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THE TUFTS DAILY
TUFTSDAILY.COM
monday, december 9, 2013
VOLUME LXVI, NUMBER 59
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Police shut down Tufts Dance Collective performance
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Mohamed ElBaradei will become the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s Nobel-Laureate-in-Residence next fall.
Nobel Laureate ElBaradei joins Fletcher by
Abigail Feldman
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The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy on Dec. 4 announced that Mohamed ElBaradei, former director general emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, will join the Fletcher School community as the Nobel-Laureatein-Residence next fall. According to Michael Glennon, professor of international law at the Fletcher School and former employee at the IAEA, ElBaradei will be a great asset to the university during his time on campus. “I think it will be a tremendous benefit to the university on so many levels to have someone so knowledgeable about international law and proliferation, the Arab Spring, conflict resolution [and] events in Egypt,” Glennon said. “He’s almost a whole faculty rolled up in one.” ElBaradei will stay for a period of three months, during which time he will likely engage with members of the Tufts community by sharing his knowledge, according to Academic Dean of the
Fletcher School Ian Johnstone. “I know he plans to do some big public lectures and also many smaller gatherings with Fletcher students and other Tufts University students,” he said. Johnstone added that ElBaradei may, at the Fletcher School’s encouragement, decide to teach a course and speak as a guest lecturer in current courses. “We’re probably going to press him to do as much of that as he’s willing to do, and he’s told us that he loves being here,” Johnstone said. “His experience here in the past has been very positive, so I think he’s looking forward to the chance to just gather in fairly informal settings with the Fletcher students.” ElBaradei led the IAEA, an organization that promotes peace and security in the field of nuclear technologies, from 1997 to 2009, Johnstone said. During this time, the Nobel Committee honored ElBaradei for his work in preventing nuclear energy from being used for military purposes. “Those were years in which, among other things, the crisis in Iraq unfold [as well as] the crises
Tufts University Police Department shut down Tufts Dance Collective’s (TDC) 9:30 p.m. performance last Saturday night as a result of multiple medical emergency calls and unsafe conditions, according to Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin Maguire. The biannual performance held in Cohen Auditorium ended abruptly around 10:15 p.m. when a university official switched on the house lights and announced that the show would not continue. Maguire explained that TUPD chose to intervene when sanitary conditions within the building began to deteriorate. Numerous students required treatment for alcohol-related illnesses and crowds at the performance
became increasingly difficult to manage, he said. Responding officers also discovered a few acts of vandalism on the property. “[Officers] decided that the event could not continue safely and ended it,” Maguire said. According to Maguire, other details about the performance remain under investigation. Executive Director of Tufts Emergency Medical Services Paul Pemberton reported that seven students were treated for sickness related to alcohol at the performance. He believes the remainder of the show was cancelled so that emergency teams could locate ill students. “It sounds to me like they got shut down because there was too high a volume [of people needing
medical attention],” Pemberton, a senior, said. “We couldn’t get to everybody without turning the lights on and shutting it down.” Shortly after the performance ended, the TDC Executive Board sent an email to students alerting them that all afterparties for the event were cancelled. By calling off the parties, board member Samantha Bloom explained, leaders of TDC hoped to keep students safe. As of right now, Bloom, a senior, said, the future of TDC is unclear. She and the other board members will meet with university administrators to discuss this point later this week. —by Daniel Bottino and Abigail Feldman
Courtesy Michael James
Emergency vehicles crowded near the entrance of Cohen Auditorium after TUPD chose to shut down the Tufts Dance Collective performance around 10:15 p.m. last Saturday.
in Iran and North Korea, so he was very much involved in all of those things,” Johnstone said. Glennon emphasized ElBaradei’s important role in the IAEA’s efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation. ElBaradei, he said, was fair and unbiased while examining evidence for weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.
“I think that history speaks for itself,” Glennon said. “[ElBaradei] was willing to speak truth to power and let the chips fall where they may. He stuck with the evidence and didn’t try to slant it one way or the other ... We were all very lucky that someone like [ElBaradei] was in the right place at the right time.” After leaving the IAEA,
ElBaradei began a short career in Egyptian politics. Johnstone explained that ElBaradei was considered a potential candidate for the presidency following former president of Egypt Mohamed Morsi’s removal. ElBaradei, however, declined to take the role. ElBaradei also see ELBARADEI, page 4
TCU Senate update The final Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting of the semester took place in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room last night with discussion of the final version of the Diversity Report and an announcement regarding the Committee on Student Life’s (CSL) “justified departure” policy. TCU Diversity Council Affairs Officer Darien Headen announced that the final version of the school’s Diversity Report was released on Thursday and is set to be implemented beginning next semester. Senate members discussed some critiques of the report, such as its use of the term “non-Anglo” to group members of many marginalized communities together in one category, which had upset senators. Additionally, several senators argued that the report credits the administration, rather than student activism, with the creation of the Africana major and Asian-American studies minor.
The CSL reported that a final decision has been made regarding the school’s “justified departure” policy, following a semester-long comprehensive review. The results will be announced early next semester. TCU President Joe Thibodeau congratulated the Senate members for reaching the final meeting of the semester and encouraged them to continue doing research for their projects over winter break; a Google form will be released in which Senate members will be able to record their progress. TCU Judiciary Chair Jon Jacques announced the four newest groups to gain recognition on campus: Black Student Union, RacEd Magazine, Turkish Alliance of Tufts and South Asian Literary Arts and Music Magazine. TCU Treasurer Adam Kochman announced that the Senate currently has a supplemental fund of around $160,000,
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having started the semester with $300,000. He also said that the Senate has so far succeeded in implementing its system of selling Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) passes to students at the Mayer Campus Center information booth. Next semester, the Senate will consider ways in which to further promote and publicize this system. During the Allocations Board report, the Senate voted 17-12-0 to grant $977 to the newly recognized Futurism Society, overturning the board’s initial proposal of $258. The Senate voted 30-0-1 to grant $8,536.41 to Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) in order to fund the seventh annual ChinaUS Symposium. The Senate also provided $3,054.76 to the Association of Latin American Students (ALAS); $961.10 to the Tufts Podcast Network; $584 to the Tufts Education Society; $435 to Generation Citizen and $3,896 to Tufts Quidditch,
which will be participating in the 2014 International Quidditch Association World Cup in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Following the meeting, Thibodeau and TCU Vice President Stephen Ruggiero reflected on the Senate’s progress over the semester and expressed their excitement for the road ahead. “We’ve had a productive semester,” Thibodeau said. “We’ve got great momentum going, and I’m excited for when we get back in January so that people can keep working on the projects which they’ve initiated.” “I think we’re going to use break to send e-mails, tie loose ends, and recharge our batteries,” Ruggiero said. “We’re going to come back next semester just as strong as we were this semester. A few seats are opening up on the body and we’re excited to meet our new members.” —by Josh Weiner
Today’s sections
The Daily looks back on an eventful semester on the Hill.
President Monaco outlines the university’s strategic goals in an interview with the Daily.
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