz show Jeopardy.

After taking a preliminary online test of 50 eight-second questions last year, Antle was selected to audition in Boston four weeks later. Over the following four weeks, he studied every trivia book he could find, creating hundreds of flashcards covering decades’ worth of cultural, historical, literary and religious information.

During his four-day Boston audition, Patrick competed against forty other trivia fanatics per day for a spot on the show.

“When the test was going on — the 50 questions — you could hear a pin drop in that room,” he said. “It was serious.”

Following the written test, Patrick completed a mock game with other contestants and a personality interview. Six weeks later, Patrick was selected to fly to Los Angeles to compete on the show on November 30.

Prior to auditioning, Antle played trivia at pub nights. His high school friend recommended he audition for the show, and after some consideration he decided the audition would at least provide for a funny story, if not an opportunity to learn from the experience and try again later.

When asked about his decision to apply last summer, Patrick admitted that he is “kind of good at trivia.”

In seventh grade, he won his school’s geography bee and was interviewed for the local paper.

“I ended up just talking about Jeopardy, and half the article was about Jeopardy,” he said. “It made it sound like I was some obsessed Jeopardy fan. The reporter predicted I would end up on the show.”

Antle described his training expe-

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The Council on Diversity, chaired by University President Anthony Monaco, held its first meeting on Feb. 29. The council is divided into three working groups: one for administrative and community engagement policies, one for undergraduate-level issues and one for graduate-level issues. sional school experience, according to Monaco.

Each working group will meet more frequently than the larger council and

will work to address diversity issues among its own constituency, according see DIVERSITY, page 2

Students nominate faculty for new technology awards

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Students from all Tufts campuses from March 1 to March 17 can nominate teachers that display innovative use of technology for the first ever 2012 Teaching with Technology Awards.

The awards are part of the Teaching with Technology Symposium to be held on May 23 and 24 at 55 Winthrop Street, Sheryl Barnes, assistant director of Educational & Scholarly Technology

Services (ESTS) client services for University Information Technology (UIT), said.

The idea for the awards has been under discussion by the ESTS division of UIT for years, UIT’s Senior Faculty Development Consultant Rebecca Sholes said in an email.

“It was only in the last year that we realized that the timing was right for the program and that we had the resources see AWARDS, page 2

Tufts Mock Trial to go to nationals courtesy patrick antle

rience like that of a Rocky training montage. Every day after work he would study until one or two in the morning, and then wake up at 6 a.m. the next day to return to the lab. He estimates he created three or four thousand flashcards in preparation — “enough to kill a tree,” he said.

Using the Jeopardy archive and online forums, he searched for the key words and phrases frequently given in each clue. He explained that, while there is an entire subculture dedicated to analyzing the game, it ultimately comes down to knowing the information within a fraction of a second.

“If I see it, it just sticks,” he said.

“You just have to have the sharpest memory of anyone you know.”

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Tufts Mock Trial spent this past weekend at the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) in White Plains, N.Y., where the Tufts A team qualified for nationals.

Tufts A team and Tufts B team competed in the tournament with 26 other teams who qualified during regional tournaments scattered along the East Coast, according to sophomore Brian Pilchik, Officer of External Affairs for the team.

The top six teams from the weekend’s competition will advance to nationals, which will be held in Minneapolis, Minn., in April, according to Pilchik.

Freshman Elisabeth Constantino won the highest-scoring Outstanding Witness Award in the competition, and Senior Nicholas LoCastro won both an Outstanding Witness Award and an Outstanding Attorney Award, which tied for the highest-scoring Outstanding Attorney Award given in the competition, Pilchik said.

Tufts A team and Tufts B team attained the same final record of 5-3, but the two teams received different Combined Strength (CS) values, which are indicators of the difficulty level of a team’s opponents, Pilchik said. Tufts A team received a higher CS value than Tufts

B Team, and Tufts A team thus qualified for nationals. Although Tufts B team did not receive a bid, the team earned seventh place in the tournament. The two Tufts teams had the highest CS values among the top teams at the tournament, according to Pilchik.

The six teams moving on to nationals from the East Coast are — in order of their finish — Columbia University, New York University, Brown University, Wellesley College, University of New Hampshire and Tufts.

The scores for this weekend’s tournament are as following: Tufts A Team Overall: 5-3 1-1 vs. Brandeis University 1-1 vs. New York University 2-0 vs. New York University 1-1 vs. Yale University Tufts B Team Overall: 5-3 2-0 vs. Brown University 1-1 vs. United States Air Force Academy 0-2 vs. New York University 2-0 vs. Iona College —by Patrick McGrath

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The Interfaith Social Action group is focusing on the LBGT rights movement this spring.

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Orians introduced Gibbs and Lester for the first collaborative effort with the CMS department, built around the theme of environmental activism and media. Orians explained the importance of and impact the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York had on increasing environmental awareness of the idea that companies pollute and are not held accountable.

“The fact that [companies] can build schools on top of waste dumps is just not fathomable,” he said. “It’s really the efforts of [Gibbs and Lester] fighting through incredible resistance to get the national awareness that this is not acceptable and we need to do something about it.”

The movement at Love Canal, which was spearheaded

by Gibbs, led to United States legislation, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, commonly known as Superfund, according to Orians. He noted that there are Superfund sites around the country, including one in Woburn, Mass., that are dedicated to cleaning up places contaminated with hazardous substances.

Gibbs talked about how the leaders of the movement communicated with locals and the media to tell the story of families affected by health complications from the toxic waste under their homes, schools and offices.

Love Canal activists began their campaign by targeting local media outlets with human-interest stories to publicize and generate awareness of the 56 percent of children born in Love Canal between 1974 and 1978 that had one or more birth defects or of the four normally-developed babies that were born out of the 22 pregnant women of Love Canal between January 1979

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Tufts’ Digital Collections and Archives, located in Tisch Library, recently procured the papers and technical files of environmental activists Lois Gibbs and Stephen Lester. Gibbs and Lester yesterday gave a lecture in Eaton Hall about the intersection between environmental activism and the media. and February 1980, according to Gibbs.

In each article, the activists referenced former New York Governor Hugh Carey, who was running for re-election, to gain public support. They also handed out flyers in front of Carey’s $1,000-per-plate dinner, Gibbs said.

“On one side of our flyer we wrote about the 56 percent birth defect thing and on the other side we talked about how we were going to hurt his campaign — how we were going to talk about how he doesn’t really care about the citizens of New York or what he’s doing to the good families of Love Canal,” she said.

“We handed [the flyers] out as people were going in and the media just loved it. The

media loved it because it was an opportunity to tell a story that was different.”

Gibbs and her followers’ strong efforts led to Carey opening his $1,000-per-plate dinner with his plan for taking care of the Love Canal neighborhood.

“It was a matter of really framing our issues to the audience that we were addressing and moving that frame forward strategically to win the Love Canal,” she said.

Gibbs is excited for the archives to be located at Tufts.

She said all of her personal notes as well as formal letters from the movement will be stored in an open collection held on Level G of Tisch Library. She noted that the majority of the work in the collection is from women, who

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to make it happen,” Sholes said.

To submit a nomination, students must complete an online form that asks them which school and course the instructor being nominated is involved in and why and how the instructor should be selected for the award.

UIT kept the nominating process simple to encourage as many nominations as possible, according to Director of Educational and Scholarly Technology Services Gina Siesing.

Student nominators also had their names entered in a raffle for a $100 Amazon.com gift card.

“Right now we have received nominations from all of the schools at Tufts so we’re really excited about that,” Barnes said.

There are also no specific requirements regarding technology use that nominees must meet, Siesing said.

“The term ‘technology’ really refers to any tool that an instructor is using in a course to support their teaching and enhance their students’ learning,” Sholes said.

Nominations can be based on instructors’ use of tools like smartboards, i-Clickers, YouTube videos and films, in addition to learning management systems like Trunk and the Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase, Sholes said.

“The list could go on and on,” she said.

The nominations are also not for any

specific award categories, Barnes said.

“We decided to keep it relatively open-ended, so we’d have the flexibility to respond to whatever we got back in terms of nominations,” she said.

Four to six winners are going to be selected by a committee comprised of faculty and students from all three campuses, Barnes said.

“We are now in the process of forming the committee and will be choosing people who play an important role in supporting teaching and learning across the university,” Sholes said.

The judging criteria the committee will use are still being determined, Sholes said.

“We are hoping to have winners that represent the range of ways in which technology is being used to support student learning both inside and outside the classroom,” Sholes said.

“We’re going to look at them all in detail and try to come up with a fair set of criteria,” Barnes added.

The Teaching with Technology Symposium is a re-work of a small, intensive three-day event that was called the Summer Institute, Barnes said.

“The new Symposium is really a much bigger two-day conference open to anybody who wants to come,” she said.

Whereas the summer program consisted of about 15 pre-selected faculty members, Siesing said she anticipates the Symposium getting between 75 and 100 attendees.

primarily led the movement at Love Canal.

Recently, Gibbs and her team went after Intimate Brands, Inc., which made its bottles using polyvinyl chloride (PVC). They created flyers about Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works products that used Intimate Brands, Inc. bottles and targeted students to advocate against the company. Intimate Brands, Inc. received over 4,000 emails from students and immediately decided to discontinue the use of PVC products, Gibbs said.

“We asked students to get involved in this and they loved it — because it was ‘Victoria’s Dirty Little Secret,’” she said.

“In less than 30 days [Intimate Brands, Inc.] sat down with us in D.C. and said ‘we surrender.’”

Gibbs said Intimate Brands, Inc. moved so quickly on this idea because young people were involved: people between the ages of 17 and 25.

“The power of young people in corporate America is pretty powerful because all of their marketplace preferences of shampoo and body products and linens and whatever [are] developed between 17 and 25,” she said.

Lester said the CHEJ began focusing on grass-roots campaigns by word of mouth rather than advertising.

“Organizing was always the strength of what we did,” he said. “We help groups get started with organization and define their goals and how to involve the community and who to talk to.”

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to Program Manager for the Center for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Diversity Travis Brown.

The council will review past diversity initiatives the university has undertaken, including a 1997 report from the Task Force on Race and recent reports by the Equal Education Opportunity Council of Arts, Sciences and Engineering, all of which Monaco called “very thoughtful documents.” Additionally, members of the council mentioned recent faculty recruitment and retention rates as an area the council might address.

The council at its first meeting considered diversity at Tufts across the undergraduate, graduate, faculty and staff populations.

“We basically went around the room and asked people what did they think about these questions, what was their experience in the school or what they wanted to bring to the committee, and also what questions hadn’t we asked,” Monaco said. “It was very good input, things I hadn’t thought of.”

Council member and Associate Director of Career Services at the Fletcher School Branden Grimmett further explained the goals of the council.

“Each committee will be looking at the constituents, finding ways to support current diversity initiatives, and to look for ways to increase areas where there may be a greater need,” he said.

The committees will also involve

people outside of the official council, including representatives from the offices of student life, staff life and faculty life, according to Grimmett.

A faculty member nominated council member and sophomore Corey Mason for the group. His role is as a student representative on the undergraduate committee.

“I’m hoping to give my input as an engineer and as a student coming from a low income background,” Mason said.

The undergraduate working group’s goal is to help produce the proposal that the diversity council will submit to the administration, according to Mason.

In the coming months, the working groups will hold meetings and prepare recommendations for the next full council meeting, Monaco said. “[I’m] really looking forward now to setting up the working groups, and we kind of brought up things that we’d like to set on the agenda for the next meeting,” Monaco said. “In the meantime, [before] our next meeting, we hope that these three working groups will start to be formulated and meet to take on the tasks of those three separate areas.”

Brown said he hopes the council will create diversity and change at the university.

“I’m hoping that we’ll come up with some things that will create some real change on campus and make this a place where everybody feels like they’re a Jumbo and not that they just happen to go to school at Tufts,” he said.

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The Interfaith Social Action group received official recognition from the TCU Senate last semester.

Interfaith Social Action group fosters cooperative efforts on the Hill

A student group is taking Tufts’ commitment to active citizenship and diversity and combining them with a religious spin.

The Interfaith Social Action group (ISA), which was officially recognized as a Tufts Community Union group last semester, is made up of students committed to social action through their religious beliefs.

“The goal of Interfaith Social Action is to bring people of various faiths together for the shared purpose of social action because they are motivated by their faiths to do so,” sophomore Jordan Dashow, ISA’s team coordinator, said.

“The thought is that community service is a central belief in most of the major religions, and so the idea of our group is that you can foster interfaith dialogue and general dialogue about issues on campus by inspiring people through their faith to do work,” sophomore Megan Berkowitz, ISA’s external outreach coordinator, said. “We don’t require that people have faith to be a part of it, but the idea is that it’s a motivating factor for a lot of people.”

Rachael Pettengill, the Protestant chaplain at Tufts, proposed the idea of ISA last year.

“One of the things that I wanted to do was to form an interfaith group around social justice issues, and I began to meet with a lot of students interested in doing justice work through their faith,” she said.

Pettengill explained that she was more involved with the group last year, but has since stepped back as the organization has found its legs.

“Right now, I’m just serving as their advisor,” she said. “When I first came in, I was interested in bringing the group together.

I used to attend a lot of the meetings, and taught them leadership skills like how to network, how to have one-on-ones, how to plan campaigns, etc., and they really began to catch on. I’ve started to step back and empower them to own the group, and I’ve been really impressed with the work they have been doing.”

The ISA members’ diverse religious backgrounds lead to a variety of reasons for participation.

“Coming from a strong Jewish background, the importance of ‘tikkun olam,’ which literally means ‘repairing the world,’ has always been stressed to me from an early age,” Dashow said. “Social justice was emphasized both by my parents and my Jewish day school, and was part of what attracted me to Tufts. I see ISA as combining my passion for active citizenship and my passion for Judaism.”

Berkowitz explained that her background has also been a driving force in regard to her passion for social justice work.

“I come from an interfaith family, and so coming from that kind of background, it was always kind of a no-brainer to me that people of different faiths could get along and talk about their beliefs and morals,” Berkowitz said. “When I came to Tufts and had some experience with the religious organizations on campus, I noticed that

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people got so wrapped up in their own group and didn’t always reach out to other groups. I think that there’s a lot that people can learn from other religions and people of other religions, and the idea that people can do great work while fostering connections with people of other religions was really important to me.”

Sophomore Megan Clark, the ISA’s internal outreach coordinator, joined the group because of her commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, the ISA’s area of concentration this year.

“I really like the idea of action motivated by faith, and initially, what attracted me was specifically the LGBT rights focus, because I particularly care about LGBT rights because of my faith,” she said. “Often faith, especially if you are a Christian, is perceived to work against LGBT rights, and I wanted to work for them.”

Each year, ISA plans to focus on one social justice theme, and this year, the group found that it was most passionate about LGBT rights.

“Basically, every year we choose a social justice theme, and we start each semester off with an education panel to educate and motivate Tufts students to take action,” Dashow said. “From there, we work with organizations in the greater Boston area to do service. At the end of last year, we brainstormed a lot of different topics, and one that we had the most members excited about was LGBT rights.”

Last semester, ISA decided to focus more specifically on transgender rights.

“We had an education panel in October that explored the current state of trans rights in the state and the country, as well as the intersection of gender identity and spirituality,” Dashow said.

“We had three panelists who identified as transgender or genderqueer, and two cisgender panelists who spoke as allies to the trans community,” Berkowitz said. “After the panel, we went to MassEquality, an organization that advocates for the rights of queer and trans people, and did some phone banking with them before the Transgender Equal Rights Bill was slated to come before the legislation.”

The group also attended the Transgender Day of Remembrance in Boston last November.

Although ISA is not motivated by politics, Clark said, they are seeking to make real change.

“We’re not a political group by any means,” she said. “We have the education component, the service project component, and since we would like to effect real change, we did go through a political angle for transgender rights.”

This semester, continuing their commitment to LGBT issues, ISA is focusing on homelessness among queer youth.

According to the Center for American Progress, while only about five to 10 percent of the overall youth population is gay or transgender, they account for an estimated 20 to 40 percent of the homeless youth population.

“April is our month of action, and we are going to kick it off with an education

panel about homelessness among queer youth,” Dashow said. “From there we are gong to be doing several community service activities with organizations that specifically work with queer youth, and some kinds of mentoring or general outreach with queer youth.”

ISA has a small core group, with a six member executive board, and attendance varies by event. According to Clark, there are about 30 people on ISA’s email list.

When looking to the future, Pettengill and the members of ISA expressed their desire for the group to attract new members and continue to expand.

“One thing I’m hoping is that we can get more people, and have a healthy rotation within the leadership of the group,” Pettengill said. “I hope they can build something that is really sustainable so that future classes can benefit from it.”

Dashow agreed that building up the group’s membership is a priority.

“We want to see an expansion of the executive board as well as growth and strengthening of our interfaith community,” he said.

“We would like the ISA to form a name and reputation on campus for other religious organizations seeking to do action, not only as a place for service inspired by faith.”

Berkowitz added that further integration between the other religious groups on campus is another of ISA’s aims.

“One of the main goals of ISA was to be a resource for the major religious groups on campus, where we could have contacts with organizations, and they would tap into our resources to create sustained service,” Berkowitz said. “Because the group has only been a recognized club since the fall, we haven’t quite hit that resource network yet, but that’s one of the end goals.”

Although ISA is a very young group, members say the reception from the Tufts community has been welcoming.

“The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. It’s hard to gauge response because we don’t have weekly meetings, and we don’t have a core membership because our events are spaced out, but if people are coming back it means they are interested,” Berkovitz said.

Pettengill said she is impressed with what ISA has done, and is pleased with where the participants have taken the group from her initial idea.

“The students that do this work have amazing hearts, and it’s really beautiful to seem them really work together and cooperate. They are really passionate about the justice work that they are doing, and it’s wonderful to see them grow,” she said.

The members of ISA are also satisfied with their work thus far, and are looking forward to further action.

“It really has been pretty amazing, and we want to expand to bring more people together and create a more vibrant interfaith community,” Clark said. “We would like to come up with plans of action and issues that focus on what people are passionate about. We know we are only a tiny piece of the Medford/Somerville community, but it’s incredibly exciting to be part of creating change.”

s spring break approaches, many college students are dreading spending yet another session in front of their relatives’ computers, installing printers and explaining that if you double-click too slowly, it’s not really a double-click anymore. However, few Generation Y’ers realize that many of the terms and strategies we attempt to teach others are lies.

The simplest example is the desktop.

The desktop is in fact a folder, just like any other, which you can open and change. The only difference is that the contents of this folder are also shown on what we would call the “desktop.”

But what even is a folder? To explain this, think of your hard drive as a recordable record (as in LP). It really does have a head inside reading and writing onto spinning disks. Now imagine you want to add something to your My Documents folder. The only problem is, your hard drive is nearly full, and there’s no space next to your other documents.

The simple solution is to put the new document somewhere else and leave a note, “If you’re looking for Captured Pokemon.doc, look over there.”

Your hard drive basically does this to an extreme, so that a folder is in reality nothing more than a list of these notes.

In the end, your hard drive has 2 parts: a list of notes where everything is, and the actual data. And the part with the data is messy. Like more messy than my room after searching for my lost debit card (true story, but I already cancelled it, don’t get your hopes up).

To keep things moving quickly, files even get split into parts, such that your note on where to find “Socks.doc” says that your left sock is in the drawer and your right sock is under the bed.

For those of you who have ever had to defragment (“defrag”) your computer, that’s just putting all of the file back together again.

And that leads me to the lesson for today’s column: there are no different types of data. In the end of the day, it’s all ones and zeros on your hard drive and whether or not you’re looking at the number 89 or the letter Y is simply a matter of interpretation. All most of your programs do is interpret this data.

To make sure that people always knew which program to open a file with, early computer users came up with the idea of extensions, like .doc and .mp3. Originally, this was just a way of telling whoever received the file, “When you get this, make sure to open it with your music player.”

Pretty quickly, people realized that the operating system could just keep a list, associating all of these extensions with programs to open the files with. In fact, this list is still editable by you and by programs, which is the reason why you can download VLC and it will make all your music open up in VLC. The fun part is that you can trick this system. (Some newer Windows versions hide file extensions by default, but there’s a setting to make them visible again if you want to join in on this part.) You can simply change any extension to anything else. Of course, most programs can’t do anything with this seemingly random data, but Notepad or TextEdit can if you make it a .txt. For instance, take any picture and change it from .jpg to .txt. With a little bit of snooping, you’ll find out how your computer knows when you took the picture and what camera you used to do it.

Ben Schwalb is a member of the class of 2012 who majored in computer science.

He can be reached at Benjamin.Schwalb@ tufts.edu.

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CHAPLAIN SPEAK-OUT

Reverend Patricia Budd Kepler University Chaplain ad Interim

Naila Baloch Muslim Chaplain

Rabbi Debra Blank Lynn Cooper Jewish Chaplain ad Interim Catholic Chaplain

Rachael Pettengill Protestant Chaplain

RELIGION AND MORAL COURAGE SPRING 2012

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March 14, 2012 - 7:30 PM LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED Cosponsored by the Office of the University Chaplain, the Fletcher School, and The International Center Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 – (617) 627-3427 Website: www.tufts.edu/chaplaincy

Wendell Phillips Award Finalists Presentations Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:00 pm 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: Given the state of the economy and rising college tuition costs, do you believe your liberal arts education is more or less valuable than it was ten years ago?

Give examples to support your answer

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The finalists for the 2012 Wendell Phillips Award are: ~ Allister Chang Katie Greenman Sadie Lansdale Erin Nicolle

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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Swinton delivers gut-wrenching performance in ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ by

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Few directors have the gall and poise to candidly address as morbid a theme as school massacres. Director

We Need to Talk About Kevin Starring Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, John C. Reilly Directed by Lynne Ramsay Lynne Ramsay tackles that exact subject with extreme darkness and artful composition in her latest film, “We Need to Talk About Kevin.”

Ramsay’s work is far from delicate in its development of the harrowing relationship between Eva Khatchadourian ( Tilda Swinton) and her first-born child, Kevin (depicted by several young actors, most notably Ezra Miller). The gravity of this sinister, Oedipal connection drives the story, and Ramsay maintains a seamless continuity despite the flood of flashbacks. Through the parallel developments of plotlines from different stages in Eva’s life, the film is simultaneously muddled and transparent, as the sense of impending doom is always present.

The work chronicles Eva’s life from the original courtship by her husband, Franklin (John C. Reilly), to her struggles as a scorned mother and her eventual hatred and fear of her own son.

Ultimately, the film follows the storyline after Kevin carries out massacre, depicting Eva’s isolated and miserable

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The ominous relationship between Kevin and Eva is powerful and unsettling. existence. Eva’s family is entirely absent, and she suffers from crippling paranoia, unable to overcome the despair and despondency of a devoted mother whose child has committed such a heinous crime. She cannot find solace at home, in her new workplace and especially not at the juvenile detention center where Kevin is held.

Due to the vacillating time frames, the viewer is simultaneously omniscient and blind, yet constantly questioning. The penetrating, dark themes of the film relentlessly batter audiences, who can only seek sanctuary

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Glam-goth glory pervades Trust’s new album ‘TRST’ by

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America, get ready: Goth is all dressed up in Canadian synth pop and it definitely has somewhere to go.

TRST Trust Arts & Crafts Productions Two years after its formation, Trust has finally released its debut album, “TRST,” and it’s a banger at that.

Composed of Robert Alfons and

Maya Postepski, Trust coalesced into a band in January 2010 after the duo met in 2009. Part of Trust’s charm is the members’ relative obscurity — Alfons is barely known beyond his status as a Winnipeg native, and Postepski has reached only modest fame as the drummer of the electronic band Austra. Still, Trust probably won’t remain below the radar for long.

In a culture that has become increasingly saturated with electronic acts, it can be difficult to push music in a new direction. Alfons and Postepski are doubtless aware of their simisee TRUST, page 6

in the jubilant soundtrack and Reilly’s occasional frivolity.

Yet, instead of glorifying Kevin’s violent behavior, Ramsay deftly demonizes the character and rightfully condemns his actions. The resulting film is an amalgam of a nihilistic reality and a somewhat uplifting, post-traumatic search for renewal.

The disturbing story is entirely character-driven and Swinton’s performance is breathtaking. She is the central object in most scenes and see KEVIN, page 6

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Despite lacking character development and cohesive plot arcs, the charming and endearing qualities

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Silas Weir Mitchell plays Monroe, one of the show’s many supernatural creatures.

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his week “Barasch on Books” examines a subject underrepresented in serious history, reviewing renowned journalist S.C. Gwynne’s book “Empire of the Summer Moon.” Mr. Gwynne tells two stories: One is a vivid historical account of the bloody 40-year struggle between the Comanche Indians and American settlers for control of the West, and the other traces the life of Quanah Parker, a half-white Comanche who would become their last and greatest free warchief, and later, their most important advocate and representative to the American public. It is an emotional tale of heroic resistance, tragic defeat and triumphant resilience.

Though tribes such as the Lakota in the West and Iroquois in the East are perhaps better known, it was the Comanche tribes of the southern Great Plains who posed the greatest and longest lasting threat to the progress of American settlement. A predominately nomadic tribe with no concept of agriculture and no organized religion, the Comanche lived scattered over most of modern-day New Mexico, west Texas and southern Colorado.

They rose rapidly to prominence with the introduction of wild horses by Spanish settlers and conquistadors in the mid-1600s. Their culture adapted easily to a life in the saddle: Comanche children became master bareback riders by the age of six and proficient archers at eleven. Wealth and social status were measured by the number and quality of horses a warrior owned.

So swift was the Comanche adoption of the horse, and so skilled were they with arrows and bone-tipped lances that their hit-and-run raids halted the imperial ambitions of Spain, Mexico and France. Then they extended their dominion over a vast territory that eventually included dozens of vassal tribes, an impressive feat considering that, even at the height of their power, the Comanches numbered no more than approximately 20,000 men, women and children.

American settlers who arrived in West Texas beginning in the 1840s found the frontier being pushed back by a powerful, fierce and implacable native tribe. Continuous Comanche raids on pioneer settlements throughout the mid-1800s galvanized the creation of the famed Texas Rangers and the Colt six-shooter, the iconic firearm of the American West, developed to fight the hard-hitting, agile Comanche. This technological superiority and the seemingly limitless supply of settlers slowly but surely pushed the Comanche back into their ancestral lands in the Llano Estacado of the Texas panhandle.

Among the final heroes of the Comanche was half-Comanche Quanah Parker, a determined warrior who, at the young age of 24, united the last remaining free Comanche bands in a brutal two-year struggle that ended in 1875 with the disastrous Second Battle of the Adobe Walls in North Texas. Quanah was as practical in defeat as he was determined in war. He convinced the remaining Comanche to voluntarily turn themselves over to the settlers and live on a reservation. For the next 36 years, he lived as a prosperous, responsible citizen, engaging in successful business enterprises and showing the way for his people to retain their dignity even in defeat. He never cut his hair or gave up his multiple wives, and he remained an articulate and outspoken advocate for quality reservation schools and government assistance.

He died in 1911, respected and esteemed

by Americans and revered by his own tribe, who to this day honor him as “Quanah the Peacemaker.

Mr. Gwynne’s story is a powerful one of resistance, defeat and dignified reconciliation. It invokes great sympathy for the simple, Spartan and wholesome Comanche way of life without whitewashing its gruesome style of warfare. He commends both American and Comanche heroes with equal eloquence and evokes the wild, tempestuous majesty of the pre-pioneer Great Plains. The reader is left with a profound sense of respect for a noble people who fought honorably to defend their land and way of life.

Rating: **** James Barasch is a sophomore majoring in history, reachable at James.Barasch@tufts.edu.

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detective who inherits supernatural powers as a “Grimm” when his aunt passes away. These powers really aren’t much; Nick now has the ability to see the mythical creatures, known as Wesen, that inhabit the human world, but that’s about it. The powers don’t afford Nick any particular advantages, and his access to his Aunt Marie’s trailer full of intense and archaic weaponry is rarely used in any way.

Nick’s greatest asset is his friendship with a reformed “Blutbad,” essentially a wolf-man, named Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), one of the creatures Nick can now recognize. The direct translation of the German name is “blood bath,” but Monroe has given up on his violent ways and now enjoys leading a quiet life. That is, until Nick disturbs his peaceful existence and they grudgingly become friends as they learn to help one another.

The show draws its inspiration from the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm, though many episodes are completely unrelated to their stories. Some episodes are taken from early French folk tales or the more obscure stories collected by the Brothers Grimm, such as “The Queen Bee,” which has links but no direct relevance to the plot of episode three, “Beeware.”

“Grimm” is both set and filmed in the outskirts of Portland, Ore. The wild, rural landscape adds to the mystical atmosphere that permeates much of the show.

The pilot episode starts with a lone student going for a run through a densely

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Though the show just aired its 14th episode, many of the characters have yet to go through a sufficient exploration. Nick’s partner, Hank Griffin (Russell Hornsby), is still an enigma, even though he is one of the main char-

acters. Nick’s fiancée, Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch), although attractive and a seemingly strong woman, has too little screen time for the audience to have any sense of her character. While Nick and Juliette seem to be loving partners, the show never delves into the intricacies of their relationship. As an example, the show barely addresses Nick’s inner struggle between telling Juliette

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never forfeits believability, despite donning three distinct hairstyles and playing a character who evolves continually throughout the film. Audiences understand her even when she retaliates against her young, diminutive child, and sympathize with her feelings of remorse and dejection. Her acting prowess grounds the film in reality, making the unsettling subject matter all the more powerful.

Swinton also plays off of Miller in a haunting fashion. The two are fundamentally opposed characters, forever at odds. Miller’s chilling portrayal of the older Kevin complements his character; his piercing eyes and jagged

features torment the viewers.

He frequently harasses Eva and his younger sister, Celia, while deceiving and appeasing the oblivious Franklin. In one particularly troubling scene, Kevin enjoys a game of tetherball with Franklin, flashing a menacing smile at Eva through the kitchen window.

Kevin’s obsession with a high-tech bow-and-arrow set make him an exceedingly sinister villain, and his exceptional intelligence and matriarchal rejection are both present from a young age. Despite the rotation of three differently aged Kevins, his character progresses quite fluidly throughout the movie.

Several scenes can be characterized as overkill, such as an incident in which Eva

becomes uncomfortable when approached by a wheelchairbound victim of Kevin’s. For the most part though, the film is lean and gritty.

Ramsay has created a stylish and agonizing piece that is difficult to stomach. Yet, in a country where the grisly memories of the Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings still echo and burn to this day, “We Need To Talk About Kevin” provides a poignant and forthright look atschool shootings and the wreckage they leave behind. Swinton’s evocative performance sets the viewers on edge as they struggle internally to cope with the grave themes of the film and identify with a mother whose familial life has deteriorated in a morbid manner.

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Tilda Swanson gives a gripping performance as the troubled mother of a murderer.

about his newfound gifts or leaving her before she becomes endangered.

Police Captain Sean Renard (Sasha Roiz) is the most intriguing character.

Though he first appeared to be a sympathetic-yet-fair colleague of Nick and Hank’s, it soon becomes clear that he knows more of the “Grimm-world” than Nick does. Renard may even have some placement in the upper echelons of the creature hierarchy, though Nick is still oblivious to this fact.

The most frustrating aspect of “Grimm” is not the bad computer-generated imagery or the poorly developed characters, but rather Nick’s complete inability to live up to the definition of a Grimm presented to the audience early on in the series. His Aunt Marie, while dying from terminal cancer, managed to endure and fight back during two attacks on her life, but Nick only manages to survive and deduce crimes because of police experience, the help of Monroe and — most of the time — dumb luck.

This is perhaps a more realistic approach to such a character; presumably, a Grimm does not become a fullfledged ninja overnight. But the slow evolution of his character affects the plot. The ending of each episode just leaves the audience wondering why Nick has these powers if they afford no particular changes to his character other than a mere understanding of the Wesen society. Ultimately, though, this is the reason many viewers keep watching: they want to witness the moment Nick comes into his own. So, perhaps the writers do know what they’re doing, and we are all along for the ride.

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larities to other acts around them, but they don’t seem too bothered by it. Though Trust matches Crystal Castles in its male-female composition, Toronto roots and 1980s inspiration, the similarities really do stop there.

The music of Crystal Castles fills clubs with throngs of skinny, angst-filled teens and makes a great musical addition to the TV show “Skins.”

Trust draws an entirely different crowd; glossed over and drugged out, the duo projects glam and apathy that align them more with Tomcraft or Justice. This is the music for strobe lights, more than a little Rubinoff and going out with your friends, even though you’d rather not.

Really, though, the difference comes down to Alfons’ voice. Deliciously oily, its unapologetic dirtiness gives Trust a whole lot more personality than the rest of its music does. Anyone can play the synth (sorry, Maya), but it takes some individuality to transform a basic trance groove into something emotionally engaging. Alfons’ delivery is rich and sensual on tracks like “F.T.F.” and “Candy Walls.” He can also shift instantly into an otherworldly falsetto — just listen after that groaning downward slide on “Shoom” and you’ll know exactly what I mean. It’s not for the casual listener, but then again, neither is Trust’s music.

Along with the ever-driving synth beats and throbbing baselines, Alfons’ voice is the unifying force of the oftendisparate album. On the one hand, the pillars of “TRST” stand firm with songs like “Candy Walls,” where Alfons’ rich baritone wraps smoothly around layered synths and stands out against the

musical textures. The track is melodic and haunting; indeed, it was this single that got Trust signed to the Arts & Crafts label back in 2011. On the other hand, tracks like “Shoom” and the nauseating “This Ready Flesh” are slower, compelling and oh-so-dirty.

They grind along with Alfons’ almost-coherent vocals.

True to its ’80s roots, Trust can be unapologetically dancelike on tracks such as “Sulk” and “Gloryhole,” but underneath the throbbing synth is a very human soul that prevents the tracks from slipping into the territory of Club Kid jams.

Catchy baseline aside, it is touching when Alfons whines, “Now I feel the love I’ve waited for/ It’s not too wrong to let it blow,” on “Sulk.” Trust sulks plenty on the album, but when they cover it up with gold cloth and a drunken swagger, we absolutely love them for it.

The duo never sacrifice cohesiveness for glam and swagger, but they also never settle too far into a groove.

From the opener, “Shoom,” through to the energetic “Sulk,” “TRST” ranges wildly from coldwave to hyperactive synth pop; it is this ever-present variety that makes “TRST” addictive in such a weird, gothic way. Happily, the variety also keeps songs that could easily turn into filler, sounding more like transitions.

“Heaven,” for example, would sound a lot more generic if it weren’t sandwiched between “F.T.F.” and “Chrissy E.” Both Alfons and Postepski insist that Trust is not just a side project, and hopefully this is true. “TRST” holds its ground in a musical onslaught of electronica and proves that neither angst nor disco will ever get old. So brood away — just be sure to crank up the bass.

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TCU Senate shouldn’t fund discrimination On Sunday night, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate rejected a resolution that would have encouraged the TCU Judiciary and other on-campus organizations to interpret the university’s nondiscrimination policy in a way that gives groups leeway when selecting their leaders. Critics of the resolution on the Senate argued that the resolution was a reactionary measure prompted by the controversial complaint filed against the Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) in November alleging that the group discriminated against LGBTaffiliated candidates for TCF leadership.

The Senate made the right decision in rejecting a resolution that would clearly have stood in direct conflict with the nondiscrimination policy. To begin with, the resolution was poorly timed. The Senators who submitted it should have waited until the ongoing investigation by the University Chaplaincy into TCF’s leadership practices is complete. It makes little sense to change the way complaints of discrimination are handled when one such complaint is currently under review.

Beyond that, the resolution would have made evaluating complaints of discrimination an immensely complex task. If the

TCF case comes before the Judiciary, which document should the Judiciary weigh more heavily? The policy that prohibits discrimination by student groups? Or the one that says groups should be given leeway in their adherence to the policy?

The resolution was couched as a loose interpretation of the nondiscrimination policy, but in reality, it would have completely undermined it. How can the policy be interpreted in a way that allows groups to be “consistent with their beliefs” if those beliefs are discriminatory? Discrimination of any kind is indefensible — even if it’s rooted in a group’s deeply held beliefs.

Even leaving aside last semester’s controversy surrounding TCF, we would not support this resolution, because the result could be that students pay to fund an organization that in turn discriminates against them. Every student on campus pays the student activity fee, and the sum of that fee is given to the Senate to distribute to groups on campus as it sees fit. If a group receives funding from the Senate, every student on campus is paying for it, albeit indirectly.

Because all groups are supported by students’ money, university policy must apply to all student groups equally. Handing reli-

gious organizations on campus a loophole to bypass the non-discrimination policy while continuing to provide them funds under Senate rules simply isn’t fair. If indeed TCF practices discrimination, students on campus should not be forced to fund the group.

The greater issue is students’ relative control over how their money is spent.

Students pay an activities fee of one flat amount. The Senate then hands it out based on how the Senators vote. Most students find nothing wrong with this model because of the policies to which all groups eligible for money are held — non-discrimination being one of them.

TCF members are completely free to hold their beliefs and conduct their affairs in accordance with those beliefs. However, if the actions resulting from that belief system contradict the values that the university agrees to abide by, then the group should surrender university funding.

Every on-campus organization that accepts funds from the Senate should commit to being inclusive of all members of the community. The Senate resolution would have undermined that commitment, and we commend the Senate for rejecting it.

publish this story under this headline is extremely confusing (not to mention that, while this letter was being written, the Daily’s website has the article titled Friends of Israel Causes Controversy).

The tactic of trying to capitalize on the recent pro and anti-Israel sentiment on campus following Israel Peace Week and Israel Apartheid Week, in order to hype up a front page story, is not surprising. Unfortunately, in this instance, it is particularly insensitive. One of the most common diatribes leveled against Pro-Israel American Jews is that, through organizations such as AIPAC, they are trying to “buy” Congressional support for Israel. By casting the Senators’ actions through the lens of Friends of Israel’s petition, rather than the Senators themselves, the Daily inadvertently invokes this falsehood.

But my second issue with the article is its use of quotes from Cory Faragon,

a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The Daily’s rash decision to go to a member of Friends of Israel’s counterpart on campus reinforces the accusation implied by the headline. But even had FOI been at fault, the use of Cory Faragon’s opinion in a non-opinion peace would have been just as absurd. Just the other day he co-wrote an op-ed voicing his strong opinions on Israel’s supposed apartheid. He was also quoted last week in an article detailing an SJP event, where he also spoke out against Israel. If the Daily insists on consistently using what is very clearly a biased and anti-Israel opinion every time Israel is mentioned in an article you might want to consider adding him to the Masthead.

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Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, The article published on Thursday in the News section entitled “Friends of Israel Ad Causes Controversy” was a striking example of questionable journalism, which has no place in the Daily’s coverage of campus events.

First off, let’s start with the extremely misleading headline. While, granted, headlines are supposed to be somewhat sensationalist in order to grab readers’ attention, this one went far beyond any reasonable level of journalistic accuracy. Anyone who read the article can clearly see that if anyone was at fault, it was the group of Senators who may or may not have acted against the Senate’s bylaws. But this would have been just as true if they had signed any petition without a Senate vote. The fact that it was a pro-Israel petition had very little to do with the actions in question.

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The March 6 News article “Students for Justice in Palestine hosts Israeli Apartheid Week” incorrectly stated that Israeli Apartheid Week was co-sponsored by the International Relations Program. In fact, only the specific lecture by Diana Buttu was co-sponsored by the International Relations Program, as part of its “normal practice of supporting events initiated by other departments, programs and student groups across campus that follow scholarly discourse,” Program Administrator John Taylor told the Daily in an email.

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Public access to contraception: Not a religious matter by

Mark DeVoto

The current birth control controversy has been thoroughly politicized, but it is controversial precisely because some people, including the Catholic priesthood and many evangelicals, believe that artificial birth control is morally wrong. What is less often considered is the question of when it is morally right to bring a child into the world.

If I were a woman of childbearing age, I would want to know, at every moment, whether or not I wanted to have a child, and when. Many, perhaps even most, women have no difficulty coming to a decision about this — they do, or they don’t, want to bear a child at some particular point in their lives. They want to plan for the possibility and carry it out, or not. They don’t want to be pregnant without deciding beforehand. The decision to conceive and bear a child isn’t an instantaneous decision. It is the most fundamental moral decision that most women are likely to have in their lives, and it is considered and renewed by every potential mother every waking day.

Such a decision involves planning and, above all, planning for the future of the child to be brought into the world.

And often it isn’t simply a matter of how one might feel about the comfort and consolation of being a parent, but just as much a matter of whether a child will be properly cared for eighteen years or so, or whether one is properly equipped to provide nurture, care and love. Many of us recognize that we don’t have that capability, at some particular time, even when we might reasonably expect that later on we will.

If I were a young woman of childbearing age, I might not feel financially or emotionally ready for the responsibility of starting a family. I might not have an opportunity to provide for a child in proper surroundings — I lost my job and my house is being foreclosed, aggression or civil war are threatening my country, my husband just died and had no life insurance. I might have a disease that I know would be fatal before my child could grow up — a disease like cancer or cystic fibrosis. Or I might be paraplegic, or bipolar and below the poverty line with no prospect of rising above it. Or, even more simply, I might not want to have a child, for whatever reason. Some of us, indeed, know that we will never be in a position to care for a child and decide conscientiously, on that account, not to become parents.

It is futile to inquire deeply into the reasons why I, if I were a woman, might not want to have a child, whether now or at some point in the future, or ever.

Whatever might be the reason, you can understand why, as a matter of conscience, I would not want to bear a child if I knew I were unable to provide proper care. So, why should the decision to bear a child be anybody’s but mine?

There are two separate questions in the current birth control controversy.

First: The Catholic Church teaches that the practice of artificial birth control is a sin for Catholics, and indeed immoral for anyone. That is the official teaching of a church whose officers and teachers, the priesthood, do not themselves have to be concerned about becoming pregnant. Yet reputable evidence shows that this teaching is simply not followed by 95 percent

of all Catholic women at some time in their lives. One cannot believe that this represents Catholic women’s desire to disobey church teaching simply out of contrariness or mere frivolity. One has to assume that for serious Catholics, the use of artificial birth control results from a decision based on conscience. Even the most doctrinaire among the priesthood would hardly advise a woman to violate her own conscience. As for women who aren’t Catholic, what the church teaches about birth control isn’t anybody’s concern. Yes, the church does officially sanction the so-called rhythm method of birth control, but this method is simply not as reliable as long-established artificial methods.

Second: Whether hospitals, clinics, or pharmacies should dispense birth-control devices or prescription medications as a matter of conscience shouldn’t be an issue at all. A hospital, whether supported by the Catholic Church or not, is a public institution in the sense that it serves the public as a whole. A Catholic hospital doesn’t serve only Catholics; it cannot make the rules for any patient on religious grounds, only on medical grounds. The same is true of companies that provide medical insurance to the public. A medical-insurance company is required by law to provide insurance for any medically necessary condition, as determined by the patient’s physician, and whether or not a patient should use artificial birth control by prescription should be a matter of concern to the patient and her physician and no one else. Thus, a pharmacist cannot legally refuse to fill a prescription for birthcontrol pills simply because he feels

that such a prescription violates his personal religious beliefs. The pharmacist is licensed to provide a public service; if he believes that he cannot conscientiously fulfill a legal prescription, then he should not be in business.

A recent article in the Primary Source said, “Contraception coverage will be offered to women by their employers’ insurance companies directly, with no role for religious employers who oppose contraception.” Certainly as an individual, any employer has the right to be personally opposed to contraception, but is it even thinkable that an employer has the right to forbid his employees from using contraception?

Rush Limbaugh’s recent attack on Sandra Fluke is contemptible in its meanness, but what is even worse is that it is silly. What Rush is trying to say, and what the vast majority of “family values” conservatives have endorsed, is a denial of the most important result of the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s: the moral right of anyone, at the age of 18 or over, to engage in consensual sexual behavior with anyone one chooses. This moral right is also a legal right that has been recognized almost everywhere. By common consent this right is limited in certain ways, e.g., not in broad daylight in public places, nor as an article of commerce; but as a private right, in private confines, no law can deny it, notwithstanding the thundering of “family values” authoritarians from evangelical pulpits.

Mark DeVoto is Professor of Music, emeritus, at Tufts University.

Mental health, PTSD in conflict zones by

Emily M. Bartlett

Stress. It’s that pressing sense of urgency that is telling me to write this op-ed, move onto my paper for Health Care in America and then try to grab some dinner before that 9 p.m. meeting. It’s the reason that the muscles in my back are tense, the reason that I only slept for five hours last night and the reason that I’ve been living in the library for the past two days. As college students, we all suffer from it and we all complain (often excessively) about it. But, in reality, we have it easy.

In areas of conflict, the local population suffers from a constant threat of violence when they leave their home. When they’re in their homes, they may fear being on the wrong end of a grenade.

Speak to people in a war-torn area and you will find widows who have lost children in front of their eyes, and orphans whose parents were killed on the street.

Often, populations living in an area of conflict become accustomed to frequent and seemingly random acts of violence — they become numb. But this does not mean they are unaffected.

When people think of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), they often think of war veterans, of soldiers coming back from war and being tormented by nightmares and flashbacks. While this disorder does affect soldiers and veterans in a significant way, it must be recognized that soldiers are not the only people who suf-

fer from mental trauma during a war. Often, civilian populations suffer from the same symptoms of PTSD that the soldiers who are actively involved in the conflict do. And these civilian populations are often exposed to this violence on a daily basis for months or even years on end, with no peaceful respite. At least our soldiers get some relief from the carnage when they are granted leave (and rightfully so).

The mental health of populations in conflicted areas is often something that is ignored by peace efforts and NGOs in the vicinity. Obviously the maintenance of good physical health needs to be a priority, but the mental wounds in conflict or post-conflict areas must also be acknowledged and treated. Symptoms of PTSD, such as depression, flashbacks, insomnia and nightmares, often afflict a traumatized population, and in an impoverished area these symptoms are often ignored (or even worse, are considered signs of being insane).

In Kashmir, journalist and therapist Justine Hardy has started an initiative to help the local population with the treatment of mental health problems and PTSD through treatments such as conversation groups and breathing exercises. Though it is one of the few programs of its kind, it has allowed Hardy to witness the long-term effects of untreated mental disorders. Often, mental illness will express itself in physical manifestations, which can

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debilitate an individual permanently if left untreated. Mental health problems can also affect entire families — if a mother of five is too depressed to leave her home and provide for her family, her children must bear this burden alone.

Treatment of mental health problems has another benefit — it can lead to improved conflict resolution and a reduction in violence. Processing and understanding what one has been

through, as opposed to simply pushing it aside and suffering from the physical manifestations of stress, can prevent one’s need for retributive violence and can therefore prevent the cycle of revenge that so often fuels conflict. Speaking about past experiences and processing what one has been through can promote acceptance of past events and even forgiveness of the parties responsible, thereby reducing the likelihood of continued violence.

According to World Health Organization’s Atlas on Mental Health, “four out of five people with serious mental disorders living in low/middle income countries do not receive mental health services that they need.” This problem needs to be acknowledged; not all war wounds are visible.

Emily M. Bartlett is a sophomore who is majoring in international relations.

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11. Colorado St. (20-11)

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as an 11-seed after beating Kansas in the Southwest regional finals. Led by senior forward Bradford Burgess and coach Shaka Smart — who many believe may be headed to Illinois next season — the Rams face fifth-seeded Wichita St. in the first round.

West In the West, top-seeded Michigan State should have a relatively easy road in the first three rounds, but may hit a bump against Missouri in what could be an explosive Elite Eight matchup. The Spartans avenged a home loss to Ohio State at the end of the regular season by beating the Buckeyes in the Big Ten tournament finals, 68-64. One of the most physical teams in the country, Michigan State is led by All-American senior forward Draymond Green, who is averaging over 16 points and 10 rebounds per game this season.

Missouri enters the NCAA tournament averaging 80.3 points per game, good for sixth in the country. The leading scorer for the Tigers is senior guard Marcus Denmon, who is averaging 17.6 points per game, but Missouri does a good job of getting everyone involved — four players averaged double-figure scoring numbers this season. Following what should be an easy win against 15-seed Norfolk St., Missouri will face the winner of Florida and Virginia in what could be a more difficult second-round matchup.

East The East may be the least predictable region in this year’s tournament. Topseeded Syracuse, which went 31-2 overall this season, will have a tough Sweet 16 matchup against the winner of No. 4 Wisconsin and No. 5 Vanderbilt, assuming the Badgers and Commodores are able to advance. Wisconsin is led by senior guard Jordan Taylor, who is averaging nearly 15 points per game and is proficient in nearly every facet of the game. Moreover, the Badgers’ swing offense should match up well against Syracuse’s normally-stifling 2-3 zone, as Wisconsin shoots over 36 percent as a team from behind the arc.

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finals, 71-64. A sexy upset pick, the Commodores may have the best threepoint shooter in the country in junior guard John Jenkins. Jenkins made 129 of his 288 long-range attempts this season and averages nearly 20 points per game.

No. 3 seed Florida State also adds to the depth of the East region. The Seminoles upset Duke and North Carolina en route to their first ever ACC tournament title. Led by coach Leonard Hamilton, Florida State always seems to play with a chip on its shoulder and should give No. 2 Ohio State a great run in the Sweet 16.

Midwest In the Midwest region, the clear favorite is No. 1 seed North Carolina, who will be aided by the return of junior forward John Henson. The ACC Defensive Player of the Year didn’t play in the Tar Heels’ final two ACC tournament games after suffering a wrist injury in the quarterfinals against Maryland. Along with Henson, the Tar Heels are led by a slew of star post players such as senior center Tyler Zeller and sophomore forwards Harrison Barnes and Reggie Bullock. This size and experience in the paint should make the Tar Heels championship contenders if they are able to lock down defensively.

The bottom half of the Midwest will likely produce a classic Sweet 16 matchup between perennial powerhouses Kansas and Georgetown. In the hunt for a No. 1 seed all season, the Jayhawks stumbled against Baylor in the Big 12 semifinals and found themselves relegated to No. 2. They are led by junior forward Thomas Robinson, who is averaging a double-double this season, and senior guard Tyshawn Taylor, who is second on the team in scoring and first in assists.

The Hoyas may have a more difficult second-round matchup against the winner of San Diego St. and North Carolina St, but expect them to advance due to their dominance in the paint.

Leading the way for Georgetown inside is center Henry Sims, who has come out of nowhere to average 11.1 points and 5.6 rebounds per game and will be called on to lock down the paint for Georgetown in the tournament.

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The shot’s trajectory was on line. From the sideline, it looked as though it might just be headed in.

“My first thought was, ‘this is going in,’ because when [Tiffany] shoots threes, for some reason they tend to go in,” Moynihan said.

But the shot missed right and deflected hard off the backboard. A Tufts player managed to tip it out as it came down into the crowded paint. Kornegay — who finished second in the NESCAC in rebounding for the season — wasted no time following up her shot.

“There were a bunch of people in the paint, and they were all going for it,” Kornegay said. “I was at the top of the key, so when it came to me I grabbed it, and [Kate] was open, so I passed it under to her.”

Barnosky couldn’t get a clean shot off, but she was hacked on her way up, sending her to the line for two.

1:29; St. Thomas 46, Tufts 43 Barnosky, the team’s only other senior, was also one of Tufts’ best free-throw shooters, posting a 74.7 percent mark for the season. She had already made some key free throws in the NCAA tournament this year — including a 9-for-10 effort in the second round — and had sunk her only prior attempt from the charity stripe that night. Still, none of those shots could compare to these two.

“I felt pretty good,” Barnosky said. “I hit a bunch of foul shots last weekend, so I was just trying to stay in that same mindset.”

She once again proved just how strong a leader she was, draining both and cutting the margin to one for the first time since the intermission.

0:58; St. Thomas 46, Tufts 45 With their deficit down to one, the Jumbos elected to hold off on fouling and instead try their luck at getting a defensive stop. The Tommies ran as much time off the clock as possible before executing a play, which — thanks to the Jumbos’ fourth-ranked defense — led to a well-contested and off-balance shot. But as the ball kicked off the rim, things took a turn for the worse.

“I know I was right there, and I tried to box her out,” Barnosky said. “It took a weird bounce … I had her boxed out, but one way or another she got it. That’s just how basketball goes sometimes. We tried to do everything we could.”

It was none other than Tommies senior Sarah Smith who came down with it.

With both teams struggling in the early going, Smith had the first six points of the game and finished with a doubledouble and a perfect 7-for-7 shooting night from the field. But none of that was

as important as this moment, because her rebound and immediate put-back once again extended St. Thomas’ lead.

0:30; St. Thomas 48, Tufts 45 The Jumbos, needing an immediate response, settled on one of their favorite plays for the following possession: Low. “Low is just give [Kate] the ball and everyone get low,” Moynihan said. “It seems to work every time.”

Morehead fed her the ball and let her go to work. But Barnosky had been cold from the field all night, and had made just one jump shot to that point in the contest.

“I was pretty frustrated all game,” Barnosky said. “I kind of felt out of it, especially offensively. But down the stretch I kind of got into it. I really wanted it, so I tried to get myself together mentally and attacked, which I think helped our whole team get back into it.”

Working on the near baseline, she managed to create just enough space to take a step back and get off a clean shot.

Once again, she came through and the lead was back down to one. With no time to hold for a defensive stop, Kornegay quickly fouled sophomore Taylor Young, sending her to the line for two shots.

0:27; St. Thomas 48, Tufts 47 Young, the Tommies’ leading scorer, was 7-for-7 from the line already and had shot just under 83 percent on free throws during the season. But with the pressure on, she missed both. The Jumbos boxed out well, preventing yet another offensive rebound. They ran it across half court before calling timeout with the momentum on their side.

0:21; St. Thomas 48, Tufts 47 With 21 seconds left, the Jumbos had a variety of options at their disposal.

They could have gone for a quick try — guaranteeing a second chance if they missed by fouling immediately thereafter — or they could have held for the last shot, leaving it all up to one do-or-die moment. In the huddle, coach Carla Berube decided on the latter.

“We were going to run the play with 12 seconds to go … dagger,” Morehead said.

“The plan was to get it in to Kelsey and have her dribble it around for a little bit and set up the play to get me the ball on the right side to attack,” Barnosky said.

“The goal was don’t take a jump shot unless I was really open, and just try to attack and either get a good layup or get to the line.”

As played resumed, Morehead came off a screen from Barnosky at the top of the key and received the ball from Moynihan near half court. But just as Morehead began to square herself up to the basket to begin the play, the referee whistled to halt the action. The explana-

tion: the clock had started slowly.

“It started a little slow,” Morehead said. “It said 19 [seconds] when it should have said 17.”

It was not the first time the scorer’s table had made an error that night, but it would prove to be the costliest of their blunders; the Jumbos were forced to inbound again, and the two seconds that had run off the clock before the referee’s whistle were not added back on.

0:19; St. Thomas 48, Tufts 47 The Jumbos chose to run the exact same play again — but this time, the Tommies were ready.

“The problem was that because we had just run that play, they all knew it was coming,” Morehead said. “So my girl was cheating over the screen too far to defend the far pass and [Kate’s] girl was defending the area where I came out open, so even when I was out there it made it really hard to get a pass in to me.”

Morehead once again came off of a Barnosky screen, but this time a defender was close on her heels. Moynihan knew the pass was dangerous from the moment it left her hands.

“I think I threw it too close to Kelsey, and the girl knew it was coming,” Moynihan said. “If I’d thrown it farther Kelsey could have chased it down, but this girl got her hand on it.”

It was junior Kellie Ring, the Tommies’ leader in steals, who was able to do just enough to take the ball away. While

“I had her boxed out, but one way or another she got it. That’s just how basketball goes sometimes. We tried to do everything we could.

Kate Barnosky Senior, Co-Captain, Forward the play involved some physicality, Tufts quickly dismissed the possibility that a foul had been committed.

“I feel like refs aren’t going to make that kind of call at that point in the game,” Morehead said.

“There’s always some contact,” Barnosky added.

Ring had all of her momentum heading towards the far basket, while Morehead was flat-footed at midcourt. But the freshman was able to recover, catching up to Ring and fouling her before she could put away the easy layup.

“I wasn’t ready for the game to end,”

Morehead said. “All I could think of was to not let her score. They missed their last two free throws, [so I] might as well keep the chance alive.”

Ring hit both, but it was still a onepossession game.

0:15; St. Thomas 50, Tufts 47 What happened next is not completely clear; Barnosky described it as “a blur.”

Morehead brought the ball up to half court quickly, but then confusion set in.

“My assumption was that I was going to bring it to half court and that [coach] was going to call a timeout,” Morehead said. “But then nobody made a call. So I passed it to [Kate].”

Some of the Jumbos thought they were once again running ‘dagger,’ while Barnosky was simply looking for an open shot. “[Coach] was screaming ‘run it’ for the last five seconds because she thought we were on the same page, but we weren’t,” Moynihan said. “It was loud in there, so it was really hard to hear what she was saying.”

“I ended up with the ball at the top of the key, and I knew we needed a three,” Barnosky added. “I wasn’t sure if we had a timeout, but I kind of figured we did. It was chaos. We didn’t really know what to do. We didn’t have a play set up.”

While the team felt confused at the time, the Jumbos agreed that Berube’s decision not to use a timeout was likely the right one.

“If we called timeout, I feel like their defense was just going to get set up to defend the perimeter,” Morehead said.

“So maybe in a sense it was the smarter idea to not call a timeout.”

With the seconds ticking away and Barnosky unable to find an open look, she eventually passed the ball on to Moynihan. But Moynihan had no time or separation, and her final desperation try was tipped, falling well short of the basket as the buzzer sounded.

“I was looking for Liz, since she was probably our best three-point option out there,” Barnosky said. “She wasn’t really open, so I was kind of looking for myself. I couldn’t find anything so I eventually got it to her. I knew I wasn’t giving it to her in a good spot, but there was nothing really we could do. Nothing was really open.”

A hard-fought contest like the one against St. Thomas is undoubtedly one of the toughest ways to end a season. But looking back, the players remain proud of what they accomplished — for the year, and on Friday night.

“Nothing is easy, but I am glad we didn’t get blown out,” Kornegay said.

“The fact that we brought it so close and fought hard, it’s much easier to take a loss that way. We didn’t give up.

That’s not us.”

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but managed to get 16 points, which is a real testament to the strength of our team.”

The national meet was less about the team’s finish, and far more about the chance for individuals to shine at Div. III’s highest level of competition.

Senior jumper Nakeisha Jones is the most experienced of the group, and entered the weekend having earned three previous All-American accolades in her event, the triple jump, at the indoor championships. Jones did not disappoint this year, finishing fifth in the

triple jump with an indoor career best leap of 39-9 1/4 on Saturday. Jones is now 7-for-7 in cracking the top eight at national events.

On the other end of the experience spectrum was sophomore Jana Hieber, who before this meet had never been named an All-American. But Hieber thrived on the big stage, shattering the previous Tufts mark for points in the pentathlon by netting 3,401 this weekend, the third-best total at nationals. Hieber won the 800-meter part of the pentathlon with a time of 2:17.86.

“Jana was amazing,” Allen said. “To go from a 12-seed

coming in to finishing third is incredible. We all knew she could do it, but you could see all the other teams were shocked … they didn’t expect it. For Jana to do this well and be so young is great for her and the team going forward.”

As for Allen, she took care of business on Friday, bringing home her third All-American award and her first-ever indoor honor. Allen finished sixth in the weight throw with a toss of 57-0, her second-farthest throw ever. On Saturday, Allen also had the opportunity to compete in the shot put, where she finished 14th with a heave of 42-2.

“I knew I could go in and do some damage in the weight throw,” Allen said. “It was all about doing what I had done all year, and I had the second and third best throws of my career this weekend, so I definitely did that. Would I have liked to finish even higher? Yes, obviously, but I was very happy with my finish anyway.”

The final competitor on Friday was senior pole vaulter Heather Theiss, who like Hieber was looking to bring back her first All-American honor. Theiss succeeded, finishing sixth in the event with a new school record height of 12-3 1/2.

“For me personally, I’m very happy,” Theiss said. “Because I’m a senior, it’s hard not to think of these meets as my last shot to really do well and improve. … Getting that PR was huge for me.”

“Now I’m just getting ready for outdoors, and hopefully I can continue to improve my jumps even more,” Theiss added, looking forward to her last season of collegiate competition this spring.

The four All-Americans have little time to celebrate their victories, as the outdoor season begins with the Husky Spring Invitational on Saturday.

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With only an eight millimeter wire to steady himself, junior Max Bulger stood all alone on the foremost part of the ship and attempted to cross his sailboat’s bow. He tried to shift direction, but the crewmembers turned the boat unexpectedly and Bulger was jerked from the top of the boat into the dark waters of the Indian Ocean outside of Oman.

“I knew as I fell off I could either try to hold onto the boat or I could just start swimming home,” Bulger said.

He opted for the former, grabbing onto the back of the boat as it sailed right over his head in the water and fracturing a rib in the process of scrambling for safety.

“I was mortified,” said Bulger, who had taken the plunge in the first race of the Extreme Sailing Series on February 28, a race that he and his Oman Air teammates ended up winning despite his tumble. In addition to winning that race, the five boaters took home the title for the entire first leg of the series, one of eight events spanning the globe and the entire year.

Now in its sixth year, the Extreme Sailing Series was conceived to bring attention to competitive sailing at the highest level by holding events around the world in a yearlong competition. It is one of the premiere events in the sport, and contestants use boats faster than those used in the Olympics in locations from frigid Qingdao, China to sunny Porto, Portugal.

That means that nearly every month, Bulger will fly to another part of the world to compete as an amateur with the best professional sailers in the world, serving as the trimmer for the Oman Air team.

“This was something that I was watching on TV a year ago, and to be doing it is pretty crazy,” he said.

It is especially crazy for Bulger, who is the event’s only competitor still in college and is surrounded by teammates who have competed in the Olympic Games.

At the beginning of February, Bulger left Medford to head to a foreign country with teammates nearly twice his age and

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Junior Max Bulger (left) celebrates with a teammate after winning the first act of the Extreme Sailing Series in Oman earlier this month. Bulger is the youngest competitor in the year-long competition, which consists of eight competitions around the world. with only 17 days to meet, train and then compete.

“It was a little weird to be around those guys that have a lot more experience than me,” Bulger said. “But they were really cool about it and I’ve gotten used to it over the last year. I just showed up and tried to work as hard as I could.”

For the two weeks before the competition, the team had little downtime to explore the Arab peninsula, with every day filled by morning lifting sessions, afternoon practices on the course and talks with the team’s skipper.

But by race time, Bulger and his team had bonded and felt prepared for the fourday competition comprised of 29 races.

Throughout the event, Oman Air stayed near the lead, but even after three and a half days the winner was not yet decided.

Heading into the final race, the Oman Air team knew it simply had to stay close enough to the front not to be overtaken in points by its closest competi-

tors. When they crossed the line in third place, they knew that the first act of the series was theirs.

“It was a cool moment,” Bulger said of the final stretch. “It was all focused on the last hundred yards, and coming in the finish line in the last race people got pretty excited.”

Excitement was particularly high, Bulger explained, because his team is sponsored by an Omani company.

Now, with one act down and seven to go, Bulger finds himself readjusting to student life, hanging out on the Tufts campus with the Jumbos’ sailing team and preparing to take his talents to Fushan Bay in Qingdao for the Series’ second event in April.

Oman Air will have the lead heading into that event, meaning Bulger can look back on his initial slip-up as a learning experience, one that helped him get past his early-competition jitters.

“I can laugh about it now,” Bulger said.

Because winning heals all wounds.

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the two guys behind me, basically make them think they didn’t have a chance to catch me, and then I slowed down quite a bit and just tried to hang on.”

Tufts’ eighth-place finish was just enough for All-American honors — the first for McShane, Beutler and Rose and the third career honor for Rand.

“We were going for All-American, and we got that, so we were satisfied with that,” Rand said. “The time was slow, but it really doesn’t matter at nationals. It was a tough, narrow track, Connor was going off the mile, and then I ran the whole mile leg by myself, so I think we just threw the time out the window and we were all happy with the All-American finish.”

Marvel was the top finisher for the Jumbos, earning fifth in the 800-meter run to mark his first career All-American performance. After not reaching the finals last indoor season in the event, Marvel was determined to move on this year. On Friday evening, he did just that, crossing the line in 1:53.52 for second in his preliminary heat — the fourth-fastest of the day — to earn one of eight spots in Saturday’s finals.

“In the trials, we were in the second heat, so we were able to see that the first heat went out fairly quickly, so that put more pressure on us to either run a fast time or get a top-two finish to automatically qualify [for the finals],” Marvel said. “That changed my strategy a little bit. I stayed up towards the front and kicked to get that second automatic spot.”

Saturday’s race was a much slower and more tactical one, and Marvel’s 1:54.32 was enough for fifth place.

“In the finals, it was a very strategic race.

It went out very slowly and then about 400 meters in, everyone started kicking, and it was whoever was in the best position near the leaders, basically it finished in that order,” Marvel said. “Obviously I am very happy with it. It was an All-American finish,

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Junior Gbola Ajayi shattered his personal record in the triple jump to earn sixth place and become an All-American in his first trip to nationals this past weekend. which was the goal going into the meet.”

In addition to his DMR effort, Rose notched a second All-American finish on Saturday. Rose had Friday’s fifth best mark in the mile preliminaries, crossing the line in 4:13.59 to advance to the 10-man final.

The next day, Rose pulled off another strong performance in his third race of the weekend, with a big final kick to move up from 10th to sixth and earn a time of 4:15.85, good enough for sixth.

“Connor had an interesting race,” Marvel said. “He found himself in the back early on and I don’t think he felt that great, but I think it is a testament to his training that he was able to kick in the last 600 and catch a few people and get that sixth spot.”

On Saturday, Ajayi added yet another impressive effort to the team’s weekend.

Ajayi notched a personal best of 48-4 in the triple jump, nearly a foot better than his qualifying jump of 47-5 3/4. The leap earned

Ajayi sixth place — a six-spot improvement from his initial seed — and All-American honors in his first trip to nationals.

“Gbola had a huge PR [by 30 centimeters] in the first jump in the final, and that was enough to lock up the All-American place,” Marvel said. “He was really happy with it.

He outperformed his seed by a lot and that’s always fun to do.”

Junior Curtis Yancy competed for Tufts in the weight throw on Friday, but came up short this weekend, fouling on each of his attempts to place 13th.

“Curtis had a tough day. He had some good throws that probably would have made finals, but he was just outside of the triangle,” Rand said. “It was a good experience for him and he will certainly be back at nationals and get another chance at it.”

After a successful conclusion to the indoor season, the Jumbos now look ahead to the outdoor competitions in the spring.

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his is a scam of Winklevossian proportions.

Looking for evidence of sweeping NCAA corruption, of the proletariat jealousy plaguing college sports’ governing body? Look no further. March Madness will begin later this week, the bracket officially announced Sunday in a travesty of shameful decision-making.

Sixty-eight teams. Four will reach New Orleans. And Harvard is only a No. 12 seed.

Are you kidding?

We’re talking about Harvard, folks; the pantheon of upper-class academic and fashion prominence down Mass. Ave, and yet again the NCAA fails to recognize the superiority oozing from ivy-classical architecture in equal parts crimson and green. I’m surprised that Harvard wasn’t mysteriously left out of the tournament all together.

Thesis: Harvard should have been a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, and its absence from the ranks of the nation’s great men’s basketball teams demonstrates a longstanding anti-Harvard bias prevalent not only in collegiate athletics, but in this nation.

Supporting evidence: In clinching their first bid since 1946, the Crimson had 26 wins this season. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Harvard graduate, spent only 12 years in office. Twenty-six versus twelve. That’s math even I can do. Snubbing Harvard is just plain un-American. Do you hate Harvard? Then you hate this country.

More supporting evidence: Coach Tommy Amaker’s unit boasts wins over MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Penn, Brown and Princeton. That’s not a resume, that’s a curriculum vitae worthy of a presidential appointment.

So Harvard’s weak Ivy League schedule equates to the Crimson deserving a No. 12 seed, meaning that they’ll face a first-round matchup against No. 5 Vanderbilt in the decidedly cardigan-lacking Albuquerque.

The Commodores don’t stand a chance, and neither does the rest of March Madness.

Listen, Harvard needed this. The student body is athletically starved. Not since the illustrious Ed Smith reached the NBA in 1953-54 have the Crimson demonstrated this much fanaticism for hoops. Rare is the occasion when success marches through the Harvard gates all willy-nilly.

When Princeton beat Penn last week, sending Harvard to the tournament, some players were studying in the library; for a Harvard man is far too consumed in learned affairs to engage in such plebeian celebration.

This is not about the program, about the tradition of triumph that Amaker has reintroduced into the Harvard community. This is about something bigger. Harvard made the Boston Herald’s front page on Monday, but where was the Boston Globe or the New York Times? Denying veritas, that’s where.

The least the Times could do was muster a reaction story on March 7 that quoted passers-by on the Harvard campus. Take sophomore Danielle Rabinowitz, for example, who told Bill Pennington that, “People always stereotypically feel that our conversations are generally about philosophy, or obscure topics that the common man can’t relate to. I think that just adding this element of sports to the mix kind of grounds us in a more human way that is really great.” Spot on, Danielle, but let’s not forget that we refer to athletics as “sport” in the singular. A-minus.

Tyler Neill was spotted walking along campus, reading a copy of Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason.” He said, “I watch sports none at all.”

Impeccable sentence structure, and an even better choice of literature. If only the NCAA selection committee adhered to pure reason, then Harvard would have been a No. 1 seed instead of Kentucky. Come on, Vanderbilt beat Kentucky, and Harvard will beat Vanderbilt.

Transitive properties never lie.

The East Regional semifinal and final will take place at the TD Garden, Harvard’s backyard. This amounts to nothing more than a glorified taunt from the selection committee.

“Try to make it,” they say. “It won’t happen.”

Well, what happened when people told Matt Damon he couldn’t become the Sexiest Man Alive? That’s what I thought.

Alex Prewitt is a senior majoring in English and religion. He can be reached on his blog at http://livefrommudville.blogspot.com or followed on Twitter at @Alex_Prewitt.

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Six Jumbos return from NCAAs as All-Americans by

Lauren Flament

Daily Editorial Board

Ten members of the men’s and women’s track and field teams achieved AllAmerican status this past weekend at the NCAA Div. III National Championships, including six Tufts men who earned a total of seven All-Amercan awards, more than Tufts has seen in years.

Senior tri-captain Connor Rose, juniors Jeff Marvel, Bobby McShane, Matt Rand and Gbola Ajayi and sophomore Graham Beutler were the six to receive the honors, which are given to the top eight finishers in each event.

“We had a very successful weekend. We are happy with it all around,” Marvel said.

“Across the board — Connor, the DMR, Gbola and me — coming back with six All-Americans, when last year we didn’t have any — it was a big step forward for the program, and we are very happy with how things went.”

The men finished 17th as a team, earning 11 points on Friday and Saturday at the event hosted by Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

The team’s first All-American finish of the weekend came in the Distance Medley Relay (DMR) on Friday evening.

McShane, Beutler, Rose and Rand combined for an eighth-place finish in a time of 10:18.59. McShane led off the foursome in the 1,200-meter leg, handing off to Beutler for the 400 leg in eighth, the Jumbos’ finishing position. Rose, in his second race of the day, just a few hours after the mile preliminaries, then took the baton for the 800 leg, with Rand anchoring in the 1,600 leg.

“Bobby ran a good leg. He was up there battling at the front half for most of it, he faded off a little bit at the end but he handed off in eighth in good position, right off the lead pack, and then Graham ran well — he moved up one spot to seventh,” Rand said. “Connor had just run the mile so he was pretty tired and he had some trouble holding onto the front pack.

“I got the baton by myself basically — well off the lead pack and well ahead of the ninth and tenth place guys,” Rand continued. “I went out fast to try to demoralize see MEN’S TRACK, page 15

Women’s Basketball

Gone in 100 seconds

Tufts on losing end of roller-coaster Sweet 16 finish by

Ethan Sturm

Daily Editorial Board

It was early Friday night, and once again the women’s basketball team found its improbable season on the brink of ending. After silencing critics by finishing as runners-up in the NESCAC and proving their worth by reaching the Sweet 16 for just the second time in school history, the Jumbos seemed overmatched by the 28-1 St. Thomas Tommies, who had a towering height advantage and used it to stretch its lead to 14 points in the second half.

With the score at 40-26 and just over nine minutes to play, the outlook was glum for Tufts.

But then the shots started to fall. Senior co-captain forward Kate Barnosky finished a three-point play before freshman guard Kelsey Morehead buried a pair of shots from beyond the arc. Suddenly, with less than two minutes to play, the deficit was down to two.

What followed in those last 100 seconds was a roller coaster ride of highs and lows, lucky bounces and bad breaks, clutch moments and questionable decisions. The Daily sat down with Barnosky, Morehead, sophomore guard Liz Moynihan and senior guard Tiffany Kornegay to break it down, moment by moment.

1:40 remaining; St. Thomas 46, Tufts 43 As the Jumbos went through their typical half-court progression of perimeter passes, Kornegay received the ball at the top of the key with no defenders within 10 feet of her. This treatment was not atypical for Kornegay, as she had not attempted a single three-pointer since Nov. 29.

But as one of just two seniors on the team, Kornegay decided to take the task of extending her final season as a Jumbo into her own hands.

“I was open, so I just decided to shoot it, and that’s what I did,” Kornegay said.

“There’s no reason specifically, but it was an open shot, so I thought ‘why not shoot it?’ It may not have been the best choice, but that’s the choice I made at the time.” see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 14

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Senior co-captain Kate Barnosky hit two crucial free throws to bring the Jumbos within one late in Friday’s Sweet 16 game, but she couldn’t find an open shot in the final seconds as Tufts fell, 50-47.

Women’s Track and Field

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Jones earns seventh career All-American honor

March Madness, at a glance

All four Jumbos bring home hardware from nationals

by Jake Indursky

Daily Staff Writer

The Jumbos capped off their indoor track season with a superb showing at the Div. III National Championships at Grinnell College in Iowa this past weekend.

All four Tufts women who competed finished in the top eight of an event, earning AllAmerican honors for their efforts. Despite having just four representatives at the meet, the strong all-around showing was enough to net 16 points for Tufts, good for ninth place as a team at the meet.

Junior thrower Kelly Allen was impressed by the team’s ability to put points on the board.

“All four of us having topeight finishes, and the team finishing in the top 10 is pretty impressive,” Allen said. “We only had four girls competing,

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see WOMEN’S TRACK, page 14

Senior Nakeisha Jones is now a seven-time All-American after placing fifth at nationals this past weekend with a career-best effort in the triple jump.

Making sense of the tournament field by

Matt Berger

Daily Editorial Board

With the end of the conference tournaments and selection of the 68 teams that will compete in the 2012 NCAA tournament, we are now entering the most exciting three weeks of the college basketball season, as fans around the country begin to fill in their March Madness brackets. For those that may not have followed this season as closely, here is a brief, region-by-region overview of the championship contenders and some Cinderella teams that could surprise us all.

South The South region is led by No. 1 overall seed Kentucky.

Although the Wildcats are young, they finished the 2011-12 season with 32 wins and are filled with NBAlevel talent at every position.

Freshman center Anthony Davis has been the key for Kentucky in the middle, leading the Wildcats with 14.4 points and 10 rebounds per game and setting SEC and NCAA records with nearly five blocked shots per game.

Kentucky won’t go unchallenged, though, and they could face defending national champion Connecticut in the second round and Indiana in the Sweet 16. The Hoosiers handed the Wildcats their first loss of the season in December when junior guard Christian Watford hit a gamewinning three at the buzzer to put Indiana back on the college basketball map.

One intriguing upset pick in the South is No. 12 seed VCU. The Rams already shocked the college basketball world last season by advancing to the Final Four see INSIDE NCAA, page 13