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Where You Mostly Cloudy Read It First 48/40 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXVIV, NUMBER 33 TUEsday, MARCH 10, 2015 TUFTSDAILY.COM New group offers support for LGBTQ pen pals by Jei-Jei Tan group for those who are writing News Editor letters through Black and Pink. “It’s a place to work out the A new group in the LGBT details of these [pen pal] relation- Center provides a support and ships,” she said. “It’s a place to discussion space for students who work out issues that might arise, exchange letters with queer pris- because it’s not clear-cut and set. oners through the organization These are human relations and Black and Pink. interactions.” “Black and Pink is a national One such issue is the power organization … where members dynamic of the situation, Petit of the queer community of the said, citing the pen pal selection free world can come and support process as an example. According members of the queer commu- to Petit, there is a list of prison- nity who are incarcerated through ers who have requested a pen maintaining pen pal relation- pal on the organization’s website, ships,” Cecilia Petit, who founded from which free world members the group at Tufts, explained. choose someone to write. Black and Pink describes “[It’s] problematic, but it’s also itself as “an open family of hard to find another way to do it,” LGBTQ prisoners and ‘free she said. “That’s something we world’ allies who support each talked about in our first meeting other,” according to its web- — what are the power dynamics NICHOLAS PFOSI / THE TUFTS DAILY site. Its work is “rooted in the there, that we’re scrolling through Juniors Noa Yee and Montane Silverman won the Richard W. Vomacka Student Speaker competition experience of currently and this list and choosing the pen pal during the National Collegiate EMS Foundation Conference in Baltimore, Md. formerly incarcerated people,” that we want, and they don’t really and its goals are liberation and get a say in that.” abolition of the prison indus- Petit also emphasized the TEMS members win speaker trial complex. Besides match- importance of setting personal ing pen pals, the organization boundaries and voicing them in produces a monthly newspa- a respectful way, while asking pen competition at EMS conference per and is involved in advocacy pals what they need and want and education. from the relationship. by Melissa Kain Vomacka Student Speaker According to Silverman, a The Tufts group, which meets “The point of [Black and Pink] Assistant News Editor competition at the 22nd annual junior who serves as the tech- every other Tuesday at 8 p.m. at is to create this queer community National Collegiate Emergency nical director of TEMS, the the LGBT Center, is not meant that’s supportive of people who Montane Silverman and Medical Services Foundation two of them presented about to be another chapter of Black don’t have a lot of support, who Noa Yee, members of Tufts (NCEMSF) conference, which concussions, concussion man- and Pink, Petit, a sophomore, Emergency Medical Services took place from Feb. 27 to explained. Rather, it is a support see BLACK AND PINK, page 2 (TEMS), won the Richard W. March 1 in Baltimore, Md. see TEMS, page 2 New graduate TCU Senate Update The Tufts Communion Union (TCU) crete plans have been made, he suggested Tufts Robotics Intel Competition, $118 student lounge Senate’s Sunday night meeting opened that the international relations program for Parnassus, $1,000 for Students for with an appearance from University may move into the hall. Justice in Palestine, $5,000 for Action opens in Curtis Hall President Anthony Monaco, who dis- On the issue of future housing, Monaco for Sexual Assault Prevention, $455 for cussed Tufts’ ongoing implementation of firmly acknowledged the need for new Anime Brigade, $190 for Psychology by Marianna Athanassiou its 2013 strategic plan. dorms on campus and locations for them. Society, $802.50 for National Society Assistant News Editor In accordance with the school’s capi- According to Monaco, two working of Black Engineers, $2,873 for Spoken tal projects, Monaco reaffirmed the groups will convene soon to discuss the Word Alliance at Tufts and $1,086.35 The new graduate student lounge university’s efforts in improving campus issue. One group will work to find suit- for Not Your Mother’s Monologues. in Curtis Hall celebrated its open- facilities. According to Monaco, the uni- able dormitory locations and to draw up Most of the approvals were passed by ing on Feb. 26. The lounge’s open- versity has raised $250 million through a business plan, and the other will further acclimation or majority vote. ing was attended by graduate stu- taxable century bonds, which allows develop the Office of Residential Life and Tufts Bikes and Another Option were dents and graduate directors, and it continued general maintenance of cam- Learning. denied approval in their funding requests, also featured a visit from University pus buildings. Further, Monaco told the TCU Senate both by acclimation. President Anthony Monaco. Monaco noted that the reconstruc- that the university has taken many initia- After the conclusion of the Treasury According to Burns Healy, presi- tion of the large industrial warehouse tives to save money in order to prevent rise Report, TCU Parliamentarian Gauri dent of the Graduate Student Council at 574 Boston Ave. and the develop- in tuition for students. He predicted that Seth opened the floor for a tabled (GSC), the new lounge is meant to ment of the new Science and Engineering within a year and a half, Tufts will save $15 resolution from last week that called provide an additional on-campus Complex, located near Bromfield-Pearson million and bounce back into a surplus. for an increase in housing support for space for graduate students. Hall, are underway. Both new facilities will Lastly, Monaco stated that because students doing summer research. The Currently, there is another gradu- be for academic use. student financial aid is a priority, the resolution passed on Sunday night in a ate student lounge in West Hall that Next, Monaco updated the TCU Senate university is planning a new fundraising vote of 13-3-2. has a conference room and a com- with plans for a new Central Energy Plant campaign to further its goal of raising The TCU Judiciary then updated the puter room, but it can only fit 20 of (CEP), which will be built near Dowling $100 million this year. So far, $73 million Senate on the new bylaw changes, the 1,800 total graduate students, Hall. According to Monaco, the CEP will has been raised. which now require biweekly meetings according to Irina Yakubovskaya, vice have a cogeneration plan that can cut After the guest appearance by Monaco, between the TCU President and the president of the GSC. energy costs by 20 percent and reduce the TCU Senate sorted through Allocations chair of the TCU Judiciary. According to Healy, the West Hall greenhouse gas emissions. Board requests. The meeting concluded with a lounge will continue to exist until He then revealed plans for a new The TCU Senate began with an appeal brief award ceremony for Danielle further talks with the administration academic building that a donor has from the Black Student Union, eventually Weisberg, winner of the Light on the about the future of graduate space proposed to build on top of the overturning its originally recommended Hill Award, which is “the highest award take place. planned Green Line MBTA stop near $2,073.80 and approving a new amount presented [to] Tufts Alumni by under- Prior to the creation of the lounge campus, adding that there will hope- of $3,586.35 in a vote of 16-7-1. graduates … to recognize their leader- in Curtis Hall, the graduate student fully be a bridge to connect the new T After the appeal, the TCU Senate ship within their fields and for serving population lacked a space that was stop with the main campus. approved funding requests of $500 as outstanding role models within and conducive to creating connections and Monaco explained that the Department for Major: Undecided, $597.50 for beyond the Tufts community,” accord- relationships, Yakubovskaya said. She of Biology will move out of Barnum Hall, the Protestant Student Association, ing to the Tufts Alumni website. as the building is no longer properly $4,459.20 for the Sino-U.S. Relations see GRAD LOUNGE, page 2 equipped for the sciences. Though no con- Group Engagement (SURGE), $950 for —by Roy Yang Inside this issue Today’s sections After Tufts’ adjunct The men’s lacrosse News 1 Op-Ed 9 faculty unionized, team continued its four other Boston offensive firepower in Features 3 Comics 10 universities joined New Jersey over the Arts & Living 5 Sports Back the trend. weekend. Editorial | Op-Ed 8 see FEATURES, page 3 see SPORTS, back 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Tufts receives HeartSafe designation thanks to TEMS training efforts TEMS about colleges in general,” According to Bartlett, people, in a way that’s quick Nikki Margaretos, a first- continued from page 1 Silverman said. Tufts also recently received and accessible to a rescuer, year student and member agement and emergency pre- Silverman added that the HEARTSafe Campus desig- the basic skills to be able to of TEMS, also expressed her hospital care at the conference, presentation concluded with nation, which TEMS helped render aid in a medical emer- enthusiasm over Tufts’ recent combining national data with case studies on different con- earn.