THE TUFTS Where You Tufts’ Student Newspaper Read It First Since 1980 VOLUME XLVIII, NUMBER 40 DAILY MONDAY,NOVEMBER 8, 2004 Senate considers stopping Herald distribution Indecent photos of Sox fan’s death cited as rationale for consideration BY LULA LAKEOU The Herald article featured “In retrospect, the images of this Contributing Writer pictures of Emerson student unusually ugly incident were too Victoria Snelgrove who died graphic.” The Tufts Community Union from a head wound after police The Herald included a front- (TCU) Senate is questioning officers shot non-lethal crowd page picture of Snelgrove shortly campus distribution of the control guns at her during post- after the accident and a more Boston Herald due to the paper’s game riots. graphic photo of the student’s inclusion of graphic photo- At Northeastern University, battered face on page 4. graphs of a student killed at the the student government Senators were especially con- riots following the Red Sox’ ALCS announced that it would remove cerned with the Herald’s promi- playoff win. the Herald from the campus nent distribution centers on Already dissatisfied with the newsstands shortly after the campus. “Why does a free paper quality of the Boston Herald, incident. get that much publicity? Could senators cited the photos in a The Herald could not be we get a more prominent meeting last week on possible reached for comment, but paper?” Adler asked. alternative publications to be released a statement in the The New York Times, which is distributed on campus. Boston Globe after publishing already distributed at certain “We on TCU Senate don’t the photographs. campus locations, was a popular think the quality of the Boston “Our aim was to demonstrate alternative for mass distribution. Herald is in keeping with the this terrible tragedy as compre- “I hope we get a larger more def- quality of our education at hensively as possible,” Herald inite distribution of the Times Tufts,” Senator Jonathan Adler Editorial Director Kenneth BEN THAYER/TUFTS DAILY said. Chandler said in the statement. see HERALD, page 2 The Boston Herald may no longer be allowed to distribute on campus. Sore winners, sore losers? Faculty says that committees need ‘tinkering’ Though John Kerry’s concession speech is old news, President George W. Bush’s re-election con- AIMEE FUKUCHI tinues to strikes chords and inflame passions around Senior Staff Writer campus. On Friday night, Bush supporters chalked around In light of the fact that many of the 25 campus and painted the cannon on the Academic faculty committees seem to have lost Quad with statements including “Liberals run in fear their purpose, and several have overlap- to Canada” and “Tufts Votes Wrong.” ping duties, the faculty of Arts, Sciences, Anti-Bush and anti-Tufts Republicans chalkings and Engineering will extensively reor- made Saturday night combated those of the previ- ganize its committee structure over the ous evening. New phrases on the cannon included next year. “Yay Canada” and another that referred to Bush by The reorganization will possibly using an obscenity. include the rearrangement or disband- Sophomore Stephanie Mayer was among those ment of some groups. shocked by both the original statements and those “The Executive Committee and a lot countering them. of the faculty feel like it’s time for a little “I think it’s offensive no matter what side of the tinkering because the system needs it political spectrum you’re on,” she said. “It prevents right now,” said History Professor Steve a healing process between Democrats and Marrone, a member of the Executive Republicans.” Committee. “While things aren’t falling According to President of Tufts Republicans apart, they definitely aren’t perfect and Nicholas Boyd, while Friday night’s chalkings were they do need change.” not a planned event, they were part of a victory cel- All potential changes will be super- ebration of many of the club’s members. vised by the Executive Committee, Boyd said the statements were neither intended to which oversees all faculty committees. be offensive, nor did he consider them to be so. Committee members will review each of the 25 existing committees and their — by Danny Lutz bylaws to reaffirm their compatibility JEFF CHEN/TUFTS DAILY with current University goals. Due to committee overlap, some haven’t met for a year. Others don’t have enough members and lack individuals to act as chairs, obligating some faculty INSIDE Clinton protestors marshal forces members to serve on multiple commit- tees. Disney’s “The Tufts Socialist Alternative will protest Senator Hillary Clinton’s speech as the annual Fares Lecture “We’ve had a large number of com- Incredibles”: a super hero Series speaker on Wednesday due to her support of the war in Iraq. mittees for awhile and I do think it’s flick for the whole family Dan DiMaggio, founding member of Tufts Socialist Alternative, said in an e-mail that the group grown,” said Associate Professor of would distribute leaflets at the event because “because Senator Clinton voted for and still supports Economics David Garman, who is also see ARTS, page 5 the war in Iraq.” on the Executive Committee. “I think “I am protesting Senator Clinton’s speech because I want to urge those people who are going what’s happened over time is that we’ve to see [her] speak to ask her to end the occupation of Iraq and bring our troops home now,” created new committees instead of DiMaggio said. broadening the charges of old ones.” DiMaggio estimates “about a dozen people” might come out for the Socialist Alternative Garman cited an incident where a protests. committee on Educational Policy put Tufts Coalition to Oppose War in Iraq (TCOWI), which has been mostly dormant this semester, forth a proposal that conflicted with the may also join in the protest. TCOWI member Joseph Ramsey said last week that he was not sure if agenda of the Budget Priorities commit- the group would protesting, but that it was a possibility. tee. “Sometimes if you have too many A TCOWI protest would take the form of an “educational action” like leafleting, he said. committees, the left hand doesn’t know Ramsey plans to distribute leaflets regardless of whether the entire group participates. what the right hand is doing.” Ramsey cited the reasons for the war as fodder for his protest. The United States started the Committee members have also com- INDEX war “not to liberate the Iraqi people,” but “to protect the state of Israel, give Israel a more free plained about a lack of communication hand to deal with the Palestinians. To put us in a long-term position in an oil rich country,” he said. on the part of the administration. News | Features 1 TCOWI was one of the principle groups to organize protests against the previous Fares Lecture Frequently, committees submit their Arts | Living 5 Series speaker, George H.W. Bush, in February 2003. At the time, TCOWI organizers said upwards final reports, but receive little response Editorial | Letters 8 of 200 people participated in that protest, some of whom clashed with police officers after march- from Tufts administrators and see few National 11 ing to the Gantcher Center from Davis. Sq. changes on campus as a result of their International 13 About a dozen protesters were arrested after attempting to approach Gantcher from the Comics 16 recommendations. Medford side of College Ave. in order to avoid a protest area designated by Tufts officials. Garman said reducing the number of Classifieds 17 The University has not announced the creation of a special protest area for this Wednesday’s Sports Back page committees would also facilitate discus- lecture. sion between faculty — by Calvin Metcalf and administrators tuftsdaily.com see COMMITTEES, page 2 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Monday, November 8, 2004 EDUCATION BRIEFS Senator dismisses censorship accusations over plan FLORIDA A&M HAZING VICTIM HERALD Editor-in-Chief of the Primary Source The Senate disputes these claims. WINS COURT SETTLEMENT continued from page 1 Brandon Balkind said. “That is completely not the goal of the Marcus Parker, a former member where students can always count on “I am sure the students who dislike TCU Senate,” Adler said. “We have no of Florida A&M’s marching band, won a having it there,” Adler said. the Herald would have liked to remove it partisanship to a political party,” he $1.8 million lawsuit in civil court case Students have mixed reactions to the from Tufts before the election, but the said. against five band members who he claims Senate’s deliberations on scrapping the timing didn’t work out, and it would be Other students pointed out the advan- beat him in a hazing incident. Herald. While some support the idea, even more obvious what their motives tages of having the Herald on campus, In 2001, Parker, then a freshman, others call the removal censorship or were,” Balkind said. citing short and readable articles. was beaten with a wooden paddle reflective of partisan bias. Balkind said having a variety of news Adler dismissed the notion that the between 30 and 80 times by older mem- Some students suggested that the sources on campus was valuable — and Senate intended to censor campus bers of the Marching 100, Florida A&M’s removal of the Herald, which endorsed that the Senate should not regulate cam- media. “I don’t think that this has to do prestigious marching band. President George W. Bush for re-election, pus media. “In reality, it would be with censorship,” Adler said. “It has to do The injuries resulted in kidney would be due more to its conservative removing a free newspaper which every- with the quality of the newspapers.” failure for Parker, who later required sur- than to the offensive content.