Where You Read It First Mostly Sunny 33/18 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LX, NUMBER 59 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2010 TUFTSDAILY.COM Sexual assault judicial process questioned

BY MICHAEL DEL MORO statistics to the U.S. Department Daily Editorial Board of Education. Carter first took note of Tufts’ A non-profit organization that new policy, implemented this advocates for the prevention of fall after extensive deliberations, campus crime has alleged that when he saw a post about it on an the university’s judicial process independently run website that for handling cases of alleged sex- addresses rape issues at Tufts. ual assault does not comply with “The biggest red flag was that federal regulations. destruction of records policy,” The nonprofit organization Carter told the Daily in November. Security on Campus, Inc. (SOC) Reitman denied the allega- claims that a provision in the adju- tions in an e-mail to the Daily, dication process that calls for the saying that that the university’s destruction of all case materials judicial process is in line with the after the case has been resolved stipulations of the Clery Act. may conflict with certain provi- According to Reitman, the pro- sions of a federal statute and could cess was also designed to com- require reworking or revision. But ply with the Family Educational Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Reitman refuted the idea and said and to maintain the privacy of that Tufts’ current policies are com- those involved in cases of alleged pliant with federal regulations. sexual assault. Page seven of the Student “The outcome of all cases in Judicial Process for Allegations the Student Judicial Process are of Violence, including Sexual made part of the public record at Assault Cases, states that “after Tufts, to the extent that they can DAILY FILE PHOTO the case has been decided, and be made available to the Tufts Winter Bash will not be making a return to its previous location of the Gantcher Center, pictured above during 2009’s all appeals exhausted … all mate- community without compromis- Winter Bash. Instead, it will remain an off-campus event held this year at the Copley Place Mariott Hotel. rials created by or reviewed by ing the privacy of the individuals the Dean and/or the fact-finder involved,” he said. will be destroyed, unless the case Reitman drew a distinc- Winter Bash stays off campus with or elements of the case are in liti- tion between formal and infor- gation or moving toward litiga- mal records and said that the tion, in which case the materials Department of Public and new location, slight modiications will be preserved until the litiga- Environmental Safety retains all tion is resolved.” of the documents that the Clery BY MARISSA GALLERANI Most of the logistics of the off- “It’s going to be an identi- Daniel Carter, the director of Act requires be kept. Senior Staff Writer campus event, including the bus cal event at a new location,” public policy for SOC, told the The university updates its loading and ticket systems, will Habib, a senior, said. She said Daily that the stipulation vio- policies and judicial processes This year’s Winter Bash event be run in the same manner as last the Sheraton was unavailable lates the Jeanne Clery Disclosure according to changes in federal will be held at the Copley Place year, according to Programming because the event space is cur- of Campus Security Policy and statutes, according to Reitman. Marriott Hotel on Jan. 28. Board Co-Chair Sarah Habib. rently under renovation. Campus Crime Statistics Act “We take great care to comply For the second year in a row Programming Board, in conjunc- “We created a pretty good (Clery Act), a 1990 federal stat- with the requirements of FERPA the event will take place at a tion with the Office for Campus recipe last year, and we tried ute that requires all institutions and of the Clery Act. Boston hotel, with some revi- Life (OCL), sponsors and coordi- receiving federal financial aid sions to last year’s event. nates the annual event. see WINTER BASH, page 2 funding to disclose their crime see CLERY, page 2

Senate considers granting student Hillel members sell latkes for charity during Hanukkah ‘subgroups’ greater autonomy

BY BRENT YARNELL Bodwin, a sophomore, said Daily Editorial Board the need to coordinate with the larger groups on budgeting, The Tufts Community Union especially when those groups (TCU) Judiciary is explor- engage in very few related ing the possibility of ending activities, has frustrated many the practice of subgrouping, subgroups. according to Judiciary Chair “They had said that they had Beth Doyle. trouble communicating with Subgrouping, the process the supergroup,” Bodwin said. by which the Judiciary recog- “They thought that the super- nizes small student groups as group was too stretched out to subsidiaries of larger groups, adequately manage the sub- is intended to help smaller group’s funds.” groups gain membership and Bodwin said the Judiciary navigate TCU Treasury pro- plans to look closely at sub- cedures by linking them to groups during next semester’s larger, related organizations, rerecognition process, when according to Judiciary New the Judiciary reviews a mem- Group Recognition Chair Greg bership list of each group and Bodwin. a written statement on the But subgrouping has actual- group’s activities over the past ly complicated the budgeting year. process for many TCU groups, Doyle said that groups wish- Doyle, a senior, said. ing to remain subgroups will Each TCU group designates probably be allowed to do so, KRISTEN COLLINS/TUFTS DAILY two signatories to work with though no decisions have been Junior Matt Davis and sophomore Liz McGarry prepared latkes at Tufts Hillel last night. They will sell the the Treasury, but subgroups finalized. latkes in the Mayer Campus Center today to benefit Solar Electric Light Fund, a nonprofit organization share signatories with the that provides solar power technology to developing countries. larger group, she said. see SUBGROUPS, page 2

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The men’s swimming News 1 Op-Ed 11 A look at the use and and diving team cheer definition of the ever- each other on to a Features 3 Comics 12 elusive term, “hipster.” third-place finish. Arts | Living 5Sports 13 Semester in Review 8 Classifieds 14 Editorial | Letters 10 see FEATURES, page 3 see SPORTS, page 13 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Winter Bash will remain an off-campus event, cost $10 to attend

WINTER BASH Habib said the proximity of the event continued from page 1 to the start of the semester necessitated to keep everything the same while just the online sale. “The reason we have adapting to a new venue,” OCL Assistant to start selling tickets before school is Director David McGraw said. because ... Winter Bash is the second OCL Director Joe Golia agreed. “We week that we get back to school, so we felt that Winter Bash was very success- needed to make sure there was enough ful last year, especially doing some- time to sell them,” Habib, said. thing of this size for the first time in Golia advised students to buy tickets Boston,” he said. early and said event coordinators will Golia felt that the new space offers be enforcing stricter bus times this certain improvements over last year’s year. venue. “The space is very beautiful, and “I would just encourage people to it’s all on one floor, which is a plus. The buy their tickets early so that they can 21-plus area has its own separate area at get their preferred bus times, because the back,” he said. we are going to try to make sure that One of the new improvements will students adhere to their specific bus- be the coat check process, Habib said. loading times,” Golia said. Last year, the event drew criticism from “We hope more students come this attendees for a coat check process that year,” Golia said. “Last year we had a resulted in widespread confusion, long little over 2,700 students, and we can fit lines and some lost coats. up to 3,000 students in the ballroom.” “The coat check last year was may- He also praised the general conduct hem,” Habib said. “This year it is com- of attendees at last year’s event. Winter pletely new and improved. It will be a Bash had been moved off-campus in an self-service coat check with three thou- attempt to avert the drunkenly destruc- sand coat hooks spread out through a tive behavior that marred the Winter couple of different rooms.” Bash held the year before. “We’re working with the hotel to “Student behavior was really good make sure that space will not be an last year,” Golia said. “The hotel was issue,” Programming Board Co-Chair really pleased with us; we had minimal Adam Fischer said, referring to the coat problems.” check. “We’re really excited for it,” Fischer Tickets will be priced at $10, the same said, noting that extensive planning is as last year, according to Habib. She said involved with preparing an event for the the tickets are expected to go on sale entire student body. online starting on Jan. 17, and can be “We think that it is going to be great JAMES CHOCA/TUFTS DAILY picked up in the Mayer Campus Center space and a beautiful location … we Students crowd in line at the coat check at last year’s Winter Bash. Event coordinators were beginning Jan. 21. think that Winter Bash will be a huge criticized for the coat check, which was the source of mass confusion at the night’s end. Beginning Jan. 24, remaining tick- success and are hoping the student ets will also be made available at the body enjoys it,” Fischer said. great event, and I’m glad to see that this of the year and am glad to be part of it, Information Booth in the campus cen- McGraw expressed similar optimism. has become a yearly tradition. I think it and I hope students come out and enjoy ter, according to Fischer, a senior. “I think that it’s going to be another will be one of the more standout events themselves,” he said. Sexual assault adjudication process faces Judiciary considers abolishing allegations of legal noncompliance practice of subgrouping

CLERY SUBGROUPS name, founded Tufts Belly continued from page 1 continued from page 1 Dance. She said the club’s “Almost every year, there are Because group recogni- status as a subgroup of the modifications to these laws and tion is closely connected to Arab Student Association their accompanying regulations, budgeting, the Judiciary will (ASA) imposed unnecessary as well as to other areas enforced solicit feedback from TCU complications. by the Department of Education,” senators to coordinate with “When it came time to he said. “University Counsel the Treasury before making actually do budgetary things, monitors these changes and the any final decisions, Doyle we realized we didn’t know University’s policies are modified, said. where to go,” she said. as required, to be in compliance “We want to have a broader “Getting in contact with so with the current regulations.” discussion so it’s not just us many extra people took up so Reitman added that far from making the decision,” she said. much extra time with us.” noncompliance, Tufts has been Judiciary Vice Chair Adam Pop said that Tufts Belly recognized for its adherence Sax said that the Judiciary Dance and ASA rarely com- to the Clery Act. “The univer- has also contacted Office municated because their sity, through the Department of for Campus Life Director Joe interests and activities were Public Safety, has been a recipi- Golia. Sax said that Golia is fundamentally distinct from ent of an award from the Clery currently exploring whether each other. Foundation for being a model the administration would be “There was no reason for in meeting the requirements of able to create new depart- us to be in contact with them the [Jeanne] Clery Initiative,” he ment IDs for all the sub- because we were doing dif- said. The Daily could not inde- groups. ferent events, very separate pendently confirm the award, as “It’s just the creation of things,” she said. “There was the Clery Foundation does not more numbers and it’s paper- not much overlap.” have an online presence. work,” Sax said. “We’re seeing Pop said that Tufts Belly “The university considers the if it’s feasible.” Dance had only agreed to be privacy of students to be of utmost There are currently 20 a subgroup of ASA because importance and FERPA prohibits subgroups and 14 umbrella they felt the Judiciary would disclosure of educational records, organizations, Doyle said. not recognize the organiza- including disciplinary records, to Additionally, the Leonard tion otherwise. anyone other than the student, Carmichael Society (LCS) “The reason we accepted unless the student consents or has 33 subgroups of its own, that was because they were FERPA allows the disclosure as an according to TCU Treasurer kind of pushing it; it seemed exception,” Reitman said. Kate de Klerk, a junior. like that was the way to get Sara Gast, a public affairs spe- De Klerk said that the prac- approved,” she said. cialist for the U.S. Department of tice of subgrouping deprives Bodwin said subgrouping Education, reiterated the Clery Act’s designated subgroups of enables groups with very low statute about record retention in an financial autonomy. membership that might not e-mail to the Daily but would not “It means they don’t have be able to gain recognition as comment on whether or not Tufts’ control of their budget, and a full TCU group in a particu- policy violates the standards. She AALOK KANANI/TUFTS DAILY in the past, that has led to a lar year to retain recognition said the matter of compliance is The university implemented a revised and expanded sexual assault lot of confusion and money and funding. not necessarily cut-and-dry. adjudication process earlier this fall. being lost from subgroups “It’s a lot easier to get “I’m afraid that we can’t really because the process for rerecognition as a subgroup,” say what would or would not be “Victims have an uncon- one other than those directly accessing that wasn’t made he said. “So as a result it was in violation of Clery for a specific ditional right to disclose the involved with the case. clear to subgroups,” she used as something for groups case like this,” Gast told the Daily final outcome; they cannot be “This is a long standing said. that provided good things on in an e-mail Monday. “A conclu- required to keep that confi- policy here and elsewhere. It De Klerk said that pairing campus but might have trou- sion like that takes a lot of time dential,” he said, adding that helps maintain the integrity subgroups with larger orga- ble sustaining members.” and research to come to. We can’t such restrictions could have an of the process and minimizes nizations often proves coun- De Klerk noted that some say either way just based on this.” adverse psychological effect on the chance that witness tes- terproductive. groups, such as those sub- Carter also called for a rework- the victim. timony will be rehearsed,” he “Oftentimes, communica- grouped under the Leonard ing of the judicial process’ con- According to Reitman, com- said. “Students involved in tion between heads of sub- Carmichael Society, benefit fidentiality provision, which he plainants and respondents cases may always seek the sup- groups and the actual groups from subgrouping because said prohibits the victim from involved in the student judi- port and consultation of many was poor,” she said. they are too small to need to discussing the outcome of the cial process are prohibited from available confidential resourc- Senior Pat Pop, more com- negotiate their own budgets case after it has concluded. discussing the case with any- es in the community.” monly known by her last with the Treasury. 3

FFeatureseaturtuftsdailyes.com The evolution and deinition of the hipster CJ SARACENO | BAN TOGETHER BY ALEXA SASANOW AND DEREK SCHLOM Dial down Daily Editorial Board

Hipster — a word vague enough to be dialogue discouraged from use in the New York Times by the paper’s standards editor but y favorite scene in “Forrest sufficiently offensive to be insulting when Gump” (1994) is during Forest’s hurled at disheveled, bespectacled English impromptu running campaign, majors who don flannel shirts and tightly Mwhen a group of reporters chases clinging jeans. after him to find out why he’s running. “Are So is the term merely a derogatory you doing this for world peace? The environ- stereotype unfairly aimed at the likes of ment?” They ask. Innocent Forrest’s motives Pitchfork.com readers, a legitimate defini- were much simpler: He “just felt like running.” tion of a major social group or an outdated An op-ed in Monday’s Daily tried to respond term no longer applicable to a single sub- to the public’s inquiry regarding what I will section? As the title of a new book on the refer to as the Ratchetgate scandal in similar sociology of hipsters by the editors of noted Gumpian style. By Ratchetgate, I mean the literary journal n+1 asks, “What Was the scandal with the recent posters depicting a Hipster?”(See review, page 5.) black hand holding a wrench and labeled “I think that hipsters, if we’re talking “gun” and a white hand holding a wrench about them as we most commonly refer labeled “wrench.” Allegedly, the poster’s origi- to them today — skinny jeans, certain nators just felt like encouraging dialogue. styles of hair — represent clusters of I don’t buy this defense of Ratchetgate. Sure, taste,” Assistant Professor of Sociology it might have sparked a dialogue, but I believe

Ryan Centner said. “Most live in cities, TIEN TIEN/TUFTS DAILY the true intent of these posters was no differ- are of a certain age, usually from college The Rez coffee shop at the Mayer Campus Center is known by some as a hangout ent from any post-bias, sensitivity-awareness to maybe their early 30s, but those clus- for Tufts hipsters. session. It was a cheap attempt to capitalize ters of taste don’t signify a monolithic on an honest mistake. Because of this, I dedi- group that acts as one.” Hipsters are considered a legitimate group Sophomore Izzy Star, who does not iden- cate Ban Together’s final installment to ban- According to Centner, the term’s defini- to be researched and studied — to a limited tify as a hipster but is regarded as a hipster ning dialogue. tion is ephemeral and can only be pinned degree, Centner said. by her peers, cited the reluctance of many “But why would you want to ban dia- to a single faction for a limited period of “Yes, they capture the attention of soci- hipsters to self-identify as such as one rea- logue? You love dialogue! Wasn’t your column time before being attached to another. ologists, but hipness is always reinvented,” son for the transience and murkiness of the designed to increase dialogue?” you ask. “For example, I wrote a paper in the early he said. “The term ‘hip’ itself might go in term’s meaning. No: My column and others like it advance 2000s on the habitus of the hipster, but by the and out of fashion, and even as that term “I think I’m like most people in that I opinions in order to persuade others. If a time I got it published, I had to change the has remained in common parlance, the couldn’t come up with one definition of a discussion ensues, great. The people behind title because that group wasn’t considered definition changes.” hipster,” Star said. “[But] the one thing to Ratchetgate are of a different creed. They’re hip anymore,” he said. “It was basically a dot- As for how hipsters can currently be universally define the hipster is to be hated, reactionaries taking advantage of the inter- com worker at the time — someone young, defined and whether they exist at Tufts, the so no one really identifies as a hipster, which pretability of an event they read about in an new, urban, hip, relatively moneyed — but some students who fit, to varying degrees, is why they are not long for this world.” e-mail and simulated in their minds. They that aesthetic wouldn’t fit what’s considered within the predetermined hipster stereotype seem to have never seen the ratchet; they a hipster now.” hold varying opinions. see HIPSTER, page 4 couldn’t even portray it correctly on the post- ers still littering our campus. Yet we’re sup- posed to ignore this because their intent was benign — to encourage dialogue. In reality, Cybertherapy: The next trend in psychology? they want dialogue, so long as it reinforces the myth that we’re all racist. BY FALCON REESE tic modalities,” Rizzo told the Daily. “Before cost,” he said. It brings me back to the moment the Daily Staff Writer virtual reality, therapists relied exclusively Rizzo attributed much of the field’s Primary Source published a critique of affirma- on imagination and guided imagery.” current creative ability to the many tive action via song, or when then-freshman The treatment of psychological ail- Virtual reality was originally a useful advances in graphics driven by the gam- In-Goo Kwak parodied a Tufts Community ments like post-traumatic stress disorder tool in a process called exposure therapy, ing industry. Union senator’s campaign ad or when then- (PTSD) has moved beyond the therapist’s in which a patient with a phobia is con- As the field has expanded, its range of freshman Daniel Foster called some Korean office and into the digital realm, allowing tinually exposed to the object of their fear applications has as well. Although initial- students very bad names while intoxicated. patients to face their fears from behind a until they are no longer afraid of it, a psy- ly just a useful tool in exposure therapy, Yet Ratchetgate differs from these incidents. computer screen. chological phenomenon called extinction. cybertherapy now runs the gamut from There is no witch to burn, no goat to scape. The goal of so-called “cybertherapy” Using virtual reality, therapists can create social skills therapy to the treatment of Protesters now must resort to blaming the is to make use of virtual environments environments in which a patient can face addictive behavior. It even makes use of entire student body for someone’s mistake and virtual humans to facilitate the treat- their fears right in the office, Rizzo said. specialized interface devices comparable instead of doing it through a boogieman. As ment of some mental disorders. The “With virtual reality, whole worlds could to the Nintendo Wii. long as they can advance an agenda that I cybertherapy trend began to emerge as be systematically adjusted,” he said. “With “People can interact in a game-like believe discourages others from talking about computers gained popularity. As humans just a couple of keystrokes, we could move context, which makes the treatment more subjects even remotely related to race, the became constantly connected, more them closer to what they fear.” motivating,” Rizzo said. nature of the event itself matters little. software programs were developed that Since cybertherapy’s inception, the Virtual reality can be a helpful tool Ratchetgate was not a benevolent call for could provide therapeutic opportunities, capabilities of virtual reality have grown not only for patients but for the thera- increased tolerance or self-reflection. It was a according to Albert Rizzo, the associ- immensely. This, along with the collec- pists treating them as well. Developing shoddily put-together, poorly-veiled attempt ate director for medical virtual reality at tion of hard data and the widespread use artificial intelligence software can provide to once again tame and shame the Jumbo the University of Southern California’s of the Internet, has prompted the growth training for these therapists, according to herd into an obeisant, guilt-ridden harem Institute for Creative Technologies. of the field, according to Rizzo. Jonathan Gratch, associate director for of seals. Its only purpose was to point out “People realized that virtual reality “We can do what we did before in a our flaws in making snap judgments and the would be a useful tool to deliver therapeu- tenth of the time, at a hundredth of the see CYBERTHERAPY, page 4 obvious necessity of our own dependency on enlightened beacons of true diversity, be it in the form of indoctrinating professors, com- munity representatives or diversity task forces. Individuals refusing to accept this guilt are brought down easily with accusations of rac- ism or bigotry, which, like dog droppings, are “I hate it when restaurants’ menus say easily flung but difficult to remove. “Was she impressed? What kind of ques- something is oven-roasted. Where else Such shaming isn’t unique to Tufts. A 2008 tion is that? It’s 13 inches.” are they roasted? In the desert?” study by, among others, our very own Associate —over-compensator leaving Carmichael —picky student Professor of Psychology Sam Sommers points out that nowadays “whites … strategically [avoid] the topic of race because they’re wor- ried that they’ll look bad if they admit they notice it in other people.” “Winks are just creepy in general. Has The study concludes that “bending over “My Secret Santa forgot about me, just a wink ever been properly executed?” backward to avoid even mentioning race like real Santa does every year.” —student in Dewick, responding to sometimes creates more interpersonal prob- —sad student in Eaton Computer Lab a wink lems than it solves.” We can benefit from talk- ing about race but only when we’re freed from the reactionary contexts forged by narrow- minded students whose goal is a prolonged —compiled by the Daily Features fixation on inconsequential events in which Department someone somewhere might have done some- thing that could potentially be considered Overheard something funny? Want to profess your love? Need to give racist. It is these dialogues we can do without. a shout-out to that kid you always see unicycling on campus? E-mail [email protected] with the subject “Overherd on the Hill.” CJ Saraceno is a senior majoring in political science. He can be reached at Christopher. [email protected]. 4 THE TUFTS DAILY FEATURES Wednesday, December 8, 2010 ‘Hipster’ can mean one thing today, another tomorrow HIPSTER hipster entails religiously staying up with continued from page 3 current trends and consciously rejecting “There’s been so much trouble coming up what’s accepted as cool.” with a definition,” she added, “and for other Roe is a DJ and on the executive board of subgroups there’s been a doctrine — you WMFO Tufts Freeform Radio, but Roe said know, what it is to be goth and what you do that the perception of college radio stations to be goth.” as hipster territories is ill informed. Natalie Selzer, a junior who also does not “I think that WMFO is just a group of identify as a hipster but suspects that others nerds. We’re not at all hipsters,” Roe said. may consider her one, agreed that hipsters “Most of us are just into comics, computers often resist being categorized as such. and music. People that think the WMFO “No one wants to call themselves a hipster staff is full of hipsters obviously don’t know because we think of hipsters as a------s,” she what hipsters are and haven’t been sur- said. “And no one really wants to call people rounded by them before.” they know well a hipster, because it’s a nega- Roe said that being a hipster boils down tive term. … It denotes a sort of pretension to intention rather than aesthetics. and aloofness. But then we use it to describe “I wear what I wear because my moth- almost any style or activity choice that’s kind er buys it for me, not because I think it of associated with it.” makes me cool,” Roe said, “and I listen Another reason why people might not to the obscure music I listen to because willingly identify as hipsters, Star said, is I like it, not because I want to impress because self-identification is somewhat other people.” counter to the hipster attitude. According to Star, formal character- “Maybe part of being a hipster is denying izations of hipsters would exclude Tufts you’re a hipster, because that’s the common students. thread,” Star said. “n+1 described it as a culture that con- Selzer, who co-manages Midnight at sumes rather than creates, which doesn’t Tufts, a booking group that enlists rel- describe Tufts students, because they are atively obscure bands to perform on interested in creating more than consum- campus, said that the indie-rock fans ing, I hope,” Star said. “Things related to who frequent the group’s concerts can’t being a college student happen to make up automatically be categorized as hipsters what it means to be hipster because some based on their appearance. of what it means to be either overlaps, like “Sure, the majority of the people that talking about books.” have attended recent shows have been what Centner had a different theory about why you might describe as hipsters, if you mean hipster culture tends infiltrate college cam- that there’s a lot of flannel and skinny jeans puses. going on,” she said. “But I think … that’s just “I think it’s money,” he said. “Whatever because going to shows and listening to new hipster is at a given time becomes main- live music is sort of a staple of that scene, stream and becomes branded and then so those people are inclined to go without commercialized,” he said. “So anything being prompted to.” that’s considered hipster right now is very COURTESY ALBERT RIZZO Matt Roe, a sophomore, concurred that expensive, and in order to afford that, you Cybertherapy is a new form of psychological treatment that uses virtual reality to outward appearance and musical taste do have to have money … and a lot of students simulate real-world situations. not automatically signify hipsterdom. who go to liberal arts colleges on the east “A lot of people just point out some- coast have that. one with tight pants and say ‘that’s a “And it appeals to those students,” he Advances in virtual reality technology hipster’ or because they listen to indie continued, “because there’s something that’s music, ‘that’s a hipster,’” he said. “But considered creative, edgy, lefty, that’s all kind bring therapy into new realm that doesn’t make them a hipster. Being a of wrapped up in the idea of hipster.” CYBERTHERAPY such, graphic detail is unnecessary. continued from page 3 However, in terms of using virtu- Virtual Human Research at the University of al humans as a therapeutic tool, the Southern California. degree of reality is much more impor- “There’s a focus on training health care tant. According to Gratch, separate stud- providers, using virtual patients to practice ies have shown that in dealing with doing assessments,” Gratch told the Daily. a stigmatized illness, anonymity and a Gratch’s current research project, how- personal relationship have both been ever, is the SimCoach, a virtual human shown to be beneficial. program designed as a medical navigation “Anonymity is very important because tool for war veterans. the patient will be more truthful, but inter- “The goal is to help soldiers and their acting with a person can be more engag- families find appropriate health care treat- ing,” he said. “With virtual humans, the ment,” Gratch said. hope is to get the best of both worlds.” The SimCoach provides a virtual person There is currently a push to model more for veterans — traditionally averse to seek- realistic behavior in virtual humans. ing out treatment for problems such as “At this point, they don’t necessarily PTSD — to open up to about their difficul- personalize themselves to you,” Gratch ties. SimCoach can then make suggestions said. “We want it to have more intelligence as to possible treatment options. and persistent memory, so it remembers “Instead of being stigmatized, they can you and builds rapport.” be anonymous,” Gratch said. Although the realism of virtual humans One other treatment option for these continues to advance, cybertherapy’s veterans is a cybertherapy program that future lies in remote interaction with a Rizzo is currently developing — a virtual therapist, according to Rizzo. reality program in which a virtual Iraq or “The ethical question is: Does the thera- Afghanistan can be rendered for the pur- pist have to be in the room with the patient poses of exposure therapy. To experience for good therapy to occur?” he said. the environment, the patient dons a headset Rizzo believes this is possible and that and is seated on a platform that can simu- remote interaction provides numerous late the vibrations of a vehicle or the explo- options to deliver care. David Harder, a sion of an improvised explosive device. professor of abnormal psychology at Tufts, “The purpose is for the soldiers to revis- however, sees some potential pitfalls in it and confront the traumatic events they this form of remote therapy. experienced,” Rizzo said. “They can’t see the client, and the client The rendering of a virtual environment can’t see the therapist, which can reduce such as this also allows for soldiers to be the human elements,” he said. “The thera- tested before they leave for war. Therapists pist doesn’t have the cues that they’d have can take the same environment, put the in a face-to-face interaction.” soldiers in it and attempt to determine Harder said that from a legal and if the soldiers are likely to develop PTSD ethical standpoint, neither the quality of later on. Additionally, soldiers can be care nor the qualification of the thera- trained to avoid developing PTSD, again pist can be guaranteed. “On the client’s using the same virtual environment. end, they don’t know who they’re talking “We call it the ‘emotional obstacle to,” Harder said. course,’ and we can train [the soldiers] to The pros of cybertherapy may out- habituate before leaving,” Rizzo said. “We weigh the cons, however, as remote ther- can train coping strategies.” apy is only a single application of the One inherent difficulty in virtual therapy technology. The possibilities that virtual is the realism of the experience. However, environments and virtual humans pro- according to Rizzo, how realistic virtual vide are driving the field into the future, therapy needs to be depends entirely on Rizzo said. the application. “We really want to know how we can “In terms of exposure therapy, [patients] use these simulations to treat people with are primed to react to anything that looks clinical disorders in ways that we can’t do like what they’re afraid of,” he said. As in the real world,” Rizzo said. 5

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BOOK REVIEW ASHLEY WOOD | FASHION CONTRACEPTIVE ‘What Was the Hipster?’ was cool before ‘Lady it enjoyed widespread popularity boner’ for BY MITCHELL GELLER Leandra Daily Editorial Board s I sat down to write my final column n+1’s “What Was the Hipster?: A for this semester, I couldn’t help but Sociological Investigation” does not have feel like it should be one last ode to a foundation in the scientific method. It Athe brilliantly hilarious woman who inspired my topic choice: Leandra Medine. What Was the Hipster?: A In case you missed my first column back in September, Leandra is the writer of a Sociological Investigation blog called “The Man Repeller,” in which Edited by Mark Greif she humorously discusses current fashion trends that make men cringe. Recent topics have included footwear resembling vaginas, bowties and inappropriate uses of leather. n+1 Foundation Although Leandra is incredibly enter- taining, that is only one of the reasons that does not have a bibliography listing dozens I decided to write a column devoted to her of scholarly articles. It does not have page concept. The approach “The Man Repeller” upon page of dense, boring writing. What it takes toward fashion not only helps get does have, however, is a tongue firmly plant- more people interested in the topic, but it ed in its cheek — metaphorically speaking. also reinforces fashion as an art form. The book is the result of a 2009 confer- I’ve spent the past semester hopefully ence held at the New School University in proving to you that fashionable women New York, organized by n+1 magazine, a consistently sacrifice sex appeal for style. “journal of literature, intellect and politics.” If fashion was really as frivolous as look- The event brought together a panel of so- ing pretty, then why would anyone bother called experts to discuss “the hipster” in an wasting money on things like jumpsuits attempt to define the phenomenon. and men’s trousers? These are the kinds Most people don’t like hipsters. Most of trends that have inspired Leandra to people think they’re a stupid phenom- NPLUSONEMAG.COM create a whole new sartorial vocabulary, enon. The very existence of a conference The cover of n+1’s ‘What Was the Hipster’ was clearly born from the mind of a hipster. with phrases like “man repellent” and to discuss hipsters is basically the most “lady boner” replacing outdated terms like hipster thing possible — an irony in no from the blogosphere, while others were cite sources, include footnotes and make “attractive” and “flattering.” way missed by Mark Greif, Kathleen Ross commissioned specifically for the book. semi-obscure (hipsters will get them, no Overall, I hope those of you who enjoyed and Dayna Tortorici, the editors of “What Some of the essays take the subject doubt) academic references — Horning gets this column will take the time to check out Was the Hipster?” more seriously than others, such as Rob a pretty good Slavoj Žižek zinger into his Leandra’s blog. In the meantime, I leave The book, published as “n+1 Research Horning’s “The Death of the Hipster,” from piece, if that means anything to you — are you with a few “man-repelling” trends to Branch Small Book Series #3,” collects PopMatters.com, but none of the pieces clearly winking very hard, at their readers. look out for this winter and spring: essays discussed at the hipster conference, are serious. Horning’s piece isn’t, strictly In his preface, Mark Greif, co-founding a transcript of the discussion that took place speaking, serious, but it is when compared editor of n+1, dodges nearly every bul- Glittery shoes: Embrace your inner Liberace at the conference, reactions to the confer- to Robert Moor’s ridiculously titled essay, let that could be aimed at “What Was and invest in a pair of glitter-adorned shoes ence and essays about hipsters and hipster “On D------.” Irony pervades “What Was this holiday season. I highly recommend topics. Many of the pieces have been culled the Hipster,” and even the contributors who see GREIF, page 6 Giuseppe Zanotti’s glitter ankle boots, or if you’re working with a more realistic budget, Jeffrey Campbell’s glitter Lita heels. If you ALBUM REVIEW purchase the latter, not only will you offend Boston Ballet’s staging of ‘The men with the disco balls on your feet, but Soulja Boy exceeds you will also emasculate them by turning Nutcracker’ is an enchanting classic into a bona fide Amazon. Together, the heel and platform add about five inches. I know BY MARTHA SHANAHAN the funny-looking character a second expectations because I own them in green. AND MARIE PERROT chance. Daily Editorial Board and Contributing Writer After braving a few minutes of the BY MITCHELL GELLER Nun-wear: My friend recently sent me a link wintry New England wind, I would Daily Editorial Board to a New York Times Style article titled “Good Though attending Peter Ilych have been as thrilled to enter the Habits” — as in, the habits that nuns wear Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” is a Boston Opera House even if it was Soulja Boy Tell ’Em has a new on their heads. The article featured pieces holiday season tradition for ballet a shabby closet. But as the crowd favorite word: “swag.” On “The from both Celine’s and YSL’s Fall 2010 lines, hustled into the lobby, I was immedi- DeAndre Way,” his third major-label which were clearly inspired by clergymen and The Nutcracker ately captivated by the venue’s sheer Catholic school nuns. I could possibly justify beauty. My reverence was interrupted The DeAndre Way returning to church solely for this reason. Music by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky by the spirited crowd: Dozens of little Choreography by Mikko Nissinen girls ran across the ornate premises, Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em Turbans: I feel like men generally abhor At the Boston Opera House until dressed in gowns and followed by female headwear, given the reaction I usu- Dec. 31. their equally radiant mothers strut- ally get from my Zorro hat, but this one ting behind them in their Jimmy definitely takes the cake. Unless men find naifs and connoisseurs alike, each Choos. Interscope Records the “Girl with the Pearl Earring” — the paint- viewer interacts uniquely with this My amazement only increased upon ing, not Scarlett Johansson in the painting- timeless piece. The magic of “The entering the theater. From the gold- release, Soulja Boy says “swag” at inspired film of the same name — attractive, Nutcracker” cannot be solely attrib- engraved scrolls and floral designs on every occasion. He uses it as a cho- chances are, the new trend of turban-like uted to the beautiful dances or the banisters to the swankily outfitted rus, an exclamation, a statement, a headbands won’t inspire any excitement in the jovial musical score. The true ushers, everything screamed “refine- question, a verb, an adjective and a their nether regions. Just saying. enchantment lies in the experience ment.” The ushers, however, did not noun. This review is going to do the as a whole. seem to be quite as taken with me, as same thing. Swag! Rings that double as brass knuckles: The Daily sent Marie Perrot to doc- they motioned irritably every time I Between jewelry designers like Pamela Love ument her own experience at this tried to whip out my camera to cap- see SOULJA BOY, page 6 and the Olsen twins, fashionistas every- year’s production of “The Nutcracker” ture the grandeur of it all. where are repelling men not only with their at the Boston Ballet. Additional com- The music began, flawless and androgynous clothing, but also with the mentary on the ballet has been pro- familiar, and lights projected onto weaponry they’re sporting on their fingers. vided by Martha Shanahan. This arti- the stage, illuminating the dancers as My own experience with my Elizabeth and cle assesses the cast for the night of they made their entrances. Dressed in James knuckle ring includes being asked, Dec. 5; the cast for “The Nutcracker” luminous velvet and satin costumes, “Wow, are you going to punch someone changes frequently, so a viewer may they pas de bourred down the set, with that?” and “Did you break your finger, see an entirely different cast. engaging effortlessly in pirouettes or is that a ring?” I have since given up on I remember being introduced and midair splits. providing an explanation and instead have to “The Nutcracker” in the second The first act of the ballet, a lively chosen to embrace the fact that my jewelry grade, when my teacher brought a and visually engaging Christmas party can take the place of pepper-spray. strange-looking, oversized doll into hosted by the picture-perfect fiction- class. I didn’t understand the hype al Silberhaus family, was delightfully Finally, whether you’re a man getter or over this grotesque statuette — its presented. An elegant living room a man repeller, I wish you the best in all bizarre demeanor was not even set framed dancing children, hob- your love endeavors and truly hope that all excused by its practicality as I tried nobbing adult guests and, of course, those fashion-loving women out there can and failed miserably at cracking a the antics of the mysterious Uncle find a man as appreciative of their harem series of nuts. Drosselmeier. pants as I am. So when my friends asked me ear- Drosselmeier, danced that night AMAZON.COM lier in the month to revisit my Nut by a charming Sabi Varga, brought Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em swagging it up on the noncracker at the Boston Ballet, I was cover of his third major-label release, ‘The Ashley Wood is a junior majoring in English. a little hesitant, but decided to give see NUTCRACKER, page 6 DeAndre Way.’ She can be reached at [email protected]. 6 THE TUFTS DAILY ARTS & LIVING Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Boston Ballet’s performance of ‘The Nutcracker’ continues to delight audiences NUTCRACKER continued from page 5 dolls and life-sized furry teddy bears to life, frightened the younger guests and delivered Clara (Isabelle Hanson) the best-received present at the party: a small nutcracker shaped like a prince. Drosselmeier then magically trans- formed the Victorian living room into the scene of an epic battle between the now life-sized Nutcracker and an army of mice. Interspersed with comic appeals to the adults in the audience, the battle was as gripping as possi- ble given that pieces of cheese and foam balls were the weapons of choice. Young students of the Boston Ballet proved a synchronized set of soldiers, led in battle by Duncan Lyle as the Mouse King. When Clara ends the scuffle by deci- sively throwing a shoe at the Mouse King’s head, an enchanting and beau- tifully danced snow scene transitions the audience to the Land of the Sugar Plums and the second act. With Clara and her ambiguously aged prince as an audience, the residents of the Land of the Sugar Plums put on a show worthy of kings. Adorable pint- sized lambs boureed at the feet of some cheerful shepherds. Rachel Cossar and Jamie Diaz meticulously executed the difficult choreography of the Arabian Coffee dance, which combines dance, acrobatics and skimpy outfits to make the show entertaining enough for the dads in the audience. Perhaps the highlight of the second act was a trio of exuberant dancers in the Russian divertissement, whose fly- ing jumps and dizzying turns exhibited COURTESY ANGELA STERLING the power and style of the male danc- Boston Ballet’s staging of ‘The Nutcracker’ blends beautiful dance, tradition and holiday spirit. ers among the Boston Ballet’s ranks. Together, the Sugar Plum Fairy prince set off for home in a hot-air bal- I left the theater with the urge to of the Nutcracker standing upright on (Lia Cirio) and her Cavalier (Lasha loon, leaving us contemplating wheth- imitate the five-year-old girls in gowns, the shelf of the Opera House gift shop, Khozashvili) topped off a thoroughly er what they just saw was real or simply now choreographing their way down the and had to resist the temptation of pur- enjoyable second act. Clara and her in the mind of our heroine. stairs. Upon exiting, I caught a glimpse chasing the futile contraption.

Soulja Boy’s new album is pure swag SOULJA BOY and repels. Soulja Boy is worse than a continued from page 5 guilty pleasure. Soulja Boy is a guilty “The DeAndre Way” is a cute title for guilt. No one should enjoy “Pretty Boy Soulja Boy’s latest album. See, DeAndre Swag,” but most probably will, and — if Way is Soulja Boy’s real name, and they’re self-respecting — they will hate “The DeAndre Way” is like the way themselves for it. But it won’t stop them that DeAndre Way does things. And it from listening to it. rhymes. Swag! “Pretty Boy Swag” is followed on the Soulja Boy approaches rapping much album by “30 Thousand 100 Million,” the same way he approaches album the only track produced by Soulja Boy, titles. His songs are mostly lazy, and and the most notable — not to men- he displays very little skill in them, but tion exciting — for its featured guest, they’re impossible not to listen to. They Bay Area rapper and self-proclaimed aren’t particularly good, but once you “pretty b----” Lil B. The fact that Lil B start you can’t turn them off: It’s like is appearing on a major label release listening to a train wreck. A fun, pop-y, is enough of a reason to sit up and weightless train wreck. take notice, if not to actually buy the “The DeAndre Way” is a 10-track album. affair that clocks in at under an hour. Lil B is quite possibly the most divi- Featuring titles like “First Day of sive figure in internet hip-hop today,

School,” “Hey Cutie,” “Fly,” “Pretty Boy and he and Soulja Boy have quite the NPLUSONEMAG.COM Swag” and “Touchdown,” it’s clear that history. His verse on “30 Thousand 100 Hipsters love stuff like leather shoes and rolled up pants, as you will discover in ‘What Was Soulja Boy loves being young, rich and Million” is as “based” as anything he’s the Hipster,’ available now from n+1 Foundation. famous. ever released. Based is Lil B’s term for “Pretty Boy Swag,” the first single everything in his universe. He refers to from “The DeAndre Way,” sounds like himself as “The Based God,” and talks Essays and discussion shed light on it’s being rapped by Stevie Kenarban about being based — a state that exists (Craig Lamar Traylor), the asthmatic somewhere between “high on crack” hipsters for future generations from “Malcom in the Middle” (2000- and “religiously sublime.” Soulja Boy’s 2006). The chorus — a concept not beat for the track is grimy and decon- GREIF a day-glo pink-and-silver cover, thick, understood by Soulja Boy, as it com- structed; it sounds as though he has continued from page 5 academic off-white pages and stunningly prises nearly the entire song — is utter- been getting heavily into dubstep — the Hipster.” “All descriptions of hipsters conservative typeface — goes to show that ly absurd: like someone slipped Soulja a copy of are doomed to disappoint,” he writes, the hipster is very much alive and kicking. “This right here is my swag/All the Burial’s “Untrue” (2007) and he loved “because they will not be the hipsters you He or she may be hard, if not impossible, girls are on me, damn/Everybody pay it and really wanted to show that influ- know.” From here, he and his partners in to define, but “What Was the Hipster: A attention/This right here is my pretty ence on his album but understood that crime have free reign to theorize, philoso- Sociological Investigation” is proof that boy swag (ayeee)/Pretty boy swag(ayye) his fan base probably wouldn’t receive phize and generally mess around with the the hipster was what the hipster still is. [x3]/Girls on my d--- when I pretty boy it with open arms. So he put his trade- concept of the hipster. In the aforementioned introduction, swag/Girls scream my name when I mark “Fruity Loop” take on the genre. It is suggested over the course of the Greif writes a note to readers in the future: pretty boy swag/Watch me pretty boy Swag! Swag! Swag! roughly 200 pages that follow this intro- “To those of you, who are reading this in swag (ayye)[x4]/Girls on my d--- when I Ultimately “The DeAndre Way” will duction that the hipster is everything 2050, I can only say this: Everything in pretty boy swag/Girls scream my name garner as many haters as it will fans. It from the prototypical “d------” to the this book is true, and its impressions are when I pretty boy swag/Soulja!” will sell millions of units, and people “hip” or “rebel” consumer and the reac- perfect.” While this is written like a true And that’s all there is to it. Swag! It’s will make fun of it forever. Regardless tion against — well, everything. Each modernist assertion, it is turned on its a song about something that makes of what people think, however, Soulja author has his or her own opinion on head by its context, instantly reeking of no sense, which is fine for rap music, Boy will continue to make untold mil- the subject, and offers a number of ways postmodernism. A hipster job well done. but it gets dizzying trying to figure out lions and shout “Swag!” at every chance to look at the phenomenon. The general The day when a book like “What Was exactly what point Soulja is trying to he gets. consensus, however, is that “hipster” the Hipster?” will be needed for research make. If it were a danceable track, this Souja Boy claims he wanted to work isn’t a good thing: It’s discussed as a papers on the culture of the early 21st nonsense would be acceptable, but, with Eminem and Jay-Z for the album; pejorative, an anomaly and a thing that century is not far off — like all things, the as it’s difficult to dance to minimalist he got 50 Cent on “Mean Mug,” which, must either die off or be rooted out and hipster too shall pass — but for now we techno, there is no clearly imaginable as it turns out, isn’t a terrible song. killed mercilessly. have these 194 pages first to cherish and way to dance to “Pretty Boy Swag.” But that’s life for Soulja Boy Tell ’Em. Many of the essays in the collection then later to smirk at, smugly, because we “Pretty Boy Swag” is an ear worm He’s a young, 21st-century Rodney suggest that “hipsterism” is dying out, or were the first to read them. and an anomaly for the album. For Dangerfield: He can’t get no respect, that the hipster is already dead. The very By the time you read this sentence, some reason, it simultaneously attracts but we love him anyway. fact that this book exists — complete with though, the book won’t be cool anymore. Wednesday, December 8, 2010 THE TUFTS DAILY ADVERTISEMENT 7

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The Semester in Review —compiled by Amelie Hecht, Kathryn Olson, Matt Repka and Martha Shanahan Bacow’s last year: Departures and arrivals

In the face of the impending The formerly separate depart- departure of University President ments of facilities and construc- Lawrence Bacow, this semester tion united under the banner saw a number of other high-level of Department of Facilities personnel changes on the Hill. Services, led by newly appointed A Presidential Search director Bob Burns. Committee composed of alum- Other positions, however, ni, faculty members, adminis- remain unfilled, including those trators and one student con- vacated by Senior Director of cluded a months-long process Public and Environmental that began in February, lead- Safety John King and Office for ing to the appointment of Institutional Diversity Executive University of Oxford’s Professor Director Lisa Coleman, in Anthony Monaco as Tufts’ 13th August 2010 and December university president. 2009 respectively. Bacow will next year serve as The announcement of key president-in-residence in the administrators’ resignations will Harvard Graduate School of leave even more vacancies to be Education’s Higher Education filled in the face of an impend- Master’s Program. He also told ing presidential transition. After the Daily in a recent interview a decade of service, co-founder that he and his wife Adele Fleet and Dean of the Tisch College of Bacow expect to become grand- Citizenship and Public Service parents this spring. Robert Hollister will step down. Former Wellesley College Meanwhile, Dean of the Friedman Associate Dean Joanne Berger- School of Nutrition Science and Sweeney joined the Tufts fac- Policy Eileen Kennedy will pur- ulty as dean of arts and sciences, sue a year-long sabbatical begin- replacing Robert Sternberg at ning in June and will return as a the beginning of the semester. professor in September 2012. The position of director of fra- Nineteen years after joining ternity and sorority affairs was the Tufts community, Director of filled after being vacant for a Tisch Library Jo-Ann Michalak year with the hiring of Tanya will also leave her position this AALOK KANANI/TUFTS DAILY McGinn Paolo. spring.

COURTESY IAN MACLELLAN JUSTIN MCCALLUM/TUFTS DAILY Campus events Various events, some of aging students to attend the which featured guest speak- rally and a rainbow flag hung ers, took place on the Hill this from a Gifford house window. semester, capturing the inter- Harvard University Professor est and the imagination of Michael Sandel delivered the Jumbos. Richard E. Snyder Presidential The annual Fall Ball dance in Lecture on Nov. 3. Peace Corps the Gantcher Center, held at the Director Aaron Williams, start of September, proceeded prominent freethought advo- without any major incidents. cate and author Sam Harris, Meanwhile, the fall rock and J Street founder Jeremy Ben- hip-hop concerts were joined Ami, author Stephen Wermiel, into a single event — Passion activist Tim Wise, engineering Pit in October headlined the consultant Pamela McNamara first annual “Cage Rage” con- and NASA astronaut Rick cert held in Carzo Cage. Hauck (A ’62, H ’07) were just In response to a number of some of the other notable per- highly publicized LGBT youth sonalities who came to speak suicides, Tufts’ annual Coming at Tufts this semester. Out Day rally in October saw The Tufflepuffs, Tufts’ a strong turnout. Students Quidditch team, became distributed rainbow flags for the Cinderella story of the members of the community Quidditch World Cup, defying to hang from their windows in expectations to finish second, a show of solidarity, and the losing only to national power- supply of flags quickly ran out. house Middlebury College in University President Lawrence the tournament, held in New Bacow sent an e-mail encour- York City in mid-November. JOSH BERLINGER/TUFTS DAILY Wednesday, December 8, 2010 THE TUFTS DAILY SEMESTER IN REVIEW 9 Questions of safety The Department of Public e-mail alert to the Tufts com- & Environmental Safety this munity after Halloween week- fall distributed new ID cards end, reporting a sexual assault with emergency phone num- believed to have occurred in a bers printed on the back and fraternity house. An examina- embedded chips that eliminate tion of TUPD’s public crime log the need for separate fob tech- by the Daily revealed that offi- nology to access dorms. cers responded to a report of a But ID card revisions did not rape at the Sigma Nu fraternity save Tufts from finishing ahead house on Oct. 29. The incident of 457 other institutions to earn remains under investigation. the title of most dangerous To the dismay of college stu- university in the nation from dents across the state, the Food news website The Daily Beast. and Drug Administration at the The ranking drew the ire of Tufts end of last month restricted administrators, who criticized the sale of the popular alco- the rankings for being based on hol-infused energy drink, Four flawed methodology. Loko, after a series of high-pro- A recent change in the appli- file hospitalizations involving cation of the definition of bur- its consumption by students. glary will affect the way in which A pair of safety alerts con- colleges and universities report cerning a possible armed indi- crime statistics. This modification vidual on campus roiled the has broad implications for the Tufts community last week. accuracy of school’s safety rank- The individual in question ings, driving the number of bur- turned out to be holding a glaries on campus down to 29 in ratchet-wrench rather than 2009 from 43 in the previous year a handgun. The incident, when the old guidelines were in though a false alarm, sparked effect, according to Director of a poster campaign regarding Public Relations Kim Thurler. what students perceived to be Tufts University Police racist undertones prompting Department (TUPD) sent an the incident.

MEREDITH KLEIN/TUFTS DAILY Policy changes A revised university alco- College class. A 13-day trial high noise levels at off-cam- hol policy featuring more of the “trayless” approach in pus houses, the university administrative discretion and May yielded significant reduc- increased from $200 to $300 offering a forgiveness option tions in the amount of food the fine imposed on students was finalized over the sum- wasted, energy consumed and for throwing overly loud or mer and implemented at the water used. rowdy off-campus parties. beginning of the semester, Administrators, senators and The Office of Residential following a year of delibera- the student group Students Life and Learning decided to tions about how the university Active For Ending Rape (SAFER) impose a $100 winter housing should combat alcohol abuse collaborated to this semester fee for students remaining on campus. bring into effect a new judicial on campus over the 10-day Dining Services implement- process and a more compre- period after the end of finals. ed its plan to remove trays from hensive university policy for Some international students both Carmichael and Dewick- dealing with cases of sexual voiced objections to what MacPhie Dining Halls follow- assault. they saw as a late notice and ing an initiative organized by In response to complaints a lack of student input in the members of an Experimental from local residents about decision. MEREDITH KLEIN/TUFTS DAILY

Senate talks diversity, distributes money

The Tufts Community Union shortly after the vote. Senior (TCU) Senate oversaw contin- and TCU Parliamentarian Dan ued discussions of diversity Pasternack, who chairs the issues on campus and the dis- committee, told the Daily last bursement of large sums of month he expects the bylaws money. to be finalized before the Students in the spring Senate elections in April. voted on two proposed sets of The Senate last month reforms to the Senate’s com- passed a resolution support- munity representative system. ing the creation of an Africana A complication stemming from studies department and Elections Commissions bylaws revamping the Africa in the which only allowed students to New World Interdisciplinary vote yes, no or abstain on each Minor into an Africana studies proposal rather than partici- major. pate in a head-to-head vote, The body in mid-November resulted in the passage of both voted to allocate $200,000 in referenda, which were impos- surplus funds to seven stu- sible to implement simultane- dent groups. These groups ously. will undertake large-scale ini- In a revote conducted in tiatives designed to improve September, Referendum 3 beat student life, including a bike- out its competitor by a single share program, improvements vote, passing 516 votes to 515. to the Crafts Center and Media A special committee Advocacy Board Lab, and new tasked with creating the vans for the Tufts Mountain bylaws needed to implement Club, Leonard Carmichael Referendum 3 assembled Society and Tier II club sports. MEREDITH KLEIN/TUFTS DAILY 10 THE TUFTS DAILY EDITORIAL | LETTERS Wednesday, December 8, 2010

EDITORIAL THE TUFTS DAILY BENJAMIN D. GITTLESON Consistency needed in sexual assault statutes Editor-in-Chief Although Tufts administrators and The fact that universities deal with these The Family Educational Rights and EDITORIAL students have worked hard to create a would-be felonies outside of the court Privacy Act (FERPA), which protects the Managing Editors revised sexual assault policy and adjudi- system raises important questions about privacy of student’s education records. Ellen Kan cation process that better addresses the how to appropriately protect victims and FERPA, however, does not clearly define Carter Rogers needs of the community, certain aspects punish perpetrators. what constitutes an “education record,” of the new policy possibly conflict with Internal university proceedings for and many college administrators have Matt Repka Executive News Editor federal statutes. Sexual assault is shock- sexual assault cases are grounded in argued that it requires closed disciplin- Alexandra Bogus News Editors ingly prevalent on college campuses and, two federal statutes: Title IX and the ary proceedings for sexual assault and Michael Del Moro Nina Ford unfortunately, Tufts is no exception. It is Clery Act. Although Title IX is gener- other alleged infractions. Though FERPA Amelie Hecht therefore vital that the university takes ally known for its stipulations about is designed to protect student privacy, Corinne Segal steps to protect victims and appropri- the equal funding of female and male in the context of sexual assault proceed- Martha Shanahan Brent Yarnell ately discipline perpetrators. sports teams, its provisions against ings, it seems to conflict with legislation Jenny White That being said, the possible failure of gender discrimination also address designed to protect victims. Daphne Kolios Assistant News Editors the university to fully adhere to federal sexual harassment, sexual assault and In light of this complex legislation, Kathryn Olson regulations regarding reporting of crime rape. The Clery Act is enforced by the Tufts faces an uphill battle as it works Romy Oltuski Executive Features Editor statistics does not mean that it considers Department of Education and requires to formulate a sexual assault policy that Sarah Korones Features Editors Alison Lisnow sexual assault a trivial matter. Instead, all colleges and universities that partic- fully complies with federal regulations. Emilia Luna this discrepancy may be more indicative ipate in federal financial aid programs Sexual assault is a serious problem on Alexa Sasanow of the nuanced and at times conflicting to keep and disclose information about college campuses, and it is important Derek Schlom Jon Cheng Assistant Features Editors nature of the federal laws themselves. crime on and near their respective cam- to resolve potential conflicts in fed- Maya Kohli The fact that faculty, administrators puses. Both of these laws require uni- eral legislation in order to assist uni- Amelia Quinn and students are able to adjudicate cases versities to ensure victims certain rights versities in creating better policies. In of sexual assault is itself controversial. It and respond to claims of sexual assault the meantime, Tufts should continue Emma Bushnell Executive Arts Editor Zach Drucker Arts Editors is one thing for university police to have on their campuses. to take steps to provide support and Mitchell Geller an on-campus drug and alcohol policy As Tufts works to comply with Title protection to victims of sexual assault Rebecca Goldberg that operates outside of federal law, but IX and the Clery Act, the university is while working to appropriately disci- Ben Phelps Anna Majeski Assistant Arts Editors sexual assault is a far more serious crime. also required follow the provisions of pline perpetrators. Rebecca Santiago Matthew Welch

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010 THE TUFTS DAILY OP-ED 11 The shape of things: New START and partisan politics in foreign policy BY AARON ZUCKER not a national security debate, affirmed the strength of the but instead a most blatant treaty on these fronts in their The balance of national politics game of partisan duplicity. testimonies. Secondly, without has only grown more uncertain The White House is frus- this treaty, we have no verifi- since the Republicans retook trated for good reason. They cation capabilities at all. We the House of Representatives have spent months using every would lack any assured means last month, and it has become resource possible to prove to protect nuclear materials evident that every item on the treaty’s worth. Unlike the scattered across the Russian President Barack Obama’s agen- START treaties that came before Federation, and we would be da will prove to be a strenu- it, which were ratified quickly forced to focus all of our techni- ous battle of its own. However, and nearly unanimously, New cal means on Russian facilities this is rarely expected in foreign START carefully made its way instead of where they belong: policy, where politics is said to through the Senate hearing pro- concentrated on real risks like end at the water’s edge. For that cess this summer. The Senate North Korea or Iran. reason, the White House had Foreign Relations Committee This fundamental truth lies eagerly anticipated that one of diligently questioned endless at the heart of the differenc- the President’s greatest achieve- bipartisan commissions and es between START’s countless ments, the arms reduction trea- panels of military and foreign supporters and its few, con- ty known as the New Strategic policy experts who respond- fused opponents harboring Arms Reduction Treaty (New ed to concerns about missile a Cold War unwillingness to START), would finally earn the defense and treaty verification accept Russia as a partner in necessary support from the U.S. thoroughly and effectively. any form. It is unsurprising Senate this year. Any legitimate doubt had that when discussing START, After the president and Russian long been removed by their Republican opponents like President Dmitry Medvedev testimony, which is why in Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) don’t signed the treaty in Prague in September, the Committee even notice when they warn OLIVER PORTER/TUFTS DAILY April, Obama had hoped that voted 14-4 in support of the against “missiles fired by the tion. Kyl demanded a massive his or her duty. Maybe people this START treaty, like those that treaty. It earned the votes of Soviet Union.” Clearly, they overhaul of the U.S. nuclear would prefer not to do his or came before it, could be readily Republican Senators Richard would acknowledge this word- arsenal, and President Obama her duty right now. Sometimes accepted by both parties, even Lugar (R-Ind.), Bob Corker ing as a slip of the tongue, that delivered with an unprecedent- when you prefer not to vote, bitter enemies in the opposi- (R-Tenn.) and Johnny Isakson they are well aware of the fall ed reach into next year’s bud- you attempt to find reasons tion. And yet, after months of (R-Ga.), hardly moderates in of the Soviet Union nearly two get, assuring him nearly $85 not to vote.” He called on his negotiations and deals between the Republican caucus. decades ago. But it is more billion for weapons modern- colleagues to stand up and be the White House and Sen. Jon The treaty has been embraced evident that they have failed ization. He has also indicated counted, to support the trea- Kyl (R-Ariz.), the GOP’s point for many significant reasons. to absorb the vast changes in that his support for the treaty ty as they should, or at least man on START, the senator sur- It requests a modest decrease global politics since that time. would depend on Democrat admit that they do not, instead prised everyone and announced in the American and Russian They have ignorantly left their support for an extension of the of the illusion that they need after the midterm elections that nuclear arsenals, which is heads stuck in the sands of the Bush tax cuts, effectively tying more time to deliberate. the treaty was unlikely to receive insufficient to shift the status Cold War — in a simplified nar- vital national security priorities The White House has prom- his support. quo of deterrence but still acts rative of evil empires — instead with unrelated and controver- ised a vote before Christmas, As Congress debates major as a powerful symbolic move of acknowledging the good that sial political goals. Ultimately, although the outcome is issues like energy reform or toward securing the weapons can be achieved from coopera- he has requested months of far from certain. If Senate deficit reduction, there remain from theft and terrorism and tion. President Obama has made time to deliberate on questions Republicans do vote against serious drawbacks and uncer- toward a faraway future safe real progress over the past year that have long been answered, ratification, it will be a clear tainties that should make any from nuclear annihilation. in negotiating Russian opposi- delaying a final vote from the sign of the sort of politics that lawmaker hesitate to push too Perhaps most importantly, tion to Iranian nuclear ambi- summer until September, then will infect our national security hard to one side. But that is not the treaty would return weap- tions, but these Republicans are from September until the “lame in the 112th Congress. the case here. ons inspectors to nuclear sites more content to talk tough than duck session” and now until the If New START does indeed New START now has the over- after an entire year of their to back rhetoric with action. As new Senate can be seated in die in the Senate, the best whelming support of the U.S. absence following the expira- a result, they will see their Cold January, when the Democrats thing that we the people can military, allied governments in tion of the first START trea- War dreams realized as Russian will have fewer assured votes. do is notice, call them on it Western and Eastern Europe, ty. Critics have claimed that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Lugar, the ranking mem- and not forget. There are too and even former Reagan this treaty lacks the verifica- has suggested that if START ber and former chairman of many real debates to be had; and Bush senior administra- tion methods necessary for fails to be ratified, Russia will the Senate Foreign Relations we cannot afford to invent an tion officials, including Colin proper implementation, but be forced to build its nuclear Committee, has called Kyl’s imaginary one. Powell, James Baker and George this accusation lacks credibil- stockpile. bluff, saying last month that Shultz. Few issues are as cut ity for two reasons. Firstly, this The White House has negoti- “every senator has an obliga- and dry as this one, and there- concern is easily debunked ated with Senate Republicans tion in the national security Aaron Zucker is a senior majoring fore, what is occurring today is as field experts confidently beyond all reasonable expecta- interest to take a stand, to do in International Relations. Bhopal: 26 years of injustice

BY SHAYAN PURKAYASTHA ments, UCC and its current owner The you take over a company’s assets, you also up Bhopal, let alone pay the appropriate Dow Chemical Company have shrugged take over its liabilities. compensation. So, what now? How do we For many of the survivors of the dark off responsibility for the cleanup as well More than anything, Bhopal was UCC’s as students come into the picture? early morning hours of Dec. 3, 1984, in as the compensation and rehabilitation. debt, a debt that it had failed to pay. In Unfortunately, academia is one of the Bhopal, dawn has yet to break 26 years Investigations into the leak led to the con- a press conference in 2002, when asked best ways to create a good reputation. In later. Bhopal, a city in central India once clusion that it happened due to the inten- about Dow’s responsibility to Bhopal, a a recent article in Academe, the magazine famous for its lakes and old mosques, has tional negligence of safety at the plant by spokesperson remarked that the $500 paid of the American Association of University since become infamous for being the site UCC, which had used low-quality con- by UCC in 1989 to each victim “is plenty Professors, the vice president for research of the world’s worst industrial disaster. struction materials, compromised on vital good for an Indian.” Dow would later of University of South Alabama talks about The cloud of poisonous gas that leaked safety measures and adopted hazardous pay the family of Joshua Herb, a child how, post-oil spill, BP approached his uni- from a pesticide plant owned by the chemi- operating procedures. As such, the resi- in the United States who became brain- versity with a huge research proposal that cal giant Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) dents of Bhopal did not realize what was injured after being exposed to its pesticide would bring in a lot of grant funding to still looms largely over the city. The 40 tons coming until they woke up choking on the Dursban, $10 million in an out-of-court the university. What ensued was a total of methyl isocynate that overnight would black gas that had filled their house, many settlement. The double standard is quite catastrophe — the research proposal was cause the deaths of over 3,000 people still of them dying in their sleep. evident. actually a sly attempt by BP to engage pro- lives in Bhopal as poison in the water that the Shortly after the disaster, UCC aban- Financial liabilities aside, the culprits fessors in unethical research that would city residents drink and in the air that they doned its factory, leaving hundreds of responsible for the negligence that led to help BP escape liabilities from disasters breathe. An estimated 17,000 more people tons of toxic waste on the site. After a the disaster, including Warren Anderson, like the Gulf oil spill. have since died from the aftereffects, and long litigation battle between the govern- the CEO of UCC during the gas disaster, This is a lesson for all of us in academia, scores die each month from the exposure ment of India and UCC, a settlement was have gotten away scot-free. Anderson is including students. From research grants to the waste from the factory’s site that even reached in 1989 under which UCC paid now reported to be living in the Hamptons to student competitions for sustainability, after 26 years has not been cleaned up. approximately $550 to each victim. That despite the international warrant against companies like these operate in their own In a way, the toxic waste in Bhopal is amount was to pay for a lifetime’s worth of him for culpable homicide. Earlier this interests. And it is up to us as their prospec- symbolic of the “vision” that Lawrence treatment costs for each individual, even year, an Indian court convicted some of the tive researchers and employees to distin- Summers outlined in his infamous memo for those who were chronically ill and guilty to a two-year prison term while let- guish between right and wrong. in 1991 as the chief economist at the World needed surgeries and expensive medica- ting others go. This unjust verdict brought As students, we are also empowered to Bank. Summers claimed responsibility for tion. The settlement brought despair to the issue back to the limelight. Following raise our voices for justice, like justice for the memo, stating: “Just between you and the people of Bhopal who continued their public outcry, the government was forced the people of Bhopal. And that’s exactly me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encourag- struggle for justice. to increase its compensation to the affect- what a group of students from Tufts, part ing more migration of the dirty industries In 2001, Dow Chemical bought UCC ed as well as promise to take up the issue of the Association for India’s Development, to the less developed countries?” Summers for $11.6 billion. It immediately distanced of Dow’s liability. The noise didn’t go down did on Friday, Dec. 3. Joining hands with suggested that “the economic logic behind itself from the Bhopal disaster. Dow’s argu- well in Washington. To a question about the the Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal, dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest ment was that since the disaster happened Bhopal issue, a White House spokesperson they raised the slogan “Justice for Bhopal is wage country is impeccable, and we should before it took over UCC, it wasn’t its prob- remarked, “Bhopal is a closed chapter.” Justice for All.” face up to that.” He would later say that he lem. Not only did Dow shrug off its moral Unfortunately, even after almost nine was being sarcastic. Few buy this. responsibility to the case as the new owner, years since it took over UCC and despite So, the question arises: Who should it also chose to ignore one of the basic prin- all the appeals and protests, Dow Chemical Shayan Purkayastha is a junior majoring clean up Bhopal? Successive govern- ciples of mergers and acquisitions: When refuses to accept its responsibility to clean in computer science engineering.

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MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING Men’s and women’s basketball squads see Tufts notches third-place mixed results in last night’s contests finish at MIT Invitational BY AARON LEIBOWITZ said. “We kept fighting until the very Senior Staff Writer end, which was very impressive. I was very proud to be a part of this team.” Continuing its strong start to the sea- Several Tufts swimmers performed son, the men’s swimming and diving well in individual events. Junior EJ team this weekend placed third out of six Testa came in third in the 100-yard backstroke and fourth in the 100-yard MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING butterfly. Jenkins and junior Owen MIT Invitational Rood finished fifth and sixth, respec- at Cambridge,Mass., Fri-Sat tively, in the 50-yard freestyle, and freshman Andrew Berman placed fifth 1. MIT 1,424 in the 200-yard breaststroke. 2. NYU 778.5 Senior Trevor Stack came up big in 3. Tufts 736.66 both diving competitions, placing sec- ond in the 3-meter and third in the 4. Wheaton (Mass.) 368.16 1-meter event. 5. Bowdoin 309.66 Also, in an impressive display of 6. Colby 108 stamina and determination, Lessard finished third out of 19 swimmers in teams at the MIT Invitational, losing only the 1,650-yard freestyle. to Div. III powerhouses MIT and NYU. “It’s really a mind game when you’re MIT won the invitational for the swimming a distance event,” he said. fourth straight year with a total of 1,424 “You’re thinking about every single lap points, and NYU edged out Tufts for in terms of what you need to do to win second place by a mere 42 points with or to pass someone, because you’re try- a total of 778.5. Just like last year, MIT ing to plan out the whole race from the won 17 out of 20 races. Much like other get-go. Like in chess, where you have tournaments this season, however, the to think two moves ahead, in distance depth of the Tufts squad helped it amass racing you have to think, ‘Where will points with numerous top-10 finishes. I be in 200 yards, and where will the All things considered, it was an excel- competition be in 200 yards?’” lent showing for the Jumbos. The Jumbos’ relay teams swam some “We always know going into a meet very strong races as well. Jenkins, Rood like this that we’re facing pretty stiff and seniors David Meyer and Andrew competition in MIT and NYU,” senior Altman placed third in the 200-yard quad-captain Joe Lessard said. “Since freestyle relay and then came in sec- they’re not in the NESCAC, they start ond in the 400-yard freestyle relay, training roughly a month before we the final race of the meet. Jenkins and do. For them, [the invitational] is more Rood also teamed up with Testa and of a championship-style meet, so they senior quad-captain Michael Del Moro tend to be well-rested and they wear for a third-place finish in the 200-yard technical suits, which gives them a medley relay. Del Moro is also a news ANDREW MORGENTHALER/TUFTS DAILY major advantage.” editor for the Daily. Despite one of the most impressive alley-oop dunks in the men’s basketball team’s “Everyone swam pretty well, and a “We had a lot of really standout swims history from junior Alex Orchowski, above, the Jumbos fell to Plymouth State 87-81 lot of people got season’s best times,” in Cousens Gym. Meanwhile, the women’s team was off at Emerson lighting up the senior quad-captain Gordy Jenkins see MEN’S SWIMMING, page 15 Lions to the tune of a 72-46 victory.

INSIDE THE NBA Enraged Cavaliers fans bring the noise against LeBron BY ALEX LACH since he left the team, city and showed LeBron’s perspective, told us everything we needed For a moment, they had the Daily Editorial Board state for the greener and sun- which was nothing short of to know about LeBron’s return sympathy of the country on nier pastures of Miami. In the horrifying. The crowd, right on to his former home: It wouldn’t their side, and maybe even a Last Thursday night marked lead-up to the game, the angry top of him, let out perhaps the rattle his confidence. He put moral high ground to be proud the most anticipated return Cavaliers fans lived up to the loudest chorus of boos ever on a display of dunks in the of. Maybe everything would since, well, maybe ever. A play- hype. Quicken Loans Arena unleashed on a single human warm-up. He went through an turn out all right, they thought. er that had spent his entire was full of an energy unique to being. The camera found array of handshakes with his And then the game started. career playing for the Cavaliers this situation. Hatred united shirts in the crowd that read new teammates when he was LeBron had perhaps his most finally came back to the city 20,000 of them in one common “Quitness”, “The Lyin’ King” introduced. He did his patent- LeBron-esque performance of that had loved him since his purpose. and “Queen James.” ed chalk toss before the game. the season, displaying all the tal- entrance into the league. Here’s As TNT began its pregame Yet King James never seemed But in unleashing their bar- ents that Cleveland fans didn’t a hint: It’s not a 7-foot-3 bald show, the chants and jeers fazed by the ambush of ven- rage of fury, Cavaliers fans want to be reminded of. He Lithuanian. were already bouncing around geance that awaited him the found a sliver of silver lining knocked down 20-foot jumpers In case you haven’t heard, the stadium. The camera that moment he stepped on that in James’ departure and finally fading away. He launched him- LeBron James traveled to followed the Heat out of the court. Those first steps, which got to let him know how they Cleveland for the first time locker room and onto the court were actually more of a skip, really felt about his decision. see NBA, page 15

MEN’S LACROSSE WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING Former Jumbos lacrosse player Holm Jumbos place ifth at MIT Invite named Assistant Coach of the Year BY DANIEL RATHMAN petitors, who have been training as a team Daily Editorial Board since the beginning of the semester. Such The Intercollegiate Men’s Lacrosse last year stalled many of the nation’s programs use the MIT Invitational to evalu- Coaches Associatoin (IMLCA) on Friday top offenses en route to a NESCAC While most classmates were busy pre- ate their swimmers for NCAA Nationals, named men’s lacrosse team assistant Championship and the first-ever NCAA paring for finals, members of the women’s whereas the Jumbos view it as an opportu- coach Brett Holm (LA ’07) the 2010 team title in Tufts history. swimming and diving team spent most nity to showcase their skills against some of Assistant Coach of the Year. Gearing up for only his fourth of their weekend at the MIT Invitational the best teams in the Northeast. He received the award alongside head season as an assistant coach, Holm competing against six other squads, includ- As has been the case throughout the fall coach Mike Daly (LA ’95), who was hon- has already earned the respect of his ing Div. I Harvard. Tufts placed fifth overall semester portion of the team’s season, fresh- ored as the Div. III Coach of the Year, at players, colleagues and the rest of the — a successful result, considering that the men provided some of the Jumbos’ best a special convention in Baltimore. lacrosse world as one of the emerging Jumbos were neither as prepared nor as performances. Mia Greenwald excelled in Holm was a rare dual-sport athlete talents in the coaching vocation. rested as many of their opponents. her two butterfly events, finishing fourth in at Tufts during his athletic career, play- Holm first jumped on the lacrosse “Our times weren’t the greatest this week- both the 100- and 200-yard races, with times ing for both the football and men’s world’s grid with an impressive perfor- end,” sophomore K.J. Kroetch said. “We def- of 1:00.22 and 2:14.47, respectively. Sami lacrosse teams and earning all-confer- mance in Drew Innis’s (LA ’04) lacrosse initely showed up to swim and did the best Bloom was Tufts’ most successful diver, ence accolades for both. A current team promo video made in 2007, we could given the circumstances, but the placing third off the 1-meter board with a graduate assistant at Tufts, Holm used which features Holm crushing bench stresses of school and being tired caught up score of 221.80. She added a fourth-place his talents as a player, as well as his press reps of 225 pounds with ease. to us a little.” effort off the 3-meter board that was scored aptitude for coaching, to direct the In addition to fatigue, the Jumbos also at 245.95. team’s exceptional defensive unit that —by Philip Dear had significantly less practice time leading up to the event than some of their com- see WOMEN’S SWIMMING, page 14 14 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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INSIDE THE WESTERN CONFERENCE Depth of talent runs through Western Conference Westbrook, Durant leading upstart Thunder, while Nuggets investigate ’Melo trade deals

BY PAUL MCBRIDE likely dump Anthony to avoid a LeBron Contributing Writer James-like situation in the ensuing off- season. Other rumors surrounding the Could this be one of the best collec- Nuggets have included the possibility tions of NBA Western Conference teams of trading hometown hero Chauncey in years? If the early portion of the Billups, though the Nuggets have denied 2010-11 season is any indication, it is such rumors all season. Rumors regard- hardly out of the realm of possibility. ing the New York Knicks continue with Seven teams are within four games speculation about Chris Paul’s future in of each other, making this one of the the wake of the ownership issues of the most top-heavy conferences in recent New Orleans Hornets. memory. These seven teams all have The Knicks continue to dream about above a .600 winning percentage with creating another super trio in the East the exception of one — the Phoenix to combat the Boston Celtics and Suns — who were 11-9 as of yesterday. Miami Heat. But, like speculation about The rest of the conference is a vir- Anthony leaving Denver, little has hap- tual who’s who of cellar-dwellers that pened thus far. Paul seems happy with includes the Los Angeles Clippers, the 13-7 Hornets, especially given that Memphis Grizzlies, Golden State New Orleans made a conscious effort to Warriors, Houston Rockets and, most supplement its star with key role play- surprisingly, the Portland Trail Blazers, ers like Trevor Ariza. a team that is once again plagued by Trade rumors have simmered for a injuries. After the Los Angeles Lakers’ while, but fans should anticipate hear- four-game losing streak, the Western ing more from the rumor mill once Conference playoff matchups are cer- December comes to a close. tain to be highly competitive, hope- In league news, the NBA took control fully providing fans with a June to of the New Orleans Hornets, becoming remember. the first NBA-owned team in league his- With entertaining teams come enter- tory. The NBA purchased the squad to taining players, and this season is no ensure that the team remains attractive exception. The West has some of the to any potential buyers. Commissioner more exciting talents in the confer- David Stern looks to keep the squad in ence known for their high-scoring, fast- New Orleans, though there is the possi- paced games. bility of the team moving to another city Oklahoma City Thunder point guard due to its dwindling home attendance Russell Westbrook is taking some of the despite being one of the top teams of spotlight away from team star Kevin the West this season. Durant. Westbrook has been making MCT If the team moves cities, it will only a strong argument for being both the Chris Paul, right, has helped the New Orleans Hornets start out the season with a 13-7 record add to its legacy of having a difficult Most Improved Player in the league and despite financial troubles plaguing the franchise. time finding a home in recent years. The the MVP. Hornets were first moved from Charlotte The third-year guard is posting on. Westbrook and Durant are building had previously been discussed between to New Orleans in the 2002-03 season career-best stats in minutes per game, upon the successes of last year while Denver and the New Jersey Nets, a and had to relocate in the 2005-06 sea- shooting and free-throw percentage also playing some of the most exciting deal that would send Derrick Favors son due to the devastating effects of while boasting 23.7 points per game ball in the league. and future draft picks to Denver for Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans host- and has led the Thunder to a 14-8 start. In other Western Conference news, Carmelo. ed the 2009 NBA All-Star Game, which Westbrook takes advantage of the open rumors of Carmelo Anthony’s departure The Nuggets are still not ecstatic showcased how the city had overcome looks that Durant’s presence on the from the Denver Nuggets continue to about the idea of losing one of the best the effects of the hurricane. However, court allows because of the heavy pres- bubble, but nothing has come to frui- pure scorers in the game in Anthony. the team may soon have to move just sure on defense that opposition puts tion. There are still rumblings that the If the team faces problems when the to survive the recent economic troubles on the NBA’s reigning scoring champi- Nuggets may resurrect the trade that trade deadline approaches, Denver will affecting the entire country.

Tufts holds its own against local powerhouses Harvard and MIT WOMEN’S SWIMMING the 800-yard freestyle team, along fondly upon her four years of continued from page 13 with sophomore Christine Garvey, swimming for Tufts. Although the Jumbos struggled junior Valerie Eacret and senior tri- “I couldn’t have asked for a bet- to keep up in short-distance sprint captain Megan Kono, touching the ter team,” O’Neill said. “Swimming events throughout the meet, they wall in fifth at 8:10.22. for Tufts has really made me a bet- Garvey also added the best ter person, and it’s very tough and WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING individual medley finish for the very emotional for me to leave the MIT Invitational Jumbos, placing seventh in the team. But I’m definitely going to at Cambridge,Mass., Fri-Sat 400-yard event at 4:52.15. be there during the spring, cheer- Senior Maureen O’Neill, who ing on the girls, and I’m looking 1. MIT 1,045 will graduate at the end of this forward to that.” 2. Harvard 772 semester, was competing for The Jumbos will now get a full 3. NYU 663.83 the last time in her Tufts career. month to rest and practice before 4. Wheaton (Mass.) 508 O’Neill earned a 14th-place finish joining Wesleyan for a three-team 5. Tufts 429.83 in the 50-yard freestyle and was a NESCAC meet at Williams on Jan. 6. Bowdoin 220.33 part of both the Jumbos’ seventh- 15. With a 1-2 record in confer- 7. Colby 154 place 200-yard freestyle relay and ence dual-meets so far, Tufts will eighth-place 400-yard medley look to improve its times during were up to the challenge in many relay teams. next month’s annual training trip of the relays. Three first-years — Joining O’Neill in the 200-yard to Florida. Jen Konick, Jenny Hu and Taylor freestyle relay were Hu, Adams “Most of the team is going Lentz — joined Greenwald in the and junior Saheela Mehrotra, on our training trip, and that’s a 200-yard medley relay. The all- who swam the fastest leg of the great time for us to practice in a freshman team delivered a fifth- relay. Mehrotra raced in eight non-competitive environment,” place finish in 1:52.62. total events and gave the Jumbos Kroetch said. “We’re going to Tufts had two other top-five relay a strong boost in multiple relays, practice a lot of different things results, including the 400-yard including the 200-yard freestyle, and get faster as a team to get medley and the 800-yard freestyle. 400-yard freestyle, 800-yard free- ready for the spring semester.” Konick, Hu and Greenwald swam style, 200-yard medley and 400- The Jumbos’ only remain- DAILY FILE PHOTO with junior Courtney Adams in the yard medley. ing home meet of the 2010-11 In addition to swimming the 100-yard backstroke, junior Saheela 400-yard event, coming in fifth at O’Neill is extremely impressed season will come on Jan. 29 Mehrotra, above swimming last fall, participated in seven events, 4:07.78. Adams was also a part of with the team and looks back against Wheaton. including five relays. Wednesday, December 8, 2010 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS 15 LeBron dominates former team in return to Cleveland ETHAN FRIGON | THE BEARD ABIDES NBA Whither continued from page 13 self into passing lanes in the blink of Cam’s an eye. He finished fast breaks with his unique combination of power, speed and body control. And worst of all for Heisman? Cleveland fans, he was doing it all with a smile. ased solely on on-field exploits, To top it off, the return of LeBron in Auburn quarterback Cam Newton a Miami Heat uniform finally forced should clearly win this year’s the loyal Cavaliers fans to come to BHeisman Trophy. There hasn’t been terms with what’s left of their team. this clear-cut of a Heisman frontrunner for Feeding off the crowd’s energy, as long as I can remember. Sure, Tim Tebow Cleveland matched Miami’s talents was great in 2007, putting up very similar with incredible effort and hustle and numbers to Newton this year with more even held the lead for some of the touchdowns and passing yards and fewer first quarter. But the Heat fired away, rushing yards. A bad defense hamstrung opening up a 19-point lead at the half. Tebow’s Florida Gators to the tune of a Midway through the third quarter, as 9-4 season, and Heisman winners almost the Miami lead extended to 80-50, never play for 9-4 teams — even those with reality finally set in for Cavaliers fans: a mediocre defense. Auburn’s defense has LeBron had come back to their home, been unable to stop Newton from leading taken what little remained of their them to a 13-0 season and a spot in the BCS souls and dunked all over it. There National Championship. was nothing Mo Williams, Anderson For another comparison, Reggie Bush Varejao or Daniel Gibson could do to in 2005 — his trophy since returned — stop the onslaught. who won with the second-most points James finished the night with and first-place votes ever, turned in a 38 points, five rebounds and eight much less impressive season than Newton assists. He only played 30 minutes, this year. Bush was impressive, sure, but and watched the final quarter of the look at how stacked USC’s offense was that 118-90 Miami victory from the bench. season. Heck, Vince Young should have He certainly noticed the crowd’s reac- won the 2005 Heisman, but I digress. tion, but it never took him off his As far as competitors this year, only game. Oregon running back LaMichael James truly One particular play typified the has a solid case. But even he has a very good entire night: James took the ball on quarterback in Darron Thomas; meanwhile, the right elbow, dribbled toward the Newton is basically the extent of Auburn’s baseline, met a double-team, dribbled offense, and given the state of the Tigers’ out towards the sideline and took defense, the extent of the whole team. Point a fall-away jumper that arched over is, what Cam’s done on the gridiron has the extended hands of two Cavaliers more than earned him this year’s highest defenders, went above the corner of college football honor. the backboard and landed perfectly But look at the pesky little prepositional into the net. It was his night. As much phrase at the end of the Heisman’s mis- as Cleveland fans booed, yelled, hol- MCT sion statement: “The Heisman Memorial lered and jeered, there was nothing In LeBron James’s reinterpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic tale, the King returned to his Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding they could do to stop him. throne after a shellacking of the Cavaliers. But he isn’t happy about not having the ring. college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.” “With integrity” is not the way any unbiased observer would describe the Cam Newton saga. As I mentioned in an earlier column, in the past two years, Newton has left Florida under suspicion of academic fraud, trans- ferred to a junior college and transferred again to Auburn, with allegations that his father tried to secure upwards of $100,000 in return for his college commitment. Actually, scratch that, his father admitted that he sought to sell Cam’s college com- mitment. And yet, the NCAA has, for the time being, ruled that Newton is eligible, claiming that because he had no knowl- edge of this arrangement, he had done nothing wrong. Not only is this claim dubious, the NCAA has even ruled play- ers ineligible in similar cases (see exhibit Damon Stoudamire in 1995). What happens at the NCAA level seems pretty obvious. Two years from now, it’ll find Newton ineligible and void all of Auburn’s wins from this season. Except at that point, no one will care anymore. In the mean- time, the nation’s most dynamic player retains his eligibility, and the NCAA gets a compelling championship game. Without Newton, Auburn would almost definitely have lost one of its last two games, and the NCAA would have gotten an Oregon-Texas Christian national championship game that would have garnered maybe half the televi- sion ratings that the actual Oregon-Auburn matchup will. So what do Heisman voters make of all of this? Honestly, either side is perfectly defensible. Newton supporters can claim ANDREW MORGENTHALER/TUFTS DAILY that despite his problems, the NCAA has Junior Owen Rood, above swimming last fall, was part of a team that finished third and second in the 200- and 400-yard freestyle relays, ruled that he is eligible. Plus, his on-field respectively, as Tufts took on schools like NYU and Harvard at the MIT Invitational, finishing third. performance is so clearly ahead of the pack, it seems silly to vote for anyone else. Jumbos will head to Florida during winter break for training Newton detractors can claim that even if he is currently eligible, he clearly has not MEN’S SWIMMING getting into the warm-up, and everyone The Jumbos, who won three dual gone about his college football career “with continued from page 13 just looked tired. But I think our team as meets prior to the invitational, return integrity.” Also, it looks bad for the Heisman from everyone on the team, whether it a whole really stepped up and got ready to action on Jan. 15 in a tri-meet at Trust to have to potentially rescind two of its was people stepping up and swim- for their own races and also got behind Williams with Wesleyan. With a busy, trophies in a six-year span. After Bush, the ming an event they’ve never swam each other and motivated each other to challenging few months ahead, the same thing would likely happen if Newton before, or people coming together perform at the level we needed.” team will take their talents to Fort was ruled ineligible in the future. Personally, on a relay and putting up solid times “When you’re doing an individual Lauderdale, Fla. during winter break I would grudgingly cast my first-place vote to give MIT and NYU a run for their sport like swimming, it’s so easy to for two weeks of grueling training. for Newton and give my second-place vote money,” Lessard said. get all your thoughts internalized and “We focus all on swimming,” to the NCAA reinstatement committee that Even though everyone was exhaust- self-centered,” Jenkins said. “But with Jenkins said. “It’s the only time we let Newton — for the time being — maintain ed by the start of the Saturday night a team like ours, it really is a team don’t have school, so we’ll be swim- his eligibility. session, the Jumbos soldiered on. sport. They’re swimming for me, and ming four hours a day. It’s going to be “It was obvious on the pool deck I’m swimming for them. … We were extremely physically intense, but it’s before that third session started that the ones who were behind every lane also a time when we grow mentally, Ethan Frigon is a senior majoring in there was this sort of comatose atti- cheering for our swimmers, and we because we have to suffer through all economics. He can be reached at Ethan. tude,” Lessard said. “No one was really were the loudest ones there.” that together.” [email protected]. 16 THE TUFTS DAILY ADVERTISEMENT Wednesday, December 8, 2010