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7,2000 DAILYVolume XL, Number 48 THETUFTS Friday, April pieYou Read It First 1 Four to seek TCU presidential nomination Senate must narrow the field to two in IDreDaration I for April 20 election lY~MA?THEWKANE clare that they will be seeking the class has seven seats with nine president this year, emphasized Daily Editorial Board nomination for TCU Senate presi- contestants. that the Senate should be respon- The race for president of the dent. The field of candidates in- If they are reelected, the cur- sive to the needs and wants of Tufts Community Union (TCU) cludesjuniors David Moon, Moira rent TCU Constitution dictates that students in their daily lives. “I Senate is heating up. The current Poe, and Alessandro Terenzoni, the newly elected Senatemust vote have a lot of experience, more on Senate still has one more meeting and sophomore Anoop on the nominees and choose two thesewices side, and I think that’s this Sunday,but already four sena- Swaminath. Moon is the chair of of them to vie for the presidency. one of the most important things tors have stepped forward to de- the Cultural Ethnicity and Com- The two will be chosen by the the Senate does. There are a lot of munity Affairs Committee, and Poe Senate, then campaign against services-oriented projects I’d like is the Senate vice president. each other, culminatingwithacam- to see continued and expanded,” All four hopefuls have a long pus-wide presidential election on she said. “This year we did a lot of way to go before any ofthem takes April20. different stuff, and I’d like to con- the helm ofthe2000-2001 Senate. While the four senators have tinue to work on the projects and Before any of the candidates can not publicized theirplatfoms, they lead by example.” Photo by Daniel Rodngues wony about running for president, are in two major categories. Poe “I want to keep morale high on Moira Poe their class must elect them as sena- and Terenzoni are hoping to build the Senate,” she added, “and get tors in the general election, to be on the successes of this year’s the word out about what we do so good thingsthat have already hap- held on April 13. Moon, Poe, Senate, although they believe that that people can come to the Senate pened this year in trying to bring Terenzoni, and Swaminath have some changes need to be made. and say ‘this is an issue I have and the Tufts campus together. I think all submitted the 100-signature Moon and Swaminath are gener- how can it be addressed.”’ unity is a big deal, and I’m talking petitions required to be on the ally more critical of the current Terenzoni, who has been on about the unity of every type of ballotonthe 13thandarecurrently Senate, stating that more signifi- the Senate for one year, also com- student on campus and bringing waiting for approval from the Elec- cant changes need to be made to mented that the Senate should fun back to the everyday lives of tions Board. Of the four contend- how the Senate operates and what work to capitalize on this year’s students on campus,” he said. “I ers, only Swaminath faces a con- it does. success. “Number one, 1 thought don’t want by any means for Sen- tested re-election bid. There are Poe, a three-year Senate vet- about continuing on some of the ate to turn into a spcial organiza- seven junior senate seats, with eran who was the Services Com- tion, but 1 think there is more we by Daniel Rodrigues seven aspirants. The sophomore mittee chair before becoming vice can do in those respects.. taking Alessimdro Terenzoni what has been done this year and continuing on that.” Holocaust survivor recounts Terenzoni did suggest that the Senate stands to improve on its internal procedures. “Forthe Sen- her experience for students ate to function well, it has to be - structured well. Something that Talk first event of Holocaust Commemoration week wasn’tterribly efficient is that a lot ofpowerwas in the same few indi- viduals this year. I would like to by IKEREN BLANKFELD take it back to the Senate making Senior Matt Writer decisions, notjust a few people. I Hillzl began itsHolocaust Com- think that’s something that should memoration Weekon Wednesday be done. Everyone has the same with a speech by Holocaust survi- voice regardless of their position vorNesseGodin. Godin,who sur- on the Senate.” vived the Shauliai, Lithuania “It’s time to just chill out and gGhetto, the Stuffhof concentra- Photo by Daniel Rodrigues tion canp, four labor camps, and a David Moon see PRESIDENT, page 17 death march, spoke about her ex- periences to a crowd of over 100 studer!ts. Mexican civil rights “‘I’m not a speaker, I’m not a lecturer. 1 don’t have a college activist to speak1 degree. What I am is a survivor of Antonia Hernandez, presi- before taking the helm of the Holocaust, and I’m here to dent and general counsel ofthe MALDEF. She has worked as share memories. My physical Mexican American Legal De- the directing attorney for the Photo by Came Gagel wounds have gone. I forget about Holocaust speaker Nesse Godin fense and Educational Fund Lincoln Heights office of the them even. My mental wounds I’ll (MALDEF) will be today’s Legal Aid foundation, and as carry to my grave-our memories Lithuanians that were our friends cording to her, the police told guest speaker to the Commu- Staffcounsel forthe US Senate we will carry to our graves. It’s and neighbors, why did they join Lithuanian Jews that they were nity Forum on Leadership for Committee on the Judiciary. hard far me to talk about it, but I do the evil causes? Why do people going to a better place, and the Active Citizenship. The class, She serves on numerous it so you can see what human evil join evil causes? Today they say Jews, unable to imagine the hor- taught by Tufts President John boards including Innovations in can do,” said Godin, who lived a they’re sorry, but then they were rors that they were to eventually DiBiaggio, Dean ofthe Gradu- State and Local Government, and normal childhood in Lithuania grabbing Jewish men and boys face, believed them. In truth, they ate Schools Rob Hollister, and Commission on White House until the German occupation in and ‘cleaningthe streetsofJews,”’ were taken toconcentration camps, Director of the Lincoln Filene Fellowships. She is the recipient 1941. she said. where they were tortured and then Center Badi Foster, has brought of 1999’s Women of Courage “I rememberhiding in the base- Godin was 13 years old when killed or forced into slave labor. numerous distinguished speak- Award. In 1990,shewasgranted ment andnot really knowing why. the German invasion began. Ac- “One ofmy memories was that ers to campus. Mexico’s highest honor tonon- the earth over the so-called dead Hernandez will speak on citizens, the Aguila Azteca moved for many days. Why? Be- “The Civil Rights Movement Award. cause many of them were only Enteringthe21 stCentury.”The Dean Hollister has praised injured and [the killers] didn’t want group she leads is the nation’s Hernandez as “a dynamic and to waste a bullet on a Jewjust to principal Latino advocacy and visionary leader.” James make sure he was dead,” Godin educational outreach institu- Weinberg, a student in the class said. She further explained that tion. MALDEF works to pro- and Lincoln Filene Center pro- Jews weremadetowearthe Star of tect and promote thecivil rights gram associate, lauded her as a David as a marker, a “patch of ofmillions ofLatin Americans. giant in the civil rights commu- shame,” so theNazis could easily She was elected to the nity. identify the outsiders. MALDEF presidency in 1985, “Ms. Hernandez isamongthe “The Holocaust was allowed and currently oversees a staff most influential civil rights ad- to happen notjust because of kill- of 83 individuals. vocates in the country, not to ers. It was also informers and by- Hernandez is charged with mention one ofAmerica’s great- standers. Maybe so many people maximizing the group’s$6mil- est female leaders. I urge every- wouldn’t have been killed ifthere lion budgettogive Latin Ameri- one to not miss the opportunity weren’t so many bystanders,” she cans the best civil rights pro- of hearing her speak,” he said in Photo by Jacob Silberiferp said. tection possible. “I have a $6 a University press release. Nancy DiBiaggio wallur her and the president’s dogs, Katie Godin emphasized the impor- million business. I don’t make Studentscan hear Hernandez and Duncan. Duncan, named after Ring Duncan in tance of helping and standing by widgets. I go about making today from 1:30-2:30p.m. inCabot Shakespeare’s Macbeth, is fighting long disease while his others so that nothing like the change,” she said. Auditorium. Holocaust will everhappen again, companion, named after Katherine Hepburn, is doing well. The civil rights activist had a long and distinguished career -Andrew Freedman The two receive top notch care at the Tufts Veterinary Schoal. see HOLOCAUST, page 17 2 THETUFTS DAILY April 7,2000 The Daily Weather Forecast ~ Today I Saturday I Sunday House approves partial Mostly sunny, warm AM showers, PM sun Wild card:showers/windy, coole birth abortion ban High: 67 High: 65 High: 49 I WASHINGTON -The House Wednesday approved legislatior ~ to ban a controversial form of late-term abortion, courting a thirc 1’11 start with a disclaimer: I am not very confident of this weekend outlook.