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THE TUFTS DAILY Est Where You AM Showers Read It First 32/57 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXV, NUMBER 46 FRiday, APRIL 5, 2013 TUFTSDAILY.COM Tufts wins Pinnacle Award for second consecutive year LGBT Center to celebrate Tufts received a Pinnacle Award for excellence in transportation sustain- ability options at the Massachusetts 20th anniversary Excellence in Commuter Options BY DENALI TIE T JEN Program and intern at the Tufts (ECO) Awards ceremony at Fenway Daily Staff Writer LGBT Center. Park last Thursday. The anniversary celebration This is Tufts’ second consecutive The Tufts Lesbian, Gay, will begin at 7 p.m. with hors year receiving the Pinnacle Award, Bisexual and Transgender d’oeuvres, followed by an oral the highest level of recognition (LGBT) Center will celebrate its history program at 7:30 p.m. awarded at the ceremony, accord- 20th anniversary at the Mayer and a dance party later on, ing to the Office of Sustainability Campus Center tomorrow with Bourdon said. The oral his- (OOS) website. food, a formal program and a tory program will feature sev- The award was given through a dance party. eral speakers including former collaboration of the Massachusetts The sold-out event will LGBT Center directors Dona Department of Transportation honor the Center’s history and Yarbrough and Heather Wishik (MassDOT), MassCommute, progress since its founding in and Massachusetts State the Massachusetts Coalition of 1983, as well as celebrate the Representative Carl Sciortino Transportation Management LGBT community on campus (LA ‘00), who is one of seven Associations and MassRIDES, a state- and connect generations of stu- openly gay Commonwealth run travel options program, accord- dents involved with the LGBT legislators. ing to Becca Cyr, the MassRIDES Center, according to LGBT “I think it’s going to be fasci- COUrtesY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Communications Coordinator. Tufts was honored for excellence in transportation sustainability Center Director Tom Bourdon. nating as well as very touching “Basically, it’s a group of awards options at the Massachusetts Excellence in Commuter Options (ECO) The LGBT Center most to hear about people’s experi- that recognize MassRIDES and Awards ceremony last Thursday. recently held a celebration for ences over such a long period MassCommute partners across the its 15th anniversary, but the of time in relation to LGBT state for their efforts in transpor- Additional recognition was given ing options and explained the signif- 20th anniversary is a substan- identities and experiences on tation management and providing through five Spotlight Awards for icant role they can play in the overall tial milestone because 20 years this campus,” Bourdon said. sustainable transportation options,” organizations that demonstrated health of the Tufts community. is a very long time in the LGBT “It will be really nice to cap- Cyr told the Daily. leadership in incorporating sustain- “Tufts is in a pretty dense community, Max Tanguay- ture what’s different and what’s The awards ceremony was able transportation options, accord- area, and by allowing [employ- Colucci, an undergraduate stayed the same, and I think held to encourage collabora- ing to the MassRIDES website. ees] different ways to commute intern at the Center, said. it will really help inform us as tion on transportation options Fannie Koa, the Communications to and from the area, I think “The 20th anniversary is par- to where we want to go in the among various employers, and Outreach Specialist at OOS, it improves health overall and ticularly significant because future.” according to Ari Ofsevit, the identified the specific transporta- quality of life in the area by Tufts has really been at the The program will also fea- MassRIDES Worksite Outreach tion options that Tufts provides that lowering vehicle miles traveled forefront of LGBT issues,” ture an archival slide show that Coordinator. enabled it to receive the award. by single occupant vehicles,” Tanguay-Colucci, a sopho- chronicles the history of the “When we get everyone in one These options include employee Kurcharsky said. “It really shows more, said. “Twenty years is a campus’ queer organizations place, we get to talk about what access to shuttle services like the that there’s an understanding of big deal and that just shows prior to the establishment of different companies do and it’s a Joey, providing showers, lockers and how Tufts is part of the greater how important these issues are the LGBT Center, according to good way for companies and col- bicycle maintenance supplies for community in recognizing the to students at Tufts.” Tanguay-Colucci. leges to find out what their peers employees, subsidizing employee importance of transportation Bourdon said that the LGBT Bourdon also revealed that are doing,” Ofsevit said. membership in a car-sharing pro- sustainability.” community at Tufts is very an important announcement is Companies, organizations and gram and providing discount park- The university will continue to strong, with eight to 12 per- going to be made at the event universities that are members of ing for carpools. seek improved transportation sus- cent of students identifying as by a student who will discuss MassCommute or MassRIDES can “We are committed to get- tainability and additional commuter non-heterosexual according to the news on a personal level. self-nominate for the awards based ting people to be green commut- options, according to Koa. senior surveys. “We have two announce- on three levels of criteria, accord- ers,” Koa said. “We’ve been doing Tufts is currently working on add- To put the 20-year mark ments that are going to be ing to MassCommute’s Executive more and more every year and ing electric vehicle charging stations, into perspective, Northeastern made,” he said. “One might Director David Kurcharsky. He hopefully now that Betsy Byrum Koa said. University’s LGBTQA Resource not be a surprise to peo- explained that there were 130 nomi- [the new OOS Education and “Hopefully next year we’ll have Center was founded within ple, but the other is a huge, nees for the various awards, with 46 Outreach Coordinator], is here, an even better list of things we’ve the past five years, accord- extremely exciting LGBT- receiving the Pinnacle Award, meet- we’ll be able to do more outreach done in the past and will be able to ing to Kris Polk, a student at related announcement.” ing specific criteria for the lower for employees.” get one of the Spotlight Awards.” Northeastern’s College Student level Pacesetter and Leader Awards Kurcharsky emphasized the Development and Counseling see LGBT, page 2 as well. importance of sustainable commut- — by Justin Rheingold History on the Hill: Barnum Hall BY CHARLO tt E GILLILAN D Tufts University.” P.T. Barnum, after Daily Editorial Board spending most of his life manag- ing his traveling circus, wanted to This article is the third in “secure a positive legacy through a series exploring the histori- the creation of an unambiguously cal background of sites and serious institution.” buildings on Tufts’ Medford/ Barnum worked as a showman Somerville campus. and circus entrepreneur with the Barnum and Bailey Circus, Jumbo the elephant, who according to Anne Sauer’s Concise stands proudly outside Barnum Encyclopedia of Tufts History. Hall, represents the famous real He also served on Tufts’ Board of elephant that once resided with- Trustees and as a benefactor to the in the walls of what is now the university. Before donating to Tufts Biology department. Both the to create the Barnum Museum, Jumbo statue and Barnum Hall he re-opened the American itself are embedded in Tufts his- Museum in New York City and tory and its changing structures. also supported the Smithsonian Barnum Hall was founded by Institution in Washington, D.C. Phineas T. Barnum in 1883, as and the American Museum of the Barnum Museum of Natural Natural History in New York City. History at Tufts, according to Barnum was also a member of the Andrew McClellan’s 2011 article Universalist Church. from the Journal of the History of “He was the Donald Trump of Collections, “P.T. Barnum, Jumbo his day,” said Sol Gittleman, the the Elephant and the Barnum EMMA BOYD FOR THE TUFTS DAILY Museum of Natural History at see BARNUM, page 2 Barnum Hall was originally founded in 1883 by circus master P.T. Barnum as a Museum of Natural History. Inside this issue Today’s sections “The Place Beyond News | Features 1 Comics 6 Pines” showcases Ryan Tufts Equestrian top- Gosling in a moving ples area schools to Arts & Living 3Sports Back performance. win the region. see ARTS, page 3 see SPORTS, back 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS | FEaturES THE TUFTS DAILY MARTHA E. SHANAHAN Editor-in-Chief EditoriaL Nina Goldman Brionna Jimerson Managing Editors Melissa Wang Executive News Editor Jenna Buckle News Editors Lizz Grainger Stephanie Haven Amelie Hecht Victoria Leistman Patrick McGrath Audrey Michael James Pouliot Abigail Feldman Assistant News Editors Daniel Gottfried Xander Landen Justin Rheingold Annabelle Roberts Sarah Zheng Lily Sieradzki Executive Features Editor Jon Cheng Features Editors Hannah Fingerhut Jacob Passy Amelia Quinn Falcon Reese Derek Schlom Charlotte Gilliland Assistant Features Editors Jessica Mow Shannon Vavra Melissa MacEwen Executive Arts Editor Dan O’Leary Arts Editors Rebecca Santiago Claire Felter Assistant Arts Editors Elizabeth Landers Veronica Little Jacqueline Noack Akshita Vaidyanathan KYRA STURGILL / TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES Elayne Stecher Executive Op-Ed Editor Bhushan Deshpande Op-Ed Editors The Tufts Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center will host its 20th anniversary celebration tomorrow at the Mayer Campus Center. David Kellogg Seth Teleky Peter Sheffer Denise Amisial Cartoonists Jehan Madhani LGBT Center anniversary celebration to include fundraiser Louie Zong Keran Chen now have — which is there to provide to recognize that not all LGBT students Drew Lewis Editorialists LGBT Nicholas Golden continued from page 1 students with financial assistance if will be comfortable enough to attend Scott Geldzahler Bourdon could not share much they find themselves in an emergency such a public event.
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