Symposium Shows Senate Passes Resolution for Univ. T I Fund for Club

THETUFTS ’ DAILY [Where You Read It First Tuesday, February 23,1999 Volume XXXVIII, Number 20 I Symposium shows Senate passes resolution for student research Univ. ti fund for club sports about the importance of research by ANDREWFREEDMAN byWILLKINLAW Daily Editorial Board and its applications to many “Causation and Free Will,”“E. other of life’s endeavors. Daily Editorial Board The Tufts Community Coli Detection,” and “A Womb “She told some very amusing With a View” are only a few ex- stories of her own experiences,” Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution on Sunday calling amples of the undergraduate re- Aprille said. for the administration to take search work showcased at Tufts’ Aprille is hoping to make the Undergraduate Research and event an annual occurrence. on the full burden of funding club sports teams. Scholarship Symposium, held “Tuhreally likes the ideaand Members of the rugby, vol- this past Saturday to highlight touts the fact that we engage leyball, equestrian, and frisbee the research of certain students students in independent schol- in the biological sciences. arship and research,” she said. club teams were among the ap- proximately 15 students in at- Theeventwas primarily student “We want to expand it and tendance at the meeting. organized, according to faculty anticipate a similar event next Sophomore Anna Ortiz- sponsorkd biology professor June year,” she continued. Neustrup, a member of the Aprille. She said the event arose Awards in the form of a $50 rugby team, has collected over from student interestexhibiteddur- prize were given to students in 430 student signatures on a ing a course entitled “A Profes- each presenting category. Stu- petition asking the Senate and Dai/y file photo sional Development Seminar.” dent organizer and award-win- administration to increase Frisbee is one of the dub sports applying for team status. Aprille said the course was ning presenter Lauren Zenewicz funding for club marts. started by juniors and seniors presented her research on “a “In ;he past we’were look- and in the past it was actually tration to see if they will give that were interested in research natural plant-derived multi-drug ing for money from the Senate, the administration that gave us the money that we really who decided to pursue aUniver- resistance pump inhibitor.” but because of the way the us all of our funding,” Ortiz- need.” sity-wide research symposium “The judges had a very hard as charters are set up, [the Senate Neustrup said before the Sen- Ten teams had submitted a project. time deciding... They were all so isn’t] actually required to give ate meeting. “So now we’re funding requests to the Sen- “They are a group of very good,” Zenewicz said. us the majority of our funding, turning back to the adminis- ate, with budgets ranging from energetic and dynamic people... Aprille said the symposium $1,500 to the ski team’s $40,000 They pulled it offwith great suc- addressed concerns that have budget. The total club sports cess,” she said. been raised in faculty meetings budget, if fully funded, could Student organizer Kate over the years. approach $ 100,000. Stevens said, “We thought it “There has been some concem Club teams are currently needed to be done.” about how well we teach critical funded up to $1,000 by the Sen- The symposium was the first thinking and oral presentation ate, and some teams receive University-wide independentre- skills... Afonun likethisisanexcel- additional funding from the search and scholarship presen- lent way for students to practice,” athletic department. Everyone tation, according to Aprille. Aprille said. “It brings together a who spoke at the meeting Nearly 40 individual students lot ofskillsthatwewouldlike people agreed that current club sports presented their research. to leave here with.” funding is insufficient. “[There] was quite a nice varia- The symposium was partly Treasurer Larry Harris, who tion in departments,” she added. funded by the Howard Hughes authored the resolution, said %ere were presentations by Medical Institute Grant to the that the Senate could not af- students fiom various disciplines biology departmentas well as by ford to fund the entire club includingthehumanities, social sci- the Provost’s office. sports budget. “[The Senate ences, sciences, and engineering. Aprille said the deans of the was] never given money to The keynote speaker, Dean of various schools “gave their moral Photo by Daniel Rodrigues fund club sports,” he said. Humanities Leila Fawaz, spoke support and nominated students.” The 1998-1999Tufts Community Union Senate. Harris said the current level of funding is “straining the student activity fee. We are look- Iraq protests over s ing to support students, not cut club sports off at the legs.” Ortiz-Neustrup speculated of cleric ingnite killings that some teams receive funding from parents, who “pay Los Angeles Times-Washington towns and villages in Basraand Babil prov- through the nose.” Post News Service inces. Government forces have withdrawn “I think it went really well,” CAIRO, Egypt - Iraqi security forces from some sites, including Haniyanear Basra Ortiz-Neustrup said of the fought for the third day Monday to quell and Majer in Mara province, in order to meeting. “1 was a little bit ner- demonstrations ignited by the murder of a avoid clashes with demonstrators. vous about the proposal as far senior Shiite Muslim cleric, opposition These disturbances are the first sign of as changing entirely to the ad- spokesmen said, and some reports indi- widespread unrest in Iraq since March and ministration in case they are cated scores of people dead and more than April of 1991,when Hussein’s Republican not supportive of it, but Ithink 700 arrested. Reports from Iraqi opposition Guards put down a Shiite uprising in south- that because the Senate really groups in neighboring countries and the ern andcentral IraqthatfollowedBaghdad’s backs us, it will go well,” she West spoke of a string of spontaneous defeat in the 199 1 Persian Gulf War. said. protests--om the Shiite slumsofBaghdad Although the unrest so far does not The resolution states that - to a half-dozen predominantly Shiite cities seem to constitute a serious threat to the the Senate will continue its and towns in central and southern Iraq - regime, it comes at a time when Hussein’s current funding level for club in what appeared to be the most significant government’s usual iron grip on power is sports until the administration 1 internal challenge to President Saddam under strain and may be in danger of fray- takes over. Hussein’s regime in eight years. ing. Johanna Newman, the cap- In Baghdad, the government continued Just two months ago, the regime en- tain of the women’s ultimate to reject as “completely unfounded” all dured a four-day Anglo-American bomb- frisbee team, seemed skepti- claims ofunrest. “A figment ofthe imagina- ing campaign that hit at strategic assets cal. “It seems like [the resolution,” Uday Tai, director of the state-run across Iraq in retaliation for Iraq’s blocking tion] is a maintaining of the Iraqi News Agency, said Monday. The of UN weapons inspections. Since then, status quo ... [By moving it on regime’s public reactions -barring jour- the Iraqi government has found itself in- to the administration] it’s like nalists from areas ofreported unrest, broad- creasingly friendless in the Arab world and they are passing the buck,” casting television footage designed to re- facing ongoing military pressure from US she said. fute the allegations of disturbances, and and British warplanes, which are attacking “I think the really interest- laying the blame for the cleric’s murder on Iraqi air defenses and other military instal- ing thing will happen when it foreign forces -nevertheless suggested a lations almost daily. actually goes through to the 3 government at least concerned about an The government says Sadr was slain administration and then the overflow ofpublic anger followingthe kill- along with his two sons Friday by unknown Senate and the administration ing ofGrand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq gunmen in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. have to bicker over it. I think that’s where the decision is , Sa&. According to the opposition, there Opposition groups, however, have alleged have been riots or disturbances outside that Sadrwasactuallymurderedin his home going to get made,” she said. Baghdad in the cities of Najaf, Karbala, The resolution passed by a Nassariya, and Hilla and in many smaller see IRAQ, page 6 vote of25-0-1. > 2 THETUFTS DAILY February 23,1999 Support grows for voting rights for felons TAMPA, Fla. -Alarmed by the staggering number of people who are barred from voting because of past criminal convictions, legislators in an increasing number of states are advocating propos- als to allow felons to return to the voting booth. The issue, long touted by prisoner rights advocates, is finding support among mainstream civil rights organizations and political leaders. They argue that the crazy quilt of state laws barring felons from voting not only constitutes unfair punishment but also has the potential to shut entire communities out of the political process because such a large proportion of their citizens cannot vote. That is especially true for African-American men, 13 percent of whom are ineligible to vote because of criminal convictions, according to a recent study conducted jointly by the Sentencing Project and Human Rights Watch, both well-known research organizations. In ten states, more than one in five black men are barred from voting because of their criminal records. Winning back voting rights for those with felony convictions, from murdertopassing a bad check, will not be asimpletask. Indeed, it is already evident the effort faces stiff opposition from those who reject the notion that criminals are entitled to the same voting rights as everyone else.

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