Today: Flurries THE TUFTS High 34 Low 20 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Sunny Since 1980 High 32 Low 22 VOLUME LIV, NUMBER 58 DAILY WEDNESDAY , DECEMBER 5, 2007 Teny Gross discusses inner-city University to offer leadership violence in Cabot Hall lecture studies minor starting next fall BY MADEL I NE GARBER Daily Staff Writer BY CHR I STY MCCUA I G “I think there’s some real value in stu- AND JAM I E BOLOGNA dents thinking intellectually about lead- Teny Gross discussed inner-city vio- Daily Editorial Board ership,” he said. lence and offered potential solutions According to Glaser, good leaders need during a speech last night in Cabot Hall. Economics Professor George Norman to have a handle on policies, ethics and Gross is the executive director of is taking the reigns of the new leadership strategy. “The leadership studies minor the Institute for the Study and Practice studies minor, which will be offered for will expose students to all those different of Nonviolence, which is based in the first time next fall. things,” he said. Providence, R.I. His speech was spon- The minor will draw from several arts The minor was designed by Norman, sored by the Institute for Global and sciences departments, as well as a Glaser, Political Science Professor Jeffrey Leadership. few from the engineering school. Berry, Psychology Professor Nalini Gross talked about the institute’s alter- “It’s very much grounded in solid aca- Ambady and Molly Mead, who left the native method for combating poverty demic study,” Norman said. “We’re trying Tisch College of Citizenship and Public and preventing violence in distressed to get people to understand the idea of Service at the end of last year to pursue a U.S. urban areas. leadership from an interdisciplinary per- job at Amherst College. Since its establishment in 2000, the spective.” Norman hopes the program will attract institute has trained more than 5,000 Students pursuing the minor will be students from a variety of majors and he’s school children in Rhode Island cities required to take six courses from the excited to see how it works out. such as Providence, Lincoln, Pawtucket three different tiers that compose the “I hope it doesn’t become just one dis- and Cranston to use nonviolent prac- program. cipline,” he said. tices. The first tier includes courses that Nancy Wilson, the director and asso- It has also given birth to a “Street deal directly with leadership. Examples ciate dean of Tisch College, said she Workers Program,” which provides safety, will likely include the “Psychology of sees the minor as part of “a much prevents retaliations after a violent cri- Leadership” and an engineering course broader initiative” focused on promot- sis occurs, and mediates neighborhood entitled “Team Leadership in Science ing active citizenship and leadership conflicts. In addition, staff members and Technology.” on campus. help assist children who have dropped JO DUARA/TUFTS DAILY The second tier encompasses a wider She said that while the program may out of school by connecting them with Teny Gross speaks about the work of his Institute selection of courses that involve lead- not be for everyone, it allows interested relevant resources. for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence. ership more indirectly. These classes students to explore leadership from vari- Throughout his speech, Gross spoke could include a drama course on public ous academic perspectives. about what is, in his opinion, the main According to Gross, there have been speaking and a political science class on Wilson also said that the program is cause of violence. 100,000 homicides in the United States Machiavelli. meant to supplement, not replace, the “Elites cause violence,” he said. “In since Sept. 2001. According to Norman, the third tier is traditional undergraduate education. the U.S., apathy causes violence. You “I hope these numbers absolutely a capstone internship. Once they land an “I think that’s why it’s a minor, not a have victims and you have perpetrators, stagger you,” he said. internship, students will be required to major. It’s made to be a complement to and then you have a much larger group. He also spoke about his personal attend a seminar class and write a paper any student’s other field of study,” she And that is the bystanders, the group life, recounting his involvement in the on the experience. said. that I believe is responsible. ... And I see Dean of Undergraduate Education James Rob Silverblatt contributed reporting to this every, every day.” see GROSS, page 2 Glaser is enthusiastic about the minor. this article. Tufts professors making strides in cancer research BY RORY PARKS stimuli for the [3-D] organization Contributing Writer and structuring of heterogeneous tissues can be studied with the A group of doctors and scientists added dynamic of passage of from the Tufts University School of time.” Medicine and Ireland’s University According to McKerr, this allows of Ulster (UU) have made sub- for valuable and unique study. stantial strides in determining the “Being able to follow tissue change specific triggers of cancer cells. and remodeling with time is going Their work could ultimately to address how tumors first form yield crucial insight into the devel- and whether this process follows opment — and eventual treatment similar and established predic- — of cancer. tions,” he said. Thus far, the team’s success is Although this marks progress largely based on its use of UU’s in cancer research, Kurt Saetzler, a world-renowned bio-imaging lecturer in computational biology technology. This resource has at UU, said that “cancer is a very allowed the Tufts researchers, complicated process [and] it has co-led by Professors of Anatomy proved impossible to control all and Cellular Biology Ana Soto and other circumstances and vary just REBEKAH SOKOL/TUFTS DAILY Carlos Sonnenschein, to develop a one parameter in order to follow Students watched two films at an event sponsored by PANGEA. 3-D model of the mammary gland, changes at the cellular level.” thus enabling them to study how Therefore, despite the team’s cells form cancerous tissues and breakthroughs, a good deal of how they can return to their nor- work remains before it can accu- PANGEA committee’s film screening mal states. rately determine the exact cause According to UU’s Director of and development process of can- Advanced Imaging George McKerr, cerous cells and tissues. focuses on international slavery issues this current research is novel in Soto said that all cancers begin BY MARYSA LIN Gordon Hall. ticular side of child slavery. that it neither studies cancer tis- the same way, so the choice to use Daily Staff Writer “We’re a new commit- “Armed and Innocent” (2003) sues at a single point in time nor the mammary gland was a prag- tee, so we thought it would discussed child soldiers outside of their natural environ- matic one. PANGEA’s fledgling Modern be good to start off with a in wars around the world, ments. “We are studying breast cancer Day Slavery Committee movie screening,” said junior and “Sisters and Daughters Instead, he said, “the team at because at Tufts we have already kicked off an awareness cam- Yolanda Fair, a PANGEA co- Betrayed” (1996) examined Tufts has come up with a novel developed a 3-D model of the paign about global slavery secretary who heads the com- the selling of women into system where tissues are grown in yesterday with a screening of mittee. a controlled environment where see RESEARCH, page 2 two documentaries in Sophia Each film focused on a par- see PANGEA, page 2 Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections While some schools are The equestrian team was Editorial | Letters 8 looking to enroll more honored with a trip to the News 1 students, Tufts adminis- Tournament of Champions in Features 3 Op-Ed 9 trators aren’t interested in New Jersey. Arts | Living 5Classifieds 10 expansion. Comics 7 Sports Back see FEATURES, page 3 see SPORTS, back page 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Wednesday, December 5, 2007 Students celebrate Hanukkah Institute looks to break cycle of violence in American cities GROSS is killing who in Philadelphia.’ continued from page 1 You cannot tackle a problem if “Boston Miracle” in the early you do not know who you are 1990s. tackling.” At the time, southern Boston Gross elaborated on his belief was experiencing what he that the U.S. government must referred to as the “crack epi- be practical in its attempts to demic,” and there was a great combat poverty and prevent deal of violence and homicide. violence. He was working to stop this “We have to stop the expen- by pursuing drug dealers and sive solutions [and] go back to mediating gang conflicts. the primitive, simple interac- “Inner cities were just in may- tions with kids,” he said. “We hem: young people with a lot of send educated people from firepower and a lot of death,” he the outside to fix the inner- said. city kids, but the people from Between 1991 and 1999, how- these neighborhoods don’t get ever, the city was able to suc- the chance to fix themselves. ... cessfully reduce the number of My belief is that the best way to gang-related homicides. fix violence is to reverse the way “Philadelphia and other cit- we deal with poor kids.” ies came to replicate the Boston For the institute, this means Miracle,” he said. helping children find ways out Shortly afterwards, Gross of their destructive lifestyles, went to Philadelphia to observe instead of just putting them in the situation in the city’s histor- detention.