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Where You Mostly Sunny Read It First 56/37 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXI, NUMBER 44 FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2011 TUFTSDAILY.COM Greeks give blood on behalf of would-be LGBT donors BY RACHEL RAMPINO blood drive, hosted by the Leonard Daily Editorial Board Carmichael Society (LCS), in Carmichael Hall next week. A 1992 U.S. Volunteers from Tufts’ fraternities and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sororities will next week be giving blood regulation bars men who have sex with on behalf of the lesbian, gay, bisexual men (MSM) from being blood donors. and transgender (LGBT) community in “They’ll be donating on behalf of an effort to raise awareness of the fact the larger idea of those who can’t, that federal statutes prohibit some of its particularly MSM people, but there members from doing so themselves. are so many people who can’t,” Aaron The students will donate blood at the April 12-16 American Red Cross see BLOOD DRIVE, page 2 COurtESY ANDREW altman Seniors Andrew Altman, David Chen, Karan Randhawa and Maxime Pinto and junior Justin Ferranti made up one of two winning teams in the Gordon Institute’s 100K Business Plan Competition. Competition winners get 100K for business models BY BIANCA BLAKESLEY since 2007 by the Gordon Institute’s Daily Staff Writer Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, required one member of each team Two teams of winners in the Tufts to be an undergraduate or gradu- 7th Annual 100K Business Plan ate student or alumnus from one of Competition each walked away with the university’s schools. The con- $100,000 for their business model test’s rules allowed the teams to uti- proposals in urban sanitation in lize up to $50,000 in outside funding Kenya and a product for Indian to develop their project, according motorcyclists after beating out 11 to Pamela Goldberg, director of the other teams. Entrepreneurial Leadership Program The winners, Roof for Two and and the organizer of the competition. Sanergy, were among teams in the First-year Fletcher School of Law competition’s two categories — the and Diplomacy student Guarav Tiwari Classic Business Plan Competition was the Tufts representative on the and the Social Entrepreneurship team behind Sanergy, which won the Competition. They presented their Classic Business Plan Competition. ideas Wednesday in the Alumnae The group, composed of Tiwari and Lounge to a panel of judges in pursuit three Massachusetts Institute of of the $100,000 prize. The money is Technology (MIT) students, focused distributed in the form of in cash and their research on reducing disease in VIRGINIA BLEDSOE/TUFTS DAILY in-kind services. Members of the Greek community at the April 12-16 blood drive plan to donate blood on behalf of The competition, sponsored see GORDON, page 3 certain members of the of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community . Active citizen alumni to gather on the Hill Court ruling curbs Google’s The first-ever gathering at Tufts pre- ly wrote a book entitled “The Science of dominately focused on connecting grad- Kissing.” uates dedicated to active citizenship will Professors from the biomedical engi- rights to digitize books convene on campus tomorrow, as the neering, history and child development Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship departments will join colleagues from the BY JON CHENG contacted. They make up a great number and Public Service hosts over 100 people Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Daily Editorial Board of the books Google has made available for its 10th anniversary celebrations. Sciences, the Cummings School of to the public. The day will begin with a morning Veterinary Medicine and Tisch College in New York City district court judge “Google was planning on making a of short talks by faculty members and sharing their ongoing work. Denny Chin last month rejected a poten- database of the orphan works and selling alumni, followed by panels on social “We kind of figured that if you’re com- tial settlement in an ongoing trial which them as a subscription to libraries. This is enterprise, policy and advocacy. ing back to a university, you have to have pits Google Books against the Authors what the court has put a stop to,” Walters, Together with today’s Alan D. Solomont a chance to learn something new that Guild and the American Association of who is also Head of Collections, said. “The Lecture, featuring House Minority you hadn’t expected,” Nancy Wilson, Publishers. The settlement would have judge said that the issue of orphan works Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the event director and associate dean of Tisch allowed Google to publish online exerpts is best dealt with through legislation, not represents the culmination of a year of College and future interim dean of Tisch from out of print books that fall into fuzzy the courts.” Tisch College anniversary celebrations. College said. legal domain. Google has been working to scan mil- “Tufts has so many alumni who are The gathering, titled “The Active Civic The Google court settlement only lions of books for its free digital archives, active citizens,” Sarah Shugars, commu- Roles of Tufts Alumni,” is targeted at applies to what are called “orphan including those from the collections of nications specialist at Tisch College, said. both alumni and students. works,” according to Laura Walters, Tisch many universities. “We really wanted to have an opportunity An “online community” on Tisch Library’s associate director for teaching The recent rejection of the $125-mil- for all these alumni to come together.” College’s website lists attendees and their and research. All books published in the lion settlement deal is especially dam- Alumni participants range from Simon interests, with the goal of linking them United States before 1923 are considered aging toward Google’s plans to digitize Rosenberg (A ‘85), the founder and presi- together beforehand and making tomor- in the public domain; all books pub- the library books from major research dent of the New Democratic Network, to row’s networking more efficient. lished afterward are subject to copyright. institutes, as Google has already digitized Sheril Kirshenbaum (LA ’02), a University Orphan works are works published after 850,000 of Harvard’s books and will no of Texas at Austin researcher who recent- —by Ben Gittleson 1923 that are out of print, for which the copyright holder or author cannot be see DIGITIZATION, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s sections The New York Times’ The Kills’ fourth album News | Features 1 Classifieds 7 paywall highlights an takes the band in a upward trend in online new and enthralling Comics 4 Sports Back news subscriptions. direction. Arts | Living 5 see page 2 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Friday, April 8, 2011 THE TUFTS DAILY ALEX A NDR A W. BOGUS Editor-in-Chief EDITORIAL Mick Brinkman Krever Saumya Vaishampayan Managing Editors Martha Shanahan Executive News Editor Michael Del Moro News Editors Nina Ford Ben Gittleson Amelie Hecht Ellen Kan Daphne Kolios Kathryn Olson Matt Repka Corinne Segal Jenny White Brent Yarnell Elizabeth McKay Assistant News Editors Laina Piera Rachel Rampino Minyoung Song Derek Schlom Executive Features Editor Jon Cheng Features Editors Sarah Korones Emilia Luna Romy Oltuski Alexa Sasanow Falcon Reese Assistant Features Editors Angelina Rotman Sarah Strand Amelia Quinn Ben Phelps Executive Arts Editor Emma Bushnell Arts Editors Mitchell Geller Rebecca Santiago Matthew Welch Allison Dempsey Assistant Arts Editors Andrew Padgett Joseph Stile Ashley Wood LANE FLORSHEIM/TUFTS DAILY Rebekah Liebermann Executive Op-Ed Editor The free news access that many users were once accustomed to may no longer be a given as more publications follow The New York Bhushan Deshpande Op-Ed Editors Larissa Gibbs Times move last month to implement a paywall. David Kellogg Rachel Oldfield Jeremy Ravinsky Daniel Stock Devon Colmer Cartoonists Erin Marshall Alex Miller BY SARAH STRAND The New York Times has [started online of Americans have computers at home, Louie Zong Daily Editorial Board subscriptions], every major newspaper and 92 percent of them have access to the Craig Frucht Editorialists Kerianne Okie will follow their lead,” Communications Internet. Content that subscribers once Michael Restiano With the advent of the digital age, and Media Studies (CMS) Program paid to have delivered to their homes is Joshua Youner Tomere Internet stay access afloat, puts the virtual online Director Julie Dobrow news said. siteslargely charge available for free users online, reducing Ben Kochman Executive Sports Editor world at your fingertips. Much of this While users may be frustrated that the need for readers to purchase print Philip Dear Sports Editors content is free, and many people have not all online news sites will be free, subscriptions and vendors to advertise in Lauren Flament Claire Kemp grown accustomed to attaining informa- the drive to charge for content is not print editions. Alex Lach tion free of charge, aside from paying for necessarily the result of a publication’s Miller described the climate that the Alex Prewitt Internet access itself. Yet the decision money-grubbing mentality. Neil Miller, economy and the digital age created Daniel Rathman Noah Schumer by The New York Times to begin its digi- an English lecturer who teaches jour- for newspapers as “a perfect storm.” Ethan Sturm tal subscription program on March 28 nalism, said that revenue is needed to Dobrow agreed. Matthew Berger Assistant Sports Editors Aaron Leibowitz marks a considerable departure from the sustain high-quality reporting. “It’s pretty clear what made [digital David McIntyre concept of free news. Though the Times “I think because of the Internet we subscriptions] necessary,” Dobrow said. Ann Sloan was not the first news service to charge have gotten spoiled in that we can just “Look how your generation reads the Meredith Klein Executive Photo Editor for content — the largest U.S.