Where You Read It First Sunny 62/40 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LX, NUMBER 24 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2010 TUFTSDAILY.COM Field hockey stampedes into nation’s top spot Peace Corps director speaks about agency’s past, future BY KATHRYN OLSON Tufts currently has 16 alumni serving in Daily Editorial Board 14 different countries through Peace Corps, and has sent 484 alumni since the Peace Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams Corps’ founding in 1961, according to Peace spoke at The Fletcher School of Law and Corps Public Affairs Specialist Elizabeth Diplomacy yesterday, commemorating the Chamberlain. agency’s 50th anniversary next year and “Tufts is one of the great Peace Corps addressing the challenges facing the Peace schools,” Williams told the Daily. Corps to develop a strong future. “Tufts has sent a lot of Peace Corps vol- Williams gave a short presentation on unteers who then return to The Fletcher the legacy of the Peace Corps, established School, so from the standpoint of both, in 1961 under the Kennedy administration, Tufts is a great school for us,” he said. which he said has supplied over 200,000 Williams noted that many aspects of volunteers worldwide since its inception. the Tufts experience are valuable to the Following the presentation, Fletcher stu- Peace Corps. dents, faculty and staff in attendance partic- “The range of subjects taught here is ipated in a question-and-answer session. a topic of interest to us, from the health Williams called Tufts “a citadel for inter- sciences to the social sciences, all with a national development” during his presenta- focus on worldwide issues,” he said. “The tion, praising the number of Tufts students who go on to join the Peace Corps. see PEACE CORPS, page 2 JAMES CHOCA/TUFTS DAILY After years of lingering around the No. 1 ranking in the country, the Jumbos have finally secured it. In the most recent National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) poll released yesterday, the Jumbos are in the top spot after receiving 22 of the 38 first-place JUSTIN MCCALLUM/TUFTS DAILY votes. See page 11 for more details. Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams called Tufts ‘a citadel for international development.’ Medford and Somerville Boston Globe announces plans to introduce subscription-based website move on single-stream BY MONICA MOWERY Globe’s online delivery of news into “a bold, Daily Staff Writer elegant format,” Mayer said in the memo. “Our research shows that Boston.com BY KATHRYN SULLIVAN The City of Somerville will begin a similar The Boston Globe has devised a scheme currently attracts several different types of Contributing Writer pilot program in certain areas of Ward 5 begin- to help bolster its revenues in a changing users. Some are readers whose main interest ning tomorrow. That program was delayed media landscape: two websites. is breaking news and things to do, while oth- The City of Medford will enact a new sin- by one week due to a recycling bin manufac- The publication, ailing financially in ers want access to the entirety of The Boston gle-stream recycling program to replace its turer’s issue, according to Boston.com. recent years, announced Sept. 30 that it Globe,” Mayer said in a Sept. 30 press release. existing system on or around Nov. 1. The pilot program will provide resi- will introduce a subscription-only, fee- “These two distinct sites will allow us to Under the new system, residents can dents with a new recycling barrel, which based website in addition to its current, serve both types of readers with maximum dispose of all types of recyclable material, will have wheels for increased mobility, free-to-access website, Boston.com, in the effectiveness, while continuing to provide including paper, plastic, metal and glass, in according to Somerville Deputy Director of second half of 2011. advertisers the large engaged audience they a single container, eliminating the need to Communications Jaclyn Rossetti. “The hope BostonGlobe.com will feature premium have come to expect from Boston.com.” sort them into different bins. The new sys- is that it’s making [recycling] immensely easi- content, including all the news articles, fea- In charging for content, the Globe fol- tem aims to increase recycling participation, er,” Rossetti said. tures stories and commentary in the paper lows The Wall Street Journal, the first major reduce cost and prevent waste from falling In addition to increasing recycling, a sin- edition of the Globe. newspaper to establish its website behind a into the streets during trash pick-up, accord- gle-stream recycling system will help improve The Globe will maintain Boston.com as a paywall. ing to Tufts Director of Community Relations the trash pick-up process and reduce resul- free source for local news, sports and weath- The New York Times Co., which owns the Barbara Rubel. tant litter, Rubel said. “It will keep the streets er information. Boston Globe, said in January that it would The program was originally slated to cleaner, because it’s less likely that things will “We firmly believe this approach will bet- charge for New York Times premium online start on Oct. 1, but was delayed due to spill out into the streets,” she said. ter serve the millions of people who turn content in 2011. logistical issues. For students living in off-campus hous- to Boston.com and The Boston Globe for English lecturer Neil Miller, who teaches Under the new program, Medford resi- es in Medford, the recycling program is news and information, better meet the the course Creative Writing: Journalism at dents will receive new, standardized barrels, estimated to take effect Nov. 1. The new needs of our advertisers, and increase our Tufts, said it is difficult for newspapers to one for recyclables and the other for trash. trash and recycling barrels will be delivered reach among consumers and our overall keep up with the changing media land- “Everyone provides their own garbage beginning this week. revenues,” Christopher Mayer, the publisher scape. containers, and they’re all sizes and shapes,” Upon receiving the new barrels, students of the Globe and president of New England “Newspapers are having a really hard time Rubel said, referring to Medford’s existing must use them in place of the old ones. Media Group said in a memo to Globe these days, because more and more people disposal system. “This is the first time they’ve employees. been provided with an official trash barrel.” see RECYCLING, page 2 The new website will reorganize the see GLOBE, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s Sections Religious Americans are The women’s novice News 1 Op-Ed 9 not necessarily the ones crew team got its season most knowledgeable underway, while the var- Features 3 Comics 12 about religion, accord- sity rowers prepped for Arts | Living 5Sports 11 ing to a new study. the Head of the Charles. Editorial | Letters 8 Classifieds 15 see FEATURES, page 3 see SPORTS, page 11 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Boston Globe announces it will operate subscription-based website GLOBE continued from page 1 are gravitating to online news,” Miller said. “There are two products — one’s free and one costs money, so of course everyone’s going to want to read for free.” The shifting currents reflect an attempt by the newspaper industry to attempt to com- pensate for revenue losses in recent years, according to Miller. “The recession came along around the same time that people were all migrating to the Internet, so there was less advertising,” he said. Media Advocacy Board Chair Shabazz Stuart said the Internet has created a satu- rated market for news. “The bigger picture is that newspapers are doing what the record industry is trying to do,” Stuart, a senior, said. “The Internet allows free exchange of information. There are enough blogs and news sites for people to get news.” “The New York Times is large and pres- tigious enough that it might survive doing paid news online,” he said. “I don’t see how a smaller, regional newspaper can pull that off.” A decrease in newspapers’ popular- ity among young readers has deepened the effects of the economic recession on the medium, according to Miller. “They have to find a way to woo the young- er generation,” Miller said. Stuart believes the Internet generation treats information access differently than previous generations. “People view news as a right, not a privilege,” he said. But journalism in the future may not be entirely based on online news, Miller said. “The reporting that’s done all over the Internet is done largely by these newspa- pers,” he said. “It requires money and an infrastructure to pay reporters.” Print newspapers are institutions because they can feature investigative journalism and have the support to do so, Miller said. “The depth of some of these stories can’t be repli- cated” by online startups, he said. Jenny White and Martha Shanahan contrib- JODI BOSIN/TUFTS DAILY uted reporting to this article. The Boston Globe hopes its readers will be willing to pay for content online. Above, T subway riders read newspapers in the Davis Square station. Williams optimistic about facing future challenges PEACE CORPS about whether the enlarged continued from page 1 budget would result in a greater type of students Tufts recruits and number of volunteers in addi- the large international popula- tion to an increase of ground tion ensure that students here are resources available to Peace more invested in the global com- Corps members. munity. That’s important.” “We want it all,” Williams Williams’ talk also highlighted replied. “There are lots of people the value of international service who want to serve, and we want in today’s world.