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Where You Sunny Read It First 52/34 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXI, NUMBER 38 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011 TUFTSDAILY.COM Engineering prof. lauded for advancing women in science BY HAN O RAH VANNI “When I first came to Tufts, I Contributing Writer was the first woman in the engineering department,” she said. Professor of Electrical and “I was alone, and when they Computer Engineering Karen hired me they said they wanted Panetta this month received me to be a mentor for women. the Anita Borg Women of Vision There was only one problem: Award in recognition of her There were no women.” work in engineering education, To a lesser degree, this prob- particularly for her encourage- lem is still present today. Less ment of female engineers. than 20 percent of all the engi- Panetta is the first Tufts facul- neering degrees earned in the ty member to receive this award, past year in the United States last according to Jerri Barrett, Vice year were awarded to women, President of Marketing for the according to Panetta. Anita Borg Institute for Women “I started to dig deeper, and I and Technology (ABI). found that a lot of young women Panetta entered the field of were intimidated by technology, education in the 1990s after even though they were scor- working for several years as a ing well on math and science computer engineer and found [tests],” she said. a lack of enthusiasm for engineering among women. see PANETTA, page 2 BRUCE WANG/TUFTS DAILY The TCU Senate, pictured above in a Feb. 27 meeting, on Sunday passed a resolution calling for the faculty to approve its proposals to recognize ROTC coursework on cadets’ final transcripts. Tufts’ sustainability Senate resolution supports BY ELIZAB E TH MCKAY draft, which calls for the univer- ROTC recognition on transcripts Daily Editorial Board sity to make campus sustainabil- Students, staff ity a priority. discuss BY KATHRYN OLS O N The proposals will not be imple- do not receive recognition of their Representatives from over a TSC co-Director Sally Sharrow, Daily Editorial Board mented unless faculty members participation on their transcripts. dozen student organizations a senior, hopes the resolution approve them. A vote is expected in The resolution is aimed at encour- last night joined faculty mem- might draw the administration’s The Tufts Community Union the coming weeks, and the faculty aging the Tufts administration to bers from across the university attention to the issue of sustain- (TCU) Senate on Sunday called can choose to support one or both acknowledge ROTC commitment to discuss methods of improv- ability, she said. on the university to include stu- of the proposals, according to TCU and service, Wallis said. ing sustainability at a round- “Part of the idea is making dent participation in the Reserve President Sam Wallis, a senior. “Tufts goes to great lengths to table meeting. it clear that [sustainability] is a Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) on The Education Policy Committee, promote civilian leadership, but Members of Engineers Without priority of students and a prior- transcripts, a move designed to bol- composed of faculty members, what we could do better in is sup- Borders (EWB), Students for a ity of the student body,” Sharrow ster the university’s formal recogni- administrators and several stu- porting students who also go into Just and Stable Future and Tom said at the roundtable. “That will tion of the program. dents, have already expressed sup- military leadership, which can Thumb’s Garden, among others, hopefully echo up through differ- In a resolution that passed port for the measures, passing both involve some of the same roles joined staff from Dining Services ent levels of the administration.” 21-0, with three abstentions, the proposals in a March 16 vote and such as in the humanitarian and and the Office of Sustainability to The representatives sug- Senate asked that the faculty pass sending it on to the faculty to vote, health sector,” Wallis said. “This brainstorm short-term and long- gested a diverse range of goals two proposals that would include according to Wallis. resolution provides symbolic sup- term environmental goals for the for the university’s sustainabil- notation of ROTC participation on The resolution’s proposals would port for ROTC and speaks volumes university in an event organized ity evolution. Sophomore Rose students’ transcripts. not provide a path toward receiving to the student who wakes up at by the newly restructured Tufts Eilenberg, an Eco-Rep who rep- The first proposal states that a academic credit for ROTC courses 5 a.m. every morning [to attend Sustainability Collective (TSC). resented the Tufts Energy Forum student’s completion of the ROTC or bringing ROTC to Tufts’ Medford/ ROTC courses], coming back to a The group also discussed at the roundtable, expressed her program should be noted in the Somerville campus, Wallis said, university that supports them.” a draft resolution they plan to desire to see the reemergence notation section of their final noting that the latter would not be Senator Tim Lesinski, a co-spon- submit to the Tufts Community of themed housing for environ- transcript. The second dictates cost-effective for the military. sor of the resolution, said increased Union (TCU) Senate. TSC co- mentally minded students. that ROTC service be acknowl- Tufts cadets currently com- ROTC recognition is widely sup- Director Signe Porteshawver, a “I think that it would be a edged on the transcript under plete the majority of their ROTC ported by students at Tufts. senior, and TCU Senator Jibade each semester a student partici- classes through the Massachusetts Sandiford, a junior, wrote the see SUSTAINABILITY, page 2 pates in the program. Institute of Technology, but they see ROTC, page 2 Former poet laureate Dove draws link between storytelling and poetry BY CO RINN E SE GAL in the Poetic Sequence.” to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Daily Editorial Board Dove discussed the connection “Thomas and Beulah” (1986), a col- between narrative poems, which lection of poems based on the lives Pulitzer Prize winner and for- generally contain a plot or story, of her maternal grandparents. mer Poet Laureate Rita Dove and lyrics, non-narrative poems “What I was trying to do with spoke last night about the rela- that focus on thought and per- ‘Thomas and Beulah’ was to make tionship between lyricism and ception and often lack a logical every moment a lyric moment narrative in poetry, saying that sequence of events. that, when you threaded them she has approached her work “This particular take on what together, made a story,” she said. with the view that the two should makes a story … comes from a “The poems are meant to be self- go hand in hand. whole childhood of feeling, like that sustained lyrics, or beads, and “I grew up feeling that there storytelling and poetry were all part when you put them together, you DANAI MACRIDI/TUFTS DAILY were no hard-and-fast barriers of the same thing,” Dove said. “A get the story of a marriage.” Students from environmentally conscious groups and university between narrative and lyric,” Dove really good storyteller knows how to Most people, Dove said, value departments gathered last night to discuss potential projects, including said in her lecture, titled “Bead and work language and make it sing.” green housing and dorm composting. Thread: Aspects of Lyric Narrative Dove applied this philosophy see DOVE, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s sections FOMO, or the Fear of “Modern Family” takes News 1 Op-Ed 9 Missing Out, takes on a the lead in ABC’s come- new meaning with the dy lineup, leaving little Features 3 Comics 10 plethora of social net- room for the network’s Arts | Living 5Classifieds 13 working sites. other sitcoms. Editorial | Letters 8 Sports Back see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Police Briefs LIGHTS OUT SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS Tufts University Police Department A TUPD officer at 5 a.m. on March (TUPD) officers at 2:59 a.m. on March 17 spotted a student on top of the 16 negotiated a heated dispute central heating plant’s chimney behind between a student and his roommate East Hall. The student had placed a in Metcalf Hall after the roommate stuffed animal on top of the chimney refused to turn the room’s light off. and attached to the chimney a large The student called in TUPD to resolve banner advertising a vegetarian event the conflict. Following the interven- reading, “Beatin’ the Meat in Eaton.” tion of two TUPD officers, the room- The officer called him down, but the mate agreed to turn the light off. stuffed animal and banner were still there as of yesterday afternoon. See tuftsdaily.com for an interactive map. —Compiled by Brent Yarnell based on reports from Tufts University Police Department COURTESY KAREN PANetta Engineering professor Karen Panetta won the 2011 Anita Borg Women of Vision Award in recognition of her efforts to bring engineering opportunities to female students. Panetta earns award for encouraging women to pursue math, science PANETTA of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) continued from page 1 Women in Engineering, the largest profession- Panetta’s interest in encouraging women al organization for women in engineering and to study science led her to start the Nerd Girls science, and is currently the editor-in-chief of Club in 2000, which provides opportunities the IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine. for young women to realize their interest in Panetta said one of her proudest achieve- math and science.

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