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Where You Rain Read It First 68/61 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXII, NUMBER 24 THURSDAY, OCtoBER 13, 2011 TUFTSDAILY.COM Senate works with alumni to bring Boston shuttle to Tufts BY REBECCA KIMMEL costing between $12 and $15 roundtrip, Contributing Writer according to Alwani. Savique is working with Senate to subsidize the cost of riding The Tufts Community Union (TCU) the shuttle to make it less expensive for Senate is working with Savique, a trans- students. portation company founded this year by “Savique came from us trying to make it Tufts alumnus Raoul Alwani (LA ’10), to easier for groups of friends to do cool and introduce a new shuttle from the Medford/ fun things in real life,” Alwani said in an Somerville campus to Boston. The new ser- email to the Daily. “There’s a lot of technol- vice is designed to make planning trips into ogy used to keep us connected online, and the city more convenient for students. with Savique we wanted to use technology Under the proposed plan, students to help bring people together offline.” would be able to use the website Savique. In order to use the service, students com to coordinate travel to and from the must go onto the website and register for city by booking a shuttle whenever enough an event. If enough people sign up for the interest is generated for an event. event before the registration timer runs The website is already up and running, and students can currently book a shuttle see SHUTTLE, page 2 JUSTIN MCCALLUM/TUFTS DAILY During yesterday’s Coming Out Day rally, students, faculty, staff and administrators showed their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members of the Tufts community. Tufts celebrates National Coming Out Day BY MATTHEW THOMPSON to reflect on their experiences as members of Contributing Writer the LGBT community, a move designed to build a greater sense of unity, according to Members of the Tufts community gath- Mark Tyson, an intern at the LGBT Center. OLIVER PORTER/TUFTS DAILY ered at the Mayer Campus Center yesterday “It’s great because people can share their The shuttle service that the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate may subsidize would allow to observe National Coming Out Day, which stories and it gets really emotional; it’s a great students to reach Boston with greater ease. shows support for members of the Lesbian, bonding experience,” Tyson, a sophomore Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) com- said. “It makes everyone feel closer to one munity. another. For people who haven’t come out Participants packed onto the lower patio yet, we hope we will create a safe space so of the Campus Center for the rally, which that people will become more comfortable Fall Rush shifts to relaxed aimed to celebrate the “coming out” of indi- to come out.” viduals as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender Nino Testa, a doctoral candidate in the or allied. English Department and intern at the LGBT three-week process The event featured scheduled speakers Center, emphasized the event’s ability to but also offered a free-form opportunity for BY ALEXANDE R HANNO join in the fall,” Su McGlone said in an email. students to come to the microphone in order see RALLY, page 2 Contributing Writer The new, more informal process that organizers elected to pursue is better suited Fall fraternity recruitment, which this to the smaller numbers typical of fall recruit- year was more informal and less structured, ment, Castle said. Internet outage affects campus Tuesday night boasted high turnout — with participation “We decided to have the chapters decide nearly double that of last fall. for themselves when they wanted their An outage of one of Tufts’ Internet ser- outage was unnoticeable, Irish said. Nine of Tufts’ 10 fraternities participat- events, and we made the deadlines for all vice providers hampered Internet access for “If a student was trying to go off the ed this semester, with a total of 56 bids their bid lists to be in,” Castle said. “We students on the Medford/Somerville campus campus network, onto the worldwide extended to sophomores and transfer stu- thought to have it be pretty informal worked during the early hours of the morning yes- Internet on public access fibers, they ran dents with sophomore standing, according out for smaller numbers.” terday. Students trying to access the Internet into the outage,” Irish confirmed. to Director of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs In line with the new procedure, recruit- between 12:05 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. were Some websites remained accessible, Su McGlone. Recruitment lasted from mid- ment this semester was extended from its met with error messages and disconnec- while others were not. Some students could September to Oct. 5, she said. usual span of one week to three weeks, tions, according to University Information not access Google but were able to load Alpha Epsilon Pi was the only fraternity McGlone said. Technology Director of Communications and Bing, and while TuftsDaily.com was not that did not participate in fall recruitment, “Fraternities had the opportunity to hold Organizational Effectiveness Dawn Irish. available, TRCommons.org was, according which Interfraternity Council (IFC) President as many or as few events as they wanted to “Tufts has Internet service providers [ISP] to Irish. Tommy Castle confirmed in an email. in that time,” McGlone said. “A longer, more that take information to and from our cam- “It’s not about the website they were This fall’s recruitment implemented a relaxed recruitment style allows for chapters pus. One of those providers had an outage going to; it’s about the ISP connection. It all more relaxed and less structured process to get to know potential new members and themselves, so we were affected by it,” Irish depends on which ISP you ran into and how than has been in place in past years, accord- find individuals who fit with the values of said. “It was an intermittent outage.” many times you tried to access a website,” ing to McGlone. their organizations over a longer period of The problem lay with RCN Sidera, one of she said. “In the past, it has been that strict one time, which can be very positive.” Tufts’ ISPs, according to Irish. Irish insisted that the outage did not week where all the rush events take place,” Although recruitment differed structurally “If you hit the RCN network, you would result in a data breach of the Tufts net- Castle, a junior, said. from that of past years, the rules of the pro- have a problem. The error was not on the work, or compromise student information. Organizers this year questioned the need cess and rush events did not change. side of the university,” Irish said. “There was no security risk or breach for for a highly structured fall rush, which tends “All the events are still dry, all the normal For students attempting to access sites users,” she said. to take place on a smaller scale than the rules of rush apply,” Castle said. on the Tufts network such as the Microsoft spring rush. Several fraternities agreed that the new pro- Exchange email platform or Trunk, such an — by Brionna Jimerson “Historically, spring recruitment tends to be larger than fall because freshmen do not see RUSH, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s sections News 1 Op-Ed 9 A look at the MFA’s new ‘Dance/Draw’ opens exhibition, ‘Degas and dramatically at the Features 3 Comics 12 the Nude.’ ICA. Weekender 5Classifieds 15 Editorial | Letters 8 Sports Back see WEEKENDER, page 5 see WEEKENDER, page 6 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Thursday, October 13, 2011 Take Back the Night promotes sexual violence awareness BY AUD R EY MICHAEL speak about their experiences, petrators are repeat-offenders. Contributing Writer either personal or of friends and “On college campuses, a very family, with sexual violence. small number of male perpetra- Take Back the Night, an event Two spokespeople from BARCC tors perpetrate the assaults,” she yesterday evening organized by described the sexual assault ser- said. “They do it again and again Tufts Panhellenic Council, aimed to vices available to Tufts students, and again.” raise awareness about sexual vio- including legal advocacy and rape The evening concluded with lence through a series of speeches, kits. They emphasized that all ser- musical performances by a cap- testimonials and musical perfor- vices are free and confidential. pella groups Essence and S-Factor. mances on the Tisch Library roof. According to a spokesperson for Abouzahr said the Panhellenic The event, which drew a crowd BARCC, there are about 35 inci- Council tried this year to encour- of around 200, featured speeches dences of rape per 1,000 students age additional male participation by Violence Prevention Education in the United States each academic in the event, which has tradition- Coordinator Elaine Theodore, rep- year. At Tufts, that would mean ally been more geared toward a resentatives from the Boston Area between 70 and 100 students are female audience. Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) and raped each year. “We think it’s important testimonials from Tufts and non- A non-Tufts student described her because though males are usu- DILYS ONG/TUFTS DAILY Tufts students. experience being sexually assaulted ally aggressors, they can still be At last night’s Take Back the Night event, students discussed experiences “Our goal is to create a healthier and used by her boyfriend. involved,” she said. they or people they know have had with sexual violence. sexual environment,” Director of “It’s not just the people driving Panhellenic Council President Marketing for the Pahellenic Council and rallies to raise awareness about actually the most vulnerable time by at 3 a.m., and it’s not just the Gianna Wilkie, a senior, was Ally Abouzahr, a sophomore, said.

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