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THE TUFTS DAILY SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

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Tufts to refund
TCU Senate soon
by Rob Silverblatt
Daily Editorial Board

The university has set aside money to repay

the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate —
possibly before an insurance check comes
in — for funds allegedly embezzled from
the group, Tufts’ Vice President for Finance
Thomas McGurty told the Daily. But the full
details are only surfacing now that a cloud
of miscommunication hang-
ing over the Senate and vari-
ous departments within the
administration has broken.
TCU senators will receive
EMBEZZLEMENT
CASE the funds as soon as the uni-
versity works out a final num-
ber, which it is set to do by Oct. 1.
McGurty, who is also the university’s trea-
surer, said that his office, banking on getting
an insurance payout, has already recorded the
expected payment in its books and has trans-
ferred the money to an account for student
groups. “I have money sitting in an account
to cover any [TCU Senate] request,” he said.
The money comes from the university’s cash
reserves.
Rebekah sokol/tufts daily
Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler
Freshmen interested in running for the TCU Senate attended a meeting last night. No seniors went to the event. said that Tufts is handling the payout to the

Sykes, two others resign from TCU Senate

by Jeremy White
Daily Editorial Board I would stay on, but I changed my
In a reversal, former Tufts Com-
munity Union ( TCU) presidential
candidate Elton Sykes
resigned from the Senate
last month. He is one of
three seniors to resign
from the body over the
summer, and now the
Senate is scrambling to
replace them.
“At the beginning I thought that
if I didn’t win [the presidency] then
mind,” Sykes said.
Sykes, Daniel Hartman and Jacob
Maccoby stepped down, leaving three
vacancies that will be offered first to
seniors. If not enough step up to fill
the seats, the still empty ones will be
offered to juniors. Elections will be
held only if more than three candi-
dates enter the race.
TCU Treasurer Matt Shapanka sent
an e-mail to 65 friends in hopes of
inciting interest and ensuring that
the Class of 2009 is well represented
in the Senate. “The e-mail was some-
thing personal I did; I’d never done it
before,” Shapanka said.
But when the Senate invited seniors
to attend last night’s general interest
meeting intended primarily for fresh-
men considering running for Senate
this month, none came.
Seniors looking to be candidates
in the Sept. 10 elections must submit
their applications by today at 10 p.m.
see SENATE, page 2
Senate separately from the insurance check,
which could reach the Hill as early as this
month.
“The status of the insurance settlement
has nothing to do with the funding of student
organizations. The insurance settlement is a
university claim and will be managed accord-
ingly,” she said in an e-mail. According to
Thurler, the funds have been ready for the
Senate since June.
TCU Treasurer Matt Shapanka said that
he is happy with the commitment, but that it
came only after a long process marked by gaps
see FUNDS, page 2
To read about the aftermath of a different Tufts
embezzlement scandal, turn to Features, page 3.

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America’s water treatment system

Beyond Boundaries was leader

among capital campaigns in April
by Alexandra Bogus
Daily Editorial Board
In April, Tufts outpaced the 26
other billion-dollar universities
engaged in capital campaigns,
according to the Chronicle of
Higher Education.
Tufts’ campaign, Beyond
Boundaries, experienced a $131.8-
million vault in April.
According to Director of Central
Development Programs Chris
Simoneau, this jump was due
“almost entirely” to the late Frank
Doble’s (E ’11) $136-million dona-
tion, which the university received
in April.
The campaign’s monthly capi-
tal gains average between $5 mil-
lion and $10 million. After April’s
surge, donations in recent months
have remained strong and steady,
Simoneau said. The campaign,
which aims to earn $1.2 billion by
2011, surpassed $900 million this
summer.
“We’re really hitting our stride,”
said Christine Sanni, director of
advancement for communica-
tions and donor relations.
Doble designated Tufts and
Lesley University as primary
beneficiaries of two trusts he set
see CAMPAIGN, page 2
and urged students to help the
developing world gain access to
clean water in a Cohen Auditorium
talk Tuesday night.
Morris, a researcher who
taught at Tufts University School
of Medicine from 1996 to 2002,
spoke about the history of the fight
for clean drinking water and the
resistance advocates have encoun-
tered.
All members of the Class of 2012
received a copy of Morris’ book,
“The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster,
and the Water We Drink,” this sum- Annie wermiel/tufts daily
mer as optional pre-Matriculation Former Tufts professor Robert Morris spoke about his book on Tuesday.
reading.
The lecture ranged from the the first part of the lecture to John both of which refused to believe
present day threats against the Snow, the founder of epidemiology, Snow’s claims that cholera was
American water supply to the more who took on London’s cholera epi- waterborne and nearly undetect-
pressing problem of clean drinking demic in the 19th century. able. The common understanding
water availability in many develop- Morris highlighted Snow’s strug- was that the disease was airborne.
ing nations. gles against conventional wisdom
Morris devoted a good portion of and the political establishment, see WATER, page 2

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Morris calls attention to the drinking-water crisis in developing countries

WATER
continued from page 1
Morris tied the status-quo resis-
tance that Snow encountered to
entrenched problems and limita-
tions in the United States’ current
water-treatment system. Morris
explained that the systems of treating
water allow impurities — such as the
byproducts of chlorine disinfectant
added to the water, traces of phar-
maceuticals and other chemicals —
remain in the water.
As a result of government inac-
tion, Morris said, unregulated
chemicals, including rocket-fuel
ingredients, are detected but
allowed to remain untreated in the
nation’s water supply.
“The shocking thing to me … was
the fact that these water treatment
plants were testing for drugs in our
drinking water, were finding them
and were then deciding not to tell
anybody,” Morris said. “Even when
we treat sewage … we’re not really
trying to make pure water, and we
certainly aren’t treating it to remove
chemicals.”
Much of the blame for the contin-
ued existence of potentially harmful
particles in the water supply falls on
the deteriorating and outdated sys-
tem, Morris said.
“When it comes to water treat-
ment, we have a massive infrastruc-
ture that is old and falling apart and
that relies in large part on hundred-
year-old technology” such as sand
filters and chlorine purification,
Morris said.
That same infrastructure — from
treatment to distribution — is “falling
apart under our feet,” Morris said.
The refusal to sacrifice in the short
term, however, ensures lingering
problems.
Replacing and repairing the nec-
essary amount of pipes in the nation-
wide system could cost an estimated
$1 trillion through 2040, Morris said.
Morris drew parallels to the fight
against global warming, calling the
drinking-water issue “an inconve-
nient truth at odds with money and
old ways of thinking.”
He added, “We’re not going to
know until it’s way too late whether
the theories of climate change are
right … but since the science is
observational, there are ways to dis-
miss and deny it, and it’s far easier
[to do this]. And that’s certainly the
case with a lot of the threats related
to drinking water.”
Morris stressed that he does not
favor using bottled drinking water
over tap water, due to the high
environmental costs of shipping
and plastic. Rather, he pushed for
improving the tap-water system.
Changing the subject, Morris
pointed out that the drinking water
issues in developed nations like the
United States pale in comparison to
those of the developing world. The
lack of access to a clean water sup-
ply is responsible for approximately
5,000 deaths everyday worldwide,
said Morris, calling this “a humani-
tarian crisis of epic proportions.”
He ended the lecture with a call
to action and reform on water-
related issues worldwide, warning
that the consequences of inaction
would be grim.
“The moral issue of our time is the
environment and our relationship
with it,” Morris said.
For some in attendance, both
Morris’ book and the lecture were a
wake-up call.
Freshman Lori Fingerhut said
reading the book shed new light on
a topic most people overlook. “I don’t
normally associate water with things
that are dangerous or could even kill
you,” she said, adding that she was
“definitely” more concerned about
the campus water supply as a result.
Though the book was only given
out to freshmen, the lecture attract-
ed sophomores and upperclass-
men as well. A school-wide e-mail
invitation to the lecture reached
sophomore Ryan Orendorff, and he
decided to attend the lecture.
“[Clean water] is an issue
more people need to be aware
of,” he said.

Doble gift made up majority of campaign’s April earnings Departing seniors

CAMPAIGN
continued from page 1
up as part of his estate plan before pass-
ing away in 1969. The trusts were dissolved
upon the recent sale of his company, Doble
Engineering, and their assets were distrib-
uted equally to the two universities. The gift
is the largest in Tufts’ history.
Doble was a member of the Charles Tufts
Society, an organization of alumni who
include Tufts in their estate plans. The
Society currently has close to 900 members,
according to Sanni.
Membership has increased, on average,
by about 10 people per month since Beyond
Boundaries went public in 2006, according to
Rebecca Scott, director of Tufts’ Gift Planning
Office.
Scott described the link between the
Charles Tufts Society and the Beyond
Boundaries campaign as a “chicken
and egg” scenario. As contributions to
the campaign increase, more members
are added to the society. Likewise, as
membership to the Society increases,
additional campaign contributions
are made.
Shapanka: Despite overdrawing, Treasury in good shape
FUNDS
continued from page 1
in communication.
Shapanka said he had not been able to
get the university to confirm the existence of
the funds until yesterday, despite repeated
inquiries.
“I don’t want to accuse them of anything,
but they haven’t been actively talking to me.
I’ve had to go to them,” he said before learn-
ing officially about the money.
But he said that he feels better after talking
with McGurty yesterday. “He was very helpful
and very straightforward,” Shapanka said.
Meanwhile, the TCU Treasury has already
set up an account anticipating the recov-
ered funds and has overdrawn it by around
$190,000 in order to pay a debt to the univer-
sity. The debt stems from accounting prob-
lems; in the past, money that should have
been used to pay the university for interde-
partmental payments and expense transfers
never left the Senate’s Citizens Bank account.
Shapanka said this is because the Senate did
not know it owed the money, and the univer-
sity wasn’t asking for it. Tufts only requested
the payment when the Senate closed its
Citizens account and officials realized that
the debt existed.
Had the administration requested the
funds earlier, the Senate may not have had
enough money in the Citizens account to
pay, since, according to Shapanka, it was a
major source for the embezzlement.
“If the university had asked us to pay the
cash,” it may not have been there, Shapanka
said, “because it was being stolen.”
The Senate’s available funds will be fur-
ther depleted when it forgives the debts of
student organizations affected by the alleged
embezzlement. Combined, 30 student orga-
nizations went $181,556.04 into the red dur-
ing the 2007-2008 academic year, but only
some of this debt is tied to the allegedly
embezzled funds.
During its first meeting of the school year
on Sept. 21, the Senate plans to formally for-
give its own debt of $67,851.20, as well as the
$44,488.03 debt racked up by the yearbook
and the $20,930.21 debt accumulated by
Since the campaign’s inception, the
Gift Planning Office has made an effort to
increase publicity about the importance of
donations to the university and has used
Periscope, Tufts’ faculty circulation, and
Tufts Magazine to let people know more
about the office.
Scott said that administrators have also
been more proactive in asking donors who
have included Tufts in their estate plans or
wills to inform the university.
“We want to thank them properly and
show them that it’s a great way to contribute
to the Beyond Boundaries campaign and the
general success of the campaign,” she said.
Beyond Boundaries was publicly
announced in November 2006, although a
quiet phase of fundraising began in July 2002.
The campaign’s primary goal is to increase
financial aid to undergraduates and establish
a need-blind admissions policy.
While Doble’s gift makes the 2011 deadline
easier to reach, Simoneau said that adminis-
trators had expected to receive some stand-
out gifts during the campaign.
“Campaigns are built with the expectation
that there will be extraordinarily generous
TCU Operations. Shapanka does not expect
any opposition to this. “The Senate will cer-
tainly forgive debts that were the result of
embezzlement,” he said.
Senators will also make the rare move
of considering forgiving the debts of
groups not affected by embezzlement. The
Programming Board went $27,937.41 into
the red during the last academic year, in
large part because of administrative confu-
sion that was beyond the board’s control
and unrelated to the embezzlement scandal,
Shapanka said. He supports erasing the debt
because of the board’s utility on campus.
If the Senate does not forgive the board’s
debt, “then programming at Tufts would
grind to a halt,” he said. “So that’s just a prac-
tical consideration.”
A similar situation has arisen in the
case of the $104.47 debt that the Elections
Commission (ECOM) incurred. “We need
elections and I don’t want to hamstring
ECOM’s ability to hold successful elections,”
he said.
The scandal that prompted discussion
about pumping funds into the Senate began
in November of last year, when the admin-
istration fired former Office of Student
Activities (OSA) Director Jodie Nealley amid
allegations that she had embezzled about
$300,000 from the university. She and Ray
Rodriguez, the OSA’s former budget and fis-
cal coordinator, have been indicted for skim-
ming a combined total that approaches $1
million.
The administration’s offer to advance
money to the Treasury for allegedly embez-
zled funds was first presented during the
aftermath of Nealley’s firing. Tufts officials
said they would make money available if
student leaders needed it to ensure quality
programming.
But Shapanka said that until yesterday,
nobody from the administration had repeat-
ed that offer to him this academic year, and
that he had been under the impression that
he would have to wait for the insurance pay-
out.
The process created confusion within
the administration as well. Marc Miller, the
donors,” Simoneau said. “Large gifts create
a sense of momentum at the university and
inspire others to look deeper.”
Sanni said that most universities do not
see much alumni support, and she believes
Tufts is within the range of reasonable alum-
ni giving for most institutions.
“We’re in the middle of the pack,” she
said. But according to U.S.News & World
Report’s 2009 rankings of American uni-
versities, Tufts places 40th among nation-
al research universities with a 23 percent
alumni-giving rate. This rank is consider-
ably lower than Tufts’ overall 28th ranking
on the list of universities.
Close to 92,000 donors have contributed
to the campaign. Though a majority of them
are alumni, many have come from corpo-
rations, foundations and individuals con-
nected in some way to Tufts, Sanni said.
“It’s amazing to see people who have
the means show how meaningful Tufts
was to them,” Sanni said. “I think we’ll
meet the goal. If we do better than the
goal, we’ll be ecstatic.”
Sarah Butrymowicz contributed reporting
to this article.
director of administration and finance for
the School of Arts and Sciences, told the
Daily late last month that university officials
were considering dipping into cash reserves
to make money available for programming
before the insurance payout comes in.
“I think we may just do a book entry and
book a liability,” he said. “There is clearly a
sufficient amount of money in reserve to
cover that.”
But that had already been done, according
to McGurty. “I recorded a receivable and I put
that money into the account,” he said.
Meanwhile, McGurty, who had said that
he was able to speculate about whether the
university would get an insurance payout,
old the Daily on Tuesday that he is confident
that it will come in.
Assistant Public Relations Director
Suzanne Miller confirmed that the funds
have already been set aside and said that the
administration is coordinating the repay-
ment effort with student leaders. “The uni-
versity is working with student Senate offi-
cers to determine the appropriate way to
restore the funds,” she said in an e-mail.
Currently, it is unclear exactly how much
the university owes the Senate. Officials
should have a final number within the next
few weeks. Shapanka said that while he
understands that figures are currently specu-
lative, he would have liked to have seen more
updates along the way.
“I understand that they don’t want to give
me a final number until they have all their
ducks in order, but I wish they would have
given me more information,” he said.
Shapanka expects to eventually recover
more money than the amount by which the
Treasury overdrew the account set up for the
funds. He said that in the meantime, despite
having to overdraw and forgive debts, pro-
gramming has not suffered.
According to Shapanka, the Treasury’s
financial situation is looking good, espe-
cially after he deposited the approximately
$1.3 million generated by this year’s Student
Activities Fee.
“We can fully fund all student program-
ming with funds to spare,” he said.
a trend in Senate
SENATE
continued from page 1
Hartman and Maccoby said other com-
mitments prevented them from serving
this year.
Hartman got an internship at the
White House and will be taking a leave
of absence this semester. Maccoby,
who is also an editorialist for the Daily,
decided not to return to the Senate
after being elected president of the
Inter-Greek Council (IGC). He said this
post requires a significant amount of
time and attention.
Hartman would have been a first-
term senator, and Maccoby would be
returning for his second year.
Sykes, who had served on the body
since his sophomore year, said he
wants to focus on his future.
“I am going to be a senior this year,
so I wanted to get ready for the next
step of my life,” he said.
Maccoby said that renouncing his
position in the Senate will not mean
a total break from the organization
because he anticipates working closely
with the body as IGC president.
“I think a lot of what we’re doing
in IGC this year is about having clos-
er relations with the TCU Senate,”
Maccoby said.
Sykes’ decision to step down fol-
lows his unsuccessful bid for the TCU
presidency during which he promised
to concentrate on campus safety, social
programming and residential life.
Sykes came in last place behind junior
Senators C.J. Mourning and Duncan
Pickard, the victor.
After vacillating on whether to con-
tinue serving in the Senate, Sykes noti-
fied Pickard shortly before the end of
the summer that he would not return.
An advocate for diversity awareness
during his time on Senate, Sykes said
the group’s focus on that subject would
not waver without him.
“I think that [it] will still be of inter-
est because that’s something Duncan
says he wants to pursue and discuss,”
Sykes said.
TCU Historian Antonella Scarano, a
senior, said that high turnover occurs
perennially with rising seniors, as the
demands imposed by their imminent
graduation do not allow them to com-
mit as much time to the Senate as their
underclassmen counterparts.
“I would love it if upperclassmen got
more involved, but I think seniors tend
to have other priorities,” she said.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“He was a Tufts professor, she
was a prostitute — and by all
accounts was very attractive.”
John Kivlan
Norfolk County special sheriff
see page 3
 Features
3

tuftsdaily.com

Douglas murder and embezzlement scandal drew interest

from professional media outlets fascinated by lurid details
by Carrie battan
Daily Editorial Board
This is the second in a two-
part series in which the Daily
looks back 25 years at a case in
which a faculty member at the
Tufts Medical School embez-
zled thousands of dollars from
the university to fund his ongo-
ing affair with a prostitute and
then murdered her.
The first piece, published
on Tuesday, outlined details
of the scandal; this one will
compare its effect on the Tufts
community and the attention
it received to the case of Jodie
Nealley and Ray Rodriguez’s.
When former Director of
Student Activities Jodie Nealley
was fired in November for
allegedly embezzling around
$300,000, the story garnered
relatively widespread atten-
tion: The Boston Globe and
The Associated Press each pro-
vided almost immediate cov-
erage and have followed with
updates as the case evolves.
And although the media
attention this time around has
appeared to produce a public
relations nightmare for Tufts,
its details pale in compari-
son to those surrounding an
embezzlement/murder scan-
dal 25 years ago on the Hill.
When Dr. William H. Douglas
of the Tufts Medical School
was caught in 1983 stealing
thousands from the university
and eventually convicted of
murdering his young mistress,
media outlets latched onto the
lurid details.
Unlike with its current coun-
terpart, this attention came
absent a discernible effect on
undergraduate students at
Tufts. Currently, students and
administrators alike are scram-
bling to institute new protocols
and move on from the alleged
Nealley and Ray Rodriguez, the
Office of Student Activities’ for-
mer budget and fiscal coordina-
tor, embezzlement. But when
Douglas’ activity was uncov-
ered, the impact here was most-
ly contained to his colleagues.
University Professor Sol
Gittle-man, who was then
Tufts’ provost, remembers
the researcher’s peers at the
School of Medicine, which is
located in Boston, saying he
was innocent when he was first
accused of embezzlement.
“Two of his colleagues …
said he was not responsible
for his actions. They were
supporting their colleague,”
he said. “They didn’t want to
believe it downtown because
he was a colleague.”
Gittleman said that because
Douglas was part of the cam-
pus’ medical community, the
undergraduates were dis-
tanced from his case.
“The reporters liked [the
Douglas case] because it was
lurid, sick,” Gittleman said.
“[But with] the undergraduates,
somehow it didn’t resonate.”
For members of the Tufts
Comm-unity Senate, who
relied on Nealley for advis-
ing, today’s controversy hits a
more personal chord.
“The undergraduates knew
so much more about Nealley
and … Rodriguez,” Gittleman
said. “This one, which is not
murder, gets much more
noise on the campus than the
Douglas case did.”
But what the Douglas scan-
dal lacked in interest from stu-
dents, it gained in media cov-
erage. Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Teresa Carpenter
became heavily engrossed
in researching the case and
reported the story in her
1989 book “Missing Beauty:
A True Story of Murder and
Obsession.”
“I first heard about Professor
Douglas over lunch with a col-
league. She had read an account
of the affair in The New York
Times,” Carpenter told the Daily
in an e-mail. “The story was fas-
cinating on its face. How could
such an apparently accom-
plished scientist and family man
carry on such a bizarre shadow
existence?”
Carpenter set about inter-
viewing involved parties rang-
ing from the victim’s family to
the investigators who pieced
the case together to prostitutes
themselves. “Perhaps the most
interesting set of encounters I
had were in the Combat Zone
[in downtown Boston]. The
working girls I met there were
surprisingly decent. Not one of
them asked to be paid for an
interview,” Carpenter said.
She said her book was espe-
cially well received by women.
“I can only speculate that they
empathized with the profes-
sor’s wife,” she said.
see SCANDAL, page 4

With recent articles blaming the Internet for decreased

attention spans, some say television is more detrimental
Individual control over surfing speed makes online multitasking beneficial for those with ADHD
by Charlotte Steinway
Daily Editorial Board

After the publication of Nicholas

Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” in
The Atlantic and Motoko Rich’s “Literacy
Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?” in
The New York Times, Americans are
beginning to question whether the Web
is harming their ability to stay focused
in today’s digital world.
Many specialists contend that switch-
ing from one Internet program to anoth-
er over prolonged time periods weakens
a user’s ability to become immersed in
activities that require greater time and
attention, such as reading.
“It makes it harder even when we’re
offline to read books, as skimming takes
over and displaces our modes of read-
ing,” Carr wrote in his Atlantic article.
“The way we gather information is by
jumping around, and that’s governed
not only by Google, but by the whole
economic structure of the Internet.”
But some may argue that other fac-
tors — like the media-focused nature of
today’s culture and television — are to
blame for our nation’s inability to focus.
Andrew Call, a market researcher at
Zoom Marketing, a California-based
consulting firm for technology prod-
uct and services companies, says that
excessive media consumption may
injure society in the long run.
“I personally think our society’s
nature to simplify and shorten the pro-
cessing of information has been of det-
riment to our attention spans,” he said.
“A lot of times, getting information and
facts in such a quick manner causes us Daily File Photo
to miss all of the nuanced subtleties.” While some have pointed fingers at the Internet, other experts say television is to blame for decreased attention spans.
But this inability to process informa-
tion for an extended time period may screen, graphics thrown at you every visual splices found in television pro- “Sometimes a hypnotic effect can
not be so much a result of the Internet, two seconds, all in addition to their gramming can increase a person’s ten- arise from such quick pacing,” he
but rather of television programs from regularly programmed news.” dency towards ADHD.” continued. “Television and movies 15
the 1990s, Call said. In fact, some believe that the struc- But the Internet may not have the years ago had much longer sequenc-
“Such [a] phenomenon is often ture of modern television may be more same effect as television, Howe said. In ing and slower editing that helped to
referred to as part of the ‘MTV’ gen- to blame for higher rates of Attention- fact, he suggests that the Web may be get the attention mechanism used to
eration: since MTV was one of the Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) of significant benefit to users who do absorbing longer material. In real life,
first networks to pick up on this trend in recent years than the Internet. exhibit ADHD tendencies. you don’t have jump cuts forced upon
[of short cuts and choppy, unfocused “Some people have hypothesized “The Internet supports an ADHD you, framing your nervous system for a
material],” Call said. that an overexposure to television will way of thinking very nicely, because pacing like that.”
“But a lot of times, I think the worst cause ADHD-like tendencies among with the Internet, the user is able to In his work with people afflicted
case of this kind of behavior is with the audiences,” said John Howe, co-found- access it at his or her own rate,” Howe with ADHD over the past 13 years,
news,” he continued. “These days, peo- er of the Newton-based Adult ADHD said. “When a person with ADHD Howe said that he has rarely seen a
ple have to be constantly entertained.” Anonymous Support Group said. “In watches television, however, their abil- single case in which a person’s ADHD
Take Fox News, for example. They’ve some ways, I suspect there’s truth to ity to process information is controlled
got runners on the bottom of the that thesis, because the very short by the speed of the editing. see ADHD, page 4
4 The Tufts Daily Features
Undergrads detached from
1983 embezzlement, murder
SCANDAL
continued from page 5
Reputable news sources
like The New York Times and
The Boston Globe covered
the case carefully, while tab-
loids grabbed at the scandal’s
potential for sensationalism.
A made-for-television movie,
“The High Price of Passion,”
was even released in 1986.
Norfork County Special
Sheriff John Kivlan, who served
as the prosecutor in Douglas’
case, said that the media was
enticed by the complex and
twisted nature of the research-
er’s crimes.
“The reporters liked
it [the Douglas case]
because it was lurid,
sick.”
Sol Gittleman
professor and former provost
“He was a Tufts professor,
she was a prostitute — and by
all accounts was very attrac-
tive,” he said. “It had all the
elements that the media was
interested in, including the
ADHD expert says Internet
doesn’t make things worse
ADHD
continued from page 5
tendencies were exacerbated
by Internet use.
“I’ve found that few folks with
ADHD have reported detrimen-
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fact that it was a mystery.”
Followers outside of the
Tufts community were less
focused on the crime itself
and liked learning about the
people involved, Kivlan said.
“I think the interest of the
media at the time was the rela-
tionship, the mystery; it was
more about who they were
than it was about the embez-
zlement at the time,” he said.
Tufts administrators like
Steven Manos, who was serving
as executive vice president in
1983, had opposing consider-
ations in mind. Manos, who held
the post until he retired last fall,
got into the financial details of
the case during the initial inves-
tigation he helped conduct.
He was not fazed by the
media circus and avoided talk-
ing to reporters. “I didn’t think
I particularly needed to be
involved. I wasn’t up too much
on the buzz,” he said.
Gittleman has tried to put
the case into perspective. “It
was a very nice, gory case,” he
said. “[But] once you get into
it, you realize there are all sorts
of people everywhere. You just
dealt with it. Someone in the
community went bonkers [but]
you’ve got compulsive person-
alities everywhere.”
tal effects on their attention
spans from Internet use,” he
said. “In fact, a lot of times the
Web can be a great resource for
us because it allows us to chase
information at our own rate.”
 Arts & Living
Movie Review
‘Tropic Thunder’ comedy fares the storm
Ben Stiller’s second directing endeavor makes for a funny spoof on acting and movie making
by Jessica Bal
Daily Editorial Board
The scene opens with
gigantic explosions in the
Vietnamese jungle and debris
Tropic Thunder
Starring Ben Stiller, Robert
Downey, Jr. and Jack Black
Directed by Ben Stiller
sailing into the sky, while a
pack of soldiers rushes wildly
about firing bullets at sur-
rounding enemies. Men yell
at each other over the chaos,
and blood from injured sol-
diers sprays them, as if emit-
ted from a garden hose.
Suddenly we recognize Jack
Black in uniform, screaming at
another soldier whose stomach
has been blown open to reveal
bursting entrails that look like
they may have come with a
kiddie doctor kit from Fisher
Price. Ben Stiller appears in Ben Stiller became a director to make his dream of getting fake tattoos and toting a gun come true.
all his heroic, slow-motion looks suspiciously like the face
glory only to be shot down of “Iron Man” (2008), grasps
soon thereafter. His fellow sol- Stiller’s stumpy hands dan-
dier, an African American who gling with rubber-like flesh
Film Festival Preview
Films at the Gate transforms a vacant lot in Chinatown into a free outdoor movie theater
showing classic Chinese-language films all weekend.
Films at the Gate showcases Chinese film
culture under the stars in Chinatown
by Mary Jo A. Pham
Contributing Writer
What could be better than seeing a
movie under the stars? Seeing several free
movies under the stars is a good start.
Back in Chinatown for its third year,
Films at the Gate 2008
Vacant Lot next to Chinatown Gate,
Hudson St. between Beach and
Kneeland
Through Sept. 7
Screenings begin at 7:30 p.m.
and manages a few pathetic
sobs. Just as you’re beginning
to say “This can’t possibly be
for real,” someone yells, “Can
filmsatthegate.org
Films at the Gate is a five-night celebra-
tion of Chinese cinema. The vacant lot
at 12 Hudson St. by Boston’s Chinatown
Gate has been transformed into a free
outdoor theater, showing a nightly
kung fu or classic Chinese-language
film until this Sunday.
This year’s movie selection includes
classics such as “Police Story” (1983),
Jackie Chan’s first big silver-screen
success, “My Young Auntie” (1981), a
kung fu comedy about a young woman
who helps an old man save his estate
by entering into a marriage of conve-
nience, and “Red Heroine” (1929), a
see FILMS, page 6
tuftsdaily.com
rottentomatoes.com
we cut?!”
“Tropic Thunder” is a
Hollywood war epic, done
Stiller-style, which can only
Album Review
Album proves all hope is
not gone for Slipknot metal
by Grant Beighley
Daily Editorial Board
Slipknot has always been a band
that exists to remind humanity that
there are some things in this world
All Hope is Gone
Slipknot
Roadrunner Records
that deserve to be feared. The group’s
latest effort, cheerfully entitled “All
Hope Is Gone,” however, shows the
band venturing in both softer and
harder directions. Somehow, in a way
that only Slipknot could manage, it
ends up working perfectly.
The down-tuned minor-key riff-
ing of guitarists Mick Thomson and
Jim Root is at its best, and unlike
the group’s previous album, “The
Subliminal Verses” (2004), the shred-
ders don’t feel the need to prove
their soloing mettle, getting by with a
few well-placed arpeggios and sweep
picks.
As usual, Slipknot starts the album
with one of the hardest numbers on
the record, “Gematria ( The Killing
Name),” in order to immediately scare
off those who won’t be able to handle
the intensity of the next hour.
The song differs little from the
band’s previous efforts, but about
four minutes into the tune, a harmo-
nized dual-guitar solo cuts through
the mix, suggesting that Slipknot has
more up their sleeve than just their
standard formula.
The first single and fourth track on
the album, “Psychosocial,” does its
part to keep up Slipknot’s excessively
dark outlook on … well, just about
everything. Even though the lyrics
contain pretentious phrases such
as “pseudo-sacrosanct perversion,”
singer Corey Taylor’s harsh growl of
5
mean parody. In the movie,
a group of four actors set
out to create a Vietnam War
movie, until a four million dol-
lar accidental explosion puts
them way behind schedule.
Their frustrated and desper-
ate director takes the advice
of an actual war veteran and
places his actors in the jun-
gle for some real-life danger.
Hidden cameras capture what
the director hopes will be “real
fear in their eyes, real emo-
tion!” The cast soon realizes
that they’ve been dropped off
in the Golden Triangle and are
running from a drug warlord
and his gang.
The foursome includes crit-
ically-acclaimed method actor
Kirk Lazarus (played by Robert
Downey Jr.), who has under-
gone a controversial skin pig-
mentation treatment in order
to play an African American
soldier and is always in char-
acter. Rap star Alpa Chino
(Brandon T. Jackson) chimes
in by calling Lazarus out on his
blatant racism. Comedian Jeff
Portnoy (Black) joins them,
as well as Tugg Speedman
see TROPIC, page 7
slipknot1.silverback.sparkart.net
Slipknot members are so camera-shy
they don’t even face the camera with
their masks.
a voice makes you believe that he
actually does know what he’s talking
about. The most surprising aspect
of the song is that it has a melodic
and catchy chorus but doesn’t trip
up where other hard-rock bands have
failed in making the jump to melody.
Following “Psychosocial” is almost
assuredly the next single from the
record, “Dead Memories,” another
upbeat little ditty about being tortured
by your past. Perhaps even catchier
than “Psychosocial,” the track is pow-
ered by drummer Joey Jordison’s sur-
prisingly sensitive double-bass drum-
ming, reminding the listener that, not
only is this guy incredible at drums,
but that the band as a whole is, in
see SLIPKNOT, page 7
6 The Tufts Daily Arts & Living
“Iron Monkey” (1993) will be the last installment of the Films at the Gate series on Sunday.
Films at the Gate fills vacant lot with
a community-building film festival
Films
continued from page 5
movie recognized for the oldest sword-
play in film.
“Red Heroine,” showing Friday night,
is a silent martial arts film and will even
include a live music soundtrack, per-
formed by Devil Music Ensemble, during
its screening.
“We’re doing something very special
Friday night, having the ensemble play
live music. We’ve shown silent movies
in the past, but we’ve never had live
music to accompany the films, so that’s
exciting,” said Sam Davol, one of the co-
founders of this festival.
Tufts Department of Drama and Dance presents “We’re hoping to inspire
small, independent events
AUDITIONS FOR
like this in Boston, especially
in under-utilized spaces …
We want this event to show
THE MADWOMAN OF
people that there is a com-
munity in downtown Boston,
CHAILLOT
and we want to make impres-
sions not only on those pass-
ing by on a bus but those in
By Jean Giraudoux our neighborhood.”
Translated by Laurence Senelick Sam Davol
Directed by Downing Cless co-founder of Films at the Gate
On Saturday night, Films at the
Auditions Gate will also be showing “The 36th
Chamber of Shaolin” (1978), the kung
fu hit that inspired most martial arts
September4&5
movies. Also known as “Master Killer,”
the movie tells the story of a Shaolin
monk, San Te (played by Gordon Liu),
Callbacks
who masters the 35 training chambers
of Shaolin kung fu and persuades his
monastery to establish a 36th cham-
ber to train more monks to fight the
September6 oppressive Qing dynasty of the time.
The festival concludes on Sunday
night with “Iron Monkey” (1993), featur-
 ing Boston martial-arts master Donnie
Yen. Yen is best known for his role as
Allauditioninfoandsignuptimesarepostedonthe General Lan in “Once Upon a Time in
China II” (1992) and especially remem-
callboardintheBalchArenaTheaterlobby,Aidekman bered for his final fight scene against
Wong Fei-Hung ( Jet Li). Yen returned
ArtsCenter. to battle in “Hero” (2002), which was
Questions?contactKyle.Sircus@tufts.edu nominated for an Oscar in the Best
Foreign Language Film category at the
2003 Academy Awards.
The martial arts expert has come
to show his talent in areas outside of
taekwondo and wushu, expanding his
talent to choreographing fights, act-
ing and directing and producing films.
Yen will appear acting and fighting in
Thursday, September 4, 2008
filmsatthegate.org
“Painted Skin,” (2008) scheduled for
release at the end of this month.
Films at the Gate will serve as a
reminder to locals of the tradition of
film in Boston’s Chinatown. According
to Jean Lukitsh, former film projection-
ist and the curator of the film series, up
until the late 1980s, Chinatown used to
have three movie theaters.
“In their heyday, the theaters showed
double-features three times a day, often
to packed houses from midday to mid-
night. Whole families would attend,
and children would often play in the
aisles,” Lukitsh wrote on the event’s
website. The three theaters were even-
tually forced to close down, for all the
cinemas were losing popularity with
the growing availability of home video
rentals.
Through collaboration between
several Chinatown residents, in par-
ticular Sam Davol, his wife, Leslie,
and Lukitsh, as well as the Asian
Community Development Corporation,
Chinatown’s cinema is back for the next
four days. The film series in its current
form began in 2006.
“My family and I moved from New
York City in 2006, and we moved to a
place across from an empty lot,” Davol
said. “We wanted to do something
with the space, which was completely
unused.”
Davol and his wife met Jeremy Liu, the
current executive director of the Asian
Community Development Corporation,
who shared the couple’s vision. Together
with Lukitsh, they came up with the
idea of screening films.
“We’re hoping to inspire small, inde-
pendent events like this in Boston,
especially in under-utilized spaces,”
Davol said. “We want this event to
show people that there is a community
in downtown Boston, and we want to
make impressions not only on those
passing by on a bus but those in our
neighborhood.”
The event isn’t only about appreciat-
ing Chinese cinema and seeing films
outdoors. “Originally, we also came up
with this idea so we could gather peo-
ple together,” Davol explained. “People
like to come to the event after eating
at restaurants beforehand. We want
our event to boost local business in
Chinatown — Chinatown needs this.”
According to Davol, there’s a lot hap-
pening in Chinatown, including an art
gallery opening at 12 Hudson St. and
affordable housing being built.
As much as [Films at the Gate] is a
film event, it is a community develop-
ment event for everyone.” For those
coming, “Feel free to bring take-out!”
Davol said.
Films at the Gate runs through Sunday
night with nightly screenings beginning
at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Downey Jr. and Black steal Stiller’s
thunder in spoof of Hollywood films
TROPIC
continued from page 5
(Stiller), a washed up action star whose
career is on the line after his latest por-
trayal of a mentally retarded man.
Stiller packs a star-studded cast
into his first directing attempt since
“Zoolander” (2001), featuring Downey
Jr., Black, Tom Cruise and Matthew
McConaughey, to name a few. Even
Tyra Banks makes a quick cameo.
Downey hit his stride this summer,
bringing his undeniable presence and
wit to the superhero flick “Iron Man”
and now hitting the silver screen pos-
ing as a man of another race. In “Tropic
Thunder,” he arguably steals most of
Stiller’s … well … thunder. Black is the
typical, wild tabloid celeb with a drug
problem, and crazy suits him well.
Cruise is sure to shock in his cameo,
The Tufts Daily Arts & Living 7
His usual silliness fits his role as fad-
ing actor Speedman, though the crude
jokes tend to get repetitive. The plot
occasionally loses itself so that Stiller
can pull off ridiculous stunts. Far from
politically correct, Stiller takes the
“South Park” approach and lampoons
just about every group of people. If
you are obese, disabled, Asian, black,
a war veteran or fall into a number
of other categories, expect offensive
jokes galore.
Yet the success of Stiller’s satire
comes from his ability to mock every-
one including the actors themselves.
The best jokes poke fun at special
effects, actors who take themselves too
seriously and the overblown war epic
genre.
amazon.com
The self-awareness of Stiller’s action-
comedy is what keeps it from being Slipknot’s newest album presents their usual terror with mind-blowing metal music.

Ballads, mood and emotion loosen

but his scenes are memorable, which
is exactly what he needs to boost his
career.
The question remains: Is Stiller
finally back in action? We haven’t seen
anything noteworthy from him since
“Zoolander,” so the pressure is on as
a performer in this self-directed film.
Robert Downey Jr.’s career takes a change of pace with a change of ... race.
another forgettable and ludicrous
90 minutes. The bottom line is that,
although the humor is typically over-
the-top and monotonous, Stiller’s stel-
lar cast and bold wisecracks at his own
profession make “Tropic Thunder” a
genuinely funny movie to end the sum-
mer season.
Rottentomatoes.com
Slipknot’s heavy metal stereotype
SLIPKNOT
continued from page 5
fact, massively talented on all fronts.
The two extremes of the album
are seen on the cuts “Vendetta” and
“Snuff,” tracks that would usually be
seen as polar opposites of the rock
sound. While “Vendetta” begins with
Jordison’s mini-solo, it quickly blasts
into a rapid-fire double bass drum
riff that, if done by any drummer
other than Jordison, would fall apart
in seconds.
While some might say that the
beginning of this track is simply a vul-
gar display of speed without any real
skill, the swinging triplet beat that
pushes the verses creates a tension
between the riffs and choruses, mak-
ing each seem even more potent on its
own. And if it seems impossible that a
Slipknot song could have ‘swing,’ this
album proves the assumption wrong
— it swings.
The second to last track, “Snuff,” is
a ballad. Take a second and read that
again. A ballad? Slipknot? Could this
really be true? What’s even worse —
or better, depending on your point of
view — is that it’s a good ballad. The
melodic push-pull of the verses and
choruses rivals that of a Staind made-
for-top-40 single, but the ‘je ne sais
quoi’ of the Slipknot touch makes it
just short of cheesy.
The main thrust of all this can be
summed up in one sentence: Slipknot
is a metal band that shows some feel-
ing, while most other metal bands
these days play with snapped-to-the-
grid accuracy and prize technicality
over mood, texture, weight and aura.
Slipknot creates music that is sim-
ply more potent, and perhaps more
human, than that of any other metal
group.
Not what you’d expect from a bunch
of mask-wearing Iowans.
8 The Tufts Daily Editorial | Letters Thursday, September 4, 2008

EDITORIAL
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Editor-in-Chief
Editorial “The gifts that God has given to stood that either the American people of 1963 and went to Mississippi after-
Barack Obama are as enormous as his stood united with free nations and wards to work to promote civil rights.
Rachel Dolin Managing Editors future is unlimited. As his mentor, as freedom fighters against the forces He was Al Gore’s running mate in
Kristin Gorman his colleague, as his friend, I look for- of totalitarianism, or … we would fall 2000 and supported John Kerry —
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Jason Richards and realize not just the dreams he has He chose to ignore, of course, rating as the Most Liberal Senator of
Giovanni Russonello Executive News Editor for himself, but the dreams we all have Roosevelt’s alliance with Stalin the year — in 2004. His Democratic
for him and our blessed country.” and Kennedy’s missile deal with Party is the party of McGovern, of
Sarah Butrymowicz News Editors What a difference two years make. Krushchev, as well as the fact that Humphrey, of Mondale and Dukakis
Pranai Cheroo
Michael Del Moro In March 2006, Joe Lieberman, then one of Kennedy’s strongest interna- — all unabashed liberals.
Nina Ford a Democratic senator from the state tional movements was an ill-fated And yet, Sen. Lieberman stood
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lier in the year, Lieberman lamented peace activist working for the liberal anti-war Ned Lamont, Lieberman
Sarah Bliss Assistant Features Editors that the Democratic Party has strayed primary campaign of Democrat Joe called his challenger a single issue
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Thursday, September 4, 2008 The Tufts Daily Op-Ed 9

The beautiful cultural schizophrenia of life in Morocco

by Alex Marqusee
“Allllaaaahhu Akbar!” (“God
is great”) screams an imam
from across the street. The call
to prayer is taken up from the
loudspeakers of dozens of other
mosques tucked into the old
medina of Rabat. Shops close
momentarily, radios are switched
off and many people quietly
duck into nearby mosques. Even
the hash dealer shadowing me
pauses his sales pitch as we nav-
igate our way around the chaos
of the medina market.
Morocco appears to be a
startlingly conflicted culture,
although if you ask a Moroccan
about it, he’ll tell you that’s
how it’s always been. Sunni
Muslims make up 98 percent
of the population, but speak-
easy-style bars are the crowded
hotspots many afternoons.
Old women wear cloaks and
simple scarves around their
heads and middle-aged women
often opt for the more religious
hijab, but the girls turn heads
decked in designer jeans and
jackets. At first discordant and
startling to see, the mixing of
western and traditional is very
much part of the Moroccan iden-
tity. It is not unusual for a imam
to speak five languages fluently,
or for little kids on the street to
sing and dance to tektonik (the
new wave of European techno).
Five blocks later, the hash
dealer finally gives up as I cross
towards a large Jewish graveyard.
Overgrown but still startlingly
beautiful, the graveyard extends
all the way to Rabat’s beach, the
most popular hangout for young
amorous couples. Escaping the
watchful eyes of parents, cou-
ples well into their late twenties
establish their own independent
space outside societal norms.
Here in Rabat, the influence
of European style, gleaned from
fashion magazines and the ubiq-
uitous satellite dish, is evident in
the fake designer clothing. Only
30 yards from a group of kids
playing soccer on the beach, sev-
eral young men take refuge from
the sun with a hash-filled hoo-
kah and a few bottles of wine.
How can a culture adopt so
many opposing customs simul-
taneously? The conservative
religious movement import-
ed from the Iranian revolu-
tion and the expanding power
of Saudi Arabian wahhabism
is growing side-by-side with
European fashion and Western
styles of living.
A man in full Islamic dress,
complete with a dark spot in
the middle of his forehead from
years of praying, walks out of
his mosque in matching white
Crocs. He stops for a second to
chat with some young men lis-
tening to music while passing
around a joint.
This is the beauty of cultural
mixing — a fluid mélange of cul-
ture in a country at the crossroads
between Africa, Europe and the
Middle East. But Morocco’s usu-
ally graceful cultural mixing can-
not escape the power dynamics
of today’s international politics.
Western governments have
been pushing Morocco to do
more to challenge its strong drug
trade and rising religious funda-
mentalism. King Mohammed VI
has responded strongly in hopes
of attracting more economic and
political benefits.
Self-identifying fundamen-
talists that are so maligned by
Western and Middle Eastern
governments are responsible for
many social welfare programs
throughout the Muslim world.
At the same time, many commit
horrendous, inexcusable acts of
violence and terrorism.
On May 16, 2003, 14 young,
home-grown suicide bombers
killed 33 civilians in Casablanca
in the deadliest terrorist attack
in Morocco’s history. This inci-
dent was packaged by most
MCT
of the Western media in an
orientalist perspective, reaf-
firming many people’s beliefs
in a monolithic, violent funda-
mentalist Islam. However, this
only serves to conflate serious,
disciplined practices of Islam
with terrorism.
Moroccan political lead-
ers reaffirmed this tie between
devout Muslims and terrorism
by indiscriminately jailing over
2,000 people in the aftermath
of the bombings. Many of these
people were just in the wrong
place at the wrong time with the
wrong type of beard.
Does this make Europe and
the United States feel safer?
These police-state actions only
further galvanize extremists
and radicalize those caught in
the middle. What about the far
greater threat of conservative
Islamic teachers proselytiz-
ing in vast slums and shanty
towns? The suicide bombers
were recruited from these plac-
es where it is hard to imagine
an escape from the indignity of
continual poverty.
Outside of Rabat, Casablanca
and the northern Spanish border
towns, there are increasing num-
bers of marginalized families liv-
ing in these large shanty towns.
Jobs are non-existent even for
those with an education; in fact,
around 40 percent of Moroccan
students with master’s and doc-
torate degrees are unemployed.
The lack of jobs has only
increased the incentive to emi-
grate to Europe, and this exodus
of talented Moroccans hurts the
future of Morocco’s develop-
ment. In this light, the American
and European focus on physical
security seems, at best, myopic.
Instead, bring choice,
bring jobs, bring opportunity.
Strategies based on human rights
and community-level develop-
ment offer a life outside of hate,
anger and terrorism.
Of course terrorism is a com-
plex phenomenon found in
areas ranging from Morocco
to Columbia to Chechnya, and
context is vital to policy choice.
But there is no good, long-term
end to repression and persecu-
tion regardless of context.
Today’s unjustly persecuted,
jailed, beaten man is tomor-
row’s international terrorist. We
should look to fight terrorism
through advances in human
rights and economic develop-
ment, not by supporting repres-
sive regimes in the name of sta-
bility and security.
So, when you hear that a
dozen men have been round-
ed up in an autocratic state
under threat of terrorism,
don’t celebrate a defense of
our democracy and freedom.
Mourn a world where dictators
and despots carry internation-
al support while suppressing
human rights.
Alex Marqusee is a senior major-
ing in economics and Middle
Eastern studies. He studied
abroad in Morocco last semester.

Off the Hill | Columbia University

The opportunity cost of college for individuals and society

by Brendan Price
Columbia Spectator
Take any introductory course in eco-
nomics, and there’s a fair to decent
chance that your professor or textbook
will cite the “real” cost of a college edu-
cation. The sticker price — high as it
may be — is only half the story. In choos-
ing to attend school instead of entering
the labor market, you forego whatever
you might have earned on the job.
Economists call such foregone earn-
ings an opportunity cost, equal in
value to the best opportunity fore-
closed by your decision to enroll.
Anyone deciding whether to go to col-
lege should take these lost earnings
into account.
But college has another cost.
Admission to most universities is
capped well below the level of demand.
Applicants willing to pay tuition are
turned away at the gates. Like its
elite brethren, Columbia finds itself in
the more rare position of being able
to turn away qualified applicants —
that is, Columbia could admit more
students without greatly reducing its
academic standards for admission.
That means, in effect, that if I
weren’t enrolled here, another quali-
fied student would be enrolled in my
stead. A full reckoning of the cost of
my education would therefore include
the absence on campus of one reject-
ed applicant.
This is true, at least, on average. By
accepting Columbia’s offer of admis-
sion once it was made, I may have
directly displaced another applicant
to the class of 2009 (depending on
whether students were admitted from
the waiting list in 2005). Failing that,
I contributed to Columbia’s yield rate
and thereby signaled the administra-
tion to accept fewer students in sub-
sequent years.
On net, then, I caused one applicant
to be denied admission to Columbia.
I am responsible, albeit indirectly, for
preventing him from taking the class-
es I take, joining the clubs I join and
knowing the people I know. This hypo-
thetical person’s identity is unknow-
able, but I might expect his credentials
to resemble those of the “last” student
to be admitted — whichever student
would have been rejected if Columbia
had accepted one fewer student. Since
he was on the margin of admission, I
will call the applicant I displaced the
marginal applicant.
When I kept the marginal applicant
out of Columbia, I caused two kinds
of harm. The first was the direct harm
to the applicant in emotional pain and
tangible loss. The second was more dif-
fuse. The marginal applicant rejected
in an average year would have done
something worthwhile if he had instead
been admitted. Perhaps he would have
volunteered, or thrown good parties,
or written op-eds for the newspaper.
Columbia, in all probability, has suf-
fered somewhat from his absence.
From an institutional perspec-
tive, this is an opportunity cost: A
major cost of allowing me to enroll is
that someone else is prevented from
attending. Consider a thought experi-
ment: If Columbia looks back someday
and assesses whether admitting me
was a good idea — in a broad respect,
whether I was a good investment — it
should not look at my contributions in
isolation. What matters is not whether
Columbia will have made a net return
on the resources it invested in my
education, but whether those resourc-
es would have been better invested in
educating someone else. The standard
for comparison is, again, the marginal
applicant. If I make poorer use of my
time here than he would have, I’m tak-
ing up space. To waste my potential is
not only to harm myself.
What obligation arises from that
fact? I claim that it is incumbent on
me to do more with my Columbia
education than the marginal applicant
would have done. Were I to go through
the motions, do the bare minimum to
get by in class, and contribute little
to the campus community, I would
be remiss. I owe it to my classmates,
to my teachers, to the student I dis-
placed and to society at large to earn
my place here day in and day out. How
I do so is up to me. Columbia needs its
athletes, its social butterflies and its
academic grinds. I can contribute in
any number of ways, so long as I pull
my weight.
The same obligation applies wherev-
er space is in short supply. Society has
a limited number of important perches
at its disposal — governorships, edi-
torships and academic chairs. Anyone
fortunate enough to occupy one should
aim not only to do well in an absolute
sense, but also to do relatively better
than the alternative would have done.
Whenever I apply for anything — be it a
scholarship or a leadership role — I ask
myself, “Will I do a better job than the
competition?” If and when I am accept-
ed, I do my best to prove that the trust
placed in me has been well-placed.
I’m not suggesting that, in deciding
whether to apply to any given college,
high school students should weigh the
possibility that they might crowd out
other deserving applicants. That’s for
admissions officers to sort out. But I
do believe that students who squander
their cherished spots in selective uni-
versities are doing a disservice both to
those around them and to those who
didn’t get in. When we possess coveted
positions in society, we should con-
tinually ask ourselves if those denied
the opportunity are more deserving
than we are.

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Tufts remains
wary of regional
competition
VOLLEYBALL
continued from page 16
shape,” Thompson said. “There’s more of
a learning curve at our level, with the high
speed and high pace. They’re learning a new
offense and new defense, at the same time
getting to know some names. Athletically,
they’re completely on par with where this
team is and will only get better with experi-
ence.”

“The great thing about our

team this year is that we’re
incredibly deep. There are
more players than we’ve ever
had, and everyone belongs.
We go 15 deep, and we go
three or four deep at every
position. That’s going to be
what makes our team really
special; no matter who’s in
there, we’ll have a chance.”
Stacy Filocco
senior tri-captain

One area where Tufts will look to improve

is in its play against regional competition,
particularly MIT. In three matches against
the Engineers last season, the Jumbos went
0-3 and lost by a combined score of 9-1.
“They’ve been our Boston-area nemesis,”
Filocco said. “We’ve gone back and forth
with them, but they’ve gotten the better of
us. We’re looking forward to showing them
how much we’ve improved.”
Another challenge lying ahead for the
Jumbos is their tough schedule, which will
take them on the road for nine out of the 10
NESCAC games in which they will compete.
“Home- and away-court advantage is
important,” Thompson said. “Everybody
feels comfortable in their own gym, but one
thing that’s made us successful as a program
is that we’ve been able to win on the road,
as much, if not more as we win at home,”
Thompson said. “Our level of play is going
to stay at a certain level, and we’re going to
keep up our intensity no matter where we
are.”
Tufts will kick off its season at Cousens Daily File Photo
Gym Tuesday night with a home contest Junior Dena Feiger sets the ball in a match against Hamilton on Sept. 15, 2007. She, along with six other upperclassmen, hopes to build on
against the Stonehill Skyhawks. a 2007 season, which saw the team notch wins in 10 of its last 11 competitions.

Rodgers’ first start sure to

attract scrutiny in Green Bay
NFL
continued from page 15
would be an understatement to
describe their presumable lead
running back, Ricky Williams.
But despite all that, Pennington
is a good start for a team that
desperately needs one. Look for
him to triple the Dolphins’ win
total from last season. That’s
right: three wins.
Sunday’s Favre-Pennington
showdown will be a fun one,
but fans have another treat
awaiting them the follow-
ing night when Green Bay
plays host to a season opener
between the team that lost
Favre, the Packers, and the
team that almost landed him,
the Minnesota Vikings.
Fans at Lambeau will have the
privilege of seeing two young
quarterbacks who are desper-
ate to prove themselves take
the field. In one corner is Aaron
Rodgers, a former All-Pac 10
signal-caller at the University
of California, and in the other
is Tarvaris Jackson, who led
the Vikings to 8-8 and a playoff
near-miss last season.
Without a doubt, the critics will
be eying these two games closely
this weekend, and the compari-
sons between the Packers under
Rodgers and the Jets under Favre
will be flying around from day
one — and not without good
reason. It’s still early, but there
will likely be no question in 2008
more compelling than what will
be worse: life without Brett Favre,
or life with him.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Preseason yields promising signs as opener against Cardinals sits on horizon
FIELD HOCKEY
continued from page 16
And while last year’s team
set the bar high, this year’s
captains are more than up to
the challenge.
“To be as successful as last
season and even more suc-
cessful, I think the main thing
is making it fun every day and
working really hard,” Holiday
said. “Being dedicated, tak-
ing each practice one day at a
time, focusing on fundamental
things … I just hope to lead by
example and just get every-
one really excited and pushing
each other during practice.”
Holiday, Jasinski and Kutcher
also have no shortage of experi-
ence: Holiday and Jasinski have
been starting since day one,
while Kutcher assumed the start-
ing role in her sophomore year.
“Being a three- or four-
year starter, I think, gives
them a very good knowledge
of the team dynamics and our
team systems,” junior Margi
Scholtes said. “They’ve seen a
lot of things that the girls are
going through. Brittany is an
[offensive player], Marlee is a
[defender], and Tess is a mid-
fielder, so they play all different
positions on the field. They’re
on corner units, on stroking
teams. They really represent
the team to its fullest.”
“Four years of starting expe-
rience is a great thing to have,”
Kelly said. “They’ve been in so
many different situations, and
even if they do come across a
new one, they have that back-
ground and experience not to
be frazzled by it and stay com-
posed.”
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This year’s tri-captains,
in addition to the rest of the
upperclassmen, will also be
instrumental in continuing
the transition to the 3-2-3-2
formation that McDavitt insti-
tuted prior to the beginning
of last season. While the for-
mation worked well for the
Jumbos in its debut year, the
team will be working to per-
fect it and help the freshmen
adjust from the more conven-
tional 3-3-3-1 pattern.
“Being familiar with [the
new system] has been help-
ful in being able to get the
team accustomed to it and
feel comfortable playing with
one another,” Jasinski said. “I
think that will help all three of
our captains. We’ve had a lot
of experience playing, and I
think that’s been able to trans-
late into us being confident
and leading by example both
on and off the field.”
And if the Jumbos’ pre-
season play is any indication,
the team may just be able to
surpass the benchmarks they
set last season. Tufts, ranked
No. 16 in the nation in the
National Field Hockey Coaches
Association preseason poll,
recently defeated Springfield
College, which currently sits at
No. 13.
“From what we’ve seen dur-
ing the preseason, we’re even
better this year,” Kutcher said.
“It will take the same dedi-
cation and taking each game
one step at a time, but I think
everyone on the team really
seems to have higher expecta-
tions for how we’re going to do
this season based on last year.
13
It’s awesome because we want
to go further and do even bet-
ter.”
While repeating last year’s
success certainly seems pos-
sible early on, the Jumbos
will need to work together
and keep their play consis-
tent, something they strongly
believe they are capable of.
The team will get its first test
this Saturday when it takes
on Wesleyan at home at Bello
Field.
“We’re coming together real-
ly well,” Jasinski said. “We’re
connecting well on the field,
making great passes and com-
munication has been good.
We’re doing a great job of set-
ting the bar high early in the
season and challenging our-
selves every day. We’re excited
and ready for our first game.”

Coach’s new class will debut Saturday

MCDAVITT
continued from page 16
to our culture of success, as well as explore
what Tufts has to offer academically.”
“I think that [McDavitt] looks for girls
who obviously have great field hockey tal-
ent but who also are very smart and per-
form well in the classroom,” junior forward
Michelle Kelly said.
And in a game as mental as field hock-
ey, it’s no wonder McDavitt looks for
school-savvy players to give her team a
competitive edge.
“Smart players integrate much faster
into the team’s chemistry, and thus they
are much more able to contribute quickly
to the team’s successes on the field,”
Kelly said.
“[McDavitt] wants girls who are mentally
ready to play field hockey in college,” junior
midfielder Margi Scholtes said. “Recruits
who are capable of playing a sport well and
functioning at that same level in the class-
room will be naturally more apt to succeed
on game day.”
During the recruiting process,
McDavitt also places an emphasis on
players who have won state champion-
ships or competed with well-respected
high school programs.
“I’m focused on players who come from
winning programs because those players
are built with a certain mentality that you
need to win,” she said. “The transition
from high school to the college game is
much easier for them and allows them to
contribute faster for us.”
McDavitt came through once again with
last year’s freshman class, led by forward/
midfielder Tamara Brown, who finished
fourth on the team in total points in 2007
even though a torn ACL cut short her sea-
son, midfielder Jess Perkins and defender
Amanda Roberts. The squad will count on
the three of them for increased contribu-
tions during their sophomore years.
“Those are three very smart players who
were naturally ready and able to contrib-
ute to our team during their freshman
year,” Kelly said. “Jess and Amanda are
solid defenders who use their smarts to
have a great field vision. Tamara is more of
an offensive player with an awesome sense
for our offensive sets.”
Part of the team’s recent success is due to
McDavitt’s coaching style, which demands
hard work and focus to succeed, while also
encouraging her players to have fun.
“I think that [McDavitt]
looks for girls who obviously
have great field hockey talent
but who also are very smart
and perform well in the
classroom”
Michelle Kelly
junior
“She wants us to always be serious
on the field, yet she looks for girls who
will contribute positively to the team’s
culture as a whole,” Scholtes said. “If a
girl will contribute more to the team’s
success through her teamwork skills
and ability to be a part of the team’s
culture, then she might take that girl
over a slightly more talented one.”
McDavitt’s newest recruiting class,
consisting of eight Jumbo freshmen,
will get its first look at competition on Daily file photo
Saturday when Tufts hosts the Wesleyan Senior tri-captain Brittany Holiday chases down the ball in a game against Trinity on Oct. 13,
Cardinals in its season opener. 2007. She will lead a new class of freshmen in Saturday’s season opener against Wesleyan.

SCHEDULE | September 4 - 10 NFHCA preseason rankings place

THURS FRI SAT SUN mON TUES WED
Jumbos at No. 16 spot
Football The National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA)
released its preseason national rankings on Aug. 26. Fresh off its
best season in program history, Tufts landed in the No. 16 spot,
at Southern one step below where it ended the 2007 campaign.
Men’s Soccer at Gordon Maine
7 p.m. 4:30 p.m. The NESCAC was well-represented, with four schools plac-
ing in the top-20. In addition to defending-Div. III champion
Bowdoin, which claimed the top spot, runner-up Middlebury
Women’s came in sixth and Williams drew the No. 19 ranking:
Soccer
1. Bowdoin
Field Hockey vs. Wesleyan vs. Wellesley 2. Salisbury
1 p.m. 4 p.m. 3. The College of New Jersey
4. Ursinus
5. Lebanon Valley
vs. Stonehill
6. Middlebury
Volleyball
7p.m. 7. Messiah
8. SUNY Cortland
9. Rowan
Men’s Cross at Trinity 10. Christopher Newport
Invitational 11. Johns Hopkins
Country 10:30 a.m.
12. William Smith
13. Springfield
Women’s at Trinity 14. Juniata
Cross Invitational 15. Skidmore
Country 10:30 a.m. 16. Tufts
17. Lynchburg
18. St. Lawrence
Golf 19. Williams
20. Montclair State
14 The Tufts Daily Sports
Inexperienced team hopes to
turn the page on 5-8-1 year
MEN’S SOCCER
continued from page 16
lineup.
“We’re not very, very young, but
we’re inexperienced playing at the
college level,” DeGregorio said. “So
our practices have been very com-
petitive so far because everyone is
fighting for spots. That’s been a posi-
tive because the practices have been
very productive.”
“We’re not very very
young, but we’re inex-
perienced playing at
the college level. So our
practices have been
very competitive so
far because everyone
is fighting for spots.
That’s been a positive
because the practices have
been very productive.”
Peter DeGregorio
senior tri-captain
Another change from last sea-
son can be found in the team’s
schedule, which opens with
games against Gordon and
Southern Maine. While the team
has a penchant for slow starts —
the Jumbos were winless in their
first five games in each of the
past two seasons — these non-
conference contests might help
ease the Jumbos into the season
before they take the field against
NESCAC opponents.
“It really helps to have these
two games before our first league
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game so we can work things out,”
DeGregorio said. “Our league is so
competitive that every game is hard,
so to have a couple wins under our
belt would give us some momen-
tum heading into our first league
game.”
Despite the graduation of senior
tri-captain Greg O’Connell (LA ’08),
who led the team last year with
five goals scored and 11 points,
the Jumbos have retained a solid
core of firepower upfront this
year. DeGregorio, sophomore Naji
Muakkassa, juniors Dan Schoening
and Bear Duker, and Lach — who
tallied nine points in just nine games
during his rookie campaign — were
all standout contributors offensively
last year.
Still, Tufts will need to improve
its goal-scoring output in order
to make a playoff run. The team
ranked eighth in assists and sec-
ond-to-last in goals scored in the
NESCAC last season. Coach Ralph
Ferrigno is emphasizing the impor-
tance of possession.
“We’re working on a more con-
trolled style of play [and] trying not
to turn the ball over,” Lach said.
Key games awaiting the Jumbos
later this season include match-
ups with league rivals Middlebury
and Amherst. In addition, the
Jumbos are looking forward to their
rematch with Conn. College, who
ended Tufts’ playoff hopes in last
year’s memorable regular season
finale.
Before getting ahead of itself
though, Tufts must first square
off against the Fighting Scots of
Gordon, a team that has not been
on the schedule since 2001 when
the Jumbos recorded a late-season
1-0 shutout.
“The first game is always big,”
Lach said. “We’re still finding our
top shape.”
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Inside the NFL

Brett the Jet lands in Miami for intriguing Week 1 matchup

by Evans Clinchy
Daily Editorial Board

When the NFL’s powers

that be first released the 2008
schedule back in April, they
probably saw the New York
Jets’ Week 1 visit to Dolphin
Stadium as nothing more
than a meaningless matchup
between arguably the AFC’s
two worst teams. Instead,
they’ll get much more.
Oddly enough, the Miami
Dolphins find themselves in
the spotlight as their new quar-
terback, the ever-talented-
but-never-quite-a-star Chad
Pennington, makes his debut
Sunday afternoon against his
former team of eight years.
And by the way, the man
opposite him is his replacement,
three-time NFL MVP Brett Favre.
Both teams, as logic would
have it, should be in rebuilding
mode. Between the two, they
totaled five wins last season,
a horrendous figure especially
considering they played each
other twice. But both have made
the decision to roll the dice on
veteran quarterbacks this sea-
son, and Favre and Pennington
will don their new uniforms
this weekend, knowing that an
army of second-guessers will
be ready to pounce on their
every mistake. Never has there
been more pressure on a pair
of AFC bottom-feeders.
So who has the edge on
Sunday? And, more important-
ly, which team has a chance to MCT
turn things around with a new Newly acquired Jets quarterback Brett Favre throws a warmup toss prior to New York’s preseason matchup against the Washington Redskins on Aug.
face under center this season? 16. Gang Green will open its 2008 schedule Sunday against former teammate and QB Chad Pennington and the Miami Dolphins.
That’s no easy question.
Now seems like a good time to yards and even steal an MVP should never be overlooked. Cotchery (and, blast from the Draft Bust (Brady Quinn, any-
mention that Favre’s reputation, vote from Tom Brady, he was Favre’s completion percent- past, Wayne Chrebet), has been one?). The logical answer is …
even his career numbers after still only sixth in the NFL in age for his career is 12th in the lack of a formidable sup- not much better than he did
16 years in a Green Bay Packers passer rating at 95.7, sand- the NFL among active quar- porting cast around him. The in the Meadowlands with the
uniform, are a bit misleading. wiched between Tony Romo of terbacks, slotting him right last time Pennington threw a Jets. The Dolphins should be
This is a man who turns 39 four the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa behind such titans as Brian pass to a bona-fide superstar thrilled to see Pennington in
games into the Jets’ season, and Bay Buccaneer QB Jeff Garcia. Griese and Brad Johnson. And was his sophomore year back town, as he’s a huge upgrade
the question of which Favre will The reason is Favre’s accura- who happens to be number in Huntington, W.Va. — the over the three-headed mon-
show up on any given Sunday cy, which has varied through- one on said list? Hint: He’ll be kid’s name was Randy Moss. strosity of Cleo Lemon, Trent
must be on the minds of many out his career between fair- putting on a Dolphins helmet How will Pennington per- Green and John Beck. But this
in East Rutherford. ly good and plainly average. this weekend. form in Miami, where his two Dolphins team still has some
The problem is that even a He has compiled monsterous Pennington, now 32, has favorite targets will likely be work to do.
best-case-scenario Favre may counting stats over his years always had the potential to be Marty Booker, a former Pro No AFC defense allowed
not be enough to bring the Jets in Green Bay, becoming the a star in the NFL, ever since Bowler who looks more than more points last season than
back from irrelevance. Even in NFL’s all-time leader in passing his first-round selection out a step slower at 32 than he did the Dolphins’, the offensive line
a stupefyingly anomalous 2007 attempts, completions, yards of Marshall in 2000. His main at 26, and Ted Ginn, Jr., who is still atrocious and unreliable
when he suddenly returned to and touchdowns, but he’s also problem, with all due respect to has a mountain of work to do
his prime to throw for 4,155 top dog in interceptions, which Laveranues Coles and Jerricho to avoid the label of Historic see NFL, page 12

Editors' Challenge | Week 1

What's that we hear? You missed your weekly dose of 10 mediocre football ana-
lysts providing laundry lists of picks with the accuracy slightly above that of a trained
gorilla? Well, you're in luck. We're back, and we're mediocrer than ever. (Is that a
word? Maybe not. Oh well.)
Much like the Raiders and Falcons, the Daily sports office is in rebuilding mode as
we open 2008, with five of our top six pickers gone this season, either to study abroad
or to (shudder) enter the real world. The only one left is Evans "Old, Bitter and Jaded"
Clinchy, who has graciously taken an hour out of his busy napping schedule to return
to the Daily office and pick some football teams.
The other three returning editors happen to be the three who spent all of last
fall fighting over last place — but hey, experience counts for something, right? Carly
"XML" Helfand was the eventual "winner" in the battle for the bottom, as a late-No-
vember surge was not quite enough to overcome Rachel "Daily Czar" Dolin (seventh
place) or Sapna "Daily Dropout" Bansil (eighth). Like we said, people ... rebuilding.
We're working on it.
Tom "Loyal to a Fault” Eager is back from abroad this season and at the helm, and
he'll try to threaten for an Eds' Challenge title despite his weekly decision to waste a
pick on his Redskins. (Seriously, Tom ... the Giants won the Super Bowl. Look it up.)
Meanwhile four new guys are here to vie for Rookie of the Year honors — meet David
"The Sauce" Heck, Noah "'s Ark" Schumer, Phil "Frankly My" Dear and Scott "Brady's
Buddy" Janes.
And last but not least, it wouldn't be an Eds' Challenge if we didn't bring back last
season's champion for Week 1. Ladies and gentlemen, back for one last of hurrah of
inexplicably weird picks that somehow work out — it's Liz "Luckbox" Hoffman.

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Field Hockey Preview

Field hockey team geared to stick to winning ways in 2008

Holiday, Jasinski, McDavitt builds
Kutcher to fill void program into a
left by Class of ’08 perennial winner
by Carly Helfand by Scott Janes
Daily Editorial Board Daily Editorial Board

Senior tri-captains Brittany Holiday,
Tess Jasinski and Marlee Kutcher cer-
tainly have big shoes to fill.
Last year’s captains, Katie Pagos (LA ’08)
and Ileana Casellas-Katz (LA ’08), guided
the Jumbos to unprecedented success: a
program best-tying 13 wins, the team’s
first-ever NCAA Tournament victory and
Tufts’ first victory over Middlebury in
22 years. In addition to providing lead-
ership, Casellas-Katz also powered the
Jumbos offensively, setting school records
in goals (18) and points (41).
But even without the formal title,
Holiday, Jasinski and Kutcher have long
been leaders in their own right.
“Last year they did a good job
leading quietly and supporting the
seniors,” junior Michelle Kelly said. “I
think they’re just going to pick up from
where the team was last year and keep
moving us forward.”
“It really shows in the way they
play and how they are on the field
and with their teammates in general,”
coach Tina McDavitt said. “They have a
confidence about them. They’re doing
a really great job. They know what’s
expected, and they’ve been great lead-
ers all along.”
see FIELD HOCKEY, page 13
Like many of the engineers that scale the
Hill, the field hockey team has learned an
important lesson: building a good foundation
is often the best way to create a strong and reli-
able finished product.
While success has not entirely eluded the
Jumbos over the past decade, coach Tina
McDavitt’s arrival in June 2004 provided a
warmly welcomed boost of coaching prow-
ess.
The squad has posted a 42-23 record in
her four years at the helm, and despite an
average 8-7 mark in 2005, the team has played
exceptionally well of late, tallying an impres-
sive 24-10 record over the past two seasons.
Last year, McDavitt took her Jumbos all the
way to a No. 15 national ranking by season’s
end and guided the team to its first NCAA
tournament win in program history.
The key to the Jumbos’ recent success is
due in part to a shifted recruiting focus that
pinpoints high school juniors and seniors who
lead their team on the field as well as in the
classroom.
“I am trying to find [Div. I] recruits who
want to come to Tufts for more than just the
field hockey,” McDavitt said. “I want to find
players who value their education as much as
Aalok Kanani/Tufts Daily their athletics so that they will be able to per-
Sophomore defender Amanda Roberts fires a shot during the field hockey team’s practice form well mentally on the field and contribute
yesterday at Bello Field. The Jumbos will begin their 2008 season Saturday afternoon with a
matchup against NESCAC foe Wesleyan. see MCDAVITT, page 13

Volleyball Preview Men’s Soccer Preview

Tufts looks to build on Jumbos have their eyes fixed on

impressive ’07 finish first opening-day win since 2005
by Jeremy Greenhouse
Senior Staff Writer
Despite having only one senior
on the floor and an interim head
coach at the helm, the volleyball
team still won 10 of its final 11
games before advancing to the
2007 NESCAC semifinals. Tufts
finished at 19-13, netting the pro-
gram its seventh consecutive win-
ning season.
Now, as the squad kicks off 2008,
it will be led by five seniors and
returning coach Cora Thompson.
With this experience comes the
hope that the team can build
on 2007, as eyes are on trips to
the conference finals and NCAA
Tournament.
“One of our goals every year is
to win the NESCAC,” Thompson
said. “It’s a realistic goal. We’re
going to need to be very disci-
plined in order to reach that goal.
We have five seniors who are very
driven and very focused. When
they were freshmen, they made
the NCAA Sweet 16, and they have
that goal in mind.”
After dealing with personal
problems that forced her to hand
the reigns to then-assistant Marritt
Cafarchia, who is now the head
coach at Holy Cross, Thompson
is back for her sixth season. She
is eager to return to a program
that has witnessed her amass 120
career wins against 45 losses since
her arrival at Tufts in 2002.
“I love it, and I missed it,” she
said of coaching. “I think that this
isn’t just a job for me — it’s a way
of life. I don’t get up in the morn-
ing and think I’m going to work.
Last year was hard. It was chal-
lenging, but I think that’s a les-
son in life. There are some things
that are more important than vol-
leyball, and it’s important to get
everything in perspective.”
Building on three years of prior
experience on the squad, senior
tri-captains Natalie Goldstein,
Stacy Filocco and Kate Denniston
will lead the Jumbos this season.
Goldstein has proven to be one of
the top liberos in the conference
and has ranked in the top five in
digs per game every year in her
collegiate career.
Filocco, along with sophomores
Dawson Joyce-Mendive and
Caitlin Updike and junior Brogie
Helgeson, recorded over 200 kills
last season. Denniston, mean-
while, will help anchor the middle,
where she racked up 161 kills in
2007.
“The great thing about our
team this year is that we’re incred-
ibly deep,” Filocco said. “There are
more players than we’ve ever had,
and everyone belongs. We go 15
deep, and we go three or four deep
at every position. That’s going to
be what makes our team really
special; no matter who’s in there,
we’ll have a chance.”
Still, the Jumbos will have to
work to fill the gap left by last
year’s senior and captain, Katie
Wysham (LA ’08), who was a
dominant force at middle blocker
last year. Wysham tallied the most
blocks in the conference by a wide
margin on her way to earning First
Team All-NESCAC and Honorable
Mention All-American honors.
Three freshmen, Lexi Nicholas,
Audre Kuan and Cara Spieler, will
be stepping in to fill out the ros-
ter.
“The freshmen are definitely in
see VOLLEYBALL, page 12
by Noah Schumer
Daily Editorial Board
The 2007 men’s soccer team, a
veteran squad loaded with eight
seniors, entered last season with
the expectation of earning a spot
in the NESCAC playoffs and tak-
ing its rightful place among the
conference elite. But after a slow
start, the team was never able to
fully recover, and its hope of a play-
off berth was dashed on the final
day of the regular season when it
suffered an overtime defeat at the
hands of Conn. College.
With the new season open-
ing against Gordon College on
Saturday, the 2008 Jumbos are
approaching this season with
fresh optimism. Although this
year’s squad has less experience,
its strengths have become evident
during the preseason.
“One of our main strengths is
speed,” senior tri-captain Peter
DeGregorio said. “Speed and com-
mitment. Last year we didn’t per-
form as well as we can, so our goal
this year is to focus game by game
and play as well as we can each
time.”
“I think we’re going to surprise a
lot of people with our speed, both
individually and in terms of our Daily File Photo
ability to move the ball,” sopho- Sophomore defender Naji Muakkassa and the men’s soccer team will
more forward Alex Lach added. look to put a 5-8-1 2007 campaign behind them Saturday when they
While last year’s roster was take the field against Gordon for their season opener.
heavy on freshmen and seniors,
this year’s squad presents a more erness and unity off the field is covering for each other and com-
cohesive unit. already paying dividends on the municating really well.”
“It’s been a lot different,” Lach field, where the defensive line, a The relative youth and inexperi-
said. “This year we have a lot of group that recorded five shutouts ence, coupled with the departure
sophomores and juniors. Being in 2007, has been particularly of the graduated seniors, has also
closer in age, there’s been less of a impressive. intensified early season practices as
hierarchy and no real cliques on “In our five scrimmages so far, the Jumbos nail down their starting
the team.” the defense has been working well
Indeed, that sense of togeth- together,” Lach said. “They’ve been see MEN’S SOCCER, page 14