Where You Read It First Showers 51/43 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LX, NUMBER 42 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2010 TUFTSDAILY.COM Bubs to be heard but not seen on tonight’s ‘Glee’ Tufts receives a ‘B’ in Don’t stop believing, Tufts a cappella fans: Fox’s “Glee” has tapped the Tufts Beelzebubs to sustainability rating provide arrangements and backup vocals for select musical perfor- BY MICHAEL DEL MORO prefer qualitative over quantitative mances this season. Daily Editorial Board rankings, according to Woolston. On tonight’s episode, “Never Woolston, who took over Been Kissed,” the Bubs will make Tufts received a ‘B’ grade for sus- the directorship after Sarah their debut singing an a cappel- tainability and saw a decrease in its Hammond Creighton left the la arrangement of Katy Perry’s grades in several categories of the post in July of this year, said the “Teenage Dream.” Sustainable Endowments Institute’s schools that did best by the SEI’s The Bubs’ voices will stand in (SEI) assessment of colleges and standards were the schools that for the Dalton Academy Warblers, universities. The university had put the most time into complet- a fictional, all-male a cappella declined to participate in the inde- ing their independent surveys. group that presents new competi- pendent surveys that the SEI had But the survey’s methodology tion for the New Directions club requested for its ranking process. can be flawed and vague, accord- on the popular show. Darren Criss, The SEI is a non-profit orga- ing to Woolston. a new “Glee” cast member, pro- VIRGINIA BLEDSOE/TUFTS DAILY nization that annually issues the Executive Vice President vides lead vocals for the Warblers. The Tufts Beelzebubs recorded backup vocals for a song on ‘Glee.’ College Sustainability Report Card, Patricia Campbell said a number “The final product is great,” ranking the nation’s colleges and of universities began collaborat- junior Evan Powell, the group’s busi- Off,” which featured a competi- er one; we’ll see what happens universities. While the university’s ing about a year ago to discuss ness manager, said. “We finally got tion with eight a cappella groups with that,” Powell said, adding overall grade for 2011 remained ranking organizations. to hear it with their soloist [Criss].” from across the country, including that he was not permitted to unchanged from 2010, its per- “I think we’re participating in a In the episode, actors will lip- the Bubs. The group came in sec- name the song. formance in the subcategories of survey that we think is just more sync the Bubs’ voices playing stu- ond place and attracted attention On-campus fans will be able Administration, Food & Recycling accurate and goes deeper into the dents at the rival prep school. at Fox. to hear an all-Bubs version of the and Shareholder Engagement all issue,” Campbell said. “So we’re not “They were thinking of flying us “When they saw us in ‘The song soon, according to Seidman. dropped a letter grade. avoiding a survey per se, we’re just out to L.A., which was not a Sing-Off,’ that interest was height- “We’re going to sing it at a winter Prior to the publication of this trying to focus on one that we think good idea,” senior Eli Seidman, ened and some of the other folks show with our own soloist, so it’s year’s report card, the university is more effective.” the Bubs’ president, said. on the show became aware of now in our repertoire,” he said. opted out of the internal survey pro- “The types of questions they ask, “Obviously, because we’re stu- us,” he said. In the meantime, the show’s cess that the SEI uses to rank partici- they’re not questions that can really dents and need to be in class, we Tonight’s episode may not be version of “Teenage Dream” was pating institutions, forcing the SEI to evaluate whether or not a school is didn’t pursue it,” Seidman added. the last time “Glee” fans hear released at midnight today for issue Tufts’ report card based largely sustainable,” Woolston said, adding The songs were recorded in New from the Bubs, according to purchase on iTunes. on publicly available information that the surveys were typically time- York in late September, he said. Seidman and Powell. “We’ll have The Bubs make their “Glee” and past analyses, according to consuming to complete and often “Even having our voices in there at least one other song on there, debut tonight at 8 p.m. on Fox. Tina Woolston, the Tufts Office of showed a lack of expertise in the is very cool and such an honor,” assuming everything goes accord- Sustainability’s program director. topic of sustainability itself. Seidman said. ing to plan,” Seidman said. —by Rebecca Goldberg, with The choice to not directly par- Tufts on July 19 signed on to an The Bubs appeared on last “There is a potential for more reporting contributed by ticipate in the survey is part of an year’s NBC reality show “The Sing- tracks. We have recorded anoth- Martha Shanahan increasing trend at the university to see SUSTAINABILITY, page 2 Seniors studying abroad assigned junior registration day BY JENNY WHITE gram are not accorded priority over juniors The students contacted the Registrar’s Office “I’m grateful that the registrar changed my Daily Editorial Board in the same situation. and had their registration time changed to the time back to the senior time,” Snyder said. The decision to group seniors abroad with senior registration day. “I just hope that their procedures change so The Registrar’s Office has assigned seniors juniors was intentional, designed to give all The Registrar’s Office, Jack said, agreed this doesn’t happen in future years.” studying abroad this semester with junior study abroad students, most of whom are to upgrade upon individual request those Snyder noticed that his registration time registration times in an attempt to stream- juniors, a single registration time, 8 a.m. on seniors who notified them directly about their was on the day that juniors register only line the registration process for study abroad Wednesday, according to Jo Ann Jack, the registration time. because he received two e-mails from the students. Several seniors, citing a lack of manager of the registrar for the School of Arts “A couple of seniors contacted us and we Registrar’s Office that contradicted each other. sufficient notice from the Registrar’s Office, and Sciences. updated their time to senior,” Jack said. The first, sent on Oct. 19 by Student Services assumed their registration times would fall “There was no mistake,” Jack said in an One of those seniors, Christopher to all graduate and undergraduate students, in line with the rest of their class and were e-mail. “All students abroad are assigned a Snyder, who is spending this semes- listed the registration dates by class year, indi- confused by the discrepancy. junior time since the majority are juniors.” ter in Washington, D.C., on the Tufts-in- cating seniors’ registration date as Nov. 9. Seniors this semester register today, a A few seniors studying abroad this fall Washington program, said changing his A second e-mail from the Registrar’s Office day before junior registration. Despite their noticed a discrepancy between the day the registration time to the seniors’ date just arrived shortly after, which Snyder said was senior status, members of the Class of 2011 Registrar scheduled them to register and the took a simple e-mail to fix, but deemed the studying abroad or in an off-campus pro- day they were supposed to register as seniors. registrar’s practice problematic. see REGISTRATION, page 2 Over dinner, student leaders Citing problematic discourse, senior Hainline resigns from Senate seat; special election forthcoming discuss inter-group collaboration Senior Ian Hainline resigned Hainline said in an interview are,” Hainline said. “Then when BY BRENT YARNELL Senator Nadia Nibbs, an event late Sunday night from the Tufts with the Daily that his decision we start to do things like how to Daily Editorial Board organizer. Community Union (TCU) Senate, was motivated by what he per- best represent the various kinds “The main component was leaving an open Senate seat to ceived to be a problem with the of minority communities on cam- Student leaders from a wide just for them to get more be filled in a future special elec- nature of the Senate’s discourse pus, that [tendency] can have variety of Tufts Community awareness about each other tion in December. on social issues. profound negative effects.” Union (TCU)-recognized groups and start those conversations,” Hainline announced his deci- “I did it mostly to raise aware- Wallis reacted to Hainline’s gathered Sunday evening at 51 Nibbs, a senior, said, adding sion in an email to TCU President ness of an issue that I felt hadn’t decision with regret. Winthrop St. for the second TCU that she considered the event Sam Wallis, a senior, following really been raised before the “I’m really sorry to see Ian Senate-sponsored leadership a success. “I know that some the Senate’s weekly Sunday night body,” Hainline said. “It’s a sad go,” he said. “I thought when- dinner. definite linkages were initi- meeting. His resignation neces- thing, but it’s one of those things ever he spoke, the body listened The purpose of the event, ated today at the dinner which sitates another special campus- where the best way to raise and he always added a lot to which the Senate plans to stage didn’t exist before.” wide election to determine his awareness is to resign.” whatever we were doing.