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VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 52

THE TUFTS DAILY Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Web site hopes Secret collector praises beauty of catharsis

to provide ‘ticket’
by Christina pappas
Daily Staff Writer

to Boston area The secrets that arrive daily in Frank

by Allison Wahrenberger
Contributing Writer
Students looking for a reason to
travel into Beantown this weekend
need look no further than the Tufts
Community Union (TCU) Senate’s new
Cultural Ticket Web page.
Senator Sam Wallis, a sophomore
who chairs the Senate’s Services
Committee, this fall upgraded an infor-
mational Web page on TuftsLife.com
that provides students with details
about the city’s cultural attractions.
The fledging “Cultural Ticket to
Boston,” launched last year, has yet
to catch on seriously among under-
graduates, but Wallis said he hopes
the site will become more popular in
the coming years and help many more
students explore Tufts’ host communi-
ties.
Sponsored by the Senate and ini-
tially spurred by a 2003 report on the
undergraduate experience, the page
features links to music, sports and arts
offerings in and around Boston.
“In an environment like ours, when
so many people choose to study abroad
Warren’s mail come in all shapes and
sizes — and on every imaginable sur-
face.
“I’m like a kid on Christmas morn-
ing every time I check my mailbox,”
he said. “I’ve had secrets mailed to me
written on various fruits and vegeta-
bles, on naked pictures … Once, I got a
secret written on a bag of coffee.”
The self-proclaimed collector of pri-
vate information spoke to a packed
crowd in Cabot Auditorium last night
about his PostSecret project.
“Your secrets are like boxes, like cof-
fins,” Warren said. “Sometimes when
you think you’re keeping a secret, that
secret might actually be keeping you.
Free your secret. Become who you are.”
More than 100,000 people from
around the world have taken Warren’s
advice to heart and chosen to release
their secrets by writing them on a post-
card and mailing them to him.
Warren described how these con-
tributors have been vital to helping
PostSecret evolve from an “admittedly
crazy idea” into a famous collection
meredith klein/tufts daily
comprised of emotionally raw and
Frank Warren handed out postcards in Washington, D.C., in 2004 with his address and the
request that strangers send him their secrets. The idea stuck. see POST, page 2

Speakers address post-disaster communities

as a cultural option, people haven’t
spent a lot of time learning about our
own culture,” said Dean of Student
Affairs Bruce Reitman, who praised the
Web page.
Tufts’ proximity to Boston is a pri-
mary factor that attracts high-school
students to apply to the university,
Wallis said. Upon arriving here, though,
freshmen do not actually venture into
the city as often as they might have
thought they would, in part because
they are not aware of the opportunities
the city offers, he said.
“A lot of students like Tufts because
of Boston, but don’t make use of the
see CULTURE, page 2
by Gillian Javetski
Daily Editorial Board
A panel of experts yesterday examined
the role that organizations in New York,
New Orleans and London play in building
cities’ resilience to catastrophes.
“The simple definition of a resilient
city is not at all what I’ve seen,” Columbia
University Public Health Professor Mindy
Fullilove said. “Organizations of human
beings are resilient and will stabilize fol-
lowing being shaken, but they won’t be as
stable as they were before.”
In her opening remarks, moderator and
Fletcher School Professor Astier Almedom
explained that the phenomenon of resil-
ience does not apply only to cities, but can
also be used in relation to many aspects of
society.
“Resilience is the capacity for which
individuals, families, institutions and eco-
systems can maintain normal functions
after a disaster strikes without recogniz-
ably changing their identities,” Almedom
said.
The talk took place as part of the
Education for Public Inquiry and
International Citizenship (EPIIC) class in
Barnum 008, but was open to the Tufts
community.
In her presentation, Fullilove described
how community-organizing activities she
led in New York after the terrorist attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001, exposed post-disaster
vulnerability.
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, Fullilove
noticed that very few organizations were
joining forces in a city-wide healing pro-
cess. Disturbed, Fullilove founded “NYC
see CITIES, page 2

Sciortino reacts to the passage of Prop 8 in the Golden State

by Tessa Gellerson
Daily Staff Writer
Massachusetts state Rep. Carl
Sciortino (LA ’00) last night drew on
his experiences in politics and as an
undergrad on the Hill in denounc-
ing California’s recently passed
Proposition 8.
Speaking to the Tufts Democrats
in Eaton Hall, Sciortino highlighted
the roadblocks that hindered oppo-
nents of the referendum, which
invalidated same-sex marriage in
the Golden State.
“Our side had been very much
out-fundraised,” said Sciortino, who
is openly gay. “I love it that there
are people showing up [at] rallies in
California now, but I wish they had
been there before [Election Day]. It’s
frustrating.”
Recently elected to his third term
as a state representative, Sciortino
spearheaded opposition move-
ments to Proposition 8. He traveled
to California this fall, helping grass-
meredith klein/tufts daily roots campaigns in a number of
Carl Sciortino was elected to a third term in office the same day that California voters supported Proposition 8, counties.
which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Sciortino first sought public office
in 2004 after then-incumbent state
Rep. Vincent Ciampa refused to
declare support for gay marriage or
civil unions.
On a more optimistic note,
Sciortino emphasized the significant
impact grassroots work can have in
fighting for the LGBT agenda or any
other type of campaign. He related
an anecdote about one woman,
Ashley, who was the sole volunteer
campaigning against Proposition 8
in Tahoma, Calif.
Comparing early poll numbers to
the final results in Ashley’s county,
Sciortino said she had won over
some voters.
“It’s an example where a single
person organized in their commu-
nity, in their own way in a situation
that was critical, and made a differ-
ence,” Sciortino said.
Senior Gregory Chambers enjoyed
hearing the alum speak, and was
especially roused by the anecdote
about Ashley.
“I thought that it was really great
that [Sciortino] came. I think it’s really
see SCIORTINO, page 2

Inside this issue Today’s Sections

Some Greek students The men’s basketball News 1 Comics 11
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Editorial | Letters 8
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2 The Tufts Daily News Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Police Briefs Many still don’t know about site

It’s not A-Okay
Tufts University Police Dep-
artment (TUPD) officers respond-
ed to a call at 3:28 a.m. on Nov.
8 from the Somerville Police
Department requesting assis-
tance in handling an intoxicated
student on Upland Street. When
TUPD officers arrived, Somerville
police officers were there with
workers from the Somerville Fire
Department and from Cataldo
Ambulance Service, Inc.
The student was sitting in
a chair on the front porch of
a Somerville house. He had
woken up the residents by
banging on the windows, and
when they would not let him
in the house, he took a seat.
“The only thing he could say
was, ‘A-Okay, chief,’” TUPD Sgt.
Robert McCarthy told the Daily.
The individual could not pro-
vide officers with his correct
address and was transported
to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
At 5:02 a.m., TUPD officers
were called to the emergency
room because the student was
exhibiting obnoxious and violent
Sciortino optimistic about legal precedents
sciortino
continued from page 1
great when representatives come
and speak to the communities
that they represent. In particular,
I thought the story he told about
Ashley was inspiring — how she
was the only volunteer, but she
got so much done,” Chambers
said.
After speaking for thirty min-
utes, Sciortino opened the room
up for a question-and-answer
session. Students peppered him
with remarks and questions. The
discussion ranged from the mean-
ing of marriage to the necessity of
term limits to keep representatives
accountable.
One audience member asked
Sciortino, who majored in biol-
behavior, McCarthy said. The
officers threatened to arrest the
individual, but he was eventually
released from the hospital.
Running robber
Officers responded to a call
at 12:51 a.m. on Nov. 10 at 14
Sawyer Ave. A resident reported
that she had observed a man try-
ing to enter the house through
an unsecured bathroom win-
dow. When the man saw her,
he fled down the fire escape.
Officers searched the area, but
did not find anyone.
Turkey drove her
wild the ground and another indi-
TUPD received a call at 12:37
a.m. on Nov. 11 because a stu-
dent was feeling ill in South Hall.
When officers arrived at the
room in question, they found
the individual sitting on the floor
with a waste basket in front of
her.
She told officers she had con-
sumed an unknown amount
of an unknown liquid. “It was
ogy, what it was like to transition
from studying science to serving
in public office. The representa-
tive responded with an anecdote:
“During my first six months in
office, we had a debate on stem
cell research. I literally brought my
intro biology book from Tufts into
the chamber.”
Tufts Democrats Secretary Lucy
Perkins, a sophomore, enjoyed the
story. “I liked how he talked about
being a biology major and falling
into politics,” she said.
Sciortino spoke with pride
about the progressive nature of his
campaigns. “It’s an honor to be out
there fighting for people in my dis-
trict,” he said.
In reference to the possibility
of a federal law allowing same-sex
something called turkey and it
tasted foul,” McCarthy said.
TMC’s Dowling pump-
kin plot thwarted!
Officers observed an individ-
ual in the process of climbing
up a cable hanging down the
side of the smokestack outside
of Dowling Hall at 3:24 a.m. on
Nov. 11.
Three other individuals were
holding the cable steady for
him. Officers approached them,
and one admitted to being a
member of the Tufts Mountain
Club.
A pumpkin was sitting on
vidual had an additional pump-
kin in his backpack. He stated
his intent to climb to the top
of the smokestack and place
the pumpkin there, according to
McCarthy.
All the individuals were writ-
ten up.
— compiled by Sarah
Butrymowicz
marriage, he remarked, “I don’t
think there’s an appetite for chang-
ing that yet.”
Sciortino referred to the
dichotomy between his desire to
allow gay couples to do as they
please and the entrenched system
that classifies marriage as being
between a man and a woman.
“How do you separate something
like marriage, which is very histor-
ical and religious and very much a
part of our economic system? How
do you untangle those two?” he
asked.
But Sciortino spoke with opti-
mism about setting precedents
through litigation in courts and
paving the way for future victo-
ries in equality of health care and
employment for same-sex couples.
CULTURE
continued from page 1
available cultural options,” said
Wallis, who noted that his pri-
mary goal as chair of the Services
Committee is to improve social
life at Tufts.
TCU President Duncan Pickard
said the idea behind the Cultural
Ticket is “fabulous.”
“One of the reasons students
choose Tufts is the cultural
options surrounding it,” Pickard
said.
The concept for the Senate’s
page emerged from the 2003
final report of the Task Force on
the Undergraduate Experience,
a group University President
Lawrence Bacow created in 2001
to assess undergraduate life and
offer advice on how to improve
it. In its report, the task force rec-
ommended the creation of the
Cultural Ticket to Boston, among
other suggestions.
The initial concept envisioned
the Student Services office distrib-
uting discounted tickets to plays,
concerts and sporting events to
students. This plan was eventu-
ally deemed unrealistic; instead,
the idea for a Web site with links
to available discounted tickets
arose as a potential alternative.
Reitman noted Tufts’ transi-
tion from a regional university
to an institution that draws stu-
dents from all over the world,
and said Boston now hosts many
people who may not be aware of
its “wealth of offering[s] in music,
culture, food and sports.”
Most students have yet to uti-
lize the Cultural Ticket, although
some have noticed a link to it
on the right side of the TuftsLife
homepage.
Sophomore Coby Grand said
that although he had never heard
of the Web page, he feels it could
prove useful to students.
“I think more people would
use it for finding concerts around
the Boston area that normally
they wouldn’t … hear of,” Grand
said. “I think kids would use it for
music and sporting events.”
Freshman Paige Colton had
a similar opinion. “I saw it on
TuftsLife and it looked interest-
ing,” Colton said. “I’ll definitely
use it in the future.”
Wallis said he is unsure about
how many people have actually
used the Cultural Ticket, as the
Web site does not currently have
a hit tracker.
“We are always wishing we’d
have a great response, [but] it’s
tough to get the word out about
off-campus things when there’s
so much [happening] on cam-
pus,” Reitman added.
Some freshmen expressed dis-
appointment with Boston’s mini-
mal role in student life.
Allister Chang said he “expect-
ed a little more.” Before coming
to Tufts, the freshman said he had
heard about a significant inter-
mingling of students at different
Boston-area schools, but upon
attending, he has not seen this.
Reitman said the Cultural
Ticket exists as a great resource
for those students who do not
go abroad, calling it “a way to
take advantage of junior year
when friends are less likely to be
around,” he said.
The Cultural Ticket was
unavailable for a period of time
as TuftsLife was revamped this
summer, but the page reappeared
with the new TuftsLife with even
more resources.
Wallis researched the featured
attractions and Web sites, and
the results are exhaustive in
some categories; the page lists
and has links to all of Boston’s
major museums, for example.
Certain categories have a less
pronounced selection. The list
of a few small music venues is
meant to serve “as a jumping-off
point,” Wallis said.
The sophomore senator said
he expects the next chair of the
Services Committee to keep
updating the site, analyzing its
usage and brainstorming ideas
about how to expand its reach.
Ben Gittleson contributed
reporting to this article.

Warren encourages students to share Group mentality is key to resilience

their own secrets; several oblige
Post
continued from page 1
painstakingly designed postcards
sent from anonymous confessors.
“The very act of sharing a secret
can be transformative,” he said. “I
think people on an instinctual level
understand that, and that’s why they
send me the postcards.”
PostSecret began in 2004 when
Warren distributed postcards
throughout Washington, D.C., con-
taining only his address and an
entreaty to anonymously contribute a
secret. Within weeks, postcards bear-
ing secrets began arriving for him. To
his continual surprise and delight,
they’ve kept coming.
Warren said that his family was
initially skeptical about his experi-
ment. “My dad thought it was self-
indulgent, and my mom called it
diabolical,” he said. “I didn’t under-
stand my own motivations at first,
but now I’ve realized that the pro-
cess is therapeutic. Eventually, you
just come across a secret that reso-
nates with you.”
Since PostSecret’s inception,
Warren has collaborated with
HarperCollins to produce four books.
The All-American Rejects, a pop-punk
band, featured Warren’s postcards in
a popular music video in 2005, the
proceeds from which Warren donated
to suicide prevention.
Many of the postcards can be found
on Warren’s Web site, PostSecret.
com, which boasts over three million
visitors per month. Warren updates
the Web site every Sunday, choosing
postcards to display from the 1,000
he now receives each week.
“I read every postcard,” Warren
asserted in response to an audience
member’s query. “I keep every post-
card in big Tupperware bins. I think
each one is special and precious.”
After showing a slideshow of post-
cards, Warren asked the audience to
take part in his presentation; sev-
eral students quickly obliged and
lined up at the microphones to tell a
secret.
Students shared stories of fak-
ing asthma attacks to avoid pun-
ishment, questioning their sexuality
and reclaiming a foreign-sounding
name subject to constant botching by
teachers.
The audience applauded after each
revelation, and Warren called the
confessors “heroes.”
“The thing I hope you never for-
get is that each of us has a secret,”
Warren said to the audience. “The
secret could break your heart if you
knew what it was.”
Warren was brought to Tufts by
Lecture Series. Junior Jon Cohn, the
group’s co-chair, said that Warren’s
reputation preceded him.
“He’s a really popular guy,” Cohn
said. “We heard he gives really great
talks, and he was available for our
schedule.”
Fellow co-chair Eric Shapiro, a
senior, introduced Warren to the
enthusiastic, mostly female crowd.
“Frank is here tonight to share some
of the emotional stories he has heard,
and to listen to ours,” Shapiro said.
Lecture Series brings one speaker
to campus each semester. The group
has not yet released information
about its spring speaker.
Cities
continued from page 1
Recovers,” which provided a network to
help local groups collaborate.
“Organizations are the great intermedi-
aries in cities for [sparking] recovery and
allowing people to mourn together, not
alone,” Fullilove said. She added that this
network helped a lot of New Yorkers, even
in a city that can be very exclusive.
“New York is a very segregated city that
doesn’t permit people to get to know each
other, and in the aftermath of 9/11, the
city continued to be a city of exclusion,
not inclusion,” she noted. “This is not the
path to resilience.”
Following Fullilove, panelist Wade
Rathke, the founder of the Association
of Community Organizations for Reform
Now (ACORN), talked about New Orleans’
resilience following Hurricane Katrina.
During the storm, 9,000 employees at the
New Orleans-based organization were
displaced.
“In the theme of what I’ve come to learn
as resilience, [ACORN] and so many others
in New Orleans had to learn to leave New
Orleans and adapt in all 50 states,” he said.
Rathke expanded on how Katrina forced
New Orleans’ poorer communities, such
as the poverty-stricken Lower Ninth Ward,
to bounce back from the disaster. Home
to 14,000, the Lower Ninth Ward was one
of the most devastated parts of the city.
“While city officials were making build-
ing plans [for] other parts of the city, they
were just planning on letting the Lower
Ninth Ward become an open green space,”
Rathke said, adding that this idea got “a lot
of people angry.”
He said, “As people continue to fight
about what is going to happen to the area,
people’s lives are being put on hold.”
To date, only 15 percent of the ward has
been restored, according to Rathke.
He echoed Fullilove’s understanding
that community organizations play a fun-
damental role in disaster recovery.
“In terms of resilience, your chance of
coming back and rebuilding helps if you
are part of an organization,” he said. “We
at ACORN believe that, and while it may
not be part of the American way, we have
definitely seen the effectiveness of organi-
zations through New Orleans.”
The last panelist, Professor Richard
Williams of the University of Glamorgan
in Wales, focused on Londoners’ ability to
psychologically recover following the bus
bombings of July 7, 2005. For the past few
years, Williams has researched and evalu-
ated the mental health consequences of
the attack.
“Following July 7, more people wanted
to seek help from family, friends and orga-
nizations than individual, one-on-one
psychological counseling,” said Williams,
a psychology professor. “It makes sense
because individuals all rely on each other;
we all have relationships and we all belong
to groups.”
He concluded that building connec-
tions helps prepare people for catastrophic
events. “We need to prepare communities
to develop their collective resilience and
enable people to develop personal resil-
ience,” he said. “While personal resilience
is good, we must all remember to work in
groups. Behaving as an individual is to our
disadvantage in the long term.”
In the final moments of the panel,
Fullilove questioned whether many
American cities are truly resilient, arguing
that the country neglects its urban cen-
ters.
“America doesn’t like its cities, and
many aren’t cared for, so a natural disas-
ter will obviously weaken them even
more,” Fullilove said. “It’s like taking a
person in a coma and throwing them in a
bathtub. How are they supposed to save
themselves?”
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Ally Gimbel | When kiwis fly

Getting
farmiliar

A
griculture is New Zealand’s major
exporting industry. According to
the New Zealand External Trade
Statistics, in the year 2007, dairy
farming alone accounted for about 21 per-
cent of merchandise sold overseas. Like I’ve
already said, there are approximately 10
sheep to every individual human, and you’re
more likely to meet a Kiwi who grew up with
a pet lamb (or goat, or chicken, or horse) than
with a pet dog.
So it would make no sense to come to
New Zealand and not get the experience of
sheering a sheep or digging up kumara (com-
monly known in America as sweet potatoes).
Having grown up in a major urban center, my
only understanding of farm life came from
nursery rhymes like Old McDonald, which is
like wearing the scarlet letter in this mainly
rural country.
It was time to broaden my scope to include
understanding the folks working behind the
scales at the Wellington farmer’s market. I
aalok kanani/Tufts Daily
wanted a different perspective of daily Kiwi
Some Greeks find alumni connections more helpful than guidance from their colleges’ career services offices. life, rather than limiting my contact to city-

Greeks’ connections with alumni facilitate

slickers like myself. But with so many farms
in New Zealand, where do you start?
After talking to some other international

smooth transitions from togas to suits

Robin Carol
Daily Editorial Board
When data analyst Kathleen Niple
graduated from Elon University in North
Carolina, she wanted to move north and
start her career in Boston. But it wasn’t
Elon’s career services department that
helped Niple with her move; rather,
her sorority, Alpha Omicron Pi (AOPi),
proved to be her biggest asset.
“I went to school in the South. My
alumni base was all in the South, but
I wanted a job in Boston,” Niple said.
“AOPi was a great alternative because
there were AOPi’s in Boston, but there
weren’t necessarily people who went to
my school up here.”
For fraternity brothers and sorority
sisters, graduating college may signal the
end of rush events and formals, but con-
nections to the Greek community can
bring longer lasting benefits in the career
world.
“Coming into sorority life, I never
really thought about the implications
after college,” said senior Jessica Snow,
the president of the Panhellenic Council
and vice president of the Inter-Greek
Council (IGC) at Tufts. “I just got done
with three interviews. Being Greek really
means something to someone else who
is Greek. In my interviews, I met people
who were Greek, [who] went to different
schools, but it’s this universal identity
among anybody who’s Greek. It’s a way
to have a great conversation knowing
you have something in common with
whoever you’re talking to.”
Niple, who currently serves as the
advisor for the Tufts chapter of AOPi,
said that although her current position
was not the result of her sorority con-
nection, it has been something that was
helpful in the past.
“There were other jobs I interviewed
see NETWORKING, page 4
students here, I learned about the WWOOF
network — World-Wide Opportunities on
Organic Farms. It’s a program set up in New
Zealand (and throughout the world) to help
travelers get in touch with local organic farm-
ers and engage in a home-stay/indentured
servitude arrangement. In exchange for free
room and board, a WWOOFer will do a vari-
ety of whatever chores and jobs that farm
requires. These can range from weeding gar-
dens to milking cows to helping out with
household maintenance.
I signed up for the network and a few days
later received a booklet with descriptions
of all the farms in New Zealand who took
WWOOFers. There were hundreds of places
to choose from: vineyards, orchards, dairy
farms, bed and breakfasts, etc. In the booklet,
the farmers described the jobs WWOOFers
would be responsible for and also many of
their personal interests, like baking bread,
astrophysics, meditation and crystal therapy.

Practice of ‘grade-grubbing’ looked down Looking for a place felt a bit like online
dating, only crunchier. After careful selection
(avoiding places that encouraged spiritual

upon by professors, students on the Hill cleansing as an alternative to daily ablution),

by Keith Hinton
Contributing Writer
When Cher Horowitz
(played by Alicia Silverstone)
giddily displays her report
card to her father in the
1995 film “Clueless,” he
beams with pride — but not
just because his daughter’s
grades are good. Cher and
her father are especially
proud because the report
card is the result of a long
string of battles with teach-
ers for better marks: Cher is
a grade-grubber.
Cher’s actions, however,
may not paint an accurate
picture of today’s classroom.
The practice of “grade-grub-
bing,” in which students
beg professors for re-tests,
make-up tests, paper exten-
sions or higher grades with
or without legitimate rea-
son, is conducted with a
certain degree of shame. because they are morally
“I have begged for grades
a few times; I even lied
about a family emergency
once, but I try not to make
a habit of it,” said one stu-
dent, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity. “I
think at Tufts, in general,
grade-grubbing is kept to a
minimum because we have
a pretty sharp faculty, and
I think they’ve heard it all
I found a farm in Carterton, a town just an
hour north of Wellington. The owners are an
older couple who grow apple, pear and nut
when it comes to excuses.” trees, plant broccoli and raise sheep.
Other students vehe- Each day began with feeding the lambs,
mently stated that they had a task I was all too eager to do, as my girly
never participated in any fascination with adorable baby animals has
illegitimate form of grade- only amplified while being in New Zealand.
grubbing. Then I would sit down with my farm fam-
“I have never begged a ily for a breakfast of homemade yogurt and
teacher for a grade I didn’t homemade crabapple jam on homemade
deserve,” junior Nicholas bread. Mornings often entailed of running a
Renner said. few errands in the morning, like going into
Junior Darius Bittle- town to fill up gas tanks or buy some farm
Dockery, an anthropology supplies.
major, echoed the senti- Afternoons consisted of a few hours of
ment. tilling soil in the paddocks, clearing wood or
“I hated those kids in high thinning the apple orchard (picking off some
school who would cry over apples to make room for others to grow). I
grades they didn’t deserve,” drove a tractor and an all-terrain vehicle, feel-
Bittle-Dockery said. “Unless ing far more badass than I probably should
I feel like I truly deserved a have and got a bit carried away with my free
higher grade and can prove access to the bread-maker.
it, I never ask for hand-outs Though farming may not really be my
from professors.” thing, I thoroughly enjoyed my WWOOF
For the most part, many experience. I learned the ins and outs of
students and teachers agree organic farming and the difficulties they
that grade-grubbing at Tufts experience trying to work with nature, rather
is kept to a minimum. But than against it. I’ve gained an appreciation
do Jumbos not grade-grub for the land and the food I eat, learned how
to make my own jam and got a chance to
opposed to the practice, or exchange cultural views with a Kiwi family.
simply because it does not WWOOFing was a memorable way of get-
work? ting to know the backbone of New Zealand.
Most professors on the However, I do look forward to returning to
Hill employ strict grading the city, where there are no roosters and I
policies in their syllabi to don’t have to trudge through sheep poo on
combat the potential for my way home.
squabbles over grades.
Associate Professor of
Political Science Consuelo Ally Gimbel is a junior majoring in English.
Annie Wermiel/Tufts Daily She can be reached at Allyson.Gimbel@
see GRADES, page 4 For most, arguing with a professor for a better grade is ineffective. tufts.edu.
4 The Tufts Daily Features Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Professors’ clear policies diminish

Alumnus Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) was president of Delta Tau Delta.
It’s all Greek to me: Fast facts about frats and sororities
Only 8.5 percent of full-time university undergradu-
ates nationwide are members of either a fraternity
or a sorority.
Approximately 13 percent of undergraduate students
at Tufts are chapter members.
Tufts has 16 active general fraternities and sororities,
including nine men’s fraternities, three women’s sorori-
ties, one co-ed independent fraternity and three active
culturally based, city-wide Greek organizations.
Forty-eight percent of all U.S. presidents and 40 percent
of all Supreme Court justices have been Greek. For cur-
rent U.S. senators, the corresponding number is 42 per-
cent; for current U.S. representatives, it is 30 percent.
One hundred and twenty Forbes 500 CEOs were
MCT
fraternity or sorority members (including the CEOs of
AIG, J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wachovia
and General Motors).
In addition to social fraternities, there are dozens of
professional fraternities and sororities nationwide.
These are structured around a certain field of study
and are more directly geared toward career advance-
ment.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (A ’70, F ’71) was
president of Delta Tau Delta at Tufts, and former Tufts
President Leonard Carmichael was a brother in Theta
Delta Chi during his time as a Jumbo. Current Tufts
President Lawrence Bacow was a member of Zeta
Beta Tau as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
— compiled by Robin Carol
number of inappropriate requests
GRADES
continued from page 3
Cruz teaches courses which
almost exclusively assign papers
instead of tests. A clear policy
regarding extensions stated in
her syllabi seems to diminish the
level of inappropriate requests,
she said.
“I have a policy [regarding
paper extensions], but I am open
to listening to students requests,”
Cruz said. “I ask my students to
spare me the frivolous reasons,
but I do not assume before they
speak to me that their reasons
are frivolous. They have to show
me that they are having a serious
problem [in order for me to grant
an extension].”
This policy seems to be com-
mon among Tufts professors.
“If a student has an illness or
family emergency, I am always
happy to give an extension,”
Political Science Professor Jeffrey
Berry said. “However, for a take-
home midterm, I am tougher
because having the exam for an
extra day or two is a real advan-
tage.”
When it comes to tests, almost
all professors seem to have a “no
re-test” policy if a student does
poorly, and very few offer make-
up tests.
“I announce of the first day of
class, that if for some reason [the
student] cannot take the test and
has appropriate documentation
such as a doctor’s note, I will not
offer a make-up but will simply
re-weight that student’s grade
so that the missed test does not
factor in,” Economics Professor
Gilbert Metcalf said. a paper extension seemed a bit
Although Tufts professors are
by and large rigid on the issue
of extensions and make-up
tests, they do admit that they
are willing to discuss a stu-
dent’s grade on a test or paper
if the student feels the grade
was unjust.
But for most students, such
discussions make little differ-
ence in a final grade.
“Very rarely does the grade
change [after discussion with the
student] and it can be lowered,”
Cruz said. “I tell my students
that if they wish me to re-grade
their papers, the final grade
could end up lower than the one
they started with if I feel that the
initial grade was too generous,
but if they decide to take their
chances, they can come to me.”
“Grandparents do seem
to be dropping dead left
and right.”
Consuelo Cruz
political science professor
“I have to think there was
really a miscarriage of justice
by the TAs in order to change a
student’s grade, and that is very
rare,” Berry said.
This willingness of Tufts pro-
fessors to discuss a student’s
grade after a test or paper,
despite its relative ineffective-
ness, stems from the respect that
the professors have for the stu-
dents.
Very few professors thought
that their students lied to
them on a regular basis about
events like family emergencies,
although Professor Cruz did note
one circumstance that indicated
otherwise.
“Grandparents do seem to be
dropping dead left and right,”
she said.
Associate Professor of Econ-
omics David Dapice remembered
one student whose reasons for
suspicious.
“I had one student who had
their grandmother die three
times,” he said. “I suppose it’s
possible through divorce that he
had three grandmothers, but it
seems unlikely that all three of
them died in the same semes-
ter. We straightened that out.
Overall, however, I think that
grade-grubbing is much less
prevalent [on college campus-
es] than it was five or 10 years
ago.”

Jumbos find networking support system an unexpected benefit of Greek life

NETWORKING
continued from page 3
for where my résumé was sub-
mitted by another AOPi and I
think that’s why I got an inter-
view. It helps with putting my
foot in the door,” she said.
IGC President Jake Maccoby,
a senior, said that he will poten-
tially make fraternity connec-
tions in the future, and that he
knows others who have already
had networking success.
“I expect to do a little of that,
and it’s kind of looming large
since I’m about to graduate,”
said Maccoby, who is also an
editorialist for the Daily. “My
housemate, who is also a brother
in Sig Ep — he took a year off to
work and ended up doing a job
that he found out about through
a former brother in Sig Ep. Those
connections stay with you.”
With hundreds of Greek
chapters spanning the coun-
try, the potential to form links
is endless. But chapter mem-
bers said that for most people,
career advancement was not
the main reason for joining a
fraternity or sorority.
“I can’t speak for everybody,
but that was certainly not my
primary reason going in. It’s not
like we’re a secret society that
tries to get its people ahead,”
Maccoby said. “I think the main
reason people go in is they want
this close, tight-knit group and it
has a lot of value for them.”
“I think there are some people
who do [join for career reasons],
but a lot of people don’t real-
ize the benefit. It’s one of those
fringe benefits you realize when
you’re already in the commu-
nity and you go on a job search,”
Snow said.
Even if their reasons are not
solely career-based, Niple said
that the desire to connect with
a larger group of people goes
hand-in-hand with network-
ing skills.
“In my interviews, I
met people who were
Greek, [who] went to
different schools, but
it’s this universal iden-
tity among anybody
who’s Greek.”
Jessica Snow
senior
“A lot of people are looking
for an opportunity to meet new
people either on campus or
internationally. They sort of join
to meet new people and just a
product of meeting new people
is you make connections,” she
said. “Even if you’re just look-
ing for a hairdresser in the city,
you can ask an AOPi. Or if I’m
looking for a job in California,
other AOPi’s can tell me, ‘This is
where to go.’ It’s one of a lot of
reasons that people join a soror-
ity — each person has a different
reason, so it’s one of the many.”
According to Snow, the “uni-
versal” nature of Greek connec-
tions has been what has stood
out to her. She partially attrib-
uted several promising meetings
and internship opportunities to
sorority associations.
“It gives you another form
of networking. It’s not that dif-
ferent [from the Tufts Alumni
Association], where you both
know what it’s like to go to
Tufts. You know what to expect
from a Greek; you know what
the rituals are like,” Snow said.
“If you are in the Tufts network
and the Greek network, then
you have two awesome net-
works to build on.”
But Maccoby said there is a
definite distinction between
university alumni networks and
those of the Greek community.
“Partly I think it’s an inti-
macy thing. What makes a fra-
ternity different than the Tufts
community, or a larger com-
munity, is it really is a fam-
ily. That’s how it’s supposed
to be, and in my experience,
that’s how it is. That is a con-
nection that’s very important
and very hard to replicate,”
Maccoby said. “It’s a very close
connection based on a shared
experience or a shared under-
standing of values, and it’s
something that you’ll hold in
common, and it’s something
very special. So it’s on a more
intimate level, in some ways,
than a connection with a Tufts
alum, which is obviously still
helpful.”
Though Greeks demonstrate
very high achievement in the
career world — for example, 48
percent of U.S. presidents have
belonged to a fraternity, as have
many Fortune 500 CEOs — net-
working may not be the only key
to this success.
“First and foremost, fraterni-
ties and sororities have really,
really wonderful leadership,”
Snow said. “Being a leader is an
interesting experience because
it forces you to be friends and
leaders with the same people. It
teaches you a relational leader-
ship style that I’d never expe-
rienced before being a leader
in my community and chapter
that has been hugely helpful
in developing career skills for
me.”
“When I was interviewing
[for jobs], it was a like lot going
through [sorority] recruitment,”
Niple said. “When you go to
each house during recruitment,
they’re interviewing you and
you’re interviewing them.”
Maccoby agreed, mentioning
that many diverse people within
a chapter have to work together
towards the same goals.
“Those are skills you’ll use for-
ever,” he said.
To augment these leadership
skills, some chapters hold events
or connect with alumni chap-
ters in order to further facilitate
networking opportunities. But a
campus-wide effort to further
Greeks’ job options has not yet
been implemented, though it is
on the table.
“The Tufts community hasn’t
established great opportunities
for networking yet, but we’ve
talked a lot about it. It’s on our
strategic plan to be there in
the next five years,” Snow said.
“Some individual chapters have
established events where that
can happen.”
Niple mentioned a Web site for
AOPi members called InCircle,
which is similar to Facebook.com
but exclusively allows sorority
alumni to post job opportunities
or send resumes.
“We also have a lot of joint
alumni chapter/collegiate chap-
ter events,” she said. “The
girls at Tufts have brunch with
alumni or we have alumni come
speak about their job and how
they got there. They commu-
nicate, do events together, and
then the girls meet the alumni
in the area.”
These types of activities will
most likely be extended to the
rest of Tufts chapters.
“It’s definitely something
that’s been discussed more and
more because the Greek com-
munity at Tufts has really come
into its own,” Maccoby said.
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Packard Hall renovations focus on aesthetics

Devin Toohey | pop culture gone bad

This has to stop!

by Adam Kulewicz
Daily Staff Writer

In many ways, Packard Hall is a

reflection of the university itself. As the
second- oldest building on campus, it
began rather modestly, but over the last

T
century-and-a-half it has experienced his column may have led you to
numerous renovations and additions. guess that there are quite a few
Today, it is a diverse mix of architectural things in pop culture that bother
styles and will house the political science me. Unfortunately, not all of those
department when current renovations topics can support a whole column, nor
are completed. would I wish to attempt to have them do
Built in 1856, Packard Hall has served so. So, before the semester comes to a
as a dormitory, a library, a dining facil- close, let me take this time to just go on
ity, a theological school, the site of the a few small rants on things that deserve
only known uphill birth, the location of a moratorium.
the president’s horse and carriage and 1. Guys “ironically” dancing to a late-
the home of the English department. It ’90s boy band. You know what I mean.
has also been known by many names Some guy will throw on “Everybody
over the course of its history, including (Backstreet’s Back)” or “Bye Bye Bye” and
“Building A,” “West Hall,” “Middle Hall,” begin jumping around like an idiot. But,
“Library” and, since 1910, Packard Hall. oh, he’s doing it because he’s funny or
Because of its prominent location and cool or goofy or doesn’t care about how
history, Packard Hall, along with Ballou tufts.edu he looks to everyone else. Wrong. This
Hall, is one of the two historic and sym- Packard Hall has an extensive history within its walls. move is about the most tired, cliché, con-
bolic anchors of the Academic Quad. formist way one could possibly imagine
As such, Tufts officials and architects went to great lengths to ensure that the original heyday.” to show his quirkiness. Every dude/bro
respected its historical importance and renovation would reflect the aesthetic With the building having gone through has done it and will likely continue to
tried to preserve its unique aesthetics history of the structure. a series of renovations throughout its do it for the next few years until Fergie
when drawing up renovation plans. “In its first life, it was very much a sim- history, the architects had the tricky task becomes a figure of nostalgia, but please
“When the project was first conceived, ple Georgian Colonial Utility Building,” of deciding which features to keep in do us all a favor and stop.
there was an intent to restore rather said Douglas Johnston, a principal at the order to give the building a cohesive 2. World War II movies. How to make
than just renovate,” Vice President of firm and a project architect. “It was basi- look, Johnston said. a World War II movie: one part critically
Operations John Roberto said. He added cally a brick box with simple rectangular “Most people thought that those fea- acclaimed director, three parts Academy-
that a great emphasis was placed on punched windows. And then when it tures of the ornamental brickwork on nominated actors/actresses (or you
achieving a “balance [between] … com- became a more important campus build- the front of the building and] the conical could be particularly “daring” and get
plying with current codes and accessibil- ing, quite a few Victorian details were roof over the North End … were some of an ex-teeny-bopper or a blockbuster star
ity requirements while trying to preserve introduced to it, including the ornamen- the building’s most memorable features, looking to be taken seriously), either a
the architecture of the building.” tal brick work, the conical roof [and] the so those were fully restored rather than famous novel or the words “based on a
To that end, the architecture firm gothic arched windows that were visible being stripped away,” he said. true story” and voila! You have a mention
in charge of the project, William Rawn on the north side of the building … It was at the Oscars! You’re not going to win,
Associates, Architects, Inc. of Boston, a very eclectic building at the time of its see PACKARD, page 7 because it’s been done about 500 times
before, but, hey — you got a nomination!
Now, I fully respect anyone who served in
Theater Review WWII (well, on our side …), but I’ve had
enough of our trying to pay our respects
‘Seafarer’ shows through award season after award sea-
son.
how the devil can For a period that lasted just over five
years, we’ve mined it more thoroughly
ruin Christmas than any other part of history. I’m not
saying that there’s nothing left to do. The
by Saanya Gulati upcoming films “Australia” and “Valkyrie”
Contributing Writer look pretty cool, probably because they
are not stories that have been filmed
In Connor McPherson’s captivat- to death. I’m just saying that maybe we
ing play, “The Seafarer,” audience need some sort of board to review the
members are pleasantly caught in a script and give approval before the requi-
site flood of WWII movies in the winter.
The Seafarer 3. Music video games. “Guitar Hero,”
“Rock Band” — you know the deal.
Earlier this year, two of my housemates
Written by Conor McPherson got hooked on “Guitar Hero.” I still can’t
listen to The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It
Directed by Carmel O’Reilly Black” or The Killers’ “When You Were
At the Calderwood Pavilion Young.” But there’s more wrong with
through Dec. 14 this game than the fact that, should a
roommate or housemate or close friend
Courtesy Stephanie Dres dual world of uncontrollable laugh- get addicted, you will hear certain songs
SoC looks to get audience members dancing during its fall performance. ter and shudder-inspiring fear. at least eight times a day. These are
For comical characters Richard video games without any of the actual
Spirit of Color stops hoods, pops booties Harkin, his brother Sharkey and their
permanent guest Ivan, Christmas is no
decoration. Now, I know “Mario Bros.”
is essentially a series of “push ‘A’ now to
The on-campus dance group Spirit of Color (SoC) certainly has a reputation for different from a regular day of drink- jump, kill the Koopa and don’t die,” but at
pleasing audiences with its unique, high-energy performances. With contemporary ing and arguing — until the uninvited, least there’s a Koopa and a little guy. This
music and hip-hop dance style, the group maintains a level of professionalism without enigmatic Lockhart begins to disclose game is simply “push ‘green’ now” and so
sacrificing the interactive element that draws many Tufts students to their shows. secrets from Sharkey’s past. forth.
The title of this year’s show, “Hood Stoppin’ Booty Poppin,’” demonstrates that, McPherson, the playwright of “The Were there not a mini guitar as the
while the dancers and choreographers work very hard on their dances, their ultimate Weir” (1997) and “Port Authority” controller, it would probably be univer-
goal is to get the audience to stand and dance with them. The show presents a mix (2001), combines elements of the sally recognized as the most boring game
of dance styles including hip-hop, modern and jazz, so there’s something for everyone supernatural, sin, redemption and in history. Furthermore, in most games, if
who has ever had the impulse to boogie. religion, weaving them together in your friends screw up, you have the joy of
Senior Stephanie Dres choreographed a dance to Roisin Murphy’s “Ramalama Bang a humorous Irish household. On laughing at them and ridiculing them for
Bang” that is meant to resemble a machine, with the dancers functioning as its parts. one hand, there is Richard, who is dying. With Guitar Hero and its brethren,
There is another dance that combines samba and hip-hop elements to a reggae song blind, confident and almost boister- you are simply subjected to having to
that embodies SoC’s mission to put the audience in a dancing mood. ous. On the other, there is his meek listen to horrible guitar playing and your
Assistant director Jamie Gang, a junior, pointed out that there is a lot of new talent brother Sharkey, who is always flus- favorite (or once-favorite songs) getting
for this year’s show after losing many seniors. “All of the new dancers add a different tered or tense about life. Then there butchered like a turkey a few days from
flavor,” Gang said. “Overall, the show feels more energetic, and everyone seems very is Ivan, who is completely clueless now.
excited for the upcoming performance.” about anything outside his world of And there, Santa, is my list of the
Both new freshman members, Cara Guappone and Cindy Ko voiced their excite- alcohol, but never fails to generate top three things I need to see an end
ment about their first SoC show at Tufts. “Everyone has been so welcoming,” Ko said, laughs as he fiddles with his glasses to as soon as possible. Well, that and
“especially since I’m learning about hip-hop for the first time.” Guappone expressed a or clumsily tries to steal whisky. people complaining about the appear-
similar feeling. “Everyone already knows each other, but it’s so great how open every- Alcohol is a running motif in the ance of Christmas references before
one is to new members of the group,” she said. play, but is not used to warn the Thanksgiving.
“Hood Steppin’, Booty Poppin’” will be performed twice this week — first on audience of its ill effects. Rather,
Thursday night and again on Saturday night at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8 and can be pur- McPherson accepts the fact that it is
chased at the Balch Arena Box Office. potent and dangerous. Sharkey, for Devin Toohey is a senior majoring in clas-
— by Catherine Scott sics. He can be reached at Devin.Toohey@
see SEAFARER, page 7 tufts.edu.
6 The Tufts Daily Arts & Living Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The Fares Center for Easter n

Mediter ranean Studies
P r e s e n t s

“Islamism in the Shadow

of al-Qaeda ”
DR. FRANÇOIS BURGAT
Director, Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO)
François Burgat, a political scientist and Arabist, is Senior Research Fellow (Directeur de
recherches) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), posted at IREMAM
(Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman) in Aix-en-Provence. For
a wide range of academic institutions, the World Economic Forum, NATO, and major private
or public think tanks, he has lectured and given expertise (economic/political risk) throughout
the world, being a permanent resident in the Middle East for over 18 years: at the University of
Constantine, Algeria (1973-1980), in Cairo CEDEJ (1989-1993) then as the director of the
French Centre for Archaeology and Social Sciences in Sanaa (1997-2003). His main
publications include The Islamic Movement in North Africa (U of Texas Press, 1997), Face to Face
with Political Islam (IB Tauris, 2002), Islamism in the shadow of al-Qaeda, Paris, La Découverte 2005
(U. of Texas Press 2008).

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Packard Hall was one of the first buildings on Tufts’ campus. The cur-
rent construction aims to restore its historic appearance while making
it a fully functional building.

Serving Tufts since 1856,

Packard Hall gets a facelift
PACKARD
continued from page 5
As part of the restoration, not
only will the interior of Packard
Hall be refurbished, but slate
roofing, original to the struc-
ture, will be reintroduced to
the building. Johnston said this
slate is a great addition because
it is sustainable and “the slates
that are being used on the
building are recycled slates that
were taken off of a mansion in
Brookline [Mass.]. So it’s a sort
of doubly sustainable material
and it … will continue to live
for a very long time happily on
the roof of Packard Hall.”
In conjunction with the
building’s restoration, an addi-
tional structure containing a
fire staircase and an elevator
will be added to the build-
ing’s west side. According to
Johnston, this addition will
make the building more acces-
sible on all floors and bring it
into compliance with modern
codes.
In order to ensure that the
new addition will blend well
with the existing structure,
the firm picked a brick that
was as close as possible to the
style of Packard Hall’s south
façade — the one that faces the
Academic Quad. The renova-
tion will also focus on increas-
ing the building’s energy effi-
ciency by installing new, more
insulated windows, which will,
according to Johnston, improve
the building’s “environmental
impact.”
The renovations are expect-
ed to be completed by July.
Courtesy Mike Lovett
Ivan and Sharkey are Dubliners who spend a good deal of their time drinking in ‘The Seafarer.’
McPherson leaves the important questions
unanswered at the conclusion of ‘Seafarer’
SEAFARER When Lockhart tells him, not removing the persistent
continued from page 5 “I want your soul,” the audi- feeling of impending doom.
example, is never keen on hav- ence is caught off guard, as Who is this Lockhart charac-
ing Nicky Giblin over, know- it is a complete turnaround ter? What does he want? These
ing that the entire affair will from the humorous beginning. questions are asked aloud
turn into a drunken shouting And when viewers see Sharkey by a despaired Sharkey who
match. writhing on the floor in pain, attempts to uncover this truth
The atmosphere is light at their fears are confirmed — the along with the audience.
first, as drinks are free flow- enigmatic guest is the devil. Still, the play ends on a
ing in the house, filling the McPherson cleverly par- somewhat positive note, per-
space with a sense of joviality allels the eerily mysterious haps symbolizing the devil’s
as the characters continue to scenes between Lockhart defeat. But even after the cur-
imbibe and gamble. Lockhart and Sharkey with boisterous- tain closes, questions linger,
is quiet through most of the ly funny exchanges between leaving the audience members
scenes until he is left alone Ivan and Richard, lightening somewhat haunted as they
with Sharkey. up the tense atmosphere but leave the theater.

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8 The Tufts Daily Editorial | Letters Wednesday, November 19, 2008

EDITORIAL
THE TUFTS DAILY
Robert S. Silverblatt Stevens has no place in Congress
Editor-in-Chief In a democracy, the people get the excessive he got, the more support he election (pending any recounts that may
Editorial government they vote for. Fortunately, garnered. Until, that is, he was convict- take place), we are troubled by the pro-
it appears that this government will ed last month for concealing more than cess. The very fact that Stevens came so
Rachel Dolin Managing Editors no longer include Sen. Ted Stevens, a $250,000 in gifts from Big Oil. close to regaining his seat is disturbing
Kristin Gorman recently convicted felon. But after what should have been a and serves as a reminder that our politi-
Jacob Maccoby Editorial Page Editors After 24,000 ballots were counted yes- wake-up call for the people of Alaska, cal system is fundamentally broken. In
Jason Richards terday, Democratic Anchorage Mayor a reminder that earmarks can never fact, we have become so numbed by
Giovanni Russonello Executive News Editor Mark Begich emerged victorious by a trump ethics, a surprising number of recent scandals that we have come to
narrow margin. Of the total votes, he got voters simply didn’t care. And for many expect poor behavior from our politi-
Sarah Butrymowicz News Editors 146,286, compared to Stevens’ 143,912. who did care, getting duped by insuf- cians and have been unwilling to make
Pranai Cheroo
Our system provides citizens with a ficient excuses was by far the easiest of them pay for it as long as they keep the
Nina Ford number of checks against bad govern- solutions. money flowing.
Ben Gittleson ment, but none is more sacrosanct than When campaigning, Stevens offered It’s easy to justify this by thinking that
Gillian Javetski
Jeremy White the ballot box. Stevens’ recent felony several troubling explanations for the politicians will always operate beyond
conviction for concealing over $250,000 conviction. Among them is the claim the law, so the real choice is which rogue
Alexandra Bogus Assistant News Editors in gifts sent the clear message that the that his trial, which was in Washington, representative will be more beneficial to
Michael Del Moro
once-entrenched politician felt that D.C., would have been fairer had it taken the bottom line. But this circular logic
Carrie Battan Executive Features Editor Senate votes could be bought for the place in Alaska. This argument is eerily ignores the fact that our inability to vote
right price. But what is more astound- reminiscent of Gov. Sarah Palin’s real with our consciences begets the very
Jessica Bidgood Features Editors ing is his arrogant belief that the people and fake parts of the country statement. corruption we later bemoan.
Robin Carol
Kerianne Okie of his own state could also be paid into All areas of the United States, even those After all, if we tell our politicians that
Charlotte Steinway silence with pork. that tend to vote Democratic, are able they can get away with anything, what’s
Sarah Bliss Assistant Features Editors
And he was nearly correct. During to recognize corruption and issue a fair to stop them from trying? Only public
Meghan Pesch his 40 years in the Senate, Stevens has and just verdict. Stevens’ attempt to scrutiny and the ballot box. Just as all
brought home billions of dollars in ear- blame his conviction on liberal politics citizens oppose votes for sale, so too
Mike Adams Executive Arts Editor marks for the people. He came to repre- is a disgrace to his office. should they take themselves off the auc-
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Babson shoots 55 percent in second half

MEN’S BASKETBALL
continued from page 16
guard, played a game-high 41 minutes and
shot 8-of-15 from the floor to finish with 25
points and 10 rebounds.
Shelton Ladson, a Babson sophomore
guard with zero career starts to his name, had
a breakout game with 24 points of his own. The
Jumbos were struggling for answers, especially
in the second half.
“We got 82 points — it was 82-82 before
overtime,” Sheldon said. “It’s our defense.
We’ve got to pick up our defense. And we
started out great with our defense, but then
we let up a little bit.”
“We just couldn’t get the stops as a team
when we needed to,” Pierce said. “We came
out with great intensity in those first five min-
utes, we got up 10-0, and we only gave up
15 points in the first 11 minutes of the game.
Then, we just let up a bit.
“And when you let up at this level, no
matter who you’re playing, they have play-
ers who can make shots,” he continued.
“That’s on me as a captain that I didn’t rally
the guys together. And I myself didn’t play
better D and make that a point of emphasis.
I’ll take this one on the chin tonight.”
The Beavers opened the second half on a
9-2 lead, and that push eventually gave them
the momentum to force their way back into
the game. Another scoring spree later in the
half made it 75-74 with 3:32 to play, and it was
back and forth the rest of the way. The Beavers
shot 18-for-33 (55 percent) in the second half.
“We came out really flat in the second half,”
Beyel said. “The first half was how we should
have played.”
When Babson made the game close in the
second, the Jumbos relied on their big men
to keep the defense solid inside. Pierce never
left the floor between the middle of the sec-
ond half and the final buzzer of overtime. He
finished with 39 minutes; junior Tom Selby
contributed 35.
“Honestly, I was just going on adrenaline,”
Pierce said. “And the thing is, the way we’ve
run practice this year, because we’re so young
and we don’t have a lot of bigs, Tom and I have
played pretty much all of practice, every day, up
and down. I feel like I’m in the best shape of my
life, so honestly, fatigue didn’t really factor in.”
Fatigue or not, something wasn’t working
for the Jumbos down the stretch. And for a
Tufts team that hit a frustrating wall last year
to finish 11-13 and hasn’t gotten out of the
NESCAC first round since the 2005-06 season,
something has got to give.
“It’s looking a little too much like the last
two years,” Beyel said. “It sucks to be here,
but you can only go up from here. We’ve got
to do some work.”
“This is going to be a defining moment
for us,” Sheldon said. “How do we bounce
back? Are we going to start down that slope
that we did last year when we lost a couple of
close ones? Are we going to come into practice
Thursday with our heads up and go at it?”
DAILY DIGITS
1 2
The field hockey team will attempt to win the
first team Div. III national championship in the
history of Tufts University athletics this week-
end when it travels to Collegeville, Penn. to
play in the Final Four, hosted by Ursinus Col-
lege. The Jumbos, seeded No. 4 in the nation,
will face No. 1 Messiah on Saturday. Tufts
dispatched the College of New Jersey 2-1 on
Sunday in the NCAA quarterfinals on Bello
Field to advance to this weekend’s Final Four.
69
Height, in inches, of 2008 American League
MVP Dustin Pedroia. The 5-foot-9 second
baseman became the 10th member of the
Red Sox to win the award, batting .326
with 17 home runs, 83 RBIs and 20 stolen
bases on the season. He had a .949 OPS
after the All-Star break and helped to lead
Boston to the AL wild-card berth. Pedroia,
who made just $457,000 last season, will
likely be in line for a pay raise this winter.
Junior Jesse Faller placed second at the NCAA
New England Cross Country Championships
Saturday. Faller’s performance qualified him
for the NCAA Championships this weekend in
Hanover, Ind. Although Faller has competed at
the NCAAs the past two years, this will be his
first time competing as an individual runner be-
cause the Jumbos failed to qualify as a team.
Faller improved on his All-New England perfor-
mance from last year, when he finished third.
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Years since the last tie in an NFL game before
the Philadelphia Eagles and Cincinnati Bengals
played to a 13-13 decision Sunday. Bengals’ kicker
Shayne Graham missed a 47-yard field goal at-
tempt with seven seconds remaining in overtime
to ensure that the game would end in a dead-
lock. The result marked the Eagles’ first tie in ex-
actly 11 years and the Bengals’ first since 1969.
A 34-34 contest between Pittsburgh and Atlanta
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Season opens with Saturday meet against league foes Conn. College, Middlebury
WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING
continued from page 16
themselves, but lots of them have defi-
nite potential.”
In addition to Gardel and Kono, the
Jumbos will look to senior tri-captains
Kayla Burke (back/free) and Katie Swett
(IM/breast) — Kendall’s cousin — as well
as junior Meredith Cronin (free/back) to
lead the team in the point standings come
conference meets.
In the NESCAC, there is a plethora
of talent in the pool and on the diving
board, as seven of the conference’s 11
schools finished in the top 50 at the
NCAA Championship meet last March.
What the Jumbos hope will set them
apart from the competition is a height-
ened sense of team unity.
“The upperclassmen this year are tak-
ing a great deal of pride in becoming a
close team,” coach Nancy Bigelow said.
“The group really understands the impor-
tance of a good team dynamic. Some
schools out there in the NESCAC are more
talented in the pool, but they certainly
don’t have as much spirit as we do.”
Even with as many as four different
practices per day, the Jumbos still man-
age to hold numerous functions out of the
pool, building team chemistry in prepa-
ration for the upcoming year. It is this
cohesion that the team hopes will help it
achieve its goal of finishing among the top
four in the league.
“Swimming is such an individual
sport, but we think that the team aspects
really make everyone go fast,” Frenette
said. “When you step up on the blocks,
it’s just you, but at the same time you
have your teammates out there, push-
ing you in practice, giving this sport a
unique combo. When we’re all invested
in each other, when we know what we
want to do, it makes it that much easier
to go out and get that top time, to qualify
for nationals, to get points in dual meets
in the NESCAC.”
Having taken fifth out of 11 teams at last
year’s conference championship meet, the
Jumbos know they will have their work cut
out for them this year. The current seniors
have never overcome Middlebury, while
Williams is 50-3 against Div. III opponents
in dual meets since 1999 and has finished
in the top four in the nation seven of the
last eight years.
Tufts will dive right into conference play
on Saturday with a triple meet against
Middlebury and host Conn. College.
Despite the strong history of the other
NESCAC schools, the Jumbos are not
intimidated.
“Obviously we want to try to win every
dual meet, but it’s not always feasible,”
Bigelow said. “But we can walk out of
a dual meet knowing we put up a great
performance by testing ourselves against
the best.”
“Going up against the Middleburys,
the Amhersts, the Williams only makes
us better,” Katie Swett said. “They’re all
notorious powerhouses, so just to be
able to swim against that talent helps us
get better.”
Even though Saturday will mark their
first meet of the regular season, it could
have implications down the road, so the
Jumbos are certainly looking to come out of
the gates fast. The team will take an almost
two-month break from NESCAC competi-
tion after the meet against the Camels and
Panthers beginning on Sunday, when it
hosts Brandeis at Hamilton Pool.
The 2009 portion of the schedule brings
stiffer competition from conference oppo-
nents — something the Jumbos insist on
being prepared for. Any success the team
hopes to enjoy hinges at least partially on
its ability to come together. With hoards of
Jumbos on the side of the pool screaming
at every meet in the pre-season, they seem
more than up to the task.
“Last year, we sort of discovered that
having the team behind you all the time
was the x-factor for us,” Katie Swett
said. “You can work hard individually,
but this sport is all mental, so that’s why
we push each other every day in prac-
tices and at meets.”

Young team looks ahead to early NESCAC
matchups with Williams, Middlebury
ICE HOCKEY
continued from page 16
its coach that it is ready to move beyond the
leaders of past years and redefine its identity
as a squad that is extremely well-balanced
and capable of out-working its opponents.
“Our captains were elected by their team-
mates from last year’s team and so far they’ve
done a really good job,” coach Bob Murphy
said. “It’s interesting because they’re not
going to be stars for us on the leader board.
They work hard and always seem to do the
right thing for us. We also will be looking
to our seniors for leadership; however, it
doesn’t necessarily need to come from them.
Everyone on our team will exhibit some sort
of leadership at some point during the sea-
son. That’s why they’re here.”
As the team tries to emphasize its hard-
working and balanced attack, there will be
ample opportunities for the younger skaters
to contribute from the get-go, especially for
the incoming crop of freshmen.
“I think the freshmen thus far have been
great … and they work hard,” Antonelli
said. “Any one of them has the ability to
step in and contribute right away. Some of
them will be playing on the top two lines,
and at this point its tough to tell, but any of
them can contribute.”
Without many returning offensive stars,
the competition for playing time up front will
be wide open. Murphy stressed that he will
do what’s best for the team as a whole and
put the most talented, hardest-working play-
ers on the ice.
“We have two freshmen that will be in our
Nine Jumbos garner All-NESCAC awards for
their season efforts on the gridiron
top six, seven or eight up front, and in general Freshman Donnie Simmons headed the list of the football team’s award recipients
we’ve made a serious effort to recruit guys as the NESCAC’s Rookie of the Year, as well as making the Defensive First Team. On
that love the game,” he said. “We’re looking the offensive side of things, FB Kevin Anderson earned a spot on the First Team for
to find guys who are a bit older and we think his third consecutive year, a feat he shares this year only with Williams’ senior OL
that that maturity will be helpful come game John Szawlowski. Tufts’ nine awards were behind Trinity’s 13 and Williams’ 11.
time. The older guys have been there before
so they know a bit more about playing at Offense Defense
a higher level. But I want to stress again —
we’re going to play the best 21 players no First Team First Team
matter what.” RB Will Forde - Sr. DL Donnie Simmons* - Fr.
On the other end of the ice, the team’s FB Kevin Anderson - Sr. LB Tyson Reynoso - Sr.
goaltending battle is in full force. Along WR David Halas - Sr. DB Tom Tassinari - Jr.
with junior Jay McNamara, freshmen Scott
Barchard and Evin Koleini are providing Second Team Second Team
nice competition. OL Adam Wueger - Jr. DB Alex Perry - Jr.
“We have two young kids coming in and TE Max Cassidy - Sr.
they’re going to be in the mix along with *Rookie of the Year
McNamara,” Murphy said. “From what we’ve
seen in the preseason, we’re comfortable
with all three guys. My inclination as a coach
is to just play the guy who’s playing the best,
but practice is one thing, and playing in front
of 2,500 people at Middlebury is another.
We’ll see how these guys handle the pressure
once we get going.”
The Jumbos open their season Friday on
the road at Williams then travel north to take
on the Panthers and the screaming frozen
sheet that is Middlebury’s Kenyon Arena.
“I think for us the biggest key is going to
be getting through these first two games, not
necessarily in wins or losses, but it’s impor-
tant for us to just play smart games early,”
Antonelli said. “Getting off to a good start is
very important for us and the challenge for
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the younger guys is to just focus on what
we’re trying to accomplish.”

StatISTICS | Standings SCHEDULE | Nov. 19 - Nov. 23
WED THU FRI SAT SUN

Field Hockey Men's Basketball NFHCA Div. III Field Hockey vs. Messiah NCAA
(18-1, 9-0 NESCAC) (0-0, 0-0 NESCAC) (Nov. 11, 2008) NCAA
Field Hockey Championships
Semifinals
NESCAC OVERALL TBD at Ursinus
NESCAC OVERALL at Ursinus
W L W L T W L W L Points (First-place votes)
Tufts 9 0 18 1 0 Amherst 1. Messiah, 396 (10) Men’s at Roger at Roger
0 0 1 0 Williams Williams
Bowdoin 7 2 17 2 0 Bates 0 0 0 0 2. Ursinus, 395 (6) Basketball
Tournament Tournament
Middlebury 7 2 14 4 0 Bowdoin 0 0 1 0 3. Bowdoin, 384 (3)
Amherst 6 3 10 5 0 Colby 0 0 0 1 4. Tufts, 359 (2) vs. Mt. Eda at vs. Castleton/
Trinity 6 3 13 5 0 5. TCNJ, 343 Women’s ECSU Tip-Off Eastern Conn.
Conn. Coll 0 0 0 1
Williams 3 6 6 9 0 Basketball Tournament at ECSU Tip-Off
Middlebury 0 0 2 0 6. Middlebury, 279 7:30 p.m. Tournament
Bates 2 7 6 9 0 Trinity 0 0 0 1 7. Salisbury, 276
Colby 2 7 5 10 0 Tufts 0 0 0 1 8. Lebanon Valley, 275 at Williams at Middlebury
Conn. Coll. 2 7 6 8 0 Wesleyan 0 9. SUNY Cortland, 233 Hockey 7 p.m. 4 p.m.
0 0 0
Wesleyan 2 7 3 11 0 Williams 0 0 1 0 10. Johns Hopkins, 222
NCAA Div. III
Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Preseason USA Today/ Cross Country
Championships
PPG RPG APG ESPN/WBCA Div. III at Hanover
G A Pts Women’s Basketball College
T. Brown 23 5 51 Jon Pierce 40.0 5.0 2.0
3.0 2.0 (Nov. 5, 2008) at Conn.
A. Russo 12 8 32 Dave Beyel 14.0 Swimming and
Aaron Gallant 14.0 0.0 3.0 College vs. Brandeis
M. Kelly 13 2 28 Points (First-place votes) Diving with Middlebury 12 p.m.
B. Holiday 6 3 15 Reed Morgan 7.0 3.0 2.0 2 p.m.
7.0 0.0 1. UW-Whitewater, 228 (5)
M. Burke 6 1 13 Tom Selby 4.0
Sam Mason 4.0 3.0 0.0 2. Oglethorpe, 212 (2) vs. Navy 8 a.m. vs. Williams
M. Scholtes 2 6 10 Men’s
Matt Galvin 3.0 4.0 7.0 3. Kean, 201 at Trinity vs. Frank. &
I. Lewnard 4 1 9
James Long 2.0 2.0 0.0 4. Wash. U. St. Louis, 197 (2) Squash 5:30 p.m. Marsh. TBA at at 4Harvard
T. Guttadauro 3 1 0 p.m.
0.0 0.0 5. DePauw, 196 Dartmouth
A. Roberts 1 5 7 Bryan Lowry 0.0
T. Jasinski 0 7 7 Dan Cook 0.0 1.0 0.0 6. Hope, 181 vs. Franklin and
Women’s vs. Williams
L. Griffith 3 0 6 Peter Saba 0.0 2.0 1.0 7. Rochester, 178 at Trinity Marshall at at Harvard
A. Quezada 0.0 0.0 0.0 Squash 5:30 p.m. Dartmouth
8. Baldwin-Wallace, 163 4 p.m.
Max Cassidy 0.0 0.0 0.0 9 a.m.
Goalkeeping GA S S% 9. Thomas More, 145
M. Zak 12 46 .793 Butterfield-Bragg 0.0 0.0 0.0
35.0 18.0 10. Chicago, 140
K. Hyder 4 5 .556 Team 88.0 Jumbocast
15. Tufts, 97
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Sailing
Tufts takes eighth at Atlantic Coast Champs
by Philip Dear
Daily Editorial Board
It makes for bad results in a lab. It leads
to broad, often inaccurate conclusions.
It’s just all-around frustrating. It’s called
“small sample size.”
The sailing team got the bad end of the
“small sample size” stick this weekend,
as it finished eighth out of 18 teams at
the Atlantic Coast Championships (ACCs);
but it came in a mere eight points out of
fourth-place, taken by Navy, and 12 points
behind third-place Harvard.
At the most significant regatta of the entire
fall season, an entire day of the two-day event
was eliminated because of a lack of wind. As
a result, only 10 total races between the two
boats from each school were sailed — a
number that left teams from second-place
Roger Williams (67) to eighth-place Tufts (82)
separated by only 15 points. St. Mary’s won
the regatta with 59 points. In comparison,
26 races were sailed at last fall’s ACCs and
there was a 45-point difference between the
second- and eighth-place teams. Boston
College won the Championship last year
with 180 points.
“We realize how important every race is
in order to finish well,” senior tri-captain
Baker Potts said. “I made one big mistake
that was easily avoidable, which if I hadn’t
made that mistake we probably would have
finished third or fourth.”
The Jumbos are currently ranked No. 6 in
the nation and have been as high as No. 5.
The sailing team is also the most renowned
and successful athletics program in school
history, winning 24 national titles since 1975
in co-ed, women’s, team racing and single-
handed racing combined.
So to finish eighth in the Atlantic Coast
division could be seen, by these standards,
as disappointing. That said, five of the
seven teams to finish ahead of the Jumbos
are currently higher in the national rank-
ings as well.
McDavitt forgoes opportunity to play for
Team USA to coach her team through NCAAs
by Carly Helfand
Daily Editorial Board
When the 2008 Pan American
Games kick off today in San Juan,
Argentina, Tufts field hockey coach
Tina McDavitt will be absent from the
USA’s indoor field hockey lineup.
The tournament will run from today
through Nov. 23, but McDavitt has
other plans for this weekend: a trip to
Tufts’ first-ever Final Four at Ursinus
College in Collegeville, Penn.
While McDavitt, who was part of
a team that took silver in the 2005
games, would love to help fight for
the gold this year, the Jumbos will be
taking on national No. 1 Messiah on
Saturday and, if they advance, the vic-
tor of a Bowdoin-versus-Ursinus clash
on Sunday.
“It’s tough not to be able to go play
and represent the U.S., but this is more
important to me,” McDavitt said.
McDavitt made the tradeoff gladly,
as her No. 1 priority is to see the
Jumbos’ historic season through to
its end — with sights set squarely on
Tufts’ first-ever Div. III team national
championship title.
After last season’s second-place finish, Jumbos set sights on Ephs
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NESCAC Tournament, only 371 points
behind powerhouse Williams, which fin-
ished with 1,860.
“I’m looking forward to this year’s meet
against Williams,” senior co-captain James
Longhurst said. “In NESCACs last year we
were a lot closer than anyone thought we
would be. They’ve lost a lot of good swim-
mers this year and we’ve gained a lot of good
swimmers, so I think that’s going to be one
of the best meets of the entire year.
“Everybody has high expectations for all
of the freshmen,” he continued. “We have
so many fast freshmen that everyone else
swims faster as a team. As a team, when you
know that the people around you are swim-
ming faster, it’s going to make you go faster
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“It was pretty disappointing,” junior
Tomas Hornos said. “Baker and I knew that
we had really good chances to finish in the
top three. I started off pretty weak, and I
wasn’t able to get enough good finishes to
finish [overall] as well as we wanted to.”
Hornos skippered the A division boat with
senior Dan Hurwit as crew, while Potts led the
B division boat with junior Nate Rosenberg
trimming the jib. Hornos and Hurwit fin-
ished with 45 points, good for 10th in the
division, while Potts and Rosenberg brought
in 37 points and a fifth-place division finish.
Mother nature posed the biggest obstacle
for the two Tufts boats. On the first day there
was no wind, while the second day saw quite
a change, as the sailors faced bitter cold
winds that gusted up to 32 knots, with cold
rain and even snow. Unfortunately for the
Jumbos, a couple of harsh weather-induced
incidents on the water were ultimately the
deciding factor in their eighth-place, as
opposed to a third- or fourth-place, finish.
Things began to unravel for the Jumbos
as early as the end of the first leg of the first
race of the regatta.
“The first race on the first windward mark,
we capsized due to another boat fouling us
going around the mark,” Hornos said. “He
capsized on us causing us to capsize and in
turn ruining our race — [we went] from fifth
to 18th. I forgot that with such heavy breeze
you have to play it more conservatively.”
While technically speaking the Tufts
boat was fouled, there is nothing that can
be done officially to retrieve the fifth-place
standing. Instead, as Hornos said, the best
option would be to sail more conservative-
ly around dangerous mark-roundings as a
preemptive move to avoid these potentially
devastating issues.
The 13-spot drop, in hindsight, would
have been enough to bump the Jumbos up
from eighth to third. But Potts also acknowl-
edged a few mistakes of his own that could
have led to a higher overall finish.
“Those mistakes were easily avoidable,”
“I was joking before the season
started that no matter what happens,
this is going to be a good weekend
for me — I’d either be in the Final
Four or at the Pan Ams,” McDavitt
said. “I was prepared for that before
we played [Sunday’s regional game
against TCNJ]. I was like, ‘I just hope
we win — I’m not ready to go to the
Pan Ams. Mentally, I’m in Tufts field
hockey mode, and that’s where I want
to be.’”
McDavitt, named to the 12-member
team in July after trying out with 72
other players in April, struck a bal-
ance between her own training and
the team’s busy schedule, even finding
time to make a number of trips down
to Philadelphia to practice with other
members of the Pan Am team.
“I’ve been training since February,”
McDavitt said. “I was just working
on it all week during the week lift-
ing and running and working on the
weekends. Lots of times after Saturday
games I just went home, showered, got
in the car and went down to Philly for
practice,” McDavitt said. “The girls on
the indoor team with me would wait
for me. I’d get my bag, drive six hours
too. It helps the whole team out.”
The Jumbos will only swim two meets
at home, including their first on Sunday
against non-conference foe Brandeis. Since
Hamilton Pool is the oldest aquatic facil-
ity in the NESCAC, the team swims most of
its meets at local universities like MIT or it
competes on the road.
“We would much rather have home meets
because we’re used to the pool’s conditions,
and the pool fills up really fast with fans
and it gets really loud,” Shields said. “After a
couple months we get used to the pool, and
then another team comes in and they’re not
used to it. I’ve seen teams have awful meets
here, whereas we sometimes have amazing
meets at home.”
Overall, the Jumbos are setting the bar
high this season, starting with their first
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Potts said. “They were totally in our control.
[They were] mistakes that we could easily
have avoided by thinking for a half second
more about what we were going to do.”
The constant struggle to keep the boat
in check throughout the race was a task
taken on by the two crews, whose jobs
were made particularly difficult due to the
inclement conditions.
“Nate Rosenberg and I sailed really well
when it got puffy and variable, especially
when the puffs were up to 30 knots,” Potts
said. “Our boat handling went really well
— Nate did a great job of keeping the boat
flat and managing the boat in the condi-
tions.”
Hornos also commended Hurwit for his
help, as well as the support of his usual
crew, senior tri-captain Lara Hwa, and
Potts’ usual crew, senior Christina Kelly,
who attended the regatta but sat out as
heavier crew members were needed to
accommodate the conditions.
“[Hurwit] and I were happy that we were
able to hop into a boat for the first time
this semester and have no communication
issues,” Hornos said.
“I appreciated his work,” he added later.
Despite the few mental lapses, the Jumbos
were generally optimistic about their perfor-
mance at the Championship and particu-
larly pleased with the fall season as a whole.
“The fall was definitely a good consistent
season,” Hornos said. “Baker and I were
able to put together a bunch of good regat-
tas with consistent results throughout the
season. We’ve got to continue working hard,
[and] we’re looking forward to it.”
“We’re really happy with the whole fall,”
Potts said. “[There were] definitely a couple
of regattas where we could have won it or
been in the top three but due to avoidable
mistakes we didn’t. As a whole we’re really
happy. We ended up ranked third in New
England, arguably the best region in colle-
giate sailing. We have a lot to look forward to
in the spring.”
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McDavitt coaches her players.
to Pennsylvania, have a six-hour prac-
tice on Sunday and drive back.”
And while she may be missing this
year’s games, she plans to be back in
action in the near future.
“I’ll definitely try out next time,”
McDavitt said. “Next year is the World
Cup. If they win the gold, we will
qualify and then I would try out and
hopefully make the World Cup team.”
meet Saturday at Conn. College where they
will swim against both the host Camels
and Middlebury. Having narrowly missed
the NESCAC title last year, the team can’t
help but come out this winter wanting it
more than ever.
“Based on the number of people we
lost from last year and the great group of
freshmen we’ve got this year, we’re pretty
pumped to go for No. 1 at NESCACs and
beat Williams,” Shields said. “They’ve won
every year since I’ve been here, and I think
it’s definitely the year that we can finally
overtake them.”
“Every year we’re lifting more weights and
swimming more yards,” Longhurst said.
“But that’s exactly what we need to win. We
all want to win NESCACs. We just have to
give it everything we’ve got.”
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Evans Clinchy | Dirty Water
Walking
forward
I
f you’re like me and you can’t live with-
out your daily dose of Jon Stewart and
Stephen Colbert, feel free to skip the first
two paragraphs here. It’s mostly review.
On Thursday evening, I was engrossed
in an interview on The Daily Show between
Stewart and Bill O’Reilly. It was a rare oppor-
tunity, as I saw it, to kick Fox News’ iconic
windbag while he was down — first the
Democrats ran the table on Election Day,
and next Stewart was to settle the battle of
the cable news anchors, mano a mano.
The topic, for the most part, was Bill-O the
Clown’s assertion that America was a “center-
right nation.” We are, Bill-O argued, leaning
to the right “because we respect tradition in
America.” Stewart’s response was right to the
point: “The tradition in America is a progres-
sion of individual freedoms. You know what
the tradition of America would say? Gay mar-
riage is the next step.”
This got me thinking.
The great thing about being on the left
is that ultimately, you always win. Maybe
not right away, but if you keep fighting for
change, it will come eventually. Seceding
from England and forming a nation? That
was once considered too liberal. Ending slav-
ery? Giving women the vote? Radical, crazy,
leftist changes that were once vehemently
opposed. Eventually, they happened. It was
only a matter of time.
I know — this is a sports column. Gimme
a minute, I’m getting there.
The connection lies in the fact that base-
ball — or, more specifically, the members
of the media who cover baseball — is a cen-
ter-right nation. Change comes much more
slowly to the Baseball Writers’ Association of
America (BBWAA) than it does to America as
a whole.
I say this because in this era, we have more
information about baseball at our fingertips
than ever before. Every minute detail of every
game, every play and every pitch is out there,
waiting to be discovered — and so many
people seem so reluctant to discover it.
This year, the BBWAA got its annual
awards the least wrong it has in a long time.
Seeing Albert Pujols, Geovany Soto and Evan
Longoria take home hardware was encour-
aging; the other three picks (Dustin Pedroia,
Cliff Lee, Tim Lincecum) ranged from decent
to debatably right. For the first time in a long
while, nothing colossally stupid happened in
the November awards season.
But there’s still work to be done. How
many writers blindly followed Lincecum’s
winning percentage (by the by, Gavin Floyd
went 17-8 this year and Jake Peavy was 10-11
— you tell me who’s better), ignoring Johan
Santana’s league leads in ERA and innings
pitched? How many completely overlooked
Grady Sizemore, the American League’s true
most valuable player despite his team’s medi-
ocrity? How many supported Ryan Howard
for MVP simply because of the RBI-powered
beer goggles worn uniformly by the BBWAA?
One writer, Tom Haudricourt of the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, proud-
ly announced on his blog that he ranked
Pujols — far and away, absolutely unde-
niably, you’d-have-to-be-clinically-insane-
to-debate-this the most valuable player
in baseball — seventh on his MVP ballot.
(Two Brewers cracked his top six.) His ram-
bling justification was that his team finished
fourth, he didn’t come through in crunch
time (that 1.130 September OPS was just a
mirage, I guess), and that “Ryan Ludwick had
just as much to do with keeping the Cards in
the hunt as Pujols did.”
This is petty and nitpicky of me, but let’s be
honest — baseball can do better than this.
Haudricourt was one of 12 writers to
pick Howard for MVP. Two others picked his
Phillies teammate — no, not Utley, but Brad
Lidge. Yeah … we’ve got a ways to go.
But I’m optimistic. The system isn’t perfect
yet, but give it time.
Franklin Roosevelt once said that a con-
servative is a man with two good legs who
has never learned to walk forward. There are
plenty of these self-crippling men covering
baseball games today. But give them time,
and they’ll start walking.
Change will come. It always does.
Evans Clinchy is a senior majoring in
English. He can be reached at Evans.
Clinchy@tufts.edu.

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Pierce scores 40, but Jumbos fall
by Evans Clinchy
Daily Editorial Board
Somehow, 40 wasn’t enough.
As expected, it was junior co-captain Jon
Pierce who carried the men’s basketball team
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on his back in last night’s season opener
against Babson in Cousens Gym. And try as he
did, he just couldn’t carry them far enough.
What will go down in the record books as
the best game of Pierce’s career — he shot
14-for-21 from the floor, 4-for-6 from beyond
the arc and 8-for-12 from the charity stripe
for 40 points, a career high — will ultimately
also go down as just another loss. Pierce’s per-
formance, the ninth 40-point game in Tufts
history, yielded a 90-88 overtime loss for the
Jumbos. The Beavers’ senior captain, Zach
Etten, buried a running jumper with one sec-
ond left, and that was it. The stat that matters
most is the one in the standings: 0-1.
“It just proves that when one player scores
40, it’s still not a guaranteed win,” Pierce
said. “We have to go back to the drawing
board, look at film and figure out what was
working for [junior Dave] Beyel and [senior
co-captain Aaron] Gallant in the first half that
we went away from in the second. We need to
come out this weekend and make an effort to
make sure everyone’s involved — because 40
isn’t enough.”
Beyel and Gallant, the team’s two lead-
ing returning scorers behind Pierce, were
expected to pick up the slack and support
their All-American teammate, and in the first
half, everything went according to plan. The
Jumbos went into the break with a comfort-
able 42-32 lead behind 13 points from Pierce,
11 from Beyel and nine from Gallant.
But following halftime, Babson’s defense
successfully stifled the Tufts wings, limiting
Beyel and Gallant to a combined eight points.
“They made some really good adjustments,
Ice Hockey Preview
Tufts looks to ice out memories
of dismal ’07-’08 campaign
by Scott Janes
Daily Editorial Board
As fall finally gives way to winter, the
hockey team will be doing its best to turn
over a new leaf as well and improve upon a
disappointing 2007-08 campaign.
Coming off of a 6-17-1 season that left the
Jumbos short of NESCAC postseason play,
the squad heads into the season guided by a
new set of leaders and boasting a vastly dif-
ferent identity.
Gone is the duo of forwards Ross Gimbel
(LA ’08) and Greg O’Connell (LA ’08), the
pair of senior tri-captains that led the team
on the ice with 19 points apiece. And gone is
goaltender James Kalec (LA ’08), the Jumbos’
all-time saves leader, who stopped 2,166
shots during his four-year career and proved
crucial in keeping his team in many tight
contests during his tenure as a Jumbo.
In a season that commences Friday
against perennial NESCAC power Williams,
a team the Jumbos downed 3-2 during last
season’s home-opener, there seems to be
plenty of questions surrounding the young
Jumbo roster. Indeed, it is the strength of the
core of young players on the team that will
likely define this year’s squad and provide
the opportunity for success.
“The biggest thing is that we’re definitely
younger than we have been in years past,”
junior co-captain and center David Antonelli
said. “We’ll definitely miss certain guys, like
O’Connell, Gimbel and Kalec, who contrib-
uted on the stat sheet and from a leadership
standpoint as well.
“And while we may not be as talented at
the top of our team as in past years, from
a depth standpoint there aren’t too many
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Junior co-captain Jon Pierce scored 40 points in the Jumbos’ season opener last night.
getting up on the wing,” Beyel said. “And Jon
did a good job recognizing that we were hav-
ing a tough time getting to the basket. He took
over and did a great job. It’s just something
we’ve got to work on. When they get up on
the wings and they challenge us at the guard
positions, Jon’s not going to be there to throw
us on his back every game.”
“We want Jon to score, obviously, but not
40 a game,” coach Bob Sheldon said. “We’ve
got to get it so that other guys are involved.
But we’ve got guys who have never played
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Sophomore Lindsay Walker, along with junior co-
captains David Antonelli and Myles Neumann,
will need to lead the team this year.
teams in the NESCAC that can skate with
us top to bottom,” he continued. “Although
our seniors are definitely leaders as well, and
we’ve certainly seen that this preseason, our
core is going to be in the middle grades.”
A few key returners from last year’s squad
who might impact that young core include
sophomore forward Lindsay Walker, who
posted 13 assists and 16 points as a fresh-
man, and junior forward Cory Korchin
who tallied a team-leading seven goals and
dished out eight assists last season.
With two junior co-captains at the helm
now in Antonelli and defenseman Myles
Neumann, the team has made it clear to
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25 minutes — everybody else around him.
Aaron’s the only one that’s played over 20
minutes a game. We’re asking guys to play
20, 25, and it’s going to take a little time to get
them into the game.”
While the Babson defense clamped
down on the supporting cast around
Pierce, the Beaver offense did everything
it could to enable a superstar of its own.
Etten, a first-team All-NEWMAC shooting
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Women’s Swimming and Diving Preview
Jumbos dive into winter season
with strong team cohesion
by Alex Prewitt
Senior Staff Writer
When competing in the NESCAC, a
conference that annually earns recog-
nition as one of the best in the nation,
a traditional middle-of-the-pack squad
like Tufts’ women’s swimming and div-
ing team might struggle to form its own
distinct identity. But, behind a core of
experienced leaders and promising first-
years, the Jumbos are seeking to establish
themselves as one of the most unified
teams in the nation and to ride this cohe-
sion to another solid finish.
Undoubtedly, the team will miss
diving champion Kendall Swett (LA
‘08), who claimed the Div. III national
championship last season in both the
one- and three-meter dives, leading
the team to a 21st-place showing at
the NCAA Championships in Ohio. But
with the graduation of Swett, junior
Lindsay Gardel, who also competed at
Nationals, looks to lead the Jumbos this
season on the platform. Gardel fed off
of Swett’s success last year, earning her
second All-American honor at Tufts on
the diving board.
Meanwhile, sophomore swimmer
Megan Kono joined Swett and Gardell at
the NCAA Championships last season to
round out the Tufts contingent, compet-
ing in three events and capturing a 19th-
place finish in the 1,650-meter freestyle.
Kono, along with fellow sophomore and
freestyler Maureen O’Neill combined to
break three Jumbo records in the water.
Kono, O’Neill and Swett were the only
three All-Conference honorees for Tufts,
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Freshmen bring
hope of NESCAC
Championship
by Amanda Chuzi
Daily Staff Writer
With its first meet scheduled for this week-
end, the men’s swimming and diving team is
hoping that the influx of young talent on its
roster will more than offset the graduation of
last season’s veterans.
Although the Jumbos lost seven seniors
from last year’s team, only two of them quali-
fied for NESCACs. And with 16 new freshmen
having been added to the mix, the roster is
younger, larger and filled with more potential
than before.
“Last year was supposed to be a down
year, and we ended up getting second [at
the NESCAC Championship],” senior co-
captain Andrew Shields said. “We haven’t
lost that many seniors, and we’ve gotten
freshmen in pretty much all the events we
needed them in.”
Two Jumbos from last season’s squad gar-
nered All-NESCAC honors after their perfor-
mances at the conference finals: then-soph-
omore Rob Matera and then-freshman Chris
Vorlicek. Matera was the only representative
from Tufts to qualify for NCAA championships.
“We have two of the top divers in the
conference on our team,” Shields said, refer-
ring to Matera and sophomore Trevor Stack.
“When I first got here, we only had one diver.
Having two divers gives us an advantage
going into bigger meets.”
Last year’s team finished 6-2, with a hand-
ful of upsets and surprises. The Jumbos
fell to MIT at home and at the Engineers’
Invitational, placing second out of six teams.
Prior to these losses, the Jumbos had pre-
vailed consistently over the Engineers in
every meet since 2003.
On the upside, the Jumbos surprised
themselves by capturing second at the
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The women’s swimming and diving team
hopes to begin its season with a splash in
its first meet this weekend.
a number that the team expects to sur-
pass this season. Although roughly half
of the squad is comprised of freshmen,
the remainder of the roster is filled out
by established upperclassmen, including
veterans of NCAAs, Gardel and Kono.
“We have a lot of people coming back
this year, and I think our team is look-
ing really strong,” senior tri-captain Liz
Frenette said. “It’s hard to say about the
freshmen, because they have to prove
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