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VOLUME LXV, NUMBER 35

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Campus Sustainability Council releases draft report

by Jenna

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Daily Editorial Board

Kyra Sturgill / Tufts Daily Archives

Senior Kristen Ford, seen here at the 2011 Black Solidarity Day Rally, won the 2013 Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship and will speak at commencement this year.

Senior Kristen Ford wins Wendell Phillips award by

Lizz Grainger

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Senior Kristen Ford will deliver an address at this year’s commencement ceremony in May as the winner of the 2013 Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship, the Committee on Student Life (CSL) announced yesterday.

The scholarship, presented annually by the CSL, honors a junior or senior who exemplifies outstanding speaking skills and a dedication to public service. Ford secured the win over three other finalists, seniors Aparna Ramanan, Ethan Peritz and Emily Poole.

A panel of judges awarded Ford the prize after the finalists delivered short speeches yesterday afternoon, according to CSL co-chair and Associate Professor of Biology Philip Starks. “[We] heard all four talks, then discussed both the content and presentation skills of each finalist,” he said. “Once we had carefully discussed the merits of all candidates, we voted.”

Starks said that the caliber of the contestants’ presentations was extremely high, noting that the award could have gone to any of the finalists.

“The overall quality this year was phenomenal,” he said. “Kristen really knocked it out of the park. Her ability was just fantastic. I believe Kristen won today because of the depth and relatable content of her talk and the grace and humor with which she presented it.”

Ford will receive a cash prize in addition to the honor of serving as the sole student speaker at the Baccalaureate Service. She said winning the award was exciting both because she will represent the Class of 2013 at the ceremony and as a matter of redemption: Ford was in the running to speak at her high school graduation, but was not ultimately chosen.

“I remember thinking at the time, ‘My life is over; I don’t know what to do,’ but this actually just reminded me see FORD, page 2

The Campus Sustainability Council earlier this month released a draft report that outlines recommendations for the university to improve sustainability on campus.

University President Anthony Monaco created the council, which is comprised of faculty, administrators and students, in January 2012. The council’s three working groups address campus operations related to energy and emissions, waste management and water use.

The draft report and executive summary, sent via email to the Tufts community, asked for feedback on the sustainability goals and strategies suggested in the report, according to Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell.

“The Office of Sustainability (OOS) will gather the input that people want to give and will consider whether there are significant changes or additions that are recommended that should be considered,” she said.

This is the first time in university history that a large group of students, faculty and administrators has divided into committees to create a sustainability report, according to OOS Program Director Tina Woolston.

Campbell noted that the council had a very focused scope, so there are many components of campus sustainability that the group did not address.

Woolston said the council analyzed where Tufts’ carbon footprint made the most impact, adding that the report is a see SUSTAINABILITY, page 2

Sharewood Project partners for translation services by

Anabelle Roberts

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The Sharewood Project, a volunteerrun, Tufts-affiliated medical clinic that provides free healthcare services, in January launched a partnership with Found in Translation, a nonprofit organization that trains low-income, bilingual women to be medical interpreters.

The new relationship between the two groups provides improved patient care for Sharewood clients and job opportunities for Found in Translation graduates.

Sharewood is run by medical students and physicians affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and the Cambridge Health Alliance, as well as other Tufts health professional students. Tufts under-

graduates also play a role at the clinic — they facilitate patient intake and patient flow throughout the clinic and conduct initial patient assessments.

The idea for the partnership began as a school project for TUSM students Marc Kimball and Jessica Gonzalez. The duo recognized a need for translation services at the clinic that was not being addressed, Kimball, advancement team administer on the Sharewood Executive Board, explained.

“Most of our patients didn’t speak English, and we didn’t have the appropriate language services,” he said.

Laura Glick, president of the Sharewood Undergraduate Board, has seen an increased need for translation services based on the population the see SHAREWOOD, page 2

New executive administrative dean arrives on Hill by

Xander Landen

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Former Harvard University dean and stem cell and regenerative biology department director Kathryn Link last month assumed the position of executive administrative dean for the Tufts School of Arts and Sciences.

In the position, Link has begun to work with academic leadership to oversee all of the university’s academic programs. She replaces Leah Rosovsky, who left Tufts to become vice president for strategy and programs at Harvard University.

Link has worked in administrative positions at Harvard for the past decade, acting as an assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and later becoming the executive director of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard’s first joint department bringing together the school’s Arts and Sciences faculty and Harvard Medical School.

Link said that, when applying for the position at Tufts, she was attracted to the univer-

sity’s commitment to good research, scholarship, teaching and active citizenship.

“I found Tufts’ leadership very impressive,” she said. “They have a lot of positive energy about the future of higher education and Tufts specifically. I think it’s the place to work right now in the Boston area.”

Link received a degree in history from Washington University, a master’s degree in applied linguistics and teaching English as a second language from Georgetown University and a degree in law from Vermont Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude. Before beginning her career at Harvard, she practiced corporate and real estate law.

Link believes that she is well prepared for her position at Tufts and that her strongest qualification is her liberal arts education.

“A liberal arts education prepares you for anything and everything,” she said.

Dean of Arts and Sciences Joanne see LINK, page 2

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The Sharewood Project, a Tufts-affiliated volunteer medical clinic, will now team up with nonprofit organization Found in Translation, which will provide interpreting services for Sharewood patients.

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that everything comes full circle,” she said. “If you don’t succeed one time, just keep trying. Sooner or later, it’ll work out.”

She hopes to use the opportunity to thank the university for all that she has learned over the past few years.

“I’m so excited to speak on behalf of my class. It’s really an honor to talk about this journey that I’m sure we’ve all had,” Ford said.

The Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship was established in 1896 to pay homage to the Boston preacher and orator for which it is named. One student at Tufts and one student at Harvard University are awarded the scholarship each year.

The CSL selected the finalists out of a pool of 14 applicants, who submitted a resume, a description of their community service experience, an essay and a recorded oral presentation, Starks explained.

The topic of this year’s final presen-

tation was the effect of social media and technology on awareness of social issues, according to Starks. Each finalist was allotted five minutes to provide their take on the prompt.

Ford said advancements in technology have hindered social awareness, using unlimited food buffets as an analogy.

“As you know, social media and technology gives us this endless buffet of information, and at the moment we think, ‘This is great — I can eat whatever I want, I can take in all the information,’ but we’re not really digesting anything,” she said. “You get a little bit of everything but don’t wind up with anything.”

Ford believes the analogy she used in her presentation helped secure her the award over the other competitors.

“I think it really painted a good picture for what I’m saying and carried people through the whole talk,” she said.

“I think because I kept drawing it back to the analogy of food, that’s something we can all relate to, and that kind of kept people listening.”

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Berger-Sweeney praised Link for her leadership skills in an email introducing Link to the Tufts community.

“I was struck not only by Kathryn’s credentials — which speak for themselves — but by her intellectual curiosity, her extensive knowledge of higher education and her collaborative spirit,” Berger-Sweeney said in the statement.

Rosovsky explained that during her time as executive administrative dean at Tufts, she spent a lot of time working on financial aid budgets for the School of Arts and Sciences.

“I was part of a terrific team, and things that are done in universities are done in teams,” she said.

Her new position at Harvard entails helping the university work toward the

president’s strategic agenda, looking at issues of Harvard’s globalization and attracting top-quality students and faculty, Rosovsky added.

Link said that she was looking forward to arriving at Tufts for the spring semester.

“I was completely thrilled to have the opportunity to come and work at Tufts,” she said. “I began interviewing for the position before the holidays, and it came together in time to be a great New Year’s surprise.”

Since then, Link has been enjoying her time and work at the university.

“I’ve only been here a month, but I think Tufts has a really great vibe,” she said. “There is a sense of purpose here but also a sense of humor.

People are truly engaged in achieving their goals and finding the best solutions to achieving their goals without a lot of pretension.”

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Interpreting services to provide improved care for Sharewood patients SHAREWOOD

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clinic serves during her two years with Sharewood. She believes the high need for translation services at Sharewood is due to both the clinic’s location and the wide range of free services it provides. “[Sharewood] does accept patients regardless of economic status, no matter whether they have insurance, no matter whether they are a legal or illegal immigrant, so I think that is probably an important aspect in why we have such a diverse patient population,” Glick, a senior, said.

The partnership with Found in Translation has already created a profound impact on patient care at the clinic, according to Kimball.

“The standard [of ] care we are giving our patients has risen dramatically — things that would ... normally take a couple of hours to do or situations that would be sticky because people have social issues they don’t want to talk about or they don’t know how to talk about, all of that has been completely avoided,” he said. “Language is no longer an issue.”

Glick explained that having an interpreter with no relation to the patient is preferable to relying on the assistance of a bilingual family member or friend because it allows private concerns to be more easily and directly addressed.

“When patients feel more comfortable, they are more willing to explain their entire situation, how they feel, what symptoms they have and what services they need,” she said. “Not having to overcome a language barrier is helpful to make sure they are receiving care and that we are giving them the services that they need.”

Sharewood is entirely volunteer-operated, so translators are being paid directly by Found in Translation, according to Executive Director Maria Vertkin. While

the organization only has funding to continue the partnership until June, Vertin hopes to raise enough funds to establish a long-term relationship with the clinic. She also wants to expand to assist other clinics in need of interpretation services.

The partnership serves the two-part mission of Found in Translation — allowing low-income, bilingual women to capitalize on their language skills by entering the professional world of medical interpreting and helping fight disparities in health care, according to Vertkin. The partnership has helped boost employment placement rates for graduates in a difficult job market, she noted.

“By being medical interpreters and working at a place like Sharewood that doesn’t have the funds to afford their own medical interpretation, we are living out the second part of our mission — we are giving equal access to health care to patients who otherwise would never get it,” Vertkin told the Daily.

Found in Translation graduates both provide medical interpretation services and teach workshops to TUSM students on topics ranging from cultural competency to how to collaborate successfully with interpreters, Vertin said.

Found in Translation will also help train fluent, bilingual TUSM students to use another language effectively in medical settings.

The interpreters increase publicity for the clinic and draw more patients, providing the over 400 Tufts undergraduates on the Sharewood listserv with additional opportunities to volunteer, Glick explained. “[Patients] who may have shied away from coming before because of the language barrier can now have the opportunity to receive the services that we offer,” she said.

Police briefs What’s that smell?

Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) on March 1 at 11:24 p.m. responded to a call from South Hall reporting the odor of burning marijuana. Officers and a resident assistant (RA) identified the room from which the smell was coming and knocked on the door, but the resident did not answer. While standing outside the room, the RA began to cough from the burning odor, so officers entered the room to make sure there was no problem. The smell was stronger when they entered. Officers discovered that the smoke detector was covered with a rubber swim cap, the window was open and a fan was blowing air outside.

They also found bottles of vodka, which were all confiscated. Officers did not get in touch with residents at the time, but the students were reported to the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.

Crash course

TUPD on March 2 at 12:34 p.m. received a call about a motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Boston Avenue and College Avenue. The vehicle had been stopped at the red light on College Ave. near the bridge. When the light turned green, the driver proceeded forward but heard a clicking sound in the car. The vehicle then veered to the right and crashed into the iron fence across from Brown and Brew, knocking down part of the fence and the brick wall. The vehicle contained two adults and two children, but no one was injured. The car was towed.

Cat fight

Officers on March 3 at 1:05 a.m. responded to a call about a disturbance at Latin Way. Police arrived to find a group of students trying to hold two students away from each other. One of the students had a cut lip. Officers learned that the student with a cut lip had reportedly been flirting

with the other student’s girlfriend, so he had been punched. Tufts Emergency Medical Services responded as well, but the student with the cut lip denied medical attention. He declined to press charges at the time.

Hand it over

Police on March 8 at 2:42 a.m. responded to a fire alarm at 100 Packard Ave. Officers arrived and noticed an odor of burnt marijuana coming from the third floor. They located the room and discovered two fans in operation and the windows open. They contacted the resident, who admitted to smoking marijuana in the room. The resident turned in a Ziploc bag containing marijuana, another bag containing an unidentified powder, a water bong and a glass pipe. He was reported to the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.

Night bandit

TUPD between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m. on March 8 received a call from a house across from the football field on College Avenue. The students believed that they had left the door unlocked during the night and reported that three laptops and $100 cash had been stolen. There are no suspects at this time.

Party extinguished

TUPD and the Somerville Fire Department on March 9 at 12:34 a.m. responded to a fire alarm at 80 Professors Row. They arrived on the scene and discovered a party at the house with 50 to 100 people inside.

TUPD determined that the fire alarm went off because someone had activated the fire extinguisher. Officers proceeded to shut down the party.

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Caroline Geiling / The Tufts Daily

The Campus Sustainability Council released a draft report to the Tufts community earlier this month that details ways the university can improve sustainability on campus.

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long-term process aiming to help students understand the importance of sustainability and the effects of climate change.

“They need to understand how that’s put together, and Tufts needs to teach it to our students,” she said. “In order to teach it, Tufts has to become credible. In order to be credible, Tufts has to be sure it’s doing all that it can to reduce its own footprint.”

Vice President for Operations Linda Snyder said the council is very committed to implementating the aims listed in the report.

“We know that in order to make progress, it needs to be a community engagement, and it’s a matter of cultural change as well as technology and other things,” she said.

In addition to addressing sustainability, Woolston said, the council hopes to create hands-on opportunities in the field for students.

“We wanted to try to formalize it more and find a way for students to learn theoretical stuff in their classes but also ... have students be able to work on a real-life problem on campus,” she said.

Snyder believes that the most important issue addressed in the report is tracking the energy efficiency of Tufts’ buildings,

as most do not contain meters to measure energy consumption.

“If you don’t know how much you’re consuming, you can’t manage it and you can’t correct [it],” she said.

Campbell added that the report will require everyone in the Tufts community to re-evaluate their actions that affect campus sustainability.

“We’d like to get a lot of attention for the final report so the community can understand what we’re trying to achieve and be part of it,” she said.

Although Tufts’ three campuses are already very environmentally responsible, Woolston said, the report is a matter of taking the university to the next level. She noted that the specific goals for reducing emissions set in the report are small but achievable.

“Anything that is left is more difficult; we’ve already done all the easy stuff,” she said. “We need to find a way to have every person, when they’re making their decisions ... think about the effects of their decision.”

The feedback page for the report, which has received seven comments as of press time, will be available on the OOS website through March 31, according to Woolston.

She added that the OOS will hold an open house to discuss the report on March 27.

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Students low on patience with stagnation on diversity program by

Amelia Quinn

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Last spring, a major breakthrough in the decades-long push for a presence in the university’s curriculum of issues of identity and diversity arrived on the Hill: A new program called Critical Studies in Disparities and Diasporas (C2D), had been envisioned, was set in motion and was slated to serve as an umbrella program for an Africana studies major and minor, an Asian American studies minor and further identity-related studies.

The push for this program was largely a student-led movement, drawing support from such activist groups as PanAfrican Alliance (PAA). As a result of over a year of student demands backed up by a history of Africana studiesrelated activism dating back to the 1970s, a working group on comparative race and ethnicity studies was created with four student representatives, as well as faculty members including Professor of Biology Francie Chew and Professor of History Peniel Joseph. The Tufts Community Union ( TCU) Senate chose two student representatives, and two were appointed by PAA. “I remember being pretty optimistic at the end of the year,” former TCU Senate President Tomas Garcia (A ’12), who was an original member of the working group, said. “I didn’t think it was ‘mission accomplished, job well done’—there were clearly going to be a lot of tough conversations ahead, and a lot more discussions on the horizon — but I thought that it had been set on a path that would lead somewhere, and would lead to tangible results for the students.”

According to PAA co-president Jameelah Morris, the feeling of progress sparked by the creation of an Africana studies major and minor and an Asian American Studies minor has this year come to a halt, with no next step in sight after two major adminstrative and faculty contacts for the working group — Chew and Dean of Arts and Sciences Joanne Berger-Sweeney — stepped away from the working group and, to Morris’ knowledge, essentially disbanded it.

“Last year was really big, as far as communication,” Morris, a senior, said.

“There were minor issues, as far as when the working group would be able to go to faculty meetings, but for the most part communication was very open and, that hasn’t continued this year.

“At the beginning of last semester, Dean Berger-Sweeney told us that there wouldn’t be students on the working group and that she had kind of washed her hands of the entire thing ... Unfortunately the working group has become almost dysfunctional,” she added.

Berger-Sweeney declined to comment for this article, and several current and former faculty members on the working group either also declined to comment or were unavailable.

That two of working group’s key faculty representatives, Joseph and Professor of Anthropology Deborah Pacini, have gone on sabbatical contributed to the complications.

“Last semester was trying to get students back on the working group after we had been kicked off without notice,” Morris said. “The only reason we found out was because we inquired about what was going on, what was scheduled for the year, what was planned — and nothing. Everybody kept giving us the run-around.”

Marcy Regalado, who now serves as the community representative for the Latino Center to the Senate and the youngest original member of the working group, emphasized the importance of keeping students in the know with this massive undertaking.

“Something that frustrates me is

that the minute that you take a student voice out of a conversation that will affect students, you shouldn’t be having that conversation,” Marcy, a sophomore said. “There needs to be student input regardless of what step you’re at in a process.”

“There will be questions that [administrators] don’t think about, that other students will ask them anyway,” she said. “So if the faculty or [administrators] are making drastic changes — like bringing up a program or implementing new majors — and not having student input, then that’s going to set them back because they’re going to have to take it back and work on it again.”

Morris said the disconnect in communication has slowed down her commitment to seeing Africana Studies become well-established before she graduates in May. The most recent push for an Africana studies presence in the university’s curriculum was fueled by a student occupation of Ballou Hall last year, during which roughly 60 students occupied Berger-Sweeney’s office to demand action.

The sit-in ended when BergerSweeney, Interim Provost and Senior Vice President Peggy Newell and President Anthony Monaco entered negotiations with the students and signed a set of agreements.

The compromise also promised students updates on the progress of Berger-Sweeney’s five initiatives to foster diversity.

“In realizing that that the umbrella program was going to happen ... we wanted to make sure that we were involved in it and that it comes out to be something important,” Morris said.

Morris questioned the future of the programs even under the larger umbrella program.

“Africana studies is growing, so is the Asian American studies program, but those programs are supposed to be housed under the bigger umbrella,” Morris said. “If the umbrella isn’t functioning correctly, then what’s going to happen with the smaller programs?”

Senior Logan Cotton, who is currently a member of the working group, stressed the importance of a successful C2D program.

“Tufts used to be kind of at the forefront of this field,” Cotton said.

“We’ve let ourselves fall way, way back to [where] a lot of our peers [are].”

“What’s the space where Tufts can make a lot of groundbreaking work?...I think it’s right here in identity studies,” he added. “We aren’t filling in the biggest issues [of ] how people are forming their identities and what the implications of those identity formations are on greater systems and structures.”

Although Africana studies now exists as a new, interdisciplinary program within the School of Arts and Sciences, it is far from fleshed-out, PAA co-president Tabias Wilson said.

“I want to see some actual courses’ names. I’d like to see some people being named as possible, real advisors. I mean, the only progress that I’ve actually seen is a website that kind of says what the contour of a major would be,” Wilson, a senior, said. “What are the career options if I have an Africana Studies major? What do I do with it?

What are the research options? What are the grants? So I’ve not seen that type of leadership, that type of opportunity for an internship or career opportunities being listed at all, which is really nerve-wracking to me.”

With so much left to accomplish, the students in the working group and their allies in PAA aren’t gearing up for another occupation, but they’re not going to leave for the summer with their questions unanswered.

“By the end of this year, I need an answer from the faculty and admins who are at the head of this, stating whether they are going to continue or not. If they’re going to continue, what are the next two crucial steps to do it and if they’re not going to continue, why [not],” Regalado said.

“If it’s financial, then explain what are the finances behind it ... have an explanation, have a forum and have a presentation about this.”

“There needs to be an open dialogue,” she added. “I’d really like to hear what students think about this, because the way the admin works is to address not only the target group, but also look at how it’s affecting the non-target. I’m a student rep — this what I’m here for.”

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Second baseman Roger Grenier (E ‘88) went 2-for-3 in a 1987 game against Boston University. Photo by Adam Lesser (LA ‘90).

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To-do: Do.

I

refuse to believe I am alone in this, so, question: Do you spend more time making to-do lists than doing?

I will be very blunt right now: The absurdly vague task “figure it out” has shifted from one of my “to-do” lists to another for the last few weeks, but it has gone virtually untouched. I rewrite a new list every day. As part of my daily “to-do,” I carve out 10 minutes to write a round-up “to-do” list, then parcel that list out into manageable (read: could possibly happen today) tasks and “long-term” (read: this should happen — “should”) tasks.

But I have not “figured it out” because, honestly, I have been too lazy and depressed at times to muster up the energy to think critically about anything, let alone myself. This is where self-care circa column two comes in.

The menial tasks of the “to-do” continue to pile up, and they’re small enough to power through, but what about that glaring “read all the bookmarked articles” and “figure out life” tasks I write on each list?

A smart person I dated once told me, “Brionna, it’s like you’re the toast, and your to-do is the butter on the toast. If the toast is cold, it will not melt the butter, and it will not be yummy. You have to warm up the toast by getting things done and feeling good about yourself so that the butter melts easily” — meaning the tasks come naturally and you’re not as overwhelmed. This person and I communicate mostly through metaphors and carbohydrates and occasionally through combinations of the two.

Soul mates.

See, it all ties back into the idea from two weeks ago, when we played the “should” game (we all lost, by the way), and the thought that we “should” be able to do more, when the reality is that we cannot. Fact: Doing great things takes time. Finding yourself takes time, and the atmosphere at Tufts does not make it an easy — hell, even an enjoyable — task most of the time.

It feels like we have to break down to absolutely nothing (involuntarily) to even see a glimpse of who we are or who we could be.

The friend I mentioned in last week’s column, we’ll call him “11:30 in the J Field,” stopped me outside of Dowling Hall last week, and we stood around talking. Within seconds we were talking about how all he wants is to decompress and find out who he is outside of Tufts, outside the context of school and from underneath the oppositional gaze. His face lit up when he spoke on thinking of his future, but then I could see reality settle in again: Taking “time off” after graduation will not be restful for him at the start — it would not be financially feasible. For him, a job is not an option, it is a necessity and self-discovery/self-realization, and the slow process toward getting to a place of content will not come for a while.

This is real, and it is everywhere.

So, here’s your only spring break assignment: Chill. Do, and chill. Get around to it. Not all of it, just some of it, whatever “it” is, and when you do, stare at it from all angles, then breathe and move on. I will be out of the country, so tweet me if you need any help or less vague guidance. We will see what we can do.

P.S. This column is dedicated to Mr. Robert and the other members of Allied Security at the Tisch Fitness Center for always reading my column, talking to me and for being real people.

Brionna Jimerson is a senior majoring in American studies. She can be reached at Brionna.Jimerson@tufts. edu or on Twitter @brionnajay .

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Boston locals remix the world of candy How Unreal Candy aims to change the way America indulges

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tart-ups are a dime a dozen in Boston, which has a selfperpetuated reputation as the Silicon Valley of the East Coast.

A graphic map that recently floated around the Boston tech circles geographically orients many of the startups in the area. Online shopping sensation Rue La La hangs out in Southie, along with Abine and Pingup. Across Fort Point Channel, Mobee, OpenBay and Ubersense occupy real estate in the Downtown Crossing area, minutes from the State House. Even the historical Back Bay has seen Swirl and Pongr move in. And now the slightly more shopping-oriented block across the street from the Prudential Center on Boylston is home to a candy company.

Unreal Candy, a Boston-based chocolate company, was launched in June 2012 with five products — all market competitors to the top five best-selling candy bars. With slogans like “Get unjunked,” the company is determined to change the way Americans consume candy in this country — and they’re doing so on an unprecedented scale.

What started as an argument over Halloween candy between Digitas founder Michael Bronner and his 13-year-old son Nicky grew into a bona fide candy company less ‘Willy Wonka’ and more a result of business acumen and major start-up cash. The goal? Remove hydrogenated oils, artificial colors and preservatives that are standard ingredients in candies like Reese’s, Hershey’s milk chocolate bars and M&M’s.

After academic research into the food science of candy making, Bronner approached Adam Melonas, a top chef in Spain and gourmand who sourced the ingredients for the chocolates.

Bronner, no novice to starting a business from scratch, brought on board a talented team of friends and techies, including former Google employee Alan Ringvald.

A Bostonian who defected to the West Coast to join the dream team at Google, Ringvald was coaxed back to

Boston to join the Unreal team as head of digital marketing.

“I’ve known Michael since I was a young boy. I had casual conversations with them a few years ago. The big idea centered [on] trying to change food and the way we think about food in the U.S,” he said. “Generally speaking, it’s taking food that’s really bad for you and [making] it better, not good for you. Adding nutrition to the Snickers bar? That’s nuts,” he said.

It takes a certain degree of boldness and raw gumption to leave the winner of Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work For” but Ringvald believed in the message of Unreal.

The startup has kept its product offering small to begin with, now only producing five different candies: chocolate candy shell peanuts, chocolate candy shells, chocolate caramel nougat, chocolate caramel nougat with peanuts and chocolate peanut butter cups. Each candy receives its own color and number, which areeach incorporated on the Tetris-like packaging. At a price range of $.89 and $1.29 for individual bars, they looked, tasted, and cost as much as the leading competitors.

“I think it tastes better,” junior Simmone Seymour, Unreal Candy’s representative on the Hill, said. “Something that undermines them, though, is that the calorie count isn’t that much lower than the average candy. But it’s still important to focus on the health aspects, like no preservatives.”

When compared directly to market competitors, Unreal comes out the winner every time. Take, for example, the chocolate candy shell, with a serving size of 42 grams, compared to a standard M&M’s pack, which is 47.5 grams. Unreal’s commitment to using less sugar is truly impressive — 19 grams of sugar instead of M&Ms’ whopping 31 grams of sugar. Fiber and protein counts rise as the “junk” calories from sugar and carbohydrates fall.

Consumers concerned about the triple bottom line will be pleased to hear that Unreal is, too.

“Everything is responsibly sourced,” Ringvald said. “We even had to go to New Zealand to scope out the cows.”

The shop’s palm fruit oil — a “hot topic,” Ringvald said — comes from a

vendor in Brazil that plants two hectares of land for every hectare farmed.

Small vendors don’t change an almost monopolistic food sector by entering the market silently. They need to enter with a bang, and for Unreal Candy that bang came in the form of an initial launch in CVS and Walgreen’s stores nation-wide. Around 30,000 grocery and convenience stores’ locations stock the candy shoulder-to-shoulder with other established candy bars.

Immediate visibility was no problem for the new confectioners: Initial investors like Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Boston power couple Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady promised to promote the product star power that could garner the attention of West Coast tech gurus and New England Patriots fans alike.

“Unreal is completely reinventing something we take for granted. Those are the innovations I love seeing,” Dorsey says in the promotional video that debuted for the launch.

Unreal’s marketing strategy falls in line with its startup mentality, unconventional product and atypical investors. Ringvald highlights the brand’s emphasis on digital promotion.

“Adding nutrition to the Snickers bar? That’s nuts.”

- Alan Ringvald, head of digital marketing “We wanted to try to do things a bit differently,” he said. “It [digital] is so connected with the audience we’re looking for: more fluid, more like a current company.”

Their biggest push to date was back in October, when the team went full steam ahead on a promoted Twitter trend. As Facebook’s IPO indicated, online advertising still falls short in its returns, though the promoted trend paid off for the candy company: Unreal ranked as the top trend on the social media site for the day, with 50 million impressions and 40% of the total user base exposed.

Millennials — people currently between 18-34 years of age — are the

target audience for Unreal, and the company also focuses, surprisingly, on millennial moms.

“Younger moms are digitally native, so we reach them online,” said Ringvald.

“At this point, first-time moms were born in 1987 and online resources are really trusted. Blogs and sites like Daily Candy are influential for how these women raise kids,” he continued.

Both the CVS and Tedeschi locations in Davis Square stock the candy, and Unreal has targeted Tufts as one of the Boston campuses on which to distribute candy. Unreal Candy, like Red Bull and Vineyard Vines, hires influential college students on campuses in order to promote the product. Seymour, Tufts’ Unreal representative, makes 5 cents per bar distributing them on campus.

After being given around 4,000 fullsize bars, students have the potential to pick up bundle of cash. Unreal approached online e-zine HerCampus to use their pre-existing readership and name recognition, which is how Seymour got involved.

But is it effective to pour money into individuals who may or may not be able to change the ever-fickle tastes of a college student with expendable cash?

“I think people do listen and college reps are a really good way to get your brand name out there,” commented Seymour. “It depends what the product is.”

She also commented on the lower costs of sample distribution as compared to traditional magazine, television, bus, or street advertisements.

By organizing study breaks with free giveaways in the Tower Café in Tisch Library, and also hand-making Halloween grams (delivered for a low price), Seymour distributed several thousand around Tufts.

No one at Unreal was permitted to speak to the sell-through rate, but the next steps continue in the vein of ambitious, large scale operations including expanding presence and reaching a critical mass in Boston, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

For a healthy candy bar without the niche, health-nut reputation, perhaps the brand could coin the quadruple bottom line: people, planet, profit and physical wellness.

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‘Oz’ is entertaining enough despite flaws Impressive visuals cannot compensate for weak characterization by

Natalie Girshman

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Disney’s “Oz the Great and Powerful” is an attempt to simultaneously create a prequel to the beloved “The Wizard

Oz the Great and Powerful Starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz Directed by Sam Raimi of Oz” (1939) and generate box office revenues. There’s a wise-cracking talking monkey sidekick, dazzling special effects, pretty actors and actresses in pretty costumes and a heavy dose of sentimentality. Does it work? Sometimes.

The movie begins in Kansas in blackand-white film, with Oscar Diggs ( James Franco). He’s a magician in a traveling circus -- a con man with a bag of tricks and is an inveterate flirt whose conquests get him in trouble with the circus strongman, leading him to flee to a hot air balloon and into a tornado that sweeps him off to the land of Oz. Once there, he’s hailed as the wizard mentioned in an old and extremely vague prophecy who destined to save the land and restore to Oz to its former glory. There’s also not one, but three witches for him to chase after: Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), one of which will end up going green.

“Oz the Great and Powerful” is best at the beginning, when it doesn’t take itself too seriously and when the fantastical imagery of Oz still seems new and charming. The opening sequences have a sense of playfulness and a more subtle use of 3-D that slowly slips away over the course of the movie as the special effects get bigger and splashier. To the movie’s credit, the 3-D does seem well-integrated and gives the scenery a welcome sense of depth. Sam Raimi, director of the original “Spider-Man” trilogy (2002-2007), seems to be at his best with creating striking images rather than striking characters.

The movie is full of acting talent burdened with an uninspired script.

James Franco is a charismatic and versatile actor, but he doesn’t quite manage to make the wizard’s transformation from charming cad to trickster hero believable. He does have a lovely scene where he repairs a china girl’s broken legs. With a script that made his

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Glinda (Michelle Williams) ends up being the most developed of the three witches in the film. transformation more gradual and credible, he might have created a memorable and appealing character. The three witches are even more thinly written, but Kunis, Weisz and Williams do their best. Williams, who has the most screen time and the most sympathetic character, ultimately emerges as the most developed of the witches, though that’s not saying much. Finally, the wizard is accompanied by two sidekicks -- a talking monkey (voiced by Zach Braff ) and a porcelain china girl (voiced by Joey King), who are mostly charming if occasionally overused.

It’s remarkably frustrating that in 2013, a major studio picture that’s marketed to families (and to their daughters) has three female characters whose main traits are that they’re attracted to the wizard and are either good or evil.

They may have magical powers, but even the wise and capable Glinda needs a man to help her come up with a winning plan. The original 1939 movie has a more spirited heroine in Dorothy than this movie does in any of the witches, and today, that’s more than a little ridiculous.

The film does remain consistently

entertaining through its two hours and three minutes running time and is well-paced, picking up momentum as the plot unfurls. The end seems a little drawn-out as there’s confrontation after confrontation with the wicked witches, but it’s only in those final scenes that you start to realize how long “Oz” really is. In the end, “Oz the Great and Powerful” is a good spring break movie: diverting, splashy and best seen on the big screen where the weak characterizations are temporarily outweighed by the dramatic and colorful images.

Top Ten | Things to do over Spring Break Spring Break is almost here, and for most Tufts students, this means forgetting obligations and getting far away. For some lucky ducks, Spring Break means making your way down south for a week full of warm weather and debauchery, and for others, this means going home for a quiet week of relaxation. And for all of you poor people staying on campus, just drink some NyQuil and dream of clear skies, warm air and a place far away from here. Here’s a list of what some of us will probably spend our time doing:

wants to see your weird toes, but those Bean boots have been oppressive this winter. Let your feet breathe.

to an 18+ country: Montreal is the new Miami. Those Canadians know how to get down, eh?

Rejoice! No more moving your car at midnight only to find a fine dusting on the ground the next morning.

9) Binge watch TV shows until you hate yourself: House of Cards isn’t going to watch itself! The power of Kevin Spacey compels you.

6) Wear jorts: Those pale stems of skin and joints you call legs will get that vitamin D boost they’ve been desperate for. Girls, this means it’s finally time to shave...

3) Not having to listen to the Joey struggling up the hill: How can a bus that small make a noise so loud?

10) Wear flip flops: Typically, nobody

7) Have a drink, if you’re travelling

8) Hibernate: Though hibernation is a winter activity, many people take it up during the first few days of spring.

Warning: You will wake up in a week and wonder where your break went.

5) Don’t get Taken (2008): Liam Neeson will be pissed, but he’ll still use his specific set of skills to kill the people who took you. Oh yeah, and save you too. more

Snow

1) Do literally nothing: Seriously, don’t do a damn thing.

Emergencies:

--compiled by the Daily Arts Department

Dropkick Murphys: Boston native band Dropkick Murphys will have their first ever headlining performance at the TD Garden arena this weekend. The concert will also feature supporting acts Black 47, The Mahones and Old Man Markley. (Friday at 7:30 p.m. at TD Garden, Boston. Tickets are $27-$40 on ticketmaster.com.)

annual parade through South Boston is the perfect celebration of Irish culture.

The parade will feature marching bands and pipe bands from all over the country.

(Sunday at 1 p.m. beginning near the Broadway T station. Admission is free.)

4)

No

2) No more snow: Probably ... if you’re leaving the Northeast.

What’s Up This Weekend Looking to make your weekend artsy?

Check out these events:

(Tonight at 8 p.m. in Distler Performance Hall. Admission is free.)

Tufts Symphony Orchestra: The Tufts Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of John Page, will perform a concert featuring works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alexander Borodin and Gaetano Donizetti. The Donizetti piece will feature a performance by soprano soloist Suzanne Lis, winner of the concerto competition.

Stephen Lynch: Stand-up comedian and musician Stephen Lynch will be making a stop in Boston on his tour in support of his latest album, “Lion” (2012). Lynch has had four albums and numerous stand-up specials on Comedy Central. (Saturday at 7 p.m. at Wilbur Theatre, Boston. Tickets are $35 on ticketmaster.com.)

St. Patrick’s Day Parade: For those looking to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Boston’s

— compiled by the Daily Arts Department

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Renaissance woman Mariah Gruner explores musical sounds, fiber art, academia Senior Mariah Gruner, a member of the Jackson Jills, has been singing since she was four. From taking lessons at a young age to starting a folk-punk band in high school called “Petite Histoire,” Gruner has filled her life with music.

In her freshman year at Tufts, Gruner joined Tufts’ all-female a cappella group the Jackson Jills on a whim and has been with the “Jills” ever since.

More recently, however, Gruner has been venturing out on her own — she recently put up a 12-song cover album on the Internet.

“It’s so easy to start an artist page on Bandcamp,” she said about her most recent venture. “People can pay what they want to download the album or they can get it for free.”

Many of the cover songs on the album are sung a cappella.

“In terms of instruments, I feel most in control of my voice. I think a lot of singers forget that their voice is an instrument,” she said.

Beyond music, Gruner also makes jewelry, sews, knits and collages.

“For me, it doesn’t make sense to use just one medium,” she explained.

As for the future, Gruner is looking towards teaching while making time for her various musical and artistic ventures.

You can check out her album at www. mariahrose.bandcamp.com and see her perform with the Jackson Jills throughout the spring.

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ast week, one of my closest friends broke up with her very long-term boyfriend. She was with him all throughout high school and college and, although it lasted for such a long time, it was a turbulent relationship to say the least.

They were the kind of couple who constantly went through a rapidly increasing cycle of being crazy-in-love, f--king up, painfully hating each other and resignedly getting back together again. It was a touch of manic and a whole lot of codependence. They should have probably been given methadone — it was that bad. Eventually, it became too much for both of them, and they called it quits for what seems like the last time.

I’ve been talking to her a lot these past few days, and the notion she keeps coming back to is how she feels like she wasted all that time being with him. Now that it’s actually over and they won’t be one of those rare “happily-ever-afters,” she wishes she had never dated him because in her mind it amounted to nothing.

When she says things like this, I just play the part of the good friend and tell her what she needs to hear to get through this tough time, but I can’t help but to think of how “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004) proves her wrong.

The film, which centers on Joel’s ( Jim Carrey) and Clementine’s (Kate Winslet) attempting to erase each other from their memories after their relationship turns sour, shows how much people get out of intimate connections even when they don’t work out.

“Eternal Sunshine” is one of my alltime favorite films, and I affectionately think of it as the sci-fi version of “Annie Hall” (1977). Even though the film is kind of heady and bleak at times, what really impresses me about it is how well the movie understands the idea of hope. For me, hope is the feeling of optimism for the future even if the present is fairly desolate.

Despite all the dreary skies and hurt feelings in the picture, the end, where Joel and Clementine decide to try to make it work again, despite knowing that it could end just as poorly as the last time, gets me every time. In Joel’s memories, we’ve seen glimpses of how happy and content they felt together and how much the two have gained from knowing each other. Yes, it’s sad that they get so bitter when they are growing apart, but that doesn’t negate all those times that they wholeheartedly loved one another. Each of them took something from that experience, even if it’s something they might not share together forever.

A lot of what makes all this so great is how wonderful a job screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry do in creating Joel and Clementine as individuals as well as a couple. In my mind, “Eternal Sunshine’s” script is one of the greatest ever produced because of this.

Joel is an introvert who almost blends into the walls at times, yet he gives off a sense of being a deep and slightly uneasy soul. He is trapped in his unassuming exterior.

Clementine is his opposite: she is uninhibited and loquacious, but it all seems like just a front to cover for her lack of any real self-confidence.

Together, they push each other out of their comfort zones just enough that you can see why they should work — and also why they might not be able to.

Either way, they are growing as people because of their time together, and to me, that makes it anything but a waste of time.

Joe Stile is a senior majoring in political science. He can be reached at Joseph.Stile@ tufts.edu.

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Transparent planning of Africana studies threatened by complacency

Given that the a program in Critical Studies in disparities and Diasporas (C2D) was created — for the most part — as a direct result of concerted effort on the part of a passionate group of undergraduate students and their allies, it constitutes a threat to all that these students have achieved that the administrators and faculty have not made a clear effort to involve them in its implementation. Whether student representatives to the working group on the umbrella program are realistic in their demands, or whether their opinions are popular, should by no means dictate whether they are listened to. Even the students are now unclear on their role on the working group they themselves helped to create — or whether the working group even still exists.

Students all but made this program happen, and to exclude these students from the processes by which it will be

defined is directly contradictory to the historical spirit of the push for an Africana studies major and representation of the study of diversity in the Tufts curriculum. Since the 1970’s, this has been a student-led movement. Last year, it was students that occupied Ballou Hall and, for better or for worse, forced a decision out of the relevant administrators. That Dean of Arts and Sciences Berger-Sweeney will now not even comment on the process of moving — or not moving — forward with the program shows a certain level of contempt for the students who have become emotionally and academically invested in seeing their project through.

Even if the Dean has valid motives for passing responsibility for the pro gram and the working group down to those with on-the-ground knowledge, these faculty members and administrators must recognize what it means that

they have since December not made it clear to their student counterparts what their relationship will be, let alone met with them or possibly even met at all.

A working group should not take this much work — these students’ jobs are not finished, and they have done their part to make it clear that they will see their project through through if given the chance. The university has a chance here, in creating a brand-new program without the bindings of precedent or institutional memory, to truly take into account the desires of the people who had a hand in creating it while it designs the curriculum and thinks about hiring key faculty.

The series of miscommunications and a general lack of clarity spell a threat that this opportunity may be lost, especially the more vocal student proponents get fed up or graduate off the Hill to move on to more fruitful activism.

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“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

Joseph Welch’s famous shaming of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communist witch hunts has lived in our collective imaginations as a vivid example of condemning political bigotry.

So I was disappointed when I came across Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Tex.) recent claim, outlined in a New Yorker expose, that Harvard Law had been “harboring” 12 communists during his time as a student there.

Whether this charge is true or not is irrelevant. Rather, I want to point out

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that this insipid comment ignores the value that Marxist thought has brought to our intellectual life. Unfortunately, Cruz’s commentary is not an isolated incident. Sarah Palin’s characterization of President Barack Obama as a socialist is another other prominent example.

Communism aside, Marxist thought has had a major impact on various fields.

A history student could tell you that Marxist historiography — that is, thinking about change over time in terms of conflict between the classes — is in large part derived from Marxism.

Economic historiography is another example. One could argue the same for the field of economics itself. Moreover,

a law student could tell you the same of the field of law and economics. And the list could go on.

Universities exist to educate and engage in intellectual discourse and discovery. To condemn one for “harboring” people who engage in that discourse, even if it’s outside the norm, is anti-intellectual. We should embrace anything that adds to our intellectual life.

Thinking about the world in new, and sometimes uncomfortable, ways can be a door to intellectual growth. The University of Minnesota itself has several Marxist professors. They were among the best educators I have ever encountered, and I am no communist.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, I am writing to correct a number of inaccuracies in the Daily article titled “Faculty declines vote on CSL ‘justified departure’ policy” (Tuesday, March 12) beyond the non sequitur in the headline, since the article emphasizes that the issue has not come to the faculty as a body.

The Arts and Sciences & Engineering Faculty Executive Committee, at its last meeting, discussed whether we should bring the issue of the Committee on Student Life’s (CSL) decision to the floor of a faculty meeting because a Daily reporter had asked to talk to the cochairs of the committee about this. We looked at the AS&E bylaws for both the Executive Committee and the Committee on Student Life, but did not see any basis for us to interfere with the CSL’s decision or to bring the issue to the floor of the faculty. However, the Committee did not make a final decision because we did not feel that we had all the relevant information, and I was asked to gather further information about the CSL decision and to seek the advice of university counsel.

When I talked to the Daily reporter, I made clear to him that we were still gathering information and that I had not yet received a response from university counsel. Thus, the Daily article is inaccurate in saying: “Members of the AS&E Faculty Executive Committee decided not to carry through on a vote on whether to strike down the CSL’s ‘justified departure’ policy.”

I followed up the interview by sending the Daily reporter the following summary of the main points I had tried to make: “(1) The ExCom brings to the floor the faculty issues brought to it by faculty committees or other faculty sources, as stipulated in the bylaws: ‘The primary duty of the Executive Committee is to design the agenda of faculty meetings, doing so in the context of a coordinated collection of information from the administration, faculty committees, department chairs and other sources, in order that discussions at faculty meetings adequately reflect faculty concerns and proceed in a well -informed manner.’

To date, no faculty source has asked us to bring the CSL decision to the floor of the faculty.

(2) The ExCom would not interfere in the operations of a faculty committee unless we were concerned that said committee was violating the bylaws. To date, we have no reason to think that this is the case with CSL.” The Daily article also says: “Several student groups, including the

TCU Senate, have voiced opposition to the CSL’s policy and had identified the (AS&E) Faculty Executive Committee as their last recourse to overturn the CSL’s decision, according to TCU President Wyatt Cadley.”

In fact, the TCU Senate has not asked the Executive Committee to do anything. On Jan. 30 Andrew Nuñez, the Senate historian, emailed professor Jeanne Penvenne, a member of the Executive Committee (ExCom), thinking she was ExCom chair (as she was last year), and she forwarded it to the current chairs, Professor Karen Panetta and me. The email announced the two Senate resolutions about the CSL decision, but there was no specific request for action. To my knowledge, the only student who has asked us whether we will take the CSL decision to the entire faculty is the Daily reporter.

If we were asked, we would probably reply (as I indicated above) that our function, as we understand it, is to bring to the floor of the faculty issues that faculty committees, groups or even individual faculty ask us to bring forward. Again, no one has done so.

Students have representatives on faculty committees — elected representatives on the Committee on Student Life (where, as I understand it, the decision was unanimous) and representatives selected by the Senate on other committees. If the Senate wants to bring an issue to the faculty, they probably ought to work with student representatives on faculty committees, since those committees are able to bring business to the faculty as a whole through the Executive Committee.

That being said, I personally do not see anything in the bylaws that would allow the faculty to overturn the decision of a committee that is operating within its authority. There has been some confusion about the precise nature of the CSL decision. My understanding of what happened is as follows: After the TCU Judiciary de-recognized the Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) because TCF’s restriction on eligibility for leadership in the organization violated the “all comers” policy, TCF appealed that decision to CSL. CSL did not overturn the Judiciary’s de-recognition of TCF, rather they acknowledged that the Judiciary had reached a proper decision in light of the TCU Constitution as it then stood. They then went on to make a policy change creating a potential exemption to the “all comers” policy in the case of leadership of a student religious group, and crafting a precise and narrow procedure by which a group can obtain that exemption. When I talked to the Daily reporter I was uncer-

tain about whether the CSL, by its decision to create an exemption to the “nondiscrimination policy,” had changed the TCU Constitution or a separate set of regulations pertaining to the recognition process. I have now been informed by university counsel as follows: “I do not view the CSL decision as altering the TCU Constitution, nor creating a separate recognition policy. Instead, I read the decision as an attempt by the CSL not to intrude on the authority of the Judiciary in making initial decisions regarding recognition of student organizations, but at the same time, giving meaning to the role the bylaws require the CSL to play in approving such decisions. As such, the decision takes on the form of interpretive guidance to the Judiciary about what criteria the CSL will and will not approve regarding the recognition of student organizations.”

This interpretation is based on the bylaw mandating the following jurisdiction to CSL: “The criteria used by student government to decide whether or not to recognize student organizations shall be subject to the approval of the committee...”

Finally, it should be said that the agendas for the remaining AS&E faculty meetings this year are very full. At the same time, the decision by the Tufts Christian Fellowship not to seek an exemption to the non-discrimination policy means that the issues in contention are, for the moment, a matter of principle rather than practice.

Therefore, in all likelihood the earliest that the faculty could discuss this at an AS&E meeting would be in the fall.

If this all seems quite complicated, that’s because it is complicated! The Executive Committee regards the issues brought to the surface by the CSL decision as important and worthy of discussion, and we have neither the power nor the inclination to suppress such discussion. However, we are not the “boss” of faculty committees. We are here to facilitate and support committees in their execution of their mandates and to enable them to bring their business before the faculty. And we do not do the work of the committees; rather, when a matter is brought to our attention, we refer it to the appropriate committee(s).

I hope that this explanation provides both clarification of what has happened to this point and context for understanding the role of the Executive Committee.

Sincerely, Steven Hirsch, Associate Professor of Classics Co-Chair of the AS&E Faculty Executive Committee

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Late last week, as a rare March blizzard began to take our nation’s capital by storm, an ophthalmologist from Kentucky directed all eyes to C-SPAN, where he was busy making history. The ophthalmologist, Senator Rand Paul, managed to remain standing for nearly 13 hours in protest over President Obama’s choice to head the CIA in his second administration. While Paul admitted the inevitable futility of the filibuster, he remained firm in his positing of a single, previously unanswered question: “Does the President have the authority to use a drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?” We commend the senator for raising the alarm on this important aspect of civil liberty, and we fault the administration for its intransigence in clarifying its own policies.

While John O. Brennan faced little trouble in his confirmation as Director of the CIA the day after Paul’s showmanship, Senator Paul did ultimately score a victory for his cause. Throughout his marathon of a speech, Paul read passages from previous letters sent to him by the Attorney General addressing his primary

query. The cavalier and wholly unsatisfying answer was, namely, that the question is laughable in and of itself—the president has never had to ponder targeting an American on American soil. Laudably, Paul was unhappy with this response and stood his ground until he could get an unambiguous “yes” or “no” from the Justice Department. While he ultimately capitulated before such a memorandum arrived, the next day Attorney General Eric Holder backtracked from his previous position that American citizens at home could be targeted in “extraordinary circumstances.” His new, clarified stance is that “the answer to [Senator Paul’s] question is no.”

This is a victory not only for the senator from Kentucky’s political ambitions, but also for the good of the American people at large. The Obama administration has been dangerously continuing the unsalutary covertness of the Bush era national security team, which initiated the drone program a decade ago. Last year’s revelation that the president makes the final and unchecked decision on targeting members of his secret “kill list” calls into question how seriously our nation’s leaders take the Fifth Amendment. While the Bush years yielded many vociferous

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activists opposed to warrant-less wiretapping and other iniquities, the Obama administration has yet to face the same critics (largely because they make up a component of his political base). We take pride in Senator Paul’s championing of the causes of civil liberties and government accountability, and we call on more of our nation’s leaders to join him on this issue. As Democratic Senator Ron Wyden proved during the epic filibuster, seeking clarity on life-or-death policy should not manifest into a partisan issue.

Patrick Henry once said, “The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” Before Senator Paul’s bit of political theater, it was not just the transactions of our rulers but also the possible scope of such transactions that had been blatantly concealed.

Such is not the mark of good governance.

While we are glad that Paul’s question has finally been granted a serious reply, we urge the administration to remember this moment in future situations. Likewise, we call on all of our nation’s leaders to be as brave as Senator Paul. When the government shrouds the nature of its business, it is up to political figures to call for transparency and openness.

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Backing the Intifada

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he human rights of the Palestinian people have been desecrated ever since the State of Israel was carved into their homeland in 1948. Today, the remaining Palestinian territories — the West Bank and Gaza — have imposed upon them racial segregation, annexation, detention, voter suppression and sadistic aggression under the military occupation. This all comes with America’s gleeful support, financially and culturally. We live in a Zionist culture. Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual national movement to rally and educate on the subjugation of the Palestinian people, drawing inspiration from the international divestment movement in response to the South African apartheid. In addition to stating the compelling analogy between the segregation of Palestinians and that of black South Africans, IAW promotes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) strategy to cripple the economic support for Israel’s occupying forces. I wrote last week how our own endowment is invested in certain corporations complicit in the illegal occupation — namely, IDF tracking computer system manufacturer Hewlett Packard. It’s thus natural that our campus should have a strong activist response to Israeli apartheid. Enter the Tufts chapter of the national Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), who in the last few years have emerged as an impressive purveyor of bada--, enlightening action.

SJP operates horizontally, directly involving members in decision-making, rather than a selected leadership board’s selecting the organization’s vision. Last week, SJP sponsored Tufts’ IAW, which involved a film screening, panel discussion, solidarity fasting and direct action. That action occurred on Wednesday, when a graffiti-clad barrier — among the spray-painted messages, “TEAR DOWN THIS WALL” — was erected outside the Tisch library steps. Students in keffiyehs stood silently in a line while some dressed in IDF garb checked their IDs, blindfolding some and having them sit along the wall. The display imitated the checkpoints that Palestinians in the West Bank (not only at the border, but indeed across the entire territory) undergo everyday while Israeli citizens pass freely on the roads adjacent. Onlookers were given slips of paper with stories of individual mistreatment at checkpoints. The intent was for imagery of segregation — indeed of those with original claim to the land — to be seared into students’ minds.

IAW at Tufts was meant to revolutionize the culture of thought surrounding Israel at Tufts. I reached out to emergent SJP organizer Munir Atalla and asked him to describe the community climate in which they were operating. He noted that several Zionist groups receiving outside funding, including Friends of Israel and Hillel, act to subvert the influence of those in solidarity with Palestine.

“I felt a huge pressure upon entering Tufts to prove myself as one of ‘the good Arabs,’” Atalla recalled, “Meaning basically that I was expected to agree with American foreign policy in the Middle East, never criticize Israel and hold America on a pedestal as the greatest democracy on the planet.” We often forget, it seems, that Tufts — like American culture, and as a part of America — puts tremendous institutional, Westernizing pressure on its community to conform to the interests of its elites. Israel is flaunted as America’s “closest ally,” and our institutes of higher education produce leaders either too afraid or too indoctrinated to challenge that narrative. Nevertheless, programs like IAW have successfully drawn out independent thought in the local community. “Tufts students have proved very willing to challenge their pre-conceived notions, and those that have often find that SJP has opened their eyes to a previously unheard counter-narrative,” Atalla said. “[Over IAW], our events were extremely well-attended, our allies were unequivocally supportive and the true effect of our organizing is yet to be seen.”

Walker Bristol is a junior majoring in religion and philosophy. He can be reached at Walker.Bristol@tufts.edu.

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After an up-and-down campaign last year, the arrival of the spring season for the men’s tennis team brings the opportunity for success against an ever-challenging NESCAC and to continue their growth from earlier this year.

In the fall, the Jumbos began their 2012-2013 campaign on a high note, tallying some strong wins in individual matches at Middlebury, Williams and Bates, and sweeping a tough Coast Guard squad 9-0 in the first dual match of the year. According to coach Jaime Kenney, strong performances in the fall established a definite sense of momentum for Tufts heading into the conference portion of the schedule.

“More than anything, the fall really gave the guys an opportunity to see where they needed to be in the spring,” Kenney said. “It motivated them to work hard in the offseason, and over the last few weeks, I’ve been very impressed with their improvements. We’ll learn more during the season, but for now I really like what I’m seeing.”

To supplement a core of five returning seniors, Kenney brought in the Tennis Recruiting Network’s 8th best Div. III recruiting class in the nation this year.

The incoming Jumbos already received useful match experience in a less competitive environment in the fall, but strong performances from all five freshmen will be critical to the success of the team going forward.

“Coming in, I felt lucky that I got to know the other freshmen really well and could adapt to the team dynamic quickly,” freshman Jay Glickman said.

“The upperclassmen were very willing to accept the incoming recruiting class into the tennis family, and overall we’re psyched about our team this year.”

Led by senior tri-captains Andrew Lutz, Andrew McHugh and Mark Westerfield, the Jumbos did not take the break between seasons lightly. Even with six NESCAC teams among the NCAA’s official top 30 rankings, the Jumbos are motivated to perform at the highest level against any and all competition.

“As a team, we definitely worked hard both on and off the court this winter, focusing on our fitness, conditioning and endurance,” Glickman said. “We all tightened up on different aspects of our game and zeroed in on areas that could use improvement.”

As they look at that daunting NESCAC slate, there isn’t any one team they view as more important than the rest. According to Kenney, no matter the opponent, the goal for her players is to remember that improving every day will in itself lead to a successful season.

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Senior Ben Barad will lead a young Jumbo squad into a loaded NESCAC this season. entire level, and we’re committed to making Tufts a top team in the nation,” Kenney said. “I’m psyched to see how the team competes, but at the end of the day, we need to make sure we know how to get better. That will get us where we need to be.”

The Jumbos will begin their season over spring break with two non-conference away matches against Brandeis and Chapman on March 16 and 19, after which they will head out to California to take on some of the nation’s best at Occidental and the Claremont Colleges, including NESCAC rival Amherst early next week.

When asked about her team’s chances to take home a NESCAC title, Kenney maintained that anything is possible with her up-and-coming group.

“I think that if the guys continue to work hard and they’re able to keep focus on the team, we’ll definitely have the opportunities,” Kenney said. “I’m incredibly impressed by this team, from the senior leadership to the maturity of the freshmen coming in.”

In addition to a normal conference schedule set for the month of April, Tufts will host a Div. I Big East school for the first time in program history, with Villanova coming to Medford on April 5.

“I’m thrilled that we get to play against all levels of competition, and I think that it will definitely help us establish ourselves as a contender in our conference this year,” Glickman said. “We have a lot of depth and we’re excited to go out there and compete.”

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15-14, but those were the last of the day for the Jumbos.

Sawyer scored his sixth goal for the Camels with a well-placed jump shot from the middle of the box that tied the game at 15 with just over four minutes to go, and senior Tyler Corcoran completed the victory for Conn. College with just under three minutes to play on a goal following a sharp groundball and assist from Freedman.

Another loss was certainly not the result Tufts had hoped for, especially after playing some excellent lacrosse in spurts

against the Camels.

“I thought as a team we competed tremendously,” Ruggiero said. “But in the end, we didn’t get the job done, and that’s all that matters.”

There have been silver linings to the last two games, most notably from the freshman class. The group has already totaled 12 goals and is gaining valuable in-conference experience. Ruggiero made it clear, however, that so many new faces being forced into action is no excuse for losing.

“It is great to see the guys step into important roles and have some success, but we’re all recruited here as lacrosse

players and are expected to compete and win every time we step on the field,” he said.

Tufts will take its 0-2 record into spring break as they travel to face No. 4 and undefeated Stevens Tech, which will be a massive early season test for the Jumbos as they return to full strength.

Coach Mike Daly’s team isn’t dwelling on its less-than-ideal start and is looking to the game at Stevens as a chance to get the season back on track.

“We’re learning from our mistakes, not making any excuses, staying positive and moving on,” Saperstein said. “Our focus right now is on Stevens Tech.”

The maddest March

would make the argument that March brings sports fans the most joy out of any month of the year. Put aside your favoritism for a minute and bask in the glory that is March’s sports schedule.

The NBA and NHL are both well into their seasons, and it is getting near to that point in the year where games start to have playoff implications. Who is seeded where? Who won such-and-such conference? Most NBA teams only have 20 games left on the schedule, and it’s crunch time for those with playoff hopes.

In the NHL, this year is particularly important, as it almost did not happen at all. Unless you lived under a rock, you saw the NHL lockout almost scrap this entire season. Luckily an agreement was made and the playing began — better late than never. And let’s not forget about baseball. Admittedly my favorite sport, baseball is back in action — at least at spring training facilities in Arizona and Florida.

Regardless, Opening Day 2013 is scheduled for Mar. 31, just squeaking into the month and consequently supporting my claim.

Finally, and probably most important to my argument, March Madness is in March! Every year, college basketball takes the world by storm and everyone goes crazy. Why? Because everyone loves pure competition. So many sports have dealt with off-the-court issues in recent years, including sexual abuse allegations, prohibited recruiting methods, performance-enhancing drugs, lockouts — I could go on all day. But through it all, the NCAA Div. I championship basketball tournament, dubbed “March Madness,” has managed to keep a relatively untainted image. For this reason, the tournament and the intensity it brings with it have become favorites of sports fans and unknowledgeable onlookers alike.

Even at Tufts, an establishment infamous for its lack of athletic support by the student body, brackets will undoubtedly start popping up among clubs and groups, all trying to foresee this year’s biggest upset.

Let’s face it: The way these kids play the game with reckless abandon just makes the contest that much more appealing. Whether you are basing your decisions for your bracket on regular season results or just because you like one team’s uniform better than another’s, you cannot help but pull for “your” team.

A sense of ownership is created: You have a stake in the process now, and if you come out on top, God knows you won’t bashfully walk away because you got lucky. You will surely proclaim yourself an omniscient college basketball guru. I know — I’ve been there.

I won my fraternity’s bracket challenge last March and had been walking around like a bona fide Dick Vitale (no relation — or at least none that I know of) for a good two months after the tournament was over. Now, with a new combination of teams in different rankings, I feel as though I may have overstepped my claims a bit.

Whether I win again or not, I love to watch the genuine effort with which the games are played and the fact that no one seems to argue with the system in play. We can see a failed method if we examine the accepted college football championship of the BCS. The system consists of “bowls” that are inferior and widely detested because, at their core, they do not promote competition or “true champions” based on performance. In the bowls, two teams are merely selected by the board to play each other, and one of these matchups (based solely on regular-season records and subjective opinions of those in power) is declared the championship game.

March Madness, on the other hand, provides an environment where every team involved has a chance at being in the game to decide it all. 68 teams, each with the same opportunity: Win all your games, and you are the champion of college basketball. Let the madness begin!

G.J. Vitale is a junior majoring in biologypsychology and English. He can be reached at Gregory.Vitale@tufts.edu.

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Conn. College completes comeback, knocks off Jumbos 16-15

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A tough start to the season got worse for the 11th-ranked Tufts men’s lacrosse team on Tuesday. After falling at home for MEN’S LACROSSE (0-2, 0-2 NESCAC) at New London, Conn., Tuesday Tufts Conn. College

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the first time since 2009 at the hands of Hamilton, the Jumbos were unable to right the ship, losing away at NESCAC rival and 15th-ranked Conn. College, 16-15.

Losing is new to this group of players, as the two-game skid matches the team’s regular-season loss total from last season. Still limited to only 20 players due to suspensions, the Jumbos failed to deliver a consistent performance against a team they beat 16-9 and 13-2 last year.

“It definitely hurts to lose, whether it’s by one goal or by 10,” senior midfielder Brian Ruggiero said. “But we’re trying to take whatever positives there are and build on them. We need to get better every day, and as a team I think we certainly understand that.”

Unlike in their first loss, the Jumbos started strong, despite playing through cold wind and a driving rain in New London. In ending the first half with four consecutive goals, Tufts took a 12-9 lead into halftime, three more than they scored in 60 minutes against Hamilton.

Senior midfielder Ben Saperstein and freshman John Uppgren led the first-half charge by each scoring three goals and adding one assist, and junior Jack McDermott opened the scoring in the second, pushing the Jumbo lead to 13-9.

After that goal, however, the offense went completely cold, and Conn. College picked up the attack.

Sophomore attackman Chad Sawyer scored three straight for the Camels, followed by two more from Andrew Freedman and Pat Leary, giving them the lead with 11:49 left to go.

The Jumbos fought back with goals from Saperstein and Uppgren midway through the fourth quarter to retake the lead at Oliver Porter / The Tufts Daily

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Senior midfielder Ben Saperstein scored four goals for the Jumbos on Tuesday night, but the Jumbos lost 16-15 on the road at Conn. College.

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Following a season-opening loss to No. 12 Hamilton, the No. 18 women’s lacrosse team headed into their home opener against WOMEN’S LACROSSE (1-1, 1-1 NESCAC) at Bello Field, Tuesday Conn. College Tufts

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have found an effective combination. Despite new and returning players filling in roles vacated by last year’s seniors, the midfield and attack showed a much-needed cohesiveness.

“Everyone has been very receptive to playing new roles on the team,” Eaton said. “We have a lot of players who are versatile and we are relying on many new starters who are fulfilling new roles.”

Eaton started off the scoring seven min-

utes in, and after an equalizer from the Camels, the Jumbos were able to take the lead for good when freshman attacker Brigid Bowser slotted in two free-position goals to bookend a three-goal barrage with sophomore attacker Kali DiGate.

The Camels showed signs of life at the end of the first half when sophomore Lindsay Macdonald tacked on a goal with two minutes remaining to make it 4-2 going into the break.

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Conn. College on Tuesday looking to turn things around. After that initial frustration, the Jumbos responded to the Camels, securing a dominant 11-5 victory to bring their overall and in-conference record to 1-1.

“Our team came out flat and we were not expecting their intensity to be so high,” senior co-captain attacker Kerry Eaton said of the game against Hamilton. “They were able to dictate the game rather than us setting the tone.”

So after getting out slowly against the Continentals, the Jumbos looked to start Tuesday’s matchup at a much faster pace.

And whether it was the motivation from the loss or the home crowd, the Jumbos were in command for the entire game: They never trailed, and their defense allowed the fewest goals in a game since 2005.

On the offensive side, the Jumbos looked to

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Junior Eliza Halmo scored two goals in the Jumbos’ 11-5 win over the Camels. With the win, the Jumbos moved to 1-1 on the season.

But back-to-back goals from juniors Eliza Halmo and Gabby Horner to start the second all but locked up the game for the Jumbos, as they took a 6-2 lead before finishing the game off with three straight goals from sophomore midfielder Lindsey Walker, Eaton and Halmo.

On the defensive end, senior goalkeeper Tess Shapanka regained her grasp on the starting position after being pulled for sophomore Rachel Gallimore in the opener with a six-save performance.

The team showed improvement on 50/50 balls, a major concern after failing to scoop up much-needed loose during the Hamilton game. The Jumbos controlled 61 percent of the draws and beat the Camels in groundballs, 12-11, led by senior defenseman Meg Boland’s game-high total of five. Boland, classmate Collier Clegg and sophomore Emily Wright anchored the defense to its impressive performance.

Competing in the toughest conference in Div. III has driven home the fact that each conference win should not be taken for granted, leaving the Jumbos pleased with their performance and their first victory.

“Every NESCAC game is critical, and we don’t take any opponent lightly,” Horner said before the game. “In this league, any team has a chance of winning on any given day.”

The Jumbos will look to continue their winning ways on Friday when they host Babson for their first non-conference game of the season.